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It is my suspicion that POTUS Trump does not expect the Save America Act to pass. AND he has plans to use an EO to make sure we have safe elections. If you look you can see the evidence surface.
(Yeah, Mama’s in a mood…)
In the mean time POTUS is letting the traitors in the Senate and Congress reveal themselves.
Peter Ticktin is one of the Lawyers for Tina Peters. Ticktin is also a high school classmate of President Donald Trump. Early in the following video he says a group of very smart lawyers have put together an EO for POTUS Trump.
Why We Vote Ep. 166: Peter Ticktin on Constitutional Law, Executive Power, and Election Legitimacy
CannCon and Ashe in America are joined by attorney Peter Ticktin for a wide-ranging discussion on constitutional law, executive authority, and the legal frameworks surrounding election legitimacy. The conversation explores how the Constitution is interpreted in modern legal battles, the limits of federal power, and how legal strategies are being used to challenge or defend election outcomes.
Peter breaks down complex constitutional arguments into plain terms, walking through the role of the executive branch, the judiciary, and the tension between state and federal authority. The discussion also touches on legal precedent, the importance of due process, and how courts approach politically sensitive cases.
Throughout the episode, the panel examines how legal narratives shape public perception and why understanding constitutional structure is critical in evaluating election-related disputes. It is a deep dive into law, power, and the ongoing debate over how America governs itself.
ROUGH TRANSCRIPT
31:48 – 34:10 — Peter Ticktin:
FL is a free state (Canncon) Colorado is a captured state (Ashe)
We are the peg holding the rest of the world up. They have not gone to the depths of where this thing is going to go. It is not going to be a situation where if they were to win where it would be same-o same-o, just a different party running it. It does not work that way.
Within a matter of months of them taking over power, they would be picking us up in truck loads. This is the end of our society as we know it…. We either get the Executive Order or I am telling you it is going to be Martial Law…
Trump was close to doing something last time but he just did not have the power. This time before anyone is sworn in, it will be martial law because we were not able to stop it in a civil way. There is no way that Trump will sit there and say Oh, Golly Jee we lost again because we let them cheat. It will not be that way this time because we will all be dead meat. There will be no coming back from it…
34:30 Ashe:
So the E.O. is intended to create a national emergency so we can make these structural changes… We can not have real elections until we tell the truth about elections…
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Brave AI
In January 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially designated election infrastructure as a critical infrastructure subsector under the existing Government Facilities sector, recognizing that its incapacitation would have a devastating effect on the nation. Link 1
This designation covers physical and virtual systems including voter registration databases, voting machines, polling places, and vote tabulation locations. Link 2
The designation does not grant the federal government authority to regulate, oversee, or manage elections, which remain the responsibility of state and local governments. Link 3
Instead, it prioritizes cybersecurity assistance and enables the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to provide voluntary, no-cost services such as threat monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and incident response support to election officials who request them. States: Rescind Electoral Critical Infrastructure Designation–Secretaries of State Allege Federal Intrusion into States’ Affairs
[Looks like the states realized they could lose control of their fake elections. — GC]
Key components of the designation include:
- Legal Basis: Defined by the Patriot Act and Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21) as systems vital to national security, economic security, or public health.
- Scope: Encompasses IT infrastructure for managing elections, storage facilities, and networks used for counting, auditing, and reporting results.
- Collaboration: Facilitates the Election Infrastructure Subsector Government Coordinating Council (EIS-GCC) to coordinate between federal, state, and local stakeholders.
- Threat Response: Allows for sanctions and closed-door discussions regarding sensitive vulnerabilities to protect against cyber threats and foreign interference.
From Cornell Law
ArtI.S4.C1.3 Congress and the Elections Clause
By providing Congress power to preempt state election procedures, the Framers sought to prevent states from thwarting the federal government’s operation by using state law to manipulate or preclude elections for the House of Representatives.9 For example, during the Constitutional Convention Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania expressed concern that “the States might make false returns and then make no provision for new elections,” 10 while Alexander Hamilton observed in the Federalist Papers that “Nothing can be more evident than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the national government, in the hands of the State legislatures, would leave the existence of the Union entirely at their mercy.” 11 Despite the Elections Clause providing Congress power to preempt state law governing elections, Congress did not exercise this power until 1842 when it passed a law requiring that Representatives be elected on a district basis.12 Congress subsequently added contiguity, compactness, and substantial equality of population to districting requirements.13
In the Court’s 1997 decision, Foster v. Love, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision that, 👉under the Elections Clause, federal law preempted a Louisiana statute governing congressional elections.14 The Foster Court noted that while states can prescribe regulations governing the Times, Places and Manner of holding elections, “Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations.” 15 The Court stated…
So Congress does have power over federal elections and they exercised that power in the Patriot Act despite what Brave AI said.
Starting Point:
U.S. Election Systems as Critical Infrastructure
On January 6, 2017, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson designated U.S. election systems as part of the nation’s critical infrastructure, a decision that was later affirmed by current DHS Secretary John Kelly. Since the designation was announced, state and local election officials across the country have raised questions about the day-to-day impact of the designation and how it will benefit their work to conduct accessible, accurate and secure elections. This document details DHS’s critical infrastructure designation and what election administrators can expect moving forward. It also provides a glossary of terms frequently used in conjunction with correspondence and discussions about critical infrastructure designation….
So at the end of his term Obama designated US Election Systems as critical infrastructure. 😂
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If YOU THOUGHT KONNECH WAS BAD…
DOMINION VOTING MACHINES MADE IN CHINA
SACRAMENTO REGISTRAR OF VOTERS
Election 2020
A Limited Case Study
“A secure and resilient electoral process is a vital national interest and one of our highest priorities.”
OVERVIEW
In December 2020 our cyber election team was invited by Mrs. Courtney Bailey-Kanelos, the Registrar of Voters in Sacramento County, California to review Sacramento’s election system, and to audit the 2020 election results. The cyber election team was offered a $1.00 contract by the Registrar of Voters to perform the work (see Exhibits). The cyber election team accepted, and placed a technician on a plane to Sacramento within 24 hours.
ENVIRONMENT
Unfortunately, if one has spent any time in Washington, DC, one understands that the town is filled with people who have extremely sharp elbows, and frequently put their own agendas above the interests of the American people. In this instance, a bad actor got word that a technician was on a plane headed to Sacramento, and proceeded to blow-up phones in Sacramento. Before the cyber election team’s tech landed in Sacramento, the audit effort had been squashed, as others in the County were now involved and the brakes put on the planned contract. Obviously, this was a great disappointment.
LIMITED CASE STUDY
The cyber election team’s technician did, however, receive a tour of the election facility by Mrs. Bailey-Kanelos, who was and continues to be extremely gracious in all dealings. The cyber election team’s technician was escorted to every part of the building by Mrs. Bailey-Kanelos and allowed to take photographs of anything he wished.
In this brief document, we will post some of these photographs, and explain their significance, as they demonstrate how an election official, with the best of intentions, can expose this complicated election system to bad actors and potential manipulation…
The password for accessing the Dominion ballot printing software and printing ballots is taped to the laptop for any user to see and use.
In the following video, Mark Cook said this information was key since similar passwords were used in other states.
Feb 5, 2026 CNN Intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard’s office obtained and tested voting machines in Puerto Rico
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence obtained voting machines from Puerto Rico and probed them for security vulnerabilities, the office said in a statement to CNN Wednesday.
The extraordinary move comes amid Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s broader search for voter fraud at the behest of President Donald Trump, who has falsely claimed that the 2020 election was rigged despite numerous court rulings and audits debunking the claim. Gabbard was present as FBI agents executed a search warrant in Fulton County, Georgia, last week related to the 2020 election.
The ODNI claimed in its statement to have found “extremely concerning” cybersecurity and operational deployment practices with the voting machines in Puerto Rico but did not provide detailed evidence….
Mark Cook provides that evidence in the following video.
Why We Vote Ep. 167: Garland & Tamara Favorito on Fulton County Case, Seized Ballots, and Election System Vulnerabilities
CannCon and Ashe in America are joined by Garland and Tamara Favorito for a deep dive into a major evidentiary hearing in Fulton County tied to the federal case surrounding 2020 election records. The conversation begins with firsthand insights from inside the courthouse, where discussions center on the FBI’s seizure of election materials, Fulton County’s legal response, and the implications of those records potentially being used as evidence.
The episode expands into broader election integrity efforts, including newly passed legislation, ongoing investigations, and the challenges of transparency in election systems. The panel also explores concerns around computerized voting systems, vulnerabilities in tabulation processes, and efforts to demonstrate potential manipulation during legislative hearings.
Throughout the discussion, Garland and Tamara emphasize citizen involvement, highlighting the importance of public testimony, grassroots action, and direct participation in hearings to push for accountability. The episode closes with a strong argument for returning control of elections to the people, focusing on simplicity, transparency, and trust in the voting process.
VERY ROUGH PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT
4:45 to 33 minutes — Garland and Tamara Favorito:
Fulton County is trying to get back the ballots seized by the FBI. Do the county officials actually even have STANDING??? That is the matter before the court in this hearing. It should be an open and shut HELL NO! But not in the Amerika judicial system. [Remember all those “numerous court rulings” cited by CNN? Well the courts found citizens had NO STANDING and thus there never were any actual trials in most cases. –GC]
VERY IMPORTANT BOMB SHELL:
Please watch this video from 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes. Yes, it is long, but it is the election fraud smoking guns explained so a 10 year old could understand it. It explains why Colorado went ballistic when Tina Peters had a forensic image captured before the ‘Trusted Build’ by Dominion.
Interview of Mark Cook. His website is Great American Rebirth that I quoted above.
37 minutes Mark Cook:
He states he is a Subject Matter Expert in Election Cyber Security & THREAT ASSESSMENT with 40 years in IT & 6 in Elections. He says: I have absolute proof of backdoors built in to voting machines….
1:01:30 He gives a demo of the backdoors.
“…Tina Peters forensic image… God bless her, she allowed citizens to see what is in their black box voting machines. This is why she is being tortured…”
1;06;45 Mrs. Courtney Bailey-Kanelos, the Registrar of Voters in Sacramento County, California invited Mark Cook to CA and HE GETS A TOUR of the voting machines. See the article above.
He explains sequel [sql] server tools in simple terms.
1;07;10 Sequel Server Management is a stand alone that gets directly into the database bypassing the software that is suppose to keep it secure.
[Now think about that for a minute and think about those voting machines DHS grabbed from Puerto Rico…😂 — GC]
1:20:00 They can CHANGE the outcome of the election and there is NO RECORD!
1:25:45 Then Mark demonstrates something else using flash drives. He plugs in a flash drive and does NOTHING ELSE. He doesn’t hit enter or anything. He just holds up hands. He is NOT typing. The flash drive pulls up another backdoor. It starts flipping numbers in the database AND WILL NOT LEAVE A TRACE. (Change tracking is disbled. It comes that way from the factory & when Dominion sets it up for the county, they do not turn tracking ON!)
END 1:29:14
Canncon makes the point that Mark’s demo is slowed way down to make the changes visible. It actually happens fast, in about a second or so.
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Name: USB Flash Drive #4 (backside)
Discussion: Back side of USB Flash Drive #4, showing a unique identifier, probably assigned by the county.
PRELIMINARY FINDINGS: SUMMARY from SACRAMENTO Case Study
- Given the photographic evidence above, and the information provided by the voter registrar, our cyber election team concludes that it would have been trivial to:
- print unlimited ballots while unsupervised;
- connect the election system to an external network or the Internet during the election;
- introduce new software, firmware, voted ballots into critical election equipment via USB or portable hard drive;
- Numerous election officials and warehouse workers have unfettered access to key election systems and ballots.
- Sacramento refused to address numerous security concerns as required by Grand Jury prior to the 2020 Election, and instead stated they would address them after the election (see Exhibits).
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MORE EVIDENCE OF ELECTION FRAUD
ALL Our Elections Are Stolen: That’s Why Nothing Works Without Money Printing
This is how they do it. This is how to stop it.
She gets into Fractal/Omega tech.
Inside the Criminal Gangs Planning to Steal 2026
What are you doing about it?
..In late winter, I wrote a series on election fraud. The day after the last, the man I had written about Saturday, Peter Bernegger, a freaking hero, was arrested. Later that week another subject, Christina Bobb, Trump’s lawyer, and the Republican National Committee’s voter fraud expert, had to fly to Arizona and turn herself in.
The left can no longer win on the merits of their ideas, much less their actions. They have created one catastrophe after another. The only way they can win elections is steal them. And they have developed three hundred separate, specific, methodologies to do it. In my opinion, and that of others closer to the coal face….
Is Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s Governor, owned by the Sinaloa Cartel? Are 25% of Arizona’s Judges Corrupt?
Several crime syndicates steal our elections: the Chinese, Venezuelans, the British Empire, Luciferians, the Left. In Arizona, it’s the cartels.
U.S. intercepted Ukraine government messages discussing plot to route money to Biden re-election
Newly-unclassified documents show that in 2022 Ukrainian officials discussed diverting hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars — earmarked for clean energy — back to Biden’s ill-fated 2024 campaign. There is no evidence the intercepted allegations were investigated during the Biden administration.
He Found Ghost Records Inside Social Security. Their Numbers Were Still Active. | Frank Bisignano
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Democrats on world voter ID from DataRepublican
FULL THREAD
Democrats TEACH voter identification and election integrity … just not in America
The Democratic Party has an international arm called the National Democratic Institute (NDI). It’s funded by $181M/year in US tax dollars. Its board includes Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Tom Daschle.
But in regards to today’s SAVE America Act debate… did you know that the NDI has taught and supervised election processes all over the world?
For 40 years, NDI has told every developing country on earth that voter ID is essential for election integrity. They’ve recommended biometric systems… yes, that’s right, NDI recommended biometric systems, which goes way beyond SAVE America Act! They praised fingerprint verification. Tracked ID card issuance rates.
Meanwhile, Democrats call the SAVE Act “Jim Crow 2.0.”
Same party. Same people. Opposite positions.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread
NDI’s own 2001 guide emphasizes the importance of only citizens voting. It further says voter ID cards “introduce an additional safeguard into the system” and describes photo ID and fingerprints as standard election infrastructure.
In one of their PDFs, the complaint in Nicaragua wasn’t that voter ID existed. It was that the government wasn’t issuing ID cards FAST ENOUGH. They even called the issuance of temporary IDs as ignoring “the far more fundamental problem.”
In Morocco, NDI praised the switch to requiring just ONE photo ID at the polls, calling it “a positive development.” The SAVE Act requires one photo ID. Democrats call that Jim Crow.
In Bangladesh, NDI praised voter photo ID cards as giving “a sense of empowerment and belonging to the disadvantaged and marginalized people of the country, particularly women.”
Stacey Abrams, NDI board member, calls the same requirement discriminatory at home.
Chuck Schumer: “The SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow-type laws to the entire country.”
NDI (his party’s own arm): “Individuals who wish to participate in an election must somehow prove their identity, demonstrating that they are who they say they are.” And also must demonstrate citizenship
The biggest irony: NDI vice chair Stacey Abrams co-led the Nigeria 2023 election observation mission. Its final report called biometric voter ID “the most important contribution to raising confidence in electoral integrity.” She called Georgia’s voter ID law “Jim Crow in a suit.
The biggest irony: NDI vice chair Stacey Abrams co-led the Nigeria 2023 election observation mission. Its final report called biometric voter ID “the most important contribution to raising confidence in electoral integrity.” She called Georgia’s voter ID law “Jim Crow in a suit.
NDI has observed elections in 100+ countries. If they observed a US election, they’d flag 14 states with no voter ID requirement as failing basic election integrity standard… by their own published criteria.
The Democratic Party tells the world voter ID is democracy. Then tells Americans it’s Jim Crow.
THREAD END.
When all the different threads are pulled together, I think POTUS Trump will have the evidence he needs for his E.O. on Election Integrity.
From A to Z on election stealing.
Great job, GC.
I’m looking forward to reading all of it!
I am fairly sure that POTUS now has the evidence to BAN Election machines of all types.
ALSO the actual counts will have to be transmitted in a SAFE way since hacking via the internet has been proved over and over.
I would not be at all surprised to find hand mark-able ballots will be supplied by the Armed forces and perhaps people to count those ballots will also be supplied.
It is a national emergency Don’t you know.
I wanted to add up near the top that Kalbokalbs brought this yesterday but I do not think it is THE E O that attorney Peter Ticktin was talking about.
My guess is, it is one of a series of EOs inbound.
Collectively SAVE America Act, decreed by Trump. Fought out in the courts.
That is what I think.
I am hoping that POTUS Trump has a twist on Roberts tail so that the Supreme Court cooperates in hearing the cases ASAP.
https://blackhat.com/latestintel/06052018-history-voting-machine-vulnerabilities.html
At CCC up in Hamburg, they view hacking voting machines as a sport, and have a contest every year at it… like shooting fish in a barrel…
LOL!!!
Outstanding.
COOL!!!
Nothing like applying a bit of pressure. 😂
After NOT SC stabbed Trump in the back, 6-3 on Tariffs, Trump realized, NOT attending that hearing, may have been pivotal.
Trump, America, was betrayed in that decision. Roberts, Gorsuch and ACB, 
Trump could afford to lose that case since he has back-ups. It makes the SC look like it is NOT in Trump’s pocket, which is a good visual.
This Birthright citizenship and the up coming election fraud cases are the important ones.
The White House:
It’s today, April 1st.
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/landing-pages/artemis-ii/
Praying for their safe journey! 🙏
Amen!
Hard to believe this isn’t bigger news.
Nobody has done anything like this since before I can remember!
Fake News Against America!
Brave AI says its real. Not April 1st joke. Yea, that is how Slow, Slow Guy is.
Looks to be 6:24PM.
I do wish them total success AND NASA can return to its glory days.
Some how I’ve lost trust, faith in NASA.
Elon had to rescue NASA astronauts a ways back. NASA struggled to simply “ask” for Elon’s assistance. WTF?
Then I click on the link. Kennedy Space Center was selling access to a viewing area for $99 + tax or Premium for $250 + tax.
They even have “Hotel Packages”.
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/landing-pages/artemis-ii/
This man never sleeps.
@BoredElonMusk
Not sure if it’s related, but State Farm rushed to pay out the remaining limits on our dwelling structure 2 days ago. Zero back and forth…just issued the check.
What I can say confidently is that the federal government has done infinitely more to help the people who lost their homes in Pacific Palisades than our State or City leadership.
Thanks @epaleezeldin
Today is April Fools’ Day.
Do not mess with me. This is your only warning. Offenders will be violated.
😉
Are you trying to tempt us into entertaining you? 😉
You’re too smart for me. 😎
Not really. I got a PMTW from Tulsi Gabbard that said you would do this!
Something like this…
So this is your day??? 🃏 😆 🃏
(JUST KIDDING!!!)…..
My wife has similar sentiments …
Pat would repost these here if she were around.
https://notthebee.com/article/the-new-york-times-is-getting-demolished-in-the-comments-for-its-weird-infographic-about-trumps-ball-room/
sampler:
Was just thinking, Where’s Pat?
Same here. Missing her take on things and entertaining posts.Hope she is OK.
I hope so, too.
Me, too.
Looks like Pat’s been taking care of her site for the last few days. She has some interesting posts up!
https://craftsstore.art.blog/
That is good news!
Is the picture for real? Looks fake or pure evil.
Yes, it is fake.
The article is about uninformed people criticizing architecture.
The open ends with this:
I hope so. He signed an EO yesterday regarding mail-in ballots. I wonder if he will do it in a piecemeal fashion or if “one big beautiful EO” is being planned.
I don’t know the legalities, but if the pattern holds, a judge will strike down the EO and they will try to stop it, and then delay its implementation until it’s too late for the elections this year. If the Senate doesn’t pass the SAVE America Act, people will be furious with them but the bad actors will get reelected if the cheating is not stopped.
You summed it up in a single comment.
side note – do not do April Fools jokes in court pleadings. 😂
That has the characteristics of a pro tip… 😂
And the voice of experience 😀
Not me. Momma didn’t raise no idiot …
Carefully hidden double negative there 😆
(J/K)…
Not as if our courts are not already a joke, the other 364 days of the year. 
Piece meal EOs.
Courts will have to try to, strike them down individually. Which they will. Then the lawyers can do their stuff, up to SC.
Again – I may be wrong – but the way everything has gone “as planned” with #47, I am expecting the elections clean up to do so as well. TAW.
Getting voter buy-in for the Save America Act was the first step. He now has a mandate from the people.
I would not want to be the judge who tries to say NO. Esp a lower court judge. People could certainly make his life miserable. The DemonRats have shown us how to ‘protest’
Your last paragraph is what I fear. I am ignoring the whole thing about elections, because I can’t stand to get my hopes up again, and be disappointed.
This was a fairly wild discussion where David Friedberg (from the All-In Podcast) interviews someone named Bryan Johnson, who I was not familiar with (with whom I was not familiar, but that sounds so… English Literaturistic 😁).
Apparently Bryan Johnson is some kind of health and rejuvenation expert, and the most recent experiments he has performed on himself, apparently in very clinically controlled settings, have invovled psychedelic drugs, to study their impact on neuroplasticity and rejuvenation of the human brain.
I’ve never heard of 5-MeO-DMT before, but they also discuss psilocybin (Magic Mushrooms) and I got the impression 5-MeO-DMT is some order of magnitude stronger than psilocybin.
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Bryan Johnson: I Just Took the Most Powerful Dose of DMT in the World… Here’s What It Was Like
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370,117 views Mar 25, 2026 The All-In Interview
(0:00) David Friedberg intros Bryan Johnson
(0:54) Why Bryan Johnson did 5-MeO-DMT
(12:56) What brain scans actually show
(18:36) Psychosis, bad trips, and life-altering decisions
(26:23) The next frontier: organoids and gene therapy
(33:26) GLP-1s, abundance, and human optimization
(35:35) The longevity drug nobody’s talking about?
There is that “abundance” word again. I will go this route for it – John 10:10.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (KJV)
No thanq. I’ll watch via binoculars … from the nosebleed seats.
I knew a guy once who went to South America to a shaman for an ayahuasca trip that he thought would “cure” his depression and anxiety. He came back weird. He thought he was all enlightened and stuff, but in reality he was just strange after the experience. I lost touch, so I really don’t know if he ever “came back to Earth.”
Lol!
I’ll take Jesus!
AMEN!
Amen
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Verse of the Day for Wednesday, April 1, 2026✟“For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.”1 John 3:20 (KJV)
COMMENTARY FOR 1 JOHN 3:20
The apostle admires the love of God in making believers his children. (1,2) The purifying influence of the hope of seeing Christ, and the danger of pretending to this, and living in sin. (3-10) Love to the brethren is the character of real Christians. (11-15) That love described by its actings. (16-21) The advantage of faith, love, and obedience. (22-24)
16-21 Here is the condescension, the miracle, the mystery of Divine love, that God would redeem the church with his own blood. Surely we should love those whom God has loved, and so loved. The Holy Spirit, grieved at selfishness, will leave the selfish heart without comfort, and full of darkness and terror. By what can it be known that a man has a true sense of the love of Christ for perishing sinners, or that the love of God has been planted in his heart by the Holy Spirit, if the love of the world and its good overcomes the feelings of compassion to a perishing brother? Every instance of this selfishness must weaken the evidences of a man’s conversion; when habitual and allowed, it must decide against him. If conscience condemn us in known sin, or the neglect of known duty, God does so too. Let conscience therefore be well-informed, be heard, and diligently attended to.
Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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Verse of the Day – April 1, 2026 (Morning Prayer)
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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL
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.
AMEN!
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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
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LORD, YOU GIVE ME LIFE
I love you, Lord – You are my rock – my strength;A fighting, forceful – unwavering – wavelength;My buckler – my shield – who has led me sure;Out of the darkness – into Your light so pure!
In You – I take refuge and rest assured;From temptation and sin – I am secured;You have rescued me from the evil throes;In my distress – You have foiled my foes!
Lord – You Give Me Life – grace and peace;The turmoil around me – You calmly cease;Through the anguish and torment – You console;In, through, and with You – I’ve become whole!
Through Your Spirit – I am comforted best;In my weakness – I am surely put to the test;I cried out in prayer – and You answered me;With true repentance – You have set me free!
On the cross – the ransom You paid for my sins;Your sacrifice there is where new life begins;For it is in dying – we are born again;And it is in rising – eternally – we gain!
Lord – You Give Me Life – Your Gift of Grace;And I so long someday – to see Your Face;For You are my light and my salvation;The grantor of joyous jubilation!
You ask only I love as You have done;You laid down Your life – for victory won;If I deny myself – and follow You;I will experience Your victory, too!
Just as it is in giving that we receive;It is in dying to self – we will conceive;An end to the turmoil – the gift of strife;The fruits of our labor – the Crown of Life!
Lord – You Give Me Life – life eternally;With an increase in faith – less fearfully;I can rise to new heights of blessedness;Because You are my life’s assuredness!
D01: 9/25/2013
LORD, YOU GIVE ME LIFE
I love you, Lord – You are my rock – my strength;
A fighting, forceful – unwavering – wavelength;
My buckler – my shield – who has led me sure;
Out of the darkness – into Your light so pure!
In You – I take refuge and rest assured;
From temptation and sin – I am secured;
You have rescued me from the evil throes;
In my distress – You have foiled my foes!
Lord – You Give Me Life – grace and peace;
The turmoil around me – You calmly cease;
Through the anguish and torment – You console;
In, through, and with You – I’ve become whole!
Through Your Spirit – I am comforted best;
In my weakness – I am surely put to the test;
I cried out in prayer – and You answered me;
With true repentance – You have set me free!
On the cross – the ransom You paid for my sins;
Your sacrifice there is where new life begins;
For it is in dying – we are born again;
And it is in rising – eternally – we gain!
Lord – You Give Me Life – Your Gift of Grace;
And I so long someday – to see Your Face;
For You are my light and my salvation;
The grantor of joyous jubilation!
You ask only I love as You have done;
You laid down Your life – for victory won;
If I deny myself – and follow You;
I will experience Your victory, too!
Just as it is in giving that we receive;
It is in dying to self – we will conceive;
An end to the turmoil – the gift of strife;
The fruits of our labor – the Crown of Life!
Lord – You Give Me Life – life eternally;
With an increase in faith – less fearfully;
I can rise to new heights of blessedness;
Because You are my life’s assuredness!
D01: 9/25/2013
Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing
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Looking forward to reading this more thoroughly this PM, Gail. Thanks four your work in pulling it together.
You are very welcome.
Your article on budgets certainly hit home. The one thing I have noticed about the ‘poor’ in my neighborhood, is they can not hold onto money. Get an extra hundred and it is OH! Let’s go out and eat!
Fast food, sodas, beer, cigarettes… You are talking $100 or more a week just on that junk! And that does not include stuff like ATVs and such.
It is not that they do not MAKE the money, it is that it burns a hole in their pocket until they spend it.
Back in the day, I would live off what I used to every time I got a raise, and put the raise into savings. When I got a subsequent raise, I’d put that into savings and start living the lifestyle of my previous raise.
That was how I budgeted the ’80s and ’90s.
If you look at the ‘poor’ esp Blacks, they usually have fancy wardrobes and fancy cars. Two items along with fast foods & soda, that I consider worthless but are HUGE money makers.
For women, esp in business there is a YUGE push to dress in the latest styles. For me, why bother if I am going to wear a lab coat over the top of it? 😋
Buying a fancy new wardrobe is a significant outlay every year. Especially for women. You are talking $1,000 to $3,000 or more. For some women clothes shopping is their hobby!
I spent many years with bespoke suits in accountancy, but that’s not all “ghetto flash”.
Bespoke suits are a decent investment since they do not go out of ‘style’ every year and are made to last. Hubby wore them too.
My wife’s dream hobby is flitting from one thrift store to another, scarfing up some really nice stuff. When people die, most of their clothing ends up in thrift stores.
The most fertile ones are in [or close by] upscale neighborhoods.
A lot of the people at the flea market would scarf up stuff at yard sales for pennies and then sell it at the flea market at a hefty markup. However you have to have a really good eye for what sells to make a living doing that.
Some of the best thrift stores are the ones that support “causes” that rich people like. There’s one near me that supports a women’s shelter. I find some really nice stuff in there!
If you want to dress nice on a budget, thrift stores are your friend. I find things with the tags still on them all the time! I think well off people just donate stuff after they buy it, take it home, and realize they don’t really like it. Too much trouble to return it, I guess.
I have found really high end stuff, too. I have two purses that sell in the $600 to $800 range that I picked up for less than $10.
Thrift stores, flea markets and year end sales!
I very rarely buy new unless I can not find it any other way.
I do not think I have ever bought new furniture. I want something OLD, sturdy and well built.
New furniture is, for the most part, crap. One time, I bought a very expensive couch (like $4000) at a very deep discount. The fabric had been discontinued, but I liked it. The couch lasted about ten years. My grandma’s old couch was in better shape at 30 years old than that thing was at ten!
AMEN!!
That is why I go to the used furniture store. When I first married I reupholstered all the hand-me-downs and used furniture we got. I also refinished all the wooden furniture.
I still have some of that furniture fifty years later.
I like old furniture have a desk from late seventeen hundred and a Chinese cabinet from china before the revolution and other antiques.
Did buy lace curtains for three rooms for $10 at a church yard sale. I used to buy at yard sale new linen napkins napkins from Ireland and hand made lace. Linen pillow cases with knitted lace made by nuns. I have a trunk full love old things they are real hand made.
I also bought at yard sale old broken jewelry and made new from it. Our local museum auctioned some off and other jewelry they bought from me.
Clothe I make or buy new. I have my own style . I am very European that way. I do not care what other people wear . I focus what I like. I do everything that way. Actually it is very freeing 😂
I found a fascinating thing at the thrift store just today!
I saw this beautiful purse, and picked it up. It is oxblood colored very nice leather with a really nice lining. It is in lovely condition with very little wear.
I looked at the label and saw that it was made in West Germany! So of course, it’s at least pre-1989.
I bought it ($4, big spender I am) brought it home and looked it up. It turns out it was a very expensive “luxury brand.” So I scored a good one today.
Congrats!
Good eye for value!
Thrift finds are the best!
I did the same still have some .
As the lady at the thrift store said, it will last forever!
WOW!!!
Speaking of tags 🙂
HOOOOOWWWWWDDDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I’m just SO proud to be here 😀
Way to go!
Yours Truly tends to gravitate over to the “dollar aisle” at the local pharmacy.
The price of cigarettes is mostly taxes. I switched to little cigars, filtered, 20 in a pack that looks just like a cigarette flip-top box, and costs 90 cents.
Bonus – it’s pure tobacco; none of those funky chemicals that they put in cigarettes to keep them burning.
The particular brand that I buy is available at only one Indian smoke shop. Other brands are more available but generally only at Indian smoke shops. All of them are made on reservations and not supplied to ‘white man stores’. 😎
I will pass that on.
I do not smoke.
Tobacco is sacred to Native Americans. It makes sense they wouldn’t want it adulterated with chemicals.
Available on-line
http://discount-cigarettes.freeservers.com/
There are many others but this has a listing plus a recommendation.
Exactly!
They crave instant gratification, and haven’t graduated to the adult delayed gratification.
It’s always about the NOW.
There is a flip-side, though – that the feeling of being *normal* even for a week, day, or just an evening, can be a relief (though fleeting) from their situation.
Lotta stress – morning, noon, and night!
Still, booze and drugs degrades ones judgment…
Thanks, Gail!!! Great post!
You are very welcome.
Off Topic.
Meant to post this, yesterday, on TBs budgeting post.
Slow Guy’s budgeting journey.
~1981. E-5. DW plus three. Could barely make it, payday to payday. Scrape together coins to buy bread, milk before the next payday. Lots of hotdog fried rice, spaghetti o’s, Ramen noodles…
Kids clothes and toys, yard sales. Shoes and underwear, K-Mart or Walmart, usually when school started. Or they truly out grew their one pair of shoes.
Had never budgeted. The two of us arrived at, Needs Vs Wants. Maybe I read an article somewhere. OR DW, Common Sense, to see the obvious.
Helped as we muddled forward.
Then heard about, pay yourself first. Meager investment, every payday. Savings, savings bonds…anything…but Start Saving. It Add Up. Compounds…
Next annual raise, the couple percent President authorized, 50% went to paying, ourselves.
1986, while on seven month cruise onboard Enterprise. DW paid off credit cards. Lived hard core, Needs Vs Wants.
It was late 80’s before we could, entertain, wants, most paydays.
A little personal discipline AND NOT buying every new gadget, cool vacations, whiz bang vehicles, CAN yield financial security.
As broke as we were ~47 years ago, we never felt poor. We were happy. Safe place to live. Three simple meals. Daily family walks, parks… Simple Life. Great Memories.
Credit Cards are a MAJOR TRAP!
Yup. Only free cards and no interest so long as we pay off balance.
We do occasionally get a new CC from NFCU or USAA. Usual financial businesses.
And the Fraudulent Reserve scheme wrecked all that, for most people. Keep in mind that you had what an old friend of mine called General Motors when he worked there – Generous Mother. Every two [or four] weeks, money came in, rain or shine. That takes a lot of the burden off.
I spent my adult life working commission as an auto mechanic [until I switched to paralegal; long story for another time]. No completed repair job; no pay.
Ah, Uncle Sugar, as it were. GMAFB.
Surely respect folks that made it, in whatever path they chose.
Your post is Spot On, while missing the point(s) of, my post. I guess, the insinuation is, we had it easy. FMTT.
The point can fit, or be adapted to most any employment situation. Needs Vs Wants. Directly supports, Budgeting AND Planning for better times. Future years.
Live within means. One of three youngsters, “got it” early on. Second figured it out. Third, lip service to this day.
I love missing the point[s] … of the spears. No pain that way.
I have lived with lots of money, and I have lived with next to nothing. My life has taught me that, for the most part, happiness has very little to do with what one has, and more to do with who one is.
Precisely.
Thank you.
When we started we had not much and we had a simple life good budgeting and creativity. Kids got one toy for Christmas what they really wanted had to be out of wood no batteries. Then we bought educational items and books.
Last week my youngest called thanking me for his happy childhood and that he did not miss a thing. He remember each toy each trip to the park , museum , zoo, botanical garden and free concerts and baseball games. My husband got several free ticket every year for St Louis cardinal games.
He complained that his friend who had more than he growing up complain what their parents did not do for them. He was fed up with them.
His call warmed my heart I always wounder if I did enough. Being there when they came home from school listening when they had a bad day was most important then things.
Wonderful!
Children remember love, not things. They remember trips and time spent with us. Good for you for giving your children that kind of childhood.
I am NOT trying to start an argument, and I won’t engage in one. But the discussion we’ve had here before about “unalienable” rights has bothered me for a long time. And I just ran across it again, in a different context. I found new information.
Yesterday, the SCOTUS ruled against a law forbidding conversion therapy. In his writing for the majority, Gorsuch wrote:
““But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country. It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering the truth,” the majority court opinion stated.”
It surprised me that he used the word “inalienable” rather than “unalienable.” But he really did, I went and checked the opinion. He used inalienable throughout:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-539_fd9g.pdf
I then found this archived article from 2009 I have read before about the difference between “unalienable” and “inalienable,” and why it is important. A guy asked a radio host this question:
“I do have a question. You pronounce “unalienable” as “un-a-LEEN-able”…but the only pronunciation I’m aware of is “uhn-eyl-yuh-nuh-buh l” (http://www.dictionary.com), as in alien, alienate, etc., with the accent always on the “a”. It could just be that it jars my musician’s ears (I was a professional violinist before becoming a software architect), but is there some specific reason you pronounce it that way? In any event, this is a minor quibble about an otherwise-invaluable discussion. A discussion, I fear, that our current Administration will move to suppress soon…I hope to God I’m wrong. Keep informing us.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20100402223224/http://adask.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/unalienable-vs-inalienable/
(I asked Grok given the available information who the broadcaster being questioned in the above article might be. Grok was only able to say it was probably shortwave “pirate radio.”)
The guy gives a VERY detailed answer about the difference between “inalienable” and “unalienable.” Within the explanation, I found a reference. It is to Black’s Law Dictionary, 2nd edition. Here is the definition of “unalienable” from it:
UNALIENABLE. Incapable of being aliened, that is, sold and transferred.
https://archive.org/details/BlacksLaw2dEd/page/609/mode/2up?q=unalienable
Here is “inalienable,” same source:
INALIENABLE. Not subject to alienation; the characteristic of those things which cannot be bought or sold or transferred from one person to another, such as rivers and public highways, and certain personal rights; c. g., liberty.
https://archive.org/details/BlacksLaw2dEd/page/609/mode/2up?q=inalienable
Regardless of the disagreements I’ve had before regarding the correct pronunciation and meaning of “unalienable,” I find it really kind of disturbing that Gorsuch uses the wrong word. UNALIENABLE was used deliberately by the Founders, as it means something different than inalienable.
He may have acquired that quirk from his mother, Reagan’s EPA secretary. Neil was weaned and marinated in conservative politics his entire life.
Interesting.
The guy is making a mountain out of a molehill. Actually, he is making distinctions that are incorrect. The two words are considered to be synonyms. There is nothing nefarious about using one versus the other.
Both words come from the exact same root but just use a different prefix. And both of those prefixes, in- and un-, generally mean “not.”
The root of both words is “alien,” not “lien.” Pronouncing either of them as in/un-a-LEEN-able is incorrect. (And the word “alien” is not the word “lien” with a prefix added. They are entirely separate roots.) Neither inalienable nor unalienable have anything to do with liens, and neither word derives from the root “lien.” So attempts to use “lien” to distinguish the two words are faulty.
https://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/unalienable.html?srsltid=AfmBOooGgVgyJ136GBekba5V1SRCuIYjpgxQukP2ih5ReQbTjX8SFsxI
Unalienable / Inalienable
So the two words were interchangeable even when the Declaration was written.
Black’s Law 2nd Edition apparently disagreed. Did you look at their definitions of unalienable and inalienable? If they;re the same, why separate them?
https://archive.org/details/BlacksLaw2dEd/page/1183/mode/2up?q=unalienable
UNALIENABLE. Incapable of being aliened, that is, sold and transferred.
From the same Black’s Law:
“LIEN or ALIENE. +. To transfer or make over to another; to convey or transfer the property of a thing from one person to another; to alienate. Usually applied to transfer of lands and tenements. (Co. | 118; Cowell.”
Also:
“ALIENABLE. Proper to be the subject of alienation or transfer.”
https://archive.org/details/BlacksLaw2dEd/page/57/mode/2up?q=alien
INALIENABLE, on the other hand:
INALIENABLE. Not subject to alienation; the characteristic of those things which cannot be bought or sold or transferred from one person to another, such as rivers and public highways, and certain personal rights; c. g., liberty.
Inalienable in law appears to refer to “things” for the most part, with “certain” personal rights. But there’s wiggle room in there, which when dealing with the law, I don’t like. At all. ESPECIALLY when it is coming from the Supreme Court, because some lower court judge somewhere will use any “loophole” they can find to do whatever.
I don’t want any “right” enumerated in the Constitution subject to being “aliened.” Because they can’t be, they are given by God.
Might be worth looking at the writings of the Founding Fathers, including Jefferson. As well as other sources than Black’s Law.
The main problem is the rogue lower courts; “in” versus “un” is just a small issue in comparison…
(Could be Popehat or The Volokh Conspiracy has an article on that, though they both lean a little left)…..
It seems clear that Thomas Jefferson preferred “inalienable,” while John Adams preferred “unalienable.” I think the terms were interchangeable even then. If not, there would have been discourse over the years about why the two men differed in opinion. I also think the terms became more narrowly defined in law over the years as evidenced by some of the definitions in Black’s, but that today they are synonymous.
At any rate, I think this:
• There is no hidden agenda to use one term over the other to trick people.
• A SCOTUS justice like Gorsuch is keenly aware of, and careful in his use of, legal terminology. His use of “inalienable” is evidence of what every source I’ve seen says: It is synonymous with “unalienable,” and “inalienable” happens to be the preferred spelling today..
Somehow the tune “But Mr. Adams” from “1776” is going through my head, with “But then if I’m the one to do it, they’ll run their quill pens throught it”….
And I agree; terminology and usage changes over time (and overmuch, IMHO)…..
Yes, “1776” did cover it a little.
If they’re not the same, why are they used interchangeably today? It is not some plot to deprive people of rights. I have no doubt that an argument to that effect would not hold up in court.
The second edition of Black’s was published in 1910. The 4th revised edition was published in 1968. Here is a comment about it, which I assume to be correct. A distinction was still being made then.
https://proofed.com/writing-tips/word-choice-inalienable-vs-unalienable-independence-day/
According to that:
“Unalienable” = “incapable of being sold or transferred,”
while
“Inalienable” = “those things which cannot be bought or sold or transferred from one person to another, such as rivers and public highways, and certain personal rights.”
According to that definition:
• “inalienable” referred to tangible things or objects (plus some personal rights),
• while “unalienable” referred to anything that can’t be sold or transferred, which would include mostly the intangible.
“Inalienable” appears to refer mostly to things (rivers and public highways are not rights), while “unalienable” refers to intangible rights.
The text of the Declaration of Independence:
Those are intangibles.
The opinion of Justice Gorsuch, stated above:
His use of “inalienable” would not make sense under that definition in Black’s. He is clearly referring to the kind of rights mentioned in the Declaration. He uses the term “inalienable” because it means the same as “unalienable” in its all-encompassing definition, and the two are synonymous today.
“He uses the term “inalienable” because it means the same as “unalienable” in its all-encompassing definition, and the two are synonymous today.”
Or he’s just wrong.
I would ascribe more knowledge and careful legal parsing to Justice Gorsuch than to some random radio host or to any of the people on the internet who think they’ve made an important discovery that is really nothing. The radio host, and anyone who thinks the “LEEN” pronunciation is significant or correct, is suspect on this topic because of the provable fact that they are wrong about the etymology.
Still referring you to Black’s Law.
My comment stands.
1. Black’s is not a binding legal resource that must be followed.
2.Two examples of SCOTUS arguments that use “inalienable” to comport with the Declaration of Independence’s use of “unalienable” are as follows:
• Justice Clarence Thomas concurring with the decision in Timbs v. Indiana in 2019 (page 3) https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-1091_5536.pdf
• John Quincy Adams arguing before SCOTUS in 1841 https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/amistad_002.asp.
He clearly used “inalienable” to mean the exact wording of the Declaration of Independence.
These men, and Justice Gorsuch, were not mistaken. Black’s does not supersede the usage of legal scholars.
“If they’re not the same, why are they used interchangeably today?”
Because language is being dumbed down?
Because language changes over time. The changes are not necessarily negative.
I would say “Yes,” language is in retrograde: vocabulary is narrowing, and nuance seems to have been tossed overboard.
There is a slew of negations, both math/logic language and regular language, whether prefix or root.
In- (verse), un- (real), contra- (positive), a- (moral), re- (verse), con- (verse), de- (volution), anti- (matter), non- (sense), op- (posite), dis- (cover), and many more – especially “no,” “not,” “false,” and “zero” (which mathematicians STILL pretend is a number!).
It’s quite complex, with many subtle shades of meaning – and as far as I can tell, there isn’t yet a consonance between static math and dynamic language.
“I can’t hardly wait!”
“I could care less!”
Dumbing down, indeed!
Yep. And with it goes shades of understanding.
Since those definitions show “in”-alienable to be the correct term for rights, c.g., liberty, it would seem that Gorsuch is using the term that is appropriate for the right of free speech?
I personally believe the issue is the ease of pronunciation.
I have done some reading about this kind of thing, because some mispronunciations drive me crazy, like “nu-cu-lar” instead of new-clear for the word nuclear. And many people, even people whose job it is to speak publicly, do it.
The reason I have found is that there are more common words with the “sounds” of nu-cu-lar” than with “new-clear.” so the pronunciation is more fluid for people. And people tend to just fall into the “easier” way to say things.
For some reason, and I’ve seen this in several online discussions, people find it easier to say “inalienable” rather than “unalienable,” so one has “become” the other. But the fact that they are separated in old dictionaries tells me that they are not precisely the same word.
I do know that unless I’m concentrating on it, when I use the word in speech, like quoting the Constitution, I am more like to say “inalienable” myself! I have to make myself say it right. And regardless of what anybody says about it, I also like the “un-a-lien-able” pronunciation. If “language changes” as some say, then why this particular change would be so galling makes absolutely no sense to me.
I learned a lot of my vocabulary from reading books above my grade level. For some reason it is very difficult for me to sound out pronunciation. Possibly related to my life time struggle with auditory processing and auditory memory. Having to work twice as hard as everyone else to make spoken language make sense came in handy in college when assisting students where English was not their first language. Their accents were just another thing to deal with when trying to make sense of people’s words. Took me a long time to figure this out. I promise you, I will say nuclear the wrong way at least half the time. Sorry.
Lol, its ok. I was just fascinated to learn the ‘why’ of it for most people.
I had this wonderful black man as a high school social studies teacher. He could say “Portugal” just fine, but “Portuguese” came out “Pork-a-jeez” no matter what he tried! It was hilarious, he knew it was hilarious, and we had fun with it. We were very nice to him, partly because he was a Vietnam vet with multiple martial arts black belts, and we were a little afraid not to be!
Yes, my mispronunciations have been the source of much hilarity at my expense and it really is funny to me too, once I get the joke.
How about ‘u’ was preferable to ‘i’ on the typesetting machines of the day?
Maybe the dot part of the i had a habit of not showing properly on the printed copies so Adams [part of the printing faction] switched it out for u.
Nice theory.
Ooooh, very interesting thought!
I don’t get the beef here because the definitions you provide at the end above InA- encompasses the meaning of UnA- but goes a bit deeper. Guess I’m a Neanderthal 😉
You’re not a Neanderthal. Your thinking is reasonable. The two terms are synonyms, and I have no doubt that Justice Gorsuch knows that and merely used the preferred spelling of today.
makes sense 🙂 TY
And so, I was in error – about both the pronunciation AND the belief that the ‘a’ before ‘lien’ was a prefix, attached to the (false) root.
It was a neat mnemonic though, but I still find it odd for there *not* to be a link between the two words: their meanings seem quite close, the spelling almost identical.
So it really is “illegal aliens,” instead of “illegal a-liens!”
Lol, and thanks for the digs…
Thank you for saying this. It can be incredibly rare for someone to admit error, and it’s impossible to move on and continue a discussion when they don’t. Kudos to you.
Go back and read the two definitions again. They ARE linked. They are “almost” the same word. But not quite. And until I find a 1789 dictionary for the pronunciation, I remain unsure as to how it was pronounced in that year. If somebody has one, I’d love to see it.
The original statement the last time you brought this up was that “lien” and the “alienable” words come from the same root, and therefore the pronunciation of “inalienable” should emphasize the syllable LEEN. But the two words do not derive from the same root. I presented documentation at that time.
No, they are not.
Lien
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lien
Alienable
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/alienable
Completely different definitions and usage. Lien is about claiming someone else’s property because they owe you. Alienable refers to the condition of being capable of being sold or transferred.
Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1785)Page 1017, at the bottom of the middle column. It was pronounced the same as today, as follows:
Ina´lienable. adj. [in and alienable]
It also shows that the word derives from “alienable,” not “lien.”
I like the pronunciation too, and I still harbor a vestige of doubt in re the four words “inalienable,” “inalienable,” “alien,” and “lien.”
As far as the prefixes go, there *is* a difference between ‘un-‘ and ‘in-,’ even though they may be taken as synonymous today, and I prefer ‘in-‘ as being more powerful, more greatly negative. “In-AY-li-en-(uh)-ble” rolls better off the tongue – to my sonic taste! – than “unalienable” does.
Just my preference! I suspect that this topic qualifies as the greatest ‘beat the dead horse’ instance the Q-Tree has ever had!
We treat both the forest AND the trees … because ‘Why not BOTH???’
Lol. Yeah, the horse is probably fed up. But I sometimes just feel like putting on my spurs, saddling up, and seeing if I can resurrect the old mare just for the fun of it.
I very much enjoy your perspectives, and the variety of Q-Treepers’ takes- on *any* topic – is, and should be, what discourse and varying angles should be!
No one is always 100% “right,” and yet, we achieve better insight and resolution than most *any* other forum I’ve come across. It’s why I came back (when circumstances allowed).
I’ve only encountered a sparse instance of ‘shills’ here, because our comments are, to a ‘T’, genuine.
‘Magamom’ was a oner, though, subtly introducing the word ‘violence’ by proxy to smear the Q-Tree.
Wolf knew, and knows now as well, how to spot the glowies. I feel I can relax here, with like-minded Americans, and without opprobium if/when I’m in error.
What a great site to be part of!
Have a restful and pleasant night, Aubergine!
ES
Thanks. And back atcha!
Ok, even more interesting. I found a dictionary from 1790 by Thomas Sheridan, and another from Samuel Johnson in 1785 online.
In neither one does the definition for unalienable or inalienable appear.
Seriously.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/samuel-johnson-s-dictionary-of-the-english-language-1785/
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-complete-dictionary-of_sheridan-thomas_1790/mode/2up?q=unalienable+
Great digging though.
FYI, both dictionaries do have entries for “inalienable.” See my reply above or below.
“Inalienable” appears in both dictionaries.
• Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1785) Page 1017, at the bottom of the middle column. It was pronounced the same as today, as follows:
Ina´lienable. adj. [in and alienable]
It also shows that the word derives from “alienable,” not “lien.”
The entire “U” section appears to be missing, so I couldn’t find “unalienable.”
• In the dictionary of Sheridan Thomas, “inalienable” is found on page 482, in about the middle of the lefthand column. It says:
Inalienable, In-a´-lyen-abl.
It’s hard to see all the little markings, but there is definitely an accent on the initial “a” of “alienable.”
By flipping through to the “U” words, I don’t see an entry for “unalienable.”
• Noah Webster’s dictionary of 1828, three to four decades later, also places the accent on the initial “a.”
https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Inalienable
https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/unalienable
https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/alienable
I note that it gives “unalienable” as a definition of “inalienable,” indicating that the two were considered synonymous.
Thanks for the page numbers. I used the search feature; interesting that it didn’t work.
And, also interesting, the copy of Samuel Johnson’s I am using has no page numbers.
CLINTON & Sanctions — JOE LANGE care of BarkerJim yesterday.
Here is the whole list starting with Clinton. Notice Clinton, George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair are ALL CONNECTED via Teneo (Joe goes into the founders)
Global – Teneo
https://www.teneo.com/news/press-releases/teneo-and-thoughtworks-launch-new-ai-focused-joint-venture/
https://badlands.substack.com/p/america-for-sale-part-1
https://badlands.substack.com/p/america-for-sale-part-2
https://badlands.substack.com/p/america-for-sale-part-3
Sanctions are a scam.
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https://joelange.substack.com/p/more-than-regime-change-happening Part 1
https://joelange.substack.com/p/more-than-regime-change-happening-600 Part 2
https://joelange.substack.com/p/more-than-regime-change-happening-cdd Part 3
https://joelange.substack.com/p/more-than-regime-change-happening-72f Part 4
https://joelange.substack.com/p/more-than-regime-change-happening-f36 Part 5
That five part series, an excellent read. Easy read. few minutes, each section.
Joe has gathered an amazing amount of info and organized it to tell a damning story.
Bite Size pieces.
Which, importantly, is also true.
I don’t know where this is, but this video is just simply beautiful. God bless those young men and their pastor!
Best part of my day. That was beautiful. Wonderful kids. Thanks for posting.
I love Covering Prayers; they are so important (e.g. Ephesians 6:10-18). There have been times where things were really difficult, or my son was being mobbed at school, etc., and we’d pray a covering prayer for him, sometimes with our pastor as well.
(Funny thing, I think of that song that Bette Midler sang, “GOD is Watching”… BUT, HE’S most assuredly NOT watching from a distance… HE’S right there, and everywhere… Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent)…..
Another thing, that Antifa/Anarchy/etc. symbol… someone (SATANSauros or that treasonous american in RED China) is spreading that filth around the country; indeed, around the world. They need to be countered, both in the seen and unseen world…
I hope that the pastor counseled them to remove that image from their phone!
It’s not something that they need to have close to them.
Good point…
http://www.crossroad.to has a good section on symbols, as well as Carl Teichrib’s site (which they refer to)… Just because someone doesn’t know what a symbol means doesn’t take the meaning or power away… (and that’s explained in detail on those sites too)…
Exactly
I just love this First Family! Lol!
Eric Trump was 35 minutes early on the April Fools joke!
I so wish it were true.
Very, very, appropriate.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/not-so-easy-streets-wednesday-april
Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! And March is over. Just like that. Your jam-packed roundup includes: a Biden 2028 comeback that’s sharper than ever; Trump signs a masterwork mail-in voting executive order that gives Democracy better package tracking than Amazon Prime; the Supreme Court strikes down Colorado’s conversion therapy ban 8-1 and Sotomayor joins the majority; DeSantis gets the Florida SAVE Act plus Missy’s Law and a judicial impeachment; and a geopolitical earthquake where Trump says “go get your own oil” and Europe starts embracing populism within hours.
From Jeff:
Starting Point: U.S. Election Systems as Critical Infrastructure
Seems mail-in-ballots and the Post Awful would fall under part of the nation’s critical infrastructure.
AND Congress already passed that into law.😂
Jeff looks at it from a different point of view that dovetails with mine above.
Uh, C&C is not correct.
The ultimate authority is in the hands of Congress.
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Article 1, Sect. 4.-1.
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of choosing Senators.
[emphasis added by pgroup2]
“…The ultimate authority is in the hands of Congress…”
Correct, that is why I added my bit.
Congress ALREADY passed the law aka the Patriot Act dealing with critical national infrastructure and OBAMA’s DHS 👉designated U.S. election systems as part of the nation’s critical infrastructure,👈
So POTUS is beefing up part of the nation’s critical infrastructure, called the Postal System just as Obama would wish. 😂
Wow! You’ve outdone yourself this morning, Gail! Many Thanks!
patfrederick has a post about April Fool’s Day over at her blog.
Thorogh post as always Gail. thanks.
SAVE America Act. trump will press it hard, really hard. I hope he gets R-Con names Not supporting SAVE America Act AND those Not supporting talking filibuster.
Regarding calling. When Cruz was running for reelection, tried calling his phones. Texas and DC. No one answered and voice recorders were full.
BREAKING: Pressure is SURGING on Senate Leader John Thune to cancel paid vacation, come back and FUND DHS
REP. ANDY OGLES: “The Senate sent over a CRAP piece of legislation to the House and they LEFT town! This is what they normally do, is that they let down the American people and then they run, hide and leave town!”
“And that’s why we need appropriate leadership who is really willing to charge ahead in the Senate.”
“What did they do? They went back home to their districts. They went to Disney World. They had Jello parties or whatever the heck they do in the Senate, because they don’t work as hard as we do in the House.”
“And again, I’m willing to go back today if there’s a path forward and we need to work on a piece of legislation. I’ll spend Easter in Washington, D.C. to get this done for the American people, to get this done for TSA.”
4 Things To Know About SCOTUS Case That Could End Birthright Citizenship
1…..
The wording of the 14th Amendment indicates that merely being born within U.S. borders is not enough for citizenship. That’s partially why the Supreme Court, in a 19th-century decision, said the children of foreign diplomats and those born in Native American territory do not receive citizenship.
One of the main questions before the Supreme Court is why and how these groups of people might differ from the children of illegal immigrants.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing children and their mothers, has argued that people are subject to U.S. jurisdiction if they are obligated to follow its laws. Diplomats and Native Americans are excluded because they belong to other sovereign nations.
The Justice Department has focused more on the concept of allegiance, namely that illegal immigrant parents lack allegiance to the United States and therefore aren’t fully subject to the country’s jurisdiction.
2…..
Many federal judges have cited that decision to say that the Supreme Court already said the 14th Amendment granted citizenship to people born on U.S. soil—including those born to illegal immigrants.
When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Trump’s policy, it pointed to a portion of the 1898 opinion that identified three exceptions: children of Native American tribes, those “born of aliens in hostile occupation,” and “children of diplomatic representatives of a foreign state.”
The Justice Department argued instead that the 19th-century decision applied only to children whose parents were domiciled, or residing with some kind of allegiance to the country.
It noted that the court repeatedly referred to domiciled status. For example, the majority opinion read, “Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States.”
Another portion of the opinion said that Chinese persons owed allegiance to the United States and were entitled to its protection “so long as they are permitted by the United States to reside here.”
It’s unclear how the six conservative justices will rule, but the three liberal justices have already said in an opinion last year that Trump’s policy was “unquestionably unconstitutional.”
3…..
That law and statements from members of Congress will likely bear on the Supreme Court’s decision-making, as many of the justices have been viewed as originalists, or giving especially strong weight to the nation’s history.
The Justice Department pointed to, among other things, what Sen. James Wilson of Iowa said about the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
At the time, he said, “We must depend on the general law relating to subjects and citizens recognized by all nations for a definition, and that must lead us to the conclusion that every person born in the United States is a natural-born citizen of such States, except … children born on our soil to temporary sojourners or representatives of foreign Governments.”
The ACLU said that Wilson’s comment was incorrect and conflicted with English common law, which has been cited in legal decisions such as Wong Kim Ark.
In a briefing to the Supreme Court, the ACLU cited English legal scholar William Blackstone. Writing in his “Commentaries on the Laws of England,” Blackstone said, “Natural allegiance is such as is due from all men born within the king’s dominions immediately upon their birth.”
4…..
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and its predecessor, known as the Nationality Act of 1940, used the 14th Amendment’s phrasing. It states in part that “the following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth: a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
A long list of congressional Democrats filed an amicus, or friend of the court, brief telling the Supreme Court that regardless of what the 14th Amendment meant, Congress interpreted it as giving citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants when it enacted the 1952 legislation.
Because that was the lawmakers’ intent when they passed the bills, Democrats argued, the 1952 law was an independent reason to reject Trump’s executive order.
The administration argued that because the laws were transplanting language from the 14th Amendment, the original meaning of the amendment—not how Congress interpreted it—should rule.
I don’t have high hopes for this case. I hope I am wrong.
Hope here. Even optimistic. Not characteristic of me. Seems obvious to me. but, I am Slow.
From my old notes:
“…anyone born on U.S. soil and subject to its jurisdiction is a natural born citizen…”
A FOREIGNER is NOT TOTALLY subject to the jurisdiction of the USA.
Anchor babies, birthright citizenship, and the 14th Amendment
“… Senator Jacob Howard worked closely with Abraham Lincoln in drafting and passing the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery. He also served on the Senate Joint Committee on Reconstruction, which drafted the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1866, Senator Jacob Howard clearly spelled out the intent of the 14th Amendment by writing:
[That is pretty darn clear! — GC]
“The phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” was intended to exclude American-born persons from automatic citizenship whose allegiance to the United States was not complete. With illegal aliens who are unlawfully in the United States, their native country has a claim of allegiance on the child. Thus, the completeness of their allegiance to the United States is impaired, which therefore precludes automatic citizenship.
The correct interpretation of the 14th Amendment is that an illegal alien mother is subject to the jurisdiction of her native country, as is her baby….”
NOTE that MEXICO CLAIMS THE BABY AS A MEXICAN CITIZEN!!!
The site includes several supreme court decisions that uphold this interpretation.
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Babies Don’t Provide Anchors!
Professor Erler in his hillsdale article goes on to say:
On the McCarran-Walter Act (not sure how much if any has changed through the Patriot Act):
Speaking in the Senate on March 2, 1953, McCarran said:
The Problem with Birthright Citizenship: Ed Erler on The American Mind 22 minutes
I agree with you. You should be at SCOTUS today. 😄
HOLY CRAP! President Trump is “seriously considering” WITHDRAWING the US from NATO
Our “allies” messed up, big time.
“The future of the NATO alliance seems very much up in the air today.”
That’s what happens when you abandon America!
Oil supply, is not in Britain’s national interest. Seriously?
JUST IN: UK PM Keir Starmer REALIZES President Trump is serious and announces military planners are meeting to discuss securing the Strait of Hormuz after the war ends
“This will not be easy!” https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f921.svg
When big America leaves, sht gets real. Imagine that.
Appreciate Trump’s blunt Truth’s
4.1.26: ROGUE JUDGES, Alcatraz, MSG to UK and NATO, FEDERAL reserve GONE?, Endless Wars end, PRAY!
And We Know
https://rumble.com/v77x7pq-4.1.26-rogue-judges-alcatraz-msg-to-uk-and-nato-federal-reserve-gone-endles.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
Poor marco. 🫣😝
LOL
😄
Artemis II launch to the Moon (actually around the moon) today. (6:24pm today)
First time in 53 years humans will go as far as the Moon.
NASA Live:
Also:
Prob illegals fond of scooter robberies. Venezuelan?
Moment NYC gunman shoots BABY dead on Brooklyn street in broad daylight before fleeing on back of scooter
A seven-month old baby girl has died after being fatally shot in a New York City street by a scooter-riding suspect, police said.
The unknown child was hit while being pushed in a stroller near Humboldt and Moore Street in Brooklyn on Wednesday, sources told AM NY.
Shots rang out just before 1:25 pm, with the mother discovering after that the child was bleeding from the head after seeking refuge in a nearby bodega.
Images have since emerged of the two suspects wanted in connection, one of whom is sitting on the back of a scooter while holding a firearm.
The child was rushed to Woodhull Hospital, also in Brooklyn, where she could not be saved and was pronounced dead shortly after.
One woman who was inside the facility described the horror as the child was brought in, saying: ‘I was in the hospital when the father brought the baby in.
‘The dad brought the baby in. The dad was screaming, ‘Save my baby!’ And the mother was screaming at the top of her lungs.’
A manhunt is now underway for the two suspects, the moped they were using was found ditches a few streets away from the scene.
NBC New York’s chopper captured images of the street in the aftermath, with crime scene tape covering the area which was swarmed with officers.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15699199/NYC-gunman-shoots-BABY-dead-Brooklyn.html
Horrible!
Cold and brutal murder. Poor innocent baby took the bullet that either was intended for someone else or possibly any random person.
3rd world nyc.
SCOTUS Trump v. Barbara (birthright citizenship) news:
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Claims Stealing a Wallet in Japan Makes You ‘Locally Owe Allegiance’ in Bizarre Birthright Citizenship Argument
Solicitor General John Sauer Drops a Major Truth Nuke on Liberal Justice Elena Kagan After She Tries to ‘Educate’ Him on Birthright Citizenship (AUDIO)
Gunther Eagleman:
It’s clear how at least Kagan and Jackson will vote. I can’t imagine Sotomayor breaking ranks. This needs to be 6-3.
What the hell is wrong with these clowns?? They so want to dismantle everything lawful and decent with complete word garbage explanations.
Lately it all irritates me..the traitorous RINOS, the rogue judges, the illegals, the cost of living..on and on
Stay irritated. Complacency not helpful.
“Word garbage explanations” are all they have because they’re arguing against common sense, obvious legal intentions, decency, American principles, and anything that Donald Trump likes. 😅
Yes, very irritating.
I’m right there with ya.
“Her argument? If she steals a wallet in Tokyo and gets arrested, she is suddenly “owing allegiance” to the Japanese sovereign.”
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Hey now, Juicetess hyphen-Brown… Why you be stealin’ wallets in Japan for?
You speak for yo sef. I’ll have you know, I ain’t be gots no owings to nuffins!
These are impudent women. All of them. Kegger, Brown, Sodamotor and Wang 😂
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LOL! But the women in the movie were (dare I say it?) attractive…
Or, the reverse thought…
So if I say our Pledge of Allegiance…I can run out and steal someone’s wallet?
🤔 😅
Ketanjifucius say…
Chinese IIRC.
Yeah, but I couldn’t think of any Japanese equivalent to Confucius, so I was relying on a little poetic license… which you then unceremoniously revoked 🤣
“If I steal a wallet in Japan, I am Japanese.”
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Who could argue with such a sharp legal mind?
Why would anyone even try?
“If I steal a wallet in Japan, I am Japanese.”
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That’s uh, an interesting immigration and naturalization policy you have there… 🤣
Off topic, again.
…Civil Rights Act defined “jurisdiction” as requiring complete allegiance to the United States, not foreign powers.
^^^ Perfect reason to BAN dual citizenship. No grandfather option.
There WAS no dual citizenship when I was a senior in high school. My boy friend was a duel citizen and had to ‘PICK ONE’ on his 18th birthday. We had a lot of discussions on the topic.
So the Dual Citzen crap is NEW!
That is the way it was for my daughter. 18, American. That was easy.
I have to admit that this whole thing has me blood-running-cold scared.
If the SC rules against America and the 14th Amendment every pregnant woman from who knows where will be flying here to have their baby. As with the Chinese now, they won’t even have to stay here. Just take their new little Citizen home and reap whatever benefits they can milk us for…immediately or in the future.
This is number one on my prayer list until the ruling in June or July.
Don’t be a panican.
IT’S ENDING: Trump’s Iran Strategy Revealed — And Britain’s Energy Empire Goes With It
“Barbara Boyd argues the Iran war is being compressed toward a defined endpoint determined by President Trump and key Arab allies in the Abraham Accords, who want Iran no longer to pose a military threat after attacks on Gulf civilian infrastructure.
She says expectations of U.S. ground troops are misguided and that a ceasefire is more likely, citing a Pakistan-China backchannel effort tied to reopening the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s stated willingness to end the conflict under conditions, and Trump’s public consideration of a ceasefire.
Boyd frames the conflict as an economic operation with military enforcement aimed at breaking a transatlantic energy-control system: maximum-pressure financial measures weakened Iran before fighting began, while U.S. agencies expanded domestic energy output and Treasury managed oil-supply measures to prevent market collapse.
She contrasts Europe and U.S. “green mandate” states facing high fuel costs with “drill” states she says are buffered.”
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They’re not rational because the rational argument would cause them to lose. They want to destroy America and her way of life.
Not good, but it’s not over yet.
Hasn’t anybody else heard of devil’s advocate arguments? Lawyers have to use them in order to get to all aspects of an opponent’s arguments.
Zerohedge is not what it used to be. I’m unimpressed.
Exactly… they’ve been off the beam for a couple of years now…
Anybody surprised? Didn’t think so. Nothing but lying scum. We all know it was an inside job. They think We the People believe their crap.
Even on here a few us pointed out it was a woman operative by her gait and appearance. She also had a the telltale limp. The random nature of her path was also orchestrated just like an operative would do while thinking they were fooling people.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/court-document-former-us-capitol-police-officer-turned/
So the autistic guy is a patsy? I thought how wierd it was that it looked female all this time yet its a black guy?
yup – patsy
I hope this is made right.
Agree with TB…the game of chance with the Dem FIB could land anybody in a prison when they needed a dupe. That “bomb” was a key component of the J6 sham
No one wants to let that go dt the fact i guess.
Junk science or incompetence or ????
A growing contingent of the scientific community has become skeptical about the body of research finding that microplastics have infiltrated almost every aspect of nature, from the remotest regions of Earth to inside our bodies.
As The Guardian reported earlier this year, scientists have started warned that some of these studies may be based on errors due bad methodology, inadequate efforts to limit plastic contamination, and lack of validation.
Now, researchers from the University of Michigan have found that the special coating on commonly used nitrile and latex gloves worn by scientists could be causing measured levels of microplastics to shoot through the roof, even though the coating isn’t technically made of microplastics itself.
As detailed in a recent paper published in the journal Analytical Methods, special substances added to disposable gloves to make them separate from molds more easily, called stearates, are chemically very similar to microplastics, making them almost impossible to distinguish in the lab.
However, the research team led by recent University of Michigan doctoral graduate Madeline Clough stressed that the findings aren’t the last word on the question.
“As microplastic researchers looking for microplastics in the environment, we’re searching for the needle in the haystack, but there really shouldn’t be a needle to begin with,” she said in a statement.
For a preceding project exploring airborne microplastics, Clough used special air samplers to collect environmental samples and analyzed them using light-based spectroscopy. The air samplers themselves feature metal surfaces that collect any chemicals present in the air.
While preparing these metal surfaces, Clough wore nitrile gloves, as is standard practice. But when she analyzed the results, she found the number of microplastics was orders of magnitude higher than she expected, inspiring their latest paper.
“It led to a wild goose chase of trying to figure out where this contamination could possibly have come from, because we just knew this number was far too high to be correct,” she said in the statement. “Throughout the process of figuring it out — was it a plastic squirt bottle, was it particles in the atmosphere of the lab where I was preparing the substrates — we finally traced it down to gloves.”
Beyond nitrile gloves, the team tested seven other types of gloves as well for their latest paper, and found that cleanroom varieties — which do not come coated in stearates — performed significantly better than others, resulting in fewer particles getting caught in the air samplers.
“The type of contact we tried to mimic touches upon all varieties of microplastics research,” Clough explained. “If you are contacting a sample with a gloved hand, you’re likely imparting these stearates that could overestimate your results.”
Under an electron microscope, the researchers struggled to tell apart polyethylene, an extremely commonly used plastic, from stearate particles.
But while the results suggest previous studies could be painting a highly skewed picture of microplastics contamination in the world around us, Clough suggested it’s not too late.
“For microplastics researchers who have these impacted datasets, there’s still hope to recover them and find a true quantity of microplastics,” she said in the statement.
“By using this approach in conjunction with our included spectral libraries of stearate standards, researchers can address glove-based contamination in environmental datasets and provide more accurate estimates of environmental microplastic abundance,” the researchers conclude in their paper.
In short, it could take quite some time until we know for sure just how pervasive the small pieces of plastic are in the environment, let alone their effects on our health.
https://futurism.com/science-energy/microplastics-samples-gloves
Wasn’t there talk of recycled plastic in clothing? Seems like some woke high end sport clothing? No telling what China does with them. A little sprinkle in this and that that’s on amazon?!?
Iirc, polyester blends, no matter the line or price , are recycled plastics. Btw, did you know that black plastic take out containers are made from recycled electronics? Contaminated w chemicals that leach into your food if you cook them in the microwave.
“As detailed in a recent paper published in the journal Analytical Methods, special substances added to disposable gloves to make them separate from molds more easily, called stearates, are chemically very similar to microplastics, making them almost impossible to distinguish in the lab.”
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What a clown car show… 😂
YIKES!!!
Kicker outer is later than usual?
edit: actually I was just looking in the wrong place. L😆L
It had that little stretch of being close to “prompt”, but I couldn’t let myself fully believe…..
…..and, now, I am not completely heartbroken…..
Its like the mango thats got a positive pcr test.
And w the dept of health announcing a microplastics investigative project this says whoa lets get a proper test or 2 done before you blow 10 million.
Trump Just Said Leaving NATO is NOW ‘Beyond Reconsideration’!!!
“LET EM LOOT”… Mobs EMPTY NYC MALL as Mamdani AXES 7,000 POLICE
$250M Stolen From Kids… And This Is The Sentence?
I agree with ya Nellie. What a joke.
STFU Ihan O.
It is even WORSE. That is the sentence. I wonder how SOON he will be let out for ‘good behavior’
THIS IS THE REASON FOR ONE YEAR AND ONE DAY!!!
From Brave AI
Federal prisoners sentenced to one year or less are not eligible for parole. Under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, which abolished parole for federal offenders sentenced after November 1, 1987, inmates serving terms of 12 months or less cannot be released early through a parole board hearing.
Instead of parole, these inmates serve the full sentence with specific credit rules:
👉In contrast, inmates with sentences of one year and one day or longer become eligible for “good time credit” of up to 54 days per year served, which can reduce the actual time served by approximately 15%, but this mechanism applies only to sentences exceeding the 12-month threshold. 😡
EVENING PRAYERS
Prayer Of Thanksgiving In The Evening
Praise Your holy name Heavenly Father, for granting yet another day in my life and for being with me every step of the way. Thank You for the many blessings that You have provided and the love and fellowship that I have with the friends and family that in Your grace You have placed in my life.
My heart is so thankful for all the many blessings that I enjoy day by day, and today I am once again reminded that Your mercies are new every morning and Your faithfulness endures from generation to generation.
Thank You, that I have been brought into Your family and have been made a child of God and a citizen of heaven. Words cannot express my love and devotion to You Lord
I pray that You would watch over me as I rest tonight, and that You would give me a restful night’s sleep so that I may wake up in the morning refreshed in body and spirit and ready to do Your will. Guard all those that I love and may we all grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ in the days that lie ahead. This I ask in His precious name,
Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers
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Prayer Of Reflection On The Past Day
Loving Lord, as the day is coming to an end, I want to thank You for being with me in all that has taken place today. I also want to lay the whole day before You, asking that you would show me if there is anything that I have done to hurt or harm another person unknowingly, or if I have done anything that is displeasing in Your sight, or quenched the work of the Spirit in me, so that I may turn away from such things in the days that lie ahead.
Lord, I desire to do Your will in all things. I pray that You would cleanse me of any wrong thoughts or attitudes that may have surfaced in my heart today. Wash me in Your cleansing flood, I pray.
Thank You, that You are a God who forgives our transgressions when we are willing to confess them to You, knowing that such cleansing before You immediately draws us back into sweet fellowship with Yourself.
Give me a good night’s rest I pray, and may I rest quietly in Your loving arms in the knowledge that in Christ, I am eternally secure, due to Your amazing grace, for which I praise You. In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers
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Evening Prayer For Forgiveness
Heavenly Father, thank You for bringing me through this day and Lord, forgive me for the times when I have wandered outside Your best will for me, instead of trusting You implicitly.
Thank You, that You are such a gracious Shepherd to me and that You come and rescue me even when I lose my way and stray from the path that You have laid out for me.
As I look back over today, I know Lord that there were things that I should have said and done differently, and times when I reacted in a manner that was not honouring Your holy name. Forgive me I pray, but thank You, Father, that You always faithfully prepared to gently bring me back to Yourself.
Give me a good night’s sleep I pray, knowing that there is no condemnation because I am in Christ, and may I wake up in the morning refreshed and ready to do Your will. In Jesus’ name I pray,
Amen.
Source: https://prayer.knowing-jesus.com/Evening-Prayers
Is The War With Iran? Who Is Trump Really At War With? Election Moves & Countermoves – Ep. 3874
April 1, 2026 x22report
https://x22report.com/is-the-war-with-iran-who-is-trump-really-at-war-with-election-moves-countermoves-ep-3874/
The EU/Australia will be going through an energy crisis. They are pushing back on Trump/US and moving forward with the green new scam and China. The difference between these nations and the US are going to be like red states and blue states. Jobs are growing and wages are going up. Manufactures are coming back to the US, the opposite is happening everywhere else. Trump has destroyed the [DS] proxy army in Iran. Trump removed the [DS] protection and now the Strait is exposed. The EU/Australis/[DS] are pushing back against Trump, this is the real war Trump is fighting and he pushing them into a corner. The D’s are going to try to cheat in the election, Trump continues to put safeguards into place. Move and countermoves.
Ep 3874a – Is The EU Headed Towards A Crisis? Watch The US Economy Compared To Rest Of The World
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3874a-is-the-eu-headed-towards-a-crisis-watch-the-us-economy-compared-to-rest-of-the-world/
Ep 3874b – Is The War With Iran? Who Is Trump Really At War With? Election Moves & Countermoves
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3874b-is-the-war-with-iran-who-is-trump-really-at-war-with-election-moves-countermoves/
Is The War With Iran? Who Is Trump Really At War With? Election Moves & Countermoves – Ep. 3874
April 1, 2026 x22report
https://x22report.com/is-the-war-with-iran-who-is-trump-really-at-war-with-election-moves-countermoves-ep-3874/
The EU/Australia will be going through an energy crisis. They are pushing back on Trump/US and moving forward with the green new scam and China. The difference between these nations and the US are going to be like red states and blue states. Jobs are growing and wages are going up. Manufactures are coming back to the US, the opposite is happening everywhere else. Trump has destroyed the [DS] proxy army in Iran. Trump removed the [DS] protection and now the Strait is exposed. The EU/Australis/[DS] are pushing back against Trump, this is the real war Trump is fighting and he pushing them into a corner. The D’s are going to try to cheat in the election, Trump continues to put safeguards into place. Move and countermoves.
Ep 3874a – Is The EU Headed Towards A Crisis? Watch The US Economy Compared To Rest Of The World
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3874a-is-the-eu-headed-towards-a-crisis-watch-the-us-economy-compared-to-rest-of-the-world/
Ep 3874b – Is The War With Iran? Who Is Trump Really At War With? Election Moves & Countermoves
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3874b-is-the-war-with-iran-who-is-trump-really-at-war-with-election-moves-countermoves/
Pastor Dave PROPHETIC WORD Updates April 01, 2026 – The War Report Episode 536
NEWS ROUNDUP
So, the Artemis mission has launched.
The newsreader made a point of it being a bunch of firsts — first Canadian around the moon, first black, first woman……made it sound like “One Small Step for DEI; One Giant Leap for Woke.”
They built the capsule with extra glass ceilings to prevent depressurization as each new ‘first’ was accomplished 👍
I’m half-expecting NASA to announce that they only packed enough air for three astronauts so this mission could be the first where a crewmember is run out the airlock in flight.
Wouldn’t want to be a white man on that trip.
Everybody else throwing their race and gender cards down, and the white guy has nothing.
Except he’s named Drax 😆
In this case, the white guy wants to talk “aboot the hoos” while wearing a toque, drinking beer, and eating back-bacon.
“The newsreader made a point of it being a bunch of firsts — ”
____________
Well, it’s not unimpressive.
First female put on a rocket by white men to go around the moon.
First black man put on a rocket by white men to go around the moon.
These are things white men had never done before.
And one or both of them could be gay, waiting to announce during the return trip, so as not to dilute the impact by breaking all of the glass ceilings at once.
I watched Trump’s address at whitehouse.gov and missed the first part so I’ll watch again there to get the entire message.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Basically, they now have a computer model of chatbots agreeing with people until the people turn psychotic. Musk notes that “it’s a problem”!
Brave A.I. has the opposite problem.
It disagrees with every single position I hold.
And when I accuse it of doing exactly that, it disagrees 🤣
My new strategy is to state a position opposite to what I actually believe, let Brave make the reflexive counterargument, and then I begin my actual argument, after Brave is already committed to my real viewpoint… 😁
LOL!!!
I know! 🤣
Seems like a familiar issue, somehow….
You might be a little young for this reference, but do you remember the character “Owl” in the “Pogo” comic strip?
He’d argue an argument until he won (usually quickly, and handily), and then argue (and win) the other side…
Here’s a classic Pogo (from a Christmastime comic strip):
Here’s the whole story of that song:
https://www.musicfestnews.com/2024/12/walt-kelly-pogo-deck-us-all-with-boston-charlie
Here is the ORIGINAL Bukele saying about corrupt judges.
BWAHAHA!!!