THE WILDERNESS VOICE: October 2017

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October 23, 2017 @ 9:00 AM

Don't you miss the good old days of the Cold War, when we stood toe to toe with the Soviet Union. Back then, with our nuclear arsenals aim at one another, we instituted our MAD policy—Mutual Assured Destruction. We knew our greatest deterrent to nuclear annihilation was the sanity of our archenemy, who knew any attempt on their part to annihilate us would be reciprocated by our annihilation of them.

Today, however, we find ourselves dealing with nuclear-armed nuts, like "Rocket Man," Kim Jung Um of North Korea, and the mad mullahs of Iran, who see nuclear war as the ultimate suicide bombing, assuring them of instant entrance into the virgin filled eternal orgy of the martyred jihadist's paradise. .........

THE INEVITABLE CRASH LANDNG OF THE PAPER MONEY AIRPLANES OF THE U.S. STOCK MARKET

October 5, 2017 @ 8:30 AM

Contrary to popular opinion, the two things that shape all human government are religion and economics. Democratic governments acknowledge or at least allow their citizenry to acknowledge God. Communist governments are atheistic and restrict or deny religious freedom to their citizenry. Capitalism is based on the free market, governments allowing privately owned property and businesses. Socialism is based on statism, government ownership and control of all property and businesses. In light of the above, who can deny that the chief factors in determining the nature of any government are religion and economics?

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the whole world is currently slipping and sliding into .........