September 19, 2021
Big Pharma and Government Health Authorities Collude To Set Up Ivermectin To Fail - Using 'SCIENCE'
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Here is a story about Sweden, which appears nonplussed by "climate change".
Or perhaps Swedes are less concerned as they live in a cold country and a little warmth is preferable to what they have now. Oh, and I would add the Swedes seem to not get exercised by much; they are being swallowed up by the Islamic "refugees" who regularly rape young girls there and have no-go zones and the native Swedes don't seem much alarmed by the dying of their own culture.Or perhaps many of them realize it's just a farce but say they believe it because, well, it's what you're supposed to say.
From Eve Suurvee courtesy of Richard Cowley
Sweden stands out - the concern for the climate is low, new report shows
What to think about it, probably that Swedes are always happy with what the government is doing, my comment,
Or...?
Article from DN 16 sep 2021
COMPANY BETWEEN 16 COUNTRIES.In a new survey, Sweden stands out as the country where the least share in the population is worried that climate change will hit them personally. Swedes also distinguish themselves in the belief that a climate change is essentially favorable to the economy.
While 2021 has been marked by extreme weather with heatwaves, forest fires and flooding, signals that Swedes are worried less about the climate.
According to a new international survey from the think tank Pew Research Center, Sweden is the country where people know the least climate control for their own part. Only 15 percent of Swedes are very concerned that climate change will at some point affect them personally - to compare with, for example, 57 percent of Greeks, 46 per cent of Spain and 42 per cent Italians. Almost twice as many Americans as Swedes are very concerned.
The result is in line with other current surveys from, among other things, the Nature Conservation Agency, the European Parliament, Ipsos / MORI and the Reuters Institute. In Naturvårdsverket's report ′′ The public about the climate 2021 ′′ fewer Swedes say have a bad conscience for the climate compared to 2018 and 2015.
Does this mean that Swedes climate involvement has gone down?
Maybe it is rather the outside world's climate involvement that has come to an end. Sverker Jagers believes that, professor of political science with a focus on environmental policy.
- The general pattern is that Sweden usually stands quite high in surveys about climate engagement. When a serious concern over the climate rises in other parts of the world, other countries approach Sweden, says Sverker Jagers.
Mikael Klintman is a professor of sociology and author of the book ′′ Knowledge resistance ", which deals with people's attitude towards uncomfortable facts. He points out that Sweden has been less bad from extreme weather than many other countries.
- When an apocalyptic mood arises near where people live, it usually rattles in surveys around climate control, says Mikael Klintman.
Changed patterns of behavior during the pandemic may also explain why some surveys give a low rash on climate change. According to the Naturvårdsverket's report, more Swedes see themselves as climate engaging today compared to 2018.
- More of us feel that we have become more good at reducing climate load. This feeling has probably grown stronger during the pandemic, as it wasn't possible to fly. Maybe you feel less climate shame, and think you have personally already done what you can, says Mikael Klintman.
Comparing an elusive feeling like climate control between different countries is also not easy, says Sverker Jagers. He says that you really need to put opinion in relation to the actual policy being conducted:
- Few countries have as ambitious climate law as Sweden. Whether there is a strong or weak opinion for climate issues, Sweden is great opportunities to implement climate policy without people putting yellow vests on and taking to the streets.
According to 2019 and 2020 SOM surveys from Gothenburg University, one of 20 Swedes - six percent - is climate deniers. 75 percent of the population stands behind the claim that climate change is caused by man. Neither Mikael Klintman nor Sverker Jagers believe that an increased disbelief in climate science would be behind the surveys with a low impact on climate control.
- I think it is completely different mechanisms that create climate denial than lack of concern. Climate denial is rather about worrying about society changing. At all, I think climate denial is coming down, says Sverker Jagers.
Another reason why some Swedes feel low concern about the climate may be about the view of climate change, Mikael Klintman believes. According to the Naturvårdsverket's report, 7 out of 10 Swedes believe that they would have an unchanged or better quality of life in a future, climate-adjusted society with significantly reduced emissions.
- Among other things, the US still sees a contradiction between reduced climate impact and a strong business with many jobs. In Sweden, we believe that climate work and employment can go hand in hand and lead to improved quality of life, says Mikael Klint-man.
It is also confirmed in the survey from Pew Rearch Center, where Sweden excels as the country where the biggest share of the respondents-51 percent - believe that a climate change will be favorable to the economy.
Sverker Lenas
sverker.lenas@dn.se
Background. Pew Research Center survey
The survey has been conducted in total 16 countries with advanced economies in the spring, that is, before this year's summer with forest fires, droughts, floods and hurricanes. 16 people have responded.
80 percent say they are willing to change how they live and work to help reduce the effects of climate change.
People with political affiliation on the left are more willing to change their lifestyle than those with political belonging to the right. Women are more concerned than men.
A median share of 72 percent in all the surveyed countries is concerned that climate change will affect them personally in their lifetime. In Sweden, the figure is 44 percent. The percentage that says to be very concerned ranges from 15 percent in Sweden to 57 percent in Greece.
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So, did Biden win fair and square? I'm still not prepared to say no. But I'll definitely say maybe rather than yes.
Watchdog: "Unknown" Ballots Abound in Georgia, Pennsylvania
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Surely, we either have a pandemic, in which case more people will be dying than expeced for this time of year.
OR - the pandemic is mostly a fantastic delusion, in which case levels of mortality would be about normal.
Well, I keep looking at the actual data, and the data doesn't show anything abnormal occurring.
That's not to say that mortality won't rise as we enter into winter,
but then maybe we should be having a national conversation about
Vitamin D and general health, wellbeing and lifestyle choices.
At some point this monomaniacal obsession with one flu-like viral illness has surely got to come to an end.
After I posted this, it occurred to me that some people will naturally
think, "aha, but that's because the vaccine is working so well." SO - I
grabbed the map from the same week of 2020, for the purpose of
comparison.
And very interestingly - there was no pandemic in September 2020, either.
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11,000 migrants are at our border camped out. Inhumane conditions! Many from Haiti with COVID. 10,000 are making their way in addition to them! The administration has banned drone coverage.
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If anyone with a different view sees the link below, minds will be changed. Because of an unconscious fear of cognitive dissonance, those will be only a brave few.
https://freedomfirstnetwork.com/2021/08/here-is-the-video-by-dr-peter-mccullough-that-is-changing-minds-about-the-vaccines?fbclid=IwAR2S_YzZaLCkuafeL1kYqy-h-kRCCEMwcGw8o9f-URhSEgtLmwF6MyIBIII
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Hat tip Ole Humlum.
GLOBAL SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE AUGUST 2021
Global surface temperature status August 2021 compared to the average of August during the previous 10 years (diagram 1-3), using satellite data by AIRS (https://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/), obtained from the GISS data portal (https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/). Green-yellow-red colours indicate areas with higher temperature than the 10-year average, while blue colours indicate lower than average temperatures.
Diagram 4-6: Global surface temperature August 2021 compared to August 2020, using satellite data published by AIRS (see above). Variations in monthly temperature from one year to the next has no tangible climatic importance but may nevertheless be interesting to study.
See more on
http://www.climate4you.com/Text/Climate4you_August_2021.pdf
and http://www.climate4you.com/
From the article:
1: Observed average global air temperature change last 30 years is about +0.17oC per decade. If this change rate remains stable, additional average global air temperature increase by year 2100 will be about +1.3oC.
2: Tide gauges along coasts indicate a typical global sea level increase of about 1-2 mm/yr. Coastal sea level change rate last 100 year has essentially been stable, without recent acceleration. If change rate remains stable, global sea level at coasts will typically increase 8-16 cm by year 2100, although many locations in regions affected by glaciation 20,000 ago, will experience a relative sea level drop.
3: Since 2004 the global oceans above 1900 m depth on average have warmed about 0.07oC. The maximum warming (about 0.2oC, 0-100 m depth) mainly affects oceans near Equator, where the incoming solar radiation is at maximum.
4: Changes in atmospheric CO2 follow changes in global air temperature. Changes in global air temperature follow changes in ocean surface temperature.
5: There is no perceptible effect on atmospheric CO2 due to the COVID-related drop in GHG emissions. Natural sinks and sources for atmospheric CO2far outweigh human contributions.
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Mary Eberstadt's brilliant essay is filled with truths applicable to all Christians. I hope you read it! One of her core points: "The real Catholic divide in our time is between people who try to stand as signs of contradiction in this world, and people who capitulate. It is between Catholics who want powerful secular trends to influence and transform the Church, and Catholics who don’t."
I have said this before, but will say it again: The resistance of the current pope to the Latin mass is a symbolic and real capitulation to powerful secular trends, as those trends employ linguistic changes in order to change the liturgy and through that change, the core doctrines of the Catholic church. The newspeak that now has a grip on many denominations is not easy to articulate in Latin. Latin liturgy is on the walls of the catacombs and has not changed much since then.
One last comment on the Latin mass: I think it would be fine--and even preferable?--to conduct liturgy in the language of the peoples attending mass IF translations of the Latin were faithful representations
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NINE MONTHS....
631 people have been arrested and JAILED in connection with the Jan 6th protest.
Nine months in prison without trial and NOT ONE OF THEM has been charged with insurrection.
No evidence has been supplied of violence or anything more serious than trespassing and/or property damage.
Even assuming these charges are true, neither criminal damage nor trespass justifies nine months of imprisonment.
Russia's PUTIN has labeled them 'political prisoners'. How long will we
allow Biden to detain political opponents without trial?
HOW LONG BEFORE THE MEDIA TAKES NOTICE?
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September 18, 2021
Yesterday (Friday) in just one afternoon....
The Pentagon acknowledged that a drone strike in Afghanistan killed 10 civilians, including 7 children, NOT terrorists.
The Food and Drug Administration voted to NOT recommend COVID-19 booster shots to all.
And France announced it was recalling its ambassador to the United States out of anger for being cut out of a secret nuclear submarine deal Biden had struck with the United Kingdom and Australia.
People in the know say Biden has been wrong on everything for fifty years!
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Chester McAteer and I were discussing Lincoln and the Civil War.
Chet observes:
What few people know is that Lincoln was a leader of the American Colonization Society, who's stated goal was to rid White America of all non-whites, deporting every man, woman and child from these shores both slave and free. One of his friends, instrumental in his election, was Hilton Helper. Helper wrote two books that were the political Bibles of the Radical Republican Party. One was titled The Negro in Negroland, in it Helper advocated the complete extermination of the Black race. Lincoln awarded Helper a high Consultant position in Argentina for his assistance with his election efforts.
"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, -that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
--Lincoln
"There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races ... A separation of the races is the only perfect prevention of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together.†--Lincoln
"Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.â€
--Lincoln
"I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.â€
--Lincoln
Tim adds:
Yeah; Lincoln was NOT an integrationist by any stretch (which is probably why he is in disfavor with the BLM crowd.)
You know, one of the proposals late in the war was for the South to rejoin the Union and then a united army of Confederate and Union led jointly by Lee and Grant would invade Mexico, then we would send all the freed slaves there. It came to nothing but it's interersting in that it was what was being kicked around at that time Chet. No doubt Lincoln would have blessed such a venture.
Chet replies:
That's the great mistake of our time, we place our current moralising on the past and a very common opinion. The fact is that no one was an Intergrationist
The Northern States passed exclusion laws that made it hard or impossible for freed Slaves to enter or settle in their jurisdictions. Massachusetts passed laws that allowed the flogging of blacks that remained in the State over 2 months, Indiana’s constitution stated, "no negro or mulatto shall come into or settle in the state. Most of the Northern States crafted similar laws and imposed harsh penalties on freed or runaway Slaves. John Sherman, William Tecumseh’s brother declared in 1862 that: "We do not like the negroes. We do not disguise our dislike. As my friend from Indiana said yesterday: The whole people of the Northwestern States are opposed to having many negroes among them and that principle or prejudice has been engraved in the legislation for nearly all the Northwestern States.â€
A British observer, Captain Fremantle witnessed an unusual site in a captured Northern town, he states that he saw a Confederate soldier leading a captured Union soldier down the street all alone, but the strange part of it was that the Confederate soldier was black. He went on to say: "This little episode of a Southern slave leading a white Yankee soldier through a Northern village, alone and on his own accord, would not have been gratifying to an abolitionist, nor would the sympathizers both in England and in the North feel encouraged if they could hear the language of detestation and contempt with which the numerous Negroes with Southern armies speak of their [Northern] liberators.â€
Another shocker is to read just how Unionist armies treated Slaves in conquered territories of the South. It was, to be restrained, despicable, to say the least. Not to mention the general atrocities committed by Union armies on the general population of the South.
Reading the Census data of 1860, the North repealed the possibility of free black immigration. In that year the black population in the North was 1.7%, strange that there was so little migration allowed into the North if the North was so concerned with the plight of Slaves. Do some research and find out just how the freed Slave were treated in the North, then read the Slave Chronicles and see how they were treated, for the most part, in the South.
Another amazing fact is that Robert E. Lee and others called for the immediate emancipation of all Slaves, while there were those like Jefferson Davis who believed that it was the responsibility of Slave owners to educate and prepare them for freedom. Everyone in the South knew that the economic reality of Slavery was rapidly diminishing long before Secession and the War and would have probably been completely economically unviable by 1870 due to progress in agricultural machinery. Jefferson Davis stated that no matter who won the War, that Slavery would eventually become a defunct institution. The concern of many in the South was the method of emancipation. In the writings of Jefferson Davis you will find he was of the opinion that the slaves should be well prepared for freedom; that they should be educated and made aware of the responsibility of freedom. Instead, the War of Northern Aggression released the slaves into a life filled with generational poverty, hatred and hardship. If you read the Slave Chronicles you will see that many former slaves felt that they were recklessly thrown into a freedom that was far from free.
In a Confederate soldier’s journal was found the following words: "I was a soldier in Virginia in the campaigns of Lee and Jackson, and I declare I never met a Southern soldier who had drawn his sword to perpetuate slavery. What he had chiefly at heart was the preservation of the supreme and sacred right of self-government
So many volunteered to fight for the Confederacy that thousands initially had to be forced to return home instead. Can you imagine anyone fighting a War for an institution such as Slavery when the vast majority of the Southern population had no connection with slavery and never owned a slave? They fought for something far more valiant, far more noble and that was the same cause that inspired the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
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They're cruising for a guillotining!
France Suspends 3000 Healthcare Workers without Pay for Refusing Vaccine
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Since I have been telling tales of the Ozark Mountains, it only seems appropriate to share some legends of mythical creatures.
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=eOsTPN_h2e4&fÂeature=share
Also see an Arkansas legend here.
Grandpa Named Him "Little Sam": Something is Attacking Our Dogs
Thanks to Jeff Howe!
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Greetings from the deep Ozarks, from whence I just returned after my stay at the nation's premier resort. As always I have a tale to tell and whether you give a 'possum tail about it or not I'm a-telling!
I hadn't been down in quite a while and we had some dandy storms so I needed to get down there to make sure the place was still standing. Cathy is doing well enough I felt comfortable leaving her alone for a night, so I loaded up the truck and headed down to the beautiful rugged hills.
As I was leaving I ran into my grass cutting guys. They are great guys, and they gave me a jar of honey from their own apiary! We discussed mead making (something I had done in the past and they have been doing with their own honey) and they offered to sell me enough honey on the cheap if I wanted to make some. I may take them up on the offer; it's been a long time since I made any mead, or wine, or beer for that matter. I miss it.
So I was off with a bang!
I got a very late start - something I hadn't wanted to do - and traffic was actually quite heavy. It took a while to get there, even though I skipped a few normal stops on the way. No visit to my favorite stinking outhouse, for example!
There is an outhouse in St. Francois State Park that should have a plaque in my name. I am it's principle customer. It seems no matter when I drive past it my bowels begin squeezing like a grape press making wine. I almost always stop there on the way, and on the way back too! I've had to use the
facilities on the coldest days of winter, the hottest, steamiest days of summer (I hate that worst - it's full of flies and the SMELL!) and all times in between. And I don't know who uses that place, but I've seen excrement on the walls, almost up to the ceiling! Who gets poop on the walls? I think it must be a Sasquatch version of Woodstock going on there after hours or something.)
At any rate I managed to avoid my usual stop and made good time, but still got down there late in the day.
I hadn't been there for a long time and it showed; my exit off the state highway was overgrown to the point I couldn't really see it. Now, I have bad vision anyway and it's always a danger with Timmy Magoo on the road, but I couldn't see the cutoff at all. And the entry to my little logging road looked no different than the rest of the woods. I know the shape of the road at the turn, but was unsure and had to pass it, turn around, and go back by several times (thanks to traffic backing up behind me, something very unusual down there.) Eventually I had to take a leap of faith.
And a leap it was, too; if I wasn't on the exit kindly provided by the Missouri Highway Department I would hit the ditch and get stuck. It's happened
before. Usually locals will tow me out. I could also call AAA. But it would ruin my trip.
At any rate, once on the road it was better and I parked in my usual hole in the trees (blocked by a huge fallen timber from my clearing as I was the last visit) and I got my stuff out and schlepped it around the deadfall to the luxurious Ozark Hilton.
There it stood in all it's glory; a two room wooden shack built from trash culled from the many alleys of the city of St. Louis. A sort of
Frankenstein's monster, this great work of architecture was assembled with completely incompatible pieces. I rarely sawed anything either; just found pieces that could be made to somehow fit together (sort of) and then nailed them up. It looks better than it sounds (or actually is) but not by a lot.
And the storms blew down the roof over the porch I built. I've got to do something about that some time - if the wasps let me. I stopped work on the porch because every time I worked on it my little red friends would take umbrage and I quickly learned I was not the dominant species there.
At any rate I had no time to lose; the Ozark Hilton requires quite a bit of settling in at the best of times. I have to sweep it out, remove the trash
bags and whatnot covering my fine furniture, the lamps have to be washed and trimmed and filled, etc. And after such a prolonged absence I had more than the normal amount of chores to do.
So I got to it cheerfully; how can you NOT be cheerful at such lush accomodations?
I didn't bother with any bug spray which was a mistake. The "no-see" bugs were out in force and I got my legs bitten pretty massively. Fortunately their bites go away in short order, but it is still pretty darned annoying when they get you. Ticks are worse, but I didn't see any (I may still have a few on me that I haven't found.) Chiggers are the worst. God smote Adam when He created chiggers. Evil things, and you don't even know they got you for a couple of days. Then the itch drives you quite mad.
Benjamin Franklyn famously said wine (or beer) is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Well chiggers are proof that Man is inherently evil and God wanted us to know He was angry at us.
At any rate I got my lamps serviced and lit and settled onto the porch to enjoy the beautiful night.
Nights at the Ozark Hilton are DARK. Built in a heavy deciduous which had not yet deciduated (to coin a phrase) the trees block most of the light in
the sky. Had the moon risen high I would have had some backlighting, but it was hanging out on the horizon. I caught a glimpse of it once or twice, but otherwise it was nowhere to be seen. A single star in the west appeared to me too; Venus I suppose, or Mercury. I couldn't see it after a couple of
hours so it was probably one of the evening stars. Had it been overcast there would have been nothing at all and the woods would have been like the inside of a stomach, blackbody black. You sometimes feel like you will be absorbed into nothingness in the dark night of the Ozark Mountains.
At any rate, it was so dark you could not see your hand in front of your face without a light.
Of course, I had several lights, including my kerosene lamps, my kerosene lanterns, and several good battery operated LED lights. LED lights were a
major leap forward to camping. They are much brighter than ever the old florescent lights and use less power. I've got a number of them down at the Hilton and they do me fine. Two kerosene lanterns and one LED on the porch gives me plenty of light. If you want to wander into the "yard" you had better bring one of the lights though or your neck you will surely break.
I used to use propane lanterns, but they get VERY hot and I have burned myself. They also require new propane bottles every couple of hours and new
mantles - and the mantles are dangerous to handle. Since my heart failure I stopped using them.
I sat on my porch and remembered the time so long ago (almost seventeen years now) when Cathy and I brought our then two cats to the Ozark Hilton for my 40'th birthday. October is always a beautiful time to go and the weather was glorious. Goccia, our urban, urbane, booze-guzzling mooch of a cat, hated it and kept trying to hide the whole trip. But Blackberry - my true best friend and a creature with the spirit of a lion - had a great time,
exploring the general area, patrolling the cabin.
That night I heard something I will never forget. A cooing sound could be heard from outside. Like a mating invitation by a female to a male, only it ended with a furocious roar like a lion would make. NOT the higher pitch mountain lion sound, but the full roar of the great African lion, king of the
veldt. I assured Cathy (who freaked out from it) all was well but when I turned my head my jaw fell open in fright. Ye gods! What the devil WAS THAT?
I never did find out and luckily Blackberry was locked in the cabin or he would have gone out to wage war with the beast.
I was thinking about that, and about my dear long gone friend (I had to put him to sleep for congestive heart failure nary a month before being diagnosed with the exact same ailment) and started thinking of a little story to perhaps write. As my cabin is just across a small valley from Bear Mountain, I thought up a story of a man-killing bear trapping an idiot in a cabin made of trash and his tiny cat coming to his rescue.
It was then that I heard a noise; something pretty big and FAST!
It was no opossum. It was no armadillo. Too big to be a rat or a mouse - and it moved too fast.
Picking up my LED light I shined it around in search of my visitor.
Years ago I built a Native American style wigwam. I didn't cover it with traditional material though, but rather some tarpaper and tarps. I used it as a storage shed. It was a dandy structure, and I would sometimes sit out in it on cold nights to read (it was that long ago - I still could read books
down there) by the light of a propane lantern. The shape of the structure and the heat of the lantern were enough to make it a shirts-sleeve environment. I remember getting hot and taking off my shirt once - in February with 20 degree temperatures!
But that was then and this is now and the structure is nothing but a sad pile of debris. I meant to build a permanent storage shed but illness got in the way. I still hope to do it some day.
My visitor scurried up on top of the wigwam. It was a bobcat.
We looked at each-other from across the 30 foot gap between us. He did not seem the least bit concerned about my being there. He stood proudly, looking at me as one looks at a curiosity. I was in HIS realm and he wanted to make sure I understood that.
I've never seen a bobcat before. They look like big housecats with lynx-like ears. Beautiful creature!
I suppose he wanted to catch rodents, and the remains of the wigwam were probably a good place to do so. Hey, I'm all for eliminating rodents; keeps
them out of the cabin.
I called Cathy and told her about it but she was less enthusiastic "better get in the cabin". After a bit of watching the little fellow I decided to
take her advice; the lack of fear on his part could mean rabies. I didn't think it worth taking the chance.
I dropped my light and it found the one spot on the porch where it could slide between the porch and the wall. DRAT! I could see where it was and had to take the very risky chance of sticking my hand through that hole and hoping nothing was waiting to bite it. I retrieved my light. I guess that's where my missing cell phone landed as well. I lost it about a year ago. Lucky for me it was a cheap flip phone and not an expensive smart phone.
So I packed up and went inside. Shortly thereafter I heard him on the porch, investigating. He hung around for a bit then I heard him no more.
It's magical to be in a place where a bobcat will come on your porch at night!
I settled into the cabin and pulled out a movie. Unfortunately I had brought the old dvd player, the one that I retired because it stopped working. I
managed to get it going but it ran about fifteen minutes then went kaput.
So I had little to do thereafter but think about the story about the cat and interweave it with this last little pastiche. I wondered if maybe Blackberry hadn't come back as a bobcat and visit me. Maybe that was him!
I was tired anyway so went to bed, or rather, leaned back in my easy chair (which is what I use as a bed down there in summer) and drifted off to sleep.
I dreamed of Blackberry.
I'm going to have to complain to the hotel management about that faulty dvd player.
At any rate, checkout is pretty flexible at the Ozark Hilton but it is recommended to check out early. Maid service won't be a problem, but there is no good reason to hang about in the morning. I started loading up at first light and, after using my state of the art toilet (two cinder blocks and a
toilet seat) I vamoosed for the long, uneventful drive home.
It's strange; I am always happy to leave but really miss it when I'm gone. It' is such a beautiful place. My cabin is on a tongue of land between two
hollows that used to sport wet-weather creeks. The creeks are always dry now; a gift of MODOT, who channeled the water elsewhere somehow when they
redid the road. The trees were small when I bought the land but are now starting to grow large. In late fall when the leaves are falling it is pure magic there; smell of wood fire, warmth on a brisk day. It really feels like a mountain oasis.
Of course anyone finding the place, especially at night, would be afraid. It's the kind of place that you would find in a horror story.
Which suits me fine; I don't want visitors. I love the solitude and the peace and my occasional wild friends.
Can't wait to get back!
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September 16, 2021
Pope Francis on communion for 'controversial' Catholic politicians: Eucharist isn't 'prize for the perfect'
Excuse me, but I think that among other things, the Holy Father is speaking with forked tongue. As far as "refusing the Eucharist," I'm sure I've read where he refused to play along with Nancy Pelosi (maybe) and Joe Biden on their desires for a photo op of receiving communion from him.Pope Francis has cautioned bishops about wading into politics as U.S. bishops question whether or not to deny communion to pro-choice politicians such as President Biden.
The pope spoke with reporters on a flight from Slovakia to Rome, during which reporters had asked about the debate that has returned to public focus following the passage of a new abortion law in Texas, which Biden has strongly opposed.
"I have never refused the eucharist to anyone," the pope said, noting that he did not recall a time when a politician stood staunchly against abortion and came to him for communion.
The point he stressed was that bishops should be pastors, not politicians, according to The New York Times. He referred to communion as "a gift" and not "a prize for the perfect."
"If we look at the history of the church, we will see that every time the bishops have not managed a problem as pastors, they have taken a political stance on a political problem," he added. "What must the pastor do? Be a pastor; don’t go condemning. Be a pastor, because he is a pastor also for the excommunicated.
The pope stressed, however, that the Catholic Church views abortion as homicide.
"Whoever has an abortion kills," the pope said. "It is a human life. This human life must be respected – this principle is so clear."
The Vatican earlier this year issued broad comments on the matter in a letter written by the head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Luis Ladaria.
Ladaria issued the letter to Archbishop Jose Gomez ahead of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in June, during which they drew up a document addressing how to approach the matter of communion for politicians holding views that stand in opposition to the church’s own.
He cautioned against focusing specifically on abortion and euthanasia as "the only grave matters" of Catholic moral teaching, NPR reported.
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This from the Tenth Amendment Center:
Under long-standing Supreme Court precedent - the anti-commandeering doctrine - the feds cannot require states to use personnel or other resources to enforce, effectuate, or implement federal acts or regulatory programs.
Learn about the 5 major cases here:
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2018/05/23/anti-commandeering-an-overview-of-five-major-supreme-court-cases/
Tim adds:
The Left ignores the Courts when it suits them. They love nullification as long as it is a boost to their power grab.
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My latest op-ed.
Seriously they're down to hundredth of a degree to make lame global warming claims.
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‘Enough Is Enough’: Simone Biles Breaks Down Over Sexual Abuse at USA Gymnastics
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It is important to understand that The States are not simply subsidiaries of the federal Government. Since all powers are Delegated to the general or federal Government from the States themselves, those powers can be restricted or even, if necessary, rescinded.
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So few people undertake the effort to understand all the intricacies of the War for Southern Independence; as with many other things their view is narrowed by misdirection and sloganism.
One of the great minds of our country's history was the Honorable General Robert E. Lee and he foretold what would become of this country with such accuracy that upon reading his writings I'm still astonished.
"The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it."
--Robert E. Lee
Tim adds:
Lee was prescient, no doubt. I agree; since the North won the issue has largely come to be about slavery, but the War was about so very much more; about the shape of our nation, about the scope of government, about the destiny of our people. The North had only one moral issue on their side - ending slavery. They promoted all sorts of evils to accomplish that one goal. And in fact they did not even promote that one goal - they slipped it in after the fact. Most northern soldiers did not fight to end slavery, but rather out of spite for the South. Theirs really was a poor motivation. I never understood most of the brave Northern soldiers. The Southerners were fighting for their homes and their freedom. The few abolitionishsts
Oh, my great something grandfather was a man named Louis Borginon. He disappeared during the war and turned up a few years later named Birdnow. Native Americans were exempt from the draft, so he probably opted out in this manner by choosing an Indian-sounding
Chester adds:
One of the most common and apparently intentional misconceptions is that slavery was the primary cause of the conflict however, that simply cannot be the case when reading the events of the period.
If you read the actual events, the proposals given by numerous high-ranking politicians of the day and editorials that plastered the newspapers of the time then it is absolutely impossible for one to come to the conclusion that slavery was the cause of the war.
The first and perhaps the strongest evidence that the war had absolutely nothing to do with slavery was Lincoln himself. Had slavery been the primary cause of the war, or even an ancillary cause then Mr. Lincoln would have never attempted to make a deal with the Southern States to support the Corwin Amendment to the Constitution to forever protect the institution of slavery, all they had to do was agree not to Secede and return to the Union. It was a deal that the South could have easily accepted, especially if that was the reason for the South's Secession, but that was not even the reason the South craved disunion. The Southern People could have avoided the entire conflict and destruction of their country had they simply accepted Lincoln's deal, but the deal did not address the real reasons behind the South's desire to Secede from the Union.
To reiterate, slavery could not have been the reason for Lincoln waging war on the South since he offered to save and protect slavery forever if only the South remain in the Union. On the other hand, slavery could not have been the reason for the South's Secession since they could have easily saved and protected the institution of slavery simply by agreeing to Lincoln's deal and remaining in the Union. Lincoln even suggested that the institution of slavery could last another 30 years or more if the South would simply agree to return to the Union. The history taught is far from the history lived.
Richard Cronin adds:
The Constitution has always been subject to a Higher Power.
Money.
"Preserve the Union†was promoted by the banks because the southern
plantation owners were up to their eyeballs in debt held by the New
York banks. The plantation owners would just default on their loans and
what could the banks do ? Seize the property ? The Brits would be happy
to finance the Confederacy in exchange for cotton.
The average
schmo in the north didn’t have a beef with the south. In fact, the
northern factory worker was afraid of low cost labor from freed slaves.
Draft riots abounded. It was the Irish immigrants who took the
enlistment bonus and marched away to get their legs blown off.
Like Ft. Sumter, who owns all the military bases strewn across the south ?
Like it or not, money and military muscle trump the Constitution.
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