This is Viewpoints for Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016

More than meets the eye

The Macon-Bibb County community displayed its strength, unity, hospitality and preparedness through its response to Hurricane Matthew evacuees. The local government and a multitude of agencies such as Red Cross, Salvation Army, DFCS, churches and many others gave generously of time and resources to care for those displaced from the coast, many of whom had special needs.

We commonly associate public health with immunizations, birth control and restaurant inspections. What is little known is they are essential to coordinated emergency preparedness and response. Together with the support of the North Central Health District, which serves 13 area counties including Macon-Bibb, public health provided staffing to four local shelters and the Emergency Operations Center at the Macon-Bibb County government center. At one point there were as many as 535 evacuees being sheltered. Our public health team provided 24/7 nursing services at each shelter. They provided pre-opening shelter inspections. They provided ongoing oversight for safe sheltering, food service, water supply, waste water disposal, solid waste disposal, and the ability to house animals. All shelters were inspected daily. Most of this work was done over a three-day holiday weekend.

Macon-Bibb County is fortunate to have the skill, compassion and commitment of our local public health team. On behalf of all our board members — Commissioner Bert Bivins, Stacy Carr, Chris Tsavatewa, Ethel Cullinan, Dr. Paul Mossman and Commissioner Elaine Lucas — I wish to publicly thank them.

Wannabes will pay

Since this is the most important election in over a half century, it will be discussed long after Donald Trump is sworn in. We will have discussions on the media and the polls as well as so-called Republican leaders. National wannabes like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will have hard questions to answer. There will also be hard time for local wannabes like Allen Peake and Erick Erickson. Remember, these people did not like President Trump’s “tone” and refused to support him. By not giving Trump/Pence full support, they supported Hillary Clinton. Never forget.

New world order

In 1829 Mary Howitt published a poem titled, “The Spider and the Fly.” The first two verses go like this: “Will you walk into my parlour?” said the spider to the fly, ‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I’ve a many curious things to show when you are there.”

“Oh no, no” said the little fly, “to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair — can ne’er come down again.”

There are several more verses that follow in this same vein. As we become more and more invaded by the Muslim refugees there is a “spider” that is promising more. If you would like to see the parlour, get on your PC and read the Dearborn, Michigan, story of a Muslim enclave — or as I prefer to call it, “city state” — that has changed all signs, and I mean all, to Arabic. In all these enclaves, the local police, sheriff and other law-enforcement persons are not allowed entry. This is not an isolated case. What armies of the world could not accomplish, further toleration of these Islamic city states have. Perhaps this is what former President George Herbert Walker Bush advocated when he said: “New world order.”

Journalistic standards

In Liz Fabian’s Oct. 20 column (“Trump says I’m a dishonest sleaze, but Pope Francis is praying for me”) she writes, “Mind you, I don’t cover national politics, but I feel the collateral damage of the public distrust of media.” One doesn’t need to cover national news to understand the distrust.

If the same journalistic principals that drove Republican President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew from office were applied to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, they both would be in jail, but they’re not. Why is that?

Compare platforms

This year’s election has challenged conservatives in more ways than we can count. But, the final word will be for conservative voters to put aside their emotions and vote for the platform that is the closest to what conservatives believe:

▪ Limited government.

▪ Balanced budget.

▪ Individual liberty and responsibility.

▪ Pro- life.

▪ Supreme Court justices who will uphold our Constitution and not legislate from the bench.

If you claim to be a conservative, then stand up and vote for the platform even if you don’t “like” the top of the ticket. In the long run, the platform will matter more.

Indispensable man?

In reference to Andy Cook, “The Bible’s growing pile of rock-solid evidence” that reference the weekly musings of Bill Cummings in relation to evidences of truth verifying words of the Bible during the time of Jesus. Listen, the Bible was written as a road map to lead those who believe in the Son of God back to their divine creator.

Let’s say there has always been and always will be the earth and seas and flowers and trees. Even more astonishing, the moon, stars and etc. That just happen to be what they are, not believing in a God. However, without the knowledge of man, nothing exists. Therefore, we only have two choices: Bible or no Bible. Do you believe God appeared and created man, or do you believe man appeared and invented God? For without man to acknowledge it all, there is no existence at all for man to ponder. It is not complicated.

Agitator

It appears that when you follow the money the Democrats hired professional agitators to trash Trump events. In fact, one “professional agitator” went to the White House over 300 times and even met with President Obama over 30 times. Where is the outrage? Where is the FBI? What we have is a threat to American democracy.

This story was originally published October 25, 2016 at 9:00 PM with the headline "This is Viewpoints for Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016."