Sunday Morning Thoughts: America in Chaos… How Did We Get Here?

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! – Isaiah 5:20-21

A lot of Americans, in fact, I would say the majority of us, are thinking, “How in the world did we as a country get in the condition we are in?”

…with college students and other “Useful idiots” defending the Radical Islamic Terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah

…with crime rampant because of coddling criminals, with young people shooting one another and killing elderly Americans in the street for fun?

…with teachers and school boards attempting to “groom” our children through age-inappropriate “Sex Education” illustrated textbooks, while attempting to hide what they are doing from concerned parents who are not allowed to speak at school board meetings?

…with professional politicians being bought off by special interest groups and foreign governments, including the president?

…with both Main Stream and Social Media being nothing more than a Propaganda Arm of the Democratic Party?

…with America’s “Brightest and Best”, our Armed Forces, being turned into a bunch of socially-engineered “Woke Wussies”?

…with inflation out of control while Americans are being paid to stay at home and encouraged not to work?

…with school children being taught to hate each other and America, our flag, our Pledge of Allegiance, and our National Anthem?

I believe that the very beginnings of the mess which we find ourselves in as a country started with LBJ’s “Great Society”, which led to the dissolution of the Traditional Black Family Unit.

However, America, as we knew it, really started pulling apart at the seams when Barack Hussein Obama was elected as our 43rd President.

And, it wasn’t caused by racism.

It was caused by the acceptance or Relative Morality, Situational Ethics, and Deviant Behavior.

We have too many people in this Sovereign Nation who were not raised “in the Way in which they should go”.

(Yeah…I said it.)

The direction which the Modern Democratic Party has taken since then to the Far Left of the Political Spectrum has put them at odds with the majority of Americans who still hold dear the Traditional Faith and Values System upon which our Sovereign Nation was founded.

Is all this upheaval our nation is feverishly attempting to recover from, with no help from “The Resistance”, “Antifa”, “The Far Left”, or whatever you want to call the Anti-American immature idiots, due to some sort of Satanic Influence attempting to tip the scales in the fight between Good and Evil, across our land?

If you look at 80% of the movies that Tinsel Town produces for public consumption nowadays, they seek to glorify the Powers of Darkness….and they seem to be very popular with young Americans.

Why is the Occult, including Satan and his demons, so fascinating to impressionable young Americans?

People who take the existence of Satan lightly, eventually wind up in some sort of trouble, and those who worship Satan wind up in even greater trouble.

Back in the 1960s, the late, beautiful actress Jayne Mansfield posed for a series of publicity pictures with the Head Priest of the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey. The pictures showing her with LaVey, included several shots of taking their version of Communion, simulating drinking blood from a goblet, offered by the priest. She even wore a pink and black medallion of Satan and the goat-headed Baphomet to the 1966 San Francisco Film Festival. Later, the beautiful actress died in a freak car accident in which she was decapitated.

Now, far be it from me to link one to the other. That is up for you to decide for yourself.

Is all this upheaval our nation is currently facing, caused by the Democrats, their Propaganda Arm, the MSM, and their young minions, due to some sort of Satanic Influence attempting to tip the scales in the fight between Good and Evil, across our land?

The reason that our nation is facing the difficulties we are is the belief by those who proclaim themselves to be the “smartest people in the room”, that they are above the old-fashioned, passe notions of morality and ethics, good and evil, and the Sovereignty of God.

In the opinion of this Christian American living in the Heartland, they have made a grave mistake.

Evil exists and these fools opened the door to Satan in our society a long time ago.

When it all comes crashing down around them, what are they going to say?

The Devil made me do it?

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. – Ephesians 6:12

Until He Comes,

KJ

America on High Alert: Hamas Leader Calls for Muslims to “Take to the Streets” Today

“An official statement from the Hamas terrorist organization and comments from a former Hamas leader — both calling for global mobilization against Israel this Friday, Oct. 13 — are raising alarm at Jewish organizations and among those who monitor the Middle East.

“The real threat here is that there is no way of knowing who, if anyone, will take up the call or if there are pre-planned actions already staged elsewhere in the world just waiting for the greenlight,” according to James Carafano, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and senior counselor to its president.

Carafano cited the Biden administration’s “open door” immigration policies and said that the U.S. president has “thrown virtually every post 9/11 caution to the wind.”

“Given that preparations and attention for dealing with global terrorism in the West have lapsed in recent years, who knows if anyone has been paying attention to this threat?” Carafano told JNS.

On Oct. 10, Hamas called for an “Al-Aqsa Flood Friday” on Oct. 13, according to a translation from the Middle East Media Research Institute. In the statement, the terror organization sought reinforcements from “our Palestinian people, the masses of the Arab and Islamic world, and free people worldwide” in its “declaration of mobilization.”

“To all scholars who teach jihad,” he said, “to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application [of jihad].”

Also on Oct. 10, the Qatar-based Khaled Mashal, who led Hamas from 2014-2017, called for Muslims to “take to the streets” Friday in a global protest against Israel.” (Courtesy Newsmax.com)

Americans must be on high alert today because right now we are in more danger than any time in decades from an attack from within thanks to our wide open Southern Border.

Jihad could easily break out in major cities across America.

We must be vigilant today.

Concerning the question about treating Muslims differently, yes, it is ideal to treat people the way you would want them to treat you.

However, while I have met some very nice American Muslims, I have also been inside a mosque where I was looked at as if they wanted to take a scimitar to my neck.

If Moderate Muslims are not behind their radical brethren’s eternal jihad against us infidels, they need to get their mugs in front of the cable news networks’ TV cameras and say so…because all I see representing them when I turn on the news, are the activists on college campuses and the hateful idiots on Capitol Hill known as “The Squad”, blaming America and Israel for all the world’s troubles.

This is ironic because the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, just gave back six billion dollars to Iran, the world’s biggest sponsor of Islamic Terrorism.

Are “The Smartest People in the Room” so contrary, as to not realize that Radical Islam punishes every single social issue that Modern American Liberals so “righteously” defend in this nation?

The maddening thing is that every time you challenge Far Left Democrats on this fact, they try to equate Radical Islam with American Christianity.

Frankly, the ignorance of Modern American Liberals blows my mind.

There is a very important difference between being an average Christian American and a Muslim, living in America.

When Christians become “radicalized”, we want to share the testimony of what God has done for us through His love, with everyone we meet. We get involved in our local church, and we become better fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, and American citizens.

When Muslims become “radicalized”, they want to “kill the Infidels”, putting flaming tires around the necks of civilian adults and beheading their babies in the name of “Allah the Merciful”.

In the case of the Radical Islamic Terrorists of Hamas, it turned them into doppelgangers of the Nazi Butchers of Dachau.

For propagandized college students and the rest of the Far Left Democrats to deny that is disingenuous at best, and just plain dangerous at worst.

Please be careful out there today.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Hamas Attacks Israel on the 50th Anniversary of the Yom Kippur War… Is Iran Involved?

Today, Israelites have woke up to their peaceful observance of Shabbat, their traditional Jewish day of rest and worship by a massive deadly surprise attack by Radical Muslims on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kipper war.

“Hamas has launched the biggest attack on Israel in years, killing at least 100 (updated) Israelis and wounding hundreds more with a barrage of rockets as gunfights are reported in Sderot and other cities in southern Israel.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)

Who is HAMAS?

“HAMAS (an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawamat al-Islamiyya, which is Arabic for “Islamic Resistance Movement”) is an Islamic fundamentalist group founded on December 14, 1987. As a single Arabic word rather than an acronym, “Hamas” means “zeal.” The organization’s founders were seven leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood: Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Ibrahim al-Yazuri, Sheikh Salih Shihada, ‘Isa al-Našhar, Muhammad Shama’a, and ‘Abd al-Fattah Dukhan. Hamas, in a sense, grew out of a 1985-86 Brotherhood movement — in which Ahmed Yassin was involved — that resolved to pursue its goal of degrading and ultimately destroying Israel by means of civil disturbance. The movement went by various names such as The Armed Struggle Movement, The Steadfast on the Land of al-Isra’, and The Islamic Resistance Movement. Ultimately, Yassin blended a group he had founded in 1973 — the Islamic Organization — into this Brotherhood movement, and settled on the name Hamas. The organization gained great popular support Gaza due to commitment to “raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.”

…Over the years, Hamas’ funding has derived from a variety of sources. Today it is supported primarily by donations from Iran…(Courtesy DiscoverTheNetworks.org)

Recently, the Biden administration reached a dangerous deal with Iran to release five American hostages in exchange for five Iranians held in U.S. jails and at least $6 billion of Iranian assets frozen in South Korea.

Israel has been America’s greatest allies since before their birth as a country in 1948.

Biden and the Democrat Elite want somehow to force Israel to give half of their land to the “Palestinians”, reducing the size of their country back to the size it was before the 1967 war.

Biden and the Democrat Elite are hell-bent on appeasing the Radical Muslims of Iran and Hamas in the same manner in which they appeased the Taliban in Afghanistan, leading to the shameful pullout of our troops from that country, now a haven for Islamic Terrorists.

If the Biden Administration is allowed to continue to finance the “Palestinians”, governed by Radical Islamic Terrorists, they will be putting a gun in the mouth of Lady Liberty and opening the door for an even bigger foreign policy embarrassment than Afghanistan.

Biden is already seen by World Leaders as a weak, vacillating, demented old fool.

Our enemies around the world are licking their chops while waiting for the perfect opportunity to attack us.

Biden and his clueless Foreign Policy Team continue to embrace our enemies while alienating our allies.

For Biden, his handlers, and the Democrat Elite to follow the path of certain destruction which they are referring to as their “Middle Eastern Policy”, is a strategy of self-annihilation not seen since the Japanese Kamikazes descended from the skies above the Pacific Ocean in World War II

Just like his pursuit of a Nuclear Bomb Deal with the Mad Mullahs of Iran, Biden and his Co-conspirators are not only sowing the seeds of their own destruction…they are placing America and the rest of the Free World in danger as well.

I don’t care whether you are a Republican or a Democrat…what is happening in Israel this morning should scare the wits out of you.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Saturday Morning Thoughts: When Virtue Signaling Meets Reality

For a while now, I’ve been writing about possible buyer’s remorse becoming worse within the Democratic Party as installed President Joe Biden becomes more and more feeble and noticeably less cogent.

I was watching “Fox and Friends” Friday morning as they were referring to a recent poll by CNN.

The poll showed that 67% of of Democrats would like somebody else besides old joe Biden running for President in 2024.

What does that say about the members of the Democratic Party who have come to realize what a mistake they made?

Well, it says the same thing that is happening in the Democrats’ Sanctuary Cities.

When you are the one who’s being hurt by the actions (or inaction) of your political leaders…

Virtue Signaling + Reality = BUYER’S REMORSE

While the Far Left has, to a great extent, taken over the Democratic Party, there are still some Democrats who have just an inkling of common sense left.

They have remained quiet because they were outnumbered.

But now that they are living paycheck-to-paycheck and maxing out their credit cards, and they watch a bumbling President who is making political decisions that make no sense and that are putting our entire country in danger of vanishing from the face of the earth, they’re starting to realize that they put their money on the wrong horse.

Biden is going to get all of us killed or succeed in turning America into a Third World Barrio.

The only option that we have as Americans who want our country to survive and prosper is to once again elect Donald J Trump as President.

His domestic and foreign policies were both working before China unleashed COVID-19 on the entire world.

I hope that those Democrats experiencing buyer’s remorse realize the imminent peril that their party leaders’ lust for political power has gotten this country into.

Those “leaders” should be heartily ashamed for their actions.

It was an act to arrogance on the part of the Democrat Elite to install Joe Biden in a way which was clearly unconstitutional.

They felt like they could get by with it, and they most certainly did…for a while.

Now, the Democrat Elite are using our own legal system in an attempt to stop Americans from voting into office the person they want to be President.

The Democrats know that they made a mistake, and now they’re trying to hold on to that mistake in order to keep from losing power.

All their actions are doing is causing their own party members to turn against them.

Those Democrats who want Biden out will have to vote for Trump.

They have no choice if they want American to remain a free country.

Gavin Newsom is a Communist who has ruined California and “Heels Up” Harris thinks that a hypotenuse is an animal she saw in a zoo.

Democrat voters voted America into this situation.

They can help vote us out of it.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Saturday Morning KJ Rant: Biden, Wokesheviks, and the “America Last” Movement

“When asked about whether Asian countries could depend on America’s nuclear umbrella of protection, Biden replied, “There’s not much, if anything, I agree on with my predecessor, on foreign policy. His ‘America First’ policy of walking away from the rest of the world has made us weaker, not stronger.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)

“Dr. Adam Clark, the superintendent of Mount Diablo Unified School District, defended the retirement of the Minutemen mascot, telling Fox News Digital it was “in response to the mass shootings and killings of students on school campuses” adding that the “male minutemen soldier holding a rifle was not a symbol many of our students and staff felt created a welcoming environment.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)

Are you kidding me?

Let’s deal with the little fish first.

Those idiots in California are not worried about the children.

They are worried about their political agenda… the same political agenda that Biden just championed in front of a world audience.

Make no mistake, this is a concerted effort to radically change America from being the world leader to being just another third-world Marxist country.

Children should not be triggered by American history.

In fact, they should be taught to cherish it because it is what makes us unique.

The Minutemen were willing to give their lives for the promise of a free and Sovereign Nation with Liberty for all.

Our shared history as Americans made us the Leader of the Free World

Just like other school boards across this country, the Far Left Democrats who run the Mount Diablo School Board believe that they are the smartest people in any room in which they enter.

They aren’t.

Which brings us to the Resident in the Nursing Home, errr… White House, Hunter’s enabler and business partner, #DementiaJoe Biden.

Biden’s statement before the world deserves all the backlash and heat that it has brought upon him.

As President of the United States of America, you should be its greatest advocate, not its greatest critic.

America is living under a tyranny of the minority.

We have generations of useful idiots who have been raised to despise the traditional faith and values, which made this nation a world leader.

Instead of standing strong and united against our enemies, honoring the legacy of patriotism and courage of the Minutemen, the useful idiots known as Far Left Democrats have purposefully divided us while literally opening our Front Door (Southern Border), inviting them in and making “business deals” at the highest level with those who want to conquer us.

To paraphrase…

“Those who ERASE history are doomed as a country.”

Until He Comes,

KJ

Democrat Hissy Fit: A Country Song Illuminates a Purposely Divided America

With all of the political chicanery being witnessed by Americans this past week involving the Biden Crime Family and the politicized indictments of former President Donald J Trump, one major news story, which has come literally out of Left Field, is possibly the most important.

Jason Aldean, a major Country Music star, came out in May with a song titled “Try That in a Small Town.”

The song illuminates the outrageous violent anti-American behavior of rioters during the ironically named “Summer of Love” in 2020.

Rioters from Antifa and BLM used the death at the hands of a police officer of career criminal George Floyd, who once held a gun to the stomach of a pregnant woman, as an excuse to go on a nationally-coordinated rampage.

These thugs defaced monuments, broke into and burned businesses, assaulted innocent people, and actually killed Americans, during what the minions in the Main Stream Media described as “mostly peaceful protests.”

What Jason Aldean sings about in the song is old-fashioned American values, which include taking care of your neighbors, gun ownership, and standing up for your rights as Americans not to be intimidated and bullied by mobs of “Useful Idiots.”

The song has been attacked by those on the Left as being racist.

It’s not.

To paraphrase Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it’s not about the color of their skin, it’s about the content of their character.

Major metropolitan areas, which have come under the “governance” of Far Left Democrats, have broken down from beautiful cities where everyone felt safe, to walled-in gang-ruled “Asphalt Jungles” resembling those seen in the Kurt Russell movies “Escape From New York” and “Escape From L.A.”.

The reason that the Far Left Democrats are so upset about this song is the fact that it shows that they have purposely divided our Constitutional Republic in an attempt to make America a mob-ruled “Democratic Socialist” country in preparation for them to establish a totalitarian government in which they would rule in perpetuity.

They count on average Americans not waking up to what is actually happening around them.

That is why they have to censor Jason Aldean’s song.

And, that is why Americans must not allow that to happen.

Until He Comes,

KJ

July 4th, 2023: The Strength of America STILL Lies In the Homes of Its People

“The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.” – Abraham Lincoln

If you have been paying attention to what has been happening in our Sovereign Nation since the installation of “President” Joe Biden, you have witnessed clueless arrogant Far Left Local and National Democrat Politicians, celebrities and professional athletes acting like a bunch of spoiled ungrateful, miserable wannabe Marxists.

These “Ungrateful Miserables” if you will, aided by the Biden-Harris Administration, continue to attempt to erase our nation’s history through their attempts to introduce a fictional version of our nation’s history into the curriculum of public school systems and universities, in order to further divide our nation through Cultural Marxism.

Those who are leading this movement to “radically change” this “Shining City Upon a Hill” into a Third World Marxist country echo the sentiments of the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, and the rest of the Far Left self-proclaimed geniuses who cost the Democratic Party the Presidency in 2016 and who cheated their way into the White House in 2020.

These “Ungrateful Miserables” believe that anybody who works hard for a living and believes in God and Country is a Jingoistic imbecile.

According to the dictionary, Jingoism is an extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.

In other words, being guilty of believing that America is the greatest country on the face of God’s Green Earth and believing in American Exceptionalism.

For the past 2 decades at least, children and young adults, attending American Institutes of Learning, from kindergarten to college campuses, have been taught by Liberal teachers and professors that America is “just another country” and to be a patriot is to somehow be close-minded, ignorant, and bigoted, not necessarily in that order.

Evidently, the overeducated imbeciles who planned this Marxist uprising that we have witnessed over the last several years have never understood in their ungrateful little lives what has made and continues to make our country exceptional.

Where the exceptionalism of America lies…is not in the Halls of Power…nor in the Halls of Academia. But, rather in the courage and spirit of the average American. A courage and spirit, which our history proves, has driven American citizens to build a nation, which is indeed exceptional among all others.

The secret of this country’s exceptionalism is the “Average Joe”, the 9 to 5′er, working himself into the grave to try to provide for his family.

It was this same “Average Joe”, who fired the shot heard around the world and began the War for American Independence, who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in World War II, who waded through rice paddies in Vietnam, and who swallowed sand in Desert Storm and Desert Shield. The same “Average Joe” who, as a New York City Policeman or Fireman, ran up the stairs of the World Trade Center on 9/11/01 instead of running down them. The same “Average Joe”, who simply wants things to be easier in this life for his children and grandchildren, than he had it.

It is this same “Average Joe”, who takes family and friends in, when they are in the midst of a life-altering tragedy. The same “Average Joe”, who volunteers on a soup line or at a Senior Citizens Home, or who begins a successful business in his basement.

And, it is this same “Average Joe” who, being fed up with the Democratic Party’s Far Left Crusade against anything and everything traditionally American, went to the voting booth and elected Donald J. Trump, a Citizen Statesman, as our 45th President.

And that, boys and girls, is why, on this 4th of July, almost 7 years after average Americans watched with a sense of prideful accomplishment as Donald J. Trump took the Oath of Office, Modern American Liberals are still showing the world their posteriors while continuing to throw the longest mass temper tantrum in recorded history, even though they “won” the 2020 Presidential Election.

Their ego-driven political ideology does not permit them to consider the reality that theirs is still the minority political ideology in this nation, a Far Left Fascist political ideology which none but a small minority on the Far Left of the Political Spectrum embrace.

While the East and “Left” Coast are indeed heavily-populated in their metropolitan areas with Liberals (some of them even Legal Citizens), the reality of what actually happened on November 8th, 2016 can been plainly seen on any Electoral Map.

As George Orwell said,

“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”

So, to summarize, by embracing Marxism, by labeling Patriotism as “Jingoism”, and by ridiculing and accusing those of us who love our country and hold fast to Traditional American Values as being “racists”, the Democratic Party are well into the process of ruining this country, and making average Americans so mad that they are fighting back by showing up to school board meetings and speaking out against the Democrat-driven Cultural Marxism which they are attempting to brainwash our children with.

The anti-American arrogance of the “Ungrateful Miserables” comprising the Democratic Party has already cost them the House of Representatives. The way things are progressing, it will not only cost them the Presidency…it will also cost them the Senate, as well.

If I was a Modern American Liberal with any sort of self-awareness, I would be ashamed of disrespecting both my flag and my country.

Unfortunately, the Far Left “Democratic Socialists” who have taken over the once mainstream Democratic Party and who guide poor old, demented Joe Biden are not self-aware.

It is this lack of self-awareness that is allowing average Americans to witness the beginning of the implosion and political extinction of the Democratic Party right before our very eyes.

In the opinion of this 64-year-old, sitting in the Northwest corner of the Magnolia State in America’s Heartland, Modern American Liberals, and their ideological leaders, who trod the Halls of Power with impunity, underestimate the American Spirit, just as King George and the British Aristocracy did, so many years ago.

As our enemies, both foreign and domestic, have discovered since the birth of our nation, Americans will fight for our freedom.

We showed this fact to the world on November 8th, 2016.

And now, almost 7 years later, thanks to the arrogant overreach of the Far Left Ideologues who are controlling Joe Biden, his Administration and the Democrat Politicians on Capitol Hill, the citizens of our Sovereign Nation are beginning to once again rise like a phoenix from its ashes and are preparing to SAVE AMERICA!

May God bless you and your family on this 4th of July, the Year of Our Lord, 2023, and may God Bless America.

Until He Comes,

KJ

“God Save the Queen”? God Save America! – A KJ Rant

When I saw this yesterday, I smiled for a moment, and then I realized that America could go straight down the toilet if something isn’t done soon.

We are being held hostage as a nation by a cabal of Washington Insiders who installed a Dementia-riddled old pervert in the most powerful position in the world.

And yes, I meant to say the word “installed.”

There is no way that home-bound joker got 81,000,000 votes except through political chicanery and election rigging on a national level never before seen in our history.

Joe Biden is merely a vessel, a way to accelerate the radical change that former President Barack Hussein Obama claimed our country needed.

Look at all that has happened under his watch.

America has been embarrassed by events such as the Afghanistan pull-out and Biden having to be led around by his wife and aids at international conferences.

Meanwhile, back home, average Americans are being attacked for their traditional faith and values and children are being mutilated because they are being told that they are not the sex that agod created them to be by Far Left Political Ideologues teachers who are supposed to be teaching, not programming and grooming.

Then, when average Americans attend school board meetings and stand up for their children in order to keep sexually-explicit books of the school libraries while insisting on being respected for their right as parents to raise their children, they are called “terrorists”.

Meanwhile, at the White House, Biden hosts a “Pride Day Event” where all sorts of freaks gathered and the American Flag was flown in a subordinate position to the Gay Pride Flag while a guy showed off his new female breasts by walking around topless.

And, we are being told that a man can have a menstrual period and a baby.

We are being told that a traditional family is not nended to raise a child, and our children and grandchildren belong to EVERYBODY, especially the GOVERNMENT.

If somehow you believe that this what the Founding Fathers’ vision for our Sovereign Nation was, you are one sick puppy.

You may call me a White Nationalist.

You may call me narrow-minded.

However, I know for a fact that this nation was formed by people who were tired of totalitarian rule and who left behind everything they knew at great perful to themselves and their families to be able to worship, express, and live their faith freely without repercussions.

If we do not return to a nation where that is allowed and free and honest elections occur in order to choose our president, America, as we know it, will cease to exist.

God Save America.

Please.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Memorial Day 2023: Liberty is Freedom With Responsibility


Memorial Day isn’t just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that’s a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It’s a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it. – Pete Hegseth
Today is a day of solemn remembrance, during which we honor our fallen heroes.
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation’s service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women’s groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, “Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping” by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication “To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead” (Source: Duke University’s Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920). While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it’s difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860’s tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868. It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.
Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 – 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis’ birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.
As I sat down to write today’s post, I tried to think about something pithy to write. Then, I realized that today is not a day for witticisms and sarcasm.
I thought about all of the American lives, all of the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives out of love and devotion for our Sovereign Nation and their fellow Americans, both their comrades and their families back home.
The unselfish devotion shown by these brave Americans is made fun of and remains the source of derision by many devotees of the anti-American political philosophy who consider themselves to be the “smartest people in the room”.
These same “enlightened” individuals consider “patriotism” to be a bad word.
They have replaced it words like “nationalism” and “jingoism”.
The devotees of this political philosophy do not believe in American Exceptionalism.
They believe that America is “just another country”, certainly not worthy of sacrificing their lives for.
These people just don’t get it.
Freedom is not free.
That is why brave men and women of the past and the present age have fought and died while wearing the uniforms of our Armed Forces.
When they went into battle, they did not just represent their hometowns…they represented all of us.
From the germ of an idea to the greatest country on the face of God’s green Earth, this country has stood strong because of resolute men and women who were willing to “pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” to protect “The Shining City Upon a Hill”.
Today, standing up and being vocal in our opposition to those who would “radically change” EVERYTHING that these American Heroes and Heroines fought and died for is our “charge to keep”.
Because…

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. – John 15:13-17

May God bless and comfort the families of our Fallen Heroes and may their memories and our American Freedom endure.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Saturday Morning Thoughts: The Fight for America

I’m sitting here on a Saturday morning thinking about our country.

As a Christian Conservative, I realize that I am writing from the point of view that, if you listen to all the pundits and look at the weighted polls, is deemed to be not as popular as it once was.

I also realize that being 64 years-old, my upbringing has a lot to do with my viewpoint.

Thank God.

My father, as I have recounted in previous posts, landed on Nomandy Beach on D-Day, and was a caring, gentle Christian American who fought for his country and for the freedom of others.

My mother was one of 7 children of a barber. She worked hard all of her life and was stubborn and outspoken.

All that being said, here is what I see going on in our Sovereign Nation.

I see an undermining of traditional American faith and values which has been happening for three generations and is presently coming to a head in the form of the same dictatorial fascism which brave Americans like my father fought and died for to prevent it from destroying all that they held sacred.

This fascism has taken the form of government programs created by professional politicians to “help” Americans…and to make themselves rich.

These programs were also designed to take the power away from the American people and to centralize it in the form of a massive government that would run our lives from cradle to grave.

The proponents of this “central government” have tried for all these years to take the place of our parents and to be the ones who teach us how to feel about morality, faith, and each other. They told us that morality is relative and is based on whether something feels good sexually or helps us to “get ahead” without hard work.

These “New Fascists” have told us that all paths lead to God, which is in opposition to the faith of our Founding Fathers, and the faith that those of us in previous generations had been raised on and believe to this day.

In order to keep us powerless, they have told us that we should hate each other based on the color of skin and how successful we have become through hard work and well-made decisions.

They have masked the true nature of their programs with the help of useful idiots in the Corporate Media.

Through the use of propaganda and subjective reporting, they have made the minority in this country appear to be the majority, and deviant sexual behavior appear to be normal.

While, at the same time, they have labeled those who believe in Traditional Christian American faith and patriotism as “White Nationalists.”

However, what I have observed is that the majority of Americans still believe in those values even if they don’t voice them.

That is why these “New Fascists” are trying harder than ever to “radically change” our Constitutional Republic into a mob-ruled “Socialist Paradise. “

My friends, please remember that God is in control.

As long as we are willing as Americans to fight for what we believe in, there is still hope for America.

Why do you think that Biden is at 37% popularity in a recent Gallup Poll?

Until He Comes,

KJ