November 13, 2006 journal, an encounter with the traveling Irishmen in Columbia on my way home from the Downtown Disney outsider art show at Kissimmee Florida by Disney World. It is 600 miles of hard-driving with a stop at the Jacksonville farmer's market for a load of fruit. There has been so much good happening until I am reluctant to mention the bad. The positive results of the show has been marvelous in ministry via art to people and my books bring on an all new outreach prospective of reaching lots of people with the gospel truth. I exited I-26 at West Columbia and parked at the outside rest room facility of the Pilot service station which was the filthiest I have ever entered. When I returned out to my car a man approached me saying excuse me sir but I have a problem and points to a car going from Augusta to someplace saying the ATM machine down the street took my card and I need money to get home. It suddenly occurred to me that this was another scam by second-generation traveling Irishmen which has been reportedly on in Columbia South Carolina and in Augusta Georgia. It was my second encounter with this group who have made television a number of times with their scans. I suddenly felt victimized and I was looking for my key which I had removed from the ignition and dropped on the floor board but it had bounced under the seat. I realized that to start up my car I must open my door and look under the seat for the key, I abruptly motioned him off shaking my head no. His come on was of an innocent person in trouble in a gentle Irish tone of appealing to my inner nature to open my wallet and give him whatever I had. I then saw and realized that 2 other like gentlemen where circulating. The lesson learned is never to use an outdoor toilet and avoid the convenience food store stops if impossible. In this case it was next door to the entrance of the Holiday Inn but I needed to buy one small item from inside. Usually there is only one person at the checkout register and cannot see what is going on in the yard. Coming out of Orlando was continual traffic jams with wreaks and every conceivable slow down. The traffic is ever-increasing and the government has plenty of money to give away to block roads with construction. It never seems to trickle down except for a few minimum-wage Mexicans. The president has today met with the Prime Minister of Israel and some are asking why he did not even mention their aggressive war behavior on Gaza and even Lebanon where so many were killed. Israel and the United States act as one in concert and the church is misled and deceived on Israel as being the favorite of God. America is Israel being Israelites from the house of Jacob whom God changed his name to Israel before the 12 sons of Jacob entered Egypt. It is the purpose of this journal to give my opinion for my own good and yours although even I may be wrong occasionally. It is the purpose of this journal to minister the gospel of Christ first and foremost always. It is the purpose of this journal to awaken America and the world to the truth. The president is desperately trying to get his old Congress to pass him a no warrant wiretap law so he cannot be prosecuted for violating the law when he becomes a civilian. Florida is fatter than ever and people are suffering to stay alive as they drink Pepsi-Cola and eat their hamburgers. We are headed for physical / medical disaster while we support our troops to kill innocent people in our Iraq and Afghanistan where we have lost the war and lost our good sense if we ever had any to begin with. I feel like painting a picture and showing a giant sugar bank at the top and butter balls sucking in the sugar with their face/ heads in the air. I want to title the painting goofballs. This president has wasted a million people trying to impose our brand of democracy on the Arab world when anyone of good sense would know Arab people don’t want anything to do with our kind of democracy.