Reflections of An Uncommon Common Man

  Luke 12 : 51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. 52 From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”    I lived in East Nashville after my parents died and my wife lived there her entire life until we married. Our ties to East Nashville run deep. East Nashville has always been a heavily Democrat district but sadly I do not recognize the East Nashville of my youth. It has literally been taken over by Communist thinking and whenever I go back there I feel like I am in little Hanoi or little Havana. I see Black Lives Matter signs everywhere and so many other crazy signs. Unfortunately I was there the night the AP took it upon itself to announce Biden the winner of 2020 pr...

Daniel 3:16–18 16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. 17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. 18 But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.” Patrick Henry Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! I love these verses from Daniel and the words of Patrick Henry. Fear is something that I have struggled with all of my life. Looking back at my life I was a coward until about the age of 14. My mother drummed it into my head that you didn't have to fight to be a man. She told me that it took a bigger man to avoid a fight. This was...

 Recently, the Communists were going after Joe Rogan because he had used the n word in the past. They compiled a tape of Rogan using the n word over the years. Rogan says that his use of the word was taken totally out of context. I believe him for no other reason than I know how evil these people  are. They are more racist than he is. I know very little about Rogan and as far as I know I have never heard one of his podcasts or interviews. He is pretty middle of the road I hear  and fair minded. I do know Rogan has apologized to these people and if he thinks that will satisfy their blood lust he is badly misguided. An apology to the Communists is comparable  to blood in the water for sharks. You never apologize to Democrats.  Personally, I hate the n word and I can honestly say that I have never used it. At least not as an insult directed toward a black person. I have quoted historical figures using that word in my articles and will continue to do so without apol...

 I was watching a documentary on Auschwitz today. It was about how the Allies learned about what was going on there in 1944 and the moral dilemma they faced trying to decide whether or not to bomb the camp and the rail lines leading into the camp. Some of the Jewish survivors were interviewed and they all said that they had no idea that what was about to happen to them when they arrived at the camp. Old men, women and children were told to walk to the left and the Jewish survivors were told to go to the right. This was the selection process. They said that they didn't realize that this was the last time that they would ever see their loved ones alive. One woman said that she thought her family had been gone to live in another section of the camp. Another woman thought that the crematoria was a bakery because of the smoke stacks. Not until later did they discover the horrible truth about the fate of their loved ones. The Jews were hated and had been mistreated since the Middle Ages ...

 There are many things coming from the Communists these days that get under my skin but there is a commercial produced by a group called Love Has No Labels that really cooks my grits. It shows biracial and homosexual couples kissing behind a scanner and the couple exits from the right and left of the scanner to the laughter and surprise of the audience. As if they have never seen bi-racial or homosexual couples before. This is just another preachy, woke commercial that fosters the image that America is a country full of bigoted knuckle dragging Neanderthal's. My question is this. If we are so intolerant and backward thinking why is everyone kicking down our door to get here? If you are a person of color from Africa, the West Indies, Pakistan, Mexico, Central or South America, why would you come here if we are so racist and close minded? Why would a homosexual want to come to this country? Maybe they think that they can cut a better deal in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia wher...

 The following are excerpts from two articles that appeared in the Cleveland Herald in April of 1863. Night on the Battle Field of Stones River---The Old Year Out---the New year's Ride Carefully, driver, carefully! Let the hard iron of the wheels roll slowly over the pounded stone of the [Nashville] pike. The young soldier still lives. His breath is short, but we may yet reach the hospital nere he dies. Guide steadily past the shattered wagons---round the heaps of dead horses---through the long rows of corpses; watch that no foot of a horse jars against the fallen dead---the heroes of the last day of 1862---resting now, where they fell, or where friends have laid them. Here they lie in rows of miles, sleeping out the old year. On the last day of Sixty-two they stood for their country and for Freedom. At its midnight hour they sleep, no more to awake to war's ringing bugle call. Well might thoughts of the old year and of eternity crowd upon the mind of the soldier whose duty to ...

 Pastor Henning Jacobson was a Swedish immigrant that was living in Massachusetts during a smallpox epidemic in 1902. Massachusetts was one of eleven states at the time that had a compulsory vaccination law. Mr. Henning and his son would have to get a smallpox vaccination or they would pay a five dollar fine. Five dollars in 1902 was about 150 dollars in modern currency. Pastor Henning and his son had lived through a smallpox epidemic in Sweden before coming to the United states. Sweden also had a compulsory vaccination law. They both took the shot in Sweden and suffered horrible complications. For this reason they refused to take the shot in 1902. The state of Massachusetts fined them five dollars. Pastor Henning sued and the case reached the US Supreme Court three years later in 1905. This case was called Jacobson VS. Massachusetts and Henning lost. The court ruled that Jacobson's 14th Amendment rights had not been violated. Judge John Marshall Harlan spoke for the majority in a ...