Is the Christmas Spirit DEAD!

My apologies to anyone who has stopped by for the last couple weeks expecting something profound however.....I went back to the hospital for a week due to an infection in my incision.  

Is the Christmas Spirit DEAD?  I sometimes wonder.  I drive down the road at night and see blow up snowmen, Santa Claus' and Snoopy.  Would someone please tell me what in the world Snoopy has to do with the birth of Christ.  I have read the story and find no mention of a dog anywhere in it.  I went for some frozen yogurt this evening and was as close as I want to be in an accident.  The drive of the other vehicle was left of center by about 1/2 a car and just glared at me like it would have been my fault.  I have decried the lack of Nativity scenes in not only the Home Depot where I work but at other major retail outlets.  I have cited the number of plain decorated houses vs the number of Nativity scenes in the front yards.  The plain houses outnumber by about 25 to 1.

Even in the shopping malls and stores where people are supposed to be purchasing gifts to represent the give giving of the Wise me to the baby Jesus there is pushing and shoving, rudeness and downright hostility towards their fellow man.  I watch the news or read the paper and there is some atheist trying to have the Nativity Scene removed from some public square or right of way.  Pardon my french by if you don't believe in God why the hell to you care!  I call on the phone to a company for something and after 10 prompts get a real person who may or may not answer my question.  They end the conversation with Happy Holidays.  I say BS and tell them Merry Christmas!  After all it is or at least one time about the birth of God's Holy Son, Jesus Christ.........wasn't it?  I just don't understand anymore.  Perhaps I am just getting old, Is the Christmas Spirit DEAD?

Merry Christmas to all and God Bless

Pops

The More Things Change........

"...there was implied a glaring deficiency in our country's educational processes.  It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual right and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally import truth that such individualism  can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare  of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights."  General Dwight David Eisenhowser, 1941.  In his book Crusade for Europe.*

Nineteen hundred and forty-one,  a brilliant genius and General was able to perceive this.  A deficiency in our country's educational process.  How is it this deficiency has been allowed to last and prosper for so many years?  When did Conservatism loose control?  The very building blocks of our Great Society are founded on God and Country.  Now, the only place you can mention God is in the country outside the listening ears of the liberals that haunt so many of our large metropolitan cities. God is being removed from the schools, the public buildings, the government offices and the National Day of Prayer has been removed from the Whitehouse and replaced with a Muslim prayer rug.  We have a President who not only refuses to place his hand over his heart when the National Anthem is played but only wears a flag emblem when it fits his political  path.

We have laws against homosexual marriage but same sex marriage is condoned in several states in the United States.  Laws have been and are being passed to the extent that a minister, pastor, rabbi or preacher can't preach the Bible without the fear of being arrested for preaching a so called "hate crime"  Where did we loose control?  We have "holiday trees instead of Christmas trees.  We have winter school break instead of  a Christmas break.  Try finding a Nativity Scene for your yard at Walmart, Lowes, The Home Depot. Drive through your neighborhood and count the number of yard decorations VS the number of Nativity Scenes.  I'll bet you it is 10 to 1, easy.  I personally refuse to buy from any store that sets up Christmas displays before November which is still too early.  Yes, it limits my choices but it's my choice!

I personally am fed up with this complete mess.  I have started bringing the true meaning of Christmas back to my house.  No more bunches of presents from Santa Claus, no more spending a fortune on junk for the grandkids.  On Christmas eve we read a blended story of the birth of Christ taken from the Gospels and exchange one gift in honor and remembrance of the Birth.  Then the little ones are off to bed and most of the adults attend a service at a local church.

I understand it is hard to do, stand up and be counted however, the next time you are in a store and a manager asks you how it's going tell them you really would like to keep Christmas in December and the meaning of it in the store.

I'm all through preaching now.

Pops

*If you ever get the opportunity to read this book it is fantastic!

Obamacare, PLEASE, Give me More!

Needless to say I've been AWOL (Absent With Out Leave) for those of you in Loma Linda, for a while.  Hopefully for  me and what's left of my followers I am back.  The last 6 months have been both trying and fulfilling in the spiritual, emotional and physical ways.  Today, Sunday morning I am hope recuperating from  what was to be a 30 minute in and out the same day surgery.  It took two and one half  hours and I didn't want to leave the Recovery Room.  Seems 30 minutes to wake up turned into 4 hours and breathing tubes and a bunch of other stuff I am glad not to remember from what the anesthesiologists  tells me.  The good news for me is through the Grace of God and some good doctors I am still here to tell my story about OBAMACRARE!

My Obamacare story

It all started last month when I had my monthly check-up for cholesterol.  My Doctor gives me two prescription slips instead of the usual one. Now we all now, Enquiring minds want to know, so I ask.  Ah....what's this?  Well, the long and short of the conversation is, the normal "combo" drug I take for my cholesterol is no longer available after November 1.  Seems one of the drugs in it has a 5% higher rate of causing  something else in my system.  So no more "combo" drug.  Now I have two "scripts instead of one and of course I could be 5% less likely to get something else I might get.  Make sense to me.  

Only one little problem.  I get my scripts mail order.   I just went from one to two scripts.  I just went from $50.00 copay to $100.00 copay per 3 months. As they say in NASCAR, "Do the math Darrel".  I just went from $200.00 per year $400.00 per year in Copays.  Now ya'al help me out but....but... but didn't my health care cost just go UP by $200.00?  Some liberal, Obama supporter, please get back to me on this as I thought my health care was going to go down under this program.

BUT WAIT!  Like any good commercial there's more, much, much more!!

Last month I went to the drug store to pick up a cheap generic script that normally cost me 80 cents for 30 days.  That's right an old drug that cost me 80 cents.  My good friend Janet took me to the drug store after getting out of the hospital since I can't drive to get a re-fill and this month guess what!  It now has a $10.00 Copay!  Now admittedly I get a 3 month supply for my $10.00 and not a paltry 30 day supply for 80 cents.  So I seem to have saved here by only one trip every 3 months to the drug store.  And since it is sooo far away, like less than a mile, I might actually break even on this deal.

Oh please give me more Obamacare.  I can't stand  the thought of not saving all this money!      Folks if I didn't hurt so bad right now I'd cry.  

I would also like to add a little footnote.  Now is time to be vetting our Conservative Presidential candidates.  This does not mean for the candidates to make personal attacks on each other.  I am very saddened by the personal attacks that Ms. Bachman and Mr. Gingrich have be doing since the last Republican debate.  If you support either one of these candidates let them know this is wrong.  Now is the time for them to tell us, the American people, how they plan to  fix this mess. Calling each other liars and harping on TV with year old documents that may or may not lead to a problem being solved is ineffectual and only gives the liberals ammunition for  the upcoming Presidential election.

This is not to say I am or am not supporting either of these candidates.  Frankly I haven't made up my mind.

God Bless America, please.

Pops

Defending Obama

Conservative Outrage was started because of my being sick and tired of the Republican Party that I at one time endorsed.  Years ago I quite calling myself a Republican, I was 30 something at the time.  I began calling myself a Constitutional Conservative.  I morphed into a Christian Constitutional Conservative.  My basis was my God comes before my politics and my God In the Bible) teaches me  moderation, compassion and respect, ie: Conservatism.


Why the lead in to this post?  Because my posts have been as about anti Obama as they can be.  I have now been forced reluctantly, I might add, to come to the defense of President Obama.  On the ride to work I heard a story on Glenn Beck citing a rapper and a Harvard Professor declaring President Obama the world's biggest terrorist.  This is just flat wrong.  BHO may be a Socialist, Communist, Stalinist or whatever but he is not a Terrorist! 


The rapper, Lupe Fiasco stated and referenced a Communist,  Howard Zin, that war was an act of terror.  That bombing an act of war killed people.  BHO is not only the President of The United States but also the Commander in Chief.  Therefore as the Commander in Chief he is the world's biggest Terrorist.  Now as I have said, I don't like BHO.  Having said that he has reluctantly (my opinion) continued to defend the citizens of the greatest country in the world, The United States of America.


Profession Cornell West then applauds the rapper,Lupe Fiasco.  This is a man in the position of teaching our, or least someones children.  Princeton University should be ashamed of this.  I don't wish to shut these two left wing voices as that is: Freedom of Speech.  That is exactly what I am doing here and now.  I do condemn the University and the board of the university for allowing this type of rhetoric in the classroom.

Thus having defend BHO against this moronic and completely absurd accusation I continue to say BHO is the worst President this country has had in my lifetime .  He needs removed and I refer to my previous post.  Seal Team 6 eliminated on threat to America, it is now up to the Tea Party, all Conservatives, Constitutional and Republican voters to remove the 2nd threat, BHO!

Pops

9-11 Why?

I went to church tonight on 9-11 with not really a thought about it.  It seemed the right thing to do in remembrance of the victims and their families.  That probably doesn't sound very well for me however, for the past week the tragedy has been everywhere.  On the news, in the papers, on the radio and the constant talk.  One famous retail outlet has even started a marketing program around it.   I might add I think this is atrocious however,  this is the Home of the Free (to do what you want) and this sick company is doing so.  But, on to going to church.  

I went in with little on my mind just going through the motions so to speak.  Horrible of me I know but,  at least I was there.  Pastor began with prayer and then cited some stats.  Some were; we took more causalities at Normandy,  we took more causalities at Gettysburg, the Japanese took more at Hiroshima,  more at the Holocaust, and don't forget Chairman Mao or Joseph Stalin, they murder in the millions.  The most chilling was we take more unborn lives nearly every day than we took on 9-11.  Needless to say I sat up and paid attention. How could a civilized country forget about the unborn?

Then he went to, why.  Why would my/our God allow this to happen.  Is He not a just God, a God of  Peace unlike the god Allah of the Muslim religion?  Our sign is the Cross, that our Savior died on for us.  The Muslim sign .......a sword.  A weapon to kill those who will not convert.   Why would my God allow not only 9-1 but other tragedies like this to happen.  He then referred to a little read Book of the Bible, Habakkuk.  In my Bible it has 3 Chapters and takes up about two full pages.  Not very big and notably not very well know I would think.  Habakkuk, short, sweet and to the point.  Ask yourself why and think about this.

Chapter 1

²O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

   ³Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

  ⁴Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

Is this the way you feel about America and 9-11 today?  Is this the way you felt about Katrina and the Japanese tsunami?  Did you ask yourself, Why God?  Why do all these horrible things have to happen to good people. I have and I must admit until tonight I had no answer only the question.  Pastor then went to verse 5.

 ⁵Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 

My God is at work and has a plan.  It is only up to me to believe in Him.  It is not for me to question.  It is not for me to understand.  Yes, I may at some time see the reason but it may not be in this life time.  Pastor then went on to Chapter 2 verse 1.

¹I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. 

That's all I have to do. Then finally Chapter 2:3,

³For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 

How do Christians understand......we don't.  It is best said this way:

 Romans 1:17
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith; as it is written: "The just shall live by faith." (underscore is mine)

God, please bless America not only on this day but every day though out the year.

Pops.


Bible passages from Bible.com

BUMPER STICKER

On my way to work this day I had a young fellow driving a pickup truck pass me.  I drive slow so that wasn't a big deal.  In his back window he had an ARMY  VET sticker.  Being an old Veteran myself I sometimes drive by the younger ones and toss them a salute.  Just kind of a Thank you which they so justly deserve.  As I pulled closer to the truck I notice a bumper sticker with some pretty small print.  Finally after some careful driving I got close enough to read it.  The first word in BIG letters which had caught my attention was "HAPPINESS".   As I got real close I could read the rest.  It said:

HAPPINESS

is a belt fed weapon!

Got side by side, he looked over and I gave my salute and had just enough time to smile and make the exit.
It certainly made my day.

God Bless these young warriors, we owe them so much!

Pops 

SHORT AND DIRECT

Stolen from my good friend Subvet

 It says it all! 

 

Short & Direct:

From a Marine friend...Short and sweet...and to the point.

The Navy SEALS removed one Muslim threat to America . . . It's up to the voters to remove the other!