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For decades, congregations have sat and listened to preachers, pastors, rabbis, and other religious leaders tell them about God’s gift of eternal life.  They have given them some indications as to how to acquire this precious gift but few ever recall those lessons or refuse to heed the warnings. Here is how the eternal life gift works.  If you live your life according to what you truly believe will please God and can answer truthfully and honestly to him why you made the choices, the decisions and took the actions you did while in the flesh, you shall be granted eternal life.  Now what does that mean, eternal life means that you, the soul, the spirit, the true essences of all of us will never have to set foot on this place we call earth but is truly nothing more than hell.  We will never have to set foot on any planet or hell for eternity which means we will be allowed to enjoy peace and sin-free living for as long as God desires our souls to remain in heaven, b...

While the political media is all ablaze about the big win regarding the governorship of Kentucky and Virginia keeping its House in Republican control, much is being made about how those who won ran their campaign but to a novice political junkie like me their reason for victory is much simpler. It was widely reported that Mr. Conway had the lead in the polls coming into this election and because of that Republicans employed their next best weapons to give Mr. Blevins his win.  They deployed the sheer laziness and lack of focus by the majority of Democrats knowing that as long as the polls said their candidate would win, that their job was done.  It worked and will continue to work until those who claim the title of Democrat, Independent or just plain those who are tired of sending people to office who do little if anything to serve them stay home on election day. I see little evidence that gerrymandering districts is the reason and I see little evidence that uncoverin...

We hear people often speak about the respect that this country once had around the world and how we should strive to get that back.  For some, we can’t even remember when we had this respect and for others it is the cause of one man in the White House.  But if the truth be told, the respect of this nation begins and ends with its citizens who sit back on their brains and allow ignorance to run rapid and unchecked throughout every facet of this country.  Ignorance which is considered comedy in many other places around the globe and seems to be an everyday occurrence here in America.  It begins and ends with us because if we continue to sit around and just chuckle at the knuckleheads showed all over the airwaves as a representative of the people, we will continue to be looked upon as a joke.  Classic example is how the media and politicians have been allowed to take something as clear as Ebola and blow it all out of proportion without checking them.  As ...

Was watching the Lawrence O’Donnell Show “The Last Word” and heard about the story of the 5 year old Kentucky boy shooting and killing his 2 year old sister with his new rifle purchase for his recent birthday.  Afterwards began to think just what it is that is causing, normally, intelligent people to engage in to such ill-intelligent actions.  As parents, many of us do all that we can to keep our children safe, we try and protect them from all harm even going as far as having them believe in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.  So are we so very silent or extremely naive when it comes to children and guns?  I entertained the” why” for quite some time and can only think of two good reasons.  One is, we are quickly coming close to “the end of days” but if this one is too scary for you, try my next one. Before I educate you on that here is a little from the story about the previously mentioned 5 year old Kentucky boy who shot his 2 year old sis...

Twenty years is a long time to be “on the lam” but if this article written by Bruce Schreiner and Brett Barrouquere for the Associated Press titled Torture charges shatter Croatian's quiet Ky. Life teaches us anything, it’s that the long arm of the law is also unforgiving and tireless. It reports that “the arrest of a Croatian woman in small-town Kentucky for alleged war crimes two decades ago in the former Yugoslavia "brings her long run from justice to an end," a U.S. marshal said. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert E. Wier appointed Azra Basic, 52, a lawyer Thursday and ordered her held without bond pending an April 1 status hearing. Prosecutors argued that no bail amount would guarantee Basic's presence in court.   Federal agents arrested Basic (pronounced BOSH) on Tuesday” and the words of U.S. Marshal Loren "Squirrel" Carl frames it best.   "This brings her long run from justice to an end," Carl said. Escaping one’s destiny is one thing but to t...