In Honor of those that have Sacrificed...

Thank you to all Men and Women who have left the comfort of their homes to serve and defend our nation...

We will never forget the sacrifice many have made to allow us to live as free people.

God Bless

Don't touch that dial-God is in control

I believe God is healing me...

It may be through CAL 101, via John Byrd and the good folks at Calistoga Pharmaceutical, but I believe He is directing my "healing".

Last year when I came home to "fade away", I began spending more time with Him- in His word, in prayer... He decides when I check out. The phase one CAL 101 has allowed me to see a future... focus on other things than the constant focus of CLL that has consumed my life since 2004. God has given me the confidence to move forward.

I apologize to my CLL Forum Friends- regular and Christian: I guess I should be more diligent in posting, outlining my trial experiences...The trial I am on is pretty good. It has given me more energy, and best of all- hope.

I like/love the people from the forums,We have a strong bond that ties us together... a terminal illness. I followed many, and have seen many lose their battle. I have contributed for over six years now, starting with a Lymphoma forum before CLL Forum and CLL Christian Friends existed. I rarely frequent them these days- just a quick check to see how people are, then off living life and focusing on other things. I need to focus on something else for awhile. Besides, the real advice is to seek a qualified CLL Specialist and leave the strip mall oncologists alone. Beyond that, give control and thanks to Him that really IS in control, our heavenly father. He will direct your path.

Permanent electronic holiday continues.

Going to read a book--- not a Kindle, but a dead tree book.

God Bless,

Open response to a comment

Please do not attempt to pigeon hole me based on one comment/reading... I will try and offer you the same courtesy.

I watched Fox as well as MSNBC..both are extreme at times.I listened to Glenn Beck, as well as Randi Rhodes... I want to slap both of them. I believe the two ride to work together to get their pro wrestling like tag team material ready... I have turned them both off. Classic Rock on XM is more soothing.

I read two newspapers, and watch the local news. I am still informed.

The comment in question- two blogs ago- was from a Pravda article--- you know, the former mouthpiece of the Soviet Union.

Truth does matter... Unfortunately I am not sure we are getting it from either side of the aisle...Bush, Obama, Clinton. Arlan Sprecter, Chris Dodd, Mark Sanford, Mark Souder... they begin to blur. I listened to Charles Rangell several years ago, at a law school graduation..thinking, 'while I don't agree with him on many items, I believe he is a Patriot and serving our country'. Since then I see him a bit more self serving. While a $175,000 income is above average- how does Charlie and his cohorts on the hill-both sides of spectrum, become multi millionaires??? Maybe the legislators should hold seminars for the unemployed.

I strangly enough agree with some of Michael Moore (some) and some of Ron Paul... I believe the good intentions to help some people have crippled them and made a serf like class that is hard to break out of...I speak from experience. I also agree that a Capitalist model does not work for government. Neither does the socialist sharing the fruits of all labors... The grasshoppe and Ant fable come to mind.

I also see capitalist endeavors that are pulling the healthcare from their retired non union workers. Moving jobs to Mexico and China, to save a few dollars.

The model that best works for me is the Judeo-Christian beliefs that our country was founded upon... encouraging hard work, self reliance, and giving your neighbors a helping hand... The US is famous for giving to the less fortunate. New tax laws will reduce the amount that can be deducted, but I suspect those that give from the heart will continue no matter what.

I believe we as a country can regain our footing...

I believe in God and his word.

God Bless,

Filler Post

I see that some people have thumbnails of the blogs they follow- so I wanted to change the image of my blog, so as not to have an offensive thumbnail appear on someones page... The quick flash might leave someone to suggest they are sympathetic to the communist manifesto...

Nothing to report- went to the Doctor yesterday- Moffitt, and after a fifty five minute wait... spent 15 with a PA. Still feeling well... I suggested that I would see them in three months...and continue with my IVIG there. That feeds the "pig", $10,000 a month to keep me on their roster. I want to keep them in the loop, should I ever need hospitalization- they are much better than the local Hospital- but Ohio State is still calling the shots. I would gladly walk away from Moffitt, but instead have come to an unofficial understanding with them... I considered doing the IVIG in Ohio, buit I have worked them into an every other month schedule...and this monthly treatment is a supposed boost to my immune system, and pretty foolproof... open the bottle- inject and ignore.

So with lowered expectations, Moffitt has become my path of least likely resistance. Maybe that can be their new advertising campaign.

"Moffitt Cancer Center"
we ain't that great, but we will do in a pinch..."

Guess getting out of the advertising bizz was a good thing...

Now, got to get outside...I suggest you all do the same...

God Bless,

Slippery Slope? More like a Luge run...

From Pravda Online...

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "freeman" whimper.
So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
Stanislav Mishin

Feeling Patriotic

No bigmessage- just wanted to
1) Change the image of Wayne Dyer
2) put up an image that indicates the pride of being an American.

No excuses, yes- we do have a lot more than others... we do have a lot more to be thankful of... Now we need to make sure all that follow can enjoy the quality of life we have enjoyed- and not be indebted to some social experiment that works only in the minds of scholarly schmerers who have not produced anything tangible...


Yes, chief among those that seem to be altering our country would be our President...




God Bless us all,

No weeds in the garden- nope- not a horitcultural story.

Dr. Wayne Dyer's Diagnosis from Parade Magazine...
Q How is motivational guru Dr. Wayne Dyer doing since being diagnosed with cancer?--Joe DeLaigle, Newport News, Va.

A "I don't think of it as cancer," Dyer, 69, says. "It's chronic lymphocytic leukemia, not life-threatening, and it's been a great blessing in my life. We're all infinite spiritual beings having a temporary human experience. Find that within yourself.'"

Wrong...

I believe in positive thinking, that you attract those things to you that you focus upon... I also believe that if I step off a cliff...I will fall... I understand that some disagree... They may say:

There are no weeds in my yard...
There are no weeds in my yard...
There are no weeds in my yard...
There are no weeds in my yard...
There are no weeds in my yard...

Chances are the yard will be overrun with weeds.

Some people will sit and cry softly- about the weeds in their yards...

I guess I am of the school that you see the weeds, pull them and move on...

BIBLE VERSE WARNING...

Luke 9:62

Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."

Dr Dyer has made a few shekels pumping his books and tapes- so chances are he has a gardener....there are no weeds in his Hawaiian estate.

That or he simply levitates over them...

Sometimes things happen that just don't fit into our plans... getting CLL at age 49 wasn't part of my master plan...

Dr. Dyer does have cancer- Chronic Lymphocritc Leukemia... and fortunately, it appears he has a very mild treatable form...he can "Watch and Wait..." I pray he can do so for many many years. At age 69, he may never need to have treatment...

Others are not so lucky... Ed Bradley, Tom Synder lost their CLL battle. I also see at least one collegue from my forums per quarter who seem to lose their battle. Their families would disagree with Dr. Dyer's diagnosis about it not being life threatening.

A lot of what Dr. Dyer and other guru's spout off on are real...and worth following. I have read many of the self help books- the PMA manuals... I agree with many of the truths... especially from the more humble of the authors who acknowledge that the new ideas are not new- but nature's laws... God's laws. If you want to lighten the load of your library- you can find all this in one book- The Bible. Not as sexy and exciting to read...and Jesus will not send you a free copy if you donate to PBS...but the source of the truths none the less.

I believe in God... I believe that sometimes bad things happen to good people---and there is a reason not yet known to us why this may occur. This requires us to have faith in His plan. Not give up, not focus on the negative, and not "wish" it away.

I believe God works through inspiration of our Doctors... New research. New treatments.

BIBLE VERSE WARNING...

Matthew 5:45
that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

My old paster said it well, "Take the best and leave the rest."

I will keep Dr. Dyer in my prayers.

God Bless,