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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“Watch out for the geese?” -?
Good morning Patience! ❤️
Morning, G! Another cool one thank goodness. No rain on the horizon. I’m sure you’re busy with your SIL’s oncologist. Hoping all is as smooth as possible.🙏😘
Good morning Bet! It’s hurry up and wait. Saw the radiologist yesterday. She needs to do another CT scan to map the radiation treatments. So we are waiting on her scheduler to call with the day – it will be sometime next week. Then wait another week or two for the insurance to approve the treatments before we start. Thanks be to God there will be 11 sessions total and pretty much no side effects with the targeted radiation. 🙌🙌🙌😘
Oh good! Hurry up and wait indeed. Insurance companies are both a blessing and a curse. Perhaps it won’t be that long. I certainly hope so. Once that hurdle is jumped, let’s hope it will be full speed ahead to getting her back on a kinder road.💕
The doctor said that once the scan is done the insurance takes usually a week but since it’s several areas it may take longer.
Were there ever days when all one had to do was go to a doctor, present an insurance number, and that was that? Treatment and healing could commence. Perhaps not.
Good evening, Pa ❣️
Good morning, Patience and Ma🤗🤗 He’s a beauty all right. We had one just like him once upon a time. One of two brothers who marched into our Welsh home one day as if they owned the place, which they did. We as staff were allowed to stay there😉
Ham ha, Bet, for some reason your story reminded me of our trips to Greece. Cat’s everywhere. One day we were seated at an outside table in the cafe of the Delphi museum. There were cats walking all around and indulging on delicacies like tyropita, etc. that people would drop on the ground. They wouldn’t even look at a piece of the delicious homemade bread. They left it for the tiniest skinniest kitten to eat, wouldn’t let him have the good stuff. We would have taken him with us if we could.
My bride even took a bunch of pictures which she named The Cats of Greece.
LOL! That was supposed to be Ha Ha, blessed Autocorrect!
I ham hah-ed like nobody’s business, G!!😂😂😂
I knew cats were a feature in Greece, which is probably why I’d be no good visiting. I’d either be buying food and feeding them or looking for a way to adopt them all!😉
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Evening, Betsy.😘
-thank you
Wow! Beauty indeed!
You ought to write a book about you many cats.
Fore! Looks just like our kitty”Ace”.
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Mornin’ Jay . . . 🙂
Howdy Garrison 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
Gracious cool morning, Garrison. Be well, my friend😘
Mornin, Bet. I’m doing my Oct. welcome Snoopy dance. Take care, love. 🙂
Now that’s a brilliant picture for me to imagine. I’m loving it!🤗
Morning jay!
Howdy Gramps 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸
Good morning, Mr jay. With these you are back on form.😉
Maidin Mhaith Betsy, sorry to hear of Loretta’s passing. Will have to find some songs. 🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸
Oh yes please. It would be a nice tribute to her. Don’t know how you’ll choose, there are that many.
Oh dear…Loretta Lynn has passed away. God rest her soul.🙏
Amen
I just earned $10,000,000,000 last month working from home. Ask me how
~ Zelenskyy
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Ha!
Started laughing so hard I ended in coughing!!!
Quality!
“California Bloodlines” John Stewart
This is an old one . . . I remember it well. Thanks for posting. 🙂
I saw Stewart in concert with his wife Buffy Ford in the late 70’s, at the urging of some room mates from Arizona. Stewart had been a member of the Kingston Trio at one point.
That night he was performing with his band and future wife, Buffy Ford. He was great! No one in California reallycared about him at that point..
This song “Bolinas” is a small community just north of San Francisco in Marin County. It is so lost in time and so small and beautiful, like Brigadoon or something. They take down the signs that point to their town. They have beautiful tidepools.
For the longest time I thought that California, especially the northern part, was a magic kingdom. Of course this was when I was a hippie . . .
Yosemite remains a unique place and removed from California of the south.
I will not get started about Yosemite. It is startling, to say the least.
Of course you were a hippie! It still is beautiful here although times have changed. I have a backyard garden in my little house in NorCal and I always felt it was magical because whatever I grow in it, whatever I change, it flourishes.
I can’t explain it but I just go with it.
Luther Burbank loved it here too. His experimental garden is not far away.
Alfred Hitchcock filmed the movie “The Birds” not far from here as well. It was better when it was inexpensive to live here and no one knew about it.
My kids grew up here and they have all turned out so well. It must be the cold winters and water.
you were a hippie..!! c’mon.. I know you have some stories.. lol..! let’s hear some..!
Although it didn’t happen immediately, a life-lesson from those times was that I really didn’t like to alter my state of consciousness . . .
Ok here’s a true story. My friend and I attended a Springsteen concert at the Armadillo in Austin. We were in the overflow crowd outside—can’t remember why exactly—when this drop-dead gorgeous girl walks up and asks where I’m from? I told her OK originally but Austin now. She said she was from OK, too. Without more preamble she simply smiled, reached up and gave me great kiss. Then she smiled at me again and disappeared into the crowd. Curled my toes . . . 🙂
“…she simply smiled, reached up and gave me great kiss…she smiled at me again and disappeared into the crowd. Curled my toes . . . ”
An altered state I can dig, man.
Garrison, an old tune with new meaning???
😘 ❤️
Good morning Cat! 💜
Mornin’ Cat 🙂 Great song. Thanks for posting. Be well, love.
The woke US Army’s latest Special Forces graduating class.
You are having a leg pulling moment, Huh?
They are trained to go door to door and escort deplorables to the cattle cars. Almost hurled my decaf.
They can barely haul themselves door to door.
Young folks are a little “thicker” than when I was in the Army…..
LOL! That was my thought, too. Like too see them jiggle that extra luggage when the first lead/copper chip gets implanted in their butt.
Fort Jackson initial entry training center.
“The Future Soldier Preparatory Course pilot program – set to start in early August at Fort Jackson, SC – will provide education and training to help American youth overcome academic and physical fitness barriers to military service.”
Which is kind of sad in and of itself.
One more . . .
I love “The Weight”. Nice selections.
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Morning Garrison!
Mornin’ Gramps. 🙂
Just listening to a very fine performance of Giuliani’s Sonata Eroica played by Marco Tamoya. Joyful. His guitar had a gorgeous sound as well.
Giuliani is timeless, Bet. Don’t know what Tamoya plays. There are, however, more truly great guitars being made than ever before. 🙂
“The Weight”
For many years I had a dog named Fanny — a super-intelligent crossbreed –I loved her to bits.
Sweetie . . .
Thanks for making such a wonderful selection of music for all of us to share.
Just watched The Weight video again.
What a fantastic video ….it brought water to my eye.
Good Day to you Garrison. Fine, fine selections today (and every day).
His Grace and Blessings upon you, sir.
“Daydream Believer” covered by the Monkees, written by John Stewart
International research has revealed that beneath the Earth’s surface there is a reservoir of water that is three times the volume of all the oceans.
The study supported a long-held notion, according to which ocean water travels with subducting slabs and enters the transition zone. This implies that the interior of the Earth is a part of our planet’s water cycle.
https://greatgameindia.com/ocean-earth-core/
This brings to mind the “fountains of the deep” mentioned several times in the Bible.
WAAAAAAaaaaay before science ever knew about it…..and many “scientists” deny the existence of ALMIGHTY GOD.
They are wrong. And one day, like it or not, they will realize it.
AFTER THE ACCESSION OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLICS TO RUSSIA, NATO FINDS ITSELF IN A DILEMMA — RT EN 3 Oct 2022 20:02 By Scott Knight
By pouring tens of billions of dollars worth of military aid into Ukraine, NATO intended to create “game-changing momentum” with the goal of throwing Russia off balance. However, by holding referendums in Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Lugansk to reintegrate these regions into the Russian Federation, Russia has given the game a whole new dynamic of its own.
The ancient Greeks spoke of lemma as representing a logical premise, a matter of fact. This was in contrast to a dilemma or “double premise” where one was faced with an either-or choice. The Romans further developed this philosophy by referring to the “double premise” as referring to the argumentum cornutum, the “horned argument”, where by answering one argument an individual is impaled by the logic of the second. There lie the ancient roots of the modern idiom “horns of dilemma”.
This, for example, is the ultimate goal of maneuver warfare: to position one’s forces in such a way that the enemy is not presented with a good option – should they nevertheless have to react to an urgent threat, they would be overwhelmed by the other threat.
The Russian military operation in Ukraine, which has been going on for more than seven months, has provided numerous examples in which the armed forces of both sides have been faced with situations that have forced them to change their preferred tactics. The Russian diversionary maneuver towards Kyiv at the start of the military operation prevented the Ukrainians from strengthening their forces in eastern Ukraine, while the recently completed Ukrainian counter-offensive at Kharkov forced a hasty Russian withdrawal from a significant part of previously occupied Ukrainian territory.
In both examples, one side was presented with a lemma, a single problem that needed to be acted upon. But neither side was able to drive the opponent “on the horns of a dilemma” and force a response that would have resulted in immediate impaling regardless of the option chosen. The reason for this is simple: very seldom do competent military commanders allow themselves to be faced with a military problem for which there is no viable answer. War, it seems, is hard work and dilemmas don’t come out of the trees.
Or maybe yes? Since Boris Johnson flew to Kyiv last April to persuade Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to pull out of peace talks with Russia, NATO has launched a program. This program aims to provide Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in military equipment and financial support. This also includes the transfer of modern heavy weapons and the use of facilities on western soil where tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops can be trained and organized without fear of Russian intervention.
The purpose behind infusing arms into Ukraine was to enable Kyiv not only to prolong the conflict but also to enable offensive military operations aimed at driving Russia out of those areas that View Kyiv and its supporters as occupied Ukrainian territory, including Donbass and Crimea. The counter-offensive in Kharkov in early September underscored the grave consequences of NATO’s actions. Although the Kharkov victory has the character of a Pyrrhic victory given the massive loss of life and materiel suffered by the invading Ukrainian forces, it was nonetheless a Ukrainian victory – and one that forced a Russian retreat.
By transforming the Ukrainian army into a Ukrainian-manned NATO army, the US-led alliance had actually turned the game from a simple “Russia versus Ukraine military operation” to a “Russia fighting the collective West” in which the originally military resources provided by Moscow for the fight were no longer sufficient.
Point win for Ukraine/NATO.
However, Russia did not simply endure NATO’s “groundbreaking momentum”. In response to the new reality on the ground in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin chose not to simply up the ante in this new NATO-led game, but to completely change the game plan. Not only did he order the partial mobilization of some 300,000 reservists to reinforce the troops currently deployed in the military operation. Putin also authorized referendums in the four areas where Russian forces are currently fighting – Kherson and Zaporozhye, and Donetsk and Lugansk, which have been de facto independent since 2014. In these referendums, the citizens of these four territories were asked a simple question: do you want to be part of the Russian Federation, yes or no?
The referendums lasted five days, and in the end the results were unequivocal in all four territories – the participants in the referendums overwhelmingly voted for reintegration into the Russian Federation, which they did shortly afterwards. Territories of the former Ukraine have again become territories of Mother Russia.
So Russia has not only changed the rules of the game – it has changed the game itself. Henceforth, instead of Ukrainian forces fighting Russian forces on Ukraine’s territory, any future combat by Ukraine against Russian forces will constitute an attack on the Russian heartland itself.
Where does that leave NATO? The leadership of the alliance has made it clear from day one that it will not seek direct confrontation with Russia, while individual members have pumped tens of billions of dollars worth of materials into Ukraine and provided vital logistical and intelligence support. But Brussels has repeatedly and emphatically stated that it has no desire to wage a direct war with Russia and has made it clear that it would rather see Ukraine as a de facto NATO proxy in the resistance against Russia.
In assisting Ukraine, NATO has gone all out, both economically and politically, to the extent that some of its members, having emptied their own armies of equipment and materiel, simply have nothing left to give. Despite this, European political and business elites continue to express their strong support for Ukraine.
However, this support was based on the basic assumption that by providing this massive support to Ukraine, NATO would not directly engage in a conflict with Moscow. But Russia has changed the game plan, shifting the battlefield from a battlefield on Ukrainian soil to a battlefield on its own soil, where it is now defending its own territory.
NATO, so committed to Ukraine, is now “on the horns of a dilemma” – if it continues to provide massive material and financial support to Ukraine, it will effectively become a party to this conflict, something that no one in the world can imagine Alliance wants. However, if NATO pulls away from supporting Ukraine, the various Western political leaders and institutions who have made supporting Kyiv a sacred obligation will be seen as breaching their word.
How NATO will proceed remains to be seen, but there are signs it will not pursue supporting Ukraine at all costs. The lukewarm speech by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in which he condemned Russia for the referendums while showing no enthusiasm for Ukraine’s “accelerated application” for membership of the alliance, is an indication of a less-than-firm stance in support for Kyiv.
The role of NATO is now also being weakened by the consequences of the Russian mobilization and the referendums. In a few years, when the history of the conflict is finally written, President Putin’s decision to simultaneously mobilize Russian reserves and at the same time to incorporate the territory of southern and eastern Ukraine into the Russian Federation will serve as one of the most important examples in modern history how to drive an opponent “on the horns of a dilemma”. The effective neutralization of NATO by this action will most likely be seen as a turning point in the conflict that sealed Ukraine’s fate in the face of an inevitable Russian victory.
Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer. He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector in the implementation of the INF treaty, on General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War and as UN weapons inspector from 1991 to 1998. Source article: https://detv.us/2022/10/03/after-the-accession-of-the-peoples-republics-to-russia-nato-finds-itself-in-a-dilemma-rt-en/
Scott Ritter is one that I listen/watch/read regularly regarding Ukraine.
Colonel MacGregor is another.
Both give good insight.
04 October 2014 Paul Revere, American musician, dies from cancer at 76
04 October 2005 Michael “Mike” Gibbins, Welsh musician (Badfinger), dies from a brain aneurysm at 56
October 4 Oswald Chambers
The Vision and The Reality
…to those who are…called to be saints… —1 Corinthians 1:2
Thank God for being able to see all that you have not yet been. You have had the vision, but you are not yet to the reality of it by any means. It is when we are in the valley, where we prove whether we will be the choice ones, that most of us turn back. We are not quite prepared for the bumps and bruises that must come if we are going to be turned into the shape of the vision. We have seen what we are not, and what God wants us to be, but are we willing to be battered into the shape of the vision to be used by God? The beatings will always come in the most common, everyday ways and through common, everyday people.
There are times when we do know what God’s purpose is; whether we will let the vision be turned into actual character depends on us, not on God. If we prefer to relax on the mountaintop and live in the memory of the vision, then we will be of no real use in the ordinary things of which human life is made. We have to learn to live in reliance upon what we saw in the vision, not simply live in ecstatic delight and conscious reflection upon God. This means living the realities of our lives in the light of the vision until the truth of the vision is actually realized in us. Every bit of our training is in that direction. Learn to thank God for making His demands known.
Our little “I am” always sulks and pouts when God says do. Let your little “I am” be shriveled up in God’s wrath and indignation— “I AM WHO I AM…has sent me to you” (Exodus 3:14). He must dominate. Isn’t it piercing to realize that God not only knows where we live, but also knows the gutters into which we crawl! He will hunt us down as fast as a flash of lightning. No human being knows human beings as God does.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?
https://utmost.org/
neighbors..
Houston.. the late 80’s..
this ought to be a fun short series.. (if you have any classics.. let’s here yours..)..
our lofts in Uptown Houston was a pretty eclectic place.. and so were the tenants.. my loft overlooked the pool..
I’ll start with the guy in the flat right below me.. an automotive tune-up shop manager who was from New Jersey.. he was the classic “wild and crazy guy”.. who hung out in the dance club scene..
he was a hilarious character.. I swear he would go out dressed like this.. his batting average was pretty good though.. lol..
one night he convinced me to check out the chicks with him in his “scene”.. and I bailed on him at around ten minutes into the first stop when “The Village People” came out onstage and he took off for the dance floor.. wtf..!.. lol.. !
he was funny crazy.. and fit the part to a “T”.. gold chains numb nose and all.. lol..
(you only have to watch the first minute at “10:45 p.m.” in the video.. at least that’s about the time I bailed on him.. lol..)..
Uh Oh – Here we go again – Gas prices are UP again!!
President Trump = $2.00 a gallon 🤔🤔
Uh Oh – Here we go again – Gas prices are UP again!!
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2022/10/uh-oh-here-we-go-again-gas-prices-are.html
October 4
MORNING
Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. Exo. 34:29
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory. Psa. 115:1
Lord, when saw we thee a hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? Matt. 25:37
In lowliness of mind, let each esteem other better than themselves. Phil. 2:3
Be clothed with humility. I Pet. 5:5
[Jesus] was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. Matt. 17:2
All that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on [Stephen], saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. Acts 6:15
The glory which thou gavest me, I have given them. John 17:22
We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. II Cor. 3:18
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Matt. 5:14, 15
EVENING
There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. I Cor. 12:6
There fell some of Manasseh to David. And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour. I Chron. 12:19, 21
The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. I Cor. 12:7
Of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do. I Chron. 12:32
To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit. I Cor. 12:8
Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart. I Chron. 12:33
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:8
There should be no schism in the body; but … the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. I Cor. 12:25, 26
One Lord, one faith, one baptism. Eph. 4:5
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/10/1004.html
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
The 50th Psalm
Septuagint
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)
Tuesday of the 17th Week after Pentecost
Apodosis or Leave-taking of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross
Holy Apostle Codratos of Magnesia, of the Seventy (+ 130)
Holy Prophet Jonah
Recovery of the Holy Relics of Saint Dmitry, Bishop of Rostov (in 1752)
September 21st – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
October 4th – civil or commercial calendar
Saints of God pray for us!
Mornin’ all! Truth –
A friend of mmine lost his beloved shadow recently:
He was the bestest companion ❤️
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Dog gone 😢
He’s watching, waiting for you, pawmise 😘 ❤️
Sorry pic didn’t show.
🙏🏻 🙏🏻 🙏🏻
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 Tuesday, October 4, 2022
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“For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.”
1 Thessalonians 1:5 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
In case you missed your American Thinker this AM–here’s a good one
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/10/lessons_learned_from_ian.html
The Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, has ratified unification treaties with Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions. The treaties were signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the heads of the four former Ukrainian regions on Friday last week. They were certified as lawful by the Constitutional Court over the weekend and ratified by the State Duma, the lower house of the Parliament, on Monday. The latest step in the process of accepting the four regions as new parts of Russia was approved in an unanimous vote. The Russian constitution will need to be amended for the accession to be finalized.
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Morning, all. Will Google, Bing, Nat. Geo., et al — *ever* redraw their world maps after Russia amends their constitution? Because it’s happening.
(I think the map makers will balk and refuse for a decade or more, and will at most draw the four as “occupied territories”, akin to Gaza and West Bank.)
In the interest of full disclosure I would like to add to your announcement that 99% of the people who voted in the referendums voted for the annexation by Russia. That number surpassed the 98.8% that
dear leader in my old communist country inevitably got. Always wondered who the 1.2% were but they were nowhere to be found.
Rest in Peace Loretta.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/loretta-lynn-passes-away/
RIP to a National Treasure. She wasn’t afraid to say she grew up poor – indeed – took pride in how her family was able to persevere.
If we can’t have Trump and we just HAVE to support a RINO then at least let it be an attractive woman RINO like Noem.
Instead Republicans go for the fat, gay sounding dork DeSantis
65 years ago today, 4 Oct 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 — the first man-made satellite. On subsequent nights, I remember standing in the yard with my Mom & Dad watching the little light transit the night sky (the local newspaper printed the times its orbit would pass overhead). Amazing; and to think since that historic event mankind has been to the moon and landed “run abouts” on distant Mars.
I remember that! Mom, Dad, the neighbors and all of us kids on the block looking up at the night sky trying to see it. I was just 5, well 4 1/2, but remember that event.
China Says Massive Dollar DUMP on the Way, Prepare for Yuan Buying Spree
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Heads up…
If Russia was to conduct a nuclear test on Russian Territory look for prep work at 45.977351, 34.564757 to conduct a Trinity style test.
The two bridges to the East connecting Ukraine mainland to the barrier Islands of Crimea can easily be interdicted by conventional means.
However by conducting this so called test at the above location sends the signal that the last remaining crossing point into Crimea that lays to the West. Signals that Russia is very open to the use of tactical nuclear weapon in this Western Crimean location in the event that if this last remaining crossing point into the Crimea AO comes under attack by Ukraine trying to enter into the Crimea.
This may highly likely illustrate the Russian mindset as to telegraph that the Crimea is going to remain under Russian controll at all costs.
Just saying, “I don’t need crayons to identify a location for maximum advantage of Russian nuclear blackmail.
Heads up…
If Russia was to conduct a nuclear test on Russian Territory look for prep work at 45.977351, 34.564757 to conduct a Trinity style test.
The two bridges to the East connecting Ukraine mainland to the barrier Islands of Crimea can easily be interdicted by conventional means.
However by conducting this so called test at the above location sends the signal that the last remaining crossing point into Crimea that lays to the West. Signals that Russia is very open to the use of tactical nuclear weapon in this Western Crimean location in the event that if this last remaining crossing point into the Crimea AO comes under attack by Ukraine trying to enter into the Crimea.
This may highly likely illustrate the Russian
mindset as to telegraph that the Crimea is going to remain under Russian controll at all costs.
Just saying, “I don’t need crayons to identify a likely location to conduct a so-called nuclear test designed to maximize Russian strategic goals in the face of losing and having their heads handed to them.
Reply has been classified.
Because the analysis of pro and con discussion entered into the political arena!!!
Just saying lend lease has strings attached.
Meaning this type of outcome most certainly sees Ukraine becoming a full fledged member of NATO. With the USA fully establishing and seeking to integrate Ukrain’s current momentum of victory as the forward establishment of NATO with advance forward projection. Hence the outcome of lend-lease.
The lease part is nothing more than this establishment in reality.
There is truly no way back.
Ukraine has new National Soulmates. And it most certainly does not include brother Russia.
The true reality of this defeat. Most certainly must included making citizens of Russia privy to the scale of the defeat.
Otherwise, this exercise is pointless. If Russian political leadership wants to end the war. Putin must go. Russia must publically acknowledge the human scale cost of their defeat to their domestic public by acknowledging tens of thousands of Russian soldiers are going to be repatriated. With THE voice of being sold damn lies and a bill of goods that don’t add up to a pound of shit.
The saying, “Of being measured and found wanting.”
Does ring bells.
Ify classified response adds up to a hill of beans….
The crux is if the political outcomes can pull the rabbit out the hat so to speak that avoids any of the subtexts of nuclear deterrents of ALL.
It would be Russia withdrawals from all territorial ambitions on mainland Ukraine. Right down to the last millimeter.
Crimea is contested, but in the interests global outcomes. If Russia conceeds that the resolution of current hostilies is going to meaning in effect mean NATO, primarily Poland and USA are going to exercise Lend Lease and pour over into Ukraine proper.
Than the Berlin wall affect of trading the Crimea away in the face of a global nuclear winter is worth the extange of that allows the Kremlin to save face in light of being exposed as a third rate super power.
At some point detante is going to enter the picture and a new cold war of ideology is going to emerge.
The questions is whether the future is over manageable outcomes or over the unmanageable outcomes of civilizational ending events.
What days you Russia?
“One war criminal or all of mankind?”
ESL ?
Interesting info.
Food production where USA ranks top global producer, are soybeans, maize, almonds, blueberries. On other products USA doesn’t even rank in the top 3. Scanning down the list, BRICS is the greatest producer of global food.
https://catking.in/top-agricultural-producing-countries-in-the-world/
Thank you Sundance…
For…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/10/04/tuesday-october-4th-open-thread-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9226528
Watch history being made – Aaron Judge hits his 62nd home run, passes Roger Maris for most homers in AL history (via Yankees)
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2022/10/watch-history-being-made-aaron-judge.html
Amen
Amen.
Amen…
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Some Loretta, Reba, and Carrie; recorded last year.
Behind the scenes video. I’m not a huge country fan but grew up listening to Loretta Lynn, much respect.
The reason I post the CTH.
Is am known entity to the powers to be..
I am and most definitely stand behind my analysis right down the last American that has the Constitutional Right to be Ignorant of the World Around themselves.
My point does it need to come to this.
If this outcome comes to past only to land into the political solution to be resolved.
Over, what? “The end of the world as we know it or Russian face saving in light of total defeats on all others fronts including the Ukrainian control over the entirety of Eastern Ukraine.
My point is let the Crimea become the new Berlin Wall.
At some point a new cold war of East verses West will have to come about.
Might as well be over distributed interests via the Crimea.
Such possibilities can only exist under such terms to conceed The Crimea.
NATO and specifically the USofA is going to massive enter in to Urkraine proper under lend lease.
That is very much a given.
The question becomes does the whole world need to go through this melt down over one failed State!!
WEF and these people are also calling for a “New Cold War” against Russia.
Whatever they’re for, we’re against.