Climate Change

Global Warming

It's such a travesty that the idea of Global Warming (now called climate change) has gotten so blown out of proportions. In December, President Obama is scheduled to go to a global meeting on climate change. Let us speakout in time to get a message to the president to not sign the global agreement. It will cost us dearly and will put our country under global control.

Are you aware that 90% of greenhouse gases are water vapor, primarily evaporating from the worlds nearly 75% water-covered areas. The small amount that mankind contributes to the temperature of the earth is very minute in comparison. To think that we can do the job of God and fix it is preposterous. Of course we can reduce emissions that polute the atmosphere, and that will give us cleaner air, but that has almost nothing to do with global temperatures. And the latest scientific wisdom is that the carbon emissions are actually good for vegetation to thrive and we must have it to live. Al Gore's legacy may just be that he messed up the environment through global climate scare tactics.

Now that the Democrat Party is in control of our U.S. Government, it remains unknown what decisions they might make on so called climate change. Common sense would solve the issue for good. If we merely look at a few years of our recorded weather history, we can see that we are going through cycles that are sometimes hotter and sometimes colder than some of the previous years.

I was born and grew up in North Alabama. In 1925, eleven years before I was born, North Alabama recorded its hottest temperature on record of 112 degrees. The winter of 1936 was very cold there, breaking all known records. A very hot summer followed in the south. The highest temperature recorded in northern Arkansas was 114 degrees. It hasn't been that hot since. We had two blizzards in the last 20 years in the Tennessee area that I am personally acquainted with, dumping large amounts of snow, in some areas we had over five feet. Could we call that Global cooling???

When I was in high school in the 1950s, scientists were warning that the earth was cooling off and in a few million years it would be frozen over. What did we do to switch it to warming? Maybe we could just reset the thermostat, but again, someone else would just come back and set it where they thought it should be.

Let me say this. I believe in recycling, conserving, reducing polution and otherwise being good stewards of God's earth, but we're just going to have to leave the climate up to Him. He's the only one big enough to handle the job.

If you want to see how helpless we are to control the weather on the earth, try watering your part of the earth to keep the water table up and you'll find that it's an impossible task, but God can do it and keep it done.

The rainfall over the earth is the same every year. It is just distributed differently each year. We can't refreeze the polar regions! What an insane thought. Climate changes are natural and part of the balance of nature. Give it a few years and it will self-regulate. If we try to change it, we'll just make it worse.

This is all my opinion, everybody has one.

Jay Hartline

Socialized Medicine

It has been quite a while since I did a post; too much to do this year. However, I do have a few things to say.
I feel betrayed by our congressmen in the passage of the house version of Obama health care. They did it on the weekend and pushed it through without the consent of most Americans.
Socialized (government controlled) medicine will be the biggest boondoggle we have ever gotten into, and about impossible to back out of. What are these people thinking? Or are they thinking at all?
I am appalled at all the other stuff that is included in that bill. The so-called "public option" which gives the government far too much control. Robbing the Social Security revenue to achieve their selfish ends. The misappropriation of funds should land them all in jail. And it just goes on and on.
The whole health system in this country isn't broke, so why are they trying to scrap it for a system that they know (from the experiences of other nations) won't work.
In my opinion, they're acting like fools. All they want is to keep their positions in congress, yet this will hopefully be their down-fall. I always think that we will vote them out of office the next time they are up for re-election, but often times, I am wrong.
I wish we could just totally clean house (no pun intended) and start over with a new bunch. We might have some chance for improvement if that did occur.
If you have a voice, try to persuade your Senators to not follow the socialist path of the congress. We will be very sorry if socialized medicine becomes a reality in this country.

Jay

Much to Think About

I will soon be performing the marriage ceremony of my grandson to his bride to be. This has given me much to think about.

Marriage

First, what is the purpose of marriage?
It is many-faceted, but primarily, the purpose is procreation of the human race. God made them man and woman and said the two shall become one.

The Bible

Genesis 2:24: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall be come one flesh."

Procreation

Genesis 3:20: "And Adam called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living."

Isn’t it awesome that Almighty God gave man such a significant role in keeping earth populated with people? Of course it takes a man and a woman to accomplish this. Both the children of those who follow God and those who don’t can still be given the opportunity to be saved. Statistics show that those who are exposed to Christianity early in life are much more likely to accept Jesus as their savior. Don’t waste valuable time. Don’t think they can decide to believe or not to believe when they are older. The majority of those will not believe. You are then leaving your children in a very dire circumstance, possibly not ever having eternal salvation.

Divorce

Matthew 19:3 The Pharisees also came to Him (Jesus), testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"
Matthew 19:4: And He (Jesus) answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’
5 And said: "for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.’
6 "So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate."

Why did Moses allow Divorce?

7 They said to him, "Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?
8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning, it was not so."

Selfishness

Divorce was never intended to exist, but selfish people want their own way and are not willing to lay down their own desires for another, even their spouse. This is the root cause of all broken relationships among people, especially between husbands and wifes.

Jay

Springtime

I love the spring time. We have a lot of flowers in our yard and some are absolutely gorgeous, such as this lily . Look at the perfection in its design; awesome. The wonder of the creations of God are breathtaking.

The picture with all green leafs is pretty to look at, but not delightful to hold. It is poison Ivy, growing in the woods behind our place. Just thought I'd be a little different and deviate from my normal blogs. After all, it's Memorial Day weekend. Hope you have a great and safe one.

Jay

Have we Lost our Minds?

I have a hard time believing what I am hearing on TV news these days. The president wants to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to, supposedly, save money and at the same time, give the prisoners there a "fair" trial.

He and most of his supporters are against interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration to get information out of terrorists even though the information they got may have saved thousands of lives. We should be kind to terrorists, they are kind to our soldiers and reporters. They just cut off their heads. That's less painful than waterboarding.

At the same time, the president has made it very plain that he is in favor of and will EAGERLY sign a bill to take all restrictions off of abortion.
Protect the terrorists.
Kill the babies.
Sounds insane to me!

Then, there is the young boy who has some form of cancer and his mother, in an effort to protect him from being destroyed by chemotherapy, has fled with him to seek alternative help to make her son well. Chemo has a consistent record of terminating people through it's poisoning of their bodies. Granted, it has been improved, but in my opinion, it is still dangerous and I would not take it myself. My dad had cancer, and the oncologist he went to told him that chemo would do him "no good" and would only cause the remainder of his life to be miserable, instead of relatively comfortable without chemo. He said, you are going to die either way. My dad chose to not have the chemo. His body was full of cancer, and he died within a couple of years, but fairly pain free.

There now exist, in Mexico, hospitals that use natural means to cure cancer. They have a very good track record of thousands cured, yet the government of the United States will not allow them to function in this country, so people have to flee from their own country to get proper nutritional help in conquering cancer.

Meantime, we are burning and poisoning our people who get cancer just to make the big bucks. Whose business is it to decide what treatment your child should have to get him well? Is it the government's business. I say NOT! Is it the medical establishments? I say NO! As long as the parents are acting in the child's best interest, let them see what can be done instead of sentencing their child to death by Chemo.

I don't know what religion these people are, that is not the issue here although the TV news always mentions that they are affiliated with a "religious" group. The life of their son IS the issue. A large number of wealthy people in this country go to Mexico, or to Europe to get rid of cancer. Michael Landon was seeking help from the alternative community when he was dying from cancer. His doctors reportedly told him to stay away from "those quacks, they'll kill you." I guess his doctors were wrong. He died a short time later, under their "care."

Our founding father's, in the Declaration of Independence, wrote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL men are created equal, that they are ENDOWED by THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights, that among these are LIFE, LIBERTY and the pursuit of happiness."

The above two stories have a common thread. Babies have a right to be born, that's called "LIFE." Families have a right to make decisions concerning their children, among other things, that is called "LIBERTY." The parents of the young boy with cancer are being denied theirs. In my opinion, this is tyranny.
Jay

Prophecy Fulfilled, Why is it Important?

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Free Speech

May 17, 2009

With hate crime legislation on the front burner and the president pushing congress to have it ready for him to sign by Memorial Day, we need to exercise our free speech and speak out to our elected representatives how we feel that such a law would impact our lives and the lives of all Americans.

We may not always say things that are pleasing to the ears of everyone, but we do have the right of free speech granted by our Constitution. We must not be quick to give up this right. If we lose this "right," it won't be long before they are taking away others, and eventually, our Constitution will be a worthless piece of paper. Our forefathers fought and died to give us the liberties that we enjoy. Can we stand idly by and let it all slip away?

It seems that the only people who are attacked for speaking out are Christians, the very people who are instructed by their savior to "go and preach the Gospel to all nations." Our president of "change" is against Christianity. He doesn't recognize our National Day of Prayer, but recognizes Muslim's rights to pray.

If, in fact, the so call "Hate-Crimes" bill passes, it will have more far reaching consequences than anyone imagines and will back-fire to the shutting-down of the free speech of those who hate Christians.

Why don't we grow-up and act like adults instead of little children who cry and moan about everything. Laws already exist that allow for the prosecution of those who try to take out their own vengeance upon others. We don't need "Hate Crimes Legislation," nor any other legislation that is aimed at just one group of people, especially Christians who are just trying to help others to have a happy life and eternal life in addition.

Jay