Hungary’s
parliament has approved a bill forcing large retailers to stay closed
on Sundays, in a move critics say is yet another swipe at international
investors.
bne.eu
Friday, December 26, 2014
A friend posted this and thought it was great
Enjoyed watching Columbo. For those of you unfamiliar with this excellent series, remember these basic rules.
1. Suspect kills victim and hides evidence.
2.Columbo shows up in rinky dink car and frumpled coat. Starts poking around.
3. Columbo plays idiot by asking the suspect seemingly stupid questions. Usually says 'Oh just one more thing...' as he has his hand on the door knob about to leave.
4. Suspect starts to get annoyed with Columbo constantly showing up during his favorite diversions and smugly tells him he has no evidence and to kindly go away. Suspect has been lulled into false sense of superiority.
5. Columbo finds incriminating evidence.
6. Columbo confronts suspect and gives him a minute by minute play of the crime in surgical detail, usually ending with a witty comment at the end.
7. Suspect grudgingly admits the crime and applauds the detective's cunning before being led away in handcuffs.
1. Suspect kills victim and hides evidence.
2.Columbo shows up in rinky dink car and frumpled coat. Starts poking around.
3. Columbo plays idiot by asking the suspect seemingly stupid questions. Usually says 'Oh just one more thing...' as he has his hand on the door knob about to leave.
4. Suspect starts to get annoyed with Columbo constantly showing up during his favorite diversions and smugly tells him he has no evidence and to kindly go away. Suspect has been lulled into false sense of superiority.
5. Columbo finds incriminating evidence.
6. Columbo confronts suspect and gives him a minute by minute play of the crime in surgical detail, usually ending with a witty comment at the end.
7. Suspect grudgingly admits the crime and applauds the detective's cunning before being led away in handcuffs.
If you have siblings it is both encouraging and reminding us the life goes on
This is really worth looking at.
The
Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest
image in the series is published here for the first time.
www.nytimes.com|By Nicholas Nixon
About Social Justice
I reject the concept of Social Justice as a goal. It's a tool used to create tension, anger, jealousy, resentment, and division between people. The last national leader able to use social justice as a lever to achieve power with greatest success was Adolf Hitler. When you see Black Lives Matter, I see Juden-Hass The cultural revolution in China was started as a social justice movement. While there are things in our national culture needing change, social justice is a dangerous illusion.
Friedrich Hayek showed, social justice is a mirage — the utopia toward
which radical egalitarian ideologues claim to be leading us does not
exist, and can never exist, simply because human society requires social
order and all social orders involve hierarchy. Once you realize that
“equality” is a false goal, you realize that what progressives are
actually doing is destroying the existing social order — democracy,
economic liberty, the rule of law — with the intention to replace it
with a social order controlled by a political elite, with less real
liberty for the “masses” and no rule of law to protect the rights of
individuals.
It is amazing to me that any American would let these hateful demagogues appealing to prejudice persuade us to embrace their “social justice” swindle, a dishonest scam by which a power-hungry elite seek to defraud us all of our true inheritance, liberty.
It is amazing to me that any American would let these hateful demagogues appealing to prejudice persuade us to embrace their “social justice” swindle, a dishonest scam by which a power-hungry elite seek to defraud us all of our true inheritance, liberty.
Monday, December 22, 2014
the Spirit of Poverty in this season.
It's a deeply rooted spirit. It has little to do with money. It has everything to do with who you are, your heart, your temperament, your personal baggage, the strongholds in your life, the lies you have bought into, the people you surround yourself with, the influences you allow in and your innate stinginess or generosity. You can be a billionaire and have a spirit of poverty. You can be homeless on the street and have a spirit of poverty. BUT the most telling sign of a spirit of poverty is the unwillingness to be generous to others with EVERYTHING you have. Money, Time, Credit, Sunshine, Love, Compassion, Patience and a host of other attributes those who live in abundance of heart have by accident.
Show me a poor person (like Ebeneezer Scrooge or like the person living hand to mouth in a tenement somewhere), it's the same spirit. And at this time of Christmas, it's time to break the back of the spirit of poverty. It's not about the offerings, tithes, seed or giving you give to your church. That's one of the strongholds. It's much much bigger than that. A by product might be that you give to a ministry, but if it comes because you believe there is a big payoff later.. you kid yourself.
To be released from the spirit of poverty takes an encounter with all the Ghosts of your life that haunt you. It is the result of a worldview and mindset that the devil delights in you having. IF you really want freedom from poverty and it's spirit, you start with YOU. IF you have no skin in the game, you can't be set free from poverty.
Read this Bible story and think about it.. Poverty starts with dependance on other peoples money, giving, generosity and free stuff. Rich people are as bad with this as poor, but to get out of the spirit of poverty mindset they must revise thinking:
David Builds an Altar unto the Lord
1 Samuel 24:18-25
On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” 19So David went up, as the Lord had commanded through Gad. 20When Araunah looked and saw the king and his officials coming toward him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.
21Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”
“To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to the Lord, that the plague on the people may be stopped.”
22Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood. 23Your Majesty, Araunahd gives all this to the king.” Araunah also said to him, “May the Lord your God accept you.”
24But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekelse of silver for them. 25David built an altar to the Lord there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the Lord answered his prayer in behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.
Here is the question, would the plague have been stopped if David had taken the gift and offered it to the Lord?? I think not.. But you need to think about the plague of the spirit of poverty you face and ask yourself the question. Do I have skin in the game?
No man knows the day nor the hour...
39 and now gone. WOW. We lost one
in our neighborhood yesterday. Sudden. Value every single Day, Hour,
Minute, this time will never come again. Your next heartbeat could be
your last... Temporal means time. Her Daughter was singing "Behold the
Lamb" when her mom died. She does now.
A
woman collapsed and died at a school's holiday concert as her daughter
is singing." When she started singing I said, Oh my God, I started
nudging her," said...
myfoxdetroit.com|By myFOXDetroit.com Staff
This may slow down recruitment... spread the word
Activist says he verified the killings in the Syrian city of Raqqa
timesofisrael.com
This is a good article... I hope every patriot and soldier will read it and hold their heads high
Edited
by Wes O'Donnell, Founder- Warrior Lodge. What follows is an account
from a French ISAF soldier that was stationed with American Warfighters
in Afghani
warriorlodge.com|By Warrior Lodge
Really sad..
You can be against police brutality and police state tactics and still support the working cop
After
word got out that a pair of New York City police officers died after
being shot ambush-style while sitting in their patrol car Saturday, a
number of Twitter users...
theblaze.com
Backlash is coming.
These protests have run their course. Not good. Discretion is the better part of valor.
On
one of the busiest shopping days of the year, thousands of
#BlackLivesMatter protesters packed the Mall of America outside
Minneapolis on Saturday to call for...
fusion.net
Righteousness = generosity
Wealth
is better in righteous hands. God won't prosper those he can't trust
or he will prosper the unrighteous as a placeholder till the righteous
are ready.
This is awesome.
conservativetribune.com
Pivot TIME
As
of today the days start getting longer. That is something to look
forward to. Happy first day of winter. Nice to see family and friends
give gifts eat good food. The start of a new year. But as my German
friends always used to say "we invented Christmas" and they did. But
there's always BC before Christmas and AD always dieting. Christmas is
really a cultural pivot point. The reality is there is no biblical
evidence for any of the disciples of Jesus celebrating his birth in the
first century. Not even so much as a birthday cake.. I'm no bah humbug
I just recognize this holiday for what it is. Turn of the year.
Disturbing
The
first Western journalist to receive wide access to ISIS-controlled
territories says the group is "much stronger and much more dangerous"
than the West knows, the...
www.newser.com|By Matt Cantor
Beyond stupid
A
startling new anti-gun ad released by a San Francisco-based production
company encourages children to commit a series of crimes by stealing
their parents’ guns...
washingtontimes.com|By Jessica Chasmar
A SALARY OF SMOKE
The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, Nor the one who loves wealth with big profits. More smoke. The more loot you get, the more looters show up. And what fun is that—to be robbed in broad daylight? Hard and honest work earns a good night’s sleep, Whether supper is beans or steak. But a rich man’s belly gives him insomnia. Here’s a piece of bad luck I’ve seen happen: A man hoards far more wealth than is good for him And then loses it all in a bad business deal. He fathered a child but hasn’t a cent left to give him. He arrived naked from the womb of his mother; He’ll leave in the same condition—with nothing. This is bad luck, for sure—naked he came, naked he went. So what was the point of working for a salary of smoke? All for a miserable life spent in the dark?
(Ecclesiastes 5:10-17)
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