The Supremes disappoint in Missouri, but we scrape up the silver lining and connect it to a truly mind-blowing story of epic 2024 proportions. Wait till you grasp the DOD's newest limited hangout.
Mine is (while crossing my forehead, lips and heart):
"Open my lips, O Lord, and my mouth shall sing your praise. Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of thy Mercy."
Since I am a serious devotee of the Blessed Mother (aka Virgin Mary) and specifically the Virgen de Guadalupe, the ‘patron saint of Mexico’, I have expanded my daily ‘sign of the cross’ to include…”In the name of the Father, the Blessed Mother, the Son and the Holy Spirit”.
I too say this when waking, getting in my car to drive, at the end of my ‘blessing’ before I eat my food, and whatever situations pop up during the day that could use some divine intercessions! 💓🙏🏻
And when life gives you lemons, thank God for the lemons and then ask God what you are supposed to do with the lemons. "Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity. In all this Job did not sin with his lips." Job 2:10
Just read C. S. Lewis's "The Silver Chair" and Puddleglum said repeatedly, what a bad situation they were in but if they just trusted to Aslan's instructions, even though they were in the midst of their enemies, even if it meant their own deaths and destruction, that Aslan's plans would turn out right.
We can't see what God has planned for us, but if He gives us lemons, there's a reason and He'll provide the means of their resolution. That's really amazing to think about. And it takes away anxiety, too.
Trusting God and having the peace of God are critical. I love Philippians 4:4-9. It has been a favorite since high school many decades ago. 😉
4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9 As for the things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
In response to another comment I made to Janice about songs like "This is the day," "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say rejoice" is another song that came to me during my struggle last year. God is so good to us.
ever eateh a lemon, or a lime, sraight from the tree and fully ripe? Grapefruit, too. Travelling deep in Mexico I've been so dimbfounded I ciuld not recognise that this "tornoja" is a grapefruit, tree ripend the way God made it to be. Limes were easy to recognise because of their colour and size. Not a hint of bitter or acid.
How many other things do we "settle for" the common form (as in US grocery store fruit) when the way God made it is so far superior.
I once was brought a lemon from a lemon tree of a monastery in Arizona. It was like a precious gift. I cannot even explain how delicious it was and different from the ones we buy.
The Lord Jesus is able to turn what the enemy makes for evil into a great advance in His Kingdom for our lives, there are many examples in the Scriptures, one of my favorite is the life of Joseph: Sold by his own brothers, slaved in Egypt, imprisoned, but then…. The Lord showed up elevating him to the be the second most powerful man in the existing world!!!!!!
So many powerful lessons from the story of Joseph. He is the greatest “Type” of Christ in the Old Testament, as exemplified by the undeserved forgiveness that he gave to his brothers. He always looked to God for direction.
“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.”
Boy...old Ben sure had another side to his nature though--if you have read the history of his life on earth. . HOWEVER...I know he believed in the Holy, Triune Creator God and trembled at His magnificent authority of us, His "feeble creatures".
I think he was a great man -not perfect, but worthy of admiration. It’s easy to point fingers at someone’s flaws whilst overlooking their accomplishments. I don’t think Benjamin Franklin ever “trembled” over anything.
Last year, I went through some very stressful, unhappy times at work. I began singing praise songs every morning at the top of my lungs in my car on the way to work. This and so many other songs from my childhood, that I had completely forgotten about were brought back to my mind during this period. I really believe those songs kept me sane and helped me get through an unbearable situation.
well, you have been a blessing to me today because I'm experiencing the same untenable situation. If I get through it without going into bankruptcy or losing what is left of my health I will count it a miracle. I'm praying right now to find a church family. Please will you all pray for me. Thank you and God Bless you Jeff.
I will pray for you Deborah. My health was harmed by my situation as well. I know singing those praise songs, many that I learned as a child, is one of the things that got me through. It changed my attitude (not completely, mind you, but enough so that God could still work) so that I could persevere through the adversity. I spent a lot of my private time just telling God that I needed him; I was so helpless and hopeless. I really didn’t believe I could make it through, but here I am. God is always good.
During the time our youngest son, the baby of our family, was in jail and had heroin addiction,
I commuted an hour to and from work. I sang and prayed the christian music songs for him all the way there and back. I learned to praise in the middle of the mess.
Today he’s married and has two beautiful babies. He’s the most loyal and loving husband and father I’ve ever witnessed. Please don’t doubt the power of prayer while praising and believing for what God can do before seeing the outcome.
I spent a lot of time praying, too, just not on the way to work. I would start when I woke, then continue as I did stuff around the house, showered, got dressed. When I came home, I prayed while I was preparing dinner and going through my evening, and lots of prayer before bed. I just found that singing those songs on my way to work put me in a different frame of mind than even the prayer did and somehow got me through my day. It was really a revelation to me. Sometimes when I would be praying in the shower, a new "old" praise song would pop into my head that I hadn't thought about for decades, and so I would start singing in the shower.
Since my troubles have ceased, so has my time singing praise songs in the car. Part of me tells myself I just don't have the energy for it. But I believe I had less energy when things were so bad. I do pray on the way to work now and just enjoy the quiet, but maybe I should vary that with the praise songs. Either way, I called out to God and He showed up.
I'm going to say at least from the 70s. I learned it in vacation Bible school (I think), and now the call and response tune is going around and around in my head!! At least it's upbeat and cheerful! 😃
I think it may be from the Calvary Chapel book of Praise songs of the early/mid 70’s. We still have our original copy from attending church there after we met one another at a young Adult retreat they did up at Lake Arrowhead.
Those songs still echo in my mind and heart all these years later.
If you like that track, I suggest you listen to some of the early cuts from The Newsboys: "Shine", "The Breakfast Song", "Take Me To Your Leader" .... pop gems all.
Let it be known to the doubters that because our hope in God transcends this world, we CAN rejoice no matter what is happening in the temporal. Our hope and rejoicing is in Jesus Christ!
"This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.” I wrote this verse on my bathroom mirror during a very difficult time in my life so that I would be forced to see it first thing every morning and remind myself that whatever God sends me, He sends for the growth of my soul.
Without illusions about the dark side, consider clinical proof of the power of predominant thoughts. Think negative, get depressed. That’s cheap and easy. Think positive, get things done. That takes mental discipline. Either way, attitude comes before results. “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things” (Colossians 3:2). What is your sense of “things above”?
Get the word out ASAP. I have fired off several emails and text to colleagues, friends and family. Most didn't even know...but have a sense of how important this is.
It's so important that you have ZERO rights without 1A. They'll use the dilution of 1A to come after our other rights.
SCOTUS’s decision to punt the Missouri case allows the Feds to amp up censorship during the height of Election Season. Any False Flag, new Plandemic, or blatant Election Interference will be allowed to happen without mainstream 1A interference. It’s a major win for the Feds in their attempt to hold on to Power.
So the Court of Jesters decide that it's too difficult to say which of the twenty six thousand knife stabs into the victim was the actual piercing causing the fatality, come back when you can figure that out, until then it's not an actual murder case.
I vote with Jeff (at least I hope) that the SC took the easy way out (while leaving the door cracked) to avoid looking too conservative. IDK about court packing, but I view it as a legitimate threat to our freedoms. Yes, it could be turned against them, but that theory assumes that conservatives could ever win another election.
purging Commies off the Court would be best move; Counter the Revolution by all means required. The Left doesn't need to pack anything but their rucksack for 30 years hard labor in a Gulag. Conservatives are pinatas, and Commies are clubs. This is a Fking War of extinction nothing short of that but we refuse reality, so sure, lets's decry court packing and excuse make for the weaklings that Trump nominated to the Court of High Corruption
Well, we have the 3 liberal women to whom are basically incompetent as SC Justices that one doesn’t know what a woman is, we have weak Barrett and Kavanaugh who have been utterly disappointing, and then we have snake Roberts who can never be trusted to view things conservatively or constitutionally, and finally we have the 3 brave men with utter respect and knowledge of the Constitution. So what do we expect. Oh well, it’s not over yet but it’s over for our election integrity with this administration being able to carry on with their subversive practices and censorship methods. 🤬
Just look at today--phones suddenly crash when Laura Trump about to speak on Glen Beck; Mark Levin website problems, who else counter-narrative is glitching?
ONLY Domesticated Republicans are allowed in power and observe how the TOO Radical Left gets reassigned when out of bounds with the whole Anti-Zionism-Free Palestine thing too
They OWN the whole Truth and every version and facet of the Truth. Assange; hero or villain? Let's see what we're told to think before we speculate, right? This is The Revolution in action Thoughtcrime must be countered, controlled, revised, reversed, the Information Ministry is all powerful and the plebes thoughtthreats can be cured
If it's any consolation - this PLANdemic onslaught on our BODIES gave us the time and opportunity (while sheltering in place) to discuss the PATTERN OF SUBVERSIVENESS in our governance up to this point. NOW....with the 'power of the pen' we must QUASH the 'power of the sword' of deception, demagoguery with our OWN WORDS OF FREEDOM, given to us by the ALMIGHTY ruler of our very SOULS!! I truly believe the PEN is mightier than the "sword"!
I carry concealed all over the place, even in airports, schools, courthouses, etc. My weapon of choice: The Rugged Rosaries WW1 "Battle Beads" Combat edition in gunmetal patina.
Excellent point! I have uncles, fathers, grand fathers and brothers that I dearly love. That makes me a woman that not only loves but likes men. Like x3.
the Founders did no such thing. They merely stated the obvious and declared we already HAVE these rights and that they come from the God who made us, thus canno be denied or removed.
There will be MASSIVE disruption in this election cycle in the USA - our legislatures are INEFFECTIVE in REINING in the Executive branch - and WE THE PEOPLE (the 'awake ones") are not going to stand idly by and let our country be ripped to shreds and ALL of our precious freedoms subverted by the MOST INSIDIOUS GOVERNANCE our nation has ever had!!
Be prepared for massive chaos - this is what happens when we NEGLECT our duties as Godly citizens of the ONLY bulwark of freedom in this entire world.
I use the term "dire straits" often these days. I hate to think of the total collapse and sinking of America, but God is in charge of ALL things at ALL times regardless of the beliefs of the human beings on the planet. Peace be with you!
"To be in dire straits means to be in desperate trouble or impending danger. Dire means extremely serious. Straits are narrow passages of water which connect two larger bodies of water, navigating them may often become perilous. In the mid-sixteenth century, straits came to mean any difficult situation, one that carries a high degree of trouble. A newspaper column in the Rome News-Tribune in September of 2000 cites United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the first known user of the term dire straits in a 1933 radio address concerning those out of work during The Great Depression."
Yes...."dire straits" was an apt term for the "Depression Era"...but not for THIS. Our VERY basic, God-given freedoms are being threatened--that is way worse than a financial crisis!!
Yep. Chipping away at our God-given rights on procedural grounds, just like claims of 2016 election fraud. Jerry Nadler’s hot take on yesterday’s Supreme decision—somehow a smackdown of Jim Jordan—is hilariously off point. Shilly fools like him find lemons and make more lemons. Instead of graciously assuming he’s ill-informed, we should be laughing him to scorn, and not just because his mom dresses him funny.
Aside from the Texas and Florida cases, I'm wondering if Berenson v. Biden might eventually be "the big case." There are opportunities for the Supremes to redeem themselves.
Yes, because in his case, he clearly proved direct attacks from the WH which harmed him!!!! That is if they bother to read the information Berenson provides. Maybe he has provided too much proof, though, and the work will be too overwhelming for them to consider it all, and they will again punt the issue aside.
1A: We should consider framing this in a different but possibly more correct way. Free speech is a given. The first amendment does not grant us this right but rather prevents the government from taking this right away. We don't need to defend our rights but rather they need to defend their abuse of power in subverting our rights.
here read. what is the operative word in this sentence:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the RIGHT of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
between "Do not panic until I give the signal." and "THIS IS OPPORTUNITY." I don't know which is more of a display of stupidity. Hey, I know, lets sue them! The laws and judges and courts will restore sanity.
I took it as sarcasm mixed with "don't give up" rhetoric.
We lost a big one but hasn't our country lost a lot of big ones in the last century while we slept and thought the government was there to serve and protect?
If we knew everything, we would lose our minds.
We can only put our hope in God.
Philippians 4:7-9
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 me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
I suppose that's possible. I don't want to give up, I want people to recognize that laws and courts and elections are only hurting us not helping. Instead of continuing to fight a losing war the strategy needs to change and I am disappointed that all we hear from C&C is 'Stay the course'.
I am sure Jeff has his own doubts but staying positive is a must for the blog.
We can rant and exchange ideas in the comments.
I believe our system is literally set up for slavery with the illusion of freedom.
That is why I have wracked my brain and come to the realization that satan is god of this world, the evil people are slaves to sin, but God has plans for us to prosper in this life and after. That is the hope, not saving our country.
Actually, he is only a prince not a god. Though his desire was to be a god. Jesus made sure of his ultimate defeat by coming out of the tomb of death, the one last hurdle for human beings.
John 12:31 (NIV) - Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out.
Nobody is perfect and we do the best we can where we are, but Jeff is out there fighting where I can't, this I know. We all need encouragement and if we get discouraged over this, then how can we stand strong if/when things really get bad?
There's a Taoist parable called The Old Man Who Lost His Horse:
"A long time ago, a poor Chinese farmer lost a horse, and all the neighbors came around and said, “well that’s too bad.” The farmer said, “maybe.” Shortly after, the horse returned bringing another horse with him, and all the neighbors came around and said, “well that’s good fortune,” to which the farmer replied, “maybe.” The next day, the farmer’s son was trying to tame the new horse and fell, breaking his leg, and all the neighbors came around and said, “well that’s too bad,” and the farmer replied, “maybe.” Shortly after, the emperor declared war on a neighboring nation and ordered all able-bodied men to come fight—many died or were badly maimed, but the farmer’s son was unable to fight and spared due to his injury. And all the neighbors came around and said, “well that’s good fortune,” to which the farmer replied, “maybe.” And so the story goes.
In China, when something bad happens people will say, “Sai Weng Shi Ma” (Remember “The Old Man Who Lost His Horse”) to remind themselves and others that, sometimes, “bad” things happen which carry a silver lining—and that it’s often in the way you look at things which determines their power over your spirit. It is a caution to all not to get too attached to what happens to us, good or bad."
The First Amendment is both an entirely practical, necessary, vital declaration of rights AND a sacred and symbolic image of America, and it might be that it should not be sacred, that in our Western liberalism we've invested something secular (render unto Caesar) with a symbolic sacralization, and that our disappointment partly comes from the loss of that sacred nexus. Perhaps we reorient ourselves by remembering the American Revolution, and those bombastic overconfident redcoats marching in uniform with fife and drum and the ragtag fighters who won against them and remembering that God is what is sacred. Maybe the First will end up being amended to include all that modernity has inflicted on us, and perhaps we'll get an amendment on health freedom at the constitutional convention that might be born of all this.
I appreciate that you are trying to be positive but that ship has sailed, now the 'good attitude' sounds like gaslighting. We need to accept reality and change course, laws and courts aren't going to help. Fake elections are not going to help. The only non-violent option is separation, as has been done in human history countless times. The only other option is violent eradication, which is also a common occurrence in furless primate history. I don't like that C&C is advocating for the latter since team reality is losing that battle.
Well why don’t YOU do something instead of just criticizing those who are? Don’t just expect everyone else to think of ideas and ways to fight and then complain about how nothing is working.
Does commenting about how plan A didn't work, doing it more won't work, and plan B should be peaceful separation count as doing something? Or an idea, or something to fight for?
I think the 'itch' that has everyone scratching here is impatience. I know I feel it. I went back and listened to the Alex Jones interview with Dr. David Martin which put everything in context for me. I think because Dr. Martin was talking to Alex rather than a large audience like his speeches in the EU, he said some things that I have not heard him say before. " … This is World War III, that’s not hyperbole, it just comes in a different form...” That kind of put it in context for me. This is a big war and it's going to get uglier. But, as he describes, we are winning and the enemies weight is shifting to their back foot.
There are groups that have been working all along on the idea of secession. This is a very real outcome or solution. We may even see secession movements within blue states such as Oregon. This is something we can work toward and put some effort in. Seceding from the USG will not be easy and there needs to be more awareness of this developed.
Also, let me point out that the First Adam gave dominion over the earth to Satan at the Fall. The Second Adam, God the Son incarnate, paid the price and with His ascension to the throne, Satan fell to earth like lightning, and all dominion, power and authority was given to Him who now sits on the throne as King of kings and Lord of Lords. Satan may be god to the enemy but he is not god of this world. He is now nothing more than a squatter who is dug in deeper than an Alabama tick on a wart hog and it is our JOB as the Body of Christ on earth to evict Satan from this world through the power of the Holy Spirit which has been given to us for this purpose.
So... We have to take the longer view of our Lord and Savior and understand that this is a major battle in a war that has been going on since His incarnation.
Not really. Imo you need to propose alternatives and take action yourself also. Simply criticizing everyone else’s initiatives doesn’t really help move anything in the right direction.
If you think peaceful separation is the best plan, what are you doing to take action in favor of this?
Well put. I take comfort in knowing that the people I deal with every day (friends, coworkers, church acquaintances, etc.) are decent people just trying to do the best for their families and themselves. The sociopaths running things and their brownshirt thugs aren't representative of the population. In fact if it wasn't for the internet I wouldn't know they existed as I never see them in my day to day activities.
But we are fortunate that we live in a bubble to some extent that we've created through God's grace and some good decisions. We don't see street crime or racial tensions. We aren't in debt up to our eyeballs. We aren't permanent clients of the medical industry. We attend a very diverse biblical church pretty equally split between blacks, whites, hispanics, and asians and people couldn't be kinder to each other. I'm as white as Wonder Bread as they say and my best buddy from church is a black guy. We are all God's children and enjoy praising God together.
The problem for many is that you need to have some money and much wisdom to isolate yourself from America's pathologies. The prevailing culture tells people to be self-destructive, divisive, and hateful towards others. The beauty of it though, is that if you follow God's Word you will gain wisdom. And as you gain wisdom, you'll make some money. Not from stealing from people, but from being productive and a good coworker.
Once you get to that point you can shield your family and yourself from much of the ugliness, and take comfort in what this country still offers. But you have to understand that virtually everything the government, media, news, and advertising says is a lie meant to enslave you. Tune it out and seek wisdom in God's Word.
Thank you for pointing out the only source of truth and righteousness which is God’s Word. We need to keep our eyes focused on the Bible and what God has said and done. He’s the Creator and has made Himself known to us through His Word. He has a plan that will prevail; He will never fail us.
I remember, however, growing up hearing stories about Christians in the USSR. Insulation was no longer possible for them. They lived in poverty, under constant threat of having their kids removed, often the pastor husbands were taken away to work camps in Siberia. It was quite awful.
It’s a painful realization but there’s a peace that brings clarity when we begin to realize how reality really works: our government is the bad guy and it runs Democide and Menticide on us: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/democide-and-menticide
And now we know this we can come up with real solutions based in reality 😊
The Bible clearly tells us the weapons to use against the enemy of darkness.
We don't know reality and it is bigger than psyops from the devil.
Imagine all the times, for instance in the OT, God's people strayed from Him, got in a heap of trouble including idol worship and hedonism, and then had to beg God to save them. It seems we are at that breaking point again. Maybe this will be the last, end times, but obeying God's commands is doing the best thing and trusting God will do the rest. Blind faith. Jesus is my Savior and this is a spiritual battle so prayer is a weapon against the enemy.
John 20:29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Isaiah 54:17 no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,
and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord
and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
Excellent! Thank you sharing truth! Our risen Lord and Savior is our hope and our salvation! I’m waiting for the sound of that trumpet when Jesus calls His people home!
The scary thing is that "the government" is making these decisions. Who is "the government"? It's not the good 'ol "of, by, and for" government Lincoln spoke of. Our current government has morphed into an evil entity that demands to be fed by us while at the same time baring its teeth at the hands that feed it.
I recently discovered that the US military engaged in biowarfare in Korea & Viet Nam, dropping mice infected with the plague and hemorrhagic fever on civilians in those countries.
Prior to the Korean War, those nations had zero hemorrhagic fever.
The reason they assassinated JFK, RFK, and executed a bloodless coup against Nixon, was that each of these men opposed the Intel Community's bioweapons and endless war efforts.
Man, have I been black pilled from my old beliefs!
Apparently we also transported mustard gas to Italy during WWI which exploded on the ship in the harbor. I can't remember where I saw this information, but I was shocked at the time I read it. I'm no longer shocked.
Yes, I hate the evil interference against other nations. However, whatever the time frame we, those who are marked as the Lord's, will see the answers to our prayers.
Helps me to think of "those enemy countries" (Russia, China, North Korea) as a twofold country - the "questionable" leadership vs. the people themselves who, in perhaps a majority of cases, in no way believe the way their leadership does.
Yes and sadly it seems like the other countries are in the same situation. Governments are not operating for the benefit of their own citizens anywhere.
Good morning friends. I would appreciate prayers and positive thoughts. I am dealing with a situation that I am unable to take care of myself, and need help. Because of a complaint from neighbors, the cops came by and gave me a "warning" to clean up a section of my yard that got away from me. I can no longer do yard work, and the man who mows my yard has declined to help with this other job, and I have tried to find someone else and no one seems willing. I don't want the city on my property, and cannot afford a fine.
I know this may seem trivial, but it is very stressful on me. Prayer works wonders, I know.
Fred, thank you so much for your kind offer. I just got back and posted a comment with an update. I'm so thankful for all the kind offers. Prayer works miracles.
UPDATE - Thank you all so much. You need to know how fast prayers were answered. About an hour after I posted this comment, a nearby relative, a close cousin, came by with her pickup. She had her pruners with her. She said she would help me. I got dressed and got my loppers, and we started on this job.
Six hours later, and seven pickup loads taken to the dump site, and the job is finished. And the guy who mows also stopped by and said he would mow this area next time now too.
I'm worn out, but happy. And very very thankful to the Heavenly Father for providing the help I needed. Words cannot express my appreciation for your prayers and thoughts.
Prayers up, Dave. DM your whereabouts, and help is on its way. “Environmental law enforcement” is a growing specialty in sheriffs’ departments. Instead of protecting our border, they police our back yards.
God recently sent a Garden Angel (what we call her) to assist with out-of-control weeds at my husband’s office - with our home, working long hours, he was just overwhelmed. I’m praying for just such an Angel for you!! 🙏🏼🤍✝️
Interesting that the cops came out for an over growth or junk problem? Normally it’s a zoning matter and they send a letter first. Just keep in communication with them that you will comply but need time to remedy the situation. Are you in a city?
Please keep us posted, Dave! The response here brought tears to my eyes…*this* is God and his people working together as He intended! All Glory to God! 🇺🇸🙏🏼
David, as a type of Christ, exemplified what Jesus did when He was directly confronted by Satan. When Satan tempted Jesus, how did He respond? He quoted God's law back to Satan and thus defeated him.
Robert Branes predicted three years ago we now had a 3-3-3 court split. Three liberals, three conservatives, and three don't rock-the-boat establishment types. He was exactly right and warned Barrett would be a problem.
As Jeff Childers points out though, they didn't rule based on clear legal grounds but a technicality. The plaintiffs could not show how they were harmed (i.e. standing). The court likes to use this as a dodge when they don't want to answer a difficult question. There are other cases working through the system (including Alex Berenson's) where people were directly harmed. So we'll likely get another crack at this.
I disagree with Jeff Childers that the Missouri vs Biden case was “perhaps” punted because of the bigger Trump immunity case coming. I think Missouri vs Biden is the biggest deal to come down in decades. The court punted it because they want nothing to do with righting Constitutional wrongs sending us down the road to totalitarianism. They did the same after the 2020 election in failing to take up the Texas case of election corruption. They used a technicality to get out of dealing with a Constitutional crisis, they wanted no part of. The Trump immunity case will fly out the window on Friday as the Supremes run for the hills, and it will likely be thrown out as well on some technicality. The same 3 “conservative moderate” judges have voted with the lib judges in every big Constitutional case that has arisen the last few years.
While I love Jeff and his law background sorting things out, I also disagree that overturning Roe was an important step for restoring constitutionality. The timing reeked, the leaking reeked, and the Dems greedily using it for the ‘22 and now ‘24 elections reek. Kavanaugh and ACB have proven they are captured.
I read somewhere that there was screaming from the chambers prior to that decision, and that somewhere in their “rules,” they have a duty to maintain national tranquility or some such phrase. I still hate that they didn’t take the case…
SCOTUS blog-an aide heard Roberts literally screaming about the case and how they couldn't afford to take it on (Texas v. Penn). First time this aide had heard raised voices regarding a case, he had been there 10 years.
Interesting. Somehow I knew they were untrustworthy almost immediately. They were establishment conservatives, only interested in maintaining the status quo. Very sad.
Barnes said yesterday that it is fortunate that they tossed this on a technicality because had they ruled directly against the 1st Amendment things would be a lot worse. He agrees with Jeff that this probably indicates that they will rule in favor of Trump's immunity. He thinks the justices probably did some horse trading on these rulings.
Robert Barnes also said that yes, he was right about Barrett and mentioned the 3/3/3 court split.
I see the hope in your comment, Gen. 1/3 prevailed in the Revolutionary War. We've been slow to respond to the globalist third, but our third is waking up on the righteous side of the bed.
thanls for this reminder. I had known that.. a third favoured remaining with the Brit tyrants, a tthird favoured separating and forming a new nation, and a third were only focussed upin tomorrow's meal.
The third favouring separation prevailed. A goodly portion (about half) of those favouring the Crown "deported" to Canada. Within the next fifty years about half of those fleeing returned. Funny thing, my ancestry races back o ALL of the above groups. Certainly many who took up arms to defend liberty here, one major segment of them fled to Canada once Independence was declared, and many are also amongst those who returned to live in the new America. We seem to have lost track of those remaining in Canada, but all those who remained or returned to America are traced.
Hmmm.. mine too, and that's not a come-on. Mom has traced her family name in an unbroken line back to a man (bearing her surname) who assisted William at the Battle of Hastings, and for his kind and excellent services was deeded a rather large expanse of land. That area has the family name everywhere. Some years back three of my siblings decided to go there, and the locals were astounded these thre Yanks were directly descended from these same people, and cared enough to come visit. They were reated VERY well. Brought back photographs of a house built in 13-something, still in use. (and my near 100 year old shack is falling apart....) Another baring her surname was part of the seasonal fishing crews working the waters around Monhegan Island, Maine, and were there to meet and greet the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower when she made landfall at Massachussets Bay/Plymouth. I think it was three aboard the Mayflower also in our line.
AND there is a horsethief in the lot of them.. an Irishman, non-conformist, was on the run from the Brits who wanted him for "trial" (read death) because he refused to bow down to the king and his religion. He was sheltered in a farmhouse when someone saw a detachment riding up the path to the house. He scooted out a back window and hid himself out in the barn as the Brits ransacked the house to find their quarry. As they turned their attention to the barn and moved in that direction, our man went out the back, round the far side, sprinted to the front of the house ad the hitching rack. He loosed the reins of all the horses, quickly selected one and mounted, spurred him off down the road with the others scattering behind. He rode post haste to the nearby seaport, clattered through town and to the docks where he saw a ship slipping her moorings and getting off the quay. He left the horse and ran up the last plank still spanning the widening water and asked where the ship was bound. "To Amerikay" was the response. What cost for passage? He paid it and landed in New York for a short time. That was about 1840 or so. So there's the Brit and horse thief parts.
Now to Germany. That was Dad's side. His grandfather was a young man in the early 1800's and was conscripted into the Tyrolian army and forced to marsh with them. He had purchased for some pittance a slightly used zither before his conscription, and was able to bring it with him. When they were somewhere in the Swiss Alps he defected... managed to slip away unnoticed, and headed north and eventually found his way to Holland. There he took ship for the New World. He settled near Indianapolis in a German community, met and married his Wife. He learned about cheap land out in southern Nevada and moved. My Grandma was a little girl then. He realised the area he settled was rich and fertile but dry in the summers. Didn;t take him long to envision a dam and irrigation project that would fix the water problem. He designed the project raised funding and directed the building. That project is what put that whole area into prosperity. He still had that zither. At bout the same time Dad's father along with a cousin and uncle left Germany, came across into the New World. I found the record of their entry at Ellis Island, I seem toremember about 1880 or so. They settled in Minnesota, but Grandpa heard of a construction project "out west" and realised his newly acquired skill as a barber would find no end of heads to trim in a construction camp. He was right. Not only that, but when this very mature and self-reliant young girl drove her buckboard into the camp to sell dairy products to the hungry men, he took a shine to her. Learning HOW young she was he backed off, but a strong friendship grew between them. It wasn't too long before they married and setled into their own section below the dam, no end of irrigation water to supply their fields. They had ten children nine of which survived into adulthood, a rarity in those times. I am in the fourth generation of this line, three more have followed. Seven generations now from the young man who carried his zither into the Alps, effectively a prisoner. WHY do I keep the zither in this account? Many years ago my Mother (the one descended from the English warrior/nobleman and the Irish horse thief) asked Grandma about that thing.. she knew right were it was, they went up and found it in a steamer trunk in the attic.The top fce was collapsed, it was a mess. Grandma had not seen it in years, and said she might as well toss it. Mom asked if SHE could have it... she'd like to see if she could put it back together. Of course, but you're wasting your time.... she coaed it back together, was able to show it to Grandma restored. She cried to see her Father's instrument back together. I now have that thing... never learned how to play it, but won't pat with it. Its almost as old as my fiddle with I can play.
So there's the German Farmer part. See, I wasnt having you on....
Oh there is a trace of Norwegian in there, one Cherokee joined the family i Minnesota Territory before it was a state. And of course the Irish often did shift off toScotland when the Brits pressed too hard, then returned to the Auld Sod when things got better, so the Irisn and Scot bits fit in there as well.
A general knowledge of one's family history is a wonderful thing to have. No question why I, since six years old, have had a passion and love and up close involvement with seas, ships, the water, etc. It runs in the family for near a thousand years. It certainly never came to me by way of my city kid upbringing. But seawater has been coursing through my veins since before I was born. No question.
Argh.. enough of my rambling. A fine change of scene from the barmy goings on of our day, right?
Excellent post, Tio Nico! As a lazy genealogist (Legacy applicant to the DAR & Mayflower Society) I have learned much about my mother’s side of the family tree…although my father’s side also held some delights (Rev War era patriots) his mother’s Scandinavian roots have stymied my progress due to language barriers. But back to Mummy’s branches…her mother’s side was very well researched and documented; her father’s largely undiscovered gems were recently dug up thanks to a cranky cousin that set me straight on someone I had wrong in one generation…she was kind enough to give me a nudge toward a key ancestor that unlocked a treasure trove of early American ancestors (like five more Mayflower passengers, connections to most of the founding families of Nantucket, and through one of those families, a certain guy by the name of Franklin…”Cousin Benjamin”! i was floored….) But every generation needs to be appreciated…we are resting on ALL their laurels today. Our lives are crazy GOOD because of their privation nod their struggles. I am forever grateful!!
I wonder how many times the 3 libs have total freakouts during and the 3 don't rock the boats feel a need to pull them off the edge and back down? Never hear much from Kagan but I can absolutely see Sotomuffin hyperventilating thru her mask and her besty Barrett consoling her. Wimps.
I think we can question just how based Standing is in the legal institution. Is Standing even constitutionally based? An interesting exploration from the Volokh Conspiracy.
The provision of the Constitution usually cited as the source of standing requirements is Article III’s grant of federal judicial power, which gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all cases… arising under this Constitution and the laws of the United States.” It’s hard to see how this justifies the modern standing requirement that litigants must have suffered a past or imminent material injury caused by the statute they claim is unconstitutional. Nothing about the word “case” suggests that it is limited only to claims involving narrowly defined injuries. Even if you can’t have a “case” without such an injury, you can certainly have a “controversy” without it. And Article III also gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all controversies to which the United States shall be a party,” controversies between a state and citizens of another state, and controversies between citizens of different states.
Good point... though I doubt the current legal culture is willingly to get down to Constitutional bedrock like that. Constitutional law has been suborned to Admiralty law and the United State Code.
Re Supreme Court decision, I would have thought anything blatantly & deliberately unconstitutional would be “standing” for every citizen of the United States.
Absolutely! This case reminds me of the action the Supreme Court took in refusing to take up the case brought by several states against other states who by the actions and decisions of bureaucrats had altered their process of choosing of Presidential electors in 2020 in violation of the Constitution. The Court said the states bringing the suit lacked standing. Whenever someone cheats with votes, it potentially affects the final outcome and every other voter’s vote! Everyone has standing!
Logically, if they truly are addressing a Constitutional issue, this is exactly correct. But our legal system has long since left the realm of Constitutional right and wrong. We have to remember that the SCOTUS is part and parcel of a system of governance that has divorced itself from the fundamentals of the US Constitution. Even the "conservative" justices view the Constitution as an "evolving" law document. The "inalienable rights" of the American people are no longer of primary concern to Constitutional judges. God has left the building or been kicked out thus gutting the meaning of "inalienable". Now it is what is "reasonable" or in their "best interest."
this whole three ring debacle puts me in mind of another outfit from our past history involving the Brothers Ringling and the Messers Barnum and Bailey. They certainly knew how to get the public's atention.. and their money. All in return for.......... what, exactly?
The provision of the Constitution usually cited as the source of standing requirements is Article III’s grant of federal judicial power, which gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all cases… arising under this Constitution and the laws of the United States.” It’s hard to see how this justifies the modern standing requirement that litigants must have suffered a past or imminent material injury caused by the statute they claim is unconstitutional. Nothing about the word “case” suggests that it is limited only to claims involving narrowly defined injuries. Even if you can’t have a “case” without such an injury, you can certainly have a “controversy” without it. And Article III also gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all controversies to which the United States shall be a party,” controversies between a state and citizens of another state, and controversies between citizens of different states.
Please pray for my coworker's niece, Kendall. She has B cell leukemia and has not responded to any pharma treatment. She is now in hospice care. She is 7 years old!! Thank you!
I pray they release her from the toxic treatments into hospice so that she can get real healthy care. An Oklahoma family was trapped in Minnesota the other year when their young son was diagnosed with leukemia and forced by family court (through removal of parental custody) to do the toxic chemo, despite the boy soon showing no cancer on tests. I pray resolution and solution for the children captive to toxic Pharma and the government interference in the true Godly care that their parents might pursue for the beloved child.
Robin, I know a family whose young boy (5 or 6 yo) was diagnosed with Leukemia and forced to a two year toxic chemo regime. The family is fully tapped into natural care and support, as well as dealing with medical neglect allegations by CPS for wanting to offer natural treatment, not cancer-causing standard of care treatment. The mother's name on FB is Mckena Elyse. The family might be grateful to connect with her. They live in OK.
Thanks for explaining the nuances. Does Berenson’s case have a better shot? Even the New York Times is acknowledging that covid came from a lab and hunters laptop is real, which were two major areas of censorship.
My question is, what difference do laws make when the government neither follows them, nor applies any kind of ethics in practice?
Also, there are no rights to free speech and expression in this quasi-dictator-communist American society. People who insult (reveal and proclaim the TRUTH) the rulers of the regime are prosecuted, imprisoned or banished from social media, as we have seen these last 4 years.
"Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract."
- Jeffrey Tucker
They expanded this into the public square and now we're taking it back. They can't deal and are not prepared for how we will exert our will....because like mobsters they never expected the shopkeepers to fight back.
But your right The Law itself has become an instrument for illegality.
The provision of the Constitution usually cited as the source of standing requirements is Article III’s grant of federal judicial power, which gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all cases… arising under this Constitution and the laws of the United States.” It’s hard to see how this justifies the modern standing requirement that litigants must have suffered a past or imminent material injury caused by the statute they claim is unconstitutional. Nothing about the word “case” suggests that it is limited only to claims involving narrowly defined injuries. Even if you can’t have a “case” without such an injury, you can certainly have a “controversy” without it. And Article III also gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all controversies to which the United States shall be a party,” controversies between a state and citizens of another state, and controversies between citizens of different states.
If I were a really cynical person, I would suggest that the US government undermined China’s vaccine because it was LESS harmful than what was slated for us unwashed masses….
They already arranged for Pfizer et al specifically to receive the benefits. China's not in the gang, but rather is a rival organized criminal gang infringing on their territory.
Yes, I’ve wondered whether it was a placebo. A doctor friend in Europe tested some patients who had gotten the Chinese one and they had no antibodies to show for it.
That’s why the Red Cross stopped doing antibody testing. People who had COVID had antibodies and saw no need for vaccination. People who had gotten Pfizer/moderna vaccines were seeing no antibodies and getting upset. The government leaned heavily on them to stop testing… and they did
Pretty sure that in reality, they undermined it because "it's China", and "China bad". Neocons/Neolibs are shockingly xenophobic once you scratch the surface.
The corruption is just getting worse and worse. I used to think that the Supreme Court was one of the last pure institutions. But watching the newest justice Kentamji, or whatever,( who doesn't know what a woman is, although she got the spot specifically for sexist reasons) is now leaking all supreme case decisions to left wing media, it's clear the last block has been razed before complete empire collapse....
After serving 20yrs in the military, my brother 22 yrs, and my Dad, a member of the coveted "Band of Brothers, " coming in with 30yrs, I have little allegiance left; I can't help but advise all young men and women to NOT enlist at this time, the most dangerous enemy facing them is our own government. The "avoidance," type rulings the SCOTUS dishes out rans parallel with that goof ball Merrick Garland's testimony of avoiding answering questions about reports he assigned, by people who work for him! What's happened to being an American and standing up for what's right? Progressives have watered down our nation, our values, our intestinal fortitude into a liberal swill....Money says they (SCOTUS) comes out with a fluffy, wordy, do nothing ruling about Trump's immunity while president. As a former FSO, handling classified materials for 30yrs, both in the military and civilian world, I can tell you Biden broke the law, "bigly," and Trump did not...yet, here we are again, as righteous Americans, being spit on by leftists and the media...and the highest court in the land, who should develop some courage with decisions and recommendations, instead deliver a bucket of word salad...that ONLY aides the very ones who are dismantling.
Retired army wife and mother of Army veteran—don’t commission into the military either. We had a great 2-decade+ career in the Army and thought our son would too. He only ever wanted to be a Green Beret. But in his line unit (re: NOT a Green Beret unit), he encountered the poorest quality of leadership we ever witnessed. Sadly, our military is in dire straits.
I hate the fact that I have 3 kids draftable. I have a daughter interested in national guard, but she isn’t going because she doesn’t want to be the governments guinea pig.
👆🏻 don't get into the military, civil service, medical, public school or university, airlines, ...😡😩 There's nothing real or truth anymore... Will yes there's One Truth. It will save you.
I swore to uphold the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. I didn’t realize at that time our worst enemies are ALL domestic!! Pray for our Military to go against unlawful orders and to be protected.
"The six Justices in the majority, which included all the liberals, did not actually endorse government censorship."
Disagree strongly with this. During arguments before the supremes, all 6 justices who falsely claimed the plaintiffs didn't have standing openly supported government censorship for public "safety"... Especially Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett.
The enemy has been within for decades, & their steady, wicked influence makes warp speed look like a snail’s slow shuffle. If Kim Dotcom is half as smart as he appears to be, his detailed assessment of the US empire is that it is in rapid decline. Putin doesn’t have to use nukes.He’s collapsing the petro printing press via gold backed BRICS+. Are we the Late Great United States? Apologies for the debbie-downer comment—but the 6-3 smacks of keeping censorship intact prior to the Nov. election.
The case was not decided on merits but rather the technicality of standing. Basically argued that those bringing suit had no basis for asking that the government be enjoined from censoring them and/or advocating for such because could not prove a direct link to injury.
Alex Berenson's censorship case against Biden and gang is still ongoing and strong. Maybe SCOTUS punted now because of his case.
Their reasoning is false. Government coercion of censorship affects everyone. Every voice has a right to be heard, even if nobody is listening. Every person has standing.
"The provision of the Constitution usually cited as the source of standing requirements is Article III’s grant of federal judicial power, which gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all cases… arising under this Constitution and the laws of the United States.” It’s hard to see how this justifies the modern standing requirement that litigants must have suffered a past or imminent material injury caused by the statute they claim is unconstitutional. Nothing about the word “case” suggests that it is limited only to claims involving narrowly defined injuries. Even if you can’t have a “case” without such an injury, you can certainly have a “controversy” without it. And Article III also gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all controversies to which the United States shall be a party,” controversies between a state and citizens of another state, and controversies between citizens of different states."
"The provision of the Constitution usually cited as the source of standing requirements is Article III’s grant of federal judicial power, which gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all cases… arising under this Constitution and the laws of the United States.” It’s hard to see how this justifies the modern standing requirement that litigants must have suffered a past or imminent material injury caused by the statute they claim is unconstitutional. Nothing about the word “case” suggests that it is limited only to claims involving narrowly defined injuries. Even if you can’t have a “case” without such an injury, you can certainly have a “controversy” without it. And Article III also gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all controversies to which the United States shall be a party,” controversies between a state and citizens of another state, and controversies between citizens of different states."
So disgusting. The military threatening our service members to take the vaccine or have their careers ruined and livelihoods taken away while simultaneously encouraging others abroad not to take it. Why trust anything any of them say ever again.
Wait until they ramp up the draft to fight Biden's wars...then you'll be forced to take the jab. Not only will our youth potentially face combat, but the death dealing of the vax as well.
Our Youth will meet Death & Die. DOD is planning for tens of thousand of casualities Daily. The Vietnam debacle "only" had 50,000 + In Total, by comparison.
(and it will Not Be Limited to Youth in the military either)
While the chicken hawks of DC, the Pantygone desk jockeys will not be on the "Front Lines, the Russians will bring the "War" to DC and elsewhere within this USSA,
IF We DO NOT STOP this INSANITY .... They/Them Have Planned and ARE IMPLEMENTING for WW3. ........ zzzzzzzzz
I wish our troops would all stand up and say "no", that they will not fight in this war, because it is not a war, per se, but they are simply being used to help the US government manipulate another country. (Which, according to a book I read- "War is a Racket", by General Smedley Butler is always what war is about. It shold be about protecting our country. With all of the military aged men pouring over our border, protecting may need to happen right here on US, soil, and by then our men might be over seas....
"With all of the military aged men pouring over our border, protecting may need to happen right here on US, soil, and by then our men might be over seas...."
We will be fighting in our own streets as the Insurgent Military aged Newcomers are activated. Feral DC is Complicit Traitorous Offal.
That raises an interesting issue. During my youth, young people could evade the draft for the Vietnam War by fleeing to Canada. I believe that is what Bill Clinton did. This time around the Marxist regime in Canada will prolly extradite you back in the the arms of the Marxist USG. Now that the 20+ million invasion across the southern border is a fait accompli, they will prolly finish the border wall to keep American youth from fleeing south. Food for thought....
If I were still a father of children (as women will be draftable) coming of draft age, I would have all the logistics and provisions laid out to get them out of the country as soon as it becomes apparent the draft is going to be activated. There will be only a small window of opportunity to get out cuz they will quickly shut down exit routes. Word to the wise.... Argentina appears to be a good option.
“This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.”
Psalms 118:24 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/psa.118.24.NKJV
Upon waking each morning, followed by a, "Good Morning God" (ala Good Morning Vietnam style!), that is the verse that starts my day.
Mine is (while crossing my forehead, lips and heart):
"Open my lips, O Lord, and my mouth shall sing your praise. Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of thy Mercy."
WONDROUS 'waking words', Fred!! Thank you for sharing....
''Humanity is about to be tested....... mayankjeptha.substack.com/p/qbpe
That is a beautiful excerpt from Roman Catholic Rosary prayers.⚘️♥️🙏
I make the sign the Cross many times during the day..upon waking, before driving, before eating.
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. ✝️
Since I am a serious devotee of the Blessed Mother (aka Virgin Mary) and specifically the Virgen de Guadalupe, the ‘patron saint of Mexico’, I have expanded my daily ‘sign of the cross’ to include…”In the name of the Father, the Blessed Mother, the Son and the Holy Spirit”.
I too say this when waking, getting in my car to drive, at the end of my ‘blessing’ before I eat my food, and whatever situations pop up during the day that could use some divine intercessions! 💓🙏🏻
The miracle of Our Lady in Guadalupe is awe inspiring.
I love Our Lady the Holy Mother of God, very much too. ♥️
This is beautiful, Fred!
My preacher always says to say "Good Morning Lord", not "Lord, it's morning". Have to be there, but it is pretty funny when he says it.
Thanks for the reminder!
My 'long-since-gone-to-JESUS' Pastor (like yours) admonished us to say "GOOD MORNING, LORD!"
not
"Good Lord, it's morning!
Such simple, good advice...and so easily ignored.
Mine too!
Following that verse, one should ask “What good can I do today?” It’s a powerful question that Benjamin Franklin asked himself each morning.
And when life gives you lemons, thank God for the lemons and then ask God what you are supposed to do with the lemons. "Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity. In all this Job did not sin with his lips." Job 2:10
Just read C. S. Lewis's "The Silver Chair" and Puddleglum said repeatedly, what a bad situation they were in but if they just trusted to Aslan's instructions, even though they were in the midst of their enemies, even if it meant their own deaths and destruction, that Aslan's plans would turn out right.
We can't see what God has planned for us, but if He gives us lemons, there's a reason and He'll provide the means of their resolution. That's really amazing to think about. And it takes away anxiety, too.
Trusting God and having the peace of God are critical. I love Philippians 4:4-9. It has been a favorite since high school many decades ago. 😉
4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9 As for the things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
In response to another comment I made to Janice about songs like "This is the day," "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say rejoice" is another song that came to me during my struggle last year. God is so good to us.
I'm thankful that God is good all the time and He cannot be anything but good.
The ministry of song. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Lemons are wonderful! They only get a bad rap because they are sour but other than that they are awesome and a gift from God to the people.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/lemons#nutrition
ever eateh a lemon, or a lime, sraight from the tree and fully ripe? Grapefruit, too. Travelling deep in Mexico I've been so dimbfounded I ciuld not recognise that this "tornoja" is a grapefruit, tree ripend the way God made it to be. Limes were easy to recognise because of their colour and size. Not a hint of bitter or acid.
How many other things do we "settle for" the common form (as in US grocery store fruit) when the way God made it is so far superior.
I once was brought a lemon from a lemon tree of a monastery in Arizona. It was like a precious gift. I cannot even explain how delicious it was and different from the ones we buy.
Lemons and limes vary in bitterness and flavor according to their particular variety.
Lemon and lime blossoms smell so good, too!
The Lord Jesus is able to turn what the enemy makes for evil into a great advance in His Kingdom for our lives, there are many examples in the Scriptures, one of my favorite is the life of Joseph: Sold by his own brothers, slaved in Egypt, imprisoned, but then…. The Lord showed up elevating him to the be the second most powerful man in the existing world!!!!!!
🙌🏼
So many powerful lessons from the story of Joseph. He is the greatest “Type” of Christ in the Old Testament, as exemplified by the undeserved forgiveness that he gave to his brothers. He always looked to God for direction.
“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.”
Genesis 50:20 ESV
Yes, multiple examples throughout Scripture. His purposes will not be thwarted.
Psalms 16:8 (NIV)
I keep my eyes always on the Lord . With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
A-men!!!!!❤️
speaking of lemons........ look at this young man's lemonade stand...... His name is Rusty Cage....... he's a GenZ and it inspired me so much!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF7Uy5QP4hU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFhOMJ-pNVM&list=PLNCCnSeUbRyasjeRJSy-XmVlPro1XfETo
this young man gives me hope in God and in the USA.
Boy...old Ben sure had another side to his nature though--if you have read the history of his life on earth. . HOWEVER...I know he believed in the Holy, Triune Creator God and trembled at His magnificent authority of us, His "feeble creatures".
I think he was a great man -not perfect, but worthy of admiration. It’s easy to point fingers at someone’s flaws whilst overlooking their accomplishments. I don’t think Benjamin Franklin ever “trembled” over anything.
I can’t say it without hearing the tune in my head. Anyone else remember it, probably from the 90s? 🎶🎶
Last year, I went through some very stressful, unhappy times at work. I began singing praise songs every morning at the top of my lungs in my car on the way to work. This and so many other songs from my childhood, that I had completely forgotten about were brought back to my mind during this period. I really believe those songs kept me sane and helped me get through an unbearable situation.
That is awesome. I am grateful with you for His presence and comfort to you during that time.
He is the only way I made it through.
I hope things are better now. 🙏
They are! And not in the way I would have imagined. God is so good!
well, you have been a blessing to me today because I'm experiencing the same untenable situation. If I get through it without going into bankruptcy or losing what is left of my health I will count it a miracle. I'm praying right now to find a church family. Please will you all pray for me. Thank you and God Bless you Jeff.
I will pray for you Deborah. My health was harmed by my situation as well. I know singing those praise songs, many that I learned as a child, is one of the things that got me through. It changed my attitude (not completely, mind you, but enough so that God could still work) so that I could persevere through the adversity. I spent a lot of my private time just telling God that I needed him; I was so helpless and hopeless. I really didn’t believe I could make it through, but here I am. God is always good.
During the time our youngest son, the baby of our family, was in jail and had heroin addiction,
I commuted an hour to and from work. I sang and prayed the christian music songs for him all the way there and back. I learned to praise in the middle of the mess.
Today he’s married and has two beautiful babies. He’s the most loyal and loving husband and father I’ve ever witnessed. Please don’t doubt the power of prayer while praising and believing for what God can do before seeing the outcome.
I spent a lot of time praying, too, just not on the way to work. I would start when I woke, then continue as I did stuff around the house, showered, got dressed. When I came home, I prayed while I was preparing dinner and going through my evening, and lots of prayer before bed. I just found that singing those songs on my way to work put me in a different frame of mind than even the prayer did and somehow got me through my day. It was really a revelation to me. Sometimes when I would be praying in the shower, a new "old" praise song would pop into my head that I hadn't thought about for decades, and so I would start singing in the shower.
Since my troubles have ceased, so has my time singing praise songs in the car. Part of me tells myself I just don't have the energy for it. But I believe I had less energy when things were so bad. I do pray on the way to work now and just enjoy the quiet, but maybe I should vary that with the praise songs. Either way, I called out to God and He showed up.
I'm going to say at least from the 70s. I learned it in vacation Bible school (I think), and now the call and response tune is going around and around in my head!! At least it's upbeat and cheerful! 😃
We have our copy too!
I think it may be from the Calvary Chapel book of Praise songs of the early/mid 70’s. We still have our original copy from attending church there after we met one another at a young Adult retreat they did up at Lake Arrowhead.
Those songs still echo in my mind and heart all these years later.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3f/f7/4b/3ff74b7ec5beba860953882c6fe6722d.jpg
‘Today is the Day” by Lincoln Brewster perhaps?
https://youtu.be/B300gQkgDS0?feature=shared
If you like that track, I suggest you listen to some of the early cuts from The Newsboys: "Shine", "The Breakfast Song", "Take Me To Your Leader" .... pop gems all.
I’m pretty sure it is this one that quotes the whole verse. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cccJhMVFrLs&pp=ygUeQ2hpbGRyZW5zIHNvbmcgVGhpcyBpcyB0aGUgRGF5
Absolutely. Love to sing it with the kids in Sunday school.
Singing it to myself now. I also sing it to my grands. ☺️
Yeup
Yes!! Me too 😁
I just think of Robin Williams….
I literally used this verse an hour ago when responding to one of my subscribers!
The Spirit is moving! That verse in a little VBS tune has been in my mind's ear for three days now, and I haven't heard the song in years.
The name of my newsletter is "THIS IS THE DAY" so I think of the scripture and the song pretty much every day!
Amen
Let it be known to the doubters that because our hope in God transcends this world, we CAN rejoice no matter what is happening in the temporal. Our hope and rejoicing is in Jesus Christ!
Every. Single. Day. Is. A. Gift. From. God.
The choice to open the gift is left up to each individual on a daily basis.
"This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.” I wrote this verse on my bathroom mirror during a very difficult time in my life so that I would be forced to see it first thing every morning and remind myself that whatever God sends me, He sends for the growth of my soul.
No matter what!
This is one of my favorites! ❤️
If the "Lord" made this day, it's not funny or hopeful, so...
Depends entirely on attitude.
Ya right. Rejoice as they ban books and Substack censors.
Without illusions about the dark side, consider clinical proof of the power of predominant thoughts. Think negative, get depressed. That’s cheap and easy. Think positive, get things done. That takes mental discipline. Either way, attitude comes before results. “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things” (Colossians 3:2). What is your sense of “things above”?
THIS IS OPPORTUNITY.
Get the word out ASAP. I have fired off several emails and text to colleagues, friends and family. Most didn't even know...but have a sense of how important this is.
It's so important that you have ZERO rights without 1A. They'll use the dilution of 1A to come after our other rights.
How can you defend your other rights without 1A?
WE ARE SLAVES WITHOUT FREE SPEECH.
It's that simple.
SCOTUS’s decision to punt the Missouri case allows the Feds to amp up censorship during the height of Election Season. Any False Flag, new Plandemic, or blatant Election Interference will be allowed to happen without mainstream 1A interference. It’s a major win for the Feds in their attempt to hold on to Power.
So the Court of Jesters decide that it's too difficult to say which of the twenty six thousand knife stabs into the victim was the actual piercing causing the fatality, come back when you can figure that out, until then it's not an actual murder case.
Great analogy
I said that out loud…
Sure is.
Well, we can’t expect them to read too much about it and take their time doing their job carefully! I am so disappointed in the six liberal justices!
I vote with Jeff (at least I hope) that the SC took the easy way out (while leaving the door cracked) to avoid looking too conservative. IDK about court packing, but I view it as a legitimate threat to our freedoms. Yes, it could be turned against them, but that theory assumes that conservatives could ever win another election.
Apologies for the ()’s! 😁
purging Commies off the Court would be best move; Counter the Revolution by all means required. The Left doesn't need to pack anything but their rucksack for 30 years hard labor in a Gulag. Conservatives are pinatas, and Commies are clubs. This is a Fking War of extinction nothing short of that but we refuse reality, so sure, lets's decry court packing and excuse make for the weaklings that Trump nominated to the Court of High Corruption
I was thinking the exact same thing. Seems like some possible coercion going on behind the scenes.
Well, we have the 3 liberal women to whom are basically incompetent as SC Justices that one doesn’t know what a woman is, we have weak Barrett and Kavanaugh who have been utterly disappointing, and then we have snake Roberts who can never be trusted to view things conservatively or constitutionally, and finally we have the 3 brave men with utter respect and knowledge of the Constitution. So what do we expect. Oh well, it’s not over yet but it’s over for our election integrity with this administration being able to carry on with their subversive practices and censorship methods. 🤬
Cavin'yeah should be impeached at this point, maybe he really was a youthful gang raping racist creep like the Commies claimed after all.
Political coercion...
Exactly
Political violence and threats work. If they didnt our commie overlords wouldn't deploy it.
Exactly
Just look at today--phones suddenly crash when Laura Trump about to speak on Glen Beck; Mark Levin website problems, who else counter-narrative is glitching?
Sure it's all just a coinkydink, yah.
Yeah, and Rumble reported lots of glitches during the debate. Just a coincidence.
yes, but won't that also work when the roles are reversed and the Republicans are in power?
🤣🤣🤣You said a funny. Plutocrats won…the people lost. Thanks SCOTUS…for nothing. This was not a punt, it was a gavel to our heads.
They are counting on remaining in power. It’s what makes them so dangerous.
Didn’t republicans have power just a few years back? What did they do with it? RINO’d out! UNIPARTY
spot on. imo the RINO's are the real enemy.
ONLY Domesticated Republicans are allowed in power and observe how the TOO Radical Left gets reassigned when out of bounds with the whole Anti-Zionism-Free Palestine thing too
You mean the suck-up loin lickers?
How can you defend your other rights without 1A?
Answer: 2A?
Of course. But it's in case of emergency when 1A fails....and it results in pools of maroon below.
It also also assumes that, in the meantime, the commies in office now don't ram through legislation that diluted 2A.
Let's face it...they will use this ruling to stifle any "standing" we have left.
And the most pressing threat is they will exploit it in an effort to cheat again.
They OWN the whole Truth and every version and facet of the Truth. Assange; hero or villain? Let's see what we're told to think before we speculate, right? This is The Revolution in action Thoughtcrime must be countered, controlled, revised, reversed, the Information Ministry is all powerful and the plebes thoughtthreats can be cured
If it's any consolation - this PLANdemic onslaught on our BODIES gave us the time and opportunity (while sheltering in place) to discuss the PATTERN OF SUBVERSIVENESS in our governance up to this point. NOW....with the 'power of the pen' we must QUASH the 'power of the sword' of deception, demagoguery with our OWN WORDS OF FREEDOM, given to us by the ALMIGHTY ruler of our very SOULS!! I truly believe the PEN is mightier than the "sword"!
Words are weapons, voices are violence, thoughts are plots; they will and must control the mind, the eyes and ears and tongues of all
But we do not comply, assent, or cower.
But only if we're allowed to read what the penholder (or keyboardist) had written.
Pools of maroon, yes, but Trees of Liberty need nourishment, too...
BG&A
correct
Jim Quinn often noted that the second amendment is the RESET button on our constitution.
Ooh. I like that saying
me too, I'm in wid it
I carry concealed all over the place, even in airports, schools, courthouses, etc. My weapon of choice: The Rugged Rosaries WW1 "Battle Beads" Combat edition in gunmetal patina.
https://ruggedrosaries.com/products/combat-rosary-gunmetal-patina
Indicating that the armory of God is incomplete.
Nice!
Welp, we’ve lost the soap box,the jury box, and the ballot box. The only thing left is the cartridge box.
This needs to be on a shirt or something
What was it?
I happened to copy it for a T shirt... LOL
It is cynical, but not wrong and supports our rights.
"Welp, we’ve lost the soap box,the jury box, and the ballot box. The only thing left is the cartridge box."
Simple sayings can communicate profound truths.
agree
Was "for" meant to be "from?"
Got deleted, what was it? (Like your name, by the way)
Infinity Ns > 2 Ns 😁😛
Are you aware that the amendments didn't give anyone any rights?
"We hold these rights to be self-evident..."
It is self-evident that women are not equal to men, but superior.
You think so, my understanding is that Hillary Clinton and AOC are women. Nothing superior going on there
Excellent point! I have uncles, fathers, grand fathers and brothers that I dearly love. That makes me a woman that not only loves but likes men. Like x3.
I was thinking biologically, not philosophically.
; )
Ryan, it's why the founders gave us 2A. In case they try to take away 1A. Keep 'em locked and loaded, brother.
the Founders did no such thing. They merely stated the obvious and declared we already HAVE these rights and that they come from the God who made us, thus canno be denied or removed.
They only described reality.
true
There will be MASSIVE disruption in this election cycle in the USA - our legislatures are INEFFECTIVE in REINING in the Executive branch - and WE THE PEOPLE (the 'awake ones") are not going to stand idly by and let our country be ripped to shreds and ALL of our precious freedoms subverted by the MOST INSIDIOUS GOVERNANCE our nation has ever had!!
Be prepared for massive chaos - this is what happens when we NEGLECT our duties as Godly citizens of the ONLY bulwark of freedom in this entire world.
GOD SAVE US FROM OUR 'LEADERS' and OURSELVES!!
Shalom my friends!!
"...by the MOST INSIDIOUS GOVERNANCE our nation has ever had!!"... since 1860...
Spot on! Later Jay
I use the term "dire straits" often these days. I hate to think of the total collapse and sinking of America, but God is in charge of ALL things at ALL times regardless of the beliefs of the human beings on the planet. Peace be with you!
"To be in dire straits means to be in desperate trouble or impending danger. Dire means extremely serious. Straits are narrow passages of water which connect two larger bodies of water, navigating them may often become perilous. In the mid-sixteenth century, straits came to mean any difficult situation, one that carries a high degree of trouble. A newspaper column in the Rome News-Tribune in September of 2000 cites United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the first known user of the term dire straits in a 1933 radio address concerning those out of work during The Great Depression."
Yes...."dire straits" was an apt term for the "Depression Era"...but not for THIS. Our VERY basic, God-given freedoms are being threatened--that is way worse than a financial crisis!!
Yep. Chipping away at our God-given rights on procedural grounds, just like claims of 2016 election fraud. Jerry Nadler’s hot take on yesterday’s Supreme decision—somehow a smackdown of Jim Jordan—is hilariously off point. Shilly fools like him find lemons and make more lemons. Instead of graciously assuming he’s ill-informed, we should be laughing him to scorn, and not just because his mom dresses him funny.
How do mere mortals chip away at that provided by a deity?
Mortals fail to defend it.
Aside from the Texas and Florida cases, I'm wondering if Berenson v. Biden might eventually be "the big case." There are opportunities for the Supremes to redeem themselves.
Yes, because in his case, he clearly proved direct attacks from the WH which harmed him!!!! That is if they bother to read the information Berenson provides. Maybe he has provided too much proof, though, and the work will be too overwhelming for them to consider it all, and they will again punt the issue aside.
it is by default i suppose now.
1A: We should consider framing this in a different but possibly more correct way. Free speech is a given. The first amendment does not grant us this right but rather prevents the government from taking this right away. We don't need to defend our rights but rather they need to defend their abuse of power in subverting our rights.
Here's my point:
Remember when Sotomayor claimed over 100k children died from c19? That's the true power of censorship.
We must never forget 1A is even more important for the listener. For every voice they silence a thousand can not hear.
Somebody make a meme of that, and it'll be worth a thousand words. That's what they're after.
Agree 100%,. If they can convince a SCOTUS Justice of an entirely bogus number imagine what they can convince the populus of.
Although IMHO, she's got an IQ of about 95-so pretty easy to convince.
Do you want to reach the average Joe...or the average pedant?
I understand 1A.
Maybe it would be beneficial to pick up public communication skill sets?
None of the BIll of Rights conveys any rights.
here read. what is the operative word in this sentence:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the RIGHT of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Absent an enforcement clause, it is nothing more than the reminder for Congress it was meant to be.
between "Do not panic until I give the signal." and "THIS IS OPPORTUNITY." I don't know which is more of a display of stupidity. Hey, I know, lets sue them! The laws and judges and courts will restore sanity.
C&C has jumped the shark.
I took it as sarcasm mixed with "don't give up" rhetoric.
We lost a big one but hasn't our country lost a lot of big ones in the last century while we slept and thought the government was there to serve and protect?
If we knew everything, we would lose our minds.
We can only put our hope in God.
Philippians 4:7-9
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 me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
I suppose that's possible. I don't want to give up, I want people to recognize that laws and courts and elections are only hurting us not helping. Instead of continuing to fight a losing war the strategy needs to change and I am disappointed that all we hear from C&C is 'Stay the course'.
I am sure Jeff has his own doubts but staying positive is a must for the blog.
We can rant and exchange ideas in the comments.
I believe our system is literally set up for slavery with the illusion of freedom.
That is why I have wracked my brain and come to the realization that satan is god of this world, the evil people are slaves to sin, but God has plans for us to prosper in this life and after. That is the hope, not saving our country.
'satan is god of this world' Wow, that might be the most thought provoking comment of the day.
Actually, he is only a prince not a god. Though his desire was to be a god. Jesus made sure of his ultimate defeat by coming out of the tomb of death, the one last hurdle for human beings.
John 12:31 (NIV) - Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out.
He is the ruler of this world.
“I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.”
John 14:30
Nah. His comment is plain to see.
Keyboard scolds are cowards
Nobody is perfect and we do the best we can where we are, but Jeff is out there fighting where I can't, this I know. We all need encouragement and if we get discouraged over this, then how can we stand strong if/when things really get bad?
There's a Taoist parable called The Old Man Who Lost His Horse:
"A long time ago, a poor Chinese farmer lost a horse, and all the neighbors came around and said, “well that’s too bad.” The farmer said, “maybe.” Shortly after, the horse returned bringing another horse with him, and all the neighbors came around and said, “well that’s good fortune,” to which the farmer replied, “maybe.” The next day, the farmer’s son was trying to tame the new horse and fell, breaking his leg, and all the neighbors came around and said, “well that’s too bad,” and the farmer replied, “maybe.” Shortly after, the emperor declared war on a neighboring nation and ordered all able-bodied men to come fight—many died or were badly maimed, but the farmer’s son was unable to fight and spared due to his injury. And all the neighbors came around and said, “well that’s good fortune,” to which the farmer replied, “maybe.” And so the story goes.
In China, when something bad happens people will say, “Sai Weng Shi Ma” (Remember “The Old Man Who Lost His Horse”) to remind themselves and others that, sometimes, “bad” things happen which carry a silver lining—and that it’s often in the way you look at things which determines their power over your spirit. It is a caution to all not to get too attached to what happens to us, good or bad."
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/parable-chinese-farmer-what-taoists-can-teach-us-hodges-ed-d-
The First Amendment is both an entirely practical, necessary, vital declaration of rights AND a sacred and symbolic image of America, and it might be that it should not be sacred, that in our Western liberalism we've invested something secular (render unto Caesar) with a symbolic sacralization, and that our disappointment partly comes from the loss of that sacred nexus. Perhaps we reorient ourselves by remembering the American Revolution, and those bombastic overconfident redcoats marching in uniform with fife and drum and the ragtag fighters who won against them and remembering that God is what is sacred. Maybe the First will end up being amended to include all that modernity has inflicted on us, and perhaps we'll get an amendment on health freedom at the constitutional convention that might be born of all this.
Yes, but only 3% remember that when the battle starts.
Later Jay
P.s. great parable.
I think you're an idiot for being a defeatist.
Plus you have zero self awareness, big shot.
I think you are an idiot for resorting to ad hominem attacks.
Ha! That's exactly what you did 3 days ago.
Please do not reply further to any of my comments.
I don't have time for keyboard scolds.
I will not cease responding to your comments until you stop using them to attack the truth.
The Truth. Lmao.
You made a fool of yourself the other day.
And that's why you've been absent.
How's that digital tatoo?
Ryan-LIKE
I appreciate that you are trying to be positive but that ship has sailed, now the 'good attitude' sounds like gaslighting. We need to accept reality and change course, laws and courts aren't going to help. Fake elections are not going to help. The only non-violent option is separation, as has been done in human history countless times. The only other option is violent eradication, which is also a common occurrence in furless primate history. I don't like that C&C is advocating for the latter since team reality is losing that battle.
Well why don’t YOU do something instead of just criticizing those who are? Don’t just expect everyone else to think of ideas and ways to fight and then complain about how nothing is working.
Does commenting about how plan A didn't work, doing it more won't work, and plan B should be peaceful separation count as doing something? Or an idea, or something to fight for?
I think the 'itch' that has everyone scratching here is impatience. I know I feel it. I went back and listened to the Alex Jones interview with Dr. David Martin which put everything in context for me. I think because Dr. Martin was talking to Alex rather than a large audience like his speeches in the EU, he said some things that I have not heard him say before. " … This is World War III, that’s not hyperbole, it just comes in a different form...” That kind of put it in context for me. This is a big war and it's going to get uglier. But, as he describes, we are winning and the enemies weight is shifting to their back foot.
https://expose-news.com/2024/06/22/since-2002-coronavirus-has-been-man-made/
There are groups that have been working all along on the idea of secession. This is a very real outcome or solution. We may even see secession movements within blue states such as Oregon. This is something we can work toward and put some effort in. Seceding from the USG will not be easy and there needs to be more awareness of this developed.
Also, let me point out that the First Adam gave dominion over the earth to Satan at the Fall. The Second Adam, God the Son incarnate, paid the price and with His ascension to the throne, Satan fell to earth like lightning, and all dominion, power and authority was given to Him who now sits on the throne as King of kings and Lord of Lords. Satan may be god to the enemy but he is not god of this world. He is now nothing more than a squatter who is dug in deeper than an Alabama tick on a wart hog and it is our JOB as the Body of Christ on earth to evict Satan from this world through the power of the Holy Spirit which has been given to us for this purpose.
So... We have to take the longer view of our Lord and Savior and understand that this is a major battle in a war that has been going on since His incarnation.
Not really. Imo you need to propose alternatives and take action yourself also. Simply criticizing everyone else’s initiatives doesn’t really help move anything in the right direction.
If you think peaceful separation is the best plan, what are you doing to take action in favor of this?
Of course it is. But you were a dick about.
Move on dude. We all make mistakes.
You did. It happens.
I don't disagree with most of what you said...but there's no reason to be a prick about it.
I am proud to be an American. I am blessed to live freely (for now) in this country.
But it is a horrible realization that we - as in our own government - are the bad guys. 😢
Well put. I take comfort in knowing that the people I deal with every day (friends, coworkers, church acquaintances, etc.) are decent people just trying to do the best for their families and themselves. The sociopaths running things and their brownshirt thugs aren't representative of the population. In fact if it wasn't for the internet I wouldn't know they existed as I never see them in my day to day activities.
But we are fortunate that we live in a bubble to some extent that we've created through God's grace and some good decisions. We don't see street crime or racial tensions. We aren't in debt up to our eyeballs. We aren't permanent clients of the medical industry. We attend a very diverse biblical church pretty equally split between blacks, whites, hispanics, and asians and people couldn't be kinder to each other. I'm as white as Wonder Bread as they say and my best buddy from church is a black guy. We are all God's children and enjoy praising God together.
The problem for many is that you need to have some money and much wisdom to isolate yourself from America's pathologies. The prevailing culture tells people to be self-destructive, divisive, and hateful towards others. The beauty of it though, is that if you follow God's Word you will gain wisdom. And as you gain wisdom, you'll make some money. Not from stealing from people, but from being productive and a good coworker.
Once you get to that point you can shield your family and yourself from much of the ugliness, and take comfort in what this country still offers. But you have to understand that virtually everything the government, media, news, and advertising says is a lie meant to enslave you. Tune it out and seek wisdom in God's Word.
I realized a long time ago that my job as a husband and father was to honor God, create stability and remove chaos from my home.
That was the best thing I could do to fight Satan for my little ones.
They're all grown now, and I still remind them of that same mission.
Thank you for pointing out the only source of truth and righteousness which is God’s Word. We need to keep our eyes focused on the Bible and what God has said and done. He’s the Creator and has made Himself known to us through His Word. He has a plan that will prevail; He will never fail us.
For now, yes, thank God this is largely true.
I remember, however, growing up hearing stories about Christians in the USSR. Insulation was no longer possible for them. They lived in poverty, under constant threat of having their kids removed, often the pastor husbands were taken away to work camps in Siberia. It was quite awful.
Amen, Jeff C.
ditto
Wisdom here. Well stated.
Perfectly stated.
Imagine the government ruling in favor of the government.
Shocking, i tell ya....whoduthunk?
It’s a painful realization but there’s a peace that brings clarity when we begin to realize how reality really works: our government is the bad guy and it runs Democide and Menticide on us: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/democide-and-menticide
And now we know this we can come up with real solutions based in reality 😊
We all need to be on our knees praying to God.
The Bible clearly tells us the weapons to use against the enemy of darkness.
We don't know reality and it is bigger than psyops from the devil.
Imagine all the times, for instance in the OT, God's people strayed from Him, got in a heap of trouble including idol worship and hedonism, and then had to beg God to save them. It seems we are at that breaking point again. Maybe this will be the last, end times, but obeying God's commands is doing the best thing and trusting God will do the rest. Blind faith. Jesus is my Savior and this is a spiritual battle so prayer is a weapon against the enemy.
John 20:29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Isaiah 54:17 no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,
and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord
and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
Amen. Well said
Excellent! Thank you sharing truth! Our risen Lord and Savior is our hope and our salvation! I’m waiting for the sound of that trumpet when Jesus calls His people home!
The scary thing is that "the government" is making these decisions. Who is "the government"? It's not the good 'ol "of, by, and for" government Lincoln spoke of. Our current government has morphed into an evil entity that demands to be fed by us while at the same time baring its teeth at the hands that feed it.
Captured by Transnationals cabal.
Boom! There it is!
Later Jay
It is a sad day when you realize your gubmint is the enemy.
Once the scales fall off your eyes there is no going back...
Sadly true. Our government is the black hats, since Korea.
I recently discovered that the US military engaged in biowarfare in Korea & Viet Nam, dropping mice infected with the plague and hemorrhagic fever on civilians in those countries.
Prior to the Korean War, those nations had zero hemorrhagic fever.
Thanks, CIA.
These are sick, sick people. Good Lord, it’s like we live in some kind of twisted dystopian movie.
The reason they assassinated JFK, RFK, and executed a bloodless coup against Nixon, was that each of these men opposed the Intel Community's bioweapons and endless war efforts.
Man, have I been black pilled from my old beliefs!
I just want it to STOP. Let's confront our history and turn inward to heal our nation
They've been releasing contaminated insects on Americans for decades then spraying contaminates to kill them and us. Still going.
Lyme disease from ticks.
Plum Island bioweapon.
Originally developed to drop on the Soviets.
Apparently we also transported mustard gas to Italy during WWI which exploded on the ship in the harbor. I can't remember where I saw this information, but I was shocked at the time I read it. I'm no longer shocked.
Excellent comment.
Yes, I hate the evil interference against other nations. However, whatever the time frame we, those who are marked as the Lord's, will see the answers to our prayers.
Helps me to think of "those enemy countries" (Russia, China, North Korea) as a twofold country - the "questionable" leadership vs. the people themselves who, in perhaps a majority of cases, in no way believe the way their leadership does.
Yes and sadly it seems like the other countries are in the same situation. Governments are not operating for the benefit of their own citizens anywhere.
I used to be...
Good morning friends. I would appreciate prayers and positive thoughts. I am dealing with a situation that I am unable to take care of myself, and need help. Because of a complaint from neighbors, the cops came by and gave me a "warning" to clean up a section of my yard that got away from me. I can no longer do yard work, and the man who mows my yard has declined to help with this other job, and I have tried to find someone else and no one seems willing. I don't want the city on my property, and cannot afford a fine.
I know this may seem trivial, but it is very stressful on me. Prayer works wonders, I know.
Thank you.
Dave, how far are you from Tulsa? If it's within a days drive, I'll come take care of it and enlist help from my sons.
God bless you Fred
Send me an email at Riverside74192@protonmail.com
Fred, thank you so much for your kind offer. I just got back and posted a comment with an update. I'm so thankful for all the kind offers. Prayer works miracles.
I used to give a talk to young couples preparing for the sacrament of marriage. It was entitled "Prayer Changes Things."
I oughta know, it changed me.
I used to live in Owasso. 🙂 Miss some of the restaurants in Tulsa.
UPDATE - Thank you all so much. You need to know how fast prayers were answered. About an hour after I posted this comment, a nearby relative, a close cousin, came by with her pickup. She had her pruners with her. She said she would help me. I got dressed and got my loppers, and we started on this job.
Six hours later, and seven pickup loads taken to the dump site, and the job is finished. And the guy who mows also stopped by and said he would mow this area next time now too.
I'm worn out, but happy. And very very thankful to the Heavenly Father for providing the help I needed. Words cannot express my appreciation for your prayers and thoughts.
Dave, thanking the Lord for His provision and timely answer! So glad that the job is done and hopefully you can get some much needed rest.
Mrs. "the Knife"
God is good! And we are sometimes called to be His hands and feet.
Prayers up, Dave. DM your whereabouts, and help is on its way. “Environmental law enforcement” is a growing specialty in sheriffs’ departments. Instead of protecting our border, they police our back yards.
Praying 🙏 right now for you. What state do you live in? Maybe some of us here can help.
Great idea!
❤️
God recently sent a Garden Angel (what we call her) to assist with out-of-control weeds at my husband’s office - with our home, working long hours, he was just overwhelmed. I’m praying for just such an Angel for you!! 🙏🏼🤍✝️
Prayers being sent.
Interesting that the cops came out for an over growth or junk problem? Normally it’s a zoning matter and they send a letter first. Just keep in communication with them that you will comply but need time to remedy the situation. Are you in a city?
Lord, give Dave a miracle. (They come in all sizes and blessing to you.)
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Matthew 7:12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
If $$ is the issue as well set up a give send go and share here. Glad to help.
Abba Father provide provision for your son, Dave! We pray this in Jesus' might name...Amen!
Said a prayer for you, Dave🙏
Praying!🙏🏼
Please keep us posted, Dave! The response here brought tears to my eyes…*this* is God and his people working together as He intended! All Glory to God! 🇺🇸🙏🏼
🙏 Praying for help.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Praying for God's provision.
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Yahweh is my portion;
I have promised to keep Your words.
I have sought to please Your face with all my heart;
Be gracious to me according to Your word.
I thought upon my ways
And I turned my feet to Your testimonies.
I hastened and did not delay
To keep Your commandments.
The cords of the wicked have encircled me,
But I have not forgotten Your law.
At midnight I shall rise to give thanks to You
Because of Your righteous judgments.
I am a companion of all those who fear You,
And of those who keep Your precepts.
The earth, O Yahweh, is full of Your lovingkindness;
Teach me Your statutes.
— Psalm 119:57-64 LSB
This was nourishment to my soul this morning....thank you, Janice💜
Mine, too. :)
David, as a type of Christ, exemplified what Jesus did when He was directly confronted by Satan. When Satan tempted Jesus, how did He respond? He quoted God's law back to Satan and thus defeated him.
Good correction. Thanks.
Robert Branes predicted three years ago we now had a 3-3-3 court split. Three liberals, three conservatives, and three don't rock-the-boat establishment types. He was exactly right and warned Barrett would be a problem.
As Jeff Childers points out though, they didn't rule based on clear legal grounds but a technicality. The plaintiffs could not show how they were harmed (i.e. standing). The court likes to use this as a dodge when they don't want to answer a difficult question. There are other cases working through the system (including Alex Berenson's) where people were directly harmed. So we'll likely get another crack at this.
I disagree with Jeff Childers that the Missouri vs Biden case was “perhaps” punted because of the bigger Trump immunity case coming. I think Missouri vs Biden is the biggest deal to come down in decades. The court punted it because they want nothing to do with righting Constitutional wrongs sending us down the road to totalitarianism. They did the same after the 2020 election in failing to take up the Texas case of election corruption. They used a technicality to get out of dealing with a Constitutional crisis, they wanted no part of. The Trump immunity case will fly out the window on Friday as the Supremes run for the hills, and it will likely be thrown out as well on some technicality. The same 3 “conservative moderate” judges have voted with the lib judges in every big Constitutional case that has arisen the last few years.
While I love Jeff and his law background sorting things out, I also disagree that overturning Roe was an important step for restoring constitutionality. The timing reeked, the leaking reeked, and the Dems greedily using it for the ‘22 and now ‘24 elections reek. Kavanaugh and ACB have proven they are captured.
The Texas case regarding the 2020 election was exactly what I thought of too, they chickened out as they didn't want to deal with the question.
I read somewhere that there was screaming from the chambers prior to that decision, and that somewhere in their “rules,” they have a duty to maintain national tranquility or some such phrase. I still hate that they didn’t take the case…
SCOTUS blog-an aide heard Roberts literally screaming about the case and how they couldn't afford to take it on (Texas v. Penn). First time this aide had heard raised voices regarding a case, he had been there 10 years.
Roberts was losing it over that particular case.
Nothing personal for Jeff, but "Lawyers" generally have to "believe in the system".
Even the democRat Bolshevik lying lawyers "believe" they can destroy the Kulaks via Lawfare..... and seem to be doing a bang up job of it too.
2024 into 2025 and 1775 into 1776. "Si vis pacem para bellum"
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Interesting. Somehow I knew they were untrustworthy almost immediately. They were establishment conservatives, only interested in maintaining the status quo. Very sad.
Logical comment.
Great comment.
Barnes said yesterday that it is fortunate that they tossed this on a technicality because had they ruled directly against the 1st Amendment things would be a lot worse. He agrees with Jeff that this probably indicates that they will rule in favor of Trump's immunity. He thinks the justices probably did some horse trading on these rulings.
Robert Barnes also said that yes, he was right about Barrett and mentioned the 3/3/3 court split.
I love listening to Robert Barnes! The only place I can catch him without a paywall Iis on the Duran.
me too, quite informative
3-3-3 same as the general population split in the Revolutionary War. Probably similar today as well.
I see the hope in your comment, Gen. 1/3 prevailed in the Revolutionary War. We've been slow to respond to the globalist third, but our third is waking up on the righteous side of the bed.
amen
thanls for this reminder. I had known that.. a third favoured remaining with the Brit tyrants, a tthird favoured separating and forming a new nation, and a third were only focussed upin tomorrow's meal.
The third favouring separation prevailed. A goodly portion (about half) of those favouring the Crown "deported" to Canada. Within the next fifty years about half of those fleeing returned. Funny thing, my ancestry races back o ALL of the above groups. Certainly many who took up arms to defend liberty here, one major segment of them fled to Canada once Independence was declared, and many are also amongst those who returned to live in the new America. We seem to have lost track of those remaining in Canada, but all those who remained or returned to America are traced.
Great family tree tracing!! Mine goes back to horse thieves in England (embarassing) and farmers in Germany. I love family history!
Hmmm.. mine too, and that's not a come-on. Mom has traced her family name in an unbroken line back to a man (bearing her surname) who assisted William at the Battle of Hastings, and for his kind and excellent services was deeded a rather large expanse of land. That area has the family name everywhere. Some years back three of my siblings decided to go there, and the locals were astounded these thre Yanks were directly descended from these same people, and cared enough to come visit. They were reated VERY well. Brought back photographs of a house built in 13-something, still in use. (and my near 100 year old shack is falling apart....) Another baring her surname was part of the seasonal fishing crews working the waters around Monhegan Island, Maine, and were there to meet and greet the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower when she made landfall at Massachussets Bay/Plymouth. I think it was three aboard the Mayflower also in our line.
AND there is a horsethief in the lot of them.. an Irishman, non-conformist, was on the run from the Brits who wanted him for "trial" (read death) because he refused to bow down to the king and his religion. He was sheltered in a farmhouse when someone saw a detachment riding up the path to the house. He scooted out a back window and hid himself out in the barn as the Brits ransacked the house to find their quarry. As they turned their attention to the barn and moved in that direction, our man went out the back, round the far side, sprinted to the front of the house ad the hitching rack. He loosed the reins of all the horses, quickly selected one and mounted, spurred him off down the road with the others scattering behind. He rode post haste to the nearby seaport, clattered through town and to the docks where he saw a ship slipping her moorings and getting off the quay. He left the horse and ran up the last plank still spanning the widening water and asked where the ship was bound. "To Amerikay" was the response. What cost for passage? He paid it and landed in New York for a short time. That was about 1840 or so. So there's the Brit and horse thief parts.
Now to Germany. That was Dad's side. His grandfather was a young man in the early 1800's and was conscripted into the Tyrolian army and forced to marsh with them. He had purchased for some pittance a slightly used zither before his conscription, and was able to bring it with him. When they were somewhere in the Swiss Alps he defected... managed to slip away unnoticed, and headed north and eventually found his way to Holland. There he took ship for the New World. He settled near Indianapolis in a German community, met and married his Wife. He learned about cheap land out in southern Nevada and moved. My Grandma was a little girl then. He realised the area he settled was rich and fertile but dry in the summers. Didn;t take him long to envision a dam and irrigation project that would fix the water problem. He designed the project raised funding and directed the building. That project is what put that whole area into prosperity. He still had that zither. At bout the same time Dad's father along with a cousin and uncle left Germany, came across into the New World. I found the record of their entry at Ellis Island, I seem toremember about 1880 or so. They settled in Minnesota, but Grandpa heard of a construction project "out west" and realised his newly acquired skill as a barber would find no end of heads to trim in a construction camp. He was right. Not only that, but when this very mature and self-reliant young girl drove her buckboard into the camp to sell dairy products to the hungry men, he took a shine to her. Learning HOW young she was he backed off, but a strong friendship grew between them. It wasn't too long before they married and setled into their own section below the dam, no end of irrigation water to supply their fields. They had ten children nine of which survived into adulthood, a rarity in those times. I am in the fourth generation of this line, three more have followed. Seven generations now from the young man who carried his zither into the Alps, effectively a prisoner. WHY do I keep the zither in this account? Many years ago my Mother (the one descended from the English warrior/nobleman and the Irish horse thief) asked Grandma about that thing.. she knew right were it was, they went up and found it in a steamer trunk in the attic.The top fce was collapsed, it was a mess. Grandma had not seen it in years, and said she might as well toss it. Mom asked if SHE could have it... she'd like to see if she could put it back together. Of course, but you're wasting your time.... she coaed it back together, was able to show it to Grandma restored. She cried to see her Father's instrument back together. I now have that thing... never learned how to play it, but won't pat with it. Its almost as old as my fiddle with I can play.
So there's the German Farmer part. See, I wasnt having you on....
Oh there is a trace of Norwegian in there, one Cherokee joined the family i Minnesota Territory before it was a state. And of course the Irish often did shift off toScotland when the Brits pressed too hard, then returned to the Auld Sod when things got better, so the Irisn and Scot bits fit in there as well.
A general knowledge of one's family history is a wonderful thing to have. No question why I, since six years old, have had a passion and love and up close involvement with seas, ships, the water, etc. It runs in the family for near a thousand years. It certainly never came to me by way of my city kid upbringing. But seawater has been coursing through my veins since before I was born. No question.
Argh.. enough of my rambling. A fine change of scene from the barmy goings on of our day, right?
Excellent post, Tio Nico! As a lazy genealogist (Legacy applicant to the DAR & Mayflower Society) I have learned much about my mother’s side of the family tree…although my father’s side also held some delights (Rev War era patriots) his mother’s Scandinavian roots have stymied my progress due to language barriers. But back to Mummy’s branches…her mother’s side was very well researched and documented; her father’s largely undiscovered gems were recently dug up thanks to a cranky cousin that set me straight on someone I had wrong in one generation…she was kind enough to give me a nudge toward a key ancestor that unlocked a treasure trove of early American ancestors (like five more Mayflower passengers, connections to most of the founding families of Nantucket, and through one of those families, a certain guy by the name of Franklin…”Cousin Benjamin”! i was floored….) But every generation needs to be appreciated…we are resting on ALL their laurels today. Our lives are crazy GOOD because of their privation nod their struggles. I am forever grateful!!
I wonder how many times the 3 libs have total freakouts during and the 3 don't rock the boats feel a need to pull them off the edge and back down? Never hear much from Kagan but I can absolutely see Sotomuffin hyperventilating thru her mask and her besty Barrett consoling her. Wimps.
Amy Karen Barrett it is. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was not lazy or smug like this-doubt she would have ruled against free speech like this.
agree
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X 2 = 666 😬
I think we can question just how based Standing is in the legal institution. Is Standing even constitutionally based? An interesting exploration from the Volokh Conspiracy.
https://volokh.com/2010/08/19/the-case-against-restrictive-constitutional-standing-requirements/
The provision of the Constitution usually cited as the source of standing requirements is Article III’s grant of federal judicial power, which gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all cases… arising under this Constitution and the laws of the United States.” It’s hard to see how this justifies the modern standing requirement that litigants must have suffered a past or imminent material injury caused by the statute they claim is unconstitutional. Nothing about the word “case” suggests that it is limited only to claims involving narrowly defined injuries. Even if you can’t have a “case” without such an injury, you can certainly have a “controversy” without it. And Article III also gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all controversies to which the United States shall be a party,” controversies between a state and citizens of another state, and controversies between citizens of different states.
Good point... though I doubt the current legal culture is willingly to get down to Constitutional bedrock like that. Constitutional law has been suborned to Admiralty law and the United State Code.
Re Supreme Court decision, I would have thought anything blatantly & deliberately unconstitutional would be “standing” for every citizen of the United States.
Absolutely! This case reminds me of the action the Supreme Court took in refusing to take up the case brought by several states against other states who by the actions and decisions of bureaucrats had altered their process of choosing of Presidential electors in 2020 in violation of the Constitution. The Court said the states bringing the suit lacked standing. Whenever someone cheats with votes, it potentially affects the final outcome and every other voter’s vote! Everyone has standing!
And every citizen is harmed by unconstitutional acts
AMEN!! Nailed it!
AGREE!!!
It was one MAJOR, COWARDLY cop out, and I am ashamed of them.
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As a Paralegal, I always stood in awe of SCOTUS.
I lost my starry eyed adulation of them being the "protectors" of the Constitution. Gotta say, it probably started w/ the Citizens United case.
Thats right, Cindy.
We should not accept that our most important RIGHT does not have standing.
Finding "injury" was the easiest thing ever.
It just shows you how out of touch they are and their utter effing ignorance of the harm done during c19.
"and their utter effing ignorance of the harm done during c19" - They are not ignorant of the harm done. They are complicit.
Actually I agree with you. Which makes it even more disgusting
Sorry as I am, I agree
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They actually had an office of the fbi in twitters headquarters for fucks sake.
Logically, if they truly are addressing a Constitutional issue, this is exactly correct. But our legal system has long since left the realm of Constitutional right and wrong. We have to remember that the SCOTUS is part and parcel of a system of governance that has divorced itself from the fundamentals of the US Constitution. Even the "conservative" justices view the Constitution as an "evolving" law document. The "inalienable rights" of the American people are no longer of primary concern to Constitutional judges. God has left the building or been kicked out thus gutting the meaning of "inalienable". Now it is what is "reasonable" or in their "best interest."
We have 3 who haven't "left the building". Unfortunately, they are our older Justices. I worry about who will replace them.
I don't understand why plaintiffs cannot just clarify their standing in response. Why have to throw out the entire thing?
this whole three ring debacle puts me in mind of another outfit from our past history involving the Brothers Ringling and the Messers Barnum and Bailey. They certainly knew how to get the public's atention.. and their money. All in return for.......... what, exactly?
Is Standing even constitutionally based? An interesting exploration from the Volokh Conspiracy.
https://volokh.com/2010/08/19/the-case-against-restrictive-constitutional-standing-requirements/
The provision of the Constitution usually cited as the source of standing requirements is Article III’s grant of federal judicial power, which gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all cases… arising under this Constitution and the laws of the United States.” It’s hard to see how this justifies the modern standing requirement that litigants must have suffered a past or imminent material injury caused by the statute they claim is unconstitutional. Nothing about the word “case” suggests that it is limited only to claims involving narrowly defined injuries. Even if you can’t have a “case” without such an injury, you can certainly have a “controversy” without it. And Article III also gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all controversies to which the United States shall be a party,” controversies between a state and citizens of another state, and controversies between citizens of different states.
Please pray for my coworker's niece, Kendall. She has B cell leukemia and has not responded to any pharma treatment. She is now in hospice care. She is 7 years old!! Thank you!
Praying for this sweet child🙏
I pray they release her from the toxic treatments into hospice so that she can get real healthy care. An Oklahoma family was trapped in Minnesota the other year when their young son was diagnosed with leukemia and forced by family court (through removal of parental custody) to do the toxic chemo, despite the boy soon showing no cancer on tests. I pray resolution and solution for the children captive to toxic Pharma and the government interference in the true Godly care that their parents might pursue for the beloved child.
🙏🙏🙏🙏prayers going up
This out today, no claim it will work with leukemia but why not try when all else has failed?
https://truth613.substack.com/p/beating-stage-4-cancer-with-repurposed
Here’s Dr. Marik talking about the benefits of Ivermectin:
https://substack.com/@vigilantfox/note/c-60009361?utm_medium=ios
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I’m so sorry, that poor sweet child and her parents 😢😞 Praying for them all 🙏❤️
I'm so sorry. Her poor parents. I truly cannot imagine.
Prayers for Kendall and her family. That is so devastating.
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Prayer went up.
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sending prayers. That is awful :-(
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Robin, I know a family whose young boy (5 or 6 yo) was diagnosed with Leukemia and forced to a two year toxic chemo regime. The family is fully tapped into natural care and support, as well as dealing with medical neglect allegations by CPS for wanting to offer natural treatment, not cancer-causing standard of care treatment. The mother's name on FB is Mckena Elyse. The family might be grateful to connect with her. They live in OK.
Praying for Kendall to be healed by our great physician. Also praying for supernatural peace for her and her family.
Thanks for explaining the nuances. Does Berenson’s case have a better shot? Even the New York Times is acknowledging that covid came from a lab and hunters laptop is real, which were two major areas of censorship.
The nub of the problem is that they grant themselves the power to end-run the constitution.
Until there's transparency and accountability it won't end even if Alex wins (which I think he has a good chance) .
This will set a precedent, which is critical in law....but it's not enough if we can't see behind the curtain...because they'll find another way.
My question is, what difference do laws make when the government neither follows them, nor applies any kind of ethics in practice?
Also, there are no rights to free speech and expression in this quasi-dictator-communist American society. People who insult (reveal and proclaim the TRUTH) the rulers of the regime are prosecuted, imprisoned or banished from social media, as we have seen these last 4 years.
Agree completely.
"Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract."
- Jeffrey Tucker
They expanded this into the public square and now we're taking it back. They can't deal and are not prepared for how we will exert our will....because like mobsters they never expected the shopkeepers to fight back.
But your right The Law itself has become an instrument for illegality.
Agree
Berenson seems confident he case is stronger
Berenson always seems confident. : )
Yes, he is a very diligent man
Diligent is one way to put it. : )
He's an odd bird.
😂
...no joke.
One problem is that by the time the limited hangouts come out, most of the damage is done.
There is also the CHD case.
Berenson seems to think so according to his post yesterday at least.
Yuri, check this: Is Standing even constitutionally based? An interesting exploration from the Volokh Conspiracy.
https://volokh.com/2010/08/19/the-case-against-restrictive-constitutional-standing-requirements/
The provision of the Constitution usually cited as the source of standing requirements is Article III’s grant of federal judicial power, which gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all cases… arising under this Constitution and the laws of the United States.” It’s hard to see how this justifies the modern standing requirement that litigants must have suffered a past or imminent material injury caused by the statute they claim is unconstitutional. Nothing about the word “case” suggests that it is limited only to claims involving narrowly defined injuries. Even if you can’t have a “case” without such an injury, you can certainly have a “controversy” without it. And Article III also gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all controversies to which the United States shall be a party,” controversies between a state and citizens of another state, and controversies between citizens of different states.
If I were a really cynical person, I would suggest that the US government undermined China’s vaccine because it was LESS harmful than what was slated for us unwashed masses….
They already arranged for Pfizer et al specifically to receive the benefits. China's not in the gang, but rather is a rival organized criminal gang infringing on their territory.
Good analogy.
100%
Yes, I’ve wondered whether it was a placebo. A doctor friend in Europe tested some patients who had gotten the Chinese one and they had no antibodies to show for it.
That’s why the Red Cross stopped doing antibody testing. People who had COVID had antibodies and saw no need for vaccination. People who had gotten Pfizer/moderna vaccines were seeing no antibodies and getting upset. The government leaned heavily on them to stop testing… and they did
Remember tho, as that Hong Kong protestor so eloquently put years ago "[Donald Trump] Don't trust China, China is @$$#ole!"
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Haven’t checked, but suspect they’re not seeing the excess deaths… anyone?
Pretty sure that in reality, they undermined it because "it's China", and "China bad". Neocons/Neolibs are shockingly xenophobic once you scratch the surface.
How about because big money big pharma owns the pentagon?
"Do not panic until I give the signal."
Lol, what's the signal Jeff?
They refuse to accept they are our servants.
It's as simple as that. Screw them.
We need to find another way. The whole effing thing needs to be reduced to rubble.....
And then cremated.
The corruption is just getting worse and worse. I used to think that the Supreme Court was one of the last pure institutions. But watching the newest justice Kentamji, or whatever,( who doesn't know what a woman is, although she got the spot specifically for sexist reasons) is now leaking all supreme case decisions to left wing media, it's clear the last block has been razed before complete empire collapse....
I'm pretty sure her name is Shaniqua.
agree
One, if by land.
Two, if by sea.
Feeling like my hair is in fire only it's a different incinerator than Covid now. 😩🔥😡
Rush used to say that. Boy do I miss him !
After serving 20yrs in the military, my brother 22 yrs, and my Dad, a member of the coveted "Band of Brothers, " coming in with 30yrs, I have little allegiance left; I can't help but advise all young men and women to NOT enlist at this time, the most dangerous enemy facing them is our own government. The "avoidance," type rulings the SCOTUS dishes out rans parallel with that goof ball Merrick Garland's testimony of avoiding answering questions about reports he assigned, by people who work for him! What's happened to being an American and standing up for what's right? Progressives have watered down our nation, our values, our intestinal fortitude into a liberal swill....Money says they (SCOTUS) comes out with a fluffy, wordy, do nothing ruling about Trump's immunity while president. As a former FSO, handling classified materials for 30yrs, both in the military and civilian world, I can tell you Biden broke the law, "bigly," and Trump did not...yet, here we are again, as righteous Americans, being spit on by leftists and the media...and the highest court in the land, who should develop some courage with decisions and recommendations, instead deliver a bucket of word salad...that ONLY aides the very ones who are dismantling.
Retired military here - do not enlist in the today's woke and weak military.
Retired army wife and mother of Army veteran—don’t commission into the military either. We had a great 2-decade+ career in the Army and thought our son would too. He only ever wanted to be a Green Beret. But in his line unit (re: NOT a Green Beret unit), he encountered the poorest quality of leadership we ever witnessed. Sadly, our military is in dire straits.
The destruction of the military is intentional.
Same here, I give the same advice to young people- Don't do it!!!
Sad that it has come to this point.
Have you seen this? Pride Month morale patch gains approval at Air Force base in South Korea
https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-06-09/pride-morale-patch-air-force-14132681.html
Source - Stars and Stripes
Unbelievable
gag
And they just keep proving my son was wise to walk away from his USAF career. They clearly do not want men like him anymore.
It is unfortunate at what the military has become.
Alphabet mafia.
Agree! I’m starting to be ashamed to admit that I’m retired military.
Awhile back, someone thanked for me my service.
My reply even shocked me.
I said, "whatever."
I hate the fact that I have 3 kids draftable. I have a daughter interested in national guard, but she isn’t going because she doesn’t want to be the governments guinea pig.
What would you do if you child got drafted for ww3?
Do whatever you can to get them out of the country.
Under no circumstances allow them to get drafted.
👆🏻 don't get into the military, civil service, medical, public school or university, airlines, ...😡😩 There's nothing real or truth anymore... Will yes there's One Truth. It will save you.
I swore to uphold the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. I didn’t realize at that time our worst enemies are ALL domestic!! Pray for our Military to go against unlawful orders and to be protected.
I just pray that they're on our side, I honestly don't know (retired Navy CPO).
Yup.
Agree 100%.
"The six Justices in the majority, which included all the liberals, did not actually endorse government censorship."
Disagree strongly with this. During arguments before the supremes, all 6 justices who falsely claimed the plaintiffs didn't have standing openly supported government censorship for public "safety"... Especially Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett.
You misspelled "Phoney Barrett."
Ha ha ha
Endorsement by omission. No smackdown = not guilty.
The enemy has been within for decades, & their steady, wicked influence makes warp speed look like a snail’s slow shuffle. If Kim Dotcom is half as smart as he appears to be, his detailed assessment of the US empire is that it is in rapid decline. Putin doesn’t have to use nukes.He’s collapsing the petro printing press via gold backed BRICS+. Are we the Late Great United States? Apologies for the debbie-downer comment—but the 6-3 smacks of keeping censorship intact prior to the Nov. election.
No apologies needed. It's just reality.
agree
Re: Missouri vs Biden case
The case was not decided on merits but rather the technicality of standing. Basically argued that those bringing suit had no basis for asking that the government be enjoined from censoring them and/or advocating for such because could not prove a direct link to injury.
Alex Berenson's censorship case against Biden and gang is still ongoing and strong. Maybe SCOTUS punted now because of his case.
Their reasoning is false. Government coercion of censorship affects everyone. Every voice has a right to be heard, even if nobody is listening. Every person has standing.
I agree. The issue of standing is often used in court to thwart election integrity cases, too.
Check this: Is Standing even constitutionally based? An interesting exploration from the Volokh Conspiracy.
https://volokh.com/2010/08/19/the-case-against-restrictive-constitutional-standing-requirements/
"The provision of the Constitution usually cited as the source of standing requirements is Article III’s grant of federal judicial power, which gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all cases… arising under this Constitution and the laws of the United States.” It’s hard to see how this justifies the modern standing requirement that litigants must have suffered a past or imminent material injury caused by the statute they claim is unconstitutional. Nothing about the word “case” suggests that it is limited only to claims involving narrowly defined injuries. Even if you can’t have a “case” without such an injury, you can certainly have a “controversy” without it. And Article III also gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all controversies to which the United States shall be a party,” controversies between a state and citizens of another state, and controversies between citizens of different states."
Yes, hope is still alive 😁
Hope may reside at the end of a barrel. We're getting close to that.
agree
Is Standing even constitutionally based? An interesting exploration from the Volokh Conspiracy.
https://volokh.com/2010/08/19/the-case-against-restrictive-constitutional-standing-requirements/
"The provision of the Constitution usually cited as the source of standing requirements is Article III’s grant of federal judicial power, which gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all cases… arising under this Constitution and the laws of the United States.” It’s hard to see how this justifies the modern standing requirement that litigants must have suffered a past or imminent material injury caused by the statute they claim is unconstitutional. Nothing about the word “case” suggests that it is limited only to claims involving narrowly defined injuries. Even if you can’t have a “case” without such an injury, you can certainly have a “controversy” without it. And Article III also gives federal courts jurisdiction over “all controversies to which the United States shall be a party,” controversies between a state and citizens of another state, and controversies between citizens of different states."
So disgusting. The military threatening our service members to take the vaccine or have their careers ruined and livelihoods taken away while simultaneously encouraging others abroad not to take it. Why trust anything any of them say ever again.
Never trust the Pentagon.
Amen, Amen I say unto you.
Yes Pentagon = Pentagram methinks
Satan's headquarters in DC.
Wait until they ramp up the draft to fight Biden's wars...then you'll be forced to take the jab. Not only will our youth potentially face combat, but the death dealing of the vax as well.
Our Youth will meet Death & Die. DOD is planning for tens of thousand of casualities Daily. The Vietnam debacle "only" had 50,000 + In Total, by comparison.
(and it will Not Be Limited to Youth in the military either)
While the chicken hawks of DC, the Pantygone desk jockeys will not be on the "Front Lines, the Russians will bring the "War" to DC and elsewhere within this USSA,
IF We DO NOT STOP this INSANITY .... They/Them Have Planned and ARE IMPLEMENTING for WW3. ........ zzzzzzzzz
I wish our troops would all stand up and say "no", that they will not fight in this war, because it is not a war, per se, but they are simply being used to help the US government manipulate another country. (Which, according to a book I read- "War is a Racket", by General Smedley Butler is always what war is about. It shold be about protecting our country. With all of the military aged men pouring over our border, protecting may need to happen right here on US, soil, and by then our men might be over seas....
"With all of the military aged men pouring over our border, protecting may need to happen right here on US, soil, and by then our men might be over seas...."
We will be fighting in our own streets as the Insurgent Military aged Newcomers are activated. Feral DC is Complicit Traitorous Offal.
That raises an interesting issue. During my youth, young people could evade the draft for the Vietnam War by fleeing to Canada. I believe that is what Bill Clinton did. This time around the Marxist regime in Canada will prolly extradite you back in the the arms of the Marxist USG. Now that the 20+ million invasion across the southern border is a fait accompli, they will prolly finish the border wall to keep American youth from fleeing south. Food for thought....
If I were still a father of children (as women will be draftable) coming of draft age, I would have all the logistics and provisions laid out to get them out of the country as soon as it becomes apparent the draft is going to be activated. There will be only a small window of opportunity to get out cuz they will quickly shut down exit routes. Word to the wise.... Argentina appears to be a good option.
Hmmm.. that is interesting hypothesis
DON"T (retired Navy)