Have you checked your bank accounts lately?

According to Australia’s Herald Sun, the Australian government seized a record $360 million from ‘dormant’ household bank accounts in 2013 alone. A rule change in 2012, allowed the government to seize the money in some 80,000 accounts that had been dormant for three years. Prior to the change, just $330 million had been collected between 1959 and 2012.

While you might be wondering why you should care about a banking regulation in Australia, it turns out the practice is somewhat common in the United States as well. On radio this morning, Joe Kerry, president of Mercury One, explained the fight his family is currently battling with the state of Pennsylvania over funds liquidated from one of their bank accounts without their knowledge.

AND, it’s happening in OUR country now….

See the video HERE.

http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/06/17/this-happened-government-confiscates-money-from-a-member-of-glenns-staff/

(I’m waiting for my invite to the coming Million-Man-Armed-March on Washington, D.C.)

O my gosh! A Hollywood flaw!

I didn’t think it could happen, but there, on my TV screen was a glaring, scientific mistake that Hollywood completely missed when verifying the science-behind-the-script.

I’m a tad behind on my movie viewing.  So this morning (6/15/2014), I saw the 1989 film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, for the first time.  I was able to suspend credulity until Moranis explained how the shrinking happened:  His shrinking machine merely removed the extra space that exists between atoms and–presumably–between protons and electrons.

Now, my only official education is a 1984-earned G.E.D. certificate … but I have picked up a few things in 67 years.  One of them is that space is weightless.  The protons, neutrons and electrons of two objects have weight (or mass, for you science junkies), but the space between those objects has no weight/mass.  So, when the, say, 80 pound kid (fill in whatever weight you choose) was shrunk to 1/4 inch, he would still have weighed 80 pounds!

That would’ve meant the kid couldn’t have climbed that flower to look around (the plant wouldn’t have supported him), and they all couldn’t have ridden their dog (they would’ve crushed him), and so on.

If only Moranis hadn’t explained it that way, I’d’ve been fine with my thoughts.  <sigh … there are ongoing problems with having been a proofreader….>

(See what I mean about this blog being a complete waste of your time??)

New-and-Improved Ways to Destroy America

New-and-Improved Ways to Destroy America.

New-and-Improved Ways to Destroy America

Hollywood’s working overtime at tearing down our country!  Have you seen How (Not) to Murder Your Husband?  Apparently, over the years, men have been so unfair and cruel to women that wives are now being taught the right way to kill hubby off.  Well, at least learning what not to do so they can do it right.  Same thing.

Then, there’s Sinister Ministers and Preachers of LA.  Yeah!  If we can just eliminate God from our country and society, America will be the Utopia we all want!  It’s morals that makes our country so crappy!  (Just because there are some creepy, crappy men in the pulpit doesn’t negate God and morality, you idiots!)

I’m guessing the next series of shows will be Corrupt Cops, Traitorous Army Rangers (See?  There, they’ve got the initials, TAR!), Nautical Naughties of the Navy, Judges Who Can’t, Why the Right is Wrong, Floundering Founders (why our founding fathers couldn’t get it right) … oh, heck, Hollywood.  Just get right to your point and produce, Communism, America’s Glorious Future!  There are plenty of “stars” in Hollywood who will fight for the leading roles!

I think it’s time we turn off the TV and go back to reading good books for entertainment.

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There’s a 6 minute video you should watch right away: Violence is Coming to America.  Glenn Beck explains why….

Why setting back food/water is more important now than ever before

Why setting back food/water is more important now than ever before.

Why setting back food/water is more important now than ever before

In the ’40s and ’50s, and earlier, it was common practice to garden in the Summer and can the garden produce in the Fall.  Except for those in city apartments, everyone with a plot of land always had a basement’s store of foods they’d canned themselves.  It was the way-of-life in our country.  Unfortunately for us now, grocery store abundance and convenience have lulled us into a false sense of security.

In ’98-’99, fears of Y2K caused many to prepare for computer disasters, buying dehydrated and freeze-dried foods and storing them, just-in-case.  Fortunately, Y2K proved to be a false alarm.  Unfortunately, Americans were lulled back into a false sense of security.  Today, most of us have been put completely to sleep!  The occasional hurricane, tornado, earthquake or mudslide awakens us briefly, but the stores get restocked and we forget again.

But, there is NOW a real threat you may not be aware of:  Iran–a country sworn to our destruction–has developed effective missile technology.  That’s not a huge concern … until they perfect nuclear technology, or buy a couple of nukes from any other country that hates us.

Iran doesn’t need to nuke our cities.  They just need to explode a nuke, at the proper altitude, off the East coast and the West coast.  The electromagnetic pulse that the explosions create will disable EVERY computer, vehicle, phone, manufacturing plant, everything that uses electronics … and will shut down our country entirely.  Perfecting that altitude is EXACTLY what the Iranians have been doing.  All they need is the bomb.

I urge you to watch this 8 minute video to learn more of this very real danger, and–on that page–see what YOU can do to get prepared.  Please share this with your friends and loved ones!  We need to prepare individually and motivate our government to prepare our infrastructure against an EMP attack.  This one’s not a “guess” like Y2K was.  It’s a certainty, if/when Iran gets the bomb.

Don’t put this off!

How the Bible shows the Shroud of Turin is a fake

It seems every year, at Easter, the interest in the shroud of Turin is ‘resurrected’.  (Truth has a way of creating either real friends or hate-filled enemies.  Please understand that I believe the Bible and in the resurrection of Jesus.  However, over the years, misguided Christians have resorted to fakery in an effort to prove both.  It is they I want to expose.)

The Turin shroud was laid under a body and folded over it to produce the blood and body marks on it.  The problem, here is, that’s NOT how Jesus was buried.  Read Matthew 27:59, Mark 15:46, Luke 23:53 and John 19:38-42:

Matthew 27:59 – And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

Mark 15:46 – And he (Joseph) bought fine linen and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre ….

Luke 23:53 – And he took it (Jesus’ body) down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre ….

This is clarified in John 19:38-42 – And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
³⁹ And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
⁴⁰ Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
⁴¹ Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
⁴² There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

Jews–at that time–wrapped bodies the way the Egyptians did, like mummies. When Peter and John ran to the tomb and looked in, what they saw that caused them instantly to believe in Jesus’ resurrection (John 20:6-8) was–not sheets randomly strewn about, but–a collapsed “mummy wrap” (and the facial cloth neatly folded).

Think about it:  Randomly-tossed sheets of cloth would prove nothing!  Jesus’ body could just have been stolen.  But, a mummy wrap without a body in it would say volumes!

One other proof of the inauthenticity of the Turin shroud is, it depicts the male image with long hair.  (This one will really upset some of you!)  The Bible is anti-long-hair for men.  I Corinthians 11:14-15 – “Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?  But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.”  (According to Thayer, nature here means, “one’s native sense of propriety.”)

Is a man’s long hair a sin to condemn him to Hell?  Probably not … but it’s improper according to Scripture.  Consequently, it’s highly unlikely that Jesus had long hair, as He’s commonly depicted.  (Yes, yes, I know about Samson.  But note that, in Judges 13:5, the angel tells Samson’s parents not to cut his hair … maybe to say something to Israel about their wandering from God.)

But, the point of this post is to expose the shroud of Turin.  If you’re a Bible believer, you should now see how it cannot be genuine.
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How Spammers Do It –and– Our New Mobile Site

Have you ever wondered how advertisers (read spammers?) make that email they send you look so personal?  Here’s one I received recently … and dissected:

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“EXPOSED: Texas Mom Makes $8,000/Month…..

“Online jobs open now – submit your application here:

?<div class=”SUBHEAD-1”>Have You Ever Considered Working From Home Online?</div>
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“Kim Swartz from <script type=”text/javascript”>document.write(geoip_city());</script>, <script type=”text/javascript”>document.write(geoip_region());</script> never thought that she would work online, until curiosity got the best of her and she ordered a course from Millionaire author Michelle Withrow called” …. blah, blah, blah.
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Notice the coding, “(geoip_city());”?  That tells the email to place YOUR Internet Service Provider’s CITY NAME there.  In my case, it had my supposed neighbor, Kim Swartz, living 20 miles away … but still in my state (Texas), as directed to by “(geoip_region());”

All this was supposed to make me say/believe, “Hey, if close-neighbor Kim can do this, I can, too!  So, I’ll send them my $49.97 so I can work from home.”  But the truth-of-the-matter is, there is no “Kim Swartz” and she lives nowhere near me!  The sender of that email is a liar.

You can discover the same, if you question the veracity of of an email, by right-clicking anywhere on it and choosing “View page source” in Firefox or Chrome, or “View source” in Internet Explorer.

I hope this saves you some money (or some grief)!
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I just put up a new mobile website which I hope you’ll visit and pass-the-word about (it’s only 4 pages long).  It can be viewed on your PC, but it’s formatted for phones:

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‘Til next time, stay safe … and prepared!

Bruce

Obama’s New US Flag … are YOU ready??

Coming soon!

Once we’ve accepted the new flag, Obama will first remove the blue star field.  Once we’re used to that, the stars will be made black….

I wonder how much more the Pledge will change….

(Stock up NOW!  http://www.internet-grocer.com)

 

 

Saving Daylight Wastes Energy

Matthew Kotchen is a professor of economics at Yale University and recently served as the deputy assistant secretary for environment and energy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

March 6, 2014

If you ask someone why we have daylight saving time, the most likely answer you’ll hear is that we change the clocks to help farmers. But daylight saving time has nothing to do with agriculture, except that farmers have historically opposed it, preferring morning sunlight to darkness when, say, milking the cows.

The annual time changes are about energy conservation. That is why daylight saving time exists in the United States and dozens of other countries, affecting more than 1.6 billion people worldwide. The argument, dating back to Benjamin Franklin and others before him, is that changing the clocks — with a spring forward and fall back — will decrease energy consumption because more sunlight in the evenings will reduce the need for artificial illumination.

But does this actually save energy? Recent studies suggest it has the opposite effect. One study that I worked on took place in Indiana, where daylight saving time was first instituted statewide in 2006. We found that the time change increased residential electricity consumption by 1 percent over all, with monthly increases as high as 4 percent in the late summer and early fall. The consequence for Indiana has been higher electricity bills and more pollution from power plants.

The reason is that daylight saving time reduces demand for residential lighting, yet increases demand for heating and especially cooling. So, while Benjamin Franklin’s argument still applies to lighting, the more important effect today comes from air conditioners. And in regions where demand for air conditioning is greater and growing, daylight saving time is likely to increase electricity use even more. Arizona, one of the hottest states, may have it right by not changing the clocks.

Of course, many people favor daylight saving time for reasons unrelated to energy, one of which is more time in the evenings for outdoor leisure. But many others find the switch disruptive and would prefer the early morning sunlight. One unifying theme I have found since conducting research on daylight saving time is that virtually no one has a neutral opinion on the subject.

As the debate continues this year, readers and policy makers should keep in mind that despite its intended effect, a growing body of evidence reveals that daylight saving time increases rather than decreases energy consumption. There are certainly benefits, but energy savings is not one of them – a tradeoff to acknowledge as we enjoy an extra hour of sunlight on those long summer evenings.