"Emory Healthcare ... "Emory Healthcare is the largest most comprehensive hospital system in Atlanta, Georgia. Emory doctors and nurses have served the Atlanta community with ...""
Why isn't he waiting in line at the VA?
Posted on 08/12/2015 1:44:31 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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“Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body. I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare. A more complete public statement will be made when facts are known, possibly next week.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.blog.ajc.com ...
Indirectly causing the deaths of a million people is a pretty tough Karma to square.
Prayers up for Jimmy, Rosalynn, and their family.
May their firm Christian faith carry them through to the end.
Maybe not the brightest bulb in the box—but compared to what we have now, I’d take Carter back any day—LOL! Maybe even Richard Nixon-——
The problem is that in our Care Bear society, we are conditioned to belive that "being nice" is a virtue. It is not. A Christian knows (or ought to know) that kindness is a Fruit of the Spirit, not nicety. And upon reflection it is very possible to be nice to the point of being unkind.
A mother who does not sternly rebuke her two-year-old son when he runs into the street is "being nice," because her tender heart cannot bear the thought of spanking him. But she is also being selfish and unkind, for if the child does not learn that running into the street hurts - in a way that can cause no real corporeal damage - what happens when later he runs thoughtlessly into the street... and a car is there, but Mother isn't?
Jimmy Carter's façade of nicety and Christianity have been shown to be hollow through his public professions. Disliking the Southern Baptist Convention's stalwart defense of what we have always called Christian morality, he left along with Bill Clinton and Al Gore - two other non-clerics - to found a "Baptist" "church" in accord with their own tastes and prejudices, which curiously seem to align quite well with those of American teenagers... and Barak Obama.
Soon a moment will come when Carter can no longer do harm to American culture and civilization. Let us hope and pray that that moment will come sooner in the form of repentance - a public repentance would also reassure the rest of us as well as repairing for the grave scandals he has caused through his championing of immorality and falsehood as morality and truth - rather than later and only upon his death.
The guy is 90 so one advantage is that cancer grows much more slowly in someone this old. Still, not good news.
I wish him well.
This is a period of history I have been rethinking in the last decade. It is ugly all the way around.
The Republicans (mostly North Eastern Liberals) started pushing to remove the payment of taxes as a requirement to vote. Their intent was to add millions of previously denied Black Voters to the voting roles, to support their agenda.
The Democrats, (especially in the South) had used "Poll Taxes" and other Tax requirements to prevent many black people from voting. The Republicans figured that if they eliminate the requirement to pay taxes to vote, they would reap a huge windfall of new Black voters to support them, because in those days, Black folk generally voted Republican.
LBJ may have been a vile person, but he was no idiot. He realized immediately what the political significance would be of the 24th amendment. He launched his great "War on Poverty" shortly thereafter, and started spending federal dollars to bribe newly enfranchised poor voters.
He flipped all the votes the Republicans thought they would get, and thereby outsmarted them politically.
That he set the country on a course with financial destruction was simply not comprehended by him at the time. All he wanted was to secure more political power, and he did so by using federal dollars to bribe new voters into supporting the Democrats, which they have faithfully done ever since.
LBJ was a horribly destructive President both socially and financially, but I'm not certain his legacy is worse than Carter's. If Iran gets a Nuke bomb, Carter's legacy may indeed turn out to be the worse.
I hope he never dies.
No comment from me, either. I only write this because I probably agree with you.
Fantastic account, what an experience.
The Carter funeral will be a spectacle as well.
Two Bushes plus JEB!, the evil Clinton duo, not to mention the gay halfrican himself, Barry Soetero.
So Carter has finally done a good thing.
Drawn all of the actors responsible for everything that is wrong with the USA today to one place, to honor the guy who the started the meltdown in the Middle East.
The Iranians may even release our hostages again in tribute.
Two; but they are joined at the hip these days.
You may be thinking of Senator Arlen Spector.
The music was indeed beautiful. There was a musical interlude without lyrics that moved me immensely, and I imagine did so to other Christians who knew the unsung lyrics. They played "Softly and Tenderly, Jesus Is Calling", in which the chorus lyric is "Calling, 'O sinner, come home.'" That was followed by the tune to "Just As I Am", whose chorus lyric is "O Lamb of God, I come, I come!"
I'm breaking up thinking of it.
Amen to every word of your post.
"Emory Healthcare ... "Emory Healthcare is the largest most comprehensive hospital system in Atlanta, Georgia. Emory doctors and nurses have served the Atlanta community with ...""
Why isn't he waiting in line at the VA?
Prayers for him.
I’d liken to believe he would publically admit that, as President, there are some decisions and policies he regrets. You know, like everyone else.
You remind me of the famous LBJ quote:
“I’ll have those Ni***rs voting Democrat for the next
200 years.”
“The Reagan Library is a beautiful place.”
It is - it is the only thing I will miss about leaving mexifornia.
It was always bittersweet going there - all the good Reagan did has been destroyed and I have a hard time having his endless optimism for this country.
If only he was on Obamacare....
I’ve never bought into the Freeper practice of hammering somebody until their time is up, and then insisting that people say only nice things.
Jimmy Carter was a horrible president, and has sided with evil and the enemies of freedom throughout his post- presidential time. He has rarely been right and even less rarely, gracious.
He has lived a long life, longer than many men are allowed. A doctor once told me, cancer eventually comes to most men who live long enough. I will pray for Jimmy Carter as my enemy, and ask God to grant him good favor.
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