HOW I FEEL ABOUT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT (Or, IT'S ALL IN BONEHEAD'S TWITCH!)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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NO! That's not me. That's my sister, "Bonehead", as she appeared in the 1986 movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'. That close-up of her occurred in a scene where Bueller's teacher was droning on and on and on...

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Every time I see that expression on my sister's face, it reminds me of how I feel about the United States government and "this world" as it is today. 

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(Very well done, Bonehead! You captured your brother's disgust poifectly!)

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~ Stephen T. McCarthy

I'M A DUMBSHIT, BUT I'M STILL A PAIN IN YOUR ASS (Or, I IS THEREFORE I YAM)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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"I think therefore I am".
~ René Descartes
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The vast majority of people only think they think.
Nevertheless, they still "am".
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~ D-FensDogG
DogGtor of Alcohology &
King of Inebriation Nation

THE CHALLENGE & THE GOAL (Or, RSV - R.E.A.L. SPIRITUAL VISION)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]

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The challenge and the goal is trying to learn how to see others as God created them, rather than seeing them as they perceive themselves to be.

.~ Stephen T. McCarthy

GENESIS 2 & 3 (Or, MGTOW)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]

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I view the story of Adam and Eve as a cautionary tale, primarily warning men about relationships with women.

.~ Stephen T. McCarthy

NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, 80-PROOF CLIMATE CHANGE)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]

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If it's snowing, and you want it to stop, just play The Beach Boys' album 'ENDLESS SUMMER' loudly while drinking Cruzan Black Strap Rum. It usually stops the snowing. But even when it doesn't, after awhile, you won't care about the snow anymore. So, it works even when it doesn't!!

.~ Stephen T. McCarthy

NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, LIBERALISM: THERE *IS* A CURE!)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]

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"Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder"

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Oh, wait! What's THIS?!...

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They've found a cure?

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~ Stephen T. McCarthy 

NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, THE TIME TO LISTEN)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]

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When in doubt, 

It is something 

to pray about.

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~ Stephen T. McCarthy

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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, BUTTHEADS IN 2020)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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Only selfish assholes hoard toilet paper!
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, THE SPIRITUAL THERMOMETER)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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A person's Spiritual consciousness you cannot see because Spirit is invisible. However, just as heat is invisible and yet it affects how high the mercury will rise in a thermometer, a person's political positions are like a thermometer that indicates their level of Spiritual understanding.
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If the person supports abortion, pedophilia, homosexuality, Transgenderism, Feminism, Totalitarian government, and theft via government-mandated Socialism, then those positions are like mercury rising in a thermometer, illustrating for the world to see, that person's lack of Spiritual consciousness.
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, ZOMBIETOWN aka THE DNC)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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I believe this with all my heart and soul:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYIKZ42DaiA

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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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What this country needs is a good 5-cent cup of coffee.
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And public executions by hanging.
(We'll start with all the lawyers...
and the communists.)
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, STRAIGHT OUTTA HOLLYWOOD?)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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I've seen it three or four times now and I think the best movie to come out of Hollyweird in the last 15 or 20 years was 'THE BIG SHORT', which included a character named Mark Baum. (Thanks for recommending it, FAE!) Although he's Jewish (whereas I am a Maverick Christian), Mark Baum is a pretty good semi-fictional representation of me. Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin) and Mark Baum (Steve Carell) -- both of them are like aspects of my own personality found in films.
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And there are two fantastic quotes that come from the Mark Baum character in 'The Big Short'. Here they are:
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"We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball."
~ Mark Baum
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Mark Baum: "It's time to call bullshit."
Vinny Daniel: "Bullshit on what?"
Baum: "Every-fucking-thing."
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If you've not seen this movie, you really should! 
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, There's A LIE In Your BeLIEfs)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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Having been a voracious reader of nonfiction books for the vast majority of my nearly 6 decades of life on this Earth, I was long ago convinced of the fact that almost all "common knowledge" is incorrect.
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In other words, there's a high likelihood that nearly everything you know to be true is not. Or as that famous maxim goes: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, WOMEN'S INTUITION?)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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Every time I see the divorce rate in the U.S.A. printed in some book or article, again I am reminded of the myth of "Women's Intuition".
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, SAVE US FROM HEAVEN)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
~ Saint Paul (2 Corinthians 5)
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Christians love to talk about going to Heaven but, just like atheists, most of them will give every penny they have to doctors to save them from going there.
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, ON FEAR & FAITH)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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"...the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me. But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God."
~ Saint Paul (Acts 20)
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The degree of fear one feels is always precisely proportional to their lack of faith in God.
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, WHY I MEDITATE)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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I subscribe to Adrian Rogers' 'Love Worth Finding' Daily Devotional Series. Here's an example of why I do:
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How to Know the Will of God
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MAY 29, 2018
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“… present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12:1-2
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Some people say, “Oh, I’m searching to know the will of God.” Listen, it’s not your job to find the will of God. It’s God’s job to reveal His will to you. It is your job simply to present yourself to Him.
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And THAT is why I meditate every day!
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, SPREADING THE 2018 GOSPEL)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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I recently found the following advertisement on a page at Biblegateway.com:
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No one should wonder why I usually refer to myself NOT as "a Christian" but as "a Maverick Christian".
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Just a couple days ago I wrote the following to a friend of mine:
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I have become a pretty anti-church guy. And I mean all churches. I have long thought the Catholic church was demonically infiltrated and infested. Today, I suspect that this had occurred right from the start. And furthermore, today, I feel that church is not the way most people are going to find God. The time is very, very short now -- 2029, give or take a year or two -- and I don't sense that God is doing most of His work through churches anymore. The Bible clearly tells us that the devil presents himself as an angel of light:
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...false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
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I'll be the first to say that I am very far from perfect, but in my opinion, it is sad that Biblegateway.com would associate itself with an ad like that one above. In an article AT Biblegateway, one of their writers wrote:
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The command do not love the world demands that we reject those ways of life which do not lead us to God or to the practice of truth, justice, righteousness and love. While this sounds easy enough in theory, it is not easy in practice.
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Yeah, so we see. Can anyone imagine Jesus saying: "Invest like a woman because money is power"? Does anyone think that's an appropriate advertisement for a website that promotes an authentic Christian worldview?
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, WHAT'S IN A NAME?)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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When someone wants a 100-year-old item, it's an "antique".
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When no one wants it, it's called "junk".
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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NOTES FROM DOGTOWN'S DOG POUND (Or, THE 21st CENTURY RULE BOOK)

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[DOG POUND NOTES are simply random thoughts, ideas, and maxims that have occurred to me. I am totally convinced of the merit of some of them. Others may merely be food-for-thought or even outright Doggy Doo-Doo. I'll let you guess as to how I categorize each of them.]
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Walking home from the grocery store just now, I saw a Black Millennial dude in his twenties carrying a white cell phone. I couldn't help thinking that, according to 'The Book Of Millennialism 101', he was guilty of two crimes:
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1) The fact that his cell phone was white made him an "Uncle Tom".
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2) The fact that he even had a cell phone made him guilty of "Cultural Appropriation". Because, let's face it, we all know that cell phones exist only because of White nerds (and probably some Asian nerds, too). 
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People who live by the 21st Century rule book, 'Millennialism 101', will also be pronounced guilty by its very statutes.
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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