Dear KAG: 20210316 Open Thread

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Waiting, and waiting, and waiting.

And the weather is gloomy.

And it doesn’t “look” on the surface like anything is happening, at least not that We the People are allowed to see on the geo-political front. There’s just a lot of signaling tweets from people on the good guys’ side that something is going on.

On the COVID front, on the other hand, physicians are speaking out on the last year and are shooting straight about the way the entire episode in American history was handled. Thanks to GrandmainTexas for bringing it to us. It is well worth the hour to watch and listen, and hear how physicians’ trust in the medical and technoscientific establishment(s) has been shattered in the last year.

https://youtu.be/q11V9ijJUXs

Just one more layer of darkness to add where hopium is denied.

But, hey, we’re still Americans, right? We’ve still got some fight left in us.

Just a reminder:

Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.

And now for something completely different.

Your weekly reminder to take the pledge:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

And now for the nitty gritty of the Q Tree 5 minute, stand up, Tuesday morning meeting version of the Daily Thread.

Ahem.

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From Monday’s Daily Mass readings:

ISAIAH 65:17-21

17“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. 18But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress. 20No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed. 21They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.