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Hi everyone! O K rambling friends for several weeks now we have been diving into six different principles how Hitler changed Germany after World War One into a Nazi nation. He employed eight different principles in which we have gone through six. Let me remind you what we have covered so far. Indoctrination of children, taking guns away from good people, censoring the news media, creating a crisis, establishing a hate group and controlling the preachers. This week is going to be explaining Hitler’s ‘cancel culture'. When the Nazis’ came to power they knew the importance of changing the culture was a top priority. For the first months of his dictatorship he banned certain books, statues, literature, control of education for students, religion, entertainment, signs, plays and fine arts and promoted the hatred of Jews. The Nazi party established a party line of doctrine and everyone had to conform or else be arrested and sent off to a concentration camp for torture and death. There were massive book burnings in public places and you were considered a good citizen if you did your part to burn or destroy anything you had that did not comply. In America today we have been purging ourselves of much of our past culture as well. More slowly perhaps than Hitler demanded his citizens to do so but nevertheless it has been taking place. Let’s name just a few. Remaining our military bases that were named after confederate generals. Taking down statues of the civil war. Many schools have banned the Bible however books that teach about the acceptance of LGBT is considered normal. At one time I used to read the school books that grade school children were being taught. I will never forget the first time I read a first graders primary reader that having two moms or two dads was normal. As a child of the 50’s and 60’s and what was taught in school then is like a night and day difference when compared with our education in today's classroom. What is considered good today would have been considered pornography in the fifties culture of our past. One principle in which politicians know too well is the well known principle of telling lies. When they repeat their lies over and over again their lies are accepted as the new truth. Remember when the prime minister of Israel came to America a few weeks ago (Benjamin Netanyahu) to address the joint session of congress that certain Senators and Representatives would not show up? These actions send a powerful message who they support and don’t! Remember last October 7, 2023 when Hamas invaded Israel when 1400 civilians were killed, raped, cut heads off of innocent women and children and dragged hundred of hostages back to Gaza to be brutalized. Today, Hamas still holds many hostages which they will not release. The leaders of Hamas have and did employ all of the principles Hitler used to change his nation into Jew haters. It makes me feel so sad when our colleges are guilty of spreading hate and discord among our college students to take the side of Hamas. Oh by the way the name Hamas means —EVIL! It is so so sad to see our young people blindly holding up signs and proclaiming to be Hamas and Jew haters. How would these students, faculty and staff like for a hate group to do to them what Hamas did to the Jews? Oh I am sure the rules would change very quickly if the shoe were on the other foot. One of my first eye opener wake up calls of how colleges change a conservative student into a liberal was when I used to listen to a college professor on a well known local radio station in the 1970’s. Guess what, he was the professor of religious studies and when asked if the Bible were true he said, “no” it is simply a bunch of legends and stories. Now I will get down to where I am, what I believe. I wondered for a long time how the Bible could be true and not just a bunch of stories handed down like the college professor proclaimed on radio. He made me think for a long time and finally I realized there is one thing no man can do! Prophecy! Predicting the future is impossible for everyone.
As of Monday, Sept. 30, my daughter Melissa’s mother, DeAnn, has been gone 30 years. The date is an important mile marker for me, my daughter and all who remember Dee, but I let it pass with little notice, just a telephone call to Melissa.
I actually had high hopes going into “Transformers One.” Not because I’m a big fan of the toys or really anything about the property, but because this movie promised to correct some of the mistakes made by its predecessors. Namely, I was excited that there wouldn’t be any live-action actors. For some reason, this franchise has never shied away from shoving human Shia LeBeouf or Mark Wahlberg characters down our throats when we all know it’s the giant robots that sell tickets. This time, no humans, all robots. Also, animated versions of previously-live-action franchises have been pleasing me lately. Both “Spider-Verse” movies are outstanding, and last year for the first time I found myself liking a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie with “Mutant Mayhem.” Could “Transformers One” turn me around on another property that I had previously dismissed as a series of glorified toy commercials? Sadly, no.
Hi everyone! This week will be very interesting because we are going to push a few buttons... Let’s have a quick review of the last six weeks for our new readers. We started this series to review how Hitler took over Germany after World War One. We have already had ramblings of indoctrination of children, taking guns away from good citizens, censoring the news media, creating a crisis for political gain, establishing a hate group and last week was controlling the preachers. We did not adequately cover as much ground as wanted to so we are going to continue where we left off last week. We have been comparing America being taken over by the ‘woke’ folks to Hitler’s takeover of Germany by the Nazis. Friends and neighbors elections have consequences and we need to know how our candidates vote on different issues. Since we have a target on preachers this week let’s dive deep into the moral compass of America today. In the past our pastors were the guiding light, torch bearers and the watchmen on the wall to furnish wisdom and instruction for their flocks. They are doing this less and less today in our churches. Most do not want to be criticized and want to just get along with everyone about major issues facing our nation today. Last week two of the issues we listed were the partial birth abortion debate, and the war in Israel. We simply seldom hear preaching on controversial issues. Now let’s switch gears. Have you ever heard of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Law commonly known as RICO? This law was enacted in 1970 to help combat organized crime. There were five organized crime families in New York. They were the Gambino, Lucchese, Genovese, Bonanno, and the Colombo families. Organized crime collected millions of dollars. The longshoremen, teamsters, garbage collectors, fish market, garment industry, construction industries, gambling and other entities were mafia controlled. Each mafia family sent their leader to an all ruling commission in which they would determine how to work out their problems. This was known as organized crime and was very efficient at avoiding criminal prosecution. The problem for decades was the police would arrest a foot soldier of the mafia criminal organization and the crime boss would be isolated. However, under RICO an organization from the bottom all the way up the leader can be charged with different crimes for long extended prison sentences. Friends and neighbors as legal voting members of our community we vote on many issues. Government offices, for our pastors of our churches, our club leaders etc. Our votes are really important! Now partial birth abortion is a hot button subject in some of our churches. We all should know what candidates support and do not support this issue. If you believe aborting an 8 month baby is murder then don’t vote for candidates who will legalize it. If you believe it is O K then vote as you choose to. If you support Israel then vote for candidates who support Israel. Now let’s marry RICO law and preachers together. If you have a Bible believing preacher most would agree not to agree with partial birth abortion or turning your back on Israel in their fight for survival today. When we vote on candidates who approve of partial birth abortion is this murder of a child? When we do not support Israel today in their battles with Islamic terrorists, is this correct according to the Bible? Genesis 12:3 and Psalm 85: 1-2 makes this very clear about Christians supporting Israel. How about late term abortions? Matthew 18:6 makes this very clear about not harming children. Now rambling Roger, what does the RICO law have to do with Israel, babies and preachers? Here goes hang on. When you knowingly vote for a candidate who supports abortion of late term children and you go ahead and vote for them are you not guilty of murder under Ricco laws? Do you deserve to be arrested and tried for murder? How about the candidates who do not support Israel’s battle with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran? When you vote for candidates who do
I recently saw a man loading baskets of clothes in his car outside the Buffalo laundromat , and I thought, “How lucky that’s not me.”
Hi everyone! Well folks let’s get started with a review of the last five weeks. For new readers we have been learning how Hitler fundamentally changed the culture and direction of Germany. In the beginning we compared his plan to adding spark plugs to a high performance engine and each chapter makes his country fire up louder and more powerful. This week is spark plug number 6. We are definitely firing up loud and by the end of this article most of us will be also. Let’s review. Number one, indoctrination of children, number two, taking guns away. Number three, censoring the news media. Number four, establishing a hate group. Number five, using a crisis for political gain. Our nation today is like a frog being slowly boiled and doesn't realize it. This week’s plug is controlling the narrative of the preachers. When Hitler became dictator in 1933 one priority was to deal with the preachers. In 1935 hundreds of pastors unified and had the courage to oppose Hitler from the pulpit. Instantly the German Gestapo (be like our FBI or DOJ) rounded up hundreds of pastors who would oppose Hiter and were sent to death camps. Even after the war started church services continued. Churches that continued in the open were politically correct and the pastors simply preached soft milk toast sermons. Titles such as, Good Feelings. Better Life. Everything will be great. Victorious living. The sermons all referred to Romans 13: 1 and 2. Hitler liked and approved of this verse. One account was about a country church that met every Sunday and the congregation would meet to sing and the politically correct preacher would preach a mushy sermon. They were on the tracks and as the train went by at the same time every Sunday there were moans, groans and wailing of people in human misery seen inside the box cars on their way to the nearby Auchowitz death camp. The preacher being of political correctness simply told his congregation to sing a little louder and ignore the train. (Basically what most churches do today) Even though most people knew where and why the train was going, no one dared say a word. Friends and neighbors this is only a small tidbit of information of how Nazi churches either comply or if you were a true preacher you went underground and risked death yourself. O K now folks do we have political correctness in our churches today? Do our preachers lull many to sleep with carefully selected platitudes that are not controversial? Are we a society being indoctrinated today after ten years of the new ‘Woke’ agenda? Oh my yes!!!! (Myself included.) The other day I was at a restaurant ordering and I said, “I wanted my coffee black.” A little voice said from the side,” that is not politically correct.” I instantly said, “oh I mean coffee without anything in it.” This happened about three months ago and I have put a great deal of thought into what I said and how we (the American People) all are becoming ‘Woke’. About a year ago I was listening to a popular F M religious station and the message was about the declining church population in America today. All denominations are way down and more churches are closing their doors each year than new churches are being started. Why is church membership and attendance going down so fast overall? However our churches of today have many good qualities. First of all I want to commend the pastors of today's churches for having excellent programs. Conducting funerals, weddings, school lunches for needy children and backpacks for kids without food on the weekend. In addition mission trips to foreign countries to help out folks in church starts and provides hope and help to the homeless plus good drug programs and many more. Now folks for the weakness of the church of today and why the overall decline of church membership. It’s not because of good programs and community involvement and nice people. What’s the answer? The watered down, woke, politically correct sermons that talk a lot but do not get our attention. The preacher that I heard a year ago on the F M station noted that 95% of all preachers are politically correct in their sermons. When Jesus was alive—- teaching, informing and preaching the gospel also connected it to the sins of the current government rules and policies that were contrary to his word. The people loved him because he was a strong leader and the government and church leaders hated him because he spoke out against their policies. Today we have the LGBT subject, partial birth abortion, war in Israel, preaching on hell, what is sin to name just a few issues that are seldom mentioned by weak pastors. Next week we continue this rambling on present day woke pastors.
“Speak No Evil” is a remake of a 2022 Danish movie with a famously vile twist. I went into this film expecting it to have the same twist. That’s not to say that I expected it to have the same “ending,” exactly, as I knew the film might deviate from the source material once it reached a certain point. But there could be no question that it was indeed winding its way to that point. It was no surprise that what came after that point was horror movie shlock, but I was surprised by how captivated I was by what led up to that point.
I had to take a foreign language for my bachelor of arts degree.
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