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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
JOY
Psalm 100
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness; come into His presence with singing. Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him; bless His name. For the Lord is good; His steadfast love endures forever and His faithfulness to all generations.
Psalm 100 issues three commands in the first two verses.
Shout joyfully to the LORD (100:1). This is quite a beginning! The term “joyfully” doesn’t appear in the Hebrew. Literally rendered, it’s “Shout to the Lord!” The word “shout” comes from a Hebrew word meaning “to raise a noise, to give a blast (as on a trumpet).” This calls for the kind of shouting that erupts from a person so full of joy he can’t contain his emotions, the kind of uninhibited whooping you hear from fans at a football game. He says, in effect, “Shout in joyful approval of God!”
When’s the last time, if ever, we shouted like sports fans because of something we read in Scripture? Have we ever pumped our fists and shouted after a sermon on God’s attributes? This is not a suggestion that we become overly expressive; but certainly we should feel some excitement, at least a little joy, perhaps a lot of joy, and even maybe some unbounded joy.
Sometimes the Lord does things that defy natural explanation, accomplishing something completely beyond our capabilities. When He comes to our rescue, we shouldn’t accept this silently. Shout to Him. Lift up our voices in praise!
Serve the LORD with gladness (100:2). A healthy sign of the grateful life is serving. Few actions are more effective in creating joy than serving others. In doing God’s work, we serve Him, not the local church, not the superintendent of some department, not the pastor or some board. We serve the Lord. It is He we worship and for Him we labor—not people! And please observe that we are urged to serve “with gladness.” The Hebrew term for this phrase was used to describe pleasant things that gave happiness.
This psalm doesn’t imply we should serve only when our hearts are filled with joy. On the contrary, we are commanded to serve regardless; gladness will soon follow. In fact, when we start feeling sorry for ourselves or our attitude takes a cynical turn, it’s time to serve someone who’s in worse shape. It’s not long before gladness pushes joy into our hearts.
Come before Him with joyful singing (100:2). God prefers to have us be happy people, rejoicing in His presence. Are we joyful? Are our faces pleasant—is a smile frequently there? Do your eyes reveal a joyful spirit within? When we sing in church, is it with joy?
It’s time to lighten up! After all, joy is a choice. We should be saturating our lives with a genuine spirit of joy! It does the heart good and it’s truly contagious.
JOY IN BELIEVING You love Him [Jesus] even though you have never seen Him. Though you do not see Him, you trust Him; and even now you are happy with a glorious, inexpressible joy. Your reward for trusting Him will be the salvation of your souls. (I Peter 1:8 & 9)
JOY IN HEARING I [Jesus] say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. (John 17:13)
JOY IN OBEYING You know these things – now do them! That is the path of blessing. (John 13:17)
JOY IN ABIDING I [Jesus] have told you this so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! (John 15:11)
Yep, Kurt has noticed that lots of people are getting twanging schadenböners.
And you do not have to be male to get this kind of böner.
Hat tip to Scott (I think–if it wasn’t Scott it was 4GodAndCountry) for this video, which implies a LOT of schadenböners in our future.
[WOLF EDIT – for whatever reason this YouTube video no longer embeds, even as the shortened URL (below), so I have converted both URLs to links which open up in a new tab.]
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1. No food fights 2. No running with scissors. 3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. 4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns. 5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded. 5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty. 6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
Thursday was not a good day for gold and silver. Friday was also down slightly.
*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.
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Health Friday is a series regarding Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering speaks to the disaster of the COVID-19 “vaccines” (in reality, dangerous and deadly Bioweapon Toxin Injections), Yours Truly dedicates it to the memory of all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away from the negative effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” that they had permitted be injected into their bodies.
There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for any AI-generated content. There appears to be an AI-generated image in the Children’s Health Defense article by Dr. Brenda Baletti, PhD, that is cited below in today’s offering, just below the header title. If readers wish to add any AI-generated content to today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.
Note 2: Yours Truly is aware that there are other very important news stories and events that are unfolding that are not health-related. However, the following needs to be presented.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an attorney, an outspoken critic of Big Pharma and other entities that, up to now, had an undue influence on government health agencies, and who is the founder of Children’s Health Defense (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/), has been confirmed as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the new administration of the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump. Secretary Kennedy, Jr., has already done several things to re-focus the mission and activities of HHS in the direction of being more responsive to the public health of all Americans. Among these moves was his rescinding a previously-awarded HHS grant of $590 million dollars to Moderna to develop Avian Influenza and “pandemic vaccines.” This grant was awarded to Moderna by outgoing HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra in the final days of the previous administration of former President Joe Biden. Please see: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/hhs-cancels-funding-moderna-s-candidate-h5-avian-flu-and-pandemic-vaccines, by Lisa Schnirring, 29 May 2025.
On the other hand, HHS has, under Secretary Kennedy, Jr., also made some decisions that have raised eyebrows: for example, in April 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, a division of HHS) granted “Fast Track” approval for the self-amplifying modRNA H5N1 “pandemic vaccine”, ARCT-2304, to be tested in the United States. Please see: https://www.contagionlive.com/view/fda-grants-fast-track-status-to-arct-2304-for-h5n1-influenza-protection, by Sophia Abene, 10 April 2025. ARCT-2304 is expected to submit the BLA (Biologics License Application) documents and data for ARCT-2304 by early fall 2025. However, there’s something else that’s eyebrow-raising about this situation: The clinical trial for ARCT-2304, the data from which is going to be used in the BLA submission, has no true Placebo Control Group (a Placebo that uses Saline solution) — instead, the “Placebo Control Group” in the clinical trial is being injected with a “Placebo Vaccine.” How does this fit in with the “new FDA” that requires Placebo testing? Does the “new FDA” concept of “Placebo” now mean anything that is not the actual “candidate” drug or injectable when used in a clinical trial? Please see: https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/arcturus-self-amplifying-rna-shots, “Arcturus self-amplifying RNA: US approval expected this year”, 11 June 2025. A screenshot from this article is below:
It is now well known that the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” can, and do, cause multiple types of serious adverse events reactions, medical conditions of both body and mind, and death, among the COVID-19 “vaccinated.” Thousands of these reports are found in the VAERS database, and can also been searched here: https://openvaers.com/. But the FDA still has not removed these dangerous, deadly injections from the market. However, one new drug, for certain types of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) — ELEVIDYS — was just removed by the FDA after ONLY TWO DEATHS in the “post-marketing trials” group. Please see: https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/sarepta-and-roche-halt-dmd-gene-therapy-use-after-second-death/?cf-view&cf-closed, 16 June 2025. ELEVIDYS was FDA-approved on 20 June 2024. As with the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”, the FDA required Sarepta / Roche to perform “post-marketing trials” of the injectable (in effect, using the persons who would take ELEVIDYS as “human lab rats” to see if the injectable really worked, and to see if there would be serious adverse events in the persons who took the injectable.) Please see the FDA-issued Package Insert for ELEVIDYS, here: https://www.fda.gov/media/184855/download. Screenshots of section Warnings and Precautions; of section 11 Description; and, of section 13 Nonclinical Toxicology are below:
And, by the way, ELEVIDYS apparently “sheds” into areas around inside the body of the person who takes this injectable. Please see section 12.3 Pharmacokinetics Vector Distribution and Vector Shedding of the ELEVIDYS Package Insert linked above.
Then, there is the recent FDA approval of the use of the meningococcal “vaccine”, MenQuadfi, in infants between two months and two years of age (although it appears that this injectable may be used in infants as young as six weeks of age.) MenQuadfi is already FDA-approved for use in persons age two years and older. Attorney Aaron Siri believes this FDA “extension of use” approval is based on the “Pyramid Scheme of Vaccine Safety.” Please see: https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/all-vaccines-will-kill-you-menquadfi, “ALL VACCINES WILL KILL YOU: MenQuadfi Approval and the Pyramid Scheme of Vaccine Safety”, 15 June 2025. A screenshot of Attorney Siri’s statement from the article is below:
Which reminds Yours Truly of FDA approvals of “the latest version modRNA COVID-19 vaccine”, approvals based solely on “safety and efficacy data” from earlier “latest version modRNA COVID-19 vaccines.”
Before Yours Truly turns to yet another eyebrow-raiser FDA approval, a new article by Dr. Martin Makary, MD, MPH (FDA Commissioner) and Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH (director of the CBER division of the FDA) in the Journal of the American Medical Association: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/fullarticle/2835314, “Priorities for a New FDA”, 10 June 2025. This article is discussed by Dr. Meryl Nass, MD, on her Substack: https://merylnass.substack.com/p/another-makary-prasad-article-lists, “Another Makary-Prasad article lists the changes they are making at FDA: but again, it comes with flaws”, 10 June 2025. Screenshots from Dr. Nass’ article are below. The passages with the orange line are from the Dr. Makary – Dr. Prasad article; the rest of the language is from Dr. Nass:
This new article follows on the heels of the first one published by Dr. Makary and Dr. Prasad in the New England Journal of Medicine in May 2025: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929, “An Evidence-Based Approach to COVID-19 Vaccination”, in which Dr. Makary and Dr. Prasad made it clear that the FDA would follow “new guidelines” in the approval process and implementation of “new versions” of the COVID-19 “vaccines”, including in numerous “high risk” populations. Among the populations now considered by the FDA to be at “high risk” of severe complications from COVID-19 infection (and, therefore, “in need” of being COVID-19 “vaccinated”) is that of healthy pregnant women.
Yours Truly now turns to the most recent eyebrow-raising move by the FDA: the agency’s approval of lab-grown salmon, an approval based only on the manufacturing company’s “safety claims.” Please see: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-approves-first-lab-grown-salmon-based-solely-manufacturers-safety-claims/, “FDA Approves First Lab-Grown Salmon Based Solely on Manufacturer’s Safety Claims”, by Brenda Baletti, PhD, 10 June 2025. The manufacturer is a company in San Francisco called Wildtype Foods. Please see the screenshot from this article, below:
The FDA Letter of Approval for the lab-grown salmon is found here: https://www.fda.gov/media/186752/download. Below are screenshots from the FDA Letter of Approval:
Mark A. Hartman is a holdover appointee from the Biden Administration. His job at the FDA began on 29 December 2024. Previous to this, Mr. Hartman worked for the EPA. Please see: https://www.lawbc.com/oppt-deputy-director-mark-hartman-will-become-will-become-director-of-fdas-office-of-food-chemical-safety-dietary-supplements-and-innovation/, 13 December 2024. From what Yours Truly can find, Mr. Hartman has no background in chemistry, in health, or in science. His Master’s degrees are in Environmental Studies and in Public Administration. To Yours Truly, this begs the following questions, among many more: Did HHS Secretary Kennedy, Jr., know about this man? Did he know in advance about the FDA’s approval of lab-grown (“cell-cultured”) salmon to be sold and used for consumption in the United States? Exactly what “testing” was performed on this “cell-cultured” salmon to make quite sure that is not carcinogenic? What exact “ingredients” are “fed” to the “cell-cultured salmon cells” in the “steel tanks” at Wild Type Foods (aka Wildtype, Inc.) during the “culturing” process? How many unsuspecting people will be eating this “cell-cultured” salmon in restaurants and other places? What exactly was the “Cell Culture Consultation CCC ooooo5” listed in the FDA’s Approval Letter about? What data were presented?
What on Earth is really going on at the “new FDA”?
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This is not the article I was planning but give current events I think I should stick my oar in. Forget religion THINK MONEY…
I think this DELIBERATE ATTACK to create a false flag blamed on Egypt is a KEY CLUE given the history of the Brits/Rothschilds in Egypt and their interest in the Suez canal
Trade links had existed between the two countries for as long as anyone could remember. Egypt was a key part of the old spice and trade routes between Europe and Asia. British traders had been loading and unloading their cargoes in Ottoman waters for generations.
British military and political interest in Egypt first manifested itself as it became obvious that in the Eighteenth Century, India was falling under the influence of Britain (and away from France). Despite, the direct sail routes around the Cape of Good Hope, Egypt still provided the quickest way of maintaining communications between Britain and India. It required a brief overland journey, but it was still substantially quicker than circumnavigating Africa….
This site, by a UK teacher, has an excellent timeline dealing with the British Empire. These are the key dates dealing with the Suez Canal.
1798
Napoleon arrives in Egypt to destroy British trade and influence in the area. He defeats a Mameluke army at the Battle of the Pyramids. But, the British destroy his fleet at Aboukir Bay.
1841
The Turkish Government grants hereditary soveriegnty to Mohammed Ali and his heirs.
1848
Mohammed Ali dies. Replaced by Abbas I
1854
Said takes over. He is an enthusiastic moderniser and supports construction of the Suez Canal.
1858
Alexandria to Suez Railway Opened
1869
Suez Canal opened
1875
Disraeli buys the Khedive’s 40% holding in the Suez Canal company. Britain is now the largest single shareholder.
1876
Anglo-French control of Egyptian finances
1885
Britain and France declare the Suez Canal neutral.
1904
French confirm that British power is preeminent in Egypt. Upsurge in Anti-European feeling.
1914
Britain orders all foreign vessels out of Suez canal. Also, declares Egypt a protectorate
1921
Rioting in Cairo and Alexandria
1922
Egypt declared independent, but with Britian retaining responsibility for maintenance of communications, defence, protection of European interests and the question of Sudan. Sultan Fuad becomes King Fuad I. Tutankhamen discovered.
1924
Governor General of Sudan Assassinated in Cairo – Egyptians Ordered to Withdraw from Sudan and Pay Indemnity
1929
Britain agrees to withdraw some troops from Egypt, but not from canal zone.
1953
Britain and Egypt discuss future of Suez Canal. British families advised to leave Egypt.
1954
Britain agrees to withdrawal of 65,000 servicemen. Nasser ousts Neguib.
1955
Israelis raid Egyptian held Gaza strip. Britain and Egypt agree to independence of Sudan.
1956
Nasser assumes full executive powers and nationalises Suez Canal Company. Expels British, French and Zionist residents. British, French and Israeli forces react. But, diplomatic problems force the withdrawal of the British and French armies. Israel keeps Gaza strip.
So given Nasser kicked the Brits out, what has been the plan?
you see the Israelis are militarizing islands in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden by grabbing territory from Yemen and kicking the natives out. This is why the Houthis are attacking.
Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War on Oct. 7, rumors have circulated online about an alleged Israeli infrastructure project that would create an alternative to the Suez Canal, allowing Israel to control a waterway between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
The new canal, supposedly called the “Ben Gurion Canal” after Israeli founding father and first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, would be a financial boost for Israel, but it would also have to run directly through the Gaza Strip.
Reason Behind a ‘Ben Gurion Canal’
The Suez Canal Authority had a record revenue of $9.4 billion in Egypt’s 2022 Fiscal Year, up from $7 billion the year before. Some 25,800 ships passed through the canal in FY 2022, up from 23,800 the previous year.
The Suez Canal was created by a French diplomat in 1869 and was jointly administered by a British-French imperial corporation. By the 1950s, Egypt had already been rebuffing Britain’s military presence at the canal, and was unhappy with the existence of Israel. But when Israeli troops pushed Egyptian forces toward the canal, as the U.S. backed out on a promise to fund a dam in the Nile River, Egypt seized control over the highly important trade route….
Previous Consideration of ‘Ben Gurion Canal’
It was revealed in a document from the 1960s (declassified in 1996) that theUnited States considered using 520 nuclear bombs to blow through the Israeli landmass in order to create an alternative to the Suez Canal similar to the alleged Ben Gurion Canal.It was produced by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, an institution funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
To create the passageway connecting the Mediterranean with the Gulf of Aqaba through the Negev desert, the paper notes, “it appears that nuclear explosives could be profitably applied to this situation.” It suggests a route that would “pass by Beersheba and the Gaza Strip,” specifically Gaza’s “coastal plain” which is described as “the least difficult to excavate” as it is “fairly close to seal level.”
After discussing the economic feasibility of the project, which it argues would only be a fraction of the ultimate pay off, the document brushes up against its “political feasibility,” recognizing “it is likely that the Arab countries surrounding Israel would object strongly to the construction of such a canal.”…
Yandex.com several other articles if you search using “ben gurion canal”
Then there is a June 15th article on the Burning Platform:
President Trump supporter Charlie Kirk presented a poll question on his Twitter account asking, “Should the US get involved in Israel’s war against Iran?” Almost a half million responses and the outcome is almost 90% saying no.
If you have been following my articles, I hope you can see the Rothschilds are very much behind the creation of Israel and I do not think it has anything to do with religion. I already covered Khazaria, the silk road & the Russians attacking
It is ALL ABOUT TRADE ROUTES AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN
I really love this:
To say that London is the world’s globalization headquarters is like saying the Mouse lives at Disney World. London has been the velvet-gloved epicenter of globalism ever since the East India Company shipped spices and opium on the same manifest. London’s financial class didn’t just benefit from globalization— they practically wrote the instruction manual. For them to start hand-wringing now about “mass immigration” and “no benefits from free trade” is a sign the ground is shaking beneath the WEF cathedral. Coffee & Covid
The U.S. provides Israel more than $63 million* in military aid per day,
The United States has granted more total aid to Israel since World War II than to any other country.
Cumulative US foreign assistance obligations between 1946 and 2022 to the top ten recipients. Inflation-adjusted to 2022 dollars. (source)
In addition to this direct aid to Israel:
Israel gets most of its aid money at the start of each year, rather than in quarterly installments like other countries.
This means that Israel starts earning interest on the money right away – interest paid by the US since Israel deposits these funds into an interest-bearing account at the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
Because the US government operates at a deficit, it must borrow money in order to give it to Israel and then pay interest on it all year.
Together these have at times cost US taxpayers more than $100 million every year.
Like many government policies, this disbursement of U.S. tax money is not because it serves American interests, but instead is the result of special interest lobbying.
Another Unique Exception
Contrary to ordinary U.S. policy, Israel has been and continues to be allowed to use approximately a quarter of U.S. military aid to purchase equipment from Israeli manufacturers. According to CRS, “no other recipient of U.S. military assistance has been granted this benefit.” (In some years this percentage has increased to as high as 38.7%.)
The MOU requires this Off-Shore Procurement (OSP) to phase out over time, ending entirely in FY2028. However, according to the CRS report, Israeli defense contractors are responding to the planned phase-out by merging with U.S. companies or opening U.S. subsidiaries to continue their elegibility for defense contracts financed through FMF.
Thanks in part to this indirect U.S. subsidy, Israel’s arms industry has become one of the strongest in the world, and competes with US companies. Between 2001 and 2008, Israel was the 7th largest arms supplier to the world, selling $9.9 billion worth of equipment. And it continues to grow stronger. In 2021, Israel sold $11.3 billion in military goods to other countries…
Congressman Thomas Massie reveals to Tucker Carlson that his Republican colleagues have an “AIPAC babysitter” to ensure they vote in the interests of Israel at all times.
“It’s the only country that does this,” Massie adds.
“Everybody but me has an AIPAC person — like your AIPAC babysitter, who is always talking to you for AIPAC,” Massie said. “They’re probably a constituent from your district but they’re firmly embedded in AIPAC.”
“Every member has something like this?” Tucker Carlson asked.
“Every Repub–, I don’t know how it works on the Democrat side, but that’s how it works on the Republican side, and when you come to DC you go have lunch with them and they’ve got your cell number and you have conversations with them.”
“That’s crazy,” Carlson responded.
“So, I’ve had four members of Congress say, ‘I’ll talk to my AIPAC person’ — that’s literally what we call them, ‘my AIPAC guy,'” Massie said, laughing. “‘I’ll talk to my AIPAC guy and see if I can get them to, you know, dial those ads back.'”
“Why have I never heard this before?” Carlson said.
“It doesn’t benefit anybody,” Massie said, “why would they want to tell their constituents that they’ve basically got a buddy system with somebody who is representing a foreign country, it doesn’t benefit the congressmen for people to know that so they’re not going to tell you that.”
Anti–DefamationLeague National Leadership Summit. … Since 2010, FBI employees have participated in more than 105 training sessions sponsored by the ADL on extremism, terrorism, and hate crimes, in 17 states and here in the District.
The Department of Justice released the Anti-Defamation League’s Basic Field Training Course (PDF). The course is mandatory for all FBI New Agent Trainees (NATs) and New Intelligence Analyst Trainees (NIATs). This release follows a decade of Freedom of Information Act requests and denials by the Department of Justice (PDF) and evasion by publicly funded content contributors.
The ADL course is developed and conducted by Anti-Defamation League (ADL) instructors. It selects materials from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. Marcus Appelbaum, Museum Director of Law, Justice and Society Initiatives in 2014 resisted any public review of the curriculum, stating, “Unfortunately we do not randomly send out the curriculum.” Appelbaum also denied that any of the large amounts of U.S. taxpayer funding supporting the museum paid for the curriculum.
The ADL course facilitates a discussion of the USHMM video The Path to Nazi Genocide by asking trainees to watch and then consider “the challenges that police officers faced, and decisions they made in Germany during the Nazi era.” The video depicts the rise of Nazi Germany from WWI to the final WWII liberation of concentration camps replete with emaciated images of the dead and barely living.
The final question the video puts to agents in training is why the word “genocide” had to be coined in the aftermath. “As the world struggled to understand what had happened, a new word, genocide, w
According to Pew, the percentage of the U.S. population that is Jewish is estimated to be 2.4%. Why do they have such an outsized influence on the USA?
We, the undersigned American Jewish clergy, are deeply concerned about reports thatPrime Minister Netanyahu will demand of President Obama, at their meeting at the White House today, that either the United States attack Iran, or else, Israel will...
Most of the people of the State of Israel oppose Prime Minister Netanyahu’s military threats against Iran. They fear the consequences of an attack on Iran. As Jewish leaders, we too believe that the path of wisdom towards achieving peace and stability in the region is through dialog and engagement and not through acts of war. We call on the United States government to safeguard the interests of the people of Israel and Iran…
….the latest high-profile demonstration demanding the United States end its opposition to a cease-fire in Gaza.
The rabbis—whose action was organized by Rabbis for Cease-fire, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Jewish Voice for Peace, and IfNotNow—displayed banners with messages for U.S. President Joe Biden: “Biden: The World Says Cease-Fire,” and “Biden: Stop Vetoing Peace.”
The protest came weeks after the U.S. alone vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for Israel to end its bombardment of Gaza, which has killed at least 23,210 people, injured more than 59,100, and left thousands more missing and feared dead under rubble, as the population of the enclave faces starvation and disease stemming from Israel’s blockade…
Funny how we hear about the idiots supporting HAMAS, but not the JEW CALLING FOR PEACE.
I am adding this video very late. It is about Israel and BLOOD Diamonds and it is nasty. Israel and their American supporters are ‘rinsing the blood off’ @ 39 minutes to ~50 minutes the colonel talks of the Zionist Americans involved.
Yup, I said we would start back on Declaration signers today. Going to need to postpone that to next Tuesday’s opener. If I do not discuss the following I will probably forget and it is sneakily more important to the big picture of what our VSGPOTUS is doing than many realize. It is the industry in which I made my living as readers of BIMD will remember.
Small Business Acts of Importance
These links are short summaries – will not take long to read.
Let’s answer that question with a simple statement that has been true for many, many years. Approximately half of the employed people in America work for who the federal government classifies as small businesses.
Must be kind of a big deal, right?
I am focusing on CEASE because of industry knowledge and experience. However, all seven Acts are very important and part of the much larger puzzle of what PDT is piecing together. Notice that all seven passed out of Committee along party lines at 15-11.
America should really stop pretending that bipartisanship can exist consistently. That idea is trash. It was promoted by the Uniparty for decades as a means for selling their dedication to American citizens, which we now know was hogwash. If you hear the word being sold by a politician or media propagandist you know what side they are on. Full stop.
Concerning all of the Acts passed in the committee, please notice that they are not all about small business necessarily. The SBA as an agency is a means to an end with some of the acts. It is also about using the agency as a weapon against illegal voter registration, against sanctuary cities, to cut regulatory burdens, and against climate change related scams.
Some on here will remember my recent posts about a fellow co-worker from my tree that took over a small business lending department for a bank in our area after I retired. He recently called and was distraught; considering early retirement over what Brandon and cronies did to the industry. They had opened the floodgates for borrower loan requests over $1 million and did not care if they were citizens or not or even if they were creditworthy. As a result fraud was rampant, delinquencies and defaults were soaring, and the agency was not honoring their guaranties on defaulted loans of even the honest lenders on a timely basis. In fact, they were trying to renege as often as they could. It had all turned into one giant clusterf–k.
i told him to be patient as I felt it would be addressed soon by the Trump admin and MAGA elected officials. Many of them experienced great heartburn over PPP program fraud that was administered by SBA during COVID. We see the results of their and the banking industry’s concerns in the bills linked above. We also see greatly improved internal policy decisions that reflect the changes below. Effective June 1, that hammer fell. All SBA lenders and small business borrowers must comply with the following revised, common sense, sound credit parameters and requirements to obtain SBA guaranteed loans.
Most were parameters that were already required in some format and/or amount during my career that effectively ended on a full time basis 17 years ago. That they were not followed in the years since simply points to the systematic destruction of critically important financing options for small business owners who do not ordinarily qualify for conventional financing options at banks and other lenders. Brandon’s bunch desired the opposite to increase funds for the woke and money launderers.
The primary purpose of this private/public partnership between banks and the federal government is to provide capital to small businesses that need and deserve support. In turn they grow, provide products and services to the public, pay taxes, provide incomes and benefits to owners and employees, play important parts in communities and so on. In summary, they participate in the American Way. Many successfully become larger businesses and iconic brands that employ even larger numbers of people. However, it is true that many big businesses do not want increased competition. As a result they play politics with their smaller competitors to retain market share.
Which leads to the Main Street versus Wall Street tension that SD at TCTH discusses as well as in discussion within our federal government today. The former party of big business only is now the party of Main Street as well with the America First policies of the MAGA movement, thanks to the efforts of the patriots in league with PDT. The internal tension within the GOP will be to keep the playing field level for both big and small business. Which makes the next topics encouraging for us Main Street types.
CEASE Act
Some may ask why would an act be necessary to limit the number of non-bank lenders who could be active in SBA lending programs? Here is what led to it,
The truth is some of the non-bank small business lenders with licenses, SBLC’s, typically are bottom feeders. Some only meet minimum capitalization requirements and receive funding from other wholesale lenders at a higher cost of funds than banks typically realize. They also are not subject to regulatory scrutiny of the banking industry. That can lead to some shady dealings at times.
As a result some SBLC’s typically take more risk and charge borrowers higher interest rates to counter. As a natural consequence they experience higher delinquency rates and loan defaults. Like many other bank lenders in the program, they sell participations in the SBA guaranteed portions of loans to investors such as hedge funds, pension funds, insurance companies, credit unions, etc, that are usually represented by investment brokerage houses. The lack of credit worthiness of some of their customers impacts the overall performance of the pools of loans that go into securitizations that are sold to the end investors. This reduces their value over time, which reduces the premium offered to all lenders in the programs. It is not fair to thousands of banks that a handful of SBLC’s acting in bad faith are allowed to spoil the debt market barrel for the product. Not to mention the extra work created for SBA’s liquidation area on defaulted loans.
This is a weakness for all types of debt markets on Wall Street. it was the underlying cause of the debt market collapse of 2008 leading into The Great Recession. So what is the primary that weakness that can cause a nation’s economy to crumble? The Wall Street buyers of all types of loans are not “credit” people as bankers view credit. For example, bankers view credit from the perspective of the 5 C’s of credit, which bank regulators like from the FDIC understand and consider in their reviews. Those categories are character, capacity, capital, collateral and conditions. Commercial bankers are trained in the long established methodology of making loans to borrowers who are most likely to repay the bank back on time. This is the Main Street view – know your borrower and how they handle their business.
Wall Street sees credit differently. They do not drill down into individual loans to determine viability. They view historical performance of industries (SIC codes) and locational aspects along with loan pool average interest rates, terms, collateral, industry concentrations, etc. as the credit of the overall deal. They rely on rating agencies – S&P, Moody’s and Fitch to ascertain their overall rating of each pool of loans. The ratings agencies typically only review a small sampling of loans and are more interested in the documentation being correctly executed. To Wall Street, those are the factors that provide the credit worthiness of the macro pool of loans, not the micro individual loans themselves.
In my opinion this void in understanding credit was a major cause of the Great Recession because it happened in every type of debt instrument – residential mortgages, car loans, credit cards, commercial real estate, etc. This led to the banker version of credit being undercut by the crappy underwriting of non-bank lenders in all of those business segments, industries, and locations. Wall Street purchased huge volumes of loans from those sources in many overheated markets. When the borrowers began tanking on their loans in large numbers as the economy and job markets cooled, caused by politicians primarily, the funding for new loans in even stable industries also dried up. The institutional buyers were deservedly spooked and sought safe harbor in treasuries and other more stable investments. All of the insurance coverage with hedges, swaps and such went down with it. The Great Recession kicked in.
As it applies to SBA lending, when lesser performing SBLC’s provide lower quality loans to a mixed pool involving other lenders, they can taint the whole pool and hide crap loans. SBLC loans are mixed into pools with those of banks. Everybody is affected. As you will see below, they rack up some profits short term and once the crap begins to hit the fan – poof – they are gone.
Current Status
Below is the list of active SBLC’s as of 1/29/25 with authorization to make loans up to $5 million.
Alaska Growth Capital BIDCO, Inc. Nationwide Arkansas Capital Corp. Nationwide Centerstone SBA Lending, Inc. Nationwide CRF Small Business Loan Company, LLC Nationwide First Western SBLC, Inc Nationwide Grow America Fund, Inc. Nationwide Harvest Small Business Finance, LLC Nationwide Lendistry SBLC, LLC Nationwide Lendstream Small Business Finance, LLC Nationwide Port 51 Lending, LLC Nationwide Readycap Lending, LLC Nationwide VelocitySBA, LLC Nationwide
Notice anything about the current list? There are 16 licenses authorized by the past act before Brandon and gang removed that restriction, at which time it went up to 19 approved lenders when they approved three new lender licenses. I will address an even worse atrocity associated with the 2023 changes involving the creation of special purpose lending companies later in this text below.
Currently, it is back to 16 authorized SBLC licenses again, yet, there are only 12 licensed lenders as of the beginning of PDT’s term of office. What happened to the four that were approved in the second half of 2024 – Cooperative Business Services (CBS), A10 Capital, Lafayette Square and Stonehenge Capital as replacements for four others who dropped out previously? They are not on the current list.
This is because their applications did not get activated with required Congressional approvals in time before PDT assumed office, so they lost out with PDT coming in. We also know one of the current licensees, Lendstream, has not made any SBA loans since 2022. They should not even have the license if they are going to be inactive, so something is “off” there. We also know that one of Brandon’s newbie three, Funding Circle, closed its operations soon after it started. Two were added that are still on the list, Alaska and Arkansas. So, sometime in 2024 they also replaced two that dropped off the list. That means a total of 6 lenders were approved to replace 6 on the list in 2024 and three were added above the former 16 limit, one of which failed. That is a movement of 9 non-bank licensed lenders in a year. That leaves 11 that are actually making SBA loans out of 16 authorized slots in 2025.
Needless to say making fraudulent loans to formerly ineligible customers (i. e. illegals) by criminal enterprises using federal guaranties on the majority of the loans that create extra profits for the subject non-bank lenders is a recipe for disaster for the programs, SBA and Americans. The current admin is taking the approach of eliminating that possibility in opposition to Brandon and the Uniparty who had that as their MO for SBLC’s since banks are more controlled by Congressional acts as well as regulatory authorities.
Hypothetically, let’s say you are a higher up in a cartel and you have established some seemingly legit businesses to launder cash through. In the past you could invest into an SBLC with the Brandon regime’s approval through a shell company or other legit business. You would then have the ability to influence or otherwise approve loans to other connected businesses to pull cash and/or launder money. In those businesses there would probably be hordes of illegals as employees who were given some form of legal resident status by Brandon’s crims, which undoubtedly also led to some being illegally registered as voters, Medicaid recipients, Social Security recipients and so on. All of the above would support Dem politicians and designees.
Is some of this making sense now? SBA is just one agency of the federal government that was used for these type purposes, there were many more.
In my personal opinion, that cartel/crim scenario probably applied to more than one of the exited licensed lenders including the ones discussed in the link below. The legit SBLC’s generally make enough good loans to help cover for the excessive bad loans of the crims, who have lower loan volumes as they attempt to stay under the radar. The loan volume of the better lenders is higher and they have received SBA’s highly desired Preferred Lender status rating, which means they do things right. I know several of the leaders of these quality lenders; did business with one CEO when he was employed at a well known SBLC from BIMD.
The following SBA press release from a month ago gives clarity and examples of an explosion of the new special purpose SBLC’s that Brandon’s crims put in place.
From the link; “However, in 2023, the Biden Administration revived Community Advantage and approved more than 140 new, unregulated lenders for the program, selectively certifying groups including “The Progress Fund,” “PeopleFund,” and “Black Business Investment Fund.” It then attempted to increase the loan limit for the program from $250,000 to $500,000 – or up to $2 million to fund climate-related projects in support of the Green New Scam.”
SBA as an agency and the industry was a goner if PDT had not won. Obviously the agency was a major source of fraud and money laundering using leftist scams and illegals.
Conclusion
All of these current congressional activities tell me the Trump admin is all over it and knows the game the crims have been playing. The plug is being pulled and it is a GREAT thing for America in many areas of concern.
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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Joy of the Lord
The joy of the Lord is the gladness of heart that comes from knowing God, abiding in Christ, and being filled with the Holy Spirit.
When Jesus was born, the angels announced “good tidings of great joy” (Luke 2:10). All who find Jesus know, with the shepherds of the nativity, the joy He brings. Even before His birth, Jesus had brought joy, as attested to in Mary’s song (Luke 1:47) and by John’s response to hearing Mary’s voice as he “leaped for joy” in his mother’s womb (Luke 1:44).
Jesus exemplified joy in His ministry. He was no glum ascetic; rather, His enemies accused Him of being too joyful on occasion (Luke 7:34). Jesus described Himself as a bridegroom enjoying a wedding feast (Mark 2:18–20); He “rejoiced in the Holy Spirit” (Luke 10:21); He spoke of “my joy” (John 15:11) and promised to give His disciples a lifetime supply of it (John 16:24). Joy is reflected in many of Jesus’ parables, including the three stories in Luke 15, which mention “rejoicing in the presence of the angels” (Luke 15:10) and end with a joyful shepherd, a joyful woman, and a joyful father.
Nehemiah told the repentant Israelites that the joy of the Lord would be their strength (Nehemiah 8:10). The early church was characterized by gladness and the joy of the Lord (Acts 2:46; 13:52), and “joy in the Holy Spirit” is a distinguishing mark of the kingdom of God (Romans 14:17). Those who are part of the kingdom share in the kingdom’s delight.
Joy is part of the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). In fact, it is our Christian duty to rejoice in the Lord (Philippians 3:1; 4:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:16). In Christ, the believer is “filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy” (1 Peter 1:8).
Because of its supernatural origin, the joy of the Lord—our gladness of heart—is present even through the trials of life. We know we are children of God, and no one can snatch us away from Him (John 10:28–29). We are heirs to “an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade,” and no one can steal it from us (1 Peter 1:4; Matthew 6:20). We see the Author and Finisher of our faith, and, let the enemy rage ever so much, we know who wins in the end (Hebrews 12:2; Psalm 2).
Faith is the victory that overcomes the world, and the joy of the Lord is our strength. Adverse circumstances, instead of hindering our faith, can actually enhance our joy. Paul and Silas knew adversity as they sat with their feet in the stocks in a Philippian jail cell. Their legal rights had been violated. They had been arrested without cause and beaten without a trial. At midnight, since they couldn’t sleep, they sang—loudly—the praises of the Lord they were serving (Acts 16:25). A miracle soon followed (verse 26).
The apostles in Jerusalem were arrested—twice—and ordered not to preach in Jesus’ name. The second time they faced the court, they were beaten. Unfazed, they returned home “rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name” and ready to preach some more (Acts 5:41). Of course, the apostles were only following the example of our Lord, who had “for the joy set before him . . . endured the cross, scorning its shame” (Hebrews 12:2).
The joy of the Lord may be inexplicable to the one who does not possess it. But, for the believer in Christ, the joy of the Lord comes as naturally as grapes on a vine. As we abide in Christ, the True Vine, we, the branches, are full of His strength and vitality, and the fruit we produce, including joy, is His doing (John 15:5). xhttps://www.gotquestions.org/joy-of-the-Lord.html
We should all remember Deplorable Patriot and Wheatie as we push forward with the fight. This is NOT over by any means.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Because JUSTICE must be served on those who foisted the “Vax” shit on us. And for all the other things they have done to this country.
“Don’t Tread On Me,” it says. You failed to pay attention to this advice. You went out of your way to do the opposite. You chose to rub our faces in it, imprison those who dared complain, and even to kill our people. Now you shall pay just a tiny fraction of the real price, Ratfuckers.
What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
RINO scum. Like Murkowski and Collins.
That’s OK. We go around ’em for now.
January 6 Tapes Reminder
OK…I’m sick and tired of reminding you to no effect, Speaker Johnson, so I’ll do the more emotionally satisfying thing and call you a cowardly, lying, fraudulent sack of diarrhetic monkey shit.
Johnson, you are a cowardly, lying, fraudulent sack of diarrhetic monkey shit!
A Caution
Just remember…we might replace the RINO candidates. (Or we might not. The record is mixed even though there is more MAGA than there used to be.) But that will make no difference in the long run if the party officials, basically the Rhonna McDaniels (or however that’s spelled–I suspect it’s RINO), don’t get replaced.
State party chairs, vice chairs, secretaries and so on, and the same at county levels, have huge influence on who ultimately gets nominated, and if these party wheelhorses are RINOs, they will work tirelessly to put their own pukey people on the ballot. In fact I’d not be surprised if some of our “MAGA” candidates are in fact, RINO plants, encouraged to run by the RINO party leadership when they realized that Lyn Cheney (and her ilk) were hopelessly compromised as effective candidates. The best way for them to deal with the opposition, of course, is to run it themselves.
Running good candidates is only HALF of the battle!
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
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And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights 2. No running with scissors. 3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. 4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns. 5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded. 5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty. 6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
Paper Spot Prices
All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend). Format: bid/ask
Gold managed to push up into the 3430s. (I got to re-use that part of the sentence from 5 weeks ago! The old sentence says “…on Monday/Tuesday” but this time it was Friday.) Gold up nearly $50 on Friday thanks to the fun in Iran; up over a hundred bucks over the course of the week. Silver dropped 3 cents on Friday but is still up for the week (not very spectacularly to be sure). As a result the gold:silver ratio has gone up. Platinum actually took a bad hit on Friday (down 67 bucks), but still up quite a bit this week. Palladium down a bit though it didn’t drop so hard on Friday. Rhodium up 75 on Friday but still down for the week.
*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.
A Couple of Videos of Some Interest
I gave a lot of Saturnian moons a bit of short shrift, on the theory that if you’ve seen one iceball, you’ve seen them all. This is a deeper dive on Tethys, the 3rd major (spherical) moon of Saturn, counting out from Saturn itself. (For laughs: Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, [Hyperion], Iapetus, [Phoebe] with the ones in brackets not actually being major moons but sizeable and of interest for other reasons, and all together comprising the “classical nine” moons of Saturn.) It is the 16th largest moon in the solar system, and has a couple of “Trojans” (no, Pat, not what you think), other smaller moons 60 degrees away from it in its orbit (I recall mentioning that because it’s unusual).
The name Tethys was also given to the gigantic “bay” that preceded today’s Indian Ocean.
As an additional aside, Saturn’s moon count is up to 274.
And,,,trigger warning, this is human evolution. (And for Wolf: trigger warning, goofy opening music.) Apparently the difference between our brains and those of our close relatives like neandertals, denisovans, erectus, etc…is ONE amino acid in ONE protein. Not only that but earlier Homo Sapiens are the same as the others, it’s only later that Homo Sapiens got this upgrade. This change in the protein helps in the development of the frontal lobe. (NB: this is two years old and may be outdated.)
The following is, yes, nearly a twelve hour video. However you’ll get the general idea in ten minutes. It’s a real time video out the window of a flight from Sydney, Australia, to Santiago Chile. Which, if the reader will recall, Rayzorback asserted does not exist, because the Flerf charlatans who have suckered him lied and said it does not. Wolf was able to demonstrate otherwise, but if that’s not enough this is a video, uncut of that flight.
The reason this is of actual interest is that in a sort of “picture in picture” layout are videos of Dave Weiss (Flat Earth Dave, Dirth, Potatohead–a likely target of defamation lawsuits if memory serves) stating that the existence of this flight would disprove Flat Earth, and other clips of him offering (usually) 3 bitcoin to anyone who can disprove Flat Earth. Needless to say many have submitted such evidence but it is ignored. There are people planning to try to sue for that as well but I suspect such suits will get nowhere because this isn’t quite a contract (in some way I don’t understand very well). Flight is by Critical Think (who had the scale and weights in Antarctica) but was edited to put the insets into it by MC “Where are the GUNS, Nathan!?!” Toon.
Health Friday is a series devoted to Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics.
There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are found here.
Today’s offering follows a different path from the posts on the COVID-19 disaster. Yours Truly will make it clear that she is not a climatologist, nor a meteorologist. However, the topic warrants discussion.
Assume, for argument’s sake, that one wakes up in the morning and sees a nice, clear sky from the window looking out to the southeast. Assume, for argument’s sake, that a couple of hours later, one sees a few (or, perhaps, more) “streaks” in the sky, that resemble thin lines; these “thin lines” do not look like real clouds forming. Assume, for argument’s sake, that one hears what sounds like a small plane (or, perhaps, a couple of small planes) in the sky. Assume for argument’s sake, that one sees more of these “thin lines” that have “spread out” into what may appear to be “low-level clouds” — except, that these “clouds” follow a strange pattern of horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and/or oblique directions. Assume, for argument’s sake, that these “clouds” are seen in the southeast sky, which then “spread out” towards the northwest, and appear not to “generate” on the opposite direction on the compass (in other words, in the northwest direction.) Assume, for argument’s sake, that on days when there are multiples of these “not-real-clouds” in the air, there is also “something” that makes the sinuses hurt, that make one feel as if a bad allergy day is occurring, that makes the eyes sting, and that the usual remedies for allergy symptoms (antihistamine, saline nasal spray) have minor or no effect.
Yours Truly has seen and felt all of these things, both in the Spring of last year and also this Spring. Photos of examples of what was seen are below:
View of the sky to the SE, early morning, April 2025.
View of the sky to the SE, around Noon, April 2025.
View of the sky to the NW, morning, April 2025.
Then, there is ** something ** that was different about the Central North Carolina pollen that was in the air, on the car, covering the front porch floor, on the window sills, and just about everywhere else — including getting into one’s lungs. In the Spring, starting in about mid-March, the Central North Carolina pollen starts to show up. It is a slightly “greasy”-feeling and looks like a yellow and green mixture. Not so this year. What one observed this Spring was a dry, yellow-colored powder that coated everything. It had a slightly acrid smell. Photos of what Yours Truly observed of this yellow-colored powder are below, taken in April. The first photo is from what I scraped onto a clean index card; the second photo is this stuff on the front porch floor:
Yours Truly began to research about “chemtrails”, one of those “conspiracy theories” that has been around for some years. What she found out is quite interesting. And, Yes, they are real.
One understands that “seeding” of the sky has been going on for years. However, the old-style “cloud seeding to induce rain” approach has changed — into “seeding” the sky with other types of chemicals. Please see: https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-09-10-chemtrails-no-longer-conspiracy-globalists-battle-climate-change.html, “Chemtrails no longer a conspiracy theory as globalists call it an essential part of their battle against “Climate Change””, S.D. Wells, 9 October 2024.
And, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has weighed in on the issue. Please see: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-administration-claims-us-behind-143951527.html, “Trump administration claims US is behind sinister ‘chemtrails’ programme once thought to be conspiracy theory”, by Joshua Nair, 2 May 2025. Please a screenshot from this article, below:
DARPA = Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a unit of the United States Defense Department.
In Yours Truly’s opinion, if “there’s something in the air” that is being sprayed without the knowledge and consent of the American public, that is wrong and must be stopped.
My schedule has been hectic, so an on-topic breather is in order. I am going with a subject that relates to the subject period in history as well as today. Since it is in the news at times, let’s discuss the filibuster. What the heck is it and why should we care?
This definition per clown provided Wiki is as good as any…
A filibuster is a political procedure in which one or more members of a legislative body prolong debate on proposed legislation so as to delay or entirely prevent a decision. It is sometimes referred to as “talking a bill to death” or “talking out a bill”, and is characterized as a form of obstruction in a legislature or other decision-making body.
However, its noted origin as a procedure (not the name) appears to trace back to ancient Rome in 60 and 59 BC when Cato the Younger conducted it in opposition to Caesar’s desires in the ancient Roman Empire. The Roman Senate had a rule that all daily work had to be completed by nightfall. Cato was noted for his long winded speeches, so in two instances he got up and spoke until nightfall to foil Caesar’s plans. It worked the first time, but Caesar had a work around ready the second time as he took the measure he wanted passed to the Tribal Assembly and got it done.
There are numerous countries in which this procedure has been done in their legislative assemblies. As an example, the first time it appears to have been done in Great Britain was in Parliament in 1874. It first entered into U. S. Club Senate rules in 1806, but not used until 1837.
The filibuster was not used frequently until the 1970’s. In more recent times it has become more of a threatened use, especially since the 2010’s. It has also become watered down as a procedure to the point it is mostly only used to counter new legislation today, which is bad enough when the legislation that could pass would help We the People instead of the Uniparty and globalists.
However, the big thing is that it is not a product of the Constitution.It is in the Club Senate’s “rulebook”.
So, why does it continue to exist? Better yet, why do we need an obstruction to the usual “majority rules” method of determining the fate of legislation? We need to understand the history to know the answers to those questions, well, at least more official answers. TradeBait’s response that follows is probably a bit less tactful.
To cut to the chase It is just another contrived rule that We the People had no voice in determiningits existence and use. As posted in previous Dailies they do the same garbage in the judiciary. They build in rules of engagement, practices, procedural hoops, and standing that are not enumerated or codified into law by the legislature. They are inserted at the discretion of the involved parties and frequently used as weapons to achieve goals in conflict with the intent of the Constitution, laws, and will of We the People. They grant permissions to positions and bodies to do so that have never been legally authorized by our system of government. They then hide behind the rules they create.
The Senate politicians sell filibuster presence as a tool to prevent unthrottled and dangerous control by legislators of the “political process” that could abuse citizen voters. They use fear porn induced warnings in serious tones of voice to make their points. Sometimes, I am convinced the real boogeyman or Sasquatch will run out from behind them to threaten us all.
One thing is true, the threat of the use of this tool has kept even a unified House, Senate and POTUS from achieving their fake media described scary agendas despite having received control from the popular vote. How convenient that the GOP or Dems cannot seem to get that important piece of legislation across the finish line that benefits We the People more than the politicians and globalists. With it available the Uniparty continues its reign.
Instead, we get Obamacare and such, right McShame? Oh yeah, you are no longer here to undercut the will of We the People. But just as a reminder, if Harry Reid followed by Turtle did not permit its nuking in regard to confirmations; PDT would have never received approval for any judges, SCOTUS justices, or cabinet selections. Who knew in advance we would thank two Uniparty henchmen for their efforts to release us from that bondage one day? Of course, doing so was met with wailing and gnashing of teeth by media and the Uniparty faithful. Much fear porn was broadcast and now we know why. SCOTUS leaned back toward the right over time and some honest judges were added to the federal court rosters.
In Club Senate the filibuster is still a game maneuver the majority can also use to not move forward with popular legislation that they would ordinarily have the votes to pass, especially with the Uniparty in control. Instead they can hide behind the perceived threat of a filibuster. Rarely do filibusters actually happen, the vast majority of the time their use is just threatened or “understood” to be possible. All of it is theater to keep the public fooled and sidetracked, just like the non-election elections.
There is no point in addressing cloture to end debate. The majority still needs 60 votes to invoke it to end the show. In the political environment of today, rarely would there be any Dems willing to join with the GOP to do so. That makes it easy for GOP Senators to grandstand and gaslight the public on their “conservative” values and standing “with” POTUS Trump against the big, bad Dems.
Conditions Today
Let’s take a look at what MTG thinks of the Club Senate and the filibuster.
If you are an optimist you will respond to this situation with a desire to get rid of it so you can get done what needs to be done. If you are a pessimist you want to keep the filibuster as a tool to keep the leftists from ruining the country should they return to power. However, that may turn out to be a less than accurate analysis if indeed, POTUS Trump and patriots are cleaning the election system and taking back control of the federal government swamp.
Do you really believe the Democrat Party has over 70 million real life voters? If you do, you will be more likely to want to retain the filibuster. If you don’t, you will be more likely to want it terminated providing the election system is cleaned up and fair for all voters.
Next, do you believe in DOGE and their efforts or not? I did not say Elon, I said DOGE. Their efforts are helping to clean the system along with ICE and Homeland Security. Add in the Civil Rights division of the DOJ which is now playing hardball as you saw in Part 2. Evidence is being introduced into the courts on hacking election systems, fraudulent ballot harvesting, and fraudulent voter registration activities. Lies are being exposed that claimed no internet connectivity, when in fact the voting machines were connected. More legal actions are underway on clamping down on ID requirements as well as illegals having access to voter registrations.
I don’t believe the Dems have the votes even if it not totally cleaned yet. My gut says they have less than 50 million. They have no message, no inspiring leaders, no bench to sway the majority of the eligible voters. The longer that America First MAGA can dominate the more the judiciary will become Constitutionalist in nature. That realization is contingent on the current administration and leadership knowing that the Democrat Party does not now have or will have anywhere near the votes they manufactured in 2020 with the election steal.
PDT suggested doing away with the filibuster at least a dozen times in his first term. Contrast that viewpoint with that of a Uniparty Senator. From a 9/26/24 USA Today article on the subject comes this quote, “The day Republicans vote to nuke the filibuster is the day I walk out the door,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who noted that the party repeatedly resisted Trump’s calls to end the filibuster for legislation while he was president.
Sounds like a really good reason for it to be nuked to me, Thommy Turd.
That leads this author to suggest that it is time to kill the filibuster dead as a doornail. Just the threat of its use stops good legislation that We the People support. With its termination the remaining RINO’s will have to openly state their positions for or against a measure – no more hiding. We the People can then primary them out and replace with America First.
If we truly want to end the RINO species, we have to eliminate their habitat. Thommy Turd told everybody where he hides. Remove the ability to hide and openly expose them. Playing defense all the time plays into the Uniparty’s hands. If we go on offense on this, they will either fight to survive or run away scared. We the People then know where they stand and what to do.
However, none of that is the primary reason to terminate the use of the filibuster. The primary reason to get rid of it is the same as with the other contrived rules, procedures and practices in every area of government. There is no provision for it in the Constitution. Assuming honest elections, the threat and the use of it circumvents the will of We the People.
Remember what Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and a handful of other revered founding fathers wanted to do to circumvent the will of We the People when the Constitution was constructed? They were fearful of We the People and the popular vote as it had been a major problem to the new nation due to States’ Rights and its inability to pay military pensions. Thanks to Thomas Jefferson and a large majority of founders they did not get what they wanted. The popular vote was supported in the end result. However, that did not stop those at our nation’s founding that did not like that result. Instead, less than 20 years later, the pro-filibuster crowd in Club Senate began making rules that worked around the issue just a Caesar’s opponents did with the ancient Roman Senate.
The specific problems from our founders’ days no longer exist. In my opinion, it is time for We the People to go boldly into the Golden Age and terminate the filibuster.
Or we can continue looking around for the boogeyman and Sasquatch.
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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Love the LORD
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:4–5)
This is known as the Shema, taken from the first word “hear” in Hebrew. Modern Jews consider the recital of the Shema both evening and morning to be one of their most sacred duties. It was cited by Jesus as the “greatest commandment in the Law” (Matthew 22:36–37).
This command seems to be impossible to obey. That’s because, in the natural state of man, it is impossible. There is no greater evidence of the inability of man to obey God’s Law than this one commandment. No human being with a fallen nature can possibly love God with all his heart, soul, and strength 24 hours a day. It’s humanly impossible. But to disobey any commandment of God is sin. Therefore, even without considering the sins we commit daily, we are all condemned by our inability to fulfill this one commandment. This is the reason Jesus continually reminded the Pharisees of their inability to keep the Law of God. He was trying to get them to see their utter spiritual bankruptcy and their need for a Savior. Without the cleansing of sin that He provides, and the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit who lives in the hearts of the redeemed, loving God to any degree is impossible.
But, as Christians, we have been cleansed from sin and we do have the Spirit. So how do we begin to love God the way we should? Just as the man in Mark 9:24 asked God to help his unbelief, so too we can ask God to help us in areas where we don’t love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. It is His power that we need to do the impossible, and we begin by seeking and appropriating that power.
In most cases, our love and affection for God grows more intense as time goes by. Certainly, young Christians newly saved are very much aware of the love of God and their love for Him. But it is through the witness of God’s faithfulness during times of struggle and trial that a deep love for God grows and grows. Over time, we witness His compassion, mercy, grace, and love for us, as well as His hatred for sin, His holiness, and His righteousness. We cannot love someone we don’t know, so knowing Him should be our first priority. Those who pursue God and His righteousness, who take seriously the command to love Him above all else, are those who are consumed with the things of God. They are eager to study God’s Word, eager to pray, eager to obey and honor God in all things, and eager to share Jesus Christ with others. It is through these spiritual disciplines that the love for God grows and matures to the glory of God.
But just as a reminder, if Harry Reid followed by Turtle did not permit its nuking in regard to confirmations; PDT would have never received approval for any judges, SCOTUS justices, or cabinet selections. Who knew in advance we would thank two Uniparty henchmen for their efforts to release us from that bondage one day? Of course, doing so was met with wailing and gnashing of teeth by media and the Uniparty faithful. Much fear porn was broadcast and now we know why. SCOTUS leaned back toward the right over time and some honest judges were added to the federal court rosters. 
