Killer wasps

I'm enjoying a pleasant, late summer lunch with a couple of friends. Despite two of my six kids bickering a bit, and the yard needing mowed, and a leaky faucet dripping, I'm pretty content. You might even say I've gotten a bit lazy, spending a lot of afternoons napping in my hammock.

We're joking around when I notice something different. We've been beset by the usual assortment of wasps and yellow jackets, but there's one here I've never seen before. I first notice it as I go to take a bite of my burger. This guy is nearly inside and is wrestling with a piece of meat that it has apparently chewed loose. Something about his manner convinces me to just let him have it. Hoping that will be the end of it, I go back to my conversation.

Suddenly, my friend Miguel leaps out of his seat with a look of terror on his face. We can't persuade him to sit down and for a couple of minutes, we can't even get him to speak coherently. He pulls us towards the house, ranting about his village. As far as I know, he's from LA. Finally we get him to take a breath and start over.

He tells us how, one spring when he was a boy, he journeyed to the nearest city with his uncle. It was a two day walk. When they returned home, everyone in the village was dead! No one was ever able to figure out what had happened, but there were puncture wounds on the bodies.

While we were eating and joking, a wasp had landed on his plate and it brought those horrible memories rushing back. He remembered seeing a few of these wasps before!  He had watched them building a nest in a tree stump once, when he was just a kid, and he is certain that it was the autumn before his trip to the city with his uncle!  He had never thought anything of it until now, but suddenly he was sure he knew what had happened to his village. Before that autumn, the people of his village had never seen those wasps, and he never saw them again-until now.

'What wasps?', our friend Alex keeps asking. Alex is an amateur naturalist, so he really knows his bugs. Overcome by curiosity, he goes back to the table and waits for one to appear. This guy is fearless. I've thought about nicknaming him 'plays-with-bees'. A few minutes later I see him slowly walking backwards, his face very pale. He makes a wide circle around the table and comes back to where we're waiting.

'You have really got a problem', he says. Turns out he had recently read about a particular species of killer wasp. Because they were supposed to be found only in Mexico, he hadn't paid too much attention. But he felt certain this was the same wasp.

According to him, this species of wasp was predatory, aggressive and more dangerous than killer bees! In late summer a few would search out a good location and set up a nest. Then, during the winter, deep inside the nest, the numbers would explode. In the spring, on the first warm day, they would come out en masse. They were very sensitive to any sort of vibration near their nest, even a voice, and would respond by swarming and attacking. Their sting carried a strong toxin that made it lethal. There was no antivenom.  As abruptly as they appeared, they would disappear. Then in late summer, far away, a few would appear and search out a new location and set up a nest. It was also reported that no known insecticide had any effect on them.

I'm usually pretty calm and logical, but I was starting to panic. That was partly because I was noticing that a few of these wasps were going in and out of a tree stump I hadn't gotten around to clearing out. The other reason is that the kids had started playing a rowdy game of tag and were running in all directions.

Now, let's pause a minute. What do you think I did next? Do you think I insisted that Miguel again give me all the details of the spring that all the people of his village had died? Do you think I spent much time debating whether he could really have remembered something he had seen just once, so many years ago? Do you suppose I demanded that Alex provide me the source of his information, or tell me what his credentials were?

Actually, I did, to some extent. And soon I was convinced that both of them knew what they were talking about, were being honest, and their stories were in sync.  Then I sprung into action!

Soon the kids were safely corralled and the three of us were using one of Alex's nets to catch and kill the wasps. By evening, we were pretty sure we'd gotten them all. Then I doused that stump and set it ablaze!! You see, it made a whole lot more sense to dive into danger and wipe them out while there were just a few, than to let their numbers explode and have it be impossible to overcome them.

The truth is, this didn't really happen. It's what we used to call a fable, and at the end of a fable was a moral. So, in case you didn't catch it, the moral is this:

It is better to dive into danger and tackle a situation when it is small, than to wait until it has grown to such proportions that even tremendous effort is unlikely to result in victory.

So, why did I create this fable? To encourage you to take action now, while it is possible to make a difference! I don't have time, in this post, to elaborate on what I am saying below. If you are just now hearing that there is a problem in America, please read my other posts for more explanation.

This administration has hijacked the country and is furiously building the framework for a new government. At the same time, forces are at work to destabilize things to the extent that this new government can seize power.

We are standing on the verge of anarchy. New corruption is being revealed every day. The old system is crumbling and it is too corrupt for us to go back to anyway. The new system being built is going to strip us of our rights and freedom to self-govern. If we allow it to continue, it may be impossible to ever defeat!

We must stop what the Obama administration is building, sweep the filth and corruption out of Washington, and reinstitute a stable form of government, free of corruption! And we must do it soon! This is urgent!

We are very vulnerable right now, and will continue to be, until we have established a stable government. Our international enemies are keenly watching our situation, forming alliances and moving into position to attack. Yes, it is very important to be sure you are getting sound, honest information. But it is also important, after you do, to move quickly!

PLEASE, quickly start doing your own research. Check the facts, find out what is going on. And as soon as you are convinced, dive in! Yes, there is danger now in resisting this but, if we wait, the danger will multiply exponentially and the chances for success will GREATLY diminish!

I see this situation as a cicada (a nasty, ugly beast , in my opinion). It has crawled up out of the ground in the darkness and is still encased in its cocoon/exoskeleton. It cracks and the nasty little beast emerges. It stretches and sits, and waits, while it dries out and hardens. Then it flies away--and good luck if you want to catch it then. You've got to catch it some time between when it emerges and when it's fully formed. This is a very small 'window of opportunity' that occurs in the dead of night.

So too, what is going on in our government today has been happening in darkness, but now light is shining on it and revealing the details. The window of opportunity to stop it is small. As soon as you are convinced, please act!

By no means am I advocating violence. We are being baited, in many ways, to do something that will allow them to justify taking drastic action--both against us and in seizing power. Please do not fall into that trap!

Be strong, be bold, be honest and speak out! Do whatever you can by legal means. Oppose every illegal, unconstitutional move they make. Surround them. Push back. Don't give in. Don't give up.

**We need our God and our guns--we need God always, and we need our guns, as a last line of defense if we are attacked by our international enemies. Our military personnel are spread far and wide, and are being depleted in the ongoing efforts in the middle East. We need our military back at home now, for our own defense. For that reason, please do all you can to help protect the 2nd amendment-our right to bear arms. An armed populace can be a powerful deterrent to foreign invasion!**

It's Time to Push Back!

Has my silence been giving the wrong impression?

For several decades I have been silent--a spectator.  I may have written one or two 'letters to the editor', but I'm not sure.  I never called in to voice my opinion on a talk radio show.  I never held up a sign at a rally.  In fact, I'm not sure I ever WENT to a rally!

I am starting to believe that my silence may have spoken louder than words.  I think that my failing to exercise my freedom of speech may have given the impression that it wasn't important to me.  That by not giving voice to my opinions, it was assumed I was aligned with the majority.

Well, now I'm 'going postal' in the blogosphere.  Realizing I might lose my right to speak out,  I've decided to give my viewpoints while I still can.

Our rights have been eroding for a long time.  At first it was our own fault.  We willing yielded our right to speak by not exercising it.  Later, it began to get a bit uncomfortable as 'political correctness' swept the nation, but we submitted to that too.  The final stage will be to wrest away from us the portion of that freedom that we have held onto.

This is a pattern that repeats itself all around us.  It is a principal by which things in this world operate.

We have realized this to some extent-as summarized by the popular phrase 'if you don't use it, you'll lose it'.  This is often referring to physical fitness or mental ability, but it applies across the board.  What you don't use, you will ultimately lose.

Take another example from nature.  Things have a way of encroaching.   If you take time to notice, many weeds creep into your lawn, or garden, from around the edges.  Let's say you take a laid back approach when you mow.  You hate to do it so you rarely do.  When you get around to it there are thick weeds and small saplings around the edges.  So, being laid back, you don't feel like confronting them and you mow around them.  Each time you mow, you give up a little more of your yard because they keep encroaching, pushing further and further in.

Freedom is not a natural state.  There is always something encroaching.  If you aren't willing to risk a confrontation, you will end up ceding more and more of your liberty.  Our founders knew this and they put in place checks and balances.  They realized that, being most closely woven into our lives, our government would be our first greatest threat.  Outside enemies come in second.  The greatest threats to our liberty are going to come from within.

To keep your freedom you must, at the very least, hold onto the territory that you already have.  In America we have certain rights, but if we don't exercise them, we will find them gone.  Most of us probably thought it was enough to put our rights up on a shelf--handy and close, if the occasion should arise that we needed to exercise them.  Now, if I leave my car parked in the driveway for twenty or thirty years, I'd be foolish to expect it to work properly when the need arises.  So it is with our rights.

If you prize your rights, you'd better use them!  Even if it just means taking them down off the shelf every few months, and using them to keep in practice.  When you don't exercise your rights, you imply that you may be willing to surrender them.

It's time to fight back against the encroachment.  It's time to push back!  And this time, lets not be content just to preserve our original boundaries.  While we're at it, lets push farther and take some new ground!

Our first & second Amendment rights are the most in peril right now.

"Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."


'Amendment II

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.'



It's time to hold a 'fire drill'!  Please:

• Choose a religion and exercise it!
• Speak out boldly!
• Support the press that tells the truth.
• Assemble peacefully.
• Petition the government as often as necessary.
• Buy a weapon for self defense.

Even if these are things you don't ordinarily do--in fact, ESPECIALLY if these are things you don't ordinarily do-do them now!  Let me give you some good reasons to:

• You care most about what you are invested in.  If you choose a religion, speak out, watch the news, assemble peacefully, sign petitions and buy a weapon, you are going to notice when someone attempts to take that right away from you, and you are going to care!
• Our exercise of our rights makes it clear to those who would take them that: we value our rights, we will notice if they attempt to take them away, and we will probably fight to preserve them.  Using your rights can be a powerful deterrent to those who would think to take them away.
•  If anyone DOES attempt to rob us of those rights, a great cry will go up,  that people all around the world will witness.  Most evil prefers to operate in secret!

Let's push back--hard!!

America--Hijacked!!
Is The Transformation To Communism Already Well Underway?

Amerika (Oh yes . . . Part 2)

(Continued from Part 1, 'Oh Yes He Does Get It')

You know what, this world is not my home.  I'm just a traveler and this is a brief stop on my way home.  A rest stop on the way to eternity.  If everybody really wants a one world government, and I can see some justifications for it, then let them have it!  But they should be careful what they wish for!  What we first submit to willingly, becomes a yoke of iron upon our necks!

There WILL BE one world government.  I don't want to see it happen, because I've read the end of the book--I KNOW how that turns out!  But, if that's what the people are ready for, so be it.  This has been a free country.  If the last free choice made BY THE PEOPLE is to surrender that freedom, then fine.

But I am MAD AS HELL, that it is being foisted upon us!  This is not what the majority of Americans want!  And may I be so bold as to say, if that is what you want, then leave!  We wish to remain the land of the free and the home of the brave!  I still have the right to speak, the right to vote, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  How dare you try to take that from me! 

Most of the rest of the world loves your ideas--so go somewhere else and join them!  Leave those of us who prize our freedom to live in our own little country and mind our own business!  (That's really what we should have been doing all along!  Instead, we seem to have initiated this whole global domination thing, but in a benign way, of course . . . ?)

As I said, there WILL BE one world government, but NOT IN MY BACKYARD!  If that is what you want, do it somewhere else!  You are not going to have my  help to begin it here in America!!

People, please wake up and exercise your rights while you still have them.  Obama is not the antichrist, but he foreshadows him.  The antichrist will be like Obama but bigger, faster, more charming, more cunning, more deceptive, more popular, more powerful, more audacious.  And he WILL be the leader of this world government that is coming.

If you can't see beyond Obama's facade, how are you ever going to recognize the antichrist when he comes?  If you are a little uncomfortable with the changes now, but not enough to act--how comfortable do you think you will be when the antichrist takes the reigns?  Unless God intervenes, with the path that we are now on, the antichrist will be our next leader!!

(Continued in Part 3, 'Novus Ordo Seclorum ')