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 8/24/18 2:42 PM |
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If everyone who dies in Illinois is entitled to this $7,500 funeral benefit, then there will be less reason to buy that insurance they sell on TV for this, and many Masons can let their membership lapse, since the funeral benefit is one thing holding them to the group.
Maybe this will even benefit churches, because many will not accept members of any 'secret' organization like the Masons.And we have the question 'Philip' from Italy reminds us: who is paying for this funeral benefit? Sure, the story says, 'the govt' but in the case of Illinois, they are not running printing presses like 'los federales' have to create more money.
So the state govt and local govt will go more in debt, and more people will think it is better to live somewhere else. Many Americans are retiring to Canada, Mexico, and even Germany, France, and Italy! |
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| 8/24/18 12:38 PM |
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Thanks, 'Rey' for pointing out the Ligonier series currently being aired--I am learning things from just today's program.
In addition, there is a secular group, ACT, the American Congress for Truth, founded by a Lebanese woman whose family suffered greatly when the Muslims increased in her country and starting persecuting all Christians.
One little fact about their fasting month, 'Ramadan' that many do not know: they do not fast for the entire month, but eat after the sun goes down or before it rises. Since it is pegged to the lunar calendar, it does not occur every year in the same month, so sometimes it may occur in the winter, when days are short, and therefore the daily fast is less time.
Of course, in a place like Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, they do not have seasons, so this does not apply. I have heard that in these mostly Muslim countries, this custom really screws up productivity. Think of it, workers get up early, eat a whole bunch, then go to work and feel sleepy from getting up early and eating so much. They aren't very productive! |
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| 8/22/18 10:50 AM |
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A sad story, to be sure. Farming is just not something economically feasible for families, since it involves a lot of capital expense and then very little profit. You could make more money on your capital by buying a simple lawn mower and walking around your suburban neighborhood, offering to mow people's lawns. Or just ask to walk their dogs, watch their homes when they go on vacation, etc.
As to the churches getting involved, we can go back to last week's article here about "South Carolina abandoning churches" which might better be headlined: 'People in South Carolina leaving churches' since the churches-the physical properties remain, but are empty.
Farming is making money for the big guys who own hundreds or thousands of acres and can play the system of getting govt aid for not growing things. I think many of them are US Senators.
I have heard of a small 'movement' of younger people to have smaller farms to raise specialty crops like Chinese vegetables, honey, goats, etc. There is a higher profit margin on that stuff, but it is also less capital intensive.
In Sparta, Georgia, one millionaire returned home and bought up a lot of small properties to have these young people run small businesses. No church was mentioned. |
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| 8/20/18 2:49 PM |
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Headline should have said, "Cuomo preaches politics in black church" but then that would not be a news item. Every Democrat Party candidate for anything goes to a black church to stir up the vote, or to make sure their slaves are going to vote for them. Not that they have to worry--statistics show 90 percent of blacks vote for Democrat, could not imagine voting for anything else (sorry, Bernie and millenial members of the Socialist Party).
Here's a related news item: in Florida, 'early voting' (where polls are set up in libraries, govt bldgs, etc, and people can vote without having to be in their district)was held for 2 weeks before Election Day, but at first ended on Saturday. Black churches complained about that, because they had already set aside the Sunday before Election Day to be devoted to early voting. So it was changed to include that Sunday (more work for the Elections Dept, right?). I heard one person say they went to one of those sites and found a huge amount of black voters, being brought there by private, charter buses, that were waiting outside to take them back to their churches.
There is so much funny business going on with elections in the US, with dead people still voting, etc, that it really makes you wonder what is the worth of voting at all!
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| 8/18/18 11:33 AM |
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This news item is a favorite for many commentators around the internet. I found one story that highlighted their successes with various people before they met their end with ISIS.
There are so many different ways to interpret this one; some will see their successes as proof that the world is basically good.
Others might say religion is the mian problem, since religion is what motivates ISIS.
In the USA, we say there is freedom of religion. But how can you allow a religion where their objective is to kill everyone else, or convert them to Islam?
Every day, with a porous border, there are many "OTMs" (other than Mexicans) entering this country, who knows how many with this thinking? And then with the H-1-B visa program, technical workers, like the ones that replaced the Disney IT workers that were fired, are coming in, and who knows how many of them are sympathetic to ISIS? |
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