"Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ, I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, "in Christ." —Watchman Nee
I just inserted this "Look at Me, Not the Storm" graphic as the centerpiece on my desktop and fit it to the entire screen on my 24" monitor--it is quite "calming" to my spirit, Jayson.
Again...THANK YOU for sharing this to the C & C group - we ALL need to heed our "Master's voice", don't we!!
" For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinthians 12:10 Indeed, we are more than conquerors in Him who loves us.
"like many of us, Levi was initially optimistic about the vaccines and willingly took the first two jabs." Really?? That means Levi, and "many" falsely believed that Health Comes from Needles and Like the Midwestern half way renegade decry such knowledge. Woo Hoo.
The fork in the road occured many decades ago. The Philosophy of Health clearly delineated the correct turn. Celebrating Politico's backpedaling is not the way forward. Neither is proving
the obvious with "data" Health does not come from needles, the short course.
Evidence convinced no fool. Have the pedigree, doctorate level education.
Ed Dowd, a top of the tree Wall Street Analyst was first out of the gate with Data.
20 million dead from the mRNA Quaxcine. That was years ago... Widely published, and here we are crowing about Dr. Levi and his "data". Breadcrumbs...
About time to pivot to scripture?? and what exactly were "my people destroyed for lack of?"
For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
“The Lord will judge HIS people” it just occurred to me we often sit around and grouse about why bad people succeed in getting away with breaking laws and sinning, seemingly without consequences. Possibly it is the surest sign of their fruits: they are not “His” people. Their earthly rewards are fleeting and their punishment will be an eternal one, not one in this present life. This verse is for His Flock, not them. So why fall into the hands of the living God if it is so terrifying? Why become “His” people? Because the greatest power and blessing you could ever possibly imagine and achieve in this life can only be accessed when under His cloak. You basically have to be willing to risk the most severe judgement known to man in order to access the most extreme blessings and grace. Follow God to access the greatest rewards and walk a straight path to avoid His greatest judgement. It is the only way.
@Abiding Dude Not at all. But he *does* give his beloved creations free will, never forcing them to return his love or accept his abundant mercy. It wouldn’t be much of a relationship if he did force us, would it?
While I think the Dude's position is pretty firmly established, for the sake of any other reader who might be bothered by this:
Is it "sadistic" to discipline your children, even in ways they don't like or don't understand the reason for? ("But WHYYYYYYYYYY does it matter if I pick up my clothes off the floor anyway????? How can you be so cruel to make me miss the party because of it? You're a horrible parent and you don't love me!!!!")
Of course, this will only work if you are already willing to believe that God has good and loving reasons for causing or allowing harm to happen to humans, but if you don't believe that then you already weren't going to be interested in this explanation anyway. But for those who believe in the resurrection, all harm in this life is temporary and part of our growth into "the image of Christ".
Well, that just won't move the needle. Data doesn't fly these days (unless government sanctioned). Throw it on the trash heap with "proof" and "evidence." What's the TV say? The Rectangle of Hate, Pain and Misery never lies. I simply can't carry on my day without the guidance of my research free knee-jerk reactions. Ed Dowd has compiled enough relevant (damning) data on the miracle covid shot to cover a football field....but of course, he's not a clinical doctor either. (You'd have to know when to prescribe "gender reassignment" surgery to earn that coveted distinction). Dowd has been relegated to background noise.
UPDATE: at the risk of boring you all with a tutorial on data, I offer this:
data in my world is a spreadsheet full of numbers. More than any human can digest by themselves. I have to plot the data, fit it to a line or a curve, figure out what the line or curve means, then slice the data another way (data is collected by varying a large number of parameters in an experiment. "Slicing" the data just means plotting some result against one of those parameters).
So, as a practical matter, I don't actually "look at" data, I look at plots of the data, statistics derived from those plots, etc. That said, a wise statistician once taught me that before you apply any model, just plot the data, value 1 against value 2, value 1 against value 3, and so on to see what it looks like. Does it make sense or are there obvious goofy aspects that indicate you did the measurement wrong?
END of UPDATE
My view on data (as a practicing PhD chemist for over 30 years) is it's just observations of nature. It can be wrong because our measurements can be wrong. Data might mean just looking out across a field to see what's "over there". Ah, a moose! No, turns out it's just some oddly shaped bushes--my eyes (data!) deceived me!
We interpret data with theory or a model. And those can be wrong. A better way to put it is the old saying (among scientists) "all theories are wrong, but some are useful." I usually add to that, and all experiments are wrong, but some yield useful data. Bottom line is every attempt we make to measure and understand something falls short of perfection. In the case of climate change, COVID therapies, the attempts of our betters fell way short. Assuming they are trying to help (jury is still out on that one!)
The models I object to are the ones used for climate where the model becomes the answer, not just a guide to understanding the observations. Same with COVID: data should mean "the reality on the ground" and any model that doesn't fit the data is probably not useful.
But at the very least, no public policy of any kind should be based on such a model.
Well .. I have data for you… almost everyone I know that is covid vaxxed has suddenly died or has some dirt of recent cancer or had emergency heart something or another or heart attack suddenly
Opps I touched the wrong area trying to correct that post.
Anyways it is insane how many people I know personally that have died or are dealing with some not too good health issue (I could go on forever with the list) that just so happened to coincide with getting the vax. Sorry but true. So there is some data right there. It’s crazy. None of these people had problems like this before.
And in every one of your points, one will usually see what they want to see in the data. Sort of a Rorshac ink blot test. Only the most diligent will change their preconceptions based on the evidence.
"The Science" hollers that correlation is not causation while pretending tools like the Bradford-Hill Criteria do not exist. By this we know they are selling narrative for the sake of control, and are not practicing ACTUAL science.
Our "No Kings!" neighbors and officials will be proclaiming their enemies (us) are "Anti-Science, Book banning, DATA DENIERS!!!!" even as THEY reject scientific method, perform woke editing or disappearing of books, and reject all objective data for politically-doctored, ideologically-driven data in their quest to install a one-party authoritarian regime that weaponizes democracy, empowers the obedient dehumanized technocratic-bureaucracy, all to amplify a placid debasement of the Bourgeoisie US Constitution to make it subservient to Globalist-elite control and manipulation to fit into the New World Socialist Order
and I would like to offer that even AFTER a reasonable model and correction has been legislated the correction should NOT be precipitated upon the entire population.
Guinea pig counties should be randomly picked around the country to PROVE beyond a doubt that the "fix" works without significant harmful side effects and that it is a big enough net benefit over the "control" counties that any reasonable person without statistical training would easily agree to the simple numbers comparison 2 years hence.
A wise person once said, "if you need statistics to see the effect, it's not a real effect."
This came from a world I lived in back then where we were trying to see a small signal in a lot of noise. Sometimes you really, really want to see that signal...but if you try too hard, you fool yourself!
Ran and grew a substantial fund at Black Rock. Starting from $2-3 billion to $13 or $16 billion (I don't recall the exact numbers). Most of all, I like the combination of his street smarts in terms of how the system works combined with his data driven approach. If anything, I think he understates the importance of some economic data/trends. My guess is that he doesn't want to cause panic. Check out some of his YouTube interviews.
Spot on! I’m starting to see there’s a difference between data and statistics. Statistics is the narrative—and that’s what everyone focus, unfortunately ignoring the data, with terms like “statistics undetectable.”
I’m starting to see there’s a difference between data and statistics. Statistics is the narrative—and that’s what everyone focus, unfortunately ignoring the data, with terms like “statistics undetectable.”
And Retsef Levi, a Jew, lives in Massachusetts aka cold California as far as corruption and mismanagement of money goes...which also means being taxed for virtually everything possible. When someone with a mind like his suddenly looks at the facts and data and does a turnaround in this environment, it SHOULD make people sit up and take notice. Warning: Spin doctors don't need a medical degree either.
Statins. 50 % decrease in relative risk of a heart attack, from 2 % to 1 %. 1 % reduction in absolute risk. That is the damnable truth about statins. Oh, and they also cause in increase in muscle pain in over 90 % o recipients, and a significant increase in Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimers. Well worth the risk though.
Ha..so true. It was the one meaningful takeaway from my Quantitative Analysis MBA class years ago. I learned the concept so well, I graded for the class the next year.
I'm sorry. Some of us are "creative" thinkers and zeros, no matter how many, mean nothing to the likes of me. I'm a similar way logical thinker can't envision how to help me with my creation until they've seen the end product. 😑 Some men are from Mars and so are some women and visa versa. Babel is in us all. 😝 It's just a test for sixty+ years.
Actually it was a cut to my own challenges with logic. Nothing personal against you. I'm very sorry you took it that way. Yes, I have communication challenges too. Sigh....
They can even get Covid over and over again after being jabbed and boosted and boosted, and still say,” Thank God I got jabbed, or I would have been so much sicker.” Meanwhile, I, who have never been jabbed for COVID, got it once and haven’t been sick since. I have coworkers, who keep getting vaccines and keep getting sick. It is insane!
I know. I had a friend post on FB about how she’d gone in to get her umpteenth booster, wasn’t feeling well the next day (as in body aches, headache, sick), went to the gym anyway for 45 minutes before going home. Then she said, “Well, if I didn’t get it, it would’ve been worse.” Yeah, no. I don’t get the clot shot and I don’t get sick, so no. Yeah, I told her she should’ve just stayed home.
Then there’s the woman I spent a few hours talking with at my husband’s aunt’s Christmas party. She’s a friend of his aunt and a teacher. She told me that, pre-COVID shots, her family was healthy. Always healthy. After the shots, they are sick all of them time. One of her sons is constantly fatigued and not the same. (She has young children.) He used to go outside and play all of the time. Now, he is too tired. She’s a public school teacher, blames the shots for her family’s health problems, and refuses to get them since the first round. She homeschools her kids now.
It’s sad, and criminal, she had to find out the hard way. However, now, she questions all vaccines and doesn’t trust doctors anymore.
An Irish engineer on YouTube was the first place I was hearing that the real data of Covid wasn’t matching the worldwide narrative. This was around august 2020. My spidy senses were activated big time and tumblers began falling into place as the Plandemic went forward.
Jeff, you may want to do an article about my appearance last week on "Redacted" with Clayton Morris concerning the vaccine-induced "micro-clots," a pregnant women study, and video of two long-time Iowa embalmers admitting that they have been seeing the WHITE FIBROUS CLOTS for the last 5 years. After being up for just one day, my "Redacted" interview already has over 300,000 views and 4,200 comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlI4gd39xfM
Tom I was surprised & glad to see a random someone posted it to Facebook. Of course I reposted it. People are waking up to the truth. Whether they want to or not. Thank you for never giving up & giving in & showing bravery in spite of the opposition still trying to stop the truth.
God is completely in control though .. we may not feel it or see it but HIS word tells us so . Romans 8:28 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.
I don't know much about chlorine dioxide as a treatment, although I have spoken with the owner of the company that makes "Snoot Spray" as one of their chlorine dioxide products.
I would suggest looking at some of Dr. Pierre Kory's Substack articles where he talks about the possible use of chlorine dioxide to help "detox" the body of the damaging spike protein produced by the Covid jabs.
FB still censoring; comments with legitimate links to research that does not regurgitate the narrative seem to never get beyond “posting…” Checked back a couple of times; nope.
I’m not at all surprised about facebook irregardless of the censoring we will never stop putting truth out there. Everyday I look for opportunities to share about the BIG fat lies of the past 4 + yrs & share the good news about Jesus … one person at a time. That’s where our hope is . Facebook can flipping go fly a kite 🪁
Jabs - Similar to Dr. Levi, I and my wife jumped on the first two doses of the “vaccine” and added a booster. I stopped after the first booster, wife continued on for two more. I can’t point to anything specifics in our health as a result of the jabs, but we are older, and it seems the younger demographic has been hit harder.
The tarrif discussion is VERY interesting and very good news. Gloom and doom hasn’t materialized and the “experts” are looking kind of foolish, to say the least.
Love the bit about ubering 19 miles to school. Reminds me of my mother and how she would tell us about being a teacher in north-central Nebraska when she had to walk miles in waste deep snow to get to her one-room school house and it was uphill… both ways! LOLOL. Thing is, a good bit of that story was true - waste deep snow and a one-room school house, which I forgot to mention was w/o heat. Uphill was a bit a grade and one way of course, and my grandfather would drive her to the end of the country lane from where she would then walk in the snow… may having to navigate some drifts that were waist deep and so on. Whatever, makes for some funny discussions… wish Mom was still here to laugh about all that.
AI: "A case study suggests that transcutaneous nicotine administration may lead to near-immediate improvement in symptoms such as fatigue, anosmia, and ageusia in patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome, with one patient reporting symptom resolution within nine days of treatment."
Dr Bryan Ardis raves about nicotine for dementia, Parkinsons and preventing viral disease... I bet he has thoughts on its effects on jab poisoning...
I still think CDS is a primary treatment. Dr Kalcker is the expert.
I talked on the phone about two weeks ago to the older gentleman on the video, Mr. Dana Goodell, who sits on the Iowa Funeral Directors Association's Board of Directors. Dana said that he is currently seeing the "white fibrous clots" in about 1 out of every 6 corpses (17%), which is about the same percentage as the 28 Tennessee embalmers said when I administered an in-person survey on 8 June 2025 at the Tennessee Funeral Directors Association Annual Convention where I was a Guest Speaker. Alabama embalmer Richard Hirschman and UK funeral director John O'Looney are STILL seeing the white fibrous clots in about 35% of their corpses. So this is STILL a SERIOUS PROBLEM! By the way, Richard Hirschman embalms over 300 bodies per year.
It’s mindblowing that more embalmers aren’t speaking up.(Thankyou for doing so).
Also mindblowing that - unlike reports of myocarditis et al - there is STILL so little coverage of these structures even in alternative media, social media.
Have you sent all your data to RFKj, Jay Bhattacharya, Retsef Levi, Robert Malone…? All those now in authority have a DUTY to listen to findings such as yours & Hirschman’s.
We can include Tom havilland's information when we submit our comments to the fda. I also recommend including a link to the website nost afe and not effective.com
Really need to know what percentage of the bodies had the shots and how many boosters. Maybe 90% of vaccinated bodies had the clots?? The data is interesting but incomplete.
Unfortunately, most embalmers do not get a chance to interact with the families of the deceased. So they don't get a chance to ask if the deceased took the Covid jabs or not. However, I do know several embalmers who are both embalmers AND funeral directors. Whenever they see the clots, they ask the family of the deceased if their loved one took the jabs. The answer always comes back "yes."
I tried running a "2024 Cath Lab Worker Blood Clot Survey" last year with vascular surgeons, cardiologists, and endovascular specialists because, unlike the embalmers, these doctors do have access to the Covid vaccination records of all of their patients. Unfortunately, NONE of these doctors wanted to take my survey which would have revealed that these doctors are finding the "white fibrous clots" overwhelmingly in LIVING PERSONS who have taken the jabs.
Check out the free "Clotastrophe" Substack for more answers to your questions at: LauraKasner.Substack.com
I would argue that had they seen these clots in individuals before the rollout of the Covid vaccine the numbers would mean less. But the biggest tell is how it was never a significant thing before the vaccine. Vaccinated vs unvaccinated would either point to whether the virus itself caused the clots or the shots, or that shedding is a real and powerful thing.
It seems unlikely that the exact composition of the "fibrous clots" is known... but the protocols to dissolve them are NOT known.
Until more conclusive study is done on defeating this type of clot... I would bet on CDS and DMSO, IV if appropriate, and daily high dose Lumbrokinase.
AI: "DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) has been reported in both research and anecdotal accounts to help dissolve blood clots, including fibrous clots, due to its anticoagulant, anti-inflammatory, and fibrinolytic-like properties."
F the media. Have you talked to your neighbors? Have you looked at the Christmas decorations in your neighborhood? Your town? Everywhere? Have you watched any of the new Christmas movies? Do you feel better about America? About yourself? Your loved ones? Do you have hope again? Do you believe 2026 is going to be even better than 2025? Americans who love this country have HOPE again, some sense of 'reason' again. We are going to make it, and we are going to beat into the ground the forces of evil, foreign and domestic, who try to stop us. We WILL make America great again - one day at a time, one victory at a time, one right decision at a time. God Bless America and God Bless Christmas!
Yes!! This. That is one thing I remember about Reagan, whatever his flaws, he gave Americans hope again after the disastrous Carter administration. I think there is a lot to be said about that. Hope and optimism generate positive momentum in a way that cynicism and pessimism cannot.
I agree! That is Trump’s main ingredient. He is optimistic and gives hope! Even in the darkest days of December 2020 into 2021, he was a cheerleader for America. Even when he exaggerates, it is still a tool to make us believe we can overcome.
I attended a few of his 2020 campaign rallies in airport hangars no less, and they were so upbeat and hopeful. It is a gift of kindness too many don’t understand.
Also I think that those who furnish a steady drumbeat of negativism and hopelessness really are detrimental to this country and people in general. Hopelessness is attached to evil imo because it generally leads to some kind of destructiveness.
“everything is terrible, America is terrible, men are… whites are… Racism is everywhere. Homophobia, xyz-phobia is everywhere, nothing can be done…”
No wonder their followers pierce their noses, tatoo their faces, dye their hair purple, stick (all kinds of) needles in their arms & drag themselves around like extras from Mad Max. (Except of course the Dem pols, who have perfectly FINE lifestyles. 😏)
My kids were little when The Christmas Story came out in the ‘80’s. I loved it because it was the closest to what I grew up with in the ‘50’s. My kids never quite got it, but it still makes me laugh.
"A Christmas Story" is family viewing for Christmas day afternoon. My kids love it. The "old man" character reminds them of their grandfather and they think Ralphie is hysterical. We quote the movie endlessly. After "It's a Wonder Life," it is my favorite Christmas movie. I haven't watched the sequel movie released a few years ago, but I hear it is very good.
"Don't give me that. You been smooching everybody! Snuffy, Al, Leo... Little Moe with the gimpy leg, Cheeks, Boney Bob, Cliff... I could go on forever, baby."
I promise you my youngest loves it because he would have been exactly that clever in that situation. Also, he’s acted like a 40-year-old since he was about 9, so I really have no doubt he would have been fine at home alone.
Our older kids are 7 and 10 years older than him, and when they were like 16 and 19 I used to say I’d trust him home alone for the weekend way more than them. 😂😂
Juju—I thought mine was too until recently. He and his older brother (now both adults) started telling on eachother at a family gathering. I think my shock at what they got away with was the best part—for them.
Smart kid. My only sib was an older brother just a year ahead of me. He was a terrible student and a class clown sort of kid. Teachers would read off names the first day and give me 'the look" luckily for them I was the opposite.
Nope, haven't watched any new Christmas movies lately and watching them doesn't change my feelings for America one way or the other. Christmas movies are like eating chocolates. A sweet treat but lacking substance. I do like looking at homes that go way overboard on the decorations. When they get them to Las Vegas strip level, I love it.
I mourn our house yard decor of the past. For 15 straight years our house was the one people drove specifically out of their way to in our neighborhood. I e had people knock on our door and thank us for our decorations. One lady gave us a neighborhood award with a bottle of wine. Lol
It wasn’t because it was overdone like the musical entertainment houses of today, but because it was simply stunning and breathtaking as you turned onto our street, like a Christmas card. We sat at the very end of the street lower down facing straight back up the street and it gave a cozy elegance of Christmas lights, including a lit realistic deer family traveling through our front yard. Not only did my husband place icicles from every peak, but he also ran a straight line of large white bulbs above them outlining the peaks. It was a really stunning effect. Icicle lights inside every window completed the warmth. We even placed red and white lights around a large pine tree in our front yard and my electrician husband bravely climbed it every year to place a huge star at the very top. It was the largest Christmas tree for many miles. He no longer can climb around our steep roof to place the icicles and straights, and the tree is too big for an older man to work with. So now we have just ground level bushes and wreaths/decor. I string red and white lights tightly round the tree trunks to give a better pop. Compared to those years before it feels so bare and empty. It’s still pretty but nothing like the festiveness we used to be able to share for the neighborhood to enjoy.
Luckily about 4 years ago another house on another nearby street DID do an entertainment house with light show and music. Massive. So I get to walk over with the dog and sit on the provided bench to enjoy it. I knocked on their door and thanked them. ❤️
Sounds nice. There's one place about 20 mins from my house that goes crazy with those inflatable giant characters. The yard is filled with them. Looks ok when they are lit up and inflated but during the day, they don't turn them on and it looks like someone spilled their laundry across the yard. ha ha
This sounds amazing. I’m sorry you can’t decorate like you enjoyed in the past but I agree that tasteful Christmas lights and decorations add a special beauty to this season of celebration. I always deeply appreciate a well-decorated house too! It doesn’t need to be over the top - just intentional and a recognition of Christmas. Every year I also have begun - not necessarily intentionally- comparing how many and how intensely people decorate for Halloween vs Christmas. It concerns me that the decoration for Halloween - the ideological antithesis of Christmas - is growing so much. Maybe more a reflection of a consumer mentality…but concerning nonetheless.
I do like some of the older ones but the new stuff they are cranking out--I'm looking at you Hallmark--is pretty insipid. And remakes are unnecessary when the original was a classic. I saw a remake of It's a Wonderful Life with Marlo Thomas in the George Bailey role and it made me cringe. I used to be in the TV business and had to watch a LOT of really bad Christmas fare for my job. They remade The Bishops Wife, too. Wasn't necessary.
A girlfriend and I were at Macy’s a few days ago and the clerk wished us a Merry Christmas. It was so refreshing. My friend lived the first 45 years of her life in Oakland and she remarked that one had to be really careful what one said this time of year.
AJF, I imagine, and that's all it is, 'imagining', that that attitude came from education somewhere. Someone smarter than me (Winston Churchill, I think) said, "If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart; if you are not a conservative when you are old, you have no brain. Give them time for their brains to work.
If they only knew that the X in Xmas is more honorable. Just discovered this truth when a preacher explained why it was done. It is actually quite beautiful!
I hear you. Young family of seven. We are big fans of DJT (bigger fans of Jesus!) but we also are not seeing this amazing economy we’re being told about. It’s tighter than it’s ever been. But I wouldn’t trade tight finances under Trump, with the hope of improvement, and an admin that cheers for Christian holidays, for tight finances under Harris whose people thought Christians (or anyone less than absolutely reprobate), should be pushed out of society and actively persecuted. (And we experienced this first hand under Biden.) It’s tough sometimes but not anything like it would have been if the globalist policies continued unchecked.
I agree with you for the most part. Trump was better than the other options, but I don't think he was a -great- option. His policies are inflationary and driving the cost of living higher. Hopefully, and that's a lot of hope, the long term end will be better, but at this rate the outlook is not good. I am my mid 30s and my husband is getting close to 40. We started having kids as soon as we got married, but that happened just as home prices went through the roof. Now home ownership is all but out of the picture for us and Trump's policies are no help. A 50 year mortgage?! Pleeeeeeasse- the economic illiteracy is outstanding. I am in firm disagreement with the notion that the fact that things could be worse means that things are good.
Eva, I am sorry, truly, that things are tough for you. They are for a lot of people. It's no bed of roses here, but the point of my comment was that there is HOPE. Yes, I love the Lord too and am here having died in the operating room twice a few years ago. What the president is trying to do won't be accomplished all overnight. We have been on a terrible course for several years, and it takes real time to make changes at the top that will come to help those of us way down the food change, BUT they will get better. Politics have become about money, not helping the American people. Having been around a considerably long time, I have seen a number of bad and good times. The future has better markings for good than bad. Hang in there. Let me know what I might be able to do personally to help.
That’s not really true - there are many beloved religious Christmas songs: Silent Night, Away in a Manger, Ave Maria, O Come All Ye Faithful, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Holy Night, Mary Did You Know, Joy to the World, etc. They may not get as extensive airplay but these & more are on MY playlist (secular songs too).
Yes. There are lots of songs about Christ’s birth that are played on the radio. I’d add God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman and The Little Drummer Boy to those. And the Pentatonix group Jeff cited sings quite a few Christ centered songs.
O Come, O Come Emmanuel is a favorite, sung adagio and with great reverence is a Christmas must. And to hear the Mr. sing O Holy Night a capella in his beautiful baritone, especially when he gets to "Fall on your knees" always raises goosebumps and brings tears to my eyes. It is even better if he has a bit of cold and can drop into his "basso profondo/profundo"! I just love the sound of that man's voice!
Yes!! I love those two also ❤️❤️❤️ I used to be able to sing well and I loved singing these beautiful Christmas songs but damaged my voice so can’t any longer and it makes me terribly sad 😞
Go Tell It on the Mountain is so joyful, I love it too!
I am so sorry you are no longer able to sing as you did. I know it is not the same but G-d does hear the song of your heart and He loves your heart's praise.
I think The Little Drummer Boy is one of the worst Christmas songs ever…just a personal observation related to musical preferences. BUT there are several versions out there that the season is just incomplete without. For my money the absolute best is this gem by the inimitable Ray Charles. First heard it back in the 90’s. Take a listen , you’ll be glad you did.
Agreed. I never liked that song until I heard the for King and Country live version. It’s pretty good. By which I mean it is now one of my favorite Christmas songs.
My three year old loves every Christmas carol we teach him! (He picks them up after hearing is sing them just once.) he is LOVING God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen right now!
Agree, there certainly a lot of off--target Christmas songs, Based, but for each one there is a Christian song worth at least 5 of them. Here's one worth ten:
Fun fact. Never listened to him, but a friend gave me a short book written by his mother. She had been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, and even another son who was an MD said no hope. She said "not going to happen", and she cured herself by doing nothing more than keeping a positive mental attitude and appealing to her faith. That shows you the role emotions and faith play in disease control.
We lost a family friend yesterday because she just gave up and wanted to be with her husband who died about a year ago. She physically deteriorated. A positive attitude is essential.
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
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Use your smile to change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile.” —Unknown
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
It takes 4 muscles to smile and over 30 to frown. Your body tries to point you in the right direction which tells you 'tards have to work day and night to be so miserable.
So true! That’s why evil people are ugly from the inside out. Plus a smile on a less than pretty face is what you see first and it makes a permanent positive impression of that person.
It is not coincidence that many spouses die soon after losing their soul mate. The body and soul and consciousness are integral. When you tell your body you no longer want to live, your body usually says "OK".
As a young adult I always hated Christmas music, can't really say why except that it felt forced and contrived.
Now that I'm a few decades older, and infinitely more serious about my faith, I realize I love real Christmas music, that is the hymns. We sang "O Holy Night" in church yesterday and it was beautiful and incredibly moving. I now realize what I despised (and still do) was the secular Christmas music, "Winter Wonderland", "Silver Bells", "White Christmas", and all the stuff about Santa Claus. It sang about everything except Christ, intentionally I've come to believe.
Here's a factoid most people probably don't know, nearly all of those secular Christmas songs, came out of Hollywood, and were written by non-Christians. Look it up. No wonder they wrote about snowmen rather than Christ. The country wasn't singing about snowmen and sleigh rides during Christmas before Hollywood popularized it.
Have others noticed that K-LOVE is playing the secular Christmas songs? I listen to Christian radio because I want to hear songs that glorify God, like "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" this time of year. Why in the world are they playing songs about sleigh rides? Seems like a funny thing for a Christian radio station to do.
Especially since there are so many actual Christmas songs about Christ’s birth! Lots of more obscure ones that they could play instead of the secular songs.
I actually just laughed out loud! Those two songs were discussed last night at our annual Christmas party with our Bible Study group! I know, I know, they are secular songs, but the hippopotamus song came up on the random playlist.
I don’t think this is quite true. There are myriad songs about Jesus, but Christmas has become a holiday celebrated by both Christians and secular Americans, so songs we hear in public are more likely to be secular versions about Santa and snow.
My favorite is what I call O Night Divine. I never know the actual title. I feel God every time it plays - the “fall on your knees” line chokes me up and I get tears in my eyes. The Christmas songs about Jesus move me deeply.
BFM, I only listen to Christian Christmas music. Well and some of the cute songs with my 5yo granddaughter... Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 🤗
I think anyone who stops to think about it, knows Yashuah wasn't born Dec 25. That date is the pagan celebration of Saturnalia, the Winter Solstice. Here is the account from angels who witnessed the birth, according to the Urantia Book:
Early in the morning of August 20 they resumed their journey, reaching Jerusalem before noon, visiting the temple, and going on to their destination, arriving at Bethlehem in midafternoon.122:7.7 The inn was overcrowded, and Joseph accordingly sought lodgings with distant relatives, but every room in Bethlehem was filled to overflowing. On returning to the courtyard of the inn, he was informed that the caravan stables, hewn out of the side of the rock and situated just below the inn, had been cleared of animals and cleaned up for the reception of lodgers. Leaving the donkey in the courtyard, Joseph shouldered their bags of clothing and provisions and with Mary descended the stone steps to their lodgings below. They found themselves located in what had been a grain storage room to the front of the stalls and mangers. Tent curtains had been hung, and they counted themselves fortunate to have such comfortable quarters.122:7.8 Joseph had thought to go out at once and enroll, but Mary was weary; she was considerably distressed and besought him to remain by her side, which he did. Bible References122:8 THE BIRTH OF JESUS
122:8.1 All that night Mary was restless so that neither of them slept much. By the break of day the pangs of childbirth were well in evidence, and at noon, August 21, 7 B.C., with the help and kind ministrations of women fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a male child. Jesus of Nazareth was born into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for such a possible contingency, and laid in a near-by manger.
This isn't actually true (the pagan part, that is; it's generally agreed that "jesus most likely wasn't born on December 25" is correct). The true reason is even weirder: early Christians had a superstition that holy men would die on the same day they were conceived, and therefore "obviously" he was born 9 months after the date of easter, ergo December 25. The historical evidence actually suggests that pagans later moved their solstice celebrations to compete with Christian gatherings, the opposite of what's popularly believed.
Here's a good video by Wes Huff that goes into it further for those who are interested:
Try this one. One of my favorites, and unfortunately not many seem to know it. The album version that has a Silent Night/Away in a Manger melody lead into it is even better, but hard to find outside actually listening to the album.
It’s written by non-Christians, the people who are hell bent on secularizing Christmas. When Barbra Streisand and Mel Tormé issued Christmas albums some years ago, they didn’t stick to just the secular tunes. No, they included “Oh Holy Night” and other religious songs.
The message: Christmas is for everyone, and you don’t need to celebrate the birth of Christ to celebrate the day.
You’re right, many are atrocious, but what’s even worse are the “so-called” Christmas movies. Die Hard…really? If they’re made during the Christmas season, they’re labeled a Christmas movie. I suppose when the Jews (who don’t believe in Christ) run Hollywood, this is what you get. Even some old favorites like “It’s a Wonderful Life” is not overtly Christian, moral, but certainly not Christian. Music and movies both examples of who sets the tone in our culture.
Yes most “Christmas” movies are set at Christmas time or are about winter or secular celebrations and not Christ’s birth. I do like the Peanuts version (though it’s not a movie) because they actually include a quote from the Bible.
Peanuts is one of my favorites too. I’ve read that Charles Schulz, who was a devout Christian, was adamant about including that verse of scripture in his story.
Jeff, have you reported on HR2289? This is part of a federal takeover that will preempt local authority and the towns' ability to fight cell tower installs, and AI data centers.
Thank you Dr. Linda for chiming in! Good to know - it's truly the biggest story I think - a total coup d'etat, while all else is window trimming distraction.
1. Children: Protecting minors from harmful content and ensuring that AI systems do not expose them to inappropriate material.
2. Conservatives: Addressing political biases in AI systems that could marginalize conservative voices or perspectives.
3. Communities: Considering the impact of AI on local communities, ensuring that AI development is beneficial and does not negatively affect social structures.
4. Creators: Safeguarding the rights of content creators to ensure they maintain ownership and control over their work in the age of AI, which can use and replicate creative outputs.
—“or if you’re not trans, you can’t comment on the merits of bright purple eye shadow.”
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It is ridiculous how doctors are held up as experts on vaccines when so many of them don’t really seem to know much about vaccines besides the “fact” that they are “safe and effective.”
Watching narratives unravel brings me almost as much joy as Christmas carols. Covid jabs, crime data, the economy…good news all around. I think people feel it…even people in my super duper blue neck of the woods seem less grumpy and more smiley.
The best thing this administration can do is hire people that have been harmed by the communist democrat party. Whether it be medical establishment, the justice department or the judiciary, people that have been unjustly harmed by these communists are the best people to fix the problems. It’s very revealing that Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., General Flynn and the list goes on, we’re all lifelong democrats until the democrats went over the edge. Once out of the hive they were attacked by the left. I wanted to mention Dr. Malone who was also a lifelong Democrat called Peter Marks and asked if the problem of the mRNA uncontrollably going throughout the body and damaging organs etc. had been fixed, Marks lied and said yes. After two shot Dr. Malone not only got covid but had severe adverse reactions where he thought he might die. Remember Malone was pushing for drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to be used and was cancelled. Another victim of the communist democrat party. Regardless people that have been harmed are the best people to fix this Communist/Marxist cancer that has infected the country.
Personally I find that detergent and fabric softeners are most horrible. I used to be able to buy thrift store clothes, but now I can't. I try getting the "perfume" odor out by every device known to man, it is permanent. Whoever came up with this played on "you stink" and it is as pervasive as EMF and off gassing of carpets.
I know, horrible! I found that if I wash an item from one of these stores and then hang it from a tree in the fresh air (and the clothes hanger has to be tied to a branch, because literal blowing in the wind is essential, lol), that is the only way. And it can take many days.
I don't have a place to hang things and I think the sun and wind might help. I've used vodka, vinegar, baking soda, washing three times. The trouble with washing is you can't wash it with your clothes that DON'T smell because it gets on those clothes. It has to be evil for that to happen. Don't get me started about the laundry isles in stores. Sorry...
We can't find jobs!!! If people could find jobs, then I would agree with "the country not being in a recession." There is no other way to explain how horrible the job market is... completely insane to have people looking for jobs and not getting any interviews.
I read an article about a month ago, 23 states are saying they are in recession. I don’t think things have gotten better in 4 weeks either. I think it’s worse.
And Musk, until Gavin et al. told him he was "non-essential" to the economy of California (I use the word "economy" ironically in this instance) ~ unleashing him to do what he could at DOGE for the economy of *all* Americans.
Apparently, the only cops at the beach when the shooting began were four female officers. Whether they had guns on them hasn't been talked about. Often the police only carry pepper spray and battens. Not like here. I'm so thankful the police here carry arms. There's a lot of talk swirling around why the cops didn't react. Aussie has become a strange country. NZ is the same.
Don't take everything we are told at face value. I smelled a serious rat with this shooting. My first impression with ALL of these shootings, whether or not anyone actually died, is that whatever we are told officially is a lie. Today, others I follow have said the same thing. Canada, Australia, NZ, and Great Britain all have very highly controlled media and narratives.
Go find Avi Yemeni (Rebel News) on YT or Rumble. Live reporting from on the ground, interviews with people who were actually there. Then make up your own mind.
My understanding is police in Australian DO typically carry guns, but only handguns, while the shooters had shotguns and a rifle, and witnesses say the police were mostly taking cover or running away for ten minutes, though one of them did eventually shoot one of the attackers. Pretty disappointing TBH.
That entire story is fake. A psyop from start to finish. That bandaged head guy? Also a crisis actor for Oct 7. Statistically impossible. They are feat mongering with their fake media propaganda machine once again.
I had a guy say Merry Christmas to me the other day at the store. I stopped and heartily said Merry Christmas back. I asked about his plans etc. Such a nice, simple exchange! How could we ever let the thought police brow beat us into the generic Happy Holidays! I love Idaho
Pentatonix should do some penance for their creepy pro-jab commercials during Biden's jab roll out. They squandered their amazing gifts on supporting that grift.
I'm trying not to stay mad at every public figure who promoted the jab grift. I can believe that they, like so many others, were duped. But I'd sure like to hear them say so.
I don’t stay mad but I won’t listen to them. So many other good options out there who - as far as I know - never prostituted themselves. I also would expect a public apology if they cared about our views.
"Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ, I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, "in Christ." —Watchman Nee
Good to see you💕!
I was thinking the same. I hope all has been reasonably well
I was just thinking the same thing!
We are weak, He is strong - YES!! YESHUA LOVES ME...The Bible tells me so!!
So happy to see you on C & C Group, Jayson....I know you were having "deep waters" a year ago - how are YOU now, brother in Christ?
https://imgur.com/a/gY7aM3v [image]
"Ignore the storm, focus on Me" -Jesus (Paraphrased)
I just inserted this "Look at Me, Not the Storm" graphic as the centerpiece on my desktop and fit it to the entire screen on my 24" monitor--it is quite "calming" to my spirit, Jayson.
Again...THANK YOU for sharing this to the C & C group - we ALL need to heed our "Master's voice", don't we!!
What a POWERFUL image - I just saved it to my C drive, Jason - danke!!
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It IS so good to see you!
" For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinthians 12:10 Indeed, we are more than conquerors in Him who loves us.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? – Romans 8:31
Thank you for this post. Blessings to you and a Merry Christmas 🎄
Fabulous post that supports my reply to Janice so beautifully. Nice to see you Tri❤️
Merry Christmas, TriTorch! Happy to see you here!
"like many of us, Levi was initially optimistic about the vaccines and willingly took the first two jabs." Really?? That means Levi, and "many" falsely believed that Health Comes from Needles and Like the Midwestern half way renegade decry such knowledge. Woo Hoo.
The fork in the road occured many decades ago. The Philosophy of Health clearly delineated the correct turn. Celebrating Politico's backpedaling is not the way forward. Neither is proving
the obvious with "data" Health does not come from needles, the short course.
Evidence convinced no fool. Have the pedigree, doctorate level education.
Ed Dowd, a top of the tree Wall Street Analyst was first out of the gate with Data.
20 million dead from the mRNA Quaxcine. That was years ago... Widely published, and here we are crowing about Dr. Levi and his "data". Breadcrumbs...
About time to pivot to scripture?? and what exactly were "my people destroyed for lack of?"
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For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
— Hebrews 10:30-31 LSB
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That's a verse sorely needed today. Thank you, Janice.
“The Lord will judge HIS people” it just occurred to me we often sit around and grouse about why bad people succeed in getting away with breaking laws and sinning, seemingly without consequences. Possibly it is the surest sign of their fruits: they are not “His” people. Their earthly rewards are fleeting and their punishment will be an eternal one, not one in this present life. This verse is for His Flock, not them. So why fall into the hands of the living God if it is so terrifying? Why become “His” people? Because the greatest power and blessing you could ever possibly imagine and achieve in this life can only be accessed when under His cloak. You basically have to be willing to risk the most severe judgement known to man in order to access the most extreme blessings and grace. Follow God to access the greatest rewards and walk a straight path to avoid His greatest judgement. It is the only way.
Terrifying, yet He is our safe place. Try to figure that one out.
The living Holy God.
Amen. Glory to His name.
My gosh, I JUST shared this on another article! Literally 30 minutes ago!
Safe in His mighty right hand.. no place I would rather be!
Amen
Jeeze!!
Sounds like a sadistic, psychopath who loves tormenting his own creations!
@Abiding Dude Not at all. But he *does* give his beloved creations free will, never forcing them to return his love or accept his abundant mercy. It wouldn’t be much of a relationship if he did force us, would it?
While I think the Dude's position is pretty firmly established, for the sake of any other reader who might be bothered by this:
Is it "sadistic" to discipline your children, even in ways they don't like or don't understand the reason for? ("But WHYYYYYYYYYY does it matter if I pick up my clothes off the floor anyway????? How can you be so cruel to make me miss the party because of it? You're a horrible parent and you don't love me!!!!")
Of course, this will only work if you are already willing to believe that God has good and loving reasons for causing or allowing harm to happen to humans, but if you don't believe that then you already weren't going to be interested in this explanation anyway. But for those who believe in the resurrection, all harm in this life is temporary and part of our growth into "the image of Christ".
Even anti semantic.
You could try reading the entirety of Hebrews 10 for some more context...
"Levi is a brilliant data expert...."
Well, that just won't move the needle. Data doesn't fly these days (unless government sanctioned). Throw it on the trash heap with "proof" and "evidence." What's the TV say? The Rectangle of Hate, Pain and Misery never lies. I simply can't carry on my day without the guidance of my research free knee-jerk reactions. Ed Dowd has compiled enough relevant (damning) data on the miracle covid shot to cover a football field....but of course, he's not a clinical doctor either. (You'd have to know when to prescribe "gender reassignment" surgery to earn that coveted distinction). Dowd has been relegated to background noise.
UPDATE: at the risk of boring you all with a tutorial on data, I offer this:
data in my world is a spreadsheet full of numbers. More than any human can digest by themselves. I have to plot the data, fit it to a line or a curve, figure out what the line or curve means, then slice the data another way (data is collected by varying a large number of parameters in an experiment. "Slicing" the data just means plotting some result against one of those parameters).
So, as a practical matter, I don't actually "look at" data, I look at plots of the data, statistics derived from those plots, etc. That said, a wise statistician once taught me that before you apply any model, just plot the data, value 1 against value 2, value 1 against value 3, and so on to see what it looks like. Does it make sense or are there obvious goofy aspects that indicate you did the measurement wrong?
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My view on data (as a practicing PhD chemist for over 30 years) is it's just observations of nature. It can be wrong because our measurements can be wrong. Data might mean just looking out across a field to see what's "over there". Ah, a moose! No, turns out it's just some oddly shaped bushes--my eyes (data!) deceived me!
We interpret data with theory or a model. And those can be wrong. A better way to put it is the old saying (among scientists) "all theories are wrong, but some are useful." I usually add to that, and all experiments are wrong, but some yield useful data. Bottom line is every attempt we make to measure and understand something falls short of perfection. In the case of climate change, COVID therapies, the attempts of our betters fell way short. Assuming they are trying to help (jury is still out on that one!)
The models I object to are the ones used for climate where the model becomes the answer, not just a guide to understanding the observations. Same with COVID: data should mean "the reality on the ground" and any model that doesn't fit the data is probably not useful.
But at the very least, no public policy of any kind should be based on such a model.
A model I objected to was by Neil Ferguson at Imperial College London, funded by Bill Gates.
Ferguson plugged In hypothetical data - “if covid were to kill such-&-such a (big) percentage of people, this many (millions) will die in the UK.”
Instant panic set in as the “authorities” sternly publicized the results of Ferguson’s fevered (well paid) imagination.
Mass testing, coerced injections, masking & lockdowns were all justified in large part by reference to Ferguson’s made up “statistics”.
Yes!!! That and the article on Medium by Tomas Pueyo that went viral in March 2020:
https://tomaspueyo.medium.com/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56
All about the modeling and all conjecture 😡
Well .. I have data for you… almost everyone I know that is covid vaxxed has suddenly died or has some dirt of recent cancer or had emergency heart something or another or heart attack suddenly
Opps I touched the wrong area trying to correct that post.
Anyways it is insane how many people I know personally that have died or are dealing with some not too good health issue (I could go on forever with the list) that just so happened to coincide with getting the vax. Sorry but true. So there is some data right there. It’s crazy. None of these people had problems like this before.
I fully agree with your findings (experience). Mine is the same.
And in every one of your points, one will usually see what they want to see in the data. Sort of a Rorshac ink blot test. Only the most diligent will change their preconceptions based on the evidence.
and, only the most diligent will go the further step of REPEATING the experiment or parts of it to PROVE it will repeat the response first "measured".
"The Science" hollers that correlation is not causation while pretending tools like the Bradford-Hill Criteria do not exist. By this we know they are selling narrative for the sake of control, and are not practicing ACTUAL science.
It seems like all of science, and all of life, is funhouse mirrors.
Our "No Kings!" neighbors and officials will be proclaiming their enemies (us) are "Anti-Science, Book banning, DATA DENIERS!!!!" even as THEY reject scientific method, perform woke editing or disappearing of books, and reject all objective data for politically-doctored, ideologically-driven data in their quest to install a one-party authoritarian regime that weaponizes democracy, empowers the obedient dehumanized technocratic-bureaucracy, all to amplify a placid debasement of the Bourgeoisie US Constitution to make it subservient to Globalist-elite control and manipulation to fit into the New World Socialist Order
tell them a new Quaxcine is soon to be released.
When they "bite" suggest it is a cure for stupid"
Then retreat.
😆 thanks for making me laugh, Truth Seeker! Just what I needed!
dire times, may as well have some fun with it
Ditto. No joke.
But sometimes not so fun 😑😕
Gotta take the good with the bad. Life is FUN!
As long as no jabs or “medical” masks are involved 😛
The one thing required: this substack, by The Right Honorable Mr. Childers, Esq.
and I would like to offer that even AFTER a reasonable model and correction has been legislated the correction should NOT be precipitated upon the entire population.
Guinea pig counties should be randomly picked around the country to PROVE beyond a doubt that the "fix" works without significant harmful side effects and that it is a big enough net benefit over the "control" counties that any reasonable person without statistical training would easily agree to the simple numbers comparison 2 years hence.
A wise person once said, "if you need statistics to see the effect, it's not a real effect."
This came from a world I lived in back then where we were trying to see a small signal in a lot of noise. Sometimes you really, really want to see that signal...but if you try too hard, you fool yourself!
Dowd is fabulous.
I wish he would put his credentials in the top corner of every stack, every tweet, every post.
Wasn’t he a high level Blackrock stock analyst or something of that nature?
Ran and grew a substantial fund at Black Rock. Starting from $2-3 billion to $13 or $16 billion (I don't recall the exact numbers). Most of all, I like the combination of his street smarts in terms of how the system works combined with his data driven approach. If anything, I think he understates the importance of some economic data/trends. My guess is that he doesn't want to cause panic. Check out some of his YouTube interviews.
He was with a private equity firm that got PURCHASED by Blackrock.
Highly recommended. He spoke out early about the jabs as well.
He was a top tier Wall Street Data Cruncher and first out of the gate with
Insurance Actuary data, several years ago. Already 20 million dead with a much
higher # disabled... Direct from the horses mouth...
Thank you! he’s fallen out of my stack— or substack. I need to find out what happened.
Lets say, we do what we are given to do.
That is enough...
Spot on! I’m starting to see there’s a difference between data and statistics. Statistics is the narrative—and that’s what everyone focus, unfortunately ignoring the data, with terms like “statistics undetectable.”
I’m starting to see there’s a difference between data and statistics. Statistics is the narrative—and that’s what everyone focus, unfortunately ignoring the data, with terms like “statistics undetectable.”
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-childs-death-was-statistically
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/weaponized-logichow-correlation-vs
Data is real, but to your point, still may not move people. Hopefully some can see this real data and be moved.
And Retsef Levi, a Jew, lives in Massachusetts aka cold California as far as corruption and mismanagement of money goes...which also means being taxed for virtually everything possible. When someone with a mind like his suddenly looks at the facts and data and does a turnaround in this environment, it SHOULD make people sit up and take notice. Warning: Spin doctors don't need a medical degree either.
Retsef
Thanks! Corrected.
Statistics are whatever you want them to be, regardless of the data. Business Stats 101.
Scott Adams has said many times that all public data is bull$hit. I'm afraid it's a pretty accurate statement. Climate data anyone??
Agreed! It seems to me that all but very simple, straight forward statistics seem like methods to manipulate data.
You know average, mean, etc.
I've never met a set of data that can't be forced to tell/hide the story of your choice.
True
I don't hang around data parties much Pat, but my common sense tells me you are 100% correct.
You mean like “relative risk vs. absolute risk”? Gee, where have we seen that recently!?
Statins. 50 % decrease in relative risk of a heart attack, from 2 % to 1 %. 1 % reduction in absolute risk. That is the damnable truth about statins. Oh, and they also cause in increase in muscle pain in over 90 % o recipients, and a significant increase in Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimers. Well worth the risk though.
That statin brain fog? Oh that is ‘all in your head’ ;)
Exactly!
Roland, do I detect some sarcasm in your conclusion???
diet and lifestyle modification can usually do a far better and safer job than statins.
Ha..so true. It was the one meaningful takeaway from my Quantitative Analysis MBA class years ago. I learned the concept so well, I graded for the class the next year.
I know. I read financial statements and just laugh half the time. The other half I dig for actual info.
Interestingly, I had a discussion about data yesterday. The person I was talking to just didn’t get the concept of data.
Never talk numbers with bookies. You'll never win.
people are woefully uneducated.
Perhaps the problem is more that people are overly educated in the wrong things and in the wrong ways.
Not a lot of people have to work with data, therefore they don't necessarily understand the data.
I'm sorry. Some of us are "creative" thinkers and zeros, no matter how many, mean nothing to the likes of me. I'm a similar way logical thinker can't envision how to help me with my creation until they've seen the end product. 😑 Some men are from Mars and so are some women and visa versa. Babel is in us all. 😝 It's just a test for sixty+ years.
Correction: "...IN a similar way a logical....
I’m not sure why you directed this to me. I have no issue with creative thinkers. I consider myself creative on multiple levels.
Actually it was a cut to my own challenges with logic. Nothing personal against you. I'm very sorry you took it that way. Yes, I have communication challenges too. Sigh....
I thought it was just in the wrong place I really wasn’t distressed. : ) Just confused
When one attempts to explain complex topics to those with no education
they are dizzy and con-fused...
It makes me dizzy and confused as well and tired
They could see someone die immediately from the shot, multiple times, and still deny the shots kill.
They can even get Covid over and over again after being jabbed and boosted and boosted, and still say,” Thank God I got jabbed, or I would have been so much sicker.” Meanwhile, I, who have never been jabbed for COVID, got it once and haven’t been sick since. I have coworkers, who keep getting vaccines and keep getting sick. It is insane!
I know. I had a friend post on FB about how she’d gone in to get her umpteenth booster, wasn’t feeling well the next day (as in body aches, headache, sick), went to the gym anyway for 45 minutes before going home. Then she said, “Well, if I didn’t get it, it would’ve been worse.” Yeah, no. I don’t get the clot shot and I don’t get sick, so no. Yeah, I told her she should’ve just stayed home.
Then there’s the woman I spent a few hours talking with at my husband’s aunt’s Christmas party. She’s a friend of his aunt and a teacher. She told me that, pre-COVID shots, her family was healthy. Always healthy. After the shots, they are sick all of them time. One of her sons is constantly fatigued and not the same. (She has young children.) He used to go outside and play all of the time. Now, he is too tired. She’s a public school teacher, blames the shots for her family’s health problems, and refuses to get them since the first round. She homeschools her kids now.
It’s sad, and criminal, she had to find out the hard way. However, now, she questions all vaccines and doesn’t trust doctors anymore.
One family at a time, I guess.
We can only see things that are in our frame of reference. Maybe Dr. Levi has given people another frame to view things?
Bingo! Paradigms - "frame of reference" - must be continually challenged. Our paradigms must be continually challenged by new data.
The science is settled. Didn't you hear?
Steve Kirsch is another.
Science without data is dogma - or worse.
Yep.
Exactly what the Covidian “authorities” did & still try to do.
“The vaccines are safe”.
“Where’s the data showing that?”
“Shut up! Don’t ask! Censored.”
“The shots will stop the virus, dead”.
“Where’s the…?”
“The masks will…”
Kirsch has used his great wealth mostly favorably. He attempted to "debate"
Andrew Kaufman and was totally out of his league regarding the "virus" hoax.
Well worth a listen for those who think they know something about scientific method
as regards "virus"
An Irish engineer on YouTube was the first place I was hearing that the real data of Covid wasn’t matching the worldwide narrative. This was around august 2020. My spidy senses were activated big time and tumblers began falling into place as the Plandemic went forward.
Ivor Cummins...
Personally, I listen to him and others should too. His economic perspectives are considered and when he starts seeing problems, they're very real.
Most MDs couldn’t do this data analysis. We all have different gifts
Then perhaps they should give greater consideration to those who have this specialized gift.
That is a curious thing about Dowd.
accurate assessment on several points
Dowd has largely disingaged, there are details...
Jeff, you may want to do an article about my appearance last week on "Redacted" with Clayton Morris concerning the vaccine-induced "micro-clots," a pregnant women study, and video of two long-time Iowa embalmers admitting that they have been seeing the WHITE FIBROUS CLOTS for the last 5 years. After being up for just one day, my "Redacted" interview already has over 300,000 views and 4,200 comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlI4gd39xfM
Or perhaps an article on all the fetal demises and deaths of children that the funeral industry is seeing.
https://x.com/PatriJosephM87/status/2000260066147242040
Tom I was surprised & glad to see a random someone posted it to Facebook. Of course I reposted it. People are waking up to the truth. Whether they want to or not. Thank you for never giving up & giving in & showing bravery in spite of the opposition still trying to stop the truth.
God is completely in control though .. we may not feel it or see it but HIS word tells us so . Romans 8:28 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.
Thank you, Leslie, for all your support! -Tom
Tom... any thoughts on this?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IQjuvkuOsrlE/
I don't know much about chlorine dioxide as a treatment, although I have spoken with the owner of the company that makes "Snoot Spray" as one of their chlorine dioxide products.
I would suggest looking at some of Dr. Pierre Kory's Substack articles where he talks about the possible use of chlorine dioxide to help "detox" the body of the damaging spike protein produced by the Covid jabs.
Kory is great, but there is plenty of info available direct from Dr. Kalcker, who is the expert on CDS.
The link above is just a sample. I have been using CDS regularly for years.
You should spend more time researching it... IMHO, it is head and shoulders above any other substance for healing a broad range of issues...
Amen, Leslie!
FB still censoring; comments with legitimate links to research that does not regurgitate the narrative seem to never get beyond “posting…” Checked back a couple of times; nope.
I’m not at all surprised about facebook irregardless of the censoring we will never stop putting truth out there. Everyday I look for opportunities to share about the BIG fat lies of the past 4 + yrs & share the good news about Jesus … one person at a time. That’s where our hope is . Facebook can flipping go fly a kite 🪁
Thanks Jeff, for another great post.
Jabs - Similar to Dr. Levi, I and my wife jumped on the first two doses of the “vaccine” and added a booster. I stopped after the first booster, wife continued on for two more. I can’t point to anything specifics in our health as a result of the jabs, but we are older, and it seems the younger demographic has been hit harder.
The tarrif discussion is VERY interesting and very good news. Gloom and doom hasn’t materialized and the “experts” are looking kind of foolish, to say the least.
Love the bit about ubering 19 miles to school. Reminds me of my mother and how she would tell us about being a teacher in north-central Nebraska when she had to walk miles in waste deep snow to get to her one-room school house and it was uphill… both ways! LOLOL. Thing is, a good bit of that story was true - waste deep snow and a one-room school house, which I forgot to mention was w/o heat. Uphill was a bit a grade and one way of course, and my grandfather would drive her to the end of the country lane from where she would then walk in the snow… may having to navigate some drifts that were waist deep and so on. Whatever, makes for some funny discussions… wish Mom was still here to laugh about all that.
Thanks again, Jeff.
As I posted earlier my wife has chronic fatigue. She sleeps 12 to 15 hours a day. This all started after she received the shots and a booster.
Jake - I pray you find some helpful information in the treatment protocols listed here. The IMA was previously the FLCCC
https://imahealth.org/protocol-categories/treatment/
Hi, any thoughts on this?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IQjuvkuOsrlE/
Abiding Dude - I think CD may be a game changer.
Dr. Pierre Kory has a book coming out.
https://waronchlorinedioxide.com/
Bravo, Laura! Keep up the great work and spread the CD word!
This may help...
https://drkalcker.substack.com/p/a-skeptics-in-depth-guide-to-cds
BTW: I wonder of Dr. Kalcker has commented on the "fibrous clots" and if CD can dissolve them?
Jake, have you seen or heard about transdermal nicotine helping with post jab symptoms?
AI: "A case study suggests that transcutaneous nicotine administration may lead to near-immediate improvement in symptoms such as fatigue, anosmia, and ageusia in patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome, with one patient reporting symptom resolution within nine days of treatment."
Dr Bryan Ardis raves about nicotine for dementia, Parkinsons and preventing viral disease... I bet he has thoughts on its effects on jab poisoning...
I still think CDS is a primary treatment. Dr Kalcker is the expert.
You might find this interesting...
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IQjuvkuOsrlE/
I’m sure your mother’s snow was waist deep rather than waste deep snow because waste deep is rather undefined.
Tom Haviland, can you tell us (please!) what the Iowa embalmers saw?
By which I mean, what was the incidence of white clots? Was it half of all embalmings? 10%? And how many embalmings are we talking about: 10? 1000?
Some numbers here would help assess the importance/impact of what they are reporting.
If the clots are >10% and over 1000 people, it's not a statistical blip!
I talked on the phone about two weeks ago to the older gentleman on the video, Mr. Dana Goodell, who sits on the Iowa Funeral Directors Association's Board of Directors. Dana said that he is currently seeing the "white fibrous clots" in about 1 out of every 6 corpses (17%), which is about the same percentage as the 28 Tennessee embalmers said when I administered an in-person survey on 8 June 2025 at the Tennessee Funeral Directors Association Annual Convention where I was a Guest Speaker. Alabama embalmer Richard Hirschman and UK funeral director John O'Looney are STILL seeing the white fibrous clots in about 35% of their corpses. So this is STILL a SERIOUS PROBLEM! By the way, Richard Hirschman embalms over 300 bodies per year.
It’s mindblowing that more embalmers aren’t speaking up.(Thankyou for doing so).
Also mindblowing that - unlike reports of myocarditis et al - there is STILL so little coverage of these structures even in alternative media, social media.
Have you sent all your data to RFKj, Jay Bhattacharya, Retsef Levi, Robert Malone…? All those now in authority have a DUTY to listen to findings such as yours & Hirschman’s.
Yes, I have sent my data to Jay, Retsef, and Robert. They all know, but I'm still waiting for action by them concerning the embalmers and these clots.
We can include Tom havilland's information when we submit our comments to the fda. I also recommend including a link to the website nost afe and not effective.com
sandy - I included pics of the clots in my comment submitted to the FDA. Feel free to include the photos included in our latest Substack post:
https://laurakasner.substack.com/p/two-more-well-respected-embalmers
Do you think Markary is a good guy?
Honest question... I, being a bit snarky, wonder why he has not openly called for the BANNING of all mRNA jabs... RFK too!
Really need to know what percentage of the bodies had the shots and how many boosters. Maybe 90% of vaccinated bodies had the clots?? The data is interesting but incomplete.
Unfortunately, most embalmers do not get a chance to interact with the families of the deceased. So they don't get a chance to ask if the deceased took the Covid jabs or not. However, I do know several embalmers who are both embalmers AND funeral directors. Whenever they see the clots, they ask the family of the deceased if their loved one took the jabs. The answer always comes back "yes."
I tried running a "2024 Cath Lab Worker Blood Clot Survey" last year with vascular surgeons, cardiologists, and endovascular specialists because, unlike the embalmers, these doctors do have access to the Covid vaccination records of all of their patients. Unfortunately, NONE of these doctors wanted to take my survey which would have revealed that these doctors are finding the "white fibrous clots" overwhelmingly in LIVING PERSONS who have taken the jabs.
Check out the free "Clotastrophe" Substack for more answers to your questions at: LauraKasner.Substack.com
I think the point is that they had never seen the clots before the jab rollout. But interesting question about the numbers of jabs and boosters.
I would argue that had they seen these clots in individuals before the rollout of the Covid vaccine the numbers would mean less. But the biggest tell is how it was never a significant thing before the vaccine. Vaccinated vs unvaccinated would either point to whether the virus itself caused the clots or the shots, or that shedding is a real and powerful thing.
Have they been able to determine the exact composition of the "white fibrous" clots?
Mostly Fibrin? What else? Some form of nano-bots? Amyloids?
Here is a good article that covers your questions:
https://laurakasner.substack.com/p/a-horrifying-breakthrough-in-the
It seems unlikely that the exact composition of the "fibrous clots" is known... but the protocols to dissolve them are NOT known.
Until more conclusive study is done on defeating this type of clot... I would bet on CDS and DMSO, IV if appropriate, and daily high dose Lumbrokinase.
AI: "DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) has been reported in both research and anecdotal accounts to help dissolve blood clots, including fibrous clots, due to its anticoagulant, anti-inflammatory, and fibrinolytic-like properties."
Uk used the astra zeneca / chad ox first, so maybe that or that in combination with the mRNA later made for an increase in clots
From my recollection, clots were still appearing in 40% of cadavers. But maybe it was 40% back then and something like 27% even today.
Thank you. I just listened to this.
F the media. Have you talked to your neighbors? Have you looked at the Christmas decorations in your neighborhood? Your town? Everywhere? Have you watched any of the new Christmas movies? Do you feel better about America? About yourself? Your loved ones? Do you have hope again? Do you believe 2026 is going to be even better than 2025? Americans who love this country have HOPE again, some sense of 'reason' again. We are going to make it, and we are going to beat into the ground the forces of evil, foreign and domestic, who try to stop us. We WILL make America great again - one day at a time, one victory at a time, one right decision at a time. God Bless America and God Bless Christmas!
Yes!! This. That is one thing I remember about Reagan, whatever his flaws, he gave Americans hope again after the disastrous Carter administration. I think there is a lot to be said about that. Hope and optimism generate positive momentum in a way that cynicism and pessimism cannot.
I agree! That is Trump’s main ingredient. He is optimistic and gives hope! Even in the darkest days of December 2020 into 2021, he was a cheerleader for America. Even when he exaggerates, it is still a tool to make us believe we can overcome.
I attended a few of his 2020 campaign rallies in airport hangars no less, and they were so upbeat and hopeful. It is a gift of kindness too many don’t understand.
Also I think that those who furnish a steady drumbeat of negativism and hopelessness really are detrimental to this country and people in general. Hopelessness is attached to evil imo because it generally leads to some kind of destructiveness.
That’s the Democrat shtick, indeed:
“everything is terrible, America is terrible, men are… whites are… Racism is everywhere. Homophobia, xyz-phobia is everywhere, nothing can be done…”
No wonder their followers pierce their noses, tatoo their faces, dye their hair purple, stick (all kinds of) needles in their arms & drag themselves around like extras from Mad Max. (Except of course the Dem pols, who have perfectly FINE lifestyles. 😏)
I believe Trump wants to secure his place in history as one of the saviours of America, alongside Lincoln and the Roosevelts. He is well on his way.
Well said!!
💪🏼👏🏼
Reagan understood the importance of "Showmanship".
Watched Home Alone last night because the college kid is home from school and it’s his favorite. Will now do one nightly til Christmas.
My kids were little when The Christmas Story came out in the ‘80’s. I loved it because it was the closest to what I grew up with in the ‘50’s. My kids never quite got it, but it still makes me laugh.
One of my favs!
The modern sequel was actually very well done as well. Highly recommend! Very much kept the flavor and nostalgia of the first movie.
"My old man worked in profanity the way some artists work with oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master."
"A Christmas Story" is family viewing for Christmas day afternoon. My kids love it. The "old man" character reminds them of their grandfather and they think Ralphie is hysterical. We quote the movie endlessly. After "It's a Wonder Life," it is my favorite Christmas movie. I haven't watched the sequel movie released a few years ago, but I hear it is very good.
"Don't give me that. You been smooching everybody! Snuffy, Al, Leo... Little Moe with the gimpy leg, Cheeks, Boney Bob, Cliff... I could go on forever, baby."
Lol. We had it on video when my kids were younger. I almost know it by heart and still quote it regularly.
It's fun to quote movies. My daughter and I share them all the time.
There’s an excellent but lesser-known film called Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck that I highly recommend.
Just watched it last weekend on TCM for, oh, I don’t know, probably the fifth time. It’s so improbable (the babies) but so good!
I’m a Miracle on 42nd Street fan too!
That is such a fun movie!
I promise you my youngest loves it because he would have been exactly that clever in that situation. Also, he’s acted like a 40-year-old since he was about 9, so I really have no doubt he would have been fine at home alone.
Our older kids are 7 and 10 years older than him, and when they were like 16 and 19 I used to say I’d trust him home alone for the weekend way more than them. 😂😂
My youngest was like that 🤣 Sooooo much more reliable and trustworthy
Juju—I thought mine was too until recently. He and his older brother (now both adults) started telling on eachother at a family gathering. I think my shock at what they got away with was the best part—for them.
Love this!! 😁
He grew up with the benefit of their experiences. I was going to say ‘wisdom’ but that probably doesn’t apply. 🤣
He would watch them get into trouble and remember it years later and not do whatever it was. Honestly, such a great kid to raise.
Smart kid. My only sib was an older brother just a year ahead of me. He was a terrible student and a class clown sort of kid. Teachers would read off names the first day and give me 'the look" luckily for them I was the opposite.
Nope, haven't watched any new Christmas movies lately and watching them doesn't change my feelings for America one way or the other. Christmas movies are like eating chocolates. A sweet treat but lacking substance. I do like looking at homes that go way overboard on the decorations. When they get them to Las Vegas strip level, I love it.
I mourn our house yard decor of the past. For 15 straight years our house was the one people drove specifically out of their way to in our neighborhood. I e had people knock on our door and thank us for our decorations. One lady gave us a neighborhood award with a bottle of wine. Lol
It wasn’t because it was overdone like the musical entertainment houses of today, but because it was simply stunning and breathtaking as you turned onto our street, like a Christmas card. We sat at the very end of the street lower down facing straight back up the street and it gave a cozy elegance of Christmas lights, including a lit realistic deer family traveling through our front yard. Not only did my husband place icicles from every peak, but he also ran a straight line of large white bulbs above them outlining the peaks. It was a really stunning effect. Icicle lights inside every window completed the warmth. We even placed red and white lights around a large pine tree in our front yard and my electrician husband bravely climbed it every year to place a huge star at the very top. It was the largest Christmas tree for many miles. He no longer can climb around our steep roof to place the icicles and straights, and the tree is too big for an older man to work with. So now we have just ground level bushes and wreaths/decor. I string red and white lights tightly round the tree trunks to give a better pop. Compared to those years before it feels so bare and empty. It’s still pretty but nothing like the festiveness we used to be able to share for the neighborhood to enjoy.
Luckily about 4 years ago another house on another nearby street DID do an entertainment house with light show and music. Massive. So I get to walk over with the dog and sit on the provided bench to enjoy it. I knocked on their door and thanked them. ❤️
Sounds nice. There's one place about 20 mins from my house that goes crazy with those inflatable giant characters. The yard is filled with them. Looks ok when they are lit up and inflated but during the day, they don't turn them on and it looks like someone spilled their laundry across the yard. ha ha
Yeah I never liked the messy inflatables. I like tasteful elegance and placement of lights. Not gaudy.
This sounds amazing. I’m sorry you can’t decorate like you enjoyed in the past but I agree that tasteful Christmas lights and decorations add a special beauty to this season of celebration. I always deeply appreciate a well-decorated house too! It doesn’t need to be over the top - just intentional and a recognition of Christmas. Every year I also have begun - not necessarily intentionally- comparing how many and how intensely people decorate for Halloween vs Christmas. It concerns me that the decoration for Halloween - the ideological antithesis of Christmas - is growing so much. Maybe more a reflection of a consumer mentality…but concerning nonetheless.
You're right. I wish I could decorate my house like some of those. The movies are the same ... but they all end well. Love it.
There’s one I particularly like called ‘The Bishop’s Wife’. I don’t love the ending but it’s the right ending.
I do like some of the older ones but the new stuff they are cranking out--I'm looking at you Hallmark--is pretty insipid. And remakes are unnecessary when the original was a classic. I saw a remake of It's a Wonderful Life with Marlo Thomas in the George Bailey role and it made me cringe. I used to be in the TV business and had to watch a LOT of really bad Christmas fare for my job. They remade The Bishops Wife, too. Wasn't necessary.
Yay, I missed those remakes!! Thanks for the heads up.
Btw, I think it would be so fun to do a C&C reader poll and track everyone’s careers. Then do hobbies.
John, some nieces and nephews refuse even saying Christmas. And they replace Christ with an "X"
Coal for Christmas is in their future.
A girlfriend and I were at Macy’s a few days ago and the clerk wished us a Merry Christmas. It was so refreshing. My friend lived the first 45 years of her life in Oakland and she remarked that one had to be really careful what one said this time of year.
AJF, I imagine, and that's all it is, 'imagining', that that attitude came from education somewhere. Someone smarter than me (Winston Churchill, I think) said, "If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart; if you are not a conservative when you are old, you have no brain. Give them time for their brains to work.
AJF, I was ‘scolded’ here for saying I did not like putting X where Christ belongs in Christmas. You may want to take cover 😁
MaryAnn, haha bring it on I say!!
If they only knew that the X in Xmas is more honorable. Just discovered this truth when a preacher explained why it was done. It is actually quite beautiful!
My hope is in the Lord- not DJT. The economy sucks- that's reality here on the ground with two small kids.
I hear you. Young family of seven. We are big fans of DJT (bigger fans of Jesus!) but we also are not seeing this amazing economy we’re being told about. It’s tighter than it’s ever been. But I wouldn’t trade tight finances under Trump, with the hope of improvement, and an admin that cheers for Christian holidays, for tight finances under Harris whose people thought Christians (or anyone less than absolutely reprobate), should be pushed out of society and actively persecuted. (And we experienced this first hand under Biden.) It’s tough sometimes but not anything like it would have been if the globalist policies continued unchecked.
I agree with you for the most part. Trump was better than the other options, but I don't think he was a -great- option. His policies are inflationary and driving the cost of living higher. Hopefully, and that's a lot of hope, the long term end will be better, but at this rate the outlook is not good. I am my mid 30s and my husband is getting close to 40. We started having kids as soon as we got married, but that happened just as home prices went through the roof. Now home ownership is all but out of the picture for us and Trump's policies are no help. A 50 year mortgage?! Pleeeeeeasse- the economic illiteracy is outstanding. I am in firm disagreement with the notion that the fact that things could be worse means that things are good.
Eva, I am sorry, truly, that things are tough for you. They are for a lot of people. It's no bed of roses here, but the point of my comment was that there is HOPE. Yes, I love the Lord too and am here having died in the operating room twice a few years ago. What the president is trying to do won't be accomplished all overnight. We have been on a terrible course for several years, and it takes real time to make changes at the top that will come to help those of us way down the food change, BUT they will get better. Politics have become about money, not helping the American people. Having been around a considerably long time, I have seen a number of bad and good times. The future has better markings for good than bad. Hang in there. Let me know what I might be able to do personally to help.
I hope you are right- for the sake of leaving a better world to my kids.
Thank you John
That reminds me, go down that special neighborhood street and drink in the lights and decorations.
Much of Christmas music is bad - it's about snow or Santa.
Instead of celebrating the birth of Christ.
Why are so many of the songs this way?
That’s not really true - there are many beloved religious Christmas songs: Silent Night, Away in a Manger, Ave Maria, O Come All Ye Faithful, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Holy Night, Mary Did You Know, Joy to the World, etc. They may not get as extensive airplay but these & more are on MY playlist (secular songs too).
Yes. There are lots of songs about Christ’s birth that are played on the radio. I’d add God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman and The Little Drummer Boy to those. And the Pentatonix group Jeff cited sings quite a few Christ centered songs.
A few more to add to one's playlist:
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
The First Noel
O Little Town of Bethlehem
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
Go Tell It On the Mountain
We Three Kings of Orient Are
Angels We Have Heard on High
O Come, O Come Emmanuel is a favorite, sung adagio and with great reverence is a Christmas must. And to hear the Mr. sing O Holy Night a capella in his beautiful baritone, especially when he gets to "Fall on your knees" always raises goosebumps and brings tears to my eyes. It is even better if he has a bit of cold and can drop into his "basso profondo/profundo"! I just love the sound of that man's voice!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Yes!! I love those two also ❤️❤️❤️ I used to be able to sing well and I loved singing these beautiful Christmas songs but damaged my voice so can’t any longer and it makes me terribly sad 😞
Go Tell It on the Mountain is so joyful, I love it too!
I am so sorry you are no longer able to sing as you did. I know it is not the same but G-d does hear the song of your heart and He loves your heart's praise.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, RunningLogic!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Thank you ❤️ I still have hope it can be repaired but don’t know quite who to see about that or what it would require.
Merry Christmas to you and yours also!! ✝️
Pentatonic is awesome. There are several REALLY good acapella groups around.
My favorite Christmas song, "Oh, Holy Night" and "Angels We Have Heard On High" (watch this incredible video) ❤️
https://youtu.be/v5mdybeyLVc?si=8IRplZGj3OdtEc1d
Mary, beautiful! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Trans Siberian Orchestra’s Oh Come All Ye Faithful has some amazing guitar sounds (sorry—am not musical, I just know what I like).
Lots of great Christmas classical music too.
I think The Little Drummer Boy is one of the worst Christmas songs ever…just a personal observation related to musical preferences. BUT there are several versions out there that the season is just incomplete without. For my money the absolute best is this gem by the inimitable Ray Charles. First heard it back in the 90’s. Take a listen , you’ll be glad you did.
https://youtu.be/mshJwa4aXrM?si=2sFix1273U8YyFFa
I don’t really care for it much either but it does talk about the birth of Christ and not snowmen or Santa at least.
Try this version by Kenny Rogers, it may change your mind, Guy:
https://youtu.be/UchE1DLVeKc
Best listened to in a car with all the windows and the stereo up.
Listen to the Ray Charles version above. It is amazing.
Agreed. I never liked that song until I heard the for King and Country live version. It’s pretty good. By which I mean it is now one of my favorite Christmas songs.
https://youtu.be/5l1CS0Jhk90?si=vhRb4gzTb6KMH0cW
LDB is absolutely the WORST Christmas song of all time. Not even close.
O no, listen to “Dominick the Donkey” - it’s BAD
Yup that is definitely a terrible one too 😝
Best version I have heard!
My three year old loves every Christmas carol we teach him! (He picks them up after hearing is sing them just once.) he is LOVING God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen right now!
Aww 😍
Agree
Agree, there certainly a lot of off--target Christmas songs, Based, but for each one there is a Christian song worth at least 5 of them. Here's one worth ten:
Christmas Canon: https://old.bitchute.com/video/H1NcNcYeEqAY [3:31mins]
Absolutely stunning.
Thanks, TriTorch, that was gorgeous.
Beautiful ❤️
Because Christ doesn't generate revenue (unless you are Joel Osteen).
Fun fact. Never listened to him, but a friend gave me a short book written by his mother. She had been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, and even another son who was an MD said no hope. She said "not going to happen", and she cured herself by doing nothing more than keeping a positive mental attitude and appealing to her faith. That shows you the role emotions and faith play in disease control.
We lost a family friend yesterday because she just gave up and wanted to be with her husband who died about a year ago. She physically deteriorated. A positive attitude is essential.
Thoughts, By Roald Dahl
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
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Use your smile to change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile.” —Unknown
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
It takes 4 muscles to smile and over 30 to frown. Your body tries to point you in the right direction which tells you 'tards have to work day and night to be so miserable.
So true! That’s why evil people are ugly from the inside out. Plus a smile on a less than pretty face is what you see first and it makes a permanent positive impression of that person.
It is not coincidence that many spouses die soon after losing their soul mate. The body and soul and consciousness are integral. When you tell your body you no longer want to live, your body usually says "OK".
As a young adult I always hated Christmas music, can't really say why except that it felt forced and contrived.
Now that I'm a few decades older, and infinitely more serious about my faith, I realize I love real Christmas music, that is the hymns. We sang "O Holy Night" in church yesterday and it was beautiful and incredibly moving. I now realize what I despised (and still do) was the secular Christmas music, "Winter Wonderland", "Silver Bells", "White Christmas", and all the stuff about Santa Claus. It sang about everything except Christ, intentionally I've come to believe.
Here's a factoid most people probably don't know, nearly all of those secular Christmas songs, came out of Hollywood, and were written by non-Christians. Look it up. No wonder they wrote about snowmen rather than Christ. The country wasn't singing about snowmen and sleigh rides during Christmas before Hollywood popularized it.
Have others noticed that K-LOVE is playing the secular Christmas songs? I listen to Christian radio because I want to hear songs that glorify God, like "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" this time of year. Why in the world are they playing songs about sleigh rides? Seems like a funny thing for a Christian radio station to do.
Especially since there are so many actual Christmas songs about Christ’s birth! Lots of more obscure ones that they could play instead of the secular songs.
Look for Christian Christmas music.
What about, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas?"
Or “All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” 😆
“Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”. Cringeworthy at its best.
I actually just laughed out loud! Those two songs were discussed last night at our annual Christmas party with our Bible Study group! I know, I know, they are secular songs, but the hippopotamus song came up on the random playlist.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Oh, that's a good one, too. Hahaha.
I want an elephant.
Funny not snarky.
African or Asian?
The song doesn't say.
But would guess the Asian elephant would be better for chimneys.
Smaller ears!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kti_zgcuaic
I don’t think this is quite true. There are myriad songs about Jesus, but Christmas has become a holiday celebrated by both Christians and secular Americans, so songs we hear in public are more likely to be secular versions about Santa and snow.
My favorite is what I call O Night Divine. I never know the actual title. I feel God every time it plays - the “fall on your knees” line chokes me up and I get tears in my eyes. The Christmas songs about Jesus move me deeply.
That’s “Oh Holy Night.”
Love that one.
We have to switch to the truth.
It’s hard at the beginning but with some time you start getting better.
Example, yesterday was Chanukah, the feast of the light.
If you study a little bit into this incredible patterns you will see Christ everywhere.
And so on in all of the Lords feast (The correct translation is The appointed Times)
BFM, I only listen to Christian Christmas music. Well and some of the cute songs with my 5yo granddaughter... Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 🤗
I think anyone who stops to think about it, knows Yashuah wasn't born Dec 25. That date is the pagan celebration of Saturnalia, the Winter Solstice. Here is the account from angels who witnessed the birth, according to the Urantia Book:
Early in the morning of August 20 they resumed their journey, reaching Jerusalem before noon, visiting the temple, and going on to their destination, arriving at Bethlehem in midafternoon.122:7.7 The inn was overcrowded, and Joseph accordingly sought lodgings with distant relatives, but every room in Bethlehem was filled to overflowing. On returning to the courtyard of the inn, he was informed that the caravan stables, hewn out of the side of the rock and situated just below the inn, had been cleared of animals and cleaned up for the reception of lodgers. Leaving the donkey in the courtyard, Joseph shouldered their bags of clothing and provisions and with Mary descended the stone steps to their lodgings below. They found themselves located in what had been a grain storage room to the front of the stalls and mangers. Tent curtains had been hung, and they counted themselves fortunate to have such comfortable quarters.122:7.8 Joseph had thought to go out at once and enroll, but Mary was weary; she was considerably distressed and besought him to remain by her side, which he did. Bible References122:8 THE BIRTH OF JESUS
122:8.1 All that night Mary was restless so that neither of them slept much. By the break of day the pangs of childbirth were well in evidence, and at noon, August 21, 7 B.C., with the help and kind ministrations of women fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a male child. Jesus of Nazareth was born into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for such a possible contingency, and laid in a near-by manger.
This isn't actually true (the pagan part, that is; it's generally agreed that "jesus most likely wasn't born on December 25" is correct). The true reason is even weirder: early Christians had a superstition that holy men would die on the same day they were conceived, and therefore "obviously" he was born 9 months after the date of easter, ergo December 25. The historical evidence actually suggests that pagans later moved their solstice celebrations to compete with Christian gatherings, the opposite of what's popularly believed.
Here's a good video by Wes Huff that goes into it further for those who are interested:
https://youtu.be/5zcaQlBbk6s?t=188
https://aish.com/why-are-so-many-christmas-songs-written-by-jews/
Try this one. One of my favorites, and unfortunately not many seem to know it. The album version that has a Silent Night/Away in a Manger melody lead into it is even better, but hard to find outside actually listening to the album.
https://youtu.be/4PCf0By4heE?si=4QkRtmN8k38qXEgk
It’s written by non-Christians, the people who are hell bent on secularizing Christmas. When Barbra Streisand and Mel Tormé issued Christmas albums some years ago, they didn’t stick to just the secular tunes. No, they included “Oh Holy Night” and other religious songs.
The message: Christmas is for everyone, and you don’t need to celebrate the birth of Christ to celebrate the day.
Interesting substack essay on this:
You’re right, many are atrocious, but what’s even worse are the “so-called” Christmas movies. Die Hard…really? If they’re made during the Christmas season, they’re labeled a Christmas movie. I suppose when the Jews (who don’t believe in Christ) run Hollywood, this is what you get. Even some old favorites like “It’s a Wonderful Life” is not overtly Christian, moral, but certainly not Christian. Music and movies both examples of who sets the tone in our culture.
Yes most “Christmas” movies are set at Christmas time or are about winter or secular celebrations and not Christ’s birth. I do like the Peanuts version (though it’s not a movie) because they actually include a quote from the Bible.
Peanuts is one of my favorites too. I’ve read that Charles Schulz, who was a devout Christian, was adamant about including that verse of scripture in his story.
It always makes me teary eyed. So moving in its simplicity ❤️
Jeff, have you reported on HR2289? This is part of a federal takeover that will preempt local authority and the towns' ability to fight cell tower installs, and AI data centers.
I have been paying a lot of attention to it. I have voiced my concerns to both Houses.
Thank you Dr. Linda for chiming in! Good to know - it's truly the biggest story I think - a total coup d'etat, while all else is window trimming distraction.
My living nightmare, brought to me by 5G:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-180470842
Good to see you in the comments, TriTorch!
I get a creepy feeling this bill is Operation Warp Speed 2.
The AI data centers and AI are going to be controlled with a new federal agency that covers the 4 Cs.
Sorry, but what are the 4Cs ?
1. Children: Protecting minors from harmful content and ensuring that AI systems do not expose them to inappropriate material.
2. Conservatives: Addressing political biases in AI systems that could marginalize conservative voices or perspectives.
3. Communities: Considering the impact of AI on local communities, ensuring that AI development is beneficial and does not negatively affect social structures.
4. Creators: Safeguarding the rights of content creators to ensure they maintain ownership and control over their work in the age of AI, which can use and replicate creative outputs.
—“or if you’re not trans, you can’t comment on the merits of bright purple eye shadow.”
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It is ridiculous how doctors are held up as experts on vaccines when so many of them don’t really seem to know much about vaccines besides the “fact” that they are “safe and effective.”
You do know what MD stands for, yes? Me Doctor
Me Doctor, You Stupid said in Tarzan’s voice.
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you need to grunt like a gorilla and thump your chest as you say that
And the kick back they receive.
It is this with docs $$$$$$
And the power trip for some.
Well I guess I wont Vouchi for Fauci😉😂
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Watching narratives unravel brings me almost as much joy as Christmas carols. Covid jabs, crime data, the economy…good news all around. I think people feel it…even people in my super duper blue neck of the woods seem less grumpy and more smiley.
Merry Christmas to all!
Those lefties are less grumpy and more smiley because they're smoking more marijuana than usual.
You sure they didn’t discover frozen mini marshmallows??
Hahaha. Whatever works!
We certainly smell it more often than we used to, in our neck of the woods. (South Puget Sound-ish)
Mrs. "the Knife"
My Gabby Tabby and Juliette Tortiseshell like something similar: catnip.
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Yes Merry Merry Christmas to all! 🎄
The best thing this administration can do is hire people that have been harmed by the communist democrat party. Whether it be medical establishment, the justice department or the judiciary, people that have been unjustly harmed by these communists are the best people to fix the problems. It’s very revealing that Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., General Flynn and the list goes on, we’re all lifelong democrats until the democrats went over the edge. Once out of the hive they were attacked by the left. I wanted to mention Dr. Malone who was also a lifelong Democrat called Peter Marks and asked if the problem of the mRNA uncontrollably going throughout the body and damaging organs etc. had been fixed, Marks lied and said yes. After two shot Dr. Malone not only got covid but had severe adverse reactions where he thought he might die. Remember Malone was pushing for drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to be used and was cancelled. Another victim of the communist democrat party. Regardless people that have been harmed are the best people to fix this Communist/Marxist cancer that has infected the country.
Sad but true:
In a world of numbed-out technocrats, it seems that only direct, personal, unjust suffering wakes us up.
And it's indeed fascinating that so many of today's key players are ex-democrats.
What causes this numbing-out?
Dead food.
Poisonous food.
24/7 submersion in EMF's.
Plastic clothes
Toxic food storage.
Outgassing carpets and upholstery
Scented candles, toilet paper
Toxic paint and cleaning products.
Entertainment
Personally I find that detergent and fabric softeners are most horrible. I used to be able to buy thrift store clothes, but now I can't. I try getting the "perfume" odor out by every device known to man, it is permanent. Whoever came up with this played on "you stink" and it is as pervasive as EMF and off gassing of carpets.
I know, horrible! I found that if I wash an item from one of these stores and then hang it from a tree in the fresh air (and the clothes hanger has to be tied to a branch, because literal blowing in the wind is essential, lol), that is the only way. And it can take many days.
I don't have a place to hang things and I think the sun and wind might help. I've used vodka, vinegar, baking soda, washing three times. The trouble with washing is you can't wash it with your clothes that DON'T smell because it gets on those clothes. It has to be evil for that to happen. Don't get me started about the laundry isles in stores. Sorry...
YEESSS ... anyone DARING to breathe in the laundry/cleaning products aisle is taking their life in their hands
Agree 💯% ... absolutely ...
... scented detergent is a crime against humanity
We can't find jobs!!! If people could find jobs, then I would agree with "the country not being in a recession." There is no other way to explain how horrible the job market is... completely insane to have people looking for jobs and not getting any interviews.
I read an article about a month ago, 23 states are saying they are in recession. I don’t think things have gotten better in 4 weeks either. I think it’s worse.
The onset of AI and H1B abuse doesn't help.
I agree, but what can we do? I wish the administration would address the job situation. We are not blind.
Not much, I am afraid...
The Trump administration is riddled with corruption... and he is getting old and goofy. The maggot Wiles is likely running the show.
And Musk, until Gavin et al. told him he was "non-essential" to the economy of California (I use the word "economy" ironically in this instance) ~ unleashing him to do what he could at DOGE for the economy of *all* Americans.
Trump torpedoed DOGE... and gave Elon the shove. Why?
Elon was ready to expose and rip apart the most major fraud and abuse, far more than even the appalling USAID crap...
The Fed... and The Treasury Dept.
Good Monday morning! A sad weekend in Aussie.
Yes! And Syria.
A Syrian ex cop was the man who wrestled the gun from one of the shooters. He's considered a hero now.
I saw that. My question is… why a bystander? Where were the cops? It had been going on for quite a while by then. Also, God bless that bystander.
Apparently, the only cops at the beach when the shooting began were four female officers. Whether they had guns on them hasn't been talked about. Often the police only carry pepper spray and battens. Not like here. I'm so thankful the police here carry arms. There's a lot of talk swirling around why the cops didn't react. Aussie has become a strange country. NZ is the same.
Both countries are WEF colonies
Sadly, yes!
Don't take everything we are told at face value. I smelled a serious rat with this shooting. My first impression with ALL of these shootings, whether or not anyone actually died, is that whatever we are told officially is a lie. Today, others I follow have said the same thing. Canada, Australia, NZ, and Great Britain all have very highly controlled media and narratives.
Go find Avi Yemeni (Rebel News) on YT or Rumble. Live reporting from on the ground, interviews with people who were actually there. Then make up your own mind.
Welcome to Canada
Yeah, it's hard to watch. Someone posted a link this morning about the Eastern Provinces of Canada talking secession.
My understanding is police in Australian DO typically carry guns, but only handguns, while the shooters had shotguns and a rifle, and witnesses say the police were mostly taking cover or running away for ten minutes, though one of them did eventually shoot one of the attackers. Pretty disappointing TBH.
I was talking about the 2 America servicemen (Iowa national guard, if I remember right) and their interpreter that were killed in Syria .
That entire story is fake. A psyop from start to finish. That bandaged head guy? Also a crisis actor for Oct 7. Statistically impossible. They are feat mongering with their fake media propaganda machine once again.
God bless you, Jeff, your family and all who are here and their families. 🙏🏻
In San Francisco (Mordor) saying "Merry Christmas" with a huge smile is how we defiant outsiders find eachother
I had a guy say Merry Christmas to me the other day at the store. I stopped and heartily said Merry Christmas back. I asked about his plans etc. Such a nice, simple exchange! How could we ever let the thought police brow beat us into the generic Happy Holidays! I love Idaho
Each time some person says to me, “Happy Holidays” I respond with an enthusiastic “Merry Christmas!”
One doesn't simply walk into Mordor saying "Merry Christmas!"
God bless you, Erika!!!
Medical and climate scientists desperately need experts in data science that know the differences among lies, damn lies and statistics
Happy good morning, compatriots!
Good morning, Alan!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Evening, ma’am!
Good morning Alan!
Pentatonix should do some penance for their creepy pro-jab commercials during Biden's jab roll out. They squandered their amazing gifts on supporting that grift.
I'm trying not to stay mad at every public figure who promoted the jab grift. I can believe that they, like so many others, were duped. But I'd sure like to hear them say so.
I am staying mad at them all. Until they publicly and loudly apologize like Scott Adams did
Thank you for the reminder to pray for Scott Adam’s, fervently, that the Lord will save him
I don’t stay mad but I won’t listen to them. So many other good options out there who - as far as I know - never prostituted themselves. I also would expect a public apology if they cared about our views.