Lyle's Blog

My dad had a great love of cars and after moving to the Seattle area he bought a 1960 Toyota four door sedan. My older brother and my dad decided foreign cars were more interesting than the offerings of Detroit; my dad was all about mileage, my brother got into sports cars. My brother decided to get married and offered to sell me his Jaguar XKE convertible. I bought it; cars don’t get better than a Jaguar. I drove the car for four years. I moved to California for a couple years and it was there I sold it to the dealer in Santa Rosa. The valves were burned and I had no way money for that. I recently looked at a Jaguar XK8, nice car reasonably priced. Used Jaguars were always a lot of bang for the buck. Reliving your youth isn’t something I’ve given much thought to. I see older men driving new models of what they probably drove forty years ago. I’ve always thought: who does that? Reliving the past isn’t something I want to do; too much stupidity and waste I would just as soon forget. What the Jaguar did was fool me into thinking I was all the things I wasn’t- successful, sexy, special, going somewhere. Life sometimes humbles you and you find yourself right back where you started from. But now it’s OK. I don’t get my worth from cars or anything else in this world. It’s the fact that Jesus Christ died for me that gives me unfathomable worth. Making a wreck His treasure is something I just don’t understand. My parents prayed for me as they did all their kids. The Bible says that more things are wrought by prayer than we know. So it’s best to pray for our children and grandchildren and if opportunity arises to testify of the love of Jesus Christ. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to not be deceived. Children are bombarded with deceptive saviors. Super heroes abound; they have many choices. Instead of reliving the good old days I’m thinking of taking the short time I have to influence my grandchildren for Christ.

There was a time that I figured followers of Bill and Hillary were just hood-winked, not paying much attention and just blindly being led to ruin. However, probably about the time the twenty five million dollar donation was made by Saudi Arabia to the Clinton Foundation, the weight of the corruption became so apparent I can no longer excuse anyone from supporting these criminals. The murder of Seth Wood reinforces my belief that the Clintons are still in the business of making people pay for undermining their lust for power. Don Henry and Kevin Ives along with uncountable others have paid the ultimate price for getting in the way of Clinton ambition. It’s obvious by now that the server in the home of Hillary wasn’t safe at all. And now they have the gall to say the Russians hacked the elections. This is blatantly absurd. Clinton supporters are either stupid (and there are those) or have not regard for the law. The latter bunch are as corrupt as their anointed ones. This whole “Russia did it” thing was planned in advance. Seth Rich exposed the crooks in the party and what’s he get: a couple of bullets in the back. It’s apparent his family will believe anything the party says. That’s sad. Your son gives his life exposing corruption and you deny it took place. That’s dedication to the “cause”. To sum up, supporting Hillary is akin to supporting the church of Satan. That’s extreme to some ears but that simple truth is music to those of us that want to see the swamp drained. Donald Trump isn’t doing everything right yet but he is causing much concern to the creatures in the swamp. I say it’s time to lock her up.

The internet has changed all of out lives and we are to the point that we can’t live without it. The problem is it is under assault by the criminal population. Thousands of miscreants occupy cyberspace and many are highly trained in hacking. The military has educated people in clandestine operations and what pray tell can you do with those skills once one leaves the service. Some no doubt put those skills to use meddling in our personal affairs; spell that money. We’ve already seen the world wide attempt to hold people and companies from their files in exchange for a ransom. It will get worse fast. The internet will have to be shut down sometime in the next three years for up to a month while things are sorted out. The new internet will be much different than the old. It will behoove us to take precautions with our banking and retirement accounts. Pencil and paper aren’t dead quite yet.

On June 26, 2011, 49-year-old James Craig Anderson was killed in Jackson, Mississippi after being beaten, robbed, and run over. The perpetrators were white teenagers It was a planned assault on a black man. They were charged with a hate crime as it certainly was. They were sentenced accordingly. This last week in Jackson three black teenagers stole a car. A mother had gone into the supermarket at two in the morning and left her car running with her six year old son sleeping in the back seat. Three black teenagers stole that car. It was found some hours later; her son had been shot in the head. Who looks at a six year old and pulls the trigger? It’s the same kind of people that killed James Anderson. It’s that cold, evil person at Planned Parenthood that take a newborn and slices its face open to salvage the brain for research. It’s the one’s who God gives over to a reprobate mind after they’ve relentlessly rejected his grace. It’s all hate crime. There is no love involved in any of these horrendous things that are done. Civility is breaking down worldwide. Truth is becoming a relic of the past. The apostle Paul described the present condition well in Romans 1:21-32. I’ll just quote the last three verses. “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters , inventers of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful. Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”

Oprah was a church goer until the pastor one day had the audacity to say that God was a jealous God. I guess she figured that God was something like the jealous wife beating husband and that did not sit well with her. So she went out and with the help of new age dogma has found there are at least a billion ways to her new god and in fact, she is a god. What big O doesn’t realize is that God made us and thereby her in his image. We aren’t God; he just made us to resemble his make up, body, soul, and spirit. When God sees people made in his image chasing after other gods, well, let’s just say he’s not happy. When we pick money over him he’s jealous. When we bow down to an idol he’s offended. He gave us life, breath, everything and then like the ungrateful little jerks we are, we serve and worship other “gods”. Oprah probably doesn’t appreciate it when people she’s been kind to snub her and talk bad about her. God is jealous of us when we lavish worship and attention on things that perish. So poor old Oprah will find herself standing before God one day without the nerve she has now to tell God he shouldn’t be jealous. God is a jealous God. What do you suppose loving God with all your heart, soul and mind is all about? That’s Christianity 101 Oprah. You flunked out of a possible relationship with the Creator of the universe. Now I’m not going to say Oprah is stupid but she along with her followers have done something that is really dumb; reject Jesus Christ.