Dear KAG: 20240515 Open Thread

Cover image: Glacier Bay National Park, I assume in Alaska.

Badlands News Brief – May 14, 2024

United Nations halves estimate of women and children killed in Gaza

This Is Not the 1960s

Joe Biden Announces Tariffs on Non-Existent Products from Non-Existent Origination Country – Here’s Why

Now That Aid Is Approved, Biden Admin Is Happy to Say Ukraine Will Win

When Hell freezes over.

Federal Judge Tosses Biden Admin’s Effort to Stop Media Censorship Lawsuit

THE WHO AND CERN TEAM UP TO ADDRESS “PATHOGENS THAT TRANSMIT THROUGH THE AIR”

Oh, knock it off. The smart people aren’t falling for your baloney anymore.

A “Restaurant Apocalypse” Is Starting to Sweep Across America, and That Is Really Bad News for the U.S. Economy

Even Chinese food is getting to be outrageous.

Megyn Kelly Reverses Course, No Longer Believes Trump Had Affair with Stormy Daniels: ‘It Could Have Been a Setup’

It could have never have happened.

Tennessee governor OKs bill allowing death penalty for child rape convictions

Oh, please. Save some money. Put them in general population in prison, and let the inmates do a service for society. No need to go through the automatic appeals process.

X Files….

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1790154227475419323

That could take a while.

Buh-bye

No, not weird. Just borderline demonic……

Memes & Stuff

Sound up.

Have a good day y’all.

(I don’t remember who brought this to a daily in the comments, but thanks.)

And, of course, the obligatory George Carlin:

Per the Boss:

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Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone

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Please remember to remain locked and loaded and ready for trouble should the insurrectionists try to invade your space.

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ACTS 20:28-38

28Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with the blood of his own Son. 29I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; 30and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears. 32And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 33I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel. 34You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me. 35In all things I have shown you that by so toiling one must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, `It is more blessed to give than to receive.'” 36And when he had spoken thus, he knelt down and prayed with them all. 37And they all wept and embraced Paul and kissed him, 38sorrowing most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they brought him to the ship.

JOHN 17:11-19

11And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. 12While I was with them, I kept them in thy name, which thou hast given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13But now I am coming to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15I do not pray that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth. 18As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.


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

Please include: President Donald Trump, the Q team, our soldiers in the field, special forces, tactical units, first responders and those working behind the scenes…and any and all people with family members in the hospital, COVID or not.

And…members of the QTree who no longer participate for one reason or another.

It is quite clear, as per Wolf’s message from July, that we are under spiritual attack. Building up a robust arsenal of prayer and discipline is a must in fighting the enemy and his minions.

In that spirit, the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel from Tuesday’s threads, and the Breastplate of St. Patrick, not to mention the Litany of Humility are favorites recommended by exorcists in spiritual warfare.

SATIRE SECTION

Not in my family. Cooking is a competitive sport. I hate to tell the guys that, for the most part, the women win.

And most likely in record time, too.

Nothing about the spasms?