What About China?    

   About every 10 hours, we need to take a nap, unless it's already bedtime.

   About every 10 hours, the FBI opens a new investigation into China. They already have more than 2,000 active investigations (economic espionage) involving the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 

Who Lost the Debate? 

   We scrapped the rest of our China remarks to remark instead about the remarks both men made in Tuesday night's so-called debate. Note our disgust as our fingers pound the keyboard. 

   Who knows what the next two moderators are thinking. But if the debatable debates occur as planned, we will skip them in favor of getting better nights' sleep. 

   Surprise! Where has well prepared Joe Biden been all year? Why was he confined to his home if he can speak without misspeaking? 

   He goaded President Trump, and the two of them ended up in a high-schoolish tit for tat. Moderator Chris Wallace tried bringing order to the court, only to become the third person all talking at once.

   Our foreign enemies must have been thrilled. 

   Biden smirked at each Trump statement. That was planned. He lied about Trump - who works maybe 18 hours a day - being on the golf course while fires burn, the economy tanks and the virus kills. (It was Obama on the golf course quite often.) 

   Mr. Biden, why didn't you answer questions about law and order, packing the court and killing filibusters? Oh, you ("I am the Democrat Party") didn't want to anger the socialist left. 

   Give him credit for looking into the camera and speaking to the viewers. The president never did. 

   Who lost? Both men, and we the people. We concluded a few years ago that debates as now conducted are not helpful.

          Jimmy

 A Poem for Young Men   

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but allow for their doubting too,

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about but don't lie,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters the same,

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and build 'em up; 

If you can force your heart and nerve to serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you, except the Will which says 'Hold On!' 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 

Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, 

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Some words omited for space 

 Supreme Court

Why Not a Sub?      

   When a player comes out of a game - due to injury or grievous foul - the team uses a substitute to keep the sides evenly matched. The National Hockey League is the exception. With a penalty, they play short-handed for a few minutes.

   Why can't the world's greatest democracy substitute for a supreme court justice who dies or becomes too ill even to work from the hospital, as did Justice Ginsberg? 

   We are in a pickle weeks before a critical election with eight on the court. Democrats complain that the president dares to nominate a ninth justice. They would do the same thing if the "robe" was on the other...oh you know the thing...as forgetful Joe Biden would say. 

   Our founders thought hard, producing a constitution that limits governmental power and provides for rights most of us hold dear. But, they didn't know Justice Ginsburg was going to leave us at an inconvenient time. 

   If the election is inconclusive, and there are scads of lawsuits that need supreme attention, any 4-4 tie will defer to lower courts. Whatever your ideology, do you want unknown (to you and me) judges making critical decisions? 

   We think this could win constitutional approval: How about a law that when a president takes office, first term, he nominates a substitute for the court.  

   The Senate vets the nominee as usual. If confirmed - and later needed - he or she would sit on the court until the president and Senate works on a permanent replacement. Could be the substitute.

   If the sub is never needed, he or she is reconfirmed or replaced, at minimum, on a new president's entry to the White House. Our leaders do have time for this important duty. You can supply other necessary details, send it to Congress and take credit. It would eliminate endless, unnecessary griping and lying. 

   It's crazy that the sports world - we don't like tie games - is more efficient than federal government.

       Jimmy

  

   A Soldier's Prayer       

Found in the pocket of a dead Confederate soldier:

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve;

   I was made weak, that I might learn to humbly obey.

I asked for health, that I might do greater things;

   I was given infirmity that I might do better things. 

I asked for riches, that I might be happy;

   I was given poverty that I might be wise.

I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men;

   I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.

I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life;

   I was given life, that I might enjoy all things. 

I got nothing I asked for, but everything I hoped for.

Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. 

I am, among all men, most richly blessed. 

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 Voter Rights or Voter Fraud    

   Since 2016, California permits a voter to mark the ballot at home, mail it back, drop it off, or - designate any person to return the ballot. Democrats go door to door offering to pick up ballots and help voters fill them out. All this in the name of "rights." 

   It's all about political power. Tragically, millions of Americans don't seem to care, Christians among them. About 60 percent of eligible voters participate in presidential years, 40 percent in congressional elections. 

   Sen. Kamala Harris warns about violence. Hillary (bitter) Clinton advises Joe (come on, man) Biden not to concede..."ever!" The Washington Post warned (threatened?) possible violence and a constitutional crisis if their candidate loses. 

   Walsh, our source, says, "Democrats will abide by their real slogan - 'by any means necessary' - to rid themselves" of President Trump. 

What to do?   

   Win. Beyond the margin of cheating. GOP lawyers should watch every swing state precinct and challenge ballots that just "fell off the truck." 

   Republicans, Walsh adds, "also need to keep an eye on Biden's mental health. Democrats could remove him at any point and substitute Harris."

   New Jersey 2002: Democrats illegally forced corrupt Sen. Torricelli off the ballot and replaced him with former Sen. Lautenberg, who wasn't a declared candidate. 

   As for the future, Walsh believes, "Election Day doesn't sneak up on people. Absentee ballots should be allowed only for active-duty military and diplomats and their families overseas. Retirees in Costa Rica have effectively renounced their right to vote." 

   Stop with the shenanigans. Who are we, Belarus? 

       Jimmy

 

   

Delegates of Demons          

   Foreigners interfere in our elections? That devilish effort is child's play compared to the influence demons have on unsuspecting American political operatives. 

   Cheating, gaming the system - is a form of lying. The devil is the "father of lies." His gang troubles the world's prime democracy, and the freedom enjoyed by Christians, Jews and others.

   We know this because we know what the Bible says about the dark underworld.

   Election night 2018: Democrats gained 24 seats in the House. Then came late votes - absentee ballots, provisional ballots and ballot harvesting. What a coincidence ... the Dems picked up 17 more seats. 

   In conservative Orange County, California, all seven GOP seats flipped as sacks of votes were dropped off at precincts, or appeared days later with Nov. 6 postmarks. 

   In the 2004 Washington state gubernatorial race, the Republican was declared the winner. He won a recount. Then a second recount, done by hand, went to his opponent. 

   Some 723 ballots were miraculously discovered during the second recount. 

   Connecticut, 2010: A Republican had an 8,000 vote lead statewide, until a court order kept polls open in Bridgeport two hours longer. Newly printed ballots appeared in selected precincts. 

   Michael Walsh, editor of The Pipeline.org, and an author, says elections have been "rigged since the middle of the 19th century - voter intimidation, voters voting multiple times, and ballots appearing out of thin air." 

   Add to cheating, elections now are weeks-long events, and some locations don't require proof of residence or identity. 

   We think it was John Adams who said our Constitution was written for "a moral people." It's only as good as we the people. 

        Jimmy

 

  Summing it Up  

Follow Jesus

Love your neighbor and your enemies

Forgive others

Serve God, not money

Seek first his kingdom and righteousness

Lose your life to find it

Love the Lord more than anyone

Ask (according to his will), believe and receive

This is our Father's world...not ours