Stock Market

During this whole crisis of the China flu, I have been most concerned for the dramatic drop in the market.  People have lost lots of their retirement money.  Myself and my wife included.  This might seem to be a callous thought, but we do all we can to be safe with our health.  Sanitize and distance ourselves and eat healthy etc.  We do that and fell safe, at least that we have done all we can.  Put the rest in God’s hand and go on.  But this market is destroying peoples lives.  I’m too old to wait long for the market to rebound.  My thoughts were that sometime during the next 4 years we were getting out and putting our money in a safe place.  Sooner rather than later.  But now… lots of baby boomers, especially those of us who are younger than most boomer are in a bad situation.

We will survive,  not what we planned but ok.  God will provide and we are good, but some will be devastated.  In the back of my mind I still have this nagging thought that none of this should or needed to have happened.  Is this really that bad to need draconian measures?  Only time will tell.

Be safe everyone.  Trust in the Lord.  We will survive.

Iran

I am not sure how many were alive and taking notice back in 1979 when our embassy was over run by Iranians.

November 4, 1979
On November 4, 1979, just after the Shah arrived in New York, a group of pro-Ayatollah students smashed the gates and scaled the walls of the American embassy in Tehran. Once inside, they seized 66 hostages, mostly diplomats and embassy employees. After a short period of time, 13 of these hostages were released
In that instance we had a weak and ineffective President.  Jimmy Carter, much like Obama and Kerry was not able to budge the leadership in Iran to release the hostages. Weak and ineffective.  After a failed rescue attempt, failed negotiations and apparently no resolve to get our people out, they had to endure 444 days of captivity.  On the day President Ronald Reagan took over as Commander In Chief, they were released.
Folks the only thing this renegade country understands is either force or the threat of force by someone who has the capability to follow through.  President Trump was right in his recent actions toward Iran.  I don’t want war, but Iran must never, I repeat never have nuclear weapons.  Full stop!
God Bless America

War

Interesting article from the American Thinker Magazine. As Rush Limgaugh says the military is around to kill the enemy and break things. I agree. Under previous administrations we seemed to be more worried about how we fought, not if we won.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/why_we_are_bogged_down_in_afghanistan.html?fbclid=IwAR0HDGs4etC5lT3R7WITc_6GYPSP4eTDqKXRGoNGl8C7tC0b0mpQ4m-LoGk

This may sound cruel, but the only way to win a war is to kill the enemy, they would kill us. If you fight you fight to win quickly and with minimum casualties on our side.