PEACE THROUGH TARIFFS

 @realDonaldTrump thank you for all that you are doing bringing peace into the world through tariffs?! 20 years ago I began praying for a president who understood tariffs. Remember the gold coin in the fish miracle? And when you were coming down the golden escalator since I didn't like bosses that shouted YOU'RE FIRED I was going to yell at the TV when I felt an invisible finger on my lips. I realized that meant you were going to win and I was delighted at witnessing the power of tariffs bringing manufacturing back to the United States. 

Stick with me just for a moment I have a brilliant idea. Watching the no nonsense Germans handle the dumbass Palestinian protesters made me wonder. Could these former persecutors of the Jewish people be the best ones to head up a Gaza peace Force. Just a suggestion. Stay healthy. Later Gators.

HISTORICAL BIBLICAL ORACLE

 Good morning friends. Just read and shared Don's delicious post. It appears the memo that I received from upper management IE it's all set up. Appears to be on schedule. The book of Revelation in which the 12th chapter points to the Western hemisphere appears to be spot on. My blog THE SHEPHERD'S JOURNAL is increasing in popularity with weekly hits according to the stats from China and Russia. I am just a catalyst. If Don is the historical Oracle, then I am the historical biblical Oracle. Later Gators.

WOULD I BLINK?

 My favorite president is facing off against an ungodly world. Someone has trained him like my mother did to be a bully fighter. My mother promised me a bold of ice cream every time I came home beat up. This unusual training made me almost unable to back down when facing a bully and I have faced quite a few. 

My fame skyrocketed when I faced a bully teacher who was picking on a young lady who was a scholar. She had straight A's. One time she made a mistake and got a minus and the teacher laughingly brought it to everybody's attention and made her start crying. 

I had had enough. My skinny 8th grade body stood up and said MR KAPLAN, THIS HAS GOT TO STOP. I was unaware until later that I clenched my fist. Mr Kaplan jump from behind the desk and ran up confidently and got right in my face. And ask me to repeat myself, which I did. Mr Kaplan looked like a soldier and I suspect he was a veteran of the Korean war. A huge black kid came up behind me and grabbed me and took me out of the class then apologized because he said Mr Kaplan was going to beat me up. 

I went down and complained to the assistant principal. I told him I had just failed the class for the rest of the year but he looked entirely relaxed and said I think it'll work out which mystified me. I waited for the inevitable summer school notice but it never came. When I came back next year and stood in line to find out where my next English class would be, I noticed that I had been passed and sent on to the freshman class. Someone had changed the grade from four Fs to three and I barely passed. I also learned that the assistant principal for the rest of the year sat in the class and monitored it every single day. 

The reason I bring this up is my favorite president has been trained somehow by someone to be a bully fighter. He is facing the entire godless world. Will he blink? What do you think? I don't think he'll blink and I think God will be with him. Like every other class that I have attended I have read the text which includes the book of Revelation and all of our questions and speculations are silly. God is in these events. Providence is in charge. I was told it's. All. Set. Up. Later Gators.

SUPER MAJORITY

 I am friends with a blogger by the name of Don. From time to time he has extreme clarity, due to his deep and extensive knowledge of history. We were discussing why Indiana is so bipartisan that they actually fought against Trump redistricting Indiana. Of course, they lost bigly in this last election with all of the bipartisan Republicans which are also called RINOs. Don explained why. It's easy to be bipartisan when you have a super majority. 

Let me remind everybody that a times I am considered a genius but I am not a prophet or an expert or or a scholar. I am a musician. My way of mastering subjects is totally different. I am a speed reader and at the beginning of each year I would read the textbook several times during the first 4 weeks of class. Then I would sit back for the rest of the year and longing they look outdoors because that's where I wanted to be. Because I never paid attention to the lectures and was irritated at all of the stupid questions the students would ask, I was regarded with disdain especially since I hated to do homework because homework kept you indoors. But the teachers were absolutely shocked at times on the high scores of my test which included one time where two of us got a perfect score in the 8th grade and I was hauled in to the counselor room. The other one had no idea that he had Aced the test. His name was Howard Henry and he carried a briefcase the size of a suitcase and he did all of his homework and went on to work in Washington DC. For the rest of my non scholarly life the teachers kept prodding me to change but I never did. But my favorite class was history and I read and devoured the textbook plus every single issue of time magazine US News and world report and Newsweek while I sat in the back of a class and aced the class. Then I went on to Nazarene Bible college and I devoured the Bible reading it multiple times. What came out of that was an extreme clarity and so I sit now and can explain what is happening in politics. Not that I'm always right but my clarity at times is a little bit frightened even to me. So what I am summarizing is that we have just gone through a period of 100 years where women have been empowered to defend themselves with divorce lawyers and a bottom support which many men in the Republican party have been disdainable of and there have been abuses of course with women becoming welfare Queens but slowly we are coming to a balance of bipartisanship and now we are switching from the age of lawyers to warriors and I think that summarizes my thoughts very well. Of course it took Trump to understand the power of tariffs to undergird the economy so that we could afford this minimal support for women with children and also strengthen our war department so we could go in and beat the s*** out of the bullies in Iran. I think that's enough for now. Later Gators.

PREACH. FIRE.

 The second time God called me to preach was during a sermon by the Great Chuck Millhuff.. I was attending Olivett Nazarene college in Kankakee or actually Bradley Illinois. I am not a scholar but a musician and I am also an incurable night owl and I often missed morning classes and morning chapels but Chuck was a powerful preacher I guess he still is and I made an effort to make it to chapel. 

During his sermon I again was spoken to by God. The fiery letters PREACH appeared on my heart. It was clear to me that God was calling me. It was one of the reasons why I was attending college even though I did very poorly in class. 

I was attending Dalton Church of the Nazarene because that was where my wife was from and they were all very excited about Nazarene Bible college so my wife Lynn and I attended that college for several years. 

We traveled as a musical group called The insights and went to Boston. We had to leave on Sunday night and I had a vision of the word FIRE which I shared with both the pastor and the evangelist. They laughed but later when we called them the evangelist got on the phone and apologized. On Tuesday after taking a trip in the church van the pastor and the evangelist came back and across the street a huge fire destroyed the building and the evangelist apologized. 

I will continue the story later. I love you guys. I'm including this humorous and sarcastic meme. Remember, sticks and stones may break my bones, but memes will never hurt me or you.

PREACH!

 I am going to break with my tradition of a short sermon. I think, however, I will keep it topical. 

My name is Mike, but because the factory where I worked for almost 20 a years called me mad dog, I often use that name. 

I am convinced that God has spoken to me but not like men speak to men. When God spoke to me the first time it was during a sanctifying experience. For some reason I had noted for love that the people of my church had for me and I felt overwhelmed with love after a pretty decent sermon. I had gone down to the altar to pray because I was convinced that I had offended God and when the people came down to pray with me which was a tradition at my church, I felt their love and I filled overwhelmed with their love. I had God speak to me in one word. I had fiery letters in my heart or soul or whatever you want to call it. The firey letters spelled preach. Since this secretary gets quirky and sometimes quits I think I will have to make this sermon in several parts and copy it to Facebook and I will continue later. Later Gators

NEW AGE OF WARRIORS

 My favorite blogger is Don on substack. I call him to historical Oracle. I am going to start calling myself the historical biblical Oracle. If you are a member or supporter of Don with finances, at the outrageous price of $5 per month, you can get his priceless perspective on current events which he carefully documents almost religiously. I made a comment today and I thought I'd pass it on to you. 

Since I am now technically a bipartisan and agree with my Kamala voting daughter from the perspective of the historical biblical Oracle I think God allowed women to stumble into politics and cause all sorts of damage with the sensitive egos of men just because statistically men have abandoned women and their children and the responsibilities by the boatload All the while continuing my support for President Trump and the New age of warriors, but only because I believe the book of Revelation has clearly stated by the warrior Christ that now it's time for a persevering warrior to step forward and pardon my French when I say kick the s*** out of communist, Islamic idiots. What? You didn't see that in Revelation? Well, I guess I did because I actually believed in the authority and the clarity of the word of God. My daughters call me delusional but remember that God cuts a lot of slack for women but remember Adam was a dumbass and knew what he was doing when he did wrong but God promised that Christ would be born of a virgin and not Pete buttigiege. Am I being too sarcastic?

Below is Abby Phillips a hero of my independent minded daughter and I agree because she always keeps her cool and she's spoken out against Democrats supporting Nazis and she also has to put up with my favorite guy Scott Jennings.

HISTORICAL BIBLICAL ORACLE

 At every school, there came a point when someone understood that I understood everything. I did not think I was a genius. But they thought I was. 

Part of the reason they did not understand how smart I was was because I did not want to be there.. The word. P e r i o d. Silly AI but she works cheap. 

I would sit at the back of the class and pray for the next outdoor session. I like to run. I like to be outdoors. I like outdoor games. I like to explore. I absolutely loved boy scouts. I crawled in the brush like the Indians until I learned about poison ivy the hard way. My first year at boy scout camp I called poison ivy from head to toe. I suffered terribly I. Even had it on Mr wee wee. I think the nurse gave me a steroid shot. They called me the poison ivy kid. I became an expert on poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac. I also became an expert on ginseng because it had the same three-leaf pattern. They called me the poison ivy kid. I scared them s******* when I came back the next year but I did not come down with total poison ivy that year. I'm sure they breathed a sigh of relief. 

I need to wrap this up because my secretary will only take so much. I tell you this to let you know that besides my total aversion to paperwork, which was almost a mental illness, and all believed I was a genius, I barely graduated high school with a 2.00 average, and I didn't finish college, either at Nazarene college, or Bible college at Colorado springs but I did become ordained through a simplified home study. And now you know the rest of the story.

My father followed to the Bible college in Colorado springs. Mom had a picture taken of all of us. We had a riot while that happened.

I could tell the Democrats that they're going to lose and they might believe me and then I would miss out on the joy of watching them having the s*** beat out of them excuse me for no longer speaking in Evangelical terms. I will from now on be referred to as the historical biblical Oracle. I will not refer to myself as the former evangelical because this would cause too much confusion with my Evangelical friends whom I deeply love and support but they don't know how to interpret the Bible or history. Every time, and I do mean every single time some theology or ideology tries to take over the world somebody stands in their way and his name is God the Father and his son the Lord Jesus Christ and the infinitely connected and capable holy Spirit. This would be an appropriate place to say duh.

MY LYMPHEDEMA ADVENTURES

 April 30th, Thursday 

God had to find a way to humble me because he has given me kind of a superpower. I have the ability to master a subject completely. Not the normal way like normal people. I am not a scholar. I am not a prophet. I do not have a degree in college and I barely made the top half of my high school class and I was pushed through there because they assumed that I wanted to be a scholar because of my ability to master a subject. 

Let's take the first subject that I have truly mastered and that is music. I have the ability to sit down at the piano with three or four people that have a basic understanding of harmony and I can pretty quickly get together a trio or a quartet. While I play the piano I can also hear where everybody's part is and play one finger slightly louder so that that person will naturally find their part. 

I have worked with multiple trios and quartets and duets and soloists and they all consider me a musical genius. 

I am allowed to be in those circumstances a dictator. Usually someone else is the manager and they're the ones that back me up and say listen to him he knows what he's talking about and so I have free run and rain r e i g n while I'm at the piano and my little group is around me. Hence the difficulty for me to be humble. 

I have also mastered in my own way the internet and now I have two blogs that are taking over the internet more or less because of my situational awareness of the circumstances which brings me to my third area of expertise, adventures. 

My friends who know me well especially from my youth will agree that I know how to plan adventures as long as I have a wise co-pilot such as my first wife l y n n e. We were known in North Dakota that when the blizzard warnings came in and everybody was being told to shelter in place we would head to Minot North Dakota to go shopping. The old farmers would even call us on the phone if there was a blizzard warning to see if we were headed to Minot. My wife was my co-pilot and she willingly jumped in the car with me driving during a dangerous time because I was the master of adventure. If you don't believe me, ask one of my siblings or my daughters who have the same fearless ability as well as any of my cousins. Just don't ask them for money for they will block you. 

Even though I hate getting my hands dirty I also learn to master mechanical skills. All of these abilities have one limitation. Me. Because I don't like to be tied down to a desk or even a workshop. As much as possible I like to stay on the move and go outside where I used to every so often go out with a smokers who were condemned to an outdoor life. Of course I had to train them for a while to straighten up their language so that I didn't repeat their words in front of my children and so I would warn them if I repeat one of the words that you say I will slap you silly except that I don't know when to stop. That seemed to be enough and they were always very careful around me. 

Now that I've explained why it's a difficult to be humble when God's bless me in so many ways. To be continued.

Next chapter. How God keeps me humble with lymphedema.

JOYCE KROHE DITTMER

 My awesome cousin Joyce Krohe Dittmer has passed away. God is not God of the dead but of the living. Jesus said that. I'm just repeating it. I know without a doubt that like all of my clan she was... Absolutely fearless and I guess she still is.

I LOVE MY JOB!

 For years almost 20 I worked at a wire manufacturing company. It started in Bremen and then moved around 1990 to Mishawaka on 17 18 home Street. 

I am not mechanical. I am a musician. My dad did his best but I did not like getting my hands greasy and I was delusional and thinking that I would never need to work outside the church. 

Dad did his best to make me a tradesman. Mom and dad underwrote my education in three important areas. I learned how to weld. I learned how to tune pianos. I took very expensive piano lessons for one year. 

Because of that, my younger brother, my wingman, was very jealous until I told him the rest of the story. My brother Tim had a place and it was extremely protected. I was to play the piano and she made sure he had the best guitar she could afford. She was 5'2 and fearless to a fault. Part of the reason she suspected Tim gave up on the guitar was that I picked it up so quickly. He used the guitar difficulty to play as an excuse. So she bought him a pretty nice guitar and gave it to him and I was leaning in looking longingly at his guitar. Has she left the room she had me been down so she could whisper in my ear the following words. IF YOU TOUCH HIS GUITAR I WILL BREAK YOUR FINGERS. 

Fast forward to 1986, the year the Chicago bears won the super bowl. I had decided and just a couple of years to give up my dream of pastoring a large church and I and a small hearty band of parishioners decided to start our own church. FAMILY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP. 

Both my best friend and I were looking for a place that satisfied our desire to work lots of hours and a neighbor by the name of Scott Allison mentioned that if you guys like overtime you need to go to a company called RISTANCE.

Fast forward to standard motor on home street after almost 20 years I finally learned slowly how to become mechanical and I learned every single job in that factory. They called it a master operator. I work so much overtime and my pay bands were so high that I made more than the company president. That's enough for now. I will have to finish this story in a second or third part. Later Gators. I LOVE MY JOB!

PLAGUE OF INSANITY

 Historians are interested in dates and times. My God and the Father, which is the way the apostle Paul describes him, doesn't think that way. That's why Revelation is so hard to interpret. We have to remember God is outside of timelines and dates, historical dates of course. But remember this God is not a man that he should lie. Anyway, sometimes it's helpful to start from the fact itself and then worry about times and dates and all the other things that men debate later. 

What I observe to be absolutely true is that there is a plague of mental health illness that has been released upon the world. You can identify The mental health illness by signatures. Number One, the person afflicted wants to die. Thankfully, common sense restrains them. 

Next is the blame game. Mental health must be convinced that we are responsible All of us for our own mental health. Don't blame your spouse. Don't blame Christians. Don't blame the Jews. Don't blame God. Don't blame stupid Christians or those who are called Christians. And remember, only God knows the heart and the difference. Leave it in his hands. 

And lastly, mental illness is from hell, but that does not absolve us from our own personal responsibility. David encouraged himself in the Lord even though he faced huge persecution and opposition. Jesus said see that you are not troubled by war and rumors of war. May I suggest that the best way is to turn your life over to Jesus Christ so that he can help you purge the lies from your mind that cause mental illness. 

I think that's enough for now boys and girls. Later Gators.

SMALL SUPERPOWERS

 I notice United Arab Emirates is leaving OPEC. Saudi Arabia doesn't need to leave. They've been doing what they want to do in alliance with their good buddy United States of America. Technically I call them small superpowers. 

Of course you have to name Israel as one of the leading ones, that is, a small superpower state. I'm also starting to realize that another small superpower is Ukraine. They have technically beat bully USSR or Russia repeatedly and bloodied their nose and kicked them in the nuts and punch them in the throat punched silly AI and kick them in the shins and yet they keep coming back because they're a macho nation or what I would call dumbasses. 

You may have noticed Ukraine is now an alliance with another small superpower Korea who has been coached by the United States on how to do the same thing to North Korea. Ukraine is also now depending Saudi Arabia against some other macho dumbasses in Iran. Iran in alliance with other macho ducks China and Russia is getting the s*** kicked out of it and then it's the same time the smaller USA is not only kicking the s*** out of them it's eating their lunch too. Bully fighters. The US of a has been bully fighters ever since macho duck King George III got his ass kicked and believe me I know how to kick ass. My mother paid me a bowl of ice cream every time I stood up to a bully which meant even though I got beat up I got a bowl of ice cream out of it. In the 8th grade I stood up to a bully teacher because he was picking on a scholar a beautiful tall dark skinned dark-haired Greek Orthodox girl that got straight A's. I was so skinny that my nickname was zipper because if I stood sideways and stuck out my tongue I looked like a zipper. I went to an integrated high school called Gary Emerson when they were trying to solve the integration problem in schools by bussing. Some of the black kids got bust from tolleston and they were pissed because they had the best athletic program in football and basketball and Gary Emerson was a bunch of weenies. They like to stick together and intimidate white kids but it didn't work for neither my brother or myself and after I got kicked out of the eighth grade English class and then later stood up to William Johnson a black kid from tolleston with the athletic build of Mike Tyson they quit calling me zipper and called me spider. 

You don't need to be a superpower to take on a bully. The bully just has to be convinced that you can either call the cops or your big brother or a divorce lawyer. Welcome to 2026. And I think I'm going to end this story now boys and girls and no I'm not taking your dumb ass questions. I like to go outdoors I am not a scholar I am a musician and as soon as I can get out of this cave on my electric chariot I will go outside. Figure this out for yourself it's in the Bible. Look at the book of Revelation and read it like it's your best friend and other prophecies but I am not a prophet and I am not a scholar and I'm not going to answer your questions. Do we have an understanding? Later Gators oh one more nation Singapore and now Germany. They're not taking any s*** from the Palestine movement that acts like a bully but they've been pretty well bloodied might be time to just let him lie down for a while and catch their breath in then watch and see if they act like they're saying sane s that's right. Later Gators