Friday, May 23, 2014

Russia Partners With Iran

For those of us who have been watching the players of the Ezekiel 38 coalition come on line...this article is more that a little interesting.

Russia may build eight nuclear reactors for Iran

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to sign a contract with Iran this year to build two more nuclear reactors at its Bushehr power plant as part of a broader deal for up to eight reactors in the Islamic state, a source close to the negotiations told Reuters on Thursday.

It was not immediately clear how this might affect six global powers' talks with Iran addressing disputed aspects of its nuclear program. Iran has resisted demands for cuts in its uranium enrichment capacity, pointing to plans for a future network of nuclear power stations.

Western powers want any lasting agreement with Iran to put to rest suspicions that it could develop nuclear weapons-making ability through enrichment. Iran denies any such intent.

Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said earlier it was in talks with Iran on the potential construction of more reactors there but revealed no details. Rosatom officials could not immediately be reached for comment on Thursday.

Here;  http://news.yahoo.com/russia-may-build-eight-nuclear-reactors-iran-134635604.html

So much for Obama's promised "reset" button.

Russia seems to be holding the cards and at this point America seems incapable of pressuring her to do anything.

Ezekiel 38 
The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him 3 and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. 4 I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. 5 Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, 6 also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.

We know for certain that Persia is modern day Iran.  Many prophecy watchers believe that Magog is what is now modern Russia.

Could Putin be Gog?  We have no idea...but as Jan Markell and other watchers have said, "He certain is "Gog-esque" in his behaviors.


Jesus is Coming Back

I had lunch with a client a few days ago.  We started talking about all the stuff going on in the world.  He started talking about a show he had seen hosted by liberal-talker, Bill Maher on HBO

"Yeah, they were talking about all these Christians that are heading to Israel and they all go to this mountain top some place and they are like waiting to be lifted off the earth...", says my client.

"Wait...are you talking about the Mount of Olives?" I ask.

"Yeah that's it...the Mount of Olives!  That's where they were."

"I'm guessing that you have a few stories mixed up.  The Bible says Jesus is coming back to the Mount of Olives when he returns.  The belief that Christians, one day, will be lifted off the earth  is called the Rapture."

"Yeah...that's it...the Rapture!  That's what Bill was making fun of!  I can't believe what all these people believe.  Jesus was just a man!", he says.

The lunch was almost over and he had a conference call coming up so the timing wasn't right to share the Gospel...but I did tell him that there really was no middle ground when it came to Jesus.  You either have to decide that he was a pathological liar who claimed to be God and also claimed to the the only way to heaven, when really he was "just a man"...OR....you have to decide that He is EXACTLY who He claimed to be!  The Son of God, the only name given to men for salvation.

Maybe I will have another chance some day.  I know this guy has been to the Catholic church many times as he was raised in it....but CLEARLY has no personal relationship with the Son of God.

How tragic!  Many will be on the road to destruction...and I just met one more.

Zechariah 14:3-5
3 Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. 4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. 5 You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

This chapter in Zechariah was written about 480 years before Christ was even born.  And yet he CLEARLY tells us that Jesus will come back to the Mount of Olives...and the holy ones will be with him!  That's us!!

Of course this confirms the belief that Jesus will FIRST come for His bride, the church, which consists of all people, dead or alive, who trusted in Jesus for salvation.  We will be taken to the place that He has prepared for us where the wedding will be consummated. The Antichrist will be revealed soon after this and will sign a peace agreement with Israel.  This will usher in the LAST 7 Jewish years on earth...and the countdown will begin to Christ's 2nd coming.

When Christ returns to earth, we, His bride, will be with him.  Zechariah said it and Revelation 19 confirms it.

Revelation 19:14-15
14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.

Friends...Jesus IS coming back.  We don't know the day or the hour...but by reading the headlines and comparing them with what the Bible says, we shouldn't be surprised if it happened at any time!  The table is set!  Are you ready to meet your Savior?

What an exciting time to be alive!

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

As we have written in the past...as bloggers we aren't here to prove whether there are MORE earthquakes or LESS...you can Google as well as we can...and you can find people who say there are and others who say there aren't.

But this headline and article plucked off of Yahoo News is of interest...especially to those who enjoy watching for the things that Jesus told us to watch for...which should lead us toward the anticipation that The King is coming!...and spur us on to be busy about the Master's work.

Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On: Busy Stretch for Large Earthquakes

If you have gotten the sense that Earth has been active lately, you were right.

A Live Science analysis of U.S. Geological Survey data finds that April's first three weeks were the busiest stretch for earthquakes going back to at least the beginning of last year. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said April was a record month for warnings from the Alaska-based center.

How about May? There were 17 magnitude-6 or larger earthquakes globally between May 1 and May 20, following a busy April that saw 26 temblors in that same magnitude range. By comparison, there were only six earthquakes this big in February, eight in January and just two in December.

Are you wondering if it's your imagination, or is there really an uptick in earthquakes? To find out, Live Science posed this question to seismologists, the scientists who study the trembling Earth, at their annual meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, last month. Not surprisingly, some had pithy responses.

"I've been answering that question for 34 years," said a smiling John Ebel, a professor at Boston College in Massachusetts. Translation: Nothing to see here. Move along.

But Thorne Lay, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, thinks there's something interesting happening with the world's great earthquakes.

Between 1900 and 2004, the average yearly rate of quakes of magnitude 8 and larger was 0.65, Lay told Live Science. In the past 10 years, that rate jumped to 1.8 — an increase of almost a factor of 3, he said. But only the biggest quakes are becoming more frequent. There isn't a similar rise in smaller earthquakes.

"There's a big mystery there," Lay said. Unfortunately, it's a tough one for researchers to solve. "The 110-year record is totally lacking," Lay said. "It's too short a window."

Here;  http://news.yahoo.com/whole-lotta-shakin-goin-busy-stretch-large-earthquakes-165008401.html

About half way through the article, there is an interesting sub-heading that says;

No end times here

It's as if the author of the article wants to make sure that we all know this has NOTHING to do with the signs that would point us to the Last Days.

"Move along folks...nothing to see here...just keep living your lost, meaningless, Christ-less existence...keep marrying, shopping, eating, drinking, carousing, merry making and inventing ways to do evil.  Since the creation of the world these things like quakes and strange weather have always happened...don't worry about a thing!"

Exactly as it was in the DAYS OF NOAH....before the flood came and took them all away.

Human-Animal Hybrids

What if you could cross a human with a pig...and then take the hybrid's heart to transplant back into a human?  Would that pig still be a pig even though it has a human heart?

What if you could cross a human with a cheetah so the hybrid would look like a human but have vision capabilities of a cheetah?

What if you could cross a human with a gorilla and create a being that was 10 times stronger than a man and absolutely fearless on the battlefield?  It could be the ULTIMATE SOLDIER!

Does that sound far fetched to you?  You better think again....because the technology is already here to make it possible...and in labs across the world strange hybrids are already being produced.

Did you know that scientists are creating cow/human hybrids, pig/human hybrids and even mouse/human hybrids?  This is happening every single day in labs all over the western world, but most people have never even heard about it.  So would you drink milk from a cow/human hybrid that produces milk that is almost identical to human breast milk?  And how would you interact with a mouse that has a brain that is almost entirely human?  These are the kinds of questions that we will have to start to address as a society as scientists create increasingly bizarre human/animal hybrids.  Thanks to dramatic advances in genetic technology, we have gotten to the point where it is literally possible for college students to create new hybrid lifeforms in their basements.   Of course our laws have not kept pace with these advances, and now that Pandora’s Box has been opened, it is going to be nearly impossible to shut it.

Scientists try to justify the creation of human/animal hybrids by telling us that it will help “cure disease” and help “end world hunger”, but what if scientists discover that combining human DNA with animal DNA can give us incredible new abilities or greatly extended lifespans?  Will humanity really have the restraint to keep from going down that road?

And once animal DNA gets into our breeding pool, how will we ever put the genie back into the bottle?  As the DNA of the human race becomes corrupted, it is easy to imagine a future where there are very few “pure humans” remaining.

Sadly, most of the scientists working in this field express very little concern for these types of considerations.  In fact, one very prominent U.S. geneticist says that we should not even worry about hybridization because he believes that humans were originally pig/chimpanzee hybrids anyway…

The human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, an American geneticist has suggested.

The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, who is also one of the world’s leading authorities on hybridisation in animals.

He points out that while humans have many features in common with chimps, we also have a large number of distinguishing characteristics not found in any other primates.

So if we are just hybrid creatures ourselves, why should we be scared of making more hybrids?

So what should we call mice that have brains that are mostly human?

And at what point would our relationship with such creatures fundamentally change?

When they learn to talk?

Scientists all over the planet are recklessly creating these chimeras without really thinking through the implications.

In China, scientists have actually inserted human genes into the DNA of dairy cow embryos.

Now there are hundreds of human/cow hybrids that produce milk that is virtually identical to human breast milk.

Many scientists believe that these kinds of technologies will “change the world”.

They might be more right about that than they ever could possibly imagine.

When we start monkeying with human DNA, we could be opening up doorways that we never even knew existed.

If we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.  Hopefully scientists around the globe will understand the dangers of these types of experiments before it is too late.

Here; http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Era_Of_Chimeras%3A_Scientists_Fearlessly_Create_Bizarre_HumanAnimal_Hybrids/35330/0/38/38/Y/M.html 

This article had nothing in it to suggest the author had a biblical worldview...but clearly he was worried about scientists playing with the building blocks of life...wondering if we could end up opening doorways that we never knew existed!

For me, it makes me wonder if any of this ties into what Jesus told us about the days leading up to His return..."As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man...."

For many of you I won't need to re-ask this question...but what was it that was going on IN THE DAYS OF NOAH?

Genesis 6 clearly tells us that there was some sort of hybrid humans on earth that were a cross between some type of fallen angel men and human women.  Could we be heading back to those days?...days where God finally says, "ENOUGH!"...and sends his Son to collect his bride before divine WRATH is poured out on a Christ rejecting world?

John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

Romans 2:5
But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.

BUT HERE IS THE GOOD NEWS...FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TRUSTED IN CHRIST FOR SALVATION!!

Romans 5:9
Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!

1 Thessalonians 1:10
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.

1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Inter-Generational Intimacy

What do the liberal perverts of the world call it when adults have sex with teenagers?

"Inter-Generational intimacy."

You see, the word "pedophile" is so harsh...and even hateful sounding...so in our politically correct society where EVERYONE should have the right to follow through on all the desires they were born with, we can expect to see perversion tolerated and then even celebrated.

Look at the LGBT movement.  Even a few years ago their behavior was encouraged by society to be left in the dark places of their bedrooms.  Today, IF YOU DON'T OPENLY CELEBRATE their behavior...then you will risk being called homophobic, backward, hateful or Bible Thumper.

Shocking allegations by former child actor Michael Egan against openly “gay” “X-Men” director and producer Bryan Singer have stunned Hollywood into relative silence. I say “relative silence” because, unless he’s a Catholic priest, the relativist left’s false narrative is that a “gay” man is always the victim and never the victimizer.

Nonetheless, this latest episode has once again shined the spotlight on the long-established link between the homosexual lifestyle/movement and pedophilia – a link that, despite “progressive” denials to the contrary, is hiding in plain sight.

Egan has filed suit against Singer and several other high-profile Hollywood figures for homosexually assaulting him and other boys repeatedly at several “‘infamous‘ coke and twink pool parties” back when Egan was 15 and Singer was 32. (In the “LGBT” vernacular “twinks,” also called “chicken,” are highly sought-after underage boys used for sex by adult “gay” men.)

To be sure, not all homosexuals are pedophiles. Yet a grossly disproportionate number of them are. I don’t write this to be insensitive, “hateful,” intolerant or “homophobic.”

It’s “just the facts, Ma’am.”

Consider, for instance, a study published in the left-leaning Archives of Sexual Behavior of over 200 convicted pedophiles and pederasts. It found that “86 percent of offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.” This demonstrates, as notes Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, that “homosexual or bisexual men are approximately 10 times more likely to molest children than heterosexual men.”

This makes perfect sense when coupled with another 2001 study in the same peer-reviewed publication. It found that nearly half of all “gay”-identified men who participated in research were molested by a homosexual pedophile as boys: “46 percent of homosexual men and 22 percent of homosexual women reported having been molested by a person of the same gender. This contrasts to only 7 percent of heterosexual men and 1 percent of heterosexual women reporting having been molested by a person of the same gender.”

The connection between homosexual abuse and “gay identity” is undeniable. Although clearly not all “gay”-identified men and women abuse children, or were abused as children, the verifiable reality is that an alarmingly high percentage of them do and were. As with most forms of abuse, the cycle is both circular and vicious. “Born that way?” Not so much. “Made that way?” Sadly, it appears so.

But of equal concern is the fact that many of the most prominent “LGBT” activists across the globe have either overtly endorsed, or given their implicit approval of, what the left euphemistically calls “intergenerational intimacy” (read: child rape).

Take “marriage equality” activist Peter Tatchell, for instance. The GLAAD-affiliated blog “GoodAsYou” glowingly describes Tatchell as a “noted British rights activist.” He’s “one of the most widely respected leaders of the international LGBT movement” one of the blog’s commenters gushes.

Here’s what “widely respected” and “noted rights activist” Tatchell thinks of child rape. He wrote the following in The Guardian, one of the U.K.’s premier newspapers:

“The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends – gay and straight, male and female – had sex with adults from the ages of nine to 13. None feel they were abused. … [I]t is time society acknowledged the truth that not all sex involving children is unwanted, abusive and harmful.”

Read more at http://eaglerising.com/5878/liberals-push-adult-child-sex/#2h0KSQSCWMb6zzBG.99

And that, my friends, is how "tolerance" of adult-child sex will be brought into the mainstream.

Pandora's Box has been opened.  We already know that polygamy is here and soon we all be forced to embrace that lifestyle too.

We also know that humans having sex with and being "in love" with animals is also here, and on day soon (unless the Lord comes first) we will all be told we must accept and celebrate this love between a woman and a chimp or a man and his dog.   To stand against that behavior will be called intolerant, hateful and unloving.

"Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another."  Romans 1:24

Hat tip to Julie E.





Monday, May 19, 2014

14 Ounce Baby Born

For all the people who are PRO-ABORTION...this story HAS to make you wonder about your stance.

A newborn baby is fighting for his life after weighing in at just 14 ounces - and measuring only 10 inches.

James Maize and wife Carrie decided to go through with an emergency C-section at 22 weeks after their son suffered an umbilical cord prolapse.

Named Decklen Maize, he is now being cared for a St Mary Medical Center, in Apple Valley, California.

"If he’s a fighter, you know, we want him to fight and make his own decisions," Mr Maize said.

"It's rough…just being able to sit there at his bedside and just pretty much whisper."

It comes after the couple's daughter, Serenity, died last year after being born at the same stage of pregnancy.

See photo and video here;  http://news.sky.com/story/1262908/tiny-baby-born-weighing-just-14-ounces

So think about this....if these parents decided they didn't want this 14 ounce baby because it was going to be inconvenient and expensive for them to care for...so they twisted the baby's head off and threw it all away...they would be CHARGED WITH MURDER and even the liberals would say, "That is horrendous!"....BUT....had they decided they didn't want this baby a few days earlier, they could have driven to an abortion doctor who would have twisted it's head off and thrown it all into a dumpster.

In one scenario they would be called "MURDERERS!"....and in the other scenario they would have been given sympathy and support for their "Brave choice!".

IT'S THE SAME BABY!!!

Can you see how the Godless liberals are literally being given over to the desires of their hearts?  They have even figured out how to murder babies legally...and get the government to PAY FOR IT!!!!!

"The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."

As I heard  Dr James Dobson say years ago, "The blood of millions of murdered babies are crying out from U.S. soil, saying, "Justice!!"

Justice IS coming...and his name is Jesus.

Michelle Bachmann Calls for 3rd Temple

We all should know that Solomon built the first Temple in Jerusalem.  That got destroyed by the Babylonians after Daniel and his friends were hauled off to what is now, Iraq.  Then the books of Ezra and Nehemiah tell the story of how the Jews started coming back after 70 years in exile and rebuilt the Temple and the walls around Jerusalem.  The 2nd Temple is commonly referred to as "Herod's Temple" because king Herod had much to do with making it grand.  This 2nd Temple was standing when Jesus was on earth.  When he told his disciples that "Not one stone will be left standing"...he pointed to this Temple.

The 3rd Temple will be built in the Last Days...and this is the Temple that the Antichrist will sit in and declare himself to be God.  This will happen 3 1/2 years into the 7 year peace agreement that the Antichrist will organize between Israel and her enemies.

When this happens...Jesus tells the future Jews who will witness this event to "run!"

Today we have a congresswoman, Michelle Bachmann, who knows her Bible well.  She is saying the 3rd Temple should be built.

At the recent Manhigut Yehudit Dinner in New York, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann called for the Holy Temple to be rebuilt on the Temple Mount.

This is the first time I can recall that a member of Congress and a former candidate for the Presidency called in no uncertain terms for the building of the Temple pronto. It would be a miracle if Congress not only passed Legislation to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem but also passed a Bill granting total and unencumbered sovereignty of the Temple Mount to Israel.

In my conversations with past and possibly future Presidential Candidate Governor Mike Huckabee I have asked if indeed he would allow Israel to build at the very least a synagogue on the Temple Mount, and the Holy Temple itself if conditions were ripe for such a move. He was "asked" similarly by Rabbi Eliezer Melamed (I was present) as reported by Boston Globe Reporter Matthew Kalman stating, "We hope under Mike Huckabee's Presidency, he will be like Cyrus and push us to rebuild the Temple and bring the final Redemption." Governor Huckabee responded, "You have imposed upon me another significant role, to train the Jewish People to love Israel. You're going to ask a Baptist to do that?"

I believe, in my heart of hearts, that, indeed, if the conditions were aligned correctly,as President, he would give the green light to such a move.

It is also my firm belief that the Temple will be rebuilt with the help of the President of the United States at some future time. It is always important to remember that the State of Israel came into being in the modern era by way of President Harry Truman. It is always appropriate to thank America for such an incredible Event in our History. This has been the prototype of the very special relationship America has for Israel. It makes perfect sense that a truly friendly President will allow Israel to do what it should have done and could have done after the 1967 War but missed the opportunity to do so.

As Jerusalem Day approaches for the 47th time it would be worth at least thinking about a Temple on the Temple Mount by the 50th Anniversary. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann deserves tremendous credit for going public with her wishes and changing the narrative for the Jewish People. There are others who will come forward. The Final Frontier is here. It is up to all of us to make it a reality. 

Here;  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/5745#.U3ojcfldXA-

Of all the Conservatives on Capital Hill in D.C., one of the most hated and mocked has to be Michelle Bachmann.

Jesus told us to not be surprised when the world hates us...because it hated him first.

The 3rd Temple WILL BE BUILT!  It's just one more sign that shows us the lateness of the hour.

Let's all remember to be busy about the Lord's work today.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

More Detroits Are On the Way

The city of Detroit is very bankrupt.  It's public pension is only going to pay cents on the dollar and the once glistening factories of the auto manufacturers are ghost towns.

Many of the problems Detroit had were YEARS in the making...but they kept kicking the can down the road and used "creative accounting" methods to pretend that there wasn't a problem.

How many more cities may soon end up in the same boat as Detroit?

And if enough cities fall....might the entire USA be heading the same way?

The crisis has many elements but a few stand out. First, contributions to employee pension funds are often well below the levels needed to ensure the payment of the benefits that are contractually or constitutionally guaranteed, let alone those that past trustees and legislatures added on a discretionary basis. Sometimes the contributions are not made at all for years at a time. Everyone with a role in determining these contribution levels has an incentive to keep them as low as possible. Politicians don't like to raise taxes to meet future obligations, while public unions would rather take the long-term risk of underfunding rather than face immediate layoffs or benefit reductions.

The largest single expenditure in most state budgets is for Medicaid. Unfortunately, health-care costs have been rising faster than either inflation or state and local tax revenues, and most economists believe they will rise even faster in the next few years.

But the most critical piece of the states' fiscal dilemma is that they are borrowing to cover their operating deficits. They do this directly—by issuing debt securities—but also indirectly. Some states, like New York, make contributions to their pension systems in promissory notes rather than cash. States and cities also sell assets and treat the proceeds as operating revenues, in effect selling off the family silver to stay afloat.

In 2009 Arizona sold its capitol buildings for more than $700 million. In 2008 Chicago leased its parking meters for 75 years for nearly $1.2 billion. In 1991 New York sold Attica Prison for $200 million to itself through a bond issuance, providing a temporary revenue boost but costing taxpayers far more in the long run in interest. While state constitutions contain various balanced-budget clauses, they generally don't define revenues or prevent such creative accounting.

The consequences of our state and municipal fiscal crises are plain: We are drastically underinvesting in physical infrastructure—roads, bridges, ports, etc.—the necessary underpinning of future growth. Just as important, we are also underinvesting in human infrastructure, most notably our children's ability to compete. No one is satisfied with the output of our educational system, yet states spent over half a billion dollars less on prekindergarten education last year than they had the year before.

No one seriously argues that when credit markets won't allow more state or local government borrowing, Washington should write checks to get them through their crises. Even if an administration proposed such a Band-Aid, it would be politically impossible for Congress to approve it. Yet if the number of cities and states in extreme distress were to grow significantly, the political pressure to do something would increase inexorably. The ultimate cost would be staggering.

It is time for the federal government to take the steps needed to avoid the social and financial crisis that must be expected if nothing changes. Washington now provides almost 30% of what the states spend annually and already imposes many mandates on states and localities in return for its largess. The federal government could condition its continued financial support on states and local governments adopting budget systems that would require recurring expenses to be matched by current revenues.

The political difficulty involved in such a step will be far less than the pain that will result if states and localities are not forced to move toward a responsible system of accrual budgeting. One thing is clear: Continuing to use cash budgeting practices that allow states and cities to inflate revenues, defer costs and multiply the burdens on future generations is the worst option.

Here;  http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304101504579546263639995456?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304101504579546263639995456.html

Well, that sounds rather serious and ominous.  We have U.S. cities and states cooking the books and doing things like selling their capital buildings just to make the balance sheet look good for a month or two.

And did you catch this sentence?;  No one seriously argues that when credit markets won't allow more state or local government borrowing, Washington should write checks to get them through their crises.

"Ummm....question from the back row...yes, I'm just an idiot from Buffalo...but what happens when credit markets won't allow cities to borrow anymore...and then Washington has no more checks available to seem them through their crisis...because Washington is hopelessly broke?"

Yes...who in the world WOULD be standing on the sidelines waiting to bail out America?

Would all the kings horses and all the kings men be able to put the US humpty back together again?

Friends I hope all of you are giving some thought to hoping for the best...but planning for the worst.