I had not planned for this part to be released on this date as it was scheduled for two weeks from today. However, the Lord had other plans. Many of you will probably understand what I mean as you read the following.
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What does the word “Providence” really mean in the Declaration when in the last sentence it says, “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”?
Did you notice the word is capitalized? Why do you think that is? The answer is revealed in the definition of the word. Merriam Webster has the following,
1a often capitalized : divine guidance or care – b capitalized : God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny
2: the quality or state of being provident
From this we learn that Providence is all about God and His relationship with humanity. We see the capitalization of the word has meaning. It ties God in as a powerful, divine being giving guidance and His care to humanity. The first two paragraphs of the Declaration state this understanding by the signers as they establish the basis for their move toward independence. We need to focus on the capitalization of the words a bit closer.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; 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. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
A number of words are capitalized in the Declaration of Independence. In addition to capitalizing titles and names, the framers did so with other key words to emphasize the points they were making. When individually listed, they lead the reader to conclusions about the purpose of the document. From the opening two paragraphs, they are listed below:
Course, Laws of Nature, Nature’s God, Creator, Rights, Life, Liberty, Happiness, Right of the People, Government(s) – various places, Form of Government, Safety, Happiness, Prudence, Object, Despotism, Guards, Systems of Government, Tyranny, Facts
If you had not read the Declaration and only saw these capitalized words from it that are listed above, could you come to a conclusion about the document’s purpose and intent? How about something like this in TradeBaiteese?
In the course of living life within the laws of nature under nature’s God who established it, our Creator has granted rights to life, liberty and happiness that governments in whatever form and system must honor and provide for the safety of the people. If not, the people should object and guard against any despotism that leads to tyranny and get rid of it. Those are just the facts!
I am sure readers can come up with their own versions as well. However, the intent of the words in the document remain clear. As it states in its wrap up,
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
More Providence Discussion
Which leads to this excellent discussion of “Providence” by our own Bakocarl in the 4/13/25 daily thread. That God had Bakocarl provide this discussion in the same time period as my own preparation for this thread on this topic of God’s hand guiding the completion of the Declaration of Independence, well, it will likely be met with acceptance of Providence by believers and called coincidence by non-believers. For the record, he and I had no previous discussion relating to the subject. Bakocarl said,
Then we have what is called the providence of God. The doctrine of providence holds that God quietly and invisibly works through the natural world to manage events. God, in His providence, works out His purposes through natural processes in the physical and social universe. Every effect can be traced back to a natural cause, and there is no hint of the miraculous. The best that man can do to explain the reason why things happen in the course of natural events is to point to “coincidence.”
Believers proclaim that God arranges the coincidences. The unbeliever derides such ideas because he believes natural causes can fully explain each event without reference to God. Yet followers of Christ are wholly assured of this profound truth: “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28).
The book of Esther shows divine providence at work. The banishment of Vashti, the selection of Esther, the plot of the assassins, the pride of Haman, the courage of Mordecai, the insomnia of the king, the bloodlust of Zeresh, and the reading of the scroll—everything in the book happens, like cogs in a well-oiled machine, to bring about the deliverance of God’s people. Although God is never mentioned in Esther, His providence, working through “coincidence,” is plain to see.
God is always at work in the lives of His people, and in His goodness will bring them to a good end (see Philippians 1:6). The events that define our lives are not simply products of natural causes or random chance. They are ordained by God and are intended for our good. We often fail to sense God’s hidden guidance or protection as events in our lives unfold. But, when we look back at past events, we are able to see His hand more clearly, even in times of tragedy.
I doubt there is a MAGA supporting believer alive that doubts “Providence” was involved in Butler, PA that eventful day; which could have ended in tragedy. As we believers know it did not because God had other plans for Donald Trump and America since we under his divine “Providence”. What is to be our response to same? “…, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
Does that even remotely resemble what has happened in America in your lifetime outside of Ronald Reagan’s and Donald Trump’s presidential terms? Even in those periods the Dems and RINO’s worked against the unity the Declaration requires that is under divine Providence.
Coincidently (not), the subject of Providence is exactly what Donald Trump believes.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/inside-donald-trumps-relationship-god-his-own-words
Which leads to the following and its schedule of events.
I hope all of you will take this discussion of Providence to heart and worship the Lord who rose from the dead to give us life eternal.
Time for more signers, let’s finish the Maryland crew.
William Paca
William Paca was born in 1740 in Abington, MD as one of seven children. His parents were John and Elizabeth Smith Paca. His father was a wealthy plantation owner who was the third generation of Paca’s who had lived in Maryland. The first generation family patriarch, Robert, had indentured himself to a colonist named John Hall when he arrived in America in 1660. He worked on the Hall property. When John Hall passed away, he later married his widow and in so doing became an owner. This became the basis for the family’s future possessions and occupation as planters. This became a family tradition for the Paca men as they married well and added to the family’s possessions and properties. They were involved in the Anglican Church and later joined the Quakers. However, William’s parents left the latter to return to the Anglican Church when they were married in 1732. John went on to become a justice of the peace, Captain in the militia, and delegate to the General Assembly.
As best that can be determined William was schooled at home until age 12, when he was sent to the Academy and Charity School with his brother in Philadelphia. He went on to later graduate from Philadelphia College (Penn) in 1759 at age 19. He went to Annapolis to begin his law career, clerked for Stephen Bradley, and helped found a pro democracy debate society called the Forensic Club. It was in the club that he forged a strong, lasting friendship with fellow signer, Samuel Chase. From there he progressed to attendance at the prestigious Middle Temple in London before following with a Masters back at Philadelphia College. He was admitted to the bar in 1764.
The previous year (1763), William did the male thing in the Paca family; he married into money He married Ann Mary (Molly) Chew. She was from long established, wealthy family who had family descended from the settlers of Jamestown in 1622. Her father had died soon after her birth and her mother had married another wealthy and politically connected man named Daniel Dulany who helped raise Molly. After William and Molly married they moved into a large mansion they had built in Annapolis.
Soon after this in 1765, William and Samuel Chase founded the county’s Sons of Liberty group and both pushed opposition to the Stamp Act. William was soon elected into the state’s General Assembly the next year just as in the previous generations of Paca men as he became popular and successful in his law practice. In personal settings he was reserved and thoughtful. In his political public life he was bold and unafraid to challenge authority. His political stature grew as he took on British oppression. Then personal tragedy hit, his beloved wife Molly died during childbirth of their third child in 1774. William became distraught with grief.
In response he turned his attention completely to the independence movement. It was not long until he joined the First Continental Congress and became close to John Adams. John Adams gave him the nickname of the “deliberater” due to his thoughtfulness and manners. He was also a signer of the Olive Branch Petition. It was during this period that Benjamin Rush described him the best when he described Paca as, “beloved and respected by all who knew him, and considered at all times as a sincere patriot and honest man.”
When Maryland removed voting restrictions on its delegates relating to independence, he immediately voted for approval of the Declaration of Independence and signed later. He continued to serve in Congress into 1777 before returning to Maryland and being elected into the senate of the Assembly. He was soon appointed as a General Court judge where he faced dealing with legal challenges from insurrectionists and traitors along the Eastern Shore. By 1780 he appointed to the Court of Appeals.
Back in 1777 he married well again, this time to Ann Harrison who was 16 years younger. She was the daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia merchant and past mayor, Henry Harrison. However, Paca faced tragedy yet again when she died in 1780, also possibly during the childbirth of their first child. In between marriages Paca had two children our of wedlock. Only two of his six children survived to adulthood, John Philemon Paca from his first wife, Molly, and an illegitimate child, Henrietta Mara, born to Sarah Joyce. He provided for his children born out of wedlock during their lives in every way possible.
Paca was a major backer of states’ rights and resisted efforts to change from the Articles of Confederation. He was an antifederalist during the period. However, when it came time he voted to approve the Constitution. During the period of its negotiation he pushed 28 amendments to make it more palatable to states’ rights advocates and those concerned with individual freedoms relating to religious liberty, freedom of the press, and freedom from judicial tyranny (we need him today for that one). Many of the proposed amendments passed into law in the Bill of Rights. You and I are beneficiaries today.
in 1789 Paca was appointed judge by George Washington to the Court of Maryland, a position that he held until his death in 1799. He was nearly 59 years old. This dedicated, important American Patriot was instrumental in giving us so many of the freedoms we take for granted today. We salute his service to our nation.
Thomas Stone
We now focus on an unquestioned patriot signer that will also include a short mention of a vaccination and dying from the grief of losing a loved one near the end.
Yes, this was the life of one Thomas Stone, who was born in 1743 in Charles County, MD. He grew up in wealthy plantation owning family and was educated at home until age 15. He started to a nearby small school of a Greek and Latin teacher for three years, riding by horseback ten miles each day to attend. He then moved to Annapolis to study law under a prominent attorney. Although from a wealthy family, Stone had to borrow the money to do it indicating his father was not in support. He was admitted to the bar four years later at age 21. At the age of 25, he married eighteen-year-old Margaret Brown who was the daughter of Dr. Gustavus Brown and his second wife, Margaret Black Boyd. He then built a beautiful home named Habre deVenture on his 400 acre estate, where they had three children together. They were Episcopalian in their faith.
His father passed away in 1773 and left his huge estate to the oldest son of a previous marriage and nothing to Thomas. That left Thomas and Margaret with taking in his six, much younger siblings. In response they added on to their home and did so without hesitation with great love.
Stone was a quiet man who disliked the concept of war with the British. However, as many others grew to accept it, he found it to be inevitable. His alignment with independence became official when he was appointed to the state’s Committee of Correspondence. As his recognition grew, he was appointed to represent the state in the Second Continental Congress after the battles of Concord and Lexington. He signed the Olive Branch Petition as a last attempt for reconciliation.
The following was included in one of his letters. “I wish to conduct affairs so that a just and honorable reconciliation should take place, or that we should be unanimous in a resolution to fight it out for independence. The proper way to affect this is not to move too quick. But then we must take care to do everything which is necessary for our security and defense, not suffer ourselves to be lulled or wheedled by any deceptions, declarations, or giving’s out. You know my heart wishes for peace upon terms of security and justice to America. But war, anything, is preferable to a surrender of our rights.“
In June 1776 he was chosen to be one of the thirteen who drafted the Articles of Confederation. A month later when the state freed its delegates to vote, he voted for the Declaration of Independence, signing the document a month later. He returned to Maryland, his law practice, and in public service as he was elected to the state Senate. He served for several years before once again being elected to serve in the Continental Congress in 1783 as the war ended. He returned to his law practice and public service in 1785. He left the latter after serving for a year with the Constitutional Convention.
In 1787 his world was turned upside down. I will finish the body of this discussion on his life with a direct quotation from the Descendants site:
“In 1787 Stone’s wife Margaret became alarmingly ill. She had received a smallpox inoculation a decade earlier, and from the effects of the mercury contained in the vaccine, she experienced a long state of weakness and decline. During her illness, Stone wrote as follows: “The illness of a wife I esteem most dearly preys most severely on my Spirits, she is I thank God something better this afternoon, and this Intermission of her Disorder affords me time to write to you. The Doctor thinks she is in a fair way of being well in a few days. I wish I thought so….”
Stone watched over her with unwearied devotion and a deep and abiding melancholy overtook his spirit. At length, however, in the middle of 1787, she sank to the grave at the early age of thirty-six.
From this time on, the health of Stone evidently declined. The grief-stricken Stone abandoned his work, and declined to attend the Constitutional Convention to which he had been elected. In the autumn his physicians advised him to take a sea voyage and in obedience to that advice, he traveled to Alexandria to embark for England. Before the vessel was ready to sail, however, he suddenly expired on October 5, 1787 in the forty fifth year of his age. Stone is buried in the family graveyard about 200 yards from his home at Habre deVenture, in Port Tobacco, Maryland.”
Thomas Stone was a great American Patriot and an even greater person. We have been graced by God to have men and women like Thomas and Margaret Stone in our national heritage.
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Be blessed and go make something good happen!
To read of these amazing founders. Life, health, peace were not guaranteed. And yet they persisted and brought our nation into being. Thank God for all they did while facing all the difficulties of life.
AMEN!
AMEN!
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Thank you Gudhots!
Thank you, TradeBait. Here are a few quotes by George Washington regarding Providence.
—Letter to Landon Carter regarding American patriot’s prisoners in the North, October 27, 1777
—Private letter to Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, August 20, 1778
—Letter to Reverend John Rodgers, June 11, 1783
That was written between April 19, 1783, when Congress had ratified a preliminary treaty to end the war, and the official end of the war with the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783.
Outstanding, TT! Thanks for bringing those.
The more we research and consider the more we can clearly see God’s hand on our nation. We could post hours and hours of the inspiring and informing quotes of our founding fathers alone. Our children and grandchildren need to know so they can fulfill the will of God here on earth and not the will of the father of lies.
Amen!
Amen!
Pull my other finger, Bernie.
^^^ This, a million times over. What a worthless piece of crap doing the work of Godless commies his entire life.
Bingo
He even got tossed out of a commune!
Because he wouldn’t work.
Even worse he would talk/lecture and keep others from working
That old communist who was a hippy looser to politician .
Well said!
Babylon Bee material.
In other news, Nayib Bukele just got done visiting the White House.
Rumor has it that there was a deal for Colossal Biosciences to use sequences of his DNA to augment the genomes of hereditary rulers in the mideast, creating so-called “Dire-tators”. If successful, it is anticipated that a wide range of “shithole countries” will be made safe, secure, and prosperous in about 30 years.
I had to fill in a blank or two here, and hopefully I did it correctly. 1) the 400 acre estate is one that Thomas acquired on his own…it’s not the same estate as is mentioned in the next paragraph (in other words, Thomas did not build a separate house on his Father’s estate). 2) The huge estate is his father’s estate. Not only did he leave nothing to Thomas, he left nothing to those other six siblings.
You are correct and I could have written that more clearly.
It’s the Oldest son takes All and all the others become soldiers or clergy. 
Speaking of buffalo jump:
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ThanQ.
Just another bit of random news from across the pond.
The thing about music stores is that it’s helpful if someone is there to say, “your hands don’t fit that — try this.”
I still miss Tower Records… on Columbus and Bay, in North Beach… Then there was the LA store (and a ton of others, according to this article:
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/For-S-F-rockers-Tower-Records-was-where-it-was-2549696.php
We had a HUGE sheet music store (think of Byron Hoyt’s on steroids) in Stuttgart shut down… TONS of great scores and books for very cheap prices… but gone forever…..
Then again, there was Holmes Books in Oakland and Berkeley… no one seems to want “hard copy” anymore… until the power goes out….
The thing is, sheet music for anything published before about 1940 should be in the public domain — why isn’t it widely available for next-to-nothing?
Or for that matter, on line for next to nothing?
I noticed classical music scores are expensive, even on line, and any of that that isn’t as hard to listen to as it was to write and play should definitely be in the public domain.
If that sentence seemed tangled, it’s a riff off my comment that modern classical music is premised on the idea that if it is hard to write and to play, it should be hard to listen to as well.
Modern classical music is a contradiction in terms, at best.
“Classical” cacophany…
The problem with classical scores, orchestra sets, etc., is that as soon as an editor touches it, the copyright clock resets. The original scores as written by composers by hand are all but unreadable (and unplayable), so editors, arrangers, and publishers do a great deal of work to clean things up.
I have four different editions of the Chopin Piano Etudes, and people swear by (and at) them, because of the fingerings, phrasing marks, etc., etc.
And, for broadway musicals, getting “REAL” parts involves RENTING them; for the most part, the parts are not for sale. Occasionally the piano-conductor scores are available. I have “West Side Story”, which was $75.00 back in 1972!!! and is now, IIRC, north of $200.00… Granted, it’s 250 pages or so, but still…
(Oddly enough, some of the musicals I’ve played have hand-written scores and parts; the biz apparently has come full circle)….
Hard to listen to is particularly a feature of 12-tone music
But IIRC Frank Zappa wrote a 12-tone fugue (feud?), and I think the Simpson’s theme is 12-tone. The secondary Rocky and Bullwinkle theme is also 12-tone, and the most listenable of such I’ve ever heard… inconspicuous… and cheerful… not like most modern classical music…
Of course, technically “modern classical” really is a contradiction since classical refers to the period 1750-1825 or so (the first date is the date of Bach’s death, the second is fuzzier, the transition to the romantic period isn’t a clean break).
Technically what most people call “classical music” is properly called “orchestral music,” and classical is just one period of it.
Ahhh, but not all music that is termed classical is orchestral, not by a long shot. As a cellist, I play solo works (Bach Suites, Kodaly Sonatas, etc.) as well as duets, trios, quartets, quintets, sextetts, etc. with no orchestra in sight. Same goes for pieces I perform on the piano, be they sonatas, etudes, other types of pieces.
Of course, the cello and piano can be accompanied, or part of an orchestra. The term “orchestral music” doesn’t cover even the half of what’s out there.
“Modern classical” is best referred to as most works written after the mid-20th century, with dissonance, atonality, polytonality, or any combination of them at the fore.
True, I stand reminded/corrected about such things as chamber music, etc. I guess I am thinking about music heavily loaded with “strings” (i.e., violins, violas, cellos and sometimes double bass), except that even there there are a lot of solo piano works. “Classical” remains a misnomer, unfortunately, but I am sure we are both thinking of the same thing when referencing “modern classical” (the three items you mentioned all making it hard to listen to).
Speaking of loaded
The Pittsburgh Symphony was putting on a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth and, if you’ve ever had a chance to look at the score, there’s a really, reeeeally long period towards the end (about 30 minutes) where the bassists have nothing to do. They can either sit there on their stools looking stupid, or they can quietly get up and go out until it’s time for them to return. Usually they go out.
Some bassists decided to sneak offstage and go to the tavern next door for a quick drink. After slamming several beers in quick succession (as double bassists are prone to do), one of them looked at his watch, “Hey! We need to get back!”
“No need to panic,” said a fellow bassist. “I thought we might need some extra time, so I tied the last few pages of the conductor’s score together with string. I’ll take him a few minutes to get it untangled.”
A few minutes later they staggered back to the concert hall and took their places in the orchestra. About this time, a member of the audience noticed the conductor seemed a bit edgy and said as much to her date.
“Well, of course,” said her date.
“Don’t you see?
It’s the bottom of the Ninth,
the score is tied,
and the bassists are loaded.”
I have wondered about this when I’ve come across a composer’s original score online. I’ve read of instances where a piece was barely finished right before its first performance. It seems there wouldn’t have been time for someone else to copy the score into a more readable form.
Back in the day (or century) musicians performing the piece were, one can say, a different breed from those of today; able to improvise if needed, and filling in the blanks left by composers (e.g. figured bass in old music being filled in, known as continuo but we jokingly call it discontinuo). Add to that the fact that the composer usually (but not always) conducted at the premiere of said work(s), sometime to praise, other times to vociferous contempt.
Beethoven’s FANTASTIC violin Concerto (Yehudi Menhuin called it “the perfect concerto” – I heard him say that in a master class). Yet the premiere was anything but that… Hanslick, the (in)famous music critic, referred to it as a concerto AGAINST the Violin (as opposed to for it). Yet Felix Mendelssohn as conductor and Joseph Joachim, as soloist, brought the piece the respect, interpretation, and performance it deserved. And, yes, the ink was barely dry when first premiered. By the time Joachim performed it, the scores and parts were OK…
Very interesting!
And let’s not forget the fiasco that was the premiere of Beethoven’s fifth and sixth symphonies (with the numbers swapped from what we are used to),
Intellectual property law, at least in the United States, is generally premised upon an exchange. If you give something to the public, the public will give you a monopoly of the thing’s economic benefits for a time.
This fundamental understanding has been completely corrupted in almost all cases.
If you publish an artwork, it can now receive government support until long after you or your heirs are dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States
If you patent something in the US, you can continue to patent variations on that invention until the patent is decades beyond its original expiration. When you compare this to the lifespan of technology generations, it is clear that patents should have a dramatically limited term.
One of my favorite stores when I arrived in Hollywood in ’67 was on the corner of Sunset and Vine – Wallach’s Music City. It had listening booths where would-be customers could hear the music before buying. The booth windows faced the sidewalk and some people walking by could pretend to be dancing to the music they couldn’t hear. Just to make the booth sitters smile.
Tower Records in West Hollywood came later.
I remember there were places where you could sample tracks and basically assemble your own “greatest hits” CD… I don’t know how long that lasted, as I imagine the legal shenanigans were almost infinite, unless the whole project was bankrolled by a large company like Columbia or Universal, etc.
Just looking at the hassles they had doing Roger Rabbit… and that ended up with the project being endlessly delayed, finally being cancelled when Bob Hoskins died
I imagine there are clearinghouses for royalties, otherwise having a cover band play at a bar would be a nightmare. As I understand it, the bar submits a list of what was played to the clearinghouse, which takes a lump sum for the royalties and distributes it.
There are two major ones — bmi and ascap.
https://www.bmi.com/about
https://www.ascap.com/
i posted this comment on yesterday’s thread in response to pgroup, but i brought here hoping someone might have suggestions.
i got this chipmunk raiding my bird feeder on the deck. the feeder sits on the table right outside where I sit and i can see it clear as day.
I’ve played chipmunk hockey more than once every day since it found the seeds and it’s pissing me off.
I have scooted his little butt off the deck (which is a story high) more than once, but it keeps coming back. hubby laughs as I chase the little bugger around, but he’s been warned NOT to take video on his phone.
i’m open to suggestions.
i played and replayed that 3 times!
thanks for the laughs!!
https://birdwatchinghq.com/chipmunks-off-bird-feeders/
thanks duchess. the only suggestion in there we haven’t or can’t try is the pepper scent. that might do the trick!
Here’s a few interesting and hilarious ideas from Mark Rober, a former NASA scientist now entrepeneur, science lecturer/educator (Crunch Labs), humorist, forensic investigator, bane of flying rodents, and a whole lot more
Backyard Squirrel Maze 1.0- Ninja Warrior Course
Backyard Squirrel Maze 2.0- The Walnut Heist
and, Backyard Squirrelympics 3.0- The Summer Games
He’s also the creator of the Glitter Bomb series of forensic scammer captures, with its conclusion in India which resulted in shutting down a multi-billion-dollar chain of call centers preying on mostly older people, often robbing them of their life’s savings
Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Payback
And for Space Mountain, Disney Imagineering, or Tesla fans (paging Scott), here’s
Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?
Yes, I saw that about a month ago, the guy who did this is likely in serious legal trouble.
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Doubt it… Rober is in a different league even than Tesla’s engineers… and he has a team of lawyers too…
So he’s more or less an even legal match, for the richest man in the world?
Yep. If he’s legally correct, then no amount of money can counter the truth.
And, sorry (not) to say, Rober is one of the BEST engineers out there.
Did you happen to watch the first video, to see what the legal problems are?
A 22 pistol with a laser sight. Point and shoot as soon as the red dot is on his butt. No I’m not joking. Every humane method gives the chipmunk too much enjoyment.
I found the stuff we used last year…it’s called Rodent Sheriff. it smells like peppermint–strong peppermint. gonna give that a shot before a buy a laser sight…LOL
you know you mentioned it before–I’m in a mood a lot lately–can you imagine me with a 22 pistol and laser sight?? LOLOLOL
Sure can. I’ve reserved a seat behind the bulletproof glass. 
Be sure to put some marshmallows out so you can watch them get lit
I love chipmunks. I have one teasing the cats running past the front door or and looking into the house from the front door. I have bird feeders in front of the house.
boy if i could, I’d ship this one to you. he’s good at gymnastics and loves to play hockey.
Where’s the crime victim?
Probably testing products without a license, or during non-business hours.
In some places it’s illegal to fire a gun at someone unless you believe yourself to be in danger of imminent bodily harm. That assumes you’re in a dicey situation. Firing guns at each other on purpose is probably not something the lawmakers even thought of.
“In some places it’s illegal to fire a gun at someone unless you believe yourself to be in danger of imminent bodily harm.”
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Well, if they agreed to shoot each other to test the vests, then they both believed they were in danger of imminent bodily harm.
That’s why they put the vests on.
They were about to shoot each other, and without the vests, imminent bodily harm was guaranteed.
With the vests on, there should be no serious bodily harm.
They didn’t want to hurt each other, there was no intent to harm, that’s why they put the vests on.
So… absence of malice.
I learned that from a Paul Newman movie (Absence of Malice, 1981).
Been waiting decades to use it.
This is my big chance…
Hmmm…..
Vested interests…
Or uninteresting vests…..
Maybe she should have a chat with Dan Bongino…..
I thought this was possibly shared by Scott…snicker…
I can’t see it, it just says the following in white text on a sky blue background (although the text is all centered, which I can’t replicate):
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Maybe running it through Gab will let it show for you, easier than Attempting to explain
Thank you Valerie!
Hmm… yes… now I see (smell?) what the rock is cooking.
I’m not one to jump to conclusions or press our side for any kind of results whatsoever, but…
She does sorta kinda have a really solid, obvious and inarguable point…
Quick, cue the all-female ‘Blondi Defender’ house Mariachi Band!
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Yep. Some sites/folks don’t like deep linking… (Powerlineblog, I’m looking at you)…..
Quick…… WHERE’S CPL??????????
Charlotte99
April 15, 2025 3:06 am
BREAKING:
Texas AG Ken Paxton is expanding the investigation into the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC). EPIC is affiliated with CAIR and linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, with multiple allegations already suggesting violations of state law.
https://nitter.poast.org/EYakoby/status/1911892579764916467#m
Ain’t nothing holy about this ideology… the fruit of Islam is the opposite of the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Well, diddling 9-year-old girls is OK for them (and, according to Khomini of Iran, both encouraged, and in case of a “supply shortage” 9-year-old BOYS or useful ANIMALS (e.g. camels, donkeys, sheep, etc.) may be employed)….. He wrote and released a book detailing all of that, sort of an Islamic Kamasutra… disgusting, to say the least!!!
Just look at Rotherham, in England….. going on for decades, while the liberals just look the other way…..
EACH DAY WE TAKE UP THE OFFENSIVE WEAPON OF THE WORD OF GOD – THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT – ONE VERSE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER MESSAGE
Verse of the Day for Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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“I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.”
John 10:11 (KJV)
COMMENTARY FOR JOHN 10
“The parable of the good shepherd. (1-5) Christ the Door. (6-9) Christ the good Shepherd. (10-18) The Jews’ opinion concerning Jesus. (19-21) His discourse at the feast of dedication. (22-30) The Jews attempt to stone Jesus. (31-38) He departs from Jerusalem. (39-42)1-5 Here is a parable or similitude, taken from the customs of the East, in the management of sheep. Men, as creatures depending on their Creator, are called the sheep of his pasture. The church of God in the world is as a sheep-fold, exposed to deceivers and persecutors. The great Shepherd of the sheep knows all that are his, guards them by his providence, guides them by his Spirit and word, and goes before them, as the Eastern shepherds went before their sheep, to set them in the way of his steps. Ministers must serve the sheep in their spiritual concerns. The Spirit of Christ will set before them an open door. The sheep of Christ will observe their Shepherd, and be cautious and shy of strangers, who would draw them from faith in him to fancies about him.
10-18 Christ is a good Shepherd; many who were not thieves, yet were careless in their duty, and by their neglect the flock was much hurt. Bad principles are the root of bad practices. The Lord Jesus knows whom he has chosen, and is sure of them; they also know whom they have trusted, and are sure of Him. See here the grace of Christ; since none could demand his life of him, he laid it down of himself for our redemption. He offered himself to be the Saviour; Lo, I come. And the necessity of our case calling for it, he offered himself for the Sacrifice. He was both the offerer and the offering, so that his laying down his life was his offering up himself. From hence it is plain, that he died in the place and stead of men; to obtain their being set free from the punishment of sin, to obtain the pardon of their sin; and that his death should obtain that pardon. Our Lord laid not his life down for his doctrine, but for his sheep.”
Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL
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 ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN
BE MY VOICE
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
AMEN!
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN
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SHEPHERD OF MY HEART
The Shepherd keeps watch over His flock;
He daily checks hearts – then, He takes stock;
If one has been tempted and led astray;
He pursues and prods lest one slip away!
Carefully crafted by our God are we;
Inside our hearts – He can clearly see;
When we accept Jesus – as Lord of all;
We answer to Jesus – the Shepherd’s call!
Oh, Lord – let me never stray from the flock;
May You always find me when You take stock;
If some day – I should be tempted and stray;
Come after me, Lord – let me not slip away!
You know in my heart – Your Spirit resides;
Be sure in my heart – Your Spirit abides;
I lay at Your feet – the trials of the day;
Shepherd of My Heart – be not far away!
Direct and perfect me in all I do;
Let my labor be blessed – pleasing to You;
Let all that I am and ever will be;
Give Honor and Glory only to Thee!
Whenever I’m stumbling along the way;
Reach out to me – set me upright – I pray;
Separated from You – I pray not to be;
Shepherd of My Heart – stay close to me!
Keeper of this heart of mine – be patient;
For I am but human – sometimes I’m salient;
Not paying attention – distracted am I;
With worldly concerns – in the blink of an eye!
Be the sunlight of my day – a ray of hope;
Help me, Oh Lord – to steadfastly cope;
Be the light of my night – a bright beacon;
The Shepherd of My Heart – my church deacon!
Wash and cleanse me – as I repent today;
Purify me – in Your Word and Your Way;
Let not my sin – separate us for long;
Shepherd of my Heart – to You, I belong!
Strengthen me daily – that I may not stray;
Keep me securely in Your arms today;
I trust in You – above all – and I pray;
Shepherd of My Heart – guide my heart today!
D01: 08/01/2013
Thank You Duchess! 
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/#comment-1270417
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Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing
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Thank you, TradeBait2!!! Our history is amazing and reviewing it is well worth the time!
Yes!
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heidi
April 15, 2025 5:58 am
Racist demonkkkrats in systemically racist state of CA.
CA doubles fines on white drivers~
Two men are speeding through a construction zone on a California freeway. They have identical speeds and driving records.
They’re both stopped and get tickets. One man pays $500 and the other $100.
How is that possible? One driver is white and the other is a member of a minority group.
This illegal experiment in disproportionate racial impact known as ‘AB-645 Vehicles: Speed Safety System Pilot Program” passed the California State Assembly 62-9 and the Senate by 29-6 (the ‘no’ votes were nearly all from Republicans) before being signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. And the systemically racist program is now being rolled out in LA, San Francisco, and other areas before the two-tier fine system can be implemented statewide….
Read in full:
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/04/california-doubles-fine-on-white-drivers.html
Have to wonder what percentage of the perps (speeders, etc.) are POCs…
I’m betting far more than half… maybe 80 percent? (80-20 rule)….
Don’t overlook the Karens from the ‘burbs.
If they tied it to income instead of race they’d have something to hide behind. As is this is Blatant Racism.
Meanwhile.
I think the plan is to come after each of us individually. 
All piled atop this stuff.
that second one!!!
Well, that woman in the first ‘tweet’ is going to have a logistics problem.
Her white half is going to have to pay her black half. Net profit – zero.
Side note: 95% of American blacks have some white DNA.
This white American has African DNA. It is from a shipwrecked slave who interbred with a Native American. Do I get any money?
Hubby has white slave ancestors, Quakers that were enslaved in the Caribbean, clearly against their will…
You get a bill. Don’t like it? Tough.
Good grief.
“They owe African Americans – minimum of $300K each in Reparations!
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Molon Labe.
“America doesn’t have a white supremacist problem…. they have a never ending stream of unaccountable black murderers.”
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Agreed.
Black violence is off the charts.
Because black culture is off the rails.
CA is doing other things based on income. Was posted a week or two ago.
CA Is A NO GO Zone.
CA government is long gone rogue and is not legitimate. Shouldn’t have a seat in US Congress until they return to constitutional governance.
“If they tied it to income instead of race they’d have something to hide behind.”
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Sounds like a variation of “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
From a search inquiry on Brave web browser, A.I. assist:
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Communism Distribution
The phrase “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” is a slogan popularized by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Programme.
This principle refers to the distribution of goods, capital, and services in a communist society where production is abundant and everyone’s needs are met based on their individual requirements.
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Comment posted misrepresents the law.
Unconst
itutional EVIL!
My white privilege just got more expensive.
The California legislature passed a bill allowing for the use of automated speeding cameras as a pilot program in 6 California counties: Los Angeles, Glendale, Long Beach, San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. In response to rising traffic fatalities attributed to speed, the bill imposes a fine of $100 for going 16 to 25 miles per hour over, $200 for going 26 miles per hour over, and $500 for going 100 miles per hour or more. Drivers traveling between 11 and 15 mph will receive a warning notice for the first offenses and a $50 fine for a second offense. Individuals who make less than 250 percent of the poverty level will have their fines reduced by 50 percent or 80 percent if they are indigent. The bill also stipulates that the revenue from the camera systems must first be used to recover program costs, with excess revenue used for local traffic-calming measures.
Read the bill here.
Read Human’s Rights Watch opposition to California AB 645 citing concerns that it will exponentially generate fines, disproportionately impacting BIPOC communities here.
An analysis by hrw.org offers these objections, among others…
(they focus on low income, racial targeting issues, but there are other concerns they cover that may be of interest.)
I should also note that these “30 days to pay the fine” deals are very annoying when your car is stolen for a large portion of those 30 days.
A friend now has a worse cliff-hanger.
Where they live, the county website that allows you to pay your fine online is broken. It can’t find your ticket, therefore you can’t pay. And they cheerfully posted on their site something to the effect, “yeah, we know it’s broken, but don’t worry you won’t have to pay more if it makes you late.”
So my friend goes in person to pay (on last day before it’s late) and they say, “sorry, your ticket isn’t in the system yet. try back in 30 days to see if it’s in yet. but it can take up to a year for the ticket to show up. just keep checking.” Unbelievable.
Worst part? They weren’t speeding. But didn’t have time to fight it, so was just going to pay. They’ve never had a ticket because they don’t speed.
You’re misusing pronouns, friend. Not a good look.
But we luv ya. 
Could be, in this case, and these circumstances, they’re amateur nouns…
(Quick…. where’s Ted Mack…..)…..
Could you do the software engineering debugging/analysis method and run it over and try it again to see if anything changes?
WAIDDAMINIT!!!!!
I don’t care WHERE someone comes from, or if they’re purple with pink-and-yellow stripes and white polka-dots…
IF YOU DO THE CRIME, YOU DO THE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PUNKT!!!!!
…automated speeding cameras…
Sheep in these CA cities could learn from Londoners.
The ONE thing England, London any way, did was cut down or otherwise make cameras inoperable.
Not England, Londonistan (Khan-Artiste), or the plod. Rather the youf, the people, rising up to put a stop to it…
Here’s hoping and praying they put a stop to everything else, including the globalist trash and tragedy instituted by Labour…
My ancestors are rolling in their graves, no doubt…
(Scots-Irish-Welsh-English here…)…..
thanks for clarifying that!!!
Thanks. Better than the “race problem” then, but still a problem as Scott and your self points out. Freaking communist problem.
Wonder how much of that speeding, etc., is a result of “driving impaired”, i.e. doped-up….. we’re starting to see the same thing here, and, SURPRISE, SURPRISE, doped-up is usually worse than drunk(-up)…..
Equal protection under the law cannot Legitimately be voided by a state, can it? 
The law doesn’t do what that comment states.
$500 is for going over 100 mph, nothing to do with race.
TY GT
Gives a whole new meaning to race condition…
(ducks and hides behind inpenetrable, obscure, and poorly-tested code
)…..
Nitty Gritty Time in DC has begun in earnest. Several of these stories popped up yesterday. This is the hard stuff to keep in eye on as it get’s rather wieldy especially after Congress gets involved.
Trump weighs slashing State Department budget by nearly half.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/14/trump-state-department-budget-00289269
Meanwhile there appears to be a lot of internal State Department push back if this story is any indicator.
NEW: Trump Official Who Oversaw Closure of USAID OUT at State Department After Alleged Clashes with RubioCristina Laila Apr. 14, 2025 5:40 pm 503 Comments
Interesting name/acronym for that new program, if you swap high bytes and low bytes:
A merica
F irst
O pportunities
F und
AFOF….
FAFO ….
Could describe the “conclusion” of USAID…
The National Endowment for Democracy gets ZERO dollars.
The Deep State (CYA) is going to be MAD, very, very MAD and (Queen) Victory (the Second) Nuland will be absolutely furious. No money for the Forever Wars, no money for Color Revolutions, no money to pay off for our Globo-(e)Lites.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/frozen-tuesday-april-15-2025-c-and
Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Happy Tax Day, too. Or something. Anyway, your hard-hitting roundup today includes: Trump versus Harvard, and Harvard is getting beaten like a red-headed stepchild caught stealing daddy’s best whiskey; new Times limited hangout team strikes again with infuriating admission about ADHD’s industrial-strength lies; and growing epidemic of early-onset Alzheimer’s baffles experts who can’t see a needle if it pricked them in the eyeball.
That last topic. He’s making me laugh but I want to cry.
Yep. The guy is brilliant…
This song came to mind as I began reading your most excellent post Trade Bait–Blessings!
Here is an article that can, IMO, be given to anyone who is still pushing the COVID-19 “vaccines” — to anyone who is still taking the COVID-19 “vaccines” — to any parent/guardian who is going to allow a COVID-19 “vaccine” to be given to their child (children) — to anyone / any entity who is still “requiring” COVID-19 “vaccination”:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/04/14/update-on-the-covid-vaccines/
Yours Truly: This article was written by Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD, a retired internationally-known neurosurgeon.
Dr. Blaylock confirms, among things, that which Yours Truly has written about regarding the COVID-19 “vaccines” — By the time a person takes their THIRD injection of a COVID-19 “vaccine”, their natural immune system is, for all practical purposes, destroyed. This is due to the mechanisms of the COVID-19 “vaccines”, which damage / destroy the crucial igG3 (“fight it off”) cells of the “vaccinated” person’s body, and foster huge increases of the igG4 (“tolerate and never clear”) cells: thus paving the way for everything from “breakthrough” COVID-19 infections, to autoimmune diseases, to the onset of “turbo-cancers”, to the re-establishment of cancers that were previously under control, and more — in the “vaccinated” person.
IMO — What COVID-19 “vaccinated” persons need to understand is that they are basically “ticking time bombs” due to the ingredients and mechanisms of the COVID-19 “vaccines” that they took.
This is so scary, and so dire. I feel sorry for people who are in this situation.
People CAN take control of their health, and mitigate what was done to them, to whatever extent they can. The human immune system CAN be supported and improved by supplements, diet, sleep, exercise, etc. Ivermectin, quercetin, and nattokinase are gifts from nature, made by the Creator, that fight the damage.
What I refuse to do is accept that it is hopeless for them. It is not. These people must have HOPE, because hopelessness is as damaging to the immune system as the vaxx.
And on that note, GOD does whatever GOD wants, up to and including healing illness. I have been healed by faith before, my grandmother was, too, and I know others who have also. Including my pastor, who contracted a brain worm after traveling on a mission overseas, like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reportedly had. He had brain damage from the worm, and then, when scanned again after his then-fiance and many Christians prayed for weeks, he no longer had any brain damage at all. He was ready to give up on being married to the love of his life to spare her from living with his issues, but God intervened.
There is ALWAYS hope in God, even if someone has nothing else.
Amen!
https://joannenova.com.au/2025/04/who-owns-the-oceans-the-un-wants-to-tax-ships-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-a-40b-windfall-for-unaccountable-global-bureaucrats/
What looks, acts, and taxes like One World Government?The UN has succeeded in getting a global shipping tax approved supposedly to control the weather. It will be formally adopted in October, and start in 2027, applying to ships of more than 5,000 tons. I don’t remember our parliamentarians debating it, do you? Somehow a tariff is a terrible but a global trade tax paid to unaccountable bureaucrats will save the world?
Trump needs to be asked about this at a presser.
What is the enforcement mechanism?
JoNova has a whole bunch of great articles up, with links to other ones, either in the main article or the comments… another ian over at Chiefios has a few listed as well…
The following will be added to last week’s Health Friday article, regarding the dangers of saRNA (aka sa-mRNA):
https://sayerji.substack.com/p/the-self-amplifying-rna-vaccine-threat
11 April 2025
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/fda-fast-tracks-vaccine-nightmare
14 April 2025
Scroll down to the interview with Atty. Renz. He begins his discussion at 2:38 in the video.
Next Trump staff meeting, RFK Jr needs to asked about WHY the saRNA Jab is being fast tracked.
There is no bird flu problem. Even if there was, Jabs gotta be developed with All Safety protocols in place.
kalbo
Thank you.
In addition, somebody must ask RFK, Jr., IF he knew that this was going to happen; and, if he knew, WHY did he allow it to happen.
Yours Truly has decided to instead add the above to the STOP PRESS separate edition post of yesterday 14 April.
Thank you.
OK, done.
According to replies, Arcturus is a Bill Gates company!
https://xcancel.com/RenzTom/status/1910780397899964560
barkerjim
Thank you. Please see below:
That risk-taking and stretching on one’s own efforts and measuring limits is something that is largely missing from today’s society…
Nanny state will take care of everything so you don’t have to think for yourselves anymore…
Instead of real men anymore, we get a bunch of scaredy-cat wusses afraid of their own shadows… soy boys…
Dr. James Dobson has a number of books on this topic, including “Bringing Up Boys”, and a companion volume about girls, as they’ve been culturally abandoned and attacked too…
Well worth reading…
Tragic, what has happened to American youth and culture…..
calling all brilliant qtreepers.
can someone see Spot run this for me?
DataRepublican (small r)
New tool in the works! 
@DataRepublican
Today I’ve been deep in the guts of something ambitious: a system to cross-check Form 990 data, audit reports, and federal spending to flag when an org’s stated purpose doesn’t match where the money’s actually going.
Here’s how it’s coming together:
We’ve already spot-checked a few orgs where the federal grant descriptions either don’t match anything in the 990… or wildly exceed what the org claims to have done.
This might be the first large-scale “hey, here’s where DOGE should dig deeper” tool.
Coming soon
She is trying to develop a tool to audit NGOs based on their reported spending patterns.
Not sure this answers your q, Pat, and I won’t explain the acronyms & technical steps, but basically she is finding a way to match what NGOs and non-profits claim on their IRS returns (Form 990) for revenues, expenses, activities against the funding they receive from taxpayers (gov’t) to see how far they stray from their stated missions (ie the reasons they qualified for tax-exempt ststus).
For example, why an NGO claiming to promote ‘democracy’ in foreign countries would be promoting & funding transsexual surgery (all with taxpayer funds).
thank you Alison…that makes sense now!
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Parents in Burlington, Massachusetts Furious After Students as Young as 11 Were Asked Sexually Explicit Questions in Survey Mike LaChance Apr. 14, 2025 9:40 pm 371 Comments
This kind of thing can only be arrested when the school personnel responsible are arrested and removed from positions of power and influence.
Maybe just remove the school system.
The better plan.
Marshall Fritz called the school system the reproductive organ of the state.
IMO anyone who had a part in this should be individually sued. Also, I wonder if there are laws against this kind of thing — whatever involves exposing children to sexually explicit material.
Seems what was done is against multiple laws … child endangerment, child abuse, exploitation, etc. Will the laws be enforced? How about it Massachusetts? US DOJ?
BREAKING: Top Hegseth Advisor Escorted Out of Pentagon For Leaking
Termination at a minimum.
Prosecute if classified information involved.
While Gil00’s dogs were snoozin’….
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/animals/herd-of-elephants-form-alert-circle-to-protect-calves-during-san-diego-earthquake/vi-AA1CXQwS?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=3eef0fd3764b4abeae66a7f9e5899738&ei=116
Interesting
Feel good story of the day…
SIL’s shift (law enforcement) received notice from ICE to pick up one criminal illegal at a specific address. When they got to the home, he was there, along with a dozen of his friends. All of them were illegals as well. Sucks for them, they are all on their way home. DEPORTED.
Wonderful!
Progress!
h/t Filly
Looks like upstate NY roads.
Or Taxechusetts roads.
Woodmen where it crosses Academy.
I literally can’t tell where the stop line is because there are so many bare patches of concrete showing through the asphalt.
we;; NY does salt the crap out of their roads–that’s for sure!
OurLastStand
April 15, 2025 3:50 pm
From Lee Zeldin:
Make Sunsets is a startup that is geoengineering by injecting sulfur dioxide into the sky and then selling “cooling credits.” This company is polluting the air we breathe. I’ve instructed my team that we need to quickly get to the bottom of this and take immediate action.
So apparently Lee Zeldin has had to set his sights on corralling the slick and tricky start ups profiting off Bill Gates and what ever idiots rubbed the lamp. 
Bill Gates Sr. and his Dim Son…….
sync
April 15, 2025 3:15 pm
From a 100 billion dollar surplus…..
Evening Prayer For Forgiveness
Heavenly Father, thank You for bringing me through this day and Lord, forgive me for the times when I have wandered outside Your best will for me, instead of trusting You implicitly.
Thank You, that You are such a gracious Shepherd to me and that You come and rescue me even when I lose my way and stray from the path that You have laid out for me.
As I look back over today, I know Lord that there were things that I should have said and done differently, and times when I reacted in a manner that was not honouring Your holy name. Forgive me I pray, but thank You, Father, that You always faithfully prepared to gently bring me back to Yourself.
Give me a good night’s sleep I pray, knowing that there is no condemnation because I am in Christ, and may I wake up in the morning refreshed and ready to do Your will. In Jesus’ name I pray,
Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers
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Evening Prayer For Future Guidance
Heavenly Father, as I lie down to sleep tonight, I pray that You would guard my sleeping and protect my mind from wandering thoughts and unnecessary planning. Teach me to wait for Your perfect timing and not to try to plan my future in my own strength.
Lord, I know that You have scheduled every day of my life. Help me to trust You in all things and rely on You to lead me along the straight path and guide me in the direction that You would have me to go.
Give me patience to wait for Your perfect timing, and may I not trust in my own abilities and scheming, but rather rest in Your love and trust my future into Your hands.
And so now Lord, I commit this night to you, asking that I would rest soundly and wake refreshed and strong to do Your bidding. This I ask in Jesus’ precious name,
Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers
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Prayer Of Thanksgiving In The Evening
Praise Your holy name Heavenly Father, for granting yet another day in my life and for being with me every step of the way. Thank You for the many blessings that You have provided and the love and fellowship that I have with the friends and family that in Your grace You have placed in my life.
My heart is so thankful for all the many blessings that I enjoy day by day, and today I am once again reminded that Your mercies are new every morning and Your faithfulness endures from generation to generation.
Thank You, that I have been brought into Your family and have been made a child of God and a citizen of heaven. Words cannot express my love and devotion to You Lord
I pray that You would watch over me as I rest tonight, and that You would give me a restful nights sleep so that I may wake up in the morning refreshed in body and spirit and ready to do Your will. Guard all those that I love and may we all grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ in the days that lie ahead. This I ask in His precious name,
Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers
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Amen.
We may have glanced off this problem before, adverse vax effects on the brain, but I don’t think we’ve faced it head on yet. This is what it’s starting to look like.
http://401ak47.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/caution-zombies-ahead-sign.jpg
Like minds…..
I just posted that on PAVACA ‘s article from yesterday. Things definitely aren’t looking good for the sheeple…..
This paragraph from the study seems disconcerting…. (as I cruise around the internets, past studies for post vax production of spike proteins gave data for weeks, not months nor years, but here we are… 
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…wait I’m not French and I didn’t take the vaccine 
but I’m still going to have to deal with the zombies?. )
Demons! 
Related.
para59r
Thank you.
Yours Truly presented the study yesterday in the main discussion thread. This study confirms what my suspicion was, and my investigation into, what happened with my late brother going into cognitive impairment, then being diagnosed with “sudden-onset” dementia, which was then involved in his death last October.
The above happened to my late brother a few months after he took his FOURTH dose of a COVID-19 “vaccine” at Thanksgiving of 2023.
The investigation that I performed was detailed in a Special Edition post on the board here last Fall.
Not Commala again, please! It’s concerning that AOC has that much support. Stephen A. Smith would at least be interesting.
Supporting Kakala here. 
I can see why. But that voice, that cackle, the word salads…
Meanwhile Biden spoke in Chicago today on Social Security. Sure it was a hum dinger and will galvanize the base.
If anyone thinks they need some punishment the speech is here.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-biden-speaks-out-to-protect-social-security-in-high-profile-address-after-leaving-office
Yeah, and he talked about “colored kids” on the bus when he was a kid. Jeez this guy is a racist idiot.
Social Security fear porn seems to be a strategy. I’ve noticed this fear porn affecting people locally. 
Bongino Sends Another Message,MAGA Is Gaining Support, Bigger Than Anyone Can Imagine – Ep. 3619
April 15, 2025 x22report
https://x22report.com/bongino-sends-another-messagemaga-is-gaining-support-bigger-than-anyone-can-imagine-ep-3619/
Thousands of workers at the IRS combined owe a total of nearly 50 million in overdue taxes. Trump’s tariffs are working, China is panicking and now they are making fun of Americans. Big Fail. Trump confirms the economic target,the Federal Reserve, it is time to end the endless. The [DS] says the quiet part out loud, they are working with AG to try to keep Trump in court for the next four years. Their plan is now failing which means they will be moving to the next phase. Trump’s counterinsurgency is building, the MAGA movement is gaining support. Bongino sends another message letting everyone know they are working behind the scenes. This is bigger than anyone can imagine.
Ep 3619a – China Panics, Tariff Plan Working,Trump Confirms The Economic Target,The Federal Reserve
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3619a-china-panics-tariff-plan-workingtrump-confirms-the-economic-targetthe-federal-reserve/
Ep 3619b – Bongino Sends Another Message,MAGA Is Gaining Support, Bigger Than Anyone Can Imagine
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3619b-bongino-sends-another-messagemaga-is-gaining-support-bigger-than-anyone-can-imagine/
Arrests Matter.
TradeBait2
Thank you for today’s post!
Yes, it was the Providence of the Almighty God that Donald Trump turned his head just that fraction of an inch which saved his life on the stage in Butler, PA. It was the Providence of the Almighty God that Donald Trump got up after being shot and pumped his fist in defiance as he was surrounded by Secret Service agents. It was the Providence of the Almighty God that Donald Trump was elected the 47th President of the United States.
A hearty Amen!
TB, Another interesting read. Love the history. Thanks.
Federal Payrol Numbers Falling…
20,000 IRS Employees Accept President Trump’s Offer to Resign
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/20000-irs-employees-accept-president-trumps-offer-resign/
h/t Insty
Saw this on one of my crypto yootoober blogs:
https://www.neurosurgical.tv/the-breakthrough-blood-test-for-alzheimers-disease-the-p-tau217-biomarker-for-prediction-and-prevention/
Breakthrough Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Disease
The p-Tau217 Biomarker for Prediction and Prevention
It discusses a significant advancement in Alzheimer’s research involving the p-Tau217 biomarker, which can be detected through a blood test to predict and potentially aid in the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.
What is p-Tau217?
p-Tau217 is a phosphorylated form of the tau protein, which is associated with the development of Alzheimer’s. In Alzheimer’s, tau proteins form tangles in the brain, contributing to neuronal damage.
Elevated levels of p-Tau217 in the blood have been shown to correlate with early brain changes, even before symptoms appear, making it a promising biomarker for early detection.
AI algorithms, particularly machine learning models, are used to analyze large datasets of blood test results, brain imaging, and patient histories to identify patterns associated with p-Tau217 levels and Alzheimer’s risk.
Significance of the Blood Test:
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Wednesday’s article is scheduled. With luck it will actually post.
I do not want to ask Wolfie to double check so fingers crossed.
I am headed to bed. I will check during the night if I wake up as I usually do.
Sleep well!
Well, drat.
no new post…yet…
It would appear it’s not scheduled for the right time. I of course can’t see it so I can’t tell what happened.
CORRECTION: I *can* see a list of scheduled posts and nothing appears for the 16th.
Will Place Holder Under Arrest.
That’s the best place for Holder to be
Place Holder Under Arrest is posted.
Good deal!
Hello, uh, I’m looking for Wolf’s All-Night Barbeque & Blog.
Is this the right place?
Gail said she scheduled it.
I don’t see it yet. I’m wondering if Holder will need to be placed under arrest.
She also said that she’d check it when she woke up in the middle of the night.