Walking Dead Spoiler Alert

Walking Dead is a great show.  So I will assume that all 2 of my readers watch the Walking Dead, last episode Bob was taken hostage and will be used as a means of sustenance, starting with his legs.  I had the notion that he was infected before being kidnapped and I still feel that may be true.  I think he was bitten while at the food bank and in the water one of the evil bastards bit him on the leg.  That would explain him acting weird.

The other explanation of him acting weird could be that his buddies were drinking wine while resting in the church, he is a alcoholic and was feeling the urge to pound back a few, but resisted.

I hope he is infected, not to loose Bob, but to take a few of the captors out in the process.  He is already down one leg and will be a burden to the group.  Hershel having only one leg was one thing, they were held up in a fairly secure prison and did not need to flee at the spur of the moment.

Anyway this season is looking good.  Please let me hear your thoughts.

End of the world

We always hear about the end of the world, be it zombie apocalypse, nuclear war or the biblical Armageddon.  Truth is we will not know when it will happen and people have been saying the end is near for 2 thousand years.

It will be ushered in by political correctness, a false sense of love, and bullshit.

In thinking about what it means to be Conservative I often think of my fathers childhood.  He was raised in a very poor home.  He made if very clear to me growing up that I had it good.  Not in a demeaning way but just so you know this is how I had it, and others around you don't have it as good as you do..  He was doing this so I would be thankful, and I was.  One story of his was how he got a new pair of shoes once a year.  ONE, no sports shoes, and dress shoes, or casual shoes, one pair for the year for everything.  Now this may have meant that he had to play during recess in what I imagine as semi formal leather lace up shoes of the time, and he would have to play outside and get them dirty knowing that as soon as he was done it was time to clean.  Remove mud, brush, clean with saddle soap, oil if necessary, apply polish if necessary.   He at a young age was taught a valuable lesson in taking car of you stuff.  It really wan't a lesson as much as it was a way of life.  He passed this lesson along to me, I know how to take care of leather shoes and boots.  To this day keep a brush, can of mink oil, and rags ready to keep em looking good.  Other times his lessons in taking care of things were a bit harsh.  I could tell that he was mad and why he was mad because I knew enough of his child hood to understand.  That made me feel worse.  Here I was getting all the things he never was able to, and not taking care of them.  What a slap in the face to my father.  Sorry dad.


If you know you are only getting one pair of shoes a year, you will take care of them.  Today we can tell kids this but they know they will get another pair.  Plus they have workout shoes, dress shoes, casual shoes.  I hear all the time, we have to have this stuff!  Shoes, dresses, costumes for theatre, football cleats.  Today the school doesn't provide much and if you want your kids active you will be buying stuff.  But where does the lesson fall.  On one hand we want our kids active, we want them in programs, in sports.  But each time we get them gear, costumes, what ever we are teaching them that they get stuff for free.  However this could be taught as they are getting what they need.  I hope so because I feel like I am letting them down by getting them what they need, when we still give them what they want.  I think backing off what they want is the key and open communication about how they are getting all this stuff when others don't have any stuff.

As parents we want to provide, we also want to give.  Giving is where we should tap the breaks.  Kids do not need all they have and if they get into a routing of getting 90% of everything they want they will be disappointed as adults.  I have said for some time, spoiled kids make unhappy adults.  Parents jobs are to raise well adjust Christian adults. As adults we don't get everything we want and should have learned by then how to filter our need vs want.  I deal with this all the time.  Harley, Man Barn, swimming pool.  We try to justify them but it all boils down to soul searching and realizing that this is a want and not a need.  Now where do we draw the line.  I am not saying live like a monk, but We as parents need to do better in teaching our kids need vs want.  


Being conservative has little to do with politics, it has to do with conserving and not living with excess.

What do we really need, not what do we want.

Been a while.  Busy with baby, work and yard.  Had a little garden this year.  Got started late but grew some nice squash.  I also planted tomatoes and cantaloupe.  The tomatoes I believe were too late in the season and have not produced anything.  The squash I believe has produced the last of the bunch.  I noticed last night the cantaloupe has developed four small cantaloupes and I have high hopes for them.

Lessons learned...

Start when you are supposed to.  There are thousands of resources out there that tell you when to plant.  I ignored them all.

Plant more.  I had one squash plant and that was plenty for our family, but I really should have planted some zucchini, okra, peppers, just to have some variety.

Meet other residential gardeners and start trading.

Grow from seed starting a couple of months before the suggested planting date.

Tillers are awesome.

I have started studying the Bible again.  I have drifted away from that and my happiness is a direct mirror on my relationship with God.  We moved and have yet to find a church home.  I believe that to grow as a Christian we need a church home.  I hear all the time that to be a Christian you do not have to go to church.  Maybe not but to grow as a Christian we have to fellowship and bear fruit.  Not sure how that analogy came about but I understand it.  I don't think to be a Christian we have to go to church but as Christians we will want to.  Not having a church home leaves a hole in me.  I want a church I want to be in a life group and meet with people that deal with the things I deal with.

One of our issues is that we have a teenage girl that really does not want to go to youth group.  We keep trying to find the perfect church for her.  That may be our problem.  I usually forget myself at that age and I did not want to get out of my comfort zone either.  My parents made me.  I believe we will have to do that with her.  I feel for her not wanting to be around other teenagers, teenagers suck.  I do not want her to carry that trait too far.  She will eventually have to learn to deal with others.  Might as well start now.

Boys

The young lady in the house has a boy she likes.  UGH..  Not sure I am ready for this nor am I capable of making this a smooth right of passage.  I am her step father but I am also the one in the family that is most protective of her.  Which makes for interesting arguments.  The boy is no good.  Plain and simple, he will never amount to much and has no real positive characteristics.  I know almost every father has said the same thing about their daughters first boyfriend, but I can prove it.  Not now but maybe soon.

I saw the following on Facebook today.

I love this, it says a lot.  Unfortunately our boys now a days are not really boys on their way to being men.  The boys today do not pick girls up, they do not pay for dates, they are boys that want to date but do not want any of the responsibility of dating.  Now that school is out they do not get to see each other every day.  YES!  Hold on though, about once a week he gets invited to summer outings with my family while I am at work.  He does not pay for anything, and he has to be picked up.  As parents my wife and I make sure when our kids go somewhere they have money, we make sure they offer to pay their way.  That leaves it up to the host parent to say "thats ok" or "no thank you we got it".  Not this boy.  Big ole mooch.  So reason # 157 why I don't like this kid.  So I am trying to slow things down with this boy, show her that in the future he will not be a good husband.  He is a little boy, in mental development and size, I pointed this out to her and said what if a wild animal attacked you?  How would he defend you, you know what she said?  "I will protect him".  Wow.  Did we fail as parents?  OR is this puppy love and the young lady making any excuse to put him in a positive light?  I really hope this kid moves or gets put in prison soon because I really want her to have a boyfriend that is on his way to becoming a man, who treats her great and wants to take care of her.  Is that too much to ask for?  The young boy in the house turned 13, he will treat girlfriends the right way, he will pay for dates, and his girlfriends parents will not pick him up.  That I can promise.

I used to call the preaching of Joel Osteen’s “feel good preaching" or the style "feel good theology”.  He would preach about being right with God and being financially prosperous if you were right with God.  God makes no such promise.  He clearly states that our reward is in heaven and is well worth waiting for.  These feel good pastors spread the dangerous theology that if we follow Gods will we will be rewarded here on earth and that isn’t true.  Bad things will happen to the greatest of Christian people.  God isn’t punishing us, he may just be testing us, he may be testing someone else.  We do not know his will.

Being critical of this theology I realized I was really wrong as well.

I was wrong, being a Christian does feel good, it gives true peace happiness and love.  It does not make one perfect (I'm writing this on 6 beers) but while here on earth it is the closest thing one can hope for.

I now call this type of preaching lies. 

Beware of millionaire pastors

On Facebook I follow many of the conservative talking heads, The Blaze,  Chicks on the Right  to name a few.

I find it funny how both of these pages come to the support of known liberals when other liberals attack them.  Well maybe not funny but ironic.  For example, Ellen Degeneres hosted the oscars last week and make a great joke about Liza Minnelli.  Gays, transgenders and all other extremely sensitive groups took offense.  Both the above sites came to her defense saying it was funny.

The one thing progressive lefties can not agree upon is what level of sensitivity is deemed insensitive.

Progressive libbies no matter if they agree with conservatives would ever say a nice word about them, or ever come out in support of a known conservative even if they agree.