Democrats Disavow Their Own US Senate Candidate

By Bob Ellis

Mark Clayton (original, unmodified photo from his campaign website)

This is hilarious. A conservative in Tennessee entered the U.S. Senate race legitimately as a Democrat, and then won the primary. Now the Democrats have officially disavowed their own party’s nominee.

From the Daily Caller:

The Tennessee Democratic Party disavowed its own U.S. Senate nominee Friday, announcing that he is “associated with a known hate group” — in this case, a conservative advocacy organization.

Mark Clayton won Tuesday’s Democratic primary with 30 percent of the vote in a field of seven candidates.

By disavowing their own primary winner, are Democrats telling us that (gasp) they aren’t really as open-minded and inclusive as they lead us to believe? I know that’s hard to believe, but the conclusion is hard to escape. (wink, wink)

Of course, any time you listen to anything said by a Leftist, you need to whip out the Lexicon of Leftist Language to be able to convert it to reality. According to the American Clarion Guide to LiberalSpeak, “hate” in the language of the Left means:

to tell the truth about or criticize, esp. the truth about immoral behavior. Can be considered “negative campaigning” (see definition) if employed against a liberal candidate;

Any person or group who exposes the truth about the Left’s dark, immoral agenda is a “hater.” In fact, the liberal hate group Southern Poverty Law Center recently labeled American Clarion’s predecessor, Dakota Voice, as a “hate group” because some of our writers had for some time been exposing their Leftist, anti-American, anti-Christian, immoral agenda. It’s a classic Leftist tactic to engage in projection and blame others for precisely what they are themselves doing (just like the homofascists who were so hateful toward Chick-fil-A for admitting what every human civilization throughout history has realized).

Turns out that Clayton’s group is (like the Family Research Council, the Constitution Party, Mass Resistance, Oath Keepers, Dakota Voice, and many others) everything that what typical “hate” groups pass for on the Left. His organization stands for “hateful” things like:

• Defending marriage from counterfeiters
• Allowing children to pray in school
• Allowing Americans to exercise their religious freedom as guaranteed by the First Amendment
• Protecting innocent human life
• Promoting Boy Scouts
• Opposes high taxes and wasteful spending
• Equality under the law
• Taxpayer funding or endorsement of pornography and obscenity

My, what a horrible, “hate”ful agenda! It’s no wonder the peace-loving, tolerant Democrat Party wanted to disavow a representative of this nauseating agenda!

So now the Tennessee Democrats are on record disavowing marriage, school prayer, religious freedom, protecting innocent human life, the Boy Scouts, low taxes, responsible spending, equality under the law, and are cool with taxpayer funding and/or endorsement of pornography and/or obscenity. Wonderful. We seldom get this kind of honesty about their “values” out of Democrats.

If I wasn’t so well-known to the Left in South Dakota, I might consider running as a Democrat, just to have some fun. After all, if Democrats can run as “Republicans” in South Dakota, why couldn’t I run as a Democrat in South Dakota? Democrats seem to think it’s fine and wonderful for liberals who obviously don’t share the GOP’s values to run for office as “Republicans;” therefore, they should be very pleased to have a conservative who doesn’t share their liberal values run for office as a “Democrat.” I could just see Leftists like Cory Heidelberger and Bill Fleming applauding my candidacy in the name of diversity, inclusion, tolerance, not walking in lockstep, open-mindedness, differing viewpoints, and all that other wonderful drivel. Who knows, they might even send me a contribution check or two out of the magnanimity of their liberal hearts.

Now that I think about it, if the Democrats in Tennessee have the guts to disavow a candidate who obviously isn’t committed to their party’s Leftist values, why is the South Dakota GOP so gutless as to allow liberals who don’t share the Republican Party’s conservative values to run for office and sit in office (and caucus)?

Do Democrats actually have more integrity than Republicans? While I would normally roll on the floor laughing at such a contention, it appears that at least with regard to the integrity of their party values in Tennessee, they do.

Why Countries Remain POOR

Economies have to PRODUCE SOMETHING OF VALUE, and they must EXPORT THESE ITEMS, or CONVINCE PEOPLE WITH ACTUAL CURRENCY TO VISIT. The simplest example of this sort of behavior is looking at a country that produces little of value to the outside world, that no one wants to visit, and how poor that country is. Go to Africa or South or Central America or Asia and visit one of these areas. The situation is grim.

These poor countries are almost always associated with lousy government, because it is human nature to want to better yourself and people everywhere are intelligent. When given a chance, they will work to grow or build something of value so that they can sell it in order to try to lift themselves out of grinding poverty. However, if the country has no infrastructure, no security, and puts punitive short-term economic controls on the country or currency, this limits people’s ability to improve their situation.

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Are you part of a hate group, I am

This organization according to democrats is a HATE GROUP. IF these values are hatred, count me as one too. Very sad. This story is sad. The divide is very great http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/03/tenn-democratic-party-disavows-its-own-us-senate-nominee/

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Public Education can be saved, but first it must be torn down.

Better Schools, Fewer Dollars

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From the City Journal

This is for my friend Chuck Comstock who recently posted a query on confirmation bias. I read this early this morning and thought of his questions. I think the whole Chick Fil A and Gun Control debates are driven by confirmation bias. Certainly Global Warming et al is driven by it. In the Chick thing, the facts didn't matter, the bias did. On the other side of the debate (mine) the facts behind the actual lack of gun control is colored by a bias that fears it might be going on. I commend you Chuck for thinking this thru. The Trayvon Martin event is a confirmation bias driven episode as well. I have to admit I am driven by some Confirmation Bias. And as the last line of the article says (it's one of three which are linked) BRING ON THE GADFLIES. OUCH

How Bias Heats Up the Warming Debate

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A look at new statements by Richard Muller and Anthony Watts.

I don't HATE Obama, but I share this to illustrate that Democrats cannot govern effectively. Economics is their enemy

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WE ARE ALL ROSA PARKS

I really feel like the whole Chick Fil A eat in was Christians and conservatives saying to atheists, liberals, gay rights agenda pushers and the mainstream liberal media, NO, I won't sit in the back of the bus anymore. You can't silence me. I will speak up with one voice. We are all Rosa Parks in a culture that wants us to sit down and shut up in the back of the cultural bus. Time for us to take the keys away. Sit right up front.

The Education System Collapse

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The world is changing rapidly, but our educational system has not kept pace. Oh, it’s become politically correct. And it now teaches kids how to use condoms and such. But I don’t get the feeling that there has been a lot of overarching analysis as to how kids should be educated in the modern worl...

For those who don't think there are any good jobs out there, this story belies that. There are PLENTY of GOOD jobs, there just aren't people good enough to get or keep them. Our education system has failed the people who might get good jobs.. Read this and tell me what you think if you want. The part that is the most frustrating is the one about the alarm company...wow

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This can't possibly be true.

Obama campaign, DNC sue Ohio to restrict military voting

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The Obama re-election campaign, along with the Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party filed a lawsuit in Ohio to strike down part of that s

Quotes about the Dos Equis guy

1. He lives vicariously through himself.
2. He once taught a German shepherd to bark in Spanish.
3. He never says something tastes like chicken – not even chicken.
4. He’s been known to cure narcolepsy, just by walking into a room.
5. He once had an awkward moment, just to see how it feels.
6. His beard alone has experienced more than a lesser man’s entire body.
7. Even his enemies list him as their emergency contact number.
8. He’s a lover, not a fighter, but he’s also a fighter, so don’t get any ideas.
9. When it is raining, it is because he is thinking of something sad.
10. His shirts never wrinkle.
11. He is left-handed. And right-handed.
12. If he were to mail a letter without postage, it would still get there.
13. He has amassed an incredibly large DVD library, and it is said that he never once alphabetized it.
14. You can see his charisma from space.
15. The police often question him, just because they find him interesting.
16. He once punched a magician. That’s right. You heard me.
17. If a monument were built in his honor, Mt. Rushmore would close… due to poor attendance.
18. His blood smells like cologne.
19. His organ donation card also lists his beard.
20. On every continent in the world, there is a sandwich named after him.
21. He doesn’t believe in using oven mitts, nor potholders.
22. His reputation is expanding faster than the universe.
23. His cereal never gets soggy. It sits there, staying crispy, just for him.
24. The pheromones he secretes have been known to affect people miles away, in a slight but measurable way.
25. His hands feel like rich brown suede.
26. He owns three sports cars and rents five.
27. He once taught a horse to read email for him.
28. He once brought in $13 million at a charity bachelor auction, which was a lot of money at the time.
29. Respected archaeologists fight over his discarded apple cores.
30. He is the most interesting man in the world.

Chick-fil-A and Far-Left Tyranny

 I have said for a long time that unless our nation’s elected officials and judges understand that their qualifications to lead are based on delegated authority from God that they would become tyrannical in their legislation and leadership! Elected officials and judges in the USA should base their philosophy of leadership on the U.S. Declaration of Independence that clearly states that all people “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” Hence, unless our elected officials and judges understand that human rights come from God and that all law and human government ultimately emanate and are given to us from God to rule justly then they will lead based on their own wit and whim which ultimately paves the way for tyrannical rule! (James 4:12 says “There is only one lawgiver and judge”; Proverbs 8:15-16 says “By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just; by me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly.”)

Consequently, the greatest protection citizens of any nation possess is when their political leaders understand they have limited power to rule because they derive their legitimate power from God as His representatives. Leaders who don’t share this view believe rights come from mere humans, thus elevating themselves as the highest authorities in the land—a scary thing indeed!
This is why it is urgent that all concerned citizens oppose the election of any official or any political party that is based on godless humanism, which derives its laws from so-called “elite” human leaders who dictate what is right and wrong to us “stupid unenlightened people”! Their view (perhaps similar to Plato’s Republic) is that only a few cultural elites know what is best and these people should be the ones who lead because they are the most educated and can tell the masses of people how to live, what to believe, and the values they should espouse.
In recent decades those on the far left in our country have begun to show their true colors more and more regarding their philosophy of leadership. Case in point: when Dan Cathy, the President and COO of Chick-fil-A, said that he opposed same-sex marriage in a recent radio interview. He said: “I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’”
The three liberal mayors of Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago initially spoke out against him and implied they would try to block Chick-fil-A from opening up stores in their cities. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel vowed to block the chain’s plan to build a new restaurant in the Windy City. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino sent a letter informing Chick-fil-A executives that their plans to open a restaurant in his city weren’t welcome. San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee told the restaurant on Twitter to stay away: “Closest #ChickFilA to San Francisco is 40 miles away & I strongly recommend that they not try to come any closer.”
Christine Quinn, the Speaker of the New York City Council, sent a letter to NYU pressuring them to close the city’s only Chick-fil-A that resides on their property, writing to the President of NYU: “I do not want establishments in my city that hold such discriminatory views.”
This is an egregious use of her power! It is one thing for her to say she doesn’t agree with Dan Cathy’s position and even call for a boycott. But it is another thing to tell NYU that she doesn’t want Chick-fil-A in her city! Now it’s her city? Perhaps this is a portent of how she will lead our city if she is elected mayor!  I am hoping this was merely a visceral slip of the pen and that she doesn’t really believe in this form of tyrannical intolerance because, in many ways, she has been a very good leader in New York City!
Even NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a same-sex marriage proponent, knew enough to distance himself from the statements of these other mayors when he said on the radio: “It’s just not government’s job, and no matter how much you dislike somebody else’s views, think about what would happen in the cities where the views are on the other side.”
Taking the logic and political philosophy of these elected officials further, they are advocating a political system in which only those people who agree with their position of same-sex marriage (and other liberal values) would be allowed to operate in their city. What about all the Muslims, Jews, Christians and houses of worship that don’t agree with their values? Does Christine Quinn want all conservative, religious congregations to leave “her” city? Will there now be a litmus test for businesses before they are allowed to open and operate in New York City, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago?
Speaker Quinn should know better as she has fought for gay rights for many years. In her mind she represents a minority that has been oppressed. Will the oppressed now become the oppressors?
After their initial statements there has been an outcry which has caused Quinn and most of the other leaders mentioned above to issue statements saying they will not try to use their power or positions to influence which businesses are allowed to operate in their respective cities. But their initial responses are very telling and alarming! How are we to know what they are really saying and planning behind closed doors?
This is not about homosexuality. I am very close to many gay people who would never attempt to impose their values on the rest of America! This is a reflection of the radical progressive left that doesn’t agree with the foundations of our nation—especially the Declaration of Independence—and who want to govern based on human opinion outside of God’s word and governance, which is very scary indeed! Remember, if our rights come from God then we can hold our elected officials accountable to a higher power and greater King. But if our rights come from men then, as history shows, the day will come when these same people will attempt to take away our rights. In the 18th century such actions led to the Revolutionary War to gain independence from the tyranny of the King of England!
I pray that it never gets this far again in this great nation, and I pray that we will elect leaders in both political parties who know that ultimate authority comes from their Creator and not from themselves!

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Wisdom from 42BC

A nation can survive its fools, and even their ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor – he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation – he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city – he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. - Cicero 42 B.C.

The same is true with the church!

Mar 13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
Mar 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

Islam is very very evil

  Two young, unmarried lovers, apparently with children, were buried up to their necks then stoned to death in a Mali town taken over by Islamist extremists. Bearded men, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, dragged the couple from the countryside into the center of the town of Aguelhok, reports the New York Times. "I was there," said a local government official. "The couple was placed in two holes and the Islamists stoned them to death. It was horrible,” he said, adding that the woman cried out and man yelled during the attack. “It was inhuman. They killed them like they were animals.”

Islamists Stone Mali Lovers to Death - Militants in north exact extreme punishment for sex

SKILL SET 3

Going to be traveling today.
Offering up Number 3 of the Core Skill Set's every person should have. IF you have children, these should be on their agenda in your helping them grow.

SKILL SET 3
RECREATION and PHYSICAL SKILLS
Learn to Play team sports ...not being a spectator only. (we are a nation of spectators)
Learn to Maintain fitness ..well
Learn Games that will serve you for life: Bridge, Chess, and others
Learn to Snow Ski, Skate, Ride a horse, Drive a boat (gas and row), Sail
Learn to throw and catch a ball (several kinds) without breaking a finger
Learn to swim a half mile, tread water for a half hour and float for an hour
Learn to ride a bike well, motorized or not
Learn to fly a kite, preferably one you made by hand and bring it down in one piece

Mastery of these simple skills will allow you to be part of whatever you choose.

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Essential Skill Set 2 -

Outdoor Skills

Hiking with others all day without getting a rash, bitten or lost. Developed sense of direction, know which way is north, tell time by the sun.

Bait a hook, catch a fish, reel it in, remove the hook, clean the fish (boneless filleting) and cook it well.

Plan and manage a weekend camping trip.. know about wildlife to not fear wrongly, show respect for all life, animals, even insects and snakes all have their place.

Proper respect for a gun. How to shoot, understand, and take care of a weapon. (Never ever point it at anything you don't intend to kill).

Skill-set 1-
Practical Skills
Type type type. A child is never too young to develop good keyboard skills touch typing with both hands in qwerty.

Should be able to set up and install everything regarding their own computer system without help and do basic troubleshooting.

Automotive
Learn to drive a stick shift. Change a tire. Change Oil. Check a code. Check all fluid levels accurately. Maintain proper air pressure. Learn how it works well enough to at least deal with it when it all goes wrong. The chain automobile repair shops LOVE ignorant customers. They make their margins on them. The rest of them are just sales of hours.

I mentioned that I was cleaning out old files. Much was notes from teaching. I threw most, but kept a few jewels. One of them was a list of 15 skill sets that every child, particularly boys, must have before they turn 18 years old. I'm not talking about those challenged, I'm talking about well rounded bright boys. IF they have these 15 skills it will give theme a confident positive attitude, open the door to developing more and create as sense of mastrey. SO, look for them. Essential Skill-sets. I'll do one tonight. I suspect there will be some adults who will say they never got this down. It's not too late to start. I did look on the internet to see what others say. The skills they talked about was how to use google, how to make a good mixed drink and how to score a baseball game. This is not that. These are skills that will give anyone confidence to face whatever comes along. Even if we have a catastrophe in this land. These skills will serve them well.

Bill O'Reilly recently RIPPED PBS liberal Bill Moyers for BLAMING the NRA on the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado. http://bit.ly/N0gfnc

O'Reilly calls Moyers comments, "so DUMB it hurts."

'LIKE' and 'SHARE' if you AGREE with O'Reilly!!

In honor of the three men who died in the Colorado shooting while protecting their girlfriends with their bodies! I hope they know what an incredible sign of love they've showed us all.

I am doing a series on the 15 core skill sets. I have a suspicion as we go along you will discover that the reason so many are unemployed or unemployable is because they don't possess these skill sets at even a basic level. I know this is true. People aren't available to fill these positions... they don't have the SKILLS. OJT and a College degree is not the point. They are not preparing people to be skilled. SKILLS are the key. One skill I mentioned today was the skill of orientation. Finding north and not getting lost. I had a truck driver once who couldn't read a map, and even if he had been someplace before, he was so bad at finding his way, he couldn't find it again. Constantly lost. That's not mental disorder, that's a lack of skill. I had to let him go. He's still unemployed.

Help Wanted: Small Firms Can't Find Skilled Workers

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The Help Wanted sign is a regular fixture at small businesses which, like manufacturers, oil companies and other large businesses, are struggling to find workers with the right skills.

I didn't Get this

Only Smart People would Get this... :D

The Whole Series

I finished the whole series on getting out of poverty. It's found here in serial format. If you wanted to read it... GO Here

A former Obama Supporter goes back and talks to her stupid self

Roots of Poverty - The Spiritual Causes

There are TEN core spiritual roots of poverty. They have been preached, taught, written about with full on prosperity ministries built on these truths. They ARE all true, but Jesus warned that if you cast out a demon (a lie bought that is torn down by good teaching) and don't replace that empty space with something, the demon will return with seven others worse than him.

This is what has gone on in many poor communities. They have heard it, read it and tried it. For a brief moment it was of benefit. Light came. And then because the cultural and behavioral strongholds, they weren't changed they slid back into poverty. Hopelessness rose up. The dreams they had were deferred. Hope deferred made the heart sick. They became immune to hearing truth. "Heard it, Tried it, it didn't work".

You can know, believe and activate all the spirituals regarding getting out of poverty, but if you do nothing about the cultural, mental and behavioral, it would have been better you never heard.

Here they are, No Surprises. What makes me sad is there is a preacher or two who is going to jump on these and decide to preach a series on the Spirituals. He will have a ministry time, yell loud, cast out all kinds of demons, pray in tongues really long and send the poor folks on their way to fall right back in the pit. It's easier than tackling the blatantly ignored causes. I offer them with fear of that potential:

1. Being bound by a Spirit of Poverty. Rich and poor can be oppressed by this. It's the idea of "I don't have enough". It focuses on the impossibles in your life. A miser can have a spirit of poverty. Poverty people are more bound by price than value. It is a real spirit. It can and should be cast out. BUT it must be replaced by right behavior and attitudes or worse will return.

2. Living under the curse. Always getting the lemon. Everything breaks down. Nothing lasts. Sickness and disease plagues your life and robs you. Money just flows thru your hands and there's nothing in it. Being aware of God's passion to provide and protect you is critical. Study it out. AND, being in line with curse breaking behaviors from Deut 28 and Malachi 3. YET..one can have the curse broken off and then return back UNDER the curse.

3. Diminishing God. Making our poverty, problems and situations so big in our eyes that it diminishes GOD. Many make God smaller than he is by failing to recognize his provision and protection in abundance in our lives. This results in a lack of thankfulness. Thanklessness blocks God from providing.

4. Despising the Word of GOD. This one is hard. It is a cause. We say, we would never despise the word of God, yet, we refuse to believe it when it comes to protection and provision. We don't take our stand on HIS word. We become lukewarm in our belief...and unbelief is equal to despising. This is one I have recently had to deal with.

5. Praying amiss. The selfish, greedy prayers of saints stops GOD cold from providing and protecting. Prayers focused on wealth, fame, glory and other selfish pursuits will go unanswered. In fact, the opposite is true. When we pray and rehearse our problems to God, complaining about our situation, that becomes amiss. Pray to the Omniscient Father. He already knows and understands. Pray in hope, joy, peace and deliverance. That is the prayer that gets results. Otherwise it's "a miss"!

6. Deceit Fraud and Vanity. This one is hard, but I have seen it. IF you trust God for your provision and protection to get you our of poverty, you won't need shortcuts. You won't need to manipulate people and things. Gaming God is always a bad plan. Keep yourself tender in this area and when that little voice inside you says NO, stop. You don't want to curse yourself. Ill gotten gain may offer short term relief but in the end will lead to damage in your spiritual life, your reputation and short circuit your future prosperity.

7. A rebellious heart. It always starts with an attitude of "I don't care but..." It causes people to not do what they clearly heard GOD tell them to do and the consequences are staggering. RE - BAALing is returning to Baal. It's idolatry. IF we can learn to walk by faith and not by sight we will experience first hand the pure joy of living in pure obedience.

8. Pride. Too proud to ask for help. To ask for direction. To ask for correction. To accept a lesser place in the short term. Pride is the ROOT of an entitlement mentality that traps people in poverty. "I Deserve This". I'm worth it. That somehow we are OWED prosperity because of our education, background, upbringing or evening up for past slights. This prideful spiritual trap bemoans the world, whines about how hard life is and wishes it weren't. It's a demon. Pride and a victim mentality are closely linked.

9. Lack of Discernment. Poor people many times are the easiest to fool. They are desperate. They are grasping at straws. Yet above all the one who would escape from poverty must have a triple helping of discernment. Just because it sounds logical doesn't mean that it is. Just because it sounds appealing, doesn't mean it's right. Being unable to discern truth from error is the root of all kinds of grief and poverty. Yet, even though it's a spiritual cause, it's not taught much. The problem is we lie to ourselves, we lie to others and that makes us vulnerable to lies. When we receive a lie, it will put us in chains. Tell the truth and learn to discern the truth. It's a spiritual gift. Don't believe EVERY spirit that comes in the name of the Lord. My biggest ripoffs in life came at the hands of people who claimed to be my brother in Christ.

10. Failure to Tithe. I know that got your attention Pastor. Yup, there are blessings and curses according to Malachi that we need to know, but there much bad teaching, much bad understanding and I won't try to dismantle the whole thing here. My advice would be, GIVE into whatever is BUILDING the Kingdom of GOD in your life. That may be your church. It may not be. IF some ministry is building the Kingdom of God in your life you owe a part of your tithe to that. One last thing, the concept of seed faith is so badly taught it has impoverished many. IF you haven't tithed, you have no seed to sow. So claiming your tithe to be your seed is unscriptural. BUT, even if you are part of a fellowship that teaches this badly, Tithe anyway. God will give you revelation and he will honor his word.

Those are the ten most obvious. There may be others, but I know these are certain spiritual roots of poverty. Funny how most of the western church spends most of their time on number ten. AND no time at all on the Blatantly Ignored Causes of Poverty that I have outlined. This is the last of the series. I will compile this into a single teaching and make it available on line. I offer notes and consultation to any Pastor, Teacher, Prophet or Apostle with the courage to get their people out of poverty and lack. It can be done. But first YOU must believe the truth.

Poverty notes

I only two more submissions on the causes of Poverty. For those who embraced them, I believe you will find your way up. For those who were angered, I hope you will discover why and examine your heart. I didn't mean to offend. Truth sometimes is offensive. Today's second to last is an extension of yesterday's. It follows. "The culture of Poverty and it's comforts".

The last one will be the ten spiritual causes of poverty. I will make a single post of them. MOST preachers have preached a ton of sermons on the spiritual causes and STILL have a congregation of people under the oppression of Poverty. It's easy preaching. IF we deal with the spiritual roots and refuse to recognize the blatantly ignored cultural reasons because they are uncomfortable, we have done no one any good at all. It's time to get real. I have tried.

Reason for Poverty - It's comfortable

What? I can hear you say it. I can't pay my bills. I can't buy food. I'm being evicted. I'm up to my ears in debt. My kids don't have shoes. Life is hard. And you think I'm comfortable???

Yes, all that you are suffering might be true, but there are comforts in poverty and if you enjoy them you'll never get out. There are 3 clear comforts in poverty:

1. The idea that the poor are somehow more noble, holy, righteous then the filthy nasty rich are. This idea makes you feel better (comfortable) but it is a lie from the pit. Even pointing to people who were intentionally poor (Mother Theresa) is a flaw. If she had needed a 747 to do a mission of mercy, 50 would have been at her disposal without a second thought. She commanded great wealth in her "poverty". IF you think all rich people are rotten, then why would you want to be our of poverty? HUH? See the trap? Now get away from the cheese.

2. Those comforting voices all around you. People with lots of advise. With lots of schemes and scams about how to find the scraps people put out for you. These bad advisers will drag you to the pit. Your mindset is created and maintained by the people you spend your time with, the people you respect, the people you take advise from. IF they are telling you no one is making it, there is no hope, only government or someone else can help then you will stay right where they are....poor. It's more comfortable to hear how you can't make it then the discomforting voice of correction.
These kinds of comforters (like Job's) will keep you down. They are trying to govern you when they can't even govern themselves. It's about pride. They never learned to follow but they want you to follow them. So they have "wise" words (sometimes couched as prophetic) that send your right into the death spiral of poverty. Learn from those who have earned the right to teach you something. Probably not clergy.

3. Resting comfortably in the problems and not the solutions. It's easy to think about, talk about, meditate on, consider and commiserate with others over the problems in our lives. It's comfortable. Sitting on the porch, ice tea in hand, talking about back in the day. We had it rough. Sounds nice doesn't it. So nice that it would be uncomfortable to break out of that mentality. To say, things are not as they should be. If you want more problems, keep talking about the ones your already have. Like attracts like. Fear attracts fears. Even conferences on poverty (government) focus so much on the problems the solutions become gigantic and expensive. Look at the war on poverty. We are poorer today because of it. FOCUS ON THE SOLUTIONS. Fix you mind on things better. Much better. Hope. Joy. All efforts to FIX poverty has done is to cause people to be comfortable.

DISCOMFORT IS YOUR FRIEND. Like the doctor who's patient said that it hurt when he did that, the doc said, "well then stop doing that".

Time to turn this thing around and get out of that comfort zone. I won't give you the elephant's tether example, I'm sure you know it. BUT your comfort zone if it is poverty is your limiting factor. You don't have to live like this.

SO Simple Even a Russian can figure it out!

Rootin' tootin' Putin is just upset Obama beat him to it!
But then again: Putin is definitely more of a capitalist, and a leader, than Obama. Now that we've got...

I said I was semi-retired. This false flag event requires comment. I can not stand silent and let this pass with out comment.

Ignored Cause of Poverty - Stasis

Sometimes we call this being stuck. We prophesy against it. We declare we are not going to be STUCK anymore. Yet It happens to all of us. It has happened to me. We get trapped by our surroundings.

You may be familiar with the Stockholm Syndrome. Look it up. It's when a person becomes comfortable, even friendly with a captor. In this case it's POVERTY that is the captor. Poverty becomes a familiar misery. It becomes a part of our identity. "I'm just a poor sinner saved by grace". It becomes easier to perpetuate our poverty then to change. This develops a victim-hood mentality and that is reinforced by making us "Eligible" for sympathy (and Welfare). Living in poverty is hard, but being comfortable (Friendly) with it is a trap.

The problem is a refusal to change. People will stay in poverty as long as it is comfortable. People avoid change until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing. It's difficult to face.

YET, change is the only thing that works. Change of neighborhoods, change of those you hang around with, change of cities even. Change what you do for a living. The power to change is the only power you possess....that and a faith in an Unchanging GOD.

If you have become friends with Poverty, IF you are stuck, start by changing the way you talk about yourself. Not some phony baloney positive confessions that you parrot, but speaking to yourself in songs, hymns, spiritual songs and believing God for the Change you need. Here's where the prophetic comes in. You need to hear God declare change over your life. Begin by not confessing your poverty to yourself or others. Begin to break up with your friendship with poverty. Find ways to get away from pity and the other "Eligibilities" in your life. It's time to break free from the strongholds that have been built around you to keep you down.

In Gone with the Wind has Scarlett Ohara saying, "As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness". She wasn't a christian, but her confession was real. You have to hate your poverty and determine to break up with it. No matter how friendly it seems, it's your enemy. Patty Hearst was a victim of Stockholm Syndrome, she joined her kidnappers. You may remember that time. Eventually she got out and was made whole. You can too.

This public school teacher wants to abolish public schools. I agree with him. Long read, but if you are a teacher, had a teacher, love a teacher, perhaps their life would be better if they worked for administrators who really cared about teaching.

Laissez-Faire Learning by David Gordon

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[6]to stimulate discovery and development of the personal resources latent within the self by allowing the student to experience the myriad possibilities for bringing them to bear creatively on the external world.

Huckabee: ‘We Have a Sin Problem’

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