What do you do?? The answer is simple ...you do the same thing as you'd do if you have a leaky pipe.

You find someone who knows how to fix it ...

You take your car in and you pay a couple thousand dollars to get it fixed ...and you trust that it is fixed.

You make a decent income as a nurse ...but you are a single mom.  And a couple thousand is not small change.  And it had been a rough year ...but, at this point you feel at least you are driving a safe car.

You are driving to your mom's house to pick up your little girl ...when your car malfunctions again.  An accident follows, and you are badly injured.  You are rushed to a hospital, and hear them whispering that they doubt you will make it.

Your condition is critical for several days, but then they see enough improvement to have some hope that you will make it.

But, you also hear that you are being charged with manslaughter ...as the person in the other car doesn't make it out of intensive care.

It is all over the news that there is a recall for the year and make of your vehicle ...stating that it could cause a dangerous or even fatal malfunction, but you are still charged with manslaughter.

Everyone who owns that year and make of vehicle schedules to bring their car in ...because they want their car fixed.

If something is not fixed ...it can continue to happen. Some people may want to fix it right away ...while others may not be as concerned, until it negatively affects them personally.

Two main things should not happen:

• The single Mom should not say, "It was over two months ago that my car killed that other person ...what does it matter now!!"
• We should not say, "It's not important to fix the problem ...Que Sera Sera, Whatever will be, will be!!"

Our government needs to be fixed

And our government should insist on working to fix things.

But, the problem is ...they often do insist on fixing things that are neither broken, or they have an uncanny flare to make things even worse.

What we need to do is:

• Not change the framework of our Constitution, but preserve it.
• Not target civil people for voicing their opinion, but value valid arguments over mere name-calling.
• Not encourage exaggerated fears, such as Global Warming.

You may be getting tired of me talking about Global Warming, yet I must say, I tired of it long ago when everyone else seemed to be getting on the bandwagon ...so, now it's time for the band to play a more insightful tune.

I believe Global Warming is an excellent example of stated inaccuracies combining with simulated videos of all of New York City under several feet of water.  The fear was so lodged in the brains of so many ...that the then associated fear was easily transmitted to a different term, called Climate Change.

Can any of you proponents of the original group tell me what we should now fear with Climate Change??

The truth is, you don't have to.

Those images of the tides washing up on shore ...washed the brain, or brainwashed to the point where no one needs to explain the fear.  They've embraced it ...without definition.

I guess, if we were born yesterday, we could fear the seasons.  If we do ever reach summer this year, we are doomed because of a forecast fall.  And in truth, I sometimes wonder after that, where the flakes come from.

Yes, even in most areas of Michigan the snow is gone, but I still hear reports nationally of people calling the emergency number --911, reporting they ordered pizza and got the wrong ingredients. And another called the number asking where they could find some 'pot'. Maybe we can attribute that to Climate Change ...and sometimes I wonder if we can weather much more of that sort of stuff.

Speaking of the climate of our attitudes, I know that slavery was not the only reason why we fought the Civil War, but it was the most legitimate reason as I see it.  Yet, a good law doesn't readily get accepted by all ...and often the war goes on in the minds of stubborn people who refuse to free it from within themselves.

And women's suffrage was to grant each woman her right to vote ...yet, we blindly stand to replace it with an age of suffering, all in the name of women's rights.

What we read about or hear on the news of what's happening in Nigeria, has been happening for a long time in many other nations ...and the horror of it should never be lessened by any lax media coverage of it.

A nation that promotes abortion, like ours, somehow finds it difficult to argue women's rights globally ...when the honor and dignity of all life is compromised daily by the thousands.

To stand for the rights and dignity of anyone ...we must stand for all.  

Does this mean we should compromise one right for another, and throw out all principles and standards that make for better society??

Of course, there is much difference in opinion concerning what makes better society.

Would we want to return to men exercising the practice of marrying  several women ...and would we also throw out any standard for the expected age of those women ---or girls??

To change government, we would also need to have an accurate view on how it has been running. The fact is, we most often don't.

There are things reported on the news, but we don't always know what is the real story.  We often have to piece it together ourselves ...to make sense of it.  Some of the theories we come up with are rather accurate, and others are fueled by what often are called conspiracy theories.

At times there is an agenda ...not wanting us to know the truth. And the closer to the truth we get, the more the claim is that it's just a conspiracy and we should dismiss it.

Often we like to dream up our own stories, and we create these theories.

So, what has been established so far??

We dream up stories ...and the government makes up stories.  So where do we go from there?  What story do we believe??

• Robert Dinwiddie (be careful to not mispronounce) was a British colonial administrator who served as lieutenant governor of colonial Virginia.  The Ohio company, of which he was a stockholder, had growing interest in the area ...yet, the French had longer standing and more established settlements, and got along well with the native Indians.

The 21 year-old George Washington was to deliver a message to Fort LeBoeuf.  The commander there (had 28 letters in his name ---we will just call him Pierre) treated Washington with 3 days of polite hospitality, but rejected the bold and blistering ultimatum delivered in the letter.

It seems to me that George was a very good man, working at this time for someone who was not.  We too, often want to do a good job, but may not find ourselves on the side of good. George carried out a task which the government asked him to.  Later, he became a bigger part of the greater government ...actually heading it.

Another President later had to contemplate whether he was on the side of good, was Abraham Lincoln.  He had to make a difficult decision that had divided the country by war.  He had to decide whether what he believed in was worth fighting for. And when asked whether he felt God was on his side, he said he wasn't considering whether God was on his side ...he was rather concerned whether he was on God's side.

• The Bonus Army, as is the popular name, of 43,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups ...gathered in Washington D.C. in 1932.  Many had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression.  The veterans had been awarded certificates to grant them bonuses, and they wanted the government to make payment on it.

The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 stated they could not redeem the certificates until 1945.  They had suffered at war, now the Depression ...and felt 8 years was enough time to wait, not wanting to wait 13 more years.

President Hoover wanted the campsites of the protesters vacuumed ...I mean, evacuated.  General Douglas MacArthur was to be in command to drive them out ...and their shelters and belongings were burnt also.

After World War II, General MacArthur was known for his humanitarian approach of reconstruction of the Japanese society, arguing that all occupations ultimately end badly for the occupier and the occupied.  

MacArthur treated Filipino and Japanese leaders as equals. Yet, when directed to deal with a domestic dilemma between the two World Wars, other American servicemen were treated with less equality.  Perhaps he learned much from his experience ...and hopefully we all can mature towards similar positive outcomes.

• Also, still so much controversy over Kennedy's assassination ...no sense repeating so much of which so many of you have heard over & over again.
• Iran-Contra affair ...and the prolonged testimony by Oliver North
• Ruby Ridge ...actions by the FBI, not consistent even within their own ranks
• Waco, Texas ...could have been an entirely different outcome, from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to the FBI
• 9/11 Saudi connection with previous flight school attendance in Florida, and questionable funding
• Julia Davis, born in the Ukraine, not to be confused with Julia Davis born in the United Kingdom ---the actress born eight years prior.  The younger one who was a whistleblower of the Department of Homeland Security, was also a writer ---so, does that weaken her credibility?? Friend and confident, actress Brittany Murphy, of 'Clueless' ...reportedly died of suspected poisoning ...as well as (or not well) the death of her husband, in addition to the sudden unexplained death of a neighbor who reportedly video-taped the Blackhawk helicopter raid.  The government and media continue their usual stance --- clueless.
• El Dorado, Texas ...Protective Services has 401 children taken into State 'legal custody', in the spring of 2008.
• September 11th eve, 2012 ...Benghazi attack
• Spring of 2014, the Bundy ranch standoff ...involving the Bureau of Land Management.

Many different government departments being utilized by other departments in ways that are not only questionable, but also involving undisputed wrongdoing at a level that should not be overlooked.  Yes, with so many questions, and so little answers ...we do have reason not to trust those we are expected to rely on.


Perhaps all that is left which can drive us even more in the direction we should have been adhering to all along ...a direction of truth, is through Jesus.  He fixed it for us by His death on the cross.