Monday, December 31, 2012

MMXIII


Well here we are another year on the way out a new one coming in. Hope you all have a sane safe New Years Eve. Drink if you must but please don't drive afterwords.
As for The MadMan I will be safe at home (seeing how I have no car).                We will be here playing cards drinking juice but not getting juiced. 
If your are a friend with nothing to do and what company feel free to come on over bring snacks or soda if you want. Your welcome with it or with out!
 I was thinking of what to say in my last blog of the Yr. but could not come up with anything. 
So just a recap. Its been nuts. Hard, cracked and crushed. There has been love joy and pain. I have had to say good-by to a lot of friends. Some because of our moving the some, Well they went to that final rest and I pray that they made it to join the Lord.Some I new well and they are like brothers to me some just friends & I love them all the same. 
It has been a Yr with lots of prayers said and many answered. God has blessed me.
So at some point here soon I will stop and talk with Him give Him thanks for the blessings that I have.
One is my wife and children that drive me crazy & make me laugh. They keep me busy they leave me alone.
 They give me reasons to pray,stay close to God. They in their off the wall ways as well as conventional show me love. They are still teaching me what it is to be a Dad & a husband. It truly is the toughest Job you ever love.
 So that's it for this Yr on bloging.
I thank you for reading whoever you might be and ask just 1 thing. Take a moment or 2 and give thanks to your creator for this year and if you have some guts say this prayer.


   GOD TO YOU I GIVE THANKS. FOR EVERYTHING YOU HAVE GIVEN ME.
EVERYTHING YOU HAVE TAKEN FROM ME. THE LOVE I HAVE BEEN SHOWN
AND THE JOY. THANK YOU FATHER FOR THE HARDSHIP AS WELL.
THANK YOU FOR WALKING WITH ME EVEN WHEN I WAS IN REBELLION AND NOT WALKING WITH YOU.THANK YOU FOR THOSE THAT HELPED WHEN NO ONE ELSE COULD. THANK YOU FOR THOSE THAT NEED MY HELP
THO THE TIMING SEEM BAD. THANK YOU GOD FOR ALL OF IT. BECAUSE I KNOW FROM THIS BREATH TO THE NEXT EVERYTHING I HAVE HAS BEEN GIVE TO ME FROM YOUR HANDS.
AMEN. 

 THE MADMAN
                 



THE MADMAN
MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE FOR OVER 20 YRS
ME AND MY YOUNGEST LONE WOLF
  
BOB THE MIDDLE SON  ABOVE MY OLDEST SON JR TO RIGHT WITH MY FUTURE DAUGHTER



                                                 
      

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

About gun control

Across our nation a debate rages about "gun control". This euphemism glosses over the fact that what is being debated is one of the most precious guarantors of liberty, the right to keep and bear arms. At the heart of this debate is not whether the right to keep and bears arms is an individual right or not, but at its core the debate is over the primacy of the individual over the primacy of the government. This debate rages because many, too many, in this country have forgotten, or, worse, have never been educated in, the nature of our rights.
Government and liberty are natural adversaries. The founders of our nation understood this. With that understanding in mind they crafted a Constitution and a Bill of Rights designed to limit the power of government and guarantee the rights of the people. The rights that they intended to protect were those written about in the Declaration of Independence and other un-enumerated rights, e.g. the natural, inalienable rights of man. The arms referred to by the Second Amendment and the founders of this country are the arms necessary for the free people of America to be able to hold their governments unbridled appetite for power in check and to resist invaders when called upon to serve in the militia in defense of our country, state or community. If the arms of the soldiers of this era are automatic rifles, machine guns and sub-machine guns then it is the right, in fact the obligation, for the citizens of this country to possess such arms themselves. It is laughable on its face, as some have stated, that the Second Amendment would grant to us the right to only have flintlocks or muskets, such weapons as were in use at the time of our countries founding, to defend ourselves against an armed force raised by the government to oppress us, or to defend against an invading enemy. This would be the same as saying, concerning the First Amendment, that the press could only use the printing technology that existed at the time of the Revolution while the government could use movies, television, radio, modern printing presses, the Internet and any other means of communications that it desired. A ridiculous thought isn't it? If it's ridiculous for the First Amendment, why is it any less ridiculous for the Second Amendment? Our rights are not "frozen in a moment of time", they are eternal rights and we are free to use our ingenuity to advance the technology to ensure those rights. If anything, we have the rights to limit the governments use of technology, not the other way around.
Surely, our founding fathers meant for us to have arms that would allow us to meaningfully resist, better yet, deter the government from any attempt at tyranny. No doubt this is a shocking position to the ignorant masses that have been lied to by their government, the press and the educational institutions of this country that our Second Amendment right exists only so we can have single shot sporting arms for such purposes as hunting, target shooting, etc., or that the Second Amendment is a right of the states to maintain armed militias.

Monday, December 24, 2012

RIP.

Rip Jack Klugman and to Lt. Mike Chiapperini &  Tomasz Kaczowka..
Who are the last two you may be asking. They are two brave men that got shot  in WEBSTER, N.Y.
Four firefighters in all were shot the other two are recovering.
So I am not here to go on about this tragedy in NY. or the school shootings that happened just few days back.
There is evil out there it will come around again and there are those that are going to jump on it and use it.
That's right I'm talking about the gun control nuts and the all the other nuts out there that are going to be plastering the web with all there shit causing even more discord.
GET OVER IT & WAKE THE FUCK UP. Evil people do evil things. Crime will not stop by getting rid of the guns. Even if you could get the guns to all go away it would not stop. There are more and worst ways for them to do violent crimes.William Spengler, 62.spent 17 years in prison for beating his grandmother to death in 1980.(You think capitol punishment is the wrong way to go? I don't.) now he has killed again. 2 dead 2 in the hospital shot doing there jobs and Spengler's 67-year-old sister Cheryl Spengler is unaccounted for. As for the Why? well that has yet to be answered. 
But that is not what I want to say ether it's just the place to start. If you follow my blog at all then maybe you read the 22 of this month if you didn't go read it because that is what I want to say here. That and to add this. The best thing we can do is to trust God & protect one another. We can start this by getting along. Be alert to those around you and there needs.Be a good neighbor not a stranger to the person next door. If the good people will just ALL pull together the world will be a safer place and a better place.
Forget religious affiliation and politics do what is right.Try just living by the principles this great country was set up with.Remember what Edmund Burke said‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’
  My prayers go out to all those that are suffering this day. I pray that someday I can see this old world of ours see the people in it getting along loving each other helping each other and I won't have to be a MadMan!  
As for Jack Klugman well he was a good man too, made me laugh a few times had a good long career he will be missed I am sure.
   

No simple answer. God is or he is not.

For some there is no simple answers. Depending on the subject. Here we will be talking about God and or religion.Many are prejudice they have there preconceived ideals and beliefs. As soon as you start to answer there question or question they will react one of several ways. One way is they go on the defensive.
Fear that you may prove them wrong.That they may have to change in someway or loose something.
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation. Or simply put  prejudice.
 prejudice1:an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities,preconceived judgment or opinion 3 : an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge
This seems to be the biggest problem in dealing with religious discussions.
Another is ignorance often combined with prejudice ether one can be a obstacle when both are together its often best to just walk away. Now lets look at a few other definition.
 pagan 1 : a person who worships many gods or goddesses or the earth or nature : a person whose religion is paganism
2 old-fashioned + often offensive : a person who is not religious or whose religion is not Christianity, Judaism, or Islam
heathen :1.an unconverted individual of a people that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible; a person who is neither a Jew, Christian, nor Muslim;pagen
2.an irreligious, uncultured, or uncivilized person.
adjective3.of or pertaining to heathens; pagan.4.irreligious, uncultured, or uncivilized.

agnostic 1.a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience. disbeliever, nonbeliever, unbeliever; doubter, skeptic, secularist, empiricist; heathen, heretic, infidel, pagan. 
2.a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in some area of study.
3.a person who holds neither of two opposing positions on a topic: Socrates was an agnostic on the subject of immortality.adjective
4.of or pertaining to agnostics or agnosticism.
5.asserting the uncertainty of all claims to knowledge.
6.holding neither of two opposing positions: If you take an agnostic view of technology, then it becomes clear that your decisions to implement one solution or another should be driven by need.
 For now lets stick with a simple Ideal that God is. He was the first and he chose to create everything.
Now there was this little thing called choice. Also the hole free will thing. Why he gave them to use we may discus later. I will just say he wants us to love him not because we have to but because we want to.
There is lots of questions from the silly to the unanswerable. And here we go...
Can God create something so big he can not even move it. I say why would he want to? for what purpose?   I have seen people that can not be moved.
Can God stop a built? I say yes and base my answer on personal experience as well as those of others I know.This does not mean he will for you or anyone else. Take the story of Private I’Dana Klinger who's life was saved by his zippo lighter. Was it the lighter random chance or a act of God.
Why is it God allows bad things to happen? More then one reason I find for this. One is not everyone is under his protection. God has a advisory the devil.
Who was thrown out of heaven and took with him 1/3 of all the angles.His job is going to and fro causing as much trouble as he can.(also see my blogs on spiritual warfare) 
Not everything that happens to us is because God did it, this is true not just of the bad but good things as well (Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness.) There is a beautiful side to evil The devil will use every means he can to corrupt.Sometimes it is because we made a bad choice
( that takes us back to free will ). Sometimes it is in his plan like it or not. There is evil in the world like it or not. Sometimes I think shit just happens with no rime or reason.
Where is God? Well I think he is anywhere He wants to be. The only place he can not go is into you heart
If you do not want him in your life he is not there.
His words and teachings may be kept out but not Him.Pushing God out of out schools government is I think one of the biggest reasons we see so much trouble in both.
I do believe that God is with me always. I believe that if you have questions about God you should seek him. Ask Him, Study His word & check it with historical facts. Don't go on the parts that some people have told you. Get the hole story. Then answer this. Is there a power greater then anything I know? 
Remember when I said "lets stick with a simple Ideal" well now we can add God is everything or nothing. Its your choice. I would rather have him with me fighting to get out of hell then not have him and be headed in to hell.   

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Thanks for making me think. Or, Book'um

A lie will make it around the world before the truth has time to put its shoes on. Thanks to the information highway we call the internet. How can you know for sure what you read is the truth anymore? Seems like a lot of story's that get plastered on FB need some research done on them before they are to be taken as fact.
 Now I am not pointing fingers at anyone nor am I trying to piss anyone off. One of my old friends posted His words on how he felt about the going on since the shootings this last week and he gave me something to think about. I Will say He is right! It is not just what he was saying that got this rant started. It is the way Face Book and all of the net working pages seem to get turned in to a bunch of propaganda Bs at times. Times when we should all be pulling together. Our nation's Biggest threat may very well be us fighting amongst ourselves instead of just holding true to each other. When we focus on what we want or are in fear of lousing what we have we often miss out on whats going on right under our noses. How about being Grateful as well as Thankful you have what you do have. In the last 16 days I have found that I am thankful! Thankful for my Kids, family, friends even the the air I breath.It still hurts to laugh or breath deeply but when I do I am grateful that I still can! It was a good day to live!

My friend Dan wrote;
It is a shame in the truest sense of the word that events like the one in Connecticut and the 'fiscal cliff' serve to further polarize this nation instead of bringing us together. I'd genuinely hoped all the horses would learn to pull together for the common good, that people would at long last understand that we are a nation in crisis and that if we do not learn how to compromise it will be our undoing. But everybody's more worried about their own agenda and the sniping at each other gets ever more vicious. If that energy and time was spent from both 'sides' to find compromise instead we'd be a lot better off as a whole. But Americans, especially those in power/wannabe in power, have lost any sense of all being in this together. Where is the middle-ground voice? Do we need to become further divided by secession or civil war for people to understand that they had the means for success in their grasp but were too worried about their own individual interests to just stick their oar in the water and help ROW the sonuvabitch?
If you answer this post with political attacks you will only further illustrate the issue.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

                                        THIS WEEK IN THE MADMAN NEWS

 I got reamed,disowned,called a fucking moron,a disgusting piece of shit, that I was hypocritical and judgmental, told I don't deserve the breath in my lungs and to kill my self.
And thats just one persons and what all I can remember She said. Now it is all because I posted a bad joke at the wrong time. Sometimes I am A ASS. I found somewhat of a apology on her blog and Sugar if you are reading this I did reflect on what you said and yes it was thoughtless.
I was also running on little sleep and kinda fucked up on the pain meds. I am slower then shit on the keyboard with out the meds. Krystal can run rings around me on the pc. not to mention my pc is a dinosaur. On a bad day go's off line or freezes about ever 10 minutes or so only 60 if I'm lucky.  So I spent the day with out the pain meds wishing now I hadn't but glad I did. 
Anyaways  It makes it hard to get comments posted at times by the time my slow pc and slow me was back you was gone.I don't know if she ever got any of what I said after she posted on here and I cant seem to be able to post in her comment section I will say If she or maybe I should say If you don't come back I will miss you! As different in views as we may be I have always looked forward to your comments and appreciate your views. So I guess this is my somewhat last atemp at a apology. 2 things you just have accept I DoNot like obuma. I do love you! not just because of DNA. 
 Peace be with 

Monday, December 17, 2012

For those in NEWTOWN, Conn.

“God, bring comfort and peace. Peace is your essence. Peace is your name. Bring peace to these family's who has lost their precious children in death.

We come to you, God because we know that you sorrow, and are acquainted with grief. You too have endured the loss of a child. You empathize.

We can’t help but ask, “Why?” Forgive our insistence, our confusion, even our anger. We believe that you are just, and we ache to understand how these tragic deaths is an expression of that justice, how it expresses your love. We also know – in our minds at least – that you seldom answer the “why?” question. We press you, but on these matters you are mostly silent.

What we ask instead is “how?” How can we move forward? How can this bring us together and not tear us apart? How can we now live under the shadow of these untimely deaths? Answer this prayer with your comfort and guidance.

There is no way to remove the pain. The grief is real. The only sanity is to know, to believe, in a life beyond with you, when all the scales are righted and the sufferings are made good. We trust you and your promise that while these children’s life on earth is done, their lives beyond has just begun. With that release we lose them and let them go into your arms, then by faith receive in return the boundless comfort of your presence. That is all, that is enough. In Jesus.”

Sunday, December 16, 2012

I found this funny as hell. butt candle alarm clocks

Ok this might make you lol its a little tragic but humorous all the same.
Just got of the phone with old friend I haven't talked to in long time.
He got news about the car crash and called to see what was up.
Anyway during the conversation he told me this tail.
His girl friend and him got this gag gift on his last birthday. It was one
of those butt candle alarm clocks. If you have never seen one its just
a candle with time markings on it. with instructions on how to use.
needless to say butt candle should tell you alot.
So they were board one night started playing around with the camera.
being adventurous they thought they take pics of it in use.
first thing was a little lube but I guess some lubricants are better
off not being used. Think you know where this is going?
Well as they was filming he of coarse had to light the candle.
then it happens. His girl friend farted! lol He said they really are flammable.
(She is ok)
The candle blew out of her butt landing one the bed and catching it on fire.
she kind of freaked out ran a called 911. He tried to smother the flams
with the blankets and at first made matters worst but got the firer out.
He said it was lots of fun explaining to the fire dept.
He also refused to post the film in fear of life. Im still laughing.     

Editorial on Morgan Freeman's take on what happened yesterday

I don't know if this was Morgan Freeman's words or not. I do agree that the media may have something to do with it but still that is shifting blame. The tendency today seems to be to blame everyone and anything we can for such tragedy's.
This form of blame shifting, takes away the amount of guilt that should fall on the the person or persons behind these act's of violence. As long as We the people allow it to happen as long as we let it just slid by' Putting these Evil people in hospitals or locking them up until they seem to be fit enough to turn back out into the world it will keep happening. I say bring back capital punishment and do it the the cheap old fashion way with a rope!  
It seems when these things happen every one wants to get in a say on the why & how of it. We will hear lots of it. The people that want gun control have made there stand even before the the sun had set on this sad event.
The truth is the violence happened not because he had guns. Passing more laws will not stop evil people from doing evil things. Taking guns away from all the people will not stop the violence in our country. I believe if anything it will only make it worse. I have a gun. It has never hurt anyone but it did stop a man from coming in my home to committee a violent act. Guns are not responceable for deaths any more then spoons are responsible for my potbelly.     






"You want Morgan Freeman's take on what happened yesterday :

to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.


It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single 'victim' of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.


CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.


You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news."

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Don't ask me why,its just because

 On the 6th of this month at about 6:45 pm I was driving home with my wife when we had a 23 yr old pregnant woman turn against the light right behind a van that went Thur as well. the car was totaled. Since then the days have been a blur of pain, drug's, sleeping problems & grumpiness.To top it off my wife who seems to be worst off has had her monthly friend show up early. (So I will gimp over to the store for chocolate after this) She is black and blue purple and yellow all over as well as a infection in her leg now from the gash.
On the bright side I am no longer hacking up blood but still stiff and sore. By the way the Doctor down at Swope med is a quack! But all that is not why I am here today. Truth is I don't know why for sure I have things to say but know not how to put them down.
As I have said before I do not do well on meds.It seems that they do not do the job the way they were meant to on me. It has been that way for years
Years ago I went on anti depressants for my depression and they work, I was not depressed. Nor was I happy, I felt nothing. I was for the most part a robot a zombie I walked around doing the things that I new I had to do with no feelings at all. I stopped being creative.Stop my writing ,I stopped interacting with my kids.
I can not tell you what it was that snapped me out of it.That is you would not believe me or at least some of you wouldn't but Ill just say it was a act of God.
Over the years of my life I have never had many friends. When I louse one it hurts. I learned long ago that people come and go in life.One day after finding my girl friend with another man I found the key to loneliness. I gave it to God.For the most part I have left it there.
The thing is I have found God is always with me. He loves me when I am screwing up just as much as when I am doing what He would have me do. If I am doing it my way or his. He loves me, as I am, the way I was and the way I will be. Everything I have ever had or will have is by his grace. He was there in the car that night on the 6th. He was with me when I had my seizures, he'll be there if I have more of them. He was with me all the times in the hospital as a patient and as the one there with a loved one. He was there with me when I gave CPR to my son and the day I tried giving it to the old man that didn't make it.He was with me that night as I cried. He guided me that night as He has many times before. He talks to me in many ways, sometimes I don't listen sometimes I am to warped up in the clamors of the world. At times I am wrap up in my own little shit, pal-vaulting over mouse turds. God loves me as I am and he has taught me to love others the same way.
Am I a Good Christan, sometimes I fall short of the mark (way to often) but I try And He knows my heart He knows my intent. He judges me on those and people judge me on my actions and there out come.
So if I am talking street talk with some drunk that's trying to get sober or talking with Rev.John about the bible it's all the same. God knows my heart even if you don't.
this took longer then I thought I was distracted and I also had One of my few and closes friends call with a troubled mind & heart. I can only hope I helped and pray that they find there way.
Most people see me and my life they think bad things things like I am worthless or pathetic or what a loser.They say things like I don't want any thing he's got. But they have no Ideal what I got.
That is a blog for later Now I must be going my honey needs some chocolate and I need stuff for cooking dinner
 The
MadMan.   
   

Friday, December 14, 2012

your pal-vaulting over mouse turds.

Ok running on very little sleep here but I got something to say and I don't give a rats ass who I offend.
I have caught flack for supporting the BSA. I have caught flack for protesting porn on facebook.
I have caught flack for my religious and political beliefs.
I have be called about every name you can think of.
I have lost jobs,been spit on scorn told I was not welcome because of the God I believe in.I have had my pages hack and destroyed.(This being my 3rd blog I have set up should tell you I am not going away.)
Yet I keep trudging! Go on give me your best shot! I don't care who you are You just keep proving me right,building up my heavenly rewards showing others just how strong my God is.
Yes I make mistakes and I am willing to learn from them.
If and when I must go on the attack Its always for what I believe in or because someone needs someone to stand up to them or for them. I also have my times when I just have to rant.Kind of like this.Some times I use foul or strong language because I feel it fits. Lets face it there are times you just have got to speak to a persons in there own language.I choose the Name MadMan because the world and its BS just pisses me off. Assholes on the road dishonest pricks in the Gov. trying to take my rights way from me. People all over saying you can't say this or that because it may offend someone. But not worried how offensive it is to try taking away the rights of  group or person.Rights that everyone are intertidal to. For example the Muslims wanting to build a mosque at or near ground zero in new york do they have a right to do it? Sure. Is it the right thing to do? Well I do not think it is.Its in bad taste & just asking for trouble So many anti christian groups out there trying to take the rights away from Christians. They never see that what they will end up doing is taking there own rights away as well if they succeed.People going on the rampage saying this and that about me or others calling names making a big deal for what? How about not pal-vaulting over mouse turds. Let me say if you hate me then your a hater I have said it before I hate no one but I do stand for and on my morals. If I screw up well that's life it happens.
Theres lots of people I disagree with but never do I hate the person!
 Well I lost a reader because of a joke I posted on FB. I am not going to get into all the details but I just say here what I said there.
"Well there are those that just can't take a joke.Can't handle truth or tolerate talk about Christ well sorry if I offended you but I am not going to stop being me just to fit in or make others happy any more then I would ask you to stop being you".
It may have been in bad taste to post the joke when I did, well you believe what you want. I read your blog about me and it reminded me of some one we both know! 
Trash me all you want join the haters. I don't find my life pathetic or disgusting and you have no ideal what actions I do that does back up my beliefs.
All you really know about my life is what you read here & a lot of this is a dumping ground.
I harbor no ill feelings. You un-friended  me and you can keep it that way if you want. Personally I think its a loss for us both.      

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

The 7 gifts

I may not have a dime to my name but I am rich in the ways it counts. These things are worth more then all the material things. You will not find them under a tree .They will not come in the mail with a card. You can not get them in a store. The are a gift that only comes from the Father. These 7 things come with the gift of grace. It does not make me better then anyone nor more important. It does not guard against hard times but makes them almost guarantee.It does mean me I am never alone and all my work seen or unseen is never forgotten. It means I will be held accountable in the ways I have used or abused these gifts. It means that there is always a place for me. Al-thou there are those that think me mad the truth is clear. So thanks must be given to you my dear You with out knowing reminded me of what I had forgotten. Understanding,Right Judgment, Courage,Reverence, Wonder and Awe, Wisdom.
THE MADMAN
 In understanding, we comprehend how we need to live as followers of Christ. A person with understanding is not confused by the conflicting messages in our culture about the right way to live. The gift of understanding perfects a person's speculative reason in the apprehension of truth. It is the gift whereby self-evident principles are known
 Right Judgment (Counsel): With the gift of counsel/right judgment, we know the difference between right and wrong, and we choose to do what is right. A person with right judgment avoids sin and lives out the values taught by Jesus.

Courage (Fortitude): With the gift of fortitude/courage, we overcome our fear and are willing to take risks as a follower of Jesus Christ. A person with courage is willing to stand up for what is right in the sight of God, even if it means accepting rejection, verbal abuse, or physical harm. The gift of courage allows people the firmness of mind that is required both in doing good and in enduring evil

Knowledge: With the gift of knowledge, we understand the meaning of God. The gift of knowledge is more than an accumulation of facts.

    Reverence (Piety): With the gift of reverence, sometimes called piety, we have a deep sense of respect for God and the Church. A person with reverence recognizes our total reliance on God and comes before God with humility, trust, and love. Piety is the gift whereby, at the Holy Spirit's instigation, we pay worship and duty to God as our Father, 
Fear of the Lord (Wonder and Awe): With the gift of fear of the Lord we are aware of the glory and majesty of God. A person with wonder and awe knows that God is the perfection of all we desire: perfect knowledge, perfect goodness, perfect power, and perfect love. This gift is described by Aquinas as a fear of separating oneself from God. He describes the gift as a "filial fear," like a child's fear of offending his father, rather than a "servile fear," that is, a fear of punishment. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Prov 1:7) because it puts our mindset in correct location with respect to God: we are the finite, dependent creatures, and He is the infinite, all-powerful Creator.

    Wisdom: It is the capacity to love spiritual things more than material ones.
                                                                                                   Aquinas

1 reason I told you  these so I could tell you the story in a up coming blog
 

Monday, December 10, 2012

I have no room for politically correctness.

I was thinking about Brett today and remembering one the last conversations we had. We talked about the shit he was or had been doing how he keep getting screwed up. I told him I know I am not you favorite person but that don't matter to me I like ya anyway and I don't want the next time I see you to be in a box! He said your right you haven't been but I appreciate your honesty even though you piss me off I know your right. Now that was a few weeks before he drowned.I did not go to see him in that box. I also lost my friend Wess to the bottle this last yr. total friends lost this yr has been 8. Some died sober. 
now the truth is I don't have many friends in my inner circle. Many people don't like me because I shoot from the hip call them as I see them. I tend to be a bit of a hard ass when it comes to living the sober life.
I believe in what the Big book & the Good book teaches and some people get scared by it or feel uncomfortable because of it. Well to bad.
If my living a moral life makes you uncomfortable then at least I am doing something right .
More then once someone has told me that what I said pissed them off, then thanked me. others have told me maybe you should tone it down or be more politically correct. Well I say fuck that. Personally I think there is to much politically correctness in the world. Try to offend me go on piss me off. I won't say I'm sorry I hurt your feelings I might say, fuck you or fuck off maybe even a your fucking nuts! I may and in the past have apologized not for what I said but the way I said it.
I do not intend to hurt peoples feelings and try not to. Yet there are times that the boot in the ass is better then the soft sympathetic pat on the shoulder.
Those that know me and bring one of there problems to me know that they are going to get a no nonsense answer with a side of Christianity.
I also remember that I was not raised by soft hands.There was more then enough love in my fathers ruff hard hands.
When I got sober it was because of the unvarnished truth that those old men told me.  Hard & soft both are part of the love others gave me when I needed it as well as the pat on the back and the kind words.
Believe it or not I would rather be right then happy. And no I don't agree to disagree. kindness can kill at  times. In today's world to many people want to forget the morals of our forefathers because they do not want to offend anyone. That's it for now other then to say Don't wish me any happy Holiday wishy washy shit. ITS MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I want to add a little something here. You can have whatever celebration or holiday you want. Just stop trying to get rid of mine and stop trying to force me to except it and we will be fine. the harder you try to push down my rights the harder I am going to be.As for politically correctness its not in my bag of tricks. But I do know God has my back. As I said before you can not change the truth! I am me let me be that way.

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Does everything happen for a reason?

  Somewhere between calamity and sanity you will find the answer. 
To often we have to go through the insanity first. 
  Just a few days ago My wife and I was involved in a rather bad car crash. ( excuse me if my brains are still a little scramble ) 
Since then more then once I have heard everything happens for a reason. I believe this may be true,But it is incorrect The way I have heard this is "everything in God's world happens for a reason".
Now we must look at the fact that God is or is not, he is everything or nothing. If you believe that he is then, Are you acting or living in His world,your world or the world of man? (Lets not forget God has a adversary)
The laws of cause and effect would assume that there is a reason for all things that happen. So at one level, the idea that everything happens for a reason is true.
I think some times shit just happens but that's rare. You can almost always find the tangible or the cause if you look for it.
As I said we crashed, not our fault. Was there a reason for it that go's beyond the simple truth that someone was not paying attention to the road? Maybe maybe not.
Kenny loaned me his car. His girlfriends dad crash his driving under the influence.I heard he has a habit of doing this.
My wife and I are alive by Gods grace I am sure. We were going to be sending the car back this weekend.
So perhaps There was a reason. Gods grace kept us alive and our injury's limited because he wanted that car not to be in the hands of a drunk driver. 
At this point in time I can see no other good reason for this to have happen to me and my family and friends.
I do believe that with my faith and trust in the Lord there is something good going to come out of it even if  I never get to see it or know what it was. The one thing I do know is right now I hurt and everything is fucked up. My wife may louse her job I can not do what work I can because the tools I need are in the car and I can not get them and my body is kind fucked up. like I said I hurt.
My problems today fall in to groups .
1; those of my own making 2; those of circumstance 3; those from a outside source. An that is the topic for a later blog.
My friend Kenny Again let me tell you how sorry I am that this happened.You have been a good friend to me I love you like a brother & I hope this will not come between our friendship.I feel like I have let you down Broken a trust that you gave me. That hurts more then my injury's.      

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Breaking News:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Breaking News: January 19, 2012 ~ Precedent Case For Restraint of Fund Raising for Obama: Writ of Mandate ~ Served on the California Secretary of State.
Sacramento – A legal complaint was served on Obama for America (California) and the California Secretary of State Debra Bowen late Tuesday to keep British-born Barack Obama off the ballot for the Office of the President, because he does not meet the Constitutional requirement of being a U.S. Natural Born citizen according to the Supreme Court precedent Minor v. Happersett.  The legal action was filed Jan. 6 in Sacramento Superior Court by a group of 7 ad hoc registered voters including an American Independent Party candidate for President.
Several of the petitioners tried seeking resolution against Obama after the 2008 presidential election, but they were told by the California courts that it was too late to make challenges to Obama’s legitimacy, and that they did not have “standing”.
The Writ requests a temporary restraining order of Respondent Debra Bowen (SOS) to bar Obama on the Democratic Party ballot in the primary and/or General Election until the matter of eligibility and ballot access for Respondent Obama is heard. The Writ also requested a temporary restraining order against Respondent Obama and or his agents associated with the Obama for America California from further fundraising in California until further notice by the court. A final demand was for a permanent Injunction against Respondent Obama and Respondent SOS as to Respondent Obama’s ineligibility, barring him from ballot access.
Seven California voters have drawn up the Writ of Mandate over the absence of Constitutional authority and documentation that Barack Obama is eligible to occupy the Oval Office. No dual nationality citizen has ever been declared a U.S. NATURAL BORN Citizen.  The Supreme Court ruled in Minor v. Happersett that a person must be born within the jurisdiction of the U.S. to two U.S. citizen parents and it has been never been overturned. The U.S. Congress in 2009 usurped the U.S. Constitution when they confirmed Mr. Obama for the Office of the Presidency.  They  attempted to revise the U.S. Constitution without an Amendment by confirming Obama as POTUS.
One of the seven California Petitioners is Edward C. Noonan of Olivehurst, Yuba County, CA. He is currently a 2012 Presidential candidate for the American Independent Party.
The other six California petitioners are Pamela Barnett (Director of ObamaBallotChallenge.com), Sharon Chickering, George Miller, Tony Dolz, Neil Turner, and Gary Wilmott. All seven petitioners are affirmed as Ad Hoc registered voters of California, each self represented without an attorney.
The cause of the petition is that Mr. Barack Obama does not qualify for the Office of President of the United States because both of his parents were not U.S. Citizens at the time of Obama’s birth. Article II of the US Constitution states that only Natural Born Citizens qualify for the Office of President. Barack Obama’s father was a foreign national of Kenya. This disqualifies Mr. Obama to be Commander in Chief as well as POTUS.
Mr. Noonan said, “Mr. Obama cannot be a natural born citizen.” “It doesn’t matter whether or not he was born in Hawaii, it is a fact that his father was not a citizen of the U.S. at the time of Obama’s birth which disqualifies Mr. Obama from holding the Office,” he said.
“I have a right as a Petitioner to have standing and relief with the California Secretary of State’s Elections Division because I am candidate for 2012 Presidential Campaign,” he said. “The California Elections Code Section §13314 guarantees me the right to challenge the qualifications of Mr. Obama.”
He pointed out that Election Code §13314 states the any challenge needs to be before the ballots are printed.
 (a)(1) An elector may seek a writ of mandate alleging that an error or omission has occurred, or is about to occur, in the placing of a name on, or in the printing of, a ballot, sample ballot, voter pamphlet, or other official matter, or that any neglect of duty has occurred, or is about to occur.
He also said, “We are attempting to correct the errors, omissions, or other neglects of the SOS that are in violation of the Election Code and the US Constitution.”
Mr. Noonan said, “If Mr. Obama is not a Natural Born Citizen as the US Constitution demands of all candidates for US President to be, then this violates the US Constitution.”
Neil Turner, one of the seven petitioners stated, “They, the Congress, Supreme Court and the White House, in fact apparently conspired to revise the U.S. Constitution without an Amendment, by attempting to eliminate the requirement that a President be a NATURAL BORN Citizen.”
Pamela Barnett, Retired Captain, also one of the seven petitioners said,  “The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals told me that I did not have standing to challenge Obama regarding his eligibility after the election in 2008, so I am now part of a legal action to require the California court to rule on Obama’s eligibility for the first time.”
“We have been trying to have Obama’s eligibility heard in court on the merits for 3 years, but citizens were denied standing after the election in 2008.  California has a statute that gives us standing before the ballots are printed. We hope that our judge will honor the Constitution and California law and have a fair hearing on the merits and rule on existing Natural Born law,” said Barnett.
“This is about the rule of law.  No man should be above it.  We need to honor the Constitution,”  Barnett said.
Barnett was one of the original litigants in the 2009 legal action Barnett, Alan Keyes v. Obama.
This new, current challenge is only one of the dozens that Mr. Obama is facing across the country regarding his failure to meet the Constitutional requirements for the Office of President of the United States.
Go here to view the complaint.   http://www.scribd.com/doc/78739896/California-Writ-to-Keep-Obama-Off-Ballot-Stop-Fund-Raising
For more info contact:
Edward Noonan
530-845-5186
And visit these websites.
http://obamaballotchallenge.com/minor-v-happersett-proof-obama-is-unlawful-president
http://www.art2superpac.com/issues.html
For more info contact:

Edward Noonan
530-845-5186

And visit these websites.
www.obamaballotchallenge.com
http://www.art2superpac.com/issues.html

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Yes Sugar they are.

Kids are strange! Teenagers are strangers as well as strange!
They can warm you heart and then break it. With my oldest boy I never had a lot of those problems you talked about Sugar. We had some but different.Now the middle boy I have had those same ones and more.
He can be a dick A stubborn asshole and all the other things a parent hates to see in there children.There has been times I wanted to beat some since into him know it would not do any good.  I still have hope for him and love no matter how much he hates his old man.So far out of the three boys he shows the most intelligence as far as book smarts go's.
My youngest well he is a sweet boy with more troubles then a 10 yr old should have.He is a great kid!
My mother God bless Her  put the curse on me (more then once), she said " Some day I hope you have a child just like you!" Well I did and he is 10 fold what I was. Thanks mom.
So if your mom said that as most moms do then you can blame her for the curse (or maybe not).
I know you are strong and I know you will see the boy in the man as well as the man that he will be. hang in there.
 Love ya
  MadMan

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Megan Corliss Wells; This rants for you!

Lets not get into the it will get better stuff, I can't stand hearing that BS any more. Been hearing people say that for years now and all the time it gets worst. Also people like to say it could be worst and yes it could be but what it could be is most likely what it is going to be. not that I am being negative, because I am not. I am being realistic.
I will keep my faith and trust in God were it belongs and not it mundane sayings That are for saying when there really is nothing to say. My health is what it is, out of control selfish , selfcenterd people are what they are. there is only so much a person can do. Acceptance is not always key (or answer )but always helpful. Things are what they are and all I can do is take what I have and do the best I can with it and try to be grateful for what God has given me as well as what he has taken from me.Knowing that I can not see his reasons for the whys and wheres. I love you like a sister and pray that Your dreams will be the least of your blessing.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

I want the my holidays back. Or Black Friday WTF

Have we lost the charm of those things from the past? Replaced it with hype and crassness and downright greed. The stores now compete to open earlier each year on Black Friday (named because most of them make it into “the black” that day and it represents the turn from red ink to profit for the entire year) and the customers … WTF! Since when is it considered charming or even good manners to stampede into a store, trampling your fellow shoppers, and to actually fight over the merchandise?
What is it with this time of yr. That turns so many in to loonies ?
I support the proposal that we make and will make it each successive year at this time, in the hope that the movement to take pack Thanksgiving and Christmas will grow and thrive: Let us take back our holidays! Let’s NOT do ANY shopping on Black Friday, anywhere!( I wont not just because I am broke)  and if you must go to the mom and pop shops or local small business store.
If you look at the circulars the prices are good from the Monday before Thanksgiving, all the way through the weekend most of the time.
 Let’s tell the big corporations that we refuse to be rushed into Christmas. We refuse to be commercialized and reduced to a greedy mob. take back Thanksgiving.
The biggest problem I have with the hole holiday madness is it was the season of cheer. If you ever worked in or around retail you may know what I mean. Seems like ever year I see more and more people getting into that mad rush of the Got to Gets!
Got to get the right thing for the right persons. Got to get up early so you can get to this place or that,then head to work, then got to get by somewhere on the way home to get something has got to be gotten.All the time looking to our day or days off just so we can get out in to the mad rush to get more stuff so we can get more done.
The adds that the big corporations put out to try to brain wash everyone they can are no help. Telling us that we are not with the in crowed if we don't have there product 'wear there cloths look a certain way smell like a supermodel or celebrity. Lets not forget the ATTACK they put on the kids! Hell it starts before they are even out of dippers!
  HAPPY THANKS GIVING from
   THE MADMAN.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Just a F-ing Rant!

  Just got get this out of my system,
Bobbie your a loud mouth bitch and you need to rethink your thinking! All I really got to say is FUCK YOU!
 Just because the men you choose treated you like shit does not mean that all men are the same and need to be treated like worthless dogs. Maybe it means you don't know how to pick men! Or perhaps you just like being treated like shit. Again I say fuck you and what you may think I am. Fuck you and your gossiping back stabbing bull shit. Grow up and act like a woman not a teenager! Stop trying to hurt my friends because it is going to come back on you in the end."For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
Maybe if you let some of those good quality's out, start treating everyone the same not just the chosen few you might find that there are more people out there to like and have liking you as a friend.
If someone does something nice,It may have been done out of kindness not with a underlying plot or meaning. If you do not like someone fine don't like them but try treating them with some measure of respect as I always have you, even if it is not shown here. You just managed to get me that pissed off tonight.
If I owe you a apology now well it is not for what I said but the way I said it.
Also stop trying to bring good people down to your level and start working on bring your self up!
 "Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too. Here we are not trying to help those we criticize; we are trying to proclaim our own righteousness."
Now forgive the harsh language but I think there is a time and a place for it and this is one of them.
 if I am wrong well then what the fuck!

Friday, November 16, 2012

Is it God or ka-winkadink?

It is now 3:38PM we left the house at 2:30 taking the wife to work after dropping her off I headed to Qt on S7 to get cigs and some water.that was just after 3 I know this because my three songs had started on the radio. I got my water and a sandwich went to the counter the clerk stepped up  and had a seizures . To make this shorter I just say we got him to the ground tried to keep him from hurting his self any more. I now got a I deal what my family go's through when this happens to me.
 This is not the fist time my first response training has come in handy. If I have my way I will never need it again but I got the feeling God may have other plans. He puts me where he needs me it seems.
 Now I do not know how long the paramedics took to get there but it seemed longer then it was & as soon as they did I steeped out of the way answered a couple of questions paid for my stuff and sat in the car for a few then came here to the library.

Monday, November 5, 2012

vote

Its funny how if your white and against Obuma your a racist. All I can say is Myron if your are reading this, No I am not colored blind. If ether one of us has a problem with bigotry its not me. More then once I have been accused of being racist because I don't like Obuma for Press. Well I don't like the other choice much better so I guess I must be Against religious people too! My point is race and religion has little to do with the choice I will make when I vote. I or we are electing someone to run the country not the church His values should be strong on those thing that matter to me not the church. If the two are the same so be it. As always I'll be voting for the lesser of two evils. Everyone should spend some time in prayer and meditation tonight and or the morning before we go vote. (If you believe in that that is) I love you all no matter how you vote. The MadMan    

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Sugar I'll take one of those hugs!

Well this old MadMan has pretty much had it so pardon me if I wine and bitch as I sit on my pity pot!
I have had it with all the bullshit from every direction. God must have a plan but what. Why is it that I as well as others have got to hurt some much try so hard for so little.
 Its been maybe a year without a attack then out of the blue with none of the warning signs I get hit with not one but two fucking Seizures in a day. (Don,t tell the old lady) first one no big deal. I thought as I hit the ground here we go again. 2nd one was the worst I think I have ever had. (It happened at the art shop filled with all kinds of smell stuff & lookie lou's. That may be a big part of it).
Now I hurt like hell neck back shoulder and there is that dam elephant that sitting on my chest.Luckily the head is not pounding, any more.
All the nice concerned people at the store could not under stand why I need to get out of the store."Wait help is on the way", "Don't move you might have hurt your neck."
Now when these attacks come I kind of loose my ability to talk partly from lack of breath. What I hear is coming to me down the tunnel and is mixed with the muffle vibration of the bell clanger that just rang my clock and the only thing I see is what is right in front of me.Total tunnel vision. I managed to get a word out one word and a lady understood. AIR! They got me out side that helped and the medics where there soon after.Same old shit,stick the mask on me hook up the leads to my chest, give me hard time about not going with them to the ER. Don't get me wrong they are great people doing a great job just wish the had not got called out for my miserable ass.like I told them this is not the first time.
Now the Quacks had 2 years of poking and probing me and never got anywhere except my blood presser goes through the roof after one of these attacks.They looked at my heart long and hard I say its not the heart its something wrong in my head.but what do I know. Anyways A big thanks to paramedics and apologizes to all the people whose time I took up today as well as yours for reading this shit. So how was your Day ?
Now to make a long story even longer I said all that to say this.
It is days like this that I start talking to those voices and wonder  Why am I still here? Is this it Have I been sober all this time just to suffer the humiliation of these fucking seizures or what ever they are? It is a wonder that I have not done myself in.  
 then again Pink said it best
 "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the
most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad...
  

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Patience,Love, tolerance,principles

Love and tolerance of others is our code,principles before personalities.
It would be so nice if those that clam these things would really use them.

I prayed for patience, God gave me a son. I prayed love and tolerance He gave me another one. After the praying for understanding and the getting a third son I think I got the message.


I see that God answers all prayers.Sometimes the answer we get is a lession.
The people that I often find intolerable, hard to love, clashing with my morals and pushing the boundary's of principles I have come to believe. They teach me.  

I am a memeber of a large group of people that to clame Love and tolerance of others is our code.
Well they don't realy show it all the time. They also clam the belief "principles before personalities".
this to is sometimes lacking in there actions. As well as getting upset when someone shows them that they are wrong by using the very book they say the instuctions are in.
I know way they get upset at those that live by morels what I can not understands is why they hate those that do or try to.
Some one asked me once "Do you want to be right or be happy? Well If it is a choice I will take Right. And I can be happy with it, even if I don't like it.

Friday, October 12, 2012

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Sunday, September 30, 2012

CALLING ALL TRUE REBELS & REAL REVOLUTIONARIES TO THIS CHALLENGE!

Too often modern society pays attention only to people who are pretending they are giving the world a new and unique revolutionary idea that sadly turns out to be just another failed attempt at boring, unoriginal, outdated, and pathetically boring form of failed Postmodernism, Socialism, or dreary old worn out Secular Humanism.

Recently it has been reported that less than 20% of Christians read their Bibles on a daily basis.

Among the general population the numbers are even less.

Here is the challenge! (That only a very few will dare to accept.)

Instead of thinking you are a rebel or revolutionary…and in reality are actually only following the crowd…just like everyone else (which means that you are neither original nor a rebel or revolutionary.)

Try this new approach.
It will require time and effort, (most revolutions do)
It will require concentration, (focused attention is a good thing!)
It will require developing discipline, (dedicated revolutionaries learn discipline)
It will require ignoring distractions, (determined perseverance is mandatory)
It means you will make mistakes, (but you will learn from them)

The challenge is to be a real rebel and true revolutionary by reading your Bible every day.

You want to be a real minority? Open the Word of God daily.
You want to really be counter-cultural? Study the Bible every day.
You really want to be at odds with the crowd? Try staying in God’s Word daily.
You want to fight in a real Spiritual War? Read your Bible, get on your knees and pray to God every day.

Sadly very,very few will accept this challenge

Jesus said in Matthew 22:14: “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

ARE YOU GOING TO FOLLOW THE CROWD OR BE REVOLUTIONARY?

Thursday, September 20, 2012

marine organisms just appeared suddenly and had all of the major complex organ systems still present today. The layer below the Cambrian showed nothing. This strongly suggests a spontaneous creation event. In addition, it turns Darwinian evolution upside down with the major Phyla appearing first, not last. Darwin wrote a whole chapter on this in "The Origin of the Species" stating himself that if this were ever observed it would disprove his theory

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Goin' by the book

You can see it in the movies and the paper and the TV news
Somebody's army is always on the move
There's gonna be a battle the lines have been drawn
They've got guns and tanks and planes

The wells are gone dry and the water is bad and the air is acid rain
There's war after war and rumors of war from the East
There's a rumblin' in the ground and they're talkin' about the beast

Good mothers cry cause the rivers run high
With the blood of too many sons
Some people say peace is on the way
But the worst is still to come

Cause the prophets wrote about it
And Jesus spoke about it
And John got to take a look
And he told us what he saw when it's easy to see
It's goin' by the book
It's goin' by the book

There's armies in the cities and the missiles stand ready for flight
A pale horse rides like the wind across the night
And that rumblin' in the desert like thunder gettin' closer
And the trumpet's gettin' ready to blow
There's gonna be a shout that will wake the dead we better be ready to go

Cause the prophets wrote about it
And Jesus spoke about it
And John got to take a look
And he told us what he saw when it's easy to see
It's goin' by the book
It's goin' by the book

It's goin' by the book
Goin' by the book

Johnny Cash