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On this day and every day –
God is in Control
. . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . .
Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God;
do not mourn nor weep.” . . .
“Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet,
and send portions to those
for whom nothing is prepared;
for this day is holy to our Lord.
Do not sorrow,
for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
REJOICE!!!
For most of the culture today, it appears that joy is elusive.
Turning to entertainment, impurity, drugs, sports, relationships, shopping, or whatever else – all in the hope of finding deep soul satisfaction. Perhaps it’s the confusion that joy is an emotion – a desire to find continual happiness – and thus always on the search for the next emotional high. But the only way we’re going to experience joy is when we realize the source of it is not in circumstances, situations, or emotions. The source of joy is God Himself. He is the fullness of joy.
Psalm 16:11 tells us “You [God] make known to me the path of life; in Your presence there is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
The fullness of joy is found in the presence of God … nowhere else.
Paul tells us in Galatians that joy is a fruit of the Spirit (5:22). Joy is not something we produce or whip up – joy is something that comes as a natural outflow of having the Spirit of God residing within us. When we’re in Christ and He is in us, we find the fruit of His Spirit being produced within us.
Regardless of circumstance, situation, or trial – we can have joy within our lives because we set our gaze on Christ and declare our trust in Him, no matter what we face. It was from a prison cell that Paul commands us to “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4).
Again, joy is not about emotions, feelings, circumstances, or trials – it’s about a steadfast trust in our God amidst the difficulties.
Three times Paul explicitly commands believers to rejoice.
- Philippians 3:1a – Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. …
- Philippians 4:4 – Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 – Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
In all three verses above, the main verb (“rejoice”) is in the present, active, imperative. An imperative is a command – so we’re commanded to “rejoice always.” The active voice tells us that we’re responsible for the action – we’re commanded to choose joy and rejoice always. And the present tense in Greek is the idea of the “ever-present tense” – in other words, this action should always happen.
So Paul commands us to choose joy every moment of our lives. We’re to rejoice regardless of circumstance, situation, or emotion.
How can we practically “rejoice always” in all situations, every moment of the day? Here are some reflections and ideas how …
We must know that God is the source of joy
True joy (and the fullness of it) comes from God alone. He is the fullness of joy as Psalm 16:11 tells us “You make known to me the path of life; in Your presence there is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
You can see this idea in our passage in Philippians 4:4. The command is to rejoice “in the Lord.” Our joy and rejoicing comes from and is found in Jesus. He is the source of all joy. And if the fullness of joy is found in His presence and He does not change (see Hebrews 13:8), then the only place we should ever seek joy is in Him.
Joy is a fruit … the natural outflow of the life of the Spirit within us
Joy is not something we produce within us, nor is it a facade or smile we put on to make people think we have joy. Joy is an evidence of the life of Christ within us.
When we’re filled with the Holy Spirit, what comes out is His “fruit” – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). We don’t have to strive to replicate or produce it, it will naturally bear itself as long as we remain (abide) in Him. Just as a healthy tree doesn’t have to work, strive, or grit its teeth to produce fruit – if it’s a healthy tree, it’s guaranteed to produce fruit – because of the life within it.
We’re told in John 15, “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. … Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in Me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing (John 15:1, 4-5).
The job description of the branch is not to produce fruit (that will come as a natural result of abiding) – the job description is staying/remaining/abiding in the vine. It’s only in the vine that the branch receives life. And when that branch abides (remains) in the life of the vine, it will bear fruit.
In the same way, God, through His Spirit, wants to produce (and be) the joy in our lives.
Joy will be evident in our lives when we abide in the source of life: Jesus.
Joy is not about circumstances but a purposeful response amidst the circumstances
Being joyful doesn’t mean you need to be ignorant or ignore what’s going on around you, rather it’s about having the proper perspective amidst whatever life throws at you.
Joy is the set of the sail of the soul in the wind of circumstance. Joy is living from a new heavenly perspective.
When Paul commands us to rejoice always, he’s not giving us a cute phrase that we can put upon our refrigerator – he’s writing this with a beaten back sitting in a prison cell.
Paul knew great suffering. In 2 Corinthians 11:24–28, Paul recounts his struggles by saying, “Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. And, apart from other things, there’s the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.”
Yet it same man who despite all those painful struggles, commands from a prison cell, “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice” (Philippians 4:4). Paul wasn’t ignorant of his situation or the pain he experienced, but rather determined to “leap for joy” no matter what he faced.
Jesus gave the same commission in Luke 6:22-23, “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.”
Rejoicing doesn’t have to make sense … but it does need to happen (always)
It’s encouraging that “rejoicing always” doesn’t always have to make sense. But whether joy makes sense in the situation or not, we’re still called to do it.
Because joy is not an emotion like happiness, we can rejoice even with tears in our eyes and sorrow in our soul. So whether we feel happy or sad, we’re still called to rejoice.
We must decide to rejoice in every moment – good, bad, or ugly – even if it doesn’t make sense … perhaps especially if it doesn’t make sense.
To rejoice is a command. We must obey.
There are times when we must command our minds or souls to come in alignment with truth. In the Psalms, you find that the Psalmist will do that very thing. For example in Psalm 42:11, the Psalmist asks himself, “Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?” Rather than live in self-reflection or the despair, he commands his soul in the second half of the verse, “Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.”
Regardless of how we might feel, let us choose to obey the command to rejoice always, in all circumstances.
Joy increases with the increase of pressure (suffering, trial, persecution)
Joy has an interesting quality about itself – the more pressure we experience, the more joy should be produced.
When life presses us with pain, suffering, trials, hardships, or difficulty – that added pressure should only cause our joy to leap all the higher. Can we imagine living in such a way that the harder we’re squeezed, the more joy bubbles forth? Sound crazy? Perhaps. But it describes the life of a Christian.
Joy is a present declaration in our future hope (we rejoice because we know the future)
When we rejoice, it’s our present declaration in our future hope. If we know the end of the story, and the hope that awaits every believer, we can rejoice regardless of what happens around us.
Jesus said, “Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven” (Luke 10:20). When we know where we’re going, we can rejoice! What if we lived with an eternal perspective – looking at our “momentary afflictions” in light of eternity?
- 1 Peter 4:13 – But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
- 1 Peter 5:10 – And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
- Romans 8:18 – For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
- 2 Corinthians 4:17 – For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
- Hebrews 12:11 – For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
- Hebrews 13:5b-6 – For He has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
Joy exposes and declares our focus and trust in God
What we rejoice in declares our focus.
When we experience God’s joy in our lives, it reveals that our focus is Jesus and that we trust in His provision and timing (even if we don’t see the results immediately).
We rejoice because we know trials and difficulty lead to maturity
When you see the end result of difficulty, you find yourself joyfully enduring it.
James tells us, “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing” (James 1:2–4).
Similarly, Paul says in Romans 5:3–4, “Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope …”
When we face trials and difficulty, it produces steadfastness, endurance, character, and hope. In short, trials and hardships develop maturity in our lives.
Joy is most evident (or seen more clearly) in our trials, sufferings, hardships, difficulties, and weaknesses
The best place to see if we’re rejoicing is not during times of ease. It’s easy to have joy when things go well … but joy is proven in difficulty. As pressure increases in our lives, so too our joy should expand and be seen more clearly
Paul rejoiced in his weaknesses because it was in his weakness that the power of God was made more evident (see 2 Corinthians 12:9). What if we saw trials, sufferings, hardships, difficulties, and weaknesses not as something to dread but something to rejoice in.
What the world needs now more than ever is to see believers not walking in fear or worry but rejoicing – especially with everything going on in our world.
We rejoice because we know God is King … and He has overcome the world
There is always a reason to rejoice because our God is King of kings and Lord of lords and He has overcome the world! He is the victor! He is the savior! He is King!
- Psalm 97:1 – The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!
- John 16:33 – I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
We rejoice because God is a God of Joy
God is a God of joy.
- Psalm 16:11 – You make known to me the path of life; in Your presence there is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
- Zephaniah 3:17 – The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
- Nehemiah 8:10b – And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
- John 15:11 – These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
God does not want us to be conformed to the pattern and image of the world (Romans 12:2), rather we are to be conformed to the image of Jesus (Romans 8:29). Since He is full of joy, so too our lives should ever be rejoicing!
Joy is to be a distinctive mark of a Christian
Is joy one of the distinctive marks in our lives?
We know Christians are supposed to be known for love (John 13:35) and Peter says that we’re to wear the clothing (the mark) of humility (1 Peter 5:5). In fact, all the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) are to be the evidence of the life of the Spirit within a believer – which means joy should be one of the “dominant themes” bearing itself out in our lives.
Paul reminds us that the Kingdom of God is one of joy (remember, He is a God of joy and His kingdom bears His nature) – “For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Romans 14:17).
Let Us Rejoice Always
If joy isn’t an emotion nor based upon circumstances, then there’s every reason to “rejoice in the Lord always, again I say rejoice!”
Is that true in our lives?
Would we walk with God along His paths, in Whose presence is the fullness of joy, as He becomes our joy and bear that fruit in and through our lives?
As Isaiah wrote, “I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels” (Isaiah 61:10).
deeperchristian.com/12-reflections-on-the-command-to-rejoice-always
Sunday is the day when Pacific NW finally gets appropriate winter weather.
IOW the low temp is 25-35 degrees and the high is no more than 45. Next weekend it’s supposed to get down to 15 degrees and warm up to 27 degrees.
Snow? Maybe.
Our local weather reporter said something like, “enough of that mild post-Christmas weather — back to January.”
We might even get a freeze.
We’ve got a light dusting of snow now just today that’s covering up the grime just a bit!
Quick!!!
Go out and soap it up 🙂
You could always sing… that might help 😆
Catch the SF Warbonnet at the end… maybe that was part of their problem 😀
Just watching the first half minute or so, this scene is kind of creepy…
I don’t think people actually break out into song like this, not even in the 1950s.
Probably because it would be really creepy 😂
And where’s the band supposed to be coming from? Sounds like a full string section. Can’t hide something as big as a full string section in the corner of a cafe.
I’m beginning to think this whole scene looks suspicious… 😁
The scene was on a train. Have you never watched White Christmas? It’s a bit of a classic though Hubby prefers the B&W precursor, Holiday Inn.
What drives me nuts is apparently the Minstrel Show number “Abraham” was cut from “Holiday Inn” because the BLM snowflakes don’t know anything about history, and think both minstrel show performers and Abraham Lincoln himself were rayyyycissssts…
Funny thing about these movies (and the Father O’Malley ones) is that they recycle some of the tunes… for example “Bells of St. Mary’s” and “Tu-Rah-Lu-Rah-LuRah” (from “Going My Way”) share the same “outline”… also, funny trivia, the fellow who played Bing’s senior pastor was actually younger than Bing 🙂
Then there’s the tie-in between Mr. Bogardis (“Bells of St. Mary’s”) and Clarence the Angel (“It’s A Wonderful Life”)… Five movies we always would watch at Christmas (that were FREE on TV) every year, along with “Miracle On 34th Street”, along with others… also “Nicholas Nickleby” would be on PBS around then, a RST masterpiece, indeed… sad, but “Cheeryble” in the end…
We have the Abraham blackface number is still on our Holiday Inn DVD…didn’t know it got cut in the TV showing…sigh…
They could just insert some type of “trigger warning” for snowflakes before & even after the scene & leave the art as is…
Actually people do, musicians that is…
There were a group of us, when I was in high school, who performed in musicals not only at our schools, but at other schools and colleges and junior colleges in the area because we were (for the most part) the best around at our instruments (including voice) in the area….
We were also, at times 🙂 (OK, maybe most of the time) inveterate screwoffs…
So we were often asked to finish our meals (and “concert”) early and leave 😀
Those were the days 🙂 And most of us ended up studying music, some of us performed pro or semi-pro from then onwards, and/or teaching.
One time we were caroling at Christmas on BART (going to Ghiradelli Square, to sing there)(and have their great hot chocolate) and we had the whole train, on the TransBay tube under the SF Bay, singing Christmas Carols… Yep… that was a long, loooong time ago. Christmas wasn’t hated in the Bay Area back then… sigh…
You need to see the context of the scene… more suspicious is the fact that the train is part of a Santa Fe consist, probably SF Daylight, in Warbonnet Colors, which wouldn’t normally be running on the East Coast 🙂 But that would explain the lack of snow…
Here’s a “Reaction Video” that I ran across while looking up “Snow” (and btw. my musician gang really did do that sort of thing and get kicked our of just about every restaurant in Newark and Fremont)… BandDramaDeStrange was one term used back then…
(It’s pretty obvious that these two never saw this movie before, and their reactions in some part make me feel, erm, old…)…. 🎄 🎄 🎄
“Gobsmackingly Bananas”: Weather Models Predict Polar Vortex Invasion Into US
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/gobsmackingly-bananas-weather-models-predict-polar-vortex-invasion-us
I’d be more inclined to follow what Joe Bastardi has to say (www.weatherbell.com … see his Saturday Summary)…
thank you, as always, bakocarl for the timely message of Joy. 💞
I like the way you put it…
“Joy is the set of the sail of the soul in the wind of circumstance.”
also that it is a choice we make.
a mindset of Faith.
even when everything might look hopelessly bleak.
Amen!
What a day!
the peaceful transfer of power…?
what a shameless liar she is.
The 2020 Election fraud and its enablement by courts, elected officials, media propaganda and censorship WAS the insurrection!!!
AMEN!
1,000% 😡
I don’t know how Elon knows that they will be prosecuted. I hope he is right.
I get the feeling that Elon Musk is part of the 5th Generation war team. I certainly hope so.
Yup.
If he is, the CCP is in a world of trouble. Elon has extensive business connections there that would be usable as a Fifth Column.
LOL. I can’t think of one time when a “progressive” was elected and then turned into a Republican. It certainly doesn’t happen all the time. It’s the opposite: we elect a “conservative” who turns into a progressive.
A better question is WHO grabbed the blackmail held on Fetterman?
I think somebody deprogrammed him from some kind of MK.
Could be. It seemed like his wife was his handler. Remember at the start he disappeared into a hospital. Was he deprogrammed then?
It would be an ideal place.
that’s a distinct possibility imo. the wife took a “vacation” with the kids when john went into the hospital. she does not live with him in dc.
Hmmmm …
What the heck. Adam’s Family 2, dysfunctional? 
https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-wife-leaving-country-raises-questions-1784308
Festermann…. 🙂
as a Pennsylvanian, this has me baffled. everything revealed about him before the election screamed spoiled, entitled liberal. then the stint in a hospital where he “got better” and now looks like him but not quite like him? too weird to think about. did he have a “come to Jesus” moment? who knows.
No more deserving person than Cenk to have this news in his face.
Twatter world ought to be trolling Cenk, incessantly.
Ahhh…
One of the “Young Jerks”…. Turk Jerks…. Turkey Jerkey…
Love those vids where he goes totally nonlinear when he’s being shown up as a fool…..
I remember seeing the fit he threw when he realized Hitlary had lost. That was mere hours after the cocky smirk he had on his face as the first returns came in.
I just found the video I was thinking about. Nice anti Hillary tirade in there somewhere.
And then on the more sane side of the insane side, this group actually had a moment of introspective seriousness, analyzing headlines on the day after and calling out the more oblivious ones. (The NYT headline simply didn’t have a clue what was happening.)
Feel good story of the day! 🤣
To quote an old commercial, snack attack…
“The meatball is cooked.”
Who are the 61 morons?
OK maybe half of them are watching to gain intelligence on idiocy.
Probably AI bots 🙂
61 Bots.
prison inmates–part of their punishment
Cruel and unusual punishment.
HA!
bwah ha ha
He’s right. The communists are making a mockery of the law.
The only laws they follow are the ones they make up. It’s all about power and control with the political elite.
Engoron makes me think of the word “Engorged”, like Shelob the evil, demonic spider in LOTR who was so engorged she couldn’t get out of her lair…
I don’t understand how a judge has the option to ignore the ruling of an appeals court. Aren’t there laws that govern appeals court rulings? Or did the appeals court ruling just tell the judge to go back an reexamine his ruling?
Also, aren’t there US Supreme Court Justices that oversee the Appellate Courts?
Facts wouldn’t piss on him if he were on fire.
Defense Secretary Austin Scandal Is Even Worse Than We Thought
Knowing nothing more, I’ll bet it’s some gastric thing that had problems.
Septum reconstruction…..the bag of coke wasn’t necessarily Hunter’s….
LOL
Deviant septum…
Is a deviant septum from having your nose habitually where it shouldn’t be?
That would be Bye, Done then… 🙂
https://nitter.net/EzraACohen/status/1743827505776037942#m
OK, I’m switching my answer. Alien parasite removed!!!
So this is because of our family movie quoting language & you mentioning an alien parasite. This doofus in the clip is being controlled by an alien dart in his neck that allows people w/ the controllers to dictate his actions!
My guess is, he had a “booster” and had a very bad, instant anaphylactic reaction.
“Elective procedure.”
Quite possibly.
I view, “elective procedure” as a USG PR ruse of sorts.
Hospitalized January 1st. Monday. <<< Telling in itself.
If it was a recent Jab, it fits the 0-14 day window major problems surface.
We’ll never know.
Certainly good news to the CCP, no doubt…
(and they probably knew he was out…)…..
“Elective Procedure” — rectal reconstruction from “playing Senate Hearing Room” with the CCP too often…..
Could be botox, face lift, tummy tuck or brain transplant.
IMO—Unless otherwise proven, the “vaccine” was involved in Sec. Austin’s hospitalization.
YUP. Good call.
Wolf Moon
IMO—Even if direct “vaccine” issues weren’t the primary reason for hospitalization, “secondary involvement” cannot be ruled out, since the “vaccines” can, and do, increase / aggravate existing medical issues in “vaccinated” people.
And there’s, IMO, a 100% probability that Sec. Austin is “fully vaccinated and boosted.”
Blacks are afflicted with much higher average blood pressure. No one knows why. It causes lots of problems.
My late pastor went in for tumor removal from behind his eye and ended up a near vegetative state due to a stroke during the surgery.
😥
Maybe he ‘died suddenly’, and they don’t want to look like they got caught with their pants down (where they always are) having no one ready to step in to Tiny’s shoes.
If no one has seen him since Monday, January 1st, then the longer he hasn’t been seen by anyone, the more likely it becomes that he kicked off.
B I N G O.
Medical procedure has been down played. MeThinks a serious problem. Heart my first uneducated guess. Four days ICU.
Personally, I hope Idi gets his RSV, Flu and Booster while quacks are fussing over him.
Should have a travel bag IV drip at all times, just to be on the safe side. All members of the administration should have those wheeled stands with the IV bags, so they can be hooked up 24/7 to the latest vaxx.
Being our best and brightest, they need the most protection.
Hopefully Lord Vader remembered to mask-up before going to the hospital 👍
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There is not one single person in those photos who isn’t a halfwit.
Look at them all with their stupid shields over their stupid masks.
They’re all idiots. Not one of them questions the cauldron of bullshit they’re all stewing in.
All those medals, and not one good man.
Just mindless drones and followers.
I am sure
Obamaknew about it.Good stuff, that I needed right now.
Not hopium, not hopanyl, but HOPE!
Amen!
Amen Carl, what a wonderfully uplifting message to begin this New Year–Thank You!
I wanted to share a tidbit from my family “archives”…
Last week some family members went to my parents’ home to watch Michigan in the Rose Bowl game, as they are the only ones with cable TV.
While there I read a letter they had put up on their Fridge. It began “Dear (their street name) Angels”…
It was a very heartfelt 2 page letter from neighbors that regularly walk by my parents’ home & wanted to thank them profusely for their sidewalk chalk scripture ministry.
For some time now my mom & dad have been writing Bible verses on their sidewalk in front of their home. There is one on the south end w/ a North oriented message & a different one at the north end with a South oriented message–oriented meaning most easily read when heading in that direction. So basically whichever direction one approaches their property there is a Bible verse at the beginning & end of their land. They put up new verses whenever the old ones are gone, like after a rain…
The people who left the note have said that they take many different walking routes but Always make a point to go by my parents’ home so they can read the Bible verses, which often represent the highlight of their day. They said that the verses often become a part of their discussion as they walk & often seem to speak directly to circumstances that they face–since clearly God’s Word does not return void!
Amazingly, based on some of what they penned, it appears that they are Muslim, or at least refer to Muhammed w/ reverence so have a background or culture that is Islamic friendly, at a minimum. Regardless, God’s Word is still at work in their lives & they look at my parents as brother & sister though they’ve never met nor even seen them so have no idea who they are.
I just wanted to share this to say that you never know in how you live your life for the Lord the He is continuing to move & touch lives with His love, mercy, & truth.
Interestingly, I had put sidewalk chalk in my dad’s Christmas stocking knowing he was usually the Bible verse scribe at their home so I was quite blessed to see that their sidewalk chalk ministry was bearing fruit in at least one family’s life. Praise the Lord!
Welcome news, and very appropriate for the day.
I decided to share it for a Sunday post as thought it would be fitting.
I have less pleasant info on an in-law death that will pend to a weekday 🙁
Hope things are going well with you!
I was thinking of some of your home improvement adventures while my husband tackled an unexpected plumbing scenario over the holidays. He discovered the cold water pipe going to our only bathroom sink (yeah we had a family of 6 in a 5 BR house w/ 1 bath & a “throne” alone in the basement w/ less than 1500 sq feet above ground) was developing a leak that started producing even more water when he finger nudged some of the green patina off of the copper near the split.
Anyway he studied a few online videos to get a good grasp of what needed to be done, bought his materials & did some of the work Before needing to turn the water off. Basically these pipes to that sink were so old & corroded he decided to replace them both & the cut-off valves for each temp & also to install a new faucet we’d bought a while back but had never got around to upgrading it yet.
So unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, in joy & all) he has had a bit of pipe repair experience over the years, mostly at my parents’ Northern Michigan Cottage, where sometimes the winterization process was inadequate to forestall occasional breaks. He was Planning to solder the stuff that would be installed under the sink & drop them through the floor to join them with the pipes coming up from the basement so only have to turn off the water, hopefully for less than 2 hours, to complete the connections.
Well he was having Real Problems getting the solder to flow properly & those replacement valves & pipes started looking pretty shabby, gunked up with dripping metal. So yet another trip to the hardware store where he discovered some pricey chemical bond that could be used instead of solder (he was also using “shark bites”, I believe). This chemical bonding process worked Amazingly so we actually were able to take back the $30 soldering kit he’d acquired thinking part of his issue was older solder, for he’d just bought the flux (not capacitor 🙂 ) prior to the project.
So he cleaned up all the solder mess from the pipes & chemically joined stuff & it all looks great & works great too. I’m so thankful that he can tackle such projects & do them so well. & I accompanied him on a couple trips to the hardware store & was able to finagle the retroactive application of coupons he forgot to use so ended up saving us $40 on top of it. Way to go home team!
My next big project is re-keying the locks around the house. Eleven of them.
That sounds like a bit of a pain. Yesterday our daughter stopped by & was so glad to use power tools to help her dad replace a handrail bracket that had just broken on basement stairs. She also assisted in replacing a broken hall tree dual hanger, not sure if that’s the right word but if the pic shows below that’s close to what we have, so she has a dedicated place for her coat whenever she stops by. She misses her old job where using power tools was a regular part of her day 🙂
Hope your projects are problem free!
I don’t solder pipes. When I first moved up here, I lived in a place that got their maintenance man from another complex where he had burned-out three units soldering pipes.
We didn’t have to worry about him very long, because he used a Skilsaw to cut a 2×4 across his leg and scored a 3/4″ deep cut across the top of his thigh (luckily, all muscle).
Such a wonderful tale.
Oh my goodness. This isn’t the place to mention my husband’s calf scar from a chainsaw is it?
Over here, soldering pipes is just this side of illegal (due to the lead, which isn’t that big of a problem, if done correctly, and, erm, there are WATER MAINS still around made of lead pipe [rare, but there])… what they use here, even on GAS PIPE!!!!! are special crimp fittings, along with a VERY expensive tool with which to do it…
I’m not too sure that those kinds of fittings will hold over the years, but the unicorn-fart/pixie-dust tree-hugging greens think so…. WHATEVER could POSSIBLY go wrong??? Especially with a gas pipe… in the furnace room…..
We had (gangGreens again) our Furnace replaced in 2015, and ALL the fittings were these creepy crimpy ones… 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡
Soldering copper is not a huge problem as long as the pipe is clean, smooth, and dry (inside and out) and heat can be applied evenly and consistently (with a flame barrier behind so that framing, etc. doesn’t go up)… Those used to be made with asbestos and worked well, but the gangGreens got us there again, as well….
Glad you got it sorted! Plumbing in freezing (or near) weather is no fun…
(or in 100°F humid West-By-God weather either, for that matter 🙂 )…..
There is such a thing as lead-free solder and that’s what we use here.
I’ve used it for years in electronics, but never with water pipe… I’m assuming it’s not rosin as flux, then…
IIRC the flux is separate from the solder when plumbing, rather than being in a central cavity in the solder.
Yes, hubby brushes on flux to help the solder flow, iirc.
And uses a flux capacitor to make it go faster 🙂
Oh, wait….
I’d still trust the old soldered joints over these newfangled crimp disasters-waiting-to-happen any day… 💧 🌊 🌊 🐋 🐙 ☄
me too; at least old school meant some learned basis for the behavior not just delusions (like lets cut/modify heat shields on a Space Shuttle for environmental reasons…oh they burned up on re-entry, too bad, so sad, but at least we’re saving the planet) 🙁
I had better luck soldering pipe than gluing PVC or pipe dope on gas lines. I eventually got all three down but pipe soldering always just worked right the first time.
Isn’t that PVC glue purple so it shows up real well against the white? Hubby has “played” with all those kinds of pipes too–his dad & granddad were both steamfitters or pipefitters, ironically, so it might be in the genes a bit, even if he never learned such stuff from his dad as he was moved away from him when about 5 & only saw him twice more before he died when Hubby was a teen…
Our guys made marshmallow guns out of PVC pipe but not sure if glue was involved–fun!
It’s not the glue that is purple, it’s the primer you’re supposed to put on before the glue. And yes the inspectors will bust you for not using the primer.
Inspectors are in short supply around here (in my home) LOL
Yep. And the lead in the solder shouldn’t be a problem, either, if properly applied…
Karens again, just like with the supposed problem of children being poisoned by lead leaching (or something) off of the type/printing plates used to print childrens’ books… Libturds were probably (and still are) more worried about being able to poison childrens’ minds…
(I was already over here when that last idiocy occurred, otherwise I’d probably have scored a ton of cheap library editions of classic books… drat…)…
Gives new meaning to the term, chalk talk.
❤ 😍 ❤
👏🐔🆒
I like the turtle statue.
My DIL has similar & it’s under a bench on their front porch. Once when I had the dog out in our front yard, I might have gone over to their house to shovel their snow as they were both at work, so the dog was running randomly around in the vicinity & went up on the porch & freaked out when she saw the “turtle” there. It was actually pretty funny as it “snuck up” on her 🙃
Cats are the best.
It’s like they all instinctively think they are snakes or something LOL
The plant that looks like a weird animal.
yep 🙂
Larry Boy 🙂
We loved this character when our kids were young!
Yes, probably an instinctive fear of snakes.
Probably why most of us despise politicos too 😉 😉
LOL!!!
It wasn’t when it started out 😆
I would be surprised if the Amish gamble.
Generation Z-Z-Z-z-z-z on the left there.
One of the best explanations of communism ever!
😂
Rejoice GREATLY!!!!
Quite awesome!!!!
wow
what a voice she has !
magnificent.
(I hope it’s not an AI performance, it’s so perfect.)
Or Autotune, the bane of REAL musicians…
Repeating this great video about excess deaths, for anybody who might have missed it.
Time to add this. Rejoicing in the truths that are openly stated that the commies would rather be silenced.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/a-summary-of-the-evidence-against
Superb article.
TradeBait2 and Wolf Moon
Thank you for these. Yours Truly will add the links to the Deagel Report post.
Looking forward to Ed Dowd’s updating excess deaths, disability…
It’s been months. I hope Ed has not been silenced.
Thanks for bringing this forward. Katie’s presentation is Superb.
The Katie Hopkins video is, IMO, important to watch. It appears that cardiovascular events is the largest culprit in the excess mortality numbers in England in the ages 20 – 64 combined age group.
It also appears that a significant number of these cardiovascular events are occurring to people when they are at home, as opposed to being in the hospital or otherwise under care.
Of course, the Lancet article does NOT mention the “vaccines” as a cause of the excess deaths — IMO, this is due to the disclosure at the end of the article that the lead author of the said article, Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard, receives fees from Pfizer! “Other reasons”, including COVID-19 infection, are mentioned.
Yours Truly can posit that the authors of the Lancet article know the real truth — that the excess deaths are occurring because of the ingredients and the mechanisms of the COVID-19 “vaccines” — but either choose not to tell the truth, or are afraid of the repercussions that telling the truth could do to their careers.
Yours Truly will also posit the following: Since the heart and cardiovascular system damage that the COVID-19 “vaccines” do can be cumulative and incremental to the “vaccinated” person, many people don’t know that “something is wrong” until things are out of control, or nearly out of control.
And here’s the proof:
https://doctors4covidethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/causality-article.pdf
“Vascular and organ damage induced by mRNA vaccines: irrefutable proof of causality”
Michael Palmer, MD, and Sucharit Bhakdi, MD
Please refer to Slide 10 and Slide 11 for images of damage to the heart.
Please refer to Slide 14 of the following graphic: “The Pfizer vaccine mRNA gets copied (“reverse transcribed”) into DNA and inserted into the cellular genome”
Here is the Lancet article cited by Ms. Hopkins:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100802
“Excess mortality in England post COVID-19 pandemic: implications for secondary prevention”
Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard, et al.
Yes. That explains all the “sudden deaths,” as well as the fact that people are dying at home, or at least not in a hospital setting.
So wonderful to see! Their joy at winning, of course, but also of winning as they represent their country.
and erbody was singing
Horrible singers…and no one gives a rip!
Footage of the FIB organizing Pelosie’s kidnapping on Jan 6
(Tongue in cheek reenactment)
I’d love to have a desk like that! (as long as I didn’t have to lift it 🙂 )…..
This is another Episode of Lara Logan.
What Victory White had to go through in her life before Jan 6 is also Incredible.
Excellent stuff. Even the judge who sentenced her realized it was a travesty, and gave her the least time he could without the deep state taking him out (IMO).
Absolute travesty, what has happened to Victoria White.
LETHUGS.UFB, the ALLOWED criminal behavior of DC LE, Prosecutors AND Courts.
Marxists have a new website…
check it out…
link…
Democracy Docket
Lead article by the criminal MARC ELIAS!
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
Verse of the Day for Sunday, January 7, 2024
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“That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.”
Psalms 83:18 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
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
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
COUNT IT ALL JOY
At daybreak, God coaxes you out of your sleep;
At first light, God’s blessings you’ll surely reap;
As His love surrounds you, arise in awe;
From His bountiful harvest you will draw!
In silence, thoughts of God will fill your mind;
His presence in you – know God has defined;
Open your heart and receive His great love;
His grace and His blessing sent from above!
Sing unto God – Sing a new song today;
As His Spirit indwells – shows you the way;
Praise Him – oh, Praise Him with all of your heart;
From you, He promised He would not depart!
Draw from His strength – as He dwells within you;
Without Him, there is – nothing – you can do;
Give Him this day – your sorrow and pain;
Repent of your sins – please do not refrain!
Tell Him you love Him – and thank Him outright;
For all that He does – what He brings to light;
For a smile – a kind word – encouragement, too;
For what He accomplishes through me and you!
Count it all joy – raise your voice strong in song;
Be grateful – be joyful – to Him you belong;
Your sorrows – your happiness – give it to Him;
And His Spirit – will fill your heart to the brim!
Rely on Him – do nothing – without His consent;
In your prayer – be mindful He’s omnipresent;
Give Him this day your acceptance and pray;
You can count it all joy at the end of the day!
D01: 7/20/2013
duchess01
Thank you for these, and especially for your beautiful poem and the verse from Psalm 107.
Prayers ongoing for you here and at Marica’s blog. Be well.
BEAUTIFUL TEACHING, CARL !!! GOD BLESS YOU REAL GOOD !!! ❤️
A QUICK SUMMARY LEST WE FORGET…
Thank you for this, Duchess!
I copied it to our Poetry Tree at this link:
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/#comment-1212948
1990’s Contemporary Christian music.
RE: The Deagel Report
Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but the name “Deagel” is similar to “Deagol”, the brother of Smeagol (Gollum) in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Smeagol murdered Deagol to gain possesion of the “One Ring” of power, which Deagol had found.
Brother against brother.
The Deagel Report is basically about the same thing; The murder of brothers (broad meaning) against brothers.
Possibly a Deep State/ Lucifarian use of symbolism???
itswoot
That is possible. The originator of the Deagel Report, a Dr. Edwin A. Deagle, had connections to Stansfield Turner and the Cee Eye Aye; he was also part of The Rockefeller Foundation.
https://expose-news.com/2023/08/06/cia-deagel-2025-depopulation-on-target/
itswoot
Thank you. Yours Truly saw that you copied your question to the Deagel Report post. I don’t know how to copy my reply above to the post.
Interesting things about Edwin A. Deagle:
1) He doesn’t appear to have a Wikipedia page. That seems odd.
2) There are two kids from a first wife. They divorced in 1978 in Virginia. One of the two boys died in 2016. The other is be still living. He is not named in his father’s obit, but he was in his brother’s. He is Edwin A. Deagle III, and was a psychologist with the 82nd Airborne in 1998:
https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/163/6/iii/4831925
In the same year, 1998, he co-authored research about body-image disturbance in anorexia and bulemia:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/(SICI)1098-108X(199709)22:2%3C107::AID-EAT1%3E3.0.CO;2-J
Edwin III was in the Army Special Warfare Center in 2005. He wrote a research paper about the tactical importance of interpersonal skills:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjkuMDd9cuDAxUzMjQIHcmOCGAQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.dtic.mil%2Fsti%2Ftr%2Fpdf%2FADA434652.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0IhUpH4Nnne-RbR_CmEePC&opi=89978449
That’s what I was able to find. Nothing after 2005. Spook?
Excellent & intriguing dig!
Aubergine
Thank you for this. IMO, it’s possible that other items about Dr. Deagle have been quietly deleted / destroyed.
I agree.
That’s usually CIA, and almost certain if MIB.
Looks to me like there was a family tradition.
I searched on Duck Duck Go for Edwin A. Deagle and the NYT obit does mention a son named Ed (that would be Edwin III, right?):
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/edwin-deagle-obituary?id=51994592
Good find! I found an obit in a different place.
And yes, that is Edwin III.
Archived 6 months ago. Somebody else is on the trail.
https://archive.fo/l2qWD
Interesting…
Foiled again?
TONS of aluminum in the various vaxes given to children as part of their “schedule”… the “thinking” behind that being that poisons make good adjuvants by irritating/stimulating the immune system…
Seems Big Pharma think they know more than (or are) GOD…..
Excellent cartoon! Communism SUCKS as always.
female swimmer makes a point without saying a word
GREAT!!!
I hope she won her race…
As she gives some
dudefreak, the stink eye!Fingernails locked and loaded 🙂 (and good on her!)…
Image now removed, dang it!
I ran it through Gab so it hopefully still shows (I hadn’t reloaded the page yet)
Thank you! SAVED!!!
Sweet–YW! It’s a keeper for sure!
https://www.sciencealert.com/it-turns-out-paper-straws-might-pose-a-serious-problem-too
What I worry (and wonder) about are the glass(!) straws being pushed as a replacement.
Break or chew on one of those and the potential damage is enormous… (I always wonder about Tim Rossovich at USC, who used to chew on glasses for fun…)…
The left gangGreens NEVER think about or obey the law of unintended consequences (or any laws, for that matter)…..
Sidewalk Chalk
H/T Valerie Curren
Sidewalk Chalk, God’s Word on the street,
Spreading The Truth to traveling feet.
Seen by all who may walk that way;
Manna from heaven in full display.
Food for thought and great blessings, too,
From precious words that Angels drew.
Messages for souls, speaking to hearts,
Call to all with New Life to impart.
Oh, that the world would walk by and see,
And read and believe to be set free
To live their lives holding Christ’s hand,
Bathed in His love, and living God’s plan.
On one Great Day, when The Trump sounds,
And we depart, bound for Holy Ground,
Those who wrote will hear from God’s Son,
“Come faithful servant, enter, well done.”
bakocarl
Thank you for this lovely poem, and for today’s very timely lesson!
Carl this is so beautiful I am going to be sharing this with my parents so that they can be blessed here too. Thank you! 😇
It was my privilege.
You are blessed & a blessing. God has given you many gifts that you share so freely with us. Thank you!
Copied to The Poetry Tree here:
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/#comment-1212955
I shared links to your words (& mine) in a blog post referenced here, where I also included a number of encouraging scripture images related to how God cares for us as we age. Some of that might bless you too 🙂
https://specialconnections.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/quick-link-to-a-poem-inspired-by-my-parents/
COMMUNISM IS SELF-INSTALLING.
Yours Truly has just posted a comment with a link to the Deagel Report post to Steve Kirsch’s Substack article, https://kirschsubstack.com/p/a-summary-of-the-evidence-against
Thank you.
He is in no condition to be acting as POTUS and no condition to be running for office. He should be somewhere being taken care of.
He should be running (or crawling, or wheeling) to an elder-care or memory-care facility…
Looks like Ruth Bader-Ghostburg v2.0…..
Deleted double post. 🫢
COVID didn’t work, and the flu has been around for years. I don’t think RSV alone can be spun as cause for lockdowns and vaxes. So they have to combine the three to make it seem we are facing a triple threat.
Why fears over a ‘tripledemic’ are surging
Not enough people are getting vaxed for each of the three.
Hospitals might become overwhelmed.
There might not be enough health care workers to deal with the patient load.
Be afraid…./sarc
“I’ve had sex more violent than this insurrection.”
— Scott Adams
https://nitter.net/ScottAdamsSays/status/1743752614809137567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Priceless!!!
It wasn’t him, he was quoting someone named “Blue Collar Intellectual Podcast (Julian)”
Still, point made…of course now some asshat will charge Julian with rape.
More likely, Julian’s significant other will charge him with boredom.
😂 😂 😂
“I really wanted to get it on, but all he did was walk up and down the hall wearing a funny hat and chanting….”
LOL
He could have been the submissive one. Hard to charge members of that group with rape.
Artificial Intelligence Is Allowing Them To Construct A Global Surveillance Prison From Which No Escape Is Possible
For now we can say, Just don’t buy new cars. But that can’t last forever. Parts for the older cars will be unavailable or hard to get. Other things will happen that make it hard to have only a pre-computerized vehicle. People who don’t wlant to be spied on will be forced into an off-the-grid life of a hermit living off the land in a self-sufficient way, but that is not feasible for the majority of people. Something needs to be done to protect our privacy. This seems like a violation of the Fourth Amendment to me. The amendment doesn’t address listening devices because they didn’t exist at that time, but it seems it should apply to them.
the expected bad news will be that insurance companies will no longer insure vehicles without this “safety feature” or that one–meaning older cars
Yes, I think that’s a problem. They are boxing us in “for our own good,” but it’s because money is involved for the big companies.
New growth industry – liability co-ops
Not if states won’t recognize them as fulfilling the requirement for insurance.
…that, of course effectively gives a small group of insurance companies an oligopoly…and they’re using it.
All states ‘recognize’ surety bonds for any legal purpose. Insurance is just a generalized surety bond anyway.
IIRC in California if you posted a bond of something like $30K (I’m sure the number is much higher now) you did not need to have liability insurance (though if the amount of the injury went above that I am sure you’d be on the hook for it). But that, of course, is putting the money up, up front. If there were a “co-op” would they be able to cover multiple people with the same money? If not, it’s just back to the case where everyone must post individually.
Not much higher — only $35,000 at present.
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-registration/insurance-requirements/
The bond used to be the same amount as the minimum insurance. If the minimum insurance was $15K (one victim)/$30K (multiple victims), then the minimum bond was $15K. That seems to have gone out the window, along with a lot of things that used to make sense in this state.
I just found the Colorado rule. No self-bonding unless you own 25 vehicles or more. Yikes!
On the other hand insurance is cheaper here than it was in CA. When I lived in CA, the insurance for someone under 25 consumed over 10 percent of my income, and that was for a car that was paid for.
Then we can get a bond.
A bond is always acceptable in lieu of insurance, and since it goes back to Common Law, TCTB can never close that loophole.
Sure they can.
Common law is a default and can be overridden by explicit act of the legislature.
Besides which, the dollar amount of bond is explicitly set by law. Boost it by a factor of 100x and it would soon go out of style.
Any attempt by the state to set a bond limit that was unreasonable would obviously be challenged in court.
By bond issuing companies, if by no one else.
“Common law is a default and can be overridden by explicit act of the legislature.”
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I don’t think that’s true, at least not how it was explained to me.
I’m not saying the crims wouldn’t or don’t try, but an explicit act of the legislature to make something unlawful that has been established as lawful under Common Law should not be able to withstand court challenge.
Common Law is the superior form of law. It’s foundational. Like the Constitution, which is likewise based on Common Law.
The example I remember best is the use of a family Bible as an acceptable form of identification for obtaining a passport.
Family Bibles were common and every member of the family’s birth would be recorded in the family Bible. It obviously long predates Social Security numbers, state I.D.s, photo I.D.s, etc. At the time I heard about it, maybe 8 or 9 years ago, I checked the government website, and the family Bible was still listed as an acceptable means of identification.
Only because the state legislature didn’t ban it for that purpose.
And that’s what I’m saying, I don’t think they can ban it, because it was already established under Common Law.
I don’t expect you to believe me.
I don’t expect anyone to believe anything anymore 😂
Well any state that passes a Voter ID law requiring a picture ID is basically saying that Common Law or no, a family bible is not valid ID.
If common law were not overrideable by state legislatures, state legislatures would literally have nothing to do, other than pass budgets. But apparently they do have a role in criminal law, and that was true even in the days of the Founders.
If I remember correctly, in order to obtain a passport, there were two lists of acceptable identifications, a primary list and a secondary list.
You needed at least two if I remember correctly, and at least one of them had to be from the primary list.
Family Bible was on the secondary form of identification list, but it was still there.
That just means the feds didn’t get around to disallowing its use. Not that they couldn’t.
Okay.
“Well any state that passes a Voter ID law requiring a picture ID is basically saying that Common Law or no, a family bible is not valid ID.”
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If it was not previously established that a Bible is acceptable for a voter I.D., then it doesn’t need to be acceptable now.
To my knowledge, using a family Bible for purposes of voter I.D. was never established, because it wasn’t necessary way back when.
But if it had been the common form of identification in order to vote, i.e., if it had been common established practice to show up at the voting booth with your family Bible in hand, and doing so had been established historically in Common Law, I don’t believe an act of the legislature can ban it.
They can try, but it will be challenged in court and overturned.
There has to be a foundation. Common Law is that foundation.
If there is no foundation, there there is nothing, we are anchored to nothing, we are just free-floating through the whims and fancies of elected officials.
You misunderstand what a foundation is–or rather you’re making an assumption as to what “foundation” means.
You’re thinking of common law as if it were a list of things the government is not allowed to forbid (like the BOR is). Or alternatively, perhaps you’re thinking of it as if it were the maximum list of things the government is allowed to ban.
That’s utterly incorrect. It’s simply the list we started with. Legislatures can, and do, very often, pass more laws, and they are rarely laws permitting you to do things common law forbids; rather they are forbidding things common law allows. They also refine the definitions of various crimes (very important!) and don’t just add new crimes.
You misunderstand Common Law.
In order to have a body of law, you must have organizations to support it. Thus, law can be thought of as being derived from the organization, through the use of force.
In feudal systems, you would have the local Sheriff, reporting to the local noble. If they found you were rustling the Duke’s cattle, there was probably a direct law written down that said the punishment was death.
On the other hand, if you were in a drunken barfight, you were probably guilty of “disturbing the Duke’s Peace.” The actual particulars, degrees, and punishments might be a bit hazy — likely with nothing written down. This would be left open to the interpretation of local judges and/or juries, and would be “common law”.
Mind you, the Sheriff would get involved at a certain point because his employer, the Duke, would be displeased if he didn’t — but neither particularly cared if it was 10, 30, or 60 days in gaol. That would be dealt with by the judges — and if one got a reputation as always doing 10 days or always doing 60, the other justices and Sheriffs would give them a stern talking-to.
Checking https://leg.colorado.gov/content/mandatory-automobile-insurance-colorado , it would appear that self bonding ONLY applies if you own 25 vehicles or more. I have no idea how typical that might be.
Colorado is on the list, and every state should be on the list, because of Common Law:
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/insurance/states-not-require-car-insurance
More likely, they’ll simply charge more for older cars. Possibly much more.
My insurer will already give you a discount if you accept their tracking device in your car. (I did not.)
Only applies to govt.
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The fourth amendment doesn’t address being spied on by non-government people, either…so unfortunately a 4th Amendment argument will fall flat.
Still, we’ve got a problem here for the reasons you identify.
IMO, spying is a 4th Amendment issue, whether by the government or non-government people.
Then we need a privacy amendment. But that would end kiddie porn prosecutions, as well as child rape prosecutions.
The solution is to sue anyone and everyone who uses your data/info without compensation. IOW you don’t sue for invasion of privacy – you sue for [essentially] theft. Like celebrities do; they license use of their likenesses, etc.
It will then be up to the car companies to figure out how to justify making you the product, like social media does.
“once your face has been identified, artificial intelligence can be used to locate you wherever you pop up on the entire planet…”
So why is it that computerized face recognition isn’t being used to identify the myriad of “body doubles” that people claim to exist?
AI…. new lipstick, same pig…
Bright shiney lies…
At the bottom, as usual, lies a program, and a programmer.
GIGO still applies, and is the worst problem, as their faulty results based on faulty “data” are all but impossible to remove… Try deleting an account from LinkedIn, Farcebørk, or Garble… You can check out, but you can never leave. And if their data are wrong… good luck…
Pence Says FBI Did Not Contribute to January 6 Capitol Protest, Cheers Arrest of More Than 1,200 Trump Supporters (VIDEO)
what a tool
I have come to despise Judas Pence utterly.
agreed
Pence does not like the people who gave him the opportunity to serve this country as VP. He is a Bushi so is his wife. Wonder what they have on him? He cloaked himself as fundamental Christian. I never have met a fundamental Christian who lied the way Pence does.
Something is going on there!!!
Seems so
George Stephanopoulos Stunned After Pelosi Suggests States Can Overrule Constitution and Ban Trump From Presidential Ballot (VIDEO)
To George:
Pelosi has been telling us who she is for years. (When people tell you who they are, listen.) She doesn’t love our Constitution. She puts politics over everything and everyone. She twists principles and doctrines to suit her aims. She’s a snake who has infiltrated Washington.
Pickled-losi is so DEMON-possessed she doesn’t care about anything other than what her DEMON masters tell her…
This is a battle of both the seen and unseen worlds. We need MORE PRAYER!!!!!
Mafia Nancy.
T.H.I.S. right here … 👆
I wish someone would have said to her: “I thought we had a war about that and your side lost….”
YES!
OMG, mentally, she’s as BARREN AS HER NEW PLASTIC FACE.
I have a post relating to testing God that will come out in the early morning after Wolf’s daily.
TradeBait2
Thank you!
Looking forward to it.
This is an explanation why our Government has a problem.
Sex, Drugs and Spies in Congress | Madison Cawthorn Exposes Everything: ‘Honeypots Were EVERYWHERE’
This might be enough to get him returned to Congress.
Or clintoned.
Hope not clintoned 😱
1) Hike was on Isla Nublar.
Or
2) One of the hikers is Hitlary Klinton.
Maybe they were attending a “Hannibal Lecture” 🙂
I’ve noticed in my cancer group an awful lot of people coming in with glioblastomas and rare brain cancers. And most are Stage 4. In fact, most of the new people coming in seem to be just diagnosed and all Stage 4. It’s heart breaking how many of these are young people with children.
Terribly sorry to hear this. We’re ruled by monsters. They sow like a plague and reap like vultures.
Terrible news.
Pfizer recently bout a cancer drug company. IIRC.
Almost as ifPfizer knew of the incoming cash cow.Pfizer just bought Seagen, a cancer drug company, for $43 billion.
Linda
Lord God, how awful. Sounds like turbo-cancers for these unfortunate people.
D@mn the “vaccines.”
And if I remember correctly, you mentioned that discussion of the likely cause of the spike in cancers (vaxx) is forbidden.
So people go to the group to learn about their condition, but can’t learn what may have caused it, and therefore may continue to get vaxxed and boosted, doing more and more damage to themselves.
This is reason number 2,527,341 why censorship is not just dangerous, but stupid.
Looking forward to the answer to this. Being the group is, IIRC, on FB, won’t be surprised.
I think you might have lost count, I think this is reason number 2,527,343.
I could be wrong, of course: the number could be even higher.
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2 **527343 🙂
Actually, the rules that FB put down say that we can’t talk about it. But people have been talking about it a lot lately, and the moderators aren’t enforcing the rule. So something has shifted.
PLT, transitions to Bird Brain.
Petty thoughts here. PLT / BB putting on weight and cakes on her war paint.
Longer video than I had seen before.
One of my first thoughts when I heard about this incident is that this young man needs a copy of Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.
Apparently there will be a follow up to this follow up come Monday as the Judge appears less than impressed by the defendant’s conduct in court. (No kidding… as the story below sheds new information on why that might be).
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/las-vegas-judge-doubles-man-attacked-not-good/