Well, it’s Saturday morning and I’m going to try and get a couple of issues ahead again over this nice, three-day weekend. 

It’s a three-day weekend?

Yeah it’s … whose birthday is it or what are we celebrating on Monday? Well, today, the day that you guys are getting this issue?  What is today?  Anybody?  Yeah, you in the back?

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Martin Luther King, who had a dream, who believed in peaceful demonstrations to put his point across. Who led marches on Washington that brought attention to problems…and he was eventually assassinated for it. A man of God.

So very much different than the “peaceful demonstrations” that we have going on today.

Last night Izzy and I had a “spirited discussion” on what was going on up in Minnesota.  She, of course being the little sweetheart that she is and of the “why can’t we all just live together in love and socialist/communist happiness?” I have to grab her by the earlobe and pull her back over to common sense land and explain to her that the real people to blame for Renee Good’s death are the protestors. 

Her response, as you can well imagine was, “Huh?”

Look, the ICE agents are simply trying to do their job. Following the law. Nothing more, nothing less. The illegal aliens, whether they are gangbangers or “upstanding citizens” if they are here illegally, are breaking the law. Every one of them was given the opportunity to self-deport. They are now (and have been) breaking the law. They are criminals. And it is the JOB of the LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES to ENFORCE the LAWS. The protestors are interfering with said Law Enforcement Agents in carrying out their duties.

Now, two things. First, how would you like it if someone came to your workplace and kept you from doing your job? Everything from standing in front of you to driving a car at you to shooting at your to threatening your family, to burning down your house? Just for going to your job at Burger King or Walmart or the office or whatever? HOW WOULD THAT MAKE YOU FEEL? And then to have the rest of the world tell you that YOU were the ones who were wrong?

Secondly, everyone of those protestors, just by being there and interfering with those officers can be arrested and are subject to a year in prison. If they lay hands on one of those ICE officers … just touch them … ten years in prison. If they push or shove or strike them in any way, twenty years.

So, anyone who says that the ICE agents are being mean and harassing the protestors … let me tell you from even the minimal amount of Law Enforcement experience that I have, at some point in time, someone is going to cut the ICE agents loose and there is going to mass arrests of these protestors the likes of which no one has ever seen before. You are going to step in the way of an agent and you are going to get arrested, you are going to touch one and you are going to get arrested. You mark my words that they are very soon going to get tired of this hands-off approach.

They    Are    Doing    Their    Job.    It’s    The     Protestors    Who    Are    At    Fault!!!!

Okay, I’m off my rant, now …

 

Okay, not really laugh worthy at first, but Scott, you will be missed Sir!

Okay, now we can move on…

 

 

Wow!  Just … Wow!

 

 

One night a teenage girl brought her new boyfriend home to meet her parents, and they were appalled by his appearance: leather jacket, motorcycle boots, tattoos and pierced nose.

Later, the parents pulled their daughter aside and confessed their concern. 

“Dear,” said the mother diplomatically, “he doesn’t seem very nice.” 

“Oh please, Mom,” replied the daughter, “if he wasn’t nice, why would he be doing 500 hours of community service?

Actually, this is a depiction of Judges 4:21: I’ll give you the ESV version which reads easier than the KJV: But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died. Him being Sisera, the commander of the army of Jabin who was king of Canaan. Heber was supposed to be an ally but had separated himself and his family. Sisera was fleeing the army of the Lord. Here’s the preceding verse: 17 But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Joel, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. 

18 And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

19 And he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.

20 And he said to her, “Stand at the opening of the tent, and any man comes and asks you, ‘Is anyone here?’ say, ‘No.'”

And then you know the rest. This loving woman allows him to fall asleep and drives a tent peg through his temple, fulfilling the will of the Lord. As soon as I saw this picture I knew what it was since I had just studied it in FBI (Faith Bible Institute). Neat, huh?

Now we have some memes of a theme thanks to Aussie Pete:

 

 

And this next one is really good…

 

Have you ever tried eating a clock?

It’s really time consuming, especially if you go for seconds.

 

 

DON’T get the order wrong!!!

 

 

OH COME ON! Leave Greenland the heck alone!!!

“Just cleared out some space in my freezer” sounds so much more productive than “I just polished off another pint of ice cream.”

I am retired in the sense that I was tired yesterday and today I am tired again.

“FACETIOUS”

is the only word in the English language that uses all of the vowels, in order.

Just     Ask!
If He doesn’t answer, stop and listen. If He still doesn’t answer, maybe the problem is YOU. What kind of a relationship do you have with Him? Come to Him in repentance and supplication. Get right with Him FIRST. Then ask again and see what happens.

 

 

So very, very sad.

 

 

Common Sense

is like deodorant.
The people who need it most never use it.

Why have so many people forgotten this?

 

 

The invention of the shovel was a ground breaking discovery.

But the invention of the broom was the one that truly swept the nation.

 

 

Reading the news lately, there seem to be a LOT of parents like that out there.

 

 

MUCH better than that stupid AI generated picture.

 

 

Did you know on the Canary Islands there is not one canary?

And on the Virgin Isles?

Same thing – not one canary there, either!

We are warned, strongly and deeply in Matthew 5:22 of the dangers of hell fire for calling someone Raca and/or fool. The idea behind “Raca” as “nitwit, blockhead, numbskull, bonehead, brainless idiot.” But, I think the above picture describes it most succinctly and precisely. 

 

  

What an appropriate typo.

 

 

The first time I used an elevator it was an uplifting experience.

But, the second time it let me down.

If it happens often enough that they have a word for it, then … 

I know, there are some of you out there who are thinking, maybe we ought to move to Finland.

 

 

No kidding! And they have the NERVE to say anything about January 6th.

 

 

I have no super powers.

So, I’m guessing I’m the villain. 

And that’s it my friends. That’s Monday’s issue in the bank and now I’ll start on Thursday’s next.  My days are back to being busy again. I have jail ministry on Monday evening, FBI on Tuesday evening, jail again on Wednesday, once a month is the UTA where I have to work the weekend, church every Sunday, and meetings on different nights of the week throughout the quarter depending.

Sigh.

I really ought to retire just so I  can spend more time working for God, but like my boss at work just told me the other day, he dreads the day I retire because there is no one ready to step up to take my place … but there really is … he just doesn’t know it and I won’t let him know until I’m ready for him to know, lol. 

Anyway, probably a year from now … or so.

But until then …