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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Back in 2014 I sat at the table as the Livingston descendant for an event labeled “Trial Before Christmas,” while a descendant of Moore sat at the other table. The event was put on by Duncan Cleary and Jack Casey. The trial involved allowing a jury of Troy NY citizens to decide who wrote “Night Before Christmas.”
http://henrylivingston.com/xmas/publicity/trial/index.htm
https://jackcasey.com/2012/08/01/christmas-trial/
Duncan contacted me recently to say that the concept had been turned into a Hallmark romance movie, with similarities to the trial he had run. Doubtful my character will appear. Probably just the lawyers. Days and times are:
Hallmark Channel
Saturday, Dec. 17, at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 18, at 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 20, at 10 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 24, at 4 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 29, at 12 a.m.
Sunday, Jan. 1, at 10 a.m.
Hallmark Channel movies are on live TV streaming apps including Peacock, Hulu and YouTubeTV.
Good luck, hope you do in fact get to appear!
Wouldn’t be me. It’s a movie. It would be the part I played in the real trial. But I’m betting my character won’t be written in. But not sad. One very strange and kind gentleman once wrote an opera with me as a character and asked me to vet the dialog he’d put in my mouth. We shall forget that experience quickly.
But many thanks for the kind wishes. I spent 10 years working to prove Henry wrote the poem and it’s so good that the issue is going public again now. When the New Zealand researcher wrote the book of his proof, he wrote it in academic-peer-speak. So I rewrote that with a HUGE bio of Henry in people-speak.
https://henrylivingston.com/xmas/publicity/images/people2000.htm
Yes, truth definitely is many times stranger than fiction, including the truth about fiction!
And I hear you about granting others creative license when it comes to who you are. I made the mistake once of allowing someone to photograph me wearing traditional Native American garb (historically accurate from the mid 1700s) because he was friendly and asked to use the resulting photo as a reference to paint me and he would in return give me a free print of the painting. Well, he painted me all right, and technically it was a decent painting, and I was given a free print … but it was not at all what I was expecting, especially when I discovered that he was planning on using the image as a cover for a book he’d written, and he was going to have the main character look like me!
Well, live and learn.
I’m not remembering the Yiddish word for doing a good deed, but you did one. When you’re writing, one of the suggestions made is that you find someone you imagine as your character and put them over your keyboard so that you constantly remember the personality traits of your character. You’re probably deeply embedded in that writer’s psyche now.
“You’re probably deeply embedded in that writer’s psyche now.”
Ha! 🙂
Mary – my recollection of Yiddish from a now-deceased former friend tells me the good deed is a Mitzvah (sp?) and the one who does good deeds is a Mensch.
The story in the article about you and the research for Livingston is fascinating. Thanks for posting the link!
That’s it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The whole time the magazine was on the newsstand I didn’t tell anyone about it. Waited until the next issue was out. Was surprised how much it shook me up.
Mary, I’ve been doing ancestry research for about 11 years.
I can’t count how many times I got strange feelings – “shook up” when I learned what some of my ancestors went through. We think we have problems. We are on Easy Street compared to what our ancestors experienced in their lives. But they persevered. They pressed on.
I understand the emotions you’ve felt during that research. It’s tough to describe.
Oh Mary…”I’m annoyed that he’s dead.” I haven’t laughed like this since my much loved in-laws were alive. This is exactly like something they would have said…often.
I like you so much.
When you do genealogy, you almost always find a favorite ancestor with whom you “match.” Henry is mine. I might not be into the same things he was, but I find him a perfect match for so many of my beliefs in how you deal with the world. Any time I spend with him makes me come away feeling like a better person. And if you enjoy laughing, you should have known my mother. It’s hard to remember her voice without the laughter underneath it. At her funeral I published her recipe for cooking shoe leather.
I have posted here before several stories of my mother in law and the cookbook she, her two sisters, one cousin, and one friend compiled of recipes from their relatives long ago. A sort of genealogy gastronomique.
They pulled together every handwritten recipe they could find…and there were hundreds; then, calling themselves Thursday Evening Recipe Club, set the task of interpreting decades old writing, reproducing one recipe each, and presenting it to the Club to taste. Adjustments would be made, including decisions whether or not to add the dish to the final work.
I call it a sort of genealogy because with many of the recipes, these wonderful ladies included a small family story which were laugh out loud funny.
They paid for the publishing of this priceless family history from their kitchens, expecting to recover enough in sales to cover the costs. It became so popular, if I remember correctly, that it went to three printings.
I am pretty certain your mother’s boiled shoe leather recipe would have been included with suitable explanation…all the authors were children of the Depression. And I am thinking your mother would have fit right in with this jolly, irrepressible group, who always found humour in every situation in life…and never, ever took themselves seriously. I miss them all.
THAT’S what I love to hear!!!!!!!!!!! A big virtual hug to every one of those lovely ladies. May their laughter ring down through centuries and may their books always be found on bookfinders.
Bless, Mary. It took them years from the original idea to the finished product, as you might imagine. Somewhere I suspect they are cooking up a storm…
At grandmother’s funeral I realized that she had never written down her recipe for bread pudding. Two of her sisters were there and they worked in the kitchen together and came out with a formula for me to follow. It was always on our Christmas table.
8 slices bread, soft white
1 1/2 cups milk
2 beaten eggs
3/4 cup sugar
6 shakes cinnamon
2 shakes nutmeg
3 handfuls raisins
1 pinch baking soda or baking powder
Barely moisten bread in ingredients. Butter 1 1/2 quart baking dish. Sprinkle nutmeg and cinnamon on top. Bake 300-350 degrees for about one hour.
Have one to share back?
I do…coffee first…then incoming😉
Calvert Baked Beans (My favourite, especially if served with potato salad)
2 cans pork and beans
2 strips of bacon, diced
1 onion, chopped
1 bell pepper, chopped
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup brown sugar (or less to suit to taste)
1/3 cup catsup
Bake slowly in 250 degree oven for 2 hours.
The nice thing about this one is it is adjustable for how many ever one needs to serve. I always used one can and halved the other ingredients if I weren’t serving a crowd.
This is so easy and so delicious and an absolute hit with everyone who has tasted it.
Here is one of the stories which accompanied a recipe for Lep Cakes…
“Aunt Madeline and Lize worked each Christmas season to make all kinds of sweetmeats, beginning their activities after Thanksgiving.
Lep cakes were one of their specialties, and they took immense pride in their perfection. They packed many boxes of candies and sweets to send to various friends.
Among those whom Aunt Madeline remembered was Mrs Tom Connolly who would write and thank her profusely.
In her later years when she’d misplaced her glasses, Madeline asked Betsy to read the annual ” thank you” to a small gathering, which Betsy did. As a P.S. she read. “Oh, and by the way, the Lep cakes were not quite up to par this year.”
Aunt Madeline was incensed – until she realized that Betsy had ad-libbed the post script.”
(And to avoid confusion, I was not that Betsy…t’was another.)
There are more such stories peppered throughout this keepsake. I laugh at every one. What a tonic!
I’m definitely going to try that. Just need a pepper. Will tell you how it works out! THANK YOU!
Do you want to have that added to my recipes page. They’re receipes from me, from family, from friends and from trusted cookbooks. (Anyone else, you’re welcome to join the page, too!)
https://iment.com/maida/favs/recipes/
Thank you, Mary!
I would never put your recipe on the page unless you explicitly said I could.
What I should have said is this.
Try it, adjust if you need to, and if you find it good enough, please post it on your recipe site! I know the
ladies of Tue Then essay Evening Recipe Club would approve. Recipes are meant to be shared.😊
Hugs! Will do!
Fingers crossed😊
Oh good grief. Just read what I typed (and Kindle corrected without my permission)…The Thursday Evening Recipe Club. Oh dear.
You can see my caffeine shot hadn’t kicked in…
Oh and this…all the recipes which needed deciphering were written exactly like this bread and butter one. So, for example, if a recipe said “put in the oven after breakfast and remove when the postman comes”, it is easy to see the challenge in remembering just how long that was for accurate baking times, which was not easy….
I’m going to try that delicious sounding pudding.
Hi Betsy – Merry Christmas! What a fun day in the branches. Can the recipe book still be found? Title? -P
TA DA!!! I’ve just found the link, but haven’t looked to see if it is still available yet…oh, and Good morning to you and Ma🤗🌲🤗!
And yes…just when I think I have nothing to post, and here comes Mary to start the ball rolling, opening the floodgates. Wonderful!
Oh WOW!!! I just looked at the price!! I’m in shock!!
Another link…
https://bountyonthebrazos.wordpress.com/
Fantastic! What a treasure!
Truly amazing! I hope you inherited one.
One that through use is in a bit of a state. Although I don’t need an index to find the recipes I want to reprise. I simply turn to the pages which have spills on them…et voila!
And a new one which I am trying to keep pristine.
My mom was famous in our extended family for her custard pie recipe. It was intentionally vague in important places . . . When mom was in the nursing home with late stage Alzheimer’s, my cousin who was caregiving stopped by one day and asked mom to explain how much vanilla she was supposed to add when making mom’s pie. From the depths of her Alzheimer’s she said mom just smiled and said, ” . . . Oh, just a little bit . . .”.
Oh, great story! She must have been a very strong lady. Did you ever figure out the vanilla, or is she still smiling at you with mischief in her eyes?
My dear cousin (who I am eternally grateful to for helping with mom) is a very good cook. By trial and error she got very, very close to mom’s custard pie. It wasn’t exact, but still about as good as you can get. Good cooks do wonders.
I was once washing some shirts in the sink. I absently found myself adding bleach to the water . . . just as remember seeing mom do it. Had no real idea of what exactly I was doing. I just did what mom did . . . Same with breaking eggs one handed. 🙂
Oh, envious! I can’t break eggs one-handed. I barely break eggs without breaking the yellow.
I cook rissota while watching Vicky’s video. To this day I don’t have the confidence to just wing it.
Vicki Clark -Vegetarian Arborio Rice – New Years Eve 1995
I miss the house parties we had each year. I always wanted to write a script called “The New Year’s Tree” because we never got the tree up until New Years.
How I appreciate your mother’s approach, Garrison. That was how women of her generation cooked or baked….sometimes no precise measurement, just eyeballing and a feel for what was right. And in truth with recipes I use frequently, I do the same.
What a lovely “mental cocktail” of your mother for you to sip.💕
What an intriguing woman you are, Mary Van Deusen. Thank you for being open to share with us your history. It is through the sharing of our histories that our children of today can built their futures of tomorrow.
It is great sadness to lose our history lessons.
We are the remnant. Let’s not give in to the intentional erasure of our history.
Blessings to you and yours this Christmas. A Happy Christmas to all…
The issue of Henry and his poem wasn’t losing history, it was the unfairness of someone stealing his work. My suspicion is that Moore needed a Christmas poem for his children and found the copy that was supposedly brought to his home from Henry’s home by a distant relative working as a governess who stopped while traveling to her workplace from her home. So while I understand his motivation, I can’t sympathize with his cowardice at never admitting to his children that he’d “borrowed” the poem to please them.
Moore wasn’t a nice man. He was just rich and powerful. That’s what gave him his position at the Theological Seminary. The only child of a NYC bishop meant he was in the public eye. I’m guessing he never learned how to admit his mistakes publicly.
I’ll fight for people and for their dreams when I can. I found a letter of father’s that said he’d burnt his manuscripts and the future could do without him. So I searched decades for his poetry books and built my original website to make sure he WASN’T forgotten.
Same with my great grandfather. I’m just finishing a music video about him. He built this GINORMOUS grave monument on the top of a hill from which you could see his horse farm. And someone stole his brass plaque. So when I first saw it, it was this enormous stretch of stone and steps and rosettes and nothing but the name Burnett. He’d put it at the edge of the forest, and it was being eaten alive. So I cleaned it off and searched for information about him. I found his Memories of the Lincoln Assassination Trial and added them to my website so that HE, too, wouldn’t be forgotten. Because it was something HE needed. Now his grave has been adopted by a veterans group and a gentleman from Ford Theater asked if he could play GGF. It’s saving history, yes, but it’s really respecting his wishes.
As for open, what I WANT is to hear everyone else’s stories. Every family has sad stories, of course, but let’s remember the funny ones and the heartwarming ones and the people we loved with all our hearts. And let’s share those memories to keep those loved alive longer. A most Happy Christmas to you, as well.
Good morning, JWoo. So much to pass on to those who follow us. So much more valuable than what passes for education in schools today. Lessons our progeny cannot get anywhere else except from those who love them and have a lot to offer.
To this wonderful bunch of characters, I’m adding a link to Mary’s work here: pssst… she’s seen smiling away in many of the photos from “The Trial”, linked above in Mary’s first posting.
Mary S. Van Deusen – My World in Images and Poetry (iment.com)
Thank you kindly lovely, talented lady.
I admit I smile a lot. Tell us some stories. Tell us a recipe! Christmas is the time for memories of our childhood and the people we loved and love.
Oh, where to start – my mother and grandmother made all of our Christmas dresses – five girls, no boys. One year they made each of us ones with beautiful velvet bodice(s?) with white taffeta skirting. Best presents under the tree – we had such fun and took many photos. Our Sundays were the very best. Sundays started with us attending Mass, then ‘dad-makes-a-big-breakfast’ day and fresh bread. Then on to playing music, singing, crafts and card playing while mom and ‘memere’ prepared Sunday Dinner (early) which consisted of roasts and all the accompanying goodies plus pie or other delight for dessert. We made quick work of the clean-up and hoofed it out for a walk around ‘the block’. We lived in the woods, so our trek was about 5 miles cutting through farmlands and power line trails. Then? The best of 60’s and 70’s TV shows… I don’t know where to start trying to name all of them, but Disney and Wide World of Sports come to mind. We used to have one of those silvery pom-pom Christmas trees that you project a light wheel onto for it to change colors – it was SO mod! Thank you for sending me down memory lane, Mary. I’ll have to think about a recipe to share – I’m a pretty formidable cook, but not much of a baker, alas.
Memory lane is the best road to travel for so many, Patience. It’s what I think of when Mr jay posts his beautiful pictures with roads in them. One look at those, and I’m off in a reverie, as I have been with your reminiscences. So wonderful, without price.😘🌲
My fondest Christmas memory? The quiet of the midnight snow. The whole neighborhood was quiet, most houses dark after a day of family happiness and sharing. I went outside—sometimes with my dad who shared my love of the silence but often by myself—and just stood there relishing the silence and the feeling of solace and peacefulness.
In Oklahoma where we lived, we often had white Christmases, often with late nite snow. I remember times when the snow was really coming down. it was so quiet you could hear the snow flakes falling. It was like entering another world.
Once it snowed on Christmas here in Texas. I went outside at midnight hoping to find the midnight show. My historian neighbor was out with her little dachshund who looked like a little brown torpedo shooting through the 10 in deep snow. Suddenly I felt like I was 10 years old . . . again.
Oh my, Garrison. My heart…
It is times like those, of which I’ve had a few but fewer than I’d like, when I become acutely aware of how small I/we are. The feeling that comes from it is one of awe and humility. And I know then that God is indeed in his heaven. What a lovely, lovely memory, my friend😌🌲
Ooops. Sorry parichute😬 I got my friends whose names start with P mixed up. Please forgive me🙏
I wasn’t as excited by clothes, I fear. Books were it. Stacks of them. Hard covers at a dollar each. Bobbsey Twins, Cherry Ames, Vicki Barr. Then mother started me on her books. Mother did eventually get the silver tree. Such awful ornaments we had. But I’ve still got them!
I wasn’t and am not a clothes person either, but those dresses….
Like Daddy falling into the Christmas tree when he tried to put the star on top.
Daddy lost a shoe in a snowbank getting from the car to the house after a Holiday Party he and my mother attended. We found it in the spring when the snow melted 😉
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Absolutely LOVE that one!
Happened to me when my dad was towing us on the sled behind the car. Never found the lost shoe . . . Glad I didn’t have to walk home, however. 🙂
😁💕
There should have been an s in that URL. Sorry.
https://henrylivingston.com/xmas/publicity/trial/index.htm
“Mary Van Deusen
December 15, 2022 11:55 pm
Can someone tell me how to post an image? I’ve tried several ways and failed utterly. Thank you.
Mary”
Save photo from where ever it may be to your machine.
go to <postimages.org>
upload there, you do not need an account unless you wish to edit / view what you have uploaded.
after upload it will open a share dialog of options.
use the “direct link” or just hit the copy button next to it.
text before
Carriage Return aka enter
CR
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use that link here, just be sure to put several spaces before and after the link
CR
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text after
H/T to Amwick many years ago
You’re an angel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I always put up images on my own website, unlinked. Checked out postimages and it takes the right to use your image totally. Really hope that step isn’t part of the requirement for posting here. I’m hoping that the spaces around the url will work for any image, located anywhere. Worried about how to control size so I’ll choose something pretty to beg forgiveness if it posts too big.
For My Magic Wand, with love.
For the most part, I have only posted images from elsewhere.
I posted some personal airshow photos a couple years ago, I set all of them to auto delete in 30 days.
Never deeply read their TOS as to their CYA as to various laws as applied situationaly, especially if I have it set to auto delete.
You could post your original photos to your personal web site, as long as your host allows for remote leaching, not all do. I have never tested linking to photos on my business websites to see if they will post to here.
I just make sure that all are original and I own the right to do so, as some legal troll will use it to sue for copy write / trademark violations if something innocuous in the background that they might have a right to such as music, logos, art……..
Lovely flower
It appears they do allow leaching with your photo above.
I share everything I have. Except to business sites. Never put my name on my music videos. I’m here temporarily and for something I know, or have, to exist beyond me, it has to spread, so I love it when things I post go wandering.
That’s a night blooming cereus. Story. The first cousin I met in person was the descendant of the sister of my 2nd great grandmother. That was the line that the money went down. Their house covered a solid block on the main drag in Newport RI. Her daughter lived with her and the hallways of the second floor were lined with planted cuttings, one of which she gave me. For years I waited for it to bloom, and then it did. Spectacularly. Only at night. Only for a few hours. But the odor…. It filled the house with a sweetness I still remember. And then I repotted it. And it’s never bloomed again. Breaks my heart.
We used to say of plants which did well and thrived that it liked where it was. I’ve discovered just how true that is. I am sorry for “once only” blooming, especially as that one time made you hope for more.
The thing with posting to their site is that if they have any smarts at all in the design of their site, they took a copy of your photo WHEN you uploaded it. So the auto delete takes care of wanderers who drop in, but doesn’t stop that site from holding onto and using your photo anyway they want.
Husband and I are extreme in how massive our sites are. Each of my personal sites are around 15K pages because of all the different subjects I cover. For example, when I buy an old book, I hand scan it and put all the pages up to let people easily enjoy the original and include a typed version that may have a few errors, but nothing like OCR. I’m a speed typist.
And when I researched Night Before Christmas, I kept my private research site as part of my personal site to make it easy to work with the researchers in other states and other countries. That’s massive, too. We used to run on a standalone computer in a back room in Toronto, but now we take part of a big one – the normal situation.
As a control freak, I couldn’t tolerate using a wysiwyg editor or letting some free site that has an agenda of their own have access to my work. So I find keeping a private site more than worth it. And I imagine the price would be MUCH lower if I had a normal sized site.
Let me show you one of my very favorite pages. It alphabetizes every word in every poem by Moore and Livingston and NBC, color codes them to the writer, then links to the poem.
https://henrylivingston.com/data/countablepoems/merge/manycolors.cgi
We were looking at common words, as well as unique words. And my major contribution to the research was that I can design pages that let you, for want of a better word, “grok” concepts so that you can take it all in and then see quickly the next questions to ask.
Love the stained glass, took some video classes on how to do it, I can already solder & such, just don’t have the time.
Can’t believe you found that lamp! That was Edith Felber’s, an author who wrote prodigiously under the name Edith Layton. I built a website for her as a gift when she was down and we became fast friends. She was the same type of packrat as I am and we had SUCH fun together. She was a close friend of Joan Wolf, another author, which is how I got to know Joan and built her a website, too. Edith lost an entire outdoor pool of Koi to raccoons, a total heartbreak. Her living room was filled with lamps like this. Sympathize about time. It’s a shame you can’t bank it and use it later.
Goggles has a deep dive on your site images, Brave not so much.
Interesting. Back when I put the site together, I explicitly sent pages to google. Then their use of robots meant I was free of doing that, but had to be careful to put “no robot” files on any private branch. So far, it seems to stop the robots so I’ve been happy with the results. I’ve never used Brave. When I want to stay away from google, I was using Duck. Now that they’ve sold out to google, I’ll have to look for another backup search. Is Brave the best?
Brave works pretty well switched to it after duck started censoring, but it will take them years to build up a database even remotely close to Goggles.
It works well on Linux, only my old laptop still has windoz, any new laptop I buy will be immediately stripped of windoz for Linux.
The no robots.txt only works if they abide by their rulez, I used to have a website crawler app that could and would d/l an entire website, tested it but it was slow and took days, don’t remember its name. Only tried it to see if it would and it did once downloaded fully, highlight any changes from its last version of download, it even downloaded the robot.txt file in the directory it downloaded.
As you stated above about making a copy when you upload, they might not display what that folder contains in their search results, but they still got a copy of it anyway.
Though I actually sent a book proposal to publishers for “How to Slow Down Time.”
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The creed of felines.
Good night all!
Shape shifters.
Cats are shape shifters.
Some decorate for Christmas. Others decorate for Boxing day …
Well done!
Oh I SAY!!! I’m ashamed I didn’t think of this!!😂🌲
The smaller, the better…
Hello Fellow Treepers!
Apple Orchard in Winter — Fine art photo taken by me many years ago at Mapleside Farms in Brunswick, Ohio. Not getting a whole lot of snow at the moment in Northeast Ohio but love sharing winter scenes. Looks like it will be a white Christmas.
Wishing everyone a beautiful day!
Nice!! 🙂
Thank you very much, jay 1776!
Great photo, phoenix. Scenes like this are real treasures and always, always deserve to be saved.
That doesn’t look like any first attempt. That is beautifully composed and lit. Again, well done!
Thanks for your kind compliments, Mary Van Deusen!
Oh…now you’ve really outdone yourself, phoenix. The lighting! This would look stunning in watercolours. There are no adequate words to describe how beautiful and serene I find this. I am so glad you are sharing your glorious work.💕
Thank you for your kind encouragement, Betsy jones!
Phoenix, would you object if my husband (a man of many talents) attempted, for his own pleasure, to reproduce this in a watercolour? Asking on his behalf.
May I see the resulting watercolour, Betsy jones?
If we can figure a way to post it (I’m on a Kindle but my husband says he can load it into a file…I’ll leave that to him), yes, absolutely! Thank you.🤗
Sounds good, I look forward to seeing your husband’s painting!
He will take time to execute it. But I know it will be special, as he has done one similar, also using a photo of like surroundings as a template…and it was gorgeous.
It’s the sky which caught my attention, so perfect for that medium. A truly mesmerizing photograph.💕
I find myself wandering back to this picture whenever I check the site. It seems to hit intensely. It’s calming and touches something deep inside with a peace we seldom get a chance to enjoy. I’m so very glad you posted this.
News not in the news. Blackrock is going down in Texas and that won’t be the last state that they get thrown out of.
Holy C^%@, Authoritarian Evil of ESG Emerges at Texas Hearing – Watts Up With That?
Whoa!! Knew hearings were being held. Abbott loves him some WEF so I am hoping Blackrock is shown the door. Excellent!
It is enjoyable seeing the BlackRock goose put on a spit and slowly roasted. Now wasn’t it?
DELICIOUS!!
A sweet little girl I know who recently joined a chorus told me just yesterday that “Boys can’t sing”. I told her that wasn’t true and we left it at that.
Think I’ll show her this vid. LOL.
sunnydaze… play it for her without showing her the video. About halfway through this truly thrilling performance show her these precious lads with their pure, angelic voices…and watch her face. I can just imagine her surprise. You’ll change her mind forever.
That’s a great idea, Betsy!
Will do! I can just see the look on her face now!
It will be priceless, I guarantee…😁🌲
Ask her if she ever heard of the Vienna Boys Choir. Those young lads can sing!
Oh yes, another good idea!
Haven’t heard them in a long time.
Nice one!
Love that kids’ smile at the end!
What voices! That was terrific. Thanks for posting it.
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Good morning, Mr jay. One that will not give up its autumnal finery. Stunning!😌
Maidin Mhaith Betsy 🙂
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Wow! I actually thought that one tree was a huge fire!
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Nice set of songs for today… enjoyed them, thanks
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“Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,
Christ in the eye that sees me,
Christ in the ear that hears me.”
Good morning to all. I hope everyone who hears this beautiful “Alleluia” will feel the presence of Christ from the moment of waking to the end of the day and beyond. Blessings to each friend in our Tree.
Okay, now you’re putting me in the mood for St. Patrick’s Day …
Coming sooner than we’d think, phoenix. My son was born on St Paddy’s Day. 😁
Hi Betsy!
I love it… On St. Paddy’s Day…
My one son was born on Veteran’s Day, he is a marine, oorah. My mother, the eternal skeptic and conspiracy theorist who never believed in any coincidence…The Ides of March….
Howdy do, Aggiegirl! He chose well and appropriately to make his way into this world. Is it any surprise he became a Marine?? I think not😉
My daughter married on the Ides of March….an omen which eventually played out I am sorry to say. But in the end for the absolute best for her and her children. Funny how life works…
Howdy Garrison 🙂
Howdy, jay 🙂
Yea, ad rem! I’d tried to post a Beethoven link which was blocked by Youtube. I hate when that happens because much of our enjoyment of a music link is in our ability to actually see who is performing! I put in a note to ad rem requesting that she remove the blocked link—poof it was gone this morning.
THANK YOU AD REM!!! There is so much about this thread that is precious and your subtle, behind-the-scenes help is invaluable.
Hey, ad rem. If you get a chance would you please remove the above post? I expected it to show the performance image but this blocked notice spoils the whole presentation and just takes up space. I’ve successfully posted another Beethoven concerto below. Thanks. 🙂
Good morning, Garrison. Helene Grimaud has a lovely touch. I think the fourth is, of the five Beethoven wrote, my favourite. Bonus…at Royal Albert Hall!! The acoustics there are amazing, I believe. What a treat! Thank you, my friend.😘
Good grief! I must have overslept!!
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You’re right! This time travel thing happened once before to me, in the Presidential Thread I believe, but that time I only went one day into the future. Now we’ve gone a whole month ahead! No wonder …
Edited to add: Then again, the time stamp below Friday January 16th says … December 16, 2022. In the previous time travel incident, the time stamp also was a day ahead. So this looks to be a time warp / temporal anomaly of a different flavor …
Well now we know how Sundance is so well informed! Always thought he was a time traveler. 🙂
Beautiful!
Patty, I posted in my comment above an “Alleluia” sung by our favourite Robert Shaw Chorale which I believe will overwhelm you, as it did me. I hope you’ll click on the link I provided.
I listened to it last night while reading through the comments. Then did the same this morning while reading all the new comments since last night. I imagine that heaven is filled with such glorious perfection of voices and music.
This is exactly how I think. All those voices past which set my soul alight, summoned to take part in the celestial choirs of the Lord. Can you imagine the glory they offer to Him? Overwhelming to contemplate!
Vaxxed Blood KILLS Baby Infant Develops Blood Clot From Knee To Heart After Vaxxed Blood Transfusion
(8:35)
https://rumble.com/v20op44-vaxxed-blood-kills-baby-infant-develops-blood-clot-from-knee-to-heart-after.html
The satanic New Zealand courts and government seized a baby about to undergo an operation, because his parents had requested non vaxxxxxed blood, which the hospitals were not prepared to do. This baby was ripped from the arms of his parents, the operation was done using vaxxxxed blood. I fear the absolute worst.🙏
I just can’t understand why such a reasonable request for non-GMO blood was denied. Like you, I fear the worst but pray for the best, that God protect the tiny baby. There is no pain in life that equals the loss of one’s child.
Because NZ is ruled (not governed) by an acolyte of the Antichrist, PM Jacinda Ardern, who is complicit with the genocide we are seeing now. There was video of the moment he was removed. I did not watch it.
NZ used to be considered THE country to move to, idyllic in every way. Now a totalitarian, despotic country run by extension by Schwab and the WEF.
And no…there isn’t. “Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord. I will repay.”
Baby Alex is in the arms of Jesus, and I can’t wait for the wrath coming to these murderers!
That’s exactly what they are, heather. There will be more. We may have to wait for the wrath but make no mistake…it will come with a vengeance.
🎅🤶 “The 12 Lies of Covid” Christmas Song
https://rumble.com/v20pxma–the-12-lies-of-covid-christmas-song-.html
(Cont’d.. from yesterday’s post..)
there was another ticket stub in that folder.. two weeks later.. Tuesday night.. October 21, 1986.. Zebra.. (see the actual ticket at the 3:09 mark in the Cardi’s video below..)..
On a side note.. I had blogged a couple of years ago about the band Zebra.. back when they were just a bar band.. (a shortened version below)..
this was before my oilfield diving.. but the breakup with this girlfriend and my college friends moving on was a catalyst for my decision to leave this town behind.. and move to Houston to become a fck’n oilfield diver..
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None of you are going to believe this one.. I don’t care..
The Early Days.. It’s all true.. A hit song.. about us..
My friends came back from college for the weekend now and then.. They told me I just gotta see this band from New Orleans.. Eventually the band came to town.. I think it was on a Monday night.. I met with my cousin, a couple of friends, and our girlfriends. We were the crowd.. Only a few others..
The drinks started to flow. As the night drew on, my girlfriend and I were on the “dance floor” right in front of the band.. Arguing.. I forget the reason – just choose one from the list..
The song they were playing ended.. Loud music to abrupt quiet.. A pattering of applause from our table.. And right then – in tears she slaps the shit out of me and stalks off the “dance floor”.. I’m beside myself.. I don’t want to lose her.. In tears and desperation I vainly yelled back at her..
“..Just tell me what you want..!!” (Tears.. I know.. but we loved each other.. shit happens..)
You could hear a pin drop.. Even the band members were just standing there, momentarily watching the put down.. We had made a scene.. again..
I’ve been btch slapped.. I’m in tears and standing in the middle of the floor.. alone.. In front of the band on one side.. In front of my friends on the other.. Who were smirking at me..
I was humiliated.. It couldn’t have been worse timing for me. It was perfect timing for her.. And she stormed out the front bar door for effect.. Slam..! ..Exclamation point.. She’s pissed.. and playing me like a fiddle..
I quickly followed.. Trailing her out of the bar.. The doorman/bouncer raised his eyebrows at me and brashly said “..Watch it now..” as I aggressively pushed open the door..
It spilled over into the parking lot.. Our friends left the scene.. And we were still going at it.. Trying to find the answer.. I noticed people coming out the back..
Somebody is back there.. I think it’s the band putting up their gear or something.. Whoever it is they’re hanging back there at a distance in the dark.. watching.. they saw the whole thing.. We eventually got into the car and left..
After a year or so.. I heard the band got a major record label deal.. So I go out and buy it.. And whaddya know.. One heck of a coincidence.. That’s all I can say..
It’s all true.. And I don’t care what their official narrative may be.. Believe what you want..
But I know who their real inspiration was..
It was us..
Zebra.. Tell Me What You Want..
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so.. back to Cardi’s.. it was a place where everyone was a star.. everybody partying together.. the bands.. the fans.. and the employees..
it was one big party.. everybody was on a roll.. and reaching for the stars..
Hank knows.. everybody knew Hank.. he was a bar back.. a bartender.. a floor manager.. he did it all.. doing whatever was needed.. even sweeping the parking lot.. Hank is a Cardi’s icon..
he was trying to get the Cardi’s location listed as an officially registered State of Texas “Historical Marker”.. he also made a youtube video about it.. (shown below)..
(you can see Hank around the 3:45 mark.. getting onstage with “Diamond Darrell” of Pantera for an impromptu photo.. I remember that night..)..
A few years before you, Texian . Lived off Montrose in a seedy dive apt behind a high-rise filled with my betters . . . There was a tiny bar on Westheimer where you could, along with about 12 other people, hear Lightin’ play on Wednesday nights. Best lookin’ women in all of Texas lived in Montrose at that time. Country ‘po boy nirvana. 🙂
yeah buddy.. I know what you are sayin’.. good times.. you were in the right place at the right time.. and that’s a blessing in a city like Houston.. Houston is always evolving.. tearing down the old and building the new..
as far as your pad.. I think I know the area you are speaking of.. possibly just off West Alabama St.. down in the deep end of Montrose..
my old loft in Uptown is gone.. there’s a mid-rise built there now..
16 December 2017 Keely Smith [Dorothy Keely], American jazz and pop singer (w/ husband Louis Prima -“That Old Black Magic”; “I Wish You Love”), dies from heart failure at 89 [1]
16 December 2013 Ray Price, American singer, dies from pancreatic cancer at 87
16 December 2007 Dan Fogelberg, American rocker (Same Old Lang Syne), dies at 56
<Song background story here>
Leader of the Band
Qued, highly recommenced intro
16 December 2003 Gary Stewart, American country singer (She’s Actin’ Single), commits suicide by shooting himself in the neck at 59
16 December 2001 Stuart Adamson, Scottish rock vocalist and guitarist (The Skids, Big Country), dies at 43
16 December 1997 Nicolette Larson, American rock vocalist (Lotta Love; Twins), dies from brain seizure at 45
16 December 1993 Charizma [Charles Hicks], American rapper, killed in a mugging at 20
16 December 1991 Fred Scott, American vocalist and actor “the singing cowboy” (Melody of the Plains, Vincent Lopez), dies at 89
16 December Sylvester James Jr.
(1947-1988)
American singer-songwriter (Do Ya Wanna Funk), dies of complications from HIV/AIDS at 41
One last one, I don’t think he ever sang tho….
16 December Colonel Sanders
(1890-1980)
American founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90
His Original recipe 11 herbs & spices were as I recall:
the 7 seas Italian dressing mix not sure it is available anymore.
Powered tomato soup mix for the red color.
put both in the flour and coat as you would anyway
Bake the chicken do not fry it.
Frying was introduced when it was purchased by RJ Reynolds.
He directed a make alike teacher who’s students found the “11 herbs and spices in that brand of dressing mix” as he was unhappy they kicked him out of his own company.
Thank you MMW – Wow, that was absolutely beautiful. Never heard a live version of this song, only the one played on the radio. -P
December 16 Oswald Chambers
Wrestling Before God
Take up the whole armor of God…praying always… —Ephesians 6:13,18
You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God, and wrestle in prayer for other people; but to wrestle with God in prayer is unscriptural. If you ever do wrestle with God, you will be crippled for the rest of your life. If you grab hold of God and wrestle with Him, as Jacob did, simply because He is working in a way that doesn’t meet with your approval, you force Him to put you out of joint (see Genesis 32:24-25). Don’t become a cripple by wrestling with the ways of God, but be someone who wrestles before God with the things of this world, because “we are more than conquerors through Him…” (Romans 8:37). Wrestling before God makes an impact in His kingdom. If you ask me to pray for you, and I am not complete in Christ, my prayer accomplishes nothing. But if I am complete in Christ, my prayer brings victory all the time. Prayer is effective only when there is completeness— “take up the whole armor of God….”
Always make a distinction between God’s perfect will and His permissive will, which He uses to accomplish His divine purpose for our lives. God’s perfect will is unchangeable. It is with His permissive will, or the various things that He allows into our lives, that we must wrestle before Him. It is our reaction to these things allowed by His permissive will that enables us to come to the point of seeing His perfect will for us. “We know that all things work together for good to those who love God…” (Romans 8:28)— to those who remain true to God’s perfect will— His calling in Christ Jesus. God’s permissive will is the testing He uses to reveal His true sons and daughters. We should not be spineless and automatically say, “Yes, it is the Lord’s will.” We don’t have to fight or wrestle with God, but we must wrestle before God with things. Beware of lazily giving up. Instead, put up a glorious fight and you will find yourself empowered with His strength.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The great word of Jesus to His disciples is Abandon. When God has brought us into the relationship of disciples, we have to venture on His word; trust entirely to Him and watch that when He brings us to the venture, we take it.
https://utmost.org/wrestling-before-god/
There are so many good Christmas songs. Thanks for sharing them. Here’s one of my favorites.
Absolutely beautiful addition to my Christmas music collection.
Thank you.
I second Spicy Jalapeno, thank you for sharing.
Joe Bastardi
@BigJoeBastardi
Models almost always underestimate cold in Texas in charges down the plains. I think most of the numbers are. 5-10 is too warm We think it gets into single digits in Dallas, teens in Houston and 20s LRGV And much of the south gets snow, at least in the air
near or at Christmas
Winter is already here. 3 month coldest period of the year starts Dec 5. Dec 21 alreadl close to 20% done
Hi Treepers! I just wanted to send this from Steve Kirsch, it’s a survey on information on any deaths you have experienced in your life from the Vax.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/know-anyone-who-died-in-2021-or-2022?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=548354&post_id=90963956&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
God Bless you each and every one!
Heather, he has been like a dog with a bone. One of very few who will not let go. Relentless. God bless him.
Mornin’ all!
Tech question for admins or whoever:
After I got back from DC on Jan 7 2021, I had to take a hiatus from all “news” for a while, (really for my mental health) so I left the Treehouse and turned off the TV and everything else really. But I used to have a little section in the upper right corner here that notified me of responses to my comments. I dont see that anymore. Did that have to be done away with when the site was revamped?
Is the only way to see if someone has responded to my comment to go back and scroll through until I find it?
Good question, dawg!
Down at the bottom of what you want to post, by the Post Comment button – just to the left of it – is a bell with a line through it. Click on it. CTH will send an email to you and all you have to do is click in the email where it says something to the effect of “confirm” and you will get emails whenever someone replies to your post. Took me some time to see it use it.
Miss that little notification icon too; yes, think that when the site moved into 2.0 format that notification ability went away. It sure made following certain conversations easier. Perhaps someday a return of it will be figured out.
You’re describing the little bell icon that indicated replies to your post.
CTH 1.0 had each of us registered and it knew when we logged on so it told us about replies to our posts.
When CTH was deplatformed, Sundance vowed that CTH 2.0 would not retain any Treeper info in order to protect us from abusive and illegal government snooping. That’s why we now register each comment individually.
Replies cause a notification email to be sent to whatever email you use in that comment registration underneath the comment box. And before you click the Post Comment button, make sure you click the bell to the left of that button and turn the bell green. You won’t be notified if you don’t turn on the bell before Posting.
Yyou then receive a Confirmation email with a hotLink that you have to click to confirm the registration of the comment.
When someone replies, you’ll receive a notification email about the Reply. A hotLink in the notification email takes you directly to the Reply under your comment.
That’s how it works.
PS – Glad you’re back, Dawg. Merry Christmas !
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
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.
Amen, Amin
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)
December 16
MORNING
Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. John 13:1
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. John 17:9, 10, 15, 16
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. John 15:9
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. John 15:13, 14
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. John 13:34
He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Phil. 1:6
Christ … loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. Eph. 5:25, 26
EVENING
The deep things of God. I Cor. 2:10
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. John 15:15
It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. Matt. 13:11
We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. I Cor. 2:12
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Eph. 3:14-19
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/12/1216.html
Verse of the Day for Friday, December 16, 2022
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“Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;”
Colossians 3:12 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
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.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
🎼“He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater
He sendeth more strength when the labors increase
To added affliction He addeth His mercy
To multiplied trials His multiplied peace
His love has no limit, His grace has no measure
His pow’r has no boundary known unto men
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again
When we have exhausted our store of endurance
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources
Our Father’s full giving is only begun.”🎼
The program today is that I do the grocery shopping. We are going to have 14 people here for Christmas eve including both of our Granddaughters. Then most of us go to Dads for Christmas.
I already picked up a spiral sliced ham for 89 cents a pound. But there is a lot more food to buy for the crowd and the girls from Florida and their two dogs and hairless cat will be staying with us for several days!
Menu for Christmas eve is:
Ham
Cheesy mashed potatoes
Deviled Eggs
Spinach dip with Hawaiian bread
Good buns for ham sandwiches
Various fruits, nuts, and candies.
Christmas at Dad’s is a pitch in of finger foods and we’ll take BBQ chicken wings slow cooked in a crockpot.
BTW we just had a big Pileated Woodpecker visit the feeder. He was about a foot tall. Didn’t stick around very long.
We saw great big bald eagle by the river yesterday. Awesome! good sign steelhead are running.
Mission accomplished. The only thing I couldn’t find was frozen spinach for the spinach dip. But we have time to get that done.
I also bought 23 each $1,00 scratch offs. I have 23 stockings to stuff at Dads and those are simple, easy, and the kids even like them.
Not counting the scratch offs the bill came to $423.00. No meat other than chicken wings in that bill.
“Open thread – great, so everyone writes whatever they want. So will I.
First, let me say that obviously the “Guidelines For Comments” are a big joke in the part that talks about the credibility, high accuracy, etc. in the materials. It’s obviously a joke, since @Sundance not only doesn’t know anything about what I posted in a few comments about Russia, but he doesn’t know almost anything else about the reality in Russia.
But Sundance is completely uncritical of the deceptive articles from Western alternative media and makes a completely wrong conclusion. In fact, the reality about Russia is exactly the opposite of what Western alternative media write. So Sundance is misleading his thousands of readers.
So, Sundance, what do you think your reward will be when you meet The Creator and he judges you? The dog is not responsible for his actions; the dog is not interested in the truth, but only in the full belly and participation in the pack, which gives him security. But if a man lives like a dog, he will receive a reward like a dog when he meets The Judge.
I hope you’re happy, Sundance, to rely on the fact that the Western mainstream media is propaganda, and on the illusion that Western alternative media are telling the truth about Russia. Thus, you do not need to look for real information from Russian sources, and you can safely continue to slide down the slide with the pseudo-informational sled you are used to. That’s how you trade with your readers. Why not? No one’s stopping you.
But, you know, “the merchants will be expelled from the temple”? Then, Sundance, based on who you’ve been with, you’ll be judged and sent where you deserve to go. Think about it the next time you write something about truth and God on your nice website. You are a Christian and you believe in God, right? Or it’s a joke, too..
Is this Christina Pushaw?
:):):)
It’s true that sometimes when I get a vaccine after a plate of delicious bugs, and I walk into the meta-universe with an altered gender, wearing my special green dress, symbolizing my dedication to fighting climate change, I call myself Christina. But in all other cases, I’m a man.
Thought that was you.
“Rostelecom. About company
..is Russia’s largest integrated provider of digital services and solutions, with presence in all market segments and covering millions of households, governmental and private organizations. …The Company is a widely recognized technology leader in offering innovative solutions for electronic government, cybersecurity, data center and cloud-based services, biometrics, healthcare, education, house maintenance and utility services”
https :// www .company.rt.ru/en/about/info/
“History
February 2022; Rostelecom was on the list of top 10 best employers of the Russian Employer Rating according to hh.ru in the Largest Companies category; The first international standard for the Industrial Internet of Things was officially published. Its development was initiated by Rostelecom on the basis of the Cyber-Physical Systems Technical Committee (TC) for Standardization 194 of Rosstandart with the support of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.”
https :// www .company.rt.ru/en/about/history.php
AK&M awards Rostelecom top sustainability rating (06.09.2022)
AK&M, a leading Russian rating agency, has rated Rostelecom’s 2021 Sustainability Report RESG 1, the highest possible level of social disclosure in a company’s public reports.
In the 2021 report, Rostelecom unveiled its inaugural long-term ESG strategy, which runs through 2025, with each section consistent with the strategy’s stated principles and goals. Investing in human capital development is a top priority at Rostelecom.[…]The report [AK&M ‘ s] highlights the Company’s contribution towards Russia’s National Projects, laying out in particular detail Rostelecom’s work on the Digital Economy project and all of its subprojects.
https :// www .company.rt.ru/en/ir/news_calendar/d463571/
The Partnership (can be seen at the bottom): Yandex, Eset, Kaspersky, MICROSOFT
https :// www .company.rt.ru/en/about/partnership/
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https :// www .company.rt.ru/projects/digital_trends/news/d459314/
“Covid19 and the Digital Boom: the pandemic as an impetus for technology development
— Rostelecom research (05/24/2021)
“..The pandemic has become a severe test for the health care system, the economy and people, but at the same time — the cause of the digital boom. The development of technology has received the most powerful impetus in recent decades, especially in the field of digital health (e-health).
TeqViser— a software product of Rostelecom based on artificial intelligence, analyzed an array of publications in technology media and scientific journals, patent applications, as well as the activity of venture investors for 2020 in order to track and fix the main digital trends of the covid19 era.
In the history of mankind, epidemics have played not only a negative role and often became the cause of the most important discoveries in medicine and pharmaceuticals, as well as social and economic reforms..
..The coronavirus pandemic was no exception: in addition to the obvious breakthroughs in medicine, it led to an acceleration of digital transformation. Technologies have received a tremendous impetus for development.
Pavel Krasovsky, Deputy Director of the Rostelecom Center for Strategic Innovations, TeqViser Project [a software product based on AI] Manager:
“We have been closely following technological trends for the past five years and have been recording how certain technologies have been “firing” in different years. But 2020 was a special year for digital technologies: the pandemic gave a powerful acceleration to their development and implementation. The main thing that the pandemic has managed to do is to change people’s attitude to digital technologies and reduce resistance to introducing innovations into a seemingly already established life. Even the older generation has formed a habit of cashless payments and online purchases. Of course, after explosive growth, a temporary slowdown can be expected, but the digital boom of 2020 will definitely have long-term consequences that can be objectively assessed only a few years later.”
…The full text of the study is available on the TeqViser project website. ->
https :// teqviser.ru/blog/covid-luchshee-chto-sluchalos-s-tehnologiyami-za-poslednie-10-let
“COVID is the best thing that has happened to technology in the last 10 years
“[…] In 2020, Russia for the first time entered the top 10 in terms of the number of patents related to the E-health trend.[…] China is in the first place by a huge margin, this is expected, since China has been the absolute world leader in the number of registered patents for several years), but Russia’s fourth place in the ranking is pleasant and unexpected to see.
Russia has actively patented vaccines, antiviral drugs, methods of testing, diagnosis and rehabilitation, ahead of the combined efforts of Europe and Canada in the fight against coronavirus.”
-> Back to Rostelcom: https :// www .company.rt.ru/projects/
“In the national interest
Rostelecom acts as an infrastructure partner of the state and business in the formation and development of the digital economy in Russia. The implementation of major projects in the national interest is one of the stages of its creation. …Each implemented project is a step towards creating a digital economy that will change the lives of millions of people. We are proud to be trusted with projects of great importance for the whole country.”
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“I repeat, the dictatorship of Western elites is directed against all societies, including the peoples of the Western countries themselves. It’s a challenge to everyone. Such a complete denial of man, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, the suppression of freedom acquires the features of “reverse religion” – outright Satanism. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ, denouncing false prophets, says: “By their fruits you will know them.” And these poisonous fruits are already obvious to people – not only in our country, in all countries, including for many people in the West itself.
The world has entered a period of revolutionary transformations, they are fundamental. New development centers are being formed, they represent the majority – the majority! – the international community and are ready not only to declare their interests, but also to defend them, and in multipolarity they see an opportunity to strengthen their sovereignty, which means to gain true freedom, historical perspective, their right to independent, creative, original development, to a harmonious process.”
President of Russia Vladimir Putin
Signing of treaties on accession of Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia / September 30, 2022
https :// www . garant .ru/products/ipo/prime/doc/405265909/
“Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 693 dated September 30, 2022 “On the definition of an organization that ensures the development of digital identification and authentication technologies”
October 3, 2022
In order to develop digital identification and authentication technologies in the Russian Federation, including those based on biometric personal data, as well as document signing and storage services…”
Or, from Rostelecom’s website:
https :// www .company.rt.ru/projects/biometry/d464777/
“The Center of biometric technologies will appear in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the establishment of a joint venture (JV) JSC “Center for Biometric Technologies” (CBT). The founders will be Rostelecom (49% of shares), the Russian Federation represented by the Federal Agency for State Property Management (26% of shares) and the Bank of Russia (25% of shares).
CBT will develop and replicate digital identification and authentication technologies (including those based on biometric personal data), as well as document signing and storage services, including the creation, development and operation of commercial services and standard solutions. This will increase the level of digitalization in various sectors of the economy.
The parties will combine efforts and expertise in the field of biometrics to accelerate the conversion of various services into digital form. CBT will become the operator of GIS “Unified Biometric System” and will ensure the collection, storage, processing and verification of biometric personal data, taking into account the requirements established by Federal Law No. 149-FZ of 27.07.2006 “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection”. Recall that since 2018, Rostelecom has been the operator of the system.
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First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Olga Skorobogatova:
“The unified biometric system is one of the main elements of the country’s digital infrastructure. The Bank of Russia supports the creation of a joint venture and believes that the concentration of resources, technologies and management in this new organization will ensure the introduction of secure biometric technologies in various spheres of our lives. This will make it easier for citizens to receive financial and non-financial services in digital form, it will allow businesses to innovate and reduce costs. The development of a Unified Biometric system will also contribute to the development of Russian technologies and increase their competitiveness.”
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A unified biometric system is a necessary part of the remote identification mechanism that allows citizens to receive services remotely. It was launched on the initiative of the Ministry of Finance of Russia, the Bank of Russia and Rostelecom as part of the implementation of the national program “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” on June 30, 2018. On December 30, 2021, the Unified Biometric System became state-owned.”
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Bank of Russia
https :// cbr .ru/fintech/dr/
“Digital Ruble
The digital ruble is a digital form of the Russian national currency that the Bank of Russia plans to issue in addition to existing forms of money.
After a wide public discussion of the initiative to create a digital ruble, the Bank of Russia has prepared a concept that provides for the use of a two-tier retail model.”
https :// cbr .ru/Content/Document/File/120075/concept_08042021.pdf
Taking into account these proposals, it was decided to implement the Digital Ruble project in the following stages:
• October 2020 – publication of the report for public consultations “Digital
ruble”, prepared for the purpose of public discussion of the main aspects of the introduction
of the digital ruble.
• April 2021 – publication of the Concept of the digital ruble, which presents
the features of the implementation of the target model of the digital ruble.
• December 2021 – creation of a prototype of the digital ruble platform.
• January 2022 – development of draft amendments to the legislation of the Russian Federation.
• The first quarter of 2022 – the launch of testing a prototype of the digital ruble platform.
It is assumed that testing of the prototype of the digital ruble platform will be conducted jointly with financial market participants during 2022. Based on the test results, a roadmap for the implementation of the digital ruble target platform will be formed.
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Stages of project implementation
December 2021 — creation of a prototype of the digital ruble platform.
2022 — testing of the prototype of the digital ruble platform and development of a roadmap for implementation, taking into account the test results.
2022 — development of legislation for the introduction of the digital ruble.
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[…] It was also proposed to consider the use of a Unified Identification and Authentication System and a Unified biometric system when identifying a user for his registration on the digital ruble platform and opening a wallet.”
https :// tass .ru/ekonomika/16302203
PSB proposed to expand the infrastructure of using a Unified Biometric System
The bank believes that this will increase the demand for services using biometric data
MOSCOW, November 11. /tass/. The PSB proposed to expand the infrastructure for using the Unified Biometric System (UBS), which will increase the demand for services using biometric data. This was announced by Yulia Mikhailovskaya, Vice President, Director of the Digital Retail Business Department of PSB at the Finopolis forum.
“The popularization of the EBS should take place not only on the part of banks, but also on the part of government departments. Such an incentive could be the wider use of biometrics in the provision of public services. It is important that citizens can use a biometric profile as an identifier when receiving public services – registering transactions, requesting documents and certificates, paying fines, as well as in medicine, education, when paying for transport,” the expert noted.
According to Mikhailovskaya, customer authentication using self-assembled biometrics will help to increase public interest in using biometrics. This method can be used in low-risk transactions, for example, for making payments for small amounts. For customers who have submitted biometrics independently through the application, an additional opportunity should be provided to upgrade the status of biometric samples in the EBS with a single confirmation of identity at a bank branch. This approach guarantees the security of credit transactions by the client in the future, including mortgage transactions.
In addition, according to the estimates of the PSB, in order to popularize the service among citizens, it is also necessary to conduct educational work for schoolchildren, demonstrating the convenience of using the ESB in simpler and safer operations – for example, for going to school, when passing exams, paying for meals in the cafeteria for small amounts.”
https :// tass .ru/ekonomika/16301637
Ministry of digital development is ready to discuss the integration of “Public Services” with commercial IDs
According to the head of the ministry, Maksut Shadayev, the state needs a unified, reliable system of secure identification
MOSCOW, November 11. /tass/. Ministry of digital development is ready to discuss the integration of the portal “Public Services” with commercial identifiers (ID) at the suggestion of the Central Bank. This was announced during the forum of innovative financial technologies Finopolis 2022 by the head of the Ministry Maksut Shadaev.
The first deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Olga Skorobogatova, suggested Shadaev to implement next year the binding of identifiers of “Public Services” with commercial identifiers. “This is what the market has been talking about for a long time and has been asking for for a long time,” she added.
“The state needs a unified, reliable system of secure identification. I think that integration with commercial IDs is an old topic, let’s discuss it, we are ready,” Shadaev said.
According to the minister, cooperation with banks is the main way to build it, all projects should be based on a reliable system.”
https :// tass .ru/ekonomika/16302303
Nabiullina said that the time when banks were conservative is gone
The head of the Central Bank noted that technologies are constantly evolving and changing
https :// tass .ru/ekonomika/16301437
Ministry of digital development agrees to enter into a project to test the digital ruble at the suggestion of the Central Bank
Since the beginning of 2022, the Bank of Russia with a group of 15 banks has been piloting operations on a prototype of the digital ruble platform
MOSCOW, November 11. /tass/. Ministry of digital development of the Russian Federation agrees to enter into the pilot project of the Bank of Russia on the digital ruble for the development of services with payment in digital currency. The consent was given by the Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Maksut Shadaev during the plenary session of the forum of innovative financial technologies Finopolis.
“Maksut Igorevich, in honor of your birthday, I have a gift. I don’t think you can refuse the Central Bank. We want to invite the Ministry of digital development to the digital ruble pilot, so that we can immediately provide digital services with payment in digital rubles. Do you agree?”,Olga Skorobogatova, First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia, addressed Shadaev.
“Yes,” he replied.
Since the beginning of 2022, the Bank of Russia with a group of 15 banks has been piloting operations on a prototype of the digital ruble platform. From April 2023, the Central Bank plans to start testing the digital ruble with real customers.
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And what did we see in this post?
https : // theconservativetreehouse .com/blog/2022/12/13/tucker-carlson-asks-the-right-question-could-it-be-that-twitter-is-actually-an-intelligence-gathering-apparatus-and-propaganda-tool/comment-page-3/#comment-9415631
Sample how the CBDC ruble is used together with biometric identification.
And what did we see in this post?
https :// theconservativetreehouse .com/blog/2022/12/14/french-social-media-erupts-as-store-clerk-on-avenue-montaigne-reports-zelenskyys-wife-having-e40000-christmas-shopping-spree-in-paris/comment-page-3/#comment-9418965
From there:
https :// www .rbc .ru/interview/finances/15/12/2022/6399a56d9a79475b7ef4e622?from=column_1
The head of Rosbank: “We talked about terrible things, and we are not so scared anymore”
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— The pilot for the digital ruble, in which you participate. What pros and cons do you already see?
— Yes, our bank participates in the pilot group. And we are working out certain scenarios there according to the list. Right now we have a scenario in the works: CFA [digital financial asset] for a digital ruble.
The digital ruble looks very appetizing. The digital ruble cannot be stolen. The digital ruble may have its intended use sewn in, and it cannot be used for any other purposes that are not sewn into it. At the same time, the issuer of the digital ruble is the Central Bank. That is, the digital ruble has a lot of advantages.”
That the digital ruble is like any other sinister CBDC, like the digital yuan and the digital dollar – programmable by the issuer to be used only for certain things, at certain times.
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This is a small part of what is not shown by Western alternative media. So, Sundance, my friend, what about this (which you didn’t know)? Do you like them? It is good thing?
Isn’t it time to write another article to be devoured with frenzied delight by the majority of your audience, about how good and a fighter for freedom and the good of its citizens Putin is, because Ukraine and the Democrats are evil (which is true)?
Are you smart? Do you give accurate information? What about full information? How’s your conscience, Sundance? Are you calm when you write nonsense? Did you know that there are about 140 million Russians living in Russia, many of whom, like conservative people in the United States, do not want the CBDC and the social credit system that comes after it (which is why the CBDC is implemented)?
So in two words situation is this:
Russia is much more advanced than the USA in introducing a digital concentration camp (it’s not just CBDC and biometrics – which is quite enough for a full – fledged social credit system – there are more “good” things.)
But all the alt-media claim the opposite (and the mainstream media just somehow” accidentally ” omit to mention Russia’s credit system, do not condemn it for this. Why?).
It’s the same here, in this site.
That’s normal, right? @Sundance ?:)
Shouldn’t both be said? Shouldn’t everything be said? Shouldn’t, as well as say the truth that Democrats and Ukrainian mafiosi are evil, in the same way say everything about Russia? Or am I mistaken, this is just my naive fantasy, and this is all some fallen political deception propaganda game? “Truth” is a game, maybe?
(Not to know is understandable and pardonable, that is one thing; but to tell a lie – it is not, it is quite another situation.)
I remember………
November 1966: local New York TV station WPIX had nothing to broadcast for 1.5 hours. There wasn’t much on TV during the holidays, so viewers were typically treated to half-hour blocks of nothing. WPIX president Fred Thrower decided to air a “Christmas card.” The “card” would just be burning Yule logs. When WPIX first shot the special, they reportedly burnt a $4,000 rug trying to get a better angle.
The first Yule Log special aired on December 24, 1966. It aired for three hours with no commercials, and the footage itself was only 17 seconds long. WPIX repeatedly looped this footage for the special. The repetition was pretty obvious on tape, so in 1970, it was reshot as a 6-minute loop. The special stopped airing in 1989. With no commercials, it was a financial loss for the network.
In 2016, WPIX brought back the Yule Log special. They’re even selling Yule Log apparel and merchandise. You can find more Yule Logs on services like Netflix and YouTube.
The Original WPIX:
Lots of spinoffs now………one of my favorites:
I don’t recall the original WPIX broadcast having Christmas music….?
Turnberry was the home of King’s Robert the Bruce and his son David of “Braveheart” Mel Gibson’s excellent movie about William Wallace and Scotland’s first war for independence. PDJT’s mother was from the highlands of Scotland. So PDJT certainly knows his family’s roots and history. His father’s middle name was “Christ” and his mother’s name was “Mary”. That was pointed out to me by my friend at work. PDJT used his family’s bible from the Hebrides to be sworn in on
Donald Trump’s Bible From Scotland to the Oval Office | The Hebrides Revival
Turnberry: The little bit of (Scotland) Britain that belongs to Donald Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/13/golf/donald-trump-turnberry-golf-spt-intl/index.html
My wife is a Royal Stewart. She rubs it in frequently since my family were lowlanders from Dumfries.
Hi friend Booger “Stuart” right? I am both High and Low. My all time favorite Scots movie “Kidnapped”
Kidnapped (1971) Opening with music by Roy Budd
Yes, I always spell it wrong. Great movie
Hello everyone, sun booming in here and quite warm when I took stove ashes out. Had to cut my hair as in my eyes. Last time I had a pro cut was Jan 2020. Hair very uneven and he who thinks he’s boss took a razor to the back. When I looked he had cut a path right up the middle of the back. My daughter tells me it is cute being longer on one side. Well, at least it isn’t in my eyes anymore and I’m just as beautiful as ever. Still have my sissors out if any Treeper want me to cut your hair. Free! I’m asking Santa if I can get a deep tissue massage in my stocking.
busy day for this old girl. fed mooers, fed stellar jays, planted a few more sprouted russet potatoes in addition to the above.
Late to the party…this is done to the traditional 12 Days of Christmas….
https://www.czbrats.com/xmas00/12days.htm
And this:
https://www.czbrats.com/xmas00/twas.htm
We were a resilient bunch back then…we always found a way…
Good afternoon, everyone.
God Bless each and every one of you.
I came across a very entertaining documentary on the Chinese that I feel compelled to share. It’s made by conservative content creators and it should be mandatory teaching in schools (perhaps toned down, though)
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Excellent takes on Ron DeSantis on Revolver today:
https://www.revolver.news/2022/12/small-twitter-user-exposes-ron-desantis-potential-neocon-baggage-another-bush-mccain/
It’s a montage of tweets from this guy:
Tweets by fjb4587
He’s got DeSantis dead to rights.
Greetings Treepers!
Merry Christmas!
Maranatha!
Merry Christmas Frank!
Busted for stealing oats.
That donkey knew he was being reprimanded, said I’m sorry and asked to be forgiven…..I LOVE animals better than people.
Tony provides a quick round up of the fake climate news that has come out this week.
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Auscitizenmom, your loyalty to this prayer and lilbirdee is wonderful. Thank you.
Our system is still the best. Slovak government falls in no-confidence.
https://visegradinsight.eu/explainer-slovak-government-falls-after-no-confidence-vote/
https://news.yahoo.com/slovak-presidents-dismisses-government-urges-124758234.html
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.