The Great Deception

We are all, well almost all, being deceived! Let's start with the Big Guy himself! 

Matthew 7

[21] Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
[22] Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
[23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

This sounds like a reasonable approach. It comes with the recommendation of our Creator! 

Luke 17

[7] But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?
[8] And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
[9] Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.
[10] So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Notice the difference in the two situations. The doomed servants are bragging about the stuff they did. They were deceived even by their own actions. It appears they were Christians for the show, to look important and successful in front of other people. 

In the second example The servant serves quietly, then proclaims they were of no profit. What is our duty? 

1. Love God. Do this by following the 10 commandments.

2. Treat other people how you want to be treated. This is tricky. How many times have you told someone, what I should have done was... the problem is that life occurs in real time and catches us off guard. It's a test designed to see how you respond to various situations. 

It works here

It has been such a long time since it seemed appropriate to let you know how things are going.

A handwriting font

It has been such a long time since I have written it seemed appropriate to let you know how things are going.

Android self reading bible

There is a free King James Version Bible app on the Play Store it has a self reading feature. Meaning that the Bible app will read the Bible out loud. This feature has come a long way. The Bible text is very understandable and the text-to-speech engine is very configurable, including speed accent gender and tone of voice. Let's see if I can get the URL for you.

Kjv bible from play store


This isn't something to do all the time but every once in awhile I get in the mood to just play the Bible all night long while sleeping. The theory is that it's somehow going into your subconscious and will somehow you know come out in godly actions or something. This may not work well if you have a sleeping partner. But who knows they might think it's kind of cool also. If It's turned down just to the right level it doesn't seem to disrupt my sleep and I can still make out the words while awake.

Would someone please

 Please get these blog titles on Blogger. I mean really people:

Show Good judgement
ShowGoodJudgement
ShowGoodjudgement.blogspot.com

Showing Good judgement
ShowingGoodJudgement
ShowingGoodjudgement.blogspot.com

Pounding Red Bulls
PoundingRedBulls
PoundingRedBulls.blogspot.com

Here it is

How to live single

• Love God
• Don't buy a house 
• Own one car 
• Don't have too much 
• Fly under the radar 
• Help people when you can 
• Don't sign up 
• Go all in

Guns

Guns, hey guns are great everybody should have several. No that's not a joke and it's not said in sarcasm guns are an important part of life everybody needs some guns here's the catch. Right now it appears that guns are having a great Resurgence in America you know what that's a good thing. But it wouldn't be surprising if there are millions of guns out there that people are buying they put some bullets in them they take them home and they put them in the drawer. And guess what they never shoot the thing. Hey that is not a good thing people. Guns need to be taken to the range and fired and cleaned and worked with and understood how dangerous they are there need to be demonstrations to show people listen when a 9 mm round hits a can of green beans it explodes and guess what when a 9 mm hits a human being it is one ugly mess and you don't want that happening you only do that if it's a life-threatening situation and you're defending yourself or women and children to the death. We need training. Not watching Bruce Willis run around on some big screen blasting away that's not training that's Fantasyland. Look here's what needs to happen it's really very simple. We need training starting in junior high we used to have archery class and it wouldn't surprise me if back in the forties and fifties they even had rifle ranges with some rifle practice at some high schools probably in rural areas. Or we need to resurrect the idea or if there never was then we need to create the idea. We need experienced military people to go to high schools and Junior High's and demonstrate what a simple bullet out of a gun can do as far as damage is concerned and how important it is to never point one at a person unless it's a life-threatening situation. now we can talk about the mechanics of like what all needs to happen but I'm talking about gun training. we need to get serious about it we need to have that Switzerland kind of attitude.

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where did all this money come from? part 2

So to prove to yourself that this money doesn't really exist go through this mental exercise. to recap last time we noted that about 5 years ago there were 600 billionaires on the planet the top billionaire was somewhere around 70 billion. today there are approximately 3,000 billionaires on the planet and the top billionaire is at 128 billion and there are several billionaires that are around 90 billion where did all this money come from. well as you might imagine the money doesn't really exist. like back in the 1930s when everybody ran into the banks and wanted to get their cash. the cash didn't really exist. and suddenly everyone realized there isn't really any money. I think in the end their companies have value, but that current value is not backed up by cash. if all the guys that have this billionaire wealth sold all their companies tomorrow, who would provide the cash? the banks? no, the banks have very little cash, its working tied up in loans.so one or two top billionaires could cash out, but the cash doesn't exist to back all the value. as usual it's a giant value bubble. pop.

see how easily we created the next financial disaster?

God realized this was kind of a problem back in the bible. that's why there is debt forgiveness the 7th year.

Deut.15

[1] At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
[2] And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it;he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.
[3] Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

This is only a guess but it is likely that the foreigner part was thrown in because of the harness of man's heart. 

Home ownership

Homeownership should be a beautiful thing.

NRA and president Trump

So the president said he wood never ever let down the people of the NRA. From my experience when any human being especially Republican presidents say they will never ever do something fate usually twists things so oddly that they eventually do. This only appears to apply to Republicans who have much higher Integrity than Democrats. Democrats seem to think that the whole idea is to cheat lie and steal and do whatever you can to win at all costs. Republicans seem to think that it's important to take the high road, when they make rash statements it usually comes back to bite them. So if you watch in Trump's second term he will probably approve some legislation where an automatic machine gun can fire no more than 1 million rounds continuously. This of course will require all automatic machine guns to have a computer chip inserted that can track how many rounds have actually been fired continuously. which of course will need to report automatically to a National Database. Which naturally will allow the government to track the exact location of every automatic machine gun on the planet within millimeters. For some reason that's just the way this thing works. while the United States government has granted us these freedoms through God, Satan and the Democrats are constantly working to take them away.

As a good rule of thumb it is a good idea to never ever say never ever. It would be interesting to know if Democratic leaders ever say Never Ever.
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Draft copies of blogs saved separately

Naturally this would happen outside of a fast food place. While authoring the post on coconut chips the autosave feature on Blogger was having a hard time. It kept putting up a little pink message that it had failed. Well it was time to publish and the publish button was pushed then it went back the main summary page. On the main summary pages about 10 extra copies of the post all saved as drafts. This used to happen infrequently and usually one or two drafts would be the most there was. Seems to be a problem when there is a weak phone signal with one or two bars of signal strength. So the phone shows 2 bars right now with no problem, so not sure what it was. 

• The extra draft copies are still there If bloggers programmers want some examples. 

coconut chips

 when you read articles on optimizing your blog and increasing your readership they generally say pick a topic and stay on topic. That is for other people, not me. A blog should be whatever you want it to be and the fact that nobody reads it is their loss.

 so these coconut chips that you can buy at the grocery store are supposed to be endued with some magical power or something. Well the wasabi ones are a little hot on the spicy side, but (intreging spelled my way) intriguing.

Roadkill

This is another sad thing. A bird just hit the front of my car. It hit pretty solid. The car was going about 60 miles an hour so you can imagine what the bird probably looks like. I'm about to go look at the front of my car and see what it looks like. Here we go well that turned out to be quite anti-climactic. There's absolutely no indication that anything hit the front of my car well it hit pretty solid so he's out there somewhere laying on the side of the road. Sorry buddy. Didn't look like an eating kind off bird, like a dove.

Arby's roast beef

Okay this is random so don't hold it against me.
So there's some really great fast food places out there that put on great coupons I think the great coupon place of all times is probably Burger King. They put the Whopper on sale with small fries and a small drink for five bucks I mean my gosh that's enough food for a guy like me for all day and I mean their burger is fantastic okay I mean that's like a $10 Burger but for crying out loud don't tell them. Anyway Arby's roast beef is delicious. All the way back in the seventies their basic sandwich I think was $0.75 and it seemed outrageously expensive was like $0.75 are you crazy nobody's going to pay $0.75 for a roast beef sandwich. But there was no roast beef like Arby's roast beef and so every once in awhile you had to just break down and go get you a roast beef sandwich at Arby's. Of course it never looked like the picture and all the pictures looked like there's this mountain of roast beef on there and then when you get it it's two squash buns over a tiny little piece of meat in the middle. But it was delicious anyway it's so good I hope they're not putting cocaine in there or something I didn't say that no I did not say that. Yes I'm hitting the backspace button right now back back back back back okay it's all gone all gone no I never said that. Anyway that takes me back to college so there was this guy across the hall I'd tell you his name but I don't want to anyway he used Coke every once in awhile like not all the time but every once in a while he just like wanted some coke one night we're sitting around and he says hey I'm going to buy some coke. Do you have any money. I said well I got a tiny little bit of money but I'm not spending it on coke. He said how much have you got I said I don't know but I have to look at my wallet he says well I got five bucks but two lines of coke from the guy across the hall is $15. He says I've only got five bucks. He says hey you're a math major right I said yeah. He said well I got this really cool calculator I'll sell it to you for ten bucks. Now I didn't have a calculator and back then it wasn't really important to have a calculator okay this is back in the Stone Age people knew calculators existed and this guy had one but you know it certainly wasn't required for college. Back then we did things the old-fashioned way we learned them. anyway so I looked at the calculator and sure enough it was an HP 245 calculator that used reverse polish notation. They don't make them anymore they were awkward to use and you kind of had to get used to like punching in the numbers and then hitting Plus or whatever. Still it was a very cool calculator it did Sines and cosines and tangents and cotangent and all that stuff. so I said does it work he said oh yeah it's brand new. So I turned it on and it seemed fine. he said there is a cigarette burn on the back but that doesn't hurt it turned it over on the back on one corner the plastic was deformed a little bit where you could see a burning cigarette sat on the corner of it until it burned down and melted the plastic a little bit.  I said isn't this like a $300 calculator or something he said yeah I think it was 250 but my dad bought it for me he told me to go to college and Get Smart but basically I'm going to stay here till they kick me out. so I pulled out my wallet and I opened it up and Incredibly there was one bill in there a $10 bill. I said well all I've got to 10 that's going to wipe me out he said yeah but that's enough here take the calculator. I had that calculator for like 20 years. But you don't really need calculators is very much in computer programming.

 this guy turned out to be one of the best friends of my life and I don't even know his last name. He gets the Coke and he snorts it and he's sitting there sort of enjoying the high I guess. and I said should I try Coke? he said you mean you've never tried it ever? Nope never tried it well he said if I'd never tried it I probably wouldn't. So I didn't. so when I get to heaven one of the first things I need to do before Jesus judges me and decides what to do, is just say Jesus regardless of what happens here I need to tell you about this guy. now Jesus is busy he's probably going to say something like look all of that doesn't really matter at this point we just need to go over the numbers go over your stats see what kind of works we got here and decide what we're going to do with you. still I'll try one more time I know I know you're right can I just tell you about this one guy though? You can just see Jesus signing a big sigh and thinking how many times do I have to go through this with people? they get here and then they want to make things right too late friend it's too late to make things right once you're standing in front of Jesus about to get judged. well there was this guy in college okay which guy in college? there was a bunch of them. Can't you just read my mind? not right now let's move things along who was it? it was that guy i bought his calculator cuz he needed 10 bucks for some coke. Jesus says yes let me look okay got it what about it? Well it turns out that guy was one of the best friends of my life I don't really remember his name but he encouraged me not to try Coke Jesus says yeah it's all right here. I said well if I started to use Coke then using heroin and got addicted all kinds of bad things could have happened I could have ended up dying and going to hell. Jesus says, could happen all right. don't get ahead of yourself we're not done here yet. anyway I'll make a special note here that you mentioned it.

hey bro

This happened several weeks ago, but it just hit me how incredible it really was. Only God could have done something like this. In a country / everything imaginable. Skinny people vs fat people blacks versus whites tall vs. Short Hispanics vs Hispanics Republicans versus Democrats Christian vs atheist Rich vs poor You Name It We got it. I think we should throw the Muslims and gays in there somewhere but it seems like they're against everybody.

Anyway let's get back 2 the subject at hand. So there's this fast food place. it's a fast food place that gets some of my pocketbook. Well the other day there's this guy in there begging. He knows he's not supposed to be in the restaurant so he's like walking from table to table really quickly saying Hey man can you spare a few bucks. Can you spare any change. Can you spare anything you got anything you can give me. The guys black that's what makes the story so incredible. Being up at the counter he wasn't going to approach. Actually somehow it wasn't on his radar that there was an extra guy at the counter. Anyway he might have been half white. You can't tell these days. But you know he look black. Anyway the point is then I'm quietly slipping through the side door to get away. Sure enough he catches me on the corner of his eye. He makes a beeline straight for the same door. So rather than walk faster it seemed appropriate to just stroll on out to my car and drive away. Now there's several things you need to know about my purchases at fast food. Generally it's one or two items off the dollar menu. So the bag it was very small. Now the guys behind me right and you can't tell exactly which car I'm headed for yet. And then it happened the most incredible interracial experience I've ever had in my life. Well not exactly there was this one black chick. Anyway then it happened the guy says hey bro. So being a typical City dweller I completely ignore the guy. Then he calls out again hey bro a little louder. now I'm getting close to my car and I'm reaching for the door handle and he probably looked at the tiny little bag in my hand and the fact that I had no drink and it hit him. This guy is barely eating himself and his car looks like s***. And he just briskly walked by me and walked across the parking lot to the next fast food place. So all you black guys out there listen up. I'm a bro, a black guy or at least a half black guy called me bro, so show some respect. Thank you.

There's one other reason you better all show some respect. I'm getting old. And as such am going back to see Jesus soon. And you better believe He's going to get an earful.

As a side note. Like a week later Jesus comes to mind. I say Jesus? Jesus says listen  the hundred and forty four thousand have my attention right now what is it?

So I talk real fast and say, you know was I supposed to give that guy some money or buy him a burrito or something? It's so hard to tell her your friends and enemies are these day's you know. Jesus pauses for a minute like he's re-watching the video or something and then he just says, yes.



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Where did all this money come from?

About 6 years ago there was somewhere around 600 billionaires on this planet. Today there are almost 3,000. There's easily 4 1/2 times as many billionaires on this planet today as there was 6 years ago. And the top 50 billionaires have an astronomical amount of money. It would be interesting to do a rough calculation. It wouldn't be surprising if the top 50 billionaires have as much money as the 600 billionaires had just a few years ago. Need to do the math on that though. Where is all this money coming from? I mean there's still roughly 7 billion people. are the rest of us that much poorer? Why do they need to expand the money supply? If there's the same number of people it seems like the same amount of money should work. But as any politician can tell you it doesn't.

Chili's

 america has a restaurant called chili's. In fact I had one of the very best steaks of my entire life at Chili's. It was well done. It was juicy. It was tender and there was no gristle in it. Sounds pretty good. Well unfortunately they started up a program for a $10 special. And they actually put it on their regular menu. You get an appetizer an entree and a soda or iced tea for $10. Now it's still probably an okay deal but here's the problem. If you order the dinner salad as the appetizer it's small. The chips and salsa are definitely a good deal, but at one Chili's some of the chips have gotten wet for some reason. That really doesn't make tortilla chips very appealing. Soggy tortilla chips. I complained about it but the waitress didn't seem very surprised. The real problem is the entree. I've been ordering the Margarita chicken for years. It's usually a decent-sized chicken breast on top of rice I think there's some beans on there. And some tiny little tortilla strips which are nice. Well they've gotten cheap on this they somehow slice the chicken very thin and then seem to either pound it or do something to tenderize it. Anyway it still tastes okay but it just looks weird. And you can tell it's not a normal chicken breast it's been messed with. If you think about it in today's world if you go to any fast food burger place and you order their big burger has a meal it's somewhere around 9 bucks. So the idea that Chili's is going to be able put on a meal like that is almost unrealistic. Fast food places hand you a paper bag and say thank you. Chili's has a wonderful restaurant with wonderful booths and tables and happy waitresses waiting to serve you. The whole business model is more expensive. So as sad as it is they need to raise the price a little bit and go back to their standard quality. this is coming from one of the cheapest guys on this planet. The thing about me is quality is important also.

No taxes on lottery winnings

Think how evil it is. I completely quit playing the lottery. It's always nice to buy a lottery ticket or two when the finances are looking particularly Grimm. And it might happen again. You just never know what fate is going to bring to your door. Still the government set up these lotteries. They sell the tickets and they make a huge profit. Then if you want the lump sum amount of your winnings they cut it roughly in half. And then they take half of that in taxes. So if you win a billion dollars you're only going to actually take 250 million dollars home. G let's see that's 750 million for them and 250 million for you. That sounds like the government.

No taxes on gambling winnings

There should be no taxes on gambling winnings. It takes all the fun out of it. The odds are against you anyway so over the Long Haul the casinos are the only ones who should be paying the taxes on their winnings. If the odds are in your favor then it would make sense 2 tax the winnings of the players. But if you play a million dollars you're pretty much guaranteed go home what's 950000. And so far you don't have to pay taxes on the money you lose, think how much fun that would be. Oh somehow you are allowed to subtract your losing from your winnings. But I don't think you're allowed to just deduct your losing from your taxes in General. In Other words if you lose your house you can't take off several hundred thousand dollars off your income that year. in fact it's doubtful that if you lost your shirt you could take that off either.


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Good news

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Blackjack

Once Upon a Time long long ago in a magical mythical place called Las Vegas Nevada it seemed like a great idea to make Blackjack a career choice. There's only one problem the game is fairly difficult to master. It can't be a matter of brain cells, what makes it difficult is partly that you have to do it without them knowing, the casinos that is. It doesn't happen often, but if they really figure out your Counting they walk you out and say please don't come back here to play Blackjack anyway. Then there's the matter of keeping track of all the information necessary the play effectively. You count forward and you have to keep track of several different types of cards. And there's different levels of play, in other words you can play very simple where you just basically keep track of aces then you can build up to tens, then you can build up to other cards especially the 5 card. That's just for starters. you can also keep track of the cards where you count Aces and fives as 2 and other cards as one and you also have to have negative and positive numbers. once again this is basically just the beginning. Mechanics of it don't sound that difficult and with some sort of computer device it would be pretty simple and people get thrown out sometimes for trying to use some kind of little device. Well sometimes anyway they get thrown out. Another approach is to play in teams. This is probably more popular. one person counts and basically really doesn't try to play the game. they basically just sit there and watch the cards carefully and keep track of the count. then they wait until it's a really good opportunity and they do some kind of signal. The other people on the team aren't counting they're just watching for the signal when they get the signal under some sort of strategy they bet a bunch more money. Since they aren't Counting their play looks static. That means they always play the cards the same way. When you're counting part of the game is to play the cards differently depending on the count. when you're playing on teams it seems unlikely you would be able to play cards differently because most of the people aren't Counting. So they watch for the signal and basically bet a bunch of money.  it looks fairly natural as people do this all the time. sometimes you just kind of get an itch and you bet a bunch of money.  every job has some aspect of trying to outsmart the boss a little bit but this is different the casino doesn't want you to count. and the better you get the more they don't like you. doesn't sound like a great career choice. there is one otherthing, there's the emotional aspect of betting a bunch of money and feeling weird about it. Say the count gets really good that means there's a bunch of tens and aces in there and some of the bad cards are gone it's time to bet as much money as you can and so according to your strategy you carefully bet more and more money. so in the best-case scenario let's say your betting a $10 starting bet. then your maximum bet might be to play 4 Hands and 8 units on each hand. this would be 10 * 32 which suddenly turns into $320. then let's just imagine that you get 4 blackjacks and the dealer has a two up card. what that means is you just won a ton of money on one hand. and it seems like a pretty big coincidence to the house that you got a whole bunch of black jacks while betting your maximum amount. but if you do it right it looks natural.  oh and one last thing. you're going to lose more hands than you win. but you're going to win more of the hands when you bet a lot of money. so that's how you make money. notice you don't win all of the hands when you're betting a bunch of money. Just more of them. so not only is it sort of difficult to see if you really are winning sometimes, but on an ongoing basis you're losing more hands. sometimes you're sitting there and it feels like you're just giving your money to the casino. the count is really bad and you're just sitting there betting hand after hand and you're losing hand after hand. I mean even if you're betting $10 hands after 50 hands you may be down 400 bucks. Then on a rare occasion you'll win 320 bucks on one hand.

Bunny rabbits

Seems like Colorado has a bumper crop of cotton tail rabbits this year.  As the spring wears on there are fewer, predators and cars.

It will be interesting to see what bunny rabbits roles are in the Eternal Paradise. HOP around eating grass? There probably won't be any predators it seems like somewhere in the Bible it says that all the Predators will be eating grass also. That would be worth looking up. People are no longer male and female in the Eternal Paradise According To Jesus so will the Animals still have baby animals? And the Eternal Kingdom increases Without End, so not sure. seems like whatever the final number of people is that gets into the Eternal Paradise is all the people there's going to be. there won't be more Angels added along the way, seems like. so it will be interesting to keep an eye on the rabbits and see what they are up to. Maybe they will talk like balaam's donkey. Rabbits might say why this grass is delicious. And that grass on the other side of the fence looks Greener somehow. Some things never change.

Seeking travel trailer to rent

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I'm looking for a travel trailer to rent on the owner's property and live in. The city is Denver Colorado. Looking on the east side of the Denver area and Southeast.


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Message to Elon Musk

 Elon, I'm not some kind of Genius, but you need to be able to crank your car's out in high-volume and you need to be able to hit a price point at around 25,000 bucks. What you probably need is a new Factory Somewhere In The Deep South you know like Georgia or Louisiana or someplace. Or you might even do something crazy like why Kansas City Missouri or Kansas City Kansas I mean I don't know anyway. The idea for this model is that it doesn't drive itself around at 95 miles an hour and it doesn't necessarily have to go from 0 to 60 and 3.2 seconds. The focus needs to be that it's electric and that it will go 250 miles on a charge. That's the big selling point. Listen on a $40,000 Tesla vehicle the taxes alone are killing people okay think about it at 8% tax that's thirty two hundred bucks in taxes. Maybe these numbers don't mean anything to you but thirty two hundred bucks to me is over three months rent now I know a lot of people live in rent that's much higher than that but you need to reach the masses. And you need to get a factory that can crank these suckers out like stamping them out of some kind of little plastic mold or something. Quit trying to live the dream and start selling some of these things. The things to focus on are the batteries and reducing the astronomical amount of technology in these things. Save some of that for your space program. Okay you can splurge and have a backup camera.

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The Queen of England

 So Queen Elizabeth II been raining longer than any monarch in history. What has she done in all that time? Has she had any buddies head chopped off? As she walked anyone in the tower? Are there even any dungeons left in England anymore? What's the point? Does she Smile approvingly as they raise taxes? Where do you apply for this job?


Some of my credentials worthy of the majestic role:

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Diploma available upon request.

By thunder

Matthew.12

[25] And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
[26] And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
[27] And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
[28] But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
[29] Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
[30] He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
[31] Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
[32] And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
[33] Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
[34] O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
[35] A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

Revelation.10

[1] And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
[2] And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
[3] And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
[4] And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

God is love

 It's important to love God. If you don't love God eventually you will get thrown into the Lake of Fire. The Bible makes it sound like it is not very long until people will be judged. That's part of the fun of it, not knowing. God is building excitement and anticipation since we don't know when judgment will be. It seems to be so far off in the distant future that many people have started saying silly things like where is God I can't see him and there is no God everything is just made out of random energy. This would be funny except for the Lake of Fire. The lake of fire is no joke. It would be nice if there was a timeout instead of a Lake of Fire. In the timeout you'd have to say you're sorry and you would have to demonstrate that you're going to do better. Then you would come out of timeout and then get to go into the Eternal Paradise. The Book of Revelation does not make it sound like it works that way. There is one Parable where Jesus says you're going to have to pay back before you can get out of prison. So maybe there's more complexity to it, the Revelation chapter 20 makes it sound pretty simple. You might take a gander.
Jesus told a bunch of parables. People kept saying why are you talking in parables. Jesus told his disciples to you it is given but to them it is not given so that's why they get parables. Jesus said he was come to the lost sheep of the House of Israel so the whole thing seems somewhat unintuitive. I mean if you're of the lost sheep of the House of Israel do you somehow understand The Parables better than everyone else? The disciples were of the lost sheep they didn't seem to understand very well. And everyone still ponders over the meaning of some of the Parables to this day. We simply don't know what they mean. I mean summer fairly obvious like don't do bad stuff. So if you just stick to the basics love God and treat other people the way you want to be treated. This would be a good start. Then ask Jesus to save you from your sins. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice for all sin. It's simple, it just seems complicated.

Work

Today it is time to go back to work. work work work work work. It is good to have a job. It would be nice to have lots of money and no job. But that is not the case. the case is I have almost no money and a job. Work work work work work. My boss is a real slave-driver. Don't feel sorry for me that's what bosses are supposed to be. Bosses are supposed to say things like get back to work. That's why being a boss  is not very appealing . Who wants to go around telling people to get back to work. It's way more fun to tell people go buy a lottery ticket maybe you'll get lucky. If you don't have a job go get one. If you do have a job get back to work.

A day out in Colorado Springs

So after a nice walk early in the morning it seemed like it would be fun to drive down to the springs. Traffic wasn't too bad and people seem like they were in a pretty good mood. After getting to the springs it was time to get something to drink. There's an intestinal flu that's been keeping me from eating very much and it was nice to drive and enjoy the nice weather. Then it seemed like it would be fun to drive up to Woodland Park. Well the traffic over on Highway 24 leading up to Woodland Park was really backed up all these people are out with her campers enjoying the Colorado summer. what do they think this is some kind of vacation spot. the Rocky Mountains look particularly Rocky today so that probably had them all excited too. And then Pikes Peak was sticking up into the mountains I mean into the clouds. It almost looks surreal the top of it must have had sun shining on it very brightly because the mountain itself looked like it was lit up by sunlight and it was covered up by clouds very strange. Anyway Woodland Park was nice and it was time to come home well taking the back roads look like it would be fairly short and probably less stressful than driving on the freeway. Except for one small screw up I didn't take the right turn and ended up driving about an extra 40 miles I didn't need to drive this is Mountain driving with signs all along the way saying Motorcycle drivers Rider slow down motorcycle slow down immediately slow down motorcycles you're about to kill yourselves don't do it slow down steep grade winding curves danger danger slowed down. of course it's not 40 straight miles of that but you get the idea you're in the mountains it's windy there are pine trees I mean you could wrap yourself around a tree you could do all kinds of crazy stuff flying off cliffs crashing into rivers I mean this is the mountains okay this is not like guardrails all over the place you're up there rocks could fall down and kill you I mean you know and then on top of all that it started raining and as we were trying to get back into Denver it really started to pour it was pouring so heavily it almost looked like we were going to start hydroplaning. Finally people slowed a little bit. anyway there werent any accidents it didn't appear one guy did get a speeding ticket oh well. they had a whole bunch of signs slow down to 30 slow down to 30 and they had a flashing one of those flashing light things.    It like tells you what your speed is and it flashes at you if you're driving too fast this guy must have blown right past that because the cops had him pulled over and were giving him a ticket anyway it rained almost all the way home which is kind of unusual for Denver usually it rains in certain Pockets but not all over the place but this was pretty much covering the whole city kind of interesting overall it was a nice day. and definitely worth going back to Woodland Park again the view of Pikes Peak is spectacular.

Classical and jazz FM stations in Denver

• This is a truly a sad thing to announce. The classical and jazz radio stations in Denver are so socialist and so leftist it's so offensive it's simply not worth trying to listen to them anymore. It is truly sad. They have a thing called Colorado matters. They never once talked about how offensive pot smoke is being blown in your face everywhere they think pot smoking is great hey if you don't like pot smoke being blown in your face leave the state. The things that matters of them are the fact that we can't buy ski gloves almost for free from poor little Chinese people slaving away in a factory on the other side of the planet so we can have a ski glove company that makes ten thousand percent profit here in Colorado yes if we put tariffs on those ski gloves then the fat cats here in Colorado can't wear ski gloves produced by some poor little Chinese man or woman slaving away on the other side of the planet. This makes tariffs bad and this matters to Colorado. It's pitiful and there's the news. 4 years it's been worth it to Simply turn the radio off or switch channels right quick whenever they say and now for NPR news you just switch channels right quick but now you have to switch channels right quick when they say and now for NPR news or and now for Colorado matters I don't know at some point it's just not worth it I mean after all I was on there to Listen to George Benson Bach Beethoven and Tchaikovsky not Colorado matters communism. How sad. Fortunately for me the end is near but our poor children and their children's children. Communists wearing a little gray and brown outfits. Singing We Worship the government we worship the government put a stamp on my forehead or on my right hand. How sad

Car ownership in America

 So people have all kinds of different theories about the best way to own a car. They generally agree that the most expensive way is to buy a brand new car and keep it 2 or 3 years, then buy another brand new car and keep it 2 or 3 years. There's all kinds of evidence about when cost of ownership goes up the most and when depreciation is the worst. I think generally there are two points at which depreciation is actually the worst. When you drive a brand new car off the lot it drops between 15 and 25% in value. So of course there's people who wait till the very end of a new car cycle and if they want that particular car they try to pick it up on sale at the end of the sale cycle. In other words if it's going to drop 25% maybe they can get it for 15% off anyway. Maybe this works, not sure. But there's other problems with brand new cars. the registration is the most expensive the insurance is the most expensive generally it's just more expensive. So if you buy a three-year-old car with 35000 miles on it, it still looks and runs basically brand-new but Cost Less. The insurance is a little bit less the registration is less and the car cost less. The big advantage of the brand new car is reliability.

Then somewhere between 4 and 5 years the car depreciates again significantly so another approach is to buy 5 year old cars. if you pick the right car you can sometimes find cars that are over half off of what they were just five years ago. And they may only have 50,000 miles on them. This kind of car may go a hundred to a hundred and fifty thousand miles with sort of normal cost expectations but your initial outlay was half. Then of course another huge way to save money is to do your own maintenance. There's some things that are relatively easy to do like changing oil and probably changing filters but then there's things that are not terribly easy to do like changing axle boots and things that require you to Jack the car up and get underneath. With a few simple tools the average person can probably change the brake pads. But most people either take their car into the dealership which is incredibly expensive or take it to a local mechanic. the warning here is most local mechanics aim to hit you for 500 to $1,000 every time you walk through the door. That's where Anthony comes in. there are a few Anthony's in every city. ask around and you'll find them. they only fix what needs to be fixed. They have a team of mechanics that they Trust and have probably worked with for years. So roughly speaking If the dealership will charge you $1,000 for some maintenance work then the typical local mechanic will charge you $500 to $800 for that same work. the Anthony's out there will charge you somewhere between 300 and $600 for that same work. the Anthony's are literally saving you thousands of dollars over the life of the car. They are completely trustworthy if they say the cold air valve sensor on the Left Bank needs to be replaced immediately. Do it. if they say that rattle isn't any big deal ignore it.

 oh there's one other theory of car ownership. read on the internet and look around and find the cars that go two to three hundred thousand miles with regular maintenance. the Toyota Corolla appears to be one such car. occasionally you can pick this car up for about $2,000 for an old one. so the way it works is you pay no more than $2,000 for a car and you just drive the thing until the engine or the transmission falls out on the pavement. then you go get another one. the insurance on these is rock bottom because you only get liability insurance. The registration is less than $100 a year many times. Pretty cheap. obviously the downside with anything other than a brand new car is that your car is going to spend some time in the shop and you're either going to have to have multiple cars or you're going to have to rent or Uber sometimes. which of course adds to the total cost of ownership but if you go with the Toyota Corolla it won't be in the shop that often.

As a warning or heads up it's important to understand that old cars have a personality. that is they have quirky little things that you learn about as you own or you read about on the internet. For instance some of them might require you to disconnect and reconnect the battery every so often to clear some little computer sensor thing that gets out of whack. Cost zero, but you have to know what to do. The door locks might act flakey. there might be a certain fuse that blows every so often. There's all kinds of little things that they'll do. there might be a rattle in the glove box and you can stuff something in there and quiet it down.

If you're rich buy new cars every few years and enjoy the good life. Everyone else buy used and depending on your temperament pick your approach.

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sacred ground

My apartment

 it's important for the people of the world to know how Americans really live. You've been fed propaganda for so many years it's hard to tell what the truth is anymore. Mexicans have been pouring over the borders praying for a better life in that utopian place called America. But the truth is it looks like what I'm about to show you and so here it is.

 This is the front door. Actually its the only entrance. Notice that it has a reinforced door block. There's actually some very high-tech stuff going on in that picture. Notice the shoe. If anyone should happen to break down the door the shoe is a last resort defense mechanism. You know throw the shoe at him. Then the towel. Incredibly Colorado has approved pot smoking. So the towel helps reduce the stench of pot smoke pouring in from under my door. No I'm not kidding.

This is the study. It is where I reinvigorate my mind with fresh ideas from all the amazing books available.

This is the chair that I sit in most of the time and of course my bed. When the moving men were setting up my apartment one guy commented wow nice mattress. Apparently mattress is an upgrade.

These cardboard boxes contain almost all the stuff that I own in this world. God might make an exception and let me take this with me when I die because there's really not that much there. He might just say I'll let him take the cardboard boxes there's not that much there.

The kitchen

The bathroom tub and shower. I wouldn't sit in that tub but it works great as a shower.

This just happens to be an interesting room. It's supposed to be the bedroom you may not have been able to figure it out from the pictures but my bed is actually in the living room. The bedroom is basically used for the refrigerator my clothes and ironing. Because pot smoke smells worst in the bedroom and the refrigerator is incredibly loud I decided to put all the offending things in one room and close the door. No this is not a joke this is really where I live. Moving right along to the alcohol

Like many people around the world I found it beneficial to keep a large amount of alcohol on hand. It helps to dull the pain of my pitiful existence. And besides I like alcohol.

This is the closet where I keep my clothes. A bunch of them need to be ironed right now and some of them are dirty

I don't bring women to my apartment. The lavish surroundings might go to their head. The second the door cracked open they would have visions of marriage and an opulent life together. No we will have none of that. Women are fantastic. Just not at my apartment.

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To the people of France

To the people of France.

Please do not read this blog. This is intended for Americans. If you have dual citizenship it is probably ok, but still dual citizenship indicates you are conflicted. This blog is to the lost tribes of the house of America.

Fiber supplements and Jesus

It is a good idea to pray to God through Jesus. It has not helped me to pray dear Jesus please help me have a bowel movement. Fiber supplements have been the answer. Thank you Jesus for fiber. Don't pray to fiber. Fiber is an inanimate object. Ultra easy to get confused. A general rule of thumb is, don't pray to anything you can see.

Dietary fiber

Fiber in your diet is important. It seems more important to some at toilet time. Eating fruits and vegetables may not do it. Although vigorous exercise helps tremendously, many people don't work out long enough to keep digestion moving along. If the maximum daily dose of fiber supplement does not help it is time to see the doctor. A fiber supplement adds tons of fiber, which counteracts constipation. If people try to dissuade you then ignore them or take fiber secretly. You may feel bloated or gassy. This is a small price to pay for regular digestion.

At first take it every time you eat. Having a delicious chocolate donut? Take your fiber. Eating only fruits and vegetables? Yep, take your fiber. Drinking a cup of coffee? No fiber needed.

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Breakfast

This morning breakfast will consist of wait for it dot-dot-dot a banana and a chocolate donut. Why God made people live without chocolate all those thousands of years we may never know. Of course when we get to heaven we're standing there thinking let's see am I on the right or on the left? Then chocolate is probably not going to seem like a very important question. Getting thrown into the Lake of Fire that might suddenly takes center stage on our thought process. Of course at that point it's too late. Its a good idea to repeat over and over and over again to yourself I was an unprofitable servant sometimes I did as I was required I was an unprofitable servant sometimes I did as I was required I was an unprofitable. A word to the wise people that get into the Eternal Paradise generally say this. When you're standing in front of God and he says what have you done for me today that's the wrong time to start bragging. It works on Earth pretty good but apparently on Judgement Day it is a bad move. So I probably won't eat the whole banana. Besides bananas are inexpensive and they're great fiber in the landfill so you know if you only eat half of it that's okay.


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All chicks on this planet

This morning the first two chicks that I saw were tall and skinny. From this exhaustive study we can conclude that all chicks on the planet are tall and skinny. Until this study was destroyed by the third chick. The third chick was short and skinny from this we can conclude that two-thirds of all the chicks on the planet are tall and skinny and one third of the chicks are short and skinny. There are no fat chicks on this planet. Thank you

The environment

 So this girl comes out of the apartment building next door. It looks like she's headed for a car you know when you're on a car is easy to make the assumption that everybody on the planet on the car. I mean you can't get anywhere in Masa public transportation it takes forever just to get down the block. So it's easy to assume that I mean anybody that's anybody has to have a car. Go to my utter shock and amazement she walks off down the street towards a bunch of businesses at the end of our neighborhood with no car. No car really? Walking on her feet Yes actually walking she had shoes on. So there's probably something good about walking I mean it's environmentally sustainable right? And it's healthy. You're supposed to walk 10000 steps a day. 10000 steps that seems a little bit much. So she'll probably live longer be healthier help the environment all really good stuff I suppose. Still cars can be quite a bit of fun. Like just hopping in the car and going somewhere and you don't have to walk there's an idea

The language of love

• Look this is crazy. For the last several hundred years the primary language in America has been English. People all over this planet speak English. In fact in India there are 5 languages. the people of India couldn't even talk to each other if they didn't all speak English. So it just seems crazy that I live in America and I'm supposed to learn Spanish just so I can order fast food. I mean for heaven sakes I need to eat, right? So anyway rather than learn Spanish which is okay I mean it is a language millions of people speak it. Still God is love. It says that somewhere in the Bible. There are some points at which he gets angry but apparently it's okay to be angry even if you are pure love. On a rare occasion God even kills some people but that's part of the responsibility of being love. So everyone in Mexico and everyone in America needs to learn French. I don't really like France. Most of their wine is too expensive. And they have the attitude that it's the best wine on the planet. Course I guess they're actually called by God to have that attitude right I mean when you do something you're supposed to do your very very best and so that's what they're doing I don't know why I'm having a problem with this, learning French. Mean for crying out loud my middle name is practically English. English is the biggest mess. it's made up of a bunch of different languages and then spoken in this weird accent. I mean I didn't even know we had an accent till I went to Europe and people started saying to me you have an American accent. Great just what I need an American accent. Anyway I've learned a few Spanish words like hola. But when Spanish people start talking real fast you know then it all falls apart I might pick up Cinco or something but otherwise it just sounds like Greek. so there it is we need all start speaking French after all it is the language of love

 Let's see how many times I use the word I in this post.

Viva Las Vegas

 I graduated from Sin City High. Not Western and not Gorman those chumps. If you're going to graduate from a High School in Las Vegas for crying out loud you might as well go all out or all in or something. Back then it was not officially known as Sin City High School it was graciously called Las Vegas High School. If I remember correctly it was two blocks Off the Strip and two blocks off of Charleston which turned into downtown and ended at Number One Main Street. It was a simpler more gracious time. Those days. There's no such thing as a man purse. There were no undressed 20-something year old babes strolling through the hotels. Back then cocktail waitresses with just the right amount of cleavage showing and those beautiful long legs that was pretty much all that was showing back then. Unless you actually went to a Las Vegas show. Now family venues include regular customers walking around undressed. What has happened to the sincity that I knew and loved? Oh that's right they had transvestites though. Yes they pretty much looked the same back then as they look today sort of like these guys dressed up like women. Sort of masculine women that you see and think maybe not.

 even back then las vegas could have its awkward moments. I rode on a yellow school bus to school everyday. Just like kids ride on all over the country to this very day. One day we pulled up to a stop light. There just happened to be a city bus stop at the same stop light. And waiting at the city bus stop was a 70 year old woman. It was very hot. The temperature of Las Vegas that is. And this woman was wearing a very loose blouse and no bra. You could easily see that her breasts sagged down past her navel. The perky young 16 year old girl sitting next to me looked out the window then she looked at me and she said how embarrassing. Why I'm telling you about it I'm not sure. you try to forget things like that. It would have been a great opportunity to say something like I bet your breasts don't look like that, but all I could do was stare and look away.

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Am I the only one

 Am I the only one who sees it? Are you telling me there is no one else on this entire planet possibly no one in the entire galaxy dare I say it the entire universe. Bye and I alone.

Rush Hour continued

Independent researchers have travelled from all over the planet to observe this incredible hour the incredible phenomenon called Rush Hour when all Americans suddenly snap to life and accomplish more in a single hour than they've been able to accomplish in the previous 23 combined it is truly astounding. They further researched to find out how and why this has occurred why people remain so lethargic sipping on champagne and guzzling a beer every now and then just stop well the reason they have found this is somehow they must accomplish the incredible lifestyle from which they have become so globally famous I mean somebody's got to work to get all this stuff done where do you think all these houses come from and these crazy roads it going all directions somebody's got to build those things and we need rush hour to get it done yes cat with it rest of the time we need to relax we're exhausted Rush Hour takes a toll we need 23 hours to recuperate play tennis golf swim. It has been theorized that a distressing phenomenon known as burnout could occur we certainly hope not that would completely disrupt our way of life if burnout were to occur what you would observe is that Rush Hour which begin to shrink it would become the rush 55 minutes then the rush 45 minutes The Rush half hour this could be devastating our entire economy has been built on the premise of rush-hour not rush half-hour oh no that will not do.

Rush Hour

In America we have what is called Rush Hour this is an hour specified specifically for rushing we set this hour aside each day you because for the rest of the day we're relaxing and taking things slowly I mean after all why do we need to rush other than during rush hour rush rush rush rush rush rush rush during that hour everyone should be rushing rushing here and they're rushing everywhere rush rush rush no lollygagging no hesitating no no no we're all moving quickly making brilliant decisions it is Rush Hour yes that is what it is and that is what we must do Rush don't give me any excuses just get with it

The jello tags

Let this be a warning to all of you. On senior discount Tuesdays almost everything at the thrift store is 50% off for seniors. Except for one strange price tag. The jello price tags. When I got to the front of the store and reached the cash register there was a very sweet Hispanic young woman waiting there to ring up my items. I made the very silly assumption that all of my items would be 50% off. After all I'm a senior. There are giant signs in the windows proclaiming senior Tuesday 50% off. Then in very small text at the bottom of the sign it says on almost all items. What it doesn't say is that the items which are not on sale are all the ones with Jello colored tags. It just so happens that all the items in my basket had Jello tags. This became apparent  when the sweet young Hispanic woman ringing up my items informed me  that all of my items  had Jello tags  and that Jello tags were not on sale on Tuesday . The jello tags are not on sale until Saturday. Then they are 50% off to all people not just seniors. I'm sure you've seen the color Jello many times. There are jello roses. Even stop lights turn jello warning you that it's time to stop for a red light. Yes as it turns out the sweet Hispanic young woman was saying the word jello. It is a very good thing that she speaks English because I have no idea what the word Jello is in Spanish

I'll be back on Saturday when all the jello tags are on sale

arc thrift .com scroll down half the page.

Notice that the tags are pink, jello, blue, white, and orange.

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The next recession

I guess the news media needs something to do with their meaningless lives. They're either griping that a recession is looming and we're all doomed to stand in the unemployment line or there's a labor shortage and we need to open the borders and let Mexicans flood in from all over the world so you don't have to stand in line so long at McDonald's. Well let me tell you I go to McDonald's a lot and I'm not standing in long lines now and there's a sign at Good Times burgers it says they're hiring starting at $14 an hour. But I still don't see long lines over at good times burgers. Somehow they seem to keep things moving right along. Now of course if these companies were being run by the government there would be massively long lines and you could have 500 people standing behind the counter trying to help you and somehow they just couldn't get it done it's all very weird.

Life

 So what is life all about? The Bible makes it pretty simple. It seems like we just don't take the Bible very seriously. The Bible says that in the end we're going to be judged for everything we said and for everything we did and will receive rewards based on what we did. It seems pretty simple. One problem is that people don't take it seriously. And Jesus warns in Matthew chapter 13 that people are deceived that we get off base, we worry about the world and the cares of Our Lives, our jobs our families the government, making a living stealing lying cheating, you know things that people think make life worth living. Its funny though that when people get close to the end of their lives especially when they're like in those last few minutes all of a sudden they're like well maybe I should have thought this through a little more because now I'm going to die and suddenly it becomes obvious to you that you really are going to be judged I mean deep down inside you sort of knew it all along but for some reason once you get to that last few seconds and it becomes crystal clear. Of course there's a million different people with a million different experiences so not everyone agrees. But A good rule of thumb is don't ever do anything to somebody else that you don't want done to you. just doing that alone would totally change the whole planet. If you don't want people stealing from you don't steal from them. If you don't want somebody buying stuff really cheap from you don't buy stuff really cheap from them. you know where you're taking advantage of them. now they're making a reasonable deal out of it and you're making a reasonable deal out of it that's fine but we all know that it's easy to get carried away and say well they needed to get rid of it and I took it off their hands. is that how you want somebody to treat you, maybe, maybe not.

Jesus makes it pretty simple In Matthew 5-7. Still people have a couple of attitudes about it. They say I don't really care what Jesus said I don't believe in Jesus or they may say yeah that was a long time ago and things are different now. Or they may actually say I really do try to live my life this way you know loving your enemies and everything. That can be tough I mean after all who are your neighbors who are your friends who are your enemies. Sometimes it gets pretty fuzzy.

Having enemies is kind of weird. Your garden-variety enemy may actually need you. You push Jostle each other. And at the end of the day somehow you both are better for it. But when it comes to enemies like terrorists there's really only one solution. You have to track them down and kill them. Otherwise they're going to blow up innocent children and women and maim and Destroy people indiscriminately. There's no real rationale to it it's just pure evil. So in this case you're simply loving them to death. If they'll become more rational in their whole concept of being an enemy then you can back off.

I'm forty two

The next time a fast food employee asks your name say, forty two.

Steve at taco bell

Today, as many times, I went to taco bell. The person behind the counter took the order. Then a weird thing happened, a person brought a bag to the counter and called out, STEVE.

Looking around it was obvious there was only one Steve. Why was it so weird?

I never said my name and paid with cash.


Welcome to the machine.

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Give it to Jesus

If you happen to have some extra cash consider giving it to Jesus. He seemed to be strapped for cash.

Matthew 17[24] And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?[25] He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?[26] Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.[27] Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto they for me and thee.

There are several interesting things about this event. Why didn't Jesus sell the fish for the tax? Did they eat the fish? Did they give the fish to the people they were staying with? Catch and release? After all the fish had earned It's freedom. Why didn't Jesus just reach up behind Peter's ear and pull out a coin, like a magic trick? It's interesting that Peter carried a hook line and, dare I say it, sinker around. Did Jesus carry a hammer and saw? Why didn't Jesus tell Peter to go down to the beach and dig down so far too find the coin?