Lyle's Blog

People vie for all sorts of things, recognition, money, and positions of power and many times it’s an embarrassing display of narcissism derived from a lifetime of obnoxious obsession with self-aggrandizement which blossomed in junior high school. Probably the very best of self-promoting imbeciles end up in politics. For the most part, the most popular of these are the type we most disdained when we were kids.

For some reason, (probably because they’re the ones that hand out the “candy”), we jump on the bandwagon of these purveyors of power-hungry bastions of corruption, giving way to a continual degrading of our futures.

I won’t rattle on about people who wouldn’t be missed if we truly understood how little they contribute to the good life. Their only job is to pass a balanced budget that screws as few people as possible and they are woefully incapable of even that. So who really needs them?

But, and it’s a big but, there are many people who are extremely important to our lives. Picking only one is not meant to say the rest aren’t important. Plumbers, janitors, police officers, firemen, and many others all serve us well and most certainly we wouldn’t want to live without them. However, most of what these important people do I myself can do, maybe not as well, but I can fix things, fight the criminal at the door, etc. but there is one man my family can’t live without.

Living in the bounds of residential city life, there is one person I want to see every week, the garbage collector. Lots of things can be put off, sometimes for months or years, but our pile of debris is astonishingly huge every week. If that blessed garbageman didn’t come and haul it away, let’s just say things would get ugly real fast. The stench would build daily and worse yet the hordes of unwanted “visitors” wanting to “rummage” through it all.

Flies without number, and to put the icing on the dystopian cake, rats would be everywhere and not just in Washington D.C.

So Mr. Garbageman (I haven’t seen a garbage woman yet), you get my vote for Person of the Year, every year. It is you I’m especially grateful to have in my life. Thanks for doing something which we pretty much unknowingly can’t live without.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and nothing was created without Him. God created man and Genesis further states that everything was created for God’s pleasure; it follows that includes us.

Adam and Eve were God’s “kids” and every one thereafter are his “grandkids”. When we first have our kids they are babies in need of our care. Adam and Eve on the other hand were created all grown up. God gave them a tour of the earth, showed them their responsibilities, and turned the whole thing over to them. We have the privilege of changing diapers, having sleepless nights, and all the rest of what babyhood is all about. Little kids are little clones of ourselves. Anyone with a soul loves little children. Their life becomes our life.

Nurturing them to adulthood is an all-consuming job. If we do it right and have some modicum of luck they turn out to be beautiful people. But sometimes they for whatever reason don’t turn out quite so right. They scoff at our values, get on drugs, steal, become promiscuous, and some become violent, even killing others.

When they’re “little guys” we can’t imagine that day fifteen or twenty years later. We understood the ways of the world but only hope for the best for them.

Scripture tells us that Christ was slain before the foundation of the world, so God knew what was coming, even how awful it would be. In the time of Noah God repented that He had even made man and stated He wanted to destroy all mankind. Why did He say that? Why did Christ when on the cross say, speaking of His Father, “why have you forsaken me?”

It’s kinda like us when we witness our child doing something terrible or see them in the hospital or morgue after losing their bout with sin. We quip the same words. I poured my heart and my life into you, I did the very best I could, but it wasn’t good enough. At that moment we feel just like God. Why has my very best creation turned against me?

We know the possible outcomes of life; God knew the outcome before the foundation of this world. We forget that we are made in God’s image, meaning He is an emotional being, He has feelings just like us. Like us suffering at the loss of our child, He suffers at the loss of mankind, but till it actually happened it wasn’t a personal loss. You can talk about something but till it happens you don’t feel it.

We came to know God through Jesus Christ. He’s acquainted with our failures, our losses, our desperation, and the hopelessness of our lives. Understanding God is very simply told in John 11:35 Jesus wept.

Anything by Mark Steyn is worth the read and enlightening to say the least. The following is a small excerpt from his book “The Undocumented Mark Steyn”.

The Butt Stops Here Novembeer 8, 2013

David Eckert was pulled over by police in Deming, New Mexico, for failing to come to a complete halt at a stop sign in the Walmart parking lot. He was asked to step out of the vehicle and waited on the sidewalk. Officers decided that they didn’t like the tight clench of his buttocks, a subject on which New Mexico’s constabulary is apparently expert, and determined that it was because he had illegal drugs secreted therein. So they arrested him and took him to Gila Regional Medical Center in neighboring Hidalgo County, where Mr. Eckert was forced to undergo two abdominal X-rays, two rectal probes, three enemas, and defecate thrice in front of medical staff and representatives of two law-enforcement agencies before being sedated and subjected to a colonoscopy-all procedure performed against his will and without a valid warrant.

Despite their best efforts, Mr. Eckert’s bottom proved to be a drug-free zone, and so, after twelve hours of detention, he was released. If you’re wondering where his lawyer was during all this, no attorney was present, as police had not charged Mr. Eckert with anything, so they’re apparently free to frolic and gambol up his rectum to their hearts’ delight.

Deming Police chief Brandon Gigante says his officers did everything “by the book.” That’s the problem in New Mexico and beyond: “the book.”

Mark Steyn

We live under the illusion we are free to live our lives. On the American plantation, we are under constant surveillance by “Big Brother.” The rest of the book opens your eyes and should cause you to be alarmed at how suffocating the state is. Please read.

Having been attacked by two dogs I’m not really in love with dogs as a good share of the population seems to be. We have one, a pug, and I’ll admit he is probably the easiest of the lot to have around. So if I must (and it seems I do) have a dog our pug is probably as good as it gets.

Reading this morning about another pitbull attack just reminds me of my bewilderment with those that own such rotten animals. Pitbulls aren’t the only dogs that attack but as blacks aren’t the only ones who murder, they make up a larger percentage of the population than is reflective of their population numbers.

So in the same way that black criminals’ lives matter, pit bulls enjoy this allegiance by their owners that seem to defy logic. Black men are human and over time should be able to be rehabilitated, and encouraged by society to be a player in this game called life. But, like pitbull owners, the government has told black men they are the butt of discrimination and deserve to reap revenge on their fellow man.

The excuses for violence are many, even placing the blame on the victims. We were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. We looked at them wrong. It’s always amusing that a motive is always looked for. Whether you’re hurt or murdered by a human or a dog owner’s neglect, the perpetrator deemed your life of no value.

So what if you were hurt. The dog must live on to hurt someone else. The murderer must live on; an eye for an eye is outdated is it not. The advantage is to the discriminated group whether human or dog.

Whether it’s people or dogs, if they’re trained to lash out at those around them, it’s probably better to stay home with your pug.

President Biden and his merry henchmen have passed legislation to hire 87,000 IRS agents. The original recruitment ad specified that those applying must be able and willing to use lethal force if necessary. That language was of course changed when it was noticed by many regular citizens. Just think for a moment about what kind of people would write an ad like that. The tyrants are quite comfortable soliciting people willing to exact violence and murder on their fellow citizens. Over taxes? I don’t think so.

The IRS doesn’t have trouble stealing our money or property so I would guess hiring that many armed mercenaries would indicate a more sinister motive. Could it be that a new, openly hostile IRS fashioned in the likeness of the old German Gestapo is what is planned? It would be naive to think otherwise. It becomes more clear all the time how a tyrannical regime comes to power; the population is ignorant of history or put less kindly, stupid and so maneuvering them is a simple task; create a crisis and provide the solution.

Here we sit with a president of questionable character and a noticeable tendency to wander in thought at times. Like most politicians, Biden is led by the political machine. The only agenda is power and it matters not who gets hurt or how many dollars the government must print to accomplish that objective. The massive dollar printing of the last three years has caused some to be alarmed, hence World War Three provides a needed distraction.

Distraction is a finetuned tool of our Western leaders. Look at the UFOs and wow, six months later we’re shooting down a spy balloon and maybe a science project of two. Ukraine is a long way from the old USA or at least it seems so right now. The war drums are beating louder; there are rumors of a boot or two on the ground, oh not a fighting boot, just advisors don’t you know.

We’ve spent more on Ukraine this year than Russia spends on its whole military budget. Same as we did in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan; we got lots of money. It’s Christmas all year long for the military-industrial complex. Our political campaigns are supported by blood money.

Big money supports it all. Mark Kelly gets $89 million for his campaign, and Blake Masters got just short of $15 million. Kelly received $47 million from large corporate interests, Masters? $9 million. We live today in a fascist country. Big money, big government, and most of the “little guys” are none the wiser. The beat goes on, drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain, la de da de da, and men still keep on marching off to war, la de da de da, and the beat goes on.