Vladamir Putin has
unveiled an “invincible” nuclear bomb that incorporates a cruise missile that
can hit anywhere in the world with seeming accuracy and is invulenerable to any
form of missile interception. “This is
not a bluff”, Putin warns. Putin is
running for reelection which of course he will win because they have fixed
elections in Russia just like they do here.
I guess it’s a warning for Trump not to turn away from his pro Soviet
stance. It’s just another thing to worry
about in foreign policy, not that we didn’t have enough on our plate
already. It is my hope that something happens to derail Putin's hold over the Russian people. He has been in power an awfully long time. Yet his popularity seems unbounded.
Last night on ABC
network news they talked of this meeting President Trump held with leading
democrats on the best way to combat the gun polifferation problem. As you know Trump wants to institute
background checks to screen out the mentally ill, and he favors raising the age
to buy a firearm to age 21. There are a
lot of households in rural America to when you are twelve or thirteen (or even
younger) your father introduces you to guns and tells you how to use them. Even a requirement that you be eighteen would
be high in these states. President Trump
is playing a dangerous game going so blatantly against the NRA. In the worst of all possible worlds, one of
these NRA people could shoot Trump as vengeance for crossing them. Of course you have reports of death threats
against those Parkland High School students, which is stooping pretty low. Then you have that school teacher who locked
himself in a classroom and fired off a weapon sending the school into a panic. There seems to be a lot of stories about how
shooting attempts have been thwarted at the last minute by authorities.
We’ve heard that the
civil war in Syria is continuing and that they are on the verge of defeating
the rebels, and I assume they don’t mean Savanna High. What is not known is whether they are
continuing using Seran gas and other banned poisons. It just strikes me that since last April,
neither Trump nor the news media has talked about Syria. People don’t stop dying just because we don’t
report it. There are “good rebels” and “bad
rebels” whom the US fights rather than support.
We hear there are good Kurds, who fight for liberty and there are bad
Kurds, who are terrorists against Turkey.
To me the only logical thing is to give Kurdistan their independence. If they did it for Israel, why not the
Kurds?
If one is to set aside
all doubt about who Jesus was, one must accept that he is the antitype of the
Jewish sacrificial system run by the priests in Jerusalem in Jesus’ time. He is the sacrifice that validates the animal
sacrifices done for the past two thousand years. His sacrifice not only atones for sin at the
current moment in our lives but for all people for all time if they will but
accept that sacrifice, and confess that Jesus is the Son of God. By faith the convert accepts "Eternal Life", which begins at that moment.
MOM'S PASSING: This morning I got up
right at five and showered. I was able
to get cigarettes this morning. I had at
least some of Bill Press on computer.
Then it was Stephanie Miller.
Judy called just after six to announce that Mom had passed away in the nursing home. She was alive last night at
12:30 and Paul was with her. But she
died just before six and when Paul got there her body was still warm. So on this date March first she officially died. Her breathing had become rapid, which is
unlike her and the nursing home people gave her something to calm her down. Yesterday Paul says she squeezed his hand to
indicate that she loved Jesus when he asked her. The last time I saw Mom was my visit of
thirteen days ago. I never heard Mom
talk about Jesus. Paul called after Judy
called and he was calling from the nursing home. Some official person has to arrive to
pronounce the death officially. Of
course there will be no need for a coroner’s inquest or anything like
that. There is a lot of paper work
involved and Paul said Mom’s body would be handed off to the mortuary today. I went out and borrowed back the cigarette I
had just lent Paul a few minutes earlier.
I needed the cigarette. Paul asked
me if I wanted to come over and view the body and after thinking it over I
declined. The next time I see Mom it
will be in a cremation urn, just like Tony Di Mira. But we won’t keep the urn on the fireplace
mantle. Her remains will be inturred in
Riverside in a plot already picked out and where Dad’s cremation remains are buried. I mentioned that we better start picking out
appropriate Bible verses to read. Judy
said “Your Mom didn’t have that many friends”.
I think a lot of people would come out of the woodwork when they find
out that Mom had passed away. Hopefully Fred and Dianne can make it.
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