Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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Cursday…
https://twitter.com/BestVideosBest/status/1305547783294930945
Love it! Way cool! Perfect song!
“Born… To Ride… Mo… Tor… Cycles“
Oh…to be young and have that devil-may-care attitude again…..
Cursday…
https://twitter.com/BestVideosBest/status/1305547783294930945
Cursday…
https://twitter.com/BestVideosBest/status/1305894679557410816
https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1306216773415505923
https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1306274576293335041
Holy moly……………….what a sport! And talent!
Wow! That’s amazing precision!
Back in the day, late 70’s & early 80’s, when roller skating rinks were the place to be on Friday and Saturday night in a small rural town, my buddy Fred and I thought we were really hot stuff when the “skate guards” couldn’t catch up to us to tone down our speed-crazy forbidden antics on the floor amongst the packed rink crowd.
I don’t think we could have ever accomplished this though. Impressive!
Is Water Baptism A Testimony?
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Let us suppose that you have been saved, but live a careless life and bear a poor testimony before the world. Would water baptism change this? What would it be worth?
But suppose you have been saved and live a godly, consistent life before the world. Is a water-confession necessary? How much is it worth? Don’t be afraid to answer this question honestly. How many “baptized converts” there are who cannot even give a word of testimony for their Lord among the lost!
In a sense, however, the baptism of believers by water in this age is a testimony — a bad testimony. When the Galatian believers submitted to circumcision it was a bad testimony (Gal.5:2,3). Circumcision, while a part of Peter’s “gospel of the circumcision” had no place in “the gospel of the uncircumcision” committed to Paul (Gal.2:7). And just as circumcision was connected with “the gospel of the circumcision” so water baptism was con-nected with “the gospel of the kingdom” (See Matthew 3:2,6; 10:5-7; cf. John 1:31; Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:16; Luke 24:47; Acts 2:36-38; Acts 3:19-21).
We solemnly declare that the present day practice of water baptism is a reflection on the grace of God and a confession of a lack of appreciation of the finished work of Christ, and the believer’s completeness in Him (See Ephesians 1:6; Colossians 2:10). Furthermore, it betrays a poor understanding of the heavenly character and position of the Church of this age (See Ephesians 2:6; 1:3; Colossians 3:1-3).
Be a Berean. Search the Scriptures and see whether these things are so.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/is-water-baptism-a-testimony/
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Galatians 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Galatians 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
Matthew 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matt 3:6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Matthew 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
John 1:31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Luke 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath SPOKEN by the mouth of all his holy prophets SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN (*)
(*) Please compare/contrast with Romans 16:25:
Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was KEPT SECRET SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN.
These cannot be the same – refer back up to Galatians 2:7
1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
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Ephesians 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Colossians 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
“In a sense, however, the baptism of believers by water in this age is a testimony — a bad testimony. When the Galatian believers submitted to circumcision it was a bad testimony (Gal.5:2,3). Circumcision, while a part of Peter’s “gospel of the circumcision” had no place in “the gospel of the uncircumcision” committed to Paul (Gal.2:7). And just as circumcision was connected with “the gospel of the circumcision” so water baptism was con-nected with “the gospel of the kingdom” (See Matthew 3:2,6; 10:5-7; cf. John 1:31; Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:16; Luke 24:47; Acts 2:36-38; Acts 3:19-21).”
Paul had Timothy circumcised (cf. Acts 16:3). This was even after the Jerusalem Council from which Paul and Barnabas carried letters to “the brothers amongst the Gentiles” in certain cities (cf. Acts 15:23) assuring them to be free from that physical requirement as it related to salvation (cf. Acts 15 1, 5-11, 19-29).
As far as Galatians 5, the concept that spiritual efficacy unto justification and sanctification was being wrought via circumcision and law-keeping seems to have been at issue in Galatia (cf. Galatians 3:1-5, 5;1-4). Paul’s comment in Galatians 5:6 provides additional context: “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any power, but only faith working through love.”
Paul specified to them that he did not have Gentile Greek Titus circumcised (cf. Galatians 2:3), despite what had been done with Timothy (half-Jewish and half-Greek by blood per Acts 16:1) after the Jerusalem Council. In the case of Titus, it appears that circumcision could have been used to bolster the contentions of those insisting that physical circumcision was needed for salvation (cf. Galatians 2:2:5, Acts 15:1-5).
In the case of Timothy, it does not appear that in doing so, Christ would profit him nothing and he became a debtor to keep the whole Law and had fallen from grace (cf. Galatians 5:2-4). In that case, as Paul would not want any unnecessary barriers to fellowship and gospel sharing, he chose a route in line with his approach of becoming “like a Jew, so that I might win the Jews” (cf. 1 Cor. 9:20).
Thus, Paul’s words to the Galatians appear specific to how they were trusting the physical act of circumcision as it related to salvation, justification, and sanctification.
“We solemnly declare that the present day practice of water baptism is a reflection on the grace of God and a confession of a lack of appreciation of the finished work of Christ, and the believer’s completeness in Him (See Ephesians 1:6; Colossians 2:10). Furthermore, it betrays a poor understanding of the heavenly character and position of the Church of this age (See Ephesians 2:6; 1:3; Colossians 3:1-3).”
Again, in one case of circumcision as a New Testament focus, it related to a group (the Galatians) evidently misunderstanding its purpose (and apparently being misled by some), while in another, the matter of salvation was not at issue. Both cases appear to be well after the Jerusalem Council and after Paul separated from Barnabas.
All of this raises some questions. For instance, why would Paul be bringing a physical custom to Gentiles in Europe — specifically his jailer in Philippi and tellingly after the Jerusalem Council? Having shared what the evidently Gentile jailer must do to be saved, why would “water baptism” have occurred and been recorded in Scripture, especially well after Paul and his former ministry partner Barnabas has brought Gentile believers letters that confirmed alleviation of requirements that might trouble them (cf. Acts 15:1-31)?
The notion that this could be chalked up to the time of transition appears problematic given how clearly Paul drew the line when it came to imposing requirements related to the law and the old covenant on Gentiles, using as a prime example his refusing to require that of Gentile Greek Titus (Galatians 2:3), time of transition or not. At the same time, those Gentiles heeding what were deemed “necessary things” (Gr. epanagkes) in the Jerusalem Council letter — including abstinence from food sacrificed to idols (further addressed in Romans) — were not showing contempt for grace by doing so, nor were they relying on physical acts for justification and sanctification or exhibiting a “poor understanding of the heavenly character and position of the Church of this age” with their physical, present-world actions.
Were the physical act of baptism by members of the body of Christ tantamount to a “confession of a lack of appreciation of the finished work of Christ” as the writer contends, where are the corresponding words of warning or rebuke for that action by the body of Christ in Paul’s writings, perhaps even a single rebuke or correction akin to what Paul used regarding circumcision? Contrariwise, it is noteworthy that amongst so many of those Paul called the body of Christ (1 Cor. 10:16, 12:27, Eph. 4:12), physical baptism in fact had a place and even Paul’s participation (cf. 1 Cor. 1:13-16).
This is what I think Galatians 5-6 means.
Galatians 5:5-6
5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness [Jesus] through faith [believing in Him]. 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth [can do] anything, neither uncircumcision, but faith [believing in Him] which worketh [is shown] by love [obeying Him].
Galatians 5:5-6
5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of Jesus through believing in Him. 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision can do anything, neither uncircumcision, but believing in Him which is shown by obeying Him.
John 16:7-11
7 Yet I tell you the truth, It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, that Comforter will not come unto you: but if I depart, I will send Him unto you,
8 And when He is come, He will reprove [convict] the world of sin [unbelief], and of righteousness [Jesus], and of judgment.
9 Of sin, because they believed not in Me:
10 Of righteousness, because I go to My Father, and ye shall see Me no more.
11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
1 John 3:23-24
23 This is then His commandment, that we believe in the Name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave commandment.
24 For he that keepeth His commandments, dwelleth in Him, and He in him: and hereby we know that He abideth in us, even by that Spirit which He hath given us.
I John 5:3
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not burdenous.
Treating, not trusting
Hog wash. You totally misread scripture.
Father ,we thank you that your hand is upon our president mightily,we cover him with the precious shed blood of Jesus Christ,and decree and declare Zachariah 2;5 over him and his family..Let the fire of your glory surround them and that no witchcraft,no voodoo,no hex,no vex,no curse no power,no principality and no demon in hell shall prosper against them.Father we ask that you dispatch legions of your warring angelic hosts to destroy every plot and plan of the enemy.Father let your anointing rest strongly upon him at all times and our nation is brought totally back to you.Father ,we praise you,we glorify you in the name above all names ,Jesus Christ,King of Kings,Lord of Lords and soon to return Messiah,Amen.
HAPPY BENCH CURSDAY…
Have a blessed day thinking of or being with the humans and canines you love!
For a long time now I’ve been interested in knowing more about virtuosity. One thing I’ve found that’s pretty interesting is that virtuosos don’t have a lot of self-doubt. They learn at an early age that they’re a bit different, usually showing talent well beyond their years. Perhaps the most significant thing that sets them apart is their confidence: they simply know how good they are.
I thought about this tonight as I was listening to Andrea Motis performe with her teacher, Joan (pronounced Juan) Chammoro and their jazz band. Andrea was Joan’s student at the Sant Andreu music school in Barcelona. Amazingly this wonderful school is a part of the regular Barcelona school system. We have nothing like this here in the States. Oh, yeah. She was all of 19 when she made this video. She even scat-sings in English!
Andrea Motis, ha ha sooo cool. Thank you this morning.
Dr Li-Ming Yan, the Chinese virologist who defected to the US and has what she claims to be proof that the COVID virus originated in the Chinese military lab in Wuhan has recently run into a firestorm of attacks on her claims and ‘proofs’ by US media figures and scientists following the US government’s party line. Just today she had her Twitter account cancelled.
She’s a valid virologist, you can Google her and see her CV at various symposia. Since her defection and claims of working in positions that gave her access to proof it was a lab virus many of those who hailed her revelations are now attacking them and her.
I’m wondering if Biden wins in November the DoJ will find some pretense to, if bot send her back to China, send her to a place where China can snatch her up? Neither the Chinese or their US shills can afford to have her offering up proof that we have an act of war on top of acts of treason?
The process of neutralizing her is well under way, the media talking heads are already calling her proof ‘unsubstantiated’ without even seeing it – you know, the same folks who said that Russiagate ‘proof’ was real. What a mess we’ve got going on, government as a Fox reality program.
Dr Li-Ming Yan’s evidence is very detailed and credible. The more you know about the scientific details of her research paper, the more credible her claims are.
The personal destruction rumor mongers, such as Politifact, attempt to discredit her by citing old propaganda and their favorite evidence,”consensus.” and “experts agree.”
Dr. Yan’s accent requires careful listening, but she herself gives the most colorful and lucent description of her argument s dealing with the arrangement of specific genomes on the SARS-CoV-2 viris.
She explains it’s like having a cow with a deer’s head, a rabbit’s ears, and a monkey’s hands. It cannot have evolved in nature.
This is her segment on Tucker Carlson, she has been scrubbed on Twit & FB.
Her fight is against Evil. God bless her and praying for her safety and prrovenance
I hope she has 24/7 personal protection .
The spread to begin with was just too coincidental. It ‘began’ in Wuhan exactly while thousands of military personnel from around 120 different countries were there for the CISM (international military Olympic games) were going on, allowing thousands of military to potentially contract it and take it home. Hmmmmm…..
I didn’t believe it originated from someone having an undercooked bat burger and then somehow having contact with enough people over the course of some 60 days to infect much of the world but that’s what they want us to think.
Good to see you here this morning. Happy Thursday.
Your point here is well worth consideration. In fairness to the good Dr Li-Ming Yan, she was smart to deliver the information to as many news outlets that will listen to her; however, I would agree that she is going to need protection to stay alive and well.
Potentially worse than Harris / Biden (sorry Sundance inspired me to put the real candidate first in the mix), is the entire UN / WHO cabal and (more importantly) their backers.
In theory, it would be best if we either sought to protect her directly (PDJT administration could offer protection — if it were me as the Dr., I would want the U.S. Marshalls as they are quite good at what they do), or worked with partners to provide her with cover. My guess is that Mr. Carlson was attempting to both give her a platform and possibly indicate that she will need support.
As for the reality TV program, I agree 110%.
Please be well today.
P.S. Peaceful protestors have already shut down two major arteries in NWDC, near American University; it is not yet 9:00 AM!!!
Please keep a good thought / pray for us all.
Let’s see what they do. I presume their first direct move on her would be to suggest she shut up and hunker down until already thin public interest in where it came from dissipates even more or they’ll find some way to disappear her as the public interest in her droops even more.
Prudent! Very prudent! Also I agree.
An aside (and we can take this to the general spread if it is better there):
Heard this today on the radio (not WTOP; not a fan, but they had the print article)
https://wtop.com/dc/2020/09/dc-water-establishes-program-to-fund-basement-repairs-connected-to-flooding/
Thought you would find it interesting.
Best…
Am I the only one to suggest a quite possible connection between the overloaded DC septic system and Congress???
Reminds me hiw when I’d go to the DIA at Bolling the Air Force would put me up in the crappiest places they could find. I could fight for senior NCO quarters at Bolling but the zoomies liked to save them for their blue-suited bros. They’d put me up at the El Dumpo hotel in Oxen Hill, MD right downwind from the Blue Plain DC sewage treatment plant.
Once a swamp, always a swamp. Congress is on a hill and it all runs down form there. Yet, I heard this on the radio and was surprised. We really do not get horrible flooding. We do get some, and buildings are older in areas of town, but I still found the story strange.
Yes, I am familiar with DIA and their policies. No, I was never in DIA, but I was raised by a relative who was: civilian Naval Department, then Navy, then back out of uniform for ONI, and finally DIA (also sans uniform). If I recall correctly, they share their credit union with DARPA (strange pair).
They are a good agency, but if I recall correctly they do not have the budget of Langley or some of the others. To my knowledge, the per diem was pretty tight for travel and if they could stick you on a train (or even a slow moving bus) instead of a plane, to save money, they would.
The hotel and the sewage plant sounds right. If it is any conciliation, (to my knowledge) the accommodations in Philadelphia were not any nicer. As for DC, there was a motel they used near Capitol Hill (long time ago), but I do not recall what it was called (not a chain and long gone).
It was an interesting place. I asked for a room on the 4th floor or higher, facing the street. All night long there were cop cars and ambulances screaming down the street … just like home.
Only place to get something to ear after 6PM was a place across the street that sold cheap wine, beer and fried chicken thru a portal in a wall of steel bars enclosing the entire front. Ahhhh, the DC suburbs.
Yes, something to behold (especially Oxen Hill, what a nightlife!)! Now you would also be able to get that “vape” to go along with the 2pc and the beer. = )
I didn”t dine-out on the Hill, the smell of gunpowder with my fried chicken and screw-top wine is offputting.
Whoops! Meant to say “general thread — computer or rather human malfunction”, and then I realized we were still in the general thread! What a day!
Sorry about that one.
Is this shut down in conjunction with ‘the WH occupy cabal?)
annieoakley,
An interesting thought Annie, but I do not think the two are exactly aligned; however, I have known to get it wrong. Still, a very interesting thought here.
H;ummm. Looks like my Cursday video may have gone walkabout.
Story out of Nashville…
“Leaked emails between the senior adviser to Nashville’s Mayor and a health department official reveal a disturbing effort to conceal extremely low coronavirus cases emanating from bars and restaurants, while the lion’s share of infections occurred in nursing homes and construction workers, according to WZTV Nashville.
On June 30th, contact tracing was giving a small view of coronavirus clusters. Construction and nursing homes causing problems more than a thousand cases traced to each category, but bars and restaurants reported just 22 cases.
Leslie Waller from the health department asks “This isn’t going to be publicly released, right? Just info for Mayor’s Office?”
“Correct, not for public consumption.” Writes senior advisor Benjamin Eagles. -WZTV”
more at link:
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/nashville-authorities-concealed-evidence-hardly-any-covid-19-cases-contracted-bars-and
them son’s a b*tches
wielding a public cudgel of great economic harm but not wanting to admit they got it wrong nor for the public to know they got it wrong
spit !
nimrodman, they didn’t get it wrong. What they did was intentional. They should be run out of town for all the destruction they have done.
Yup, NOLA rates are ~3% and the mayor’s still trying to keep bars closed, cities in Louisiana with higher rates are opening and state’s monitoring rates to shut down ops were the rates to climb to higher levels. Can’t help but wonder if the mayor’s trying to keep the story of who’s really pushing the rates up, and it’s the same ones in the city who’ve been ignoring rules since Day One.
Baby Lives Matter.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
Question: if you could remove a tumor in your brain but would die , would you? Or would you live with the pain and ill effects until it killed you?
Would you choose to punish all the corruption in our government and sentence them all to jail or death and lose our country or live with what we have until it kills our nation?
Shame on you, Rider!
Posing this provocative and excellent question so early in the morning!
I’m compelled to reply but, gotta get to work. I’ll get back to you tonight…
Awesome question! This is why I sometimes feel like I have a love/hate relationship with my fellow Treepers.
Love that you make me think. And, sometimes, hate that you make me think.
Awful lot of thinking going on at this website…
If the corruption continues it will kill the nation but if you stop it you have hope of continuing our country.
Yeah, this made me think, too. Mostly about how you didn’t allow for a third viable course of action. That being, to seek out and ultilize alternative healing, whether medical, or holistic…
Just sayin, our country isn’t gone yet, and still functioning well enough to fight for and save! Therefore, your binary choices for termination are not options to consider…
Doom & gloom is for quitters. Our forefathers didn’t build this constitutional Republic with that attitude. Now, more than ever is time to be proactive, positive & patriotic!
That wasn’t the question kmd, if you want a fantasy of variables it reduces your necessity to think.
Yeah coulda woulda shoulda but think about a question with limited variables.
And yes we could heal, but do you leave part of the tumor for that little bit of life or get it done?
It’s just a question and no wrong answer, it was to make you think.
Like this, do you wear a mask knowing it will kill you to comply with society. But, you die slow or later.
“Day 22: I have gained their trust …”
Happy Caturday, y’all
Lol…
Best disguise ever!
Thank you.
Verse of the Day for Thursday, September 17, 2020
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“The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.”
Psalms 34:17 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Thursday Butterfly Blessings
Jesus Loves Babies…Pray for the Unborn
Jesus Loves the Little Children – Pray for the Little Children
Jesus Loves You – Come to Him
Amen and thank you duchess!
Certainly needed to see this Psalm, this morning.
My better half just told me that “peaceful protestors” have already shut down two major roads in NWDC. It is not even 9:00 AM as I type to you.
You picked (channeling the Almighty) an excellent Psalm for my morning, and I am grateful!
Have a blessed Thursday!
Not me, Citizen – God brought it forward – the Verse of the Day is posted daily by someone God chose – I am just the messenger! I choose the daily blessing, tho – wherever God leads me.
God Bless Your Day, too, Citizen!
Good to know and thank you!
Mornin’ infidels!
https://twitter.com/AnimalsWorId/status/1306127213947809793
What a sweet “cuppy.”
Mornin’ P!
Mornin’ WeeWeed!
Great day to be an infidel!
Liking the cat/dog very much…funny!
Yesterday post had a purpose, and I appreciated it; however, I am glad you have one that is a little more upbeat today. Nothing wrong with a good mix.
The only other thing I have noticed is that it sometimes becomes hard to find you, when you follow duchess. Appreciate you both immensely, but when you immediately follow, one could miss the morning roll call.
Have a great Thursday!
Mornin’ Citizen!
Mornin’ WeeWeed!
Mornin’ DI!
Afternoon WeeWeed!
Afternoon Bari!
Evenin’ WeeWeed. Cute!
TRUMP Rally Update:
Great American Comeback Event in Mosinee, WI
Thu, September 17, 2020
08:00 pm (CDT)
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06:00 pm (CDT)
Great American Comeback Event in Fayetteville, NC
Sat, September 19, 2020
06:00 pm (EDT)
Great American Comeback Event in Swanton, OH
Mon, September 21, 2020
07:00 pm (EDT)
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PDJT is high energy! MAGA !!
Pretty extensive list of Israel’s High Holy Day lockdown regulations starting tomorrow.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/govt-approves-high-holy-day-regulations-lockdown-starts-friday-642581
Unseal and release all of Obama’s personal life documents/records from the time of his birth through to his election to the Senate.
Requesting for an avid Obama supporter.
OKAY, SO I DID NOT GET THIS ONE.
SO THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY LAID HIMSELF OFF FOR A WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!
WHO DOES THAT???????????????
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/16/nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-furlough-himself-494-city-employees/
Ad rem,
Sorry to shout, but I am just besides myself on this story. Certainly, I am working to regain composure, and I promise to tone it down in the future.
The man actually gave himself a week at home so he can smoke more pot! What is happening to NYC? Agh!!!
Best,
Simple Citizen
He has been ROAD (Retired On Active Duty) since he took office.
Very funny!
Still always think about going home to kick him in the pants (knock the Cool Ranch Doritos out of this numb idiot), but I appreciate the humor.
Why couldn’t he give back all his salary and keep working anyway, for free?
Now THAT would be highly altruistic and set a good example.
Too bad President Trump would never exhibit such a selfless act of leadership.
Ahhhhh, unmmmmmm, ehhhhhhhh,
Do I really need a /sarc?
deeperinfo,
Nope you do not need the sarc. Read you loud and clear. Also appreciate your point.
You see my good friend, that is not how a Politburo works. The people need to share the wealth, not the Politburo. Didn’t you ever see Rocky IV? = )
Thanks for the response; much appreciated.
Best,
Simple Citizen
WHAT’S THE GOOD OF TEMPTATION?
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man.” 1 Cor. x. 13
The word “temptation” has come down in the world; we are apt to use it wrongly. Temptation is not sin, it is the thing we are bound to meet if we are men. Not to be tempted would be to be beneath contempt. Many of us, however, suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer, simply because we have refused to let God lift us to a higher plane where we would face temptations of another order.
A man’s disposition on the inside, i.e., what he possesses in his personality, determines what he is tempted by on the outside. The temptation fits the nature of the one tempted, and reveals the possibilities of the nature. Every man has the setting of his own temptation, and the temptation will come along the line of the ruling disposition.
Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim – not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good. Temptation is something that completely baffles me for a while, I do not know whether the thing is right or wrong. Temptation yielded to is lust deified, and is a proof that it was timidity that prevented the sin before.
Temptation is not something we may escape, it is essential to the full-orbed life of a man. Beware lest you think you are tempted as no one else is tempted; what you go through is the common inheritance of the race, not something no one ever went through before. God does not save us from temptations; He succours us in the midst of them (Heb. ii. 18).
Oswald Chambers
September 17th Devotional
Just here to say that I will both fast and pray on (and around) the days of PDJT’s debates – and – especially – before, on, and after Election Day. Asking The Almighty to find favor on PDJT, and to heal our land, His will be done.
Let me invite all who feel called to do likewise, as you are able.
The fasting could range from skipping one meal – to – 24 hours or more. (But be sure to have enough energy to go vote!)
The prayer could range from a quick “arrow prayer” to, say, give over a lunch break to prayer, up to all day continuous (or longer)
If work or other obligations make either not feasible, any prayer of any degree is encouraged!
The Widow’s Mite was a great offering.
I see that FOX, with Faulkner and Marie Harf, cut off Newt G. yesterday for daring to suggest that George Soros was responsible for getting so many of the crazy, Progressive prosecutors elected in the last election cycle. Huh…, imagine that.
Marie Barf was the spokes person for the most corrupt State Department in the history of the United States. The ultimate “Karen” her predictable, pedestrian and Progressive commentary, as expected, either flies in the face of the facts, or , is designed to obfuscate the malevolent designs of the Fascists now running the show from the far, far left Peking pavilion that is the Communist catalyst driving the DNC/BLM/AntiFa ideology today.
The Murdochs are LIBERAL PROGRESSIVES who must chafe under the reputation (At this point, mostly undeserved.) of their company, FOX as the only Conservative news outlet aligned against the lion’s share of the MSM – which is radically left wing. At those social gatherings where their Progressive peers look down their noses at them, they secretly promise themselves that they will swing the pendulum to the left and the cudgel to those employees who are gradually forced to join forces with the Dark Side.
Marie Barf is modestly qualified to hit her a** with both hands in a hall full of mirrors and is in light years over her head with people like Newt, who actually have arguments, logic, time lines, facts, videos, anecdotal evidence, witness testimony and what Americans, prior to the Chinese type Cultural Revolution (Now, complete with the violence.), would accept as facts.
Diktats from the “suits” in the corporate office, now determine the veracity of any story, any opinion, any perspective at FOX–AND TUCKER IS IN DANGER.
It is what it is.
Tucker, with 5 million viewers a night, is NOT the enemy of the American people, but IS the enemy of his employer.
The silence from Newt was telling. I kept wondering how all those women, who are supposed to be at least reasonably well-educated (well, except for Harf who’s a blonde embarrassment), not be informed about the Soros project to elect leftest AG’s. This is very well-known so their collective response to Newt’s comment was, indeed, a reflection of Fox News corporate culture. It’ll be interesting to see whether there is any blow-back on this from the Fox big-league talking heads. If there isn’t, you’ll know just where the Soros support is coming from.
Really good interview with Jim Caviezel about Christian persecution, faith, his latest movie, Infidel, the battle of children of light vs children of dark, etc. (36 mins)
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR3TIMRPW7_7QsJhafnef_wLXMVHQ6dExO7L40tMl1jFeGVx1tONOu91cLo&t=233s&v=6nQqMKlsEZI
Jim Caviezel Opens Up About The Filming Of “The Passion of the Christ,” And His New Film, “Infidel.”
are people still interested in movies about Mid-East terrorism?
I mean – we’ve got our own terrorists in the streets the past 6 months, right?
Is there a difference?
Ferguson was the introduction of the Arab Street to the US. Actual palestinian organizers, agitators and attackers helped blow up the riots while wearing the checkerboard neck scarf of the PLO.
The Arab Street was first stirred up by the muslim brotherhood and obama in Egypt. The Dems brought their street Violence tactics to the US and aligned with antifa.
Follow the money. This “activism” is a ‘Spring Revolution’ being run against the US by Dems and the Deep State Department / cia.
WHO would do this, and WHY wont the police identify the suspect they have in custody? Do you think he’s a Quaker?
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1482244/vandals-decapitated-statue-jesus-church-altar-elpaso/
Aloha Snackbar?
Reminder, today is “Constitution Day” and Antifa has pledged to take over the Capital. Ain’t life great! MAGA, ??
I posted over at the President’s Open Thread but thought better post here, too.
https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/democrats-george-soros-transition-integrity-project-has-plan-remove-trump-from-office-whether-he-wins-or-not/
We’ve been seeing stories about how top Pentagon officers have come out against Trump, some to the point of treason. I have no doubt that the unprecedented criticism of the sitting POTUS by active members of the military is being backed by and the actors protected by Rats in Congress.
What we’re not hearing on the MSM but I’m seeing in my military feeds is an equally, if not larger, voicing of support for Trump. written and spoken, by top members of the Pentagon staff.
Both of these groups have put their careers on the line, that’s a definite, and on November 4th I expect to see one group or the other putting in a lot of retirement letters.
Sedition.
P,
Good to see you here today; I hope you are well.
Well I did some writing on this yesterday and in previous posts over the last couple of months.
What it looks like may be coming is the “Great Compromise” or some such term that they will come up with. Now I could get long winded, but basically it breaks down to this:
1. Trump wins by a landslide (possibly besting Reagan / Mondale)
2. Violence goes everywhere
3. Lawsuits are filed en-masse
4. Administration begins to fight the lawsuits and control the violence using los Federales (excluding Fibee even though it is their only purpose for being here)
5. Burning and looting, real depraved acts by former inmates who are being fed drugs by their handlers and have lost the fear of death
6. Carnage is high in the numbers /supply lines are disrupted
7. President Trump weighs his options and tries to strike multiple bargains
8. When no bargains may be had and the devastation is great, PDJT decides to accept the “Great Compromise” (this was one of the things they had Podesta gaming with the other dark lords a few months ago), and resign in an allotted period of time, allowing for a “sound transition”
9. You now have President Pence, a lame duck from inception (think Gerry Ford), and the swamp rejoices
10. Trump goes off to become the next Rupert Murdoch and spends most of his time in Panama for his own safety
What follows along side of this are numerous Executive Orders (that may or may not be countermanded by Pence), the global financial reset (phasing out of paper, more electronic) and a celebration of resignation with dignity.
Ivanka is now off the list for the successor in politics and both of the boys are being groomed for various future purposes.
Sorry to sound so glum, and I sure hope I get this one SEVERELY wrong; however, please do not be surprised if some version of this comes into our world.
In the meantime, we pray, we vote, we help one another out and WE HOPE THAT I AM COMPLETELY WRONG ON THIS WHOLE SERIES OF EVENTS.
All my best,
Simple Citizen
Postscript: There is also the possibility that the “Great Compromise” may or may not include a succession of some sort, but it is very hard to say. The purposeful emptying out of coastal states on both sides could be indicative of a sea change.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that the “Compromise” will more than likely have a martial law component coming that will actually be suggested by the DEMs; see they lost control of their dogs on purpose, and will now wish to round them up.
Basically, if you ever read any of author Douglas Valentines work, you can equate what is coming to a new, domestic, Phoenix Program.
Really hope I am wrong on this.
P,
Thinking I owe you an apology here. What I have put forth is what would seem to have been gamed by the Democrats, and my analysis that they are throwing the fight worse than the Liston / Ali rematch.
Hey, I am praying I am really wrong and President Donald J. Trump will not give up. In theory, he could counter the 10th Amendment to the Constitution with the 14th and use the commerce clause to sweep away a lot of the domestic terrorism.
Plus the USA Patriot Act gives him an awful lot of power to take a variety of actions (especially if he can get a declaration that these are “terrorists” that we are dealing with). Also, I do appreciate his respect for state rights, and wish he could even take it further to give us back the republic we miss / love.
What i am baffled by is why certain actions are not being taken, or at least not being taken yet. Further, I do think there is a large push to completely undermine our whole political process and erode / destroy it in new ways. The bigger plan allows for a man with dementia to be, literally, run into the ground for a political gain.
Either way, I did not wish to be so nihilistic in my posts and even snarky or whatever, I was just saying that they have plans and do not feel that they are wasting their time and money to game them out.
All my best,
Simple Citizen
czarowniczy, Simple Citizen, and Linda, et al:
Rec’d this video in an email dated 09/16/2020:
Colonel Richard H. Black, a Marine combat veteran and former head of the Army’s Criminal Law Division, documents the plot for a military intervention should President Trump win the election. Bill Binney explains that the means to identify and track the conspirators exists already in the NSA’s data base and Kirk Wiebe elaborates the stakes. The conspirators are talking about it openly because they are trying to normalize the idea, to get you to accept it.
Participants:
Col. Richard H. Black, USA Ret., Marine combat veteran, former Head of the Army’s Criminal Law Division, the Pentagon
William Binney, former Technical Director National Security Agency
J. Kirk Wiebe, former Senior Analyst National Security Agency
https://larouchepac.com/
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Mr. Binney is an excellent man that I do take extremely seriously. What this man has forgotten is often more than entire cities (collectively) know. Even ARPA / DARPA did not have a grasp of metadata, until Mr. Binney showed how it could be employed.
Will look at the video and get back to you a little later.
Many, many thanks.
First and foremost, thank you for this video and your post.
Having viewed the video, I cannot agree more and found a few points worth some introspection:
1. Colonel Black brought up a quote from Foreign Affairs magazine, which is produced by the Council on Foreign Relations. IF you would like to see the deep state, then this is a very good place to begin.
On this page, you will find their answers (for the “people”, although 98% of Americans would not even know what I was speaking of if I asked them their views on the CFR) to so many of the problems with the Trump Administration. There are 8 or so videos, and if you wish to see the opposition, then stop by and take a look:
https://www.cfr.org/election2020/inside-the-issues
then (just watch 2 minutes)
then
And yet, with all of their “privilege”, CFR office remain unchallenged by a single “peaceful protestor” in either Manhattan or DC.
2. Bob Woodward – former U.S. Army Intelligence, then CIA, then Mr. Deep Throat, and the rest is history
3. Attorney General Barr – former CIA
It is all very alarming indeed. The video you posted is certainly helpful in getting the word out during some very dangerous times.
Thank you.
Again, this is all way over my head but may be of interest to others.
https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/afi/2019-09-12-THE-SECRET-PLOT-IN-1909-BY-THE-ANGLO-AMERICAN-PILGRIMS-SOCIETY-TO-STAFF-SPY-AGENCIES-WITH-NEWSPAPERMEN-Americans-for-Innovation-Sep-12-2019 .pdf (Note: Remove space before .pdf)
https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/1902-The-Last-Will-and-Testament-of-Cecil-J.-Rhodes-by-WT-Stead-editor-Review-of-Reviews-Office-London-1902 .pdf (Note: Remove space before .pdf)
No P, you are on the trail and now have a good picture.
The first link was accomplished in reverse by Allen Dulles, which was easy to do with the Washington Post, but took a while with the New York Times.
In almost all the media departments in the nation, there are employees that collect two checks. One form the employer and one from Langley. The Vanderbilt kid might have waved his because of the massive trust fund.
As for Rhodes, he started the round table groups that guide world action for the 1% or the 1%. He began Charter House, which then spun off into the CFR and (quite literally) countless other groups.
If you like the music of any “British Invasion (whether 1, 2, 3 and they are preparing 4)”, then you can thank the Tavistock group. If you like California / American music from the late 1960s into the 1970s, then you can thank our intelligence superstructure working with a myriad of round tables and private contractors.
So you are on the right path here, and there is a wealth of books on the subject matter if you are interested. The problem with the onion is that the layers never seem to end once you begin peeling.
Best…
This website has a lot of information — most of which is way over my head but might be of interest to others.
https://americans4innovation.blogspot .com/ (Remove space before .com)
Bookmark: #Fig-7
Saul Alinsky’s 12-Step Community Organizing Program:
1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2. Never go outside the expertise of your people.
3. Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.
4. Make the enemy live by its own book of rules.
5. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
6. A good tactic is one your people enjoy.
7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8. Keep the pressure on. Never let up.
9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10. If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.
11. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative by the enemy.
12. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.
Fig. 7—Saul D. Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals (1971).
https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/cyberhijack/cyber-hijack-findings .pdf (Note: Remove space before .pdf)
Also this site:
https://aim4truth .org/ (Remove space before .org)
Your findings are good and the links are useful.
From my own perspective (humbly);
Alinsky was a two bit hack that the mob should have just taken care of early on. He kissed their a**es so much that he became their mascot. A self inflated loud mouth, with low self esteem.
Looking into Edward Bernays, begins to get one to the root source, and then looking into his family members brings a fuller picture.
Definitely, appreciate all of your posts and research here. You are on a good track to getting a better read on the truth. Certainly, I do not know everything, and I do not even think the 1% of the 1% does either. They have spent some much time compartmentalizing the world, that I often think it becomes hard to keep track of.
Yet, even with 20-30% of the truth, one can go far in not being so surprised when truly odd things happen; there becomes a context with which to place events.
Best…
Local news is touting local boy Mitch Landrieu’s having started an organization: https://www.unumfund.org/ Looks like the Rat Party found a job for him.
The organization’s purpose is to ensure that all of the people in the South are counted – and they state/start from the position that the South is and has been awash in systemic racism, almost stating that all of the racism began, grew and continued to fester just in the South.
What they’re not saying is that after years of the Rats paying the Catholic Charities to park untold numbers of Latinex immigrants in Southern counties to switch red counties to blue they’re partnering with the Census to ‘ensure’ that all legal and illegal immigrants have been counted in their salted areas. Just as in 2010 when the homeless were rounded up and counted in a number of different gathering sites and counted without having to produce proof of their identities, the illegals will be ‘counted’ in the South. Sidebar: NOLA had a dicey time trying to account for the difference in the number of actual homeless on the street and the number the census showed but the fluffup died and it won’t be until 2085 until we can see the actual by-name count so…..
Mitch tried to get the Rat nomination but there’s too much obvious questionable stuff in his background so instead of leading the New Left American Revolution he get to march with a flute.
Looks like Sally is dissipating quickly. Unfavorable jet stream winds and a cold front tearing her apart and stretching her out into a long squal line so though some places will see heavy thunderstorms the deluge is ending.
good to hear, thanks
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Statistical Transparency Report Regarding the Use of National Security Authorities
Calendar Year 2019
Good overview of 702 and other US intelligence data collection policy
https://cryptome.org/2020/09/odni-transparency-2019.pdf
PDF links here get turned into a cover image that do not click through.
The pdf is in croytome.org, under:
Masterspy Statistical Transparency Report 2019, September 4, 2020 (1.7MB)
cryptome.org
Sorry, need more coffee.
“Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.”
-Isaiah 1:7-
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Who is funding America’s Race Riots
https://www.thetrumpet.com/22840-whos-funding-americas-race-riots
I’m seeing reports that Democrats and other assorted Leftists are looking for violence post-election regardless of which candidate wins.
It’s starting to look like classic Marxist/Maoist actions where violence will be used to scare the target population into a stunned state where they’ll beg for government to come and save them. Of course there’ll be demands from the government that will be presented as conditions needing to be in place before help can be rendered…only slightly oppressive conditions needed to meet the emergency…and they’ll be lifted and life will be returned to normal when the emergency’s over. Just sit back and allow Uncle Joe and Gauleiter Soros take care of the details.
They’ve ginned up Antifas/BLM/Soros-backed Final Solution 2.0 groups, melded them into a rolling revolutionary corps and loosed them on the major strip cities/population centers. Sooner or later they’ll release them on the suburbs where sympathetic politicians and neutered police departments won’t deal with them but will quickly deal with residents who defend their properties. Rwanda lite?
Maybe, but I do think many of the police are beginning to change their minds.
Many of them may lose their jobs either way, so if some suburban and rural citizens decide to stand their ground, what harm could it be to the police? Perhaps that corner of the world will get a little safer and the police will have some support if they allow a decisive conflict to work its way out.
Plus there are a lot of veterans in the suburbs who used the VA loan for a castle. They will not fall hard and they are far better trained than this Muslim Brotherhood / HAMAS backed crowd, which shows organization, but very finite tactical knowledge.
Put is this way, I would not wish to enter the town, as a “peaceful protestor group” with a lot of ex-Recon guys, ex-Seals, ex-Rescue guys and / or Green Berets who decided to settle down to a nice suburban life. No matter how many buses (without license plates) come in, they will simply need that many body bags to take them out.
Maybe this is what (God forbid) FEMA has been storing all those plastic caskets, and building all those camps for. Just don’t know at this point.
Having some fun
Very funny!
Can someone from Tennessee help me out?
Hubby and I are traveling up in late October. We are doing some reconnaissance to see if we like it there, specifically northeastern part near Bristol, Johnson City , Kingsport and Jonesboro.
Are we in red/Trump territory? My husband is not retiring so employment is a must.
We have been to Tennessee before but are now getting serious to moving.
I appreciate would be most welcome.
Chattanooga is ok too.
Thanks
MAGA
I am in GA,,, just south of the TN and NC.. this is Maga Country… so is Gatlinburg!!!
Thanks amwick,
We like TN because there is no state income tax like here in FL. We thought of northern GA. But we really want to be closer to the smokies. We are driving up so we’ll check out northern GA also, a couple of acres with mountain views and a creek through the property. Plus 4 seasons. It’s our dream..we’ll see…houses are selling fast. Praying that we will find the perfect homestead.
Be well
hmmm….
What a snake. But have to give it to her — her hair cut and color looks great
I figure they’ve taken a look at some internal polling and are now trying to walk it back hard.
I really dislike her – even though yes, her cut and color look great, and she often ‘rocks’ the pantsuit…lol….
I can barely sign in to wordpress to commend or like things here anymore. Is anyone else having problems? I’ve cleared my cache, cookies, site data and nothing is working.
dianeax: It is my understanding that you don’t have to be use wordpress to comment here but you do have to use wordpress if you want to “Like” anyone’s comments. Maybe don’t use wordpress and just comment using the “Leave a Reply” form at the bottom of CTH articles.
U.S. Embassy Hanoi ticked off the government there by first showing a map with two islands claimed by the country, then removing them in a later post. The sea battles are boiling due to Winnie the Xi and no pushback. Map pic in 2nd link. https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vietnam-reasserts-sovereignty-over-east-sea-archipelagos-after-us-embassy-map-removal-4163457.html
https://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/772460/vn-responds-to-us-embassys-removal-of-islands-from-map-graphic.html
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen.
A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Gen. Flynn:
Prayer to St. Michael
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
My ex’s nephew introduced me to this wonderful group back in the early 80’s and this tune is among my favorites. ❤️