9-16-2024

Nine Hard Years

If you’ve been following my RTM blog posts you know that I’ve been an avid supporter of #45 from day one.

Like many who witnessed Donald & Melania descent on the golden escalator in Trump Tower in 2015 initially I thought it a stunt plugging The Apprentice.

Right away I asked myself if DJT had any religious values to speak of as I knew virtually nothing about this New York billionaire.

A google search turned up “The Faith of Donald J. Trump” on Amazon and after reading it I knew that God was behind this quest for the presidency but not for the reasons you suspect.

When I read the prophesies of Trump and how they were said over him prior to the 2016 election I was on board 100%. 

And then it was like a light switch had been turned on as the attacks on Trump began in earnest. Those who craved his campaign contribution money and photo ops suddenly wanted nothing to do with him. 

In fact it was as if the entire world had turned upside down against him. You’ve seen it on television news programs, social media and from sitting members of congress “Trump is a threat to Democracy”. 

You may have even bought into it without stopping to think about that this has been going on for 9 hard years already and past the point of reason or common sense. Just look back over the past two months as pure hatred have caused deranged men to attempt decisive action.

I can tell you this, if God is in this nothing can stop God’s plan or his anointed one until that plan has been completed.

No gossiping, slandering, personal, professional or political attacks no matter how egregious or damaging will deter this man on a mission to save America from self destruction.

DJT is a man who had everything the world calls success and chose to set it all aside so America could be made great once again.

You don’t have to like him personally but remember that to come against DJT is to put yourself on the wrong side of right.

Jesus said “a house divided cannot stand” and sinful man is like the livestock kicking against the goads which God himself has put in place (killing, lust, murder, other gods, disrespect of parents and disobedience to the God who created all) and the list goes on.

Climate change is not man’s greatest problem, it is the love of money which fuels man’s greatest threat – man.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and humble yourselves before God asking forgiveness for OUR personal and the nations collective sins. – RTM 

9-12-2024

Remember When Life was Simpler

According to an online search of land measurements one hit surfaced that the small Southeastern Asian Kingdom of Thailand, smaller than the state of Texas has a rice harvest that accounts for 10% of the carbon emissions worldwide and they are searching for different ways of growing and harvesting rice – unbelievable. What about pollution from China? What is China’s percentage?

In the US we’re told that climate change is what is causing many of the problems we have nationwide. Before that it was greenhouse gases causing polar ice shrinkage and the seas to become smaller. What is next? The man in the moon causes cheese to turn green?

What we have are a few “know it alls” self-made men and women who keep us divided by fear of the unknown and looking at their sure fire ways to remedy the maladies of life.

Why don’t we just go by what the Bible says – to love God, love our neighbors as we love ourselves and when it is within our power to do so – live peacefully with all men?

The only constant in life is change and climate change is the normal part of life and most importantly God is on HIS throne and he alone is in control!

Worry does nothing to add one second to our lives but can cause the hairs on our heads to fall out. 

Don’t worry- be happy! – RTM 

9-10-2024

How do they do that?

In my younger days there was a saying – stupid is as stupid does. I guess that saying still rings true especially when it comes to politics.

Do you remember when TDS was the congressional rage? I mean public displays of stupidity were the norm. 

When public figures died, congressional Democrats banned President Trump from attending their funerals, even when the dead were Reputations. What I didn’t see was any resistance by their family members, even when it was a Republican former president or former governor.

When the deceased had been an outspoken MAGA supporter they were simply ignored, or at best demonized by hateful Democrats.

But when it was one of their own they heaped praise upon praise as if the deceased was a “mother Teresa” figure.

The real tragedy was that the public bought into it all 100% and a great many congressional Republicans were complicit or remained silent. – RTM 

9-9-2024

Sewing Seeds of Doubt

When President Trump fired the FBI director and replaced him with Director Wray from within the FBI I predicted that how he performed would tell whether Trump had made the right choice or not.

Take the collective actions of the FBI over the course of the past 5 years and the “ah ha” moment came when Director Wray went before a congressional investigative committee and stated under oath that on July 13th, 2024 President Trump had not been really shot, but cut from a glass fragment.

Why has it taken so long to expose the obvious corruption of key law enforcement agencies that have congressional responsibility to protect select public figures? And why  have no significant “heads” rolled in the aftermath by President Biden?

There is an obvious coverup that must be explored further and congress should dig much deeper to find answers.

We’ve heard promises of full transparency but actions speak louder than words. The iron hand of Justice must prevail before the “HLS Titanic” settles into the deep sea of regret.

When has common sense been discarded for meaningless conjecture? – RTM

9-7-2024 

When Failure is Not an Option 

There are times when things just don’t go the way you planned. It’s natural to figure out another way. Quite often that way may not work out either. So what are you supposed to do?

A persistent man will find another way while a defeated man will simply give up. When lives are at stake there is no giving up. 

It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention.

The recent events with American astronauts is a perfect example of a major glitch that necessitates alternative measures to ensure the safety of those astronauts while determining the best way forward that will bring them back safely.

It was reported that NASA employees felt humiliated because another spacecraft was chosen to rescue the astronauts.

I say what happened to brainstorming for other viable options? There should be no petty bickering. Have we not learned from past mistakes that resulted in tragedy?

Nobody left behind! – RTM

August 28^th A Date I Remember Well

My brother John was next to the youngest of four boys. John joined the army in 1971 shortly after the death of his infant daughter. John was an infantryman and served one year in Korea at Camp Casey along the DMZ, before finishing his time on active duty at Fort Carson. I visited John at Fort Carson, in 1974 shortly before his honorable discharge (ETS), as I was headed to an assignment in the Panama Canal Zone at that time. After John returned to Boise, ended up getting married a couple of times and had more children and lived a few houses away from mom and dad. John worked for the city of Boise at the water treatment plant near the airport and Gowen Field and kept a watchful eye on the folks.

It was around June 1997 when I received a frantic phone call from John who was concerned about my having a full physical exam. I told John not to worry because I was in pretty good health and didn’t have high blood pressure or any medical issues.

John informed me that he had been diagnosed with melanoma cancer and although he was beginning treatment the cancer was very aggressive. Over the next couple of months I made a few trips back home to check up on him, and our folks and our other two brothers. John had been treated at a local hospital and by July or early August they sent John home with a morphine drip. John knew the end was near and wanted to die at home with family around him.

I made one last trip to see John. It was a fast trip that weekend in August and I talked to John about his condition and asked what he wanted from God. John said he was ready for whatever God decided and on August 28^th, 1997 John went to be with the Lord. It was both a sad and a happy time for our family in that John’s body had been wracked in constant pain so although we were sad to let him go, we were happy that he left that pain filled body behind.

The viewing and memorial service was a tribute to John’s character and a witness of his faith in Jesus Christ. The funeral home was packed and the standing room was filled with family and friends. It seemed pretty remarkable for someone who said he never affected anyone.

Fast forward to August 28^th, 1998 as I sat at my computer, sipping a cup of coffee I suffered a heart attack. It felt like someone was pressing a brick on my chest and I had turned completely pale. My wife sensing something was wrong drove me to Peterson AFB (2 miles away) and at the USAF clinic they began checking my blood pressure, asking lots of questions and feeding me nitroglycerin tablets. I saw my wife’s doctor and told him I was worried about my wife who had a history of high blood pressure.

What really got my attention was when one doctor called 911 and said over the phone they had what looked like a 90 year old male suffering a heart attack. I mean my birthday was coming up in 3 days and I was going to be 49 years old (if I made it). The doctor was calling for a civilian ambulance to transport me to a local hospital for immediate surgery and the surgeon was standing by.

All the way to the hospital they kept feeding me nitroglycerin tablets and nothing was happening,  I feared I might explode.

They did an x-ray of my chest and heart to determine that I had 1 main artery with a 99% blockage. The blockage was cleared and a stint put in to keep the artery from collapsing. I was kept in the hospital for 2 nights. My parents came from Idaho and stayed a few days to make sure they weren’t going to lose another son so soon.

Here we are on August 28^th, 2024, mom and dad are buried next to John just outside the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise and it is one of the first stops when going north to visit my two remaining brothers in Ola.

FYI – my 75^th birthday is just 3 days away. – RTM

8-27-2024

The Political Pariah

For a politician being labeled a pariah can be a death knoll. For a Kennedy being called the Pariah of Camelot is but a call to action to stand up for his core values even if it means having family, friends or so called political “allies” turn their backs, push him aside, to be excommunicated or disowned by his betters, his family and by his political party has become a strength that has driven RFK, Jr. first to become an Independent candidate for the presidency in 2024, and then moving elsewhere receiving acceptance and value from his most unlikely foe turned ally – Donald Trump who has offered RFK, Jr. a role in the Trump transition team.

This unlikely political union has to be driving them absolutely mad because the possibility that many RFK, Jr. voters may make the switch over to become Trump voters after seeing how corrupt the Democratic Party really is in broad daylight as they attempt to ridicule and demean him.

This I can tell you that RFK, Jr. has some driving values which he is not willing to give up even after suspending his presidential campaign and throwing his full support behind Trump. For them agreeing to disagree on a number of issues has not prevented them from joining forces for the betterment of Americans across our nation. History will show the value of this political alignment.

What was thought to be lemons is now being turned into lemonade.

I’m sure that both JFK and RFK would be proud of how RFK, Jr. has taken the bull by the horns and refuses to be bullied by this new Progressive Democratic Party establishment.

LET’S GO BOBBY! – RTM

8-27-2024

Reciting the Pledge

After returning home from a trip to the local VA Clinic I arrived home and while preparing to open the front door I heard the sound of school kids. The sound was something I never expected but greatly appreciated hearing:

I pledge allegiance to the flag

Of the United States of America

And to the Republic for which it stands

One nation under God

With liberty and justice for all

I look toward my flagpole and see Old Glory waving in the breeze just above the POW/MIA flag and for a moment the world is a better place thanks to the teachers, staff and the children of school district 49’s Evans Elementary School. – RTM

8-27-2024

Ten Weeks

As we approach the November 5^th 2024 Presidential Election it would seem that the train has literally run off its tracks. Vice President Harris is ditching her main ride = AF 2 for a tour bus across Georgia. Her campaign strategy is simple = get elected before giving her official policy statement. It drives the right leaning media crazy while the left leaning media surrogates put out bits and pieces of “what she said then isn’t where she stands now” statements. In the meantime keep on flashing those pearly whites and wave, wave, wave.

On the other hand former President Trump is holding Harris fully accountable for her actions as vice president under Biden where a bad decision by them led to 13 Americans dead, and hundreds, if not thousands of Afghanistan allies and their families were left stranded in the hands of the Taliban in 2021. Harris’ public policies say she is against basically everything that Trump is for.

Both candidates know the importance of a secure border, one has insured it remains open, the other promises to shut the door on day one. One candidate believes that abortion is wrong, but a federal mandate is not the answer because that responsibility is and should be in the hands of state governments; the other believes abortion is health care for women’s choices. The Constitution guarantees the right to life and the bible tells us “thou shalt not kill” but those seem to be suggestions that can be bent for personal preferences.

The economy is great according to Team Harris, while ALL Americans are affected financially in all aspects of daily life by the current Biden/Harris policies, which she has sort of promised to fix, (but not really).

Team Trump has been there, done that and knows exactly what to do, but voters don’t trust him because mainly they’ve been told not to (and remember he tweets too much).

The world seems to be headed downhill like an out of control train with nobody at the controls, but all that will change in just ten short weeks…… yeah right! – RTM

8-26-2024

Do Not Erase Our History

The history of the United States of America is more than 240 years old and began as the first settlers sought refuge in the New World and were introduced to the inhabitants who were already here. Land was cleared, homes were built and settlements established as people simply wanted to live and freely worship God without government interference. Many hardships were encountered, battles fought, wars won and lost, but the quest for freedom never died.

Over time the wild frontier was tamed and expansion saw towns and villages could be found from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the north and to Mexico to the south. Slaves and workers were introduced to work the fields, build factories and cities established and states were formed as our nation grew.

There was a time when government pushed so hard and our nation became divided into an all-out Civil War. The fight wasn’t simply over slavery, but over differing interpretations of the rights and privileges held dear in the Constitution and the right of citizens to prevent government interference.

Over time statues and monuments were formed to memorialize the men and women who fought every step of the way forging ahead. As a nation we have lost our way, our moral compass. There are those who have become “offended”, and have demanded the tearing down of manmade monuments and statues while others have passed laws demanding the renaming of US military installations.

 This is wrong.

History does not change because someone is offended or doesn’t like what they see or read in the history books. To recognize modern time heroes is one thing, but do so by creating new monuments or statues dedicated to their memory. It is equally wrong to erect statues or monuments to current or recently deceased lifetime politicians because of political correctness.

Tearing down and/or defacing statues or monuments is still a federal crime.

Public service is just that = Serving the Public.

Public Service is not serving self, any political party or elected office. – RTM