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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What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim – Be Still – The Fray
This music video slices a Korean drama to show how the terrors resulting from a company Vice Chairman’s childhood kidnapping have stayed with him, as have his feelings toward the little girl who shared one day of his ordeal. When he finds her again, as an adult who has forgotten their shared trauma, he brings her into the company as his secretary and grows dependent on her care of him.
Deep Space 9 – The Load Out & Stay – Jackson Browne
That was fun! Loved this!
Hugs!! It’s one of my VERY favorites.
Wow, this is good. Gotta love Jackson Browne. Thanks for posting. 🙂
You make me very happy.
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Because I’m thinking of Rush today, I’m remembering so many people I grew to love and mourned.
Sherlock Holmes – Jeremy Brett Memorial – Auld Lang Syne – James Taylor
Galaxy Quest – Alan Rickman Memorial – Auld Lang Syne – Stephen Bishop
Dr Who – Sir John Hurt Memorial – Auld Lang Syne – Mitch Miller
Blakes 7 – Gareth Thomas Memorial – Auld Lang Syne – Susan Boyle
Star Wars – Carrie Fisher Memorial – Auld Lang Syne – Mannheim Steamroller
George H W and Barbara Bush Memorial – Auld Lang Syne – Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and by the Marine Band
Officiants at a “gay” wedding and proponents of infanticide.
There were some ways that they disappointed me, as did their son, but I will always remember the joy that they gave me, too. I don’t need someone to be perfect. I don’t need them to be mirrors of my beliefs. I do need to remember the times I loved them.
This needs to be shared and watched. Dr David Martin lays out in very succinct terms why this Corona Pandemic is a conspiracy! If you haven’t watched this presentation then I urge you to do so. Its very compelling! Every fact presented in this video is verifiable.
Dr David Martin detailing Constitutional, and other crimes by the CDC, Dr Fauci and Many State Governors.
Significance of the Loaves and Fishes
By Pastor Ricky Kurth
“What’s the significance of the five loaves and two fishes the Lord used to feed the multitudes (Matt. 14:15-21)?”
The significance lies not in the actual number, but in the fact that loaves of bread were smaller in Bible days, with three loaves being about the right amount for one man’s meal (Luke 11:5,6). This means that the boy who shared the five loaves and two fishes (John 6:9) had packed just enough to feed himself, with a little left over to share with another. But it also means that he was willing to share his provisions even when it became evident that sharing them among so many would likely mean that he himself would go hungry.
This is a prophetic picture of the Tribulation saint who will be willing to help others who are hungry after the beast issues his mark and God’s people cannot buy food without it (Rev. 13:16-18), but who may fear that in so doing there may not be enough for himself. Faithful Hebrews in that day will trust God when He said that “there is that scattereth, and yet increaseth” (Prov. 11:24,25), a proverb that perhaps motivated the boy in our text. When the lad gave all that he had to the Lord, and the apostles distributed the loaves and fishes (John 6:9-11) “unto every man according as he had need,” it typified what Tribulation saints will have to do to help one another (Acts 4:32-37), and it proved that you are never too young to serve the Lord and His people!
Matthew 14:15 And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
16 But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
17 And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
18 He said, Bring them hither to me.
19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
Luke 11:5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
John 6:9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Pro verbs 11:24 ¶ There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
25 ¶ The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
John 6:9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
Acts 4:32 ¶ And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
35 And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
36 And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,
37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
I initially thought about posting this, but then thought better of it. And now, I’ve decided that it wouldn’t hurt to say this to my Treeper friends. The first time I heard this music was over a tiny FM transistor radio. I was 17 years old, living in a town where I didn’t know anybody and was about to graduate from a HS that was, at best a convenience. This music served to tell me that there was a much more interesting world out there and—not knowing any better—I decided to go see if I could find it. And you know somethig? I did find it!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and music Garrison!
Good stuff. Did a jazz shift at my college radio station for a year. My dad loved music like this.
Thanks GH. The incomparable Bill Evans
Thank you for the post. After some listening enjoyment and then dusting off a pile of vinyl in the closet, Cleo Laine from many rears ago reappeared.
A Twofer. A wonderful tune for a maudlin day in Houston and the stimulus to stir the gray matter from years ago. Thanks.
Haven’t thought of Cleo Laine in a long time. I’ve got a stack of vinyl I need to unearth also. Maybe I should also dust off my Heybrook turntable with the Linn Sondec tone-arm. I know I have them . . . somewhere . . .
Still processing. May be awhile.
Thanks for posting, some funny stuff there! Rush always loved to laugh and loved to make other people laugh.
The teenage girl in this article is the niece of my sister’s long-time friend and neighbor. Had to share this with y’all.
God must have plans for this little guy. Total miracle.
“Boy rescued from frozen East Texas pond after teen spots him while walking dog”
https://www.arklatexhomepage.com/news/local-news/boy-rescued-from-frozen-east-texas-pond-after-teen-spots-him-while-walking-dog/
GOD IS good
Trust God. Fear not.
The Federal Government now has absolute ZERO legal Executive authority, this includes the IRS.
President Trump is the only person who legally qualified to be POTUS. For those who can’t quite see the forest through the trees [msm narrative/obfuscation].
The usurpers of perceived authority are now firmly contained and DC [Detention Center] is being secured. Simply stated, the fullness of the swamp is complete, it’s denizens collared with a $28T millstone around their collective necks. Debt is dead. Equity rules.
The People should be demanding their promised $2000 ‘stimulus’ checks. President Trump legally authorized the last $900B spending Bill. 300M [People] x $2000 = $600B. Time for the liars to pay up!
The Federal Reserve is effectively neutered [broke].
The Federal Government is effectively neutered [broker].
Government(s) are powerless without money and/or consent of the governed.
Government(s), globally, cannot spend what they cannot borrow and/or extort [tax/regulate]. They’re out of options for (re)financing the ‘next’ scheme [crisis/war] to defraud The People, globally.
The People are the sovereign authority in The United States, One Nation Under God.
FREEDOM and unlimited economic opportunity [prosperity] is Ours.
So, if the Son sets you free, you are free indeed.
Thank you Lord.
‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord’
Wind Turbine towers? Why? What good are they? They are quite simply, the phallic symbols of the left.
You’ll recognize it:
From Texas and I departed Ohio, Cleveland and Youngstown, as the landscape began to resemble what Ms. Hynde describes in song.
Michael J. Matt released a video online at Remnant TV titled PRO-CHOICE: Aborting the Great Reset
“Trump knocked the hell out of these globalists, knocked them on their backsides, not by brandishing firearms but by pledging to bring back everything they’re terrified of, everything they’re trying to destroy. He was using an idea to kill another idea and was doing it very successfully. Violence and racism had nothing to do with it. He beat them back with patriotism. He beat them back with law and order. He beat them back with God and religion…
… We have the numbers on our side, people – 80 million.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6drq48t4Ew8
Excellent video! ?
And boy are they gonna get it! And what a shock it will be when these deluded fools see the reality of what spitting in the face of a Holy God has gotten them. These surly are no longer “normal” times. It’s the beginning of many sorrows it seems. The Whole Armor of God is now available to any and all who would enter the battle. Don’t leave home or earth without it!
hot. blue.. and righteous……….
Snowing here again in central Indiana. Light but steady with maybe 1/2″ accumulation right now. Not much wind. Down south in KY, TN, NC they’re getting much more. Winter storm down there the worst headed towards the Washington DC to Phily area. They can have it. Not going to be a good commute for some people, but most of the Feds will probably stay home. They aren’t essential you know so they often close up shop when they get a little snow.
My brother works in a little town near Nashville. He said it was the worst ice storm he’s ever seen. I think it started Sunday evening and went into Monday, and more coming today. He said they got inches of ice then snow on top. Here in SE Tennessee we have been lucky and not had any really nasty weather.
Same here in northeast Tennessee. We were supposed to get lots of bad winter weather but we got a little slush. Hubby is still living in Florida, he was slated to come up tonight for a few days. He canceled because the roads were supposed to be covered in ice. Roads are fine. Super bummed. But he’ll try again in a few weeks. by the way I am in love with Tennessee and our 80 yo home.
Yeah. Central Kentucky here. About 6 inches of snow overnight and now it is drizzling and 28 degrees. Crazy weather.
Daffodills blooming here on the Oregon coast. I just picked five for the kitchen table. 45 degrees and a wee bit drippy.
good day continues with timber prices through the roof, boys just got new tin pants from filson and their sons of the american revolution magazine to read with lunch. I watched mars lander. on third glass of wine feeling no pain
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
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.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint (51st Psalm KJV)
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An Orthodox Prayer for Enemies
Lord Jesus Christ, Who didst command us to love our enemies, and those who defame and injure us, and to pray for them and forgive them; Who didst Thyself pray for Thine enemies who crucified Thee: Grant us, we pray, the spirit of Christian reconciliation and meekness, that we may heartily forgive every injury and be reconciled with our enemies.
Grant us to overcome the malevolence and offenses of people with Christian meekness and true love of our neighbor.
We further beseech Thee, O Lord, to grant to our enemies true peace and forgiveness of sins; do not allow them to leave this life without true faith and sincere conversion.
And help us to repay evil with goodness, and to remain safe from the temptations of the devil and from all the perils which threaten us, in the form of visible and invisible enemies. Amen.
http://www.saintgregoryoutreach.org
Amen.
Those poor animals.
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isn’t the first time and won’t be the last. The highlands of Vietnam have also had some pretty good snow this year.
A bunch of climate “experts” claimed that Mt. Kilimanjaro would have no snow cap by now.
Current reality: Mount Kilimanjaro Snow Report and Ski conditions (snow-forecast.com)
Mount Kilimanjaro Snow Report and Ski conditions (snow-forecast.com)
Tammy Bruce has a nice memorial thread (via Insty) —
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362128126273347586.html
Thank you so much, Dora. That was well worth a read. I only hope and pray there are 10’s of thousands who he left such an impression on. (We all know the Andrew Breitbart story.)
I very much respect Tammy Bruce, one of the few on Fox I always liked hearing before I stopped tuning that channel altogether. Until reading her article in that link, I did not know she had met Rush early in her career.
Her account of that meeting and its life-changing impact on her is another ode to a great and gentle giant.
This is such a great and timely post! Thank you!?
THE INITIATIVE AGAINST DESPAIR
“Rise, let us be going.” Matthew xxvi. 46
The disciples went to sleep when they should have kept awake, and when they realized what they had done it produced despair. The sense of the irreparable is apt to make us despair, and we say – “It is all up now, it is not use trying anymore.” If we imagine that this kind of despair is exceptional, we are mistaken, it is a very ordinary human experience. Whenever we realize that we have not done that which we had a magnificent opportunity of doing, then we are apt to sink into despair; and Jesus Christ comes and says – “Sleep on now, that opportunity is lost forever, you cannot alter it, but arise and go to the next thing.” Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ, and go out into the irresistible future with Him.
There are experiences like this in each of our lives. We are in despair, the despair that comes from actualities, and we cannot lift ourselves out of it. The disciples in this instance had done a downright unforgivable thing; they had gone to sleep instead of watching with Jesus, but He came with a spiritual initiative against their despair and said – “Arise and do the next thing.” If we are inspired of God, what is the next thing? To trust Him absolutely and to pray on the ground of His Redemption.
Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
Oswald Chambers
February 18th Devotional
Good morning 🙂
wOw! I can say that this is the first time I’ve laughed and cried at the same time! Gonna miss that guy!
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Verse of the Day for Thursday, February 18, 2021
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“The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.”
Psalms 7:8 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE – I am a CHILD – not a CHOICE!!!
I clicked on what should have been a link to HotAir. The link, I think, briefly appeared and was replaced by a Google 404 page not found message. Same thing happened a few days ago on another link.
Anyone else experiencing this? Is it Google just censoring the world, or HotAir or ???
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter XI – Christ Revealed as Suffering on the Cross
11:1
As I lay in the arms of my heavenly guardian, I looked into her face, which wore an expression of deep emotion. With earnestness her eyes were fixed above; and her holy lips moved as if in prayer. At first the expression of her features was so sorrowful, that I thought she would weep; but tears would have been a feeble manifestation of that feeling which, I could plainly see, continued to increase. Truly, I said, in silent thought, do angels grieve? Can sorrow enter this Holy City? The music had ceased – its echo reverberated, and moved in the distance. Silence reigned in the vast expanse. I still leaned upon the breast of my blessed protector, anxiously observing what was passing. Light from above shone upon her brow with increasing brilliancy. Her eyes were still fixed; and, to employ earthly expressions her bosom began to heave, her lips became motionless, and her glowing countenance had the appearance of reverential awe. Her looks were so expressive, that I felt like shrinking from her arms; and was so awed, that I did not notice the cause of her excitement, until she gently, without turning her eyes, laid her hand of snowy white and spotless purity upon my head, and then removing it, raised it upward, until it pointed in the direction indicated by her fixed attention, and to my utter astonishment I there beheld the cause of her silent reverence, and the wonderous admiration which pervaded the inhabitants of the city. There – oh! that all the world but knew it? -there hung upon the Cross -and from all I could discover, bleeding and dying -my Lord and Redeemer! Oh! that sight! No human heart can know its effects upon the spirits who attend in the Infant Paradise. The crown of thorns, the nails, the mangled form, the flowing blood, the look of compassion, were so plainly manifested and combined, as to convey to the soul an idea of suffering the most intense and excruciating.
About the Cross were congregating from every part of the city, guardian angels with their infant spirits. All, as they gathered in a circular form, manifested deep humility and holy reverence. As soon as they had assumed this uniform attitude, they held out the infant spirits whom they had in charge, directing their infant minds to the Cross and the Sacrifice. At this moment, an angel descended, clothed in bright raiment, and moved around the Cross, holding in his hand his glittering crown. Then bowing he worshipped, and his worship was silent as had been that of all who had congregated. After this, turning to the guardian angels he said, “Adore Him, for he is the Redeemer of a ruined race. Yea, let all Heaven adore Him!” Then as he lifted up his right hand, I saw in it a little book. In imitation all the angels in like manner raised their right hands, in each of which was also a book of like dimensions. Then appeared, as from an invisible dome, a choir of angelic beings. These had palms in their hands, and they with one voice sang praises to God and the Lamb. The first I could not understand, but they concluded saying, “Suffer children to come unto me. Of such is the kingdom. Out of the mouths of sucklings and babes Thou hast perfected praise. Amen, alleluia, amen!” Then the guardian angels drew still nearer the Cross, presenting the spirits in their charge, while they were addressed in a manner entirely beyond my comprehension; at the close of which each infant was touched with a stream of light. They smiled and bowed their heads, while holding up in their little clasped hands the image of the Cross, which had been given them by their angels.
To be continued…
Update on my wife:
Been a few days since I last posted an update.
No change in my wife’s neurological status. Had
another MRI with contrast, results inconclusive,
no deterioration noted. Plans being made to transfer
her to another medical facility with neuro specific unit.
Kind of dread it, was at least used to the staff that I
talked to. No visitation allowed. Planning on having
them hold a phone up to my wife to talk to her. Don’t
want to use the electonic “face time” at present. My
kids don’t want to see their mom on a ventilator.
Everybody I deal with here, in calls, on the street
in my neighborhood is being super nice. Also at work.
Just in a holding pattern at present. Any and all prayers
appreciated. I thought that maybe they should be requested
to be more specific to Jennifer’s level of responsive. Thanks.
Thank you for the update! Praying that our Father in Heaven will sustain you and your family and that His Healing Hand will reach down and touch Jennifer’s life in a special way! ?
Praying for your wife and your entire family.
Mornin’ infidels.
G’Morn Ms WeeWeed
Perfect
Mornin’ WeeWeed!
Sorry I missed ya yesterday. Busy morning and I did not get back here to the OT until after 11 pm.
Thanks WeeWEED!
And a somewhat late Good Evening!
Okay, I am having a real problem in the way the City of Sulphur has chosen to communicate to the citizens that reside here. There is an official website that was set in place during the prior administration and kept us fully informed even to the extent we would get an automated call to inform us of actions that were being taken during emergency situations.
New mayor was elected and we are finding all information not on the official website, but now being posted to Facebook. I don’t do social media in any shape or form, but I can access what is put out to the public. This means that I never get notifications of any event taking place in our city. And also, what if Facebook decides to block all news from us whenever they get a notion to do it just cause…
Actually what I desire to do is make sure any resident of our city can just go to the official website to be updated cause I actually dont answer the phone unless I review a voicemail for the reason of the call. So do I start a petition, contact city officials, or raise a rukus till someone notices me Hmm…such a minor problem that I can’t seem to solve 🙁
I am not sure it is so minor. We have all these communication devices now and they can be used to help people. Not everyone has a Facebook acct. I don’t know how to solve it. I do think it is worth your time. Why did they change something that was working?
Ahhh, you answered your own question, it was working, that’s why.
What makes a society so lame as to complicate, destroy, reverse, progress as we
do?
I’d write a sermon on that but won’t belittle the congregation here with it, you all already know why.
In countries where people use the drug ivermectin to ward against parasites, covid deaths are remarkably reduced. The drug has been used as both a prophylactic to reduce the risk of infection, and has been used to treat active covid symptoms.
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If I wanted to sound like a tv commercial, I would end this by saying ‘ask your doctor if ivermectin is right for you’, but we already know the doctors are only pushing the gene therapy disguised as a vaccine. They will not prescribe treatments that are reducing deaths worldwide. Damn shame.
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Did I mention that ivermectin is sold without restrictions as a cattle wormer? The FDA says you should read and follow all label instructions…for your cow…
It comes in a treatment kits that include antibiotics and Zinc at proper dosing.
https://m.indiamart.com/proddetail/ziverdo-kit-22974209655.html
Thanks.
There’s not enough talk about treatment protocols.
Here’s 2, among many, that boosts the immune system – Tru Niagen supplements, and kills the virus on contact – Closys mouthwash.
Just maybe Facebook Zuckerberg went too far…
Facebook blindsides Australia in bare knuckle struggle over paying for news
from the American Thinker
Are the tech oligarchs more powerful than most of the nations of the world? Based on the actions of Facebook hours ago, it appears that Mark Zuckerberg thinks they are.
Anybody hear the news out of Durham’s investigation?
Me either.
MAGA 2
The worst part about the wholesale takeover of this government is that so many deserving jail are now in power and walking free.
And they shall do so until so-called Republicans grow hair on their private parts – if, of course, they actually have some.
MAGA 2
Their photo with Rush.
Holy Virgin-Martyr Agatha of Palermo in Sicily (+ 251) was the daughter of noble and prosperous parents. She endured much torture during the persecutions of that era. She remained steadfast as a bride of Christ until her martyrdom.
Holy Martyr Anthony of Athens (+ 1774) was beheaded in Constantinople for refusing to embrace islam. He was 16. From the age of 12 he had been owned as a slave by several different islamic masters before being bought by a Christian. One of his former islamic owners recognized him in Constantinople and accused him of being an apostate, which was false. Saint Anthony remained a steadfast Christian.
Afterfeast of the Meeting of the Lord
February 5th on the traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church and February 18th on the civil or commercial calendar.
It’s not just Texas at risk of colder winters.”The Grand Solar Minimum, or Cold Sun, ExplainedThe biggest driver of the Earth’s climate is the Sun, not carbon emissions. The Sun controls 99.5% of climate, not trace CO2. Whodathunk.”
https://www.winterwatch.net/2021/02/global-warming-industry-is-hiding-impending-cold-sun-dark-winter-phase/
They are reporting chunks of ice in the Mississippi river down at Memphis. Going to be some rough driving down that way. In Arkansas they seem to have the attitude that God put it there and God will take it away.
Up here in Central Indiana, it is still snowing! We got a couple more inches overnight. Nothing but schools shut down but things are being delayed. Trash man showed up 24 hours late. Birds sure are hitting our seed blocks.
Personally I regret that we didn’t get a few consecutive days of sub zero weather here. When we do it always seems to cut down on the bugs in the spring.
Well it looks like things they will be able to start getting things back to normal in Texas soon. Forecast for Dallas show a high of 61 deg. F on Saturday with temps climbing from there into the mid to high 70’s by the middle of next week.
Back in 2011 when Texas went through a hot dry spell the genius “climate scientists: at various Texas universities were warning that Texas was in a perma-drought and it would remain hot and dry and it was all mans fault. Once that dry spell passed in a deluge Texas has been much wetter and than average.
Did the idiot climate “scientists” learn their lesson? Of course not! Image-234.png (1275×1218) (realclimatescience.com)
I sure hope Texas gets relief soon. I just read this about their food supply.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/texas-food-supply-power-outage/
I heard, too. This concerns me greatly because I don’t know how supplies are going to get in there…………with the faux president we now have running things. The Dems seem to have trouble doing anything that will actually solve a problem.
“We are constantly opposed, and yet perpetually preserved!”
WOW!
This may have been posted, but, if so, I haven’t seen it. It’s still worth reading again. I suppose I will read Andrew Breitbat’s book again.
Andrew Breitbart: How Rush Limbaugh Inspired Me
Apologies to Ad Rem for post length. Post contents relevant to 2021.
They Thought They Were Free: Germans 1933-1945
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
“To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.”
“But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.”
“And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all.”
“The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God.”
This is Texas.
Mattress Mack is a true treasure. He does so much for our community. If you are ever in Houston, a visit to Gallery Furniture on I-45 North is a must. There is everything for every age.
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Mars Rover Perseverance has successfully landed on Mars. Strong signals .Images being received.
I have found someone who is interested in learning more about the swamp and political cover-ups. She is interested in reading the Times article/boast of their complicity, but I cannot find a link to share with her. Can someone post a link to the article please? Thanks.
Thank you flyover!
Was there a second comment? I did not see it, but this is a great start. Most of my kids are conservative never-trumpers and they think I’m getting off the wall in my old age. I refuse to discuss things that will end in arguments; if they are interested I am happy to provide information. I live with one son and his family, and my d-i-l asked me tonight about the Time article. Her brother had mentioned it to her, so I am thankful to be able to share it with her. Hopefully we can have some further discussions and possibly my son will listen in. Thanks again.
NOAA’s terrible, awful, miserably inaccurate winter forecast: Government workers doing what they do.
U.S. Winter Outlook: Cooler North, warmer South with ongoing La Nina | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (noaa.gov)
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.
Amen
Mom….did this publish by itself tonight?
Yes, and it did last night, didn’t it? I was wondering if it was something you changed, or something I did. I think I clicked on the Subscribe at the top left of the input box last night. I wondered if that had something to do with it self publishing. :\
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Nope…..last night I fished it out a little late. ;-(
However, I’m delighted to think that the problem might have resolved itself. Miracles do happen? 😀
We’ll see what happens tonight. 🙂
Amen.
Amen…
Amen.
Amen.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-iran-meeting-possible/