Cain in the United States: "You can't get there from here."

The Blue-Tail Fly

(Jimmy Crack Corn),

The Mail Must Go Through

Three Blind Mice,

Oh, Susanna,

The Man On The Flying Trapeze

They say it's hard to do the right thing.

It's not hard to do the right thing; 

it's just hard knowing what the right thing to do is?

Once you do know; 

it's hard not doing the right thing.

A good man, 

as well as a good woman this day and age most especially our half of the world, 

is not without sin; 

they admit, then expiate.

So where am I going with this..?

CAIN IN THE UNITED STATES

Let's go back to the question about the difference between a wealthy man(woman) and a poor man(woman)? 

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi reported Sunday that 2,300 American Humvees were captured by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Just a day later, media reports emerged that some of those very armored vehicles had been used in a suicide bombing.

The Humvees were lost when ISIS forces overran Mosul last year, forcing Iraqi soldiers to abandon tons of equipment during their retreat from the city. Angelo Young, writing for International Business Times, calculated the cost of the lost Humvees at $1 billion.

Despite the repeated losses of U.S. equipment to ISIS forces, the United States continues to supply Iraq with more weapons and vehicles. According to the AFP wire story, “Last year, the US State Department approved a possible sale to Iraq of 1,000 Humvees with increased armour, machine-guns, grenade launchers, other gear and support, which was estimated to cost $579 million.”

 Independent journalist Ben Swann predicted the effect of these losses in his “Truth In Media: Origin Of ISIS” report in February.

“One of the most important facts that mainstream media ignores time and time again is that ISIS was able to grow so fast, because of all the U.S. military equipment they were able to seize – equipment that our military left in Iraq,” Swann says in the report. “Truckloads of Humvees, tanks and weaponry that instead of taking or destroying, the U.S. government simply decided to leave behind.” 

These losses bolster the argument, made by Swann and others, that the U.S. is either knowingly aiding the rise of ISIS, or at least assisting its rise to power through incompetence and neglect.

If the "camel" be the difference during the life and times our Jesus of Nazareth walking among us, a different way of saying the same two thousand years later, would be, the difference being a world apart  between daughters able Christmas shopping in Hummers while fathers at war with sons barely able affording gas for an economy; if ever even afforded a chance owning one.

"You can't get there from here."

~(Marie Rhymer's Favorite Joke)~ 

If indeed such a place as "heaven" exists, 

it's a given that an old woman, who was the music director at the First United Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas growing up with first eighteen years of my life, was right after all...

John 3

New King James Version 

(NKJV)

The New Birth

3 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”

3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”

10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

"You can't get there from here."