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14Apr
2026
In Memory of Jesse Cheng

Jesse Cheng, 98, passed away peacefully on April 3rd, 2026 in his home in Myrtle Beach, SC. Jesse was born March 28, 1928 in Shanghai, China. Jesse was raised in Chinese aristocracy with private chefs and butlers. His privileged world was soon shattered as the Japanese over took and pillaged the cities of Shanghai and Nanjing. Jesse’s parents divorced, but their little family of four persevered through uncertain times. Jesse studied at Saint John’s University, a China’s premier Christian university. Christian universities like Saint Johns came under attack during the Mao Revolution, and Jesse abandoned his studies and fled China to the United States. He finished his senior year and graduated with a BA in economics from Manchester College in Indiana.

After graduation, Jesse joined his family in the outskirts of New York City where he studied for his MBA at NYU. At this point, Jesse met a smart attractive Chinese coed who shared his interest in mathematics and competitive bridge. They married and moved to the Washington DC suburbs to raise their Chinese American brood. Jesse was a numbers guy and worked as a statistician for the federal government his entire career serving the Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Government Accountability Office.

In retirement, Jesse traveled the world playing competitive bridge with his wife, Helen. Jesse found his new passion, playing the stock market and watching financial news. In the last year, Jesse’s wife of 70 years had stage 4 cancer. Jesse cared for her until the end, planning and cooking her meals, and holding hands for hours. About 3 months after Helen passed, Jesse was admitted to the hospital. After one night in a hospital bed, Jesse signed an AMA, went home to his house, lied in his bed, closed his eyes, and passed peacefully.

Jesse is survived by his sons, Robert; David; and Michael; and their grandchildren; Ryan, Joshua, Anthony, Michelle, Colette, Theodore, and Jesse Jr. A memorial service will be held in Myrtle Beach, SC at 1313 Royal Devon Dr, Myrtle Beach SC, on June 20, 2026 at 4:00 pm.

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5Mar
2026
Go With God

In Brazil, a common salutation we hear is Go With God. I have lived in Rio de Janeiro since 2003 and if anything I hear it more as I get older. They are always welcome words when meeting an old friend, or perhaps a new acquaintance after a lively conversation testing and expanding my Portuguese. Go with God. Vá com Deus. Sometimes, it happens with strangers.

This is the same city that over a hundred years ago, the visionaries erected an immense statue of Jesus Christ at the highest point in the city. The arms and face of the Savior overlook the city. The statue hangs large over a lake that is adjacent to Rio de Janeiro’s iconic beaches. This is Lagoa, and where I chose to live. I began running that lake. It is 7500m or roughly 4.6 miles. Every day, I ran this lake under that statue. At 45 years old, I got healthy and was in the best shape of my life. So “Go with God” has a special meaning for me.

For my friends and acquaintances, the adage has meaning as well. It means I like you and wish you well. There is nothing equivalent in America. Typically we say “Take it Easy” or “Have a Good One” which has little significance if any. Worse yet, any mention of God outside of religious establishments is essentially taboo. Go with God also means that the sender believes in God which for me almost always puts a smile on my face.

Lastly Go with God is a simple recognition that we are humbly not in control and there is order to things which we respect. I am glad you found my web site and Go With God.
7Jan
2026
In Memory of Helen Cheng

Helen Cheng, 92, passed away peacefully on December 31st, 2025 in Myrtle Beach, SC. Helen was born March 25, 1933 in Fozhou, China. Her father, Theodore Chen, was the president of a prominent Christian university and left China while she was young to escape the persecution of intellectuals during the Mao revolution. Their small family landed in Los Angeles, California, where her father taught Asian Studies at the University of Southern California and became the first Asian professor on the west coast. Helen was rather bright, a straight A student and won a full scholarship at Barnard University to study mathematics. She moved to the east coast and met her husband, Jesse Cheng, studying for his MBA at NYU.

They married in 1955, had two rambunctious children and moved to Maryland. Helen stayed home while Jesse became a statistician for the federal government. Helen had one more child, raised her children in the church and made them learn judo. She founded and organized the Bowie Bridge Club, and later won the women’s national championship. Whip smart and hard working, she excelled in programming mainframes in the US Naval Academy and the Library of Congress, one of the few females in a male dominated field. In retirement, she traveled the world playing competitive bridge, organizing bridge events on cruise ships, and managing her rental properties.

Helen has led a unique and remarkable life full of accomplishment, love and family. Helen was an avid reader. During the pandemic, she read every John Grisham novel.

Helen is survived by Jesse Cheng, her husband of 70 years; sons, Robert; David, and Michael; and grandchildren; Ryan, Joshua, Anthony, Michelle, Collete, Theodore, and Jesse.

A memorial service will be held in Myrtle Beach, SC at Prestwick Country Club, 1001 Links Road on January 31, 2026 at 4:00 pm.

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27Jun
2025
The Atheists Are Coming

One man, Paul Revere, and one horse ran through the towns of Massachusetts exhorting and uniting the people to an impending threat to their freedom and liberty. From that, the greatest nation on earth was born. 250 years later, can one man and one digitally connected device have such an impact? The atheists are coming.

The atheists have accumulated extraordinary wealth yielding intoxicating god like power. The atheists control global money, the three branches of government, health care, energy, the food supply, the banks, the economy, the media, and the internet. There is no refuge or escape from the atheist hegemony and their hubris.

They want us to believe adverse weather events (previously called acts of god) are preventable. God controls the weather. They want us to believe money, questionable vaccines, dubious pharmaceuticals are essential for our health. God provides us natural immunity and the healing power to endure life’s events what
ever they might be. they want us to believe that we choose our gender. God chooses our gender and all the other unique characteristics that makes each person special. They want us to believe that God himself (prayer) is a danger to the population.

The more we believe the atheist propaganda, the more wealth, power and influence the atheists aggregate. Conversely, the more godless our society, the weaker we become, less intelligent, more fearful of the future and the more dependent on government services and industries which the atheists propagate. God wants us to be strong, confident, smart, healthy, and to be free to live independent meaningful lives.

The internet began innocently as an egalitarian exchange of ideas, visions and information. Corrupted by atheism and cheap money, the idealistic information super highway dream has transformed to a nonstop, never ending, incessant monetization and surveillance engine that feeds the atheist money machine. Our brains are numb, less inquisitive, non observant and blind to the differences between the atheist artificial world and the beautiful world god gave us.

Atheists would have us believe they don’t believe in anything. this is false or perhaps marketing. If you are not worshiping god, you’re worshiping something else. for the atheists, that is money. For milleniums, the atheist world and the non atheist world coexisted. The atheist corruption of the internet is the accelerant towards a godless society comprised of weak, whiney, non caring people. The atheists are coming.

Paul Revere paused after his historic midnight run. Slightly winded, Revere looked at the rising sun and asked himself the question, did i do enough? Please share. The atheists are coming.
1Jun
2025
Herd Immunity is God

Perhaps the global pandemic will be considered one of the craziest most irrational times in human history. Fear spread across the globe at the speed of light through mankind’s latest invention, the internet. There were sprinkles of conversation about natural immunity or herd immunity but that is not what happened. Somehow, worldwide, a handful of greedy for-profit pharmaceutical companies dumped a new untested vaccine unto frightened government bureaucrats much to the delight of the fat cats funding the biotech revolution. The story is still being written about the ramifications on humanity of this burp of public consciousness.

Governments flexed their Orwellian muscle enforcing lockdowns and restricting the rights of the citizens to leave their dwelling even to attend church. The internet was censored, scoured and scrubbed so nothing negative could be uttered about their snake oil Covid vaccine. Worse yet, if one said anything negative about the vaccines, they were canceled, labeled as a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist. All the while, the Covid virus spread and killed, since the vaccine never worked and people were inexplicably were suffering from a mountain of adverse reactions.

The root of the Covid debacle is fear. The sad reality of the new post internet capitalism is that fear sells. It is a vicious cycle. The more scared and fearful the public, the easier to drive a panic, and the more money they make.

There was always a solution and that is GOD. God is herd immunity. And herd immunity is God. God designed our bodies to handle viruses, even man made ones. God does not want us to be fearful. God wants us to be strong in body and mind. God has given us all the tools to live a beautiful, happy, non fearful lives. Every generation of humans believe in God less independent of denomination. We are barreling towards a Godless world, that makes us fearful and weak in body, mind and spirit. We are speeding towards human extinction with a car without brakes, seat belts, or airbags.

The pandemic is a tipping point on how little we believe in God. The next time capitalists and governments are sowing their fear through the ubiquitous screens jammed in front of our faces. Shut out the noise, take a breath, and feel God’s presence. Oh yea, and masks don’t work.