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"Meanwhile, In Nashville" an excellent commentary on media bias.

Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act.
Do not say to your neighbor, "Come back later; I'll give it tomorrow" when you now have it with you.
 Proverbs 3:27, 28

Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"
"I don't know," he replied, "Am I my brother's keeper?"
The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground."
Genesis 4:9, 10

 

18 October 1787

To the Citizens of the State of New York

"...It is proper here to remark, that the authority to lay and collect taxes is the most important of any power that can be granted; it connects with it almost all other powers, or at least will in process of time draw all other after it; it is the great means of protection, security, and defence, in a good government, and the great engine of oppression and tyranny in a bad one." "Brutus" Essay I pp9

These essays appeared in the New York Journal as part of the Constitutional Convention Debates.

When the coyotes bark, the dogs answer; when the wolf howls, the dogs hide.

Perhaps I should change my handle to "Cassandra." I want to tell what I saw, but who will believe me? For weeks now I have been disturbed by the idea of a disaster, a river, and the city of Nashville. I did not see the Cumberland specifically, or a date or anything like that, but enough that I was unhappy. Last Thursday I posted on facebook that within 24 hours something would happen that would have consequences. I knew that someone was going to make a wrong decision after dark on Friday, and that the event would be east of where I was. But if I had tried to ask the persons I know in Nashville, "Are you ready? Are you prepared?" They could rightly ask "for what?" and "when?" and I would have to answer "something bad" and "don't know when." Well, who would pay attention to such a weak warning? So, I said nothing. And if someone has suffered because of my lack of warning, I am unhappy.

This in not the first time in my life that such a similar thing has happened. Sometimes I have tried to warn people, sometimes I have doubted myself. You know the sort of thing, "It must have been something I ate before bed," "It is just a case of nerves." "You have been reading/watching too many scary stories." Or the worse of all, "Just wishful thinking." I am not any good at that "intuition" thing at which so many women excel. But I dream dreams and feel the "something" in the wind. Not always, not continually, sometimes years elapse between events and I begin to believe it was just coincidence. And then one day, like the change of seasons, the air around me stirs and I know.

I truly believe that I am not the only one who experiences this, but I wonder how others deal with it. And for the record I don't trust any of the "Psychics" who prey on people. I cannot tell the future, cannot call up spirits, or divine events. I am perhaps just sensitive to the Hand of God, Who loves all men, chooses to share with us from time to time something of Himself. 

"What is sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander."

tee hee

18 October 1787

To the Citizens of the State of New York

"...But remember, when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it again but by force." "Brutus" Essay I pp 5

These essays appeared in the New York Journal as part of the Constitutional Convention Debates.

If I always do my duty, if I follow the orders set before me, if I am obedient to my commander, what will be the outcome? There is no guarantee that I will retire peacefully, I might be ordered to sacrifice my life in the line of duty. Whatever my orders, they are my orders and must be obeyed. What my commander sends another unit to do is not my concern, nor are my orders for them to question.

I have with my waking eyes seen demons. I have sensed the presence of a guardian angel, as I stood and looked at a situation that would certainly have resulted in my death. Then one day I looked into a pair of eyes as my hand was held and wondered who this was that was there for me. I might have seen that angel, but I really don't believe that they interfere often in the lives of people.