Every four years, we New Jersey residents have to renew our drivers' licenses during our birth month. This is my time. New Jersey was one of the first states to institute the digital licensing procedure which prevents virtually all forgeries. In theory this helps protect us from terrorists too. I don't know how, so don't ask me.
Historically I've gone to a small DMV office in Wyckoff, NJ, around mid-month in the early afternoon. While the process is a pain in the neck, it only takes about a half hour to complete. DMV employees are not Nobel laureates, or even smart enough to do much more than dress and feed themselves and get to work, but it's not a great place to work since none of the clientele are particularly happy to be there, so Nobel laureates are reluctant to work there. I went online to get the address of the Wyckoff office, after all it had been four years, only to learn that the office has been closed to cut costs.
The nearest office is now in Oakland, NJ. So I fed the address to my map bitch and she led me the 30 minutes or so it took to get to Oakland, about 10 or 15 minutes further than Wyckoff. The office was buzzing with a lack of activity. There were a few bored DMV workers moving at regular DMV worker speed and about a gazillion clients sitting around, fuming, and waiting to be called.
A woman seated next to me complained that the Wyckoff office at its worst was better than Oakland. Another woman was trying keep her young child from becoming so bored that the rest of us would turn on her and throw them both out of the office. The obligatory State Trooper was protecting this secure government location by watching the maintenance staff change light bulbs outside in the hall of the DMV office. As one seat next to me opened a lady sat down and declared that we couldn't expect better service from the government. Then I lit the fuse. I said, "This is what you get when you fire public employees." KABOOM she turned to me and said, "I'm for anything that makes government smaller." My response? "Well then you don't get to complain about how long it takes." I think we're not friends.
Since 2009, 600,000 public sector employees have lost their jobs. Guess what, those folks bought cars and electronics and housewares and dinners at restaurants, and they took vacations. In short, all those politicos who say they want to revive the economies of their states have removed 600,000 job creators from the marketplace. Do they really want to create jobs or are they simply posturing? If you have to renew your driver's license in New Jersey or a bunch of other states, you'll have 2 or 3 hours to ponder these issues. As for me, I'm good until July of 2016.
concerned christian canada replied to your hate America's Christian Jihad http://concernedchristians.ca/component/content/article/135-anti-christian-articles/339-americas-christian-jihad
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12345(0 votes, average 0 out of 5) Share The article below clearly depicts the nonsense mentality of the anti-Christian sentiment in North American society. Firstly Roger (Berkley) clearly has no concept of the darkness of the Muslim Jihad or he is delusional about what Christians are trying to do in North America, and of course all over the world. The Muslim Jihad is about the forced conversion or if necessary the murder of those who are non-Muslims. It is about getting Sharia Law imposed everywhere. The call of the Christian is to go out into all the world and share the good news that Jesus came from God, lived the perfect and sinless life, and died a sacrificial death for the remission of our sins (for as many as will repent of their sins, receive Him as Lord and live a new life focused on loving God and loving others). The comparison of the "right wing" Christian's mission to win the world to Christ and the Muslim's directive to convert all non-Muslims the world over either willingly or by force, either through honesty or through lies, is patently false.
It is merely a method to smear the Christian and paint him or her as an extremist bent on destruction of the unconverted, when clearly this is not the mission or message of Christ. Jesus said, "I came that you would have life and life more abundant". He said, "I came that you would be free and free indeed". His meaning behind these messages was that sin has corrupted our relationship with God and with one another. It has brought disease and death into the world and such death that, without a Savior, will have eternal consequences of the highest measure. What Jesus offers all of us, is not forced conversion to a religion, but restored relationship with our divine creator and love and unity with one another. He doesn't offer short term solutions, that end up failing, to our problems, but solutions through Him that last forever.
Roger and others like him obviously have never been exposed to the wicked behaviour associated with the Jihadist including rape, honour killings, torture, and the like. To equate the two is pure misinformation and intentional misdirection of others. Roger has bought the lies of the devil and clearly believes that the God of the Bible carries the attributes of the devil himself; the devil is the author of lies, and he seeks whom he may devour, destroy, and kill. God is the author of life, love, and peace. Roger needs to buy a Bible read it and pray and ask God to forgive him and heal him of his sinful nature.
None the less, fortunately for Roger and others like him, we as Christians are called to love Him despite his obvious disdain for us; to pray for Him despite the fact that, due to His hatred of God, Roger is living as an enemy of God and therefor our enemy. We aren't told by Christ to forcefully convert Roger, but rather to love him and share the truth with him, to pray for him and to explain the reason for the hope that lies within us with gentleness and respect
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rodger what's up with making enemies
ReplyDeletevia publications on the net. The stuff you write never goes away. So if there is something special you want to do in the future this publication can be held against you. Not like the real jihadist are going to glorify you.Your redition of american history, is lacking in accuracy.The early Jews did not announce there presance in the americas.
they were sort of in the closet for safty reasons. Man you got canadians pisses. God knows what they are saying in europe Ypu may not be welcomed outside NJ!