A Bullet that Wasn’t

There are so many lies out there these days it has gotten to the point where no one can tell what’s real and what isn’t, especially with the advent of AI and the things they can do with computer-generated graphics. We have to pretty much rely on our gut instincts and whatever rudimentary knowledge of right and wrong that we’ve been blessed with to try and figure out the truth in most narratives and/or situations. It’s always good to be able to see and understand motives too.

One of the instances that stands out to me is the Charlie Kirk assassination. To begin with, in order to determine the truth, you almost have to discount everything that is being said – especially in the mainstream media. Everything. Fairly reliable word has it that he is actually dead, so maybe folks can avoid the rabbit hole that doubt of that would lead you into, so assuming he is, I wonder if there are still folks that buy into the narrative that the “shooter” was that young fellow they keep pointing to – Tyler Robinson. That narrative has been so thoroughly debunked by now that I think even I could successfully defend him in court, so why did they try to cook up something so flimsy? Complete with texts so blatantly filled with admissions of guilt nonsense as to be laughable, and those sprang up immediately revealing that the narrative was almost as preplanned as some outlandish story of nineteen nomadic tribesmen flying passenger jets, but that’s another story.

There are some fairly plausible motivations for someone(s) wanting to shut him up and they should be explored. He had reached a stage of his evolution as a presenter where he might have been onto the fact that he was being used to promote things he didn’t necessarily believe in. Apparently, he had enough integrity to refuse to do so. He was becoming vocal about the things he was being asked to do and say and it seemingly became necessary to quieten him. As to the methodology that was used to do so, well it just looks like the perpetrators are getting sloppy.

There were more than enough folks filming him when it happened that it looks like some of the extant videos got out ahead of the narrative, or maybe the narrative has had to become obviously fluid in order to compensate for the many visuals that continue to contradict it. One of the first videos I watched of the event showed an ear bud flying out of Charlie’s ear, the narrator acknowledged seeing it but attempted to explain it as having been ejected due to the tremendous force on the bullet-induced pressure. I plainly saw this and the narrator even made those comments. The earpiece came out with such force that the wire connected to it strained the fabric of his shirt into what resembled a tent over his chest – only for a fraction of a second. The reason I mention this is that some very sloppy cover-up videos have surfaced claiming that Charlie wasn’t wearing an earpiece, advertising themselves as “brand new 4K videos that haven’t been shown yet” and in those new and improved 4K videos, they show a profile of Charlie’s face and head with no earpiece and oddly the narrator of this video goes to the trouble of pointing this out and saying several times that there is no earpiece. So now they are taking pains to claim that we should just ignore what our eyes saw – a clearly visible earpiece flying out of his head – and believe the new 4K videos.

Since there was no “exit wound”, some “doctor” who supposedly examined the body claimed – and this was the best he could come up with – that Charlie was some kind of man of steel, because his body stopped the bullet and there was no exit wound. I’m an experienced hunter and have shot several deer in my time, some with a 30-06, the type of rifle they are trying to claim he was shot with, and I can assure anyone that even a (light) 170 grain 30-06 bullet would have passed through a human body no matter where it hit. A 30-06 can shoot completely through a moose! Someone needs to work on their false-narrative creation skills.

I believe the reason there was no exit wound was that the earpiece Charlie was using was what killed him. It had been rigged with an explosive charge. It wouldn’t have needed to be much, after all the ear canal doesn’t pose much obstruction to the brain. This would fit perfectly with the “no exit wound”. Whatever charge used would have diffused and/or disintegrated inside the skull. It would also explain the lack of blood as the charge would most likely have cauterized the inner ear area from the heat produced. There are people in the world with a proven record of booby-trapping communications devices, and this theory would also explain the instantaneous digging up the turf and paving it – just so no private investigator might come along and find plastic shards with embedded explosive residue. Why else would decide – on the spur of the moment – to remove any evidence at the scene? There were a bunch of “security” guys swarming all over the limp body of Charlie. I think they were removing anything from the scene that could have given the plot away.

Another advantage of using a remote-controlled explosive device would be that in case it failed to work, no one would be the wiser or even notice it had been attempted, unlike a missed gunshot where there would be an investigation, or failed bomb explosion or other kinds of attempts that would be obvious.

Why was there plain video of someone jumping off the roof of the building? There’s no way that character could have had a rifle on his person, broken down or otherwise. The official narrative is that the “suspect” had that rifle with or on him when he jumped. The texts to his “lover” are obviously fake as they contain so many iterations of “I did it” to the extent it’s laughable. Why did all the actors jump into the scene, removing cameras, cards, etc.? This was a crime scene and should have been roped off undisturbed and if all those fellows pulled that without pre-authorization (from someone(s) with a lot of stroke in high places), someone would have gone to jail. Nothing like that happened and this whole thing stinks to high heaven. I didn’t see anyone trying to do CPR – all those guys (who looked for the world like intel spooks) were all busy doing something though. Why did a bunch of fellows carry his body to a waiting SUV and speed off? If he had been shot with a high-powered rifle, there would have been blood everywhere, but if you watch the video of them loading him into the vehicle, you’ll see there was little to none. In real life there would have been an ambulance with EMTs, even if he was deceased. The speed at which the narrative was generated, the suspect identified, any possible evidence obliterated, reminds one of the pre-crafted narrative we were served on 9/11 where even the scrap metal got shipped to China quickly. It’s like the script was already written out just waiting for the event to happen.

Anyways, I hope they are able to solve this despicable act, but I fear that like so many other crimes in this nation, a proper investigation won’t be allowed by the perpetrators. Perpetrators with a penchant for disallowing proper investigations. Also keep in mind that this post is just my own opinion – some fairly solid evidence for it if all the original videos are still available, but still just my opinion.

Keep an eye on this one. The truth may come out on this side, but if not, it will come out on the other – they won’t escape God’s justice.

MK

It’s Getting Cold Out There

It’s a quiet and foggy early morning here in the Ozarks with temperatures low enough to cause what we call an ice fog. When these get heavy enough, they leave one of the most spectacularly beautiful wintry scenes you’ll ever see. The trees, mostly barren by now are left with a fluffy coat of rime along every branch and twig and somehow it looks and feels lighter and whiter than you’d expect. The scene feels accentuated by it’s utter silence – it causes one to reminisce – at least for me it does – imagining past times during which these old trees stood and watchfully grew, of winters of yesteryear posing for now as rest stops for red birds and jays during their endless frolics as their tiny wings slice through a brooding icy silence.

An ice storm from a few years ago

Today’s ice fog doesn’t seem to be a very heavy one, but the heaviness of my heart makes up for it because the folks that run this old world we live in have developed some awful problems and it doesn’t look like they’re going away. It just seems like every single day arrives with a whole new set of problems and they all just keep piling up. We’re in a big old ship that’s headed for some serious rocks, and no one seems to be steering it. It’s going to be a mighty cold wreck when we crash, and no one is trying to prevent it.

As of today, our leaders are determined to start a new war down in Venezuela. They keep spouting some nonsense about “narco-terrorists” – I mean just stop and give that some consideration, just for a second. What is a narco-terrorist? Remember Iraq? They had to come up with an evil-sounding name for that “enemy” and since the Iraq military had been destroyed but there were still many new foes but not in uniform so instead of admitting the US was slaughtering and/or torturing civilians, they started calling them enemy combatants, as if this new designation somehow made it more legal to massacre them. Made it acceptable to torture them in Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. Folks, we are living in some evil times and the spooky demons behind our government are unimaginably evil.

There will be no peace in this world until Jesus comes back or until the US and Israeli governments are totally neutralized. Personally, I like the former option – just imagine, real justice here on this earth like there has never been since mankind was put in charge. Everyone, and I mean everyone is by now trying to come to ways to cope with the things we’re facing, but hardly anyone is able to discern what is honestly happening – that Satan is in near complete control of all the world’s governments. People – human beings – are being mercilessly slaughtered right out in the open and the whole world stands by and does nothing. If you haven’t concluded yet – Jesus is our only hope!

Those leaders who have sold their souls dare not raise their voice because of their despicable moral failings have set them up for blackmail, or just as bad, they’ve sold out for wealth – wealth that will never fill the void left from their soul’s departure. People like you and me are powerless to stop the incredible evil that has permeated all of the earth. We can but protest in whatever ways the Lord provides and we must. We must speak out against what we’re seeing lest we become viewed as complicit in these great atrocities orchestrated by the demons of hell.

There was a very famous person who made her bones in the media industry who just a few days ago not only expressed support for that now infamous “double tap” strike on hapless survivors of one of the Venezuelan boats, but she said she was disappointed that they were not made to suffer enough before they died! Folks, this kind of stuff ain’t right – not at all, and if any of my readers share her sentiments, I feel sorry for your eternal future. There are so many things wrong with this situation on so many levels that we need to start praying fervently for ourselves, our families, and our nation.

The Almighty God, who created us in His image is not going to stand by a lot longer and watch this inexplicable evil – this monstrous attitude that it’s ok, even fun – to watch people suffer and die. That it’s ok if we have to support governments (including our own) who operate torture prisons and perform the most heinous, despicable, evil acts on captured and helpless individuals! People in one country actually staged protests in defense of prison operators who routinely assault prisoners by sodomizing them with brooms! These were civilian protesters who were appalled and aghast that these demons were threatened with accountability. This world is in some big trouble when God raises His hand against the servants of Satan doing things like that and I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes. I’m afraid of the wrath of God that is coming upon the whole world because of this mass stampede to rampant evil.

It’s not ok to kill men on boats just because you came up with an evil-sounding name for them. It’s the epitome of evil to say – on public airways that those guys should have been made to suffer more – that lady should be immediately castigated and disowned by all God-fearing people of this country. That’s absolutely as evil as anything the Nazis did or said, and they’re supposed to be our measuring stick for atrocious behavior. Whatever you do, don’t look past things like this – these words and actions are what are going to bring the wrath of God upon this world! And it ain’t going to be pretty!

A few years ago there was a plane shot down, if my memory isn’t failing too much, I think it was over in Afghanistan. in which a high-ranking CIA guy was killed. I got a mental image of that story in the Bible of the great battle when Michael and the angels fought against, and ultimately cast Satan out of Heaven and onto the earth. In my mind’s eye, that was what happened. A demon fell to earth. Intelligence agencies around the world are Satan’s police departments, they are merchants of falsehoods and I believe if a person goes to work for any of them, he/she has to sell their soul up front, and then they are given control – of people, of governments, of the operations of the whole world, and they have taken control to the extent that Jesus is the only One who will be able to stop them, but He will! That’s why the leaders of the world are out to get Christians, they know Jesus Christ will be their downfall, so the dragon is enraged and has set out to try to destroy the woman (the Church), but take heart, he never will do it. Hence the rage – he knows his time is short.

Indeed, take heart you who follow the Truth – the only thing the enemy can take from us is a little bit of time we might have remaining on this earth, which by now has become so disgusting to live on that they don’t even realize they would actually be doing us a favor. When they take our money or property, they are only taking something that’s temporary – it wasn’t ours in the first place and they won’t be taking it with them where they’re going for sure. That causes Satan even more consternation and rage when we are no longer afraid of him and his demons, he loses the only thing he ever had over us – fear. Jesus said not to fear them [Matthew 10:28]: “
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” and [John 16:33]: “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Be of good cheer. Remember, even though things sometimes look hopeless, if it wasn’t possible to have courage, Jesus wouldn’t have advised us to do so. He didn’t – and doesn’t – waste His Words!

I’m going back outside into the cold fog to watch the bluebirds and meditate on His blessings while we still have them.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

When Evil Becomes a Way of Life

What is the enemy of mankind up to? How can he possibly benefit from exposing his malevolence to the world? It would seem that open genocide or totally obvious lying during speeches with every sentence of every breath would cause consternation in his target audiences, and at first it does, but his real goal is the devious process of normalizing the atrocious behavior we are witnessing. Horrible things like slaughter and starvation of little kids which yesterday were unimaginably evil are today not only being done out in the open for all to see, but the public is steadily becoming inured to it.

As of now, the news networks report on distractions of all sorts instead of jumping on stories of evil soldiers shooting little children, news stories of crimes and horrors which just a few years ago – maybe just a few days ago – would have burned the headlines with calls for the heads of those responsible. Now as these malevolent acts take place, we hear of poll results and prospects for some future election – we hear of some court decision or political action, and of course, the ubiquitous 3I Atlas (Comet, Meteor, UFO mother ship, etc.) but our press carefully skirts all the issues that address the real evils of the world. So what’s the plan?

By ignoring most of the vileness of certain governments and the obvious acts of terror they engage in, these monstrous acts are being allowed to fester into unthinkable malevolence served only as a news side dish if at all. The aim is to get everyone used to their dirty work, teach us to become accustomed to atrocity so the shock value is no longer present and thus isn’t a deterrent, i.e., not a newsworthy happening. People’s hearts are becoming calloused, learning to accept that which once blanched the soul.

What was not so long ago considered to be insidious, things like the most depraved of sexual immorality has become just more items on the menu of the internet, not to be considered vile and repugnant behavior to be avoided lest we offend the Creator. Consideration of the desires of the Creator no longer seem to be relevant to our life choices. This will come back to bite in the most horrific way unless we can develop the momentum to return to our Spiritual guidance.

This article is intended to speak (loudly) to all who profess to be believers in Christ – do not allow the evil of the world to become commonplace in your thoughts. Continue to regard it for the departure from decency that it is. Just because the cold-blooded murder of children has happened, and is happening, do not allow it to set some kind of twisted precedent that has somehow become “normal”, and thus no longer an indictment of those who follow such malevolent and demonic ways. Do not come to accept any facet of this behavior as normal or allowable as human behavior.

Just because sexual immorality has become a way of life in most social circles, do not think that makes it somehow acceptable in God’s eyes, because it is not, nor will it ever be! Any departure from one’s Spiritually ingrained morality, that which has been learned over the centuries from the Bible, is never to be allowed into our thoughts and behavior. If we purport to be in the service of our King, we cannot, we must not give quarter to such vileness – even if it continues for a thousand years and becomes not only tolerated but instituted as normal. It is not! Nor is it to be ignored – we must use whatever platform(s) at our disposal to ensure our fellow travelers do not become inured and tolerant of such behavior – no matter how it comes packaged.

If you’ve been watching the enemy and consider yourself onto his wiles, pay close attention to the in-your-face evil taking place – right out in the open nowadays. Such irreverence used to be kept secret, but no longer. He’s preparing the world of men to start considering this behavior to be the new normal. He’s trying to get us to the point where our whole society not only accepts his evil ways, but by seeing that there are no repercussions for the actors, some undoubtedly choose to participate in them. Don’t fall for it, no matter how “normal” it becomes! We are taught to stay on the straight path, not looking to either side. There are things going on now – and it’s going to get worse – that Christians have no part in; stay away from such depravity; never accept such as normal – they are not!

Another, less obvious trap the enemy is preparing is to capture men by creating hatred in the hearts of otherwise good people – by causing them to see and be repelled by the very behavior they detest and then allowing it to fester into hatred of those who are engaged in it. It’s okay to hate the behavior, but not the people doing it. [Revelation 2:6]: “But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate”. Jesus said the deeds, not the people themselves. If we allow our hearts to be turned to hatred of others, the same enemy wins, so avoid his snares. He’s had thousands of years to design ways to steal men’s souls. The only sure-fire way to defeat his schemes is to walk in the presence of One who is able to defeat him – Jesus Christ – if you haven’t made peace with Him – our greatest Ally – I strongly advise you to learn of Him and accept His offer of protection. There is no other way to defeat this malevolent entity that is out to destroy mankind and everything we hold sacred. There’s simply no other way – don’t wait around until it’s too late.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

You Bet Thanksgiving is Important!

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Are we obliged to thank God for His Providence towards us? Well, I guess if that’s the way one chooses to frame it, then there may be more than one answer and yes or no don’t quite make muster as an acceptable answer at all. If we see giving thanks as an obligation, then we obviously miss the point.

When our Heavenly Father bestows a blessing on us, we need first of all to recognize the blessing as such. For instance, I grew up in a poor household and for much of my life I regarded our poverty as some kind of curse which obviously didn’t merit any gratitude. As I’ve come of age (and by now have become somewhat overripe), it has occurred to me that living as one of the poor of the earth was indeed a blessing of the highest order! Look at what Jesus said: [Luke 6:20]: “Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said: “Blessed are you poor, For yours is the kingdom of God.” How can being dirt poor and having to struggle to get by possibly be a blessing? Well, to start with, we learned compassion for our fellow travelers who were needy because we have walked that walk. Our family was very close with relationships born of mutual hardships – relationships that still bind us today as we grow into the autumn years of our lives.

We learned to appreciate neighbors who were willing to lend a hand and thus became those same neighbors to others. We learned to appreciate the genuine grace of God that was ours as we watched folks who lived better financially and how in many instances their prosperity deprived them of the will, or even the ability to appreciate Him.

I remember being a little barefoot ragamuffin in the early springtime and how wonderful the new clover felt on my feet – kids with shoes didn’t experience that, so how could they develop those kinds of fond memories that I’ve carried all my life? My point is that though many – ok most – aspects of growing up poor were significant trials, after everything is said and done, God has grace me with uncountable richness, in brotherly love, in precious and much beloved memories I would never have in my heart, in appreciation for God’s abundant grace and inestimable wisdom – He knew all along what He was developing and later on He gave me the wisdom to understand how it all came together and that it was indeed a blessing – now that I’m able to look back on my youth from an aspect beyond the hard times.

So do I thank Him for the tough years we went through? Absolutely! I wouldn’t trade one of my memories of my precious family living in that old house with crumbling wallpaper, eating macaroni and home-canned tomatoes made with bone broth from cracked and broken crock plates, having to draw water from an old cistern with a rope and rusty pulley. Most poor folks back in those days kept a metal bucket on the kitchen counter with an old dipper in it. When someone was thirsty, they just picked up that dipper and dipped out a drink from the bucket and drank from it. Even people who came by from a different family. That’s just how things worked back then for poor folks. We all obviously shared the same germs, but rarely got sick (another blessing?) Those recollections are a big part of who I am and who I hope to still be when this old ticker goes still. Perfect? Not at all, but He knows my heart, and in the final judgement, that’s the most important thing.

Among the blessings we received but did not recognize as such, there are those obvious ones. We have no excuse for not being appreciative for those. Jesus encountered ten guys who had leprosy and healed all of them, but afterwards only one of them, a Samaritan no less, came back to thank Him. [Luke 17:17]: “So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? 18 Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” 19 And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Even Jesus Christ Himself considers thanksgiving to be giving glory to God!

Our Lord knows all, and He obviously recognizes gratitude for His kindness and blessings. For the obvious ones in real time and for the long term ones that we don’t regard as blessings when they are happening, but come to understand later. I think those ones are the most significant to our Spiritual development and thus are the ones we should be thankful for the most.

In any case, and I’m writing this as one who sometimes forgets to acknowledge and thank Him appropriately (and in a timely manner), we need to make sure we properly thank God for His mercy and grace in our lives. We should never miss that opportunity to go back and thank Him even in those times we forgot or overlooked earlier, because of his unfathomable love for us, He will forgive our ignorance. The thing is, we have to actually appreciate Him in our hearts, because that’s the place He is interested in.

This Thanksgiving Day when we say our prayers, let’s make it a point to pray from our heart and soul, Jesus said [Matthew 5:8]: “Blessed are the pure at heart, for they shall see God” so He knows whether or not we’re being sincere or are just completing a step in the holiday checklist.

God bless all and Happy Thanksgiving!

MK

The Difference is God’s Love

Sometimes it looks as though people who do not know Jesus Christ are avoiding Him on purpose, maybe it’s because some of us who claim to be believers show such a terrible witness. The non-believer sees the high and mighty televangelists grifting the public and the pews full of hypocrites and makes a conscious decision to avoid association with them lest others think the same of them. It’s a shameful indictment of our belief system that some use it for pecuniary gain or some perceived social status as they turn up their noses to those who Jesus came to save.

We who have chosen the narrow Way are up against a lot of inherent obstacles trying to convince folks we have chosen the right path and that they should join us but having to overcome the image created by the hypocrites make it much more of an uphill climb. If non-believers were actually shown an accurate view of who Jesus was and what He taught, it would be a lot easier, but we have to battle against the false witnesses of fake Christians who distort Christianity to the extent that most non-believers don’t want anything to do with Jesus and that’s a shame. Some of them like to teach that serving Jesus is a really tough thing to do so they can feel smug about themselves as though they were doing a lot of heavy lifting, but in fact living for the Lord isn’t hard at all if you really want to do so and for the right reasons.

Jesus Christ was an extraordinary Being who came into this world on a mission that few can grasp. In His short time here in the flesh He taught humanity profound lessons, the veracity of which has endured through millennia, and these instructions are as valid today as they were in His time. They shall endure forever, for His Word is timeless. [Matthew 24:35]: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.” He taught us the importance of growing out of this fleshly human condition and into the Spiritual existence, and even unbelievers are normally able to understand the existential improvement to humanity of a life spent doing good and loving others over a wasted life of greed and immorality.

Jesus’ love for human beings was nothing short of remarkable. Even as his executioners were murdering Him, His overriding concern was for their salvation as He petitioned God to forgive them because they had no idea what they were getting themselves into. [Luke 23:34]: “Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots. We mortals cannot possibly relate to that kind of love – they were killing Him, yet He pleaded for their forgiveness from God. We can learn to love like that, but only through the Holy Spirit.

We all have our detractors and tormentors of one kind or another but how many of us can honestly say that we have the capacity, not only to forgive them, but to actually love them from our heart? When we set out to follow Jesus, we must commit to doing our utmost to do just that, and that’s a profound commitment. It may be difficult, but it’s not impossible, because if it was impossible Jesus would never have told us to do it. [Matthew 5:43-48]:“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. …”

I guess what this post is saying is that what separates the true followers of Jesus from unbelievers and hypocrites is the capacity for loving others, just as our Lord Jesus did. When the non-believer sees us showing that kind of love to one another, they cannot but understand that we are different from what they have seen in the phony congregations of the false prophets. When we demonstrate God’s love for one another and even love for our enemies, they realize there’s more to true faith than what they have been led to believe and thus are more apt to be receptive to our Spiritual beliefs.

Keep up the good work fellow travelers, and if you are reading this post and have not come yet to Jesus, by all means look into learning about Him. This world’s condition should be revealing to you by now that human beings do not have the answers. We’re sinking in this world of increasing evil and there’ll never be any going back, not even to the way our world was last year; last month; even yesterday. He’s the only answer – don’t wait until it’s too late to learn that. Everyone will learn it one way or another. Get on the right side of things today. We’ll all land safely on the other side in His keep. Count on it.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

Reject the Drive-Thru Life of the Rich

When we look at the condition of the world today and how everyone – especially the rich everyones – are behaving themselves, all of them trying so desperately to get a leg up on everyone else, we get some notion of what it must be like for a bunch of scroungy vultures gathered around the skeleton of some rotting carcass with a precious few scraps of hard-to-get-at sinew left on it.

For all of my adult life, I’ve considered the wealth and means of the country to be like a big pie with enough shares for everyone, but there are always those who believe for whatever reason that they deserve more than the next guy. They fight like cats and dogs over – not just what might rightfully be due to them – every bit of the pie they can get their greedy claws on – using whatever means at their disposal to get as much of everyone else’s as they can lay claim to. They call it Capitalism but never doubt – it’s premised on evil [1 Timothy 6:10]: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Problem with these types is that while everyone else is out earning their pieces of the available resources, the greedy refuse to do anything to earn any of the pie, they slink into dark places and plot malicious schemes to steal whatever they can. They use their wealth to purchase lawmakers to legislate any and every piece of nefarious lawfare that can give them an advantage to get ahead. I remember when big insurance set out to make automobile liability insurance mandatory. When that garbage was going on, I remember being (uselessly) irate but found myself fighting against everyone – even friends and family – trying to get them to see what a travesty this was. Folks would argue about those poor people they heard about who got their car totaled in a crash by some (you name the minority) with no insurance. These people were the early iterations of Tea Partiers or MAGA types who were – and are – so easily propagandized, and readily jump on board any wagon which allows them an avenue to express their racism and/or stinginess.

I think it was the first time the government got away with mandating that citizens do business with private companies, and I still think it was and is wrong. See I felt, and feel, that if the state should mandate we have insurance, the state should provide it so the profits could be realized by the taxpayers and not some rich corporate political donors, but we all see what happened. By the way it’s not too late to fix that. I have three vehicles of which I can only drive one at a time, so why do I have to insure all of them? Why can’t I just get a policy on myself?

Big insurance is but one of a myriad of lobbies that purchase their own lawmakers (and thus laws), and there are some worse than insurance corporations. The one thing they all have in common is their insatiable greed for what has now become a very few remaining crumbs of the pie. They all see that there’s very little left; it’ll all be gone and there is a horrible battle shaping up for what’s left, but each of them only thinks of themselves and what they individually can get for themselves alone and to heck with everyone else, hence the vulture analogy. A big part of the problem is that each of them think this way and act as though they are unaware the others are all of the same mind as they are. They are getting set up for a frightful melee over the shrinking remnants!

What a miserable existence that must be for the greedy folks of the world! Some of them have connections to government officials like the greedy hedge fund manager who’s a buddy of Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury and found himself overinvested in Argentina’s stock market which was going under – no problem, Scott got Trump to cut a check to Argentina for around 40 billion dollars so his rich associate (and undoubtedly others of the same ilk) wouldn’t lose his shorts. American tax money (debt) going to cover private investors’ gambling debts because they have buddies in the administration! How is that legal??!! I wonder how much of that cash will end up in Scott’s account? Or Trump’s for that matter.

Us Christian folks can only watch on as these crooks dig themselves a dark tunnel into a dark place where they’ll spend their afterlife, so by no means envy them for their wealth! This stage of the journey is VERY temporary and it’ll come to a close way too soon for them. Ask Sheldon Adelson; ask Dick Cheney: for crying out loud, even the richest of the greedy, Jacob Rothschild, has come to a dark close! All for a few short years of having equally corrupt people fawning over them and their opulent lifestyles. And now for them it’s time to pay the piper. What I can’t figure out for the life of me is how on earth all of the ones that are still living can’t – or won’t – see what they are headed for. Such is the allure of Satan’s promises, but alas for them when their time in the flesh is over!

Those of us who put our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ take a completely different approach to our choices. Jesus promises us an unimaginably joyous and magnificent afterlife, if we but forego the temptations of what we might otherwise (erroneously) consider happiness here on earth. We trade any and all desire for wealth and its attendant immorality in this life for Jesus’ love and what awaits us on the other side. Speaking for myself, I’ve come to realize that comfort and wealth in this life ain’t what it’s built up to be anyways. There was an old song a long time ago, “A Satisfied Mind” that had a line about there not being one rich man in ten with a satisfied mind, and I’d wager there’s an even lower percentage than that, but everyone has their own battles, and I guess there’s a way for them to just carry on and not think about the cost, the tab they’ll someday be faced with.

Jesus said [Luke 6:24]: “But woe to you who are rich, For you have received your consolation.” Whatever wealth, pomp, fancy ballrooms, or palaces they might enjoy for this short life, they have to make the most of it, because when the fat lady sings, it’s all over. And the enemy of mankind, who gave it all to them will be cast into the same lake of fire with them – for all eternity. Don’t be fooled, that evil enemy hates us for what we have waiting versus what he has in store.

I’m reminded of the story Jesus told of the souls of the rich man and the poor beggar Lazarus in the next life. [Luke 16-31] As Jesus described the situation, the rich guy was in eternal torment and Lazarus was in glorious comfort in the bosom of Father Abraham. The rich guy was begging and pleading with Abraham to send Lazarus to him with water, even just a drop that might ease his torment. Abraham basically reminded him of their situations in life and how he had lived in luxury and Lazarus had been a beggar so they each were getting what they deserved, and besides God had so arranged a great gulf between their locations no one could cross – NO ONE, NO HELP COULD EVER COME TO HIM FOR ALL ETERNITY! The guy was begging and pleading but it was too late! Never again to see or taste even a drop of water, forever! The unfortunate fellow did not avail himself of God’s offer of salvation and rid himself of his wealth and take up the cross when there was still time – now be honest – have you?

Another thing I thought was interesting about this story was that the narrator (Jesus) never mentioned anything specific that the rich man had done to deserve eternal punishment, just that he had been rich and “fared sumptuously every day” in his former life. It almost appears that being rich itself is damnable, but then when you stop to consider all the evil things that rich people do to get rich in the first place, it’s no wonder.

If you are a believer, just hang on. We have something wonderful waiting on the other side. Jesus has personally prepared our mansions! [John 14:2,3]: “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. What an absolutely incredible promise!

Maybe y’all have seen some of the James Webb telescope pictures of the magnificent beauty of some of the stars, nebulas, novae and galaxies, but from the miniscule amount of celestial magnificence we are able to see, if Heaven is going to be anything like this, it’s gonna be a gorgeous place indeed. But according to the apostle Paul, we haven’t seen anything close the real thing yet. [1 Corinthians 2:9]: “But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” Those beautiful pictures of the universe can’t even capture it! It’s going so resplendent as to be indescribable with human words! The president can keep that pathetic ballroom.

If you haven’t put your trust in Jesus, by all means, look into what He offers – it’ll be worth your time in the end. The time is getting short. Look at the signs – devastating wars loom which threaten be more destructive than anything in history. Volcanoes which have been dormant, some considered extinct, waking up all over the world. In fact a new one, dead for ten thousand years, just erupted in Ethiopia yesterday. Campi Flegrei in Italy is awakening ominously, and it could be a world changer! So many harbingers. Lots of big churches full of hypocrites are shutting down – only a few with true followers left. We find ourselves heading down that difficult road to the narrow gate where we’ll finally get to see our Shepherd Who waits for us. Time to get right with the Lord, folks, it’s almost over down here.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

There’s a Fine Line Between Recognizing and Hating

For the regulars here on folkpotpourri, I’m sure y’all noticed my last post was somewhat different than the normal opinions and messaging that I normally post, so I’d like to clarify the intent and possibly expound on some of the things it said.

First of all, regulars will already know that the bulk of these articles are Spiritual in nature and yesterday’s post, although still Spiritual in tone, was somewhat of a departure from the norm. I believe that is because so many people seem to be adrift as to what is going on – otherwise well-intentioned people, especially believers are having problems focusing on their proper spiritual direction. Many are being told by purported teachers and pastors that they have a spiritual obligation to follow them in the wrong direction. If the post seemed a bit strongly worded, I think it’s probably because I tend to get somewhat passionate about watching folks seeming to envy the rich and/or follow the wrong leaders. I attempted to post about the fallacy of listening to false prophets and/or media sources that gloss over real and damnable issues – many of which I pointed out – that are happening in this world.

Wealthy people who own most of the traditional media sources and shyster preachers out to make a buck are pointing many otherwise decent people in the wrong direction – the Bible told us this would happen in the last days. I spend a lot of time and effort trying to get folks to use the Word of God to calibrate their Spiritual bearings using the Bible and stop listening to those who are corrupted by the wealth of the world. The apostle Paul warns us that this will happen: [2 Timothy 4:3]: “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers… So from this we are warned to discern the types of people to whom we listen. A key point is that folks listen to these types because they want to. Just like taking the mark of the beast, this behavior is voluntary.

Another point the previous post attempted to get across was exactly who Satan has chosen to do his bidding in these last days. Of course, there are many servants of evil out there doing his work, but it doesn’t take a genius to see the people who control the wealth of the world. When Satan took Jesus up on the mountain and offered Him kingship of the whole world, [Matthew 4:8-10]:”Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.” so the Lord turned him down, but it would seem that Satan has taken lesser men up there and they didn’t refuse his offer.

So here we are, a select group of wealthy people who support each other in their service to evil have gained control of the nations. From this group one will emerge to rule for a while. For reasons we do not yet fully understand (but reasons that are becoming more and more obvious), he chose people who call themselves God’s chosen people. The problem is, and I’ve seen this – we see it constantly – there are several false prophets who have a surprising number of “Christians” who now believe that in order to serve God, they must support these people, and that is just wrong! They have invented names like “Judeo Christian” and “Christian Zionist” to make their blasphemy a little more palatable, but for folks who read their Bibles, they understand the ruse.

Some of my posts, like yesterday’s, are written to attempt to show folks who seriously wish to serve God that they are being seriously deceived, and from whence that deception is coming. I am not a racist, God knows my heart. Nor do I discriminate against any ethnicity, I merely attempt to point out that where there’s so much smoke, there has to be a fire. It’s no big secret which ethos of society controls the majority of the world’s wealth. These folks spend a lot of time in evil machinations that are solely purposed to deceive, and the Gospels of the Bible are rapt with warnings of what liars Satan and his followers are – the more dedicated to Satan they are, the greater their deceptions: [John 8:44] “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. Jesus was addressing the Jews – the ones we would call Zionists today.

Before you get angry with those people, remember what Jesus told us. He warned us against hating, we must pray for them and trust Jesus to bring justice. When He returns, folks don’t have any notion of how great the paradigm shift will become. The wealthiest billionaires will suddenly become the most piteous entities in all of humanity. They will beg and plead for mercy, but the mercy they receive will be commensurate with the mercy they showed others: [Matthew 5:7]: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.”

Whatever you do, avoid envy of these people – remember, they are those who Satan took up on the mountain, and they failed the test. They have accepted a few short years of high living, adultery, lies, and murder for an eternity of joy and peace so intense we cannot even imagine what it’s going to be like. Of all the multitudes of humanity who have ever graced the earth, they are to be pitied most on that Day. Rich men don’t spend any time at all thinking about their forbears, think about guys like Sheldon Adelson, Jacob Rothschild, Dick Cheney – they had their party, now it’ll be time to face God’s justice. Not judging them, they may have made peace with God before their end, but as far as life on this earth goes, it was the end. No more pomp and pageantry, no more adulation from envious people, just the face of an angry God Almighty who can condemn their souls to eternal damnation.

So to emphasize the undercurrent of this post, as of the other one yesterday, I was in no way advocating hatred, I was pointing out the error of following or supporting the wrong people, regardless of what some millionaire preacher might say to the contrary. My intent, as always, was and is to encourage folks to stay on top of their Spiritual beliefs, don’t get pointed in the wrong direction, and don’t necessarily believe anyone who claims they are God’s chosen people. By reading your own Bible, you can tell who God’s people are and those who have rejected His Son are not among them! But don’t hate on anybody – that’s exactly the wrong thing to do, as bad as supporting them. We must pray for them.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

I Learned Something Amazing From a Construction Hand

The question of “Who killed Charlie Kirk?” Is FBI Director Running Cover for Foreign Assassin? (by Kevin Barrett) has become as popular as, “Who did 9/11?” and there are increasing numbers of journalists now who intimate that the two questions may in fact be intertwined. I personally believe there may be some veracity to this opinion.

A long time ago, back in the 1970’s a friend of mine who would have been considered back then to be an ardent conspiracy theorist, turned me on to the (kind of secretive in those days) notion that rich people of claimed Jewish ethnicity were in control of the US government. In those days of apple pie and American dreams, that was such an outlandish idea that even I, as one who was and still is prone to give ear to dark conjecture, was reluctant to buy into it all at once, but as time progressed and I watched as elected officials of our government enslaved themselves to any and everything Zionist, it began to change my opinion.

So many events have happened through the years which reveal the US government’s slavish obedience to Israeli leaders and the Zionist lobby in Washington DC, which, as far as I know is still the only PAC never to have been required to be required to register under FARA, or the Foreign Agents Registration Act. This has itself been a major giveaway to understanding AIPAC’s (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) nefarious activities. A law that required registering under FARA would require an American Congress ran by Americans, so that’s obviously out of the question.

I think one of the major things that gives one pause to consider that our nation has been taken over by a foreign country had its beginnings as far back as 1913 when Congress abdicated its Constitutionally appointed duty (by passing the Federal Reserve act) to manage the economy of the country and passed it over to private bankers. That’s where we are today, the economy of the US in the hands of wealthy bankers, and if you think they consider the well-being of average Americans in their decisions, there’s some beach front property in Arizona you might want to look into. And there’s that ethnicity thing that keeps rearing its head…

The notion that the Zionists control the American economy is up to each of us to decide whether or not we believe, but the fact is that the US, which does not have state-sponsored health care, sends billions of dollars every year to Israel, a country that does have public health care. Congress persons in the US Congress make a pledge to Israel prior to running for office according to former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, or risk losing campaign funding.

Another thing that struck me as odd have been the recent stories about Israeli servicemen that are in danger of being arrested on vacations in foreign countries for their criminal activities. Of course, this is due to war crimes being committed in the Gaza genocide. The odd part to me is that American service people don’t make enough money to be able to afford vacationing in foreign countries, so the IOF must pay a lot better (American taxpayer money) than the US DOD.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who changed his name from Benzion Mileikowsky and is of Polish descent (therefore is not Jewish at all) has appeared before the US congress on four occasions, each time basking in the adulation of standing ovations of clapping seals every few minutes of his (always totally fictitious) discourses. No other leader of any foreign country has enjoyed such hospitality. The name he chose, Netanyahu, in Hebrew translates to “God has Given”. Talk about blasphemy! The creature is not Jewish, and furthermore it is for all practical purposes illegal in Israel to have a DNA test, many believe because most “Jews” in Israel are not of Hebraic origin, a fact that substantiates what Jesus said in [Revelation 2:9]: “I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Blasphemy of the Synagogue – Hypocrites Exposed – Folk Potpourri

America has engaged in countless wars on behalf of Israel, our sons and daughters have shed their blood on Middle Eastern deserts because the leaders of Israel believe they are entitled to any and all land there they want but are unable to take without American help. By their actions they’ve shown time and again they own the US military as well as the political components of government.

The Israeli air force attacked and almost sunk the USS Liberty on June 9, 1967, killing 34 American servicemen in an attempted false flag to try and get the US into a war on Egypt. Yes, our “greatest ally in the Middle East” had no problem slaughtering American servicemen – even as they tried to climb into lifeboats – as a ruse to get America into a war! I’m going to switch gears at this point to inject the premise that for some reason and in consideration of the Liberty, we are supposed to doubt that this same Israel could be complicit in the events of 9/11 because they are our friends! Go ahead and believe that if you want and remember that beach front property.

Only recently the FBI set up a sting in which 8 men were trapped into trying to set up sex meetings with underage girls. One of them, Tom Artion Alexandrovich, is an Israeli who is a senior official for Israel’s National Cyber Directorate. All were arrested but guess which one was turned loose and allowed bail with no conditions and proceeded to flee back to Israel? The interim US Attorney in Nevada, Sigal Chattah, a controversial Israeli born American appointed by Zionist friendly Trump, was credited with allowing the fugitive to be free on bond without restrictions by deferring prosecution to the County prosecutor. Of course, Israel has a government policy of non-extradition of its citizens, so Alexandrovich won’t be held accountable! Looks like investigations of Zionist individuals are as forbidden as investigations into Israeli intelligence activities of 9/11! American justice apparently doesn’t apply to “them”. In the 9/11 case, the five “dancing Israelis” who were arrested by the New York City police were caught celebrating the destruction of the twin towers with staged cameras but were eventually released. One of them later said they had been sent to New York to “record the events”!!! They would have been sent prior to 9/11, so someone knew the events were about to happen, no?

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a prominent German-Jewish banker of the 1700’s is reputed to have said “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws”. Jewish control of America’s money today has proven his adage to be true. I believe the Zionists who control our country’s wealth actually stole it – by among other things – demanding nefarious laws from Congress (see Federal Reserve Act, e.g.) and are still heisting America’s wealth today.

Donald Trump recently gave Argentina 40 billion dollars and that at a time when Americans are losing medical insurance and are hard-pressed to pay their bills. Word is out there that a few wealthy Zionists here in the US had invested a lot of money into Argentina’s stock market and were about to lose a bundle. Milei, Argentina’s president, is also Zionist, so Trump was apparently following orders. Of course, Argentina will never be able to pay back the loan, but guess who’ll collect the interest? Certainly not the American taxpayers who fronted the “loan” in the first place – this is an example of just another of the multitude of mendacious methods of theft.

As I began this post with my years of indoctrination as to how the Zionists have taken control of the US government, I should add that through all of those years I faced countless instances of folks reacting with incredulity at the notion that this could be going on. I’ve seen how hucksters like John Hagee have sold out their American citizenship for the shekels that “Christian Zionism” or “Judeo Christianity” has bestowed upon him. Guys like Hagee have sold out Jesus Christ as well, a fact that they will come to regret to their eternal consternation. The events over the years had begun to leave me with a feeling of hopelessness. The Zionists own EVERYTHING! They own the media, the banks, the government, and most sadly, many of the Churches through evil schemes like the advent of the Scofield Bible. The media part has been the most damaging though, for by controlling the sources of information, they can easily control everything else. They can (and certainly do) select who gets the opportunity to run for all political offices. The Wizard of Oz didn’t have the luxury of secrecy they have, and word of their malfeasance has been very successfully suppressed, and trying to reveal to people just what is going on has become a lesson in futility and I’d almost given up beating my head against maniacs indoctrinated by Fox News and such. But the advent of the internet and social media gives us new hope!

In the face of all the frustration I’ve become accustomed to enduring, I recently had the opportunity to have a casual conversation with a construction worker. Construction – one of the toughest bastilles of anti-conspiratorial fortresses of our society. These guys don’t get interested in much of anything outside beer and crawfish boils and typically avoid giving thought to anything political – which, incidentally, is just as the evil workers would have it. I didn’t expect much of anything relevant to our surrendered government in the conversation, but to my astonishment, this young fellow simply exploded with his newly found political knowledge about how the “Jews” have taken over our country! I was surprised and amazed that the realization of our political dilemma has permeated this far into our society! If this knowledge has made it all the way into construction worker circles, it’s just a matter of time now until the fat lady sings! The sad part I fear however, even though wealthy Zionists are doing the malfeasance, most circles of people just now learning about all of this are likely to just label all Jews as being part of the problem – I think that’s what happened in Germany. But those rich folks couldn’t care less – again just like in Germany!

Zionists are scrambling now trying to reinforce the media with Zionist talking points. They’re spending fortunes trying to buy up more and more media sources, paying content creators good money to develop pro-Zionist output, getting guys like Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, and Alan Dershowitz to keep rearranging the Titanic deck chairs, but I think their game is stretching thin these days. Too many young people are onto them. Charlie Kirk was catching on, and it cost him dearly, but his martyrdom may have the unintended consequence of putting an exclamation point on what everyone is learning (and learning fast). I’m pretty sure that at the rate things are developing, by next year’s mid-term elections, it will be politically toxic to have taken AIPAC money. They’re trying to get out ahead of it – watch for controlled opposition shills to spring up out of the woodwork – maybe even controlled opposition PACs – but it’s going to be an uphill battle for them now. Regular people are intently and intensely watching.

Today there are increasing numbers of social media outlets openly questioning the official narrative of 9/11, a story I’ve doubted ever since the tragic events. Tucker Carlson and Clayton Morris are among them. Look into what folks are uncovering! If you are so hard-headed as to believe that 19 sandal-wearing tribesmen could pull off something like that, suffice it to say you’ve got a way to go yet, but I remember saying to two staunch official narrative believers (who are very close to me) that I would go to my grave believing 9/11 was a false flag, a hoax that originated in the Middle East, and not in an Arab country. They were aghast that someone, especially someone as close to them as I, could be so harebrained! One of them has since departed; the other may live to see the truth. I think the recently departed Dick Cheney was up to his neck in it too, but then there was much money and much evil in it, so why wouldn’t he be? Maybe I won’t have to leave this world disappointed, because I think people, especially young people are going to create an avalanche, and a lot of people in high places here in the US are going to crash. When we get politicians who start talking about appropriating US assets, seizing banks and recovering stolen American properties, look out!

Everyone knows that bank accounts are now merely computer files, and they can be altered to make someone who isn’t rich suddenly become very rich. They can also be reconfigured to take the money away from the crooked rich guys. We’ll see a time once again when gold is the only real wealth. Speaking of gold – remember Trump and Elon Musk talking about auditing Fort Knox and all of a sudden going quiet about it? What’s going on with that? We’re approaching a time that the security of the nation’s gold is more critical than ever. The military needs to get involved if it’s not already too late. Start searching private jets leaving the US. And by all means, keep the construction guys posted!

MK

Pray for the Wisdom of the Fathers

The world in which we find ourselves today is slowly being strangled. Everyone is groping, grasping, trying to make sense of what we are experiencing. It seems overly complicated, but it’s in fact very simple. If I was a betting man, I’d be willing to wager much that the bulk of the problems we are enduring is mostly due to a fundamental lack of wisdom in our leaders. That probably sounds like something Captain Obvious would come up with, but if you think about it, if you give it some profound reflection, it’s something from which our country has been suffering for a while now.

Just imagine a gauntlet of former leaders of the US standing in a long row. Honorable and trustworthy men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Abe Lincoln and dozens other founding fathers stoically watching on as characters like Shrub Bush, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump saunter through as if they think, or thought, they owned this country. Bush in his ridiculous flight suit and Trump with his silly little dance moves like he thinks he’s a teenager at a prom – and all that with the sober and distinguished founders looking on! Just imagine what they’d be thinking! No doubt they’d be shaking their heads – suffering immense regret to see what their sacrifices have evolved into.

Once there were men who designed and engaged in a government that had a system of checks and balances developed to prevent exactly what our current leaders have been attempting to institute. Is there a provision in the Constitution that allows for “Executive Orders”, or is that a governmental function that according to the Constitution would be delegated to the Congress? Executive Orders have come to be, in fact, regarded to be actual laws enacted by an authoritarian president. He doesn’t have legislative authority, at least it isn’t in the Constitution. Nor does, nor ever did, the Supreme Court have the Constitutional authority to enact judicial legislation disguised as rulings – specifically that one they call “Citizens United” which is the judicial equivalent of one of those yard sale signs you see at traffic intersections – one that says, “For Sale – all Political offices of the United States of America to the highest bidder. Do not have to be American Citizen or American institution – if enough cash is involved, buyer can be foreign.” Because that’s exactly the result of that atrocious “decision”. John Roberts will go down in American history as the primary designer of that cheap sign. Nothing else he has done or will ever do as Chief Justice will compete with that horrid piece of bench legislation – which, by the way is so blatantly unconstitutional as to render the Roberts court to the status of a circus clown side show. How are any decisions handed down by that greasy bunch even considered to be actual Constitutional interpretations anymore after “Citizens United”, in which – get this – the very “Constitutional” foundation of it is that money is the equivalent of free speech? I guess some folks’ freedom of speech is freer than others if they have more money to buy politicians, or so it can be deduced from Roberts’ signature decision. In your mind’s eye, picture him walking down that gauntlet with Holmes, (John) Marshall, Warren, and others looking on.

Everywhere, in every corner of American politics there cowers an unwise, typically seedy, person who is only there for whatever wealth they can glean from our system. Our national symbol, the eagle, has already flown away in disgrace. Then some circus clown comes along who is nothing more than a New York City real estate con artist snake-oil salesman who has the ability to convince millions of otherwise patriotic citizens that he will look out for them and he gets into the White House and sets about devouring everything he can get his greedy hands on – including the honorable building itself. He wants to turn the whole of Washington DC into a grand monument to himself, and he makes no effort to hide his egotistical desires. And – CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? – there are still large numbers of people who are still enthralled by this guy! Farmers who have lost foreign customers because of ill-advised tariff policies and penalties foreign leaders have to face because they might have personally offended him, yes those farmers, some of whom still think he walks on water, even though dark things from his past keep bubbling up.

Great Goblin The Hobbit

Then there’s the failings of Congress. They delegated another responsibility, the authority, or duty of declaring war, to Lyndon Johnson with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub. L. 88–408 during the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Later they passed the war powers Act by which they regained that authority (which they had no Constitutional authority to delegate to the Exec in the first place), then (also unconstitutionally) surrendered once again to the president with the Authorization for the Use of Military Force in Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243). Every bit of this activity from the LBJ debacle to the Bush monstrosity was objectively unconstitutional. Congress was delegated the CONSTITUTIONAL authority to declare war – period! Add LBJ to the gauntlet procession too. Millions upon millions of human beings were killed in those illegal and immoral wars, and in neither case did the “enemy” pose the remotest threat to the US! In both cases, rich men in America stood to (and undoubtedly did) make a lot of money from death and destruction.

Those are examples of how far our modern politicians and Justices have strayed from the wisdom of our Founding Fathers. We are suffering from a catastrophic lack of wisdom in our leadership, and it’s primarily because of the money of wealthy people that has bought our country. So which is it – do we try to fix the lack of wisdom by electing wiser men to be our leaders? Or do we tackle the problem of money in politics? Both issues scream for attention, but I’m pretty sure we cant achieve the former without fixing the latter.

Another approach to resolving America’s (and the world’s) paucity of wisdom might be to look to Providence like our fathers did long ago. Nothing is wrong with this nation that God cannot fix. He guided Washington, Jefferson, and Adams to establish a republic that, if followed, could stand the test of time. Problem is, these guys like Trump and Bush come along with their total lack of historical knowledge and/or principles and test the system. We are in the midst of one of those tests right now, and there’s no guarantee we will emerge with our Constitution even remotely intact. I think those of us who understand that there is a higher power need to pray fervently for the intervention of Jesus Christ – not the Christ who the hypocrites of our political churches purport to consult with, but the real King of mankind who will bring justice upon this world. And to those of you who do not know who He is, I strongly suggest you get to know Him and quickly. Due to the rampant evil and total lack of wisdom of the world’s leaders, this world is about to burn!

May the blessings of Providence find and keep us.

MK

PS: Ok, I don’t normally add to a post after publishing, but I just saw a piece of a deranged Trump speech in which he said that according to someone, if George Washington and Abe Lincoln were president and vice pres, and a poll was taken that he (Trump) would be leading them in the polls by 19% or something. What a coincidence that he’d say something like that as I posted this. How on earth can this poor, deranged man come up with such utter nonsense?!!

A (Hopefully) Functional Folkpotpourri

I know things have been somewhat lopsided in the last few days here on folkpotpourri, and I’m very sorry about all the emails coming out to my followers. See this old codger shouldn’t even be trusted at a desktop, much less trying to operate a website, I was sure to goof things up by trying to redo some of the intricacies on here. Technology has indeed outpaced this geezer!

Please just delete those emails and try to forgive me for cluttering up your inboxes – I promise to get someone with better tech skills (a low bar indeed) next time I do an overhaul. And try to excuse my incompetence. Thanks.

MK