Maine authorities thought confronting Robert Card would inflame situation in weeks before shooting

A law enforcement officer in Maine declined to take action against the individual who would go on to kill 18 people because of fears that it would only inflame the situation, newly released dashcam video shows.

Robert Card carried out a deadly rampage at the Schemengees Bar and Grille and Just In Time bowling alley in Lewiston that killed 18 people and wounded 13 other victims on Oct. 25.

Dashcam video obtained by the Portland Press Herald contains footage showing a Sept. 16 interaction between Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Sgt. Aaron Skolfield and Army Reserve Capt. Jeremy Reamer.

Skolfield was following up with Reamer about some of Card’s behavior, which included a threat to “shoot up” an Army reserve center in Saco, Maine.

According to the report, the sheriff’s office responded to that report by going to Card’s residence for a “welfare check” and shortly staking out the Army reserve center.

Morning Ya’ll 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb4yccf9FiI

Finally…… with proper lyrics no guessing game here. Bless her little heart.

This is our Treeper Church Sunday benediction. It is also a very special benediction because it is a celebration of Our Lord’s birthday.

When we think about His Day, it’s deep meaning across the centuries . . . For me, as a deep believer, I am reminded of two deep feelings that I discovered and accepted fairly recently. I think Our Lord gave us a Great Gift. It’s something that He expects us to discover and accept on our own.

On my wife’s death a year ago in September, I began a review of what our 55 years together actually meant. What kept us together for over 5 decades? It took me awhile—3 depressive episodes before I experienced the kind of epiphany I think Our Lord wanted me to experience . . .

What kept us together, what made our long relationship work through happiness and trouble, was trust and loyalty. In all that time, we always trusted each other. There was never any doubt about that. None at all . . . 55 years. . .

And then there was our shared loyalty. Regardless of what happened, we always remained loyal to each other. I’ve described that loyalty in terms in context with our working-class backgrounds.

Our loyalty was as simple as this: if I was stranded in a bar-ditch on a cold, wet February night and I called Maggie, I could always be certain that her first response would be to ask where I was. This would be followed by her telling me that she would fetch the tow strap, get the truck, and come pull me out of the bar-ditch.

And she always knew that I would always, always do the same for her.

It is that kind of loyalty, along with corresponding trust than is the foundation of lasting and loving relationships. This is what we had for our 55 years.

I hope all of my Treeper friends can enjoy a very blessed and very wonderful Christmas. May we all experience our Dear Lord’s Grace in this most special time. Merry Christmas, Treeper friends!!!

Loudest Silent Night & That’s terrible, in a fun way! 😉


Charlie Brown Christmas, What Christmas is all about


Christian Singers Flash Mob

12/23/2023 – Enoch and Noah

Hebrews 11:5-7 “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.”

What do these two holy men of God have in common? First, they are of the same line of Seth, whom God gave to Eve instead of Abel; and therefore ordained of God *harbingers; that is, Signs and Messengers of the faith of God’s elect, which is, the coming of Christ in the flesh, the Savior of the world. 

With respect to being God’s Signs for instruction, to both convict the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, for Christ’s sake; to give light upon the earth, and to be the preserving element keeping the world from corrupting; the ministry of both these righteous men, while witnessing and persuading for people to repent and believe in God for salvation; at the same time were especially charged with some aspect of the judgment of the world.

Enoch was first given his vision from God, and the word of prophecy, at a time when the world’s first cultural and industrial boom were beginning, with the descendants of Cain: and spoke by revelation knowledge of both, the coming cataclysm for judgment and destruction of the world at that time; and of the great anti-type, and final cataclysm and catastrophe of the Day of the LORD, at the end of the ages.

Noah then, was the one who would come in to finish, as it were, what Enoch began. Enoch was given the first preaching of what was coming; and Noah built the ark to save all life on earth, at that day which Enoch said was coming. 

John 4:36-38 “And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal: that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One sows, and another reaps. I sent you to reap that whereon you bestowed no labor: other men labored, and you are entered into their labors.”

We can compare this to the apostles and saints at the time of Christ, and all those throughout the times of the Gentiles, and us now, at the end of the world. All the labors of the saints of Jesus from then until now, we are now come for the completion of the word that was given to them. We are of the holy line of God’s elect, of the household of salvation for the world: but are also the signs, and the messengers for administering its doom.

Isaiah 8:16-18 “Bind up the testimony, seal the law among My disciples: and I will wait upon the LORD, that hides His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him. Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion.”

Amos 3:6-7 “Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid (and run together)? Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD has not done it? Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but He reveals His secret (consultation in close deliberation) unto His servants the prophets.”

God has ordained it from the beginning, that justification come by faith through the word being preached and taught by men to men. Abel believed the word he heard from his parents, Adam and Eve; and so instituted the law of sacrifice and offering of blood, for bringing to remembrance Christ’s coming in the flesh to give His life for the redemption of the man to God. Enoch believed that which he had been taught by his father; just as it had been handed down to every generation from Seth, and so continued down to Noah and his sons, even when there was no more faith to be found in the world but in their house. 

At the time of Enoch’s son’s birth, he was evidently given a great and terrible vision of the coming of Christ in judgment, at the end of the world; and with that vision, the perfect understanding of the kind of times, when the wickedness of man will have broken all the bands, and cast away all the cords of restraint; just like it was heading in that direction in his own days. For this reason also did the LORD reveal to him the coming cataclysm and flood. God gave to Enoch revelation knowledge, and understanding of the vision, more than six hundred years before it would happen; thus Enoch walked with God, according to the eternal power and Spirit of that word he was given. 

It says that after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years; and he was not, for God took him. Noah walked with God, and was perfect in his generations; and so when he had completed building the ark, he moved his family and all the animals into the ark, and God shut the door, the same year that Methuselah died; according to the prophetic meaning of his name, With his death [comes] the deluge.

Enoch, before his translation, had this testimony that he pleased God: and Noah also, when the Judge of all the earth had borne out the time to the full, and His servant Noah had done all that He had commanded him, said, Come, you and all your house, into the ark; for you have I seen righteous in this generation. 

Our ministry is the same as Noah’s was to his generation. We have come at the end of the world, for the completing of all things that have been spoken before and witnessed by all of God’s servants the prophets, and the faithful witnesses of Jesus which have sealed their testimony in blood, and baptized in fire. We are not better than our fathers, and we are not better than our Master: all that was spoken and witnessed from the beginning, and how they bore witness and prophesied; we must complete in the same Spirit of faith as was theirs. What each of our own particular purpose and work may turn out to be, is with the Lord: our duty is to live for His pleasure, and care for nothing else.

Israel Update:
-An IDF soldier 19 years old was killed from one of the missiles that Hezbollah fired another soldier badly wounded.  Israel responded with attacks on Hezbollah.
Note: In the beginning The Defense Minister and Chief of Staff wanted to do a preemptive war on Hezbollah.  Bibi objected. Then the US made it into a goal, to prevent the spread of the war.  On one hand Bibi had a reason to back off on this. Because there was doubt if Israel can stand a full regional war.  There could be thousands of missiles a day all over Israel.  Hezbollah has some 200,000 missiles and many are precise and large that can fall on vital strategic targets.  So the strategy became  to deal with Hamas first and then prepare and then deal with Hezbollah.   But the current situation of a low intensity attrition war is explosive. It looks like we are waiting for a disaster to justify dealing with Hezbollah. So attacking now or later is not a clear cut black and white decision.  

-As I said before The IDF is almost done with controlling the whole of North Gaza and is now attacking stronger in the South.  Rafiach that is a city south of Khan Yunis, most south in Gaza, was pounded and had some targeted assassinations.  IDF is preparing to get there.  Once Israel has Khan Yunis and Rafiach, we pretty much have the South under control. 
It’s a very populated area so it will be challenging.  There is still one or two main areas in the north to conquer. It will take days to a week.  But remember that conquering is not the end because you get terrorists in tunnels.  In the North and central Gaza the IDF did a lot of work on destroying tunnels and there is less population and supplies so it’s harder for terrorists to keep going there.  I do get that since Kahan Yunis (south) is a key area and also possibly has hostages and Hamas Leaders, the IDF is sending there some very elite units.  
While the area is full of traps and high buildings, the elite units are very effective anyways, and they have more advanced options with mini drones and robots etc…
It is  a “bottle neck” where we can send a lot of forces.  Kahn Yunis will not be able to withstand the amount of power directed to it. This is my prediction. 
The Arabs have a habit of falsely painting a much better picture than what the situation is, I see their media and social media. They are thinking that they are wining the war.  They ignore facts and images on the ground. Even in the Six Day war when they were crushed Egyptian media gave the idea that they are winning for quite a while.  But sooner than later Sinwar (Hamas Leader) will realize that the footage of some sporadic success against the IDF doesn’t mean that Hamas is winning. He will then try a deal or heavens forbid could start executing hostages.  I estimate 2-4 weeks before we see the real drama, IE. We will be everywhere in the South and Sinwar and Israel will need to make some decisions.  

-The Chairman of the UN finally Twitted that “There is no excuse to the 10/7 attack and hostages must be released.”  
I believe he watched the horror film and was also confronted by families of the hostages.  
It’s easy to sit in NY and have opinions.  But dealing with real humans, families of hostages, it is a different situation.  

-The White House is indicating a very close relations between the Hoothies and Iran.  Iran is on the ground with a spy ship giving them information as to ships to be attacked, etc…
Note: I see pressure on Iran to diffuse this situation. By the way I just read that the Hoothies 
are not to be under-estimated.  It’s an army of over 300,000 soldiers. You don’t want to invade there but they can get really messed up from the air if needed.  

-NY Times : The Biden’s Administration is conducting secret talks with Israel and Lebanon and contacts to Hezbollah in an attempt to prevent a major war in the area.  The Israelis are asking for at least 3.2 Miles  safe zone away from the border. The US is also trying to reduce the daily friction at that area.  Apparently the Lebanese agree with the US that Hezbollah will move away from the border with a long term agreement.  The US is using the Lebanese Foreign Minister as a mediator.  The US want the Lebanese army to be able to take the border area and Hezbollah move norther. Israel is trying to prevent a 10/7 style attack in the North in the future.  The US is hoping that the internal Lebanese opinion will have an effect on Hezbollah.  Poles are used to persuade.  80% of Lebanese people don’t want a war.  
The US understands that there won’t be quiet in the Lebanese border until the end of the war in Gaza.  It is unknown if Hezbollah will respond to any of this.  Note: “The end of the war” is an abstract.  We can be chasing them for years, so the definition of “end of the war” is not clear to anyone.  Israel will not keep its citizens of the North as refugees out of home for more than a month or a few.  That border will have to be safe by politics or war.  It’s the supreme duty of a government  to provide safety to its citizens and not being able to be back home is not acceptable.  

-Yesterday or the day before I posted videos that show the IDF exploding a huge area of houses in Shajeyiah (North Gaza).  I also showed a video of a large flattened area.  
To some degree it seemed like a kind of revenge because it was a “cursed city” for Golani Brigade (IDF).  Today there was an article that actually explained that the demolition was the first raws of houses by the Israeli Kibutzes which were attacked from there and the goal of the demolition is to create a safe zone by the border.  Israel mentioned before a zone to be able to provide safety to the Israeli civilians by the border.  Israel will probably have a zone with boobytraps that will be very hard to cross.  

Happy Hollidays!

Footage from Gaza. The Nahal Brigade was attacked from a building. In the beginning you hear the soldier saying:”Were is the shooting from?’ Then you see the higher officer telling the soldiers that they will need to throw in a large number of hand grenades. Then you see a soldier throwing a hand grenade. Then you hear someone saying that there is a terrorist on the third floor. Then you see the tank is blowing up the third floor area of the building. As far as I know the Nahal Brigde is in North Gaza.

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To A Wild Rose – Flute & Piano

Welsh boy treble Cai Thomas (12y) sings Suo Gan

Augustin Hadelich – Dvořák: “Songs My Mother Taught Me” (with Charles Owen)

Once a Sunni Muslim, Now a Christian Pastor

I will forever be grateful to this man for writing this song. He wrote it during OIF, there are no words to explain what it means to me. Prayers for all those that are deployed and for those wherever they may be where they are alone for Christmas.

23 December 2020 Leslie West [Weinstein], American rock guitarist (Mountain – “Mississippi Queen”; “Theme for an Imaginary Western”), dies of cardiac arrest at 75

MOUNTAIN – Mississippi Queen (Live on “The Show” 02-24-1970) – * RARE * remastered audio