This is Viewpoints for Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Sticking to it

Dr. Cummings has once again gotten to me in his writings. His statements about hell are so far off base from what the Bible says. No matter how he chooses to state his opinion about hell, I believe he is wrong again.

There are 31 Old Testament scriptures about hell being real. There are 22 New Testament scriptures about hell being a real place. Or else all the writers of these scriptures were living in a fantasy world. I do not make any claim of knowing the many languages the Bible was written in. I do take the language of King James as being good enough for me. I believe that if it’s in the Bible then it’s true. End of story.

I don’t have to understand it all, I just have to depend on God’s Holy Spirit to guide my efforts when I study it. I am concerned that people like Cummings will do more harm to people that don’t know God and his son Jesus by misleading them with his big words and his interpretations of the scriptures.

I would be so afraid to question the Bible and the wordings in it because it is the word of God. I take it at face value and don’t have to worry about it all being true. This is my story and I’m sticking to it.

Surprise

I woke up Monday morning expecting to see the usual synthetic outrage from paid Democratic/La Raza/BLM operatives at the latest Donald Trump for president rally. Much to my surprise, no riots, assaults, firebombs, flag burnings or fistfights were reported on the morning news shows. No ugly “F” bomb signs, no outraged illegals waving Mexican flags, nothing, even on the news sites on the web. The whole rally could have been “G” rated, OK for the kiddies to watch. How refreshing.

Of course I’m joking. The Rolling Thunder rally in Washington, D.C., was comprised of veterans, no-nonsense bikers and patriots of all stripes who would have squashed the little snowflake juveniles and their noisy fellow travelers after the first vulgar outburst. These perpetually agitated “protesters” carefully choose their venues to avoid contact with real people who don’t believe in or want to put up with their carefully scripted adolescent rants. Trump’s supporters are mostly patriots who truly hate the profound mess progressives have made of this country, and will fight to preserve what we have left. The progs will not quit until they destroy everything that is right with this country.

Goose and gander

I find the very selective outrage in letters to the editor over Secretary of State Clinton’s emails amusing. If their wish comes true and Clinton is sent to jail, she will likely have a couple of her predecessors joining her.

According to The New York Times, the State Department has discovered a dozen emails containing classified information that were sent to the personal email accounts of Colin Powell and close aides of Condoleezza Rice during their tenures as secretaries of state.

In a final memorandum issued by the State Department’s internal investigation arm, it was found that former secretaries of state “handled classified material on unclassified email systems.” The State Department found that emails handled on private email accounts associated with Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice contained “information classified at the Secret or Confidential level.”

Sunday page

The Sunday Telegraph Opinion Page editorial and cartoon were well placed on the same page. When you make a responsibility too easy to perform it loses it’s importance and many think why bother? The petition/voting numbers at Godfrey 2 reveals that the original precinct location dispute was another “special interest group” leadership telling citizens how they should feel, act or live their lives, like your leaders tell you you should feel, act or live.

The college graduate’s grimace tells part of the story, “I am entitled” to anything I desire, including a country club environ for four years at little cost to oneself. The college authorities and their spendthrift “look how great we look recruiting” and society’s “give the little darlings what they want/need” could foretell a weak generation for America.

Who pays?

Since Obama’s health care law requires everyone must have health coverage, someone please answer my question in relation to a baby born in the U.S. to Honduran mom with Zika with a birth defect. Who paid for her medical cost at the Hackensack University Medical Center? If she did not have insurance, who paid her penalty? Who paid Dr. Abdulla Al-Kan or other doctors involved? Maybe the same people who pay for all the illegals using emergency rooms?

The answer is the same people paying $15.6 billion in 2015 alone for improperly refunds under the government’s Earned Income Tax Credit for illegals as reported by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration. Plus the same people who pay for illegals using fraudulent IDs in order to receive $4.2 billion a year under yet another scam claiming the Additional Child Tax Credit. Just this month alone, as reported by Michelle Malkin.

This is a drop in the bucket of all fraudulent activity allowed by our federal government. They know it is going to encourage it by doing nothing, except request Hispanic votes. Now who is asking why so many people are for Donald Trump?. He is the only candidate running not involved in allowing taxpayers to be robbed year after year by the same robbers.

The baby’s grandmother is a microbiologist who sent her daughter’s blood to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that confirmed that the expectant mother had been exposed to the Zika virus. During a visit to extended family in New Jersey, the pregnant woman came to the hospital for an assessment and it was determined a cesarean section was necessary.

Voting

I read the editorial about voting in the June 5 Telegraph and I wholeheartedly agree with it. I firmly believe in the saying that all politics are local and that those we elect to local and state offices have a great impact on our daily lives and communities. I have been registered to vote for 22 years and have voted in every election since I registered when I was 19 years old. It is beyond pathetic when a city has less than 32 percent of it’s registered voters to vote. So many people have fought and died for us to have the right to vote. If you don’t vote I don’t want to hear you complain. Please vote.

This story was originally published June 6, 2016 at 9:00 PM with the headline "This is Viewpoints for Tuesday, June 7, 2016."