Found On Road Dead

  

‘My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge.’  ~ Hosea 4:6a

  

I have often bemoaned the difficulty that our current generation has putting things into historical context.  It seems as if, for us, history began in 1990 (if not later).  With that in mind, I found the following quote extremely interesting:

‘Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure, I will start in at the beginning and build it up again.’  ~ Henry Ford, 11 February 1934

One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato…Dang!!

  

‘A man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.’  ~ Proverbs 28:3

 

The results (if they can be called such) are in and, not altogether unexpectedly, the GTE–the Great Tater Experiment for the great unwashed–is a complete failure.  Actually, ‘complete’ is a bit more pessimistic than what is call for; rather, ‘miserable’ failure is a more apt description.  After three-plus months and all the good will we could muster, our potato crop amounted to three-THREE!–golf ball-sized new potatoes at the very bottom of the bottom tire.  To say we are disappointed would be an understatement but, considering my penchant for not being able to grow just about anything from the ground, we were not all that surprised.  Oh well, there’s always the Spring garden to look forward too!

It’s a very good thing that you don’t have to plant chickens.

Au 101

  

‘The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.’  ~ Proverbs 21:5

  

If you are actually interested in how we reached our current economic condition–primarily the death sprial of the u.S. Dollar–watch this Youtube video of Ron Paul at the recent End the Federal Reserve rally in Houston.  The level of his economic and historical acumen in breathtaking–and extremely informative.  He explains succinctly how we got here and, perhaps more importantly, where we are going and how to protect yourself and your family.  (Make certain to watch all four parts.)

BBQ and the Culture War

  

‘No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.’  ~ Matthew 6:24  

 

‘The most truly disadvantaged are those who are hated for their virtues, not their vices…’ ~ Wilmot Robertson, The Dispossessed Majority

 

 

 

• ‘North Korean officials are infuriated by [Gospel] leaflets that have been floated over the communist nation’s secured borders and dropped from plastic bags attached to gas-filled balloons.’

 

 

 

• Another professing Christian company capitulates to Mammon and agrees to worship at the altar of Equality. The e-Harmony matchmaking site will now begin to include homosexuals in its listings following a lawsuit in New Jersey. You cannot serve two masters.

 

 

 

 

• For those of you with small children, I have found the perfect Christ-mas present for your young’uns. Can you afford it? YES YOU CAN!

 

 

 

‘I can look back on campaigns in which I saw Republicans on the local level working their hearts out for a cause they believed to be just , only to realize, after is was all over, that the kingmakers had given them a candidate who would not campaign on the issues.’ ~ Phyllis Schlafly 1964

 

 

 

• If it has not become increasingly clear to us by now, the current tactic in the culture war against Christians is to make us appear mentally ill. In this video, Joy Behar of ‘The View’ insists that homeschooled children are ‘demented.’

 

 

 

• ‘In discussions of Texas barbecue, the equivalent of Matt Damon and George Clooney and Brad Pitt would be establishments like Kreuz Market and Smitty’s Market, in Lockhart; City Market, in Luling; and Louie Mueller Barbecue, in Taylor—places that reflect the barbecue tradition that developed during the nineteenth century out of German and Czech meat markets in the Hill Country of central Texas. (In fact, the title of Texas Monthly’s first article on barbecue—it was published in 1973, shortly after the magazine’s founding—was “The World’s Best Barbecue Is in Taylor, Texas. Or Is It Lockhart?”) Those restaurants, all of which had been in the top tier in 2003, were indeed there again in this summer’s survey. For the first time, though, a No. 1 had been named, and it was not one of the old familiars. “The best barbecue in Texas,” the article said, “is currently being served at Snow’s BBQ, in Lexington.”’   [Anyone up for a road trip?]

 

 

 

• I’ve been waiting for this for SEVENTEEN YEARS!! Do you know where you are? You’re in the jungle, baby!

 

 

 

• ‘In any case, what I really mean to say is that our crazed foreign policy was a major reason why Americans gave Obama such a stunning victory. There’s just one problem: our foreign policy is going to remain pretty much the same.’

 

 

 

‘Political leaders in our post-literate society no longer need to be competent, sincere or honest. They only need to appear to have these qualities. Most of all they need a story, a narrative. The reality of the narrative is irrelevant. It can be completely at odds with the facts. The consistency and emotional appeal of the story are paramount. The most essential skill in political theater and the consumer culture is artifice. Those who are best at artifice succeed. Those who have not mastered the art of artifice fail. In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we do not seek or want honesty. We ask to be indulged and entertained by clichés, stereotypes and mythic narratives that tell us we can be whomever we want to be, that we live in the greatest country on Earth, that we are endowed with superior moral and physical qualities and that our glorious future is preordained, either because of our attributes as Americans or because we are blessed by God or both.’

 

 

 

• Here is a neat photo report on the birth of a chicken.

 

 

 

• It appears that government mints throughout the world are having trouble meeting the demand for gold coins.

 

Can you tell which one is the artist?

 

• Peter Schiff, one of the few men to try and warn us (unsuccessfully) of the coming economic meltdown, discusses what we can expect to see down the road. Some of his conclusions might surprise you. (Podcast.)

 

 

 

• ‘Unfortunately, as we moderns ascended the social heights, when we reached a new level we often kicked out the ladder we climbed to get there. And now when we find ourselves forced to reverse direction, we find that the things that allowed us to exist comfortably at lower levels are no longer available to us. Mother and Dad and that comfortable home equipped us to venture out into the wide world, but now that the wide world has turned us away we return to find that Mother and Dad and home are no longer there to welcome us back—and that it was our leaving that destroyed them.’

 

 

 

• Technology makes it much easier to be a jerk.

 

 

 

• It’s not about ‘equality’, it is about destroying our Christian culture. Maybe one day we’ll all wake up and realize it.

 

 

 

• For those who haven’t discovered that the Constitution is irrelevant in Washington City, here is more proof. The President no longer thinks he needs the Senate to ratify a treaty and the next President may very well not be a natural born citizen. But the Constitution’s long, slow death which began in 1861 doesn’t seem to concern very many folks.

 

 

 

• Speaking of whether the u.S. Constitution still means anything, the controversy over President-elect Obama’s birth certificate continues to build.

 

 

 

• ‘[S]preading [the wealth] is mostly what Washington does. Here, the Constitution is an afterthought; the supreme law of the land is the principle of concentrated benefits and dispersed costs.’ ~ George Will []

 

Like my new ‘do?

 

 

• Here is an example of just how corrupt Washington City can be: ‘Ted Stevens — the longest-serving Republican senator in history [who was recently convicted in a court of law for corruption] — bid farewell to the Senate on Thursday’ to a standing ovation.

 

 

 

• ‘Already, you can see that the political constellation is lining up in a way that is more friendly to the cause of liberty. The Democrats are up to their old tricks, which are transparently dumb and dated. The Republicans are responding with smart and sound criticisms. The government looks poised for a fantastic gridlock that will let the liquidation take place so that we can move toward a good recovery.’

 

 

 

• I’ve said it here before—and probably will again—but don’t expect u.S. foreign policy to change. In fact, you can expect an expansion of the GWOT©–you can bank on it—now that Obama has selected Hillary! to be Secretary of State. For all of her rhetoric and demagoguery, she is a neoconservative u.S. hegemonist of the highest order. The world should be very, very nervous right about now.

In honour of the long, long, long, LONG-anticipated release of their new album, to-day’s 1980’s Moment is brought to you by Guns ‘n Roses:

  

What a Pair!

  

‘Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.’  ~ Proverbs 23:33

 

I sometimes find myself laughing under my breath at the strange–and sometimes disturbing–combinations folks (including myself) take to the check-out counter at the grocery store.  To-night, I paid for a sack of potatoes and a bottle of shower gel.  The strangest tandem I’ve ever purchased?  It has to be the time–and I am not making this up–I bought peanut butter and maxi-pads.  (What can I say?  I love my wife.  A lot.)