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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https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1304109421077975040?s=19
Probably not fast enough to be splashed by ones own vomit, but why even test it?
https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1304003031940370432?s=19
https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1304027642023247872?s=09
This falls under the category of unnecessary life saving skills. Absolutely necessary for everyone who walks on thin ice. Irrelevant for everyone smart enough not to walk on thin ice.
Reminds me of Navy ROTC where they required that we pass tests proving we could use our pants as a flotation device. So much for counting on the government to provide life preservers.
They also required us to demonstrate that we could swim under water, periodically coming up for air using a technique to push burning oil aside with our hands before our heads break the surface. Speaking of skills only necessary for people who aren’t smart enough. Of course we were all proud we passed.
Are You A Pillar of God’s Community?
By Pastor Ricky Kurth
“And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision” (Galatians 2:9).
When Paul shared his new message of grace with the leaders of the twelve apostles, it seemed that James, Peter and John were going to be pillars. That is, it seemed like they wouldn’t receive his new message, that instead they were each going to be as immoveable as a pillar when it came to acknowledging it.
That’s the way the word “pillar” is used in Revelation 3:12, where we read that God will take those who overcome the temptation to take the mark of the beast and make each one a pillar, a permanent part of His temple, the living temple made up of believers (cf. Amos 9:11,12). In that same sense of the word pillar, James, Peter and John looked like they would permanently resist Paul’s new message, and cling to the truth the Lord had given them for the dispensation that was passing away.
By the way, that’s how you should be about the truth that God has given you. You should cling to it with all your might. You know, the way Peter clung to the truth God had given him in the Law when the Lord surprised him with a command to eat unclean animals. Peter replied, “Not so, Lord” (Acts 10:14). He stood there arguing with the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, standing his ground, saying, “Your Word says I can’t eat unclean animals.” Now, if he put up that kind of fight with the Lord, imagine the battle he gave Paul over something new! I expect that ol’ boy gave Paul the fight of his life. “What do you mean there’s an entire new program called the mystery that the prophets knew nothing about?” (cf. Ephesians 3:1-9).
And listen, he was 100% right to do so. That’s the way you should be about the truth that God has given you through Paul, because Paul says the church of which you are a part is “the pillar and ground of the truth” (I Tim. 3:15). When someone attacks the truth, you need to give him the fight of his life. Graciously, of course! (II Tim. 2:24,25). If Stonewall Jackson stood like a stone wall in the onslaught of enemy opposition, you should too. God help us to be like Jeremiah, whom God made “an iron pillar…against the whole land” (Jeremiah 1:18,19). When the dust of this life settles and eternity begins, it will be all that will have mattered.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/are-you-a-pillar-of-gods-community/
Galatians 2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
Revelation 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
Acts 10:14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
1 Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
2 Timothy 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
Jeremiah 1:18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
“When Paul shared his new message of grace with the leaders of the twelve apostles, it seemed that James, Peter and John were going to be pillars. That is, it seemed like they wouldn’t receive his new message, that instead they were each going to be as immoveable as a pillar when it came to acknowledging it.”
Of course, the verses cited clearly indicate that they perceived the grace in Paul, not that they received a new message of grace from him that was unfamiliar to them.
“In that same sense of the word pillar, James, Peter and John looked like they would permanently resist Paul’s new message, and cling to the truth the Lord had given them for the dispensation that was passing away.”
Not only is there a dearth of evidence of this scenario of resistance to “Paul’s new message” being supported let alone presented here (especially what the timeline shown in Acts 10 and 11 makes clear), but what of Barnabas, who per the cited verse of Galatians 2:9 was given the “right hands of fellowship” from “James and Cephas and John”?
According to Paul, Barnabas was being carried away by the hypocrisy reportedly being exhibited by Peter and others related to fellowship with Gentiles (cf. Galatians 2:11-13), which given no other given example figures to be what the writer is using for the allegation of potential permanent resistance. How would it make any sense that Barnabas all of a sudden after preaching the gospel right along with Paul for years was going to permanently resist that same message, if what was at issue in Galatians 2 represented the supposed potential permanent resistance?
“Now, if he put up that kind of fight with the Lord, imagine the battle he gave Paul over something new! I expect that ol’ boy gave Paul the fight of his life. “What do you mean there’s an entire new program called the mystery that the prophets knew nothing about?” (cf. Ephesians 3:1-9).”
First, why would there been any such fight when Peter appears to be already up to speed on preaching the gospel to the Gentiles (cf. Acts 10, 11, 15) and evidently recognizing the sameness of how both Jews and Gentiles were saved? Looking at Acts 10, it appears that Peter’s initial reaction was was followed not by a fighting attitude but of being “perplexed” concerning the vision per verse 17, yet was still obedient: And of Peter thinking over the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are seeking you. But having risen, go down and proceed with them, doubting nothing, because I have sent them”” (cf. Acts 10:19-20). Peter did meet the Gentiles and preach to them.
Second, touching on the ridiculous conjectural scenario and paraphrase excerpted from the post, what Peter preached to them concerning salvation did not seem to be an old law-dependent “program” exclusive to the children of Israel: “To Him all the prophets bear witness that everyone believing in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name” (Acts 10:43). It was soon after that when it became clear that the Gentiles were receiving the Holy Spirit (cf. Acts 10:44, 11:15), to the amazement of “believers from the circumcision” who had come with Peter (Acts 10:45).
Peter evidently understood what God had wanted to convey about the sameness of manner of salvation for both Jews and Gentiles, which “the apostles and the brothers being in Judea” cf. Acts 11:1) also understood after some initially contending with Peter, “saying, “You went to men having uncircumcision, and ate with them”” (Acts 11:2).
As Peter said (and later amplified at the Jerusalem Council per Acts 15:7-11): “If then God has given to them the same gift as also to us having believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, how was I able to forbid God?” And having heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, “Then indeed God has given also to the Gentiles repentance unto life” (Acts 11:17-18).
Practically the same thing is acknowledged in the very verses the writer cites from Ephesians 3, specifically “that the Gentiles are joint-heirs, and a joint-body, and joint-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus, through the gospel” (cf. Eph. 3:6). The above verses from Acts 10 and 11 strongly appear to correspond with Peter and those replying in Acts. 11:18 being amongst those receiving the insight which by then had “been revealed in the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets” (cf. Eph. 3:5).
Again, look at what Peter told “the apostles and the brothers being in Judea” cf. Acts 11:1): “And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit’” (cf. Acts 11:15-16). Paul’s account corresponds with the notion that Peter and other apostles did not need for Paul to reveal a new message unknown to them in the manner suggested. Rather, the reality encapsulated in Ephesians 3:6 appears to have largely conveyed to them in the time period covered in Acts 10 and 11, which evidently preceded the time of James, Peter, and John interacting with Paul and Barnabas per Galatians 2.
“Peter and other apostles did not need for Paul to reveal a new message unknown to them in the manner suggested.”
Paul, the “apostle to the gentiles” (not to the nation Israel) lays out for us our doctrine in the dispensation of the grace of God in Romans to Philemon.
Ephesians 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Colossians 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
1Corinthians 11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1Timothy 1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Paul did NOT preach the same message as the other 12 apostles:
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; 8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
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“There is the broad division in Scripture between God’s two programs, Prophecy and Mystery”
Prophecy concerns God’s plan of redemption for the earth through the instrumentality of his chosen nation Israel and it’s people , the Jews. All the prophetic writings promise the nation a Kingdom here on earth, with their Messiah reigning. The Gentile nations will be blessed through the nation of Israel – they have to come to the Jews.
Luke 1:70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
Acts 3:21 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.
Zechariah 8:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
After the nation of Israel rejected the Father, Son and Holy Ghost (Acts 7 –thus committing the unpardonable sin), the risen and ascended Lord Jesus Christ saved Saul of Tarsus and revealed a entirely new body of information to him and what was really accomplished at the cross and how a new message of salvation would go forth apart from the nation of Israel
Ephesians 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Colossians 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Israel’s program (the Kingdom) was revealed, Paul’s program (the “mystery”) was kept secret until he was saved – they CANNOT be the same.
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,
26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
Ephesians 3:3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) 9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
At the conclusion of the dispensation of the grace of God, God will go back and resume his dealings with the nation of Israel. In their prophetic program, they still have to go thru a time of judgment before they can enter the their Kingdom. We are NOT “spiritual Israel”.
We are to use the example of the apostle Paul in following the risen, glorified Lord IN HEAVEN to follow Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ, during his earthly ministry, was sent only to the Jews. The 12 apostles are apostles of ISRAEL.
James 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting
Luke 22:30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
Matt 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.
Matthew 15:23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
“Again, look at what Peter told “the apostles and the brothers being in Judea” cf. Acts 11:1): “And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit’”
There are two different Spirit baptisms. One is Christ baptizing with the Spirit. That is connected to the gospel of the Kingdom. That requires a water ceremony:
Mark 16:16 He that believeth AND is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Mark 1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
Luke 3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
John 1:33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
Acts 1:5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
Acts 11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
The baptism that Paul refers to is the Holy Spirit baptizing INTO CHRIST. No water required.
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.
1 Corinthians 12:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Ephesians 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
“There are two different Spirit baptisms. One is Christ baptizing with the Spirit. That is connected to the gospel of the Kingdom. That requires a water ceremony”
Wasn’t even posting that to bring up again the focus in some of these posts on water baptism, one that Paul certainly didn’t evince in his ministry. In short, would it be the physical act of “water baptism” that would take away the sins of those to whom Peter (Acts 2) and Paul (Acts 19) spoke or rather, grace through faith (cf. Acts 15:7-11, Romans 3-4, Eph. 2:8-9), with our salvation a matter of the spiritual and of the heart? As the Lord said, “It is the Spirit giving life; the flesh profits nothing” (John 6:63a).
And while spiritual components are the key (bringing to mind the thief on the cross who was not likely to receive physical baptism before his death), physical action was still something that followed and was to be observed for a purpose, from the laws in post-Sinai Old Testament times and circumcision from the time of the patriarchs to physical baptism.
More covered here:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/27/saturday-june-27th-open-thread/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/07/12/sunday-july-12th-open-thread/
“Of course, the verses cited clearly indicate that they perceived the grace in Paul, not that they received a new message of grace from him that was unfamiliar to them.”
This is called “Two Minutes with the Bible”, not “Two Hours …”. It was written for newspapers, so every background verse leading up to the topic cannot be included.
Acts 9:26 And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
“a dearth of evidence of this scenario of resistance to “Paul’s new message” being supported let alone presented here (especially what the timeline shown in Acts 10 and 11 makes clear),”
Probably because that falls outside the narrow confines of Acts 10 & 11.
2 Corinthians 12:1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Paul’s new message is why he refers to it as HIS, NOT something Peter and the twelve preached. Words mean things, which is why he uses the word “my” to describe it
Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to MY GOSPEL.
Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to MY GOSPEL gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
2 Timothy 2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to MY GOSPEL:
1 Timothy 1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, FOR A PATTERN to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
2 Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own
2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
“Paul’s new message is why he refers to it as HIS, NOT something Peter and the twelve preached. Words mean things, which is why he uses the word “my” to describe it”
The pronoun angle has been dealt with over and over, with Paul’s own words often providing the clearest perspective to what things mean. Here’s an extensive reply to when one of the writers went down that route. I’m not holding my breath for a substantive reply to those points rather than the repeated snippet above:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/05/14/thursday-may-14th-open-thread/
“This is called “Two Minutes with the Bible”, not “Two Hours …”. It was written for newspapers, so every background verse leading up to the topic cannot be included.”
Of course, some of the articles posted here have been a dozen or more paragraphs IIRC, so one would think that length would not be an issue if a critical verse on which a premise is being built is not included. Anyhow, let’s consider whether Acts 9:26 and presumably the surrounding context supports the notion that Paul was giving a new message to all of them at that point. The next verse certainly doesn’t indicate that a substantial and unique theological revelation was the basis of the meeting rather than their learning to trust him: “But Barnabas having taken him, brought him to the apostles and related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.””
Plus, timeline-wise, it is noteworthy that the clearest preaching to Gentiles with the matter of fellowship and sameness of salvation recorded is with Peter in Acts 10 and 11. It is extremely noteworthy that before Paul, Barnabas, and others, Peter is recorded as saying “”Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe” (cf. Acts 15:7). He of course followed this in the next two verses with words that hearkened back to his experience with those Gentiles from Acts 10 and 11. He made clear what had already been understood by him and others: “we believe it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are” (Acts 15:11).
At that meeting, Paul and Barnabas then testified about the the work for which God had called them (cf. Acts 13:2), which would officially include the Gentiles after Jews and their leaders would reject the gospel message (cf. Acts 13:45-49). Following the council, James and the others sent them to Antioch. Both Paul and Barnabas had been in Antioch before (cf. Acts 11:26), though notably that was recorded as being after what transpired in Acts 10. Thus, this scenario posited in the article concerning the notion of Peter’s giving Paul “the fight of his life” “over something new” appears to suffer the same dearth of support whether it involves the latter part of Acts 9 or the latter part of Galatians 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MquKxlcoJZw
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.
Amen!
Sept. 11 Survivor Recalls Stairway to Safety
Posted August 30, 2011
The 9/11 Tribute in Light Emphasizes Bill de Blasio’s Failure
By MICHAEL TOSCANO – September 3, 2020
The mayor has been outmaneuvered, thank God. Whether it was through the intervention of Governor Andrew Cuomo or President Trump, or the Sergeants’ Benevolent Association’s plan to host its own memorial tribute, or the ferocity of the public outcry, it’s the result that matters. The lights will shine on 9/11.
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/09/21/the-9-11-tribute-in-light-emphasizes-bill-de-blasios-failure/
It’s amazing to me that people would stoop so low as to not recognize 911. Makes me glad I don’t live in NYC.
I found something incredible. Here is the NYT copy of the 3/17/17 Collyer signed Carter Page application.
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1338-carter-page-fisa-documents-foi/844b27afa687de0dbee7/optimized/full.pdf
The date was not redacted by the court, it was redacted by the NYT.
To test my assertion highlight and copy the date and then paste it into the body of an e-mail.
10-20-16
1-20-17
Here’s the link minus the first h in http
ttps://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1338-carter-page-fisa-documents-foi/844b27afa687de0dbee7/optimized/full.pdf
Some stuff is redacted properly, probably by the court.
Great interview…well worth the time invested….
Inside the Radical Left—James Lindsay Breaks Down Critical Social Justice, in an interview with Jan Jekielek of American Thought Leaders
70,709 views • Premiered Aug 18, 2020
00:00 How critical social justice demands compliance
1:42 The “Sokal Squared” Hoax
7:13 How Black Lives Matter is related to this ideology
13:43 How the meaning of words has changed
20:52 Hostility towards liberalism and Western culture
25:44 Why topple statues, including statues of abolitionists?
28:27 Ideology fueling Antifa
36:50 Why doesn’t the book cover cultural Marxism?
43:06 Why these ideologies are so cynical
51:36 The paradigm of power
Shine A Light
Dang!!! Forgot the video…
This one dedicated to the `WordSmith`
Appreciate prayers for the people of Western Oregon fighting a huge number of fires. Entire towns have been burned out. Thousands evacuated. Death tolls rising. Lots of community members helping each other through this crisis.
Our little bible study group is praying for you.
This is one of my all-time favorite videos. The returning soldiers learned that the flight attendant’s name was Caroline and, well, they just couldn’t resist seizing the moment and doing something so seriously cool, yet so typically American. Neither the returning soldiers nor the flight attendant, Caroline, will ever forget this moment. And neither should we.
…………..sweet…………….!
Precious!
2 stories w/good news 4 my area in louisiana:
By: KATC News
Posted at 7:07 AM, Sep 10, 2020 and last updated 11:57 AM, Sep 10, 2020
BATON ROUGE, La. — During a press conference on Thursday morning, Governor John Bel Edwards announced that the state would enter Phase 3 on Friday, September 11.
The state’s current Phase 2 order is set to expire on Friday.
Remember the Millie documentary from a few weeks back about General Allen? Now Amazing Polly and a few others are covering it. Well worth the watch. Scary, scary stuff to think about election night in America. Who is going to protect our President?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cfYF01IyuI
Today’s 911 again.
We should already know enough, to keep eyes wide open.
Once again I will share:
Just because we are a little “over the hill” does not mean we have “crested” now…or ever will.
It means we have “matured” just a little bit, with perhaps a slight advantage in humor and wit.
Our energy has lessened, but our hearts have grown. The plants have been harvested from the “oats” we have sown.
Our bodies are softer, and a bit saggier, too, but when it comes to Grand parenting, we could out-do most of you.
Our muscles have shifted to a new hemisphere. What used to go North, is now South, or in the “Rear.”
We have a few more wrinkles…that can’t be “ironed” out. It’s harder to “hear” what everyone else is talking about.
But our interest in “life” is ever increasing. Our minds are more “open” to “accepting” and “releasing.”
We stop more to observe the flowers…and things. We eat a bit more chocolate…because we have found it is “nurturing.”
We have left our footprints, in the sands of time, a path for some to follow; others to decline.
Sometimes it was hard…getting up that Hill. The winding road was full of chills and thrills.
But now as we look over the exquisite view, we have a new perspective to share with all of you…
Live more fully…Laugh more heartily…Take more chances…Hug more freely…Love without limits…and Dance like there’s no one watching!
An Over the Hill’er,
June 12, 2008
Never Forget!
https://twitter.com/HP_POND5/status/1304312093219397634
Good Morning Treepers from the UK, still stubbornly refusing to admit that positive tests are NOT the same as deaths.
My real beef this morning is the constant references in both your and my media to the “black national anthem”.
For heavens sake there is no such thing! You have one country and one anthem. Despite what the likes of Calypso Louie would wish there is no such thing a a black nation. You’re all Americans, black white or whatever.
Personally I was grimly pleased to hear the booing at last nights game. I hope it’s repeated every time until the shameful grovelling owners and the self-righteous multi-millionaire players get the message.
Baby Lives Matter.
As I think I have stated before. My oldest granddaughter is living with us as she goes to school at IUPI in Indianapolis. Her dog, Cali, is a rescued young female beagle. I’m sure living at our place is the best life this sweet dog has lived so far. She and our dog, Geisha, the Cocker, always meet me at the door when I come home from the road and act as if it’s been weeks since they’ve seen me.
Cali had an infection in her uterus and three different vets failed to diagnose it correctly. Finally she went toxic. Took her in for emergency surgery. A vet surgeon from Indianapolis drove up here to do the surgery. Told us it was 60-40 if she would make it.
She’s a strong dog and made it through but wouldn’t drink when we brought her home complete with the collar of shame. Took her back in and she stayed at the vets for two more days being hydrated by IV. Finally she was drinking, peeing, and pooping normally. She is wearing the collar of shame until she gets her staples out Monday.
Of course my granddaughter can’t afford the over $2,500 in vet bills so Mama and Papa are taking care of that. So that is where some of my OT pay has gone.
Truckers report:
This was supposed to be an easy week for me. Turned out it was not to be. Tuesday I departed at 19:00 and took an empty up to the Leer facility in Romulus, MI (think Detroit airport). Dropped the empty trailer there and hooked to a loaded trailer and brought it down to the Leer facility in Indianapolis. There I dropped the loaded trailer in a door then hooked to an empty and brought it back to the terminal in Anderson, IN. Got in at 06:00 Wednesday after giving the truck a good once over.
Josh called at 08:00. Told me to make sure and get some rest because I was doing another Leer load that would leave out at 18:30. When I got in and saw the time hacks on the trip ticket I sat in the truck at the terminal for an extra 45 minutes before departing.
This time I bobtailed to the Leer facility in Indy. The trailer was supposed to be loaded and ready by 20:00. It was 22:13 when I finally pulled out of that facility bound for the Romulus facility. At Romulus I dropped the loaded trailer in a door and hooked to a preloaded trailer and brought it back to Indianapolis. At Indianapolis I dropped the loaded trailer in a door then bobtailed back to Anderson.
When I got in I had 6 minutes left of my 14 hour duty time. Josh told me that it was very likely I was done for the week. Three hours later Josh called and told me I had another run to do. This time it’s a GM run. It has been years since I delivered to the Corvette plant down in Bowling Green, KY but that’s where I’m headed today. Depart at 07:00. Another OT day. Can’t remember the last time I didn’t work on one of my scheduled days off.
That’s IUPUI
I had a beagle named Peanut. His ears were soft like velvet. I loved him so much. He had a medical issue that cost $$ but I spent gladly. Eventually I had him put down. No regrets though.
The corvette museum is super cool. Go inside if you can. They had a sinkhole that swallowed cars some years ago. They pulled the cars out and they’re on display. You gotta see it!
Thank you Rah for your posts. I enjoy to read about your journeys.
Your granddaughter is blessed to live with such caring grandparents. I’m glad to hear Cali is recovering nicely. Happy enthusiastic dog greetings are the best!
Dear rah, I hope little cali does well in her recovery. Was it an emergency spay? Sounds like it, from what you describe.
No. It was more extensive than that. I assisted a vet in spaying our first cocker when I was in the Army. They originally misdiagnosed Cali’s condition as a “false pregnancy”. The surgeon said that the entire uterus was “bisected” by the infection.
Oh ok. Poor little thing.
What kind of idiots believe this crap?
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/09/10/pelosi-mother-earth-is-angry-shes-telling-us-with-hurricanes-on-the-gulf-coast-fires-in-the-west/
I already addressed the hurricane season and explained that globally tropical cyclones are well below the historic average. The wildfires? They are natural except for those set by arsonists. California in particular has a real problem and will have for years to come because of decades of “green” forest management policies that stopped controlled burns and even prevented land owners for clearing deadfall so allowed deadfall to accumulate.
“What kind of idiots believe this crap?” A great question that of all major news analysis networks maybe only Tucker Carlson has dared to answer at times.
These are the same idiots who are parading around our cities bitching and screaming F the police, F the President, F America, and are destroying businesses and injuring and killing people. The same brainwashed idiots who openly prefer communism to American capitalism. The same mal-educated idiots who sucked up and swallowed “critical race theory” and thus accuse all white people of racist white privilege.
Those idiots.
Sorry. I don’t know why it posted three times.
Mornin’ infidels.
The tears still flow. God bless America.
No.
And since that horrible day many of us have awakened to some very ugly truths and as such have modified the collective target of our anger.
Agreed GB.
Lest we forget, 9/11 was permitted through the utter subversion of our IC [FBI/CIA,etc] the subversion of which we are currently witness to in this present day.[Judge Sullivan]
The current acts of domestic terrorism[scamdemic] exacerbated by the CDC, NIH, etc. and propagated by the MSM are the culmination of the last desperate attempts to rule a people by fear.
Why are there NO electron microscope images of the SARS-CoV-2 ‘virus’ ? Because no such ‘virus’ has ever been isolated and/or purified. More junk ‘science’ like the ‘global warming’ nonsense. Trillions upon trillions of taxpayer $$ extorted and used against us/contrary to us.
God has delivered up the ‘collective targets’ for all the world to witness. They have nowhere to hide. Fear not.
Morning, WeeWeed!
Mornin’ Bari!
Good afternoon WeeWeed
TGIF
Afternoon DI!
G’day Ms Wee Wee
Sigh it seems my going home wasn’t meant to be Entergy did a number on us and
I have
Oops it’s the fat finger did that one?
Oh no! Afternoon Dogs!
Verse of the Day for Friday, September 11, 2020
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“The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped…”
Psalms 28:7 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Friday Blessings
Jesus Loves Babies…Pray for the Unborn
Jesus Loves the Little Children – Pray for the Little Children
Jesus Loves You – Come to Him
9/11 Budweiser tribute. This was only aired once. I watch it every year on this day. The video does a better job of expressing my feelings than I could with words.
Huh. Wondering what the Google “doodle” would be for 9/11. There isn’t one. Nice.
Perhaps if the 3,000 plus killed had been more diverse.
You would think, with all the cops killed Google would find 9/11 a reason to celebrate.
. . . 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.
Commemoration of the Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist, John
August 29th traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church and September 11th on the civil calendar
For Orthodox Christians, the day of the Beheading of Saint John the Forerunner is a fast day (no foods from animals or fish, etc) because those who were at the court were feasting and partying sinfully.
From “The Prologue” by Saint Nikolai
“The death of John took place before the Passover, but its commemoration on August 29th [original calendar] was instituted because it was on this day that a church, that had been built over his grave in Sebastia by the Emperor Constantine and the Empress Helena, was consecrated. In this church were also placed the relics of John’s disciples, Eliseos and Avdios.”
Unseal and release all of Obama’s personal life history documents/records from the time of his birth through to his election to the Senate.
Requesting for an avid Obama supporter.
In 2009 the gallery my mother was affiliated with had their artists do their own rendition of September 11th. Hopefully this will show you the water color by Marie Stuart.. She was 85 at that time. https://img.mewe.com/api/v2/photo/nJiImRDQ2XrHahRnvqlv0N8zL0mb1tTOUnn7tOT-srRfW3ybiLhpdUWSzoM/800×800/img?static=0
Sorry, I guess I did something wrong since it didn’t show her painting.
There was an error message when I clicked on the link. It’s okay. It happens. Thank you anyway, Sherryoftexas.
I’m sorry, when I clicked on the link it took me to the painting.
It’s not you, looking at the url it seems to be an image stored at the associated press website which is not able to be accessed by others.
Thanks, I’m sorry, when I clicked on the link it took me to the painting.
MISSIONARY MUNITIONS
MINISTERING AS OPPORTUNITY SURROUNDS US:
“If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.” John xiii. 14
Ministering as opportunity surrounds us does not mean selecting our surroundings, it means being very selectly God’s in any haphazard surroundings which He engineers for us. The characteristics we manifest in our immediate surroundings are indications of what we will be like in other surroundings.
The things that Jesus did were of the most menial and commonplace order, and this is an indication that it takes all God’s power in me to do the most commonplace things in His way. Can I use a towel as He did? Towels and dishes and sandals, all the ordinary sordid things of our lives, reveal more quickly than anything what we are made of. It takes God Almighty Incarnate in us to do the meanest duty as it ought to be done.
“I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to you.” Watch the kind of people God brings around you, and you will be humiliated to find that this is His way of revealing to you the kind of person you have been to Him. Now, He says, exhibit to that one exactly what I have shown to you.
“Oh,” you say, “I will do all that when I get out into the foreign field.” To talk in this way is like trying to produce the munitions of war in the trenches – you will be killed while you are doing it.
We have to go the “second mile” with God. Some of us get played out in the first ten yards, because God compels us to go where we cannot see the way, and we say – “I will wait till I get nearer the big crisis.” If we do not do the running steadily in the little ways, we shall do nothing in the crisis.
Oswald Chambers
September 11th Devotional
About time we did this. Turkey has not been our friend for a long, long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/us-eyes-greek-island-as-alternative-to-turkish-base-due-to-disturbing-erdogan-actions-senior-senator-claims
Hopefully our nukes there are disabled.
Little long but makes you think ?
https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/watch/plandemic-indoctornation-full-documentary-freedomplatform-tv_NxG1eEuMDX94y6h.html
Fauci: “US needs to hunker down for Fall and Winter…” ?
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/515919-its-not-going-to-be-easy-fauci-warns-us-needs-to
Funny how 14 days turned into “after the election”. Go Figure ?
Trump vs. The Military Industrial Complex: Military Coup Danger Escalates
https://thesaker.is/trump-vs-the-military-industrial-complex-military-coup-danger-escalates/
Yeah he was sitting in the bleachers sans mask and social distancing! Faker.
“But it has caused consternation on social media with women attacking it for ‘playing games’ with gender and pointing out that ‘men don’t generally menstruate”
“men don’t generally menstruate”? NO. MEN DON”T MENSTRUATE!. SHEESH!!!!!
Sitting in the driver’s area at the Corvette plant. On I-69 this morning going into Indianapolis at two different over passes there were people with flags flying in rememberence of 9/11. They got blasts on the big horn from me as I passed under.
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On 9/11, I have said a prayer for God to take care of the families of all of the victims. I know He has a special place for all the innocent victims of that awful day in 2001. I have also thanked God for bringing all of the participants in that attack to a special place of their own.
I am asking that all of us remember that day because too many people die from struggles with violent political activities every day. I will vote for any candidate that has the courage to actually stand against this crap. It seems it is all that can be done while following God’s Commandments.
19 years ago today, horrible tragedy struck our nation. 1 year ago today, my family had a joyous event – the birth of our second son. At 4:06 PM today, he’ll be turning one! Even as we do not forget the past, we must look to the future.
New York USPIS Agents Manhandle War Hero and Triple Amputee in the Most Grotesque Abuse of a Disabled War Vet in US History
By Joe Hoft – Published September 11, 2020 at 9:27am
The 15 New York USPIS agents who arrested him dragged him into their arrest vehicle and never provided for any of his disabilities received during the Iraq War!
As we reported on Wednesday, fifteen (15) members from the New York United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) showed up on Brian Kolfage’s doorstep to arrest him on August 20, 2020, for crimes related to building a wall on the Southern border. It took 15 USPIS officers to arrest a triple amputee war hero. He was taken outside and dragged into an arrest vehicle at home with his wife looking on and his two children hiding, scared for their lives in their bedroom!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/9-11-2004-brian-kolfage-lost-three-limbs-iraq-two-weeks-ago-new-york-uspis-agents-manhandled-grotesque-abuse-disabled-war-vet-us-history/
I’m surprised they didn’t show up at 4 am, rifles drawn. \s
Truly horrifying news coming out of Quebec, Canada today. City officials announced that they will be moving “uncooperative” citizens to a secret facility if they do not follow Coronavirus lockdown measures. The announcement has shocked many and drawn the ire of many from the international community as a direct violation of human rights.
Do folks notice how British Commonwealth countries like Australia and Canada are under the most extreme measures?
Perhaps because they are more directed controlled by the brain-trust behind the ideas:
Pepe Escobar
From 9/11 to the Great Reset
https://thesaker.is/from-9-11-to-the-great-reset/
“None of it is accidental. As an example, over then years ago, even before setting up a – privatized – Behavioral Insights Team, the British government was very much interested in “influencing” behavior, in collaboration with the London School of Economics and Imperial College.
The end result was the MINDSPACE report. That was all about behavioral science influencing policymaking and most of all, imposing neo-Orwellian population control.”
Mindspace Report
https://www.bi.team/publications/mindspace/
Hopefully President Trump learns of this and helps him and does something about this.
Awful
Truly horrifying news coming out of Quebec, Canada today. City officials announced that they will be moving “uncooperative” citizens to a secret facility if they do not follow Coronavirus lockdown measures. The announcement has shocked many and drawn the ire of many from the international community as a direct violation of human rights.
How long before this comes across the border ?
https://www.barrons.com/news/canada-s-quebec-ontario-propose-stricter-masks-quarantines-enforcement-01599779706
Paul Craig Roberts:
The United States & Its Constitution Have Two Months Left
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/09/10/the-united-states-its-constitution-have-two-months-left/