Kathy Hancock's Facebook note about how people amaze her inspired me to write about some amazing people I've met. First of all, I am amazed at the number of times my various lost purses have been returned, all the money included. The most amazing time was when I went Christmas shopping in Spokane. I had just cashed my paycheck and was planning on a real Christmas binge. The first place I stopped was the Salvation Army because I wanted to buy Lynne a tricycle. (Ok, my splurges are a little more conservative than most.)
I carried my trike and my daughter back to the car, set everything down on the pavement behind my car so I could open my truck. I had no more than shoved in the trike than Lynne decided to take off across 5 lanes of heavy traffic. I ran across the street, piacked her up, probably paddling her butt, shoved her in the car and drove to Sears. When I got there, no purse. I went back to the Sally Ann, but of course the purse was gone. The police said, "Oh, you'll get your purse back. Here's what will happen. Someone picked up the purse already. He's taken out the money and dropped the purse at another location. Someone else will pick it up and turn it in."
So much for Christmas. I drove back home to Metaline in just a bit of a funk, you can imagine. Five days later I get a card in the mail from the Spokane police department. My purse had been returned. When I picked it up, all, yes all, the money was there. I wanted to leave a reward, but they had no idea who turned it in. That scenario has repeated itself over and over again in my life.
A more recent "people are amazing" experience also occurred in Washington...Seattle. My Vancouver, BC bus got a very late start so I ended up needing to find my way to the Seatac at about 1:00 a.m. The bus driver told me I had a choice. If I was willing to pay $75, I could take one of the cabs lined up at the station, or I could walk up the street 3 blocks and catch the city bus for 50 cents. (My numbers are approximate, but you get the idea.) Being a cheap skate, and feeling as though I'd lived 70 great years and could afford to take a risk, I opted for the bus I walked up the street 3 blocks. Wrong way. I walked down the street 3 blocks. It wasn't there. I asked a scuzzy young gentleman if he knew where I could catch a bus to the airport. "I think it's over that way 3 or 4 blocks. It wasn't there. I met two other people; they all sent me in different directions. (Remember now, I am traveling, so I'm toting luggage.) Finally I meet a young man, maybe 40, limping along with a cane. He says, "Here I'll show you." We walk up a hill two blocks, left a couple of blocks, and then down an outside stairwell, perhaps it was an escalator. I of course wondered where he was taking me. But I followed. What I didn't know is the the bus system in Seattle runs 5 floors below the city streets. After the third escalator flight he leads me to an elevator door. He says, when you get in, press the platform button and it will take you to where the airport bus stops. As I entered the elevator, I asked him, "Are you an angel to all the people you meet?"
"I try to be," he said as the door closed. I go to the platform and check the schedule. Yup, the airport bus would arrive in 15 minues. It was only then that I realized that I had no American money. There happed to be an Etheopian imigrant also waiting for the bus. I offered to trade him two tunies, two dollar Canadian coins for the bus fare. He gave me the fare, but wouldn't take the tunies. (I have since discovered that you cannot exchange Canadian coins in American banks, so it wouldn't have done him any good anyway.)
I board the bus, and it is packed full, 2:30 in the morning by now, and the bus is full. The man sitting across from me was going to the airport, but I think the rest of them were just riding the bus because they had no place to go. At one point the driver pulls up to the curb to let a man board. "You're all wet!" she says to him. He has obviously soiled himself.
"I know. Will you let me on anyway?" The driver welcomed him aboard.
Now while I was waiting for the bus in Vancouver, I read a book I picked up there. It was about the short trip to the after life of a woman who died temporarilly. She meets God, who in this version of the afterlife takes on the image of a beloved acquaintance of the new "inductee." They have a love discussion, and at one point the lady asks him, "What do you think of the people back there on earth." God smiles fondly and says, "Oh, I love them every one. They struggle so, and they have so much compassion for on another, they suffer so. I love them every one."
When I gazed back at the gaggle of people on that bus, I thought of that line and said to myself, "Yes, and God loves you, every one."
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Rush Limbaugh lambastes the left daily for what he considers disingenuously spinning his “I hope he fails” comment making it seem anti-American. “If you hope the president fails, you’re hoping the country fails.” According to Limbaugh, those on the left know full well that the reason he wants Obama to fail is that he wants his socialist agenda to fail.
Both our president and our vice-president scoff at the notion. “Our policies are socialistic? You’ve got to be kidding!” (Biden) “When you suggested I was a socialist, I thought you were joking.” (Obama) I responded physically to both those comments. Something crawled up my spine. Absolutely Orwellian. Our country has been steadily on the path toward socialism since 1933, and the present administration has said openly that they see the present crisis as an opportunity to move their agenda forward. Spreading the wealth? Spending $800 billion dollars as a down payment on a federal health care system? Incidentally, that’s more than we spent on both war Iraq wars. Extending unemployment benefits? Strengthening unions?
That kind of ad homien scoff (Silly you! You’ve got to be kidding) is effective, however. It simply avoids the argument which they both know they would lose hopelessly. It’s a strategy concocted, I suppose, by James Carvill, the operative who has been working the back room for the Dems since before the Clinton era. He was the one who, panicked by Bush’s popularity after 9/11, began immediately feeding politicians talking points to “destroy him at once” or they’d never reclaim the White House. You can be sure that Carville feeds talking points to every Democrat in Washington.
He is probably the one who has made certain that the liberals keeps repeating “the carnage of the last eight years,” hoping we’ll all blame Bush’s silly war for our economic problems. They are educated people. They know right well that our economic problems result from the fact that the chickens spawned by FDR’s new deal and LBJ’s War on poverty are coming home to roost. In 1955 entitlement spending totaled 12 per cent of the budget, in 1965, 30 percent, in 2008, 55 per cent. As a percentage of the budget, discressionary spending, including military spending, has remained almost stable since 1965. The per cent spent on entitlement spending has tripled. The deficit rose sharply over the last few years largely because the boomers, that large group of wage earners who have been supporting the FDR and LBJ entitlements, are beginning to retire. You can be sure that every liberal in Washington is fully aware of this problem.
I have certainly benefited from that socialistic gamble. Social security makes my “retirement” years quite comfortable and adequately looks after my disabled daughter. An inexpensive supplemental insurance policy covers those Medicare gaps. Farmers love being paid not to farm, especially those millionaire owners of American farms who live in France and Quebec and Saudi Arabia and Germany. However, I do fear for my grandchildren, indeed, my great-grandchildren. Mandatory government spending has increased by 769 per cent since1965, and the baby-boomers have just begun sucking at the federal teat. We may not be as openly socialistic as Sweden or say Great Britain, but if Obama gets his way, we will be by 2012, and his recent stimulus package included every wet dream a socialist ever had.
Those rising costs would pose no problem if we could make the conservative give up their anti-government ideologies. We can learn that much from European Socialism, countries that have achieved a kind of socialist utopia. Sweden is often seen as a model of a compassionate, healthy, caring country. To support their socialist state they tax car purchases, for example, at 100 per cent of their cost, and that’s good, because the Swedes opt to ride bikes. Good exercise and good for the environment.
It is true that they have a 17 per cent unemployment rate. One has to consider how that rate is calculated. Great Britain, for example, boasts an 8 percent unemployment rate, but according to The Mail, the officials don’t count the 8 million people classified as economically inactive, 21 per cent of the working-age population. I guess it’s great to live in a country willing to subsidize “discouraged workers,” those just not interested in finding a job. I can’t say that I understand. I’m 70 and I still work simply because it seems satisfying. My siblings, all in their 70’s, also work. I guess we’re still plagued by that silly Puritan ethic. We simply convince ourselves that work is rewarding. Or perhaps Phillip Hammond is right: that that “21 per cent of the working age population in Great Britain represents a huge pool of wasted talent.”
So why do liberals, knowing full well what our move toward socialism is costing our country, want to lead us down that path. Power. They learned in 1933 that if they put out a trough, we will feed at it, and the more of us they can get feeding at their troughs, the more power they have. They keep building the troughs and pouring in the slop and we keep lapping it up.
What puzzled me for a long time was why so many of our billionaires were supporting this madness? Warren Buffet and George Soros are the ones most commonly linked to the radical left, but the list includes others: Hollywood producer Stephen Bing; Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Insurance Company; Herbert and Marion Sandler of Golden West Financial; Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs; Citigroup’s Robert Rubin; Edwin Janss, founder of the leftwing Janss Foundation; and Aris Anagnos, a Los Angeles real estate magnate and a rabid Marxist-Lenonist. It’s important to note that none of these billionaires are directly involved in an enterprise that actually produces something. Mostly they just play with money. If they are simply committed to service to their fellow man, they certainly have the assets adequate to funding their charitable enterprises on their own.
I have to conclude that charity is not their goal, so there must be another reason for their interest in promoting some form of a fascist-socialist-Leninist state. To Insure their power base?
The content of this diatribe now veers toward one of those crazy conspiracy theories. First a fact based question: Why is it that 80 per cent of America’s very rich are self-made men and that 80 per cent of wealthy Europeans have inherited wealth? Perhaps because socialism has managed to destroy the talent and initiative of “21 per cent of the working age population.” Soros and his cohorts Bing,Sandler, Blankfein, Janss, and Anagnos are enjoying the power their wealth affords them and are probably threatened by our talent and initiative, so they want to get us in the habit of feeding at federal the trough.
Now the really wild theory. Could it be that our recent stock market collapse was created by those rich Marxists who, perhaps under cover of anonymous sources, pulled huge amounts of money out of the market to create a panic? They have admitted openly that this decline is an opportunity to advance their agendas, that our system needs to be dismantled brick by brick, that the new order must be accomplished either by the power of persuasion or the persuasion of power. Chilling, isn’t it?
Merrick, Jame. “Unemployment is 6 times higher than official figures.” March 12, 2009. Mail on Line. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-475517/Unemployment-rate-times-higher-official-figures.html
Both our president and our vice-president scoff at the notion. “Our policies are socialistic? You’ve got to be kidding!” (Biden) “When you suggested I was a socialist, I thought you were joking.” (Obama) I responded physically to both those comments. Something crawled up my spine. Absolutely Orwellian. Our country has been steadily on the path toward socialism since 1933, and the present administration has said openly that they see the present crisis as an opportunity to move their agenda forward. Spreading the wealth? Spending $800 billion dollars as a down payment on a federal health care system? Incidentally, that’s more than we spent on both war Iraq wars. Extending unemployment benefits? Strengthening unions?
That kind of ad homien scoff (Silly you! You’ve got to be kidding) is effective, however. It simply avoids the argument which they both know they would lose hopelessly. It’s a strategy concocted, I suppose, by James Carvill, the operative who has been working the back room for the Dems since before the Clinton era. He was the one who, panicked by Bush’s popularity after 9/11, began immediately feeding politicians talking points to “destroy him at once” or they’d never reclaim the White House. You can be sure that Carville feeds talking points to every Democrat in Washington.
He is probably the one who has made certain that the liberals keeps repeating “the carnage of the last eight years,” hoping we’ll all blame Bush’s silly war for our economic problems. They are educated people. They know right well that our economic problems result from the fact that the chickens spawned by FDR’s new deal and LBJ’s War on poverty are coming home to roost. In 1955 entitlement spending totaled 12 per cent of the budget, in 1965, 30 percent, in 2008, 55 per cent. As a percentage of the budget, discressionary spending, including military spending, has remained almost stable since 1965. The per cent spent on entitlement spending has tripled. The deficit rose sharply over the last few years largely because the boomers, that large group of wage earners who have been supporting the FDR and LBJ entitlements, are beginning to retire. You can be sure that every liberal in Washington is fully aware of this problem.
I have certainly benefited from that socialistic gamble. Social security makes my “retirement” years quite comfortable and adequately looks after my disabled daughter. An inexpensive supplemental insurance policy covers those Medicare gaps. Farmers love being paid not to farm, especially those millionaire owners of American farms who live in France and Quebec and Saudi Arabia and Germany. However, I do fear for my grandchildren, indeed, my great-grandchildren. Mandatory government spending has increased by 769 per cent since1965, and the baby-boomers have just begun sucking at the federal teat. We may not be as openly socialistic as Sweden or say Great Britain, but if Obama gets his way, we will be by 2012, and his recent stimulus package included every wet dream a socialist ever had.
Those rising costs would pose no problem if we could make the conservative give up their anti-government ideologies. We can learn that much from European Socialism, countries that have achieved a kind of socialist utopia. Sweden is often seen as a model of a compassionate, healthy, caring country. To support their socialist state they tax car purchases, for example, at 100 per cent of their cost, and that’s good, because the Swedes opt to ride bikes. Good exercise and good for the environment.
It is true that they have a 17 per cent unemployment rate. One has to consider how that rate is calculated. Great Britain, for example, boasts an 8 percent unemployment rate, but according to The Mail, the officials don’t count the 8 million people classified as economically inactive, 21 per cent of the working-age population. I guess it’s great to live in a country willing to subsidize “discouraged workers,” those just not interested in finding a job. I can’t say that I understand. I’m 70 and I still work simply because it seems satisfying. My siblings, all in their 70’s, also work. I guess we’re still plagued by that silly Puritan ethic. We simply convince ourselves that work is rewarding. Or perhaps Phillip Hammond is right: that that “21 per cent of the working age population in Great Britain represents a huge pool of wasted talent.”
So why do liberals, knowing full well what our move toward socialism is costing our country, want to lead us down that path. Power. They learned in 1933 that if they put out a trough, we will feed at it, and the more of us they can get feeding at their troughs, the more power they have. They keep building the troughs and pouring in the slop and we keep lapping it up.
What puzzled me for a long time was why so many of our billionaires were supporting this madness? Warren Buffet and George Soros are the ones most commonly linked to the radical left, but the list includes others: Hollywood producer Stephen Bing; Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Insurance Company; Herbert and Marion Sandler of Golden West Financial; Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs; Citigroup’s Robert Rubin; Edwin Janss, founder of the leftwing Janss Foundation; and Aris Anagnos, a Los Angeles real estate magnate and a rabid Marxist-Lenonist. It’s important to note that none of these billionaires are directly involved in an enterprise that actually produces something. Mostly they just play with money. If they are simply committed to service to their fellow man, they certainly have the assets adequate to funding their charitable enterprises on their own.
I have to conclude that charity is not their goal, so there must be another reason for their interest in promoting some form of a fascist-socialist-Leninist state. To Insure their power base?
The content of this diatribe now veers toward one of those crazy conspiracy theories. First a fact based question: Why is it that 80 per cent of America’s very rich are self-made men and that 80 per cent of wealthy Europeans have inherited wealth? Perhaps because socialism has managed to destroy the talent and initiative of “21 per cent of the working age population.” Soros and his cohorts Bing,Sandler, Blankfein, Janss, and Anagnos are enjoying the power their wealth affords them and are probably threatened by our talent and initiative, so they want to get us in the habit of feeding at federal the trough.
Now the really wild theory. Could it be that our recent stock market collapse was created by those rich Marxists who, perhaps under cover of anonymous sources, pulled huge amounts of money out of the market to create a panic? They have admitted openly that this decline is an opportunity to advance their agendas, that our system needs to be dismantled brick by brick, that the new order must be accomplished either by the power of persuasion or the persuasion of power. Chilling, isn’t it?
Merrick, Jame. “Unemployment is 6 times higher than official figures.” March 12, 2009. Mail on Line. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-475517/Unemployment-rate-times-higher-official-figures.html
Canadian Health Care
My experience with Canadian health care is certainly different from Adolf Blackburn’s (“Canadian System better than others” April 1, 2010). My experience suggests that the health care system there is a classic example of how badly governments manage enterprises of any kind, primarily because health decisions get all mixed up with other political issues. One minor example: a town on Vancouver Island lost its saw mill and, although all the hospitals have brilliantly equipped laundry facilities, the health ministry makes all of them send their laundry to this somewhat inaccessible west island town to provide work for its inhabitants. Political decisions like that are made all across Canada. Patient care takes second chair.
My husband was a scaler who suffered a logging accident in 1985, breaking his back. He lay on the floor of his house living on heavy doses of narcotics for 3 months before they could free up the proper surgeon to attend him. You might suggest that that was ancient history and that BC has cleaned up its act since then, but two years ago my best friend, an osteoporosis victim, snapped her back and lay on a gurney in the hallway of the emergency room of the Nanaimo, BC hospital for 8 days before she was attended to.
More recently my husband suffered some stomach discomfort. The doctor suspected cancer, but my husband would have had to wait 3 months for a colonoscopy and knew that he would probably have to wait another 3 months at least to schedule the operation if he did indeed have cancer. Because a local surgeon had had a cancellation and could do surgery immediately, he opted to trust the diagnosis and they cut out three feet of his colon. He died of complications. Had he had the colonoscopy, they would have discovered that he had a ½ inch tumor that was very slow growing. He could have lived to 90 before it would have caused him any problem. His real problem: Diverticulitis.
And the problem is wide spread across Canada. When there is no more room in critical care units in Canadian hospitals, really critically ill patents, those with severe brain injuries, for example, bleeding in the brain, are whisked to operating rooms in the US. According to the Toronto Globe and Mail about 150 patients a year are sent to hospitals in Washington, Oregon, Michigan, and New York. “Some have languished for as long as eight hours in Canadian emergency wards while health-care workers scrambled to locate care.” Recently there was no room in neonatal center anywhere in Canada for the mother of quadruplets.
On my last trip south at the end of May, I stayed over in Victora, BC, in order to catch an early boat. In my hotel room I watched a piece the evening news had video of a kid, head in a halo, heck in a brace, left leg bandaged and elevated. According to the reporter, he would have to wait 15 months for an MRI as everything in Canada was booked. I have since Googled, trying to find out how it was resolved, but I get no hits.
No one knows what the consequences of these delays are because no one has the right to review the evidence. I tried to get copies of my medical records as well as my husband’s, but was told that if my American doctors had any questions they could telephone. And the evidence is even more tightly held for patients treated out of country. When asked if any patients transported to the United States had died, Mr. Jensen, spokesman for the Ontario Health Ministry, said the “ministry does not specifically record the outcomes of health services provided out of country.” The consequences of critically ill patents waiting that long for care are obvious, aren’t they?
Canada is a very wealthy country of under 40 million, rich in natural recorces. Can you imagine the complications for a country of more nearly 400,000,000?”
My husband was a scaler who suffered a logging accident in 1985, breaking his back. He lay on the floor of his house living on heavy doses of narcotics for 3 months before they could free up the proper surgeon to attend him. You might suggest that that was ancient history and that BC has cleaned up its act since then, but two years ago my best friend, an osteoporosis victim, snapped her back and lay on a gurney in the hallway of the emergency room of the Nanaimo, BC hospital for 8 days before she was attended to.
More recently my husband suffered some stomach discomfort. The doctor suspected cancer, but my husband would have had to wait 3 months for a colonoscopy and knew that he would probably have to wait another 3 months at least to schedule the operation if he did indeed have cancer. Because a local surgeon had had a cancellation and could do surgery immediately, he opted to trust the diagnosis and they cut out three feet of his colon. He died of complications. Had he had the colonoscopy, they would have discovered that he had a ½ inch tumor that was very slow growing. He could have lived to 90 before it would have caused him any problem. His real problem: Diverticulitis.
And the problem is wide spread across Canada. When there is no more room in critical care units in Canadian hospitals, really critically ill patents, those with severe brain injuries, for example, bleeding in the brain, are whisked to operating rooms in the US. According to the Toronto Globe and Mail about 150 patients a year are sent to hospitals in Washington, Oregon, Michigan, and New York. “Some have languished for as long as eight hours in Canadian emergency wards while health-care workers scrambled to locate care.” Recently there was no room in neonatal center anywhere in Canada for the mother of quadruplets.
On my last trip south at the end of May, I stayed over in Victora, BC, in order to catch an early boat. In my hotel room I watched a piece the evening news had video of a kid, head in a halo, heck in a brace, left leg bandaged and elevated. According to the reporter, he would have to wait 15 months for an MRI as everything in Canada was booked. I have since Googled, trying to find out how it was resolved, but I get no hits.
No one knows what the consequences of these delays are because no one has the right to review the evidence. I tried to get copies of my medical records as well as my husband’s, but was told that if my American doctors had any questions they could telephone. And the evidence is even more tightly held for patients treated out of country. When asked if any patients transported to the United States had died, Mr. Jensen, spokesman for the Ontario Health Ministry, said the “ministry does not specifically record the outcomes of health services provided out of country.” The consequences of critically ill patents waiting that long for care are obvious, aren’t they?
Canada is a very wealthy country of under 40 million, rich in natural recorces. Can you imagine the complications for a country of more nearly 400,000,000?”
Tea Party Violence
In the March 28th issue of the Arizona Republic Mr. Eugene Robinson’s (“Tea party rant not harmless”) plea to those who lead the tea party movement and those who “exploit it” start acting like responsible adults. Mr. Eugene Robinson your bemoaning the violence and the threats of violence on the right is so absurd it set my hair on fire. You identify several supposed threats, some of which may actually have occurred. However, did you ever object to even one of the thousands of threats, really bloody ones, that were openly demonstrated against our own President Bush. There were thousands of posters suggesting he be hanged, at least once by an image of Saddam, one by Bin Laden. There were hundreds of images of his being burned in effigy. Listed below are only a few of the most heinous posters.
“Kill Bush. Bomb his f------n house.”
“Hang bush for war crimes.”
“Bush is the disease. Death is the cure.
“I’m here to kill Bush. Shoot me.
“Bush, the only dope worth shooting.
“Death to worlds #1 terrorist pig. Bush and his sheep.”
“Death to extremist Christian terrorist pig Bush.”
Some of the pictures were absolutely grotesque, one of Bush with a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead, blood dripping down his face. In one picture his severed head is held aloft blood oozing from the raggedly gashed throat. Many posters had him brought to the guillotine, one called the Bush whacker.
Can you imagine the furor if even one such poster depicting violence against Obama appeared at a tea party? You scorn Sarah for her imagery, but were apparently not disturbed at all that John Kerry suggested we “kill the bird in the White House.” I go to tea parties. They are Sunday School picnics. The only violence you’ll see is the violence of your socialists friends, Mr. Robinson, who try to disrupt our peaceful gatherings. Speaker Palosi, was supposedly moved to tears remembering the violence of the protestors on the left. It was quite an act, wasn’t it? If we see violence on the right, we help you prosecute the perpetrators. You reward your violent protestors with lucrative government jobs. I know you’re following Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, attacking the character rather than the ideas of your opponents, and if you can keep the rest of America away from the tea parties so they can’t see the truth, it may work.
“Kill Bush. Bomb his f------n house.”
“Hang bush for war crimes.”
“Bush is the disease. Death is the cure.
“I’m here to kill Bush. Shoot me.
“Bush, the only dope worth shooting.
“Death to worlds #1 terrorist pig. Bush and his sheep.”
“Death to extremist Christian terrorist pig Bush.”
Some of the pictures were absolutely grotesque, one of Bush with a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead, blood dripping down his face. In one picture his severed head is held aloft blood oozing from the raggedly gashed throat. Many posters had him brought to the guillotine, one called the Bush whacker.
Can you imagine the furor if even one such poster depicting violence against Obama appeared at a tea party? You scorn Sarah for her imagery, but were apparently not disturbed at all that John Kerry suggested we “kill the bird in the White House.” I go to tea parties. They are Sunday School picnics. The only violence you’ll see is the violence of your socialists friends, Mr. Robinson, who try to disrupt our peaceful gatherings. Speaker Palosi, was supposedly moved to tears remembering the violence of the protestors on the left. It was quite an act, wasn’t it? If we see violence on the right, we help you prosecute the perpetrators. You reward your violent protestors with lucrative government jobs. I know you’re following Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, attacking the character rather than the ideas of your opponents, and if you can keep the rest of America away from the tea parties so they can’t see the truth, it may work.
Were our founders men of faith?
Lest I forget, a few notes about our founders whom we are led to believe were agnostics. Based mostly on David Barton who wrote Original Intent. Continental Congress printed a Bible to be used in schools.
The Founders
Benjamin Franklin recessed the Continental Congress for three days of prayer and contemplation. When governor of Pennsylvania he drew up a plan to encourage wider church attendance. Some historians have discredited him because for his opium use (was in so much pain that he had to be carried to meetings on a chair) and because he was considered by some of his contemporaries to be insane. They don’t mention that it was because he was so fiercely anti slavery. In one letter out of thousands he calls himself a deist, but only to emphasize the belief that it doesn’t matter who you think God is, worship him. When asked about his faith Franklin said there is a god, there is an afterlife where we will have to answer for our sins. We serve God by serving others.
Samuel Adams, governor of Massachusetts called the entire state to prayer and fasting 7 times.
Charles Carol, richest man in America used his estate to endow in perpetuity a chapel and a preacher for a remote area.
Benjamin Rose founded the Bible Society of America and the Sunday School Societyof America.
Stephen Hawkins wrote treatises on Christianity
Robert Payne was a military chaplain
Washington’s adopted daughter described George Washington’s habit of Bible reading and prayer and said that to suggest that he father was not a Christian would be as silly as saying that he was not a patriot.
Jefferson signed his documents not just “In the year of our Lord” as most people did, but “In the year of our Lord Christ.” He instituted church services in the Capitol. The Marine Corp band played the service. Ministers of every denomination took turns. The first woman preacher and the first Black minister in the country spoke there frequently. More than 2,000 people attended. He also established churches in the treasury department, the war department, and at the naval yard. Jefferson published a book called the Red Letter Book, the words of Christ in four languages which was printed every year and handed out to every new member of congress, until 1926 when progressives began taking control of the dialogue and got us to believe that the founders were all atheists.
James Wilson founded the first law school and said that you cannot have good civil law without divine law
Francis Hopkins published a book in which he set the entire book of Psalms to music
Benjamin Rush had a dream about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson who had been in bitter dispute for years. In his dream he saw a book published containing the many enlightening letters exchanged between Adams and Jefferson. He felt the dream was a message of the Holy Spirit and wrote to Jefferson telling him about the dream; and, because they hadn’t written any letters, encouraged them to forget their differences and begin to communicate so that the dream could be fulfilled. Adams and Jefferson agreed that messages from the Holy Spirit must be attended to, buried the hatchet and wrote many letters which have subsequently been compiled entitled The Adams and Jefferson Letters.
The founders were men of faith and duty. George Washington did not want to leave Mt Vernon to fight in the wars or serve as president. Patrick Henry said he had 19 children and 89 grandchildren and he wanted to go home, but he served as well. They pledged their lives and their sacred honor. Seven of them were assonated before they could see the result of their efforts. Seventeen of them lost everything as a result of their stand for freedom and independence. Five were prisoners of war.
Early schools required students to read two books. The Lives of the Signers and The Wives of the Signers. But in 1926 two college professors (Yale, Harvard, I can’t remember which) wrote a book called The Godless Constitution in which they pictured the signers as agnostics and atheists. No footnotes, no scholarly references. A year later a book was published that thoroughly disputed The Godless Constitution, a scholarly book filled with footnotes and references that proved them wrong, but professors at colleges still rely on The Godless Constitution for their information about the founders.
There are 5,600 quotations in the founding papers. The largest percentage of them, 34 per cent, came from the Bible, the largest percentage from the book of Deuteronomy, the book of law of the Old Testaments.
The Founders
Benjamin Franklin recessed the Continental Congress for three days of prayer and contemplation. When governor of Pennsylvania he drew up a plan to encourage wider church attendance. Some historians have discredited him because for his opium use (was in so much pain that he had to be carried to meetings on a chair) and because he was considered by some of his contemporaries to be insane. They don’t mention that it was because he was so fiercely anti slavery. In one letter out of thousands he calls himself a deist, but only to emphasize the belief that it doesn’t matter who you think God is, worship him. When asked about his faith Franklin said there is a god, there is an afterlife where we will have to answer for our sins. We serve God by serving others.
Samuel Adams, governor of Massachusetts called the entire state to prayer and fasting 7 times.
Charles Carol, richest man in America used his estate to endow in perpetuity a chapel and a preacher for a remote area.
Benjamin Rose founded the Bible Society of America and the Sunday School Societyof America.
Stephen Hawkins wrote treatises on Christianity
Robert Payne was a military chaplain
Washington’s adopted daughter described George Washington’s habit of Bible reading and prayer and said that to suggest that he father was not a Christian would be as silly as saying that he was not a patriot.
Jefferson signed his documents not just “In the year of our Lord” as most people did, but “In the year of our Lord Christ.” He instituted church services in the Capitol. The Marine Corp band played the service. Ministers of every denomination took turns. The first woman preacher and the first Black minister in the country spoke there frequently. More than 2,000 people attended. He also established churches in the treasury department, the war department, and at the naval yard. Jefferson published a book called the Red Letter Book, the words of Christ in four languages which was printed every year and handed out to every new member of congress, until 1926 when progressives began taking control of the dialogue and got us to believe that the founders were all atheists.
James Wilson founded the first law school and said that you cannot have good civil law without divine law
Francis Hopkins published a book in which he set the entire book of Psalms to music
Benjamin Rush had a dream about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson who had been in bitter dispute for years. In his dream he saw a book published containing the many enlightening letters exchanged between Adams and Jefferson. He felt the dream was a message of the Holy Spirit and wrote to Jefferson telling him about the dream; and, because they hadn’t written any letters, encouraged them to forget their differences and begin to communicate so that the dream could be fulfilled. Adams and Jefferson agreed that messages from the Holy Spirit must be attended to, buried the hatchet and wrote many letters which have subsequently been compiled entitled The Adams and Jefferson Letters.
The founders were men of faith and duty. George Washington did not want to leave Mt Vernon to fight in the wars or serve as president. Patrick Henry said he had 19 children and 89 grandchildren and he wanted to go home, but he served as well. They pledged their lives and their sacred honor. Seven of them were assonated before they could see the result of their efforts. Seventeen of them lost everything as a result of their stand for freedom and independence. Five were prisoners of war.
Early schools required students to read two books. The Lives of the Signers and The Wives of the Signers. But in 1926 two college professors (Yale, Harvard, I can’t remember which) wrote a book called The Godless Constitution in which they pictured the signers as agnostics and atheists. No footnotes, no scholarly references. A year later a book was published that thoroughly disputed The Godless Constitution, a scholarly book filled with footnotes and references that proved them wrong, but professors at colleges still rely on The Godless Constitution for their information about the founders.
There are 5,600 quotations in the founding papers. The largest percentage of them, 34 per cent, came from the Bible, the largest percentage from the book of Deuteronomy, the book of law of the Old Testaments.
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