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1. You shall have no other gods before Me; God is number one.

2. You shall make no idols;  I have no interest in worshiping rocks, statues, birds etc.

3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; I have no interest in blaming or connecting my God with anything negative.

4. Keep the Sabbath day holy; I want one day in total peace to ponder and make sure I am not being misled

5. Honor your father and your mother;  I honor and bless the two people that helped bring me into this world.

6. You shall not murder;  I don’t want to be murdered and shall never take a life created by God.

7. You shall not commit adultery;  If married, I want one mate to enjoy life and grow old with.

8. You shall not steal; I don’t want anything stolen from me and will respect the property of others, including their liberty.

9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor;  I do not want anyone to lie about me and will lie about no other.

10. You shall not covet; I will earn what I want of my own accord rather than desire that of another.

 
 God Finally Let's Me Graduate!  September 18, 2023 

 When I was a boy, 11 or 12 years old. After doing my paper route I would sometimes walk to a bakery 10 or 20 blocks away, depending where I started. Hot fresh loaves of uncut bread for only $.35, WOW

 One particular Sunday, after I was invited by a parishioner, I hung around afterward and went to Sunday Services at that Nazarene Church. The feelings that swept through me set me on my path complete with instructions. Setting my purpose and life in motion.

 50 years later, laying sickly and under the gun of thugs and extortionists etc., listening to the online sermon from a little church near Bloomington, IN. A song started, done by a few of the singers from the small church.

  As the words permeated through the air into my ears and brain, my emotions were triggered, why did I know that song? As my awareness focused, I realized I knew that song and had known it for over 50 years since that morning sitting in church. But how did I know it? I didn't write it! After listening and thinking about it for some time the realization came to me that I had lived that song for decades.

 And for me, after crying, it was a message to stop the work and compile the data.

Then poof, the song disappeared again.

 It was several years since I heard the song again, no matter what I did or where I looked it was nowhere to be found. So a couple of days ago I looked again on YouTube and there it was.

Almost perfect timing too, because I am almost completely unhooked from what God wanted me to see.

And here it is for you: Please Listen, you will be surprised!


Then Jesus said: We will raise all boats!

Then George Washington said: We will raise all boats!

We can still do this!

Memorial Day 2023

 Hello, first I want to congratulate all of you who are getting through all of the obstructions in our nation, caused by the dishonest or "Something for Nothing People".
  From those whose work has paid off greatly, to those that work three jobs just to break even and we must not forget those that have lost hope and have become homeless or self-destructive.

  To be an American means we are all in this together.

  Judgment of a nation and its prospects for the future have always been linked to how they treat their lowest in both ability and wealth.
  Sadly, in the United States we have been tricked into using the gauge of money to appraise who has worth and who does not. And I do mean tricked and manipulated.
  Keeping in mind that many of them were indoctrinated to think only of themselves. We can hope that those hearings going on in Washington D.C. to judge the integrity of those who are supposed to work for the safety of the people of the USA and as guardians of liberty, continue until we come to truthful realizations of what our nation now is and what we are leaving for our future generations.

  As it stands today on May 27, 2023, Memorial Day Weekend. Honoring those we lost, that were told they were fighting for that liberty.
  And let us not forget our unsung heroes, one especially that is still going strong is Bill Gates. One of the saddest days of my life was, after he had started making huge sums of money, Bill Gates, a young and still hopeful and idealistic man was summoned to Washington D.C. and he fell for it. In hind sight it looks like they never let him go.
  That is not supposed to be the purpose of our government.
  So today we should also remember all those that took great risks and paid huge prices to serve our nation in many other ways. Most of who will, as in our past, go unnoticed maybe because of those globally who have milked our nation for trillions of dollars. Who I suppose have little or no interest in the welfare of our people or any part of humanity.

  Another sad fact is, they say if you went to Washington D.C. and yelled "FORENSIC ACCOUNTING!", to make sure we are all playing on the same field. Many people would quickly call their psychiatrist for valium or pull into their shells like turtles until the scare was over.

  That same threat is especially real now that areas of the United States are becoming global money laundering centers to store money resulting from predatorial endeavors of those that exploit humankinds’ weaknesses.
And the fact that criminal syndicates are popping up all over the place. Amazing isn’t’ it, even though almost all other nations have refused, some institutions in the United States have decided to become accessories to their global crimes.
Something that was absolutely unheard of 30 years ago and is proof of the failure of our electoral system.

  Enough with that slight description of the bigger picture.
  Now let's look at our quality of life now that people are being discarded and even dying while some on Wall Street continue to play their games with our lives.
  In a nation that seems to be or evidently is ruled by lobbyists, overseen by people that make all their decisions from data sheets and have no clue as to what is really going on in our nation and with our people.

 Evidence of that could very well be:
The putting up of barricades after the Jan. 6 march on Washington D.C., in fear of the people that wanted "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances". What did that mean?

  Could it have really meant that they had lost touch with or even care about the people of the United States?
  Could it mean that they had not only lost touch with the people, their employers, but were too busy being tricked by the clever sophisticated lobbyists that financially bleed our people.

  And that their guilt made them fear some kind of huge revolt?
  A self-imagined delusion of a revolt that was considered or planned by no one.
  Resulting in, besides boosting our global leadership in mass incarceration, a clarity to us and the world that according to a very few people. We the People no longer have a right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances".

  Is trespassing and unruly behavior really sedition?
  And that the resulting wall of self-preservation, to preserve what seems to look like a quasi-monarchy, separate from the people of the United States. (Because some felt they needed to protect themselves from their own incompetencies.) Proven by their need to use force instead of communication skills and become American Partners with the American People to actually solve the real problems.

  It is sad thhat the facts of mass incarceration, homelessness, unnecessary deaths, child and adult disappearances, pilfering from our national and state monies, crime, corruption and the constant lowering of our quality of life, financial inequality, and more were all ignored or displaced….and then call it sedition!

  An assembly that hugely consisted of people that, unlike those that are judging them, are forced to deal with the failures of our society daily because the run small businesses all over the country. And must constantly live and deal with day in and day out the results of the rulers from on high.
  It is May 28, 2023 and what have they really proven?

  They have proven: Even though the USA has 10% more crime than Russia and 20% more crime than China, they do not have any real solutions except to be left alone (no pun intended), while just expanding the costs of and profits from mass incarceration to an entirely new level.

  The message could very well be: "Obey or Else, You Do Not Really Matter!"
  While at the same time many of the truly brilliant, the best and brightest lights of our nation, walk away to become sometimes even homeless rather than participate in the ineptitude, until they are allowed to participate in a pathway toward positive results toward a real’ better future.
  Sowing the seeds that will make sure we will never be great again and will in the future seldom be enriched by the millions of truly amazing people that reside in our nation.

  As it stands all they see are demands by people of evidently lesser abilities and quality forcing them to be obedient to disgusting predatorial philosophies of "I want mine at any cost" or "I got mine and fu** you!".

  Is that service to our nation? Or consequential preying on our people for psychological or financial gain?

  One of the duties of my life is to help protect this experiment in liberty, The USA. By watching it coast to coast from outside the trees in order to separate the wheat from the chaff.

  After 50 years of traveling all over the country to find out what is real, exercising my personal liberty while at the same time deflecting invitations to indoctrination.   Except for a couple years in the military to make sure I knew how we defend the peoples of our nation from other nations.
  Walking beside, working with and learning about all kinds of people from countries all over the world who came here in search of the American dream.

  It's 2023, the results are in.
  Millions of wonderful people came to our country, while at the same time a small number of sadists from all over the world came here to spread their sadistic mental diseases on us and our country while takeing a shot at ripping us off.
  We were warned by not only our forefathers, but by history, as far back as the Roman Empire and even Egyptian history, including the British Empire.
  We were tricked into replicating the social structures and mistakes of societies that were all eventually destroyed by internal predatorial behavior.
  We are seeing the results and now we must deal with the real problems. Even if those problems end up just being the human conditions of laziness and gregariousness.

And let’s remember that vigilance for our families, friends and people, not just on Memorial Day, but every day, helps us ensure that the lives lost in wars, the unsung heroes of our nation and all the money spent for Liberty keeps having real meaning.

"GOD BLESS AMERICA!"

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Duty Liberty
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It's 2023 and we are at a sweet spot of defining who in our governance is American and who is not.

About the Author For whatever reason, I was lucky and became the master of my existence at a very young age.
Growing up in a single parent family didn't scar me, it gave me more latitude to experience the freedoms most in the USA take for granted.
At 7 years old Mom said, "You must be the man of the family now and help me with your brothers.” Wow... Maybe because I thought people depended on me. But whatever, I had no choice but critical thinking.
If you think about it. Anyone that has ever experienced danger for survival, such as even the American settlers, learns that every result, to every situation usually has several consequences.
So, let’s take America to the next level.
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