March 07, 2024
Justiceis sweet!
No fewer than 7 ofthe RINO's who impeached Ken Paxton in Texas were voted out of office!
Let's hope this sends a message to the GOP that the public will not tolerate these quislings.
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For those of you following the corruption going on in Fulton County, GA, looks like Sen. Harold Jones, one of the Dem State Senators on the newly formed Georgia Senate Special Committee on Investigations where Ashley Merchent testified yesterday, has his own questionable ethics.
Sen. Harold Jones new job is ethically questionable, sources say
theaugustapress.com
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Steve Garvey was leading Adam Schiff with 1.8 million votes. And just like that, it was cut in half.
This is called the Glitch Switch. And Adam Schiff got more votes in the end by a razor-thin margin. Almost statistically impossible
Adam Schiff- 1,247,723– 33.2%
Steve Garvey- 1,220,683- 32.5%
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Biden's elite buddies are rigging the game again:
Biden’s 2024 advantage: An alliance of elites rigging the game
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March 06, 2024
United States ranks the Sixth most prosperous Nation. We would easily be the richest if we could get Government out of our lives and keep them from restricting our Liberty! Our Government is double the size of the next country and spends twice as much annually, at 9 Trillion Dollars a year. The Question is Why?
The U.S. is, by any measure, the wealthiest, most powerful and most influential country in the history of the world.
Buoyed by victories in World War I and World War II as the only major power not devastated, and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union following the Cold War, the U.S. has emerged as the world’s sole superpower.
The real question -- given its current political and economic climate -- is the country's future, like The Roman Empire, Egyptian Empire, Persian Empire, Ottoman Empire. Each survived for more than 500 years. Will the United States have the same staying power? Not if we allow Evil people to undermine the Constitution and replace our Foundational Trust in God and replace it with a Corrupt Government of Men!
Countries in the top quartile of freedom enjoy a significantly higher average per capita income ($50,340) than those in other quartiles; the average per capita income in the least‐free quartile is $7,720.
The US ranks 17th on Human Freedom Index because we have the Largest Government in the Worlds History! If we reduce Government. We will increase Prosperity and Freedom. More Liberty leads to Innovation and Better Living Conditions! In other words. When we return to putting our Trust in God and not in More Government. We will be capable of Governing ourselves. The Declaration of Independence was intended to free us from the Bonds of Government to be Self Reliant. Not to trade it from one tyrannical form of Government to what we have now.
The findings in the Human Freedom Index, suggest that freedom plays an important role in human well‐being, and they offer opportunities for further research into the complex ways in which freedom influences, and can be influenced by, political regimes, economic development, and the whole range of indicators of human well‐being.
Do not be fooled by the lies of the Campaign to force us into a newer more sexy Socialist New World Order Government, that makes you surrender your Liberty for a false Security!
Tim adds:
Amen Greg. You know, the term Byzantine is used to mean overly complicated, regulated, endless red tape. But why? Because the Byzantine government (the eastern Roman Empire) became as we in the end. Huge bloated government with it's hand in everything. People hated it. It steadily lost ground as nobody supported it when push came to shove. Shoot; the Muslims were seen as liberators when they showed up because they had a tax forgiveness program, a debt forgiveness program, and erased the behemoth that was strangling the region. Islam never much prospered outside of the western limits of the Byzantine Empire (it did in the east because people in India and central Asia were used to tyrants). Byzantium fell for the same reasons we are now falling.
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Judging from just the headline, this sick little Nazi democrat felt that she alone should be able to decide for the entire country how it should be operated. I wonder how much longer it will take for the average democratic voting voter to realize that the people that they are voting for are the actual real threat to our Republic.
It's rather easy to see now why our founding fathers despised a democracy so much and it's amazing that people that want absolute power over our country have no idea that it is not a democracy. Shouldn't being a leader of the leader of the Free World, be required to understand the civics of our country at a 3rd grade level?
Lastly when people have total meltdowns over just the word bullying, you should see that as a sign that they are the bullies and they won't just bully you, they'll burn down the entire country if they can't get their way.
Colorado Sec of State disappointed by Trump SCOTUS victory: Now 'up to American voters to save our democracy'
foxnews.com
Tim adds:
First, we don't have a democracy, but rather a democratic republic. People are limited in how much they can vote and what they can take through it.
Second, doesn't democracy mean we have the right to choose anyone we please? How do you "save democracy" by limiting our choices? I rather think this idiot would be horrified if someone removed, say, the socialist Bernie Sanders from the ballot because he wants to turn America into a demcratic socialist state, yet somehow it's fine to remove a guy half the country supported and more than half now.
Third, as was pointed out by Greg, how is it democracy when one person chooses who is fit for office?
The ARE Nazis, no question. It's the iron boot in the face. And then accuse US of being the brutes.
Hypocrites!
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While the US is pushing EVs and green energy funding China’s economy, this is what China is doing:
The Haoji Railway, known as Kholbolji/Haolebaoji to Ji'an railway goes from West Inner Mongolia to Central China.
It is a 1,813.5 km (1,127 mi) freight-dedicated railway in China. It runs from Haolebaoji South railway station in Uxin Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia to Ji'an railway station in Ji'an City, Jiangxi.
It was built to facilitate coal transport from Inner Mongolia and Shanxi to China's southern provinces at up to 200 million tons a year.
The railway is also the first north-south railway in China that is dedicated to coal, and is built to bypass existing coal transport routes that go via coastal cities by ship. The line will reduce transit time from 20 days by sea to just 3 days. The line connects to existing railways at several points to share maintenance facilities. The design speed of the railway is 120 kilometres per hour (75 mph).
The line was approved in 2014 at a cost of US$27.2 billion, financed by China Railway and several large domestic coal mining companies. The railway was inaugurated on 28 September 2019.
Meanwhile, in Hawaii, our antiquated rail system on Oahu is still not completed, had problems with the wheels aligning with the rail, and the cost is now $19 bil and rising.
Haoji Railway, the longest heavy haul railway in the world
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Well, well, well. Biden finally comes clean.
Biden administration ADMITS illegal migrant secret flying program
Yes, Mr. Biden admits he's flying aliens into the country to reduce the numbers crossing at the border.
There is no way he can claim he isn't trying to replace the American People.
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WHAT IS A DOLLAR?
The Founders went to the trouble of defining a "Dollar” and that definition is important to the discussion, the United States money is expressed in Dollars, so what is a Dollar? The definition is vital in order to understand what they meant and why it is so expressed.
Now, what does the definition of a Dollar based on the Constitution versus the definition of a Dollar in our society today? It’s not the same, in fact modern monetary statutes don’t define a Dollar in an intelligible manner at all.
While most people naturally, through decades of conditioning, associate a Federal Reserve Note as a Dollar or Dollars as the case maybe however, that association is mistaken and the Coinage Act proves that fact and the other proof is the fact that a Federal Reserve Note is not redeemable in Lawful Money.
There is, in fact, no statute that defines or for that
matter, that has ever defined a Federal Reserve Note as a Dollar. It’s
not even considered a specie of a Dollar. A Federal Reserve Note is
merely a government non-Constitutio
Now, to prove the error all you need to do is look at the history of the Federal Reserve's Notes, even the definition of those notes have changed or devolved as the years went by, specifically from 1920s each FRN Series 1928 through Series 1950E carried the following obligations: The United States will pay to the bearer, on demand (a given number) of Dollars” based upon the face value of the Note. A Note can never be money, it is simply that: a Note.
Now if the Federal Reserve Note were actual Dollars why would they Note promise to pay the bearer the numeric value in Dollars, it wouldn’t make sense if the Federal Reserve Note was a Dollar, but it wasn’t nor has a Federal Reserve Note ever been a Dollar nor can it be. Sure, legal tender laws give it a status of legal tender by edict, but it can’t be made into a Dollar.
Prior to 1934, Federal Reserve Notes actually carried a far more explicit obligation namely the inscription read: "Redeemable in gold on demand at the United States Treasury, or in gold, or lawful money at any Federal Reserve Bank”, so the question is what is, under these guidelines, "lawful money” certainly not a Federal Reserve Note, for that we need to look at the Coinage Act of 1792 which gives the explicit definition of lawful money.
After 1934, Federal Reserve Notes carry the inscription "This note ($) is redeemable in lawful money at the United States Treasury or at any Federal Reserve Bank”, why would it be necessary to redeem a Federal Reserve Note in lawful money if, as is so commonly believed, that the Federal Reserve Note were actual Lawful Money?
Sorry, but such a position is not logical, can anyone explain the necessity of such deception or why Congress itself who has the sole authority over the currency of this Country didn’t authorize such measures, even the Federal Reserve Act doesn’t authorize the changes in the Federal Reserve Notes.
Then why, why would a bunch of bankers take out upon themselves to make
such changes without express permission of the Representatives
Now, interestingly, by the Series 1963 the inscription " Will pay to the bearer on demand” no longer appeared on Federal Reserve Notes. Why?
The fact, logically, is that even the change in the language printed on Federal Reserve Notes could not transform the definition or the character of a Note. Even the fact that it is called a Federal Reserve NOTE, defines the fact that it is a Note that represents or should represent actual Money as defined by the Coinage Acts.
Again if a Federal Reserve Note were Dollars then why did they initially promise to pay in Gold or Lawful Money? They certainly didn’t become Dollars when they stopped promising to pay in lawful Dollars anymore than when they were inscribed to pay the bearer on demand a given number of Dollars.
Now, let’s talk about the US Code, it provides for three different types of coinage, denominated in Dollars, namely and specifically base-metals for small cents, silver coinage and gold coins for larger denominations. That Code has never been repealed, but perverted by the actions of the Federal Reserve and the inactions of Congress.
The US Code commands that: "The Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem gold certificates "owned” by the Federal Reserve Bank at times and in amounts the Secretary decides are necessary TO MAINTAIN THE EQUAL PURCHASING POWER of each kind of United States Currency.” Obviously that code has not been followed under the Fiat Regime of the Federal Reserve.
Now it doesn’t take an expect
in either currency or legal construction to know that a $50 gold piece
today has more purchasing power than a
$50 denominated Federal
Reserve Note, does it? A $50 Federal Reserve Note today only has the
Purchasing Power of $1.60 in 1913 Federal Reserve Notes.
Tell me that’s not a problem and, in fact, a violation of the US Code? You don’t in need to be an expert in administrative law to understand that fraud has taken place and the People of this Country are the primary victims of this fraud. Consecutive Secretary’s of the Treasury have defaulted on their Oath and their obligations to maintain all forms of United States Currency at parity with each other while maintaining the Dollar at the same purchasing power where it is composed of gold, silver or based metals.
The Secretary’s default of his sworn duty can’t be from a lack of power delegated to him as this power states "With the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury may: buy and sell gold in the way, in amounts, and on condition the Secretary considers most advantageous to the public interest; and buy gold with direct obligations of the United States government or United States coins authorized by Law” again this hasn’t been repealed in the US Code. If it is the law then why isn’t the law followed?
It also states that "The Secretary may buy silver minded from natural deposits in the United States that is United States Mint…The Secretary may sale or use Government silver to mint coins ( in a given Dollar amount). The Secretary shall sell Silver under the conditions the Secretary considers appropriate for at least $1.292929 a fine Troy ounce.”
The Code has never been repealed.
The
principle used by the Founders was that Money can never arise ex
nihilo, i.e. the acceptance of a new type of money presupposes that the
thing in question already has a recognized previous exchange value on
the account of services it renders directly to consumption or
production.
Meaning that no government edict can make something with no recognized value, with no previous purchasing power, such as a slip of paper, either a unit of value or "money” in an actual economic sense.
Even prior to the Ratification of the Constitution no one conversant in either economic or even commercial practice ever thought of monetary values in some abstract way, they were well aware that paper script was not money proper but still the States flooded the economy with paper script that became more and more worthless with each issuance and just like today the People and society were harmed.
Money was generally synonymous with a known weight of precious metals and to a lesser degree with small cent base metals. That’s why merchants, particularly in the early years of our Republic, regularly restored to weighing and chemical analyses to ensure the value of the metal matched the face value of the coin.
Today however, though ignorance and decades of conditioning, value is not questioned because people take things at face value, particularly our currency which is eaten up by inflationary depreciation, if you don’t understand the economic consequences of such depreciation I suggest you consider that hard fact as your ability to make purchases is diminished continually.
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The Department Of Veterans Affairs just BANNED the V-J Day kiss photo from all department facilities.
"To promote a culture of inclusivity and awareness… your cooperation is vital."
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The weather in southern Missouri was beautiful, more like May than March, and you KNOW what that means!
Yes, it's time for another Ozark Hilton tale!
When last we joined our intrepid explorer his rough-hewn shanty in the deep woods had been had been defiled by what was likely some hill folk, with the place being robbed of everything of any value and everything dumped all over the fllor. He cleaned it up as best he could but the real work was awaiting his next visit, a visit that he hadn't been able to make due to cold weather and a lack of ardour on his part (I fear I'm getting old and busting my tail down there is becoming too much for me - especially in cold weather.Also,an annoying tendency to refer to onesself in the third person may mean early onset of dementia.)
So I needed to go and the weather was fine and I just couldn't come up with any good excuse not to make the 140 mile slog.(Yes, I said miles; I'm SOOO sick of t.v. programs aimed at American audiences using metric. Here in the U.S.A. we use miles and inches and pounds and ounces.)
I got a late start, primarily due to an argument on Facebook that wound up delaying me. Actually, I was a bit less than enthused to go; it takes a LOT out of me these days and I also hated to see what these meth-making brigands did to my lovely little slice of paradise. I had worked so hard in building the cabin. Not that it was done - there remains much work to finish the place, work that I fear will never happen, at least from me. And I had lots of building materials there; it is rather like staying in Fat Albert's junkyard. But it's MY junkyard,and my clubhouse (and girls are allowed, not that any have any interest in the place) and if anyone is going to trash it it should be me.
These jerks stole everything that wasn't nailed down, too; my extension ladder, something I need to get up on the roof, for instance. I've got repairs to make in the eaves but now, without my ladder, I can't do it.They stole my nails, too. And the plastic-sheet roofing that was there for just such repairs. They stole all my paint. They stole my hammers, my saws, my axes, my sledge hammer, they even stole my broom, which the local rodents had gnawed down to about ten bristles! They stole all my kerosene lamps and my kerosene, for that matter. They even stole my five gallon water jug, which was idiotic as I lost the cap long ago (I just used the water in it for cleaning.) They stole my books on wild mushrooms, wild edibles, identifying trees. But they left my pots and pans and plates, for some very odd reason. They did steal the set of knives though.
Since they had hit it again the last time I went I knew I needed to check it out.
So off I went. As usual I made my stop at St. Francis State Park and sad a spell in the dugout. Brought home a winner; Tim 1,colon 0! the crowd cheers! Sadly I had to supply my own toilet paper...
I'm going to petition the state to rename that place lovely outhouse for me; I spend so much time there that it should be the Birdnow Memorial. (Sounds about what kind of memorial someone would raise to me.) I've always said I'm going to die on the toilet (since it lacks dignity); I think I'm going to die on THAT toilet. Some teenie bopper girl park ranger will probably find my carcass on the throne, pants around my ankles, cold and stiff. Bah!
The trip was uneventful, although the constant shift from overcast and gloomy to bright and sunny made driving difficult. I have problems with my eyesight, and need to wear sunglasses in bright sun. But I also need night glasses for gloom. It was an endless battle of swapping specs. But I made it there alive, so what the heck.
I stopped at Cherokee Pass for the "good wood" at the gas station there. They always sell the best firewood; well seasoned and largely smokeless. And they have a Subway Sandwich next door, where I can get a sammy for my supper. I always buy sandwiches these days. Long ago I used to bring food down to cook; steaks, hamburgers, pork steaks, you name it. But it was always a pain; I rarely felt like eating early, and you had to cook before sundown or you would be cooking by flashlight. Then when the wasps took up residency in my two pits (which, like just about everything else down there, was scrounged for free) I gave up, settling for cold sandwiches. I don't get hungry down there as a general rule anyway. After the hillbillies tried to steal one of the pits they dumped it partway up my drive (Hah! I'll bet they got stung bad!) and the wasps vacated the premises, so I just took the pit home. My home pit was shot, and the prices have skyrocketed on new ones, so why not just bring one home? I'll have a way to cook without making the kitchen uninhabitably hot come summer - and to make it good and clean to boot.
So anyway I had little trouble, and the drive to my estate was clear. I had worried; we've had some wind and storms. I pulled up and went inside the cabin.
At first I thought they had done it again. The floor was covered with stuff and my milk crates all dumped over.
But on closer inspection I think perhaps it wasn't Zeke and Billy Bob this time. A HUGE pile of chewed paper adorned one corner; rats nest. Rats can be terribly destructive, and I think they were the ones knocking stuff over-this time. (Obviously they didn't steal my ladder or my lamps, or try to steal my barbeque pit.)
The back room was as i had left it. If it were thieves again they no-doubt would have rummaged around further in there. They hadn't hit that as thoroughly last time.So I think I have a rodent problem.
And its a pretty serious problem. Rats carry all sorts of diseases,including plague. If i get sick you know what happened to me! But then if I die of the Black Death I'll at least leave a memorable obituary...
Strangely enough I didn't hear ANY rodents in the place last night. Just once I heard some scratching. I might be able to chalk that down to the fact rats hate mice and kill them when they find them (and sometimes eat them). So if I have a rat infestation I won't have a mouse problem. And rats are much more timid around people. It may be I had some keeping quiet and out of sight.
i once had a rat in a roll of tarpaper I was going to use. I felt his furry little head when I reached my thumb inside the roll. His hair felt exactly like the hair of my old cat Goccia and before I realized it i was stroking the befuddled beast. It was just instinctive; the tactile sensation triggered the response "I love you Goccie!" A very, very confused rat jumped out of the paper and bounded away.
I was lucky; my kind treatment kept him from biting me and forcing me into a series of rabies shots.
Another time I was sitting on my porch and a rat just sauntered up and walked right in my open front door. He had amazingly beautiful BLUE eyes! I felt bad about poisoning him; but he was the fellow tearing the cabin up and so I had to commit murder most foul.
Another time I was sitting on my futon in the cabin and a mouse darted out from between my legs. He was wise to run; a big rat bounded out hell-bent-for-leather. The two ran in a wide circle and then straight between my legs against and under the futon. I didn't see them again, but I suspect the mouse wound up being rat chow.
Good! I HATE mice! It would almost be worth having a few pet rats running around in my own house just to keep the mice away.
I alos had a big black ratsnake take up residence in my cabin. I miss that fellow; he kept the rodents in check! I only saw him one time; he was laying on the floor. I just went away and when I came back he was gone. But I would occasionally hear him; they beat their tales like rattle snakes, only they don't have rattles. And they aren't poisonous. The worst he would have done to me is bite me, forcing me into a tetanus shot. Or he could have tried to strangle my leg! They are constrictors after all.
I had no rodent problem with HIM around. Wish he'd come back; he's welcome any time.
So anyway I brought a broom and dustpan and swept up all the refuse on the floor and restacked a few things. It was still pretty bad but marginally habitable - habitable enough for me.
I spent the evening sitting on the porch. Lit my lamps and then just relaxed as the light went away and that velvet darkness covered the woods like a shroud.I like it; I sit on an island of light,with total darkness just outside of the hungry grasp of my kerosene lanterns. Kerosene lamps aren't good for lighting; it's little wonder they were replaced. But the thieves stole my propane lamp and my propane bottles. They are also a pain; lasting just two hours, and they get HOT. I've burned myself more than a few times with them. Oh, and the mantles are full of heavy metals you aren't supposed to get on your skin. I wonder if my replacing them isn't what cause my heart failure?
So I use kerosene lamps and also a few battery-powered LED lights. They are adequate. Not good but adequate. I had thought of putting in a more extensive power system but the fact I can't secure them makes it impossible. I'm not just giving them to thieves! (You can see it still frosts me; I had that place for a quarter of a century with no trouble until now!)
Wildlife was scarce. I heard some things moving about in the dark last night but never did see what. There is a hole in the fallen leaves that goes under my porch and no doubt it's a critter tunnel but I never saw a critter. I used to have a pair of armadillos living under the cabin and I used to enjoy seeing them come out at dusk to hunt for bugs. But I haven't seen them for a while;I fear they may have expired. I suppose that's for the best too; armadillos can carry the plague as well as rats. (I seem destined to have an interesting obituary.)
It was dark as the inside of a stomach,but every so often flashes of lightning would illuminate the sky - a storm to the east. I enjoyed the light show; it reminded me of watching a Fourth of July fireworks display sans the booming. So it was like a strobe; flashes of God-fireworks in total silence then pitch black. Flash and dark, flash and dark. A majestic show from my humble porch in the wilderness as I sipped a couple of Urban Chestnut Stammmish Pilseners and soaked in the night like a warm bathtub.(It is helpful to consume an adult beverage when you are down there lest every noise freak you out.)
I sat out until almost ten o'clock and then went in as it was getting a little chilly. I made a modest fire with the "good wood" and settled in to watch movies on my portable DVD player. (wood is important; bad wood smokes the place up terribly, and maybe I look like an old boar but I don't need to be smoked like one.) I used to bring books down and read,but those days are long gone. My eyesight is not conducive to any reading at all, much less in a dark cabin. So I watch flicks. I plug the player in to a jump-station battery and can run it all night!
Fell asleep during the second film. I was tired. Sadly it didn't last. I have a futon by it's not really openable these days so I just leave it set up as a couch. That would be fine but there's a lot of stuff on it and I don't have anywhere to put what is there thanks to the home invaders wrecking the place.. So I have been sleeping sitting up.
Which is fine for an hour or two but it gets VERY uncomfortable before long. My legs hurt. My neck hurt. I would move around and get comfortable but that would only last a few minutes.
Not that the futon is all that comfortable. My back kills me when I lay down, and especially on a mattress without springs. I actually do better sleeping in a sitting position (provided my legs are supported). At home I've taken to sleeping in a Lazyboy.
Once it is warm enough I'll sleep in the outer room in my nice swivel chair. But until then it's the futon for me.And no sleep.
So I sat there trying to get settled enough for sleep and fed the fire. It was a LONG night!
I packed up easily and headed for home. Stopped at McDonalds for an Egg McMuffin in the great metropolis of Piedmont Mo. Of all the McDonalds breakfasts theirs is the best. They cook them as you order them there, unlike the ones around St. Louis which feeds you food that was cooked back during the Renaissance, or maybe even earlier.
It was perfect driving weather and I made it home uneventfully. Slept four hours once I got here!
That completes our tale. I'll be going back in due course, provided the weather cooperates. I'll keep you posted!
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It began as the last year was drawing to its end. It has only begun. Its repercussions will be seismic. After nearly 2000 years of declaring homosexuality, lesbianism, and alternate sexuality a grave sin, as does the Bible, the Catholic Church, under the Pope's leadership declared that it would now give its blessings to those involved in all of the above.
Two years earlier, the Vatican's office of Doctrine had issued a statement on the matter saying, "God cannot bless sin." But the Pope overturned it. This was massive -- not just for Catholics, but for the world. The Catholic Church has long been intertwined with western civilization, and was central in laying down its moral foundations. Even our present calendar was determined by the Vatican. For the Catholic Church to now bless what God clearly calls sin, which Catholic doctrine up to this point has called intrinsically disordered, contrary to natural law, and grave depravity is colossal.
What is it? In one word: Apostasy. The Bible foretells that in the last days there will be a great apostasy. The word apostasy means to fall away from one's stand, or, in its Biblical usage, to fall away from faith. What prompted the Pope to do something that would have, just the other day, have been unimaginable? He was simply following the course of an apostate civilization. It is the same exact process, transformation, and fall that happened in other organizations that once stood against this sin and then succumbed to it -- from the Democratic Party, to Hollywood, to the corporate world, to the Boy Scouts, to the American legal system, and on and on. But that it has now happened, and is happening to the Catholic Church is a big deal!
Unless what the Pope did is reversed, it will not stay a simple blessing of same-sex couples, but the day will come when you will see something that most never thought they would see -- the Catholic Church performing homosexual and lesbian marriages and declaring them holy, and displaying the rainbow flag more prominently than the cross. The Pope opened up the floodgates. Expect a flood!
This will also accelerate the fall and apostasy of Western civilization. For if the one who was supposed to be applying the brakes on that fall has now declared that that fall is to be blessed -- all bets are off. The Bible says that the end-times will be characterized by apostasy and the increase of immorality. It even implies the apostasy of the church.
That day has come. And the good news is God said it before it happened. He is still on the throne. And in the growing darkness, the lights of God will shine all the more brightly and will light up their world. This month, you be that one! Shine against the darkness and light up your world. And may God greatly bless you as you do!
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March 04, 2024
Trump wins at SCOTUS! Colorado and Maine and no-one else may remove him from the ballot.
The ruling was unanimous.
The Democrats are really having a bad week.
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French government launches a program to allow low income people to lease EVs for as little as $43 per month. Look for corrupt ChinaJoe to try the same thing here.
Government rolls out program allowing low-income drivers to lease EVs for as little as $43 a month: 'It's about time'
thecooldown.com
Tim adds:
Aha! Now we get to the nub of it. This is what the forces pushing this have wanted all along - to make private automobiles a thing of the past. Then, when you have to rent them, they own you. You can only go where they want and no further. And they will always know where you are.
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Life After Lockdown
In two weeks, the Supreme Court
will hear arguments in the most important free speech case in our
lifetimes. At issue is whether the government can censor using
third-party control of digital platforms, doing indirectly what it is
forbidden to do directly. You would think that the answer would be no,
obviously. If so, why is there a gigantic and global censorship-indu
A ruling for the plaintiffs would begin the process of regaining control for the people. A ruling for the defense would enable agency control of tech at new levels of intensity. There will be a rally outside the court on the day of argument.
What is this strange silence about the case? That’s the irony: the censorship is so effective that we don’t even hear about the challenge.
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March 03, 2024
In my old age and growing feebleness, as well as an increased disposition for all kinds of disease to take hold on me, I am thinking of the medical profession.
Although my thoughts cannot be that of a doctor, my thoughts are based upon a long wealth of experience with literally myriads of doctors.
There was a time long ago when the doctor was available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In this era of medical practice, doctors traveled to the sick. And, doctors were often paid in the currency of cheese, grain, vegetables, meat, and wine.
Doctors of that day did not show the fruit of their arduous studies, expert knowledge, and demanding efforts by living in palatial quarters. Rather, their cherished trophy was the deep affection and ardent respect of the community of patients those respective doctors served.
These doctors operated via consecrated vocation. Their calling and equipping was from the Lord God. This was profoundly true especially for those doctors who sought what medicine could never provide, viz. a sure remedy from the corruption and consequences of sin, which comes only through the Person and Work of Jesus Christ.
Yet even the doctors who suppressed the truth of their sin and the need of the Savior operated in a certain common dignity. It was of a priestly fashion. Not in the salvific sense of atoning for sin; but rather, a potent communication of effectual comfort and hope. This solace was based upon the mutual imprint of God in both practitioner and patient.
In my decades of constant and sometimes stark medical need, I have learned those doctors possessing not only the necessary intellectual expertise but also the heartfelt compassion were the most effectual gifts from God to me in the dire circumstances.
Human-beings made by God as both spirit and body, exhibit a magnificent mystery in the reciprocating influence that each element has on the other.
I have had a few medical circumstances in my life by which I was near (the first) death. The determinative factor in my continuing on in this age was God working through Christ in Whom all His promises are affirmed and confirmed.
The Lord God worked through means via my loved ones, and also those doctors who saw me as and treated me as a fellow human-being rather than a name on his or her chart.
Tim adds:
Amen. Medicine USED to be about serving God and His suffering creatures. Now it's about money and prestige. Is it any wonder it has become depersonalized and inefficient and even dishonest? We took God out of the equation and now are paying the price.
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On Facebook an atheist named kathy Collins made this assertion:
Man/kind has always been for searching for meaning and power/control. That's how humanilty got to where it is today, which is mostly horrifying.
I replied:
Kathy Collins on the contrary we are now where we are in no small part due to the rise in atheism across the globe since the Enlightenment and the rejection of our Judeo-christian culture. And you are right; it IS horrifying. 94 million dead as a DIRECT result of Communism alone, which embraces atheism. That doesn't even take into account the ancilliary deaths.
And what of such little goodies as abortion in the West? Abortion is promoted primarily by atheists these days.
Warfare was common in the eighteenth century and before, but it followed set rules, rules which were overturned in the declining moral climate of the West as atheistic influences made victory at any cost the only goal.
And then there is Hitler and the Nazis. While the Nazis were not atheists per say (Hitler probably was but we can't be sure) they certainly failed to act according to religious principles, at least according to Christian principles.
The purveyors of the French Revolution and Reign of Terror were primarily atheists.
Mussolini was an atheist as were most of the Fascist Party.
From where I sit it appears atheism is far more influential when it comes to power and control than religion.
One of the things that bugged Rousseau (the father of socialism) and Mussolini (The SOn of Rousseau in spirit) was the very fact that Jesus divided government from religion. It cheesed them off. Rousseau wanted a world where everything was interconnected and under the government as part of the Collective Will. Mussolini and Fascism were born out of Rousseauian theory (as was the French Revolution). Marx came out of Rousseau too.
So if religion was about power and control why did Jesus separate the two? "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's".
Kathy, religion has indeed been used by unscupulous sorts, by demogogues and tyrants,but it's obvious from the tyranny of Communists and modernity that non-belief is every bit as bad if not worse. You are pointing your finger in the wrong direction.
Religions have very often acted as a brake on the ambitions of the powerful and wealthy. That was why, for instance, Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church; they were poop in his marital punchbowl.
And Kathy you cannot logically claim religion was INVENTED to empower the rulers. It predates human history and can be found in every people in all places, regaredless of hos isolated or impoverished. People instinctively know there is some sort of God or gods. The Australian aborigines, perhaps the most isolated people on Earth prior to the coming of the Europeans, worshipped Baiame, their Creator god. As the Aborigines had no possessions at all and wandered about the landscape in search of food one wonders at how this is about power and control.The Innuit of the Canadian arctic had a number of gods: Sila and Still (god and goddess of air), Pinga (god of fertility), Qailertetang (god of fishermen and hunters), Nuna (god of earth), Saranik (goddess of the sun), Tukik (god of the moon) . The Polynesians primary god was Tangaroa.
I would also argue that the search for meaning would hardly drive people to invent so complicated and detailed a concept. We say "I don't know" all the time, about many things. Always have. But all peoples have creator gods and stories of how the world came about. Why? It just is is a perfectly viable answer and one that most isolated peoples would no doubt have given had it bot been for the fact that human beings can grasp Natural Law and see the existence of God as self-evident, even if they do not know the details of that God(which required God's communicating them to us via revelation.)
Kathy, I think your view is the short and easy answer to something that is far more complex. It appeals to people because it lets them off the hook for making dangerous and perhaps eternal choices. But in the end it is not supportable by logic or reason. There are multiple pieces of evidence for the existence of God. The Anthropic Principle for example. Abiogenesis. The mathematical patterns in the universe, etc. And if one chooses atheism he or she makes as big a leap of faith as believing in God, perhaps a bigger one. Agnosticism at least says "I don't know". Atheism says "I know even though I can't prove it." Leap of faith.
Nietzche made such a leap of faith and wound up going mad.
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At some point between tonight and November, a massive fakenewsing operation will be used to arrest Trump.
The problem is Trump. We all know that.
Julian Assange
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Edward Snowden
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Seth Rich
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Gonzalo Lira
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Donald Trump
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Elon Musk
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Tucker Carlson
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
James O’Keefe
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Steve Kirsch
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Robert Malone
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Alex Jones
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Owen Shroyer
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Joe Rogan
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Gina Carano
• targeted bc of her dissenting voice.
Russel Brand
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Steve Baker
• targeted bc of his dissenting voice.
Catherine Herridge
• targeted bc of her dissenting voice.
https://x.com/therealzno/status/1763622431510364413?s=61&t=btHed2vHIj9imjMQJfnQsw
2c from Tim:
I'm sure they want to do that. I imagine they will arrest him on something REALLY nasty, too. Accuse him of pedophilia perhaps. I am sure it's coming.
It's past time we all stop listening to the media. They will treat any accusation seriously because they just want to take him out. And as he's about to run away with the election they are going to need drastic action.
If I were Trump I'd wear a bulletproof vest and have a food taster.
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