“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
With the mish-mash of true reports, false reports, misdirections and outright lies, our attention and focus is being jerked all over the place . . . that is, if we’re trying to keep up with all that’s going on in the universe of political intrigue.
When the world is trying to batter us about in its teapot tempests, I believe it does our mind a very healthy turn if we focus on the One who got us here in the first place. With that in mind . . .
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”
Psalm 103
1 Praise the Lord, my soul! All my being, praise his holy name! 2 Praise the Lord, my soul, and do not forget how kind he is. 3 He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. 4 He keeps me from the grave and blesses me with love and mercy. 5 He fills my life[b] with good things, so that I stay young and strong like an eagle.
6 The Lord judges in favor of the oppressed and gives them their rights. 7 He revealed his plans to Moses and let the people of Israel see his mighty deeds. 8 The Lord is merciful and loving, slow to become angry and full of constant love. 9 He does not keep on rebuking; he is not angry forever. 10 He does not punish us as we deserve or repay us according to our sins and wrongs. 11 As high as the sky is above the earth, so great is his love for those who honor him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our sins from us. 13 As a father is kind to his children, so the Lord is kind to those who honor him. 14 He knows what we are made of; he remembers that we are dust.
15 As for us, our life is like grass. We grow and flourish like a wild flower; 16 then the wind blows on it, and it is gone— no one sees it again. 17 But for those who honor the Lord, his love lasts forever, and his goodness endures for all generations 18 of those who are true to his covenant and who faithfully obey his commands.
19 The Lord placed his throne in heaven; he is king over all. 20 Praise the Lord, you strong and mighty angels, who obey his commands, who listen to what he says. 21 Praise the Lord, all you heavenly powers, you servants of his, who do his will! 22 Praise the Lord, all his creatures in all the places he rules. Praise the Lord, my soul!
So…hey, like the hedge fund people don’t like when they can’t control the money going here and there. Sadie has been keeping us updated on the Gamestock stock situation.
From Monday’s daily:
Sadie SlaysOnlineWolverine January 25, 2021 21:22
Update on the epic Gamestop stock battle between WSB and the hedge funds.
Once again, the Fake News tried to drive the stock price down, but failed. The stock price closed at $65.01 on Friday, reached a high of $159.18 today, and closed at 76.79. Anyone listening to Fake News missed out on an 18% stock gain. The people who were “wrong” got an 18% gain today!
Meanwhile, WSB kicked one hedge fund’s ass so badly that it had to be bailed out.
Look at the absolute nerve of this one banker! He wants the SEC to stop people from sharing stock tips online because they’re “ganging up” on the poor short sellers. The bankers make a living manipulating the market in illegal ways to make us all poorer, but as soon as their greed catches up to them, it’s crocodile tears, bailouts, and calling in the feds. F— you, Smead. I hope your hedge fund is the next to go down.
Although stocks are normally out of our purview, I’m covering and participating in this battle because of the confluence of a populist movement, Fake News, and trying to fight Wall Street scum in a David vs. Goliath battle. It genuinely feels like another battlefront in the Great Awakening.
From Tuesday:
Sadie SlaysOnlineWolverine January 26, 2021 18:31
Gamestop update. WSB won this round again! Opened at 88.56, closed at $147,98, currently at $214.00 in after-hours trading. Eat shit, Fake News. This is an excellent red pill for normies about Fake News, fake financial analysts, and how Wall Street rigs the market against the little people.
These hedge fund people have no sense of humor. They actually think they are entitled to funny money made not quite honestly.
Imagine that.
That being the case, Elmer Bernstein, meet Le Nozze di Figaro (every singer’s FAVORITE opera – Susanna is my dream part) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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1Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. 2And he taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 3″Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 5Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it had not much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil; 6and when the sun rose it was scorched, and since it had no root it withered away. 7Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. 8And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” 9And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” 10And when he was alone, those who were about him with the twelve asked him concerning the parables. 11And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables; 12so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.” 13And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? 14The sower sows the word. 15And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown; when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word which is sown in them. 16And these in like manner are the ones sown upon rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; 17and they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. 18And others are the ones sown among thorns; they are those who hear the word, 19but the cares of the world, and the delight in riches, and the desire for other things, enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 20But those that were sown upon the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
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