tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41641134969666640372024-03-16T09:21:50.744-07:00Pecan Corner"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." ~John Burroughs Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.comBlogger638125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-44333113507872766462020-12-24T16:22:00.000-08:002020-12-24T16:22:03.645-08:00Merry Christmas! The King is Born! Long Live the KING of Kings! <p> Merry Christmas, and may God bless each of you, your families, and those
you love in the coming year. This enlivening video is a longer version
than the one often played in churches. It is especially a blessing for
this day and this time. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VwQqQkdn_5Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="VwQqQkdn_5Q"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-15867034970413632942020-08-01T06:18:00.002-07:002020-08-01T06:37:04.929-07:00In Honor of Ol' Remus<span class="tBJ dyH iFc MF7 pBj DrD IZT swG"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rl2OGh14mW0/XyVrjCaN09I/AAAAAAAADLg/qkBR8CoDzzsadLODgg8Li1gxE42DNSnQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Art%2BKnitting%2BGrandfather%2Band%2BGrandson%2B32f42138de1b731539a2cb3f717cab0f.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="943" data-original-width="815" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rl2OGh14mW0/XyVrjCaN09I/AAAAAAAADLg/qkBR8CoDzzsadLODgg8Li1gxE42DNSnQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Art%2BKnitting%2BGrandfather%2Band%2BGrandson%2B32f42138de1b731539a2cb3f717cab0f.jpg" width="345" /></a></span><br />
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The blogger who called himself "Ol' Remus" at <a href="http://www.woodpilereport.com/">The Woodpile Report</a> has passed away. My deep condolences to his family, friends, and readers.<br />
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I did not know the man, and never interacted with him. But I miss his blog. One of the things that set him apart was his penchant for opening each post with a work of art. When I came across this painting today, serendipitously, it reminded me of him. The grandfather is busy knitting warm clothing, maybe socks, while holding the infant safe and warm in his arms: preparing for the future with hope and industry. The work is titled "<span class="tBJ dyH iFc MF7 pBj DrD IZT swG">Grandfather & grandson", painted by Nikolaos Gyzis, 1842 – 1901</span><br />
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<span class="tBJ dyH iFc MF7 pBj DrD IZT swG">The full painting:</span><br />
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A quote from his sidebar is Remus's Antidote to Disinformation:<br />
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<b><i>"Remus's antidote: tell the truth as plainly as you can. Humor helps." </i></b><br />
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As to prepping, he encouraged self-reliance, stocking up, and long before COVID-19 and the latest Insurection-disguised-as-protest, advised:<br />
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<b><i>"Stay away from crowds." </i></b><br />
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<br />Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-13969402165296776452019-03-28T19:51:00.000-07:002019-03-28T21:48:43.686-07:00Lightning Fall: a Definitive Novel about an EMP attack on America EMP attack. We hear the words and kind of fuzzily think "oh the power will be out, better stock up on candles." At least, that was how I looked at it. Faraday cages. Tinfoil hats for our mobile phones. But it's not a laughing matter.<br />
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5 years ago, Bill Quick put out a warning in the form of his well-researched, scientifically accurate novel "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Fall-Disaster-Bill-Quick/dp/1497360935/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=Lightning+Fall+book&qid=1553826756&s=gateway&sr=8-5"><b>Lightning Fall</b></a>". (It's also an exciting adventure story, but we'll get to that part later.)<br />
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This past November, the US Military issued a report on the danger of EMP that in many ways paralleled the likely events Quick had identified in 2014: "<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/military-warns-emp-attack-could-wipe-out-america-democracy-world-order">Military warns EMP attack could wipe out America, 'democracy, world order'</a> "<br />
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This week, our President Trump took action to protect us against EMP attack.<br />
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In his second National Emergency Executive Order, President Trump again puts our safety first, and established the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-signs-executive-order-electromagnetic-pulse-attack-2019-3">first ever "comprehensive policy to improve resilience to EMPs"</a>.<br />
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Congress was first warned about the danger of a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack in 2008. Two presidents and five Congresses failed to act to shore up our local defenses against it. But finally, we have a President who does not play "kick the can".<br />
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We know we dodged a bullet when we elected Trump instead of Clinton 2.0. A read of <i>Lightning Fall</i> shows us we also dodged an atomic bomb - and how important is our President's action to protect us against just such a disaster.<br />
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As for me, if I had not read Quick's book, I might have glossed over this presidential EO without thinking. However, coincidentally, I finally read the book last month. As they used to say "my consciousness has been raised". I understand the danger now. I won't laugh at tin foil any more.<br />
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A good storyteller, and a perceptive cultural analyst, Bill Quick's novel can almost be used to blueprint our own preparations for the total disruption of communication and services. <i>Lightning Fall</i> takes snapshots of the consequences from every angle and puts them up for us to see how our particular location would look. Through his characters, who seem like people I already know, we get ideas to adapt to our own circumstances to insure our own survival, the survival of our families and our neighborhoods.<br />
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I don't know about you, but I will remember "how" info better when I have a context for it... a scenario creates a full picture of not only how, but of what and why, of when and who. This is what I found in <i>Lightning Fall</i>.<br />
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<i>Lightning Fall </i>is a fast paced, exciting thriller with unpredictable turns that kept me turning pages until late at night, and a solid story peopled with characters who matter. Quick's characters are ordinary people in different locations around the country, from Mississippi to San Francisco to the heartland to what seemed in 2013 the inevitable Hillary Clinton Whitehouse ("Millicent Carter"). Each faces different problems caused by the EMP attacks and has to handle those problems in different ways, whether prepared or not.<br />
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What a battle they face. There's a criminal element in every town, from cities to the smallest hamlet, and those are the first bad guys to take advantage when the lights go out. Threats can also come from unexpected sources: a bank manager who refuses to allow a mother to empty her safe deposit box in order to pay the mortgage, a neighbor alerting a gang member to supplies in the apartment below. But faithful allies are also not as far away as first believed, and the weak uncover strengths they had not needed before, in the nick of time.<br />
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A deeper crisis threatens the very foundation of our republic when the national government - unaffected by the EMP - sets a course to abandon the needy and take overtly political action that means the deaths of millions, in order to assure partisan victory in an upcoming election. The individuals in our story are facing not only immediate threats, but the prospect of being left to their own devices indefinitely.<br />
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Quick has given his individual characters some advantage: they've been "prepping", each in their own way, so they aren't completely in the lurch immediately. Instead, each faces dangers and threats they had failed to foresee, and has to rely on their wits, and the hand of Providence, to win out over those who would separate their soul from their body without a second thought.<br />
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Bill Quick is an astute observer of the culture and politics of our time, and <i>Lightning Fall</i> showcases those observations well. Ever imagine that Mexico's capital might be working behind the scenes to undermine local governments in California? Or that someone else might be pulling the eternally corrupt strings that animate Mexico's political class? <i>Lightning Fall</i> maps the course some of that leverage might take.<br />
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His grasp of what a Hillary Clinton presidency would have been like is chillingly authentic... and I suspect if Mrs Clinton or Bill ever read Quick's portrayal of their marriage, they might look around and wonder if he had been listening in, so credibly does he suggest how the fictional "Carters" relate to each other in the intimacy of their private marital relationship, right down to moments that are almost endearing (or would be if the consequences of their ambitions weren't so fatal to the rest of us).<br />
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Our heroes, most of them, survive in this story, and are looking forward with strength and hope at the end of the book, thanks to their remarkable American values: personal will and individual resources knitted together with neighbors in a fierce joint determination to procure survival not only for themselves and loved ones, but also for their <i>place</i> and their local civilization: to defend their homes and the ground on which they stand against whatever force evil might throw at them, and to be found standing when morning comes.<br />
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Get ready. Stock up on canned chili and fresh water. Buy and read "<i>Lightning Fall: A Novel of Disaster</i>" by Bill Quick.Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-87511721035084013052019-02-27T19:31:00.003-08:002019-02-28T06:29:29.139-08:00Things I learned This Week About Ebola, and the Use of Untrialed Experimental Vaccines NEWS ITEMS:<br />
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People who contract Ebola in some areas of Congo, have one thing "in common": local hospitals, which may not be correctly following recommended hygiene protocols. <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/02/25/697073103/why-does-ebola-keep-spreading-in-congo-heres-a-major-clue">NPR reports</a>: <br />
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"<i> They had all recently visited a health clinic for treatment for some other disease such as a respiratory infection or malaria. They would say, 'I went to the hospital. They treated me.
I got clear [of that illness]. And then a few days after, I start
having fevers.' " Fevers that were the first of signs of Ebola. The
surge of confirmed cases in Katwa and Butembo – 307 and rising — is now
the largest flare-up during the course of this outbreak, which has
infected nearly 900 people since August. And WHO officials estimate that
in about one-fifth of these recent cases, the person contracted Ebola
at health care facilities.</i>" </blockquote>
One of the saddest stories I've read about this: <b>a woman who never even knew she had had Ebola, had a relapse more than a year later and transmitted it to several family members.</b> Although this was known in 2015, it was not publicized until this year. WJLA published <a href="https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/doctors-woman-likely-spread-ebola-a-year-after-infection">the AP report</a>:<br />
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"<i>A Liberian woman who probably caught Ebola in 2014 may have infected
three relatives a year after she first fell sick, doctors reported... The unusual cluster of cases in Liberia was identified after the
woman's 15-year-old son was diagnosed with Ebola in November 2015.
Scientists then tested the rest of his family: the woman, her husband
and their three younger sons. The 15-year-old died a few days
later. The father and an 8-year-old boy were positive for Ebola, but
both recovered. The couple's 5-year-old son wasn't infected.<br />"Doctors
found Ebola antibodies in the mother, her breast milk and her
2-month-old baby, suggesting a previous infection and the possibility
she passed on protection to her infant son through breastfeeding.<br />"Researchers
reported genetic similarities between the viruses taken from the
father, the two boys and the strain circulating during the 2014-15
outbreak across Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, which ultimately
killed more than 11,000 people in the biggest Ebola epidemic in history.<br />"Scientists
discovered the woman had cared for her brother in July 2014, who died
after suffering Ebola-like symptoms but before being tested for the
disease. The woman later experienced a similar illness, but never sought
care</i>."</blockquote>
Perhaps knowing this danger, one of the CDC's Ebola experts took special effort to make sure no one else was infected when an American Ebola survivor was giving birth, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/incredible-mind-incredible-heart-decades-093054569.html">as reported by STAT</a> News in an article about a retiring virologist:<br />
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" <i>If [</i>Dr Pierre<i>] Rollin was good with viruses, he was equally as good with people. Damon, his former CDC boss, recalled that when one of the nurses from Dallas who had been infected with Ebola in 2014 gave birth well after she had recovered from the virus, there were still niggling concerns about whether she could infect others. So Rollin flew out to be on site, just in case</i>."</blockquote>
<b>Ebola survivors, it turns out, can transmit the disease to others for up to two years - and can be sexually transmitted by females as well as males</b>. <span class="author">Debora MacKenzie at <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2104238-ebola-virus-has-lurked-in-a-mans-semen-for-more-than-500-days/">The New Scientist reported</a>:</span><br />
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<span class="author">" </span><span class="author">The <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article-topic/ebola/">Ebola virus</a>
can persist in a man’s semen for much longer than we thought. A man in
Guinea who survived Ebola in 2014 is now known to have carried it for at
least 531 days. Earlier this year, he transmitted the virus sexually,
causing it to spread to at least 10 people, and killing 8 of them. ....</span> "In January, 470 days after he initially fell ill, this man had sex with
the woman who became the first known case in this year’s outbreak. She
then spread the virus to nine more people, one of whom carried it to
Liberia."</blockquote>
The CDC <a href="https://www.livescience.com/50700-ebola-transmission-sex.html">has recommended</a> that male survivors of Ebola use condoms "indefinitely", but this suggests that both sexes risk infecting their partners. <br />
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<b>Survivors who had latent, non-fatal, or mild infections and recovered but remained infectious, resulting in transmission of the disease, are now being recognized as the source of new outbreaks</b>. CIDRAP , The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. reports that a new outbreak in the town of Beni, Congo, <a href="http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/02/ebola-returns-beni-survivor-transmission-suspected">is likely due to survivor transmission</a>:<br />
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"<i>The group conducted the study in June and July of 2017, enrolling 237 participants ... They found that illnesses were more widespread than the 11 cases originally reported from the area, which includes a 2-year-old boy thought have been the first case and to have been exposed to the virus by a bat.</i></blockquote>
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<i>"Researchers identified two more probable deaths and eight previously unrecognized IgG-positive survivors, including one person who had mild illness and another who was asymptomatic, for a case fatality of 55.6% for adults, much lower than originally reported 100%</i>."</blockquote>
Victims of Ebola who die, are not to be embalmed, <a href="https://www.funeralhelpcenter.com/can-the-dead-still-spread-the-ebola-virus/">according to CDC guidelines</a>, and if buried, must have a "closed casket" service - the body will not be available for viewing. The CDC recommends cremation for those who die of Ebola, but says if they are to be buried, funeral home personnel must not even open the body bag that the remains arrive in, and must transfer it to a casket which is then hermetically sealed. More information is available at "The CDC’s “<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/guidance-safe-handling-human-remains-ebola-patients-us-hospitals-mortuaries.html">Guidance for Safe Handling of Human Remains of Ebola Patients in U. S. Hospitals and Mortuaries</a>”<br />
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It is not yet known whether other mammals such as dogs and cats can contract or carry Ebola. <a href="https://www.everydayhealth.com/news/ebola-pets-what-you-need-to-know/">Everyday Health reports</a>:<br />
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"“<i>At this time, there is no evidence that dogs or cats can carry Ebola
nor are they at risk for contracting Ebola in the United States,” says
Angela Vassallo, PMH, MS, director of infection prevention and
epidemiology at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. ....The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also stated that there were no cases of dogs or cats getting sick from Ebola, nor of these pets spreading Ebola to others.</i></blockquote>
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<i> ...."Julio Lopez, DVM,
of Studio City Animal Hospital in Los Angeles, says that what little we
know about Ebola and dogs comes from a single study. Published in
Emerging Infectious Diseases in 2005, after an Ebola outbreak in Gabon,
the study included data on blood tests of 439 dogs, some from
Ebola-affected villages. “Dogs consuming infected meat developed
antibodies against the Ebola virus, but did not show signs of sickness,”
says Dr. Lopez. “None of the dogs in this study died from this
disease.” Researchers found no cases of dogs passing on Ebola, neither
to animals nor people.</i></blockquote>
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<i>..."While there are no known cases of an infected pet transmitting Ebola to a
person, pets can infect people with other more common zoonotic
diseases. “Leptospirosis, hookworms and roundworms, and toxoplasmosis are a few common examples,” says Lopez. ... "We can also transmit diseases to our pets. In 2009, a cat and some ferrets contracted H1N1, commonly called the swine flu, from their owners,” Lopez says</i>." </blockquote>
Additional info about animals and Ebola <a href="http://time.com/3480961/ebola-animals-transmission/">in this Time article </a>(from 2014 so perhaps out of date). <br />
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Finally, as we all know, researchers are working ceaselessly to develop a vaccine for Ebola. With the latest outbreak, companies are setting up clinical trials of new medicines in-country, often at great risk from <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/amp/news/national-news/ap-top-news/ebola-treatment-center-attacked-in-congos-east/925332052">violence in the area</a>. But of interest was<b> this article about giving the vaccine to young children without benefit of any clinical trial to determine its safety for that age group.</b><br />
<a href="https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/20/ebola-pregnancy-reversal/"> As reported by StatNews</a>, in an article that could have been headlined 'Doctors Without Borders Supports Giving Untrialed Experimental Vaccines To Pregnant Women and Babies <i>En Masse</i>'<br />
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"<i><b>Women who are pregnant and lactating, as well as children under the age of 1, will be offered access to an experimental Ebola vaccine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo</b>, officials said Wednesday, marking the reversal of a controversial policy that had drawn fire from public health experts. .... </i></blockquote>
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<i>"<b>Proponents of the earlier policy argued that the vaccine, which goes by the provisional name V920, might harm the fetus or trigger a miscarriage. They noted that there were no data to show the vaccine was safe to use in this very vulnerable population</b>.</i></blockquote>
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<i>"But critics countered that unless the vaccine is used in pregnant women there would never be data to determine whether it was safe. And they noted that while there may be some risk involved in vaccinating pregnant and lactating women, the risk to them from Ebola is greater. ....</i></blockquote>
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<i>"The decision to exclude lactating women stemmed from concerns the vaccine viruses might be transmitted via breast milk. <b>Children under the age of 1 were excluded from vaccination because the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness in this group hasn’t been tested. (An earlier decision to lower the threshold for those eligible for vaccination from 6 years old to 12 months old was made without the benefit of a clinical trial.)</b></i></blockquote>
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<i>"...As of Tuesday nearly 82,000 people in North Kivu and Ituri — the provinces where the outbreak is occurring — have been vaccinated. The vaccine, which has yet to be licensed, is being developed by Merck.</i></blockquote>
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<i>"Carleigh Krubiner, a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, welcomed the news. Krubiner said the policy reversal will not only offer pregnant women the protection of the vaccine, but also provide a critical chance to see how the vaccine works in these women. That knowledge will be of benefit in future outbreaks, she said. ...</i></blockquote>
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<i>"<b>The decision was also applauded by Doctors Without Borders, which had opposed the exclusion of pregnant women.</b> Dr. Séverine Caluwaerts, a Belgian gynecologist who volunteers with MSF —the acronym is based on the organization’s name in French — said in reality some pregnant women have already received the vaccine, because they were vaccinated before they knew they were pregnant. MSF has heard reports of at least 20 such cases in this outbreak, Caluwaerts said."</i></blockquote>
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<i>"<b>Reluctance to offer the vaccine to pregnant and lactating women is based on the fact it is a live-virus vaccine</b>. The virus it contains is not Ebola; it is a livestock virus called vesicular stomatitis virus that can infect, but does not sicken people. A key protein from the Ebola virus has been fused to the VSV virus, which then prompts the immune system to develop a protective response to Ebola. <b>Traditionally there has been concern about using live-virus vaccines in pregnant women.</b></i></blockquote>
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<i>"It was not immediately clear whether all children — even newborns — could be vaccinated. Nor is it clear how the WHO feels about this part of the decision.... The WHO did not immediately respond to a request for an interview</i>." </blockquote>
<a href="https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/20/ebola-pregnancy-reversal/">The article continues</a> with information about other vaccines that do not use live viruses and are being recommended for trials.<br />
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Are the families - husbands and fathers as well as women and mothers - being made fully aware of the risks of these untrialed, experimental vaccines? What kind of responsibility will these organizations bear who made the "outcry" demanding use of the experimental vaccines on vulnerable people?<br />
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The global health organizations are using the third world as their unregulated playground, taking advantage of people with no experience to use as human guinea pigs for testing their science-fair projects. Who is going to hold them to account when they make a fatal error? Or half a million fatal errors?<br />
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<br />Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-77434000134821217152019-01-28T16:11:00.000-08:002019-01-28T16:20:05.425-08:00Feminism is Doomed The lynch mob against Nick Sandemann and the Covington High students was fostered and led, in great part, by toxic feminism. Just like every other thing the Left does, they accuse their prey of whatever they themselves are, or are doing, or are planning. We all know people who do that. The thief who puts herself in charge of the office entertainment fund, the philanderer who persistently accuses their spouse of having affairs. Feminism has gone so far into insanity that their unhinged shrieks make sane people reconsider the original, ancient definition of "hysteria".<br />
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And Feminism is not long for this world, one way or the other.<br />
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Bill Quick, as he often does, gets to the true heart of the matter in "The Balance of Force Is…Unfavorable":<br />
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"....<i> Feminism is an artifact of male chivalry, itself an artifact of western European civilization, just as the myth of Ghandi’s non-violence as being irresistible, flounders and falls in the face of the observation that Ghandi’s rebellion, had he tried to carry it out against Stalin, would have lasted precisely as long as it took Stalin to find and murder him – ie., about an hour. In other words, non-violence and feminism are both successful only so far, and for as long, as their opponents permit them to be. </i><br />
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<i>"All we need to do to estimate the real-world strength of feminism (of the feminazi variety) is to examine non-western, non-chivalrous cultures – say, the entire Islamic world. Try to imagine the cartoon I put at the head of this piece occurring in, oh, Saudi Arabia. It can’t happen, because of the dirty little secret that underlies all such physical feminism – it’s a lie. Beneath the thin veneer of a few hundred years of deliberate custom likes the ancient world of pure force, the force for which men are much better suited by their own genetic heritage than are women</i>."<br />
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As Glenn Reynolds (who is quoted in the article) likes to say: "<a href="https://dailypundit.com/2019/01/28/the-balance-of-force-is-unfavorable/">Go read the whole thing</a>".
Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-51676975699892311792019-01-16T17:13:00.000-08:002019-01-16T17:13:52.388-08:00Verse of the Day: The "Swamp" Opposed Building During King Cyrus's Time, Too. <br />
Even the original Cyrus had schemers that delayed the building of The Temple:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">" <i>Then the [adversaries to rebuilding] discouraged the people of Judah, and made them afraid to build, and they bribed officials to frustrate their plan throughout the reign of King Cyrus of Persia and until the reign of King Darius of Persia. ... they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.</i>"
</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra+4&version=GNT">Ezra 4: 4-6</a><br />
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If you feel led to fast and pray for The Wall that our president is working to build, <a href="https://www.ifapray.org/blog/fasting-and-praying-for-our-modern-day-cyrus/?fbclid=IwAR0DWnRB7v7p1ohVmQoDeeB150eHVAct2lalgwAhIn3mj_keVSFTolWzrzg">Intercessors For America is recommending a 3-week fast</a>, in keeping with that of Daniel, during King Cyrus's time:<br />
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"<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Before the 2016 election, there were many prophetic words that the 45<sup>th</sup> president of the United States would be a type of Cyrus, as described in Isaiah 45:1, 4: </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">This is what
the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of
to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open
doors before him so that gates will not be shut: “ . . . I summon you
by name and bestow on you a title of honor, though you do not
acknowledge me.”</span></i><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">We find more
about Cyrus in Daniel 10, as Daniel describes a revelation given to him
in the third year of the reign of Cyrus, king of Persia (verse 1).
Today, we are in the third year of President Trump’s presidency. Verse 2
tells us that Daniel fasted and mourned for three weeks. This is often
called the Daniel Fast—during the First Friday Prayer Conference Call on
January 4, 2018 I called IFA intercessors to a 21-day (three week) fast
for our nation."</span></blockquote>
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I first read this on Hot Air's "Green Room" shortly after Doctor Zero first posted it. Since then, it remains one of the best arguments against suicide that I've ever read.<br />
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Doctor Zero's own blog doesn't exist any more, and the domain has been usurped by some commercial spammer. The post in the Green Room doesn't exist any more and the link goes to something different. Finally, the archived Hot Air URL itself ends with the word "Trashed", which concerns me that the full text will someday disappear: https://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/26/a-prayer-from-the-living-world__trashed/ <br />
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So I am pasting the whole text here, to archive it as permanently as I can on a freebie blog. God bless Doctor Zero for writing it, and God bless and protect everyone whom it has helped over the past 8 years, and who it will help in the future.<br />
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<span class="author text-uppercase">Doctor Zero</span>Posted at 9:20 pm on February 26, 2010</div>
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"The body of actor Andrew Koenig <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/02/25/growing-pains-star-andrew-koenig-reportedly-dead/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fentertainment+%2528Text+-+Entertainment%2529">was found </a>in
Vancouver’s Stanley Park yesterday. His father, Walter Koenig, said
that his son “took his own life, and was in a lot of pain.” Like most of
my generation, I grew up with Walter Koenig as Chekhov on <em>Star Trek,</em><span style="font-style: normal;"> and he played a superb villain much later, on </span><em>Babylon 5.</em><span style="font-style: normal;">
Until his press conference yesterday, I didn’t realize he was a man of
such incredible strength and dignity. He asked for his family to be left
in peace to mourn their loss. I hope he won’t mind if I take this sad
occasion to address others who might be following the road that ended in
Stanley Park for Andrew. No matter how far you have gone down that
road, there is </span><em>always </em><span style="font-style: normal;">a
path that leads away. I could offer no greater tribute to Andrew and
his family than trying to help you take it, or at least see it.</span></div>
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"You won’t find the
beginning of that path in your house, or your room, or any other private
place where you torment yourself, and wonder why a world you’re hiding
from can no longer see you. You’ll have to step outside, and take a walk
through your town. You’ll pass hospitals where the gift of life is
unwrapped and presented to the universe. In another wing, life is held
as precious treasure by families gathered around quiet beds, surrounded
by tireless machines and their tired, but determined, keepers. Perhaps
you’ll find a hospice, where the dying embrace their last opportunity to
share their lives with all who receive the blessing of a seat beside
them. You’ll pass churches and temples, filled with the sworn enemies of
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"You may find yourself
wishing you could give the unwanted years of your future to the clients
of those hospitals and hospices. I did, years ago, when I stood where
you are standing now. I was on my knees at the time, offering that trade
with all my heart. It doesn’t work that way. Those who tend the
hospices can tell you why, and the people in the churches and temples
can explain why it shouldn’t.</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">"Stroll
past your local police station, where the noble calling to risk your
life in the service of others is answered… and the worship of death as a
solution to problems meets its humiliating end. Maybe you’ll spot a
recruiting station, where men and women who love their friends and
families accept a duty that could take them away forever… because they
know others love their families too, and there is no </span><em>safe</em><span style="font-style: normal;"> way to build and protect the future for them.</span></div>
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"If your walk takes you
past sunset, watch the cars rolling into the driveways of apartments
and houses. If you walk from night into morning, watch the people
reluctantly leaving their homes, to provide for their families. Those
people are not wasting their lives, but fulfilling them. They return
home to enjoy their reward, and renew their inspiration. Every day, they
write new pages in the human story. None of us will see the end of that
tale… but I know you share my appetite to read another chapter, and
then one more after that. You may have convinced yourself to ignore it,
but it’s still there.</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">"Step into
a convenience store for a cup of coffee or chocolate, and take a look
at the newspapers. They are filled with pleas for help that </span><em>you </em><span style="font-style: normal;">could
answer. From the inner cities of America, to the broken streets of
Haiti, and around the world, there are places where the clocks are
filled with nothing but desperate hours. Another pair of hands, or
another few dollars of support, are always needed. The years ahead,
which you regard as a painful burden, </span><em>can </em><span style="font-style: normal;">be
given to them. It will take effort, and courage… but along the way, I
can promise that your life would stop feeling like a burden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">"You may
view suicide as your last chance to shake the pillars of a world that
has turned its back on you. The world doesn’t need any more shaking. If
you’ve been telling yourself that no one will miss you when you’re gone,
you are wrong. Your suicide would tear a hole through the future, and </span><em>nothing </em><span style="font-style: normal;">could
ever fill the space where you used to be. You might think you’re alone,
but you don’t have to walk more than a couple of miles from your house
to see a building full of people who would be delighted to meet you.
There are places like <a href="http://suicidehotlines.com/">Suicide Hotlines</a>,
staffed by men and women who have spent their entire lives preparing to
hear the sound of your voice, and greet every day hoping to learn your
name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">"You may
be afraid to face the years ahead. You’re not the only one, and if you
extinguish the light of your faith and wisdom, you consign others to
darkness. You might see death by your own hand as the end of unbearable
pain… but I ask you to think about Walter Koenig, facing a wall of
cameras with quiet grace in the hours after finding his son’s body, and
understand that it’s only the </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><strong>beginning</strong></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> of agony.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"You
might have decided your fellow men are rotten to the core, and you’re
weary of their company. Listen to the music of Mozart, or look upon the
work of Michelangelo, and consider the argument of those who profoundly
disagree. Maybe part of your problem is that you’ve been listening to
the wrong music, or looking at the wrong pictures. Dark waters are easy
to drown in. The judgment of the human race will not lack witnesses for
the defense, and they will make their case to you, if you give them a
chance.</span></span></div>
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"Now,
take the last few steps back to your home, and set aside one sorrow or
terror with every footfall, until your mind is clear. If you’re thinking
of incinerating the remaining years of your life, surely you can spare a
few minutes for quiet reflection, and hear this prayer from the living
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<span style="font-style: normal;">It is a quiet prayer, spoken in a soft voice, but it’s </span><em>never </em><span style="font-style: normal;">too late to listen."</span></div>
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Meme was created by <a href="http://wilkowmajority.com/about/">Wilkowmajority.com</a>.Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-88724585156958616202018-03-07T15:55:00.000-08:002018-03-07T16:05:15.425-08:00In Texas, "every single Taxpayer Champion is returning to the Legislature"<div class="tr_bq">
Locally, our Republican primary was the critical one. We had a <a href="https://texasmonitor.org/republicans-spank-big-ed-candidate-no-confidence-vote/">stealth Democrat</a>, Jim Langford, trying to unseat our new fantastic <a href="http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/?district=60">State Representative Mike Lang.</a> Voters chose wisely and Lang won all eight of the counties in our District. WoooHOOO! We are very happy. We had a big 3x5 sign in our yard for him. Our candidate for County Judge also won out over a too-long-term incumbent, so we are looking forward to better management at the County level.</div>
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Statewide, most candidates we supported won, too. We voted Patterson over George P Bush for Land Commissioner - mainly because we do not want to "reimagine" the Alamo. It has not been a contentious race, and we are ok with Bush continuing, so long as he doesn't let Phil Collins' collection of artifacts get away from us.<br />
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The group "Empower Texans" has rapidly become an important source of information for "normal" Texans about the state of politics in our "whole other country". Here is t<a href="https://empowertexans.com/blog/train-a-comin/">heir take on last night's primary elections</a>:</div>
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Voters – including classroom teachers – had none of it. As a result, Dan Patrick earned 75% of the vote.</blockquote>
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Despite unprecedented efforts by the Austin lobby to dislodge them, every single Taxpayer Champion is returning to the Legislature. One even got a promotion to the Senate.</blockquote>
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There's more... <a href="https://empowertexans.com/blog/train-a-comin/">head over and read it</a>... and bookmark Empower Texans to keep up as we move forward.Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-34562767880405380922018-02-13T07:41:00.000-08:002018-02-13T07:42:41.515-08:0017th Amendment: Why State-appointed Senators Were Better For America Than Elected Ones<br />
The Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution changed the method by which Senators were selected. Bill Quick provides the simplest, best explanation for why the Founders' original method of populating the Senate was the wisest:<br />
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~ From his post <a href="http://dailypundit.com/2018/02/12/history-rhymes/">"History Rhymes".</a><br />
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In the old days, when authors used agents and got publishing contracts, Christopher Taylor's books would have been published by Ace Books or Ballantine, and would have been in bookshops across the country. Today's publishing climate is both easier and harder for writers who aren't celebrities, and so Taylor is an independent author and "<a href="http://alphawolf10.wixsite.com/kestrelarts2/life-unworthy">Life Unworthy</a>" is a contract-worthy book available on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-Unworthy-Christopher-Taylor-ebook/dp/B014TKK4RU">Amazon for Kindle and in Trade Paperback.</a> I bought the hard copy.<br />
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It's a good werewolf tale, keeping us on pins and needles all the way through, true to its genre, and a solid mystery story as well. But for those looking for more depth than monsters, "Life Unworthy" is rich historical fiction, replete with accurate detail that gives us a genuine sense of life-on-the-ground in 1943 Poland, occupied by the Nazis and terrorized by ancient curses.<br />
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Meticulous research includes many tiny details true to the era that might not be consciously appreciated by a casual reader. I love the way everyone smokes *everywhere*. Young people won't recognize that bit of "atmosphere" from a time when up to 80% of adults smoked and didn't die from it, but it is just one of the myriad ways Taylor paints us into a realistic picture. The ubiquitous cigarettes, the constant reference to "the Great War", are not essential to the story, but serve to rattle us into thinking a little deeper, immersing us into the time and place.<br />
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The psychic hold "the Great War" has on the soldiers in this novel is particularly effective, and has been seldom covered in war writing - whether fiction or fact, most WWII writing is colored by later knowledge that this was indeed "the second world war", whereas in the early years, it was still seen even by those in it as a more hopeful war: the Nazis were buoyed by recovering what they had lost in the catastrophic brutality of the Great War, Poland had not yet been betrayed, and so even the Poles and Gypsies in Life Unworthy desperately clung to belief that it would end with freedom.<br />
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Great characters are fleshed out well, and believable. It is crazy to see how almost likable some of the Nazis can be, and it jars when we realize the jobs they are doing, how much "routine" funnels them into the soul-killing deeds they do in response to orderly commands.<br />
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Almost an allegory, the werewolf's struggle to control the beast is an opposite, a mirror image of these Nazis' efforts to rationalize within themselves the evil they are promoting. This is a subtle juxtaposition all through the book that slowly dawns on the reader as we go.<br />
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Look carefully to catch the clues woven throughout the novel. They are difficult to spot, seamlessly inserted into the prose. And the whispered hints are even more difficult to unravel. I found myself stopping along the way to look up a reference, a location, to uncover more layers of the deep history. It's impossible to anticipate the ending, yet when it comes, the threads trace back to early hints, mentions, shadows, and you think, "Ah! So that is what that meant!"<br />
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A satisfying resolution that takes its own sweet time to unfold is one of the best things about Taylor's writing style. I am often annoyed by otherwise good writers who rush their endings - building to the climax then wrapping everything up in a quick couple of paragraphs, as though they suddenly realize they've reached their word limit. Taylor doesn't do that. He never leaves his readers in the lurch. He continues to follow the story for a bit to let us absorb what happened and neatly finish the final seams, so that it is complete and full.<br />
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All in all, "Life Unworthy" is a good story, a satisfying read, that doesn't waste our time. It's a book for adults, and will leave you thinking about the characters long after you've shelved the book in your permanent collection, to read again someday.<br />
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<br />Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-14019729841910183772018-01-07T15:51:00.000-08:002018-01-07T15:51:35.501-08:00Yes, Virginia, Once Upon A Time, Real Men Played Football<br />
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Via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TracesofTexas/photos/a.162532927112178.34097.105810232784448/1760688797296575/?type=3&permPage=1">Traces of Texas,</a> on Facebook:<br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"[Bob] Lilly, A TCU graduate out of West Texas, unfamiliar with such brutal weather, suffered frostbitten fingers on his left hand in that game. His three mates on the defensive line that anchored Tom Landry's effective but quirky "Flex Defense" all suffered frostbite as well. ...</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"They might have worn gloves but Lilly recalled that old-school defensive coordinator Ernie Stautner admonished that such a luxury was for "sissies" and he couldn't have such coddled players on his squad. ...</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"While players cautiously tried to navigate a sheet of ice underfoot, an announced assembly of 50,861 fans exhaled from behind faces covered by woolen masks, emitting enough carbon dioxide to remind of London fog.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"Please, Ryan said under his breath, let those of his cameras that refused to die in the cold, continue to work. The crew's remarkable work in those conditions provides the only known extended video from the game. "</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"Once the game began, referee Norm Schachter and his officiating crew abandoned their whistles, which froze to their lips soon after kickoff. Instead, they relied on voices and hand signals to control the game. An elderly fan in the stands suffered hypothermia and died. Alicia Landry, wife of the Cowboys coach, is said to have missed the game's decisive play because her eyelashes were frozen shut. ..."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But Don Meredith had the final insight into why the Dallas Cowboys of Old played the way they played: not for the money, or their coaches, but for their fans:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"I remember the pilot telling us he got word that there were a lot of people waiting for us," recalled Brandt. "We didn't know what to expect."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">News reports estimated about 500 sympathetic fans were there to embrace their heroes in relatively balmly 32-degree weather.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"It was the first time Cowboys fans celebrated a loss," Meredith, who died in 2010, once told Michael. "It changed everything about the way we felt about our fans. It created a bond that would never be broken."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Go read the whole article: "<a href="https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/dallas-cowboys/cowboys/2017/12/20/cold-bleed-ice-bowl-still-resonates-50-years-later">Too Cold to Bleed: Why The Ice Bowl Still Resonates 50 Years Later</a>". </span><br />
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"And essentially, it points ahead into a future of considerable brightness, with hope for genuine liberty coming out of oppression once again. Not through meddlesome outsiders like Hillary Clinton making war, but through God's action in the world raising up peoples and new generations. " <br />
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Here's a portion of the 2016<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/10/30/iranians-protest-regime-king-cyrus-tomb/"> news article, from Breitbart's Adelle Nazarian</a>:<br />
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"<i>According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), protesters chanted, “Iran is our country, Cyrus is our father” and “clerical rule is synonymous with only tyranny, only war.” The protesters also reportedly chanted, “freedom of thought cannot take place with beards,” a reference to the theocratic leaders currently in power.</i></blockquote>
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<i>"Many Iranians consider King Cyrus the father of international human rights, citing the discovery of the Cyrus Cylinder around 559 B.C. — the first known charter of human rights. In 1971, the Shah of Iran’s twin sister, the late Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, presented the United Nations with a replica of the Cyrus Cylinder, which is kept at the U.N.’s New York headquarters and is promoted as “an ancient declaration of human rights.”</i></blockquote>
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<i>"Pooya Dayanim, President of the Iranian Jewish Public Affairs Committee (IJPAC), told Breitbart News that the rally was an indication that “the generation that was born after the revolution of 1979 feels as if their parents made a mistake and destroyed their hope and future.” Dayanim added, “They consider themselves a burnt generation, just like the generation in America that has been living in their parents’ garages and basements and are either unemployed or underemployed.”</i></blockquote>
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<i>"Dayanim said that ... “getting in touch with their rich Iranian heritage from the pre-Islamic era is one of the only sources of pride they have. What happened today is a sign of them embracing Iran when it was a strong and powerful and respected State, versus the government that they have now which has turned Iran into a pariah and has destroyed their hopes, dreams, aspirations and future.</i>” ~ Breitbart</blockquote>
That was 14 months ago. Now, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/29/iranian-police-disperse-anti-government-protests">new riots have broken out, and Iran's government is cracking down</a>. President Trump<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/366901-trump-us-is-watching-for-human-rights-violations-in-iran-protests"> has already spoken his support</a> for the protesters and for liberty in Iran.<br />
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For those who do not know what Iran was like before the 1970s Islamic take-over, it was a modern nation, and an American ally. Many Iranians who supported overthrowing the Shah later regretted the revolution, as the new Islamist regime become increasingly oppressive. <br />
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Please continue in prayer to our Father God in the name of Jesus, for the people of Iran to overcome their oppressors and restore their nation, on their own and peacefully, as we are restoring our America. MAGA!<br />
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12/31/17 UPDATE: Instapundit quotes the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/economics-dissatisfaction-with-current-regime-fuel-iran-protests-1514679332">Wall Street Journal</a>, noting that the current Iranian protests are not exactly all about the "economy", despite what the Fake News are saying:<br />
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"In a number of cities, demonstrators have expressed nostalgia for the last monarchical rulers of Iran, the Pahlavi dynasty, by evoking the name of its founder Reza Shah. Many Iranians consider Reza Shah to be the father of modern Iran and his era is associated with a time of economic prosperity. . . .</blockquote>
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"Here are some slogans being chanted at the protests, translated into English:<br />
“We don’t want an Islamic Republic, we don’t want it, we don’t want it.”<br />
“They are using Islam as an excuse to drive people crazy.”<br />
“Independence, Freedom, Iranian Republic.”<br />
“Reformists, hard-liners, Game is over.”<br />
“We are all Iranians, we don’t accept Arabs.”<br />
“We are getting poor and clerics are driving fancy cars.”<br />
“Reza Shah, Rest in Peace.”<br />
“We will die but we will take Iran back.”<br />
“Come out to the streets Iranians, shout for your rights.”<br />
“Death to the Revolutionary Guards.”</blockquote>
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As they say <a href="https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/284715/">over at Glenn Reynolds' blog, "read it all"</a>...Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-67110452669426990412017-11-21T15:17:00.000-08:002017-11-24T06:23:14.999-08:00Bill Quick: Donald Trump Harks Back to JFK's Mainstream AmericaAt his <a href="http://dailypundit.com/">Daily Pundit</a> blog, Bill Quick writes:<br />
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"It’s interesting to compare Donald Trump to John F. Kennedy. Both JFK and PDT supported civil rights for black Americans, but not for illegal aliens. JFK’s coalition looked a lot like PDTs does today, as JFK’s Democrat Party still catered to the needs and desires of working class and southern Americans – just as PDT does today.</blockquote>
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"JFKs judicial appointments were more liberal that PDTs, because the litmus issue in those times was civil rights. The Vietnam war arose as a national issue only after the mass drafts of the post JFK years began to bite. Nor did the Boomers elect JFK. In 1960, they were still in high school, and more than ten years away from getting the right to vote as 18 year-olds.</blockquote>
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"It is popular among today’s pop “historians” to present the years of the 1960s and 1970s as the decades in which America as a whole finally took up the New Left’s philosophy en masse, but that is simply not the case. The New Left, the hippies, the massive use of drugs, and all the rest of the cultural appurtenances of that time were always a practice of the minority. More young men went off to serve in Vietnam than rioted in the streets for one cause or another. With the possible exception of marijuana, drug use was never practiced by any significant majority of Americans (as is still the case). .... "</blockquote>
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Do <a href="http://dailypundit.com/2017/11/21/the-streamlined-version/">go read the whole post</a>. It is quite heartening.Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-43562641934163053302017-07-26T04:39:00.000-07:002017-07-26T05:07:39.964-07:00Boy Scouts Love President Trump's Speech at National Jamboree, Shout "We Love Trump!" and "USA! USA! USA!"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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During President Trump's <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/07/24/remarks-president-trump-2017-national-scout-jamboree">speech to the Boy Scouts</a>, that huge crowd applauded constantly, chanted " We love Trump! We love Trump! We love Trump!" and "USA! USA! USA!", and they "boo'ed" when he mentioned "his opponent".<br />
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Here's a sample quote:<br />
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: "<i>Your lives will have meaning and purpose and joy. You will become leaders, and you will inspire others to achieve the dreams they once thought were totally impossible, things that you said could never, ever happen are already happening for you. And if you do these things -- and if you refuse to give in to doubt or to fear -- then you will help to make America great again. You will be proud of yourself, be proud of the uniform you wear, and be proud of the country you love.</i>" (Applause.) </blockquote>
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AUDIENCE: USA! USA! USA! </blockquote>
And just in case the Fake News starts getting it wrong, there were only two times the audience boo'ed. One when he mentioned Hillary:<br />
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: "<i>We won Florida. We won South Carolina. We won North Carolina. We won Pennsylvania.</i> (Applause.) <br />
<i>We won and won. So when they said, there is no way to victory, there is no way to 270. I went to Maine four times because it’s one vote, and we won. But we won -- one vote. I went there because I kept hearing we're at 269. But then Wisconsin came in. Many, many years -- Michigan came in. <br />And we worked hard there. My opponent didn't work hard there because she was told</i> -- </blockquote>
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AUDIENCE: Booo!</blockquote>
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THE PRESIDENT: "<i>She was told she was going to win Michigan</i>....."</blockquote>
and then when President Trump was telling the story of William Levitt, and teased them with a cliff-hanger:<br />
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: " <i>I won’t go any more than that because you’re Boy Scouts, so I’m not going to tell you what he did</i>."</blockquote>
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AUDIENCE: Booo -- </blockquote>
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THE PRESIDENT: "<i>Should I tell you? Should I tell you</i>?"</blockquote>
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AUDIENCE: Yes!</blockquote>
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Final real news: The audience loved the speech and the President ALL THE WAY THROUGH:<br />
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: <i>So I have to tell you what we did, in all fairness, is an unbelievable tribute to you and all of the other millions and millions of people that came out and voted for Make America Great Again.</i> (Applause.) </blockquote>
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AUDIENCE: USA! USA! USA!</blockquote>
The President ended his speech with a blessing:<br />
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: "<i><b>And I just want to end by saying very importantly: God bless you. God bless the Boy Scouts. God bless the United States of America. <br />Go out. Have a great time in life. Compete and go out and show me that there is nobody -- nobody -- like a Boy Scout.</b></i>"</blockquote>
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Our President Donald John Trump never mentioned John III Sobieski in the speeches he made while in Poland... but the memory of the "Savior of Christendom" is palpable throughout. <br />
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In his amazing speech <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/07/06/remarks-president-trump-people-poland-july-6-2017">To The People Of Poland</a>, he spoke in detail about Poland's heroic and determined past: the Miracle of Vistula, "the Katyn forest massacre, the occupations, the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the destruction of [Warsaw], and the deaths of nearly one in five Polish people", Jerusalem Avenue. He named <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kazimierz-Pulaski">Casimir Pulaski</a> and <a href="https://infogalactic.com/info/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko">Tadeusz Kościuszko</a> (heroes of the American Revolution and of Polish Insurrection against Russia), and declared :" <i>I am here today not just to visit an old ally, but to hold it up as an example for others who seek freedom and who wish to summon the courage and the will to defend our civilization</i>. "<br />
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As his conclusive statement confirms, President Trump stood up in defiance of Globalism and of invasive enemies of civilization. <a href="http://malcolmpollack.com/2017/07/06/yes/">Malcolm Pollack</a> described it well:<br />
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"“Brilliance”! “Excellence”! Reverence! Traditions! Heritage! The defense of the West! Protecting our borders! Preserving our civilization!<br />
"Strong stuff, and as far as the epicene political, academic, and media elites of the modern West are concerned, it might as well be the language of Mordor. Can you imagine Barack Obama saying such things? The words would have burnt his tongue."</blockquote>
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President Trump reminded listeners of his historic peace-making trip to the Middle East in which he engaged with the Muslim nations of the world to work <i>themselves</i> to bring peace to their own countries and to <i>themselves</i> drive out the militant islamists who are destroying every civilization within reach:<br />
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" We are confronted by another oppressive ideology -- one that seeks to export terrorism and extremism all around the globe. America and Europe have suffered one terror attack after another. We’re going to get it to stop. (Applause.) <br />
During a historic gathering in Saudi Arabia, I called on the leaders of more than 50 Muslim nations to join together to drive out this menace which threatens all of humanity. We must stand united against these shared enemies to strip them of their territory and their funding, and their networks, and any form of ideological support that they may have. While we will always welcome new citizens who share our values and love our people, our borders will always be closed to terrorism and extremism of any kind. "</blockquote>
President Trump's choice of Poland in which to vocalize his stand for "The West" and civilization shows his understanding of history & of another time when islamists used war and terror to attack the West. It was <a href="https://infogalactic.com/info/John_III_Sobieski">Poland's King, John III Sobieski</a> who drove back the Islamic Turks at the "Gates of Vienna" in 1683 when the Islamic Ottoman Empire had Europe under siege. The Pope called him the "<i>Savior of Christendom</i>", a constellation was named after him, and Sobieski has since been known as the "<i>Savior of Vienna and Western European civilization</i>".<br />
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And thus, some of the most powerful paragraphs of President Trump's speech are those in which this "<a href="http://pecancorner.blogspot.com/2016/11/king-cyrus-donald-trump-prophecies.html">new Cyrus</a>" invokes our Father God within a country that has recently reaffirmed its identity as a Christian Nation:<br />
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"The Polish martyr, Bishop Michael Kozal, said it well: “More horrifying than a defeat of arms is a collapse of the human spirit.”<br />
"Through four decades of communist rule, Poland and the other captive nations of Europe endured a brutal campaign to demolish freedom, your faith, your laws, your history, your identity -- indeed the very essence of your culture and your humanity. Yet, through it all, you never lost that spirit. (Applause.) Your oppressors tried to break you, but Poland could not be broken. (Applause.) </blockquote>
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"And when the day came on June 2nd, 1979, and one million Poles gathered around Victory Square for their very first mass with their Polish Pope, that day, every communist in Warsaw must have known that their oppressive system would soon come crashing down. (Applause.) They must have known it at the exact moment during Pope John Paul II’s sermon when a million Polish men, women, and children suddenly raised their voices in a single prayer. A million Polish people did not ask for wealth. They did not ask for privilege. Instead, one million Poles sang three simple words: “We Want God.” (Applause.)</blockquote>
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"In those words, the Polish people recalled the promise of a better future. They found new courage to face down their oppressors, and they found the words to declare that Poland would be Poland once again.</blockquote>
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"As I stand here today before this incredible crowd, this faithful nation, we can still hear those voices that echo through history. Their message is as true today as ever. The people of Poland, the people of America, and the people of Europe still cry out “We want God.” (Applause.) </blockquote>
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"Together, with Pope John Paul II, the Poles reasserted their identity as a nation devoted to God. And with that powerful declaration of who you are, you came to understand what to do and how to live. You stood in solidarity against oppression, against a lawless secret police, against a cruel and wicked system that impoverished your cities and your souls. And you won. Poland prevailed. Poland will always prevail. (Applause.)<br />
"AUDIENCE: <i>Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump!</i> "</blockquote>
Our God is moving in the world to accomplish His purposes. And Our Father God has given us a man to lead us.<br />
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<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+45&version=HCSB">Isaiah 45</a>:<br />
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The Lord says this to Cyrus, His anointed,<br />
whose right hand I have grasped<br />
to subdue nations before him,<br />
to disarm[a] kings,<br />
to open the doors before him<br />
and the gates will not be shut:<br />
2 “I will go before you<br />
and level the uneven places;[b]<br />
I will shatter the bronze doors<br />
and cut the iron bars in two.<br />
3 I will give you the treasures of darkness<br />
and riches from secret places,<br />
so that you may know that I, Yahweh,<br />
the God of Israel call you by your name.<br />
4 I call you by your name,<br />
because of Jacob My servant<br />
and Israel My chosen one.<br />
I give a name to you,<br />
though you do not know Me.<br />
5 I am Yahweh, and there is no other;<br />
there is no God but Me.<br />
I will strengthen[c] you,<br />
though you do not know Me,<br />
6 so that all may know from the rising of the sun to its setting<br />
that there is no one but Me.<br />
I am Yahweh, and there is no other.<br />
7 I form light and create darkness,<br />
I make success and create disaster;<br />
I, Yahweh, do all these things."</blockquote>
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<br />Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-76940414218944263392017-07-05T06:04:00.000-07:002017-07-05T06:04:21.145-07:00Our President Donald John Trump QOTD : Space Exploration "[S]pace exploration is not only essential to our character as a nation, but also our economy and our great nation’s security. ...<br />
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"The human soul yearns for discovery. By unlocking the mysteries of the universe, we unlock truths within ourselves. That’s true. Our journey into space will not only make us stronger and more prosperous, but will unite us behind grand ambitions and bring us all closer together. ...<br />
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"... It is America’s destiny to be at the forefront of humanity’s eternal quest for knowledge and to be the leader amongst nations on our adventure into the great unknown. ..."<br />
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~ from Our President Donald John Trump's remarks on <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/06/30/remarks-president-signing-executive-order-national-space-council">The National Space Council,</a> June 30, 2017Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-20816779563989779672017-07-01T07:23:00.000-07:002017-07-01T07:23:36.907-07:00Ways To Survive An Active Shooter When Trapped Unarmed In A Closed Room: No Martial Arts or Strength Needed<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="215" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r2tIeRUbRHw" width="360"></iframe>
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98% of all "survive an active shooting" articles concentrate on the same old things: run away or hide and call 911. Cute slogans: "Run Hide Fight". But when it comes to practical suggestions for the "Fight" part, most include <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/riding-the-alligator/200911/how-survive-active-shooter-incident-such-fort-hood">more tips on how to keep the police from shooting you by mistake</a> if you do escape or survive, than information on how to foil the attacker.<br />
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This article by Eric Spitznagel at Men's Health, "<a href="http://www.menshealth.com/guy-wisdom/survive-shooting">The Smartest Thing To Do In An Active Shooter Situation</a>" is the most useful Active Shooter video & article that I have seen. Even a handicapped person or kids could do this, even if trapped in a room unarmed. The video actually shows us how to do it.<br />
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Filled with practical advice from former member of Israeli Special Forces & self-defense expert Alon Stivi, the article points out details we have all known in our hearts such as:<br />
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"Nobody has ever survived an active shooter by ducking under a desk or a table. It just doesn’t happen. And do you know why?"<br />
"<i>Because they were sitting targets?</i>"<br />
"That’s right. Every shooter knows that’s where people are scrambling to hide, and that’s where they look first. And then they shoot you at point blank range."</blockquote>
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"<i>Maybe I’m confusing how to survive a shooter with what I learned as a kid about surviving a fire. My instinct is to “Stop, drop, and roll</i>.”<br />
"That’s actually not that far off from the standard operating procedure. It’s called lockdown. Which means, you just stay where you are.<br />
But if you look at most of these shootings, you realize that people died because they were in a lockdown."</blockquote>
I really appreciate that he says we should approach training - practical, like fire drills and unafraid:<br />
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"I haven’t become paranoid, and I’ll tell you why. It’s pretty simple. There is only one antidote to fear. Well, maybe two.<br />First is the belief in fate. You believe that everything will somehow be fine and you’ll be taken care of by some higher power, and that’s great. "<br />"<i>And for the rest of us?</i>"<br />"The real antidote to fear is knowledge. I know what to look for. I know what to do if something bad happens. I have a plan of action.<br />This knowledge is what allows somebody to live a life free from fear. ...."<br />"....I’ll give you an example. When you came to the office today, you probably crossed a road, right?... And before you crossed, you looked left and right, just to make sure there wasn’t a car coming. Because if you didn’t, you might die. If you get hit by a car going 60 miles an hour, you will be obliterated.<br />So you check for that car, and you don’t feel paranoid or stressed about needing to do that, do you?<br />"<i>Not at all. It’s just something you do</i>."<br />"Exactly. It’s a part of your life. It’s a part of the world we live in. Two hundred years ago, there were no cars. We looked for, I don’t know, mountain lions."</blockquote>
Go to Men's Health to read the whole <a href="http://www.menshealth.com/guy-wisdom/survive-shooting">enlightening article</a>.<br />
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<br />Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-79788344794509918122017-06-29T07:04:00.000-07:002017-06-29T07:20:38.674-07:00Working Women All Through History: Blacksmiths, Silversmiths, Nail Makers<br />
If you thought that "Kate the Blacksmith" was an anachronism in A Knight's Tale... she wasn't. (Well except for her dialect... and maybe her attitude...) Despite the feminist mythology, women have engaged, openly and profitably, in almost every occupation in every era in the western, Christian world.<br />
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In<a href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/holkham.html"> the 14th Century Holkham Bible, this illustration shows a woman blacksmith forging a nail.</a> Note the assumption in the caption, written by a modern author, that she is "the Blacksmith's wife". Maybe she was and maybe she wasn't... what the factual record shows is a woman working at a forge with hammer and tongs.<br />
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In the brief article <a href="http://www.readbag.com/prickettsfort-resources-blacksmithing-of-the-18th-century">"Blacksmithing of the 18th Century"</a>, the author notes that the demand for nails was huge, and making them was a common sideline for people, including women - even those women who were not full-fledged master smiths.<br />
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The <a href="https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2016/05/17/lizzie-bennett-blacksmith/">Bodleian Library blog has an interesting article about "Lizzie Bennett, Blacksmith"</a>:<br />
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" An account of blacksmithing work done in December 1708 by Eliz[abeth] Bennett at Blenheim ‘Castle’, her job included making 32 dozen holdfasts for the joiners (at 2 shillings a dozen), making new handles for three saws, mending a pump in the meadows, and making wedges and clouts (patches or plates) used in the stairs. But in addition to making items for a fixed price, she also charged for work by the pound weight. Twenty five pounds of iron works for a grindstone at 4 pence a pound earned her 8s 4d (100 pence total) and 31 pounds of wedges and clouts, also at 4 pence a pound, made her 10s 4d.The total for what would have been several days or weeks of highly skilled work? 4 pounds, 17 shillings, 2 pence. Not bad at all if you compare it to a female servant’s income at about that time – maidservant Sarah Sherin made £4 a year in 1717, while in the farming world, a female labourer called Goody Currell was paid 4 pence a day at an Oxfordshire farm in 1759, fifty years later."</blockquote>
An article from <a href="http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/spring04/women.cfm">the Colonial Williamsburg journal</a>:<br />
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"The Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths in London lists sixty-five "brethren" and two "sistren" in its 1434 charter."</blockquote>
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"A 1770 publication called The Tradesman's True Guide or a Universal Directory for the Towns of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsal, Dudley and the manufacturing village in the neighborhood of Birmingham carries exhaustive lists of tradesmen and -women alphabetically by name and by trade. <b>There are women listed in every trade from butcher to wire drawer.</b>"</blockquote>
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"Only recently did a Colonial Williamsburg interpreter look closely at a nineteenth-century print that had been hanging on the wall at the Geddy House for years: a portion of Ben Franklin's Poor Richard Illustrated features a country blacksmith shop where four men are working, and in the right-hand corner, a woman hammers at an anvil rather inconspicuously. A 1505 Polish print is centered on a lovely woman at a spindle, but a careful inspection of the background shows a woman making a shoe on her knee."</blockquote>
The article notes the big error in modern & postmodern Feminist History: the idea that women "weren't allowed to work" doesn't hold up to scrutiny:<br />
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"<b>What is more compelling is the lack of documentation that women were not allowed to work. Although religious practices and social norms might have restricted certain activities in some parts of the world,</b> <b>there were no laws prohibiting women from working a trade</b>.</blockquote>
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As I point out when demonstrating Letterpress Printing, an ordinary occupation of women since Gutenberg's time, women have always worked for pay - they had to make a living, then as now. This author agrees:<br />
".<i>... no matter what century it is, women have always done what is necessary to provide for themselves and their families</i>."Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-77115369672908106732017-06-24T05:46:00.002-07:002017-06-24T07:27:26.842-07:00Sign of the Times: Voice Of The Deplorables <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This billboard was paid for by a businessman in Boerne, Texas! It reads "ABC News: I grew up with you. We are through. The Russians didn't elect Donald Trump. <b>I did</b>. Kyle Courtney "</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> "[Kyle] Courtney released the following statement to News4 in San Antonio:</span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">“ABC News was the only channel I watched as a child growing up in Texas but I think they have lost touch with America and forgotten the working man. They don’t represent our voice anymore. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was funded by the Clinton Foundation in close coordination with the media, and now we’re seeing them try to fix what they couldn’t fix during the election. They are doing everything they can, night after night, to create narratives and sway people’s direction to impeach Donald Trump. Our democracy is at stake when a major political party and the media are in bed together. I’m not asking anyone to boycott the Democratic party. I’m not in the brainwashing business, but the liberal media is.” "</span></span></blockquote>
Thank you, and God bless you, Mr. Courtney. Many millions of us share your thinking -<i>and also proudly voted <b>FOR</b> Donald John Trump </i>without apology or equivocation<i>.</i><br />
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*Photo Credit: <i>Wellstar Groundwater Technologies</i>, Mr Courtney's company<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> "[Fifteen]<i> children, all under age 5, died of severe sepsis and toxicity due to a botched vaccination campaign, according to a joint statement issued Thursday by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. ... In addition to the deaths, 32 children were sickened from the 300-person vaccination campaign in South Sudan. "</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span data-offset-key="edis-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"...The vaccine had been left unrefrigerated. One syringe was reused over the course of four days. </span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The campaign, which took place in early May in the rural town of Kapoeta, was part of an effort by the South Sudanese government to vaccinate 2 million children against measles. The vaccines were provided by UNICEF. The World Health Organization provided some training in how to administer the vaccines." .... </span></i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"</i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"...Some reports are saying children as young as 12 years old were administering the vaccine...</i>. " </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> A<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/cdcgrandrounds/archives/2015/june2015.htm">ccording to the CDC</a> in 2015, "<i>Worldwide, an estimated 20 million people get measles and 146,000 people, mostly children, die from the disease each year.</i>" That is less than 1/10th of 1%. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most sources cite a higher number of 3/10th of 1%: from 1 to 3 deaths per thousand of all those who fall ill. To give this some context, the mortality rate for measles is far below the Infant Mortality Rate for the United States of 6.9 deaths within 7 days of birth of each 1,000 babies born alive. The Infant Mortality Rate for South Sudan, from all causes, is more than 66 deaths per thousand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #4b4f56; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "</span><span style="color: #4b4f56;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Measles continues to be a huge public health burden in South Sudan. In fact, United Nations (U.N.) data showed that nearly 3,000 people contracted the disease and 28 people died of the infection in 2016 alone. The data also found that 665 people have already been infected and at least one person died of measles so far this year</i>." </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"</span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Ministry of Health, WHO and UNICEF express our deep regret and sadness at the passing of the children. This tragic event could have been prevented by adhering to WHO immunization safety standards…Vaccination is one of the most basic and critical health needs in emergencies to protect populations from the risk of contracting deadly but preventable diseases. The risk of measles and other Vaccine Preventable Diseases in South Sudan remains extremely high because of the challenges being faced by the health system. The country has experienced significant measles outbreaks among unprotected population caused by a backlog of unvaccinated children in areas of insecurity,” <a href="http://www.afro.who.int/en/ssd/news/item/9677-statement-regarding-findings-of-joint-investigation-of-15-deaths-of-children-in-nachodokopele-village-kapoeta-east-county-in-south-sudan.html">a joint statement by the WHO and UNICEF read</a>.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></i><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Ministry of Health has tapped a multi-agency administrative committee to assess the AEFI report and provide appropriate recommendations for further actions to improve immunization service delivery.</i><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #4b4f56; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span><i style="color: #4b4f56; white-space: pre-wrap;">South Sudan has been plagued by a civil war, conflict, famine and other outbreaks for three years. Measles vaccination campaigns are complex operations with logistical challenges — and this is a place with poor health infrastructure. That's not an excuse, but it provides some context in understanding how such a thing could have happened</i><span style="color: #4b4f56; white-space: pre-wrap;">."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://infogalactic.com/info/Measles">Infogalactic notes</a>: </span><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Measles vaccination programs are often used to deliver other child health interventions, as well, such as bed nets to protect against malaria, antiparasite medicine and vitamin A supplements, and so contribute to the reduction of child deaths from other causes.</i><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> "</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Obviously, in this case, these other interventions were not the objective. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Was this a pilot project to get indigenous people to administer the shots to their own communities? That is what it begins to sound like to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why do the UN, WHO, and all sorts of NGOs think it is ok for them to<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/11/14/the-tense-standoff-between-catholic-bishops-and-the-kenyan-government-over-tetanus-vaccines/?utm_term=.cb525f99503a"> experiment with people's lives </a>in <a href="http://www.fwhc.org/health/vaccine.htm">undeveloped countries of the world</a>? <a href="https://infogalactic.com/info/Immunocontraception">Hmmmm</a>? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://pecancorner.blogspot.com/2016/06/samantha-powers-motorcade-60-mph-hit.html">Why do they think just handing an offhand apology makes it ok for them to continue on, with no added accountability, with their agendas even after they are responsible for such tragedy</a>? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remember these questions, the next time UNICEF sends those cute Christmas cards begging for our donations, and throw away their exploitive mailings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remember those fifteen little children from Nachodokopele village, and remember their parents, who deserve more than official "statements" or "expressions of deep regret" from elites who are living high while monetizing suffering as a fund-raising mechanism. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those parents deserve to have their children treated with the same concern and care that would be used for children in the hometowns of UN officials and WHO doctors. </span> </div>
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-67050123422813703912017-04-26T18:15:00.000-07:002017-04-26T18:16:10.840-07:00Here's To All Of Us Deplorables! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A great overview of <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/100-days">President Trump's First 100 Days</a>: <br />
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"In his first 100 days, President Donald J. Trump has taken bold action to restore prosperity, keep Americans safe and secure, and hold government accountable. At an historic pace, this President has enacted more legislation and signed more executive orders than any other president in over a half century. With a focus on rebuilding the military, ending illegal immigration, and restoring confidence in our economy, the President is keeping his promises to the American people."<br />
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Click through to <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/100-days">WhiteHouse.gov</a> for a partial list of "America First" achievements, along with articles and videos.<br />
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Thank you, and God bless you, Deplorables. Each one of you made - and is making - all the difference in the world.<br />
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<br />Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-52031513167889881582017-04-02T18:54:00.001-07:002017-04-02T18:54:42.184-07:00Verse of the Day<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"<b>So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known</b>." <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10%3A26&version=NIV">Matthew 10:26</a> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">~ courtesy of Joe Dan Gorman,<a href="https://intellectualfroglegs.com/spy-who-shagged/"> Intellectual Froglegs </a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164113496966664037.post-8538238955746974962017-03-10T06:28:00.000-08:002018-01-03T14:19:02.935-08:00Yes, Citizenship Still Matters In Political LeadersWhy the Constitution's peculiar insistence on "Natural Born" Citizenship for the President? Because they were tired of being oppressively ruled by Dual-Citizens whose loyalties weren't to one country, but to several.<br />
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Today's Globalists see themselves as the kings of empires, like those of old.<br />
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Via "<a href="http://englishmonarchs.co.uk/hanover_11.htm">English Monarchs</a>": <i>"When Britain's last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne died in 1714, the crown of England passed by the 1701 Act of Setttlement to the Stuart dynasty's German Protestant cousin, House of Hanover's King George I, who was actually 52nd in line to the throne at that time. The Act effectively excluded the hereditary Stuart heir, James II's Catholic son, James Francis Edward Stuart, thereafter referred to as the 'Old Pretender'. </i>"</blockquote>
<a href="https://infogalactic.com/info/Royal_descendants_of_Queen_Victoria_and_King_Christian_IX"> Infogalactic shows</a> why <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://englishmonarchs.co.uk/hanover.htm">German-born</a> </i>King-of-England George 1st's granddaughter Queen Victoria was nicknamed "Grandmother of Europe":<br />
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<i>"The royal descendants of Queen Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom) and of Christian IX (King of Denmark) currently occupy the thrones of Belgium, Denmark, Luxemburg, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. At the outbreak of the First World War their grandchildren occupied the thrones of Denmark, Greece, Norway, Germany, Romania, Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom.</i>"</blockquote>
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In an<a href="https://realclimatescience.com/2017/03/top-two-birthers-obama-and-obama/"> off-topic discussion </a>over at Tony Heller's <a href="https://realclimatescience.com/">Real Climate Science</a> blog, there's debate about Malik Obama's tweet of a purported Kenyan birth certificate, and some say it's time to drop those unanswered questions.<br />
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But the question of President Obama's potential "dual citizenship" is still relevant for future candidates - because the situation above is still a potential danger to US sovereignty. Remember: even the so-called "conservatives" tried to foist a man with dual (or triple) citizenship on the GOP this past election. Ted Cruz - who is our Senator, and we voted for him for the Senate - is supposed to be a champion of the Constitution, but he didn't bother to mention his divided loyalties while running for Senate, and blew it off when he was pushed into running for President.<br />
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Our elected offices around the country are peppered with people who hold dual citizenship in other nations, including Mexico. The State Dept in recent history has refused to demand new citizens repudiate their citizenship in their home country, thus leaving it up to the individual to determine their loyalties.<br />
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Even <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2012/05/bachmann-swiss-citizen-since-1978-076142">Michelle Bachman didn't mention her dual citizenship </a>during her campaign until after she had dropped out of the race, when <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2012/05/bachmann-claims-swiss-citizenship-076072">it came up in an interview on a Swiss TV station</a> (!) - and the<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/michele-bachmann-swiss-citizenship_n_1507277.html"> US news media blew it off</a> just like she did, despite the aggression with which they otherwise attacked her. Why? Because the globalists do not want that to enter the radar of consciousness for Americans.<br />
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The globalist elites collect passports the way the European royal families of old collected cousins.<br />
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The authors of the US Constitution were tired of having the British government led by people who were also loyal to Berlin or Amsterdam or Paris or Madrid or St Petersburg. <br />
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To stop the insanity, Nationalism must also restore the legal value of citizenship in a single nation, and must reject those who divide their house.Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06049681622118832305noreply@blogger.com0