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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A women tweeted that her father “who didn’t want a cat” now shows the cat he didn’t want, Lucas, every item in the weekly shop because “he wants to see what they got”. 😊
If you get a chance I highly recommend watching the Heartworn Highways documentary featuring John Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark. If you want a glempse of out-on-the-edge music in the 70’s this film is a must watch . . . Hard to believe it was so long ago. Oh, well . . .
Good morning, Garrison💓. I left a little something on this thread yesterday about the passing of time and it is true.
When we start recalling times in our lives, my husband and I always short change the dates. Something that happened “15-20” years ago, for example, invariably ends up having happened a lot longer ago. When we can reference the amount of time passed in decades?? Ah well…it hits us. The days are long but the years are short. Too true.
Hi, Betsy! Heartworn Highways was done about 50 years ago. Decades have passed, Townes is dead, Guy and Suzanna are gone. Gettin’ old. 🙂
My mind is not older, Garrison (wiser though). My body begs to differ.
When people like that go, known to us forever, I always a little chip of me goes with them. You know what I mean I think.😘
Indeed, I do, Betsy. It’s called experience . . . 🙂
(Nodding in agreement)
Garrison, have you heard of an old Austin Musician named Blaze Foley (stage name)? He was murdered trying to defend an old man who was getting his veteran pension checks stolen by his son. They made a movie about him a few years ago where Charlie Sexton played Blaze. He was a wanderer and was known for holding his boots together with duct tape. At his funeral they covered his coffin in duct tape. A good friend of Townes Van Zandt and Lucinda Williams who sang a song about him called Drunken Angel, its a sad song. A couple of his songs I like are “Clay Pigeons” and “If I Could Only Fly”. He was another part of that great music scene in Austin.
I remember the name from back-in-the-day but I never heard his music. I’ll have to look him up.
Another great musician who was part of the country outlaw movement here in Austin in the 70’s. If you have a minute read up on his past and the people and places he was associated with. As a teenager me and my girlfriend, now my wife, always liked the song Wildfire. Yes hard to believe how long ago that was. and how different Austin was. Currently people still try to hold on the to the “Music Capitol of the World” but that was lost a long time ago. There are only a few of the original venues that still exist but its not the same. We do have a statue of Stevie Ray at town lake, I wonder what he would say if he could.
Garrison, you must have read my mind – I was thinking of bringing in MMM songs recently. You’ve done it! Love his music.
Thank you!
Great minds . . . 🙂
18 May 1963
Lesley Gore‘s “It’s My Party” enters Billboard’s Top 40, where it will reach #1.
18 May 1968
It should have been a great time in the life of Archie Bell when his song “Tighten Up” reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Instead, he was resting in a West German hospital after suffering a leg wound he received while serving in Vietnam with the US Army.
18 May 1985
The Scottish Rock band Simple Minds make their breakthrough in North America when “Don’t You (Forget About Me”) tops the Billboard singles chart. The song was written specifically for the film The Breakfast Club and was only the second tune recorded by the group that they did not write.
Welp , Rebel , the one and only time I ever sang Karoke in a tavern was with my Bestie and we sang *It’s my Party* coz that was My Song 😄
Good Times 😊 Thanks for the Memory , Reb 💐
Good Morning rebel!!!! ❤️
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Happy Wednesday, Feral Cat
Good morning, Cat!💓
Good morning Betsy! 💗
I’m hoping for a sane day around here for a change. 😁
You are due one, G! Make it happen.
Picking up granddaughter today. No volleyball. Her bros are working. Have her forever snack ready… cured Italian salami, Irish cheese, and baby dill pickles. Except for the pickles which I have to buy this morning. She’s like me. Finds something she enjoys and sticks with it.
Chill, good friend, and enjoy your time off😘
Sounds like you’re going to have fun. I’ll have to make an HEB run sometime this morning cause we are out of all fruit (that’s what I snack on), and will combine it with a workout but it’s all part of the chilling. My bride is trying to catch up on her writing so I am off for now.
Toodle-oo!💖
Good morning Cat! ❤️
Hi, ‘Cat. Hope you have a good day! 🙂
I went to a small mens college that had a quite a few guys from NJ–everyone of them swore they knew Lesley Gore (in the truest sense of the word of course)
Like a brother? 😊
NATIONAL CHEESE SOUFFLE DAY – MAY 18
Soufflé is a French word that means “To blow up” or “Puff up.”
A soufflé is a baked egg-based dish whose origins appear in France during the early 18th century.
The soufflé’s base consists of a French creme base made of a flavored crème sauce or puree, and beaten egg whites. By combining egg whites with custer, this delicate delight will puff up into a fine, golden soufflé when baked. Many who make souffle commonly add cheese, jam, fruits, berries, chocolate and lemon.
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For a second I thought the devotional was going to be about doing security next Sunday at church. 😁
But seriously, the ancient foe, the roaring lion was defeated by the Precious Blood shed on the cross. I just need to remember that a lot more often and when the deceiver start roaring or whispering his lies and tell him, “you know what, go ask Jesus about that. He already took care of it.”
So right!! Thought about you instantly when the church in California was attacked last week. One brave and loved doctor who tackled the murderer paid the ultimate price. I wish they’d had security such as you and your fellows provide for your church, G. The outcome would be different. But it was in California…..
I wish at least one person there would have defied the anti constitutional commie edicts and concealed carried.
And I do…ideology gets people killed.
Now that Texas has permetless hidden cary, I think we are collectively a lot safer. I think if that Buffalo spree killer had shown up at a similar food store here there would have undoubtedly been several people who were discretely armed. You can’t tell if I’m carrying and I never let on that I am.
Garrison, I think that open carry is without a permit. I still maintain my license to carry, that way I can carry concealed.
You no longer need a license to carry concealed in Texas, G. I think the change happened sometime last year.
Pretty sure you’re right on this, Garrison.
I must have missed it. Been slightly busy. 🙂
Don’t go by me, G. It happened quite a while back if I remember correctly. I remember my son was thrilled. Husband as well…or, as we say in Britain, they were “cock-a-hoop”😁
Freedom will do that, I think. 🙂
Where were you when the mountain blew?
May 18, 1980
https://www.mtsthelens.net/where-were-you/
Driving home from Newberg, OR trip to the hardware store. I was 13. Saw the cloud so we drove up to the highest point nearby and scoped it out. Best memory was several months later being in my Dad’s plane and flying up near the area and seeing the devastation from above.
I remember feeling uneasy after hearing what the ultra-fine ash could do to engines in a hurry if exposed. PDX was where his plane was and it did not get dusted too bad if at all, but still, I was 13 and had watched every second of news footage as well as clipped every damn clipping ever published into a scrap book.
I was in Indiana, knew nothing about it until the ash settled in on everything a few days later, I too was 13.
I did go out there for vacation about 20+ years later with a friend to his parents in Portland and Cannon Beach where his Grandmother used to have a cabin.
That was some surreal devastation even after 20 years, they had just opened Johnson ridge center / monument that year which I immediately named dumb-ass ridge because to be that close to the volcano you HAD to be one to stand there and film it blowing up in your face, everyone has seen his footage the one that was blowing up coming at you… they found the camera not a single trace of him.
Seems his footage has been scrubbed from the internet, his footage may have been monetized.
https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-st.-helens/mount-st-helens-national-volcanic-monument
I would urge anyone who has not been to Mount St Helen’s , to go see it at some point in your life, words cannot describe it.
apparently there were two photog’s lost in addition to Johnston: Robert Landsburg and Reid Blackburn
https://vintagenewsdaily.com/photographers-brave-final-shots-of-the-1980-mount-st-helens-eruption/?fbclid=IwAR11IvEYiLcII1V41gl5VNx7DUy6HM0Y_suzlD18vFhN2_Yq4Sxj3GjOaYk
“On May 18, Landsburg’s luck ran dry. Seeing the immanent explosion in the not-so-distant distance, Landsburg decided he could not escape the eruption in time to save his own life. And so, he used his body to save his film.
Landsburg continued to photograph the eruption until the last possible moment, leaving himself enough time to wind up his film into its case, place his camera in its bag, place that bag into his backpack, and lay his body on top of the bag as the final protective layer against the shower of magma and ash.
Landsburg’s body was found 17 days later, buried in ash with his film in tact. The photographs were published in the January 1981 issue of National Geographic.”
I was in Oregon on business when it happened. I vividly remember trying to drive back to my hotel… windsheld wipes on and using the windshield washer until it ran dry. The ash was so hard to get off and made driving quite difficult. The power of nature is stunning and awe inspiring. Years later, I was “stuck” in Alaska when Mt. Rideout exploded and all commercial flights in and out were cancelled for several days. The eruption was a long distance from Anchorage, but flights were kept away because of the affect the ash could have on jet engines.
I was working on a road crew building logging road up in the Cedar River watershed, we were loading a rock pit to blast when it started to shake the ground beneath us. Quite exciting actually, had to get on the radio to figure out what had happened. Shot the pit 2 hours later. 😳
Newport, Oregon changing baby’s diaper.
some great local coverage from the day
and one more …
Good Morning fiesta!!!!
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Sometimes we all have felt like this song, haven’t we???? Mostly, I’m the bug. 😝 You?
Thanks for the Dire Straits–you forget how many songs they actually did. They did fun music, great stuff
I’ve got a busy day ahead of me. Who knew a little DS was the perfective additive for a large mug of cappuccino to get the old body moving early in the morning?
You helped prove Ian Anderson correct “you’re never too old to rock-n-roll if you’re too young to die”. Thanks for the jumpstart Hayseed. Have a rocking great day and God bless. Cheers!!!
Yep, and my bride and I still use, sometimes you are the windshield, sometimes you are the bug.
‘Another favorite one is Money for Nothing. Sadly, the original version got edited long time ago. I had the cd with it but one of the kids “borrowed “ it long time ago and no one is fessing up to it even to this day.
I think I found the unedited lyrics.
18 May 2017 JIMMY “BRO” HAYES, founding member of legendary a cappella group, THE PERSUASIONS, died on Thursday May 18 from pneumonia. He was aged 74 and for a long time he had suffered with emphysema.
He’s My Brother
18 May 2017 Christopher John Cornell (né Boyle; July 20, 1964 – May 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging.
Hunger Strike
Love their voices. Rock music that could easily be played by a symphonic orchestra. My era. RIP.
“The Survivor”
Just watched this great 2021 movie on HBO, it’s really worth a watch in my opinion
Main character is a Polish internee in a WWII Nazi concentration camp
A German officer pulls him aside and talks him into boxing matches that are staged for camp entertainment, promises that he’ll get extra rations
So there are many in-camp boxing matches that are flashbacks later, when the movie switches to what looks like mid-to-late-1950s New York or north Jersey, where he starts to train as a boxer
His driving motivation is his pre-war girlfriend, they were separated by his internment and whatever happened to her
He figures he has to get enough fame and press so that she’ll see it, wherever she is, and be able to seek him out
He figures he has to get a fight with Rocky Marciano to get that kind of publicity
I’ll leave it there, so as not to reveal more than a bare setup and motivation
Don’t miss it
Could ya’ll please say a prayer for my friend Janie that lost her sweet doggie friend named Lady? Ya’ll know what it feels like and I know she would appreciate them. Comes home at night and the house feels lost and empty, no cheery mornings w/the tail prancing to go to go potty. She is open to getting another rescue but when the right dog finds her, which hopefully will be in the near future. Thank you for your consideration.
Good Morning leave! Absolutely!!!!!
I’m a firm believer that God sends us what we need at the right time. Even if it’s pint size and stashes rocks all over the house!!!! 😂 the little guys sure make a home sound nice, even when they argue.
Please keep us updated on what kind crosses her path. I’m pulling for her ❤️
Prayers Delivered!
Morning, Levi. We are all in the brother- and sisterhood of sorrows when we lose our beloved pets. Truth be told, they own us really, or our hearts at least. A small comfort for us when we lost our lovely Penny was we knew however long her allotted years, she had the best life any dog could wish for. Prayers from me are definitely on their way🙏💓
Apologies,Leaves!!!!.I did what Cat did yesterday, and I’m sorry. Old brains take a while to fire up in the morning💓
Good afternoon, Betsy. Yes indeed, we all learn, the hard way, the heartache of losing our fur friends. And a request for prayer is an honor to fulfill. Such a simple request for such a powerful response.
Cheers!
Hello, Levi💓. The most powerful. I can’t think of any other more so.
Prayers said for Janie. May God bless her with a new companion in His time.
Blessings, L
Good Morning Leave, prayers for Janie to help comfort her. It is terrible to lose our fur babies. Praying that the special one will find her and help her thru this sad time.
Prayers up for Janie.
Oh yes, many prayers…many many prayers! And close to my heart….Today is the 6 week anniversary of my boy going to the Bridge…Even with another already in the house, our lives and routines have changed and the house is quieter.
I hope the right fur-baby finds her soon. there are so many out there in need of love and care. Breed rescue or shelter pets, either way, one is saved.
Often breed rescues foster the dogs with a person or family so they do end up with some manners and training. And the breed rescues try to make sure the new owner and potential adoptee are well suited for each other.
I hope Janie’s grief is soft and altho has many memories, I hope the grief is short lived.
“Will I see my dog in Heaven” by Friar Wintz is an excellent read and does offer comfort.
When I posted about my loss, I was so deeply touched by my Treeper friends here. We must keep the torch burning bright!
Hugs and prayers for Janie!
Thinking of your friend at this sad time… oh my gosh, hardest thing ever to go through.
She has been added to my prayer list.
It is heart crushingly difficult, Slowcobra. But many know the joy of adopting another friend when the time is propitious. Loving, knowing the time will come when we have to let go, is just part of the deal we’re willing to pay for the joys our four footed friends give us. 💓
May 18 Oswald Chambers
Living Simply— Yet Focused
Look at the birds of the air….Consider the lilies of the field… —Matthew 6:26, 28
“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin”— they simply are! Think of the sea, the air, the sun, the stars, and the moon— all of these simply are as well— yet what a ministry and service they render on our behalf! So often we impair God’s designed influence, which He desires to exhibit through us, because of our own conscious efforts to be consistent and useful. Jesus said there is only one way to develop and grow spiritually, and that is through focusing and concentrating on God. In essence, Jesus was saying, “Do not worry about being of use to others; simply believe on Me.” In other words, pay attention to the Source, and out of you “will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38). We cannot discover the source of our natural life through common sense and reasoning, and Jesus is teaching here that growth in our spiritual life comes not from focusing directly on it, but from concentrating on our Father in heaven. Our heavenly Father knows our circumstances, and if we will stay focused on Him, instead of our circumstances, we will grow spiritually— just as “the lilies of the field.”
The people who influence us the most are not those who detain us with their continual talk, but those who live their lives like the stars in the sky and “the lilies of the field”— simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mold and shape us.
If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him, and He will make use of you every minute you live— yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
God created man to be master of the life in the earth and sea and sky, and the reason he is not is because he took the law into his own hands, and became master of himself, but of nothing else.
Wise words to live by: 🎶
Till you can’t
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Cat, you’d be interested in this, and today this sermon gives me a chance to recount a small remarkable, jawdropping video I saw yesterday.
A largish piece of bread was on the road, I know not where. A black bird of some description approached it , and from the other direction came a timid little mouse with his eye on it as well.
When he saw the bird, he hesitated and then turned to go back to his hiding place. First come first served.
But then THIS!!
The black bird worked off a piece of his bounty and walked to the curb, overgrown with vegetation where the mouse had gone, and left it in the gutter, then went back to his meal. The tiny mouse reappeared to grab the gift and disappeared. This blackbirds was sharing his unexpected windfall.
While I have seen many videos which show us the behaviour of all sorts of animals that one might dare to call human in tone, I have never seen anything like this. What do we really know of God’s creatures? I suspect very little. What I watched yesterday will stick with me forever, small though it was. A brief window showing we know very little of His works with the fauna He made.💓
Mornin’ Cat! Mornin’ Betsy!
Thought you might find this book of interest: https://store.ancientfaith.com/a-taste-of-paradise/
There are many interesting stories of the interactions of animals with people living holy lives. St. Seraphim and the bear, for instance. Incidences told by monks on Mt. Athos, such as the bird who flew over and dropped a fish for the monk’s dinner. The deer who was being chased by hunters that ran into the cave of a monk who protected him. The hunters shot into the cave and the arrow hit the monk but left the deer safe under his feet. And more.
Blessings
Morning, Lonestar. What a find! Yes, I’ll look into that. Thank you! All blessings to you🙏
Morning LS!
Which also brings to mind, the bird and mouse both share a common enemy, the kitty cat…which makes your comments all the more thought provoking…
It does, AG. Friends in potential adversity.
Good afternoon FC. God bless.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Christ is risen!
Truly He is risen!
Indeed, He is risen!
Paschal Troparion
Christ is risen from the dead, by death hath He trampled down death, and on those in the graves hath He bestowed life. (sung thrice)
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
From Small Compline
Rejoice Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, for thou hast borne the Savior of our souls. (Thrice)
“The most Holy Trinity is the most perfect union of three Persons in one Being, because it is the most perfect equality.”
From the book “My Life in Christ” by Saint John of Kronstadt (+ 1908), page 371.
May 18
MORNING
As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to The Son to have life in himself. John 5:26
Our Saviour Jesus Christ…. hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. II Tim. 1:10
I am the resurrection, and the life. John 11:25
Because I live, ye shall live also. John 14:19
We are made partakers of Christ. Heb. 3:14
Partakers of the Holy Ghost. Heb. 6:4
Partakers of the divine nature. II Pet. 1:4
The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. I Cor. 15:45, 51, 52
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. Rev. 4:8
Who liveth for ever and ever. Rev. 4:9
The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality. I Tim. 6:15, 16
Unto the King eternal, immortal…. be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. I Tim. 1:17
J. Bagster
Amen
Good Morning poyeema! ❤️
Good morning everyone. Happy Hump Day! Have yourselves a wonderful day. God bless.
Good Morning Levi! ❤️
May your day be blessed with all things God! ❤️
Good morning, Levi!
Blessings to you, too.
Good morning Levi, and blessings to you, too.
Good afternoon, Gramps. The best to you and yours! Cheers.
Or IL governors….
The IL governors have that one covered. I hear they have a governor’s wing in the state prison.
So nice.
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.
Verse of the Day for Wednesday, May 18, 2022
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“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.”
Proverbs 3:13 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
Nestles in Switzerland is shipping massive amounts of baby formula to the US so American mothers can feed their babies. We’ll soon know just how evil this government is if that shipment is stopped when it reaches us. Heretofore, European formula has not been allowed.
Greetings, Betsy.
When my grandmother had her first child, she couldn’t breastfeed for some reason. Her sister in law had a baby about the same time, so she breastfed my grandmother’s baby as well. Mankind has found ways to live for thousands of years before big corporations came into being. We just need to relearn what our ancestors knew and not depend on inhuman behemoths. Including rebuilding local community. And living locally.
With you on that. Perhaps this will be the impetus to return to those ways. As for living locally, the estimable Catherine Austin Fitts was saying early on in the past horrid two plus years that we should all do this. Build those connections and bonds within our local communities. She’s an interesting, smart, wise woman with connnections, who could see what was coming then and now has arrived.
I often wonder if all we are enduring is our slow return as a country to God. We lost our way long ago. Praying so.
UPDATE on my post above.
Apparently the evil administration is altering the rules.and will allow Nestle’s formula. We are still looking at who knows.how much time before it will be available.
In the meantime, the freakish Surgeon General advises mothers to ask their pediatricians if they have any samples they can spare. There is something very wrong with that man…and apparently his wife.
Yeah, great solution. What an idiot (surg gen). As usual, their suggestions cannot be applied to real life.
There is just something wrong with him.
Evil is the exact right word, Betsy. So is callous. There is a hard-left culture within the Biden admin. that informs their decisions. None of what’s happened to us is an accident or mistake. Different people making decisions wouldn’t have let this happen—the simple truth is that the wrong people are in charge.
Boy are they, Garrison. Incompetent, soulless, ignorant, inept, mean spirited, clueless, and deliberately destructive. And very pleased to be that way.
After watching the “foul ups” in Pennsylvania yesterday with the voting, it will be entrenched fraud, vote rigging and corruption going forward. No voting our way out of this I’m afraid. I hope I’m wrong. I suspect I’m not.
Filling up this afternoon when I pick my granddaughter up from school. We’ll see how high those gas.prices are in my area of Texas.😬😬😬
They’ve been going by by 10 cents daily.
Yesterday here 20 cents a day.😡
Mornin’ comrade infidels.
mornin’ Weeweed. I enjoy the memes you post so much. Thanks for sharing.
Blessings
Mornin’ Treepers
Glory to God for all things
Good afternoon, Star! Glory indeed. God bless.
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Dzien Dobry (good morning)
good morning, ms Idaho.
I seem to remember that you mentioned having challenges with your vision. Thought you might find these products of interest: https://www.enhancedvision.com/low-vision-products/merlin-family-of-products.html
Forgive me if my memory has failed me once more ☺️
Blessings
Hi Lonestar – No memory failure – spot on.. Those products will likely help lots of folks.
In my case, my laptop does an OK job. Holding down Ctrl and tapping the + or – key does great for adjusting the type size.
Where I have trouble is watching TV – vision is distorted. I need a magnifier for most labels – and instructions. Probably what would help is a set of the glasses our dentist & hygenist use- ha ha. Except you couldn’t wear them except for details….
Problem is = the problem extends well beyond just making things bigger or more focused.
Sign
Good morning, ms idaho.💓
Morning ms idaho
I used to think this Samuel Adams quote was a bit “edgy” 10 years ago. Now it seems quite moderate and reasoned to me.
The Overton Window definitely is shifting, or more accurately looking at the USA it is being rendered in half as “the house” is being demolished……rapidly.
Morning all,
NOAA is forecasting that the current La Nina will probably continue right on through next winter. That means that more than likely the drought in the SW US and CA will also continue.
May 2022 ENSO update: piece of cake | NOAA Climate.gov
BTW, as it their standard practice these days the BBC lied about the records to claim that the recent high temps in India and Pakistan were unprecedented and heatwaves there are getting worse. Not even close.
Heatwaves Getting Worse In India? More BBC Lies – Watts Up With That?
Thank you for all of your enlightening posts, rah. Keep’em coming!
Blessings
Rah, the BBC is now a radical far left wing corporation. Lies and propaganda is all they spew. Worst part?
By law, everyone with a television (telly, as they…and I…call it) must pay a yearly License fee to sustain that propaganda. Last year it was £159. In “real money” that’s $198.
The have what are called Detector Vans which roam all over Blighty, digging out Television Infidels who dodge the fee. Penalty for that is a fine and imprisonment. You want Stalinist? There ya go.
A far cry from what it was back during WW II when it was considered the best to provide straight accurate news. Everyone that could listened to it, including those in occupied Europe which risked their very lives to do so.
Too right, rah. It was when I was there as late as 1986-2006. First and best place to get straight, unadulterated, accurate reporting. Trusted. No more.
They also did some of the finest entertainment ever. Their comedy shows were unbeatable and politically uber-incorrect. Now diversity is their raison d’etre, even in historical productions where such is completely inaccurate. The BBC has killed themselves, the golden goose. And it is a terrible shame.
And of course CNN joins in the climate dooms day lies. All of this “climate change” crap that the so called “scientists” put out is based on computer models that have been proven to be wrong again and again.
Climate change is making record-breaking heatwaves in India and Pakistan 100 times more likely (msn.com)
And of course the various press organs are nothing more than willing scribes that do absolutely no vetting, and censor those that dispute their claims regardless of facts and credentials.
Climate “Change” is their god. There is no room for Another.
I think of them as “humancentric”. They seem to believe that Man is completely in control of his fate and there is no greater power. They deny or ignore the long history of natural variability. They claim that Man is responsible for heatwaves, drought, melting ice, and severe, or any kind of weather.
All is our fault and the only cure is to cut down on the numbers one way or another.
May be they will be wrong again and we will get some drought relief in Texas.
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Here from the New York Post, are videos of a Twitter executive exposing to Project Veritas the blow flies and scumbags who really make decisions for this company.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/twitter-exec-recorded-mocking-elon-musk-for-aspergers/
Over at RedState, Nick Arama thinks that it is a window into the philosophy of the left. I think it is a window into the souls of the Left in toto.
The point Mr. Arama is making here is really the crux of the divide between the left and the right in this country.
First, the arrogant self regard, the lack of self awareness, hubris, narcissism evidenced by a “salt of the earth” mediocrity whose point of view places him with the Orwellian PIGS in “Animal Farm”. The PIGS destroy the ideas which they claim, motivate them as they are just as corrupted by power as the farmers/people they replace. Twitter, Facebook, Social Media, BIG MEDIA and the Deep State/Wall Street/DNC that control it, have absolute power and that power has corrupted absolutely.
“Martinez’s remarks are a great window into the psychology of the leftists who have been in control of Twitter.”
I would submit, that this is a great window into the psychology of the leftists who now control our country, by way of the megaphone in the town square, which in turn, is, ironically, controlled by the power stemming from the end of Mao’s proverbial gun barrel, under the pretense that there is a Rule Of Law. Slavery is freedom, put on your mask Prole.
Marinez represents the very, very best that the left has to offer when it comes to leadership and courage.
He is a perfect example, a cutout of the very people who have us paying 5.50 a gallon for gas because killing off energy independence is a “good thing”. He is every bit as smug, snarky and “pretentious” as Pelosi when she laughs up her sleeve and quotes from the bible as babies are torn asunder screaming in a place, a space, where no one can hear them scream. He is every bit as treacherous as the Deep State criminals who will NOT be held to account for their crimes in the “Russian Collusion Hoax” by just another beadle in the person of John Durham. He is just as preoccupied as the “journalists” in the 4th estate, in position and influence, who have abrogated their responsibilities for the arrogation of power and sinecure in a corrupt and mendacious discipline. He is every bit as deceitful as the liars from the military industrial complex who send our kids and monies to war in order to euchre us out of cash, blood and treasure.
He is, the cream of the crop.
He has risen to the top.
He and others exactly like him, will today, all throughout our country, in the boardrooms of American, the Pentagon, the House, Senate, the Judiciary and of course in the Oval Office, make decisions that will determine the life, death and future of our county.
He is interchangeable with every other Fascist in power today. Uninspired, blinkered, myopic and a true believer in his/her/they/it/’s ability and your stupidity.
Great summation!
our daughter just lost her beloved Malemute, Odin, to cancer. please pray for her as she loved the mutt.
I posted up thread for someone else who lost a beloved pet, today is the 6 week anniversary of me sending an old one to the Bridge. He also had cancer. I am praying hard for your daughter. The house is quieter, routine changes. The heart aches, the tears come when they will…not easy to lose the loyal friend and companion.
I don’t know your daughter’s age, but for late teens and beyond…”Will I see my dog in Heaven” offers comfort…by Friar Wintz (I push his book so much, I am not an advertiser, I just found a lot of comfort in his writing when I lost my Golden 13 years ago.
I pray for the memories to be intact and the grief to soften…God Bless…and for hearts to be open to another, when the time is right.
Thank you, Aggiegirl, for you prayers. Her husband and son also devastated. Cats, however, seem to be elated.
Prayers up.
Thanks for your prayers, Grandpa M. Odin was four feet high at the shoulder and weighed 190lbs. Daughter’s grocery bill will go down as Odin ate everything in sight and was a “counter surfer.”
I am so sorry merrie. That’s a grief I know well. I will most certainly do so.
Betsy, so glad you are with us and praying for daughter and her family. Thank you. Are you aware of the cancer smell? Our dearly departed, Shep, smelled horrible. I said to vet, “I know the smell of dirty dog and this isn’t it.” Vet said it’s the smell of cancer. Odin had that smell also. Thank you for all you do on this thread to keep us going.
Jean-Pierre: The [Disinformation] board had never convened. Yes, the board is pausing, in the sense that it will not convene while former Secretary Chertoff and former Deputy AG Gorelick do their assessment.
Some fun videos.
25 INCREDIBLE MOMENTS CAUGHT ON CAMERA | Watch (msn.com)
Thanks rah. That was a fun video. Really enjoyed the archers.
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Amen
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.