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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.”
What Does God Want Me To Do?
We ask “What does God want me to do?” for a variety of reasons. We may be facing a big life decision and truly want to follow God’s plan. Or we may be searching for God and believe that there are steps to follow or rules to keep in order to find Him. Or we may ask, “What does God want me to do?” because we can’t find purpose or meaning in our lives and suspect that God is keeping it from us. Whatever motivates the question, the Bible has answers when we are wondering what God wants us to do.
When asking what God wants me to do, remember that we are not human doings. We were created in God’s image as human beings to communicate and walk in harmony with Him (Genesis 1:27). Doing is the result of being. Birds sing because they are birds; they do not sing in order to become birds. They sing, fly, and feather their nests because of who they are. So what God really wants is for all our doings to emanate from our being. He has no interest in grudging actions that have no connection with our hearts (Psalm 51:16–17; 1 Samuel 15:22; Micah 6:6–8). Whatever we do for God must come from a place of overflowing love, worship, and surrender (Hosea 6:6; 12:6).
The first thing God wants us to do is to accept His offer of salvation. We are hopeless in our sin and cannot be good enough to overcome our sin and enter His presence. That’s why Jesus came into the world to take the punishment we deserve (2 Corinthians 5:21). When we put our faith in Christ’s death and resurrection, we can fulfill our purpose of knowing and glorifying God (Romans 6:1–6). God takes on the job of transforming us so that we become more like Jesus (Romans 8:29). So the first answer to the question what does God want me to do? is to receive His Son, Jesus, as Lord and begin the journey of faith.
After we are saved, what God wants us to do is “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). When God adopts us into His family (Romans 8:15), we begin a new relationship with Him that affects every aspect of our lives. Rather than making decisions to please ourselves, we make decisions that will please the Lord (2 Corinthians 10:31). Those decisions will be supported by the Bible, affirmed through godly counsel, and acted on through the power of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16, 25).
A quick checklist of things God wants us to do is found in Micah 6:8, which says, “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
Acting justly requires that we live with a sense of right and wrong and deal honestly and fairly with those around us. Jesus said we should not judge by appearances, “but judge with right judgment” (John 7:24). To do what God wants us to do, we must give everyone what is due them, we must live truthfully, and we must never oppress or exploit anyone. We should treat other people as fairly as we like to be treated (Matthew 7:12).
Loving mercy means we offer another chance to someone who does not deserve it. To do what God wants us to do, we must follow Jesus’ example in mercy; He was eager to show mercy toward anyone who repented (John 8:10–11; Luke 23:42–43). Like Jesus, we must forgive those who sin against us (Matthew 18:23–35). We should rejoice when someone is shown mercy, remembering how much mercy God has shown us (Luke 6:35–36).
We walk humbly with our God by seeking His blessing and approval on our life decisions. God does not become merely a part of our lives, He IS our life (Galatians 2:20). To do what God wants us to do, we grow in our faith, continuing to surrender more and more areas of our lives to His control. We daily deny ourselves, take up our crosses, and follow Him (Luke 9:23). Only when we keep our sins confessed (1 John 1:9) and our lives free from idolatry and worldliness, (1 John 5:21) can we walk humbly with our God.
God wants us to impact our world with His message, the gospel. Jesus answered the question what does God want me to do? Some of us will be called by the Great Commission: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” (Matthew 28:19–20). Others will will heed the words of Peter “But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” (1 Peter 3:15)
And also: In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5:16)
Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. (Colossians 4:5-6)
In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. (2 Corinthians 5:19-20)
I don’t believe that we have to scour God’s Word to look definitive answers to what professions we should pursue, what school we should attend, where we will find our one true love, what job we should take, where we should live, or other such details of life. God wants us to trust Him and follow Christ.
And what about the answers to those other life questions? Yes, they’re covered, too. Remember, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will direct your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)
Love God and abide in Christ.
Lots of great counsel there. Thank you, Carl.
“Fake News” – Mike Pence Lashes Out After His “That’s Not My Concern” Comment to Tucker Carlson Goes Viral
Nothing was taken out of context, and Pence’s remarks have been played in their entirety. He can say that he meant that tanks for Ukraine were not his concern, since that is what Tucker mentioned before saying “where’s the concern for the United States?” — but the responsibility lies with Pence for not being clear.
Pence used a pronoun, “that” (That’s not my concern”), which people are justifiably linking to the last thing Tucker referred to: concern for the United States. I believe Pence did not want to be on record saying he doesn’t support Ukraine or tanks or monetary aid, etc. So he used a pronoun that was open to interpretation. That is 100% on him.
And because he didn’t want to be quoted as saying he doesn’t support aid for Ukraine, he is now being quoted for saying problems in the United States are not his concern.
Additionally, Pence used the same word that Tucker did, “concern,” so it is reasonable to link the two ideas referencing concern:
“I think it’s a fair question to ask, where’s the concern for the United States?”
“That’s not my concern.”
And Pence is using Trump’s term, “fake news,” against conservatives. IMO he shouldn’t be trusted with the position of WH poop-scooper, let alone anything else.
Nicely summarized.
One could say that Pence “misspoke”, but he did so in evading a clear answer, and defaulting to a short and evasive answer.
I don’t have a lot of sympathy here. Pence could have shown more concern for Americans in a longer and more detailed answer, but he did not, because he’s avoiding the true argument. “What is America’s biggest concern here?” Fair question.
“I don’t have a lot of sympathy here.”
I do not know what the SI unit of sympathy is, but if you have an atto-whateveritis, you have too much.
huh?- Cheap seats idiot here is lost…
10 second mark particularly applicable 😉
I’m telling him if he has even so little as a tiny part-of-an-atom of sympathy for Pence, it is too much.
TYVM for dumbing your genius down for a bit so I can “get” it LOL
I would never presume You to have Any sympathy for Pence, or frankly for anyone to do so at the Q-Tree…
though that one military guy highly praising the Pencester for the difficult operation they pulled off/were allegedly pulling off has never been adequately explained as far as I know…so 1% possibility that Pence is playing a scripted part in Trump’s movie… 😉 😉
“though that one military guy highly praising the Pencester for the difficult operation they pulled off/were allegedly pulling off has never been adequately explained as far as I know…”
I am with you on this Val. I have never been able to reason out that particular dialogue so long ago. I do not think Pence is playing to a Trump script. I believe he is as he appears. As Bakocarl pointed out earlier in his post: doing follows being.
well said!
I have a feeling ‘the difficult operation’ was the OUSTING of POTUS Trump by sabotaging the 2020 election.
Perhaps Pence will prove me wrong, but he always seemed to me to be slick and slimy.
That may well be. But that means both of those men were not on Trump’s side. At the time I thought the bureaucrat was a definite Trump supporter. Pence was a politician so you can never know for sure. It has been my experience that a politician is never on anyone’s side but his own.
Tough to say.
However high rank means you PLEASED OBAMA….
^^^ All spot on AND, NOT nimble, when the interviewer (Tucker) is NOT playing nice.
Steve I hope one day you find your smile again. and a new gravatar will appear.
stay well
I tried to change it to something else. No matter what I uploaded, all it showed was a solid color. It changes every time I try.
shades of darwin
Are you uploading to Gravatar or to this site?
This site.
Um…clarification; I’m going into my profile which means it’s being uploaded to WordPus.
There’s WordPressDotWolf and then there’s WordPressDotCom, and even though going through your user profile HERE takes you to Gravatar, I’m not sure if you’re using that or the WordPressDotCom profile that is accessed by clicking on the right end of the black bar.
I’m not positive if there is a difference or not.
How did you access your profile?
On the right side of the black bar is a write button, a little button with my avatar on it, and the bell. Clicking on that button shows a dropdown, and the top entry on it is “my profile”
Clicking on that, I get “click here to change profile. It lets me upload a picture and even lets me select which part will be shown….but then when I accept it, all I get is the solid color.
Did you accidentally click that slider button below it, that says “hide my gravatar”? That might be doing this.
I did not.
LOL! Exactly.
“I’m hear to explain Mike Pence and sympathize with his world-destroying error, and I’m all out of sympathy.”
Pence looked unsympathetic right from the start at the Tucker interview.
He looked as if he resented being there. Pence also seems to be so eager to use his practiced response to Tucker that screwed him up.
He was so focus that he did not waited for the full question to blurt our his response. Just watch this guy with the speaker off and look at his body language that tells one everything. He should not be near the WH.
I know he batch many of Trump’s agendas. Pence was in charge of election modification and he said paraphrased He could not get governors to work with him ” . He was in charge of the covid team he fell in Trumps back to agree the diversion that scarf lady did. There is much more I cannot think off. Oh yes the Flynn ouster. Pence is the worse kind hiding behind the Cross of Jesus Christ.
Pence played Brutus to Trumps Julius Creaser.
So true 🙁
Yep. He got caught trying to circle around and attack Tucker, and lost whatever track of thinking he might have had (OK, one Googleplexth of a thought 🙂 ) in that vain attempt.
And, as you say, he’s a hypocrite and a backstabber of the lowest order. Only going to lunch alone… I look at that now as affirmation that he has a fidelity problem as opposed to anything else; sort of like an alcoholic avoiding alcohol (any kind, for that matter)…
Whitewashed (as opposed to white-housed) tomb…
Yup 🙂
Exactly!
That is what it looked like 🙂
Excellent summation of the major black marks against him!
Sadly so
He stabbed Trump in the back starting with calling Flynn a liar.
Flynn would never have been ousted if it were not for PENCE!
Flynn’s alleged lie to Pence was based on only a summary by the people who framed him
NOTE DATE: May 17, 2020
By M Dowling –
This looks like it is an attempt to rehabilitate Pence in the eyes of MAGA.
Original as of DECEMBER 22, 2017 FACE THE NATION:
Pence: I knew Flynn lied to me about Russian contacts when he was fired
There are various videos of Pence speaking.
Remember the whole Flynn mess WAS BASED ON WHAT PENCE SAID and not what Flynn said. Flynn’s guilty plea was extorted when he was told to plead guilty or they would go after his son.
Flynn with high level clearances, as the incoming Director of National Intelligence nominee and Trump’s first national security adviser had every right to be communicating with the Russians after the election. They needed the PENCE LIE in order to go after Flynn and start the Mueller investigation.
They Live. And then they die.
I just listened again. 😝 (The tweet is linked above.) Tucker tried to get Pence on record regarding Ukraine, and Pence dodged the question.
Pence did talk for 20 seconds about the problems in America: Then he said, “Anybody that says that we can’t be the leader of the free world and solve our problems at home has a pretty small view of the greatest nation on earth. We can do both.” Then he says that “as president,” we will do the things that need to be done in America, and “we will also lead the world for freedom under my administration, I promise you.” That was the end of the interview.
Because Pence didn’t directly address Tucker’s comment about Ukraine (“You are distressed that Ukrainians don’t have enough American tanks?!”), I take the above rhetoric to mean that Pence thinks continued support for Ukraine is part of “leading the world for freedom.”
Pence ran into a very astute interviewer in Tucker Carlson, he tried to best him, and he lost the battle.
People love Donald Trump because he speaks plainly. No political double-speak, no lofty rhetoric. You come away knowing what he means and where he stands.
Pence vs. Trump = Shady politician versus MAGA patriot.
Pence should not be on the stage at all.
Ummm … NONE of the “other” candidates should be anywhere near the aura of MAGA Trump.
It’s all about the money to them anyway, so just go away.
A lesson Rhonda and cronies are beginning to learn. But hey, he got the money.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-fires-roughly-dozen-staffers-campaign-shake-rcna94470
To late we saw him the real him.
That aura should give them third degree sunburns…or perhaps a good dose of gamma rays.
So maybe they should be allowed to try.
Wise
Amen
^^^ This. 100%. His evasion was damning IMO.
Aside for the Cabal’s messing up Ukraine, Americans has NO real interest. As Tucker said most could not find Ukraine on a map (without labels.)
The fact Pence wants us to get into a EUROPEAN WAR is not in the best interests of the USA PERIOD esp when we have a YUGE national debt. AND both Russia and Ukraine actually wanted to come to the table but ENGLAND (Bank of London) SAID NO!
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Last night you asked what Grandma was like.
She was a 4 ft 8, Latin teacher who would grab my 6 ft 6 teenage brother by the ear, drag him down to her level and dress him down in very proper English. He was scared to death of her.
I am not sure whether it was Grandma or Mom who, when ‘brother dear’, refused to take out the garbage for a couple weeks, took ALL that nice ripe garbage, put it in his bed and remade the bed. My parents did not resort to physical punishment once we were in school, instead they got VERY creative.😆
I can not ever remember giving Grandma trouble. As a toddler/grade school kid, I would bring her wild flowers and wild strawberries, blue berries and raspberries in season.
I watched the agony my teen brother put my parents through and resolved, at a very young age, NOT to do the same.
Yes, elder siblings make for good trial/sounding boards for younger siblings who pay heed to the consequences of their mistakes. The only time I can remember that working out the other way was on “Leave it to Beaver”. 😁
There supposedly a clip where mom says to dad, you were a little rough on the beaver last night. 😎
I still wonder how the family name managed to get through the censors…
Pence backstabbed America, Trump (election integrity Covid, J6…).
Pence will never recover from stating, “not my concern”, over America collapsing. Pence never had a chance anyway. Pence sped up his demise.
Couple times in that interview, Pence attempted to grow a pair, emulate Trump. Confront Tucker. “I know your routine”. Also the back and forth over asking about religious freedom in Ukraine.
Pence failed. He looked cold and calculating.
As I said yesterday, you are stunning in your ability to express dot A to dot B logic skills in a simple manner.
Even Clown Prince Pence could understand your comment. 😂
Amen
LOL! TY.
Pence ended his career on Jan 6 2021.
His arrogance and comments in Tuckers interview just sealed it.
Nice view from the pinnacle of intelligence, eh? Amazing what can be seen when one gets his/her butt out of Swamp Valley.
I think the answer going forward to any question about Mike Pence should be, “Mike Pence is not my concern.”
^^^^THIS^^^^
Here she is again. 😁
You can always tell she’s serious when she starts doing that thing with her hands.
To the uninitiated, it almost looks like a harmless half-Vulcan salutation — but in reality, she’s a coiled cobra, ready to strike.
She can pluck your eye right out, before you even know it’s missing.
Uma Thurman used that same move, in Kill Bill, Vol. 2 👍
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She’s a legend now. 😅
And if we have anything at all to say about it, her legend will only continue to grow… 😁
ewww
It’s a classic Quentin Tarantino film, or films, Kill Bill Volume 1 and Volume 2.
I remember seeing the trailers for it, and thinking Tarantino must have lost his mind. It looked terrible, so I never watched it.
Then one night, years after it came out, I was flipping through channels, and it was on TV. I remember thinking I would watch for 5 minutes, just to confirm how terrible it was.
About a half hour later, I turned off the TV because I didn’t want to ruin the experience with the TV edited version. I went to the video store, rented both movies, and watched them back to back.
I must have had a grin on my face from the opening scene of the first film all the way to the closing scene of the sequel.
They’re completely over the top in just about every way… and it’s a blast 😂
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Kill-Bill-Volume-1-Blu-ray/38/
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https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Kill-Bill-Volume-2-Blu-ray/945/
What was the thing that recently came out about him? Some crazy sex thing. But the MSM is totally hiding it now. Cannot find a trace of it out there.
I searched “quentin tarantino scandal” and found articles related to “me too” and Weinstein, but when I skimmed through a couple, it looks like two things.
First, Uma Thurman gave an interview in which she said Tanantino pressured her to drive a car in a stunt that she thought was too dangerous, and ended up crashing.
Then, apparently during an interview for his (then) upcoming film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (I haven’t seen it yet, apparently at least partially about the Manson murders), Tarantino defended Roman Polanski, who was married to one of the women who was killed by the Manson family.
Then feministas began criticizing his movies for having too much violence against women.
This appears to have happened during the height of the ‘me too’ mania. It’s hard to tell what’s true and what’s generated for hype to promote a film.
I thought RP was a convicted? child molester in another country & Pedowooders just excused it all or pretended it didn’t happen &/or matter…I could be wrong but that’s what comes to mind on his name…
RP took a plea to be a child molester in LA (at Jack Nicholson’s house, in a hot tub, with quaaludes….[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski_sexual_abuse_case ]). He fled the US in order to avoid sentencing when there were indications that jail time might be involved.
TY for the correction AND substantiation!
Thanks! It looks like they covered it up successfully – because this was some pretty detailed sex thing. I should have read it right away.
Harvey Weinstein Scandal: Here Are the People Who Say They Previously Knew About the Allegations
HOWARD STERN
Notice in this article he is singing a different tune. HE KNEW and so did the rest of them.
Quentin Tarantino ‘heartbroken’ by Harvey Weinstein scandal
What he is really saying is he needed a few more days to huddle with his agents to figure out how to handle the fallout given his old girl friend was a Weinstein victim and HE KNEW SHE WAS!
>>>>>>>
That is all that Yandex could find. They certainly buried the scandel DEEP!
Reminds me of the time way back when, when Mike Pence wanted send tanks to Ukraine knowing damn well everyone else knew just how corrupt that country was and who they were involved with, from Soros and the Globalist crowd with their Nazi friends, and the sons of Pelosi, Biden, Kerry, and Romney but he didn’t care.
All Pence had to say was that he puts America and Americans first. That would be too MAGA, though, and too Trump-like, and I don’t think it’s how he really feels anyway.
He could now say, “I meant that my concern was not about sending tanks to Ukraine. I didn’t mean that I’m not concerned about America.” But he won’t say that because his schtick is that America can be great AND “the leader of the free world.” Translation: We do some things for our own country while we get into unnecessary foreign wars.
(Must. Support. Ukraine.)
He just indirectly told everyone who he is, got called on it, and is mad. He could take some responsibility for how his words came out, but no, he’s blaming others for “taking them out of context.” The more he does that, the worse it’s going to get for him. He’s done.
Face it.
It IS Tucker’s fault,
Pence spoke truth.
/s
Exactly right.
Great scenes. Taking out the eye. Dropping the eye ball AND crushing it between her toes. Enjoyed both Kill bill volumes. Then again and again.
That gesture is a sign of Baphomet… she’s a lot darker than what is at first apparent… better to let those WGTTs alone…..
I’ve seen women do things like that my whole life when they get flustered. She has probably been doing that thing with her hands since she was a little girl 😂
Is it possible? I guess anything is, but I’m gonna need more evidence before I believe she’s some lunatic from the dark side.
The hand gestures are a sign. Were it one hand, or only intermittent, but it isn’t. There are plenty of sites which explain signs and symbols out there, such as cuttingedge.org or crossroad.to. I will not post a picture of Baphomet, where you can see that exact hand configuration…
“The hand gestures are a sign.”
___________
I understand it could be a sign, and I have seen the hand sign you’re referring to, and I see the similarity.
I’m also pretty confident that less than 1% of the human population knows who Baphomet is, and even less would know that hand sign or how to correctly execute it.
I just searched for Baphomet images to compare the hand sign, and it appears to be different.
The Baphomet sign does not have the thumb crossed over the two bent fingers in any of the images I saw.
In the images I looked at, the statue’s left thumb is extended away from the hand (thumb out, like the hitch-hiking sign), and the right thumb is either vertical, aligned with the two extended fingers, or the thumb is bent under the two extended fingers (crossing under the two extended fingers at a right angle), but not crossing over the two bent fingers, like the plane lady does.
The difference may be small, but it is clearly different. In my limited experience with hand signs, they are by necessity fairly precise, i.e., there is a right way, and there is every other way, which is wrong.
The whole point is to do it properly so that others who are ‘insiders’ recognize the signaler as an ‘insider’ too, while the ‘outsiders’ either don’t recognize the signal at all, or if they do, they can’t easily reproduce it (correctly) without practice, because it takes practice.
Probably the best example that most people would be familiar with is Spock doing his Vulcan hand sign, which he usually does when he says “Live long, and prosper.”
A lot of people simply cannot do it, which always makes me smile. They can’t get two fingers to lean one way, and the other two fingers to lean the other direction. Everybody seems to be able to do 3 fingers leaning one way or the other, but for most people, doing two fingers each way takes some practice.
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“Were it one hand, or only intermittent, but it isn’t.”
__________
As noted above, it appears that the Baphomet hand sign is slightly different for each hand.
LIKE!!!
“God wants us to trust Him and follow Christ.”
Amen!
Love it!
slowly scrolling down I thought it would reveal a chia Obama or something 🙂
That is horrendously bad. 😂
The only bust that remotely captures his essence 😉
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!
A choom with a p-ewwwww…..
Thank you Carl for this reminder in balance of seeking God’s heart, way, & will in our lives. I’ve been guilty of over complicating that process in my life, especially when younger, feeling paralyzed in fear of taking any path for it was possible that I was potentially missing God’s “perfect will”. I found comfort & direction in this verse:
Isaiah 30:21
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
I have taken this verse to mean that the choice to turn to the right or the left is ours to make. Whatever path we choose, there will God be with us showing us how to walk that path in His way…
Blessings!
Thanks for sharing that.
You’re welcome TT 😍
Those are helpful words for me.
❤ 😍 ❤
Louisiana chemical plant explodes into ball of fire as massive plume of smoke erupts into the air with more than 350 households forced into shelter order overnight
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12302297/Louisiana-chemical-plant-explodes-ball-fire.html
more ecoterror or commie destruction of America???
It’s hard to know. I wonder if some of these events are due to lax attention to safety and infrastructure. When the culture doesn’t promote excellence, standards fall and things start to crumble. But I don’t know anything specific about that plant.
good points
The workforce may also be degraded – have less integrity, morality and work ethic, more hostility and violent intent, more drug and alcohol use.
Also US plants are OLD!!! New plants get built in CHINA or INDIA when they are built.
There was a documentary a while back about America’s bridges… chilling… One thinks of the Silver Bridge between West Virginia and Ohio that collapsed in the early 1960s. Many people died. All because the metal had degraded, and a few bad design choices (read: compromises) had been made… We drove across that bridge not too long before it collapsed… it always gave me the willies (it felt wobbly somehow).
The “Cypress Structure” by Oakland, California that pancaked in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was also dodgy… up and down and up and down… the concrete-beam outriggers looked to be ready to break at any moment…and they eventually did…
Do it right; don’t do it twice… (thinking about the new east span of the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge)…
Seems our infrastructure, for the most part, is ridden hard and put away wet…
Ridden hard and put away wet is a pretty good analogy.
In 2007, when the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, Missouri and Illinois were in the midst of a fight over a new bridge for I-70 over the Mississippi. There was federal money available in the transportation bill for the span (not the approaches) which was set to expire. The states were at a standstill on it as neither governor wanted to spend the money to build the approaches.
So, the day after that bridge collapsed – or maybe the day after that – the Missouri Department of Transportation provided the last set of inspection numbers on the nine big bridges in the Metro to the STL Post-Disgrace. They were published on the front page of the paper above the fold. The one in the worst shape: the Poplar Street, built in 1967 and carrying Interstates 70, 55, 44, 64 and a number of state highways since. When I say mouths dropped, I’m not kidding. That bridge carried the most traffic for YEARS. Within a week, there was a deal for the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge (affectionately called “The Stan Span”) that carries I-70 now. It’s a beautiful suspension bridge and far more civilized than the Poplar, that’s for sure. I’ve driven both multiple times in the last five days.
Since then, all bridges are eyeball inspected AT LEAST every 2 years. The older ones more often. The spans built before 1960 over the Missouri River have both been replaced, and it looks like the next one might be the outer-belt bridge to the south. It was closed in the last few years for crack repair in the superstructure. Fortunately, MoDoT MOVES when something happens.
Not every state does that.
American infrastructure definitely needs attention and $$$ for basic maintenance and replacement, if needed. We don’t need to be sending tanks to Ukraine.
Here’s an article from an engineer about the Silver Bridge failure. There are a number of good newspaper articles about it, but they’re all geoblocked ( 😡 !) so I can’t link to them… The Huntington Herald Dispatch had a good article, and there is actually a museum exhibit in Huntington as well IIRC…
Silver Bridge Failure 1967 (aka Point Pleasant Bridge)
https://www.structuremag.org/?p=20205
A CHAIN LINK BRIDGE?????????
Talk about an invitation to disaster.
They are much more common in Britain, and no, they aren’t an invitation to disaster if properly engineered.
This is America where “set it and forget it” can be a way of life.
It shouldn’t be, but…..
That can be an issue with any structure.
ESP if they use Chinese steel…
Or, like the eastern replacement span for the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge, RED Chinese steel, equipment, tools, inspectors, and workers…
What could possibly go wrong???
That was the bridge I was thinking of when I wrote that.
Properly engineered being the key.
They cut HUGE corners with that bridge and its twin… as the article I linked shows (outside of the geoblocking you can probably find a ton more articles than I could, and, yes, I’m too cheap to get a VPN right now 🙂 )…..
We need our scuba divers INSPECTING OUR BRIDGE FOOTINGS and not BLOWING UP RUSSIAN OIL PIPELINES…
I had a friend, mechanical engineer, who did that. Unfortunately he died in a diving accident on an old wreck in the St Lawrence.
Once infrastructure and morals decay, and then you add Affirmative Action, unqualified employees, you have disasters waiting to happen.
I have seen it happen in real life more than once.
I can tell a few tales about O-I Plant 20 along those lines. Build in 1937, closed down in 2015 (no) thanks to Øbløwhøle [approved a deal that gave Mexico a similar plant] and the CARB (Kalifornistan Air Resouces Board).
Since the hiring quotas required that the employee population racial distribution reflect that of the surrounding community (Oakland, in this case) there were between 50 and eventually 80 percent AA employees working there, many of whom were under- (or un-) qualified. Thinking of that, that might be why Owens didn’t fight harder to keep it open…
In the warehouse they used little trains consisting of a tractor and four or five trailers each carrying a large pallet with boxes of bottles stacked on them. These boxes were stacked in sometimes very complex, but always interlocking patterns such that they would not fall over or apart (although they were also shrinkwrapped before getting loaded on the truck).
Those patterns were often beyond the skills of the AA employees [in the summers, those of us college students working there temporarily would be asked to work double shifts and days off, if we wanted to, as the crazy patterns {I’m looking at YOU, Seven Seas salad dressing} were not a problem for us… the smaller the boxes, the bigger the potential for problems].
Anyway, (to make a short story long), one of the tractor drivers (we’ll call her Rosie) tended to use, erm, chemical reinforcements for her work, be they powder, liquid, or combustible (or a combination thereof).
The warehouse was divided into five or six sections, each separated by HUGE (50′ high) fire doors/gates, and, of course, a two-foot thick (or more) wall. And Lally post guards around the openings, which went from floor to ceiling. In 1937 they built things to last…
Well, one night Rosie was feeling no pain, came flying around the corner (so far with no problems, thanks to the interlocking patterns and a large dose of luck) only to encounter the approaching (to her) openings. Apparently she saw two or three, when in point of fact there was only one (as we shocked onlookers saw). She hit it full force (F=MA, natch) not that fast, but a heavy load nevertheless. The loads shifted, but did not fall.
So, Rosie backed up, slowly (for once), gunned the tractor’s engine, and tried again, with the same result.
Fortunately we managed to stop her before her third attempt, and were rewarded with the honor of cleaning up the mess….
Another time she was again rounding the corner quickly, with soda bottles in tow. These were packed in cases, basically the bottom four inches of a box with a huge cardboard sheet on top, and then another layer, on up to seven layers, with a final sheet of cardboard and a “picture frame” on top, the entire assembly held together with five or six steel strapping tapes around them. So far, so good. Normally good enough to survive a forklift journey to the awaiting truck.
But not good enough to survive Rosie. The cases, the “picture frame”, and the carboard sheets parted ways as she went along. Fortunately another group got to clean that one up.
The next summer she was there, and the next one after that. Despite the problems (I’m surprised she didn’t end up in jail, or dead), she belonged to a “protected class”, and was all but impossible to fire.
Quotas and “protection” like that are part and parcel the reason that Oakland is a pit anymore. Over-regulated, underqualified, and not maintained (probably not possible under those conditions).
Yep. Corners are being cut, and the only expenditures that seem to be getting approved are to do with wokeness.
Same thing with computers, IT, etc. Once a system is purchased and/or ERP (or whatever) is installed, attention turns to new customers, and old customers are left hanging once the warranty runs out, unless they pay for hideously expensive ongoing support, which often involves repair of the vendor’s faulty software or hardware. It can be an ‘orrible problem…
Other than maintenance, documentation and communication often get short shrift…
BillyGhoulGates hasn’t helped matters much by making all of us beta-testers, or perhaps alpha-testers…
Well, given all the industrial level disasters that have happened the last couple of years you’d think Lloyds of London would of figured it out by now.
🙄Oh wait… Llyods of London??? 😬😮🫣😏🤨
Seriously, the insurance industry has been awfully quiet about this stuff. Have all of their insurance investigators been let go, took early retirements or died off? Or maybe they are still working from home? 😆
No, they just up the rate on everything and SPREAD THE PAIN…
WHY would ANY retail store still exist in Californicate??? BECAUSE WE ARE PAYING FOR ALL THE STOLEN GOODS (up to $1,000) aka shrinkage.
BUSINESSES NEVER TAKE THE LOST THEY JUST PASS ON THE COST TO CUSTOMERS.
I would not be surprised if ‘Shrinkage’ + increase in insurance cost + increase in Fuel costs + currency devaluation = Most of the inflation we are now seeing.
Just another way of redistributing our money…
We pay more insurance, which goes to outfits like BlackRock and Vanguard, which enriches the Rothchilds, Payseurs, Rockefellers, and many hyper-rich families hiding in the shadows and chateaux in France and elsewhere (mostly in Europe)…
And their puppets Stavros Schwab and Satan Sauros keep the money rolling on in…..
😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡
“Doing is the result of being. Birds sing because they are birds; they do not sing in order to become birds. They sing, fly, and feather their nests because of who they are. So what God really wants is for all our doings to emanate from our being.”
This is a very useful observation.
Yes & so liberating!
or deranged…TDS LOL
That’s pretty damn cool!
No greater love…Wow! It sure is dusty around here…
By publicly associating itself with this young hero, the WBC has enhanced the nobility of the organization.
How many entities try to keep recognition to themselves, and so cheapen it against the world?
Burning Bright, who was a trained fighter and competed, mentioned recently that fighters are grounded, realists and mavericks who VALUE MERIT. (My words) This is why, when Trump showed up at a match recently he was given high honors. They KNOW he is a fighter, albeit in a different type of ring. Hollywood stars and others get a very brief spotlight if that.
@ 20 minutes — Trump at UFC
It is an interesting dialog and history of the UFC (NoName tried to destroy UFC and Trump saved it.)
@ 28 minutes Just Human comments, Trump is introduced like a fighter… THE RESPECT IS THERE. The fighters, the fans, dana and even Rogan. (It is thought Rogan will have Trump on for an interview.)
https://rumble.com/v2z1xhc-defected-ep-31-sun-900-pm-et-.html
It is worth the 10 minute watch.
YES, an excellent 10 minute watch. Thanks.
I remember this story. I was, and remain, so impressed by this young man. And his parents must be special, too.
This one may be a mixed bag…
https://jimychanga.substack.com/p/vax-shedding-is-real-and-can-kill
from comments & above my pay grade
Jimychanga
May 30
Author
Possible routes for mRNA to convert to DNA (including a process known as reverse transcription) were discounted. UNTIL the publication of an annoying little paper in 2022 by Alden et al, an in vitro study involving human liver cells which showed Pfizer’s mRNA was expressed as DNA within six hours.
At the time, this was assumed due to reverse transcription of the mRNA. HOWEVER, in light of McKernan’s discovery, there’s a whole new possibility to consider. What if the vaccines already contained DNA? Then arguments about whether the mRNA could reverse transcribe into DNA become irrelevant.
Let’s return to McKernan and take a closer look at what he found. In addition to the expected mRNA, he also found mRNA fragments, other pieces of RNA, and two forms of DNA: linearised and circular. The significance of the circular – or plasmid – DNA is important. The plasmid DNA is the ‘complete recipe’ used to program bacterial cells to mass produce the mRNA. This DNA should not be there. Further investigation by McKernan showed the plasmid DNA contained in the vaccines was indeed viable and capable of transformation in bacterial cells. https://brownstone.org/articles/vax-gene-files-accidental-discovery/
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Conspiracy Sarah
Writes Conspiracy Sarah
May 31
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These motherfuckers. I’ve been looking through the FedRAMP Marketplace and they have so many platforms to handle the tracking all of this shit. One giant experiment.
ROSALIND Research provides visual analysis, interpretation, and cloud-based data sharing of genomic datasets produced with Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), NanoString instruments, and other multi-omic methods. ROSALIND Research features analysis pipelines for gene expression and gene regulation studies, including Single-Cell RNA-seq, bulk RNA-seq, miRNA-seq, ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, and Proteomics.
https://www.cd-genomics.com/nanopore-sequencing-1.html
Our Nanopore Sequencing Service
CD genomics offers nanopore sequencing as a service. The PromethION offers on-demand use of up to 48 Flow Cells – each of which can generate up to 100Gb of sequencing data.
Our nanopore sequencing service portfolios include:
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089254/
Something else from comments, fyi
Marty McFly
Writes The Great Deception
Jun 5
Most snake venoms interact with the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the brain, and this type of receptors is also found on muscle cells, they play a role in muscle contraction. Snake bites through nACr can paralize your muscles including your diaphragm, making it impossible to breathe. By taking nicotine and flooding the receptors it’s theorized that it greatly reduces the odds of having a fatal outcome after a snake bite, since the venom has to compete with the nicotine to bind to the nACrs. Bryan Ardis often mentions this mechanism.
Tobacco/nicotine is not often recognized as an antivenom but nicotine has properties we’re only starting to discover, it’s really not all that bad ! In the event of a snake bite, if i have a 20mg nicotine patch in my pocket, no hesitation 🙂
https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/baylor-sep2013/krait.html
https://www.banyantreatmentcenter.com/2022/01/20/snake-bite-drug-addiction-can-you-get-high-on-snake-venom-massachusetts/
also this…hmmm
https://rumble.com/v2svw9c-how-the-us-gov.-is-using-digital-mk-ultra-against-us-fmr.-state-dept.-offic.html?fbclid=IwAR3OrjxDigTuyJtg0w08z-wfMqOhAEza3Zy193vo3bRk6pz3Gb4h-_poRPk
another comment w/ venom info
M R from Cape Town
Jun 7
I looked quickly but did not find that specific info (yet).
However, did find some research that EDTA is good to treat against venom “we demonstrate that the metal chelator EDTA is also capable of neutralising venom-induced lethality in vivo”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30271920/
Also found this useful page: https://www.covidhealing.info/snake-venom
Hmmm, “snake venom.” IIRC, our good host, Wolf Moon, wrote about “snake venom.”
Yes he was on the cutting edge on that topic I believe!
I think this was that post:
https://www.theqtree.com/2021/05/02/spike-protein-spike-protein-%e2%89%88-snake-protein/
iirc Aubergine, or perhaps Gail was touting the positives of tobacco some time back…& didn’t all those homeless smokers never get covid?
Stuff like that has been posted.
Perhaps it was along the lines of, tobacco strengthens the immune system.
Hence, the government / “do gooder” war on tobacco.
Gail comes to mind as a reference to it. Perhaps GA/FL.
Not me but I do recall it was in relationship to Vaping I think. The Fake news of course was saying vaping made things worse.🙄
https://21stcenturywire.com/2023/07/13/scott-ritter-investigation-agent-zelensky-part-1/
>>>video<<<
Could not be delivered better, bakocarl. Thank you for a blessed start to our day.
Amen!
Rhetorical question – Is it normal for an otherwise healthy 35 year old woman who is mid-term pregnant with her third child, who has been jabbed and boosted, to have a severe stroke that has her hanging on to life by a thread?
I realize I may have lived a more sheltered life than I thought, but I do not recall ever hearing about any healthy 35 year olds suffering strokes prior to the jabs.
The husband is an acquaintance and has reached out to everybody for prayers.
Hasn’t heard of that being the norm either, especially when they are healthy enough to be having babies.
She’s lost vision in one eye along with other stroke symptoms.
Lord God, how awful.
Praying for her TradeBait …
Thank you. This is a family nightmare for them.
Amen!
I’ve heard of it. It’s rare, but it happens. My 37 year old, healthy cousin – not jabbed – had to be induced (resulted in a c-section) due to fears she would have one, her blood pressure was so high. Healthy baby girl born at 36 weeks. All are doing well.
Thank God all went well.
My cousin has been posting these darling pictures of her. In the last set, there was a video. She would have been 40 weeks on Wednesday, and for that gestational age, she was really alert. Beautiful little girl.
TradeBait2
IMO, while it is possible that a healthy pregnant woman can have a stroke during pregnancy, it would seem more likely that any pregnant woman who is “vaccinated and boosted.” is at more risk to have one.
Cerebral embolism and other similar serious neurological adverse events effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” are listed in “Appendix 1. List of Adverse Events of Special Interest” in the 5.3.6 Cumulative Analysis document for BNT162b2 that Pfizer-BioNTech gave to the FDA in April, 2021. The document is available at https://phmpt.org/ by searching for 5.3.6 Cumulative Analysis.
In any case, prayers and Good Energy being sent to this young woman and to her unborn child. This is an awful situation.
Preeclampsia is a well known complication of pregnancy characterized by almost unmanageable high blood pressure. A morbidity associated with this complication could be stroke. Although I am not competent to cite statistical probabilities it is likely that a stroke would not be rare if no medical intervention occurs.
Thanks for the info.
Thank you. Trying to discreetly find out more info.
TradeBait2
Following what Robert Baker said above —
BOTH “Eclampsia” and “Pre-eclampsia” are listed in the “Appendix 1. List of Adverse Events of Special Interest” section of the 5.3.6 Cumulative Analysis document that Pfizer-BioNTech gave to the FDA in April, 2021, regarding the negative effects of their COVID-19 “vaccine”, BNT162b2.
This means that BNT162b2 CAN CAUSE Eclampsia and/or Pre-eclampsia in a pregnant woman who is “vaccinated” with this product.
Pregnancy is fraught with dangers, and high blood pressure is one of them. Could this happen organically in a healthy pregnancy? Yes, it could. Could it be exacerbated by the poison shot? Absolutely.
That hateful injection should never have been given to anyone, much less a pregnant woman.
Robert E Lee’s horse!
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Traveller’s headstone removed, not yet replacedTraveller’s headstone removed, not yet replaced — The W&L Spectator (wluspectator.com)
If any one has a Face Book Account, please send that to Connie Willis, the Sci Fi writer.
She wrote “Lincoln Dreams” which had much to do with Lee’s horse, Traveller. A very nice book and quite sympathetic with Lee. Then sometime later she fell under the spell of BLM and the Woke Cancel Warrior Queer Crowd of the Left and wanted all the Confederate Monuments taken down and the Rebel Flag trashed. Hasn’t read one of her books since.
Pity as she was a great writer, but I believe they were not giving her awards anymore, so she caved bigly. I still recommend her books up until the time she went woke, most deal with time travel or time distortions.
I enjoyed Willis’s Oxford Time Series but not so much the later stuff.
She’s very witty and has those proper British attitudes down pat.
“To say nothing about the dog” was another great one. The WWII ones were quite clever and the Dooms Day Book was quite the tale, utter horror and despair mixed evenly with humor.
“Passages” for me was the scariest book I ever read. Quite the sleeper novel until she gets shot….
I will have to take a new look. Nothing about the dog was my first book by her.
I’m not sure Ms. Willis checks her facebook page. There is one comment by someone else in 2010 and one other in 2011. Her photo is dated 2022 but don’t know who posted it. There is a fans group and that might be a better place to drop off the link. Your thoughts, para?
Something was posted at a fans blog for Connie in June 2023, but before that, nothing since 2021. http://azsf.net/cwblog/
They’re the modern version of this except more thorough by removing the statues and memorials altogether. They want to erase certain figures from being remembered accurately or at all.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ancient-egypt-noses
Bleiberg’s research posited that ancient Egyptian artifacts were deliberately defaced as they served as political and religious totems and that mutilating them could affect the symbolic power and dominance the gods held over people.
The full brother of Traveler is the foundation stallion of both the American Saddlebred and the Tennessee Walker.
Fascinating…
The best horse I ever rode was a Tennessee Walker. Like sitting in a Cadillac.
My trainer’s comment about a five gaited Saddlebred’s rack :
“It is enough to make your fanny smile.”
My mare would rack (Fast running walk) as fast or faster than the other horses would canter when on trail rides.
I love horses. They make ME smile.
Hubby reported it was replaced with a much shorter version just naming the horse and not General Lee.
Verse of the Day for Sunday, July 16, 2023
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“The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.”
Psalms 9:9 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
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.
BE MY VOICE
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Thank you for these. Prayers ongoing for you here and at Marica’s blog. Be well.
Amen, RDS/CV ❤
‘Comin’ to America’
News from The Telegraph via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/13530 (click for image)
“News of Britain. Now, if you refuse to financially support (if there are funds in the accounts) your partner’s transgender operation, this is considered “abusive behavior” and can cost the refuser up to 5 years in prison. And if you refuse to call your child a stupid pronoun that he made up for himself this morning, that’s domestic abuse. Huxley and Orwell are rolling in their graves.”
😜 𝕎𝔼 𝔸ℝ𝔼 𝕄𝔸𝕂𝕀ℕ𝔾 𝕄𝔼ℕ𝕋𝔸𝕃 𝕀𝕃ℕ𝔼𝕊𝕊 𝔾ℝ𝔼𝔸𝕋 𝔸𝔾𝔸𝕀ℕ 😜
I like MAGA much better than MIGA. MAGA is powerful and makes me think of magma and volcanos. MIGA makes me think of midgets (aka little people) and migranes.
From “not so great” Britain, to “the late Britain”…
But look at the “leaders”. The “Khan Artiste”, mayor of the City of London”, and a full-blown Moslem. Rishi Sunak, PM of the UK, Indian parents, Hindu, alumni of Goldman-Sachs. Humza Yousaf, first minister of Scotland, full-blown Moslem. Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland (OK, not UK, but similar problems), flaming gay who now supports both gay marriage and trans issues… that in what used to be a staunchly Catholic country…
And then, there’s Chuckles III. ’nuff said.
It’s sad (at least for me), but the sun has set on the British Empire. And the sheeple there are doing all they can to make it quicker and worse… 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡
Almost like Germany (and I’m not talking about 1910-1945)…
They’re succeeding at homogenizing countries. No traditions, no heritage and all the things that identified one country from another.
It’s their version of the Tower of Babel
With an emphasis on homo, sad to say…
I remember the old “One planet, one people, please” bumper stickers…..
Well it looks like the WEFfenSS has taken up the old hippie cause. And is using it to destroy everything in sight…
Here’s a poster advertising/advocating the EU. They’re attempting to recreate and complete the tower of Babel. And then the EU HQ in Brussels (which has an identical twin in Strasbourg, thanks to the French, used only one week per year (interesting story there) … but no-one talks about energy/etc. wasted there)…
Poster (notice the upside-down stars – the horns of Horus, or Satan):
and the actual building:
And a brief excerpt from the article:
The symbolism of the EU Parliament
So the construction of the EU Parliament in the image of the Tower of Babel sends the message that Nimrod had the right philosophy and his Tower of Babel was a good idea. So we are looking for:
You know what? Those are major precepts of the esoteric beliefs of the world elite. They are not Christians or anything related. Their belief system is based on the Mystery Religions (pagan rituals, worship of the Sun, considering Lucifer as the one who gave light to the human race, seeing God as a force wanting to keep humans in the dark). Their New World Order will have evacuated all worship of God, introduced a single language and changed democracy to tyranny.
The article is well worth reading, for it details what THEY really want. It’s at https://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-the-eu-parliament
Finally, here’s a pic that makes it clear (the left side is from the painting “The Tower of Babel” by Pieter Brueghel the Elder in 1563)…
Very interesting read. Going back for a second pass.
What happens if the 25th Amendment is invoked on dementia-ridden Biden?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/what_happens_if_the_25th_amendment_is_invoked_on_dementiaridden_biden.html
Not gonna happen. It would be the donkey party committing hari-kari.
The party would never recover from faking honor.
Donkey-Kong?
Donkey-Oatey?
Faking honor? hehe… h/t Intellectual Froglegs
It doesn’t seem like they need to get rid of him. He’s untouchable. He’s a puppet. The only thing they need to do is not nominate him for another term.
Hologram for two years?
Very interesting! I also need to read it again to absorb the details.
via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/13524
forwarded from Colonelcassad (Boris Rozhin)
Russian Defense Ministry on the attack on Sevastopol:
This morning, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack by seven unmanned aerial vehicles and two unmanned semi-submersible boats on objects on the territory of the Crimean peninsula near the city of Sevastopol was thwarted.
Two Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed by air defense systems over the Black Sea at a great distance from the coastline.
Five more UAVs were suppressed by means of electronic warfare and, without reaching the targets, crashed.
Also in the northern part of the Black Sea, two unmanned boats of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were discovered and destroyed by fire from the standard armament of the water area protection boats.
As a result of the thwarted terrorist attack, there were no casualties or damage.
About that last sentence, they forgot to put ‘Russian’ in there. There were lots of casualties on the other side.
Eagle eye you have 😍
ThanQ.
I used it to spot you, cutiepie. 😂
awww!
Drones and unmanned semi-submersibles. Ukraine ship(s) taken out or destroyed? Command and Control for drones / semi-submersibles.
via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/13521 click for image, text below
The United States is sending cluster munitions to Ukraine in desperation, unsuccessfully trying to change the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine and humiliating themselves, – Elon Musk
Elon Musk unexpectedly spoke harshly about the supply of cluster munitions to Kiev
: we send them for use? Nothing good will come of this. Fate loves irony, but hates hypocrisy,” Musk wrote.
➨ In the comments under the post, he also pointed out that Russia has at least 4 times more artillery and 10 times more ammunition than Kiev.
“We ran out of normal ammunition to send to Ukraine, so now send them cluster bombs in desperation, humiliating yourself without changing the result,” Musk summed up.
➨ After his statement caused a scandal in the media and social networks, he began to delete tweets.
t.me/RVvoenkor
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/phoenix: … Americans wonder why we are hated so much by the RoW …
Where is the outrage? Not only is it a crime … it is an escalation of the conflict …
crickets …
GoodGreat Elon is speaking truths.Where is the outrage?
Twenty years ago, US Military was bombing Iraq with cluster munitions, and it was not “out of any other munitions … same thing on forums I was posting on… crickets …
Maybe a way of getting rid of old, (illegal), unwanted hardware, (force) balancing the books, and shoveling money to the MIC to get replacements, legitimate or not…
And the money kept rolling in (and out), to quote Che, in “Evita”…..
Where to get one? Anybody know?
Outa my league. ~$22.
Link won’t paste correctly. Amazon, searched, plastic gun mustard dispenser.
ThanQ
That’s brilliant!
AND need to be implemented.
After all people who are batschiff crazy SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED THE VOTE!
I like it, but unfortunately it’s not true. The Constitution grants citizens the right to vote.
Fifteenth Amendment
Article XV.
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude—
Nineteenth Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Section 1
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
And the Nineteenth Amendment specifically states that the right to vote can’t be denied “on account of sex.”
Which means it can be denied on other grounds.
Note the phrasing; it seems to be a convoluted way of granting women (and 18 year olds) the right to vote, but it’s done that way for a reason.
They didn’t so much as grant women the right to vote (if they had phrased it that way, it might be impossible to revoke it for female felons), they just said, you can’t deny it to someone just because she is a she.
Likewise for 18 year olds.
via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/13515
“The United States and Japan have been working on a plan of action in the event of an armed conflict for more than a year if China tries to take over Taiwan.
The Wall Street Journal writes that Washington has urged Tokyo to consider participating in it, for example, in “hunting for Chinese submarines” near the island, but has not yet obtained any commitment from the Japanese side.
The parties are allegedly discussing supply routes, missile installation sites and plans for evacuating refugees. According to WSJ sources, Japan is ready, if necessary, to support the US military by providing them with fuel and other materials.
A Pentagon spokesman confirmed to the publication that the countries have “joint plans,” but did not disclose details.”
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via Andrei’s blog… comment lifted:
“China and Russia Commence Joint Air and Sea Exercise in the Sea of Japan
China’s defense ministry announced that a Chinese naval flotilla embarked on a mission to the Sea of Japan on Sunday, joining Russian naval and air forces in an exercise focused on safeguarding the security of strategic waterways.
The exercise, codenamed “Northern/Interaction-2023,” signifies an intensified military cooperation between China and Russia.
Reuters noted that this joint drill occurs concurrently with Beijing’s persistent refusal to resume military communication with the United States, despite calls from Washington.”
@DDGeopolitics
With the Bidenese in the White House it might be wise not trust the USA right now.
can’t trust … USG to keep it’s word… history proves that …
Ukraine was being armed during 2017 – 2020
nothing changes election to election …
^^^ This. As long as the Uniparty has control with the globalists, this will always be the issue.
True, but Trump was in mollifying mode and arms were limited. It was more of “Here are some AT weapons so relax and be nice to your neighbor.” kind of thing. Zelensky’s very first international trip was to the Hauge to join the EU & NATO. They said go see Trump. Trump said no.. and gave them a handful of comfort weapons. As soon as Trump was gone, Zelensky’s back and Biden’s dangling carrots over his head.
https://mole.substack.com/p/spox_dilemma-2023-07-16-sun-killjab
This is the first Jason Aldean song I’ve heard. “Try that in a small town” is old lady approved. 😀
Larry’s latest:
FORMER CIA MOSCOW CHIEF, BY HIS REMARKS, SHOWS WHY THE CIA IS FECKLESS
15 July 2023 by Larry Johnson
“My first and only contact with Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, who served as the CIA’s Chief of Station circa 2000, was at a conference hosted by my former CIA classmate, Valerie Plame, five years ago. Rolf is a very pleasant, soft-spoken man, but is blinded by an old Cold War view of the world and cannot see Russia straight.
In Rolf’s world, Putin is bad. Very, very bad. And the United States? Clean as the driven snow on the Artic Tundra. He perpetuates the myth that Putin is weak and in trouble. Rolf also makes the ridiculous claim that the U.S. deployment of cluster bombs is a reaction to Russia’s use of increasingly lethal weapons. He is not a stupid person. Yet he ignores the fact that the United States and its NATO partners are the one deploying more sophisticated, lethal weapons. Who sent the HIMARS? Who sent the M777s? Who sent the Storm Shadow?”
con’t https://sonar21.com/former-cia-moscow-chief-by-his-remarks-shows-why-the-cia-is-feckless/
Rolf’s whole stick is, “Well with exception of x, y, and z, you haven’t caught us, you haven’t proven it, so no, we didn’t do it, aren’t doing it, because of laws and stuff ya know.”
CTH links to Tucker Carlson’s speech yesterday. Amazing applause. Some funny. Some serious. 100% common sense. It does cut off at the very end where he is about to give us one piece of advise. I must know what comes after the 42:00 minute mark!! https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/16/tucker-carlson-full-speech-at-turning-point-action-conference/
If this posts correctly…
Thank you, Kalbo… boom, it has his final punchline! It was just one sentence but oh buddy, such a great sentence!
https://rumble.com/v2zhtjs-real-america-dan-ball-w-col.-doug-macgregor-ukraine-in-nato-puts-us-closer-.html
Macgregor: “We are on the road to war”
Anybody hear that? The ONLY weapon the US military has is nuclear … we cannot fight a conventional war…
Anybody listening?
From “Vincent” by Don McLean:
“They’re not listening,
They’re not listening still,
Perhaps they never will….”…..
What would convince you that people are aware of the situation?
Serious Developments going on in Finland!
Watch the nice lady show the guys how it’s done.
Nice Lady!
On both….
Well done, dragging the dummies by the hair. MORE!
IIRC, a ways back, we saw stuff like this in the States.
Yes, but then they should have SAT ON THEM until the traffic cleared.
After the first time they went back in the road, you drag them off and KEEP THEM OFF…
I do like the hair hand hold. Just do not let go.
First one is a bit like silly walks… a fight to the Finnish 🙂
The second one, truckers and emergency responders (as well as the rest of us) are getting increasingly cheesed off. The trucker that dragged someone along (because he got out of his truck, talked the protester into leaving, then he went back (where the driver couldn’t see him) instantly exposing himself to getting hurt.
Sad thing is, the red-green-yellow-bellied gubmint here actually SUPPORTS (and funds!) “the last generation” (who are also the lost generation).
Who knows, maybe they’ll live up to their name, and we’ll be rid of them.
OK, sorry, that’s not a very charitable remark. I’d like to see them learn and turn, but so far their “control’s” on BURN…..
I’ll give this to the protesters, they’re stubborn as heck.
That of course just meant those guys got to drag them away multiple times. I hope the drag-ees enjoyed every time as much as the first.
Second time drag them by the feet FAST so their heads bump along.
It would sure be a shame if some clumsy fool were to help drag them off and step on their crotches by mistake.
Perhaps they should try electing politicians using their Hobby Horse competitions.
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Thank you, Carl. I’ve never heard this explained so clearly and well.
I thought maybe some of you find this interesting with Jordan Peterson.
He exposes the scam of climate and Klaus Schwab.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a0lMF_rXw8
It’s really good, thanks for bringing, otherwise I would have ignored it because of the title
”manager speak” 🤢🤮 I’ve just always called it gobbledegook…only never in front of the “stakeholders” 😂
I think Gail calls it “Bafflegab” 🙂
YUP!
I was just about to add that.
Actually I took it from a paper.
Bafflegab Pays(1980-05-01) Armstrong, J. Scott
PDF of the paper: https://www.academia.edu/1105189/Bafflegab_Pays
I like Peterson that is why I clicked and was surprised of the topic. Manager speak is a new one for me also 🙂
Very good discussion, thanks singing!!
Glad you enjoyed it. This expanded my understanding what is going on and makes sense.
2,198,164 views Jul 13, 2023 #wion #indiafloods #indiamonsoon
Heavy rains have brought life to a standstill across India. Landslides and floods lashed several parts of the country. From river Beas engulfing towns and highways in Himachal Pradesh to record-breaking rains in New Delhi. How is India battling Deadly floods?
The last minute and a half shift to blame the floods on climate change and global warming. Pity. Otherwise, some good footage.
The one giant rock that just obliterates the car in front of the camera was like something out of a roadrunner cartoon…..which can only be said because the extended cut has everyone making it out of the car alive.
Several times they referred to the flooding in 1982 as being the most recent record, but surprisingly web searches show 1987 as being particularly bad with no records mentioned going back past that though a shameless search of the Rig Veda, circa 2,000 BC – 1,500 BC, brings up Flood 75 times with countless mentions of various storm gods “Rain, Rain, Flood, Flood, Hale, Hale” often the refrain from various Riches, (shameless as they often hid psychic phenomenon by stating physical phenomenon).
Also note the Shiva temple which is likely ancient, holds up just fine. Likely made to be impervious to floods.
R-Cons stand their ground, they’ll win. Yea, r-cons will cave. R-cons always cave.
They should be in caves…
Or we will be, the way things are going with them…..
A cave should be their party symbol.
What are they actually trying to say?
The White House doesn’t pass budgets. Perhaps they meant the House of Representatives, but then the sentence still doesn’t make sense.
The President has to sign … he is saying not only will he NOT sign, the paper it is written on won’t reach his desk.
Then one of two things will happen: the bill will die in the Senate and a bill that includes all the bullshit will pass the House [using donkey votes]
OR
the speaker will refuse to put it on the calendar and the bill will die.
Option 1, the most likely IMO, will result in McCarthy being subject to being ousted.
Option 2 will cause the need for the funding to be on a collision course with 9/30/23, thereby pushing for a CR. Whether a CR happens is in the speaker’s hands.
Just randomly bumped into this and thought I’d share —
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Thanks for that info.
Another poster suggested leave him with a hack saw.
Needless to say, twitter is well amused right now.
End the dumbasses mystery…Road Kill. 
More seriously…
Locals could make it an afternoon.
Lawn chairs, snacks, beverages, music….
Free entertainment. Ridicule the dumbasses.
No sympathy for the maroons. Leave them stuck to the road.
Too much warped fun to be had, if maroons try this locally.
LEAVE THEM PERIOD!
Route traffic around them and let them dehydrate to death when there friends get sick and tired of taking care of them WHICH THEY WILL!
I have ZERO patience left for catering to dumb asses and WE get to PAY!
They got themselves into the mess they darn well can get themselves out of it.
The stupid-A$$ “Traffic light coalition” not only supports them, they FUND them (the “last generation”, “Antifa”, and “Fridays for Future”…
Combining that word salad gets “Antifa’s Fridays for Future is leading to the last generation”…..
That’s what they get for listening to a pre-pubescent (when she started) Swedish Satanist teen who skipped 20% of her schooling to whine about something of which she knows nothing (and her alcoholic namesake of a failed chemist father knows even less)….. Svante Arrhenius was a slightly-better-than-average chemist, but an utter failure at physics and “climate science” and a keeper of sloppy (at best) log books…
COVIDIOCY and the clot shot are bad, but ALL of the horrid changes that are being implemented are based on “Climate Change” aka CAGW.
Until and unless that bad science (if it even merits being called that) is exposed and shouted from the hilltops so that most of the populace understands that, there’s no hope of fixing anything else.
Gore-Bull warming is the Satanic lie that feeds everything else…..
If I am correct, ‘Mother Earth’ may expose Gore-bull schiff warming for the complete lie it is sooner than we think.
GREENHOUSE, ICEHOUSE OR CLIMATIC MADHOUSE?
The switch from glaciation to interglacial happened in 1 to 3 years. The switch from interglacial to glacial cold is a bit harder to find…
The IPCC has admitted the climate has a ‘complex non linear chaotic signature.’
Dr Brown at Duke Univ. Is something of an expert on chaotic systems. He had this to say but later walked it back. (Duke may not have been happy with him)
The graph I posted above shows that the earth, with the present continental configuration, is BISTABLE.
Dr Brown’s statement ” the cold phase is both more likely and more stable.” can be seen in Figure 5. Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations with their cycle designations. (Sole et al, 2007)
I don’t understand why people purposely harm themselves in the course of a protest.
So odd. They must trust that someone will safe them and that drivers won’t just keep driving.
Because they’re stupid.
Literally, they’re stupid people. Consider the things they believe.
Tucker sure is having a good time, toying, with wannabe presidents…
Crispy Christie’s pommes get burned yet again…
(pommes being the term for French Fries over here)…
The RINOS sound just like a bunch of DEMONRATS… project, project, project…..
Uniparty. (Spit)
PETA
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will probably have a problem with that 😆 😆 😆 😆
^^^ Nice.
Slow guy, sticking with AND have the t-shirt. Which I enjoy wearing. 🙂
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Yep, I know. I always wind up the vegans by telling them,
I LOVE ANIMALS!
They taste great!
But that’s a protected species [in both senses of the word].
I love it!
Putting this story down as a marker of likely things to come…
Was There Just a Jihad Terror Attack in Fargo, North Dakota?
From Robert Spenser (of Jihad Watch fame) at PJ Media.
Short summary. Friday police show up at the scene of traffic accident in Fargo, North Dakota and one of the participants a Fargo resident named Mohamad Barakat, 37, pulls a rifle out the trunk of his car and opened fire on the officers, killing one and injuring three others.
I can only assume that Mohamad Barakat was either shot and arrested or shot and killed, the story does not say. What it does say is the case has been turned over to FIB where it will likely just die…
Which is second point of posting this. FIB IMO should never become the lead for any type of investigation from which the locality wishes to learn things like motives, connections etc… It should be used as a resource and nothing further. Trust level here should be minimal until they start acting like they work for people and not the government.
Unfortunately Spenser has made PJ Media into a pay site so there seems nothing more to glean from the story.
Wow! yahoo news story, sourcing fox news is packed…
Fargo, North Dakota police officer killed, 2 injured in shooting after traffic accident
…With nothing. Although they had a vid of some police cars with the lights flashing but no commentary.
FIB should never be trusted.
#DefundFIB. #DefundDOJ
He was shot and killed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1-fargo-police-officer-killed-2-injured-shooting-also-left-suspect-dea-rcna94419
I agree that we can no longer trust that we’ll get any information from the FIB.
FIB is all politics. Cannot be trusted to reveal truth.
FIB can only fib…
“I agree that we can no longer trust that we’ll get any information from the FIB.”
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When was the last time the American People DID get any information from the FIB?
Figuring that out would identify (roughly) the point in time when the FIB reached the tipping point into what it is now.
It was before Anthrax.
Maybe it was when the Unibomber was captured, in 1996?
If so, then it has been nearly THIRTY YEARS since we could ‘trust’ that we’ll get any information from the FIB.
“What it does say is the case has been turned over to FIB where it will likely just die…”
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Yep, the FIB is where all muslim crimes go to be covered up and buried.
And gay crimes.
And tranny crimes.
And Hunter crimes.
And Brandon crimes.
Okay, this is creepy, but you get to play the Jeopardy Game after you watch!
Very effectively communicated.
WOW. I mean WOW.
Add those “queeroes” to Kinsey and all his gang of perverted pederasts. The foundation of modern decadence, which is doing its damnedest to rival or exceed Sodom and Gomorrah…
And that shrill trannyac that kept trying to speak over the lecturer… that’s all they do, the DEMONS and DEMONESSES of depravity, as they seek to take and ruin our children, our children’s innocence, and our society in general.
Excellent vids…
Reminds me of that Christian group who went into the Castro in SF, just reciting Bible passages, totally non-violent and loving… The shrill queers and perverts there in SF violently attacked them, injured some of them, a few quite severely, and “honored” their master, Satan, with their actions.
SF, on the other hand, gave them a limp slap (fondle?) on the wrists, and rebuked the Christians for being there…..