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Ok, i believe most liberals and conservatives are that way.

You cant take cops off the streets and replace them with social workers. You can add additional funding however.

Conservatives judge a person on their actions, liberals judge race and gender.

I never claimed she was a liberal, although she sure isnt a conservative. She sounds like BLM, they are democrat. What i said was that this ignorance that this woman learned was from liberal values. Who wants to defund police? Liberals or conservatives? Who accuses all police of systemic racism? Who blames all whites for so called white privilege? Do you think shes a liberal?

Many liberals have unfairly judged all police. That's my point. Remember when they talked about defunding police? Why defund police unless you have judged them all?

Thank you. Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

I dont think they can pull it off. I think some democrats would jump ship.

Joe Biden is spending Trillions like its nothing, and we are deeply in debt. Hes even giving illegals health care. I dont mind spending a little to investigate our election process. 21,000 dead people managed to vote in PA. For every fraudulent vote a legitimate voter is disenfranchised. No wonder they dont want us seeing. Nothing to see here, just a waste of money. Congress wastes so much money, this is a drop in the bucket compared to what we waste in this nation. I got a lot of emails where people were shocked at some of the waste I brought up in last weeks episode such as the $490 million in office furniture, nearly $12k for a foosball table, and $250k so kids in Pakistan can attend summer camp in the U.S. (The Washington Times) I figured to expand the list and let you know just some of the things our Congress has authorized spending on over the last several years. While some of this will make you laugh, we all should be outraged: 1) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $181,406 in a grant called “Enhancement of Sexual Motivation” this year to a researcher at the University of Kentucky to study how cocaine enhances the sex drive of Japanese quail. The study isn’t intended merely to learn about birds, but about drug abuse and sexual habits of humans, that can lead to public health problems. (University of Kentucky) 2) $239,100 The National Science Foundation sent to Stanford University to study how Americans use the Internet to find love. (Senator Tom Coburn 2010 Wastebook) 3) The National Institutes of Health is spending $3.2 million to get monkeys to drink alcohol excessively to determine what effect it has long term on their body tissue. (The Washington Times) 4) The National Institute of Health spent $387,000 providing Swedish massages to rabbits. The study concluded that other studies were right, and massage seemed to help in recovery. The rabbits were euthanized at the end of the study. (ABC News) 5) The National Institute of Health also has handed out $69,459 to the University of Missouri to study whether text messaging college students before they attend pre-football game tailgates will encourage them to drink less and “reduce harmful effects related to alcohol consumption.” (Illinois Times) 6) $50,000 National Science Foundation, a study that concluded Democratic women in Congress were less feminine than Republican women. (UCLA/The Atlantic) 7) National Science Foundation $1 million dollars to study where it hurts the most to get stung by a bee. The Lip and nose. (The Hill) 8) The Department of Defense spent $300,000 on coffee mugs. The cost of these special custom mugs is $1,280. (Reason Magazine) 9) The Department of Defense spent $170,000 to study why coffee spills when we walk. From the abstract “In our busy lives, almost all of us have to walk with a cup of coffee. While often we spill the drink, this familiar phenomenon has never been explored systematically. Here we report on the results of an experimental study of the conditions under which coffee spills for various walking speeds and initial liquid levels in the cup.” the researchers said in explaining their project to the magazine Science. The researchers concluded that walking slower and steadier reduces the chances of spilling. (American Physical Society) 10) The NIH spent $371,000 on researching women’s emotional state when they see their dog compared to seeing their child and if they are more emotionally attached to their pet over their children. (Politico) 11) $1.2 million was spent developing “Kiddio: Food Fight,” a smartphone game aimed at empowering parents in vegetable-eating negotiations with their children. (Small Business Administration) 12) $144,000 to see if pigeons follow human economic laws. 13) The National Science Foundation spent $856,000 taxpayer dollars to determine if captive mountain lions could be trained to ride a treadmill. The University of California-Santa Cruz researcher even boasted about receiving the grant saying, “People just didn’t believe you could get a mountain lion on a treadmill, and it took me three years to find a facility that was willing to try.” If anyone was wondering, it took the lions all of eight months to learn. (The Federalist) 14) The National Science Foundation spent $331,000 to study whether hungry people tend to be more angry and aggressive. (Washington Post) 15) Another NSF grant funded the study of gambling monkeys to the tune of $171,000. The University of Rochester devised a computer game, taught monkeys to play it, and studied how they responded to winning and losing. A doctoral candidate who worked on the study seemed pleased to learn, “Luckily, monkeys love to gamble.” The study is set to continue through May of 2018. (John Hopkins University) 16) The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which is a part of the National Institutes of Health spent $2.6 million tax dollars to study the drinking habits of Chinese prostitutes and HIV/AIDS among sex workers in China. (Reason Magazine) 17) The Department of Agriculture was authorized to spend $9 million to quarantine fruit flies. (Citizens Against Government Waste) 18) $65 million was spent on the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund to reverse Pacific salmon in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska. (Citizens Against Government Waste) 19) $120 million for upgrades of the M1 Abrams tank to the M1A2SEP variant. Congress thereby maintained its longstanding tradition of jamming through unwanted funding for the M1 Abrams tank program in FY 2014. This earmark was added despite the repeated protests of Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno. (Military) 20) $800 million to create the Health Exchange website which was plagued by security issues and constantly crashed. (Washington Post) I just gave you 20 examples of the waste, fraud, and abuse within the system all at taxpayer expense. I could go on and on with examples, but we don’t have enough time. While the media focuses on gossip that will not affect your life in any way, they ignore real stories. Because of the lack of awareness, how can Congress be held accountable? We need to return to fiscal sanity, and we must hold members of Congress accountable for their actions. 3) The 3 E’s- Equality, Efficiency & Effectiveness– Members of Congress, both Republicans, and Democrats, have been highly irresponsible when it comes to spending our taxpayer dollars as I just illustrated. However, they also must take responsibility for the lack of oversight within the bureaucracy. Equality- There is no equality within the system, and the Congress while they try to force equality, it simply doesn’t work. Unfortunately, when something goes wrong, people’s knee-jerk reaction is to look to the federal government to solve the problem. Rather than do their job, Congress obliges by passing bills that don’t make sense or make the problem worse. During the great recession, Congress passed bills to extend unemployment benefits several times. (The Balance) Depending on when you were laid off, you were able to collect benefits from 33 weeks-99 weeks so, if you got laid off at the wrong time, you only received 33 weeks. During the same period, I suffered because I was unable to write off my closing costs on my home in October of 2009, but if you closed on a home starting in November 2009, you were able to write-off all of your closing costs. Efficiency- There is no efficiency in government programs. Look at how long it takes to get permits and do major construction projects. Look at how much it costs to run a school or government facility. They overpay on everything, and the cost vs. benefit analysis doesn’t make sense. The Government Accountability Office found that there are dozens of overlapping and redundant programs at the federal level. The government could save billions in taxpayer money by consolidating these programs. For example, three agencies conduct catfish inspections- USDA, FDA, & National Marine Fisheries Service under NOAA to look at the same catfish. (GAO) Effectiveness- The government rarely reviews programs to see if they are meeting their objectives. We continually hear that there is not enough money going into education, and that’s why student performance has been declining. We increase spending on education each year. We spend more than almost every country combined. So rather than looking at it as a money problem, perhaps we need to examine to see what other factors exist. The War on Poverty is another great example. When announced by Lyndon B. Johnson, the poverty rate was 17.3%. After $22 trillion spent, the poverty rate hovers between 14-15% today. (Heritage) The War on Drugs is another example. We have 76 drug prevention and treatment programs at the federal level, of which 56 overlaps according to the GAO. (GAO) This does not include all the state and local programs, as well as the nonprofit and for-profit programs. Drug addiction is at its highest levels. (PBS) Shows inefficiency and ineffectiveness. Fiscal disaster lies ahead While Congress should be held accountable, we cannot go without some blame. The media has kept us in the dark and continues to turn a blind eye to the abuses in the system. Instead, they have chosen to focus on innocuous entertainment stories. This has left the American people blind and deaf as to what is going on in Washington. Also, we have disengaged from the political process, and have remained willfully ignorant by ignoring the problem and not learning about our system under the Constitution and the roles and responsibilities of our institutions. However, there are other things we can do. We the People need to stand up and say no more. We need to hold the government and bureaucrats responsible for their failures. Sadly, the opposite is happening. Instead of recognizing governments failures and limitations, the people are willing to entrust government with even more power even though most are not aware of the staggering numbers we face. In addition to the $22 trillion debt, we have a total of $124 trillion in unfunded liabilities as deficits increase, and social security and Medicare begin to go into the red. We need to be honest with ourselves and understand that we are part of the problem as we place increasing demands on government. Sadly, the candidate who is honest will not win an election. No one is going to vote for the candidate that says, “I am going to make your life more difficult by increasing taxes where companies like Amazon should be paying into the system, cutting spending by 15% across all departments and agencies, and we will all have to sacrifice, but if we do this, we will become financially independent.” It is much easier for a candidate to win by offering stuff. Final Thoughts Last week I brought up invoking Article V and calling for a Convention of States. If you want detailed information on the Convention of States process, listen to last week’s episode. You can also visit www.conventionofstates.com. One of the amendments I would introduce is tying Congressional pay to the budget. If after three years Congress cannot get to a balanced budget, their pay gets decreased by 10%. If they start generating a surplus and paying down the $22 trillion national debt, they get a 5% increase in pay. By making Congress have a financial stake in the system, they will become much better stewards of our taxpayer dollars. They will be far more responsible and will have the incentive to make sure the programs we run are meetings goals and expectations. Another solution is to bring in outside auditors to examine government programs every two years to determine whether these programs are meeting their objectives. It doesn’t make sense for those running the programs to be the ones evaluating the programs. We should also force the government to try solutions that don’t cost taxpayers a dime. It’s time to be creative and try the free solutions first, as I stated when discussing Medicare for all earlier in the program. Finally, and most importantly, we must recognize that governments capabilities are limited, and we must stop looking to government to solve our problems because they can’t. Our government is designed to be slow, awkward, and inefficient. The federal government was never meant to take on this wide array of responsibilities, and power needs to be restored to the state and local governments, more importantly, power has to be restored to the people. https://pasreport.com/how-congress-defrauds-the-taxpayer-through-wasteful-spending/

This is awesome. God dwells among us. 2 Corinthians 6:16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, 18 and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Rev 21:22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. God.

Psalm 27:4 One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord And to [c]meditate in His temple. 5 For on the day of trouble He will conceal me in His [d]tabernacle; He will hide me in the secret place of His tent; He will lift me up on a rock. 6 And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, And I will offer sacrifices in His tent [e]with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

I agree, the only temple i seek is that of the Holy Spirit. Its not made with human hands.

It comes down to self control and proper thinking, as well as prayer. In my opinion. Maybe it even takes time to learn.

We as individuals being the Temple intrigues me. Its like saying we are children of God, we hear it so often we dont realize how profound it is. But are we a temple or just a stone in it?

That's a big part of it i think, but what about holiness? 1 Thessalonians 4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

Is that what verse 6 means?

Im just looking for insight, Any scripture is relevant. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are. 1 Co 6:18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body [g]and in your spirit, which are God’s. Ephesians 2:19-22 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,read more. 1 Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Scripture says we are the temple of God. This is correctly taken two ways, first we as individuals are the temple, and collectively we are the temple as well. Correct me if I'm wrong. Im looking to discuss all aspects of Gods Temple, both in the OT and NT but I am specifically wondering about how we as individuals are the temple and what understanding of it can be gained by looking at the OT temple, if any. Thank you.

Amen,

God says He will write His laws on our heart and mind. Perhaps that is intellect plus heart?

Democrats said that minorities dont always have an ID. I saw a video where a guy went around randomly asking black Americans if they had ID and if they had any trouble getting one. They all had ID and had no problem getting ID. Its actually offensive to suggest that minorities can't get an ID. Everyone has ID except illegal immigrants.

Why do democrats want to stop an audit? Dont we have a right to know if our election was fair and legal? There is only one reason they would want to stop it, they dont want us to see something.

Trump is rough around the edges but America needed him and still does. Hes the face of the GOP whether people like it or not. At least hes transparent. What you see is what you get.

I was going to say something about car exhaust. Thank you.

Is driving a car a work of the Spirit? What about walking? Or picking my nose? Is that from the Spirit or is it a work of flesh? Neither.