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On this day and every day –
God is in Control
. . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . .
Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God;
do not mourn nor weep.” . . .
“Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet,
and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared;
for this day is holy to our Lord.
Do not sorrow,
for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Glory to God in the Highest!
And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.
Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, among men of good will!”
So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.” And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger.
Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child. And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them.
Luke 2:1-20
Merry Christmas to all! 🎄 🎅 ⛪ 🙏 🕯 🎁 💝
Merry Christmas, Wolf!
Merry Christmas, Linda! 🎄
Merry Christmas, Wolf. May God bless you and your family.
Thank you, W! A merry Christmas to you! Blessings of God upon you and yours! Hope you have a wonderful day!
Merry Christmas to all in your den, and all at your tree.
Thank you cthulhu!
Merry Christmas from the Wolf Den 🍾 🎁 🐺 🎄 🐺 🔥 ❄ to you and yours!
Why do you have a tree rather than a den or pack. Are we a weird mutant tree wolf subspecies?
I found the den photo!!!
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Wolf !
and to everyone here !
and to bakocarl !
🎄 ✨ 💞 🔔
Merry Christmas, Smiley!!! 🎄 💝 🙏 🍷
🍷 😍
Merry Christmas, friend! I hope it is a great day!
You, too, friend! Merry Christmas! 🍷 Cheers! 🎄 🐺 🙏 🎁
🍷 🎄 🐺 🙏 🎁
I like your little emojis!
Merry Christmas. Hope your day is a great one.
You, too, Kalbo! Have a great day! 🎄 💝 🍻
A very Merry Christmas to you and all you hold dear. 🎄
Merry Christmas, Gingersmom! 🎄 🙏 🎁
May you and yours have a wonderful day!!!
Thanks!
💖 🐺 Merry Christmas 🐺 💖
Merry Christmas, Bfly!
May Joy, Peace, and BACON abound for you! 😍 🎄 🙏
Had to put this here too. Merry Christmas!
LOL!!! 😆
LOLOLOLOL!!!!!! MY EYES!!!!
Cant be unseen. 😀
That’s funny!
Ikr?
K I just sent that to the family . . . ROFL
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That beach rock Nativity is very moving, powerful….
The last image brought tears to my eyes….
Our Rock of Ages, come to earth as a newborn baby on a mission of mercy.
Best summary of the Arizona election steal verdict (from CTH)…..
James Street
December 24, 2022 11:23 pm
Police officer: You were speeding.
Me: I didn’t mean to.
Police officer: Oh, ok. You’re free to go.
Nailed it.
So, with this ruling, this judge has institutionalized the ways and means for ruthless, conscienceless DemonRat-RepugnantCon Uni-party cabal to ‘handle’ all future elections.
The Bumbling Election Day Technique will be added to the:
-Machine Hacking/Programming/Manipulating
-Partisan Workers Scanning Ballots multiple times
-Ballot harvesting
-Fake ballots delivered in the dark of the night
-Drop boxes stuffed with bogus ballots
-Fake, dead, illegal, cross-state/county/district voters
-Voting multiple times
-Opponent ballots discarded
That about sums it up. 👍
The DeepState cannot allow POTUS45 to ever see the Oval Office again.
What the DeepState did in Arizona is the template for the 2024 election.
It’s the same scheme they ran on DJT in 2020. Stay in the basement; let the cheat do all the work.
And if this is not reversed on appeal, you can kiss the Republic goodbye, similar as the destruction of the Roman Republic which then returned as the dictatorships of the Cesars.
There are actually so many paralleles (including a corrupt Senate) it is frightening.
Kari is appealing:
Perfect.
Perfectly, ignorant.
Amen, Carl, and a very Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Just went through an ice storm the last 2 days. This morning it started out at about 20 degrees and now is 53 at 10 p.m. and all the ice is gone. Very weird weather. Prayers for those of you going through rolling blackouts and sub-freezing weather.
We have high 50s predicted later in the week! Right now it’s falling into single digits.
heat wave !
temps have climbed to 10 degrees this morning !
sustained winds at about 15 mph !
get the flip flops out again ! 😁
oh wait…
It’s 45 freakin’ degrees here this morning! After -25 three days ago!
It is 11F today after three days of -3F. I went out and enjoyed the clear air. The air smelled like I remember as a kid in Germany. What a great experience. This made my day 🙂
Do you mean -45 ?
No! 45 ABOVE zero! The snow is actually melting.
That is good 🙂
Thats a big warm up for you. Really big.
It’s crazy. The snow is melting off everything.
Similar here.
What did you and Darwin get down to last night inside the house?
64
Good!
You wont get any flooding this soon or at all?
Well, I won’t at my house, I’m pretty far above the flood plain. And we shouldn’t get flooding here until spring, when we always do!
It bears repeating . . .
The Door
I stood at the door, naked and dirty
To try to see if I could get in
I timidly knocked, you could barely hear
With the noise outside, the bustle and din
In but a moment, the door opened wide
A gentle voice said “I know where you’ve been
All of us here have been waiting for you
Welcome, dear friend, I forgive all your sin”
He gave a white robe and said “Now you’re clean
Enter with confidence now you’re our kin
Blest of my Father, you’re safe in His hand
Your promised peace and joy will now begin
I came with nothing and was given all
I came here lost never thinking I’d win
All glory to God! Praise Him forever!
I was cursed outside, but now blest within
By the Grace of God! Amen!
Merry Christmas, Carl! 🎄 🙏 ⛪
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Merry Christmas Wolf has been saved! 😉 🙏
Faithful and True
Wonderful Savior
💞 💟 💕
Lovely. Merry Christmas, Carl. And thanks for all you do here.
Thank you so much for this poem!
Thank you. 🥰
Sundance has a really nice post about Christmas – one to help us shed all the negatives and refocus, which I’ve noticed has been very hard this year.
Enjoy!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/24/is-christmas-presents-or-is-christmas-present-your-choice/
Menagerie has also posted a really nice video on YouTube – you can watch it here:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/24/gloria-in-excelsis-deo-6/
That’s my (almost) representative!
Globalists vs. Nationalists all anyone needs to know.
Good they did not clap.
BETTER, if they walked out.
They were right not to clap.
LOOK AT THE LEFT.
They don’t say a peep when Nancy tears up a speech.
But like GOOD LITTLE COMMIES clapping for FATHER STALIN, they look around the room and see who ISN’T CLAPPING.
Or who STOPS CLAPPING FIRST…
Solzhenitsyn related a story where a large group was clapping in a standing ovation for over ten solid minutes because no one wanted to be the one who stopped clapping first.
Finally, someone did, and the secret police promptly carted them off to the gulag. There was no doubt that’s where they took him.
THESE COMMIES ARE DOING IT AGAIN.
They want to FORCE you to applaud their guy.
They want to SHAME you to applaud their guy.
But really, they want to JAIL you unless you GLEEFULLY CELEBRATE THEIR EVIL.
They were right not to clap.
Anyone who lacks the moral courage NOT TO APPLAUD is selling out their souls.
We can nitpick and say it was small – but it’s clear we have reached the tipping point where not applauding and not giving the Nazi salute will result in the left pushing social consequences.
No, we won’t applaud evil.
Even in the smallest thing – DO NOT GIVE IN. DO NOT CLAP.
They were right not to clap.
Amen!
Some quality vocals by a kid!
BIG Twitter File – the CIA joining the FBI to nuke foreign tweets and accounts.
Now I’m really starting to see where the “suspension first” tendency and policies at Twitter came from.
This is a long one!
My conclusion, after reading all of these Twitter threads, is that the FBI, CIA, and other government agencies installed people at the social media companies and used the other employee’s stupidity and people-pleasing tendencies to carry out their plans and achieve their goals.
Manipulation of the average ideological and stupid mind is not difficult. There are all kinds of tricks the three-letter guys use against people. Just look at how many cases there are like the Whitmer kidnapping. The feds and spooks insinuate their way into people’s heads, and make them tap-dance to their tune like fools.
The average liberal is an emotional child in my opinion. EVERYTHING is based on “feelings,” making them simplistic and malleable.
The tweet in this thread that really shows it is this one:
“Found no links to Russia,” says one analyst, but suggests he could “brainstorm” to “find a stronger connection.”
Just look at how he wants to please his master! Pathetic, but all too common.
We have got to find some way to shut down the American Stasi, or they are going to morph into the Nazi SS. They’ll be rounding us all up right out in the open before long.
Totally agree.
I’ll second that gill.
🙂
“The average liberal is an emotional child in my opinion.”
I call them kidults. And they ain’t liberals; they’re leftists. IMO.
True.
LMAO! “Kidults”! What a great term!
I have called them two year olds in adult bodies for years. They have all the characteristics of the ‘Terrible Twos’
They did not really. They graduated from colleges where they all got a similar indoctrination. On graduation, some went to gubmnit, some to the private sector. Not difficult to see how these tech companies would be willing to work with their kindred spirits from the gubmint.
AMEN. Great analysis. You are exactly right.
I was thinking about this today. They whole thing is utterly unconstitutional.
AND THEY DON’T CARE.
Thanks, Wolf.
It IS completely unconstitutional. But the school system and universities have corrupted the minds of the left to the point where they don’t even recognize constitutionality. Millennials are the generation taught that NOTHING matters more than how they are FEELING at any given moment. And they were taught that they should never, ever feel bad about anything. Good “feels” only (man, do I hate that stupid turn of phrase!).
And the feds DON’T care. They care about power and influence, and its uses. But I will say there is a huge segment of the young male population listening to Jordan Peterson, Maj Toure, Andrew Tate, and the like. My youngest son is one of them. They are NOT going to be the emotional, malleable, easily manipulated ones. They believe that the Millennial Generation is ruined. And they, Gen Z, are not going to be. They are on the rise, and they are MAD.
That is so encouraging so maybe copy this comment to Monday’s thread!
Thanks, Valerie!
YW, it’s always a blessing to share that good news!!! Especially when the next generation is beginning to catch some major clues!!!
🙂
It would be funny, if it weren’t so sad….
Yikes!!! The climate buffoon is buffooning!
And then there is THIS insanity.
We’re going into a mini ice age, and
BidenObamaGates wants to block out the sun!Yes.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/white_house_proposes_blocking_sunlight_to_fight_global_warming.html
Well, it might make sense…if there were global warming to fight.
Wrong buttonholes??? UK butlers are on strike?
HA!!!
the Royal Ass reportedly carries his own special toilet seat around with him wherever he goes.
smh
At least that’s sparing the next guy whatever nasty germs the old pervert has!
Verse of the Day for Sunday, December 25, 2022
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“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
John 10:10 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Amen! 🙏
Thanks Ditches
Merry Christmas
Ditchtes?? ROFLMAO
Sorry.
Merry Christmas BF!!
Merry Christmas Sweet Duchess!!
❤ 🤣 🤣 ❤ 😍 😍 😍
All thumbs this morning, and spell check. LOL
Glad you got a laugh out of it.
😃 😁
Auto-Mistake is so rotten! NOT YOUR FAULT! LOL!!!!!!!!!!
I could fix this, but it’s too good of a smile for this morning! I needed that laugh!
Merry Christmas, Everybody! Smile and laugh and have great joy today!
The Lord is with us, and we are with the Lord!
-Worf
“Worf”, lol.
Every once in a while you run into that perfect typo. You don’t want it corrected, but you do want people to notice it. So if you do notice someone made one…do you point it out and possibly embarrass them? Or leave it lie?
Well I think anyone who has been here long enough knows what my answer to that dilemma is.
AND logic??? 😉
Worf – BWAHAHAHA 🤣🤣🤣
I’m laughing more today than yesterday!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
AMEN.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Merry Christmas, Duchess!!! 🎁 🎄 💝
Have a very Merry and Blessed Christmas!
A very Merry Christmas to everyone who reads, comments, likes, and stops by. I hope you all find some joy, peace, and cookies today.
Merry Christmas, Gil!!! 🎄 🎁 🙏
Merry Christmas everyone! 🙏
NAMES of GOD ALPHABET ADVENT CALENDAR
CHRISTMAS DAY
Names of JEHOVAH ((I am; the eternal living one) used in Old Testament Scripture:
– Jireh – Provider
– Rapha – Healer
– Shalom – Peace
– Adonai – Master
– Shaddai – Almighty Sustainer
– Nissi – Banner
– Tsidkenu – Righteousness
– Maccaddeshem – our Sanctifier
– Shammah – Present
– Sabaoth – Lord of Hosts
– El Elyon – Most High
– Olam – Everlasting
The word Jehovah appears only once in the New Testament:
John 20:19-23
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
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The first Bible verse about the Name of The Lord:
Genesis 4:26 – At that time people began to call on the Name of The Lord.
The last verse in the Old Testament about the Name of The Lord:
Malachi 1:11 – For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My Name shall be great among the Gentiles; In every place incense shall be offered to My Name, And a pure offering; For My Name shall be great among the nations,” Says the Lord of hosts.
The last verse in the Bible that mentions the Name of The Lord:
Revelation 22:3-5 – No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. They will see His Face, and His Name will be on their foreheads. There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.
Because I messed up yesterday – here’s the Alphabet complete list.
A – Adonai, Almighty, Alpha, Ancient of Days, Advocate, Able, Avenger, Abba, Authority, Anointed, All-knowing, All-powerful, All-seeing, Author and Finisher of our Faith, Angel of the Lord, Abiding, All in All, Apostle, Altogether Lovely, Anchor for our souls.
B – Bread of Life, Bread of Heaven, Bread of Sincerity and Truth, Balm of Gilead, Beginning and End, Breath of Life, Builder of the Church, Beloved, Beautiful, Blessed, Brother, Bishop of Souls, Beginning, Burden Bearer, Bright and Morning Star, Brightness of His Glory, Bridegroom, the final and true Blood Sacrifice, Baptizer
C – Christ, Creator, Comforter, Chief Cornerstone, Counsellor, Chastiser, Carpenter, Consuming Fire, Compassion, Conquerer of sin, evil, death, Courageous, Captain of the Armies of Heaven, Covert from the tempest, Consolation of Israel, Champion of fatherless, children, women, poor, sick, helpless, oppressed, persecuted.
D – Divine, Deliverer, Defender, Dunamis (power), Door of the Sheep, Dwelling place, Delight, Despised and rejected by men, Divider of wheat from chaff, sheep from goats, Desire of nations, Dayspring from on high, Diadem of beauty,
E – Elohim, El-Shaddai, Emmanuel, Eternal, Ever-present, Edifier, Exalted, Elect Stone, Enduring Love, Eternal Life, Everlasting Father, Ensign of the people,
F – Father, Faithful, Friend, Fortress, First and Last, Foundation, For us, Forerunner, First born, Forgiver, Fairer than the children of men, Finisher of our Faith, Fountain of Life, Fragrance of Life, Freedom, Food indeed, Fulfillment of prophesies, promises, hunger, thirst, desires, needs.
G – GOD manifest in Christ’s human form – GOD who sees, speaks, hears, listens, acts, loves, rescues, redeems, regenerates, sanctifies, transforms, delivers, saves to the uttermost! – Good, Gracious, Giver, Gift, Gentle, Great, Gatherer, Glorious, Governor, Great Light.
H – Heavenly Father, Holy Spirit, High and Lifted Up, High Priest, Hope, Home, Healer, Helper, Humble and Lowly of Heart, Heir of all things, Head of Every man, Hidden Manna, Horn of Salvation, Hiding Place, He that shall come, Husband, Hero, Highest, Holy One of Israel
I – I AM WHO I AM, Intercessor, Infinite, Invincible, Indivisible, Immeasurable, Instructor, Ikon of Love, Truth, Life, Man, Humanity, (the only true, unchanging, holy fixed) Identity, Image of GOD,
J – Jesus, Jehovah, JHWH, Jehovah Jireh (our provider), The Just One, Righteous Judge of the Quick and the Dead, Justifier, our Justification, our Joy.
K – King of Kings, Keeper of Israel, Kinsman Redeemer, Kindness, Kyrie (Lord), our Keddesh (sanctifier)
L – Lord GOD, Lord of Lords, Lord of Hosts, Logos (The Word), Lamb of God without spot or blemish, Lover of our souls, Lamb slain, Liberty, Lawgiver, Living Word, Living Water, Living Bread, Living Stone, the Last Adam, Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Lily of the Valley, Light of Israel
M – Master, Messiah, Maker, Mighty, Mercy, Meek, Manna, Model, Miracle Worker, Marvelous, Majesty, The Man, Maturer (helps us to mature and grow) Mine Elect, Man of Sorrows, Messenger of the Covenant, Minister of the Circumcision,
N – Name above all names, Never forsaking, Never failing, Newness of Life, Near, Nazarene, Only Name under Heaven by which we may be saved, Nail fastened in a sure place,
O – Only true God, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, Ordainer, Orderer, Organizer of Creation and of all that is, Our Father, Only Begotten Son, Only Savior, Offering, Ointment poured forth, One who holds the Key of David, Omega, Overcomer, Opposes the proud,
P – Prince of Peace, Path of Life, Passover Lamb, Potter, Protector, Provider, Provision, Portion, Propitiation, Priest, Power, Physician, Blessed and Only Potentate, Prophet of Nazareth, Principle, Preserver, Purifier, Sin Purger, Polished Shaft, Precious Stone, Perfect Love, Truth, Life, Joy.
Q – Quiet voice, Quieter of storms, Quickening Spirit, Quickener of physical life and spiritual Eternal Life, Quencher of spiritual hunger and thirst, Questioner and Answer to Questions
R – Redeemer, Risen Lord, Restorer, Rapha (our healer), Refining fire, Refuge, Resting Place, Righteous, The Resurrection, Rescuer, Ransom, Rabbi, Rose of Sharon, Reconciler and our Reconciliation, Rock of our Salvation, Rock of ages, Rock of Offense, Rod and Root out of Jesse, Root of David, Rivers of water,
S – Savior, Sovereign, Source, Shepherd, Son of God, a Sceptre, Son of Man, Sanctuary, Shiloh, Shelter, Safe refuge, Supplier, Supply, Sweet savor, Sustainer, Sustenance, Sanctifier, Shield, Sacrifice, Servant, Surety, Satisfaction, Sinless, Self control, Slow to anger, Sufficient, Stronghold, Stone of Stumbling, Soon coming King, Spirit of Truth, Love, Life, Steadfast, Sower, Seed of the Woman, Seeker, Shalom, our only Security. Shadow from the heat,
T – Truth, Trustworthy, Teacher, Testator, True Friend, True Word, True Riches, Temple, Treasure, Tender Grass, Tried Stone
U – Unchanging, Unfailing, Undying, Uplifter, Understanding, Underneath, Under-girder, Unending Life, Love, Truth, Joy, Peace and Rest
V – Veritas, True Vine, our Vindicator, Validator and Validation, Victor, Virtue.
W – Word, Word of Life, Way, Wisdom, Watcher, Wonderful, Willing, Worthy, Water of Life, Wall of Fire, Faithful and true Witness, Washes with Fire, Water, His Blood and His Word,
X – XP – Chi Rho, Christ’s Cross that cancels sin, death, curses.
Y – YHWH, Yearning of our hearts, both our Yoke and our Yokefellow, Young Child, Your GOD, Yea and Amen, Renewer of Youth.
Z – Zion’s True and Righteous King, Zealous for us with Holy Zeal (unction, motivation, volition),
Why the Names of GOD Alphabet List – https://www.theqtree.com/2022/11/29/dear-kag-20221129-open-thread/#comment-1001222
Thank you so much for this Beautiful Christmas Season ministry!!!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas to everyone!!
Enjoy your family time together.
God Bless
Merry Christmas to everyone here.Have a blessed celebration of Christ’s birth! And I just want you all to know how thankful I am for this place and all who make it what it is. Life has been quite challenging for me the last few months….good and not-so-good. At times I couldn’t even keep up with lurking here. Missed you all durng those weeks! Will try to give a report soon. Am now listening to Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and doing some last minute stuff before kids and grandkids come later today and tomorrow.
Joy to the World! The Lord is come. 🎼
Good to see you here, Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Merry Christmas Pat!
Merry Christmas CM!!
hope you, your wife and all the fur babies are doing well!!
Another casualty?.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/george-stephanopoulos-producer-dies-suddenly-at-37/
Oh, I’m about 99% sure that’s affirmative.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ufc-hall-of-fame-fighter-dies-suddenly-at-45/
According to the story he was unvaxx’d in late 2021.
Died of a Cardiac Event.
Wanna bet he got the vax to gain access to a boxing venue?
Jab.
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Cranberries
Wyeth
1966
watercolor
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I see faces in the dark gray and black shadows. Wish I had better graphics software to highlight what stands out to me. Does anyone else see them?
Oh yes I see them too.
I am so grateful for your ministry, Bakocarl. You are so faithful and kind to bring a Bible lesson every Sunday – and give all the hard working authors we love a day of rest and refreshment.
Vibisch ! 😍
This Christmas carol has never been more appropriate – we need rescue and redemption and revival as never before.
Christmas glad tidings and best wishes.
And many returns to you and yours! So good to see you here.
Merry Christmas, Zoe!
Same to you Zoe! Best wishes, Merry Christmas!
(knows you can’t see the likes 10 and its early!🤗 )
Merry Christmas to one and all! 🙂 🎅 💓 🎄 ✨
Blessings to you & yours AND Thank YOU for all your diligent digs & shares in fighting the Good Fight! Your many efforts get regular sharing & are surely bearing fruit!
Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas phoenix!!!!
Beautiful.
Ohh Pat! You make my heart smile! Merry Christmas to you and hubby …
thank you!
Merry Christmas phoenix!
In case you missed it…
And Merry Christmas to you Para …
Thank you for the link … I did miss it … it’s great!
Well, this came in on one’s text messages this morning, from Duke Energy Carolinas:
“Duke Energy: Alert! The extremely low temperatures & high energy demand continue to place an unusual strain on the energy grid. Please consider powering down all nonessential electric devices and delaying unnecessary energy use for the next 24-48 hours to help avoid rotating outages in the early morning hours today and Monday. We understand this is a difficult ask given both the holidays and the cold temps and we are grateful for your efforts.”
This is what happens when power companies shut down / decommission their coal-fired power plants. Duke Energy, IIRC, has been doing just that.
This is on top of the natural gas company sending a message yesterday saying basically the same thing regarding natural gas usage in the home.
Slow Guy ignores messages like them. Carry on as normal.
Dominion, Duke, all utilities need to see actual demand. Same goes for them corrupt regulators and government fools.
So correct. Yours Truly is pizzed-off about this “backdoor conditioning to accept rationing for the good of the planet, so sorry if you catch pneumonia in your freezing house” WEF-engendered cr@p.
Exactly.
It’s not like we are wasting resources.
Not in any objective sense – only to the elitists with their contempt for “useless eaters.”
They have enormous appetites that are NEVER appeased. Bigger better and more for them. LESS LESS LESS for you.
It’s not just energy. Less food for you. Less water for you. Less land for you. Less transit for you. Less children for you. Less medical care for you. Less farming for you. Less rights for you.
You’ll own nothing, and you WILL be HAPPY.
You are HAPPY, right comrade? If you aren’t HAPPY and don’t have confidence in our government, we will intervene so you are HAPPY.
Re-education camps for you. Failing that, the firing squad.
So make sure you are HAPPY with what your BETTERS have determined for you.
And stop being UNGRATEFUL for their omnibenevolence toward you!
Bravo! Let us push back on this crap.
That Declaration of Independence thingy applies with me and my house.
Read it for meaning next time, alphabets.
Soviet energy is Soviet!
Советскиая энергия — советская!!!
Translation?
Wolf’s comment right above.
Thx 🙂
If you just change the letters, it starts to look similar very quickly —
Советскиа(я) (э)нерги(я) — советска(я)!!!
sovetskia(ya) (eh)nergi(ya) — sovetska(ya)
Very Interesting–Thanks!
Yep.
🙂
Doesn’t quite understand. Most business’s and govt bldgs are closed. People are at each others homes further cutting electric use.
Merry Christmas everybody!
The value of the struggle…
Our Lord does big things from the small things – the seed. Starting with a mustard seed was what the Lord compared the kingdom of God. An elderly couple, Abram and Sarai, created a nation from a God determined, but unexpected child. A precursor for the little child born in a manager of nobody parents in a tiny Judean village – who would become King of Kings for all eternity.
A very small, seemingly insignificant seed…
Into the world such a small seed of liberty and freedom is introduced here through the means of our host, Wolf. To whom we all owe gratitude and a wish of MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Do not underestimate your value to the Kingdom that matters most as well as to your fellow man by your efforts to provide light to the world.
A special shout out to Bakocarl, Duchess and GA/FL for your consistent witness.
Jehovah Shalom – the Lord is peace!
Amen!
Thank you to all who keep the Lord in this house, every day!
Amen.
More interesting stuff going on:
Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts and ideas regarding the issue I posted about last night with the illnesses at my son’s house. I texted him and said that, given the situation, it was best for me to stay put.
Got a text back from him this morning asking, “Are you sure you can’t come? it’s a big day around here.” I texted back and thanked him for his kindness, but the best thing is for me to stay put.
Just got another text — son and household want to come over to my house later on today and bring me their Christmas presents. They’ll be masked.
Apparently, they must think that it’s OK for people with COVID, the flu, and an unknown “cough” can still go out and visit in other people’s houses?
Well, no matter what happens, one thing is clear to me; your family loves you, and wants to see you on Christmas.
But you need to stick to your boundaries, and respect your comfort level. It’s ok to just say no.
Thank you, absolutely correct. Just texted son and said to please wait till they’re better. Of course I’d love to be with them — but not at the risk of exposing myself to COVID / the flu / whatever that unknown “cough” is coming from. Especially since Yours Truly had that weird fatigue / bad cold thing that hit me just after Thanksgiving and took about a week to recover from. “Christmas presents are great, but they can wait.”
Merry Christmas, whenever it comes!
You know, I think they wanted “permission” to keep you safe, and wisely, you gave it to them!
How insightful 🙂
Find out when Orthodox Christmas is in January, and celebrate then.
Wait – it’s January 7!
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/common/orthodox-christmas-day
Amen 🙂
🙂
Aubergine nailed it.
Deleted my, wise ass, thoughts.
Well, one does consider you to be wise, don’t know about the “ass” part. 🙂
😂
See, slow guy is making progress. 👍🤣
Yea…Oh Wait A Second, or several minutes. I see wut ya did ther.
lololololololol…
What’s amazing to me is their collective arrogance – as if it’s just fine that they expose a dear relative to whatever crap they’re hacking up and out. (It’s vaxxed crap, dontcha’ know.) Quite the 180 from “if you have symptoms, stay home” or “the unvaccinated should be banished.”
I realize I sound rough. But I really cannot abide these people.
Wow. They really don’t get it do they?
No, I don’t think they do, TradeBait. It seems like self-absorption is part of the victimhood ploy that must be countered.
Good description.
So are they sitting around vaxxed in their masks and talking about how much smarter they are than us rubes while they are fighting COVID and flu?
That strikes me as a “bless their hearts” moment.
I feel for RDS having to deal with that.
“Wow. They really don’t get it do they?”
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They’re doctors.
It’s not their job to get it 👍😂
Or should I say, it’s their job not to get it 😁
Exactly!!!
In fact, it seems the whole medical profession depends on doctors not getting it 🙂
If they ‘got it’, then they’d next have to ask the most blatantly obvious questions, and there are no good answers to those questions. Not for the medical profession.
Because the obvious answers to those obvious questions implicate their entire profession.
So as long as they pretend not to know certain things, the most blatantly obvious questions are never broached, and the obvious answers to those questions can remain hidden in a deep dark hole.
Buried at the bottom of a mine.
Under a mountain.
And so long as that is maintained, their profession, and their place within it, are safe.
Or so they believe.
The truth will out, methinks.
And then what will doctors do, to get their credibility back?
Imagine a career where your clients trust you with their health and their lives, every day, implicitly.
And then one day, your clients no longer even trust you to tell them what time it is.
That day is already here for a lot of people, and it will be here for all the rest, sooner than they’d like.
Oh boy. Its not that you cant get there. Thick heads!
Sounds like my daughter who has covid and still insists on coming on the 27th. Funny before they could not come for 3 years because we were not jabbed and they could get covid 🙂
Your son loves you what a gift he and family come to see you 🙂
“Sounds like my daughter who has covid and still insists on coming on the 27th. Funny before they could not come for 3 years because we were not jabbed and they could get covid ”
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It is quite the radical flip-flop, almost an inversion, isn’t it?
I wonder… has she forgotten the last three years?
Or has she convinced herself that you have?
What a fascinating time it would be to be a psychologist, if one was fortunate enough to be awake, and not one of the pod people.
Like being a psychologist in the late 1600s, right in the middle of the Salem witch trials.
You might not be able to do anything to stop it (or you might), but it would sure be fascinating to watch and analyze as the insanity literally unfolds all around you.
Probably safer to keep quiet about any observations, so you don’t end up in the dunking chair.
.
‘Trust the science’, that’s what they say.
Just look at all that science on display! 👍 😁
17th century wet tee shirt contest.
Except all the dudes are looking at her back…
I guess it took our ancestors a lot of trial and error to figure things like that out back then, while today, we just take them for granted.
Well, yeah. After all they still needed to invent the tee shirt.
I guess it makes sense, the whole sequence of events, with the aid of hindsight.
First they had to invent the tee shirt.
The tee shirt made the breasts obvious, so men noticed them, probably for the first time, and just as importantly, men noticed where they were, which was not on a woman’s back.
That last part, the location discovery, was a critical part of the whole female puzzle, the importance of which is easily overlooked or dismissed. But as the photo above ably demonstrates, it makes no sense to look for them where they aren’t.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
Young people of today seem to rationalize to their will.
I can barely imagine how disorienting that would be.
No anchor to anything, just floating freely, tossed to and fro, with every wind of doctrine.
true
“Apparently, they must think that it’s OK for people with COVID, the flu, and an unknown “cough” can still go out and visit in other people’s houses?”
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Don’t they know lockdown etiquette?
What kind of doctors are they?
😉😁
The duck-billed kind, silly. 😎
Neurologists.
I looked up neurologist, and it looks like they don’t specialize in neuroses.
Which is too bad, because if they did, they might be able to diagnose each other 😉
Bwah ha ha!
The Case for Avoiding Plant Foods — Reckless or Beneficial? – The Burning Platform
Simple summary – eat more 🥓 and 🥩
Merry Christmas Wolf 🐺 to you and your loved ones 🎄
Merry Christmas, Nikki! 🎄 💝 😄
Hope you and yours have a wonderful day!!!
Thank you W0lf, it’s been a wonderful day filled with blessings. My son sent a picture of our grandson, He’s holding him and new Mum my DIL sitting close by their Christmas tree (new grandson wearing “babies first Christmas bib/a keeper ❤️). They stayed home which is the right thing since it’s been so cold. My DIL’s parents only live three miles away and baby’s uncle live above them, so they have family close.
We sent a picture of younger son and Dad in front of our Christmas tree, they chose to pose with their backs to me kidding around for first picture and turned around for an actual nice picture which was sent to son and DIL …. 😬👍🎄
… 🙂🤚🎄❤️🎄
LOL! Sounds like fun! A good and memorable Christmas!
Save those photos – they’ll only grow in value! Make sure the young ones get them!
We save our pictures .. they’re precious memories. 😎👍❤️
Merry Christmas everyone, and God bless you all and your loved ones abundantly 🎄
Merry Christmas to you kiddo ! 😍
Aw thank you smiley2, you stay warm and be careful walking around/watch out for ice. 🙂❤️🎄❤️
Amerigas propane delivery on Thursday just popped into my checking account …
$718.35! Merry Christmas to me! More than twice what it was this time last year!
The rich are getting richer!
Oy! I’d say!
Merry Christmas Aubergine … to you and yours, Good to read that your son is waking up!
Merry Christmas to you and your family, too!
Any amount of “waking up” by anyone in my orbit counts as a blessing.
Amen!!!!
On the bright side, you still have your other arm and leg!
Right…! Good to see you Michael … Merry Christmas to you and yours….
LOL
Hi Smiley … and Merry Christmas to you and yours… !
I read of your many layers of clothing in your fight against the cold … praying you are warm …
thank you phoenix and a Merry Christmas to you, as well !
very warm under all the various layers…outside is frightful but beautiful & bright/white.
I used to live out in the Colorado Rockies, many many many moons ago…it’s all coming back, slowly…the snow/winter thing..but I was a lot younger then, lol…we used to cross country ski at night out there…
um….I’m just not feelin that…yet…trying to acclimate to all the lumberjack clothing is quite the challenge.
long johns (!!)
ewwww
Cuddleduds!
Outrageous!
With that price a room heater might be more advisable.
No … it’s for the gaspak and heats the downstairs, except for the Studio, which is heated by heat pump (did I use right term – ‘heat pump?) propane will last thru the winter and gaspak cools house using electricity. Seriously considering selling the house and leaving the country, if I can… decisions, decisions …
Para, do you think we will still have social security by Nov 24? pensions? the dollar? Not a topic for Christmas, right? Ol’ Scrooge here … !
Where would ya head to?
Concerns for SS, pensions must considerations. Certainly for the likes of me, they are.
Me too. I am wondering if I can claim Ukraine as a dependent on taxes this year.
🤣 🤣 🤣
LOLOLOL!
I think we should ALL do that!
I concur, Aubergine! 😂
🙂
good one.
As we all know the economy is hanging by illusionary threads, thus even a year out is too far to predict. My advice is continue to follow what’s happening around the BRICS and their allies, but I do think the Bidenese will do all they can to keep it alive which may even include the rape, murder, and plundering of the middle class, with more demonization of MAGA coming soon.
Pensions would depend on private or govt. Both subject to degradations.
IRA’s and 401’s can likely expect a hair cut but Murder will be shouted from coast to coast. Still that would be one of the first indicators it’s all falling apart.
I can’t think of a good place to run to, but if you know of one where you’ll be welcome at, with ease of fitting in and its away from WEF’s reach then I’d give it serious thought. Other than that, I’d advise riding it out, a better state maybe, far from a city if you can, but I think you might be good there, and seek refuge with God and or your inner soul (many are the paths) and better the family and neighborly relations thing, something I’m not too good at and advice I’d likely not take too, but everyone’s unique in that regard.
phoenixrising
IMO, unless a person is a dual-citizen with the United States and another country, moving from the U.S. to another country can be a nightmare.
Besides that, there are many other things to consider — renouncing American citizenship (IMO, not recommended); what about Social Security / dividend and income payments from investments / annuity payments, if any; taxes for both U.S. and foreign countries to pay; death benefit or life insurance payouts, if any; possible language barrier if English isn’t one the top three languages spoken in the new country (except for possibly Switzerland); the list goes on and on. Energy costs in European countries are through the roof.
Could you consider moving to another state within the United States? For example, Tennessee apparently has certain tax advantages. Possibly living 30 minutes’ drive time to a big city (for the healthcare facilities, etc.)?
Just putting some things on the table.
I think S Carolina is as good a place as any in US …
For sure my thoughts about the future of the US and the West is a lot more negative than folks here… but that’s been the case all my life … when folks thought evrything was rosy, I thought differently… can’t break the pattern at this point … 😉
different strokes …
I’ve gotta admit I think it’s going to go south in a big way…unless a very unlikely sequence of events happens to prevent it. (And there are about ten ways to go south that I can think of, several of them masquerading as deliverance.)
To clarify “go south” would either be because of the end of western civilization as we know it, or be the cause of that end.
Stakes are very high.
yes…
“For sure my thoughts about the future of the US and the West is a lot more negative than folks here…”
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Same here.
Not too many places I’m aware of outside the U.S. where you can carry a firearm to defend yourself.
And thanks to our heinous criminal government, Americans are targets in many places.
If you can’t carry a firearm for self defense, then you’re counting on the government to protect you.
What government can be trusted to do that… even in the best of times… which these definitely ain’t?
When seconds count, police are just minutes away…
Minutes? Well, technically, half an hour is a mere thirty minutes…
in Detroit that’s hours to never!
Oh Phoenix, I would be thrilled if my Amerigas bill was that low. I do a big fill on my 500-gallon tank a couple of times each winter. The gallon price for me just went over $4 on my order yesterday. Once during Obummer’s terms, it went over $5 so I am thanking my lucky stars it has not yet gone back there. I so hope your cost is not a monthly charge…
You might consider contacting them Barb … my per gal price was $3.539 … I’m in S Carolina… where are you? And no, not a monthly charge! It should last through the winter, which here would be mid-March usually … with some in the tank.
Thanks, Phoenix! Yes, sometimes I have reached out and gotten them to give me a lower price. Glad that’s not a monthly charge! I am not on a plan, but they just wait for me to call and then fill it. At the beginning, they were supposed to check it. Once they didn’t and I ran out. Then, I had to pay them to come inside and restart everything. Since then, I started watching it myself. Also, when I started with them 14 years ago, I was paying a little more to buy the tank but online it said I’m renting it. I did not see that this time, but will check things again. sigh… I should own the tank by now. so many little battles, so little time.
Oops, I’m in Shenandoah County Virginia… quite rural here.
Ouch!
I do hope that doesn’t happen to you every month.
Looks like Christmas is starting a bit late at our house this morning
The girls slept in the living room this morning – one on the couch, one on the love seat, and one set up her cot. Guess they wanted a campout in the living room or a sleepover!
Kid fun is the best.
Well, i usually wake up early but mine woke me up at 745. Ive never slept in. Enjoy your late morning!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
In honor of the day, I found this beautiful story about Christmas spirit during WWII:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/12/even_in_war_good_will_toward_men.html
by way of info, at the moment wp won’t allow me to “like” comments – same at Marica’s place … please know that I do enjoy the posts here as I frequently read …
oh, did I mention that my grgrands … 3 & 5 y/o’s are bringing their parents to see me … they are driving thru Christmas night and will arrive here late tomorrow … and … I am over the moon … God is good!
So good to hear this! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
And to you RDS … wise you were to reply to son as you did … in my opinion … us seniors must avoid anyone who is ill … we are more at risk than the younger ones…
I agree, and IMO, anyone over age 60 is more at risk, even if they religiously take care of themselves, do vitamins / supplements / exercise, follow FLCCC protocols and take IVM, etc.
Oh, how fun! Good for you!
Have a wonderfully blessed time with your loved ones!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND MUCH LOVE TO ALL!!!! 🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄💖💖💖
Merry Christmas, dear Angel of Bacon!!! 👼 🍖 🎄 🙏 ⛪ 💝 😉 💃
Out of bacon today. I realize that is probably sacrilegious with you! We will fix the issue tomorrow. until then I will enjoy looking at your bacontree.
So we are going with chicken chili, cornbread and plump sausage balls for our family Christmas gathering in an hour or so.
YUMMY!!😋😋
😇
LMBAO!!!
Well, Yours Truly never saw a “Bacon-mas Tree” before.
B-fly – Daughter Sally Q and I had BLTs for Christmas Eve this year.
There you go!!!
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Merry Christmas!!! 🎄 💝
Merry Christmas slowcreekno.
Bonus for all!
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1606839353644355585?s=20&t=Wp4BcFiFAEQOFTMG-_ZszA
Melania looks even more gorgeous than ever…sooo miss them ! 💔
Just love how Melania starts with, “The President and I want to wish every American a very Merry Christmas.”
Merry Christmas!!! 🎄
EV Non-Charging In The Cold | Musings from the Chiefio (wordpress.com)
The bit about plugs reminds me.
I found–somewhere–a site that shows you what plugs are available at what cross-country-trip chargers.
I could never figure out from the internet which plug the Tesla actually uses, or any of the others for that matter.
One hopes the “standard plug” solves this, doesn’t get changed on some fuckwit marketer’s whim (like Apple does with its chargers), and can be retrofit to existing EVs.
Most graffiti is damaging and ugly, but on some rare occasions it seems….appropriate….
Merry Christmas, Flep, wherever you are!!! 🎄 🙏 💝
I really like that .. 😂👍
Update:
Hall temp got down to 64 yesterday. Darwin was probably warmer than that; he has a heat lamp and he was in the same room as the wood stove. He’s going with me to my relatives’ place for Christmas (to be observed there this evening); he’s staying, I’m coming back.
Our temps are in the 20-50 range right now. This house is very well insulated and I know someone with a very similar place (my plan is a modification of his) who has never, ever used his furnace (not even in -20F)…he relies on his wood stove plus passive solar.
In other words, this is not a danger, it’s an inconvenience, at least until the next cucking fold weather comes. Waiting til tomorrow; I will call around and ask places if they have, actually on hand, the right control board. If they do, great! I’ll hire it done. Otherwise, I might as well order the dang thing myself. (That’s assuming it is the control board, which I haven’t actually ascertained yet for sure.)
The unit is humming, like it’s waiting for something to tell it to turn on, but the problem seems to be it is not supplying power to the thermostat.
OK, the transformer (that turns 120V into 24V AC) is working. I’ve established that. I disconnected the red wire (which is the one that sends power to the thermostat) inside the furnace and its connector on the control board still reads zilch.
I was tempted to simply connect the red wire directly to the transformer, but decided not to push my luck. That would either be a good temporary fix, or break things worse.
Meanwhile I know the board is bad.
You could move the thermostat (temporarily) right into the furnace nook and wire it in with jumpers, to see if that worked.
I’m still leaning toward the thermostat wiring hypothesis.
And that control board would be a particularly nice place to put a fuse…..
Since I’m 95 percent certain I zapped it with static electricity to the red wire while I was mucking with the thermostat, said fuse would have to be on the red wire itself.
Or on the first trace on the control board leading to the red wire….
I’d be pretty sure it does, otherwise there wouldn’t be much need for the board.
Well, it does also manage the startup and shutdown of heat, likely based on “thermostat on, OK I’ll run the fan for a bit then turn on the heat.” “Thermostat off–OK I’ll stop the heat but continue blowing air through the system to suck some of the heat out of the ductwork and put it into the living area.” In other words it’s using the thermostat as a signal, not a power switch. That would take logic on a board.
Now, given that there will be a board, I can think of two reasons to route the 24V through it: One to modify it. I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be AC to the thermostat, but maybe not, maybe the board has a rectifier on it. But the board could pass it straight through (or pass it through after some surge suppression), but do so because it has stuff on itself that needs the 24VAC for power (or will rectify it for on-the-board stuff).
If only I could talk to the actual designer and ask HIM. I could maybe puzzle out the wiring diagram in the manual I found, but I don’t recall “pass through or not pass through” being obvious.
You got a wiring diagram of the board?!?!?!?
That should indicate any fuses.
It’s very very sketchy. It elides a lot.
Take a picture of the wiring diagram, please. I may be able to interpret it for you. Or post the link to the manual. I worked on many different industrial systems over the years.
Aside: once at my place, the HVAC started acting screwy. The man who came out showed me a small tube inside the furnace that routed moisture out of the furnace. It had collected a lot of dust and he simply unhooked it, blew out the clog and things started working correctly again. Not the problem you seem to be having but it was interesting to me that I would have never guessed where the issue was on my system.
That tells me he truly understood the systems, and wasn’t just a guy who read the manuals.
“If only I could talk to the actual designer and ask HIM. “
Can’t wait to hear Your take on this convo in other arenas! 😇
Much tricker. I could certainly locate some sort of thingamabob that takes a fuse, figure out (somehow) the amperage that wire is supposed to take, give it a margin, and buy the right fuse…then a bit of snipping, stripping wire, and time with a screwdriver (most likely, though it depends on the thingamabob), it’s done.
Mucking directly with a board? I wouldn’t try that on a dare. I’m sure there are people out there who can do it, but *I* would probably crack the board or get metal shavings somewhere bad or…well, you can probably imagine more than me.
The problem is the tap itself on the control board is bad. So I’d have to wire the thermostat to the transformer…if I dared. But if I did, I could do that anyway, by connecting the red wire that was connected to the control board, directly to the transformer (well, I’d need a short line to connect one to the other, it wouldn’t reach). No need to move the thermostat at all.
I am just worried that the control board “does something important” to the transformer output, rather than just passing it through.
Thank you for the update. I was worried, especially about your reptile buddy.
If it helps, I ordered a furnace control board from this eBay seller last spring when I had my own furnace trouble. Shipped quickly (although I’m not sure if it will be as quick given the holiday week), the board is working fine through this extreme cold, and it was priced fairly. I’d order from this seller again.
https://www.ebay.com/str/hvacsalvage
OK, off to Xmas. Darwin gets boarded, kids get cards with his pictures printed on them.
Sounds great! Merry Christmas!!! 🎄 🎁 🍾 🍺 🦃 🍖 *bacon*
Well, I’m glad you have a temporary home for our little adopted mascot! I was worried about him.
I have had a very stressful few days worrying about my elderly dog having to go out for potty breaks. He has clothes (which he hates but tolerates), but absolutely refuses to wear shoes, no matter how cold it is. We are finally through the worst of it, and he seems none the worse for wear.
I however, am exhausted. It was like having a toddler to dress again. In and out of the sweatshirt, all day long.
elderly dog peeing on elderly People schedule?
Yes, he does do that a lot!
Bummer!
He’s worth the trouble.
Yes! From God’s view we All are, though that can be harder to envision from our perspective.
Merry Christmas to every person on this site!
I was skeptical of Trump until he said Americans would be wishing others “Merry Christmas” again. That told me everything I needed to know.
Merry Christmas Tonawanda…:0)
Merry Christmas, and “dang right” about Trump! That is just one more Trump prediction that aged well.
My wife and I lit the last Menorah candle this evening. We do this (partly) in specific remembrance of of my MIL, who was an angel on Earth. She gave us the Menorah.
Also: my uncle is almost 90. He suffered a stroke a little more than three years ago. Half his body is paralyzed, but he is a tough guy who lives alone.
My uncle’s home was one of only 12 in his neighborhood which lost power, so he has been in the dark from the very start (Friday afternoon). There is a county-wide travel ban.
The neighbors from across the street dug a path to his door.
I spent 3 hours clearing my own property of snow (and my son’s next door). Believe me, the drifts were big, and the snow was packed very tight by the relentless winds. In a way, it was worse than wet, heavy snow, because it was more like concrete.
So my uncle’s neighbors cleared the path to his door. The neighbor said the door was entirely covered by a drift. The house was dark, but in one room there was a heater which was sufficient. The neighbors have made meals and brought them over.
My uncle had/has a transistor radio for entertainment. His main worry was his beloved cat, Blackie.
Just wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
Love that you have a menorah in the window! I thought it was great that Hannukah and Christmas coincided this year.
Your uncle sounds like an amazing guy!
Merry Christmas! 🎄 💝
Merry Christmas!
🙏 🙏 🙏 For father & cat.
Sorry, uncle…
I love those tough old birds who just keep on keeping on! Good for him.
Merry Christmas everyone!! We’re all blessed to have our W running point for us. God Bless, Wolf.
Amen
Merry Christmas, and God bless us every one!
Amen!!! 💝
Your posts are so essential to this site. TY, TT!
And yours! Thank you.
Merry Christmas and God Bless you, too! 🎄 🙏
Thank you, Red, and Merry Christmas! God Bless you and yours! 🎄 🙏 💝
Merry Christmas!
HA! Love it! Merry Christmas, Sadie!!! 🎄 💝
Just another comment, on the Lake decision.
There is a legal concept in the criminal law which IMO is directly applicable to elections.
In the criminal law, it is said (and is a governing principle, a precept, not merely an aspirational wish): justice not only must be done, but must be seen to be done.
The instances where “it must be seen to be done” include a variety of circumstances where government authorities can put their thumb on the scales. For instance, keeping a person off the jury on racial or religious grounds. There, it is a presumption that the act of keeping a person off the jury on racial grounds is a circumstance where those inclined to wrongly discriminate can wrongly discriminate. That presumption affects the way any given matter is analyzed.
Actual intent is understood, because of the circumstances, to be a thing unattainable of actual evidence, and must be addressed (in effect) by common sense.
But the precept is not limited to specific circumstances already addressed in previous cases. The precept applies generally.
In election cases, there is an almost absurd dichotomy (as far as I know, I am going by the public cases). On the one hand, elections are sacred, votes are sacred, choosing ones “rulers” is sacred.
On the other hand, the “must be seen to be done” hand, is no big deal. Proving election fraud is a nit-picking affair. Proving the impossible is the rule of law. Who cares how outrageous the circumstance, if an election criminal does not sign an affidavit under oath attesting to his criminality?
To my mind, the “must be seen to be done” is a powerful concept. Why would the concept not apply to elections and voting? Why would methods susceptible to cheating not be in the same category as keeping a person off the jury by using a mechanism which allows people who want to discriminate, to discriminate?
I recommended this approach online when folks were discussing how to challenge the stolen election in 2020. It is an approach fully consistent with actual justice and fairness.
And it is more to the point than the nit-picking absurdity which fails.
“To my mind, the “must be seen to be done” is a powerful concept. Why would the concept not apply to elections and voting?”
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Because rule of law is an illusion.
We don’t actually have it anymore, and it has been a long time since we lost it.
What we have now is might makes right, rule of man.
It’s just dressed up (minimally) like rule of law, to keep the natives from getting too restless. The natives like their nostalgia, and it’s easier (more efficient) for the totalitarians to help people believe what they want to believe, rather than confront them with reality.
Unfortunately. Its depressing.
Exactly… there was a COUP D’etat … but most people continue to believe we are still a republic …
Yes! We have a REGIME. We have an old-school / new-fangled Soviet regime – that cannot stand Russia, because Russia is now post-Soviet – and which is in bed with China, but can’t figure out why China is winning, and it’s still failing.
“Exactly… there was a COUP D’etat … but most people continue to believe we are still a republic …”
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Which is very frustrating.
Like being on a bus that went over a cliff.
The bus is now a smoldering ruin, but most of the people on the bus have convinced themselves that we’re still driving along on the road, hardly a care in the world.
OK, but I am talking about something else.
If a legal argument IS going to be made, why not make an argument which comports with both reality and the law?
Our side is never going to win the nitpicking. The Kraken will not be released. There is simply no possible way to raise the nit-picking arguments without losing.
That is why the Texas case was so powerful, and why the Cabal judges did not even want to be put in a position of addressing the arguments.
The accurate arguments, supported by law and REALITY, but outside the box, may fail, but fail for obviously bogus reasons. That may be the best we can do, raise non-obscure arguments which have some possibility of eventually receiving acceptance because they are in fact irrefutable.
Irrefutable doesn’t matter, it just gets kicked down the road, and delayed, and appealed, etc., long enough that other events overtake it and people have moved on.
Like congressional hearings, for another example.
People are rightly angry about something, so angry that the narrative engineers have to do something.
So they trot out Uniparty operatives to mimic the public’s outrage, and demand hearings.
Hearings take place, drag on for months, nothing actually happens, no one is held accountable for anything, and eventually they just fizzle out and the conclusion of the hearing is buried on the last page of a newspaper that nobody reads anyway.
Or if the totalitarian narrative is really threatened, some big false flag supersedes whatever public discovery led to the congressional hearings, giving the totalitarians whole new excuses to address the new crisis they created with the new solution (for which they had been cooking up a false flag excuse) to apply.
Rinse, and repeat.
You know (or I believe) I regard your arguments with utmost respect.
Here, I disagree. Maybe time is a factor.
Jan Hus, to me, is a hero, and (as far as we know) an exemplary Christian. Wycliffe before and Luther after are connected.
I am as cynical as anyone.
But making the right argument, regardless of prospects, is always the right thing to do.
The right argument, IMO, is that elections must be seen to be fair, regardless of whether they are fair or not.
No one in any position of influence will make this argument, but IMO it must be made, with the hope that truth will eventually succeed.
“You know (or I believe) I regard your arguments with utmost respect.”
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Well, I would never recommend that 😂
Always attack, to see whether the argument can withstand scrutiny.
I could always be wrong, and if I am, that’s usually how I find out 👍
If Scott agrees with you, go back and check your premises.
Exactly.
Thank you 😂
“If Scott agrees with you, go back and check your premises.”
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I agree with you 👍
[can’t believe I missed that response the first time, I must be tired 😂]
“But making the right argument, regardless of prospects, is always the right thing to do.”
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I agree as a matter of principle, but if the point or objective is to obtain a favorable result, in a situation where no such favorable is possible to be had, then at some point it would seem to become self-defeating.
Because it takes time and energy to make an argument. If we have been shown repeatedly that our grievances for redress only and continually fall on deaf ears, then continuing to do so practically turns into a humiliation ritual.
So (it seems) that using one’s time and effort for something potentially more useful or productive would make more sense.
“The right argument, IMO, is that elections must be seen to be fair, regardless of whether they are fair or not.”
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Seen as fair by whom?
Presumably, seen as fair by the public, which in turn would lend some sense of legitimacy to the government.
But if the public has effectively been removed from the equation, if the totalitarian government is in no way beholden or accountable to the public, then what the public thinks — about anything — is irrelevant to the totalitarian government.
When it becomes clear that our protestations are irrelevant, that we are powerless to effect change through ‘approved’ channels, then doesn’t continuing to try those same channels only serve to expose one’s own impotence?
Does it not become a humiliation ritual, which demoralizes the public, which in turn serves the interests of the totalitarian government?
What’s happening to us has been done many times before in countries around the world. It’s new to us, but they’re following a well-worn template.
They have refined the template over decades, so they know what works and what doesn’t.
Which is why it’s always amusing (and frustrating) when our side claims the enemy is panicking or scared.
They’re not. We’re the ones flying blind, by the seat of our pants, reacting to every new injury.
They’re taking action, and they know how the public will respond, and what to do to counter any public response, based on oppression models that have been used (and refined) for decades, if not hundreds of years.
This game was over on January 20, 2021. We were way behind, it was fourth down, and with time running out, the military punted, and the Republic was lost.
We are an occupied nation with an illegitimate government, one which is willing to murder every man, woman and child in the country, and already tried to do so, and is still actively trying to do so.
They tried to WIPE US OUT. First with a bio-weapon, and then with the deadly toxin promoted as a treatment to their bio-weapon.
It is a testament to Man’s desire to do almost anything, to suffer nearly anything, no matter how great or terrible, in order to avoid confrontation, that we will deceive ourselves, even now, into thinking that we can use any normal channel for redress of grievances.
Like we’re Jews in Nazi Germany, trying to use the courts to stop the boxcars and shut down the concentration camps.
Because if we don’t believe in the system, if we accept reality, then our options are bleak indeed, and admitting that reality may be psychologically overwhelming.
So we choose to believe in the system a while longer, and a while longer after that, and so on, that if we just make the right argument, or get before the right judge to hear our plea, all the madness will stop.
I don’t know how that can work.
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“…and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” — excerpt, Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
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From what I saw of the trial, its clear that more than enough people that would of changed the outcome of the election did not get a chance to vote and arguably those that did its likely they did not have their vote counted, and there’s plenty of grounds for believing other votes may have entered into the system for which they should not have and that’s just one small slice of the election where other things were not considered at all.
You would think this would trigger at the minimum a new election, but some how we are stuck in what you describe as proving that some one particular person actually cheated, proven with all the i’s dotted and t’s crossed. It’s insane and it becomes quite clear that laws being utilized to a ensure free and fair elections do not exist or are being mis-utilized if they are. The illusion or maya of free and fair elections is gone. Vanished completely.
Not good at all.
This is my point.
“Must be seen to be done” is a Constitutional concept, both state and Federal. It is an actual precept, and for those who care, immediately recognizable as necessary to a republic (not that our rulers care about that).
It is a concept of integrity.
Yes, integrity is irrelevant to our rulers. But our rulers still can be confronted with integrity.
Living within the truth is something. We do not know what its effects will be, just its necessity.
But if it means anything, this is the argument we must make.
“Yes, integrity is irrelevant to our rulers. But our rulers still can be confronted with integrity.”
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Without a legitimate news media to hold the government accountable, to expose wrongdoing and keep the spotlight on it and keep raising the temperature until there is accountability, then nothing matters.
That’s why freedom of the press is so critical.
But if the press becomes nothing more than a propaganda arm of the government, then the government can do whatever it pleases, and there is no voice loud enough to force the government to do something about it to appease the public.
The public becomes irrelevant, because the public doesn’t need to be appeased, because there is no news organization with a megaphone to focus the public’s attention on the corruption.
Instead, the ‘news organizations’ are in cahoots with the totalitarians, and their primary role is to cover up or excuse every crime the government commits.
And so here we are.
And THAT is why after the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913,the first thing the Banksters did was BUY UP THE MEDIA in 1915.
In this way they could trick the American people into PAYING FOR CONTINUOUS WAR…. WARS we never bothered to try and WIN after 1945… And given the fact the Nazis came to the USA and took over NATO, I am not so sure we actually ‘Won’ WWII. It certainly doesn’t feel like it today.
Agreed.
Somebody won WWII, but in hindsight, I’m not at all sure it was actually us.
That is the whole premise of the Prussiagate series.
I found it well worth reading because of all the historical information the authors bring into their argument.
Before I ever read it I was of the opinion that England NEVER GAVE UP trying to retake the USA and went from overt wars to infiltration.
WIKI
Will Zoll describes the current Prussia as an ‘Army without a country’. Remember the Nazi Army officers became the head of NATO.
Whether you agree with them or not, the history they detail is fascinating.
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Summary: #PRUSSIAGATE
Will Zoll
Nov 5, 2021
How interesting, thanks Gail!!
The whole series is very very good…. And this from someone who hated history in high school. 🤓
Oh wow, I hated history in high school too. Our teacher was not able to connect history to things that mattered to me at that age. I enjoy it a lot now. It matters. 🤓
Yours Truly has to say, the thing about “our rulers” —
NOBODY in ANY elected office in the United States is “our ruler.”
The people in government granted themselves the behavior of “rulers.”
There is no Royal Family or Nobility Class in the United States..
We, The People are NOT “subjects.”
AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!
The FIX was in before the trials started last week.
judges bought and paid for in advance. Their off books retirement fund looking better and better.
The case was SET UP TO FAIL because Kari Lake had to PROVE Katty Hobbs INTENDED TO CHEAT.
That was the only one of the several points the judge allowed to be brough to trial.
The fact that people were dis-enfranchised, the fact that the 19 inch image was printed on a 20 inch ballot ONLY on election day and ONLY in VERY republican leaning areas happened AND the net result was Karrie would have won if folks who WANTED TO VOTE had been ALLOWED to vote. The fact that chain of custody was BROKEN….
ALL THAT DID NOT MATTER UNLESS IT COULD BE PROVED IT WAS INTENTIONAL.
So the fact that Karri Lake DID win was not part of the case.
Seriously, whose fault was that? Assuming you are correct, it would seem that the attorneys [that she claimed were great] wrote a complaint that pushed the wrong issues or pushed them in an improper manner.
She had something like 10 issues in her suit. The judge tossed all but two before the trial.
What this is demonstrating is that there is no “proper manner” to handle election fraud according to the regime that has been installed by it.
I think this matters DOUBLE, TRIPLE, or QUADRUPLE for elections.
To me, it’s not either/or – it’s AND. It should be BOTH.
The elections must stand up to deep scrutiny (to be just, i.e., the first) AND then be explicable to the public as just (the second).
What the evil establishment has done, is used its media powers to make the latter PERCEPTION happen for a controlling majority, and the former REALITY happen only when it wants.
What WE have done, is pushed that controlling majority into a smaller and smaller box, so that it is not even the majority of people, and not even the majority of people in government, and not even the majority of people in power.
WE are making sure it has not been seen to be done.
Wizard of Oz. Grab that curtain, Toto!
Has anybody discussed this on here today?
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/twitter-files-thread-the-spies-who?r=5mz1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
FIB and the Clowns have nowhere to hide with their treachery anymore. They can say whatever they want, but all one has to do is read this stuff to know. So I guess the judiciary will once again…
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Hey, I recognize that image!
That’s from Israel’s new national flag, to promote their progressive stance with regard to science and medicine, while they systematically murder their entire population with the vaxx.
Their new national motto, appearing on the flag just beneath the three monkeys, is “Never again… or in 75 years, whichever comes first“
Unless they only giving to Israeli arabs and the Palestinians
From all the data I’ve seen, Jewish Israelis were very hard-hit, so I tend to think it was done “fairly”. Where I suspect it was not done fairly, is politicians and WEFfians getting saline.
The self destruction gene runs deep in Israel. Always has.
Survivor guilt
What an interesting take!
More related news and new reveals but concerning Ukraine.
Okay you could likely guess this was happening, but the part we might not have been able to guess is this is on the up and up. Meaning legal. How the freak did this become legal?
Next…
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/a_biden_and_bankmanfried_connection_emerging.html
Essentially Bankmanfried had a back channel with the Biden Administration. You might want to read the story, but will try this tweet to sum some of it up.
Next..
Now would love to see the last two stories married up. That’s to say the Back/Slack channel directed the raiding through SBF of the accounts.
If that’s not enough…
And apparently there’s a loop hole that makes it legal. How is this obvious conflict of interests legal? And needless to say, Schmidt won’t be the only one doing this, we just don’t know about the others yet.
One reveal after another… and as Scott points out, its been this way for quite sometime… they don’t care, its actually a semi official tactic now. Reveal A, B, C- X, Y, Z, all the way up to A12, B18, and soon “I sunk your battle ship! and you weren’t fast enough to catch me, ha ha ha”. Alinsky’s Rules for radicals in spades, system over run.
“And apparently there’s a loop hole that makes it legal. How is this obvious conflict of interests legal?”
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They can make anything legal, by creating a new law that includes and exception (or carve out) to the old law.
“Biden’s cyber agency CISA…”
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Not easy to come up with a name that sounds more gay than that.
It’s like sissy, but ending with an effeminate ‘a’.
Merry Christmas for yesterday- your today.
on a personal note my family , who knew I am conservative, recieved the shocking news I am supposedly a Trump supporter. Cue the smelling salts. So now we have the Mexican standoff of both sides thinking the others are missing a chromosome or two.
i said supposedly re Potus Trump as I have never and will never vote for him as I am neither an American citizen – entitled to vote or an illegal who does anyway
I know what you mean about the smelling salts. The Fiancee was talking about needing new house slippers and I suggested Mike Lindell’s. She did a sniff and “not our kind.”
And I’m thinking…..some anonymous Bangladeshi child in a sweatshop is your kind more than Mike Lindell? WTF?
Her kind of slave labour.
bet she has/ wants an electric car that child miners need to shift 250 tones of dirt to get enough lithium to make it’s battery
Buy the Lindell ones anyway. If she throws them out, Mike still gets the money.
Just take the tags off!
ERRR,
It has My Slippers in small letters under the heel on the inside AND My Slippers in Cursive all across the bottom.
(I am wearing a pair)
I also have the sheets and the pillow which I love. The texture is weird but it is the only pillow that keeps my neck in the correct configuration all night.
Someday tell us the story of how you met The Fiancee. I would ask more but don’t mean to intrude in this forum. Note: I have failed at my own relationships spectacularly so don’t know how these things work for others. My parents had a very happy marriage, one that my dad once told me was a “glorious ride.” Eventually, I became so grateful to just take care of myself because I never disagree with myself and I don’t fuss with myself. 😂
Unfortunately, it was an improbable confluence of strange threads.
Moving through the world of accountancy, I had (finally) got my CPA and ran my own firm doing computer consulting. Drove myself into a frenzy and decided to work as a staff accountant again while I figured things out. Joined a small firm in Palo Alto.
I knew a young lady though peculiar circumstances who worked just down the street, so we’d get together for lunch a couple of times per week. She told me that her coworker (the Fiancee) was interested in me, so it gradually adjusted to where the Fiancee and I would have lunch a couple of times per week.
There was no magical moment, no electric spark.
Mind you, it became “official” due to a disaster. We went to the West Coast Computer Faire — in the rain — taking BART in from Orinda — and I managed to screw up the venue (it was in the Civic Center instead of the Moscone), so we got thoroughly soaked.
She was so enthralled by my imitation of a wet cat that she thought it better to spend time with me rather than someone who knew what they were doing.
Thank you for the story, Coothie! I always love your stories. I hope there was laughter, that is always special, if not magical. Do wet cats bounce? My own cat is getting insistent we must nap… night and thanks again.
By all means, intrude away on this blog. We’re family, right?
Yes, pgroup, it feels like family here. 😊
I don’t know how I would do living in Australia. I would need to get away from the big cities.
This is sad b/c the United States and Australia have so many commonalities.
We do.
we bug out to Mudgee every weekend
Merry belated Christmas, Ozzy! 🎄 💝
When I was young, maybe age 7 to age 10, I loved magic tricks. I read books about how to do magic tricks, and watched magicians on TV.
My favorite part was always learning how the ‘trick’ worked, how it fooled the audience.
These people you describe, like so many others, appear to have no sense that they’re being deceived, and so they have no curiosity to figure out how.
It’s as if they just enjoy the trick, get comfortable with it, and live inside it.
They should be questioning things. It’s not normal to have disagreements that are so strong that their behavior provokes one to say something like ‘cue the smelling salts’. The hyper division over the meaning of facts and evidence is not normal, which is a giant clue that something, some deception, is taking place.
Like half the audience understanding what they’re seeing is a magician’s trick, and the other half not getting it, thinking it’s real.
When the disagreement over what is real is as sharp as it is now, that means somebody is being bamboozled. It’s either us or them. We are investigating and researching and gathering evidence and making connections between people and events that explain what we see happening all around us.
They are doing none of that, which we know, because they won’t even look at the evidence, much less make a coherent counterargument. They just dismiss and roll their eyes.
It’s tempting to conclude that they’re stupid, but I don’t think they are. Something is definitely wrong with them, though. If I was them, I might laugh at us too, but in the back of my mind would be a gnawing doubt, a simple question, “What if they’re right?”
That’s normal. And it leads one to begin checking things, to start doing one’s own research, to start connecting dots.
Most people aren’t doing that, they’re stuck on laughing at or disdaining what they don’t understand. Something is interrupting the natural curiosity / investigation process. It always takes some longer than others, but this has been going on since December 2019, so three whole years now.
And they’re still not curious enough to verify their own premises.
That’s not normal.
Especially now, when so much information is actually coming out and confirming Trump’s claims, confirming all of the Twitter ‘conspiracy’ theories, confirming the elections were rigged, etc., etc. etc.
The truth is being shoved in their faces now.
At some point, the people who refuse to see it are practically beclowning themselves.
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The Psychology Of The Leftist
December 16, 2022 By Kaisar
https://www.hiddendominion.com/the-psychology-of-the-leftist/
Leftist Versus Personal Responsibility
There are few of us that would argue that the leftists have much of a stable psychology at all. But there is a factor of their psyche that is glaringly consistent among the entire leftist population.
That factor is a predilection for no responsibility.
It is not just that the leftists are irresponsible, but that their entire philosophy revolves around desiring absolutely no responsibility in their personal life. They simply don’t want to have any responsibilities for anything.
While this is true in every leftist, it is especially prevalent in the Antifa types.
Consider just a few of their positions:
[As an informational note: I am not arguing that all of these positions are inherently bad or incorrect. I actually agree with some of them, such as ‘defunding police‘ (federal) and ‘high taxes‘ (on the isolated class). It is about the underlying root philosophy that leads one to the position. The leftists reach these beliefs because they do not want responsibility. Others—like myself—could favor certain positions for entirely sensible reasons.]
Put simply, the leftist wants someone else to take care of them in every single avenue of life, so they don’t have to do it. This is why they generally favor Big Gov, and have no issue with the state directing their every action. They want that state daddy, probably because many of them never had a good relationship with their birth father.
In their dream utopia, they have no responsibilities. Someone else does everything for them. That way, they do not have to feel bad about being irresponsible, because there is nothing that they are supposed to be responsible for.
Any policy that makes the leftist personally responsible for anything is the enemy.
The leftist does not see this psychology as a bad thing. They justify it in their heads by creating this worldview that everyone is, or should be, exactly like them. If they aren’t, then those people must be trying to exploit everyone else. The leftist then views anyone that is opposed to this position as someone who wants to harm them. Because they don’t believe that anyone truly wants to be in a free condition. Everyone then needs a caretaker to defend them against these exploiters and strip them of responsibility. So, why not let the state do it?
This is also why they believe they hold the moral position of “compassion”. Because they don’t see it as domination (which it is), but rather sympathy (which it isn’t). They mistake the two, because they themselves would find it compassionate to be dominated, so they are absolved of responsibility. They do not grasp that others, like us, are fine with duty and obligation.
And therein is why the “personal responsibility” argument does not work on the leftist. You are arguing in favor of their archnemesis.
Yours Truly agrees with much of this analysis — however —
There are the “extremely well-to-do” liberals — highly-paid MD specialists / upper-level attorneys / members of Congress / ultra-high bankrollers like George $oros — who:
Work the system to benefit themselves / their families (example: an attorney-partner in a law firm who could afford to send a special-needs child to a private school, but instead use the public-school system with all the “free” assistance programs).
Are fine with “Expert / Authority Worship”, even if their education should lead them to question such “worship” (example: doctors who blindly “follow the science” and get “vaccinated”, wear masks outside of clinic, etc.).
Continue to vote the straight DemCommunist ticket for any elected office, while at the same time blaming “bad Republicans” for everything that’s wrong.
Find and use as many tax-advantaged / tax-free opportunities as possible, while at the same time, excoriating people “who don’t pay their fair share.”
so leftists are basically hypocrites!
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Yeah, these are not showing up. What are you trying to copy here?
A few decades ago, a friend who worked at General Motors Van Nuys plant, told me that the union guys called GM Generous Mother. This was because GM provided lots of perks to which the employees became accustomed, thus greatly reducing turnover and strikes.
An artificially higher lifestyle as long as you pleased Generous Mother.
“A few decades ago, a friend who worked at General Motors Van Nuys plant, told me that the union guys called GM Generous Mother.”
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When I was a kid, I remember hearing adults refer to GM as ‘Generous Motors’ as opposed to ‘General Motors’.
Another outrage…
https://nypost.com/2022/12/23/top-school-principal-hides-academic-awards-in-name-of-equity/
Essentially story is students won recognition for their academic excellence and the school deliberately withheld the letters/information from the students for the sake of outcome equity in treating all students the same. The school has been doing this for a couple of years now. Students unaware of these awards could not add them to their admissions applications when seeking higher education and thus missed out on scholarships. Likely in some cases students didn’t even bother trying to enroll in collage because of this. Meanwhile this was not just done to a bunch of white or asian kids but done across the board.
The larger issue the article does not explore is that this was one school but you can bet this equal outcome bull is a mind set with these off the wall liberal educators and thus is likely happening in many places.
Hopefully parents are in contact with lawyers.
The parent of the kid who discovered it IS a lawyer….
I hope ALL the students who were shafted SUE THE HECK out of this woman and BANKRUPT THE BITCH.
There was MONEY attached to those awards…
Yes I would be ticked off. You don’t mess with kids.
Originally published here:
https://www.city-journal.org/war-on-merit-takes-bizarre-turn
See here for more:
Victory Girls Blog:
https://victorygirlsblog.com/principal-chooses-feelings-over-merit-awards/
OMG, I remember this kind of thinking.
This leads me to ask a simple question.
WHAT IN THE FUCK IS EQUITY?
I hate to inform you, but Equity is not a simple question. It has a professional meaning in a variety of situations depending on the profession involved — accounting has one; law has another; gender studies has another…..and none of them match Mirriam-Webster.
Equity is a tool to disenfranchise, steal, punish, demean or otherwise penalize the ‘out group’ in favor of the ‘in group’.
The ‘in group’ and the ‘out group’ are whatever the Marxist Left say they are.