March 29, 2024

The Passion of Jesus Christ

A reding from the Book of John:

Jn 18:1—19:42
Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley
to where there was a garden,
into which he and his disciples entered.
Judas his betrayer also knew the place,
because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.

So Judas got a band of soldiers and guards
from the chief priests and the Pharisees
and went there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen to him,
went out and said to them, "Whom are you looking for?”
They answered him, "Jesus the Nazorean.”
He said to them, "I AM.”
Judas his betrayer was also with them.
When he said to them, "I AM, "
they turned away and fell to the ground.
So he again asked them,
"Whom are you looking for?”
They said, "Jesus the Nazorean.”
Jesus answered,
"I told you that I AM.
So if you are looking for me, let these men go.”
This was to fulfill what he had said,
"I have not lost any of those 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,
"Put your sword into its scabbard.
Shall I not drink the cup that the Father gave me?”

So the band of soldiers, the tribune, and the Jewish guards seized Jesus,
bound him, and brought him to Annas first.
He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas,
who was high priest that year.
It was Caiaphas who had counseled the Jews
that it was better that one man should die rather than the people.

Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus.
Now the other disciple was known to the high priest,
and he entered the courtyard of the high priest with Jesus.
But Peter stood at the gate outside.
So the other disciple, the acquaintance of the high priest,
went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter in.
Then the maid who was the gatekeeper said to Peter,
"You are not one of this man’s disciples, are you?”
He said, "I am not.”
Now the slaves and the guards were standing around a charcoal fire
that they had made, because it was cold,
and were warming themselves.
Peter was also standing there keeping warm.

The high priest questioned Jesus
about his disciples and about his doctrine.
Jesus answered him,
"I have spoken publicly to the world.
I have always taught in a synagogue
or in the temple area where all the Jews gather,
and in secret I have said nothing. Why ask me?
Ask those who heard me what I said to them.
They know what I said.”
When he had said this,
one of the temple guards standing there struck Jesus and said,
"Is this the way you answer the high priest?”
Jesus answered him,
"If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong;
but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”
Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

Now Simon Peter was standing there keeping warm.
And they said to him,
"You are not one of his disciples, are you?”
He denied it and said,
"I am not.”
One of the slaves of the high priest,
a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said,
"Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
Again Peter denied it.
And immediately the cock crowed.

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium.
It was morning.
And they themselves did not enter the praetorium,
in order not to be defiled so that they could eat the Passover.
So Pilate came out to them and said,
"What charge do you bring against this man?”
They answered and said to him,
"If he were not a criminal,
we would not have handed him over to you.”
At this, Pilate said to them,
"Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”
The Jews answered him,
"We do not have the right to execute anyone, "
in order that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled
that he said indicating the kind of death he would die.
So Pilate went back into the praetorium
and summoned Jesus and said to him,
"Are you the King of the Jews?”
Jesus answered,
"Do you say this on your own
or have others told you about me?”
Pilate answered,
"I am not a Jew, am I?
Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me.
What have you done?”
Jesus answered,
"My kingdom does not belong to this world.
If my kingdom did belong to this world,
my attendants would be fighting
to keep me from being handed over to the Jews.
But as it is, my kingdom is not here.”
So Pilate said to him,
"Then you are a king?”
Jesus answered,
"You say 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.”
Pilate said to him, "What is truth?”

When he had said this,
he again went out to the Jews and said to them,
"I find no guilt in him.
But you have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at Passover.
Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
They cried out again,
"Not this one but Barabbas!”
Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged.
And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head,
and clothed him in a purple cloak,
and they came to him and said,
"Hail, King of the Jews!”
And they struck him repeatedly.
Once more Pilate went out and said to them,
"Look, I am bringing him out to you,
so that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”
So Jesus came out,
wearing the crown of thorns and the purple cloak.
And he said to them, "Behold, the man!”
When the chief priests and the guards saw him they cried out,
"Crucify him, crucify him!”
Pilate said to them,
"Take him yourselves and crucify him.
I find no guilt in him.”
The Jews answered,
"We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die,
because he made himself the Son of God.”
Now when Pilate heard this statement,
he became even more afraid,
and went back into the praetorium and said to Jesus,
"Where are you from?”
Jesus did not answer him.
So Pilate said to him,
"Do you not speak to me?
Do you not know that I have power to release you
and I have power to crucify you?”
Jesus answered him,
"You would have no power over me
if it had not been given to you from above.
For this reason the one who handed me over to you
has the greater sin.”
Consequently, Pilate tried to release him; but the Jews cried out,
"If you release him, you are not a Friend of Caesar.
Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”

When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus out
and seated him on the judge’s bench
in the place called Stone Pavement, in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
It was preparation day for Passover, and it was about noon.
And he said to the Jews,
"Behold, your king!”
They cried out,
"Take him away, take him away! Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them,
"Shall I crucify your king?”
The chief priests answered,
"We have no king but Caesar.”
Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.

So they took Jesus, and, carrying the cross himself,
he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull,
in Hebrew, Golgotha.
There they crucified him, and with him two others,
one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross.
It read,
"Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews.”
Now many of the Jews read this inscription,
because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city;
and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate,
"Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’
but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews’.”
Pilate answered,
"What I have written, I have written.”

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus,
they took his clothes and divided them into four shares,
a share for each soldier.
They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless,
woven in one piece from the top down.
So they said to one another,
"Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be, "
in order that the passage of Scripture might be fulfilled that says:
They divided my garments among them,
and for my vesture they cast lots.
This is what the soldiers did.
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother
and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary of Magdala.
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved
he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son.”
Then he said to the disciple,
"Behold, your mother.”
And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

After this, aware that everything was now finished,
in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
Jesus said, "I thirst.”
There was a vessel filled with common wine.
So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop
and put it up to his mouth.
When Jesus had taken the wine, he said,
"It is finished.”
And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.

Here all kneel and pause for a short time.

Now since it was preparation day,
in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath,
for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one,
the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken
and that they be taken down.
So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first
and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus.
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead,
they did not break his legs,
but one soldier thrust his lance into his side,
and immediately blood and water flowed out.
An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true;
he knows that he is speaking the truth,
so that you also may come to believe.
For this happened so that the Scripture passage might be fulfilled:
Not a bone of it will be broken.
And again another passage says:
They will look upon him whom they have pierced.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea,
secretly a disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jews,
asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus.
And Pilate permitted it.
So he came and took his body.
Nicodemus, the one who had first come to him at night,
also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes
weighing about one hundred pounds.
They took the body of Jesus
and bound it with burial cloths along with the spices,
according to the Jewish burial custom.
Now in the place where he had been crucified there was a garden,
and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried.
So they laid Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation day;
for the tomb was close by.

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All that Glitters - and Doesn't

Chester McAteer

Today it takes $$31,015.25 (when Trump left office that amount was $26,142.53) Federal Reserve Notes to buy what $1,000.00 U.S.Gold-Backed

Dollars bought in 1913. Now this goes back to every Administration for the last 50 years, except now with the Biden Administration, the rate of inflation is rising more rapidly than ever before because the expansion of the money supply has been extraordinarily fast. Inflation is always a monetary phenomenon.

The value of the Federal Reserve Notes in terms of currency markets is very different from the purchase value the currency holds and that seems to be confusing to some when comparing the Dollar against other fiat currencies, rather than the Fiat Dollar against this historic Dollar prior to 1913, with the exclusion of the Lincoln Greenback era.

A U.S. Gold-Backed Dollar had the purchase value of 100 Cents, today each of those Federal Reserve Notes, or money substitutes, which are each a double liability on both sides of the ledger, has a purchase value of approximately 0.0378501135503 40651022 Cents each, that purchase value is decreasing with the expansion of the Money supply, it's called inflationary depreciation.

Today, over 50% of American workers earn less than $33,000 per year. That equates to about 17 ounces of gold per year, before taxes. Over 100 years ago, without any government mandates, minimum wage laws, or labor unions, Henry Ford paid his factory line workers 65 ounces of gold per year, tax-free!

So, if the average salary is $33,000 per year equates to $1,068.73 in 1913 US Dollar purchase power. Think about that for a moment. Think about this, people are clamoring for $15.00 an hour, that equates to $0.50 cents an hour in 1913 purchase power.

What the people of this Country need is real money that maintains its purchasing power despite Government actions.

Thus, since 1913 the currency inflation rate has been about 2765.8%, that is the amount of wealth that has been effectively stolen from the people of this country. The question is what happens when the purchase value falls close to 1 Cent per Federal Reserve Note? When the confidence of the people for these Federal Reserve Notes is abandoned, what does history show?

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March 28, 2024

Ingrates

Timothy Birdnow

Amen. Back during the Cold War the Soviets send in sleepers to undermine America. They were trained in USA Town, a community as American as apple pie and Marx.

They had it drilled into them that they would live well but the REAL America was an impoverished hellhole,,oppressive and despicable. These folks then came here and labored to undermine America despite the evidence of their own eyess. They were AMERICAN in no small way yet they still didn't believe it. That is the power of brain washing. And now our younger generation is as brainwashed, if not more so, than the old Soviet sleeper agents.

The ingratitude to this land of plenty is astonishing.

A Greg Delany

PERSPECTIVE!
My wife and I have been fortunate enough to have lived in and traveled to many countries.
My wife endured Socialism in the USSR for the first 25 years of her life.
I worked in the USSR and former Soviet Republics for more than six years and in Iraq for three years.
I have been blessed to have traveled to over 40 other countries as well. I have seen the long lines of people praying to Emigrate to America.
Because, America is the envy of the whole world.
It breaks my heart to see the luckiest people on earth, complain about their conditions, while living in a country of such great prosperity and opportunity.
Every citizen of this great land, has the same opportunities and anyone can achieve their dreams.
We can all change our condition with a little work and self determination.
The sad part is that those born into this paradise, believe they are entitled to the riches of paradise without any investment. We all must use our talents, knowledge and labors.
There are countless millions, living outside of America, willing to change places with anyone who does not love America.
I am willing to trade immigrants who want a better life to get rid of Leftists who hate America and everything she stands for..
We must stand up for our ideals and teach our children how blessed we are to be American!
We must teach the Proud History of America instead of the apologetic history they teach today.
We must stop the Left from emphasizing the negatives as they continue turning people into victims and multi gender perverts and pedophiles.
If you don't like your life.
Don't blame anyone but yourself. You live in the greatest country on earth .
A country that will help you, encourage you, and support your dreams while you work for a life of self reliance and self determination.
President Trump is showing the world the benefits of Free, Fair Trade and Open Markets, Capitalism at its best.
The world is fighting back, because we have supported unfair trade in the past and helped bolster their socialist policy failures, with the US paying the cost to keep them safe, through NATO and the UN.
Support OUR Constitution!
Stop waiting for Government to give you anything or waiting for Government to solve every social issue.
Go out and give of yourself, and bless your neighbors. We are the most generous nation on earth.
We can solve our own issues as soon as Government stops getting in the way. As JFK said, "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country,”

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The Real Inflation Rate

Diane Kimura

We are not comparing apples to apples. The BLS changed the CPI calculation method - was it politically motivated to deceive Americans about the real impact of the failed economic policies?

Why does everything feel so unaffordable?

According to the pre-1983 CPI calculation method, inflation is nearly TRIPLE what current CPI data says.

If you used pre-1983 CPI, inflation peaked at 18% in November 2022 and currently stands at a whopping 8%.

Under this method, housing inflation more than DOUBLED since 2020 alone.

Even in August 2023, this CPI inflation method would've put inflation at 12%.

Perhaps this is why there is such a large gap between headlines and reality.

Are our inflation formulas off?

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All in the Family

Diame Kimura

The daughter of the judge who issued a GAG ORDER on Trump who is also handling his hush money case has KAMALA HARRIS LISTED AS A CLIENT at a firm that has a focus on elections and campaigns.

Judge Merchan, a New York State Supreme Court Judge who enacted a gag order against President Trump today, has a daughter, Loren Merchan.

Loren holds the position of President and Partner at Authentic Campaigns, a firm that lists Kamala Harris among its clientele. Additionally, Adam Schiff is also a client of the company.

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March 27, 2024

America Deserves Better

Timothy Birdnow

After the election of 2000 Jimmy Carter and Jim Baker ran a commission to avoid vote problems in future. They strongly recommended that mail-in voting be illegal as it is ripe for fraud. The Democrats took the report and used it as a blueprint to steal 2020.

Most nations have learned mail-in voting is a dreadful idea more suited to banana republics.

Why Do Most Countries Ban Mail-In Ballots?: They Have Seen Massive Vote Fraud Problems
papers.ssrn.com



Diane Kimura adds:

Most developed countries, especially in Europe, ban mail-in voting to fight vast fraud and vote buying that had threatened the integrity of their elections, according to an exhaustive review of voting rules and histories in over 30 major nations.

In the European Union, 63% have put a ban on mailing in ballots except for citizens living overseas. Another 22% have imposed a ban even for those overseas. And most of those that allow mail-in ballots require some form of photo ID to get one, according to the report from the Crime Prevention Research Center shared with Secrets.

"These countries have learned the hard way about what happens when mail-in ballots aren’t secured. They have also discovered how hard it is to detect vote buying when both those buying and selling the votes have an incentive to hide the exchange,” said author John R. Lott, the center’s president.

While politicians in the United States have been debating the pros and cons of mail-in voting due to concerns of spreading COVID-19 at the polls and new reports of postal service and vote counting issues, Lott, whose center is known for its gun research, built a voting database of the European Union and the larger Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.

Those countries, said Lott, are typically held up by Democrats as a model to follow.

"Liberals and progressives often try to model the U.S. on Western European countries in many ways, but you never hear them arguing that we should adopt their voting rules. There is a reason for that. Banning mail-in voting or requiring people to use photo IDs to obtain a mail-in ballot is quite common in developed countries, especially in Europe,” he said in the report.

The report, titled Why Do Most Countries Ban Mail-in Ballots? They Have Seen Massive Vote Fraud Problems, listed the rules for voting and widespread cases of fraud and vote buying. His report also listed notable cases of fraud in U.S. voting.

He ended up calling mail-in voting a "throwback to the dark old days of vote-buying and fraud. Like most of the rest of the world, Americans deserve a more trustworthy system.”

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X Marks the Spot

Timothy Birdnow

There is a hippie colony just south of Carbondale so I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of moonbat types show up to be beamed aboard! Especially since this is on the Shawnee Hills wine trail and most will be liquored up...

BTW That is beautiful country; the Illinois Ozarks. Most of Illinois is flat prairie and farms but down here it's beautiful hills, nice lakes, the Little Grand Canyon, giant bolders and the like. There is the Bald Knob Cross of Peace; a hundred foot tall porcelein crucifix on top of one of the highest peaks in the state, and it's lit at nnight. Visible for 600 square miles. A wine trail featuring 14 wineries. And it's the northern part of Little Egypt the delta-like area at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Oh, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a major university there. The wife and I have been going there for years, long before anyone knew about it.

Roy W. Spencer

"X" marks the spot... the end-of-days/extraterrestrial-visitation folks are missing a great opportunity with the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8. There is an open field 6.3 miles SW of Carbondale, IL where the 2024 solar eclipse path passes exactly over the path of the August, 2017 solar eclipse path. This forms an "X", which is obviously ET's way of telling us this is where we should gather to be transported, Styx-style, into the sky! Come sail away, lads! Be there at 2 pm (CDT), or be square!

Tim adds:

Maybe it's a big X to tell other aliens to stay away as we are obviously not an intelligent of hospitable species?

AnthonyWatts theorizes it denotes the hideout of the X men. As SIU Carbondale is just six miles away perhaps Professor  X lives there and commutes to his classes.

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The Trojan Hearse

Timothy Birdnow

Here is an analysis of the unlamented dead border bill. It was clearly a Trojan Hearse.

That any Republicans signed on with it is disgraceful. Every last one of them needs to be primaried and removed from office.

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A Big Bag of Wind

Timothy Birdnow

Offshore wind power is great! It now costs twice what everyone thought it would and chews up birds in the process.

Offshore Wind Now Costs More Than Double the Original Estimates in New York
instituteforenergyresearch.org


Here are the takeaways:

1

Despite Biden’s belief that renewable energy such as wind and solar are the cheapest forms of electricity, New Yorkers are about to receive higher bills for offshore wind that will raise their rates by more than twice what was originally agreed to in earlier canceled contracts.

2

New York’s solicitations to cover the higher cost for offshore wind is also being used in other Northeastern states, allowing wind developers to rebid for higher prices and receive new contracts.

3

Offshore wind is much more expensive than most other forms of electricity and these states are committing their residents to markedly higher rates well into the future.


Gee,what a bargain!

Hat tip; Willis Eschenbach

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Climate Nihilism and Science Millenialism

Timothy Birdnow

Stephen Heinz posted this bit about climate nihilism:

If you look at the growing government programs, they are a means to launder money and enrich the elites. Al Gore knew this as did other charlatans who cherry picked data, ignored others, and became wealthy by fear mongering to sheep who bow at the altar of big government.

All of these so called climate alarmists preach climate nihilism and severe solutions (no beef, curtail agriculture, EV mandates, end fossil fuels, eat bugs) while they fly in private jets or sail on yachts dining on the finest cuisine while taking in millions. They are the today’s snake oil salesmen who you are not allowed to question.

What kind of science censors or cancels anyone who dares to question the nihilistic rantings and fear mongering? Science is questioning and constant discovery.
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Diane M. Kimura
An example of climate nihilism:

"Scientists Warn 1 Billion People on Track to Die From Climate Change.

The fossil fuels that humanity burns today will be a death sentence for many lives tomorrow.

A recent review of 180 articles on the human death rate of climate change has settled on a deeply distressing number. Over the next century or so, conservative estimates suggest a billion people could die from climate catastrophes, possibly more.

As with most predictions for the future, this one is based on several assumptions.

Technically, the 1000-ton rule does not take into account possible climate feedback loops, which could make future environmental fallout from carbon emissions even worse, even faster.

This rule is actually "an order of magnitude best estimate", which means it's more of a range, somewhere between 0.1 to 10 deaths per 1000 tons of carbon burned.

That leaves a lot of room for scenarios even more dire than the one outlined here.

"When climate scientists run their models and then report on them, everybody leans toward being conservative, because no one wants to sound like Doctor Doom," explains Pierce.

"We've done that here too and it still doesn't look good."

One is a rough rule of thumb called the '1000-ton rule'. Under this framework, every thousand tons of carbon that humanity burns is said to indirectly condemn a future person to death.

If the world reaches temperatures 2°C above the average global preindustrial temperature, which is what we are on track for in the coming decades, then that's a lot of lives lost. For every 0.1 °C degree of warming from now on, the world could suffer roughly 100 million deaths.

●●●●●》"If you take the scientific consensus of the 1,000-ton rule seriously, and run the numbers, anthropogenic global warming equates to a billion premature dead bodies over the next century," explains energy specialist Joshua Pierce from the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

... ●●●●●●●》"Global warming is a matter of life or death for a billion people," says Pierce. ...

Tim responds:

Yikes! How can anyone write such tripe with a straight face? We have had periods where it has been both MUCH warmer and higher carbon dioxide levels and not had this apocalypse they are predicting.

I would add that warming periods generally accompany increases in population, not huge loses. Cold kills; warm heals.

"Technically, the 1000-ton rule does not take into account possible climate feedback loops, which could make future environmental fallout from carbon emissions even worse, even faster."

Or make them better. The whole climate change debate is over climate sensitivity; are feedbacks positive or negative? There are many reasons to believe they are negative,that warming tamps down more warming (clouds, for instance, block the sun and form when it is warmer.) This fool assumes they are all positive - something for which we have little evidence.

Essentially what folks like this are doing is taking Christian belief in an Apocalypse and sucking religion out of it. This is End Time Theology sans God. Nothing more. They would do better to read the Book of Revelations.

And they just pull numbers out of thin air, like that "for every 0.1 degree warming a hundred million will die" nonsense. It was warmer during the Medieval Warming Period and population increased. During the Roman Warming Period probably too.

For example England's population grew during the MWP - from 1.4 million to 5 million by 1300 . Why? They had more food and fewer winter deaths. The population in Germany and Scandinavia rose from 4 million in 1000, to 11.5 million by the 1340 . By 1320 France's population surged to between 15 and 20 million.In fact all of Europe saw a population surge during the MWP.

By contrast the population drops during cold periods.

In the Americas during the Little Ice Age it has been estimated that 50 MILLION deaths occurred. I rather doubt that, or that the dying caused cooling, but certainly there was a big dropoff of population. The Mound builder culture in the Midwest, for instance, died out midway through the LIA. Their capital - Cahokia - was abandoned about the time Columbus discovered the New World. And we saw similar things happen to cultures in central and South America, notably the Mayans and Incans.

The population of Europe shrank with the sinking mercury.

Anyone who claims warming is going to kill all these people has not studied history.

They just made up the "thousand ton rule"; there is no scientific basis for this. As Mark Twain put it "there are lies, damned lies, and statistics". This is the third kind of lie.

This is Millenialism without Christianity, the Apocalypse sans God. It's an attempt to manipulate imagery from the Book of Revelations to get people to panic and stampede into the New World Order. It's the most vile sort of lie.

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March 26, 2024

The Folly of the Return to Paganism

Selwyn Duke

To modern ears, using the term "pagan” pejoratively may smack of a supposed medieval intolerance, conjuring up images of a robed monk praying in candlelight or, maybe, of a Bible-thumping 19th-century missionary. In fact, pagan status may be considered hip and edgy today, embraced by people who rarely if ever know that the ancient pagans never did or would’ve called themselves "pagans” (the word derives from a Latin term meaning, in part, "incompetent soldier”). But fashions often don’t collide with facts.

And here’s a fact....

A 1955 Letter Reveals the Folly of the Left’s Civilization-ending Return to Paganism
thenewamerican.com

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Francis Scott Key Bridge Destroyed by Freighter

Timothy Birdnow

Many people are theorizing that the ship which hit the bridge in Baltimore did not do so by accident.

A cargo ship hit the Francis Scott Key bridge and it collapsed, killing a number of people.

The ship apparently lost power prior to the accident, for instance.

Coincidence? Probably. But if it was not we'll know based on how this is treated. If it disappears from the news cycle we'll know it was terrorism/an act of war. If not it will be beaten to death and probably blamed on Donald Trump and the GOP House.

If it was terrorism they aren't going to tell us. The Biden Administration can ill-afford a terrorist attack against the U.S. not with the election coming.

Granted, foreign wars sometimes help the incumbent, provided he rises to the challenge, but not always. The Gulf War certainly did little to help George H.W. Bush, despite immediate enormous popularity among the voters just after the war.

IF Biden is going to war he either needs to win it or start it just before the election,but either way he can't stumble his way through it.

So his people won't allow any leaks of information on this and the media will happily spike the story.

But if it is an accident they will try to turn it to their advantage. Blame it on deregulation or poor training for maritime officers or whatnot.

I find it interesting it hit the Francis Scott Key bridge - the bridge named after the author of our national anthem and the man who witnessed the American flag still flying after a fierce British assault.

It may turn out to be an accident but were I a terrorist I would probably target this bridge solely based on the symbolism.

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Arguing with Idiots Consensus Edition

Timothy Birdnow

An argument on Facebook with a polite True Believer in climate change.

Lonnie Knaub, in response to my post about carbon 14, had this to say:

I understand that you are presenting an alternative perspective on climate change and the carbon cycle. However, it's important to note that the overwhelming scientific consensus is that human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, are significantly contributing to the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming. While nuclear testing and other natural factors may have played a role, the primary driver is human-induced emissions. Additionally, the science on carbon dating and the Suess Effect is well-established and widely accepted in the scientific community. It's important to consider the cumulative evidence from multiple lines of research and not rely on individual studies or perspectives that may not represent the broader scientific understanding.

I’ve got a pertinent question I’d like to ask you please don’t hesitate to send me a DM ??

I retort:

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Only the Best!

Timothy Birdnow

So,with so many wanting entry into the United States,why are we taking in so many low-quality people?

We are to obey the corollary to the Statue of Liberty poem "give us your trash, your criminals, your rapists and drug dealers and sex traffickers. Give us your degenerates and mooches."

We should rewrite the list of cutthroats by Hedley LaMarr (Harvey Korman) on Blazing Saddles https://www.pastemagazine.com/article/best-quotes-from-blazing-saddles

Hedley Lamarr : I want you to round up every vicious criminal and gunslinger in the west. Take this down.

[Taggart looks for a pen and paper while Hedley talks]

Hedley Lamarr : I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

Taggart : [finding pen and paper] Could you repeat that, sir?

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Real Genius

Timothy Birdnow

That's Hedley!

She helped us win the War! Brillian woman indeed. Too bad she gets little recognition from feminists who prefer socialist women.

From a gentleman named Harold C. Black on Facebook:

Jewish-German refugee genius and movie star Hedy Lamarr was a self-taught science genius who invented and patented the frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology for missile guidance in WW2 that became the foundation of all of our wifi technology today. Happy women's history month...




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March 25, 2024

The Exploding Cost of Homeownership

Cindy Schumacher

Owning the average home in 2024 now requires an income of $106,000, according to Zillow.

Just 4 years ago, you needed just $59,000 in income to afford the average home.

That's a $47,000, or 80%, increase in income from 2020 while wages are up just 23% over that time.

Currently, the median HOUSEHOLD income in the US is ~$75,000.

In other words, the median household income used to be 27% ABOVE the income needed to afford a home

Now, the median household income is 41% BELOW the income needed to afford a home.

(TKL)

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March 24, 2024

The Ukrainian Dollar Sinkhole

Sharon Lane

WHERE ELSE COULD WE HAVE WISELY SPENT THESE $$ HERE IN THE US?
A List of American Taxpayer Funds sent to Ukraine since the start of the Russian-Ukraini an Conflict:

2/20/2023 $500 Million
2/23/2023 $10 Billion
2/24/2023 $2 Billion
3/3/2023 $400 Million
3/20/2023 $350 Million
4/04/2023 $2.6 Billion
4/19/2023 $325 Million
5/08/2023 $1.2 Billion
5/18/2023 $3 Billion...

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