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1991,  I admired Dick Cheney and Colin Powell for the military leadership in the middle east and what appeared to be good common sense.  Powell seemed to be a good SOS at least early on.  something happened in 2008 when he endorsed Obama.  He now claims that the USA is damaged on the world scene due to POTUS Trump.  I wonder how he felt about SOS Hillary selling Uranium One to the Russians in return for donations to the Clinton Foundation and paying Bill 500K for one speech.  such great moral leadership.

Sad to see Powell selling his soul to the left

all measures that I can see with my eyes say the US is re-emerging from the downward slide of the Obama Hillary Pelosi Reid years.  Better and employing more people in all walks of life.

shame on you Colin Powell

 

Colin Powell Rips Trump on Immigration, NATO, Anti-Press Rhetoric: The World Can’t Believe What’s Happening

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Zakaria asked Powell and his other guest, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, about American foreign policy and whether the country is still leading the rest of the world by example.

Powell, a Republican who has maintained a low profile during the Trump administration, called out “what we are not doing as the United States of America.”

“What are we doing? We’re walking away from agreements, we’re walking away from alliances,” Powell said. He noted that Trump insulted U.S. allies at the NATO summit.”

Letterman until mid 1990s was funny

late night with carson and leno was funny

fallon and colbert – not funny and frequently disgusting

and this confirms my choice was the right thing to do

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/10/07/wow-stephen-colbert-writer-so-ashamed-of-kavanaugh-tweet-she-deletes-it-and-locks-down-but-we-got-it/

 

Notes on fake news (2)

 

“Tweets about Mr. Kaplan at the hearing immediately began circulating among Facebook message boards such as “Women @ Facebook,” a communications chat room called “Just Flagging,” and a group called “Wait, what?” where employees can ask public relations questions. Many employees had one query: Why was Mr. Kaplan there, front and center?”

 

https://biblehub.com/philippians/4-8.htm

 

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

 

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  https://biblehub.com/john/14-6.htm

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To some extent, the Democrats’ bizarre smear campaign against Kavanaugh is explicable on short-term political grounds. The Democrats’ crazed base demands that they #Resist, so resist they will, whether it does any good or not. But I think there is something deeper and more sinister at work.

Brett Kavanaugh enjoys one of the most spotless reputations of anyone in American public life. He has been enthusiastically endorsed by those who have known him all his life–by girls he knew in high school and college, by judges he has served with, by professors and students and Harvard and Yale law schools, by judges who have worked with him, by his judicial clerks–most of whom have been women–by the American Bar Association, by sitting Supreme Court justices. In short, everyone who has ever known or dealt with Brett Kavanaugh endorses him.

I think that Judge Kavanaugh’s pristine reputation is one reason why the Democrats have unleashed against him a smear campaign unparalleled in American history. This is the message they are trying to send: If we can do this to the Boy Scout Brett Kavanaugh, we can do it to anyone. Are you thinking of serving in a Republican administration? Or accepting an appointment to the federal judiciary from a Republican president? Think twice, and then think again.

Because our smear machine will reach back to middle school if necessary. If we can’t find any dirt on you, we will manufacture some. There is no depth to which we will not stoop, and your honesty, integrity and spotless reputation are no match for our control over the media and our determination to dredge up ridiculous allegations against anyone who stands in our way.”

 

Why the Brett Kavanaugh Smear?

Photo Memories of Andrew at Bible Study

So as a Christian,  I think that our goals for ourselves and our leaders – including the Government (congress, judges, administrators) should lead by good example.

Truth

Integrity

Honesty

good virtues

all are important and should never be ignored in making decisions.

Fairness and equal treatment are important.

the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh from high school are unsavory,  and if true embarrassing.  the question is what should be used as the qualifications for office holders in morality and ethics?

if attempted accused groping while a drunk 17 year old is a bar to holding office 30 years later with no other incidents , then I must ask

at what point does righting one’s life count?  what about forgiveness?

is the accused still doing this or has he continued to do this since the 30 year old incident?

Why did Bill Clinton get a pass?  for his entire career? and stands accused of multiple sexual assaults?

Why is Keith Ellison getting a pass?

Why do we know nothing about Obama and he served as president for 8 years?

Why did Ted Kennedy get to serve decades and have multiple accusers ignored and he likely as the cause of Mary J K’s death in 1969?

the same goes for any politician who has stayed in office doing terrible immoral things,  they should be held to the same standard as any of use mere mortals.

I did things in high school which I am not proud of.  I never was drunk.  I was mean to people sometimes,  and was juvenile acting many times.  I am sure I locked people in rooms as a joke,  with this much time, I truly cannot remember.

without some other data points that show the Judge being an immoral person doing harm to women past high school, one incident,  I do not see this as being something to bar him from confirmation.  I my opinion, if this does,  then half or more of congress, the military, many judges, most GOP and DEM leaders, state leaders should immediately resign – if they have any sense of honor left.

at about 820 am Sunday 9/9,  I received a call that Robert Andrew Paw Burnett had died during the night at age 31.

Andrew was one of two survivors of the wreck in 2002 that killed our son Joshua Blake Hargrove.  We only came to know Andrew as a result of the wreck – we visited him in the hospital only days later to assure him he had no fault in the accident (a truck had crossed the oncoming lane to head on collide with Joshua’s van,  the driver Shelly age 20 was also killed in the wreck.).

Andrew came to be a close friend, in a way a second son to Leisa and I, and when life turned bad for him (he struggled with anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues) and his mom developed cancer, then died – it was more than he was willing to handle.  We saw him rise and fall with life’s challenges.  He was at our home often, sometimes in the early morning hours – just talking through good and bad things.  He was connected to a lot of people and loved to talk, debate, support, and just enjoy talking to people.  He enjoyed sharing his Faith in Jesus, inside and outside of church and Bible Study.

Andrew appears to have died of natural causes at night, in the early morning ours of 9/9/2018.

this is a short tribute to his life

he was a Friend, loyal to a fault, willing to help, loved marvel comics,  played D&D, knew a lot of his Bible due in no small part to the influence of his uncle Larry Hatch.  he attended Tuesday night Bible study from 2003 to his death in 2018.  He loved his family.  He was creative and smart,  sensitive to others, loved to laugh.  He played a lot of video games, loved to draw, write stories.  Music was important to him as a means of thinking and connecting.  He had long time friends from kindergarten to now.

We miss you Andrew Paw Burnett.

 

Our prayers are with his friends and family.  We know we will see Andrew again when our time comes to leave this world.  Thank you Jesus!

We do not know what Life Brings

Each day is new day and also could be the last

Robert Andrew Burnet died last night of apparent heart attack.  he was 31 years old.

He was injured and almost died in the accident that killed Joshua in June 2002.  He has been part of Leisa and I’s lives since that fateful night.

He has struggled with many health issues physical and mental.  He seemed to be up in spirit last Tuesday night (the Bible Study that Joshua started).  He was in poor health – missing his mom who passed away last year, and struggled greatly just to survive each day.

I am reminded in some way of my Uncle James Welden Hargrove who passed in large part by smoking himself to an earlier death.

Andrew will be missed.  I know he knew Jesus as his savior.  I know he is now at peace and fully healed.

if you will, please be in prayer for his family and friends.