Bibles and Bullets

Can this be true?

2009-07-22T08:45:00.001-07:00

John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock(MADE IN JAPAN ) for 6 am.

While his coffeepot(MADE IN CHINA )

was perking, he shaved with his electric razor(MADE IN HONG KONG )

He put on a dress shirt(MADE IN SRI LANKA ),

designer jeans(MADE IN SINGAPORE )

and tennis shoes(MADE IN KOREA)

After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet(MADE IN INDIA )

he sat down with his calculator(MADE IN MEXICO )

to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch(MADE IN TAIWAN )

to the radio (MADE IN INDIA )

he got in his car(MADE IN GERMANY )

filled it with GAS(from Saudi Arabia )

and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.

At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his Computer(made in MALAYSIA ),

John decided to relax for a while.

He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL ),

poured himself a glass of wine(MADE IN FRANCE )

and turned on his TV(MADE IN INDONESIA ),

and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in AMERICA

AND NOW HE'S HOPING HE CAN GET HELP FROM A PRESIDENT MADE IN KENYA

Public meeting on the closure of Miller Road, Bexar County

2009-07-21T08:44:00.000-07:00

San Antonio
July 21, 2009
Last night my boys and I attended a public meeting on the permanent closure of Miller Road. The way I found out about this meeting was a flashing construction signs on Miller road. I called Tommy Adkisson's office for details. I live only two streets from miller road and did not get a meeting notice.

The purpose of the meeting was to present to the residence the request made by the Army Residence Community(ARC)to close Miller road for expansion on the property they own on the opposite side of Miller Rd. The county Engineer assured everyone that this is not a "done deal".

The ARC's presentation by Bruce Furbish ARC Executive Director, was about the expansion plans and reasons for the request to close the road. Some of the reasons are to make one campus instead of two being divided by the road and that because of the low traffic flow it would stop illegal dumping, and slow down "undesirables" coming though the area.

During the ARC's traffic impact many residence voiced concerns and opposition. Many felt that the increased flow of traffic would be hazardous, slow emergency response times, increase drive times and affect property values.
Others voiced that they welcomed the improvements that the new development would bring to the community.

I know that the County will benefit from the increase of property taxes that the expansion will bring. This was not discussed.

On a personal observation, I did not think that Bruce Furbish, ARC Executive Director, helped his cause by being silent during the questions from the residence. He had his arms folded and looked down during most of it. The questions were being fielded mostly by the ARC's Engineer,the County Engineer and some by the Commissioner.
I thought it was interesting that previous meetings have been held with the neighboring Home Owners Associations. These HOA's are voluntary and are not elected or supported by the majority of home owners. Would it not be more productive to the Commissioner to hold a neighborhood meeting that his staff organizes. This would include more people and eliminate the bias of the HOA influence of being the host. Many people do not recognize the "voluntary" power that assume upon themselves. HOA's imply that individuals is able to do "the right thing" and must be forced to live according to the HOA's views. In Commissioner Addkinsson's opening remarks he praised the HOA's and stated he was president of his. He also stated that without his HOA the neighborhood would be left out to dry. I would like to see elected officials that trusted me to make decisions for myself for my situation. My HOA does not like my pickup. Why? it is old and ugly. But it is what I think I need and can afford.

The meeting was well attended. It will be interesting to see the out come of this.
Stay tuned.

Tea Party on the 4th

2009-07-08T10:34:00.000-07:00

San Antonio Tea Party - July 4, 2009
J.R. Trammell
July 6, 2009

This was a 4th of July to remember! We all know that we, as Americans, have lost the true meaning of major holidays, such as Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Like most, I look forward to these holidays for the day off and hamburgers on the grill, and the 4th of July had been no different. As far as I can remember the 4th has meant to me fireworks and.....I guess that was it, but this 4th of July was different.

The San Antonio Tea Party did a superb job in putting together an event that brought us back to a real- American Independence Day. Every speaker had a different topic but had the same message: WE NEED TO TAKE AMERICA BACK, and to call on God for repentance and His intervention! Not one speaker told us that it was the elected that needed to do this, but it is you and me. We were also reminded that the elected work for us, and not us for them.
I do not know how many were in attendance; however I do know that there were people from all walks of life and all ages. It was the people that I watched, more than who or what was on stage. Kids playing at the playground, people that were polite and friendly. Even at the end of the day the most notable thing to me was how clean the grounds were. The staff at the ranch did a fantastic job, but it was the individual that had personal responsibility and kept their area clean. This may seem petty, but in most other events the attitude seems to be, “that's the clean-up crew's job”. There is no more inspiring thing than to be around than responsible Americans that know what personal responsibility is. That is one more reason why I have more hope faith than ever that we can take America back!
The message was plain: get active, stay informed, and seek God more that you ever have. Thank you San Antonio Tea party and everyone that came for giving me the first REAL 4th of July.

Captives and Subjects of the New america.

2009-04-09T06:57:00.000-07:00

The instructions to Israel from God when He sent them into Babylonian captivity could apply to the Born Again Christian today!
Jer 29:5-9
(5) Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
(6) Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
(7) And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
(8) For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
(9) For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.

Proud to be and American

2009-03-11T13:18:00.000-07:00

Fascism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2009-02-10T06:32:00.000-08:00

Fascism is an authoritarian nationalist ideology focused on solving economic, political, and social problems that its supporters see as causing national decline or decadence.

Star Parker :: Townhall.com Columnist Republicans need to get back to business by Star Parker

2008-12-15T03:46:00.000-08:00

Republicans need to get back to business

by Star Parker

"The RNC business model must be based on positive marketing of its platform of traditional values, limited government, free enterprise and strong national defense. Candidates must be groomed who genuinely believe that it's this agenda - all of it - that keeps out country great and candidates who don't shouldn't be nominated."

The formula to honest politicians

2008-12-10T06:38:00.000-08:00

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
2 Samuel 23:3

2008-12-08T07:59:00.000-08:00

"Most people on the Left are not opposed to freedom. They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom. Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you do not approve of. Nazis were free to be Nazis under Hitler. It is only when you are able to do things that other people don't approve that you are free. ...[P]eople on the Left want the right to impose their idea of what is good for society on others -- a right that they vehemently deny to those whose idea of what is good for society differs from their own. The essence of bigotry is refusing to others the rights that you demand for yourself. Such bigotry is inherently incompatible with freedom, even though many on the Left would be shocked to be considered opposed to freedom." --Hoover Institution economist Thomas Sowell

I just found out that I am stupid!

2008-12-08T06:39:00.000-08:00

This is a quote from the Chicago Sun-Times.

December 8, 2008

BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter

"We don't dispute [the gun sales hike] because the numbers from the federal system certainly confirm that there is increased activity out there. We just think it's a bit stupid," said Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign against Gun Violence.

"Anyone who thinks they need to rush out and buy a firearm clearly has not been paying attention to how quickly we make progress on this issue. We don't think these are first-time buyers. We think they are people who already have more than enough guns at their homes to protect themselves and are buying more."

2008-12-03T08:21:00.000-08:00

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." --American author and humorist Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Gun Facts

2008-12-03T07:13:00.001-08:00

http://www.gunfacts.info/

Whats wrong with socialism?

2008-11-19T04:08:00.000-08:00

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." James Madison

"The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy." James Madison

"We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money." Davy Crockett

"Imagine there's an elderly widow down the street from you. She has neither the strength to mow her lawn nor enough money to hire someone to do it. Here's my question to you that I'm almost afraid for the answer: Would you support a government mandate that forces one of your neighbors to mow the lady's lawn each week? If he failed to follow the government orders, would you approve of some kind of punishment ranging from house arrest and fines to imprisonment? I'm hoping that the average American would condemn such a government mandate because it would be a form of slavery, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another." Walter E. Williams

My ideal candidate

2008-11-11T04:39:00.000-08:00

My ideal candidate is the one who's platform is to reverse the following:

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.

Of course you recognize this list. It is the 10 planks of the communist manifesto by Karl Marx. It does not take long to see each one on the list has been implemented in some way into law.

Where is this candidate and the people to support him?

Just a thought

2008-10-25T06:28:00.000-07:00

Many people that have heavy burdens and are troubled, are those who have taken on the responsibilty of fixing another's problems.

Holding your nose when you vote?

2008-10-08T06:51:00.000-07:00

Holding your nose when you vote?

Where do the “good” politicians come from? How do we get someone that holds true conservative values and honest principles that we can believe in?

“I held my nose and voted” is something that we have all said after an election. We hear of corruption, crony ism. We see weak/non- conservatism and “good o'l boy” politics in all levels of government. In most cases, our dissatisfied sentiments are exactly right. So, many times we take the easy way out and just declare that “all parties and politicians are ALL the same, it doesn't matter”. Many question come up but are we asking the right ones? The most important questions that should be asked (which I have never heard) is ..where do we get better choices or who replaces them?

We have simply lost the very basics of the republican political system that brings good candidates to the top. We grumble and gripe and say that we are going to “hold our nose” when we vote or that we voted for “the lesser of two evils”. Why? Are there no conservatives left? Is conservatism dead? Are we saying that good men and women can not be found? If so, where are they? Do they not exists? We have been fed and take the lies that only a certain class of people are qualified to hold office.
What happened to the days when this country elected men on their vision, principles and character? These are the ones that we should be electing to office. Instead, for the most part they are

I believe the simple reason of the lack of good, strong candidates is that we have no roots. We just leave it to the government “elites” to pick them for us. In most races, we have to accept the one and only person to throw the hat in the ring. Our republican “tree” is top heavy because the roots are very shallow and few. Good government must be created by all of us, from the ground up! Not the other way around.

We have come to a point that the “informed” voter is one that looked over the sample ballot a few days before the election. We have forgotten that candidates and campaigns do not start a few months before election day. They start in most cases, years before November 4th. They started when someone decided that “something must be done, I want get involved in the process”. They got busy asking questions, writing, calling and talking to people.

It is you and I that are the “roots” of our political system. If we in our own small way do not get active, then we are the reason weak, non-conservatives are in offices today. We leave it to the “buddy system” for the selection of candidates.

You and I both know of many strong conservative men and women that work hard, live everyday honestly, responsibly doing the mundane things to provide for their families. This is where future republican candidates must come from! The answer to “who will replace them” could be you, or someone you know. Get involved. Find the precinct chairman of your voting precinct. Call the county party headquarters. Check out what your elected officials are doing or not doing. Find out out the system works. Get active early in the primary elections. Find a strong candidate that you believe in and help get them elected.

Those in office would be forced to listen and do a better job if more republicans would wake up and simply be more informed. We would have more candidates that we would be proud to promote and vote for. Lets strengthen our republican roots! Start today!

Looking pass the end of your nose.

2008-10-08T06:27:00.000-07:00

Why some cannot see passed their noses.

Many issues seem very noble and important at first glance. The important work here is glance-:to look quickly or briefly. There are true causes in which caring people should be active in. These are fewer in number than we want to believe. Every where we look today there is a “great cause” or something that is “so important” that if you are not on board you don't care or want poisoned water, all animals to be tortured before dinning, or hundred degree winters. May I say that most of these “true causes” are situations that someone has just “glanced” at or can't see passed their noses.

I have often wondered why these people can not see farther than the zit past the end of the old snoz.

Something is blocking the view of the whole picture. I say it is because they have put their nose up someone elses..hu..business. Trying to dictate something that when looked at as a whole, will suddenly be a non-issue.

For example,

paper or plastic? Paper: biodegradable; will not suffocate animals; renewable (just plant more trees). Plastic: petroleum product (evil Big-oil); non-renewable(according to some); will suffocate animals and children (just see warning on bag).

Incandescent or compact florescent?

If we look at the “right now” we see a lot of avantages of the CFL. Long live, low cost of operation.

But, looking down the road, will the next major cause be mercury in our water, mercury sickness?

Where will all of the government mandated CFL's go when they are replaced?

Ever broke a light bulb?

from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_light_bulb#Cleanup_of_broken_bulbs

Broken incandescent bulbs inside a house or an office do not pose any environmental hazard beyond that of broken glass. However, like other fluorescent lamps, broken CFLs release mercury vapors, and require special handling to clean up. The EPA warns against vacuuming, suggesting instead that you vacate the room and open windows for fifteen minutes to allow any mercury vapor to air out, then clean up the breakage while wearing protective gloves, and use double plastic bags for all broken pieces. They suggest using duct tape to pick up small pieces.[3] Special handling upon breakage is currently not printed on the packaging of household CFL bulbs in many countries.[

God or no God?

When we take a “glance” at our world it is not to hard to think this is all by chance. The big bang, evolution and billions of year gave us what we have today. But it takes more than a glance to see any of the great details of any of the subjects we have touched on. Especially looking at the world we live in. There are so many incredible things going on under noses. Just what any nature show. Did the Monarch butterfly just decide to migrate the same path, same spot generation after generation? That is what is implied on these shows. What a tiny map the first butterfly must have made to give to his son after he died. Everything about nature has order and purpose without being taught or trained.

The immeasurableness of the universe indicate something much more than a bang. There is not any explanation of where the matter came from that the bang is suppose to have used.

The wrong choice of Paper, plastic, incandescent or florescent, will have long lasting effect in the future that is not that far from the end of our noses. So will the wrong choice of GOD or no GOD.

God has place everything that we need here that we would find him.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

the same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

I challenge you to seek GOD from Bible not from a church or denomination. Just take GOD at HIS Word, the Word of GOD.