There are always plenty of 'What If' books out there....what if so and so didn't die....or what if such and such country had won the war. I never had the slightest inclination to read any of them....for there didn't seem to be any purpose to looking into these questions.....but there are similar questions today that I would be interested in....because there would be a purpose. The questions would be....'what would the economy and America overall look like had any of the other Republican candidates won the nomination and the general election?' Now maybe they could not have won the general election.....but this question isn't dependent on that.....only for example on the 'what if'.....'what would the economy look like if an administration of one of the other Republican candidates had replaced the Obama administration.' The purpose in looking at this is that.....for the economy anyway.....it might have been very similar to today....for business 'regs' would have been changed....and corporate taxes would have changed. Folks....I don't have an answer for this other than that....with the Obama administration gone....the economy would have blossomed with anyone....and for the purpose in looking at this question....President Trump....as he does in everything in life....cheats.....his claims infer that only he is responsible for employment statistics etc.....whereas because of the hype involved in all of this....he may very well have produced the best numbers.....but they all would have been very good! This should be important....as we conservatives have been conditioned to believe that if change horse midstream....the economy will tank again. None of this by the way even considers trillion dollar debt increases every year under this administration.
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THE PULPIT....NOT THE PODIUM.....As long as our pulpits continue to preach pablum......America will continue to be taken by the current towards the precipice of the falls.
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STUNNING ANNOUNCEMENT....."With America's sons in the fields far away, with America's future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office-the presidency of this country.....Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president." This was LBJ on March 31,1968. Hopefully it will be DJT sometime soon. The Tet Offensive was two months in progress. Two weeks previous to this Robert Kennedy announced his candidacy to challenge for the Democrat nomination. I was 18 years old at the time....standing at the counter of my favorite hangout....eating a sandwich and swigging a Pepsi....when this unexpected announcement socked the nation.
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OTTO WARMBIER....President Trump is quoted here...."He (Kim Jong-un) tells me that he didn't know about it and I will take him at his word." He said that Kim Jong-un "felt badly about it. He felt very badly." He also said that he has "great respect" for Chairman Kim. Rick Santorum....in commenting on this....said "many of us who like (President Trump's) policies....don't like a lot of the things he does and says....I don't understand why the President does this..." Well Senator....let me explain that for you....only a man who has absolutely no foundational....secure....and sincere belief system whatsoever on anything even remotely related to right and wrong....and truth and untruth....could....on a regular basis.....for years on end....utter statements like this. This is the Christian's champion and bulwark for conservatives.
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VENEZUELA.....here is a quote from Andrew McCabe's book The Threat...."Then the president talked about Venezuela. That's the country we should be going to war with, he said. They have all that oil and they're right on our back door." President Trump would deny the quote....this we know....so I would hope that the media would pressure McCabe for names of those who were present.
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AND WE DID NOT SPEAK OUT: It has been only two years so far of this gut-wrenching contorted confusion and chaos as Donald Trump stumbles along on his own kicking cans down the street. Imagine six more years of this! Imagine six more years of Ivanka and Jared! We and we alone will be responsible for the ascendance of Ivanka and Jared on the world's stage should it happen....for we said nothing! The day after President Trump would win reelection....he would have absolutely no need for us....not even for Rush and Sean and Mark.
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I heard this recently in an Internet sermon and thought I would pass it along to you for your consideration. As Rome was beginning to disintegrate because of....among other things...its inability to assimilate migrants......Jerome's thought was along these lines...."What is the church going to do if Rome falls?".....Augustine's thoughts on the other hand were more along the lines of....."the mission field is now coming to the church rather than the church having to go to the mission field."
God at times moves in marvelous and wondrous ways through the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ within peoples and within nations such as America in the early 18th century.....and Wales....and Scotland.....and Pyongyang in the early 20th century.....yes Pyongyang! And there have been many more great revivals. Should His Spirit move mightily over the Latino population in America in such a way....you would see a wall built by both parties so fast it would make your head spin. Neither party as it now stands wants more actual Bible believing Christians in our nation or in their own party....but may God do just this should it be His will. May His Spirit move upon all of our hearts in ways that bring Him glory! By the way....should God act in such a way then there would no longer be a Trump Party and its Make America Great Again agenda. There is irony here also for if God's Spirit were to move across this land like the wind over wheatfields....then many in our Congress themselves would humble themselves before God....and rejoice in a Savior they previously did not even know they were in need of!
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THE PULPIT....NOT THE PODIUM.....As long as our pulpits continue to preach pablum......America will continue to be taken by the current towards the precipice of the falls.
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STUNNING ANNOUNCEMENT....."With America's sons in the fields far away, with America's future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office-the presidency of this country.....Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president." This was LBJ on March 31,1968. Hopefully it will be DJT sometime soon. The Tet Offensive was two months in progress. Two weeks previous to this Robert Kennedy announced his candidacy to challenge for the Democrat nomination. I was 18 years old at the time....standing at the counter of my favorite hangout....eating a sandwich and swigging a Pepsi....when this unexpected announcement socked the nation.
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OTTO WARMBIER....President Trump is quoted here...."He (Kim Jong-un) tells me that he didn't know about it and I will take him at his word." He said that Kim Jong-un "felt badly about it. He felt very badly." He also said that he has "great respect" for Chairman Kim. Rick Santorum....in commenting on this....said "many of us who like (President Trump's) policies....don't like a lot of the things he does and says....I don't understand why the President does this..." Well Senator....let me explain that for you....only a man who has absolutely no foundational....secure....and sincere belief system whatsoever on anything even remotely related to right and wrong....and truth and untruth....could....on a regular basis.....for years on end....utter statements like this. This is the Christian's champion and bulwark for conservatives.
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VENEZUELA.....here is a quote from Andrew McCabe's book The Threat...."Then the president talked about Venezuela. That's the country we should be going to war with, he said. They have all that oil and they're right on our back door." President Trump would deny the quote....this we know....so I would hope that the media would pressure McCabe for names of those who were present.
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AND WE DID NOT SPEAK OUT: It has been only two years so far of this gut-wrenching contorted confusion and chaos as Donald Trump stumbles along on his own kicking cans down the street. Imagine six more years of this! Imagine six more years of Ivanka and Jared! We and we alone will be responsible for the ascendance of Ivanka and Jared on the world's stage should it happen....for we said nothing! The day after President Trump would win reelection....he would have absolutely no need for us....not even for Rush and Sean and Mark.
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I heard this recently in an Internet sermon and thought I would pass it along to you for your consideration. As Rome was beginning to disintegrate because of....among other things...its inability to assimilate migrants......Jerome's thought was along these lines...."What is the church going to do if Rome falls?".....Augustine's thoughts on the other hand were more along the lines of....."the mission field is now coming to the church rather than the church having to go to the mission field."
God at times moves in marvelous and wondrous ways through the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ within peoples and within nations such as America in the early 18th century.....and Wales....and Scotland.....and Pyongyang in the early 20th century.....yes Pyongyang! And there have been many more great revivals. Should His Spirit move mightily over the Latino population in America in such a way....you would see a wall built by both parties so fast it would make your head spin. Neither party as it now stands wants more actual Bible believing Christians in our nation or in their own party....but may God do just this should it be His will. May His Spirit move upon all of our hearts in ways that bring Him glory! By the way....should God act in such a way then there would no longer be a Trump Party and its Make America Great Again agenda. There is irony here also for if God's Spirit were to move across this land like the wind over wheatfields....then many in our Congress themselves would humble themselves before God....and rejoice in a Savior they previously did not even know they were in need of!
