Month: August 2024

Beaker, one of our favorite Muppets characters. Innocent, obedient, and always seemingly on the short end of any accident. We suppose that having your hair on fire could potentially have an impact on your brain, maybe even searing it a little. We are defining the word “SEARING” by using “Dictionary.com”: “serving to burn or char the surface of something”. One can sear your meat when cooking it to lock-in the juices and flavor. One can experience a searing pain, or a searing emotional experience that can leave a permanent emotional scar.

Have you thought recently about your “CONSCIENCE”? What is it? Where did it come from? Is your “CONSCIENCE” different from another person, and if so, how and why? It seems evident that “CONSCIENCE” is derived by something that happens within each of our own thought processes. “CONSCIENCE” is formed from our experiences, from our training, from our social interactions, and from our own study. It is developed over time beginning at our birth. There probably is a portion of our “CONSCIENCE” that may come from the seeds of DNA passed on to us by our parents. How and where we are raised, from our early youth on up, help to define and refine our “CONSCIENCE”. “CONSCIENCE” is “An awareness of morality in regard to one’s behavior; a sense of right and wrong that urges one to act morally. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement. Conformity to one’s own sense of right conduct.” (wordnik.com.) It is obvious that there is an important moral element to one’s “CONSCIENCE”. Each one of us applies our own “CONSCIENCE” to differentiate between right and wrong. For further study on the topic of “CONSCIENCE”, please read our blog posted on June 16, 2021, titled, “WHAT ESTABLISHES CONSCIENCE”. Is it possible to have one’s “CONSCIENCE SEARED”?

The forming of one’s “CONSCIENCE” is to some degree predictable based upon many of the factors we mentioned earlier. One’s “CONSCIENCE” can be corrupted over time due to many of the same factors that developed it. One needs to define what a “corrupted” “CONSCIENCE” looks like. One’s “CONSCIENCE” can be “corrupted” from a center point of neutrality. “CONSCIENCE” can swing toward good or toward bad, either toward right or toward wrong. We would like to believe the preferred state of a “CONSCIENCE” would lean away from neutrality toward that which is good or right. It is counterintuitive to think that a bad or wrong “CONSCIENCE” could be “corrupted” toward that which is good or right. The very definition of “corrupted” is “Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved. Dishonest. Containing errors”. (wordnik.com.) So, we will state that “CONSCIENCE” is our thinking processes that let us know the difference between good and evil, and that the vast majority of us have angels sitting on our right shoulders telling us to do what is morally right and good. The “corruption” of one’s “CONSCIENCE” then allows the devil on the left shoulder to lean one’s thoughts and actions toward thinking and doing what is morally wrong and bad. As we stated in our blog title, this would lead to a “CONSCIENCE SEARED”, a “CONSCIENCE” being “corrupted”.

Some individuals have been raised, educated, and taught in the ways of sociopathy. Please read our blog on June 13, 2021, titled, “DANGERS OF SOCIOPATHS”. We have heard enough of the lies being told over the last several days during the democratic national convention. Where simple research of the facts, available in multiple ways, would clearly refute unsubstantiated claims promulgated by multiple democratic speakers and supporters. We can only attribute this scourge in our society to be due to many having their “CONSCIENCE SEARED”. They have been “gaslighted” for years, believing lies to be the truth. They have failed to seek truth and are comfortable in believing and spreading lies told by others. They have no problem, nor do they see any conflict in their “CONSCIENCE”, in projecting their own sins upon the lives of others who do not have those same sins. Truly they are comfortable in having their “CONSCIENCE SEARED”. They have no problem living with the devil on their left shoulder. They have found comfort in sinful acts, ones of both commission and those of omission. They have no problem killing those still in the womb. They see no problem in violating any laws if doing so enables their desired outcomes. Morality for them is defined by doing whatever is necessary to get their way. Their beliefs and ideologies are how they would define their “morality”. They often speak using godly and righteous tones, but their actions are contradictory and speak louder than their words.

Let’s look to the authority on a “CONSCIENCE SEARED”. I Timothy 4:1-2. “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.” (New International Version.) Their outward sanctity is stained with their hypocritical guile. “Professing to lead others to holiness, their own conscience is all the while defiled. Bad consciences always have recourse to hypocrisy.” (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary.)

The only way to counter those who are sociopaths is to defeat them. You cannot debate them or argue with them, for their “CONSCIENCES” are too badly “SEARED”. If you treasure your FREEDOM and LIBERTY, you must vote to change out those who control the power levers in our Nation. However, your vote is not sufficient in and of itself. Prior to casting your vote, you need to insure those with whom you have contact also vote for this change. If they are not registered to vote, register them. If they cannot get to the polls to vote, take them. If they need assistance in returning a mail-in ballot, provide them with the assistance they need. Your small part, your seemingly insignificant part, is part of the vital whole that is required to bring about the changes necessary to save our Nation. Your most sacred duty in our Nation is to vote. Make it count.

Most of us are probably pretty familiar with the folk tale of Chicken Little. If not, then we are certain you have heard the phrase “THE SKY IS FALLING”, which comes from the tale of Chicken Little. In short summary, Chicken Little is walking in the woods, and she gets hit on the head by a falling acorn. She immediately surmises that the “SKY IS FALLING”. On her way to warn the king, she encounters other birds who believe her with no actual first-hand knowledge of the encounter with the acorn. On their way to the king to provide warning, they are met by a fox who cunningly leads them away from the king and to his den where the entourage is never heard from again. “We might [summarize] the moral messages of the story as follows: 1) don’t form incorrect conclusions from insufficient data; 2) don’t stoke fear in others without good cause to do so; and 3) don’t take other people’s word for things, especially when those other people are making extraordinary claims (which should require extraordinary evidence). (interestingliterature.com.)

There are many ways we can relate this tale to current world events. Anyone with a megaphone can espouse their beliefs without adequate proof or justification. Anyone willing to believe the user of the megaphone without first-hand knowledge or personal experience can be equally at fault for believing anything they may be told. Finally, believing a falsehood can lead to your destruction. The story of “the boy who cried ‘Wolf’!’ is a similar tale although in that telling the meaning is clearer. The Chicken Little tale dates back to the Danish folklorist and scholar, Just Mathias Thiele (1795-1874). In America the Chicken Little tale ” had already been [popularized] by John Green Chandler, with the help of Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879), who is best remembered for writing the rhyme ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ and for campaigning to have Thanksgiving recognized as a national holiday in the United States.”

“The Chicken Little story continued to enjoy popularity in the twentieth century, with Disney producing a short film in 1943 warning about mass hysteria, with specific reference to the Nazis. The 2005 Disney adaptation completely changes the plot by adding aliens whose spaceship, or parts of it, really do fall from the sky, and, in doing so, misses the moral message (or messages) of the fable: in this version, Chicken Little is right to spread mass fear among the townsfolk and is thus vindicated.” (Same reference as before.)

So, why are we talking about the Chicken Little tale? Chicken Little was falsely reporting a past event. In our blog today, we are prognosticating future events. While we do not have any actual proof of events that may transpire, nor do we possess a “crystal ball” telling all, and while we have no idea how to “read the tea leaves”, what we can do is lay forth possible events that, based upon past events, can only lead to potential outcomes. With less than three months until arguably the most important national election in our Nation’s history, we will predict two different outcomes depending upon the election results. The events will begin to occur in mid-September and will likely continue deep into 2025.

The current conservative opposition candidate for the office of President of the United States is due to be sentenced on September 18 following the fraudulent court case. It is likely that the biased judge will rule that some form of detention is warranted, either in prison or house arrest in state. This will prohibit the candidate’s ability to campaign throughout the Nation and any temporary release may only occur at the discretion of the judge. This is obviously election interference. Those on the political right will be incensed, although the outcome was predictable, and will undoubtedly bring animosity toward the left to a fever pitch. Outrage will be evident, but the current government and social media’s attempts to censor free speech will only exasperate the animosity and some violent acts will be orchestrated to further lockdown dissent by conservatives. This is only the beginning.

The election in November will be tight, and outcomes may not be known for days leading to the distrust of voting systems and numbers. Lawsuits will fly in both directions, and the predictable dismissal by courts will be “lack of standing”, as has happened since 2020. Few, if any, judges will be brave enough to risk their employment and futures by making courageous and constitutional decisions in favor of the political right. Historical precedence is already the determinative factor. Once the election results are made final, and Electoral votes established, there are only two outcomes possible.

OUTCOME NUMBER ONE: Should the conservative candidate win, the opposition will take to the streets in every major city to protest the election results. Riots will occur, and many cities, institutions, structures and statues will either burn, be ransacked, or defaced in ongoing street protests. Many citizens will be hurt, and many law enforcement officers will be harmed as well, some of both will die. National Guard forces will need to be federalized to quell the violence and destruction. Some conservative businesses and individuals will feel it necessary to use fire power to provide protection which will only further exasperate the lefts incessant efforts to bring down our democracy, for which they touted a need to protect just a few months earlier. The new year of 2025 will be one to forget, one filled with rebellion, destruction, and anarchy.

OUTCOME NUMBER TWO: Should the liberal candidate win, many protests from the right will be initiated. Several will be infused with members of the FBI and CIA, among others, to exacerbate the destruction and violence that will be encouraged. This is all the current administration needs to further crack down upon dissenting civilians. Force will be used to invaded private homes and businesses bringing many into custody, into courts, with convictions leading to years in federal penitentiaries throughout our Nation. Opposition to the current elected government will be forced underground, and fear will reign supreme among the conservatives. The “Two Party System” in America will cease to exist, and a new era of political rule will take its place, forcing all into compliance, and if not compliant, limiting the FREEDOM and LIBERTY of conservatives to participate in commerce, speech, participation, and travel anywhere in our Nation and even throughout the world. World conflicts will increase. Inflation will again rule the roost, and food and other material supplies will run short due to the diminishing of fossil fuels and the premature governmental push to non-supportable EV and other similar mandates. A counter insurgency will develop, and our Nation will fall prey to other world nation’s attacks, both with kinetic and “Non-Kinetic Threats” (for further clarification please read “444. Non-Kinetic Threats and the Threshold Spectrum of Strategic Endgame Warnings”) (madsciblog.tradoc.army.mil/444; Robert McCreight; May 11, 2023).

Either way, the immediate future is not bright. We do not want to stoke fear, but we do want all to be prepared for possibilities. Before the election in November, stock up on food and water supplies. Provide for adequate defense for yourself, family, and friends. Do not succumb to “irrational exuberance” but be predictive and smart. Our FREEDOM and LIBERTY are at stake. We are not “Chicken Little”, but we are not stupid either.

No, we have not invented a new word. FEARDOM is “the state of having freedom but being afraid of expressing it.” (urbandictionary.com.)

What does it take to obtain and maintain FREEDOM?

As we approach the final days leading up to the most important election in our lives, and maybe in the life of our Nation. We are being inundated with manipulated polls, where crosstabs are either hidden or intentionally weighted for maximum propaganda. There is an effort to create despair, hopelessness and even resignation among the conservative opposition. It has been a long slog over the course of many years. The Marxists, socialists and Communists have been eating away at our resilience and have slowly and methodically sluffed-off vital pieces of our FREEDOM and LIBERTY. Restrictions, mandates, regulations, shortages, increasing debt and inflation, foreign illegal alien invasions, increasing dangers of racial and ethnic divisions, biased legal prosecutions, increasing social violence, and the manipulation and control of social and national media have tried to bring many conservatives into submission. They have tried to overcome our FREEDOM with FEARDOM.

We may not be technically in a kinetic war overseas, or even seemingly within our Nation, but have no doubt, we are in a war in this Nation with those in control of the power levers within our Nation. Bullets are not yet being fired at us, but one did wound the conservative opposition party leader three weeks ago. Those bullets did severely injure two other conservative supporters, and they did destroy one family life and take the life of its heroic household head. Those in current power within our Nation have used every trick in their playbook to bring about the defeat of conservatives, democracy, and the very heart of morality and justice espoused within our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Sometimes we are called upon to fight on, even when we think our small part of the war, or maybe our effectiveness, has come to an end. We must admit that at times all we want to do is throw up our arms and say “I quit! I can’t do this anymore. My ability to help is all spent.” Do we have it worse than any of those who fought and gave up so much to establish our Nation’s FREEDOM and LIBERTY nearly 250 years ago? Maybe we need a small refresher course in how difficult it was for many of those of our original patriots who help to establish our Nation. Many gave some. Some gave all. In Patrick K. O’Donnell’s book, “The INDISPENSABLES”, his research of facts, along with those patriot’s personal notes and letters, have revealed the extent of their sacrifice and dedication. (Excerpts taken from pages 4, 5, 349, 339-340, 342, and 350.) We hope these excerpts from his book will add some clarity to our desires to flee or to our desires to fight.

First, let’s set the stage for what we will learn later on in this blog. “Nestled between a peninsula known as the Great Neck and a stretch of rockbound coast sixteen miles northeast of Boston lies one of New England’s finest ports – Marblehead, Massachusetts. At the time, the crowded, bustling town ranked second only to Boston on the list of the most heavily populated and prosperous towns in New England. The pungent odor of fish wafted among the more than five thousand souls crammed into hundreds of clapboard houses, many of them ramshackle, set in grimy, meandering streets.” “In Marblehead, fortunes were made and lost on the sea. By the 1770s, Marblehead’s economy relied on fish, especially New England’s most profitable commodity: cod.” “The prominent merchant families of the town . . . amassed their wealth by risking the perils of the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Marblehead fishermen sailed in schooners typically thirty to sixty feet in length, from thirty to seventy tons each, with crews of seven to eight and captains skilled in the art of navigation and leadership. They fished some of the most treacherous waters in the world – the Grand Banks. An area off Newfoundland larger than the state of Maine, a two-thousand-mile round trip from the mainland, the Grand Banks were singularly brutal. Men fought against the sea to wrest their living from it with little more than determination and their bare hands.” “Life at sea was grueling: from 1768 to 1769, more than 120 Marblehead sailors lost their lives to the sea. Twenty-three ships sank in the raging storms of the Atlantic. Such conditions produced hardened men who could surmount almost any adversity.” These were the same men that allowed General George Washington to cross the Delaware River on Christmas eve in 1776 on their way to defeat the Hessians in Trenton, most likely the single most important victory that propelled our fledgling colonies to eventual victory over the British Crown. Speaking of these Marblehead patriots, “They warred in a divided country. They not only fought one of the toughest adversaries in the world – the mighty armed forces of Great Britain – but also some of the most tenacious, the Loyalist Americans who were their neighbors. The greatest foes Americans have ever fought, throughout time, have been their fellow Americans. Had the British stoked this internal division more – through race and the divisiveness of the institution of slavery – and formed more Loyalist American units earlier in the war, and given them equal footing with their British counterparts, the Revolution might have collapsed from its internal division. The British would have divided and conquered. And while years of grueling work lay ahead on race, the diverse men of the Marblehead Regiment broke new ground with a more egalitarian view of race in society that was centuries ahead off their time.”

So, how did these Marbleheaders fair at the conclusion of the war? “The members of the Marblehead Regiment often fought for no monetary gain and became broken men – physically, economically, and mentally. Some paid the ultimate price, surrendering their very lives. They served honorably, against tremendous hardship, and did not desert their brothers in arms. The price to Marblehead was enormous in blood and treasure. By the end of the war, the town had 378 widows, 35 percent of the female population in the town, and 652 children would never see their fathers again.” “Their generation – America’s greatest – fought for a higher purpose and sparked a Revolution with groundbreaking ideals and principles, creating a constitution that changed the world.”

Back then, as it is today, many wanted to give up, but some persisted on, even at great personal cost. “John Glover, physically drained, infirm, nearly ruined financially, and with his wife sick, decided to part ways with the army. He considered the absence permanent, but in February 1777, Congress promoted him to brigadier general. Glover initially declined the commission, writing to George Washington on April 1, 1777, ‘I Cannot think myself in any Degree Capable of doing the duty, necessary to be done, by an officer of that Rank’.” “Washington responded first by conveying understanding of Glover’s situation and then praising the Marbleheader: ‘After the conversations, I had with you, before you left the army, last Winter, I was not a little surprised at the contents of yours of the first instant . . . . I know of no man better qualified than you to conduct a Brigade. You have activity and industry and as you very well know the duty of a colonel, you know how to exact that duty from others.’ A master motivator, Washington then laid on the guilt: ‘I have with great concern observed the almost universal listlessness, that prevails throughout the continent; and I believe, that nothing has contributed to it more, than the resignation of officers, who stepped early forward and led the people into the great cause, in which we are too deeply embarked to look back, or to hope for any other terms, than those we can gain by the sword. Can any resistance be expected from the people when deserted by their leaders? Our enemies count upon the resignation of every officer of rank at this time, as a distrust of, and desertion from the cause, and rejoice accordingly. When you consider these matters I hope you will think no more of private inconveniences, but that you will, with all expedition, come forward, and take that command which has been assigned you. As I fully depend upon seeing you, I shall not mention anything that has passed between us, upon this subject, to the Congress’.” “Glover relented and returned to the service.” During his continued service, he lost his son John Glover Jr. and his daughter-in-law. Having served and saved portions of the army and having played an important role in the war effort, “By the summer of 1782, Glover had had enough of the war. He wrote to Washington, ‘When I enter’d the service in 1775 I had as good a Constitution as any Man of my Age, but it’s now broken & shatter’d to pieces, good for nothing, & quite worn out; However [I] shall make the best of it.” “The expense of my little fortune, earned by hard labor and industry; to sacrifice . . . and total ruin of a family of young children.”

“The indomitable Henry Knox recalled that freezing Christmas night on the Delaware to the Massachusetts legislature: ‘I wish the members of this body knew the people of Marblehead as well as I do – I could wish that they had stood on the banks of the Delaware River in 1776 in that bitter night when the Commander in Chief had drawn up his little army to cross it, and had seen the powerful current bearing onward the floating masses of ice, which threatened destruction to whomever should venture upon its bosom. I wish that when this occurrence threatened to defeat the enterprise, they could have heard that distinguished warrior demand, ‘Who will lead us on?’ and seen the men of Marblehead, and Marblehead alone, stand forward to lead the army along the perilous path to unfading glories and honors in the achievements of Trenton. There, Sir, went the fishermen of Marblehead, alike at home upon land or water, alike ardent, patriotic, and unflinching, whenever they unfurled the flag of the country’.”

Are you in the grasp of FEARDOM, and afraid to speak and act in FREEDOM? So now we ask once again, “What are you willing to do for your family, for our Nation, to save and maintain FREEDOM and LIBERTY?” Have you given as much as have our Founding Fathers? Are you willing to sacrifice much to save all?

Last week we did a deep dive into the power of WORDS. It seems like new WORDS are thrown at us every week. We can hardly keep up with this inundation. When we began blogging back in 2021, we focused on how those who seek to obtain and maintain power set at odds segments within our Nation. Please spend a few minutes to review the following blogs as they are as prescient today as they were over three years ago. They are: “A FRACTURED SOCIETY”, March 3, 2021; “E PLURIBUS UNUM”, March 7, 2021; and “UNITY IS STRENGTH”, April 7, 2021. Especially review: “DIVIDED WE FALL”, June 9, 2021. We knew then what continues on to this day. Why we allow the opposition to continue to divide us, and how these attempts can be thwarted, the answers seem to be as illusive today as they were over three years ago. But we claim these efforts to divide our Nation extend back not just three years, but in fact extend back decades. While many of us found comfort and ease in our own little protected bubbles, seemingly unaffected by these gradual incursions into our Nation’s founding culture, we failed to recognize the gradual shift in culture and ideology that has now hit us like a Mack truck on the freeway.

So, exactly what are some of these WORDS that have been thrust upon us as of late. You know them well, for they have been forced upon us like castor oil down the throat of a sick three-year-old in the forties. “Yuck! I can’t get the taste out of my mouth!” Try on some of these words for size and see if they fit your experience: Racism, Bigotry, Xenophobic, Transphobic, Antisemitic, and how about Islamophobic. Add to that short list any other word or words ending in “ism” or “ic”. Last week we learned about at least two other “groups” of individuals that have attempted to form a new way to divide our Nation along ideological lines. Did you hear about “White Dudes for ‘X’“, or how about “Karens for ‘X’“. Just another attempt to further divide our Nation, to bring more hatred and distrust among a people who have more in common than what divides.

We are ALL AMERICANS. We All currently enjoy our FREEDOM and LIBERTY, although more and more of that seems to be squeezed from our grasp like sand through our fingers. As we warned more than three years ago, we renew our same warnings today. Do not allow those who seek to divide to be successful. Do not allow those who want to separate us into separate groups to succeed. Do not allow those who want to control the masses by subjecting the same to oppressive measures, restrictive processes, and overbearing rules and regulations to win. We must all do our part to insure those currently in power never again have the same control that they have had over the last four years. Their thirst for wealth and power have diminished the lower classes, brought despair and frustration upon many, and have brought great harm to our Nation within and without her borders. As we have said before, so we say again now. If you want to retain and strengthen your FREEDOM and LIBERTY, then PUT FEET TO YOUR PRAYERS.