Bless the Cajun Navy, Elon Musk, and all private citizens supporting devastated communities. Meanwhile, Kamala and Tim spent the weekend fundraising. NC and TN National guards were shipped out to the Middle East, Ukraine gets unlimited taxpayer dollars, and FEMA is running low on funds because they spent billions on illegals. This is wha…
Bless the Cajun Navy, Elon Musk, and all private citizens supporting devastated communities. Meanwhile, Kamala and Tim spent the weekend fundraising. NC and TN National guards were shipped out to the Middle East, Ukraine gets unlimited taxpayer dollars, and FEMA is running low on funds because they spent billions on illegals. This is what America Last looks like. “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
There are no words that can describe how Evil our Government has become. There is no way they will relinquish power, too many crimes against Humanity to cover up. And the crimes keep piling up.
Our government BECOME... Since the Dems demanded slaves count as 3/5 a person? In utero children as non persons? Indians as worthy of removing and then impersonating? Completely made up of ppl who are devoid of morality voted in by same and anyone else is accused of being just like themselves in mirror image. Accusation always makes it appear that the accuser is an angel of light, just as Jesus appeared as an insurrectionist and thief. Man's history remains the same.
I just quit my womens sermon study. It’s painful and the stickers on their cars tell me so much. One basically glorifies abortion. Plus these seniors are all getting their mRNA shots right now. I want to be out of range of their breathing. Quit the church in 2021.
Find a like minded biblically accurate church and attend! God will bless your search. Sign me, Maggie Valley NC is still here and awaiting electric (patiently) ; )
Wish I could but in my small farming community there are none I would consider attending. Every single one is a mainline denomination and every one closed down at our governor’s whim. And would again. Driving much distance would not work for me. I listen online to a few. I get my spiritual help in my local woods for now. God speaks to me every time I focus.
I'm glad that you have found some sermons to listen to on-line, but I'm so sorry that you've had to resort to that. Strong, well trained, loving pastors shepherds are few and far between. But Jesus is always with you and He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Romans 8: 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written,
“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I am blessed mightily by many online pastors and teachers' blogs and newsletters. YouTube is a fantastic resource for Christian music as well! But the Bible exhorts us to not neglect "gathering together" (in person) to praise and worship our eternal and Jehovah Jireh Creator God!
Find one or two friends and start your own church. Meaning just a small group no building no nothing just two or three people meeting together to keep in the connection to each other in the Holy Spirit.
Start your own home church, that is Acts in action!! I just commented above, John Fenn was told by the Lord to start up the network, CWOWI.org or Church Without Walls, Intl. He has some tips on how to set them up and to email him if you are looking for one in your area.
What’s been on my heart (but we are dealing with a health thing with my husband) is to start a prayer meeting to pray for our country. No politics. Post a few flyers and meet while the weather is nice at a local park shelter house. I’ll be there if just myself and ask God for people. It’s time to do that. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This Convention of States (which I'd never heard of until being at the Tucker Reading PA event)--meeting of which we attended lasts eve. ,opens and closes with prayer. Invoking the Lord Jesus Christ (so most definitely not "inclusive") and has "prayer warriors" as part of its work.
Do not trust the Convention of the States! My understanding of it is that the people who would be voting on new amendments would be the Congress Critters we have right now. If someone knows different, enlighten me!
I attended a home church once. I have a comment below that I’m feeling a leading to start a prayer meeting to pray for our country. We are so divided though that I see something like that devolving into partisanship. God will really have to be in charge of that at this point. Plus my mouth. 🤔Lol.not a problem for Him.
Remember while Jesus walked this earth how he had to 'intercede' when his disciples had serious 'discussions' and 'disagreements'. So...there will be some issues of 'differences' among the assemblies BUT if the Holy Spirit is in your efforts...you WILL be doing what our Creator God intends.
180 years before there was a nation here, before there was a single church building, the Christians met in each other's homes. For the Quakers, once a month was sufficient.
Community is necessary but I'd rather go online than sit in a "Laodicean church" that does not teach the entire Bible or does not have a Biblical World view.
Exactly! We can’t find one around us so we watch Gary online. LOVE HIS TEACHINGS and going through the Bible like he does. Plus he does not shy away from politics at all. Cornerstone has a target on their back because of it.
That’s good you continue listening online. Wherabouts are you? Some readers may have some referrals in close enough distance. ❤️ I know of one solid church in northeast.
Northern Illinois. There are some around but I know they closed during Covid. They seem dynamic but I’m not sure about all the bells and whistles. I spent 25 years in a very conservative church. I just figure I’ll know it when God tells me.
Janet--this is exactly what I am expecting. He has led me so many times in the past, and back "then" I saw His hand only in retrospect. In last few years I have become alert to what He might be doing with me. I only in April '23 got the nudge to read, from v. 1 Gen. 1, the Bible--only got through Luke 14 this morning (before coming to C&C!). And musing two hours ago that if churches which caved to authority during the scamdemic, were offering services by Zoom, then what's the difference between watching your own pastor on the internet and watching some one else's pastor on the internet? Communion could not be taken communally in the presence of other Believers. so ....where does Jesus' "mandate" to "do this in memory of me" fit in? Also, confessed to husband last night that I had already decided that I would prefer to complete my reading of the Bible AS A WHOLE before going off to listen to someone else teaching the Bible. Ironically, I rather think I have found the answer--a Korean Presbyterian church, very close to home, whose website listing their beliefs is right up my alley. Came upon this because my young neighbor stopped by to tell me of his mother's death, ask us to attend the viewing and service, that night and then the supper following. Still, I want to finish my reading first.
Sorry to hear this, Janet. I’m blessed to have a conservative non-denominal Christian Bible Study Group and a devout traditional Catholic Rosary Group to attend. These people, in both groups, have been a true gift to me.
Go to the Sermon Audio website and search out some PCA churches. Watch and listen to what t their preachers and teachers have to say. The PCA is resolutely grounded in scripture, and is equally non-woke and non-trendy. PCA worship is conducted to please God, not man.
We have passed by and drove through there at least once that I can remember, they are at the beginning or end of the pass through the mountains, sorry for your damages, my daughter was lucky with only a tree down in her driveway, same with her neighbors. But they are still without power and per SQ site, may be that way for months.
Or look into home churches or start one, look up John Fenn on CWOWI.org for how to set one up. He was told by the Lord to get that going for "such a time to come" and that time is rapidly approaching!
Are you hearing anything about the Cataloochee area? Boone, Blowing Rock, Maggie Valley, Cataloochee are some of my most favorite places in the world. I’m on the west side of the Smokies but was in Cataloochee the Monday before this happened. It is beyond heartbreaking.
Stopped going to service (PCUSA) 2015, meant it to be short-term absence. Then came COVID--stupid denomination put on their website that not only should pastors not provide religious exemption to covid shots, it was our theological imperative to take the shots. Having suffered, 3 times in last two years, lengthy shedding experiences, I avoid being where vaxxers are. And that means that church. Oddly, I am drawn so much closer to God in this time, and spend chunks of time reading my Bible.
Denominational division is something our enemy is rejoicing about, that is for sure. We certainly saw how much religions embraced the mandatory shuttering of their places of worship and let serpents in to push the line 'Jesus would want you to be a disciple of the vaccine' or some such BS at a Sunday church service in NY. So gross. And you are right, people taking this shot do shed. You can't not shed what is inside you, whether it be physical or spiritual. If you are not sure, look for outward signs of acquiescence. Masks, bumper stickers etc. I am done trying to change anyones mind at this point. The Hand of God works as I pray.
Wish I could like this more than once! I could not believe our church gave in to Gov. Jaydolph. I do not have the words to express my heartbreak, after growing up in that church (since I was 5 years old), meeting and marrying my husband in that church (we were in the same kindergarten Sunday School class), learning of the saints who had gone before, from the 1st century Christians on down the line, who had withstood persecution, prosecution, martyrdom, and "how then will we stand in the day of testing" - after 45 years of what I thought was sound, Biblical teaching, they folded at the first sign of pressure. I have tears in my eyes as I type.
Our nephew's church in Glendale, AZ was one of only 2 churches in the PHX area that did not close. People were so hungry for the community of God's people that they flocked to this church. They went to 3 services, and finally had to purchase a new campus, which they did without any debt.
Indeed (and this, BTW, is an utterly delightful thread/chat)-a new spin on Jesus admonishing the Pharisees, fussed up because he hadn't washed his hands before eating, that "man is not defiled by what goes into his mouth, but by what comes out of it"
I'm so sorry. This should not have happened. People in church leadership should be educated on issues and consider all perspectives and pray for much wisdom before advocating anything. Unfortunately, many pastors just wanted a simple way out and that was the "submit to the government" route. They didn't seek wisdom. They succumbed to fear of man rather than fear of God.
This is when I am so so so thankful for my church and their leadership. They never pointed and told people what to do. And they feed the meat of the word, not just milk. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you Robin! Sad to say that the WHO guidelines were to specifically target church leaders, and they succeeded. IOW, they were paid to push the jabs. Hard stop for me.
The small churches I'm familiar with around here didn't take the Covid money, but I'm sure many mega churches did take the money. It would be a church by church issue.
I continue to wonder whether the Feds, having shut down the services at which folks put $$ into the collection plate, offered pastors/presbyteries/synods, dioceses et alia--reparation $$ if they would push the shot. Nice little 501c3 you've got there.....pity if....
Same thing here. THAT is when my faith returned…..OUTSIDE of the ‘church’ (no such word in the Word…..the term is ‘eclesia’ ‘a civil body politic’ and the early believers were breaking away from the king to follow Yeshua as king).
The ‘church’ has done many good things, but they have also managed to neutralize Christians.
I’m done with ‘neutral. Yeshua said (paraphrasing) “If you are neither hot nor cold, you make Me vomit”
False Evidence Appearing Real...or Face Everything And Rise--those acronyms are used by my daily morning podcast peeps (we follow Greg Harvey, AKA Greenbeard, on Pilled, DLive, Rumble, and X, where he goes by PapaG711...I would like to invite y'all to join us starting at 0900 ET for an hour of uplifting chat and study of God's word...it's my prelude to C&C. A great way to start the day!)
And ask your former 'church' how much money they received to close down and fit in, working toward "the greater good" during lockdowns. God says He will shake what can be shaken. So, praise His name. A fearsome foursome from home, is better than millions being domesticated into banality.
I work part time teaching art classes in one senior center (was two and just quit one). It is depressing and they are excited about getting more shots. I do see more of them going back to masks too.
Methodist. My local has been mistreated by the district poobaas for years. We had a wonderful young pastor then lockdown then just a few weeks after opening after a YEAR they took him out and gave us another nice young guy who’s Korean accent drove many out. His sermons are seminary school quality. I thought doing that so soon after opening again was a terrible hurt and betrayal to us and it shows in the empty pews. I’m not there. After 45 years a church goer. I am looking for a nondenominational congregation more bible based and conservative. I was in one of those for 25 years but I had to drive 25 to 50 miles to attend.
I would suggest Scottsdale Bible Church. They are on-line and on YouTube. Sermons and music are wonderful and I'm no-where near Arizona. They stick to the lessons of the Bible and I learn so much.
That's a great suggestion. I live in Scottsdale (but am Catholic) and know several people who go there and love it. I'd like to throw my Catholic church in the ring (though Janet asked for nondenominational). It's St. Thomas More in Glendale, AZ. As an example of his sermon, this one on abortion received a standing ovation. It's rare that I zone out on his sermon's. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-catholic-perspective-on-roe-v-wade-13th-sunday-in/id1226635287?i=1000567775473
Yep, my stalwart Dhimmicrat mother attends a United Methodist Church and they also suffer from Empty Pew Syndrome. I can only guess that Holy Spirit is not welcome there. 💔🕊️💔
Thanks but you don’t really know my circumstances. I can be with Jesus at anytime. He is sitting with me right now as I wait for my husband to come back from the test determining how invasive his bladder cancer is. I was going to come to our local hospital a bit later but I got a leading to go and pray over him right there, right then. I immediately left and did that. The church I drove 40 miles to in the past was just a small congregation in that city. After services , we all got into our cars and left that city. Absolutely no engagement with the people who no doubt needed Jesus right outside the doors. I believe in serving in your community. Your sphere of influence. That is what I’m praying for. I try to do what I can here. A sermon long ago told us we may have to pull people out of the ruins and minister in what way we are led where we are. Certainly much of that is happening right now in the disaster areas. Ruins can mean many things. That sermon was in 1988 and is the only one I truly remember. This is not to not honor your beliefs or faith in anyway. God uses us no matter where we are in the end. God bless
At my study, someone went off about how evil Trump is. The table leader SHUT IT DOWN! YAY! All this behavior does is illuminate those who THINK they are believers. Not surprising, of course. The Barna institute confirmed that only 4% of those claiming to be born again have a Biblical World view. The 10 questions asked on the Biblical World view questionnaire were NOT hard.....at all!
gotta try Crossways! (online) they are amazing! & growing by leaps and bounds. Give it a shot :: https://crosswaycc.org/watch Sunday's at 9:30 live or whenever you want, recorded.
Today’s typical woman is unfortunately ‘a useful idiot’ indeed. Engaging in conversation with young men I come in contact with, I hear a sadness about how difficult it is to find a young American woman that they would want to marry. They treat decent men terribly, always demanding some unattainable level of equality.
I saw a meme about how the nation experimented with giving women the vote and learned that what is most important to women is to be able to kill babies. This is obviously a failed experiment that needs to end as soon as possible. I’m serious.
The TLMs are positively teeming with young single girls who want nothing more than to find a traditional young man to marry who will protect and provide for her and her future babies.
Cannot overstate the stark cultural differences between the Traditional Latin Mass parishes and the Novus Ordo NuChurch.
Where the Novus Ordo (N.O.) Mass is largely grey-haired, the TLM skews young (20's - 40's). Where the N.O. Mass has few children, the TLM has young families with 5-10 children. Where N.O. Mass attendees rarely observe certain sacraments and devotions (e.g. Confession, Friday-abstention from meat, Ember Days, etc.) these are absolutely de rigueur at the TLM.
Where the N.O. Mass priests rarely preach about sin and the loss of holiness (seriously, before I quit the N.O. Mass I heard homilies about Gilligan's Island episodes - I kid you not), the TLM regularly features serious homilies about the loss of Heaven, and maintaining holiness.
I could rant on for paragraphs but I'll stop instead. Use the link I posted to find a TLM near you and go experience the Mass of the Ages and it's built-in transcendent reverence.
Amen. And prayers for my daughter who is asking God to provide her one of those devout TLM men. Our FSSP Church is packed with young families, but ‘single’ men in their 30’s are a rarity!
Have you ever considered the Chartres Pilgrimage? 20,000 devout Trads in their 20's and 30's.
We took my two youngest on the 2019 Pilgrimage, where my youngest son met a gorgeous and accomplished concert pianist from Philadelphia. They dated for several months after returning to the States.
Unfortunately, it didn't last - partially due to long distance (he's overseas.)
But wow, the dating pool for Trad young men and women is perfect there. (Though that is obviously not why we went.)
I hear “Lookin for love in all the wrong places…” loud and clear. Tell those guys to head to the Heartland where the farmers daughters are sensible, grounded, and are not afraid of hard work.
There are some Novos Order priests who are very conservative and traditional in case you don’t have a TLM nearby. My priest is awesome we chant Agnus Dei and Sanctus and he is very reverent. Younger priests are following this trend.
My understanding of the 3/5th compromise and the way I've always been taught is that the Democrats wanted slaves to count as a full person while the northern Republicans wanted slaves to not be counted. It wasn't because the Republicans didn't believe slaves were persons, but because it gave power to the South to enshrine slavery. The Democrats of old wanted to count the slaves much like the Democrats of today want the illegals counted in the census to increase representation so they can dominate in Congress. The Democrats are playing the same games today that they have always played.
"1. Southern States’ Interests
The Southern states, where slavery was deeply entrenched, were primarily agrarian economies reliant on enslaved labor for their prosperity. They sought to maximize their representation in the new federal government, which would, in turn, safeguard their economic interests and political power.
2. Northern Concerns
In contrast, many Northern states had either abolished slavery or were in the process of doing so. They were concerned that if enslaved individuals were counted equally with free citizens, the Southern states would gain an unfair advantage in terms of representation. Therefore, they pushed for a compromise that would reduce the political influence of slaveholding states.
3. Balancing Act
The Three-Fifths Compromise represented a delicate balance between these opposing interests. It provided a means for Southern states to increase their representation while acknowledging the inherent injustice of treating enslaved individuals as less than full citizens." Taken from Constitution.laws.com
There was neither a Republican nor a Democratic Party at the time the U.S. Constitution was formed, but the Constitution wouldn't have been ratified without the 3/5 Compromise.
RJ Rambler, perfect example ofcdemocRATS rewriting what actually happened., the Republicans were the ones wanting to free the slaves. The democRATS did not. The RATS started the KKK, wrote Jim Crow Laws and their utterly evil scheme of abortion was because the RATS considered black people to be non-human.
Nope. PCUSA is bought and sold...full on lost. PCA, Reformed Pres. and one other (can't recall name) remain conservative. I've not heard of United Pres...
Christ Life Church--the Korean congregation which I referred to--is clearly conservative. I just hope they don't have a praise band (drives me away fast!). Works for some folks, I grasp--but music is a most important God-conduit for me, and THE most for my husband.
Glenn Beck is reporting this morning, that Chimney Rock will not be rebuilt, government told town officials in meeting yesterday. There are bodies in the street, that will not be picked up. They will just bulldozer everything.
there are 12,000 reported MISSING. they are plannign to BULLDOZE THE TOWN OF CHIMNEY ROCK without pulling out the bodies, which, SINCE THEY HAVE BEEN BLOCKGIN THE HELICOPTERS, and threatening to ARREST Those trying to rescue people, are now stinking to high heaven.
2 in that general area of the state. Lithium and quartz. Probably why the hurricane was directed there. Also, to keep the conservatives from being able to vote.
its BOTH LITHIUM and Quartz. and Lithium is a horrible inhuman bear to mine. so bring in the Immigrants and it all fits together!1 a captive population that cant say no to inhumane working conditions .
while the Native people of the US are driven out.
they have been fighting these mines in Asheville so I guess a solution was found.. and it explains who is cutting the tires on teh AID TRUCKS.
much like Israel and Blinken, depriving the Palestinians of food and water.
I am hearing the same horror stories about bodies left rotting in the open and small children being found wandering the streets, crying out for their missing parents. Does anyone know if this is true? Heartbreaking.
I am hearing the same. children in the hills with rope tied to them, wandering, where their parents tried to keep them safe, and are obviously gone now. lets hope those children go somewhere NOT in the foster care system!
Please tell me they’re not going to bull doze over bodies!!! These are people!! Mothers fathers children grandparents!!! Human beings!!! ……nevermind, why wouldn’t they? The same evil that left people alone (and murdered) in hospitals during covid without anyone no family no one to support them during their last breath. I’m crying
I can understand how they need to prioritize searching for survivors and getting supplies to survivors, but I would like to think that they will not bulldoze bodies. Maybe Glenn Beck misspoke.
I hesitate to believe such horrific stories because I recall how crazy the rumors were after Katrina. The media got everyone so worked up about the Superdome turning into Thunderdome. It was bad, for sure, but not armed cannibal gangs bad.
I've associated with higher up Fed and State Administrative State types through a previous job. They don't hate us, they just think we are annoying little gnats that need to be eliminated if we cannot be completely controlled. It's not hate because we don't matter to them enough to be hated. It's just complete iindifference. We are nothing to them and only slightly useful if we can still be juiced for money.
I’m not sure this ‘evil’ is so recent. As a long time conspiracy theorist, the assassination of JFK was when they came out in the open.
1913 and the federal reserve was the closing of the cage.
Project Paperclip was the forming of our assassination agency-from taking out democratically elected leaders in other counties—to making the bombs to drop on citizens—we just didn’t want to know where our tax dollars weren’t going.
yesterday night at 9, the country called... after we fell in bed exhausted. To warn us not to drive over fallen wires or inundated streets. After all the wires are practically back up and the water, if there ever was any (did not see any) was gone. Day before State emailed where to get shelter, water and food. After everyone already helped by neighbors. Give that Fema money to the people that DO something. Send these useless buggers back home to their sorry office
FEMA just said they don't have enough money to get through hurricane season. But keep sending hundreds of billions to Ukraine to make sure their retirement plans are fully funded and of course, we don't want to cut back on the billions going to illegal migrants.
How can anyone with a working brain make sense of this. How can anyone with a working brain vote for the Democrat cabal that has destroyed this country.
I hate to say it but Democrats and most politicians don't appear to have functioning brains. Someone told me the other day that a client from CA who moved here to our red state was complaining about CA and stated that was why they moved because it was so bad there, yet that person was still going to vote Democrat. They literally do not make the connection that politicians put policies in place that cause the problems they were fleeing. They literally cannot connect the dots. It's mind blowing.
Just like the people who can’t make the connection between so many friends and family getting cancer and dying of heart attacks, strokes, and many other diseases- with the damned genetic injection. And many still got boosters even after they kept getting Covid. They are completely brainwashed into mass formation. The people operating this psyop understand human behavior, and tribalism, and most of all how to use fear to control people. That includes almost everyone in the media too, and most of the doctors. I don’t think most of our friends and family who are behaving this way are truly bad people. I have many deeply compassionate friends who still believe this BS. I am more angry at the government, the media, and especially the doctors who took an oath to do no harm. The whole mess is being steered by psychopaths. Some psychologists estimate that psychopaths (they don’t use the term sociopath much anymore) may represent 3 to 5% of our population. And it only takes a few to wreak havoc in the world. We really do need God in these matters.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:12
They might as well be zombies in regard to ability to reason.
Trying to get Democrats to focus on what their party has done to America... is like repeatedly slamming one's fingers in a drawer, because it feels so good when it stops!
My once beautiful, pristine State of California has been fouled and possibly irreparably damaged and broken, by Socialist-leaning, greedy and deceitful government squatters.
Euphemisms, by George Carlin always comes to mind when I see terms morphing as "illegal aliens" has. First it was "illegal immigrants," now it's "migrants" - lol. Thanks for correcting.
WAIT Kamala’s going to give people $750 if they need it…that’s it!! Sounds just like Maui then they stole the land and continue to steal their land. I heard very important minerals are in NC…we’ll see what happens.
Somehow they can't see it. I think God has given them over to the greed and depravity of their own hearts. Those of us with souls really can't believe it; it's so obvious.
There are Florida guard on the ground and can’t get the helicopters needed to go in and rescue. We have bad ass military trained to do the job. But as Yuri rightly pointed out….politicians that need to put in the orders to make it happen are America LAST.
I saw a clip with Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) who was in North Carolina with a group of Army Veterans doing water rescues. Mills seems like a great guy (he was one of the few still looking for answers about both assassination attempts). Here's one example:
Exactly! If hundreds of trained volunteers ignore FEMA and do what they came there to do, TPTB can’t arrest everyone. What jail are they going to put them in? Entire towns have been washed away.
This event is just like Maui. Designed to wipe out people and seize valuable property. FEMA is confiscating donations and supplies. Chimney Rock folks were told the land would be bulldozed with bodies left in it, and now belongs to the government. Lithium mines there, ya know. They are leaving the people without access to food water shelter and letting bodies rot unidentified. This is beyond horrific! Our country has been taken over by murdering ghouls!
But at least Harris took the time to remind the country that relief efforts need to be equitable, and that the people suffering the most from the floods are people of color. Objective measurements like the difference between loss of internet service and your home having been washed away are irrelevant.
FEMA also spent $$$$ staying in costly hotels rather than budget motels (I think it was John Stossel reporting this) last year when flying out (first class, no doubt) to "assess" the damage to Lahaina.
FEMA is a black hole of waste. They rented a building in our area during 2020 COVID at $10,000 a month with an extended contract and they never worked there because COVID shut down the federal government. And each time an employee came in with COVID, they paid to have people in hazmat suites come in and disinfect the building. It was insane.
I heard this morning the benevolent FJB-Kneepads administration is offering those affected $750 - yippee! W/ inflation thanks to these assholes a family of 4 might get 4 Happy Meals @ McD’s for that or 2 nights in a Motel 6.
O, & you can sign up for it through an online fed website. Wondering how THAT works when one has no electricity…. You just can’t make it up.
In the meantime, billions & Billions & BILLIONS to Ukraine, Iran, et al. And yet we keep getting told the race is neck-n-neck. I have to hope these are blatant lies, that people would vote against their own best interests to spite the other side & yet that may be where we are.
Except then we hear heartwarming stories of Cajun Navy, animal rescues, etc & faith is restored.
I will never donate to the Red Cross but does anyone know of a reliable entity to donate (esp in North Carolina)?
I found Hope Mills Inc thru a C& C reader's link. They are a 100% volunteer group in Western NC, using helicopters & various other delivery methods to get badly-needed medical supplies and water, food, etc to the people who are in the communities cut off from the world due to the destruction of the roads...they are getting it done!
Thx Susan! My son went to grad school @ Appalachian State in Boone & of course we fell in love w/ the area on visits, so I am most interested in helping that area. I’m kind of reluctant about gofundme though after what they pulled on the Canadian truckers….
FEMA = useless. Biden/Harris = useless. US Military = useless.
Americans are demonstrating that we don't need the government to help for the most part and that their help (like the deathcare system) is not effective and we can do better.
I copied this from a post. The original poster shall remain anonymous, as I do not want to be the one to blast it out. But here it is, for your consideration:
If you are wondering why citizens are being turned away that are coming to help NC and TN - you'll want to hear my experience as someone who has been doing this as a private citizen for almost a decade.
I was able to get into, and out of Asheville. We brought food, water, fuel and other supplies as well as helped people affected by the floods, but there are reasons why they are not allowing outside help.
I cannot confirm the reasons why in NC, but i can tell you the reasons in other storms i have worked - i'll explain below.
Let me share with you the first disaster area that i finally realized that this was all about money.
In the FL Keys with Hurricane Irma, after Texas got hit with Harvey, we finished our efforts in Texas and were the first citizen team to make it to Key Largo.
The federal agencies had US1 shut down just South of Key Largo and wouldn't let anyone in or out, even though the road was okay to pass.
We explained to them that we had boats, Jet skis, food, water, chainsaws and fuel to bring these people.
They didn't care and wouldn't let us in.
It was night by that point and you rarely saw the lights of vehicles in the distance on the individual keys, meaning the emergency response teams from FEMA weren't even working, it was all quiet.
We decided that we would go in anyways.
We filled up the boats and jet skis with all that we could reasonably carry and went by water, around all their BS blockades and around their law enforcement presence on the water.
It was 87 miles by water to get to our first stop, Cudjoe Key and Sugarloaf Key.
When we arrived there we were greeted by a homeowner (for privacy, I won't name him, though we have video) who was elated to see us and all the supplies we brought, his house was in shambles.
We started offloading supplies on the shoreline and helping to get them into what was left of his house.
During that process, he explained to us that FEMA had set up a command center at a local high school on the island, but that they weren't doing anything to help the residents, not even bringing them WATER! (cont.)
Instead, he explained that they were driving around using a loudspeaker, telling people to stay in their homes. They weren't even helping the home owners with supplies.
I was skeptical at first while he was telling me all of this, but then he said something that broke my heart....
He told us that the people of the keys were all in despair, because they had just seen, weeks before, the overwhelming support for Texas with Hurricane Harvey, by the citizens of this country. He, and his neighbors on all of the keys, felt like Americans had forgotten about them completely, because at this point, FIVE DAYS after landfall, all they had seen was FEMA, and they were of NO HELP.
The residents were cut off from the outside world, no cellular, no internet, no way to contact anyone or hear of any efforts to try to help them.
The ONLY communication they had was from a local radio station on Sugarloaf Key, that was broadcasting on AM to the surrounding keys.
The man, after hearing that there were citizens trying to bring them help, but being refused entry by federal law enforcement was visibly upset. He, and his neighbors, really thought the country had abandoned them.
He insisted that we get into his waterlogged truck and that he would take us to that radio station so that we could go live on air, to tell the citizens trapped in the Keys that we, the American people, were there to help and that the government was trying to stop our efforts.
And that is exactly what we did.
After that, we were determined to help as many people as we could, but we were met with red tape throughout the whole process and time we were in the keys.
We finally we able to talk some authorities to let us down to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon towards the end of Boot Key. This was the same hotel where state and local authorities were staging their personnel and they were happy to see us.
I was able to coordinate several trucks full of supplies to be brought down to the EOC in Marathon. I was privy to the EOC meeting, BUT was informed in that meeting, that all of the semi trucks full of food, water and hygiene supplies were to be turned around and not allowed to be offloaded for distribution by the EOC.
THE REASON they gave us, was that these donations were not from companies on their "preferred vendors list" and that they would not accept them or give them to the residents of the keys impacted by the storm.
It was at that point that I realized, this is ALL ABOUT MONEY.
These 'preferred vendors" are getting part of the money being released by the state and federal govt for each disaster. In turn, some of the "vendors" make it on the list because a friend gets them on the list, and in return for getting ridiculously outlandish amounts of compensation for the services they render, they give kickbacks. (cont.)
So accepting outside donations, even though they are on location and can help people NOW, they would rather let people suffer so they can get their kickbacks.
This meeting solidified my resolve to help these people, regardless of what the greedy officials wanted, we were going to feed the lower keys that were being neglected.
I diverted ALL SEMI TRUCKS to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon and filled the entire first floor with pallets upon pallets of food, water and essential supplies and created a food pantry for residents to come and get anything, and however much they needed.
From local state troopers to the homeless, all were given wheel barrows and free reign to get anything they needed.
We also delivered supplies down to Big Pine Key. We helped establish the tent city on Big Pine Key. Big companies like Titos Vodka and Whelen just kept bringing trucks full of everything that was needed. When FEMA FINALLY started handing out boxes of canned goods (limited to one per household), we were filling cars full of food and supplies for people and pets.
There is so much more to the story in the Keys and further from there in other storms we worked- the common theme though, is that the federal government always tries to keep citizens from helping and the local authorities, the ones that live and work in the area are always happy to have outside help.
I call out to Elon Musk and anyone else who can monetarily help people like myself and those that work with me, who have the knowledge and the will to help those devastated by these disasters.
Help us side step the red tape and get the people the relief they need.
We are willing, and we are many, and we are ready.
Yes I also posted a link for this elsewhere, I somehow missed your post earlier. It’s incredibly disgusting and infuriating to know how our citizens are treated in their times of greatest need 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬
Someone close to me works for the Feds and they can barely stomach the waste of taxpayer dollars lost on mandatory trainings like respecting “Scientific Integrity” 🤮 and on all the DIE fueled indoctrination like proper pronoun use. It has become unbearable for any conservative minded people left in gov’t, and that’s exactly what the globalists want.
and David Blackmon (Energy Absurdities) reports that the US has sent most of its spare transformers to Ukraine and they are not easily replaced - it may be months or a year before power is completely restored - Buyden/Harris are more concerned with citizens of the world than its own - disgusting MAGA MAHA
That second half is a pretty good summation of 'The Great Replacement' theory. This pathetic FEMA/Federal response isn't an accident. Thank God for Trump, Musk, DeSantis, and the other normal humans doing what they can to help our fellow citizens in the path of Helene.
The shipping out of the National Guard to the Middle East might be a social media fib. I used to live in East TN near the flooded area so I have friends there. I know from my friends that the National Guard in East TN is active in the disaster area. I live in NC and my family is in upstate SC. We all just lost power for days. Some of my family is still without power, but we haven't needed the National Guard so I will see if I can confirm about NC and SC National Guard. TN, NC, and SC churches and other organizations are already working on relief efforts. Samaritan's Purse has volunteer teams in the area too. Anyone can volunteer on the Samaritans Purse website.
Bless the Cajun Navy, Elon Musk, and all private citizens supporting devastated communities. Meanwhile, Kamala and Tim spent the weekend fundraising. NC and TN National guards were shipped out to the Middle East, Ukraine gets unlimited taxpayer dollars, and FEMA is running low on funds because they spent billions on illegals. This is what America Last looks like. “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
There are no words that can describe how Evil our Government has become. There is no way they will relinquish power, too many crimes against Humanity to cover up. And the crimes keep piling up.
Our government BECOME... Since the Dems demanded slaves count as 3/5 a person? In utero children as non persons? Indians as worthy of removing and then impersonating? Completely made up of ppl who are devoid of morality voted in by same and anyone else is accused of being just like themselves in mirror image. Accusation always makes it appear that the accuser is an angel of light, just as Jesus appeared as an insurrectionist and thief. Man's history remains the same.
I just quit my womens sermon study. It’s painful and the stickers on their cars tell me so much. One basically glorifies abortion. Plus these seniors are all getting their mRNA shots right now. I want to be out of range of their breathing. Quit the church in 2021.
Find a like minded biblically accurate church and attend! God will bless your search. Sign me, Maggie Valley NC is still here and awaiting electric (patiently) ; )
Wish I could but in my small farming community there are none I would consider attending. Every single one is a mainline denomination and every one closed down at our governor’s whim. And would again. Driving much distance would not work for me. I listen online to a few. I get my spiritual help in my local woods for now. God speaks to me every time I focus.
I'm glad that you have found some sermons to listen to on-line, but I'm so sorry that you've had to resort to that. Strong, well trained, loving pastors shepherds are few and far between. But Jesus is always with you and He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Romans 8: 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written,
“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I am blessed mightily by many online pastors and teachers' blogs and newsletters. YouTube is a fantastic resource for Christian music as well! But the Bible exhorts us to not neglect "gathering together" (in person) to praise and worship our eternal and Jehovah Jireh Creator God!
Sermon Audio is a free treasure trove of preaching, both video and audio.
🙌🏼🕊️😇
Amen
Find one or two friends and start your own church. Meaning just a small group no building no nothing just two or three people meeting together to keep in the connection to each other in the Holy Spirit.
Because, "where two or three are gathered together, there will I be also."
YES! we have to give up on the failing corrupt institutions and start anew. keeping things small, local, sustainable, accountable
Start your own home church, that is Acts in action!! I just commented above, John Fenn was told by the Lord to start up the network, CWOWI.org or Church Without Walls, Intl. He has some tips on how to set them up and to email him if you are looking for one in your area.
What’s been on my heart (but we are dealing with a health thing with my husband) is to start a prayer meeting to pray for our country. No politics. Post a few flyers and meet while the weather is nice at a local park shelter house. I’ll be there if just myself and ask God for people. It’s time to do that. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This Convention of States (which I'd never heard of until being at the Tucker Reading PA event)--meeting of which we attended lasts eve. ,opens and closes with prayer. Invoking the Lord Jesus Christ (so most definitely not "inclusive") and has "prayer warriors" as part of its work.
Do not trust the Convention of the States! My understanding of it is that the people who would be voting on new amendments would be the Congress Critters we have right now. If someone knows different, enlighten me!
I gather you have experience of COSA?
I attended a home church once. I have a comment below that I’m feeling a leading to start a prayer meeting to pray for our country. We are so divided though that I see something like that devolving into partisanship. God will really have to be in charge of that at this point. Plus my mouth. 🤔Lol.not a problem for Him.
Remember while Jesus walked this earth how he had to 'intercede' when his disciples had serious 'discussions' and 'disagreements'. So...there will be some issues of 'differences' among the assemblies BUT if the Holy Spirit is in your efforts...you WILL be doing what our Creator God intends.
180 years before there was a nation here, before there was a single church building, the Christians met in each other's homes. For the Quakers, once a month was sufficient.
The Bible does not say specifically how many times a month we are to meet--just that we should not FORSAKE getting together 'in person'!
I believe that has been true for Amish communities, in Lancaster Cty PA as well.
the woods, mountains and Beaches have always been my primary way to seek and find God. <3
Me too! It's where we're "meant" to be.
He has given me "the nudge" at least three times when I was in the garden or outdoors
The best places to experience and meditate on God's handiwork and to pray without distractions.
Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, AR is an absolute wonder. Built in Frank Lloyd Wright inspired style, tucked into tall trees.
https://thorncrown.com/
Gary Hamrick. One of the best!
cornerstonechapel.net
Community is necessary but I'd rather go online than sit in a "Laodicean church" that does not teach the entire Bible or does not have a Biblical World view.
Exactly! We can’t find one around us so we watch Gary online. LOVE HIS TEACHINGS and going through the Bible like he does. Plus he does not shy away from politics at all. Cornerstone has a target on their back because of it.
That’s good you continue listening online. Wherabouts are you? Some readers may have some referrals in close enough distance. ❤️ I know of one solid church in northeast.
Northern Illinois. There are some around but I know they closed during Covid. They seem dynamic but I’m not sure about all the bells and whistles. I spent 25 years in a very conservative church. I just figure I’ll know it when God tells me.
Janet--this is exactly what I am expecting. He has led me so many times in the past, and back "then" I saw His hand only in retrospect. In last few years I have become alert to what He might be doing with me. I only in April '23 got the nudge to read, from v. 1 Gen. 1, the Bible--only got through Luke 14 this morning (before coming to C&C!). And musing two hours ago that if churches which caved to authority during the scamdemic, were offering services by Zoom, then what's the difference between watching your own pastor on the internet and watching some one else's pastor on the internet? Communion could not be taken communally in the presence of other Believers. so ....where does Jesus' "mandate" to "do this in memory of me" fit in? Also, confessed to husband last night that I had already decided that I would prefer to complete my reading of the Bible AS A WHOLE before going off to listen to someone else teaching the Bible. Ironically, I rather think I have found the answer--a Korean Presbyterian church, very close to home, whose website listing their beliefs is right up my alley. Came upon this because my young neighbor stopped by to tell me of his mother's death, ask us to attend the viewing and service, that night and then the supper following. Still, I want to finish my reading first.
most beautiful church you can go to. God-built.
Jack Hibbs is a wonderful preacher. Doesn’t dodge world around us but very biblical.
Chino Hills
Sorry to hear this, Janet. I’m blessed to have a conservative non-denominal Christian Bible Study Group and a devout traditional Catholic Rosary Group to attend. These people, in both groups, have been a true gift to me.
Go to the Sermon Audio website and search out some PCA churches. Watch and listen to what t their preachers and teachers have to say. The PCA is resolutely grounded in scripture, and is equally non-woke and non-trendy. PCA worship is conducted to please God, not man.
Nature IS God, and your soul, alone with Him! I left man made, organized religion many decades ago. What a gift!
Do you have Christian groups to study the Word together (human connection is strengthening, encouraging. & help keep us accountable.
Start your own. Invite like minded folks to pray, worship and help others understand there is a way back to God. Easy to start a 503 c non profit.
I'm glad for you and Maggie Valley. We were there last year and stopped at Wheels Through Time. I was wondering how they were doing.
We have passed by and drove through there at least once that I can remember, they are at the beginning or end of the pass through the mountains, sorry for your damages, my daughter was lucky with only a tree down in her driveway, same with her neighbors. But they are still without power and per SQ site, may be that way for months.
Or look into home churches or start one, look up John Fenn on CWOWI.org for how to set one up. He was told by the Lord to get that going for "such a time to come" and that time is rapidly approaching!
Are you hearing anything about the Cataloochee area? Boone, Blowing Rock, Maggie Valley, Cataloochee are some of my most favorite places in the world. I’m on the west side of the Smokies but was in Cataloochee the Monday before this happened. It is beyond heartbreaking.
Stopped going to service (PCUSA) 2015, meant it to be short-term absence. Then came COVID--stupid denomination put on their website that not only should pastors not provide religious exemption to covid shots, it was our theological imperative to take the shots. Having suffered, 3 times in last two years, lengthy shedding experiences, I avoid being where vaxxers are. And that means that church. Oddly, I am drawn so much closer to God in this time, and spend chunks of time reading my Bible.
Denominational division is something our enemy is rejoicing about, that is for sure. We certainly saw how much religions embraced the mandatory shuttering of their places of worship and let serpents in to push the line 'Jesus would want you to be a disciple of the vaccine' or some such BS at a Sunday church service in NY. So gross. And you are right, people taking this shot do shed. You can't not shed what is inside you, whether it be physical or spiritual. If you are not sure, look for outward signs of acquiescence. Masks, bumper stickers etc. I am done trying to change anyones mind at this point. The Hand of God works as I pray.
That’s where I am. ’m sure Satan laughed his arse off when he emptied the churches.
Wish I could like this more than once! I could not believe our church gave in to Gov. Jaydolph. I do not have the words to express my heartbreak, after growing up in that church (since I was 5 years old), meeting and marrying my husband in that church (we were in the same kindergarten Sunday School class), learning of the saints who had gone before, from the 1st century Christians on down the line, who had withstood persecution, prosecution, martyrdom, and "how then will we stand in the day of testing" - after 45 years of what I thought was sound, Biblical teaching, they folded at the first sign of pressure. I have tears in my eyes as I type.
Our nephew's church in Glendale, AZ was one of only 2 churches in the PHX area that did not close. People were so hungry for the community of God's people that they flocked to this church. They went to 3 services, and finally had to purchase a new campus, which they did without any debt.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Indeed (and this, BTW, is an utterly delightful thread/chat)-a new spin on Jesus admonishing the Pharisees, fussed up because he hadn't washed his hands before eating, that "man is not defiled by what goes into his mouth, but by what comes out of it"
I have just started the book Shepherds for Sale by Regan Basham. It is about this very topic.
I have heard of that. It will be interesting to hear about that. I heard names are mentioned.
I'm so sorry. This should not have happened. People in church leadership should be educated on issues and consider all perspectives and pray for much wisdom before advocating anything. Unfortunately, many pastors just wanted a simple way out and that was the "submit to the government" route. They didn't seek wisdom. They succumbed to fear of man rather than fear of God.
This is when I am so so so thankful for my church and their leadership. They never pointed and told people what to do. And they feed the meat of the word, not just milk. ❤️❤️❤️
You are very blessed and privileged.
For sure. A big reason we do not leave the state even tho politics.
So I’m guessing you’re in my home state of CA? May I ask where your great church is?
Simi Valley!
Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns from the Lord.
Thank you Robin! Sad to say that the WHO guidelines were to specifically target church leaders, and they succeeded. IOW, they were paid to push the jabs. Hard stop for me.
The small churches I'm familiar with around here didn't take the Covid money, but I'm sure many mega churches did take the money. It would be a church by church issue.
I thought I’d saved a copy of the WHO directives, but no luck so far.
I continue to wonder whether the Feds, having shut down the services at which folks put $$ into the collection plate, offered pastors/presbyteries/synods, dioceses et alia--reparation $$ if they would push the shot. Nice little 501c3 you've got there.....pity if....
Yes, from vax injured friends who remain faithful to a well known church, the “leaders” were handsomely compensated.
Oh, thank you so VERY much!
Churches could apply for COVID funds like other businesses and some did but some didn't. That would be a church by church issue.
It is crazy how far towards Totalitarian Police States all of the
Five Eyes nations went during the Plandemic.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-church-fined-1-2m-lockdowns-sues-govt-spying-operation-tracking-worshippers
CA was the worst by far.
Same thing here. THAT is when my faith returned…..OUTSIDE of the ‘church’ (no such word in the Word…..the term is ‘eclesia’ ‘a civil body politic’ and the early believers were breaking away from the king to follow Yeshua as king).
The ‘church’ has done many good things, but they have also managed to neutralize Christians.
I’m done with ‘neutral. Yeshua said (paraphrasing) “If you are neither hot nor cold, you make Me vomit”
My long-ago Greek reminds me that kalew(hard to transliterate) = call, and
ek-klesia is the calling out
Amen
No faith in God demonstrated. Just bowing to authority and Fear. A new song I heard yesterday is called. “Fear is a liar”. That’s for sure.
False Evidence Appearing Real...or Face Everything And Rise--those acronyms are used by my daily morning podcast peeps (we follow Greg Harvey, AKA Greenbeard, on Pilled, DLive, Rumble, and X, where he goes by PapaG711...I would like to invite y'all to join us starting at 0900 ET for an hour of uplifting chat and study of God's word...it's my prelude to C&C. A great way to start the day!)
Susan, checm this out. Teared me ul.
https://x.com/AmericaPapaBear/status/1841505438358978857?s=19
Yes. Thanks. Restores faith in the best of humanity.
And ask your former 'church' how much money they received to close down and fit in, working toward "the greater good" during lockdowns. God says He will shake what can be shaken. So, praise His name. A fearsome foursome from home, is better than millions being domesticated into banality.
It was only to compensate for “lost revenue” dontcha know…
Do I need to add a /s?
A “fearsome foursome”—nice!
You explained the attitude that drove we true reformed believers to found the PCA a few decades ago.
Yes.
VA still pushing the covid DeathVax with an "additional dose" for veterans 65 years and over.
Why am I not surprised?
Not enough veterans have died...yet.
I work part time teaching art classes in one senior center (was two and just quit one). It is depressing and they are excited about getting more shots. I do see more of them going back to masks too.
same here. senior myself, unjabbed. Some people and not even seniors are still wearing masks. It is devastating how dumb people have become
I have to ask - what denomination is it?
Methodist. My local has been mistreated by the district poobaas for years. We had a wonderful young pastor then lockdown then just a few weeks after opening after a YEAR they took him out and gave us another nice young guy who’s Korean accent drove many out. His sermons are seminary school quality. I thought doing that so soon after opening again was a terrible hurt and betrayal to us and it shows in the empty pews. I’m not there. After 45 years a church goer. I am looking for a nondenominational congregation more bible based and conservative. I was in one of those for 25 years but I had to drive 25 to 50 miles to attend.
I would suggest Scottsdale Bible Church. They are on-line and on YouTube. Sermons and music are wonderful and I'm no-where near Arizona. They stick to the lessons of the Bible and I learn so much.
That's a great suggestion. I live in Scottsdale (but am Catholic) and know several people who go there and love it. I'd like to throw my Catholic church in the ring (though Janet asked for nondenominational). It's St. Thomas More in Glendale, AZ. As an example of his sermon, this one on abortion received a standing ovation. It's rare that I zone out on his sermon's. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-catholic-perspective-on-roe-v-wade-13th-sunday-in/id1226635287?i=1000567775473
Thank you.
Yep, my stalwart Dhimmicrat mother attends a United Methodist Church and they also suffer from Empty Pew Syndrome. I can only guess that Holy Spirit is not welcome there. 💔🕊️💔
Well, I suppose I'd be safer from shedding in an EPS congregation. Hadn't look at it from that perspective (LOL)
I would suggest that driving to be with Jesus is worth the sacrifice. In Montana we are used to driving such distances to do what needs to be done.
Thanks but you don’t really know my circumstances. I can be with Jesus at anytime. He is sitting with me right now as I wait for my husband to come back from the test determining how invasive his bladder cancer is. I was going to come to our local hospital a bit later but I got a leading to go and pray over him right there, right then. I immediately left and did that. The church I drove 40 miles to in the past was just a small congregation in that city. After services , we all got into our cars and left that city. Absolutely no engagement with the people who no doubt needed Jesus right outside the doors. I believe in serving in your community. Your sphere of influence. That is what I’m praying for. I try to do what I can here. A sermon long ago told us we may have to pull people out of the ruins and minister in what way we are led where we are. Certainly much of that is happening right now in the disaster areas. Ruins can mean many things. That sermon was in 1988 and is the only one I truly remember. This is not to not honor your beliefs or faith in anyway. God uses us no matter where we are in the end. God bless
Having trouble with my iPad.So this may be a copy.
Prayers for your husband and a hug for you.
Submitting for your consideration, the Hallow app. You can download the free version to your device and check it out. God Bless.
At my study, someone went off about how evil Trump is. The table leader SHUT IT DOWN! YAY! All this behavior does is illuminate those who THINK they are believers. Not surprising, of course. The Barna institute confirmed that only 4% of those claiming to be born again have a Biblical World view. The 10 questions asked on the Biblical World view questionnaire were NOT hard.....at all!
Evil is consuming.
I remember that questionnaire.
I understand Janet. I saw a gal the other day whose t-shirt said, “Abortion Is Health Care”. I had to bite my tongue to not say anything.
I believe in total freedom of speech.
When I was growing up, having an abortion was shameful…it wasn’t advertised as something to be proud of.
To each his own.
gotta try Crossways! (online) they are amazing! & growing by leaps and bounds. Give it a shot :: https://crosswaycc.org/watch Sunday's at 9:30 live or whenever you want, recorded.
Today’s typical woman is unfortunately ‘a useful idiot’ indeed. Engaging in conversation with young men I come in contact with, I hear a sadness about how difficult it is to find a young American woman that they would want to marry. They treat decent men terribly, always demanding some unattainable level of equality.
I saw a meme about how the nation experimented with giving women the vote and learned that what is most important to women is to be able to kill babies. This is obviously a failed experiment that needs to end as soon as possible. I’m serious.
Brother, have I got good news for you!
The TLMs are positively teeming with young single girls who want nothing more than to find a traditional young man to marry who will protect and provide for her and her future babies.
Cannot overstate the stark cultural differences between the Traditional Latin Mass parishes and the Novus Ordo NuChurch.
Where the Novus Ordo (N.O.) Mass is largely grey-haired, the TLM skews young (20's - 40's). Where the N.O. Mass has few children, the TLM has young families with 5-10 children. Where N.O. Mass attendees rarely observe certain sacraments and devotions (e.g. Confession, Friday-abstention from meat, Ember Days, etc.) these are absolutely de rigueur at the TLM.
Where the N.O. Mass priests rarely preach about sin and the loss of holiness (seriously, before I quit the N.O. Mass I heard homilies about Gilligan's Island episodes - I kid you not), the TLM regularly features serious homilies about the loss of Heaven, and maintaining holiness.
I could rant on for paragraphs but I'll stop instead. Use the link I posted to find a TLM near you and go experience the Mass of the Ages and it's built-in transcendent reverence.
Speaking of which, here's the first of a great trilogy about that here: https://youtu.be/-mIM_CrCYY4?si=GvCzpRLboFTPVtsz
God bless you.
Amen. And prayers for my daughter who is asking God to provide her one of those devout TLM men. Our FSSP Church is packed with young families, but ‘single’ men in their 30’s are a rarity!
Have you ever considered the Chartres Pilgrimage? 20,000 devout Trads in their 20's and 30's.
We took my two youngest on the 2019 Pilgrimage, where my youngest son met a gorgeous and accomplished concert pianist from Philadelphia. They dated for several months after returning to the States.
Unfortunately, it didn't last - partially due to long distance (he's overseas.)
But wow, the dating pool for Trad young men and women is perfect there. (Though that is obviously not why we went.)
Thanks for the idea.
I hear “Lookin for love in all the wrong places…” loud and clear. Tell those guys to head to the Heartland where the farmers daughters are sensible, grounded, and are not afraid of hard work.
Good for you.
But you'll want to avoid the modernists and feminists in the NuChurch and escape to the Traditional Latin Mass as quickly as you can find one near.
https://latinmassdir.org
There are some Novos Order priests who are very conservative and traditional in case you don’t have a TLM nearby. My priest is awesome we chant Agnus Dei and Sanctus and he is very reverent. Younger priests are following this trend.
We also celebrate First Friday and First Saturday masses and regular adoration.
They are out there; just harder to find. When we winter in NC, the Church in Salisbury has an outstanding NO priest.
Welcome home! Father Ripperger on the importance of motherhood!
https://x.com/thattradgal/status/1679581139080474627
My understanding of the 3/5th compromise and the way I've always been taught is that the Democrats wanted slaves to count as a full person while the northern Republicans wanted slaves to not be counted. It wasn't because the Republicans didn't believe slaves were persons, but because it gave power to the South to enshrine slavery. The Democrats of old wanted to count the slaves much like the Democrats of today want the illegals counted in the census to increase representation so they can dominate in Congress. The Democrats are playing the same games today that they have always played.
"1. Southern States’ Interests
The Southern states, where slavery was deeply entrenched, were primarily agrarian economies reliant on enslaved labor for their prosperity. They sought to maximize their representation in the new federal government, which would, in turn, safeguard their economic interests and political power.
2. Northern Concerns
In contrast, many Northern states had either abolished slavery or were in the process of doing so. They were concerned that if enslaved individuals were counted equally with free citizens, the Southern states would gain an unfair advantage in terms of representation. Therefore, they pushed for a compromise that would reduce the political influence of slaveholding states.
3. Balancing Act
The Three-Fifths Compromise represented a delicate balance between these opposing interests. It provided a means for Southern states to increase their representation while acknowledging the inherent injustice of treating enslaved individuals as less than full citizens." Taken from Constitution.laws.com
I didn’t know that either. Puts today in perspective doesn’t it? Counting illegals and gaining power in congress.
I never knew that. Thank you.
And thank you for the link.
Correct Robin!
Thank you for clarifying! I knew that needed correction, but just didn’t have the energy to go there right now.
Yes that is what I was taught as well. Thanks for your detailed comment.
There was neither a Republican nor a Democratic Party at the time the U.S. Constitution was formed, but the Constitution wouldn't have been ratified without the 3/5 Compromise.
RJ Rambler, perfect example ofcdemocRATS rewriting what actually happened., the Republicans were the ones wanting to free the slaves. The democRATS did not. The RATS started the KKK, wrote Jim Crow Laws and their utterly evil scheme of abortion was because the RATS considered black people to be non-human.
Dr. Carol Swain on Prager U, quoted LBJ as saying: if the blacks have to vote, they may as well vote Democrat".
Yes, dumbocraps have always been excrement. Will always be excrement.
I believe that would be Presbyterian Church-USA which is supposed to be the conservative branch as opposed to the United Presbyterian Church.
PC USA is very woke. Presby Church of America is more conservative.
Nope. PCUSA is bought and sold...full on lost. PCA, Reformed Pres. and one other (can't recall name) remain conservative. I've not heard of United Pres...
Christ Life Church--the Korean congregation which I referred to--is clearly conservative. I just hope they don't have a praise band (drives me away fast!). Works for some folks, I grasp--but music is a most important God-conduit for me, and THE most for my husband.
Duly noted and well said!
reps not any better. During Katring it was a rep president, don't forget. It's the uniparty of bloodsuckers.
Never say never! Our children and grandchildren need to know we tried and it ain’t over yet!
Glenn Beck is reporting this morning, that Chimney Rock will not be rebuilt, government told town officials in meeting yesterday. There are bodies in the street, that will not be picked up. They will just bulldozer everything.
They’re doing a Lahaina on it? I heard no one can enter. Does the area have a valuable natural resource that the government wants?
I think I heard lithium Kathy
Additionally, Spruce Pine, NC has the world's supply of pure quartz... much needed.
It is Lahaina all over again. We will never know the truth of lost lives.
there are 12,000 reported MISSING. they are plannign to BULLDOZE THE TOWN OF CHIMNEY ROCK without pulling out the bodies, which, SINCE THEY HAVE BEEN BLOCKGIN THE HELICOPTERS, and threatening to ARREST Those trying to rescue people, are now stinking to high heaven.
I find this disgusting, mainly because if they start a mine in that area, the digging will unearth human body parts 🥺🤢
Not Lahina again. THIS time they are giving victims $750.😡
sometimes!!
i read a post from someone who went to check on family in (i think it was chimney rock), their house is wrecked, they applied
for the $750 & were denied!
2 in that general area of the state. Lithium and quartz. Probably why the hurricane was directed there. Also, to keep the conservatives from being able to vote.
I read blackrock is circling, waiting to scoop up lithium rich land at fire sale prices.
its BOTH LITHIUM and Quartz. and Lithium is a horrible inhuman bear to mine. so bring in the Immigrants and it all fits together!1 a captive population that cant say no to inhumane working conditions .
while the Native people of the US are driven out.
they have been fighting these mines in Asheville so I guess a solution was found.. and it explains who is cutting the tires on teh AID TRUCKS.
much like Israel and Blinken, depriving the Palestinians of food and water.
Hamas has been depriving the people of Palestine ever since Gazza was given to them.
Zionist lies to cover for the war crimes of the Israelis who want amnesty for anally raping male prisoners, some to death.
Lithium!
Lithium
They’re not going to bury the bodies???!!!! Is that even legal?!!! What has happened to this country???!!!
That way they don’t have to count the bodies and can report a lower number. 😡
That's horrendous. They will not pick up bodies!?!!!
They’re also refusing to pick up bodies in Asheville, NC.
I am hearing the same horror stories about bodies left rotting in the open and small children being found wandering the streets, crying out for their missing parents. Does anyone know if this is true? Heartbreaking.
I am hearing the same. children in the hills with rope tied to them, wandering, where their parents tried to keep them safe, and are obviously gone now. lets hope those children go somewhere NOT in the foster care system!
Starsky,
I’m thinking that there’s a lot of fear mongering and exaggerating going
Smart City time!
Here’s a long description. Definitely worth reading. Horrific. https://x.com/chrismartenson/status/1841636020187431216
I read this as well on Twitter that the government is taking over the land
I heard a report that they’re refusing to pick up bodies in ASHEVILLE, NC as well. And refusing to count them or provide body bags for them.
That is so tragic. Just wrong
Please tell me they’re not going to bull doze over bodies!!! These are people!! Mothers fathers children grandparents!!! Human beings!!! ……nevermind, why wouldn’t they? The same evil that left people alone (and murdered) in hospitals during covid without anyone no family no one to support them during their last breath. I’m crying
Same ones who kill the unborn… human beings do not matter to them.
I can understand how they need to prioritize searching for survivors and getting supplies to survivors, but I would like to think that they will not bulldoze bodies. Maybe Glenn Beck misspoke.
no from what I hear there was a mtg in CHIMNEY ROCK and that was what tthe AUTHORITIES (not the people) decided! HE IS CORRECT I BELIVEE>
I hesitate to believe such horrific stories because I recall how crazy the rumors were after Katrina. The media got everyone so worked up about the Superdome turning into Thunderdome. It was bad, for sure, but not armed cannibal gangs bad.
For what it’s worth, I did see this story quoting. Chimney Rock official. https://www.wcnc.com/article/weather/hurricane/helene/chimney-rock-bulldozed-helene/275-54741b10-7482-4116-ac38-98bff585b6e6
Is this true? Glenn Beck can be a drama queen (Cheeto face will live forever in my memory)
its true from my asheville sources.
https://rumble.com/v5hay6l-the-glenn-beck-program-hr.1-10-03-2024.html
Unfuckingbelievable
These people aren't even human
It's run by psychopaths who hate us, so what are we to expect besides a horribly run system that profits from our illness and death?
Plus it is SO demoralizing and traumatizing for everyone like us -watching.
I've associated with higher up Fed and State Administrative State types through a previous job. They don't hate us, they just think we are annoying little gnats that need to be eliminated if we cannot be completely controlled. It's not hate because we don't matter to them enough to be hated. It's just complete iindifference. We are nothing to them and only slightly useful if we can still be juiced for money.
I’m not sure this ‘evil’ is so recent. As a long time conspiracy theorist, the assassination of JFK was when they came out in the open.
1913 and the federal reserve was the closing of the cage.
Project Paperclip was the forming of our assassination agency-from taking out democratically elected leaders in other counties—to making the bombs to drop on citizens—we just didn’t want to know where our tax dollars weren’t going.
I think that was Gladio, Paperclip was more importing the Nazi scientists for cushy aerospace jobs.
yesterday night at 9, the country called... after we fell in bed exhausted. To warn us not to drive over fallen wires or inundated streets. After all the wires are practically back up and the water, if there ever was any (did not see any) was gone. Day before State emailed where to get shelter, water and food. After everyone already helped by neighbors. Give that Fema money to the people that DO something. Send these useless buggers back home to their sorry office
This!
Exactly! "There is no way THEY will relinquish power...."
it's what commnunists do
Keep the baby, Faith! It ain't over til it's over.
Jpeach - it’s really not a government.
It’s a CRIME SYNDICATE.
That’s why they’re SO ferocious & murderous towards President Trump.
He’s the sheriff riding into town to clear out the villains. THEM.
FEMA just said they don't have enough money to get through hurricane season. But keep sending hundreds of billions to Ukraine to make sure their retirement plans are fully funded and of course, we don't want to cut back on the billions going to illegal migrants.
How can anyone with a working brain make sense of this. How can anyone with a working brain vote for the Democrat cabal that has destroyed this country.
I hate to say it but Democrats and most politicians don't appear to have functioning brains. Someone told me the other day that a client from CA who moved here to our red state was complaining about CA and stated that was why they moved because it was so bad there, yet that person was still going to vote Democrat. They literally do not make the connection that politicians put policies in place that cause the problems they were fleeing. They literally cannot connect the dots. It's mind blowing.
Just like the people who can’t make the connection between so many friends and family getting cancer and dying of heart attacks, strokes, and many other diseases- with the damned genetic injection. And many still got boosters even after they kept getting Covid. They are completely brainwashed into mass formation. The people operating this psyop understand human behavior, and tribalism, and most of all how to use fear to control people. That includes almost everyone in the media too, and most of the doctors. I don’t think most of our friends and family who are behaving this way are truly bad people. I have many deeply compassionate friends who still believe this BS. I am more angry at the government, the media, and especially the doctors who took an oath to do no harm. The whole mess is being steered by psychopaths. Some psychologists estimate that psychopaths (they don’t use the term sociopath much anymore) may represent 3 to 5% of our population. And it only takes a few to wreak havoc in the world. We really do need God in these matters.
I suspect that the people who keep taking the covid DeathVax have cognitive decline from the shots.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:12
They might as well be zombies in regard to ability to reason.
No concept of cause and effect 😕
THIS.
They can't think in net negative/positive terms.
No ability for abstract thinking...or understanding the law of unintended consequences.
they are probably on their 6th booster. it causes mental problems.
This is my concern about Florida being flooded with newcomers.
Oh no! That is the first I've heard of a CA moving and still voting the same :(
Trying to get Democrats to focus on what their party has done to America... is like repeatedly slamming one's fingers in a drawer, because it feels so good when it stops!
My once beautiful, pristine State of California has been fouled and possibly irreparably damaged and broken, by Socialist-leaning, greedy and deceitful government squatters.
Illegal alien invaders, not "migrants."
Euphemisms, by George Carlin always comes to mind when I see terms morphing as "illegal aliens" has. First it was "illegal immigrants," now it's "migrants" - lol. Thanks for correcting.
Yes!!! it is a purposeful invasion to break apart our country.
👍
I stand corrected. ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS. Definitely.
ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADING REPLACEMENTS.
Even more accurate.
WAIT Kamala’s going to give people $750 if they need it…that’s it!! Sounds just like Maui then they stole the land and continue to steal their land. I heard very important minerals are in NC…we’ll see what happens.
Lots of lithium here.
Lithium and quartz
Somehow they can't see it. I think God has given them over to the greed and depravity of their own hearts. Those of us with souls really can't believe it; it's so obvious.
They have been deceived. I am praying for the scales over their eyes to fall off and for them to see and embrace the truth.
Well apparently some have, as evidenced by that MSNBC clip Jeff linked to, so there is hope! 🙂
It can happen!
You left out $billions going to LMT/MD defense contractors. Gotta keep the War Machine in bullets, rockets, planes & bombs.
Redistribute the $360M pledged to to J*hn P*dest^’s new Climate Change Department by one of Biden’s spending bills.
Other insanely wasteful government expenditures: NOAA!
NOAA FY2024 $4,946,007,000
NOAA FY2025 Budget Estimate: $6,560,975,000
https://www.congress.gov/118/crec/2024/03/05/170/39/CREC-2024-03-05-pt1-PgS1223.pdf
https://aip.brightspotcdn.com/29/22/d01f563645fc83fcfb98cf13f739/noaa-fy25-request.pdf
It may be that they are gone by Trump. Just like IRS. Both Defunct Companies
The Night Stalkers, 160th Special Operation Aviation Regiment (SOAR), are located at Ft. Campbell, KY.
Those are badass guys that could be tapped to do rescue.
There are Florida guard on the ground and can’t get the helicopters needed to go in and rescue. We have bad ass military trained to do the job. But as Yuri rightly pointed out….politicians that need to put in the orders to make it happen are America LAST.
I saw a clip with Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) who was in North Carolina with a group of Army Veterans doing water rescues. Mills seems like a great guy (he was one of the few still looking for answers about both assassination attempts). Here's one example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkADWPB-Ey4
So why are they not? Does anyone know? When do they go against orders?
Exactly! If hundreds of trained volunteers ignore FEMA and do what they came there to do, TPTB can’t arrest everyone. What jail are they going to put them in? Entire towns have been washed away.
Better rethink that. Remember there are J6 folks still in the hoosegow.
But, it's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.....
Later Jay
If we all take up pitchforks and torches, we can win.
It is time to tar and feather some folks.
Be good to check if the governors are Dems or RINOs.
This event is just like Maui. Designed to wipe out people and seize valuable property. FEMA is confiscating donations and supplies. Chimney Rock folks were told the land would be bulldozed with bodies left in it, and now belongs to the government. Lithium mines there, ya know. They are leaving the people without access to food water shelter and letting bodies rot unidentified. This is beyond horrific! Our country has been taken over by murdering ghouls!
Just what the CCP would do! AND has done.
Well, they do own our current government, you know. AND they will be owning the up and coming installed government, too.
Yes!
Do you have a source for the info on Chimney Rock you stated. Thanks
https://rumble.com/v5hay6l-the-glenn-beck-program-hr.1-10-03-2024.html
This morning Glenn Beck show
Speaking of, what's the status of Maui?
Here's an interview Naomi Wolf did about 2 weeks ago. https://rumble.com/v5fdekr-hawaii-in-distress.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
But at least Harris took the time to remind the country that relief efforts need to be equitable, and that the people suffering the most from the floods are people of color. Objective measurements like the difference between loss of internet service and your home having been washed away are irrelevant.
Every white death is a boon for equity!
FEMA also spent $$$$ staying in costly hotels rather than budget motels (I think it was John Stossel reporting this) last year when flying out (first class, no doubt) to "assess" the damage to Lahaina.
FEMA is a black hole of waste. They rented a building in our area during 2020 COVID at $10,000 a month with an extended contract and they never worked there because COVID shut down the federal government. And each time an employee came in with COVID, they paid to have people in hazmat suites come in and disinfect the building. It was insane.
Geez-SMH stupidity.
I heard this morning the benevolent FJB-Kneepads administration is offering those affected $750 - yippee! W/ inflation thanks to these assholes a family of 4 might get 4 Happy Meals @ McD’s for that or 2 nights in a Motel 6.
O, & you can sign up for it through an online fed website. Wondering how THAT works when one has no electricity…. You just can’t make it up.
In the meantime, billions & Billions & BILLIONS to Ukraine, Iran, et al. And yet we keep getting told the race is neck-n-neck. I have to hope these are blatant lies, that people would vote against their own best interests to spite the other side & yet that may be where we are.
Except then we hear heartwarming stories of Cajun Navy, animal rescues, etc & faith is restored.
I will never donate to the Red Cross but does anyone know of a reliable entity to donate (esp in North Carolina)?
Samaritans purse. I know people who are the boots on the ground for them in every emergency situation.
This^^^
I found Hope Mills Inc thru a C& C reader's link. They are a 100% volunteer group in Western NC, using helicopters & various other delivery methods to get badly-needed medical supplies and water, food, etc to the people who are in the communities cut off from the world due to the destruction of the roads...they are getting it done!
https://gofund.me/12bf400c
Thx Susan! My son went to grad school @ Appalachian State in Boone & of course we fell in love w/ the area on visits, so I am most interested in helping that area. I’m kind of reluctant about gofundme though after what they pulled on the Canadian truckers….
I sure hope the government doesn’t ground (or worse) those helicopters. I wouldn’t put anything past them now. 😞
Anyone have a reliable link for the Cajun Navy?
Cajun navy 2016 is the original..there are several other Cajun navy outfits out there. 2016 add to search for Cajun navy. Thank you.
https://www.cajunnavyrelief.com/donate/
Mercy Chefs serves hot, delicious food to people in affected areas and takes supplies. I’ve also heard good things about MercuryOne.
Glen Beck's Mercury One is a good charity too.
FEMA = useless. Biden/Harris = useless. US Military = useless.
Americans are demonstrating that we don't need the government to help for the most part and that their help (like the deathcare system) is not effective and we can do better.
I copied this from a post. The original poster shall remain anonymous, as I do not want to be the one to blast it out. But here it is, for your consideration:
If you are wondering why citizens are being turned away that are coming to help NC and TN - you'll want to hear my experience as someone who has been doing this as a private citizen for almost a decade.
I was able to get into, and out of Asheville. We brought food, water, fuel and other supplies as well as helped people affected by the floods, but there are reasons why they are not allowing outside help.
I cannot confirm the reasons why in NC, but i can tell you the reasons in other storms i have worked - i'll explain below.
Let me share with you the first disaster area that i finally realized that this was all about money.
In the FL Keys with Hurricane Irma, after Texas got hit with Harvey, we finished our efforts in Texas and were the first citizen team to make it to Key Largo.
The federal agencies had US1 shut down just South of Key Largo and wouldn't let anyone in or out, even though the road was okay to pass.
We explained to them that we had boats, Jet skis, food, water, chainsaws and fuel to bring these people.
They didn't care and wouldn't let us in.
It was night by that point and you rarely saw the lights of vehicles in the distance on the individual keys, meaning the emergency response teams from FEMA weren't even working, it was all quiet.
We decided that we would go in anyways.
We filled up the boats and jet skis with all that we could reasonably carry and went by water, around all their BS blockades and around their law enforcement presence on the water.
It was 87 miles by water to get to our first stop, Cudjoe Key and Sugarloaf Key.
When we arrived there we were greeted by a homeowner (for privacy, I won't name him, though we have video) who was elated to see us and all the supplies we brought, his house was in shambles.
We started offloading supplies on the shoreline and helping to get them into what was left of his house.
During that process, he explained to us that FEMA had set up a command center at a local high school on the island, but that they weren't doing anything to help the residents, not even bringing them WATER! (cont.)
Instead, he explained that they were driving around using a loudspeaker, telling people to stay in their homes. They weren't even helping the home owners with supplies.
I was skeptical at first while he was telling me all of this, but then he said something that broke my heart....
He told us that the people of the keys were all in despair, because they had just seen, weeks before, the overwhelming support for Texas with Hurricane Harvey, by the citizens of this country. He, and his neighbors on all of the keys, felt like Americans had forgotten about them completely, because at this point, FIVE DAYS after landfall, all they had seen was FEMA, and they were of NO HELP.
The residents were cut off from the outside world, no cellular, no internet, no way to contact anyone or hear of any efforts to try to help them.
The ONLY communication they had was from a local radio station on Sugarloaf Key, that was broadcasting on AM to the surrounding keys.
The man, after hearing that there were citizens trying to bring them help, but being refused entry by federal law enforcement was visibly upset. He, and his neighbors, really thought the country had abandoned them.
He insisted that we get into his waterlogged truck and that he would take us to that radio station so that we could go live on air, to tell the citizens trapped in the Keys that we, the American people, were there to help and that the government was trying to stop our efforts.
And that is exactly what we did.
After that, we were determined to help as many people as we could, but we were met with red tape throughout the whole process and time we were in the keys.
We finally we able to talk some authorities to let us down to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon towards the end of Boot Key. This was the same hotel where state and local authorities were staging their personnel and they were happy to see us.
I was able to coordinate several trucks full of supplies to be brought down to the EOC in Marathon. I was privy to the EOC meeting, BUT was informed in that meeting, that all of the semi trucks full of food, water and hygiene supplies were to be turned around and not allowed to be offloaded for distribution by the EOC.
THE REASON they gave us, was that these donations were not from companies on their "preferred vendors list" and that they would not accept them or give them to the residents of the keys impacted by the storm.
It was at that point that I realized, this is ALL ABOUT MONEY.
These 'preferred vendors" are getting part of the money being released by the state and federal govt for each disaster. In turn, some of the "vendors" make it on the list because a friend gets them on the list, and in return for getting ridiculously outlandish amounts of compensation for the services they render, they give kickbacks. (cont.)
So accepting outside donations, even though they are on location and can help people NOW, they would rather let people suffer so they can get their kickbacks.
This meeting solidified my resolve to help these people, regardless of what the greedy officials wanted, we were going to feed the lower keys that were being neglected.
I diverted ALL SEMI TRUCKS to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon and filled the entire first floor with pallets upon pallets of food, water and essential supplies and created a food pantry for residents to come and get anything, and however much they needed.
From local state troopers to the homeless, all were given wheel barrows and free reign to get anything they needed.
We also delivered supplies down to Big Pine Key. We helped establish the tent city on Big Pine Key. Big companies like Titos Vodka and Whelen just kept bringing trucks full of everything that was needed. When FEMA FINALLY started handing out boxes of canned goods (limited to one per household), we were filling cars full of food and supplies for people and pets.
There is so much more to the story in the Keys and further from there in other storms we worked- the common theme though, is that the federal government always tries to keep citizens from helping and the local authorities, the ones that live and work in the area are always happy to have outside help.
I call out to Elon Musk and anyone else who can monetarily help people like myself and those that work with me, who have the knowledge and the will to help those devastated by these disasters.
Help us side step the red tape and get the people the relief they need.
We are willing, and we are many, and we are ready.
Unbelievable 😓
Yes I also posted a link for this elsewhere, I somehow missed your post earlier. It’s incredibly disgusting and infuriating to know how our citizens are treated in their times of greatest need 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬
Wow-LIKE!
Someone close to me works for the Feds and they can barely stomach the waste of taxpayer dollars lost on mandatory trainings like respecting “Scientific Integrity” 🤮 and on all the DIE fueled indoctrination like proper pronoun use. It has become unbearable for any conservative minded people left in gov’t, and that’s exactly what the globalists want.
and David Blackmon (Energy Absurdities) reports that the US has sent most of its spare transformers to Ukraine and they are not easily replaced - it may be months or a year before power is completely restored - Buyden/Harris are more concerned with citizens of the world than its own - disgusting MAGA MAHA
That second half is a pretty good summation of 'The Great Replacement' theory. This pathetic FEMA/Federal response isn't an accident. Thank God for Trump, Musk, DeSantis, and the other normal humans doing what they can to help our fellow citizens in the path of Helene.
That's why I'm rejoicing in our CITIZENRY/PRIVATIZED activism and efforts to help our fellow TRUE Americans!!
The shipping out of the National Guard to the Middle East might be a social media fib. I used to live in East TN near the flooded area so I have friends there. I know from my friends that the National Guard in East TN is active in the disaster area. I live in NC and my family is in upstate SC. We all just lost power for days. Some of my family is still without power, but we haven't needed the National Guard so I will see if I can confirm about NC and SC National Guard. TN, NC, and SC churches and other organizations are already working on relief efforts. Samaritan's Purse has volunteer teams in the area too. Anyone can volunteer on the Samaritans Purse website.
Anyone have a good link to the Cajun Army for donations?
Cajun Navy.
https://www.cajunnavyrelief.com/
Just a link to a way Tulsi Gabbard is helping too!
https://open.substack.com/pub/tulsi/p/we-must-protect-victims-of-hurricane?r=1x1wzs&utm_medium=ios