April 09, 2023
There was a massive security breech of documents from national and international intel.
Much of it appeared on Twitter.
The "five eyes" are not happy.
I do not ever take anything having to do with national intelligence at face value and niether should you. Who leaked this, and why?
I notice it went to Elon Musk's Twitter. Is this a salvo at Musk? Will there be attempts to punish him or take over what had been the intel community's pet forum?
There is much more to this than meets the eye.
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From Common Sense and Wonder:
Jeremy Brown Sentenced to 7 Years and 3 Months in Prison for Refusing to Work as an Undercover Operative for FBI on January 6 and Then Later Releasing Audio of His Meeting with FBI
Former Green Beret and January 6 political prisoner wassentenced to 7 years and 3 months in prisonon Good Friday.
Jeremy Brown did nothing wrong. But he did expose Chris Wray’s lies.
Green Beret and Republican congressional candidate Jeremy Brown attended the Stop the Steal protests in Washington DC on January 6, 2021. Jeremy joined the Oath Keepers in November of 2020 following the controversial presidential elections and went to Washington DC to provide security at the many protests and rallies that were planned in DC that week.
In March of 2021, Jeremy Brown began speaking out about how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) contacted him in December 2020 and attempted to recruit him to spy on patriots and everyday Americans on January 6th.
In December 2020 FBI agents contacted Jeremy Brown at his home for "posting some things online.”
Jeremy later released video surveillance of the FBI contacting him at his home. And Jeremy then later released an audio recording of his actual meetup with the FBI.
Jeremy struggled for months about whether or not to go public with this information. But according to hisFacebook page—"After listening to politicians and the FBI Director, Chris Wray, tell lie after bald-faced lie to the American People, he could not stay silent any longer.”
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So, the US government sold its oil reserves and decided to sell its sour crude rather than sweet.
To be clear:
The current US refinery infrastructure *requires* sour crude to operate.
This is the whole reason why despite the US being the largest oil producer in the world today, it still needs to import sour crude.
Even if there were a logical explanation to draw its strategic oil reserves, why on earth would the government sell the most critical portion of it?
If you know of a legitimate reason, I’m all ears.
Otherwise, this might have been one of the dumbest energy policy decisions ever.
Sour crude is crude oil with high sulfur content.
No doubt Biden's EPA pushed for this.
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CHIEF JUSTICE DAY, in a Decision of the U. S. Supreme Court, June 3, 1918:
"If Congress can regulate matters entrusted to local authority, the power of the States may be eliminated and thus our system of government be practically destroyed."
JUDGE BLACK, of Pennsylvania, said: "John Quincy Adams, in 1839, and Abraham Lincoln, 1847, made elaborate arguments in favor of the legal right of a State to Secede."
DANIEL WEBSTER, U. S. Senate, Feb. 15, 1833: "If the Union was formed by the accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States."
"The States are Nations."— Daniel Webster
DANIEL WEBSTER: '' If the states were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name."
BENJAMIN T. WADE, Senator from Ohio, 1858: "Who is to be the final arbiter—the government or the States— why, to yield the right of the States to protect its own citizens would consolidate this government into a miserable despotism."
AMERICAN CONFLICT, Horace Greeley, Vol. I, p. 359: "Let the people be told why they wish to break up the Confederation, and let the act of secession be the echo of an unmistakable popular fiat. Then those who rush to carnage to try to defeat it would place themselves clearly in the wrong."
"Any people whatever have a right to abolish the existing government and form a new one that suits them better." — Abraham Lincoln, Congressional Records, 1847)
"Any people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit."— Abraham Lincoln, Appendix to Congressional Globe, 30th Congress, p. 94.
"Is it not perfectly evident that there was a great rebellion, but the rebels were the men of the North, and the men who defended the Constitution were the men of the South…”
—Charles Beecher Stowe, son of Harriet Beecher Stowe
GIDEON WELLES, Lincoln’s Secretary of Navy: "There was not a man in the Cabinet that did not know that an attempt to reinforce Sumter would be the first blow of the war."
HALLAM 's Constitutional History: "The aggressor in war is not the first who uses force, but the first who renders force necessary."
SENATOR JOSEPH LANE, of Oregon, in reply to Andrew Johnson in regard to the Crittenden Resolution (Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, p. 1347), said:
"If there is, as I contend, a right for secession, then when ever a State exercises that right this Government has no laws to execute in that State, nor has it any property in such State that can be protected by the power of that Government. ''
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by Timothy Birdnow
April 9, 2023
In His love He made below and above
but we chose to be small
so the one and the all
we embraced our fall
it took barely a shove
A brutish, nasty sort
how Man fell oh so short
So while in Eden Man did reside
he rejected the love of God and then he died
Cast into the wilderness of death's domain
eternal suffering, eternal pain
But Mercy planned to end death's rein
to rescue us, the theologically insane
He came as a man, to a woman was born
and He ended His days ibeaten and torn
reviled, forsaken, and forlorn
broken, battered, adorned with the thorn
Who is this Jesus, this man who is God"
Who is He that should be put to the rod?
Who is He that should die so disgraced?
Who is He to be covered in place?
What did we do to earn this salvation?
We mocked Him and beat Him and begged for damnation
and yet He submitted to scourge and mutilation
and not just for some but for all of Creation
Who is this Jesus, this triumphant King?
Who is He of whom angels will sing?
Who is this Jesus they bear on their wing?
Who crushed all our sins and from death stole the sting?
His enemies gloried when told he was gone
they thought that his story had passed with the dawn
His body withdrawn and shoved in a hole
a guard to make sure that the body not be stole
So for three silent days there was nothing but gloom
as the soldiers stood guard over Jesus' sad tomb
But on the first day of the week
some women did seek
and found the rock rolled away, all the flowers in bloom
Death, the great tyrant, was dead and for good! The rock rolled away, open door where it stood
as empty as Man's heart
Hell had come apart!
The end of the rein of the sickle and hood
Death swallowed in victory
in the end nailed up on a tree
undeserved gift given to us scott free
Who is this Jesus, what triumph He brings?
Who sits at the center of life and all things?
Who allows us to enter and judges all kings?
He is the standard by which all should be measured
He is the priceless one, above all to be treasured
He is the one in whom God is quite pleasured
When Man proved unfaithful and unkind and untrue
Jesus came to remake us, to make us all new
So remember today, on this bright Eastern morn
make way with trumpets, with bugles and horns!
For we have been given an gift that we cannot repay
Give thanks unto God
for this fine Easter day!
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Early on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb while it was still dark and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put Him.â€
3 So Peter came out with the other disciple and they went toward the tomb. 4 They both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. 5 Stooping down and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying. Yet he did not enter. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went inside the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, 7 and the cloth that was around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but wrapped in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who came first to the tomb, went in also. He saw and believed. 9 For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples went away again to their own homes.
The Appearance of Jesus to Mary Magdalene
11 But Mary stood outside at the tomb weeping. As she wept, she stooped down and looked into the tomb, 12 and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.
13 They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?â€
She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put Him.†14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus.
15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?â€
Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have put Him, and I will take Him away.â€
16 Jesus said to her, "Mary.â€
She turned and said to Him, "Rabboni!†(which means Teacher).
17 Jesus said to her, "Stop holding on to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father. But go to My brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’ â€
18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that He had said these things to her.
The Appearance of Jesus to His Disciples
19 On the evening of that first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, "Peace be with you.†20 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The disciples were then glad when they saw the Lord.
21 So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As My Father has sent Me, even so I send you.†22 When He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of anyone, they are forgiven them. If you retain the sins of anyone, they are retained.â€
Jesus and Thomas
24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called The Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!â€
But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail prints in His hands, and put my finger in the nail prints, and put my hand in His side, I will not believe.â€
26 After eight days His disciples were again inside with the doors shut, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came and stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you.†27 Then He said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and look at My hands. Put your hand here and place it in My side. Do not be faithless, but believing.â€
28 Thomas answered Him, "My Lord and my God!â€
29 Jesus said to him, "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have yet believed.â€
Happy Easter!
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This one from the archives:
Mark Musser
Contrary to popular opinion, even among many Christians today, the Bible emphasizes faith in history, not mysticism. The Bible is thus very different than all other religions, not only because it teaches salvation by grace rather than by works, but also because of its strong historical emphasis from cover to cover upon the historical facts of what we call "the faith." That so many atheists and agnostics in the West, particular in Germany in the 1700's and 1800's, spent an inordinate amount of time attacking the historicity of the Christian faith, is thus no accident. They well understood if one removes the historical foundations of the faith, biblical Christianity falls like a house of cards. This also explains why so many have left the faith in the West over the last few centuries, presuming the scientific and philosophical assaults against the Bible were factually based on science - yet only to indulge in their own speculative and hollow dreams and mysticisms that are so popular today, even in Christian circles - many of which have since been profaned and secularized into the destructive madness of progressivist politics that is anything but. Just look at the mess we are in today - sheer madness all around.
Yet, what is so often forgotten is that the history of the Bible reveals the personal reality of God's factual revelation of His own holiness and grace that is divinely designed to appropriate by faith today. As the biblical past is already fact, and as such biblical facts even go so far to predict the prophetic future that one will day will also become historical fact at the proper time, our own history today is thus surrounded on both sides of our personal lives like book ends that tells us where we have come from and where we are going as we walk a straight line in between those times.
It is thus no surprise that 1 John 1:1-4 opens up by emphasizing the historicity of the revelation of Christ to combat the mystical false teaching which had denied that God became historical flesh. Such mysticism was undermining the Ephesian and/or Asian churches (modern Turkey today) of John's day so that he writes," What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we beheld and our hands handled, concerning the Word of Life--and the life was manifested, and we have seen and bear witness and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us--what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, that you also may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write, so that our joy may be made complete." In other words, faith in the biblical facts of history can grant fellowship and joy. Do you believe this? This is one of the great spiritual tests of the Christian faith that is rooted in the reality and historicity of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Luke himself likewise intimated, "Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word have handed them down to us, it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus; so that you might know the exact truth about the things you have been taught (Luke 1:1-4)." Luke, of course, ends his gospel with the historicity of the resurrection of Christ (Luke 24). In the gospel of John, doubting Thomas also received an empirical history lesson from the Lord Himself, "Reach here your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand, and put it into My side; and be not unbelieving, but believing (John 19:27)." Happy Easter to everyone!!
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April 08, 2023
The full article is here https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2023/04/07/weekend-parting-shot-leave-dylan-alone-n1685349 and I recommend it highly. It even includes a wine recommendation!Do you want to know how to tell a left-wing city from a right-wing city? Look at the roads I have lived in left and right-leaning municipalities and the one constant has been the roads. The worse the roads, the more leftist the city. Maybe that is because leftist enclaves waste money on woke initiatives and ignore things like business development, crime, and actual infrastructure. One Hopewell, Virginia, man had enough of potholes in which you could hear your own echo and made a stand. WRBC reports that Josh Anderson was tired of navigating around a foot-deep pothole in his neighborhood. After a year of begging the city to do something, he decided to plant a tree in it. As you would expect, the city came and removed the tree, but did not fix the pothole. So Josh planted another one, hung some Christmas lights on it, and posted it on TikTok. It took exactly one day for the city to make repairs. Residents are hoping more potholes become homes for trees throughout Hopewell.
Sometimes you have to ignore the machine. Sometimes you have to lampoon it into action.
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Here is a lengthy expose' on the genesis and rise of the modern leviathan surveillance/psy-op state. It's very good if lengthy. I recommend everyone read it.
BTW one quibble with the beginning; my brother Brian is an expert on communists in our government and institutions back in the fifites and he says there were a lot of them in government when McCarthy said there were. McCarthy was right. He just had trouble getting his ducks ina row and he was demonized by the media.
Otherwise this is a great article. Do read it all.
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Obama's plan for an internal secret police are now coming to fruition.
IRS Chief Reveals Hiring Plan for Armed Agents
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"IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel on Thursday provided details about plans to hire armed agents in the agency’s criminal investigations division, amid Republican concerns about a proliferation of gun-toting tax enforcers.
Werfel said in a call with reporters that the share of staff working in the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) unit would not climb above the current level of around 2.6 percent of the IRS’s overall workforce.
There are "no plans to increase” the hiring rate at the IRS-CI unit, Werfel said on the call. "That will stay at its current rate.”
The IRS-CI examines potential criminal activity related to tax crimes and makes recommendations
Dubbed "gun-toters,” the armed special agents in the unit are responsible for enforcing those parts of the tax code in which violations amount to crimes, according to former IRS Special Agent Robert Nordlander."
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Our latest newsletter on indoctrination vs critical thinking.
Children should be taught how to think, NOT what to think
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Tim adds:
The purpose of the lower grades is to give children the basic knowledge of the universe, what htey need to know. How to read, write, do mathematics, history, geography, etc. Once they have mastered that they can then move on to critical thinking. But nowhere is education intended to teach WHAT to think. That is indoctrination. Brainwashing.
We no longer have an educational system. We have a mind plantation.
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The origin point of Easter is the awareness in the oldest paleolithic of the highest probability of death of children - who are born much more defenseless than any other animal species or nearly
From this terrible drama, attributed to deities attracted the youngest to themselves, he moved on to the idea of offering the firstborn as a sacrifice so that at least the other children would be left alone - a Canaanite and Phoenician practice.
Then comes Abraham and the real God asks him to stop sacrificing even the firstborn and replace him with an animal.
Which animal if not the most candid and innocent of all? And then the milk lamb, descendant of a species that has always suffered as adults, let alone as puppies
Then comes Jesus who encompasses in his story the summary of the previous history in the relationships between human and divine... firstborn sacrificed as a Lamb of God, totally innocent yet condemned.
We could also talk about the nostalgic imprint on the Jewish Passover menu, and the significance of the image of Shepherd Jesus, but that would be long...
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Three
times in the last two years, states have tried to enforce federal
immigration laws because Joe Biden and his administration are
unconstitutiona
All three times, the Harris-Biden administration sued the states, and federal judges enjoined the states from enforcing the law, holding that only the federal government can enforce federal laws.
If a state cannot enforce federal law, then there is no way a county DA should be allowed to enforce federal law.
This will be a test case to see if New York judges want to follow the Rule of Law or the Rule of Dictators.
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I thought you'd be interested in this story
Inside the CEI system pushing brands to endorse celebs like Dylan Mulvaney
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April 07, 2023
Today marks the completion of the time-frame of this poem, so I thought I'd repost this oldie but goodie:
Christmas and the Cross
by Timothy Birdnow
A prisoner of his own fault
ensnared in vain and doomed default
Man walks this world in pain and loss
His only hope is Christmas and the Cross
I looked about in sore despair
A world so wore and full of care
winds unfurled; at sea were tossed
Yet all still flee from Christmas and the Cross
How can it be if there be God
that Man should suffer iron rod?
I pray my plea to Heaven's gloss
A way must be to Christmas and the Cross
my brain so full of this assault
my train of thought in much tumult
My bed disquiet, I pitch and toss
I can find no rest, no Christmas nor the Cross
But He endured though much to bear
and took the chore of judgment chair
His birth the sages did emboss
the pages spoke of Christmas and the Cross
for Christ did come and without halt
to save the sum with no exalt
and Man is freed from that dreadful cost
Yes, there truly is a Christmas, and a Cross
Now free from my iniquity I soar with no real care
I now can see the Christmas tree, so beautiful and fair
A Savior born on this bright day, the veil torn across
salvation come on Christmas day, and finished with the Cross!
And finished with the Cross...
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| Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples. So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together with police from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Then Jesus, knowing all that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, | |
| Jesus: | Whom are you looking for? |
| John: | They answered, |
| Soldiers: | Jesus of Nazareth. |
| John: | Jesus replied, |
| Jesus: | I am he. |
| John: | Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. When Jesus said to them, ‘I am he,’ they stepped back and fell to the ground. Again he asked them, |
| Jesus: | Whom are you looking for? |
| John: | And they said, |
| Soldiers: | Jesus of Nazareth. |
| John: | Jesus answered, |
| Jesus: | I told you that I am he. So if you are looking for me, let these men go. |
| John: | This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken, ‘I did not lose a single one of those whom you gave me.’ Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear. The slave’s name was Malchus. Jesus said to Peter, |
| Jesus: | Put your sword back into its sheath. Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me? |
| John: | So the soldiers, their officer, and the Jewish police arrested Jesus and bound him.
First they took him to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year. Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one person die for the people. Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest, but Peter was standing outside at the gate. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out, spoke to the woman who guarded the gate, and brought Peter in. The woman said to Peter, |
| aWoman: | You are not also one of this man’s disciples, are you? |
| John: | Peter said, |
| Peter: | I am not. |
| John: | Now the slaves and the police had made a charcoal fire because it was cold, and they were standing around it and warming themselves. Peter also was standing with them and warming himself. Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. Jesus answered, |
| Jesus: | I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret. Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said to them; they know what I said. |
| John: | When he had said this, one of the police standing nearby struck Jesus on the face, saying, |
| a Soldier: | Is that how you answer the high priest? |
| John: | Jesus answered, |
| Jesus: | If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong. But if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me? |
| John: | Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They asked him, |
| Soldiers and Slaves: |
You are not also one of his disciples, are you? |
| John: | Peter denied it and said, |
| Peter: | I am not. |
| John: | One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, |
| a Slave: | Did I not see you in the garden with him? |
| John: | Again Peter denied it, and at that moment the cock crowed.
Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover. So Pilate went out to them and said, |
| Pilate: | What accusation do you bring against this man? |
| John: | They answered, |
| ChiefPriests: | If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you. |
| John: | Pilate said to them, |
| Pilate: | Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law. |
| John: | The Jews replied, |
| Chief Priests: | We are not permitted to put anyone to death. |
| John: | (This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.) Then Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, |
| Pilate: | Are you the King of the Jews? |
| John: | Jesus answered, |
| Jesus: | Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me? |
| John: | Pilate replied, |
| Pilate: | I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done? |
| John: | Jesus answered, |
| Jesus: | My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here. |
| John: | Pilate asked him, |
| Pilate: | So you are a king? |
| John: | Jesus answered, |
| Jesus: | You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice. |
| John: | Pilate asked him, |
| Pilate: | What is truth? |
| John: | After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, |
| Pilate: | I find no case against him. But you have a custom that I release someone for you at the Passover. Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews? |
| John: | They shouted in reply, |
| Chief Priests: | Not this man, but Barabbas! |
| John: | Now Barabbas was a bandit. Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe. They kept coming up to him, saying, |
| Soldiers: | Hail, King of the Jews! |
| John: | and striking him on the face. Pilate went out again and said to them, |
| Pilate: | Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no case against him. |
| John: | So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, |
| Pilate: | Here is the man! |
| John: | When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, |
| Chief Priests and Soldiers: |
Crucify him! Crucify him! |
| John: | Pilate said to them, |
| Pilate: | Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no case against him. |
| John: | The Jews answered him, |
| Chief Priests: | We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God. |
| John: | Now when Pilate heard this, he was more afraid than ever. He entered his headquarters again and asked Jesus, |
| Pilate: | Where are you from? |
| John: | But Jesus gave him no answer. Pilate therefore said to him, |
| Pilate: | Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you? |
| John: | Jesus answered him, |
| Jesus: | You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin. |
| John: | From then on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews cried out, |
| Chief Priests: | If you release this man, you are no friend of the emperor. Everyone who claims to be a king sets himself against the emperor. |
| John: | When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat on the judge’s bench at a place called The Stone Pavement, or in Hebrew Gabbatha. Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover; and it was about noon. Pilate said to the Jews, |
| Pilate: | Here is your King! |
| John: | They cried out, |
| Chief Priests: | Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him! |
| John: | Pilate asked them, |
| Pilate: | Shall I crucify your King? |
| John: | The chief priests answered, |
| Chief Priests: | We have no king but the emperor. |
| John: |
Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus; and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them. Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, ‘Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.’ Many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, |
| Chief Priests: | Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’ |
| John: | Pilate answered, |
| Pilate: | What I have written I have written. |
| John: | When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. So they said to one another, |
| Soldiers: | Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it. |
| John: | This was to fulfill what the scripture says, ‘They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.’ And that is what the soldiers did. Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, |
| Jesus: | Woman, here is your son. |
| John: | Then he said to the disciple, |
| Jesus: | Here is your mother. |
| John: | And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home. After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), |
| Jesus: | I am thirsty. |
| John: | A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the wine, he said, |
| Jesus: | It is finished. |
| John: | Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross during the sabbath, especially because that sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed. Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out. (He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth.) These things occurred so that the scripture might be fulfilled, ‘None of his bones shall be broken.’ And again another passage of scripture says, ‘They will look on the one whom they have pierced.’ After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and removed his body. Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews. Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there. |
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When you pull out a thread it all unravels sometimes.
The GOP allowed the Democrats to steal the election of 2020. They had allowed them to go after Donald Trump for four years because they resented Trump coming in and just taking "their" party.
So now what? They tried to destroy Trump's nominees to the Supreme Court, and in fact continue to stage illegal protests at the homes of Justices.
And now we have this.
Yes, they are now going to try to destroy Clarence Thomas (again) to force him to resign from the Court and change the balance of power back to the liberal Justices.
The Leftist Pro Publica has done an expose' of Thomas claiming he took "luxury trips" that he didn't dislose, trips paid for by big monied Republicans. He has allegedly accepted yearly trips from megadonor Harlan Crow.
Crow flew Thomas to his private residences in different parts of the world (which does not have to be reported) but the cost of transportation is not exempted.
Pro Publica wants to gin up a scandal to try to force Thomas out. Mark my words.
This wouldn't be happening had the GOP stood up to the Democrats over Trump. But they went along with the politics of personal destruction, and now the Democrats are going to destroy the best Justice on the Court.
Thomas, of course, is no stranger to the rabid dogs of the Demo-left. When he was confirmed to his seat they tried a last minute attack by hauling out a sex-crazed Anita Hill, who followed Thomas around like a lost puppy, moving job to job to stay close to the man she then accused of sexually harassing her.
It failed, but it put Thomas through the indignity of having to deny he was a sexual abuser.
(They would recycle this failed tactic in other cases, notably against Brett Kavanaugh.)
So now they have this claim Thomas took gifts and think they have him. There are calls for the impeachment of Thomas, and if the House turns over in '24 that will happen, maybe; a simple majority is all that is required to impeach. Of course getting a conviction would be more difficult.
But the point of this is to bloody up Thomas, to frighten him into keeping a low profile, and to keep the abortion issue alive, keep the rabid pro-aborts sending in money to "resist!"
The Supreme Court used to be above politics, and it was understood that neither side went after the other side's Justices. As with all political agreements, the Democrats have broken that and now are willing to deploy the attack machine against sitting Justices. They understand nothing but power.
So if they want to go there, perhaps we should go there to? I imagine Sotomayor, say, has something in her background that can be dug up.
The Democrats despoil everything they touch.
BTW While Thomas would be bound to report gifts over $415 in value he is not banned from receiving such gifts. So why would he not report them? He knows the law.
This charge is dirty and we are going to learn it is a whole lot of nothing, I suspect. But they want to drive hard now that they have got Donald Trump facing a courtroom.
I think this is all about getting the Democrats to open their wallets.
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April 06, 2023
‘Doctor Who’ Pushes Woke Envelope with Drag Queen Character
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Dr. Who's ratings have been declining, and that in no small part because of the switch from a male to female doctor. The Doctor was always a man and suddenly he's got boobs and estrogen! I for one have refused to watch the show since.
But do the producers learn anything from that? No, they double down on it.
This is just insulting the shows fans. Those fans put up with a lot - the bisexuality of Captain Jack Harkness, for instance. They even sort of grumblingly tolerated a female Doctor. But this?
Those ratings seem to have been steadily declining. In 2021 they hit a new low https://cosmicbook.news/doctor-who-ratings-worst-ever-loses-million-viewers with a loss of over a million viewers. 2022's New Years special stunk on ice. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10367103/Doctor-New-Years-Day-special-suffers-worst-ratings-rebooted-17-years-ago.html
The only good news is the very popular David Tenant returned as The Doctor and Jodi Whittaker quit. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11348587/Doctor-draws-4million-viewers-David-Tennant-makes-shock-return.html
But the damage is done and now adding drag queens?
Why is it leftists never learn?
It wasn't Whittaker who was unpopular but the fact of a female Doctor. It was a bridge too far. And this is also a bridge too far. People watch Dr. Who to escape the world, not to bring along all the sickness of our insane post-modernism.
Tenant will be on the show as a leadup to a new Doctor played by Ncuti Gatwa. (I assume Gatwa is Indian, another departure.) Neil Patrick Harris, the gay American actor best known for roles as Doogie Howser and as Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother said Gatwa would be the "first gay Dr. Who". Harris was filming an episode of the show.
Dr. Who has become Dr. Why Bother.
Oh, the new Dr.
Who is not Indian; he's Rwandan. So a gay Rwandan will be traveling with a drag queen.
Sounds like the setup of a bad joke, or a Monty Python sketch.
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In regards to the Nashville shooter:
Kicking God out of our lives seems cut to the heart of the matter. In times past, when the bulk of the population at the very least acknowledged God, went to church, read their Bible, accepted a Judeo-Christian
Once that has been jettisoned we begin to see all of society, and a growing number of individuals, exhibiting abnormal pathologies and disintegrating at the seams. Moreover, instead of counselling, correcting, instructing, and refusing to accept abhorrent behaviour, today such things are celebrated and even encouraged!
Throughout my life I’ve met many from yesteryear who might have fallen into this category but whose worst impulses were foreshortened in one way or another because, in a general sense, of society’s Judeo-Christian
Sorry, too much rambling but I think you get my point.
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Spot on Jim. The fact is, if nothing else, everyone knew exactly what was expected of them and what were acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. They couldn't even think about things like mass shooting because it was ingrained in them, whether they believed in Christ's salvation or not. Society trained up children in the Judeo-Christian ethics.
Now every c hild trains himself up in whatever ethic they scrounge up from a nihilistic and God-hating society. There is no root. They flail about like drowning men without a life preserver. Sometimes they grab hold of something, something evil, and because it is better than the thrashing about as they drown they grasp it tightly. The end result is they do horrible things. To them it is better to do that than to continue to live like leaves blown about in the air.
In times past the Christian ethic gave them something to hold fast to, even if they didn't believe in Christ.
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