I’m always amazed how “right here” I learn so much. I’m very grateful for the Malones, all of your great hard work, and all of you that constantly give me different perspectives, make me think and learn, thank you. I’ve always said “hang out with smarter people and you will continue to learn”, thanks for letting me be here!
I’m always amazed how “right here” I learn so much. I’m very grateful for the Malones, all of your great hard work, and all of you that constantly give me different perspectives, make me think and learn, thank you. I’ve always said “hang out with smarter people and you will continue to learn”, thanks for letting me be here!
One thing I’ve learned over my 60 years is when I see someone that is working really hard, struggled to raise good kids, or someone helping another, I honor them with a compliment, “your doing a great job”. We all carry honor and have it to give. When we honor someone we’re not just doing them a favor, we are doing ourselves a favor. When showing honor there is a commanded blessing that will be returned back into our own life. It can be as simple as giving up your seat to an older person, let someone go ahead of you in a line, or just complimenting someone. The amount of honor that you show is directly related to the amount of Gods favor you will see in your life.
Paul said in Ephesians 6 “Honor your father and mother” which is the first commandment with a promise, “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy a long life”. This is saying, honor should start at home. It should start in our own family with those closest to us. We should never treat complete strangers better than our family or spouse, it should be opposite that. Young people should listen to their parents. Mark Twain said “When I was 14, my father was so dumb, I could hardly stand to be around him, but when I got to be 21, I was amazed at how much the man had learned”. We should not honor our parents with just words but with how we treat them.
One thing I am sure of, you will never change a dishonorable situation by adding more dishonor. That will always make matters worse. Honoring someone lifts them. You should honor people the way you would want them to be.
I can’t tell you how much respect I have for women. For centuries women have worked and fought for their position in this world. In a general sense, you will never gain honor, and should not gain that honor, by dishonoring women, plain and simple. You will never receive what you are not willing to give, and if you don’t give honor you won’t have honor. The present dishonor shown to women today saddens me. It is a sign of a sickness spread in our society. The key to a breakthrough that we pray for, is to honor the people and women that God has put in our lives in a greater way.
The only way I see so many of these problems in our world today being resolved, is for people and government to return to honoring and respecting the people, and their God given freedoms, free thoughts, privacies and liberties, anything short of that is surely done with the intent to divide us. J.Goodrich
Well, as much as I appreciate the Friday and Sunday blessings, my main takeaway the past few months is that i need a larger screen and smaller thumbs. 😉 😂 💰 Fortunately, perhaps, my iPhone Tennis (XS) is EOL’d so in only 10, 11 months my wish will come true.
Now, as for more, or any, respect from the gummint, do mean from those we elect to manage and thems that are employed to run the gummint? Then I’m with you, BUT gov’t in/of/by itself cannot do respect as it is an artificial entity. To get to the respect I agree we need/should have will require limiting the size of gov’t by enacting term limits, returning the Senate to the States, eliminating the civil servants from exercising legislative like ability (force the Legislature to BE a legislature) and limiting the size of the civil service and the length of time one works for/in civil service - the idea being that at some point, sooner than later, everyone/anyone in any facet of government will have to return to and live amongst the people
When I was a gov ee (a good while ago) I used to reflect on how unfair it seemed that we were being paid so much more than the private sectot.The PS was where real work was happening.
Back in the deep dark dim recesses of what I humorously call my memory, don’t remember if it was a governmental history class or a law school class, I do remember that the civil service classification was a compromise: in exchange for some employment protections they settled for lower wages than in the private sector and no unionization. Well, we can see how that faired: most of the top income counties in USofA surround DC and gummint unions are the only unions that are really growing.
I shouldn’t, but I do have a bit of a conflict in this: dad went to work for the gummint right after he completed his Ph.D program, starting as a post doc, and kept climbing the GS ladder right to end. The thing that bugs me is I’m not sure he would have had as successful a career doing what he did in the area he was in the private sector - 🤷♀️. What further bugs me is that even when the private sector shrinks the gummint sector continues to grow. The gummint produces nothing (well, essentially nothing), the private sector is the engine but we allow the GS to act as a governor on the PS - as a result when we should be having the greatest growth in the modern era due to the transformative power of current tech we’re practically idling. We have massive transfer of wealth from the productive sector to unproductive lay-abouts, invaders, etc., but also to the government sector. The amount of friction involved in this fiscal flow is so great if it obeyed the laws of physics/thermodynamics we would’a reached self-combustion a decade or more ago.
SR Miller, I don’t think I’ve said this before but I am hoping and looking forward to shrinkage! (of government) When I look at people like Merrick Garland, Tony Blinken, James Sullivan, and the rest of these characters, too many to list, I see them all sleeping on their feathered beds, stuffing their faces will filets and lobsta’s and sending innocent people to prison, law fare, and now sending our kids off to war, so they can get more wealthy. You can work for a company that helps make a gear or a computer chip a cone for a missile or a company that makes nasal swabs and machines to test for Covid, and you all got fithy rich off the suffering of others. Sure you were just making the pieces, doing what you were told, watching your account grow while others struggled. Well I hope struggling people that actually produce the things everyday people need and want will see an uptick in their bank accounts. It’s funny when I talk to people that have profited greatly off the pandemic and the wars they’re all upset and worried about Trump being president. They wanted Harris to continue their income stream. I have a neighbor that lobbied congress for money to get everything the army gets, he’s said from a bullet to a Blackhawk helicopter to Abraham tanks, he was a lieutenant colonel. When Biden got in he said things went back to normal. It got back to a blank check, anything he wanted he got. He said with Trump they went line by line and would deny money going out the door. I think this time Trump will be worse for those people. That’s why the deep state is so panicked. Trump has so much to do, I hope he’s successful. I fear for him and our country.
I agree with you, James, about the need to honor & respect one another. I think that lack of honor is what has been so deeply disturbing for me over the last 3+ years, since the deployment of these "vaccines" that have clearly harmed & killed so many people. Our federal health officials, who most certainly know the damage they have caused, continue, by & large, to promote & support their use. This is the epitome of disrespect as well as total disregard for the health & well-being of the population. Additionally, anything that would have been helpful & life-saving, was disparaged, suppressed, or disallowed, including vitamin-D, which would have gone a long way in helping to ameliorate more serious illness. Can you think of anything more egregious? In other words, the policies they implemented actively contributed to people's demise, either by commission or by omission. That to me is both unconscionable & unforgivable. There is also a serious lack of shame. As for myself, whenever I have done something that was less than honorable, I felt shame. If you do not feel any sense of shame, there will never be any course correction. It will always be more of the same. This is what we have come to expect from our government, our federal health officials in particular. How sad is that....
It is very sad Debra. They have created this environment of distrust throughout our country and the world. Dishonoring the people, which seems to be the theme of this administration I pray comes to an end on January 20th. From a man’s perspective at least for me, providing for my family also includes protecting them, first and foremost.
Also well said. I also found this most disturbing from not just this admin but also how easily the propaganda worked on so many (like during the Holocaust).
I’m always amazed how “right here” I learn so much. I’m very grateful for the Malones, all of your great hard work, and all of you that constantly give me different perspectives, make me think and learn, thank you. I’ve always said “hang out with smarter people and you will continue to learn”, thanks for letting me be here!
One thing I’ve learned over my 60 years is when I see someone that is working really hard, struggled to raise good kids, or someone helping another, I honor them with a compliment, “your doing a great job”. We all carry honor and have it to give. When we honor someone we’re not just doing them a favor, we are doing ourselves a favor. When showing honor there is a commanded blessing that will be returned back into our own life. It can be as simple as giving up your seat to an older person, let someone go ahead of you in a line, or just complimenting someone. The amount of honor that you show is directly related to the amount of Gods favor you will see in your life.
Paul said in Ephesians 6 “Honor your father and mother” which is the first commandment with a promise, “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy a long life”. This is saying, honor should start at home. It should start in our own family with those closest to us. We should never treat complete strangers better than our family or spouse, it should be opposite that. Young people should listen to their parents. Mark Twain said “When I was 14, my father was so dumb, I could hardly stand to be around him, but when I got to be 21, I was amazed at how much the man had learned”. We should not honor our parents with just words but with how we treat them.
One thing I am sure of, you will never change a dishonorable situation by adding more dishonor. That will always make matters worse. Honoring someone lifts them. You should honor people the way you would want them to be.
I can’t tell you how much respect I have for women. For centuries women have worked and fought for their position in this world. In a general sense, you will never gain honor, and should not gain that honor, by dishonoring women, plain and simple. You will never receive what you are not willing to give, and if you don’t give honor you won’t have honor. The present dishonor shown to women today saddens me. It is a sign of a sickness spread in our society. The key to a breakthrough that we pray for, is to honor the people and women that God has put in our lives in a greater way.
The only way I see so many of these problems in our world today being resolved, is for people and government to return to honoring and respecting the people, and their God given freedoms, free thoughts, privacies and liberties, anything short of that is surely done with the intent to divide us. J.Goodrich
Well, as much as I appreciate the Friday and Sunday blessings, my main takeaway the past few months is that i need a larger screen and smaller thumbs. 😉 😂 💰 Fortunately, perhaps, my iPhone Tennis (XS) is EOL’d so in only 10, 11 months my wish will come true.
Now, as for more, or any, respect from the gummint, do mean from those we elect to manage and thems that are employed to run the gummint? Then I’m with you, BUT gov’t in/of/by itself cannot do respect as it is an artificial entity. To get to the respect I agree we need/should have will require limiting the size of gov’t by enacting term limits, returning the Senate to the States, eliminating the civil servants from exercising legislative like ability (force the Legislature to BE a legislature) and limiting the size of the civil service and the length of time one works for/in civil service - the idea being that at some point, sooner than later, everyone/anyone in any facet of government will have to return to and live amongst the people
I actually remember when civil servants earned less for the same work than on the outside. Now I believe earn 30% more. Look for that union label!
When I was a gov ee (a good while ago) I used to reflect on how unfair it seemed that we were being paid so much more than the private sectot.The PS was where real work was happening.
Back in the deep dark dim recesses of what I humorously call my memory, don’t remember if it was a governmental history class or a law school class, I do remember that the civil service classification was a compromise: in exchange for some employment protections they settled for lower wages than in the private sector and no unionization. Well, we can see how that faired: most of the top income counties in USofA surround DC and gummint unions are the only unions that are really growing.
I shouldn’t, but I do have a bit of a conflict in this: dad went to work for the gummint right after he completed his Ph.D program, starting as a post doc, and kept climbing the GS ladder right to end. The thing that bugs me is I’m not sure he would have had as successful a career doing what he did in the area he was in the private sector - 🤷♀️. What further bugs me is that even when the private sector shrinks the gummint sector continues to grow. The gummint produces nothing (well, essentially nothing), the private sector is the engine but we allow the GS to act as a governor on the PS - as a result when we should be having the greatest growth in the modern era due to the transformative power of current tech we’re practically idling. We have massive transfer of wealth from the productive sector to unproductive lay-abouts, invaders, etc., but also to the government sector. The amount of friction involved in this fiscal flow is so great if it obeyed the laws of physics/thermodynamics we would’a reached self-combustion a decade or more ago.
SR Miller, I don’t think I’ve said this before but I am hoping and looking forward to shrinkage! (of government) When I look at people like Merrick Garland, Tony Blinken, James Sullivan, and the rest of these characters, too many to list, I see them all sleeping on their feathered beds, stuffing their faces will filets and lobsta’s and sending innocent people to prison, law fare, and now sending our kids off to war, so they can get more wealthy. You can work for a company that helps make a gear or a computer chip a cone for a missile or a company that makes nasal swabs and machines to test for Covid, and you all got fithy rich off the suffering of others. Sure you were just making the pieces, doing what you were told, watching your account grow while others struggled. Well I hope struggling people that actually produce the things everyday people need and want will see an uptick in their bank accounts. It’s funny when I talk to people that have profited greatly off the pandemic and the wars they’re all upset and worried about Trump being president. They wanted Harris to continue their income stream. I have a neighbor that lobbied congress for money to get everything the army gets, he’s said from a bullet to a Blackhawk helicopter to Abraham tanks, he was a lieutenant colonel. When Biden got in he said things went back to normal. It got back to a blank check, anything he wanted he got. He said with Trump they went line by line and would deny money going out the door. I think this time Trump will be worse for those people. That’s why the deep state is so panicked. Trump has so much to do, I hope he’s successful. I fear for him and our country.
I agree with you, James, about the need to honor & respect one another. I think that lack of honor is what has been so deeply disturbing for me over the last 3+ years, since the deployment of these "vaccines" that have clearly harmed & killed so many people. Our federal health officials, who most certainly know the damage they have caused, continue, by & large, to promote & support their use. This is the epitome of disrespect as well as total disregard for the health & well-being of the population. Additionally, anything that would have been helpful & life-saving, was disparaged, suppressed, or disallowed, including vitamin-D, which would have gone a long way in helping to ameliorate more serious illness. Can you think of anything more egregious? In other words, the policies they implemented actively contributed to people's demise, either by commission or by omission. That to me is both unconscionable & unforgivable. There is also a serious lack of shame. As for myself, whenever I have done something that was less than honorable, I felt shame. If you do not feel any sense of shame, there will never be any course correction. It will always be more of the same. This is what we have come to expect from our government, our federal health officials in particular. How sad is that....
It is very sad Debra. They have created this environment of distrust throughout our country and the world. Dishonoring the people, which seems to be the theme of this administration I pray comes to an end on January 20th. From a man’s perspective at least for me, providing for my family also includes protecting them, first and foremost.
Also well said. I also found this most disturbing from not just this admin but also how easily the propaganda worked on so many (like during the Holocaust).
Perfectly said James! Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🦃
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family Jennifer!! Hopefully as time goes we’ll have even more reasons to be thankful.
Wise words and well said. Thank you James!
Thank you Cheryl B.!!