Go see the movie Reagan; Colorado cracks down on illegal sign gangs; Germany tackles fatphobia; dems keep inverting their politics, like health; Trump rally news; C&C vindicated by climate post; more.
Absolutely praying for your dad šš»šš» how great that you have such a responsible 20 year old that could take that on. Family is everything! ā¤ļø
I had my passport at 16 and was traveling the world but only because my older sisters had previously normalized it by backpacking through Europe for three months. That said, I would not have been adept at escorting an aged and ill loved one home. But my oldest sister would have - there is a personality component often at play. I think of them as herders (like sheepdogs or collies). They see the task and are intuitive and practiced about bringing others through challenging situations.
Nico: No, I hadnāt recognized the āIPā and āInverted Pyramidā association until you pointed it out. Inverted pyramid is a form for writing news articles. As an aside, āDogfish Head 90 Minute is the best IMO.
Thatās not what I said or implied, that port had no alcohol or a low alcoholic content. Port is a more sophisticated drink than most 20 year olds indulge in. They donāt often have the palate for it. Of course it is still alcohol, just not what most college students drink. I found that mildly amusing is all š¤·āāļø
I have an almost 20-year-old (next month) who was born 40 and could handle this as well, but my older kids, now in their 20sā¦ no way at that age. Maybe not even now. š
My 17 year old is actually my 5th born and I think a big reason for his overall maturity and insight is because he had to make himself known with four older siblings :)
Same with my youngest. I only had 3, but the older 2 were 7 and 10 when he was born so he heard adult discussions all the time and learned from listening to them get in trouble and knew what not to do.
xxx having a 90 year old dad, who thankfully managed to understand he could no longer live alone, thinking of you - and hoping your dad will heal enough to spend some more time with his family.
Yes, prayers for your Dad, what a blessing for you & your family that heās still around. Praying for answers, praying for favor with the doctors and wisdom for you and your family!
Me, too! I have a 95 year old mom whoās still driving. My parting words to her are always, āI love you. Stay vertical!ā Praying your dadās kidney kicks in quickly.
Prayers for healing for your dad & for you & your whole family. May you each have all that you need today & in the coming days, as you navigate the challenge of getting older. Each day is a gift to cherish. š
Jeff, Mel Gibsonās dad was in similar state, he flew him for stem cell treatment at this place in Panama, he was 90 also. Saved his life, video on the website
Regarding Reagan and the NYTimes attack on the Constitution: āFreedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.ā āReagan
More quotes for you good people on this labor day:
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect anyone who approaches that jewel." āPatrick Henry
"If you don't plan your own life, someone else will plan it for you." āunknown
"A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves" āEdward R. Murrow
"Every citizenry has the government they deserve" āJoseph de Maistre
"Power without oversight is the fastest route out of a replublic" āunknown
"But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over." āCarl Sagan
"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." āTex Guinan
"The tragedy of war is that the young men and women die fighting each other - rather than their real enemies back home in their capitals. " āEdward Abbey
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." āPlato
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you." āCheney
"Power is always dangerous, it attracts the worst and corrupts the best." āRagnar Lothbrok
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." āJohn Philpot Curran
"You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. The conformist does what he is told regardless of what is right. The moralist does what is right regardless of what he is told. Be the moralist." āUnknown
"If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary." āMalcolm X
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?ā¦ The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalinās thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! Ifā¦ifā¦We didnāt love freedom enough. And even more ā we had no awareness of the real situationā¦. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward." āAleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918ā1956
"If a nation expects to remain ignorant and free - it expects what never was and will never be." āFranklin?
"Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest." āCalvin Coolidge
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. āEdward Abby
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." āCharles A Beard
1First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving be offered for everyoneā 2for kings and all those in authorityā so that we may lead tranquil and quiet lives in all godliness and dignity. 3This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,ā¦
We can only obey this if weāre paying attention to our government.
Just had a vertigo experience, Michael. I uploaded these quotes to the EssentialKnowledge section of my website library, and the file size was less than 4KB.
Just imagine the vast amount of wisdom contained in that, single, tiny, unassuming file.
Religion and its' adherents will in fact rule a nation; either it will be one of Liberty or one of Oppression.
We are witnessing what happens when the false gods of freedom and liberation reign in government and society, (Hedonistic-Materialism, Neo-Progressivism, Secular-AntiTheism, Jihadi-Mohammedanism, Climatism, Darwinist-Utilitarian Humanism, Trans-Christ-Pantheism, Tribalist-racism and others); OPPRESSION
Excellent comment. Regardless of whether one believes Christianity is factually accurate, it's been the best platform for building decent societies where people other than the elites prosper and have a good life. Its descent parallels the rise of all that ails us. I think I see signs of a revival. If not, we're sunk. Human beings have proven to be incapable of building and maintaining a decent civilization based on their individual mental abilities. They must have a mostly benevolent dogma to build around. That does not apply to small primitive groups, like Inuit and Amazonian tribes, who seem to exist quite successfully and harmoniously. When the size of populations scale up with agriculture and "civilization", evil is empowered. Such people are simply eliminated in small, self-policing tribes.
Excellent roundup of quotes. We have become a Nation who was bewitched by radio in the 30ās and 40ās, television in the 50ās, 60ās and 70ās, and the world of computers leading to the internet, cellphones with everything on a 3 x 5 inch screen capable of going anywhere in the world. I hope we have not lost entirely the ability of the written word to move us, and urge us on to question.
I don't have TV, haven't for 10 years. I stream what I want to watch. I don't watch the "news" but get my news from alternate media.....every day.
My sister has TV though. I was shocked at the garbage that passes for ads these days.....disgusting......and shown in public places where there are children present! And don't get me started on the Olympics!!!! š
You don't need tv. All you have to do is listen to the idiotic babble that is repeated word for word, again and again. Very Stepford Wives, but it's permeated everything.
If Kackles gets in we will not have alt media... and radio shows will be worthless as well. I expect radio to be totally funded by govt as the left's shows can't bring in many listeners even now. Hope everyone is stocked up on real books and lots of hobby stuff. Back to a Spartan existence.
Tri Torch, Kurt Vonnegut is right! But then there was the 1960 World Series between the Pirates and Yankees. Most of the kids I knew had little pocket radios with an ear speaker to sneakily listen to the game in class. And the black and white televised games were not brought to you by Pfizer. They were sponsored by Gillette and General Motors. Second baseman Bill Mazeuroski hits the final home run in game 7; Pirates win 10-9.
Those were the good old days of naivety and innocence. 1960: Kackles and Tampon weren't even born. The conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy would be beyond the wildest imagination back then.
How far we have fallen. Make America Healthy Again.
Calling a rotten public school education 'Nazi' is a sign of a poor public school education. If you're going to pejoratively swipe at public schools then say 'Marxist' or 'Bolshevick'. Calling everything we don't like Fascist or Nazi is from the lefts playbook.
They're all totalitarian, and we could educate people better if we used the "total government" to "no government" (anarchy) scale instead of the meaningless left-right one. The important variation is in how much control government has.
Globalism/Woke, by any name, it's really all forms Marxism rolled into one. The one party is more weight more heavily towards Communism. The other party more towards Fascism. Both were fine with Woke, Globalism, the divide and conquer of Maoism. Both were fine with the UN agendas and the march into the NWO. And all the time, both playing their Uni-Party roles.
"And even more ā we had no awareness of the real situationā¦." āAleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
This is where we are NOW. They don't want us well informed and educated or they wouldn't continue polluting our water with fluoride and fearmongering us into submission with un-science.
We need more awareness of what is happening but historically, the powers-that-be control the information and history as well.
We need to be repeatedly educated from kindergarten about our Constitutional rights, injustices of the past, and histories of fallen governements... not just about slavery injustices, but what the gov really did like experiment on innocents and what big corps have done to pollute, study how to FOIA and released declassified documents, etc.
Dawn, after my experience of being a conspiracy theorist for the past 25 years (out of 73) and especially the recent stolen election and Covid bioweapon scam, I am aware of how much wool has been pulled over my eyes by government/media/public school and I am contemplating how it could have happened, how I could we have prevented it, and how do I help future generations, especially my progeny to resist it in the future???
"And even more ā we had no awareness of the real situationā¦." āAleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
This held true here in the United States for all of the 20th century and on into the 21st century until 2011 until the Green Mask began to fall. This is the time when Agenda 21 was found out by the Tea Parties ... and NWO UN template of total planetary domination was found. Someday, this date of 2011 may mark the beginning of the end to Woke Globalist plan for world Marxist domination. The Green Mask refers to Rosa Koire's book which was the perfect summing up of the Agenda 21 plot against humanity. (Nice post Dawn.)
My own preference is for more home schooling, and more cooperative home schools hubs outside the state system. The state has proven itself that it cannot be trusted with the charge of education. And besides, if home schooled properly, kids should already be at three to four years of university by the end of 'grade 12'. And much smarter on all accounts.
WE have to realize that Commies didn't just somehow succeed in Russia due to Tsarist failure in Great War, and then through their own efforts simply emerging on top of the various factions vying for power in 1917-1919; Rather the Globalist Elites found Russia to be the most opportune location for their Commie venture and it succeeded most effectively there. The Great War was after all a Great Reset. Had there been better opportunity to install The Revolution in England, or the United States in 1880, 1898, or 1912 then they would have.
When I was a very, very young man, I thought the Russian Revolution was Russian. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the Revolution of 1917 was overwhelmingly by participation (at least 80%) Jewish ... and also foreign Jewish funded (Jacob Shiff of Kuhn Loeb and Company located in New York and the Frankfurt, Germany located Jewish banking fraternity as facilitators and expediters. Not a Russian Revolution at all. The effort was greatly assisted by the incompetence of Tsar Nicholas II and his ministers. The Revolution itself was a revenge vendetta anti-Christian in nature. Some things seem never to change.
Daver, Wickstrom is pretty brutal but it is info that most people in churches today fear and fail to speak about which is keeping us ignorant and placid.
2 Corinthians 3:14-17 ...But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. 15 Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. 16 But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
I've watched twenty minutes so far. And so far it lines up with what I have seen ever since the Internet permitted getting us getting close to and sharing source document. As to the video, I would not be surprised if Wickstrom were to tell me that this whole charade was tried out right after WWI. Only the people in America at the time did not bite down on the propaganda articles fed into such rag as the New York Times.
The Western Christian Churches have been largely wrecked by Jewish Imperium working relentlessly from within and without. Such fallen churches never teach from source materials like the historic catechisms. And so, no one in the West, barely any at all, knows what Christianity really is.
You give a wonderful quotation. I take to heart is meaning. And I'll only say that the New Testament teaching is not what most people think it is. Rather it is an extension of the Old Testament Law into a Christian Church formate. Covenant also means Law, which is also covered by an unlifted veil. That is, Christian Law in the once Christian West has been subverted, usurped.
Thanks for the post. You see through much of The Grand Deception (and what is not of God is of Satan).
Edit: having watched the entirety, the histories are right both secular and Scriptural. But the theology in execution goes awry. And you are right, the delivery is harsh ... and that's putting it mildly. The Evil, of course, must be defeated. But to repeat the methods of the past would be a mistake. Passive resistance, a total non-compliance is the better pathway in the main. Excepting one for thing. If and when 'they' use force to drag us out of our homes or sweep us off the streets, then countermeasures more stern are warranted.
You always have good insight. I am seeing the Bible with fresh eyes these days. The real world is way more wicked than any horror movie. Now I know.
What can we do?
Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9 What you have learned and received and heard and seen in meāpractice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
and
Ephesians 5:15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Wickstrom is the guy who interviewed rabbi finklestein who spilled too many beans and apparently died shortly after. He talked about 911 and stuff I don't want to write here. https://www.bitchute.com/video/6spJwnrQkfrr/
God is revealing things to those who He wants to know maybe because we can't understand or bear them. We must stay in prayer as protection and for the salvation of others..
John 16:12 āI still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
I'll take that video in too. I vaguely remember Finklestein.
See my edit of my afore comment.
I cannot watch horror flicks. Too painful and tearing of the soul. However, the world is far worse than any horror film because it is horror compounded with horror.
The interesting thing is that 'they' continuously tell who 'they' are. 'They' simply cannot quit bragging and blabbing it out.
Agree we need more education. Unfortunately there is a huge segment that will always refuse to see the truth no matter how glaring. It's who they are, as shown by the last 4 years, unmistakably. They can only be brought around by changing the narrative, they'll follow whatever they perceive as acceptable and mainstream.
I love the idea and story of Reagan. But how does everyone get beyond the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act? The signing led to an explosion in our vaccine schedule. It eliminated the financial liability of vaccine manufacturers caused by vaccine injury claims. Reagan fans conveniently leave this out of the story.
Well, (badly) paraphrasing here, but my understanding is that he was threatened with āwe just wonāt make vaccines anymore (š£)ā and, āwe have all these impenetrable safeguards in place that will make vaccines even more safe.ā š” Last I heard, not a single one of the biennial mandatory safety reports has been issued.
Vaccine policy is so out of the realm of a Presidentās expertise, its understandable. The best thing they can do is pick good advisors. Trump screwed up trusting Fauciā I donāt know about Reaganās advisors. Florida did so much better during covid in large part due to DeSantisā selection of Ladapo as surgeon general.
Like many things it was a two-parter. They were supposed to provide yearly reports on what they were doing to make the āunavoidably unsafe vaccinesā (itās in the inserts ) safer. Under a FOIA request, I think by the Childrenās Defense Fund, (RFK, Jrs group)it came back with zero documents. Without Liability vaccines have gone 3-6 to 90+. Then mandate them and eliminate exemptions so your kids canāt attend school without them. Itās partly whatās driving the exodus from California
IRC Pharma was getting sued from some bad vaccine reactions and threatened to not make any more vaccines. Remember this was 40 years ago when we trusted the Media and believed we all would have been crippled by polio and dead from Smallpox. The negotiation was Pharma would work on making them saferā¦.which never happened. Theyāve also never tested a vax against a true placeboā¦like saline vs a vaccine. They test it against the adjuvantā¦which is what causes the reaction! If you havenāt already read it I highly recommend reading Dissolving Illusions by Dr. Suzanne Humphries.
The Highwire had an episode on it. The Act in its original form was beneficial as it recognized vaccine injury. It was watered down and now proven that it isn't followed as requires safety testing meetings weren't happening. This interview gave me a different perspective:
Look at the whole picture and what the alternative is - Remember Trump was also caught up in vaccine mania but now he is the only hope for saving the country from Marxists destruction- on that note isnāt it remarkable the similarities between the Reagan & Trump elections - both despised by democrats aka communists and democrats with nothing to offer Americans but failure and misery - and one more thing to like aboutnRFKjr - he wants to prosecute those responsible for spewing toxic chemicals in the atmosphere
These are my thoughts on Reagan too. Itās similar to President Trumpās āwarp speedā comments and his backing of the poison jabs. Were Reagan and Trump both hoodwinked? And if soā¦that they could be such dupes raises many questions. I live in the U.K., but whoever the US President is has its effects on the British and the rest of the world, too, thatās why I follow this substack and read it everyday (it reaches me around 2pm U.K. time).
According to Kathleen Watt of Bailiwick News substack, many years ago changes were made in government structure that gave powers to cabinet members and not the President or Congress. Such as the sole power to declare a pandemic is in the hands of the HHS secretary, so Trump was not even in a position to declare one or declare one to be over. The HHS secretaries have been coming out of big Pharma for a while now. The HHS secretary makes the declaration but the President stands at the podium and announces it.
This moving of powers to a cabinet member has also affected other decisions hence why our elected officials are pretty powerless at this time. We need an overhaul of these policy changes to return the power to Congress who get elected.
Frightening what's going on in your neck of the world... we're going to be right behind you if the Cackler gets in... zero free speech. Can't believe a woman gets arrested for having her eyes closed near an abortion clinic! She may have admitted she was praying but how could they know what her prayers were???
"Rolling Back Reagan" I've heard Progressives say about their efforts to fix what he broke 1980-92. THE MOST Hated MAN in America Between Nixon and TRUMP, Bush Family mostly got a pass for being elitists, liberating Kuwait, facing 9-11 attacks, and also stupid. Dems have never believed that Republicans are a legitimate Executive nor Majority Party, NEVER. FDR and the lackey Media cemented the idea that America had finally turned the page and that Socialist-Nationalism and Democrats would and should forever rule, the Reps could just contentedly remain a neutered minority party for their White Trash, weak, traditionalist-minded low classer voters and the Patricians who could give them lip-service while enriching themselves cuddling up with their protective Progressive Colleagues.
How old are you? The same crowd that hates Trump hated W Bush just as much. Remember it started as BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome). I say this as someone who regrets voting for W and would never again.
Yes. Things shift. The neocons from the Bush era have taken over the Democratic Party. Big Pharma used to be more behind the Rs. On the R side, let us not forget the bogus weapons of mass destruction, which ended up killing over 1 million people and destabilizing an entire region .And let us not forget that the Democratic Party was once the proslavery party. Power corrupts, which is why I am going to remain an independent and keep my eye on everyone. Somehow we have to come together and figure out what we can work on and stop automatically hating one group. I know this is easier said than done. RFK has tried to do this. The Ds reacted horribly, but look at how he has managed to get more people talking about the chronic disease epidemic. One of my favorite questions is to ask people if they are concerned that the chronic disease epidemic could bankrupt our country and destroy social security , which countless Americans are going to need. Most of our seniors wouldnāt survive without that.
Another reason to like RFKjr - he wants to prosecute those responsible for spewing toxic chem trails in the atmosphere- hope,to see Miley in a perp walk
But wasn't it all mostly bluster and street Lefties (Code Pink/Occupy WS) against W??? Where were the impeachments, the leaks, the cabinet backstabbing, and investigations? I suppose the Reps closed ranks to protect him, but Trump has more criticism for GWB than the NeoCon Left does these days
Maybe there would have been but if you recall, when people were calling for war crime investigations, Obama came to office and told people we need to look forward....he knew better as he was about to fill the war criminal shoes himself.
Or at least the demonic are leading the easily brainwashed and the overly tribal. I know many kind people who are frightened into believing this stuff, and innocently believe all the propaganda. At same kind of person also tends to worship their doctors and believe everything that they are told.
Reagan was good at reading these kinds of scripted opium for the conservative masses while his policies did the opposite. That is all I am going to say, Reagan lovers can have their feel good moment but please after you clear all the popcorn kernels from your teeth return to the present where when leaders speak of freedom, they mean freedom for government and corporations to impose their will on the people. Think about whether things have changed since the '80s.
Isn't "fat" just a descriptor? Like tall, blonde, freckled, one-legged, or lanky? If someone described someone else as "thin" on social media, would there be similar outrage? I doubt it.
A friend recently told me that sheād heard a mom had scolded another mom for telling āthe short kidsā to stand in the front of the group for a picture š The scolder said it was ābody shaming,ā šš š No itās just a *description*. Apparently we canāt even describe people anymore š
Me too! Iām a W and was always at the back of the class. Except for one kid named Zimmer. I have always had bad vision, so it actually was a problem to sit that far back.
People have gone nuts. Too many years of having things too easy. And in this case, telling them to stand in front is for their own good: so they can be seen. But, yeah, let them stand in back and no one will know they were there at all, lol. And of course never explain WHY they need to stand in front; we wouldn't want children to learn common sense or logic.
Lol, I was always 3rd girl in the front of the line until 6th grade when I grew to about 7th in line.
At a grade school reunion (K to 8 private Parochial school) 25 years later, the tall girls at the back of the line weren't all that tall, and some of them were now of equal height to me and the girl who was 2nd shortest in line!
Childhood height means very little.
I never cared that I was in the front part of the line. I never cared that I was in the front row sitting for photos either!
I didn't care that I was in the front desk rows.
NEVER cared or thought about it one way or the other.
These mothers are the ones perpetuating the present cultural beauty standard of height equals beauty, and are passing it on to their children. Generally, children are accepting of themselves and of their classmate's differences.
Ryan, do you know how tall you were at age 2? We were taught in my family medicine residency that adult height is frequently about double the height at age 2. I don't think they ever said if that was based on height when you just turn 2, at the mid-point of being 2, or just before turning 3, but it's a rough estimate in any case.
'One simple way to predict how tall your child will be when they grow up is to take their height at age 2 if they're a boy or 18 months if they're a girl and double it. (Girls grow a little faster than boys.) This method has been around for a long time, but there isn't any scientific research about how accurate it is,'.
That formula is soooo off for my children! It is meant to be the height at 2 years old/24 months.
One grew much taller than that formula would have it, and the other much shorter.
For girls especially, puberty, development and menses age will all play a part, and ofcourse genetic inheritance, which could be from a grandparent or great grandparent.
Also, medications like Ritalin, given to so many children for ADHD can take 2 inches off their normal height. (This is a fact, surprisingly, mentioned by physicians).
Yes! No quarter. I've been saying for years now...mocking and shaming is the way out of this mess. Flex the 1A and make them attack it. And, honestly, they should be mocked and they should feel shame for the stupidity they display. Say the things they hate. Trigger them. Make them defend their stupid positions. Like Kamalamadingdong, they can't. They get exposed and they lose.
Our side has been entirely too nice through all of this. We've left the work up to DJT and a handful of online voices. Meanwhile, here in reality, they're mutilating and raping children, burning down cities, stealing our money, erasing our history, and trying to erase the entire majority race from the planet. And our response has been: well, we don't want to be mean or offend anyone or anything...
It's gotten to the point where even countering an argument from the left is deemed "harm." I just think we should have pushed back sooner. Doesn't mean attacking or belittling, but there's nothing wrong with calling BS what it is, IMO. So many factually incorrect and incoherent ideas are taken as truth these days...
Or land whale, an ocean/land going mammal of exceedingly large size, who has both gills and lungs and mostly floats but is known to ride the fat mobiles (Kinda like Bat Mobile but not) at Walmart..
Chris Christie's wife! Maybe they have a throuple with JB Pritzker? Maybe they all hate Trump because his casino restaurants close when they see the three of them walking up for the AYCE prime rib buffet?
Judging people by appearances should never be a final judgment, but it is not an unreasonable place to begin evaluating potential public servants. An obese smoker might not be a wise hire for a PE teacher. The father of a money-laundering crackhead son might not be a wise choice for chief law enforcement officer. A Gretchen Whitmer with dead-fish eyes and an Alexandre de Moraes with an evil leer might not be wise choices to place in seats of power. A cackling goofball policy shifter might not be a wise choice for President of the United States. On the other hand, geometry requires short people to stand in front for group photos. Science.
She's very likely over medicated. Having been working my way around the medical field in almost every dept for the past 35+ years I can't tell you how many Drs , when asked if a change in diet might positively affect a body they will say "no" or we aren't trained in that area enough to say. "Here, take this tiny cheap pill just one time a day" or this skin patch you replace only one xa year. It's easy." I had a Dr asst, because that's all the it's today, raise her voice and very animatedly TELL me all she knows about some and heart attack (and that is that we are all going to have one) if you don't take her pills that she has be sold a ton of pharmaceutical research on.
Example: Common side effects of clindamycin include:
Diarrhea
Nausea
Vomiting
Abdominal pain
Skin rash
Itching
Skin peeling!!!!!!!
And weight gain is one that many never mention!
I noticed that EVERY PERSON in the heart and vascular dept was OBESE. Living, Old. Debilitated.
Iāve started noting how absolutely unhealthy my community is every time I go out. And noting those who DO look healthy (which can be misleading, from personal experience) - I am guessing many are medicated. Letās not forget birth control. Many of the women I know who took or take birth control absolutely ballooned on it. Weāve been sold a pile of lies with that Pill (or whatever form pharmaceutically controlling fertility takes).
And add to that metabolically unhealthy, which includes many people who appear normal weight. And that is from eating crap food and not getting exercise.
ALL ULTRA PROCESSED FOOD! Eat whole food when ever possible. Fresh beef, fresh chicken, fresh fish... FRESH vegetables. Buy local from the farmer's market! So many ways to eat healthier!
I stopped and refuse to buy anything by Calvin Klein. His advertising always smacked of pedophilia (funny my phone doesnāt auto populate that word). Especially the man behind video camera interviewing young people in wood paneled basement. Disgusting.
It used to be. I read my 2 year old āRed Fish Blue Fishā and one page says, āsome are thin. Some are fat. The fat one has a yellow hatā¦ā Every time I read it, I mentally remark that our culture doesnāt want to recognize this fact any more. Fat exists. While no one should be rude,* it will further degrade our society to pretend āfatā doesnāt matter.
*but rudeness also should not be a criminal offense. Free speech AND fat matter! Being able to accurately and honestly describe the world around us and our interactions with it is essential to liberty.
Miss Manners never recommended lawfare for bad manners. She recommended fixing people with an icy stare, asking them to repeat their transgression, and then saying ā Thatās what I thought you said,ā and walk off. More effective.
I once told a coworker that she was offending me by calling me skinny. Told her it was just as offensive as if I called her fat, which she was. Never heard another word about it from her.
It's an adjective, Jenna NOT to be confused with a (godlike) PRONOUN. We all know how PRONOUNS are HOLY and (apparently) adjectives are the anti-Christ. Maybe the sender should emphatically declare he/she/they thought that fat was her pronoun??? No?? Too soon??
How long before society politicizes every part of speech? Would it be hard to politicize the articles? E.g., "I am THE 'Fat Tom,' not A 'Fat Tom.' How DARE you!"
Fat gets a bad wrap. Many of the world's best fighters, and strongest men, can be seen as "fat" - but they have brown fat, which powers one's brain and fights cancer, not the unsightly white kind.
Shapoval, I was just thinking of you! I just made this study note:
Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman is studying physiological sighs. Normally they occur every 4 or 5 minutes, expanding all of the lung sacs and fully existing carbon dioxide. A study revealed that when people use smart phones (VS physical text media like a book), the physiological sighs do not occur. What are the implications of this? He connects it to the fact that less understanding and memory is retained from a digital interface as opposed to books and physical media.
30 minutes into Rich Roll March 7, 2022 podcast on app. 24 minutes into YouTube version.
Copy editor here. For what it's worth - maybe nothing. I only mention it because your compilations often deliver exceptional information, obviously requiring deep commitment to your work. My ilk are sticklers for accuracy. It might even be possible I've seen this usage in your writing before? No offense intended, only updating/educating/edification for your already sharp sensibilities. It's only 2024 so, either I'm stuck in the past-present or possibly you're ahead of your time? My time?
Folk etymology! So fun. A few favorites: hollowed ground, skiddish pets, unchartered waters, roads to hoe, no preserves add it, friends who parted waves . . .
Your so right! ;) To many to count. Sorted details, down the shoot, for all intensive purposes, do diligence, peaked my interest, the bigger picture at large, it wasn't very interesting my mind kept wondering, here here!, ...and taste of Old Lang Zyne...
Cringe to leave some o' that on the page. Is anybody looking?
Copy Editors... the proactive āfact checkerā! I went toe-to-toe with them when I reported BUT pretty much all of them were correct and forced me to do a better job. A thankless job especially at deadlines, a lot of elevated voices (mostly mine) yet I learned more during those 45 minutes than any classroom could ever achieve.
So, āThank youā, for your layout decisions and common sense.
Not necessarily smarter than most. Hardly. Just terribly persnickety. Donāt know how thou art, but over here older now so throw hesitation to the wind and lay it bare: ego is a fragile thing, eh? All around. Are we good? š Thanks for the support.š
Roman, Iād never heard the term brown fat before today but literally just learned about it immediately before this, while reading the Unbekoming Substack answering 50 questions about fasting. #Synchronicity.
Fat = Type II diabetes = social security disability = votes for dems. Therefore no fat shaming because.
Addendum: Trump adding RFK, Jr will MAHA, as part of the MAGA movement (if only the loons could get it through their heads MAGA is good for everyone who calls themselves American and honestly for the world at large, not including the global marxists, deep state and uniparty who urgently want you and me to be their subjects.) A win, win, even for those who are obese and don't want to be.
agreed. Used to be overweight myself, and doc told me I should stay like this because of hormonal imbalance - now obese because the medical world lowered the numbers again. Just like the numbers of sugar and blood pressure keep going down so docs can prescribe more meds. But does anyone pay any attention to the walking skeletons ? the models on the catwalk can hardly be called healthy. I remember a few who had severe anorexia. No one makes fun of them because they are 'sick'. Has it ever occurred to people, that overweight people might have the opposite problem? Several pages making fun of heavyset people have been unsubscribed, because it hurts to be made fun of every day. ( I agree that some people should lose weight but the recent blaming of obesity on people is just not right )
Obesity is not to blame for health problems. Obesity is a clear side effect. The problem is our food supply, period. I think it was The Obesity Code by Jason Fung that taught me this.
Itās like blaming drug addicts for their addiction, no itās worse than that. Once addicted to drugs itās no longer a matter of will power and choices, but there was an initial choice in the beginning to do the first drug. However, with food there was no first choice. Especially when the addiction started as a young child when they didnāt fully understand their choices and were fed by others. We believed āthe expertsā about a healthy diet, we were constrained by how food is prepared and prepackaged, we were sabotaged as the addictive properties were placed in everything, without our knowledge, even in the foods offered by restaurants. The addiction took hold and now overcoming it is the same as a drug addict; itās a long tortuous journey to become ācleanā with our diets. At least a drug addict has places to go to not have pills and needles shoved in their faces everywhere they turn. Our corrupt and addictive food supply is on every corner and in every grocery store, and all over the ads we watch.
I donāt blame fat people for being fat. Itās not their fault. But they do have the freedom and power to do what I did and refuse ANY and ALL food that isnāt whole or clean, or responsibly made. I lost almost all my fat, am no longer overly obese like I was for 20 long years, and it wasnāt from a single minute of exercise. It was from refusing their corrupt food. Now that Iām healthier I can finally add exercise because I can actually do it and maintain it.
It is complicated, with many factors influencing....something many don't realize are all the endocrine disruptors in our daily products....PFAS, fragrance, pesticides, etc. It's increasingly difficult to avoid.
Iām sorry but not getting fat, at any point, is a choice. You choose to eat, when one should choose not to eat. Itās math, not emotions. Unturned calories turn to fat. Rocket science. If you are 100 pounds overweight, you could cut your food intake in half, and still survive, eating the same things you ate to put that weight on. And lose weight. So hungry? It might be a little uncomfortable at first, but you certainly arenāt going to waste away. Stay hungry for a few months and see what happens. You get used to it.
At some point of balance of calories in, calories out, this is true, or there would be fat people among starving populations, but it's also true that what kind of calories, the macronutrients, one ingests have hormonal effects that greatly affect weight. Insulin is a growth hormone, e.g., so when one eats excess carbs, one puts out a lot of insulin and can gain fat as a result. This is why some young female diabetics would take less insulin than they were supposed to (back in the day when fat wasn't considered beautiful). A great read on this is Gary Taubes' books 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' and 'Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It.'
No, I disagree. I never overate or binged at any point in my life, and I was thin up until my 30s. What happened with me was my insulin resistance became out of whack and I was metabolically sick. I ate āhealthyā (according to the government and medical nutritional advice, which is NOT healthy after all,) and I watched my calories and it did not matter. There is a point where if you eat too few calories for too long your body switches to starvation mode and stores it ALL as fat. Calorie restriction is another lie.
I am only 5ā2ā so my overly obese point is much sooner than a woman who is 5ā7ā or taller. Still, despite being active and health conscious I found myself at 203 lbs and a stroke risk.
It was NOT a choice. It was a reaction to the kinds of foods in our food supply.
Once I learned about insulin resistance and the true science behind macros and calories, the right kinds of food to eat, why the prepackaged and processed foods of today donāt provide our bodies what they need and why, I dropped the weight. I now eat more calories than before but they are the right kind of calories.
There is much more to this epidemic than āfat people made a choiceā. It may be true for a few, but not most. And it does become an emotional addiction. You see it when you watch someone abstain from what they are used to eating. It takes several weeks to withdrawal and get past that point.
You just did the same thing you're offended by, though. My daughter is one of those actual, literal catwalk models you referred to. She's 6' and naturally rail thin (she literally struggles to gain weight) and has actually been teased and accused of being anorexic her entire life (the girl can put away a burrito the size her head and insist she's "still hungry"). So to your point, to some extent your body shape and type is pre-determined, but to accuse thin women of having an eating disorder is equally shameful IMO.
I was just going to say something like that, I have seen on many occasions derogatory comments about thin girls/women (āgo eat a burger, will you?ā āString beanā etc etc)
I see your point, but I think Ingrid's point may be that our culture idolizes one body type (that can sometimes be unhealthy) over another body type (that can sometimes be unhealthy).
Ofcourse both body types mean little to the health of the person.
Tall women are generally very lucky in the weight department vs shorter women. I am a big analyzer and have come to that personal conclusion.
I do remember that in the 90s, apparently, slim wasn't enough on the runways and there was a huge anorexia scandal. Ingrid may be remembering that.
My husband is the same way. It's very annoying of him to have such wonderful metabolism but he finds it crushing to be viewed as forever the skinny dude. I personally would not want to be as thin as he is so I know it's really hard. And it can be unhealthy to try to gain weight in todays world of terrible, unhealthy food. He actually does better without gluten or dairy interestingly.
I also was teased about being too skinny. We moved when I was in 5th grade. At my new school they all said I had moved there from Ethiopia. Itās not easy being outside ānormalā in either direction.
Yup, my daughter and I are like your daughter (but only 5'7). And pretty "flat", too. We've heard it all. My daughter is 23 so high school nastiness is still fresh in her memory, and boy were those kids nasty. For awhile I was worried she really was going to develop an eating disorder because of how self-conscious she became. People just don't think before they speak.
Those who make fun of fat people will and do pick on people in general. Believe me, if you had protruding teeth, those teeth would be the target. Those who pick on others never attack an unattractive feature that they own. Remember the final episode of āSEINFELDā? The 4 of them were making fun of an overweight man; what made it funny wasnāt the target of their derision instead it was funny because Jerry, Kramer, George, and Elaine had so many more deficiencies than this one person being overweight. Bullies will always be around, cruel comments should never happen but it does happen... be prepared to counter those comments (you know them by heart) and donāt play the victim card... you will feel a whole lot better and the cruelty of others will start to fade away... plus a gained respect from others will grow.
āJust like the numbers of sugar and blood pressure keep going down so docs can prescribe more meds.ā And LDLā¦ Docs got my brotherās lipids so low that his LDL was incalculable. His stamina and mental functioning were failing rapidly until he took it upon himself to stop one of the drugs. Amazing improvement.
Smart he stopped the statins, hopefully he gets a new doc. Statins are not good - the brain needs cholesterol! Diet changes & certain supplements like Berberine can help. People are responsible for what gets put into their mouths. True - our food supply is generally unhealthy & has addictive effects so people need to be aware of basic good healthy eating habits. Sometimes just a few changes like reducing sugar intake ( soda & diet soda for ex.) & reducing empty carbs. Lots of free info out there, it can be done if thereās a will. RFKās focus on health, food & why we have an epidemic of chronic disease (will include vaccines ) will be a game changer.
I am thin, slightly built and average height) but in no way skinny as I do have some body fat. I have trouble finding age appropriate clothing as it has all been upsized. If I shop vintage I am a 6, sometimes an 8 but now wear a 00 or 0. Throw in the small chest that comes with being thin and nothing made for someone older than their teens fits correctly. It is very understandable why some women chose breast implants.
Having implants in your body is not a healthy thing. Many have gone public about autoimmune conditions from it.
I think that small breasts are beautiful and very youthful looking as you get older. Finding clothing that fits well is a challenge for many women. For me, it is having narrow shoulders.
I have found that a seamstress is absolutely necessary for proper fitting dresses. They can perform miracles and it is well worth the extra money for how elegant a properly fitting dress looks.
Yes. I have narrow shoulders, too, and that complicates the issue. Also you are correct in the health issue with implants and that is another area where the medical industry lies to us. But my comment was meant to provide one reason that women chose implants.
I do take issue though that it's as simple as finding a seamstress. That also is time consuming and expensive as it adds up and not all garments can be easily altered. I used to either alter or make some of my own clothes. I may go back to that as I retire.
Obese would be the medical term, so I suppose everyone can just use that. Then they'd have to start arresting doctors for hate crimes for diagnosing their patients with the medical condition, lol.
After ozempic users shrivel down maybe the "Twiggy" comments will become offensive. The new "Thin is In" drug that pharma is making big $$$ on may end up being worse than obesity.
Dear Lord, you are the all-powerful and all-knowing creator. Your plans are perfect and your mercy is beyond our comprehension. Forgive us when we rely on ourselves, put faith in man, and neglect to acknowledge you as Lord of all.
Thank you for each breath you give us, for this community of people, and for the Childers family which has blessed so many through this blog, and through legal and community means.
Please draw near to Mr. Childers, bring comfort to his spirit and healing to his body. Above all, we ask that you use this to strengthen his faith and reliance on Christ as savior.
I stopped after reading about your dad. Jeff, what a man he is!! Ups and heads to France at 90 because, just because. Gutting it through what had to be scary falls and pain, returning home to you and hopefully restoring his health. He gives insight to you, a plucky, smart, tireless, funny-and-honest man. Prayers for him and your spirit filled family.
Hos 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
13 You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors,
IVF is so fraught with problems. If we want to foster more American babies we should address the root causes of infertility. And IVF is not the only remedy to infertilityādoes insurance cover all the healthy remedies (those that donāt end up with excess embryos and donāt feed into the horrible surrogate industry)?
Stay off chemical birth control until you have the kids you want for starters. I remember years ago when I started hearing about chemical birth control that completely stops your menstrual cycles for extended time. My first thought was "yea, that won't screw you up at all." I have several friends who went the IVF route, they were all on chemical birth control for over a decade before trying to have kids. I never took the stuff and had my first child at 37. Took me all of a month to get pregnant, too. Coincidence?
The Jordan harbinger podcast just had a 2-part interview with a woman (scientist? Doctor? I canāt remember) about all the ways birth control affects a womanās body. It was a couple of weeks ago. Really interesting.
I think Trump was being pro life without offending the lunatics who think murdering their own unborn children is a good thing. Personally, I think offending them is a good thing but it doesn't play well in our toxic society.
I don't think Trump necessarily sees skin color as part of the equation. You may disagree but I think he is completely blind to skin color - as we all should be. I think he just wants American's to populate America! What is an American? A legal Citizen, who fully participates in the American experiment by voting, paying their share, following the Constitution and law, speaking English and being accountable and responsible for their actions and their lives.
Some possible root causes may track back to nutritional deficiencies related to consumption of manufactured foods. Some can be biological: for both male & female such as birth defects, scarred tissues, & for women fibroids etc. For part of my career as nurse I worked as a clinician in a communicable disease (STDs, TB) clinic. Mumps can cause sterility in males post puberty. It is like many conditions related to health: complex.
I agree, this IVF idea terrifies me because itāll just be one more federal government program that grows into a huge blob and is ripe for massive fraud.
Have I ever mentioned here that I have a client that works for the FBI investigating Medicare fraud? This person tells me the FBI wonāt even look at a case if itās less than a MILLION dollars. And we wonder why our government is bankruptā¦ itās happening in every program, Iām sure.
I always get updates from the VA inspector general in regard to fraud. One good thing is they do investigate and prosecute crimes less than a million dollars.
One of the main causes of the need for IVF is obesity. Itās why they try to link Ozempic as being some sort of fertility drug, it isnāt, but it can reverse poly cystic ovarian syndrome and various over issues that do occur in the womanās reproductive organs with too much fat and hormonal imbalances. I think the MAHA program would already naturally make people more fertile.
Iām a huge fan of keto. Sadly, many people donāt have the will power or arenāt told about this type of diet and itās potential. The doctors would rather prescribe Ozempic. The newest scam is that what RFK Jr is discussing, about giving Ozempic out for free to the obese. It only keeps off weight as long as you use it and has so many bad side effects. Itās kinda like mRNA shots 2.0- a blockbuster for big Pharma who now peddles their wares to the government directly.
Kathleen, of the things not meant to be, they should realize it's the career that should be ditched or sidelined, not one's fertile years in sacrifice to prestige and money.
And the docs call it selective reduction. Guess it sounds better than murdering the children in your body that you don't want and keeping the one (or two) that you are going to let live.
I think the SBC and the Catholic Church are the hold outs (not that adherents in these denominations all follow the teachings, sadly. I know plenty of "Catholics" who see no problem and that is a reflection of failed teaching on the part of priests and bishops).
Fertility treatments of all kinds raises the risk of ovarian cancer. How could it not, when the body is being pumped full of unholy amounts of hormones?
Probably could contribute to cancer, with all those hormones. I had a client in her 30s doing it and it caused all kinds of miserable problems. Itās no picnic. The other possibility is a surrogate, and I remember on a talkshow (Oprah?) hearing about how some women were using surrogate in India because it cost about 10% of the price, and the money was actually life-changing for an Indian woman and her family. I know itās not the same, but we havenāt awfully large amount of children that need to be adopted.
My SO's son and his wife used surrogates in Ukraine for their two babies right before COVID. Sad to think that those women resorted to bearing "rich American's" babies in order to feed their own families. The surrogates supposedly made more money than the doctors who delivered the babies made in a year. And supposedly it took lots of "greasing palms"/bribes to get the babies out of Ukraine.
Same for my nephew. He and his wife couldnāt have children without ivf. They decided early on that they wouldnāt discard any embryos because they are faithful Christians. If that meant 10 children, then 10 it would be.
They now have 5 babies and no sleep. š
I just wish theyād stop vaxing them, but they trust their doctors. š«¤
The main root cause is female careerism, leading to women using birth control for all of their most fertile years and then being surprised that they can't get pregnant at 35 or 40.
The low carb doctors recommend a very low carb, high animal fat diet to combat infertility - this diet will cut out all the trans fats and the really bad carbs such as all wheat and rice products, and, of course, anything that has sugar as its main ingredient, even fruit and especially fruit juices. Even if the woman isnāt fat, this diet helps. It helps sperm count, too. IVF has a high failure rate, and is very bad for a womanās overall and long term health. I believe it shouldnāt be promoted at all, and especially not used as a first resort.
One of the root causes of *infertility is low sperm count, too. It's not just the women who need to assess their core health status.
Microplastics and over-processed foods and focusing on other missions in life to spend their energy on, lower men's sperm count and motility, don't they? I've known men who were low in sperm count simply due to hanging out too much in the hot tub. (At least, that's what I was told.)
Besides believing they must prioritize having their own careers over parenthood (let's face it, a lot of women end up being single parents at some point due to abandonment -- either physically or emotionally or cognitively, or due to the spouses' illness or incapacity or plain selfishness -- and it can be good to have something to fall back on), women also delay having children because their spouses (or "partners") do not want to commit to having children "yet," because they don't think they can support a child or they are too wound up in their work or extracurricular activities and they aren't "ready" to give up what they have going on.
People usually enter into relationships without thinking these things through, or even being aware that they need to.
Successful parentlng requires sacrifice.
Yes, maybe you can do everything, but not all at the same time.
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IVF excess embryos -- I hadn't really thought about it before, but it is starting to sound to me like more "baby body parts for sale." :(
The baby body part business is the most evil thing I can think of in this world.
My sister and her husband tried to get pregnant for years, then did IVF. Got twin heartbeats, which then died in the womb.
Later, God blessed them with two beautiful children (now both young adults in college) in His way and His time.
I'm not against IVF because I don't know enough about it, but what I do know and have been able to understand makes me sad.
I'm making an educated guess that this will turn out to be another thing that Trump highlights then allows to be sorted out by others, who he will listen to and learn from. And let other truth-tellers duke it out for us all. (He can't do everything.)
I think he listens to the good, the bad, and the ugly advisors, up to a point.
And believe he isn't a tyrant who mandates any one of us to follow any of them, or their advise. Nor have I seen him censor or cancel us for speaking dissent. I bluntly told him what I thought of his jabs on his Truth Social account. No pushback at all.
Having said that, whenever you find that Trump is wrong about a thing, pray to God it doesn't come to pass.
That if it isn't God's will to let something play out, it won't; and that if it is, it will.
While knowing that I can't choose for someone else whether to pursue IVF or not, and I only get one vote for or against paying for it, I'd have to say that before I minimally looked into it the last day or so, I was open to being "pro-IVF" if it truly is the right investment in future generations for our nation; now after reading about it more, I'm not so sure it is.
I know the heinous business in baby body parts (in the abortion industry) is ongoing, and we haven't been able to stop that; this is likely to expand that business if it hasn't already. I don't want to pay for that.
Before Trump brought it up, I hadn't given one thought to IVF.
Until now, I would have thought it was pro-life... now I'm beginning to see why it isn't.
Too much tinkering with God's creation is likely to be involved. I don't know for sure. I can imagine it could open the door to reselling unused embryos for experiments in transhumanist hybrids, synthetic-human chimeras, and not-fully human-but patentable "products." It could become an immoral, unethical, horror show. Being a part of that kind of a program diminishes everyone involved.
I'm only one taxpayer, and I have one voice. Trump's pronouncement will now surface other voices in a way I can't alone. Let the conversation begin. Let the expose of what IVF really is begin. And if there is a pro-life purpose to IVF, and it can be limited to that, let it be limited to that.
Organ transplants could stand to be looked at in the same way, if you think about it. How many donors are not really dead? Who gets to decide? How many are fentanyl overdoses? What does the organ transplant industry, while saving (or extending) some lives, do, that opens up opportunistice parties to temptations for money, power, influence that destroys other life?
[If Trump gets in office (a big IF), we shall have to see if it plays out in a Trump administration. Trump can't pass legislation; he can only sign it if it gets through the House and Senate. States' have rights as well... So, there are backstops.]
This morning I started accepting the distinct possiblity no matter what we do, we will suffer an uncomfortable and inevitable future that we cannot prepare for adequately in the coming years, even if we fight and "win" a Trump Presidency (or God gives us one), and not because President Trump is wrong or right about these kinds of things, or that his advisors are or aren't.
It's not really that we are choosing the lesser of two evils even; it's that we are BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE ... either course, Kamala or Trump, things likely will be painful, rocky, unpleasant, and strifeful to some degree. It's like that rockclimber with his arm stuck between two rocks, all alone and unable to call for help from any man or woman who could help. I'm praying we don't have to cut off the proverbial limb to free ourselves from the mess we've gotten ourselves into.
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.ā
Proverbs 16:6-8
6 By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.
7 When a man's ways please the Lord,
he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
We may not have the control of what we are going to have to go through. God knows. I think we can choose Trump over Kamala for the right reasons, have Trump back, and it still may turn out to be a case of going-down-fighting, but it might not.
This is a temporal world, and we know the ultimate end because God has given us revelation and still speaks revelation -- by His Holy Spirit, The Word, and Creation, but we don't know the when. God is predictibly unpredictable in the way He fulfills all His promises and prophecies.
This is a temporal world, and we know our own individual ultimate end because we've seen that no one gets out "alive" -- and we don't know when on that either, but we can choose to be in eternity with the Father-Son-and-Holy-Spirit-Godhead and the others who have chosen Him. (John 3:16, John 11:25-26)
God is longsuffering and merciful and not willing that any should perish, yet suffering and death are both necessary and inevitable in this fallen world, and He will never leave us or forsake us through it all. Until the fulfillment of our eternal salvation out of this world into the eternal one.
John 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you
I pray you find the peace of God which surpasses all of men's understanding, and find inspiration and blessing today. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Thank you for using ārow to hoeā correctly. So many of these phrases are just butchered these days. While Iām ranting, when did āwhoaā suddenly become āwoahā. It was a sudden thing about 8 years ago and Iām still confused. š
As a horse person and an avid reader for whom spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes jump off the page, the whoa/woah misspelling is doubly aggravating. šš
One of the subtle and insidious things that has crept into our culture is the concept of "Grammar Nazi". When I heard it first I believed it meant to be a backhanded compliment, but now I don't think so.
Language and Culture are inextricably entwined, and the devolution of spelling and grammar do not bode well for our culture. I'm guessing they aren't causal, more like the canary in the coal mine. I live with someone who is a born copy editor, and thank God she is. I just don't see it like she does. I wish I had her built in when I write comments and emails etc.
Or, "all the sudden" for "all of a sudden", which I have been trying to replace in my own vernacular with the more efficient "suddenly." Some habits are hard to break. Like, "may I ask you a quick question?" Correct answer, "not anymore!"
I follow a podcaster from Italy that says āget to grips withā¦ā in her intro and it kinda made me crazy but then heard it said in another tv show based in Italy so I guess itās an Italian thing to say it that way instead of ācome to grips withā¦.ā
I am so happy to see the media finally notice the Hunga Tonga volcano! It makes me laugh that the meteorologists have no idea what to do when their models donāt work.... thereby exposing the problem of using computer models for everything. Remember how the computer models completely failed at predicting the progression of Covid? Maybe some good, old-fashioned actual analysis would be a good idea about now.
And the look on peopleās faces when you mention Hunga Tonga or the sunspot activity, or the unusually low magnetic fieldā¦ theyāre just blank. Because itās not āclimate change.ā ššš
I don't know where to put this comment so I'll just put it here. We don't pay enough attention to what God is doing. The Hunga Tonga explosion, the earth's decreased magnetic field, the dramatic up tic in solar radiation and sunspot activity, the drying up of the Atlantic hurricane activity.... all of this is clearly only in the purview of God's Providence. The Son of Man sits on His throne at the right hand of God reigning over history as the King of kings:
"...He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure... You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potterās vessel.ā... And you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little." Psalm 2
Isn't it interesting that all of this is happening right when the kings of this world are trying to destroy His people, indeed, destroy the whole planet through their geoengineering? Nothing happens outside His Providence.
Psalm 24: The earth is the Lordās, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein...
Turbo Climate-Boomerang-Effect causing Hurricane Season to unexpectedly stall out in 2024, what will this mean for the planet's suffering oceans and weather? More $tudie$ need to be done A$AP! A stratified weather pattern of moderated temperatures will mean wor$e outcome$ for earth than Previou$ly thought. New models showing that a catastrophic and sudden climate collapse may be nearer than ever. Half-Billion cap on human population must be achieved far sooner than experts thought.
sarc-speak, my outlet for humor, like I could honestly be the Anti-Colbert if i were more talented and had Gavin Newsome's looks. Media finds all these Prog-Nutz 110% credible, Denver Mayor, CO Governor, TimMouthy Walz, we know the type; all of them are seen as the right kind of White Male....subservient and yet powerful, non-toxic yet broad-chested, devout Progressive Patriots who forsake all things traditional and counter-revolutionary and know their rewarding position in properly supporting the Movement.
Yes. They are only seen as the "right kind of male" by those who claim there are 57 genders (it was 57 yesterday, perhaps it is 58 today.) And that men need tampons! I refer you to "woke Jesus": https://babylonbee.com/video/woke-jesus
and He healed the vaccinated, the mal-gendered, and cast out embryos, and He/Him/His instructed they/them followers to be blessed by their poverty, to curse those who mention sin, to pray unto whatever god/goddess they chose, and to take this message unto the ends of the earth... that all are called to Salvation of the Earth through purchasing of carbon off-sets unto the Moneychangers.
Their models (tm) allow them to spew "science" (tm) narratives. Their models cannot account for a massive globe, rotating on a slightly tilted axis, making its way on an annual 550 MILLION mile trip around our sun through the cosmos. But you are not to think in those terms. Here in Arizona, our temps through the year will change by almost 100 degrees and their models (tm) tell us a 1-2 degree change in temp will end humanity. These people are lunatics being paid by other lunatics.
I remember in school science fairs how the dang Volcanoes always got all the attention. Ya figure the media would find them exciting to report on as well.
But, natural events like volcanic emissions and solar activity conflict the Green agenda, so they discounted...
The outcome of models is only as good as the calculations they input. They input certain calculations to get the desired outcome in their models. These days, I just pull up the radar and look out the window. It's way more reliable than the weather forecast models.
Close Valerie, Kerry is similarly a clueless nut job - who married money (would be even more unimportant than he already is, but I digress) - but what the hell was she thinking???
The correct answer is: Who is evil "inventor" Al Gore.
I remember the meteorologist I watched growing up. His name was Bill Hall. He was quite the local celebrity. Fond memories of watching Snow Bird for school closures back when we used to get good snows in this area. That was way before computer models.
I remember driving to the airfield one day in pouring rain. Thunder. Lightning. I asked for a weather briefing. Sunny and calm, I was told. I guess they didn't have a window.
Hahaa, yes, I can feel when the weather is going to change in my joints, about 36 hrs ahead of time. I'll check the forecasts and they'll be straight sun, but whattayaknow, day and a half after I'm all wow, I am achey!!!--We get the rain.
Archeologist canNOT understand "advanced" surgical or live dna that's ancient either. Perhaps their foundation is so wrong. š I'm sure they can prop it up somehow, please, and save the Leaning Tower of 'science'.
I'm shocked any educated person would believe models do "work." They simply don't. Sometimes they are closer to reality than others, but they're never 100% accurate. Not even close, actually. In social sciences, with a good statistical model, you're lucky to explain 30% of the variance. So, 70% of what happens is totally unpredictable. Simulation models are even worse, since they depend entirely upon the presuppositions, assumptions, and constraints of the model. They just generate a range of outcomes, which - as we saw with covid - can be totally off-the-mark.
I look at models as the intellectual parallel to pharma and health: people want an easy way to address an issue, something "scientific" they can put their faith in, and then say "well, we did all we could" when it doesn't work out. It's too hard and too personally risky to do the thinking themselves.
I don't think they included weather modification in their models. The Weather Modification Act of 1976 requires them to report it to the Dept. of Commerce because it can effects in other areas. However, I don't think they would report things like a pop-up revenge water spout in Italy.
I read and saw a clip of the Hells Angels riding to rescue the abused citizens of Aurora, CO. Vigilante justice will be much more prevalent in sanctuary Blue States. It will be interesting how the MSM will respond.
I fear vigilantism is just what the Bidenistas are waiting for. We could soon see National Guard troops being ordered to kill American citizens while protecting illegal alien crime syndicates. What is frustrating to me is the cynical calculation that no one will care since the people affected are poor people of color. Donāt be fooledā¦.white suburbs and church properties are the ultimate goalā¦.and there are more than enough illegals to catch citizen bullets and still prevail. Should we surrender? No, neverā¦.but if we try to fight this evil without complete dependence on Godās spiritual weapons, evil will prevail.
It may be fake newsā¦and it probably is. But our dear Governor, Polis, says the Venezuelan apartment take-over is fake news. It most definitely is NOT. Iād like a new Governor, please.
Denver Gazette headline: āAurora officials seek to counter image of city under siege from Venezuelan gang released one gang leader.ā Colorado, you donāt have a gang problem. You have a counter-image problem. Work on appearances and keep that bond-revenue stream flowing, plus whatever DC pays you to support criminals.
Itās realā¦the Mayor is asking for help and getting none. The laws in CO are such that it makes it difficult for police to act. I donāt blame the police - who, if they are anything like OUR local PD, WANT to help but are hogtied. Even when the DO arrest, the criminals are immediately released without bail. Can you imagine how demoralizing that is? You put your life in danger, lock up the bad guys, only to see them back on the street within a couple of hours. Rinse and repeat. No, I donāt blame the PD. I blame the legislators, the DAs, and our Governor. They are complicit and have put Coloradans at great riskā¦
Any person of authority that releases a criminal out of jail and the criminal commits another crime the authority should be accused of being an accessory, which, imho they are.
Just saw Reagan. I learned a lot about a time in history when I was politically oblivious. Jon Voight plays a Russian KGB profiler and most of the details from the Russian perspective are filled in by that character. Stay for the credits. The photos add a nice finishing touch.
A few centuries ago (it seems) the most popular television show in America was about a rude, obnoxious man who made stupid comments about people because of their race, religion, politics, dress size, you name it. Nothing was out of bounds for the ignorant bigot. Yet, people didn't want to sue or jail him or make laws called Hate speech to protect themselves from his often moronic speech. That was because the generation that watched him on TV weren't yet brainwashed in Govt schools to ignore or make fun of him, which was the point of the show and why it was so funny. So, our Govt schools have won and we lost our Freedoms to be an idiot like Archie Bunker without being ostracized, bankrupted or jailed. Welcome to Stalonist Russia.
I loved Archie Bunker, and I didn't find his intentions ill spirited. Yes, he was uneducated and rough around the edges, but he was actually real. He spoke the way many New Yorkers, living in a mosaic city of the 'other', spoke amongst their friends and families behind closed doors about the 'others'.
And remember Black George Jefferson?
Another example of a typical real New Yorker talking about the 'others'.
In a great irony, the creators were hoping Archie would be so repellent a character that Meathead would be the star of the show and is frequently the case, the opposite happened.
And oh, the Jeffersons! One of the BEST theme songs ever!
Yes, people could see through the roughness a kind heart. Today, there is no benefit of a doubt because TPTB know for certain that you are filled with hate, tho speak fact about morbidly obese people or people that Sin against God. Yet its the Godless Dictators that are dark, evil and filled with hate that make Archie look like Mother Theresa.
On some streaming services like Hulu as well. Every year I tend to watch a season or two again, and always enjoy them, especially since I was a teenager in NYC during those years.
My dad passed away peacefully March 7 at 90 years of age surrounded by all my siblings and my mom. He was a faithful servant of the Lord his entire life. He was in kidney failure the last couple of years. Upon diagnosis he chose NOT to do dialysis. Upon considering his options when the kidney function was so bad he thought he had not had 2 options - dialysis at home or in a clinic. The doctor said he had 3 options - not do anything. We are satisfied with his choice. Praying for you during this difficult time šš¼
ā My left-leaning relatives accused Republicans of being a cult of personality that ignores policy issuesā
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I am on the Trump campaign team and knock on doors to reach low propensity voters . A lady answered her door and after exclaiming ( with disgusting profanity) why she would NEVER vote for Trump , I asked sincerely about Kamalaās policies . She again attacked Trump and said he didnāt have any policies. I walked away ( shocked at the level of brainwashing) and politely said ā I hope you have a nice dayā.
āIf anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or townā (Matthew 10:14).
I am surprised that I saw three or four Harris/Walz signs around town. MN....I would think they would know better having lived under Walz.... I was surprised by how angry it made me š!
Absolutely praying for your dad šš»šš» how great that you have such a responsible 20 year old that could take that on. Family is everything! ā¤ļø
Prayers coming from me too! Also impressed with his 20-year-old.
āA wise son maketh a glad fatherā
Proverbs 10:2 and 15:20
Multiple applications here (for all three generations in this scenario š)
We have nothing but love for you and your dad.
Perfect.
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Like!
... and having an up-to-date passport! At 20 I thought āpassportā meant ākeep the wine moving down the tableā.
I had my passport at 16 and was traveling the world but only because my older sisters had previously normalized it by backpacking through Europe for three months. That said, I would not have been adept at escorting an aged and ill loved one home. But my oldest sister would have - there is a personality component often at play. I think of them as herders (like sheepdogs or collies). They see the task and are intuitive and practiced about bringing others through challenging situations.
Love this. I am oldest child and have always been the one to take of things from a very young age. I also have two Border Collie!
Love this insight you figured out. Yes, some folks are exactly this.
Pffffftttt (coffee thanks a LOT) hahahahahaha!!! Good one! I'd have thought that too if, at 20, I'd have had the first clue what port was!
Lol š I was on study abroad from age 19-20 so definitely needed a passport then š
But I admire you for drinking port and not cheap beer or strong alcohol at that age š¬
Port has an alcohol content of 19 -22%. Not exactly being abstemious.
... along with an Imperial IPA.
is that an inverted Pyramid (brand) IPA?
Nico: No, I hadnāt recognized the āIPā and āInverted Pyramidā association until you pointed it out. Inverted pyramid is a form for writing news articles. As an aside, āDogfish Head 90 Minute is the best IMO.
Thatās not what I said or implied, that port had no alcohol or a low alcoholic content. Port is a more sophisticated drink than most 20 year olds indulge in. They donāt often have the palate for it. Of course it is still alcohol, just not what most college students drink. I found that mildly amusing is all š¤·āāļø
Lol
I have a 29 year old who could not do that, but a 17 year old who definitely could.
I have an almost 20-year-old (next month) who was born 40 and could handle this as well, but my older kids, now in their 20sā¦ no way at that age. Maybe not even now. š
Funny how kids can be so different.
...kinda like adults...
LOL same, NAB. These second-borns... they're just built different.
My 17 year old is actually my 5th born and I think a big reason for his overall maturity and insight is because he had to make himself known with four older siblings :)
Same with my youngest. I only had 3, but the older 2 were 7 and 10 when he was born so he heard adult discussions all the time and learned from listening to them get in trouble and knew what not to do.
Thatās great!
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Ditto!
xxx having a 90 year old dad, who thankfully managed to understand he could no longer live alone, thinking of you - and hoping your dad will heal enough to spend some more time with his family.
Amen. š prayers for your family, Jeff. Donāt worry about us!
Yes, prayers for your Dad, what a blessing for you & your family that heās still around. Praying for answers, praying for favor with the doctors and wisdom for you and your family!
Jeff, enjoy your Dad while he is still with you. 35 years & I still miss mine šæ
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Good on your child's successful mission Jeff, shows mom and dad have trained him/her to succeed in this world.
I believe in the power of prayer Jeff. Please add mine to the others from your C&C family.
Amen
Jeff, Will keep your family in my prayers. Thanks for all you do.
Me, too! I have a 95 year old mom whoās still driving. My parting words to her are always, āI love you. Stay vertical!ā Praying your dadās kidney kicks in quickly.
Next to God.
Amen. Lord have mercy!
Praying for your dad and your family, Jeff!
Prayers for healing for your dad & for you & your whole family. May you each have all that you need today & in the coming days, as you navigate the challenge of getting older. Each day is a gift to cherish. š
Iām also very impressed with your 20 year old!
God bless your father! Praying for his recovery.
Jeff, Mel Gibsonās dad was in similar state, he flew him for stem cell treatment at this place in Panama, he was 90 also. Saved his life, video on the website
https://www.cellmedicine.com/
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Prayers for your dad and your family as you go through this! God will take good care of you all.
Praying for your Dad.
Regarding Reagan and the NYTimes attack on the Constitution: āFreedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.ā āReagan
Best wishes to your dad, Jeff, sincerely
More quotes for you good people on this labor day:
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect anyone who approaches that jewel." āPatrick Henry
"If you don't plan your own life, someone else will plan it for you." āunknown
"A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves" āEdward R. Murrow
"Every citizenry has the government they deserve" āJoseph de Maistre
"Power without oversight is the fastest route out of a replublic" āunknown
"But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over." āCarl Sagan
"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." āTex Guinan
"The tragedy of war is that the young men and women die fighting each other - rather than their real enemies back home in their capitals. " āEdward Abbey
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." āPlato
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you." āCheney
"Power is always dangerous, it attracts the worst and corrupts the best." āRagnar Lothbrok
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." āJohn Philpot Curran
"You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. The conformist does what he is told regardless of what is right. The moralist does what is right regardless of what he is told. Be the moralist." āUnknown
"If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary." āMalcolm X
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?ā¦ The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalinās thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! Ifā¦ifā¦We didnāt love freedom enough. And even more ā we had no awareness of the real situationā¦. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward." āAleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918ā1956
"If a nation expects to remain ignorant and free - it expects what never was and will never be." āFranklin?
"Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest." āCalvin Coolidge
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. āEdward Abby
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." āCharles A Beard
As these quotes show, human nature never changes, I'm afraid we are guilty of all of them & are suffering the consequences.
So true.
1:Timothy 2:2
1First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving be offered for everyoneā 2for kings and all those in authorityā so that we may lead tranquil and quiet lives in all godliness and dignity. 3This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,ā¦
We can only obey this if weāre paying attention to our government.
Just had a vertigo experience, Michael. I uploaded these quotes to the EssentialKnowledge section of my website library, and the file size was less than 4KB.
Just imagine the vast amount of wisdom contained in that, single, tiny, unassuming file.
But you and I are inspired to do better, Michael!
Religion and its' adherents will in fact rule a nation; either it will be one of Liberty or one of Oppression.
We are witnessing what happens when the false gods of freedom and liberation reign in government and society, (Hedonistic-Materialism, Neo-Progressivism, Secular-AntiTheism, Jihadi-Mohammedanism, Climatism, Darwinist-Utilitarian Humanism, Trans-Christ-Pantheism, Tribalist-racism and others); OPPRESSION
Excellent comment. Regardless of whether one believes Christianity is factually accurate, it's been the best platform for building decent societies where people other than the elites prosper and have a good life. Its descent parallels the rise of all that ails us. I think I see signs of a revival. If not, we're sunk. Human beings have proven to be incapable of building and maintaining a decent civilization based on their individual mental abilities. They must have a mostly benevolent dogma to build around. That does not apply to small primitive groups, like Inuit and Amazonian tribes, who seem to exist quite successfully and harmoniously. When the size of populations scale up with agriculture and "civilization", evil is empowered. Such people are simply eliminated in small, self-policing tribes.
Excellent roundup of quotes. We have become a Nation who was bewitched by radio in the 30ās and 40ās, television in the 50ās, 60ās and 70ās, and the world of computers leading to the internet, cellphones with everything on a 3 x 5 inch screen capable of going anywhere in the world. I hope we have not lost entirely the ability of the written word to move us, and urge us on to question.
Weāve become a nation āeducatedā by the government.
I don't have TV, haven't for 10 years. I stream what I want to watch. I don't watch the "news" but get my news from alternate media.....every day.
My sister has TV though. I was shocked at the garbage that passes for ads these days.....disgusting......and shown in public places where there are children present! And don't get me started on the Olympics!!!! š
You don't need tv. All you have to do is listen to the idiotic babble that is repeated word for word, again and again. Very Stepford Wives, but it's permeated everything.
If Kackles gets in we will not have alt media... and radio shows will be worthless as well. I expect radio to be totally funded by govt as the left's shows can't bring in many listeners even now. Hope everyone is stocked up on real books and lots of hobby stuff. Back to a Spartan existence.
Zappa called it early 1970s, a mere 30 or so years following the technological invention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiCQcEW98OY
Right! Zappa!
A piece of work.
Tri Torch, Kurt Vonnegut is right! But then there was the 1960 World Series between the Pirates and Yankees. Most of the kids I knew had little pocket radios with an ear speaker to sneakily listen to the game in class. And the black and white televised games were not brought to you by Pfizer. They were sponsored by Gillette and General Motors. Second baseman Bill Mazeuroski hits the final home run in game 7; Pirates win 10-9.
Those were the good old days of naivety and innocence. 1960: Kackles and Tampon weren't even born. The conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy would be beyond the wildest imagination back then.
How far we have fallen. Make America Healthy Again.
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and eventually into the water and land, sadly
You can't send your children to Nazi education and expect them to love US CONSTITUTION and personal freedoms to fail
Calling a rotten public school education 'Nazi' is a sign of a poor public school education. If you're going to pejoratively swipe at public schools then say 'Marxist' or 'Bolshevick'. Calling everything we don't like Fascist or Nazi is from the lefts playbook.
Fascists, Nazis, Bolshevists - they're ALL left of center.
They're all totalitarian, and we could educate people better if we used the "total government" to "no government" (anarchy) scale instead of the meaningless left-right one. The important variation is in how much control government has.
Globalism/Woke, by any name, it's really all forms Marxism rolled into one. The one party is more weight more heavily towards Communism. The other party more towards Fascism. Both were fine with Woke, Globalism, the divide and conquer of Maoism. Both were fine with the UN agendas and the march into the NWO. And all the time, both playing their Uni-Party roles.
Fred, how is your wife doing?
Has she found a new medical position?
Excellent reminders. Thank you for doing the necessary editorial work and posting.
"And even more ā we had no awareness of the real situationā¦." āAleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
This is where we are NOW. They don't want us well informed and educated or they wouldn't continue polluting our water with fluoride and fearmongering us into submission with un-science.
We need more awareness of what is happening but historically, the powers-that-be control the information and history as well.
We need to be repeatedly educated from kindergarten about our Constitutional rights, injustices of the past, and histories of fallen governements... not just about slavery injustices, but what the gov really did like experiment on innocents and what big corps have done to pollute, study how to FOIA and released declassified documents, etc.
Dawn, after my experience of being a conspiracy theorist for the past 25 years (out of 73) and especially the recent stolen election and Covid bioweapon scam, I am aware of how much wool has been pulled over my eyes by government/media/public school and I am contemplating how it could have happened, how I could we have prevented it, and how do I help future generations, especially my progeny to resist it in the future???
IMHO only God can fix this mess but we can live our lives as good examples among the evil.
I am shocked when FOIA docs are released with so much redaction! What good is it to release practically total redactions????
It is an insult - to show you who really has the power.
"And even more ā we had no awareness of the real situationā¦." āAleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
This held true here in the United States for all of the 20th century and on into the 21st century until 2011 until the Green Mask began to fall. This is the time when Agenda 21 was found out by the Tea Parties ... and NWO UN template of total planetary domination was found. Someday, this date of 2011 may mark the beginning of the end to Woke Globalist plan for world Marxist domination. The Green Mask refers to Rosa Koire's book which was the perfect summing up of the Agenda 21 plot against humanity. (Nice post Dawn.)
My own preference is for more home schooling, and more cooperative home schools hubs outside the state system. The state has proven itself that it cannot be trusted with the charge of education. And besides, if home schooled properly, kids should already be at three to four years of university by the end of 'grade 12'. And much smarter on all accounts.
WE have to realize that Commies didn't just somehow succeed in Russia due to Tsarist failure in Great War, and then through their own efforts simply emerging on top of the various factions vying for power in 1917-1919; Rather the Globalist Elites found Russia to be the most opportune location for their Commie venture and it succeeded most effectively there. The Great War was after all a Great Reset. Had there been better opportunity to install The Revolution in England, or the United States in 1880, 1898, or 1912 then they would have.
When I was a very, very young man, I thought the Russian Revolution was Russian. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the Revolution of 1917 was overwhelmingly by participation (at least 80%) Jewish ... and also foreign Jewish funded (Jacob Shiff of Kuhn Loeb and Company located in New York and the Frankfurt, Germany located Jewish banking fraternity as facilitators and expediters. Not a Russian Revolution at all. The effort was greatly assisted by the incompetence of Tsar Nicholas II and his ministers. The Revolution itself was a revenge vendetta anti-Christian in nature. Some things seem never to change.
Daver, Wickstrom is pretty brutal but it is info that most people in churches today fear and fail to speak about which is keeping us ignorant and placid.
YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID - DR JAMES P WICKSTROM
https://www.bitchute.com/video/OWGtNv7tT51e/
2 Corinthians 3:14-17 ...But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. 15 Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. 16 But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
I've watched twenty minutes so far. And so far it lines up with what I have seen ever since the Internet permitted getting us getting close to and sharing source document. As to the video, I would not be surprised if Wickstrom were to tell me that this whole charade was tried out right after WWI. Only the people in America at the time did not bite down on the propaganda articles fed into such rag as the New York Times.
The Western Christian Churches have been largely wrecked by Jewish Imperium working relentlessly from within and without. Such fallen churches never teach from source materials like the historic catechisms. And so, no one in the West, barely any at all, knows what Christianity really is.
You give a wonderful quotation. I take to heart is meaning. And I'll only say that the New Testament teaching is not what most people think it is. Rather it is an extension of the Old Testament Law into a Christian Church formate. Covenant also means Law, which is also covered by an unlifted veil. That is, Christian Law in the once Christian West has been subverted, usurped.
Thanks for the post. You see through much of The Grand Deception (and what is not of God is of Satan).
Edit: having watched the entirety, the histories are right both secular and Scriptural. But the theology in execution goes awry. And you are right, the delivery is harsh ... and that's putting it mildly. The Evil, of course, must be defeated. But to repeat the methods of the past would be a mistake. Passive resistance, a total non-compliance is the better pathway in the main. Excepting one for thing. If and when 'they' use force to drag us out of our homes or sweep us off the streets, then countermeasures more stern are warranted.
You always have good insight. I am seeing the Bible with fresh eyes these days. The real world is way more wicked than any horror movie. Now I know.
What can we do?
Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9 What you have learned and received and heard and seen in meāpractice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
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Ephesians 5:15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Wickstrom is the guy who interviewed rabbi finklestein who spilled too many beans and apparently died shortly after. He talked about 911 and stuff I don't want to write here. https://www.bitchute.com/video/6spJwnrQkfrr/
God is revealing things to those who He wants to know maybe because we can't understand or bear them. We must stay in prayer as protection and for the salvation of others..
John 16:12 āI still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
I'll take that video in too. I vaguely remember Finklestein.
See my edit of my afore comment.
I cannot watch horror flicks. Too painful and tearing of the soul. However, the world is far worse than any horror film because it is horror compounded with horror.
The interesting thing is that 'they' continuously tell who 'they' are. 'They' simply cannot quit bragging and blabbing it out.
Yes saw the edit now. Wickstrom is was angry. We can't be like them though.
No more horror films for me. I think you can get tormented in your dreams.
Be prepared to be ill when you listen to the interview and guard your mind.
People are so hardened they can blab and nobody gets it. IMHO God will awaken His army when it is time.
Nail on the head
Agree we need more education. Unfortunately there is a huge segment that will always refuse to see the truth no matter how glaring. It's who they are, as shown by the last 4 years, unmistakably. They can only be brought around by changing the narrative, they'll follow whatever they perceive as acceptable and mainstream.
Their perception was molded when young.
Thank you, TriTorch!
So excellent! I really do believe in the hero, and it is us!
We are the ones we've been waiting for!
Love them all but especially the one by Solzhenitsyn. What if
Love theseā¦such truth! I think of myself as a moralist not a conformist, as will most of us commenting here, thankfully.
These are great.. and a warning to all of us.
Thank you!
Journalists today have no clue regarding Edward R Murrow.
Thank you for these powerful quotations. The one from Solzhenitsyn was particularly disturbing.
I took the liberty of sharing a couple of these quotes on Facebook: Malcolm X and Solzhenitsyn. Did say that I got them from your comment here on C&C.
Excellent reminders TriTorch!
thanks for all the great quotes. I've been collecting them for about a year and these are great additions!
I love the idea and story of Reagan. But how does everyone get beyond the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act? The signing led to an explosion in our vaccine schedule. It eliminated the financial liability of vaccine manufacturers caused by vaccine injury claims. Reagan fans conveniently leave this out of the story.
It was mentioned in there, albeit brief. This egregious statute needs to be overturned ASAP.
Well, (badly) paraphrasing here, but my understanding is that he was threatened with āwe just wonāt make vaccines anymore (š£)ā and, āwe have all these impenetrable safeguards in place that will make vaccines even more safe.ā š” Last I heard, not a single one of the biennial mandatory safety reports has been issued.
Vaccine policy is so out of the realm of a Presidentās expertise, its understandable. The best thing they can do is pick good advisors. Trump screwed up trusting Fauciā I donāt know about Reaganās advisors. Florida did so much better during covid in large part due to DeSantisā selection of Ladapo as surgeon general.
Yes, he should have seen the obvious flaws in that scenario, but at that time, most people still believed the vaxxes were all beneficial.
Like many things it was a two-parter. They were supposed to provide yearly reports on what they were doing to make the āunavoidably unsafe vaccinesā (itās in the inserts ) safer. Under a FOIA request, I think by the Childrenās Defense Fund, (RFK, Jrs group)it came back with zero documents. Without Liability vaccines have gone 3-6 to 90+. Then mandate them and eliminate exemptions so your kids canāt attend school without them. Itās partly whatās driving the exodus from California
Reagan did question why "don't you make safe vaccines?".
IRC Pharma was getting sued from some bad vaccine reactions and threatened to not make any more vaccines. Remember this was 40 years ago when we trusted the Media and believed we all would have been crippled by polio and dead from Smallpox. The negotiation was Pharma would work on making them saferā¦.which never happened. Theyāve also never tested a vax against a true placeboā¦like saline vs a vaccine. They test it against the adjuvantā¦which is what causes the reaction! If you havenāt already read it I highly recommend reading Dissolving Illusions by Dr. Suzanne Humphries.
The Highwire had an episode on it. The Act in its original form was beneficial as it recognized vaccine injury. It was watered down and now proven that it isn't followed as requires safety testing meetings weren't happening. This interview gave me a different perspective:
https://rumble.com/v454dt3-episode-353-1986-the-untold-story.html
Look at the whole picture and what the alternative is - Remember Trump was also caught up in vaccine mania but now he is the only hope for saving the country from Marxists destruction- on that note isnāt it remarkable the similarities between the Reagan & Trump elections - both despised by democrats aka communists and democrats with nothing to offer Americans but failure and misery - and one more thing to like aboutnRFKjr - he wants to prosecute those responsible for spewing toxic chemicals in the atmosphere
These are my thoughts on Reagan too. Itās similar to President Trumpās āwarp speedā comments and his backing of the poison jabs. Were Reagan and Trump both hoodwinked? And if soā¦that they could be such dupes raises many questions. I live in the U.K., but whoever the US President is has its effects on the British and the rest of the world, too, thatās why I follow this substack and read it everyday (it reaches me around 2pm U.K. time).
According to Kathleen Watt of Bailiwick News substack, many years ago changes were made in government structure that gave powers to cabinet members and not the President or Congress. Such as the sole power to declare a pandemic is in the hands of the HHS secretary, so Trump was not even in a position to declare one or declare one to be over. The HHS secretaries have been coming out of big Pharma for a while now. The HHS secretary makes the declaration but the President stands at the podium and announces it.
This moving of powers to a cabinet member has also affected other decisions hence why our elected officials are pretty powerless at this time. We need an overhaul of these policy changes to return the power to Congress who get elected.
Same re: the WHO & WEF = no one is elected so they just do what they want.
Frightening what's going on in your neck of the world... we're going to be right behind you if the Cackler gets in... zero free speech. Can't believe a woman gets arrested for having her eyes closed near an abortion clinic! She may have admitted she was praying but how could they know what her prayers were???
In other words, extortion.
Reagan gave us some amazing quotes, for sure!
"Rolling Back Reagan" I've heard Progressives say about their efforts to fix what he broke 1980-92. THE MOST Hated MAN in America Between Nixon and TRUMP, Bush Family mostly got a pass for being elitists, liberating Kuwait, facing 9-11 attacks, and also stupid. Dems have never believed that Republicans are a legitimate Executive nor Majority Party, NEVER. FDR and the lackey Media cemented the idea that America had finally turned the page and that Socialist-Nationalism and Democrats would and should forever rule, the Reps could just contentedly remain a neutered minority party for their White Trash, weak, traditionalist-minded low classer voters and the Patricians who could give them lip-service while enriching themselves cuddling up with their protective Progressive Colleagues.
How old are you? The same crowd that hates Trump hated W Bush just as much. Remember it started as BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome). I say this as someone who regrets voting for W and would never again.
Yes. Things shift. The neocons from the Bush era have taken over the Democratic Party. Big Pharma used to be more behind the Rs. On the R side, let us not forget the bogus weapons of mass destruction, which ended up killing over 1 million people and destabilizing an entire region .And let us not forget that the Democratic Party was once the proslavery party. Power corrupts, which is why I am going to remain an independent and keep my eye on everyone. Somehow we have to come together and figure out what we can work on and stop automatically hating one group. I know this is easier said than done. RFK has tried to do this. The Ds reacted horribly, but look at how he has managed to get more people talking about the chronic disease epidemic. One of my favorite questions is to ask people if they are concerned that the chronic disease epidemic could bankrupt our country and destroy social security , which countless Americans are going to need. Most of our seniors wouldnāt survive without that.
Another reason to like RFKjr - he wants to prosecute those responsible for spewing toxic chem trails in the atmosphere- hope,to see Miley in a perp walk
Yes. Kennedy has integrity, focus, and a big heart. We are lucky he and Trump are working together.
Don't worry about ever voting for a Bush again, Trump took care of Jeb Bush!
But wasn't it all mostly bluster and street Lefties (Code Pink/Occupy WS) against W??? Where were the impeachments, the leaks, the cabinet backstabbing, and investigations? I suppose the Reps closed ranks to protect him, but Trump has more criticism for GWB than the NeoCon Left does these days
Maybe there would have been but if you recall, when people were calling for war crime investigations, Obama came to office and told people we need to look forward....he knew better as he was about to fill the war criminal shoes himself.
But would you vote for a Gore or a Kerry?
I am in your camp here!
The simple truth is, the left is demonic. A demonic cult of death. And THEY truly are stupid.
Or at least the demonic are leading the easily brainwashed and the overly tribal. I know many kind people who are frightened into believing this stuff, and innocently believe all the propaganda. At same kind of person also tends to worship their doctors and believe everything that they are told.
Only cosmic level stupidity would allow them to align with the father of lies.
What has he promised them?
It's a LIE
The truth is left, right, dem, rep, all play for the same team. Pull ur head out of ur ass and realize ur being played.
Reagan was good at reading these kinds of scripted opium for the conservative masses while his policies did the opposite. That is all I am going to say, Reagan lovers can have their feel good moment but please after you clear all the popcorn kernels from your teeth return to the present where when leaders speak of freedom, they mean freedom for government and corporations to impose their will on the people. Think about whether things have changed since the '80s.
You must not remember 78' through 82'.
And yes I remember the 80's...quite fondly. Probably the zenith of America.
Great post, TriTorch.
Isn't "fat" just a descriptor? Like tall, blonde, freckled, one-legged, or lanky? If someone described someone else as "thin" on social media, would there be similar outrage? I doubt it.
A friend recently told me that sheād heard a mom had scolded another mom for telling āthe short kidsā to stand in the front of the group for a picture š The scolder said it was ābody shaming,ā šš š No itās just a *description*. Apparently we canāt even describe people anymore š
I had to sit in the back of the room since my last name started with a W. I was a victim of Ideograph shaming. š²
Me, too! Can you imagine my delight when I was finally in a class with the guy whose last name started with a Z? š
Alphabet shaming
Wow ā¦ I can top that. My last name started with W and I was one of the tallest girls in the class. Always relegated to the backā¦.. poor me. š
As a native Irishman all my life I have had to listen to bad jokes about the Irish. Surely that is racist?
Me too! Iām a W and was always at the back of the class. Except for one kid named Zimmer. I have always had bad vision, so it actually was a problem to sit that far back.
S. Gimme my seat in the back row!ā¦.
End of the alphabet last name here too and I was always called last for everything š so traumatic š
People have gone nuts. Too many years of having things too easy. And in this case, telling them to stand in front is for their own good: so they can be seen. But, yeah, let them stand in back and no one will know they were there at all, lol. And of course never explain WHY they need to stand in front; we wouldn't want children to learn common sense or logic.
Right??? Itās mind boggling š
And I was always too tall so I was told to stand at the end of the line so she could see the other children. Hmm.
Lol, I was always 3rd girl in the front of the line until 6th grade when I grew to about 7th in line.
At a grade school reunion (K to 8 private Parochial school) 25 years later, the tall girls at the back of the line weren't all that tall, and some of them were now of equal height to me and the girl who was 2nd shortest in line!
Childhood height means very little.
I never cared that I was in the front part of the line. I never cared that I was in the front row sitting for photos either!
I didn't care that I was in the front desk rows.
NEVER cared or thought about it one way or the other.
These mothers are the ones perpetuating the present cultural beauty standard of height equals beauty, and are passing it on to their children. Generally, children are accepting of themselves and of their classmate's differences.
You are correct.
I was 5'2" and 93 lbs when I was a sophomore and 103 lbs as a junior.
Everyone told me I was going to be a "little" guy...but I knew better and told them "just watchƧ.
I grew 9 inches the summer before my senior year. And then another 2 during college.
I've been 200 lbs since the day I left college.
Ryan, do you know how tall you were at age 2? We were taught in my family medicine residency that adult height is frequently about double the height at age 2. I don't think they ever said if that was based on height when you just turn 2, at the mid-point of being 2, or just before turning 3, but it's a rough estimate in any case.
Not sure. But I was 9lbs and 13 ounces when born.
My mom always said I was a big toddler, but stopped growing around 6.
I'll check with her.
'One simple way to predict how tall your child will be when they grow up is to take their height at age 2 if they're a boy or 18 months if they're a girl and double it. (Girls grow a little faster than boys.) This method has been around for a long time, but there isn't any scientific research about how accurate it is,'.
Jun 6, 2022
https://www.babycenter.com
Child height predictor: How
That formula is soooo off for my children! It is meant to be the height at 2 years old/24 months.
One grew much taller than that formula would have it, and the other much shorter.
For girls especially, puberty, development and menses age will all play a part, and ofcourse genetic inheritance, which could be from a grandparent or great grandparent.
Also, medications like Ritalin, given to so many children for ADHD can take 2 inches off their normal height. (This is a fact, surprisingly, mentioned by physicians).
Not always true. The tallest of our four was the one taking it. She's 5'11" next in line is 5'5".
That is what I was told. š¤·
Height is so unpredictable.
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To that last paragraph!!
If it offends the lunatics, we can, and should, else they win and they censor our speech.
Yes! No quarter. I've been saying for years now...mocking and shaming is the way out of this mess. Flex the 1A and make them attack it. And, honestly, they should be mocked and they should feel shame for the stupidity they display. Say the things they hate. Trigger them. Make them defend their stupid positions. Like Kamalamadingdong, they can't. They get exposed and they lose.
Our side has been entirely too nice through all of this. We've left the work up to DJT and a handful of online voices. Meanwhile, here in reality, they're mutilating and raping children, burning down cities, stealing our money, erasing our history, and trying to erase the entire majority race from the planet. And our response has been: well, we don't want to be mean or offend anyone or anything...
I'm done being nice! I started stirring the pot during covid 2021. ....not too many ppl want to talk to me anymore.....š¤£š¤
āTake the high roadā š How many times have I heard that?? What that meant though, was just being a doormat and never standing up to anything.
Good to see you back btw RU, havenāt seen your posts lately and I always enjoy your contributions here š
Thank you! Just been dealing with a move.
It's gotten to the point where even countering an argument from the left is deemed "harm." I just think we should have pushed back sooner. Doesn't mean attacking or belittling, but there's nothing wrong with calling BS what it is, IMO. So many factually incorrect and incoherent ideas are taken as truth these days...
Good luck with the move! Thatās always so much work! š
Yes I agree with all that!
āTHIS!!!!!!!!!!
Any social media post that calls that Green Party MP "fat" without "pig" following it misses its impossible to miss target.
What a fat f'n pig that thing is! Eeesch! Protect your pets and small children around that gargantuan tub o'lard!
Or land whale, an ocean/land going mammal of exceedingly large size, who has both gills and lungs and mostly floats but is known to ride the fat mobiles (Kinda like Bat Mobile but not) at Walmart..
Chris Christie's wife! Maybe they have a throuple with JB Pritzker? Maybe they all hate Trump because his casino restaurants close when they see the three of them walking up for the AYCE prime rib buffet?
One very funny thing I read recently was Doug Ibendahlās caption over a picture of Pritzker at the state fair:
āFind someone who looks at you the way Governor JB Pritzker looks at the butter cow at the Illinois State Fair. š«¦ā
LOL, too good Running!
There WILL be a serious loss of profit!
And yikes... did you have to put the image of christie's wife in my mind...
Judging people by appearances should never be a final judgment, but it is not an unreasonable place to begin evaluating potential public servants. An obese smoker might not be a wise hire for a PE teacher. The father of a money-laundering crackhead son might not be a wise choice for chief law enforcement officer. A Gretchen Whitmer with dead-fish eyes and an Alexandre de Moraes with an evil leer might not be wise choices to place in seats of power. A cackling goofball policy shifter might not be a wise choice for President of the United States. On the other hand, geometry requires short people to stand in front for group photos. Science.
Well said!
And yet... all of these people are in power over us... how can that possibly be? Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences. That's how.
It probably didnāt occur to the darlings that there was anything wrong with being short until that female put it in their little heads.
Scolder would have preferred language like "vertically challenged" no doubt.
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Maybe sheād have preferred the other mom say nothing and the short kids not be included in the photo because no one could see them š
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Obese. Huge. Unhealthy. Those are what came to mind when I saw her picture. She's past "fat."
She's very likely over medicated. Having been working my way around the medical field in almost every dept for the past 35+ years I can't tell you how many Drs , when asked if a change in diet might positively affect a body they will say "no" or we aren't trained in that area enough to say. "Here, take this tiny cheap pill just one time a day" or this skin patch you replace only one xa year. It's easy." I had a Dr asst, because that's all the it's today, raise her voice and very animatedly TELL me all she knows about some and heart attack (and that is that we are all going to have one) if you don't take her pills that she has be sold a ton of pharmaceutical research on.
Example: Common side effects of clindamycin include:
Diarrhea
Nausea
Vomiting
Abdominal pain
Skin rash
Itching
Skin peeling!!!!!!!
And weight gain is one that many never mention!
I noticed that EVERY PERSON in the heart and vascular dept was OBESE. Living, Old. Debilitated.
Iāve started noting how absolutely unhealthy my community is every time I go out. And noting those who DO look healthy (which can be misleading, from personal experience) - I am guessing many are medicated. Letās not forget birth control. Many of the women I know who took or take birth control absolutely ballooned on it. Weāve been sold a pile of lies with that Pill (or whatever form pharmaceutically controlling fertility takes).
And add to that metabolically unhealthy, which includes many people who appear normal weight. And that is from eating crap food and not getting exercise.
Yes. I dumped my doctor for the same type of rant. Pathetic!
āEVERY PERSON in the heart and vascular dept was OBESEā.
That ironically says it all.
Clearly American fast food feeding troughs are prevalent in Germany too!!!!
The EU still has healthier food than the USA, I think.
I look for EU products when I'm shopping at Aldi. Yes, EU has healthier food, it's the US fast food industry that is at issue.
ALL ULTRA PROCESSED FOOD! Eat whole food when ever possible. Fresh beef, fresh chicken, fresh fish... FRESH vegetables. Buy local from the farmer's market! So many ways to eat healthier!
Yep, l love the local farmer's market.
Yes.
Putting the Large into Largesse; i suppose Herman Goering would agree to imprison and fine all those who insulted him over being a FAT NAZI PIG too.
Like Reagan said āitās simple, but not easyā.
Ginormous!
According to Calvin Klein and several other advertisers, "fat" is something to proudly display.
I remember when calvin kleinās were emaciated children.
Back in the 90's Kate Moss, Heroin Chic.......
Funny how they canāt just showā¦healthy.
Klein have to make money, and whatever trend, he will jump the wagon.
I stopped and refuse to buy anything by Calvin Klein. His advertising always smacked of pedophilia (funny my phone doesnāt auto populate that word). Especially the man behind video camera interviewing young people in wood paneled basement. Disgusting.
Well, that influencer Jeff mentioned is correct: they are a death cult. If it's something harmful to oneself, they are for it. Weird.
???? Really? Vomit
Fat is the majority now so they pander to majority buyers. $$$
My Mexican friends cheerfully nickname their fat buddy, Gordo. No one cries or gets arrested.
Remember Fat Albert? Mainstream cartoon for decades.
HEY HEY HEY
It used to be. I read my 2 year old āRed Fish Blue Fishā and one page says, āsome are thin. Some are fat. The fat one has a yellow hatā¦ā Every time I read it, I mentally remark that our culture doesnāt want to recognize this fact any more. Fat exists. While no one should be rude,* it will further degrade our society to pretend āfatā doesnāt matter.
*but rudeness also should not be a criminal offense. Free speech AND fat matter! Being able to accurately and honestly describe the world around us and our interactions with it is essential to liberty.
Miss Manners never recommended lawfare for bad manners. She recommended fixing people with an icy stare, asking them to repeat their transgression, and then saying ā Thatās what I thought you said,ā and walk off. More effective.
I once told a coworker that she was offending me by calling me skinny. Told her it was just as offensive as if I called her fat, which she was. Never heard another word about it from her.
I take skinny as a compliment because I have to work really hard to be slim for my age.
It's an adjective, Jenna NOT to be confused with a (godlike) PRONOUN. We all know how PRONOUNS are HOLY and (apparently) adjectives are the anti-Christ. Maybe the sender should emphatically declare he/she/they thought that fat was her pronoun??? No?? Too soon??
How long before society politicizes every part of speech? Would it be hard to politicize the articles? E.g., "I am THE 'Fat Tom,' not A 'Fat Tom.' How DARE you!"
Fat gets a bad wrap. Many of the world's best fighters, and strongest men, can be seen as "fat" - but they have brown fat, which powers one's brain and fights cancer, not the unsightly white kind.
Shapoval, I was just thinking of you! I just made this study note:
Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman is studying physiological sighs. Normally they occur every 4 or 5 minutes, expanding all of the lung sacs and fully existing carbon dioxide. A study revealed that when people use smart phones (VS physical text media like a book), the physiological sighs do not occur. What are the implications of this? He connects it to the fact that less understanding and memory is retained from a digital interface as opposed to books and physical media.
30 minutes into Rich Roll March 7, 2022 podcast on app. 24 minutes into YouTube version.
https://youtu.be/2ekdc6jCu2E?si=LhyY1gyfI_1qBMtD
Did you know about that? I thought of some of your excellent articles that I've read.
Copy editor here. For what it's worth - maybe nothing. I only mention it because your compilations often deliver exceptional information, obviously requiring deep commitment to your work. My ilk are sticklers for accuracy. It might even be possible I've seen this usage in your writing before? No offense intended, only updating/educating/edification for your already sharp sensibilities. It's only 2024 so, either I'm stuck in the past-present or possibly you're ahead of your time? My time?
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Is-it-Bad-Rap-or-Bad-Wrap
Leaving now...
Folk etymology! So fun. A few favorites: hollowed ground, skiddish pets, unchartered waters, roads to hoe, no preserves add it, friends who parted waves . . .
Your so right! ;) To many to count. Sorted details, down the shoot, for all intensive purposes, do diligence, peaked my interest, the bigger picture at large, it wasn't very interesting my mind kept wondering, here here!, ...and taste of Old Lang Zyne...
Cringe to leave some o' that on the page. Is anybody looking?
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Copy Editors... the proactive āfact checkerā! I went toe-to-toe with them when I reported BUT pretty much all of them were correct and forced me to do a better job. A thankless job especially at deadlines, a lot of elevated voices (mostly mine) yet I learned more during those 45 minutes than any classroom could ever achieve.
So, āThank youā, for your layout decisions and common sense.
Not necessarily smarter than most. Hardly. Just terribly persnickety. Donāt know how thou art, but over here older now so throw hesitation to the wind and lay it bare: ego is a fragile thing, eh? All around. Are we good? š Thanks for the support.š
Roman, Iād never heard the term brown fat before today but literally just learned about it immediately before this, while reading the Unbekoming Substack answering 50 questions about fasting. #Synchronicity.
Fat = Type II diabetes = social security disability = votes for dems. Therefore no fat shaming because.
Addendum: Trump adding RFK, Jr will MAHA, as part of the MAGA movement (if only the loons could get it through their heads MAGA is good for everyone who calls themselves American and honestly for the world at large, not including the global marxists, deep state and uniparty who urgently want you and me to be their subjects.) A win, win, even for those who are obese and don't want to be.
agreed. Used to be overweight myself, and doc told me I should stay like this because of hormonal imbalance - now obese because the medical world lowered the numbers again. Just like the numbers of sugar and blood pressure keep going down so docs can prescribe more meds. But does anyone pay any attention to the walking skeletons ? the models on the catwalk can hardly be called healthy. I remember a few who had severe anorexia. No one makes fun of them because they are 'sick'. Has it ever occurred to people, that overweight people might have the opposite problem? Several pages making fun of heavyset people have been unsubscribed, because it hurts to be made fun of every day. ( I agree that some people should lose weight but the recent blaming of obesity on people is just not right )
Obesity is not to blame for health problems. Obesity is a clear side effect. The problem is our food supply, period. I think it was The Obesity Code by Jason Fung that taught me this.
Itās like blaming drug addicts for their addiction, no itās worse than that. Once addicted to drugs itās no longer a matter of will power and choices, but there was an initial choice in the beginning to do the first drug. However, with food there was no first choice. Especially when the addiction started as a young child when they didnāt fully understand their choices and were fed by others. We believed āthe expertsā about a healthy diet, we were constrained by how food is prepared and prepackaged, we were sabotaged as the addictive properties were placed in everything, without our knowledge, even in the foods offered by restaurants. The addiction took hold and now overcoming it is the same as a drug addict; itās a long tortuous journey to become ācleanā with our diets. At least a drug addict has places to go to not have pills and needles shoved in their faces everywhere they turn. Our corrupt and addictive food supply is on every corner and in every grocery store, and all over the ads we watch.
I donāt blame fat people for being fat. Itās not their fault. But they do have the freedom and power to do what I did and refuse ANY and ALL food that isnāt whole or clean, or responsibly made. I lost almost all my fat, am no longer overly obese like I was for 20 long years, and it wasnāt from a single minute of exercise. It was from refusing their corrupt food. Now that Iām healthier I can finally add exercise because I can actually do it and maintain it.
It is complicated, with many factors influencing....something many don't realize are all the endocrine disruptors in our daily products....PFAS, fragrance, pesticides, etc. It's increasingly difficult to avoid.
You mean to tell me there's pesticides in my seed oils?
/sarc-off
Iām sorry but not getting fat, at any point, is a choice. You choose to eat, when one should choose not to eat. Itās math, not emotions. Unturned calories turn to fat. Rocket science. If you are 100 pounds overweight, you could cut your food intake in half, and still survive, eating the same things you ate to put that weight on. And lose weight. So hungry? It might be a little uncomfortable at first, but you certainly arenāt going to waste away. Stay hungry for a few months and see what happens. You get used to it.
At some point of balance of calories in, calories out, this is true, or there would be fat people among starving populations, but it's also true that what kind of calories, the macronutrients, one ingests have hormonal effects that greatly affect weight. Insulin is a growth hormone, e.g., so when one eats excess carbs, one puts out a lot of insulin and can gain fat as a result. This is why some young female diabetics would take less insulin than they were supposed to (back in the day when fat wasn't considered beautiful). A great read on this is Gary Taubes' books 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' and 'Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It.'
No, I disagree. I never overate or binged at any point in my life, and I was thin up until my 30s. What happened with me was my insulin resistance became out of whack and I was metabolically sick. I ate āhealthyā (according to the government and medical nutritional advice, which is NOT healthy after all,) and I watched my calories and it did not matter. There is a point where if you eat too few calories for too long your body switches to starvation mode and stores it ALL as fat. Calorie restriction is another lie.
I am only 5ā2ā so my overly obese point is much sooner than a woman who is 5ā7ā or taller. Still, despite being active and health conscious I found myself at 203 lbs and a stroke risk.
It was NOT a choice. It was a reaction to the kinds of foods in our food supply.
Once I learned about insulin resistance and the true science behind macros and calories, the right kinds of food to eat, why the prepackaged and processed foods of today donāt provide our bodies what they need and why, I dropped the weight. I now eat more calories than before but they are the right kind of calories.
There is much more to this epidemic than āfat people made a choiceā. It may be true for a few, but not most. And it does become an emotional addiction. You see it when you watch someone abstain from what they are used to eating. It takes several weeks to withdrawal and get past that point.
You just did the same thing you're offended by, though. My daughter is one of those actual, literal catwalk models you referred to. She's 6' and naturally rail thin (she literally struggles to gain weight) and has actually been teased and accused of being anorexic her entire life (the girl can put away a burrito the size her head and insist she's "still hungry"). So to your point, to some extent your body shape and type is pre-determined, but to accuse thin women of having an eating disorder is equally shameful IMO.
I was just going to say something like that, I have seen on many occasions derogatory comments about thin girls/women (āgo eat a burger, will you?ā āString beanā etc etc)
I see your point, but I think Ingrid's point may be that our culture idolizes one body type (that can sometimes be unhealthy) over another body type (that can sometimes be unhealthy).
Ofcourse both body types mean little to the health of the person.
Tall women are generally very lucky in the weight department vs shorter women. I am a big analyzer and have come to that personal conclusion.
I do remember that in the 90s, apparently, slim wasn't enough on the runways and there was a huge anorexia scandal. Ingrid may be remembering that.
My husband is the same way. It's very annoying of him to have such wonderful metabolism but he finds it crushing to be viewed as forever the skinny dude. I personally would not want to be as thin as he is so I know it's really hard. And it can be unhealthy to try to gain weight in todays world of terrible, unhealthy food. He actually does better without gluten or dairy interestingly.
I also was teased about being too skinny. We moved when I was in 5th grade. At my new school they all said I had moved there from Ethiopia. Itās not easy being outside ānormalā in either direction.
Yup, my daughter and I are like your daughter (but only 5'7). And pretty "flat", too. We've heard it all. My daughter is 23 so high school nastiness is still fresh in her memory, and boy were those kids nasty. For awhile I was worried she really was going to develop an eating disorder because of how self-conscious she became. People just don't think before they speak.
Those who make fun of fat people will and do pick on people in general. Believe me, if you had protruding teeth, those teeth would be the target. Those who pick on others never attack an unattractive feature that they own. Remember the final episode of āSEINFELDā? The 4 of them were making fun of an overweight man; what made it funny wasnāt the target of their derision instead it was funny because Jerry, Kramer, George, and Elaine had so many more deficiencies than this one person being overweight. Bullies will always be around, cruel comments should never happen but it does happen... be prepared to counter those comments (you know them by heart) and donāt play the victim card... you will feel a whole lot better and the cruelty of others will start to fade away... plus a gained respect from others will grow.
āJust like the numbers of sugar and blood pressure keep going down so docs can prescribe more meds.ā And LDLā¦ Docs got my brotherās lipids so low that his LDL was incalculable. His stamina and mental functioning were failing rapidly until he took it upon himself to stop one of the drugs. Amazing improvement.
Smart he stopped the statins, hopefully he gets a new doc. Statins are not good - the brain needs cholesterol! Diet changes & certain supplements like Berberine can help. People are responsible for what gets put into their mouths. True - our food supply is generally unhealthy & has addictive effects so people need to be aware of basic good healthy eating habits. Sometimes just a few changes like reducing sugar intake ( soda & diet soda for ex.) & reducing empty carbs. Lots of free info out there, it can be done if thereās a will. RFKās focus on health, food & why we have an epidemic of chronic disease (will include vaccines ) will be a game changer.
To be thin is a coveted beauty standard in today's culture.
Add certain curves to that which don't often come with being thin and you have the sick culture of plastic surgery implants. š
I am thin, slightly built and average height) but in no way skinny as I do have some body fat. I have trouble finding age appropriate clothing as it has all been upsized. If I shop vintage I am a 6, sometimes an 8 but now wear a 00 or 0. Throw in the small chest that comes with being thin and nothing made for someone older than their teens fits correctly. It is very understandable why some women chose breast implants.
Having implants in your body is not a healthy thing. Many have gone public about autoimmune conditions from it.
I think that small breasts are beautiful and very youthful looking as you get older. Finding clothing that fits well is a challenge for many women. For me, it is having narrow shoulders.
I have found that a seamstress is absolutely necessary for proper fitting dresses. They can perform miracles and it is well worth the extra money for how elegant a properly fitting dress looks.
Yes. I have narrow shoulders, too, and that complicates the issue. Also you are correct in the health issue with implants and that is another area where the medical industry lies to us. But my comment was meant to provide one reason that women chose implants.
I do take issue though that it's as simple as finding a seamstress. That also is time consuming and expensive as it adds up and not all garments can be easily altered. I used to either alter or make some of my own clothes. I may go back to that as I retire.
The preferred description is āPerson Of Unusual Size (POUS).ā With a nod to The Princess Bride š
Yes, dear Jenna. Yes.
And what ever happened to āsticks & stones etc.ā
Obese would be the medical term, so I suppose everyone can just use that. Then they'd have to start arresting doctors for hate crimes for diagnosing their patients with the medical condition, lol.
RU, at this point, nothing would surprise me less. Lose their licenses, at least. What a world we live in.
After ozempic users shrivel down maybe the "Twiggy" comments will become offensive. The new "Thin is In" drug that pharma is making big $$$ on may end up being worse than obesity.
Dear Lord, you are the all-powerful and all-knowing creator. Your plans are perfect and your mercy is beyond our comprehension. Forgive us when we rely on ourselves, put faith in man, and neglect to acknowledge you as Lord of all.
Thank you for each breath you give us, for this community of people, and for the Childers family which has blessed so many through this blog, and through legal and community means.
Please draw near to Mr. Childers, bring comfort to his spirit and healing to his body. Above all, we ask that you use this to strengthen his faith and reliance on Christ as savior.
In Jesus's name.
Amen
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Beautiful prayer
Amen!!
Amen.
Beautiful prayer! And Amen!
Amen!
Beautiful! Follows the Praise, Apology, Thanks, Help (PATH) model. Learning about that helped me in prayer.
AMEN!
Amen.
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Beautiful. Thank you for putting it so succinctly. AMEN!
I stopped after reading about your dad. Jeff, what a man he is!! Ups and heads to France at 90 because, just because. Gutting it through what had to be scary falls and pain, returning home to you and hopefully restoring his health. He gives insight to you, a plucky, smart, tireless, funny-and-honest man. Prayers for him and your spirit filled family.
Indeed! Well said.
Was he living there or visiting? š¤
Jeff said he up and moved
Wow!
āUnless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.ā
āāPsalmsā¬ ā127ā¬:ā1ā¬ āNKJVā¬ā¬
https://bible.com/bible/114/psa.127.1.NKJV
Hos 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
13 You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors,
IVF is so fraught with problems. If we want to foster more American babies we should address the root causes of infertility. And IVF is not the only remedy to infertilityādoes insurance cover all the healthy remedies (those that donāt end up with excess embryos and donāt feed into the horrible surrogate industry)?
Agree, the root causes must be looked into and resolved, IVF is very expensive and fraught with all kinds of issues š
Stay off chemical birth control until you have the kids you want for starters. I remember years ago when I started hearing about chemical birth control that completely stops your menstrual cycles for extended time. My first thought was "yea, that won't screw you up at all." I have several friends who went the IVF route, they were all on chemical birth control for over a decade before trying to have kids. I never took the stuff and had my first child at 37. Took me all of a month to get pregnant, too. Coincidence?
The Jordan harbinger podcast just had a 2-part interview with a woman (scientist? Doctor? I canāt remember) about all the ways birth control affects a womanās body. It was a couple of weeks ago. Really interesting.
I think Trump was being pro life without offending the lunatics who think murdering their own unborn children is a good thing. Personally, I think offending them is a good thing but it doesn't play well in our toxic society.
I think he was saying "let's get some more WHITE Americans born", without saying it
I don't think Trump necessarily sees skin color as part of the equation. You may disagree but I think he is completely blind to skin color - as we all should be. I think he just wants American's to populate America! What is an American? A legal Citizen, who fully participates in the American experiment by voting, paying their share, following the Constitution and law, speaking English and being accountable and responsible for their actions and their lives.
Some possible root causes may track back to nutritional deficiencies related to consumption of manufactured foods. Some can be biological: for both male & female such as birth defects, scarred tissues, & for women fibroids etc. For part of my career as nurse I worked as a clinician in a communicable disease (STDs, TB) clinic. Mumps can cause sterility in males post puberty. It is like many conditions related to health: complex.
I agree, this IVF idea terrifies me because itāll just be one more federal government program that grows into a huge blob and is ripe for massive fraud.
Have I ever mentioned here that I have a client that works for the FBI investigating Medicare fraud? This person tells me the FBI wonāt even look at a case if itās less than a MILLION dollars. And we wonder why our government is bankruptā¦ itās happening in every program, Iām sure.
I always get updates from the VA inspector general in regard to fraud. One good thing is they do investigate and prosecute crimes less than a million dollars.
One of the main causes of the need for IVF is obesity. Itās why they try to link Ozempic as being some sort of fertility drug, it isnāt, but it can reverse poly cystic ovarian syndrome and various over issues that do occur in the womanās reproductive organs with too much fat and hormonal imbalances. I think the MAHA program would already naturally make people more fertile.
PCOS can be cured in as little as 12 weeks with a Keto diet.
Iām a huge fan of keto. Sadly, many people donāt have the will power or arenāt told about this type of diet and itās potential. The doctors would rather prescribe Ozempic. The newest scam is that what RFK Jr is discussing, about giving Ozempic out for free to the obese. It only keeps off weight as long as you use it and has so many bad side effects. Itās kinda like mRNA shots 2.0- a blockbuster for big Pharma who now peddles their wares to the government directly.
And it is a good way to bankrupt healthcare insurance once and for all.
And if taxpayers pay for it on Medicare, it is a good way to push us further down the fiscal cliff.
Insulin resistance =PCO
I took care of a lot of babies and children in my PICU days that were sick with uncommon diseases and had been IVF babies.
What does IVF do to a woman later in life?
Does it cause cancer?
It causes abortion for the unlucky siblings who are discarded.
Life begins at conception. Many embryos are conceived, but only one is allowed to come to term.
How many deaths for each successful IVF birth? A dozen?
How many of those women delayed having kids because they wanted a "career"?
Some things in life are not meant to be.
Women have been sold a bill of goods that they can have everything in life.
Kathleen, of the things not meant to be, they should realize it's the career that should be ditched or sidelined, not one's fertile years in sacrifice to prestige and money.
Agree.
Saw this and immediately thought of you: https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/officials-cant-reject-mail-in-ballots-with-incorrect-dates-pennsylvania-court-5716845?utm_source=RTNews&src_src=RTNews&utm_campaign=rtbreaking-2024-09-02-1&src_cmp=rtbreaking-2024-09-02-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=digital&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcfU5ehEFx8ba6bYcnmJUCr12hUABKoqT%2FTnZtFuEoc4%2BxuB1Nw4%3D
Judges in Pennsylvania are idiots or paid by the Deep State.
Any documents can be deemed illegal/not acceptable if the incorrect date is used.
But...somehow...in Pennsylvania...we have to cater to the stupid people and the cheaters.
Thanks...Pennsylvania cheats.
And the docs call it selective reduction. Guess it sounds better than murdering the children in your body that you don't want and keeping the one (or two) that you are going to let live.
The Southern Baptist Convention has come out against IVF for this reason.
I think the SBC and the Catholic Church are the hold outs (not that adherents in these denominations all follow the teachings, sadly. I know plenty of "Catholics" who see no problem and that is a reflection of failed teaching on the part of priests and bishops).
So heartbreaking and true!
Fertility treatments of all kinds raises the risk of ovarian cancer. How could it not, when the body is being pumped full of unholy amounts of hormones?
Mrs. "the Knife"
Probably could contribute to cancer, with all those hormones. I had a client in her 30s doing it and it caused all kinds of miserable problems. Itās no picnic. The other possibility is a surrogate, and I remember on a talkshow (Oprah?) hearing about how some women were using surrogate in India because it cost about 10% of the price, and the money was actually life-changing for an Indian woman and her family. I know itās not the same, but we havenāt awfully large amount of children that need to be adopted.
My SO's son and his wife used surrogates in Ukraine for their two babies right before COVID. Sad to think that those women resorted to bearing "rich American's" babies in order to feed their own families. The surrogates supposedly made more money than the doctors who delivered the babies made in a year. And supposedly it took lots of "greasing palms"/bribes to get the babies out of Ukraine.
Borderline human trafficking.
If they only would realize that God is in charge.
Some things are not meant to be.
Pharma would love to get their hands on all the excess embryos.
You are correct.
But be very careful with judgment.
All I can say is those who are healthy and have tried for multiple years are faced with not fulfilling your "purpose" on earth or God forbid IVF.
My wife and me are those people and we wouldn't be blessed with healthy and extremely well adjusted twins without that technology.
Same for my nephew. He and his wife couldnāt have children without ivf. They decided early on that they wouldnāt discard any embryos because they are faithful Christians. If that meant 10 children, then 10 it would be.
They now have 5 babies and no sleep. š
I just wish theyād stop vaxing them, but they trust their doctors. š«¤
Thanks Queen.
Same. We didn't discard any...and let God make the choice.
We are blessed beyond all words.
The main root cause is female careerism, leading to women using birth control for all of their most fertile years and then being surprised that they can't get pregnant at 35 or 40.
The low carb doctors recommend a very low carb, high animal fat diet to combat infertility - this diet will cut out all the trans fats and the really bad carbs such as all wheat and rice products, and, of course, anything that has sugar as its main ingredient, even fruit and especially fruit juices. Even if the woman isnāt fat, this diet helps. It helps sperm count, too. IVF has a high failure rate, and is very bad for a womanās overall and long term health. I believe it shouldnāt be promoted at all, and especially not used as a first resort.
Louise,
Sadly, the root cause is the dissolution of the family. Along with vaxxines, toxins in our food, water & air, career over motherhood.
One of the root causes of *infertility is low sperm count, too. It's not just the women who need to assess their core health status.
Microplastics and over-processed foods and focusing on other missions in life to spend their energy on, lower men's sperm count and motility, don't they? I've known men who were low in sperm count simply due to hanging out too much in the hot tub. (At least, that's what I was told.)
Besides believing they must prioritize having their own careers over parenthood (let's face it, a lot of women end up being single parents at some point due to abandonment -- either physically or emotionally or cognitively, or due to the spouses' illness or incapacity or plain selfishness -- and it can be good to have something to fall back on), women also delay having children because their spouses (or "partners") do not want to commit to having children "yet," because they don't think they can support a child or they are too wound up in their work or extracurricular activities and they aren't "ready" to give up what they have going on.
People usually enter into relationships without thinking these things through, or even being aware that they need to.
Successful parentlng requires sacrifice.
Yes, maybe you can do everything, but not all at the same time.
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IVF excess embryos -- I hadn't really thought about it before, but it is starting to sound to me like more "baby body parts for sale." :(
The baby body part business is the most evil thing I can think of in this world.
Sigh. You're right, of course.
My sister and her husband tried to get pregnant for years, then did IVF. Got twin heartbeats, which then died in the womb.
Later, God blessed them with two beautiful children (now both young adults in college) in His way and His time.
I'm not against IVF because I don't know enough about it, but what I do know and have been able to understand makes me sad.
I'm making an educated guess that this will turn out to be another thing that Trump highlights then allows to be sorted out by others, who he will listen to and learn from. And let other truth-tellers duke it out for us all. (He can't do everything.)
So, another example of Trump listening to ill-chosen advisors?
Seems that way, doesn't it?
I think he listens to the good, the bad, and the ugly advisors, up to a point.
And believe he isn't a tyrant who mandates any one of us to follow any of them, or their advise. Nor have I seen him censor or cancel us for speaking dissent. I bluntly told him what I thought of his jabs on his Truth Social account. No pushback at all.
Having said that, whenever you find that Trump is wrong about a thing, pray to God it doesn't come to pass.
That if it isn't God's will to let something play out, it won't; and that if it is, it will.
While knowing that I can't choose for someone else whether to pursue IVF or not, and I only get one vote for or against paying for it, I'd have to say that before I minimally looked into it the last day or so, I was open to being "pro-IVF" if it truly is the right investment in future generations for our nation; now after reading about it more, I'm not so sure it is.
I know the heinous business in baby body parts (in the abortion industry) is ongoing, and we haven't been able to stop that; this is likely to expand that business if it hasn't already. I don't want to pay for that.
Before Trump brought it up, I hadn't given one thought to IVF.
Until now, I would have thought it was pro-life... now I'm beginning to see why it isn't.
Too much tinkering with God's creation is likely to be involved. I don't know for sure. I can imagine it could open the door to reselling unused embryos for experiments in transhumanist hybrids, synthetic-human chimeras, and not-fully human-but patentable "products." It could become an immoral, unethical, horror show. Being a part of that kind of a program diminishes everyone involved.
I'm only one taxpayer, and I have one voice. Trump's pronouncement will now surface other voices in a way I can't alone. Let the conversation begin. Let the expose of what IVF really is begin. And if there is a pro-life purpose to IVF, and it can be limited to that, let it be limited to that.
Organ transplants could stand to be looked at in the same way, if you think about it. How many donors are not really dead? Who gets to decide? How many are fentanyl overdoses? What does the organ transplant industry, while saving (or extending) some lives, do, that opens up opportunistice parties to temptations for money, power, influence that destroys other life?
[If Trump gets in office (a big IF), we shall have to see if it plays out in a Trump administration. Trump can't pass legislation; he can only sign it if it gets through the House and Senate. States' have rights as well... So, there are backstops.]
This morning I started accepting the distinct possiblity no matter what we do, we will suffer an uncomfortable and inevitable future that we cannot prepare for adequately in the coming years, even if we fight and "win" a Trump Presidency (or God gives us one), and not because President Trump is wrong or right about these kinds of things, or that his advisors are or aren't.
It's not really that we are choosing the lesser of two evils even; it's that we are BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE ... either course, Kamala or Trump, things likely will be painful, rocky, unpleasant, and strifeful to some degree. It's like that rockclimber with his arm stuck between two rocks, all alone and unable to call for help from any man or woman who could help. I'm praying we don't have to cut off the proverbial limb to free ourselves from the mess we've gotten ourselves into.
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.ā
Proverbs 16:6-8
6 By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.
7 When a man's ways please the Lord,
he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
We may not have the control of what we are going to have to go through. God knows. I think we can choose Trump over Kamala for the right reasons, have Trump back, and it still may turn out to be a case of going-down-fighting, but it might not.
This is a temporal world, and we know the ultimate end because God has given us revelation and still speaks revelation -- by His Holy Spirit, The Word, and Creation, but we don't know the when. God is predictibly unpredictable in the way He fulfills all His promises and prophecies.
This is a temporal world, and we know our own individual ultimate end because we've seen that no one gets out "alive" -- and we don't know when on that either, but we can choose to be in eternity with the Father-Son-and-Holy-Spirit-Godhead and the others who have chosen Him. (John 3:16, John 11:25-26)
God is longsuffering and merciful and not willing that any should perish, yet suffering and death are both necessary and inevitable in this fallen world, and He will never leave us or forsake us through it all. Until the fulfillment of our eternal salvation out of this world into the eternal one.
John 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you
I pray you find the peace of God which surpasses all of men's understanding, and find inspiration and blessing today. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Prayers for your father, he has a tough row to hoe.
Now, about the signs, They should read Americans rather than Blacks, all of us are in the back of the bus with this so called administration.
I hope when they find the āperpetratorsā they are black people! The idiots in charge wonāt know what to do then!
They will lie!
Thank you for using ārow to hoeā correctly. So many of these phrases are just butchered these days. While Iām ranting, when did āwhoaā suddenly become āwoahā. It was a sudden thing about 8 years ago and Iām still confused. š
As a horse person and an avid reader for whom spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes jump off the page, the whoa/woah misspelling is doubly aggravating. šš
Mrs. "the Knife"
And "rein" and "reign"!
YES!! We need to rein in our government, or it will reign over us, in direct contradiction to what our Founding Fathers intended.
Mrs. "the Knife"
For me too! My eyes bleed when I see that one.
And the adjective malign vs malignant. So many irks
Or how about Toe the Line vs Tow the Line? š¤£
Altho literally they have quite different meanings, as metaphor they are nearly the same.
See autocorrupt corrected it for me THREE TIMES before letting me type Tow. lol.
One of the subtle and insidious things that has crept into our culture is the concept of "Grammar Nazi". When I heard it first I believed it meant to be a backhanded compliment, but now I don't think so.
Language and Culture are inextricably entwined, and the devolution of spelling and grammar do not bode well for our culture. I'm guessing they aren't causal, more like the canary in the coal mine. I live with someone who is a born copy editor, and thank God she is. I just don't see it like she does. I wish I had her built in when I write comments and emails etc.
Youāre right, the corruption of the language is just one more way to erase historical norms and identify the in group.
Marxist ideology totally relies on the perversion of language.
I fight with autocorrect constantly!
Valerie,
....'irregardless', border vs boarder... ugh!! š
"I could care less."
Ok, go ahead then. Come back to me when you couldn't.
Or, "all the sudden" for "all of a sudden", which I have been trying to replace in my own vernacular with the more efficient "suddenly." Some habits are hard to break. Like, "may I ask you a quick question?" Correct answer, "not anymore!"
I've found myself in the habit of saying: "To make a long story even longer . . ."
'Irregardless ' I hate that word and it's used way too offen or off-ten (?)
Often.
Mrs. "the Knife"
"Offen" is the preferred pronunciation, but both are correct.
The "Mr."
The phrase I see often misused today "I'm lost for words". I want to shake people when they say that. It's "at a loss for words"!!
Also, the continued use of "begs the question". It's never used correctly.
Or "literally" when they mean figuratively!
That's literally the worst.
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I follow a podcaster from Italy that says āget to grips withā¦ā in her intro and it kinda made me crazy but then heard it said in another tv show based in Italy so I guess itās an Italian thing to say it that way instead of ācome to grips withā¦.ā
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Yes. I think it may have been better if the sign said ' whites and blacks ' to the back of the bus.
Or even 'citizens to the back of the bus' .
It is too touchy a memory for black Americans, and I get it.
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"I am black." In the spirit of "I am Spartacus."
Wouldn't want to misappropriate culture, though . . .
Shouldn't signs be in the 35+ languages of the migrants flown in from all over the world to be Denver's premier stakeholder citizens?
I am so happy to see the media finally notice the Hunga Tonga volcano! It makes me laugh that the meteorologists have no idea what to do when their models donāt work.... thereby exposing the problem of using computer models for everything. Remember how the computer models completely failed at predicting the progression of Covid? Maybe some good, old-fashioned actual analysis would be a good idea about now.
Plus Hunga Tonga is so fun to say, theyāve really been missing out! šš
I agree that there has been far too much reliance on models and not enough actual thought or analysis.
And the look on peopleās faces when you mention Hunga Tonga or the sunspot activity, or the unusually low magnetic fieldā¦ theyāre just blank. Because itās not āclimate change.ā ššš
I don't know where to put this comment so I'll just put it here. We don't pay enough attention to what God is doing. The Hunga Tonga explosion, the earth's decreased magnetic field, the dramatic up tic in solar radiation and sunspot activity, the drying up of the Atlantic hurricane activity.... all of this is clearly only in the purview of God's Providence. The Son of Man sits on His throne at the right hand of God reigning over history as the King of kings:
"...He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure... You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potterās vessel.ā... And you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little." Psalm 2
Isn't it interesting that all of this is happening right when the kings of this world are trying to destroy His people, indeed, destroy the whole planet through their geoengineering? Nothing happens outside His Providence.
Psalm 24: The earth is the Lordās, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein...
Can I get an "Amen"?
You've got my Amen, brother Phil.
AMEN!
Turbo Climate-Boomerang-Effect causing Hurricane Season to unexpectedly stall out in 2024, what will this mean for the planet's suffering oceans and weather? More $tudie$ need to be done A$AP! A stratified weather pattern of moderated temperatures will mean wor$e outcome$ for earth than Previou$ly thought. New models showing that a catastrophic and sudden climate collapse may be nearer than ever. Half-Billion cap on human population must be achieved far sooner than experts thought.
William If I hadn't a while ago realized you communicate mostly in sarcasm-speak, I'd swear you were a climate lunatic!
sarc-speak, my outlet for humor, like I could honestly be the Anti-Colbert if i were more talented and had Gavin Newsome's looks. Media finds all these Prog-Nutz 110% credible, Denver Mayor, CO Governor, TimMouthy Walz, we know the type; all of them are seen as the right kind of White Male....subservient and yet powerful, non-toxic yet broad-chested, devout Progressive Patriots who forsake all things traditional and counter-revolutionary and know their rewarding position in properly supporting the Movement.
Yes. They are only seen as the "right kind of male" by those who claim there are 57 genders (it was 57 yesterday, perhaps it is 58 today.) And that men need tampons! I refer you to "woke Jesus": https://babylonbee.com/video/woke-jesus
and He healed the vaccinated, the mal-gendered, and cast out embryos, and He/Him/His instructed they/them followers to be blessed by their poverty, to curse those who mention sin, to pray unto whatever god/goddess they chose, and to take this message unto the ends of the earth... that all are called to Salvation of the Earth through purchasing of carbon off-sets unto the Moneychangers.
Be afraid - be verrrrry afraid...
I speak fluent sarcasm and that right there was a masterpiece.
Their models (tm) allow them to spew "science" (tm) narratives. Their models cannot account for a massive globe, rotating on a slightly tilted axis, making its way on an annual 550 MILLION mile trip around our sun through the cosmos. But you are not to think in those terms. Here in Arizona, our temps through the year will change by almost 100 degrees and their models (tm) tell us a 1-2 degree change in temp will end humanity. These people are lunatics being paid by other lunatics.
THIS ā
This ā!!
Right? Itās become a mantra in our house š¤£
I remember in school science fairs how the dang Volcanoes always got all the attention. Ya figure the media would find them exciting to report on as well.
But, natural events like volcanic emissions and solar activity conflict the Green agenda, so they discounted...
I love the science fair volcanoes!
One never forgets building that erupting volcano model in elementary school.
Who doesnāt love making a mess without getting in trouble? š
The outcome of models is only as good as the calculations they input. They input certain calculations to get the desired outcome in their models. These days, I just pull up the radar and look out the window. It's way more reliable than the weather forecast models.
Just remember this, "climate change" (tm) was created - in large part - by the "creator of the internet"... okay C&C, who is that??
Since we know he lied about creating the internet, isn't it fair to arrive at a similar conclusion about his "climate change" (tm)?
Every time I have to buy lightbulbs I curse him!
Oh yeah, that guy who came out with the Convenient Falsehood film right?
That would be the scumbag!!
Wasnāt in John Kerry? š
Close Valerie, Kerry is similarly a clueless nut job - who married money (would be even more unimportant than he already is, but I digress) - but what the hell was she thinking???
The correct answer is: Who is evil "inventor" Al Gore.
That would be the nut from Tennessee.
Yep Beckadee, You are the grand prize winner!!! Al Gore, climate and carbon exchange fanatic and thief!
Do I win a chicken dinner?
Yes!
Yes, this is exactly the point I was getting at, but you said it better.
I remember the meteorologist I watched growing up. His name was Bill Hall. He was quite the local celebrity. Fond memories of watching Snow Bird for school closures back when we used to get good snows in this area. That was way before computer models.
I remember driving to the airfield one day in pouring rain. Thunder. Lightning. I asked for a weather briefing. Sunny and calm, I was told. I guess they didn't have a window.
Hahaa, yes, I can feel when the weather is going to change in my joints, about 36 hrs ahead of time. I'll check the forecasts and they'll be straight sun, but whattayaknow, day and a half after I'm all wow, I am achey!!!--We get the rain.
Archeologist canNOT understand "advanced" surgical or live dna that's ancient either. Perhaps their foundation is so wrong. š I'm sure they can prop it up somehow, please, and save the Leaning Tower of 'science'.
I'm shocked any educated person would believe models do "work." They simply don't. Sometimes they are closer to reality than others, but they're never 100% accurate. Not even close, actually. In social sciences, with a good statistical model, you're lucky to explain 30% of the variance. So, 70% of what happens is totally unpredictable. Simulation models are even worse, since they depend entirely upon the presuppositions, assumptions, and constraints of the model. They just generate a range of outcomes, which - as we saw with covid - can be totally off-the-mark.
I look at models as the intellectual parallel to pharma and health: people want an easy way to address an issue, something "scientific" they can put their faith in, and then say "well, we did all we could" when it doesn't work out. It's too hard and too personally risky to do the thinking themselves.
Spot on!
And if you want to add a layer to that bs you can have the "models" populate a "dashboard" for an even easier way for even more people to freak out.
I don't think they included weather modification in their models. The Weather Modification Act of 1976 requires them to report it to the Dept. of Commerce because it can effects in other areas. However, I don't think they would report things like a pop-up revenge water spout in Italy.
Honesty goes a long way, but at this point in history, it is not allowed!
I read and saw a clip of the Hells Angels riding to rescue the abused citizens of Aurora, CO. Vigilante justice will be much more prevalent in sanctuary Blue States. It will be interesting how the MSM will respond.
I fear vigilantism is just what the Bidenistas are waiting for. We could soon see National Guard troops being ordered to kill American citizens while protecting illegal alien crime syndicates. What is frustrating to me is the cynical calculation that no one will care since the people affected are poor people of color. Donāt be fooledā¦.white suburbs and church properties are the ultimate goalā¦.and there are more than enough illegals to catch citizen bullets and still prevail. Should we surrender? No, neverā¦.but if we try to fight this evil without complete dependence on Godās spiritual weapons, evil will prevail.
This is how the DS incites an American Civil War. The DS is very adept at inciting Wars, Coups and Color Revolutions.
I believe Hells Angels going to Colorado is fake news, unfortunately
It may be fake newsā¦and it probably is. But our dear Governor, Polis, says the Venezuelan apartment take-over is fake news. It most definitely is NOT. Iād like a new Governor, please.
Denver Gazette headline: āAurora officials seek to counter image of city under siege from Venezuelan gang released one gang leader.ā Colorado, you donāt have a gang problem. You have a counter-image problem. Work on appearances and keep that bond-revenue stream flowing, plus whatever DC pays you to support criminals.
It would be funny if it werenāt trueā¦
Itās realā¦the Mayor is asking for help and getting none. The laws in CO are such that it makes it difficult for police to act. I donāt blame the police - who, if they are anything like OUR local PD, WANT to help but are hogtied. Even when the DO arrest, the criminals are immediately released without bail. Can you imagine how demoralizing that is? You put your life in danger, lock up the bad guys, only to see them back on the street within a couple of hours. Rinse and repeat. No, I donāt blame the PD. I blame the legislators, the DAs, and our Governor. They are complicit and have put Coloradans at great riskā¦
Any person of authority that releases a criminal out of jail and the criminal commits another crime the authority should be accused of being an accessory, which, imho they are.
šÆ. Talk to our super majority democrat house who wrote the laws that allow for this madnessā¦
I'm here in SoCal. I hear your pain. We are š for millions of walk aways to turn Cali red again.
Could be another 4chan deal. Those guys have the best pranks.
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Me too
Oh they'll respond in their normal fashion....being absolutely SURE it's a another inSUREction.
No matter the SUREcumstance they will call for cenSUREship.
The combination of ignorance and arrogance is dangerous.
You can be SURE of that...:]
Itās been a while, but doesnāt the HA have a long history of supporting widows and orphans too?
A wild guess is they also don't carry a vaccination card.
I wouldnāt count on that.
Rotten tomatoes is a scam. If they hate a film, odds are I will love it.
I asked my grocery store wine buyer what determined a 90+ rating on wines. He said it's based on who pays for it. It's always about the $$$$
Just saw Reagan. I learned a lot about a time in history when I was politically oblivious. Jon Voight plays a Russian KGB profiler and most of the details from the Russian perspective are filled in by that character. Stay for the credits. The photos add a nice finishing touch.
We just saw it too. Didnāt know he was an FBI informant while at SAG. I went home and researched it a bit and there you go!
I use it to help me pick out a movie - a low critic score usually means that movie moves to the top of my queue :)
Always. Almost every movie we would give a 90% rating to they are single digits or teens. š¤£ Great litmus test
Yes.
A few centuries ago (it seems) the most popular television show in America was about a rude, obnoxious man who made stupid comments about people because of their race, religion, politics, dress size, you name it. Nothing was out of bounds for the ignorant bigot. Yet, people didn't want to sue or jail him or make laws called Hate speech to protect themselves from his often moronic speech. That was because the generation that watched him on TV weren't yet brainwashed in Govt schools to ignore or make fun of him, which was the point of the show and why it was so funny. So, our Govt schools have won and we lost our Freedoms to be an idiot like Archie Bunker without being ostracized, bankrupted or jailed. Welcome to Stalonist Russia.
Meanwhile, Meathead has a severe case of TDS.
I loved Archie Bunker, and I didn't find his intentions ill spirited. Yes, he was uneducated and rough around the edges, but he was actually real. He spoke the way many New Yorkers, living in a mosaic city of the 'other', spoke amongst their friends and families behind closed doors about the 'others'.
And remember Black George Jefferson?
Another example of a typical real New Yorker talking about the 'others'.
And Sanford from Sanford and Son. He was one of my favorites too. Soooo funny
I'm smiling just thinking about that show. Red Foxx was fearless.
In a great irony, the creators were hoping Archie would be so repellent a character that Meathead would be the star of the show and is frequently the case, the opposite happened.
And oh, the Jeffersons! One of the BEST theme songs ever!
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Yes, people could see through the roughness a kind heart. Today, there is no benefit of a doubt because TPTB know for certain that you are filled with hate, tho speak fact about morbidly obese people or people that Sin against God. Yet its the Godless Dictators that are dark, evil and filled with hate that make Archie look like Mother Theresa.
I am surprised to discover many (perhaps all?) episodes of "All in the Family" survive on youtube.
On some streaming services like Hulu as well. Every year I tend to watch a season or two again, and always enjoy them, especially since I was a teenager in NYC during those years.
That hilarious Trump impersonator with 'Trump worked at McDonalds, too'. https://x.com/Shawn_Farash/status/1829257974197699045
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He has many other Trump impersonations that are well worth the time to seek out and watch. Heās hilarious
Thx. Tooooo good!
Thank you for sharing!
My husband was listening (not watching) and actually thought it was Trump!
Hilarious, for sure!! š¤£
Thank you Kathy! Perfect way to start the holiday with a prolonged LOL. Good for the heart and soul.
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Love this! So many got their start at Mc Dohās ( we learned this pronunciation on a trip to France a few years back)
You really need to listen to this! Hilarious! (Donāt have a mouthful of coffee!)
My dad passed away peacefully March 7 at 90 years of age surrounded by all my siblings and my mom. He was a faithful servant of the Lord his entire life. He was in kidney failure the last couple of years. Upon diagnosis he chose NOT to do dialysis. Upon considering his options when the kidney function was so bad he thought he had not had 2 options - dialysis at home or in a clinic. The doctor said he had 3 options - not do anything. We are satisfied with his choice. Praying for you during this difficult time šš¼
My condolences on your loss šš
Sorry for your loss, because itās never easy! Blessedly, itās not an physically uncomfortable decision.
So sorry to hear about your fatherās illness! May God heal him!
ā My left-leaning relatives accused Republicans of being a cult of personality that ignores policy issuesā
THIS ā¬ļø !!!!
I am on the Trump campaign team and knock on doors to reach low propensity voters . A lady answered her door and after exclaiming ( with disgusting profanity) why she would NEVER vote for Trump , I asked sincerely about Kamalaās policies . She again attacked Trump and said he didnāt have any policies. I walked away ( shocked at the level of brainwashing) and politely said ā I hope you have a nice dayā.
āIf anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or townā (Matthew 10:14).
I am surprised that I saw three or four Harris/Walz signs around town. MN....I would think they would know better having lived under Walz.... I was surprised by how angry it made me š!
I just traveled from the mountains of GA to Savannah and only saw ONE Harris/Walz sign !
GA is TRUMP country !