How Purpose Extends Life and Beats Alzheimers

My late father had a longtime friend, a retired kosher butcher, who lived down the hall in their South Jersey apartment building. Past 90, Manny was older and frailer than my father; he leaned on a cane and could barely see well enough to recognize faces. But every morning, and again in late afternoon, he walked through my dad’s unlocked front door to be sure he was all right and to kibitz a bit.

Manny made the rounds, also looking in on several other aged residents in their so-called N.O.R.C. (naturally occurring retirement community). Unless he was ill himself, he never missed a day.

Manny’s regular reconnaissance missions come to mind when I read about purpose, which is one of those things we recognize without quite knowing how to define. To psychologists, “purpose reflects a commitment to broader life goals that helps organize your day to day activities,” Patrick Hill, a psychologist at Carleton University in Ottawa, told me in an interview.

It’s a hard quality to measure, so researchers rely on how strongly people agree or disagree with statements like these:

“Some people wander aimlessly through life, but I am not one of them.”
“I feel good when I think of what I have done in the past and what I hope to do in the future.”
“I live life one day at a time and do not really think about the future.”
“I sometimes feel as if I have done all there is to do in life.”


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So how can we help older people hang onto a sense of purpose if their strength and mobility declines and their dependence on others increases? I’d like to hear your ideas. Isn’t that one of the most dispiriting aspect of life in nursing homes or assisted living, after all — the sense some residents develop that there’s no reason to live? Older people can stay busy with activities and multiple medical appointments, but many feel that what they do doesn’t matter.

“They want to make a contribution,” Dr. Boyle said. “They want to feel part of something that extends beyond themselves.” Though what provides purpose in one’s life varies, merely taking care of oneself probably doesn’t qualify. People with purpose “have a sense of their role in the community and the broader world,” Dr. Boyle said. She particularly mentioned mentoring, passing one’s memories or experiences on to younger people, as a way to stoke a sense of purpose.

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Dave Ramsey Gives Wrong Advice for Some People

I have listened for a long time to Dave Ramsey and his Teachings on Money. I listen also to many others.From hearing all these various opinions there is an unavoidable conclusion:  Dave Ramsey is WRONG for some people.

IF you are in debt, can't get control of your credit card spending, foolish with money, living beyond your means earn a fixed amount of money per month in a job, then Dave Ramsey is for you.  He speaks to the working man and woman on a fixed salary and what he says for them is good.

He is wrong however for others. For those who move into the 1%.  Not rich. Just really well off.  These are not fixed income people, salary earners.  They are not wage makers they are wage payers.  It is a group we need.  Those in business for themselves.  For them Dave Ramsey can be poison.

Let me offer some examples of why and how:

Ramsey is big on getting your credit cards paid off and cutting them up.  That's fine if you are going to stay home, go to work and come back home.

IF you are as a business owner who needs to travel, rent a car, get a motel room, fly somewhere, buy something from Amazon, buy gas, you will need a credit card. NOT a debit card. You don't want to take that risk.  Debit cards for travel are dangerous. You need to have 2 or 3 cards with as low interest cards as you can find and at least $7000 credit line.  It's good to pay them off monthly,  but sometimes business ebbs and flows and you will need this informal line of credit to keep you going when things get slow.  This takes discipline. If you don't have it you will not make it in business anyway. Cash flow management is everything.  Dave's recommendation is not for the business owner.


Dave is big on paying cash for your car.

First, I'm not against it if it's a really cheap car.  Never buy new.  That new car smell is the most expensive thing you will ever enjoy.  Instead a 3 or 4 year old car without too many miles, under 50,000 miles is always a better bet.

Then, rent it to yourself.  Borrow all you can.  Car loans are cheap. 2-4%.  Don't pay it off.  Pay just what you must and hope that on the last day of the last payment the wheels come off and the engine explodes at 300,000 miles.  That car will owe you nothing and you will owe nothing on it.

Buy and borrow only what you can safely handle.  Don't get crazy.  My experience has been if you do this right you will always be able to trade it back or sell it for about the loan balance at any time.  I have more than once taken back or sold a car on which I owed money for about what I owed.  That car owed me nothing.  It was cheap transportation and I didn't own a depreciating asset.

This is not true for boats and other toys. RENT Them.  They are money burners.


Dave recommends you pay off your house as soon as possible. Double up on payments to do it.  I am puzzled by this.  Why?  This is bad advice for the guy earning a hundred grand per year.  Its not much better for the wage earner.. but a little. Here's why paying off your house is bad advice.

Once you pay anything on the principle that money is lost to you.  If you need it for medical emergencies the bank isn't going to give it back to you.  What if the prime earner gets hurt or disabled?  They will not lend you the money you put into your house because you won't have the income stream to pay it back, no matter the equity. You will end up selling your house and be homeless to get your money out. Better would be to get the largest mortgage on which you can afford the payment on your budget.  Treat it like a rent payment. Don't get stupid and put yourself in a place you don't want to be by owning too big a house. Think about what it would cost to rent decent quarters in your area and try to get your payment under that.  Then only pay the minimum and stay current.  You NEVER want to pay off your mortgage.  In fact if you decide to refinance, take out as much additional as you can afford and bank the difference in a mutual fund.  Any money you might have paid extra into your mortgage should go into a mutual fund.  Preferably something tax advantaged.  The other good news is the government gives you a DEDUCTION for carrying a mortgage.  Houses may go DOWN in value someday again.  You will always have that money available in your mutual fund to pay it down to avoid foreclosure if it gets upside down again.

To think about this clearly, consider your mortgage like a rent check to YOU.  You are a landlord to you.  Treat yourself well but keep your rent/payments in line and why would you send your landlord extra money.  A house is NOT an investment.  It is a place to keep you warm and dry.  That is it's function.  A truly wealthy person doesn't live in a huge house.  They live in what they need and bank the rest.

This also had to do with home improvements.  Any money you put into your house is lost forever.  Very few home improvements are ever recovered in additional value.  This is not true for adding square feet. Most everything else is lost wages (worse than Las Vegas).  So be careful and don't go all money pit on the house.


I know this goes against the grain, but conservation of resources in personal cash flow is the name of the game and accumulation of wealth is even more important.  Mutual Funds accumulate wealth, houses don't. Rich people never spend money on depreciating or costly assets. They buy things that hold or increase in value.  Sure they have all the same expenses you do, they just don't spend the overage on home improvement or doubling up on house payments.

One last strategy that might challenge you, but I want to start thinking differently.

Buy a house you can afford with the biggest mortgage you can afford the payments on.  Pay on it for a while and when you have at some point paid it down some or the house drifts up in value .. BORROW ALL YOU CAN on a second mortgage (Home Equity).  Invest the proceeds in a good mutual fund.  Allow it to work.  Seconds cost about 3-5% in today's interest market.  Most good funds are yielding 6-7% today.  That's a profit. BUT WAIT.. there's more.  As your second earns money.. you are getting a tax deduction on your second mortgage as well.  You are double dipping.

After a few years if you feel like it you can retire your second from the fund at a profit.. and... if you choose to sell your house which in ten years will likely increase in value as much as the second was.  It's really quite a trick. It cost you nothing and you had the use of the money without the money costing you anything.

Remember these strategies are only for the high earner.  The wage earner who lives paycheck to paycheck needs to stay tuned into Dave.

If you wonder how the rich get richer?  They use other peoples money, don't own things, invest in things.  Buy nothing that loses value.  Pay wages and leverage people's work for profit.  Wage earners can't really do this.

I know this is hard to understand.. it seems counter intuitive. It's how it's all done.

Please don't do this if you don't have money sense.. but if you do.. you are missing it.  Never own a depreciating asset, only rent or lease it.. and houses are questionable.

Things and People Trump Insulted

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/31/the-at-least-68-people-donald-trump-insulted-in-2015-in-1-video/

Sadly I actually Get this...

  

The H-2 guest worker program, which brought in 150,000 legal foreign workers last year, isn’t supposed to deprive any American of a job. But many businesses go to extraordinary lengths to deny jobs to U.S. workers so they can hire foreigners instead.

 “All you black American people, f--- you all…just go to the office and pick up your check,” the supervisor at Hamilton Growers told workers during a mass layoff in June 2009.

The following season, according to a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, about 80 workers, many of them black, were simply told: “All you Americans are fired.”

Year after year, Hamilton Growers, which has supplied squash, cucumbers, and other produce to Wal-Mart and the Green Giant brand, hired scores of Americans, only to cast off many of them within weeks, according to the U.S. government. And time after time, the grower filled the jobs with foreign guest workers instead.

Although Hamilton Growers eventually agreed to pay half a million dollars to settle the suit, company officials said the allegations are baseless. Mass firings never happened, they said, nor did anyone use racially inflammatory language. But workers tell a different story.
“We want to go to work and work all day,” said Derrick Green, 32, a father of six who said he was fired by Hamilton Growers in 2012 after only three weeks picking squash. “But they don’t want that.”

 http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/all-you-americans-are-fired#.caYZZwzX6a

Take a Look at How Much the Taxpayers Are Shelling Out for One Obama Christmas Vacation

For the last week and a half, President Barack Obama has been in
Hawaii celebrating Christmas with his family, playing golf with friends
and eating shaved ice on family outings.


It might take a couple of years before taxpayers know the precise
cost of this year’s Christmas vacation, but if it’s similar to previous
years, such as 2013, it will cost more than $8 million.

President
Barack Obama watches his approach to the 18th green at the Mid-Pacific
Country Club golf course December 28, 2015 in Kailua, Hawaii. Obama and
the First Family are in Hawaii for vacation. 

While all private vacations are paid for in part out of the first
family’s own money, taxpayers cover the bulk of the flight cost and all
of the cost for Secret Service detail. The most recent data shows that
the 2013 Christmas vacation by the Obama family in Hawaii cost taxpayers
$8.09 million.



Take a Look at How Much the Taxpayers Are Shelling Out for One Obama Christmas Vacation | TheBlaze.com

Apostle Eckhardt on South Dakota

South Dakota

I thought you might appreciate this.

THIS is the biggest reason we are in the pickle we are in now!

To Republicans who want to name toxic waste dumps after Obama, I remind you that toxic waste dumps serve a useful purpose.

Speaking of cultural appropriation, keep your mitts off mine

Multicultural diversity succeeded in watering down American culture. We
have to accept thug music (rap) alongside Beethoven. Now the left is
embracing cultural appropriation, a guilt trip laid on gullible white
people.



OK, fair is fair. As a white Christian, I won't eat halal. I won't eat
Thai. I'll even give up General Tso, which is something I actually do
eat.



Now give me back the polio vaccine. It is part of the Judeo-Christian
tradition. It was developed by Jews (there are two vaccines).



Also, give back pasteurized milk.



The automobile.



The airplane.



The train.



Electricity, the Internet, skyscrapers, radio, television, and the cellphone -- or any other kind of phone. Transistors, too.



Jews and Christians have done more positive good for the world than any other group.



Don Surber: Speaking of cultural appropriation, keep your mitts off mine

Do you hate her because she is as rich as the Waltons or Koch Brothers?

Such A Smart First Lady:

Michelle Obama reminded attendees of a Naturalization Ceremony Wednesday that the Founding Fathers weren't born in America. The ceremony for 50 new U.S. citizens was held at the National Archives in Washington , D.C.

She said during her speech, referring to the Declaration of Independence, "It's amazing that just a few feet from here where I'm standing are the signatures of the 56 Founders who put their names on a Declaration that changed the course of history, and like the 50 of you, none of them were born American - they became American. Excuse me? Did she actually mean that those who signed the Declaration of Independence and participated in the drafting of the Constitution were not born in America?
Benjamin Franklin was born in Pennsylvania.
Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison were born in Virginia.
John Adams was born in Massachusetts.
Only eight of the 56 were not born in America. Surely she knew this.
But, then again, maybe not. After all, she is a Harvard graduate. Isn't she?
As John Wayne said .... "Life's tough. It's tougher when you're stupid."
And by the way, THE CONSTITUTION WAS NOT SIGNED IN WASHINGTON D.C.!
It was signed in Philadelphia!
I guess it's true, you just can't fix stupid........

Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him.

Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:
1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint.

2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.
I feel much better now. I had been under the impression he hadn't been doing ANYTHING... Such an accomplished individual... in the eyes of the ignorant maybe.!.

THIS ONE PACKS A FIRM PUNCH

This was written by a Canadian woman, but oh how it also applies to the U.S.A., U.K. and Australia .
Written by a housewife in New Brunswick , to her local newspaper. This is one ticked off lady...

"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not, started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001 and have continually threatened to do so since?
Were people from all over the world, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from the capitol of the USA and in a field in Pennsylvania ?
Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?
Do you think I care about four U. S. Marines urinating on some dead Taliban insurgents?
And I'm supposed to care that a few Taliban were claiming to be tortured by a justice system of a nation they are fighting against in a brutal Insurgency.
I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East, start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere belief of which, is a crime punishable by beheading in Afghanistan .
I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head, while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.
I'll care when the cowardly so-called insurgents in Afghanistan , come out and fight like men, instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in Mosques and behind women and children.
I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of Nirvana, care about the innocent children within range of their suicide Bombs.
I'll care when the Canadian media stops pretending that their freedom of Speech on stories, is more important than the lives of the soldiers on the ground or their families waiting at home, to hear about them when something happens.
In the meantime, when I hear a story about a CANADIAN soldier roughing up an Insurgent terrorist to obtain information, know this:
I don't care.
When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank:
I don't care. Shoot him again.
When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed 'special' food, that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being 'mishandled,' you can absolutely believe, in your heart of hearts:
I don't care.
And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled 'Koran' and other times 'Quran.' Well, Jimmy Crack Corn you guessed it.
I don't care!!
If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your E-mail Friends. Sooner or later, it'll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous behavior!
If you don't agree, then by all means hit the delete button. Should you choose the latter, then please don't complain when more atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great Country! And may I add:
Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering, if during their life on earth, they made a difference in the world. But, the Soldiers don't have that problem.
I have another quote that I would like to share AND...I hope you forward All this.
One last thought for the day:
Only five defining forces have ever offered to die for you:

1. Jesus Christ
2. The British Soldier.
3. The Canadian Soldier.
4. The US Soldier, and
5. The Australian Soldier

One died for your soul, the other four, for you and your children's Freedom.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET!
AMEN! ~ GOD BLESS CANADA AND AMERICA .

A word over North Dakota From Apostle Eckhardt

This morning John Eckhardt prayed and prophesied over North Dakota. I had offered some ideas which he used. If you have connection with North Dakota.. you will find this so inspiring. It's a bit long and starts out with some unrelated comments, but when he gets going it's powerful stuff. He is praying and prophesying over all 50 states at the end of this year. They are all on You Tube.

I only got 45%... but if you read this blog you knew that

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A PDF of our Christmas Letter for this Year

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Obama is no ordinary weakling

 

Those who compare the bare-chested conqueror of the Crimea with the metrosexual ruler of the United States and find our emperor weak to the point of deserving ridicule miss the essential strength of President Obama. 

It’s no ordinary weakling who can turn a once-respected country into an international joke; reduce Congress to a gaggle of sniveling sycophants; turn the world’s finest medical system into a failed third-rate socialist nightmare with a stroke of his pen; shatter our Constitution without attempted recourse by the sons and daughters of frontiersmen and pioneers whose blood was used to write that inspired document; and turn the people of our once-united states into a herd of competing minorities who, like suckling pigs, are each afraid to lose his place on the government teat should he raise his voice to protest the ruin of our country. 

So don’t denigrate the nonentity ruler who has overcome his uncertain ancestry and ludicrous incompetence to do what no other king or dictator has been able to do in our 237-year history: He has destroyed America. 

REIS R. KASH
Springfield Oregon

The left does not grasp what it really means

Why the left and many so called Christians cannot comprehend why it all matters to you and me.  When you see someone denouncing evangelicalism, it reveals their heart.  (what offends you reveals your heart)  It tells us who they really are.  It tells us they don't know Jesus at all.  It was very real for Jesus and is very real for me.. and maybe you.  Here from someone I know is a statement on it all and I agree with it...

 ""I think the best way to understand the left on all of this, the liberal, as you and I know him, doesn't understand religion, period. Look at the way they impugn Christians. Look at the way they impugn evangelicals and so forth. I don't think your average liberal thinks religion is legitimate. I don't think that they assign it much weight in having an effect on the way people live and on the things they believe. I think they look at religions as just another club that people belong to. But it doesn't go much deeper than that, because they don't. I mean, they eschew religion, for the most part. They denounce it. They don't believe in it. They think it's a bunch of crazy things.

If anything is a religion, it's their ideology, liberalism or environmentalism, something of the sort. But as far as the broad-based left is concerned, you know, God is a dangerous concept, too. And they don't really go very far in expressing belief in God. So religions, to them, are nothing more than a collection of like-minded people who in the case of Christians are a bunch of wacko, gun nut, pro-lifers. They haven't the slightest understanding, nor do they care to understand, that religion is a source of strength and faith and is a guidepost for things like morality, right and wrong, good versus evil. And so they don't go very deep.

That's why they are able to denounce Christianity and to say what they say about Islam. Because it really isn't that big a deal. It's just a bunch of people that think the same way getting together once a week or however often and expressing their beliefs and whatever it is they have in common. But the true, deeply personal characteristics of religion totally escape liberals, and that's why it scares them. They'll never be able to control somebody's religious views. It frightens them terribly.

I'll tell you why this matters, why the left's view on religion matters. If it isn't deep, if it's just a club, if it's just a bunch of like-minded people getting together or something, it can't possibly be the root cause of something like Syed Farook did. Islam can't be blamed because religions do not have this effect on people. They're not deeply held. They're not formative in any way. And that's the left's overall view of religion, so it has to be something like workplace violence or outside influence from guys like ISIS or whatever, but it can't be the religion. It just can't be.""

As long as people like the current administration who don't know Jesus are trying to sort this out they miss the point.  It's not about race, it's not about ethnicity, it's about religion.. what you believe and why it matters.  If it doesn't matter.. it doesn't matter.  Man, I have a lot of people I would LOVE to tag in this post who are living a lie.. but I'll see if they respond.

If you love conspiracy... you'll love this

One way you can tell a mass casualty psyop event is when the MSM deliberately gloss over inconvenient details of the official story like they’re not even there. It’s kind of like when the 9/11 Commission Report made the statement that they didn’t really care who financed the operation because “ultimately it’s of little significance”

Keep moving folks. Nothing too see here.

In the case of the San Bernardino shooting spree, there are a lot of inconvenient details. Glaring inconvenient details which scream to be flushed out by the phony “journalists” making big bucks working for the usual suspects… but they wont be.



https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/san-bernardino-shooting-inconvenient-details-glossed-over-by-corporate-press/

Muslims Have More DNC Delegates than Montana, Utah and Oklahoma Put Together

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/143108/muslims-have-more-dnc-delegates-montana-utah-and-daniel-greenfield

The number of Muslim delegates attending the Democratic National Convention has quadrupled since 2004. Muslims had around 5 percent of the delegates in a Democratic Party convention for a country where they aren't even 1 percent of the

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This is the truth.. Trump: Media is 'scum'

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump called the media “scum” at a rally on Monday night, and singled out a reporter who was on the scene, calling her “third rate” and accusing her of lying about him.

“The mainstream media want to surrender the Constitution,” Trump declared at a rally in South Carolina.

“These people back here are the worst,” Trump said, pointing to a group of reporters on hand. “They are so dishonest…70 to 75 percent are absolutely dishonest. Absolute scum. Remember that. Scum. Scum. Totally dishonest people.”

Trump pointed to NBC reporter Katy Tur, who he accused of falsely reporting that he had once left a rally early.

 http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/262400-trump-media-is-scum

Donald Trump has a base: 76% of Republicans think Islam is un-American - Vox

I actually agree



Donald Trump has a base: 76% of Republicans think Islam is un-American - Vox

25 things we need to recognize about refugees

1. There is a difference between the right of Americans to freely travel between states and the right of foreigners to enter the United States.

2. There is a difference between open borders and no borders.

3. There is a difference between unrestricted immigration and open borders.

4. There is a difference between a free state and a welfare state.

5. There is a difference between admitting refugees and subsidizing the admittance of refugees.

6. There is a difference between government-facilitated immigration and government-controlled immigration.

7. There is a difference between the government allowing refugees to enter the United States and the government transporting refugees to the United States.

8. There is a difference between working immigrants and welfare immigrants.

9. There is a difference between a “natural born citizen” and an “anchor baby.”

10. There is a difference between “birthright citizenship” and “maternity tourism.”

11. There is a difference between an immigrant and an illegal immigrant.

12. There is a difference between the government welcoming refugees and the government resettling refugees.

13. There is a difference between private relief efforts and government relief efforts.

14. There is a difference between suspicion and hatred.

15. There is a difference between profiling and persecuting.

16. There is a difference between building a fence to keep people out and a building fence to keep people in.

17. There is a difference between inviting immigrants and recruiting immigrants.

18. There is a difference between being a guest and being a trespasser.

19. There is a difference between discrimination and xenophobia.

20. There is a difference between assimilated immigrants and alienated immigrants.

21. There is a difference between privately-funded immigration and taxpayer-funded immigration.

22. There is a difference between the United States giving sanctuary to refugees and the United States opening facilities overseas to process refugees.

23. There is a difference between the U.S. government limiting the number of refugees its accepts and the U.S. government refusing to grant asylum to Jewish refugees on the St. Louis in 1939.

24. There is a difference between the private, voluntary acceptance of refugees and the taxpayer-funded Office of Refugee Resettlement.

25. There is a difference between free immigration and forced immigration.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/12/laurence-m-vance/differences/

Uncle Sam Owns This Much Of America - 1/3rd of all of the USA

It's a little scary

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/08/uncle-sam-owns-this-much-of-america-interactive-map/

 
Those 640 million acres aren’t enough for the White House and federal bureaucrats, as they’re constantly trying to grab more for environmental reasons, Gohmert says.

“When you control the land, you can control the people that are on the land,” he said Monday at a Heritage Foundation presentation on federal land use.

Introducing President Sergeant Schultz - I know Nothing

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He'll get back to defending the nation right after party, honest. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Everything you needed to know about President Obama's primetime address last night is covered in the lead to the Reuters wrap-up:

President Barack Obama on Sunday laid out the most sweeping defense yet of his strategy to defeat Islamic State, but he offered no U.S. policy shift to confront what he called a "new phase" in the terrorist threat after a mass shooting in California.

"New phase," "no new shift." "Sweeping defense," in the shadow of a "mass shooting."

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Man Gets 100 Lashes For Adultery, Female Lover Gets Something MUCH Worse

An adulterous man is to receive 100 lashes for his crime, but his female lover was given a much more gruesome sentence.

When a woman and her secret lover were caught in the act, the Islamic court handed the man 100 lashes for extra-marital sex. The woman expected to receive the same for her crime, but when the judge handed down the sentence, she was horrified to learn her gruesome fate.
A 45-year-old Sri Lankan servant and her male lover were recently convicted of adultery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, the Daily Mail reports.
The pair individually admitted to their crime in the hope that the Sharia court would be more lenient with them, but for the women it simply wasn’t so.
Although the man received a brutal sentence of 100 lashes, the middle-aged woman was quickly handed one of the most barbaric death sentences in history — stoning.

Read the whole thing:    http://madworldnews.com/man-100-lashes-adultery/

46 Times President Obama told Americans 'That's Not Who We Are'

I am so sick of this artificial pontification from him..

75 things every man should be able to do..

I am not ususally a score for these kinds of "Lists".  I happened across this.  Looking it over, I decided there was some truth in them all.  That we need to be able to get along in the world.

You can read them, some are really worldly, but they aren't too bad.

http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/g2511/life-skills-for-men/

This is revealing of how others see our president

Egyptians react to Obama’s speech at a military base declaring “Climate Change” as the greatest threat to national security
Posted by Arturo Barroso on Friday, November 6, 2015