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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Hey it’s spring time and that’s a cat! It has not a leg to stand on saying such a thing!
Superkitty
Oldie but goodie.
This vid is just so….60’s/70’s. I loved the band War. Still do. Anyway, great diversion for crazy times.
Happy Caturday, y’all ! Get out there and get some sunshine
In honor of Caturday, the cat is hangin’ ten!
Super Caturday.
Here’s some early Emmylou from her 1975 album. Produced and recorded by Brian Ahern in his famous “Enactron Truck” (basically a state-of-the-art recording studio housed in a 50ft trailer parked in the driveway next to his house), she brought together some absolutely top-notch musicians to back her up. I always like to search for magic—and here we have a little magic.
So, what do we have here after 46 years? Listening to thse songs, the answer is pretty simple: there is purity in these recordings. And there is truth. Enjoy, Treepers.
The Conflict Between the Old and New Natures
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Concerning the conflict continually going on between the old and new natures in the believer, St. Paul says:
“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would” (Gal. 5:17).
Regarding this conflict in his own personal experience, he writes:
“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
“For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
“But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members” (Rom. 7:19,22,23).
It has been taught by some that we need not experience this continual strife between the old nature and the new. They say: “Get out of the 7th of Romans into the 8th.”
We would remind such that the Apostle Paul wrote Romans 7 and Romans 8 at the same sitting; that in the original language the letter goes right on without interruption — without even a chapter division.
Thus the same apostle who exclaims: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1) refers in the same letter, only a few sentences before, and in the present tense, to “the law of sin which is in my members,” and freely acknowledges the present operation of that law in his members, as we have seen above.
How then shall we get out of the 7th of Romans into the 8th? Paul experienced both at the same time, and so do we, for while we are free from the condemnation of sin, sin itself nevertheless continues to work within us, and we must constantly “mortify the deeds of the body” (Rom. 8:13).
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/the-conflict-between-the-old-and-new-natures/
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Romans 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 8:1 ¶ There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
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Romans 12:1 ¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 ¶ For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Axelle est Belgique, et magique!
It’s caterday, Treepers. We’re down to two kitties, our 9 year old tabby “Boots” and our 3 year old black kitty, “Tink” (aka Tinerbell). Over the past couple of years they’ve become inside/outside kitties. Both love being in the yard, don’t travel much beyond it, and love to snuggle together whether inside or outside. They’re really big-brother and little sister. Where one goes, so goes the other. These past couple of days we’ve had another cold-snap here in Texas (so much for “global warming”) and so they’ve both preferred to stay inside. This, unfortunately, has presented us with a vexing problem. Both kitties have decided that they don’t like their litter boxes. They’re quite adamant about this—Boots prefers to complain loudly at all hours when he wans to go outside while, just yesterday, little Tink decided it was ok to relieve herself next to the kitty-box she no longer uses. This is not OK. As a temporary expedient I first banished them to the back-yard, only admitting them to the house at feeding time . . . Then I moved to rationing their time indoors, giving them time to do their business outside before bringing them back inside. This is working, more or less—at least we haven’t fond another puddle on the kitchen floor. Tomorrow, I’m going to do a thorough cleaning of their little=boxes and then replace the scented litter with generic, unscented, sand-like kitty litter. I’m trusting that our loyal little kitty friends will recognize the meaning of this littler box change. Watch this space . . .
“replace the scented litter with generic, unscented, sand-like kitty litter.”
Changing litter brands/ types is a no-no for many cats, once they have become accustomed to using one particular brand/type.
Sounds like they’ve become accustomed to the dirt of the backyard,
scented stuff couldn’t be farther away from that!
Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time . . . Obviously kitty-logic rather strongly disagreed. Damn, cats. 🙂
There’s nothing like camping in ancient ruins!
One of our cats was peeing outside but next to the box .
Made me nuts… WHY ??? !
Then one day I saw her IN the box but not squatting and there it was …
a big puddle outside but next to and under the box !
She walked away pleased with herself …what could I say ?
Been there, done that! That look of kitty triumph is all too familiar . . . 🙂
We adopted a feral cat who does not like kitty litter. We have found that a mix of dirt and sand pleases her just fine.
Thank goodness cats don’t smoke cigarettes and drink cocktails.
No one could keep their day job !
Hey BARTENDER, meowwwwww.
Noted and thanks! 🙂
Maybe prepare an extra litterbox (covered) and put it on the back porch outside.
In the off chance they’ll take to it – if for no other reason that it’s covered and a bit warmer. Hope for another cold spell for that inclination
If they take to the outside box, maybe their sensibility will transfer to the inside ones
If not, you can just retrieve the litter if it goes unused
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So you have a 9yo male and a 3yo female. After 50 years of having over 20 different cats as pets (not at the same time…?) , I’ve learned a few things too.
One, males are generally more problematic than females, but not always. Males like to mark their territory on walls, trees, car tires, etc, to send a message to other males and remind themselves where they’ve been. Females not so much but rather to simply go where they feel safe and it smells familiar.
Litter box training a previously outdoor cat is a gradual thing; an exercise in patience as you’ve already discovered. My best success comes when I find where they’ve been watering and fertilizing the ground in our backyard (you have to spy on them…). Then dig up some of that particular dirt and mix a little with the plain, unscented litter (we’ve had best success with the arm and hammer multicat easy slide clumping litter). That’ll make them think they’ve been there before.
Suggest don’t use a litter box with a lid to begin training. Outdoor Cats (actually a lot of indoor cats too) hate that. You may be able to transition them to a covered pan later once they’re using the uncovered pan reliably.
The trick is once they smell their scent in the litter pan and start using it, don’t remove All of their deposits when you scoop. Leave one small clump of pee and one tiny piece of stool, not necessarily on the surface but not too deep. You can gradually stop doing that once they’re really using the pans reliably. Another rule for success is – have 3 litter pans for two cats, 4 pans for 3 cats, etc. Always one extra. They’ll use it and be more reliable. I don’t know why, perhaps they just want a fresh place to step before you’ve gotten around to cleaning the regular pans.
Finally, to keep the odor down, after they’ve been using the pans reliably for maybe 2 weeks, start introducing a bit of arm and hammer cat pan deodorizer. It’s mostly baking powder with a fresh fragrance added. Use very sparingly as it can get overpowering if too much is used. I sprinkle a light dusting over the surface of freshly scooped litter, then sprinkle a very thin layer of new litter over top of that, just enough to cover the white deodorizer. . Works like a charm. Again, don’t use it until they’re both well-acclimated to the pans.
Good luck. Hope your fur balls decide to cooperate before too long.
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Iron Age warriors bent the swords of their defeated enemies, ancient hoard reveals
must be in the stars..
Houston was the plan.. all systems go..
goodbye youth.. hello real world..
it was around spring break.. so I decided to have one last fling..
Panama City Beach.. the last bastion of youth and good times..
where I was captured.. on the beach.. how does that happen.. lol..
“Hi..”
“Hello..”
but she was no spring breaker.. she was a regular.. a local..
she was older than me.. and she invited me into her place..
things started to move fast.. domestication..
but I was on the launch pad.. and she was preparing for splash down..
she was cultivating the marathon kind of love.. the forever kind of love..
for.. ever.. uh oh.. it could be a trap.. but maybe Florida women are different..
I dunno.. scary.. run dude.. just run.. Houston.. remember..
so one night.. I went out for a cheeseburger.. and just kept on driving..
she was settling down.. and she was nice.. dangerously nice..
I don’t exactly know how she fit into the plan..
but wouldn’t you know.. later on in that first Houston summer..
..the radio made sure I would never forget her name..
Memoirs of an Oilfield Diver
The Epic Archive
1984 – 1992
nice…..
Looks like you either 1. dodged a bullet or, 2. missed a life chance. My similar experience was straight out of Charlie Brown. The little red-haired girl told me to come home with her . . . and I did! And 53 years later, we’re still home.
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Mornin’ infidels!
Good afternoon WeeWeed
Happy Caturday!
Interesting.
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The strange, amazing stories behind six everyday plants
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Did you know that tomatoes respond to a high C note? Or that the prickly pear made red fabric popular, and yams helped create the contraceptive pill?
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Often beautiful, sometimes deadly, but constantly ingenious, plants are the sources of life and delight, myth and mayhem.
Their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore. Some have a troubling past, while others have ignited human creativity or enabled whole civilisations to flourish.
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Here are a handful of the stranger stories behind the plants you see every day.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/24/the-strange-amazing-stories-behind-six-everyday-plants
Verse of the Day for Saturday, April 24, 2021
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“For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”
Psalms 91:11 (KJV)
Thank you, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
Amen
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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.
THE WARNING AGAINST WANTONING
“Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you.” Luke x. 20
As Christian workers, worldliness is not our snare, sin is not our snare, but spiritual wantoning is, viz.: taking the pattern and print of the religious age we live in, making eyes at spiritual success. Never court anything other than the approval of God, go “without the camp, bearing His reproach.” Jesus told the disciples not to rejoice in successful service, and yet this seems to be the one thing in which most of us do rejoice. We have the commercial view – so many souls saved and sanctified, thank God, now it is all right. Our work begins where God’s grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God’s sovereign grace; our work as His disciples is to disciple lives until they are wholly yielded to God. One life wholly devoted to God is of more value to God than one hundred lives simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and that will be God’s witness to us as workers. God brings us to a standard of life by His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that standard in others.
Unless the worker lives a life hidden with Christ in God, he is apt to become an irritating dictator instead of an indwelling disciple. Many of us are dictators, we dictate to people and to meetings. Jesus never dictates to us in that way. Whenever Our Lord talked about discipleship, He always prefaced it with an “IF,” never with an emphatic assertion – “You must.” Discipleship carries an option with it.
Oswald Chambers
April 24th Devotional
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter XXXVI – The Ascension
36:1
Before us now appeared the afflicted disciples, who, having met in a mountain by special appointment of their Lord, were communing with each other relative to the resurrection. Suddenly a light shone upon them, and Jesus appeared in their midst, and said, “Fear not; all power is given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye, therefore, and preach the Gospel unto all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I command you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Ye shall be persecuted of men for my name’s sake: but I have overcome; and ye shall also overcome if ye trust my word. These signs shall follow those that believe. In my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover. But tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until endued with power from on high.”
Then he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While blessing them he arose, and a cloud received him out of their sight. Whereupon a voice, as of a mighty angel, said, “Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in.”
“Who is this King of Glory,” inquired another from an opposite portion of the heavens.
“The Lord, strong and mighty,” answered the voice; “the Lord, strong in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in.”
Then the unnumbered millions, who filled the heavens, with strong hands swept the chords of their stringed instruments, and, with loud voices, said, “We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast conquered. We praise thee, O Lord, who art King of kings, and Lord of lords; the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
Then the cloud arose into the heavens, and with it the great congregation who attended the Ascension; and as they arose, they still uttered, “Thou art holy, O Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let the King of Glory come in. The Lord Redeemer is the King of Glory.”
During the Ascension, the disciples had steadfastly looked up into heaven, whither had gone their arisen and ascended Lord. But as the cloud which received him from their sight finally disappeared, they worshipped; and afterwards, in silence arose and departed for Jerusalem.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint (Psalm 51 KJV).
Thoughts on a whole house generator.
Turns out a cousin of mine has installed a lot of them so it looks like I’m golden for getting one quickly installed.
The government and power companies spend a lot of money hyping “green energy” and their concern for the environment.
Yet here I am getting ready to have a whole house generator installed that runs on natural gas. My neighbors, Steve and Betty, have also decided to get one also. They, like I, have had enough! For years our electrical service has been less then reliable. In a typical year we will have about three outages. This year we have had three outages already! During the ice storm several years ago we went a week without electrical service.
Best I can tell the reason for these outages out here is because we are basically at the end of the a line for the grid system we get our power from. When we lose power we can look out across the fields and see that those that live on the South side of Hwy 36 still have their lights on.
The lines that provide our power run through a lot of trees. Only once in the 20 years I have lived here have they gone through and cut back the trees so they aren’t over hanging the lines. Right now I can see three places where tree branches are laying on the power lines. In addition the poles are old.
I need to be sure my wife has reliable electrical power while I am on the road. And I am tired of getting what is essentially third world electrical service. There will probably come a time when I won’t be up to dragging my gasoline generator out and hooking it up and keeping it fueled.
So they can talk about their concern for the environment all they want but it is obviously bull crap since the fact is that people will do what they have to do to maintain electrical service and if we had reliable service my neighbors and I wouldn’t be buying a fossil fueled whole house generators!
10 seconds. That’s how long it takes for our generator to kick in when the grid goes down. Here in the south, most of the time the worst thing about a storm is going without power for days on end. It can be expensive insurance against power outages and not necessarily affordable for many. Though the grid does seem more unreliable these days than in the past and maybe a backup generator is a must have anymore.
The thing is that though I say “whole house” that does not mean I will necessarily have to have a generator that can run everything all the time. My submersible well pump, water heater, and range, are all 22oV and so obviously require the most power. The well pump I will want to run full time but all the others can be powered up just when needed or when their use anticipated .
Be prepared …….. that is what you do……good job.
We had one installed a couple of years back. We elected to get a smaller than whole house unit based on the projected gas consumption. The motor on the generator runs continuously regardless of electricity demand. I wanted to make sure that we would get several days of power out of even 1/2 a tank of propane.
My mother lives with us and having heat, running water, and lighting in her living spaces was essential. We also ran power to our refrigerators and chest freezer to keep food from spoiling. We had to add a switch to alternate current availability to our electric hot water heater and our well pump. We typically turn off the well pump at night and turn on the hot water heater so we can have hot showers in the morning. It’s worked out pretty well so far, but be mindful of the gas demand. These things suck up multiple gallons per hour of operation. I never let our propane tank drop below 50% anymore.
Mine will be hooked up to natural gas which is less expensive. Across the street from me, underground, is a gas main so I figure things would really have to go to hell for that fossil fuel supply to be compromised.
Last time an ice storm downed a lot of power lines and we were without electricity for almost a month. My little generator was enough to run the freezer and a few lights. Luckily we had enough wood to keep the house heated and the water from freezing.
If you have a freezer, you should balance to cost of replacing everything in it against the cost of a generator. And frozen pipes.
If you have a gas furnace you could do what I did. I spliced a plug and receptacle into it’s 110 V power line to the furnace. When I lost power I could run an extension cord into the house from the generator and plug the furnace powerline into it. The motor for the blower is not that big and the key factor is having the amperage to start that motor because with all electrical motors the greatest power drawl is at start up.
With my gas generator I could run my furnace and fridge/freezer, a couple lights and at TV, and modem and computer full time. But none of my 220V appliances.
Looking at it from a SHTF scenario … how confident are you that fuel for your generator will remain available?
Across the field from me is a big underground gas main. That is what we are tapped into with a step down valve hidden in the bush beside my driveway. Thus barring some pipeline failure, if that thing goes out of service we’re probably into some pretty deep dodo and will have a lot more problems to deal with than just being without electricity.
I guess I could go with the added expense of LP and a tank and then put a Faraday cage around the unit to protect it from an EMP but really, like I said, in such circumstances as that configuration would be set up to counter we’re going to have a lot more problems to deal with.
Worrying about so-called “fossil fuels” begins with the false premises of the Carbonphobes.
Natural Gas burns very clean compared to other combustion fuels. So rest easy regarding that so-called “environmental” stuff.
The main point is that human activity does not affect average temperatures. Solar activity does.
I was pointing out their hypocrisy. Of course our earthly home gets colder when the furnace (our suns) output decreases and warmer when it increases bet there is a lot more to determining our globes temp than just solar activity. For example the Milankovitch Cycles. Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth’s Climate – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet (nasa.gov)
Then there is volcanic events, both terrestrial and those in the oceans. Impact events. And over millions of years even continental drift! Plenty of other factors also.
A gentle song for a Saturday… enjoy the sound
Good Morning, 🙂
Pornography In Schools: Teachers Suffering In Fearful Silence
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Sixth Saturday of Great Lent
Saturday of the Holy and Righteous Lazarus the Four-Days Dead
The Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Lazarus and appoints the Holy Scriptures for today as the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Hebrews 12: 28 – 13: 8 and the Holy Gospel according to Saint John 11: 1 – 45.
If, like me, you enjoy pointing out to your drug using friends that legal weed is a dangerous fraud perpetrated on the public, then in addition to pointing out that crime rates haven’t gone down, you can also show that legal weed is an environmental disaster too!
https://apnews.com/article/5c98c46fd9014cecbe8508ebbc6fc98f
Wyoming Roofing Company Offers Free AR-15 With New Roof; Californians Lose Their Minds
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2021/04/21/wyoming-roofing-company-offers-free-ar-15-with-new-roof-californians-lose-their-minds/
Published on April 21, 2021, By Wendy Corr, Cowboy State Daily
“Many businesses will offer incentives to lure new customers.
“But a Powell company is putting a new spin on the practice — by offering a free rifle for every new roof.
“Matt Thomas, marketing director for Wiggins Construction in Powell, said his business has noticed a number of people moving to Wyoming from other states to enjoy a level of freedom they perhaps haven’t felt in their home state.
“So Thomas said the owners of Wiggins figured that giving away something unique — like an AR-15 rifle — might spark some interest and give them a leg up on their competition.
“‘People are moving into Wyoming to get out of the cities and to get away from the regulation and to get away from living in fear,’ Thomas said. ‘We’re just offering it as almost like, for the people that are recently moving to Wyoming as a ‘Welcome to Wyoming’ gift, and for the people that are here, locals, just a ‘thank you’ for doing business.'”
Edit: H/T to The Westerner https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/2021/04/wyoming-roofing-company-offers-free-ar.html
I’ll take a Daniel Defense MK18 for one roof, please.
My wife and I liked this song a lot from the early years of our marriage. Fun fact: the group got its name from a phrase in some of C.S. Lewis’ writings.
She’s all that! 🙂
John Fogerty and family did these home-made music videos during the lock-downs. He and his kids perform, his brother handles the video and recording. He tells a story of what CCR encountered while preparing to perform at Woodstock. BTW, John’s view was his band was there to work when they went to perform, he frowned on drug use back in the day.
In honor of Caturday
Funeral of a Great Myth by CS Lewis
https://www.scifiwright.com/2021/04/funeral-of-a-great-myth-by-cs-lewis/
April 23, 2021 @ 12:37 pm, John C Wright
“A reader with the twice saintly name of Andrew Philips writes:
“‘Liberalism is a dead end. The humanist ‘enlightenment’ was a bad idea. Humanist anything is a bad idea, for man is not the measure of all things. Man is not even the measure of himself. Maximizing freedom for its own sake has given us clown-world. What matters is the Good, and laws that promote the Good. Letting each man define the Good for himself is modernist nonsense. We should repent of it.’
“My comment: Amen. As a once-staunch defensor infidei, so to speak, of the Enlightenment values of humanism and all that laicist humbug, I would like to say a eulogy over its corpse, and consign the undead spirit into the soil.
“But a wiser man than I, who, like me, in his youth was lured by the siren-song, and woke only later, has already done so. I repeat the eulogy in full, without comment. It was written in 1944, and published in 1967, posthumously.
“The Funeral of a Great Myth
from God in the Dock, by C.S. Lewis
“There are some mistakes which humanity has made and repeated so often that there is now really no excuse for making them again. One of these is the injustice which every age does its predecessor; for instance, the ignorant contempt with which the Humanists (even good Humanists like Sir Thomas More) had for mediaeval philosophy, or Romantics (even good Romantics like Keats) felt for eighteenth-century poetry. Each time all this ‘reaction’ and resentment has to be punished and unsaid; it is a wasteful performance. It is tempting to see whether we, at least, cannot avoid it. Why should we not give our predecessors a fair and filial dismissal?”
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The Army is once again looking to replace the M-16/M4 as the primary troop assault rifle and the SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon) and even the light machine guns. And this time they may be on to something.
The A-4 has been popular with most of the troops because it is light and reliable and the ammunition is relatively light. Part of this popularity has come from combat experience in many CQB (Close Quarter Battle) engagement that have been fought in the urban environments of Iraq and Afghanistan. In those situations when you banging down doors and engage and enemy at very close ranges a light weapon can mean the difference between life and death. He who can bring his weapon to bear quicker is more likely to live.
The Army has already stipulated the a 6.8 mm round to replace the 5.56 round and then went to five different manufactures and told them to present their best design of round and rifle for testing. They are already down to three and I am pretty sure one of those three will be out soon enough because they are presenting a Bullpup design weapon which is not a popular configuration with ANY of the European troops in several countries, including the French and British, which had a weapon of that design pushed down their throats.
There are several good reasons why the Army is wanting to have a heavier caliber weapon to replace the 5.56 A4.
Unlike several previous times the Army seems to be carrying out this program the right way. And the right way means loads of testing in the harshest of conditions and a lot of input by the soldiers that will be have to relay on the weapon. Lots of hands on range time with regular soldiers, preferably quite a few being combat veterans, is an absolute necessity.
Brits know. Bullpup = BS for a fighting weapon. Company called True Velocity (TX) has had good success with polymer cases. This report claims thousands fired through M134 (minigun), no small feat. No mention of burst length or barrel temperature, though. Mike Dillon (Dillon reloading) makes the M134 for military service, instead of good old “We bring good things to life” GE.
https://www.gunsandammo.com/editorial/true-velocitys-new-polymer-cased-ammunition/247607
The problem is that TX teamed with General Dynamics who is proposing the Bull Pup designed weapon.
If you dig up a milk churn in a forest, what will you find? https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/unique-time-capsule-containing-german-officers-full-uniform-found-buried-in-milk-churn-to-hide-his-past-21464
Hmmm!
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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 his family 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.
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I just saw this little guy out in the back yard. God is so good. He created the most beautiful world around us. In all of the evilness and hatred, pure and lovely animals are created to show us how pure and Holy and lovely is God. Small reminders for me to keep my mind clean and pure before HIM.
DD