Neil Gorsuch. Why all hell has broken loose.

Yesterday POTUS (Donald Trump ) introduced Neil Gorsuch as his pick for the United States Supreme Court. He is destined to replace the late Anthony Scalia a man who fulfilled his role with great wisdom and dignity. Gorsuch, educated at Columbia and Harvard University and later at Oxford, is a man of a similar brilliant intellect to Scalia and of wide experience on the bench.
He is a superb choice to fill the vacancy at the Supreme Court.
Why then  are the democrats in the Senate, vowing almost to a man, to block his nomination?
The probable answer is given to us in photo shown above. It is of President Trump and his staff praying with Gorsuch for God's blessing and guidance. That single fact alone, Gorsuch being a committed Christian, has been enough to give the liberals heart-burn.
What right has a committed Christian to sit as a Judge in the High Court! Why, his faith might ACTUALLY INFLUENCE HIS DECISIONS.
Yes, and that is the very point. Expect the WORD of GOD to be brought to bear on such matters as abortion, homo-sexual marriage and the freedom of businesses to refuse to provide birth control means to their employees.
The days of the oppression of legislated sodomy are about to come to an end and, wait for it, we may even have prayer reintroduced into public schools. And who would argue with that.?
Jubilate.

Ian

Destination: New Zealand.

The shock waves of the U.S. 2016 election are being felt around the world. Call it  an earthquake or a tsunami. the reverberations from the Trump victory are now arriving on the shores of the antipodes. New Zealand of all places is now becoming a most favoured place of refuge from the horrors of living in Trumpland.

              Usually the immigration department in Aukland will deal with around 2500 applications a month from would-be immigrants. Last month there were 88,000, mostly from America.

Considering the distances involved, New Zealand would represent one of the four corners of the Earth. The only land South of there would be Antarctica.

Here is a country little known to the rest of the world with a population of about five million, a temperate climate, peaceful, rural and with beaches in the North and spectacular mountains in the South. Here the sheep outnumber the humans by three to one. What better haven to flee to for people in fear of their lives and their future?
Well, there may be a small problem for those used to earning sky high salaries in Silicon Valley to take up sheep shearing. Also it is likely that  these intrepid trail blazers have never heard of the game of cricket or seen a game of Rugby Union.
If these are just two of the minor adjustments that would have to be made, I would advise these 88,000 malcontents to stay where there are and hope for better things in election 2020.
When I was baptized in England fifty years ago, I received this promise from the Bible. "Contentment with godliness is great gain." I have found that to be universally true in my life wherever I have lived, what ever the circumstances I have found myself in and whoever might have been the current president.
Jubilate.

Ian