Here's another good one !


We Want Moral Goodness

Read Philippians 4:1–9

Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. Matthew 7:24

Psychologists are now discovering how many of our responses are conditioned by habit. As it turns out, only about 60 percent of the time do we actually think before we act. Much of our behavior is subconscious and unreflective.

“We are what we repeatedly do,” said Aristotle. “Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Augustine also recognized the power of habit. “By servitude to passion, habit is formed, and habit to which there is no resistance becomes necessity.” James K. A. Smith, building on both of these men and their ideas, wrote, “[Our desires] are the hinge that ‘turns’ our hearts.”

The t***sformation of our heart’s desires can be difficult to imagine. How do we reach what is invisibly buried beneath layers of conscious and unconscious behavior? How do we measure our progress, knowing with any certainty that our desires are indeed aligning with God’s? Paul commends to us some practices that form in us godly habits—and by extension, godly desires. Wh**ever you’ve seen in and heard from me, he says, do. To become the kind of people who want to be obedient and morally good, we must be the kind of people who obey and practice moral goodness.

We might wonder about the chicken-egg conundrum of this proposition: Shouldn’t we wait on the right desires before acting? And if we act righteously without righteous desires, aren’t we really practicing hypocrisy? This is an important tension. But if we begin with the sincere desire to belong more fully to God, recognizing with regret the frailty of that desire, the practice of persevering faith, unity, joy, gentleness, gratitude, and prayer can become our holy habit.

This habit binds us into a holy necessity—of living for and to God.

His name was Bubba, he was from Mississippi and he needed a loan. So, he walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan Officer. He told the loan officer that he was going to Paris for an International Redneck Festival for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000 and that he was not a depositor of the bank. The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of security for the loan, so the Redneck handed over the keys to a new Ferrari. The car was parked on the street in front of the bank. The Redneck produced the title and everything checked out. The loan officer agreed to hold he car as collateral for the loan and apologized for having to charge 12% interest.



Later, the bank's president and its officers all enjoyed a good laugh at the Redneck from the south for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral for a $5,000 loan.



An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the bank's private underground garage and parked it.



Two weeks later, the Redneck returned, repaid the $5,000 and the interest of $23.07.



The loan officer said, "Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this t***saction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out on Dunn & Bradstreet and found that you are distinguished alumni from Ole Miss University, a highly sophisticated investor and multi-millionaire with real estate and financial interests all over the world. Your investments include a large number of wind turbines around Sweetwater, Texas. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?"



The good 'ole boy replied, "Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for only $23.07 and expect it to be there when I return?"



His name was BUBBA.... Keep an eye on those southern boys! Just because we talk funny does not mean we are stupid.







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So, a black guy goes into Walmart and picks up a bb-gun in the same shape as an ak-47(?spelling), and gets nothing else. He then goes down an isle and begins to wave the gun around and point it at products on the shelf.
A white guy sees this and calls 911 about the ak-47, where swat comes in demanding the black guy drop the gun. The black guy does not respond in anyway to the demands.
Swat team k**ls the black guy.

My take on this. The black guy is probably between 27 and 35. He and all else know we live in a time of suicide mass shooters. He is using absolutely no respect to anyone else in the store who sees him with the ak-47 (bbgun) to completely freak out over it.
Any older lady or man could have walked around that isle and seen him with that gun and had a heart attack.
Will the constant resurfacing attitude of the B****s ever stop????????

I didn't grab the link but just search for it and it's easy to find. You can see the attitude in the video as he points the gun into the products.
Course, there will be r**ts, mayhem, fires, destruction, and total disrespect to our Country..........
You can be not racial, yet continued 'ridiculous' stuff like this guy will make you racial.

Obama is the worst president ever.Number two is L.B .J. Number three is Carter.Number four George Dubya Bush.Just look at the record of Obama Enough said about him.L.B. J.led 58,000 OF our young soldiers to die in Vietnam for no good reason. Remember the lie which is the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.Enough said about him.Jimmy Carter the peanut farmer had no gonads and American resolve was no more. Remember the Iran hostage situation.American morale was at its lowest. Do any of you remember the gas crisis? Waiting in line for over two hours for a tank of gas.Enough said about him also.Dubya was a draft dodger and a liar to boot.He allowed the gates to open to i*****l a***ns. And he was a g*******t of the highest magnitude.Enough said about him also.Nobody who lived through these four boobs can honestly disagree with the facts stated.

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Making v****g illegal?
That was tried against black people for over a century in the Jim Crow south. Didn't ultimately work out so well for the conservatives at the "White Citizens Councils".

Doesn't stop them from trying again with their v**er i.d. subterfuge.

The far right knows that they are not minting angry white Republicans fast enough. Their only way to win at a national level is minority v**er suppression which they did in 2000 in Florida and 2004 in Ohio.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/24/most-t***sparent-administration-ever-som

Most T***sparent Administration Ever Demands Edits to Reports Filed by White House Press Pool

Whitehouse.govWhitehouse.govOne of the ongoing sub-narratives of the Obama administration is how incredibly unfriendly it has been to the press.

Former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson described the Obama White House as "the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering," specifically noting her time covering Reagan and George W. Bush.

Times national security reporter James Risen said earlier this year that the current administration was "the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered in at least a generation," and suggested that the administration threatens reporters who do not pursue acceptable stories.

Reporters should feel threatened by the administration's behavior. The administration has captured phone logs from Associated Press reporters, and tracked calls, emails, and location information about a senior Fox News reporter. It's pursued a record number of criminal leak investigations.

And, according to The Washington Post, it has also sought to edit pool reports from White House press.

"Journalists who cover the White House say Obama’s press aides have demanded — and received — changes in press-pool reports before the reports have been disseminated to other journalists. They say the White House has used its unusual role as the distributor of the reports as leverage to steer coverage in a more favorable direction.

The disputed episodes involve mostly trivial issues and minor matters of fact. But that the White House has become involved at all represents a troubling trend for journalists and has prompted their main representative, the White House Correspondents’ Association, to consider revising its approach to pool reporting."

The incidents noted in the story are generally pretty trivial: One reporter was asked to remove a mention of Michelle Obama's workout, another to delete details of Obama presenting a longtime reporter with a candle-lit dessert on her final trip with the president, another to delete an early account of an Obama appearance on "The Tonight Show" because the White House believed it violated a publicity deal with the show. (Somehow I doubt the reporter had a similar agreement.)

But even minor attempts to alter pool reports should be taken seriously. The White House has no right to change the reports, no right to edit or interfere with the work of independent journalists before publication.

And the White House has also pushed at least one reporter to change his story in order to remove an unflattering comparison of two Obama events. Back to the Post:

"During the same trip, then-deputy press secretary Josh Earnest f**gged another of [Post reporter David] Nakamura’s reports. This one contained a comment juxtaposing a speech Obama had given two days earlier lauding freedom of the press with the administration’s decision to limit access to p**********l photo ops on the trip.

Earnest, who succeeded Carney as press secretary in May, considered Nakamura’s comparison unfair and asked him to take it out, according to Nakamura. After an argument, the reporter acquiesced."

It's almost too perfect: The Obama administration doesn't like being portrayed as unfriendly to the press, so its press office decides to stop a journalist from suggesting in a report that it is.

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Sulky and whiny? Those two terms are copyrighted by the far right.

Ever since Jan. 20, 2009, they have been whining and lying that "those" people "stole" their country, and are illegally squatting at the White House.

The "birthers" and their right wing ilk have raised whiny, grumbling, "sore-loserism" to heights rarely ever seen in this nation.

You guys competed rather poorly in the e******ns of 2008 and 2012.
When you lost, all you could do is blame everybody else for your poor choices and poor performance.