Why college students should pay more attention to North Korea and the Middle East than fantasy football: Bringing back the 'draft' is not only a distinct possibility.....if these two areas of the world ignite then America may need that draft right away. Think about what that would entail! Student deferments are not what they were during Vietnam as the student would now only be able to finish the current semester. Who would get drafted....and who would get to remain in the workforce? There's been a lot of changes. How would immigration and gender issues be handled? A half dozen or so European nations are right now considering reinstituting the draft to go along an equal number of nations who already have one.
How is one to pray for President Trump? Well for one thing we can pray that these official faith advisers of his are replaced by men who will speak to the president as they would to anyone in his state of rebellion to God. Franklin Graham told reporters that he spent election evening with President Trump. If his conversation with the President was only along the lines of politics....and if he in the course of the evening did not tell the President of his....and America's....need to turn to Jesus Christ....then he wasted this precious time. Should President Trump not appreciate this then he need not invite Rev. Graham. Franklin Graham has a wonderful ministry....I was blessed by visiting the Billy Graham Library only a week ago....but in his relationship with the President of the United States he might recall his own wonderful prayer given at a Trump rally last year....a prayer that I posted on and bring back often. President Trump does not need a smile or a pat on the back....and especially not political advice....from a minister of the gospel. He needs the truth presented to him. (I'll put that post at the end of these 'dispatches.')
The White House suspended the pass of CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta. Other reporters may become more aggressive because of this. Jim Acosta and CNN are the worst of the worst but who will be the next to be purged as the President warned that others could get the press passes revoked!
Update on the above: After the White House released a video of the Acosta incident, an IT person noticed that there was a slight difference in the original AP video and the White House video. He said that it appeared that the White House video was altered as a few frames were sped up to make it appear that the journalist's actions were more aggressive than they actually were. The President promptly denied that the video was altered. Yesterday Kellyanne Conway seemed to admit that the video was sped up.....just like they do in sports she said....and that that was technically not altering.....just speeding up? This is why....after two years of continuous lies on anything big or small....not a single word that comes out of this President's mouth can be believed without some kind of verification!
I would like to apply for the job of CNN White House Correspondent to replace Jim Acosta who was banned. My first question would be this...."Mr. President.....it has been widely reported that North Korea is still maintaining secret nuclear sites. You tweeted...'we know fully about the sites being discussed....just more fake news.' Please clear this up....if there are such sites then how is it fake news? It might be old news to you....but how is it fake news to us?"
Hopefully President Trump will not try to abort the Mueller probe for that would be intolerable.
Losing the House of Representatives was a political disaster. Republicans should this. The old adage of the party in power always loses at the midterms does not apply in this current climate.
Conservative talk radio hosts have dug themselves a hole that they may not be able to get out of. The reason that they made the decision long ago to go all out for President Trump without any critical analysis....this in my opinion of course....was because they do not trust their listening audience. They will tell their listening audience over and over again how smart they are but then they treat those audiences like they cannot be trusted with the truth.
Ivanka and Jared Kushner will never be accepted by anyone who still holds to conservative principles. President Trump needs to send them back to New York.....along with Donald Jr.
I have no idea if Jeff Sessions has ever contemplated running for President but right now he is the de facto lead contender to pick up the conservative banner and challenge President Trump.
Sarah Sanders....for her own sake if nothing else....needs to return to her former life
The CIA countermanded the orders of President Eisenhower on at least one very important foreign policy directive in the 50s....and probably more. This is why Ike gave that warning concerning the military industrial complex in his farewell address. The CIA did the same thing to President Kennedy at the Bay of Pigs invasion. We celebrated the huge military spending bill of late without considering that military spending bills can easily be done.....with the monies distributed......for reasons that are not necessarily in the nation's interest. All I'm saying here is that we believe these people too quickly.
There are people out there whose well-paid job....(their employer a party or a president)....is to take note of what people like me....and like you....are saying. They don't know us....they don't want to know us. They're are simply looking for a pulse and maybe a trend. If they read my posts....and are employed by the Republican Party.....then you can bet your bottom dollar....that they are hoping that there are not too many of us out here....(I don't know how many of us are out here)....because as they analyze our thoughts and our words.....they would know also that we are not going to be fooled.....we are not going to compromise beliefs....and we are not going let this new Republican Trump Party go on without being challenged with the facts that talk radio suppresses. In short they know that if this is a legitimate trend then they are in big trouble.....the same trouble that the Republican RINOs were in in the years leading up to the 2016 election.
If Only Our Pulpits Would Do The Same
I find myself uttering this prayer from time to time...."Lord open our eyes to this man." It usually comes out spontaneously when I hear President Trump's rally speech words followed by a raucous chorus of cheers....shouts....and chants. We are in the midst of a psychological phenomenon very similar to that which put Barack Obama in office. Both men as presidents were judgments from God but in totally different ways. Both sides of the spectrum display blindness brought on us for refusing to turn first to Christ rather than fallible princes and our own powers of determination....and refusing also to accept any culpability in what we have become....therefore we conservatives project sole guilt on the opposition party....and believe that we have made atonement of sorts by electing a Republican President....where we as a people have not changed one iota for the better since November of 2016. The following post is from last year:
It was powerful....it was what we needed....not the Donald Trump pep rally from Phoenix....but the prayer that Franklin Graham offered before the President would be introduced to the tune of the Rolling Stones....You Can't Always Get What You Want. (At least it wasn't Sympathy For The Devil) I tried to type the text of the prayer as fast I could....praising God as I typed....for not only the people in the arena would hear these words but who knows how many people that were live streaming the rally. Christians would be hearing these words of repentance that they should be hearing from their pulpits each and every Lord's Day.
The crowd was quiet as Reverend Graham spoke....I prayed "Oh God thank you for letting us hear these words!" Franklin Graham then walked off the stage as the arena remained hushed. Vice President Pence followed him to the microphone....and within minutes the crowd was once again in unison yelling....USA....USA....USA! As I wrote at the time....the power of that prayer was gone.....but many had heard it......and will offer that same prayer some day in the future....only it will be as chaos reigns....and maybe war.....and not beforehand.....where we could have petitioned God for discernment and vision for what was ahead of us. The following was the best that I could do on that transcript....
"Our Heavenly Father.....you've blessed our country more than any nation on earth and we acknowledge that apart for you we have no hope....we come tonight....as a troubled nation....we're broken spiritually....were divided politically....we're divided racially....we are adrift morally..... following whatever direction the wind of popular culture blows....with no regard for your word or the consequences of our disobedience....we ask tonight for your help....our sins have paralyzed us....as a country we have seemed to have forgotten right from wrong.... you warned us in your Holy Word the Bible that there would come a time when truth would become a lie....and lies would become truth....we come to you this evening confessing our sins as a nation.....we confess the sins of our past.....of injustice....of pride.....of self-indulgence.....we have failed to protect our young and our innocent.....and we ask for your forgiveness.....we ask that you would unite this country for your glory.....Father we need a shepherd.....I pray that you would be the shepherd of our nation.....you are the God who restores our souls.....your rod and your staff they comfort us....and I pray this all in the name...the powerful name....the name of your son....the Lord Jesus Christ."
How is one to pray for President Trump? Well for one thing we can pray that these official faith advisers of his are replaced by men who will speak to the president as they would to anyone in his state of rebellion to God. Franklin Graham told reporters that he spent election evening with President Trump. If his conversation with the President was only along the lines of politics....and if he in the course of the evening did not tell the President of his....and America's....need to turn to Jesus Christ....then he wasted this precious time. Should President Trump not appreciate this then he need not invite Rev. Graham. Franklin Graham has a wonderful ministry....I was blessed by visiting the Billy Graham Library only a week ago....but in his relationship with the President of the United States he might recall his own wonderful prayer given at a Trump rally last year....a prayer that I posted on and bring back often. President Trump does not need a smile or a pat on the back....and especially not political advice....from a minister of the gospel. He needs the truth presented to him. (I'll put that post at the end of these 'dispatches.')
The White House suspended the pass of CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta. Other reporters may become more aggressive because of this. Jim Acosta and CNN are the worst of the worst but who will be the next to be purged as the President warned that others could get the press passes revoked!
Update on the above: After the White House released a video of the Acosta incident, an IT person noticed that there was a slight difference in the original AP video and the White House video. He said that it appeared that the White House video was altered as a few frames were sped up to make it appear that the journalist's actions were more aggressive than they actually were. The President promptly denied that the video was altered. Yesterday Kellyanne Conway seemed to admit that the video was sped up.....just like they do in sports she said....and that that was technically not altering.....just speeding up? This is why....after two years of continuous lies on anything big or small....not a single word that comes out of this President's mouth can be believed without some kind of verification!
I would like to apply for the job of CNN White House Correspondent to replace Jim Acosta who was banned. My first question would be this...."Mr. President.....it has been widely reported that North Korea is still maintaining secret nuclear sites. You tweeted...'we know fully about the sites being discussed....just more fake news.' Please clear this up....if there are such sites then how is it fake news? It might be old news to you....but how is it fake news to us?"
Hopefully President Trump will not try to abort the Mueller probe for that would be intolerable.
Losing the House of Representatives was a political disaster. Republicans should this. The old adage of the party in power always loses at the midterms does not apply in this current climate.
Conservative talk radio hosts have dug themselves a hole that they may not be able to get out of. The reason that they made the decision long ago to go all out for President Trump without any critical analysis....this in my opinion of course....was because they do not trust their listening audience. They will tell their listening audience over and over again how smart they are but then they treat those audiences like they cannot be trusted with the truth.
Ivanka and Jared Kushner will never be accepted by anyone who still holds to conservative principles. President Trump needs to send them back to New York.....along with Donald Jr.
I have no idea if Jeff Sessions has ever contemplated running for President but right now he is the de facto lead contender to pick up the conservative banner and challenge President Trump.
Sarah Sanders....for her own sake if nothing else....needs to return to her former life
The CIA countermanded the orders of President Eisenhower on at least one very important foreign policy directive in the 50s....and probably more. This is why Ike gave that warning concerning the military industrial complex in his farewell address. The CIA did the same thing to President Kennedy at the Bay of Pigs invasion. We celebrated the huge military spending bill of late without considering that military spending bills can easily be done.....with the monies distributed......for reasons that are not necessarily in the nation's interest. All I'm saying here is that we believe these people too quickly.
There are people out there whose well-paid job....(their employer a party or a president)....is to take note of what people like me....and like you....are saying. They don't know us....they don't want to know us. They're are simply looking for a pulse and maybe a trend. If they read my posts....and are employed by the Republican Party.....then you can bet your bottom dollar....that they are hoping that there are not too many of us out here....(I don't know how many of us are out here)....because as they analyze our thoughts and our words.....they would know also that we are not going to be fooled.....we are not going to compromise beliefs....and we are not going let this new Republican Trump Party go on without being challenged with the facts that talk radio suppresses. In short they know that if this is a legitimate trend then they are in big trouble.....the same trouble that the Republican RINOs were in in the years leading up to the 2016 election.
If Only Our Pulpits Would Do The Same
I find myself uttering this prayer from time to time...."Lord open our eyes to this man." It usually comes out spontaneously when I hear President Trump's rally speech words followed by a raucous chorus of cheers....shouts....and chants. We are in the midst of a psychological phenomenon very similar to that which put Barack Obama in office. Both men as presidents were judgments from God but in totally different ways. Both sides of the spectrum display blindness brought on us for refusing to turn first to Christ rather than fallible princes and our own powers of determination....and refusing also to accept any culpability in what we have become....therefore we conservatives project sole guilt on the opposition party....and believe that we have made atonement of sorts by electing a Republican President....where we as a people have not changed one iota for the better since November of 2016. The following post is from last year:
It was powerful....it was what we needed....not the Donald Trump pep rally from Phoenix....but the prayer that Franklin Graham offered before the President would be introduced to the tune of the Rolling Stones....You Can't Always Get What You Want. (At least it wasn't Sympathy For The Devil) I tried to type the text of the prayer as fast I could....praising God as I typed....for not only the people in the arena would hear these words but who knows how many people that were live streaming the rally. Christians would be hearing these words of repentance that they should be hearing from their pulpits each and every Lord's Day.
The crowd was quiet as Reverend Graham spoke....I prayed "Oh God thank you for letting us hear these words!" Franklin Graham then walked off the stage as the arena remained hushed. Vice President Pence followed him to the microphone....and within minutes the crowd was once again in unison yelling....USA....USA....USA! As I wrote at the time....the power of that prayer was gone.....but many had heard it......and will offer that same prayer some day in the future....only it will be as chaos reigns....and maybe war.....and not beforehand.....where we could have petitioned God for discernment and vision for what was ahead of us. The following was the best that I could do on that transcript....
"Our Heavenly Father.....you've blessed our country more than any nation on earth and we acknowledge that apart for you we have no hope....we come tonight....as a troubled nation....we're broken spiritually....were divided politically....we're divided racially....we are adrift morally..... following whatever direction the wind of popular culture blows....with no regard for your word or the consequences of our disobedience....we ask tonight for your help....our sins have paralyzed us....as a country we have seemed to have forgotten right from wrong.... you warned us in your Holy Word the Bible that there would come a time when truth would become a lie....and lies would become truth....we come to you this evening confessing our sins as a nation.....we confess the sins of our past.....of injustice....of pride.....of self-indulgence.....we have failed to protect our young and our innocent.....and we ask for your forgiveness.....we ask that you would unite this country for your glory.....Father we need a shepherd.....I pray that you would be the shepherd of our nation.....you are the God who restores our souls.....your rod and your staff they comfort us....and I pray this all in the name...the powerful name....the name of your son....the Lord Jesus Christ."
