A few Questions For That Rancher On Welfare

Question 1: Seems that Cliven Bundy and his family are just another bunch of corporate welfare recpients.Instead of using pseudo~Constitutional goobledygook,why don't you man up and get off the government's tit and buy and pay for your own land!?!

Question 2: They say the government has no jurisdiction in a state matter.Don't you know that federal laws have always superseded state laws?

Question 3: Really?The feds have no right to the land?Probably just like the indians are asking you about owning YOUR land.Why don't you give your land back to the native Americas who lived on it before you?

Question 4: If poachers grazed their cattle on YOUR land,would you say,"Go ahead.No charge?Or would you bring in F-Troop again for support?

Question 5:How can you claim to be a God loving American,yet hate the federal government?America is the federal government.WE elect.Why not call yourself just a Nevadian instead of an American?

Question 6:Who even grazes cattle anymore?Aren't cattle supposed to be packed into small crates and fed GMO corn and their own brothers now-a-days?Come on what modern rancher still grazes?Is this just your hobby?

VICE~VISA or When is $50.00 only worth $46.11 ?

They say never look a gifted horse in the mouth.Alas,if you are lucky enough to get a VISA gift card,you can't be that generous.

Our $50.00 gift card only had the purchasing power of $46.11.

Plus,the $4.95 activation fee,the real value of this gift VISA is only $41.16!

You lose $8.84 just using this awesome gift.

As a cautionary tale,I am forewarning you of the consequences of gifting this card to someone.

Here's my story:

I went out for a nice afternoon of shopping with my awesome wife,Robyn,my son,handsome Adam and his beautiful wife,Marissa.We went to the -not so local- Ikea.We decided to go out to eat afterwards at Smoky Bones BBQ.Of course,we went out to eat on our fantastic son,Nikolas and his wunderful fiancee,Ashley,via the fifty dollar VISA gift card that they gave us as a present.

After our meals,the bill came in slightly over sixty one dollars.I broke the unopened VISA out of it's packaging,slid in a twenty under it,and notified  our waitress we were using a gift card.I figured that would be just enough for our bill and an okay amount of tip.

WRONG.

The waitress came back with just 75 cents in change.

Whaaat?!?

She told us that the card wouldn't take as a gift card,only as a VISA{which I even had to sign for}.Not only that,the powers that be ( the device that scans and takes the card,I suppose ), decided that all customers at eating establishments would leave an 18% tip...ie..the $50.00 card would,therefore,only cash out at $46.11.

Which is fine,except that our bill was over sixty one dollars.Luckily,I had more cash than the twenty dollar bill on me.Or else either the waitress wouldn't have gotten a tip,or I would have had to bring out my Master Card just for the waitress' gratuity.

Not only that,but when we called VISA afterwords,they said that the rest of the money-in this case,the three eighty nine- would not be on the card until,at least,Monday or Tuesday.We were also told that a card would not always be accepted if the card was partially used unless it was used for the whole remaining total.

I know....I know,all minor inconveniences.And this story made our evening just that little more memorable.

Just saying.

...I have Christian friends that believe that evolution is all phooey.They believe that if you disprove the Bible on one subject (not that the story has a deeper or other meaning,or that it is a beginning to scientific explanation or theory...I mean isn't that the strength of science..throw out a theory if it proves itself wrong?...but you at least have to have a theory first) then God's book could be wrong in other ways,too.

So what? The Bible is not just a book etched in stone(except,maybe,the 10 Commandments),but the living breathing word of God.

For example,when Jesus says,In Heaven I have many mansions,I take this to mean that as a mandate for mankind to explore the stars,to bravely go where no man has gone before(except there always seems to be someone already there!!!)

It is a how NOT to book just as much as it is a how to book.

For instance,I have always been for marriage equality even though the Bible wants to throw in some land and some sheep;I say my wife has enough land and sheep...she's just gonna have to marry down..

..but,I agree with The Bible about not joining two fabrics together..that just creeps me out...

I guess I just don't understand this new breed of duck dynasty faux Christians that say the Earth is only 6,500 years old and Jesus rode a dinosaur(except the Bible has unicorns,and unicorns are cool).I don't understand why,all of the sudden,they believe the Bible should be the new science book in schools?..

...except that I do...

They are using the Lord to destroy everything new and uncomfortable.

..then why aren't they against Wal*Mart?!?Most of their clothes are new and uncomfortable.

I am reminded of the New Testament story of the lady at the well...

...wait ..let me get back to that...

these etched in stone fellows..if everything in the Bible is always correct and never changing...ok..if this is true,than..umm..old testament...'new' testament???

How can that happen exactly?

If everything is all honky dory in the old how or why can you bring in the new?

If the Bible is all infallible,can the old ways be so wrong that you had to have a new?

Wait...I suddenly understand I-Phones.

Well,to get back to the lady at the well..Jesus said drink of me,and you will never thirst again.

That story always reminds me of some of us super rich folk...I mean..how much money is enough?!?There is never enough...there is the constant THIRST for more.

"Drink of me and you will never be thirsty again."

WoW!

Good stuff.

The corporations-in their thirst-in it's constant preachings to covet- is throwing down the bottom line that want is the true Christian value.Thirst,my friends,stay thirsty.

This blasphemy has been incorporated of an ever growing segment of our Christian culture turning it up on it's ear.

The only thing new and improved these duck dynasty faux Christians don't want is the spreading of the Christian message to these other folks that don't act and look like us.

"But he can't be a man  'cuz he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me"

Therefore negating everything Jesus spoke about!

Whatever you do to the least of my brothers,that you do unto me.

In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. “And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’ “But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. ‘And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, andthat none may cross over from there to us.’ “And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house—for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ “But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ “But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ “But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”

Yeah,I don't believe that the Good book is a book etched in stone(not even the umpteen versions of the 10 Commandments).I believe that it is the living breathing word of God.

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