Aug 9, 2014

Nine Headlines Reflecting The Consequences Of U.S. Open Borders

Common Sense Commentary: These Nine News Headlines were stacked one over the other and pretty well tell the story of the results of Obama's open borders policy ...... and Congresses cowardly acquiescence


Border Patrol Agent: 'These People are Coming Here to do Horrible Things'... (Speaking of Gang members & Criminals among them)



Mother of slain agent: 'I will not rest'... UNIVISION POLL: Immigration Low Priority for Latino Voters...
(Murder means nothing to these Mexican gang members and criminals) 
(Ethnic Spanish citizens already here are losing interest because of the backlash)


DREAMers vow confrontations...(The attitude of Illegal aliens supposedly seeking the "American Dream" is to force the issue by confrontations). 


REPORT: New migrants entering public school system to cost Texas taxpayers $45M.... (This story relates to just the State of Texas. Every other state in the U.S. faces the same expense and that is just for schools)


Feds Bend CDC Rules, Allow Sick Illegals to Stay...(When they say, "Bend CDC Rules", they mean "BREAK THE LAW" as is the habit of the Obama Administration.



Cartels Using Children as 'Shields'... (Such people are not just Illegal aliens; They are devilish criminals)


Sheriff: Mexican immigrant gangs 'in military fatigues' marching through south TX... (Can you believe what our President is doing and Congress is tolerating?)



El Salvador murder suspect arrested in CA... (And how did he get there? He simply walked across the border)


Americans Renouncing Citizenship Hits New Record...(You cannot blame Americans for flooding out of the U.S. to other, more free countries, when our government allows hundreds of thousand of illegal aliens to flood in and increase our taxes, overload our schools, expand every other state and federal welfare program, take scarce jobs, increase our crime problems, and drive up our already huge indebtedness. I would leave too if I were not so old.



This problem is not compassion or generosity of even insanity .... it is clearly, as are other Obama actions, the planned destruction of American power, freedom, international influence and the free enterprise system of government ... in favor of a socialistic system as a world standard. Obama, though probably not the Anti-Christ, is the stalking horse for him. RB

Aug 8, 2014

"A Word Fitly Spoken" Or A Moment Shared Have Changed Many A Life ... Forever

Common Sense Commentary: "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." Prov.25:11. 


1. A father was asked by a loud, boisterous neighbor, "What's wrong with your son; is he deaf or just dumb. He never talks. He never says nothin." The boy's father answered, "I taught him that you never learn anything with your mouth open." I was the boy.


2. A boy's father told him, ? Just go for it and give it a try! You don't have to be a professional to build a successful product. Amateurs started Google and Apple. Professionals built the Titanic.


3. I asked my mentor ? a very successful business man in his 70's? what his top 3 tips are for success. He smiled and said, "Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking, and do something no one else is doing."


4. I interviewed my grandmother for part of a research paper I'm working on for my Psychology class. When I asked her to define success in her own words, she said, "Success is when you look back at your life and the memories make you smile."


5.  I am blind by birth. When I was 8 years old, I wanted to play baseball. I asked my father- "Dad, can I play baseball?" He said "You'll never know until you try." When I was a teenager, I asked him, - "Dad can I become a surgeon?". He replied "Son, you'll never know until you try." Today after my own successful sight restoration surgery, I am a surgeon, just because I tried!


6.  Today, after a 72 hour shift at the fire station, a woman ran up to me at the grocery store and gave me a hug. When I tensed up, she realized I didn't recognize her. She let go with tears of joy in her eyes and the most sincere smile and said, "On 9-11-2001, you carried me out of the World Trade Center."


7.  After I watched my dog get run over by a car, I sat on the side of the road holding him and crying. And just before he died, he licked the tears off my face. That's a dog word for love.


8.  Today at 6AM, I woke up feeling ill, but decided I needed the money, so I went in to work. At 3PM I got laid off. On my drive home I got a flat tire. When I went into the trunk for the spare, it was flat too. A man in a BMW pulled over, gave me a ride, we chatted, and then he offered me a job. I start tomorrow.


9.  Today, as my father, three brothers, and two sisters stood around my mother's hospital bed, my mother uttered her last coherent words before she died. She simply said, "I feel so loved right now. We should have gotten together like this more often."


10. Today, I kissed my dad on the forehead as he passed away in a small hospital bed. About 5 seconds after he passed, I realized it was the first time I had given him a kiss since I was a little boy.


11. In the cutest voice, my 8-year-old daughter asked me to start recycling. I chuckled and asked, "Why"? She replied, "So you can help me save the planet."  I chuckled again and asked, "And why do you want to save the planet?? "Because that's where I keep all my stuff"', she said.


12. Today, when I witnessed a 27-year-old breast cancer patient laughing hysterically at her 2-year-old daughter's antics, I suddenly realized that I need to stop complaining about my life and start celebrating it again.


13. A boy in a wheelchair saw me desperately struggling on crutches with my broken leg and offered to carry my backpack and books for me. He helped me all the way across campus to my class and as he was leaving he said, "I hope you feel better soon."


14. I was traveling in Kenya and met a refugee from Zimbabwe . He said he hadn't eaten anything in over 3 days and looked extremely skinny and unhealthy. When my friend offered him the rest of the sandwich he was eating, the man said, "We can share it."




Aug 7, 2014

Honey Bees, Like Pilgrims, Not Native To The Americas

Common Sense Commentary: There are no "American" honey bees. There are European bees, Russian bees, African bees and several other countries of origin, and all uniquely different. The honey bees we have here emigrated in the baggage (boxed hives) of early American settlers. So, like most of the rest of us, their honey bee ancestors were passengers on European sailing ships with our own ancestors. With all the European food crops also brought to the Americas, the Honey Bee is now absolutely indispensable to American agriculture. And since we feed much of the rest of the world, indispensable to them as well. RB

Honey Bees Not Native to North America

By
Tom Turpin
Professor of
Entomology
Purdue University

Honey bees are among the most recognizable and beneficial of the insects that live in North America. But these insects are not even native to the Americas. Like most of the livestock associated with American farms, honey bees were imported by European settlers.
Prior to the arrival of the Old World settlers, honey bees were unknown to Native Americans. In fact, several early American writers, including Thomas Jefferson, reported that honey bees were called “white man's flies.” The name was recognition that the appearance of honey bees in America was associated with the arrival of the Europeans.
There was a close association between the westward migration of Europeans and the establishment of wild colonies of honey bees. Native Americans were said to have noticed that shortly after colonies of honey bees were discovered, white settlers would not be far behind.
So when did the first colonies of honey bees arrive in the New World? These bees probably came from England and arrived in Virginia in 1622. By 1639 colonies of honey bees were found throughout the woods in Massachusetts. Some of the colonists who arrived at Plymouth likely brought bees, as well as sheep, cows and chickens on the trip across the Atlantic.
Once the bees were introduced, they, like other insects, were able to increase their range by moving into new territory. Honey bees increase colony numbers by swarming. Swarms are able to fly several miles to establish a new colony.
Such migrating swarms brought honey bees to Connecticut and Pennsylvania by the mid 1650s. Honey bees had swarmed their way into Michigan by 1776 and Missouri, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois by 1800. In the next 20 years or so, bees had made their way to Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, as well as Wisconsin.
Further westward migration of the honey bee was slow. In 1843 it was reported that there were no honey bees beyond Kansas. However, Mormons arrived in Utah, and the first bees were taken there on the back of a wagon in 1848. So successful was this introduction, it was reported that a considerable amount of honey was being made in the southern counties of Utah. By 1852 the swarms had reached Nevada.
Bees were finally introduced into the Pacific Coast states by using a sea route along the East Coast and crossing Panama, before using the Pacific Ocean for the final part of the journey. It was in 1853 that botanist C. A. Shelton used this route to introduce the first honey bees into California. Only enough bees from 12 colonies survived to establish one colony, but it was enough to allow history to credit him with starting the honey bee industry in the golden state.
Transporting colonies of bees either by sea or land in the 1700s and 1800s was not easy. The sea voyage from England lasted six to eight weeks, and it was not easy to keep bees alive for that length of time while confined. Many of the attempts to transport bees were unsuccessful as many stories relate.
For once in our history, the introduction of a foreign insect has a happy ending. After all, honey bees are a very important part of agriculture in this country, and we really can't do without them. Even if they do sting us once in a while!


Aug 6, 2014

How Much Is US Immigration Policy Helping The Poor, Impoverished Of The World?

Common Sense Commentary: This is a reasonable question with an astonishing but revealing, factual answer. The simple answer is, we are not helping them, we are hindering them and committing national suicide in the process. We already have a huge shortage of jobs and a mammoth overload of welfare recipients. Our schools, hospitals and human services are all bursting at the seams. The world population is approximately 7,200.50 Million.The U.S. has a population of approximately 318.43 Million which is about 4.4% of the world population.  If you will watch this video, you will see the impossibility of the U.S. helping world poverty by immigrating them here. We can best help them where they are, but with our $17.5 trillion federal debt and $100 trillion federal, unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc., we do not have any money above or below bankruptcy with which to solve that problem. We are already in a $117.5 trillion dollar black hole of debt we cannot pay. Please watch this video. RB

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=LPjzfGChGlE&feature=player_embedded


Aug 5, 2014

Video Of U.S. Southern Border: One Question, No Inspection! "Not Anymore"

Common Sense Commentary: If you doubt Obama's new "Open Borders" policy at the U.S./Mexico border, take a look at this U.S. trucker coming out of Mexico and stopping for inspection, for drugs, contraband & illegal aliens, by our Border Patrol.  I know all the Democrat Congressmen and women are supporting the Obama Administration on this, but why aren't the Republican Congressmen putting a stop to this clear violation of our Border/Customs and Immigration Laws ? A Semi loaded with drugs, terrorists or a neuclear bomb could be brought into our country without a problem. RB


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=682252271857874&set=vb.100002193230033&type=2&theater




Aug 4, 2014

Narcissistic EgoManiacs: They Too Walk Among Us With Their "Cousins" ... Scoiopaths

Common Sense Commentary: There are enough Narcissists in the world, that everyone surely knows one or more of them but probably doesn't realize it because the narcissist and egomaniac know how to appear to be normal people. They cannot hide, however, all of the traits of a Narcissistic EgoManiac. Learn to identify them but be careful in your dealings with them. They can be dangerous. And don't go to seed on identifying them, and tend to suspect every type "A" person you know.  I am sure I have known several, at least, Narcissists and EgoManiacs in my 83 years. Probably the positions where they are most likely to be found are Politics, Religion, Media, CEOs, Law Enforcement and anywhere else great power is exercised.  Power would include control of people, money and social planning.  The only possibility of change in such people is, as with sociopaths, a miracle of God in their spiritual redemption, which, I think, is rare if ever. The barrier is true repentance where there is no feeling of guilt. RB

This video, on the subject, is quite long but very informative from a psychological viewpoint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Uie7UCdOU

Aug 3, 2014

Sociopaths: They Walk Among Us... Seeking Power... But Do Not Look Like Who They Are

Common Sense Commentary: I am not sure whether all sociopaths are doomed to hell, or not ... But unless, by some miracle of God, they develope a conscience, they can never experience true repentance. And we know, for sure, that without repentance, there is no forgiveness of sin. Jesus confirmed that fact in Luke 13:3."I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." I, personally, have never known a full blown sociopath to get saved. Join a church, yes, but gain eternal life through faith in Jesus and repentance of sin ... no. I have seen "professions" of faith, by what I believed to be sociopaths ... which did not change the person one whit. But where there is no conscience, there is nothing for God's Holy Spirit to convict of sin. It is conviction of sin ... deep personal guilt, which drives a sinner to repentance ... and salvation. RB

Here is a very informative article concerning sociopaths:




A FREE-MAN's TAKE  with Paul Rosenberg | July 24, 2014
They Walk Among Us
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By Paul Rosenberg
Here’s the bad news: Predators walk among us, and they are indistinguishable from normal people. These differently wired humans have a predatory advantage, and they use it. This is not a plot from a scary movie; this is real.
I am deadly serious about this, though by the end of this column, I will also explain why there is also good news.
These predators are called sociopaths (psychopaths in the clinical literature). They rather seldom damage our bodies, but they make careers out of bleeding our souls.
I’m not trying to be dramatic, by the way. I was holding this subject for the next issue of my subscription newsletter, but the more I worked on it, the more I was convinced that I should publish some key points ahead of schedule. This is important.
So, before we go any further, I’d like to give you two essential facts that will allow you to protect yourself from sociopaths. If you can remember these, you’ll avoid a lot of pain:
1 in 50 people are predators.
At least 2% of the overall populace are sociopaths, and some estimates are double that. Perhaps 75% of them are male, though no one knows why. That means that at least every thirty-third man is a sociopath, and every hundredth woman.
Most of us have a feeling that everyone has some goodness in them. This is generally a useful feeling, but it’s only true for 49 out of 50 humans. That last one is a predator without a conscience.
I don’t like the sound of that any better than you do, but it has been proven over and over and over. We need to face the facts, and we cannot treat these people like we do everyone else.
You must pay attention to inauthentic emotions.
Sociopaths have a “tell” that gives them away: Emotions that are not quite right. They don’t have much in the way of positive emotions themselves, so they fake them. But they can never fake them completely.
Authentic expressions of emotions are very complex, involving dozens of muscles, increased or decreased blood flow and pressure, pulse rate, posture, tone of voice, and more. Normal people are deeply familiar with these complicated arrangements and innately understand their patterns.
The sociopath, on the other hand, doesn’t feel them and can’t grasp their patterns. He or she must mimic them. But because of the great complexity involved, the sociopath can never mimic them terribly well.
So, you must notice inauthentic emotions, remember them, and not ignore them in an effort to be nice.

The How and the Why
There are a lot of things to understand about sociopaths, and we can’t cover them all in one column, but I will give you the basics, which are these:
  • Sociopaths have a profound lack of empathy for the feelings of others. They lack the internal feedback system by which normal people monitor themselves. (Most people call this “conscience,” which is probably as useful a term as any.) Sociopaths do not have this and don’t feel bad about abusing other people. It’s not that they feel bad and ignore it—they don’t feel it at all.
  • Sociopaths understand that they are different from normal people and learn to mimic normal behavior. This mimicry has a purpose: It gets the sociopath what he or she wants.
  • The sociopath hides his or her difference. After letting it show a time or two—and probably being punished by a parent as a result—the sociopath covers up the truth and keeps it covered. But the reason for hiding it is not embarrassment (the sociopath doesn’t feel embarrassment), but because it hinders him from getting what he want.
  • Since sociopaths have no empathy for others, making use of normal people feels just fine to them. Likewise, they feel no remorse.
  • Empathy, as viewed by the sociopath, is a weakness, and he considers himself superior, because he isn’t burdened by it.
  • Because they lack an internal feedback system, sociopaths are excellent liars. For example, they can often pass lie detector tests, since those tests register the effects of our internal feedback system, which they don’t have.
  • A sociopath is likely to maintain a group of people who believe whole-heartedly that he is a good, kind, honest person. He’ll work in calculated ways to create and maintain that opinion in them.
Here is what Hervey Cleckley wrote about sociopaths in his classic text on the subject, The Mask of Sanity:
Beauty and ugliness, except in a very superficial sense; goodness, evil, love, horror and humor have no actual meaning, no power to move him.
Now we come to the question of why sociopaths are this way, and we do have some answers.
Recent brain scans indicate that sociopaths have unusually small amygdalae (the part of the brain associated with emotional reactions, decisionmaking, and memory processing). A region of the brain’s frontal cortex, called the orbitofrontal cortex, seems problematic as well. This region, which communicates with the amygdala, is also involved with decision making.
So, the cause of sociopathy is almost certainly organic. Someday it should be curable with genetic engineering, but for now, there is no cure at all. That means that you have zero chance of talking a sociopath into behaving well.
Trying to repair a sociopath tells him that you’re a ripe sucker, and nothing more. He’ll play along, tell you what you want to hear, fake the emotions he thinks you’ll respond to, and bleed you dry, emotionally and physically. And he’ll never feel a moment’s remorse as you finally contemplate suicide.
Yes, I know this is dark stuff, but it’s better to be forewarned than to learn through harsh experience.

Why This Is Actually Good News
Considering that sociopaths make up 2% of the total population, and considering that a sociopath is responsible for several times more damage than the average person (I’d guess at least five to ten times as much), then… training people to recognize and avoid sociopaths would eliminate a serious percentage of human suffering.
And it gets better. Aside from natural causes like diseases, the number-one source of pain on Earth is political systems. For today I’ll pass up the argument of whether states are necessary or not; instead, I’d like to make a simpler point: Governments, like all hierarchies, are havens for sociopaths. And governments have, over the last century, killed approximately 260 million people. (See Death by Government, by R.J. Rummel.)
So, what would happen if millions of people, because they were able to recognize sociopaths, stopped empowering and obeying them?
I’m trying to think of any single thing that would eliminate human suffering better than sociopath recognition, and I’m not coming up with much. Furthermore, it would be easy: websites, billboards, tiny radio and TV ads, flyers, handouts, and just about anything else could be used. The concepts are simple and potent, and the motivation to avoid pain is inherent in human nature.
For far less than corporate charities spend, something like this would change the world… more, better, and faster.
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My Comment:

The author of the above, Paul Rosenberg, is probably a Jew. His name would suggest that, but I don't know if he is a Christian. Probably not, since there is no Biblical or spiritual content in the piece. However, as there is a great deal of truth in some non-Christian people such as in art, music, skill, science, medicine and many other area, so it is with observation, logic and reason. I would rather have the most trained, talented, skillful and experienced brain surgeon operate on my brain, though he is not a Christian, than a very committed, born-again Christian gynecologist. Many of the most gifted, talented and capable people in this old world are not Christians. I believe most, if not all, of what Mr. Rosenberg says.  We Christians are often quite naive in our dealings with worldly people, and that isn't all bad. If we don't make ourselves vulnerable, though often taken advantage of by those we try to help, we would never help anyone, even the most sincere and deserving ones.
That is not to say we should give money to everyone who comes along and asks for it. Think on this. You cannot bail someone out from under the judgement of God, though you spend yourself into poverty trying to help them. We must use our heads as well as our hearts. Tough love is sometimes the best love you can give, and if they are sociopaths, nothing you do will help them. Be careful to whom you, as a steward, give God's money. Don't give it to the Devil even if he looks like an angel. RB

Aug 2, 2014

Hundreds Of Illegal Aliens Are Dying In The Southwest Texas Desert Border With Mexico

Common Sense Commentary:
  1. The Texas-Mexico border makes up 1,254 miles of the 1,900-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border. The vast, mostly rural, desert expanse stretches from El Paso in the West to Brownsville in the Southeast.  The Rio Grande River is the border. Without U.S. government help, it is impossible for Texas to seal that border. In most places it is at least a hundred mile walk through hot, waterless semi-desert to avoid the border patrol... which now is under orders to stand down. It is amazing that any of these illegal border crossers make it through that area ... walking.  Of course, now we know that the Obama administration has opened the U.S. border check-points to all comers and is supplying transportation and all human needs to those who are crossing at those official stations.
  2. 'A lot of people die out here' and 'all this blood..is on Obama's hands'

From RunRyder News

Shocking images show corpses of illegal immigrants left to die after border crossings
•Rancher shares grotesque photos with MailOnline, saying Obama bears the blame for a rising death toll among illegal immigrants 
•Volunteer patrol network in south Texas has found 259 bodies in one county alone, maybe 20 percent of the actual body count 
•Border Patrol source concedes the agency has no idea how many are perishing between the border and official government checkpoints 
•Filmmaker says he warned Congress in 2007 that children were becoming drug cartels' newest pawns on the border
Burgard also saw an Urdu-to-English dictionary that Vickers picked up near his ranch, dropped by 'a coyote leading a group of Middle Easterners into our country.'
And Chinese immigrants, paying up to $50,000 each to be smuggled into Ecuador and then into the United States, are now numerous enough that the federal government has added Mandarin translations to signs at emergency stations dotting the Texas border region.
The flow is 'four times what it was in 2011. A four-fold increase,' says Vickers.
He agrees with Republicans in Congress who point fingers of blame at President Obama, who declared in 2012 that the federal government would no longer pursue illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children before 2007.
He also championed a bill called the DREAM Act – failed legislation that aimed to offer those immigrants permanent residency if they graduated from high school.
'When Obama started talking about the DREAM Act, and this and that about the DREAMers, I mean it was like, overnight we started seeing hordes of these teenagers coming in from Central America,' Vickers told MailOnline. 'I've got pictures of them.'

The pictures would not hold for this blog. RB

Brilliant, Perceptive Genius Of Below Ground Level ... "Filthy Lucre"

Common Sense Commentary: Below are two paragraphs worth a truckload of money but not a speck of eternal reward. The opposite of above ground level (all things spiritual) is all things physical (below ground level) including economics and money. Here is one of the best summations of the later, I have ever read, from a brilliant word master who's Message Board handle is Kilowatt8.  RB

Gold/Silver vs paper is one of the 'strongest long-term trends on earth.'
 The pattern is destined to complete, not because it is really nice and pretty, but because the underlying structural drivers cannot be escaped.   The credit cycle cannot be denied.  Credit expansion is de facto, even as credit quality goes into nose dive decline, no longer supported by real growth or factors economic....  credit for credit's sake is no consolation.
Rampant credit, on command, may be a powerful tool.... for masking reality, long enough to clean out the desk and foist the dilemma on the next set of delusional world improvers...  But alas, capital itself can't be printed, and the cold reality of insolvency patiently lays in wait for the euphoria to dissipate...  and the secular trend of gold vs irredeemable IOUs to reassert. Kilowatt8.

Kilowatt8's commentary is, of course, not in the heavenly realm of spiritual revelation but does line-up with history, true economics, real money (not paper) and a prediction of monetary inevitability. Watch it happen; It will. I admire Kilowatt8's commentary as I admire secular talent, intelligence and accomplishment. RB



Aug 1, 2014

Anti-Gun Propaganda Is Cardinal Doctrine Of Liberal Social Planner's Religion





Gun Violence Decreasing
by Kerby Anderson


A recent study by the Pew Research Center found that a majority of Americans believe that gun violence is greater than ever. The problem with that view is that the opposite is true. Violent gun crime has dropped dramatically in the past two decades.

The Pew report explains that: "National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime." Government statistics show that the rate of non-fatal violent gun crime victimization dropped 75 percent in the past 20 years. The gun homicide rate dropped 49 percent in that same period. (During that same time period Concealed Carry permits, by good citizens, has increased by approximately the same percentages. RB)

Most Americans are unaware of this drop in gun crime. According to the Pew survey, 56 percent of Americans believe gun crime is worse than it was 20 years ago. If you add in those people who believe it has stayed the same, then you have 84 percent who believe it has either gone up or stayed the same. Only 12 percent have the correct view: that gun violence has decreased the last 20 years.

Let's put it another way. At a time when the nation was having a debate about guns and gun control, more than 8 out of 10 Americans had a perspective about gun violence that was completely opposite of the true reality. I think we all know why the public perception is incorrect. The news media focus our attention on crimes, especially gun crimes. This has been true for some time, but was especially true since the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

The Pew Research report also puts these mass shootings in context. "According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics review, homicides that claimed at least three lives accounted for less the 1 percent of all homicide deaths from 1980 to 2008." In other words, they are very rare, but of course get lots of media attention when they occur.

This latest survey once again is a reminder that public opinion can often be wrong, and that's why we need accurate statistics before we enact government policies.

Please don't overlook the fact that as increasing numbers of law-abiding citizens get gun carry licenses, the number of people shot in the U.S. decreases. RB

Here is a 12 minute video of a black sheriff addressing a national NRA conference. This brave, freedom loving Constitutionalist drew a constant outbreak of applause from this huge crowd of American Patriots. You too may find yourself standing and applauding. RB