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Page 4A, The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, May 25,2022
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Special to the Ledger
By Kate Scarmalis
Negativity, we sure got
a lot of that, both far and
near.
You can’t win an
argument on its merits?
Defame your opponent.
Drag him through the
mud if you can. It’s
easier and a lot more
effective than to market
your own cause.
This is the blueprint of
the Democratic party.
Use any available crisis
to advance your agenda.
Scare the pajamas off
the populace, make them
feel unsafe in their own
homes, and the sheep
will follow you any
where.
Augment the fear.
Take grannie and shove
her into a senior care
facility. Take one and
all, even if they are sick.
The old geezers are
dying by the thousands,
quarantined away from
relatives who could give
them final comfort on
their deathbeds.
It’s not your fault. You
are Democrat.
Wear a mask. Wear
two. They don’t work,
but people must wear
them anyway.
Take the jab. Take
two. Continue to wear
the useless mask. Force
it on your two-year-old.
If you get CoVid any
way, at least the vaccine
has saved your life.
Well, mostly. . .
People are finding the
effects of CoVid are
long-lasting.
Or is it the vaccine?
Who knows?
A number of research-
Wax myrtle is a shrub that requires very little
care. It can be used as a screen or a specimen
plant in the landscape.
Wax Myrtle
The southern wax
myrtle is a plant native
to Georgia. It grows
several feet tall and
requires almost no care,
making it an excellent
plant to use as a screen,
provided you have the
space to allow it to
spread out, as this bush
normally does. Their
height and width are
normally in the ten to
fifteen feet range. This
is a good plant to use
where deer browsing is
a problem as deer do not
bother it.
The wax myrtle has an
irregular, “bushy” form.
It has narrow, olive-col
ored leaves that have a
dull surface. This is not
a “neat” little symmet
rical plant. It is one that
grows with irregular
form. It is attractive
with its own character.
It can be pruned as a
hedge or limbed up to
form a small tree.
Wax myrtles will do
very well in sandy soils
with very poor fertility,
but also do well in clay
soils. I have seen these
growing wild just off
of the beach on Jekyll
Island, as well as on
sandy soil in southwest
Georgia. Although wax
myrtles can grow in soil
with low fertility (as evi
denced by wax myrtles
growing in beach sand
on Jekyll Island), they
respond to good soil
fertility and watering.
With adequate water
and fertility, they grow
rapidly. They do well
in full sun or moderate
shade.
For more information,
call the Lee County
Extension Office at
759-6025 or email me at
collinsd@uga.edu
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ers worldwide have be
gun to study the mecha
nisms of what they have
named Long CoVid.
Patients have begun
to report symptoms
long after they have
recovered from the more
serious symptoms of
the disease. They have
experienced serious,
long-lasting health prob
lems after a CoVid-19
vaccine, regardless of
the manufacturer.
The National Insti
tutes of Health (NIH)
began to hear of patients
complaining of long
term symptoms. Re
searchers sought to learn
more, bringing affected
people to the agency’s
headquarters for further
review.
An article published by
Science.org has indicat
ed that “A small number
of other researchers
worldwide is beginning
to study whether the
biology of Long CoVid,
itself still poorly under
stood, overlaps with the
mysterious mechanisms
driving certain postvac
cine side effects.”
Do not be alarmed.
We have science on our
side. Scientists never
look away from evi
dence.
Unless they are Dem
ocrats.
It’s okay. We have the
World Health Organi
zation and the Center
for Disease Control to
protect us.
Maybe not so much.
Americans have
been subjugated by the
faucitization of science.
Anthony Fauci spread
so many contradictory
conclusions about CoVid
that even the most ded
icated liberal cultural
minions found wearing
a mask in public to be
pointless. And they
didn’t.
Consequently, Antho
ny Fauci has fallen out
of fashion.
Fear not, Democrats.
There will always be
another crisis that will
come along to meet your
needs for bureaucratic
control.
Bill Gates
- take it
home, baby!
Billionaire
Bill Gates
has predict
ed that the
CoVid deba
cle has only
just begun,,
based on
something
referred
to as “The
Plan.”
Published by the World
Health Organization
(WHO), the prediction is
that the world will face
10 years of infectious
diseases from 2020 to
2030.
Gates made a state
ment on a TED Talk that
CoVid-19 was “Pandem
ic One” and “Pandemic
Two” is coming.
“We’ll have to prepare
for the next one. That
will get attention this
time,” he says — while
smiling.
Bill Gates is WHO’s
number one funder,
contributing more to its
$4.84 billion biennial
budget than any mem
ber-state government.
Not to put too fine a
point on it, Bill Gates is
a major player in WHO.
Its 10-year pandemic
plan is also Gates’ plan.
A coming pandemic is
disturbing enough, but
the smiling faces of Bill
Gates and Anthony Fau
ci are simply disturbing.
We are not smiling.
But then, we are not
Democrats.
Society has been
reduced to a mishmash
of citizens who have
been rendered power
less by the
plutocratic
bureaucra
cy
Separat
ed inter
minably
by CoVid
restrictions,
people truly
no longer
know how
to behave.
Isolated on
our own
properties for so long,
we have become the
beautiful people in our
own land. No one can
tell us what to do.
Like good Democrats,
we find justification for
everything that we do.
That our actions might
have an effect on others
around us? Fiddlesticks!
There is that nonstop
barking dog that keeps
people awake all night
long. The Sheriff’s
Department doesn’t
want to hear it. Truly,
it’s not their responsibil
ity to take care of every
problem that arises in
our lives.
Dogs bark. Deal with
it.
An adjacent neighbor
walks over to speak to
the homeowner about
his barking dog. The
homeowner doesn’t
want to hear it. With
out giving his neighbor
enough common respect
to talk out the issue, he
turns on a dime and legs
it right into his house. In
his castle, he is king.
Trying to speak with
someone like that is
pointless. You would
find that you are talking
to yourself.
This is not nice.
We have gone from an
integrated community
to a loose connection
of unconcerned people,
unhindered by consid
erations for their fellow
man.
So, you want to burn
off wet leaves and green
wood to clear your
backyard? The sensible
soul would wait for the
material to dry out a bit,
or at least wait until the
wind dies down enough
to carry the smoke aloft.
So, you do it anyway.
Clouds of smoke mush
room across the entire
neighborhood, result
ing in a hazy mass of
what looks like ground
clouds.
So, it goes on for
hours? It’s not your
problem. If there is a
neighbor still fighting
off the long-lasting
symptoms of CoVid, you
bear no responsibility
for his situation.
This is not nice.
If only you knew how
to be a neighbor.
Kate Scarmalis, retired
and loving life, is cur
rently working on her
novel, “Tell No Tales”.
Kate Scarmalis
Sharing the Word
By Harry R. Martinez,
Ph. D
Prophecy, pt. 4
Many people are
wondering what is going
to happen next in a
world that seems to be
on a collision course for
what is called Arma
geddon. Currently there
are approximately two
hundred “hot spots” in
which there is warfare,
whether among nations
or within them.
Religious persecution
against Christians has
dramatically escalated.
Even within so called
“free nations” there is
political and societal
unrest pitting ethnic
groups against one
another. Moral values
seem to have disinte
grated. When the knowl
edge of God is rejected,
mankind succumbs to
the base tendencies of
the sin nature. “For al
though they knew God,
they neither glorified
him as God nor gave
thanks to him, but their
thinking became futile
and their foolish hearts
were darkened” (Rom
1:21 NIV).
Furthermore, if the
restraining force of
Christianity weakens or
is removed, evil increas
es. Paul countered the
false teaching that the
persecution being expe
rienced by believers was
actually the Tribulation
period spoken of in Old
Testament prophecies. It
was not, for the Church
did not exist until the
day of Pentecost. Paul
warned ... “Let no one
in any way deceive you,
for it will not come un
less the apostasy [depar
ture, i.e., rapture] comes
first, and the man of
lawlessness is revealed,
the son of destruction,
who opposes and exalts
himself above every so-
called god or object of
worship, so that he takes
his seat in the temple of
God, displaying himself
as being God” (2 Thess
2:3-4 NASB).
Paul is identifying the
antichrist, also known
in Scripture as the King
of the West [ruler of a
European confedera
tion], He is one of four
kings who assembles
his military forces for
the purpose of exter
minating the Jews and
possessing the land of
Palestine. Daniel wrote
of a time of great trouble
facing the Jews ... “And
at the end time the king
of the South [an Arab
confederation] will col
lide with him, and the
king of the North will
storm against him with
chariots, with horsemen,
and with many ships;
and he will enter coun
tries, overflow them,
and pass through” (Dan
11:40 NASB). Satan’s
objective is to destroy
the Jews, but God is
actually setting the stage
to bring destruction on
all the enemies of Israel
and those who oppose
God’s plan for Christ to
rule on the earth from
Jerusalem.
The seemingly invin
cible northern confeder
ation suddenly faces an
unforeseen obstacle. The
king of the East [an Asi
atic confederation] hav
ing shown no interest in
Palestine since the days
of Geng
his Khan,
crosses the
Euphrates.
“And the
sixth angel
poured out
his bowl
[judgment]
upon the
great river,
the Euphra
tes; and its
water was
dried up, that the way
might be prepared for
the kings from the east”
(Rev 16:12-13 NASB).
Thus, the armies of four
great world powers con
verge against Jerusalem.
All appears hopeless for
the believing remnant of
Jews fighting to defend
their capital. Yet, these
hostile armies will expe
rience the most decisive
and devasting defeat
ever recorded in military
history.
Their defeat will be
at the hands of Jesus
Christ. A supernatural;
darkness, like the one
that covered the land
when Christ died on the
Cross for the sins of the
world, will engulf the
battlefields. Isaiah de
scribed it... “for behold,
darkness will cover the
earth, and deep darkness
the peoples” (Isa 60:2a
NASB). Then suddenly,
the Light of the World,
the Lord Jesus Christ,
returns to the earth.
The prophet Zechariah
records the final battle
... “Then the LORD
will go forth and fight
against those
nations, as
when He
fights on a
day of battle”
(Zechl4:3
NASB).
“Now this
will be the
plague with
which the
LORD will
strike all the
peoples who
have gone to war against
Jerusalem; their flesh
will rot while they stand
on their feet, and their
eyes will rot in their
sockets, and their tongue
will rot in their mouth”
(Zech 14:12 NASB).
Thus ends the final bat
tle of Armageddon with
the enemies of Israel
destroyed and the Prince
of Peace, the Lord Jesus
Christ, ruling for a thou
sand years as KING OF
KINGS, AND LORD
OF LORDS.
Editor’s note: Dr.
Martinez is an ordained
minister and was a
professor and head of
the music department at
Florida State University
School from 1975 to
2003. He is the father of
five adult children and
resides in Lee County
with his wife, Sara.
Harry R. Martinez