Day: October 19, 2023

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20231019

Badlands News Brief – October 17, 2023

Interesting point to consider in the whole “Biden and his people are in charge” milieu…. The US Embassy in Israel is still in Jerusalem. Wouldn’t they have moved it back to Tel Aviv?

U.S. FIREARM SALES SURGE IN WAKE OF HAMAS ATTACK ON ISRAEL

Imagine that. Americans being Americans.

Who Can We Trust in the Media?

Next to nobody, JD. By now, you should know that.

Will Americans Fight for Globalism?

Not likely even with carrots dipped in chocolate dangling in front of us.

The Biden Administration Tries to Hide What It Knew About an Impending Massacre, While Leaving U.S. Backing for Iran Untouched

Tucker Carlson’s Media Company Raises $15 Million in Seed Round Led by ‘Anti-Woke’ Firm

Pressure mounts on lower-tier Republican presidential candidates to drop out

Was the Israel-Hamas Conflict De-escalated?

The Entire “500 Killed After Israel Bombed Hospital” Narrative Is Falling Apart

The UniParty is on Full Display as 22 Professional Republicans Work with Democrats to Block Jim Jordan – Here’s The List

Intending to Fracture Growing Black Support for Trump – Robert Kennedy Jr. Announces Support for Reparations

The Kennedy fortune goes first…even if it was built on bootlegged Scotch.

Idaho Republican Rep Mike Simpson Views Constituent Contacts as “Intimidation and Threatening”

Potatoes instead of stones in Idaho. Got it.

TWEETS!

Ready or not, here it comes.

Yep.

True.

And that might not be the real truth, either.

The biggest thing “they” fear is an awake populace.

If Burning Bright keeps posting like this, there’s no reason for a Badlands daily.

Well…in talking to a few people…there’s not much support for going to war not on our shores anymore.

Yes. After all, journalism is a rough draft of history. In this case, a REALLY rough draft, but nowhere close to the finished product.

Nancy, sweetheart, we have a REPUBLIC, not a “democracy”…at least on paper.

MEMES and FUN STUFF:

One size fits most. Ha.

Thank you, Jesus!

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And now for the business portion.

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ROMANS 3:21-30

21But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, 22the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction; 23since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, 25whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins; 26it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus. 27Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On the principle of works? No, but on the principle of faith. 28For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law. 29Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of their faith and the uncircumcised through their faith.

PSALMS 130:1-6

1Out of the depths I cry to thee, O LORD! 2Lord, hear my voice! Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! 3If thou, O LORD, shouldst mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? 4But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. 5I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; 6my soul waits for the LORD more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

This is the coolest thing John Rutter ever arranged or composed.

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SATIRE

I’ve paid a lot less than that to go on a cruise.