End Of Summer

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Red sunflower and bee.

Tulips

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I took this photo a few years ago. Now I am working on a watercolor of the image.

 

Wildflowers in Breeze

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Wildflowers in Breeze, 9X12" watercolor on Arches 140lb cold press cotton.

 

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Says It All

Patience

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Patience

I am having a very hard time with my hobby/business direction. I find it very difficult to wade through tutorials and listening to the endless droning on and on of the presenter. Then they constantly pound you for money to buy more of their teachings.

As you might have noticed, I am developing my painting and photography talents. I am at a point in my life that due to age and medical issues, this area is my retirement, if you will.

The pinnacle for me is to paint people. Its not as easy as you might think, especially if the model is, well....beautiful.

Stay tuned as this develops.

Ok enough of my ranting.

Im watching a video right now from BP Earthwatch. Now I do like this guy, he has a wonderfully deep voice and he's graphically descriptive. One area of his expertise is space. He is very well informed on space related areas. He is also very well versed on the Cern collider and Fukishima nuclear disaster.

So here is a shout out to you all for Jesse's channel. Please take a moment and check him out.

BP Earthwatch

Today BP Earthwatch posted a vlog about the newly discovered Bubonic Plague outbreak in Arizona. Yeah friggin Bubonic Plague.

Stay safe folks.

Politics and Violence

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August 13, 2017

Who Really Cares?

As I sit here, it's Sunday morning. I've had a couple cups of coffee, my son and daughter are sleeping, we are now past the time of making church service on time...another typical Sunday day.

The news services this morning are doing their boringly typical anti-Trump hate screed again. The Washington com-Post's lead story is (drum roll please) 

Trump lit the torches of white supremacy in Charlottesville. We must extinguish them.

 

Again, its more of the same. There is a surge in violence right now in this nation. The violence is PURELY POLITICAL in nature.

 

If you would insert the 'same ole same ole' gun violence of Chicago and Baltimore, most people would quietly roll their eyes and say "Who gives a shit?" And really, who does give a shit? 

 

I know I don't. 

 

The thugs in Baltimore and Chicago are killing each other over turf and drugs. That's been going on since the 50's in the slums of New York City, if you are looking purely at ethnic violence. Now if you factor in the Italian/Irish immigrant violence, You know, the Mob/Mafia etc, then this has been going on for a lot longer.

 

So, who cares?

 

Have we all become so accustomed to the killings that it just doesn't mean much any longer? Has the Justice system in this nation become a Lock 'em up-Throw away the key, lets build more prisons type thing? 

 

So, now the violence has turned political in nature.

 

Predictably so.

 

It is understandable that if you have a belief system in where your 'god' is politics. Then you will fight, bleed and die for your 'god.'

 

If your 'god' is nature, then you might hang yourself in a redwood and dare the loggers to cut it down, or maybe pound in spikes so the mill workers can eviscerate themselves when they go to work.

 

Is your 'god' one without any borders or restraints? Then protesting a barrier along the US southern border may be a good thing to get killed for. I mean why would anyone put up a barrier for anything?

 

Unless that barrier is on the border of a forest, then we need barriers so as to keep these pesky humans, not just 'humans', but white Euro-centric humans out of the land. 

 

This is where we as a nation have come. 

 

It's not a pretty picture. 

 

A day or so ago, a protest for/against whatever the soup du jour of the day is/was, happened in Charlottesville Va.

 

I don't know the intimate details, and I don't really care....it's political and smacks of Liberal/Right clashes. Which I find terribly juvenile and boring. So a guy drives his car into a crowd, kills one and injures plenty. And...he didn't yell 'Allah Akbar.' Fancy that.

 

So what's the cure?

 

Is it Gun Control?

Is it Global Warming actions?

Is it more effective Race Awareness?

Is it Get Rid of President Trump?

Is it Russia?

Our national symptoms are, increased violence, lack of respect for each other-our nation-our standards, increased drug usage (indicates a tangible withdrawal from society) 

The Rx is God thru Jesus Christ. This also means that our history as Americans needs to be revisited and studied. our nation was founded on Christian principles. The founding documents state that each man is a creation of God, and that Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness is our core . Our history wasn't pretty nor perfect...and there was violence. 

However, this won't mean much to those who out of hand reject God and what HE offers to each of us.

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Rumors Of Wars

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The rumors of impending war continues to grow louder.

The North Koreans have successfully made nuclear weapons AND the missile delivery systems to use them.

Recent tests have the Pentagon concluding that the NK's can reach Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Boston...possibly Washington DC.

Now, when their leader Kim Jong Un spews his rhetoric against the US, it has taken on a new tone.

God says in His Word in Ezekiel 13: 12-14

¹² The word of the Lord came again to me, saying: ¹³ “Son of man, when a land sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it. ¹⁴ Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness,” says the Lord God.

So God says that He will judge the land because of their unfaithfulness towards Him. He even gives three of the most righteous men the Bible as an example. God says that they (Noah, Daniel and Job) would survive but their sons and daughters wouldn't. This alludes that the sons and daughters might be unfaithful, but are covered by their fathers faith. God normally protects the family of the righteous believer, but in this case no. Remember Lots wife?

So, could we (the USA) be ready to get a judgment from God Almighty? Have we (the USA) gone away from God? Have our leaders made laws and decisions against God? I think that anyone who is thinking clearly knows that the answer is yes.
What would a judgment from God look like? Well, looking at Israel's past we see the judgments of God as invasions from the Assyrians, the Babylonians and finally the Romans.
The Babylonians took basically everything, gold, silver and mostly people. God saved His faithful through this invasion. Remember Daniel? Ezekiel etc.
There wasn't the technology that we have here in the 21st century.
Imagine a EMP attack, which would disable the electronics of this nation. No ATM's no credit cards no electronic money. Water supplies and sewage would not work, not to mention refrigeration and transportation and garbage disposal. Do you think that most people have food storage? or even the ability to purify their water or grow food?
Now combine that EMP with the Biblical Rapture. Remove millions of believing Christians and the Holy Spirit...and you have the start of the horrors of what the Bible portrays aas the End Times. The resultant worldwide confusion and turmoil would usher in the anti-Christ. People would do ANYTHING for peace and safety. Imagine if North Korea fired off a nuke on South Korea and got one or two off on the US.
Horrible, right?
The attacks on Israel, which is outlined in Ezekiel 38 and the destruction of Damascus described in Isaiah 17 would put Israel on the front  page of the worlds news for the next seven years.
Anyway you shake it, we are on a thin foothold. 
The Russians have a saying, "May you live in exciting times"
It's time to get right with God if you haven't.

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Do Not Be Deceived

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February 6, 2017

Do Not Be Deceived

Two stories caught my attention this morning.

Both are the result of deception, intentional? or unintentional?

First is this from the Brits;

Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data 

The Mail on Sunday today reveals astonishing evidence that the organisation that is the world’s leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on climate change.

A high-level whistleblower has told this newspaper that America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published the sensational but flawed report, aimed at making the maximum possible impact on world leaders including Barack Obama and David Cameron at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.

The report claimed that the ‘pause’ or ‘slowdown’ in global warming in the period since 1998 – revealed by UN scientists in 2013 – never existed, and that world temperatures had been rising faster than scientists expected. Launched by NOAA with a public relations fanfare, it was splashed across the world’s media, and cited repeatedly by politicians and policy makers.

But the whistleblower, Dr John Bates, a top NOAA scientist with an impeccable reputation, has shown The Mail on Sunday irrefutable evidence that the paper was based on misleading, ‘unverified’ data.

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You do understand this right?

All the hand wringing, protests, legislation and social pressure caused by manipulated data.

Deception

Lies

Manipulation

Nice way to start the week eh?

Next lets look at the one place where we NEED honesty, the Pentagon.

The U.S. military's stats on deadly airstrikes are wrong. Thousands have gone unreported

The American military has failed to publicly disclose potentially thousands of lethal airstrikes conducted over several years in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, a Military Times investigation has revealed. The enormous data gap raises serious doubts about transparency in reported progress against the Islamic State, al-Qaida and the Taliban, and calls into question the accuracy of other Defense Department disclosures documenting everything from costs to casualty counts.

In 2016 alone, U.S. combat aircraft conducted at least 456 airstrikes in Afghanistan that were not recorded as part of an open-source database maintained by the U.S. Air Force, information relied on by Congress, American allies, military analysts, academic researchers, the media and independent watchdog groups to assess each war's expense, manpower requirements and human toll. Those airstrikes were carried out by attack helicopters and armed drones operated by the U.S. Army, metrics quietly excluded from otherwise comprehensive monthly summaries, published online for years, detailing American military activity in all three theaters.

Most alarming is the prospect this data has been incomplete since the war on terrorism began in October 2001. If that is the case, it would fundamentally undermine confidence in much of what the Pentagon has disclosed about its prosecution of these wars, prompt critics to call into question whether the military sought to mislead the American public, and cast doubt on the competency with which other vital data collection is being performed and publicized. Those other key metrics include American combat casualties, taxpayer expense and the military’s overall progress in degrading enemy capabilities.

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Now, I am a fan of our military, I am also a Viet Nam era vet.

There is NO REASON for the Pentagon to do something like this, NONE.

You shoot at someone, it needs to be on the record. I can understand a few misses...but THOUSANDS?

Again, its deception.

Now, I'd like to share something with you.

Late in Jesus' ministry, as He was with His disciples in Jerusalem. The disciples were astonished at the size and scope of the buildings and specifically the Temple.

It was truly a magnificent sight. No different than a first time tourist in New York City in awe over the sky scrapers or in Washington DC marveling at the marble government buildings.

The disciples said to Jesus, this is recorded in Matthew 25

"24 Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. ² And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

So the Lord is saying that all the building that they see will be destroyed, and dismantled. Obviously the disciples were blown away at His statement,

The Signs of the Times and the End of the Age

³ Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

Naturally the next question is "When?" and "What are the signs of the End Of The Age?"

The End Of The Age...when it all winds down, or ramps up depending on your point of view...and here is Jesus first and crucial statement.
⁴ And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you.

Understand?
Deception, lies, manipulation, aversion, confusion...

The prophet Isaiah said 750 or so years before Jesus. Is 5:21

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!

Deception

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Shalom

Jerry

 

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