12-31-2023

Once Upon A Time In America

I remember when men were men and women were well…..gorgeous. Nobody seriously tried to become the other gender unless it was in a comedy skit. It was just good natured fun.

Being called a patriot meant someone was a dedicated American, usually a serviceman or woman.

Standing with hand over your heart is the only way to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Standing and rendering honor to the Stars and Bars was just what you did when the flag passed by.

First responders didn’t stop and check to see if the person in trouble was of a particular race or skin color, they just ran toward danger, at times to their own peril.

The term Law Enforcement meant just that, not selectively enforcing laws one deemed serious while failing to enforce those not really needing enforced.

Members of the United States national teams were honored to wear the Red, White and Blue and never even considered dishonoring the nation in practice, competition or on national television.

On the other hand politicians campaigned on their good name and kept their promises, thinking America First, before any other consideration.

Journalists, reporters, photographers and news anchors sought to bring light on stories of local or national interest and reported in meticulous details to get it right.

Higher education meant getting smarter and raising the professional bar when hanging their shingle in front of their office and displaying their credentials on the office wall.

Military men and women trained and prepared to fight (if necessary) to defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, both foreign and domestic while helping to spread freedom to foreign lands around the globe.

Men and women of God were spiritual beings sharing the good news that in spite of ourselves and our addiction to sin, God really did love us just the way he created us and sending his Son Jesus to make the way to the Father by his death on the cross was God’s ultimate gift to mankind.

Matthew 7:7 “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.”

Do you have it? Do you want to have it?

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

In this sinful fallen and ever changing world we know that God is in control, he never changes and his love for you can never be greater nor less than when he created you to worship Him!

In this coming New Year let the Peace of God that passes all understanding light your way into 2024! – RTM

12-31-2023

The Wrecking Ball

By now nobody wants to hear, read or talk about the most politically obsessed about man in the history of our country so why does he continue to be the political flavor of the day? It’s ironic that this obsession plays right into the hands of the man they are trying to destroy. I’ve read that he considers publicity that costs him nothing is very valuable because it keeps his name in the public forum.

Political Correctness continues to plague mankind with all kinds of manmade “don’ts”, i.e. “don’t use male and female”; “don’t say man or woman”; “don’t associate colors with race – except white is bad”; “patriotism is anti-American”; “religion is bad”; or “there is no God”; and ultimately “MAGA equates to white supremacy”.

I’m sure you know many more political taboos that we are told not to use, say or do. We are to trust the science, trust the government and only trust democratic politicians. We are told that history as it is written is wrong and attempts to re-write history are ongoing as statues and names are being replaced by “real historical statues and names”.

I watched a foreign production of a program on a history-type channel that quoted statistics on slavery and human-trafficking that 6M people were taken from the African continent and brought to the Americas (South – Central – North America). Out of those 6M human slaves only 250,000 came to the United States. What was missing was naming the culprits who did the actual kidnapping of humans and selling them to the unnamed slave ship captains for money.

If these statistics are to be believed we must realize that what we are being told is one big lie after another like the false narrative that Trump is a racist and a bigot as told to us by some of the biggest names in politics as if they were standing before a mirror and naming their own faults.

It has been recorded that prior to the 2016 election a Texas businessman heard from God that “Donald Trump is a wrecking ball to the spirit of political correctness” and “The next President of the United States will be the forty-fifth president, and he will be an Isaiah 45 president.” Those words were then spoken to Trump in the presence of a number of African-American church leaders who were also members of the Democratic Party. (The Faith of Donald J. Trump)

I honestly don’t think that anyone (except God) knew how intense the politically correct backlash would become or continues to be to this day. It’s like God placed Donald Trump as a willing obstacle, a sword to the spirit of political correctness knowing full well that the pushback would be so great that only God himself could contain it. Trump has repeatedly said in his rallies “It’s not about me, they are after you but I’m standing in the way.”

Have you noticed that in every debate of GOP presidential candidates in the 2024 race to the presidency Trump has not been invited or present? Why is that? Could it be that in a real debate each of them would be decimated by Trump? (Remember the Trump attack of the second GOP debate during 2015?)

We are seeing more and more political correct resistance than ever before and I don’t think it’s all out in the open yet and that may be why it continues to intensify as we get closer to the Presidential Election of 2024. Just look at what is happening to our country as our own government viciously attacks American industry and our citizenry’s way of life and faith not in religion, but our faith in God. We are led to believe that women have the right to abort, yet the babies being aborted have no rights. We are told children have the right to choose their preferred sexual status while parents have no rights or say in the matter. In fact everyone has the right to choose their gender pronoun or none, and God was wrong when He created only male and female.

Our nation is headed in the wrong direction when we normalize and justify actions and behavior that are contrary to God’s natural order.

When the Pharisees questioned Jesus over casting demons out of a demon possessed man Jesus responded in Matthew 12:25 But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.”

God may not have sanctioned Trump a continuous second term as president but I feel that “The Wrecking Ball” still has a role to play in the future of our nation. Whether you like it or not, God will be glorified as America will be made great again or it will simply cease to exist. – RTM

12-28-2023

Greed Power and Stupidity

I think it appropriate to send the year 2023 out with a bang. You might even call it shooting from the hip. All I see on the two cable news networks are opposites of the same coin. Each side claiming the political pros and cons of one party or the other and neither addresses the real problem plaguing America. It’s like a commercial that touts symptom relief with a whole list of side effects, but not able to cure the problem causing the symptoms. In a nutshell it’s exactly like Planned Parenthood calling for medical care for all, just take this pill or have this procedure and everything will be all right. Where’s the care medical care for the unborn aborted baby?

In the news today are three main stories that seem to be the most important in American politics – Israel defending itself from Hamas (mostly peaceful) terrorists, banning Trump from running for President and the invasion of American soil by a never ending flow of illegal, undocumented aliens into our country.

On October 6^th 2023 Hamas began an unprovoked aerial bombardment of Israel indiscriminately killing innocent civilians and destroying property. The world watched in horror but initially did little except to chastise Israel for counterattacking. Now the UN is sending aid to Gaza, while it is Israel that is protecting civilian refugees in Gaza from Hamas attacks. It is considered horrible for Israel to cause accidental deaths during those attacks, but nothing is said about Hamas’s activities, which include using places like hospitals and schools to set up their command centers and missile launch facilities to facilitate attacks on Israel.

On January 6^th 2021 terrorists launched an assault on the United States Legislature causing interference in the US Presidential Election of 2020 and we were led to believe that President Trump led the charge (he didn’t). Evidence shows that those violent terrorists may have been undercover law enforcement officers of the FBI with political leanings (never Trumpers) against President Trump. If true they were in fact the insurrectionists they claimed MAGA folks (families with children) who came to watch the Electoral College process in action were. That being said, how many of those “undercover LEOs” have been identified, hunted down, arrested or held accountable for their actions on January 6^th? NADA – ZERO – ZILCH!

On January 20^th 2021 President Biden opened the flood border to immigrants claiming all were refugees and must be allowed to come in. Many were given preferential treatment, food, phones, money and transportation to undisclosed interior locations in predominantly red cities and states where there is now an immigration court backlog of more than3M awaiting inside the country to see an immigration judge. During December 2023 there have so far been more than 250T migrants crossing into the US, with 5000+ more convoying toward our southern border, unobstructed through Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and several Central and South American countries and elsewhere around the world. A recent Biden Administration meeting with the President of Mexico ended with NO VIABLE SOLUTION to stop the flow. Have they not thought to SHUT DOWN THE BORDER (ours and theirs)!

So what is the real problem in America?

Is it uninformed Americans who simply don’t care, unless it hits home? Maybe it’s voters who think their party is great and the other party is bad – ALWAYS? We live in a world where GOD is no longer welcome, his rules are outdated and the people he created think they are smarter than Him.

The real problem is US! We see but don’t believe; we listen but don’t hear; we know but don’t do what God has commanded – Love God with all of our hearts, minds, souls and spirits and love our neighbor as we love ourselves and when it is within our power we are to live at peace with all people. – RTM

12-23-2023

Rhetoric is it Fact Fiction or Reality

It almost would be funny if it was not on a cable news network program on a TV at the gym that asked the question, “Why the Trump base doesn’t pay attention to his rhetoric”?  

Funny they would ask, huh?

My quick reaction asked the same question back at them “Why do people pay attention to the rhetoric from the far left that Trump is bad for America”? Or rhetoric that “a huge turn off to American women is someone identifies themselves as MAGA Republicans”.

Maybe we should all do a quick reality check.

Is America and the world around us safer now that sleepy Joe is in the Oval Office?

Has the cost of living gone up or down since Trump left office?

Is the world a better place today than yesterday?

Rhetoric is only that until you begin to believe it.

Before driving or riding in a car the alarm sounds until you buckle your seat belt. Why?

What if you’re on board an airplane in flight and the oxygen masks fall down what are you supposed to do? Why?

There’s an old say that actions speak louder than words. What if I told you that wasn’t true? Prove it!

There have been Hollywood movies where one person is targeted by another and fed misinformation in an attempt to have them believe that they are going crazy. In the end the misdeeds are uncovered and the “bad guy” exposed. They call that “Gaslighting”.

America and the world has been fed so much misinformation that it now believes the world is upside down and saving the planet is a higher priority than say, self-preservation or survival of the human species.

We continue to see this in this global warming scheme where we must return to the post-historic age of human evolution.

Save the planet, save the animals and save abortion…………..

During the China Virus of 2019 the world was told to wear masks, get vaccines, social distance, self-isolate and more nonsense that in the end caused more unnecessary deaths (one death unnecessarily is one death too many). Doctors and medical personnel lost their licenses, livelihood and respect simply by speaking up against the nonsense. Trumps efforts to actively protect America from the spread of infection drew much ire and opposition from those who stood to make millions from the “pandemic”.

Today we are to believe that open borders and invading migrants without documents or proper vetting is good for the nation. We are told that all migrants are seeking refugee status, but without substantiating evidence to back it up. We are giving migrants who entered the nation unlawfully cost of living benefits (housing, food, medical, education, cell phones & more) while more and more Americans are becoming homeless and living on the streets without adequate food and shelter.

We are told that sexual gender is expandable to whatever and the fact that God made us male and female (humans, animals & plants) is of little or no consequence.

Well let me say that Political Correctness and politics have consequences.

When it’s okay to ban someone from the funeral of another, or from a social media platform, or a political election simply because of a person’s name and their official or former government standing or office says more about those who approve or condone that behavior than the one being banned.

There are two types of politicians – those who say but their record doesn’t support it and those who do the will of the people without regard to whether it’s politically correct.  

Crooks, kings or crooked kings – you be the judge!

Name the three presidents (not Washington) who served throughout their presidency without keeping their presidential salaries?

Name one politician whose only job was in the US Legislative Branch where he/she raked in millions on a legislative salary?

Don’t rely on the investigative skills of today’s journalists who simply parrot the party line, but get out there and dig up the real facts.

Follow rhetoric with action and it becomes fact.

What president secured permanent funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities?

What president moved the American embassy to Jerusalem?

What president created the US Space Force as the newest branch of the US Armed Forces?

Which president vowed to Make America Great Again, Build the Wall and Drain the Swamp?  Who would have known that draining the swamp could be such an overwhelming endeavor with vicious swamp creatures galore?

If you’re not for a better America, then you are against it. SADDLE UP! – RTM

12-23-2023

Merry Christmas Everyone,

As 2023 is almost complete and 2024 is eagerly awaiting its arrival.

As the world cries peace, peace, peace – there can be no peace without God.

May the peace of God that passes all understanding fill you with love, joy and peace this holiday season and every day until Jesus returns – soon and very soon.

I urge you to take a moment to acknowledge the reason for the season – remembering the birth of a baby born in a manger, his name is Jesus. – RTM

Isaiah 9:6 – “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

12-22-2023

Bring Common Sense Back Into The Equation

It’s been obvious for quite some time that removing “God” from all aspects of daily living is in effect removing Common Sense. What remains is not really living, but existing in a pseudo-reality. Let me use the analogy of “The Ant Farm”.

Let’s say that you go to a local supplier and purchase all the necessities required (dirt & ants) for having your very own ant farm and you place them in a glass case whereby you can watch those little buggers work, day after day after day. You make sure there is lighting to simulate days and nights and you add a generous portion of ant food (whatever that is) and insure there is adequate moisture.

Time passes and after a year it looks like everything is going well and life is good.

One day it appears that all work has stopped and nothing is happening. In fact you determine that the inside of the case is enveloped in what appears to be a protective shield blocking your view of the ants. When you pull the lid off the case there it is, written in the dirt are the words ANTS ONLY, ALL OTHERS STAY AWAY.

You’ve been officially banned from your own ant farm by your own ants.

How do you feel – angry, disappointed, rejected, abandoned?

Do you hold a grudge and blame all the ants or do you first seek to find the guilty culprits who instigated this ant farm uprising?

So what do you do now – pick up the case and dump the entire ant farm into the garbage?

Maybe in anger you pour everything out on the ground and begin stomping, stomping, stomping until there are no more ants and you vow never again?

Imagine how God felt when his prized creation (man) while living in the Garden of Eden and communing daily with Him disobeyed a simple command “Do not eat from the Tree” and then hid in shame from their creator because they had disobeyed.

Or later when God brought a flood over the face of the entire earth and only 1 family remained obedient as everyone thought they were foolish. (Who took that to the bank?)

And as we celebrate the Season of Christmas, God sent His Only Begotten Son Jesus into the world to live a sinless life in a world full of sin, so that He would die on the cross for all sin. Jesus provided the only way for man back to God.

What have we done, commercialize the sacredness of the memory of this precious moment for what amounts to filthy money. Man has tried to destroy what God has created or failing that, to nullify the absolutes in physics and common sense by believing that truth lies in the beholder (whatever feels good, do it), rather than what God as declared.

Yet in the midst of this tomfoolery let it be known that GOD LOVES YOU (no more or no less than when he created you) and in spite of ourselves.

All we must do is Love God and love others as we love ourselves and when it is within our power to live peaceably with all men. How hard is that?

MERRY CHRISTMAS – RTM

‘Twas the Night Before a Soldier’s Christmas

‘Twas the night before a Soldier’s Christmas, when all through the camp
not a creature was stirring, not even the rat.

His socks were hung near the fire with care,
in hopes that the Jolly Old Man soon would come near.

The troops were nestled all snug in their beds,
while visions of Christmas’ back home danced in their heads.

Thinking of Mama in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
we had just settled down for our long winter’s nap.

When outside the tent there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the doorway I flew like a flash,
tore to the opening, and threw up the flap.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
gave the lustre of midday to objects below,

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.

More rapid than eagles, his coursers they came,
and he whistled and shouted and called them by name:
“Now Alpha! Now Bravo!
Now, Charlie and Delta!
On, Echo! On, Foxtrot!
On, Golf and Hotel!
To the top of the trees!
And over the hill!
Now dash away! Dash away!
Dash away all!”

As dry leaves that before wild hurricanes fly,
when they meet with an obstacle, they bound to the sky

So up to the top the coursers they flew,
with the sleigh full of rations, and St. Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard near the brush
the prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

As I drew in my head and was turning around,
down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.

A bundle of rations and goodies he had flung on his back,
and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes–how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
and the beard on his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
and the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.

He had a broad face and a little round belly,
that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
and I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself.

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
and filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.

And laying his finger aside of his nose,
and giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
“Merry Christmas You Soldiers, and to all a good night!”

Adapted from Twas the Night Before Christmas “The Visit” poem.

12-11-2023

What is MAGA Really?

Why all the hype about this “right-wing terrorist group” as it is described by the democratic-led main stream media? Do you know the difference between groups identified on the FBI’s “Terrorist Watch Group” list and real or imagined groups like BLM, QAnon, Antifa and MAGA?

You might be surprised?

There are and have been real terrorist groups actively subverting the US government with hateful rhetoric, fear of violence, destruction of property and the actual maiming and death of innocent people in our nation since the attack on American soil on 9/11/2001, yet since 2008 a great many of those responsible have yet to be held accountable.

Government facilities have been besieged, vandalized and gutted with fire, entire neighborhoods “claimed” by Antifa, BLM or other anti-government terrorist groups with the blessings of state and local politicians in places like Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington and Minneapolis, Minnesota – just to name a few.

The leaders of BLM have been entertained at the White House by President Obama on numerous occasions during his administration while being treated as “business as usual” by the press – nothing to see here.

So what is MAGA and where did it come from?

When presidential candidate Donald J. Trump announced his run for the GOP nomination running against DNC presidential candidate Hillary R. Clinton in 2015 Americans heard for the first time about draining the swamp and Making America Great Again (MAGA).

The term MAGA was in response to statements made by then President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama who said, “America was never great”, striking at the heart of American patriotism.

Hillary Clinton came up with her own word for marginalized, fly-over Americans by calling them “Deplorables” as she geared up for her anticipated win of the White House against Trump, a political outsider.

As the Trump base identified with the MAGA cause, what began as a tremendous effort from the far left attempting to turn MAGA into a dirty word and patriots into terrorists and that effort has only intensified.

Make America Great Again means to bring back the Americanism of industry, technology and innovation which has characterized the United States of America by its Constitution based on Godly principles whereby “All Men Are Created Equal”, without race, color, creed or national origin whether male or female.

Political Correctness has made a mockery of the natural order of man whom God created in His own image and his decree to go forth and multiply and to subdue the land.

Trump struck a huge blow against established “government as usual” when he declared that in America we worship GOD and not government.

It is a fact that there is not one instance of rioting, looting, maiming, killing or desecration of government facilities, buildings or land having been caused by MAGA Americans – Not even on January 6^th!

Yet the Biden administration and the democratic leaders of Congress would have you to believe that MAGA is some secretive, radical, terrorist organization to be feared more than life itself.

If you’re an American and wanting to see America back on top, with cutting edge innovations in technology and industry, paving the way for other nations to follow, with a great economy, freedom to choose, working for less government regulations that hinder our nation’s growth, and to having a secure border again, where everyone who enters our country legally is welcomed to live the American dream, able to worship God freely and without hindrance, then maybe, just maybe you too believe in Making America Great Again. Stand in front of the mirror, pat at yourself on the back and proudly declare – I’m a MAGA fan too! It’s not a republican or democrat thing – it’s called being an American. – RTM

12-9-2023

Who Can Save America?

During this Christmas season many are trying to figure out who will save this great nation of ours? Will it be someone with name recognition or maybe a high profile politician? Could it be a current or former state governor or a mayor of a big city or the elephant in the room? It is an undisputable fact that it is God who rises up nations and appoints their leaders whom he charges to look after the people of their land and bring glorify to God.

Christmas is a time of remembrance of when God gave mankind a present of eternal importance – His one and only begotten Son – Jesus, a baby born in a manger and wrapped in swaddling clothes. Through this miraculous birth God became man that he would live and ultimately die for the sins of mankind to save us from ourselves.

I’m not into the commercialization of Christmas where the latest tech toys, lust of the flesh and the quest for bling-bling permeate both the airwaves and the internet in order to separate us from our money. Money itself is not a bad thing, but according to the bible the love of money is the root of all evil.

Can we not get into our quiet place where we can be alone with God and thank HIM for all he has done?

I’m preaching to myself too. Without God we have nothing for we are nothing. Without God there is no good in us because only GOD IS GOOD.

We have air in our lungs, a heartbeat in our chest and that alone makes us blessed.

I thank God daily for my family and friends. – RTM

12-6-2023

Remember What Trump Did To Our Democracy?

The current democratic narrative is that MAGA-land is sliding toward a potential Trump dictatorship. They asked that all important question, “remember what Trump did to our democracy”?

What comes to my mind is Pelosi’s fortified, fenced in “Temp of Democracy” AFTER January 6^th, 2021.

The US of A is and always has been a Constitutional-Republic where the Rule of Law IS the Constitution, not some progressive democratic communist charter aimed at changing the nation into a Constitutional-Democracy. But since they asked I do remember what Trump did with an Obama-lead divided nation and it is not, nor ever intended to be a democracy.

In 2015 when Trump said he would build a wall and drain the swamp he didn’t anticipate how huge the swamp really was. Most American’s didn’t even know there was a swamp until it came at Trump head on and in full force and the swamp has never ceased attempting to derail the Trump presidency,

What Trump did for the nation (not democracy) was to place the world order on notice that America and its allies were a force to be reckoned with and any act of aggression would me met with an unequal yet overwhelming military force the likes of which the world has never seen. Those foreign state actors who sought to challenge it were promptly eliminated.

The economy of the US had been directly impacted by Obamanomics and many manufacturing plants and corporations had moved overseas or outside the contingent US mainland, and Trump began bringing them back. Trump instituted tariffs for goods entering the US from China and others and the playing field began to level.

Trump passed substantially lower tax brackets for US wage earners, enabling them to keep more of their hard earned money.

Trump began funding and building the wall to stem the flow of illegal migrants, drugs and human trafficking across the US/Mexican border and Mexico began paying for it, through sanctions and other legislative actions to keep migrants in Mexico while they applied to enter the US.

During the Chinese Virus crisis sweeping the nation and the world, it was Trump who restricted access from Chinese and select European migrants and tourists from entering the US, to prevent the spread of the virus. When it was discovered that medical equipment and supplies were inadequately low or non-existent it was Trump who combined government, military and civilian assets to begin and/or ramp up production and began exporting supplies to other countries.

It was Trump who ramped up construction of the oil pipeline from Alaska and filled the low to non-existent US oil reserves actions which lead to lower fuel prices across the nation.

Trump also announced to the nations of NATO they would have to pay their fair share for US protection of their homelands and the planned withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.

Trump began rebuilding the US military with new equipment and better training of US personnel.

Trump created the US Space Force as the newest branch of the military.

And it was Trump who created permanent funding of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

So yes I remember what Trump did to Make America Great Again (MAGA) all the while battling the attacks of the American Democratic Communist Party (not the JFK Democratic Party of old).

Lest we forget that Trump is only the third President, to forgo his presidential salary, as he promised at an event in Rochester, New Hampshire, on September 17^th, 2015. “The first thing I’m going to do is tell you that if I’m elected president, I’m accepting no salary, okay? That’s not a big deal for me.”

Trivia:

#31 Herbert Hoover – split his presidential salary between a number of charities and his staff’s salary.

#35 John F. Kennedy – gave his presidential salary to charity.

#45 Donald J. Trump – gave his presidential salary into various government agencies.

Oh I long for the good old days where men were men, women were women and America was in her heyday – Great Again. – RTM