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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Shoot for the moon! Brazilian photographer captures incredible shot of Christ the Redeemer ‘holding’ the moon with both hands after three years of failed attempts
Fantabulous!!🌕💕
Wow!
As my kids say, “Amazeballs”
Speaking of a magnificent capture;
seeing the light
&
our Lord and Savior
In embryonic reporting last night it was said that immigration was the issue which caused the downfall of the oily, arrogant Rutte.
I doubt that was the only cause. Waiting for Baron Bodissey of Gates of Vienna to dig deeper.
Paging Geert Wilders!!! You’re needed in your nation’s capital.
Baron’s 2 July th writings are quite something.
He is a must read. I know you agree.
Thanks to you
for the site …, Besty!
Ah! I’d forgotten I recommended it💕
Here is cartoon wisdom showing tHe Globalists’ perspective…..
Thank you, GB.
HAHAHAHAHA! I was not looking for THAT!!!!
You are so right. I loved that movie, one of those I missed first time around because I prejudged that I would not. And yes! A perfect description which I remember well. It doesn’t get any clearer. In an animated movie of all places. Magnificent!😘
Maganificent, dear sister!
He is been PM three times. It is believed that his antiimmigration stance was just for show because he knew his coalition would not vote for it and thus his government would fall. This is the story because his party and every party in his coalition have been pro-immigration all along until Rutte suddenly decided to declare he was against it.
The claim is that he has pulled this stunt to force new elections in which he hopes to have much more popular support because of his supposed stance on immigration.
IOW, Rutte is not done, but just playing political games to have a better chance of retaining power.
I guess we shall see.
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME NETHERLANDS YOU ARE OUR HEROES LETUS
FOLLOW YOUR WONDEROUS EXAMPLE WE LOVE YOU
As go the Netherlands, so goes the United States, and the rest of the developed World !
May God Bless the Dutch !
RUTTE…NEVER AGAIN !!
“Save image to photos”
Most def
really worth a click – video at article captures big avalanche and tremendous wind runout that sweeps their campsite tents away
‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ moment caught on video by kayaker
Clearwater Beach, Florida
A tsunami struck Florida last week. Here’s how it was different from a quake-triggered event
I read that. What is ‘sustainable’ damage?
Does this mean that all the hype about ‘sustainable’ farming and living is just a way of hiding the great damage they want done to the people?
Or has that fad followed Fonzi in jumping the shark?
Can we arrange for a tsunami over Washington DC ? It might clear away a few problems? 🌊🌊🌊
WP’s
Here are a few Allison Krauss videos . . .
+1000 on the last one
Sorry for the formatting, guys. Got timed out . . . Sadly the links don’t appear to work. I’ll resubmit. Hey Ad rem . . . Can you remove this mess for me? Thanks.
😘
What a treasure you are, Ad rem 💕
Ad rem = master arborist.
Caretaker of our tree.
Thank you Ad rem, love. 🙂
I’m in complete agreement with the others’ praise.
Thank You Ad-rem for all you do.
Good morning Garrison,
A very talented band, Alison on violin in this one.
Dan lived in the community at one time and did a session for his daughter’s class at a private school, my daughters were in the same school
My favorite
🙂
What a beautiful way to start a Saturday morning.. thank you
You are most welcome benzy. It’s hard to go wrong with a little Alison in the morning. These mid-career videos are real treasures. Union Station in its last iteration was quite a band—a perfect backup for Alison’s talents.
Howdy Garrison 🙂
Mornin’ jay 🙂
Good morning, Garrison💕 An excellent selection for this Saturday. You and Ad rem made it happen. Thank you.
Mornin’ Bet. 🙂 Got up late (again) this morning—no regrets; the extra couple of hrs felt great. Yep. Ad rem is a Treehouse treasure. Long may she wave!
Wonderful people like you and Bet make working at the Treehouse a joy for all of us! You two have helped breath so much life and love into every corner of the Open thread – our Tree has nearly doubled in size. 😍
Isn’t it amazing, Ad rem!!!!!!!!💕Friends who have become family. Including and especially each one of you who make it possible for us to gather for joy, prayer, support, comfort, laughter…all of it!! Can’t tell you how grateful we all are for everything we know you do, and for the things we don’t. Bless you for your too kind words, and for always.
😘👍🏻🌻
Always……
😘👍🏻😊
Well . . . coming from you Ad rem that is a most kind compliment. I first started coming here because, of all the variety on the ‘net, I most enjoyed the quality of conversation here on The Open Thread.
It is often said that ‘net social relations are, of necessity, ephemeral and inconsequential. But most of our conversations, for example, don’t feel that way at all. Even though I don’t “see” her and she doesn’t “see” me, Bet is still a genuine friend and someone I really enjoy talking to.
There’s some interesting ‘net sociology going on here—we’ve created our own little virtual community of like minded folks. It’s our community here that makes this work so well, I think.
First comment I ever took a photo of long ago on this site….long before I started commenting myself…was one you posted, Garrison. I’m sure I’ve still got it😊💕
Yep….
Pooh’s logic. . .
“What I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.~A.A. Milne”
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Agree Garrison! We may not “see” people’s faces, but we definitely see their souls….and in the end, that’s what is most important.
See their souls, which is much better…😌🙏🏻
🙂
“. . . Nearly doubled in size . . .” Really? Wow, didn’t know that. What good news!!! 🙂
Afternoon Garrison!
Afternoon, Gramps. Hope you are well, my friend. 🙂
Hey, G!!!! Just scrolling and saw you. Was wondering just a few minutes ago about you and Elizabeth, whether you were still away or back home…😁💕
Heading home tomorrow. We had a great day today topped with a dinner at a steakhouse. 😘
Happy Caturday, y’all
they know where the warmth is
HAHA
I had to look twice😂
Love it! 💕🦁😺💕
Yep. That sums up what I’ve said for YEEEEeears….
Cats ain’t nuthin’ but miniature lions and tigers. And it looks like I need to add panthers to that statement.
They’re are all brother and sisters you know, Greg👍🏻
Good afternoon Bet! And to the saber tooth cat. ❤️😘
You said it!!!! Left you a message just above. SO good to see ya, dear friend💕
Yes they are.
“God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.” — Victor Hugo
Niiiiiice!!!
I need to find that pool of water!!
Hahahaha!!! When you do, let me know please😊
Really like this one. Philosophical and artistic. Hard to beat.
You’re right, Mary. The minds which construct art like this…which it really is.
Exceptionally rare photo of a moment that only exists briefly of herding cats….
08 July
Christiaan Huygens
(1629-1695)
Dutch mathematician, astronomer (discovered Saturn’s rings) and scientist (dynamics), dies at 66
08 July
Shinzō Abe
(1954-2022)
Prime Minister of Japan (2006-07 and 2012-2020), dies after being shot twice while giving a speech in Nara, Japan, at 67
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08 July
I find this notable that he made it to 99 during covid, he may be mostly unknown to many here in the treehouse.
2022 Larry Storch, American stage and screen comic and character actor (F Troop – “Cpl. Agarn”; Tennessee Tuxedo – “Prof. Whoopee”), dies at 99
I’m old enough MMW.. I do remember 🤣🤣👍
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Loved Larry!
Shinzō Abe was a strong supporter of President Trump
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/08/former-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-dead-the-nation-of-japan-mourns/#more-234992
😢
✝️
He was President Trump’s ally and dear friend. Requiescat in pace🙏🏻
He was a wonderful …. pensive man.
✝️
He was that, Patience. I truly grieved for him and his family when it happened. In Pakistan or India where political assassinations are de rigeur? Yes.
In Japan?
I couldn’t believe it.
Shinzo Abe spoke at Pear Harbor in 2016
“ I stand here at Pearl Harbor as the prime minister of Japan.
If we listen closely we can make out the sound of restless waves, breaking and then retreating again. The calm inlet of brilliant blue is radiant with the gentle sparkle of the warm sun.
Behind me, a striking white form atop the azure is the USS Arizona Memorial.”….
The full text:
https://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/full-text-of-speech-by-japanese-pm-abe-at-pearl-harbor
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God, Bless his soul
✝️
A thoughtful man with a beautiful soul.
Sorry – Bets. Didn’t mean to duplicate what you said. Makes me sad to think of his assassination.
We need a THOUSAND powerful TRUMPS. We need them NOW.
It doesn’t matter, JWoo. It just reinforces what we all thought of him. Only good in that👍🏻
He was a real loss to the nation of Japan. The people mourned for him. He was one of the first to congratulate Trump and it is sad we are losing so many great leaders. I pray more rise up. Our world needs them.
Afternoon, ‘Woo. 🙂 I know you’ve been working hard. Hope things are going a little bit more smoothly for you. Be well, darlin’.
Howdy, G…
Had to disrupt an oral surgeon-on-call’s evening about 10:30 pm last night.
Kiddo developed an infection, was prescribed a new-to-her antibiotic, and had an allergic reaction to it (hives).
She had to work today 2 pm to 10 pm… and her managers have not been decent about replying to her text inquiries about scheduling. The two of them actually completely ignored her… and they halved her schedule next week… so I was (am) a bit worried that her job is in jeopardy for being gone so long unexpectedly.
She’s terrific. Taking it all in stride. She’s versed on how to approach each of them to clear the air and make sure there’s nothing she’s doing that she’s not supposed to be doing. If other avenues of communication are appropriate… make them known to her. She will handle them and she’s taking all in stride. It’s kids leading kids there… so all are learning.
Got a ZPAC this morning and a pretty horrible mouth rinse that she despises and looks like a huge bottle of gnarly cough syrup.
Appointment on Tuesday to check her out and hopefully not have to reopen and clean out surgical area.
I think she got it from eating a hamburger patty on Thursday and debris got in there. She was so hungry, but maybe not quite ready.
Every day is something new. We catch our victories when we can.
Bless you, Garrison. Hugs to you.
My dentist also wanted to pull my wisdom teeth. I decided not to have the procedure done. Still got ’em all these decades later. 🙂
Let’s hope for the best re: your daughter’s job. I mean, really, people working fast-food have to have medical care too. That said, I got fired a lot when I was just starting out. There is such a shortage of workers right now they’d be nuts to fire her—but we both know how bad management decisions get made. Hopefully she’ll be OK. If not she’ll still have a skillset that’s valuable at another fast-food place. Fingers crossed. Bless you too, darlin’. You are a good mom!
A true loss. I really liked him. Loved the pictures that showed Abe and Trump together.
Oh and I did! There is one which is my favourite which Sundance has often used.
President Trump sitting in front of a vault, arms crossed, and all those European “elites” , headed by the execrable Merkel leaning over the table haranguing him. Abe looking on in amusement.
It was iconic.
Yes, Mary… an irreplaceable loss.
Once in a while I watch and listen to his Pearl Harbor speech. It is almost earth moving!
❤️ https://media.gettyimages.com/id/634553134/photo/president-trump-holds-bilateral-meeting-with-japanese-pm-shinzo-abe.webp?s=612×612&w=gi&k=20&c=P0uiydO4jWtIbsM1S3Qe4JSEBFcBkTVhR8Md_NIp11M=
Marvelous man!
08 July 2021 Sam Reed, American jazz and session saxophonist, and musical director (Uptown Theater (Philadelphia); Teddy Pendergrass), dies at 85
08 July 2020 Naya Rivera, American actress and singer (Glee; Step Up: High Water), drowns while swimming at Lake Piru, near Santa Clarita, California, at 33
If I Die Young
08 July 2018 Tab Hunter [Arthur Andrew Kelm], American actor (Tab Hunter Show, Lust in the Dust) and singer (“Young Love”), dies of complications of deep vein thrombosis at 86
Young Love
08 July 2015 Ernie Maresca, American singer and songwriter (“Runaround Sue”; “The Wanderer”), dies at 76.
08 July 1984 Christine McIntyre, American actress and singer (The Three Stooges, The Rangers’ Round-Up), dies from cancer at 73
Voices Of Spring
Identify as a chicken
Spot on. 👍
Exactly.
And they want us to not look away when they want to do their evil, but to force us to approve.
No.
. . . 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
Psalm 50
16 But to the wicked person, God says:
“What right have you to recite my laws
or take my covenant on your lips?
17
You hate my instruction
and cast my words behind you.
18
When you see a thief, you join with him;
you throw in your lot with adulterers.
19
You use your mouth for evil
and harness your tongue to deceit.
20
You sit and testify against your brother
and slander your own mother’s son.
21
When you did these things and I kept silent,
you thought I was exactly[c] like you.
But I now arraign you
and set my accusations before you.
22
“Consider this, you who forget God,
or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
23
Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me,
and to the blameless[d] I will show my salvation.”
This is a good reminder to me of a church I once attended that wanted to have gay ministers and it’s members spoke on abortion. I quit that particular church and disavow the numerous churches that preach the gospel but welcome the devious.
You’ll love this then.
The Archbishop of York at the annual General Synod of the Anglican Church in Britain has said that the Lord’s Prayer is “problematic”.
” Our Father” said at the beginning doesn’t now reflect our times.
The man is not fit for the position he finds himself in. But he is not alone.
And that is the state of the Anglican Church. I have no words.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/archbishop-york-says-lords-prayer-delivered-jesus-2000/
Morning Betsy.. it is so sad, the church seems to be in bed with this take over globally..☹️☹️
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Morning, Jim. All of it is unfathomable to me. I simply do not begin to understand it.
All I know, he and those like him in any church or any denomination, they do not serve God.
Blessings for your day, my friend😘
Leave our prayers alone!
The archbishop needs to spend more time ministering to the poor and infirm. He doesn’t need to script our thoughts and words with God.
I can only look at his picture, Lorrie, and gawp. A servant of Almighty God? No.
Does HE
call HIMself
a
➡️ MAN ⬅️ of God ???
Sorry Betsy, I posted on this subject before seeing your posting. However, we agree. and you are so right, there are no words. We try to express our outrage but our attempts seems insufficient.
No problem, jb. I do the same myself from time to time.
The Anglican Church has a fissure running through it while at the same time invited, tolerated, and protected Islam sinks its vile roots deeper and deeper into Britain. That Charles placed weasel words into his Coronation Oath promising he would protect ALL religions while not specifically mentioning Christianity does not bode well.
Enoch Powell did warn in 1968. A prophet in his own time ignored. Ergo…
satan’s little season’s end must be nearing; as so many of the earthly demons are self-exposing.
————-
Jesus Is King
-forever and always
in all ways
✝️
That’s exactly how I’d describe it. His time is short and getting shorter.
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)
Mornin’ all!
Good morning WeeWeed
☘🍀☘
Morning weeweed,
teleprompter says it all
Good day WeeWeed!
God bless you always!
Love by Edward Burne-Jones
The Lords Prayer
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. Amen.
The Annunciation. The Flower of God by Edward Burne-Jones
Hail Mary
Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
Angel by Edward Burne-Jones
Psalm 135:1-6
Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
Praise the name of the Lord;
Praise, you servants of the Lord
Who stand in the house of the Lord,
in the courts of the house of our God.
Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;
sing praise to his name, which we love;
For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel for his own possession.
Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
For I know that the Lord is great;
our Lord is greater than all gods.
All that the Lord wills he does
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and in all the deeps.
Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
Amen!!
Hope by Edward Burne-Jones
Good morn, dear mo💕🍀
Bless you for the beautiful words of Clive Staples Lewis.
Here…picked these for you. I’m sure you can do something with them, my friend😉
☘️🍀☘️ blueberries
So funny Betsy
Guess what I’m cooking
Right now as we speak
☘️🍀☘️
Why am I not surprised? 😎😁😘
Morning MO .. is it Blueberry pie, 🤔..🍀🍀👍
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Good morning Jim
Blueberrie pancakes
Easy to make
Easy to eat
☘️🍀☘️
Good day for a ride my friend
Works for me..🤣🤣👍
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As Blanche Devereaux of the Golden Girls would say…
I Haaaate You !!! Making Blueberry Pancakes before
Bet and I could get our Cessnas operational –
hers is in for repairs – and I was a bit too busy
yesterday to gas mine up !!! 🙃
It’s out now… revving up!!😁
We are too late to the party, Bet !!!
He cooked – ate – and ran !!!
He could be anywhere – and
we do not even know the color
of his truck – or license plate !!!
Foiled again !!! 🙃
Ha!!! Took the words right out of my mouth😂
Good morning CTH. I wanted to share a small story. Many of you know that during the last provincial election I ran against our conservative MPP. I had the main highway coming into our riding literally yard signed at almost 90% for me. I believe our current MPP was distressed by this and door knocked frequently on said highway to try off set the heavy imbalance. I was told by one homeowner that his wife literally ran him off the property.
While I didn’t win, I believe that we sent a warning shot across the bow of the conservative govt, and our own MPP more so, that the conservative vote is not given any more, and that he would more and more need to earn that vote.
At about the same time the trucker convoy in Ottawa was on. I was involved at a grass roots level simply doing my best to ensure that I prayed and that we ran supplies up to them. I was friends because of my campaign with the leader of the convoy delegation from our region.
Several weeks ago he informed me that he was being arrested and charged. He turned himself in and was given his charges. Court dates are still being given, but his legal team said he most likely will face jail time.
A fairly high profile event is being held to raise money for his and other truckers’ legal costs. Tamara Lich will be there to sign books and speak to the attendees. I was shocked to receive a message on Wednesday that they wanted me to MC the event. I’ve been asked to pray and prepare some words. I actually feel so heavy hearted at the thought of how corrupt Canada is that it is hard for me to think of encouraging words. I believe I will speak much of what SD has taught me.
1. Control is a reaction to fear. They must be deathly afraid for them to pursue us like hunted animals.
2. Live your best life.
A part of my heart wanted to reply to the message that I couldn’t because it seems that anyone associated with the convoy eventually winds up into legal problems. I immediately snapped out of such thoughts. If I suffer for my convictions so be it. I will never ever stand down.
Prayers appreciated for a man named Harold. He has a beautiful family and does not deserve to go to jail.
Stay strong fellow lovers of God and country.
DD
Good morning Dan
How are you doing
How’s thing going over at cfp
Tell soda and mark I said hi
Ok
Surprised you don’t say hi
Do you forget we used to talk all the time
Good to see you
☘️🍀☘️
Absolutely good morning. It is a pleasure to see you up and at it this AM. Thanks for the response. I usually post before work and fire and forget. Today is Saturday and not quite so busy, although I just finished rolling a heavy roll of fence up into the barn.
Enjoy the Saturday Molon. I Googled your name. 🤣. I love it.
DD
Good luck with the next election cycle my friend.
Will be rooting for you ☘️
Honk Honk
Dan, you stand as an example to us all in these terrible times and especially those in Canada now under Communist control and under the jackboot of the son of one of the worst that ever lived.
There is no man or woman your government won’t make to feel the cruelty of never-ending persecution and destruction. I am thinking of Pastor Pawlowski freed from prison once but now still in the crosshairs. And now your friend. And no doubt many, many more to come.
We in this Tree, Prayer Warriors without compare, commit our entreaties to Almighty God, the Father of us all, for His mercies and His protection for each and every one of your brave countrymen who refuse to buckle in the face of the terrible attacks. As we do for our own in this unrecognizable country.
But today especially I will pray mightily for Harold and for you, dear sir. And for all the families of such men and women who have said “NO! ENOUGH!”
Lord, hear our prayers.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
And Godspeed, Dan. Please continue to keep us as up to date as and when you can.💕
Dans a good man Bett
Have known him for many years.
Salt of the earth.
He needs our prayers
☘️🍀☘️
He has mine. I have been praying daily for our Canadian neighbors. 💕🙏
Thank you Lorrie
I know Dan
He is not here looking for votes
But he does need our support
In prayer
☘️
Know him well from other parts of our forest. Couldn’t agree more, mo.
I’d like to add my 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏..DD.. hoping some solution takes place to right your ship to what it once was ..💪🙏🙏
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Why I live in Texas, Bet . . . 🙂
I’m not so sure we are safe even here, Garrison. Not any more.
Beautiful Betsy
God bless you dear.
It’s impossible, Bananas, to not feel that connection with people in another country who are just like us. To despise what is being done to them who simply want to get on with their lives with the least possible interference by a government which thinks it owns them…wishing we could somehow help but knowing that God has all of them in the palm of His hand. Prayers for each one always🙏🏻
God bless you. I am praying for you and all of Canada. The treachery is such a heartache. 💕🙏💕
God please surround Harold with your protective light. Special blessings to him and his friend Dan. 🙏💕🙏
Amen.
Praying for you and yours, Dan.
Related to your post:
Tamara Lich has the Give Send Go convoy fundraiser mailing list and doing an email campaign asking for donations for her legal defense.
Courage, Dan. Sometimes it’s just you out there . . . 🙂
Dan, your commitment to your country brings tears to my eyes. It’s beautiful and inspiring.
Prayers up for you..
Thank you for your post.
Dan Dale,
I encourage you to listen to the Jordan Peterson podcast episode 372 “The Fight Against Worldwide Child Slavery & the Sex Trade” Peterson interviews Tim Ballard and Jim Caviezel. About 1:45 long. Towards the middle to end – it talks about the “WHY” Tim went into all of this dangerous ground. What our responsibilities are to God.
I pray it gives you inspiration and courage. It sure did me.
I will be praying for you. Truth & Sunlight, friend. Truth & Sunlight!!!
Hi there JWoo hoo ❣️
Any venue to be heard is fantastic; spread the Word!!!
But, if you haven’t, ya might wanna check out AmazingPolly.net for info about (ahem) what Jordan is into. hint: WEF
https://www.bitchute.com/video/r1nLb5OTatdz/
Awww geez, Patience.
Are you saying that Peterson is an advocate of WEF?
Well, maybe some enlightened among us… still have a bit further to go.
I’m encouraged to see progress in the truest sense of the word being made.
yes stand tall fight the fight
Been missing you, lightworkerspirit🤗
Amen lightworkerspirit AMEN
Dan, you and Harold got my prayers.
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Good morning Jay
☘️🍀
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Good morning, Mr jay!😘
Why, how hospitable of you, dear sir!! I don’t mind if I do…beautiful.💕🌿
Exactly!
The older we get the more we understand what being rich truly means.
1,000 upvotes!
The corollary💕
Fandom – Fan Friends – Nightnoise
Computer History – My Old Friend – Tim McGraw – John Cocke and Computer Pioneers – 1990
The memories you must have, Mary, and the friends who helped you make them. And there they are…preserved for you to visit them time and time again. What treasures💕
I do sincerely thank you for sharing them here.
I do encourage people to do this with their own memories. Almost anyone can afford to spend 4 min to occasionally revisit the stories of their younger days, and the music makes the memories more poignant. Cheap, online video editing and phone cameras make it possible for people to do this and spread it around their families.
Sign of the times ……………. bits, bytes and 80 column cards
“Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery 1969: Vol 16 Table of Contents”
G. SALTON—A Policy for JACM
R. W. HAMMING—One Man’s View of Computer Science
JAMES R. SLAGLE AND JOHN K. DIXON—Experiments with Some
Programs that Search Game Trees
D. W. LOVELAND—A Simplified Format for the Model Elimination
Theorem-Proving Procedure; 646, Errata
ERIK J. SANDEWALL—A Planning Problem Solver Based on Look-
Ahead in Stochastic Game Trees
GEORGE W. EKNST—Sufficient Conditions for the Success of GPS
UGO MONTANARI—Continuous Skeletons from Digitized Images
J. A. BRZOZOWSKI AND RINA COHEN—On Decompositions of Regular
Events
GREGORY J. CHAITIN—On the Length of Programs for Computing
Finite Binary Sequences: Statistical Considerations
J. HARTMANIS—On the Complexity of Undecidable Problems in
Automata Theory
J. E. HOPCROFT AND J. D. ULLMAN—Some Results on Tape-Bounded
Turing Machines
ABRAHAM WAKSMAN—A Model of Replication
JERZY W. GRZYMALA-BUSSE—Automorphisms of Polyadic Automata;
646, Errata
ALBERT R. MEYER—A Note on Star-Free Events
B. G. REYNOLDS AND W. F. CUTLIP—Synchronization and General
Repetitive Machines, with Applications to Ultimate Definite Auto-
mata
PHILIP M. SPIRA—The Time Required for Group Multiplication
JERZY W. GRZYMALA-BUSSE—On the Periodic Representations and
the Reducibility of Periodic Automata
c. L. Li1u—Lattice Functions, Pair Algebras, and Finite-State Ma-
chines
DENNIS M. MOYLES AND GERALD L. THOMPSON—An Algorithm for
Finding a Minimum Equivalent Graph of a Digraph
Ss. A. GREIBACH—An Infinite Hierarchy of Context-Free Languages
DANIEL J. ROSENKRANTZ—Programmed Grammars and Classes of
Formal Languages
ZOHAR MANNA—Properties of Programs and the First-Order Predicate
Calculus
HERMAN A. MAURER—A Direct Proof of the Inherent Ambiguity of a
Simple Context-Free Language
PETER WEGNER—Translation Networks and Function Composition
ALFRED v. AHO—Nested Stack Automata
GREGORY J. CHAITIN—On the Simplicity and Speed of Programs for
Computing Infinite Sets of Natural Numbers
T. KASAMI AND K. ToRII—A Syntax-Analysis Procedure for Unam-
biguous Context-Free Grammars
I used to chair SIGPLAN, the special interest group in programming languages, and worked at IBM Research. So many good people and so many now gone. One of my favorite people was John Backus – BNF and Reduction languages. I was making a movie for his boss and because John worked out of his house on Twin Peaks, we filmed one section on John’s desk. I showed up there to show off a graphic language that turned out to make one circle and one tree, so while husband tried to program some filmable graphics with it, I had the group leading cookie cutting play dough on John’s desk in those shapes. Which is how I learned about oak having a wide grain. Boss would look both ways in hall, run across to John’s office and we would scrub at the green clay in John’s desk. Ah, memories.
John Backus Group Meeting – IBM Research – 5 July 1989
leader, not leading
Husband co-authored Yet Another Algol Compiler in the 60’s.
Y’all were there in the beginning ……. and did a great job.
With your knowledge and skills, you created pathways that others would follow into the future.
Only a few people get to be in that situation in their lifetime.
Thanks for all that you did.
Grrrrreat job with the video.
I brought Grace Hopper to Boston to speak for a group I ran on programming languages. That’s exactly how I felt as I watched her stride the narrow room in her Navy uniform. Then, as I drove her to the airport, she explained exactly WHO I should write my thank you letter to and WHAT it should say. Loved that woman! She spoke on the archeology of programming, describing the comeback of having to program for very small memory.
I also brought it someone for a talk on sign language. Fascinating. Instead of word similarity poetry or jokes, he described sign similarity poetry and jokes. We had such good times.
I remember the day a stranger came up after the lecture and hugged me. It took me a bit to realize that there even EXISTED an in group and that they all hugged me. He realized it before I did, and defined himself into that group by copying their action. Absolutely fascinating group.
“to program for very small memory” was the mother of invention.
Maidin Mhaith Betsy 🇺🇸😎🇺🇸
😘!!!
Morning, Patience and Ma 🌻💕🌻
Wanna bet there are fish in that small pond? Dinner at the doorstep😁
Gonna take a little stroll. It looks cooler there.
Nice drive to the homestead.
Morning, Besty ❣️
🇺🇸
🤗😘!!
That looks like the county road to my daughter’s home. Her property borders US Forestry Land. Beautiful.
Jealous I am, deb.
Behind our rural house in Wales was all forestry land. For the 20 years we lived there it remained untouched. We were lucky. I feel on the strength of its being untouched we sold our beautiful home more quickly.
Right after we left, the UK Forestry Service chopped it all down. We saw pictures. Broke our hearts.
How your daughter must thrive living where she does.💕
Perfect 😍
😎
Hi Patience! I like it! ❤️
Hi there, Pa❣️❣️❣️
So good to see you here.
How’s Mrs. Sweetie?🥰
-The kitchen floor is a great place; remember.
💖
🙂
Lovely, Jay.
Sweet!!😌🌻
Howdy jay!
‘Sound of Freedom’ Ranks No. 1 Movie in America: ‘Truly Awe-Inspiring’
https://www2.cbn.com/news/entertainment/sound-freedom-ranks-no-1-movie-america-truly-awe-inspiring?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news-the_weekly_rundown&utm_content=20230708-7215683&mot=057729&inid=c13de256-1b81-4cf1-aaad-f27f6a628bc9
Just read that an AMC theatre refunded tickets to a full house.
It seems the A/C “broke”.
Funny that, no?
Not in the lobby, not in the halls leading to the screening rooms, not in the bathrooms, no where else.
On whose orders?
Evil has spread its tentacles everywhere.
Weak attempts by desperate evil people. The customers will find a way to watch it elsewhere. Truth will not be denied the light…..
AWESOME TRUTH WINS
Greetings Treepers! ✝️
Morning, dear bro😘🙏🏻
Love Potion #9
The Searchers
Love potion #9…….. was probably safer than “foul-she-ssss” non-vaccccine evil potion …..get the rope
Tomorrow …. a timeless message from the Duke for America…..
Two good ones Cactus… 👏👏👍🇺🇸💪
🇺🇸💪😀👍
WE EAT SLEEP AND BREATHE THESE WORDS FOR GENERATIONS THAT FOLLOW. AMEN
Happy “cartoons and cereal day” everyone.
here’s to thoughts of levi, and all other silent tree-branchers who need thoughts and prayers.
Morning, Slowcobra😘 A tribute to those wonderful days😎
Ain’t it the truth!
🤡. Versus. ☕
Decisions….decisions….
Oh amen, Lorrie. When I was little I thought the best thing anybody could be in this world was a grown-up. I couldn’t wait!!
To be able to stay up as late as I wanted or to decide not to go bed at all, for example, seemed the ultimate!
Ah well…
I remember seeing a cartoon once of a hill with huge gates and railings at the top of it.
At the bottom were infants crawling upward and after them, teens, and so on until at the gates themselves they arrived to pass through.
At the entrance was erected a giant sign which said
“ADULTHOOD – Once you pass through there is no going back”
I saw this decades ago. Now? Too many grown ups (by chronological measurement) decide they won’t go through at all and thus remain in a permanent state of adolescence in every way. In truth, A big part of our problems today.
Thank You , Slowcobra 🙏
Verse of the Day for Saturday, July 8, 2023
✟
“The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.”
Psalms 34:15 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
Good morning, sweet friend 😘. Hope your flood has abated and all is now dry and fixed (crossed digits…all of them!)
Giving thanks abundantly today for the first of my grandchildren to cross the line into adulthood. Twin grandlads turning 18. Men now, with their sense of honour and duty well rooted. Blessings of such magnitude. Thank you, dear Lord🙏🏻
Morning, Dear Lady !!! ❤️
Thanks for your concern….
Have some residuals left
Some tiles that need replaced
and reinforced – Oh, so tired !!!
BUT GOD – has me counting blessings
So small are my troubles compared
to Dan and others in nations around
the world suffering at the hands
of their oppressors – God Help Them !!!
Have a BERRY BLESSED DAY !!! 💙💙💙
Sure could use some Blueberry Pancakes
but, MO is off to the races – and
the Cessna needs gas – Oh…Oh..Oh !!!
❤️ 🧚🏻♀️ ❤️ 🧚🏻♀️ ❤️
I’m feeling your tired, dearest friend. I know that tired when something like that happens, as it has to us as well at various times.
But, like you, I see others who are in situations as you describe. I make it a point to read their stories so that in addition to offering prayers on their behalf my own problems are put into perspective.
Counting blessings as I write. We simply never know the hour when we will find ourselves in dire need of His mercies and grace…and blessings undiminished💕🙏🏻
Amen goes right there, Bet !!! ❤️
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Oh – Two GrandLads @ 18 ???
I. thought we just celebrated
your 40th Birthday !!! 🙃
How is your daughter in the
foreign land ??? Got fresh
water ??? Not my cup of tea
traveling that far from home.
Am thrilled we serve an
Awesome God whose
Mighty Arms are wrapped
around all worldwide !!!
We might be suffering
through a hot summer
but – in the Fall we will
see great change as
affirmed by many
modern day prophets
to whom God is currently
speaking !!!
We are in for some exciting
times to come – so blessed
to be alive to experience it !!!
💜 🧚🏻♀️ 💜 🧚🏻♀️ 💜
Good morning, duchess ❤️
Waving ferociously at Patience – I am !!! ❤️
How am you ??? How is Mom doing ???
Great to see you posting !!! 💙
Is everyone sleeping in – OR – off to the races ???
HAVE A BERRY BLESSED DAY !!! 💜
I see you a waving’, duchess❣️❣️❣️
-And in spite of all the flood work. 💖
Ma’s
washed,
dressed,
fed,
Vitamin em n med,
eye-dropped
snacked
lunched
….
singing.
Saturday sleep-ins,
cartoons n coffee,
sofa lounging,
old movies,
uninterrupted reading,
finished weed pullin,
day dreaming,
long showers or a bath,
artful and quite thinking
…..sigh
-some day.
All is well; thank ya.
Oh what a Busy Bee you be, Patience !!! 🥺
And what a perfectly patient daughter you are !!!
Question: Are my silly rhymes having an effect on you ???
Seems to me you are close to doing what I do – LOL
So. proud of YOU – and so is God !!! He tolded me !!! 🙃
Keep your engine tuned up and gassed – Mkay ???
HUGS !!! ❤️🧚🏻♀️❤️🧚🏻♀️❤️
Dear duchess,
I l❤️ve your rhymes
-and all (all) that you post.
Never alter;
much to cherish
Always remain
You cannot falter;
goodness does not perish
You are insane
-didn’t wanna be too mushy- 😂
ROFLMAO !!! YOU ARE PRECIOUS, PATIENCE !!!
💜 🧚🏻♀️ 💜 🧚🏻♀️ 💜
👻
-💖
Jimmy Roselli singing
– Anema E Core
(With All My Heart & Soul)
Oh – My Achy Breaky Heart !!!
These Itralian Guys get me every time, Patience !!!
Oh Noes !!! There goes my day !!! I am FINISHED !!!
❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Jimmy Roselli
was quite special.
https://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/full-text-of-speech-by-japanese-pm-abe-at-pearl-harbor
https://www.lagazzettaitaliana.com/people/9443-jimmy-roselli
Jimmy Roselli on The Ed Sullivan show
You slapping me while I lay here dead to emotion, Patience !!! 🙃
Quite familiar with the song above – think maybe you posted
it before ???
Love it – Thanks !!! ❤️
No, not that one.
This one:
Munasterio e Santa Chiara
(Monastery Of Saint Claire)
😳
Loling 😂😅🙃
🥸Oops!
-Shinzo Abe stuck with me.
This is what was meant to be posted:
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/arts/music/jimmy-roselli-italian-american-singer-dies-at-85.html
Note:
Please pardon the Georgio Armani advertisement 🫣
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Jimmy Roselli, Italian-American Singer, Dies at 85
Give this article
Read in app
By Margalit Fox
July 10, 2011
He was a skinny Italian-American kid from Hoboken, N.J., who could croon like an angel. Before long, his singing made women swoon and grown men cry. For decades, he sang standards to adoring crowds worldwide, including, notably, “My Way.”
He had brown eyes.
Jimmy Roselli, a pop singer widely known as the other crooner from Hoboken, spent his life in the long, slim shadow of Francis Albert Sinatra. But in many traditional Italian-American communities in the Eastern United States he was as fiercely venerated as Sinatra, if not more so.
Mkay – 85 ??? Oh, My –
Can you find me a younger Itralian Singer
to goof on – Please ????
Tanks !!! 🙃
Nope
Jimmy Roselli was/is the real deal!!!
Con’t
Mr. Roselli, who continued performing until he was nearly 80, died on June 30, at 85. The cause of his death, at his home in Clearwater, Fla., was complications of a longtime heart ailment, his agent, Alan Salomon, said.
Almost entirely self-taught, Mr. Roselli had a lush, quasi-operatic tenor and impeccable diction. He belonged to the generation of Italian-American pop singers that besides Sinatra included Perry Como, Dean Martin (né Dino Crocetti) and Tony Bennett (Anthony Benedetto).
But though he sang in storied nightclubs like the Copacabana in New York, appeared on television and made dozens of recordings, Mr. Roselli was far less well known than they.
This obscurity, he long maintained, was brought about through the combined efforts of Sinatra, with whom he had an enduring feud, and local underworld figures, who, when they weren’t weeping along to his sentimental Italian hits, were, he often said, threatening him with a hit of another kind.
But in the end, the single greatest impediment to Mr. Roselli’s career appears to have been Mr. Roselli himself. Through a combination of constitutional abrasiveness, Old World suspicion of the entertainment business and a deep-seated fear of success, people who knew him have said, he managed to torpedo nearly every opportunity that came his way.
Michael John Roselli was born in West New York, N.J., on Dec. 26, 1925. His mother died two days after giving birth to him; his father, a prizefighter, abandoned him soon afterward. He was reared in a cold-water flat in Hoboken by his grandfather, a longshoreman who spoke only Italian, and his four aunts. (The young Mr. Roselli was known as Mickey until he was in his 20s, when an agent, thinking the name unrefined, changed it to Jimmy.)
By the time he was 9, he had developed a fine voice. Carrying a shoeshine kit, which gave him plausible access to local saloons, he sang for change. At 13, he won first prize on the radio talent show “Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour.” At 18, he went into the Army, serving in Europe during World War
He began his career in earnest after the war. He became known for English-language standards like “There Must Be a Way” and “When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New” but was most famous for lachrymose Neapolitan songs like “Torna a Surriento” (“Come Back to Sorrento”) and “Malafemmena” (“Bad Woman”), which he rendered in fluent Neapolitan dialect.
In performance, his ready emotionalism stood in stark contrast to Sinatra’s studied cool. “He was not a nuanced singer; he was a heartfelt singer,” David Evanier, the author of “Making the Wiseguys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story” (1998), said in an interview on Wednesday. “Jolson was his hero, and he sang many Jolson songs.”
Con’t
By Mr. Roselli’s own account and many published ones, mobsters adored him — at least some of the time. “He sang at John Gotti Jr.’s wedding, and he sang the wiseguy anthem ‘Little Pal’ ” — a song popularized by Jolson — “about how when Daddy goes away, you have to be a good little boy to your mother,” Mr. Evanier said. “His greatest fan was Carlo Gambino, who cooked for him.”
At other times, though, Mr. Roselli appeared to bite the hands that fed him by refusing to share his earnings. “They ran all the clubs,” Mr. Evanier explained. “They’d skim off the top, and they weren’t able to do that frequently with him.”
By the late 1960s, Mr. Roselli had antagonized enough people to have committed a measure of professional suicide. Among them was Sinatra, whose mother Mr. Roselli was said to have offended after he demanded a large fee to sing at a charity benefit she was organizing. Suddenly, according to many published accounts, his recordings vanished from jukeboxes, club dates dried up and he received little radio play.
There were other instances of seeming self-sabotage. Saying he was being underpaid, he quit a seven-show booking on “The Ed Sullivan Show” after only three shows. On similar grounds, he passed up appearances on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” a role in “The Godfather: Part II” and many other offers.
Think of the exposure, his friends would say. From exposure, Mr. Roselli replied, you get pneumonia.
He did appear on Broadway, sharing an old-style vaudeville bill with the comedian Pat Cooper at the Palace Theater in 1969, and he sang at Carnegie Hall.
Mr. Roselli’s first marriage, to Angeline Giuffra, ended in divorce. His survivors include his second wife, the former Donna Tumolo; a daughter, Anne, from his first marriage; and a grandchild.
Late in life, Mr. Roselli enjoyed something of a renaissance. He sang regularly in Atlantic City, commanding, Mr. Evanier said, $100,000 a night or more. And even now, he said, in many a New York Italian restaurant, Mr. Roselli beams down from a framed photograph on the wall as his voice wells up from the jukebox.
phew!
WOW !!! He did live – like Sinatra – among the unmentionables
who could make or break a singing career – however
it appears he did much to sabotage it himself..
Sad story, Patience !!!
__________________________
BTW – I had heard or read somewhere that
Dolly Parton died – BUT – have been unable
to VERIFY it – think I read about her death
in MAY of 2023 !!!
Do you know anything about Dolly ???
I think Jimmy was sabotaged by Frank n gang
So he saved himself by not gettin tooooo big.
But he was big.
He had a great Grandpa
and he lived a good life.
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-Dolly Parton is alive.
👺Madonna died;
a long time ago. 🤪
Was he the one who LIVED a few blocks away from Sinatra ???
Yup
Nailed it!!!
😂😂😂😂😂
Oh bless for asking, sis….
She’s been back for a couple of weeks but had to make a trip to the ER three days after she returned. In the middle of the night with dehydration and exhaustion. Since then she has been sub par with stomach issues and has lost a ton of weight. I hardly recognized her when I saw her again. She was wanting to lose and is now about where she wanted to be, but…
I advised her to take the Ivermectin she stocked up on (because I told her to do so….yes I am that bossy😎). One of the little videos she posted showing her eating an Indonesian delicacy from an open market stall…bugs!! I was NOT happy and suspect she might have ingested a parasite, which I explained to her ivermectin would address.
She has seen a gastroenterologist who will check, but told me she stopped taking it. So I have no idea when or why she stopped. I love her so much but I could wring her neck!! In a loving way of course…
I was not pleased she was going but she has gone and is thankfully back. And for that I do give God thanks for His grace in getting her home again and leave her in His hands.
Like you, long distance travel holds no appeal for me. I’ve done it quite a few times but no more. Traveling has been made so unpleasant and intrusive and burdensome. Nope, I am done.
Oh, Bet !!! My heart goes out to you big league !!!
Have been praying for her ever since you first posted
about her trip – I know how hard that food can be
on the system – a friend of mine was on assignment
to Taiwan – he ate from a street vendor – did a
number on his stomach – they are not regulated
as they are here – no caution with food !!!
I will pray that stubbornness demon releasees her
she definitely has a parasite – and needs that
Ivermectin – Good Lord !!! ☺️
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On another note – Good thing MO is not here
I am sitting on (3) poems – if I post – he is
going to kill me a million times – 🙃
They leave no doubt what is keeping me
up nights – now I know you are dying – BUT
I cannot post while he is away – BUT
just thought you might need a CHUCKLE
As tired as I was – I could not sleep until
I settled the score – Know what I mean ???
_________________________
LOVE YOU – AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRAY
FOR ‘MAY’ (what I will call her – God knows)
BIG HUGS !!! 💜🧚🏻♀️💜🧚🏻♀️💜
Bless, dear friend. Yes, you pigeon holed it all right…Stubbornness demon. So I thank you for that particular prayer. Hate to say the nut fell not far from the tree…but I am working on it😎😊
As for Mo doing you in? Unless he has a Cessna of his own or you fly to him, no worries!!!
Chuckles are always welcome as you know. He’ll be back😁 Can’t wait!!!!
(PS…I know EXACTLY what you mean😉💕)
There is good and bad kind of stubbornness –
the good kind prevents us from making mistakes
the bad kind is our worst enemy – SO
stop beating yourself over the head for passing
along the good kind – not only did she pick up
a parasite – but – she also picked up a demon. –
the kind only fasting and prayer can dispel
You can also take ‘authority’ over her health
in the spiritual realm – you know – so if you
are unable to fast for long periods of time –
you might take the ‘authority’ route by
speaking health and wellness over her –
Julie Green did that for her son who could
not breathe – she literally demanded the
demon out of him by speaking LIFE !!!
God spoke the universe into being – we
are made in His image and ‘likeness’ – and
Jesus left the Power of the Holy Spirit with
us – so why can we NOT speak LIIFE ???
Comprehende’ ???
________________
As far as MO is concerned – he started
this war – poked and prodded me into
accepting responsibility for his well-
being – does that make sense – gave
me a choice – ‘you lost that lovin’
feeling’ – OR – ‘you are my soul and
inspiration’ – which is it, Dutch !!!
Tell me – Oh Wise One – what’s a
lady to do when she cannot just
dance – dance the night away ???
Write another poem ???
Please Advise – Thanks !!! ❤️
PS You are entitled to laugh here 2 !!!
The number of times I have demanded a demon gone…latterly from my sweet 8 year old granddaughter that I told you about. I’m on a roll, believe me.
As for your conundrum…
One of the loveliest phrases I learned when I lived across the pond was this..
Take me as you find me.
I don’t know if that applies here, but we are never the same every single day. Worry one day, up beat the next, blah the next, and so on. I know I’m that way because life is like that. It’s hard if not impossible to read people’s states of mind from posts alone, but I think we can intuit them from the words which are used…..or music, come to that.
Gotta take our friends as they come on any given day. So can’t you be both? Not at the same time of course😉 So we simply take one another as we find them, and where we can make allowances for the circumstances of our beloved friends. It works both ways I think.
Any help? Or am I way off base…praying some of it makes sense, dearest friend.
And yes, laughter is so necessary. Where on earth would we be without it?!?😘🤗
We definitely are not the same everyday
Life has a bad habit of getting in the way
We’re a group of varying different types
and personalities of assorted stripes
In a forum it’s easy to mix words
and want to make it right afterwards
There are clues of what lies inside
and others of something to hide
Reading too much into what is said
Just confuses the writer instead
Perhaps that is what it is I see
the banter between he and me
Just making a joke cuts the stress
Rather than hurt it serves to bless
We all have heart hurts that really cut deep
Some that occasionally cause us to weep
So keeping it light is the way to be
Makes it easier on both you and me
If we’re just having fun we need not try
To stop and examine or question why
When I cannot make sense of what it is
I write poems with solutions that fizz
They tend to begin with a question of what
And end with me falling right on my butt !!!
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Understand perfectly – Deep Roots !!!
Thanks so much – I knew you would know !!!
💜 🧚🏻♀️ 💜 🧚🏻♀️ 💜
Outstanding! Or as we’d say in Blighty, SMASHING!! How in this world you dash off a lovely poem like that in such short order with the truth of all our friendships is remarkable to me, sis. It’s your gift, and a beautiful one at that.
(The last line’s a corker!😂😂😂)
Love ya, girl 🤗💕
☺️☺️☺️ Blushing Blightly Brightly here
You are such a Sweetheart, Dear !!!
💜 💜 💜
Me, too!
Lived overseas
Travelled throughout Europe and Asia — all over the U.S.
Lived a bunch of places.
I am done!
No more airports.
No more lines.
At this point, I would rather poke around in a garden and read a book
(with a cup of tea and a cat on my lap)!
And NO MORE GROPING BY THE TSA!!!!!
How wonderful!
Praise the lord.
It went by too quickly, my friend. Sent them both birthday wishes and got back the sweetest replies thanking us for the part we played in getting them to this point. Could have wept…ok…did weep.
When we first came back from Wales all was well. But four years later we were needed for school runs and such, their mother having gone back to work. So we’ve been a huge part of their lives, for which we count ourselves truly blessed. I know Almighty God knew our presence was needed, even before we did. To Him be the glory for the young men they are today.🙏🏻💕
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.
BE MY VOICE
THOSE THAT MAKE THROUGH THE WOMB AND OUT OF SEX TRAFFICKING
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Love it, Duchess, this is one of my daily prayers. 🌹Thank you for posting this and your other lovely offerings. Be blessed! 💕🙏
THANKS, LORRIE !!! Warms my heart !!! ❤️
HAVE A BERRY BLESSED DAY !!! ❤️💙💜
So…, I am trying to be positive.
AI, Artificial Intelligence-GPT-5 is scheduled for release sometime in 2024. The news is rife with documentaries, articles and predictions with respect to Artificial Intelligence and the effect this technology will have on the entire world. The hopes that AI will not just cure cancer and bring about world peace, is accompanied with the fear that AI will enslave, or, destroy humans in a self aware, “Judgment Day Terminator” type scenario. This is evoking some serious and deserved Sturm and Drang angst with the Hoi Polloi. We laymen are able to understand, that the minute AI Intelligence can write and modify it’s own code and exponentially square it’s own IQ, the horse that left the barn, might be a Pale Horse spitting fire. Tristan Harris (He is everywhere, podcasts, TED Talks etc.) Stanford University trained computer genius and Google ethicist, who is the tip of the spear in these discussions famous for his predictions and bona fides re: AI, says that AI will exponentially square it’s IQ again and again and again ad infinitum in 2 or 3 years. 2 or 3 YEARS! He is calling for a halt to research and a world wide assessment of the possible dangers. That will never happen no matter what you hear from governments, or, “experts”.
Currently the arguments for a halt to research while scientists and nations assess the danger is risible. If anyone thinks that ANY nation on earth (Including America) is going to stop pushing for the best possible AI in the shortest amount of time is huffing paint and probably thinks Diogenes found an honest man in Jussie Smollett.
To this point, the attempt to assess the variables, possibility of our own destruction, we must pretend/assume we are as smart as AI will be when it makes decisions about our future. The predictions we make, must take place on the level, of that future AI intelligence in order to discuss it logically. The presumption of prescience with regard to future AI intelligence requires the cognizance of that same level of intelligence, which, by admitted definition is preposterous.
Donald Rumsfeld was ridiculed for saying that “There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.” He was actually right and his theorem is applicable here.
Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814 created an imaginary entity that could know the precise location of every atom in the universe and postulated that with that knowledge and accessibility it could “determine” (He was a “Determinist”.) every possible outcome in the universe. AI is that entity. After Laplace’s death, his imaginary entity was referred to as, “Laplace’s Demon”. Keep that in mind.
If in fact, we could extrapolate accurately, we would already know the outcome. Ironically, ONLY AI can predict the answer, AFTER it exponentially squares it’s IQ.
When we assess the KNOWN variables, the discussions themselves are illogical and can only be based on presumptions from those who hope, that this time, there is NOT an indifferent God who sees the possibilities and good in our species.
Again, the Pale Horse has left the barn and he is really smart.
All is not lost, but, certainly different. We will be the Borg, or, we will perish.
Transhumanism is anathema to so many, especially on the Luddite Right (I am a card carrying member.) “Pascal’s Gambit” presupposes that we don’t know if there is a God, but, we bet there is one, in order to maintain order and, like Constantine on his death bed, hedge our bets. Get your money out. It is not an option. Gods, throughout history, have changed. The new AI God, does not negate the old God. Sol Invictus is first cousin in the ecclesiastical sense, to Christian Religion. Are we meeting the new God, same as the old God? As I type, ribbon cables are being designed to pass over the damaged parts of a brain in order to stimulate undamaged parts so that stroke patients can walk and talk. That is nascent, but definable, Transhumanism.
Occidental philosophy is based on “Dualism”. The “Indifferent God” that drove Hemmingway to suicide, is a harsh taskmaster. Oriental philosophy sees us all, the flora, the fauna, everything as “one”. In the Orient, they think we all live our lives in our heads by way of the 5 senses and in fact, we ARE the seeing, the hearing, the tasting, the feeling, the smelling. If that is what defines us, then could transcendence to a state so elevated by way of Brobdingnagian IQ’s through AI that brings us to “Enlightenment” so cherished by the sages be a feature and not a bug?
Are the Borg happy?
AI is NOT actual life. The emotions, the joy, hatred, sadness which are part and parcel with everyone of us in this veil of tears, in any scenario, in my opinion, would be of interest to AI. This is logical, based on the accepted universal desire of all sentient and non sentient things to survive. The self aware singularity of AI in the foreseeable future, would logically include an aspect of “self” preservation. The spark of life, unattainable for AI, is worthy of interest, especially to an entity, a force, an IQ that has no hope of acquiring that spark unless it is married, on a cellular level, to that force, that life, which, no matter how exponentially squared, it cannot produce, only meld.
“We have the technology”. You will be, “The 6 Billion Dollar Man”, hopefully sans the Vulcan mind meld. Maybe we will own everything and be happy.
We Americans cannot imagine an attack on our “identity”, our individuality, but, it might already be fait accompli and, it might not be a bad thing.
Excellent diatribe, Chuck.
The answer is….42…!
To me… IMHO… this sounds like another Tower of Babel. We know what happened to the Tower of Babel. Genesis 11:1-9
I recollect the Y2K phenomenon. I was a power generation rep at the time and my clients included level 1 trauma centers.
One such center insisted that we design a way to change oil and fuel filters – on the fly – creating a bypass system while the engine and generator ran at full speed to provide necessary power. The guy was a bit of a mad scientist and delighted at overloading and running his engines so hot – that the manifolds burned red!
My tech and I looked at one another sure that a rod was going to blow any minute. I appreciated Don’s humor as we entered a few dangerous scenarios together. If we were going to have a tragedy – I sure appreciated that I would be entering such tragedy as an emergency responder alongside the likes of him.
I view this Artificial Intelligence, Neuralink, the space race, the deep sea sub implosion… all with such discerning eyes. There’s a saying “Medicine only goes so far… and then The Lord.” These advancements / experimentations all fall into those categories.
Would it help you, Chuck Lowe, to remember – that none of this was unforeseen by The Lord. He ordained for you, Chuck Lowe, to be alive – at this very moment – because He wanted a Chuck Lowe here and now with your specific talents and gifts?
God has a way of calibrating the perfect universe He created. He has a way of fixing the messes we make. He allows things to go so far, as HE Wills them to be.
Can we lean fully and trust in Him when we feel the urge to climb out onto the ledge and worry?
I cling to Faith and am thankful for how The Lord Has equipped me to discern such risks. Get into your truest sense of purity and stay there. Hold to what is True.
Maniacs gonna be maniacs gonna be maniacs.
Ideally, we sensibly outnumber them and prayerfully God is going to stifle their plans or make them as inept or as successful as HE intends. They only have God’s ordained number of days for their lives.
WOO YOU ARE AN ENLIGHTENED SOUL
Keep your faith.
Amos 3:7: Surely the Lord God does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.
Daniel 2: 43-44: As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
When Trump wins in 2024 there is a list of traitors ..Lincoln Project 1865 hanging display click on it…
After that trial, my great grandfather spent years writing and lecturing to defend General Hancock from not handing over these people to stop the execution.
https://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/burnett/lincoln5.htm#hancock
“It was General Hancock, then in command of the Middle Military Division of Washington, who declined to interfere with the order of the court-martial sentencing Mrs Surratt to death. It was he who became party to one of the most inhuman crimes ever perpetrated in the name of justice.”
This sort of criticism and abuse embittered many an hour of General Hancock’s life up to the day of his death. General Hancock, as we all know who knew him well, in his personal relations with his fellow-men was as kindly and gentle as a child; was a man with the highest ideals and rules of conduct, and as a soldier was as brave and knightly as ever buckled sword.
Of a peculiarly proud and sensitive disposition, any word which assailed either his personal honor or his record as a soldier tortured him like a festering wound.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/07/lords-prayer-our-father-opening-may-be-problematic-archbishop-of-york-stephen-cottrell
-Archbishop of York tells General Synod that ‘Our Father’ has patriarchal connotations
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BREAKING: Arizona’s illegitimate governor Katie Hobbs was asked about the election she stole by an honest reporter and as usual she ran
Told the reporter to “give it a f*cking rest”
We will never give it a rest Katie Robbs/Katie Frauds
There is no rest for the weary. We get weary, but we aren’t resting. We aren’t going away.
MAGA-A
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Innocence Must Always Be Protected.
Amen to that, Patience.
There are many who will stand in the breach to defend the little ones.
Indeed!
I for one.
You beat me to it with this one, Patience. Isn’t she lovely😍
Very lovely; in so many ways.
-precious
I won’t disagree. She looks full of mischief 😁😉
Makes no sense does it? Like wild caught Alaskan salmon processed in China. Ridiculous!
Sickening.
Planned.
It will get worse…
The first one but definitely not last. It took time to build those camps. Which lets you know that this mass, continuing invasion has been in the works for longer than the “Conservative”/WEF Brit government is allowing.
Guaranteed.
The time WILL come when Brits made to go to the back of the line, Brits who are imprisoned for or praying their Christian faith, Brits imprisoned for upsetting social media posts, Brits imprisoned and fined for upsetting these “invaders” (See what was done to Tommy Robinson, God keep him safe) decide there is nothing left to lose and take matters into their own hands.
I expect in Ireland, also being forced to vow down to their replacements, it will be the same.
Something has got to give!
Watching…tensions in both places are palpable.
This was in the Guardian (UK). I don’t usually look at that newspaper, but this caught my eye. I can hardly believe that the Anglican church has fallen so far. Such ridiculous posturing… such nonsense… such arrogance… all for politically correct virtue signaling.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/07/lords-prayer-our-father-opening-may-be-problematic-archbishop-of-york-stephen-cottrell
God will have the last word, jb – and
these guys will be sorely sorry !!!
Shame on them !!! Tsk Tsk !!!
Was that sob
called “father”
before
arch bishop?
…and all along HIS way,
a ➡️man⬅️
of
-God The Father ?
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Vatican II
did wonders 🙄
for the Catholic Church.
They are ALL going to pay a BIG PRICE
I think – Patience !!!
God will NOT be MOCKED !!!
Amen, sister
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Double that from me!!
I have an acquaintance who teaches at a University in Japan. Occasionally, I go online to see what the Japanese Times is reporting in regard to the world and the United States. The news is so different – so meaty.
Whereas our “broken” news media reads like a 6-year old’s comic book.
I am tiring of the dumbed down American culture, especially reading the myriad of misspellings in local news stories. Editors are apparently lackadaisical in their jobs.
Now, I’m not perfect and sometimes “auto correct” or “voice to speech” gets the better of me – but it’s a real peeve when supposed professional “journalists” write like 2nd graders.
Intellectually dulling.
If I wanted to go read the National Enquirer – I would stand in the supermarket line and do so. I don’t.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/
Imma * Giggling * here – You are so funny, JW !!!
You would have made a Phenomenal Homeschool Teacher !!!
Prolly was not an option for you so – Just saying… ❤️
Thanks for the link – Nice to get the ‘Real News’ !!!
BTW – I do not have much patience with our illiterate news media, either !!!
HUGS !!! 🧡🧡🧡
Hi there, darling, Duch.
I attended public kindergarten, Catholic 1st through 5th grades, public school thereafter. I believe the goal at the time was to participate in as eclectic and diversified course offerings as possible – and to really reach for the stars.
It was during my high school time that they started Advanced Placement courses and “they” (administration) put myself and Lynn Wagner in with all the intellectuals. An A.P. class of 10 – would have the top 8 in our student body (a graduating class of around 1,000 students) – then me and Lynn. I called us the “control group”. I was certain, they were testing to see if they could include commoners amongst a group of intellectuals – and be able to evolve us into becoming intellectuals.
All horse pucky in my opinion.
I was living on my own away from home the first time at 15 and then ultimately fled Indiana to Southern California at the age of 17. School was nothing but an obstacle keeping me from adulting – and I was “encouraged” to graduate mid-term in my Senior year of high school, because I was living on my own, working full time 40 hours a week, and attending high school. My grades were nothing… because I frankly didn’t care.
However, I always had a love of learning and a natural curiosity and a penchant for never living within boundaries or setting limitations. Just… why would I?
Education now is in a SHAMBLES. There are even very few private schools that I would give two cents to at this point in history.
I do wish that my trajectory had included homeschooling my girl. It was simply impossible – as I had two roles to fill being a single parent. However, I also perfectly understand my limitation in representing all the interesting sciences.
I pray 100 years from now – things will all look different for our generations to come.
What is it that Albert Einstein said “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but I know World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
I pray education suffers the same fate.
You and me both, JW !!! It has been hijacked by idiocracy
stemming from liberal lack of critical thinking – IMHO
Backwards Liberal Thinking has ruined public education –
HOWEVER – I believe Trump will begin the impetus for
a massive improvement – if not just in Civics Education
There are many who are calling for the dissolution of
the Department of Education from whom all idiocy
emanates !!! I am all for that. – BUT
The states will do no better – since they, too, are
infiltrated by those who want to ‘dumb down’ a
generation – * Sigh *
It is frustrating to have to tolerate even one
more year in the ‘system’ for daughter, too
Might I suggest she take a GED Exam route
(4) Exams for a GED Diploma – she must be
18 to bypass senior year
If she wants to go to college – she can go to
a Community College for two years and
then transfer to a four-year college – OR
take the college admittance exam to prove
she can do college level work –
Some 4-year colleges accept a GED –
provided they pass the admittance
exam – it is different in every state
Just asking you to consider this an
option – and a way to get away from
the public fool system…
Just a suggestion – 💖
We’ve been pushing community college for our 18 year old grandlads. Save money, steer clear of lib universities for a couple of years, discover what they’d like to do for the rest of their lives and get a good grounding near home…then see where they are at the end of those two years.
One of the lads seems as if he will take our advice, Tue other talks of going to a university here in Texas.
Identical twins they may be in appearance, but they are very different in every other way. I’m praying that the other reconsider his plans to dive straight in to debt.
Community Colleges cover the core
components of the 4-Year college education –
For those unsure of what they want to do in life
Community Colleges offer a sneak peek of
what is out there on which to concentrate
Four-Year Colleges do not require one to
matriculate until the 3rd year anyway
However, CCs have a reputation of being
the place for the dummies to go – but
There are a lot of CCs that are of good
quality and that is not a secret since
they are not all created equal – it is
a great place to start and less expensive 2
Too many kids drop out in the first year
of college – a most expensive consequence
from a 4-year college – not so from a CC
JMHO – and based on experience it works
well for those who are homeschooled and
do not graduate with a HS Diploma !!!
😃 ❤️
We agree, Bet. Big fans of Mike Rowe and the MikeRoweWorks Foundation.
For daughter, the career will drive the education.. not vice versa.
Kind suggestions, thank you, Duch…. and ones we have intensely pursued.
She enters junior year and has 31 of 40 credits needed. She’s determined to finish out and graduate mid term senior year.
She wants tradition. Prom. Senior walk. Graduation ceremony among cohorts. I get it. I really do.
There are other goals in mind.
Kiddo does not do well…. at all…. and I mean… AT ALL on standardized testing. It is an incredible risk to her to rely on a standardized test for diploma. We take all these things into weight on the decision
She has decided and I respect her tenacity and determination. She will finish what she started at the public high school and will walk in every day… kissing her hand and tapping the door frames to claim her school and its occupants for Jesus. It’s her mission field.
Funny story… about 5 or 6 years ago… two years in a row on two single isolated but integral occasions… my girl leans into me at church and proclaims she wants to be a “missionary… in Lebanon… that’s in Beirut, Mom.”
Fast forward… she’s a missionary in Lebanon (Indiana).
We will see where the Lord takes her and we will dutifully obey and I will aide in every way I can.
To God Be The Glory
Amen goes right there, JW !!! ❤️
Understand Perfectly !!! 😃
Geert Van den Bossche has begun a series of short videos where he answers readers questions. This is the second one, people can sign up to read his substacks which is where he is posting these series of videos, and find the answers to yesterday’s question there, and receive future videos by email.
The question today is “What is your current predictions” – and I have a hunch he is correct and am personally restocking my home made medicine cabinet for this coming fall/winter.
Here’s a link to his current substack/video which is 13 minutes in length:
https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/questions-from-followers-what-are
I have followed him since the beginning.
We need an uplifting story.
God bless this young man. I wish him all the best.
https://notthebee.com/article/young-man-interns-at-fire-department-finds-himself-working-for-the-firefighter-who-was-present-at-his-birth-18-years-ago/
God is most definitely behind this❣️
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This, Patience
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President Trump will be in Colorado this afternoon….for a VOLUNTEER EVENT.
Check RSBNETWORK.
Thanks, Cactus!!!
Las Vegas. I’m watching it now on RSBN.
EVENING PRAYER
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Pastor Doug Wilson on Pride Month
Amen and Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen
Good night
Amen 🙏
Being a sinner who respects God’s Will .
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