Partially true. Liberalism was a product of the Age of Reason and has it philosophical roots in Rationalism. Conservatism is the oldest ideology tracing to the dark-ages and has philosophical roots based in Irrationalism.

Rationalism defined is a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
"scientific rationalism"
PHILOSOPHY
the theory that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge.
THEOLOGY
the practice of treating reason as the ultimate authority in religion.

Irrationalism defined is a system emphasizing intuition, instinct, feeling, or faith rather than reason or holding that the universe is governed by irrational forces.

The conservative reliance isn’t on government but institutions - the military and particularly religious. This is where they readily surrender their freedom


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Between the founding of the USA and the early 1900's Americans who supported the founding of the USA were considered liberals and those who wanted a larger, more powerful and more controlling federal government were considered conservatives. These conservatives were hated by the majority of Americans who cherished freedom and limited, small government. Therefore, these conservatives embarked on a political campaign to improve their image. They claimed to be liberals and promoted the "liberal" image so fiercely, that the true liberals who love the freedom that America represents were stripped of the "liberal" label. After being stripped of the honorable label of "liberal," these freedom loving Americans were tarred with the label conservative, as a political move to discredit them and to win the political battle for control of the federal government. Eventually the falsely labelled "conservatives" accepted the label and justified it because they had a strong interest in maintaining the constitution and the constitutional form of republic that the founders originally instituted. Maintaining the limited powers of the government is far from the original philosophical definition of conservative, but it is the current definition that applies to conservatives in America today.

I was with you until you flipped liberal and conservative. Liberalism is, and has always been, a progressive movement. Limited government primarily stemmed from the fact that the US was a agrarian economy. It’s impossible to rely on government when the closest “government” is hundreds of miles and weeks to months a way. It was population growth and the move from an agrarian economy to an urban based capitalistic one that prompted the need for larger government. To think that liberals would still be clinging to “small government” is bunk. And when you look at today’s conservatives it isn’t small government but no government that they are after. Again, the only institutions that are important to a conservative is religious or military- government they would blow up in a heart beat.


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Liberals in America today are the ones who are more wrongly mis-labelled. Those who want a large, powerful federal government, and who will sacrifice all freedom for the security that government promises (but most often fails to deliver) are the ones who claim the label "liberal" today.

Again, you have gone off the rail. Size of government isn’t important to a liberal. What is important, and this is same as it was from day one, is that government action is to benefit the quality of life of those who gave it the right to govern. Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase, by passing congress to do so, for the express purpose that the act would benefit the citizens of this country. When you look at all liberal actions all follow the same pattern where the act of government is to improve the quality of life of its citizens. If our economic system would indeed, lift all boats, then for the liberal size of government would shrink. When our economic system fails to improve the quality of life of its citizen then government steps in and in the process grows.


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To the liberal in modern America, freedom means having everything given to them so they will be free to do everything anyone else is doing. But the liberals of modern America are actually conservatives in the original philosophical sense of wanting big government to control and secure everybody, and today's conservatives are actually liberal in the original philosophical sense of wanting more freedom and less government control.

This is simply coming from your imagination. You will find all stripes sucking from the teet of government. Whites form the largest group on welfare and more red states than blue states have people relying on government for a hand out. Liberals today have changed since 1776, they should have otherwise they would be conservative, but the basic philosophy has remained the same. This is also true for conservatives which is why I asked if anyone understood the actual philosophies behind their ideologies. Liberalism doesn’t predicate large or small government but one that it proactive to those it serves. Conservatism doesn’t predicate government at all but instead relies on church, the military, and community to insure quality of life.

These diametric positions of our ideologies trace to the philosophy behind them. Rationalism sees government as a tool to insure the quality of life of those who give it the right to govern. To the Irrationalist government is an impediment to quality of life and in any form or size one should be skeptical and down right fearful.

I can't believe you did not know this. No one went directly to heaven until Christ died. Enoch and Elijah were taken up, but the Bible does not say where they were taken. Paradise was where old testament believers went. 1st Peter 3:19 states, Christ went there and preach to the prisoners there and He led captive free. He told the thief on the cross he would be with him today in paradise, not heaven. Good grief you need to study the Bible and do some research, if you can't understand this. Where did he lead them? Answer: To heaven

The stop over was in paradise, where all the old testament believers were taken too. They were not qualified to enter heaven. The blood of animals only covered sin. The blood of Jesus Christ removed the sin completely. This is what Jesus was talking to Nicodemus about, when He said you must be born again. The blood of animals could not perform the born again process. It takes the Holy Spirit to create this process. Again I say, if an individual could be born again, before Christ was sacrificed, why did He have to die? Also, why come the old testament saints didn't go directly to heaven after death?

The Bible states you must be born again to be saved. If the souls in paradise were born again, why did they have a stop over in paradise. They had only faith in God's word and thus God accounted this for righteousness. Remember what God said about Abraham's faith. Abraham had faith and God accounted that for righteousness. To be born again, they needed the blood of Christ. No one can be saved without this blood or born again. If Jesus had not come, they would still be in paradise waiting. The Bible says, the Spirit does the baptizing. No Spirit had not been given at this time for salvation. It came after Christ's death. No one was born again or received salvation until Christ's death. Believe what you like. The Holy Spirit was not given until Jesus Christ sent it, after His death.

In yet another quarter confirming that Walmart is merely a company that can beat analyst expectations when it cashes Uncle Sam's welfare checks and foodstamps, when the impact of Obamacare is ignored, and when the second it snows all bets are off, WalMart reported Q1 EPS of $1.10, below the $1.15 expected, even if the company was able to explicitly quantify what the impact of snow in the winter was: "Severe weather in the U.S. businesses negatively impacted EPS by approximately $0.03." Apparently the weather's impact on the top line was over $1 billion because revenues came in at $114.96 billion, below the $116.3 billion expected.

In fact the weather in the quarter ended April 30 (when as far as we can recall there was only snow in February because retail sales in March soared on the snow thawing) was so bad, the company dedicated an entire section to it:


"Walmart's first quarter net sales increased 0.8 percent over last year. Like other retailers in the United States, the unseasonably cold and disruptive weather negatively impacted U.S. sales and drove operating expenses higher than expected," said Doug McMillon, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. president and chief executive officer.

Comp stores of -0.2% missing expectations of 0.0% were also due to, you guessed it, ther weather:


"Our comp of negative 8 basis points for the period was in line with our relatively flat guidance," said Bill Simon, Walmart U.S. president and CEO. "A number of severe winter storms negatively impacted us during the quarter. A solid start to spring and a strong Easter drove positive comps in the back half of the quarter.

And then there were taxes:


Additionally, the company's effective tax rate for the quarter was higher than anticipated. The company still expects the full-year tax rate to range between 32 and 34 percent.

How long until WMT buys a Dutch company and reincorporates there to save on taxes?

Ok fine, weather (and taxes) were to blame for everything in the past. So what about the future? Well, WMT forecast a Q2 EPS range of $1.15-$1.25, below the $1.29 consensus, for the following reasons:


"We expect second quarter fiscal year 2015 diluted earnings per share from continuing operations to be between $1.15 and $1.25. This compares to $1.24 last year," said Charles Holley, executive vice president and chief financial officer. "Our guidance assumes incremental investments in e-commerce, headwinds from higher health care costs in the U.S. and increased investments in Sam's Club membership programs. We continue to expect our full-year effective tax rate to range between 32 and 34 percent. We expect our effective tax rate to be at the high end of this guidance for the second quarter."

So to summarize: weather, Obamacare and taxes. And of course, we expect that the lack of foodstamps will also be discussed on the earnings call.

Of course, the only reason why the company's EPS disappointed is that while WMT CapEx tumbled from $3.0 billion a year ago to just $2.2 billion this quarter, so did buybacks, as the company repurchased a measly $626 million of stock down from $2.2 billion a year ago. Judging by the stock reaction in the premarket, shareholders are anything but happy with this outcome.

Strong Attendance puts Indianapolis as Second Largest Attended NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits!

The official attendance of 75,269 is the second largest NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits on record for the longest running shooting & hunting show in the world. With over 600 exhibitors, the exhibit hall was packed with NRA members the entire weekend, many of whom traveled from all over the country to attend the event. With all those guns and no one fired a shot.

The enthusiasm was contagious as freedom-loving patriots filed into the impressive exhibit hall to celebrate their Second Amendment rights. What awaited them was nearly every notable firearm and accessory manufacturer in the country. Thousands packed the Stand and Fight Rally and NRA-ILA Leadership Forum to hear some of the most influential political figures in the country discuss freedom and the right to keep and bear arms as well as hear music from Sarah Evans and ALABAMA! Fundraising events raised hundreds of thousands of dollars that will go to support the shooting sports, seminars and workshops were standing room only.

Kindergarten student Ian Nelson, on the way back to class from the bathroom, was accosted by teacher Barb Williams in the hall and jacked up against the wall.


The teacher BARB WILLIAMS has been "suspended with pay"!!!!!


How about forwarding this message to everyone you know as well as the principal and superintendent. (email addresses below)


LET THEM KNOW YOU KNOW!!

FIRE TEACHER BARB WILLIAMS!!!!



VIDEO:


http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/05/14/teacher-gets-10-day-paid-suspension-for-bullying-6-y-o/



Riverdale Elementary School Principal:
Julie Spade
Email: jspade@riverdale.k12.oh.us



Superintendent of Riverdale Schools:
Eric Hoffman
Email: ehoffman@riverdale.k12.oh.us
Phone: 419-694-4994 ext. 1801



I have already sent MY email to the principal and superintendent!

How about YOU?

jay-are, Pardon me for interrupting this spiel from which you are deriving such deep and abiding pleasure, but you just unraveled your entire hypothesis with this one line of scripture which you inadvertently included: "The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way."

That was the point that refutes your continual drumbeat that man is a powerless dummy, a puppet, who has no say, no choice, man being powerless to accept or reject God, the "truth" you have so steadfastly insisted was true.

Do you see it, Jay-are? God, in His infinite wisdom, said: The highway to hell is broad and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way."

God doesn't choose they go to hell, they choose.

Now, please do continue with your endless rant; type out twelve or twenty more posts on the subject.

Do try to consider the inclusion of everything God covers on a matter, rather than only those which agree with your preconceived hypothesis,

I have said what I believe on the matter.

You may talk to the forum, talk to God, talk to yourself, talk.......

Have a blessed evening, at the commencement of your talk.