There many things to say but this one keeps nagging at me: God will not turn us around until we, as a nation, stop sacrificing our children to the god of convenience.
Reminds me of our founding fathers words. Hang together or Hang Separately.
“Did Christie affect the results? You bet he did. Why couldn’t he wait until there was clear relief? In a few days it was clear that the gov’t response was weak, and people were still out of power, looting, dying. But to hear Christie, the president saved us. Had he waited, Obama would have looked the inept leader he is. Why couldn’t he have been more like Bobby Jindal? “
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Heck, why couldn’t he have just acted like Bloomberg? It is because he needed to be the drama star.
Nikos, don’t give in and I am with you—I am tired of all the talking heads.
We buy books, products you name it but when it is ball-to-the-wall...they leave us stranded until they can throw out their next product or gimmick.
We need you, let us quit looking to these people that depend on us to depend on them. Let us start depending on our faith and each other.
We must stop giving in to the distractions and do this on our own with God. We can do this. Let’s leave the nest.
I don't feel that the quality of actual writing is up to the standards of Freeper Editorial, but the ideas are stellar. I will make you a deal: If you are willing to rework this to improve the actual writing itself, then repost it, it should then go into Freeper Editorial.
I will have limited availability today but I will make time if you are willing to work with me by freepmail.
Maybe if baby boomers on the whole weren’t so damn stupid and keen to chuck the values of this nation overboard over the past 40 years we wouldn’t even have had an Obama to begin with?
The truth is that group has never had real sacrifice or conflict, just stuff they saw on TV or something other person had to go off and die for.
And when it came time for them to take the wheel, they realized they didnt know how to drive the car. So now the car-of-state is going over the side of the bridge with all of us in the back seat.
I just hope Gen X knows how to swim.
I hate to quote BillyBoy, but “I feel your pain.”
The world is going through massive changes, and the USA is about to become the USSA.
I pretty much bailed out in 1999, with a trip to Thailand, and later setting up life in central Europe.
I was back and forth for a while, but left for good in January 2005.
For me, now, I have a happy life on a beach with my Philippine wife and our baby boy, 18 months old, and operating his own laptop.
God only knows what will be in ten years, but I am very thankful that i grew up when I did. It was probably the best years of America.
I place the blame squarely on my generation ( the Gen X’ers). We failed to secure the blessings of liberty that were handed to us by our grandparents and scoffed at by our parents.
We make up the largest voting demographic and decided to take the easy road instead of the correct one.
We have set in motion a path to our own destruction, with each subsequent generation will be more dependent on government than the one before.
Nations with more driven citizens, more confident in their country’s greatness will come along and will pick at what remains.
We have traded American Exceptionalism for the illusion of universal equality.
I am truly sorry.
I place the blame on women. They were the arbiters of right and wrong in society. They shrilled against the double standard - women were sluts while a guy was just sowing his wild oats. The object was, and is, to civilize the men in our lives - first our husbands, then our sons - to create homes where love of God, Country, Family came first with NO compromise.
No matter how we got here, women have decided to show men that they can be even dirtier and badder than guys ever were. Schools have spoiled them, curriculum revamped so girls could do better while sacrificing our sons.
So here we are. Until this generation of sluts dies off and the young men & women who were raised properly take back society, there’s no making it better. A band-aid won’t do when surgery is called for.
I’m making my economic footprint as tiny as possible, getting ready for the fiscal cliff that is inevitable, and putting a ‘NO DEMOCRATS WELCOME’ mat outside my house.
Time to shun the pigs.
Maybe it’s because of the hardships we never experienced that failure of our country possible. After all, the Romans didn’t wake up one morning and decide to be ruled by perverse tyrants or invaded by the Visigoths or to abandon prosperity. These things all came to pass because the Romans had an unshakable belief that they couldn’t. It’s in our genes-there’s nothing more destructive to human character that prosperity.
I agree and while things are indeed dark and getting radically darker here’s what I think.
We lost America because we lost America’s soul. The only way to get it back is one person at a time. A revival of our faith in the hearts of our countrymen is the only cure. While I love my country and mourn for her, if I’m honest I have to admit that one soul turning to Jesus Christ is of more lasting significance than anything America does in the next 50 years. Our true mission is for the hearts and souls of the lost neighbors and countrymen and if we stay on that mission we’re doing all we should be.
I also think the worst is yet to come, so I continue to pray.
Romney refused to embrace our Tea Party. In fact, he ran away from us, but I voted for him anyway.
You’re right when you stated that he should have gone after the Marxist in the exact manner he went after Newt, but he didn’t. He ran too decent a campaign...aiming for the so-called moderate independents and women’s vote, when in fact, the independents are mostly Right leaning former Republicans!
I think men and a lot of women, were looking for a fighter and strong CIC, and they didn’t get one. Romney let the issue of Benghazi go. Yes, Candy Crowley stopped him cold when he was going for the Marxist’s throat, but in the next debate, he could have and should have smacked down the Marxist, in the same manner Krauthammer had done on Fox News almost every night of the week. Easy-peasy.
The GOP-E will never learn and until the first two primaries are held in Republican red states, I don’t see us nominating a Conservative of OUR CHOICE, who’s not hijacked by an “open” caucus in the midwest and n “open” New England primary, where both states went for the Marxist. How stupid can the GOP remain?
Be well, dearest nikos1121 and keep praying.
A Humble Prognostication
Economic catastrophe starting about 2015
We have only seen a whisper of this
Entrepreneurs cease to Build Businesses, Jobs disappear
Distribution Channels Collapse
Health Care drops to level of Frontier Medicine
Government responds by Killing Self Love
and replacing it with Fear
About 20,000,000 deaths in US alone
possible as much as 1/3 population
Widespread suffering, starvation, pestilence
Cities will be death traps
The only thing to prevent it was to
permit a lesser catastrophe
But the cards are dealt now
Be Kind One to Another
Tenderhearted, Forgiving One Another
Do Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly
Live in Christ
nikos, I hope this wasn’t an opus for you, we all need to stick together through this unimaginable future we are about to experience (especially those of you that have to deal with it firsthand, in the states, unlike some of us that are overseas and can avoid most of the damage).
Charles K usually makes sense, but he totally lost me the other night when he came right out and said Republicans must embrace amnesty.