HALF MY COUNTRY HATES ME

 Half my country hates me. This is all my fault? 20 years ago or so I had a strong desire that I turned into a prayer that God would send us a president that understood the tariffs like Jesus did. 

At the same time, I became known as MAD DOG because I was fearless. I worked in a frightening factory that ran wire for both automotive and appliances. We used a process called continuously! vulcanization which is abbreviated as CV. Because United States is rich in; natural gas and the area around South bend Indiana is not union, although South bend is, there is a lot of wire manufacturing. 

I preached at a church that I founded and at the same time worked for a company that became known as Standard Motor Products. Millions and millions of feet every month. I was a master operator, which means I filled in on any line that they needed me on. Although we were non-union we still got time and a half for overtime, double time for Sundays, and triple time for holidays. We were known for shipping orders huge orders on time 95% of the time. To achieve that very lofty goal we were a sled dog pack and the people that drove us were the schedulers and you had to keep up or somebody would bite your ass. 

I learned because I was unafraid to try every job in the factory and for a while I enjoyed the highest pay rate in the plant and I worked the most hours, so much so that I made more for several years than the company president. And for a while everybody knew it. My initials were MD and a forklift driver used those initials and gave me the name mad dog. Everybody in the plant knew that I was a preacher and that I worked an ungodly amount of hours like Elon musk and that I never back down from a bully. Many people knew me as mad dog and didn't know my real name Mike ditmer with two tees. 

Now that you know this part of my story and I don't like to ramble on, I will stop here. But now you know why halftime my country hates me because I dared to pray for a president that understood like Jesus did the power of tariffs.

TUCKER CARLSON

A Russian spy, a Chinese spy, and a Qatari spy walk into a bar, and the bar tender says, "What can I get you, Tucker?"

From my atheistic Jewish friend on Twitter

 

COOL STATS

 Here are the stats for my blog THE SHEPHERD'S JOURNAL for the last 30 days. My favorite ex son-in-law Charles Xavier is taking me to Biker's church in Lakeville. God is good.

UNO!

 

If you would be great in God's kingdom, then learn to be servant of all. Who said that? MAD DOG 

EASTER GREETINGS

 

Greetings from the land of MAD DOG. I hope all of you had a blessed Easter. I am enjoying the results of the resurrection and the preaching of the gospel by my favorite pastors including my brother, the bikers church of Lakeville, and the thousands of my friends from the poor countries of the world who are rising economically but are still often desperate. God has made them rich in faith which is far preferable to being wealthy. Later Gators

POVERTY BRINGS GREAT FAITH

 

I am in constant prayer for the great nation of Bangladesh which will be the tip of the spear in preaching the gospel in these last days, years, and centuries. God has blessed the poor with great faith and I have always preferred faith rather than money. MAD DOG

A CUP OF DON

 I haven't had my first cup of coffee yet. I think I will save that for later. The cat and I are sitting on the edge of the bed enjoying a wonderfully refreshing dose of Don. Then I will lay back down close my eyes for another couple of hours and start another delightful day of being in my electric chair inclined with my feet elevated enjoying another day of disability and fun. Later Gators. MAD DOG 

DID I DO THAT?

 

 

 

As a notable catalyst, note the word cat, I chose plastic straws as my preference in the cat poll. Although I don't consider myself a righteous man, I am living proof that the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous or should I say faithful man is very effective. Note that I am a trained bully fighter by my tiny 5 ft 2 in mother from Springfield Illinois who promised me a bowl of ice cream every time I got beat up when I stood up to a bully. It's actually part of the American psyche ever since this nation was formed and response to King George the third who single-handedly tried to beat the s*** out of our nation and made us into intercessors for many groups of bullies for almost 250 years. I prayed for two decades for a president who understood and used the power of tariffs properly and now I feel like the boy who said DID I DO THAT? Later Gators.

HUMILITY AND HOW I ATTAINED IT

 

 

I just purchased from Walmart? Who seems to be coming on strong compared to Amazon, a selfie stick and I will be using it unless you object as your official non-official internet representative which will get out to Bangladesh Singapore Germany and the Bangladesh kids will probably try to hit you up for donations because they are gospel preachers and we're very good at that. The castaway restaurant in Plymouth is going to be my official meeting place for lunch so far there's only been two or three but I expect the crowd to go because I'm already making quite a hit as I usually do and it's necessary because of the great influence that God has given me to keep me humble oh Lord it's hard to stay humble when you bless me in so many ways and seriously I can't wait to look in the mirror because I do get very slightly better looking each day. To know me is to love me God's grace makes me a wonderful man oh Lord it's hard to stay humble but I'm doing the best that I can.

TODAY'S MEMES

 

Forgive me for trying to start off on something political but I'm going to leave it in here since I just cleaned up my phone of excessive memes. The rest are mostly inspirational.

Besides me? I only have two things in my house that are older than me. One of them is a hope just that's from Germany and my first wives grandmother brought it from Germany.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL MOVEMENT

 

  

According to upper management, ie the son of God, children are the reason we are here. The Sunday school movement started well before possibly the civil war but I'll check into that. Anyway I know that there was a Sunday school movement in Britain back during the industrialization because the children work so many hours to support their families that it was necessary to educate them on Sunday and thus Sunday school was born and continues to this day.

FRIDAY THE 13TH

 You know who I am. You guys are much better looking than I am but I still play the piano better than you. I am now 78 years old and partially disabled with lymphedema and have to keep my feet elevated constantly or a lot. My biggest regret, but it was in the hands of the Lord, is that I wasn't there for Pat's funeral, but I did have a nice dream probably symbolic but I'm sure it actually happened that there was a nice little get-together in heaven and Pat was introducing Lynn with an e to come up to the front of the venue. Angels in tuxedos were ushering. I became aware that I was sitting next to Mrs royer and she turned to me and said I wanted you to sing that at Pat's funeral and I sputtered and tried to explain that I was taking care of Mary who was disabled with Alzheimer's when I woke up and realized it was the most beautiful dream. Make of it what you will. But I can still play the piano better than you two.

TORNADO ALLEY

 Do you guys remember coming back from beardstown where Uncle John was the preacher and we drove by Kankakee cuz back then that's how you went and we looked up at the administration building and a corner had been ripped off and then we stopped for gas at the gas station and Dad had been explaining that it was tornado Alley and we talked to the gas station guy and he said is it true that this is tornado alley and he said you see these two gas tanks here Big huge tanks and he said do you see that that third one across the highway and I said yes and he said that used to be over here and they just built around it. Whether he was pulling my leg or whether it was a true story I can't go back and find out cuz he's probably not here anymore. And that was US 41 or is it 51 was the main road down south to Southern Illinois.

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