What happens when Google disagree with you?

There was a guy that was fired because he wrote that men and women are different. Google didn't like this so they fired a guy.
The political Progressive view point is the main source in Google and the main stream media is that all disparities in society is based on injustice. Google thinks the gender gap in the tech industry is based on sexism. The PC answers is yes. Google agrees with this.
Google will treat women different from guys. They prefer women in promotion. They have only women events for Google and courses like sensitives training "battling sexist bias".
If the reason that the tech industry that men work there more than women and this makes sense to do what Google does.
If men and women are different than sexism is one of many that cause this imbalance and the exclusionary programs and deferential treatment can be counterproductive of sexism.
It can cause issues because people think that Google don't care about the programing ability but only what gender they are. So the idea of the best person is thrown out of the window.
James Damore wrote, "Google's ideological Echo Chamber."
James Damore discovered that all the disparity of men and women workers in the Tech Industry is based on sexism.
He found out that men and women have different goals for their careers and life.   
There is a writing called "Women, Careers, and Work-force Preferences" in the British Journey of Guidance and Counseling.  The authors concluded women want a balance of family and work life and men want to work longer hours.
Richard Lipa of Cal State Fullerton wrote men in general are interested in things and women are more interested in people.
These findings have be repeated many times. Many sources have came up with this idea why that there are more men than women in the Tech Industry. So James Damore didn't make up a story.
Geoffrey Miller, is a Psychologist, said that it is empirical science are scientific accurate.
The issue was that Google didn't agree with James Damore and Geoffrey Miller so the Vice President of Diversity, Integrity and Governance, Danielle Brown, said that James Damore was wrong. She said, "James Damore advanced incorrect assumptions on genders." 
Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, mentioned that James Damore promoted this harmful cancer.
He said, "James Damore crossed the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes."
He finished the statement, "Not okay."
Sundar Pichai fired James and it was to late. The James document was all across the internet.
The main stream media was marking it as an anti-diversity manifesto.
But if the main stream media read the article then they would figured it was pro-diversity.
James Damore had many ideas on getting women to work in the Tech Industry without resorting to counterproductive discrimination. 
Is it funny that Google claims to hire the smartest people and they couldn't handle a well-reasoned argument on this issue based on science.
There is a larger issue. Is Google going to force their views on their employers and their users?
The evidence is sickening. Google will censor their contents to fit their views and they claim to be fair.
Google owns YouTube and restrict a conservative view point and here is an example. PragerU was restricted by Google because they didn't agree with Google so PragerU videos were not allowed on YouTube. There are other people that don't have their political view points that had the same issue with Google.
I agree that Google is an business and can do what they want but billions of people, Google is the only source of information that they have. And people will get their view point from Google.
This makes Google more powerful than the government.
Google needs to follow their saying, "Don't be evil." Google should allow their progressive ideas but also allow conservative view points so people can make up their own minds. Google becomes a thought police. Real learning involves looking a both sides and not just one.

https://www.prageru.com/videos/what-happens-when-google-disagrees-you

Black Friday

Black Friday has arrived
I understand the idea
We want an good deal

We need Biblical meaning
Not to worship objects
Modern idols could be the I-phone

We can use tablets for God
But are we strong enough
Not have anything over Him?

Remember we don't own money
The owner is the Lord
May we have self-control

Should we be consumers?
The world is all over it
But a higher calling for His people

Nothing wrong with having stuff
And enjoy your new boat
But remember the Boss Jesus

The Rock Music of all

The first words, I will love thee, O Lord, my strength, are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence call upon him. It is good for us to observe all the circumstances of a mercy which magnify the power of God and his goodness to us in it. David was a praying man, and God was found a prayer-hearing God. If we pray as he did, we shall speed as he did. God's manifestation of his presence is very fully described, ver. 7-15. Little appeared of man, but much of God, in these deliverances. It is not possible to apply to the history of the son of Jesse those awful, majestic, and stupendous words which are used through this description of the Divine manifestation. Every part of so solemn a scene of terrors tells us, a greater than David is here. God will not only deliver his people out of their troubles in due time, but he will bear them up under their troubles in the mean time. Can we meditate on ver. 18, without directing one thought to Gethsemane and Calvary? Can we forget that it was in the hour of Christ's deepest calamity, when Judas betrayed, when his friends forsook, when the multitude derided him, and the smiles of his Father's love were withheld, that the powers of darkness prevented him? The sorrows of death surrounded him, in his distress he prayed, Heb 5:7. God made the earth to shake and tremble, and the rocks to cleave, and brought him out, in his resurrection, because he delighted in him and in his undertaking.

Psalm 18:1-19
 I love you, Lord, my strength.

² The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
    my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,
    my shield  and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

³ I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,
    and I have been saved from my enemies.
⁴ The cords of death entangled me;
    the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
⁵ The cords of the grave coiled around me;
    the snares of death confronted me.

⁶ In my distress I called to the Lord;
    I cried to my God for help.
From his temple he heard my voice;
    my cry came before him, into his ears.
⁷ The earth trembled and quaked,
    and the foundations of the mountains shook;
    they trembled because he was angry.
⁸ Smoke rose from his nostrils;
    consuming fire came from his mouth,
    burning coals blazed out of it.
⁹ He parted the heavens and came down;
    dark clouds were under his feet.
¹⁰ He mounted the cherubim and flew;
    he soared on the wings of the wind.
¹¹ He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him—
    the dark rain clouds of the sky.
¹² Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced,
    with hailstones and bolts of lightning.
¹³ The Lord thundered from heaven;
    the voice of the Most High resounded.
¹⁴ He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy,
    with great bolts of lightning he routed them.
¹⁵ The valleys of the sea were exposed
    and the foundations of the earth laid bare
at your rebuke, Lord,
    at the blast of breath from your nostrils.

¹⁶ He reached down from on high and took hold of me;
    he drew me out of deep waters.
¹⁷ He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
    from my foes, who were too strong for me.
¹⁸ They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
    but the Lord was my support.
¹⁹ He brought me out into a spacious place;
    he rescued me because he delighted in me.

Let's talk about Thanksgiving, three words are food, football and oppression?

Let's talk about Thanksgiving, the three words are food, football and oppression? That is what Thanksgiving means to many Americans today.
Seattle Public Schools made a big wave when they said about Thanksgiving, "As a time of mourning and a bitter time of 500 years of betray."
This narrative describes the pilgrims as people that ran-away from being picked on to people that picked on the Indians that lived in the United States at time. That narrative describes the pilgrims depraved the Indians of their lives and land.
This is wrong on every account. Firstly, the pilgrims didn't flea from Europe for religious persecution because they were living in Holland for over 10 years there. Holland was nice to the pilgrims.
The pilgrims adults were afraid that their children would be influenced by the culture of Holland that worshiped materials.
In the year of 1620, they were not running from oppression but they wanted a better culture.
Their mission was for holiness, the idea of fulfilling a fateful mission to build an ideal Christian commonwealth.
They were going to build this commonwealth in 1620 on a island called Manhattan. The issue was the weather so they were blown into a place called Massachusetts.
The pilgrims viewed their voyage as an a demonstrative of Providential Power. They thought this because a scout team on a little boat was picked by a wave and placed on the shore safely.
The land was a great place where no one lived there, a cleared land, a lot of corn and fresh water.
The pilgrims didn't mistreat the Indians but wanted to pay the Indians for the corn that they used but they could not find any Indians to pay.
The Indians there were dying out because of an disease that was killing them before the pilgrims land there.
I will fast forward this history. There were one Indian that was from there and he helped the pilgrims to survive their new place.
The Indian name was called Squanto, he spoke English and he had accepted Jesus in his heart.
He was living at that land before but a heartless Spanish man kidnapped Squanto and took him back to Spain.
He was freed after four years because of monks then he went to England then he went back to his homeland to find that his friend were dead.
Squanto helped the pilgrims get corn and a good trade deal with the most important Indian's chief.
William Bradford called Squanto this, "A special instrument sent of God for their good."
The first Thanksgiving celebration took three days and this was a copy cat of the Jewish feast called the feast of Tabernacle. 
Ninety hungry Indians joined the fifty-three surviving Indians for a feast.
The Englishmen provided corn, fish and turkey. The Indians brought five recently killed deer.
The sport of choice was not football but shooting. The Englishmen and Indians had a love of shooting games.
The pilgrims never built Plymouth as an major colonial. Massachusetts Bay were growing so fast, the people of Plymouth moved to Massachusetts Bay in 1691.
What the pilgrims did was to put this in the mind of the future generation.
They believed the unshakeable confidence that Jesus protected them.
Not to grant special privileges but to impose special responsibility. They saw themselves as instruments and not authors of a mysterious master plan.   
The pilgrims knew that a person can gain more by being thankful instead of guilt.

https://www.prageru.com/videos/whats-truth-about-first-thanksgiving
       

End all be all

Once lived a man
A bunch of people liked him
He had everything

He was very handsome
So he was giving privileged
So he had many choices

He was very intelligent
He was very good in sports
So praise was heaped on him

He was the star quarterback
He dated the best looking women
He had a perfect GPA

Colleges wanted him
He had a scholarship
He went to Bama

He was a road scholar
He lead his team winning
A four time champion

He was drafted by the NFL
He signed the biggest connect
Great was he

He had women had women hanging of  him
He feel in love with a model
Then he married her

He was given a few kids
He loved children
Blessed his life

But he was missing the big piece
What he trusted was going away
So he awoke with fear

He lost his wife to death
Soon after death to his children
Then he lost his health

A year later on his death bed
Vanity written in his life
He forgotten the Lord

He asked the Lord to saved Him
Jesus heard his prayer
That was great

The moral of the story
It is great to know the Lord
But vanity is life without Him

Look at me, Lord

This Psalm is termed a prayer because the language of petition is predominant. With a just cause, sincerely presented, the writer prays for a just decision and help and protection. Pleading former mercies as a ground of hope, he urges his prayer in view of the malice, pride, rapacity, and selfishness of his foes, whose character is contrasted with his pious devotion and delight in God's favor.

Psalm 17

 Hear me, Lord, my plea is just;
    listen to my cry.
Hear my prayer—
    it does not rise from deceitful lips.
² Let my vindication come from you;
    may your eyes see what is right.

³ Though you probe my heart,
    though you examine me at night and test me,
you will find that I have planned no evil;
    my mouth has not transgressed.
⁴ Though people tried to bribe me,
    I have kept myself from the ways of the violent
    through what your lips have commanded.
⁵ My steps have held to your paths;
    my feet have not stumbled.

⁶ I call on you, my God, for you will answer me;
    turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.
⁷ Show me the wonders of your great love,
    you who save by your right hand
    those who take refuge in you from their foes.
⁸ Keep me as the apple of your eye;
    hide me in the shadow of your wings
⁹ from the wicked who are out to destroy me,
    from my mortal enemies who surround me.

¹⁰ They close up their callous hearts,
    and their mouths speak with arrogance.
¹¹ They have tracked me down, they now surround me,
    with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.
¹² They are like a lion hungry for prey,
    like a fierce lion crouching in cover.

¹³ Rise up, Lord, confront them, bring them down;
    with your sword rescue me from the wicked.
¹⁴ By your hand save me from such people, Lord,
    from those of this world whose reward is in this life.
May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;
    may their children gorge themselves on it,
    and may there be leftovers for their little ones.

¹⁵ As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face;
    when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kybG_NsLDDw 

Gender Identity: What is the confusion?

It's okay for a man to hit a woman. A mixed-martial club allowed when it allowed Fallon Fox, a biological male, to fight as a woman because he identifies as one.
The consequence of this decision? He fight a woman and he hurt her so bad that she had to go to the ER room. There were major damaged to hurt woman and she said, "I never felt so overpowered before." The interesting thing is that the man that identify as a female knockout a trained woman fighter.
A couple decades ago, if a man hit a woman so hard that she went to the ER, he would have been sent to jail. Today the culture will allow a man to get paid for it. If he says that he is a woman.
The culture will tell students and everyone else that males and females are the same.
This idea has people begin to think that men and women are not born men or women.
The culture will push the idea that they are whatever gender they say are.
Facebook has 50 types of genders to pick from. Here is a quiz? What is a Demi-boy?
I don't know either.
The idea that gender-identification is now a personal sounding choice might sound enlightened to some, but it's actually a very anti-scientific view of the essential fact of life.
Man and woman based on science are different. Their brains are different. Their hormones are different.  Their chromosomes are different. Here is the most obvious one, their bodes are different.
No amount of peer-reviews papers from gender studies can change this.
But this will not stop the progressives elites from the colleges, media, many of the biggest companies down to the high schools and elementary schools.
The result will be this. Women will pay an especially high price. The argument that men and women are the same will hurt women because everything will be based on a man standard or to be more of a woman, she has to be more of a man. She will need the desire to have causal sex like a man.
She will serve in the combat like a man. She will to purse a career like a man as a single-minded towards that career. There are exceptions.  But most women are not seeking or wanting causal sex, don't have the physical strength of men and don't share the priority to work as men do.
It is interesting that now science is telling as that men and women are different.
Your grandma is right when she preached that men and women are different and science confirms that now.
The sad thing that there is no room for science for stores like Target and Toy'R'Us because toys are not in sections of boys and girls but one. Or many school districts can't call the little ones boys or girls but students. There are big movements to make everything co-ed in colleges like the dorms or bathrooms. For the people that struggle with transgenderism, we should not mock them and help them because people are trapped in all types of sin.
The culture will fire you, if you use the wrong pronoun. There is a chance that you will be in court if you use a wrong pronoun. In combat sports, it can lead to woman getting beat up by a man.
Apparently, this is a small price to pay in a world where we must all genuflect to political correctness.
Going back to the woman that got hurt by a man that identify as a woman, she knew that she had to be politically correct. She craved into the fear of the culture and she said, "I can't answer it's because she was born a man because I am not a doctor." Everyone knows the difference from within.
The magazine called Vice Magazine had no heart towards to beaten women because Vice said, "biology sex is not black or white." But in virtually every instance, it is.
The longer we allow the obvious to go unstated and undefended, the worst it will be. For boys and girls and men and women.
The sexes are different. We said marvel at it and enjoy it. Men can learn from women and women can learn from men because of their unique mind sets.
I don't have a mind of a woman and never will but I ask my friends that are women and many times, they will have an amazing view point that as a male, I would never come up with.

https://www.prageru.com/courses/political-science/gender-identity-why-all-confusion    


  

Fear of man

Do we have fear of man?
We see a tear and ran away
Because of a Snap that may

The Holy Spirit is true
But you love the praise of people
So you ignore the Lord

I would love to say that
I am never a man pleaser but
That is a lie, my friend

The polls goes against the law of God
But the church remains silent
Pastors are afraid of the truth

Pastors want money and numbers
They have sugar Christianity
Which is pointless so they should quit

Many church goers are shallow
They go to the place
And then forget God's Word

We wonder why the country is fallen
God's people are fearing man
And not the Lord Jesus

Many churches want to be cool
If cool means you deny the Bible
Then that is garbage

Yeah I say it again
Garbage is the word of the day
Not set apart for the Lord

Lord, please wake me
Lord wake up your church
Before it gets worst

Money can't buy me peace

I will look at the concept of peace and God. Psalm 16 helps understands how to have peace.
The world thinks that if they have money then peace will happen.
When a person trust in the Lord even if they have no money, there will be peace.
Psalm 16:1 says, "Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge."
I will keep on going on Psalm 16:2. The verse says, "I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.”
You will have an enriched life when you know that you are a sinner because if a person think that they are good people then they will refuse the Lord. Do you think that you are good people then you will not grow in the Lord or accept him.
The noble people of the culture should be the people that honor the Lord and not the sport's stars.
Psalm 16:3 says, "I say of the holy people who are in the land,  “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”
The sad news that some people will refuse to follow the Lord and sell their soul for money and fame.
We can look up to these people but we should not. The people of the world should have value from the Lord and not the culture. The pop culture will be off-centered.
Psalm 16:4 says, " Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more. I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods or take up their names on my lips."
The problem in the United States is that people don't trust in the Lord but in the money and houses.
There is nothing wrong with things but the Lord is always there but money and houses can be taken away.
Psalm 16:5 says, "Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup;  you make my lot secure."
I have an confession about my life.  I don't know the future but when I walk with the Lord, my life will not be perfect but my soul is at rest. It is like God knows better me.
Psalm 16:6 says, "The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance."
I will be lost in this world because there are bad information in the schools, podcast and news.
The Word of God is always true and will never lead me astray.
Psalm 16:7 says, "I will praise the Lord, who counsels me,  even at night my heart instructs me."
The culture will always have wars and people will follow the bad sheep but they will lead you into a bad place. The true hero is Jesus. Jesus will never let you down with the honest truth.
Psalm 16:8 says, "I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken."
I went to a retirement plan meeting at my work. The guys gave good advice but they refuse to guarantee about their investing ideas.
The Lord will be steady and will lead you right. If you put your trust in the Lord then God will provide for your soul and body. Everyone will die and if a person have faith in Jesus then eternal life  awaits for that person.
Psalm 16:9-11 says, "Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure,  because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay.  You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8jLpv-iKyA 

The truth about DACA

I am an honest person that speaks from an honest reply. There is a big topic and it is about DACA.
Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals is  DACA but we will use DACA because it is shorter.
The media is going crazy about this topic. I will write about this topic.
Obama implemented the program in  2012 for some people that illegally entered the country.
People will go off emotions but we must look at the laws and do things legal for a strong country.
This act was unconstitutional (against the law) and Obama admitted it was illegal.
This is not constitutional but an executive order.  For DACA to be put into place, it has to be passed by the Congress which it was not.
Obama pushed it thru a executive order that  would be shut down by the Supreme Court.
Trump just stopped the action of DACA and has been given to the Congress six months to fix DACA if they want to keep it.
With politics, one side will call the legal citizens "racists" and "Nazis" and have the illegal citizens be considered "dreamers". The other side wants want to keep the borders safe and have a process that will allow people to be part of the United States but this process will take some time. They believe that they need to check out the people. Like a employer looking to hire an employee.
We live in a fallen world that many people want perfection. There are bad people and countries, families and business needs to protect themselves.
If we don't pay attention to the law then why do we have laws? It seems unfair to some but there is no "safe zones" in life. We must rely on the Lord and not the government.

Fake news

People wonder who to trust
Spin all over the net
Snapchat stories are not always true

It seems misinformation is spreading
Many for the trap of this snare
I need a more reliable source

Lord, I will get Your Bible app
I will lean on every word
No fake news are here

The machine is making up rumors
I refuse to buy the fraud of today
I need to see the original so I do this

Lord, I will get  Your Bible app
I will lean on every word
No fake news are here

The society has no backbone
So they fall for everything
May I not be one of them

Lord, I will get Your Bible app
I will lean on every word
No fake news are here

Your Holy Spirit is helping me to see
Without Your Truth then I would be lost

Lord, I will get Your Bible app
I will lean on every word
No fake news are here

Want a fair place, listen to Him

The way to heaven, if we would be happy, we must be holy. We are encouraged to walk in that way. - Here is a very serious question concerning the character of a citizen of Zion. It is the happiness of glorified saints, that they dwell in the holy hill; they are at home there, they shall be for ever there. It concerns us to make it sure to ourselves that we have a place among them. A very plain and particular answer is here given. Those who desire to know their duty, will find the Scripture a very faithful director, and conscience a faithful monitor. A citizen of Zion is sincere in his religion. He is really what he professes to be, and endeavors to stand complete in all the will of God. He is just both to God and man; and, in speaking to both, speaks the truth in his heart. He scorns and abhors wrong and fraud; he cannot reckon that a good bargain, nor a saving one, which is made with a lie; and knows that he who wrongs his neighbor will prove, in the end, to have most injured himself. He is very careful to do hurt to no man. He speaks evil of no man, makes not others' faults the matter of his common talk; he makes the best of every body, and the worst of nobody. If an ill-natured story be told him, he will disprove it if he can; if not, it goes no further. He values men by their virtue and piety. Wicked people are vile people, worthless, and good for nothing; so the word signifies. He thinks the worse of no man's piety for his poverty and mean condition. He reckons that serious piety puts honor upon a man, more than wealth, or a great name. He honors such, desires their conversation and an interest in their prayers, is glad to show them respect, or do them a kindness. By this we may judge of ourselves in some measure. Even wise and good men may swear to their own hurt: but see how strong the obligation is, a man must rather suffer loss to himself and his family, than wrong his neighbor. He will not increase his estate by extortion, or by bribery. He will not, for any gain, or hope of it to himself, do any thing to hurt a righteous cause. Every true living member of the church, like the church itself, is built upon a Rock. He that does these things shall not be moved for ever. The grace of God shall always be sufficient for him. The union of these tempers and this conduct, can only spring from repentance for sin, faith in the Savior, and love to him. In these respects let us examine and prove our own selves.

Psalm 15

¹ Lord, who may dwell in your sacred tent?
    Who may live on your holy mountain?

² The one whose walk is blameless,
    who does what is righteous,
    who speaks the truth from their heart;
³ whose tongue utters no slander,
    who does no wrong to a neighbor,
    and casts no slur on others;
⁴ who despises a vile person
    but honors those who fear the Lord;
who keeps an oath even when it hurts,
    and does not change their mind;
⁵ who lends money to the poor without interest;
    who does not accept a bribe against the innocent.

Whoever does these things
    will never be shaken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd0RvAxnRZ4 

Why the South became Republican?

If we read history books that was written before changing history. The Democratic party was the party of slavery.  The Democratic party wanted slavery and the Republican party wanted blacks to be free.
The democrats were the Confederacy and the Republicans were the Union. Jim Crow's Democrats were in the South and tolerant Republicans were in the north. 
You have had that in the 1960's and 70's that everything flipped. A common thought is that the Republicans became the racists and the Democrats became the champs of the the civil rights.
The people on the left side of the political systems said that the Republicans could only won by appealing to the worst and the face of this idea according to the media was Nixon. This was called the Southern Strategy. It was very simply, winning the South by appealing to the racist.
Now according to the media, they forget that Lincoln freed the slaves and he was a Republican. Now the media labeled the Republicans that party of rednecks.
This story of the two party switching identities  is a myth. I will talk about the three myths that are trapped into this lie.
The first myth is in order to be competitive in the South in the South, Republicans began to pander to White Racists in the 1960's.
I will say a fact. Republicans were competitive in the South in the year of 1928 because Republican Herbert Hoover won over 47 percent of the South's popular vote against Al Smith who was an Democrat.
Here is another really cool fact. Republican Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 won the Southern States of Tennessee, Florida, and Virginia. In the year of 1956, he won the states of Louisiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia. And this was after he supported the ruling on Brown and Board of Education that desegregated public schools. And after he sent forces down in Arkansas to make schools have desegregated schools.
I will talk about myth number two. Southern Democrats angry with the Civil Rights movement in 1964  switched parties.     
Here is a fact. Only one of the Democrats switched parties that was in the South. They were either voted in or replace by other Democrats.
Those 20 other seats didn't go Republican til two and half decades.
Myth number three is since the implementation of the Southern Strategy, the Republican has controlled the South.   
Here is a fact. Richard Nixon was the man that was supposed to be the man behind the Southern Strategy lost the deep South in 1968.
In the year of 1976, Jimmy Carter swept the South in that election.And this was after the Civil Rights Act in 1964.
In 1992, Bill Clinton won the state that were Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee,  Kentucky and West Virginia.
The truth is that the Republicans didn't hold a majority of Southern Congressional seats until 1994.
This was 30 years after the Civil Right Acts.
Kevin Williamson of the National Review said, "If Southern Democrats redneck switched parties because of the act in 1964, it is strange that they waited until the late 1980's and early 1990's to do so.
They say that things moves slower in the South but not that slow."
Why does the South vote mostly Republican now? The South has changed and it values has changed.
The racism that defines it are going away. The value of the South now days are Pro-life, Pro-gun and small government. 
They are many white voter that voted for a black person, they voted for Sen. Tim Scott in South Carolina who is black over a white liberal.
History moves on like other regions of the country, the South votes values not skin color.
The myth of the Southern Strategy is a smoke in mirror method to save face for losing the South.
And to slander the Republicans to call them racists.
I used to brought it but I got smart.

https://www.prageru.com/courses/history/why-did-democratic-south-become-republican

Keeps on ticking

What keeps on ticking is time
We can't stop the next day
The aging process slows us down

Time makes women worried
Maybe it is the closing of the womb
Before having children

Time makes men worried
Maybe the idea of gray hair
Possible death around the corner

People are worried around the decay
This world will be no more
And there kingdom is only here

They say time is no friend
I disagree with that statement
But I still have regrets

Let me clarify my point if you may
God have given mankind free-will
I have not ran a perfect race

I missed chances so the perfect will didn't happen
But I can't cry over it
I must look forward and love Jesus

I may that you didn't buy that house
Now you can't buy it
Forget and learn from the past

We need to honor the Lord
Walk thru the doors needed
Life is tricky but God is cool

Perhaps something didn't happen
God was protecting you
So the time on earth would be better

The most important element
We have sinned
We need Jesus to forgive us

Are we good people?

I always hear in Podcast that we are good people. I used to think that mankind is good but then I realized that I was wrong. The Bible has convinced me that we are in deep trouble by ourselves without the Lord Jesus.
Psalm 14 explains the truth that many will refuse the truth and we are in this camp if we reject the Bible and Jesus.
When a person reads the first verse. It says, "The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good."
There are many people that are called fools in the Bible. They will promote that there is no God in science and in the public schools. They will then say that people are good but we steal from each other. Why do we lock our cars, if everyone is good? Have you ever thought you would never do something but you do it the next day?
I love verse two and three. They say, "The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind
to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one."
God looks down on this world and sees that mankind will not seek after Him without the Holy Spirit drawing that person.
Mankind has a sinful nature that will rebel against the Lord. I am breaking the myth of the good person.
Mankind kills people all the time and we can be murders in the right case.

I love verse four to six. They say, "Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on the Lord.  But there they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is present in the company of the righteous. You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor, but the Lord is their refuge."

There are people that hate the ideas of God and will do what they think is right. They will target Christians and the Jews because they hate God. They don't want any part of the Lord.

The good news is that God watches over His people and He is drawing all the Jews to Jesus.

In many countries, the Muslims will hurt and damage the Christian and the ghetto are full of Christians. The good news is that God is watching over them.

I will finish with verse seven. It says, "Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!"

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8SPwT3nQZ8

If you hate poverty, you should love capitalism

We all hear people complain about capitalism and they will use the words, "Capitalism is all about greed." That person may have I am the 99% t-shirt.
I will share some facts to that person and anyone who wants to listen.
The percentage of people that are living in a global poverty rate has gone done 80% since 1970.
Before the year of 1970, one in every four people were living on a dollar per day.
If you want some really fact, there are one in every twenty people that live on a dollar a day.
This is a great achievement in mankind. How did this happened.
Do you think that the United Nations had a great policy? Was it the great amount of money in US Aid to other countries? Did it came from the International Monetary Fund? The World Bank?
Did it came from Stimulus Spending? Or maybe a popular idea like Governmental Retribution?
They are all great guesses but they are all wrong. It was capitalism.
Billions of people have got out of poverty because of capitalism.
I will have a list of five items. They are Globalization, Free Trade, Property Rights, the Rule of Law and Entrepreneurship.
Globalization is the ever-increasing ability to move goods, people, and ideas from one distant land to another.
Free Trade open access to market and people from all over the world.
Property Rights ensuring that what belongs to you can't be taken away from the government.
The Rule of Law safeguards contracts assuring they will be respected and live up to whether if you live in Mexico or Europe.
Entrepreneurship the creativity of free people to dream up new products to improve people lives.
If you read history, East Asia accepted these ideas after World War Two. It is because United States Global Diplomatic and Military presence.
The ideals of Free Enterprise and global leadership, central to Capitalism and American Conservatism.  These ideas are the reason that people are living better.
The United States has blessed many people and nations.
If these American Conservative Ideas has done so well, why do the ideas are not growing in the younger generation, people of every countries, minorities, people that want to help the poor?
The person from another country can say, "Unleash the power." The person that wants to help the poor can say, "on behalf of the weak."
The true story is that Capitalism  is not picking up new followers. Many people think that Capitalism will fade in the United States like it has in Europe.
Harvard study has said that the people that are 18-29 has a 40% favorable view on Capitalism.
What explains the great gap between the great results of Capitalism and it popularity?
Why does Capitalism have became a "curse word"?
The defender of Capitalism has done a bad job explaining the greatness of this idea so the younger generation don't know the whole story. They don't share that it has saved many people from not dying from not having food.
There is an survey that 84% of the people in the United States don't know that fact of the great progress that Capitalism has done to help the world.
Two thirds have a thought that it has gotten worst and that is not true.
If you compare the results from Capitalism to Communism or Socialism, Capitalism has done better. 
We need a system that works while we are sleeping, foundation of human prosperity.
More Capitalism means more growth.
If you want to help the poor, promote Capitalism.
https://www.prageru.com/courses/economics/if-you-hate-poverty-you-should-love-capitalism
 
   

Can we trust the heart

I always hear, "trust your heart"
Can we burst into life?
If we bury not our desires?

I will be honest, my friend
I followed my heart
Then I did a shameful thing

Many of men believed they are good
They say love your wife
Then they cheated on her

Many women say they are honest
Business came around
They compromised their value

Have you said this will not happen?
Then you do the dreadful thing
So your heart is really good?

Hitler thought he did right
When he killed many of the Jews
So we all can be Hitler if not careful 

What can we trust and follow?
Mankind will deceive each other by heart
The Lord can purify that place

There is no truth outside of Bible and God
We must align our lives to Jesus
Then greatness will occur

If we exclude Jesus then bad
Bad things will happen
Do you do this in your life?

Feeling that you are forgotten?

Have you felt that you are pointless and the world is walking on you? I have felt this way and you will read about the feeling that King David had. You can relate but we need to follow his path to the right direction.
Psalm 13 is for you, for all the people that feel distant and the politicians will not help you.
King David felt all alone so he want a song to the Lord and this could be the best song that ever been written.
Verse one says, "How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?"
David was living in a time when the Lord felt all alone. He was anointed king of Israel but the current king of that time was going to kill him so he felt like a wanted man. There are times when it seems the world will kill you and that God is near. God is always faithful and emotions can lie so if you feel this way, cry out to God.
Verse two says, "How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?"
David fought against sorrow in his heart. Life doesn't always seem fair and God want us to be honest. David was East Coast honest. God is big enough to handle our emotions. Tell God your sad emotions and there is the beginning of healing. 
It seemed that the people that wanted to kill was winning. Christians that live in a Muslim controlled or Buddhist controlled countries can be treated with a harsh hand and feel alone. They face death many times.
Even in the United States, the culture will attack Bible believing people and it is a cool thing to do.    
There are times when people of faith have been put in the list of terrorist before.
It is always seems that the people that hate faith in Jesus will always win.
Verse three and four says, "Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,  and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall."
King David was at the end of the struggle with the possibility of death.  He realized that God was his only hope. God allows hard times so we can know that God is our only deliverance. 
Many people wanted King David to be dead.
There are groups that want to kill all the Christians in the Middle East. There are groups in India that want Christians to be killed. There are groups in the United States that want the church to be ended because they took a stand on gay marriage. They planted people in the churches so they could have the IRS tax exemption taken away and the media slanders the church all the time.
Verse five says, "But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation."
David knew that God was real and the he would be safe because he in the Lord's hand. We must know that, too.
In the end of the day, no matter if the government, group and other entity are after a person of faith. The truth is God will protect the person of faith.
Verse six says, "I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me."
King David was feeling good, again. The secret is that he took his emotions to God and he was happy again.
I have learned this from my friends that needs to talk about something a couple days then after all the talking, the issue will be better.
We need a good friend to talk to and God is our best friend.
Do you know the Lord? Talk to Him. 
If you don't like the Bible or God then see that God is good. We all need Jesus and I pray that you will realize that someday.
Have a good day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvPBFdZVasI 

Taxes are killing small business

No matter where you come from. What your job is or where you stand in politics, you have to pay taxes.
The government needs taxes to pay for schools, firefighters, and the military.
There are many types of taxes like income taxes, payroll taxes, and sales taxes. Individuals will pay taxes but companies pay taxes, too. Companies pay income taxes, too.
Corporation pays the US Corporation tax rate which is 35 percent. The highest in the developed world.
Ireland and Switzerland pays under 25 percent Corporation tax rates. This helps a competitive advantage.
There is another tax group that we are forgetting. We need to include small businesses.
There are 29 million in the United States and they employ 56 million people. They are 85 million people that depend on small businesses.
Small business are set up in sole proprietorship, partnerships or S-Corp.
Their taxes are not taxed at the Corporate rate but individual income to the owner that is why you might hear them called as "pass-throughs."
The small business can pay up to 40 percent in taxes and this does not include sales taxes and local taxes.
Small business are getting taxed higher than the big companies. Small business are getting taxed more in the United States more than any developed country in the world.
Why should you care?
High taxes hurt some business to grow and expand. They are forced to raise prices and maybe to trim jobs to remain in their budgets.
If someday that taxes are lowered for small business, growth of small businesses which helps with more jobs and boost the economy.
Here is an interesting fact, 2/3 of new jobs come from small business.
Lowering taxes can have a big effect on the economy for all Americans.
The next time, you hear about someone that want increase tax rates on businesses. Remember the small business that will be affect with the 85 million people that depend on these small businesses.

https://www.prageru.com/courses/economics/taxes-are-killing-small-businesses

  

I was voting

Voting time is here
We have chance to raise taxes
And it made me think

Jesus said we need to be faithful in small things
If we are good in the small then we will be large
But the government is the king of waste

People want an promotion at their job
But they will not work hard
They fail to understand Jesus

People want good friendships
But they are a one way street
And they are all alone

We vote in life by our actions
If we don't do the little things
Don't expect the big things

The culture is becoming lazy
We need to get uncomfortable
And rely on God for strength

He will guide us and we look to Him
Faithfulness comes from following Jesus
I hope my country will learn this

People are not good so we need to rely on this

There are governmental programs that are start up to help people but they really don't help anyone.
It seems that today that people are more concerned with their image and not others.
More people don't trust each other. I will examine what people should rely on.
I will look at Psalm 12.
Let's look at the first verse. It says, "Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race."
I have said this lately to my Lord when I pray. It seems that people are in love with their sins and forget other people. I don't think that anyone is really faithful because sin will limit you as a person.
The cultures have increased in sinning so the culture is in lack and I am including the people that are supposing following the Lord Jesus.
I will look at the second verse. It says, "Everyone lies to their neighbor; they flatter with their lips but harbor deception in their hearts." 
The world is in a post-Christian world so truth are just nice words that mean nothing. We say things to make people happy but we don't back it up.  We say that we love but we have no foundation.
We say that we love truth and we allow people to be happy. We really don't believe that in the world and in the church. The church don't make a stand on marriage between a man and woman alone.
The church don't make a stand on the issue on men in women locker room because they fear the culture. The church don't really believe the Bible so they will water it down.
I will examine verses three and four. They say, "May the Lord silence all flattering lips and every boastful tongue—those who say, 'By our tongues we will prevail; our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”
The Lord will bring down the prideful thought of mankind and He is not playing around. If a person is pushing something that goes against the Bible, God will judge that person.  That person may not he will be trouble but he will be in trouble after he dies. That person needs to get right with Jesus.
I will save you heartache, give up sin and follow the Lord.
I will examine verse five. It says, "Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord.  “I will protect them from those who malign them.”
The poor are mistreated by the governments in the world including in the United States and the needy are not getting the true help in this world. God will do the best job and we must keep on praying for a movement of God and not works from secular governments. 
It will examine verse six. It says, "And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver purified in a crucible, like gold refined seven times."
People will listen to many podcasts and really don't know what is true. You can go on Youtube and get really confuse. If you go to the Bible, there is truth. We can grow as a person and culture if we embrace the Jesus and the Bible.
I will examine verses 7-8. They say, "You, Lord, will keep the needy safe and will protect us forever from the wicked, who freely strut about when what is vile is honored by the human race."
The Lord will keep the needy safe because he loves. There are people that think the baby in the womb are just a blob. That is not true. He loves the unborn. He looks over the needy in the womb. 
God will judge the people and group that promote abortion.  People brag now but they will cry when they will see God face to face. But I have good news. We can turn from our sins and go to Jesus. He loves you but He is fair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5gcX3sIoUs

Government can't fix healthcare

Why is the government so bad at healthcare? They had worked on it for 75 years and so don't know what they are doing. The care is expensive and the access is okay. It is also made in bureaucracy. It has a lot of waste within the system. Then Obamacare was supposed to fixed all the issues. The sad news is that healthcare didn't get better. Why?
The government is a third party payer. Let say a person will buy something. The person will look at price and quality. A person wants the highest quality with the lowest price. If a person looks for a tablet then only the person buying knows what they want so there a competitive market for the person's money.
The first party purchase  is this research then choice. The person paying is the person using.
If someone is paying for someone else. The person buying wants a good price but the quality may not as good. It could be a wedding a gift. A person could say, "By the time it breaks, they will forget who give it to them." This person wanted a good price but will not use the product so it could be lackluster.
We can use something but not going to pay for it. This is called second party purchases.
 The person paying is not  the person using.
If you are not paying for it or using it then you are not concerned about the price or quality.
Let's say that your boss gives you 200 bucks for a prize. You buy a 8 foot frog for the winner at the party.
And everyone laughs at the prize. This is called a third party purchase.
A purchase with money that's not yours to buy something that you will not use.
All government purchases are third party purchases.  The government will spend other people money that they will not consume. The government does not care about the price or quality.
There will always be waste in governmental spending.  President Lincoln said, "Government should do only those things that a man can't do better for  himself."
If 300 million people in the United States were able to buy health insurance like life insurance, then the companies will offer a little more coverage for a little less cost.
The healthcare field would be working to get people money so the quality would improved and the cost would go down.
The lazer eye surgery used to 2,000 dollars and now it cost 500 dollars. That's the way free enterprise competition works every time.  
When the government get involved in the healthcare. Cost goes up and waste and fraud increases.
Some services will be denied or unavailable. This what happens within governmental healthcare programs within this world.   When healthcare becomes a first person payer then they will get the healthcare that they want.
https://www.prageru.com/courses/economics/government-cant-fix-healthcare

Over the top

Love brings it over the top
I have been reborn
So my light will be known

A man on piece of wood
That changed my life
I desire to befriend like Him

I like to make treats and cook
For people to show love to everyone
It shows the heart

Jesus prepares better food
Better than me because He
Will bring true peace and joy

I like to listen to people
If they have issue I am there
It makes me sad when I can't help

Jesus is all powerful the Lord
He will heal a broken heart
Why I came to Him

I have my limitations
I will fail everyone
I don't try but it will happen

Jesus will never fail you
Put your all in the relationship
He is the Show Stopper

Where to go when we are in trouble

I love the book of Psalms because it shows the heart of God. I think it is beautiful when a man writes a love poem or song to his wife. David wrote from his heart to God. David was a great writer and the Holy Spirit led him to write Psalm 11.
I love the first verse of this Psalm. It reads, "In the Lord I take refuge." I want to be a friend to people and I can go over the top but the Lord will do ever more than I could.
The second part of verse one to three talks about the people that are against the Bible and God and they will attack the work of God. It could be even people that really don't care about God.
It seems that the people that hate God and the people that are indifferent with God are winning and it causes many believers to be sad. I try to encourage them but it seems that I am losing the battle. 
These words are strong. Psalm 11:1-3 says, "How then can you say to me: 'Flee like a bird to your mountain. For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings
to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart. When the foundations are being destroyed,  what can the righteous do?”
I have great news. I may fail to bring justice in this world but God will never fail. 
Psalm 11:4 says, "The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord is on his heavenly throne.
He observes everyone on earth; his eyes examine them."
God is still in control. People can use words and do their best but put your faith in Jesus.
Remember that God is in control.
People think that they can do all the sin but God will see all their sins. That person is making a grave to hell if they don't repent. The Lord will guide a believer that belongs to him.
Psalm 11:5-6 says, "The Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion. On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot."
The person that have accepted Jesus and the person that rejects Jesus, all want justice. The justice that will be served will be based on the God of the Bible. The wicked will get justice when they are judged by God and the people that trusted Jesus will be rewarded.
God wants the wicked to know him so he is kind to them so a person needs to trample on God to go to hell.
Psalm 11:7 says, "For the Lord is righteous, he loves justice; the upright will see his face."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxJTY733E6M 

The greatest President ever JFK? Was he a Democrat?

This guy was one of the most popular presidents ever, he was handsome. He was a war hero and he believed that the United States needed a strong military was needed for peace in the world.
He believed that cutting taxes were the best way to grow the economy of the United States.
He opposed racial quotas and he hated unrestricted abortion.
Do you know his name? And he was not a Republican.  His name was John F. Kennedy.
When he was running for office in 1960, he was a mainstream Democrat.
The name of Kennedy is beloved in the Democrat party but Democrats hates his political positions.
Ronald Regan was the 40th President of the United States was a Democrat most of his life.
He said, "I didn't leave the Democratic Party but the party left me."
If Kennedy was alive now, what party would be Kennedy? Would he still be a Democrat?
JFK hated the idea of using racial preference and quotas so he would be against the current Democrats now. Affirmative Action is very Democratic. Kennedy that this idea was counter-productive.
He would say this about Affirmative Action and he would not like it. He said, "I don't think we can undo the past now. We have to the best we can now."
He said, "I don't think quotas are a good idea, we are too mixed, this society of ours to begin divide ourselves on the base of race or color."
Kennedy was a fan of across the board tax-cuts. He thought people should keep their money and not give to the government. He thought even the rich people should keep their money.
He said, "A tax cut means higher family  income and higher business profit."
With the idea that Kennedy had, families would have more money for themselves to provide for their families.
He believe that business that were not taxed as much would grow better. He thought too many taxes on business would hurt growth.
Russia built a weapon plant in Cuba, he was going to use military. The Cuban Missile Crisis happened and Russia backed down.
Reagan and Kennedy believed in peace with strength and not strength with peace.
He said this, "Only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt that they never be employed."
Kennedy believed that people should have gun rights. He was a member of the IRA and he was a Democrat. He wanted people to have guns.
Kennedy was against abortion.  He picked a pro-life judge on the Supreme Court that didn't want Roe vs. Wade. The judge name was Byron Rehnquist. He opposed the idea in Japan that promoted Abortion to control the population.
He said, "On the question of limiting population: As you know, the Japanese have been doing it very vigorously, though abortion which I think would be repugnant to all Americans."
If Kennedy the greatest Democratic President lived today, he would be a conservative.

https://www.prageru.com/courses/political-science/jfk-democrat-or-republican
  

Hope for the hopeless

I love Psalm 10 because I feel this way many times towards God.
I love verse one. It seems that when we enter hard times that God is not near but He is. We must seek the Lord and God will honor us.
I love verses two to four. There are many famous and non-famous people that reject God and promote sin. They will accept everything but truth. We have a hole in our lives that only God will fill but they refuse the truth.
I love verse five to eleven because many people will think that God is not real and do many evil things. This is from Hitler to you or the person next to you.
We need to know God will judge you and me and He is kind but we must submit to Him.
If a person don't have Jesus then they don't have the Holy Spirit. That person will do little and big bad activities in their hearts and actions.
I don't want to make all the believers that everything is for nothing because there is a next life where God will rule and punish all the sins of this world.
I love verses twelve to fifteen because it gives me hope. The world will never focus on the millions or billion of Christians in Africa that is being killed by Muslims, but God see the act of the followers and will hear them.
The last three verses should give hope for you and me. God is in control. God look after the fatherless. I am living proof. I did have a dad but he was never there for me. God was reaching out to me and I heard His call. God hears the oppressed and He will give them peace. This world shows that we are weak and we need to follow the Lord Jesus.

Psalm 10

  

¹ Why, Lord, do you stand far off?
    Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

² In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,
    who are caught in the schemes he devises.
³ He boasts about the cravings of his heart;
    he blesses the greedy and reviles the Lord.
⁴ In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
    in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
⁵ His ways are always prosperous;
    your laws are rejected by  him;
    he sneers at all his enemies.
⁶ He says to himself, “Nothing will ever shake me.”
    He swears, “No one will ever do me harm.”

⁷ His mouth is full of lies and threats;
    trouble and evil are under his tongue.
⁸ He lies in wait near the villages;
    from ambush he murders the innocent.
His eyes watch in secret for his victims;
⁹     like a lion in cover he lies in wait.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless;
    he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
¹⁰ His victims are crushed, they collapse;
    they fall under his strength.
¹¹ He says to himself, “God will never notice;
    he covers his face and never sees.”

¹² Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God.
    Do not forget the helpless.
¹³ Why does the wicked man revile God?
    Why does he say to himself,
    “He won’t call me to account”?
¹⁴ But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted;
    you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;
    you are the helper of the fatherless.
¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked man;
    call the evildoer to account for his wickedness
    that would not otherwise be found out.

¹⁶ The Lord is King for ever and ever;
    the nations will perish from his land.
¹⁷ You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted;
    you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
¹⁸ defending the fatherless and the oppressed,
    so that mere earthly mortals
    will never again strike terror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHlkRcZqz7A