Alright, you furry rodent, we’ve had a number of nasty, cold winters in a row. Give us a break, will you.

Tucker nailed it Tuesday night.

What have I got squirrelled away for today.

Ha.

We Just Witnessed An Economic Sign That Hasn’t Happened Since The Peak Of The Great Depression In 1932

From…NEWSWEEK?

It’s Time for the Scientific Community to Admit We Were Wrong About COVID and It Cost Lives | Opinion

From Badlands News Brief:

Our Take: The about-face by the corporate press continues to accelerate on the Big Lie that was the COVID Scamdemic and its ensuing lockdowns and involuntary gene therapy experiments on the largest subset of guinea pigs ever assembled. What’s more, the Media Industrial Complex is attempting to massage this about-face using ‘Opinion’ pieces, which are being used as both Narrative Trojan Horses and as the hopeful foundations for a mass ‘Forgive and Forget’ campaign when the true cost and magnitude of the COVID era lies are revealed to the slowly-waking masses. The thing is … it’s much too little, much too late for the powers that would be. We won’t forgive. We won’t forget.” — Burning Bright

Iran, Russia integrate banking systems

No Central Bank, fiat petrodollars for them.

Prestigious Liberal Watchdog Condemns New York Times’ Russiagate Coverage

Rep. Massie takes over key antitrust panel as GOP girds for Big Tech battle

Trump Lawsuit: Bob Woodward Concealed *Key* Parts of Months Long Interviews With President Trump – Here Are the Redactions Woodward Deceptively Deleted from the Audio

More Americans believe US provides too much support to Ukraine

ATF Slapped With Multiple Lawsuits After New Pistol Rule Takes Effect

The Real Lessons of the Real History of The United States and post-Glasnost Ukraine

No End to the Victim Narrative

Republicans need a good look in the mirror

The party is ripped apart by MAGA versus NeverTrump.  These two groups can’t even agree that it would be better if Republicans won so we can influence the course of the nation.  Talk about a chasm.  It’s not Trump or some other person; it’s getting like-minded thinkers elected and in power so we can reverse the course the left has chosen for us.  Why do we continue to be our own enemy?

Because they are bought off. Talk about hard to wake up. Jeez.

Willmoore Kendall’s 1787 Plan

Kevin McCarthy, Meet Frederick Gillett

“Name Redacted” Exposes Google’s Intel Community Censorship Cabal

Why People Stopped Reading Books

Guest Piece: Out of Eggs

LAWRENCE SELLIN: Slowly Boiled Frogs – Have Americans Lost their Capacity For Rage?

GOP Rep. Carl: ‘Everywhere I Go, There’s a Sales Job’ on Ukraine

The History of Central Banking in America

Pharmaceutical Whistleblower: Covid and the ‘Toxic Vaccines’ are Bio-Weapons Created by U.S. Department of Defense (Video)

TWEETS:

Neither have I, actually. Although, I don’t run or bike.

If only some people had listened.

I prefer jersey dresses, but, yes.

Learn to code.

And she gave us scarf wearers a bad name.

GOOD INTERVIEW:

Yep…although, I think he knew he was being lied to.

Would someone who knows where to look check out the veracity of this claim? Please. If that’s the case….

Two scrambled most days here. Soy free, pastured…expensive, but worth it.

MEMES:

In honor of Groundhog Day:

Memories of childhood…..

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MALACHI 3:1-4

1“Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. 2But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? “For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap; 3he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, till they present right offerings to the LORD. 4Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.

Absolutely the toughest chorus in Handel’s Messiah:

PSALMS 24:7-10

7Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in. 8Who is the King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle! 9Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in. 10Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory! [Selah]

HEBREWS 2:14-18

14Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage. 16For surely it is not with angels that he is concerned but with the descendants of Abraham. 17Therefore he had to be made like his brethren in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make expiation for the sins of the people. 18For because he himself has suffered and been tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

LUKE 2:22-40

22And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”) 24and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.” 25Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. 27And inspired by the Spirit he came into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the law, 28he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, 29“Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word; 30for mine eyes have seen thy salvation 31which thou hast prepared in the presence of all peoples, 32a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to thy people Israel.” 33And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him; 34and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against 35(and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.” 36And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phan’u-el, of the tribe of Asher; she was of a great age, having lived with her husband seven years from her virginity, 37and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. 38And coming up at that very hour she gave thanks to God, and spoke of him to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem. 39And when they had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth. 40And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him.

Found this at random on YT. I’ve sung many Nunc Dimitis, or Song of Simeon, settings over the years. It’s one of the canticles in the Vespers liturgy:

This is really what I had planned to post for today:

Are You a Wild Christian Who Swims Upstream? Or a Lazy, Farm-Raised One Dyed Artificially Pink?

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SATIRE!

I know it’s Thursday, but that popped into my feed and I didn’t want to lose it.

Alright, let’s see what I’ve got:

Spooks in Silicon Valley: Flow of U.S. intelligence analysts into Big Tech jobs raises alarm

The Left-Wing Identity Crisis

BREAKING: Arizona Finds Massive Issues With 2022 Election Tabulators, Misread Nearly A Quarter Of A Million Votes…Here’s What You Should Know About The Ongoing Fight For Fair Elections

Removing Phantoms With Technology and ‘Gentle’ Persuasion

Parsing an Ungrateful Generation

Our Liberal Friends Have Learned Nothing

The Lancet goes off the deep end, devaluing human life as no more important than animals

The Environmentalist Assault on Civilization

We Don’t Need Another Church Committee, We Need a Reformation

We need the Church Committee for the exposure of the problem to create demand for reform or blowing it all up, one or the other. That seems to get lost in the argument quite a bit.

The Case for Great American Hagiography

Massive U.S. automaker reveals $854 million investment into V8 engines amid shift to EVs

Master and Commander

That is related to the banking moves Trump and his cabinet made in 2017. I remember Sundance writing a bit about all of this and the mainstreet economy back then.

Ex-FBI Official Who Helped Launch Crossfire Hurricane Charged With Laundry List Of Crimes

Oops.

Frozen: Trump’s primary challengers balk at jumping into the unknown

Matt Gaetz has a theory…

FDA Rushed Approval for Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine to Enable Vaccine Mandates: Emails

TWEETS:

As Sundance more or less said, who are you, and what have you done with the real Kevin McCarthy.

Put some ice on it.

A non-communist reading list….

It’s over.

Waking up is hard to do.

Done! Just found a bunch of old sheet music.

I’m with Stew on this one.

MEMES:

That’s the left side of the St. Louis Wolves infield. (Fans of Abbott and Costello will get that.)

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MARK 4:21-25

21And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not on a stand? 22For there is nothing hid, except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret, except to come to light. 23If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.” 24And he said to them, “Take heed what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you. 25For to him who has will more be given; and from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”

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SATIRE!

It was a sleepy one here on Wednesday. A real book and brandy with grilled cheese and tomato soup sort of rainy mess.

Here we go.

Dream Team: Oversight Committee Stacked with Conservative Firebrands

Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger sells signed copies of Jan 6th report for $100

That’s awfully expensive fire starter and birdcage liner.

Davos organizers: Musk wasn’t invited despite what he says

Really? That’s interesting. More on Musk and Davos farther down.

Bannon connects the dots on Davos…

Make 2023 the Year of Debate

Why Government Can’t Be Compassionate

California’s Mega Water Wasters

So stupid.

End Europe’s Security Welfare Check

Frankly, we can’t afford it.

Realism and ‘Realism’

Specialized Nature

Two Big Scandals Struck Brian Kemp This Week

SOCIAL MEDIA IS FILLED WITH SPOOKS! WITH MIKE PAPANTONIO

Joe Scarborough: Trump Vow To ‘Handle’ DeSantis ‘Sounds Like A Mob Threat’

How long before that goofus gets the boot?

George Soros tied to at least 54 influential media figures through groups funded by liberal billionaire: study

Nigel Farage: Green Ideology Has Replaced Christianity as Driving Force of the Conservative Party

God’s creation is beautiful, but it is meant to be used and conserved for our benefit. Natural law has been turned on its head.

Top Scientist on COVID Vaccines: “Withdraw Them Immediately”

When the recommendation finally comes down for the shots to stop, the reaction is going to make women demanding mammograms when there is no indication for needing them look like a walk in the park.

Elon Musk chose us to report on the Twitter Files. Here are the disturbing things I learned about the FBI

Good read:

The Chosen One

Elon Musk says WEF is ‘unelected world government that the people never asked for and don’t want’

Pretty much.

MUST WATCH: Rebel News Reporters Confront Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on His Unsafe and Ineffective mRNA Shots

Project Cedar: Inside the Plot to Destroy the U.S. Dollar

TWEETS:

No thanks.

MEMES:

HIT IT

What can I say…I’m a creature of the 80s.

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HEBREWS 7:25–8:6

7 25Consequently he is able for all time to save those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. 26For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens. 27He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; he did this once for all when he offered up himself. 28Indeed, the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect for ever. 8 1Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent which is set up not by man but by the Lord. 3For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. 5They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary; for when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.” 6But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

PSALMS 40:7-10, 17

6Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire; but thou hast given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not required. 7Then I said, “Lo, I come; in the roll of the book it is written of me; 8I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my heart.” 9I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; lo, I have not restrained my lips, as thou knowest, O LORD. 16But may all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; may those who love thy salvation say continually, “Great is the LORD!”

MARK 3:7-12

7Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed; also from Judea 8and Jerusalem and Idume’a and from beyond the Jordan and from about Tyre and Sidon a great multitude, hearing all that he did, came to him. 9And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him; 10for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him. 11And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.” 12And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

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SATIRE!

Pelosi Releases Limited-Edition Replica Of Dentures Worn During Trump Impeachment

Not sure how to start, but here it goes. Some links were on yesterday’s comments.

The Truth

Gen. Flynn Exposes ‘Secret’ US Shadow Government: ‘Parallel Supreme Court’ Operates in the Shadows

The Biden Docs Scandal is about DECLAS!

America’s Animal Farm

End ‘Cancel Culture

How Individuals Can Realign America

‘Belief in Freedom’ Is
Bad for You

Americans Flee Mask Mandates

Back to Basics

America, Tear Down This Flag

Is the Conscience Reliable?

The Long Decline of the FBI

TWEETS:

MEMES:

Rumble’s music selection sucks.

What can I say…I’m a creature of the 80s.

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1. No food fights
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HEBREWS 3:7-14

7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, when you hear his voice, 8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. 10Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, `They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.’ 11As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest.'” 12Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today, ” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end,

There are SO MANY settings of the Magnificat. Here is my favorite for congregational singing.

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SATIRE!

Okay, that’s the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, but still, six votes, no speaker elected calls for black smoke as we wait. The record for voting for a pope with none actually chosen is something like two months. If it takes that long to expose the swamp…..

As the day went on….

Video – Day Two Speaker Drama, Kevin McCarthy Demands His Precious

Brilliant Plan – Kevin McCarthy Vows to Assuage Republican Fears About His UniParty Propensity by Organizing His Installation with Democrats

McCarthy Fails Again on Ballot Number Six, House in Recess Until 8:00pm ET

That, actually, is very possible as a strategy to actually get America First representatives on the various committees. Word was they were being shut out, and not put in positions where they can make the most difference. Remember, Paul Ryan did remove Devin Nunes from the Intelligence Committee when he went to President Trump with information rather than keeping it in the family.

This is why Sundance calls it “The Big Ugly.”

Mike Huckabee downgraded the episode to a temper tantrum, but it’s not over by any means.

Stay tuned for more humiliation delivered by MAGA.

Okay, what else have I got? Not much.

You Are a Horrible Person

It’s Time to Ask Whether Repeated mRNA Vaccine Shots Weaken the Immune Response to COVID-19

Nice to see opinion headlines catch up to the anons.

How Is The Uniparty Destroying America? Let Me Count The Ways

The Truth Behind George Santos’ Lies

His dishonesty, in an ironic way, is more truthful than the posturing of the preening hypocrites denouncing him.

The Equity Paradox

The Perils of Lifestyle Rightism

Trimming Back the Speakership

A tale of betrayal: Elon Musk exposes corruption, and the media goes scorched earth

TWEETS:

Faithful American Catholics are glad to hear it.

There are rumors, actually, about the true state of Damar Hamlin’s condition. Not going to contribute to them just now.

MEMES:

Rumble’s music selection sucks.

What can I say…I’m a creature of the 80s.

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

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors
3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

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1 JOHN 3:11-21

11For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, 12and not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. 13Do not wonder, brethren, that the world hates you. 14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. 15Any one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17But if any one has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 18Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth. 19By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and reassure our hearts before him 20whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

PSALMS 100:1-5

1Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the lands! 2Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! 3Know that the LORD is God! It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name! 5For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

JOHN 1:43-51

43The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. And he found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” 44Now Philip was from Beth-sa’ida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45Philip found Nathan’a-el, and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 46Nathan’a-el said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” 47Jesus saw Nathan’a-el coming to him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!” 48Nathan’a-el said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 49Nathan’a-el answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” 50Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these.” 51And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”

There are SO MANY settings of the Magnificat. Here is my favorite for congregational singing.

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SATIRE!