The media's boycott lasts one news cycle; the Times needs smelling salts over Trump's UN speech; Florida lets Pell Grants pay for welding; and TrumpIRA.gov goes live.
I started life blue-collar. No college for me. But what people don't realize about Men is the fact that we get significant happiness from completing things. Fixing things. Building things. College careers rarely lead there.
Amen. And could I add Ecclesiastes 3:12&13..."I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil - this is the gift of God."
22 Amen. ¶ But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. NKJV. “Sanctify them in the truth, Your Word is the truth.” John 17:17.
I'm enjoying all the reference to Biblical teachings, God's instruction manual to the masses.
I can't help myself, however, attaching a couple verses to Jeff's reference to 'Lysistrata'. Proverbs 21:19: Asserts "that it is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and nagging wife", and Proverbs 27:15-16: Compares a quarrelsome wife to the constant dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm, noting that restraining her is like trying to grasp oil with one's hand.
Too bad main stream media doesn't know a bit of Biblical wisdom, and realize their folly.
That's the truth. I spent 34 years in college teaching and will never have the satisfaction of knowing whether any former student will ever remember my name, let alone what they learned. Once, I found out that a former student couldn't remember what class she took from me, but she did remember what I wore. LOL Most likely, my students learned nothing at all. When you build something, at least you can see it and it's real.
On I’m sure they will. I still remember both under grad and grad professors. But many of them were from the Greatest Generation. On of my favorite flew B17 over Germany.
I also remember all my graduate professors. It's different with undergraduates. Taking history was required and they hated having to take courses outside of their majors.
Yeah not many undergrad but the B17 pilot was in my undergrad. He wrote letters of recommendations to several Universities requesting they give me a position in grad school.
I think there's a Not Bee in here where the husband drives the family all over the county and the next pointing out construction projects he was part of. 😁 Wives be like "do you remember when I got your nasty work shirt clean and ironed and do you remember the time I made that dish you wanted copied from your tour in Japan or your lunch everyday and supper every night and kept tp handy.
I am very pleased to say he does. Besides the drive he also vacuumed our house. #marryamarine
We were on a trip to Alaska, and in Juneau, my wife spotted a tee shirt that said something like, Original Member of the Grumpy Man Club - I'm only happy when I'm complaining. She thought that was perfect for me (I DID resist going on the trip!) People see it on me and I'm a pretty happy guy (to other people - LOL). One guy much older than I and shuffling along with a walker said he loved the shirt. He was hunched over so far, I was shocked he read it! I replied with a hearty THANK YOU! It's a fun shirt from the wife.
I was greeted at church just last Sunday by a former student, from 40 years ago. 😳I did not recognize her but she helped me remember. I taught in a career program, small class sizes and very hands-on so easier to recall instructors.
I had a 6th grade teacher that really meant a lot to me, and several years back I learned he died. I wrote about him and what his kindness meant to me, and it was actually published in a book about good actions of everyday people! He owned a store and gave us food that was damaged and he couldn't sell. And we were pretty poor and very appreciative.
I also had a 12th grade english teacher who made us write journal entries or essays about a topic. I remember taping a penny in my binder, and somewhere in the essay said that good things come to those who work hard, and I'm expecting $.10 back. She taped a dime in. I worked extra hard for my following essays - never asking for more money, but her action showed she was paying attention to my efforts at a time when I felt invisible. I looked her up a few decades later and went to her home and expressed my thanks for her at that time in my life, and for her inspiring me to be a good writer and be civically minded (I was in office for 8 years). In fact, I just re-read a book she had us read called "Blue Highways". I had a greater appreciation for it now than I did back then.
There was a 7th and two 8th grade teachers that I wish I could have thanked as well. One of the 8th grade teachers was a hippyish guy, an art teacher, who let me hang out a bit after school, and I was introduced to Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd and others by him. AWESOME bands! I didn't have a record player then. "Boston" was my first album on that kiddie player. LOL The other 8th grade teacher was my english teacher. She supported me for the spelling bee, even when it seemed the rest of the school was against me (and they were, loudly!) I was up against a popular person and I was a poorly dressed nobody. We went back and forth over several rounds until I finally won. She even drove me across the city to attend the regional spelling bee where I didn't make it past 6 rounds, but she gave me a dictionary that I kept for decades.
A church instructor for a bunch of teen boys helped me build my car out of a junkyard (he was a body guy), and he helped me out a number of times both socially and gaining knowledge about cars. His home was a place where some of us could hang out when home wasn't the best. I had moved away and heard his wife had died, and drove about 700 miles to attend her funeral. I was told I won BIG POINTS with the family for doing that. I modestly said it was the best way I could honor what she had done for me as a teen by opening her home to me. Her husband is still alive, remarried, and I've told him a few times just how important he was to me, and how grateful I was for him teaching me about cars. He laughed, and said you've learned FAAAR more than I EVER did about cars... and he's right. But I call him every few years to say thank you.
It lights folks up to know that they meant something to one or more kids! Make the call before they pass away!
I always wish I could have tracked down and thanked my 5th grade teacher, Mrs. Hillman. I was the 'new kid' in class and shy, nerdy/socially awkward, and way ahead of the rest of the class. (had been in private school but parents had a rough year financially and put my sisters and I in public) She gave me extra assignments, including keeping up the current events bulletin board when she learned I read the newspaper every day. Often told me I was going to 'go places' and gave me confidence in myself and coaxed me into public speaking. Not sure I really 'went places' but overall have had a successful career and family and that is something I guess.
If this is any help, I did my first two years at Miami Dade Community College and LOVED every minute. Some of the lectures still live rent free in my head as do the faces of my teachers. It was a mind expanding experience that did not prepare me for the mediocrity of the last two years at Floria Atlantic University where I got as BA in Education! A Masters at Denver University didn’t help. I wish I had gone into the hard sciences. But teaching has its rewards and I loved my students. That was now almost 60 years ago!
Don't sell yourself short. I remember many of my undgrad professors, not many names, but remember their courses - I graduated in 1987, a long time ago. My management professor who hammered into us the importance of staying up to date, reading business books and magazines daily, and being 'professional' - dress for the job you want, not the one you have. The business law professor that I disliked as he marked my papers full of red ink and made me a better writer. The history of theater (gen ed I took) who, for the first time ever, made me love history. Hated 'principles of insurance' at the time as the prof droned on and on and the material was dull and he was a tough grader. But one of the most useful classes in the real world years down the road - I know how to read policies and what to look for both good and bad. And my golf instructor who told me to give up golf, lol. Probably the only one I truly disliked in retrospect was my business writing professor. I remember his name as he was a TKE as was my future husband and was one of the fraternity faculty sponsors. The writing style he taught was out moded and obsolete and he brooked zero disagreement. Got on his wrong side early on and was lucky to get a C. I was a TKE 'little sister' and word was he was harder on anyone affiliated with TKE as he didn't want to appear biased.
Men were purposefully devalued for a reason. Lift up your heads, reclaim the lead, know your worth, stop defending, assert yourseves, lead younger men in solid Christian identity, save the nation, save the world.
I have a finance and international business degree and started out working for an oil company for 13 years. Soul sucking, not to mention the commute in Houston. Left and stayed home with my kids for a number of years and then at 49 went to school to be a massage therapist in a chiro office.
It’s honestly the best job ever - everyone is looking forward to seeing you, you’re the highlight of their day, they’re even happier when they leave, you’re the only medically-oriented person that spends an entire hour with them and really learns about their life and what might be contributing to their pain, and lastly you’re contributing to the betterment of the world by helping people manage their pain. I truly wish I’d done it 20 years earlier.
I did the same. I left IT and desk/cubicle hell for massage school. I was also 49. Met the most amazing people there. Placing hands on someone is a very spiritua
I agree. Since I was already in a "hands-on" profession, it was a natural gravitation for me. When I went to nursing school & then worked as a hospital staff nurse, nurses did everything - bed baths included, when a patient's condition required that we do so. We did not automatically shift those responsibilities to a nursing assistant. It's altogether different now.
Agreed! For a period of 30 years I asked the same question of every candidate, for positions from secretary to project manager, to end their interview:"What do you do with your hands?". I always got strange looks and questions. I explained that I wanted to know what they did in the spare time which involved the use of their hands... knitting, changing the oil in the car, building model airplanes, making dresses... A positive answer suggested to me that the individual was curious, creative,persistent, could solve problems and understood the satisfaction of physical accomplishment. I never hired a one that didn't have this inclination. For me, it proved to be a virtual guarantee of a successful hire.
Adam carolla talks about this all the time, about how no one knows how to DO anything anymore. He’s a carpenter. It’s a great point. It’s easy to complain when you don’t know the work required to actually plan and complete something.
I'm glad you didn't interview me, I would have failed lol :P Back in the day I could maybe have said "drawing". Possibly baking or cooking. But I am just not really a crafty/handy type of person. That doesn't mean I am a bad employee or don't have lots of other good qualities, though, at least according to the people I have worked for!
Interesting topic. I was raised by a man who fixed everything and trained me to do the same; that's my primary gig these days... but only after years as in law enforcement and interpretation of bureaucrat'ese.... Wouldn't undersell your drawing/baking/cooking (I make a mean Oatmeal cookie among many others yummy things)... There are far too many people in the world who think they are incapable of that - or doing anything creative, productive, sustaining or yummy! The key value to me of Fred's interview question, is that if someone doesn't have ANYTHING they can spin as an answer - then they are kinda demonstrating themselves as not very creative problem solvers. So I may try out his question in some interviews down the line. Best Wishes.
I'm not very handy either but I do love to garden/work in the yard. In the midwest where the weather is a crapshoot all the time. So it does present plenty of problems to try to solve. Sometimes I am even successful.
I used to run a mfg. association and remember the owner of a tool and die shop who was dedicated to hiring young workers and training them in house. He said his 'automatic hires' were young (mostly men) who had lawn mowing businesses in HS and or worked for lawn care companies. Said it showed drive and initiative, and he could teach the rest.
With all due respect to my long past mother and grandmother, the greatest thing these women built was family. Could not have earned my place in productive society without them.
With due respect to all good parents, building a family doesn’t have to happen in an isolation chamber for mothers. I know a carpenter, a woman, building her family with her husband while she also creates custom millwork in her home shop. My comment wasn’t to prioritize a trade over family. A woman who is a seamstress or a beautician and working from home, of which I’ve known a few, they can still build a family, and many choose to do so. I honor all the contributions.
Same here, John. Later in college, a few years older than the average classmate, it was easy, even in the early '80s, to see how bent toward communism the professors in political science and history had become. Since I was in pre-med it wasn't as obvious, unless they got off topic. Then I wished I could have speakers blaring Shostakovich's 9th Symphony as they entered a lecture hall.
Recently came across two items from G. Orwell, at least remotely related to college kids:
1- "The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'" - 1946
2- From boarding school days: "There was a boy named Beacham, with no brains to speak of, but evidently in acute need of a scholarship. Sim was flogging him towards the goal as one might do with a foundered horse. He went up for a scholarship at Uppingham, came back with a consciousness of having done badly, and a day or two later received a severe beating for idleness. 'I wish I’d had that caning before I went up for the exam,' he said sadly..." - 1947
The first one is from his famous essay, “Politics and the English Language,” which should be a must-read for any college age citizen, new voter, or mass media consumer.
Orwell made that observation less than a year after Hitler’s death. The university and media folks wanted us all to forget that Nazi Fascists we’re PROGRESSIVES.
Amen. I'm a writer and consultant. And until I see the finished film, TV, or Script - completed, or the idea in action - I'm restless as a shark on the hunt. My satisfaction comes from the manifestation - not the ideation.
It's becoming very difficult to repair your own equipment, Red, thus the lawsuits against John Deere for "right to repair'. Sadly, many agricultural equipment manufacturers jumped on board with the left on DEI and 'climate change'. This resulted in very expensive tractors with sensitive and fragile emission systems needing frequent diagnosing, adjustment or replacing. Along with unqualified technicians to work on them and a supply chain that promises 'that' part in a week or so.
All diesel emission standards must be rolled back to pre 2007 standards. Diesel engines are very efficient (and clean) by design, with computer control and HP fuel systems diesels are the standard to look up to. But government...
I'm not a man, but must say, I get significant happiness from completing things - Fixing things, building things - Houses, furniture, you name it, likely I've done it. It's not a man thing. Jeez.
For a while after high school, I worked as a construction laborer on a massive government center build. However, it was essentially unskilled work and I got tired of the weather-based layoffs and the fact that my fairly boring work was interrupted by a few seconds of terror and ambulance visits. I would have liked to get into a skilled trade but, at that time where I was, you had to be at least a second generation union family to get an apprentiship. Were I in that situation now, I would definitely opt for trade school over college.
All of these dinosaur networks are on the verge of going extinct. If it wasn’t for Biden and big Pharma they would be long gone. This is their motive for bashing Trump and getting him out of power. It’s all about their own survival, like so many others on the take. Without their daily bashing and lying about Trump their ratings would be even closer to zero if that’s possible. Trump is 99% of their broadcast content.
One further hamstringing of the networks has yet to occur. Outlaw drug advertisements. That will drain their corporate coffers and not force allegiance to the predatory Pharma industry.
Who knows? If that came to pass, media might be able to utter or write a truthful sentence on a variety of topics.
There are terrific videos out there, done in the days when Big pHARM-us weren’t writing the checks for ads. There’s a 60 Minutes segment on Guillane Barre Syndrome a teacher got— (think “polio-lite”) from a highly pushed swine flu shot that has since been removed from the “safe & effective” list. There are a couple of really good Phil Donahue segments talking about vaccine injuries and which vaccines were the culprits.
Indeed, those 60 minute reviews seem like they are from another dimension today; they provide such a contrast to what media viewers have lost it makes the case against advertising pretty compelling.
Yes, and don’t you have an issue with them advertising anyhow? To me, it’s clearly about control and ending any news coverage of anything bad, Big pHARM-us wise— like say, the VIOXX debacle that killed between 30,000-90,000 people before it was discovered and shoved firmly into the “not so safe & effective” column. MERCK lied for years, knowing people were dying.
And, “Ask your doctor is (some “word” with no known roots, pronunciation, or comprehensible spelling) is right for YOU!”
Is that up to us??? “Hey, doc, have you ever considered putting me on (incomprehensible drug name) at all?”
“OH, yeah… GLAD you brought that up! I had forgotten all about (incomprehensible drug name)! Thank GOD for advertising or I’d never remember WHAT drug to consider for treatment!”
THANK you for these links. I keep everything vaccine related as well as a lot of DMSO, colloidal silver, CD/MMS/Jim Humble stuff but I’ve been keeping it all since about a year prior to covid so it takes forever to weed through it all.
If you eliminated Trump related articles from the NYT, you’d have a two page rag with ads. It is hilarious to follow Jeff’s blow by blow chess match between Trump and the bloviating MSM.
Yeah I know we are all impatient for these things to be done, but even though Trump is a hard worker and he has lots of good people around him, there are only so many things a person can do at once. Not to mention all of the pushback and the noncompliance from deep state bureaucrats he has to contend with...
mostly true James, but Trumpie provides ample fodder for all but the most conservative journalist to poke fun, at minimum, & make great "stories" of catastrophe as daily fare.
The Donald is one in a million, for sure.
Just imagine anyone you know conceiving his draft speech to the UN where he would tell, literally the world, of his potential "annihilation" of Iran. Off the charts. . .
I was hoping to see the bearded dude from Iran provide SOME reaction but he was stone-faced.
Agree. I can’t catch it as often any longer because it comes out later. I am usually up and gone by the time it comes out, but what an optimist Jeff is and how I love it!
Also love Mike Rowe and his brand of optimism, in seeing problems and finding ways to get them done. There are many more young entrepreneurs doing marvelous things than we realize!
Now please tackle the takeover of the Midwest and mid Atlantic by solar pop ups papering over thousands of acres of farm land, and we can’t stop them.
Mike Rowe is today's Renaissance Man. He is amazing in many ways. His podcast interviews are fantastic. The one with Jeff Childers is a MUST see. Those two are quite a pair. Love them both.
She is amazing. NYS taxpayer money and electric bill fees are being funneled to fund these foreign companies. I'm betting a lot more taxpayer money will be required when it comes time for solar "farm" cleanups - I'm fairly sure these foreign companies will be long gone by then. https://substack.com/@alexandrafasulo/note/c-343080125
Understand just like the playbook was the same for the covid scamdemic across every blue run state, the spread of the green scam also follows the same pattern. Follow the money!
Reminds me of the British “clearances” that resulted in displaced Brits that either moved to their cities or to the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. Along with data centers, which are resource hogs. Is that what we’re seeing being re-enacted here?
See there was no need to hide your idiotic comment under hidden reply’s because I was able to block you to prevent any chance I would read your stupidity again.
I love our bench! Oodles to choose from, so many combinations that would be thrilling for our country. It really is exciting. I love DeSantis and would heartily promote him if he won our primary, but then I’d heartily promote ANYONE on this administration.
We all need to remember what primaries are for. Choose your favorite candidate and campaign like the dickens, but leave the smears and bashing out of it. They are ALL amazing. We need to come together after we choose our candidate. Whatever the majority wants most will need to be campaigned for in the general election as if you personally voted for them in the primaries. So let’s not create hate or spite against who you don’t want, using the same manipulative tools used by leftists and RINOs. I really hope our party can be more respectable given the embarrassment of riches we have in candidates. Let’s just have fun with the choices.
We are in a candy store! Nobody denies the gummy bears are great, but that doesn’t mean the chocolate covered raisins aren’t just as enjoyable!
I’m starting to think he just might be a good choice because the left and the black pillers are trying so hard to regularly sour everyone against him. That makes me think they are afraid of him being in charge. Since we haven’t seriously considered anyone but Rubio so far, they haven’t targeted anyone else yet. They are hyper fixated on disqualifying Vance - that’s over the target behavior. What don’t we know?
He is eligible. Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, so he is a natural-born U.S. citizen. He will be 57 in 2028 and has lived in the country his whole life. That meets the Constitution’s requirements.
Some people have argued that his parents were not yet citizens when he was born, but courts and most legal scholars reject that theory. He ran for president in 2016 without being disqualified.
Never mind, you don't know enough to argue with anyone. Explain how you can hold to the view that Supreme Court opinions are THE ONLY Law of the Land – when our Constitution says at Article VI, clause 2 that only The Constitution and Acts of Congress and Treaties authorized by the Constitution comprise the “supreme Law of the Land”? Supreme Court opinions are not included….. wonder why?
WRONG...Marco Rubio is not a “natural born Citizen”, he is a naturalized citizen. Neither Obama, Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz are natural born citizens. At the times they were born, their Fathers were not citizens. A “natural born Citizen” is one who is born of parents who are citizens.
Not a natural born. Article II says a citizen may be president only if alive at the time the constitution was written. It is restricted to natural borns. Rubio is a 14th amendment anchor baby and is not eligible. You are bereft of a complete education. Sad. So duped.
I was in IL knowing he was cheat. At the time I participated on Hannity's forum and many of is were calling out the cheater Obama. We knew the truth. Where were you silly woman???
Great another idiot attracted. Rubio was born IN the United States. He is an American citizen. Natural born. What kind of moron thinks otherwise? Troll. Be gone.
I think there is problem with a Rubio/DiSantis ticket. Something about the Pres and VP both being from the same state. Don’t remember exactly. But I’m sure there are at least 100 people out there who will instantly correct me
He is an anchor baby. His parents were Cuban citizens still when he was born. They always hoped to go back to Cuba and delayed trying to become US citizens. Get educated.
Rubio might want to consider changing his state of residency if he hasn’t already. If he ran with DeSantis, there is a bit of a glitch with the 12th amendment. I had to go look this up because it was at the back of my mind …
(From Grok) Yes, they could run together. There is no law that bars presidential and vice-presidential candidates from the same state.
The source of the common misconception is the 12th Amendment. It does **not** prohibit a same-state ticket. It only restricts *electors*: when they meet in their own state, at least one of the two people they vote for (President or Vice President) must not be an inhabitant of that state.
Both Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis are Florida residents. If they were the nominees and won Florida, the state’s electors could vote for one of them but not both. Florida’s electoral votes (currently 30) would therefore be lost for one of the two offices. In a close national race that could matter; in a landslide it would not.
No major-party ticket has ever been composed of two candidates from the same state, precisely because of this rule and because parties usually want geographic balance. The practical workaround, used by Dick Cheney in 2000, is for one candidate to change legal residency before the election. Either man could do the same if they wanted to preserve Florida’s full electoral vote.
So the ticket is constitutionally allowed; it is just electorally inconvenient unless one of them relocates or the race is not close.
Vance is great. Rubio is great. But DeSantis is fabulous! Just heard the man speak at a conference. He is powerful in the same way that Trump is. He knows and understands the issues, and is intelligent and well-intentioned in devising solutions. He's not afraid of the blow-back. I am already campaigning for DeSantis as our next president.
The unfortunate truth is if intelligence and competence isn't coupled with charisma it doesn't go anywhere. Trump - like him or not - has charisma. When he takes the stage he lights up the room. He is the center and that is an attraction from which the observer can then see that he also is intelligent and competent.
DeSantis made some poor alliances in the 2024 primaries. Part of him bought the January 6 narrative even though he never came out and said anything like that. But, he aligned with Republicans who thought Trump was finished. How they could think that is beyond me, but I suppose in the hysteria in the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6 some people thought that.
He is a terrific Governor and I agree he'd be a good President but I don't think he can excite people enough to BECOME President. The French say there is something called "je ne sais pas" or "je ne sais pas ce que" - roughly I don't know what it is, but as Potter Stewart famously said about pornography: "I can't tell you what it is, but I know it when I see it."
That said, no-one on the political stage has it at the moment. On either side. Certainly no one has it like Trump does and maybe no one will have it like that in this or several other generations. And by the way, that is what literally frightens some people about him. They believe that this kind of charisma can only be malevolent and not benevolent. So, maybe the next guy will be more on the non-charismatic side.
But, DeSantis, who is both intelligent and competent, got a bit over his skis in 2024 and showed himself to not handle the fight as well as he could have and also made some bad choices as to support. One hopes he learned from that. Could love to see Rubio at the top of the ticket with DeSantis as VP.
In the meantime we need to win the midterms so let's grab every normal person we can and drag them to vote.
"The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves."
The practical effect of this is that -- with Pres and VP on a unified ticket -- that that ticket cannot have the Electoral Votes of their own state. In Florida, that's a major problem.
This is SO encouraging and uplifting. We can always count on you, Jeff, to provide truth, humor, and hope. Thank you! Being a part of this C & C community is a tremendous gift to us.
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
We have been battling Canada since King William’s war in 1689. Some periods are just quieter than others. Now it’s King Charles turn to be belligerent.
I swear I heard yesterday a sound bite when watching news of a Democrat saying, “artificial super intelligence” 🤣🤣 They are trying so hard to avoid his power but they are fireflies to his bug catcher. 🤣🤣
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the broad category of machines performing tasks requiring human intelligence, such as chatbots, recommendation systems, and self-driving cars. In contrast, Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is a hypothetical form of AI that surpasses human intelligence in every domain, including creativity, problem-solving, and emotional understanding.
The key distinctions include:
Current Status: AI exists today and is widely used, while ASI is purely theoretical and has not been achieved.
Capability Scope: Current AI is "narrow," excelling only in specific, predefined tasks. ASI would possess generalized cognitive abilities that exceed the best human minds across all fields simultaneously.
Self-Improvement: ASI is expected to have the ability for autonomous self-improvement, leading to exponential growth in intelligence, whereas current AI relies on human-designed algorithms and training data.
"Hey, Times: nobody wants a President who governs by polls."
Who needs a Pres who governs by polls? No one. We got a Pres that governs with his Big Beautiful Gold Balls. Now that is worth posting on the front of a newspaper.
And as far as his UN speech, It was balls in spectacular!
Wasn’t it a Kennedy who wrote the book “political courage”? I never read the book but had always heard discussions of it; the central theme being that a good leader does what he thinks is right despite the winds of popularity or lobbyists. That would definitely apply to Trump’s leadership style.
“You say you are anxious about the future, but don’t you know that the Lord is with you always and that our enemy has no power over one who has resolved to belong entirely to Jesus?” (3/29/1914). St. Padre Pio
I am so jealous! If I was a young woman again, I’d move to Florida & start my welding career-& I’d take my father with me-the best welder GE ever had 👍🏻
Right!? Shop classes were my favorite in high school. They combined my artistic skills with my analytical ones. And I had so much fun learning architectural design. But back in the late 70s early 80s they were pushing girls into STEM interests. The same guy that taught our shop classes taught computer programming and he noticed how good I was at that.
But my heart never left the hands-on creation fields, and I was never fulfilled behind a desk programming.
I’d LOVE to go back and become a furniture designer, or a welder! I wanna do-over 😩😅
@Juju- girls weren't allowed to take shop class when I was in school. I was a junior when boys were allowed to take Home Ec (and one of them was a danged good baker!!). I gladly would have taken a shop class and dropped Home Ec (my mother taught me well. I didn't need Home Ec).
See, I am not good at that stuff at all! Drawing is as far as I get with hands-on creation! I liked shop class because I learned how to do some things that seemed useful to know (like Home Ec) but there was nothing I loved enough to want to do it as a job or even an intense hobby. I did like soldering a lot for some reason, but again, not enough to seek any employment with that skill or anything like that.
When i was in school they had cooking and sewing for the girls and shop classes for the boys. I already knew how to cook and i knew enough about sewing to know i was not cut out to be a seamstress so i begged too be let into the shop classes instead. Nope. No girls. That was in the 60s.
Same at my school. We had ONE girl allowed to take "mechanical drawing" class- because she was the granddaughter of Igor Sikorsky- helicopter inventor. And her parents had to raise the roof to get her into that. But now young people don't know how to cook or sew, so some of them must have learned a little bit of that back then . We need more integrated learning experiences for young people. Why can't we combine chemistry and baking/cleaning, geometry and building things? So often students cannot see the practicality of what they are being taught in school.
Yes I love the integrated learning experiences! I have done some with my son in homeschooling for science. There are some great books out there to help with that.
We also had ‘Home Economics’-baking, sewing aprons (really? I knew how to sew at 8..), cleaning, & introduced the dishwasher to us-be still my heart! 🤣
YES!!! My education was 60’s & 70’s -had shop in 7th grade-it was great!! I was a math girl so everyone pushed me into accounting 🤮 Oh well! A life wasted. Imagine if everyone loved what they did & were not shoved into college debt?
1960 girl, too!! I’m thankful I wasn’t born 100 years earlier but still so envious of current generations, many of whom don’t seem to know how well they've got it. My parents lived through the Depression & my father survived the 1918 flu. None of us seem to appreciate how well off we are.
I am not even sure that would help! :P I can give extremely precise instructions (the xyz is on the top shelf on the right side next to the sour cream) and they STILL can't find it (my sons are the same lol).
Men’s brains are wired to primarily see objects moving not those which are stationary. Which explains why they don’t see the dust on the shelf and can focus on the location of a hockey puck the entire game. When my husband opens the fridge or pantry door before he asks I say “it’s not moving or it’s underneath something. “😆
I have a husband and two sons. When they are looking and looking for something and throwing things everywhere, I say to them, " I can find it; I have a vagina!"
I read this morning that high levels of estrogen, (mimic estrogen in plastics, etc.) and a dysbyosis of the gut can cause brain dysfunction, cognitive decline.
The transitioned male likely would forget the milk, just spitballing.
And anyone who has taken antibiotics could have a dysbiosis of the gut.
Too much estrogen is really bad for males and too little estrogen in females can also cause really bad things as well.
Our drinking water is now loaded with them from birth control, people flushing unneeded meds and abortifacients, as well as the many badly made plastics. Our water treatment plants do not filter those things out.
I started life blue-collar. No college for me. But what people don't realize about Men is the fact that we get significant happiness from completing things. Fixing things. Building things. College careers rarely lead there.
James 1:22 - transformation comes from doing, not merely intending
Amen. And could I add Ecclesiastes 3:12&13..."I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil - this is the gift of God."
The Book of Ecclesiastes is, IMHO, the greatest of the OT Wisdom scriptures.
“Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13
That scripture is painted on the wall of my dining room. ☺️
Amen... and AMEN!
Thanks for the encouragement right from GOD's Word!
🔥🔥🔥 - I might need to write an article about this someday!
YES!
22 Amen. ¶ But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. NKJV. “Sanctify them in the truth, Your Word is the truth.” John 17:17.
I'm enjoying all the reference to Biblical teachings, God's instruction manual to the masses.
I can't help myself, however, attaching a couple verses to Jeff's reference to 'Lysistrata'. Proverbs 21:19: Asserts "that it is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and nagging wife", and Proverbs 27:15-16: Compares a quarrelsome wife to the constant dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm, noting that restraining her is like trying to grasp oil with one's hand.
Too bad main stream media doesn't know a bit of Biblical wisdom, and realize their folly.
i'm dyin' laughing here. . . thanks! Ha!
Acta non verba - actions not words… be a man of action!
Let your action match your words and let your words be true.
That's the truth. I spent 34 years in college teaching and will never have the satisfaction of knowing whether any former student will ever remember my name, let alone what they learned. Once, I found out that a former student couldn't remember what class she took from me, but she did remember what I wore. LOL Most likely, my students learned nothing at all. When you build something, at least you can see it and it's real.
No. They did because you cared.
However...What Cato proposed for Carthage should be visited upon higher education.
They sold their souls around the time you started teaching.
I remember when the Admissions Office started calling students "customers" and "consumers" in place of "students." Words matter.
Dead giveaway.
They also used the word "clients".
Wow!
On I’m sure they will. I still remember both under grad and grad professors. But many of them were from the Greatest Generation. On of my favorite flew B17 over Germany.
I also remember all my graduate professors. It's different with undergraduates. Taking history was required and they hated having to take courses outside of their majors.
Yeah not many undergrad but the B17 pilot was in my undergrad. He wrote letters of recommendations to several Universities requesting they give me a position in grad school.
@Steen- that's amazing
I think there's a Not Bee in here where the husband drives the family all over the county and the next pointing out construction projects he was part of. 😁 Wives be like "do you remember when I got your nasty work shirt clean and ironed and do you remember the time I made that dish you wanted copied from your tour in Japan or your lunch everyday and supper every night and kept tp handy.
I am very pleased to say he does. Besides the drive he also vacuumed our house. #marryamarine
yeah, but womens got that there inherent advantage of elephantine memories-- often using them surreptitiously to confuse and defuse their hubbies. . .
it ain't fair.
We saw a man tonight out for dinner with his wife. He was wearing a t-shirt that read: "I'm retired. See the wife for details." Funniest t-shirt ever!
We were on a trip to Alaska, and in Juneau, my wife spotted a tee shirt that said something like, Original Member of the Grumpy Man Club - I'm only happy when I'm complaining. She thought that was perfect for me (I DID resist going on the trip!) People see it on me and I'm a pretty happy guy (to other people - LOL). One guy much older than I and shuffling along with a walker said he loved the shirt. He was hunched over so far, I was shocked he read it! I replied with a hearty THANK YOU! It's a fun shirt from the wife.
I was greeted at church just last Sunday by a former student, from 40 years ago. 😳I did not recognize her but she helped me remember. I taught in a career program, small class sizes and very hands-on so easier to recall instructors.
I had a 6th grade teacher that really meant a lot to me, and several years back I learned he died. I wrote about him and what his kindness meant to me, and it was actually published in a book about good actions of everyday people! He owned a store and gave us food that was damaged and he couldn't sell. And we were pretty poor and very appreciative.
I also had a 12th grade english teacher who made us write journal entries or essays about a topic. I remember taping a penny in my binder, and somewhere in the essay said that good things come to those who work hard, and I'm expecting $.10 back. She taped a dime in. I worked extra hard for my following essays - never asking for more money, but her action showed she was paying attention to my efforts at a time when I felt invisible. I looked her up a few decades later and went to her home and expressed my thanks for her at that time in my life, and for her inspiring me to be a good writer and be civically minded (I was in office for 8 years). In fact, I just re-read a book she had us read called "Blue Highways". I had a greater appreciation for it now than I did back then.
There was a 7th and two 8th grade teachers that I wish I could have thanked as well. One of the 8th grade teachers was a hippyish guy, an art teacher, who let me hang out a bit after school, and I was introduced to Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd and others by him. AWESOME bands! I didn't have a record player then. "Boston" was my first album on that kiddie player. LOL The other 8th grade teacher was my english teacher. She supported me for the spelling bee, even when it seemed the rest of the school was against me (and they were, loudly!) I was up against a popular person and I was a poorly dressed nobody. We went back and forth over several rounds until I finally won. She even drove me across the city to attend the regional spelling bee where I didn't make it past 6 rounds, but she gave me a dictionary that I kept for decades.
A church instructor for a bunch of teen boys helped me build my car out of a junkyard (he was a body guy), and he helped me out a number of times both socially and gaining knowledge about cars. His home was a place where some of us could hang out when home wasn't the best. I had moved away and heard his wife had died, and drove about 700 miles to attend her funeral. I was told I won BIG POINTS with the family for doing that. I modestly said it was the best way I could honor what she had done for me as a teen by opening her home to me. Her husband is still alive, remarried, and I've told him a few times just how important he was to me, and how grateful I was for him teaching me about cars. He laughed, and said you've learned FAAAR more than I EVER did about cars... and he's right. But I call him every few years to say thank you.
It lights folks up to know that they meant something to one or more kids! Make the call before they pass away!
I always wish I could have tracked down and thanked my 5th grade teacher, Mrs. Hillman. I was the 'new kid' in class and shy, nerdy/socially awkward, and way ahead of the rest of the class. (had been in private school but parents had a rough year financially and put my sisters and I in public) She gave me extra assignments, including keeping up the current events bulletin board when she learned I read the newspaper every day. Often told me I was going to 'go places' and gave me confidence in myself and coaxed me into public speaking. Not sure I really 'went places' but overall have had a successful career and family and that is something I guess.
Look at the teachers being churned out of the universities now. We’d be better off with AI teaching our kids at home.
If this is any help, I did my first two years at Miami Dade Community College and LOVED every minute. Some of the lectures still live rent free in my head as do the faces of my teachers. It was a mind expanding experience that did not prepare me for the mediocrity of the last two years at Floria Atlantic University where I got as BA in Education! A Masters at Denver University didn’t help. I wish I had gone into the hard sciences. But teaching has its rewards and I loved my students. That was now almost 60 years ago!
Don't sell yourself short. I remember many of my undgrad professors, not many names, but remember their courses - I graduated in 1987, a long time ago. My management professor who hammered into us the importance of staying up to date, reading business books and magazines daily, and being 'professional' - dress for the job you want, not the one you have. The business law professor that I disliked as he marked my papers full of red ink and made me a better writer. The history of theater (gen ed I took) who, for the first time ever, made me love history. Hated 'principles of insurance' at the time as the prof droned on and on and the material was dull and he was a tough grader. But one of the most useful classes in the real world years down the road - I know how to read policies and what to look for both good and bad. And my golf instructor who told me to give up golf, lol. Probably the only one I truly disliked in retrospect was my business writing professor. I remember his name as he was a TKE as was my future husband and was one of the fraternity faculty sponsors. The writing style he taught was out moded and obsolete and he brooked zero disagreement. Got on his wrong side early on and was lucky to get a C. I was a TKE 'little sister' and word was he was harder on anyone affiliated with TKE as he didn't want to appear biased.
Men were purposefully devalued for a reason. Lift up your heads, reclaim the lead, know your worth, stop defending, assert yourseves, lead younger men in solid Christian identity, save the nation, save the world.
And good women will follow!!
I have a finance and international business degree and started out working for an oil company for 13 years. Soul sucking, not to mention the commute in Houston. Left and stayed home with my kids for a number of years and then at 49 went to school to be a massage therapist in a chiro office.
It’s honestly the best job ever - everyone is looking forward to seeing you, you’re the highlight of their day, they’re even happier when they leave, you’re the only medically-oriented person that spends an entire hour with them and really learns about their life and what might be contributing to their pain, and lastly you’re contributing to the betterment of the world by helping people manage their pain. I truly wish I’d done it 20 years earlier.
I did the same. I left IT and desk/cubicle hell for massage school. I was also 49. Met the most amazing people there. Placing hands on someone is a very spiritua
l and sacred gift.
I also went to school to learn Swedish massage after working for many years as a registered nurse. Loved it!
It’s the best profession as long as you don’t mind touching people.
I agree. Since I was already in a "hands-on" profession, it was a natural gravitation for me. When I went to nursing school & then worked as a hospital staff nurse, nurses did everything - bed baths included, when a patient's condition required that we do so. We did not automatically shift those responsibilities to a nursing assistant. It's altogether different now.
It's much deeper than the physical touching. For me, it was meditative.
Valerie, That is so great! So happy you found your calling🙏🏻☺️
Well thank you!
Agreed! For a period of 30 years I asked the same question of every candidate, for positions from secretary to project manager, to end their interview:"What do you do with your hands?". I always got strange looks and questions. I explained that I wanted to know what they did in the spare time which involved the use of their hands... knitting, changing the oil in the car, building model airplanes, making dresses... A positive answer suggested to me that the individual was curious, creative,persistent, could solve problems and understood the satisfaction of physical accomplishment. I never hired a one that didn't have this inclination. For me, it proved to be a virtual guarantee of a successful hire.
Adam carolla talks about this all the time, about how no one knows how to DO anything anymore. He’s a carpenter. It’s a great point. It’s easy to complain when you don’t know the work required to actually plan and complete something.
I recently visited Wm Faulkner’s home in Oxford, MS. I was very impressed and surprised by his carpentry.
I'm glad you didn't interview me, I would have failed lol :P Back in the day I could maybe have said "drawing". Possibly baking or cooking. But I am just not really a crafty/handy type of person. That doesn't mean I am a bad employee or don't have lots of other good qualities, though, at least according to the people I have worked for!
Interesting topic. I was raised by a man who fixed everything and trained me to do the same; that's my primary gig these days... but only after years as in law enforcement and interpretation of bureaucrat'ese.... Wouldn't undersell your drawing/baking/cooking (I make a mean Oatmeal cookie among many others yummy things)... There are far too many people in the world who think they are incapable of that - or doing anything creative, productive, sustaining or yummy! The key value to me of Fred's interview question, is that if someone doesn't have ANYTHING they can spin as an answer - then they are kinda demonstrating themselves as not very creative problem solvers. So I may try out his question in some interviews down the line. Best Wishes.
Thanks for your encouraging comment! :) Best wishes to you also!
I'm not very handy either but I do love to garden/work in the yard. In the midwest where the weather is a crapshoot all the time. So it does present plenty of problems to try to solve. Sometimes I am even successful.
great interview question Fred!
I will be using this question on all future candidates!
I used to run a mfg. association and remember the owner of a tool and die shop who was dedicated to hiring young workers and training them in house. He said his 'automatic hires' were young (mostly men) who had lawn mowing businesses in HS and or worked for lawn care companies. Said it showed drive and initiative, and he could teach the rest.
They are all shameful masturbators, no doubt, so your question probably caught them off guard.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
It’s not just guys…
1000% - but we are a rare breed.
Women like building things too! As an elderly woman who had many try and bash that out of me, I'm thrilled to see young, motivated women meeting open doors. https://x.com/mikeroweworks/status/2100719782903550112?s=20
Beadle,
With all due respect to my long past mother and grandmother, the greatest thing these women built was family. Could not have earned my place in productive society without them.
See you soon, ladies of honor...
I have a BSN and mothering/grandmothering has been my highest calling.
Children and grandchildren appreciate the influence a mother possesses.
Often the last words on a dying soldiers lips are 'I'm sorry mom'.
With due respect to all good parents, building a family doesn’t have to happen in an isolation chamber for mothers. I know a carpenter, a woman, building her family with her husband while she also creates custom millwork in her home shop. My comment wasn’t to prioritize a trade over family. A woman who is a seamstress or a beautician and working from home, of which I’ve known a few, they can still build a family, and many choose to do so. I honor all the contributions.
Same here, John. Later in college, a few years older than the average classmate, it was easy, even in the early '80s, to see how bent toward communism the professors in political science and history had become. Since I was in pre-med it wasn't as obvious, unless they got off topic. Then I wished I could have speakers blaring Shostakovich's 9th Symphony as they entered a lecture hall.
or Wagner's Valkerie.
You are 1000% correct. Hubs can fix anything. Just retired from sea as a Marine Electrician. Started life in the USN.
Recently came across two items from G. Orwell, at least remotely related to college kids:
1- "The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'" - 1946
2- From boarding school days: "There was a boy named Beacham, with no brains to speak of, but evidently in acute need of a scholarship. Sim was flogging him towards the goal as one might do with a foundered horse. He went up for a scholarship at Uppingham, came back with a consciousness of having done badly, and a day or two later received a severe beating for idleness. 'I wish I’d had that caning before I went up for the exam,' he said sadly..." - 1947
That second one is funny to me.
The first one is from his famous essay, “Politics and the English Language,” which should be a must-read for any college age citizen, new voter, or mass media consumer.
Orwell made that observation less than a year after Hitler’s death. The university and media folks wanted us all to forget that Nazi Fascists we’re PROGRESSIVES.
Amen. I'm a writer and consultant. And until I see the finished film, TV, or Script - completed, or the idea in action - I'm restless as a shark on the hunt. My satisfaction comes from the manifestation - not the ideation.
yo' an ACTION MAN!
As a retired physician turned farmer I can attest to the truth of your statement.
as a retired engineer turned hobby farmer, I can second that one, and one up it:
Everything. Everything breaks, and I have to fix it ALL!
It's becoming very difficult to repair your own equipment, Red, thus the lawsuits against John Deere for "right to repair'. Sadly, many agricultural equipment manufacturers jumped on board with the left on DEI and 'climate change'. This resulted in very expensive tractors with sensitive and fragile emission systems needing frequent diagnosing, adjustment or replacing. Along with unqualified technicians to work on them and a supply chain that promises 'that' part in a week or so.
All diesel emission standards must be rolled back to pre 2007 standards. Diesel engines are very efficient (and clean) by design, with computer control and HP fuel systems diesels are the standard to look up to. But government...
Absolutely right. And being able to fix things makes us more independent of 'the system'.
Absolutely true!
I'm not a man, but must say, I get significant happiness from completing things - Fixing things, building things - Houses, furniture, you name it, likely I've done it. It's not a man thing. Jeez.
yeah, but you's one in a million. My sister in law can do about anything too, but you's girls are few and far between.
So. Good on you!
For a while after high school, I worked as a construction laborer on a massive government center build. However, it was essentially unskilled work and I got tired of the weather-based layoffs and the fact that my fairly boring work was interrupted by a few seconds of terror and ambulance visits. I would have liked to get into a skilled trade but, at that time where I was, you had to be at least a second generation union family to get an apprentiship. Were I in that situation now, I would definitely opt for trade school over college.
All of these dinosaur networks are on the verge of going extinct. If it wasn’t for Biden and big Pharma they would be long gone. This is their motive for bashing Trump and getting him out of power. It’s all about their own survival, like so many others on the take. Without their daily bashing and lying about Trump their ratings would be even closer to zero if that’s possible. Trump is 99% of their broadcast content.
One further hamstringing of the networks has yet to occur. Outlaw drug advertisements. That will drain their corporate coffers and not force allegiance to the predatory Pharma industry.
Who knows? If that came to pass, media might be able to utter or write a truthful sentence on a variety of topics.
There are terrific videos out there, done in the days when Big pHARM-us weren’t writing the checks for ads. There’s a 60 Minutes segment on Guillane Barre Syndrome a teacher got— (think “polio-lite”) from a highly pushed swine flu shot that has since been removed from the “safe & effective” list. There are a couple of really good Phil Donahue segments talking about vaccine injuries and which vaccines were the culprits.
There are even 60 Min. segments on the mighty,
fabulous DMSO.
Search 60 Minutes, Guillane Barre Syndrome.
You can search
Indeed, those 60 minute reviews seem like they are from another dimension today; they provide such a contrast to what media viewers have lost it makes the case against advertising pretty compelling.
Yes, and don’t you have an issue with them advertising anyhow? To me, it’s clearly about control and ending any news coverage of anything bad, Big pHARM-us wise— like say, the VIOXX debacle that killed between 30,000-90,000 people before it was discovered and shoved firmly into the “not so safe & effective” column. MERCK lied for years, knowing people were dying.
And, “Ask your doctor is (some “word” with no known roots, pronunciation, or comprehensible spelling) is right for YOU!”
Is that up to us??? “Hey, doc, have you ever considered putting me on (incomprehensible drug name) at all?”
“OH, yeah… GLAD you brought that up! I had forgotten all about (incomprehensible drug name)! Thank GOD for advertising or I’d never remember WHAT drug to consider for treatment!”
I touched on the 60mins GBS thing in this article: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/vaccines-cause-autism-no-one-wants
I think show how FDR had GBS not polio in this article: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-polio-cover-up-how-a-disease
Long story short, vaccines have never done any good but they’re are praised and protected solely by big Pharma: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-complete-vaccine-harm-profile
THANK you for these links. I keep everything vaccine related as well as a lot of DMSO, colloidal silver, CD/MMS/Jim Humble stuff but I’ve been keeping it all since about a year prior to covid so it takes forever to weed through it all.
Thanks!
"There are even 60 Min. segments on the mighty, fabulous DMSO." Say what now?
DMSO is GOOD stuff! You’ve GOT to look it up. It’s up there with colloidal silver, and Chlorine Dioxide, aka MMS (sort of?), that my
other fave substacker, Jenna’s Side, wrote a book about — with Dr. Pierre Kory.
I’d look it up on THE NATURAL HEALTH Library on facebook. They have files and files.
OH, borax is key as well, yes, 20 Mule Team borax, in the laundry section.
Blood Root Salve is fabulous stuff, too.
There are a few others…
If you eliminated Trump related articles from the NYT, you’d have a two page rag with ads. It is hilarious to follow Jeff’s blow by blow chess match between Trump and the bloviating MSM.
All the Demos have is Orange man bad.....nothing else.
Love it!
FACTS!!
What happened to Trump’s plans to end drug ads?
Suzie Wiles, for one thing. She has deep ties to Pfizer.
Wonder which 'cure' she used to get rid of her breast cancer?
I sure hope he is waiting until after the midterms to let RFKjr off the leash!
Yeah I know we are all impatient for these things to be done, but even though Trump is a hard worker and he has lots of good people around him, there are only so many things a person can do at once. Not to mention all of the pushback and the noncompliance from deep state bureaucrats he has to contend with...
mostly true James, but Trumpie provides ample fodder for all but the most conservative journalist to poke fun, at minimum, & make great "stories" of catastrophe as daily fare.
The Donald is one in a million, for sure.
Just imagine anyone you know conceiving his draft speech to the UN where he would tell, literally the world, of his potential "annihilation" of Iran. Off the charts. . .
I was hoping to see the bearded dude from Iran provide SOME reaction but he was stone-faced.
It is truly a crazy world.
Check this out Red. Senator Sheehy, was a Navy Seal, justifying war
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1LGwm5wwcM/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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Oh send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy mountain
And to Your dwelling places.
Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God my exceeding joy;
And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.
— Psalm 43:3-4 LSB
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1+2=3
1Blessed is the person who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
2But his delight is in the Law of the LORD,
And on His Law he meditates day and night.
3He will be like a tree planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season,
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.
4The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind blows away.
5Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked will perish.
Psalm 1:1-6 NASB
"Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!"
This seems particularly relevant given a lot of the posts I have read today...
By threatening the annihilation of you civilization.
Once again, C&C is better than that first cup of coffee in the morning. So many really good things happening in our country and the world!
Agree. I can’t catch it as often any longer because it comes out later. I am usually up and gone by the time it comes out, but what an optimist Jeff is and how I love it!
Also love Mike Rowe and his brand of optimism, in seeing problems and finding ways to get them done. There are many more young entrepreneurs doing marvelous things than we realize!
Now please tackle the takeover of the Midwest and mid Atlantic by solar pop ups papering over thousands of acres of farm land, and we can’t stop them.
Mike Rowe is today's Renaissance Man. He is amazing in many ways. His podcast interviews are fantastic. The one with Jeff Childers is a MUST see. Those two are quite a pair. Love them both.
Solar pop ups also taking over farm land in NY state. Alexandra Fasulo fights against this and writes about it. https://houseofgreen.substack.com/p/new-yorks-ores-solar-complexes-are
She’s amazing. She wanted to grow flowers for pollinators and ended up taking on international solar cartels.
She is amazing. NYS taxpayer money and electric bill fees are being funneled to fund these foreign companies. I'm betting a lot more taxpayer money will be required when it comes time for solar "farm" cleanups - I'm fairly sure these foreign companies will be long gone by then. https://substack.com/@alexandrafasulo/note/c-343080125
Understand just like the playbook was the same for the covid scamdemic across every blue run state, the spread of the green scam also follows the same pattern. Follow the money!
So, that explains why NY state wants the Amish's lands
"Encouraging" the Amish population to relocate also cuts down on those pesky conservative votes.
I follow her.
Reminds me of the British “clearances” that resulted in displaced Brits that either moved to their cities or to the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. Along with data centers, which are resource hogs. Is that what we’re seeing being re-enacted here?
And loving Jeff’s perspective on the world!
I'll bet you think the book of Revelation is a giggle too. Why does this substack attract so many idiots????
If these be idiots, sign me up! Methinks you are a troll.
Yep
If that comforts you.
Patronize much?
Hmmm. It attracted you today. 🤔
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See there was no need to hide your idiotic comment under hidden reply’s because I was able to block you to prevent any chance I would read your stupidity again.
Then why are you here and posting no less?
I like to count how many ignorant comments show up. Just added yours to the list.
Make sure you count all of your own.
Get a life.
DeSantis / Rubio or maybe Rubio / DeSantis ... either way, the dream 2028 ticket.
I love our bench! Oodles to choose from, so many combinations that would be thrilling for our country. It really is exciting. I love DeSantis and would heartily promote him if he won our primary, but then I’d heartily promote ANYONE on this administration.
We all need to remember what primaries are for. Choose your favorite candidate and campaign like the dickens, but leave the smears and bashing out of it. They are ALL amazing. We need to come together after we choose our candidate. Whatever the majority wants most will need to be campaigned for in the general election as if you personally voted for them in the primaries. So let’s not create hate or spite against who you don’t want, using the same manipulative tools used by leftists and RINOs. I really hope our party can be more respectable given the embarrassment of riches we have in candidates. Let’s just have fun with the choices.
We are in a candy store! Nobody denies the gummy bears are great, but that doesn’t mean the chocolate covered raisins aren’t just as enjoyable!
First let’s get through Nov
Would love Rubio/DeSantis!
Agree...DeSantis for president. Rubio stays where he is. Vance should not run for President. I like him but he is not the best choice.
I’m starting to think he just might be a good choice because the left and the black pillers are trying so hard to regularly sour everyone against him. That makes me think they are afraid of him being in charge. Since we haven’t seriously considered anyone but Rubio so far, they haven’t targeted anyone else yet. They are hyper fixated on disqualifying Vance - that’s over the target behavior. What don’t we know?
Rubio is ineligible since he is an anchor baby and not a natural born citizen.
He is eligible. Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, so he is a natural-born U.S. citizen. He will be 57 in 2028 and has lived in the country his whole life. That meets the Constitution’s requirements.
Some people have argued that his parents were not yet citizens when he was born, but courts and most legal scholars reject that theory. He ran for president in 2016 without being disqualified.
14th Amendment states anyone born here is a citizen. So he is eligible.
Never mind, you don't know enough to argue with anyone. Explain how you can hold to the view that Supreme Court opinions are THE ONLY Law of the Land – when our Constitution says at Article VI, clause 2 that only The Constitution and Acts of Congress and Treaties authorized by the Constitution comprise the “supreme Law of the Land”? Supreme Court opinions are not included….. wonder why?
WRONG...Marco Rubio is not a “natural born Citizen”, he is a naturalized citizen. Neither Obama, Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz are natural born citizens. At the times they were born, their Fathers were not citizens. A “natural born Citizen” is one who is born of parents who are citizens.
Not a natural born. Article II says a citizen may be president only if alive at the time the constitution was written. It is restricted to natural borns. Rubio is a 14th amendment anchor baby and is not eligible. You are bereft of a complete education. Sad. So duped.
Where were you when Obama was running?
I was in IL knowing he was cheat. At the time I participated on Hannity's forum and many of is were calling out the cheater Obama. We knew the truth. Where were you silly woman???
Wrong, he’s a national born US citizen. Research before posting. I verified with GROK!!
So did I! I love Grok.
Haha. fruitcakes are out early this season.
Great another idiot attracted. Rubio was born IN the United States. He is an American citizen. Natural born. What kind of moron thinks otherwise? Troll. Be gone.
Not natural born. he was made a citizen due to a manmade ruling not natural law. Natural born citizens are not made so due to manmade laws.
I think there is problem with a Rubio/DiSantis ticket. Something about the Pres and VP both being from the same state. Don’t remember exactly. But I’m sure there are at least 100 people out there who will instantly correct me
Correct, 12th Amendment
I think you are right.
There is a small issue, see my earlier post.
@west- he's not an anchor baby, ffs
He is an anchor baby. His parents were Cuban citizens still when he was born. They always hoped to go back to Cuba and delayed trying to become US citizens. Get educated.
DeSantis rocks!
Rubio might want to consider changing his state of residency if he hasn’t already. If he ran with DeSantis, there is a bit of a glitch with the 12th amendment. I had to go look this up because it was at the back of my mind …
(From Grok) Yes, they could run together. There is no law that bars presidential and vice-presidential candidates from the same state.
The source of the common misconception is the 12th Amendment. It does **not** prohibit a same-state ticket. It only restricts *electors*: when they meet in their own state, at least one of the two people they vote for (President or Vice President) must not be an inhabitant of that state.
Both Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis are Florida residents. If they were the nominees and won Florida, the state’s electors could vote for one of them but not both. Florida’s electoral votes (currently 30) would therefore be lost for one of the two offices. In a close national race that could matter; in a landslide it would not.
No major-party ticket has ever been composed of two candidates from the same state, precisely because of this rule and because parties usually want geographic balance. The practical workaround, used by Dick Cheney in 2000, is for one candidate to change legal residency before the election. Either man could do the same if they wanted to preserve Florida’s full electoral vote.
So the ticket is constitutionally allowed; it is just electorally inconvenient unless one of them relocates or the race is not close.
I would love to see DeSantis on SCOTUS
Would love DeSantis on the Supreme Court. Might be a better call.
Not the intellectual type; hands on guy!! Great at his job.
Vance is great. Rubio is great. But DeSantis is fabulous! Just heard the man speak at a conference. He is powerful in the same way that Trump is. He knows and understands the issues, and is intelligent and well-intentioned in devising solutions. He's not afraid of the blow-back. I am already campaigning for DeSantis as our next president.
Yeah. But he has zero charisma. And that was quite clear in 2024 primary season. So nope. Vice president maybe but nationally he ain’t got it.
Mary--I know what you are saying, but I would hope the voters could see that intelligence and competence can be charismatic!
The unfortunate truth is if intelligence and competence isn't coupled with charisma it doesn't go anywhere. Trump - like him or not - has charisma. When he takes the stage he lights up the room. He is the center and that is an attraction from which the observer can then see that he also is intelligent and competent.
DeSantis made some poor alliances in the 2024 primaries. Part of him bought the January 6 narrative even though he never came out and said anything like that. But, he aligned with Republicans who thought Trump was finished. How they could think that is beyond me, but I suppose in the hysteria in the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6 some people thought that.
He is a terrific Governor and I agree he'd be a good President but I don't think he can excite people enough to BECOME President. The French say there is something called "je ne sais pas" or "je ne sais pas ce que" - roughly I don't know what it is, but as Potter Stewart famously said about pornography: "I can't tell you what it is, but I know it when I see it."
That said, no-one on the political stage has it at the moment. On either side. Certainly no one has it like Trump does and maybe no one will have it like that in this or several other generations. And by the way, that is what literally frightens some people about him. They believe that this kind of charisma can only be malevolent and not benevolent. So, maybe the next guy will be more on the non-charismatic side.
But, DeSantis, who is both intelligent and competent, got a bit over his skis in 2024 and showed himself to not handle the fight as well as he could have and also made some bad choices as to support. One hopes he learned from that. Could love to see Rubio at the top of the ticket with DeSantis as VP.
In the meantime we need to win the midterms so let's grab every normal person we can and drag them to vote.
Rubio is not a natural born citizen and therefore ineligible. He is an anchor baby.
Not true.
Also, President and Vice President cannot come from the same state.
Read CeeMcG’s clarifying comment on this. 😊
Thanks, Hana!
@Sherrylyn- not true but not smart, either.
There's no actual law about that. It is a tradition. And it makes political sense to have them from different states.
There IS a law about that: Art.2.1.3 says
"The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves."
The practical effect of this is that -- with Pres and VP on a unified ticket -- that that ticket cannot have the Electoral Votes of their own state. In Florida, that's a major problem.
Rubio/Vance. Let Vance raise his kids in the VP house for 4 or 8 more years and gain more experience and gravitas. Rubio knows what game is afoot.
Rubio was one of the “Gang of Eight” that wanted amnesty for illegals.
It doesn’t matter if there’s an R or a D next to their name, if they’re Hispanic their main goal is more Hispanics.
Another example is Florida Rep. María Elvira Salazar.
“ RINO ALERT: Rep. María Elvira Salazar Stabs Trump in the Back on Immigration, Demands “Dignified Life” for Illegal Aliens”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/rino-alert-rep-maria-elvira-salazar-stabs-trump/
DeSantis/Rubio in 2028 for 2 terms then Rubio/hopefully an up and coming female in 2036
I love this plan.
I clicked on the link above, but it doesn't take me anywhere - must be a problem with my browser I guess.
Just go to the website for the Gateway Pundit. I have Brave Browser, and had no problem opening the link.
Which link? Not seeing one on this particular thread.
This is SO encouraging and uplifting. We can always count on you, Jeff, to provide truth, humor, and hope. Thank you! Being a part of this C & C community is a tremendous gift to us.
Don't worry.
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
"The only foreign government openly campaigning for a Democrat House is the one we’re at war with. "
Add Canada? Maybe not AS openly, but pretty much. ;)
I hope Trump "Maduro's", Mark Carney!
The dream of many Canadians!!! We'd love to see him locked up in prison where he belongs.
We have been battling Canada since King William’s war in 1689. Some periods are just quieter than others. Now it’s King Charles turn to be belligerent.
Yes, using Canada against the US is how Chuckles exerts control without making the UK a target.
@Crash- that man- term used loosely- can't even summon up the courage to swat a fly.
Possibly a good chunk of the EU.
I swear I heard yesterday a sound bite when watching news of a Democrat saying, “artificial super intelligence” 🤣🤣 They are trying so hard to avoid his power but they are fireflies to his bug catcher. 🤣🤣
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the broad category of machines performing tasks requiring human intelligence, such as chatbots, recommendation systems, and self-driving cars. In contrast, Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is a hypothetical form of AI that surpasses human intelligence in every domain, including creativity, problem-solving, and emotional understanding.
The key distinctions include:
Current Status: AI exists today and is widely used, while ASI is purely theoretical and has not been achieved.
Capability Scope: Current AI is "narrow," excelling only in specific, predefined tasks. ASI would possess generalized cognitive abilities that exceed the best human minds across all fields simultaneously.
Self-Improvement: ASI is expected to have the ability for autonomous self-improvement, leading to exponential growth in intelligence, whereas current AI relies on human-designed algorithms and training data.
"Hey, Times: nobody wants a President who governs by polls."
Who needs a Pres who governs by polls? No one. We got a Pres that governs with his Big Beautiful Gold Balls. Now that is worth posting on the front of a newspaper.
And as far as his UN speech, It was balls in spectacular!
Wasn’t it a Kennedy who wrote the book “political courage”? I never read the book but had always heard discussions of it; the central theme being that a good leader does what he thinks is right despite the winds of popularity or lobbyists. That would definitely apply to Trump’s leadership style.
I love it! He is in their heads rent free! They can’t handle it. 🤣
BBGB! 🤣
Good morning all!
“You say you are anxious about the future, but don’t you know that the Lord is with you always and that our enemy has no power over one who has resolved to belong entirely to Jesus?” (3/29/1914). St. Padre Pio
“ For I did not give you a Spirit of timidity & fear, but of power, love & self- discipline “. 2 Timothy 1:6.
Good morning Karmy!
Good morning RL!
Happy Feast Day of St Padre Pio.
Yes Pamela!! I wondered if someone would know why I posted one of Padre Pio’s wonderful quotes.
Sure did. Paste Pio is one of my favorite saints. One day I hope to visit San Giovanni Rotondo.
Amen, Karmy!
I am so jealous! If I was a young woman again, I’d move to Florida & start my welding career-& I’d take my father with me-the best welder GE ever had 👍🏻
Right!? Shop classes were my favorite in high school. They combined my artistic skills with my analytical ones. And I had so much fun learning architectural design. But back in the late 70s early 80s they were pushing girls into STEM interests. The same guy that taught our shop classes taught computer programming and he noticed how good I was at that.
But my heart never left the hands-on creation fields, and I was never fulfilled behind a desk programming.
I’d LOVE to go back and become a furniture designer, or a welder! I wanna do-over 😩😅
@Juju- girls weren't allowed to take shop class when I was in school. I was a junior when boys were allowed to take Home Ec (and one of them was a danged good baker!!). I gladly would have taken a shop class and dropped Home Ec (my mother taught me well. I didn't need Home Ec).
I completely agree! Home Ec such a waste for people like us.
See, I am not good at that stuff at all! Drawing is as far as I get with hands-on creation! I liked shop class because I learned how to do some things that seemed useful to know (like Home Ec) but there was nothing I loved enough to want to do it as a job or even an intense hobby. I did like soldering a lot for some reason, but again, not enough to seek any employment with that skill or anything like that.
When i was in school they had cooking and sewing for the girls and shop classes for the boys. I already knew how to cook and i knew enough about sewing to know i was not cut out to be a seamstress so i begged too be let into the shop classes instead. Nope. No girls. That was in the 60s.
Same at my school. We had ONE girl allowed to take "mechanical drawing" class- because she was the granddaughter of Igor Sikorsky- helicopter inventor. And her parents had to raise the roof to get her into that. But now young people don't know how to cook or sew, so some of them must have learned a little bit of that back then . We need more integrated learning experiences for young people. Why can't we combine chemistry and baking/cleaning, geometry and building things? So often students cannot see the practicality of what they are being taught in school.
Check out "Lessons In Chemistry". Fabulous book, fabulous movie.
Very good point!!! I know I would have found school a lot more interesting if they had done that.
Yes I love the integrated learning experiences! I have done some with my son in homeschooling for science. There are some great books out there to help with that.
@Lisa- SAME but mid-70s for me. I was so angry.
We also had ‘Home Economics’-baking, sewing aprons (really? I knew how to sew at 8..), cleaning, & introduced the dishwasher to us-be still my heart! 🤣
YES!!! My education was 60’s & 70’s -had shop in 7th grade-it was great!! I was a math girl so everyone pushed me into accounting 🤮 Oh well! A life wasted. Imagine if everyone loved what they did & were not shoved into college debt?
@Dawn- I'll be 66 next month. See my response to Juju above.
I turned 74 yesterday. Or maybe it was 47? I can't really be that old can I? :-)
Graduated from HS in 1970, from college in 1973 and law school in 1976.
1960 girl, too!! I’m thankful I wasn’t born 100 years earlier but still so envious of current generations, many of whom don’t seem to know how well they've got it. My parents lived through the Depression & my father survived the 1918 flu. None of us seem to appreciate how well off we are.
Dawn, my adult daughter has a good friend who's a welder. Beautiful petite young woman. The custom work they're doing blows me away.
That is WONDERFUL! I’m very happy for her!
Blessings, health and a long life are my wishes for you brother Jeff!
Just wondering out loud…would a female who transitioned to male become more likely to forget the milk? Inquiring minds…
And more likely not to be able to find something in the cupboard or refrigerator? :P
When I see my husband heading to the fridge I say “move something “. Haha
Hahaha so true!!! They need to design a fridge for men that takes up an 8’x10’ wall that is one shelf deep. 🤣🤣🤣
I am not even sure that would help! :P I can give extremely precise instructions (the xyz is on the top shelf on the right side next to the sour cream) and they STILL can't find it (my sons are the same lol).
Omg - yes!!! Hysterical and spot on!😂
🤣🤣🤣
Men’s brains are wired to primarily see objects moving not those which are stationary. Which explains why they don’t see the dust on the shelf and can focus on the location of a hockey puck the entire game. When my husband opens the fridge or pantry door before he asks I say “it’s not moving or it’s underneath something. “😆
@Dana- my husband can do both. When he cleans, we call it Daddy Clean BUT he can also follow a puck! I can't.
…my husband to me: look behind something! 😂
I have a husband and two sons. When they are looking and looking for something and throwing things everywhere, I say to them, " I can find it; I have a vagina!"
In our house it’s called a “uterine locating device”
😆😆
Guilty
Or forget anniversaries?
😂😂😂
I read this morning that high levels of estrogen, (mimic estrogen in plastics, etc.) and a dysbyosis of the gut can cause brain dysfunction, cognitive decline.
The transitioned male likely would forget the milk, just spitballing.
And anyone who has taken antibiotics could have a dysbiosis of the gut.
Too much estrogen is really bad for males and too little estrogen in females can also cause really bad things as well.
Our drinking water is now loaded with them from birth control, people flushing unneeded meds and abortifacients, as well as the many badly made plastics. Our water treatment plants do not filter those things out.
🤣🤣🤣
Haha
Even forgetting is not foregoing. The gender confused XX (likely) has a built-in, off-line, milk factory.
Two, in most cases.
Good morning y’all
morning!
Good morning Dindu!!
Morning DN... 10 minutes and it'll be afternoon. 😉
Analysis of the Greenland deal, comparing with the 1951 agreement.
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2102606070694937075
As one commenter said. Trump wanted to buy Greenland. The Danes said absolutely not, Greenland is not for sale. But we'll give it to you for free.
🤣👍