The path to freedom was not an easy one for a young America back in the 1700s. Have you ever stopped to consider that from the time Columbus discovered North America to the time our country was paid for with the blood of young and old alike that more than 200 years had elapsed? Two-hundred years is a really long time, and so has the more than 200 years that this nation has enjoyed freedom and prosperity.

     On the Internet and in books it’s been said time after time that “freedom is not free”. The number of deaths and injuries during that early war numbered 50,000, a handsome, tidy sum to pay for a young, sprouting nation. But compare this tidy sum to the 211,454 deaths and injuries that culminated from the Vietnam conflict that America participated in.

     Vietnam was a political war. I know you’ve heard that before. It was an undefinable war that could never have been won. From my recollections of that skirmish it was the politicians who determined the rules of engagement and not our illustrious military leaders who were trained to know what it takes to win a war. I, Albert, ask you, how can a politician win a war that he or she was never trained to win? They can’t, and perhaps it was a war that the politicians of that day never meant to win.

     It’s also been said that President Bill Clinton routinely used our military establishment to deflect attention away from the White House especially when there were things going on that the public should not have known about. The saying “the tail wags the dog” was often cited during his presidency to explain what went on. Who knows? (Vince Foster may have known, but he ain’t talking anymore.)

     The current administration has its own techniques in the fight against public disclosure. The birth certificate issue continues to burn brightly in the minds of those who will never believe that President Obama is legally qualified to hold his office. Someone sent a Kenyan birth certificate to me the other month along with a long explanation of what our president’s real name was when he was born. Who knows, really; and what does it matter as he’s in the White House conducting the everyday affairs of our nation. Besides, how do you suppose Congress would go about evicting him? They’re not going to post a 30-day eviction notice on the front door, I can tell you that.

     When I look at the mess that America has gotten itself into, I am reminded of the solitude I once experienced hiking in the woods that surrounded my parent’s home. There was great potential for disaster in those woods, and yet my parents allowed me to hike without an adult to accompany me as I was perhaps 12 when I started communing with God’s woodland, hills and valleys. They trusted that God would see their boy back home, and he did, day after day after day…

     There’s not a lot we can do as Americans but pray that God will see us through this difficult period in our nation’s history. We can also work hard, doing the best we can every day. We must trust the good nature of the majority, placing our faith in he that made us–not Congress, not the president, not government.

     Yours, Albert

As I look over the front page of my blog, I can’t help but feel the need to say a few words regarding the direction that it has taken as of late. I, Albert, originally intended this blog to be an uplifting thing with lighter reads and more cultural elements, such as poetry and prose. Unfortunately this did not occur as I was compelled to speak what I believe to be the truth.

     These things are largely my personal opinions, other than those penned by others. But even so, I must apologize for the dark, sinister direction that it has taken. I cannot apologize for the dark sinister material so far as it exists, but I can apologize for bringing it to the attention of those who would rather slumber on without knowing the nature of the beast before them.

     (Yes, there are really people who would rather not know.)

It’s Time To Wake Up!

     To you that slumbers, you can ignore all of this now, but in due time your slumber will be suddenly disturbed by the sound of boots and military equipment on U.S. soil. One morning you may awaken to these sounds as this armada of U.N. soldiers march down our city and suburban streets. Suddenly you’ll not be able to use the freeways as they will become the preferred route for NWO forces as they move from one corner to the other within this country–compliments of our tax dollars at work at widening them no doubt.

     At a time when you ought to be paying attention, we find you fast asleep. At a time when you need to be ranting and raving to your Congressmen, we see you with your little head on your pillow. At a time when you need to be angry, telling Washington what you REALLY think, we find your nose buried in Gerry Springer and other shows. At a time when men need to be men, we find you cowering behind the illusion of normalcy.

All Americans Need To Unite!

     While in a local grocery store the other day I had a chance to talk to a black man, a fairly young black man who will vote for Obama, the foreign American. He is tired and fed up with the Republicans. We agreed on one thing, however, unless blacks and whites stop fighting each other and start fighting the true enemy of freedom, there will be no hope for America–but then he added that he’ll still vote Democrat.

     Americans need to stop fussing and fighting one another and start fighting those who are truly working for the ruin of America. The first place to start is right at home! You can start by turning off your television for a month or two so you can clear all that propaganda out of your head. You can start by cutting the cable connection to anything but music and the Internet. If nothing else, buy simple 2 to 22 channel basic cable.

Stop Paying To Be Indoctrinated!

     I, Albert, think it’s so funny that so many of us, all of us, actually, think nothing of paying for a TV full of propaganda which seems to control the minds of all Americans. It’s bad enough that we are forced to fund a public school system that is largely hostile to the very country it lives and works in, we also have to fund our own demise by way of our TV connections.

     Isn’t it time you get off the mind control merry-go-round? Isn’t it time you jump off before it totally burns your mind out? Think about it, our televisions have become a means whereby the NWO can control our thinking, our philosophies, our ideas, our accepted views, and more. Isn’t it time you stop paying for your own indoctrination?

     This reminds me of several well known books written about futuristic events where televisions are everywhere and government and others use them to calm and control the masses. They also use them to monitor the masses through embedded cameras and microphones. Such a bi-directional connection exists now and could be used to do exactly what these books illustrated.

     There is no better time to wake up than now. Please stop and think about what I’ve said. Please cut the cable now so you can clear your mind. Please do it now.

     Yours, Albert

As reported by Fox and other news agencies:

Texas Defends Separation of Polygamist Sect Kids From Moms

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351389,00.html

“When state troopers and child welfare officials seized 416 children from the compound, 139 women accompanied them on their own and had been allowed to stay with the children until Monday, when they were driven back to the compound.

Only women with children under 5 could stay at the San Angelo Coliseum where they were being held.”

I hope this story does not go away until all the facts are reported. But knowing how big brother operates, I doubt that the whole truth will ever be reported.

If there were adults who abused some children, those adults, and those adults only should be prosecuted to the fullest of the law. But the manner in which the Texas authorities handled the case, would lead the unknowing public to believe that most all the children were abused by the majority of the adults.

I, for one, just cannot swallow that assumption.

Meanwhile, the children will be interrogated by social workers and police officers until they are ready to accuse every adult in their church of sexual abuse.

If the Texas authorities want to show some honest courage, they will raid, and seize all the children being brainwashed within the numerous radical Muslim compounds scattered throughout the “Lone Star” state.

But we know the politically correct cowards who rule will never do that. They and their goon squads are trained only to attack Christian home school parents and church camps.

Shame on the state of Texas for not getting to the whole truth, and singling out the actual guilty adult (or adults) before destroying all those families!

Keith

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

As human beings, we seem to live for action. We have to always be doing something, always on the go, always in motion, always yacking, ever moving toward something yet ahead of us. So few of us learn the joy of silence.

One day, I asked one of my children to stop and listen, “What is it you hear?” Their reply was, “Silence!”

I explained to them that “silence” has it’s own sound and it’s a wonderful sound. I see them growing into individuals who will one day learn the joys associated with silence.

Sometimes it’s best to remain silent and at other times it’s important to yack. I, Albert, know the difference between both and I believe that through time I’ve better learned when the time is right to yack and when it’s best to remain silent (capite?).

Stop for a moment and listen to the joyous sounds of silence.

Your’s, Albert

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Those things are dearest to us that have cost us most.

By Michel de Montaigne

Isn’t this the way we are as humans? Those things that are free are rarely cherished and appreciated while those things we pay the most for we value the most, even if it should be the other way around.

I, Albert, have come to the conclusion that in the end all we will have to cherish is our memories of our time on Earth. Every ache and every pain will be cherished simply because of the nature of the astral body, or whatever form that our Creator will choose for us to exist by.

Once we are deceased, we’ll cherish many of the things we now take for granted, like the sounds of song birds coming back after a long, cold winter. Like the beauty of a sunrise or sunset. Like the crying of a child in the dead of night. The cold chill from a winter wind as it blows and gathers steam across the lake.

What about the beauty of the sky, the white clouds that hang in the air like a balloon. Or the pain that comes from a divorce or a major breakup. Even the pain of death as we transition from the living to the dead.

It’s those things that are free that we ought to cherish the most. And yet, true to our nature, we often do the opposite.

Your’s, Albert

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The Economic Predication For Black Reparations

     At the conclusion of his exhaustive examination of statistical indicia of Black socioeconomic disadvantage in relation to whites, the historian and political economist Manning Marable aptly observes that “[s]tatistics cannot relate the human face of economic misery.” Buried in the jungle of statistical disparity are the life circumstances, impossible choices, and tedium of deprivation. As a democratic socialist, Manning takes aim in his book How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America at both the legacy of indifference to Black disadvantage fostered by the history of white racism and the exploitive dimensions of capitalist accumulation in which a substantial segment of the Black population is forced to serve as a symbolic index of the distance between working class whites and the abyss of absolute poverty. Hardcore poverty, poverty resistant to all attempts at amelioration, is thus indexically related to a segment of the Black population (and in some social imaginaries, all Blacks). In the sociological literature, this segment of the Black population is often isolated by the terms “underclass” or “ghettoclass” or “ghetto poor.” Although there are substantial reasons to demarcate analytically class or economic distinctions within the Black population, the primary focus of the following analysis is the continuing existence of major disparities in the economic condition and life opportunities of Blacks and whites.

     Just as there can be no doubt that such interracial disparities weigh most heavily upon the underclass, there can be no doubt that the persistence of those disparities is due in large measure to legally enforced exploitation of Blacks and socially widespread anti-Black racism. The achievements of Blacks who have prevailed against racist odds to improve their economic condition should not be minimized, but neither should the impact of the history and perdurance of racism on Black economic opportunity be trivialized. Despite well-publicized success cases like Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, Michael Jordan, and others, Blacks as a group have not reached anything approaching economic equality or equality of opportunity with whites. Given the glacial and limited nature of economic reform, this is unsurprising. Because racism, in addition to its psychological aspects, is a structural feature of the U.S. political economy, it produces intergenerational effects.

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     When I read the first few sentences, I’m reminded of a passage out of II Corinthians, Chapter 8, Verse 2: “How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.”

     Another verson of the Bible says it a little more plainly: “They have been severely tested by the troubles they went through; but their joy was so great that they were extremely generous in their giving, even though they were very poor.”

     I, Albert, am sure that there are many, many, many poor black families in the United States, just as I”m sure there are many, many poor white families. None of this is new and the Lord, Jesus, once told us that the poor would be with us always, and so it is perhaps with the majority of black people, but that is no reason to dispair, give up, and depend on handouts to survive, at least not for long.

     Early on in my young adult life I lived at the poverty level. For nearly a decade my yearly earnings were either so nill that I did not have to file a tax return or these earnings were so scanty that it was well below poverty level. If it were not for our families, we would not have survived as we did. Yes, I did accept some handouts for a time, but not any more than we really needed and not any longer than we had to.

     I can honestly say that I earned whatever position in life I have due to a lot of hard work. I worked very hard and I learned a lot. I now earn a good living, as do many, many, many black people. I know some very successful blacks who did not get there by taking handouts. They got there by the sweat of their brows. They did not feel sorry for themselves and they certainly did not expect others to feel sorry for them either. They got busy, they had a dream, and they made it work–on their own, without handouts.

     If there is anything I can say to encourage my black brothers and sisters to work hard and attain what they need and what they want, it would be to get your mind off of all the liberal talk and put it on what you want to do in your life. Pay attention to the goal and not the bleeding heart rhetoric of those who have more wealth than you and I put together.

     I, Albert, have what I have because I worked hard for it. I feel good about that and I wouldn’t have it any other way. For example, any time my parents tried to fight my fights at school, I asked them kindly to step back and let me handle things myself. I went fairly far in high school and I did that all by myself. I can honestly say that it was me and not a federal or state law that earned me whatever I have.

     Oh, but let’s not forget the true force of success in anyone’s life–yours or mine: The Most High God, our Creator! But then again, we’re told by the Word of God that He helps those who are willing to help themselves.

     Okay, let’s get busy building our lives, our wealth, our success and let’s stop feeling sorry for ourselves.

     Your’s, Albert

A friend sent me an e-mail that defended Barack Obama’s refusal to wear a U.S. flag lapel pin, and also suggested that Christians should not, or need not wear the Cross or exhibit a public display of their faith.

This was my reply:

You could be right. But what “actions” has Obama taken to prove his loyalty to America?

He could start by publicly denouncing his Muslim ties from the past. He might also consider removing the Che Guevara Flags Displayed In his Houston Office.

As for me, I frequently wear a pin that displays both the U.S. flag and the Cross of Christ, and as an “example” of my faith and love for my Lord, I also frequently pray in public before my meals.

Romans:1:16:” For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

2nd Timothy:1:12: “For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.”

It is one thing to live a good life as an example of our faith, but I sometimes wonder about Christians who seldom or never state their faith in public. Are they too timid and ashamed to display their faith? With all the new “hate speech” laws, some Christians have been targeted for arrest and jail time now only because they quote Holy Scriptures that denounce the perverted lifestyle of gays and others. I can understand that this could give some cause for concern, but now, more than ever, we need to be stating our faith and patriotism.

And granted there are those phony Christians and patriots who like to flaunt the Cross and our flag just to influence public opinion, but for every one of those, there are churches full of honest sincere Christians, not ashamed to let anybody and everybody know who their Lord and Savior is, and the countless vets who have more than earned the right and privilege to wear their service pins and the American flag. I must regretfully admit that I do not witness or speak out often enough, but I will keep trying.

If we do not exercise our right to publicly give honor to our Lord and to the flag for which we stand, we will soon lose many more of our rights as were established in the U.S. Constitution.

So, call me a nut… but that’s my story and I’m stickn’ to it!

Keith

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I know a man who claims to have had out of body experiences (OBEs). As a Christian this thought is somewhat perplexing to me as it’s difficult for me, as it is most average Christians, to understand not only how but why it can happen.

Perhaps the most important questions of all are 1) how can such a thing happen to someone that you don’t think of as being especially spiritual, 2) what’s the purpose, and 3) who’s behind it–heaven or hell?

It’s easy for us as Christians to simply dismiss people like this with a wave of the hand. Well, I decided to do some exploring and I found an interesting passage in 2nd Corinthians, verses 1 through 10 in Chapter 12 and here are the first four:

2 Corinthians

• 12.1 - It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
• 12.2 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
• 12.3 - And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
• 12.4 - How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

The writer of 2nd Corinthians, Paul the apostle, came along after the other 11 (by then Judas, the betrayer of Christ Jesus, had committed suicide over what he had done). You can imagine how this would have caused quite a stir amongst the others. And as an organisation, it’s easy to see how Paul would be ignored due to feelings of resentment, assuming that he is the only one who had these things.

Then again, if we take a short step back and we take another look at all of this it’s clear that the other 11 apostles had the luxury of first hand instruction by Jesus Christ himself. Because Paul came along later, it may have been necessary to school him in this manner.

My friend says that during some of his OBEs he was schooled on an assortment of things by men dressed in white robes. Only problem is, consciously he doesn’t recall what these lessons were about.

Let’s step back and take still another look at another Bible character that seemed to have an OBE: John

Revelation

• 4:1 - After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
• 4:2 - And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

If you read the first Chapter of St. John’s writings in the Book of Revelation (The Apocalypse) and compare it to the passages above, you can see that a shift took place after Jesus gave his message to the seven churches. In Chapter 1 John says he was in the spirit on the Lord’s day on the Island of Patmos when this event took place. In Chapter four, when he was taken in the spirit, he was whisked away out of body, or so it would appear. You should read it for yourself:

Revelation

• 1:9 - I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
• 1:10 - I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
• 1:11 - Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

In Chapter 1, John says he was in the spirit on the Lord’s day. In Revelation 4, he says he was taken in the spirit to see events yet to come. Clearly there’s a difference between the two experiences–the early one where he had a vision and the second where he was actually removed from his location and taken to another.

Do I understand it? No. Without a doubt, I do not understand it. But, we must at least admit to ourselves that there are things that God makes happen to his servants, sometimes average Christians at that, which cannot be easily explained in everyday Christian terms. Does that mean it did not or could not happen today and to someone like my friend, an average Christian?

According to my friend, in the early years of his experiencing these things he took his situation to several ministers to get their opinion on things. Most of them were not at all on board with it. Most of them told him they thought it was satanic. One even went so far as to ask him, “Why would God give you such a spiritual experience and not someone of the church, like myself?” My friend told me that his reply was simple, “That’s a question you need to ask God, not me.”

I bring all of this up today, Sunday, because it seems to me that some of us as Christians have come to the point where we go through the motions but when it really comes down to it, we don’t beleive most of what we’re told in church. I say that because I’m sure my good friend with the OBEs has had his share of chastisement by Christian brothers and sisters. And yet the apostles themselves told of similar experiences. And then you join this with Jesus’ own instruction that Christians can do greater things than he did if they have faith, and you begin to see that maybe we do have a problem en masse.

Your’s, Albert

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As I sit here this Christmas Day, I am reminded of the reason why God came to Earth in the form of a man named Jesus. The story of Jesus actually represents one of the most paranormal events of the New Age possible. It involves God, the Most High, microforming a man named Jesus by way of a virgin birth via Mary, Jesus’ mother. And yet so many disbelieve.

By nature, God is so big that He had to send his spirit, the Holy Spirit, to man’s level in order to communicate and work with his creation at the societal level. Like a father seperated by indifference and intellectual space from his children, God was forced to endure a signifigant gap in connection with his children, mankind.

It was necessary to launch a search and rescue mission on Earth, the mission which is to search for acceptable men and women and to educate them as to God’s true and rightful will for mankind. The initial event that kicked off this effort was the birth of Jesus.

The Christmas story, like the Christian story, is actually a paranormal one. There is nothing man-made in the making of this story. It was handed down by God through events that took place more than 2,000 years ago, or nearly 2,000 years ago. It’s a supernatural story that includes many new-age implications, but without all the hocuspocus. It’s an in-your-face story that tells of the entry of God in the form of a man named Jesus.

For this reason, I’m somewhat amazed at the disbelief exhibited by so many of this new age. How can those who profess the existence of spiritual creatures and the channeling of their messages to mankind disbelieve in what is probably the grandaddy of new-age stories: the entrance of God at the level of man through the creation of and habitation of a man named Jesus?

Jesus was one of three coggs in a large wheel called the Godhead. The Godhead is comprised of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, which is God’s immediate Sprity on Earth and throughout creation.

I am so grateful that I was given the privelage of knowing Jesus by acceptance of the Holy Spirit. Without this indwelling of the Holy Spirit one cannot know Jesus. I have seen many wonderful mysteries throughout my own life, some that include the actual changing of natural laws to alter what could have been terrible outcomes for me as well as for others. I’ve seen events suddenly turned around to remove myself from harm’s way.

No one can tell me there is no God as I know there is with ever fiber of this body as well as every spec of thought within me. He continues to guide and protect me to this very day and He will do that for you if you but repent and ask Him to come into your heart. Don’t delay, as the time is growing short. Don’t wait another day to turn your eyes toward the sky–toward your Maker, the Creator of all we see.

As we celebrate Jesus’ birthday, Christians and non-Christians alike, may we know that there is a God and that whether we know it or not, Christmas is an acknowledgement of His coming to Earth.

Your’s, Albert

P.S.
     There are those who will tell you that a virgin birth is impossible. Remember one thing, they can only speak for mankind. NOTHING is impossible with a Creator who is powerful enough to speak what we now see into existence.

     The laws of nature are so complicated and indepth that the smartest of our scientists are still trying to figure them out… and so many have the nerve to say a supreme, supernatural intelligence smarter them themselves is not possible. That has to be the ultimate VANITY!

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Lord, keep me sweet when I grow old,
   And things in life seem hard to bear;
When I feel sad and all alone,
   And people do not seem to care.

O keep me sweet when time has caused
   This body, which was once so strong,
To droop beneath its load of years,
   And suffering and pain have come.

And keep me sweet when I have grown
   To worry so, at din and noise;
And help me smile, the while I watch
   The noisy play of girls and boys.

Help me remember how that I,
   When I was younger than today,
And full of life and health and joy,
   Would romp and shout in happy play.

Help me to train my heart each day,
   That it will only sweetness hold;
And as the days and years roll on,
   May I keep sweet, as I grow old.

O keep me sweet, and let me look
   Beyond the frets that life must hold,
To see the glad eternal joys,
   Yes, keep me sweet in growing old.

     Albert asked me to fill in while he’s away from the computer. I told him I’d do my best, so here goes.

     The above poem has special signifigance to me because of those around me whom are growing old. When I was a younger man I had little thought concerning the aged among us. I worked in and throughout nursing facilities all across the state in which I live and I never thought a thing about it, although some of the facilities were very poor as well as the care and that did make me sad for those who were forced to live there.

     There will be a time when I grow old and unable to care for myself, at least one must consider that possibility. Nursing homes in the U.S. are generally good and the caretakers kind and caring, but there is only so much that they can do as the number of staff versus patients is such that they can only devote a given amount of time to each person in their care.

     My own parents are gone now, and I did not have to put them in a nursing home, although looking back I might should have done so with my mother, but she was a viable contributing member of society almost right to the end. But if you have a loved one who is in such a situation, YOU need to be there for them.

     No, I’m not talking about a monthly visit. I’m talking about a weekend visit each and every weekend–four times a month. Show them you care for them, that you want to see them, that they’re important to you, and for heaven sakes, care for them in the best way you can.

     If you have trouble doing this, just think back to when you were a kid and how they took care of you. Did they only look in on you once a month? I’m sure they did not even do that on a weekly basis. They were there for you each and every day.

     Don’t be a deadbeat kid. I saw too many older folks in nursing homes who had no one. Nurses would tell me that their children rarely come to visit with them. How sad! How deadbeatish!

     

Don’t be a deadbeat kid!

     Al Colombo, tpromo.com