January 07, 2023
I agree with most of what Richard says here, but Carter was a self-aggrandizing ass. He lied about being a "nuclear physicist". He was often abusive to his staff. He infuriated the Democrats in Congress, leading House Speaker Tip O'Neal to say of him "they (the Administration) came in like pricks and they went out the same way." In private he used foul language pretty regularly. When the Shah of Iran called during the Revolution Carter was informed and said "F$#k the Shah!" He was smug and sanctimonious.
Couple that with his horrible management and people skills and you had - the worst President in American history (except maybe Obama, who was a capaable enough fellow which is what could have made him worse.)
Anyway, this from Richard Cronin:
We have the most decent, loyal patriotic Americans in law enforcement and specifically the lower ranks of the FBI. More to the point, the FBI is the Praetorian Guard of the Republic. The Praetorian Guard was duty bound to the Emperor but in fact they were enmeshed in imperial succession. Emperors not to their liking were deposed.
Former FBI deputy director William Mark Felt broke his 30-year silence and confirmed in 2005 that he was "Deep Throat,” the anonymous government source who helped take down President Nixon in the Watergate scandal.
If you know someone in the FBI who is concerned about Washington’s palace intrigues and the fact that patriotic Americans can be tagged and silenced as "domestic terrorists”, ask them to ponder our current condition under the leadership of Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray.
FBI whistleblowers who have stepped forward have been picked off
one-by-one. The mainstream media will not carry the stories of
individual whistleblowers.
The response must be en masse. Rank and file. Yes, I know, easier said than done.
I’ve even thought about Jimmy Carter , arguably one of the most decent, religious men to ever sit in the White House but a total train wreck as a President. Of course, both President Carter and I share our time in Habitat for Humanity, from different quarters.
I’ve pondered my own studies in Earth and planetary sciences and am ever so aware of the magnificence of God’s Design. The Lord gave his Covenant that there would never be another Great Flood. Take Him at His Word. The sea level is just fine. Water is retained in polar ice caps and mountain top glaciers. Rain on the land recharges aquifers, plant life grows, root systems grow out to stabilize the soil and retain ground water.
We can only serve one Master. God’s Laws trump Man’s Laws. I wish that I could speak with President Carter for only an hour or so. Maybe we’d even resurrect the Great Plains Coal Gasification project.
Something not well known is that Pontius Pilate was a Praetorian. He served as the number 2 guy to a man named Sejanus, who went on to become co-emperor under Tiberius and promoted Pilate along. Tiberius, like all Roman political critters, had to be very suspicious, and he came to suspect Sejanus. He had him murdered, his whole murdered, and issued a hit list on Sejanus' people.
Pilate didn't go down with him, but it was at that moment in time that a 33 year old Jew who claimed to be King was brought before him for judgment. Pilate wanted to let the man go, but when the crowd said "we have no king but Caesar" they were threatening to go to Caesar and Pilate wold probably wind up headless. So he handed Jesus over to be crucified.
Just a couple of years later there was an uprising in Samaria and Pilate had to put it down hard. There were complaints to Caesar and he was recalled (no doubt to face his doom). Tiberius died while Pilate was en-route and Gaius Caligula offered a general amnesty, so Pilate survived. He stayed in Rome where his wife became a Christian and is one of the founders of the Roman church. She is a saint to both Catholics and Orthodox (and Pilate is a saint to the Coptic as well as Ethiopian churches for his legal defense of Jesus, which he gave in accordance with Roman law at the time.
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