שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד
Hear intelligently with attention and interest, comprehend and obey, O Yisra'el, יהוה our 'Elohiym is יהוה alone!
–Dabariym [deuteronomy] 6:4 His Name Tanakh**
Concepts To Think About!
I will hear what He will speak, the 'El יהוה for He will carefully arrange words and command a greeting of desire for completeness to His people, and to His chaҫiyd ones: But do not let them turn again to folly. – Mishliy [proverbs] [psalms] 85:9
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember:
Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic!
DEATH OF A SENATOR
A powerful senator dies after a prolonged illness. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
"Welcome to Heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."
"No problem, just let me in," says the guy.
"Well, I'd like to but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in Hell and one in Heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity."
"Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in Heaven," says the senator.
"I'm sorry but we have our rules."
And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to Hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a club and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him, everyone is very happy and in evening attire. They run to greet him, hug him, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.
They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster and caviar. Also present is the Devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that, before he realizes it, it is time to go. Everyone gives him a big hug and waves while the elevator rises.
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on Heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him, saying; "Now it's time to visit Heaven."
So 24 hours pass with the head of state joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns. "Well then, you've spent a day in Hell and another in Heaven. Now choose your eternity."
He reflects for a minute, then the senator answers, "Well, I would never have said it, I mean Heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in Hell." So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to Hell.
Now the doors of the elevator open and he is in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags. The Devil comes over to him and lays his arm on his neck.
"I don't understand," stammers the senator. "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and club and we ate lobster and caviar and danced and had a great time. Now all there is, is a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable.
The Devil looks at him, smiles and says, "Yesterday we were campaigning...Today you voted for us!" [author unknown]
While the Admin of Hear O Yisra'el does not believe in hell, St. Peter or even the fistitious Diablo-dude...politicians definately deserve to go there...sigh!
At one time in my life, I thought I had a handle on the meaning of the word "service . . ." The act of doing things for other people.
Then I heard the terms: Internal Revenue Service, Postal Service, Telephone Service, Civil Service, City/County Public Service, Customer Service, Service Stations. And I became confused about the word "service." This is not what I thought "service" meant.
Then today, I overheard two farmers talking and one of them mentioned that he was having a bull over to "service" a few of his cows.
SHAZAM! It all came into perspective. Now I understand what all those "service" agencies are really doing to us.
Something To Think About
– from the web site: Hour of the Time!
A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what food might it contain? He was aghast to discover that it was a mouse trap! Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning, "There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house."
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me; I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mouse trap in the house."
"I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse," sympathized the pig, "but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; be assured that you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, "Like wow, Mr. Mouse, a mouse trap; am I in grave danger, Duh?"
So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected to face the farmer's mouse trap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.
In the darkness, she did not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife.
The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever.
Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
His wife's sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer's wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.
So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
•29 have been accused of spousal abuse
•7 have been arrested for fraud
•19 have been accused of writing bad checks
•117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
•3 have done time for assault
•71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
•14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
•8 have been arrested for shoplifting
•21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
•84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year...
Can you guess which organization this is? Give up yet?
It's the 535 members of the united States Congress (2005 session; unsure).
The same group that crank out hundreds* of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.
*יהוה the 'Elohiy of Yisra'el proclaimed (not suggested) 316 mitsuah (laws) for mankind, which they reject. Xtianity says the law is "dead" and they are now "free" under grace, yet they willingly (and greatly desire/demand) to be enslaved under more than 1,000,000 laws, statutes, rules and regulations of fallable men. Go Figure!!!
545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese; a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ. If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees. We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world:
• Sales Tax • School Tax • Liquor Tax • Luxury Tax • Excise Taxes • Property Tax • Cigarette Tax • Medicare Tax • Inventory Tax • Real Estate Tax • Building Permit Tax • Well Permit Tax • Fuel Permit Tax • Inheritance Tax • Road Usage Tax • CDL License Tax • Dog License Tax • State Income Tax • Food License Tax • Vehicle Sales Tax • Gross Receipts Tax • Social Security Tax • Service Charge Tax • Fishing License Tax • Federal Income Tax • Building Permit Tax • IRS Interest Charges • Hunting License Tax • Marriage License Tax • Corporate Income Tax • Personal Property Tax • Accounts Receivable Tax • Recreational Vehicle Tax • Workers Compensation Tax • Watercraft Registration Tax • Telephone Usage Charge Tax • Telephone Federal Excise Tax • Telephone State and Local Tax • IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) • State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) • Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) • Social Security Tax (FICA) • Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax • Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax • State Motor Fuel Excise Tax • Federal Gasoline Tax (18.4˘) • Utility Taxes • Vehicle License Registration Tax • Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes • Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax • State and Local 911 Tax •
Economic Stimulus Package
Sometime this year, we taxpayers will again receive another 'Economic Stimulus' payment. This is indeed a very exciting program, and I'll explain it by using a Q & A format:
Q. What is an 'Economic Stimulus' payment ?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.
Q. Where will the government get this money ?
A. From taxpayers.
Q. So the government is giving me back my own money ?
A. Only a smidgen of it.
Q. What is the purpose of this payment ?
A. The plan is for you to use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.
Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?
A. Shut up.
Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the U.S. economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:
•If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China or Sri Lanka .
•If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to the Arabs.
•If you purchase a computer, it will go to India , Taiwan or China .
•If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico , Honduras and Guatemala ..
•If you buy an efficient car, it will go to Japan or Korea ..
•If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan .
•If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.
Instead, keep the money in America by:
1. Spending it at yard sales, or
2. Going to ball games, or
3. Spending it on prostitutes, or
4. Beer or
5. Tattoos.
(These are the only American businesses still operating in the U.S. )
Conclusion: Go to a ball game with a tattooedª prostituteª that you met at a yard sale and drink beer all day!
ªObviously, Hear O Yisra'el does not advocate violating HaTowrah of יהוה by this comical commentary on the current state of affairs.
Rules To Remember About Guns
1. Guns have only two enemies rust and politicians.
2. Guns do not commit murder, people do, so remember this:
3. It’s always better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
4. Policy Enforcers (the police) carry guns to protect themselves, not you.
5. The average response time of a 911 call is 23 minutes; the response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second.
4. Never let someone or something that threatens you get inside arms length.
5. Never say, “I’ve got a gun.” If you need to use deadly force, the first sound they hear should be the safety clicking off.
7. The most important rule in a gunfight is: Always win– cheat if necessary (See Rule #3 again).
8. Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets– you may get killed with your own gun, but he’ll have to beat you to death with it, because it will be empty.
9. If you are in a gunfight:
•If you’re not shooting, you should be loading.
•If you’re not loading, you should be moving.
•If you’re not moving, you’re dead.
10. In a life and death situation, do something . . . It may be wrong, but do something (See Rule #3 again)!
11. You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or any other word, but a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much a universal language.
12. You cannot save the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your family!
~ Author unknown.
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