I have an issue, a peeve, if you will, that I would like to place in the minds for thinking peoples for consideration.
We have, what I consider to be, a language problem here in the USA. That’s not to say that no other country might have this problem, but I don’t know another country like I do this one, so my address is to US.
We have such disregard, even disdain, for our language. We flagrantly misuse our words, discarding their true meaning, often to great effect, and treat them as fluid concepts open to any author’s desired intent.
Some actually laud this as poetic license or authorial freedom, but the effect on some, who know neither the intent nor often even the meaning of the words, can completely change or influence the minds of the exposed.
Consider this example:
If someone does something oafish, that does not necessarily mean that they are an oaf; however, if that same someone is an oaf, then it would be safe to state that anything they did could be oafish. An oaf does oafish things. Oafish things are not always done by oafs.
So, what is my issue? Words have meaning, not such as is capriciously applied by poet, author, or anarchistic, but as is codified in scholarly dictionaries (to exclude the many “urban”, etc dictionaries in use today). Words have the power to convey ideas, and to influence and educate, and also to misinform. We should use words for good, not evil.
It seems that decades ago a decision was made to change the thinking of the people of the USA. We began to be told exclusively about our “democracy”, not our representative republic. We were given many stories about “The Democratic Party”, not the Democrat Party. So it’s no wonder that folks today cry out against the electoral college, they have no idea that it is THE defining characteristic of our Republic, and the only way to have truly fair elections in a country so diverse and spread out as ours. And it is no wonder, when every talking head on TV and every politician of both parties continually misuse “democratic” when talking about things of the Democrat Party, that folks continue to vote for candidates of the Democrat Party, even when the entire party platform describes a government in total contradiction to the Constitution of the United States of America.
So…my true point at last. Can we please stop using” Democratic “ to describe persons, ideas, policies, and things associated with the Democrat Party? They are not Democratic Congressmen, not Democratic policies, Democratic Senators, they are Democrat…
Words make a difference. They influence the actions, understanding, and feelings of people, and their misuse, whether insidious or capricious, affect this nation of people to the point of division and chaos.

May I share a thought?
My old brain is not as quick as it once was, and thankfully, also not as mean spirited. Had I thought of this quickly it would have been colored in haughty distain and spoken as keenly as a knife’s edge.
Recently someone quoted some scientist who claims that, “no mammal, but man, drinks the milk of other mammals”, to justify the premise that there is no nutritional value in dairy products.
The fallacy of this statement is obvious, not only in light of mankind’s true relationship with the creation, for we are not, as science would have us think, only smart animals, but also, as I will show, through the experience of life lived in this world. We were not created a little higher that the animals, but rather a little lower than the angels, and this is an immense consideration.
If any of God’s animal kingdom had been given the intelligence and ability to do so, they too would make cheeses, yogurt, ice cream, whip cream, and butter, and most, if not all, of the animal creation, from mammals to birds to reptiles and fish, will gladly and enthusiastically eat any of these that they can find. Not only so, but even though, in the wild, animals will usually only suckel their own, under the taming and guidance of man, mother cats, dogs, and rabbits will suckel each other’s young, as will sows, goats, sheep, dogs, and all cattle, horses, and any like-bodied animals. I have personally raised baby rabbits and kittens on cows milk, to flourishing health, in the absence of their birth mothers, and have never seen a barn cat turn down a healthy squeeze from the teat of a milking utter.
To think otherwise is to turn a willfully blind eye to the truth of the Bible. God would not have lauded a place described as,”the land of milk and honey”, nor would He have spoken in many passages of the benefits of them if either of these were somehow inconsequential to the nutrition of His creation.
As for me, I will consume dairy to much delight and praises to God for its creation. I will also gladly relieve you of any ice cream cluttering up your freezer.

It has become clear to me, today, that the people of the United States of America have a serious moral problem.
I used to think it was simply that there were too many “stupid” voters, voters who chose a particular candidate, not based on their own research into a party platform or individual candidate’s voting record, but simply on the history of their parents voting, or recommendations from friends, family, or favorite National News anchor, and I’m certain that this is the case for many U.S. citizens still.
But, considering the events of the last two years and taking into consideration the overt intentions, as outlined not only in their party platform, but through all media sources available today, of the Demoncrat Party and all Demoncrat candidates, I can only surmise that if one voted for said party, or any of it’s candidates, both local and national, then one MUST certainly be morally deficient in every “Christian” definition of morality.
I’m really NOT sorry if this offends you!
Voting for any Demoncrat is voting for a party platform that prioritizes the murder of unborn babies, establishes myths about global warming as facts and insists that only the destruction of human society will save the world, insists that every immoral sexual perversion must be, not only acceptible, but socially normal, and completely sets aside all U.S. constitutional rights as superfluous, unnecessary, and inconvenient to the ruling class in the United States today.
This offends ME!
No longer will a soft answer suffice! If you are a Christian you have NO reasonable explanation for voting Demoncrat…none at all! Shame on you! Though I’m certain God’s grace can still rescue you from eternal condemnation, I pity the day of judgement for you, when you must explain why you supported such heinous political and moral positions.
God have mercy on your soul.

I know that no one is actually going to read this post, so I feel really empowered to put my true thoughts down for all (no one) to read.

So…does anybody really care? Do we, as citizens of the United States of America (notice I didn’t say “Americans” as this would include the entire “Western” hemisphere, North and South: we are so lazy in our speech) actually understand, and/or care, what we are voting for when we cast our ballets? I think NOT!

I seriously doubt that even as little as 10% of the voting public, which probably comprises (I don’t have actual statistics) less than half of the Eligible voting public, have ever even read the documents which detail their chosen Party’s political platform. They truly have NO IDEA what they are voting to support!

Oh sure, they’ve heard the endless talking points, chosen by an endless supply of political commentators, which outline the empty promises and meaningless wish lists that over-educated, greatly over-paid statisticians have compiled to show them what the “American” public really wants, and will vote for, but this has NOTHING to do with the reality of what the political candidates are going to pursue and promote once they are in office. This pursuit and promotion of ideas and agendas is only clearly outlined and detailed in the Party Platform of said party.

So it’s no surprise to me that otherwise good meaning folks will vote for the most heinous candidates and platforms, based solely on what they’ve heard or read from the self-serving talking heads and political commentators in the mainstream media of this nation.

You do realize that the Party Platform documents are FREE to read, download, and quote…right? Yes they ARE! And EVERY voting person in this nation SHOULD read the ENTIRE proposed agenda of the candidates they intend to support, every time those platform documents are renewed! If not, one is only perpetuating the meaningless destruction of our great nation being pursued by seemingly every politician of every Party affiliation currently trying to lead our government.

And here’s my greatest disappointment:

It has become clear to me, today, that the people of the United States of America have a serious moral problem.

I used to think it was simply that there were too many “stupid” voters, voters who chose a particular candidate, not based on their own research into a party platform or individual candidate’s voting record, but simply on the history of their parents voting, or recommendations from friends, family, or favorite National News anchor, and I’m certain that this is the case for many U.S. citizens still.

But, considering the events of the last several years, and taking into consideration the overt intentions, as outlined not only in their party platform, but through all media sources available today, of the Demoncrat Party and all Demoncrat candidates, I can only surmise that if one voted for said party, or any of it’s candidates, both local and national, then one MUST certainly be morally deficient in every “Christian” definition of morality.

I’m really NOT sorry if this offends you!

Voting for any Demoncrat is voting for a party platform that prioritizes the murder of unborn babies, establishes myths about global warming as facts and insists that only the destruction of human society will save the world, insists that every immoral sexual perversion must be, not only acceptible, but socially normal, and completely sets aside all U.S. constitutional rights as superfluous, unnecessary, and inconvenient to the ruling class in the United States today.

This offends ME!

No longer will a soft answer suffice! If you are a Christian you have NO reasonable explanation for voting Demoncrat…none at all! Shame on you! Though I’m certain God’s grace can still rescue you from eternal condemnation, I pity the day of judgement for you, when you must explain why you supported such heinous political and moral positions.

God have mercy on your soul.

I know I don’t write often, but, after all, it’s not like anyone is actually reading these posts anyway.

And I’m ok with that! I don’t write with the expectation of glory. I write to get my thoughts down for my own examination.

I want to know how Christians can vote for, and support, politicians, at all levels of government, who, in turn, support every sort of anti-Christian agenda imaginable. There is no other explanation for how the demoncrats continue to hold and gain office in our governance. There are simply too many Christians who don’t look at the political platform of the politician they are voting for.

How, Christian brother, can you vote for someone who openly supports the entire, perverted, homosexual agenda? How can it possibly be ok to vote for someone who promises to raise your taxes, take away your rights, champion socialized medicine, and fundamentally change the constitution upon which this country was founded? And how can you possibly, based on nothing other than the constant, fanatical, rabid, vociferous barrage of hateful media lies against the president of the nation, take that hate into your own heart and vote for someone who will continue to support the murder of millions of babies each year?

Is it possible that you don’t see this? Is it truly possible that you don’t understand that this is what it means to vote for a demoncrat?

I will pray for you as I passionately pray for this nation. For I truly believe that we are all looking at a terrible future from which we may never recover, and it has all happened because Christians could not see past their own blind acceptance of the brain-washing influence of our National media juggernaut.

The following is a letter written by my beloved. It needs no further introduction or explanation. Enjoy.

February 9, 2013

Hey there You, welcome to Saturday.

Hope all is well in your world. Whew! I tell you what, at my age this world seems to be FLYING by. Every single Saturday I wake up and look back and an entire week is gone….poof. I have been trying to write this letter, this very one you have there in front of you, for an entire week; hard for me to believe. The more I pushed to get it written, the shorter the week got. Sigh.

Yet here we are. Obviously the miraculous happened so let’s move on, shall we? Last week my theme was ‘I just want you to know….’ This letter smacks of ‘In case you missed it the first time……’ As a side note, if you did ‘miss it’ the first time then shame on me.

This letter does not refute the last. Every word was and remains true. I would not erase one line. Still, I need to frame what was previously shared, for there is a greater context in which I operate. If I fail to get this out I fail to communicate at all! So allow me to back up and punt as it were.

‘In case you missed it the first time…..

 I write because I want you to know…….’

                              I hold one truth to be self-evident:

God

If you don’t know this about me then you don’t know me. And, as mentioned before, shame on me. I take full responsibility. My life is not the exemplar sin-free life. Every day I understand just a little bit better what Paul meant when he said, “I die daily.” Every morning I get up, die, get dressed, and try again. As for me, I shall be satisfied when I awake with His likeness. It is never too late to begin again. Sometimes I have to start over with my parents. Sometimes I have to start over with my kids. Sometimes I have to start over with friends and colleagues. And we won’t even mention how often I have to start over with Tim, poor guy. He catches the good, the bad, and the ugly on a daily basis. I am not above owning my oopsy-daisies as well as my blatant, intentional poor judgment. Enough said. You ain’t the Pope and this ain’t confession. Now, where were we? Oh yes,

It is only within this framework, this context that you can fully understand all those things ‘I just want you to know…….’ So after you finish here, re-read the first letter with this new perspective, please.

‘In case you missed it the first time…..

 I write because I want you to know…….’

                              I hold one truth to be self-evident:

God

I have no inclination to prove God’s existence. I can’t.  I don’t have to. He is self-evident.  

Aren’t all of us, you, me, & everyone, intensely and hyper aware that we dwell in one miniscule compartment of an enormous, powerfully energized universe?  Something, Someone is in charge of the ‘daily’ operations. Incomprehensible = A cosmic habitat so vast I can’t visit, buy souvenirs, or even see pictures of the entire phenomenal expanse. The enormity and power of the Creator, Sustainer, CEO is unfathomable. I suspect, however, He is more than a little wizard sanctioned off by a curtain in some Land of Oz

God

You can look God up in Merriam- Webster, Wikipedia and the like. I not only read doctrinal books, but I have Googled, Binged, and Yahoo-ed God. While this is somewhat entertaining, my preferred, personal concept of God is found totally and completely in the name He calls Himself.

There are a bazillion (perhaps a slight exaggeration) names for God. The more familiar names describe different attributes of His being such as All-Powerful, All-Knowing, Almighty. In the early history of the world, shortly after creation, He was often referred to as Adonai and Elohim. Both names emphasize His Lordship as Lord God, and Creator. But my favorite is the name He called Himself in Exodus.

I know you remember the story, but it is one of my very most all-time favorites so I want to repeat it if you don’t mind. God has chosen Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian captivity. Moses’ reply to God’s request is along the lines of, ‘Surely you jest.’ God responds with todays, ‘I got this. I will be with you.’ So Moses gives God this scenario: ‘Suppose I go to the Israelites and say, The God of your fathers has sent me., and then they say Really now? What is His name? , then what do I say next?’  (And here is my favorite part!):

God says, ‘ I AM THAT I AM.’

You have heard this name as Yahweh or seen this name in text as YHVH or YWHW. Without going into the Hebrew and verb tense studies, suffice it to say the name indicates a connection between the name for being and being itself. I AM is the source of all being and has being in Himself. He is Being. Everything else is contingent being. In other words, all other state of being is provisional, dependent on Him. Everything derives existence from Him.

Now you can understand why I am so drawn to that story. If I never know anything else about God…….. that name, that name I AM leaves me in dumb struck awe and respect.

‘In case you missed it …..’

My approach to life, my approach to death, my approach to our relationship as family, friend, or both is 100% couched in my concept, my understanding, my relationship to this Being who calls Himself

I AM

No doubt you can proclaim the exact same thing. All of us live out this experience called life within our own concept and understanding of I AM. Either God matters to us or He doesn’t and we move on from there.

While He may or may not be your Lord, your God, it doesn’t change who He is, I AM.

‘I just want you know…..

               In case you missed it…..

                              I hold one truth to be self-evident

                                             God.

As with the last correspondence, should you choose not to fold, spindle, or mutilate, then pass this letter on or leave it laying around for someone else to read. If not to marvel at what font I used on the computer, then perchance to contemplate, to consider, to inquire of God as Moses did ……

‘Who are You?’

Shalom,

Tammy

A man ought to be able, not only to accept being wrong, but to admit when he has been. So… I was wrong.

I can hear the gasps of many as they contemplate these words. I’m not known as one who appears to possess humility; but truly, I freely admit my limited understand of all things “man”. It’s just that people rarely listen when I do.

So here goes, I’m putting it down in writing, no listening required (drum roll please), I was wrong: on May 15, 2015! It didn’t really take this long for me to realize my error; I just haven’t thought to admit it, here, before now. At that time, I wrote of the foolishness of those in support of then candidate for American President, Donald Trump.

In my defense, much of what I wrote was correct, and even today he clearly exhibits many of the traits I decried, but I was hugely incorrect in at least this one thing; President Donald Trump IS a man of character and honor. He has done more for the good of this country, in spite of the unprecedented, mindless, evil, obsessive opposition of the Demoncrat party, than any President in my lifetime.

You can disagree, you have that right (at least until the next Demoncrat is elected to the office), but if he has done nothing else, he has at least been the catalyst to the unveiling of the true character, intent, and purposes of the prevailing political mindset of all of our legislative body. Republicans and Demoncrats alike had to show their true colors, and decide their true allegiances, in clear view of their constituencies, in the face of the boldness and unrelenting drive of this one man.

Does he speak his mind? Yes, and I was wrong about this also. He’s not doing so simply to tell his people what he thinks they want to hear. In fact, much of what he says is hard to stomach.  He appears, at first blush, the schoolyard bully, and this I credit entirely to the completely biased reporting of all of America’s news media. When, on that rare occasion, we see the entire exchange between President Trump and any of those who oppose him, we then see that he is responding to their assault, rather than attacking them unprovoked. And who can stand before this man’s blistering response? Don’t take a swing at Donald Trump without first considering his unequaled ability to hit back.  He doesn’t take abuse lightly. He’s not the bully. He is instead, the man who will defend himself, his family, and his country, and will do so with overwhelming, unrepentant power.

When America finally closes its ears to the whining, wheedling cries of the career politicians who have for decades misrepresented the interests of their constituents, and have sought the power and privilege of royalty at this country’s expense, and the equally staged horror of the sycophantic media who support them, and begins to realize that this one man has given up the power, prestige, and position that his wealth had earned him, and has done so solely in response to the call of his vision for this nation, then we may finally be on the road to recovering what our founding fathers set in motion when they crafted that miraculous document, the Constitution of the United States of America.

I want to explore a thought, a question that demands consideration.  What if God is real?  OK… that one has been explored and answered so many times, for so long throughout history, that I will defer to the exhaustively done.

No… the question I want to consider is: what if evolution is not just a theory?

If it truly took billions of years and endless, accidental chemical interactions to finally end up with DNA, chromosomes, and genes; and then billions more years for those bits of matter to combine, just so, to enable life to somehow spark; and then even more billions of years for that small spark to finally result in human beings; if all of these accidental, highly unlikely events finally ran through enough statistical revolutions to get to you and me; how truly special can we be?  We are merely accidents that finally happened.

Assuming this approach to our beginnings and following through with evolutionary processes as described in science and biology classes in schools across this country, then somewhere in the evolutionary process of adaptation, yet another accident happened.  How else can one account for a genetic expression called homosexuality?  Using evolutionary thought processes, there is absolutely no possible adaptational need for this genetic expression, so it must have been an accident, a mutation.  Given this, and the extreme length of time, for this surely is not a recent genetic expression, this mutation must have existed; it would stand to reason that homosexuality should have been eliminated through the process of natural selection, even as have so many other unnatural, unnecessary genetic expressions.  Yet somehow?

Continuing this thought train in a different direction, if we are mere accidental beings, what could possibly be wrong with using the occasional accident as the subject of in-depth study, especially if someone just happened to have one available that they didn’t particularly want, would be socially or professionally inconvenienced by the burden of caring for at that particular time of their lives.  And wouldn’t it be absolutely incredible if, through the study of this and many other similarly supplied unwanted subjects, amazing advancements were made in the understanding and manipulation of the very accidental genetic chemical codes that regulated the development and growth that we accidental beings progressed through in our beginnings.  Consider the implications; there need be no more birth defects, no more genetic mutations to grow undetected and unchecked in the developing fetus.  At what point after this would all unnatural, unnecessary genetic expressions be eliminated from the human gene pool?

Does it not seem counter intuitive to presume that homosexuality must be a genetic expression, a mutation of the human condition?  Would it not make much more sense to label this phenomenon a matter of choice, made by a very special, purposely created being who is loved and desired by the one who created it?  Could it not be that evolution is still a very suspect theory without substance nor support in reality, unprovable and ill-thought-out?  We are not accidents.  Homosexuality is not an irrevocable condition hard-wired into the genetic code of individuals at conception leaving them no choice but to follow the “natural” unnaturalness of their genetic makeup.  God does not create junk, but this fallen world does destroy the very fabric of the creation He made to be perfect in every way, and which we, His highest created being bargained away for the sweet taste of sin.

I just read an article in a local newspaper, an editorial actually, written by Michael Reagan.  Now… I know nothing about Michael Reagan, except, of course, that he is the son of one former US President, Ronald Reagan.  I don’t remember hearing much about President Reagan’s son all those many years ago, but I do seem to remember some small controversy and I’m not so sure I should be lauding any opinions expressed by this now proud son of a former president, except for this one thing… his editorial SCREAMS my very thoughts concerning Mr. Clown for President, Sir Donald.

I know a good many sincere, conservative, maybe even staunchly conservative, bible-belt Christian citizens who have seemingly lost their minds over this pretentious candidate, and it beggars my mind to imagine how he has fooled so many otherwise intelligent folks.

The very same folks who are quick to mention the foibles of Ted or the flipflops of Marco are oblivious to the mean character of Sir Trump.  This man, who has for decades played the clown for all of America to see, is now somehow the epitome of sincerity and truth.  I continually hear folks say, “I like Trump because he speaks his mind and doesn’t care what anyone thinks about it.”  THAT’S STUPID!!!!  HE CARES!!!! And he’s not speaking his mind, folks come on!  He’s speaking just exactly what he knows Americans want to hear.  He knows we are FED-UP with political correctness.  He knows we are sick of being told that expecting people to be responsible, hard working, and self-sustaining is in-compassionate and hateful.  This man has NEVER been a Republican; has NEVER been a conservative, and has NEVER been a leader!  He is, and always has been a sad, seditious charlatan, an opportunist who will do, say, and display ANYTHING to accomplish HIS plan for HIS  own PERSONAL benefit regardless of the eventual outcome for all others involved…. THAT’S US folks!!!

WAKE-UP AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!  Trump by any other name is Bernie, or Hillary, or Barrack, or McCain, or Pelosi, or Boehner,  or Carter,  or Billy Boy… need I go on?  This man WILL be the downfall of America if elected, and I take NO satisfaction in being one who tried to tell the tale before it happened.

I’ve tried to be patient; truly I have.  I bit my tongue, held back my vitriol, suffered through the research,  endured the echo of Satan’s voice from my youth and now I feel it’s time.

Time for what?  Time to set aside the foolishness, to expose the filth, and to issue a wake-up call to all who would hope to continue to live in a free, moral, civilized society in the United States of America.  Let it begin.

In case you missed it, June has been proclaimed LGBT Pride Month by no less than a Presidential Proclamation issued by the criminal who has sat in our White House for the past, almost seven years… how is this even possible!  This is not a new proclamation, but only a renewal of the proclamation which he first issued in his first year of his first (that should sober even the most inebriated, to realize that there was a second) term as president of the once great nation, and which he has renewed each successive year since.  And please don’t confuse this, “Pride” month with the equally prestigious “History”  month of October.

So, as I said, I have done some research.  Not a lot, mind you, I could barely stand the filth of the limited research I was able to process, and here’s what I can stand to share.

LGBT Pride Month is nothing about the significant accomplishments, for society in general, of any individual LGBTs, but is everything about what they have accomplished for themselves.  Oh yes it is!  It’s all about how they have managed to force their perverse lifestyle down the throats of the rest of US American society.  How they have managed to secure funding for the cure of diseases which only afflict the morally bankrupt, or those unfortunate enough to have been in someway  exposed to them. How they have managed to infiltrate the governing bodies of this nation to promote agendas which only further degrade the entirety of society, and how the moral filth of a perverse, homosexual lifestyle must somehow be acceptable to everyone regardless of the innate absurdity of it’s relevance.   This is something to be proud about?

I have a confession to make.  I lived inside the homosexual community, in central California, for several years.  Not as a homosexual, but as one who accepted the camaraderie and fellowship of homosexuals in an intimate social setting.  I attended their parties, shared their drugs, laughed at their foolishness and accepted the lie that they were just as normal as anyone.  I lived in that messed-up state of being for several years and then, through the circumstances of life, was mercifully removed to a place far away from their influence and control.  It was only then, after I had recovered a measure of sanity, that I began to analyse what I had been a part of and what I had witnessed, up close and personal, during those years of insane debauchery.

It is truly summed-up best in the biography of the homosexuals’ hero, Harvey Milk, in which he is clearly displayed as the perverted pedophile his life engendered.  This is the homosexuals’ existence.  They are predators seeking whom they might devour; forever on the prowl for the weak, the indecisive, the confused who have no hope nor protection from the seductiveness of sexual attention from adoring sycophants.  I watched; I lived; and I promoted the promiscuity of homosexuality even as I felt it’s filthy stain upon my soul, and I want everyone to know that they are NOT OK.  They are NOT just normal folks with a few small differences in their preferences. WAKE UP!