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https://m.soundcloud.com/jim-bancroft-559886960/this-is-the-message-i-give-the-inmates

the issue might still be available, I read it in 1989 or so.

https://www.chick.com/products/item?stk=0117

Chick tracts put out a comic book claiming all this about 40 years ago

I just found out he was speaking at churches that were local to me a few years ago I may have actually heard this guy.

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I worked at an airplane museum as a kid, was an air controller in the USMC, was assigned to HMM-165 for 2 floats, got to do some hands on stuff in Avionics, then worked at KAMAN aerospace for 11 years in Connecticut, worked in static test, we built test fixtures to do lifetime vibration/load testing. Had to build up all parts into the rigs.

You have no idea what that verse means if this is the context you’re going to use it. You do not vote for sin just because Caesar wants you to. Using your logic you would have supported feeding Christians to the lions. You just totally lost this argument.

Something else to consider, if there was a problem with the tail rotor drive shaft at the beginning of the failure then there would have been a loss of tail rotor RPM and that means the torque of the main rotor transmission would take over in the aircraft would start spinning in the air and it would stay in flight but it would start spinning in a circle like it’s rotating on the center of a dinner plate.

This aircraft went down hard and that tells me there was a blade strike on the boom and they then lost lift because the main rotor blades were probably out of sync and that may have separated the main rotor transmission from the body.

Driveshafts come in sections and there is a series of facing bolts on each end of the section. The drive shaft is going to be coming off of the main rotor transmission it’s then going to connect to something that may have two sections the length of the boom and then there’s going to be an intermediate gearbox where it’s going to go up the tail of the boom.

At the end of the main rotor transmission there’s a connection and at the beginning of the boom there may be a connection in the middle of the boom there may be a connection and at the intermediate gearbox where it goes up at the end of the boom there is a connection and then on the other end of the intermediate gearbox there is a straight drive shaft that will go to the tail rotor gearbox.

So on this particular model I don’t know how many sections they have for a tailroad or drive shaft but they would at least be one from the main rotor transmission one that runs the length of the Boom to the intermediate tailwater gear shaft gearbox rather and then a single shaft going from the top of the intermediate gearbox to the tailwater gearbox itself.

If the tail rotor drive shaft fails there’s still something to retain it. There’s a set of bearings that guide the long shaft in the middle.

My best guess is there’s a blade bump of some kind that caused one of the rotor blades to strike the boom.

It’s unlikely that the intermediate gearbox excuse me the main rotor transmission gearbox had a failure in the drive shaft, it’s something that would separate the main rotor transmission from the body of the aircraft and that would either be broken bolts or a blade strike that cause too much torque on the bolts.

I worked for k a m a n helicopters for 11 years on sh2 sea sprites.

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people need to stop the binary choice thinking.

You do not have to vote for evil.

Especially an evil that God specifically warns leads to eternal condemnation.

Trump’s open support of homosexuality should be the
“STOP! DO NOT PASS GO! DO NOT COLLECT $200 DOLLARS!”

1Co 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

1Co 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

The trump family has pleasure in those that do them. If I, as a born again believer, dismiss this in my own personal judgement and support this man by disregarding his open and public sin in this manner, then where is the evidence of my own personal obedience as a believer?

If I hang out with sinners for any reason while they are engaging in their sin, it is only normal for people to point fingers at me for I have made myself a target for ridicule and accusation.

we are to run from sins like this:
1Co_6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Eph 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Eph 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Eph 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Eph 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Eph 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
Eph 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Eph 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Eph 5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
Eph 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Eph 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

1Th 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
1Th 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Eze 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Eze 16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

Do you honestly think it is appropriate we CHOOSE someone who mocks all this?

If the choice is the lesser of two evils, then you must choose the evil of two lessers.
I will not choose either.

2Sa 24:12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
2Sa 24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

2Sa 24:14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

hmmm...Tariffs?

Hmmm
Free Trade?

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/954156/posts

You forgot all about the 12th imam. Also I want you to think through Ezekiel chapter 38 where turkey Russia and Persia along with Ethiopia and Libya all attack israel. That will not happen if the United States is a military power because we would defend israel.

It is my personal belief that there’s going to be an attack on the United States that’s combined with maybe China and an Iranian backpack nuke or a missile or two from a freighter. Either way, the United States has to be taken out as a military power before Ezekiel chapter 38 goes into effect.

All of Trump’s blustering may bring about a preemptive strike by another Nation because they are going to feel that he is unstable and they’re going to strike first before they get struck.

It’s one thing to agree with a lot of the rhetoric but everybody else in the world has a possibility of not thinking that it is just rhetoric.

What state do you live in? Is there an organization that might be known as a Housing Authority that can help set you up with affordable housing for your income and for many any medical issues that you or your wife may have? Have you been contacting any of the social workers through the emergency room discussing your problems and what agencies they can hook you up with? Also, if you’re not on SSDI for you or for your wife for anything that you have, then you need to contact a Social Security lawyer or for yourself immediately go down to the Social Security office near you and apply for ssdi. Contact these agencies on your own and if you have any questions go to the emergency room and ask to speak to a social worker and they’ll be able to give you numbers and addresses for you to go to. Those people will not be able to get you started, not that I’m aware of, they will send you to people who will get you started.

In my experience, your opening statement is completely false. To say that there are those who are legitimately homeless because of circumstances beyond their control and to say that that number is equal to the number of drug addicts that’s a complete leave false statement.

The homeless that I’ve met that have let’s say lost their home because of hurricane helene, are able to get registered with agencies in a moment’s notice and can receive checks and temporary housing in locations where they can start to live.

If they have children there are individual organizations that can take care of them and they can either surrender the child to an organization that will feed them and clothe them and send them to school or they may be given housing probably by the end of a one month period where everybody will be safe.

But when you start to make any connection or commonality between homelessness and Drug abuse, that’s a radically different subject. The homeless that I meet are drug addicted or alcohol addicted and mentally ill at the same time.

The question is are they mentally ill because of their addiction or are they addicted because they are mentally ill. That’s the tough thing. At the very least these people need to be dried out. They have to have a fully functional brain in order to make their next decision.

There are some that I’ve met that are highly functional autistics or mild retardation and they may have overpowered their family and they left their family because they tried to control them but I don’t know for sure because we didn’t get into a lot of detail.

But the ones that are out here for longer than 3 years are not mentally capable of just walking back into a job. They may have something on the side but they’re drug addiction is so strong and they’ve been living on the side of life where it’s been nothing but a side Hustle the entire time that I would not want them working at a normal job with me.

But there’s no way I would begin to make any connection to say that there’s just as many drug addicts as there are legitimate hard case homelessness, there’s a hundred times more drug addicts and alcoholics that are homeless then there are people who just lost their job and didn’t know how to recover or had a fire or a flood.

I think you’re being even more brutal than I am. I want to give them the last chance to believe on the Lord before they pass. I would love to see them get off the street and into housing as long as they can have some sort of a job but watching the City of Greenville just provide housing and then have it turn into a shooting gallery it kind of makes me scratch my head.

I don’t think any of these people are really going to change unless it is forced upon them though. And that’s why a forced incarceration and every one of them that is Young and fairly healthy must be put on some sort of a work gang and work program for solely the reason of getting them physically fit before they’re ever given any job training opportunities.

I see so many guys down the street that are under 35 that they just want to party and they think what they’re living in is freedom.

It kills me that being a drunk and taking all your handouts and the only thing you do is buy alcohol or drugs or prostitute yourself for alcohol or drugs and they think it represents freedom.

I don’t know how many people know that but Greenville South Carolina has a big prostitution problem within the guys and the girls when it comes to meth.

I’ve only seen it openly a couple times on the street and I mean somebody directly next to me was waiting to pick up some girl while I was talking to him and then another guy came by and flashed more money and she left with him. The other ones that I know about is because these people confide in me and they tell me of women whose boyfriends will Pawn everything there owned to a meth dealer just so they can get high and when that’s not enough they become their gay lover in their house. And all for that to get their drugs. And this is what it is down here.

So I don’t have too many nice things to say when I’m with them other than I don’t scream at them but I’m definitely the crazy uncle who’s going to tell you when you got spinach in your teeth and how they need to sober up.

And all I can do is pray for him cuz it’s up to them and they all hang their head in shame and tell me how right I am and then the next time I see them they’re hammered falling down and some of them I have to call the ambulance for again.

The majority of the things that I did not like Trump for before are the exact reasons I don’t like him now.

I don’t know if you know this but in 2016 they changed the GOP platform to include that marriage is between a man and a woman. That may have been the 2020 platform but it was changed to directly read that marriage is between a man and a woman. They removed that this year. Homosexuals openly came out and praised Donald Trump for that, homosexuals within the Republican party.

It is also unknown fact that Donald Trump is allowing gay marriages to happen at mar-a-lago. If you doubt me, Google it.

It is a known fact that Melania Trump has been fundraising for the log cabin republicans, and openly homosexual group. There is no way any of that should be accepted by any Bible believing christian.

His recent appointment of Paula White as a spiritual advisor is an abomination of all kinds. A televangelist who is telling you to send her money so that she can be a blessing for you is no different than what the Roman Catholic Church did in selling indulgences when Martin Luther nailed his Theses on the wall. He is surrounding himself with lunatics.

And the GOP is promoting people like openly homosexual Scott Pressler and openly homosexual Rick grinnell.

The GOP may have some decent ideas when it comes to trade and Military but morally they are an absolute mess and they’re even worse because of their open support of this and these type of sins that Obama and Biden never showed.

Do not think for a minute that our GOP is anything related to the GOP that we all tried to stick up for.

I truly believe there’s only one reason why God has not judged this nation yet and that is because of Donald Trump’s open support for israel. Everything else condemns this man and our nation.

Thanks.
3 more saved tonight, I ran into a homeless guy who prayed for salvation with me a few months ago and he spotted me yesterday and told me that right after we prayed within a couple days he went into a rehab center and he only recently got out. He’s got a job now and he’s attending a church for the last 3 weeks and I was able to give him a bible. He’s one of the few good stories that I have. Tonight in the jail seem pretty good, three prayed for salvation, there were six that stayed for the message, and most of the guys did not appear to be too far gone so they’re young enough that if they pay attention then they can turn their life around in at least not die in the gutter. It’s really heartbreaking sometimes because you can plead with them and most of the time I talk to them like I’m their crazy uncle and I just pretty much let him know you’re going to kill yourself if you keep doing this but if I can save one off the street that’s good but if I can lead them to a saving knowledge of who the Lord is that’s better.