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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Thinking of “today”, thinking of “now”:
2 Cor. 6:2 (cf. Isaiah 49:8)
“For He says: “In the acceptable time I listened to you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Isaiah 55:6-7
“Seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Hebrews 3:15a (cf. Psalms 95:7-8)
“As it has been said: “If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts…”
Revelation 22:17 (cf. Isaiah 55:1)
“The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.”
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Thinking of why:
Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Romans 5:8
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
John 5:24
“Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.”
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Thinking of how:
Luke 18:13
“And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’”
James 4:8a
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”
John 6:28-29
“Therefore they said to Him, “What must we do, that we may be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you should believe in Him whom He has sent.””
Mark 9:24b
“‘Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.'”
Acts 16:30-31
“Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.””
TM…
If I can ask a favor from somebody whose spiritual acumem and scriptural interpretation I respect.
If you would go back to the 12.9.2021 open thread and review my response to just_stevie’s OC devotional.
I would like somebody’s opinion and spiritual thought about my quandary of Jesus’s words about none is good other than God, even though He was still God in the flesh.
Please, just go back and read that. I am willing to listen and hear wisdom higher than mine about that issue. I have never been able to understand that.
I would welcome any input from you.
I’ll take a run at that.
I’m probably more opinionated than wise though.
I think the rich young ruler offended Jesus because he didn’t acknowledge Him as God.
The rich young ruler saw himself as “good” and felt comfortable addressing Jesus as a “good teacher”.
Jesus confronted him at his point of glaring pride, his “goodness”.
The rich young ruler would not acknowledge Jesus as God when Jesus looked at him and said, “no one is good except God alone.”
Eternity in the balance. Just then. Valley of decision. Maybe Jesus looked at him with a 20 second power pause before continuing the conversation. By then? The rich young ruler already staked out his position.
If the rich young ruler willfully acknowledged Jesus as God, he would have found delight in doing what Jesus commanded.
He didn’t
Well said, Frank!
Frank, those sound like some really good thoughts.
Doesn’t sound opinionated to me.
I’ll think about this.
I think you are not off course.
Thank you for this!
See vibeman’s reply to me and my response.
Between his and your words, together, I think you hit a homerun! 🤗
Good morning, Solomon and Frank, I’ll check with y’all later.
Good morning…well afternoon for me now
Expecting my daughter with the grands. Just finished preparing the venison burgers and waiting for a text that they have left so I can fire up the grill. Going to be a busy afternoon. Love it.
Have a blessed day.
Pup pup is greatly improving 🤣
That’s great news! PTL!
The young man approached Jesus with a question about a good deed. Jesus responded in a rabbinical way saying that good is defined by the character of God implying that no deed is truly “good” unless it a work done in the character of God. This was the understanding of “goodness” under the law and Jesus knew that the man would justify his question under the law. This implication takes a greater meaning near the end when Jesus says to be perfect, not good, he need do only one thing, to sell all he had and give it away.
Biblical perfection does not mean “without fault” it means “complete in God’s eyes.” It is the Christian doctrine of redemption in that we can never be perfect or perfectly good, but God’s forgiveness can complete our redemption making us perfect in the eyes of God and completed to enter His kingdom.
That is my understanding of “goodness” from the passage. It is a complicated text with many interwoven themes of which that was just one.
As I replied to Frank, good thoughts that make spiritual and textual sense.
Thank you for your input.
As said to Frank, I think you are not off course. 👍
You and Frank have offered good thought.
I know about the “goodness” and demand of that schoolmaster Law as did Jesus. Apparently Jesus discerned his real heart approaching Him in the Law rather than a spirit of worship of Who and What was actually good.
Just never put it together like you two did.
Always willing to listen.
Thank you both.
Thanks 👀✝️👀
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Leon, I think the mouse caught the kitten here.
This guy needs climbing (down) lessons
‘Panther’ the cat rescued after days-long utility pole perch
There’s coming my finest millisecond and day
When all sounds that don’t resound…
With Truth
Will not only stop!
But will be smashed into perfect silence
The decimation will cause a certain, sorta universal pause
All created things, like a tidal wave of woe first seeing
Will bend to Truthful thinking
Not for long though
For a wave of Perfect Might
Shall lay all low
This includes the smart
Oligarchs too
And others who say “NO!”
To Christ!
The Beloved One!
When eternity settles out
When all say their dues
When we finally
In nakedness tell our infinitesimal truths
We’ll agree
Jesus Christ is King of Kings
THEN!
the joy ever expanding starts
as woes tumble into nothingness
Because He chose and adopted us……
before the foundation of the world
For Himself
No merit of our own
At all
Pure. Unadulterated joy
Ephesians chapters 1-3
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This!
Thank you W_P, love the Ephesians devotionals.
Happening now, apparently a lot of tornado damage in central US. Link is to Lookner’s Agenda Free TV. Tornado track up to 250 miles long; from Arkansas, to Missouri, to Kentucky, amazing.
I was just reading about it. I think it ripped through a nursing home and the roof of an Amazon fulfillment center collapsed. I think there are reports of fatalities.
Yes, all of that, and they just said it was still moving on.
I hope you’re not in the direction it’s traveling and, if so, that you’ve got a safe room.
In Oklahoma, we call that a “fraidy hole.”
Thank you, am out west; prayers to all who have been touched by this system, and the first responders.
Northern Mississippi here. We’re under tornado watch through 2:00am. So far very quiet, even the wind has died down. No t-storms or rain since early evening. Praying it stays quiet and praying for those who are effected .
I live in a pretty solid building, but dang, 24 hours of wind was making my roof creak.
Sorry for cracking up.
That comment seemed a tad out of character for you.
One of my champion daughters lives in Tulsa.
OKC is even worse!
Gotta break out of the character mould sometimes. 😉
Live in tornado alley.
Seems that fall is another storm season. Though I still hate April and especially May more than any time of the year.
Cold air hitting Indian summer air doesn’t produce good effects.
Kentucky here. 7:15 AM CT. Sun coming up and we have dodged this bullet. This is our life in the spring and when cold fronts move through. These storms are incredibly violent and destroy much in their path. The saving grace is that the paths are relatively limited in their coverage, unlike hurricanes. Some get hit hard, some do not.
I was looking through the reports. That collapsed Amazon fulfillment center does not look like wind failure. It looks like what happens when it rains too hard on a flat roof and the drains cannot take the water away. It may have collapsed from weight. That is another danger in these storms.
Your governor says it was the worst ever: KY Gov:
“This Has Been Our State’s Most Devastating Tornado Event”
https://www.weather.com/storms/severe/video/ky-gov-this-has-been-our-states-most-devastating-tornado-event
(From The Weather Channel iPhone App)
Ah, this never gets old. The elegant simplicity of the melody is so lovely. Every single time. The space between the notes is a wonderful as the notes themselves…………. What a beautiful piece of music to end the day…..
Sara Lee, this is solace for me. After a trying week, this is the kind of peace I esperately seek.
Right there with you, Garrison. Would imagine there are many Treepers with serious struggles who find solace in such music. This thread, the music you post, the night shift that hops on with wonderful comments creates such a special, peaceful place. It actually feels palpably quiet, gentle, and calm over here, punctuated by the passing laugh and mutual enjoyment of various videos. A real salve on the soul, eh?
Sarah, so right on! 🙂
🙂
Garrison Hall: Soothing and inspirational. I learned basic piano (including reading music) as an adult, starting in my late 30s. After a few years of lessons, I dropped it, partly because we moved, but, we did bring our baby grand with us. That was more than 25 years ago. A few weeks ago, I started again, from the beginning (“Lesson Book One”).
Learning piano is a bit easier, the second time around. I enjoy finger exercises. Training the brain to make the fingers do what they’re supposed to do.
As for the images that accompany your post, those days are so long gone. It seemed a grander time, although we tend to romanticize the mundane.
This is the pianist who recorded the Satie pieces. I think her perfect phrasing is what makes this music to attractive to our ears. I’ve watched this performance several times just to see the deliberate slight pause before she plays the first note. Perfection.
Just for fun: some English legends as you’ve never seen them (1985)
https://streamable.com/4bcf9b
A classic that never gets old. Love it!
Oh my gosh. I never saw that. It’s so sweet and cute and fun and adorable and clever. I can’t wait to watch more “Dear Kitten’s!” Meanwhile, Friskie’s also partnered with Henri, Le Chat Noir (now retired) and they made four “films” on the problem of “cat food boredom” of which this is one.
Cat’s deserve better!!!
Oops. wrong cat video. This one’s good.
Re-posting below under the twitter cat video…
Can always count on you for classics…kinda why I like to return the favor.
My dad and I took guitar lessons from one of the best in the world. He was humble but extraordinary.
My first instrument was the violin. My teacher was first chair in the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra. I actually got to play with them once. Delgado Museum in New Orleans. Just a kid.
When I began, I had no idea how hard the violin was to learn. Harder than guitar and piano.
First of all, you have to have an ear that can hear the slightest resonances from low to high.
And the position of the violin is a bit harder than holding a guitar.
Your first violin lesson is holding it under your neck with no hands. It’s a chore for a young child.
Garrison, I have to believe you know the disciplines of music. They are almost like a Marine drill instructor…that is, if you want to excel.
It’s worth the prize!
Pipe organ is the grand king of all instruments, but the violin equals all guitar and piano.
This by Vivaldi is one my heart-wrench favs.
Great post. I had a friend who used to set up and maintain radio stations.
Like many of you here, he was musical. I’m not. He was brilliant. When I found out he played in an orchestra in Kansas City?…I asked more questions.
Eventually he explained his precision with his violin, the differences between a guitarist and a violinist.
Truely fascinating.
You cracked me up again because our backgrounds are polar opposite.
Your father mentored you in stuff that counts. My father repeatedly told me everything I touched turned to s—t.
Trust me…my previous sentence is not a call for pity. I now chuckle at my scars.
We both love Christ and I’m glad I got adopted into the family of Christ.
We are brothers.
Great post reply back!
Yes, father and grandmother did well to raise us in music, art and literature.
My granny once enrolled me in water color painting at Delgado Museum where she also took me to see the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra perform. What a wonderful venue that museum was!
I understand your statement not being a call to pity. I know those who “lived at your address.”
But here you are where God has you and is truly blessing you with spiritual wisdom.
He had his hand on you back then and He never let go!
Praise God for that.
Indeed, we are brothers and no geographical distance matters.
Btw, if I can change character once in a while and crack you up a bit, good. 😉
PS: 🙏ing!!! for families who lost loved ones last night
Something weird happens with the cat’s image in the mirror, about 1 second before the end…
Freaky
A glitch in the Matrix.
Happy Caturday!
Snow leopards in the Himalayas
Wow ! Beautiful , Nim 😊
👍
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Yes, all of us!
Bless you for this every day!
From Joe Biden
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
If gas prices keep going up, pretty soon you won’t be able to afford to do this:
Paul Dunphy on Twitter: “Can’t watch this video too many times. This guy is awesome. #foiledrobbery https://t.co/Bk995aYwGA” / Twitter
Agreed.
Beautiful how he dismantled their plan.
Cool as a cucumber 🥒
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 Trisagion Hymn
and the
50th Psalm (Septuagint)
🙂
As dark clouds are gathering . . .
Otters attack!
Man attacked by 20 otters, bitten 26 times: ‘I thought I was going to die’
https://nypost.com/2021/12/10/man-attacked-by-gang-of-otters-i-thought-i-was-going-to-die/
Spencer, who is in his 60s, was reportedly approaching the visitors center when he spotted around 20 otters crossing a dimly-lit path in front of him.
The animal encounter went south after a jogger ran through the pack, causing the fish-eaters to go “crazy like dogs” and try to bite the passerby
Otter be more careful.
😂
He otter know better.
Animal Control finally showed up but witnesses claimed they escaped in their family ottermobile.
‘I’m A God-Fearing Man’: Denzel Washington Explains His Christian Beliefs To New York Times, Dismisses Hollywood Focus On Racial Diversity
https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-a-god-fearing-man-denzel-washington-explains-his-christian-beliefs-to-new-york-times-dismisses-hollywood-focus-on-racial-diversity?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=restlesspatriot&fbclid=IwAR04fJJIgUZdZYyYw5jsgRNVpDkumMD2_MExDx6EVRGYd2qVJS2LoyucvG8
Maybe THEE Buddy Rich signature piece is his Big Band’s rendition of the “West Side Story” medley. His cymbal playing and brush work are unparalleled. Arguably, the greatest drummer who ever lived.
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To this day no argument.
No drummer before or since has played cleaner.
Had a recording of ‘Battle of the Drums’ featuring Buddy Rich and Gene Crupa (sic?). Fantastic.
Krupa. Reminds me, I have an unreleased recording of Buddy Rich and Art Blakey battling it out at Birdland.
Incredible drummer.
Watch him play (despite dripping sweat under the hot lights and a tie and jacket..) this very same piece here:
Thank you for posting that! I had never seen it. Also check out the video, “Buddy Rich At The Top”… a 1973 performance at Rochester, New York’s “Top of the Plaza”. I actually saw he and his band play at a college out on Long Island, circa 1975. Everyone knows how fast Rich was but that sometimes overshadows how soulful and mellow he could play. As a drummer myself, I don’t think there is a greater compliment to a drummer than to be described as, “Tasteful” ! Rich epitomized “tasteful”.
Rich was a frequent guest on the “Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson”. Carson was also a drummer. Carson typically saved some god awful news that he knew would set Rich’s infamous temper off and and time and again Rich would retort, “I know what you’re trying to do.” The audience was never let in on this inside joke.
Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
The more you see how every government institution—from Congress to federal courts—in DC are weaponizing the four-hour disturbance at the Capitol to crush Trump allies and voters, the more you must believe that January 6 was an inside job.
You think this was some organic gift…
2/. to the Biden regime and Democrats? That they just got together a few days afterwards and said, “hey, we can use the furry shaman and Indiana meemaws to unleash a legal and media terror campaign against Trumpists?”
C’mon, man.
FBI, natsec, Schiff and company already proved…
3/. they will use every tool available, including secret courts and special counsels, to destroy Trump. It’s just a coincidence it only took 4 years btw the FBI ambushing Mike Flynn in the White House to ambushing Florida pastors in their own homes?
They got away with it over…
4/. and over. They knew hundreds of thousands would be in DC to support Trump on January 6. It was a dream set-up for every tyrannical apparatchik from Chris Wray to head of the Capitol police.
No way does this just “happen” and Democrats use it to achieve every evil goal. Nope.
3:53 PM · Dec 10, 2021·
Fox on the run with the vixen.
Mornin’ infidels!
OMG that’s a great spoof meme!
Afternoon, WeeWeed!
Hah. 60+ years ago kids clothes-pinned baseball cards to their bicycle frames so that the cards stuck into the spokes a bit and made loud sounds like a motor when the bike was driven. I remember a local 4th of July parade where a group of about 50 kids drove their bikes in a group all with multiple cards flapping in the spokes. Kids loved it..
Please pray for the people of western Kentucky. Monster tornado ripped through several states last night, leveled the town of Mayfield, KY (pop ~10,000), affected a huge swath across the area. Possibly over 50 killed.
https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/at-least-50-people-are-likely-dead-following-a-tornado-in-kentucky-governor-says/article_18372644-5a67-11ec-83dd-371bd245c52b.html
Timeless! 🙂
Praying!
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.At least 50 DEAD in Kentucky tornado: Fears up to 100 people could have been killed as tornadoes rip through Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois ‘shredding’ nursing home and destroying Amazon distribution center
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10299117/At-50-DEAD-Kentucky-tornado-Fears-100-people-killed.html
Prayers up!
Here in Kentucky, near Bowling Green. Missed us but pounded Mayfield, a small town like mine. More warnings for early today then moving out. There is no defense for these storms. Hunker down, protect yourself and pick up the pieces of your life later. Middle of the night is the worst. Can’t see and everyone is asleep. It hits before you can wake up.
The sudden downpours can do a lot a damage. I just checked the rainfall total map for the last 24 hours. Check out the streaks of downpours that tracked with the storms.
https://www.iweathernet.com/total-rainfall-map-24-hours-to-72-hours
https://www.tnvacation.com/local/dunlap-flying-camp-paragliding
I was headed to paragliding this week.
Glad I cancelled.
Verse of the Day for Saturday, December 11, 2021
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“But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians 15:57 (KJV)
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/verse-of-day.php
BE MY VOICE
AMEN
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.
INDIVIDUALITY
“If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself.” Matthew xvi. 24
Individuality is the husk of the personal life. Individuality is all elbows, it separates and isolates. It is the characteristic of the child and rightly so; but if we mistake individuality for the personal life, we will remain isolated. The shell of individuality is God’s created natural covering for the protection of the personal life; but individuality must go in order that the personal life may come out and be brought into fellowship with God. Individuality counterfeits personality as lust counterfeits love. God designed human nature for Himself; individuality debases human nature for itself.
The characteristics of individuality are independence and self-assertiveness. It is the continual assertion of individuality that hinders our spiritual life more than anything else. If you say – “I cannot believe,” it is because individuality is in the road; individuality never can believe. Personality cannot help believing. Watch yourself when the Spirit of God is at work. He pushes you to the margins of your individuality, and you have either to say – “I shan’t,” or to surrender, to break the husk of individuality and let the personal life emerge. The Holy Spirit narrows it down every time to one thing (cf. Matthew v. 23-24). The thing in you that will not be reconciled to your brother is your individuality. God wants to bring you into union with Himself, but unless you are willing to give up your right to yourself He cannot. “Let him deny himself” – deny his independent right to himself, then the real life has a chance to grow.
Oswald Chambers
December 11th Devotional
Well, so far it looks like about 30 tornadoes reported. One large one on the ground for about 5 hours tracking from AR, through TN, then up to central KY and over 200 miles. That may be a new record exceeding the minimum 219 mile track of a big one that touched down March 18, 1925. This year it appears the second season far exceeded the first in every metric. That is rare. Just heard the death toll in KY will probably exceed the current record.
Are all here accounted for?
🦥💪
Little girl on TV with her parents sitting among the devastation crying and hugging her dead pup. What can one say? How can one not have their eye’s start sweating seeing that?
Great compassion will be needed for them.
Phone getting blurry here.
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”.
Get your Ivermectin while you still can https://ivmpharmacy.com
Well 3 gallons of vegetable soup is done and 1/2 of it distributed. Some to Steve and Betty to the north. A smaller amount to phillis, the 90 year old widow lady to the south. And then more delivered to Dad and his caregiver on the other side of town.
I have just finished my second bowl and wish I had room for more. Now it’s time for an after dinner Jack & non-coke.
Dinner served here in a couple of hours – drooling for your ‘soup’.
Not going to post my ‘come fly with me’ story I had planned for today
(the stories are meant to distract from ordinary depressing news)
Too much tragedy today
Be safe treepers
Please send more WW2 stuff
To me it feels like we are living today’s version
Maybe tomorrow before I head out for Missouri. I don’t think most folks look at it the way I do. For me reading and writing about it is a diversion. A relaxing hobby. Something I started doing in one way or another before I had even reached my first decade of life. I was the kid in grade school that got in trouble for drawing tanks or airplanes in class when I supposed to be giving the teacher my undivided attention. And I never grew out of it, but instead grew into it. Reading ever more complex and detailed histories. I own the 15 volumes of Samuel Elliot Morrisons Official history of Naval Operations of WW II. My library fills the room I am sitting in and a good hunk of my attic. Not all WW II by any means. I have volumes on WW I, including multivolume histories written and published right after “The Great War”. I have and equal number of books about the Civil War. I was surprised to see that a large format book I paid $30.00 for and that attempts to diagram the movements of units on both sides down to Regimental size at Gettysburg, is now selling for $127.00 on Amazon. I have a book written by and signed by a survivor of the Bataan death march. I have another that is a biography of Tony LeVier with his signature. Tony was probably the greatest stick and rudder man to ever climb into an aircraft.
needle ball and airspeed
we did some of that – but not many people can fly that way
Tony could pour water from a pitcher into a glass placed on top the instrument panel while upside down doing a roll and not spill a drop. He could bring a P-38 down onto the deck at high speed, cut the engines, loop and pull out and land the thing with no power. He would deadstick an Air Commander down onto the runway in a cross wind with only the nosewheel down and roll that wheel down the middle of the runway. His contributions were critical in understanding and learning how to stop the compressibility problem the P-38 had. Being the chief test pilot at Lockheed, he test flew the the cutting edge creations of Kelly Johnson and the team at the “skunk works”
things we ‘common folk’ (pilot types) only dream about
ahem
do you know about ‘needle, ball and airspeed’?
Yes. Practiced the circling intersections maintaining the ball centered and the speed constant. At any given power setting. Nose down=speed up. Nose up=speed down. Ball not centered=skid and not maintaining the same distance from the intersection.
For WW II fighter pilots all of that was critical if you were going to shoot someone out of the air. It had to be intuitive.
And that is why I mentioned LeVier pouring water while doing a roll. Any variation would make it so he did not maintain a steady 1 G and result in spillage.
this is part of a piece I am writing on Landing….
Here’s a description I found in a book featuring the early days of aviation.
If you see a thunderstorm approachig (in those days the weather often moved faster than the airplane) find an open field and land as quickly as possible. Then, shove the stick forward so as to impale the airplane on its propeller lest the wind carry you away.
The book had a picture of an airplane that did just that.
finished dinner an hour or so ago with my daughter, two of the grands, my wife, and my parents. Venison burgers, potato salad, and my mom’s version of tiropita. Stuffed as a turducken on Christmas eve.
USS Iwo Jima. When my team was leaving Lebanon at the end of April 1983 we flew out to the Iwo Jima in a CH-46 and then transferred to a CH-53 and were flown to Larnica, Cyprus. But that was not the Iwo Jima that is in the Navy now. That was the previous name holder which was the first Helicopter Carrier assault ship the Navy built.
The Iwo Jima that I was on was decommissioned and stricken in 1993.
God I’m getting old!
You said you began flying lessons – then ‘competition’ made you give it up. Of course, being a girl, i just don’t understand how being interested in girls could possibly complete with the joy of flying (ha ha)
Did you ever want to go back and fly some more? Some of my most fun students were (shall we say) in the ‘older’ age category.
Yea, but it ain’t gonna happen. I got my hands full just driving a truck these days.
understand
we have our hands full just being retired folk
left behind all our accomplishments and
wish we had dones
as stated by others re: the golden years
we have the years
someone else has the gold
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.
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Amen.
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Amen.
Sometimes I hate it when I’m right:
Earlier today I posted this at Tony Hellers Real Climate Science site:
It looks like that March, 18th, 1925 Tri-state tornado track of at least 219 miles was exceeded last night. New record there. Also, it is pretty certain that the death toll in KY will exceed anything ever seen in that state from tornadoes. The second tornado season this year appears it will exceed the first one in about every metric. That is unusual.
One has to be subhuman to not feel it. Seeing a little girl sitting with her parents among the devastation crying as he hugs and rocks her dead pooch. Still 70 to 100 unaccounted for in that candle factory.
But I’m sure the occupant of the White House and those that support hime will use it to push his “climate change” agenda. Anyone want to take odds on the scumbag actually getting off his ass and visiting the scenes of destruction? I bet he doesn’t. KY is not a swing state.
Well that POS occupant of the White House proved me right:
Joe Biden Laments Failure to Stop Global Warming After Deadly Tornados (breitbart.com)
Good chance I’ll be right about him not showing up in KY also.
that’s not really a question, is it?
I’m not sure his presence would advantage anybody
political or not