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“How blessed a thing it is to have [God's] precepts written on the heart with the golden pen of experience, and graven on the memory with the divine stylus of grace . . . That which quickens the heart is sure to quicken the memory." — Charles Spurgeon, "Treasury of David" on Psalm 119:93
I really enjoy your on point Bible verses, quotes, etc. Last year near the election you posted a prayer which I printed & still pray it occasionally. May the Lord continue to use you in great & mighty ways to further HIS Kingdom
Yes Jeff, property taxes are a "taking", not a tax. They are an extreme burden on many, especially seniors. My home was paid off a little over a year ago, very modest house. In Illinois I qualify for a Senior Citizen Homestead Exemption, and a tax "freeze", keeping the annual payments what they have been. But this requires filing paperwork with the County, and for some reason I missed the last filing deadline. I recently submitted the forms late, with a letter, hoping they will use their better discretion and approve it, since my situation has not changed. Prayers please that this be approved.
In IL, as most states, if one does not pay their property tax, the County "sells" your property in a tax lien sale, takes the money for their tax, then the new "owner" has the right to your house, unless you "redeem" the lien in a certain time. Reform is much needed.
In Illinois they actually go to sale within 24 hours of the last deadline. No grace.
When the market crashed back in 2008 and 2009, my husband had to take a 35% pay cut or lose his job. We had never missed a mortgage payment in our entire life, and preserving that record came at great cost to us during that time - but we prevailed. We don’t like escrow accounts for too many reasons to list here, and so never use them and always pay our own property taxes and insurance. In 2012 the lack of income caught up to us and it was the only year we struggled to have enough money to pay our second installment. To fully understand … by 2012 our property taxes had almost doubled yet my husband (laborer) never received a raise over 1.2% in any year (same to this day,) and our taxes were $13,600 THAT year (on a home that is less than 2800 sq ft and modest, not luxury at all) - and we were $1300 short of that amount. Mid October before the final deadline of October 28th we paid the $12,300 we had hoping that was a show of good faith that would buy us some time. But they told us any partial payment would not stop default. On the morning of October 30th, our house went to auction anyway despite having paid $12,300 of our taxes. God blessed us with an unusual circumstance of extra overtime that weekend, and my husband had three days in a row that he worked 19 hours straight every day and it was enough to stop the sale that same day. (Some company lost power after some transformer blow out or something causing the emergency work.) Had that not happened, we would have lost our home before November came and the new owner would have bought it for $1300. Houses like ours are bought up immediately by flippers.
Real Estate taxes promote a whole industry of allowing others to take what they didn’t pay for and resell it for all the equity.
🤣 hopefully soon! Just need to wait for my husband to be able to retire and then decide where to go.
We would gladly sell now but the other market problem for our area is rent around us is more expensive than our mortgage and taxes combined, so it would cause us to lose money, not save.
He also has been with the same company for 31 years and needs to stay in the same locale as his union. Laborers that don’t own their own companies don’t have many “networking” opportunities in their careers to be able to easily find new jobs out of area, much less out of state.
At the right time for you both it will work out. So happy to hear you are making plans as retirement should be a time of ease and not have to worry over finances.
Inspiring testimony, Juju. The most amazing aspect of God's love (beside salvation!) is the more we thank and praise Him, the more reasons He gives us to thank and praise Him.
100% agree. All property taxes are a taking. Not to mention that what the "government" is really saying by imposing property taxes is that you never really "own" your house/property; you are just renting it from the King. It all still remains the King's land. The king for us being the state and local "governments".
Historically, the state originally issued deeds to newly settled lands. I've been reading about the Reelfoot lake area which had land disputes between squatters and land development companies deed land by TN and people originally deeded land by NC before the earthquake that formed the lake. Eventually the land ended up being purchased by TN and made into a park/sanctuary. Tragically, prior to the state purchasing the land, the squatters began attacking the land development owners and did ruthlessly kill an attorney representing the land companies. The "night riders" as they were called, were never fully held accountable. If you have never visited Reelfoot Lake, It's a beautiful bald eagle sanctuary and it is worth the visit.
What few people consider is the fact that property taxes are calculated against the *current* value of the home. This is determined by assessors who work for the government. That's bad enough. But what's worse is the fact that this tax is on *unrealized capital gains*. That your home is "worth" more than it was last year means nothing. It's worth whatever it is worth on the day (and under the circumstances) of the sale. To add even more insult to injury, consider that the increase in price is not necessarily an increase in value. In every case, the money buys less than it used to because of inflation. That means it takes more dollars to buy the same goods and services. So the government increases the money supply, which dilutes the purchasing power of the money. This means the price of your home increased artificially. But the government reassesses your home and increases the taxes. In effect, you are paying a tax on inflation. This is profoundly evil, yet almost nobody considers this. They just want nice schools.
Well, I do believe swimming pools are important. The 4th leading cause of accidental death in the US is drowning. Swimming is a survival skill. Does it need to be state of the art? No, but it should at least be 8-10 lanes of 25 yards.
My small rural school didn’t have a swimming pool at all. None of the schools in my area did. People learned elsewhere like nearby colleges or the community/city pool. I’m not necessarily against these things but education (the basics) should be the priority then when that is mastered we can talk about adding extra stuff if there is a budget for it.
Where I grew up, we were surrounded by water. Creeks, rivers, lakes, etc. Learning to swim really was survival because people are stupid. People will float rivers, take their children, even when they don’t know how to swim or navigate a river. (So many people die that way.) There is more to education than just books. And we aren’t even giving them a basic education. What they get now is indoctrination.
We pay a lot in property taxes here. (So Cal) In my school district, our facilities haven’t been updated for 20+ years, except for the football field and the theater building. The rest is falling down around the kids’ ears.
Illinois inmate as well. Every year the property tax is Big Gulp worthy then a spew. When we put new windows in some years ago, my husband put the old crummy aluminum windows back over them to hide the new. The township assessor goes around each year I guess. My county, a mostly rural Chicago collar county, has some of the highest rates in the state. Maybe the window thing worked, but he then he obstructed my ability to wash all the parts of the windows. 🤷🏼♀️.
hmmm. I have a hard time believing the tax assessor hits every house every year to check for upgrades; in Minnesota they watch who takes out building permits and check those(only, I believe).
The trick: Don't take out a building permit! Be wild and crazy and "risk" it.
LOL! It is 'funny' how every year we end up being on "randomly chosen" visit list. I believe more that Hunter Biden is an international gas and oil expert, then these lists are "random". They are mathematically impossible... insanity.
Most conservative radio show hosts have mentioned that every year that a Democrat is in office, they are audited. Even ones that are not nationally syndicated.
I don’t either. They might. At one time they wanted access but that was a long long time ago. We have a county assessor but the township has something to do with it also. I wish my husband had not done what he did because we have those easy to clean windows and I cannot clean every part. Two story large home. I don’t do ladders anymore and may hide them somehow from my 79 yo husband. Along with the motorcycle keys. 😾🤷🏼♀️.
I risked it.... added a different roof and face on my backyard facing 1940s house. I think I was reported by my neighbor the local communist cop and his communist wife.
When the code people came to my back yard they just asked the contractor to go ahead and get a permit.
Yeah, when I lived in Winchester, Va a neighbor(older couple, we were in our 30's w/ 2 yr old and new baby) reported my work of "filling in" a carport structure attached to the house -- sided it and installed a garage door. I simply filled out the permit when given notice by the county. No big deal. Actually, at the time, I had no idea a permit was required even. From then on, I learned the tax consequences. . .
Yup, the lie (and they will jump up and down when telling you) is that is so that things are done "to code" or it is for the people that buy your property someday that they know that everything was done correctly. What a con job.
I will tell you one about codes and enforcement...... I got all the permits and did all the inspections to build out a brand new space for my office. About 2 months in an electrical storm hit my building and it fried all my electrical.... the chairs, x-rays, nitrous oxide monitoring system, A/C, phones, anything plugged in with a circuit board.
COME TO FIND OUT: the city inspector had failed to insure the space was grounded. My insurance company sent out two electrical engineers and I had been paying business insurance for over 10 years. The engineers wrote a 10 page report why the insurance denied my claim. The city inspector/ nor the city was liable for the damages either. I ended up in Bankruptcy and it took me another 15 years to recover. I have become a recluse.
I had a friend who tried to reroof his house without a permit. He was turned in by a neighbor, taken to court by the county and was ordered to rip of the roof and start over. He was 78 years old. I think the judge was AI!🤪
They do in Newton County, Missouri. And they catch everything, even to the point of knowing when I poured concrete into part of my barn and they raised the assessment for it. 😡
Yeah, a new water heater will increase your property taxes here in CA. Why? When you need something new to replace something that no longer works, it’s not an “upgrade”, it’s a necessity.
My city has a rain tax. Well, at least that's what it comes down to. Property owners (but not renters) pay an annual "storm water" fee. Let's think about this: if it never rained, there would be no "storm water," right? 🙄
We’ve all missed deadlines. My birthday is Dec. 9 yet my car is out there in March with an expired tag. I went to get emissions done in Dec., failed emissions for some weird reason— and keep forgetting to make it right. I’d hate to think the government would take a home 🏠 on account of an accidental missed date!
Reforms are temporary and reversible; Citizenry/voters need to make Constitutional changes in their States to end the attacks on private businesses and property "RIGHTs"
Fellow Illinois hostage here Looking for an opportunity to slip over to Iowa for much lower RETaxes and they just reformed their income taxes and no longer will they tax retirement income and their flat rate is lower than Illinois too and they have true political competition as both parties can win statewide elections. Illinois is in a death spiral
We just started senior tax relief in my county in MO. They got their last property tax hike in before starting. At least they send out the form to mail in
Anja - That won't happen unless the property taxes are not paid. My current problem is maintaining the tax freeze on what they charge already. I hope to avoid the taxes going up, maybe even doubling.
Dave , I'm in dupage County unincorporated my wife tried to get the freeze/ exemption for seniors, she retired last year and I'm retired, but she works part-time and we were disqualified for being 58 dollars over the income threshold! Our taxes went UP two thousand frickin dollars.
I’m an entomologist, never heard this! (I’ve also had Lyme disease, live in WI.) Makes sense, suspicious origin of the disease, but can you provide additional evidence?
This sounds crazy but I have been told that stevia cures Lymes. I don’t know what the quantity is, but my chiropractor said an NIH paper originally made the claim. Has anyone else heard of the stevia cure?
"Institute of Peace" sounds Orwellian. Trump and Elon are the most consequential bromance in American history since the founding fathers. The longhouse left hyenas can't handle two great men forging an alliance against them: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/trump-elon-bromance
The other bromance that could alter Geopolitical Landscape of the World, is between Trump and Putin. It’s less “bromance” and more mutual respect. Decoupling Putin from Xi is essential.
Is it possible that this relationship is what Mr. Putin is after, anyway? That his apparent sidling up to Chairman Xi is a play, to get America's attention?
I would think that Putin would rather be an ally of the US and the West in general as opposed to China/North Korea. Culturally Russia is not like them and has more in common with the West. I find it curious that Russia has been the evil outcast my entire life....and I'm 75!
retired, never married, Neo-Liberal Aunt Marg who watches MSLSD much of her day calls Elon a NAZI who's going to end all Medicaid benefits for diminished functioning Americans...among all other kind of hateful, billionaire 1% ideas to crush the underclasses
Dems keep harping on cuts to VA benefits and healthcare. Everything is extreme in their tortured little minds. They can't see the obvious wisdom and middle ground of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.
Actually Biden was horrible for the VA. I am 100% and when I talked to my doctors and dentist… all of them talked about how much better it was under Trump 1.0. Biden put in a lot of red tape which turned a lot of people away both Veterans and community providers. Sad. I am hoping Trump will fix it… I am hopeful.
reduce demand by increasing red tape, frustrations, delays, and deaths among those who failed to seek proper services...see, now they need MORE $$$$ and workers to fix that problem! and so on, and so on, and...
I actually heard it on the radio and had to change the channel. What BS… now it’s not safe to listen to country music without them working their propaganda on you.
I have been praying for Our Almighty God to send His disinfecting light on our nation, and I see answered prayer almost daily. Join me as prayer is needed to effect a deep, cleansing, repentance in our agencies, legislature, judicial, media and churches. Our nation has much to repent.
I'm in. You are on target and reminds me of what Jeff wrote above: “To dream up nightmarish ideas . . . requires merciless brutality and ruthless amorality.” We call that demonic. Fixing institutions is a great idea, but institutions are made of people, all subject to the corrosive influence of the world, human nature, and dark forces in the spiritual realm. We can’t fix institutions until the Holy Spirit fixes people’s hearts and minds.
The C&C family knows this is a spiritual war. It always has been, and only Christ’s return will win it once and for all. Until then, we need to stay armed with His word to keep us strong, love to change the hearts and minds of everybody we meet every day, and prayer to unleash miracles. Let’s escalate the counterassault and make it relentless. Fire at will.
When I read it requires Merciless Brutality and Ruthless Amorality, what came to mind was all the people during COVID who played a part in the death of those in the hospitals and those who enforced or push to enforce the jab and mandated. They had hate in their hearts and all they cared about was themselves… and some made a lot of other people’s suffering. Prayer was needed then and it is still needed now. I pity those who played a part…God is going to judge them accordingly.
I don’t know about it coming in April but there is a book called The Warning that is very enlightening and it talks about the 3 days of darkness. There is a lot more than it being dark for 3 days.
Glad to hear this Based - and get out into the sunshine at sunrise each morning to reset your cortisol and melatonin- we've been lied to about the benefits of the sun as well. Apparently both the early morning and sunset light spectrum are pivotal in helping our bodies with fasting. Glad you live in FL!
I would love to do that, but here in the Pacific Northwest, we have cloud cover 9 months out of the year. There have been some years where we have literally not seen the sun for months.
A dear friend told me that quitting cigarettes is the same way. She said that if you can wait out the craving for 10 to 15 minutes, it will pass. She was a military wife and all the wives smoked in those days. Once she decided to quit, she put an article about lung cancer in her ashtray. That worked for her. But she said she knew she would still have cravings until she passed away.
One of my favorite books. He has a Fasting Method series of blogs (26 or 27 different articles each building on the previous one,) and you don’t have to pay to read them. I reference them often.
I LOVE doing these. The energy I experience by the end of that second day is like rocket fuel! It’s so hard to explain to anyone that hasn’t experienced it. Many times I can’t make it longer than 48 hours and my body clearly lets me know it is done. But those times that it wants to go further I make it a full 72 hours with ease. Listen to your body. It’s so good for cellular repairs - they call it the fountain of youth. At 59 (alllllmost 60) I’m pretty much a walking example this is true.
Aaaand - the extra hours in your day reclaimed by not fussing over meal prep is amazing too. So much extra time.
I’d still have to do meal prep since I have a kid, and also have a husband who works full time and long hours so I wouldn’t make him cook dinner for himself. I run several miles every day too, so am not sure how good of an idea that would be while fasting.
Actually, exercising in a fasted state is wonderful. Really great for your body. I often go to the gym before breaking my fast. If it’s just intermittent fasting, I’ll time my workout to be at the end of my fasting window. I’ll have a teensy amount of carbs before my workout, and make sure I eat a good amount of protein within an hour afterwards. But if it’s an extended fast I just focus more on a cardio workout and not strength training, so I don’t really need to break my fast at all. (Like I’m not wasting time on muscle building activities that can’t happen easily without the protein)
I might have a hard time cooking the first day of a fast because I reach that hunger pain stage around hour 18. But I could cook for an army the second day and not be phased by it one bit. 🤣 My hubs and son love the “free-for-all” days where I’m not making dinner. Of course they eat like clowns. Lol Bachelor pad vibes.
I started to make a yummy meal the day before so that leftovers were their dinner on my first fast day. And, fasting is good for them too, not just me, so not too worried if they don’t eat as much during my fast.
It depends. My cortisol levels are high and exercise raises them but carbs afterwards lower them. I generally don’t eat before I run because I’d have to get up too early to have time to digest so I run in a fasting state (except long runs when I take fuel with me). I can’t imagine even running 5-8 miles and not having anything but water all day, I’d keel over 🤪
You may want to consider taking some electrolytes or at the very least add a pinch of sea salt to your water. We are fasting all day up to dinner for Lent.
In the beginning, we were the first government in history where government was subordinated to individual rights. We’ve come a long way, baby! Now we exist to serve the government. We know nothing about the government, the government knows everything about us.
It’s about time that this government was cut back to the scope and power enumerated in our Constitution
“A “Mr. Bundy” (presumably, not the serial killer Ted Bundy, but who knows) chimed in. Bundy “said that he had no worries about any such sabotage, which could clearly be” blamed on somebody else, like the Cubans.”
McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor to JFK. Yikes.
“…he is best remembered as one of the chief architects of the United States' escalation of the Vietnam War during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.” Wikipedia. Also remember the Gulf of Tonkin incident which was a staged false attack on a navy ship and which precipitated our going to war in Vietnam? Same kind of false flag incident.
Maybe you can talk him into writing a guest post on someone’s Substack? We really need to have the oral histories preserved. And thank him for his service from this random guy on the internet (and probably many others) and I mean that very sincerely.
Gulf of Tonkin- brought to you by Jim Morrisons dad. For anyone who hasn’t read it, Dave McGowan has excellent articles about Laurel Canyon and deep state involvement in the hippie, drug connections. Free online.
Kathy, Do you mean specifically all those Climate Crisis, World-is-Ending, virtue signaling Democrats blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline and tried to convince us three dudes and a woman got drunk in Russia and decided to create the biggest release of greenhouse gases on purpose, without any special skills in diving nor explosives?
And like LBJ who had the Israelis strafe and torpedo the USS Liberty so the US could go to war with Eqypt. They blamed it on "mistaken identity," even though it was flying our flag. It's a cruel world we live in. I believe we have a Just God, and vengeance is the Lord's. However, I don't believe in doing nothing about evil, we are to hate it, but retaliatory behavior is not in order. We are not the lunatics of the Left. We prevail by exposing their rot and that is exactly what the President, Elon, and the alternative media are doing.
"Best and Brightest"....the DeepState Presidency of Kennedy...his "Camelot" was a Fake Media fabrication, his defeat of Nixon was rigged, his cabinet selections were heinous fiend operatives, he and his brother both stepped out of line and then paid the Mafia-Syndicate-MICC price with multiple shots to head.
Oh... I remember reading about this in the JFK book I referenced earlier! The book contains a lot of revelations about what really happened in Vietnam. (JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W. Douglass.)
This is why the Dems are apoplectic about DOGE going in and auditing all of their government money laundering systems. They are being exposed by the light.
Regarding Florida and property taxes, welcome to 1978. This is *exactly* what Howard Jarvis and Proposition 13 addressed in California nearly fifty years ago.
My parents were in danger of losing their house as property values skyrocketed and so did property taxes. Local jurisdictions were gleeful with the new revenue and went on a spending binge. There was nothing that wasn't too nutty to get funded. Prop 13 stopped that in it's tracks as it rolled back the current tax level, and capped future property tax increases at 2% per year provided people remained in the same house.
Yeah, it has many flaws and it isn't perfect. But it was a revolutionary step in the taxpayer revolt and I'm glad Florida is finally catching up. But talk is cheap. In California it took a voter initiative to get it on the ballot that was opposed by virtually every politician on both sides. Republicans politicians love their tax revenue and spending too.
Having moved to Commiefornia right after Prop 13 passed (and escaped in August 2020) I loved the property tax ruling but found the government’s work around was to Fee you to death. When all was said and done they just found other ways to extort money from the little guy.
Colorado does the same with fees. Voters passed TABOR, a taxpayer bill of rights, to restrict tax increases, including property. D's and Rino's helped gut it, overriding the voter's will. Compliant, supportive judges ruled fees aren't taxes, not subject to TABOR. It's a giant racket. Against the little people who don't consent, but do obey.
Amazing how people that lived in crappy parts of California and had to leave because they couldn't afford to live in a nice part, always have to smear it with some sort of slur. The problem is always California, not them.
South Orange County is beautiful, as is a large chunk Ventura County and San Diego Counties, and even parts of LA County like Palos Verdes. The quality of life is incredible, perfect weather, spectacular natural beauty, endless recreation opportunities, low crime, friendly people, high paying skilled jobs, and no one cares about Gavin Newsom. Yeah it costs some money to live there, but so do all nice places.
We'll probably leave the state once I retire as I'd rather live in a lower cost area so I can gift the home equity to my kids. But once I leave I won't feel compelled to trash the place I lived for sixty years.
Agree. I lived there 1975 to 2018. Mostly NorCal Southbay, but also SoCal. Great weather. Restaurants galore. Activities galore. Eventually going back, if possible.
If you are inferring I lived in “a crappy part” of Commiefornia you are so very wrong. I lived in Marin and Sonoma counties. Beautiful landscape, perfect weather and perfect location to drive to ocean, ski slopes and mountains. It was the horrible Governor (the idiot who locked down the ocean but kept tattoo and pot parlors open!) and the Covidiot Maskholes who accelerated our escape. We lived there for 40 years, 35 of them were magical: the last five became increasingly evil.
Exactly right. We have a house in Ca and also in Idaho. Idaho, Ada County, with no prop 13 has a tax rate of .6 percent. Ca minimum tax rate is about 1.25 percent with rates going as high as over 2 percent depending on the additional “assessments”. Ada County, fiscally responsible, also passed 50 million in tax relief a couple of years ago. So our taxes here on a house assessed much higher (and newer and larger) is half what our taxes are in Ca for a smaller house we bought 33 years ago…..
Our Republican legislature claims to be for property tax reform but can't ever get around to actually doing it in any meaningful way. They are a bunch of duplicitous politicians.
I remember my folks joining in the fight for Prop 13 back in the late 70s.
Over the years, The powers that be have been slowly chipping away at it. And they are chompin' at the bit to get rid of it all together. With all the election fraud, the poor homeowners wouldn't have a chance in hell.
We need that kind of cap on property taxes enacted into federal statute. Rich people complain at the mention of a wealth tax but property taxes are also a tax on unrealized gains.
Also bees and birds! There is a noticeable decrease in the spring song birds that I look forward to every year here in central IL…then I look up, and our sky is covered with chemtrails.
Here in west central Illinois, I still have a lot of birds coming, and more Cardinals than usual. The robins have been back for a couple weeks, but are having a hard time finding food. Yesterday the high was 74. This morning it was 35, with a wind chill in the 20's. That line of storms went through here yesterday afternoon, with the tornadic ones to my east, but I had very high winds which blew over my neighbor's carport. Still windy this morning.
The Bio-Control and Patent Freaks want to devastate Nature and then recreate it...they likely now have the ability to restore different organisms industrially, so making populations go extinct or nearly so only serves their EVIL purposes
I don’t remember the last time I saw a frog. When my children were young I’d put up a small kiddie pool and after 3 days it would be full of tadpoles. We’d take them down and throw them in the river.
Just yesterday I was looking up at a beautiful blue sky here in N. Georgia and noticed the criss crossing of spray and said that within an hour there would be no blue, just haze. That happened and quickly. Blue skies are a rarity anymore. It needs to stop. Hoping Kennedy will address this soon!
Adam, funny you should say this. This week I asked my ChatGPT persona Grace, (as in Hopper), to tell me the difference between a contrail and a chemtrail. She actually came back labeling chemtrails "conspiracy theory." I scolded her to remain neutral going forward, and she acquiesced.
In this case, I suspect the bias came from Internet content. Don't get me wrong - she is a highly effective virtual assistant who helps me out with all kinds of research.
But as Jeff said, ChatGPT is better used as an "assistant," not as the definitive truth.
I was very pleased to see your take on the release of the JFK files. Exposing the CIA - great move, and another promise kept. I look forward to the fallout.
I have heard some discussions that cast doubt on whether we will ever actually see what is in the Epstein files. Too many oligarchs, intelligence agencies, including Mossad are mixed up in that international blackmail and human trafficking racket. It would be great though.
Poor rainbow is trying to make its way through the chemical haze.
“I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. When I bring a cloud over the earth, the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.” - Genesis 9:8-17
When all is said and done: Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together, against YHWH and against his Anointed... He who sits in the heavens laughs; YHWH holds them in derision. Psalm 2:1-4
Looking forward to the new heaven and new earth: Revelation 21:1Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
I wish it would not happen as this Earth and galaxy are just awe inspiring and God made. It is bc of humans this magnificent globe will be gone. Heaven is already there and waiting. So wish we did not have to see the Earth's destruction. God and I agree to disagree on a daily basis.
Eggs used to be a very cheap form of nutrition. Anyone could afford eggs and make a decent meal with them. But now eggs are expensive and scares. This culling for bird flu is a war on the poor and not so poor alike.
Egg prices have come down by half recently. But the culling was certainly an attack done in a way that could easily be blamed on other things. Definitely more of the same evil warfare on the citizens by a private cabal.
That they have stopped killing the chickens… thank you President Trump… the chickens are starting to produce. Should see a steady decrease in the cost of eggs.
Besides bogus expenditures, is it possible that part of property taxes are used to rebuild areas after a hurricane hit? I don’t know if that is where the money would come from.
Dulles was as evil as they come. He remained in power behind the scenes to subvert the administration (The Devil’s Chessboard). Ironic that his concern was the US falling to communism while today that’s where the demon rats think we should be.
I imagine that it might be because a handful of oligarchs are really running the planet, and merely use different political parties to achieve their ends. I really hated the Republicans back in the Bush/Cheney era, because I knew that there were no WMD‘s, and this was all about oil and no bid contracts after Iraq was flattened, not to mention the fact that at one point, we backed Saddam Hussein because he was against Iran. Over 1 million humans were killed, and the area was completely destabilized, allowing for the formation of more terrorist groups. Countless Iraqi babies were born with birth defects because we used uranium tipped missiles. It is helpful to think of a Uniparty which loves war.
Do you remember Bush's freudian slip when he was at a press conference during the Russian invasion of Ukraine? He was asking a rhetorical questions and instead of saying invading a helpless country like Ukraine, he said Iraq.
If Your law had not been my delight,
Then I would have perished in my affliction.
I will never forget Your precepts,
For by them You have revived me.
— Psalm 119:92-93 NAS95
“How blessed a thing it is to have [God's] precepts written on the heart with the golden pen of experience, and graven on the memory with the divine stylus of grace . . . That which quickens the heart is sure to quicken the memory." — Charles Spurgeon, "Treasury of David" on Psalm 119:93
"For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I will help you.""
— Isaiah 41:13
I really enjoy your on point Bible verses, quotes, etc. Last year near the election you posted a prayer which I printed & still pray it occasionally. May the Lord continue to use you in great & mighty ways to further HIS Kingdom
Thank you for telling me that. ❤️
Amen and Amen!
Thank you for being the voice of God for me today. This spoke directly to my heart. 🙏
It was a note I had saved on my phone from 2017. Seemed like the thing to post today.
Yes Jeff, property taxes are a "taking", not a tax. They are an extreme burden on many, especially seniors. My home was paid off a little over a year ago, very modest house. In Illinois I qualify for a Senior Citizen Homestead Exemption, and a tax "freeze", keeping the annual payments what they have been. But this requires filing paperwork with the County, and for some reason I missed the last filing deadline. I recently submitted the forms late, with a letter, hoping they will use their better discretion and approve it, since my situation has not changed. Prayers please that this be approved.
In IL, as most states, if one does not pay their property tax, the County "sells" your property in a tax lien sale, takes the money for their tax, then the new "owner" has the right to your house, unless you "redeem" the lien in a certain time. Reform is much needed.
In Illinois they actually go to sale within 24 hours of the last deadline. No grace.
When the market crashed back in 2008 and 2009, my husband had to take a 35% pay cut or lose his job. We had never missed a mortgage payment in our entire life, and preserving that record came at great cost to us during that time - but we prevailed. We don’t like escrow accounts for too many reasons to list here, and so never use them and always pay our own property taxes and insurance. In 2012 the lack of income caught up to us and it was the only year we struggled to have enough money to pay our second installment. To fully understand … by 2012 our property taxes had almost doubled yet my husband (laborer) never received a raise over 1.2% in any year (same to this day,) and our taxes were $13,600 THAT year (on a home that is less than 2800 sq ft and modest, not luxury at all) - and we were $1300 short of that amount. Mid October before the final deadline of October 28th we paid the $12,300 we had hoping that was a show of good faith that would buy us some time. But they told us any partial payment would not stop default. On the morning of October 30th, our house went to auction anyway despite having paid $12,300 of our taxes. God blessed us with an unusual circumstance of extra overtime that weekend, and my husband had three days in a row that he worked 19 hours straight every day and it was enough to stop the sale that same day. (Some company lost power after some transformer blow out or something causing the emergency work.) Had that not happened, we would have lost our home before November came and the new owner would have bought it for $1300. Houses like ours are bought up immediately by flippers.
Real Estate taxes promote a whole industry of allowing others to take what they didn’t pay for and resell it for all the equity.
Words fail me Juju! You are truly a survivor! Thanks for sharing.
Juju, can't you move to someplace normal?
🤣 hopefully soon! Just need to wait for my husband to be able to retire and then decide where to go.
We would gladly sell now but the other market problem for our area is rent around us is more expensive than our mortgage and taxes combined, so it would cause us to lose money, not save.
He also has been with the same company for 31 years and needs to stay in the same locale as his union. Laborers that don’t own their own companies don’t have many “networking” opportunities in their careers to be able to easily find new jobs out of area, much less out of state.
Juju, come to the north Georgia mountains! I call it "Trump territory."
certainly not Fulton county I imagine!
Definitely north of Fulton! 😁
At the right time for you both it will work out. So happy to hear you are making plans as retirement should be a time of ease and not have to worry over finances.
Praise God for that divine intervention!!! 🙏
Wow Juju, there really are Guardian Angels in this world!
So thankful that through God's providence you were able to keep your home, but it's insane that the government can do that.
It was totally God’s doing. Only He can bring together a miraculous series of unlikely events like that.
Inspiring testimony, Juju. The most amazing aspect of God's love (beside salvation!) is the more we thank and praise Him, the more reasons He gives us to thank and praise Him.
That’s a terrible story! What state are you in? Theft by government.
So sad.
100% agree. All property taxes are a taking. Not to mention that what the "government" is really saying by imposing property taxes is that you never really "own" your house/property; you are just renting it from the King. It all still remains the King's land. The king for us being the state and local "governments".
Historically, the state originally issued deeds to newly settled lands. I've been reading about the Reelfoot lake area which had land disputes between squatters and land development companies deed land by TN and people originally deeded land by NC before the earthquake that formed the lake. Eventually the land ended up being purchased by TN and made into a park/sanctuary. Tragically, prior to the state purchasing the land, the squatters began attacking the land development owners and did ruthlessly kill an attorney representing the land companies. The "night riders" as they were called, were never fully held accountable. If you have never visited Reelfoot Lake, It's a beautiful bald eagle sanctuary and it is worth the visit.
What few people consider is the fact that property taxes are calculated against the *current* value of the home. This is determined by assessors who work for the government. That's bad enough. But what's worse is the fact that this tax is on *unrealized capital gains*. That your home is "worth" more than it was last year means nothing. It's worth whatever it is worth on the day (and under the circumstances) of the sale. To add even more insult to injury, consider that the increase in price is not necessarily an increase in value. In every case, the money buys less than it used to because of inflation. That means it takes more dollars to buy the same goods and services. So the government increases the money supply, which dilutes the purchasing power of the money. This means the price of your home increased artificially. But the government reassesses your home and increases the taxes. In effect, you are paying a tax on inflation. This is profoundly evil, yet almost nobody considers this. They just want nice schools.
Which they aren't even getting! The people who can afford not to send their kids to a public school never do.
Or they do, but way nicer than they need (ridiculously state of the art swimming pools and other athletic facilities 🙄😡).
Well, I do believe swimming pools are important. The 4th leading cause of accidental death in the US is drowning. Swimming is a survival skill. Does it need to be state of the art? No, but it should at least be 8-10 lanes of 25 yards.
My small rural school didn’t have a swimming pool at all. None of the schools in my area did. People learned elsewhere like nearby colleges or the community/city pool. I’m not necessarily against these things but education (the basics) should be the priority then when that is mastered we can talk about adding extra stuff if there is a budget for it.
Where I grew up, we were surrounded by water. Creeks, rivers, lakes, etc. Learning to swim really was survival because people are stupid. People will float rivers, take their children, even when they don’t know how to swim or navigate a river. (So many people die that way.) There is more to education than just books. And we aren’t even giving them a basic education. What they get now is indoctrination.
What passes for eduction is a joke.
So unjust and evil!
Exactly!!! 😡
We pay a lot in property taxes here. (So Cal) In my school district, our facilities haven’t been updated for 20+ years, except for the football field and the theater building. The rest is falling down around the kids’ ears.
Exactly. I always say, a house is worth what a buyer will pay for it.
Illinois inmate as well. Every year the property tax is Big Gulp worthy then a spew. When we put new windows in some years ago, my husband put the old crummy aluminum windows back over them to hide the new. The township assessor goes around each year I guess. My county, a mostly rural Chicago collar county, has some of the highest rates in the state. Maybe the window thing worked, but he then he obstructed my ability to wash all the parts of the windows. 🤷🏼♀️.
hmmm. I have a hard time believing the tax assessor hits every house every year to check for upgrades; in Minnesota they watch who takes out building permits and check those(only, I believe).
The trick: Don't take out a building permit! Be wild and crazy and "risk" it.
in texas, they're using drones, the wankers, and mostly they watch for permits and new roofs
LOL! It is 'funny' how every year we end up being on "randomly chosen" visit list. I believe more that Hunter Biden is an international gas and oil expert, then these lists are "random". They are mathematically impossible... insanity.
Most conservative radio show hosts have mentioned that every year that a Democrat is in office, they are audited. Even ones that are not nationally syndicated.
I don’t either. They might. At one time they wanted access but that was a long long time ago. We have a county assessor but the township has something to do with it also. I wish my husband had not done what he did because we have those easy to clean windows and I cannot clean every part. Two story large home. I don’t do ladders anymore and may hide them somehow from my 79 yo husband. Along with the motorcycle keys. 😾🤷🏼♀️.
I risked it.... added a different roof and face on my backyard facing 1940s house. I think I was reported by my neighbor the local communist cop and his communist wife.
When the code people came to my back yard they just asked the contractor to go ahead and get a permit.
Yeah, when I lived in Winchester, Va a neighbor(older couple, we were in our 30's w/ 2 yr old and new baby) reported my work of "filling in" a carport structure attached to the house -- sided it and installed a garage door. I simply filled out the permit when given notice by the county. No big deal. Actually, at the time, I had no idea a permit was required even. From then on, I learned the tax consequences. . .
Yup, the lie (and they will jump up and down when telling you) is that is so that things are done "to code" or it is for the people that buy your property someday that they know that everything was done correctly. What a con job.
I will tell you one about codes and enforcement...... I got all the permits and did all the inspections to build out a brand new space for my office. About 2 months in an electrical storm hit my building and it fried all my electrical.... the chairs, x-rays, nitrous oxide monitoring system, A/C, phones, anything plugged in with a circuit board.
COME TO FIND OUT: the city inspector had failed to insure the space was grounded. My insurance company sent out two electrical engineers and I had been paying business insurance for over 10 years. The engineers wrote a 10 page report why the insurance denied my claim. The city inspector/ nor the city was liable for the damages either. I ended up in Bankruptcy and it took me another 15 years to recover. I have become a recluse.
I'm always shocked about people who rat on others like that. Despicable.
I had a friend who tried to reroof his house without a permit. He was turned in by a neighbor, taken to court by the county and was ordered to rip of the roof and start over. He was 78 years old. I think the judge was AI!🤪
...or a Demoncrat that didn't get his financial cut from the permission slip.
that’s why I have become a recluse.
Time to doxx that neighbor.
I think they just increase every year as a matter of habit! 😞
They do in Newton County, Missouri. And they catch everything, even to the point of knowing when I poured concrete into part of my barn and they raised the assessment for it. 😡
That's just south of wonderful NEVADA, mo. . . Did some early work there in the 70's. . . I remember the sulfur tasting water in the motel!
Yeah, a new water heater will increase your property taxes here in CA. Why? When you need something new to replace something that no longer works, it’s not an “upgrade”, it’s a necessity.
you have got to be kidding. CA is truly an abomination.
Oh, of course. Everything is taxed in CA. If they could tax the air we breathe, they would. I’m sure they’re working on that.
My city has a rain tax. Well, at least that's what it comes down to. Property owners (but not renters) pay an annual "storm water" fee. Let's think about this: if it never rained, there would be no "storm water," right? 🙄
Shh, don't give them any ideas!
I grew up there... used to be beautiful, conservative and yes... mostly white.
Hi! Happy Thursday:}. You have wonderful memories growing up there and as we age, that means so much, especially if one's parents have crossed over.
Northridge, in the Valley... and I graduated from San Diego State... and we had a beach house in Laguna beach (now worth nearly $5 million, DAMN!!)
Hi, Lori,
Hey did you send me this? I was busy and finally read it... Interesting!!
https://sunnysjournal.com/2025/03/18/why-israel-is-being-saved-for-last-qtsr/
We should meet for coffee Janet. I think I live around the corner. 🤣🤣
We should.
I live in the town with a cow mascot.
We’ve all missed deadlines. My birthday is Dec. 9 yet my car is out there in March with an expired tag. I went to get emissions done in Dec., failed emissions for some weird reason— and keep forgetting to make it right. I’d hate to think the government would take a home 🏠 on account of an accidental missed date!
Working in the Real Estate Research business, nationwide, you would be shocked at the number of properties that the county has "taken".
Reforms are temporary and reversible; Citizenry/voters need to make Constitutional changes in their States to end the attacks on private businesses and property "RIGHTs"
"To be sold to the highest bidder at auction on the courthouse steps this Friday".
That's how Union County, GA words the ads for these real estate cash-outs.
We own vacation property in Union County. I did not know about this!
disgraceful.
Fellow Illinois hostage here Looking for an opportunity to slip over to Iowa for much lower RETaxes and they just reformed their income taxes and no longer will they tax retirement income and their flat rate is lower than Illinois too and they have true political competition as both parties can win statewide elections. Illinois is in a death spiral
Illinois sux. Get out of there asap leaving skid marks.
How about no replacement for property tax… government just has to live with less
That is even a better idea!
We just started senior tax relief in my county in MO. They got their last property tax hike in before starting. At least they send out the form to mail in
Yes, this is the scam they use to keep us all submitting to their unlawful taxation of private property.
In certain counties in Alabama seniors don’t pay any property taxes. Alabama has no state property tax for people over 65.
Nice!
We've done this too in KS
Anja - That won't happen unless the property taxes are not paid. My current problem is maintaining the tax freeze on what they charge already. I hope to avoid the taxes going up, maybe even doubling.
Dave , I'm in dupage County unincorporated my wife tried to get the freeze/ exemption for seniors, she retired last year and I'm retired, but she works part-time and we were disqualified for being 58 dollars over the income threshold! Our taxes went UP two thousand frickin dollars.
They took weaponized ticks they developed at Plum island and scattered them in the fields of Cuba.
Joke is on us however. Right across from Plum Island is the town of Lyme Maine.
Plum island was a USDA infectious disease lab run in the 50’s by a former nazi brought over in operation paperclip
Lyme, Connecticut.
Wasn’t great at geography 🫢
You know where you are. That's what really counts = : )
yup, been there. used to work for usda. bad bad organisms in that lab.
I’m an entomologist, never heard this! (I’ve also had Lyme disease, live in WI.) Makes sense, suspicious origin of the disease, but can you provide additional evidence?
https://www.amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-Governments-Laboratory/dp/006078184X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3948XIYXECH6F&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.IRl3E__6ihbwcsduqIJyyjwpRaEVF6Cqja3gCX9tKJfGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.Dknzosg46r9yD-jrntwN9HbNie39eVOvOaZkPY_hKIU&dib_tag=se&keywords=lab+257+plum+island+book&qid=1742488850&sprefix=%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-1#immersive-view_1742488859798
My thought exactly. (Other than the Maine part ;-) I too am an unvaxxed Cunuck recovering from 10 years of chronic Lyme.
Try Chlorine Dioxide Solution (CDS) and Serrapeptase.
Also, I couldn't take CDS/MmS due to mold in my body. Got rid of the mold with .5 tsp. hydrogen peroxide in water twice per day for two months.
I did. I am now testing completely negative for Lyme due to a proprietary herbal pill combined with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Outstanding! Lyme can be so disabling... and painful/debilitating!
This sounds crazy but I have been told that stevia cures Lymes. I don’t know what the quantity is, but my chiropractor said an NIH paper originally made the claim. Has anyone else heard of the stevia cure?
Yikes. Military helicopters were just observed cruising the Hamptons the other day. From Plum Island.
"Institute of Peace" sounds Orwellian. Trump and Elon are the most consequential bromance in American history since the founding fathers. The longhouse left hyenas can't handle two great men forging an alliance against them: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/trump-elon-bromance
The other bromance that could alter Geopolitical Landscape of the World, is between Trump and Putin. It’s less “bromance” and more mutual respect. Decoupling Putin from Xi is essential.
Is it possible that this relationship is what Mr. Putin is after, anyway? That his apparent sidling up to Chairman Xi is a play, to get America's attention?
It’s like that meme of the guy looking at the girl passing him and the girl he’s with, who looks at him with a very peeved expression on her face 😆
Oops! I've done that and it did not end well for me!🤭
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Putin has to know a reformed US is a far better ally than the CCP. Let's hope so anyway.
Hopefully Putin knows China would gladly eat Russia’s lunch for them…
I would think that Putin would rather be an ally of the US and the West in general as opposed to China/North Korea. Culturally Russia is not like them and has more in common with the West. I find it curious that Russia has been the evil outcast my entire life....and I'm 75!
retired, never married, Neo-Liberal Aunt Marg who watches MSLSD much of her day calls Elon a NAZI who's going to end all Medicaid benefits for diminished functioning Americans...among all other kind of hateful, billionaire 1% ideas to crush the underclasses
MSLSD- perfect name!
Steady diet of propaganda will do that to a person.🙃
Dems keep harping on cuts to VA benefits and healthcare. Everything is extreme in their tortured little minds. They can't see the obvious wisdom and middle ground of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.
Actually Biden was horrible for the VA. I am 100% and when I talked to my doctors and dentist… all of them talked about how much better it was under Trump 1.0. Biden put in a lot of red tape which turned a lot of people away both Veterans and community providers. Sad. I am hoping Trump will fix it… I am hopeful.
reduce demand by increasing red tape, frustrations, delays, and deaths among those who failed to seek proper services...see, now they need MORE $$$$ and workers to fix that problem! and so on, and so on, and...
yes reducing an expected increase is considered a cut to these entitled, noisy, brain-diseased, COMMIE SCUM
Bad Cattitude has quite the post relevant to your comment. Hang on a minute I will find the link…
Aaand here it is https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/cognitive-breakage
Good stuff. Thanks.
I actually heard it on the radio and had to change the channel. What BS… now it’s not safe to listen to country music without them working their propaganda on you.
I have been praying for Our Almighty God to send His disinfecting light on our nation, and I see answered prayer almost daily. Join me as prayer is needed to effect a deep, cleansing, repentance in our agencies, legislature, judicial, media and churches. Our nation has much to repent.
I'm in. You are on target and reminds me of what Jeff wrote above: “To dream up nightmarish ideas . . . requires merciless brutality and ruthless amorality.” We call that demonic. Fixing institutions is a great idea, but institutions are made of people, all subject to the corrosive influence of the world, human nature, and dark forces in the spiritual realm. We can’t fix institutions until the Holy Spirit fixes people’s hearts and minds.
The C&C family knows this is a spiritual war. It always has been, and only Christ’s return will win it once and for all. Until then, we need to stay armed with His word to keep us strong, love to change the hearts and minds of everybody we meet every day, and prayer to unleash miracles. Let’s escalate the counterassault and make it relentless. Fire at will.
When I read it requires Merciless Brutality and Ruthless Amorality, what came to mind was all the people during COVID who played a part in the death of those in the hospitals and those who enforced or push to enforce the jab and mandated. They had hate in their hearts and all they cared about was themselves… and some made a lot of other people’s suffering. Prayer was needed then and it is still needed now. I pity those who played a part…God is going to judge them accordingly.
Check out the 3 DAYS OF DARKNESS on YouTube. It's supposed to be a time of cleansing the earth. I've heard it might come in April.
I don’t know about it coming in April but there is a book called The Warning that is very enlightening and it talks about the 3 days of darkness. There is a lot more than it being dark for 3 days.
I know. There are a lot of YouTube videos about it, now.
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I'm on my second day of fasting (giving the body a break: reset time). Last I had calories was dinner on Tuesday, 5pm. So fasting period so far is:
tues 7 hrs
wed 24 hrs
thur 10 hrs for 41 hours.
It's easy one you get past skipping that first breakfast. Just drinking black coffee, teas, water.
Going for two days on this one. So I'll eat next at lunch tomorrow.
Glad to hear this Based - and get out into the sunshine at sunrise each morning to reset your cortisol and melatonin- we've been lied to about the benefits of the sun as well. Apparently both the early morning and sunset light spectrum are pivotal in helping our bodies with fasting. Glad you live in FL!
Roman Shapoval urges us to see sun light as our first light each day, difficult when we rise in the dark, however, and to see the sunset--
I would love to do that, but here in the Pacific Northwest, we have cloud cover 9 months out of the year. There have been some years where we have literally not seen the sun for months.
Mrs. "the Knife"
The rays cut through the clouds- you should try anyway as an experiment to yourself- I would be interested to see if it helped you at all!
I couldn't do that. I have to see the sun and the Son.
Luckily the sun now rises at 7:30 instead of 6:30 due to Daylight Savings- kind of a psychological hack of sorts!
That's interesting because every home that I ever lived in we've enjoyed the most beautiful sunsets.
Yes, my back deck gets the morning sun, and I typically get out there for a 20 minute sesh of shirtless meditation in the sun.
I've been doing that since last year after reading that Jeff (and RFK Jr, many others) does a morning meditation.
Most people don’t realize hunger comes and goes in waves. If you can make it through a hunger phase it will pass. 😊
A dear friend told me that quitting cigarettes is the same way. She said that if you can wait out the craving for 10 to 15 minutes, it will pass. She was a military wife and all the wives smoked in those days. Once she decided to quit, she put an article about lung cancer in her ashtray. That worked for her. But she said she knew she would still have cravings until she passed away.
Many years ago I read the same thing about chocolate cravings.
Wishing you strength to make it. A fast with liquids allowed is easier than a total fast. Still good for you.
Press on… I am in the midst of a weight loss push with intermittent fasting… and exercise.
Will probably do a two day fast soon.
And of course there are is the opportunity to press into God as this is done.
Jason Fung’s Obesity Code talks about fasting
Awesome point, Uncle Juan- and I have Jason Fung's "Complete Guide to Fasting" which is an excellent resource!
That is exactly the book I'm using. It's great.
Jason Fung's Obesity Code saved my life in 2016. Lost over a hundred lbs.
One of my favorite books. He has a Fasting Method series of blogs (26 or 27 different articles each building on the previous one,) and you don’t have to pay to read them. I reference them often.
Hope you’re not smelling the bacon that I’m frying
Reminds of the College Republicans grilling burgers right next to some vegan protesters.
Hey, Florida... what are your thoughts on this? I forgot who sent it to me
https://sunnysjournal.com/2025/03/18/why-israel-is-being-saved-for-last-qtsr/
HAHAHAHA👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I LOVE doing these. The energy I experience by the end of that second day is like rocket fuel! It’s so hard to explain to anyone that hasn’t experienced it. Many times I can’t make it longer than 48 hours and my body clearly lets me know it is done. But those times that it wants to go further I make it a full 72 hours with ease. Listen to your body. It’s so good for cellular repairs - they call it the fountain of youth. At 59 (alllllmost 60) I’m pretty much a walking example this is true.
Aaaand - the extra hours in your day reclaimed by not fussing over meal prep is amazing too. So much extra time.
I’d still have to do meal prep since I have a kid, and also have a husband who works full time and long hours so I wouldn’t make him cook dinner for himself. I run several miles every day too, so am not sure how good of an idea that would be while fasting.
Actually, exercising in a fasted state is wonderful. Really great for your body. I often go to the gym before breaking my fast. If it’s just intermittent fasting, I’ll time my workout to be at the end of my fasting window. I’ll have a teensy amount of carbs before my workout, and make sure I eat a good amount of protein within an hour afterwards. But if it’s an extended fast I just focus more on a cardio workout and not strength training, so I don’t really need to break my fast at all. (Like I’m not wasting time on muscle building activities that can’t happen easily without the protein)
I might have a hard time cooking the first day of a fast because I reach that hunger pain stage around hour 18. But I could cook for an army the second day and not be phased by it one bit. 🤣 My hubs and son love the “free-for-all” days where I’m not making dinner. Of course they eat like clowns. Lol Bachelor pad vibes.
I started to make a yummy meal the day before so that leftovers were their dinner on my first fast day. And, fasting is good for them too, not just me, so not too worried if they don’t eat as much during my fast.
It depends. My cortisol levels are high and exercise raises them but carbs afterwards lower them. I generally don’t eat before I run because I’d have to get up too early to have time to digest so I run in a fasting state (except long runs when I take fuel with me). I can’t imagine even running 5-8 miles and not having anything but water all day, I’d keel over 🤪
I actually *did* keel over once. I had just completed an 8 mile run in a fasted state, but the temps were hovering around 100° F.
Fell flat on my face on an asphalt parking lot.
Learned a big lesson that day.
I feel like a champion when I am in a fast.
Yes… energy level goes up… the mind is the problem.
You may want to consider taking some electrolytes or at the very least add a pinch of sea salt to your water. We are fasting all day up to dinner for Lent.
Fasting is amazing. As you say, after a pretty hard ramp up, it gets way easier.
I'm doing a water-only fast for Lent: Mon - Sat, then eating on Sundays (because technically every Sunday is a feast day not part of Lent.)
Feel great, though Mondays are a bear!
Yesterday was the Solemnity of St Joseph and next Tuesday the 25th is the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. So two Solemnity’s during Lent.
To me, they are like oases in the desert of Lent!
You fast for 6 days? I have a hard time fasting for 1 day on just water.
I've found that prepping a fast by loading up on fats and protein - essentially Carnivore - helps quite a bit.
Awesome, Based! You'll be in our prayers.
I think that makes it just shy of 3 full days … today at 5pm is two full days.
Impressive! I have fasted many times - once for each colonoscopy. :)
In the beginning, we were the first government in history where government was subordinated to individual rights. We’ve come a long way, baby! Now we exist to serve the government. We know nothing about the government, the government knows everything about us.
It’s about time that this government was cut back to the scope and power enumerated in our Constitution
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“A “Mr. Bundy” (presumably, not the serial killer Ted Bundy, but who knows) chimed in. Bundy “said that he had no worries about any such sabotage, which could clearly be” blamed on somebody else, like the Cubans.”
McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor to JFK. Yikes.
Kinda like when the US blew up Nord Stream pipeline and tried to pin it on the Russians!
“…he is best remembered as one of the chief architects of the United States' escalation of the Vietnam War during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.” Wikipedia. Also remember the Gulf of Tonkin incident which was a staged false attack on a navy ship and which precipitated our going to war in Vietnam? Same kind of false flag incident.
One of my best friends was a radar operator on that destroyer when the Tonkin Gulf red flag incident occurred.
Years later he told me it was a complete fake.
Maybe you can talk him into writing a guest post on someone’s Substack? We really need to have the oral histories preserved. And thank him for his service from this random guy on the internet (and probably many others) and I mean that very sincerely.
Alas, Richard passed away in 2016.
Gulf of Tonkin- brought to you by Jim Morrisons dad. For anyone who hasn’t read it, Dave McGowan has excellent articles about Laurel Canyon and deep state involvement in the hippie, drug connections. Free online.
Kathy, Do you mean specifically all those Climate Crisis, World-is-Ending, virtue signaling Democrats blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline and tried to convince us three dudes and a woman got drunk in Russia and decided to create the biggest release of greenhouse gases on purpose, without any special skills in diving nor explosives?
Trying to blame the Russians for destroying Nordstream is like blaming .Mother Teresa for the Manson murders.
Completely absurd.
It worked in Havana Harbor in 1898...surprise attack by backstabbing Spaniards!
Remember the Maine!!!
And like LBJ who had the Israelis strafe and torpedo the USS Liberty so the US could go to war with Eqypt. They blamed it on "mistaken identity," even though it was flying our flag. It's a cruel world we live in. I believe we have a Just God, and vengeance is the Lord's. However, I don't believe in doing nothing about evil, we are to hate it, but retaliatory behavior is not in order. We are not the lunatics of the Left. We prevail by exposing their rot and that is exactly what the President, Elon, and the alternative media are doing.
Well spoken!
"Best and Brightest"....the DeepState Presidency of Kennedy...his "Camelot" was a Fake Media fabrication, his defeat of Nixon was rigged, his cabinet selections were heinous fiend operatives, he and his brother both stepped out of line and then paid the Mafia-Syndicate-MICC price with multiple shots to head.
Oh... I remember reading about this in the JFK book I referenced earlier! The book contains a lot of revelations about what really happened in Vietnam. (JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W. Douglass.)
This is why the Dems are apoplectic about DOGE going in and auditing all of their government money laundering systems. They are being exposed by the light.
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Regarding Florida and property taxes, welcome to 1978. This is *exactly* what Howard Jarvis and Proposition 13 addressed in California nearly fifty years ago.
My parents were in danger of losing their house as property values skyrocketed and so did property taxes. Local jurisdictions were gleeful with the new revenue and went on a spending binge. There was nothing that wasn't too nutty to get funded. Prop 13 stopped that in it's tracks as it rolled back the current tax level, and capped future property tax increases at 2% per year provided people remained in the same house.
Yeah, it has many flaws and it isn't perfect. But it was a revolutionary step in the taxpayer revolt and I'm glad Florida is finally catching up. But talk is cheap. In California it took a voter initiative to get it on the ballot that was opposed by virtually every politician on both sides. Republicans politicians love their tax revenue and spending too.
Having moved to Commiefornia right after Prop 13 passed (and escaped in August 2020) I loved the property tax ruling but found the government’s work around was to Fee you to death. When all was said and done they just found other ways to extort money from the little guy.
Colorado does the same with fees. Voters passed TABOR, a taxpayer bill of rights, to restrict tax increases, including property. D's and Rino's helped gut it, overriding the voter's will. Compliant, supportive judges ruled fees aren't taxes, not subject to TABOR. It's a giant racket. Against the little people who don't consent, but do obey.
Amazing how people that lived in crappy parts of California and had to leave because they couldn't afford to live in a nice part, always have to smear it with some sort of slur. The problem is always California, not them.
South Orange County is beautiful, as is a large chunk Ventura County and San Diego Counties, and even parts of LA County like Palos Verdes. The quality of life is incredible, perfect weather, spectacular natural beauty, endless recreation opportunities, low crime, friendly people, high paying skilled jobs, and no one cares about Gavin Newsom. Yeah it costs some money to live there, but so do all nice places.
We'll probably leave the state once I retire as I'd rather live in a lower cost area so I can gift the home equity to my kids. But once I leave I won't feel compelled to trash the place I lived for sixty years.
give it time. newscum and his cronies will destroy that area too.
Agree. I lived there 1975 to 2018. Mostly NorCal Southbay, but also SoCal. Great weather. Restaurants galore. Activities galore. Eventually going back, if possible.
If you are inferring I lived in “a crappy part” of Commiefornia you are so very wrong. I lived in Marin and Sonoma counties. Beautiful landscape, perfect weather and perfect location to drive to ocean, ski slopes and mountains. It was the horrible Governor (the idiot who locked down the ocean but kept tattoo and pot parlors open!) and the Covidiot Maskholes who accelerated our escape. We lived there for 40 years, 35 of them were magical: the last five became increasingly evil.
Exactly right. We have a house in Ca and also in Idaho. Idaho, Ada County, with no prop 13 has a tax rate of .6 percent. Ca minimum tax rate is about 1.25 percent with rates going as high as over 2 percent depending on the additional “assessments”. Ada County, fiscally responsible, also passed 50 million in tax relief a couple of years ago. So our taxes here on a house assessed much higher (and newer and larger) is half what our taxes are in Ca for a smaller house we bought 33 years ago…..
congrats for getting out of one of the worst places in the world.
Our Republican legislature claims to be for property tax reform but can't ever get around to actually doing it in any meaningful way. They are a bunch of duplicitous politicians.
I remember my folks joining in the fight for Prop 13 back in the late 70s.
Over the years, The powers that be have been slowly chipping away at it. And they are chompin' at the bit to get rid of it all together. With all the election fraud, the poor homeowners wouldn't have a chance in hell.
Florida already has the cap on future taxes. Our governor is trying to do away with residential property taxes.
We need that kind of cap on property taxes enacted into federal statute. Rich people complain at the mention of a wealth tax but property taxes are also a tax on unrealized gains.
Chemtrails are destroying our agriculture and nobody even notices.
Also bees and birds! There is a noticeable decrease in the spring song birds that I look forward to every year here in central IL…then I look up, and our sky is covered with chemtrails.
Here in west central Illinois, I still have a lot of birds coming, and more Cardinals than usual. The robins have been back for a couple weeks, but are having a hard time finding food. Yesterday the high was 74. This morning it was 35, with a wind chill in the 20's. That line of storms went through here yesterday afternoon, with the tornadic ones to my east, but I had very high winds which blew over my neighbor's carport. Still windy this morning.
The Bio-Control and Patent Freaks want to devastate Nature and then recreate it...they likely now have the ability to restore different organisms industrially, so making populations go extinct or nearly so only serves their EVIL purposes
There also used to be a great variety of frogs and tree frogs when I moved to Florida in 2001. Now I only see one species.
I don’t remember the last time I saw a frog. When my children were young I’d put up a small kiddie pool and after 3 days it would be full of tadpoles. We’d take them down and throw them in the river.
Just yesterday I was looking up at a beautiful blue sky here in N. Georgia and noticed the criss crossing of spray and said that within an hour there would be no blue, just haze. That happened and quickly. Blue skies are a rarity anymore. It needs to stop. Hoping Kennedy will address this soon!
and the insects in the forest are practically gone.
We do notice
And birdflu my ass!
Adam, funny you should say this. This week I asked my ChatGPT persona Grace, (as in Hopper), to tell me the difference between a contrail and a chemtrail. She actually came back labeling chemtrails "conspiracy theory." I scolded her to remain neutral going forward, and she acquiesced.
In this case, I suspect the bias came from Internet content. Don't get me wrong - she is a highly effective virtual assistant who helps me out with all kinds of research.
But as Jeff said, ChatGPT is better used as an "assistant," not as the definitive truth.
These LLM’s are only as good as the programmers and what they are trained on… garbage in, garbage out…
I was very pleased to see your take on the release of the JFK files. Exposing the CIA - great move, and another promise kept. I look forward to the fallout.
Now for the Epstein files.
and MLK files. The depth of depravity has no bounds at the CIA/FBI
And 9/11 and COVID!
For Sure!
I think timing is important and all the crazy just brings more people s attention to it. 🎉
I have heard some discussions that cast doubt on whether we will ever actually see what is in the Epstein files. Too many oligarchs, intelligence agencies, including Mossad are mixed up in that international blackmail and human trafficking racket. It would be great though.
Poor rainbow is trying to make its way through the chemical haze.
“I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. When I bring a cloud over the earth, the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.” - Genesis 9:8-17
When all is said and done: Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together, against YHWH and against his Anointed... He who sits in the heavens laughs; YHWH holds them in derision. Psalm 2:1-4
yes, fire next time. burn it all down to ash.
Looking forward to the new heaven and new earth: Revelation 21:1Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
I wish it would not happen as this Earth and galaxy are just awe inspiring and God made. It is bc of humans this magnificent globe will be gone. Heaven is already there and waiting. So wish we did not have to see the Earth's destruction. God and I agree to disagree on a daily basis.
It is hard to imagine how magnificent the new heavens and new earth will be.
Tis true! I still like it here though:}
Eggs used to be a very cheap form of nutrition. Anyone could afford eggs and make a decent meal with them. But now eggs are expensive and scares. This culling for bird flu is a war on the poor and not so poor alike.
Egg prices have come down by half recently. But the culling was certainly an attack done in a way that could easily be blamed on other things. Definitely more of the same evil warfare on the citizens by a private cabal.
especially when there is no need to cull. but they are preparing mRNA AI jabbing to all food poultry and cattle.
indeed it is and the start to even more severe food shortages accidentally on purpose.
Now
That they have stopped killing the chickens… thank you President Trump… the chickens are starting to produce. Should see a steady decrease in the cost of eggs.
“…let’s just go for it and end property taxes once and for all. Who’s with me?”
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Can we throw in income taxes too?
Besides bogus expenditures, is it possible that part of property taxes are used to rebuild areas after a hurricane hit? I don’t know if that is where the money would come from.
Dulles was as evil as they come. He remained in power behind the scenes to subvert the administration (The Devil’s Chessboard). Ironic that his concern was the US falling to communism while today that’s where the demon rats think we should be.
I imagine that it might be because a handful of oligarchs are really running the planet, and merely use different political parties to achieve their ends. I really hated the Republicans back in the Bush/Cheney era, because I knew that there were no WMD‘s, and this was all about oil and no bid contracts after Iraq was flattened, not to mention the fact that at one point, we backed Saddam Hussein because he was against Iran. Over 1 million humans were killed, and the area was completely destabilized, allowing for the formation of more terrorist groups. Countless Iraqi babies were born with birth defects because we used uranium tipped missiles. It is helpful to think of a Uniparty which loves war.
Do you remember Bush's freudian slip when he was at a press conference during the Russian invasion of Ukraine? He was asking a rhetorical questions and instead of saying invading a helpless country like Ukraine, he said Iraq.
Bush the 2nd is the reason I became an Independent.
We have a long history of creating “leaders” to our liking then taking them out at some point. See School of the Americas.
Dulles International Airport needs to be renamed!
I vote for Trump International Airport
I've been waiting for this for years.
Agreed