The Faith of a Man

     You just knew this was coming.  You can spot a Bible-thumper a mile away, right Pards?.....Intolerable?  Well jeez, just DELETE already, and quickly before you are contaminated permanently!........The Old Doc presents........The Eight Beatitudes:

"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be satisfied.

Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure of heart,
for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called children of God.

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Gospel of St. Matthew 5:3-10

     Seriously my Millennial friends, what else is there?  Before schooling you on THAT loaded question, let me address the following.  I am sure you have noticed by now if you have avidly gobbled up the Old Doc's series on Manhood that I have shifted to Millennial Men as a focus for several reasons.  One, you are so extremely Selfie-driven, that speaking directly to you is a way of snapping you out of gazing at your reflection in the mirror.  Two, the Millennial generation does, in fact, have males in it.  Three, some of those males have a secret yearning to be a Real Man.  And four, some of those yearning to be Real Men actually have a shot at attaining this goal.  Besides, older Men are either already cross-dressing, or on the other hand actually KNOW some of these things.  Although with Baby Boomers, I agree, that is very iffy......But you boys are our future, as they say, and it is the Doc's stated mission to turn boys into Men.  As hip, slick and cool as you Boyz are, I do know that some of you are actually sneaking a surreptitious peak at the Old Doc's rantings.  
     So I say again, "What else is there?"  (For those of you educated in our State Run School systems, this is a rhetorical statement designed to stimulate debate).  Oops, sorry my friends, no debate within this Leftist-free sanctuary, only opinions, and only MY opinions at that.  I do not even allow comments, and do you care to know why?  Simple.  I am too darn old to entertain debate about such basic stuff as Manhood, Family and Morality.  Besides, as you should know, the real haters out there, the Leftists, would desecrate the "Comments" section as they do with every institution that they get their Godless hands on.  Half-truths, outright deceit, hate threats, not to mention always picking the side of America's enemies.  Nah, the Old Doc's ruminations are going to be a Sanctuary for you Men's weary heads.
     Listen Pards, you and your kids and families are being fed a bunch of bull, and it is high time you said basta!  You have got to stop with the "go along to get along" philosophy of a worthless life.  Especially when you see the Butchers of Planned Parenthood rifling baby arms out of a pile of baby parts, and then haggling for a good price.  This is it Boyz.  The Final Solution.  FIFTY SEVEN MILLION babies KILLED since 1973.  THIS is the pasteurized result of Liberal Lies for the last 70 years.  So I ask you to STOP BEING AN APPEASER.

     Politicians lie, your parents lie, your boss lies, your girlfriend lies, yes, even the "Boy" Scouts lie!  And so many of your "advisors" out there are so misguided.  Your hero, Rand Paul and his Libertarian ilk are gloating because they were "right all along" about Homosexual Marriage.  Sure, let everyone do whatever they want!  Sounds great, but letting Pandora out of the box, yea, out of the privacy of the bedroom has now got our kids cross-dressing on the streets in Gay Pride Parades, AND, state-funded sex change for 15 year olds in Oregon, without even that pesky parental consent!!!!!!!??!!!!.....cleansing breath.........
     OK, enough with the rhetorical flourishes.  Let us, shall we, get down to brass tacks, to the heart of the matter, to the gristle, to the essence, to the gist, uh, to the point.  A Man's gotta have Faith, with a capital "F", in God, the Almighty Father.......Delete, delete, delete, delete, delete.......HELLO, LO, lo, lo, lo.........Anybody still there AIR air air air?
     Yessiree Pards, A Man's Faith in God is the ONLY reliable source of Truth and Courage for all of youz Bruthas.'  Why ever is this so important? Why ever is this so applicable in today's uber modern and hip culture?  Well, because the uber culture is a fad, a Siren's song, a fabrication, and frankly, an abomination, alienation, trivialization, exploitation and bad for our Nation.  And it will mess you up with a quick-ification!

     I mean, how are you Fellas gonna decide who to vote for this next Presidential election?  Now steady Boyz, steady yourselves.  No, I am NOT talking politics here.  I am talking about you, your country and God, so untwist your panties, and take another cleansing breath.......IF you have cultivated God's Grace in your life, you will begin to intuitively know how to handle situations that used to baffle you.

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

³⁴ O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

³⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

³⁶ But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

--   Matthew, 12:34

Gentlemen, it is clear that Jesus knew how to judge Men.  One supposes.  He chose 12 Disciples that ended up changing the course of civilized Man, for over 2000 years and counting, with billions of Followers.  Nice resume, I'd say.  

     Who do you believe?  Who is right?  Who should you follow?  Well, it turns out that all Men are fallible.  All Men will at some point disappoint you, in some fashion or another.  AND, it also turns out that setting your Moral Compass, and your Judgement Meter on the "Christ" setting will do MORE TO CALM YOUR TUMULTUOUS SPIRIT, GIVE MEANING TO YOUR MORALITY, AND BRING RIGHTEOUSNESS TO YOUR JUDGEMENT than will any celebrity, any slick huckster, any legislation, any pet rescue-pooch, any hummus salad, and any freshman college professor, so help me God!

     I can feel your resistance.  But Resistance to your Old Doc is Futile.  There were some very extraordinary Men that lived their entire lives with Faith in God as the prominent guide of all of their actions.  Most you you millennial Men have never heard of them, I am sure.  But take a gander at this quote:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Notice the overriding authority in this historic passage.  Uh, no the correct answer for you Selfie's is NOT "happiness."  The correct answer is The Creator.  "We hold these truths to be self-evident."  OK, ok, I can surmise the confusion you young Men must be feeling.  This is from the United Colonies, Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, and it was signed by George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.  These Men we call our Founding Fathers, because you see they Founded our nation.  No, not from their PC in a dorm room;  they did so by risking "Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor" since breaking away from Great Britain was not considered lightly by King George III.  Yeah, he considered it to be Treason.  And Treason was punished, in those days, by death.  By hanging.

     Sort of different today, ay Mates?  Yeah, Hillary can lose an entire SERVER of emails that might clarify exactly how she betrayed our Ambassador and his guards in Benghazi, who fired at the enemy until THEY WERE KILLED BY JIHADISTS HAVING EXPENDED EVERY SINGLE ROUND  IN THEIR MAGAZINES.  Oh yeah, and left a back door to the Chinese to hack 21 Million American government personnel.  Sounds like treason to me, buy hey, hanging a chick is just so passe, not to mention hard on the Ulta mascara.

     Or like our sitting President who takes a treaty to green light a Nuke for the biggest Terrorist sponsor in the world, to the United Nations!  Oops, guess he was so excited, he must've just forgot about the teeny, tiny detail in the U.S. Constitution that he SWORE to uphold, about letting Congress evaluate and decide whether it could become U.S. law, or not.  Is violating his SWORN OATH to the American People treason?  Do you even know what THE OATH is?  OK, here then:

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• I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

As an aside, notice who keeps popping up in all of our Founding documents?  Yup, God.  Kinda like Forrest Gump, in a way......  But back to treason.  You are elected by the people, and upon election you SWEAR TO GOD that you will FAITHfully discharge these duties.  And then you knowingly violate this oath, and then lie about violating this oath --- is this treason?  If as a result of this violation and lie,   many, many American soldiers die  in order to right this horrendous betrayal -- you know like having to re-fight Fallujah after so many were killed taking it in the first place -- is that a punishable offense?  Should you hang 'em?  Well, my young friends, your generation will have to tease this all out.  Big job.  Needs Big Men.

Doctor Nucatola

     But if right now you are weeping over Cecile the Lion, but can only muster a brief OMG-WTF for 57 million babies that have been, since 1973,  brutally, and painfully murdered during the most helpless phase of their lives -- and then to add insult to injury have their fingers and livers haggled about over croutons and Chianti --  well then, my doomed friends, you can kiss this Grand Experiment called America goodbye, adios, sayonnarra, later bro'.......

      So truthfully Pards, this Old Doc is pleading with you.  For the sake of the millions of babies still on the chopping block;  for the sake of all of those teenage and 20 year-olds that died on some far away volcanic beachhead for our American way of life;  for the sake of all the young gals being raped and mutilated by our ISIS and Cartel friends;  for the sake of all those Christians who served as lion catnip yesterday, and even today suffer beheadings and Homosexual Fascism;  for the sake of Black Americans who have been lied into poverty and envy for a generation by the Left;  for the sake of those boys who are being brainwashed into thinking they are really girls; for the sake of that poor peasant in Mexico, China, Iraq, Russia, or Zimbabwe who looks to America as the last, great hope of the world;   and most of all, for the sake of your soul and eternal salvation -- get right with God today.  Ask for His guidance.  Burn the Beatitudes into your heart.  Live by loving your neighbor as you would love yourselves.  And learn to judge a Man's heart by the fruits of his life.  Open your eyes so that you may see;  and open your ears that you may hear.  Be a Man!  Be a Man of God.  Be an American Man............Doc

A Man's Declaration of Courage

          "Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered,
          Everyman to his own, and shall leave me alone:  And yet I am not
          Alone, because the Father is with me.   These things I have spoken 
          Unto you, that in me ye might have peace.  In the world, ye shall 
          Have tribulation:  but be of good cheer;  I have overcome the world."

                                                  -- John 16:32-33, King James Bible

     We began "Manhood Agonistes:  Paradise Lost" with tongue lashings of you Men, particularly you wandering millennial Men.  Using sarcasm and some tongue-in-cheek for the first several essays, this Old Doc has tried to sound an alarm so American Men would awaken from their decades-long somnolence about our historical, cultural, yes, Biblical imperative.  About our Manhood.  About our essential role in the family.     In our last five messages to you, however, beginning with "American Savior...",  I have tried to less stridently heap  scorn your way, your Metro ways.    I have tried to propose solutions:  integrity, honesty, morality, spirituality.  More encouraging......nurturing....training wheels......... a cleansing hug........ baby steps.

     Let us here continue by nurturing your rehabilitation back to nature, Man's nature.  Shall we?  I mean, a big, sloppy tear runs down your face still when you see Elsa the Lion re-introduced back to the wild with the emotional song "Born Free" playing in the background, and Jane Goodall looking on proudly....right?  The Old Doc is trying to do the same thing here.  Big, bad world is a scary place Boyz, but the Old Doc will cradle your sleepy heads every step of the way.  Back to being Men.  Let us ramble on.......Consider Courage for a moment, then, shall we?

     Indeed, Courage is a Man's bailiwick.  Of course, many, many women are courageous.  But a Man MUST be courageous.  He must stand as a bulwark against danger to his children, his wife, and his country  Most of all he must stand up for God, and His domain.

               "Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's;
               And unto God, those things that are God's."
                                                             -- Matthew 22:21, King James Bible

And yet, for many Men today, it is difficult to actually define Courage.  We hear the word bandied about as are a lot of concepts today.  Frivolous.   Odd.  Wrong.  Gold medal winner of yore, Bruce Jenner, has the courage to dress like a woman;   a given Homosexual male has the courage to announce on his Facebook page that he prefers inserting his penis into a male's rectum, instead of a woman's vagina;   ILLEGAL Aliens have the courage emerge from the shadows; or that Metro-men have the courage to "stand up" for a woman's "right to choose."

     Listen folks, the way you dress is your business, and where you stick your member is a matter of your private proclivity.  But I, for one, do not want this indoctrination crap in the basic curriculum of American children in state-run schools!  Now, ILLEGAL immigration is, well, ILLEGAL.  And Men should be standing up and denouncing ISIS, larcenous politicians, taxations without representation, the killing of unborn babies.   But so many of you metros and millennials (m & m's) apathetically sniff at the above perversions,  and yet  get their panties all twisted over a bad hair day, or an Apple OS upgrade that has a bug or two.  Hey you guys, isn't chopping  bell peppers for the already all-powerful American women enough?  I give you permission to no longer be afraid of Xena the Warrior Princesess! Or is that Princii?

      Avast Mates, a sharp eye out for the Chimera!  Odd that such "powerful" modern women on the college campus have taken to scurrying to  "safe rooms"  when some guest speaker utters a "hurtful" word or two that might be contrary to their feminist narratives.  Whoa, they just might inflict "micro aggressions!"  Take a gander at the tribulations that a lecturer, scholar and a  feminist, Christina Hoff Sommers must endure: 

Because Sommers challenges the raging narrative that women are living in a violent, paternalistic rape culture, which she says is vastly overstated based on credible statistics, she has been “excommunicated from campus feminism” in order to protect women from uncomfortable facts.

Using one of many epithets, while Sommers commented on the “fainting couch feminists,” she says “there’s a move to get young women in combat and yet on our campuses they are so fragile they can’t handle a speaker with dissenting views.”

A former professor of philosophy who enjoyed exposing students to a wide array of differing competing view is now watching campuses become factories of certainty and increasing of dissent.

“Micro-aggressions have led to macro-foolishness,” Sommers says here.

                                                        -- Ginni Thomas, dailycaller.com, 7/4/2015

    
     Hey, couldn't resist a dig at the "fainting couch feminists."  OK, OK, so what IS Courage, exactly?  Sure,  sure you Fellas go to Webster's if you want.  But consider the Old Doc's take on this:  "Courage is the certainty a Man harbors in his soul that  "the Father is with him", and that He tasks a Man to act in a manner that  is morally right by His Sacred Commandments, whatever the costs."  You aficionados, swirl that around for a minute....use your olfaction....smooth, like a well-wrapped cigar....."delicious."  

     This definition solves a lot of debate and confusion, doesn't it Lads?  For instance, is  killing a bunch of the "enemy" Courage?  Well, not if you are working for ISIS and your targets are Christians who are kneeling with their hands tied behind their backs.  How 'bout charging that hill in the face of withering machine-gun fire raining down on you;  yeah, maybe that is Courage?  Uh, if you are a Psycho, Sociopath, and think it is "cool" to taunt death, well friends, that is simply a crazy man, not a courageous one.  So what about posting on Facebook that you are a warrior in the battle for a women's "right to choose?"  Well, this merely means that you are misguided and wrong.  Yeah, support for the "final solution" for millions of defenseless unborn has no moral underpinning...c'mon Boyz, you know that........

     Now, on the other hand, for a middle-age Man who grew up and lives in East Los Angeles, whose circle is all second- and third-generation Americans of Mexican descent, posting a picture of George Washington on your Facebook page on the Fourth of July, is, no kidding, an act of real moral courage.  Why?  Because in his circle's narrative, America has "robbed" their Mexico of half of its territory;  discriminates against "Mexicans", and only those that hate Donald Trump and Ann Coulter ("Adios America") are real Mexicans.  Notwithstanding most of these judges of "real Mexicans" have never been to Mexico, know NOTHING about Mexican history, and are advocating a lifetime of illegal, if not immoral Un-American behavior.  Certainly there is no courage in advocating a philosophy that does no productive good for improving the country that has embraced them and theirs with largesse unknown in the REST OF THE WORLD.   I mean, in East L.A., the folks there really believe that Cinco de Mayo is a real holiday!  The Fourth of July is just another reminder of the oppressive gabacho.

      In order to not bore you to death while I ridicule modern  "courage", and in the interest of brevity, allow me to list for you all of those actions which DO NOT reflect Courage:  a politician supporting "single moms"; an actor announcing he is Homosexual; a women deciding to get an abortion;  Robin Williams killing himself;  Whitney Houston killing herself;  Michael Jackson killing himself;  writing in your college term paper that our Founding Fathers were racist, homophobic, sexist White slaveowners;  a Black man blaming the White Man for keeping him down"; a Hispanic man blaming a White Man for keeping him down; a woman blaming a White Man for keeping her down;  militant Islam  hating Christians;  homosexuals  hating Christians;  abortionists hating Christians, and Marxists hating Christians.......(White Christian Men:  you Boyz have a real hill to climb don't ya?).

     Seriously, "coming out" in Hollywood is actually a resume builder.  Courage would be if a politician chastised moms for being single in the first place.   Courage and killing an unborn baby happily swimming in warm amniotic fluid, in the same sentence?  Really?   Being weird or on drugs, and killing yourself instead of changing or getting treatment is courageous?  Old Doc always thought that suicide was the most Mortal of all Sins.  Coming out of the closet and posting on Facebook that you are White, and a Man, and a Christian, well Pards, that is the Triple Crown of Courage!  

Remember Me?

      Saying what you mean, and meaning what you say, is indeed a major fault in today's cultural narrative.  So if you proceed along these lines, well then, that can actually be courageous.  But, in fact, Orwellian "doublespeak" is de rigeuer  for an American Man these days.  You Boyz have actually handed over enormous power and influence to teeny, tiny pouting segments of our population of 300 million.  Do you millennials realize that the ACTUAL number of Homosexuals in the U.S. is under TWO PER CENT! Yet 50 percent of your cohort believe that over FORTY PER CENT of the U.S. population is Homosexual?    Do you realize that you millennials are allowing a paltry few Fascist Homosexual Activists to terrorize mainstream Christian churches and businesses?  So Fellas, when you innocently, say that you support "love", you are really saying, "Hey, full speed ahead, pulverize Christian believers, and the FIRST AMENDMENT to the U.S. Constitution.  Didn't know that?  Well Ace, WAKE THE HELL UP!

      More minority interests -- American Indians, American Blacks, American Hispanics, American Muslims and American Vegans -- "they were here first;" "they were brought here in chains;"  "we make them speak English;" "we are profiling when we are too rough on sleeper cells;" and "we make them watch Burger commercials.  For goodness sakes Sparky, next thing you know we taxpayers are forced to pony up for massive land "reservations" replete with casinos and the mob;  reparations,  since 750,000 White Men dying to end slavery during the Civil Wars was not nearly enough; "returning California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada back to the Mexican Drug Cartels;  and a steady diet of free-range spinach sandwiches! Heck, America might as well just shrug, go back to Holland on the Mayflower, and leave North America to Squanto and Quetzacoatl.......

     Does anybody care that at the time of the 1784 ratification of the U.S. Constitution there were more White Slaves (euphemistically called Indentured Servants) than Black Slaves?  Besides, factually, it was actually Black African slavers that stole Kunta Kinte from his family and then shopped him on the international market.    And Fellas, if we give America back to the Indians, do we take away the stainless steel knives, slot machines, and cotton clothes that we gave them?

     Look alive Men, your words get twisted.  When you say "A fair wage for a day's work,"  you are really saying that Public Labor unions can go on soaking the taxpayer for Royal pay packages and Soviet service (see any pubic school,  or the DMV).  Have you ever thought about the inter-galactic absurdity of allowing employees paid by YOUR OWN EARNINGS to unionize?  I mean, they then turn around and use the force of  laws to allow them to decrease service, yet increase pay, medical coverage and pensions?  Do you realize a Congressman, elected to office for two years and then booted out of office for putting his penis on Facebook, actually gets LIFETIME medical coverage, and LIFETIME FULL PENSION, for him AND HIS WIFE!  YIKES!  And by the way, this is not that rare for most municipal workers.  The Old Doc is literally pulling out his own hair........Let me stop....

      We are squeamishly allowing the Saul Alinsky Marxists to manipulate splinter groups and their boo-boos into weakening America by lies, dishonest contexts, and natural human greed and envy.  But, No group has been more maligned, assaulted, and ultimately manipulated than the American Man.  Your courage has waned Sparky, and your yellow streak is bleeding onto your kids, your woman, your churches, and your country......ergo, we remind you of the concept, now nearly extinct in America,  this anachronistic trait American Men once had infused into their breastmilk -- and of course, that trait is Courage.

     Courage Mates!  Courage!  When Admiral John Paul Jones, Father of the American Navy was battling on his smoke-filled and sinking ship, The Bonhomme Richard,  and was offered terms of surrender by his British opponent, he shouted, "I have just begun to fight!"
When Colonel William Travis was surrounded by a vastly superior force of professional Mexican soldiers at the Alamo, he wrote, "Victory or Death!"  When the entire world was pressuring Ronald 'The Great' Reagan to make a nuclear missile deal with the Communist Gorbachev if "only" we would give up our missile defense shield, Ronaldus said, "NO."   Folks around the Globe were besides themselves that Herr Reagan had the nerve to tell their hero Gorby that dropping our guard on a society that advocated world domination was a deal killer.  And when John Wayne almost personally bankrupted himself making "The Green Berets", critics derided him, the public went to see it in droves, The Duke predicted our South Vietnamese friends would be slaughtered if we bailed on them....AND HE WAS RIGHT!............Courage.  A few examples.  America is full of them.......

     But NOT the ones you millennial metros have been brainwashed with........I am asking you Boyz to wake up, take heart, have courage.  Real Courage.  Stand up and say the morally right thing.  Stand tall and do the morally right thing.  Be willing to take the heat for saying or doing the morally right thing.  Set your jaw, endure the heat for saying or doing the morally right thing.  And for Heaven's sake FIGHT BACK with a passion, with a ferocity and with courage if you have said or have done the morally right thing -- the Righteous Thing.  If you stand up for God, for the Ten Commandments, for Jesus The King who died on the Cross for the lowest among us.....well, friends, you might take a hit on Facebood "Likes", but your courage will score big-time points for ultimate salvation and eternal life.

      So, billionaire Donald Trump says, "Mexico is not our friend....they send us rapists, drug dealers and criminals."   Immediately you Metros twist up your panties again and start panting, "Trump Hates Mexicans."  Hey Fellas, you, Macy's, NBC and New York,  all then excommunicate The Donald becuuuuuuuuz?..............he made a TRUE statement?  And then you cackle up and down repeating lies and misstatements, parroting anything and everything the Left tells you to cackle?  Courage Men!  Use your OWN brain, speak for yourself, for your own observations, for your own experiences.  Have the courage to defend the truth.  Don't  cower and pander like Chicken Rubio, Chicken Jeb, Chicken Patacki, Chicken Christie, and sadly, now Chicken Perry.  You hate Trump's hair, his syntax, his money, got it.  But shouldn't you place principles above personalities.  Shouldn't you be more disturbed that NINETY PER CENT of illegal drugs in the U.S. come from south of the border?  That thousands of criminals from Mexico are coming to the U.S. illegally looking for greener pastures, and better welfare and tasty little girls?  That women and LITTLE GIRLS, both Mexican and American are being raped in the U.S. at rates that would make Genghis Khan blush?  That disguised Jihadis can look just like a Mexican peasant?  Nah, go on, bash Trump, it gets you WAY more "Likes.".........Did you know, by the way, that the Old Doc's heritage is Mexican?

     But let me just tell you something right here and right now.  This Old Doc has melted into an AMERICAN.  Sure, I will extol the virtues of our Mexican heritage even to the point of advocating the doubling of Mexican LEGAL immigration;  that is  if I were King.  But I am an American, and I bleed red, white and blue.  Mrs. Doc's and my own ancestors came to America because they could no longer abide Mexico.  They never even considered aspiring to move south to Guatemala.  Anyone care to venture a guess as to why not?  Sparky?

     Your favorite Old Doc's departed mother,  born of Mexican parents LEGALLY in America, finished the only the 3rd grade.  Had to work.  She spent her childhood picking cotton in the 100 plus degree, desert sun.  At age 9 she was cooking for a dozen field hands.  During the Depression she and her family ate dandelions that grew on the edges of the irrigation canals.  Doc's father came here LEGALLY from Latin America with one thin dime in his pocket, a grade school education, and no English skill at all.   Mrs. Doc was born in a small rancho in the poorest rural area of the Mexican state of Zacatecas.  Her father had to LEGALLY emigrate to America to work to feed her nine brothers and sisters.  They were so poor, her mother was forced to leave her with the Catholic Nuns for several years, along with one of her sisters.  When Mrs. Doc came LEGALLY to America to join her father and family, her father died of leukemia suddenly.  Mrs. Doc's mother was left with 9 children in a downtown Los Angeles  pay-by-day hotel.  When the manager found out she had nine kids, he tossed them all out onto the street.  There, with a dead husband, nine children, no home, no English, and no benefactors, Suegra set about making a new life....Courage.  

     The Old Gal is gone some years now, but every one of her children married, had children, and now, many grandchildren;  every one owns a home,  long-term careers and steady jobs spanning decades, excellent pensions and health coverage.  One of her sons became  a Judge.  One of them became Mrs. Doc.  

     Doc's family,  came to America, and in one generation they had a kid in Medical School.  Mrs. Doc came to America with nothing but a strong belief in God, and yet her little Doc's?    A graduate from West Point;  a Master's degree and career,  a famous painter and sculptor....No, this Old Doc neither pines for lindo Mejico, nor wants to turn America into Mexico, or Guatemala, or El Salvador.  Thank God the U.S. Southwest is American and NOT Mexican.  Seriously, is that really what we are after?  I mean, open the borders, no barriers, no acculturation, no melting pot, and watch America turn into Juarez, Mexico?

    So all you ethnic groups out there with a grudge, I mean, BOO HOO, cry me a river.  EVERYONE had it tough after leaving our no good, exploitative, often Communist/Socialist/Marxist/Leftist mother countries.  Get over it Sparky!  Who would argue that American Blacks, American Mexicans, and American Irish are not better off RIGHT NOW than their cousins yonder.  I have never seen our current BLACK  POTUS in chains.  I guess the Old Doc's mom ought to ask for reparations since she had to work from dawn to dusk in the cotton fields, with no overtime or breaks.  Yeah, no chains, but no options either.  Just a lot of suffering, work, sweat and hope.   And I assure you, you reparations buffs, MANY IMMIGRANTS SUFFER JUST AS MUCH EXPOSURE TO PHYSICAL ASSAULT AND ABUSE as did the White and Black slaves of early America!  You are special because you suffered?  Join the club pal.

      But I digress.  Message here is Courage.  Using our brains, Gentlemen, analyzing objective observations, intelligent reading, studying, and standing up for what is right.  Righteous.  You can purty much ignore the Left Fellas -- honest injun'.  Turn off NBC for goodness sakes, they just re-hired Brian "Stolen Honor" Williams, and continue to pay him $10 million a year to continue lying and delivering Democrat Party talking points.  If you own a business, do you want to keep getting the "shake down" from local gangs, the Mob, homosexual activists, Jesse Jackson, and the Alinskyites?"  Your business. Your right.  But.......?  

Failed Chick-Fil-A Boycott

     Our Secretary of State made it possible for the Russian dictator Putin to buy up the market on Uranium mines, yeah, in the U.S.!  So why should you burn your Confederate Flag?  Simply because Al "the Con Man" Sharpton tells you to?  Our Boyz bled and died for Iraq, and John "The Original Stolen Honor" Kerry is just handing this country, liberated with American blood, to those sweethearts in IraN, replete with its oil, and a Nuke to boot!   So why shouldn't you Fellas stand up and call the first Black President a failure;  Feminism a farce;  Militant Islamic terrorists, Militant islamic terrorists, Homosexual Marriage wrong, Mexico duplicitous, Jesse Jackson a crook, and Marxists Devils THE enemy?  Why shouldn't you love Jesus, be a Catholic, respect Police officers, Border Patrol Agents and U.S. soldiers, airmen, marines and coast guards?  Courage.

Garland, Tx -- Texas 2, Jihadis 0

     Say it loud Boyz!  It was not a tragedy in Garland, Texas.  It was AWESOME!  Firearm proficient American Man puts down two murderous Jihadis within 15 second of emerging from their SUV with fully automatic rifles and extra magazines!  GLORIOUS!  Dozens of innocent American lives saved from two shitheads from Global Jihad who were hell-bent on spraying a large crowd of folks with bullets.  I call that a Great Day for America!  And you should too Men.  You should clench your fists, knash your teeth and growl loudly over that woman, on vacation, killed in front of her father while strolling down San Francisco's Embarcadero.  Illegal immigrant felon, SIX TIMES deported, shot and killed her.  Random.  Senseless.  Makes the Old Doc mad.  Should make you mad.  Remember that Jesus upended the whole table where the Money Changers were peddling in the Synagogue.  Got mad.  Yelled and screamed.  Standing up for His Father's House.  Righteous.

               "If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch,
               And is withered; and men gather them and cast them
               Them into the fire, and they are burned."
                                        --John 15:6, King James Bible


     Always remember this Men.  The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were summa cum hombres. And big-time brave.   Lose the war with the world's greatest power, Great Britain, and their John Hancock's were a certain death warrant.  That is fact.  So courageous were these Founding Men, that they inspired a people to bravely challenge the most certain bet at the time.  The entire world bet that Great Britain would properly spank the upstart rebels, and hang its ringleaders.......  Righteous Courage can lead to miracles.  The very first time in all of human history that the common people were allowed to rule themselves.  The rich White Men who had wrested all power from their British Masters, were now Masters of the new United Colonies.  And they gave it all away!  Yup, George Washington resigned as the Supreme Leader, and his colleagues wrote a document to protect the people from the natural greed and avarice of man and governments.  The U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1784.

     The Courage shown by the signers of the Declaration of Independence is almost mystical.  After 150 years, another courageous man, 30th President of the U.S., Calvin Coolidge, made very important speech worth reading in its entirety.  Here is but an excerpt:

"About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."

                       -- Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President
                           150th Anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
                           July 5, 1926

     There is a Right, and there is a Wrong ma Bruthas'.  You must get smart enough to tell the difference and then grow the Christian pair of balls needed to stand up to the forces of Evil and Deceit threatening your children, your woman, your way of life, your country, your God.....A worthy fight friends......Righteous ..... A fight we really need to win...............Doc

“The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. A real man will not let his fear overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.”
                                                                                                                              -- General George Smith Patton, Jr.



     

                                              

             

The Fruits of a Man

"The Word tells us, "You shall know them by their fruit."

                                          -- Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator, Texas

     Yeah, I know what you're thinking, you most jaded, cynical, and misguided Men out there in readerville, especially you Millennials.  "The Old Doc has finally shown his true colors."  You are deathly  afraid of a Political lecture.  "No point reading on" you say.   Well, my friends, sorry to disappoint you, but this Old Doc has ZERO interest in this great country's greasy, slimy, putrid cesspool.  Hey, these Washington D.C. snakes drove this Doc out of medicine, with a good 10-15 productive years left!  This has been nauseatingly chronicled in "doctor-confidential.blogspot.com."  It describes how the Socialist, Godless bureaucrats in government have driven a wedge between my patients and me.  Yup, made me vomit -- and pack up and leave town.

     So yeah, I do have something to say, an axe to grind, skin-in-the-game, horse-in-this-race......a cross to bear.  Which reminds me.  Remember that Fella that tried to help when Jesus'  burden of the Cross became so overwhelming that he fell, on the street, under the Cross?  Yeah, that guy was whipped by the Roman guards for helping, and forced to carry the Cross with Jesus the rest of the way to Golgotha.  His name was Simon of Cyrene.

     "Oh here we go again with the religious stuff!"  Well yeah....how else are you dudes ever going to become Men!?!  This Old Doc's intimate communique's  with you may be the only real education you Fellas are ever gonna' git!  You millennials, do you think you are really gonna have Social Security when the time comes?  Hell, the U.S. is so busy enriching other countries with Ford plants in Mexico, Apple, Inc. in China, and millions for opium growers in Afghanistan -- you really think that Social Security lock-box has anything in it?  You think $250,000,000.00 Hilary Clinton even CARES about you?  Well, except insofar as every single penny of that 250 mil was made from taxpayer dollars, U.S. Military secrets, strategic Uranium mines sold to Putin, and our U.S. Consulate in Benghazi;  oh, and throw in a couple of no-count Navy Seals who fought until their magazines were empty to defend the Consul and the precious flag you millennials think is just a colorful piece of cloth. 

     Nah, ma Bruthas', once the fog of your legal marijuana clears, and you graduate from Commie boot camp with a BA degree in Peace, you really think you are going to find a job?  With the Socialists pushing for minimum wage of $20 an hour;  mandatory Obamacare;  and quotas for races, sexes, and sexual preferences, you Fellas really think Joe Blow The Job Producer out there is gonna plow his life savings, AND his mortgage into starting a new business so the wacky, but loud, parasites out there can lawyer him to actual death, if not bankruptcy?

     In the face of all this future gloom, why do you Millennial Men care more about the latest iPhone, which Selfie you post on FaceBook, or which butt-cheek is going to get the next, really cool Japanese calligraphy tattoo, than your own Manhood? Family? Country? Salvation?  This Old Doc insists that it is because you have ceased to trust anyone, especially the politicians.  And yet, that really isn't true either, is it Boyfriends?  You DO believe lots of folks.  You believe everything Tim Cook, CEO of Apple tells you.  You believe the hot, bimbo media-babe that just despises guns.  You believe the gangsta hip-hop star, I mean, you dress like him anyway.  ....Gosh, Fellas, you believe abortion is OK because, after all, it is HER body;  you believe in  any politician that's never had a private job, merely BECAUSE he or she has never had a private job;  and you believed the grizzly bear was "endangered" even though it really never was.  Some of you even think ISIS is cool, because they are so committed.  Well, the U.S. Marines are committed, but you really hate them, don't you, you Sheilas!

Valiant ISIS Warriors

     Let the Old Doc help you Boyz.  Listen up.....All of this back and forth, weird belief systems, and frivolous lives mean one thing.  And that is,  confusion.  Yep, you Boyz are confused, befuddled, bamboozled, fuzzy-brained, lost.....uh, anchorless.  You have no anchor.  You have no go-to morality.  You lack character values.  You are the Captain of your own ship and you sit at the steering wheel.  Yet the wheel is attached to nothing.  You are spinning the wheel back and forth like a baby in his high-chair driving an imaginary car.

        You millennial Men, especially, you think the country is in a shithole, and in a lot of ways, you are right.  The problem with you sissies is that you think you are helpless to change these things.  Let me tell you Fellas, you yourselves are actually the big part of the problem.  Yeah, you Boyz are in the deepest, stinkiest shithole of them all.  Think about it Pards.  If you step away from the iPhone and marijuana for one weekend don't you think you could write out on one page the "How To Fix America" prescription?   OK, ok, let me help you.  Last tat still stinging too much to concentrate?  Poor baby.......

     OK, try these, just off the top of my head:

1)  Flat tax, 10%, EVERYBODY pays;  fire the 110,000 IRS employees tomorrow
2)  ZERO corporate tax.  Let U.S. companies come back to America, so YOU junior can get a job.
3)  Make Affirmative Action illegal.  All people are created equal, and all should be judged by the
           content of their character, not the color of their skin, genitalia type, or preferred location
             of penile penetration.
4)  Eliminate U.S. Departement of Housing and Urban Development
5)  Eliminate U.S. Department of Energy
6)  Eliminate U.S. Department of Education
7)  Eliminate U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
8)  Closure of ALL of our Borders to ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION;  a big Fence would be nice
9)  Term limites on all elected officials
10) Department of Defense charged ONLY responsible for fighting wars:  yes, that is killing the
      enemy and breaking things;  no Homosexuals at all in the military, and no women in combat
11)Throw out Roe vs. Wade, Obamacare, and Homosexual Marriage as U.S. law.   See 10th
      Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
12)When an elected leader swears to uphold the U.S. Constitution, terminate his term immediately
      for the FIRST violation of our Founding Document
13) Eliminate the EPA, and for goodness sake California, cut loose your emotional attachment to
       the Delta Smelt!

     Whaddya' think Fellas?  Lucky Thirteen, I call them.  Oh quit whining with all of your Commie protestation!  You know that all of those Cabinet positions do nothing but further Lenin's Communist International.  Yeah, bloated government bureaucracy's incest with company-strangling labor unions, culturally perverting family-busting advocacy groups, the alarming illegal immigration industry, and taxpayer defense of Planned Parenthood,  unborn-baby killers, to the tune of billions and billions of our tax dollars!  And ponder, if you will,  all of the taxation enforcement apparatus needed to pay for this redistribution of  the incomes of those that work and earn them honestly and productively.  Look into each and every one of my suggestions, and honestly ask yourself if doing them  helps or hurts the forces that are destroying the Founding Fabric of this great country.  Our income literally stolen for Unconstitutional expenditures;  our unborn babies being killed LEGALLY;  our ethnic groups being pitted one against the other;  Militant Radical Islam being allowed to take root in our SCHOOLS;  our Freedom robbed;  our National Honor stolen.  Implement my Lucky Thirteen tomorrow, and all of this garbage goes away in a week!   And it took me, maybe, five minutes to compose this list.        

     Hang with me there ma Bruthas'.  I will get to my point.   But first consider this.  Doc's Lucky Thirteen is about taking powers AWAY from government.  Yeah, like George Washington, et al intended.  Their idea was revolutionary indeed.  The U.S. Constitution was constructed to prevent "government mischief" as Thomas Jefferson put it.  Now, last fact about government abuse, and then I'll get to my point.  Consider this.  Since Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in 1964, when the poverty rate in the U.S. was 10% of the population, the government has used 10 trillion of our tax dollars to "wipe out" poverty.  Today, the percentage of the poor in the United States is.... TEN PER CENT!  Over 10 trillion of our hard earned dollars to make a ZERO percent dent in the U.S. poverty rate.  THAT, my friends, is really how government works.  Depressive.  The poor are still with us, but boy oh boy have the Poverty Pimps raked in the bucks.  Think Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition;  Barack Obama and ACORN;  and Al Gore and the EPA.

     Now Boyz, the Founding Fathers produced a document that was ratified by the 13 Colonies.  This U.S. Constitution was the new country's set of rules that gave the Federal government the powers to raise an Army to defend our borders, to regulate interstate commerce, and to levy taxes to pay for these functions.  And that is purty much it!  In the main, this document enumerates what the Federal government CANNOT do.  In essence, it was a National design to insure each American had the greatest amount of freedom to achieve anything their individual talents, brainpower, and work ethic would produce for life, liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness.  Never guaranteed a minimum wage.  Never promised happiness.  Well, my friends, the rest is history.  The most spectacularly successful civilization the world has ever seen.  Releasing the ingenuity and industry of the individual turned out to be the best way to build a secure, wealthy and powerful nation.  And even thinking young Men, even.

Greatest Hope of All Mankind

       Honestly Pards, I am not trying to convince you of my Lucky Thirteen.  I am honesty not even   talking politics.  This Doc is much more interested in your heart; your soul.  Here I am simply attempting to demonstrate how easy it is to really think if you might ever want to put that space between your ears to productive work.  There are some things worth tearing yourself away from your iPhone.  For example you might want to ponder this.  Why ever would you Men sit back and allow the degeneration of this dream, this wonderful success story, this beacon for millions of downtrodden over the last two centuries from all around the world?......Without even uttering a peep in protest?

     OK, here is my real point.  I will tell you why.  Ready?  Here you go -- you have left God out of your life;  you have forgotten the Ten Commandments;  and you deny The Christ his sacrifice and promise of Eternal Life.  Yeah Fellas, you never read the Good Book, so you are fooled by charlatans, thieves, con-men, and the Golden Calf.  You never learned to know Men "by their fruit."  Hell, Moses leaves for a few days, and you Fellas went wild!

"It may be truthful to say that we live when there's more media than ever. We have currently the most ill-informed or uninformed population at any time in our nation's history, even going back to the founding.  The things people think they know that are wrong and don't know, every day there are more and more examples of this that actually, frankly, are hard to believe, 'cause there's an absence of common sense.  They don't refute anything.  They don't disbelieve anything they see in the liberal media.  Nothing.  They accept it as Bible. " 

                                                                        -- Rush Limbaugh, June 30, 2015

     Wake up Lads!  Living for the next App;  the next tat;  or for Star Wars XIII will help no one, and you will certainly never evolve to true Manhood.  It is just not possible, for as we have said in previous blogs, a Man who humbles himself to the Almighty is a guardian;  a sentinel;  and ultimately a warrior.  He defends The Word. 

    There.  It is really quite simple Men, and yet you have not received the same Manly cultivation for the Divine  that this Old Doc's generation received IN THE DRINKING WATER.  Sure, I get that. You are being the eight ball.   As I have said before, you Millennial Fellas are even afraid to utter the word "Man."  Guys, dudes, bro's are so much more culturally approved.  My point, then has even greater weight.  Without God, you will never find your direction Boyz, you will wander erratically, and ultimately you will become just another comedic cliche'.  You can have no capacity to judge, to evaluate whether that politician, salesman, or gal is telling you the truth, or merely trying to interest you in an ocean view in Arizona.  You cannot learn to judge another Man's fruit without help.

"Because you are not alone though they want you to think you are alone. You have to remember that. The wildfire may burn all around you, but through the smoke and flames there are others just like you.

Those of you who are Christians are commanded to “go”. You cannot withdraw completely. You have to go into culture and make disciples. But you can retreat to rural towns or suburbia and commute into cities. You can raise your family in the country, only coming out of your monastery for your day job. Some of you will have to change careers. Small businesses are going to be popular among the next generation of Christ followers. They’re less likely to make you swear allegiance to Moloch.

Just remember — wildfires have a way of consuming themselves and burning out. The question for you is not whether you take a break from it all and step back to protect your family. The question for you is whether, after you do step back, you prepare yourself to step forward into the rubble, smoke, and char to help rebuild civilization once the fire burns itself out.

Crazy rules the day. It will probably get worse. But the madness will recede."

                                                                                                   Eric Erickson, Red State re: SCOTUS Rulings
                                                                                                                           

     It would be most presumptuous of me to prescribe for you, me Lads, exactly how to go about your re-discover God plan.  But at some point you have simply got to put on the brakes;  pull up on the reins;  yeah, for a while, go from 60 to Zero.  Think.  Contemplate.  I mean for goodness sake, whaddaya' gonna do when they TAX THE INTERNET!  Maybe you might wanna do as a scarred-up, old warrior recommends:

            "I won't back down, no I won't back down.
                 You can stand me up at the gates of hell,
                 But I won't back down.
                 Gonna stand my ground,
                 Won't be turned around.
                 And I'll keep this world from dragging me down.
                 Gonna stand my ground, 
                 And I won't back down."

                                                                -- Johnny Cash, "American Solitary Man"

     
          Millennial Men need to stand fast, stand "your ground."  What ground?  Well Fellas, the most fertile and valuable ground.  God my friends;  family;  unborn babies;  YOUR COUNTRY!  Just try those for starters anyway.  Stand up, stand strong, and stand fast for Him and them.  Shed all that static in your brain that comes from radio station K-FemNaz, or K-Dope, or K-Tat, or K-Lib, or K-Marx or K-Hell.  

     Sure, sure, I know, sometimes instincts take you to the dark side.  I'm way ahead of you on that.  Radio K-FemNaz is right now, at this very moment telling you that "standing your ground" is dangerous, subversive, and not conducive to 50/50 compromise.  That is why you should turn OFF K-FemNaz!   Look to God for the righteous path.  Methinks that right now Fellas, your problem is lack of a rigid spine;  yeah, you got a noodle there instead, so you are in no danger of OVERdoing it in the "stand your ground"  department.  Believe me on that.    And another DON'T.  Don't denigrate outright my sources for these pertinent quotes.  You far too easily reject what you don't know, or have even investigated.  Try, for once to ponder, to ruminate what I,  and they,  say.  Put a little WD-40 on that white matter.

"'There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.'" - Herbert Spencer

     Wisdom of the ages my friends.  There are no NEW antiques.  You simply cannot believe anyone who tells you that human morality and culture common to all Men for thousands of years, is now overnight all wrong because Hillary or SCOTUS says its so.  Courage, honor, integrity, humility, devotion to God are ancient and timeless, yet you choose to believe the charlatans.    You are being duped Pards, wool-over-your-eyes, sold a bill of goods, a wooden nickel, a lame horse, snake oil.....

     There is a U.S. Presidential election coming up sooner than you think.  You judged the fruit very wrong the last two times.  Yeah dudes, you put a Commie in the White House -- TWICE!  You did not even bother to see exactly what kind of fruit this loco weed had EVER produced.....he pal'd around with a 60's convicted terrorist, now professor, William Ayers;  was Illinois State Senator for five minutes, but managed to be the ONLY vote for partial birth abortion (yup, exactly how it sounds, baby actually birthing, and killed by sticking a spear into its skull to kill it before it has time to mess up mom's life); ran with a marijuana "choom" gang; never published ONE article with the Harvard Law Review;  refused to release his college and law school transcripts   and was a U.S. Senator for five minutes.  Bingo, got your vote!

Professor William Ayers

     Your favorite Doc is using the Presidential election as a prop.  You gotta start judging the fruits of the Man,  Lads.  But there are many other examples, don't you agree?  Who to marry?  Whether to marry?  Which guy is going to build the patio onto your house?  In the area of personal character, there are many decisions as well.  Will you support a politician who was for Global Cooling before she was for Global Warming?  Do you stand firmly against "the rich" and for taking their possessions by force?  Should you  support  Homosexual marriage, aiding and abetting the assault on the Christian Church while leaving the Mosque free to proclaim its anti-Homosexual stand loudly and militantly?   Will you continue to support those who continue to vote for killing unborn babies at will?

     These helpless babies need you Pal.  Your family needs you, all of you, WITHOUT earphones on for a change.  Your country needs you.  Needs you to think.  Evaluate.  Ponder.  Contemplate.  Judge the fruits of a Man,  using your brain.  Chuck your brain library card in the wastebasket for good.

  

     Ask the Almighty for guidance, He does not need you;  YOU, my friend, need Him.

          "Well, I, ain't ever done nothin' for nobody.
            I ain't never got nothin' from nobody, no time, 
           And until I get something from somebody, sometime
           I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time

           When Summertime comes
           All warm and clear
           And my friends see me, drawin' near, 
           Who says "come on in and have a beer?
           Nobody"

                              -- "Nobody" by Johnny Cash, American Solitary Man


     Think hard about Judgement Day, me Lads.  Do something wild and crazy, yea, unthinkable, and read Revelations in the New Testament.  What if they all were right about this, all this time?   You know General Washington;  Thomas Jefferson;  Ronald Reagan.  Or how 'bout all those Christians that prayed as the jaws of a hungry lion were chomping down?  Or the sword falling as an ISIS coward lopped off their heads?  Or how 'bout all those folks that actually SAW the Christ and wrote their "testaments" down, you know, of what they saw with their own eyes?  Like Simon of Cyrene.  Think they all lied?  Hallucinated?......You ever think of the alternative?...........Doc