Christmas = Santa Claus; Christmas Trees; Presents; Good Cheer?

My mother passed away on December 26, 2007 at the age of 92 (the Feast of St. Stephen -- the protomartyr of the Catholic Church).  My father pre-deceased her, November, 1993; he was 82-years old; my older brother died suddenly just a couple of weeks before "9/11"; he was just shy of 59-years old.

What that means, is that all of my original, immediate family are now gone.  I do, however, have another immediate family for which I am eternally grateful; and I do have much to be grateful for in addition to my "new" family...

But I must say, that since my original, immediate family are no longer with me, Christmastime has never been the same.  And I'm not talking about Santa Claus, or Christmas Trees, or presents, or good cheer -- whatever that means these days.  What I am talking about is that special feeling, if you will, of having my mom, dad, and brother in my life, knowing that I can visit them or call them on the phone, or give some type of support if need be, and, in the case of my brother, lecture him on the way he was living his life (which, I contend, was one of the reasons he died so suddenly.  Note: I am, or I was, being judgmental of his chosen lifestyle; I had a duty to do so for the sake of his immortal soul.  At one point, while on the phone, he told me that no one was going to tell him what to do, or how to live his life; I said someone is: Satan.  The thing is, he didn't tell me to go fly a kite, neither did he hang up on me; he listened to what I had to say.  I just hope that I made a positive impression on him, and that at his last moment on earth, he had a chance to beg for mercy from the Just Judge -- of us all).

I grew up in an Italian/American/Catholic household in the Bronx, New York.  When I was born, the president of the United States was Harry Truman; he took over the presidency when Franklin Roosevelt died while still in office, back in 1945, toward the tail-end of World War II.

Christmas was always a special time for me, and, I suspect, as well for my now-departed brother, and for most little people all across the American landscape.  As it usually goes, there was the Christmas tree, presents under the tree, snow outside our apartment building; visiting the relatives up in Yonkers, or they visiting us, down in the Bronx...

We had to go to Mass on Christmas day, and remember just Who that special day was really for.  As Catholics, there was no question about that, but at the same time, did I really know which was more important: getting gifts or adoring the One that came into the world to redeem us -- the real gift of life, and love!?

Jumping forward to my late teens, I entered the military and just over two years later, I found myself in a strange, war-torn country in Southeast Asia: Vietnam.  I arrived about two weeks before Christmas of 1967; what a Christmas "gift"!  But I was honored to do my part in keeping the South Vietnamese people free from Communist domination, at least for about 10 years or so...

Christmas -- and all other holidays meant little to me, in the sense that I had to concentrate on the job at hand, and not be distracted from my duties: keeping the Viet Cong enemy from infiltrating our air base and killing my brothers and destroying the aircraft that tormented those pagan monsters on the battlefield.  And make no mistake, they were monsters, often killing their own countrymen in the most heinous of ways.

One of my duties was to escort the Vietnamese nationals that worked on base back to their town just after dark. I was usually the machine-gunner in the Jeep.  If the VC wanted to "hit" us, they could easily do so, as we were easy to pick-off from sniper positions hidden along the roadside in the tall grasses and rice paddies...

When we entered the town (or city) of Tuy Hoa (pronounced: two-ee-wha), driving down "main street", it was plain to see all the buildings pockmarked with bullet holes as the result of gun-battles right smack in the middle of town.  And these people lived there??  Yes, they did!

From there, things went down hill, so to speak... But, I survived, and I came back to "the world" just before Christmas of 1968; another gift!

I was a changed man...  I really didn't care about Christmas or anything else, for that matter, and that started a long journey away from my faith.

Time frame: over 20 years of drifting.

I'm back now: the best gift of all!

Back to the title of this article: Christmas = Santa Claus; Christmas Trees; Presents; Good Cheer?

Is that what Christmas is really all about?

What do we tell our children about Christmas?  (We are still allowed to do so, even in this politically correct world we live in.)  Do we put gifts under the tree; drink eggnog, overeat and maybe suffer some heartburn?  Do we think about the real reason for the season?  The birth of the Christ-child, and why He came to us?  We see the Nativity creches on church grounds and elsewhere.  Who do we see?  The Child, of course, but also His Blessed Mother, and the great St. Joseph, her most chaste spouse.   They are called the Holy Family, the same Holy Family that had to flee to Egypt to escape the evil King Herod.  Remember, it was Herod that ordered the killing of all children two-years old and under in an attempt to kill the Child, as he saw Him as a threat to his reign as king.  A Child a threat to this reign??

As tradition tells us, the Family was almost left out in the cold, but was eventually able to find some measure of shelter where the Child was born of the Virgin...  (Think about that for a moment!!!)

Will the Child and the entire Holy Family be left out in the cold -- of our hearts this year?   Will we value our trees, gifts and food, more than the greatest valued gift of all: our supreme chance of attaining Heaven because of this little Child, and what He eventually went through for our sakes?

Do parents around the country at least attempt to tell the story of the Holy Family and what it means, that is, if the parents themselves know.  I wonder sometimes... But it is the duty of parents to teach, nurture and inform their offspring about what is truly important in this life.  The culpability of not doing so will be extreme...

Pray for discernment this Advent and Christmastime, and pray for our country too...

Gene DeLalla

New HARD evidence that "9/11" was a set-up!!

See my two previous articles on the "9/11" "attacks"...(http://powerthroughtruth.blogspot.com/2018/09/what-really-happened-on-911.html) and here: http://powerthroughtruth.blogspot.com/2018/11/follow-up-to-what-really-happened-on-911.html)...

It was announced the other day that new, HARD evidence that explosives were used to bring down the three World Trade Center buildings, that includes WTC-7.  If one opens their eyes, and views the actual take-down of WTC-7, you will see that it was a perfect demolition, with the 47-story skyscraper falling into its own footprint.  Same for the Twin Towers!

If anyone doubts this, all I ask is to look at some videos on you-tube or elsewhere, of demolition companies bringing down buildings that have served their usefulness.  If one does a side-by-side comparison of the fall of the buildings, you will plainly see that WTC-7 was a perfectly performed demolition.  

IT IS OBVIOUS!  IT CANNOT BE DENIED!

Now, there is a new 52-page report packed with HARD evidence including the eye-witness reports of first-responders, of seeing and hearing explosions just before, and during the collapse of those massive structures.  Keep in mind, as I pointed out in my previous articles, that the designer of the Twin Towers stated that those buildings were designed to withstand multiple jet hits and remain standing.

I think it is important to repeat that critical statement from the man who actually designed those buildings: they were built to withstand MULTIPLE JET HITS AND REMAIN STANDING!  

This "new" information is really not new as such, but it will send chills and, I hope, fear, through some of those murderous conspirators responsible for the killing of nearly 3,000 American citizens who were going about their work-day business, only to become unwilling sacrificial lambs to the new world order, sucking away our liberties for the sake of "security".

This explosive (pun intended) information may now be presented to the DOJ, and then to a federal grand jury.  If that actually happens, watch out!   I do hope -- and pray -- that heads will begin to roll right into federal prison, and maybe to the electric chair or the hangman's noose for capital murder of nearly 3,000 of our fellow citizens.

I ask all to pray for this to happen, and pray for our country...

Gene DeLalla

Get ready for more TREASON from the incoming Demonrats...

The following is an excerpt from an article from cnsnews.com (December 3, 2018):

See my comments...

"When her party assumes the House majority next term, it will pass a bill to allow illegal aliens to remain in the U.S., make it easier for illegal aliens to seek asylum in the U.S., and end separation of apprehended illegal alien families – all while thwarting the president’s efforts to build a border wall, Pelosi said:

“In the Majority, Democrats will work to reverse the Republicans’ destructive anti-immigrant agenda.

Comment: That's right, "destructive anti-immigrant agenda".   Translation: let everyone in, that wants to come in to our country, regardless of the cost in welfare; jobs; disease, you name it!  The truth: President Trump WANTS legal immigration based on a merit system, and offer same to those that want to become AMERICANS, and to love and serve our country, not take advantage of its generosity...  My dad came to this country through Ellis Island in New York City (harbor) in 1913!  They were all checked for diseases and remained at the Island until they were declared to be healthy.  There was NO welfare; they had to make it on their own (with their sponsors' assistance); they became AMERICANS!  My mother came to the U.S. in the 1920s...

“Our House Democratic Majority will once again pass the Dream Act to end the uncertainty and fear inflicted on patriotic young men and women across the country. We will protect TPS [Temporary Protected Status] recipients and those fleeing unimaginable violence. And we will hold the Trump Administration accountable for their inhuman policy of separating families, and the trauma and anguish they have inflicted on vulnerable children and families at our border.

Comment: "patriotic young men and women".  Is this lunatic talking about Americans?  No, Pelosi, "the incoherent," is talking about illegal aliens coming in, or already in our country -- the "dreamers". Are Americans not dreamers???

Comment: "inhuman policy of separating families..."  There is NO "policy" of separating families.  These Demonrats USE the very children they pretend to be concerned about!

“Of course, we will meet our responsibility to provide strong, smart border security that serves our country’s needs, is consistent with our values, and doesn’t squander billions of dollars on a border wall.”

Comment: Values?  Dirty, rotten liar!  This poor excuse for a "devout Catholic" -- her description, not mine, will reap what she sows. She is a despicable traitor to her country.

Pelosi’s statement does not explain how her party intends to “strong, smart border security” after reversing the Trump Administration’s efforts to do so.

"We will continue to work every day to ensure the American Dream remains in reach for everyone,” Pelosi concluded.

Comment: an absolute contradiction!  She is a shrewd and contemptuous liar, well versed in the art of double-talk!  Makes absolutely no sense at all.  She cannot even speak one, single coherent sentence!  Watch her interviews and see for yourself!  

Final comment: when the Demonrats take over the House of Representatives in January, Mr. Trump will have to fight tooth and nail just to keep Americans first, not second or last.  We will be in deep trouble, to say the least...

Pray for our country, now more than ever!

Gene DeLalla

  

George H.W. Bush is dead.

The 94-year-old former president died the other day, and since then, the hypocritical media, and even some "conservative" talking heads, along with the Bush haters back in his day, are now in the process of "canonizing" him right before our stupefied eyes!

I should be stunned, but I'm not...

Let us please keep in mind just who this guy was.  Sure, he served honorably during World War II, but then what?

He got us into wars in the tinder-box that is the Middle East, first attacking Saddam Hussein, and kicking him out of some very disputed territories, including portions of Kuwait.  From there, things have gone down hill at a breakneck speed, leading, to, eventually, Afghanistan, with his son, Bush, Jr., supposedly going after the mastermind of "9/11" -- Osama Bin Laden.

Sorry, I don't buy it, and neither should you!  (See my two articles on  "9/11" on my blog.)  I bet most have forgotten that some character "confessed" to being the "mastermind" of "9/11" down in Guantanamo Bay prison after being, shall we say, undergoing some "enhanced interrogation".  I just might "confess" to being the "mastermind" of "9/11" too if I underwent "enhanced interrogation".

And here's one of the most obvious anti-Christ agendas of Bush senior's presidency: he called for a new world order.  Does that scare you?  It should.  Bush junior continued that for another eight disastrous, war mongering years.  Senior was a globalist; Junior was and is a globalist; Trump, on the other hand is attempting to maintain some measure of sovereignty by putting America first; securing our southern borders; cutting business-killing regulations, and sending more money back to the taxpayers.

I express my sympathies for the Bush family, who wouldn't, but the quick "canonization" -- without the required three miracles! -- sounds awfully fishy to me... (A little sarcasm there...)

May God have mercy on his soul...

Pray for our country.

Gene DeLalla

TERM LIMITS AN ABSOLUTE MUST!!

Listen, there is only one non-violent way to stop the egregious, uncontrollable traitors that now occupy the Congress and the Senate of the United States of America.

And those traitors are not only Demonrats, but also Repubicrats who refuse -- REFUSE -- to put into action the agenda of President Trump.  We STILL hold both houses -- and will until January --, and the presidency, and yet why can't they get anything done, such as funding for the wall at the southern border??

Term limits for all congressional and senatorial office seekers!  A pledge must be made by all those who want to run for those offices, to limit their tenure to one -- that's one! -- six-year term for senator, and three- two-year terms for congress.  In other words, six years for both offices, period.

That is the only way we have any chance to keep traitors to our country OUT of office!

Want a job?  Then, run for office with the caveat of six years of service -- that's service to US! -- and then you're out!  

I am sick and tired of the phony Republicans -- that's why I call them Republicrats! -- whether they intend to continue to run for office again, or are lame-ducks, they can and do throw up huge roadblocks to fund the wall; defund Murder, Inc., (a.k.a. "planned parenthood"); defund the UN; pull our troops out of at least several countries, another almost endless list...

Does anyone care?  I hope so, if not, then we will ALL suffer the consequences.  That incoherent, despicable so-called "devout Catholic" -- her description, not mine --, Nancy Pelosi, will now be speaker of the house.  Does anyone know what that means?  Here is what it means: if the president and the vice president are taken out, then the next in line to become PRESIDENT is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, i.e.: Nancy Pelosi!

That scenario is too nightmarish to even dream about!!

But that's not all!  Already, the Demonrats who will take over in January, are salivating at the insane thought -- insane to me, and you, I hope -- of impeaching President Trump.  But those idiots forget(?) that impeachment means little, unless one is convicted in the Senate.  So, if Mr. Trump does, eventually get impeached, the chances are slim that he will be convicted in a Senate with a majority of Republicrats, but then, who knows??

But all this lunacy can, and probably will, stifle any forward motion on behalf of the president, making it that much harder to get anything worthwhile done.

Oh, one more thing; some may not know that the depraved "icon" of the Demonrats, William Jefferson Clinton was IMPEACHED, but not convicted by the Senate.  Though he should have been for all the corruption, including murder of numerous "associates" that became his enemies, at least in his foul mind.

I'm not sure what we can do to help get term limits enshrined into law, but something has to be done before it's too late...

Pray for our country..

Gene DeLalla

Playing "Russian Roulette" with your soul...

Back in 1978, the movie, The Deer Hunter, made the movie-theater circuit around the country.

From what I understand, it was a pretty popular movie, mostly about a group of friends from a town in Pennsylvania, and their experiences while serving in the military in Vietnam, and after.

I was living in Southern California at the time, and went to see the movie one evening.  I was dressed in a casual but neat suit jacket and slacks; was clean shaven, and looked a little out of place among some of the more "hippy" types.  As I was standing in line, a slightly unkempt younger fellow came up to me and out of the clear blue sky asked: are you a NARC?  That is, a narcotics officer.  No, I said.  I just want to see how this movie is going to portray those who were in Vietnam, as I was.  I guess that satisfied him, and the short conversation ended...

In 1975, after Vietnam fell to the Communists. some of those that had served in the Army stayed behind for any number of reasons; money, adventure, maybe they were so messed up in the head, they just didn't want to go home (I guess you could call it PTSD, but that phrase wasn't in vogue at that time); who knows...

In the movie, there was a scene of one of the former military brothers playing Russian Roulette with a bunch of low-lives sitting around a dirty table filled with money and a few guns.  The idea was to bet on each guy after he spun the cylinder of the revolver, then put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger.  If the gun didn't go off, then he won the bet.  If, on the other hand, he was unlucky enough to have the chamber with a round in it (there was only one round in the cylinder that held 6), then he blew his brains out; he obviously lost the bet -- and his life.

I might add that he probably also lost his soul too.

Hence, the title of my article: Playing Russian Roulette with your soul.

The point here is that no matter what circumstances one is faced with in this life: happiness/unhappiness/success/failure/money problems/illness/family problems/no family at all, an endless list here...
We are all responsible for what happens to our souls.  We cannot, and should not, blame others, or, in the case of the decline in our dependence on what some call "organized religion," and maybe kicking God out of our lives, we are still accountable for all our actions/inactions, words and deeds.  To think otherwise, is to play that very serious and deadly game of Russian Roulette.

I can direct this short article to fallen-away, or lapsed Catholics, but it should apply to all those who have lost that sense of our obligation to recognize and worship the One who made us, realizing that there are, in fact, "rules and regulations" that we have to live by, like it or not.

Pride will often tell us: no-one is going to tell me what to do!  Ah!  But someone is!  Can you guess who?  If there is an absence of good, the opposite will fill the void, and that "opposite" can wind up directing our lives to the point of no longer applying the Natural (moral) Law to what we say or do.  And, as we can see what is happening in society today, the loss of the sanctity of life can, and usually does, lead to the cheapening of the gift of life and the consequences that go along with it.

Another long list: contraception, abortion, euthanasia, homosexually, and the weakening of marriage, and from that, the potential destruction of the family unit -- the building block of society.

To all fallen-away Catholics: come home, and those not in the Church, an open invitation to come into the one Ark of Salvation that Christ died to establish for all mankind...

Pray for our country..

Gene DeLalla 

Does the Truth still have any meaning?

How can it possibly be that even when someone is presented with the truth --  whether in word, print or by physical presence -- the one that it is presented to, still does not accept it, and continues to believe a falsehood or lie?

Unbelievably, we see this happen every single day!

Just one present-day example will prove my point: look at what is happening at our southern border with the mob of illegals trying to enter (invade) the U.S. at any cost, even with violence -- on their part -- and inflict that violence on our border patrolmen and whatever military are still stationed there to help maintain order as well as the sovereignty of our country.  It is a fact, that without a secure border, there is no sovereignty, period.

So, if you or I present the media with undeniable proof of the real actions and intent of the illegal mobs practically attacking our border agents, they still either deny or distort that truth, and turn it around to show how rotten or unfeeling we are by not letting those "persecuted" migrants into our country.  We are collectively called racist, or some other such nonsensical thing, simply because we want to see our laws enforced, and still offer legal immigration to those who want to become Americans, and not just suck off the government teat.  

To those who watch the "6 o'clock news," or read the New York Times, it seems to me that they, for the most part, will swallow the lie, hook, line, and sinker regardless of the facts.

This is culpable ignorance.  In other words, they are still responsible for believing a lie, even though it is a lie!

But this is very dangerous, not just because it is irrational (that's scary enough!), but also because it shows the lack of education and knowledge that is needed to live a life of decency, especially for those who will become our future leaders.

How can these folks, who maintain false beliefs, lead a country?   How can these folks be a moral people and have a moral governance over their charge if they do not uphold the truth themselves -- if they do not recognize that all truth comes from the God that made them?  And yet just watch the talking heads of the leftist media presenting what is clearly the opposite of the facts; of truth!!

Who was it that said if a lie is repeated often enough, people will believe it as a truth?  

All must pray for discernment, and pray for our country too.

Gene DeLalla