Today's Show

Join hosts Gary Wellings and Ed Bonderenka as they discuss the President's trip to NATO, Michigan's US Senate Race, the Peter Strzok testimony and an update from 7th District US Congressman Tim Walberg

One of our better informative shows.
We talked with Rep Walberg at length about the Strzok situation after a long discussion of it..

And Pascal Fervor sent me this:
Wow!

The Bill of Rights. Has the bill come due?

My friend Janice Daniels wrote a piece for  IPatriot about the Bill of Rights.

Were We Right To Write a Bill of Rights?

She poses an interesting question.

Did we open a can of worms when we included the first ten amendments?

In a document that is written to supply limited powers to a federal government, should we have included verbiage that invites lawyers to interpret that verbiage?

I think it's an interesting thought, I don't neccessarily agree with it, but I'm still thinking about it.

Along those lines though, how is it that the First Amendment clearly states:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

And yet we are not allowed to sue an overaggressive prosecutor for a wrongful prosecution?

Wouldn't that suit be a redress of a grievance?

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Wouldn't it have been nice to have the First Amendment phrase "Congress shall make no law respecting..." involved in that protection?

Here's one we haven't worried about, that really is worrisome:

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

So basically, if the government write a law that says troops can be quartered in your house during wartime, they can be.

We are still at war with North Korea. 

Got an extra room?

Should we have needed to amend the Constitution at all?
Did we really need a 14th amendment to state the obvious that now gives us anchor babies?

Or the Volstead Amendment? We needed an amendment to make booze illegal?

Maybe Janice was right.

Independence Day 2018

Today I celebrate the bravery and integrity of the founding fathers and the men who supported them in battle to guarantee us our Freedoms, Liberties and Rights as declared in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
I pledge myself to continue the fight.
How about you?

Civil War

We broadcast today, the theme being the current Civil War.
Listen here.

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Civil War—Jeff Greenfield--- South Carolina Tea Party Convention Speech in January 2018.

How do civil wars happen?

Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge.

That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.

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The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it’s not the first time they’ve done this.

The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn’t really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There’s a pattern here.

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What do sure odds of the Dems rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don’t accept the results of any election that they don’t win.

It means they don’t believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections.

That’s a civil war.

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In a civil war you want to take the Capitol.
That’s what we face right now.

We took the Capitol November 8th, 2016.

The enemy is trying to take it back.

It's not draining the swamp, it's cleaning out the rebel holdovers..

It's been a multi-pronged attack on the legitimate government:

Calling all Trump supporters Nazi's, trying to delegitimalize 63 million voters.

Swamp the electorate with immigrants.

Import votes. Inflate congressional delegations via the census. 

Get the intelligence agencies to stage a "coup":

The Mueller ploy, Strzok, Page, Rosenstein, Clapper, Brennan, McCabe, Agents 1,2,3,4,5, Spygate.

Seriously, it's a war. By other means.

North Korea Peace Treaty

So, the deal is, that to give Li'l Kim the assurance that he won't be khadaffi'd (ala Clinton/Obama/Dems) there will be an actual Treaty with North Korea, such as should have been done with Iran.

Why did Obama not go for a treaty with Iran?
He knew that the Senate would not vote for it.

It just occurred to me that Trump might have the same problem given his demonization by Schumer, et al.

What will the mid-terms look like if the dems oppose a treaty (if it is called for that quickly) or 2020 (if it isn't)?

What do you think?

Father's Day 2018

Coal miner.

WW2 infantryman. (forward observer telephone wireman)

Ford Motors autoworker.

Ford Motors stamping engineer/manager.

Husband.

Boy Scout leader.

Provider.

Part time auto mechanic.

Mr. FixIt.

Mentor.

The other Ed Bonderenka.

Father.

A Pearl of Great Price

From the New King James version:

The Parable of the Hidden Treasure
44 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

The Parable of the Pearl of Great Price
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, 
46 who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.

These are two parables that follow the parables of the Sower,  the Wheat and Tares, the Mustard Seed and the Leaven.
They are followed by the Dragnet

These last parables are obviously related to the Kingdom of Heaven.
We can assume that the Treasure and Pearl parables also are.

What is the Kingdom of Heaven?
It is the Church, the band of humans who God rules.
Kingdom citizenship.
This is important to grasp.

It is often said that the Pearl and the Treasure are metaphors for the salvation experience, the Gospel, getting right with God, Christ.
That when you find the hidden secret of Salvation, you sell everything to get it.
And you don't tell anyone else so they don't get it first.

That sounds kind of weird, doesn't it?

You cannot sell all you have and buy heaven or entry into it.
You might do that as a result of gaining the free gift of salvation, but that free gift is trumpeted loudly, it is not hidden.

So what then is the Pearl, or the Treasure?

Jesus had previously been discussing the construction of the Kingdom:
The invitation (Sower)
Some will reject, some will join and leave, and some will join and grow.
The composition and growth (Wheat and Tares, Mustard Seed, Leaven)
The citizens (wheat) will dwell among others and their numbers grow.
The leaven either refers to growth or sinners among the saved.
The birds in the tree are often thought to be sinners among the saved also.
The gathering (The Dragnet)
Sinners and saints have been occupying the same territory and are separated at the end, similar to the Wheat and Tares.

The Wheat is hidden among the Tares, the Treasure is hidden in a field, the Pearl in the market, the Good (and bad) in the sea.

Now we come to the purchase (Pearl and Treasure)
So Who purchased the Kingdom?
When you phrase it like that, it almost becomes obvious.
The sinner doesn't purchase Christ.
The Pearl is not Christ.

The Pearl is the Church. The Treasure is the Church.
Who purchased the Church?
Who gave all He had to purchase it?
"and buys that field."
He redeemed the earth to get the Treasure.

Think about that.
Jesus gave everything He had to purchase a Pearl of Great Price.
A Treasure.
"For the joy that was set before Him, He endured the cross."

The Guy telling the story, the One who is evaluating the purchase, is Jesus.
He sees our potential, something He wants.
He sees something in us we don't see, yet "through a glass darkly".
But we know that "we shall be like him".
I didn't write that, God did.

Me? I want to live up to that. I want to make the cut, I want to live for Him.
After all, He died for me.

What about you? Are you worth it?