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Silent No More: Applying Habakkuk’s Message to Today’s Societal Challenges
I am not one of those people who has read the Holy Bible cover-to-cover. And, I do not recall ever reading the book of Habakkuk, nor do I recall ever hearing a sermon, until recently, based on this short book in the Old Testament. But a few months ag0 I was flipping through my bible Continue reading
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The Devil Didn’t Just Go down to Georgia…
In 1968, I was a child growing up in Harvey, Illinois, and we attended Oasis Missionary Baptist Church. The pastor at that time was Reverend Thorton. I believe that his first name may have been James, but I could be wrong. In 1968, children did not refer to adults by their first names and really Continue reading
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Utopia
So, my millennial daughter works for an IT company in a large liberal city, and a majority of the other employees are millennials too. My daughter is also rather conservative, perhaps not as conservative as I am, but much more that most of her contemporaries. We talk several times a week and I always enjoy Continue reading
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The Future of Shopping
Today, when I go to my local HEB (grocery store for those who do not live in Texas), I find myself weaving around a variety of “personal shoppers” and their multi-level carts as they select items for as many as eight customers at a time. This is not a criticism of HEB, they, like others, Continue reading
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Let’s Bring Back the Draft
My wife and I have one child, a daughter, and she must be the most photographed and videotaped child in America. Recent, my wife was going through old VHS tapes and transferring them to DVD’s. By the time she is done we probably will not be using DVDs anymore and will have to convert to Continue reading
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What is this all about?
It has been a rough couple of years. A virus, then a pandemic. People ordered to work while others ordered to stay home. Segments of the economy shut down–mask mandates, stay at home mandates, testing mandates, vaccine mandates and now termination mandates for non-compliance. It is all complicated and made more complicated by throwing politics Continue reading
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Crime and Disorder
A few days into August, I was looking for information about what is going on in Portland. I know there protest and riots have continued, but extraordinarily little actual reporting has reached my screen. I try not to accept at face value every post I read in social media, (I hope you don’t either) I Continue reading
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Blurring the Line Between Fiction and Fact
Please read the news report in the link below and then come back: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2293908-us-military-may-get-a-dog-like-robot-armed-with-a-sniper-rifle/ I like firearms. I think we should have firearms. I am an absolute supporter of the 2nd Amendment, but this is one scary weapon platform. The story says, “It is fully controlled by a remote operator. There is a human controlling Continue reading
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Rights v. Power
So, let me start with I am not a lawyer…and I do not play one on TV…But over the last 35+ years I have been more than a casual observer and I have some observations related to the various restrictions that have been imposed on the American public. Based on past Supreme Court decisions I Continue reading
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I Am Prejudiced
I am prejudiced. I am a retired cop and I am prejudiced…and always was. There I said it. I had in my soul a deep-seated bias that influenced my every action the entire thirty years that I worked in the profession. I was biased against people who harmed children and robbed them of the innocence Continue reading
Tennessee Drifter 