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God’s been patient —so far!

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Government Controlled Behavior

We in the United States think we have the freedom to behave as we wish as long as it does not break any laws. But is this true? The government actually controls our behavior in ways most people have not considered.

One way the government controls your behavior is through taxes. It controls your charitable behavior by giving you tax breaks only if you donate to government approved charities. It controls your buying behavior by giving you tax breaks only if you buy certain vehicles, appliances, etc., and sometimes it taxes you more if your buy things they do not want you to buy, such as certain luxury items, and things such as alcohol and tobacco.

The government controls how your think by controlling what is taught in public schools, which influences the behavior of students. Some of these government-educated students then become college professors who teach college students what they have been taught by their government-influenced professors. Then some of these students become teachers and professors and keep propagating the government teachings.
The government controls your behavior by making laws and setting punishments for not obeying the laws. If the government does not think a certain behavior is appropriate, it can make the behavior illegal and punish you for doing it; it can even execute you. Some behaviors are generally accepted by society as being inappropriate, such as larceny, assault, and murder, but the government can outlaw any behavior it deems appropriate.

If you value your freedom, be careful about who you vote into office because—they will be influencing your behavior and that of your children.

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Don’t’ pray in my school and I won’t think in your church

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Human Abilities

Some think humans cannot do anything; while others think humans are responsible for everything. The ones who think humans are incapable of achieving anything say that all our innovations and technology have come from alien intervention. They say that aliens mated with early humans, they built pyramids etc., and that most of our technological advances have come from our backward engineering of captured alien spaceships. The ones who think humans are all powerful blame humans for everything that has happened since we first walked upright, such as animal extinctions and global warming. Both groups are wrong. As with other life forms, humans are only a minuscule part of the cosmos. We are capable of permanently affecting our lives, but not the earth or the cosmos. Any damage done to the earth by humans will be healed as time go on. It may mean that we become extinct, but that is the way of things; something will replace us.

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Know the Community

Many immigrants come to this county for its benefits and, while remembering their home counties, they become Americans. Other immigrants come to America and promptly set up neighborhoods where they live just as they did in their former countries. We have idiots who, instead of expecting these  immigrants to learn and practice American mores and assimilate into our society, expect neighbors, law enforcement, and other government agencies to get to know immigrant communities and then change their way of doing things to accommodate the immigrants. Are these immigrants Americans, or, are they just foreigners who live in the United States?

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Issues

If you listen to people speak, it would appear that we no longer have problems; we have issues. One issue I have is people using the word “issue” when “problem” is the correct word to use.

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Health Care

What are people responsible for in their lives? Nowadays, they are not held responsible for their babies; they can abort them or abandon them at a fire station with no consequences—they may not even be frowned upon for their “choices.” They are not held responsible for their children; the public pays for their education, food, and clothing. They are not held responsible for their actions; an abused childhood , peer pressure, or drug abuse made them do it—they are just victims. They are not even held responsible for their own heath care. How is it that people can afford things that adversely affect their heath, such as cigarettes, alcohol, illegal drugs, and lots of food (judging from their obesity), but they cannot afford health care. They can afford gold jewelry, gold teeth, designer clothing and shoes, and expensive vehicles, but they cannot afford health insurance. Should we also provide them with long-term care, life insurance, car insurance, home insurance, etc? When do people become responsible for their own decisions and choices in life?

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Choice

You can abort as many babies as your choose to, but do not get caught smoking indoors, even if you choose to.

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Inhumane Tuition

In North Carolina, colleges must accept illegal immigrant students. Not only that, they may even qualify for in state tuition rates; the different in tuition costs is paid for by citizen taxpayers. It is considered “inhumane” to prevent non-citizen lawbreakers from getting a college education at taxpayer expense. I was born and raised in NC, served the Navy for 26 years, retired from the Navy, and came back to NC. You would think I would be eligible for in-state tuition; but no, I had to live in the state for a year before becoming eligible—the same as for non-citizen illegal immigrant criminals.

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What to do when caught doing something illegal

• Say you know nothing about it.
• Deny doing it.
• Say you do not remember it.
• Say you were misinformed or lied to.
• Say you have been accused due to your race, gender, religion, sexual preference, political party affiliation, etc.
• Say you are being framed.
• Say you have moved on to more important issues.
  
• Say you look forward to a trial to prove your innocence.
• Hire a lawyer to lie for you to the press and public.
• Plead not guilty at the trial.
• When found guilty, say you are sorry and beg for forgiveness.
• Say you were wrongly convicted, and fight the conviction through appeals.
• After serving the time, go about your business the same as before as if nothing had happened—until caught again. Then repeat the process.
• Use political influence, to get a presidential pardon.

Student Loans

People whine about the hardship of repaying student loans, what a bunch of crap. In North Carolina, for state resident to attend NC State University it costs $17,000 a year for everything, tuition, room, books, transportation, etc.—everything. A part-time job during the school year and during the summer break will pay for most if not all of this. Then people say, “The school I want to attend costs much more than that.” Too bad, we all want something we cannot afford. Live within your means.

If you do not have the money to attend full-time college, then attend part-time. Alternatively, work, save your money, and then pay cash for college. You could also join the military. I earned an AA, BA, MA, and MS and it did not cost me anything but time and effort— the Navy paid for all of it.

You do what you need to do to achieve your goals. If you are not willing to make the sacrifice, then at least have the dignity not to whine about your situation.

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Troubled Past

Why does it seem that every Hollywood celebrity has had a troubled past? It seems they all have either, been sexually molested, been abused as a child, been addicted to something, or have suffered from depression or other mental illness. Is this a prerequisite for becoming an actor?

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Ghostwritters

How do celebrities, sports stars, politicians, etc. find the time to research and write the books they publish? That’s an easy question; the answer is—they don’t. They don’t do the research; they don’t even do the writing. If you look closely you will find most of these books were ghostwritten; someone else wrote the book and then the well-know personality’s name goes on the cover as being the writer.

Sometimes the ghostwriters will receive partial credit, signified by the phrase "with..." or "as told to..." on the cover, or as a "thank you" in a foreword or introduction. For nonfiction books, the ghostwriter may be credited as a "contributor" or a "research assistant.” Many times the ghostwriter receives no official credit in the book, and may even be asked to sign a nondisclosure contract that forbids him or her from revealing his or her ghostwriting role.

The personality who is the credited author gets publicity, notoriety, fame, and royalties from the sale of book, and the ghostwriter get pittance. Many times the credited author is an idiot who can’t form an original thought or write a complete sentence. If you listen to their publicity interviews, many times they do not even know what is in their books. Yet, there are millions of fools who buy these books and praise the virtues of the credited authors, even though they did not write the books. A fool and his money are soon parted.

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Loser

If you are a loser—one who has never accomplished anything in your life—then don’t worry. All you have to do is pick some national event and create a conspiracy theory to explain it. Just look for anything that may support your theory and reject all evidence that reputes it by saying the evidence itself is a part of the conspiracy. Then start a web site devoted to your theory and, presto, you are no longer a loser—you are an expert on the subject.

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Prayer

A child is dying of a disease. The family prays to God for the child to be cured or the disease. If the child is cured and lives, it is the answer to the prayers—a miracle. If the family believed that God could and would answer their prayers, then it is not a miracle; it is simply God answering their prayers.
If the child dies of the disease, the family says it was God’s will that the child died. If God was going to do his will no matter whether the family prayed or not, then the prayers were useless.
If the child dies of the disease and the family believes God may be swayed by prayer, then he must not have wanted to answer their prayer. Maybe they were being punished or maybe there were not enough prayers. On the other hand, not enough people prayed; maybe if just one more person had prayed, the child would have lived.

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Tough People

When tragedy strikes an area, leaders, media, and other people are always talking about how tough the people who were affected the tragedy are during the difficult times. When a wildfire burns a subdivision or a river floods a city, we hear about how heroic the people are in that area and how they will rebuild. For us to say that the people in an area are tough, it must mean that there are people in some other area who are not so tough, or—weaker. Where are these weak people located?

People like to be told they are tough, but are they really tougher than people in other areas, or is it just that all living things do whatever they can to insure their survival and to come back from disaster. People in one area are no tougher than people anywhere—they are just people.

Hypocrites

Ever notice how people are always telling your how to do things that they tell you that you should not do. They tell you how to dress to impress people, and then they tell you that you should not judge people by how they dress. They tell you how to diet and get physically fit, and then they tell you that you should accept yourself for what you are. They tell you how to use makeup and plastic surgery to make yourself look beautiful, and then they tell you should not let the way a person looks affect your opinion of them. They tell you not to use drugs while their smoking and drinking tells you that it must be okay to do.

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Tasteful Porn

After topless photographs of Carrie Prejean, Miss California USA, surfaced, Donald Trump, owner of the Miss USA pageant, decided she could retain her Miss California USA crown, even though she had failed to disclose the photographs when entering the pageant. Trump said that in today’s society the photographs weren’t considered indecent, that they were “lovely.” Is really that today’s society has lowered its moral standards, or it just that Trump is now an old letch that thinks that nude photographs of teenage girls are lovely.

Tasteful Nudity

After topless photographs of Carrie Prejean, Miss California USA, surfaced, Donald Trump, owner of the Miss USA pageant, decided she could retain her Miss California USA crown, even though she had failed to disclose the photographs when entering the pageant. Trump said that in today’s society the photographs weren’t considered indecent, that they were “lovely.” Is really that today’s society has lowered its moral standards, or it just that Trump is now an old letch that thinks that nude photographs of teenage girls are lovely.

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Plants are safe

When a victim of the latest wife fire in California was interviewed, he said, “We lost the house, but the good thing is that most of the plants survived” then he added that his wife and children were also safe. Does anyone want to hazard a guess about who he voted for in the last presidential election?

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Caring and Money

Some people think they can save the world. They think that if we all just care about a problem and spend money on it, it will go away. Of course what—we—should care about is what—they—care about, and the money they want to spend is—your—money, whether you want to spend the money or not. These people think that things that have existed since mankind began, such as starvation, homelessness, disease, etc., may be eliminated if we only care about them and spend money on them. If you do not care about these causes and support them, then you are an enemy of the causes and must be attacked and eliminated. If you do not care about giving special consideration to homosexuals, then you are a homophobe. If you do not support giving money to starving counties in Africa, then you are racist. Nothing these people, or their predecessors over the centuries, have done has eliminated, or even significantly reduced these things, but that does not stop their quest for utopia. Their “caring” makes them feel good about themselves, and that is all that matters.

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Living Will

People say I need a Living Will that will notify hospitals that, when my end is near, they should not use expensive procedures to keep me alive. I don’t need a Living Will. My health insurance company takes care this for me; I can count of them to refuse to pay for any expensive life-sustaining procedures

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Huh

When Elizabeth Edwards appeared on the Oprah television show to promote her book and was asked about her response to learning her husband had been having an affair, Elizabeth replied, "If you take that piece out, I do have a perfect marriage." So, other than her husband having a secret, ongoing affair with an employee while she was battling cancer, the woman having his child, the woman still working with her husband, him still visiting the woman, him paying the woman hush money, and him lying to her and the public about the affair while he was running for president, they have a perfect marriage. She must have graduated from the Hillary Clinton School of Marriage.

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Miracle

In Arcadia, MO 3-year-old Joshua Childers was found safe and uninjured in the Mark Twain National Forest after being lost in the cold, wet forest for 2 days after wandering away from home. Madison County Sheriff David Lewis said searchers had been growing increasingly pessimistic about their chances of finding Joshua alive. He figured 3 days was about the limit for the boy's survival in the wild without food and water. "It's a miracle," Lewis said.

To summarize, 3 days would be the limit for the boy’s survival and hundreds were searching for him. He was found after 2 days by a searcher and it is considered a miracle. If the boy had been found after 30 days by a hiker just wandering by, then you might call it miracle, but working toward an achievable outcome and achieving the outcome is not a miracle. The word miracle is used to too freely and too much.

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Mother’s Day

Mother’s are excused for actions they take as mothers, such as killing their husbands who were abusing their children. However, the motherland is condemned for waterboarding a couple of men who either took part in the slaughter of thousands on 9/11 or have vowed to do the same and who have information about others who would do the same. Even though mother's kill their children, we celebrate the commercialized Mother’s Day, while also condemning the motherland for pouring water on the faces of a few enemy during a time of war.

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Evolution

Christians believe the Bible is the written word of God. In the Bible, God created man by forming him from the dirt of the earth and breathing life into him. For thousands of years, this was their core belief. These creationists fought evolution at every turn, saying it was a theory put forth by Satan to discredit God. As evolution became more widely accepted and more and more proof of its existence was discovered, the creationists found it more difficult to support their version of creation so they became proponents of intelligent design, which proposes that, although life did evolve, it was initiated by God and was guided by God as an evolving process. Where is intelligent design in the Bible—the word of God? The Bible still says God created a man in one day, not as a process over millions of years.

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Gay Pride

After 66 years, the actor Davd Ogen Stiers revealed he is gay and that he is “very proud to be so." Apparently, he is so proud that he waited 66 years to reveal it. Now that his acting career is has stagnated, he is suddenly proud to be gay. Was he not proud during his most active acting years? Should I be proud to be straight, to be male, or to be human? Why should one take pride in something he or she had no part in becoming or cannot change?

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Tax Evaders

Obama has vowed to "detect and pursue" American tax evaders. Of course there will be some exceptions, such as his cabinet members, campaign supporters, family, and friends.

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Resources

People complain that we are using up the planet’s food, water, forests, and other resources, and that cities are expanding and using up too much land. Yet, these same people keep having children, and they expect their children to have the same or better life style that they have. All these children need to live somewhere. If you love the planet as much as you say, quit having children.

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Looking Down

People are always talking about how their deceased loved ones are looking down on them. A basketball player talks about how his mother always wanted the best for him and how he knows she was looking down on him as his team won the game. If deceased loved ones are able to look down on your life, then they are able to look down on your life all the time, not just when you want them to. That means the mother was also looking down on the ballplayer the night before the game when he was having sex with prostitute and smoking crack. It seems to be a human trait to create things that make them feel good and excuse their actions,  even when the things are illogical, unreasonable, improvable, and stupid.

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Research

oAs reported in the March 2009 issue of Discover, researchers who surveyed 20 students found that responsible, conscientious people live 2 to 4 year longer than average. Does anybody believe this finding? Apparently, the researchers were able to determine this finding about a person’s entire life from a sample of just 20 students using a survey that only lasted a few minutes. This is the type of misinformation that misleads the public and causes it to distrust science.

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MIT

MIT, Minnesota Institute of Technology, opened  new Dali Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, to be managed by a Buddhist monk. No other major science research institution in the U.S. has a center named for a contemporary religious leader. At the dedication, the Dali Lama said, “The majority of the 6 billion people on earth, I think, we can categorize as non-believers. So we must find a way to promote ethics and values with these non-believers. We need promotion of secular ethics through education.” Apparently, if you are not a Buddhist you are considered a non-believer and must be indoctrinated. Where is the outrage in the media, in the ACLU, and amongst celebrities? Imagine what would occur if the center had been named the Jerry Falwell Center for Ethics and Transformative Values was to be to be managed by a fundamentalist preacher.

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Feel sorry for me; buy my book

Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of the sleazy ex presidential candidate, John Edwards, was so embarrassed and devastated by her husband’s lying and cheating that she had to throw up, but he has apparently gotten over it. She has published a book detailing the whole affair. Apparently, she similar to her husband—she will do anything for a buck.

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