Thoughts/OpEd Page 2
From a Christian Perspective; From a Drummer's Perspective
(and lately, the Spring of 2020, an American's perspective)
Some thoughts, some ideas, some concepts, some principles to contemplate.
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101. Positivity
102. The Real Numbers
103. "Death to America!"
104. Want a Revolution?
105. Buddy Rich
106. The Biggest Dog and Pony Show in History
107. Pain
108. Ginger Baker
109. Kerri Walsh Jennings Stands Up
110. Houston is Coming for Your Blood
111. Carl Palmer
112. Have We Been Warned?
113. Compelling Interest
114. Billy Cobham
115. Told You So: Man-made, Manipulated Event
116. FIRE! "Mass Fatality" Incidents?
117. Why I'm Voting
118. Creating Drum Parts
119. America, the Drug Nation
120. Tazed and Arrested For Not Wearing a Mask in America (Ohio) UPDATED
121. Is This Coming?
122. Amy Coney Barrett?
123. Tony Williams
124. Anti-Catholicism
125. Voter Fraud In Real Time!
126. Nope. Didn't Watch the Debate
127. Political Vomit
128. The Hendricksdon - Frigon Project - Forging Ahead
129. Thousands Of Doctors and Scientists Keep Speaking Out
130. Sen. Horono and "Objectivity"
131. Mandated Vaccinations Coming
132. Strangers and Pilgrims
133. A Little History On Drum Shell Super-Hype
134. Hendrickson the Magician
135. Anarchy, Revolt, Insurrection Is Coming!
136. Do You Have a Face? And, BTW
137. FEAR
138. Why I Support a UNITED States of America, Secession, and New Borders
139. Dreams and Visions
140. Landslide
141. Cases! Cases! Cases!
142. Predators and Prey
143. The British Protest Lock Downs
144. What Has America Become?
145. Mark Levin's Special Appeal to Americans
146. Song #6 Is In!
147. "Oh, What a Night!"
148. It Will Not Be Over Until God Says It Is
149. No News For Now
150. No News For Good?
151. Are Metalheads Bad People???
152. The Age of Technology, Music and Life
153. The American Legacy: Deceit, Cheating and Fraud
154. The Greatest Technology Threat of All
155. Sidney Powell
156. Something to Be Thankful For
157. I Am Definitely Not Thankful For The CDC
158. If This Is Not Civil War, Then What Is It?
159. Georgia Rally, Lin Wood, 1776
160. Honesty
161. It's Almost Fun
162. The Whole World's Watching
163. Texas Has No Standing?
164. I Pledge Allegiance
165. The Power of Lies
166. With A Heavy Heart
167. Building Anger
168. THE MOST EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW EVER
169. The Enigma of Trump
170. 2021
171. Trump Signs Bill Demanding UFO Revelations
172. Top Down Systems Always Fail
173. What Can I Say?
174. An Email Reply, An Honest Assessment
175. Viral Videos
176. The Other Side Of The Story
177. Maybe It's Just Me But ... Reconciliation?
178. I'm Too Harsh?
179. I'll Just Say Goodbye Now
180. They Actually Mean Nothing
181. HYPOCRISY
182. Pelosi Invokes God
183. Here's The Problem
184. An Astounding Website For Doubters
185. I Haven't Touched My Drums In Weeks.
186. January 20th
187. Two Days and Getting On With Life (hopefully)
188. Getting On With Life, Part 2: Drums and Music
189. A Day Of Infamy
190. The Inimitable Roy Haynes
191. Buyer's Remorse, Already?
192. Banning Speech???
193. TIA's - "mini-strokes" - Then ... Now What?
194. A Sigh of Relief
195. TROLLS
196. No, I'm Not Rich
197. China's New Policy for Children
198. Creation Is A Conspiracy Theory?
199. The Law Of The Jungle ... Uh, Back Yard
200. Nate Smith
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101. Positivity - August 30, 2020
I was just a young child when the civil rights movement was building to its climax. I was a teenager when MLK was shot. JFK. Bobby Kennedy. The Vietnam "war." ''The whole world's watching." Hippies. Psychedelia. The Jesus Freaks. The Beach Boys. The Beatles. The Who. The Monkeys. Cream, Hendrix, and then it all burst like a dam that could no longer contain the pressure. A pot boiled over. A massive paradigm volcano exploded with such force the music world was forever changed.
Living during those years, for me, was all about the Boston Red Sox. I was born and raised in Connecticut. The New Haven area. All my relatives lived in Rhode Island. Everything was the Sox, when it came to baseball. The Ed Sullivan Show, and the Beatles' performance in 1964 added a dimension, at 9 years old, that was a personal paradigm shift for me. Drums. Music. If I couldn't pitch for the Sox someday, I'd take being in a band and traveling the world. Then being in a band overtook the Red Sox.
Anyway, right now Americans are watching something seen on a smaller scale many times before. Protests and riots are nothing new. To this level? No. This is new. At no time can I remember so many cities showing the world how ugly America can be. In no five year period of politics can I remember such vitriol and shamelessness.
As a child growing up in New Haven, black people were just people, to me. I never traveled down South and knew nothing of prejudice such as existed there. Martin Luther King was a man with a message. At least, as far as I could tell as a young person living up North. Aside from speeches and things Lincoln said, "I have a dream ..." is about the most powerful thing America has ever heard; relating to what Americanism is, or should be, as an ideal and concept.
JFK was a popular president. He said some memorable things, or at least, read what speech writers gave him to say, as with most modern presidents. When John Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, I turned to the Monkeys. Even questioning God myself at that time of my young life, that was not cool; at least as far as the headlines portrayed it. Lennon really got smashed over that, even though it was just a side sentence, really. No major statement. He gets off a plane on a Sunday, screaming girls are there, not at church, and Lennon makes a quip about it. I wonder if the sour side of journalism was born that day. Taking things said and propelling them out of proportion. Context be damned. The power to make or break people. The press is now complicit in everything negative taking place in America. The press no longer reports the news. It create news, to propel an agenda.
With all that has happened in the last 60 years, the world is still beating a path to America. Many live in conditions around the world that make the poor in America seem like the wealthy where they are.
Watching the growing divide between my understanding of Americanism, and the disdain and outright, unmitigated hatred others have for America, is astonishing to me. The lies being told; rejecting data that stands its ground against the lies being told about ... well, pick a subject. Doesn't matter what. Lies are told by everybody from unknown people in the streets to organizers of these "protests," to major media and news outlets, to people in the clergy, to entertainers, to athletes, to people in high office and positions of power in government, even to leaders of other nations. Such a string of lies, distortions, deceptions, and vilification has never been witnessed like this in or about what is happening in America. And what is happening is bad enough.
Yes, I believe the world is drifting towards its end. That is Bible prophecy. It has never been wrong and never will be. Christ is going to return someday; sooner rather than later.
That said, He isn't here yet, and despite knowing the majority of the planet is going to line up under the banners of Satan, even in religious garb, just as Christ said - those who seek to take your life will think they are doing God's service - there must be some positive power out there. We cannot just give up.
The corporate media's job is to make people angry at those they despise and want out of their way. Does not matter who. Trump has been the biggest political target in American history. Christianity right behind him. Conservatism along with those two. I know the main stream media's job and pay no attention to it. I pay no attention to entertainers, especially the hypocrites that scream against the second amendment while they hire armed guards to protect them.
Watching Major League baseball acquiesce to the mob is pretty shocking. Viewership of NBA games has fallen off a table like a bowling ball, and baseball is right behind it. The NFL has already lost a great deal of money because people are sick and tired of millionaires crying about racial injustice in America, dishonoring the flag, and now burning up cities, looting everything in sight, screaming at people just minding their own business, and basically acting like total lunatics. That was decidedly NOT the approach of MLK that actually changed things for the better. What is happening right now is not positive, has no actual pragmatic meaning behind it, regardless of what rioters proclaim, and will NEVER change the minds of those who love their nation, despite any and all faults it has had down through its history.
Rational people do and say rational things. They are willing to discuss, to motivate, to change minds through information, truthful data, better ideas, positive reinforcement of those ideas and ideals. Anyone who thinks burning a city down for no other reason than a death at a policeman's hands, especially if or when documentation shows such a death was either warranted or not a totally despotic act, meaning - some racist cop did not kill someone just because they are a racist; they were criminals in acts of criminal behavior - is literally reacting out of unbridled passion, not sound reason. If you think you are through discussing and now have to burn the nation down, you are so sadly and tragically mistaken it may take another civil war to stop your lunacy. Obviously, Democrat politicians aren't going to stop you. They want the chaos, even though it is backfiring on them in numbers of November votes they will howl and scream at when the election arrives. Democrats live and work in these cities being destroyed. They are ticked off and rightly so. NOTHING but, negativity comes from the entire cabal of America haters. They offer no ideas, no sound principles, want no discussion or even reasonable compromise. All they can offer is negativity or failed ideas and policies. More taxes, on more people; destroy the middle class (the engine that drives the nation), and turn this country into a rat's nest of filth. And honestly, Republicans have turned backs on many Americans struggling, and closed their eyes to enough important issues they are as much to blame for where we are. That said, I don't know of any pro-Trump mobs burning cities down, terrorizing people.
Gary and I were just emailing thoughts on what we hope our joint project of music will do - inspire; have a positive impact. In no way are we seeking to all get along. We aren't backing down from Americanism and its great potential, offering principles of life that are better than any other nation in history. We hope we can make a difference, and we do not think or say that lightly. We want to make a difference for what Americanism is, and must remain, or the world - despite the corruption of politicians and others down through America's history - will become darker, that much faster as a result of her fall. I'll discuss anything with anybody but, I have no deep faith those rioting are interested in discussing anything but, joining them, through intimidation. Not happening.
Maybe the nation will divide and sub-divide, and borders will change, and who knows what will come. I just want God to stay a part of the fabric of American thought and society that existed from the beginning, now being chipped, if not blown away, by forces bent on turning America into a third world or communist hell-hole.
Maybe positivity cannot effectually happen. Maybe America is lost already and we refuse to acknowledge it. Maybe. I still have hope. I have to have hope. America has a place and a destiny she must fulfill, and it is not going to be a positive one, either but, God has stated the case in Scripture. That is a settled matter. It will come and when it does, it is going to be far worse for people loyal to God and His law. I'd like to see America stay in some light as long as possible before the final darkness sets in. America, Americanism, must be protected from onslaught; of lies, criminal behavior, political pandering to mobs, and really, protected from atheism which is guiding mobs to bring her down.
No, I don't seek laws to silence atheists. I believe in freedom of speech. What there needs to be is a movement of self-education of people to arm themselves with information to stand down those who seek to change America by removing anything about God from the public sphere. I used to be an atheist. I believe many would not be atheists if they just had information placed before them, which will work to address questions they have. No amount of negativity towards deity and those with faith will ever help any nation or any people, and history shows that. Yes, yes, ignorant, misguided, unconverted professed Christians have caused enough problems in the world to last a planet's lifetime. No argument there. Again, they may have professed the faith. They did not understand it and live it, and their words and actions showed that. Don't blame Christ for those who malign the faith in ignorance. It is not His fault. God allows people to walk their own path of they refuse His. The results become what they become. Christianity does not kill anyone. Heretics do. Obviously non-believers kill Christians. The positive nature of saving people from the penalty and power of sin can never be a negative influence on society. It's impossible.
I became a Christian because, through a set of circumstances, someone showed up at my house one day and had answers to all my questions. And I had lists of them on notebook paper. He opened his Bible and showed me what the book says. I became fascinated and intrigued by it all and God began to work to bring me to Him, and eleven days after I met that gentleman I gave my life to Christ. It was the most positive thing that ever happened to me, despite the pains and sufferings believers deal with in a lost world. That is just the path believers walk. Can't escape that. The believer has faith God will make it all up to them when this nightmare of sin is over. Positive promises by the hundreds, all throughout the Bible, proclaim a better day is coming.
Until then, bring some positive energy to the good fight. You want to convince me America needs to be destroyed? Bring the truth. Bring the evidence. Bring the data. Bring the rational reasons I should support anarchy.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Living during those years, for me, was all about the Boston Red Sox. I was born and raised in Connecticut. The New Haven area. All my relatives lived in Rhode Island. Everything was the Sox, when it came to baseball. The Ed Sullivan Show, and the Beatles' performance in 1964 added a dimension, at 9 years old, that was a personal paradigm shift for me. Drums. Music. If I couldn't pitch for the Sox someday, I'd take being in a band and traveling the world. Then being in a band overtook the Red Sox.
Anyway, right now Americans are watching something seen on a smaller scale many times before. Protests and riots are nothing new. To this level? No. This is new. At no time can I remember so many cities showing the world how ugly America can be. In no five year period of politics can I remember such vitriol and shamelessness.
As a child growing up in New Haven, black people were just people, to me. I never traveled down South and knew nothing of prejudice such as existed there. Martin Luther King was a man with a message. At least, as far as I could tell as a young person living up North. Aside from speeches and things Lincoln said, "I have a dream ..." is about the most powerful thing America has ever heard; relating to what Americanism is, or should be, as an ideal and concept.
JFK was a popular president. He said some memorable things, or at least, read what speech writers gave him to say, as with most modern presidents. When John Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, I turned to the Monkeys. Even questioning God myself at that time of my young life, that was not cool; at least as far as the headlines portrayed it. Lennon really got smashed over that, even though it was just a side sentence, really. No major statement. He gets off a plane on a Sunday, screaming girls are there, not at church, and Lennon makes a quip about it. I wonder if the sour side of journalism was born that day. Taking things said and propelling them out of proportion. Context be damned. The power to make or break people. The press is now complicit in everything negative taking place in America. The press no longer reports the news. It create news, to propel an agenda.
With all that has happened in the last 60 years, the world is still beating a path to America. Many live in conditions around the world that make the poor in America seem like the wealthy where they are.
Watching the growing divide between my understanding of Americanism, and the disdain and outright, unmitigated hatred others have for America, is astonishing to me. The lies being told; rejecting data that stands its ground against the lies being told about ... well, pick a subject. Doesn't matter what. Lies are told by everybody from unknown people in the streets to organizers of these "protests," to major media and news outlets, to people in the clergy, to entertainers, to athletes, to people in high office and positions of power in government, even to leaders of other nations. Such a string of lies, distortions, deceptions, and vilification has never been witnessed like this in or about what is happening in America. And what is happening is bad enough.
Yes, I believe the world is drifting towards its end. That is Bible prophecy. It has never been wrong and never will be. Christ is going to return someday; sooner rather than later.
That said, He isn't here yet, and despite knowing the majority of the planet is going to line up under the banners of Satan, even in religious garb, just as Christ said - those who seek to take your life will think they are doing God's service - there must be some positive power out there. We cannot just give up.
The corporate media's job is to make people angry at those they despise and want out of their way. Does not matter who. Trump has been the biggest political target in American history. Christianity right behind him. Conservatism along with those two. I know the main stream media's job and pay no attention to it. I pay no attention to entertainers, especially the hypocrites that scream against the second amendment while they hire armed guards to protect them.
Watching Major League baseball acquiesce to the mob is pretty shocking. Viewership of NBA games has fallen off a table like a bowling ball, and baseball is right behind it. The NFL has already lost a great deal of money because people are sick and tired of millionaires crying about racial injustice in America, dishonoring the flag, and now burning up cities, looting everything in sight, screaming at people just minding their own business, and basically acting like total lunatics. That was decidedly NOT the approach of MLK that actually changed things for the better. What is happening right now is not positive, has no actual pragmatic meaning behind it, regardless of what rioters proclaim, and will NEVER change the minds of those who love their nation, despite any and all faults it has had down through its history.
Rational people do and say rational things. They are willing to discuss, to motivate, to change minds through information, truthful data, better ideas, positive reinforcement of those ideas and ideals. Anyone who thinks burning a city down for no other reason than a death at a policeman's hands, especially if or when documentation shows such a death was either warranted or not a totally despotic act, meaning - some racist cop did not kill someone just because they are a racist; they were criminals in acts of criminal behavior - is literally reacting out of unbridled passion, not sound reason. If you think you are through discussing and now have to burn the nation down, you are so sadly and tragically mistaken it may take another civil war to stop your lunacy. Obviously, Democrat politicians aren't going to stop you. They want the chaos, even though it is backfiring on them in numbers of November votes they will howl and scream at when the election arrives. Democrats live and work in these cities being destroyed. They are ticked off and rightly so. NOTHING but, negativity comes from the entire cabal of America haters. They offer no ideas, no sound principles, want no discussion or even reasonable compromise. All they can offer is negativity or failed ideas and policies. More taxes, on more people; destroy the middle class (the engine that drives the nation), and turn this country into a rat's nest of filth. And honestly, Republicans have turned backs on many Americans struggling, and closed their eyes to enough important issues they are as much to blame for where we are. That said, I don't know of any pro-Trump mobs burning cities down, terrorizing people.
Gary and I were just emailing thoughts on what we hope our joint project of music will do - inspire; have a positive impact. In no way are we seeking to all get along. We aren't backing down from Americanism and its great potential, offering principles of life that are better than any other nation in history. We hope we can make a difference, and we do not think or say that lightly. We want to make a difference for what Americanism is, and must remain, or the world - despite the corruption of politicians and others down through America's history - will become darker, that much faster as a result of her fall. I'll discuss anything with anybody but, I have no deep faith those rioting are interested in discussing anything but, joining them, through intimidation. Not happening.
Maybe the nation will divide and sub-divide, and borders will change, and who knows what will come. I just want God to stay a part of the fabric of American thought and society that existed from the beginning, now being chipped, if not blown away, by forces bent on turning America into a third world or communist hell-hole.
Maybe positivity cannot effectually happen. Maybe America is lost already and we refuse to acknowledge it. Maybe. I still have hope. I have to have hope. America has a place and a destiny she must fulfill, and it is not going to be a positive one, either but, God has stated the case in Scripture. That is a settled matter. It will come and when it does, it is going to be far worse for people loyal to God and His law. I'd like to see America stay in some light as long as possible before the final darkness sets in. America, Americanism, must be protected from onslaught; of lies, criminal behavior, political pandering to mobs, and really, protected from atheism which is guiding mobs to bring her down.
No, I don't seek laws to silence atheists. I believe in freedom of speech. What there needs to be is a movement of self-education of people to arm themselves with information to stand down those who seek to change America by removing anything about God from the public sphere. I used to be an atheist. I believe many would not be atheists if they just had information placed before them, which will work to address questions they have. No amount of negativity towards deity and those with faith will ever help any nation or any people, and history shows that. Yes, yes, ignorant, misguided, unconverted professed Christians have caused enough problems in the world to last a planet's lifetime. No argument there. Again, they may have professed the faith. They did not understand it and live it, and their words and actions showed that. Don't blame Christ for those who malign the faith in ignorance. It is not His fault. God allows people to walk their own path of they refuse His. The results become what they become. Christianity does not kill anyone. Heretics do. Obviously non-believers kill Christians. The positive nature of saving people from the penalty and power of sin can never be a negative influence on society. It's impossible.
I became a Christian because, through a set of circumstances, someone showed up at my house one day and had answers to all my questions. And I had lists of them on notebook paper. He opened his Bible and showed me what the book says. I became fascinated and intrigued by it all and God began to work to bring me to Him, and eleven days after I met that gentleman I gave my life to Christ. It was the most positive thing that ever happened to me, despite the pains and sufferings believers deal with in a lost world. That is just the path believers walk. Can't escape that. The believer has faith God will make it all up to them when this nightmare of sin is over. Positive promises by the hundreds, all throughout the Bible, proclaim a better day is coming.
Until then, bring some positive energy to the good fight. You want to convince me America needs to be destroyed? Bring the truth. Bring the evidence. Bring the data. Bring the rational reasons I should support anarchy.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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102. The Real Numbers - August 30, 2020
If protesters, marchers, rioters, looters, and other assorted radicals out in the streets at night, do not have to wear masks, neither do I.
If the president and a couple hundred people gathered at the White House to hear him accept the nomination do not have to wear masks, neither do I.
And when the CDC now tells us only 6% of the numbered deaths in America (of 161k) are solely from C-19 and complications arising from it, like Pneumonia, I most certainly am not facing a deadly virus, threatening all life on Earth, and I don't need to wear a mask.
All this time voices were attacked, lied about, censored, canceled, silenced by any and all means possible if they stood against the Fauci/Gates/fear mongering media cabal. The voices began back in March. The entire world should have stood up and shouted the hysteria down but, the cabal took over, shut down the world, and now, the list of things plaguing the citizens of the world grows exponentially by the week. And they still have the gall to tell us we must stay vigilant to this killer invader until they give us a vaccine.
Robert Kennedy was in Berlin, holding a rally, informing people of the dangers of vaccines. The police shut it down.
Whatever happened to the Frontline Doctors speaking out just a month ago? Attacked, lost jobs, lost positions, and basically got shut down.
Plandemic 2, the documentary exposing one of the most corrupt industries on the planet, is informing any and all who will watch it how the vaccine industry, and those who invest in it, make BILLIONS off corona viruses. If you can find it still, at least at the producers web site, watch it.
My wife went to Walmart the other day. Came home and said many people were not wearing masks. Finally. People are waking up. Maybe they are just tired of breathing back in their own stale air. Maybe they have seen the true stories and data that this illness came upon most people in their own homes, not out and about. Those are the facts, world-wide. Confined spaces increased risk, not fresh air. Not large gatherings in it. Common sense should have told everyone that.
As someone into documentation as I am, always going to original sources when I can, seeing the CDC 6% fact, just in a one line notice in a header, tells me so much about the CDC it isn't funny. Excuses? Oh, yes, plenty of those for the way they counted the numbers till now, after they told doctors how to tabulate the figures months ago!
Van Morrison spoke out last week against pseudo-science in all the fear mongering that basically destroyed the careers of countless musicians and people involved behind the scenes in the music industry.
An estimated 1 in 5 of churches in America will shut their doors for good. Can't work, can't pay their own mortgages, let alone mortgages on the churches, and even though the law states you cannot kick someone out of their home during this "crisis," the overall impact on people worried and scared about returning to their houses of worship will have a lasting effect.
I leave my yahoo or hotmail accounts, am taken to their news feeds and still, every, single day death figures are there, constant negative stories of people that have died, and standing against those who have tried to get people to realize the facts, all facts regarding the illness and treatments available.
I can only hope those responsible for this monstrous plague of misinformation and fear mongering are held accountable. They won't be. Not in this life. The judgment bar of God awaits, though. They shall give account for what they have done. The statistics exploding of abused spouses and children, the advance of drug abuse and alcohol abuse. The explosion of depression, discouragement, despondency, loneliness, especially in children and young people. The deaths of people that died because hospitals were told to only address the "pandemic" and people waited too late to address other serious health concerns. The jobs lost, the businesses closed, the cities emptied and made an easy target for rioters and looters. The list is almost endless. The hysteria still abides.
Those, from China, to America that have caused this event and its ongoing aftermath, will face justice someday. Of that, we can be assured.
If the president and a couple hundred people gathered at the White House to hear him accept the nomination do not have to wear masks, neither do I.
And when the CDC now tells us only 6% of the numbered deaths in America (of 161k) are solely from C-19 and complications arising from it, like Pneumonia, I most certainly am not facing a deadly virus, threatening all life on Earth, and I don't need to wear a mask.
All this time voices were attacked, lied about, censored, canceled, silenced by any and all means possible if they stood against the Fauci/Gates/fear mongering media cabal. The voices began back in March. The entire world should have stood up and shouted the hysteria down but, the cabal took over, shut down the world, and now, the list of things plaguing the citizens of the world grows exponentially by the week. And they still have the gall to tell us we must stay vigilant to this killer invader until they give us a vaccine.
Robert Kennedy was in Berlin, holding a rally, informing people of the dangers of vaccines. The police shut it down.
Whatever happened to the Frontline Doctors speaking out just a month ago? Attacked, lost jobs, lost positions, and basically got shut down.
Plandemic 2, the documentary exposing one of the most corrupt industries on the planet, is informing any and all who will watch it how the vaccine industry, and those who invest in it, make BILLIONS off corona viruses. If you can find it still, at least at the producers web site, watch it.
My wife went to Walmart the other day. Came home and said many people were not wearing masks. Finally. People are waking up. Maybe they are just tired of breathing back in their own stale air. Maybe they have seen the true stories and data that this illness came upon most people in their own homes, not out and about. Those are the facts, world-wide. Confined spaces increased risk, not fresh air. Not large gatherings in it. Common sense should have told everyone that.
As someone into documentation as I am, always going to original sources when I can, seeing the CDC 6% fact, just in a one line notice in a header, tells me so much about the CDC it isn't funny. Excuses? Oh, yes, plenty of those for the way they counted the numbers till now, after they told doctors how to tabulate the figures months ago!
Van Morrison spoke out last week against pseudo-science in all the fear mongering that basically destroyed the careers of countless musicians and people involved behind the scenes in the music industry.
An estimated 1 in 5 of churches in America will shut their doors for good. Can't work, can't pay their own mortgages, let alone mortgages on the churches, and even though the law states you cannot kick someone out of their home during this "crisis," the overall impact on people worried and scared about returning to their houses of worship will have a lasting effect.
I leave my yahoo or hotmail accounts, am taken to their news feeds and still, every, single day death figures are there, constant negative stories of people that have died, and standing against those who have tried to get people to realize the facts, all facts regarding the illness and treatments available.
I can only hope those responsible for this monstrous plague of misinformation and fear mongering are held accountable. They won't be. Not in this life. The judgment bar of God awaits, though. They shall give account for what they have done. The statistics exploding of abused spouses and children, the advance of drug abuse and alcohol abuse. The explosion of depression, discouragement, despondency, loneliness, especially in children and young people. The deaths of people that died because hospitals were told to only address the "pandemic" and people waited too late to address other serious health concerns. The jobs lost, the businesses closed, the cities emptied and made an easy target for rioters and looters. The list is almost endless. The hysteria still abides.
Those, from China, to America that have caused this event and its ongoing aftermath, will face justice someday. Of that, we can be assured.
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103. "Death to America!" - August 31, 2020
"Death to America!" Must be some crowd, some rally in Iran, right? Wrong.
Oakland, CA. https://twitter.com/ChompSkis/status/1300032201199890433
Hundreds of young people, marching through some section of the city, a leader shouting, the moving mob repeating - Death to America.
As this builds, one has to wonder what can come in and stop it. Frankly, nothing human.
All of a sudden, voices in news media and D.C. are trying to speak out against the mobs and the riots, as they see supporting it all, lying about it all being "mostly peaceful protests," is backfiring, big time. These cities are ruined now, at their hands. These states, remaining shut down, are ruined at their hands. Democrats are leaving them in droves, both the cities and the politicians who supported their ruination. Way too little, way too late. They also risk losing their radical base if they speak out too forcefully. Ahh, the game of being a politician with no integrity, trying to maintain power. Say whatever you have to, say it in ways polling and surveys say you should, to have public appeal, and say it when the handlers tell you to. A total charade.
I was thinking yesterday that the Hendrickson - Frigon Project, when released, will probably be praised by some, hated by others, naturally but, even more, probably cause some to call us racists, guilty of hate speech and all the rest of the rhetoric used by the mob and its leaders and supporters. Not that I care, really. This is music that will only unite and inspire people who love America. It's just going to upset those who hate it. Seriously; who thought such a day could come in this nation? The factions have been there a long time, the radical voices, the haters of capitalism and free markets, haters of God and people of faith, haters of free speech that drives them crazy when they hypocritically want to be able to say whatever they want, in whatever way they want to. They have always been there but, this we are seeing and hearing now? Death to America? Man, talk about radicalism.
Here's what I see coming. Not just civil disturbances, or civil war, in select places. I do not see a civil war such as was fought in 1861. Nor a Revolutionary War such as was fought in the 1700's. I have already mentioned my thoughts on new border lines being drawn throughout America: a Balkanization of the nation. The Eastern United States of America, The Central USA, a North and South Texas, a North and South California and such. Tensions will rise far worse than 1861. The South just wanted to be free from Northern culture and tried to break away, establishing a second nation to protect States Rights, and of course, slave ownership. The defeat of the South in the war ended that rebellion but, the nation was not the same as it is today. It got past its revolution, winning freedom from the English. In its early teenage years, the civil war came. It barely got past that. Now, America is a young adult. It has almost two and a half centuries of history, some very good, some very bad. It's entire education system is anti-American and the nation's youth have been indoctrinated by haters of traditional values, and principles of Americanism, for at least a generation. Ideas of personal responsibility, accountability, hard work, and liberty from small government and its probable intrusions upon free citizens is long gone for the current generation. Big government, amorality, even hatred of white people, or guilt trips placed upon white children is being taught and promoted and forced fed to young, developing minds, as teachers warn children not to let their parents look over their shoulders when they do their school work online. My jaw drops when I read these news stories coming out. Is it any wonder home schooling is exploding again?
So, "Death to America!" is not going to be healed by any president. Not, Trump, if reelected, and certainly not the radical Liberalism of Biden and Harris. Obama was rated the most Liberal senator when he ran for POTUS. Biden was the second most Liberal in the Senate. Today, Harris is the most Liberal rated senator, with Biden right behind her and there is absolutely no way half of Americans are going to put up with whatever they blanket the nation with if elected two months from now, especially if the Democrats hold the House and gain the Senate. Americanism is done if that happens, and while millions held their temper at the continual "fundamental change" Obama fostered, that will not be the case this time around.
I saw a headline stating Hollywood director, Spike Lee, asks if civil war is coming. It's already here. It began as a war of words and terms and ideas. Now it is a war of riots and small skirmishes in and outside of major cities. It is obviously going to increase, dramatically, whoever is elected. Whoever wins, civil disobedience is going to grow, exponentially. Liberals will riot just because. Patriots will stand up and fight off the most certain government intrusion coming: land grabs, fees, fines, and obliterating taxes upon families and small businesses, as well as the wealthy who run big business, a total gutting of the first and second amendments, churches threatened ... basically - China is coming, and Americans, disgusted with what America has become thus far, will reject and fight the radical agenda shoved down their throats.
Seriously, firearms sales are through the roof. Obama caused record sales to continually take place. BLM and Antifa are doing the same. Who's buying all the firearms? These young rioters? No, no, no. Antifa is certainly purchasing their share, being the domestic terrorist organization they are but, no, the vast majority of firearms being purchased in America are those by Americans who believe in the Constitution, see its demise coming, and intend to defend themselves when mob rule comes their way.
People are tired of war, tired of America being the world's policemen; tired of DC corruption, alphabet agencies gaining so much power a citizen can be taken in the night by SWAT teams, US Marshalls, heavily armed, banging down doors, and taken who knows where to undergo who knows what. And I'm are not talking about drug runners, arms dealers, or terrorists. I'm talking about people who just hold different political concepts then radical Liberal Progressives holding authority in office. That is Communist China. That is totalitarianism. That is what is coming if Biden and Harris are elected. Death to America is coming. Amerika is coming, if they win. They think I am a disgusting human being for disagreeing with them, supporting things Trump believes in, that most Americans believe in. Can I live in the same nation as them? How? They will seek to shut down anything that goes against their agenda. I do not want to live in a totalitarian State. I do not want despots ruling the nation. Kamala Harris is that kind of politician. Biden is not fit to be a civil servant. He is obviously mentally challenged. Alzheimer's, whatever. Harris will end up as POTUS not long after the election. Her record in California is a frightening one. Most politicians cannot be trusted but, most are only harmful as far as they back and/ or vote for laws that mess things up, and politicians seem to live to mess things up for Americans. Harris ... no. She seems to live to be in control. She is that person. The - do anything you have to, to win and gain power - person. No thanks. Trump can easily put his foot in his mouth but, I do believe he loves America and the principles of America, and wants to bring troops home from endless wars, and get the federal government out of the face of American free markets. I don't trust him, completely. I just do not trust politicians, and Trump is now a politician, playing the games they play. Tariffs are risky business. Tariffs have hurt a lot of American businesses. Hurting China cannot be a lasting policy. Other things Trump has done have not been helpful. That said ...
Last time, I voted against Clinton. This time, I'll vote for Trump. He knows he cannot change what is coming. It is way beyond him or anybody now. The explosion of anger and venom has not even hit yet. On November 4th, it will begin.
God help us.
Oakland, CA. https://twitter.com/ChompSkis/status/1300032201199890433
Hundreds of young people, marching through some section of the city, a leader shouting, the moving mob repeating - Death to America.
As this builds, one has to wonder what can come in and stop it. Frankly, nothing human.
All of a sudden, voices in news media and D.C. are trying to speak out against the mobs and the riots, as they see supporting it all, lying about it all being "mostly peaceful protests," is backfiring, big time. These cities are ruined now, at their hands. These states, remaining shut down, are ruined at their hands. Democrats are leaving them in droves, both the cities and the politicians who supported their ruination. Way too little, way too late. They also risk losing their radical base if they speak out too forcefully. Ahh, the game of being a politician with no integrity, trying to maintain power. Say whatever you have to, say it in ways polling and surveys say you should, to have public appeal, and say it when the handlers tell you to. A total charade.
I was thinking yesterday that the Hendrickson - Frigon Project, when released, will probably be praised by some, hated by others, naturally but, even more, probably cause some to call us racists, guilty of hate speech and all the rest of the rhetoric used by the mob and its leaders and supporters. Not that I care, really. This is music that will only unite and inspire people who love America. It's just going to upset those who hate it. Seriously; who thought such a day could come in this nation? The factions have been there a long time, the radical voices, the haters of capitalism and free markets, haters of God and people of faith, haters of free speech that drives them crazy when they hypocritically want to be able to say whatever they want, in whatever way they want to. They have always been there but, this we are seeing and hearing now? Death to America? Man, talk about radicalism.
Here's what I see coming. Not just civil disturbances, or civil war, in select places. I do not see a civil war such as was fought in 1861. Nor a Revolutionary War such as was fought in the 1700's. I have already mentioned my thoughts on new border lines being drawn throughout America: a Balkanization of the nation. The Eastern United States of America, The Central USA, a North and South Texas, a North and South California and such. Tensions will rise far worse than 1861. The South just wanted to be free from Northern culture and tried to break away, establishing a second nation to protect States Rights, and of course, slave ownership. The defeat of the South in the war ended that rebellion but, the nation was not the same as it is today. It got past its revolution, winning freedom from the English. In its early teenage years, the civil war came. It barely got past that. Now, America is a young adult. It has almost two and a half centuries of history, some very good, some very bad. It's entire education system is anti-American and the nation's youth have been indoctrinated by haters of traditional values, and principles of Americanism, for at least a generation. Ideas of personal responsibility, accountability, hard work, and liberty from small government and its probable intrusions upon free citizens is long gone for the current generation. Big government, amorality, even hatred of white people, or guilt trips placed upon white children is being taught and promoted and forced fed to young, developing minds, as teachers warn children not to let their parents look over their shoulders when they do their school work online. My jaw drops when I read these news stories coming out. Is it any wonder home schooling is exploding again?
So, "Death to America!" is not going to be healed by any president. Not, Trump, if reelected, and certainly not the radical Liberalism of Biden and Harris. Obama was rated the most Liberal senator when he ran for POTUS. Biden was the second most Liberal in the Senate. Today, Harris is the most Liberal rated senator, with Biden right behind her and there is absolutely no way half of Americans are going to put up with whatever they blanket the nation with if elected two months from now, especially if the Democrats hold the House and gain the Senate. Americanism is done if that happens, and while millions held their temper at the continual "fundamental change" Obama fostered, that will not be the case this time around.
I saw a headline stating Hollywood director, Spike Lee, asks if civil war is coming. It's already here. It began as a war of words and terms and ideas. Now it is a war of riots and small skirmishes in and outside of major cities. It is obviously going to increase, dramatically, whoever is elected. Whoever wins, civil disobedience is going to grow, exponentially. Liberals will riot just because. Patriots will stand up and fight off the most certain government intrusion coming: land grabs, fees, fines, and obliterating taxes upon families and small businesses, as well as the wealthy who run big business, a total gutting of the first and second amendments, churches threatened ... basically - China is coming, and Americans, disgusted with what America has become thus far, will reject and fight the radical agenda shoved down their throats.
Seriously, firearms sales are through the roof. Obama caused record sales to continually take place. BLM and Antifa are doing the same. Who's buying all the firearms? These young rioters? No, no, no. Antifa is certainly purchasing their share, being the domestic terrorist organization they are but, no, the vast majority of firearms being purchased in America are those by Americans who believe in the Constitution, see its demise coming, and intend to defend themselves when mob rule comes their way.
People are tired of war, tired of America being the world's policemen; tired of DC corruption, alphabet agencies gaining so much power a citizen can be taken in the night by SWAT teams, US Marshalls, heavily armed, banging down doors, and taken who knows where to undergo who knows what. And I'm are not talking about drug runners, arms dealers, or terrorists. I'm talking about people who just hold different political concepts then radical Liberal Progressives holding authority in office. That is Communist China. That is totalitarianism. That is what is coming if Biden and Harris are elected. Death to America is coming. Amerika is coming, if they win. They think I am a disgusting human being for disagreeing with them, supporting things Trump believes in, that most Americans believe in. Can I live in the same nation as them? How? They will seek to shut down anything that goes against their agenda. I do not want to live in a totalitarian State. I do not want despots ruling the nation. Kamala Harris is that kind of politician. Biden is not fit to be a civil servant. He is obviously mentally challenged. Alzheimer's, whatever. Harris will end up as POTUS not long after the election. Her record in California is a frightening one. Most politicians cannot be trusted but, most are only harmful as far as they back and/ or vote for laws that mess things up, and politicians seem to live to mess things up for Americans. Harris ... no. She seems to live to be in control. She is that person. The - do anything you have to, to win and gain power - person. No thanks. Trump can easily put his foot in his mouth but, I do believe he loves America and the principles of America, and wants to bring troops home from endless wars, and get the federal government out of the face of American free markets. I don't trust him, completely. I just do not trust politicians, and Trump is now a politician, playing the games they play. Tariffs are risky business. Tariffs have hurt a lot of American businesses. Hurting China cannot be a lasting policy. Other things Trump has done have not been helpful. That said ...
Last time, I voted against Clinton. This time, I'll vote for Trump. He knows he cannot change what is coming. It is way beyond him or anybody now. The explosion of anger and venom has not even hit yet. On November 4th, it will begin.
God help us.
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104. Want a Revolution? - September 2, 2020
"You say you want a revolution. Well, you know; we all want to change the world.
You tell tell me that it's evolution. Well, you know; we all want to change the world.
But when you talk about destruction. Don't you know that you can count me out?
You say you got a real solution. Well, you know; we'd all love to see the plan.
You ask me for a contribution. Well, you know; we're all doing what we can.
But if you want money for people with minds that hate; All I can tell you is, brother, you have to wait.
You say you'll change the constitution. Well, you know; we all want to change your head.
You tell me it's the institution. Well, you know; you better free your mind instead.
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow.
Well, you know it's gonna be alright."
I guess things have changed quite a bit since John Lennon sang "Revolution" back in the 60's. Indeed, there were talk and speeches about insurrection back then, too. The Vietnam "war" and all. Today, though, things are a might more in-your-face. I have little hope things are going to be 'alright' when people hear bold, public speeches like the following on the streets of Washington, D.C.
After leading a refrain of "Power to the people" thrice, a "pleasant" young man from Utah, John Sullivan said, and I quote directly from the video of him speaking, "Damn right. We are f----n,' we gotta f----n' rip Trump outta that office right over there; f----n' pull him out that s--t. Naw, naw, we ain't about f-----n' waitin' for the next election to go get that motherf----r. I ain't about that s--t; 'cause you know what time it is? I want you all to repeat after me. It's time - for revolution! It's time - for revolution! It's time - for revolution! Thank you guys. I appreciate you all. Be safe. Be blessed."
https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1299448086956322817
He handed the mic back to someone and got down from whatever platform he spoke from.
This is just one example of more and more direct, open, public statements and calls for insurrection from BLM spokespersons and their supporters. It is criminal activity. Aside from common citizens and alt news, nobody in a position of responsibility is speaking out against this for exactly what it is.
Now, the spin is that these are just angry young people venting some frustration. Obviously no march to remove the president took place so, such spin is seen as a correct assessment of such speech. By their own definition, hate speech. Of course, one person's hate speech is another person's perfectly appropriate rallying cry.
I don't know who or what Mr. Sullivan believes is going to keep insurrectionist revolutionaries safe, or who he wants to bless them. I can guess. Political names in the news every day. They have already given a pass to the rioting on those grounds. I hope Mr. Sullivan is not referring to God; the God of the Bible. Such ignorance and blindness would be akin to cries of the KKK thinking they were serving the interests of Christ. BTW, Mr. Sullivan is black.
So, here we are. As the next two months unfold, America will hear more and more talk of revolution, insurrection, and violence towards Trump, any supporters of his, and the nation in general. Time to take it down! Bring down the system. Bring down all institutions of government. Time to destroy, motherf------s!
The same kind of speeches might have been heard in the late 1850's, though, far more genteel, laced with appropriate language of Southern charm for mixed crowds. The South just went ahead and formulated the Confederate States of America. It remains to be seen what these revolutionaries will try and do today, as they lace their speech with every raunchy term known to man. Whatever they try and do, I know God is not going to bless them. He may stand aside and allow America to reap what she has sown but, God is not going to bless the Black Lives Matter organization or its supporters in taking down America. How do I know that?
Christ did not support or sanction violent insurrection, and given His popularity among the people, He certainly could have. Turning over tables of the money changers and apostate, corrupt religious leaders polluting His Father's house, the temple, is so far from what today's revolutionaries want it would be funny if it were not so dangerous. Christ said nothing about Roman control over Jerusalem. It came upon the Jewish nation because of their backsliding and apostasy. It was God's judgment upon them. They reaped what they sowed.
God is not an American. He is not a Republican or a Democrat, and is most definitely not a member of BLM. To the contrary. To God, all lives matter, including innocent small business owners trying to make a living, including members of the black community whose businesses and even lives have been lost at the hands of these "blessed" reactionaries.
I also believe America has a place in Bible prophecy, specifically Revelation 13:11-17. God has a vested interest in the survival of America, until the day it back's rebellion by law. That's for another time, though.
So, who does Mr. Sullivan want to bless BLM? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? George Soros, sending money here to support Antifa and BLM? Maybe young Sullivan is just telling his cohorts to just bless each other in their cause to take down America.
You can tell yourself this is not something you need to concern yourself with. You may tell yourself it isn't something you will see in your neighborhood. You are wrong. Cancer spreads.
I find it interesting Trump went to Washington promising to "drain the swamp." BLM vociferously wants Trump out and the swamp dwellers to be in control; the very ones supporting Planned Parenthood; an organization formed to lessen and control the black population in America, known by the statements of its own racist founder; Margaret Sanger. They support the party of the KKK, the Democrat Party. The support the very swamp killing their cities, towns and neighborhoods with fair spoken platitudes and promises over 60 years of totally failed programs keeping the black community on its plantation. Daily polling seems to show more and more black citizens on the Democrat plantation are waking up. It is now estimated Trump will receive 20% of the African American vote; the largest number any Republican has ever received. So, Mr. Sullivan and company are losing ground, not gaining it.
If any of this call for revolution, and rioting, looting, burning, and destroying makes sense to you, please explain to me how? How can any of this make sense? The only entity with any power that is blessing the BLM organization is the same one community organizer, Saul Alinsky, dedicated "Rules for Radicals" to: the first rebel - Lucifer.
I was never a big fan of Lennon. His lyrics made sense back then and still do, though. Would that enough common sense would settle onto the minds and hearts of these anarchists to cause them to stop and think about what they are doing, and who they are doing it for, before it's too late.
You tell tell me that it's evolution. Well, you know; we all want to change the world.
But when you talk about destruction. Don't you know that you can count me out?
You say you got a real solution. Well, you know; we'd all love to see the plan.
You ask me for a contribution. Well, you know; we're all doing what we can.
But if you want money for people with minds that hate; All I can tell you is, brother, you have to wait.
You say you'll change the constitution. Well, you know; we all want to change your head.
You tell me it's the institution. Well, you know; you better free your mind instead.
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow.
Well, you know it's gonna be alright."
I guess things have changed quite a bit since John Lennon sang "Revolution" back in the 60's. Indeed, there were talk and speeches about insurrection back then, too. The Vietnam "war" and all. Today, though, things are a might more in-your-face. I have little hope things are going to be 'alright' when people hear bold, public speeches like the following on the streets of Washington, D.C.
After leading a refrain of "Power to the people" thrice, a "pleasant" young man from Utah, John Sullivan said, and I quote directly from the video of him speaking, "Damn right. We are f----n,' we gotta f----n' rip Trump outta that office right over there; f----n' pull him out that s--t. Naw, naw, we ain't about f-----n' waitin' for the next election to go get that motherf----r. I ain't about that s--t; 'cause you know what time it is? I want you all to repeat after me. It's time - for revolution! It's time - for revolution! It's time - for revolution! Thank you guys. I appreciate you all. Be safe. Be blessed."
https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1299448086956322817
He handed the mic back to someone and got down from whatever platform he spoke from.
This is just one example of more and more direct, open, public statements and calls for insurrection from BLM spokespersons and their supporters. It is criminal activity. Aside from common citizens and alt news, nobody in a position of responsibility is speaking out against this for exactly what it is.
Now, the spin is that these are just angry young people venting some frustration. Obviously no march to remove the president took place so, such spin is seen as a correct assessment of such speech. By their own definition, hate speech. Of course, one person's hate speech is another person's perfectly appropriate rallying cry.
I don't know who or what Mr. Sullivan believes is going to keep insurrectionist revolutionaries safe, or who he wants to bless them. I can guess. Political names in the news every day. They have already given a pass to the rioting on those grounds. I hope Mr. Sullivan is not referring to God; the God of the Bible. Such ignorance and blindness would be akin to cries of the KKK thinking they were serving the interests of Christ. BTW, Mr. Sullivan is black.
So, here we are. As the next two months unfold, America will hear more and more talk of revolution, insurrection, and violence towards Trump, any supporters of his, and the nation in general. Time to take it down! Bring down the system. Bring down all institutions of government. Time to destroy, motherf------s!
The same kind of speeches might have been heard in the late 1850's, though, far more genteel, laced with appropriate language of Southern charm for mixed crowds. The South just went ahead and formulated the Confederate States of America. It remains to be seen what these revolutionaries will try and do today, as they lace their speech with every raunchy term known to man. Whatever they try and do, I know God is not going to bless them. He may stand aside and allow America to reap what she has sown but, God is not going to bless the Black Lives Matter organization or its supporters in taking down America. How do I know that?
Christ did not support or sanction violent insurrection, and given His popularity among the people, He certainly could have. Turning over tables of the money changers and apostate, corrupt religious leaders polluting His Father's house, the temple, is so far from what today's revolutionaries want it would be funny if it were not so dangerous. Christ said nothing about Roman control over Jerusalem. It came upon the Jewish nation because of their backsliding and apostasy. It was God's judgment upon them. They reaped what they sowed.
God is not an American. He is not a Republican or a Democrat, and is most definitely not a member of BLM. To the contrary. To God, all lives matter, including innocent small business owners trying to make a living, including members of the black community whose businesses and even lives have been lost at the hands of these "blessed" reactionaries.
I also believe America has a place in Bible prophecy, specifically Revelation 13:11-17. God has a vested interest in the survival of America, until the day it back's rebellion by law. That's for another time, though.
So, who does Mr. Sullivan want to bless BLM? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? George Soros, sending money here to support Antifa and BLM? Maybe young Sullivan is just telling his cohorts to just bless each other in their cause to take down America.
You can tell yourself this is not something you need to concern yourself with. You may tell yourself it isn't something you will see in your neighborhood. You are wrong. Cancer spreads.
I find it interesting Trump went to Washington promising to "drain the swamp." BLM vociferously wants Trump out and the swamp dwellers to be in control; the very ones supporting Planned Parenthood; an organization formed to lessen and control the black population in America, known by the statements of its own racist founder; Margaret Sanger. They support the party of the KKK, the Democrat Party. The support the very swamp killing their cities, towns and neighborhoods with fair spoken platitudes and promises over 60 years of totally failed programs keeping the black community on its plantation. Daily polling seems to show more and more black citizens on the Democrat plantation are waking up. It is now estimated Trump will receive 20% of the African American vote; the largest number any Republican has ever received. So, Mr. Sullivan and company are losing ground, not gaining it.
If any of this call for revolution, and rioting, looting, burning, and destroying makes sense to you, please explain to me how? How can any of this make sense? The only entity with any power that is blessing the BLM organization is the same one community organizer, Saul Alinsky, dedicated "Rules for Radicals" to: the first rebel - Lucifer.
I was never a big fan of Lennon. His lyrics made sense back then and still do, though. Would that enough common sense would settle onto the minds and hearts of these anarchists to cause them to stop and think about what they are doing, and who they are doing it for, before it's too late.
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105. Buddy Rich - September 3, 2020
I have mentioned, on the Influences page, as well as in these blogs, five players that had the greatest impact on me as a student and performer on the drum set. Buddy Rich, Ginger Baker, Carl Palmer, Billy Cobham and Tony Williams are those five individuals. Their influence upon both how the instrument is played, and how others have been inspired to play it, as well as on the instrument, itself, would number in the millions of people.
I'd like to write more fully on each individual, both personally and what I have seen beyond my own life, as others explain their experiences. Books have been written, documentaries made, and it is unlikely I can add anything more to the volume of material produced about these giants but, I always find it cool to read what players think of their heroes and icons.
My parents liked Big Band music: things in the more mellow, Glenn Miller sound. Whether big bands, or singers backed by big bands or orchestras, I heard a lot of that in my home when very young. I don't recall my parents owning any Buddy Rich albums. His music was on the real fiery side of things: the stuff you watch and listen to. My parents liked to dance. The Lawrence Welk Orchestra was more on their side of the musical tracks.
I never saw Buddy live. I only saw him on television. Talk show appearances, mostly, or specials on Public Broadcasting, or appearances with his band on a variety program.
I should back up a bit. I have mentioned the Ed Sullivan Show and seeing The Beatles in 1964. I was 9, and that appearance was the catalyst for a chemical explosion shattering the peace and tranquility of the Frigon household, with a set of department store drums I got from my folks when I was 10. You might think Ringo was a major influence but, no. Not really. Once the drum-thing hit me, I never saw The Beatles to back it up or build on it. I had Beatles' albums, of course. I also had a lot of the music hitting all at once back then. Singles were the thing back then. 45's. Everybody had stacks of them, regardless of your age. Mass produced record players for kids were pretty inexpensive and most kids had them. A small box with a handle and a speaker built into it. You could not call it great fidelity but, you definitely called it fun. Everybody had radios, too. You just needed a wall socket but, battery operated ones came along quickly, as well. Albums were inexpensive. I had a lot of them by my early 20's. So, I heard dozens and dozens of drummers all the time; Ringo just one beat among many. Nothing dramatically stood out for me in his playing.
Buddy was not my first major influence, really. He was the major influence but, not the first. Because of the way it all happened, I never got into Jazz but, players that influenced me did. So, I'll mention Buddy first.
Buddy was a gargantuan talent. I had no idea he could also be a giant PITA, as well, until later in life. All I knew was this small guy sitting behind white marine pearl drums and playing, so effortlessly, the most amazing things. It was spellbinding, mesmerizing, eye squinting and jaw dropping. Today, you can find so many videos of players, totally unknowns, playing the same things of technique that Buddy displayed. No, not many players can match his speed but, plenty have and do. Players on YT will teach you how to do Buddy's single stoke roll, and everything else he did; in some cases stroke for stroke on solos and songs.
It wasn't just Buddy's speed though, which was on major display in his solos. His solos were a selected few minutes on a television show or from recorded performances. There was so much more than Buddy's speed and even his hand and foot technique. It was the absolute, natural command and control Buddy had of his anatomy and the drum set. Phenomenal coordination. Absolute.
There are so many drumists out there that have command of a drum set and make it all look easy. None had the kind of Ninja skills Buddy pulled off. His precision, his left hand's other worldly, constant engagement; like he had a second brain just for his left hand, and his musical sense of timing when to hold back and when to explode: it all seemed choreographed, planned, written out but, no. Buddy was just such a natural genius at the instrument it never ceased to amaze, literally amaze people, regardless of Jazz, regardless of instrument played or no instrument. Buddy dropped everybody's jaw when he let loose. He was a force of nature.
Plenty of drummers play with great technique. You can teach technique. You can study it. You can practice technique. What you cannot do is give someone passion, intensity, drive to excel, and inner confidence that will set you apart from others. You cannot teach, demonstrate, or practice that. It is either inside you or not. A spark to experience it may come from outside you but, nobody can give it to you. It has to be in you, germinating, ready to blossom and grow. Buddy had enough to equal a dozen players.
In the 60's and 70's, when Rock came along, and Funk and Fusion, Buddy and the band played a lot of charts from various artists in those genres. In the beginning, after just playing ting, tinga, ting for so many years, you could hear Buddy seemed a little out of his element. As the years went by, his ability to play anything, anything with total authority, was cemented into history.
He obviously loved what he did. He and his band were constantly on the road. He was a package deal of talent that could be equaled but, that cool, absolute command and confidence in a jacket and tie seemed the difference between a firecracker and an atomic bomb: the difference between a bottle rocket and a Saturn V. His technique has been equaled. It has never been surpassed. Buddy was the height of technique. He never really set out to have it, either. He just played.
Humans can only move their limbs just so fast, within the capabilities of flesh and bone. We have all seen players play as fast as Buddy and even a little faster. I've seen examples of speed on YT, by virtual unknowns, that equal and even surpass Buddy. In his prime? No. Nobody could touch him back then. For me, the whole visual/audible sensation of his ability was light years ahead of anybody else back then. And everybody knew it. He forced me to look at drumming beyond Rock, even though I was not into Big Band or straight Jazz. He inspired me to try things, regardless of epic fails, until I could pull off things I wanted to, in my own drumming world. He inspired my sense of time, my musicality and approach to the instrument. Soloing, for sure. He taught me to be myself and not mimic other drummers, as I did when very young. He made such an impression upon my young mind the music, itself, meant very little. I didn't like screeching saxophones or blaring trumpets back then, and still don't, really but, watching or listening to Buddy play on albums that were totally over my head, was a constant journey into drum fantasy. It wasn't until I was 18 and my early 20's that realism dug in and doing things so long seen as unattainable began to emerge. Buddy was that original spark for me.
Just the same, Buddy remains an engine of propulsion I have never seen equaled, and when I say "seen," it is about more than the eyes and ears. It's much deeper than that. It's hard to explain but, fairly easy to sense and experience, if or when you are plugged in. Being plugged in; that's a whole other subject. Buddy had a presence, an essence that could move a group of musicians to very great heights and synthesize an audience into some kind of chemical substance that generated tremendous appreciation for his band.
I don't have any personal stories of Buddy. I only have a lifetime of his influence, and it never ceases.
I'd like to write more fully on each individual, both personally and what I have seen beyond my own life, as others explain their experiences. Books have been written, documentaries made, and it is unlikely I can add anything more to the volume of material produced about these giants but, I always find it cool to read what players think of their heroes and icons.
My parents liked Big Band music: things in the more mellow, Glenn Miller sound. Whether big bands, or singers backed by big bands or orchestras, I heard a lot of that in my home when very young. I don't recall my parents owning any Buddy Rich albums. His music was on the real fiery side of things: the stuff you watch and listen to. My parents liked to dance. The Lawrence Welk Orchestra was more on their side of the musical tracks.
I never saw Buddy live. I only saw him on television. Talk show appearances, mostly, or specials on Public Broadcasting, or appearances with his band on a variety program.
I should back up a bit. I have mentioned the Ed Sullivan Show and seeing The Beatles in 1964. I was 9, and that appearance was the catalyst for a chemical explosion shattering the peace and tranquility of the Frigon household, with a set of department store drums I got from my folks when I was 10. You might think Ringo was a major influence but, no. Not really. Once the drum-thing hit me, I never saw The Beatles to back it up or build on it. I had Beatles' albums, of course. I also had a lot of the music hitting all at once back then. Singles were the thing back then. 45's. Everybody had stacks of them, regardless of your age. Mass produced record players for kids were pretty inexpensive and most kids had them. A small box with a handle and a speaker built into it. You could not call it great fidelity but, you definitely called it fun. Everybody had radios, too. You just needed a wall socket but, battery operated ones came along quickly, as well. Albums were inexpensive. I had a lot of them by my early 20's. So, I heard dozens and dozens of drummers all the time; Ringo just one beat among many. Nothing dramatically stood out for me in his playing.
Buddy was not my first major influence, really. He was the major influence but, not the first. Because of the way it all happened, I never got into Jazz but, players that influenced me did. So, I'll mention Buddy first.
Buddy was a gargantuan talent. I had no idea he could also be a giant PITA, as well, until later in life. All I knew was this small guy sitting behind white marine pearl drums and playing, so effortlessly, the most amazing things. It was spellbinding, mesmerizing, eye squinting and jaw dropping. Today, you can find so many videos of players, totally unknowns, playing the same things of technique that Buddy displayed. No, not many players can match his speed but, plenty have and do. Players on YT will teach you how to do Buddy's single stoke roll, and everything else he did; in some cases stroke for stroke on solos and songs.
It wasn't just Buddy's speed though, which was on major display in his solos. His solos were a selected few minutes on a television show or from recorded performances. There was so much more than Buddy's speed and even his hand and foot technique. It was the absolute, natural command and control Buddy had of his anatomy and the drum set. Phenomenal coordination. Absolute.
There are so many drumists out there that have command of a drum set and make it all look easy. None had the kind of Ninja skills Buddy pulled off. His precision, his left hand's other worldly, constant engagement; like he had a second brain just for his left hand, and his musical sense of timing when to hold back and when to explode: it all seemed choreographed, planned, written out but, no. Buddy was just such a natural genius at the instrument it never ceased to amaze, literally amaze people, regardless of Jazz, regardless of instrument played or no instrument. Buddy dropped everybody's jaw when he let loose. He was a force of nature.
Plenty of drummers play with great technique. You can teach technique. You can study it. You can practice technique. What you cannot do is give someone passion, intensity, drive to excel, and inner confidence that will set you apart from others. You cannot teach, demonstrate, or practice that. It is either inside you or not. A spark to experience it may come from outside you but, nobody can give it to you. It has to be in you, germinating, ready to blossom and grow. Buddy had enough to equal a dozen players.
In the 60's and 70's, when Rock came along, and Funk and Fusion, Buddy and the band played a lot of charts from various artists in those genres. In the beginning, after just playing ting, tinga, ting for so many years, you could hear Buddy seemed a little out of his element. As the years went by, his ability to play anything, anything with total authority, was cemented into history.
He obviously loved what he did. He and his band were constantly on the road. He was a package deal of talent that could be equaled but, that cool, absolute command and confidence in a jacket and tie seemed the difference between a firecracker and an atomic bomb: the difference between a bottle rocket and a Saturn V. His technique has been equaled. It has never been surpassed. Buddy was the height of technique. He never really set out to have it, either. He just played.
Humans can only move their limbs just so fast, within the capabilities of flesh and bone. We have all seen players play as fast as Buddy and even a little faster. I've seen examples of speed on YT, by virtual unknowns, that equal and even surpass Buddy. In his prime? No. Nobody could touch him back then. For me, the whole visual/audible sensation of his ability was light years ahead of anybody else back then. And everybody knew it. He forced me to look at drumming beyond Rock, even though I was not into Big Band or straight Jazz. He inspired me to try things, regardless of epic fails, until I could pull off things I wanted to, in my own drumming world. He inspired my sense of time, my musicality and approach to the instrument. Soloing, for sure. He taught me to be myself and not mimic other drummers, as I did when very young. He made such an impression upon my young mind the music, itself, meant very little. I didn't like screeching saxophones or blaring trumpets back then, and still don't, really but, watching or listening to Buddy play on albums that were totally over my head, was a constant journey into drum fantasy. It wasn't until I was 18 and my early 20's that realism dug in and doing things so long seen as unattainable began to emerge. Buddy was that original spark for me.
Just the same, Buddy remains an engine of propulsion I have never seen equaled, and when I say "seen," it is about more than the eyes and ears. It's much deeper than that. It's hard to explain but, fairly easy to sense and experience, if or when you are plugged in. Being plugged in; that's a whole other subject. Buddy had a presence, an essence that could move a group of musicians to very great heights and synthesize an audience into some kind of chemical substance that generated tremendous appreciation for his band.
I don't have any personal stories of Buddy. I only have a lifetime of his influence, and it never ceases.
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106. The Biggest Dog and Pony Show in History - September 4, 2020
So, we learned last week that the CDC stated only 6% of all recorded C-19 deaths were solely from the virus and complications it raised in patients who died from it. Do you understand what that means? It means, again, that of the 161k deaths the CDC had tabulated by last week, only 9k could be attributed solely from C-19. The other 94% all had other issues, pre-existing conditions, etc, that caused problems and took their lives. Weakened immune systems led to compounded problems.
Now we find that, at least in three states tested, only 10% of all positively tested people, ran the risk of contaminating others. 90% of people tested were no threat to anyone!!! Not enough of the virus existed in them to harm them, let alone anyone else. The cabal shut down the nation, the world, based on bad predictions, based on bad models, based on bad science or no science at all, based on the fear Mongering of the WHO, the CDC, Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Deborah Birx and all the rest of these manipulators who performed at the head of the biggest dog and pony show fraud ever hoisted on the human race!
So many said this would ultimately come out, and they said it months ago. But no. We were all idiots, conspiracy theorists, mean, unfeeling, cold-hearted people. No. We weren't. We just know a problem when we see one. We just use common sense, and some logical reasoning, along with knowledge of what the globalist cabal wants, and could see this thing was absolutely NOT what we were being told.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=232&v=2GmQVm-kLoM&feature=emb_logo
This makes me so sick I could vomit. Liars! Manipulators! Conniving perpetrators of wickedness.
This beauty shop owner out in San Francisco. Nancy Pelosi, Democrat speaker of the House, went to this salon she has gone to over the years, no mask, mind you, and all shops are supposed to be shut down, and when she was exposed for her hypocrisy, blames the shop owner! The poor woman has received every type of threat and ugliness imaginable. The mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, the same thing. She can go out and get her hair done but, nobody else can. Other Democrat politicians caught in their own flagrant hypocritical disregard of their own mandates.
Now this entire, mail-in ballots being the only way to have the election in November: one of the biggest problems, if not the biggest problem to exist in elections are mail-in balloting issues.
MILLIONS of people see exactly what is being done and why. It saddens us that so many are living in fear, losing their businesses, experiencing problems much larger than the "crisis pandemic" we have been pummeled with. Something even bigger than all that looms ahead: the possibility America, as a Constitutional Republic, will cease to exist, if radical Democrats gain victories to control the WH, the House of Representatives, and the Senate in November.
It is, easily, the biggest threat to our system of elemental democracy we have ever faced.
This is THE battle of our lifetimes to preserve freedom, liberty, property ownership, life, and the rule of law.
Now we find that, at least in three states tested, only 10% of all positively tested people, ran the risk of contaminating others. 90% of people tested were no threat to anyone!!! Not enough of the virus existed in them to harm them, let alone anyone else. The cabal shut down the nation, the world, based on bad predictions, based on bad models, based on bad science or no science at all, based on the fear Mongering of the WHO, the CDC, Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Deborah Birx and all the rest of these manipulators who performed at the head of the biggest dog and pony show fraud ever hoisted on the human race!
So many said this would ultimately come out, and they said it months ago. But no. We were all idiots, conspiracy theorists, mean, unfeeling, cold-hearted people. No. We weren't. We just know a problem when we see one. We just use common sense, and some logical reasoning, along with knowledge of what the globalist cabal wants, and could see this thing was absolutely NOT what we were being told.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=232&v=2GmQVm-kLoM&feature=emb_logo
This makes me so sick I could vomit. Liars! Manipulators! Conniving perpetrators of wickedness.
This beauty shop owner out in San Francisco. Nancy Pelosi, Democrat speaker of the House, went to this salon she has gone to over the years, no mask, mind you, and all shops are supposed to be shut down, and when she was exposed for her hypocrisy, blames the shop owner! The poor woman has received every type of threat and ugliness imaginable. The mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, the same thing. She can go out and get her hair done but, nobody else can. Other Democrat politicians caught in their own flagrant hypocritical disregard of their own mandates.
Now this entire, mail-in ballots being the only way to have the election in November: one of the biggest problems, if not the biggest problem to exist in elections are mail-in balloting issues.
MILLIONS of people see exactly what is being done and why. It saddens us that so many are living in fear, losing their businesses, experiencing problems much larger than the "crisis pandemic" we have been pummeled with. Something even bigger than all that looms ahead: the possibility America, as a Constitutional Republic, will cease to exist, if radical Democrats gain victories to control the WH, the House of Representatives, and the Senate in November.
It is, easily, the biggest threat to our system of elemental democracy we have ever faced.
This is THE battle of our lifetimes to preserve freedom, liberty, property ownership, life, and the rule of law.
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107. Pain - September 5, 2020
Pain. I'm at an age where every day brings some pain somewhere on my aging anatomy: my back, knees and wrists mostly. There are other pains, too, sometimes far worse. They take a greater toll on body and mind.
The entire world is in pain right now. There is never a second of any hour on the clock where pain is not being experienced by so many all over the globe. It has been exponentially increased by wicked people who created an event, and I say again, a man-made, manipulated event, to make an attempt to control the world's population centers for one nefarious reason or another.
Aside from the fear mongering by the main stream media and its minions, there are so many websites documenting truth, facts, data, and the history of this event we can know for a certainty the virus is nowhere near the death sentence the major voices of the event told us. People from just about every field of medicine, from all over the civilized world, have been speaking out against the way this event was handled. The pain caused by lock downs is exponentially worse than anything the virus threw at the human race. There is not a single category of physical, mental, or emotional well-being not grossly effected, by tens, hundreds, even thousands of percentage greater than before the virus lock downs.
It is hard to see the pain everywhere. I can't read the stories anymore. The saturation point, for me, has been reached. The people continuing to destroy lives and businesses and every form of human contact, even some medical "expert" claiming people should where masks while having sex, has reached such a flagrant, bold, and lunatic height I can only hope immense swaths of humanity rise up and assert their freedom and liberty from these vipers and wolves, jackals and vultures of tyranny. That is my hope. The reality? In some places people are rising up. In others, not so much.
I went into Walmart, no mask (never again), and others were maskless. You can only see the eyes of those wearing masks, and their eyes told stories as they looked at me: disbelief, fear, anger, confusion, disgust, or just a ho-hum, no big deal look.
There are some New Yorkers saying NYC is dead; killed by megalomaniacs masquerading as elected civil servants, with obvious agendas. I mean, c'mon. The governor of New York threatens the president with physical harm if he enters the state to campaign? Seriously? You cannot make this stuff up. These people are literally mentally off the wall. They are unhinged. For any honest person, with any kind of inquiring mind and reason and rationality; if you questioned Trump Derangement Syndrome before, the last six months have proved beyond a shadow of doubt it is a real mental illness.
Trump seems to be the type of person who can let such vitriol roll off his back. Just the same, it must be very difficult for his wife and young son to watch this, day in, day out, and get worse by the week. The thing about pain is that it always cascades; it flows and runs in all directions. The fall of painful dominoes never seems to end.
The virus is not even the extant of it all, with the mob in everyone's face, literally. The taunting of police, the killing of police. The taunting and ugliness of harassing people just sitting and minding their own business at an outdoor restaurant, and the harassment was already taking place by these domestic terrorists before the virus event, getting in people's faces inside restaurants, and leaving public Republican events. You watch all the videos and must ask the question; where are those tasked with the protection of Americans? What is going on?
I love everybody. I love everybody because God loves everybody and Christ died for everybody, so one day they can part of the great throng that marches into the kingdom when all pain will be over and all tears dried from all eyes. But, that does not mean I like everybody. That does not mean my faith allows for people to be devils without consequence; without accountability; responsible for their actions. This is a war now. This is civil war. What else can you call it? Americans are fighting Americans: politically, mentally, emotionally, and physically. Christians can call it a spiritual war between forces of good and evil and while I will not argue that (because all war involves that struggle involving entities beyond Earthly powers), as usual, there are plenty of professed "believers" on both sides, just like the first Civil War. There were professed Christians on both sides, North and South. The fight was not about believers versus nonbelievers. Of course it contained elements of religious belief about humanity and freedom. For many it was about nothing other than State's Rights. It was not the Roman Catholic Church against the Protestant churches, like during the Reformation, and European nations desiring freedom and liberty to believe what one's conscience dictated about spiritual truth, standing against aggressors denying that right. The American Civil War was about people wanting the freedom and liberty to own slaves, as property, and a government saying, No. Not anymore. Moving towards a more perfect union means slavery must end, and states do not have the right to stand against the principles that everybody signed up for, when understood more deeply.
This civil war involves skin color, again; as well as state's rights to dismantle police forces, and allow rioting, looting and wanton destruction, without federal interference. People are wrong to blame anything on Trump. His hands are tied. Without invitation the federal government cannot step in, unless it can be shown insurrection is taking place, and if we are not there, we will be by November. Far more pain is coming. God help us.
It's really quite amazing anybody wants to come here from other places around the globe. Even with all the conflict taking place here, millions still see America as better than the lands they live in. Looking at everything going on here, our pain is not the pain of those being killed for their religious beliefs, or political beliefs, as in other nations, every single day.
I just want the pain to stop. What price will have to be paid for that to happen?
I believe we are soon to find out.
The entire world is in pain right now. There is never a second of any hour on the clock where pain is not being experienced by so many all over the globe. It has been exponentially increased by wicked people who created an event, and I say again, a man-made, manipulated event, to make an attempt to control the world's population centers for one nefarious reason or another.
Aside from the fear mongering by the main stream media and its minions, there are so many websites documenting truth, facts, data, and the history of this event we can know for a certainty the virus is nowhere near the death sentence the major voices of the event told us. People from just about every field of medicine, from all over the civilized world, have been speaking out against the way this event was handled. The pain caused by lock downs is exponentially worse than anything the virus threw at the human race. There is not a single category of physical, mental, or emotional well-being not grossly effected, by tens, hundreds, even thousands of percentage greater than before the virus lock downs.
It is hard to see the pain everywhere. I can't read the stories anymore. The saturation point, for me, has been reached. The people continuing to destroy lives and businesses and every form of human contact, even some medical "expert" claiming people should where masks while having sex, has reached such a flagrant, bold, and lunatic height I can only hope immense swaths of humanity rise up and assert their freedom and liberty from these vipers and wolves, jackals and vultures of tyranny. That is my hope. The reality? In some places people are rising up. In others, not so much.
I went into Walmart, no mask (never again), and others were maskless. You can only see the eyes of those wearing masks, and their eyes told stories as they looked at me: disbelief, fear, anger, confusion, disgust, or just a ho-hum, no big deal look.
There are some New Yorkers saying NYC is dead; killed by megalomaniacs masquerading as elected civil servants, with obvious agendas. I mean, c'mon. The governor of New York threatens the president with physical harm if he enters the state to campaign? Seriously? You cannot make this stuff up. These people are literally mentally off the wall. They are unhinged. For any honest person, with any kind of inquiring mind and reason and rationality; if you questioned Trump Derangement Syndrome before, the last six months have proved beyond a shadow of doubt it is a real mental illness.
Trump seems to be the type of person who can let such vitriol roll off his back. Just the same, it must be very difficult for his wife and young son to watch this, day in, day out, and get worse by the week. The thing about pain is that it always cascades; it flows and runs in all directions. The fall of painful dominoes never seems to end.
The virus is not even the extant of it all, with the mob in everyone's face, literally. The taunting of police, the killing of police. The taunting and ugliness of harassing people just sitting and minding their own business at an outdoor restaurant, and the harassment was already taking place by these domestic terrorists before the virus event, getting in people's faces inside restaurants, and leaving public Republican events. You watch all the videos and must ask the question; where are those tasked with the protection of Americans? What is going on?
I love everybody. I love everybody because God loves everybody and Christ died for everybody, so one day they can part of the great throng that marches into the kingdom when all pain will be over and all tears dried from all eyes. But, that does not mean I like everybody. That does not mean my faith allows for people to be devils without consequence; without accountability; responsible for their actions. This is a war now. This is civil war. What else can you call it? Americans are fighting Americans: politically, mentally, emotionally, and physically. Christians can call it a spiritual war between forces of good and evil and while I will not argue that (because all war involves that struggle involving entities beyond Earthly powers), as usual, there are plenty of professed "believers" on both sides, just like the first Civil War. There were professed Christians on both sides, North and South. The fight was not about believers versus nonbelievers. Of course it contained elements of religious belief about humanity and freedom. For many it was about nothing other than State's Rights. It was not the Roman Catholic Church against the Protestant churches, like during the Reformation, and European nations desiring freedom and liberty to believe what one's conscience dictated about spiritual truth, standing against aggressors denying that right. The American Civil War was about people wanting the freedom and liberty to own slaves, as property, and a government saying, No. Not anymore. Moving towards a more perfect union means slavery must end, and states do not have the right to stand against the principles that everybody signed up for, when understood more deeply.
This civil war involves skin color, again; as well as state's rights to dismantle police forces, and allow rioting, looting and wanton destruction, without federal interference. People are wrong to blame anything on Trump. His hands are tied. Without invitation the federal government cannot step in, unless it can be shown insurrection is taking place, and if we are not there, we will be by November. Far more pain is coming. God help us.
It's really quite amazing anybody wants to come here from other places around the globe. Even with all the conflict taking place here, millions still see America as better than the lands they live in. Looking at everything going on here, our pain is not the pain of those being killed for their religious beliefs, or political beliefs, as in other nations, every single day.
I just want the pain to stop. What price will have to be paid for that to happen?
I believe we are soon to find out.
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108. Ginger Baker - September 6, 2020
It was 1967, 68. I was 12, 13. Big for my age. My music world was mostly The Monkees, The Young Rascals, The Mama and Papas, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Doors, The Who, The Turtles, and other bands from that timeline. Everything was psychedelic. It was truly an age of whirling color: in clothes, in art, in music.
John Lennon had made his "We're more popular than Jesus" remark, and like millions of other fans, even as a person now doubting the existence of God, The Beatles fell off my listening radar. That didn't stop them from posting #1 hits. I just lost my taste for them, for awhile.
Sometime in that year I lost all belief in God. I used to have long conversations with friends, asking them for proof, evidence of God's existence. Those conversations would go on for hours. I remember one, in particular, that went for nine hours and finally, the subject exhausted by our young minds anyway, we parted, me more convinced than ever God did not exist. Sgt. Pepper's brought The Beatles back into my life.
After basically destroying my department store drum set, my father and I went to someone's house, walked up into his attic where a 4 pc, Pink Champagne, Ludwig Jazz set sat. We drove home with it. I don't remember what he paid for it. The hi-hats were just beginner brass hats. A Zildjian 18" crash-ride came with it. They sparkled and they were real drums, and off I went.
Sometime during 1967, I was at a friend's house. I heard Cream for the first time. I was sitting on a bed in their bedroom. A song off "Fresh Cream" was playing. His older brother was playing the album. Something hit me inside. I started tapping away on a box fan. I had never heard the music before. It just hit me, much like seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan in '64. His brother made fun of me; told me never go back to their house until I learned how to play the drums. I never did go back. I did learn how to play the drums.
Hearing Ginger Baker for the first time was a seminal moment for me. Totally different than all other drummers from the era. His fills were so deliberate. You could hear it. You could feel it. They were such a part of the music it was just a mesh of sound in my mind. He obviously was not playing a 4 pc. set. The fills were lengthened and made more dramatic as he turned the corner from his mounted toms to his floor toms. I could hear four distinct pitches. This was mind blowing.
Cream were considered the first "Supergroup." Clapton, Bruce and Baker entranced listeners with a Blues Rock, Jazz tinged-mix that was a determined avalanche of sound. Toad, Baker's solo song, to this day, retains an influence upon me. I never heard such a structured solo before. At the time I had no idea Baker played double bass. For the time, a massive Silver Sparkle Ludwig set, with seven cymbals, was literally breathtaking to listen to. Based on what I heard, I thought he was doing some kind of action between his bass drum and floor tom. No drummer ever captured my ears like that. It wasn't as though Buddy Rich was taking a back seat but, I didn't like Big Band Jazz. I couldn't really get into Buddy outside of tv appearances. I had a few of his albums. They just stood in the line of an ever growing collection of 33 LP's, and rarely listened to, unless I just wanted to be dazzled and humbled into the floor. This; Cream I could listen to over and over and over. I just never heard such an earthquake of sound. And mind you, Fresh Cream was nothing compared to their live sound and performances. Listening to the live recordings was such an education: far more than listening to any other band. Baker, and Cream, gave me a knowledge of, appreciation and love for improvisation. Anything I have done thus far, back with Legend, or today with Tom Cranor, in our Miledge Muzic duo, emanates from those years and that experience of playing along to Cream albums, and ingesting the stuff Baker did, and the whole vibe the band put out.
When Tom and I were recording together, we'd get levels and all, I'd warm up a little and then, it would just begin, and two hours later we had no idea what we had but, we knew it was energy, it was constantly flowing like a silent stream or raging river. We'd listen back, as Tom made a rough mix I could take with me to listen to on my way home, and we'd hear things that just blew us away. For me, the influence of Ginger Baker and Cream upon my young life placed in me an imagination and desire to travel those streams and rivers. Yes, of course I believe all gifts and talents come from God, our Creator. That's my worldview but, in life, as individuals, we grow in many different gardens through life, and the garden I grew in, the mid and late 60's, bore fruit that has stayed fresh within me fifty years later. I love to jam, to create on the spot. That came from hours and hours of playing along to Cream.
Again, aside from new finds, like Jimi Hendrix, with Mitch Mitchell, and other drummers from other bands, all part of the "British Invasion," none held my attention like Ginger Baker.
He influenced everything about my approach to drumming. Here was a Jazz drummer, also playing in Blues bands, playing this gargantuan Rock sound, on a gargantuan drum set, in a gargantuan power trio, and seeing I was a type of person into "big," at 15 my little Jazz kit was joined with another 4pc, and double bass, with four toms and a few more cymbals became my world, literally.
I never saw them live. They played at the Oakdale Theater, in Wallingford, CT, in June of '68. For some reason I never heard about it, and missed it. They played the New Haven arena in October. My parents wouldn't let me go with some friends who went. I was sorely disappointed. I might even say, devastated. My parents were fairly strict Catholics and the whole psychedelic scene and Rock music in general was something they were not happy with. My contempt for religion only grew. When I proclaimed to my parents I did not believe in God I thought my father was going to have a heart attack, he was screaming at me so loud. I thought this former marine was about to launch an all out attack on me. I was scared. My mother held him back. I ran away from home. I went to a friend's house. His parent's talked with me a little, and called mine. I spoke to my father, who just said, "Ray, come home." He picked me up. Nothing was said. Nothing was ever said. It was just a very tense time in our house.
I started staying home from school. Stayed home and played drums all day. I quit school at 16. I played incessantly all day long until my parents came home from work. The basement my sanctuary. Posters of bands hanging all over the place. I determined to be able to play any and every note Baker laid down on each successive album. I saw pictures of the band in magazines, like "Hit Parader." Album jacket shots, of course, and other places. Seeing his double bass set-up for the first time was an epoch of personal history for me. I found myself so immersed in Baker I even began to contort my face like he did when I played. My girl friend came over one day, with a couple of her friends. They asked me to play, which I did. The next day my girl friend said, They asked me why you make that face when you play. Why do you make that face?"
I stopped making that face.
Baker utilized his drum set in such a musical, as well as tribal way. He was into the music and percussive influences of Africa. He would often keep time on just his drums, no striking his hats or ride cymbals; just using his foot on the hats for that, or not at all: just using his bass drums. He brought in use of orchestral percussion into some of their studio albums; something Jazz drummers would often do with their large set-ups and racks, made decades before Rock drummers began to use them. Baker was ever a Jazz player at heart. His big influence was the British Jazz drummer, Phil Seamen.
I have mentioned it often. Baker once stated: 'I know other drummers play faster than me. I know some can play with better technique but, no one plays like me.' That statement was not only true but, literally chiseled, branded on my mind. It's one of those comments you hear in a lifetime that rivets into your frontal lobes, for whatever reasons. For me, as a young player, it began to formulate a purpose to playing. I needed to be myself. Almost impossible to do when my age left me with an impressionable mind that could have just about anything photocopied onto it. But, the principle, itself; the idea of playing like myself: my skills, with my personality, with my love for the instrument, became ingrained in me. It took root. It took awhile to really bear fruit but, once it did, it made a huge difference in my playing.
Like Buddy, Ginger could be a real hard knock. He could be insanely rude. We all read about his feuds with Bruce. How he wrecked hotel rooms in wanton tornadoes of destruction while furiously practicing, stoned and/or drunk. For whatever reasons, I never got into drugs or liquor. Never smoked a joint. Never did anything, period. As much as Baker was an influence on my playing, his lifestyle was never an influence on my life. I always felt drugs were a total waste of money, just like cigarettes. We only have just so many brain cells. They do not replenish. Why kill them with drugs and booze? It never made sense to me. Despite the entire psychedelic era I grew up in, I never got caught up into its diversions. Despite my anger, my rebellion, my constant questioning of authority and all, I never went down the party path. I was a long-haired, drumming, wall flower. My parents could not understand me. Teachers did not understand me. Friends did not understand me. I did not fit. I never really have. I don't suppose I ever will. I fit behind a set of drums. I could dance behind a set of drums. I could really express myself, and live behind a set of drums, even though my set became so huge I was basically buried, hidden behind it. My sound became my communication and expression of life.
I have to say, in many ways, Baker was like that. His drumming had its own category. It didn't fit with everything else out there. He did not try to fit in. He did his thing, often playing on the "1," not 2 and 4. When Cream jammed, which is what Jack Bruce said they formed the band for; to jam out in live performances, Ginger had no qualms playing a ting, tinga, ting or other Jazz phrasings when it suited him. If nowhere else, it was always in his solos. He was a Jazzer at heart, and kept on playing Jazz until he couldn't play anymore. And when you hear any of his recordings, Rock, Blues, Jazz ... you know it's him. No one played like Ginger. You hear that slightly dragging flow, even though his time was superb. You feel his sense of time. You hear his fills. It's Ginger Baker. It just is.
Having your own "voice" was drilled into me in my teens. I don't know as I ever attained to it. Over the years a person or two has told me now and then they know it's me playing because of the sound of my drums, or stuff I do. I don't know what that is. If it's there, that's a good thing.
Ginger passed away in 2019, at 80 years of age. It's a marvel he lived so long, considering the damage he did to himself with drugs, booze, and heavy smoking. You had to live back then to realize the number of drummers he influenced. His presence at that time was like a mountain with foothills and valleys all around him. He knew others were better but, nobody played like him. He literally forced himself onto the art of drumming, like an elephant pushing over a tree. Straight Jazzers thought he was bombastic and out of his mind to challenge them to drum duels; like Elvin Jones and Art Blakey. They watched him play with looks on their faces like, "Is he kidding?" They ripped off things Baker could never do. Yet Baker would be inspired to trench himself into a quad spread of such intensity and power that had those guys realizing Baker was in his own territory. Indeed, they played faster, and with more technique but, nobody played like Ginger Baker.
He truly influenced how the instrument is played, and many young people today know little to nothing of his life and career and impress he placed upon the art.
He certainly carved things into me.
John Lennon had made his "We're more popular than Jesus" remark, and like millions of other fans, even as a person now doubting the existence of God, The Beatles fell off my listening radar. That didn't stop them from posting #1 hits. I just lost my taste for them, for awhile.
Sometime in that year I lost all belief in God. I used to have long conversations with friends, asking them for proof, evidence of God's existence. Those conversations would go on for hours. I remember one, in particular, that went for nine hours and finally, the subject exhausted by our young minds anyway, we parted, me more convinced than ever God did not exist. Sgt. Pepper's brought The Beatles back into my life.
After basically destroying my department store drum set, my father and I went to someone's house, walked up into his attic where a 4 pc, Pink Champagne, Ludwig Jazz set sat. We drove home with it. I don't remember what he paid for it. The hi-hats were just beginner brass hats. A Zildjian 18" crash-ride came with it. They sparkled and they were real drums, and off I went.
Sometime during 1967, I was at a friend's house. I heard Cream for the first time. I was sitting on a bed in their bedroom. A song off "Fresh Cream" was playing. His older brother was playing the album. Something hit me inside. I started tapping away on a box fan. I had never heard the music before. It just hit me, much like seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan in '64. His brother made fun of me; told me never go back to their house until I learned how to play the drums. I never did go back. I did learn how to play the drums.
Hearing Ginger Baker for the first time was a seminal moment for me. Totally different than all other drummers from the era. His fills were so deliberate. You could hear it. You could feel it. They were such a part of the music it was just a mesh of sound in my mind. He obviously was not playing a 4 pc. set. The fills were lengthened and made more dramatic as he turned the corner from his mounted toms to his floor toms. I could hear four distinct pitches. This was mind blowing.
Cream were considered the first "Supergroup." Clapton, Bruce and Baker entranced listeners with a Blues Rock, Jazz tinged-mix that was a determined avalanche of sound. Toad, Baker's solo song, to this day, retains an influence upon me. I never heard such a structured solo before. At the time I had no idea Baker played double bass. For the time, a massive Silver Sparkle Ludwig set, with seven cymbals, was literally breathtaking to listen to. Based on what I heard, I thought he was doing some kind of action between his bass drum and floor tom. No drummer ever captured my ears like that. It wasn't as though Buddy Rich was taking a back seat but, I didn't like Big Band Jazz. I couldn't really get into Buddy outside of tv appearances. I had a few of his albums. They just stood in the line of an ever growing collection of 33 LP's, and rarely listened to, unless I just wanted to be dazzled and humbled into the floor. This; Cream I could listen to over and over and over. I just never heard such an earthquake of sound. And mind you, Fresh Cream was nothing compared to their live sound and performances. Listening to the live recordings was such an education: far more than listening to any other band. Baker, and Cream, gave me a knowledge of, appreciation and love for improvisation. Anything I have done thus far, back with Legend, or today with Tom Cranor, in our Miledge Muzic duo, emanates from those years and that experience of playing along to Cream albums, and ingesting the stuff Baker did, and the whole vibe the band put out.
When Tom and I were recording together, we'd get levels and all, I'd warm up a little and then, it would just begin, and two hours later we had no idea what we had but, we knew it was energy, it was constantly flowing like a silent stream or raging river. We'd listen back, as Tom made a rough mix I could take with me to listen to on my way home, and we'd hear things that just blew us away. For me, the influence of Ginger Baker and Cream upon my young life placed in me an imagination and desire to travel those streams and rivers. Yes, of course I believe all gifts and talents come from God, our Creator. That's my worldview but, in life, as individuals, we grow in many different gardens through life, and the garden I grew in, the mid and late 60's, bore fruit that has stayed fresh within me fifty years later. I love to jam, to create on the spot. That came from hours and hours of playing along to Cream.
Again, aside from new finds, like Jimi Hendrix, with Mitch Mitchell, and other drummers from other bands, all part of the "British Invasion," none held my attention like Ginger Baker.
He influenced everything about my approach to drumming. Here was a Jazz drummer, also playing in Blues bands, playing this gargantuan Rock sound, on a gargantuan drum set, in a gargantuan power trio, and seeing I was a type of person into "big," at 15 my little Jazz kit was joined with another 4pc, and double bass, with four toms and a few more cymbals became my world, literally.
I never saw them live. They played at the Oakdale Theater, in Wallingford, CT, in June of '68. For some reason I never heard about it, and missed it. They played the New Haven arena in October. My parents wouldn't let me go with some friends who went. I was sorely disappointed. I might even say, devastated. My parents were fairly strict Catholics and the whole psychedelic scene and Rock music in general was something they were not happy with. My contempt for religion only grew. When I proclaimed to my parents I did not believe in God I thought my father was going to have a heart attack, he was screaming at me so loud. I thought this former marine was about to launch an all out attack on me. I was scared. My mother held him back. I ran away from home. I went to a friend's house. His parent's talked with me a little, and called mine. I spoke to my father, who just said, "Ray, come home." He picked me up. Nothing was said. Nothing was ever said. It was just a very tense time in our house.
I started staying home from school. Stayed home and played drums all day. I quit school at 16. I played incessantly all day long until my parents came home from work. The basement my sanctuary. Posters of bands hanging all over the place. I determined to be able to play any and every note Baker laid down on each successive album. I saw pictures of the band in magazines, like "Hit Parader." Album jacket shots, of course, and other places. Seeing his double bass set-up for the first time was an epoch of personal history for me. I found myself so immersed in Baker I even began to contort my face like he did when I played. My girl friend came over one day, with a couple of her friends. They asked me to play, which I did. The next day my girl friend said, They asked me why you make that face when you play. Why do you make that face?"
I stopped making that face.
Baker utilized his drum set in such a musical, as well as tribal way. He was into the music and percussive influences of Africa. He would often keep time on just his drums, no striking his hats or ride cymbals; just using his foot on the hats for that, or not at all: just using his bass drums. He brought in use of orchestral percussion into some of their studio albums; something Jazz drummers would often do with their large set-ups and racks, made decades before Rock drummers began to use them. Baker was ever a Jazz player at heart. His big influence was the British Jazz drummer, Phil Seamen.
I have mentioned it often. Baker once stated: 'I know other drummers play faster than me. I know some can play with better technique but, no one plays like me.' That statement was not only true but, literally chiseled, branded on my mind. It's one of those comments you hear in a lifetime that rivets into your frontal lobes, for whatever reasons. For me, as a young player, it began to formulate a purpose to playing. I needed to be myself. Almost impossible to do when my age left me with an impressionable mind that could have just about anything photocopied onto it. But, the principle, itself; the idea of playing like myself: my skills, with my personality, with my love for the instrument, became ingrained in me. It took root. It took awhile to really bear fruit but, once it did, it made a huge difference in my playing.
Like Buddy, Ginger could be a real hard knock. He could be insanely rude. We all read about his feuds with Bruce. How he wrecked hotel rooms in wanton tornadoes of destruction while furiously practicing, stoned and/or drunk. For whatever reasons, I never got into drugs or liquor. Never smoked a joint. Never did anything, period. As much as Baker was an influence on my playing, his lifestyle was never an influence on my life. I always felt drugs were a total waste of money, just like cigarettes. We only have just so many brain cells. They do not replenish. Why kill them with drugs and booze? It never made sense to me. Despite the entire psychedelic era I grew up in, I never got caught up into its diversions. Despite my anger, my rebellion, my constant questioning of authority and all, I never went down the party path. I was a long-haired, drumming, wall flower. My parents could not understand me. Teachers did not understand me. Friends did not understand me. I did not fit. I never really have. I don't suppose I ever will. I fit behind a set of drums. I could dance behind a set of drums. I could really express myself, and live behind a set of drums, even though my set became so huge I was basically buried, hidden behind it. My sound became my communication and expression of life.
I have to say, in many ways, Baker was like that. His drumming had its own category. It didn't fit with everything else out there. He did not try to fit in. He did his thing, often playing on the "1," not 2 and 4. When Cream jammed, which is what Jack Bruce said they formed the band for; to jam out in live performances, Ginger had no qualms playing a ting, tinga, ting or other Jazz phrasings when it suited him. If nowhere else, it was always in his solos. He was a Jazzer at heart, and kept on playing Jazz until he couldn't play anymore. And when you hear any of his recordings, Rock, Blues, Jazz ... you know it's him. No one played like Ginger. You hear that slightly dragging flow, even though his time was superb. You feel his sense of time. You hear his fills. It's Ginger Baker. It just is.
Having your own "voice" was drilled into me in my teens. I don't know as I ever attained to it. Over the years a person or two has told me now and then they know it's me playing because of the sound of my drums, or stuff I do. I don't know what that is. If it's there, that's a good thing.
Ginger passed away in 2019, at 80 years of age. It's a marvel he lived so long, considering the damage he did to himself with drugs, booze, and heavy smoking. You had to live back then to realize the number of drummers he influenced. His presence at that time was like a mountain with foothills and valleys all around him. He knew others were better but, nobody played like him. He literally forced himself onto the art of drumming, like an elephant pushing over a tree. Straight Jazzers thought he was bombastic and out of his mind to challenge them to drum duels; like Elvin Jones and Art Blakey. They watched him play with looks on their faces like, "Is he kidding?" They ripped off things Baker could never do. Yet Baker would be inspired to trench himself into a quad spread of such intensity and power that had those guys realizing Baker was in his own territory. Indeed, they played faster, and with more technique but, nobody played like Ginger Baker.
He truly influenced how the instrument is played, and many young people today know little to nothing of his life and career and impress he placed upon the art.
He certainly carved things into me.
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109. Kerri Walsh Jennings Stands Up - September 9, 2020
I leave my Yahoo email account, which always takes me to their news feed. I see a headline about Kerri Walsh Jennings, Olympic medalist volleyball player, and her decision not to wear a mask when shopping, as she posted on her Instagram account. A firestorm erupted. I hope she has the guts to stay put because the facts are on her side but, not if you read the Yahoo article, so filled with misinformation and outright lies, it's disgusting.
It's unfortunate enough nobody proof-read the article before it was put out there. Grammar mistakes all over the place. If you are writing for an outfit like Yahoo, and aren't using a spellcheck, and cannot construct a decent sentence, how am I supposed to respect any opinions you place down over such an important subject; fraught with necessary details, facts, and data? And make no mistake. The article is an opinion piece, not journalistic news. Not by any standard of actual journalism and reporting I am aware of.
Here a link to the article, and mind you, this is supposed to be a Yahoo Sports article:
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/olympic-gold-medalist-kerri-walsh-jennings-brags-about-not-wearing-a-mask-while-grocery-shopping-205245665.html
The very fact, at this point in time, with C-19 numbers dropping all over the globe, both case and death counts, especially knowing American numbers have been shown to be incredibly manipulated and fraudulent, it is sheer political theater to attack Walsh Jennings. That is the agenda of the left now, and from the beginning: make and manipulate the event for political purposes in America, as well as other nations where it could be used for power grab agendas. Crush anyone who even asks questions, let alone asserts their freedom and liberty to assess their own health and measures to protect it.
I state again, if a woman's body is her choice, my face is mine. If a woman can terminate the baby inside her, I can choose not to wear a mask and take whatever risk I deem reasonable with my face and health. If you want to wear a mask, wear one. If you want to stay home and hide, do it. Any other conclusion is total hypocrisy on the part of people who say abortion is fine but, not wearing a mask is atrocious and selfish.
Walsh Jennings did not brag. She stated sound reasons. She did not ramble. And, Yes, everything she wrote was most definitely true. I mean, c'mon; quoting an "expert" from back in July, in a moving medical event like this? Seriously? We supposedly should have stopped the virus back in May wearing masks. You cannot stop a virus, or even slow it down wearing masks. Its molecules are too small. You would think that simple bit of information were sitting on a rock on the moon for the lack of knowledge people have of it in America. But! The experts keep telling us different. Well, some of them. Many others, all over the planet, are saying otherwise. Why isn't their expertise as good as those who want America shut down and scared till November? They don't fit the agenda.
What happened, yon experts? Dost thou not have thine supreme opinions and suggestions, turned into mandates under penalty of law, without actual, legislated laws, in order? Apparently not. Non-maskers - dangerous, criminals. Rioters, looters, destroyers? Good people. They can move about the cabin with freedom. We will even let them out of jail and prisons because we don't want them to catch a cold. If they go out and commit crimes again, LIKE RAPE and MURDER, well, you know, freedom has risks in such an emergency as this pandemic.
Lunacy.
The absolute attack mode of that Yahoo article is today's version of journalism. Keep it. More: denounce it. It isn't journalism. It's leftist agenda on parade. Calling it a Sports article? You cannot make this stuff up.
The comments, calling Kerri "selfish" is the height of virtue signaling. You can keep that, as well. Every American should be selfish of their rights. Especially in the face of mass hysteria. That is when power grabbers grab the most power, as we have seen in Democrat run states and cities, or where people in positions of responsibility are ignorant of data and facts, and afraid of their own shadows, and do not want to "offend" anyone.
Jesus Christ offended people, every single day. Should He have stayed quiet so as not to "offend?" Please, do let us have common sense.
I'm sick of "experts," that have all the data in front of them and remain in a hysterical condition or are just using their position to promote fear where none should be for the vast majority of humanity. They need to be renounced and denounced or this madness will continue right up to November 3rd, in America. And if Trump wins, by a landslide everyone with reason expects, expect the virus to magically increase in intensity, along with increased rioting, looting, and destruction, all in the name of George Floyd and a few other people, actual criminals, now deceased at the hands of police. If you do not want to die, do not use drugs, do not break the law, do not commit crimes, do not threaten police officers with bodily harm or weapons. This is not rocket science.
I am against brutality, from police or any other entity, including mobs. I am against war. I am especially against civil war. I am against rioting and looting and destruction of public and private property but, at this point, there is just no way I want to live in a nation with people who hate America, are total hypocrites, dangerous at that; who will lie, manipulate, and use their tech standing and power, or any other standing to connive and deceive the populace for a nefarious agenda, and seek to destroy anyone who disagrees with them.
This is no longer America. It's a sewer, filled with agents of deceit, coast to coast; who care nothing for truth and honesty. I say again, for me, draw the new boundary lines. I'm moving to the place that remains American: free markets, small government, privacy rights, property rights, strong defense, personal responsibility, a Constitutional Republic with the rule of law and cautious democracy, God-given freedoms and liberty, and plenty of common sense.
Haters need not apply.
It's unfortunate enough nobody proof-read the article before it was put out there. Grammar mistakes all over the place. If you are writing for an outfit like Yahoo, and aren't using a spellcheck, and cannot construct a decent sentence, how am I supposed to respect any opinions you place down over such an important subject; fraught with necessary details, facts, and data? And make no mistake. The article is an opinion piece, not journalistic news. Not by any standard of actual journalism and reporting I am aware of.
Here a link to the article, and mind you, this is supposed to be a Yahoo Sports article:
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/olympic-gold-medalist-kerri-walsh-jennings-brags-about-not-wearing-a-mask-while-grocery-shopping-205245665.html
The very fact, at this point in time, with C-19 numbers dropping all over the globe, both case and death counts, especially knowing American numbers have been shown to be incredibly manipulated and fraudulent, it is sheer political theater to attack Walsh Jennings. That is the agenda of the left now, and from the beginning: make and manipulate the event for political purposes in America, as well as other nations where it could be used for power grab agendas. Crush anyone who even asks questions, let alone asserts their freedom and liberty to assess their own health and measures to protect it.
I state again, if a woman's body is her choice, my face is mine. If a woman can terminate the baby inside her, I can choose not to wear a mask and take whatever risk I deem reasonable with my face and health. If you want to wear a mask, wear one. If you want to stay home and hide, do it. Any other conclusion is total hypocrisy on the part of people who say abortion is fine but, not wearing a mask is atrocious and selfish.
Walsh Jennings did not brag. She stated sound reasons. She did not ramble. And, Yes, everything she wrote was most definitely true. I mean, c'mon; quoting an "expert" from back in July, in a moving medical event like this? Seriously? We supposedly should have stopped the virus back in May wearing masks. You cannot stop a virus, or even slow it down wearing masks. Its molecules are too small. You would think that simple bit of information were sitting on a rock on the moon for the lack of knowledge people have of it in America. But! The experts keep telling us different. Well, some of them. Many others, all over the planet, are saying otherwise. Why isn't their expertise as good as those who want America shut down and scared till November? They don't fit the agenda.
What happened, yon experts? Dost thou not have thine supreme opinions and suggestions, turned into mandates under penalty of law, without actual, legislated laws, in order? Apparently not. Non-maskers - dangerous, criminals. Rioters, looters, destroyers? Good people. They can move about the cabin with freedom. We will even let them out of jail and prisons because we don't want them to catch a cold. If they go out and commit crimes again, LIKE RAPE and MURDER, well, you know, freedom has risks in such an emergency as this pandemic.
Lunacy.
The absolute attack mode of that Yahoo article is today's version of journalism. Keep it. More: denounce it. It isn't journalism. It's leftist agenda on parade. Calling it a Sports article? You cannot make this stuff up.
The comments, calling Kerri "selfish" is the height of virtue signaling. You can keep that, as well. Every American should be selfish of their rights. Especially in the face of mass hysteria. That is when power grabbers grab the most power, as we have seen in Democrat run states and cities, or where people in positions of responsibility are ignorant of data and facts, and afraid of their own shadows, and do not want to "offend" anyone.
Jesus Christ offended people, every single day. Should He have stayed quiet so as not to "offend?" Please, do let us have common sense.
I'm sick of "experts," that have all the data in front of them and remain in a hysterical condition or are just using their position to promote fear where none should be for the vast majority of humanity. They need to be renounced and denounced or this madness will continue right up to November 3rd, in America. And if Trump wins, by a landslide everyone with reason expects, expect the virus to magically increase in intensity, along with increased rioting, looting, and destruction, all in the name of George Floyd and a few other people, actual criminals, now deceased at the hands of police. If you do not want to die, do not use drugs, do not break the law, do not commit crimes, do not threaten police officers with bodily harm or weapons. This is not rocket science.
I am against brutality, from police or any other entity, including mobs. I am against war. I am especially against civil war. I am against rioting and looting and destruction of public and private property but, at this point, there is just no way I want to live in a nation with people who hate America, are total hypocrites, dangerous at that; who will lie, manipulate, and use their tech standing and power, or any other standing to connive and deceive the populace for a nefarious agenda, and seek to destroy anyone who disagrees with them.
This is no longer America. It's a sewer, filled with agents of deceit, coast to coast; who care nothing for truth and honesty. I say again, for me, draw the new boundary lines. I'm moving to the place that remains American: free markets, small government, privacy rights, property rights, strong defense, personal responsibility, a Constitutional Republic with the rule of law and cautious democracy, God-given freedoms and liberty, and plenty of common sense.
Haters need not apply.
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110. Houston is Coming for Your Blood - September 9, 2020
Door-to-door MEDICAL TYRANNY: City of Houston to dispatch COVID medical experimentation teams to homes of “randomly selected” residents to DRAW BLOOD for a government pandemic experiment
"Final note to Houston city officials: Showing up unannounced, unexpected, at random homes in Texas — demanding blood from all the people who live there — has got to be the dumbest medical idea I’ve ever heard. It could only come from a bunch of bungling Democrats who are so clueless about biology that they think men can get pregnant and women can produce sperm. They still don’t know that chromosomes determine your gender, not some fairy magic wishing wand that you wave over your crotch. To even think that these lunatics could competently draw blood, analyze blood and run any meaningful statistical analysis on antibodies is to imagine that pigeons can play chess." Mike Adams
Want to read the article?
https://www.newstarget.com/2020-09-08-medical-tyranny-houston-teams-draw-blood-pandemic-experiment.html
Mike Adams is a guy into natural health. He runs a lab. He's into freedom, liberty, the Constitution, and is a patriot by any definition. He's called the Health Ranger. His lab analysis of the Las Vegas shooting was serious stuff.
I don't always agree with him. In this case, indeed, I must. The nature of this "experimentation" for the "good of the people," is ripe with tyranny. You cannot make this stuff up.
America is, without question, at the line drawn in the sand. We give in and give up, or we stand up, and tell tyrants to stand down. That's it. Those are the only two options. No sidelines to watch from. No way to stay out of the fray. It is here. It is now. America stands or falls on what happens over the next six months. Beyond that, I have to believe the die will be cast, and either liberty wins, or tyranny wins. Either patriots will retain control or despots and anti-Americans will.
I was not into Trump making a big thing of all the military equipment going to police forces throughout America. What did he know was coming, and what did he know would be needed to stop it? It seems pretty obvious now.
"Final note to Houston city officials: Showing up unannounced, unexpected, at random homes in Texas — demanding blood from all the people who live there — has got to be the dumbest medical idea I’ve ever heard. It could only come from a bunch of bungling Democrats who are so clueless about biology that they think men can get pregnant and women can produce sperm. They still don’t know that chromosomes determine your gender, not some fairy magic wishing wand that you wave over your crotch. To even think that these lunatics could competently draw blood, analyze blood and run any meaningful statistical analysis on antibodies is to imagine that pigeons can play chess." Mike Adams
Want to read the article?
https://www.newstarget.com/2020-09-08-medical-tyranny-houston-teams-draw-blood-pandemic-experiment.html
Mike Adams is a guy into natural health. He runs a lab. He's into freedom, liberty, the Constitution, and is a patriot by any definition. He's called the Health Ranger. His lab analysis of the Las Vegas shooting was serious stuff.
I don't always agree with him. In this case, indeed, I must. The nature of this "experimentation" for the "good of the people," is ripe with tyranny. You cannot make this stuff up.
America is, without question, at the line drawn in the sand. We give in and give up, or we stand up, and tell tyrants to stand down. That's it. Those are the only two options. No sidelines to watch from. No way to stay out of the fray. It is here. It is now. America stands or falls on what happens over the next six months. Beyond that, I have to believe the die will be cast, and either liberty wins, or tyranny wins. Either patriots will retain control or despots and anti-Americans will.
I was not into Trump making a big thing of all the military equipment going to police forces throughout America. What did he know was coming, and what did he know would be needed to stop it? It seems pretty obvious now.
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111. Carl Palmer - September 10, 2020
Carl Palmer. Probably one of the nicest guys in Rock. Articulate; in both his speaking and playing. An innovator. An entertainer. An artist. The list can go on.
Palmer was a huge influence upon me and my playing. I don't remember my first exposure to Emerson, Lake and Palmer. ELP was a Classical Rock trio that exploded on the music scene. Regardless of what you were into, genre-wise, everybody heard of ELP. Their stellar recorded and live performances were saturated with so much talent, in every aspect of musical enterprise, it was stunning to listen to, and see and hear live, even for those not into Progressive Rock, per se'.
Palmer was a laser slice in a action. Incredible technique. Precise. Speed for days. Enormous drum sets. A pioneer in experimentation with electronics and drums. A classically-trained percussionist, able to play any genre. If you have never seen any pictures of his custom-made, stainless steel set, just do an image search. It was, literally, a work of art. Hunting scenes were engraved into the shells. The bass drum weighed 200 lbs. Huge gongs, with a painted dragon across them. Theater gongs, orchestra chimes, tympani, 5 octaves of Crotales, a big bronze bell above him, on a custom wooden rack. It was stupendous to look at, and watching him play it all was stunning.
He became the bar, for me. I never reached it. His skills, and even his sense of showmanship, were unique in Rock. And he is still mesmerizing and exciting fans watching him today. He's 70 now, and still has it in boatloads.
Digesting ELP performances became like a personal science for me. Whereas Ginger Baker was very organic, Palmer was a machine. Incredible stamina throughout an ELP performance. I'd sit down to play along with ELP albums and it was a real workout. With Classical Rock, old icons and bands just sort of faded away into the background. An entirely new process was filtering through my mind. It was Rock but, seriously sophisticated Rock, even if ELP and other bands could rock out when the moments came. This was just a higher level in every way. It did not appeal to everyone but, it did appeal to millions, me among them.
If you look at the picture page, you can see the obvious influence Palmer had upon my entire sense of drum set configuration. If Baker was big, Palmer was massive. I went even bigger. It all made perfect musical sense, to me. I even used my parents bronze bell out in front of the house. Call me a copy cat. So be it. It's just the incredible impact Carl Palmer had upon my sense of ... all that is drumming.
As I got older, my parents got their bell back, and while I also had other influences upon me developing, I used that literal "drum shop," "everything-but-the-kithen-sink" set for years, right into Legend.
I find the philosophy players bring into their art as influential as their actual performance on the kit. I distinctly remember an interview ELP did, and at one point Carl stated something to the effect, "People say, 'He's fast,' or 'He's not funky.' If people would just see me as a musical drummer, that's what I want to be."
That is one of those epiphany moments in life. A Game Changer, as they say. Being a musical drummer. Baker already instilled that type of thing in my heart and mind. He was very musical. Palmer pushed it to another level. It is more than being a time keeper. It is about being a musician, with equal footing as any other musician in a band. It is impossible for a drummer not to be percussive. It is another thing to be "musical."
Over the years I have received remarks about my speed and other aspects of technique but, when someone exclaims what I do is so musical, that is satisfaction to my soul.
Many would say Carl Palmer is an "old school" player. The old school way is about the space between notes, and attention to dynamics. Today, crowding in notes is the thing; blasting away. Palmer was influenced by Buddy and other Jazzers, just like most of us born in the 50's. You can see and hear it all in Palmer's playing. His Classical training gave him a skill set literally unequaled in his day. He was basically untouchable. His name was synonymous with technique. In his prime, I do not believe Buddy played faster than Carl Palmer in his. Just watch Youtube videos and see that displayed. I am not making speed some kind of trophy category. I've already written on the subject in earlier blogs. A drummer, most drummers, are impressed with speed, just to see what can be done. Watching Palmer blaze around his set in solos was not just impressive but, just plain fun, if not very humbling.
He once stated he could play Fusion "incredibly well." I never heard him play it. He doesn't like to jam or improvise. He likes composed music and staying within boundaries he was trained in. Not that he cannot comp. When Emerson went off, especially with his Hammond organ gymnastics, Carl was right there, laying it down and driving it all. If he has played funky, fusion-type music, I'm unaware of it. I'd love to hear it.
As it was I hunted down anything and everything he played on: Atomic Rooster among them. Crazy World of Arthur Brown: Fire? Not so much.
Palmer instilled in me thought; the process of thought, prethinking what can be played on a set. With Baker it was more on the spot, just go for it. Palmer showed me a sense of intelligence to drumming. If I practiced a lot before Palmer, I became an Olympic athlete after. Non-stop playing. Nothing else mattered. Goals to reach, pursue them. Coordination, speed, stamina, imagination, presentation of both kinesiology in playing, and presentation of the instrument, itself. Being different became my purpose. Regardless of how I copied things, I needed to find ways to make things my own. Twist things a little, here and there. I was most definitely not Classically-trained. With all the influence Palmer had upon me, and knowing Baker was also well versed in reading music, I never learned. I don't know why. I was able to get into the physical discipline of reaching the physical goals, and using imagination but, learning to read music ... it gave me headaches so, I just let it go. It was all about feeling the time within the music, not under the music.
"This is in 7/8."
"Uh ... what?"
"7/8."
"Uh ... play it. ... Oh, ok."
I just had a far easier time if I could hear it.
I do not endorse that approach. I wish I could read music, easily, to learn more. It just never went that direction and one would have certainly thought, with Palmer's influence, it would have. I can't really explain it. It's just the way things went down the road. I guess I just see the art as very organic. The Walrus' "snare," the Grouse's ritual of mating "drumming," the earth quaking sound of herds, the wind and waves, the sound of rain and thunder storms, the floating of planets in space, "shooting stars," meteors and comets ... nature effected the way I play more than concepts of written music. People write music for sci-fi movies involving space. There is no sound in space. Yet, we have our imaginations to create what we feel planets and moons hanging out in the solar system; spinning, and orbiting, should sound like. Composer's have ideas when they see things. Earth: melodic blue marble captured with Classical music, majestic music, beautiful music. Jupiter: here come the French horns and tubas, and music that is huge. Saturn: it's all about those rings of ice and sharp, cutting, sweeping sounds used to portray them. I think that way behind a set of drums. It isn't about black dots with flags on lined paper. I'm sure a combination of the two would have made me a better musician but, just didn't happen that way.
I certainly know exposure to Carl Palmer made me a better musician. Carl also has incredible enthusiasm. He's like a kid when it comes to what he does. As serious an art as it is to him, he loves playing with young people, and his energy levels are volcanic. He just makes me happy to watch him play. He constantly comes up with tricks he performs in his solos. A throwback to the days of Jazz players, Palmer does all that stuff, plus things nobody had ever seen until he did it. His enthusiasm was/is an influence upon me. He's five years older than me and I hope when I reach 70 I still have that kind of enthusiasm and energy for playing that he puts out 100 gigs a year, plus recordings, art shows, interviews, writing and all else he is into.
Perhaps, because I dropped out of high school, it all worked together the way it did with music instruction. Music has always been more organic than schooled, for me. It's a reason I dislike click tracks. I grew up listening to music that had ebb and flow. Time was elastic, moving along like a stream; freely flowing or engaging rocks, and drops, rapids and congestion. As tight as Cream was, they also had this elastic feel to their music. Most Rock had that in the 60's and 70's. That all began to change when the 80's hit, with computers, electronics and all. Music is a human enterprise and, for me, it does not need to be perfect to sound great. It needs passion, heart, life, and enough thought to pull things together. It does not need rigidity of time. That philosophy opened the door to the next major influence for me.
For next time.
Palmer was a huge influence upon me and my playing. I don't remember my first exposure to Emerson, Lake and Palmer. ELP was a Classical Rock trio that exploded on the music scene. Regardless of what you were into, genre-wise, everybody heard of ELP. Their stellar recorded and live performances were saturated with so much talent, in every aspect of musical enterprise, it was stunning to listen to, and see and hear live, even for those not into Progressive Rock, per se'.
Palmer was a laser slice in a action. Incredible technique. Precise. Speed for days. Enormous drum sets. A pioneer in experimentation with electronics and drums. A classically-trained percussionist, able to play any genre. If you have never seen any pictures of his custom-made, stainless steel set, just do an image search. It was, literally, a work of art. Hunting scenes were engraved into the shells. The bass drum weighed 200 lbs. Huge gongs, with a painted dragon across them. Theater gongs, orchestra chimes, tympani, 5 octaves of Crotales, a big bronze bell above him, on a custom wooden rack. It was stupendous to look at, and watching him play it all was stunning.
He became the bar, for me. I never reached it. His skills, and even his sense of showmanship, were unique in Rock. And he is still mesmerizing and exciting fans watching him today. He's 70 now, and still has it in boatloads.
Digesting ELP performances became like a personal science for me. Whereas Ginger Baker was very organic, Palmer was a machine. Incredible stamina throughout an ELP performance. I'd sit down to play along with ELP albums and it was a real workout. With Classical Rock, old icons and bands just sort of faded away into the background. An entirely new process was filtering through my mind. It was Rock but, seriously sophisticated Rock, even if ELP and other bands could rock out when the moments came. This was just a higher level in every way. It did not appeal to everyone but, it did appeal to millions, me among them.
If you look at the picture page, you can see the obvious influence Palmer had upon my entire sense of drum set configuration. If Baker was big, Palmer was massive. I went even bigger. It all made perfect musical sense, to me. I even used my parents bronze bell out in front of the house. Call me a copy cat. So be it. It's just the incredible impact Carl Palmer had upon my sense of ... all that is drumming.
As I got older, my parents got their bell back, and while I also had other influences upon me developing, I used that literal "drum shop," "everything-but-the-kithen-sink" set for years, right into Legend.
I find the philosophy players bring into their art as influential as their actual performance on the kit. I distinctly remember an interview ELP did, and at one point Carl stated something to the effect, "People say, 'He's fast,' or 'He's not funky.' If people would just see me as a musical drummer, that's what I want to be."
That is one of those epiphany moments in life. A Game Changer, as they say. Being a musical drummer. Baker already instilled that type of thing in my heart and mind. He was very musical. Palmer pushed it to another level. It is more than being a time keeper. It is about being a musician, with equal footing as any other musician in a band. It is impossible for a drummer not to be percussive. It is another thing to be "musical."
Over the years I have received remarks about my speed and other aspects of technique but, when someone exclaims what I do is so musical, that is satisfaction to my soul.
Many would say Carl Palmer is an "old school" player. The old school way is about the space between notes, and attention to dynamics. Today, crowding in notes is the thing; blasting away. Palmer was influenced by Buddy and other Jazzers, just like most of us born in the 50's. You can see and hear it all in Palmer's playing. His Classical training gave him a skill set literally unequaled in his day. He was basically untouchable. His name was synonymous with technique. In his prime, I do not believe Buddy played faster than Carl Palmer in his. Just watch Youtube videos and see that displayed. I am not making speed some kind of trophy category. I've already written on the subject in earlier blogs. A drummer, most drummers, are impressed with speed, just to see what can be done. Watching Palmer blaze around his set in solos was not just impressive but, just plain fun, if not very humbling.
He once stated he could play Fusion "incredibly well." I never heard him play it. He doesn't like to jam or improvise. He likes composed music and staying within boundaries he was trained in. Not that he cannot comp. When Emerson went off, especially with his Hammond organ gymnastics, Carl was right there, laying it down and driving it all. If he has played funky, fusion-type music, I'm unaware of it. I'd love to hear it.
As it was I hunted down anything and everything he played on: Atomic Rooster among them. Crazy World of Arthur Brown: Fire? Not so much.
Palmer instilled in me thought; the process of thought, prethinking what can be played on a set. With Baker it was more on the spot, just go for it. Palmer showed me a sense of intelligence to drumming. If I practiced a lot before Palmer, I became an Olympic athlete after. Non-stop playing. Nothing else mattered. Goals to reach, pursue them. Coordination, speed, stamina, imagination, presentation of both kinesiology in playing, and presentation of the instrument, itself. Being different became my purpose. Regardless of how I copied things, I needed to find ways to make things my own. Twist things a little, here and there. I was most definitely not Classically-trained. With all the influence Palmer had upon me, and knowing Baker was also well versed in reading music, I never learned. I don't know why. I was able to get into the physical discipline of reaching the physical goals, and using imagination but, learning to read music ... it gave me headaches so, I just let it go. It was all about feeling the time within the music, not under the music.
"This is in 7/8."
"Uh ... what?"
"7/8."
"Uh ... play it. ... Oh, ok."
I just had a far easier time if I could hear it.
I do not endorse that approach. I wish I could read music, easily, to learn more. It just never went that direction and one would have certainly thought, with Palmer's influence, it would have. I can't really explain it. It's just the way things went down the road. I guess I just see the art as very organic. The Walrus' "snare," the Grouse's ritual of mating "drumming," the earth quaking sound of herds, the wind and waves, the sound of rain and thunder storms, the floating of planets in space, "shooting stars," meteors and comets ... nature effected the way I play more than concepts of written music. People write music for sci-fi movies involving space. There is no sound in space. Yet, we have our imaginations to create what we feel planets and moons hanging out in the solar system; spinning, and orbiting, should sound like. Composer's have ideas when they see things. Earth: melodic blue marble captured with Classical music, majestic music, beautiful music. Jupiter: here come the French horns and tubas, and music that is huge. Saturn: it's all about those rings of ice and sharp, cutting, sweeping sounds used to portray them. I think that way behind a set of drums. It isn't about black dots with flags on lined paper. I'm sure a combination of the two would have made me a better musician but, just didn't happen that way.
I certainly know exposure to Carl Palmer made me a better musician. Carl also has incredible enthusiasm. He's like a kid when it comes to what he does. As serious an art as it is to him, he loves playing with young people, and his energy levels are volcanic. He just makes me happy to watch him play. He constantly comes up with tricks he performs in his solos. A throwback to the days of Jazz players, Palmer does all that stuff, plus things nobody had ever seen until he did it. His enthusiasm was/is an influence upon me. He's five years older than me and I hope when I reach 70 I still have that kind of enthusiasm and energy for playing that he puts out 100 gigs a year, plus recordings, art shows, interviews, writing and all else he is into.
Perhaps, because I dropped out of high school, it all worked together the way it did with music instruction. Music has always been more organic than schooled, for me. It's a reason I dislike click tracks. I grew up listening to music that had ebb and flow. Time was elastic, moving along like a stream; freely flowing or engaging rocks, and drops, rapids and congestion. As tight as Cream was, they also had this elastic feel to their music. Most Rock had that in the 60's and 70's. That all began to change when the 80's hit, with computers, electronics and all. Music is a human enterprise and, for me, it does not need to be perfect to sound great. It needs passion, heart, life, and enough thought to pull things together. It does not need rigidity of time. That philosophy opened the door to the next major influence for me.
For next time.
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112. Have We Been Warned? September 11, 2020
Over the years I have met many people who do not believe in the Judeo-Christian God, the Creator and Sovereign of the universe. Sometimes they believe in other deities. Most are agnostic or atheist and have no belief in anything but, themselves.
It is another anniversary of September 11, 2001. I absolutely reject the official explanation of the event. I could not care less what you call me: truther and all that. Means nothing to me. If only 10% of everything I have researched on that event is correct and true, another investigation is called for. I am not holding my breath.
As I write this, rumors are circulating, articles being written, warnings being given, that Antifa/BLM organized riots are going to take on a whole other level of violence and insurrection anytime now. Various alphabet agencies are seizing shipments of weapons and/or parts to turn semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic ones, from China. Money from corporations flowing into the BLM coffers are being funneled to various antagonistic factions to arm them for insurrection. De-funded and shrunken police departments are soon to face paramilitary operations that will out-man and outgun them.
As it becomes more and more obvious Joe Biden cannot be president, because of his obvious mental health issues Democrats and msm refuse to acknowledge; and also because it is looking like Trump will win by a landslide (even with any attempts by Democrats to make sure Biden wins by any means necessary), attempts to try and stop the election process from happening, riots, i.e. strategic attacks by armed rebels upon major American cities, armed by Chinese gun manufacturers with automatic weapons, will take place to terrorize and obviously intimidate Americans from going out to vote.
China, Antifa, BLM, and leftist dictators running American states and cities; driving their states and cities to ruin; standing down police departments and national guard, will cause and allow carnage to take place upon outgunned police, and far worse, against innocent civilians.
When I read things like this, even after everything I have seen and read about Ruby Ridge, Waco, OKC, 9/11, Las Vegas, etc., etc., I am still having a first impression of "This cannot be true." "This cannot be possible." "This is right-wing fear mongering." "This is an exaggerated, hyperbolic, deep state misinformation campaign." I just cannot wrap my head around it because I am an American. This stuff only happens in other lands, not America. We are past our revolution and civil war. We cannot possibly be living in a nation so hated by an enormous amount of citizens, they are willing to see America destroyed for their political, globalist agenda. That is my first round of thoughts.
Having stated that, would I be surprised if such attacks opened up on Americans, by professed Americans? I would not be surprised to go to the various news sites I visit each day and see that civil war has erupted in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, St. Louis, Baltimore, Chicago, Austin, Dallas, Atlanta, NYC, Boston, and others cities across the nation. I would not be surprised, at all.
The reason I would not be surprised is not political warfare. No. The reason I would not be surprised is spiritual warfare, long portrayed in Biblical history, and long ago predicted for the Earth before Christ returns.
We are already seeing great unrest in European nations. We see these things happening in South America. We see these human conflagrations throughout Asia. The ONLY thing that has kept America from seeing this kind of upheaval is our God-given liberty, and our Constitution, which allows for rival political ideas to peacefully exchange hands and control every two and four years. That has apparently come to an end.
There is a statement Christ made when speaking to His disciples about what things will be like before the destruction of Jerusalem, and also the world, before He returns. It is found in Matthew 24:12 -
"And because lawlessness shall have been multiplied, the love of the many will grow cold."
Lawlessness. The rule of law, the principle of all men being created by God, in His image, and therefore equal under the law, is all that has protected America and Americans from constant carnage and upheaval. Remove those founding principles, the only thing that can take place is lawlessness. This is not about the second amendment arguments always swirling about. This is not about first amendment arguments, either. The very fact we have those arguments and no government agents are taking people away to some diabolical, internment, brainwashing - death camp proves the rule of law and believing in God-given freedom and liberty works. It has worked for over two-hundred years.
The thing is, humanity, whether they believe it or not, is in a spiritual war between forces of righteousness and forces of unrighteousness: forces of light, forces of darkness. As God is removed from the fabric of government in America, and more and more in American life, man being created in the image of God, continues to lose ground to those who believe man was not created but, developed from lower orders of creatures. Therefore, God is not Sovereign. Man is. Men with the most force and power get to control everybody else.
I find it amazing the left constantly harangues the American people about guns but, have nothing to say about rioters carrying and using them yet, and will descend upon a young man, like Kyle Rittenhouse, for defending himself from attack from gun carrying, felony-laden leftist anarchists out to destroy an American city.
If you cannot see the laundry hanging out to dry here, you have been blinded. What has blinded you could be any number of things or combination of things but, you have been blinded. You are spiritually blind.
I place it hear again: John Adams wrote; The Constitution can only work with a moral, religious people. It is wholly unfitted for any other group of people.
The problem is not the Constitution or rule of law. The problem is people: blinded, hardened, sinful, self-inflated people with nothing more than faulty human reasoning guiding them. They hate America. They hate Christians. They hate all religion and see it as weakness. They do not want anything telling them right from wrong; stopping them from pursing whatever they want in life.
These useful idiots do not have enough common sense to see that ALL despotic regimes cause untold pain and suffering to their populace. ALL governments controlled by men, alone, end up tyrannical. If principles given to us by God, our Creator, are put aside, cast down, stricken from the fabric of a civil society, ONLY incivility can take place. That is human nature. It is animal nature, based on survival. Totalitarianism is a fear-based ideology. Everything and everyone must be controlled for the good of all. It is NOT good for all. It is death to everything that makes us human, made in God's image. But, spiritually dead people cannot see that. They are blind. Blind guides, leading blind people.
I do not know if these supposedly strategically planned attacks are coming. I do know the left hates true righteousness. I do know the left has no use for the principles of liberty granted by God in America's founding. They will take what works for them but, not for everyone else; anyone who disagrees with them. I do know they are rabid hypocrites, and that is shown in the news almost every day. They cannot see it because they are spiritually vacant. They have one source of motivation: self. Self wants control. I do not speak of self-discipline. No. I speak of controlling others. Making people afraid so they will allow others to control them, or force control upon those who are too afraid to stand up to empty bullies. That is the entire fear-mongering premise of this "pandemic." Facts and data mean nothing. Only the agenda means anything. It is everything. The agenda is fear. The agenda is control. Not self-control: control of all others.
God promotes self-control, self-discipline, under His working in the inner man: the mind, the heart and soul of the person.
Satan promotes self. Nothing but, self controlling others. Total freedom to do whatever you want; whatever your mind conjures up. Lawlessness but, those with the most power get to control the lawless if it threatens their control factor. What are referred to as abominations by God are just "choices" to those who have the spiritual sense of an asteroid.
I do not know if these attacks are imminent. I do know spiritual guidance was given by a messenger of the Lord, over 100 years ago, to get out of the cities; for violence is coming to them such as the world has never seen. Carnage is coming. Something will then take place to keep the land from destroying its inhabitants. Cries of peace and safety will go out. Then, as the apostle Paul wrote, sudden destruction will come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. Not escape what? The majestic return of Iesou Christos in tempestuous clouds of fire, with billions of angels attending His glorious way, and you can think that is a fairy tale. I do not. My life was changed by the same Christ that came and said He would return. I believe Him.
That is the end of the story. We are not there yet. We have a ways to go. Wars, rumors of wars, disease, famine, natural and man-made disasters, nations against nations, nations against themselves, rise and fall of power-mongers, and it is all going to happen in swift succession when the final dominoes fall.
I think about things like this all the time and writing about drums and drumming, music and album plans, seems ridiculous by comparison. That said, it is God's clock, not ours. We can hasten to the coming of Christ. We cannot control it. So, life goes on, in some way, shape, and form, until life is stopped in its tracks and the end of all things takes place, and eternity arises for those who love God and are called according to His purpose.
Have we been warned? Oh, yes.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
It is another anniversary of September 11, 2001. I absolutely reject the official explanation of the event. I could not care less what you call me: truther and all that. Means nothing to me. If only 10% of everything I have researched on that event is correct and true, another investigation is called for. I am not holding my breath.
As I write this, rumors are circulating, articles being written, warnings being given, that Antifa/BLM organized riots are going to take on a whole other level of violence and insurrection anytime now. Various alphabet agencies are seizing shipments of weapons and/or parts to turn semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic ones, from China. Money from corporations flowing into the BLM coffers are being funneled to various antagonistic factions to arm them for insurrection. De-funded and shrunken police departments are soon to face paramilitary operations that will out-man and outgun them.
As it becomes more and more obvious Joe Biden cannot be president, because of his obvious mental health issues Democrats and msm refuse to acknowledge; and also because it is looking like Trump will win by a landslide (even with any attempts by Democrats to make sure Biden wins by any means necessary), attempts to try and stop the election process from happening, riots, i.e. strategic attacks by armed rebels upon major American cities, armed by Chinese gun manufacturers with automatic weapons, will take place to terrorize and obviously intimidate Americans from going out to vote.
China, Antifa, BLM, and leftist dictators running American states and cities; driving their states and cities to ruin; standing down police departments and national guard, will cause and allow carnage to take place upon outgunned police, and far worse, against innocent civilians.
When I read things like this, even after everything I have seen and read about Ruby Ridge, Waco, OKC, 9/11, Las Vegas, etc., etc., I am still having a first impression of "This cannot be true." "This cannot be possible." "This is right-wing fear mongering." "This is an exaggerated, hyperbolic, deep state misinformation campaign." I just cannot wrap my head around it because I am an American. This stuff only happens in other lands, not America. We are past our revolution and civil war. We cannot possibly be living in a nation so hated by an enormous amount of citizens, they are willing to see America destroyed for their political, globalist agenda. That is my first round of thoughts.
Having stated that, would I be surprised if such attacks opened up on Americans, by professed Americans? I would not be surprised to go to the various news sites I visit each day and see that civil war has erupted in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, St. Louis, Baltimore, Chicago, Austin, Dallas, Atlanta, NYC, Boston, and others cities across the nation. I would not be surprised, at all.
The reason I would not be surprised is not political warfare. No. The reason I would not be surprised is spiritual warfare, long portrayed in Biblical history, and long ago predicted for the Earth before Christ returns.
We are already seeing great unrest in European nations. We see these things happening in South America. We see these human conflagrations throughout Asia. The ONLY thing that has kept America from seeing this kind of upheaval is our God-given liberty, and our Constitution, which allows for rival political ideas to peacefully exchange hands and control every two and four years. That has apparently come to an end.
There is a statement Christ made when speaking to His disciples about what things will be like before the destruction of Jerusalem, and also the world, before He returns. It is found in Matthew 24:12 -
"And because lawlessness shall have been multiplied, the love of the many will grow cold."
Lawlessness. The rule of law, the principle of all men being created by God, in His image, and therefore equal under the law, is all that has protected America and Americans from constant carnage and upheaval. Remove those founding principles, the only thing that can take place is lawlessness. This is not about the second amendment arguments always swirling about. This is not about first amendment arguments, either. The very fact we have those arguments and no government agents are taking people away to some diabolical, internment, brainwashing - death camp proves the rule of law and believing in God-given freedom and liberty works. It has worked for over two-hundred years.
The thing is, humanity, whether they believe it or not, is in a spiritual war between forces of righteousness and forces of unrighteousness: forces of light, forces of darkness. As God is removed from the fabric of government in America, and more and more in American life, man being created in the image of God, continues to lose ground to those who believe man was not created but, developed from lower orders of creatures. Therefore, God is not Sovereign. Man is. Men with the most force and power get to control everybody else.
I find it amazing the left constantly harangues the American people about guns but, have nothing to say about rioters carrying and using them yet, and will descend upon a young man, like Kyle Rittenhouse, for defending himself from attack from gun carrying, felony-laden leftist anarchists out to destroy an American city.
If you cannot see the laundry hanging out to dry here, you have been blinded. What has blinded you could be any number of things or combination of things but, you have been blinded. You are spiritually blind.
I place it hear again: John Adams wrote; The Constitution can only work with a moral, religious people. It is wholly unfitted for any other group of people.
The problem is not the Constitution or rule of law. The problem is people: blinded, hardened, sinful, self-inflated people with nothing more than faulty human reasoning guiding them. They hate America. They hate Christians. They hate all religion and see it as weakness. They do not want anything telling them right from wrong; stopping them from pursing whatever they want in life.
These useful idiots do not have enough common sense to see that ALL despotic regimes cause untold pain and suffering to their populace. ALL governments controlled by men, alone, end up tyrannical. If principles given to us by God, our Creator, are put aside, cast down, stricken from the fabric of a civil society, ONLY incivility can take place. That is human nature. It is animal nature, based on survival. Totalitarianism is a fear-based ideology. Everything and everyone must be controlled for the good of all. It is NOT good for all. It is death to everything that makes us human, made in God's image. But, spiritually dead people cannot see that. They are blind. Blind guides, leading blind people.
I do not know if these supposedly strategically planned attacks are coming. I do know the left hates true righteousness. I do know the left has no use for the principles of liberty granted by God in America's founding. They will take what works for them but, not for everyone else; anyone who disagrees with them. I do know they are rabid hypocrites, and that is shown in the news almost every day. They cannot see it because they are spiritually vacant. They have one source of motivation: self. Self wants control. I do not speak of self-discipline. No. I speak of controlling others. Making people afraid so they will allow others to control them, or force control upon those who are too afraid to stand up to empty bullies. That is the entire fear-mongering premise of this "pandemic." Facts and data mean nothing. Only the agenda means anything. It is everything. The agenda is fear. The agenda is control. Not self-control: control of all others.
God promotes self-control, self-discipline, under His working in the inner man: the mind, the heart and soul of the person.
Satan promotes self. Nothing but, self controlling others. Total freedom to do whatever you want; whatever your mind conjures up. Lawlessness but, those with the most power get to control the lawless if it threatens their control factor. What are referred to as abominations by God are just "choices" to those who have the spiritual sense of an asteroid.
I do not know if these attacks are imminent. I do know spiritual guidance was given by a messenger of the Lord, over 100 years ago, to get out of the cities; for violence is coming to them such as the world has never seen. Carnage is coming. Something will then take place to keep the land from destroying its inhabitants. Cries of peace and safety will go out. Then, as the apostle Paul wrote, sudden destruction will come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. Not escape what? The majestic return of Iesou Christos in tempestuous clouds of fire, with billions of angels attending His glorious way, and you can think that is a fairy tale. I do not. My life was changed by the same Christ that came and said He would return. I believe Him.
That is the end of the story. We are not there yet. We have a ways to go. Wars, rumors of wars, disease, famine, natural and man-made disasters, nations against nations, nations against themselves, rise and fall of power-mongers, and it is all going to happen in swift succession when the final dominoes fall.
I think about things like this all the time and writing about drums and drumming, music and album plans, seems ridiculous by comparison. That said, it is God's clock, not ours. We can hasten to the coming of Christ. We cannot control it. So, life goes on, in some way, shape, and form, until life is stopped in its tracks and the end of all things takes place, and eternity arises for those who love God and are called according to His purpose.
Have we been warned? Oh, yes.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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113. Compelling Interest - Sept. 12, 2020
Compelling interest.
What part of the principled term, "Compelling Interest," do county health officials and judges not understand?
John McArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church, out in Los Angeles county, CA, and his congregation (as well as any other church in the county), has been handed a court sanctioned ban on indoor services because the county has the authority to shut things down in an "emergency."
#1. Religion is specifically protected by the U.S. Constitution.
#2. In the face of an actual, real, crisis, government must show a compelling interest why the First Amendment can be put aside, and do so with the least amount of interference to the activities of religion.
#3. It does not matter that other businesses are included in these draconian orders. They are not specifically protected by the First Amendment. The Founding Fathers knew, first hand, what government interference was all about, knew what persecution of religion was all about, and knew government must be limited in its role for a free and sovereign people. Freedom of religion is not the same as freedom to hang out at the mall, or go to a restaurant. The Framers understood the vital interest of freedom of religion to the fabric of society and they specifically protected it from government intrusion: "Congress shall make NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Congregational worship is an establishment of religion.
#4. Every, single church body in the United States should disregard any government edicts, period, without serious compelling interests, which, in fact, if such a crisis actually existed, religion would already actively pursue best ways to protect themselves and their communities. Elected civil servants do not have the authority to tell religion what they can and cannot do, within the parameters of the rule of law. Only activist judges would rule against so simple a premise.
#5. From the beginning of this "crisis," abortion clinics were allowed to remain open as a necessary, essential, function, even though other types of health considerations, including elective surgeries, were shut down, and have cost lives as a result. Now, if, in free America, a woman can choose to go and terminate the baby inside her as an essential right, which certainly has no specific protection in the Constitution, and the baby has no advocacy, how is it the churches can be ordered to shut down when they do have specific protection and nobody is being killed, and citizens, at this point, are hardly dying from the illness in CA? The data shows a .02% death rate. It's a 1 per 100k ratio in the State. Shutting down anything at this point is NOT a compelling interest. Nobody is being protected by shutting down indoor church services.
#6. This attack on churches, synagogues, mosques, etc., is a determined effort by godless government dictators that has no legal teeth. It only has the power of force, not authority. Americans can acquiesce; they can just stay cowering in corners, or sit out in the Southern California heat for outside services, which are allowed. The government cannot allow or disallow anything relating to religion in the confines of the rule of law. Americans are free to decide for themselves if they want to worship God according to the dictates of their conscience, indoors, outdoors, on water, or on land any way they choose. That is the highest law of the nation. It is also found in almost every state constitution, including California's. Citizens are a free and sovereign people. They are free to do as they please without government interference. The entire point of the framing of the Constitution is to limit government, not the citizenry. To the Framers, government was a necessary evil. They lived through the essential necessity of government interference, brutality, and tyranny if those in power do not understand their roles. Well, kings and queens understand their roles just fine: totalitarianism. America is not a kingdom. It is a Constitutional Republic. It was a marvel of nations when it began and ascended to heights no nation ever understood before: the citizens are in control: not kings, queens, emperors, demi-gods, or any other ruling position. The same goes for elected civil servants.
#7. What is a "compelling interest?" Government is put in place to protect the law-biding and stop the law breakers. Just laws. Responsible laws. Adequate laws. Legislated laws coming from legislative bodies. Laws must show compelling interest. Certainly edicts and mandates from governors, mayors, town councils, etc., must show compelling interest. Compelling. Dramatic reason: backed by facts, data, and truthful information, not fear, not story telling, not political agenda, and not character flaws of those who somehow believe they are a king or queen of a domain. Interest. Not self-interest. Interest in protecting the freedom, liberty, and rights under God of the citizenry. When all numbers show this pandemic is no longer even an epidemic, and it is just another flu, all edicts should drop. Done. Sweden had no edicts, no lock downs, and they are doing just fine. Australia is locking people up. Canada is hauling people away to be placed in some kind of detention centers to force quarantining. The world has gone mad; or, ruling factions had already gone mad and drunk with power and we see the results.
#8. I am against "executive orders." They are the most easily misused and abused element in government. No single person or small body should ever be allowed to control anything but, their own lives. Period. The moment any elected civil servant has the authority and power granted to them to control anything, the door of abuse is swung wide open. Regardless of what you may believe about me, I do not endorse Trump's use of EO's, nor any other previous president's. If you have read the history of these orders and what they state, and understand the swath of American life that can be shut down with the stroke of a pen, you should believe the same. They are a dangerous aspect of American life. Politicians are no smarter, nor have they more wisdom than the American people, in general. They may think they are and do but, they do not. They are servants, not rulers. They are elected to serve the interests of the citizenry. That is no longer the case in America, obviously.
The very fact Obama stated openly he wished he could go past Congress to get things done, is a cased-closed fact we are living in a time when despotism can take over America. No POTUS should have such a desire. It is an absolute guarantee they have no understanding of their role and position. Any president who wishes they could bypass Congress, the legislative body of this nation, is a dictator in heart. A real elected civil servant would be aghast to have such a thought, even if the majority controlling the House and Senate are opposing parties. Americans, for better or worse, elect whom they elect, and that is settled. Civil servants must find ways to work together for the good of the nation under the limits of the Constitutions they function under, not above. Bypassing legislative bodies can only be a recipe for despotism. The system is not bad. The people in it can be, and many are, and abuse, corruption of the system has taken place.
Staying within the confines of the rule of law, and limitations upon government, is not easy for those who seek to remove its limitations. It is very easy for law-biding people, going about their business. It is very hard for those who think they know better, are above the law; and politics is now saturated with these types of people. Godless, narcissistic, zero common sense, driven individuals seeking power and control ... the American experiment has failed. Freedom and liberty, rights granted by God, mean nothing to the godless and apparently little to those who claim belief; because we are on the precipice of the nation falling into complete, utter tyranny and totalitarian rule.
Americans must do far more than just share information. That helps to wake people up to the real crisis at hand. It does little to stop the tide of godlessness. Even an atheist can recognize the benefit of people of faith in a society, when religion tempers radical action. Yes, professed Christians (who were not and are not), can and have caused tremendous suffering down through the ages. So have the godless. Nobody has any stones to throw. That said, when a nation has a majority of people who do actually believe in a divine, beneficent Sovereign, society functions in calmness and is able and always willing to help for those in need; by charitable actions, not forced by governments.
America used to be that type of nation. Decade by decade, generation by generation, the principles of Americanism have been weakened so much, the nation stands at a point of no return: a place worse than any armed conflict she has been engaged in, facing any foreign enemy. Domestic enemies now outnumber foreign enemies in such great numbers, it seems America cannot survive.
Reelecting Donald Trump means almost nothing, with godless forces planning to destroy the nation to get their way. What happens four years from now when Trump is replaced? The enemies of freedom are relentless. Are opposing forces against tyranny going to remain vigilant, as they wake up to the crisis the nation is in?
The only question now is what will God do? Will He step in somehow, someway? Will He just stand back and let America reap what it has sown?
In the end, those are the only questions that matter. Man only does what God inspires or allows, period. He will save America from ruin, for the sake of His compelling interests, or allow it to fall, for the sake of His compelling interests. I believe He will do what is just, what is necessary, what is righteous, and what is ultimately best for America. God is love. God is just. God is truth. God is light.
America has been more blessed than any other nation in the history of the world. We may be about to find out just what happens when God says, 'Enough. America is joined to idols. Leave it alone.'
What part of the principled term, "Compelling Interest," do county health officials and judges not understand?
John McArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church, out in Los Angeles county, CA, and his congregation (as well as any other church in the county), has been handed a court sanctioned ban on indoor services because the county has the authority to shut things down in an "emergency."
#1. Religion is specifically protected by the U.S. Constitution.
#2. In the face of an actual, real, crisis, government must show a compelling interest why the First Amendment can be put aside, and do so with the least amount of interference to the activities of religion.
#3. It does not matter that other businesses are included in these draconian orders. They are not specifically protected by the First Amendment. The Founding Fathers knew, first hand, what government interference was all about, knew what persecution of religion was all about, and knew government must be limited in its role for a free and sovereign people. Freedom of religion is not the same as freedom to hang out at the mall, or go to a restaurant. The Framers understood the vital interest of freedom of religion to the fabric of society and they specifically protected it from government intrusion: "Congress shall make NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Congregational worship is an establishment of religion.
#4. Every, single church body in the United States should disregard any government edicts, period, without serious compelling interests, which, in fact, if such a crisis actually existed, religion would already actively pursue best ways to protect themselves and their communities. Elected civil servants do not have the authority to tell religion what they can and cannot do, within the parameters of the rule of law. Only activist judges would rule against so simple a premise.
#5. From the beginning of this "crisis," abortion clinics were allowed to remain open as a necessary, essential, function, even though other types of health considerations, including elective surgeries, were shut down, and have cost lives as a result. Now, if, in free America, a woman can choose to go and terminate the baby inside her as an essential right, which certainly has no specific protection in the Constitution, and the baby has no advocacy, how is it the churches can be ordered to shut down when they do have specific protection and nobody is being killed, and citizens, at this point, are hardly dying from the illness in CA? The data shows a .02% death rate. It's a 1 per 100k ratio in the State. Shutting down anything at this point is NOT a compelling interest. Nobody is being protected by shutting down indoor church services.
#6. This attack on churches, synagogues, mosques, etc., is a determined effort by godless government dictators that has no legal teeth. It only has the power of force, not authority. Americans can acquiesce; they can just stay cowering in corners, or sit out in the Southern California heat for outside services, which are allowed. The government cannot allow or disallow anything relating to religion in the confines of the rule of law. Americans are free to decide for themselves if they want to worship God according to the dictates of their conscience, indoors, outdoors, on water, or on land any way they choose. That is the highest law of the nation. It is also found in almost every state constitution, including California's. Citizens are a free and sovereign people. They are free to do as they please without government interference. The entire point of the framing of the Constitution is to limit government, not the citizenry. To the Framers, government was a necessary evil. They lived through the essential necessity of government interference, brutality, and tyranny if those in power do not understand their roles. Well, kings and queens understand their roles just fine: totalitarianism. America is not a kingdom. It is a Constitutional Republic. It was a marvel of nations when it began and ascended to heights no nation ever understood before: the citizens are in control: not kings, queens, emperors, demi-gods, or any other ruling position. The same goes for elected civil servants.
#7. What is a "compelling interest?" Government is put in place to protect the law-biding and stop the law breakers. Just laws. Responsible laws. Adequate laws. Legislated laws coming from legislative bodies. Laws must show compelling interest. Certainly edicts and mandates from governors, mayors, town councils, etc., must show compelling interest. Compelling. Dramatic reason: backed by facts, data, and truthful information, not fear, not story telling, not political agenda, and not character flaws of those who somehow believe they are a king or queen of a domain. Interest. Not self-interest. Interest in protecting the freedom, liberty, and rights under God of the citizenry. When all numbers show this pandemic is no longer even an epidemic, and it is just another flu, all edicts should drop. Done. Sweden had no edicts, no lock downs, and they are doing just fine. Australia is locking people up. Canada is hauling people away to be placed in some kind of detention centers to force quarantining. The world has gone mad; or, ruling factions had already gone mad and drunk with power and we see the results.
#8. I am against "executive orders." They are the most easily misused and abused element in government. No single person or small body should ever be allowed to control anything but, their own lives. Period. The moment any elected civil servant has the authority and power granted to them to control anything, the door of abuse is swung wide open. Regardless of what you may believe about me, I do not endorse Trump's use of EO's, nor any other previous president's. If you have read the history of these orders and what they state, and understand the swath of American life that can be shut down with the stroke of a pen, you should believe the same. They are a dangerous aspect of American life. Politicians are no smarter, nor have they more wisdom than the American people, in general. They may think they are and do but, they do not. They are servants, not rulers. They are elected to serve the interests of the citizenry. That is no longer the case in America, obviously.
The very fact Obama stated openly he wished he could go past Congress to get things done, is a cased-closed fact we are living in a time when despotism can take over America. No POTUS should have such a desire. It is an absolute guarantee they have no understanding of their role and position. Any president who wishes they could bypass Congress, the legislative body of this nation, is a dictator in heart. A real elected civil servant would be aghast to have such a thought, even if the majority controlling the House and Senate are opposing parties. Americans, for better or worse, elect whom they elect, and that is settled. Civil servants must find ways to work together for the good of the nation under the limits of the Constitutions they function under, not above. Bypassing legislative bodies can only be a recipe for despotism. The system is not bad. The people in it can be, and many are, and abuse, corruption of the system has taken place.
Staying within the confines of the rule of law, and limitations upon government, is not easy for those who seek to remove its limitations. It is very easy for law-biding people, going about their business. It is very hard for those who think they know better, are above the law; and politics is now saturated with these types of people. Godless, narcissistic, zero common sense, driven individuals seeking power and control ... the American experiment has failed. Freedom and liberty, rights granted by God, mean nothing to the godless and apparently little to those who claim belief; because we are on the precipice of the nation falling into complete, utter tyranny and totalitarian rule.
Americans must do far more than just share information. That helps to wake people up to the real crisis at hand. It does little to stop the tide of godlessness. Even an atheist can recognize the benefit of people of faith in a society, when religion tempers radical action. Yes, professed Christians (who were not and are not), can and have caused tremendous suffering down through the ages. So have the godless. Nobody has any stones to throw. That said, when a nation has a majority of people who do actually believe in a divine, beneficent Sovereign, society functions in calmness and is able and always willing to help for those in need; by charitable actions, not forced by governments.
America used to be that type of nation. Decade by decade, generation by generation, the principles of Americanism have been weakened so much, the nation stands at a point of no return: a place worse than any armed conflict she has been engaged in, facing any foreign enemy. Domestic enemies now outnumber foreign enemies in such great numbers, it seems America cannot survive.
Reelecting Donald Trump means almost nothing, with godless forces planning to destroy the nation to get their way. What happens four years from now when Trump is replaced? The enemies of freedom are relentless. Are opposing forces against tyranny going to remain vigilant, as they wake up to the crisis the nation is in?
The only question now is what will God do? Will He step in somehow, someway? Will He just stand back and let America reap what it has sown?
In the end, those are the only questions that matter. Man only does what God inspires or allows, period. He will save America from ruin, for the sake of His compelling interests, or allow it to fall, for the sake of His compelling interests. I believe He will do what is just, what is necessary, what is righteous, and what is ultimately best for America. God is love. God is just. God is truth. God is light.
America has been more blessed than any other nation in the history of the world. We may be about to find out just what happens when God says, 'Enough. America is joined to idols. Leave it alone.'
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114. Billy Cobham - September 14, 2020
Billy Cobham - the force of nature. That's a tornado. That's a hurricane. That's a volcano. That's a Billy Cobham.
It's late one night, listening to FM radio. This energy, this bombastic, explosive ... thing emanates from the speakers. It shocks my senses. It rivets me in place. I stare at the radio and the floor and wonder what on Earth I am hearing. Then, a drum solo hits. I squint my eyes and my mouth falls open. When it is over, I think I have just heard something so utterly impossible I am literally frozen and lifeless. I was hit by a musical stun gun.
When the storm passes the announcer says, That was a song from The Mahavishnu Orchestra's, The Inner Mounting Flame, titled Awakening.
Awakening? Awakening!?! I was dumbstruck. It was like a missile hit my bedroom and blew the place apart. Are you kidding me? Awakening? Yeah, I was awake. I had no idea what I just heard. The Maha-what?
Off to the record store at the plaza, in Milford, Connecticut I went. Flipping, flipping, flipping. There it is!!! Some guys sitting in a flame. The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Check out counter, out the door, home, turntable ... jaw dropped. C'mon. This is not possible. This makes everything else look like the Archies by comparison.
Hearing John McLaughlin, Jerry Goodman, Rick Laird, Jan Hammer, and Billy Cobham for the first time was akin to being turned inside out. Everything I knew or thought about music was buried, literally buried in the earth of my mind.
Billy Cobham ... a force of nature. There was no other way to understand his approach and talent behind a drum set. For me, he seemed to be Rich, Baker, Palmer, and everybody else, all rolled into one, with aliens thrown in there. Beyond Earth stuff. The huge difference - funk. My world was not surrounded by that. Cobham played the most crazy time signatures with abandon, and laid down these grooves completely foreign to me. Everything I played before seemed like a wooden toy soldier by comparison. Jazz meets Rock, meets Funk, meets World music. Fusion. Jazz Rock.
It is shown that Miles Davis really began the Fusion sound and movement. Alumni that played with him created the avalanche of bands that spawned from their experience with Miles. The Tony William's Lifetime came along. In quick succession there was Chick Corea's Return to Forever, Weather Report, Jean Luc Ponty, Larry Coryell's Eleventh House, Passport and others in Europe, Jeff Beck went there. Zappa went there. It was a movement unlike any other, demanding skills Rock had not asked for up to that point in time.
Someone once called Billy Cobham, the Father of us all. That is a very true statement for the artistry of drumming after his impact upon the music scene. His speed was inhuman. It was not the precision, rudimentary roll playing laid down by Palmer. Billy seemed to have four arms. The entire drum set exploded. It was a percussive volcano, a carpet bomb of sound. It literally shocked the senses of drummers in the Western hemisphere and beyond.
Buddy Rich once told Ed Shaughnessy, before they were to play a little drum battle on the Tonight Show: Just don't play any of that East Indian s--t." Far as I am concerned, Buddy was referring to the playing of Billy Cobham, within the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Billy played rudimentary rolls around his set that I had never heard before. His single stroke rolls around the drums was beyond belief but, he threw in rudiments in his fills that were totally unique for the time. He brought his years of drum corps to the set, along with Jazz phrasings, Funky fun, and energy that made a natural tempest seem like a sun shower by comparison.
That was all based on just hearing the man. I had yet to see him. When I did, it was another whole moment of shock and awe. He played a right handed set up, using left hand lead. !!!!! They referred to it as opened-handed playing after awhile. I don't know if he was the first player to go that direction but, he certainly made the most impact with it. His left hand on ride and hats was crazy enough but, he did things with his right hand, his snare hand, that defied all sense of coordination known to drumming before that time: he constantly crashed with it. He snapped at cymbals with his right hand. He'd play ride figures and his right hand went everywhere. Today, it is totally common to see players crash and punctuate with their snare hand. Back then, no way. Aside from song endings and rolls on cymbals, or alternating movements between hands to cymbals, nobody was playing time, crashing with their snare hand. Their ride hand crashed. That was just the common body movement players used. You rode and crashed with your dominant hand. Billy's right hand moved with as much power and speed as his left. Well, he is right handed by nature. That coordination was already there. He took it all to another level for "the weaker hand."
Billy is ambidextrous. He has no weak hand. He was an octopus in every direction. Nobody played like that before, period. It was an astounding experience to watch such tempered ferocity upon the set. Today, it is common. Then, it was Billy. Billy Cobham influenced the art of drumming in a bigger way than any other player in the latter 20th century. So many young people have no idea who the man is.
From playing time, to fills, to ideas for percussive sound, Billy was such an enormous influence upon me it became difficult to just play straight Rock time. Jazz drummers were always seen as "busy." Jazz Rock drummers - Lenny White, Alphonse Mouzon, Chester Thompson, Narada, Steve Smith, Gary Novak, Mike Clark, Steve Gadd ... an extending list of fantastic players, just burst upon the scene. People alive back then remember the incredible impact these players had upon the art of drumming. Billy, with the MO, was the foundation of it all.
Billy is another schooled player, and also a great composer and arranger. Having three of four major influences upon my life as a drumist being schooled musicians, you'd think I'd have hit a grindstone and just dug in and got myself musically educated, as well. Like I said, just didn't happen that way.
Billy got into sounds. He pioneered the use of Octobans. He was in the forefront of using Chinas for hard time. He constantly experimented with his set-ups, mixing things up, adding things, like North Drums. He got into electronics, like layering things in his solos. One of the first, if not the first player to use a Gong bass. His cymbal set-up stayed the same but, that China, ride, and three crashes saw more activity in a performance than any three drummers combined.
He once said he liked to chop wood for exercise. He was solid as a rock, and hit with tremendous force that shook a room. When I saw him live, in New Haven, CT, with the MO and then with his own band, his sheer power on the instrument was a literal Bison stampede. Probably gave nightmares to sound guys.
There's a solo on YT, Tenth Pin, taken from a European gig with his band, that gets into some mind boggling moves. Well, any solo from the time period goes there. You can watch the video of the great Louie Bellson and Cobham playing with a full big band and Billy went a little easy on Louie, and the differences are so staggering, at times it is breathtaking. You can watch the classic approach with the new approach and the lesson in contrasts is a beautiful thing to behold. Someone also put together five different solos of Billy's into one video.
Billy was a bar raiser for me at a time when my drum-thinking was really honing itself. I had a playing configuration down that I felt comfortable with. Lots of drums, cymbals and effects sounds. Billy's movements around the set just challenged me and pushed me more than any other player I ever encountered. He challenged everybody.
Like all of us, Billy has slowed down with age. In his 70's he can still drive a band with great authority and fun. His drum set still remains different from "normal" set-ups, alternating the size of rack toms in their positions. He has spent a career thinking outside the box when it comes to drums and drumming.
Billy Cobham - force of nature. If you were alive to see it all happen, you watched musical and drumming history take place. I was among those fortunate players to see it all explode and call us to higher and higher possibilities.
It's late one night, listening to FM radio. This energy, this bombastic, explosive ... thing emanates from the speakers. It shocks my senses. It rivets me in place. I stare at the radio and the floor and wonder what on Earth I am hearing. Then, a drum solo hits. I squint my eyes and my mouth falls open. When it is over, I think I have just heard something so utterly impossible I am literally frozen and lifeless. I was hit by a musical stun gun.
When the storm passes the announcer says, That was a song from The Mahavishnu Orchestra's, The Inner Mounting Flame, titled Awakening.
Awakening? Awakening!?! I was dumbstruck. It was like a missile hit my bedroom and blew the place apart. Are you kidding me? Awakening? Yeah, I was awake. I had no idea what I just heard. The Maha-what?
Off to the record store at the plaza, in Milford, Connecticut I went. Flipping, flipping, flipping. There it is!!! Some guys sitting in a flame. The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Check out counter, out the door, home, turntable ... jaw dropped. C'mon. This is not possible. This makes everything else look like the Archies by comparison.
Hearing John McLaughlin, Jerry Goodman, Rick Laird, Jan Hammer, and Billy Cobham for the first time was akin to being turned inside out. Everything I knew or thought about music was buried, literally buried in the earth of my mind.
Billy Cobham ... a force of nature. There was no other way to understand his approach and talent behind a drum set. For me, he seemed to be Rich, Baker, Palmer, and everybody else, all rolled into one, with aliens thrown in there. Beyond Earth stuff. The huge difference - funk. My world was not surrounded by that. Cobham played the most crazy time signatures with abandon, and laid down these grooves completely foreign to me. Everything I played before seemed like a wooden toy soldier by comparison. Jazz meets Rock, meets Funk, meets World music. Fusion. Jazz Rock.
It is shown that Miles Davis really began the Fusion sound and movement. Alumni that played with him created the avalanche of bands that spawned from their experience with Miles. The Tony William's Lifetime came along. In quick succession there was Chick Corea's Return to Forever, Weather Report, Jean Luc Ponty, Larry Coryell's Eleventh House, Passport and others in Europe, Jeff Beck went there. Zappa went there. It was a movement unlike any other, demanding skills Rock had not asked for up to that point in time.
Someone once called Billy Cobham, the Father of us all. That is a very true statement for the artistry of drumming after his impact upon the music scene. His speed was inhuman. It was not the precision, rudimentary roll playing laid down by Palmer. Billy seemed to have four arms. The entire drum set exploded. It was a percussive volcano, a carpet bomb of sound. It literally shocked the senses of drummers in the Western hemisphere and beyond.
Buddy Rich once told Ed Shaughnessy, before they were to play a little drum battle on the Tonight Show: Just don't play any of that East Indian s--t." Far as I am concerned, Buddy was referring to the playing of Billy Cobham, within the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Billy played rudimentary rolls around his set that I had never heard before. His single stroke rolls around the drums was beyond belief but, he threw in rudiments in his fills that were totally unique for the time. He brought his years of drum corps to the set, along with Jazz phrasings, Funky fun, and energy that made a natural tempest seem like a sun shower by comparison.
That was all based on just hearing the man. I had yet to see him. When I did, it was another whole moment of shock and awe. He played a right handed set up, using left hand lead. !!!!! They referred to it as opened-handed playing after awhile. I don't know if he was the first player to go that direction but, he certainly made the most impact with it. His left hand on ride and hats was crazy enough but, he did things with his right hand, his snare hand, that defied all sense of coordination known to drumming before that time: he constantly crashed with it. He snapped at cymbals with his right hand. He'd play ride figures and his right hand went everywhere. Today, it is totally common to see players crash and punctuate with their snare hand. Back then, no way. Aside from song endings and rolls on cymbals, or alternating movements between hands to cymbals, nobody was playing time, crashing with their snare hand. Their ride hand crashed. That was just the common body movement players used. You rode and crashed with your dominant hand. Billy's right hand moved with as much power and speed as his left. Well, he is right handed by nature. That coordination was already there. He took it all to another level for "the weaker hand."
Billy is ambidextrous. He has no weak hand. He was an octopus in every direction. Nobody played like that before, period. It was an astounding experience to watch such tempered ferocity upon the set. Today, it is common. Then, it was Billy. Billy Cobham influenced the art of drumming in a bigger way than any other player in the latter 20th century. So many young people have no idea who the man is.
From playing time, to fills, to ideas for percussive sound, Billy was such an enormous influence upon me it became difficult to just play straight Rock time. Jazz drummers were always seen as "busy." Jazz Rock drummers - Lenny White, Alphonse Mouzon, Chester Thompson, Narada, Steve Smith, Gary Novak, Mike Clark, Steve Gadd ... an extending list of fantastic players, just burst upon the scene. People alive back then remember the incredible impact these players had upon the art of drumming. Billy, with the MO, was the foundation of it all.
Billy is another schooled player, and also a great composer and arranger. Having three of four major influences upon my life as a drumist being schooled musicians, you'd think I'd have hit a grindstone and just dug in and got myself musically educated, as well. Like I said, just didn't happen that way.
Billy got into sounds. He pioneered the use of Octobans. He was in the forefront of using Chinas for hard time. He constantly experimented with his set-ups, mixing things up, adding things, like North Drums. He got into electronics, like layering things in his solos. One of the first, if not the first player to use a Gong bass. His cymbal set-up stayed the same but, that China, ride, and three crashes saw more activity in a performance than any three drummers combined.
He once said he liked to chop wood for exercise. He was solid as a rock, and hit with tremendous force that shook a room. When I saw him live, in New Haven, CT, with the MO and then with his own band, his sheer power on the instrument was a literal Bison stampede. Probably gave nightmares to sound guys.
There's a solo on YT, Tenth Pin, taken from a European gig with his band, that gets into some mind boggling moves. Well, any solo from the time period goes there. You can watch the video of the great Louie Bellson and Cobham playing with a full big band and Billy went a little easy on Louie, and the differences are so staggering, at times it is breathtaking. You can watch the classic approach with the new approach and the lesson in contrasts is a beautiful thing to behold. Someone also put together five different solos of Billy's into one video.
Billy was a bar raiser for me at a time when my drum-thinking was really honing itself. I had a playing configuration down that I felt comfortable with. Lots of drums, cymbals and effects sounds. Billy's movements around the set just challenged me and pushed me more than any other player I ever encountered. He challenged everybody.
Like all of us, Billy has slowed down with age. In his 70's he can still drive a band with great authority and fun. His drum set still remains different from "normal" set-ups, alternating the size of rack toms in their positions. He has spent a career thinking outside the box when it comes to drums and drumming.
Billy Cobham - force of nature. If you were alive to see it all happen, you watched musical and drumming history take place. I was among those fortunate players to see it all explode and call us to higher and higher possibilities.
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115. Told You So: Man-made, Manipulated Event - September 16, 2020
It's hard to be angry anymore. It's tiring to be angry every day at what has happened and continues to happen. The lunatic, dictator wannabes are ruining their states, their cities, millions upon millions of lives, and at this point, things will either get worse and total collapse will come, which is their intent; or Americans will rise up in a display never seen in history and stop this by any means necessary. Time will tell.
Months ago, based on the information available, I stated this was a man-made, manipulated event. The virus is not from bats or any other natural source. It was likely started in a USA laboratory, left in the hands of a Chinese researcher when America placed a moratorium on messing around with these dangerous viruses, wound up in Wuhan, China laboratories, where it was manipulated, released, and the results were used by nefarious entities to do as much damage to the world economy as possible.
A whistle blower has come out and stated what she knows. Chinese virologist, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, began writing about this, and in just two days of starting a page on Twitter, had it shut down. She was on Tucker Carlson's program last night. I just watched the interview. If you want to see it, here's a link:
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/i-am-target-silenced-chinese-virologist-tells-tucker-covid-19-intentionally-released-ccp
She is just telling the world what many already knew. She's a brave woman, with more guts than all politicians put together; who know this situation and have used it to destroy their nations. I have no doubt all leaders have known this for months. Nobody had the courage to say anything. Just to call this the Wuhan China virus would get you buried in "racist" piles. The "intelligent" among us do not seem to realize the Chinese are not a race. They don't need to know anything but, how to promote fear, misinformation, disinformation, and manipulation, as a policy. That's all that is necessary.
Yesterday was "Burn Your Mask" day. People have woken up and have had it. Floating armadas have been taking place in both the Atlantic and Pacific, where literally thousands of boats supporting Trump can be seen in water parades. Same as on lakes. On the highways, vehicle parades, with hundreds and thousands of cars, trucks, bikers and banners are taking place coast to coast, in support of reelecting Trump. The mainstream news will not show you any of this. Their agenda is destroy Donald Trump, period.
I recently watched a couple docu-movies about the civil war; both over 4 hours long. Very well made. The horror of ancient methods of war: lining up soldiers like targets for rifle shooting and cannon balls, was unimaginable. Yet, there it was. Honest men of faith on both sides, many knowing each other, was beyond tragic. Six-hundred and twenty-five thousand dead in four years.
Unless you are living in a cave you see the absolute division in the USA today. Extreme right, extreme left, millions in the middle that shall not escape when the bigger confrontations take place. Like the battle of Fredericksburg, VA, hundreds had to leave their homes lest they die in the blasting, looting, and carnage before the Southern army pushed the Union out. The Union death and injury toll was staggering.
People living in cities today have nowhere to go. Leave their homes and pick up the pieces elsewhere? Where? Jobs? Not anywhere and everywhere, and where they are, they are snatched up quickly. People are literally trapped in some of these cities under siege. It's going to get worse. Even if the rebels are pushed out by forces of civilian militia or police, or military levels, it will not be without a great deal of destruction, pain and suffering.
Trump will win in a landslide. What will he win? At this point, any sane man would say, "You can have it. You deal with it." The very fact Trump is running for reelection, after four years of constant, consistent, and outrageous attacks and lies, and twisting of everything he says or does, tells me he has more love for Americanism than the whole Democrat Party combined. What will he do when the election dust settles? Who knows. Who knows when the dust will settle, and what is left when it settles, and what could be done to bring anything back to a semblance of normality, and that means previous normality, before Covid.
God forbid Biden wins. That will make Harris president, and that would be, based on her previous political career and positions, the death of Americanism and the way of life that has drawn hundreds of millions here from around the world over the last two centuries. Unless Republicans take the House, keep the Senate, and win governorships and mayoral contests this election cycle. That will not make things great but, at least keep catastrophe from happening as quickly as if the Leftist, Socialist, Communist elitists gain more control.
What a mess. What an absolute bowl a scrambled eggs. You can't unscramble eggs. I do not see this scrambled American mess going back to the way things were. Ever. What comes next will be a rock and a hard place by any definition.
Big tech controlling more and more of what we see and can place before the populace in a free marketplace. Despotism and tyranny. Conflict. Here is Trump being nominated by various entities for a Nobel peace prize for his administration's international work, and in his own land, anything but, peace. Go figure.
I would hate to wake up one day soon and see that Dr. Yan is no longer among the living. May God protect her.
Not much we can do but, stand up for our principles and beliefs, like her, and see how things develop and pan out.
God help us.
Months ago, based on the information available, I stated this was a man-made, manipulated event. The virus is not from bats or any other natural source. It was likely started in a USA laboratory, left in the hands of a Chinese researcher when America placed a moratorium on messing around with these dangerous viruses, wound up in Wuhan, China laboratories, where it was manipulated, released, and the results were used by nefarious entities to do as much damage to the world economy as possible.
A whistle blower has come out and stated what she knows. Chinese virologist, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, began writing about this, and in just two days of starting a page on Twitter, had it shut down. She was on Tucker Carlson's program last night. I just watched the interview. If you want to see it, here's a link:
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/i-am-target-silenced-chinese-virologist-tells-tucker-covid-19-intentionally-released-ccp
She is just telling the world what many already knew. She's a brave woman, with more guts than all politicians put together; who know this situation and have used it to destroy their nations. I have no doubt all leaders have known this for months. Nobody had the courage to say anything. Just to call this the Wuhan China virus would get you buried in "racist" piles. The "intelligent" among us do not seem to realize the Chinese are not a race. They don't need to know anything but, how to promote fear, misinformation, disinformation, and manipulation, as a policy. That's all that is necessary.
Yesterday was "Burn Your Mask" day. People have woken up and have had it. Floating armadas have been taking place in both the Atlantic and Pacific, where literally thousands of boats supporting Trump can be seen in water parades. Same as on lakes. On the highways, vehicle parades, with hundreds and thousands of cars, trucks, bikers and banners are taking place coast to coast, in support of reelecting Trump. The mainstream news will not show you any of this. Their agenda is destroy Donald Trump, period.
I recently watched a couple docu-movies about the civil war; both over 4 hours long. Very well made. The horror of ancient methods of war: lining up soldiers like targets for rifle shooting and cannon balls, was unimaginable. Yet, there it was. Honest men of faith on both sides, many knowing each other, was beyond tragic. Six-hundred and twenty-five thousand dead in four years.
Unless you are living in a cave you see the absolute division in the USA today. Extreme right, extreme left, millions in the middle that shall not escape when the bigger confrontations take place. Like the battle of Fredericksburg, VA, hundreds had to leave their homes lest they die in the blasting, looting, and carnage before the Southern army pushed the Union out. The Union death and injury toll was staggering.
People living in cities today have nowhere to go. Leave their homes and pick up the pieces elsewhere? Where? Jobs? Not anywhere and everywhere, and where they are, they are snatched up quickly. People are literally trapped in some of these cities under siege. It's going to get worse. Even if the rebels are pushed out by forces of civilian militia or police, or military levels, it will not be without a great deal of destruction, pain and suffering.
Trump will win in a landslide. What will he win? At this point, any sane man would say, "You can have it. You deal with it." The very fact Trump is running for reelection, after four years of constant, consistent, and outrageous attacks and lies, and twisting of everything he says or does, tells me he has more love for Americanism than the whole Democrat Party combined. What will he do when the election dust settles? Who knows. Who knows when the dust will settle, and what is left when it settles, and what could be done to bring anything back to a semblance of normality, and that means previous normality, before Covid.
God forbid Biden wins. That will make Harris president, and that would be, based on her previous political career and positions, the death of Americanism and the way of life that has drawn hundreds of millions here from around the world over the last two centuries. Unless Republicans take the House, keep the Senate, and win governorships and mayoral contests this election cycle. That will not make things great but, at least keep catastrophe from happening as quickly as if the Leftist, Socialist, Communist elitists gain more control.
What a mess. What an absolute bowl a scrambled eggs. You can't unscramble eggs. I do not see this scrambled American mess going back to the way things were. Ever. What comes next will be a rock and a hard place by any definition.
Big tech controlling more and more of what we see and can place before the populace in a free marketplace. Despotism and tyranny. Conflict. Here is Trump being nominated by various entities for a Nobel peace prize for his administration's international work, and in his own land, anything but, peace. Go figure.
I would hate to wake up one day soon and see that Dr. Yan is no longer among the living. May God protect her.
Not much we can do but, stand up for our principles and beliefs, like her, and see how things develop and pan out.
God help us.
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116. FIRE! "Mass Fatality" Incidents? - September 16, 2020
The unprecedented number of wildfires out West have had a lot written about them thus far and I have nothing to add, per se.' The West coast has been a busy place for fire the last few years. Some of them burning so hot, and so weird, many have had cause to become suspicious and claim advanced machinery/weaponry have been used to turn everything in homes, everything, to nothing but white powder, which normal house fires do not do.
What I do find interesting is that, despite those arrested for starting fires or trying to start them, many of these fires are apparently burning along fault lines above magma chambers. Sparks at the surface of the land?
Beyond the normal msm hysteria over "climate change" and shouting how it is responsible for the fires, and thereby blaming Donald Trump because he refuses to acknowledge man-made climate change (and I agree with him and all the scientists calling bunk on that claim), the fact is, Trump has sent admin people into those states and asked that all the dead and dried junk littering the land be removed lest a real disaster strikes. Know-it-all state officials refused, and here we are. Millions of acres of kindling aiding the biggest numbers of fires ever seen at once. Not the worst, mind you. Data shows worse fires happened in previous decades before WW2. The population was smaller, and far fewer structures were damaged and destroyed, so, no big news back then.
If you come here and read, you know my faith and beliefs about last day events and the return of Christ. Check out this quote:
"Andrew Phelps, the director of Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management, told the media that he and other state officials are bracing for potential “mass fatality” incidents, which we can only speculate is an indicator that the wildfires are not going away anytime soon."
https://www.newstarget.com/2020-09-15-oregon-fire-officials-prepare-for-mass-fatality-event.html
Now, how can fires burning out in the middle of nowhere cause mass fatality incidents? Earthquakes, volcanoes, yes. Fires, not so much. As fast as these fires are moving, most homeowners still have time to get out to safety before advancing fire lines reach them. An earthquake? No. Volcano? Generally, some time leading up to an event but, not always.
So, what do Oregon officials know that they are not stating? Unless these fires move even more swiftly and people in populated areas cannot get out fast enough, how are mass fatality incidents going to take place?
The Bible says, the world waxes old like a garment. Man-made pollution is one thing. Man-made fires, man-made disasters of all kinds are ultimately controllable and containable if man acts correctly in each link of the chains they are responsible for. Natural disasters? No. Man has no control. If the planet swells, cracks, tears, rips, blows, shakes, rumbles, rains, floods, slides, craters, or whatever, there's little to nothing man can do but, pick up the pieces when the events are done.
The world "waxes" old, like a garment. The Old English world means, "increases." The world increases its aging and it's wearing out. Considering the age of the Earth, by evolutionary standards, and how long it should last (if we can just stop using plastic), is it not strange the Bible would make such a statement about the planet getting old and wearing out like a piece of clothing? The prediction is what it is, and believers in the Bible know the end of the world is going to come sooner or later. In most cases sooner, rather than later.
Fatality numbers are always taken into consideration with population growth, as they should. Same as dollar value of property destruction. Watch it all go bats. Watch it all defy numbers, and the world tells us it is tired of man, tired of sin, tired of rebellion, tired of his Satanic majesty in control: "the Prince of the power of the air."
Everything in nature is soon to be turned upside down. The reason? Men will say "climate change." Blame it on whatever, whoever is against their agenda. That will be the cover story. It will not be the reality. The reality is, Christ is coming. Make no mistake about that. Christ IS COMING.
EXPECT natural disasters to increase, in numbers and intensity. Expect disaster by land and sea. Expect the skies to rain, snow, drop ice, whatever, in shocking proportions. It is all going to begin happening. It already has. They shall be signs in the heavens and on Earth that the Creator, King, and Savior of the world is gearing up for the biggest, most catastrophic, colossal, glorious event in human history. It is on the way.
I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
What I do find interesting is that, despite those arrested for starting fires or trying to start them, many of these fires are apparently burning along fault lines above magma chambers. Sparks at the surface of the land?
Beyond the normal msm hysteria over "climate change" and shouting how it is responsible for the fires, and thereby blaming Donald Trump because he refuses to acknowledge man-made climate change (and I agree with him and all the scientists calling bunk on that claim), the fact is, Trump has sent admin people into those states and asked that all the dead and dried junk littering the land be removed lest a real disaster strikes. Know-it-all state officials refused, and here we are. Millions of acres of kindling aiding the biggest numbers of fires ever seen at once. Not the worst, mind you. Data shows worse fires happened in previous decades before WW2. The population was smaller, and far fewer structures were damaged and destroyed, so, no big news back then.
If you come here and read, you know my faith and beliefs about last day events and the return of Christ. Check out this quote:
"Andrew Phelps, the director of Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management, told the media that he and other state officials are bracing for potential “mass fatality” incidents, which we can only speculate is an indicator that the wildfires are not going away anytime soon."
https://www.newstarget.com/2020-09-15-oregon-fire-officials-prepare-for-mass-fatality-event.html
Now, how can fires burning out in the middle of nowhere cause mass fatality incidents? Earthquakes, volcanoes, yes. Fires, not so much. As fast as these fires are moving, most homeowners still have time to get out to safety before advancing fire lines reach them. An earthquake? No. Volcano? Generally, some time leading up to an event but, not always.
So, what do Oregon officials know that they are not stating? Unless these fires move even more swiftly and people in populated areas cannot get out fast enough, how are mass fatality incidents going to take place?
The Bible says, the world waxes old like a garment. Man-made pollution is one thing. Man-made fires, man-made disasters of all kinds are ultimately controllable and containable if man acts correctly in each link of the chains they are responsible for. Natural disasters? No. Man has no control. If the planet swells, cracks, tears, rips, blows, shakes, rumbles, rains, floods, slides, craters, or whatever, there's little to nothing man can do but, pick up the pieces when the events are done.
The world "waxes" old, like a garment. The Old English world means, "increases." The world increases its aging and it's wearing out. Considering the age of the Earth, by evolutionary standards, and how long it should last (if we can just stop using plastic), is it not strange the Bible would make such a statement about the planet getting old and wearing out like a piece of clothing? The prediction is what it is, and believers in the Bible know the end of the world is going to come sooner or later. In most cases sooner, rather than later.
Fatality numbers are always taken into consideration with population growth, as they should. Same as dollar value of property destruction. Watch it all go bats. Watch it all defy numbers, and the world tells us it is tired of man, tired of sin, tired of rebellion, tired of his Satanic majesty in control: "the Prince of the power of the air."
Everything in nature is soon to be turned upside down. The reason? Men will say "climate change." Blame it on whatever, whoever is against their agenda. That will be the cover story. It will not be the reality. The reality is, Christ is coming. Make no mistake about that. Christ IS COMING.
EXPECT natural disasters to increase, in numbers and intensity. Expect disaster by land and sea. Expect the skies to rain, snow, drop ice, whatever, in shocking proportions. It is all going to begin happening. It already has. They shall be signs in the heavens and on Earth that the Creator, King, and Savior of the world is gearing up for the biggest, most catastrophic, colossal, glorious event in human history. It is on the way.
I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
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117. Why I'm Voting - September 22, 2020
I never used to vote growing up. Zero interest in politics. I hated politics because politicians I saw on TV all seemed sleazy and untrustworthy. Not a great reason. My generation let America slip away into what it has become. We did not truly realize what would happen if citizens stayed careless.
I have never, iirc, posted an email here on this blog but, I received an email this morning that pretty much says why I am voting November 3rd. I have voted in two previous elections. Both made big differences in what America is and isn't but, should be.
I voted for Bush, second time around. Lesser of two evils. I voted against Clinton four years ago. Trump remains an enigma in many ways, for me. That said; this sums up my current thoughts and feelings about this election. I don't know who wrote it. I know it represents the thoughts and feelings and convictions of, at least, a hundred million Americans.
"That moment, when someone says, "I can't believe you would vote for Trump."
I'm not just voting for him.
I'm voting for the Second Amendment.
I'm voting for the next Supreme Court Justice.
I'm voting for the Electoral College & the Republic we live in.
I'm voting for the Police to be respected, and Law & Order.
I’m voting for our jobs to remain in America.
I'm voting for the Military & the Veterans who fought for this Country ... for the American People to have their freedom.
I’m voting to fight against human/child trafficking.
I’m voting for Christianity (Freedom of Religion) [First Amendment].
I'm voting for the American Flag that is disrespected by the Democrat Party.
I'm voting for the right to speak my opinion & not be censored.
I'm not just voting for one person, I'm voting for the future of my Country, for my children & my children’s children to have their freedom.
What are you voting for?"
I have no desire to live in a nation governed by socialism and certainly not communism. I want freedom, liberty, and rights given by God.
Joe Biden, to me, represents the worst of D.C., career politicians; only caring about getting reelected. They govern by polls and surveys. They say whatever is popular to say; whatever political handlers tell them to say. And not just that but, with Joe Biden, we are witnessing literal elder abuse. Why the Democrat Party sees this poor, frail, mentally-challenged man a viable candidate for the toughest job on Earth, is beyond me. Logically, Harris becomes POTUS if Biden wins. That is national insanity, given her past record and stated positions; if you love America and Americanism.
So, while I am not a 100% Trump fan, and he is certainly not a man with a 100% upstanding past; it is unlikely any single man can ever please anyone 100% of the time as President. I mean, even band fans are hardly ever pleased 100% of the time with every song recorded or performed by their favorite artists. Just the way it is but, Trump, as far as the principles of Americanism go, is the only reasonable, logical, and rational choice this time around.
Most political voices are saying America is in for turmoil such as it has never seen if Trump is reelected. Probably, well, definitely so, judging by current events. Near as I can tell, Trump will win in a landslide. Trouble is at the door.
As long as what arises from the ashes is not socialism or communism, America will survive.
It's going to be a rough ride. Not our first. Not our last.
I have never, iirc, posted an email here on this blog but, I received an email this morning that pretty much says why I am voting November 3rd. I have voted in two previous elections. Both made big differences in what America is and isn't but, should be.
I voted for Bush, second time around. Lesser of two evils. I voted against Clinton four years ago. Trump remains an enigma in many ways, for me. That said; this sums up my current thoughts and feelings about this election. I don't know who wrote it. I know it represents the thoughts and feelings and convictions of, at least, a hundred million Americans.
"That moment, when someone says, "I can't believe you would vote for Trump."
I'm not just voting for him.
I'm voting for the Second Amendment.
I'm voting for the next Supreme Court Justice.
I'm voting for the Electoral College & the Republic we live in.
I'm voting for the Police to be respected, and Law & Order.
I’m voting for our jobs to remain in America.
I'm voting for the Military & the Veterans who fought for this Country ... for the American People to have their freedom.
I’m voting to fight against human/child trafficking.
I’m voting for Christianity (Freedom of Religion) [First Amendment].
I'm voting for the American Flag that is disrespected by the Democrat Party.
I'm voting for the right to speak my opinion & not be censored.
I'm not just voting for one person, I'm voting for the future of my Country, for my children & my children’s children to have their freedom.
What are you voting for?"
I have no desire to live in a nation governed by socialism and certainly not communism. I want freedom, liberty, and rights given by God.
Joe Biden, to me, represents the worst of D.C., career politicians; only caring about getting reelected. They govern by polls and surveys. They say whatever is popular to say; whatever political handlers tell them to say. And not just that but, with Joe Biden, we are witnessing literal elder abuse. Why the Democrat Party sees this poor, frail, mentally-challenged man a viable candidate for the toughest job on Earth, is beyond me. Logically, Harris becomes POTUS if Biden wins. That is national insanity, given her past record and stated positions; if you love America and Americanism.
So, while I am not a 100% Trump fan, and he is certainly not a man with a 100% upstanding past; it is unlikely any single man can ever please anyone 100% of the time as President. I mean, even band fans are hardly ever pleased 100% of the time with every song recorded or performed by their favorite artists. Just the way it is but, Trump, as far as the principles of Americanism go, is the only reasonable, logical, and rational choice this time around.
Most political voices are saying America is in for turmoil such as it has never seen if Trump is reelected. Probably, well, definitely so, judging by current events. Near as I can tell, Trump will win in a landslide. Trouble is at the door.
As long as what arises from the ashes is not socialism or communism, America will survive.
It's going to be a rough ride. Not our first. Not our last.
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118. Creating Drum Parts - September 23, 2020
Back in the '60s and '70's the music exploration movement seemed to have large swaths of two basic approaches to drumming. Those who went with various levels of freedom and those who went with various levels of creating parts, choreographing what they played, song to song.
Obviously the music band's got into played an enormous role in how drummers approached their craft. After writing the past blogs on my major influences and the bands they were in, and the music they played, you can see the two approaches laid out well in Classical/Progressive Rock, as opposed to Fusion. Prog had a lot of players that created parts. Fusion had players that just really went for it, from the heart and soul of what the music created in them to play.
By the time Legend came along, I was leaning more to the freedom side but, had a mindset to create "parts" for various pieces we played: trying to go beyond just keeping time and performing fills in places. Certain rhythm patterns just developed based on how I heard the music.
Neal Peart was someone into creating parts. He did it for a long time with RUSH. So much so, I have often read of people out in their audiences air drumming those parts, so well known by RUSH's fans.
There seems to be a resurgence into creating very specific parts for songs in all genres but, if YT is any indication, Prog, Hard Rock, and Metal, especially. Blast Beats seems to have run a course and players want things broken up, and are using kick patterns and other things to do that.
Today's prominent and rising young players are really into creating very intricate patterns. Lots of hi-hat variations with kick notes. Employing each drum and cymbal in the process of a pattern, using the tones from each one as a separate note in the parts.
I have not done any personal or remote recording and have to get into it now. I was looking up things about Reaper and one of the hits on YT was a guy using it to record the band's drummer. Rather than a tutorial on how Reaper works, he just videoed a screen shot of what he was doing as the drummer recorded. The guy had some very interesting, coordinated parts he employed in the song. So intricate, he was having to do take after take to get things correct.
In getting ready to record my tracks for The Hendrickson ~ Frigon Project's upcoming album, I am leaving the world of improvisation that Tom Cranor and I got into, as Miledge Muzic, since 2011, and find myself delving into the mind and music of Gary Hendrickson; thick with ideas and 30-60 tracks of stuff happening on each song he composes. I told him the other day, if anyone told me two years ago I'd be thrilled to perform drum duties on a Hard Rock album, I'd have squinted my eyes, smiled and said, "Yeah, I don't think so." Well, here I am.
Gary's music is saturated with things that inspire creating things to go with it. Lots of things happening, weaving in and out of the music.
How does a drummer create parts for songs? I can give you my approach. First thing is lyrics. For me, the message of the song will determine things I do, especially where fills come in but, also, how the lyrics flow, and what I choose to punctuate because of them. They cannot be separated from the music, of course. It all works together. The music and lyrics form a type of dance, for me. Picture the man, 'leading,' the woman 'following,' or doing things in unison. Same kind of thing with pairs skating. Woman flows, man offers strength in lifts and such. I kind of get into that kind of thinking when the music inspires me to think "parts."
Lyrics and music that generate "themes," also come into play. In the case of the THFP, there is a definite theme: patriotism, Americanism, God, family, country, current events, future events, etc. and all of it creates patterns in my mind when it comes to rhythm and sounds.
I have my big rig set-up again. First time in many years. I just moved stuff out of the bedroom and squeezed the set in. And I mean squeeze. I literally have to squeeze by a particular boom arm to get behind the set. Aside from that slight inconvenience, I have before me a family of drums, cymbals, and effects that will offer a palette of sounds to contribute to the thought process and how I'm moved to immerse myself into the songs. Calling them songs is quite a generalized term. So much happens in Gary's compositions they seem more like a movie without the film to see.
Lyrics, messages, themes, the music itself, the entire environment I am sitting in, physically: all of it goes into how I think about what I am hearing and how that translates into what I'll play. Thirteen drums to work with, and a whole bunch of cymbals and such, all goes into my mind-set and emotional, intellectual performance.
Oddly enough, I have never found myself coming up with rhythms or drum parts to engage with a bass player. I never "locked in" with a bassist by design. I am much more prone to creating drum parts listening to the melody of a song. My largest influences upon my craft were players who think "musically," as well as, if not more than rhythmically or percussively. So, melody is just as, or more important to me than the time and tempo of a song.
I've written about big drum sets before. I won't repeat myself but, many people, even drummers, seem to have a "thing" against large set-ups: "What do you need all that for?" I say again; a piano has 88 keys. They cannot be played all at once and more than likely, all 88 will not be used throughout a performance but, they're nice to have there if you want to use them. Nobody seems to question a keyboard player with multiple instruments set-up, with a total of hundreds of keys and literally thousands of sounds to choose from. A drummer puts up more than six drums and four cymbals and hats and it's considered overkill. No. It may take a long time to set-up really large rigs, even with memory locks but, having the array of limited sounds players have at their disposal and actual cubic footage to set it up, is hardly overkill, by comparison. A guitarist will use multiple guitars, all kinds of rack equipment and foot pedal rigs, have hundreds, if not thousands of options for notes and sounds, depending on what they use, and drummers who think of what they do as musicians playing music are supposed to just be satisfied with four drums and a few cymbals to keep time and give everybody else the room to explore and have fun? Not happening in my world.
The creation of parts for a song need not have to have a large set. No. I mean, right from the start, Ringo played interesting parts and fills he designed for songs on his 4 and then 5 pc kits with a couple cymbals and hats. That said, The Beatles, at their deepest musical level, was still a Pop band and did not venture into anything more complex than Sgt. Pepper's. Classical/Prog Rock, Fusion, and aspects of Hard Rock and Metal, got much more complex and opened the doors for drumists to really get into what they do, from a literal, choreographed place in the bands they propelled. Which is not say ANY approach chosen by any drummer, simple or complex is wrong. That is totally subjective. Whatever players and bands believe works best for their music is what they go with. I am probably somewhere in between the arenas of simple versus complex. I get bored with total simplicity and really have no mindset for deeply complex patterns, especially if I had to repeat them over and over playing live. Those days are gone, now, and recording is about all I'll be into the rest of my life, such as it is but, the thought process for the extremely complex is just not part of my being when it comes to rhythm.
We each play what we feel, in very personal, subjective ways. "Can you play something like this," or "Can you try that," or "How about this?" is all well and good. It's actually nice to work with musicians who care about what is happening in the world of percussion. For Gary, who is really into programming drums, loves kick drums as a central proponent of a song, and tells me to just go for it, for whatever I come up with, is freedom, indeed.
I am really looking forward to this.
Obviously the music band's got into played an enormous role in how drummers approached their craft. After writing the past blogs on my major influences and the bands they were in, and the music they played, you can see the two approaches laid out well in Classical/Progressive Rock, as opposed to Fusion. Prog had a lot of players that created parts. Fusion had players that just really went for it, from the heart and soul of what the music created in them to play.
By the time Legend came along, I was leaning more to the freedom side but, had a mindset to create "parts" for various pieces we played: trying to go beyond just keeping time and performing fills in places. Certain rhythm patterns just developed based on how I heard the music.
Neal Peart was someone into creating parts. He did it for a long time with RUSH. So much so, I have often read of people out in their audiences air drumming those parts, so well known by RUSH's fans.
There seems to be a resurgence into creating very specific parts for songs in all genres but, if YT is any indication, Prog, Hard Rock, and Metal, especially. Blast Beats seems to have run a course and players want things broken up, and are using kick patterns and other things to do that.
Today's prominent and rising young players are really into creating very intricate patterns. Lots of hi-hat variations with kick notes. Employing each drum and cymbal in the process of a pattern, using the tones from each one as a separate note in the parts.
I have not done any personal or remote recording and have to get into it now. I was looking up things about Reaper and one of the hits on YT was a guy using it to record the band's drummer. Rather than a tutorial on how Reaper works, he just videoed a screen shot of what he was doing as the drummer recorded. The guy had some very interesting, coordinated parts he employed in the song. So intricate, he was having to do take after take to get things correct.
In getting ready to record my tracks for The Hendrickson ~ Frigon Project's upcoming album, I am leaving the world of improvisation that Tom Cranor and I got into, as Miledge Muzic, since 2011, and find myself delving into the mind and music of Gary Hendrickson; thick with ideas and 30-60 tracks of stuff happening on each song he composes. I told him the other day, if anyone told me two years ago I'd be thrilled to perform drum duties on a Hard Rock album, I'd have squinted my eyes, smiled and said, "Yeah, I don't think so." Well, here I am.
Gary's music is saturated with things that inspire creating things to go with it. Lots of things happening, weaving in and out of the music.
How does a drummer create parts for songs? I can give you my approach. First thing is lyrics. For me, the message of the song will determine things I do, especially where fills come in but, also, how the lyrics flow, and what I choose to punctuate because of them. They cannot be separated from the music, of course. It all works together. The music and lyrics form a type of dance, for me. Picture the man, 'leading,' the woman 'following,' or doing things in unison. Same kind of thing with pairs skating. Woman flows, man offers strength in lifts and such. I kind of get into that kind of thinking when the music inspires me to think "parts."
Lyrics and music that generate "themes," also come into play. In the case of the THFP, there is a definite theme: patriotism, Americanism, God, family, country, current events, future events, etc. and all of it creates patterns in my mind when it comes to rhythm and sounds.
I have my big rig set-up again. First time in many years. I just moved stuff out of the bedroom and squeezed the set in. And I mean squeeze. I literally have to squeeze by a particular boom arm to get behind the set. Aside from that slight inconvenience, I have before me a family of drums, cymbals, and effects that will offer a palette of sounds to contribute to the thought process and how I'm moved to immerse myself into the songs. Calling them songs is quite a generalized term. So much happens in Gary's compositions they seem more like a movie without the film to see.
Lyrics, messages, themes, the music itself, the entire environment I am sitting in, physically: all of it goes into how I think about what I am hearing and how that translates into what I'll play. Thirteen drums to work with, and a whole bunch of cymbals and such, all goes into my mind-set and emotional, intellectual performance.
Oddly enough, I have never found myself coming up with rhythms or drum parts to engage with a bass player. I never "locked in" with a bassist by design. I am much more prone to creating drum parts listening to the melody of a song. My largest influences upon my craft were players who think "musically," as well as, if not more than rhythmically or percussively. So, melody is just as, or more important to me than the time and tempo of a song.
I've written about big drum sets before. I won't repeat myself but, many people, even drummers, seem to have a "thing" against large set-ups: "What do you need all that for?" I say again; a piano has 88 keys. They cannot be played all at once and more than likely, all 88 will not be used throughout a performance but, they're nice to have there if you want to use them. Nobody seems to question a keyboard player with multiple instruments set-up, with a total of hundreds of keys and literally thousands of sounds to choose from. A drummer puts up more than six drums and four cymbals and hats and it's considered overkill. No. It may take a long time to set-up really large rigs, even with memory locks but, having the array of limited sounds players have at their disposal and actual cubic footage to set it up, is hardly overkill, by comparison. A guitarist will use multiple guitars, all kinds of rack equipment and foot pedal rigs, have hundreds, if not thousands of options for notes and sounds, depending on what they use, and drummers who think of what they do as musicians playing music are supposed to just be satisfied with four drums and a few cymbals to keep time and give everybody else the room to explore and have fun? Not happening in my world.
The creation of parts for a song need not have to have a large set. No. I mean, right from the start, Ringo played interesting parts and fills he designed for songs on his 4 and then 5 pc kits with a couple cymbals and hats. That said, The Beatles, at their deepest musical level, was still a Pop band and did not venture into anything more complex than Sgt. Pepper's. Classical/Prog Rock, Fusion, and aspects of Hard Rock and Metal, got much more complex and opened the doors for drumists to really get into what they do, from a literal, choreographed place in the bands they propelled. Which is not say ANY approach chosen by any drummer, simple or complex is wrong. That is totally subjective. Whatever players and bands believe works best for their music is what they go with. I am probably somewhere in between the arenas of simple versus complex. I get bored with total simplicity and really have no mindset for deeply complex patterns, especially if I had to repeat them over and over playing live. Those days are gone, now, and recording is about all I'll be into the rest of my life, such as it is but, the thought process for the extremely complex is just not part of my being when it comes to rhythm.
We each play what we feel, in very personal, subjective ways. "Can you play something like this," or "Can you try that," or "How about this?" is all well and good. It's actually nice to work with musicians who care about what is happening in the world of percussion. For Gary, who is really into programming drums, loves kick drums as a central proponent of a song, and tells me to just go for it, for whatever I come up with, is freedom, indeed.
I am really looking forward to this.
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119. America, The Drug Nation - September 23, 2020
Okay, I admit it. I have a difficult time with ignorance. Ignoring things when anybody and everybody has access to information to educate themselves, is very hard for me to tolerate.
How on Earth this "pandemic" has been hijacked by leftists for so long in America, is shocking to me. How it has been manipulated, and maneuvered, and concocted, and twisted to suit a political agenda is not only shocking but, thoroughly disgusting.
You would think the current rush to come up with a cocktail of vaccination were Heaven on Earth. A Saviour has come! We are saved! Where's that needle! Help me! I'm going to die!
God have mercy.
Drugs have been around a long time now. A couple centuries of elixirs and snake oil and potions and something for whatever ails you. At one time, for the most part, people were more weary and had more common sense. It seems each new generation has been trained to think whatever the medicinal, pharmaceutical industries come up with is the best thing for humanity.
"PAY NO ATTENTION TO ALL THOSE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS OUT THERE! THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. WARNING, WARNING. DO NOT LISTEN TO THOSE CREATING FEAR OF "BIG PHARMA." Your trusted friends: Main Stream Media
If you are stupid enough, ignorant enough, and I mean that literally, as well as afraid enough, despite and ignoring ALL the information, facts and data out there around the world to the contrary of the msm and leftist fear mongering agenda about this virus, that you will jump at taking the first vaccine that comes along to save you from Covid-19, Sars, Mars, whatever they are calling it now, when you have NO idea what shall be in it, and you can know for a fact they will not tell you what is in it; they will just tell you it is safe, you have left the realms of personal intelligence. You are dropping into a money bucket, and money canyon every company on Earth is in a race for. You are nothing more than a dollar sign to these entities.
You already know, or should, the people of Africa are sick and tired of their guinea pig status for vaccine companies to try things out on. Why is BLM not protesting that!
Africans have, for years, been the brunt of side-effects and complications with these injected cocktails. Babies around the world where vaccinations are mandatory, have also born the brunt of these vials of destruction.
I am seeing more and more that my generation are being pleaded with, compelled, if not told straight out that by force we will have to be vaccinated, for our own good and the good of society, because of this deadly VIRUS.
I have not seen ONE, SINGLE WORD from these people in control how humanity should be enhancing, protecting, building up, strengthening, and empowering their God-given immune systems to fight off illness. DRUGS are the answer! Drugs are the saviours. Drugs are the only way! Drugs are safe! Trust us.
If you paid me a king's ransom I would not be vaccinated for this or any other illness like this, or any illness, period.
I understand the premise of a vaccine. Homeopaths have used the principle of " like treats like" for ages. You have an allergy to Goldenrod, you take a little of it, place it in a tincture or other form of herbal remedy, and the body, if you have a healthy immune system, will build up antibodies to fight off the intruders. That is ancient methodology. Today's vaccines are filled with toxins, and various chemical compounds to supposedly aid the tiny bit of illness injected into you, to go past your immune system, in some cases literally inabling it, and suppressing the effects of the intruding source, be it a virus, bacterial agent, germ or whatever. Those extra components are what cause all the crazy side effects, and in some, if not many cases, long-lasting problems, if not even death.
When money and profits are involved, billions, and in the case of this current event, possible trillions of dollars, you are a fool if you think these companies are going to dot all their I's and cross all their T's to make sure, absolutely sure, a Covid vaccine is completely safe. Well, did you know the federal government gave a pass to drug companies and the effects of vaccines so they cannot be sued when things go wrong? You did not know that? Neither did I, a few years ago. Drug companies have no legal reason to fear what they do or how they do it. None. Let that sink in, if you are someone afraid of Covid-19. You have far more to fear from pharmaceutical companies than anything this virus could do to you if you have a healthy immune system. If you do not, why not? Deal with that, first and foremost.
If those in positions of power can keep the fear mongering going, and they try to force people to take a vaccine for this virus, which will end up as multiple vaccinations because the virus mutates, just like the flu. You rarely hear of all the people who take a yearly fly shot and still get ill. You rarely hear, if ever, of all the people with moderate to severe side effects from these flu shots. Vaccines, all drugs, are foreign invaders. How many do you know that have suffered side effects or died from ingesting apples, potatoes, or grapes? If force is attempted on people to take a vaccine, you talk about civil disobedience on the horizon. It will and most definitely should erupt.
I say again, with all the passion I can muster, you are a fool if you jump at taking ANY vaccine for this relatively weak virus your immune system should handle with ease. If you have a weakened immune system, or pre-existing conditions that make you a more vulnerable target, be smart and stay away from crowds. Practice the good hygiene and all but, taking a vaccine for this?
Go talk to the Africans.
Hydroxychloroquine and other over the counter medicinal products, are being used ALL OVER THE PLANET to treat this illness, with completely positive effects. WHY does the American medical community, backed by Anthony Fauci, speak against this? Why the push for a vaccine?
Follow the money.
Use your head. THINK for yourself. If you do not, there are plenty of others out there who will think for you.
https://www.naturalnews.com/SpecialReports/VaccinesFullStory/v1/VaccineReport-EN.pdf
How on Earth this "pandemic" has been hijacked by leftists for so long in America, is shocking to me. How it has been manipulated, and maneuvered, and concocted, and twisted to suit a political agenda is not only shocking but, thoroughly disgusting.
You would think the current rush to come up with a cocktail of vaccination were Heaven on Earth. A Saviour has come! We are saved! Where's that needle! Help me! I'm going to die!
God have mercy.
Drugs have been around a long time now. A couple centuries of elixirs and snake oil and potions and something for whatever ails you. At one time, for the most part, people were more weary and had more common sense. It seems each new generation has been trained to think whatever the medicinal, pharmaceutical industries come up with is the best thing for humanity.
"PAY NO ATTENTION TO ALL THOSE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS OUT THERE! THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. WARNING, WARNING. DO NOT LISTEN TO THOSE CREATING FEAR OF "BIG PHARMA." Your trusted friends: Main Stream Media
If you are stupid enough, ignorant enough, and I mean that literally, as well as afraid enough, despite and ignoring ALL the information, facts and data out there around the world to the contrary of the msm and leftist fear mongering agenda about this virus, that you will jump at taking the first vaccine that comes along to save you from Covid-19, Sars, Mars, whatever they are calling it now, when you have NO idea what shall be in it, and you can know for a fact they will not tell you what is in it; they will just tell you it is safe, you have left the realms of personal intelligence. You are dropping into a money bucket, and money canyon every company on Earth is in a race for. You are nothing more than a dollar sign to these entities.
You already know, or should, the people of Africa are sick and tired of their guinea pig status for vaccine companies to try things out on. Why is BLM not protesting that!
Africans have, for years, been the brunt of side-effects and complications with these injected cocktails. Babies around the world where vaccinations are mandatory, have also born the brunt of these vials of destruction.
I am seeing more and more that my generation are being pleaded with, compelled, if not told straight out that by force we will have to be vaccinated, for our own good and the good of society, because of this deadly VIRUS.
I have not seen ONE, SINGLE WORD from these people in control how humanity should be enhancing, protecting, building up, strengthening, and empowering their God-given immune systems to fight off illness. DRUGS are the answer! Drugs are the saviours. Drugs are the only way! Drugs are safe! Trust us.
If you paid me a king's ransom I would not be vaccinated for this or any other illness like this, or any illness, period.
I understand the premise of a vaccine. Homeopaths have used the principle of " like treats like" for ages. You have an allergy to Goldenrod, you take a little of it, place it in a tincture or other form of herbal remedy, and the body, if you have a healthy immune system, will build up antibodies to fight off the intruders. That is ancient methodology. Today's vaccines are filled with toxins, and various chemical compounds to supposedly aid the tiny bit of illness injected into you, to go past your immune system, in some cases literally inabling it, and suppressing the effects of the intruding source, be it a virus, bacterial agent, germ or whatever. Those extra components are what cause all the crazy side effects, and in some, if not many cases, long-lasting problems, if not even death.
When money and profits are involved, billions, and in the case of this current event, possible trillions of dollars, you are a fool if you think these companies are going to dot all their I's and cross all their T's to make sure, absolutely sure, a Covid vaccine is completely safe. Well, did you know the federal government gave a pass to drug companies and the effects of vaccines so they cannot be sued when things go wrong? You did not know that? Neither did I, a few years ago. Drug companies have no legal reason to fear what they do or how they do it. None. Let that sink in, if you are someone afraid of Covid-19. You have far more to fear from pharmaceutical companies than anything this virus could do to you if you have a healthy immune system. If you do not, why not? Deal with that, first and foremost.
If those in positions of power can keep the fear mongering going, and they try to force people to take a vaccine for this virus, which will end up as multiple vaccinations because the virus mutates, just like the flu. You rarely hear of all the people who take a yearly fly shot and still get ill. You rarely hear, if ever, of all the people with moderate to severe side effects from these flu shots. Vaccines, all drugs, are foreign invaders. How many do you know that have suffered side effects or died from ingesting apples, potatoes, or grapes? If force is attempted on people to take a vaccine, you talk about civil disobedience on the horizon. It will and most definitely should erupt.
I say again, with all the passion I can muster, you are a fool if you jump at taking ANY vaccine for this relatively weak virus your immune system should handle with ease. If you have a weakened immune system, or pre-existing conditions that make you a more vulnerable target, be smart and stay away from crowds. Practice the good hygiene and all but, taking a vaccine for this?
Go talk to the Africans.
Hydroxychloroquine and other over the counter medicinal products, are being used ALL OVER THE PLANET to treat this illness, with completely positive effects. WHY does the American medical community, backed by Anthony Fauci, speak against this? Why the push for a vaccine?
Follow the money.
Use your head. THINK for yourself. If you do not, there are plenty of others out there who will think for you.
https://www.naturalnews.com/SpecialReports/VaccinesFullStory/v1/VaccineReport-EN.pdf
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120. Tazed and Arrested for Not Wearing A Mask in America - 9/24/20
I know people in Great Britain and Australia and other places are being harassed, even arrested for not wearing face masks but, in America? In The United States of America?
A woman drives 90 minutes to watch her son play a HS football game. They are outside, as in, the fresh air of Autumn. Some kind of officer approaches her. Could be campus police, not town or county. The woman, minding her own business in a very sparsely populated grand stand (phones out and recording in every direction), enters into a confrontation with the "officer." She shouts, she tries to keep his hands off her. He tazes her! At an outside football game with hardly anybody around!!! I am watching this in total amazement. Ohio? Seriously? Maybe LA or Chicago with rank Leftists in control but, Ohio?
She gets hauled off. LUNACY! Totally uncontrolled hyper-hysteria!
I can see and hear the lawsuit coming already. No apology from anyone in the town or county should be taken as remedy for such actions. I do not care if the governor contacted her and apologized. This is insanity.
All the facts, data, and information from within America and around the world mean nothing anymore. This has become a weaponized event: a man-made, manipulated, weaponized event for political purposes, with useful idiots in tow.
You are living in a cave if you believe this virus is the end of the world. That "officer" should not only be reprimanded but, in some way penalized for such a decision. The woman's children sitting there, watching this fiasco. It is a sickening thing to watch.
I doubt YT will allow the video to stay up. They have gone totally fascist and tyrannical with their censorship now. Just the same, here's the link, for what it's worth right now; both the Gateway Pundit story and YT video.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/america-young-mother-tased-cuffed-arrested-not-wearing-face-mask-mostly-empty-stadium-watch-hs-football-game/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMIhuCVGgIw&feature=emb_logo
I have to be honest. I am sitting here today, looking over the recording software, Reaper, for use in recording drum tacks for the Project, and at a time like this, music and drums mean nothing. Nothing; if freedom and liberty in America are losing ground so swiftly.
If that video does not shock you, seriously question your understanding of Americanism.
UPDATE: I learned today (9/25) the woman is an asthmatic. She does not wear masks because it negatively effects her breathing. She was charged with criminal trespass and released. Tazed, criminalized, ostracized, and humiliated because she was not wearing a mask. Also, the officer hit the aluminum bleachers with his taser and a child was shocked by it. You cannot make this stuff up.
I also learned today that three Christians in Idaho were cuffed and arrested for singing hymns at an outdoor church service without masks on. The mob protesters, rioters, looters, and real criminals don't have to wear masks. Christians singing hymns, outdoors, they are dangerous. Arrest them.
It really isn't America anymore. I don't know what it is but, it isn't America.
A woman drives 90 minutes to watch her son play a HS football game. They are outside, as in, the fresh air of Autumn. Some kind of officer approaches her. Could be campus police, not town or county. The woman, minding her own business in a very sparsely populated grand stand (phones out and recording in every direction), enters into a confrontation with the "officer." She shouts, she tries to keep his hands off her. He tazes her! At an outside football game with hardly anybody around!!! I am watching this in total amazement. Ohio? Seriously? Maybe LA or Chicago with rank Leftists in control but, Ohio?
She gets hauled off. LUNACY! Totally uncontrolled hyper-hysteria!
I can see and hear the lawsuit coming already. No apology from anyone in the town or county should be taken as remedy for such actions. I do not care if the governor contacted her and apologized. This is insanity.
All the facts, data, and information from within America and around the world mean nothing anymore. This has become a weaponized event: a man-made, manipulated, weaponized event for political purposes, with useful idiots in tow.
You are living in a cave if you believe this virus is the end of the world. That "officer" should not only be reprimanded but, in some way penalized for such a decision. The woman's children sitting there, watching this fiasco. It is a sickening thing to watch.
I doubt YT will allow the video to stay up. They have gone totally fascist and tyrannical with their censorship now. Just the same, here's the link, for what it's worth right now; both the Gateway Pundit story and YT video.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/america-young-mother-tased-cuffed-arrested-not-wearing-face-mask-mostly-empty-stadium-watch-hs-football-game/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMIhuCVGgIw&feature=emb_logo
I have to be honest. I am sitting here today, looking over the recording software, Reaper, for use in recording drum tacks for the Project, and at a time like this, music and drums mean nothing. Nothing; if freedom and liberty in America are losing ground so swiftly.
If that video does not shock you, seriously question your understanding of Americanism.
UPDATE: I learned today (9/25) the woman is an asthmatic. She does not wear masks because it negatively effects her breathing. She was charged with criminal trespass and released. Tazed, criminalized, ostracized, and humiliated because she was not wearing a mask. Also, the officer hit the aluminum bleachers with his taser and a child was shocked by it. You cannot make this stuff up.
I also learned today that three Christians in Idaho were cuffed and arrested for singing hymns at an outdoor church service without masks on. The mob protesters, rioters, looters, and real criminals don't have to wear masks. Christians singing hymns, outdoors, they are dangerous. Arrest them.
It really isn't America anymore. I don't know what it is but, it isn't America.
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121. Is This Coming? September 25, 2020
Not many people come to my website. Those that do drift in from doing searches on Legend, or perhaps see my Youtube channel and wind up here. Some come and return to read these Thoughts page articles. Even if no one came to my site. I would write what I do because I like to write, and also because, in cases like the article below, I may inform someone of things they have not been exposed to before and they can leave here with some things to think about.
I do not know if what this man has written is 100% correct. The article has nothing to do with religion. I do know, I believe, enough of it is accurate enough to let me know we are about to enter a small time of trouble, which shall lead to a great time of trouble, which shall lead to a time of a false "peace and safety," which will usher in the return of Christ to this crazy world. When? Nobody knows. What we can know is the nature of how close it is, in relation to world events. Not local events, per se' but, world events, of which we are experiencing right now.
Even if you are an atheist, the probable scenario placed before you will effect us all. People ask me why believe in God? If for no other reason, God predicted all this. God knows the end from the beginning, and stated that to let people know He is in control, way ahead, as in infinitely ahead of the workings of man, and He can be trusted. Were it not for the accuracy of Bible prophecy, I might still be an atheist today. Like I said, the article has nothing to do with religion but, a time is coming when men's hearts shall fail them for fear of what is coming upon the Earth. Are we about to enter that time period? I believe so.
I post the link, as well as the full article. Copying and pasting did not render the emphasis placed by the editors. You'll have to read it at the site for that. If you have never been to the Zero Hedge website before; "Tyler Durden" is an alias.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/let-me-explain-what-happens-next-reader-sums-it-all-very-ominously
"Let Me Explain What Happens Next..." - A Reader Sums It All Up Very Ominously
by Tyler Durden
Thu, 09/24/2020 - 23:00
Authored by 'Austrian Peter' via The Burning Platform,
A reader recently wrote me a long letter on how he feels about all this ‘Plandemic’ stuff. I thought it would be good to share it as there is so much in it which rings bells of truth for me...
[emphasis ours]
I’ve just woken up after reading ZeroHedge late into the night. I awoke with the conviction that Covid is being used to roll out a police state:
They know it’s not deadly, it’s no longer spreading and Lockdown is killing off the few small businesses which remain viable. Yet Boris now insists upon banning the assembly of more than 6 people. He has recalled some petty bureaucrats to act as street enforcers and requested people become snitches who report on their neighbours for any breaches of these guidelines. This automatically means we must now all fear our neighbours, or strangers who take our car number. How better to destroy the mutual trust upon which society is built?
Just think if one were to refuse to bend the knee. In Australia and Spain the police have been caught using excessive force against those not wearing masks. Intimidating isn’t it? I’m thinking I may have to start using one. Yet the science is clear – masks offer no protection.
So we know these new restrictions are not being driven by the authority’s concern for our health. And what is the difference between where we are now and making it normal for the police to come to your door and arrest you for a breach of their protocols? What is the difference between where we are now and an oppressive police state?
There is only one difference between now and full-on state oppression: A change in the Zeitgeist.
They need an event that will change the mood of the people – an event or a series of events that make us afraid of ‘them’. A psychological shock that will give the police the conviction that things are so bad ‘a little force is necessary’ to ensure things don’t get out of control. And then, magically, the current ‘temporary restrictions’ become state oppression. What could that game changer be?
Imagine this November: The US has 100 cities descending into what looks like the start of civil war as patriots turn out to stop Antifa burning down Middle America. Kamala Harris is calling for the army to ‘evict’ Trump because he refuses to leave the White House on the grounds that he won the popular vote while the mail-in ballots were fraudulent.
For the Brits, Brexit has caused problems at the ports – among other things some foodstuffs are not getting through. Germany’s economy has cratered after the EU stopped them exporting cars to the UK (Trumps already tariffed them), and the EU’s bank has insisted Germany let the 500 non-viable, medium sized biz (currently kept alive with emergency funding) go bankrupt.
Deutsche Bank collapses and this initiates a global banking crisis. Europe has no way of saving its banks as all the European economies are so damaged and 20% of workers have already been laid off. It’s a Greek style banking crisis on steroids. People are pulling out cash in the expectation of daily cash limits. Physical gold will have already disappeared from the market place. So any biz with money in the bank is frantically buying bitcoin in an attempt to avoid their working capital being ‘bailed in’.
The banks will have already pulled the plug on their most vulnerable customers – the airlines – so virtually no planes are flying. Dover is jammed up with lorries lining the approach roads. So no one can leave Blighty. And if you did, the emergency measures intended to pre-empt Covid’s Second Wave require you to be kept in quarantine at your destination. Locked down in a hotel, under military guard (as in NZ), for 4 weeks at your own expense and with frequent testing to ensure you are not a carrier. With full bio-metric data being collected and filed on an EU wide register. In practice this means that travel becomes so fraught that escape from your homeland is just about impossible.
You get the gist? November could be the end of world as we know it’ (TEOTWAWKI). But my point is this: Why are we looking at such a catastrophe if their goal is not a police state? No one destroys the globe’s economy and creates the conditions for a 10 year Greater Depression by accident. This has to be a planned, intentional destruction of much of global civilization.
The evidence is overwhelming. This civilization has been purposefully destroyed. Right now we’re in an unreal time (like the beautiful summer just before WW1’s carnage). It’s like Wiley E Coyote who has gone over the cliff, is still running but not yet started to fall. But when we fall, how will people react as they realize that they will never work again, never pay off the mortgage, never collect their pensions? If we have state oppression and economic chaos by Christmas then what will be the next stage of their takeover?
The world’s economy is already doomed. The already broken supply chains ensure it can only get worse. Once the derivative market goes, and banks can no longer fund the credit lines crucial for importers and exporters, then trade will collapse and thus food supplies cease.
It would seem to be inevitable that America is going to see more conflict as the Dems & Soros show no signs of wishing to abort their colour revolution. Maybe in 2021, maybe a year or two later, but there will come a time when a credit shortage leads to deflation. So the banks will print more and then rain down helicopter money which will lead to inflation. And then the currencies will start collapsing. Many people understand that this is inevitable. But what happens when people come to accept that money isn’t go to be worth the paper it’s printed on? And thus keeping a job may not be worth the danger of leaving your house or of leaving safety.
I summarise one of last night’s articles:
“the beasts of burden don’t rebel, they just no longer show up. Not showing up can take a number of forms: early retirement, sick leave, a demand to work halftime, a workers’ compensation stress leave, and of course, resignation and quitting as in: “take this job and shove it”. They slip noiselessly into the cracks and crevasses and once they’re gone, there’s nobody left to replace them.”
“As the Vital Few 4% realize the system no longer works for them and opt out, this will have an out-sized effect on the 64%, most likely urban dwellers, highly dependent on increasingly brittle, fragile services that depend on the Vital Few for their functionality. Think of London’s tube train drivers phoning in sick – ideology won’t matter.
Those dropping out may be Conservative or Progressive or they may have lost interest entirely in politics and all the other circuses that serve to distract the populace from the crises dissolving the glue that held the system together. “So I won’t get rich, that dream died a long time ago.” What I’m interested in now is getting my life back and getting the heck out of Dodge as things fall apart.”
The rich will escape to their holiday cottages. The poor will riot – but what then? As the social facade cracks, and the economic system breaks, there is neither a society nor an economy to fall back on. By Christmas it will be obvious that normality has gone for ever.
So what will ‘they’ do with millions of unemployed, frightened people? If ‘they’ leave the internet on then the people will start to organize – first politically – but when that doesn’t work, riots and then finally revolution. Turn it off and they will riot without being organized. Turn off phones and all hell will break out. Don’t turn them off and the kids will organize against the state – trash cars or burn down the local police station. Have you noticed how some police stations look like forts?
My point is that it’s very hard not to see ‘events’ hitting the fan this November. And once they do it’s very hard to see life ever going back to stability, let alone ‘normality’. Rather, there will be an overwhelming need to control {oppress} the population before they take over the state. But what do you do with millions of unemployed in a failed economy who are doomed to losing their currency, long term poverty and probably food shortages. There is only one thing ‘they’ can do. Kill them.
Ideally, for the elite, Covid’s Second Wave will have a higher morbidity rate. Enough to steadily reduce the population but not so fast they can’t be buried in plague pits. It would have to be bad enough to justify a harsh Lockdown but it’s difficult to see that being feasible without giving the people electricity, internet & food and the money to pay for it. And even then it’s only a temporary fix as Lockdown can’t last for ever. Permanent Lockdown would soon destroy the currency which will mean no electricity or food.
Maybe Covid-19 v1.0 was supposed to kill off more people but it failed. Or maybe it worked as intended – they didn’t want to risk killing off too many in case the Lockdown failed and we revolted. But I don’t see they have much choice now. ‘The Fourth Turning’ will be turbulent until 2025 and things won’t really be resolved until 2030. How are they going to manage us for another 10 years? How will they control us? Feed us?
They can start a war but no one is going to turn up. Fight a war for the elite? Use a gun to kill people you don’t know? That’s not going to happen. And they need to preserve the professional soldiers to ‘maintain the peace’ in the cities. So what options do they have but to release a more potent bio-weapon – nuclear war perhaps?
One of the scary things about working through ‘their’ options is that they don’t have many. Things have gone too far – they’ve destroyed the world’s economy. The system is stuffed. What are ‘they’ going to do with 2bn unemployed people. Even if there is enough food but the US has a developing dust bowl, Africa’s suffered huge locust devastation, and China’s preparing for food shortages. How do unemployed people pay for it? Who can give them money without destroying the currency or if the currency is already destroyed?
A simple thing like the current fall in the number of sunspots is indicating an immediate future of colder weather and lower crop yields. Add into that, fuel shortages for agricultural machinery, lack of fertilizer – Nitrogen is made by burning lots of oil, lack of supply lines, and loss of credit lines. With people in Lockdown ‘they’ would be relying on a planned economy (not a free market) which is going to be inefficient. A planned economy is completely incapable of ensuring a stable food supply when there are shortages and the world is chaotic.
It’s not even feeding our cities that will be prime problem. It will be feeding the cities in Mexico and North Africa. They can’t cope with food price inflation. But they won’t starve – they’ll flood into the USA or cross the Mediterranean – lucky us! And what will Erdogan in Turkey do to feed his people – nothing good! If there are real food shortages then note that there are huge Muslim populations in France & Sweden, Turks and refugees in Germany, Pakistani ghettos in UK and plenty more where they all came from.
I’m feeling concerned. The problem is I can’t see Brexit solving our problems. Sure, it may not exacerbate them as much as I fear. November’s events may not trigger us into a state of oppression. But do you see my point? Things have got so bad, they can only get worse. November is bound to see some changes and they may well trigger a change in the Zeitgeist, though how significant depends on ‘events, dear boy, events’.
But whatever happens I think it’s virtually guaranteed that both the economy and society will keep on deteriorating.
Do you think I’m right?
Will November be the tipping point?
Is there any way back?
Will there be anything to go ‘back’ to?
Or else, is it a case of: “we’re doomed, I tell ya, doomed”. And what happens when more people work out that the elites have created a situation where their only option is to rapidly reduce the population! Famine will lead to uncontrollable social conflict, perhaps with Muslims massacring whites in general or the local Jewish populations in particular. I think that much conflict could see ‘them‘ lose control.
Thus it’s hard to see any other viable method than a bio-weapon. Agenda 21 could be implemented on schedule. And if not, the solution will need to be applied within a few years, certainly before 2025. Timing may depend on vaccine production as there will have to be at least enough vaccine for essential workers, the police, the military and the management class if the elite are to retain control.
I do not know if what this man has written is 100% correct. The article has nothing to do with religion. I do know, I believe, enough of it is accurate enough to let me know we are about to enter a small time of trouble, which shall lead to a great time of trouble, which shall lead to a time of a false "peace and safety," which will usher in the return of Christ to this crazy world. When? Nobody knows. What we can know is the nature of how close it is, in relation to world events. Not local events, per se' but, world events, of which we are experiencing right now.
Even if you are an atheist, the probable scenario placed before you will effect us all. People ask me why believe in God? If for no other reason, God predicted all this. God knows the end from the beginning, and stated that to let people know He is in control, way ahead, as in infinitely ahead of the workings of man, and He can be trusted. Were it not for the accuracy of Bible prophecy, I might still be an atheist today. Like I said, the article has nothing to do with religion but, a time is coming when men's hearts shall fail them for fear of what is coming upon the Earth. Are we about to enter that time period? I believe so.
I post the link, as well as the full article. Copying and pasting did not render the emphasis placed by the editors. You'll have to read it at the site for that. If you have never been to the Zero Hedge website before; "Tyler Durden" is an alias.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/let-me-explain-what-happens-next-reader-sums-it-all-very-ominously
"Let Me Explain What Happens Next..." - A Reader Sums It All Up Very Ominously
by Tyler Durden
Thu, 09/24/2020 - 23:00
Authored by 'Austrian Peter' via The Burning Platform,
A reader recently wrote me a long letter on how he feels about all this ‘Plandemic’ stuff. I thought it would be good to share it as there is so much in it which rings bells of truth for me...
[emphasis ours]
I’ve just woken up after reading ZeroHedge late into the night. I awoke with the conviction that Covid is being used to roll out a police state:
They know it’s not deadly, it’s no longer spreading and Lockdown is killing off the few small businesses which remain viable. Yet Boris now insists upon banning the assembly of more than 6 people. He has recalled some petty bureaucrats to act as street enforcers and requested people become snitches who report on their neighbours for any breaches of these guidelines. This automatically means we must now all fear our neighbours, or strangers who take our car number. How better to destroy the mutual trust upon which society is built?
Just think if one were to refuse to bend the knee. In Australia and Spain the police have been caught using excessive force against those not wearing masks. Intimidating isn’t it? I’m thinking I may have to start using one. Yet the science is clear – masks offer no protection.
So we know these new restrictions are not being driven by the authority’s concern for our health. And what is the difference between where we are now and making it normal for the police to come to your door and arrest you for a breach of their protocols? What is the difference between where we are now and an oppressive police state?
There is only one difference between now and full-on state oppression: A change in the Zeitgeist.
They need an event that will change the mood of the people – an event or a series of events that make us afraid of ‘them’. A psychological shock that will give the police the conviction that things are so bad ‘a little force is necessary’ to ensure things don’t get out of control. And then, magically, the current ‘temporary restrictions’ become state oppression. What could that game changer be?
Imagine this November: The US has 100 cities descending into what looks like the start of civil war as patriots turn out to stop Antifa burning down Middle America. Kamala Harris is calling for the army to ‘evict’ Trump because he refuses to leave the White House on the grounds that he won the popular vote while the mail-in ballots were fraudulent.
For the Brits, Brexit has caused problems at the ports – among other things some foodstuffs are not getting through. Germany’s economy has cratered after the EU stopped them exporting cars to the UK (Trumps already tariffed them), and the EU’s bank has insisted Germany let the 500 non-viable, medium sized biz (currently kept alive with emergency funding) go bankrupt.
Deutsche Bank collapses and this initiates a global banking crisis. Europe has no way of saving its banks as all the European economies are so damaged and 20% of workers have already been laid off. It’s a Greek style banking crisis on steroids. People are pulling out cash in the expectation of daily cash limits. Physical gold will have already disappeared from the market place. So any biz with money in the bank is frantically buying bitcoin in an attempt to avoid their working capital being ‘bailed in’.
The banks will have already pulled the plug on their most vulnerable customers – the airlines – so virtually no planes are flying. Dover is jammed up with lorries lining the approach roads. So no one can leave Blighty. And if you did, the emergency measures intended to pre-empt Covid’s Second Wave require you to be kept in quarantine at your destination. Locked down in a hotel, under military guard (as in NZ), for 4 weeks at your own expense and with frequent testing to ensure you are not a carrier. With full bio-metric data being collected and filed on an EU wide register. In practice this means that travel becomes so fraught that escape from your homeland is just about impossible.
You get the gist? November could be the end of world as we know it’ (TEOTWAWKI). But my point is this: Why are we looking at such a catastrophe if their goal is not a police state? No one destroys the globe’s economy and creates the conditions for a 10 year Greater Depression by accident. This has to be a planned, intentional destruction of much of global civilization.
The evidence is overwhelming. This civilization has been purposefully destroyed. Right now we’re in an unreal time (like the beautiful summer just before WW1’s carnage). It’s like Wiley E Coyote who has gone over the cliff, is still running but not yet started to fall. But when we fall, how will people react as they realize that they will never work again, never pay off the mortgage, never collect their pensions? If we have state oppression and economic chaos by Christmas then what will be the next stage of their takeover?
The world’s economy is already doomed. The already broken supply chains ensure it can only get worse. Once the derivative market goes, and banks can no longer fund the credit lines crucial for importers and exporters, then trade will collapse and thus food supplies cease.
It would seem to be inevitable that America is going to see more conflict as the Dems & Soros show no signs of wishing to abort their colour revolution. Maybe in 2021, maybe a year or two later, but there will come a time when a credit shortage leads to deflation. So the banks will print more and then rain down helicopter money which will lead to inflation. And then the currencies will start collapsing. Many people understand that this is inevitable. But what happens when people come to accept that money isn’t go to be worth the paper it’s printed on? And thus keeping a job may not be worth the danger of leaving your house or of leaving safety.
I summarise one of last night’s articles:
“the beasts of burden don’t rebel, they just no longer show up. Not showing up can take a number of forms: early retirement, sick leave, a demand to work halftime, a workers’ compensation stress leave, and of course, resignation and quitting as in: “take this job and shove it”. They slip noiselessly into the cracks and crevasses and once they’re gone, there’s nobody left to replace them.”
“As the Vital Few 4% realize the system no longer works for them and opt out, this will have an out-sized effect on the 64%, most likely urban dwellers, highly dependent on increasingly brittle, fragile services that depend on the Vital Few for their functionality. Think of London’s tube train drivers phoning in sick – ideology won’t matter.
Those dropping out may be Conservative or Progressive or they may have lost interest entirely in politics and all the other circuses that serve to distract the populace from the crises dissolving the glue that held the system together. “So I won’t get rich, that dream died a long time ago.” What I’m interested in now is getting my life back and getting the heck out of Dodge as things fall apart.”
The rich will escape to their holiday cottages. The poor will riot – but what then? As the social facade cracks, and the economic system breaks, there is neither a society nor an economy to fall back on. By Christmas it will be obvious that normality has gone for ever.
So what will ‘they’ do with millions of unemployed, frightened people? If ‘they’ leave the internet on then the people will start to organize – first politically – but when that doesn’t work, riots and then finally revolution. Turn it off and they will riot without being organized. Turn off phones and all hell will break out. Don’t turn them off and the kids will organize against the state – trash cars or burn down the local police station. Have you noticed how some police stations look like forts?
My point is that it’s very hard not to see ‘events’ hitting the fan this November. And once they do it’s very hard to see life ever going back to stability, let alone ‘normality’. Rather, there will be an overwhelming need to control {oppress} the population before they take over the state. But what do you do with millions of unemployed in a failed economy who are doomed to losing their currency, long term poverty and probably food shortages. There is only one thing ‘they’ can do. Kill them.
Ideally, for the elite, Covid’s Second Wave will have a higher morbidity rate. Enough to steadily reduce the population but not so fast they can’t be buried in plague pits. It would have to be bad enough to justify a harsh Lockdown but it’s difficult to see that being feasible without giving the people electricity, internet & food and the money to pay for it. And even then it’s only a temporary fix as Lockdown can’t last for ever. Permanent Lockdown would soon destroy the currency which will mean no electricity or food.
Maybe Covid-19 v1.0 was supposed to kill off more people but it failed. Or maybe it worked as intended – they didn’t want to risk killing off too many in case the Lockdown failed and we revolted. But I don’t see they have much choice now. ‘The Fourth Turning’ will be turbulent until 2025 and things won’t really be resolved until 2030. How are they going to manage us for another 10 years? How will they control us? Feed us?
They can start a war but no one is going to turn up. Fight a war for the elite? Use a gun to kill people you don’t know? That’s not going to happen. And they need to preserve the professional soldiers to ‘maintain the peace’ in the cities. So what options do they have but to release a more potent bio-weapon – nuclear war perhaps?
One of the scary things about working through ‘their’ options is that they don’t have many. Things have gone too far – they’ve destroyed the world’s economy. The system is stuffed. What are ‘they’ going to do with 2bn unemployed people. Even if there is enough food but the US has a developing dust bowl, Africa’s suffered huge locust devastation, and China’s preparing for food shortages. How do unemployed people pay for it? Who can give them money without destroying the currency or if the currency is already destroyed?
A simple thing like the current fall in the number of sunspots is indicating an immediate future of colder weather and lower crop yields. Add into that, fuel shortages for agricultural machinery, lack of fertilizer – Nitrogen is made by burning lots of oil, lack of supply lines, and loss of credit lines. With people in Lockdown ‘they’ would be relying on a planned economy (not a free market) which is going to be inefficient. A planned economy is completely incapable of ensuring a stable food supply when there are shortages and the world is chaotic.
It’s not even feeding our cities that will be prime problem. It will be feeding the cities in Mexico and North Africa. They can’t cope with food price inflation. But they won’t starve – they’ll flood into the USA or cross the Mediterranean – lucky us! And what will Erdogan in Turkey do to feed his people – nothing good! If there are real food shortages then note that there are huge Muslim populations in France & Sweden, Turks and refugees in Germany, Pakistani ghettos in UK and plenty more where they all came from.
I’m feeling concerned. The problem is I can’t see Brexit solving our problems. Sure, it may not exacerbate them as much as I fear. November’s events may not trigger us into a state of oppression. But do you see my point? Things have got so bad, they can only get worse. November is bound to see some changes and they may well trigger a change in the Zeitgeist, though how significant depends on ‘events, dear boy, events’.
But whatever happens I think it’s virtually guaranteed that both the economy and society will keep on deteriorating.
Do you think I’m right?
Will November be the tipping point?
Is there any way back?
Will there be anything to go ‘back’ to?
Or else, is it a case of: “we’re doomed, I tell ya, doomed”. And what happens when more people work out that the elites have created a situation where their only option is to rapidly reduce the population! Famine will lead to uncontrollable social conflict, perhaps with Muslims massacring whites in general or the local Jewish populations in particular. I think that much conflict could see ‘them‘ lose control.
Thus it’s hard to see any other viable method than a bio-weapon. Agenda 21 could be implemented on schedule. And if not, the solution will need to be applied within a few years, certainly before 2025. Timing may depend on vaccine production as there will have to be at least enough vaccine for essential workers, the police, the military and the management class if the elite are to retain control.
******************
122. Amy Coney Barrett - September 26, 2020
My wife asked me earlier this week who Trump would nominate to fill the empty seat on the Supreme Court.
First, no one is being nominated to fill Ginsberg's place on the court. She is not being "replaced." If that were the case, we'd expect someone like her to be nominated. Judges have no names on their seats. In her passing away, an empty seat must be filled with a new judge. It was not RBG's to own, hence, she is not being replaced. Lack of recognizing that fact has created quite a stir because of her supposed last request, testified to by her granddaughter, that a nominee not be chosen until after the election. I have no reason to challenge her granddaughter's testimony. I do challenge the notion Ginsberg would make such a request, knowing she had no say in the matter. It was not her seat to control after her departing. She has no ground to make such a request. That may have been her wish, as wishes go. She may have hoped things would turn out that way. An official request? No. Especially knowing the political factions now existing on the court, and a Republican in the White House, who knows the election results and coming turmoil will end up before the Court. An eight member court will not do. It must be nine. And we all know if Ginsberg had retired when Obama was in office, this coming battle would not be an issue. And if Ginsberg passed away with a Democrat in office, which would have been Clinton, Hillary would have plowed ahead with whatever she wanted to do, and whoever she wanted to nominate; Republicans be damned. Hypocrisy is really quite ugly.
I told my wife I had no doubt Barrett would be Trump's choice. I do not believe that would be the best choice but, in the atmosphere of D.C. right now, with an election weeks away, choosing a faithful Roman Catholic female would help to attain more RC votes, and also put Democrats on the committee in a very difficult position. They will not go at her like the previous two nominations. Unless, of course, their desperation at this point just sends them over a cliff, which may just happen. Their vitriol for Trump, as well as Conservatives, and Conservative people of professed Christian faith, has been on display for years now.
Despite the acidic nature of Democrats towards people of faith, in general, both the Speaker of the House and Democrat POTUS candidate, are professed Roman Catholics. Just how hard can the committee Democrats go at Barrett if she is the nominee? Strike at her and you strike at Pelosi's and Biden's professed faith. Talk about horns of a dilemma.
That said, there is the nature of Roman Catholicism's very large difference between it, and other Christian faiths. It has a Supreme Pontiff. In the chair of Peter, pronouncements from a pope come with a guarantee of infallibility. Said. Done.
In ancient Rome the Caesars were considered Pontifex Maximus: the chief bridge builder between Heaven and Earth. The popes took that role at the demise and break up of the Roman empire. The popes are Pontifex Maximus. The term can be found all throughout RC literature. So, if the current or any pope, makes a pronouncement from the seat of power, the chair of Peter, what would Barrett do? How might that effect her judgments from the bench? Where would her supreme loyalty lie? To the Constitution or the the Holy See of Rome? Big question. It was asked of JFK. He said he would honor his oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Will Barrett?
You can be sure this question will come up, and it should. It must. Pelosi and Biden, and most other Catholics in elected positions in D.C. are not faithful Catholics. They consistently vote against Roman Catholic teachings, especially on the issue of abortion. The church let's it slide. No marks for diligence and integrity for them. That's another matter. Catholic legislators can just say the doctrine of the church cannot effect their votes on legal matters. Nothing they can do. SCOTUS votes on an issue. That settles it. Catholic legislators like to fall back on that when it suits them; which is most of the time, if D.C history is any gauge.
The other obvious issue is the Constitution, itself; stating no religious test shall be placed before anybody running for an office or nominated to one. That is so plain, you would think the matter would never come up but, Catholicism is not like other religions.
There are five Roman Catholics on the Court now. A sixth, Gorsuch, raised Catholic, now professes to be an Episcopal. The other three are Jewish, with Ginsberg now gone. An odd makeup indeed, in a professed Protestant nation at its founding. Of course, the term "Protestant" means next to nothing anymore. Nobody really protests Romanism anymore. A few bodies of believers out there do. The pope engages in happy fellowship with many professed Protestants and evangelicals. Hands clasp across the gulf all the time now. A sign of the times. Just the same, six Roman Catholics on the highest court of the land, with a current, basically Communist pope on Rome's throne? That makes for some very interesting dinner table conversation. Only 20% of the nation's population are Catholics. It certainly begs the question - Why the disparity? The same can be said for 30% of the Congress being Catholic. I have no doubt the Founders would be shocked at such numbers. Two professed Catholics did sign the Declaration. Not much information is known about their loyalty to their faith back then.
I don't know who will raise the question. Certainly Democrats on the committee are already planning every question and who will ask it. They must bring Barrett, or whoever is nominated, down. That is the game plan. Stop Trump, his nominee, and steal the election through ballot fraud, already underway. So much info is out there about that plan now, it is bound to backfire in absurdity but, hatred colors vision. All they can see is Trump removed from office.
I expect the Democrats to make quite a spectacle of themselves. It seems they just cannot contain themselves anymore. They must attack anything Trump says or does. Sad, really. They cannot hit her with "racism." That would not put a dent in Barrett. She's a mother of seven with two adopted children who are Black.
Barrett, if nominated, has some statist decisions behind her. Quite a number of voices are not really cheering her on, despite her Conservatism. Her record is sketchy when it comes to freedom and liberty of religion when up against the State. But, it appears she will be the nominee, the youngest member of the court, if put through.
Another woman nominee is also a possibility, also a Roman Catholic: Barbara Lagoa.
It's going to be a very interesting, if not a painful series of days and weeks ahead.
UPDATE - The attacks begin; going after her with suggestions on whether or not she legally adopted her two children from Haiti, and looking into how they are being treated. While some Americans will look at that with disgust, others will see it as a "Yeah, they need to look into that." Therein lies the great gulf of difference in America; the wide gap that shall not be healed. It's just a mind matter; the way Americans now think about each other. United on some platform of principles? No. No more.
First, no one is being nominated to fill Ginsberg's place on the court. She is not being "replaced." If that were the case, we'd expect someone like her to be nominated. Judges have no names on their seats. In her passing away, an empty seat must be filled with a new judge. It was not RBG's to own, hence, she is not being replaced. Lack of recognizing that fact has created quite a stir because of her supposed last request, testified to by her granddaughter, that a nominee not be chosen until after the election. I have no reason to challenge her granddaughter's testimony. I do challenge the notion Ginsberg would make such a request, knowing she had no say in the matter. It was not her seat to control after her departing. She has no ground to make such a request. That may have been her wish, as wishes go. She may have hoped things would turn out that way. An official request? No. Especially knowing the political factions now existing on the court, and a Republican in the White House, who knows the election results and coming turmoil will end up before the Court. An eight member court will not do. It must be nine. And we all know if Ginsberg had retired when Obama was in office, this coming battle would not be an issue. And if Ginsberg passed away with a Democrat in office, which would have been Clinton, Hillary would have plowed ahead with whatever she wanted to do, and whoever she wanted to nominate; Republicans be damned. Hypocrisy is really quite ugly.
I told my wife I had no doubt Barrett would be Trump's choice. I do not believe that would be the best choice but, in the atmosphere of D.C. right now, with an election weeks away, choosing a faithful Roman Catholic female would help to attain more RC votes, and also put Democrats on the committee in a very difficult position. They will not go at her like the previous two nominations. Unless, of course, their desperation at this point just sends them over a cliff, which may just happen. Their vitriol for Trump, as well as Conservatives, and Conservative people of professed Christian faith, has been on display for years now.
Despite the acidic nature of Democrats towards people of faith, in general, both the Speaker of the House and Democrat POTUS candidate, are professed Roman Catholics. Just how hard can the committee Democrats go at Barrett if she is the nominee? Strike at her and you strike at Pelosi's and Biden's professed faith. Talk about horns of a dilemma.
That said, there is the nature of Roman Catholicism's very large difference between it, and other Christian faiths. It has a Supreme Pontiff. In the chair of Peter, pronouncements from a pope come with a guarantee of infallibility. Said. Done.
In ancient Rome the Caesars were considered Pontifex Maximus: the chief bridge builder between Heaven and Earth. The popes took that role at the demise and break up of the Roman empire. The popes are Pontifex Maximus. The term can be found all throughout RC literature. So, if the current or any pope, makes a pronouncement from the seat of power, the chair of Peter, what would Barrett do? How might that effect her judgments from the bench? Where would her supreme loyalty lie? To the Constitution or the the Holy See of Rome? Big question. It was asked of JFK. He said he would honor his oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Will Barrett?
You can be sure this question will come up, and it should. It must. Pelosi and Biden, and most other Catholics in elected positions in D.C. are not faithful Catholics. They consistently vote against Roman Catholic teachings, especially on the issue of abortion. The church let's it slide. No marks for diligence and integrity for them. That's another matter. Catholic legislators can just say the doctrine of the church cannot effect their votes on legal matters. Nothing they can do. SCOTUS votes on an issue. That settles it. Catholic legislators like to fall back on that when it suits them; which is most of the time, if D.C history is any gauge.
The other obvious issue is the Constitution, itself; stating no religious test shall be placed before anybody running for an office or nominated to one. That is so plain, you would think the matter would never come up but, Catholicism is not like other religions.
There are five Roman Catholics on the Court now. A sixth, Gorsuch, raised Catholic, now professes to be an Episcopal. The other three are Jewish, with Ginsberg now gone. An odd makeup indeed, in a professed Protestant nation at its founding. Of course, the term "Protestant" means next to nothing anymore. Nobody really protests Romanism anymore. A few bodies of believers out there do. The pope engages in happy fellowship with many professed Protestants and evangelicals. Hands clasp across the gulf all the time now. A sign of the times. Just the same, six Roman Catholics on the highest court of the land, with a current, basically Communist pope on Rome's throne? That makes for some very interesting dinner table conversation. Only 20% of the nation's population are Catholics. It certainly begs the question - Why the disparity? The same can be said for 30% of the Congress being Catholic. I have no doubt the Founders would be shocked at such numbers. Two professed Catholics did sign the Declaration. Not much information is known about their loyalty to their faith back then.
I don't know who will raise the question. Certainly Democrats on the committee are already planning every question and who will ask it. They must bring Barrett, or whoever is nominated, down. That is the game plan. Stop Trump, his nominee, and steal the election through ballot fraud, already underway. So much info is out there about that plan now, it is bound to backfire in absurdity but, hatred colors vision. All they can see is Trump removed from office.
I expect the Democrats to make quite a spectacle of themselves. It seems they just cannot contain themselves anymore. They must attack anything Trump says or does. Sad, really. They cannot hit her with "racism." That would not put a dent in Barrett. She's a mother of seven with two adopted children who are Black.
Barrett, if nominated, has some statist decisions behind her. Quite a number of voices are not really cheering her on, despite her Conservatism. Her record is sketchy when it comes to freedom and liberty of religion when up against the State. But, it appears she will be the nominee, the youngest member of the court, if put through.
Another woman nominee is also a possibility, also a Roman Catholic: Barbara Lagoa.
It's going to be a very interesting, if not a painful series of days and weeks ahead.
UPDATE - The attacks begin; going after her with suggestions on whether or not she legally adopted her two children from Haiti, and looking into how they are being treated. While some Americans will look at that with disgust, others will see it as a "Yeah, they need to look into that." Therein lies the great gulf of difference in America; the wide gap that shall not be healed. It's just a mind matter; the way Americans now think about each other. United on some platform of principles? No. No more.
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123. Tony Williams - September 27, 2020
Last night I happened to watch a solo by Cindy Blackman Santana, from the Drumeo 2020 drum festival. It leads into this blog perfectly. More on her later.
The fifth most serious influential impact upon me as a drumist came later in life. My late 30's. I actually heard and had recordings of him back in the days of Fusion's explosions on the music scene but, his recordings, some of them, just didn't float my boat the way other band's recordings did.
In my 30's, when advertising some drum stuff to sell, a couple guys came over to look at some cymbals. In seeing my set, they asked me to play, which I did, and we spent some time talking about drums and drummers. As I recall, they came over a couple times. I mentioned I wanted to hear someone "different." One of them said, I know just the guy. I'll bring over some video of him.
He brought over a video of performances of this guy, including a Live in New York concert video. Jazz was over my head when young, and in my 30's, while I could have a slightly better taste and appreciation for it, it still wasn't something I was going to listen to with any lengthy listening sessions. That said, being re-exposed to one of the masters of the instrument, Tony Williams, was something that struck me, significantly.
I had a couple Tony William's Lifetime albums when I was young. I liked one better than the other but, even at that, Allan Holdsworth, while I came to greatly appreciate and marvel at his playing as I got older, was too 'out there' for me when young. Today, I recognize "Fred" as one of the greatest Fusion pieces ever recorded. Lots of artists and bands have played it, and still do. It's a timeless piece of music. Tony William's Lifetime, Believe It, is simply a great recording.
I have mentioned that story before. It's just one of those times you remember things with fairly good clarity even though it happened a long time ago.
I read a comment someone once made, about seeing Tony live, and they said it was like a religious experience. I don't know if I understood him correctly but, there is no doubt that is an impression I had when seeing him again, like it was the first time I ever heard him, and 20 years of time never existed.
His approach to the set was acoustic Jazz, no doubt but, he said he grew up in the days of Rock and Jimi Hendrix, and other 60's bands and artists also had an effect on him and his playing. He had an obvious connection to Max Roach, and other Jazz giants. He also had the concepts and power of electric music in his bones. Playing with Miles Davis brought forth the fruit of a lot of serious, exploration harvest.
When Tony played and did solos, it was not just his incredible technique and sense of dynamics but, it was his approach to drums as an instrument of musical texture that made such an impression upon me. His classic set-up, with Black Dot heads and that "Tony" tuning, was so recognizable it stands as one of the most easily recognized drum sets and player in history. Just like Rich, Baker, Palmer, and Cobham, the idea of having a 'voice' at the instrument was even more dramatically enhanced listening to, and watching Tony Williams. The thing that stood out even more for me was the sheer number of "Tonyisms" in his playing that placed a "cup runneth over" painting in front of you. Signature rudiments he used, licks, hand and foot combinations; things he did that you just did not hear other drummers play, and, if you don't know Tony's playing well, you have no idea just how many players do all that stuff themselves; all influenced by Tony Williams.
Rich played so long, from such an early part of the 20th century, it is difficult to see influences upon his own playing. Baker, the same. Palmer had Rich and other Jazzers in his belt. Cobham had some of the Jazz masters influencing him but, his own style was so radically different, drum corps may have had just as much influence upon his style as anything else. Tony, though ... as unique as he was, it was very plain Max was a great influence, and Art Blakey, too. Papa Jo, Philly Joe ... Tony was an obvious branch on a tree. We all are. That's just the growth of a relatively new instrument to humanity's experience with music and percussion: the drum set. While drums and cymbals are ancient, the Trap set is not. We're only talking a little over a century of its use and development. I was born about half way into that history.
With Tony it was amazing to behold his sense of intelligent, stylistic and musical playing and solo ideas from Max, and his power and bombast from Art, and other things that ingrained drumming in him; things that were obvious. This, to me, was a real eye-opener because it showed me that having your own voice, in any kind of isolation, is impossible, and not necessary. We are a sum of parts, and can still place our own thinking and emotions upon the instrument, regardless of icons and influences.
When Tony played, it wasn't just his name for his band. He was in command. He did not just keep time; he made time - controlled it, pushed it, engaged it, danced with it. It is truly an education watching that man do his thing. It was for me, regardless of it coming later in life than it could have. I bought all his straight Jazz recordings just to hear him. Added some Miles Davis recordings, as well. The young Tony Williams does jaw dropping stuff.
His style, his sound, his approach and technique. Huge influence. On my Youtube channel, REFondrums, in my series of videos about drum shells and hype in the manufacturing industry, I play a set of drums I made out of trash cans. The point is to show, once again, the sound of a drum comes from the heads, not the shell. Shells create nuances and subtleties as sound waves bounce around inside the chamber. I have written on that extensively here on my blog but, in the comment section of the video someone mentioned Tony as an influence. I didn't think I played an obvious "Tony" stuff but, he could see and hear it just the same.
Cindy Blackman is obviously, heavily influenced by Tony Williams. For her, it seems to be an art form, or a sign of deepest respect to literally channel him when she plays. Carl Palmer once said, Drummers are great thieves. We steal from each other all the time.
Cindy doesn't just steal Tonyisms, she embodies them, and with great intensity, too. Check out that solo from her at the Drumeo festival, on YT. Tony's set-up and sound. All his licks. His passion. She has it in her. She's not a clone. She just has Tony living in her more than other players that might have influenced her down through life. She seeks to honor him. At least, that's the impression I get watching her.
While some say she is just copying Tony, and while I have obviously endorsed the concept of having your own voice at the instrument, for Cindy, that 'religious experience' of watching and experiencing Tony Williams is just something that draws you in and moves you. I get it. It's in her. She displays it with great fervency and electricity.
Branches of a tree. That's what we all are. Those five men, more than any others, are in the cellular structure of the tree I am part of. Three are gone now. Two still crank out recordings and live performances. They are around five and ten years older than me. Buddy is greatly missed, as are Ginger, and Tony. Some day we all go back to the ground we were made from. If we can leave behind an influence, a positive influence on others; planting seeds that may grow and bear fruit, that's about all we can ask, for three-score and ten of life on Earth.
The fifth most serious influential impact upon me as a drumist came later in life. My late 30's. I actually heard and had recordings of him back in the days of Fusion's explosions on the music scene but, his recordings, some of them, just didn't float my boat the way other band's recordings did.
In my 30's, when advertising some drum stuff to sell, a couple guys came over to look at some cymbals. In seeing my set, they asked me to play, which I did, and we spent some time talking about drums and drummers. As I recall, they came over a couple times. I mentioned I wanted to hear someone "different." One of them said, I know just the guy. I'll bring over some video of him.
He brought over a video of performances of this guy, including a Live in New York concert video. Jazz was over my head when young, and in my 30's, while I could have a slightly better taste and appreciation for it, it still wasn't something I was going to listen to with any lengthy listening sessions. That said, being re-exposed to one of the masters of the instrument, Tony Williams, was something that struck me, significantly.
I had a couple Tony William's Lifetime albums when I was young. I liked one better than the other but, even at that, Allan Holdsworth, while I came to greatly appreciate and marvel at his playing as I got older, was too 'out there' for me when young. Today, I recognize "Fred" as one of the greatest Fusion pieces ever recorded. Lots of artists and bands have played it, and still do. It's a timeless piece of music. Tony William's Lifetime, Believe It, is simply a great recording.
I have mentioned that story before. It's just one of those times you remember things with fairly good clarity even though it happened a long time ago.
I read a comment someone once made, about seeing Tony live, and they said it was like a religious experience. I don't know if I understood him correctly but, there is no doubt that is an impression I had when seeing him again, like it was the first time I ever heard him, and 20 years of time never existed.
His approach to the set was acoustic Jazz, no doubt but, he said he grew up in the days of Rock and Jimi Hendrix, and other 60's bands and artists also had an effect on him and his playing. He had an obvious connection to Max Roach, and other Jazz giants. He also had the concepts and power of electric music in his bones. Playing with Miles Davis brought forth the fruit of a lot of serious, exploration harvest.
When Tony played and did solos, it was not just his incredible technique and sense of dynamics but, it was his approach to drums as an instrument of musical texture that made such an impression upon me. His classic set-up, with Black Dot heads and that "Tony" tuning, was so recognizable it stands as one of the most easily recognized drum sets and player in history. Just like Rich, Baker, Palmer, and Cobham, the idea of having a 'voice' at the instrument was even more dramatically enhanced listening to, and watching Tony Williams. The thing that stood out even more for me was the sheer number of "Tonyisms" in his playing that placed a "cup runneth over" painting in front of you. Signature rudiments he used, licks, hand and foot combinations; things he did that you just did not hear other drummers play, and, if you don't know Tony's playing well, you have no idea just how many players do all that stuff themselves; all influenced by Tony Williams.
Rich played so long, from such an early part of the 20th century, it is difficult to see influences upon his own playing. Baker, the same. Palmer had Rich and other Jazzers in his belt. Cobham had some of the Jazz masters influencing him but, his own style was so radically different, drum corps may have had just as much influence upon his style as anything else. Tony, though ... as unique as he was, it was very plain Max was a great influence, and Art Blakey, too. Papa Jo, Philly Joe ... Tony was an obvious branch on a tree. We all are. That's just the growth of a relatively new instrument to humanity's experience with music and percussion: the drum set. While drums and cymbals are ancient, the Trap set is not. We're only talking a little over a century of its use and development. I was born about half way into that history.
With Tony it was amazing to behold his sense of intelligent, stylistic and musical playing and solo ideas from Max, and his power and bombast from Art, and other things that ingrained drumming in him; things that were obvious. This, to me, was a real eye-opener because it showed me that having your own voice, in any kind of isolation, is impossible, and not necessary. We are a sum of parts, and can still place our own thinking and emotions upon the instrument, regardless of icons and influences.
When Tony played, it wasn't just his name for his band. He was in command. He did not just keep time; he made time - controlled it, pushed it, engaged it, danced with it. It is truly an education watching that man do his thing. It was for me, regardless of it coming later in life than it could have. I bought all his straight Jazz recordings just to hear him. Added some Miles Davis recordings, as well. The young Tony Williams does jaw dropping stuff.
His style, his sound, his approach and technique. Huge influence. On my Youtube channel, REFondrums, in my series of videos about drum shells and hype in the manufacturing industry, I play a set of drums I made out of trash cans. The point is to show, once again, the sound of a drum comes from the heads, not the shell. Shells create nuances and subtleties as sound waves bounce around inside the chamber. I have written on that extensively here on my blog but, in the comment section of the video someone mentioned Tony as an influence. I didn't think I played an obvious "Tony" stuff but, he could see and hear it just the same.
Cindy Blackman is obviously, heavily influenced by Tony Williams. For her, it seems to be an art form, or a sign of deepest respect to literally channel him when she plays. Carl Palmer once said, Drummers are great thieves. We steal from each other all the time.
Cindy doesn't just steal Tonyisms, she embodies them, and with great intensity, too. Check out that solo from her at the Drumeo festival, on YT. Tony's set-up and sound. All his licks. His passion. She has it in her. She's not a clone. She just has Tony living in her more than other players that might have influenced her down through life. She seeks to honor him. At least, that's the impression I get watching her.
While some say she is just copying Tony, and while I have obviously endorsed the concept of having your own voice at the instrument, for Cindy, that 'religious experience' of watching and experiencing Tony Williams is just something that draws you in and moves you. I get it. It's in her. She displays it with great fervency and electricity.
Branches of a tree. That's what we all are. Those five men, more than any others, are in the cellular structure of the tree I am part of. Three are gone now. Two still crank out recordings and live performances. They are around five and ten years older than me. Buddy is greatly missed, as are Ginger, and Tony. Some day we all go back to the ground we were made from. If we can leave behind an influence, a positive influence on others; planting seeds that may grow and bear fruit, that's about all we can ask, for three-score and ten of life on Earth.
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124. Anti-Catholicism - September 27, 2020
I was raised Roman Catholic. All of my relatives, both sides, French Roman Catholic.
Catholicism has a somewhat unique texture in that is can become Italian Catholics, or Polish Catholics, or Irish Catholics, etc. The religion is often united to a national culture.
American Catholics are, generally, not devoted to all the dogma of the RCC. They don't think much about the pope, over in Rome. Many do not go to mass every day, if at all. They do Christmas and Easter attendance. Sadly, it is the same for many professed Protestants. The acronym, CEC, is derived from that yearly situation: Christmas and Easter Christians. With scandals rocking the RCC in the last 20 years, millions of Catholics are confused and angry about their church.
The American colonies began because people wanted to get away from European persecution of Protestants by both the RCC and the Church of England, which is Anglican. Many see the Anglican/Episcopal churches as Catholic-lite but, denying the aspect of a Pope as head of the church was enough to be called Protestant. If nothing else, the papacy was rejected by those protesting its interference into both religious and political matters. The institution and activity of the Society of Jesus: the Jesuits, was so egregious they were thrown out of every nation on the planet they went into, except America. Think about that.
Anti-Catholicism was basically built into the fabric of Americanism, even though religious freedom of conscience was guaranteed, and no religious tests would be placed on anyone running for or nominated to a federal office. Two of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Roman Catholics.**
Popes have gone on record denouncing Americanism. The Pope sided with Jefferson Davis during the Civil War. If I recall correctly, Brigadier General, T.M. Harris, wrote a book on the trial of Lincoln's assassination conspirators and found them all to be Roman Catholics.
Many authors saw the migration of European Catholics in the 1800's and early 1900's as a Catholic invasion. Some see the current invasion of illegal immigrants to America as a Catholic invasion.
In a recent article on Breitbart news, based on Amy Barrett's nomination, attorney Alan Dershowitz stated:
“But America still suffers from subtle anti-Catholicism,” continued Dershowitz. “It was deep in our culture in the 19th century. Jefferson and Adams wrote about it. The Ku Klux Klan and the Know Nothing party were virulently anti-Catholic. We have a terrible legacy of anti-Catholicism, and that has to stop, and Sen. Feinstein should have known better and not used the word ‘dogma’ when she was talking about a woman’s faith.”
So, what is anti-Catholicism? That is a very important question. I was raised RC, became an atheist at a very young age, based on my perceptions of God and truth given to me by Catholics and Catholicism, and then was born-again at 24 and became a Bible-believing Protestant. I protest Romanism and its doctrines. I protest the institution of the Papacy. I have no ill will towards Roman Catholics. To the contrary. I see Catholicism as spiritual darkness and want Catholics to come into the full light of the teachings of the Bible. That one issue is a centuries old issue. Not until recent years has the RCC apologized for persecuting Bible-believers down through the ages. Tensions between Catholics and Protestants still exist in many nations around the world.
Please remember this point. Catholicism states; We are the true church, therefore, we teach the truth.
Protestantism states; We teach the truth; therefore we are the true church.
There is an enormous difference between those two positions. Why so many churches and which to attend? That is another subject, altogether.
Romanism is the policy that position creates authority, and place renders salvation. Being a baptized member or converted member of the Roman Catholic Church is being in the Ark of safety. In Protestantism, as many preachers have written and stated it, The day you walk into a church and become a Christian is the day you walk into a barn and become a horse. Where you sit means nothing to eternal salvation.
When someone is a Cardinal, he is just as faulty as anyone else can be. When a cardinal is elected Pope, and now sits in the chair, in the seat of Peter, their claimed first pope, he has authority and is guaranteed infallibility in pronouncements upon religious dogma. That position was ancient but, became dogma, itself, in 1870. Be assured that decision in Rome had reverberations here in America. America even had "The American Pope," archbishop James Cardinal Gibbons, in the late 1800's; a very influential man. At times, Cardinal Spellman was called, the American Pope. And anyone from my generation will recognize the television work of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Many see "The Sound of Music" as the pivotal Hollywood stamp of Catholicism upon American culture, even though Hollywood had produced many movies with Catholic themes for decades.
Despite the fact that Roman Catholics engaged in all American customs and pastimes, and fought in its wars, they were often seen in the light of both city police forces, and organized crime: The Mafia. When John Kennedy became the nominee for president, even though Catholics fought in two world wars, there were grave misgivings on the part of millions of Americans for a Catholic POTUS, simply because, as I mentioned in the Amy Barrett blog, Catholicism has a Supreme Pontiff all faithful Roman Catholics owe allegiance to. It's just that simple. The Popes had shown not only antagonism towards The Republic, its Constitution, and aspects of Democracy; at times they were outright denounced by Rome. I used to show document after document in my public ministry of Bible prophecy seminars, from statements and pronouncements by Popes and prelates against America. Unless you are into history, those kinds of statements are long past. Does that mean the Vatican no longer has those beliefs? That is the question that demands an answer.
Anti-Catholicism exists because the papacy still exists, not just as religious leaders of a professed Christian church but, since 1929, leaders of a nation: a 9-acre nation. That is what the Vatican is. It has borders, embassies and ambassadors, laws, a banking system, and other aspects of nationhood. It has all the same political intrigue as any other nation, and Roman Catholics are bound by their baptisms, Holy Communion, and Confirmations to render loyalty to the church and its prelates, especially the Pope.
When people state that Islam is incompatible with American Constitutionalism, because of Shariah Law, a truth is stated. It is the same, in principle, with Catholicism. It is the duty of all Catholics, so stated by its popes, to engage in, and become dominant in the political control of any nation they are in. With 20%-28% of the American population, and six Roman Catholics on the Supreme Court (with Barrett being confirmed), and over 30% of Congressional control, Catholicism remains an issue, and in the future, shall become a huge issue, as Bible prophecy moves through its final phases.
Voices in Catholicism try to make anti-Catholicism about hatred of Roman Catholics. No. Absolutely, not so. True Christianity and Protestantism makes a simple and clear difference between the individual Roman Catholic, and the organization of the church: its papacy, priesthood, institutions and doctrines; many of which vast numbers of world Roman Catholics, let alone American Catholics, have no idea exist. My parents were taught as children - never enter a Protestant church. Never read a Protestant Bible. Never marry a Protestant. Never go into business with a Protestant. Calling that anti-Protestantism is an understatement. Catholicism have no stones to throw when it comes to anti-anything.
Much has changed in America. Romanism does not change. Her doctrines remain. Her desire for world dominance, just like Islam, remains. Rome has changed her public image, tried to anyway, since Vatican 2; something many Catholics see as a sellout. The current pope, himself, is seen as an apostate and sellout by millions of Catholics around the world; especially throwing the Catholic church in China under the bus. He will never go down as a favorite among the faithful.
All of this is to state that anti-Catholicism remains, because Catholicism is, in the Vatican, in its deepest intent, an enemy of the Republic. The vast majority of Catholics do not know that, or do, and think it is so radical a notion they pay no attention to it. American history moves along with Catholics caring as much about the survival of the Republic as any other American. The issue of abortion unifies Catholics and Protestants as combatants against one of the most grave matters America faces. That is an issue Judge Barrett will surely face in her hearings.
Expect to read and hear more and more about "anti-Catholicism" in the weeks ahead. Just know the actual difference between anti-Catholicism, as a policy, principle, and belief, and anti-Roman Catholics; which is a denounced policy by any true Christian and Protestant, are two, very different things. Be not deceived. God loves everybody. Christ died for everybody. God is not a Jew, or a Roman Catholic, nor is He a Methodist or Baptist. The plan of salvation is for all mankind and has no necessary interventionists in its acceptance and efficacy. The kingdom has ambassadors, made as such by becoming citizens of Heaven through being born-again. There are no signs on the gates of Heaven or on the front lawn of the Heavenly sanctuary. Organized religious bodies come and go. The kingdom of Heaven isn't going anywhere. The kingdom of Heaven is not the Vatican, nor is it the General Assembly of any denomination. I'll get into that more in the times ahead.
If Judge Barrett is truly an American patriot, and a strict Constitutionalist, she'll make a fine Supreme Court Justice.
**Correction. I distinctly remember, back in the early 1990's, reading a history source stating two Roman Catholics signed the Declaration. That was apparently incorrect. In reading up on the Signers, I just discovered today, 10/14, only one Catholic signed the document, Charles Carroll, of Maryland; the last Signer to pass away, in 1832, at the age of 95.
Catholicism has a somewhat unique texture in that is can become Italian Catholics, or Polish Catholics, or Irish Catholics, etc. The religion is often united to a national culture.
American Catholics are, generally, not devoted to all the dogma of the RCC. They don't think much about the pope, over in Rome. Many do not go to mass every day, if at all. They do Christmas and Easter attendance. Sadly, it is the same for many professed Protestants. The acronym, CEC, is derived from that yearly situation: Christmas and Easter Christians. With scandals rocking the RCC in the last 20 years, millions of Catholics are confused and angry about their church.
The American colonies began because people wanted to get away from European persecution of Protestants by both the RCC and the Church of England, which is Anglican. Many see the Anglican/Episcopal churches as Catholic-lite but, denying the aspect of a Pope as head of the church was enough to be called Protestant. If nothing else, the papacy was rejected by those protesting its interference into both religious and political matters. The institution and activity of the Society of Jesus: the Jesuits, was so egregious they were thrown out of every nation on the planet they went into, except America. Think about that.
Anti-Catholicism was basically built into the fabric of Americanism, even though religious freedom of conscience was guaranteed, and no religious tests would be placed on anyone running for or nominated to a federal office. Two of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Roman Catholics.**
Popes have gone on record denouncing Americanism. The Pope sided with Jefferson Davis during the Civil War. If I recall correctly, Brigadier General, T.M. Harris, wrote a book on the trial of Lincoln's assassination conspirators and found them all to be Roman Catholics.
Many authors saw the migration of European Catholics in the 1800's and early 1900's as a Catholic invasion. Some see the current invasion of illegal immigrants to America as a Catholic invasion.
In a recent article on Breitbart news, based on Amy Barrett's nomination, attorney Alan Dershowitz stated:
“But America still suffers from subtle anti-Catholicism,” continued Dershowitz. “It was deep in our culture in the 19th century. Jefferson and Adams wrote about it. The Ku Klux Klan and the Know Nothing party were virulently anti-Catholic. We have a terrible legacy of anti-Catholicism, and that has to stop, and Sen. Feinstein should have known better and not used the word ‘dogma’ when she was talking about a woman’s faith.”
So, what is anti-Catholicism? That is a very important question. I was raised RC, became an atheist at a very young age, based on my perceptions of God and truth given to me by Catholics and Catholicism, and then was born-again at 24 and became a Bible-believing Protestant. I protest Romanism and its doctrines. I protest the institution of the Papacy. I have no ill will towards Roman Catholics. To the contrary. I see Catholicism as spiritual darkness and want Catholics to come into the full light of the teachings of the Bible. That one issue is a centuries old issue. Not until recent years has the RCC apologized for persecuting Bible-believers down through the ages. Tensions between Catholics and Protestants still exist in many nations around the world.
Please remember this point. Catholicism states; We are the true church, therefore, we teach the truth.
Protestantism states; We teach the truth; therefore we are the true church.
There is an enormous difference between those two positions. Why so many churches and which to attend? That is another subject, altogether.
Romanism is the policy that position creates authority, and place renders salvation. Being a baptized member or converted member of the Roman Catholic Church is being in the Ark of safety. In Protestantism, as many preachers have written and stated it, The day you walk into a church and become a Christian is the day you walk into a barn and become a horse. Where you sit means nothing to eternal salvation.
When someone is a Cardinal, he is just as faulty as anyone else can be. When a cardinal is elected Pope, and now sits in the chair, in the seat of Peter, their claimed first pope, he has authority and is guaranteed infallibility in pronouncements upon religious dogma. That position was ancient but, became dogma, itself, in 1870. Be assured that decision in Rome had reverberations here in America. America even had "The American Pope," archbishop James Cardinal Gibbons, in the late 1800's; a very influential man. At times, Cardinal Spellman was called, the American Pope. And anyone from my generation will recognize the television work of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Many see "The Sound of Music" as the pivotal Hollywood stamp of Catholicism upon American culture, even though Hollywood had produced many movies with Catholic themes for decades.
Despite the fact that Roman Catholics engaged in all American customs and pastimes, and fought in its wars, they were often seen in the light of both city police forces, and organized crime: The Mafia. When John Kennedy became the nominee for president, even though Catholics fought in two world wars, there were grave misgivings on the part of millions of Americans for a Catholic POTUS, simply because, as I mentioned in the Amy Barrett blog, Catholicism has a Supreme Pontiff all faithful Roman Catholics owe allegiance to. It's just that simple. The Popes had shown not only antagonism towards The Republic, its Constitution, and aspects of Democracy; at times they were outright denounced by Rome. I used to show document after document in my public ministry of Bible prophecy seminars, from statements and pronouncements by Popes and prelates against America. Unless you are into history, those kinds of statements are long past. Does that mean the Vatican no longer has those beliefs? That is the question that demands an answer.
Anti-Catholicism exists because the papacy still exists, not just as religious leaders of a professed Christian church but, since 1929, leaders of a nation: a 9-acre nation. That is what the Vatican is. It has borders, embassies and ambassadors, laws, a banking system, and other aspects of nationhood. It has all the same political intrigue as any other nation, and Roman Catholics are bound by their baptisms, Holy Communion, and Confirmations to render loyalty to the church and its prelates, especially the Pope.
When people state that Islam is incompatible with American Constitutionalism, because of Shariah Law, a truth is stated. It is the same, in principle, with Catholicism. It is the duty of all Catholics, so stated by its popes, to engage in, and become dominant in the political control of any nation they are in. With 20%-28% of the American population, and six Roman Catholics on the Supreme Court (with Barrett being confirmed), and over 30% of Congressional control, Catholicism remains an issue, and in the future, shall become a huge issue, as Bible prophecy moves through its final phases.
Voices in Catholicism try to make anti-Catholicism about hatred of Roman Catholics. No. Absolutely, not so. True Christianity and Protestantism makes a simple and clear difference between the individual Roman Catholic, and the organization of the church: its papacy, priesthood, institutions and doctrines; many of which vast numbers of world Roman Catholics, let alone American Catholics, have no idea exist. My parents were taught as children - never enter a Protestant church. Never read a Protestant Bible. Never marry a Protestant. Never go into business with a Protestant. Calling that anti-Protestantism is an understatement. Catholicism have no stones to throw when it comes to anti-anything.
Much has changed in America. Romanism does not change. Her doctrines remain. Her desire for world dominance, just like Islam, remains. Rome has changed her public image, tried to anyway, since Vatican 2; something many Catholics see as a sellout. The current pope, himself, is seen as an apostate and sellout by millions of Catholics around the world; especially throwing the Catholic church in China under the bus. He will never go down as a favorite among the faithful.
All of this is to state that anti-Catholicism remains, because Catholicism is, in the Vatican, in its deepest intent, an enemy of the Republic. The vast majority of Catholics do not know that, or do, and think it is so radical a notion they pay no attention to it. American history moves along with Catholics caring as much about the survival of the Republic as any other American. The issue of abortion unifies Catholics and Protestants as combatants against one of the most grave matters America faces. That is an issue Judge Barrett will surely face in her hearings.
Expect to read and hear more and more about "anti-Catholicism" in the weeks ahead. Just know the actual difference between anti-Catholicism, as a policy, principle, and belief, and anti-Roman Catholics; which is a denounced policy by any true Christian and Protestant, are two, very different things. Be not deceived. God loves everybody. Christ died for everybody. God is not a Jew, or a Roman Catholic, nor is He a Methodist or Baptist. The plan of salvation is for all mankind and has no necessary interventionists in its acceptance and efficacy. The kingdom has ambassadors, made as such by becoming citizens of Heaven through being born-again. There are no signs on the gates of Heaven or on the front lawn of the Heavenly sanctuary. Organized religious bodies come and go. The kingdom of Heaven isn't going anywhere. The kingdom of Heaven is not the Vatican, nor is it the General Assembly of any denomination. I'll get into that more in the times ahead.
If Judge Barrett is truly an American patriot, and a strict Constitutionalist, she'll make a fine Supreme Court Justice.
**Correction. I distinctly remember, back in the early 1990's, reading a history source stating two Roman Catholics signed the Declaration. That was apparently incorrect. In reading up on the Signers, I just discovered today, 10/14, only one Catholic signed the document, Charles Carroll, of Maryland; the last Signer to pass away, in 1832, at the age of 95.
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125. Voter Fraud In Real Time! - September 28, 2020
For those of you who visit my site from outside America, I realize things I am writing, about the current situation in my nation, is not imperative to you. On the other hand, there is not much America does, regardless of who is in political power, that does not effect the rest of the world. Hence, every election means more than just who gets into positions of power for Americans. It effects the planet.
America's most crucial test of what happens the next four years is just a month away. In America, a Constitutional Republic, a nation governed by the rule of law, also practicing elements of a Democracy, like voting into office those we feel and believe best suited to respect the limits of power State and Federal constitutions place upon representatives, must trust the system of voting placed before us. That system can no longer be trusted.
Voter fraud, revealed in real time, and what that means for elections already taken place and what is coming in 37 days, is shown plainly in the linked video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=386&v=zWXlppx-nHk&feature=emb_logo
The video shows, in real time, how actual numbers of votes are switched, in an instant, right on live TV. In this case, CNN. The networks just tap into the web services of those companies tabulating votes.
Voting machines used are hooked up with various companies tabulating votes; machines in towns, cities, counties, and states. In this case, those companies are outside America, under the control of anti-American corporate entities. In the example shown, Venezuela and Spain, run by factions working in harmony with Euro-billionaire, anti-American globalist, George Soros.
How American voters can be placed in such a situation is beyond belief. Yet, here we are.
News reports are already before us of mail-in ballots being dumped in trash bins, thrown away on the ground, or just vanishing. Faith in the Postal Service, it's workers, is suspect. I can remember, back in the 90's, someone telling me they saw hundreds of invitation brochures my ministry mailed out for public seminars, lying in a dumpster. Subjugation of the postal service is not new but, in this election; transparency, integrity, and honesty are crucial. It is not going to happen.
I have zero faith in politicians. I have less faith, negative-zero confidence in political parties. The US Postal Service is apparently a rolling of dice, at this point. November 3rd, 2020, may be the day America ceases to be America, and shall become nothing more than a corrupt, third-world fascist hell-hole.
What happens in 37 days and beyond ... well, let's just say, if America escapes all out civil war, it will be a miracle. It will totally depend on what sides the military and police departments take. If they go with the leftist, globalist, socialist, communist cabal, America is done. If they split, disaster awaits. If they stay loyal to their oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, a glimmer of hope exists.
God help us.
America's most crucial test of what happens the next four years is just a month away. In America, a Constitutional Republic, a nation governed by the rule of law, also practicing elements of a Democracy, like voting into office those we feel and believe best suited to respect the limits of power State and Federal constitutions place upon representatives, must trust the system of voting placed before us. That system can no longer be trusted.
Voter fraud, revealed in real time, and what that means for elections already taken place and what is coming in 37 days, is shown plainly in the linked video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=386&v=zWXlppx-nHk&feature=emb_logo
The video shows, in real time, how actual numbers of votes are switched, in an instant, right on live TV. In this case, CNN. The networks just tap into the web services of those companies tabulating votes.
Voting machines used are hooked up with various companies tabulating votes; machines in towns, cities, counties, and states. In this case, those companies are outside America, under the control of anti-American corporate entities. In the example shown, Venezuela and Spain, run by factions working in harmony with Euro-billionaire, anti-American globalist, George Soros.
How American voters can be placed in such a situation is beyond belief. Yet, here we are.
News reports are already before us of mail-in ballots being dumped in trash bins, thrown away on the ground, or just vanishing. Faith in the Postal Service, it's workers, is suspect. I can remember, back in the 90's, someone telling me they saw hundreds of invitation brochures my ministry mailed out for public seminars, lying in a dumpster. Subjugation of the postal service is not new but, in this election; transparency, integrity, and honesty are crucial. It is not going to happen.
I have zero faith in politicians. I have less faith, negative-zero confidence in political parties. The US Postal Service is apparently a rolling of dice, at this point. November 3rd, 2020, may be the day America ceases to be America, and shall become nothing more than a corrupt, third-world fascist hell-hole.
What happens in 37 days and beyond ... well, let's just say, if America escapes all out civil war, it will be a miracle. It will totally depend on what sides the military and police departments take. If they go with the leftist, globalist, socialist, communist cabal, America is done. If they split, disaster awaits. If they stay loyal to their oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, a glimmer of hope exists.
God help us.
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126. Nope. Didn't Watch the Debate - October 1, 2020
I did not watch the debate between Trump and Biden simply because nothing said would change the way I see the issues between the two and what they stand for. I believe the same could be said for at least 70% of Americans, as well.
Debates, at this point, are just political sporting events. It only matters that your guy wins, not that any real, substantive discussion takes place about important issues facing the nation.
In this case of the other night, reading about it, from both political sides, made it seem a total rooster fight, with two roosters, against one.
Frankly, I believe what the Democrats are doing to Biden is elder abuse. Apparently he did better than expected. Not as many unfortunate, embarrassing gaffs as people thought would disastrously take place. Just the same, his obvious mental lapses make it impossible that he can be POTUS. It is terrible what they are doing to him, and disgusting that they are doing it. Desperation looks pretty ugly.
The one picture floating around the alt news sites, of a wire sticking out from behind Biden's jacket, tells a story about what was done to try and keep the man on track. It is no wonder, then, that the Biden team refused to have Joe undergo a physical check for hearing devices before the debate.
Here's the thing. As important as this election is for the future of America, most Americans do not care about discussing issues. Their minds are made up, and were made up four years ago, and well before that. They want action, not words, not speeches, not political jargon and predictable bloviating.
The debate was watched by 73 million people. That's half the number of people that vote in presidential elections. Cut that number into thirds for Republican, Democrat, and Independent viewers, and you have less than 25 million people from each major voting bloc watching.
There are around 74 million children in America. There are 330 million citizens. That leaves 256 million legal citizens. Only 73 million of those citizens watched the political brawl.
Virtually nobody watches cable news channels. At best, 3 ml tune in for the top programs. The numbers are abysmal for network news. The only people that watch and listen to all this are political junkies. Their votes are done and sealed. Nothing is going to change their votes. The one group that matters every election are the Independents. In this case, they are apparently turning to Trump in droves. Even Democrats are turning to Trump after watching Democrat leaders say and do nothing to stop the riots coast to coast and address the virus in any logical way. They have lost their jobs, their businesses, their cities are burning, and politicians from both sides just play games with it all.
This is America. For avowed socialists, and even communists, and other America haters to be running for office, elected, and involved in the political, government decisions addressing the nation would shock previous generations out of their graves.
Debates mean nothing. Talk means nothing. Elected civil servants are placed in D.C. to protect the nation, to solve problems, not make them. But, as Reagan said, Government is not the solution. Government is the problem.
As far as I am concerned, Washington, D.C. is filled with pirates, scallywags, scoundrels, liars and mobsters. They cannot be trusted to do anything but, what keeps them in office, for a nice long career in "public service."
I cannot, logically, trust any of them to tell the whole truth about anything, at any time, in any place: oval office, halls of congress, courts, or anywhere else.
The flagrant and ridiculous attacks on Barrett have begun. This is grammar school nonsense. Trump faces another four years of hysterical radicals out to destroy and remove him; meaning another four years of nothing truly important getting done. Don't even tell me about SCOTUS appointments because that has already come back to bite Americans wanting the rule of law to make decisions, not politics.
I have seen and heard Trump was able to do over 350 things, big decisions made, that changed things for the better in America. Honestly, if people continue to cross the border at will, and illegal immigrants continue to take jobs and turn back the hands of time on wages and employment, all talk of a great economy is futile. In some states, 84% of new jobs have gone to illegal immigrants, who send a huge chunk of that money back to their homelands. Hospitals have become overburdened and shut down because of America's decision to treat all in need, regardless of payment for services. While it sounds saturated in altruism, the failure of hospitals, financially, so they shut their doors, without financial aid from government, which is something that should not be done in a free-market, capitalistic society, shows the nature of the whirlwind problem America has reaped. Taxes collected by government should never go to bail out any business, period, no matter how big. Not banks, not the auto industry, not start-ups, nothing. Beyond all that, the national debt is going to destroy the nation.
As the very fabric of Americanism decays, all talk of draining swamps, and making America great again, are sorry slogans beckoning catastrophe. The systemic nature of corruption in D.C. is a million times worse than supposed systemic racism in America, especially as multiplied-millionaire entertainment and sports figures in the "black" community tell us how bad things are. Whites asking forgiveness for their skin color while cities are destroyed. You cannot make this stuff up.
I have said it before and say it again: the ONLY hope America has, period, is a return to the Creator that gave us the rights we are throwing away, or subversively being taken away.
The war that exists is not between white and black, or red and blue, or shades of "green," or capitalists and communists. It is between forces of light and forces of darkness bent on the survival or destruction of the greatest nation in the history of the world. That is and always has been the bottom line. People allow God in and have His way, or they reject Him and go their own way.
Pro 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.
Pro 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.
When God takes the time to repeat something, He means it. That means one person or 330 million of them. Same thing, same result: death.
When millions of Americans believe taking life in the womb is perfectly okay and lawful, to the count of 70 million babies, death is coming. Count on it. Expect it. When anything biblical and holy is considered nonsense, radical, and ignorant; death is coming. Know it. Believe it. When the only thing that matters is making money; death is coming. Bet on it. You'll win ... and lose.
Debates, at this point, are just political sporting events. It only matters that your guy wins, not that any real, substantive discussion takes place about important issues facing the nation.
In this case of the other night, reading about it, from both political sides, made it seem a total rooster fight, with two roosters, against one.
Frankly, I believe what the Democrats are doing to Biden is elder abuse. Apparently he did better than expected. Not as many unfortunate, embarrassing gaffs as people thought would disastrously take place. Just the same, his obvious mental lapses make it impossible that he can be POTUS. It is terrible what they are doing to him, and disgusting that they are doing it. Desperation looks pretty ugly.
The one picture floating around the alt news sites, of a wire sticking out from behind Biden's jacket, tells a story about what was done to try and keep the man on track. It is no wonder, then, that the Biden team refused to have Joe undergo a physical check for hearing devices before the debate.
Here's the thing. As important as this election is for the future of America, most Americans do not care about discussing issues. Their minds are made up, and were made up four years ago, and well before that. They want action, not words, not speeches, not political jargon and predictable bloviating.
The debate was watched by 73 million people. That's half the number of people that vote in presidential elections. Cut that number into thirds for Republican, Democrat, and Independent viewers, and you have less than 25 million people from each major voting bloc watching.
There are around 74 million children in America. There are 330 million citizens. That leaves 256 million legal citizens. Only 73 million of those citizens watched the political brawl.
Virtually nobody watches cable news channels. At best, 3 ml tune in for the top programs. The numbers are abysmal for network news. The only people that watch and listen to all this are political junkies. Their votes are done and sealed. Nothing is going to change their votes. The one group that matters every election are the Independents. In this case, they are apparently turning to Trump in droves. Even Democrats are turning to Trump after watching Democrat leaders say and do nothing to stop the riots coast to coast and address the virus in any logical way. They have lost their jobs, their businesses, their cities are burning, and politicians from both sides just play games with it all.
This is America. For avowed socialists, and even communists, and other America haters to be running for office, elected, and involved in the political, government decisions addressing the nation would shock previous generations out of their graves.
Debates mean nothing. Talk means nothing. Elected civil servants are placed in D.C. to protect the nation, to solve problems, not make them. But, as Reagan said, Government is not the solution. Government is the problem.
As far as I am concerned, Washington, D.C. is filled with pirates, scallywags, scoundrels, liars and mobsters. They cannot be trusted to do anything but, what keeps them in office, for a nice long career in "public service."
I cannot, logically, trust any of them to tell the whole truth about anything, at any time, in any place: oval office, halls of congress, courts, or anywhere else.
The flagrant and ridiculous attacks on Barrett have begun. This is grammar school nonsense. Trump faces another four years of hysterical radicals out to destroy and remove him; meaning another four years of nothing truly important getting done. Don't even tell me about SCOTUS appointments because that has already come back to bite Americans wanting the rule of law to make decisions, not politics.
I have seen and heard Trump was able to do over 350 things, big decisions made, that changed things for the better in America. Honestly, if people continue to cross the border at will, and illegal immigrants continue to take jobs and turn back the hands of time on wages and employment, all talk of a great economy is futile. In some states, 84% of new jobs have gone to illegal immigrants, who send a huge chunk of that money back to their homelands. Hospitals have become overburdened and shut down because of America's decision to treat all in need, regardless of payment for services. While it sounds saturated in altruism, the failure of hospitals, financially, so they shut their doors, without financial aid from government, which is something that should not be done in a free-market, capitalistic society, shows the nature of the whirlwind problem America has reaped. Taxes collected by government should never go to bail out any business, period, no matter how big. Not banks, not the auto industry, not start-ups, nothing. Beyond all that, the national debt is going to destroy the nation.
As the very fabric of Americanism decays, all talk of draining swamps, and making America great again, are sorry slogans beckoning catastrophe. The systemic nature of corruption in D.C. is a million times worse than supposed systemic racism in America, especially as multiplied-millionaire entertainment and sports figures in the "black" community tell us how bad things are. Whites asking forgiveness for their skin color while cities are destroyed. You cannot make this stuff up.
I have said it before and say it again: the ONLY hope America has, period, is a return to the Creator that gave us the rights we are throwing away, or subversively being taken away.
The war that exists is not between white and black, or red and blue, or shades of "green," or capitalists and communists. It is between forces of light and forces of darkness bent on the survival or destruction of the greatest nation in the history of the world. That is and always has been the bottom line. People allow God in and have His way, or they reject Him and go their own way.
Pro 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.
Pro 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.
When God takes the time to repeat something, He means it. That means one person or 330 million of them. Same thing, same result: death.
When millions of Americans believe taking life in the womb is perfectly okay and lawful, to the count of 70 million babies, death is coming. Count on it. Expect it. When anything biblical and holy is considered nonsense, radical, and ignorant; death is coming. Know it. Believe it. When the only thing that matters is making money; death is coming. Bet on it. You'll win ... and lose.
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127. Political Vomit - October 2, 2020
I do not know what else to call what I just read.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/10/02/evil-here-were-cnns-worst-moments-immediately-after-trumps-covid
My wife would say, "Why do you read these things? They just make you upset."
I can't argue that.
Aside from all those rabid leftists out there wishing POTUS and FLOTUS will die, trying to get through the political vomit spewed by these supposed trustworthy news reporters, authors and doctors, was just too much. The hypocrisy, outright lies, fear mongering, wolves in sheep's clothing rhetoric is maddening to read. How do they look at themselves in the mirror every day?
Waking up to seeing POTUS and FLOTUS have tested positive to C-19 was not a shock. Nor is it shocking to know rabid leftists hope they die. They have them half in the grave already. Nor is it shocking, after all that has happened in four years, to read members of the main stream media just lie, continue to lie, and bloviate about the president, things he has said, not said, done, not done, might do, might not do and all the rest. It isn't shocking but, it is just too much.
Why do leftists lie with such abandon? Why are they such hypocrites? Dr. Michael Savage, author and radio personality, has stated that Liberalism is a disease, a mental illness, literally; something not wired correctly in the brain. As out there as that might seem, the evidence points to the truth of that position. Leftists are not people of integrity. They seem void of it.
God forbid the United States of America comes under the control of these vipers and vultures. The poison of asps is under their tongues.
I can certainly pray for them. I don't know if I could actually sit down and have a rational conversation with them. Their hatred for all things Trump is just so thick and dense they cannot see reason. All communication I have ever had with leftists always devolves into name calling, ad hominem attacks, twisting things, and irrationality. Why is that so consistent? I suppose they would state the same for people on the right; definitely professed Christians. Chris Cuomo made a derogatory remark about Christianity to Ted Cruz the other night.
Despite his age and overall health, I'd expect the president, and his wife, to be just fine. He outworks everyone around him. They constantly say nobody can keep up with him. Yes, he could certainly lose some weight. He should. There are no blessings to being overweight. It is always a health risk. That said, has anyone yet seen Trump slow down? Biden calls it a day at 10 a.m. The msm says NOTHING about his obvious mental issues but, Trump? He's got the deadly virus!!! America is at its most vulnerable place in its history!!! We must press the administration for honesty and transparency in this crisis!!! Back to lock downs and universal mask wearing!!! Hold off the Barrett confirmation hearings!!! They all must be quarantined!!! This is Trump's own fault for calling this a hoax! Dr. Fauci must be taken seriously! It's the end of the bloody world!!!
No, I will not fly into hysterical fear now. No, I will not take Fauci and the cabal more seriously. No, I will not wear a medically proven useless mask. No, I will not expect POTUS and FLOTUS to get deathly ill. No, I will not take anything the msm states with any serious reflection. And Yes, I would rather get sick and die than see the USA put into the hands of vipers and vultures like rabid leftists. Have mercy, O Lord.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/10/02/evil-here-were-cnns-worst-moments-immediately-after-trumps-covid
My wife would say, "Why do you read these things? They just make you upset."
I can't argue that.
Aside from all those rabid leftists out there wishing POTUS and FLOTUS will die, trying to get through the political vomit spewed by these supposed trustworthy news reporters, authors and doctors, was just too much. The hypocrisy, outright lies, fear mongering, wolves in sheep's clothing rhetoric is maddening to read. How do they look at themselves in the mirror every day?
Waking up to seeing POTUS and FLOTUS have tested positive to C-19 was not a shock. Nor is it shocking to know rabid leftists hope they die. They have them half in the grave already. Nor is it shocking, after all that has happened in four years, to read members of the main stream media just lie, continue to lie, and bloviate about the president, things he has said, not said, done, not done, might do, might not do and all the rest. It isn't shocking but, it is just too much.
Why do leftists lie with such abandon? Why are they such hypocrites? Dr. Michael Savage, author and radio personality, has stated that Liberalism is a disease, a mental illness, literally; something not wired correctly in the brain. As out there as that might seem, the evidence points to the truth of that position. Leftists are not people of integrity. They seem void of it.
God forbid the United States of America comes under the control of these vipers and vultures. The poison of asps is under their tongues.
I can certainly pray for them. I don't know if I could actually sit down and have a rational conversation with them. Their hatred for all things Trump is just so thick and dense they cannot see reason. All communication I have ever had with leftists always devolves into name calling, ad hominem attacks, twisting things, and irrationality. Why is that so consistent? I suppose they would state the same for people on the right; definitely professed Christians. Chris Cuomo made a derogatory remark about Christianity to Ted Cruz the other night.
Despite his age and overall health, I'd expect the president, and his wife, to be just fine. He outworks everyone around him. They constantly say nobody can keep up with him. Yes, he could certainly lose some weight. He should. There are no blessings to being overweight. It is always a health risk. That said, has anyone yet seen Trump slow down? Biden calls it a day at 10 a.m. The msm says NOTHING about his obvious mental issues but, Trump? He's got the deadly virus!!! America is at its most vulnerable place in its history!!! We must press the administration for honesty and transparency in this crisis!!! Back to lock downs and universal mask wearing!!! Hold off the Barrett confirmation hearings!!! They all must be quarantined!!! This is Trump's own fault for calling this a hoax! Dr. Fauci must be taken seriously! It's the end of the bloody world!!!
No, I will not fly into hysterical fear now. No, I will not take Fauci and the cabal more seriously. No, I will not wear a medically proven useless mask. No, I will not expect POTUS and FLOTUS to get deathly ill. No, I will not take anything the msm states with any serious reflection. And Yes, I would rather get sick and die than see the USA put into the hands of vipers and vultures like rabid leftists. Have mercy, O Lord.
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128. The Hendrickson - Frigon Project: Forging Ahead - 10/02/2020
"For such a time as this," is what I keep communicating to Gary Hendrickson, in our collaboration to create "music for patriots."
The more I read and observe, regarding the attacks on Americanism, the Trump administration, traditional values (Christianity in particular), and the gross uplifting of Communist China, a totalitarian tank of despotism and tyranny and death to dissenters, the more eager I am for our first album, "Liberty," to emerge.
Four songs, basically completed. I wish you could hear Liberty, Fake News, Uncivil War, and Mr. and Mrs. American, as well as others Gary is working on. Like I have stated, I really don't listen to Hard Rock but, Gary's way of composing and production are so engrossing I find myself fascinated with his approach to his music. It's amazing. They are far more than songs. They are statements. They are multi-media.
I freely admit, I hope I can do these compositions justice when I record my drum tracks. I'm really looking forward to it. I have not had my "big set" up and running for years. I cleared out a bedroom and set it all up. 13 drums, around 60 cymbals - rides, crashes, chinas, splashes, hihats, effects, gong and all the rest. I need to do some room acoustic muffling and sound proofing. I'll be recording with my simple, three or four mic set-up: one or two mics on the kick, two overheads with a Jecklin disk.
I've been looking into downloading Reaper. It will be a big learning curve for me but, I'm forging ahead. I have never recorded anything in any significant way before. Tape recorders and a couple mics for rehearsals a long time ago. When it came to serious recording, I watched but, I have to say, especially with today's software programs and the hundreds of things that can be done; it's rather mind boggling. I definitely need a 'Recording for Dummies' book.
Just the same, to have the opportunity to record drum tracks for this music is an honor, indeed. I have no idea what things will be like in America, when the album is finished and ready to go. I do sincerely believe lovers of the principles of Americanism will find the music a great encouragement, even those not into Hard Rock. Gary's approach to composition is multi-genre. It's very much like listening to a sound track without the film, which is fascinating, seeing my work with Tom Cranor, in Miledge Muzic, has the same kind of feel to it, even though it is instrumental improvisation. I have been blessed to work with both of these gentlemen.
I'm turning the corner on 65. December brings another year around and at 66, I cannot know what kind of music 'career' or whatever, I can or will have. I only know what I have written in these lyrics is sincere, straight forward, uplifting of God, family, country, the principles of Americanism, and warnings against that which attacks it all. I have written lyrics for almost two dozen songs now, and while it will take time to put music to it all, whatever develops will hopefully be a bright spot for listeners in the days we are living in and shall, in the times to come.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The more I read and observe, regarding the attacks on Americanism, the Trump administration, traditional values (Christianity in particular), and the gross uplifting of Communist China, a totalitarian tank of despotism and tyranny and death to dissenters, the more eager I am for our first album, "Liberty," to emerge.
Four songs, basically completed. I wish you could hear Liberty, Fake News, Uncivil War, and Mr. and Mrs. American, as well as others Gary is working on. Like I have stated, I really don't listen to Hard Rock but, Gary's way of composing and production are so engrossing I find myself fascinated with his approach to his music. It's amazing. They are far more than songs. They are statements. They are multi-media.
I freely admit, I hope I can do these compositions justice when I record my drum tracks. I'm really looking forward to it. I have not had my "big set" up and running for years. I cleared out a bedroom and set it all up. 13 drums, around 60 cymbals - rides, crashes, chinas, splashes, hihats, effects, gong and all the rest. I need to do some room acoustic muffling and sound proofing. I'll be recording with my simple, three or four mic set-up: one or two mics on the kick, two overheads with a Jecklin disk.
I've been looking into downloading Reaper. It will be a big learning curve for me but, I'm forging ahead. I have never recorded anything in any significant way before. Tape recorders and a couple mics for rehearsals a long time ago. When it came to serious recording, I watched but, I have to say, especially with today's software programs and the hundreds of things that can be done; it's rather mind boggling. I definitely need a 'Recording for Dummies' book.
Just the same, to have the opportunity to record drum tracks for this music is an honor, indeed. I have no idea what things will be like in America, when the album is finished and ready to go. I do sincerely believe lovers of the principles of Americanism will find the music a great encouragement, even those not into Hard Rock. Gary's approach to composition is multi-genre. It's very much like listening to a sound track without the film, which is fascinating, seeing my work with Tom Cranor, in Miledge Muzic, has the same kind of feel to it, even though it is instrumental improvisation. I have been blessed to work with both of these gentlemen.
I'm turning the corner on 65. December brings another year around and at 66, I cannot know what kind of music 'career' or whatever, I can or will have. I only know what I have written in these lyrics is sincere, straight forward, uplifting of God, family, country, the principles of Americanism, and warnings against that which attacks it all. I have written lyrics for almost two dozen songs now, and while it will take time to put music to it all, whatever develops will hopefully be a bright spot for listeners in the days we are living in and shall, in the times to come.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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129. Thousands Of Doctors And Scientists Keep Speaking Out - 10/2/20
With the reigniting of msm/leftist hysteria over C-19 and the president's testing positive, you might think the information out there standing against Dr. Fauci and company, would deflate it all quickly. Or not.
I continue to place things about the "pandemic" on my blog because I have seen, since January, this gig is a ruse. Yes, people have died, like they do every flu season, and for hundreds of other reasons every single day and nobody says a word, save for those who lose loved ones. The entire hysterical response, from so many elected civil servants, locking down everything in sight, requires fighting back, incessantly.
An article like this should be the final word but, it won't be. It cannot be; for those wanting to destroy the nation with foolish hysteria and tyranny.
Anyway ... read it, if you want to know what the other side keeps stating:
Literally Thousands of Doctors and Scientists Have Come Out Against Fauci’s Lockdowns Including a Nobel Prize-Winning Biophysicist. The Media Just Doesn’t Want You to Know
https://www.redstate.com/michael_thau/2020/07/13/many-medical-experts-were-against-lockdowns-the-media-just-didnt-want-us-know/
And, I just came upon this: it is all "political theater."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hot-mic-moment-lawmakers-admit-masks-are-all-political-theater
I continue to place things about the "pandemic" on my blog because I have seen, since January, this gig is a ruse. Yes, people have died, like they do every flu season, and for hundreds of other reasons every single day and nobody says a word, save for those who lose loved ones. The entire hysterical response, from so many elected civil servants, locking down everything in sight, requires fighting back, incessantly.
An article like this should be the final word but, it won't be. It cannot be; for those wanting to destroy the nation with foolish hysteria and tyranny.
Anyway ... read it, if you want to know what the other side keeps stating:
Literally Thousands of Doctors and Scientists Have Come Out Against Fauci’s Lockdowns Including a Nobel Prize-Winning Biophysicist. The Media Just Doesn’t Want You to Know
https://www.redstate.com/michael_thau/2020/07/13/many-medical-experts-were-against-lockdowns-the-media-just-didnt-want-us-know/
And, I just came upon this: it is all "political theater."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hot-mic-moment-lawmakers-admit-masks-are-all-political-theater
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130. Sen. Horono and "Ojectivity" - October 2, 2020
When I grew into adulthood I admit I never truly understood the use of the terms 'objective' and 'subjective.' I'd hear and, more likely, see them used, and always had to look them up because something didn't sit right when I heard or saw them.
Senator Mazie Horono (D-Hawaii), stated that because of Judge Barrett's faith - her Catholic/Christian faith, specifically - she could not be "objective" in rulings on SCOTUS, if confirmed. Here's what she stated:
Speaking on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this week, Hirono questioned how Barrett could be a fair judge if she holds such strong religious views against abortion, Breitbart reports.
The Hawaii senator said Barrett’s faith is “immaterial,” but then she attacked the judge for living out her faith convictions.
“The issue is whether she can separate her deeply held views on issues like abortion, LGBTQ rights, whether she can separate her deeply held views from her ability to be fair and objective as a justice sitting there for years making decisions that impact all of our lives, starting with the Affordable Care Act,” Hirono said.
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/10/02/mazie-hirono-amy-coney-barrett-cant-be-objective-because-shes-a-christian/
'Objective' means to look at a matter without personal prejudice, or personal feelings.
'Subjective' means the opposite: to look at something with personal feelings and beliefs.
The obvious question that came to my mind, and should have been asked of the senator, is "Are you saying only an atheist can be objective? Are all the justices on the court atheists? Was Ginsberg an atheist?"
Those questions were not asked, as far as the article shows the discussion. The only logical answer is, No.
So, what is it? Nobody on Earth goes through life with subjective concepts, ideas, feelings, positions, preferences, convictions, and beliefs? Hardly. So, because most people do, anybody that does cannot be a justice on the court? Nonsense. Horono should have been asked is she is an atheist and if not, could she be an objective law maker in the Senate?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise, thereof."
A separation of church and state exists, in principle, in the Constitution, in the First Amendment. That separation is very different from the modern concept of separating God from state; something the Founders never did. To the contrary. They recognized the Creator, the Sovereign of the universe, and Almighty God and other terms in their speeches, writings, and foundation document, The Declaration of Independence. The Creator, Nature's God, Supreme Judge, and divine Providence all grace that profound document. It is a fool's errand to try and make the foundation of the United States a godless enterprise.
So, how can Senator Horono make such a foolish remark about Judge Barrett's faith and objectivity to judge? If her faith cannot be a guide in addressing U.S. law, which had in its fabric of existence the belief that inalienable rights come from God, the great Lawgiver, no one but, an atheist can be ... well ... not just a member of SCOTUS but, the holder of any elected office in the other two branches of government! But, atheism is a subjective belief. Nothing disproves or proves God to any empirical degree. Nature's God shows Himself throughout the natural world but, many claim not to see it. They believe only materialism and naturalism explains the existence of everything. That is, indeed, a belief, with zero scientific proof to back it up as undeniable, irrefutable fact. It takes faith to believe everything came from nothing, no God necessary. A lot more faith than I have.
At one time in America, when I was young, the Senator from Hawaii's statements would have been seen with abject repulsiveness and horror. Not today. These professed 'objective' elected civil servants say whatever they feel and think, with impunity.
I just wrote about Barrett's Catholicism a few blogs back. Real Roman Catholicism believes the Roman Pontiff, the Pope, is the stand-in, the representative of Christ on Earth, the "vicar" of Christ, and thereby the supreme judge in all matters of faith and law on Earth. Is Amy Barrett a "real" Roman Catholic or, an American modified, adapted Catholic to the general Judeo-Christian culture? It's a fair question because of what Catholicism is, in doctrine and concept.
Even if she is a real Roman Catholic, an all-the-way Roman Catholic, she is free to hold that belief and have it guide her in decisions made from the bench, the same as the other professed Catholics and Jews on the court.
Is there a chance for a theological court making decisions? Not if they follow the Constitution. Their job is to decide if laws, lawsuits, and law tampering are Constitutional, that's it. Rome has nothing to do with it. If it does, then, you are not fit to be a Justice on the Court. No other nation can be allowed to decide matters of law in America. Well, that fell in the "marriage" decision. None of the justices should be allowed to legislate from the bench; especially by virtue of their worldviews, beliefs, and religious convictions. Judges, by design, are not to be "activists" for any causes or movements, or religions; for or against. The rule of law is the bottom line, Constitutional law, or federal and state laws throughout the nation. Well, good luck with that in the last couple generations. Ginsberg stated, emphatically, that other laws in other nations should guide the justices. Well, if the laws of other nations can be a guide, why not the laws of the kingdom of God? I'm rather certain Barrett has more faith in those laws than the laws of China. That is something to be thankful for, not held suspect of.
Freedom and Liberty carry risks. If we want freedom and liberty, we have to allow humans to be humans. That includes belief systems. The thing is, are you civil? You are free to scream at your neighbor and call him anything you like, in your personal opinion. You cannot punch your neighbor in the face. That uncivil action is punishable by law. And, if you are a professional of some kind, you cannot go out and state things that hurt another person's life or ability to make a living, if they are untrue. That is why Kyle Rittenhouse's attorneys are filing a lawsuit against Joe Biden, for stating Kyle is a white supremacist and member of a militia group. Without proof, that is public slander. Biden should be held accountable, according to the rule of law.
Some like to point out that God is not mentioned in the Constitution. That, in and of itself, shows that the law can be arbitrated by men (and women) of faith. Religious faith need not threaten or change the rule of law found in the Constitution, if the Constitution is the text and platform decisions are made by.
Slippery slopes exist in a free society. America has already begun to slide downward and its speed is picking up. Attitudes and positions like those of Senator Horono are just as radical as a SCOTUS decision that states the POPE should be the Sovereign of the nation, or, frankly, that life in the womb, a developing baby, that shall continue to develop; physically, mentally, and emotionally outside the womb for years after birth, is just some kind of tissue and a woman has a right to kill that baby. Factually, it is not her body. She is carrying another body inside hers, a life that should have Constitutional protections.
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness. Everyone has those inalienable rights, including babies; granted by God; not the State, not the Supreme Court, not the President, not Congress, not Judges, not the military, not mobs, not the majority. They are rights that come from our Creator, God, Judge, and ruler of divine Providence.
Senator Horono is wrong, and her colleagues should call her on it.
Senator Mazie Horono (D-Hawaii), stated that because of Judge Barrett's faith - her Catholic/Christian faith, specifically - she could not be "objective" in rulings on SCOTUS, if confirmed. Here's what she stated:
Speaking on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this week, Hirono questioned how Barrett could be a fair judge if she holds such strong religious views against abortion, Breitbart reports.
The Hawaii senator said Barrett’s faith is “immaterial,” but then she attacked the judge for living out her faith convictions.
“The issue is whether she can separate her deeply held views on issues like abortion, LGBTQ rights, whether she can separate her deeply held views from her ability to be fair and objective as a justice sitting there for years making decisions that impact all of our lives, starting with the Affordable Care Act,” Hirono said.
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/10/02/mazie-hirono-amy-coney-barrett-cant-be-objective-because-shes-a-christian/
'Objective' means to look at a matter without personal prejudice, or personal feelings.
'Subjective' means the opposite: to look at something with personal feelings and beliefs.
The obvious question that came to my mind, and should have been asked of the senator, is "Are you saying only an atheist can be objective? Are all the justices on the court atheists? Was Ginsberg an atheist?"
Those questions were not asked, as far as the article shows the discussion. The only logical answer is, No.
So, what is it? Nobody on Earth goes through life with subjective concepts, ideas, feelings, positions, preferences, convictions, and beliefs? Hardly. So, because most people do, anybody that does cannot be a justice on the court? Nonsense. Horono should have been asked is she is an atheist and if not, could she be an objective law maker in the Senate?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise, thereof."
A separation of church and state exists, in principle, in the Constitution, in the First Amendment. That separation is very different from the modern concept of separating God from state; something the Founders never did. To the contrary. They recognized the Creator, the Sovereign of the universe, and Almighty God and other terms in their speeches, writings, and foundation document, The Declaration of Independence. The Creator, Nature's God, Supreme Judge, and divine Providence all grace that profound document. It is a fool's errand to try and make the foundation of the United States a godless enterprise.
So, how can Senator Horono make such a foolish remark about Judge Barrett's faith and objectivity to judge? If her faith cannot be a guide in addressing U.S. law, which had in its fabric of existence the belief that inalienable rights come from God, the great Lawgiver, no one but, an atheist can be ... well ... not just a member of SCOTUS but, the holder of any elected office in the other two branches of government! But, atheism is a subjective belief. Nothing disproves or proves God to any empirical degree. Nature's God shows Himself throughout the natural world but, many claim not to see it. They believe only materialism and naturalism explains the existence of everything. That is, indeed, a belief, with zero scientific proof to back it up as undeniable, irrefutable fact. It takes faith to believe everything came from nothing, no God necessary. A lot more faith than I have.
At one time in America, when I was young, the Senator from Hawaii's statements would have been seen with abject repulsiveness and horror. Not today. These professed 'objective' elected civil servants say whatever they feel and think, with impunity.
I just wrote about Barrett's Catholicism a few blogs back. Real Roman Catholicism believes the Roman Pontiff, the Pope, is the stand-in, the representative of Christ on Earth, the "vicar" of Christ, and thereby the supreme judge in all matters of faith and law on Earth. Is Amy Barrett a "real" Roman Catholic or, an American modified, adapted Catholic to the general Judeo-Christian culture? It's a fair question because of what Catholicism is, in doctrine and concept.
Even if she is a real Roman Catholic, an all-the-way Roman Catholic, she is free to hold that belief and have it guide her in decisions made from the bench, the same as the other professed Catholics and Jews on the court.
Is there a chance for a theological court making decisions? Not if they follow the Constitution. Their job is to decide if laws, lawsuits, and law tampering are Constitutional, that's it. Rome has nothing to do with it. If it does, then, you are not fit to be a Justice on the Court. No other nation can be allowed to decide matters of law in America. Well, that fell in the "marriage" decision. None of the justices should be allowed to legislate from the bench; especially by virtue of their worldviews, beliefs, and religious convictions. Judges, by design, are not to be "activists" for any causes or movements, or religions; for or against. The rule of law is the bottom line, Constitutional law, or federal and state laws throughout the nation. Well, good luck with that in the last couple generations. Ginsberg stated, emphatically, that other laws in other nations should guide the justices. Well, if the laws of other nations can be a guide, why not the laws of the kingdom of God? I'm rather certain Barrett has more faith in those laws than the laws of China. That is something to be thankful for, not held suspect of.
Freedom and Liberty carry risks. If we want freedom and liberty, we have to allow humans to be humans. That includes belief systems. The thing is, are you civil? You are free to scream at your neighbor and call him anything you like, in your personal opinion. You cannot punch your neighbor in the face. That uncivil action is punishable by law. And, if you are a professional of some kind, you cannot go out and state things that hurt another person's life or ability to make a living, if they are untrue. That is why Kyle Rittenhouse's attorneys are filing a lawsuit against Joe Biden, for stating Kyle is a white supremacist and member of a militia group. Without proof, that is public slander. Biden should be held accountable, according to the rule of law.
Some like to point out that God is not mentioned in the Constitution. That, in and of itself, shows that the law can be arbitrated by men (and women) of faith. Religious faith need not threaten or change the rule of law found in the Constitution, if the Constitution is the text and platform decisions are made by.
Slippery slopes exist in a free society. America has already begun to slide downward and its speed is picking up. Attitudes and positions like those of Senator Horono are just as radical as a SCOTUS decision that states the POPE should be the Sovereign of the nation, or, frankly, that life in the womb, a developing baby, that shall continue to develop; physically, mentally, and emotionally outside the womb for years after birth, is just some kind of tissue and a woman has a right to kill that baby. Factually, it is not her body. She is carrying another body inside hers, a life that should have Constitutional protections.
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness. Everyone has those inalienable rights, including babies; granted by God; not the State, not the Supreme Court, not the President, not Congress, not Judges, not the military, not mobs, not the majority. They are rights that come from our Creator, God, Judge, and ruler of divine Providence.
Senator Horono is wrong, and her colleagues should call her on it.
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131. Mandated Vaccinations Coming - October 5, 2020
Nobody can deny the event. Millions sick. Thousands dying.
Out of 7.5 BILLION people, this event is not statistically CLOSE to being the fear-mongering event elitists and corporation entities have made it out to be.
STILL, with ACTUAL, FACTUAL DATA and NUMBERS going DOWN, these devils will not stop pushing their agenda.
The New England Journal of Medicine, which already published an article earlier this year on the lack of success or needfulness of wearing masks, now publish an article that is a How To - 101 on the proposal to MANDATE vaccinations.
This must not only be withstood, it must be soundly, without mercy, PUT DOWN for what it is: an attempt to make money for pharmaceutical companies and those invested in them, even though they bring out the delicate nature of drug company involvement. It is a sickening read. It is one of the few articles I have read in the last 8 months that raised my body temperature as I read it: a literal blood-boiling read.
It is saturated with rhetoric and calculating proposals.
"Ensuring Uptake of Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2"
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2020926
If the American public cannot/will not stand against this agenda, our freedoms and liberty are GONE for good, until some form of citizenry rises up and takes their freedom and liberty back; when? Generations from now?
All these dystopian tv shows and movies over the last 30 years. They are an agenda to get humanity used to these scenarios, WITHOUT heroes to keep them from total success. We are now here. Are there any in public servants that shall rise up? Doubtful. We, the people, are all we have now.
Since 2001 our rights have been constantly diminished and taken away, all in the name of safety. Now, the same is happening, all in the name of health and safety. It is THE BIGGEST RUSE in the history of mankind. And, in this case, with the internet and information highway, it is the least likely time any wicked group of control freaks could pull this off. How is this happening?
Because people REFUSE to think for themselves. DUMBED DOWN, taught to lean on "EXPERTS," and intimidated by them, COWERING under the growing, now dangerous levels of government oversight: elected civil servants grabbing more and more power and control.
If this is not withstood in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS our world will find itself the living reality of every dystopian movie and tv show for the last three decades.
We shall reap what we have sown - tyranny or liberty.
Out of 7.5 BILLION people, this event is not statistically CLOSE to being the fear-mongering event elitists and corporation entities have made it out to be.
STILL, with ACTUAL, FACTUAL DATA and NUMBERS going DOWN, these devils will not stop pushing their agenda.
The New England Journal of Medicine, which already published an article earlier this year on the lack of success or needfulness of wearing masks, now publish an article that is a How To - 101 on the proposal to MANDATE vaccinations.
This must not only be withstood, it must be soundly, without mercy, PUT DOWN for what it is: an attempt to make money for pharmaceutical companies and those invested in them, even though they bring out the delicate nature of drug company involvement. It is a sickening read. It is one of the few articles I have read in the last 8 months that raised my body temperature as I read it: a literal blood-boiling read.
It is saturated with rhetoric and calculating proposals.
"Ensuring Uptake of Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2"
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2020926
If the American public cannot/will not stand against this agenda, our freedoms and liberty are GONE for good, until some form of citizenry rises up and takes their freedom and liberty back; when? Generations from now?
All these dystopian tv shows and movies over the last 30 years. They are an agenda to get humanity used to these scenarios, WITHOUT heroes to keep them from total success. We are now here. Are there any in public servants that shall rise up? Doubtful. We, the people, are all we have now.
Since 2001 our rights have been constantly diminished and taken away, all in the name of safety. Now, the same is happening, all in the name of health and safety. It is THE BIGGEST RUSE in the history of mankind. And, in this case, with the internet and information highway, it is the least likely time any wicked group of control freaks could pull this off. How is this happening?
Because people REFUSE to think for themselves. DUMBED DOWN, taught to lean on "EXPERTS," and intimidated by them, COWERING under the growing, now dangerous levels of government oversight: elected civil servants grabbing more and more power and control.
If this is not withstood in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS our world will find itself the living reality of every dystopian movie and tv show for the last three decades.
We shall reap what we have sown - tyranny or liberty.
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132. Strangers and Pilgrims - October 6, 2020
"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
"For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
"And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
"But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." Hebrews 11:13-16
In the book of Hebrews the apostle states the patriarchs of the movement of God considered themselves strangers and pilgrims, looking for a country, a place to truly call home. They never found it. A city awaits them in another land.
Christians consider themselves strangers and pilgrims in this world. We really do not fit. Some, like myself, feel we do not fit in most professed Christian circles, for one reason or another, mostly doctrinal matters or other issues, like church governance and organization.
I was an atheist: playing drums in a Top40 band for pay, and in Legend for hopes and dreams.
Through various circumstances I was struck by the accuracy of Bible prophecy, at 24, and began to realize God could be real; could be there. I literally threw up my arms one night, lying in bed, and pleaded with God to reveal Himself to me. I really wanted to believe. I was struck by the literal presence of God in my heart and mind. I was changed; profoundly changed. Born again; a new person in Christ. It was an astonishing moment and journey ahead.
I left Legend to pursue another path. I just didn't fit Legend anymore. I loved Kevin and Fred and knew Legend could go all the way but, a stronger influence was upon me. A stranger and pilgrim I became.
Then, after twelve years, it came about that I did not fit the denominational confines I found myself in, and left that. I don't do well with apostasy and leaders acting more like popes than shepherds.
Since that time, in all the experiences I have had in the last forty-one years, I absolutely know I am a stranger and pilgrim, looking for a place to call home, and it exists but, not in this world.
Beyond those spiritual considerations, I feel like a stranger and pilgrim in America. Where am I living? This is not the America I grew up in. This is not even a faint shadow of it anymore. It's a dangerous place, a nation run by people who could not care less about Americanism and principles of freedom and liberty; beyond their own desires, and shutting down those who disagree.
Liars make livings, very profitable livings, lying every single day in the media. It's astounding to behold. Their consciences must be seared with a hot iron. How do they look at themselves in the mirror every morning and night? Maybe some are ashamed and know they must make a break but, lifestyle, paycheck, probable castigation from those in their industries would ruin their current way of life so, they stick to the corporate line.
I cannot believe Trump comes out of the hospital in a few days, feeling fine, and half of America is back to chastising and blaming him for everything under the sun. TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME is real. It is a real mental illness.
They are under a delusion. A literal delusion that putting the God of the Bible, and truth and righteousness aside is the intelligent thing to do. They have no such ignorance. They belittle the believer. I am a stranger and pilgrim in my own nation, and they'd be happy if I just walked right on out of it.
There can be NO friendship, no communion, with those who love Americanism and those who hate it.
"This town ain't big enough for the both of us," has become a reality in America.
How do I live in peace with those who want to see me gone? A third of America, maybe more, hoped Trump would die. They did not all have to say it. We just know those who did, spoke for the rest of their sick community.
I could post things here, all day long, of things happening in America that just shock the sensibilities of people who understand the principles of liberty. People hate Trump because he can be very blunt but, these detractors state things so awful, so bitter and acidic, so contemptible and vicious it is alarming. They see no problem with it. They are under a delusion.
I am not a political animal. I don't like politics; I do not trust politicians but, I love the principles of Americanism, and if these scoundrels calling themselves elected civil servants got out of the way of those principles, America would be the absolute champion of freedom and liberty on the globe, a place where all people could realize dreams and accomplishments. We are not that nation now, and may never be, the way things are going.
I am but a stranger and pilgrim, just passing through. To where, aside from Heaven? I don't know. Europe is shot. Canada is a mess. Mexico, South America, Africa, Australia? Asia? Please. Socialism is ruining every single nation that applies it. Tyranny is everywhere. Each new try comes with specious thinking the new leaders can make it work but, it fails because it fails the human spirit to achieve and better ourselves in freedom and liberty.
Those in American politics destroying the Republic may succeed, now or in the future. The failing culture is on their side.
I'll be another year older in a couple months, closer to that 'three score and ten.' By the time I reach 70, America will be destined to political destruction and ruination of all that has been understood to be good and uplifting and dream-making, and reduced to a hell-hole of forced compliance and tyranny or, Trump will be ending his eight year stint, and another insane election season will be upon us, after mid-terms, which also have tremendously grave consequences now.
I have this music project underway; something both Gary Hendrickson and I feel very passionate about, and have a sense of urgency and a burden to finish and put out there, and hope it makes an impact for some people, in truly positive ways. We already know, by the material itself, Leftists will hate it. So be it. That will not stop us. The issue is whether the Leftists will seek to stop it. Is freedom of speech there, or not? We know it is not, on educational campuses coast to coast. We know it is not in the tech industry, and other businesses. Is it still there in the field of music? I'm sure the Left wants total control of it.
If I were not a stranger and pilgrim and had no hope of what is to come, and believed this is all there is ... God help me. Talk about being 'of all men, most miserable.'
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
"And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
"But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." Hebrews 11:13-16
In the book of Hebrews the apostle states the patriarchs of the movement of God considered themselves strangers and pilgrims, looking for a country, a place to truly call home. They never found it. A city awaits them in another land.
Christians consider themselves strangers and pilgrims in this world. We really do not fit. Some, like myself, feel we do not fit in most professed Christian circles, for one reason or another, mostly doctrinal matters or other issues, like church governance and organization.
I was an atheist: playing drums in a Top40 band for pay, and in Legend for hopes and dreams.
Through various circumstances I was struck by the accuracy of Bible prophecy, at 24, and began to realize God could be real; could be there. I literally threw up my arms one night, lying in bed, and pleaded with God to reveal Himself to me. I really wanted to believe. I was struck by the literal presence of God in my heart and mind. I was changed; profoundly changed. Born again; a new person in Christ. It was an astonishing moment and journey ahead.
I left Legend to pursue another path. I just didn't fit Legend anymore. I loved Kevin and Fred and knew Legend could go all the way but, a stronger influence was upon me. A stranger and pilgrim I became.
Then, after twelve years, it came about that I did not fit the denominational confines I found myself in, and left that. I don't do well with apostasy and leaders acting more like popes than shepherds.
Since that time, in all the experiences I have had in the last forty-one years, I absolutely know I am a stranger and pilgrim, looking for a place to call home, and it exists but, not in this world.
Beyond those spiritual considerations, I feel like a stranger and pilgrim in America. Where am I living? This is not the America I grew up in. This is not even a faint shadow of it anymore. It's a dangerous place, a nation run by people who could not care less about Americanism and principles of freedom and liberty; beyond their own desires, and shutting down those who disagree.
Liars make livings, very profitable livings, lying every single day in the media. It's astounding to behold. Their consciences must be seared with a hot iron. How do they look at themselves in the mirror every morning and night? Maybe some are ashamed and know they must make a break but, lifestyle, paycheck, probable castigation from those in their industries would ruin their current way of life so, they stick to the corporate line.
I cannot believe Trump comes out of the hospital in a few days, feeling fine, and half of America is back to chastising and blaming him for everything under the sun. TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME is real. It is a real mental illness.
They are under a delusion. A literal delusion that putting the God of the Bible, and truth and righteousness aside is the intelligent thing to do. They have no such ignorance. They belittle the believer. I am a stranger and pilgrim in my own nation, and they'd be happy if I just walked right on out of it.
There can be NO friendship, no communion, with those who love Americanism and those who hate it.
"This town ain't big enough for the both of us," has become a reality in America.
How do I live in peace with those who want to see me gone? A third of America, maybe more, hoped Trump would die. They did not all have to say it. We just know those who did, spoke for the rest of their sick community.
I could post things here, all day long, of things happening in America that just shock the sensibilities of people who understand the principles of liberty. People hate Trump because he can be very blunt but, these detractors state things so awful, so bitter and acidic, so contemptible and vicious it is alarming. They see no problem with it. They are under a delusion.
I am not a political animal. I don't like politics; I do not trust politicians but, I love the principles of Americanism, and if these scoundrels calling themselves elected civil servants got out of the way of those principles, America would be the absolute champion of freedom and liberty on the globe, a place where all people could realize dreams and accomplishments. We are not that nation now, and may never be, the way things are going.
I am but a stranger and pilgrim, just passing through. To where, aside from Heaven? I don't know. Europe is shot. Canada is a mess. Mexico, South America, Africa, Australia? Asia? Please. Socialism is ruining every single nation that applies it. Tyranny is everywhere. Each new try comes with specious thinking the new leaders can make it work but, it fails because it fails the human spirit to achieve and better ourselves in freedom and liberty.
Those in American politics destroying the Republic may succeed, now or in the future. The failing culture is on their side.
I'll be another year older in a couple months, closer to that 'three score and ten.' By the time I reach 70, America will be destined to political destruction and ruination of all that has been understood to be good and uplifting and dream-making, and reduced to a hell-hole of forced compliance and tyranny or, Trump will be ending his eight year stint, and another insane election season will be upon us, after mid-terms, which also have tremendously grave consequences now.
I have this music project underway; something both Gary Hendrickson and I feel very passionate about, and have a sense of urgency and a burden to finish and put out there, and hope it makes an impact for some people, in truly positive ways. We already know, by the material itself, Leftists will hate it. So be it. That will not stop us. The issue is whether the Leftists will seek to stop it. Is freedom of speech there, or not? We know it is not, on educational campuses coast to coast. We know it is not in the tech industry, and other businesses. Is it still there in the field of music? I'm sure the Left wants total control of it.
If I were not a stranger and pilgrim and had no hope of what is to come, and believed this is all there is ... God help me. Talk about being 'of all men, most miserable.'
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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133. A Little History On Drum Shell Super-Hype - October 7, 2020
I am going to delve into some drum history and explain to you how all the ultra-hype in the drum manufacturing business about drum shells developed. I am going to tell you, without telling you. :-) Matter of fact, I am going to let the Pearl Drum Company tell you, without telling you. Confused? You won't be.
I went to the Pearl website today to look up things about their fiberglass drums. Someone asked me about fiberglass drum shells. I learned Pearl made them. They stopped years ago, though.
While at the site I looked at all their catalogs from 1967 - 1999. Quite a journey. And very revealing.
You should check me out on this. Don't believe it just because I write it down for you to read.
1967 - First catalog they show. The only thing they state about their shells is that they are "warp-free." That's it.
1969 - The only thing added is that they are "perfect circles."
1971-72 - They just mention their fiberglass and fiberglass/wood shells. Nothing about them, in detail.
1974 - Endorsers begin signing on, like Ed Shaughnessy, Art Blakey, Jake Hannah, and others. Three paragraphs on their shells - "space age" coating inside their 9-ply shells, their "revolutionary" fiberglass/wood shells, and they show their clear, seamless, Acrylic drums for the first time.
1975 - A lot more endorsers, like Larry Londin, Russ Kunkel, Les DeMerle, Butch Miles, and Louie Bellson. Lots of Jazz and studio players. Nothing new about shells. They have been spending all catalog space on finishes, hardware, set configurations/models, and endorsers.
1977 - Six shells now - Fiberglass, Fiber/Wood, Maple, Acrylic, a Resin composite shell, and their 9-ply shell. The hype begins but, in just tiny doses, really. Couldn't even call it close to anything seen today.
1978 - Nothing about shells. A lot on their Vari-pitch Cannon drums: basically a Roto-tom with a shell around it.
1979 - Syncussion; the electronic drum invasion.
1980 - Three shells now: Fiberglass, Maple, Birch. One small paragraph for each. Mention of their heat compression method.
1982 - More endorsers: Jeff Porcaro, Ian Paice, Phil Collins, Dom Famularo, and others. Two shells mentioned - Maple and Birch. One paragraph each. Info on their new Extended Series: drums with heads 1" larger than the shells, with lugs spaced further out with thick gaskets under them. They were nice drums. Very pure tone, bypassing the collar on the heads. Literally no shell contact save for the bearing edge apex.
1985 - More new endorsers, like Carmine Appice, Steve Ferrone, and Chester Thompson, and more. The list has grown quite large. Maple and Birch, new finishes, hardware, and virtually nothing stated about their shells.
1986 - Maple and Birch. Some info on their heat compression, etc.
1988 - Nothing new on shells, mostly focuses on hardware.
1993 - And it begins. Their Masters Series. Maple and Birch. More print on tone variations created by their thin shells. Their Patented Heat Compression System, etc.
1998 - Dennis Chambers, Omar Hakim, Smitty Smith, Chad Smith, Eddie Bayers, and JR Robinson on board. They are the world leader in drum manufacturing. The Super Hype begins. A Full page of print on the Masters Series. "On-staff wood specialists." Big hype on their shells: Maple, Birch and Mahogany, and every aspect of their manufacturing process of a shell, including a new logo for their patented, HC/sms > Heat Compression, shell molding system. 154 degrees, and more. Exploded shell renderings of veneer layers, glue, and sound graphics = greatness. "A thirty-one step finishing technique." I'd guess 70-90% more print on their shells and drums then previous catalogs.
1999 - Masterworks. Even more artistic graphic design and super-hype print about their shells; Maple, Birch and Mahogany. A whole page on their molds. Fourteen pages on just the drums. And in all that print, this tell-tale statement:
"By stringently controlling every aspect of the shell manufacturing process, there is simply no reason to tap the shell and give it a note. Every Masterworks shell of the same size, constructed of the same material, in the same thickness, will sound the same when tapped. If you have variation, you simply do not have consistency."
And there it is, if you are sharp enough and familiar enough with the last 50 years of drum making history. If not, well, like I said, those of us who lived back then know how all this drum shell super, ultra-hype began. It's become a carnival act, with a carnival barker.
Now, I state clearly, Pearl makes great drums, in every model line. They are the biggest for a good reason. I do not believe they sound any better than any other drums made, including DIY. EVERYBODY makes great sounding drums because it is not a difficult thing to do, despite all the hype about wood, veneers, glue, molds, bearing edges, and all the rest. The sound of a drum comes from the heads. Change the heads, change the sound of the drum. The shell makes so little difference in the sound field of cymbals and a band, it is a wonder why anybody fights tooth and nail against the observational, empirical evidence on the subject. I understand if manufacturers will argue but, they do not even try to show the differences between drums in different model lines, simply taking a drum from each one, and striking it, to show these monumental differences in their proprietary shells. They just state all their hype like it is fact.
The competition is huge and you must make a great product if you want to stay in business. Unfortunately, today, gross, unprovable marketing hype is used to describe and sell drums. Actually reading and watching the ascent of this hype nonsense about shells and sound, has to be one of the greatest assaults on musical instrument consumers ever known. It is unbelievable. If you challenge it, you either help consumers breathe a sigh of relief or start a war. New players literally freak out over what to buy because of the absolute garbage companies put out there now, about shells and sound. They come upon my videos, I show and explain, and they thank me that I saved them headache and money. The gatekeepers of their favorite drum companies? Oh, they can get downright nasty.
Manufacturing and marketing have reached new heights of drama and untruths just to stay afloat. It's a shame, and it is a sham.
I have written other blogs on this subject, in greater detail, as far as shells and sound and I won't repeat that here. I will say, I do know what I am talking about, because I do the research, and anybody could see it, if they did that for themselves. I have come to be really grateful for those who, on my Youtube page, REFondrums, have thanked me for my videos on this subject. I'm up to 14 videos now, and have some more ideas to share.
Nothing I say or write will change this industry. All industry functions this way now. Nonsensical hype. But, like the guy picking up sand dollars off the beach and throwing them back into the water, being asked "Why are you throwing them back? You can't save them all."
"No," said the fellow, "but, I can save this one."
I went to the Pearl website today to look up things about their fiberglass drums. Someone asked me about fiberglass drum shells. I learned Pearl made them. They stopped years ago, though.
While at the site I looked at all their catalogs from 1967 - 1999. Quite a journey. And very revealing.
You should check me out on this. Don't believe it just because I write it down for you to read.
1967 - First catalog they show. The only thing they state about their shells is that they are "warp-free." That's it.
1969 - The only thing added is that they are "perfect circles."
1971-72 - They just mention their fiberglass and fiberglass/wood shells. Nothing about them, in detail.
1974 - Endorsers begin signing on, like Ed Shaughnessy, Art Blakey, Jake Hannah, and others. Three paragraphs on their shells - "space age" coating inside their 9-ply shells, their "revolutionary" fiberglass/wood shells, and they show their clear, seamless, Acrylic drums for the first time.
1975 - A lot more endorsers, like Larry Londin, Russ Kunkel, Les DeMerle, Butch Miles, and Louie Bellson. Lots of Jazz and studio players. Nothing new about shells. They have been spending all catalog space on finishes, hardware, set configurations/models, and endorsers.
1977 - Six shells now - Fiberglass, Fiber/Wood, Maple, Acrylic, a Resin composite shell, and their 9-ply shell. The hype begins but, in just tiny doses, really. Couldn't even call it close to anything seen today.
1978 - Nothing about shells. A lot on their Vari-pitch Cannon drums: basically a Roto-tom with a shell around it.
1979 - Syncussion; the electronic drum invasion.
1980 - Three shells now: Fiberglass, Maple, Birch. One small paragraph for each. Mention of their heat compression method.
1982 - More endorsers: Jeff Porcaro, Ian Paice, Phil Collins, Dom Famularo, and others. Two shells mentioned - Maple and Birch. One paragraph each. Info on their new Extended Series: drums with heads 1" larger than the shells, with lugs spaced further out with thick gaskets under them. They were nice drums. Very pure tone, bypassing the collar on the heads. Literally no shell contact save for the bearing edge apex.
1985 - More new endorsers, like Carmine Appice, Steve Ferrone, and Chester Thompson, and more. The list has grown quite large. Maple and Birch, new finishes, hardware, and virtually nothing stated about their shells.
1986 - Maple and Birch. Some info on their heat compression, etc.
1988 - Nothing new on shells, mostly focuses on hardware.
1993 - And it begins. Their Masters Series. Maple and Birch. More print on tone variations created by their thin shells. Their Patented Heat Compression System, etc.
1998 - Dennis Chambers, Omar Hakim, Smitty Smith, Chad Smith, Eddie Bayers, and JR Robinson on board. They are the world leader in drum manufacturing. The Super Hype begins. A Full page of print on the Masters Series. "On-staff wood specialists." Big hype on their shells: Maple, Birch and Mahogany, and every aspect of their manufacturing process of a shell, including a new logo for their patented, HC/sms > Heat Compression, shell molding system. 154 degrees, and more. Exploded shell renderings of veneer layers, glue, and sound graphics = greatness. "A thirty-one step finishing technique." I'd guess 70-90% more print on their shells and drums then previous catalogs.
1999 - Masterworks. Even more artistic graphic design and super-hype print about their shells; Maple, Birch and Mahogany. A whole page on their molds. Fourteen pages on just the drums. And in all that print, this tell-tale statement:
"By stringently controlling every aspect of the shell manufacturing process, there is simply no reason to tap the shell and give it a note. Every Masterworks shell of the same size, constructed of the same material, in the same thickness, will sound the same when tapped. If you have variation, you simply do not have consistency."
And there it is, if you are sharp enough and familiar enough with the last 50 years of drum making history. If not, well, like I said, those of us who lived back then know how all this drum shell super, ultra-hype began. It's become a carnival act, with a carnival barker.
Now, I state clearly, Pearl makes great drums, in every model line. They are the biggest for a good reason. I do not believe they sound any better than any other drums made, including DIY. EVERYBODY makes great sounding drums because it is not a difficult thing to do, despite all the hype about wood, veneers, glue, molds, bearing edges, and all the rest. The sound of a drum comes from the heads. Change the heads, change the sound of the drum. The shell makes so little difference in the sound field of cymbals and a band, it is a wonder why anybody fights tooth and nail against the observational, empirical evidence on the subject. I understand if manufacturers will argue but, they do not even try to show the differences between drums in different model lines, simply taking a drum from each one, and striking it, to show these monumental differences in their proprietary shells. They just state all their hype like it is fact.
The competition is huge and you must make a great product if you want to stay in business. Unfortunately, today, gross, unprovable marketing hype is used to describe and sell drums. Actually reading and watching the ascent of this hype nonsense about shells and sound, has to be one of the greatest assaults on musical instrument consumers ever known. It is unbelievable. If you challenge it, you either help consumers breathe a sigh of relief or start a war. New players literally freak out over what to buy because of the absolute garbage companies put out there now, about shells and sound. They come upon my videos, I show and explain, and they thank me that I saved them headache and money. The gatekeepers of their favorite drum companies? Oh, they can get downright nasty.
Manufacturing and marketing have reached new heights of drama and untruths just to stay afloat. It's a shame, and it is a sham.
I have written other blogs on this subject, in greater detail, as far as shells and sound and I won't repeat that here. I will say, I do know what I am talking about, because I do the research, and anybody could see it, if they did that for themselves. I have come to be really grateful for those who, on my Youtube page, REFondrums, have thanked me for my videos on this subject. I'm up to 14 videos now, and have some more ideas to share.
Nothing I say or write will change this industry. All industry functions this way now. Nonsensical hype. But, like the guy picking up sand dollars off the beach and throwing them back into the water, being asked "Why are you throwing them back? You can't save them all."
"No," said the fellow, "but, I can save this one."
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134. Hendrickson the Magician - October 12, 2020
Most people know it is a very dangerous thing to do, when you build something up. Could be a person, could be music, or any other field of entertainment, or a restaurant; doesn't matter. Build it up too much and the risk develops that when people are exposed to it, the buildup in your mind, fails in theirs. That said, people build things up because they are excited about something. They can't help it. Life is a round of habits and everyday occurrences, with some unexpected "stuff" now and then. When something "hits" you, you proclaim it.
So, if I sit here and say lots of things about Gary Hendrickson and his musical abilities: his uncanny way of constructing and producing a song, you may have a letdown when you hear what he is coming up with for the Hendrickson - Frigon Project's music. I'll take the risk. I believe "Liberty" will be a ground breaking album. I really do. Man, what a risky thing to write.
If you have heard any of Gary's music, especially his newest release, The Gift, you get a sense of his "magic," but, the thing is, you have to really listen. This is not background music. Matter of fact, when I listen to the five songs composed so far, I cannot make it background music, and I have tried. I have to stop and listen. After so many listens, I expect to get used to what I am hearing but, that is not the case. It seems to be fresh, explosive, and contemplative every time I put the tracks on.
Gary calls his music Hard Rock but, I'm sorry, while it has all those elements, this is like some new mega-genre: a collection of 80 years of Rock music production, in its various genre presentations. So much is happening it is almost overwhelming. When you hear 'Uncivil War,' you are on a battlefield. When you hear 'Mr. and Mrs. American,' you are woven through a haunting, reflective experience. Yeah, there are Rockers in the mix but, they grab you and stand out as more than typical offerings. One is so cool, I want to send it to POTUS and have him take a listen. It'll go viral through the White House. I know it.
Like I said, I really don't listen to Hard Rock music. I recently got Martin Andersen's new release: Victory in Motion; which is a very hot album. We still don't know if we'll be playing together next April. I don't really listen to From the Fjords, save for all the preparation for the festival in Germany. Once that was canceled, Legend became something I did a very long time ago, even as "big" as the music is, and fondly remembered. It remains to be seen if KIT will happen next year. I listen to other things, today - my work with Tom Cranor, in Miledge Muzic and other Fusion, Jazz, Classical, CCM, Gospel ... Hard Rock? Not so much. But, Gary's compositions hit me like musical bricks; and an ocean of musical waves.
I wrote a song about Mt. Rushmore. Gary is composing it as I type. He mentioned there will be some odd time in it - 7/8. I have never recorded any odd time music. I'm looking forward to it. Writing lyrics and having my own sense of melody flow through the words and then hearing what Gary comes up with is a shock, at times. It is like each song is a mini-concert, a multi-media experience, without film. If video was involved, I cannot imagine it. Gary can. That is his "magic." That is his talent and gift. He can take a simple idea and infuse it with so many others; coming at you from all stereo-spectrum angles, and you become, kind of mesmerized.
Okay, okay. Too much build up? Too much excitement? We'll see. And I am just listening to rough mixes. Long way to go before a finished product is ready for you to hear. When you do hear it, obviously I hope you get the same experience as I am having. This is intriguing and amazing "Hard Rock."
So, if I sit here and say lots of things about Gary Hendrickson and his musical abilities: his uncanny way of constructing and producing a song, you may have a letdown when you hear what he is coming up with for the Hendrickson - Frigon Project's music. I'll take the risk. I believe "Liberty" will be a ground breaking album. I really do. Man, what a risky thing to write.
If you have heard any of Gary's music, especially his newest release, The Gift, you get a sense of his "magic," but, the thing is, you have to really listen. This is not background music. Matter of fact, when I listen to the five songs composed so far, I cannot make it background music, and I have tried. I have to stop and listen. After so many listens, I expect to get used to what I am hearing but, that is not the case. It seems to be fresh, explosive, and contemplative every time I put the tracks on.
Gary calls his music Hard Rock but, I'm sorry, while it has all those elements, this is like some new mega-genre: a collection of 80 years of Rock music production, in its various genre presentations. So much is happening it is almost overwhelming. When you hear 'Uncivil War,' you are on a battlefield. When you hear 'Mr. and Mrs. American,' you are woven through a haunting, reflective experience. Yeah, there are Rockers in the mix but, they grab you and stand out as more than typical offerings. One is so cool, I want to send it to POTUS and have him take a listen. It'll go viral through the White House. I know it.
Like I said, I really don't listen to Hard Rock music. I recently got Martin Andersen's new release: Victory in Motion; which is a very hot album. We still don't know if we'll be playing together next April. I don't really listen to From the Fjords, save for all the preparation for the festival in Germany. Once that was canceled, Legend became something I did a very long time ago, even as "big" as the music is, and fondly remembered. It remains to be seen if KIT will happen next year. I listen to other things, today - my work with Tom Cranor, in Miledge Muzic and other Fusion, Jazz, Classical, CCM, Gospel ... Hard Rock? Not so much. But, Gary's compositions hit me like musical bricks; and an ocean of musical waves.
I wrote a song about Mt. Rushmore. Gary is composing it as I type. He mentioned there will be some odd time in it - 7/8. I have never recorded any odd time music. I'm looking forward to it. Writing lyrics and having my own sense of melody flow through the words and then hearing what Gary comes up with is a shock, at times. It is like each song is a mini-concert, a multi-media experience, without film. If video was involved, I cannot imagine it. Gary can. That is his "magic." That is his talent and gift. He can take a simple idea and infuse it with so many others; coming at you from all stereo-spectrum angles, and you become, kind of mesmerized.
Okay, okay. Too much build up? Too much excitement? We'll see. And I am just listening to rough mixes. Long way to go before a finished product is ready for you to hear. When you do hear it, obviously I hope you get the same experience as I am having. This is intriguing and amazing "Hard Rock."
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135. Anarchy, Revolt, Insurrection Is Coming! - October 13, 2020
What's coming? THIS:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtDZYQ7Q-PUhxhv8VuRVfeD7q3DSpthktlYD-nx4pSc/preview?link_id=9&can_id=17b52cd56b5ae77d0dcb874341a662b8&source=email-resources-for-folks-outside-the-dc-area-but-also-useful-for-dc-people&email_referrer=email_950567&email_subject=resources-for-folks-outside-the-dc-area-but-also-useful-for-dc-people&pru=AAABdUbLyOU*7Y_S1g6Z_ZhcfVCzmAJWyw
What is that link to? "Stopping the Coup - The Disruption Guide for 2020." Thirty-nine pages of ways to organize, stop Trump from "stealing the election," how to deal with "White supremacist militias," and the "risks" involved. They plan to shut down entire cities, regions, lines of commerce, highways, urban districts, and individual buildings, ports, rails, streets & neighborhoods. This is a long term, strategic plan considering food, water, on-sight medics, transportation, masses of people, and money to sustain the disruptions. They shall "force pillars of power" to side with them or get out of the way. It proves past riots, like Ferguson, were not organic uprisings. "Action Councils" planned and sustained them.
No authors, of course. Only one point of contact: [email protected]
So, there is our immediate future. It is a jaw dropping read of every lie, distortion, point of misinformation, disinformation, and erroneous nonsense made against president Trump in the last 4 years. Did kids in high school put this together? I can tell you any high-school student, with any decent source of news and data, could tear this document to shreds. Regardless, it is an actual plan to disrupt America if Trump wins the election because, there's just no way he can honestly and legally win.
They mean no physical harm to anything living. How thoughtful of them. That will not stop harm and death, and it certainly means anything material standing can and will be brought down, if it meets their sick needs.
BTW? They also have info on how to withstand people like me who think they are crazy, which I do.
Well, God loves them, Christ died for them, and I'd sit down and talk with any of them but, they seem way past rational discussion at this point. May God have mercy on them, when this gets totally out of control, which it will, because humans are erring creatures and somebody will fire the first shot.
Democrats, specifically radical Leftists, hate Trump because Trump loves America, Americans, and Americanism. They hate, they drip battery acid when they speak, they want everything that makes America great, and the draw of the world, taken down. They are enemies of the Republic. Domestic enemies; that want to neutralize the three branches of government and its checks and balances, and make one, central, controlling power - them, along with their globalist cabal.
May they be brought down by the Sovereign of the universe, in His wisdom, His time, and His might.
May God save America. (I'm not holding my breath)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtDZYQ7Q-PUhxhv8VuRVfeD7q3DSpthktlYD-nx4pSc/preview?link_id=9&can_id=17b52cd56b5ae77d0dcb874341a662b8&source=email-resources-for-folks-outside-the-dc-area-but-also-useful-for-dc-people&email_referrer=email_950567&email_subject=resources-for-folks-outside-the-dc-area-but-also-useful-for-dc-people&pru=AAABdUbLyOU*7Y_S1g6Z_ZhcfVCzmAJWyw
What is that link to? "Stopping the Coup - The Disruption Guide for 2020." Thirty-nine pages of ways to organize, stop Trump from "stealing the election," how to deal with "White supremacist militias," and the "risks" involved. They plan to shut down entire cities, regions, lines of commerce, highways, urban districts, and individual buildings, ports, rails, streets & neighborhoods. This is a long term, strategic plan considering food, water, on-sight medics, transportation, masses of people, and money to sustain the disruptions. They shall "force pillars of power" to side with them or get out of the way. It proves past riots, like Ferguson, were not organic uprisings. "Action Councils" planned and sustained them.
No authors, of course. Only one point of contact: [email protected]
So, there is our immediate future. It is a jaw dropping read of every lie, distortion, point of misinformation, disinformation, and erroneous nonsense made against president Trump in the last 4 years. Did kids in high school put this together? I can tell you any high-school student, with any decent source of news and data, could tear this document to shreds. Regardless, it is an actual plan to disrupt America if Trump wins the election because, there's just no way he can honestly and legally win.
They mean no physical harm to anything living. How thoughtful of them. That will not stop harm and death, and it certainly means anything material standing can and will be brought down, if it meets their sick needs.
BTW? They also have info on how to withstand people like me who think they are crazy, which I do.
Well, God loves them, Christ died for them, and I'd sit down and talk with any of them but, they seem way past rational discussion at this point. May God have mercy on them, when this gets totally out of control, which it will, because humans are erring creatures and somebody will fire the first shot.
Democrats, specifically radical Leftists, hate Trump because Trump loves America, Americans, and Americanism. They hate, they drip battery acid when they speak, they want everything that makes America great, and the draw of the world, taken down. They are enemies of the Republic. Domestic enemies; that want to neutralize the three branches of government and its checks and balances, and make one, central, controlling power - them, along with their globalist cabal.
May they be brought down by the Sovereign of the universe, in His wisdom, His time, and His might.
May God save America. (I'm not holding my breath)
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136. Do You Have A Face? October 13, 2020
"Of course I have a face," you say. "What's wrong with you?"
There's nothing wrong with me. People can see my face. It has been months now that millions of Americans have only seen the eyes of those they meet outside their home, and in some cases, live with, inside their home.
I won't bother repeating my position on masks. They don't work, the CDC has released info that the majority of cases in the US are in people that claimed they were wearing masks, and frankly, watching people wearing them is almost funny, if the situation weren't so tragically ridiculous.
I am beginning to feel more sorry for those wearing masks than those, like Trump, getting the virus and just being down a few days and then back at it, which is the situation for the vast majority of cases in this world during this ... PANDEMIC!!!
My wife and I went to a store yesterday. Sign on the door stated you could not enter without wearing a mask. I was about to turn around and head back to the car, when I saw a woman not wearing a mask so, I walked in. Nobody said a word. I didn't even get any weird looks, as I have before.
So, now we are standing in line to check out. The customer in front of us has her mask pulled down below her nose. A cashier is pulling her mask away from her face, presumably to breath some fresh air. Others have their masks below their nose, and are constantly pulling at their masks. Nobody can breathe!! And then there are all the people whose masks have big openings around the cheeks and nose. And all the people basically wearing cotton, T-shirt material. Some weeks back, I actually saw a photo of a well known actress/activist wearing a knitted mask with holes so big you could pass a magic marker through them.
My wife decided to wear a mask to go in. In a few minutes her glasses began to fog up, she began to feel sweaty and get a headache. She could not wait to get out of there. I didn't say word. She knows better. If people keep bowing down to the overlords, they will continue to play king and queen for ... well, hardly a day; it's been seven months!
All these people touching their masks, then handling their cards or cash, passing them to the cashiers, who have been handling cards and money all day, returning it all back into the hands of customers, who are constantly fiddling with their masks. Talk about money being the dirtiest thing you can handle. If any of these people had Covid, and many probably do and don't know it, they are playing with a virus all day long. Like I said, it would be hilarious if it were not so tragically ridiculous.
I cannot fathom why Americans are putting up with this. Can ignorance still be high? With all the data and info on the web, how could that be? Are people really afraid? The fear mongering still works? Do they really think a mask will protect them from a virus so small it is compared to throwing paint at a chain link fence. Most just flies straight through.
Why does Anthony Fauci still have any credibility? Why does Bill Gates still have credibility, especially with the fact that all he does is push vaccinations, and the world must vaccinate, maybe twice! before we can get back to ... how do I know you have a face? I assume you aren't cursing me when I speak to you. I don't know. I can't see your mouth, just your eyes. All I see is black and blue everywhere. What a commentary on a society getting beat up by agenda-driven "experts" and really creepy mayors and governors. No more benefit of the doubt for them. They are missionaries of the macabre. My wife calls it "shark eyes." You can just see their wickedness in their eyes. A bunch of wannabes.
I guess you should all go and burn down some buildings, break all the plate glass you can find, torch some cars, block traffic, loot a bunch of stores, and harass people trying to eat their dinner in peace. Then nobody in the mayor or governor's office would bother you for not wearing a mask.
And BTW, at an executive board meeting of the WHO, Dr. Michael Ryan stated they believe 10% of the world's population has gotten the virus. 7.8 billion people. 10% = 780 million. A little over 1 million have died ( and those death numbers have been proven to be tampered with or inflated, Big Time). Even so, that is roughly 0.14% of the world's population have died from Covid. That's a number equivalent to a flu season. Just like people all over alt media news stated way back when this thing became news, it will be no worse than a flu. And they shut down the world for it, because the WHO predicted the death rate would be over 3%. Junk science. Fear mongering. Agenda driven totalitarianism hopes and dreams of the world's elitists.
https://truepundit.com/did-the-who-just-accidentally-confirm-covid-is-no-more-dangerous-than-flu/
There's nothing wrong with me. People can see my face. It has been months now that millions of Americans have only seen the eyes of those they meet outside their home, and in some cases, live with, inside their home.
I won't bother repeating my position on masks. They don't work, the CDC has released info that the majority of cases in the US are in people that claimed they were wearing masks, and frankly, watching people wearing them is almost funny, if the situation weren't so tragically ridiculous.
I am beginning to feel more sorry for those wearing masks than those, like Trump, getting the virus and just being down a few days and then back at it, which is the situation for the vast majority of cases in this world during this ... PANDEMIC!!!
My wife and I went to a store yesterday. Sign on the door stated you could not enter without wearing a mask. I was about to turn around and head back to the car, when I saw a woman not wearing a mask so, I walked in. Nobody said a word. I didn't even get any weird looks, as I have before.
So, now we are standing in line to check out. The customer in front of us has her mask pulled down below her nose. A cashier is pulling her mask away from her face, presumably to breath some fresh air. Others have their masks below their nose, and are constantly pulling at their masks. Nobody can breathe!! And then there are all the people whose masks have big openings around the cheeks and nose. And all the people basically wearing cotton, T-shirt material. Some weeks back, I actually saw a photo of a well known actress/activist wearing a knitted mask with holes so big you could pass a magic marker through them.
My wife decided to wear a mask to go in. In a few minutes her glasses began to fog up, she began to feel sweaty and get a headache. She could not wait to get out of there. I didn't say word. She knows better. If people keep bowing down to the overlords, they will continue to play king and queen for ... well, hardly a day; it's been seven months!
All these people touching their masks, then handling their cards or cash, passing them to the cashiers, who have been handling cards and money all day, returning it all back into the hands of customers, who are constantly fiddling with their masks. Talk about money being the dirtiest thing you can handle. If any of these people had Covid, and many probably do and don't know it, they are playing with a virus all day long. Like I said, it would be hilarious if it were not so tragically ridiculous.
I cannot fathom why Americans are putting up with this. Can ignorance still be high? With all the data and info on the web, how could that be? Are people really afraid? The fear mongering still works? Do they really think a mask will protect them from a virus so small it is compared to throwing paint at a chain link fence. Most just flies straight through.
Why does Anthony Fauci still have any credibility? Why does Bill Gates still have credibility, especially with the fact that all he does is push vaccinations, and the world must vaccinate, maybe twice! before we can get back to ... how do I know you have a face? I assume you aren't cursing me when I speak to you. I don't know. I can't see your mouth, just your eyes. All I see is black and blue everywhere. What a commentary on a society getting beat up by agenda-driven "experts" and really creepy mayors and governors. No more benefit of the doubt for them. They are missionaries of the macabre. My wife calls it "shark eyes." You can just see their wickedness in their eyes. A bunch of wannabes.
I guess you should all go and burn down some buildings, break all the plate glass you can find, torch some cars, block traffic, loot a bunch of stores, and harass people trying to eat their dinner in peace. Then nobody in the mayor or governor's office would bother you for not wearing a mask.
And BTW, at an executive board meeting of the WHO, Dr. Michael Ryan stated they believe 10% of the world's population has gotten the virus. 7.8 billion people. 10% = 780 million. A little over 1 million have died ( and those death numbers have been proven to be tampered with or inflated, Big Time). Even so, that is roughly 0.14% of the world's population have died from Covid. That's a number equivalent to a flu season. Just like people all over alt media news stated way back when this thing became news, it will be no worse than a flu. And they shut down the world for it, because the WHO predicted the death rate would be over 3%. Junk science. Fear mongering. Agenda driven totalitarianism hopes and dreams of the world's elitists.
https://truepundit.com/did-the-who-just-accidentally-confirm-covid-is-no-more-dangerous-than-flu/
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137. FEAR - October 14, 2020
I wrote my first blog about this "pandemic" back in February, #39. I mentioned the monstrous aspect of fear back in #69, in July.
Today, audio was released of a telephone conversation Gov. Cuomo, of NY, had with leaders of the Orthodox Jewish community he shut down from observing services during a very solemn and important time of year for them.
You can listen to the conversation here, if Twitter doesn't ban it:
https://twitter.com/HaMeturgeman/status/1316071151836291075
Cuomo said the initiatives he has enforced were not based on science but, on fear. People are afraid, fear was addressed by shutting things down. The NYC and general NY economy was laid waste because of fear. Not science, not data, not facts about the virus but, the general fear of the population. The general population has been afraid because that is all the main stream media and Leftist leaders has done, foment fear: push it, heighten it, drag it into every broadcast and report and news conference, and they are STILL doing it today, and will continue to because that is the agenda. They are reprehensible frauds, masquerading as agents of a free press, and actual elected civil servants. They are tyrants, plain and simple.
As this dog and pony show, costing lives, continues, those responsible will not face justice. Justice is a thing of the past in America. Money Talks. Position Pulls Strings. Power gained, is power kept, in Washington, D.C. The elitists just keep rolling along.
In all the incredible corruption surrounding the FBI, FISA warrants obtained by fraud, Hillary Clinton paying for it, using a fake dossier, obtained from a British spy, to spy on the Trump campaign, to threaten and take down General Flynn and others, and ruin lives, AG Barr tells us today no one will be charged. Trump is not happy. He shouldn't be. Barr is just a member of the swamp, like Jeff Sessions. Trump attempted to play the game and has been bitten every time. Has he learned? Will a second term be filled with these swamp dwellers and corrupt individuals? Time will soon tell.
It has been obvious to anyone with common sense that FEAR has been the basis for everything associated with this virus event. FEAR is the reason no one will be prosecuted for criminal activity because somebody, or many, have the goods on each and every player in DC and nobody wants their name and face associated with a scandal. They hang things over every head, every family, anything and everything that can tip over the apple cart for good.
Joe Biden is in it up to his ears with his son and and the corruption they engaged with Ukraine. Will they suffer the consequences of their actions? Of course not, even with a constant barrage of information about this matter for months now. Joe Biden is running for president. You can't take him down for being the alleged criminals he and his son are. It just isn't done in today's nation.
Such as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when Christ returns. Corruption is one of the things listed that brought about the Flood. Corruption and evil.
I have come to see Donald Trump as an enigma. He is dancing at rallies, to the thrill of tens of thousands, while he fails to articulate principles to educate people about the "plandemic;" about so many vital issues. It's really frustrating to be an American today. At least, when you know the principles of Americanism and see them trounced in D.C. mud, day in, day out.
God could save America. I doubt He will, save for a purpose far greater than mortals can understand, at present.
Today, audio was released of a telephone conversation Gov. Cuomo, of NY, had with leaders of the Orthodox Jewish community he shut down from observing services during a very solemn and important time of year for them.
You can listen to the conversation here, if Twitter doesn't ban it:
https://twitter.com/HaMeturgeman/status/1316071151836291075
Cuomo said the initiatives he has enforced were not based on science but, on fear. People are afraid, fear was addressed by shutting things down. The NYC and general NY economy was laid waste because of fear. Not science, not data, not facts about the virus but, the general fear of the population. The general population has been afraid because that is all the main stream media and Leftist leaders has done, foment fear: push it, heighten it, drag it into every broadcast and report and news conference, and they are STILL doing it today, and will continue to because that is the agenda. They are reprehensible frauds, masquerading as agents of a free press, and actual elected civil servants. They are tyrants, plain and simple.
As this dog and pony show, costing lives, continues, those responsible will not face justice. Justice is a thing of the past in America. Money Talks. Position Pulls Strings. Power gained, is power kept, in Washington, D.C. The elitists just keep rolling along.
In all the incredible corruption surrounding the FBI, FISA warrants obtained by fraud, Hillary Clinton paying for it, using a fake dossier, obtained from a British spy, to spy on the Trump campaign, to threaten and take down General Flynn and others, and ruin lives, AG Barr tells us today no one will be charged. Trump is not happy. He shouldn't be. Barr is just a member of the swamp, like Jeff Sessions. Trump attempted to play the game and has been bitten every time. Has he learned? Will a second term be filled with these swamp dwellers and corrupt individuals? Time will soon tell.
It has been obvious to anyone with common sense that FEAR has been the basis for everything associated with this virus event. FEAR is the reason no one will be prosecuted for criminal activity because somebody, or many, have the goods on each and every player in DC and nobody wants their name and face associated with a scandal. They hang things over every head, every family, anything and everything that can tip over the apple cart for good.
Joe Biden is in it up to his ears with his son and and the corruption they engaged with Ukraine. Will they suffer the consequences of their actions? Of course not, even with a constant barrage of information about this matter for months now. Joe Biden is running for president. You can't take him down for being the alleged criminals he and his son are. It just isn't done in today's nation.
Such as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when Christ returns. Corruption is one of the things listed that brought about the Flood. Corruption and evil.
I have come to see Donald Trump as an enigma. He is dancing at rallies, to the thrill of tens of thousands, while he fails to articulate principles to educate people about the "plandemic;" about so many vital issues. It's really frustrating to be an American today. At least, when you know the principles of Americanism and see them trounced in D.C. mud, day in, day out.
God could save America. I doubt He will, save for a purpose far greater than mortals can understand, at present.
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138. Why I Support a UNITED States of America, Secession,
and New Borders - October 15, 2020
When I was young, the slogan, 'America. Love it or leave it,' offended many. I never understood why. It's as obvious as a train wreck, today.
Mr. Coons, a Democrat, tells the ACB hearings that if she is confirmed everything we have known about "modern" America will be lost. Therein lies the very nature of the current battle in the nation: Traditional America as opposed to "modern" America. A battle that just intensifies with every year, and today, every week.
Video has been found of Joe Biden stating "there is nothing special about being an American;" nothing distinguishable about its culture. Biden thereby distinguishes himself as being completely incapable of being POTUS, on principle, let alone his radical ideology.
Four years ago, the most important election in my lifetime took place. Four years later, we are right back where we were. Four years from now we shall be right back here again. Until Progressive Leftists gain total control of America, they will never relent from that pursuit, and the governance of the nation shall suffer continually. The nation's fabric shall tear more and more until a convulsion reduces it to ashes, or total tyranny. Is that what Americans want?
Well, a sign on the lawn of a citizen in Colorado states "Elect Joe Biden or Die" with a skull on it, to boost the effect. The news has been rather silent (to be expected) about the Trump supporter murdered in cold blood in broad daylight before witnesses, in Colorado last week. So, is this attitude going to continually rear it's ugly head in CO, if Trump wins? Undoubtedly.
I am sick of living in this America; one I most definitely did not grow up in. If those who hate it so much, refuse to leave, and will lie, cheat and steal to get their way in this election, do we expect change the next election cycle? Is that not the popular definition of insanity? The time has come to divide the nation, with new borders before physical war develops between citizens. How can it be avoided under these continually degrading circumstances and conditions?
I watched a video of three police officers commanding a young man to kneel down so he could be cuffed. He refused. Ultimately, he was shown a taser and commanded to keep his hands in the air. He refused. As he was tased, he reached for his gun in his jacket pocket, and was shot by the officers.
This kind of thing goes on every, single day somewhere in America. The police are under tremendous stress every day, every shift, in so many cities around the nation. They are just a YT video away from castigation, when people hardly ever know all the facts. They are tried and sentenced, almost instantly today, and we see the rioting, the fires, the looting, and the loss of life. This is not the America I want to live in. Americans deserve better. Especially those risking their lives around the world. THIS is what they should come home to?
I believe in secession for practical reasons, regardless of how difficult it may be to accomplish. Washington, D.C. is systemically corrupt. It will never change from its corrupt ways, especially with the two-party system that runs it all. A two-party system which, under most other circumstances outside an election year, functions like one party, removing more and more liberties from guaranteed rights Americans had enjoyed for two centuries.
I want a different - the "less modern" and traditional America because the modern one is a virtual, perpetual political circus that is an embarrassment to its history.
1. I want to live in a UNITED States of America. That is no longer possible.
2. I want to live in a nation that believes in the separation of church and state NOT, the separation of God from state.
3. I want to live in a nation that regards LIFE as precious. The current culture is a culture of death.
4. I want to live in a nation that wants the traditional Judeo/Christian culture that formed it into the greatest nation in the history of the world, which most of the world still wants to get into. Multiculturalism does not and cannot work to retain national identity and function.
5. I want to live in a nation that esteems the rule of law and the Constitution of the United States, with Representatives who actually care about their oath to protect it from all enemies, foreign and domestic; where judges decide matters on that Rule, not their own personal activist agendas.
6. I can agree to disagree on all kinds of matters. I cannot abide by, nor want to live with citizens who feel the need, the right to shut me down and take away my freedom and liberty if my beliefs and positions differ from theirs. A place where no one has a right NOT to be offended. Like ... America; the traditional one.
7. While I have never fought in a Congressional declared war (or police action) around the world, I am a citizen tired of constant foreign wars and the loss of life and national finances used to fight them. The USA must not be a policeman for the world, no empire building, and no dozens of alphabet agencies that promote secretive power and control. I want a nation that minds it own business and has a colossal system of military and technological defense no nation in their right mind could penetrate or would attack: and a nation that truly respects and protects its borders and those of other nations.
8. I want a nation that believes in living by its means, not drowning in debt it cannot possibly pay back; burdening future generations, and risking economic collapse on itself.
9. Freedom, liberty, property rights are givens. They are God ordained, inalienable rights. Technology is fine but, technology controlling election outcomes is antithetical to the very principles of freedom, liberty, and property rights in a Constitutional Republic of Representative government, NOT a pure Democracy. A free nation cannot be free with technological oligarchs influencing and running it.
10. I want a nation where Central government must remain small, and politicians have control over their own lives, not the lives of all citizens, by wandering into areas of life never placed before them to govern. Central government shall not own or operate land. No national parks. State parks. No national monuments. State monuments. No central government interference with the free marketplace. No bailouts. No business investments. No compromises of principles found in its legislated laws. A nation where Congress makes law, not the executive branch with executive orders, or the courts, with wickedly varying decisions that torment the vital principles of liberty.
11. I want to live in a nation where currency is closely monitored, audited, and no central bank controls it.
12. I want to live in a nation where beneficent organizations address the needs of the poor and needy, not government tax dollars.
These were the standards that once influenced and dominated the United States of America at one time. They no longer are, and most likely, never will be again, coast to coast.
A volatile atmosphere exists in Washington D.C. that can only become worse, where principle battles policy, day in, day out; and elections are considered invalid if one side does not win. Where radicals feel forced to practice fraud and stealth to steal an election, if necessary. Dead people cannot vote. You laugh? Dead people are voting in states all across America, as I type. Postal workers are taking mail and throwing it away, or removing election ballots from mail operations. Election machines are made and operated from beyond American borders. The chances for fraud are exponentially assured.
No nation can remain viable under such conditions. It must collapse into anarchy and disarray, and we will, if things are not addressed in rational ways.
If Americans intent on causing disruption unless they get their own way (outside the principles that have functioned for two centuries in this nation), they should leave. Leave. No one is keeping you here. Go to Europe. Go to South America. Go to Australia. You can find nations that cater to your socialism and communism all over the globe. Short of that, all Americans should realize multiplied tens of millions are fed up with politicians and their ridiculous games they play to attain and retain power. That, in and of itself, is unAmerican and better suited to the scandals and courts of kings and queens; not a Constitutional Republic: a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Term limits for all elected civil servants should be the law of the land. No career politicians allowed. Civil service was never a career. It was a simple, short duty. When finished, you went back to the private sector.
Draw the new lines while there remains time to do so or America collapses in front of our eyes. You think it cannot happen? Then you are ignorant of the bigger picture.
Frankly, I believe if Trump wins reelection, these lunatics will take him out, or try to. May God watch over him.
Is that what it would take for millions to say, "Enough!"
God forbid.
Mr. Coons, a Democrat, tells the ACB hearings that if she is confirmed everything we have known about "modern" America will be lost. Therein lies the very nature of the current battle in the nation: Traditional America as opposed to "modern" America. A battle that just intensifies with every year, and today, every week.
Video has been found of Joe Biden stating "there is nothing special about being an American;" nothing distinguishable about its culture. Biden thereby distinguishes himself as being completely incapable of being POTUS, on principle, let alone his radical ideology.
Four years ago, the most important election in my lifetime took place. Four years later, we are right back where we were. Four years from now we shall be right back here again. Until Progressive Leftists gain total control of America, they will never relent from that pursuit, and the governance of the nation shall suffer continually. The nation's fabric shall tear more and more until a convulsion reduces it to ashes, or total tyranny. Is that what Americans want?
Well, a sign on the lawn of a citizen in Colorado states "Elect Joe Biden or Die" with a skull on it, to boost the effect. The news has been rather silent (to be expected) about the Trump supporter murdered in cold blood in broad daylight before witnesses, in Colorado last week. So, is this attitude going to continually rear it's ugly head in CO, if Trump wins? Undoubtedly.
I am sick of living in this America; one I most definitely did not grow up in. If those who hate it so much, refuse to leave, and will lie, cheat and steal to get their way in this election, do we expect change the next election cycle? Is that not the popular definition of insanity? The time has come to divide the nation, with new borders before physical war develops between citizens. How can it be avoided under these continually degrading circumstances and conditions?
I watched a video of three police officers commanding a young man to kneel down so he could be cuffed. He refused. Ultimately, he was shown a taser and commanded to keep his hands in the air. He refused. As he was tased, he reached for his gun in his jacket pocket, and was shot by the officers.
This kind of thing goes on every, single day somewhere in America. The police are under tremendous stress every day, every shift, in so many cities around the nation. They are just a YT video away from castigation, when people hardly ever know all the facts. They are tried and sentenced, almost instantly today, and we see the rioting, the fires, the looting, and the loss of life. This is not the America I want to live in. Americans deserve better. Especially those risking their lives around the world. THIS is what they should come home to?
I believe in secession for practical reasons, regardless of how difficult it may be to accomplish. Washington, D.C. is systemically corrupt. It will never change from its corrupt ways, especially with the two-party system that runs it all. A two-party system which, under most other circumstances outside an election year, functions like one party, removing more and more liberties from guaranteed rights Americans had enjoyed for two centuries.
I want a different - the "less modern" and traditional America because the modern one is a virtual, perpetual political circus that is an embarrassment to its history.
1. I want to live in a UNITED States of America. That is no longer possible.
2. I want to live in a nation that believes in the separation of church and state NOT, the separation of God from state.
3. I want to live in a nation that regards LIFE as precious. The current culture is a culture of death.
4. I want to live in a nation that wants the traditional Judeo/Christian culture that formed it into the greatest nation in the history of the world, which most of the world still wants to get into. Multiculturalism does not and cannot work to retain national identity and function.
5. I want to live in a nation that esteems the rule of law and the Constitution of the United States, with Representatives who actually care about their oath to protect it from all enemies, foreign and domestic; where judges decide matters on that Rule, not their own personal activist agendas.
6. I can agree to disagree on all kinds of matters. I cannot abide by, nor want to live with citizens who feel the need, the right to shut me down and take away my freedom and liberty if my beliefs and positions differ from theirs. A place where no one has a right NOT to be offended. Like ... America; the traditional one.
7. While I have never fought in a Congressional declared war (or police action) around the world, I am a citizen tired of constant foreign wars and the loss of life and national finances used to fight them. The USA must not be a policeman for the world, no empire building, and no dozens of alphabet agencies that promote secretive power and control. I want a nation that minds it own business and has a colossal system of military and technological defense no nation in their right mind could penetrate or would attack: and a nation that truly respects and protects its borders and those of other nations.
8. I want a nation that believes in living by its means, not drowning in debt it cannot possibly pay back; burdening future generations, and risking economic collapse on itself.
9. Freedom, liberty, property rights are givens. They are God ordained, inalienable rights. Technology is fine but, technology controlling election outcomes is antithetical to the very principles of freedom, liberty, and property rights in a Constitutional Republic of Representative government, NOT a pure Democracy. A free nation cannot be free with technological oligarchs influencing and running it.
10. I want a nation where Central government must remain small, and politicians have control over their own lives, not the lives of all citizens, by wandering into areas of life never placed before them to govern. Central government shall not own or operate land. No national parks. State parks. No national monuments. State monuments. No central government interference with the free marketplace. No bailouts. No business investments. No compromises of principles found in its legislated laws. A nation where Congress makes law, not the executive branch with executive orders, or the courts, with wickedly varying decisions that torment the vital principles of liberty.
11. I want to live in a nation where currency is closely monitored, audited, and no central bank controls it.
12. I want to live in a nation where beneficent organizations address the needs of the poor and needy, not government tax dollars.
These were the standards that once influenced and dominated the United States of America at one time. They no longer are, and most likely, never will be again, coast to coast.
A volatile atmosphere exists in Washington D.C. that can only become worse, where principle battles policy, day in, day out; and elections are considered invalid if one side does not win. Where radicals feel forced to practice fraud and stealth to steal an election, if necessary. Dead people cannot vote. You laugh? Dead people are voting in states all across America, as I type. Postal workers are taking mail and throwing it away, or removing election ballots from mail operations. Election machines are made and operated from beyond American borders. The chances for fraud are exponentially assured.
No nation can remain viable under such conditions. It must collapse into anarchy and disarray, and we will, if things are not addressed in rational ways.
If Americans intent on causing disruption unless they get their own way (outside the principles that have functioned for two centuries in this nation), they should leave. Leave. No one is keeping you here. Go to Europe. Go to South America. Go to Australia. You can find nations that cater to your socialism and communism all over the globe. Short of that, all Americans should realize multiplied tens of millions are fed up with politicians and their ridiculous games they play to attain and retain power. That, in and of itself, is unAmerican and better suited to the scandals and courts of kings and queens; not a Constitutional Republic: a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Term limits for all elected civil servants should be the law of the land. No career politicians allowed. Civil service was never a career. It was a simple, short duty. When finished, you went back to the private sector.
Draw the new lines while there remains time to do so or America collapses in front of our eyes. You think it cannot happen? Then you are ignorant of the bigger picture.
Frankly, I believe if Trump wins reelection, these lunatics will take him out, or try to. May God watch over him.
Is that what it would take for millions to say, "Enough!"
God forbid.
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139. Dreams and Visions - October 16, 2020
At some point in my time here at this web site, I have gotten more and more into the principles of the Christian faith and how they inhabit the life of the believer. I try not to "preach," per se' but, having spent an extended period of my life in pulpits, it just comes with the territory. I have not received any "hate mail" or messages from people offended by anything I have written (yet). I reckon I am going to get a lot more theological as time moves along. As I have stated before, there are things happening that are far more important than drums and music.
There is a growing amount of people on YT and other social platforms, claiming to have dreams and visions. It is easy to see how they are being received by just reading comments. Many are confused. Who do you believe?
Of late are a spate of testimonies from people claiming heavenly visitation in dreams and/or visions about 2020. The virus, the political upheavals and riots; seeing cities burning, etc. Some are seeing a coming tsunami. NYC seems to be a point of watery devastation.
Who would be surprised to see a tsunami strike the east or west coast of North America? Why? Odds are, a meteorite of enough size and force will strike the Pacific or Atlantic oceans and cause one. Off the west coast, plate upheaval is likely to cause one. Other parts of the world have seen them in our lifetime and more will come.
The Bible says the earth waxes old like a garment. What happens to old clothing? It wears out. In the course of age, it tears, develops holes, and little by little wastes away in shreds. The earth is having the same experience. The Bible predicted what is happening, the rate and expansion of these happenings, 2,000 years ago and well before that. Prophets have been shown what would come, for the earth, for nations on the earth, and even individuals in those nations. God tells the end from the beginning, to show us He can be believed and trusted.
The earth also exists in natural cycles. We see them four times a year in most places. Then there are the other cycles: of the sun and its effects upon the planet, as well as the interior of the earth and plate tectonics. Weather patterns and cycles. Some normal, some less so, some abnormal but, they come and go.
I just wrote a comment on one particular YT video that I copy and paste here:
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Late to the party. E.G. White saw all this and a whole lot more, 130 years ago, with some significant variations but, indeed, a small time of trouble is coming, sooner or later, before the great time of Jacob's trouble comes upon God's remnant.
Prophecy is only as good as principles are involved. Seeing a natural disaster is par for the course for planet Earth. History has had thousands of riots take place, and millions have died in conflagrations of political and/or religious ideology. America has been involved in war for all but seven years of its existence, including a civil war. If you are old enough you remember the civil rights movement and those marches, as well as riots in various cities back then, this is nothing new, just more spread out. Riots took place before the civil war. Yellowstone may blow. The west coast may split from North America. The Earth waxes old as a garment. All this is to be expected.
What are the principles of God's law being violated, that He warns the world to repent? Without those principles involved and exposed, calling people to repent and be converted, you just have, in the minds of materialists and naturalists, planetary cycles of natural upheaval.
As 21st century Americans, beyond 9/11, being as blessed as we have been, we are not used to what we see happening, though it happens everywhere else on the globe, including right now.
It is common sense to be prepared for a disaster. It is also common sense to obey God. Right now, millions no longer believe, and reason, common sense, and logical thinking are being lost to the effects of modern entertainment and education. If you think a tsunami will change that, think again. Volcanoes, earthquakes, drought, flood, hurricanes, tornadoes, famine, disease, riot and war have not caused man to repent yet. A tsunami will not, either.
Getting out of the cities is old news from the same author, over a century ago.
Principles are involved. God's law is involved. The seal of God vs. the mark of the beast. The pure woman vs. the great whore. The kingdom vs. Babylon. The remnant vs. the daughters of the whore. The Lamb vs. the dragon. There are significant spiritual and biblical principles of truth associated with all the players and all the events. Leave those out, everything else is just another disaster or upheaval waiting to happen.
Isa 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Lam_2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Rev 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
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You cannot separate the law and the prophets. That phrase is repeated continually throughout the Bible. The last days shall involve God's law: His testimony written with His own finger on two tables of stone, "and He added no more." The royal law, the law of liberty, the ten commandments shall be front and center in the final controversies. If you remember nothing else, remember and watch for that.
So much more could be written. EXPECT disasters to come in a more rapid succession. Expect upheaval, corruption, violence; a constant expansion of everything the Bible states about Noah's time, and Sodom and Gomorrah. If we are not here, we are very close. Remember what I wrote about prophecy, the second coming of Christ, and labor pains.
"So what," you may ask? Well, that is for each individual to decide.
"Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets." Amos 3:7
What we do with that is up to us. We can be blessed and prepared, or ... well, the fault will lie at our own door.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
There is a growing amount of people on YT and other social platforms, claiming to have dreams and visions. It is easy to see how they are being received by just reading comments. Many are confused. Who do you believe?
Of late are a spate of testimonies from people claiming heavenly visitation in dreams and/or visions about 2020. The virus, the political upheavals and riots; seeing cities burning, etc. Some are seeing a coming tsunami. NYC seems to be a point of watery devastation.
Who would be surprised to see a tsunami strike the east or west coast of North America? Why? Odds are, a meteorite of enough size and force will strike the Pacific or Atlantic oceans and cause one. Off the west coast, plate upheaval is likely to cause one. Other parts of the world have seen them in our lifetime and more will come.
The Bible says the earth waxes old like a garment. What happens to old clothing? It wears out. In the course of age, it tears, develops holes, and little by little wastes away in shreds. The earth is having the same experience. The Bible predicted what is happening, the rate and expansion of these happenings, 2,000 years ago and well before that. Prophets have been shown what would come, for the earth, for nations on the earth, and even individuals in those nations. God tells the end from the beginning, to show us He can be believed and trusted.
The earth also exists in natural cycles. We see them four times a year in most places. Then there are the other cycles: of the sun and its effects upon the planet, as well as the interior of the earth and plate tectonics. Weather patterns and cycles. Some normal, some less so, some abnormal but, they come and go.
I just wrote a comment on one particular YT video that I copy and paste here:
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Late to the party. E.G. White saw all this and a whole lot more, 130 years ago, with some significant variations but, indeed, a small time of trouble is coming, sooner or later, before the great time of Jacob's trouble comes upon God's remnant.
Prophecy is only as good as principles are involved. Seeing a natural disaster is par for the course for planet Earth. History has had thousands of riots take place, and millions have died in conflagrations of political and/or religious ideology. America has been involved in war for all but seven years of its existence, including a civil war. If you are old enough you remember the civil rights movement and those marches, as well as riots in various cities back then, this is nothing new, just more spread out. Riots took place before the civil war. Yellowstone may blow. The west coast may split from North America. The Earth waxes old as a garment. All this is to be expected.
What are the principles of God's law being violated, that He warns the world to repent? Without those principles involved and exposed, calling people to repent and be converted, you just have, in the minds of materialists and naturalists, planetary cycles of natural upheaval.
As 21st century Americans, beyond 9/11, being as blessed as we have been, we are not used to what we see happening, though it happens everywhere else on the globe, including right now.
It is common sense to be prepared for a disaster. It is also common sense to obey God. Right now, millions no longer believe, and reason, common sense, and logical thinking are being lost to the effects of modern entertainment and education. If you think a tsunami will change that, think again. Volcanoes, earthquakes, drought, flood, hurricanes, tornadoes, famine, disease, riot and war have not caused man to repent yet. A tsunami will not, either.
Getting out of the cities is old news from the same author, over a century ago.
Principles are involved. God's law is involved. The seal of God vs. the mark of the beast. The pure woman vs. the great whore. The kingdom vs. Babylon. The remnant vs. the daughters of the whore. The Lamb vs. the dragon. There are significant spiritual and biblical principles of truth associated with all the players and all the events. Leave those out, everything else is just another disaster or upheaval waiting to happen.
Isa 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Lam_2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Rev 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
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You cannot separate the law and the prophets. That phrase is repeated continually throughout the Bible. The last days shall involve God's law: His testimony written with His own finger on two tables of stone, "and He added no more." The royal law, the law of liberty, the ten commandments shall be front and center in the final controversies. If you remember nothing else, remember and watch for that.
So much more could be written. EXPECT disasters to come in a more rapid succession. Expect upheaval, corruption, violence; a constant expansion of everything the Bible states about Noah's time, and Sodom and Gomorrah. If we are not here, we are very close. Remember what I wrote about prophecy, the second coming of Christ, and labor pains.
"So what," you may ask? Well, that is for each individual to decide.
"Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets." Amos 3:7
What we do with that is up to us. We can be blessed and prepared, or ... well, the fault will lie at our own door.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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140. Landslide - October19, 2020
I am not a political prognosticator. I shall make a prediction, though.
I know the msm has Biden ahead, or neck and neck, even though this past week one of his handlers said he is not ahead by double digits, as some polls state. Biased polls and their questions are nothing new. They totally failed last time around and shall this time, as well. Based on the handful of people showing up at most of Biden's rallies, what few he's had, shutting down early every day, there is no observable proof Biden has any ground support, at all.
Trump is packing them in every place he goes, as usual. Even the msm cannot make it seem otherwise.
That brings up the second point. The msm lies like it breathes. It has an agenda, park any Dem running, in office, and it sticks to that agenda. I'll hand them that. Would that the GOP stuck to an agenda with such passion. That's another matter. And if they did, that would guarantee no vote from me. I'm a registered Independent. The thing is, as more and more people wake up to the lying agenda, and eyes open, which is a marvelous thing, the msm will never tell you how a shift is taking place.
People are sick of lies, distortions, misinformation, lack of any, actual investigative reporting, coddling all Democrat candidates, and people with a lick of common sense can see it all, every, single day. The fear mongering over Covid. The ABSOLUTE fear mongering over Covid, has worn off Trump supporters, especially to see him get it and be back on the job in three days. That is the "case" for the vast majority of people who get the virus. The msm refuses to report that. And that is the "case" world-wide. Covid IS NOT a death sentence, save for those with weakened immune systems, possibly. Well over 90% of all people who get sick, get over it, regardless of their condition. So, the whole Covid scare factor plan has backfired on the Leftists. Their constituents are afraid to show up at rallies. The mask fiasco, one of the craziest up and down, back and forth, carnival acts in history, is finally collapsing. Democrat elected civil servants, serving the maskless domestic terrorists, while fining and even arresting law-biding citizens caught without one on, is another matter of disgust citizens are beholding daily.
For a couple generations, Democrats cozied up to Russia. Obama's infamous hot-mic comment to Medvedev about being able to do more after he was elected. Democrat administrations selling war tech to China. Just how many pictures do Americans need to see of Democrats hanging out with Socialist and Communist dictators before the pieces of the puzzle get put together, yet now, since the Trump election, Russia is the BAD GUY, if not the ONLY bad guy on the block. China good, Russia BAD. ??? Have you ever read a speech by Putin? He sounds pretty Western for such a bad guy, especially when he chastises the Western churches for allowing their culture to be taken over by the godless. You've never read any of those statements from him? Of course not. They are not in harmony with the msm/multinational corporate/globalist agenda. Putin is no angel. Don't get me wrong but, if Trump did not cave to his handlers he would have met with Putin to discuss real world issues, more than once by now. But, again, the msm just keeps pumping the Russia line. Gary has done an amazing job on some lyrics I wrote where he brings that in, in a way a genius.
So, American citizens are holding enormous boat armadas, caravans through cities with thousands of cars, trucks, motorcycles, waving banners, flags, while Antifa and BLM rioters tear down cities, hurt, and kill people. KILL PEOPLE. Most of which are not reported on the msm. It does not matter what political party you align with, people are sick of this. Well they should be.
Aside from voices like Jon Voigt and James Woods, and a few other Conservatives or Libertarians in Hollywood, that people know; new voices, like Kirsty Alley, mention they are voting for Trump and the backlash is instant, vicious, and surreal, and people can see that.
The issue of illegal immigration has damaged wages, changed the fabric of industry and hiring, and adds to that a list of heinous crimes against Americans, even small children, that is causing people to wake up, no matter what the msm does to bury these facts, the data, and the tragic stories. Like Europe, where leaders are doing their best to hide the facts of Islamic carnage upon its nation's citizens, ON A DAILY BASIS: rape, torching of cars, vandalism to any buildings associated with anything considered Christian, including statues or images of Christ, and much more, the American press hides as much of what illegal immigrants are actually doing, as they can.
Calling me a "hater" just doesn't float. Calling me misogynistic because I voted against Clinton and will against Harris, is the biggest truckload of BS we've ever seen, when there are no longer any genders, according to them;
and Pence gets pummeled for speaking straight to poor, ever smiling, so feminine Harris, in their debate, and doing the same to Trump, in his town hall last week. HYPOCRISY is seen for what it is, HYPOCRISY. Rather than kindly tell Pence he had a pestiferous fly on his head, she said nothing, knowing the image it would create, and laughing about it in interviews later. Harris is seen as a ... well, you know what I'd write if I did not care about a mixed audience. Others have said and written it. Harris is not a likeable person no matter how the msm pads her persona. Many Democrats do not like her, if the polling after the debate is to be believed. It seems logical to conclude they were not skewed. Imagine how bad her numbers must have been.
It is becoming clear, has become clear, was clear from the Obama years, if not the Clinton years as well, with Hillary acting behind the scenes to capture the entire medical industry and get it government controlled, which they pulled off in the Obama years, which has proven to be an epic failure; that Leftists want to fundamentally change America from a Constitutional Republic, with some aspects of Democracy, into a Euro/third world socialist, surveillance, police state. Trust me, privacy is not a political party issue. Everybody wants privacy. Everybody wants to walk safe streets, everybody ... well, most people who are able, want to work and receive wages commensurate with the economy. Democrats DO NOT WANT THAT. Not anymore, if they ever did. Democrats are now a party run by radicals; absolute radicals, with an actual illness - Trump derangement syndrome. Their hatred is so palpable, their vitriol so venomous, the incessant attacks on every, single thing the president says or does, or is, in their warped minds, on display before the American people has caused MILLIONS to just stay quiet and wait for a voting booth to have their say.
Trump shall win by, possibly, the greatest landslide in American history. He should win by such margins, because at the end of the day, free Americans do not want elected civil servants acting like tyrants, bullies, despots, dictators, and kings. Especially as the Michigan governor kidnapping story began to unwind and people now see what those of us who knew this was a BS story from the beginning, have been proven right. And it all adds more blows to the character of the FBI and their involvement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has become the Federal Bureau of Interference and all of Deep State, alphabet agencies have destroyed what little respect, if any, most Americans have had for them.
Any Americans watching all this could write books, have written books, on this dark, nefarious, calculated dog and pony show. There is no way Biden, based on the evidence, can win. As more and more postal workers are caught committing felonies with mail, especially voting ballots, along with piles of ballots being found in dumpsters, ditches, trash cans, and other places, to the tune of a couple stories a week now; plus stealing the complete election boxes, and new this week, setting one on fire; as well as election fraud cases springing up around the country, against Democrat operatives, we can know the desperation Democrats feel. They are coming unglued. They had no likable candidates, went with Biden and another sour, uber-Progressive female, just like Geraldine Ferraro decades ago; with a completely insane political platform, even purposefully removing any mention of God from it, and they have cast their battle into the sea. They know it, or worse, do not, and forge ahead in their un-American mental malady. Another shocked and tearful day is coming for them, November 4th. If they are truly mentally disabled, they cannot turn back. They will press on, for another four years of worse attacks on Trump, Pence, and Americans who support the principles of Americanism.
When they fail in their quest to show Trump stole the election, and more carnage explodes on Americans and American cities, more nails will get driven into the Democrat, Leftist, globalist coffin.
If, by some sick moment of fate, Biden wins, the final nails get driven into the coffin of America. Amerika shall be in front of us - a nation where anything and anyone who rises up against those in control, will be put down, just like China, or completely ignored, like France, Germany and other failing Euro nations. Socialism, Communism, globalism, totalitarianism, are sicknesses: wicked, evil, satanic sicknesses, that never last. History has shown that. Every despotic nation or regime in history comes down, in one way or another, sooner or later. Amerika would be no different.
I voted against Clinton last time. I am voting for Trump/Pence, and against Biden/Harris this time. America is on the line.
I know the msm has Biden ahead, or neck and neck, even though this past week one of his handlers said he is not ahead by double digits, as some polls state. Biased polls and their questions are nothing new. They totally failed last time around and shall this time, as well. Based on the handful of people showing up at most of Biden's rallies, what few he's had, shutting down early every day, there is no observable proof Biden has any ground support, at all.
Trump is packing them in every place he goes, as usual. Even the msm cannot make it seem otherwise.
That brings up the second point. The msm lies like it breathes. It has an agenda, park any Dem running, in office, and it sticks to that agenda. I'll hand them that. Would that the GOP stuck to an agenda with such passion. That's another matter. And if they did, that would guarantee no vote from me. I'm a registered Independent. The thing is, as more and more people wake up to the lying agenda, and eyes open, which is a marvelous thing, the msm will never tell you how a shift is taking place.
People are sick of lies, distortions, misinformation, lack of any, actual investigative reporting, coddling all Democrat candidates, and people with a lick of common sense can see it all, every, single day. The fear mongering over Covid. The ABSOLUTE fear mongering over Covid, has worn off Trump supporters, especially to see him get it and be back on the job in three days. That is the "case" for the vast majority of people who get the virus. The msm refuses to report that. And that is the "case" world-wide. Covid IS NOT a death sentence, save for those with weakened immune systems, possibly. Well over 90% of all people who get sick, get over it, regardless of their condition. So, the whole Covid scare factor plan has backfired on the Leftists. Their constituents are afraid to show up at rallies. The mask fiasco, one of the craziest up and down, back and forth, carnival acts in history, is finally collapsing. Democrat elected civil servants, serving the maskless domestic terrorists, while fining and even arresting law-biding citizens caught without one on, is another matter of disgust citizens are beholding daily.
For a couple generations, Democrats cozied up to Russia. Obama's infamous hot-mic comment to Medvedev about being able to do more after he was elected. Democrat administrations selling war tech to China. Just how many pictures do Americans need to see of Democrats hanging out with Socialist and Communist dictators before the pieces of the puzzle get put together, yet now, since the Trump election, Russia is the BAD GUY, if not the ONLY bad guy on the block. China good, Russia BAD. ??? Have you ever read a speech by Putin? He sounds pretty Western for such a bad guy, especially when he chastises the Western churches for allowing their culture to be taken over by the godless. You've never read any of those statements from him? Of course not. They are not in harmony with the msm/multinational corporate/globalist agenda. Putin is no angel. Don't get me wrong but, if Trump did not cave to his handlers he would have met with Putin to discuss real world issues, more than once by now. But, again, the msm just keeps pumping the Russia line. Gary has done an amazing job on some lyrics I wrote where he brings that in, in a way a genius.
So, American citizens are holding enormous boat armadas, caravans through cities with thousands of cars, trucks, motorcycles, waving banners, flags, while Antifa and BLM rioters tear down cities, hurt, and kill people. KILL PEOPLE. Most of which are not reported on the msm. It does not matter what political party you align with, people are sick of this. Well they should be.
Aside from voices like Jon Voigt and James Woods, and a few other Conservatives or Libertarians in Hollywood, that people know; new voices, like Kirsty Alley, mention they are voting for Trump and the backlash is instant, vicious, and surreal, and people can see that.
The issue of illegal immigration has damaged wages, changed the fabric of industry and hiring, and adds to that a list of heinous crimes against Americans, even small children, that is causing people to wake up, no matter what the msm does to bury these facts, the data, and the tragic stories. Like Europe, where leaders are doing their best to hide the facts of Islamic carnage upon its nation's citizens, ON A DAILY BASIS: rape, torching of cars, vandalism to any buildings associated with anything considered Christian, including statues or images of Christ, and much more, the American press hides as much of what illegal immigrants are actually doing, as they can.
Calling me a "hater" just doesn't float. Calling me misogynistic because I voted against Clinton and will against Harris, is the biggest truckload of BS we've ever seen, when there are no longer any genders, according to them;
and Pence gets pummeled for speaking straight to poor, ever smiling, so feminine Harris, in their debate, and doing the same to Trump, in his town hall last week. HYPOCRISY is seen for what it is, HYPOCRISY. Rather than kindly tell Pence he had a pestiferous fly on his head, she said nothing, knowing the image it would create, and laughing about it in interviews later. Harris is seen as a ... well, you know what I'd write if I did not care about a mixed audience. Others have said and written it. Harris is not a likeable person no matter how the msm pads her persona. Many Democrats do not like her, if the polling after the debate is to be believed. It seems logical to conclude they were not skewed. Imagine how bad her numbers must have been.
It is becoming clear, has become clear, was clear from the Obama years, if not the Clinton years as well, with Hillary acting behind the scenes to capture the entire medical industry and get it government controlled, which they pulled off in the Obama years, which has proven to be an epic failure; that Leftists want to fundamentally change America from a Constitutional Republic, with some aspects of Democracy, into a Euro/third world socialist, surveillance, police state. Trust me, privacy is not a political party issue. Everybody wants privacy. Everybody wants to walk safe streets, everybody ... well, most people who are able, want to work and receive wages commensurate with the economy. Democrats DO NOT WANT THAT. Not anymore, if they ever did. Democrats are now a party run by radicals; absolute radicals, with an actual illness - Trump derangement syndrome. Their hatred is so palpable, their vitriol so venomous, the incessant attacks on every, single thing the president says or does, or is, in their warped minds, on display before the American people has caused MILLIONS to just stay quiet and wait for a voting booth to have their say.
Trump shall win by, possibly, the greatest landslide in American history. He should win by such margins, because at the end of the day, free Americans do not want elected civil servants acting like tyrants, bullies, despots, dictators, and kings. Especially as the Michigan governor kidnapping story began to unwind and people now see what those of us who knew this was a BS story from the beginning, have been proven right. And it all adds more blows to the character of the FBI and their involvement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has become the Federal Bureau of Interference and all of Deep State, alphabet agencies have destroyed what little respect, if any, most Americans have had for them.
Any Americans watching all this could write books, have written books, on this dark, nefarious, calculated dog and pony show. There is no way Biden, based on the evidence, can win. As more and more postal workers are caught committing felonies with mail, especially voting ballots, along with piles of ballots being found in dumpsters, ditches, trash cans, and other places, to the tune of a couple stories a week now; plus stealing the complete election boxes, and new this week, setting one on fire; as well as election fraud cases springing up around the country, against Democrat operatives, we can know the desperation Democrats feel. They are coming unglued. They had no likable candidates, went with Biden and another sour, uber-Progressive female, just like Geraldine Ferraro decades ago; with a completely insane political platform, even purposefully removing any mention of God from it, and they have cast their battle into the sea. They know it, or worse, do not, and forge ahead in their un-American mental malady. Another shocked and tearful day is coming for them, November 4th. If they are truly mentally disabled, they cannot turn back. They will press on, for another four years of worse attacks on Trump, Pence, and Americans who support the principles of Americanism.
When they fail in their quest to show Trump stole the election, and more carnage explodes on Americans and American cities, more nails will get driven into the Democrat, Leftist, globalist coffin.
If, by some sick moment of fate, Biden wins, the final nails get driven into the coffin of America. Amerika shall be in front of us - a nation where anything and anyone who rises up against those in control, will be put down, just like China, or completely ignored, like France, Germany and other failing Euro nations. Socialism, Communism, globalism, totalitarianism, are sicknesses: wicked, evil, satanic sicknesses, that never last. History has shown that. Every despotic nation or regime in history comes down, in one way or another, sooner or later. Amerika would be no different.
I voted against Clinton last time. I am voting for Trump/Pence, and against Biden/Harris this time. America is on the line.
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141. Cases! Cases! Cases! - October 23, 2020
It is extremely difficult for people with common sense to watch the world hysteria over new Covid cases. For anyone who has done any research or reading into this man-made, manipulated event, we know numbers are skewed, we know the people telling us the numbers, cannot all be trusted; we know the standards for accumulating numbers is corrupted, and even the CDC came to admit only 6% of death statistics are actually from Covid, alone, and the majority of those upon people above 65, and/or with pre-existing conditions or otherwise weakened immune systems. Over 95% of "cases" are for those testing positive who may not even experience symptoms, and if they do, like the President, are back up and going after a few days.
So ... why all the hysteria, continued lock downs; with a far worse result from them than the virus, itself, and somewhere in all this, from February onward, the Flu has taken a total back seat. The actual number of deaths around the world is pretty much the same as a standard to serious flu season. What is going on?
Well, we know some people are always going to be afraid, regardless of anything to the contrary to dispel fear and hysteria. It's just the way they function. We know others will not, for whatever reason, look into the facts and data themselves. They will trust their "leaders" and "experts" right over a cliff. Herd immunity and herd mentality are two very different things.
I must observe, those are the majority of people on the planet, the way this is going. People are wearing masks even though so much info can be found on their uselessness to such a situation as this, it's mind boggling. Over a year ago, China knew what they had and let millions of people leave their nation for others before the realization moved across the globe. China is a murderous, despicable nation in its leadership. A godless nation will act in a godless way, and so it does, has, and will until their regime comes down, which it will sooner or later; even with ignorant support from professed Americans in politics, sports, and Hollywood.
Anyone who has known freedom feels sorry for the Chinese people, the NK people, and citizens of any other despotic nation, run by tyrants of any and all stripes. Our hearts go out to people forced into labor, labor camps, detention camps, realignment/reeducation camps, prison camps, and death camps. If you think that cannot come to America, wake up. The results of this election will determine a finality of the American future, for the next four years, anyway. Hopefully enough people have awoken to the present dangers, tyranny can be kept at bay for at least my generation, and possibly the next.
Knowing Bible prophecy as I do, and just reading the histories of people groups described and displayed in Scripture, it is not difficult to see humans are easily led over a cliffs. They simply refuse to think and act for themselves, and trust in those who give no empirical, observable reasons to be trusted. The best they can offer is being good talkers. When pushed hard and long enough, some, of leadership qualities, will rise up and the persecuted will follow them next. This round of human history is a tragic cycle.
NYC is being totally ruined by its civil servants. Same for other cities around the nation where fires still burn, riots, looting, harm and death to both civilians and police officers continue, with death to America on the lips of lunatics who do not even know what they are acting so foul for. They are "useful idiots." They know how to scream, they have little idea what they are screaming about. These are supposedly of the higher educated class. This states volumes about "higher education."
It is impossible to promote hysteria for people who think for themselves. People who let others think for them are foolish, almost beyond comprehension. Were it not for constant examples to look at in a lifetime, let alone down through history, we would not see just how comprehensible the problem is.
Anyone with a functioning mind can see America is irrevocably divided. It cannot be sown back together by any human influence. If mankind will not listen to God, shipwreck comes. It is unavoidable, and history shows that, quite clearly, as well. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, constant upheaval between nations dominating nations back and forth, and still, we have not learned, nor will the majority ever learn to trust in their Creator. That is something that should create some hysteria but, no. God, for many, is just an afterthought, a question mark, or someone despised for some twisted reason, developed in their youth. I was one of that last category. That all changed, by His grace and forgiveness and power to change, 41 years ago. Would that the majority of people on Earth would experience that change.
The "case" number of those, perishing with rejection of their Creator God, is the worst statistic known to the universe.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
So ... why all the hysteria, continued lock downs; with a far worse result from them than the virus, itself, and somewhere in all this, from February onward, the Flu has taken a total back seat. The actual number of deaths around the world is pretty much the same as a standard to serious flu season. What is going on?
Well, we know some people are always going to be afraid, regardless of anything to the contrary to dispel fear and hysteria. It's just the way they function. We know others will not, for whatever reason, look into the facts and data themselves. They will trust their "leaders" and "experts" right over a cliff. Herd immunity and herd mentality are two very different things.
I must observe, those are the majority of people on the planet, the way this is going. People are wearing masks even though so much info can be found on their uselessness to such a situation as this, it's mind boggling. Over a year ago, China knew what they had and let millions of people leave their nation for others before the realization moved across the globe. China is a murderous, despicable nation in its leadership. A godless nation will act in a godless way, and so it does, has, and will until their regime comes down, which it will sooner or later; even with ignorant support from professed Americans in politics, sports, and Hollywood.
Anyone who has known freedom feels sorry for the Chinese people, the NK people, and citizens of any other despotic nation, run by tyrants of any and all stripes. Our hearts go out to people forced into labor, labor camps, detention camps, realignment/reeducation camps, prison camps, and death camps. If you think that cannot come to America, wake up. The results of this election will determine a finality of the American future, for the next four years, anyway. Hopefully enough people have awoken to the present dangers, tyranny can be kept at bay for at least my generation, and possibly the next.
Knowing Bible prophecy as I do, and just reading the histories of people groups described and displayed in Scripture, it is not difficult to see humans are easily led over a cliffs. They simply refuse to think and act for themselves, and trust in those who give no empirical, observable reasons to be trusted. The best they can offer is being good talkers. When pushed hard and long enough, some, of leadership qualities, will rise up and the persecuted will follow them next. This round of human history is a tragic cycle.
NYC is being totally ruined by its civil servants. Same for other cities around the nation where fires still burn, riots, looting, harm and death to both civilians and police officers continue, with death to America on the lips of lunatics who do not even know what they are acting so foul for. They are "useful idiots." They know how to scream, they have little idea what they are screaming about. These are supposedly of the higher educated class. This states volumes about "higher education."
It is impossible to promote hysteria for people who think for themselves. People who let others think for them are foolish, almost beyond comprehension. Were it not for constant examples to look at in a lifetime, let alone down through history, we would not see just how comprehensible the problem is.
Anyone with a functioning mind can see America is irrevocably divided. It cannot be sown back together by any human influence. If mankind will not listen to God, shipwreck comes. It is unavoidable, and history shows that, quite clearly, as well. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, constant upheaval between nations dominating nations back and forth, and still, we have not learned, nor will the majority ever learn to trust in their Creator. That is something that should create some hysteria but, no. God, for many, is just an afterthought, a question mark, or someone despised for some twisted reason, developed in their youth. I was one of that last category. That all changed, by His grace and forgiveness and power to change, 41 years ago. Would that the majority of people on Earth would experience that change.
The "case" number of those, perishing with rejection of their Creator God, is the worst statistic known to the universe.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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142. Predators and Prey - October 23, 2020
Over the years, having discussions with atheists and agnostics, I have met some very honest people, sincere, with a moral under-girding of some kind. I ask them where it comes from. The answer I generally get is, "society." Morals come from society, generally religious society, and more particular, in the West, Judaeo/Christian concepts and teachings. The atheist hastens to add that science, in many ways, has done away with the false belief in deity. Everything has come about by natural and material means.
So, when I ask if that means morals have no useful place in society, even the most diehard atheist admits they do, and despite what they consider "superstitions" of religion and religious people, they must admit morality exists because of them, and society is generally better off because of it. Nothing in the natural world tells us how to behave morally. The natural world has always been seen as a place of strong over weak. Period. There are predators and there are prey. It even extends into the plant world, where prey become predators, as it were, and eat plants to exist, and some plants eat things from the animal world, whether insects or small creatures of one kind or another, that get caught in them. It's a ferocious world out there. Why should humans try and get along?
Should we not think about this? If God does not exist, we can choose to have the morality of a predator or a prey. We all know that if someone, a human, is called a predator, it's a serious charge made towards a human seen as less than human. They become an animal, that preys on others weaker or not as aware of their surroundings as they might be, and are taken advantage of, the same as a pitcher plant eating a bug or tiny frog or something. Predatory people are called animals. That is a big disconnect. But, no, if God does not exist, it is totally natural, material, and should not come with condemnation. Well, the atheist enjoys the societal understanding of, and basic protections of religious concepts in society, like love. Love is not a material concept. God is love. God created creatures that experience love. Calling me superstitious is rather foolish, if not folly, then.
When humans prey on animals for food, whether individually or collectively, or corporately, we call it hunting and the food industry. If humans prey on animals just to kill them, for no other reason than sport, even the Bible speaks against that, but, humans allow for it and display their trophies. If you kick a dog, it's called animal cruelty but, if a human preys on other humans for sport, it's considered completely sick, warranting the most severe condemnation and penalties. Why should it be, if there is no deity to lay out distinctions and correct actions between humans? It is just the natural world, right? The only time, as a lesser of two evils, for humans to take human life, is in the protection of other humans, self-defense, individually or nationally, in war. The taking of civilian life in war can be considered a war crime and punishable by death.
Nobody in their right mind wants to be a predator or prey. They want to coexist in peace and harmony; live and let live, in a culture of life. A culture of death produces movies like The Purge, and any number of movies where more (fake) blood flows than is seen at a blood bank. It's nothing new. Ancient societies had their blood flowing in various types of contests between combatants for entertainment. In the case of Christians, there was no combat. They were food for predators. Female atheists should ask themselves what society would be like for them were it not for the principles of Christianity largely ruling in the Western world? Aside from female spiders that eat their male mating partners, most females creatures are subject to whatever male creatures thrust on them. Humans call such activity, abuse and rape, and those who practice it, especially on children, are predators and animals of the most heinous kind. And science can do what about that situation? Without religion, it would be The Purge 24/7. Science investigates the criminal mind. There are no criminal minds in the animal kingdom. Science does not question why animal predators kill and eat prey. They may even understand why a criminal mind in a human acts as it does but, can science do anything to change society? No. It claims to have no influence on morality, or be subject to it or any higher power superstitious people claim to believe in. Do you see the quagmire here?
Inhuman professed Christians burned "heretics" or brought them to demise in one way or another, and in some religious circles of thought, such death was considered a blessing to both society and the heretic. Some religions and their zealots today kill unbelievers and consider it good for society. Most people with morality and common sense call that barbarism. A religious predator is the most insidious and most to be feared in all human existence. Modern society generally recognizes such behavior as wrong. Still, torture exists, among humans, for religious or political reasons. Does that mean religion has failed? It has only failed those who have not met their Creator in a living and vital, motivating way, that chooses to obey Him in all things pertaining to life and morals, as given by Him. History shows man did not invent morals. They came from man's understanding of and instructions from deity. In the case of ancient peoples mentioned in the Bible; connection to, and obedience to the Creator, the Sovereign of the universe, or gods of man's invention. The Bible states Christ is the Actuator of the physical creation, and spiritual re-creation.
The atheist says Jesus Christ is just a figure in a book. Then they come face to face with historic documents that place him in Judea just as the Bible states. Then the atheist says, well, even if he existed, he was not God. There is no God. The life, the presence, the death and resurrection of Christ, and His promise to return again, and guide His people through life, every minute of every day until they die, literally changed the Western hemisphere of the human race. It is changing millions of lives in the Eastern half, as well, in atheistic China, most of all! Christianity is growing in China faster than any other place on Earth. How is it that, in a society that rules out deity, belief in deity grows faster there than any other place on the globe? Well, the atheist in the West says, "Life is rough in China. People just gather to their minds anything they can to get by, to cope. Belief in God is a crutch." I've heard and seen that one a lot in the last 41 years. God is a crutch. Apparently a useful one, when it comes to living in safety, apart from predators and prey, that live on just about every square yard of space on the planet, from microscopic life, to the largest creatures we know of: predators and prey are the reality. Propagation of species, predators, prey, the cycle of life among everything but, humans. Aside from what we all consider aberrations, humans try to get along. Science has no answer for that fact. Science cannot stop the despotic mind. Science cannot stop a Hitler, a Stalin, a Mao or any other cruel and satanic person past, present or future. Oh sure, science can develop a bomb but, what about the moral decisions to use them? Science must stay out of it. Believers in morality must address these issues and science is of no use in such discussions, other than the physical fallout.
Well, right now, some groups of humans are planning to become predators and prey on those who choose to put Donald John Trump back in the White House, November 3rd. They are warning the rest of the nation, if you reelect Trump we will tear it down. If prey just allows it, they will do it. The prey, though, has had it with such morons and lunatics, and are preparing to stand their ground, from cities, to hamlets, coast to coast. It is called, Civil War.
With God removed from the mind; with His influence, call it superstition if you must, shoved away from one side of American life; a predatory spirit has arisen. How is it, if one man preys on the weak, he is predator, is considered an animal, must be stopped and removed from society to keep it safe but, these political predatory animals get to openly plan and state their intentions, and they are to be allowed to stage their oncoming protest to tear America down, and if you get in their way, oh well. They warned us. We should have listened. That is a sufficient answer?
Right. Tell me again how atheists are correct, and materialistic, naturalistic science has a way out of the mess America is about to clash into?
God help us.
So, when I ask if that means morals have no useful place in society, even the most diehard atheist admits they do, and despite what they consider "superstitions" of religion and religious people, they must admit morality exists because of them, and society is generally better off because of it. Nothing in the natural world tells us how to behave morally. The natural world has always been seen as a place of strong over weak. Period. There are predators and there are prey. It even extends into the plant world, where prey become predators, as it were, and eat plants to exist, and some plants eat things from the animal world, whether insects or small creatures of one kind or another, that get caught in them. It's a ferocious world out there. Why should humans try and get along?
Should we not think about this? If God does not exist, we can choose to have the morality of a predator or a prey. We all know that if someone, a human, is called a predator, it's a serious charge made towards a human seen as less than human. They become an animal, that preys on others weaker or not as aware of their surroundings as they might be, and are taken advantage of, the same as a pitcher plant eating a bug or tiny frog or something. Predatory people are called animals. That is a big disconnect. But, no, if God does not exist, it is totally natural, material, and should not come with condemnation. Well, the atheist enjoys the societal understanding of, and basic protections of religious concepts in society, like love. Love is not a material concept. God is love. God created creatures that experience love. Calling me superstitious is rather foolish, if not folly, then.
When humans prey on animals for food, whether individually or collectively, or corporately, we call it hunting and the food industry. If humans prey on animals just to kill them, for no other reason than sport, even the Bible speaks against that, but, humans allow for it and display their trophies. If you kick a dog, it's called animal cruelty but, if a human preys on other humans for sport, it's considered completely sick, warranting the most severe condemnation and penalties. Why should it be, if there is no deity to lay out distinctions and correct actions between humans? It is just the natural world, right? The only time, as a lesser of two evils, for humans to take human life, is in the protection of other humans, self-defense, individually or nationally, in war. The taking of civilian life in war can be considered a war crime and punishable by death.
Nobody in their right mind wants to be a predator or prey. They want to coexist in peace and harmony; live and let live, in a culture of life. A culture of death produces movies like The Purge, and any number of movies where more (fake) blood flows than is seen at a blood bank. It's nothing new. Ancient societies had their blood flowing in various types of contests between combatants for entertainment. In the case of Christians, there was no combat. They were food for predators. Female atheists should ask themselves what society would be like for them were it not for the principles of Christianity largely ruling in the Western world? Aside from female spiders that eat their male mating partners, most females creatures are subject to whatever male creatures thrust on them. Humans call such activity, abuse and rape, and those who practice it, especially on children, are predators and animals of the most heinous kind. And science can do what about that situation? Without religion, it would be The Purge 24/7. Science investigates the criminal mind. There are no criminal minds in the animal kingdom. Science does not question why animal predators kill and eat prey. They may even understand why a criminal mind in a human acts as it does but, can science do anything to change society? No. It claims to have no influence on morality, or be subject to it or any higher power superstitious people claim to believe in. Do you see the quagmire here?
Inhuman professed Christians burned "heretics" or brought them to demise in one way or another, and in some religious circles of thought, such death was considered a blessing to both society and the heretic. Some religions and their zealots today kill unbelievers and consider it good for society. Most people with morality and common sense call that barbarism. A religious predator is the most insidious and most to be feared in all human existence. Modern society generally recognizes such behavior as wrong. Still, torture exists, among humans, for religious or political reasons. Does that mean religion has failed? It has only failed those who have not met their Creator in a living and vital, motivating way, that chooses to obey Him in all things pertaining to life and morals, as given by Him. History shows man did not invent morals. They came from man's understanding of and instructions from deity. In the case of ancient peoples mentioned in the Bible; connection to, and obedience to the Creator, the Sovereign of the universe, or gods of man's invention. The Bible states Christ is the Actuator of the physical creation, and spiritual re-creation.
The atheist says Jesus Christ is just a figure in a book. Then they come face to face with historic documents that place him in Judea just as the Bible states. Then the atheist says, well, even if he existed, he was not God. There is no God. The life, the presence, the death and resurrection of Christ, and His promise to return again, and guide His people through life, every minute of every day until they die, literally changed the Western hemisphere of the human race. It is changing millions of lives in the Eastern half, as well, in atheistic China, most of all! Christianity is growing in China faster than any other place on Earth. How is it that, in a society that rules out deity, belief in deity grows faster there than any other place on the globe? Well, the atheist in the West says, "Life is rough in China. People just gather to their minds anything they can to get by, to cope. Belief in God is a crutch." I've heard and seen that one a lot in the last 41 years. God is a crutch. Apparently a useful one, when it comes to living in safety, apart from predators and prey, that live on just about every square yard of space on the planet, from microscopic life, to the largest creatures we know of: predators and prey are the reality. Propagation of species, predators, prey, the cycle of life among everything but, humans. Aside from what we all consider aberrations, humans try to get along. Science has no answer for that fact. Science cannot stop the despotic mind. Science cannot stop a Hitler, a Stalin, a Mao or any other cruel and satanic person past, present or future. Oh sure, science can develop a bomb but, what about the moral decisions to use them? Science must stay out of it. Believers in morality must address these issues and science is of no use in such discussions, other than the physical fallout.
Well, right now, some groups of humans are planning to become predators and prey on those who choose to put Donald John Trump back in the White House, November 3rd. They are warning the rest of the nation, if you reelect Trump we will tear it down. If prey just allows it, they will do it. The prey, though, has had it with such morons and lunatics, and are preparing to stand their ground, from cities, to hamlets, coast to coast. It is called, Civil War.
With God removed from the mind; with His influence, call it superstition if you must, shoved away from one side of American life; a predatory spirit has arisen. How is it, if one man preys on the weak, he is predator, is considered an animal, must be stopped and removed from society to keep it safe but, these political predatory animals get to openly plan and state their intentions, and they are to be allowed to stage their oncoming protest to tear America down, and if you get in their way, oh well. They warned us. We should have listened. That is a sufficient answer?
Right. Tell me again how atheists are correct, and materialistic, naturalistic science has a way out of the mess America is about to clash into?
God help us.
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143. The British Protest Lock Downs - October 26, 2020
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/26/watch-shove-your-new-world-order-up-your-ass-london-erupts-in-protest-against-lockdown/
By, now, you are either aware of the facts, data, and international situation with Covid, or you aren't. You are either aware of the catastrophe lock downs have caused, far worse than anything the virus could have done, or you aren't. You are either aware that societies, generally free societies, never stay bottled up indefinitely, history shows, or you aren't. The Brit bottle has popped. The water is boiling. The ground is shaking. Well, it should.
Since March the world had listened to supposed experts speak, what they KNEW was incorrect about the effects of this virus and death rates. Hysteria began, and has yet to calm down in many places, still. Elected civil servants took advantage of the fear and pumped it for all it was worth. Now, as the facts, data, players, and all the rest is exposed, people are rising up.
It certainly appears, in America, at least, the fear mongering is about to backfire, big time, because Trump is going to be reelected. Whether or not it is a landslide is immaterial. He will be elected because of the stark difference between principles of freedom he stands for, and policies of control and tyranny Biden and Harris stand for, and the same will play out in States where people have figured out the simplicity of this current event. Do you want liberty or tyranny?
In lands where people are used to having leaders control them, dormancy exists. In lands where people are used to freedom, personal responsibility, and access to truth; agitation, boiling water, and bursting under the pressure is taking place.
Trump, whose handlers told him the WHO, CDC, and Fauci and company were to be trusted, seems to have broken away from their influence. About time. He seems more supercharged, than ever. Time will tell if he is able to actually remove traitorous elements in D.C. and not just make America great again but, Just again, as well. It appears every single person at the head of every alphabet agency, which he has put into positions, are back stabbing, deep staters bent on seeing him topple. Hard lesson learned? Where will it lead?
Washington, D.C. is a corrupt city; a city of corruption. The web is not that of a Garden spider, nice and neat. It is more the fibrous, steel wool type; that is more a thick bundle of sticky compromise, concession, and sellout. Add to that all the constant intrigue of staying on top of the piles, and you have a mess beyond comprehension.
If you deal with NYC, you deal with gangsters, mobsters; call them what we may, and Trump has done all that, I'm sure; real estate and construction what it is there. The type of underworld that exists in D.C. ... it truly is a wonder that Trump decided to run for a second term. Logically, he has made adjustments, has a plan, and the next four years will see if he can pull it off, and put America back on the map for common sense and liberty.
That will never happen unless people rise up and not just reelect him but, hold all elected civil servant's feet to the fire. Thomas Jefferson and other Founders consistently wrote about vigilance for a reason. If elected civil servants are not made to understand their place in the Republic, power overtakes the purpose of position, and tyranny results. Here we are, especially in Democrat run cities and states.
Citizens are hopelessly divided, except over the fact they must work to eat and survive. That is something neither Left or Right, nor Center can do so, they now have at least that in common. They become wards of a state system; which must crash because it has no way to stay on solid ground or float; or they rise up and rebel. As it is, rather than just vote a simple aid package for struggling Americans which, in the bigger picture, on principle, is not good to begin with, they keep trying to put more and more Dem-sided pork and activism into bills and keep voting down what sensible people reject, for good reasons. So, for Democrats the issue is not, and never has been aid to the people. The aim is more power and control of the people. They are obedient globalists. That fact is so startlingly plain at this point, it is a marvel the Democrats have any support at all in the divided states of America. The election may show that the only support they have are the useful idiots of fascist Antifa and the communist BLM organization. Even Bernie Bros. are not interested in voting for Biden/Harris. Democrats have pissed off so many Americans at this point, the only possible way they can win the election is ... well, more corruption. It's what they do best.
If Trump is reelected in a landslide, he'll have a mandate of gargantuan proportions. It remains to be seen what he will do with it, in cleaning out a swamp, a cesspool, that will destroy America and the principles of Americanism if allowed to exist much longer.
As far as the Brits? I wish the protestors of tyranny well. Will Boris back down? All these protests are now test cases. Tests cases against the "cases" of covid the tyrants are using to conduct their tyranny. I can see the movie being made already. Especially using leftist hypocrites to portray patriots and conservatives and just regular folks who actually need to work for a living. That's another theme for a movie in and of itself.
What a web is being weaved.
By, now, you are either aware of the facts, data, and international situation with Covid, or you aren't. You are either aware of the catastrophe lock downs have caused, far worse than anything the virus could have done, or you aren't. You are either aware that societies, generally free societies, never stay bottled up indefinitely, history shows, or you aren't. The Brit bottle has popped. The water is boiling. The ground is shaking. Well, it should.
Since March the world had listened to supposed experts speak, what they KNEW was incorrect about the effects of this virus and death rates. Hysteria began, and has yet to calm down in many places, still. Elected civil servants took advantage of the fear and pumped it for all it was worth. Now, as the facts, data, players, and all the rest is exposed, people are rising up.
It certainly appears, in America, at least, the fear mongering is about to backfire, big time, because Trump is going to be reelected. Whether or not it is a landslide is immaterial. He will be elected because of the stark difference between principles of freedom he stands for, and policies of control and tyranny Biden and Harris stand for, and the same will play out in States where people have figured out the simplicity of this current event. Do you want liberty or tyranny?
In lands where people are used to having leaders control them, dormancy exists. In lands where people are used to freedom, personal responsibility, and access to truth; agitation, boiling water, and bursting under the pressure is taking place.
Trump, whose handlers told him the WHO, CDC, and Fauci and company were to be trusted, seems to have broken away from their influence. About time. He seems more supercharged, than ever. Time will tell if he is able to actually remove traitorous elements in D.C. and not just make America great again but, Just again, as well. It appears every single person at the head of every alphabet agency, which he has put into positions, are back stabbing, deep staters bent on seeing him topple. Hard lesson learned? Where will it lead?
Washington, D.C. is a corrupt city; a city of corruption. The web is not that of a Garden spider, nice and neat. It is more the fibrous, steel wool type; that is more a thick bundle of sticky compromise, concession, and sellout. Add to that all the constant intrigue of staying on top of the piles, and you have a mess beyond comprehension.
If you deal with NYC, you deal with gangsters, mobsters; call them what we may, and Trump has done all that, I'm sure; real estate and construction what it is there. The type of underworld that exists in D.C. ... it truly is a wonder that Trump decided to run for a second term. Logically, he has made adjustments, has a plan, and the next four years will see if he can pull it off, and put America back on the map for common sense and liberty.
That will never happen unless people rise up and not just reelect him but, hold all elected civil servant's feet to the fire. Thomas Jefferson and other Founders consistently wrote about vigilance for a reason. If elected civil servants are not made to understand their place in the Republic, power overtakes the purpose of position, and tyranny results. Here we are, especially in Democrat run cities and states.
Citizens are hopelessly divided, except over the fact they must work to eat and survive. That is something neither Left or Right, nor Center can do so, they now have at least that in common. They become wards of a state system; which must crash because it has no way to stay on solid ground or float; or they rise up and rebel. As it is, rather than just vote a simple aid package for struggling Americans which, in the bigger picture, on principle, is not good to begin with, they keep trying to put more and more Dem-sided pork and activism into bills and keep voting down what sensible people reject, for good reasons. So, for Democrats the issue is not, and never has been aid to the people. The aim is more power and control of the people. They are obedient globalists. That fact is so startlingly plain at this point, it is a marvel the Democrats have any support at all in the divided states of America. The election may show that the only support they have are the useful idiots of fascist Antifa and the communist BLM organization. Even Bernie Bros. are not interested in voting for Biden/Harris. Democrats have pissed off so many Americans at this point, the only possible way they can win the election is ... well, more corruption. It's what they do best.
If Trump is reelected in a landslide, he'll have a mandate of gargantuan proportions. It remains to be seen what he will do with it, in cleaning out a swamp, a cesspool, that will destroy America and the principles of Americanism if allowed to exist much longer.
As far as the Brits? I wish the protestors of tyranny well. Will Boris back down? All these protests are now test cases. Tests cases against the "cases" of covid the tyrants are using to conduct their tyranny. I can see the movie being made already. Especially using leftist hypocrites to portray patriots and conservatives and just regular folks who actually need to work for a living. That's another theme for a movie in and of itself.
What a web is being weaved.
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144. What Has America Become? - October 28, 2020
I am deeply saddened to look at my America.
In the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, more rioting, looting, dozens of police officers hurt. Same for other cities across the nation. It is beyond comprehension it is being allowed.
Police departments are seeing droves of retirement or officers just quitting because they are not supported by state and city leaders, are risking their lives every single day now, and it just is not worth it. Would you go to work if you knew bricks, frozen water bottles, filled cans, fireworks and bottle rockets, pipes, and anything throw-able was going to be hurled at you day after day and you are being told to stand down? Idiots and wicked morons are running states and cities.
Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump, he is literally packing in tens of thousands to his rallies, thrice a day. The man is on fire, and seemingly filled with endless energy, while his opponent, Joe Biden, can barely place any people in his six foot apart circles for safe distancing at his appearances, and shuts things down mid-morning. Literally, no one is showing up to see him, his wife, or his running mate. He managed to bring in 750 people in a lot with 365 cars in it. Trump has had thousands and thousands of cars, trucks and boats showing support for him in caravans and armadas nationwide, coast to coast and somehow, someway, we are being told Biden is ahead in the polls. The president is polling at 52%. Observable evidence tells me we are being lied to by pollsters about this election.
Recent arrests and an expose' documenting ballot fraud, tampering and destruction, voter coercion and rigging of elections taking place now, as voting takes place. This is happening nationwide, by Democrats, to assure a Biden and other Democrat victories. Obviously, with him showing distinctive signs of mental illness; dementia, Alzheimer's; no one knows, Democrats have no real confidence in him or his message, which changes weekly if he is pressed on issues. They must cheat to win, all the while charging Trump with stealing the last election and this one, if he can!
Testimony and documentation has revealed what is being called, the Biden Crime Family; business dealings with other nations, including Communist China, which involve Joe Biden when he was vice president in the Obama administration. Felonies, treason, you name it. It's as grotesque an example of corruption between business and politics as you can put together.
In the midst of all this, the main stream press is 100% in the bag for the Democrat Party, ignores real news, ignores anything against Biden and his family, blames everything on Russia, literally, and is 24/7 devoted to making Trump look bad in any way it possibly can; including lies, misinformation, disinformation, and outrageous charges and positions that really make some of these people look like lunatics.
Americans continue to be afraid of a virus that worldwide statistics show is no worse than a bad flu season, while the Flu, itself, is nowhere to be found. Nothing. Since February the Flu took a total back seat to Covid.
Radical, draconian mandates, fines, and even arrest and jail are hoisted on citizens refusing to wear masks, while rioters, criminals, run around maskless, as cities run by Democrats disintegrate.
The players involved in running this man-made, manipulated "crisis," rather than being investigated for medical fraud, ethics violations, conflicts of interest and other forms of malice towards the population, continue to be hailed as demigod experts that must be listened to, while MILLIONS of people out of work, out of school, out of fellowship and out of their minds are losing their savings, their businesses, and in many cases, even their lives to suicide from all the stress. All aspects of "abuse" are through the roof, and still, millions of Americans in irrational fear, are being good little citizens as though their elected civil servants are kings and queens that must be obeyed. A police state is functioning in many places. Officers have forgotten their oaths or are being threatened if they try to carry them out, to actually protect and serve and stand against depotism.
The corruption in Washington, D.C. is so thick and dense, you could not cut it with a chain saw and yet, the justice department can't seem to find a single charge to lay upon such egregious violations and violators of the rule of law and public trust, Americans are stunned and wonder how dozens of people could have been sent to jail during the Nixon/Watergate scandal, which pales in comparison.
What has happened to America? It has become a third world hell-hole, depending on where you live. Regardless of where you live, all Americans have been treated as little more than cow fodder.
You could not make up 2020 for the wildest Hollywood movie ever conceived.
Regardless of who wins this election, America shall never be the same as the one I grew up in. Domestic enemies, supported by foreign enemies, seek to literally take down America. Civil war is on the lips or in the thoughts of tens of millions of Americans. Firearms and accessory sales have skyrocketed. More people than ever are stocking supplies for an eventual, total breakdown. If Trump wins, the left will riot more than ever. If Biden wins, America is lost to the pages of history and if Democrats, now a radical group as can be put together, hold the house and gain the Senate, the United States of America will divide into who knows what, because millions of Americans are not going to put up with more and more tyranny these evil and atrocious excuses for civil servants will burden them with.
It is obvious as a train wreck this election can only delay what evil forces want for this nation: globalist totalitarianism. The useful idiots have no idea, once achieved, they are nothing. Their usefulness no longer necessary, they shall suffer the results of their unbridled stupidity. They shall suffer the consequences of a total collapse of a Constitutional Republic, as Democrats toss out the Constitution or rewrite it to suit their own wicked agendas. To do so, they would need a Constitutional Convention. I have little doubt they will go around that lawful necessity and get whatever they want done in any way they deem necessary.
Never have I seen such disgusting people in positions of power. They are mad and dangerous to every aspect of the rule of law and common sense. They are dangerous to all aspects of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Washington, D.C., people in D.C. have connived and manipulated and accrued many sins. Would I be surprised to see the results, as God allows the whole thing to collapse as just vengeance upon rebels and enemies of all that has been considered righteous and good for over 200 years, if not thousands before the inception of this nation? I would not.
I feel sorry for the young who shall reap what has been sown by a generation or two before them.
No, we cannot all get along at this point. It is impossible. Lovers of liberty cannot "get along" with lovers of lawlessness and tyranny.
What has become of America? In a few days, What shall become of America, is the greater question now.
In the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, more rioting, looting, dozens of police officers hurt. Same for other cities across the nation. It is beyond comprehension it is being allowed.
Police departments are seeing droves of retirement or officers just quitting because they are not supported by state and city leaders, are risking their lives every single day now, and it just is not worth it. Would you go to work if you knew bricks, frozen water bottles, filled cans, fireworks and bottle rockets, pipes, and anything throw-able was going to be hurled at you day after day and you are being told to stand down? Idiots and wicked morons are running states and cities.
Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump, he is literally packing in tens of thousands to his rallies, thrice a day. The man is on fire, and seemingly filled with endless energy, while his opponent, Joe Biden, can barely place any people in his six foot apart circles for safe distancing at his appearances, and shuts things down mid-morning. Literally, no one is showing up to see him, his wife, or his running mate. He managed to bring in 750 people in a lot with 365 cars in it. Trump has had thousands and thousands of cars, trucks and boats showing support for him in caravans and armadas nationwide, coast to coast and somehow, someway, we are being told Biden is ahead in the polls. The president is polling at 52%. Observable evidence tells me we are being lied to by pollsters about this election.
Recent arrests and an expose' documenting ballot fraud, tampering and destruction, voter coercion and rigging of elections taking place now, as voting takes place. This is happening nationwide, by Democrats, to assure a Biden and other Democrat victories. Obviously, with him showing distinctive signs of mental illness; dementia, Alzheimer's; no one knows, Democrats have no real confidence in him or his message, which changes weekly if he is pressed on issues. They must cheat to win, all the while charging Trump with stealing the last election and this one, if he can!
Testimony and documentation has revealed what is being called, the Biden Crime Family; business dealings with other nations, including Communist China, which involve Joe Biden when he was vice president in the Obama administration. Felonies, treason, you name it. It's as grotesque an example of corruption between business and politics as you can put together.
In the midst of all this, the main stream press is 100% in the bag for the Democrat Party, ignores real news, ignores anything against Biden and his family, blames everything on Russia, literally, and is 24/7 devoted to making Trump look bad in any way it possibly can; including lies, misinformation, disinformation, and outrageous charges and positions that really make some of these people look like lunatics.
Americans continue to be afraid of a virus that worldwide statistics show is no worse than a bad flu season, while the Flu, itself, is nowhere to be found. Nothing. Since February the Flu took a total back seat to Covid.
Radical, draconian mandates, fines, and even arrest and jail are hoisted on citizens refusing to wear masks, while rioters, criminals, run around maskless, as cities run by Democrats disintegrate.
The players involved in running this man-made, manipulated "crisis," rather than being investigated for medical fraud, ethics violations, conflicts of interest and other forms of malice towards the population, continue to be hailed as demigod experts that must be listened to, while MILLIONS of people out of work, out of school, out of fellowship and out of their minds are losing their savings, their businesses, and in many cases, even their lives to suicide from all the stress. All aspects of "abuse" are through the roof, and still, millions of Americans in irrational fear, are being good little citizens as though their elected civil servants are kings and queens that must be obeyed. A police state is functioning in many places. Officers have forgotten their oaths or are being threatened if they try to carry them out, to actually protect and serve and stand against depotism.
The corruption in Washington, D.C. is so thick and dense, you could not cut it with a chain saw and yet, the justice department can't seem to find a single charge to lay upon such egregious violations and violators of the rule of law and public trust, Americans are stunned and wonder how dozens of people could have been sent to jail during the Nixon/Watergate scandal, which pales in comparison.
What has happened to America? It has become a third world hell-hole, depending on where you live. Regardless of where you live, all Americans have been treated as little more than cow fodder.
You could not make up 2020 for the wildest Hollywood movie ever conceived.
Regardless of who wins this election, America shall never be the same as the one I grew up in. Domestic enemies, supported by foreign enemies, seek to literally take down America. Civil war is on the lips or in the thoughts of tens of millions of Americans. Firearms and accessory sales have skyrocketed. More people than ever are stocking supplies for an eventual, total breakdown. If Trump wins, the left will riot more than ever. If Biden wins, America is lost to the pages of history and if Democrats, now a radical group as can be put together, hold the house and gain the Senate, the United States of America will divide into who knows what, because millions of Americans are not going to put up with more and more tyranny these evil and atrocious excuses for civil servants will burden them with.
It is obvious as a train wreck this election can only delay what evil forces want for this nation: globalist totalitarianism. The useful idiots have no idea, once achieved, they are nothing. Their usefulness no longer necessary, they shall suffer the results of their unbridled stupidity. They shall suffer the consequences of a total collapse of a Constitutional Republic, as Democrats toss out the Constitution or rewrite it to suit their own wicked agendas. To do so, they would need a Constitutional Convention. I have little doubt they will go around that lawful necessity and get whatever they want done in any way they deem necessary.
Never have I seen such disgusting people in positions of power. They are mad and dangerous to every aspect of the rule of law and common sense. They are dangerous to all aspects of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Washington, D.C., people in D.C. have connived and manipulated and accrued many sins. Would I be surprised to see the results, as God allows the whole thing to collapse as just vengeance upon rebels and enemies of all that has been considered righteous and good for over 200 years, if not thousands before the inception of this nation? I would not.
I feel sorry for the young who shall reap what has been sown by a generation or two before them.
No, we cannot all get along at this point. It is impossible. Lovers of liberty cannot "get along" with lovers of lawlessness and tyranny.
What has become of America? In a few days, What shall become of America, is the greater question now.
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145. Mark Levin's Special Appeal to Americans - October 29, 2020
Most people know Mark Levin because of his talk radio program. He's been around a long time. A history and Constitutional scholar, and political Conservative, his radio program often showcases his ... more caustic side. He doesn't put up with foolishness.
He was not an ardent Trump supporter four years ago. His main concerns have always been our Constitutional Republic, and principles of freedom and liberty as laid down in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
He now has his own TV program and network. I saw a little blip at a website for his special appeal to Americans, no subscription needed, viewing is free. I just watched it. This is not the feisty talk radio host. His demeanor is calm, deliberate, focused, and resolute.
EVERY AMERICAN should watch Mark Levin's special appeal to America. It is profound in its simplicity and accuracy of American history, it's guiding principles, and current, irrevocable concerns for this election. It is a MUST SEE program.
https://www.facebook.com/LevinTV/videos/345754123188620/
This truly IS THE most important election in the history of this nation. We either continue as a Republic or be brought into the pit of Marxism and totalitarianism, according to radical Democrat rule. No overstatement. In just a few days the course of America will either remain, however temporary, or be be dismantled piece by piece and every aspect of our lives will be interfered with by government, in radical ways totally foreign to and denounced by the designers of this Republic.
May "nature's God" preserve the inalienable rights He has given us.
He was not an ardent Trump supporter four years ago. His main concerns have always been our Constitutional Republic, and principles of freedom and liberty as laid down in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
He now has his own TV program and network. I saw a little blip at a website for his special appeal to Americans, no subscription needed, viewing is free. I just watched it. This is not the feisty talk radio host. His demeanor is calm, deliberate, focused, and resolute.
EVERY AMERICAN should watch Mark Levin's special appeal to America. It is profound in its simplicity and accuracy of American history, it's guiding principles, and current, irrevocable concerns for this election. It is a MUST SEE program.
https://www.facebook.com/LevinTV/videos/345754123188620/
This truly IS THE most important election in the history of this nation. We either continue as a Republic or be brought into the pit of Marxism and totalitarianism, according to radical Democrat rule. No overstatement. In just a few days the course of America will either remain, however temporary, or be be dismantled piece by piece and every aspect of our lives will be interfered with by government, in radical ways totally foreign to and denounced by the designers of this Republic.
May "nature's God" preserve the inalienable rights He has given us.
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146. Song #6 Is In! - November 1, 2020
Gary has been working on this composition for awhile now and he sent it to me today. I sat and listened to it 7 times to absorb the whole thing in its simplicity, complexity, gorgeous fidelity and sound stage, and I am so impressed by what that man can do.
I wrote some lyrics about Mt. Rushmore and how it represents America, and how the men carved into that mountain would look at the condition of America today. I never know what Gary is going to compose around the lyrics. He has hit it out of the park every time so far. He said this last one is the most different thing he's ever composed. Each song on the album has a unique feel to it.
Now to figure out how to record my tracks. It's odd how nervous I am, when I can just do this as the moment strikes me; no studio time clicking away on the ever present money clock. I've begun writing more on the recording blog to share my experience for any other newbs out there. Check out that blog page, if you're getting into recording things yourself. The ability to self-produce music is an amazing and tremendous opportunity technology has given musicians.
So, six songs on the album. If things work out it'll be both Vinyl and CD, as well as digital downloads, of course, and we hope it can be released in December.
Stay tuned. Patriot Rock is marching.
I wrote some lyrics about Mt. Rushmore and how it represents America, and how the men carved into that mountain would look at the condition of America today. I never know what Gary is going to compose around the lyrics. He has hit it out of the park every time so far. He said this last one is the most different thing he's ever composed. Each song on the album has a unique feel to it.
Now to figure out how to record my tracks. It's odd how nervous I am, when I can just do this as the moment strikes me; no studio time clicking away on the ever present money clock. I've begun writing more on the recording blog to share my experience for any other newbs out there. Check out that blog page, if you're getting into recording things yourself. The ability to self-produce music is an amazing and tremendous opportunity technology has given musicians.
So, six songs on the album. If things work out it'll be both Vinyl and CD, as well as digital downloads, of course, and we hope it can be released in December.
Stay tuned. Patriot Rock is marching.
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147. Oh, What a Night! - November 4, 2020
"Oh, What a Night."
My apologies to the Four Seasons but, it's the first thing that came to my mind when rehearsing the last 24 hours.
I didn't pay much attention to election night coverage. I do not trust a single network, broadcast or cable. I do not trust polls. I do not trust vote tally boards, and I certainly despise the main stream media press thinking they have the right to call states for one candidate or another before all the votes are counted by all 50 states.
Based on the evidence, I expected a Trump landslide. I peeked in around 9 pm and was shocked to see the reporting. By midnight I just sat stunned. 1 am. Everything stalled, stopped, just ceased. Biden walks out and does his happy dance. Trump walks out and gave a very calm, deliberate speech of how the numbers were stating he was winning or won states no one expected him to. He was ahead in states no one expected him to be close to competing in. Everything stalled. Vote count reporting just stopped. He pointed to Newt Gingrich, out in the crowd of supporters, and said something to the effect, I told you this would happen. He promised he would not let the election be stolen by Democrats and the Supreme Court will be brought in. Stories came in of riots, Trump supporters stabbed, hit with baseball bats and bottles; truly ugly videos of these animals and their violent hatred.
It became apparent so many people in the GOP hate Trump so much they voted against him. Not for Biden but, against Trump. Elections have consequences. I doubt such foolishness was pondered very deeply by those willing cast away the Republic because they don't like someone's personality.
So, at this point, to go to bed late and wake up this morning and see Biden ahead; even alt news sites were silent as to what on Earth happened. Then the new reports began to come in. Stories of fraud all over the place, official poll watchers not allowed to enter counting rooms, man-handled and police called in,"typos," hundreds of thousands of ballots found in the wee morning hours, 100% for Biden, more votes counted than actual voting age citizens in one state, putting Biden very close to the 270 electoral votes for victory. Lawsuits filed and chaos everywhere ...
For the Democrats to openly attempt to steal the White House in broad daylight logically means they are certain the Justice Dept. is not going to stop them; the military is not going to stop their attempted coup; deep state and the alphabet agencies are behind them; the main stream press has been in their back pocket for decades now. Truth will never be seen from them again, unless it helps their agenda. The amount of censoring by the Tech masters, totally controlling the flow of information, is so disgustingly and disgracefully gross it proves they are not only Un-American but wholly owned by the globalist cabal.
The very fact such an attempt to steal the election by massive fraud would be made at all in the United States of America, shows the Republic is deeply fractured and whether or not the Democrats succeed is hardly worth mentioning because if they do not succeed now, they certainly will in the future. They are relentless in their pursuit of absolute control and destruction of our Constitutional Republic.
You can call it the biggest, the mother of all conspiracy theories but, would I be surprised to learn that 2020 has been in the planning for a few years between the Democrat party, China, George Soros, top msm figures, military brass, the Tech/social platform masters, Fauci and company, Gates, the alphabet agency heads, and any other entities necessary to topple Trump at any cost, and shut up his "deplorable" supporters as long as the dominoes tip their way when all is said and done, and the great global reset can take place? No. I absolutely would not be surprised.
The wickedness and evil in positions of power is darker than we can imagine.
Biden even stated, in one of his rally speeches, "We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics."
You say, that is not possible? You are very wrong. What was thought to just be another terrible mental lapse garble he has demonstrated throughout the campaign, turns out to be a mental lapse admission of a truth.
https://trendingpolitics.com/flashback-biden-boasted-of-most-extensive-voter-fraud-organization-in-history/
So, the way it looks as I write this, regardless of who wins, America is experiencing a demise. Upheavals, violence, civil disobedience, if not outright insurrection, if not civil war, is certain to come. Once again, one of the most peaceful transference's of power on the planet, a marvel of the nations, will have to be decided by courts and judges, who, as well, all have agendas. It certainly does make the confirmation of Amy Barrett very important, if she is truly as unbiased in decision making as she claims and believes in the rule of law.
The rule of law has not just been ignored, it is being attacked. Nothing prominently good can come from this dog and pony show. If Biden wins, he will step down for obvious medical reasons and Harris will become POTUS: the most liberal progressive senator, even worse than Obama, someone who could not even carry her own state of California in the primaries, as commander and chief. There is no doubt in my mind she will seek to destroy the Republic. These people hate America and traditional Americanism. The first amendment will be trounced upon worse than what they have shown since January.
The coming days will turn into two months of carnage on American city streets, and it will move into towns, as well.
Nothing else would have to take place to show me secession is a viable alternative for Americans to live peaceably between the same borders and oceans. Biden cannot heal the divide. Nor can Trump. It is as deep and wide as the Valles Marineris canyon on Mars.
Times of trouble are upon us, and the entire world could be brought to the brink of disaster.
This is way beyond a political nail biting, cliff hanger. This will be the difference between Americans choosing football or baseball teams, and a national coronary or stroke.
I believe political commentator, Liz Wheeler, sums it up well:
https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/heres-why-president-trump-matters-liz-wheeler/
God help us.
My apologies to the Four Seasons but, it's the first thing that came to my mind when rehearsing the last 24 hours.
I didn't pay much attention to election night coverage. I do not trust a single network, broadcast or cable. I do not trust polls. I do not trust vote tally boards, and I certainly despise the main stream media press thinking they have the right to call states for one candidate or another before all the votes are counted by all 50 states.
Based on the evidence, I expected a Trump landslide. I peeked in around 9 pm and was shocked to see the reporting. By midnight I just sat stunned. 1 am. Everything stalled, stopped, just ceased. Biden walks out and does his happy dance. Trump walks out and gave a very calm, deliberate speech of how the numbers were stating he was winning or won states no one expected him to. He was ahead in states no one expected him to be close to competing in. Everything stalled. Vote count reporting just stopped. He pointed to Newt Gingrich, out in the crowd of supporters, and said something to the effect, I told you this would happen. He promised he would not let the election be stolen by Democrats and the Supreme Court will be brought in. Stories came in of riots, Trump supporters stabbed, hit with baseball bats and bottles; truly ugly videos of these animals and their violent hatred.
It became apparent so many people in the GOP hate Trump so much they voted against him. Not for Biden but, against Trump. Elections have consequences. I doubt such foolishness was pondered very deeply by those willing cast away the Republic because they don't like someone's personality.
So, at this point, to go to bed late and wake up this morning and see Biden ahead; even alt news sites were silent as to what on Earth happened. Then the new reports began to come in. Stories of fraud all over the place, official poll watchers not allowed to enter counting rooms, man-handled and police called in,"typos," hundreds of thousands of ballots found in the wee morning hours, 100% for Biden, more votes counted than actual voting age citizens in one state, putting Biden very close to the 270 electoral votes for victory. Lawsuits filed and chaos everywhere ...
For the Democrats to openly attempt to steal the White House in broad daylight logically means they are certain the Justice Dept. is not going to stop them; the military is not going to stop their attempted coup; deep state and the alphabet agencies are behind them; the main stream press has been in their back pocket for decades now. Truth will never be seen from them again, unless it helps their agenda. The amount of censoring by the Tech masters, totally controlling the flow of information, is so disgustingly and disgracefully gross it proves they are not only Un-American but wholly owned by the globalist cabal.
The very fact such an attempt to steal the election by massive fraud would be made at all in the United States of America, shows the Republic is deeply fractured and whether or not the Democrats succeed is hardly worth mentioning because if they do not succeed now, they certainly will in the future. They are relentless in their pursuit of absolute control and destruction of our Constitutional Republic.
You can call it the biggest, the mother of all conspiracy theories but, would I be surprised to learn that 2020 has been in the planning for a few years between the Democrat party, China, George Soros, top msm figures, military brass, the Tech/social platform masters, Fauci and company, Gates, the alphabet agency heads, and any other entities necessary to topple Trump at any cost, and shut up his "deplorable" supporters as long as the dominoes tip their way when all is said and done, and the great global reset can take place? No. I absolutely would not be surprised.
The wickedness and evil in positions of power is darker than we can imagine.
Biden even stated, in one of his rally speeches, "We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics."
You say, that is not possible? You are very wrong. What was thought to just be another terrible mental lapse garble he has demonstrated throughout the campaign, turns out to be a mental lapse admission of a truth.
https://trendingpolitics.com/flashback-biden-boasted-of-most-extensive-voter-fraud-organization-in-history/
So, the way it looks as I write this, regardless of who wins, America is experiencing a demise. Upheavals, violence, civil disobedience, if not outright insurrection, if not civil war, is certain to come. Once again, one of the most peaceful transference's of power on the planet, a marvel of the nations, will have to be decided by courts and judges, who, as well, all have agendas. It certainly does make the confirmation of Amy Barrett very important, if she is truly as unbiased in decision making as she claims and believes in the rule of law.
The rule of law has not just been ignored, it is being attacked. Nothing prominently good can come from this dog and pony show. If Biden wins, he will step down for obvious medical reasons and Harris will become POTUS: the most liberal progressive senator, even worse than Obama, someone who could not even carry her own state of California in the primaries, as commander and chief. There is no doubt in my mind she will seek to destroy the Republic. These people hate America and traditional Americanism. The first amendment will be trounced upon worse than what they have shown since January.
The coming days will turn into two months of carnage on American city streets, and it will move into towns, as well.
Nothing else would have to take place to show me secession is a viable alternative for Americans to live peaceably between the same borders and oceans. Biden cannot heal the divide. Nor can Trump. It is as deep and wide as the Valles Marineris canyon on Mars.
Times of trouble are upon us, and the entire world could be brought to the brink of disaster.
This is way beyond a political nail biting, cliff hanger. This will be the difference between Americans choosing football or baseball teams, and a national coronary or stroke.
I believe political commentator, Liz Wheeler, sums it up well:
https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/heres-why-president-trump-matters-liz-wheeler/
God help us.
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148. I Will Not Be Over Until God Says It Is - November 7, 2020
If You visit this site with any regularity you know I profess the Christian faith and you know I have a biblical worldview.
As I watched the literal stream of stories coming in around the nation about various incidents of electioneering, vote fraud, suspect machines and software, literal displacement of election officials removed from voting precincts, even Democrats with a conscience working in these precincts, stating things took place that are not right, videos of people bringing in boxes, suitcases, coolers and other containers in the wee morning hours of the 4th, trucks pulling up in darkness, literally hundreds of thousands of votes "found," all for Biden, etc., etc., and now Biden claims victory, lawsuits have begun, and surely the Supreme Court will be brought in and probably decide this election; millions of Americans, myself included, are feeling pretty hopeless because the Justice Department is nowhere to be seen, the GOP is nowhere to be heard and just leaving Trump out to hang in the wind of traitorous apostasy, and the DC establishment seems victorious in their literal theft, in broad daylight, of the presidency.
Today is the seventh day of the week, the biblical Sabbath of the 4th commandment. It is the day God set aside for all the world to remember His creation and His sovereignty because of it. He spoke, and it all came into being. His power, His wisdom, His authority is unchallenged. Well, of course, many humans have challenged it over the millennia, including the last couple centuries.
There is a decided reason John Adams stated:
"While our Country remains untainted with the Principles and manners, which are now producing desolation in so many Parts of the World: while she continues Sincere and incapable of insidious and impious Policy: We shall have the Strongest Reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned Us by Providence. But should the People of America, once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another and towards foreign nations, which assumes the Language of Justice and moderation while it is practicing Iniquity and Extravagance; and displays in the most captivating manner the charming Pictures of Candour frankness & sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and Insolence: this Country will be the most miserable Habitation in the World. Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798
I awoke this morning mindful of how this great nation, a light to all the world, has fallen so far from the ideals and commitment to the Sovereign of the universe the Founders understood and hoped to maintain. As Ben Franklin said: "A Republic, if you can keep it."
The word "Democracy" applied to the American government is so far afoul from the intents of the Founders, it wreaks of treason from the mouths of those who would "fundamentally transform the United Sates of America." Barack Obama put the statement in a process mode: "five days away from fundamentally transforming ...."
The USA is a Constitutional Republic with aspects of a democratic governance. When was the last time you heard a politician state that fact?
So, at this moment, a contested election, that everybody with any sense of what is happening knew would develop, has put us all in the great question box of 2020.
This I know. The Founders of this nation knew, beyond any doubt, the God of this universe helped them, guided them, and led them to form this Republic. Their statements to that historic fact fill entire books. They took on the greatest and most powerful army in the Western hemisphere and were victorious because the Sovereign designed it to be. Almost all State constitutions recognize their thanks for that divine Providence.
Right now, Donald Trump faces the enormous American empire's establishment, alone, save for people close to him in his administration that he can trust. Who knows how few that actually is? Aside from 67 million Americans who voted for him, he pretty much stands alone right now. A traitorous Democrat Party, all alphabet Deep State agencies, cowardly Republicans, the entire Corporate controlled media, press and news outlets, the entire oligarchy of Tech master controlled social and communication platforms, and obviously the reported 72 million that voted against him. One must wonder, based on nationwide reports, how many dead people and illegal immigrants are part of that number.
Yehovah, the great and mighty God who brought down nations with more possible actions than men can possibly understand, will decide whether or not Donald John Trump remains in the executive office of the presidency. Does not matter what Biden claims, and the rest of his cabal. God decides who rules in the nations of men. Just read Daniel, chapter 4, and Jeremiah, chapter 18. God is in control, not men.
If God wants Trump to remain, he remains. If God wants Trump removed, he goes. Simple as that. For those of us who are watching the worst parade of treason in American history before our eyes, we must be reminded that He who spoke the universe into existence can as easily drop the entire cabal into the earth, as he dropped Korah, Dathan, Abiram and their apostate rebellion into the earth. Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome; the huge empires of the ancient world all came down when the time arrived: God's time, not man's. All nations on planet Earth are under God's gaze and control.
We should ask ourselves, if Trump is removed from office, what does God have next in store? We should not be surprised if America, so blessed by its divine Benefactor seeing a nation that has wondered so far from Him, experiences chastisement next. Whether it be an Orwellian nightmare of tyranny and totalitarianism or the fate of man-made and natural disasters or both; God's will, will be done. Make no mistake about that.
God is watching to see who will turn to Him in this hour of need. Who has trust? Who has determination and faith to watch God perform His works and moves with infinite sovereignty and power? It is time for patience. It is time to know that vengeance is God's, He will repay. He rebukes and chastens those He loves, Rev 3:19.
Whatever happens next, it is never a loss for God, who knows the end from the beginning. It is another step towards bringing His people closer to him, that a remnant can be formed and modeled after His Son, and whether you believe it or not, His Son's return to call it a day and close up shop on this wayward world of confusion and woe. The return of Christ is the Father's ultimate goal and desire. When a people are ready, it shall happen.
Patience, brethren, patience. These treasonous activities, born of both ignorance and outright rebellion and criminal minds, is under a surveillance system the deep state could only wish to have. Every thought, every word, every action is open to the gaze of Him with Whom we have to do. Let us watch God do His thing, and rejoice, knowing it shall be the best thing that can be done because God is love.
As I watched the literal stream of stories coming in around the nation about various incidents of electioneering, vote fraud, suspect machines and software, literal displacement of election officials removed from voting precincts, even Democrats with a conscience working in these precincts, stating things took place that are not right, videos of people bringing in boxes, suitcases, coolers and other containers in the wee morning hours of the 4th, trucks pulling up in darkness, literally hundreds of thousands of votes "found," all for Biden, etc., etc., and now Biden claims victory, lawsuits have begun, and surely the Supreme Court will be brought in and probably decide this election; millions of Americans, myself included, are feeling pretty hopeless because the Justice Department is nowhere to be seen, the GOP is nowhere to be heard and just leaving Trump out to hang in the wind of traitorous apostasy, and the DC establishment seems victorious in their literal theft, in broad daylight, of the presidency.
Today is the seventh day of the week, the biblical Sabbath of the 4th commandment. It is the day God set aside for all the world to remember His creation and His sovereignty because of it. He spoke, and it all came into being. His power, His wisdom, His authority is unchallenged. Well, of course, many humans have challenged it over the millennia, including the last couple centuries.
There is a decided reason John Adams stated:
"While our Country remains untainted with the Principles and manners, which are now producing desolation in so many Parts of the World: while she continues Sincere and incapable of insidious and impious Policy: We shall have the Strongest Reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned Us by Providence. But should the People of America, once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another and towards foreign nations, which assumes the Language of Justice and moderation while it is practicing Iniquity and Extravagance; and displays in the most captivating manner the charming Pictures of Candour frankness & sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and Insolence: this Country will be the most miserable Habitation in the World. Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798
I awoke this morning mindful of how this great nation, a light to all the world, has fallen so far from the ideals and commitment to the Sovereign of the universe the Founders understood and hoped to maintain. As Ben Franklin said: "A Republic, if you can keep it."
The word "Democracy" applied to the American government is so far afoul from the intents of the Founders, it wreaks of treason from the mouths of those who would "fundamentally transform the United Sates of America." Barack Obama put the statement in a process mode: "five days away from fundamentally transforming ...."
The USA is a Constitutional Republic with aspects of a democratic governance. When was the last time you heard a politician state that fact?
So, at this moment, a contested election, that everybody with any sense of what is happening knew would develop, has put us all in the great question box of 2020.
This I know. The Founders of this nation knew, beyond any doubt, the God of this universe helped them, guided them, and led them to form this Republic. Their statements to that historic fact fill entire books. They took on the greatest and most powerful army in the Western hemisphere and were victorious because the Sovereign designed it to be. Almost all State constitutions recognize their thanks for that divine Providence.
Right now, Donald Trump faces the enormous American empire's establishment, alone, save for people close to him in his administration that he can trust. Who knows how few that actually is? Aside from 67 million Americans who voted for him, he pretty much stands alone right now. A traitorous Democrat Party, all alphabet Deep State agencies, cowardly Republicans, the entire Corporate controlled media, press and news outlets, the entire oligarchy of Tech master controlled social and communication platforms, and obviously the reported 72 million that voted against him. One must wonder, based on nationwide reports, how many dead people and illegal immigrants are part of that number.
Yehovah, the great and mighty God who brought down nations with more possible actions than men can possibly understand, will decide whether or not Donald John Trump remains in the executive office of the presidency. Does not matter what Biden claims, and the rest of his cabal. God decides who rules in the nations of men. Just read Daniel, chapter 4, and Jeremiah, chapter 18. God is in control, not men.
If God wants Trump to remain, he remains. If God wants Trump removed, he goes. Simple as that. For those of us who are watching the worst parade of treason in American history before our eyes, we must be reminded that He who spoke the universe into existence can as easily drop the entire cabal into the earth, as he dropped Korah, Dathan, Abiram and their apostate rebellion into the earth. Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome; the huge empires of the ancient world all came down when the time arrived: God's time, not man's. All nations on planet Earth are under God's gaze and control.
We should ask ourselves, if Trump is removed from office, what does God have next in store? We should not be surprised if America, so blessed by its divine Benefactor seeing a nation that has wondered so far from Him, experiences chastisement next. Whether it be an Orwellian nightmare of tyranny and totalitarianism or the fate of man-made and natural disasters or both; God's will, will be done. Make no mistake about that.
God is watching to see who will turn to Him in this hour of need. Who has trust? Who has determination and faith to watch God perform His works and moves with infinite sovereignty and power? It is time for patience. It is time to know that vengeance is God's, He will repay. He rebukes and chastens those He loves, Rev 3:19.
Whatever happens next, it is never a loss for God, who knows the end from the beginning. It is another step towards bringing His people closer to him, that a remnant can be formed and modeled after His Son, and whether you believe it or not, His Son's return to call it a day and close up shop on this wayward world of confusion and woe. The return of Christ is the Father's ultimate goal and desire. When a people are ready, it shall happen.
Patience, brethren, patience. These treasonous activities, born of both ignorance and outright rebellion and criminal minds, is under a surveillance system the deep state could only wish to have. Every thought, every word, every action is open to the gaze of Him with Whom we have to do. Let us watch God do His thing, and rejoice, knowing it shall be the best thing that can be done because God is love.
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149. No News For Now - November 9, 2020
I wrote some lyrics for a song for the Hendrickson - Frigon Project, titled, I'm Sick of the News, and I am.
I have begun to record my tracks and while I should be having fun to some degree, my brain is in disgust mode with things I have seen at my news sites I go to.
Yes, yes, I believe it is in God's hands, and the outcome will be His, not the msm's coronation of Biden. News media does not choose a President. The State Electors do, in December. But, that dog and pony show is to be expected, and I never watch the msm news, ever. I do see quick blips when I log out of my email and get sent to the news feed from Yahoo and Hotmail. The bias is so bloated you could roll it down a hill and wipe out a city.
What gets me is the staggering, incredible amount of fraud being uncovered by real journalist investigators. It is mind boggling how the Democrats cooked this up, and using their useful idiots, thought they could pull this off and nobody would question the outrageous results? Seriously? At this point, a stack of paper would reach the top of a house with all the fraud and actual criminal activity that has taken place. Even if only 20% of it all is true, it's enough to know recounts MUST take place, and people MUST be arrested for their felonious behavior and scamming.
This has brought shame to America all over the world. Did I mention newspapers around the globe are stating fraud has taken place? The whole world knows it, and the globalist elitist national leaders out there hate Trump as much as Democrats do. Yet, they are placing the truth out there for their citizens to see! It's unbelievable.
Sidney Powell, General Flynn's attorney, is going to emerge a rock star out of this gig. She is holding back nothing. As the legal staff for Trump and this battle gel together, the absolute razor slice of what America is, and is supposed to be, and what Democrats and leftists want to make it, is going to cause a rift in this nation worse than anything before it, even the Civil War, which, I believe is coming. Civil War 2. There is no way Americans who love their Republic, are going to just sit back and watch this theft just parade itself into the White House and begin to tear the whole system down. Yes, previous generations watched the corruption and did nothing but moan. No more. I seriously doubt it happens again. Sixty-seven million people are not going to watch Democrats steal an election in this outrageous manner.
Anyway, I sit down to play drums and my brain is out of whack. This situation has literally effected my coordination, and my creativity. I'm dropping sticks like crazy. I can't concentrate on how songs are moving along and playing the parts I've come up with.
I've been losing a lot of weight. I've been eating a strict regimen for months. I wondered if that was it. A nutritional imbalance? What is it? I have concluded it is the News! I'm sick of seeing reports of wild-eyed, foul-mouthed fools doing their happy dances, believing Biden is POTUS, when he is not. There is no "President Elect." Not according to the rule of law.
I'm also sick of seeing reports of Hollywood elites telling me ... well, you know what they are calling anyone who voted for Trump in 2016 and now. They can't seem to shut up about it. Hypocrites that benefit from free market capitalism to become multi-millionaires, and vote for a team of a socialist and an outright communist that will be POTUS when Biden is sent home; after Dems remove him with the 25th amendment. He is mentally disabled. Everybody knows it. When Harris is in: she makes Obama look like a centrist. And then, Pelosi becomes VP! And you think almost 70 million people are going to just watch this all happen without a reaction big enough to create a seismic shift? Good luck with that.
Of course, as I believe, God is either going to stretch out the arm of divine Providence and save the Republic from these treasonous traitors or, he is going to just let it happen because America has been wandering and lost for awhile now. Is it time for punishment to come to attempt to wake us up to how we have fallen.
So, for the sake of my heart and mind, I'm staying away from the news. I need to be able to concentrate, to make music, to realize there really is more to life than the contest at present, which is out of the hands of those who voted. The courts will handle it now. At least, that is the rule of law. Half the nation doesn't care about that anymore. When the buyer's remorse smacks them in the face, when America is turned into Venezuela, well, it'll be too late then.
All things considered, The Hendrickson - Frigon Project may have more of an impact if the traitors pull off their political embezzlement. We'll have plenty of messages for patriots to ponder, and treasonous activity to put to song.
How long, Oh Lord! How long?
I have begun to record my tracks and while I should be having fun to some degree, my brain is in disgust mode with things I have seen at my news sites I go to.
Yes, yes, I believe it is in God's hands, and the outcome will be His, not the msm's coronation of Biden. News media does not choose a President. The State Electors do, in December. But, that dog and pony show is to be expected, and I never watch the msm news, ever. I do see quick blips when I log out of my email and get sent to the news feed from Yahoo and Hotmail. The bias is so bloated you could roll it down a hill and wipe out a city.
What gets me is the staggering, incredible amount of fraud being uncovered by real journalist investigators. It is mind boggling how the Democrats cooked this up, and using their useful idiots, thought they could pull this off and nobody would question the outrageous results? Seriously? At this point, a stack of paper would reach the top of a house with all the fraud and actual criminal activity that has taken place. Even if only 20% of it all is true, it's enough to know recounts MUST take place, and people MUST be arrested for their felonious behavior and scamming.
This has brought shame to America all over the world. Did I mention newspapers around the globe are stating fraud has taken place? The whole world knows it, and the globalist elitist national leaders out there hate Trump as much as Democrats do. Yet, they are placing the truth out there for their citizens to see! It's unbelievable.
Sidney Powell, General Flynn's attorney, is going to emerge a rock star out of this gig. She is holding back nothing. As the legal staff for Trump and this battle gel together, the absolute razor slice of what America is, and is supposed to be, and what Democrats and leftists want to make it, is going to cause a rift in this nation worse than anything before it, even the Civil War, which, I believe is coming. Civil War 2. There is no way Americans who love their Republic, are going to just sit back and watch this theft just parade itself into the White House and begin to tear the whole system down. Yes, previous generations watched the corruption and did nothing but moan. No more. I seriously doubt it happens again. Sixty-seven million people are not going to watch Democrats steal an election in this outrageous manner.
Anyway, I sit down to play drums and my brain is out of whack. This situation has literally effected my coordination, and my creativity. I'm dropping sticks like crazy. I can't concentrate on how songs are moving along and playing the parts I've come up with.
I've been losing a lot of weight. I've been eating a strict regimen for months. I wondered if that was it. A nutritional imbalance? What is it? I have concluded it is the News! I'm sick of seeing reports of wild-eyed, foul-mouthed fools doing their happy dances, believing Biden is POTUS, when he is not. There is no "President Elect." Not according to the rule of law.
I'm also sick of seeing reports of Hollywood elites telling me ... well, you know what they are calling anyone who voted for Trump in 2016 and now. They can't seem to shut up about it. Hypocrites that benefit from free market capitalism to become multi-millionaires, and vote for a team of a socialist and an outright communist that will be POTUS when Biden is sent home; after Dems remove him with the 25th amendment. He is mentally disabled. Everybody knows it. When Harris is in: she makes Obama look like a centrist. And then, Pelosi becomes VP! And you think almost 70 million people are going to just watch this all happen without a reaction big enough to create a seismic shift? Good luck with that.
Of course, as I believe, God is either going to stretch out the arm of divine Providence and save the Republic from these treasonous traitors or, he is going to just let it happen because America has been wandering and lost for awhile now. Is it time for punishment to come to attempt to wake us up to how we have fallen.
So, for the sake of my heart and mind, I'm staying away from the news. I need to be able to concentrate, to make music, to realize there really is more to life than the contest at present, which is out of the hands of those who voted. The courts will handle it now. At least, that is the rule of law. Half the nation doesn't care about that anymore. When the buyer's remorse smacks them in the face, when America is turned into Venezuela, well, it'll be too late then.
All things considered, The Hendrickson - Frigon Project may have more of an impact if the traitors pull off their political embezzlement. We'll have plenty of messages for patriots to ponder, and treasonous activity to put to song.
How long, Oh Lord! How long?
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150. No News For Good? - November 16, 2020
It might be, some would say, logical, to actually look at the news before I write this but, in principle, it doesn't matter. Not reading the news for a week has made quite a difference in my own perceived stress levels. Not reading about the ridiculous nonsense politicians spout on a daily basis, not reading about the incredible gall of Democrats to not only attempt to, not just steal votes, or put votes in by fraud but, actually take the WH through such massive, preplanned deceit, not reading about the hysteria that continues around Covid, as the msm continues its barrage of fear mongering, and certainly not reading about Joe Biden walking around like a coronated king about to totally dismantle America (with the msm's delight), is good for the soul.
I did see that a gazillion people turned out for a rally for Trump in DC and elsewhere. My wife showed me a picture of the enormous crowd. Pretty impressive, especially seeing the tech cabal censored all info they could about the call to this rally. That much I saw in passing.
Otherwise, the last week has been about music and drum tracks. I've been writing more about that on the Recording Blog page. Quite a week.
Can someone live without knowing the daily news? Billions have, down through time. Who knows how many do, around the world, right now, even with the nature of lightening speed news moving over the internet. I never paid attention to the news until much later in life. Only the big events really caught my attention, along with everyone else. Actually, some people get headaches from reading newspapers because of the ink. In some cases, if you've experienced it, the ink isn't even totally dry. You get it on your hands. So, you get a double headache from the fumes and the things reported.
Of course, when I was young there was actually something called "investigative reporting." That does not exist on the networks anymore, or the usual, big name magazines. It's all multinational, corporate controlled, agenda driven information, misinformation and disinformation. Nor does investigative reporting exist on most alt news sites, either. They just copy and paste stories from each other's sites. You do see investigative reporting on alt news sites like Mother Earth News, or The Gateway Pundit; two news sites politically poles apart but, I've read things on both sites. It just shows how there is truly a lack of neutrality in most, not all but, most reporting out there. Nothing is fair and balanced. Everything has a slant to it. Maybe it always has and now it's just worse.
I do not know where the election stands two weeks later. I do care, because I care about America but, I also know both political parties are bought and paid for and the swamp is not going to be drained, because the swamp is systemic. Unless 95% of the people with Federal jobs are replaced with actual Constitutionally-minded individuals who truly care about the Republic and not straying past the boundaries of limited government the Founders created, things can only get worse, not better. And they will get worse, even if Trump stays in office.
For the United States of America (which it no longer is) to be way down the list on Freedom and Liberty among nations, is a travesty. Americans are used by the swamp, to gratify the swamp, to keep the swamp producing muck, to keep Americans in the dark, to keep producing muck ... etc.
The world looks on, still wishing they could get here because, even with the saturation of corruption, America remains better than where they currently live, if you can imagine that. And we can because, we see and read what is happening in other nations. At least, we see and read enough of it to know some of what takes place that makes America a paradise by comparison.
Even at that, Americans care more about sports and Hollywood than those realities. That is really part of the systemic problem. We are all so stressed, so tired, so hurt, so alone, so beat up, so angry, so frustrated, so disappointed, disillusioned, and distorted by American life and this culture, and the impacts of it on body, soul and spirit, we just space out in front of whatever is being fed to us by the controllers, depending on what personal limits and convictions that still remain in our souls and spirits. For most, those limits have evaporated. For others, some traditional values remain but, stuff still sneaks in. For that small remnant, they don't expose themselves or their children to anything Hollywood produces. Major leagues sports are of no concern. They live as far from the influence of the culture as they can, and just hope and pray, and try to train up their children in such a way that the culture, constantly beckoning them to come and taste it, does not grab them and ruin their souls. They walk a very fine line. Will their children carry on traditional values or will they explode and run as soon as they are old enough? If you know anything about sex trafficking and all the other soul destroying businesses and supposed "pleasures" of life out there, you know the toll it is taking on America's youth. The world's youth, for that matter. A lot of investigate reporting has been done on that subject. It has not done anything more to stop it than a BB off a battleship.
Those who delve into and understand the role of prophecy in the Bible, see things constantly coming into place. I certainly do not endorse all aspects of prophetic interpretation out there. I have my 40 years of study and know what I believe and why. Would that all Americans understood why and what God has placed in His book for people to see and prepare. No, I don't mean "prepping." Common sense dictates the necessity of having extra food and water and stuff around, "just in case."
No, I am speaking of the preparation of body, soul, and spirit to fend off the attacks of darkness covering the Earth. You don't see it? Well, there ya go. The world is diving into just two camps: those that love God and want to obey, and those that do not. Right now those two camps contain many, many subcategories. That will not remain so. One issue shall ultimately come to divide the world. That's what prophecy predicts. That is what shall happen. Everything else God has told His people down through the millennia has come to pass, to show us, everything will come to pass, sooner or later.
From a biblical world view there is the Good News, and then there is the rest of the news. The rest of the news is actually a repetition of the same things that have happened so many times it cannot be estimated. Mankind never changes. Technology changes so fast we can no longer keep up. Mankind? No. Mankind remains in a fallen condition, under the control of one of two great powers: darkness or Light. Trump cannot change that. Biden cannot change that. Nobody can change that for anyone but, themselves, by their own personal choices.
What's your choice?
I did see that a gazillion people turned out for a rally for Trump in DC and elsewhere. My wife showed me a picture of the enormous crowd. Pretty impressive, especially seeing the tech cabal censored all info they could about the call to this rally. That much I saw in passing.
Otherwise, the last week has been about music and drum tracks. I've been writing more about that on the Recording Blog page. Quite a week.
Can someone live without knowing the daily news? Billions have, down through time. Who knows how many do, around the world, right now, even with the nature of lightening speed news moving over the internet. I never paid attention to the news until much later in life. Only the big events really caught my attention, along with everyone else. Actually, some people get headaches from reading newspapers because of the ink. In some cases, if you've experienced it, the ink isn't even totally dry. You get it on your hands. So, you get a double headache from the fumes and the things reported.
Of course, when I was young there was actually something called "investigative reporting." That does not exist on the networks anymore, or the usual, big name magazines. It's all multinational, corporate controlled, agenda driven information, misinformation and disinformation. Nor does investigative reporting exist on most alt news sites, either. They just copy and paste stories from each other's sites. You do see investigative reporting on alt news sites like Mother Earth News, or The Gateway Pundit; two news sites politically poles apart but, I've read things on both sites. It just shows how there is truly a lack of neutrality in most, not all but, most reporting out there. Nothing is fair and balanced. Everything has a slant to it. Maybe it always has and now it's just worse.
I do not know where the election stands two weeks later. I do care, because I care about America but, I also know both political parties are bought and paid for and the swamp is not going to be drained, because the swamp is systemic. Unless 95% of the people with Federal jobs are replaced with actual Constitutionally-minded individuals who truly care about the Republic and not straying past the boundaries of limited government the Founders created, things can only get worse, not better. And they will get worse, even if Trump stays in office.
For the United States of America (which it no longer is) to be way down the list on Freedom and Liberty among nations, is a travesty. Americans are used by the swamp, to gratify the swamp, to keep the swamp producing muck, to keep Americans in the dark, to keep producing muck ... etc.
The world looks on, still wishing they could get here because, even with the saturation of corruption, America remains better than where they currently live, if you can imagine that. And we can because, we see and read what is happening in other nations. At least, we see and read enough of it to know some of what takes place that makes America a paradise by comparison.
Even at that, Americans care more about sports and Hollywood than those realities. That is really part of the systemic problem. We are all so stressed, so tired, so hurt, so alone, so beat up, so angry, so frustrated, so disappointed, disillusioned, and distorted by American life and this culture, and the impacts of it on body, soul and spirit, we just space out in front of whatever is being fed to us by the controllers, depending on what personal limits and convictions that still remain in our souls and spirits. For most, those limits have evaporated. For others, some traditional values remain but, stuff still sneaks in. For that small remnant, they don't expose themselves or their children to anything Hollywood produces. Major leagues sports are of no concern. They live as far from the influence of the culture as they can, and just hope and pray, and try to train up their children in such a way that the culture, constantly beckoning them to come and taste it, does not grab them and ruin their souls. They walk a very fine line. Will their children carry on traditional values or will they explode and run as soon as they are old enough? If you know anything about sex trafficking and all the other soul destroying businesses and supposed "pleasures" of life out there, you know the toll it is taking on America's youth. The world's youth, for that matter. A lot of investigate reporting has been done on that subject. It has not done anything more to stop it than a BB off a battleship.
Those who delve into and understand the role of prophecy in the Bible, see things constantly coming into place. I certainly do not endorse all aspects of prophetic interpretation out there. I have my 40 years of study and know what I believe and why. Would that all Americans understood why and what God has placed in His book for people to see and prepare. No, I don't mean "prepping." Common sense dictates the necessity of having extra food and water and stuff around, "just in case."
No, I am speaking of the preparation of body, soul, and spirit to fend off the attacks of darkness covering the Earth. You don't see it? Well, there ya go. The world is diving into just two camps: those that love God and want to obey, and those that do not. Right now those two camps contain many, many subcategories. That will not remain so. One issue shall ultimately come to divide the world. That's what prophecy predicts. That is what shall happen. Everything else God has told His people down through the millennia has come to pass, to show us, everything will come to pass, sooner or later.
From a biblical world view there is the Good News, and then there is the rest of the news. The rest of the news is actually a repetition of the same things that have happened so many times it cannot be estimated. Mankind never changes. Technology changes so fast we can no longer keep up. Mankind? No. Mankind remains in a fallen condition, under the control of one of two great powers: darkness or Light. Trump cannot change that. Biden cannot change that. Nobody can change that for anyone but, themselves, by their own personal choices.
What's your choice?
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151. Are Metalheads Bad People??? - November 17, 2020
My young friend from Sri Lanka, Shailo, and I have been emailing back and forth for a while now. It's been a pretty cool situation. Aside from some communication with a few people in Europe, I don't have much communication beyond America's borders.
As I mentioned before (#99), Shailo is an astute 16 year old young guy with a huge and exploratory appetite for music, from the 1960's to the present. He shares things he's into via YT links of various bands and songs he wants me to check out. Many I was not familiar with.
We have mostly addressed Heavy Metal; it's history and its wide range of sounds that have developed over the decades.
In his last email he questioned my position about people in the HM community: if I think or believe they are bad people because they listen to or play HM. I replied that I never stated that, and don't know where he got that impression but, law of averages? If he had the thought, someway, somehow, so do others. Let me put it to rest.
I stress something, again. My worldview is Christian; biblical Christianity. I do not apologize for that. It's been that way for 40 years and by God's grace shall remain so. I believe evil, by definition, exists. I believe there are evil people in this world; people who are a decided danger to society. I also believe Christ said, only God is good. Everybody is a fallen creature. Everybody has sin in them and to one extent or another it comes out under the right or wrong circumstances and conditions. All religions address that in one way or another in a attempt to elevate humanity. False religion does not elevate. False religion reduces humans to cattle, to objects, to pawns, to abject slavery of unbridled passions, or those which a religion teaches the human must develop human strength to overcome. Religion has been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people who only wanted to worship God according to the dictates of conscience and leave others free to do the same. Christianity is the principle of self-control, under the control of God's Spirit. A desire to control others is not the Spirit of Christ. Make no mistake about this though: we are all fallen and prone to thinking, speaking and acting in very unrighteous ways. God knows every thought, every word, and every deed we have done. It's all written down in His records. Ponder that for a minute and see where you honestly think you stand before the Sovereign of the universe.
Having stated that, if you really want to get detailed about it, you would be hard pressed to find much of anything in modern culture not tainted by evil. All our good deeds cannot get us a place in heaven. The bad outweighs the good, throughout the course of a lifetime, and the scales of eternal justice tilt against us so heavily, that is the entire reason for grace.
Okay, okay, yes, I'm getting theological. You cannot have a discussion about good and bad without parameters, without definitions, without reasonable understanding of what each is, and what they are not. That involves religion by default.
Because of the world we live in, we are all open to suggestion, influences, illusions, delusions, and other targeted aspects that develop what we are, from infancy onward. Technically and biblically speaking, there is no such thing as a good person doing bad things. If only God is good, then only fallen people do bad things. We do what we are. In man's eyes a man may be "good," by man's very fluid standards. In God's eyes, nobody is "good." Everybody needs help. Everybody needs salvation. Everybody is derailed by the power of self: self-interest, self-preservation, selfishness. Christ was none of those. I don't know about the central figures of other religions but, Christ is the Creator. The Creator became a man, and lived for mankind, and died for mankind, and rose from the dead to save mankind from itself.
How far would you have to throw a stone in Hollywood to find perversions and sin and wickedness? Trust me, you would not have to throw that stone any farther in any neighborhood in the world by God's standards.
I have written at length about Heavy Metal music, and other forms of music. I have serious doubts about the place it has, in many respects, in decent society. I could say the same for any music with a message that promotes anything God declares is wicked or evil. The thing is, everybody judges everything in life by personal scales developed by varying influences. Are cannibals evil? Do they know any better? Cannibalism is evil. Cannibals are products of their culture. They are born, live, grow, marry or somehow take mates, have children, take care of their families, fight off adversaries and protect their tribes. They have rules and some sort of standards for their society and community, and otherwise live like people on all continents. The 21st century has pretty much done away with such cultures.
I do not say or ever have, that people who listen to HM or play it are bad or evil. Many just see Metal bands as Halloween 365 days a year. Death, hell, darkness, skulls, blood and guts, gore, unbridled lust, and all the rest of the imagery many bands and the genre promotes, which are paraded all year long. After shows they go home to their wife and children and play with their kids on the floor. It's a land of make believe to them. For others, though, it is an essence of life. It is not Halloween. It is the way life should be lived: for self. "Whatsoever thou wilt, do."
God does not judge musicians anymore than He judges baseball players. He judges people, individuals and groups of individuals and what they say and do based on whatever light has shined upon their minds, weighed against the Light, the Way, the Truth and the Life found in Christ. He is the Standard by which all are placed with. That's Christianity. It is not about professed Christians. It is about Jesus Christ. It's His religion, not man's.
There are plenty of non-religious people who see the imagery of Heavy Metal as something they could not be into and do not want their children into. Why is that? Because civilizations have developed century by century and we do not feed people to lions, we do not watch gladiators kill each other, we do not crucify criminals, we do not burn them at the stake, we do not throw dead bodies of criminals into dumps, and we do not make slaves of people in civilized nations.
Now, ask yourself, did the 20th century see bodies bulldozed into pits? Does modern society see people beheaded because they do not believe the same as the butchering beheaders? Does modern society promote and/or condone sex with children? Why did that Netflix program with all the sexualization of young girls cause so much outrage? Ten years from now, will it still? Are people made slaves today to anything or anyone? How about alcohol, drugs and sex, pimps, dealers and rulers? We haven't reached civilization yet. We never will be till God intervenes and folds up shop. If anything, mankind is getting more uncivilized. You can't have rational discussion anymore. If you believe in God, you're an idiot or worse. If you don't, you're the devil. And the two sides have the same elements in them.
If you think Heavy Metal or any other form of music that promotes ungodliness is not part of the preceding paragraph you are flat out wrong, from God's point of view. Everybody knows there is make-believe, fantasy, story telling, grand hyperbole, and technology has made it all the more available and hyped beyond anything people could have imagined a hundred years ago. Some people believe hero culture is evil because it causes people to look at people. Well, heroic deeds are inspiring, though, right? It shows us what can be done when self is put aside. Just the same, making heroes out of people can place a lot of pressure on them, and they are all sinners just like everybody else. Not a few "heroes" made shipwreck of life because of the pressures and allurements.
We are all sinners in need of a Saviour. That is what I believe. We are all bad, compared to God's standard of character, righteousness and goodness before Him and each other: the Ten Commandments; the deep spirituality of the Decalogue, not just the written letter. We all come short of that standard of rightness. Are people who out and out oppose the Ten Commandments evil? Well, what else would you call it? Misguided? Maybe but, that depends on the intents of the heart. Only God knows that. Some would call rejecting the Ten Commandments common sense. Are atheists evil? Was I evil when I was an atheist from the ages of 13-24? Was I a danger to society because I did not believe in God? I was a danger to myself more than anything else. I hurt people, though. My parents, people I knew, girls I dated, and I still hurt people. And I got and get hurt by others, as well. "Well, nobody's perfect." That's the general excuse/reason people give. Centuries ago many within professed Christianity would have seen it better for society for me to burn at the stake than discuss the notion God does not exist. Better to use force than discussion and exchange of ideas. You see any parallels with today, right now, across America?
I'll finish with this. If you do not love everyone, you certainly are not good. Christ, the Creator, died for everyone, therefore, everyone is deserving of love and respect, from our point of existence, because we are all in the same boat. Nobody deserves anything but, death, from God's point of view as Judge of all, because all have sinned, all have broken the law, and no one can pay a price of redemption for themselves, anymore than a murderer can bring back the life they took. God does not have a prison on Earth where law breakers are placed because we are all law breakers. We are totally stuck. But, God is Love, and God's love brings forth grace, and grace forgives, and grace forgets and presses on to make us better than we are.
I still have misgivings about playing at the KIT festival in Germany next April, if it happens, all things considered. The only reason I decided to go is to play with some fine musicians, Fred and Martin, then Jesper, and to hopefully plant some seeds in anyone I meet in that adventure, and learn some things as well. It will be a true classroom experience in many ways. A field trip, if you will. I also think Germany is a beautiful country and would love to see it. But, I could not endorse much of what will be the message and imagery from bands there, even if it's all Halloween to them. There are fine lines involved. I make no judgments of people. That is in God's hands. If someone gets uncivil, and executes an act of incivility upon their "innocent" neighbor (and you know why I placed innocent in quotes), then that act is a bad thing, brought about by the influence of evil in this world and that influence is in all of us.
So, no, I will not be cornered into anything the likes of which states people into HM are bad. As opposed to what? People into Country and Classical being good? Yeah, no. Doesn't work like that.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
As I mentioned before (#99), Shailo is an astute 16 year old young guy with a huge and exploratory appetite for music, from the 1960's to the present. He shares things he's into via YT links of various bands and songs he wants me to check out. Many I was not familiar with.
We have mostly addressed Heavy Metal; it's history and its wide range of sounds that have developed over the decades.
In his last email he questioned my position about people in the HM community: if I think or believe they are bad people because they listen to or play HM. I replied that I never stated that, and don't know where he got that impression but, law of averages? If he had the thought, someway, somehow, so do others. Let me put it to rest.
I stress something, again. My worldview is Christian; biblical Christianity. I do not apologize for that. It's been that way for 40 years and by God's grace shall remain so. I believe evil, by definition, exists. I believe there are evil people in this world; people who are a decided danger to society. I also believe Christ said, only God is good. Everybody is a fallen creature. Everybody has sin in them and to one extent or another it comes out under the right or wrong circumstances and conditions. All religions address that in one way or another in a attempt to elevate humanity. False religion does not elevate. False religion reduces humans to cattle, to objects, to pawns, to abject slavery of unbridled passions, or those which a religion teaches the human must develop human strength to overcome. Religion has been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people who only wanted to worship God according to the dictates of conscience and leave others free to do the same. Christianity is the principle of self-control, under the control of God's Spirit. A desire to control others is not the Spirit of Christ. Make no mistake about this though: we are all fallen and prone to thinking, speaking and acting in very unrighteous ways. God knows every thought, every word, and every deed we have done. It's all written down in His records. Ponder that for a minute and see where you honestly think you stand before the Sovereign of the universe.
Having stated that, if you really want to get detailed about it, you would be hard pressed to find much of anything in modern culture not tainted by evil. All our good deeds cannot get us a place in heaven. The bad outweighs the good, throughout the course of a lifetime, and the scales of eternal justice tilt against us so heavily, that is the entire reason for grace.
Okay, okay, yes, I'm getting theological. You cannot have a discussion about good and bad without parameters, without definitions, without reasonable understanding of what each is, and what they are not. That involves religion by default.
Because of the world we live in, we are all open to suggestion, influences, illusions, delusions, and other targeted aspects that develop what we are, from infancy onward. Technically and biblically speaking, there is no such thing as a good person doing bad things. If only God is good, then only fallen people do bad things. We do what we are. In man's eyes a man may be "good," by man's very fluid standards. In God's eyes, nobody is "good." Everybody needs help. Everybody needs salvation. Everybody is derailed by the power of self: self-interest, self-preservation, selfishness. Christ was none of those. I don't know about the central figures of other religions but, Christ is the Creator. The Creator became a man, and lived for mankind, and died for mankind, and rose from the dead to save mankind from itself.
How far would you have to throw a stone in Hollywood to find perversions and sin and wickedness? Trust me, you would not have to throw that stone any farther in any neighborhood in the world by God's standards.
I have written at length about Heavy Metal music, and other forms of music. I have serious doubts about the place it has, in many respects, in decent society. I could say the same for any music with a message that promotes anything God declares is wicked or evil. The thing is, everybody judges everything in life by personal scales developed by varying influences. Are cannibals evil? Do they know any better? Cannibalism is evil. Cannibals are products of their culture. They are born, live, grow, marry or somehow take mates, have children, take care of their families, fight off adversaries and protect their tribes. They have rules and some sort of standards for their society and community, and otherwise live like people on all continents. The 21st century has pretty much done away with such cultures.
I do not say or ever have, that people who listen to HM or play it are bad or evil. Many just see Metal bands as Halloween 365 days a year. Death, hell, darkness, skulls, blood and guts, gore, unbridled lust, and all the rest of the imagery many bands and the genre promotes, which are paraded all year long. After shows they go home to their wife and children and play with their kids on the floor. It's a land of make believe to them. For others, though, it is an essence of life. It is not Halloween. It is the way life should be lived: for self. "Whatsoever thou wilt, do."
God does not judge musicians anymore than He judges baseball players. He judges people, individuals and groups of individuals and what they say and do based on whatever light has shined upon their minds, weighed against the Light, the Way, the Truth and the Life found in Christ. He is the Standard by which all are placed with. That's Christianity. It is not about professed Christians. It is about Jesus Christ. It's His religion, not man's.
There are plenty of non-religious people who see the imagery of Heavy Metal as something they could not be into and do not want their children into. Why is that? Because civilizations have developed century by century and we do not feed people to lions, we do not watch gladiators kill each other, we do not crucify criminals, we do not burn them at the stake, we do not throw dead bodies of criminals into dumps, and we do not make slaves of people in civilized nations.
Now, ask yourself, did the 20th century see bodies bulldozed into pits? Does modern society see people beheaded because they do not believe the same as the butchering beheaders? Does modern society promote and/or condone sex with children? Why did that Netflix program with all the sexualization of young girls cause so much outrage? Ten years from now, will it still? Are people made slaves today to anything or anyone? How about alcohol, drugs and sex, pimps, dealers and rulers? We haven't reached civilization yet. We never will be till God intervenes and folds up shop. If anything, mankind is getting more uncivilized. You can't have rational discussion anymore. If you believe in God, you're an idiot or worse. If you don't, you're the devil. And the two sides have the same elements in them.
If you think Heavy Metal or any other form of music that promotes ungodliness is not part of the preceding paragraph you are flat out wrong, from God's point of view. Everybody knows there is make-believe, fantasy, story telling, grand hyperbole, and technology has made it all the more available and hyped beyond anything people could have imagined a hundred years ago. Some people believe hero culture is evil because it causes people to look at people. Well, heroic deeds are inspiring, though, right? It shows us what can be done when self is put aside. Just the same, making heroes out of people can place a lot of pressure on them, and they are all sinners just like everybody else. Not a few "heroes" made shipwreck of life because of the pressures and allurements.
We are all sinners in need of a Saviour. That is what I believe. We are all bad, compared to God's standard of character, righteousness and goodness before Him and each other: the Ten Commandments; the deep spirituality of the Decalogue, not just the written letter. We all come short of that standard of rightness. Are people who out and out oppose the Ten Commandments evil? Well, what else would you call it? Misguided? Maybe but, that depends on the intents of the heart. Only God knows that. Some would call rejecting the Ten Commandments common sense. Are atheists evil? Was I evil when I was an atheist from the ages of 13-24? Was I a danger to society because I did not believe in God? I was a danger to myself more than anything else. I hurt people, though. My parents, people I knew, girls I dated, and I still hurt people. And I got and get hurt by others, as well. "Well, nobody's perfect." That's the general excuse/reason people give. Centuries ago many within professed Christianity would have seen it better for society for me to burn at the stake than discuss the notion God does not exist. Better to use force than discussion and exchange of ideas. You see any parallels with today, right now, across America?
I'll finish with this. If you do not love everyone, you certainly are not good. Christ, the Creator, died for everyone, therefore, everyone is deserving of love and respect, from our point of existence, because we are all in the same boat. Nobody deserves anything but, death, from God's point of view as Judge of all, because all have sinned, all have broken the law, and no one can pay a price of redemption for themselves, anymore than a murderer can bring back the life they took. God does not have a prison on Earth where law breakers are placed because we are all law breakers. We are totally stuck. But, God is Love, and God's love brings forth grace, and grace forgives, and grace forgets and presses on to make us better than we are.
I still have misgivings about playing at the KIT festival in Germany next April, if it happens, all things considered. The only reason I decided to go is to play with some fine musicians, Fred and Martin, then Jesper, and to hopefully plant some seeds in anyone I meet in that adventure, and learn some things as well. It will be a true classroom experience in many ways. A field trip, if you will. I also think Germany is a beautiful country and would love to see it. But, I could not endorse much of what will be the message and imagery from bands there, even if it's all Halloween to them. There are fine lines involved. I make no judgments of people. That is in God's hands. If someone gets uncivil, and executes an act of incivility upon their "innocent" neighbor (and you know why I placed innocent in quotes), then that act is a bad thing, brought about by the influence of evil in this world and that influence is in all of us.
So, no, I will not be cornered into anything the likes of which states people into HM are bad. As opposed to what? People into Country and Classical being good? Yeah, no. Doesn't work like that.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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152. The Age of Technology, Music and Life - November 17, 2020
In light of the preceding blog, I add this.
Everybody has seen stories of how technology has influenced this American election, if not outright controlled it. Everybody has seen stories of how jobs have been lost and lives ruined because of something put online. Someone sees it, copy, paste ... everybody sees it. Everybody has seen stories of digital information, which is all pictures are, on private devices, hacked, and put out there before the world. Everybody has seen stories of copyright violations and publishing right violations.
As I type and intend to post this, it can all be copied and pasted and posted anywhere on the web. Even if you do gain rights for things composed or written, once a file is out there, it enters no-man's land. YouTube is saturated with copyright violations. Our lives have become icons, files, and disks, cards, drives, speed and memory.
Every menu seems to have a "sharing" option. Things go "viral," much faster than anything Covid has done or will do. If you share, you have to expect it will move faster than any church gossip avalanche known to man. Most young people want that to happen. "Likes" gives them some kind of worth, until it's something about them they thought they could trust in someone else's device. The same goes for far too many adults.
Technology terms change constantly, incessantly, non-stop. When you think you have come to understand, at least basics of technology, all the terms change, with countless abbreviations for them and new tech developed. Each new generation is pulled in, held in, exploited, and in the worst hands, used, abused, and thrown away like trash.
The issue of trust is the biggest issue facing mankind. What, whom do you trust? Every email you send is a potential hammer to your head. Every share is a possible noose around your neck. Just depends on what happens to all the 1's and 0's when they leave your computer and travel somewhere else in the internet universe.
People are spying on your 1's and 0's, including government agencies, breaking the law but, laws have been altered since 2001 to change privacy. It's all gone now, if you spend time online. People try to steal your 1's and 0's. We use a file full of passwords to try and protect them. Hackers are both angels and devils in our new world.
Technology now influences, if not controls the lives of the majority of people on the planet. That's mindboggling, even if it has developed over time. Just like cell phones, our world of communication keeps getting smaller and smaller, thinner and thinner.
Being a newb at recording, and attempting to use modern technology has been, at the very least, frustrating, and at most, reason to ask God to go on vacation for a minute while I scream bloody murder.
You can look at page after page of manuals, forum discussions, YT videos and at the end of the day the answer is, 'Get a Mac.' People in music and the arts just seem to start with or end up with Apple computers after months, and years addressing headaches with the Microsoft empire.
Some will say PC's and music work together fine. I do not believe them. Maybe it works okay for them. At this point, if someone dropped a Mac in my lap I doubt it would help me to use a DAW. For those uninitiated that's a Digital Audio Workstation. Add to that dozens and dozens of other such shortened versions of tech terminology and you enter a world that makes the Wonderland and Fantasia seem like a neighborhood playground.
So, where is technology leading the world of music and the arts? I've already stated on this blog I believe the time will come when humans will be replaced by A.I. when it comes to music, and many of the other aspects of creation we now see around us. As hacking and thievery becomes more pernicious on the world wide web, humans making music with technology, selling it with technology, and performing it with technology, will ultimately remove all hard copies of anything. No more CDs, nor vinyl, nor anything solid, save for the device the files are downloaded to. Everything will be on hard drives. How shall it be protected? Will protection even be an issue? Will technology control lives over governments and Constitutions? Authors and Hollywood have addressed that possibility in countless books, movies, and television now. All money, all information, all life in populated areas, controlled by computers and those who program them. The only lives that will matter will be those who are able to benefit the hive of technology.
Gary and I have to copyright our music and lyrics and obtain this and that to attempt to protect ourselves. If I did not trust certain people, files I have already sent him of rough mixes would be in the hands of anyone people chose to forward them to. I sent a new song to someone last night. I trust them. Otherwise that song, with no protection, could be sent, en masse, to the world.
Honestly, technology is cool and everybody knows it. I don't it like. It's way beyond frightening. It is mind-numbingly dangerous now. None of us knows what the next five years, ten years, fifteen or twenty years will bring. I'd be 85. Would anyone be surprised to learn diseases could be eradicated by that time? That nano-technology will be used to fix everything physically broken? Sounds good? That your life will be a number, far more than it is today? That your entire existence will be controlled by computers? I mean controlled, not enhanced. Still sound good?
In the last blog I wrote about evil. Evil is growing, even as it puts on a beneficent mask. Nobody with power cares about you. All they care about is more power and more money which gives them more tech and more power.
It's better to be good than evil, if God is your first concern. And "good" like I stated, is by God's definition, not ours. We aren't very good at being good. We are actually terrible at it. Hence the need for an outside goodness to take control of our own internal 1's and 0's.
As this scenario builds in my mind, just in the week of trying to record drum tracks on a little device I can hold in my hand, I come face to face with my age, my lack of skills, my blatantly acute uselessness in the grand scheme of things, and ultimately, the statement of King Solomon, two and half millennia ago rings more true than ever before:
"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear [respect, reverence] God and keep His commandments; for this is the whole man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden; whether it is good, or whether it is evil."
Technology cannot stop that judicial proceeding and its ultimate results.
Everybody has seen stories of how technology has influenced this American election, if not outright controlled it. Everybody has seen stories of how jobs have been lost and lives ruined because of something put online. Someone sees it, copy, paste ... everybody sees it. Everybody has seen stories of digital information, which is all pictures are, on private devices, hacked, and put out there before the world. Everybody has seen stories of copyright violations and publishing right violations.
As I type and intend to post this, it can all be copied and pasted and posted anywhere on the web. Even if you do gain rights for things composed or written, once a file is out there, it enters no-man's land. YouTube is saturated with copyright violations. Our lives have become icons, files, and disks, cards, drives, speed and memory.
Every menu seems to have a "sharing" option. Things go "viral," much faster than anything Covid has done or will do. If you share, you have to expect it will move faster than any church gossip avalanche known to man. Most young people want that to happen. "Likes" gives them some kind of worth, until it's something about them they thought they could trust in someone else's device. The same goes for far too many adults.
Technology terms change constantly, incessantly, non-stop. When you think you have come to understand, at least basics of technology, all the terms change, with countless abbreviations for them and new tech developed. Each new generation is pulled in, held in, exploited, and in the worst hands, used, abused, and thrown away like trash.
The issue of trust is the biggest issue facing mankind. What, whom do you trust? Every email you send is a potential hammer to your head. Every share is a possible noose around your neck. Just depends on what happens to all the 1's and 0's when they leave your computer and travel somewhere else in the internet universe.
People are spying on your 1's and 0's, including government agencies, breaking the law but, laws have been altered since 2001 to change privacy. It's all gone now, if you spend time online. People try to steal your 1's and 0's. We use a file full of passwords to try and protect them. Hackers are both angels and devils in our new world.
Technology now influences, if not controls the lives of the majority of people on the planet. That's mindboggling, even if it has developed over time. Just like cell phones, our world of communication keeps getting smaller and smaller, thinner and thinner.
Being a newb at recording, and attempting to use modern technology has been, at the very least, frustrating, and at most, reason to ask God to go on vacation for a minute while I scream bloody murder.
You can look at page after page of manuals, forum discussions, YT videos and at the end of the day the answer is, 'Get a Mac.' People in music and the arts just seem to start with or end up with Apple computers after months, and years addressing headaches with the Microsoft empire.
Some will say PC's and music work together fine. I do not believe them. Maybe it works okay for them. At this point, if someone dropped a Mac in my lap I doubt it would help me to use a DAW. For those uninitiated that's a Digital Audio Workstation. Add to that dozens and dozens of other such shortened versions of tech terminology and you enter a world that makes the Wonderland and Fantasia seem like a neighborhood playground.
So, where is technology leading the world of music and the arts? I've already stated on this blog I believe the time will come when humans will be replaced by A.I. when it comes to music, and many of the other aspects of creation we now see around us. As hacking and thievery becomes more pernicious on the world wide web, humans making music with technology, selling it with technology, and performing it with technology, will ultimately remove all hard copies of anything. No more CDs, nor vinyl, nor anything solid, save for the device the files are downloaded to. Everything will be on hard drives. How shall it be protected? Will protection even be an issue? Will technology control lives over governments and Constitutions? Authors and Hollywood have addressed that possibility in countless books, movies, and television now. All money, all information, all life in populated areas, controlled by computers and those who program them. The only lives that will matter will be those who are able to benefit the hive of technology.
Gary and I have to copyright our music and lyrics and obtain this and that to attempt to protect ourselves. If I did not trust certain people, files I have already sent him of rough mixes would be in the hands of anyone people chose to forward them to. I sent a new song to someone last night. I trust them. Otherwise that song, with no protection, could be sent, en masse, to the world.
Honestly, technology is cool and everybody knows it. I don't it like. It's way beyond frightening. It is mind-numbingly dangerous now. None of us knows what the next five years, ten years, fifteen or twenty years will bring. I'd be 85. Would anyone be surprised to learn diseases could be eradicated by that time? That nano-technology will be used to fix everything physically broken? Sounds good? That your life will be a number, far more than it is today? That your entire existence will be controlled by computers? I mean controlled, not enhanced. Still sound good?
In the last blog I wrote about evil. Evil is growing, even as it puts on a beneficent mask. Nobody with power cares about you. All they care about is more power and more money which gives them more tech and more power.
It's better to be good than evil, if God is your first concern. And "good" like I stated, is by God's definition, not ours. We aren't very good at being good. We are actually terrible at it. Hence the need for an outside goodness to take control of our own internal 1's and 0's.
As this scenario builds in my mind, just in the week of trying to record drum tracks on a little device I can hold in my hand, I come face to face with my age, my lack of skills, my blatantly acute uselessness in the grand scheme of things, and ultimately, the statement of King Solomon, two and half millennia ago rings more true than ever before:
"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear [respect, reverence] God and keep His commandments; for this is the whole man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden; whether it is good, or whether it is evil."
Technology cannot stop that judicial proceeding and its ultimate results.
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153. The American Legacy: Deceit, Cheating and Fraud - Nov. 18, 2020
Well, seeing as how the drum tracks are all recorded (still waiting to learn if they all work for each song), I decided to check the news. I only went to one site - The Gateway Pundit. Apparently nothing has changed. More voter fraud discovered and more law suits. Corrupt judges not allowing suits to take place. Other judges allowing them. The Pentagon apparently wants to brief Biden, who is not only mentally disabled to some obvious degree but, is not yet President elect. The media is continuing to crown Biden, pushing this as hard as possible to get Americans used to it before the Supreme Court overturns the debacle. That's where it's all heading. If the wall of integrity fails there, that's it. America is no longer America.
Back in 2000, when the whole "chad" fiasco took place, Al Gore demanded a lot, and got the time necessary to recount Florida votes, and ultimately SCOTUS decided Bush won the election. Of course, while the media screamed back then for "fairness," now, we are just supposed to accept what has happened even in the face of THE biggest election scandal in American history.
Attorney Sidney Powell: I told you she would emerge as a rock star in this event, believes when the dust settles it will be shown Trump received 80 million votes. Attorney Lin Wood, as a guest on the Mark Levin program, stated Trump probably won the election with a 70% landslide and over 400 electoral votes.
Even if both have exaggerated the predicted figures, a much larger and more ominous subject stares us in the face: honesty and integrity.
Logic tells me if the rule of law is followed, Trump is reelected. If the rule of law is not followed, we have told planet Earth: deceit, cheating and fraud are fine, as long as you beat your political opponent, which, in policy, filters down to every sector of society.
Cheating is not new. Isaac's wife, Rebekah, got their son, Jacob, to cheat his brother out of the inheritance. Children make cheating an art form in schools. People see it the same way when it comes to taxes. Cheating on your spouse has become common place. This is the legacy we are giving the world. The American legacy of deceit, cheating, fraud, deception ... "the end justifies the means."
Are people in the Democrat Party, as well as the GOP, so stupid as to not see that this appalling action will place a concrete lid on the tomb of honesty and integrity for everybody without a moral compass in America? The youth were taught back in the Clinton years that cheating is okay, sexual harassment and even alleged rape is okay, as long as you can beat the rap.
This is why I hate politics because the corruption politicians vomit back into society is disgusting. We have come to just know politicians will lie so, as long as my money stays in my wallet, let them lie. Doesn't matter. They're politicians. Decades of that throwing up the hands by the American population has steadily led to this place where the nation stands right now. Decades of deceit, cheating, fraud, and every other dark and reprehensible act is front and center in the nation's capital, as well as state capitals, and in local politics, as well. America has lost its soul. America has become a vacant, hollow, rotted out log with little more than creepy insects in it.
If this colossal fraud is allowed to stand, America's place in the world fries right here. The city shining on the hill goes dark, and the world loses the last vestige of possible liberty for citizens. That is the reality. I could easily state the condition of our world is prophetic, predicted long ago, during times when the same corruptions overtook empires. The American empire is no different. It's time looks to have come. It will fade quickly, as other nations overtake it in every facet of life. It may end up invaded, and overcome, not by bombs and armies but, by the greatest deceit in world history, totalitarian communism. That is what Democrats want; godless totalitarianism, and they hope to be in the upper classes controlling the peons below them; the cattle fodder.
Never in my life have a seen such stupidity on parade. I saw a picture of Senator Lindsey Graham giving Kamala Harris a fist bump on the Senate floor. A picture of Governor Gavin Newsome having a maskless birthday dinner at a restaurant, while demanding Californians forgo Thanksgiving. Someone in the Michigan state house has filed charges of impeachment against Governor Whitmer, long overdo. Sen. Blumenthal, of NY, is urging Zuckerberg and Facebook to remove the pages of Gateway Pundit, Breitbart News, and others speaking out against what is happening. The first amendment means nothing to these traitors. All that matters is gaining control at any cost.
When these absolute frauds are dead and gone, a generation of youth, taught that deceit, cheating, and fraud are permissible, will be in charge, will continue the carnage their elders began, and the United Sates of America will become just another third world, far worse than the current San Francisco, nightmare. It will become worse than anything any nation in South America is suffering, worse than Cuba, worse than any other nation out there run by tyrants because when much is given, much is required.
God decides what nations arise and what nations fall. God blessed this nation more than any in world history. We are watching it crumble into moral decay. Even if Trump remains in office, the people perpetuating this preposterous excuse for a free and honest election, will just keep going until they gain control. They are mad, insane, drowning in lust for power, and will not relent until they are removed from society and put away but, the die is cast. No one will be charged and brought to justice. Justice means nothing now. Dishonesty is not only for criminals. Dishonesty is for the common man, for anyone that wants to get ahead. It's the American way. If you want to win, cheat.
There is not one, single sector of society that will not be negatively effected by this massive regurgitation of dishonesty and corruption. Business and commerce, education, sports, medicine; there is nothing that will not be effected by this, save for those societies among us, generally churches with doctrines stating the absolute necessity of honesty and integrity before God. But, even there, the culture has weakened the resolve of most all churches and most all believers. The tide is so strong and relentless. The current, ruthless in its flow and gaining strength.
We should not wonder why Christ said, when I return, will I find faith on the earth?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Back in 2000, when the whole "chad" fiasco took place, Al Gore demanded a lot, and got the time necessary to recount Florida votes, and ultimately SCOTUS decided Bush won the election. Of course, while the media screamed back then for "fairness," now, we are just supposed to accept what has happened even in the face of THE biggest election scandal in American history.
Attorney Sidney Powell: I told you she would emerge as a rock star in this event, believes when the dust settles it will be shown Trump received 80 million votes. Attorney Lin Wood, as a guest on the Mark Levin program, stated Trump probably won the election with a 70% landslide and over 400 electoral votes.
Even if both have exaggerated the predicted figures, a much larger and more ominous subject stares us in the face: honesty and integrity.
Logic tells me if the rule of law is followed, Trump is reelected. If the rule of law is not followed, we have told planet Earth: deceit, cheating and fraud are fine, as long as you beat your political opponent, which, in policy, filters down to every sector of society.
Cheating is not new. Isaac's wife, Rebekah, got their son, Jacob, to cheat his brother out of the inheritance. Children make cheating an art form in schools. People see it the same way when it comes to taxes. Cheating on your spouse has become common place. This is the legacy we are giving the world. The American legacy of deceit, cheating, fraud, deception ... "the end justifies the means."
Are people in the Democrat Party, as well as the GOP, so stupid as to not see that this appalling action will place a concrete lid on the tomb of honesty and integrity for everybody without a moral compass in America? The youth were taught back in the Clinton years that cheating is okay, sexual harassment and even alleged rape is okay, as long as you can beat the rap.
This is why I hate politics because the corruption politicians vomit back into society is disgusting. We have come to just know politicians will lie so, as long as my money stays in my wallet, let them lie. Doesn't matter. They're politicians. Decades of that throwing up the hands by the American population has steadily led to this place where the nation stands right now. Decades of deceit, cheating, fraud, and every other dark and reprehensible act is front and center in the nation's capital, as well as state capitals, and in local politics, as well. America has lost its soul. America has become a vacant, hollow, rotted out log with little more than creepy insects in it.
If this colossal fraud is allowed to stand, America's place in the world fries right here. The city shining on the hill goes dark, and the world loses the last vestige of possible liberty for citizens. That is the reality. I could easily state the condition of our world is prophetic, predicted long ago, during times when the same corruptions overtook empires. The American empire is no different. It's time looks to have come. It will fade quickly, as other nations overtake it in every facet of life. It may end up invaded, and overcome, not by bombs and armies but, by the greatest deceit in world history, totalitarian communism. That is what Democrats want; godless totalitarianism, and they hope to be in the upper classes controlling the peons below them; the cattle fodder.
Never in my life have a seen such stupidity on parade. I saw a picture of Senator Lindsey Graham giving Kamala Harris a fist bump on the Senate floor. A picture of Governor Gavin Newsome having a maskless birthday dinner at a restaurant, while demanding Californians forgo Thanksgiving. Someone in the Michigan state house has filed charges of impeachment against Governor Whitmer, long overdo. Sen. Blumenthal, of NY, is urging Zuckerberg and Facebook to remove the pages of Gateway Pundit, Breitbart News, and others speaking out against what is happening. The first amendment means nothing to these traitors. All that matters is gaining control at any cost.
When these absolute frauds are dead and gone, a generation of youth, taught that deceit, cheating, and fraud are permissible, will be in charge, will continue the carnage their elders began, and the United Sates of America will become just another third world, far worse than the current San Francisco, nightmare. It will become worse than anything any nation in South America is suffering, worse than Cuba, worse than any other nation out there run by tyrants because when much is given, much is required.
God decides what nations arise and what nations fall. God blessed this nation more than any in world history. We are watching it crumble into moral decay. Even if Trump remains in office, the people perpetuating this preposterous excuse for a free and honest election, will just keep going until they gain control. They are mad, insane, drowning in lust for power, and will not relent until they are removed from society and put away but, the die is cast. No one will be charged and brought to justice. Justice means nothing now. Dishonesty is not only for criminals. Dishonesty is for the common man, for anyone that wants to get ahead. It's the American way. If you want to win, cheat.
There is not one, single sector of society that will not be negatively effected by this massive regurgitation of dishonesty and corruption. Business and commerce, education, sports, medicine; there is nothing that will not be effected by this, save for those societies among us, generally churches with doctrines stating the absolute necessity of honesty and integrity before God. But, even there, the culture has weakened the resolve of most all churches and most all believers. The tide is so strong and relentless. The current, ruthless in its flow and gaining strength.
We should not wonder why Christ said, when I return, will I find faith on the earth?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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154. The Greatest Technology Threat of All - November 21, 2020
I continue to stay away from the news while working on this recording project. My part, as far as recording the drums, is almost over.
I have been curious about what is happening with the election, though I know it is heading to the courts no matter what the media claims, or Democrats claim, or world leaders claim, or anyone else, individually or collectively claim.
The Democrats and the media incessantly pushed this mantra, Trump would not leave office, because they knew this voting scam they planned could be uncovered and they had to get away out ahead of that possibility and create even more hatred towards Trump. Well, the scam, the fraud, the criminal activity, the absolute treason grows by the day, if not the hour, apparently. This is going to the Supreme Court. You can be guaranteed Trump is not leaving office and a million people will surround the white house to make sure nobody goes in to remove him until SCOTUS sees and hears ALL the evidence of this crime; the biggest in American history.
I saw somewhere that Sidney Powell, one of Trump's lawyers (and I told you she would become a Rock star) stated on a cable news program, "We are going to release the Kraken." Many do not know what that mythical beast refers to. It's BIG. So big, the kind of evidence necessary to release such a legal beast upon the guilty, it will melt and squeeze their souls out their shoes.
Technology played a huge role in this event; all of it, from information, to the censorship of information, to the actual voting process, itself. A corrupted voting process through designed to corrupt numbers technology.
I'm not into technology. I just wrote about that over on the Recording Blog. I couldn't care less what cell phones can do. I could not care less about "Apps." The more stuff I download, the more frustration I seem to add to my life. But, ask the youth, the children, even. Technology is everything.
Technology is in evil hands. Don't even think to call me on that claim. This election year unmasks it all - the social media tech masters, crushing anything the stands behind first amendment rights of free speech; the msm tech masters, fear mongering their way through a "plandemic;" the pharmaceutical tech masters and their coming vaccine for said "death trap virus;" the banking tech masters, continually plunging the value of currency into the swamp of globalistic, tyrannical lock downs; the war monger tech masters, the military industrial complex, now taking their war mongering into space ... the last four years have shown them all to be exactly what they are but, the most wicked act of tech tyranny is yet to be unleashed.
If you are a professed Christian, with any surface knowledge of the Bible, and even if you are an atheist, you have probably been exposed to this passage:
Rev 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." Emphasis supplied.
Now, that passage was written towards the end of the first century and is almost 2000 years old. Ask yourself; how on earth could the buying and selling of all people on the planet be controlled? All people, all nations. How?
Of course. Technology. Now, I do not believe the mark of the beast is a bar code, a tattoo, or any other physical mark placed upon the body. No. The seal of the living God is presented as the opposite of the mark. Find out what the seal is, and the mark becomes obvious. It isn't a computer chip shot into the skin.
That said, the only thing that can and will control the ability to buy and sell is technology. I always said, I would always use cash. I didn't like cards. Well, that's pretty much what I began using, and use most often today; a debit card, a number on a plastic card with a chip in it now. Swipe, type, and go.
The time is swiftly coming, it's upon us, that the outcome of this election could determine the entrance of an Orwellian society and control factors that push the world into another dark ages. Totalitarian globalist elites are close now. Unless the citizens of the world rise up by the hundreds of millions, even billions, and cry out the warning, a long night of technological chains are upon the average citizen that wants to live in freedom, liberty, and peace. The tech monsters cannot allow that. The control freaks cannot stand such freedom. The Devil, himself, stands behind them to bring the world to the edge of disaster.
It seems the end of time engages two simple factors. Faith in technology and the tech masters, or forced acquiescence and submission to their 1's and 0's, or faith in God and His ultimate and final authority in all things, found in an old book, written with quills and ink on parchment scrolls, and with His own finger in stone.
All those who stand for God and His authority will find themselves in a position to lose the ability to buy and sell. As ostracized and vilified as they shall be, nobody will trade with them, either. They shall become the epitome of "strangers and pilgrims" on the Earth, with a final death decree placed on them because the world will enter a time of trouble such as never was or ever shall be, and like the wicked always do, rather than blame themselves, they will blame the innocent. Root out the trouble makers and the trouble will go away, when the wicked are always the cause of trouble.
Thankfully, while martyrdom shall exist, and even now does, all around the globe, Christ shall return before such an act of global, heinous blood lust is carried out. Hailstones weighting 150 pounds shall precede His return, crushing the great man-made towers of despotism and pride; with billions of angels lighting up the sky brighter than a hundred suns. Trumpets carrying the sound of glory shall shake the foundations of the planet. Fear beyond nightmare will inhabit the souls of those who rejected pleas of mercy, while a peace and sense of tremendous victory will fill the hearts of those who have waited in faith for the great rescue of the ages.
Pretty cool story, huh? Fable? Foolishness? Nonsense?
We'll see.
I have been curious about what is happening with the election, though I know it is heading to the courts no matter what the media claims, or Democrats claim, or world leaders claim, or anyone else, individually or collectively claim.
The Democrats and the media incessantly pushed this mantra, Trump would not leave office, because they knew this voting scam they planned could be uncovered and they had to get away out ahead of that possibility and create even more hatred towards Trump. Well, the scam, the fraud, the criminal activity, the absolute treason grows by the day, if not the hour, apparently. This is going to the Supreme Court. You can be guaranteed Trump is not leaving office and a million people will surround the white house to make sure nobody goes in to remove him until SCOTUS sees and hears ALL the evidence of this crime; the biggest in American history.
I saw somewhere that Sidney Powell, one of Trump's lawyers (and I told you she would become a Rock star) stated on a cable news program, "We are going to release the Kraken." Many do not know what that mythical beast refers to. It's BIG. So big, the kind of evidence necessary to release such a legal beast upon the guilty, it will melt and squeeze their souls out their shoes.
Technology played a huge role in this event; all of it, from information, to the censorship of information, to the actual voting process, itself. A corrupted voting process through designed to corrupt numbers technology.
I'm not into technology. I just wrote about that over on the Recording Blog. I couldn't care less what cell phones can do. I could not care less about "Apps." The more stuff I download, the more frustration I seem to add to my life. But, ask the youth, the children, even. Technology is everything.
Technology is in evil hands. Don't even think to call me on that claim. This election year unmasks it all - the social media tech masters, crushing anything the stands behind first amendment rights of free speech; the msm tech masters, fear mongering their way through a "plandemic;" the pharmaceutical tech masters and their coming vaccine for said "death trap virus;" the banking tech masters, continually plunging the value of currency into the swamp of globalistic, tyrannical lock downs; the war monger tech masters, the military industrial complex, now taking their war mongering into space ... the last four years have shown them all to be exactly what they are but, the most wicked act of tech tyranny is yet to be unleashed.
If you are a professed Christian, with any surface knowledge of the Bible, and even if you are an atheist, you have probably been exposed to this passage:
Rev 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." Emphasis supplied.
Now, that passage was written towards the end of the first century and is almost 2000 years old. Ask yourself; how on earth could the buying and selling of all people on the planet be controlled? All people, all nations. How?
Of course. Technology. Now, I do not believe the mark of the beast is a bar code, a tattoo, or any other physical mark placed upon the body. No. The seal of the living God is presented as the opposite of the mark. Find out what the seal is, and the mark becomes obvious. It isn't a computer chip shot into the skin.
That said, the only thing that can and will control the ability to buy and sell is technology. I always said, I would always use cash. I didn't like cards. Well, that's pretty much what I began using, and use most often today; a debit card, a number on a plastic card with a chip in it now. Swipe, type, and go.
The time is swiftly coming, it's upon us, that the outcome of this election could determine the entrance of an Orwellian society and control factors that push the world into another dark ages. Totalitarian globalist elites are close now. Unless the citizens of the world rise up by the hundreds of millions, even billions, and cry out the warning, a long night of technological chains are upon the average citizen that wants to live in freedom, liberty, and peace. The tech monsters cannot allow that. The control freaks cannot stand such freedom. The Devil, himself, stands behind them to bring the world to the edge of disaster.
It seems the end of time engages two simple factors. Faith in technology and the tech masters, or forced acquiescence and submission to their 1's and 0's, or faith in God and His ultimate and final authority in all things, found in an old book, written with quills and ink on parchment scrolls, and with His own finger in stone.
All those who stand for God and His authority will find themselves in a position to lose the ability to buy and sell. As ostracized and vilified as they shall be, nobody will trade with them, either. They shall become the epitome of "strangers and pilgrims" on the Earth, with a final death decree placed on them because the world will enter a time of trouble such as never was or ever shall be, and like the wicked always do, rather than blame themselves, they will blame the innocent. Root out the trouble makers and the trouble will go away, when the wicked are always the cause of trouble.
Thankfully, while martyrdom shall exist, and even now does, all around the globe, Christ shall return before such an act of global, heinous blood lust is carried out. Hailstones weighting 150 pounds shall precede His return, crushing the great man-made towers of despotism and pride; with billions of angels lighting up the sky brighter than a hundred suns. Trumpets carrying the sound of glory shall shake the foundations of the planet. Fear beyond nightmare will inhabit the souls of those who rejected pleas of mercy, while a peace and sense of tremendous victory will fill the hearts of those who have waited in faith for the great rescue of the ages.
Pretty cool story, huh? Fable? Foolishness? Nonsense?
We'll see.
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155. Sidney Powell - November 23, 2020
Because the future of America is at stake, literally; even though I'm still deep into this recording project, I'm peeking at the news. Let's face facts. If Trump wins, which he has, as far as facts betraying the Democrats and company, he'll just keep on rolling, breaking more records in several areas of American life. If Biden ends up in the WH by fraud, America is lost, on the face of it, let alone what he'll make of it, or rather, destroy what's left of this Republic.
The number of fraud cases, people coming forward, investigation by all levels of society, from professionals to amateurs uncovering things and creating a literal mountain of evidence, is impressive by any standard. Even 30% of Democrats polled believe Trump won the election and/or had it stolen from him. That is such a colossal number it staggers one to ponder the "Grand Theft White House" facing us.
I mentioned Sidney Powell a few times lately. I knew she would rise fast and end up becoming a Rock star to people who care about the credibility and integrity of the election. Her 'release of the Kraken' comment was and remains epic. She knows what she has and what she's doing.
My wife came up to me some nights ago and said, "I have a new hero."
"Oh, really," I said. "Who was the old one?"
"I didn't have one," she replied "but, I have one now."
"Okay, and who is that?"
"Sidney Powell."
She listened to a 20 minute interview Powell did. She was very impressed. She should be. Powell is taking no prisoners. She obviously means business. And that obviously means the attacks have begun. Twitter cancelled her account for 12 hours or something, and will continue to do so, I'm sure. The more interviews she does, the more yt channels will be censored, and the more she will create jealousy for those who think they should be in the limelight. The Trump team appears to have placed a distance between themselves and her, which has been interpreted by many GOP news outlets as a renunciation of her place in this process; though General Flynn's son has tried to assure people the distance is strategic, and an act of freedom for her to keep on pushing what she is getting into. He knows her well. She's been his father's attorney throughout his politically motivated nightmare. Never Trumpers are spinning things to make it seem she is spouting "conspiracy theories." Good luck with that one. Man, that has gotten so old. Seriously? Even street investigators are finding info about Dominion and Smartmatics, doing regular online searches. What do think Powell and her team are doing and finding and putting together for evidence?
All she needs is a "preponderance of evidence" to file lawsuits against any and all she believes are involved in this, the greatest scandal in American election history. She has no obligation whatsoever to satisfy the msm with answers to their questions for evidence. In this case, the public does not have a right to know, until it all goes to court. The Press thinks so highly of itself that they can declare and coronate a king before the actual electors go into DC and cast their votes, which, btw, could decide this for Trump before any of it goes to court. If the electors believe Biden was given the election through fraud, they can vote for Trump as winner. The election is not decided by majority vote. We do NOT HAVE a DEMOCRACY that decides elections for POTUS, despite the incessant pounding of that anvil by Leftists. Our system of government is a representative Constitutional Republic. Representatives are part of the aspects of a democracy we employ within the Constitutional Republic form of government the Founders chose.
If Trump did, indeed, get upwards of 80 million votes or more, and he already smashed the record for an incumbent president, and 30% of Democrats believe the election was stolen from Trump, while the electors four years ago who threatened to not vote for Trump then but did, may show a very different motivation and result this time around. The majority of electors decide this, not the Press, not Congress, nor the Senate, nor George Soros and his cabal of elitist totalitarians in America and elsewhere. If Trump did win by a 70% landslide, as attorney for Trump Lin Wood estimates, and the vote fraud is half of what has been uncovered, Trump shall remain POTUS. The Democrats can cry and howl all they want. They can continue to foster criminal activity and riots and looting and mayhem in cities across America all they want. Such a mandate for Trump will offer him a mandate to shut it all down in days, and I believe he will do that. Enough is enough. Americans who have to pay bills and feed their families are sick and tired of being treated like children by Democrat tyrants.
Back to Sidney Powell. She is a patriot, and even more power to her for not being retained by Trump as an attorney for him in any capacity and still forging ahead with her investigations and law suits. Between her efforts and Trump's team, picture various ways Trump remains in the White House another four years.
May God bless Sidney Powell mightily, and protect her well, is my prayer.
The number of fraud cases, people coming forward, investigation by all levels of society, from professionals to amateurs uncovering things and creating a literal mountain of evidence, is impressive by any standard. Even 30% of Democrats polled believe Trump won the election and/or had it stolen from him. That is such a colossal number it staggers one to ponder the "Grand Theft White House" facing us.
I mentioned Sidney Powell a few times lately. I knew she would rise fast and end up becoming a Rock star to people who care about the credibility and integrity of the election. Her 'release of the Kraken' comment was and remains epic. She knows what she has and what she's doing.
My wife came up to me some nights ago and said, "I have a new hero."
"Oh, really," I said. "Who was the old one?"
"I didn't have one," she replied "but, I have one now."
"Okay, and who is that?"
"Sidney Powell."
She listened to a 20 minute interview Powell did. She was very impressed. She should be. Powell is taking no prisoners. She obviously means business. And that obviously means the attacks have begun. Twitter cancelled her account for 12 hours or something, and will continue to do so, I'm sure. The more interviews she does, the more yt channels will be censored, and the more she will create jealousy for those who think they should be in the limelight. The Trump team appears to have placed a distance between themselves and her, which has been interpreted by many GOP news outlets as a renunciation of her place in this process; though General Flynn's son has tried to assure people the distance is strategic, and an act of freedom for her to keep on pushing what she is getting into. He knows her well. She's been his father's attorney throughout his politically motivated nightmare. Never Trumpers are spinning things to make it seem she is spouting "conspiracy theories." Good luck with that one. Man, that has gotten so old. Seriously? Even street investigators are finding info about Dominion and Smartmatics, doing regular online searches. What do think Powell and her team are doing and finding and putting together for evidence?
All she needs is a "preponderance of evidence" to file lawsuits against any and all she believes are involved in this, the greatest scandal in American election history. She has no obligation whatsoever to satisfy the msm with answers to their questions for evidence. In this case, the public does not have a right to know, until it all goes to court. The Press thinks so highly of itself that they can declare and coronate a king before the actual electors go into DC and cast their votes, which, btw, could decide this for Trump before any of it goes to court. If the electors believe Biden was given the election through fraud, they can vote for Trump as winner. The election is not decided by majority vote. We do NOT HAVE a DEMOCRACY that decides elections for POTUS, despite the incessant pounding of that anvil by Leftists. Our system of government is a representative Constitutional Republic. Representatives are part of the aspects of a democracy we employ within the Constitutional Republic form of government the Founders chose.
If Trump did, indeed, get upwards of 80 million votes or more, and he already smashed the record for an incumbent president, and 30% of Democrats believe the election was stolen from Trump, while the electors four years ago who threatened to not vote for Trump then but did, may show a very different motivation and result this time around. The majority of electors decide this, not the Press, not Congress, nor the Senate, nor George Soros and his cabal of elitist totalitarians in America and elsewhere. If Trump did win by a 70% landslide, as attorney for Trump Lin Wood estimates, and the vote fraud is half of what has been uncovered, Trump shall remain POTUS. The Democrats can cry and howl all they want. They can continue to foster criminal activity and riots and looting and mayhem in cities across America all they want. Such a mandate for Trump will offer him a mandate to shut it all down in days, and I believe he will do that. Enough is enough. Americans who have to pay bills and feed their families are sick and tired of being treated like children by Democrat tyrants.
Back to Sidney Powell. She is a patriot, and even more power to her for not being retained by Trump as an attorney for him in any capacity and still forging ahead with her investigations and law suits. Between her efforts and Trump's team, picture various ways Trump remains in the White House another four years.
May God bless Sidney Powell mightily, and protect her well, is my prayer.
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156. Something to Be Thankful For - November 27, 2020
Well, for those able to actually gather with family and friends today, without fear of being harassed or worse, by agents of hypocritical, tyrannical and demented State "leaders" around the nation, you'll sit at the dinner tables of loved ones and recount things you're thankful for.
To a certain degree, I am thankful for the biggest election fraud debacle in American history because it truly shows the great division and the desperation traitors live in; to attempt to pull off the biggest swindle ever and use people lacking the intelligence and common sense necessary? What were they thinking? If ever something existed in America to show Americans the difference between true patriotism and a false brand, connected to people who should not only be exposed but, removed from freedom and liberty and put away, or better yet, send them all to China or North Korea to live, seeing that's the type of world they want to be part of and control. And I'm thankful for people of character and integrity coming forth, by the hundreds, to testify what they have seen and heard, without regard to the blow-back of idiots crying "Conspiracy Theory! Conspiracy Theory!" Same for those, like Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, facing down a monster unscrupulous government with a "Kraken" of their own to expose it all, despite the current of corruption they're up against.
I am thankful, if sometimes embarrassed, to be living in the greatest nation in the history of the world, even though it's a mess right now. I can travel state to state without showing "papers," or an I.D., and I can basically go about my business in both freedom and liberty, pursue goals, have hundreds and thousands of choices I can make on a daily basis, and have no one to blame but, myself, for success or failure.
I'm thankful for my associations with Tom Cranor and Gary Hendrickson and the music that's been created. Two extremely different approaches to music and the results have been gratifying from a personal viewpoint of often living life with little to look back on and know you contributed something that can move people. Miledge Muzic will continue to put out sessions of multi-genre improv, as time and circumstances allow, and The Hendrickson ~ Frigon Project will hopefully have our album released asap. Working with these two gentlemen has been a great experience, musically and personally.
I am always thankful for the truth and knowledge that God is in control and knows and sees with infinite wisdom how to address the smallest to greatest situations in my life, and all life, and has infinite patience waiting for me to catch up and walk alongside Him, as every loving father does with their children who feel the need to splash around in every mud puddle that comes along.
I don't know what's ahead for America. The "sea and the waves" are roaring. The end of all things approaches, steadily, stealthily, slowly building to an eventual climax that will shock the world. I am so thankful for the truths of God's word to warn, to educate, to help prepare for what is coming.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
To a certain degree, I am thankful for the biggest election fraud debacle in American history because it truly shows the great division and the desperation traitors live in; to attempt to pull off the biggest swindle ever and use people lacking the intelligence and common sense necessary? What were they thinking? If ever something existed in America to show Americans the difference between true patriotism and a false brand, connected to people who should not only be exposed but, removed from freedom and liberty and put away, or better yet, send them all to China or North Korea to live, seeing that's the type of world they want to be part of and control. And I'm thankful for people of character and integrity coming forth, by the hundreds, to testify what they have seen and heard, without regard to the blow-back of idiots crying "Conspiracy Theory! Conspiracy Theory!" Same for those, like Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, facing down a monster unscrupulous government with a "Kraken" of their own to expose it all, despite the current of corruption they're up against.
I am thankful, if sometimes embarrassed, to be living in the greatest nation in the history of the world, even though it's a mess right now. I can travel state to state without showing "papers," or an I.D., and I can basically go about my business in both freedom and liberty, pursue goals, have hundreds and thousands of choices I can make on a daily basis, and have no one to blame but, myself, for success or failure.
I'm thankful for my associations with Tom Cranor and Gary Hendrickson and the music that's been created. Two extremely different approaches to music and the results have been gratifying from a personal viewpoint of often living life with little to look back on and know you contributed something that can move people. Miledge Muzic will continue to put out sessions of multi-genre improv, as time and circumstances allow, and The Hendrickson ~ Frigon Project will hopefully have our album released asap. Working with these two gentlemen has been a great experience, musically and personally.
I am always thankful for the truth and knowledge that God is in control and knows and sees with infinite wisdom how to address the smallest to greatest situations in my life, and all life, and has infinite patience waiting for me to catch up and walk alongside Him, as every loving father does with their children who feel the need to splash around in every mud puddle that comes along.
I don't know what's ahead for America. The "sea and the waves" are roaring. The end of all things approaches, steadily, stealthily, slowly building to an eventual climax that will shock the world. I am so thankful for the truths of God's word to warn, to educate, to help prepare for what is coming.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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157. I Am Definitely Not Thankful For The CDC - November 27, 2020
I happen to believe the Center for Disease Control is a nefarious outfit. I do not care who that may offend. I'm sure, like all organizations, there are fine people working within it. At top layers? No.
The CDC has created more confusion in the last 11 months than seen at the Tower of Babel 4,000 years ago. It's not just the confusion, though. The Draconian suggestions coming out of that organization are as Orwellian as anything any totalitarian regime can institute.
Back on July 26 the CDC released something they call:
Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings
In that document are found these paragraphs (with emphasis supplied):
"The shielding approach aims to reduce the number of severe COVID-19 cases by limiting contact between individuals at higher risk of developing severe disease (“high-risk”) and the general population (“low-risk”). High-risk individuals would be temporarily relocated to safe or “green zones” established at the household, neighborhood, camp/sector or community level depending on the context and setting.1,2 They would have minimal contact with family members and other low-risk residents.
Current evidence indicates that older adults and people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions are at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19.3 In most humanitarian settings, older population groups make up a small percentage of the total population.4,5 For this reason, the shielding approach suggests physically separating high-risk individuals from the general population to prioritize the use of the limited available resources and avoid implementing long-term containment measures among the general population."
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/global-covid-19/shielding-approach-humanitarian.html#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20Shielding%20Approach,%E2%80%9Clow-risk%E2%80%9D
According to my age, I am in a high risk category.
At this point, this entire dog and pony show from the CDC is total BS, and I buy none of it.
Again, if I had one, and only one reason to reject EVERYTHING the CDC and WHO have spouted since this event began, I'd point to Sweden, which did nothing, and just released a national QE increase of 40%!!!
Sweden did nothing but, advise their citizens to take common sense precautions. Sweden is doing fine. The rest of the world, following the WHO and CDC is coming unglued.
For the CDC to state I can be hauled away and placed somewhere "temporarily" for my own good, is blunt-faced, totalitarian despotism: a set-up for what is, obviously, to come for anybody and everybody that will not go along with the ruling of the demigods in modern medicine, and their advocates in national leadership (right over the cliff), in the future, however near or far the planners have determined to take control "implementing long-term containment measures" for dissenters of the Great Reset.
Imagine the boldness and confidence necessary to come right out and state your intentions right on your website and hardly anyone raises an alarm.
If you want to watch just how important the 2nd amendment to the United States Constitution is, start attempting to round up free Americans for their own good. Good luck with that.
I am so sick of seeing healthy people walking around with masks on, outside, in their vehicles, and everywhere else, for that matter, fearful of getting sick and dying. THERE ARE ZERO NUMBERS AVAILABLE IN DOCUMENTATION ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET to back up this paranoia and phobic response. NONE. If masks work WHY ARE THE NUMBERS OF CASES ALWAYS RISING??? Because wearing a mask cannot stop a virus! Do you think you need a medical degree to figure that out?
The WHO lied from the beginning. The CDC has waffled, backtracked, danced around, misinformed, disinformed, and consistently under-performed enough to convince me it is a bad joke on society. It's worse. It's an illness, in and of itself.
Vaccinate the CDC with something that can guard it against and prevent stupidity and agenda-driven elitism, for humanitarian purposes. We'd all be safer and much better off.
The CDC has created more confusion in the last 11 months than seen at the Tower of Babel 4,000 years ago. It's not just the confusion, though. The Draconian suggestions coming out of that organization are as Orwellian as anything any totalitarian regime can institute.
Back on July 26 the CDC released something they call:
Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings
In that document are found these paragraphs (with emphasis supplied):
"The shielding approach aims to reduce the number of severe COVID-19 cases by limiting contact between individuals at higher risk of developing severe disease (“high-risk”) and the general population (“low-risk”). High-risk individuals would be temporarily relocated to safe or “green zones” established at the household, neighborhood, camp/sector or community level depending on the context and setting.1,2 They would have minimal contact with family members and other low-risk residents.
Current evidence indicates that older adults and people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions are at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19.3 In most humanitarian settings, older population groups make up a small percentage of the total population.4,5 For this reason, the shielding approach suggests physically separating high-risk individuals from the general population to prioritize the use of the limited available resources and avoid implementing long-term containment measures among the general population."
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/global-covid-19/shielding-approach-humanitarian.html#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20Shielding%20Approach,%E2%80%9Clow-risk%E2%80%9D
According to my age, I am in a high risk category.
At this point, this entire dog and pony show from the CDC is total BS, and I buy none of it.
Again, if I had one, and only one reason to reject EVERYTHING the CDC and WHO have spouted since this event began, I'd point to Sweden, which did nothing, and just released a national QE increase of 40%!!!
Sweden did nothing but, advise their citizens to take common sense precautions. Sweden is doing fine. The rest of the world, following the WHO and CDC is coming unglued.
For the CDC to state I can be hauled away and placed somewhere "temporarily" for my own good, is blunt-faced, totalitarian despotism: a set-up for what is, obviously, to come for anybody and everybody that will not go along with the ruling of the demigods in modern medicine, and their advocates in national leadership (right over the cliff), in the future, however near or far the planners have determined to take control "implementing long-term containment measures" for dissenters of the Great Reset.
Imagine the boldness and confidence necessary to come right out and state your intentions right on your website and hardly anyone raises an alarm.
If you want to watch just how important the 2nd amendment to the United States Constitution is, start attempting to round up free Americans for their own good. Good luck with that.
I am so sick of seeing healthy people walking around with masks on, outside, in their vehicles, and everywhere else, for that matter, fearful of getting sick and dying. THERE ARE ZERO NUMBERS AVAILABLE IN DOCUMENTATION ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET to back up this paranoia and phobic response. NONE. If masks work WHY ARE THE NUMBERS OF CASES ALWAYS RISING??? Because wearing a mask cannot stop a virus! Do you think you need a medical degree to figure that out?
The WHO lied from the beginning. The CDC has waffled, backtracked, danced around, misinformed, disinformed, and consistently under-performed enough to convince me it is a bad joke on society. It's worse. It's an illness, in and of itself.
Vaccinate the CDC with something that can guard it against and prevent stupidity and agenda-driven elitism, for humanitarian purposes. We'd all be safer and much better off.
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158. If This Is Not Civil War, Then What Is It? - November 29, 2020
If this is not civil war, then what is it? This needs to be passed far and wide. Citizens need to understand what is at stake now. Civil war is no longer an op/ed opinion. Regardless of what anyone thinks of DJT as a man, or even POTUS, if Biden enters the WH, America is lost and shall be run by alphabet agencies for generations, if not taken over by foreign powers.
REPORT: Lt Gen McInerney Reports US Special Forces Attacked CIA Server Farm In Germany In Server Seizure Operation, 5 Soldiers Killed, Servers Secured
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2020/11/28/report-lt-gen-mcinerney-reports-us-special-forces-attacked-cia-server-farm-in-germany-in-server-seizure-operation-5-soldiers-killed-servers-secured/
Many in the USA have spoken out against the continued rise of power the alphabet agencies have gained. There are now dozens of them. Americans are familiar with those most in the news: the CIA, the FBI, NSA, and others but, the growth of these agencies, called "Deep State" now, pose a threat to Americans and the general welfare of the Republic. Functioning in shadows, behind the scenes, are people at top levels who I would not trust to walk a dog a few blocks in any city or town in America. They care nothing about the Constitution, privacy rights, property rights, or any rights of any American, from the President, supposedly the chief law enforcement officer in the nation, down to the cop on any beat in any place in America; nor any American citizen that might be in their way, or even any citizen, period. They are now agenda driven, and loyal Americans in their ranks have hands tied, if they want their careers to continue.
I believe the same can be said for all branches of the military and the Dept. of Defense. The Pentagon cannot be entrusted with the Constitution and any vows or oaths to protect it. The Swamp is deep and wide.
We read stories every day now of police depts. cooperating with rogue elected civil servants raining down tyranny on citizens in major cities, while those servants live outside their own tyrannical mandates. In other places, police depts. and sheriff depts. are refusing to stand in the way of the rights of the people to live in peace and follow dictates of conscience regarding Covid.
When President Eisenhower warned Americans about the growth of the Military Industrial Complex in his last address to the American people, it is obvious most Americans either did not understand the warning or did not take it seriously.
When I read a story about special forces raiding a CIA installation in Germany, to procure servers suspected to be used in election fraud and criminal activity in America, what am I looking at? I'm looking at civil war. What else can it be called? Americans firing upon Americans.
If the Supreme Court recognizes foul play has taken place in unprecedented ways in this election, and state the Constitution must be followed, and the electoral college will be superseded by the rules laid down in Article 2 of the Constitution, Trump shall remain president. It's just another four years. And the next four years will be saturated with attacks on the man, to bring him down any way they can. Do you honestly think Pence has the internal fortitude and courage and stamina to withstand this kind of disgusting activity from political opponents and could pick up where Trump leaves off in four years?
Right now Trump looks and sounds tired, and is inches away from just giving in to this coup. When you have this kind of power out to get you, and you don't know who you can trust of those around you, would you be surprised to be a fly on the wall and hear the man tell his wife he is done? Democrats have become traitors, the GOP is filled with wimps and traitors, were it not for the confirmation of Barrett, SCOTUS had become a tool of the traitorous scoundrels running D.C.
Has there ever been a time in American history when such corruption could be seen in the capitol of the nation?
As I have stated, this is now in God's hands. Tens of millions are praying for God to right the ship before it crashes into the rocks of full blown apostasy and tyranny.
Again, one of two choices stands before the Omnipotent Ruler of the universe. Either this nation shall be given another chance or God is going to let America get what it deserves and has asked for.
Right now, with what history we have to look at, Bush senior, Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama all worked to lessen the force of the Constitution on this nation. Trump could and should have been stronger but, he has had forces working against him from before he won the election in '16. That is not an excuse. It's just the way the first four years played out. In the midst of it all, he has done more good for America than possibly, definitely any POTUS in a century. Certainly any president in my lifetime. I pray to God he remains in office.
My generation will begin dying off soon enough. Does the next generation have what it takes to hold on to Americanism? The question demands an answer because, at this point, the next generation seems far more interested in Socialism than Americanism and the rule of law, freedom and liberty granted to Americans by God. Every institution in America has been corrupted. Nothing can be trusted, save for the Constitution. For believers, apostasy has crept in to all churches. Nothing can be trusted but, the Bible, the Word of God. Men are failing us at every turn, around every corner. The arms of flesh are failing.
I hope and pray Trump truly, sincerely, and whole-heartedly turns to God, his only Help in a time of trouble such as this. That's it. That's the last and only choice truly available to him. Who would blame him if he threw up his hands and said, I'm through? I would not. I could not. God forbid any of us undergo the same kind of attacks he has endured. It would completely crush any of us.
God raises up kings and puts them down. He raises up nations and throws them down in His sovereign and infinite understanding and will. America survives or America is about to be chastised for its wandering from the Source of its place in world history.
Which way will God go? We will soon find out.
REPORT: Lt Gen McInerney Reports US Special Forces Attacked CIA Server Farm In Germany In Server Seizure Operation, 5 Soldiers Killed, Servers Secured
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2020/11/28/report-lt-gen-mcinerney-reports-us-special-forces-attacked-cia-server-farm-in-germany-in-server-seizure-operation-5-soldiers-killed-servers-secured/
Many in the USA have spoken out against the continued rise of power the alphabet agencies have gained. There are now dozens of them. Americans are familiar with those most in the news: the CIA, the FBI, NSA, and others but, the growth of these agencies, called "Deep State" now, pose a threat to Americans and the general welfare of the Republic. Functioning in shadows, behind the scenes, are people at top levels who I would not trust to walk a dog a few blocks in any city or town in America. They care nothing about the Constitution, privacy rights, property rights, or any rights of any American, from the President, supposedly the chief law enforcement officer in the nation, down to the cop on any beat in any place in America; nor any American citizen that might be in their way, or even any citizen, period. They are now agenda driven, and loyal Americans in their ranks have hands tied, if they want their careers to continue.
I believe the same can be said for all branches of the military and the Dept. of Defense. The Pentagon cannot be entrusted with the Constitution and any vows or oaths to protect it. The Swamp is deep and wide.
We read stories every day now of police depts. cooperating with rogue elected civil servants raining down tyranny on citizens in major cities, while those servants live outside their own tyrannical mandates. In other places, police depts. and sheriff depts. are refusing to stand in the way of the rights of the people to live in peace and follow dictates of conscience regarding Covid.
When President Eisenhower warned Americans about the growth of the Military Industrial Complex in his last address to the American people, it is obvious most Americans either did not understand the warning or did not take it seriously.
When I read a story about special forces raiding a CIA installation in Germany, to procure servers suspected to be used in election fraud and criminal activity in America, what am I looking at? I'm looking at civil war. What else can it be called? Americans firing upon Americans.
If the Supreme Court recognizes foul play has taken place in unprecedented ways in this election, and state the Constitution must be followed, and the electoral college will be superseded by the rules laid down in Article 2 of the Constitution, Trump shall remain president. It's just another four years. And the next four years will be saturated with attacks on the man, to bring him down any way they can. Do you honestly think Pence has the internal fortitude and courage and stamina to withstand this kind of disgusting activity from political opponents and could pick up where Trump leaves off in four years?
Right now Trump looks and sounds tired, and is inches away from just giving in to this coup. When you have this kind of power out to get you, and you don't know who you can trust of those around you, would you be surprised to be a fly on the wall and hear the man tell his wife he is done? Democrats have become traitors, the GOP is filled with wimps and traitors, were it not for the confirmation of Barrett, SCOTUS had become a tool of the traitorous scoundrels running D.C.
Has there ever been a time in American history when such corruption could be seen in the capitol of the nation?
As I have stated, this is now in God's hands. Tens of millions are praying for God to right the ship before it crashes into the rocks of full blown apostasy and tyranny.
Again, one of two choices stands before the Omnipotent Ruler of the universe. Either this nation shall be given another chance or God is going to let America get what it deserves and has asked for.
Right now, with what history we have to look at, Bush senior, Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama all worked to lessen the force of the Constitution on this nation. Trump could and should have been stronger but, he has had forces working against him from before he won the election in '16. That is not an excuse. It's just the way the first four years played out. In the midst of it all, he has done more good for America than possibly, definitely any POTUS in a century. Certainly any president in my lifetime. I pray to God he remains in office.
My generation will begin dying off soon enough. Does the next generation have what it takes to hold on to Americanism? The question demands an answer because, at this point, the next generation seems far more interested in Socialism than Americanism and the rule of law, freedom and liberty granted to Americans by God. Every institution in America has been corrupted. Nothing can be trusted, save for the Constitution. For believers, apostasy has crept in to all churches. Nothing can be trusted but, the Bible, the Word of God. Men are failing us at every turn, around every corner. The arms of flesh are failing.
I hope and pray Trump truly, sincerely, and whole-heartedly turns to God, his only Help in a time of trouble such as this. That's it. That's the last and only choice truly available to him. Who would blame him if he threw up his hands and said, I'm through? I would not. I could not. God forbid any of us undergo the same kind of attacks he has endured. It would completely crush any of us.
God raises up kings and puts them down. He raises up nations and throws them down in His sovereign and infinite understanding and will. America survives or America is about to be chastised for its wandering from the Source of its place in world history.
Which way will God go? We will soon find out.
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159. Georgia Rally, Lin Wood, 1776 - December 3, 2020
I watched a speech by Trump, prerecorded from the WH. He addressed the nation on the election fraud that has taken place. As far as I am aware, no such address has ever been given by a POTUS in U.S. history. Either Trump is a mad man or he is under a conviction of truth he is not going to let go of until this criminal mess is resolved.
When Hillary Clinton told Biden he should not concede under any circumstances, how is that did not draw the attention of the justice dept.? How could any citizen of any stature make such a statement without knowledge of something that would give her the confidence to know Biden would end up in the WH, and should not concede, no matter what? It's a statement of insurrection. Regardless of the election's outcome, Biden should not concede?
Trump should definitely not concede and he'll have the backing of 80 million Americans and more, if he stays in that building until this entire fiasco is truly sorted out, even if by one vote at a time.
The number of Democrat observers coming forward to tell what they saw and experienced, continues to grow. Somehow the Leftists figured Democrats at large are like them; they have no conscience. That is proving to be false. When these Democrat activists, operatives, and volunteers state they could not look at themselves in a mirror, cannot sleep at night, and could not live with themselves knowing what they know and not saying anything, you know patriots exist regardless of political party affiliation. That's a hopeful sign.
Yesterday afternoon a rally was held in GA. I don't know how many people attended. Looked like a couple thousand from the camera angles I saw.
Attorney Lin Wood, working on behalf of the President to expose the corruption and election fraud, basically took the lead. Various GOP personages stood on the platform, as well, including a GA state Rep, and yes, I say it again, Rock star, attorney Sidney Powell.
Microphone systems often have electronic level controls. When they are spiked by too much volume, they automatically drop levels so the incoming signal does not distort. When Lin Wood mentioned General Michael Flynn, the response was enormous, and the mic levels dropped like a tank rolling over a cliff. When he introduced "the Kraken, Sidney Powell," the thunderous applause dropped the mic levels again. When Wood mentioned 1776 has come again ... another drop of volume level. The entire rally was marked by thunderous applause time and time again.
As the President's speech and the Georgia rally are seen by more and more people (before they are likely censored), from any and all political parties or none, they will see the obvious nature of the giant, the beast Leftists have awakened. If I did not know who Lin Wood is, I'd have thought he was a preacher. To say he was bold and on fire is a critical understatement. He held nothing back for his disdain and naming of cowardly and criminal politicians, the CIA, the U.S Justice Dept., and anyone or anything else he sees as a coward or thief in this massive felonious undertaking to steal the election. I should say, elections, plural, because the swindle was used on multiple elections - local, state, and federal.
Politicians in DC could not care less about "fly-over country." D.C. is a big country club to them. They play a game every day called, What Must I Say and Do To Get Reelected? They are about to see what kind of power basic Americans, sick and tired of their scandalous activities and total lack of loyalty to sacred oaths, have.
I seriously must wonder, based on statements by various politicians and others in positions of responsibility in D.C., just how many were guests on "the Lolita Express" and Epstein's island, and are terrified of being exposed, and it is all being held over their heads. Almost everybody in D.C. is wearing blinders and completely unwilling to entertain the mountain of evidence being compiled by attorneys, which will prove this election cannot stand. When their day before the Supreme Court arrives, if Biden won by fraudulent ballot dumping, producing unheard of spikes in the early morning hours of November 4th, he shall be brought down by evidence dumping on that day, creating spikes of shock at what these wicked and evil people tried to get away with. If, for some outrageous and ridiculous reasons they get away with it, expect civil unrest on behalf of patriots such as America has never seen before. Of course, when Biden is sent home, expect radical leftists to do the same but, with a lawful and truthful mandate from Americans for Trump, expect Trump to invoke the law and put a stop to riots, property destruction, looting, and fear mongering anywhere it breaks out, and do so in hours, not days or weeks or months, or not at all, as we have witnessed for half a year now by traitorous Democrats who hate America and hardworking Americans.
Can't come soon enough for me.
When Hillary Clinton told Biden he should not concede under any circumstances, how is that did not draw the attention of the justice dept.? How could any citizen of any stature make such a statement without knowledge of something that would give her the confidence to know Biden would end up in the WH, and should not concede, no matter what? It's a statement of insurrection. Regardless of the election's outcome, Biden should not concede?
Trump should definitely not concede and he'll have the backing of 80 million Americans and more, if he stays in that building until this entire fiasco is truly sorted out, even if by one vote at a time.
The number of Democrat observers coming forward to tell what they saw and experienced, continues to grow. Somehow the Leftists figured Democrats at large are like them; they have no conscience. That is proving to be false. When these Democrat activists, operatives, and volunteers state they could not look at themselves in a mirror, cannot sleep at night, and could not live with themselves knowing what they know and not saying anything, you know patriots exist regardless of political party affiliation. That's a hopeful sign.
Yesterday afternoon a rally was held in GA. I don't know how many people attended. Looked like a couple thousand from the camera angles I saw.
Attorney Lin Wood, working on behalf of the President to expose the corruption and election fraud, basically took the lead. Various GOP personages stood on the platform, as well, including a GA state Rep, and yes, I say it again, Rock star, attorney Sidney Powell.
Microphone systems often have electronic level controls. When they are spiked by too much volume, they automatically drop levels so the incoming signal does not distort. When Lin Wood mentioned General Michael Flynn, the response was enormous, and the mic levels dropped like a tank rolling over a cliff. When he introduced "the Kraken, Sidney Powell," the thunderous applause dropped the mic levels again. When Wood mentioned 1776 has come again ... another drop of volume level. The entire rally was marked by thunderous applause time and time again.
As the President's speech and the Georgia rally are seen by more and more people (before they are likely censored), from any and all political parties or none, they will see the obvious nature of the giant, the beast Leftists have awakened. If I did not know who Lin Wood is, I'd have thought he was a preacher. To say he was bold and on fire is a critical understatement. He held nothing back for his disdain and naming of cowardly and criminal politicians, the CIA, the U.S Justice Dept., and anyone or anything else he sees as a coward or thief in this massive felonious undertaking to steal the election. I should say, elections, plural, because the swindle was used on multiple elections - local, state, and federal.
Politicians in DC could not care less about "fly-over country." D.C. is a big country club to them. They play a game every day called, What Must I Say and Do To Get Reelected? They are about to see what kind of power basic Americans, sick and tired of their scandalous activities and total lack of loyalty to sacred oaths, have.
I seriously must wonder, based on statements by various politicians and others in positions of responsibility in D.C., just how many were guests on "the Lolita Express" and Epstein's island, and are terrified of being exposed, and it is all being held over their heads. Almost everybody in D.C. is wearing blinders and completely unwilling to entertain the mountain of evidence being compiled by attorneys, which will prove this election cannot stand. When their day before the Supreme Court arrives, if Biden won by fraudulent ballot dumping, producing unheard of spikes in the early morning hours of November 4th, he shall be brought down by evidence dumping on that day, creating spikes of shock at what these wicked and evil people tried to get away with. If, for some outrageous and ridiculous reasons they get away with it, expect civil unrest on behalf of patriots such as America has never seen before. Of course, when Biden is sent home, expect radical leftists to do the same but, with a lawful and truthful mandate from Americans for Trump, expect Trump to invoke the law and put a stop to riots, property destruction, looting, and fear mongering anywhere it breaks out, and do so in hours, not days or weeks or months, or not at all, as we have witnessed for half a year now by traitorous Democrats who hate America and hardworking Americans.
Can't come soon enough for me.
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160. Honesty - December 4, 2020
Every thing said and done should be honest. What would our world be like if everyone practiced honesty? Some would say, Heaven. They'd be close. Honesty also requires wisdom, as well. Still, being honest has become so rare, people cannot handle it. They literally cannot handle simple honesty, especially the youth. They can be ripping honest with you but, they cannot handle honest assessment. Even adults, raised in a time when honesty was more common and appreciated, cannot handle it. They feel threatened. They feel attacked. They withdraw into defensiveness. Sometimes, we must defend ourselves when lies are told. We must stand for truth when erroneous information is spread around. We even have legal terms for it - slander and libel.
So many millions, billions of children have grown up with dishonesty as the main or at least major influence in life, honesty is almost something to be dreaded, to be cast aside as stupidity.
I have lied about things like most of us. It's an easy path but, it really isn't easy. Living in lies requires far more concentration to make sure the web stays intact. It never does. It comes apart sooner or later. Guilt, if someone has any conscience left, is also pounding away on the anvil of the mind, and that can wear a person down to a frazzle. It is always easier to just be honest, even if the response is negative, because you have to live in your mind and you can't live in someone else's. When you come face to face with God, honesty is an eternal reality and necessity.
Critics, especially in the arts, often pride themselves for their honesty, even brutally so. Of course, when it comes to the arts, it is all subjective and personal opinion. In looking up anything about music and patriotism, regarding the Hendrickson-Frigon Project and the themes we are composing, I came upon Mark Farner. Many reading this will know Mark was the guitarist and singer with Grand Funk Railroad. On one of his more recent albums it says "The Rock Patriot." I remember all the critics saying how GFR were too simplistic, unimaginative, etc., etc., while their fan base grew and grew and they sold out the biggest arenas and stadiums in the world, including, if I recall correctly, selling out Shea Stadium, in NY, faster than the Beatles. The critics meant nothing and frankly, they mean nothing today, as far as I'm concerned. Critics panned Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and many of the other Classical Rocks bands and Progressive bands back in the 60's and 70's, as well as being highly critical of Fusion. That didn't stop millions of fans from thoroughly enjoying the music made back then, and still do, today.
Just about anyone reading this knows Ted Nugent is a patriot, a very outspoken one, and his critics are legion. So what? I was never a fan of Ted's music, per se'. I'm definitely a fan of Ted Nugent's patriotism.
Being negatively honest for the sake of honesty is not worth the electricity used by laptops critics type on. There's no reason for it, no help in it. Being critically honest is an art in itself. We call it "constructive criticism." Honest people, with the best in heart for those they constructively criticize is one thing. Just tearing something down you don't like, with no vital principle behind it, or interest in discussion of it; if that has intrinsic value, I fail to see it.
Some will say I have been very honest in my criticism of some Heavy Metal music and its culture. That is true. It comes from a desire to understand, not just be critically honest about it for the sake of being critical. My correspondence with Shailo, from Sri Lanka, evolved from that premise. We openly and honestly share. It's a good thing.
Now, I'm not running a counseling service. I'm no "Dear Abby." Someone concerned about betraying a spouse and if they should be honest about it? No. That is not my burden here. If someone came and asked me my thoughts, I would be honest with them. When I became a Christian, principled honesty came with it. Being honest can be terrifying. Being honest is also freeing.
Right now, as I type, the most dishonest act in the history of American election politics is being exposed. Those who attempted to pull off this gigantic sham have no conscience. There is zero evidence of it. Their consciences are seared with a hot iron, as the Bible states. Everybody knows and just accepts that politicians will lie to get elected and stay elected. That is a tragedy of enormous scope in America, supposedly a nation under God.
Trump, being the honest person he is, with a very thin filter, offends millions of people daily. They hate him for being honest. He did not invent the term "fake news" but, his use of it has driven the main stream media press insane with ugliness in response. Rather than get honest, they maintain their dishonesty and lie and twist and connive and do all they can to bring the man down, including the absolute criminal silence they have shown on the mountain of evidence proving election fraud in so many states, Americans should take to the streets and demand those implicated PROVE they have done nothing illegal or get out of office. America stops being America if the election system cannot be trusted. It ceases to be a Constitutional Representative Republic if no one can trust the voting systems employed throughout the nation, and they most certainly cannot be trusted any longer.
Rather than be honest and investigate, people in positions of responsibility are trying to bury investigation, the exact same thing as the Kennedy assassination, 9/11, Covid and the players involved, and a host of other things the Press can no longer be trusted to do, UNLESS a Republican is involved. THEN they are willing to look into things 24/7, with millions of dollars, and STILL lie if nothing is found to propel their agenda. They are disgusting and a reproach to the Constitutional nature of a free press.
Regardless of what it comes to, "honesty is the best policy," and today, that principle is fading fast throughout the world. Many, millions, believe lying is acceptable under any circumstance. They believe the Ten Commandments, including Not Bearing False Witness, are old fashioned, outdated, unrealistic, and not helpful to them. Lying is better suited to their agendas. "The end justifies the means."
God is pure, infinite honesty. Every lie told, every dishonest action is all written down. Everyone will face every lie told, every dishonest act committed in their day of judgment, unless it all gets placed in the forgiveness of God's perfect love, and on the shoulders of His Son, Jesus Christ, the Creator of the universe. He bore death to save liars and betrayers. His invitation to take it all from us and cast it into the depths of the sea still remains, and shall, until the day when human probation closes. When that day arrives, whatever is filthy stays filthy, whatever is clean stays clean, and Christ shall return for a clean church, not a dirty one. We are all under probation. It shall not last forever.
Do we realize how millions of conservative Catholics cannot trust their pope, Protestants cannot trust their leaders, Americans cannot trust their elected civil servants or the entire election process! Children are being taught in school to betray their parents. Neighbors are being appealed to, to betray their fellow neighbors. Businesses and marketing exist to lie and make money. The Press exists on lies. Who do we trust? What can we trust?
For me, I know I can trust God and His word. Beyond that ... we are entering the times spoken of in Bible prophecy when trust shall be rare, truth and honesty almost non-existent, and only a remnant of people shall exist to give a final call to the world that the end of all things is at hand.
When? I don't know. No one does. We can only know when it approaches and is getting close. I believe we are standing about half way up the steps. Sooner than later, the way things are going, we'll be standing at the door, in a time of trouble the world has never seen or ever shall again. Every earthly support will be cut off for God's people. A trust in Him that cannot shake free is what He is developing in His people now.
Too much religion, you say? You may have no idea just how much religion plays a part in everything that happens on this planet.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
So many millions, billions of children have grown up with dishonesty as the main or at least major influence in life, honesty is almost something to be dreaded, to be cast aside as stupidity.
I have lied about things like most of us. It's an easy path but, it really isn't easy. Living in lies requires far more concentration to make sure the web stays intact. It never does. It comes apart sooner or later. Guilt, if someone has any conscience left, is also pounding away on the anvil of the mind, and that can wear a person down to a frazzle. It is always easier to just be honest, even if the response is negative, because you have to live in your mind and you can't live in someone else's. When you come face to face with God, honesty is an eternal reality and necessity.
Critics, especially in the arts, often pride themselves for their honesty, even brutally so. Of course, when it comes to the arts, it is all subjective and personal opinion. In looking up anything about music and patriotism, regarding the Hendrickson-Frigon Project and the themes we are composing, I came upon Mark Farner. Many reading this will know Mark was the guitarist and singer with Grand Funk Railroad. On one of his more recent albums it says "The Rock Patriot." I remember all the critics saying how GFR were too simplistic, unimaginative, etc., etc., while their fan base grew and grew and they sold out the biggest arenas and stadiums in the world, including, if I recall correctly, selling out Shea Stadium, in NY, faster than the Beatles. The critics meant nothing and frankly, they mean nothing today, as far as I'm concerned. Critics panned Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and many of the other Classical Rocks bands and Progressive bands back in the 60's and 70's, as well as being highly critical of Fusion. That didn't stop millions of fans from thoroughly enjoying the music made back then, and still do, today.
Just about anyone reading this knows Ted Nugent is a patriot, a very outspoken one, and his critics are legion. So what? I was never a fan of Ted's music, per se'. I'm definitely a fan of Ted Nugent's patriotism.
Being negatively honest for the sake of honesty is not worth the electricity used by laptops critics type on. There's no reason for it, no help in it. Being critically honest is an art in itself. We call it "constructive criticism." Honest people, with the best in heart for those they constructively criticize is one thing. Just tearing something down you don't like, with no vital principle behind it, or interest in discussion of it; if that has intrinsic value, I fail to see it.
Some will say I have been very honest in my criticism of some Heavy Metal music and its culture. That is true. It comes from a desire to understand, not just be critically honest about it for the sake of being critical. My correspondence with Shailo, from Sri Lanka, evolved from that premise. We openly and honestly share. It's a good thing.
Now, I'm not running a counseling service. I'm no "Dear Abby." Someone concerned about betraying a spouse and if they should be honest about it? No. That is not my burden here. If someone came and asked me my thoughts, I would be honest with them. When I became a Christian, principled honesty came with it. Being honest can be terrifying. Being honest is also freeing.
Right now, as I type, the most dishonest act in the history of American election politics is being exposed. Those who attempted to pull off this gigantic sham have no conscience. There is zero evidence of it. Their consciences are seared with a hot iron, as the Bible states. Everybody knows and just accepts that politicians will lie to get elected and stay elected. That is a tragedy of enormous scope in America, supposedly a nation under God.
Trump, being the honest person he is, with a very thin filter, offends millions of people daily. They hate him for being honest. He did not invent the term "fake news" but, his use of it has driven the main stream media press insane with ugliness in response. Rather than get honest, they maintain their dishonesty and lie and twist and connive and do all they can to bring the man down, including the absolute criminal silence they have shown on the mountain of evidence proving election fraud in so many states, Americans should take to the streets and demand those implicated PROVE they have done nothing illegal or get out of office. America stops being America if the election system cannot be trusted. It ceases to be a Constitutional Representative Republic if no one can trust the voting systems employed throughout the nation, and they most certainly cannot be trusted any longer.
Rather than be honest and investigate, people in positions of responsibility are trying to bury investigation, the exact same thing as the Kennedy assassination, 9/11, Covid and the players involved, and a host of other things the Press can no longer be trusted to do, UNLESS a Republican is involved. THEN they are willing to look into things 24/7, with millions of dollars, and STILL lie if nothing is found to propel their agenda. They are disgusting and a reproach to the Constitutional nature of a free press.
Regardless of what it comes to, "honesty is the best policy," and today, that principle is fading fast throughout the world. Many, millions, believe lying is acceptable under any circumstance. They believe the Ten Commandments, including Not Bearing False Witness, are old fashioned, outdated, unrealistic, and not helpful to them. Lying is better suited to their agendas. "The end justifies the means."
God is pure, infinite honesty. Every lie told, every dishonest action is all written down. Everyone will face every lie told, every dishonest act committed in their day of judgment, unless it all gets placed in the forgiveness of God's perfect love, and on the shoulders of His Son, Jesus Christ, the Creator of the universe. He bore death to save liars and betrayers. His invitation to take it all from us and cast it into the depths of the sea still remains, and shall, until the day when human probation closes. When that day arrives, whatever is filthy stays filthy, whatever is clean stays clean, and Christ shall return for a clean church, not a dirty one. We are all under probation. It shall not last forever.
Do we realize how millions of conservative Catholics cannot trust their pope, Protestants cannot trust their leaders, Americans cannot trust their elected civil servants or the entire election process! Children are being taught in school to betray their parents. Neighbors are being appealed to, to betray their fellow neighbors. Businesses and marketing exist to lie and make money. The Press exists on lies. Who do we trust? What can we trust?
For me, I know I can trust God and His word. Beyond that ... we are entering the times spoken of in Bible prophecy when trust shall be rare, truth and honesty almost non-existent, and only a remnant of people shall exist to give a final call to the world that the end of all things is at hand.
When? I don't know. No one does. We can only know when it approaches and is getting close. I believe we are standing about half way up the steps. Sooner than later, the way things are going, we'll be standing at the door, in a time of trouble the world has never seen or ever shall again. Every earthly support will be cut off for God's people. A trust in Him that cannot shake free is what He is developing in His people now.
Too much religion, you say? You may have no idea just how much religion plays a part in everything that happens on this planet.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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161. It's Almost Fun - December 9, 2020
As the mountain of fraud evidence and felonious actions builds against this incredibly wicked, if not incredibly stupid scam pulled by Democrats in the swing states, it's almost fun to watch the rats scatter, blaming each other, lawyering up, making up the most ridiculous stories and excuses for their actions, and especially acting all offended and indignant anyone would challenge their honesty and integrity. And this goes for GOP "never-Trumpers," too, telling everybody to move along, nothing to see here. A Michigan state Rep posting something on FB about "soldiers" taking care of "Trumpers" has had her committee appointments taken away and other actions against her barbarity are being looked at. This is the same state Rep who called to whistle blowers liars during the hearings last week. No evidence, just her opinion. The FTC and 48 attorneys general are filing a massive lawsuit against Facebook for violation of anti-trust and monopoly laws. And sixteen or seventeen states have now joined the Texas lawsuit against election fraud perpetuated in WI, MI, PA, and GA. Sidney Powell said this was going to get 'biblical.' And so it is. Epic.
Even now I reckon pawns are being set-up to fall on swords and take one for the Dems and their team of illustrious "Defeat Trump At All Costs" warriors in high places. Investigators following the money will find the same trails back to the same people that perpetuate all this "righteous indignation" against people who want smaller government and politician's hands tied to the Constitution to reign them in before they destroy the Republic.
YouTube will be next, now that they have decided to censor any channel mentioning anything about election fraud and denying Biden is President Elect. The ignorance never ends. Biden is not PE until the electors vote for him, which, at this point, might not take place until all the fraud is addressed.
More than 1000 witnesses have signed affidavits testifying to election fraud and felonies they witnessed. The number of fraudulent ballots trucked, bussed, and brought into precincts during the early hours of November 4th and voting machine "irregularities" and "glitches" will easily top several million the way this is going, more than enough to put Trump back in the WH. He won by a landslide, the biggest in American history. 80 million people are not going to just take that steal punch on the chin without a fight.
If it weren't so reprehensible and shocking, it would be a black comedy; a dark satire on the state of the nation.
2020 has been a ride unlike any other in the nation's history. Failed attempts to bring a POTUS down with a hyped-up, fear-mongered virus, Impeachment, lock-downs and an election scam unlike any other, and hopefully the perps will end up in jail, no matter who they are or what positions they hold.
If, through some continued string of events, Biden ends up in the WH, America ceases to be America. It becomes some third-world, dictator wannabe state power where technology will control the populace. Civil disturbance will erupt and be put down, depending on the position the military takes, and police and sheriff depts. around the nation.
Of course, the same will be true if Trump stays in office. Is there anybody that actually thinks any kind of unity and working together to keep America the desire of nations millions want to get to for a better life will ever take place? How? Who will plead for it and see it happen? Nobody. Divisions will deepen.
I mentioned to Gary that The Hendrickson - Frigon Project and album, LIBERTY, will be seen in a very negative light by Leftists. Indeed. I can hear and see it now - Hate crimes, Hate speech, and "Hate Rock!" they'll brand it with. Patriots will love it. USA! USA! USA!
Of course, it's impossible to know how well this music will become known. We aren't big Rock stars. We just saw a big opportunity to make a difference for patriots getting lambasted continually by those who hate America and the principles of Americanism. We are doing this for them, and for inalienable rights being trampled by Leftist tyrants coast to coast.
Let Freedom Ring!
Even now I reckon pawns are being set-up to fall on swords and take one for the Dems and their team of illustrious "Defeat Trump At All Costs" warriors in high places. Investigators following the money will find the same trails back to the same people that perpetuate all this "righteous indignation" against people who want smaller government and politician's hands tied to the Constitution to reign them in before they destroy the Republic.
YouTube will be next, now that they have decided to censor any channel mentioning anything about election fraud and denying Biden is President Elect. The ignorance never ends. Biden is not PE until the electors vote for him, which, at this point, might not take place until all the fraud is addressed.
More than 1000 witnesses have signed affidavits testifying to election fraud and felonies they witnessed. The number of fraudulent ballots trucked, bussed, and brought into precincts during the early hours of November 4th and voting machine "irregularities" and "glitches" will easily top several million the way this is going, more than enough to put Trump back in the WH. He won by a landslide, the biggest in American history. 80 million people are not going to just take that steal punch on the chin without a fight.
If it weren't so reprehensible and shocking, it would be a black comedy; a dark satire on the state of the nation.
2020 has been a ride unlike any other in the nation's history. Failed attempts to bring a POTUS down with a hyped-up, fear-mongered virus, Impeachment, lock-downs and an election scam unlike any other, and hopefully the perps will end up in jail, no matter who they are or what positions they hold.
If, through some continued string of events, Biden ends up in the WH, America ceases to be America. It becomes some third-world, dictator wannabe state power where technology will control the populace. Civil disturbance will erupt and be put down, depending on the position the military takes, and police and sheriff depts. around the nation.
Of course, the same will be true if Trump stays in office. Is there anybody that actually thinks any kind of unity and working together to keep America the desire of nations millions want to get to for a better life will ever take place? How? Who will plead for it and see it happen? Nobody. Divisions will deepen.
I mentioned to Gary that The Hendrickson - Frigon Project and album, LIBERTY, will be seen in a very negative light by Leftists. Indeed. I can hear and see it now - Hate crimes, Hate speech, and "Hate Rock!" they'll brand it with. Patriots will love it. USA! USA! USA!
Of course, it's impossible to know how well this music will become known. We aren't big Rock stars. We just saw a big opportunity to make a difference for patriots getting lambasted continually by those who hate America and the principles of Americanism. We are doing this for them, and for inalienable rights being trampled by Leftist tyrants coast to coast.
Let Freedom Ring!
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162. The Whole World's Watching - December 11, 2020
Back in 1969 Chicago, then Chicago Transit Authority, released their first, groundbreaking album. Some months back I purchased their first two albums again, on CD. When it came to Prologue/Someday, hearing the insertion of the crowd chanting, "The whole world's watching," as they protested the Vietnam War, a flood of memories came back to me, remembering growing up back then.
Generally, when it comes to election/voter fraud stories, websites like Infowars are the ones that proclaim any inconsistencies, and they never amounted to much, if true. Today, 2020, the facts on this attempted act of gross corruption are so transparent to anyone looking at all the evidence, people outside America can see this election is a fraud. The whole world is watching. This goes way beyond America. If the steal stands, every nation in the world will go down the road of stealing elections by any means possible. The governments of the planet will become fastened into control by fraud and technology. The entire human race, in civilized nations, shall be effected by the outcome of this situation. It is that severe of a watershed event.
Eighteen states have now joined Texas in its lawsuit against WI, MI, PA and GA. Democrat run attorney's general, are joining the four defendant states. I say it again; America is hopelessly divided. HOPELESSLY. At this point, I doubt a nuclear attack would press citizens together.
I got an email from a friend recently and he stated he's always been a Republican but, he cannot recognize the GOP today. I was raised a Democrat. At least, my parents and all my relatives were Democrats, and that was the political conversation I heard in my house when young. My father used to say, Republicans stood for big money and big business and Democrats stood for the little guy. That is so untrue today, if it ever was, it would be easier to believe in the flying spaghetti monster. The Democrat Party resembles nothing that I remember growing up. It is now run by political elitists and power hungry lunatics. The GOP is not as radical but, imho, close behind.
What Happened? Marxism. Communism. Collectivism.
Are you a Marxist? Are you a Communist? If you believe in wealth redistribution, yes, you are a Marxist and a Communist. Using the force and power of government to take money from those who have it and give it to those who don't, is Marxism and Communism. Obama is a Marxist/Communist. Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, and literally hundreds of other United States members of the House of Representatives and Senators, SCOTUS judges, and tens of thousands of others in the federal government are socialist, communist, Marxist perpetrators, on that basis, alone. That includes all political parties with any control in the nation's capitol. It includes special interest groups, other nations with operatives in D.C., multinational corporations, and other entities.
Everybody understands the necessity of taxation to provide for the general welfare of the nation through the protection of armed forces, etc. The gulf between providing for the general welfare of the nation and Welfare programs is Juperterian in size. Federal and State programs to help the poor are a curse, understood so by just about every economist with any knowledge of history that every wrote an article or book on the subject. Marxism is an epic failure waiting to happen. It cannot succeed, ever, because in principle and policy, it demeans human beings and reduces them to collectivism, the rule of the hive. America is based on the principle of individualism: freedom and liberty and rights that come from God, not government elitists. Individualism states that people are free to conduct their lives as they so choose within the limits of the rule of law. The Rule of law is limited by the stated conduct the role of the Federal government is bound by. BOUND, not free to do whatever a majority party decides is better for America and Americans. No. The rule of law as stipulated by the Constitution.
The power of government to tax was something the Founders saw as a necessary evil, a lesser of two evils because they knew the history of nations before them at that time: the power of kings and queens. Washington, D.C. is peopled and run by lawyers and millionaires. An elitist group of enemies of the Republic. Power corrupts. Corruption of freedom, liberty, inalienable rights, the rule of law, all of it, is destined to take place when Marxism and communism are employed as a way to "level the playing field." It is not and never has been the role of the Federal government to level the playing field in any other way than those limitations of its existence as plainly written in the Constitution to ensure that all men created equal are treated equally under the watchful Eye of the Sovereign of the universe. That understanding that guided the Founders is lost in today's Washington, D.C. Gone. Donald Trump came along and said Rights come from God, not government, and he instantly became an enemy of the elite. Governing is no longer the concern. The destruction of Trump is the only concern.
The entire world is watching how this attack on Americanism plays out. Will the rule of law be maintained or will lawlessness take control?
I am always intrigued to see how nations that reject American influence dress. They all dress like people in the West, and the West has largely been influenced by the United Sates of America. The clothing, the entertainment and technology; it all derives from Euro-American influence. Little by little the idea of nations controlled by kings and queens fell away. A government of, by, and for the people shocked the world and continues to influence nations.
Marxism, Communism, Socialism arose to combat the principles of Americanism, and it appears they are winning.
As I have said, God controls nations. He allows them to exercise a probationary freedom, to see what they will do. I can see America's probation is closing in around it. Even if Trump remains in the WH, the dominoes of foolishness and corruption shall keep falling.
Do you know why people die? Copying errors in the DNA of all living things, people included. God designed and created everything to live forever. Sin marred that design and copying errors in the continual development of cells ultimately renders the living thing too filled with errors to continue existence.
The DNA of America has been the Declaration and Constitution; the spirit of freedom, liberty, and pursuit of happiness under the watchcare of God. Copying errors abound now. The Constitution is just an old document. Traditional standards are old fashioned and extreme. God is no longer necessary in the age of technology.
Watch and see that God is not mocked. When the right arm of judgment is outstretched, America will come down just like nations before it that thought power and authority are man-made.
It's coming.
Generally, when it comes to election/voter fraud stories, websites like Infowars are the ones that proclaim any inconsistencies, and they never amounted to much, if true. Today, 2020, the facts on this attempted act of gross corruption are so transparent to anyone looking at all the evidence, people outside America can see this election is a fraud. The whole world is watching. This goes way beyond America. If the steal stands, every nation in the world will go down the road of stealing elections by any means possible. The governments of the planet will become fastened into control by fraud and technology. The entire human race, in civilized nations, shall be effected by the outcome of this situation. It is that severe of a watershed event.
Eighteen states have now joined Texas in its lawsuit against WI, MI, PA and GA. Democrat run attorney's general, are joining the four defendant states. I say it again; America is hopelessly divided. HOPELESSLY. At this point, I doubt a nuclear attack would press citizens together.
I got an email from a friend recently and he stated he's always been a Republican but, he cannot recognize the GOP today. I was raised a Democrat. At least, my parents and all my relatives were Democrats, and that was the political conversation I heard in my house when young. My father used to say, Republicans stood for big money and big business and Democrats stood for the little guy. That is so untrue today, if it ever was, it would be easier to believe in the flying spaghetti monster. The Democrat Party resembles nothing that I remember growing up. It is now run by political elitists and power hungry lunatics. The GOP is not as radical but, imho, close behind.
What Happened? Marxism. Communism. Collectivism.
Are you a Marxist? Are you a Communist? If you believe in wealth redistribution, yes, you are a Marxist and a Communist. Using the force and power of government to take money from those who have it and give it to those who don't, is Marxism and Communism. Obama is a Marxist/Communist. Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, and literally hundreds of other United States members of the House of Representatives and Senators, SCOTUS judges, and tens of thousands of others in the federal government are socialist, communist, Marxist perpetrators, on that basis, alone. That includes all political parties with any control in the nation's capitol. It includes special interest groups, other nations with operatives in D.C., multinational corporations, and other entities.
Everybody understands the necessity of taxation to provide for the general welfare of the nation through the protection of armed forces, etc. The gulf between providing for the general welfare of the nation and Welfare programs is Juperterian in size. Federal and State programs to help the poor are a curse, understood so by just about every economist with any knowledge of history that every wrote an article or book on the subject. Marxism is an epic failure waiting to happen. It cannot succeed, ever, because in principle and policy, it demeans human beings and reduces them to collectivism, the rule of the hive. America is based on the principle of individualism: freedom and liberty and rights that come from God, not government elitists. Individualism states that people are free to conduct their lives as they so choose within the limits of the rule of law. The Rule of law is limited by the stated conduct the role of the Federal government is bound by. BOUND, not free to do whatever a majority party decides is better for America and Americans. No. The rule of law as stipulated by the Constitution.
The power of government to tax was something the Founders saw as a necessary evil, a lesser of two evils because they knew the history of nations before them at that time: the power of kings and queens. Washington, D.C. is peopled and run by lawyers and millionaires. An elitist group of enemies of the Republic. Power corrupts. Corruption of freedom, liberty, inalienable rights, the rule of law, all of it, is destined to take place when Marxism and communism are employed as a way to "level the playing field." It is not and never has been the role of the Federal government to level the playing field in any other way than those limitations of its existence as plainly written in the Constitution to ensure that all men created equal are treated equally under the watchful Eye of the Sovereign of the universe. That understanding that guided the Founders is lost in today's Washington, D.C. Gone. Donald Trump came along and said Rights come from God, not government, and he instantly became an enemy of the elite. Governing is no longer the concern. The destruction of Trump is the only concern.
The entire world is watching how this attack on Americanism plays out. Will the rule of law be maintained or will lawlessness take control?
I am always intrigued to see how nations that reject American influence dress. They all dress like people in the West, and the West has largely been influenced by the United Sates of America. The clothing, the entertainment and technology; it all derives from Euro-American influence. Little by little the idea of nations controlled by kings and queens fell away. A government of, by, and for the people shocked the world and continues to influence nations.
Marxism, Communism, Socialism arose to combat the principles of Americanism, and it appears they are winning.
As I have said, God controls nations. He allows them to exercise a probationary freedom, to see what they will do. I can see America's probation is closing in around it. Even if Trump remains in the WH, the dominoes of foolishness and corruption shall keep falling.
Do you know why people die? Copying errors in the DNA of all living things, people included. God designed and created everything to live forever. Sin marred that design and copying errors in the continual development of cells ultimately renders the living thing too filled with errors to continue existence.
The DNA of America has been the Declaration and Constitution; the spirit of freedom, liberty, and pursuit of happiness under the watchcare of God. Copying errors abound now. The Constitution is just an old document. Traditional standards are old fashioned and extreme. God is no longer necessary in the age of technology.
Watch and see that God is not mocked. When the right arm of judgment is outstretched, America will come down just like nations before it that thought power and authority are man-made.
It's coming.
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163. Texas Has No Standing? - December 11, 2020
I doubt anybody will be reading this at 9:30 p.m., C.S.T. You may already know SCOTUS denied the Texas lawsuit against four of the states where election fraud allegedly has taken place because, according to Article 3 of the Constitution and Justice Alito's take on it, Texas has no standing, i.e. it has not shown it has been harmed by anything done in those four states.
In Article three, sec. 2 it states:
"- to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more States;—between a State and Citizens of another State;—between Citizens of different States;—between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
So far, so good. Especially now that evidence has been discovered that Dominion machines were under the physical control of Foreign powers.
"Standing" is not mentioned directly by word in Article 3. It is inferred by Clause 1, of section 2:
"The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;
Meaning, hypothetical cases, much like confirmation hearings where nominated judges are asked about how they would decided something, hypothetically, are not to be heard. Barrett stood her ground answering all hypothetical questions consistently: she could not answer such questions until actual cases were before her. Actual cases must be heard. "Standing" is a basic element of United States law. No standing; no ability to show you have been harmed, no case is heard. Alito stated Texas did not show harm done to it's citizens by something allegedly done by those four states.
Let me attempt to wrap my head around this. This is the United States of America, a union, a family of states.
In a Federal election for President, how can alleged criminal activity in one state's election process, which effects the national outcome of an election, NOT create harm to millions of Texans and the millions of citizens in 21 other states that joined the suit, whose votes were rendered null and void by alleged fraud? How can Texas NOT have standing and grounds to sue another state perpetuating fraud that effects the votes of millions of Texans and the millions of citizens in 21 other states that joined the suit?
In a family, a brother can sue another brother if said brother allegedly stole something from him.
A brother in one family cannot sue the brother from another family if that brother allegedly stole something from another brother in that family. The brother filing suit has no standing.
To say Texas has no standing with another state in the family, the union of states, is to say family members cannot sue other family members if wronged. This is unbelievable. Did Texas send up briefs devoid of legal common sense? Did those involved in presenting the case just throw a wild pitch? How is that possible?
Or, did Alito basically tell Texas before an appearance before the court, they needed to tighten up their presentation because it would not fly?
Or did Alito just send the USA into chaos? Alito, by the way, is the justice where these kinds of cases end up on his desk for review.
At this point the Supreme Court of the United States has effectually declared war on the millions of Americans that have had their votes stolen from them through the criminal activity of the Democrat Party and traitorous Republicans too afraid to stand up and demand justice.
It sounds so conspiratorial but, would I be surprised to learn Deep State has anvils suspended above any and every person in a position of authority, with warnings how they must act or the anvils will fall? No. Not when a whistle blower testifying to trucking thousands of ballots across state lines is interrogated by the FBI and his family members harassed because he refuses to change his testimony. The foxes are guarding the hen house. The gate keepers are enemies of the Republic.
But, such threats upon the highest position holders in America; that's a big stretch. Still, Alito's decision is alarming. It is a shocking denial of duty under such critical circumstances facing the nation.
Justice is cast into the dust. Yes, other cases are pending before SCOTUS. I would have thought, even if they wished it would go away, SCOTUS would address this and hear the evidence. Not enough evidence, throw it out. To not hear the evidence because Texas has no standing? That shall go down as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American history. It may go down as the decision that starts a second civil war.
Trump is the corner stone here. Does he declare the Insurrection Act and shut down the nation until this is addressed in every way necessary to assure ALL Americans the result of the election is legal and trustworthy? Or, does he quietly walk away to fight again another day, in his mind, anyway? My wife just said, as a businessman, he knows if you do not get the sale now, you may never get another chance. Thus, Trump is not walking away without a fight. We'll see.
Again, if the results of this election are allowed to stand, America ceases to be America. It becomes the epitome of a criminal state, where the ends justifies the means, and anybody can do anything they want to get ahead and stay ahead, as long as they are not caught. If they are, depend on activist or traitorous judges to not adjudicate the rule of law but, the essence of expediency to keep things under the control of those in power. The rule of law is done. The Constitution is a ghost. Citizens will find themselves constantly and consistently at war with their neighbors, should they be of another political persuasion, meaning: Americans versus Globalists. Rule of law versus political expediency for results. God given inalienable rights versus government granted rights.
The fight is not over, of course. The question now is whether the die has been cast. Has a precedent been set?
Then there is the Sovereign of the universe. No human die can be cast for His authority and intervention into mankind's affairs. He has yet to speak.
Patience, fellow Americans. Patience.
In Article three, sec. 2 it states:
"- to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more States;—between a State and Citizens of another State;—between Citizens of different States;—between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
So far, so good. Especially now that evidence has been discovered that Dominion machines were under the physical control of Foreign powers.
"Standing" is not mentioned directly by word in Article 3. It is inferred by Clause 1, of section 2:
"The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;
Meaning, hypothetical cases, much like confirmation hearings where nominated judges are asked about how they would decided something, hypothetically, are not to be heard. Barrett stood her ground answering all hypothetical questions consistently: she could not answer such questions until actual cases were before her. Actual cases must be heard. "Standing" is a basic element of United States law. No standing; no ability to show you have been harmed, no case is heard. Alito stated Texas did not show harm done to it's citizens by something allegedly done by those four states.
Let me attempt to wrap my head around this. This is the United States of America, a union, a family of states.
In a Federal election for President, how can alleged criminal activity in one state's election process, which effects the national outcome of an election, NOT create harm to millions of Texans and the millions of citizens in 21 other states that joined the suit, whose votes were rendered null and void by alleged fraud? How can Texas NOT have standing and grounds to sue another state perpetuating fraud that effects the votes of millions of Texans and the millions of citizens in 21 other states that joined the suit?
In a family, a brother can sue another brother if said brother allegedly stole something from him.
A brother in one family cannot sue the brother from another family if that brother allegedly stole something from another brother in that family. The brother filing suit has no standing.
To say Texas has no standing with another state in the family, the union of states, is to say family members cannot sue other family members if wronged. This is unbelievable. Did Texas send up briefs devoid of legal common sense? Did those involved in presenting the case just throw a wild pitch? How is that possible?
Or, did Alito basically tell Texas before an appearance before the court, they needed to tighten up their presentation because it would not fly?
Or did Alito just send the USA into chaos? Alito, by the way, is the justice where these kinds of cases end up on his desk for review.
At this point the Supreme Court of the United States has effectually declared war on the millions of Americans that have had their votes stolen from them through the criminal activity of the Democrat Party and traitorous Republicans too afraid to stand up and demand justice.
It sounds so conspiratorial but, would I be surprised to learn Deep State has anvils suspended above any and every person in a position of authority, with warnings how they must act or the anvils will fall? No. Not when a whistle blower testifying to trucking thousands of ballots across state lines is interrogated by the FBI and his family members harassed because he refuses to change his testimony. The foxes are guarding the hen house. The gate keepers are enemies of the Republic.
But, such threats upon the highest position holders in America; that's a big stretch. Still, Alito's decision is alarming. It is a shocking denial of duty under such critical circumstances facing the nation.
Justice is cast into the dust. Yes, other cases are pending before SCOTUS. I would have thought, even if they wished it would go away, SCOTUS would address this and hear the evidence. Not enough evidence, throw it out. To not hear the evidence because Texas has no standing? That shall go down as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American history. It may go down as the decision that starts a second civil war.
Trump is the corner stone here. Does he declare the Insurrection Act and shut down the nation until this is addressed in every way necessary to assure ALL Americans the result of the election is legal and trustworthy? Or, does he quietly walk away to fight again another day, in his mind, anyway? My wife just said, as a businessman, he knows if you do not get the sale now, you may never get another chance. Thus, Trump is not walking away without a fight. We'll see.
Again, if the results of this election are allowed to stand, America ceases to be America. It becomes the epitome of a criminal state, where the ends justifies the means, and anybody can do anything they want to get ahead and stay ahead, as long as they are not caught. If they are, depend on activist or traitorous judges to not adjudicate the rule of law but, the essence of expediency to keep things under the control of those in power. The rule of law is done. The Constitution is a ghost. Citizens will find themselves constantly and consistently at war with their neighbors, should they be of another political persuasion, meaning: Americans versus Globalists. Rule of law versus political expediency for results. God given inalienable rights versus government granted rights.
The fight is not over, of course. The question now is whether the die has been cast. Has a precedent been set?
Then there is the Sovereign of the universe. No human die can be cast for His authority and intervention into mankind's affairs. He has yet to speak.
Patience, fellow Americans. Patience.
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164. I Pledge Allegiance - December 16, 2020
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands
One nation, under God, indivisible
With liberty and justice for all.
If you're an American born after 1954 you said that pledge in your young life somewhere along the line, and probably as an adult, as well, at least in a form from 1923.
Now, a quote from television talking head, Geraldo Rivera:
RIVERA: Talk of secession is treason, Martha. Rush Limbaugh is a powerhouse broadcaster. He’s one in a zillion, they come along once a generation, but that talk is reckless, it’s irresponsible. We are one nation, indivisible. I had to laugh, Rush goes on to say that people where he is have no idea what people in New York are thinking, and they’re so different they’re like a different species. Half of New York lives in Florida where Rush Limbaugh lives. It’s preposterous. Leaders who accentuate the differences and exacerbate the divide, are themselves as responsible."
The quote is taken from Rush Limbaugh's website, a read of one of his monologues, in which Rivera was a guest on Fox News channel's Martha McCallum program.
Let me set down my response to Rivera's take on this, seeing I have been very open about my position on secession.
1. We are obviously, if not irrevocably NOT a united states of America. We are so divided by so many issues that are leading to violence between citizens, nothing and no one can unite us. Tell me who or what, if the various states at war with principles of governance and culture can unite them again. States are divided, within themselves. Counties are divided. Division is everywhere. People are sick of it. They are sick and tired of having their lives controlled by a group of people they could not possibly disagree more with. You could not unite me with Obama, Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, and the rest of the radical Democrat cabal if you super-glued me to them. I have nothing but, disdain for their political existence.
2. I want a Republic, not a Democracy. There is a huge difference between the two. Most Americans, especially young ones, are ignorant of the difference, owing to entrenched leftism in the American school systems and absolute failure of American schools to stand for the principles of Americanism. To the contrary.
3. Indivisible means it cannot be divided. Well, obviously we are so, it means 'by consent of the governed.' You will not unite me to socialism or communism and their adherents. You will never unite me to forced wealth redistribution through government or any other man-made entity. You may force me but, do not call that unity. That is not unity, it is coercion.
4. Liberty is something so faded there are actual tyrants who believe they have the power and authority to tell Christians they cannot congregate for church, while they congregate for birthday parties and other social gatherings their hypocritical tyranny wraps them in. Americans have inalienable rights. That means you cannot be alienated from those rights. Well, millions of people have been, as this ridiculous quest for totalitarian power through this "pandemic' continues. A warehouse full of books has been written on the subject of loss of rights in America.
5. Justice!?! A federal election has been literally stolen by the biggest scam of actual treason in US history, with mountains of evidence showing who, what, when, where, why and how and getting politically corrupt judges to even listen to the evidence is not taking place. Criminals are running around loose, while professed Christians are told to stay indoors. Businesses destroyed, people's lives destroyed over an illness no worse than the flu. FACTS continue to mount and get out, ignored by a scared populace trusting total scallywags and pirates with their lives. Other nations and world players are now intimately involved and integral elements of the lives of elected civil servants, the ownership of property, systemic corruption ion D.C., and policy decisions. Justice for all? No.
5. Rivera is either part of the problem, being joined to the elitist cabal, or lives in a bubble, separated from reality. The nation CANNOT be indivisible if inalienable rights are negated by tyranny and tyrants. This is not rocket science. Civil war is already taking place on the streets of America and has been for months! Cultural civil war has been taking place for decades.
6. If you hate Donald Trump and Americanism and I am sick and tired of seeing the faces of people I consider traitors to their oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, pray tell, how are you and I going to coexist when everything you stand for is anathema to me, and vice versa? I want America. You want Euro-socialism, at least, if not full-blown communism. YOU are MY enemy. You should not get anywhere near control of American policy but, you are there, ruining the nation and lives of Americans with your hatred for the principles of Americanism and God-given rights. You hate God! You deny American history and the place of God in the fabric of the nation. YOU are MY enemy. YOU are AMERICA's enemy. We cannot live together. We are not indivisible. We are already irreconcilably divided because you trounce on my God-given, inalienable rights. You believe rights come from government. You are not an American, any more than I am a citizen of France because my relatives are all French.
7. Secession is imperative. It is not an idle option. It is a necessity. A necessity originating in the founding history and documents of this nation. Geraldo Rivera seems to know as much about Americanism as the contents of a gangster's trunk.
And to the Republic for which it stands
One nation, under God, indivisible
With liberty and justice for all.
If you're an American born after 1954 you said that pledge in your young life somewhere along the line, and probably as an adult, as well, at least in a form from 1923.
Now, a quote from television talking head, Geraldo Rivera:
RIVERA: Talk of secession is treason, Martha. Rush Limbaugh is a powerhouse broadcaster. He’s one in a zillion, they come along once a generation, but that talk is reckless, it’s irresponsible. We are one nation, indivisible. I had to laugh, Rush goes on to say that people where he is have no idea what people in New York are thinking, and they’re so different they’re like a different species. Half of New York lives in Florida where Rush Limbaugh lives. It’s preposterous. Leaders who accentuate the differences and exacerbate the divide, are themselves as responsible."
The quote is taken from Rush Limbaugh's website, a read of one of his monologues, in which Rivera was a guest on Fox News channel's Martha McCallum program.
Let me set down my response to Rivera's take on this, seeing I have been very open about my position on secession.
1. We are obviously, if not irrevocably NOT a united states of America. We are so divided by so many issues that are leading to violence between citizens, nothing and no one can unite us. Tell me who or what, if the various states at war with principles of governance and culture can unite them again. States are divided, within themselves. Counties are divided. Division is everywhere. People are sick of it. They are sick and tired of having their lives controlled by a group of people they could not possibly disagree more with. You could not unite me with Obama, Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, and the rest of the radical Democrat cabal if you super-glued me to them. I have nothing but, disdain for their political existence.
2. I want a Republic, not a Democracy. There is a huge difference between the two. Most Americans, especially young ones, are ignorant of the difference, owing to entrenched leftism in the American school systems and absolute failure of American schools to stand for the principles of Americanism. To the contrary.
3. Indivisible means it cannot be divided. Well, obviously we are so, it means 'by consent of the governed.' You will not unite me to socialism or communism and their adherents. You will never unite me to forced wealth redistribution through government or any other man-made entity. You may force me but, do not call that unity. That is not unity, it is coercion.
4. Liberty is something so faded there are actual tyrants who believe they have the power and authority to tell Christians they cannot congregate for church, while they congregate for birthday parties and other social gatherings their hypocritical tyranny wraps them in. Americans have inalienable rights. That means you cannot be alienated from those rights. Well, millions of people have been, as this ridiculous quest for totalitarian power through this "pandemic' continues. A warehouse full of books has been written on the subject of loss of rights in America.
5. Justice!?! A federal election has been literally stolen by the biggest scam of actual treason in US history, with mountains of evidence showing who, what, when, where, why and how and getting politically corrupt judges to even listen to the evidence is not taking place. Criminals are running around loose, while professed Christians are told to stay indoors. Businesses destroyed, people's lives destroyed over an illness no worse than the flu. FACTS continue to mount and get out, ignored by a scared populace trusting total scallywags and pirates with their lives. Other nations and world players are now intimately involved and integral elements of the lives of elected civil servants, the ownership of property, systemic corruption ion D.C., and policy decisions. Justice for all? No.
5. Rivera is either part of the problem, being joined to the elitist cabal, or lives in a bubble, separated from reality. The nation CANNOT be indivisible if inalienable rights are negated by tyranny and tyrants. This is not rocket science. Civil war is already taking place on the streets of America and has been for months! Cultural civil war has been taking place for decades.
6. If you hate Donald Trump and Americanism and I am sick and tired of seeing the faces of people I consider traitors to their oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, pray tell, how are you and I going to coexist when everything you stand for is anathema to me, and vice versa? I want America. You want Euro-socialism, at least, if not full-blown communism. YOU are MY enemy. You should not get anywhere near control of American policy but, you are there, ruining the nation and lives of Americans with your hatred for the principles of Americanism and God-given rights. You hate God! You deny American history and the place of God in the fabric of the nation. YOU are MY enemy. YOU are AMERICA's enemy. We cannot live together. We are not indivisible. We are already irreconcilably divided because you trounce on my God-given, inalienable rights. You believe rights come from government. You are not an American, any more than I am a citizen of France because my relatives are all French.
7. Secession is imperative. It is not an idle option. It is a necessity. A necessity originating in the founding history and documents of this nation. Geraldo Rivera seems to know as much about Americanism as the contents of a gangster's trunk.
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165. The Power Of Lies - December 18, 2020
Lindy Chamberlain. Ever heard of her? Back in the 1980's, camping with her husband and children in the wilds of Australia, the newest member of the Chamberlain family, baby Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain, two months old, was taken by a dingo and never seen again.
No one can imagine the pain, the horror, the incessant depth of loss the Chamberlain's felt. It got worse. Once in the press it went out of control. Speculation turned to arrest, a "trial of the century," conviction and imprisonment for Lindy and her husband. How the woman managed to retain her sanity is a testimony to the indwelling presence of Christ and the faith she clung to. Her marriage dissolved. Her life, completely controlled by people who believed she was a satanist, an evil, murdering, animalistic excuse of a human being who deserved everything she got, would be spent behind bars, a life sentence. Her husband received 18 months as an accessory to murder.
They exhausted all legal avenues and their case seemed hopeless.
Her sentenced was dropped when, six years later, a baby jacket was found, matching the description she originally gave, in a search for the body of a man who fell to his death off Ayer's Rock, where they were camping. The jacket had dingo DNA on it.
Justice was not served in the Australian press, nor the Australian court system. An enormous miscarriage of justice took place. It took more than three decades before an official judgment was pronounced: Azaria died from the unspeakable horror of a Dingo attack.
The Chamberlains were members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, as I was back in the 80's. Knowing Adventist doctrines and history, watching the Australian press butcher the truth was painful and aggravating enough but, for the Chamberlains it must have been excruciating, especially with Michael being a pastor in the SDA denomination.
John MacArthur is a very well-known minister in the evangelical church, with a large assembly in California. When the governor decided to lock-down religious assemblies, MacArthur decided to go to church and preach to an empty building and broadcast it to congregants and others with the technology available. People began to trickle into the church, and soon hundreds filled the pews, caring far more for their Christian family fellowship than Draconian government mandates to control the populace, and take away their first amendment rights: inalienable rights of assembly and freedom of religious conviction and conscience.
MacArthur began to be interviewed. He calmly addressed Constitutional freedoms, and current statistics of what the virus was actually doing throughout the state, embracing an opinion lock-downs were unnecessary and even harmful. I watched them. Never did he state the virus was a hoax yet, I have seen that written in so many articles and references to the development of the standoff between MacArthur's church state government.
The Press, which should be the element of truth through investigation, itself Constitutionally protected, is nothing more than sensationalism masquerading as an investigative body with neutral position on all subject matter. It is anything but, neutral.
Lindy Chamberlain, outside of interviews and the actions of attorneys, had no platform to address the world. MacArthur, outside the walls of his own church and whatever exposure technology affords, cannot possibly compete with the global, multinational corporate controlled media.
Both Chamberlain and McArthur could not and cannot do anything but, trust in God, the Supreme Judge of all the Earth, to shine light in darkness. And even then, there is no actual evidence people will walk in that light. Hatred of professed Christians grows around the world. To this day there are people in Australia who believe Chamberlain is guilty of killing her baby. You cannot help chosen ignorance.
I wonder what president Trump feels like to see more lies than ever told about any president in history heaped upon him for four years. People say he is a tough, New York businessman. Hit him, he hits back harder. Maybe. Probably. I have never seen such hatred in my life. Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real problem. If anything is an epidemic in America right now, hatred of Trump is it.
The President of the United States of America is actually helpless to address the sickness and systemic corruption that is Washington, D.C. Whatever he posts, writes or declares is attacked and lied about, misconstrued, twisted, torn apart and negated by people with the most obvious agenda in America - destroy Donald John Trump any way it can be done. I have mentioned before I am surprised an assassination attempt has not taken place. That is only because powers that be know they would have revolt on their hands to the tune of 100 million armed patriots coast to coast.
But think of it. A president whose message is largely controlled by the Press and media and technology giants as far as its exposure. They invite people on to their platforms and become wealthy beyond imagination as a result, then cancel, censor, delete, and oppose in every way possible those who have a political message they disagree with, at the same time allowing actual enemies of America to freely spew their sewage as far as these platforms have influence, which is planetary.
What would you do in such a situation? People grossly misinterpret, misconstrue, misunderstand you, or understand quite well, and set out to destroy you. What can you do? Sue? How many can write checks in the amounts attorneys charge? What would you do? Post something on a social platform and offer explanation and see it get torched and ultimately removed? Write an email to people you know and hope they pass it forward? Maybe something would go viral?
Now there's a concept. Going viral. What does that mean? It means something moves fast and gains a traction that sweeps through a populace. Like ... a virus?
Anthony Fauci has a planetary agenda platform to state nonsense. Medical professionals that oppose his positions get censored, fired, canceled ...
Right now the literal mountain of evidence showing the 2020 presidential election was criminally handled in key locations, which SHOULD be of vital interest to every American, regardless of political persuasion, and media outlets in the world, is being buried by the same main stream press and corporate controllers. Even the Supreme Court of the United States does not want to get involved. It is all the most outrageous display of cowardice and criminal behavior in American history.
And you wonder why I believe this all rests in God's hands, not man's? If the President of the United States cannot get his day in court, what hope do you have if you take a stand for something unpopular?
Think about that as time moves along and every person on the planet will have final decisions to be made.
"The storm is coming, relentless in its fury."
Are you prepared to meet it?
No one can imagine the pain, the horror, the incessant depth of loss the Chamberlain's felt. It got worse. Once in the press it went out of control. Speculation turned to arrest, a "trial of the century," conviction and imprisonment for Lindy and her husband. How the woman managed to retain her sanity is a testimony to the indwelling presence of Christ and the faith she clung to. Her marriage dissolved. Her life, completely controlled by people who believed she was a satanist, an evil, murdering, animalistic excuse of a human being who deserved everything she got, would be spent behind bars, a life sentence. Her husband received 18 months as an accessory to murder.
They exhausted all legal avenues and their case seemed hopeless.
Her sentenced was dropped when, six years later, a baby jacket was found, matching the description she originally gave, in a search for the body of a man who fell to his death off Ayer's Rock, where they were camping. The jacket had dingo DNA on it.
Justice was not served in the Australian press, nor the Australian court system. An enormous miscarriage of justice took place. It took more than three decades before an official judgment was pronounced: Azaria died from the unspeakable horror of a Dingo attack.
The Chamberlains were members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, as I was back in the 80's. Knowing Adventist doctrines and history, watching the Australian press butcher the truth was painful and aggravating enough but, for the Chamberlains it must have been excruciating, especially with Michael being a pastor in the SDA denomination.
John MacArthur is a very well-known minister in the evangelical church, with a large assembly in California. When the governor decided to lock-down religious assemblies, MacArthur decided to go to church and preach to an empty building and broadcast it to congregants and others with the technology available. People began to trickle into the church, and soon hundreds filled the pews, caring far more for their Christian family fellowship than Draconian government mandates to control the populace, and take away their first amendment rights: inalienable rights of assembly and freedom of religious conviction and conscience.
MacArthur began to be interviewed. He calmly addressed Constitutional freedoms, and current statistics of what the virus was actually doing throughout the state, embracing an opinion lock-downs were unnecessary and even harmful. I watched them. Never did he state the virus was a hoax yet, I have seen that written in so many articles and references to the development of the standoff between MacArthur's church state government.
The Press, which should be the element of truth through investigation, itself Constitutionally protected, is nothing more than sensationalism masquerading as an investigative body with neutral position on all subject matter. It is anything but, neutral.
Lindy Chamberlain, outside of interviews and the actions of attorneys, had no platform to address the world. MacArthur, outside the walls of his own church and whatever exposure technology affords, cannot possibly compete with the global, multinational corporate controlled media.
Both Chamberlain and McArthur could not and cannot do anything but, trust in God, the Supreme Judge of all the Earth, to shine light in darkness. And even then, there is no actual evidence people will walk in that light. Hatred of professed Christians grows around the world. To this day there are people in Australia who believe Chamberlain is guilty of killing her baby. You cannot help chosen ignorance.
I wonder what president Trump feels like to see more lies than ever told about any president in history heaped upon him for four years. People say he is a tough, New York businessman. Hit him, he hits back harder. Maybe. Probably. I have never seen such hatred in my life. Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real problem. If anything is an epidemic in America right now, hatred of Trump is it.
The President of the United States of America is actually helpless to address the sickness and systemic corruption that is Washington, D.C. Whatever he posts, writes or declares is attacked and lied about, misconstrued, twisted, torn apart and negated by people with the most obvious agenda in America - destroy Donald John Trump any way it can be done. I have mentioned before I am surprised an assassination attempt has not taken place. That is only because powers that be know they would have revolt on their hands to the tune of 100 million armed patriots coast to coast.
But think of it. A president whose message is largely controlled by the Press and media and technology giants as far as its exposure. They invite people on to their platforms and become wealthy beyond imagination as a result, then cancel, censor, delete, and oppose in every way possible those who have a political message they disagree with, at the same time allowing actual enemies of America to freely spew their sewage as far as these platforms have influence, which is planetary.
What would you do in such a situation? People grossly misinterpret, misconstrue, misunderstand you, or understand quite well, and set out to destroy you. What can you do? Sue? How many can write checks in the amounts attorneys charge? What would you do? Post something on a social platform and offer explanation and see it get torched and ultimately removed? Write an email to people you know and hope they pass it forward? Maybe something would go viral?
Now there's a concept. Going viral. What does that mean? It means something moves fast and gains a traction that sweeps through a populace. Like ... a virus?
Anthony Fauci has a planetary agenda platform to state nonsense. Medical professionals that oppose his positions get censored, fired, canceled ...
Right now the literal mountain of evidence showing the 2020 presidential election was criminally handled in key locations, which SHOULD be of vital interest to every American, regardless of political persuasion, and media outlets in the world, is being buried by the same main stream press and corporate controllers. Even the Supreme Court of the United States does not want to get involved. It is all the most outrageous display of cowardice and criminal behavior in American history.
And you wonder why I believe this all rests in God's hands, not man's? If the President of the United States cannot get his day in court, what hope do you have if you take a stand for something unpopular?
Think about that as time moves along and every person on the planet will have final decisions to be made.
"The storm is coming, relentless in its fury."
Are you prepared to meet it?
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166. With A Heavy Heart - December 20, 2020
It is with a heavy heart that I announce The Hendrickson - Frigon Project and the album LIBERTY is closed.
You may have noticed the page regarding the project has been removed.
Reason? To be honest ... differences in target audience, packaging and marketing. And I am not certain how it all broke down and disintegrated. Gary just decided he was closing it down. Beyond that, communication problems developed early on and just never fully recovered, I guess.
I feel privileged to have been the first to hear the six compositions. I never grew tired of hearing them. I certainly felt privileged to write lyrics set to such dramatic and powerful music, and to record drum performances for them, which, in and of itself, was a great learning experience for me.
Many lessons learned, for me, really. Great sadness is upon my heart for all the months of participation and anticipation now gone. Constant activity in the music community has not been part of my life and things like this may be common. It causes me to wonder how much recorded music sits on shelves around the world, never released because of artistic differences.
I remain convicted about the talents and abilities of Gary Hendrickson to compose unique music for his professed genres. I wish him well.
Perhaps something may arise that the messages I wrote to admonish, encourage and inspire patriots to take stands in the face of global change and building tyranny will join together with other musicians interested in taking those stands themselves. I'll leave that door open and see what develops.
I remain convicted it is all, "For such a time as this."
You may have noticed the page regarding the project has been removed.
Reason? To be honest ... differences in target audience, packaging and marketing. And I am not certain how it all broke down and disintegrated. Gary just decided he was closing it down. Beyond that, communication problems developed early on and just never fully recovered, I guess.
I feel privileged to have been the first to hear the six compositions. I never grew tired of hearing them. I certainly felt privileged to write lyrics set to such dramatic and powerful music, and to record drum performances for them, which, in and of itself, was a great learning experience for me.
Many lessons learned, for me, really. Great sadness is upon my heart for all the months of participation and anticipation now gone. Constant activity in the music community has not been part of my life and things like this may be common. It causes me to wonder how much recorded music sits on shelves around the world, never released because of artistic differences.
I remain convicted about the talents and abilities of Gary Hendrickson to compose unique music for his professed genres. I wish him well.
Perhaps something may arise that the messages I wrote to admonish, encourage and inspire patriots to take stands in the face of global change and building tyranny will join together with other musicians interested in taking those stands themselves. I'll leave that door open and see what develops.
I remain convicted it is all, "For such a time as this."
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167. A building Anger - December 22, 2020
Just reading headlines at news sites I continue to go to (just to see what's going on with The Steal), more and more evidence and whistle blowers, studies by forensic experts and election analysis professionals continues to build, along with a great anger within the body of patriots around the nation. The egregious nature of this event, after the virus tyranny being shoved down people's throats for 9 months, is causing the boil to go rapid now.
Contrast that with the nature of cowardice saturating elected civil servants, traitors to the oaths they took, as they all look away, hide, hope this all goes away, and shows the streaks of fear running up their rubber spines, and you have a building repeat of Europe 1989 when millions took to the streets and brought down the Eastern Communist Bloc, as well as the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
I have said enough about masks. People submitting to this fear after all the evidence from medical professionals plastered all over the web (except the tech giant monopolies/social platforms where they just censor and delete anything they can't control that might educate the masses), are locked into the 1984 agenda. Scary as that is, add to that the hysteria driving the vaccine lines, and after around 300k injections, about 5k bad reactions to it, and the boiling pot is just about ready to boil over. MILLIONS are not falling for it all anymore, and every day more and more are waking up to what is happening. While they wake up the sheeple ranks are growing, as well.
This is like watching some dystopian tv show or movie. It is fantasy now become reality; which has been the agenda all along. Make it fantasy and then, when the reality hits, people will be used to it via modern entertainment.
Have you seen the phrase "The Great Reset" yet? I see it in some new place every, single day. Reset buttons exist on all kinds of devices. Hit the reset button and go back to start and reinitialize your modem or some other device that isn't working the way it's supposed to and causing you a headache. For globalists, humanity is a headache. Ways must be found to control them so they can have a utopian control factor and bring peace to a troubled world THEY have created the turmoil within. These are the most evil, wicked human beings walking the planet. Control freaks on steroids. They have always existed on our world but, the concentration of them and the power they wield has never been so acute. They aim to reset the entire world.
I wrote about Communism a couple blogs ago. Yesterday I saw a headline that Bill DeBlasio, mayor of New York, came right out and backed wealth redistribution. He's a communist. Matter of fact, judging by all the cowardice and headlines associated with it, I'd have to believe, and I do believe, Washington, D.C. is saturated with little pawns somehow under the control of the Communist Chinese. Certainly Biden is. Harris, as well. Probably RINOs in every direction like Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney and who knows how many others. I mean, you have Democrat Eris Swalwell sleeping with a Chinese spy, and being on serious committees. Do you have to stretch your imagination to believe how much information has passed to the CCP through him to her and who knows how many others?
We are watching history: the disintegration of an empire, the fall of the greatest nation in world history, the collapse of the United States of America. One man stands in the way, and his own staff is trying to convince him to concede and throw the nation to the communist dogs. All of this rests on the shoulders of a 72 year old patriot with a big mouth, billions of dollars, a personal history debacle that so many people hate, you have to admire he is still standing. How is it possible? A gargantuan intestinal fortitude? Just sheer love for the Republic? God? Is God keeping him standing? I have no doubt.
Trump is where this all sinks or swims. I questioned him from the beginning, seeing all the swamp dwellers he put into positions of influence around him. Keep your enemies closer? They have all stabbed him in the back. Has he learned anything? Bill Barr was a swamp dweller. Placing him into the position of AG and watching his predictable do-nothing performance, just like Jeff Sessions before him, and you KNOW, you just use common sense and you KNOW some kind of grip is on their testicles because cowardice like this cannot be understood with logic. Logic decrees people will fight for the Republic. Some will wimp out but, dozens and dozens and hundreds and hundreds of elected civil servants, all complacently oozing together like some horror movie blob, either staying silent or working to destroy the nation?
The Relief Bill just passed. $600 to Americans and BILLIONS to foreign nations, pork so thick it smells like a hog farm, money for every pet project known to man, money for illegals, money for anything and everything while Americans are literally losing everything, and you think this is all just circumstances of a weird year? Are you serious? I am not sorry to say YOU are part of the problem if you think this is all just coincidence. No string of coincidences in human history can match this series of events and power grabs: the most disgusting display of traitorous activity in American history.
If Biden is allowed to take the White House, America is done as a Constitutional Republic and Representative Democracy. Do you understand that fact? If you do, you are sending emails of info to people, you are willing to stand up at work and tell anyone who will listen the facts of the current situation. You are willing to fight for the Republic, even if that means death because Freedom and Liberty, if lost, is a fate worse than death. Ask all the communists and people that got free from totalitarian states strangling them to death under heavy-handed control, trying to warn America for THREE DECADES what they have seen taking place in this country, and screaming for people to listen how close we are to the same conditions they broke away from and came to this nation to live as free people.
The power to tax, and wealth redistribution, have been used to control people for ages. Every nation that uses that method of control has come down sooner or later. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, every empire, every nation, every people under the control of tyrants comes down at some point. Amerika would be the same. How long would it take? Generations? A couple centuries? With technology, tyrannical control will be fast and solidified and pretty much impossible to take down, if a military is on board with it. The wicked care not for humanity. The 20th century showed that well enough. Humans are in the way. Humans get taken down. Buried. Removed. FEAR takes hold. The people comply. Champions come and go. A real Hunger Games, a real gladiator scenario comes in. Sooner or later the tide turns but, never in history has technology like today been seen or used. Hollywood has told you in movies that the good guys ultimately win. The Bible says, the bad guys win and Christ must return and rescue His people before they are put to death. Get it? "Darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people." The planet is never going to be under the influence of good, enough to leave people free at large. The bad guys take control. TOTAL CONTROL. THAT is what is in our face right now. Totalitarian takeover.
You have no idea how thankful I am there is God, Good News, and a future awaiting where evil is finally gone forever. Even should I not make it, I'm glad the truth is there. Before that time of victory arrives, a time of trouble such as never was and never shall be again, is coming. The world shall come under the control of the Adversary to all that is good. The god of this world, the dark Rebel, the Father of lies, the murder from the beginning is going to take control of the majority of the human race.
If America falls, the world falls. Washington, D.C. can no longer be looked at as a stronghold of the rule of law, freedom, and liberty. If Donald J. Trump, President of the United Sates of America, one of the most powerful positions on planet Earth - if not the most powerful - loses and is removed from his literal, landslide elected position through evil wickedness and corruption, where do you think that leaves us?
Even now voices are calling for Trump supporters to be punished. In America! The shade of my skin determines my value. My love for the principles of Americanism makes me an enemy of those who want to see America brought down. Rights come from government, not God. God is not. God is nothing. The ONLY thing protecting me is the rule of law, Constitutional liberty. If these devils remove that, protection from absolute tyranny is lost.
May the Sovereign of the universe help us before it is too late and our children and grand children suffer a fate the 20th century should have totally removed. It didn't. It can't. Evil is what it is, has its adherents and proponents, and shall take control where people cave to it.
It's now or never.
Contrast that with the nature of cowardice saturating elected civil servants, traitors to the oaths they took, as they all look away, hide, hope this all goes away, and shows the streaks of fear running up their rubber spines, and you have a building repeat of Europe 1989 when millions took to the streets and brought down the Eastern Communist Bloc, as well as the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
I have said enough about masks. People submitting to this fear after all the evidence from medical professionals plastered all over the web (except the tech giant monopolies/social platforms where they just censor and delete anything they can't control that might educate the masses), are locked into the 1984 agenda. Scary as that is, add to that the hysteria driving the vaccine lines, and after around 300k injections, about 5k bad reactions to it, and the boiling pot is just about ready to boil over. MILLIONS are not falling for it all anymore, and every day more and more are waking up to what is happening. While they wake up the sheeple ranks are growing, as well.
This is like watching some dystopian tv show or movie. It is fantasy now become reality; which has been the agenda all along. Make it fantasy and then, when the reality hits, people will be used to it via modern entertainment.
Have you seen the phrase "The Great Reset" yet? I see it in some new place every, single day. Reset buttons exist on all kinds of devices. Hit the reset button and go back to start and reinitialize your modem or some other device that isn't working the way it's supposed to and causing you a headache. For globalists, humanity is a headache. Ways must be found to control them so they can have a utopian control factor and bring peace to a troubled world THEY have created the turmoil within. These are the most evil, wicked human beings walking the planet. Control freaks on steroids. They have always existed on our world but, the concentration of them and the power they wield has never been so acute. They aim to reset the entire world.
I wrote about Communism a couple blogs ago. Yesterday I saw a headline that Bill DeBlasio, mayor of New York, came right out and backed wealth redistribution. He's a communist. Matter of fact, judging by all the cowardice and headlines associated with it, I'd have to believe, and I do believe, Washington, D.C. is saturated with little pawns somehow under the control of the Communist Chinese. Certainly Biden is. Harris, as well. Probably RINOs in every direction like Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney and who knows how many others. I mean, you have Democrat Eris Swalwell sleeping with a Chinese spy, and being on serious committees. Do you have to stretch your imagination to believe how much information has passed to the CCP through him to her and who knows how many others?
We are watching history: the disintegration of an empire, the fall of the greatest nation in world history, the collapse of the United States of America. One man stands in the way, and his own staff is trying to convince him to concede and throw the nation to the communist dogs. All of this rests on the shoulders of a 72 year old patriot with a big mouth, billions of dollars, a personal history debacle that so many people hate, you have to admire he is still standing. How is it possible? A gargantuan intestinal fortitude? Just sheer love for the Republic? God? Is God keeping him standing? I have no doubt.
Trump is where this all sinks or swims. I questioned him from the beginning, seeing all the swamp dwellers he put into positions of influence around him. Keep your enemies closer? They have all stabbed him in the back. Has he learned anything? Bill Barr was a swamp dweller. Placing him into the position of AG and watching his predictable do-nothing performance, just like Jeff Sessions before him, and you KNOW, you just use common sense and you KNOW some kind of grip is on their testicles because cowardice like this cannot be understood with logic. Logic decrees people will fight for the Republic. Some will wimp out but, dozens and dozens and hundreds and hundreds of elected civil servants, all complacently oozing together like some horror movie blob, either staying silent or working to destroy the nation?
The Relief Bill just passed. $600 to Americans and BILLIONS to foreign nations, pork so thick it smells like a hog farm, money for every pet project known to man, money for illegals, money for anything and everything while Americans are literally losing everything, and you think this is all just circumstances of a weird year? Are you serious? I am not sorry to say YOU are part of the problem if you think this is all just coincidence. No string of coincidences in human history can match this series of events and power grabs: the most disgusting display of traitorous activity in American history.
If Biden is allowed to take the White House, America is done as a Constitutional Republic and Representative Democracy. Do you understand that fact? If you do, you are sending emails of info to people, you are willing to stand up at work and tell anyone who will listen the facts of the current situation. You are willing to fight for the Republic, even if that means death because Freedom and Liberty, if lost, is a fate worse than death. Ask all the communists and people that got free from totalitarian states strangling them to death under heavy-handed control, trying to warn America for THREE DECADES what they have seen taking place in this country, and screaming for people to listen how close we are to the same conditions they broke away from and came to this nation to live as free people.
The power to tax, and wealth redistribution, have been used to control people for ages. Every nation that uses that method of control has come down sooner or later. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, every empire, every nation, every people under the control of tyrants comes down at some point. Amerika would be the same. How long would it take? Generations? A couple centuries? With technology, tyrannical control will be fast and solidified and pretty much impossible to take down, if a military is on board with it. The wicked care not for humanity. The 20th century showed that well enough. Humans are in the way. Humans get taken down. Buried. Removed. FEAR takes hold. The people comply. Champions come and go. A real Hunger Games, a real gladiator scenario comes in. Sooner or later the tide turns but, never in history has technology like today been seen or used. Hollywood has told you in movies that the good guys ultimately win. The Bible says, the bad guys win and Christ must return and rescue His people before they are put to death. Get it? "Darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people." The planet is never going to be under the influence of good, enough to leave people free at large. The bad guys take control. TOTAL CONTROL. THAT is what is in our face right now. Totalitarian takeover.
You have no idea how thankful I am there is God, Good News, and a future awaiting where evil is finally gone forever. Even should I not make it, I'm glad the truth is there. Before that time of victory arrives, a time of trouble such as never was and never shall be again, is coming. The world shall come under the control of the Adversary to all that is good. The god of this world, the dark Rebel, the Father of lies, the murder from the beginning is going to take control of the majority of the human race.
If America falls, the world falls. Washington, D.C. can no longer be looked at as a stronghold of the rule of law, freedom, and liberty. If Donald J. Trump, President of the United Sates of America, one of the most powerful positions on planet Earth - if not the most powerful - loses and is removed from his literal, landslide elected position through evil wickedness and corruption, where do you think that leaves us?
Even now voices are calling for Trump supporters to be punished. In America! The shade of my skin determines my value. My love for the principles of Americanism makes me an enemy of those who want to see America brought down. Rights come from government, not God. God is not. God is nothing. The ONLY thing protecting me is the rule of law, Constitutional liberty. If these devils remove that, protection from absolute tyranny is lost.
May the Sovereign of the universe help us before it is too late and our children and grand children suffer a fate the 20th century should have totally removed. It didn't. It can't. Evil is what it is, has its adherents and proponents, and shall take control where people cave to it.
It's now or never.
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168. THE Most Explosive Interview EVER - December 23, 2020
The Dr. Dave Janda program. Guest, Patrick Byrne, ex-CEO and founder of Overstock.com.
Byrne was present for a long meeting held in the White House between the President with some of his staff and attorneys, and attorneys Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, and Gen. Mike Flynn, and Mr. Byrne.
Much has been reported about this meeting. Byrne gives his firsthand account.
THE MOST EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW I HAVE EVER SEEN, PERIOD.
WATCH IT. PASS IT ON.
(copy and paste the links)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vi7H8yNHgk&feature=emb_logo
full interview here:
https://davejanda.com/patrick-byrne-what-really-happened-during-the-white-house-meeting/
The severity of the hour cannot be overstated. Patriots must rise. POTUS needs our support. The nation literally stands at a crossroads. I cannot thank Mr. Byrne enough for his forthright and courageous, honest testimony. This is a man who did not vote for Trump, was surprised at his personality and character, after all he has heard and read, and stood shocked and astonished at what took place at this meeting.
Anyone following things closely, at least through news sites that actually report news, and not make it up as they go along, knows the president has been surrounded by traitors for four years. It has been confusing. This interview filled in a lot of blanks for me. It also shows the treachery Trump has had to deal with for four years.
May God help him to stand and fight.
Byrne was present for a long meeting held in the White House between the President with some of his staff and attorneys, and attorneys Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, and Gen. Mike Flynn, and Mr. Byrne.
Much has been reported about this meeting. Byrne gives his firsthand account.
THE MOST EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW I HAVE EVER SEEN, PERIOD.
WATCH IT. PASS IT ON.
(copy and paste the links)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vi7H8yNHgk&feature=emb_logo
full interview here:
https://davejanda.com/patrick-byrne-what-really-happened-during-the-white-house-meeting/
The severity of the hour cannot be overstated. Patriots must rise. POTUS needs our support. The nation literally stands at a crossroads. I cannot thank Mr. Byrne enough for his forthright and courageous, honest testimony. This is a man who did not vote for Trump, was surprised at his personality and character, after all he has heard and read, and stood shocked and astonished at what took place at this meeting.
Anyone following things closely, at least through news sites that actually report news, and not make it up as they go along, knows the president has been surrounded by traitors for four years. It has been confusing. This interview filled in a lot of blanks for me. It also shows the treachery Trump has had to deal with for four years.
May God help him to stand and fight.
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169. The Enigma of Trump - December 28, 2020
I'm setting things up to make a new video for my YT channel, pondering things I'm reading at a few news sites I frequent. I can't read them all anymore. I get too upset and disgusted.
I read this morning that, after telling America he'd veto the fake Covid relief bill - which is not relief and is filled with so much pork it will produce bacon forever around the world - he now tells the nation he signed it, and underlined things he doesn't like in red, telling Congress to fix it; the same congress behind the uplifted middle finger to him for four years that just committed the crime of US history (with all willing participants here and abroad) in stealing the election out from under him. Yeah, I'm sure they will consider all his objections and change things, and put together a second bill just dealing with the mess they made in shutting down America NEEDLESSLY over a virus they continue to pump lies about and fear monger. Not. GOP included.
Is this man as stupid as some claim? Others claim he is the smartest guy in the room; very intelligent. Surrounding yourself with traitors is not intelligent. First time you get a pass for ignorance, from that point on - well, when the dog bites me once, it's on the dog. When it bites me a second time, it's on me. A third time, I am just plain stupid.
Trump is surrounded by people refusing to even acknowledge his position in the office, let alone backing his agenda to make America and keep America great. He has four nominations for a Nobel peace prize. He has brought into play policies that have dramatically improved the lives of all Americans wanting to work and make a better life for themselves, and because of the people he surrounds himself with that was all destroyed in 2020.
He constantly writes executive orders, which aren't worth burnt toast because the next president just undoes them with new EO's. He does have actual, legitimate, Constitutional provisions to stop the wickedness taking place and he refuses to take those options.
It has become obvious his whole "You're fired!" persona is just television hype and drama and nothing more.
I might logically conclude there are entities that have told him from the beginning if he does anything they disapprove of he and his family become instant targets. Even Democrat Senator, Chuck Schumer said “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” When a U.S. Senator states on live television there are powers in the nation that are above the law, operate above the law, and have no accountability to anyone or anything but, their own agenda, and his statement just slips away into the news rotation, you know you have a corruption beyond imagined reality.
So, if Trump and /or his family have been under a monster thumb for four years, the same for all elected civil servants in D.C. then, the U.S.A. was over awhile back, wasn't it? No one is safe. No one is under the protection of law. No one is under any protection but, from God, which these swamp creatures do not believe in. Until God did something to show these entities destitute of honor and integrity otherwise, everything gets worse, not close to better, and America OBVIOUSLY has not been made great again when a presidential election has been stolen from 75 million Americans who voted for Trump, knowing full well Joe Biden could not have garnered 80 million votes if his life depended on it. The number of whistle blowers continues to rise, the number of forensic experts, companies, investigators and others continue to uncover more and more illegal and fraudulent actors and episodes from before and after the election. Yet Trump, tired and worn as he probably is, lets these people hang out in the sun to dry from the death heat and dryness of do-nothing people around him.
He's making videos from a room in the WH. He is not the most articulate man in the room. Why aren't all these people standing up and putting their own careers and even lives on the line being interviewed by attorneys in that video-making room? Why aren't they speaking for themselves? And that would include ALL legislators, federal and state, willing to come forward and say, "The steal will not be allowed?" Instead, Trump is making videos and half the nation hates him, and he's preaching to the choir with the other half. If corrupt courts and judges will not give light to the evidence, put it out there every, single day from that room! He has control over it. Use the thing for more than your own less than dazzling speech abilities. How many times does he think Americans want to hear him say "Disgraceful" and "terrible?"
Watching evil win is very difficult. No, in the final say-so God will topple it all but, until that day arrives, if America is allowed to turn into a cauldron of corruption and criminal activity with no response from a free people to get in the faces of elected civil servants to do their duty and fulfill their oaths of office, America gets what it deserves.
Honestly, no, I do not believe the two messages I sent to my two Texas senators yesterday will make it past the first pair of eyes tasked with reading them. Messages to Congressmen, and even the President, may all be deleted and never reach the eyes they are intended for.
A couple million people will pour into D.C. on the 6th. Wall to wall humanity protesting the corruption that is The District of Columbia. The msm will lie about it, if they cover it at all. Congress does not care. Deep State does not care. If ten million people crowded the streets for miles around the city, all it will mean is that 10 million people care. Powers in control could not care less. Now, if ten million people walked towards the Capitol with intentions to remove and place under citizen's arrest every traitor to their oath to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, some legislators would shake in their shoes. If millions of people decided to remove, by force, every traitor in every position in Washington, nervous people would call on the police, national guard, or military to protect them. If those entities were true patriots they would just stand down and let things happen as they happened in the past and should happen now - the people are in control, not politicians, not alphabet agencies, not corrupt judges, not bankers, not think tank talking heads and certainly not a worthless main stream press. No. The people are the boss. The people are to be served by servants elected to do so. That is a Constitutional Republic.
Of course, none of that will happen. Do you know why? Because Americans have never known subservience or despotism or tyranny like citizens of other nations have and finally reach a place where they have had enough, and some champions arise, willing to look death in the face with no fear and move people to rise up and break the shackles. America has been tremendously blessed, even with all its sordid history and depraved people in charge at times, it has never known what early Americans knew by experience; the despotism and tyranny of a king.
You would think that, with tens of millions of people, mostly in Democrat run states, losing everything, all people, regardless of political stripe, would band together as Americans and literally remove these tyrants from office by virtue of the standards placed down in the Declaration of Independence. Why is it not happening? Why aren't millions of Americans marching on state capitols and demanding their inalienable rights, freedoms and liberty? Because they have television and movies and the internet and Walmart, and government handouts to barely keep their heads above water, something peoples of other nations centuries ago never had. We have not known real despotism and government control. Well, here it comes. The gargantuan power structure known as Washington, D.C. is about to control our lives in more ways than Americans have ever known or imagined they could be. How long will it take to break the coming shackles of totalitarianism? One generation? Two? Three? I have asked that question in previous blogs. We will not know the answer until the experience determines an ultimate response. It will not happen in my lifetime. I will watch the United Sates of America implode and come under control of total despots and devils who care about one thing, and one thing, only: POWER.
Elections have consequences. Stolen and fraudulent elections have exponential consequences.
I read this morning that, after telling America he'd veto the fake Covid relief bill - which is not relief and is filled with so much pork it will produce bacon forever around the world - he now tells the nation he signed it, and underlined things he doesn't like in red, telling Congress to fix it; the same congress behind the uplifted middle finger to him for four years that just committed the crime of US history (with all willing participants here and abroad) in stealing the election out from under him. Yeah, I'm sure they will consider all his objections and change things, and put together a second bill just dealing with the mess they made in shutting down America NEEDLESSLY over a virus they continue to pump lies about and fear monger. Not. GOP included.
Is this man as stupid as some claim? Others claim he is the smartest guy in the room; very intelligent. Surrounding yourself with traitors is not intelligent. First time you get a pass for ignorance, from that point on - well, when the dog bites me once, it's on the dog. When it bites me a second time, it's on me. A third time, I am just plain stupid.
Trump is surrounded by people refusing to even acknowledge his position in the office, let alone backing his agenda to make America and keep America great. He has four nominations for a Nobel peace prize. He has brought into play policies that have dramatically improved the lives of all Americans wanting to work and make a better life for themselves, and because of the people he surrounds himself with that was all destroyed in 2020.
He constantly writes executive orders, which aren't worth burnt toast because the next president just undoes them with new EO's. He does have actual, legitimate, Constitutional provisions to stop the wickedness taking place and he refuses to take those options.
It has become obvious his whole "You're fired!" persona is just television hype and drama and nothing more.
I might logically conclude there are entities that have told him from the beginning if he does anything they disapprove of he and his family become instant targets. Even Democrat Senator, Chuck Schumer said “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” When a U.S. Senator states on live television there are powers in the nation that are above the law, operate above the law, and have no accountability to anyone or anything but, their own agenda, and his statement just slips away into the news rotation, you know you have a corruption beyond imagined reality.
So, if Trump and /or his family have been under a monster thumb for four years, the same for all elected civil servants in D.C. then, the U.S.A. was over awhile back, wasn't it? No one is safe. No one is under the protection of law. No one is under any protection but, from God, which these swamp creatures do not believe in. Until God did something to show these entities destitute of honor and integrity otherwise, everything gets worse, not close to better, and America OBVIOUSLY has not been made great again when a presidential election has been stolen from 75 million Americans who voted for Trump, knowing full well Joe Biden could not have garnered 80 million votes if his life depended on it. The number of whistle blowers continues to rise, the number of forensic experts, companies, investigators and others continue to uncover more and more illegal and fraudulent actors and episodes from before and after the election. Yet Trump, tired and worn as he probably is, lets these people hang out in the sun to dry from the death heat and dryness of do-nothing people around him.
He's making videos from a room in the WH. He is not the most articulate man in the room. Why aren't all these people standing up and putting their own careers and even lives on the line being interviewed by attorneys in that video-making room? Why aren't they speaking for themselves? And that would include ALL legislators, federal and state, willing to come forward and say, "The steal will not be allowed?" Instead, Trump is making videos and half the nation hates him, and he's preaching to the choir with the other half. If corrupt courts and judges will not give light to the evidence, put it out there every, single day from that room! He has control over it. Use the thing for more than your own less than dazzling speech abilities. How many times does he think Americans want to hear him say "Disgraceful" and "terrible?"
Watching evil win is very difficult. No, in the final say-so God will topple it all but, until that day arrives, if America is allowed to turn into a cauldron of corruption and criminal activity with no response from a free people to get in the faces of elected civil servants to do their duty and fulfill their oaths of office, America gets what it deserves.
Honestly, no, I do not believe the two messages I sent to my two Texas senators yesterday will make it past the first pair of eyes tasked with reading them. Messages to Congressmen, and even the President, may all be deleted and never reach the eyes they are intended for.
A couple million people will pour into D.C. on the 6th. Wall to wall humanity protesting the corruption that is The District of Columbia. The msm will lie about it, if they cover it at all. Congress does not care. Deep State does not care. If ten million people crowded the streets for miles around the city, all it will mean is that 10 million people care. Powers in control could not care less. Now, if ten million people walked towards the Capitol with intentions to remove and place under citizen's arrest every traitor to their oath to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, some legislators would shake in their shoes. If millions of people decided to remove, by force, every traitor in every position in Washington, nervous people would call on the police, national guard, or military to protect them. If those entities were true patriots they would just stand down and let things happen as they happened in the past and should happen now - the people are in control, not politicians, not alphabet agencies, not corrupt judges, not bankers, not think tank talking heads and certainly not a worthless main stream press. No. The people are the boss. The people are to be served by servants elected to do so. That is a Constitutional Republic.
Of course, none of that will happen. Do you know why? Because Americans have never known subservience or despotism or tyranny like citizens of other nations have and finally reach a place where they have had enough, and some champions arise, willing to look death in the face with no fear and move people to rise up and break the shackles. America has been tremendously blessed, even with all its sordid history and depraved people in charge at times, it has never known what early Americans knew by experience; the despotism and tyranny of a king.
You would think that, with tens of millions of people, mostly in Democrat run states, losing everything, all people, regardless of political stripe, would band together as Americans and literally remove these tyrants from office by virtue of the standards placed down in the Declaration of Independence. Why is it not happening? Why aren't millions of Americans marching on state capitols and demanding their inalienable rights, freedoms and liberty? Because they have television and movies and the internet and Walmart, and government handouts to barely keep their heads above water, something peoples of other nations centuries ago never had. We have not known real despotism and government control. Well, here it comes. The gargantuan power structure known as Washington, D.C. is about to control our lives in more ways than Americans have ever known or imagined they could be. How long will it take to break the coming shackles of totalitarianism? One generation? Two? Three? I have asked that question in previous blogs. We will not know the answer until the experience determines an ultimate response. It will not happen in my lifetime. I will watch the United Sates of America implode and come under control of total despots and devils who care about one thing, and one thing, only: POWER.
Elections have consequences. Stolen and fraudulent elections have exponential consequences.
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170. 2021 - January1, 2021
Unless you live in a very remote area of the world, where your simplicity of life in very rural hunting /gathering activity is unaffected by "civilization" your life has been impacted by decisions made by some form of government in control of major population centers around the globe. "Normal" no longer exists for billions of people being forced to radically change their social interactions, their educations, their business practices, and even literal survival aspects of life have come into play.
For me, music being so important a factor of life, watching the live music industry be so thoroughly hit hard is difficult to watch, even though I am not a performing musician. And I'm still stunned and reeling by the end of the Hendrickson-Frigon Project and any hopes and dreams I saw so clearly within it. I just turned 66 the other day. I don't think any differently than I did at 36, about the major areas of daily life as an American, as a Christian. I am far more interested in patriotism than at 36. I never thought I would see what I am seeing happen in America.
Watching church life for millions derailed is even more difficult to watch. Well look, watching any and all of normal life being negatively impacted by covid hysteria, lies, political agendas, control freaks and totalitarian reset activism by world elites is very difficult to watch for anyone with an ear to the tracks. The truth is not hid away in corners. It's right there staring at us like an elephant in your front yard, when you live in Texas. Armadillos? Common. Vultures? Common. Feral hogs? Common. Elephants? Not common, and elephants in the living room are everywhere these days.
2020 is gone. Tell me, what actual difference does Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 have? Aside from 24 hours and people using new calendars, what difference does it make? None. Life has not changed in the last 24 hours. The only thing that actually changed was the use of a digit, a 1 added to 2020. The way you sign a check changes, or any document that requires you to write in a date. Everything else stays the same, or, in the case of my thinking, gets worse.
I have written a lot of things about the principles of freedom, liberty, patriotism, Americanism, and policies of tyranny, despotism, totalitarianism, and other forms of control, it's redundant to do it again.
Questions are what should be asked, by 7.8 billion people. How do people who radically differ on the aforementioned subjects get along? Why should they submit to tyranny? Where is the line crossed for a free people? When did power, not aligned with principles of guaranteed liberty, get the choice to use force to control populations? Will force excel? How will citizens be forced in 2021? In America, when did the principles of the Declaration of Independence become a non-entity? How long will freedom of speech be allowed? Will Artificial Intelligence be used to determine freedom of thought, and control it? Is the Orwellian nightmare right in front of us?
Seventy-five million people in America, who voted for Donald Trump, and I must believe far, far more than those who actually voted for him ( and he was just named the most admired man of the year by a new Gallup poll), see "government" as an enemy to freedom and liberty. They are watching America being dismantled. They are watching police departments cooperate in stopping freedom and liberty from being practiced in "normal" ways all enjoyed just a short 10 months ago. For years police have stood by and watched crime take place against law-biding citizens. Many are now leaving their jobs. They are not defying tyranny. They are leaving their jobs. They're done. It's all evaporating. People are asking questions and getting no answers other than, 'All this is being done for your protection from this deadly virus;' which the truth, the documentation, the actual statistics, the tests, the investigations, and the voices of passionate people from all professions are saying, NO, you are not protecting anybody. You are lying. You are attempting to control the population. You are destroying millions of lives, and who gave you the authority to dismantle the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, granted by God, not men?
If we ask these questions we are told we are selfish. We are conspiracy theorists. We are radicals. We are ... fill in the blank. What haven't people been called who question rogue power and authority?
To say levels of stress are reaching to outer levels of atmosphere around the globe is an understatement. The totalitarians must move quickly to contain the natural building of a molten magma of anger about to burst. What to do? Logically, how do you control entire populations in the modern age? I mean, just using common sense and logic, what would be the fastest way to cautiously control people? If you aren't going to shove a gun in their face, what can you do to control entire populations? Logically, drugs. What is the fastest way to administer them, to all classes of people, all age groups, all ideologies, all sectors of society? How would you do it?
Have you seen the stories of those who have taken the new vaccine are experiencing bad reactions, even getting the virus? Stories of doctors refusing to take it? Why? What's the problems here? The answer to obvious questions? "Well, we have told you you must take 2 doses to be 95% safe." Tell me, how many flu shots do people get in a season? One. Aside from multiple shots of drugs for cancer treatments, or rabies or something of those severe natures, since when do people need multiple vaccination shots for a virus 99% of the human population would get well from if they actually became disabled by it?
Do vaccinations come with ingredient labels like everything else you buy today that goes into your body? No. Do you know what's in a vaccine? No. If you trust the pharmaceutical companies, so be it. I most certainly do not, for a host of reasons, not the least which is Bible prophecy.
The Bible specifically states the use and propagation of drugs will be sign of the times. A totalitarian government will come. World-wide control. World-wide dominance. Is this it? To my mind, no BUT, it is the precursor. It is definitely a train on the tracks of that destination. 2021 is going to develop more control over populations, by the few over the many, more freedom and liberty lost, more of the same but, worse, to grind down the determination of people to fight back. It's like watching a Hollywood movie or tv show play out. It's a best seller being read to us by those who have control by way of money and positions of power.
In reading what has transpired since the American election, Nov. 3rd, I have lost 90% of the confidence I had that the crime of election fraud, seen so easily by anybody with eyes to read or watch the facts uncovered, is going to stand. The corruption is so thorough, so deeply cemented into place, only God can stop it. I keep asking, will He? I no longer have confidence He will.
January 6th is the day Congress accepts the electoral college vote for the presidency. Regardless of any objections by any elected civil servants, the rule of law is gone now. Not enough people in positions of authority care. If anything, they hate the rule of law and want totalitarian control to make things easier for them. Like I said last time, people in America have never been subjected to the kind of despotism and tyranny others around the world have. Immigrants that have come here have, and try to warn, are ignored but, the majority have never known total control by rulers. That effects the timing of the rise of a populace to fight off tyranny.
One would think, the way the military is treated by American politicians, they would never go along with any kind of tyranny. They don't get paid enough money to think of themselves and their positions as privileged. The same for police. Why are the police cooperating with tyranny over people refusing to wear a mask? Think about that. A mask. This thing that hooks around your ears. This thing that cannot stop the transmission of a virus particle, beyond droplets in a sneeze or cough, has become the new normal for tens of millions and the police will harm you as they cart you off to jail for not wearing one in so many places around America and the world, it is shocking, absolutely shocking free people are putting up with it.
If the police and military stay aligned with tyranny, in a modern age, no civil unrest to right a sinking ship is possible. Unrest will happen but, it will be put down because the modern firepower belongs to them, not the average citizenry. I don't see people asking the question how a civil war can logically be fought and won by patriots making up the general population. Even if the population had their arms, they do not have the armor, do they? How many citizens do you know that have any kind of body armor?
Like I said at the beginning, the questions need to be asked, and answers need to be given.
Is this the end of the world? No. Are we living in the biblical time of the end? Oh, yes. Most definitely. How long will time last? I have no idea. God knows. Ask Him. I have. He's not answering. While I'm looking for answers, He's looking for faith.
Got faith?
For me, music being so important a factor of life, watching the live music industry be so thoroughly hit hard is difficult to watch, even though I am not a performing musician. And I'm still stunned and reeling by the end of the Hendrickson-Frigon Project and any hopes and dreams I saw so clearly within it. I just turned 66 the other day. I don't think any differently than I did at 36, about the major areas of daily life as an American, as a Christian. I am far more interested in patriotism than at 36. I never thought I would see what I am seeing happen in America.
Watching church life for millions derailed is even more difficult to watch. Well look, watching any and all of normal life being negatively impacted by covid hysteria, lies, political agendas, control freaks and totalitarian reset activism by world elites is very difficult to watch for anyone with an ear to the tracks. The truth is not hid away in corners. It's right there staring at us like an elephant in your front yard, when you live in Texas. Armadillos? Common. Vultures? Common. Feral hogs? Common. Elephants? Not common, and elephants in the living room are everywhere these days.
2020 is gone. Tell me, what actual difference does Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 have? Aside from 24 hours and people using new calendars, what difference does it make? None. Life has not changed in the last 24 hours. The only thing that actually changed was the use of a digit, a 1 added to 2020. The way you sign a check changes, or any document that requires you to write in a date. Everything else stays the same, or, in the case of my thinking, gets worse.
I have written a lot of things about the principles of freedom, liberty, patriotism, Americanism, and policies of tyranny, despotism, totalitarianism, and other forms of control, it's redundant to do it again.
Questions are what should be asked, by 7.8 billion people. How do people who radically differ on the aforementioned subjects get along? Why should they submit to tyranny? Where is the line crossed for a free people? When did power, not aligned with principles of guaranteed liberty, get the choice to use force to control populations? Will force excel? How will citizens be forced in 2021? In America, when did the principles of the Declaration of Independence become a non-entity? How long will freedom of speech be allowed? Will Artificial Intelligence be used to determine freedom of thought, and control it? Is the Orwellian nightmare right in front of us?
Seventy-five million people in America, who voted for Donald Trump, and I must believe far, far more than those who actually voted for him ( and he was just named the most admired man of the year by a new Gallup poll), see "government" as an enemy to freedom and liberty. They are watching America being dismantled. They are watching police departments cooperate in stopping freedom and liberty from being practiced in "normal" ways all enjoyed just a short 10 months ago. For years police have stood by and watched crime take place against law-biding citizens. Many are now leaving their jobs. They are not defying tyranny. They are leaving their jobs. They're done. It's all evaporating. People are asking questions and getting no answers other than, 'All this is being done for your protection from this deadly virus;' which the truth, the documentation, the actual statistics, the tests, the investigations, and the voices of passionate people from all professions are saying, NO, you are not protecting anybody. You are lying. You are attempting to control the population. You are destroying millions of lives, and who gave you the authority to dismantle the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, granted by God, not men?
If we ask these questions we are told we are selfish. We are conspiracy theorists. We are radicals. We are ... fill in the blank. What haven't people been called who question rogue power and authority?
To say levels of stress are reaching to outer levels of atmosphere around the globe is an understatement. The totalitarians must move quickly to contain the natural building of a molten magma of anger about to burst. What to do? Logically, how do you control entire populations in the modern age? I mean, just using common sense and logic, what would be the fastest way to cautiously control people? If you aren't going to shove a gun in their face, what can you do to control entire populations? Logically, drugs. What is the fastest way to administer them, to all classes of people, all age groups, all ideologies, all sectors of society? How would you do it?
Have you seen the stories of those who have taken the new vaccine are experiencing bad reactions, even getting the virus? Stories of doctors refusing to take it? Why? What's the problems here? The answer to obvious questions? "Well, we have told you you must take 2 doses to be 95% safe." Tell me, how many flu shots do people get in a season? One. Aside from multiple shots of drugs for cancer treatments, or rabies or something of those severe natures, since when do people need multiple vaccination shots for a virus 99% of the human population would get well from if they actually became disabled by it?
Do vaccinations come with ingredient labels like everything else you buy today that goes into your body? No. Do you know what's in a vaccine? No. If you trust the pharmaceutical companies, so be it. I most certainly do not, for a host of reasons, not the least which is Bible prophecy.
The Bible specifically states the use and propagation of drugs will be sign of the times. A totalitarian government will come. World-wide control. World-wide dominance. Is this it? To my mind, no BUT, it is the precursor. It is definitely a train on the tracks of that destination. 2021 is going to develop more control over populations, by the few over the many, more freedom and liberty lost, more of the same but, worse, to grind down the determination of people to fight back. It's like watching a Hollywood movie or tv show play out. It's a best seller being read to us by those who have control by way of money and positions of power.
In reading what has transpired since the American election, Nov. 3rd, I have lost 90% of the confidence I had that the crime of election fraud, seen so easily by anybody with eyes to read or watch the facts uncovered, is going to stand. The corruption is so thorough, so deeply cemented into place, only God can stop it. I keep asking, will He? I no longer have confidence He will.
January 6th is the day Congress accepts the electoral college vote for the presidency. Regardless of any objections by any elected civil servants, the rule of law is gone now. Not enough people in positions of authority care. If anything, they hate the rule of law and want totalitarian control to make things easier for them. Like I said last time, people in America have never been subjected to the kind of despotism and tyranny others around the world have. Immigrants that have come here have, and try to warn, are ignored but, the majority have never known total control by rulers. That effects the timing of the rise of a populace to fight off tyranny.
One would think, the way the military is treated by American politicians, they would never go along with any kind of tyranny. They don't get paid enough money to think of themselves and their positions as privileged. The same for police. Why are the police cooperating with tyranny over people refusing to wear a mask? Think about that. A mask. This thing that hooks around your ears. This thing that cannot stop the transmission of a virus particle, beyond droplets in a sneeze or cough, has become the new normal for tens of millions and the police will harm you as they cart you off to jail for not wearing one in so many places around America and the world, it is shocking, absolutely shocking free people are putting up with it.
If the police and military stay aligned with tyranny, in a modern age, no civil unrest to right a sinking ship is possible. Unrest will happen but, it will be put down because the modern firepower belongs to them, not the average citizenry. I don't see people asking the question how a civil war can logically be fought and won by patriots making up the general population. Even if the population had their arms, they do not have the armor, do they? How many citizens do you know that have any kind of body armor?
Like I said at the beginning, the questions need to be asked, and answers need to be given.
Is this the end of the world? No. Are we living in the biblical time of the end? Oh, yes. Most definitely. How long will time last? I have no idea. God knows. Ask Him. I have. He's not answering. While I'm looking for answers, He's looking for faith.
Got faith?
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171. Trump Signs Bill Demanding UFO Revelations - January 2, 2021
I have seen this story at a number of websites this past week. This is one details it pretty well:
https://www.collective-evolution.com/2020/12/30/president-trump-signs-bill-giving-intelligence-agencies-180-days-to-reveal-the-truth-about-ufos/
If you follow this blog you know I have written about UFO's before. I have seen them, whatever they were, twice in my life. I also believe the Bible very clearly alludes to the fact life exists in the universe beyond Earth and the angelic host, and laid that out; as well as stating the role "ET" will play in last day events: #29, and elsewhere.
Again, while I believe the Bible states life exists beyond Earth that does not mean I believe they visit here. I doubt they need to, to know exactly what is taking place on this battlefield where universal struggle takes place between forces of good and evil. Do you need to travel to the other side of the Earth to know what is going on there? No. You can watch it with Ultra High Definition televisions. What do you logically think unfallen beings with straight-line connection to the Creator get to see? Things beyond our comprehension.
So then, who is "up there" flying around and performing aeronautic feats beyond anything mankind can currently pull off? The bigger question, to me, is why has the U.S. military, FBI, CIA, and everybody else with headquarters in D.C. denied the existence of such UAP's (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), used disinformation campaigns to attempt to control citizen investigation and research, and label anyone a kook who claims to have seen things up there since the 1940's, yet now, in the last few years, have legitimized sightings from their own personnel, released certain amounts of documentation gathered by their own research entities, and the main stream press has become a mouthpiece for all this exposure and disclosure? What's going on? Especially when they say there is a threat from these "off-world vehicles."
President Trump has given these agencies 180 days to come clean with it all. Will they? Doubtful. Aside from hating Trump and wanting him gone, whatever their agenda is, they aren't going to let Trump muck it up when, for them, he's days away from vacating the White House.
Trump promised to do this before he was elected. I guess he sees he'd better do it now in case the steal holds and he has to go.
My purpose here is to continue on agitating the subject because I believe, without a single doubt, Satan is going to use the entire ET scenario to his advantage in deceiving the world when the final events kick in. He has spent more than a century addressing the matter that he does not even exist, let alone is intimately involved with affairs in our world. He has gotten multiplied millions to believe God does not exist, thereby removing his existence by default, and all attempts to warn mankind of his actions should be seen as lunacy, in such a mature, technological age. Like I always say, "He's a good devil." He's the best at what he does - deception. He's the first liar and the best liar and will lie until he's finally destroyed. That's another subject.
Suffice to say, I believe things I have believed for four decades are soon to come to pass. The signs of the times are lining up, events are happening quickly, the final battles between truth and lies are gearing up.
The military industrial complex desires war because war makes money for them. War has become far too unpopular, even trying to make the world think war with Russia and China is on the horizon and Americans must face that reality. It is not reality. Mutual destruction is stupidity and everybody with access to nuclear capability knows that. Nobody wins the next world war so, if you want war and you can't convince the world we need to fight each other, who does that leave? ET!
The only logical reason the military, the FBI and the CIA have been releasing info and legitimizing the subject of UFO's and posing them as a threat is because war with ET is on the horizon.
Do you see how stupid it all is? If "ET" has the knowledge and capability to traverse space, light years of distance and time, to come to this planet, and fly around in craft so advanced we cannot hope to compete with them, if they wanted to destroy the human race it would have happened. Man's plans may be war with "ET." That is not Satan's plan, per se'. "Peace and safety" is his coming deception. That is his ultimate plan, his ultimate deception. Masquerading as "ET" will be quite the show. The prince of the power of the air has big plans in the works.
Watch for it. Watch for more UFO "official" disclosure, more talk of threat, more talk of war with ET, more talk of war with China and Russia, and watch for the entrance of "ET" into human affairs to bring peace and safety to a world about to come unglued and melt down.
When? I'd say pretty soon. Looks like we are reaching that point on a fast track. The next decade is going to be a fateful one, more so than previous ones of the last century.
Listen, Christ is coming back to earth again. All the atheists on the planet cannot gainsay the march and fall of nations depicted in Bible prophecy, as God seeks to convince man He knows the end from the beginning because He is God, and there is no other. Christ came, promised to return, and shall, hopefully in my lifetime.
My wife thinks I need to get back behind a pulpit and return to ministry. Others have said as much in recent years. I'm worn out with life. It happens. Worn out, burn out, call it what you will. If God wants me back in public ministry ... that is up to Him, and His doing. The young are who He needs; those with the vigor of youth, the energy and passions of youth, guided correctly and moving like fire through a summer field. An army of youth on fire for truth is what will take this gig home and usher in the return of the Lord. Will it happen soon?
I hope so.
Watch the skies.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
https://www.collective-evolution.com/2020/12/30/president-trump-signs-bill-giving-intelligence-agencies-180-days-to-reveal-the-truth-about-ufos/
If you follow this blog you know I have written about UFO's before. I have seen them, whatever they were, twice in my life. I also believe the Bible very clearly alludes to the fact life exists in the universe beyond Earth and the angelic host, and laid that out; as well as stating the role "ET" will play in last day events: #29, and elsewhere.
Again, while I believe the Bible states life exists beyond Earth that does not mean I believe they visit here. I doubt they need to, to know exactly what is taking place on this battlefield where universal struggle takes place between forces of good and evil. Do you need to travel to the other side of the Earth to know what is going on there? No. You can watch it with Ultra High Definition televisions. What do you logically think unfallen beings with straight-line connection to the Creator get to see? Things beyond our comprehension.
So then, who is "up there" flying around and performing aeronautic feats beyond anything mankind can currently pull off? The bigger question, to me, is why has the U.S. military, FBI, CIA, and everybody else with headquarters in D.C. denied the existence of such UAP's (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), used disinformation campaigns to attempt to control citizen investigation and research, and label anyone a kook who claims to have seen things up there since the 1940's, yet now, in the last few years, have legitimized sightings from their own personnel, released certain amounts of documentation gathered by their own research entities, and the main stream press has become a mouthpiece for all this exposure and disclosure? What's going on? Especially when they say there is a threat from these "off-world vehicles."
President Trump has given these agencies 180 days to come clean with it all. Will they? Doubtful. Aside from hating Trump and wanting him gone, whatever their agenda is, they aren't going to let Trump muck it up when, for them, he's days away from vacating the White House.
Trump promised to do this before he was elected. I guess he sees he'd better do it now in case the steal holds and he has to go.
My purpose here is to continue on agitating the subject because I believe, without a single doubt, Satan is going to use the entire ET scenario to his advantage in deceiving the world when the final events kick in. He has spent more than a century addressing the matter that he does not even exist, let alone is intimately involved with affairs in our world. He has gotten multiplied millions to believe God does not exist, thereby removing his existence by default, and all attempts to warn mankind of his actions should be seen as lunacy, in such a mature, technological age. Like I always say, "He's a good devil." He's the best at what he does - deception. He's the first liar and the best liar and will lie until he's finally destroyed. That's another subject.
Suffice to say, I believe things I have believed for four decades are soon to come to pass. The signs of the times are lining up, events are happening quickly, the final battles between truth and lies are gearing up.
The military industrial complex desires war because war makes money for them. War has become far too unpopular, even trying to make the world think war with Russia and China is on the horizon and Americans must face that reality. It is not reality. Mutual destruction is stupidity and everybody with access to nuclear capability knows that. Nobody wins the next world war so, if you want war and you can't convince the world we need to fight each other, who does that leave? ET!
The only logical reason the military, the FBI and the CIA have been releasing info and legitimizing the subject of UFO's and posing them as a threat is because war with ET is on the horizon.
Do you see how stupid it all is? If "ET" has the knowledge and capability to traverse space, light years of distance and time, to come to this planet, and fly around in craft so advanced we cannot hope to compete with them, if they wanted to destroy the human race it would have happened. Man's plans may be war with "ET." That is not Satan's plan, per se'. "Peace and safety" is his coming deception. That is his ultimate plan, his ultimate deception. Masquerading as "ET" will be quite the show. The prince of the power of the air has big plans in the works.
Watch for it. Watch for more UFO "official" disclosure, more talk of threat, more talk of war with ET, more talk of war with China and Russia, and watch for the entrance of "ET" into human affairs to bring peace and safety to a world about to come unglued and melt down.
When? I'd say pretty soon. Looks like we are reaching that point on a fast track. The next decade is going to be a fateful one, more so than previous ones of the last century.
Listen, Christ is coming back to earth again. All the atheists on the planet cannot gainsay the march and fall of nations depicted in Bible prophecy, as God seeks to convince man He knows the end from the beginning because He is God, and there is no other. Christ came, promised to return, and shall, hopefully in my lifetime.
My wife thinks I need to get back behind a pulpit and return to ministry. Others have said as much in recent years. I'm worn out with life. It happens. Worn out, burn out, call it what you will. If God wants me back in public ministry ... that is up to Him, and His doing. The young are who He needs; those with the vigor of youth, the energy and passions of youth, guided correctly and moving like fire through a summer field. An army of youth on fire for truth is what will take this gig home and usher in the return of the Lord. Will it happen soon?
I hope so.
Watch the skies.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
********************
172. Top Down Systems Always Fail - January 2, 2021
I just read a story about a Canadian father attempting to get a conscientious objection (not medical exemption) for his 6 yr old son, so he would not have to wear a mask to, while at, and from school. The top down system within the Canadian school system gave him runarounds back and forth, and through patience and determination, got his exemption, though no one signed off on it, personally. He just got a simple, unsigned email stating his son did not have to wear a mask. In seeking who actually gave the authoritative permission, his experience led him and his wife to realize the school system, operating on a top down organization of fear, was not a good environment and ultimately pulled their son out of the school system and now home school him.
Top on down systems that function under fear and threat of employment loss never work. Nobody wants to be responsible. Nobody wants to be accountable. Nobody wants to be the one who says anything that can used against them. The entire government of the United States and all other nations, function on that system of fear. That system of fear creates fear for those outside the system, the citizenry, so they may be better controlled. Create fear, then create safety and calm, and you can control any group of people except those who think for themselves. Those who think for themselves and speak and act for themselves must be marginalized lest they infect others with so bold and obnoxious a belief that freedom and liberty exist for the citizenry by right and law, not at the behest of those in positions of power, who themselves, see themselves above the laws they themselves create, and consistently violate them.
In American history, God is the great Lawgiver. He gave inalienable rights to all men - Life, Liberty, Pursuit of happiness.
My Life is my business, not the State's. That means my health, as well.
My Liberty is a gift from God and as long as I do not exhibit incivility and endanger my neighbor, I cannot be alienated from my Liberty to Live and Pursue Happiness as I desire.
I am free, at Liberty to Pursue what makes me happy, not the State, as long as I abide within the rule of law civil servants wrote at America's founding, and have legitimate authority to write now.
Canada has a Charter of Rights the father in the story referred to. It seemed Canadians in the school system were afraid to address those rights. They just kept passing things on to someone above them to handle, as ones above them passed it all back down. Round and round it went until the father got downright serious and in their face about the runaround.
America has a Declaration of Independence and a Constitution that LIMITS the influence of elected civil servants (government) in the amount of control they can have over my Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness. Right now, most elected civil servants, judges, police departments, or anybody else wants to live within the limits of the Constitution and grant that free men have inalienable rights given them of God. It is all backwards, and called progressive, forward thinking to remove God, remove individual rights, and move ever closer to a hive mentality, an ant hill existence.
For all his faults, Donald Trump cares more about my rights than just about ANY president before him in the last century, even more than professed Conservative, Ronald Reagan. Therefore, the top on down system hates Trump, and hates millions of free men and women who think for themselves, speak for themselves, and are sick and tired of elected civil servants acting like kings and queens rather than the servants they are, in government to serve the rights of the people, not diminish them for their own good because politicians know best. Most politicians are airheads. One need only to listen to their hollow and meaningless speeches to know that. They are pawns, useful idiots for powers above them, in the world top on down system that is vying for total control as I type. Totalitarianism is their agenda, for the good of the world's people. NO inalienable rights given of God. No rights, at all. No property ownership, other than rights and property the top allows the bottom to have.
Such a system NEVER lasts. It never has, it never will. Millions, perhaps even billions will die in such a system if it becomes reality but, as long as there are people who think, speak, and act for themselves, such systems will always collapse at some point because God created people to be free. Never forget that fact. Freedom, liberty, pursuit of happiness, fellowship, community is in the fibers of our being, and when men threaten them, humans react. If men gain the power and force of arms, freedom and liberty may be temporarily lost but, God works with those who proclaim truth, justice, and rights and stand up against tyranny, despotism and totalitarianism.
Americans have been lied to by politicians for so long, politicians are a waiting political cartoon and caricature of reality. 90% of Americans no longer have complete trust in "government," i.e. politicians: elected civil servants, and millions suffer under the heavy-handed stupidity of those trying to control their citizens and destroying their people and their economies as a result. Well, stupid? More like the planned agenda.
I am shocked to see more and more people wearing masks here in Texas. They are not becoming less, they are becoming the growing norm. HOW CAN THIS BE? Again, FEAR. The success of the fear campaign waged by those who exist and thrust a top on down structure down the throats of the citizenry is gaining ground.
If Americans will not think, speak and act for themselves, and call out to God for His aid and strength to grab hold of people, the totalitarians will win.
Masks, lock downs, vaccinations, shutting down the public voice of anyone standing against the top on down system, against the "expert" demigods, even attempting to shut down the private voices of people in their owns homes (Scotland, for instance), is all part of an agenda to control the world by wicked, demented, evil people who hate God, hate people, and crave power.
Watching this take place in America is simply astonishing. The top on down system, rather than a people on top and government at the bottom, there to serve the people, not be served by them, is destined to collapse as Satan only wishes to destroy, and shall destroy, when God is cast aside. If the godless gain control, as they certainly are gaining tremendous ground, everything we know and enjoy as Americans shall be lost. I cannot warn myself, and others, anyone who will listen, or come here and read, enough. We can never stop warning ourselves enough because evil NEVER stops.
It was the great Irish civil servant and judge, John Philpot Curran's statement (not Thomas Jefferson) which proclaimed:
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
It is a crime against God and His government to relinquish rights He has given to man. Think about that. Much is said about traitors and treason these days. It is treasonous to allow men to take rights from us, their fellow man, which God has freely granted us in His wisdom and authority. A punishment of servitude awaits those who do not keep eternally vigilant to protect rights given them by the great Sovereign of the universe.
The government of God is the ONLY top on down government, a spiritual Kingdom, that ever can succeed, for God is love, and citizens of His kingdom exist in love for God and love for their fellow man. No other government operates on that principle, nor can it. It can, at best, exist with cooperative civility, which is why we have moral law - God's; and civil law - man's, to abide in until a better day arrives when God's will shall be the will of all people, forever more, throughout eternal ages to come.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Top on down systems that function under fear and threat of employment loss never work. Nobody wants to be responsible. Nobody wants to be accountable. Nobody wants to be the one who says anything that can used against them. The entire government of the United States and all other nations, function on that system of fear. That system of fear creates fear for those outside the system, the citizenry, so they may be better controlled. Create fear, then create safety and calm, and you can control any group of people except those who think for themselves. Those who think for themselves and speak and act for themselves must be marginalized lest they infect others with so bold and obnoxious a belief that freedom and liberty exist for the citizenry by right and law, not at the behest of those in positions of power, who themselves, see themselves above the laws they themselves create, and consistently violate them.
In American history, God is the great Lawgiver. He gave inalienable rights to all men - Life, Liberty, Pursuit of happiness.
My Life is my business, not the State's. That means my health, as well.
My Liberty is a gift from God and as long as I do not exhibit incivility and endanger my neighbor, I cannot be alienated from my Liberty to Live and Pursue Happiness as I desire.
I am free, at Liberty to Pursue what makes me happy, not the State, as long as I abide within the rule of law civil servants wrote at America's founding, and have legitimate authority to write now.
Canada has a Charter of Rights the father in the story referred to. It seemed Canadians in the school system were afraid to address those rights. They just kept passing things on to someone above them to handle, as ones above them passed it all back down. Round and round it went until the father got downright serious and in their face about the runaround.
America has a Declaration of Independence and a Constitution that LIMITS the influence of elected civil servants (government) in the amount of control they can have over my Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness. Right now, most elected civil servants, judges, police departments, or anybody else wants to live within the limits of the Constitution and grant that free men have inalienable rights given them of God. It is all backwards, and called progressive, forward thinking to remove God, remove individual rights, and move ever closer to a hive mentality, an ant hill existence.
For all his faults, Donald Trump cares more about my rights than just about ANY president before him in the last century, even more than professed Conservative, Ronald Reagan. Therefore, the top on down system hates Trump, and hates millions of free men and women who think for themselves, speak for themselves, and are sick and tired of elected civil servants acting like kings and queens rather than the servants they are, in government to serve the rights of the people, not diminish them for their own good because politicians know best. Most politicians are airheads. One need only to listen to their hollow and meaningless speeches to know that. They are pawns, useful idiots for powers above them, in the world top on down system that is vying for total control as I type. Totalitarianism is their agenda, for the good of the world's people. NO inalienable rights given of God. No rights, at all. No property ownership, other than rights and property the top allows the bottom to have.
Such a system NEVER lasts. It never has, it never will. Millions, perhaps even billions will die in such a system if it becomes reality but, as long as there are people who think, speak, and act for themselves, such systems will always collapse at some point because God created people to be free. Never forget that fact. Freedom, liberty, pursuit of happiness, fellowship, community is in the fibers of our being, and when men threaten them, humans react. If men gain the power and force of arms, freedom and liberty may be temporarily lost but, God works with those who proclaim truth, justice, and rights and stand up against tyranny, despotism and totalitarianism.
Americans have been lied to by politicians for so long, politicians are a waiting political cartoon and caricature of reality. 90% of Americans no longer have complete trust in "government," i.e. politicians: elected civil servants, and millions suffer under the heavy-handed stupidity of those trying to control their citizens and destroying their people and their economies as a result. Well, stupid? More like the planned agenda.
I am shocked to see more and more people wearing masks here in Texas. They are not becoming less, they are becoming the growing norm. HOW CAN THIS BE? Again, FEAR. The success of the fear campaign waged by those who exist and thrust a top on down structure down the throats of the citizenry is gaining ground.
If Americans will not think, speak and act for themselves, and call out to God for His aid and strength to grab hold of people, the totalitarians will win.
Masks, lock downs, vaccinations, shutting down the public voice of anyone standing against the top on down system, against the "expert" demigods, even attempting to shut down the private voices of people in their owns homes (Scotland, for instance), is all part of an agenda to control the world by wicked, demented, evil people who hate God, hate people, and crave power.
Watching this take place in America is simply astonishing. The top on down system, rather than a people on top and government at the bottom, there to serve the people, not be served by them, is destined to collapse as Satan only wishes to destroy, and shall destroy, when God is cast aside. If the godless gain control, as they certainly are gaining tremendous ground, everything we know and enjoy as Americans shall be lost. I cannot warn myself, and others, anyone who will listen, or come here and read, enough. We can never stop warning ourselves enough because evil NEVER stops.
It was the great Irish civil servant and judge, John Philpot Curran's statement (not Thomas Jefferson) which proclaimed:
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
It is a crime against God and His government to relinquish rights He has given to man. Think about that. Much is said about traitors and treason these days. It is treasonous to allow men to take rights from us, their fellow man, which God has freely granted us in His wisdom and authority. A punishment of servitude awaits those who do not keep eternally vigilant to protect rights given them by the great Sovereign of the universe.
The government of God is the ONLY top on down government, a spiritual Kingdom, that ever can succeed, for God is love, and citizens of His kingdom exist in love for God and love for their fellow man. No other government operates on that principle, nor can it. It can, at best, exist with cooperative civility, which is why we have moral law - God's; and civil law - man's, to abide in until a better day arrives when God's will shall be the will of all people, forever more, throughout eternal ages to come.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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173. What Can I Say? - January 6, 2021
What can I say? I watched live coverage of the day's events in D.C. No official number of people but, somewhere between 250k and a million people turned out. It started great. As predicted by voices last week, the day has not ended well.
What can I say? People inspired by various speakers: patriots MUST stand against the Republic falling into the hands of people owned by the communist Chinese government. Trump laid out another point by point speech of how the election was stolen, a criminal activity and disgraceful mark on American history. By the end of the day, while so many police depts. stood by and watched their cities burned down, watched as Trump supporters left buildings and were harassed, beaten and bloodied all year long, yet descended on free Americans, marching towards the Capitol building to protest the election fraud, with flash grenades, tear gas, rubber bullets, even their fists, and by day's end, an innocent young woman was gunned down, shot in the neck, apparently from behind, falling back to the floor, gasping for air, her body twitching in helplessness, and the media predictably blames it all on Trump, who sent out tweets telling people to stay peaceful, respectful of police, and go home. To add insult to injury, Twitter allegedly censored the president's messages.
What can I say? While Trump was speaking, Pence was waffling in the Senate chamber, putting out a multi-page letter that obviously backtracked on discussions he and Trump had, leading Trump to believe and state that he and Pence were on the same page. Trump will go down in history as the most stabbed in the back man to ever walk a hall in D.C. I cannot imagine how alone he feels.
What can I say? I exchanged emails with various people today, three from Europe and Asia, trying to explain to them the horror of what is happening in America as citizens who love their country watch it being taken in broad daylight, right in front of their eyes, betrayed by elected civil servants, betrayed by a supposed neutral, free press, betrayed by those who took oaths to defend the Constitution from ALL enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC, betrayed by those who swore to protect Americans and free, fair, and transparent elections. It's like watching a Hollywood movie or television program. It cannot be real. But, it is.
What can I say? Millions of betrayed, angry Americans now have a martyr, yet nameless as I type, of a young woman just carrying a Trump flag, attempting to crawl through an opening in a hallway at the Capitol to join others who walked into the building from other directions, and was shot at point blank range, and shall now become a catalyst for upheaval not seen since the American Civil War. The Leftists have had their poster people, like George Floyd and others, in the midst of criminal activity no less, to use as motivation to tear down American cities at will. Patriots now have the image of a free American woman gunned down in cold blood by a mystery assailant (as far as the video shows) who will not be punished, as the main stream media is highly unlikely to name her and immortalize her, as they have their criminal fellows. No one attempted to pull her back, warn her, stop her. They just shot her, to death, in the neck.
What can I say? I remember the day John Glenn orbited the earth. The day Kennedy was shot, and his brother, Robert. I remember the Beatles, on the Ed Sullivan Show. I remember the day a man walked on the moon. I remember the days when Communism fell in Eastern Europe. I remember 9/11, a day of incredible infamy that has yet to be actually investigated thoroughly. And I shall remember the day the United Sates of America fell into the hands of rogue, treasonous, traitors. May God judge them in due course.
What can be said?
God is not blessing America.
I still pray He saves it for His own purposes.
What can I say? People inspired by various speakers: patriots MUST stand against the Republic falling into the hands of people owned by the communist Chinese government. Trump laid out another point by point speech of how the election was stolen, a criminal activity and disgraceful mark on American history. By the end of the day, while so many police depts. stood by and watched their cities burned down, watched as Trump supporters left buildings and were harassed, beaten and bloodied all year long, yet descended on free Americans, marching towards the Capitol building to protest the election fraud, with flash grenades, tear gas, rubber bullets, even their fists, and by day's end, an innocent young woman was gunned down, shot in the neck, apparently from behind, falling back to the floor, gasping for air, her body twitching in helplessness, and the media predictably blames it all on Trump, who sent out tweets telling people to stay peaceful, respectful of police, and go home. To add insult to injury, Twitter allegedly censored the president's messages.
What can I say? While Trump was speaking, Pence was waffling in the Senate chamber, putting out a multi-page letter that obviously backtracked on discussions he and Trump had, leading Trump to believe and state that he and Pence were on the same page. Trump will go down in history as the most stabbed in the back man to ever walk a hall in D.C. I cannot imagine how alone he feels.
What can I say? I exchanged emails with various people today, three from Europe and Asia, trying to explain to them the horror of what is happening in America as citizens who love their country watch it being taken in broad daylight, right in front of their eyes, betrayed by elected civil servants, betrayed by a supposed neutral, free press, betrayed by those who took oaths to defend the Constitution from ALL enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC, betrayed by those who swore to protect Americans and free, fair, and transparent elections. It's like watching a Hollywood movie or television program. It cannot be real. But, it is.
What can I say? Millions of betrayed, angry Americans now have a martyr, yet nameless as I type, of a young woman just carrying a Trump flag, attempting to crawl through an opening in a hallway at the Capitol to join others who walked into the building from other directions, and was shot at point blank range, and shall now become a catalyst for upheaval not seen since the American Civil War. The Leftists have had their poster people, like George Floyd and others, in the midst of criminal activity no less, to use as motivation to tear down American cities at will. Patriots now have the image of a free American woman gunned down in cold blood by a mystery assailant (as far as the video shows) who will not be punished, as the main stream media is highly unlikely to name her and immortalize her, as they have their criminal fellows. No one attempted to pull her back, warn her, stop her. They just shot her, to death, in the neck.
What can I say? I remember the day John Glenn orbited the earth. The day Kennedy was shot, and his brother, Robert. I remember the Beatles, on the Ed Sullivan Show. I remember the day a man walked on the moon. I remember the days when Communism fell in Eastern Europe. I remember 9/11, a day of incredible infamy that has yet to be actually investigated thoroughly. And I shall remember the day the United Sates of America fell into the hands of rogue, treasonous, traitors. May God judge them in due course.
What can be said?
God is not blessing America.
I still pray He saves it for His own purposes.
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174. An Email Reply, An Honest Assessment - January 7, 2021
I spent a great deal of the day yesterday communicating with people. I just sent an email reply to someone which pretty much sums up my feelings for the current situation and future. Names have been removed and a little editing. It's a simple, dreadful outlook, I know but, if a blog is supposed to be about honest appraisal of one's life, shared before anyone who cares to read it, this is it.
______________________________
Greetings ________,
I cannot wish you Happy New Year because it is not. It's a literal disaster. At least, here in America where the biggest crime in American history is taking place in front of our eyes, in bold, flagrant, dastardly and wicked intent. The ONLY conclusion that is logical to draw is that the Totalitarian cabal, led by the CCP, has so many American politicians in their pocket they knew they could pull off this steal and be successful. I will not bother to state the darkness about to descend on this nation, and thereby the rest of the world, at least the West.
My project with _______ came to an end a month ago, and I cannot begin to tell you how shocked and heartbroken I am. I don't even want to play drums anymore.
I am going to guess _______ asked you to write me. He sent me an email yesterday to which I replied that all things considered - hysterical Covid restrictions, masks, vaccinations, and any other forced mandates for travel, as well as a bad year for my back and knees another year will only make worse, and someone will probably have to help me up and down off the drum riser at KIT, and just the plain fact there is no Legend, and until yesterday I had not heard from _______ in months, and expressed the same current conditions to him that it is highly unlikely a Legend performance will take place in 2022.
None of this is anyone's fault but those who designed the virus, sent it out, and worked to control humanity thereby, which is likely to continue into next year and beyond. The same goes for those controlling the American election outcome. This is all so much bigger than a heavy metal festival and I really could not care much less about performing at one when my children and any grandchildren I end up with are now facing an Orwellian future of massive proportions. There is no more life as usual. Unless God steps in and somehow stops it all, the future shall not be happy. It shall be unimaginably bleak and grey. My nation is on the brink of civil war. Playing drums at a festival in Germany, one of the worst offenders of freedom and liberty in the whole Covid mess, is just not on my yearly planner.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of him, Donald Trump is the most stabbed in the back person in American history right now. The dreadful nature of what half of America is beholding outweighs all else. The ignorant other half will find out too late what they have unleashed on their country. Europeans and other nations much older than America have seen their despotic regimes come and go. Americans, those born here, have one civil war in its history, and a basic tenet of defending freedom and liberty from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Domestic enemies are taking control, _______, right in front of our eyes and the present and future are not only not happy but, unlikely free of blood flowing from more innocent people like the young female USAF veteran shot and killed yesterday in a building she pays taxes for and owns by national right of all Americans.
I have not checked my _______ email so I don't know if _______ replied and there's nothing he can say, anyway. Forward this to him, whatever. Doesn't matter.
Take care,
Ray
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Greetings ________,
I cannot wish you Happy New Year because it is not. It's a literal disaster. At least, here in America where the biggest crime in American history is taking place in front of our eyes, in bold, flagrant, dastardly and wicked intent. The ONLY conclusion that is logical to draw is that the Totalitarian cabal, led by the CCP, has so many American politicians in their pocket they knew they could pull off this steal and be successful. I will not bother to state the darkness about to descend on this nation, and thereby the rest of the world, at least the West.
My project with _______ came to an end a month ago, and I cannot begin to tell you how shocked and heartbroken I am. I don't even want to play drums anymore.
I am going to guess _______ asked you to write me. He sent me an email yesterday to which I replied that all things considered - hysterical Covid restrictions, masks, vaccinations, and any other forced mandates for travel, as well as a bad year for my back and knees another year will only make worse, and someone will probably have to help me up and down off the drum riser at KIT, and just the plain fact there is no Legend, and until yesterday I had not heard from _______ in months, and expressed the same current conditions to him that it is highly unlikely a Legend performance will take place in 2022.
None of this is anyone's fault but those who designed the virus, sent it out, and worked to control humanity thereby, which is likely to continue into next year and beyond. The same goes for those controlling the American election outcome. This is all so much bigger than a heavy metal festival and I really could not care much less about performing at one when my children and any grandchildren I end up with are now facing an Orwellian future of massive proportions. There is no more life as usual. Unless God steps in and somehow stops it all, the future shall not be happy. It shall be unimaginably bleak and grey. My nation is on the brink of civil war. Playing drums at a festival in Germany, one of the worst offenders of freedom and liberty in the whole Covid mess, is just not on my yearly planner.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of him, Donald Trump is the most stabbed in the back person in American history right now. The dreadful nature of what half of America is beholding outweighs all else. The ignorant other half will find out too late what they have unleashed on their country. Europeans and other nations much older than America have seen their despotic regimes come and go. Americans, those born here, have one civil war in its history, and a basic tenet of defending freedom and liberty from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Domestic enemies are taking control, _______, right in front of our eyes and the present and future are not only not happy but, unlikely free of blood flowing from more innocent people like the young female USAF veteran shot and killed yesterday in a building she pays taxes for and owns by national right of all Americans.
I have not checked my _______ email so I don't know if _______ replied and there's nothing he can say, anyway. Forward this to him, whatever. Doesn't matter.
Take care,
Ray
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175. Viral Videos - January 7, 2021
If video existed 2000 years ago, I can imagine the videos that would be going viral showing how wicked people plotted to kill Christ, scatter His supporters, and terrorize people with fear mongering, lies, deceitful showboating, calling on the power of the state to stop the "domestic terrorists" from destroying Judea and Jerusalem with their heresy and anarchy.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Ashli Babbit is her name. Ashli Babbit, the 14 year Air Force veteran who served four tours of service was shot at almost point blank range at the Capitol yesterday. The first video emerged. The second shows the shooter quite clearly and one must wonder why, why no one sought to warn her a pistol was pointing at her before she was shot down? Who was videoing that scene? Why didn't anyone there try and hold her back? Why did a trained officer take a head shot? Who is that officer?
Why are there videos showing Capitol police taking DOWN barriers and allowing a rush of people towards the building, in one case running ahead of them?
Why has a video emerged showing Capitol police LEADING supposed Trump supporters into the building up a staircase?
Why are there videos showing people claiming to be Trump supporters caught on videos as part of Antifa and BLM supporters from events months ago?
Why are there videos showing Trump supporters tried to STOP men from breaking windows at the capitol?
Why are there videos of Trump supporters pulling violent vandals AWAY from the building as they began damaging it?
Why are there videos, as usual, completely undoing the "official explanation" of yesterday's events? Because the official explanation, like the officials explaining it, are liars, traitors, treasonous lunatics now screaming to impeach Trump, remove him by the 25th amendment, denouncing him, shutting down, blocking, censoring every public avenue of defense, calling for Trump supporters to be removed from society, locked up, even killed!!!
Cowardly traitors in the GOP hanging Trump in demonic sound bytes that are destroying any hopes of their reelection because they are the lowest of the low. Not that it matters, they think, because all future elections, like this one, will be determined by technology and criminals before it takes place. A groveling, helpless drug addict in a gutter has more honor and integrity than they do. But, of course, they think, as part of the elite, they are safe from retribution.
It did not begin with Vietnam, JFK's assassination, Ruby Ridge, Waco, 9/11, Covid 19, a totally fraudulent election, a totally bankrupt judiciary but, all of it, every bit of it is covered in the BS of lies and corruption, working steadily towards January 2021, a coup to end all coups, literally. A Black Flag operation pulled off with precision which builds a wall around the truth, no matter the videos, no matter the testimony of those there, no matter what anyone saw, heard, or did. The LIE is the only truth that matters. Marxism is the new American standard.
Even professed conservatives, giving explanations of things they have no evidence for, betray their place in the entire scheme of things.
The foxes have been guarding the henhouse for decades. Trump was the last straw for them. They picked up the pace of their desperation for control and as I have stated numerous times, God either allows evil to ascend or puts it down, for His reasons, His timeline, His purposes. Trump is no saint. Compared to most in DC, he's as honorable as anyone you will find there, though, and more so, because he spoke plainly. He was not ashamed to state how he loves America and Americans of all persuasions. He held nothing back. Never in the history of America, that I am aware of, have tens of thousands of people shouted, in unison, We love you! to an American president. The devils in D.C. hate him and went after him with a tenacity never seen in that corrupt criminal city before.
So, as they savor the victory of their lies and deceit, they will have a different look on their faces when man-made and natural disasters befall this nation; the judgments of the Almighty, giving His testimony of what He saw and has seen, and yet sees for more and more corruption to come. They claim to have done this to save the Democracy, while they hate with every fiber of their being the Constitutional Republic this nation is. They said NOTHING as Antifa and BLM burned the cities down. They call for Trump's head after a coup they set up and pulled off wins their day.
NO ONE wins a corrupt day in the sight of God, who sees all, every second of every day; hears all, every word, every breath, every plan, every concoction of evil, and knows all; every thought, word and deed, and they shall face every molecule of it all one day. Before that day, they shall reap what they have sown. Fools they are, fools they shall pass away as.
I am not a prophet. All one need do is read the Bible. God is consistent, faithful to His word. He gives a time of probation to each person, each organization, each nation, and when the cup of iniquity fills up, He judges, and His judgment is always righteous and perfect and designed to teach the wicked the error of their ways, even if He knows they will reject every plea of mercy and reason and truth.
Judgment comes. Expect it.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Ashli Babbit is her name. Ashli Babbit, the 14 year Air Force veteran who served four tours of service was shot at almost point blank range at the Capitol yesterday. The first video emerged. The second shows the shooter quite clearly and one must wonder why, why no one sought to warn her a pistol was pointing at her before she was shot down? Who was videoing that scene? Why didn't anyone there try and hold her back? Why did a trained officer take a head shot? Who is that officer?
Why are there videos showing Capitol police taking DOWN barriers and allowing a rush of people towards the building, in one case running ahead of them?
Why has a video emerged showing Capitol police LEADING supposed Trump supporters into the building up a staircase?
Why are there videos showing people claiming to be Trump supporters caught on videos as part of Antifa and BLM supporters from events months ago?
Why are there videos showing Trump supporters tried to STOP men from breaking windows at the capitol?
Why are there videos of Trump supporters pulling violent vandals AWAY from the building as they began damaging it?
Why are there videos, as usual, completely undoing the "official explanation" of yesterday's events? Because the official explanation, like the officials explaining it, are liars, traitors, treasonous lunatics now screaming to impeach Trump, remove him by the 25th amendment, denouncing him, shutting down, blocking, censoring every public avenue of defense, calling for Trump supporters to be removed from society, locked up, even killed!!!
Cowardly traitors in the GOP hanging Trump in demonic sound bytes that are destroying any hopes of their reelection because they are the lowest of the low. Not that it matters, they think, because all future elections, like this one, will be determined by technology and criminals before it takes place. A groveling, helpless drug addict in a gutter has more honor and integrity than they do. But, of course, they think, as part of the elite, they are safe from retribution.
It did not begin with Vietnam, JFK's assassination, Ruby Ridge, Waco, 9/11, Covid 19, a totally fraudulent election, a totally bankrupt judiciary but, all of it, every bit of it is covered in the BS of lies and corruption, working steadily towards January 2021, a coup to end all coups, literally. A Black Flag operation pulled off with precision which builds a wall around the truth, no matter the videos, no matter the testimony of those there, no matter what anyone saw, heard, or did. The LIE is the only truth that matters. Marxism is the new American standard.
Even professed conservatives, giving explanations of things they have no evidence for, betray their place in the entire scheme of things.
The foxes have been guarding the henhouse for decades. Trump was the last straw for them. They picked up the pace of their desperation for control and as I have stated numerous times, God either allows evil to ascend or puts it down, for His reasons, His timeline, His purposes. Trump is no saint. Compared to most in DC, he's as honorable as anyone you will find there, though, and more so, because he spoke plainly. He was not ashamed to state how he loves America and Americans of all persuasions. He held nothing back. Never in the history of America, that I am aware of, have tens of thousands of people shouted, in unison, We love you! to an American president. The devils in D.C. hate him and went after him with a tenacity never seen in that corrupt criminal city before.
So, as they savor the victory of their lies and deceit, they will have a different look on their faces when man-made and natural disasters befall this nation; the judgments of the Almighty, giving His testimony of what He saw and has seen, and yet sees for more and more corruption to come. They claim to have done this to save the Democracy, while they hate with every fiber of their being the Constitutional Republic this nation is. They said NOTHING as Antifa and BLM burned the cities down. They call for Trump's head after a coup they set up and pulled off wins their day.
NO ONE wins a corrupt day in the sight of God, who sees all, every second of every day; hears all, every word, every breath, every plan, every concoction of evil, and knows all; every thought, word and deed, and they shall face every molecule of it all one day. Before that day, they shall reap what they have sown. Fools they are, fools they shall pass away as.
I am not a prophet. All one need do is read the Bible. God is consistent, faithful to His word. He gives a time of probation to each person, each organization, each nation, and when the cup of iniquity fills up, He judges, and His judgment is always righteous and perfect and designed to teach the wicked the error of their ways, even if He knows they will reject every plea of mercy and reason and truth.
Judgment comes. Expect it.
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176. The Other Side Of The Story - January 8, 2021
The Declaration of Independence, a Founding document of the the United States of America, contains these words:
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
The dissolving of the political bands with Great Britain gave rise to the Revolutionary War, which secured the nation as a free sovereign entity. A war. A war fought against the most powerful army in Europe. A war nobody with logic and common sense expected the Americans to win. They did. They gave thanks to God, one of the greatest documents of government ever conceived and written was penned and became the law of the Republic: The Constitution.
Blood spilled was for a cause so large the Founders could not see how they would change the world. No kings, no queens. No church ruling over all. Free people, with Liberty and rights granted by God, would reign in this nation, elected civil servants who would represent them in legislative halls of both Federal and State chambers. Three branches of government would keep things in balance. There were no career politicians. There was no big money. There was no international interference in elections. A free press held all politician's feet to the fire. Freedom, Liberty, individualism and personal responsibility turned America into the Marvel of the Nations.
Today, we have traitors and cowards throughout those same halls and chambers calling what happened on January 6th domestic terrorism. The same traitors who said NOTHING as American cities were torched, looted, and destroyed could not wait to blame it all on Trump and call for Trump supporters to be rounded up and tried for anarchy. While Kamala Harris encouraged the riots months ago, and no voices on Capitol Hill were raised in protest towards her. Trump called for everyone to leave the Capitol, respect the police doing their job, and go home. The social media platforms blocked his pleas. In fact, they broke FCC law which states channels of communication must remain open in case of emergency so authorities, the president and/or any other voices of authority can keep the public informed.
In all events like this it is difficult to get the full story right away. While everybody is clamoring to make sure they state violence is bad (DUH), and they said nothing when violence raged and still rages in cities across the US, and they and the msm are calling for Trump to resign and his supporters marginalized in any way necessary, including incarceration and even death (stated by the most radical among them), and they display their hypocrisy in ever so vivid colors, they forget the history of America. They seem wholly ignorant or totally uncaring why 250k to one million people were in the Capitol on the 6th, and the other side of the story is emerging. Not on the msm. No. Truth can never be expected from them again. Serious investigation performed by them was lost decades ago. No, what I copy and paste here is a story from Gateway Pundit today, giving exposure to the testimony of four veterans who were there and had first hand testimony to give: the other side of the story.
Capitol Siege: Four Veterans Give Their Firsthand Account on Thursday’s Protest at US Capitol
By Ben Wetmore
Published January 8, 2021 at 8:06am
480 Comments
There was a small group that was on the front line during the storming of the US Capitol on Wednesday after traitor Mike Pence stabbed Trump and America in the back.
They asked not to use their names or identifying information because they are unsure whether federal authorities will pursue them, or if they will be harassed by left-wing doxxers.
They verified their stories with video and pictures of the event. I will quote their comments as “Adam,” “Bill,” “Charles,” and “Doug.”
Most importantly they all related that the crowd was completely non-violent and the police instigated the violence against the protesters before they even got on the Capitol grounds.
“We were on the sidewalk first, up against some metal barricades and bleachers, waiting for President Trump to come speak at the Capitol at 1 PM. Ten minutes before, thousands of people were on the street chanting “F*** you Nancy” and “Stop the Steal” on a megaphone and people were getting upset because we had just found out that Vice President Mike Pence had gone back on a previous statement indicating he would question the certification of electors. As the crowd found out that they had been betrayed yet again by the GOP establishment, lied to by someone as cowardly as Mike Pence, people’s anger was visible,” said Charles. “They unrolled a massive banner of vampire Nancy Pelosi and it charged up the crowd.”
“The streets were jam-packed, of everyday people: grandmas, children, families, lawyers, doctors, people from all walks of life. This was an American crowd,” said Bill.
They Were Hitting Old Men and Women
“These families moved to the interior barricades, it wasn’t aggressive, just peaceful. This is where the cops came in and used overwhelming force. We were on the line with the barricade and out come the metal batons and they started hitting Trump protesters as hard as they possibly could. They were hitting old men and old women, people who for some reason brought their families to the event. I couldn’t believe that there were young kids walking in this crowd, but the police were targeting the kids and hitting them with a baton across the head. It was vicious.” according to Charles.
“They were regular police at this point,” said Bill.
This action by police brought the crowd to a fever pitch, where they were demanding that they be treated respectfully, but instead, the police began either pepper spraying or tear-gassing the crowd. They then fought their way through four layers of barricades.
As they were storming the Capitol, “There was one guy who climbed up a tower and could oversee the entire battle, he knew exactly what to say, and he was steering people into the Capitol. It was straight out of the movie ‘Enemy at the Gates’ when the Soviet Commissars were shouting at people to move ahead. He was super old, this guy was clearly a combat vet. I can still hear him, ‘if you don’t move forward, Biden moves in!’ – This guy was a real pro, and was shouting at people that “every step forward” and to “close the gaps” and that turning back was turning our backs on Trump. He said if we didn’t move forward, that Pence was going to give us Biden Communism. He was 50 feet in the air and commanding the whole scene. He was telling people to pass bottled water ahead and other resources.” said Charles.
I saw one older woman bleeding profusely, it looked like her eye came out of the socket.
“We could tell that the 200 riot police were being very careful to stay behind the barricades, so we thought that denying that to them would cause them to be less vicious. There were metal connectors that we grabbed and then threw back at them like javelins. That then caused the barricades to come loose and by then, people were so angry that they started beating up the cops for attacking the kids and grandmothers. There was one very obese cop in particular, he was shooting people on purpose in the eyes with pellet pepper packs that was causing horrible injuries. I saw one older woman bleeding profusely, it looked like her eye came out of the socket. We were coming for that asshole when we tore down the barricades, but later when they saw that it turned into a fair fight, they fled,” said Bill.
“They tried to gas us. I’ve experienced tear gas before, and this wasn’t normal. It smelled different, its color was different in the air, and it stung a lot more. You couldn’t breathe. But what was happening was that it was just windy enough where it was kind of hitting the front line guys hard but then dissipating through the crowd and not having the intended effect,” said Bill.
This was when, according to the small group, protesters started disassembling the metal barricades to protect the police.
The pandemonium of the police running away from the crowd and being attacked by some, revealed that a larger force was ‘flanking’ them on one side, expecting to come in and trap the large group of angry protesters whipped up by police brutality. Just then, they were hit by repeated concussion grenades or ‘flash bangs’ of some type that stunned them all.
“It was coordinated on all sides, the cops were hitting us with six cans of tear gas at once, and multiple grenades. They were shooting at the same time. It felt like a shooting gallery, and they were the aggressors. They were shooting into the crowd several rows back really for no reason,” said Charles.
After the barricades came down and one of the last grenades exploded, “It caused me to kind of reset and wake up, and my ears are ringing and then in the sunlight, you see the Capitol right in front of you and you realize what has to happen next,” said Adam.
The police were moving forward and advancing, and about to take control of the protesters.
“So we see this happening, and we realize what’s about to happen, these vicious cops are about to hurt all these people and then likely arrest us all and there’s no way to retreat without being trampled, so I turn to the guys around me and yell out, ‘Mama didn’t raise no bitch’ and so we threw the barricades aside and rushed the Capitol. We had them on the run and we knew they couldn’t stop us. We used the scaffolding from Biden’s inauguration platform to get into the complex,” said Doug.
Adam added, “They put us in this situation where we had no options. We couldn’t go back against the crowd, we were being pushed into these cops, and the cops were cracking skulls with metal batons for no reason. Then we could see that they were about to make things even worse. They made this situation and gave us no other options.”
The scene took on a life of its own after that, they said. Where battles with the vicious Capitol Police and other police forces outside continued, as many rushed into the Capitol, while others who were curiosity seekers entered the Capitol.
When asked how people got to the higher levels of the Capitol, Bill explained, “Oh that was hilarious. Someone noticed the crane for Biden’s inauguration stand and took control over it. It became the magic lift for getting people up into the building. It was like Bob the Builder and his magic lift for sieging the illegal Pence certification.”
“There was something that told me that actually entering the building was too far, so I stayed outside, but it was tempting. The police were still trying to hurt our people, and there was this surreal moment when a large group of Grandmas came up and sat down on the Capitol steps. They were blocking the entrance for many protesters, but they were tired and didn’t have anywhere else to sit. It felt like they thought Mike Pence was going to come out and give them ice cream, juice boxes, and a personal tour. They had no idea what they were in the middle of, and none of us really did. No one was a professional protester here, they were just forced by necessity to move forward or get cracked in the head by a baton,” said Adam.
One of the victorious women in these clashes with the cops, a 70ish year old gray-haired woman, was fighting with the cops and when they ran away they left one of their helmets behind. Charles said, “People were getting serious injuries and we were still winning. We aren’t tired of winning. So this Grandma had her victory and she took that helmet like it was her enemy’s skull, and she walked over to the podium where Biden was going to give his inauguration and she held it up and gave a roar.”"
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/capitol-siege-four-veterans-give-firsthand-account-thursdays-protest-us-capitol/
And another link to an incredible article of what happened on the 6th:
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2021/01/08/antifa-takes-credit-for-capitol-riot-and-congress-bows-down/
While police departments across America were told to stand down as their cities were destroyed, the Capitol police had no measure of constraint to instigate peaceful protesters into a mob that had had it with corruption; corruption that brought them there that day - the literal, criminal fraudulent election of Joe Biden, and beyond that, the same criminal, fraudulent election in GA the day before. The biggest coup in American history was planned, executed, and pulled off with complicit players across an international spectrum. The evidence is STILL piling up on this crime. At least 200,000 people went to Washington, D.C. to support the president and protest this vile act.
In watching Trump's speech I heard nothing that could be used to claim he incited a riot. That is preposterous. The lying cabal just states because he rehearsed the elements of irregularities and fraud that took place in November's election he incited a riot? The historical fact is, actions like those started a revolutionary war with the King of England!
Trump seems to have conceded. I cannot blame him. It is impossible to understand how alone he must feel. He will go out gracefully, and watch the demise of the Republic with the rest of us. On the other hand, he is still President, still Commander and Chief, and still has a duty to do whatever necessary or he will go down in history as the man who did not stop the Communist Chinese from overtaking America. He has 12 days. He took the job. He needs to perform it right to the end. Stating he will not attend Biden's inauguration will just not cut it. That will just be seen and reported as sour grapes. The entire mess could have been addressed and handled months ago, even if Trump was surrounded by traitors and back stabbers. He had Constitutional provisions. He chose not to use them.
How far will Harris push radicalism when she becomes president; for certainly Biden will be removed soon enough, for health reasons that should have kept him from becoming a candidate to begin with, not to mention his political crimes and corruptions laid out by dozens of independent news sources for over a year. All disregarded by the msm, Democrats, and most members of the GOP. He is being called Beijing Biden for very serious and factual reasons.
Will Harris, pushing the policies of radicalism and socialism and tyranny she fosters just be accepted by 75 million and more people who believe the election was stolen from Trump, their votes and the entire process commandeered by criminals here and abroad, and heinous crime committed? They were forced into a reaction on the 6th. Do you think that is all done just because CNN calls it domestic terrorism? Seriously?
I believe America stands at the precipice of civil war, of some kind. Political civil war has been underway for years. What remains to be seen now is whether or not armed civil war takes place. A North and South? No. Though remember that the South formulated the Confederate States of America, and fought the war on the ground of "States Rights." Expect movements of secession to pick up steam. I live in Texas, where the idea never goes away and has risen to the top of the discussion heap again. You know my position. Secede. Let this state, and any other state secede so they can be free from tyranny and what is about to take place in the nation's Capitol, run by majority Democrats, cowardly Republicans, and worse, Deep State agencies all operating above the law.
God help us.
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
The dissolving of the political bands with Great Britain gave rise to the Revolutionary War, which secured the nation as a free sovereign entity. A war. A war fought against the most powerful army in Europe. A war nobody with logic and common sense expected the Americans to win. They did. They gave thanks to God, one of the greatest documents of government ever conceived and written was penned and became the law of the Republic: The Constitution.
Blood spilled was for a cause so large the Founders could not see how they would change the world. No kings, no queens. No church ruling over all. Free people, with Liberty and rights granted by God, would reign in this nation, elected civil servants who would represent them in legislative halls of both Federal and State chambers. Three branches of government would keep things in balance. There were no career politicians. There was no big money. There was no international interference in elections. A free press held all politician's feet to the fire. Freedom, Liberty, individualism and personal responsibility turned America into the Marvel of the Nations.
Today, we have traitors and cowards throughout those same halls and chambers calling what happened on January 6th domestic terrorism. The same traitors who said NOTHING as American cities were torched, looted, and destroyed could not wait to blame it all on Trump and call for Trump supporters to be rounded up and tried for anarchy. While Kamala Harris encouraged the riots months ago, and no voices on Capitol Hill were raised in protest towards her. Trump called for everyone to leave the Capitol, respect the police doing their job, and go home. The social media platforms blocked his pleas. In fact, they broke FCC law which states channels of communication must remain open in case of emergency so authorities, the president and/or any other voices of authority can keep the public informed.
In all events like this it is difficult to get the full story right away. While everybody is clamoring to make sure they state violence is bad (DUH), and they said nothing when violence raged and still rages in cities across the US, and they and the msm are calling for Trump to resign and his supporters marginalized in any way necessary, including incarceration and even death (stated by the most radical among them), and they display their hypocrisy in ever so vivid colors, they forget the history of America. They seem wholly ignorant or totally uncaring why 250k to one million people were in the Capitol on the 6th, and the other side of the story is emerging. Not on the msm. No. Truth can never be expected from them again. Serious investigation performed by them was lost decades ago. No, what I copy and paste here is a story from Gateway Pundit today, giving exposure to the testimony of four veterans who were there and had first hand testimony to give: the other side of the story.
Capitol Siege: Four Veterans Give Their Firsthand Account on Thursday’s Protest at US Capitol
By Ben Wetmore
Published January 8, 2021 at 8:06am
480 Comments
There was a small group that was on the front line during the storming of the US Capitol on Wednesday after traitor Mike Pence stabbed Trump and America in the back.
They asked not to use their names or identifying information because they are unsure whether federal authorities will pursue them, or if they will be harassed by left-wing doxxers.
They verified their stories with video and pictures of the event. I will quote their comments as “Adam,” “Bill,” “Charles,” and “Doug.”
Most importantly they all related that the crowd was completely non-violent and the police instigated the violence against the protesters before they even got on the Capitol grounds.
“We were on the sidewalk first, up against some metal barricades and bleachers, waiting for President Trump to come speak at the Capitol at 1 PM. Ten minutes before, thousands of people were on the street chanting “F*** you Nancy” and “Stop the Steal” on a megaphone and people were getting upset because we had just found out that Vice President Mike Pence had gone back on a previous statement indicating he would question the certification of electors. As the crowd found out that they had been betrayed yet again by the GOP establishment, lied to by someone as cowardly as Mike Pence, people’s anger was visible,” said Charles. “They unrolled a massive banner of vampire Nancy Pelosi and it charged up the crowd.”
“The streets were jam-packed, of everyday people: grandmas, children, families, lawyers, doctors, people from all walks of life. This was an American crowd,” said Bill.
They Were Hitting Old Men and Women
“These families moved to the interior barricades, it wasn’t aggressive, just peaceful. This is where the cops came in and used overwhelming force. We were on the line with the barricade and out come the metal batons and they started hitting Trump protesters as hard as they possibly could. They were hitting old men and old women, people who for some reason brought their families to the event. I couldn’t believe that there were young kids walking in this crowd, but the police were targeting the kids and hitting them with a baton across the head. It was vicious.” according to Charles.
“They were regular police at this point,” said Bill.
This action by police brought the crowd to a fever pitch, where they were demanding that they be treated respectfully, but instead, the police began either pepper spraying or tear-gassing the crowd. They then fought their way through four layers of barricades.
As they were storming the Capitol, “There was one guy who climbed up a tower and could oversee the entire battle, he knew exactly what to say, and he was steering people into the Capitol. It was straight out of the movie ‘Enemy at the Gates’ when the Soviet Commissars were shouting at people to move ahead. He was super old, this guy was clearly a combat vet. I can still hear him, ‘if you don’t move forward, Biden moves in!’ – This guy was a real pro, and was shouting at people that “every step forward” and to “close the gaps” and that turning back was turning our backs on Trump. He said if we didn’t move forward, that Pence was going to give us Biden Communism. He was 50 feet in the air and commanding the whole scene. He was telling people to pass bottled water ahead and other resources.” said Charles.
I saw one older woman bleeding profusely, it looked like her eye came out of the socket.
“We could tell that the 200 riot police were being very careful to stay behind the barricades, so we thought that denying that to them would cause them to be less vicious. There were metal connectors that we grabbed and then threw back at them like javelins. That then caused the barricades to come loose and by then, people were so angry that they started beating up the cops for attacking the kids and grandmothers. There was one very obese cop in particular, he was shooting people on purpose in the eyes with pellet pepper packs that was causing horrible injuries. I saw one older woman bleeding profusely, it looked like her eye came out of the socket. We were coming for that asshole when we tore down the barricades, but later when they saw that it turned into a fair fight, they fled,” said Bill.
“They tried to gas us. I’ve experienced tear gas before, and this wasn’t normal. It smelled different, its color was different in the air, and it stung a lot more. You couldn’t breathe. But what was happening was that it was just windy enough where it was kind of hitting the front line guys hard but then dissipating through the crowd and not having the intended effect,” said Bill.
This was when, according to the small group, protesters started disassembling the metal barricades to protect the police.
The pandemonium of the police running away from the crowd and being attacked by some, revealed that a larger force was ‘flanking’ them on one side, expecting to come in and trap the large group of angry protesters whipped up by police brutality. Just then, they were hit by repeated concussion grenades or ‘flash bangs’ of some type that stunned them all.
“It was coordinated on all sides, the cops were hitting us with six cans of tear gas at once, and multiple grenades. They were shooting at the same time. It felt like a shooting gallery, and they were the aggressors. They were shooting into the crowd several rows back really for no reason,” said Charles.
After the barricades came down and one of the last grenades exploded, “It caused me to kind of reset and wake up, and my ears are ringing and then in the sunlight, you see the Capitol right in front of you and you realize what has to happen next,” said Adam.
The police were moving forward and advancing, and about to take control of the protesters.
“So we see this happening, and we realize what’s about to happen, these vicious cops are about to hurt all these people and then likely arrest us all and there’s no way to retreat without being trampled, so I turn to the guys around me and yell out, ‘Mama didn’t raise no bitch’ and so we threw the barricades aside and rushed the Capitol. We had them on the run and we knew they couldn’t stop us. We used the scaffolding from Biden’s inauguration platform to get into the complex,” said Doug.
Adam added, “They put us in this situation where we had no options. We couldn’t go back against the crowd, we were being pushed into these cops, and the cops were cracking skulls with metal batons for no reason. Then we could see that they were about to make things even worse. They made this situation and gave us no other options.”
The scene took on a life of its own after that, they said. Where battles with the vicious Capitol Police and other police forces outside continued, as many rushed into the Capitol, while others who were curiosity seekers entered the Capitol.
When asked how people got to the higher levels of the Capitol, Bill explained, “Oh that was hilarious. Someone noticed the crane for Biden’s inauguration stand and took control over it. It became the magic lift for getting people up into the building. It was like Bob the Builder and his magic lift for sieging the illegal Pence certification.”
“There was something that told me that actually entering the building was too far, so I stayed outside, but it was tempting. The police were still trying to hurt our people, and there was this surreal moment when a large group of Grandmas came up and sat down on the Capitol steps. They were blocking the entrance for many protesters, but they were tired and didn’t have anywhere else to sit. It felt like they thought Mike Pence was going to come out and give them ice cream, juice boxes, and a personal tour. They had no idea what they were in the middle of, and none of us really did. No one was a professional protester here, they were just forced by necessity to move forward or get cracked in the head by a baton,” said Adam.
One of the victorious women in these clashes with the cops, a 70ish year old gray-haired woman, was fighting with the cops and when they ran away they left one of their helmets behind. Charles said, “People were getting serious injuries and we were still winning. We aren’t tired of winning. So this Grandma had her victory and she took that helmet like it was her enemy’s skull, and she walked over to the podium where Biden was going to give his inauguration and she held it up and gave a roar.”"
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/capitol-siege-four-veterans-give-firsthand-account-thursdays-protest-us-capitol/
And another link to an incredible article of what happened on the 6th:
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2021/01/08/antifa-takes-credit-for-capitol-riot-and-congress-bows-down/
While police departments across America were told to stand down as their cities were destroyed, the Capitol police had no measure of constraint to instigate peaceful protesters into a mob that had had it with corruption; corruption that brought them there that day - the literal, criminal fraudulent election of Joe Biden, and beyond that, the same criminal, fraudulent election in GA the day before. The biggest coup in American history was planned, executed, and pulled off with complicit players across an international spectrum. The evidence is STILL piling up on this crime. At least 200,000 people went to Washington, D.C. to support the president and protest this vile act.
In watching Trump's speech I heard nothing that could be used to claim he incited a riot. That is preposterous. The lying cabal just states because he rehearsed the elements of irregularities and fraud that took place in November's election he incited a riot? The historical fact is, actions like those started a revolutionary war with the King of England!
Trump seems to have conceded. I cannot blame him. It is impossible to understand how alone he must feel. He will go out gracefully, and watch the demise of the Republic with the rest of us. On the other hand, he is still President, still Commander and Chief, and still has a duty to do whatever necessary or he will go down in history as the man who did not stop the Communist Chinese from overtaking America. He has 12 days. He took the job. He needs to perform it right to the end. Stating he will not attend Biden's inauguration will just not cut it. That will just be seen and reported as sour grapes. The entire mess could have been addressed and handled months ago, even if Trump was surrounded by traitors and back stabbers. He had Constitutional provisions. He chose not to use them.
How far will Harris push radicalism when she becomes president; for certainly Biden will be removed soon enough, for health reasons that should have kept him from becoming a candidate to begin with, not to mention his political crimes and corruptions laid out by dozens of independent news sources for over a year. All disregarded by the msm, Democrats, and most members of the GOP. He is being called Beijing Biden for very serious and factual reasons.
Will Harris, pushing the policies of radicalism and socialism and tyranny she fosters just be accepted by 75 million and more people who believe the election was stolen from Trump, their votes and the entire process commandeered by criminals here and abroad, and heinous crime committed? They were forced into a reaction on the 6th. Do you think that is all done just because CNN calls it domestic terrorism? Seriously?
I believe America stands at the precipice of civil war, of some kind. Political civil war has been underway for years. What remains to be seen now is whether or not armed civil war takes place. A North and South? No. Though remember that the South formulated the Confederate States of America, and fought the war on the ground of "States Rights." Expect movements of secession to pick up steam. I live in Texas, where the idea never goes away and has risen to the top of the discussion heap again. You know my position. Secede. Let this state, and any other state secede so they can be free from tyranny and what is about to take place in the nation's Capitol, run by majority Democrats, cowardly Republicans, and worse, Deep State agencies all operating above the law.
God help us.
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177. Maybe It's Just Me But ... Reconciliation? - January 8, 2021
Maybe it's just me but, all these voices now calling for "healing and reconciliation?" They just either participated in, or allowed the biggest crime in US history to take place. They hate everything I love and honor about the principles of Americanism and thereby stabbed me in the back with their fraud, and will continue to stab me and all other patriots in the back while they have the power to do so and what? I am supposed to just shake their hands and say ... well, tell me. What should I say? I realize your lust for power and hatred of America is something you just can't help in yourselves and I forgive you and let's all just get along?
How about this: I know I'm standing here bleeding from your knives in my back but, seriously, reconciliation is just so important now, I need to man-up and swallow my convictions and let you kind devils do your thing while I heal?
Maybe this makes more sense: I know you are criminals and well, aren't we all? None of us are perfect. We all have our faults. Back stabbing is yours. Patriotism is mine. Let's just bury the hatchets but, at least try to miss my head when you swing, okay? And let's just shake and be happy, peaceful, and let's now heal and reconcile while you destroy America. I'll just stay quiet and watch.
No. I think my response to reconciliation and healing should be blunt and totally honest. Joe Biden is part of a crime family. He cannot possibly become my president. Plus he is mentally incapacitated. Harris is as close to the wicked witch of the West as you can come. She can never be my vice president, or obviously, POTUS when they remove old Joe and install her. Democrats are devils. Republicans that allowed the steal to take place without even a whimper of protest are traitors and I would not vote for another one if they paid me to, unlike all the people who got paid to vote for Biden. And while I am a Christian and hope they repent and are forgiven by God, I really doubt that happens and I hope He humbles them all in the dust in His own time and way for the repulsive political pollution that passes their lips every time they speak.
Too blunt for you? Seventy-five million people are saying things much more blunt and time will tell how well your fake pleas for healing and reconciliation are received. My guess? If you're reaching out to a patriot, keep your hand in your pocket. Otherwise, it will get spit on. Too deplorable for you? How deplorable does that make God when "Guilty" proceeds from His lips for your life saturated with lies, deceitfulness, cowardice, lust for power, and I believe, when the books of heaven are opened, crimes of sin against children are found in page after page after page? It's all written down, every moment of every day, every year.
You look to the father of lies for your redemption. Too late will you find out he cannot help you and laughs at you, bringing you down with him. Fools. The darkness you have brought and will continue to bring upon America, as ravening wolves in sheep's clothing, you will face one day. You cannot bring healing. The battery acid you spew can only burn and eat away what's left of liberty and rule of law you hate. There can be no reconciliation. I cannot reconcile with traitors. That would be a crime against heaven, against the Sovereign of the universe you shall one day stand before and answer for your crimes. Fake news, fake pleas, everything fake about you will not help you in that day. God forbid I even consider reconciling with you. To reconcile with you would make me like you. I hold you in contempt. I abhor everything about you, liars and cheats that you are. There is nothing honest about you. There is nothing good. Of course, Christ said, only God is good. But that will not excuse what you have done and will continue to do. No. It will all be placed upon you someday and the weight of your unforgiven sins will crush you.
Never in my 66 years have I seen such hatred and vileness at work in America, all in the name of righteousness, no less. I pray God brings these people down and opens before the world their treason and crimes.
Reconciliation? Not happening.
How about this: I know I'm standing here bleeding from your knives in my back but, seriously, reconciliation is just so important now, I need to man-up and swallow my convictions and let you kind devils do your thing while I heal?
Maybe this makes more sense: I know you are criminals and well, aren't we all? None of us are perfect. We all have our faults. Back stabbing is yours. Patriotism is mine. Let's just bury the hatchets but, at least try to miss my head when you swing, okay? And let's just shake and be happy, peaceful, and let's now heal and reconcile while you destroy America. I'll just stay quiet and watch.
No. I think my response to reconciliation and healing should be blunt and totally honest. Joe Biden is part of a crime family. He cannot possibly become my president. Plus he is mentally incapacitated. Harris is as close to the wicked witch of the West as you can come. She can never be my vice president, or obviously, POTUS when they remove old Joe and install her. Democrats are devils. Republicans that allowed the steal to take place without even a whimper of protest are traitors and I would not vote for another one if they paid me to, unlike all the people who got paid to vote for Biden. And while I am a Christian and hope they repent and are forgiven by God, I really doubt that happens and I hope He humbles them all in the dust in His own time and way for the repulsive political pollution that passes their lips every time they speak.
Too blunt for you? Seventy-five million people are saying things much more blunt and time will tell how well your fake pleas for healing and reconciliation are received. My guess? If you're reaching out to a patriot, keep your hand in your pocket. Otherwise, it will get spit on. Too deplorable for you? How deplorable does that make God when "Guilty" proceeds from His lips for your life saturated with lies, deceitfulness, cowardice, lust for power, and I believe, when the books of heaven are opened, crimes of sin against children are found in page after page after page? It's all written down, every moment of every day, every year.
You look to the father of lies for your redemption. Too late will you find out he cannot help you and laughs at you, bringing you down with him. Fools. The darkness you have brought and will continue to bring upon America, as ravening wolves in sheep's clothing, you will face one day. You cannot bring healing. The battery acid you spew can only burn and eat away what's left of liberty and rule of law you hate. There can be no reconciliation. I cannot reconcile with traitors. That would be a crime against heaven, against the Sovereign of the universe you shall one day stand before and answer for your crimes. Fake news, fake pleas, everything fake about you will not help you in that day. God forbid I even consider reconciling with you. To reconcile with you would make me like you. I hold you in contempt. I abhor everything about you, liars and cheats that you are. There is nothing honest about you. There is nothing good. Of course, Christ said, only God is good. But that will not excuse what you have done and will continue to do. No. It will all be placed upon you someday and the weight of your unforgiven sins will crush you.
Never in my 66 years have I seen such hatred and vileness at work in America, all in the name of righteousness, no less. I pray God brings these people down and opens before the world their treason and crimes.
Reconciliation? Not happening.
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178. I'm Too Harsh? No. - January 9, 2021
I have always been a rather intense person, generally more serious in my convictions than casual about them. Whether growing up an atheist and having long, multi-hour conversations with friends about the futility of the existence of deity and belief/faith in one, or becoming a Christian and defending the faith with the same tenacity in private or in public, I am not one to mince words. I speak and write plainly and deliberately. The older I get, the more direct and tenacious I get. I pick my battles. I don't go looking for an argument. Nor do I back down when one arrives I feel compelled to engage in.
People often claim a Christian should be all about love and mercy, forgiveness, compassion; how they picture Christ. They prefer the aspect of Christ as the Lamb. They forget Christ is also the Lion of Judah. He is gentle Savior, and also returning conquering King, preceded by 150 pound hailstones that shall decimate the planet, and the brightness, the glory of His presence will destroy the wicked, about to consume God's children in a world-wide death decree. God's response? The seven last plagues before the end, and the great rescue of God's people at the midnight hour, and destruction of Earth in the greatest cataclysmic event since the Flood.
As an atheist this was all fairy tales to me. Then the details of Bible prophecy and world history became exposed to my staunch atheistic mind and I was not just intrigued but, dumbfounded and began a search. In just a month I came to a place where I cried out for God to make Himself real to me and exactly that happened when I was born again.
I see current America no differently than any other nation mentioned in the Bible, including the Hebrew nation. Same problems, same solutions, same neglect, rejection, fall and demise, nation after nation, millennia after millennia. Now, the Hebrew nation went up and down for 1500 years. Jerusalem came down, just as Christ predicted, and what was left of the nation was ultimately scattered. It already split centuries before. The ten tribes and the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. The ten tribes just integrated with the nations that absorbed them. The same for Judah and Benjamin, ultimately. God bore long with the nation. America is a far sight from 1500 years. And factually, based on what happened on November 3rd and to January 6th, the literal United States of America ceased to exist. Yes, the name is still there and the D.C. is still there, etc. The difference is, the reality is, the Rule of Law died in the last two and half months. Without the Rule of Law to guide, limit, and harness possible rogues and traitors, and protect citizens from fraud and tyranny, the nation ceases to exist. It remains The United States of America in name only.
I speak in no uncertain terms because God does throughout Scripture. Just make a quick list in your mind:
The 120 years of Noah's preaching and then the Flood.
The destruction of the Tower of Babel and scattering of the multitude.
The refusal of Pharaoh to allow the Hebrews to go free and celebrate a feast and the ten plagues that befell Egypt, and the final destruction of Pharaoh's army.
The rebellion of the entire Hebrew nation and the judgment of God to have them wander 40 years until all those who rebelled perished, save for Joshua and Caleb and their families.
The rebellion of Korah, Dathan and Abiram and the judgment of God upon them and their families and all who followed them in their rebellion.
The literal curses spoken upon God's nation if the people apostatized from their mission and choose to serve other gods.
Then the rebellions of God's people over and over, century after century and their captivity by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and even today Israel is just a secular nation, fulfilling no distinct articles of prophecy like so many claim today, since 1948. There is no temple, no priesthood, and still a national rejection of Christ as their Messiah. But, let me back up.
Christ, the Messiah, overturned the tables of the money changers, and cleared out the precincts of the Temple, twice.
In the book of Matthew, chapters 21-24 Christ, in no uncertain terms told His listeners the Jewish nation would be rejected and brought down for their apostasy and the kingdom given to others who would produce the fruits of righteousness God looked for for ages and never received from His chosen people. Matthew chapter 23 is such a ferocious denunciation of the leaders and their religious scams and man-made system it shocked the people to hear such rebukes.
Peter and Paul both had their moments of being filled with the righteous indignation of the Lord and denounced the nation's leadership. They were whipped, stoned, Stephen was stoned to death, and terrible persecution was unleashed on the church, scattering those who developed a comfort in Jerusalem, and took the Gospel to regions beyond. Ultimately Paul told them, if you don't want the gospel, we'll take it to the Gentiles.
The Book of Revelation is filled with rebukes upon apostates, and a rebellious world steadily filling up the cup of its iniquity.
My denunciations of current Washington, D.C. and its apostates and traitors to their oaths is nothing different than God has done for thousands of years through the rebukes and warnings His people have pronounced upon them. Literal criminals, law breakers, of state and federal laws, stole the election from 75 million people who voted for Trump to remain in office another four years. Apostate judges refused to allow evidence to be placed before them and the American people. The Supreme Court displayed its apostasy. The House and Senate displayed their cowardice, and especially Democrats insane hatred of Trump and the citizens who voted for him, and YES, while Trump did not come close to inciting a riot in his speech on the 6th, patriots could and should have taken control of the capitol, no differently than apostate leftist radicals took control of Portland and Seattle and received PRAISE from Democrats nationwide. APOSTASY. HYPOCRISY of incredible proportions have taken hold of the nation's capitol.
This is a government of, by, and for the people, NOT the politicians, and they should cower in fear under tables before the citizenry they serve. The people should NOT fear their government but, exactly the opposite. THAT is the principle of Americanism: the Rule of Law to protect free, honest and fair elections. Remove that and the nation SHOULD thunder at its representatives! This is America! not some regime controlled despot country. Well, that is gone now. A regime controlled by lust for power and who knows how much by the Chinese Communist Party, is about to take control in our nation, and they shall dismantle it beginning on day one and drive it into the ground until they have total control of anything and everything Americans do. They have said so! The only honest thing they do is tell you how despicable and insane they are. And you think Americans should NOT stand up and say how foul and revolting that is? They should not cause their elected civil servants to fear them and the God given rights they have to tell these servants how things shall be done, according to the Rule of Law?
If you believe otherwise, question your understanding of history and definition of patriotism.
People often claim a Christian should be all about love and mercy, forgiveness, compassion; how they picture Christ. They prefer the aspect of Christ as the Lamb. They forget Christ is also the Lion of Judah. He is gentle Savior, and also returning conquering King, preceded by 150 pound hailstones that shall decimate the planet, and the brightness, the glory of His presence will destroy the wicked, about to consume God's children in a world-wide death decree. God's response? The seven last plagues before the end, and the great rescue of God's people at the midnight hour, and destruction of Earth in the greatest cataclysmic event since the Flood.
As an atheist this was all fairy tales to me. Then the details of Bible prophecy and world history became exposed to my staunch atheistic mind and I was not just intrigued but, dumbfounded and began a search. In just a month I came to a place where I cried out for God to make Himself real to me and exactly that happened when I was born again.
I see current America no differently than any other nation mentioned in the Bible, including the Hebrew nation. Same problems, same solutions, same neglect, rejection, fall and demise, nation after nation, millennia after millennia. Now, the Hebrew nation went up and down for 1500 years. Jerusalem came down, just as Christ predicted, and what was left of the nation was ultimately scattered. It already split centuries before. The ten tribes and the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. The ten tribes just integrated with the nations that absorbed them. The same for Judah and Benjamin, ultimately. God bore long with the nation. America is a far sight from 1500 years. And factually, based on what happened on November 3rd and to January 6th, the literal United States of America ceased to exist. Yes, the name is still there and the D.C. is still there, etc. The difference is, the reality is, the Rule of Law died in the last two and half months. Without the Rule of Law to guide, limit, and harness possible rogues and traitors, and protect citizens from fraud and tyranny, the nation ceases to exist. It remains The United States of America in name only.
I speak in no uncertain terms because God does throughout Scripture. Just make a quick list in your mind:
The 120 years of Noah's preaching and then the Flood.
The destruction of the Tower of Babel and scattering of the multitude.
The refusal of Pharaoh to allow the Hebrews to go free and celebrate a feast and the ten plagues that befell Egypt, and the final destruction of Pharaoh's army.
The rebellion of the entire Hebrew nation and the judgment of God to have them wander 40 years until all those who rebelled perished, save for Joshua and Caleb and their families.
The rebellion of Korah, Dathan and Abiram and the judgment of God upon them and their families and all who followed them in their rebellion.
The literal curses spoken upon God's nation if the people apostatized from their mission and choose to serve other gods.
Then the rebellions of God's people over and over, century after century and their captivity by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and even today Israel is just a secular nation, fulfilling no distinct articles of prophecy like so many claim today, since 1948. There is no temple, no priesthood, and still a national rejection of Christ as their Messiah. But, let me back up.
Christ, the Messiah, overturned the tables of the money changers, and cleared out the precincts of the Temple, twice.
In the book of Matthew, chapters 21-24 Christ, in no uncertain terms told His listeners the Jewish nation would be rejected and brought down for their apostasy and the kingdom given to others who would produce the fruits of righteousness God looked for for ages and never received from His chosen people. Matthew chapter 23 is such a ferocious denunciation of the leaders and their religious scams and man-made system it shocked the people to hear such rebukes.
Peter and Paul both had their moments of being filled with the righteous indignation of the Lord and denounced the nation's leadership. They were whipped, stoned, Stephen was stoned to death, and terrible persecution was unleashed on the church, scattering those who developed a comfort in Jerusalem, and took the Gospel to regions beyond. Ultimately Paul told them, if you don't want the gospel, we'll take it to the Gentiles.
The Book of Revelation is filled with rebukes upon apostates, and a rebellious world steadily filling up the cup of its iniquity.
My denunciations of current Washington, D.C. and its apostates and traitors to their oaths is nothing different than God has done for thousands of years through the rebukes and warnings His people have pronounced upon them. Literal criminals, law breakers, of state and federal laws, stole the election from 75 million people who voted for Trump to remain in office another four years. Apostate judges refused to allow evidence to be placed before them and the American people. The Supreme Court displayed its apostasy. The House and Senate displayed their cowardice, and especially Democrats insane hatred of Trump and the citizens who voted for him, and YES, while Trump did not come close to inciting a riot in his speech on the 6th, patriots could and should have taken control of the capitol, no differently than apostate leftist radicals took control of Portland and Seattle and received PRAISE from Democrats nationwide. APOSTASY. HYPOCRISY of incredible proportions have taken hold of the nation's capitol.
This is a government of, by, and for the people, NOT the politicians, and they should cower in fear under tables before the citizenry they serve. The people should NOT fear their government but, exactly the opposite. THAT is the principle of Americanism: the Rule of Law to protect free, honest and fair elections. Remove that and the nation SHOULD thunder at its representatives! This is America! not some regime controlled despot country. Well, that is gone now. A regime controlled by lust for power and who knows how much by the Chinese Communist Party, is about to take control in our nation, and they shall dismantle it beginning on day one and drive it into the ground until they have total control of anything and everything Americans do. They have said so! The only honest thing they do is tell you how despicable and insane they are. And you think Americans should NOT stand up and say how foul and revolting that is? They should not cause their elected civil servants to fear them and the God given rights they have to tell these servants how things shall be done, according to the Rule of Law?
If you believe otherwise, question your understanding of history and definition of patriotism.
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179. I'll Just Say Goodbye Now - January 9, 2021
Not many people come to this site. That doesn't mean I don't appreciate those that do. Most come here because of my association with Legend. Others come because my video series on Drum shells, Sound, and Hype in the drum manufacturing industry are getting more exposure. Others come, more recently because they somehow became exposed to my blog and thoughts on current events in America, etc.
Now that the slaughter of big tech on any and all conservative web sites and social media pages has begun, from Trump on down throughout the tent of his support, or even just sites and pages and channels devoted to America and patriotism, I have to figure sooner or later someone in control around here will censor or just terminate this website because of things I've written that will be called "hate" in some form or other.
I'll just say, Thank you for taking the time to come here and look around, and Goodbye.
Free speech is now dying, if not dead, in America, as the tech oligarchs take control of all communication avenues to make sure truth does not have any exposure. That is, of course, total Orwellian 1984 agenda, totally Communist, totalitarian, despotic and tyrannical control. No surprise there, just tragic that in the place where freedom of speech is actually protected by law, as an inalienable right, powers have arisen that can, at will, shut down whoever they want for any reason or no reason at all and nobody in government says anything or attempts to stop this debacle. No, no. This just ensures the steal remains and Trump goes, and the tens of millions of people who voted for Trump and make up an even larger number of people who did not vote but still desire freedom and liberty to live their lives as they choose, are marginalized and controlled.
To say that these oligarchs are evil is such an understatement it seems silly to even say, and those who agree with their tactics are no different. Matter of fact, in most cases those at the top are careful what they say and how they say it, letting minions below them say all the radical stuff. Plenty of mindless useful idiots are saturating the modern avenues of communication with horrible denunciations of everything and everyone that loves America and the Constitution, and have the absolute RIGHT to protest and even use force, if necessary, to exact change to instill the Rule of Law no one, no group is above. I mean, did you take history in school or what? How do you think the nation these traitors are destroying came into being to begin with? War. War has now begun. I mean, yes, it's been raging for decades, a century, even, as Progressives took more and more control of the nation. Now, though, the flags are hurling in bold display as they figure they have won, and can now take total control of the flow of information.
When it comes down to a server shutting down Donald Trump's email account, you know who the real, actual haters are, and if they can do that, without reproach, to the President of the United States, I ask again, what do you think they will do to you?
This is how it takes place in a totalitarian state. You marginalize dissent. You take away avenues of communication and information. You are made an example of and the fear moves quickly. Others, who should stand up, do not because they do not want the same to happen to them. No email, no social media platform, no internet at all, your phone accounts are terminated, your bank account frozen, you are isolated, and ultimately can be removed from society, gone, with only your immediate neighbors around you see it, and say nothing, lest the same happen to them. It happens in China every, single day. It happened in every single totalitarian state in history. It happens in North Korea, it happens in Cuba, South America, Africa, it happens wherever men gain control through fear. It was the agenda in Eastern Europe, the USSR; it is so predictable there can be no better sure bet. Put your money on it, if you are a betting man. Those who seek to control you will always move to shut down your avenues of communication first. Gun control will swiftly take place. Gun confiscation is coming, and that means civil war. But, when your electronically controlled bank account is shut down, how do supply yourself with firearms and ammunition? Ultimately, when cards, tattoos, chips or whatever are used to show loyalty to the regime, nobody will sell to you anyway.
So, we are here, more quickly than I thought. The power of these oligarchs and those who back them is so solidified they feel confident they can ultimately control 330 million people in America. Everything that can be changed, to assure their power and control, will be changed. Everything. The steal, fake news, cowards, traitors, all of it, assuredly under control to bring about the new world order.
Hollywood has been telling Americans for decades what is coming. They called it entertainment so as to make it all seem it was just fantasy. Such could never happen in America. Americans would not allow it. Well, they just stole an election, are threatening to remove Trump before his term ends, threatening to detain anyone involved in the actions to stop the steal, the minions will destroy your life, your business, and no one will come to your aid. EVIL is now in control, and God is allowing it all. Why?
We are all to blame. It would be easy to blame Trump, that he did not use the authority of his office correctly to stop this. We can blame politicians who did not do their duty. Ultimately, it is on all of us. God is going to let us reap what we have sown.
If you are not familiar with the term Laodicea, look at Revelation, chapter 3. The Laodicean church, an ancient group of Christians in the area of Greece that literally existed, is used to portray today's Christian church. The ancient Laodiceans were wealthy, felt secure in the upper class lives, and did not realize the gravity of their spiritual needs. So it is today, in the American churches. Rich, increased with goods and do not know we are wretched, poor, miserable, blind and naked. What is God to do? The same He has done throughout the ages. Persecution. Persecution to purify His people from the entanglements of this world.
I reckon what comes next will be swift. At some point there will be backlash of such force firepower will not be of use to stop it. I'd say, even those with the firepower will stand against the tyranny. That is history, and we are destined to repeat it, when we will not learn its lessons. Once that takes place the Bible predicts a false religious revival, a fake, miracle working revival will come. Do not forget, at some point cries of "Peace and safety" shall arise. Not from progressives, not from conservatives, not from professed Christians, nor atheists but, all people who have taken a stand against the Law of God, choosing to stand with the law of men. We are not there yet. I don't know when that time shall arrive. It can happen quickly. I could happen far off. God knows. God is in control. Man is never in control, despite his arrogance and stupidity to think so.
What would happen if God exposed all the pedophile rings in D.C.? What would happen if God exposed all the criminal activity and depravity and gross violation of man's laws, let alone God's laws, in the next 11 days? What would happen? Would the common man rise up in disgust and abhorrence? Right now D.C. is trying to force Trump to resign so the next 11 days cannot threaten their agenda. Imagine how much God could do in 1 day, let alone 11. I tend to believe He is not going to do anything, though. That is not His coming classroom of humility and repentance. No. He's going to let the evil take control. When His people are terrorized enough by it and cry out, He will answer, as He always has.
The thing is, a time is coming, Christ said so, as it came 2000 years ago and since, that persecution will come at the hands of those who think they are doing God's service. That is not the current crop of traitors in D.C. presently. They mock God. No, what is coming will be dressed in religious robes of piety and sanctity. The epitome of wolves in sheep's clothing are coming some day. Just a remnant of God's people will be around by then. And Christ will come and rescue them before the final decree to destroy them is carried out.
Sound more drastic and important than Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell and company? You'd better believe it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Now that the slaughter of big tech on any and all conservative web sites and social media pages has begun, from Trump on down throughout the tent of his support, or even just sites and pages and channels devoted to America and patriotism, I have to figure sooner or later someone in control around here will censor or just terminate this website because of things I've written that will be called "hate" in some form or other.
I'll just say, Thank you for taking the time to come here and look around, and Goodbye.
Free speech is now dying, if not dead, in America, as the tech oligarchs take control of all communication avenues to make sure truth does not have any exposure. That is, of course, total Orwellian 1984 agenda, totally Communist, totalitarian, despotic and tyrannical control. No surprise there, just tragic that in the place where freedom of speech is actually protected by law, as an inalienable right, powers have arisen that can, at will, shut down whoever they want for any reason or no reason at all and nobody in government says anything or attempts to stop this debacle. No, no. This just ensures the steal remains and Trump goes, and the tens of millions of people who voted for Trump and make up an even larger number of people who did not vote but still desire freedom and liberty to live their lives as they choose, are marginalized and controlled.
To say that these oligarchs are evil is such an understatement it seems silly to even say, and those who agree with their tactics are no different. Matter of fact, in most cases those at the top are careful what they say and how they say it, letting minions below them say all the radical stuff. Plenty of mindless useful idiots are saturating the modern avenues of communication with horrible denunciations of everything and everyone that loves America and the Constitution, and have the absolute RIGHT to protest and even use force, if necessary, to exact change to instill the Rule of Law no one, no group is above. I mean, did you take history in school or what? How do you think the nation these traitors are destroying came into being to begin with? War. War has now begun. I mean, yes, it's been raging for decades, a century, even, as Progressives took more and more control of the nation. Now, though, the flags are hurling in bold display as they figure they have won, and can now take total control of the flow of information.
When it comes down to a server shutting down Donald Trump's email account, you know who the real, actual haters are, and if they can do that, without reproach, to the President of the United States, I ask again, what do you think they will do to you?
This is how it takes place in a totalitarian state. You marginalize dissent. You take away avenues of communication and information. You are made an example of and the fear moves quickly. Others, who should stand up, do not because they do not want the same to happen to them. No email, no social media platform, no internet at all, your phone accounts are terminated, your bank account frozen, you are isolated, and ultimately can be removed from society, gone, with only your immediate neighbors around you see it, and say nothing, lest the same happen to them. It happens in China every, single day. It happened in every single totalitarian state in history. It happens in North Korea, it happens in Cuba, South America, Africa, it happens wherever men gain control through fear. It was the agenda in Eastern Europe, the USSR; it is so predictable there can be no better sure bet. Put your money on it, if you are a betting man. Those who seek to control you will always move to shut down your avenues of communication first. Gun control will swiftly take place. Gun confiscation is coming, and that means civil war. But, when your electronically controlled bank account is shut down, how do supply yourself with firearms and ammunition? Ultimately, when cards, tattoos, chips or whatever are used to show loyalty to the regime, nobody will sell to you anyway.
So, we are here, more quickly than I thought. The power of these oligarchs and those who back them is so solidified they feel confident they can ultimately control 330 million people in America. Everything that can be changed, to assure their power and control, will be changed. Everything. The steal, fake news, cowards, traitors, all of it, assuredly under control to bring about the new world order.
Hollywood has been telling Americans for decades what is coming. They called it entertainment so as to make it all seem it was just fantasy. Such could never happen in America. Americans would not allow it. Well, they just stole an election, are threatening to remove Trump before his term ends, threatening to detain anyone involved in the actions to stop the steal, the minions will destroy your life, your business, and no one will come to your aid. EVIL is now in control, and God is allowing it all. Why?
We are all to blame. It would be easy to blame Trump, that he did not use the authority of his office correctly to stop this. We can blame politicians who did not do their duty. Ultimately, it is on all of us. God is going to let us reap what we have sown.
If you are not familiar with the term Laodicea, look at Revelation, chapter 3. The Laodicean church, an ancient group of Christians in the area of Greece that literally existed, is used to portray today's Christian church. The ancient Laodiceans were wealthy, felt secure in the upper class lives, and did not realize the gravity of their spiritual needs. So it is today, in the American churches. Rich, increased with goods and do not know we are wretched, poor, miserable, blind and naked. What is God to do? The same He has done throughout the ages. Persecution. Persecution to purify His people from the entanglements of this world.
I reckon what comes next will be swift. At some point there will be backlash of such force firepower will not be of use to stop it. I'd say, even those with the firepower will stand against the tyranny. That is history, and we are destined to repeat it, when we will not learn its lessons. Once that takes place the Bible predicts a false religious revival, a fake, miracle working revival will come. Do not forget, at some point cries of "Peace and safety" shall arise. Not from progressives, not from conservatives, not from professed Christians, nor atheists but, all people who have taken a stand against the Law of God, choosing to stand with the law of men. We are not there yet. I don't know when that time shall arrive. It can happen quickly. I could happen far off. God knows. God is in control. Man is never in control, despite his arrogance and stupidity to think so.
What would happen if God exposed all the pedophile rings in D.C.? What would happen if God exposed all the criminal activity and depravity and gross violation of man's laws, let alone God's laws, in the next 11 days? What would happen? Would the common man rise up in disgust and abhorrence? Right now D.C. is trying to force Trump to resign so the next 11 days cannot threaten their agenda. Imagine how much God could do in 1 day, let alone 11. I tend to believe He is not going to do anything, though. That is not His coming classroom of humility and repentance. No. He's going to let the evil take control. When His people are terrorized enough by it and cry out, He will answer, as He always has.
The thing is, a time is coming, Christ said so, as it came 2000 years ago and since, that persecution will come at the hands of those who think they are doing God's service. That is not the current crop of traitors in D.C. presently. They mock God. No, what is coming will be dressed in religious robes of piety and sanctity. The epitome of wolves in sheep's clothing are coming some day. Just a remnant of God's people will be around by then. And Christ will come and rescue them before the final decree to destroy them is carried out.
Sound more drastic and important than Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell and company? You'd better believe it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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180. They Actually Mean Nothing - January 10, 2021
As the lies about the January 6th protest at the Capitol continue to be spouted by fake news, as well as conservative news that doesn't seem to have enough intelligence to look at evidence for anything anymore, and everybody is joining the "destroy conservatives" bandwagon, somehow not noticing they are destroying their own nation and liberty in the process (oh, yes, that is exactly what they are doing), I realize that all of them, ALL of them are rather meaningless.
I was watching a Tucker Carlson monologue and it hit me, This man is just speaking to the choir, and telling them things they already know, and will not change a single thing in America. Rush, Hannity, name them all, the whole list, dozens, hundreds on radio and tv around the nation, regardless of political stripe, mean nothing. They cannot change anything. They do nothing themselves to actually change anything by placing themselves in positions to actually be able to do that. They talk. That is all they do. They talk. They tell people what they already know, and it makes most people feel like they are not alone so, they watch and listen, even 7 days a week to these talking heads, all rather affluent individuals who leave the mics and cameras after an hour to three hours, maybe four, go home, don't have to read or listen to any fallout from what they say, can ignore all disagreement if they choose to, won't lose their jobs, and now, maybe lose their social media accounts, otherwise, live life generally above the fray they comment upon. They are actually, practically, worthless.
Talking heads and commentators have been around for generations. I remember some of them from my childhood. Back then, newsmen ended their broadcast with some commentary. Everybody has an opinion. I have opinions. I state them here, along with information about what is happening. My Youtube video series on drum shells and ultra hype in the manufacturing industry probably has more practical impact on people than anything I state about current events. I cannot change anything. Perhaps things I have written about biblical teachings and concepts may have some kind of seed sowing, germinating, plant growth development impact. I have no idea what the religious convictions are of anyone who comes here.
I have no idea what the political stripes are of those who come to my website. Left, Center, Right, I have no knowledge of it. I have no idea what genres of music people listen to. I have no idea about anything, save for those few who contact me and ask questions about Legend, drums and music, or more often, the spam I get in my Contact box.
I have been a user of Mozilla Firefox as a web browser. They just released statements, contrary to their own Manifesto, that a tighter grip on who can use the internet must be established. They are obviously Leftists, and I shall no longer use their browser. They are unAmerican, as are 99% of all web controllers out there, now removing ability of hundreds and thousands to communicate with others, President Trump on throughout the vast nation of patriots and Conservatives that want America to stay a Constitutional Republic, not become a Socialist debacle.
In the end, those who educate themselves to reality and truth, have no need of talking heads to tell them what they already know by their own investigation. We know the lies as soon as they leave the lips of the liars. We know what we believe and why, and shall not be turned by pressures Leftists and the godless attempt to place upon us. We know those who really don't have the guts to take a stand just by listening to their half-committed commentary.
I don't need talking heads to tell me the Democrat Party is evil. I only need to listen to Democrats. I don't need talking heads to tell me the GOP is collapsing and meaningless and traitors. I only need to listen to them.
I have mentioned before, counterfeit agents do not learn how to spot fake bills by knowing what fake bills look like. They know a counterfeit by knowing what legal bills look like.
The majority of Americans who do not think for themselves and educate themselves and act for themselves, through convictions and principles they attain from actual sources of truth, are destroying America far worse than those who feed them lies, or waffle on their responsibilities.
Trump was never the answer. As far as I am concerned, God is the answer. God is always the bottom line. The Bible is always the bottom line for a source of truth to guide me. Yes, it pits me against the majority. So what? I'll be dead soon enough and after that, believing eternity is real, heaven is real, Christ is real, this life is a bus stop in time. It is temporary.
Our lives, all our lives, are about to be impacted by evil people in ways Americans have not known. Americans have known war. Americans have known hard times. Americans have known freedom and liberty in ways dozens of modern nations still do not afford their citizens. That is about to change, has been changing, and if the new world order, the great reset, the totalitarian agenda of the world's elites is brought to fruition, no, the Gospel will not be stopped. That can never be stopped. The truth can never be stopped. It might slow down. History shows persecution actually increases the speed of the propagation of truth. Beyond that, our lives can be rounded up and placed in camps, if that is what these apostate leaders decide. They are calling for the removal of all dissent from the web, from book stores, from television, and some are calling for the removal of dissenters from society! Lunatics.
Talking heads telling us what is happening, their opinions of what is happening, day to day, means nothing, really. Some will say their work provides a psychological release valve for people frustrated and angry and feeling alone. Maybe that is a problem. If the talking heads did not exist, maybe more Americans would grab a bull by the horns more often.
Leftists have been grabbing bulls by the horns for a century now. They are just about to drop the net of control on the entire nation. Talking heads are afraid to tell people to rise up and take back their nation. No, no. We must not create a possible uprising. We must not incite physical force to rectify a national emergency and crisis. We will not be invited to all the cocktail parties anymore. We'll be called terrible things. Sticks, stones and names will hurt us.
I realize this morning that Tucker Carlson is not worth a dime to changing anything in America. His opinions, all the opinions of all the talking heads, both sides, no sides, are all just air that leaves their mouths and sound waves that just dissipate. None of them are stating what needs to be stated: take back America now, right now, or lose it. Can't say that. Can't run the risk of inciting physical force to be used. How much of an attack on the Republic needs to take place before idiots like Chuck Schumer, stating what happened on the 6th was like Pearl Harbor, and everybody laughs at such ignorance of reality, needs to take place for Americans to rise up and YES, like Europeans in 1989, took to the streets by the millions and took down Communism in Eastern Europe?
When patriots take actual stands, like they did in D.C. on the 6th, that becomes formidable. The violence incited by plants and actors, not Trump supporters but, now proven Antifa agents or typical radicals for hire vermin, has shown just how stupid and/or wicked all sources of information twisting the truth are. Fake news, corrupt politicians, all cowards, all liars, all ignorant by choice or just stupid, become easy to spot when you educate yourself as to what the truth is.
I know Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. From there all other categories of information can be categorized in compartments of truth and error, importance, practicality, serving good or serving evil, or just banal nonsense.
Half the professed Christian church is piloted by worthless talking heads, afraid of their own shadows, on control freak trips or weak, vacillating mouthpieces for neutrality, or wolves in sheep's clothing. So few are Christian patriots, unafraid, committed, as true as the needle to the pole, with faces like flint that will tell the truth no matter the cost, exist today. People do not want truth. They want ease. They want smooth sailing. They want the blessings of American materialism without remembering the prices paid for the rise of America to begin with.
Now, America is no more. The Bill of Rights is no more. God is not a reality but, a concept held by the weak and ignorant masses, easily controlled by science, falsely so-called, and talking heads they follow and do nothing because the talking heads do nothing but, talk. America is a mess because America has become godless. I am as much to blame as anyone I write my thoughts about.
And I just wrote a bunch of words that will do, basically, nothing. Few will see them. Even fewer will be changed or motivated by them.
Again, I hope God does something to save America from itself in the next 10 days. God speaks. God acts. Good men speak, and do nothing. How's that working out for us, while evil men speak and act and bully, and threaten, and divide, and conquer through fear?
God help us and shake us free from our lethargy.
I was watching a Tucker Carlson monologue and it hit me, This man is just speaking to the choir, and telling them things they already know, and will not change a single thing in America. Rush, Hannity, name them all, the whole list, dozens, hundreds on radio and tv around the nation, regardless of political stripe, mean nothing. They cannot change anything. They do nothing themselves to actually change anything by placing themselves in positions to actually be able to do that. They talk. That is all they do. They talk. They tell people what they already know, and it makes most people feel like they are not alone so, they watch and listen, even 7 days a week to these talking heads, all rather affluent individuals who leave the mics and cameras after an hour to three hours, maybe four, go home, don't have to read or listen to any fallout from what they say, can ignore all disagreement if they choose to, won't lose their jobs, and now, maybe lose their social media accounts, otherwise, live life generally above the fray they comment upon. They are actually, practically, worthless.
Talking heads and commentators have been around for generations. I remember some of them from my childhood. Back then, newsmen ended their broadcast with some commentary. Everybody has an opinion. I have opinions. I state them here, along with information about what is happening. My Youtube video series on drum shells and ultra hype in the manufacturing industry probably has more practical impact on people than anything I state about current events. I cannot change anything. Perhaps things I have written about biblical teachings and concepts may have some kind of seed sowing, germinating, plant growth development impact. I have no idea what the religious convictions are of anyone who comes here.
I have no idea what the political stripes are of those who come to my website. Left, Center, Right, I have no knowledge of it. I have no idea what genres of music people listen to. I have no idea about anything, save for those few who contact me and ask questions about Legend, drums and music, or more often, the spam I get in my Contact box.
I have been a user of Mozilla Firefox as a web browser. They just released statements, contrary to their own Manifesto, that a tighter grip on who can use the internet must be established. They are obviously Leftists, and I shall no longer use their browser. They are unAmerican, as are 99% of all web controllers out there, now removing ability of hundreds and thousands to communicate with others, President Trump on throughout the vast nation of patriots and Conservatives that want America to stay a Constitutional Republic, not become a Socialist debacle.
In the end, those who educate themselves to reality and truth, have no need of talking heads to tell them what they already know by their own investigation. We know the lies as soon as they leave the lips of the liars. We know what we believe and why, and shall not be turned by pressures Leftists and the godless attempt to place upon us. We know those who really don't have the guts to take a stand just by listening to their half-committed commentary.
I don't need talking heads to tell me the Democrat Party is evil. I only need to listen to Democrats. I don't need talking heads to tell me the GOP is collapsing and meaningless and traitors. I only need to listen to them.
I have mentioned before, counterfeit agents do not learn how to spot fake bills by knowing what fake bills look like. They know a counterfeit by knowing what legal bills look like.
The majority of Americans who do not think for themselves and educate themselves and act for themselves, through convictions and principles they attain from actual sources of truth, are destroying America far worse than those who feed them lies, or waffle on their responsibilities.
Trump was never the answer. As far as I am concerned, God is the answer. God is always the bottom line. The Bible is always the bottom line for a source of truth to guide me. Yes, it pits me against the majority. So what? I'll be dead soon enough and after that, believing eternity is real, heaven is real, Christ is real, this life is a bus stop in time. It is temporary.
Our lives, all our lives, are about to be impacted by evil people in ways Americans have not known. Americans have known war. Americans have known hard times. Americans have known freedom and liberty in ways dozens of modern nations still do not afford their citizens. That is about to change, has been changing, and if the new world order, the great reset, the totalitarian agenda of the world's elites is brought to fruition, no, the Gospel will not be stopped. That can never be stopped. The truth can never be stopped. It might slow down. History shows persecution actually increases the speed of the propagation of truth. Beyond that, our lives can be rounded up and placed in camps, if that is what these apostate leaders decide. They are calling for the removal of all dissent from the web, from book stores, from television, and some are calling for the removal of dissenters from society! Lunatics.
Talking heads telling us what is happening, their opinions of what is happening, day to day, means nothing, really. Some will say their work provides a psychological release valve for people frustrated and angry and feeling alone. Maybe that is a problem. If the talking heads did not exist, maybe more Americans would grab a bull by the horns more often.
Leftists have been grabbing bulls by the horns for a century now. They are just about to drop the net of control on the entire nation. Talking heads are afraid to tell people to rise up and take back their nation. No, no. We must not create a possible uprising. We must not incite physical force to rectify a national emergency and crisis. We will not be invited to all the cocktail parties anymore. We'll be called terrible things. Sticks, stones and names will hurt us.
I realize this morning that Tucker Carlson is not worth a dime to changing anything in America. His opinions, all the opinions of all the talking heads, both sides, no sides, are all just air that leaves their mouths and sound waves that just dissipate. None of them are stating what needs to be stated: take back America now, right now, or lose it. Can't say that. Can't run the risk of inciting physical force to be used. How much of an attack on the Republic needs to take place before idiots like Chuck Schumer, stating what happened on the 6th was like Pearl Harbor, and everybody laughs at such ignorance of reality, needs to take place for Americans to rise up and YES, like Europeans in 1989, took to the streets by the millions and took down Communism in Eastern Europe?
When patriots take actual stands, like they did in D.C. on the 6th, that becomes formidable. The violence incited by plants and actors, not Trump supporters but, now proven Antifa agents or typical radicals for hire vermin, has shown just how stupid and/or wicked all sources of information twisting the truth are. Fake news, corrupt politicians, all cowards, all liars, all ignorant by choice or just stupid, become easy to spot when you educate yourself as to what the truth is.
I know Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. From there all other categories of information can be categorized in compartments of truth and error, importance, practicality, serving good or serving evil, or just banal nonsense.
Half the professed Christian church is piloted by worthless talking heads, afraid of their own shadows, on control freak trips or weak, vacillating mouthpieces for neutrality, or wolves in sheep's clothing. So few are Christian patriots, unafraid, committed, as true as the needle to the pole, with faces like flint that will tell the truth no matter the cost, exist today. People do not want truth. They want ease. They want smooth sailing. They want the blessings of American materialism without remembering the prices paid for the rise of America to begin with.
Now, America is no more. The Bill of Rights is no more. God is not a reality but, a concept held by the weak and ignorant masses, easily controlled by science, falsely so-called, and talking heads they follow and do nothing because the talking heads do nothing but, talk. America is a mess because America has become godless. I am as much to blame as anyone I write my thoughts about.
And I just wrote a bunch of words that will do, basically, nothing. Few will see them. Even fewer will be changed or motivated by them.
Again, I hope God does something to save America from itself in the next 10 days. God speaks. God acts. Good men speak, and do nothing. How's that working out for us, while evil men speak and act and bully, and threaten, and divide, and conquer through fear?
God help us and shake us free from our lethargy.
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181. HYPOCRISY - January 11, 2021
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/hypocrisy
I could have posted a definition from one of the many definition sources on the web. That particular site has the best roll-out of definitions, by word usage, I have seen.
You know what hypocrisy is - Publicly claiming or denouncing one thing, privately doing another. "Do as I say, not as I do."
We all struggle with weaknesses, faults and sins of thought, word, and action. All of us. If you believe you don't, you are deceived: self-deceived or deceived by others.
The fact we all fall within the scope of our weaknesses is not really an excuse for hypocrisy. It might be a reason but, there's no excuse for being a hypocrite.
The amount of hypocrisy in Washington, D.C. is so enormous if people dropped dead from it, D.C. would have bodies stacked five feet high.
This link is to a website that has chronicled dozens, hundreds of riots, civil disturbances, etc., that most Democrats, and far too many Republicans said NOTHING against, and in many cases praised, endorsed, avowed, and cried affinity for in public. To this day some American cities are still under the assault of armed, violent protesters and nothing is being done to reign them in and stop them. Antifa receives NO denunciations from Democrats, even though thousands of hours of video exists showing their black outfitted, nefarious troops staging acts of gross violence upon citizens opposed to them, including police departments that have actually been given the go ahead to withstand them, rare as that has been, and the fact Trump declared them domestic terrorists, for painfully obvious reasons, Democrats and cowardly Republicans verbally descended, like skies darkened with vultures, upon protesters the 6th, and Big Tech has worked to stop every voice of free speech, freedom, liberty, rule of law and dissent from the criminal actions the world has beheld since November 3rd.
https://mega.nz/folder/PgwzkDgT#HpdDx0nfULKPO1eUXS-edA
These same hypocrites now blame Trump for the situation that developed in D.C. on the 6th, even though they KNOW agents having nothing to do with the rally and protest led the way, led a charge, told people where to go, including police officers caught on video doing it all. Trump told people to respect the police and go home. The hypocrites blocked his posts to that end. Trump supporters and rally attendees were videoed trying to stop these agents from vandalizing the building. The hypocrites know that, as they now cry out that Trump supporters should be marginalized in any way necessary because it was an insurrection.
Nancy Pelosi's laptop and other things were gathered up by agents for Trump, and even now, while Pelosi is desperately attempting to force Pence and the Cabinet to call the 25th amendment into service, to remove Trump before Jan. 20th, working behind the scenes with the military to remove him by force, the DEFINITION OF SEDITION, information is now in the hands of people that can, if they choose, round up and topple the leaders of this criminal coup and save the Republic before the hypocrites and traitors gain control on the 20th.
Will Trump engage the Insurrection Act? Some sources state he already has and is going to begin gathering up the traitors in days, if not hours. It remains to be seen.
All year long American cities were looted, wrecked, filled with anarchy, literally, and examples of the violence and destruction has been neatly compiled on the site linked to.
While they work feverishly to take down Trump, Trump may have the final say and the last laugh. I do hope and pray he steps up and does everything within his authority to take down the traitors and treasonous vipers involved in the fraudulent elections and any and all other acts of sedition and insurrection that have taken place this year. Arrest them, try them, jail them. No one is above the law. No one.
Nine days remain. Much can be accomplished in 9 days by those with courage and determination. Do they exist in D.C.? It remains to be seen.
I could have posted a definition from one of the many definition sources on the web. That particular site has the best roll-out of definitions, by word usage, I have seen.
You know what hypocrisy is - Publicly claiming or denouncing one thing, privately doing another. "Do as I say, not as I do."
We all struggle with weaknesses, faults and sins of thought, word, and action. All of us. If you believe you don't, you are deceived: self-deceived or deceived by others.
The fact we all fall within the scope of our weaknesses is not really an excuse for hypocrisy. It might be a reason but, there's no excuse for being a hypocrite.
The amount of hypocrisy in Washington, D.C. is so enormous if people dropped dead from it, D.C. would have bodies stacked five feet high.
This link is to a website that has chronicled dozens, hundreds of riots, civil disturbances, etc., that most Democrats, and far too many Republicans said NOTHING against, and in many cases praised, endorsed, avowed, and cried affinity for in public. To this day some American cities are still under the assault of armed, violent protesters and nothing is being done to reign them in and stop them. Antifa receives NO denunciations from Democrats, even though thousands of hours of video exists showing their black outfitted, nefarious troops staging acts of gross violence upon citizens opposed to them, including police departments that have actually been given the go ahead to withstand them, rare as that has been, and the fact Trump declared them domestic terrorists, for painfully obvious reasons, Democrats and cowardly Republicans verbally descended, like skies darkened with vultures, upon protesters the 6th, and Big Tech has worked to stop every voice of free speech, freedom, liberty, rule of law and dissent from the criminal actions the world has beheld since November 3rd.
https://mega.nz/folder/PgwzkDgT#HpdDx0nfULKPO1eUXS-edA
These same hypocrites now blame Trump for the situation that developed in D.C. on the 6th, even though they KNOW agents having nothing to do with the rally and protest led the way, led a charge, told people where to go, including police officers caught on video doing it all. Trump told people to respect the police and go home. The hypocrites blocked his posts to that end. Trump supporters and rally attendees were videoed trying to stop these agents from vandalizing the building. The hypocrites know that, as they now cry out that Trump supporters should be marginalized in any way necessary because it was an insurrection.
Nancy Pelosi's laptop and other things were gathered up by agents for Trump, and even now, while Pelosi is desperately attempting to force Pence and the Cabinet to call the 25th amendment into service, to remove Trump before Jan. 20th, working behind the scenes with the military to remove him by force, the DEFINITION OF SEDITION, information is now in the hands of people that can, if they choose, round up and topple the leaders of this criminal coup and save the Republic before the hypocrites and traitors gain control on the 20th.
Will Trump engage the Insurrection Act? Some sources state he already has and is going to begin gathering up the traitors in days, if not hours. It remains to be seen.
All year long American cities were looted, wrecked, filled with anarchy, literally, and examples of the violence and destruction has been neatly compiled on the site linked to.
While they work feverishly to take down Trump, Trump may have the final say and the last laugh. I do hope and pray he steps up and does everything within his authority to take down the traitors and treasonous vipers involved in the fraudulent elections and any and all other acts of sedition and insurrection that have taken place this year. Arrest them, try them, jail them. No one is above the law. No one.
Nine days remain. Much can be accomplished in 9 days by those with courage and determination. Do they exist in D.C.? It remains to be seen.
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182. Pelosi Invokes God - January 11, 2021
You know, of all the things I could comment about regarding today's events, or just let it all go by because, unless Trump decides to go nuclear and take down the swamp via military aid in the next 8 days it's all over anyway, I just cannot let this one go by. It absolutely must be entered into the "You cannot make this stuff up" category.
BREAKING: Pelosi Invokes God As She Orders Pence To Remove Trump Or Face Impeachment
Pelosi invokes God as she demands Vice President Pence remove President Trump. They're giving Pence 24 hours.
by TOM PAPPERT January 10, 2021
"In a letter delivered to Democrats on Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) invoked God as she revealed the Democrat plan to force Vice President Mike Pence using the 25th Amendment under threat of a new impeachment trial.
“On this Sunday, we pray that God will continue to Bless America,” wrote Pelosi. “I want to call your immediate attention to the action to be taken tomorrow morning, when Majority Leader Hoyer will request Unanimous Consent to bring up the Raskin Resolution.”
"Pelosi explained that this resolution demands Pence immediately begin the process of removing President Donald Trump from office using the 25th Amendment. If Pence does not comply, Pelosi reveals, then Democrats will impeach President Trump.
"This resolution calls on the Vice President to convene and mobilize the Cabinet to activate the 25th Amendment to declare the President incapable of executing the duties of his office, after which the Vice President would immediately exercise powers as acting President." "
https://nationalfile.com/breaking-pelosi-invokes-god-as-she-orders-pence-to-remove-trump-or-face-impeachment/
After just writing a blog about hypocrisy, to see this at the end of the day would be hilarious if it were not so outrageous.
To pray to God to bless America after this political party has done NOTHING for four years but, endorse and promote constant things God decidedly calls abominations in His word, is so jaw dropping as to be a perpetual squint of disbelief. Nobody in their right mind would invoke God to bless people so deeply impacted in the sludge of corruption and lawlessness.
If such a stupid move is actually moved upon by Pence, America will wait with intense interest what possible list of things will be put together to show Trump is incapable of performing his duties. The absurdity of this move is THE most ridiculous thing Pelosi has yet placed before the American citizenry. With 9 days left, impeach POTUS? Why? Because she and these traitors know Trump can still execute an attack on these treasonous devils well within his authority.
I have been leery of holding out hope but, I am seriously wondering now if Trump is, indeed, going to put into action the Insurrection Act and cause such a blowback against these weasels that will go down in history as the greatest punch to criminal apostasy and treason ever known. If chaos develops, so be it. When the dust settles, may Trump be standing and all the back stabbers be removed from office and public exposure. Lock them up. Let them scream their vitriol from prison cells. That is the ONLY just course to take.
What spiritual advisers could Pelosi possibly have around her to make such a move towards the Sovereign of the universe, Who stands against just about everything Nancy Pelosi stands for?
I feel sorry for someone so entrenched in darkness and wickedness. She will have to face it all someday if she does not truly turn to God and plead for forgiveness for such a despicable political career.
I will pray to God for Nancy before it is too late and she passes the point of no return. God is merciful, abounding in love and forgiveness but, that will by no means clear the guilty; those that refuse to repent and turn away from their sins.
But, look. Remember what Christ said. The time will come when they shall seek to take the lives of God's servants and think they are doing the work of God.
What kind of blindness can be any more dense and dark than that?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
BREAKING: Pelosi Invokes God As She Orders Pence To Remove Trump Or Face Impeachment
Pelosi invokes God as she demands Vice President Pence remove President Trump. They're giving Pence 24 hours.
by TOM PAPPERT January 10, 2021
"In a letter delivered to Democrats on Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) invoked God as she revealed the Democrat plan to force Vice President Mike Pence using the 25th Amendment under threat of a new impeachment trial.
“On this Sunday, we pray that God will continue to Bless America,” wrote Pelosi. “I want to call your immediate attention to the action to be taken tomorrow morning, when Majority Leader Hoyer will request Unanimous Consent to bring up the Raskin Resolution.”
"Pelosi explained that this resolution demands Pence immediately begin the process of removing President Donald Trump from office using the 25th Amendment. If Pence does not comply, Pelosi reveals, then Democrats will impeach President Trump.
"This resolution calls on the Vice President to convene and mobilize the Cabinet to activate the 25th Amendment to declare the President incapable of executing the duties of his office, after which the Vice President would immediately exercise powers as acting President." "
https://nationalfile.com/breaking-pelosi-invokes-god-as-she-orders-pence-to-remove-trump-or-face-impeachment/
After just writing a blog about hypocrisy, to see this at the end of the day would be hilarious if it were not so outrageous.
To pray to God to bless America after this political party has done NOTHING for four years but, endorse and promote constant things God decidedly calls abominations in His word, is so jaw dropping as to be a perpetual squint of disbelief. Nobody in their right mind would invoke God to bless people so deeply impacted in the sludge of corruption and lawlessness.
If such a stupid move is actually moved upon by Pence, America will wait with intense interest what possible list of things will be put together to show Trump is incapable of performing his duties. The absurdity of this move is THE most ridiculous thing Pelosi has yet placed before the American citizenry. With 9 days left, impeach POTUS? Why? Because she and these traitors know Trump can still execute an attack on these treasonous devils well within his authority.
I have been leery of holding out hope but, I am seriously wondering now if Trump is, indeed, going to put into action the Insurrection Act and cause such a blowback against these weasels that will go down in history as the greatest punch to criminal apostasy and treason ever known. If chaos develops, so be it. When the dust settles, may Trump be standing and all the back stabbers be removed from office and public exposure. Lock them up. Let them scream their vitriol from prison cells. That is the ONLY just course to take.
What spiritual advisers could Pelosi possibly have around her to make such a move towards the Sovereign of the universe, Who stands against just about everything Nancy Pelosi stands for?
I feel sorry for someone so entrenched in darkness and wickedness. She will have to face it all someday if she does not truly turn to God and plead for forgiveness for such a despicable political career.
I will pray to God for Nancy before it is too late and she passes the point of no return. God is merciful, abounding in love and forgiveness but, that will by no means clear the guilty; those that refuse to repent and turn away from their sins.
But, look. Remember what Christ said. The time will come when they shall seek to take the lives of God's servants and think they are doing the work of God.
What kind of blindness can be any more dense and dark than that?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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183. Here's The Problem - January 15, 2021
No, it is not a Happy New Year. Not for Americans. I mean Americans, not the group that calls themselves Americans while they work for and towards a New World Order.
In watching 2020 develop, as I observe it, here's the problem, and I admit, I do not see a workable solution. The biggest problem, always, is lack of God. That is always the biggest problem because God is ALWAYS the ultimate solution. That problem just gives way to a million others but, it's a sweeping, general problem. The more specific problem is ignorance of Americanism: American history, American guiding principles, American solutions to problems. Over the years, decades, other things have crowded out the principles of Americanism. I am first to admit that problem was my own.
My young life was all about music. Then I became a Christian and especially got into Bible prophecy, both fulfilled and yet to be, and just lived my life watching America fulfill its role as though the nation's destiny could not be sidetracked or derailed. I was so wrong it leaves me almost breathless.
Since 2009 and a friend's provoking me about my lack of understanding 9/11, and my subsequent search for the truth of that event (for most assuredly the "official" story is not the truth), and the obvious detour prophecy was taking (which is another subject), I began to see things far more clearly. The reason America is in prophecy is because of its place in history as a different nation, and if Americans do not understand those differences, well, most do not, hence the current events taking place.
Wicked people only get away with wicked acts when flaws exist in the barriers and walls that should be there to protect the nation from wicked encroachment. GOD is a barrier and obviously people are making decisions, for decades, to become godless. Each generation farther removed from the realities of the Creator's role in human affairs, and even bloviating about it.
TRUTH is a barrier. Unfortunately most people do not care about truth, hence the ease of wicked people to instantly marginalize those seeking it with being TRUTHERS.
Knowing history is a barrier. You know the old phrase, Those who do not know history are destined to repeat it.
What is now happening in America is just a replay of what has taken place among nations for centuries, millennia. The problem is ancient. Each generation must be vigilant or it all just revolves in a repeat cycle. Americans do not know their own history.
How did wicked people gain control of the news cycle? How did they gain control of the narrative? Right now, in a nation invented, enlarged, invigored, and enlightened by principles of Conservatism, before it was even called that, Conservatives are being marginalized, swept away by the tens of thousands on social media platforms. Serious lunatics are even promoting Conservatives be gathered up and put away. Inalienable rights: free speech, free assembly, dissent, seeking for truth and when you find it, proclaiming it, the entire scope of the Bill of Rights, are being crushed, and the only voices attempting to protest and educate people are conservatives, who are being cast las the problem that must be dealt with.
Times came in the history of God's people, when He declared light was darkness, darkness light. Good was evil, evil was good. Truth became error and error became truth. That last one is pretty much a given because the Bible shows, generation after generation, no majority ever seeks after truth. They leave it to others and forget their own safety in the process as evil works to dethrone truth and replace it with lies. Liars lie. They get so good at it, it becomes a fine art. With them, anyway.
On any given day hundreds of websites will show you what politicians are lying and why. How do you know THEY are telling the truth? If each individual does not know the truth; know that they know the truth, then they are always, perpetually susceptible to lies. Satan, Christ said, is the father of lies. Today, lying is seen as a daily necessity for millions of people. Multiplied millions of people think nothing of lying. It's just what you have to do to get by, right? That's what they say. Little "white" lies turn into grey ones, then black as night ones.
Right now thousands of troops are being placed around D.C. because these Trump supporting "rioters," these "insurrectionists," these dangerous grandmas, mom's, average, everyday middle-class working (at least trying to work) citizens are being cast as dangerous villains, all led by Trump. One, a proven liar and covert operator, former FBI agent Andrew McCabe, even stated on a news program that when Trump states people should be peaceful and orderly during the coming inauguration (of the man who stole the election while better people slept, Joe Biden), that is all code for people to attack! Trump speaks code to grandma's! When he says be peaceful, that means attack! Hence, we need thousands of national guard troops all over the place to protect us from insurrectionist soccer mom's!!! You cannot make this stuff up. If anyone, anyone in America believes that rubbish they are a prime example of those who are ignorant of the truth and why all this has happened.
John Sullivan, a young man who, earlier this year, spoke at a rally and said he wanted to see Trump ripped from the White House (I wrote about him in a previous blog), now brags, on-line, for anyone to see, that he was at the Jan 6th rally and was part of the group, posing as Trump supporters, who engaged with those other plants who stormed the Capitol. He brags! He brags? How is that possible that he is running around free, causing chaos, and those who just want TRUTH and showed up to support Trump and oppose the steal are cast as the criminals, now being blacklisted, arrested, spoken of in the most egregious terms, 24/7 on main stream news cycles, and these professional liars in the msm are getting away with it? How is this tolerated? How is it even possible?
Videos, testimony, of those on both sides, no less, exists to show no insurrection took place the 6th. Does anybody realize the nature of what would have happened if 250,000 to a 1,000,000 people at that rally actually decided to storm the Capitol??? The Capitol would be in the hands of insurgents! Please, do let us have common sense.
The problem is not liars. Not really. Of course lying is a problem but, the greater problem, the foundational problem is that Americans no longer care about the truth, no longer care about making sure the principles of Americanism remain stable, functional, and active. If that were the case 2020 would have never been able to have taken place. The principles of the rule of law would have never allowed it. The principles of inalienable rights would never have allowed it. A government guarded and protected to be of the people, by the people, and for the people would never have allowed it. Ignorance of America has brought the nation to the brink of literal destruction as a Constitutional Republic.
Twenty-five percent of Americans would like to see new borders, two nations, red and blue. Forty percent of Christians in that number want to see division. Why? Because too late they see that America has been overtaken by people who hate them, hate the rule of law, hate rights they are not in control of. These people are total control freaks. That is how totalitarianism gains its foothold. Most Americans want government to leave them alone as they go about their daily lives. These control freaks cannot abide by that. They live to control others. They are under control, themselves; under the control of darkness.
There is a distinct reason why and how the Bible can state darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people.
The only way 2020 could have taken place, and any evil, is because darkness overcomes light.
I watch videos of Capitol police leading groups of people into the building and ask, What is this? Why is that? How did that take place? It is obvious as a train wreck something was horribly out of place. By the time more evidence and facts are placed before me, as I seek to educate myself on what happened, a truth emerges. What happened was a preplanned event, a "false flag" operation, designed to be used to castigate and marginalize Trump and any supporters. It descended on millions of those people, literally in hours. The absolutely ridiculous, outrageous things being stated by politicians and press was astonishing. How can people say such stupid things and get away with it? How can they lie with such abandon, such freedom and pull it off?
The election fraud, now so intrinsically investigated by so many different people, producing a mountain of obvious evidence, that a child could see it, was easily swept away and too late, those who know the election was stolen, protested. Trump never had the guts to do anything more than complain about the fake news. For whatever reasons, Trump failed in his duty to lead. He failed in his duty to be the top law enforcement officer in the nation. One might give him a pass on desiring to work with people in D.C. four years ago, and bringing in swamp dwellers who told him how he could make America great again, who stabbed him in the back, month after month, after painful month of watching that man make the most foolish choices for advisors ever made in that office. First dog bite, dog's fault. Second dog bite, my fault. Dozens of dog bites? I'm an idiot. Trump, proving my earliest suspicions true, is just a NY billionaire businessman not capable of the kind of fortitude it takes to lead a nation in its most basic and necessary principles it was founded on, in a crisis. He does not really know those principles, himself, nor do most of his supporters. It was four years of TRUMP by both sides. One side seeking his destruction, which should have been enough to tell 98% of Americans something is way wrong in D.C.. The other side, seeking to support the man, a man who cannot articulate the principles that make, made America what it was, just pressed on, enjoying a better economy not realizing the ineptitude of the man to act in a real crisis. Most citizens are more concerned about money than their rights, and as Thomas Jefferson predicted, our rights are now being removed by despotism. He said the nation would either convulse to expiration or somehow, someway right itself. Frankly, based on the evidence, I do not see that happening. I see everything collapsing in a convulsion. I see nothing to give me hope.
I feel sorry for my children who are about to live in a real, authentic, Orwellian nightmare. NO DISSENT ALLOWED.
Five days left. Plenty of time for Trump to act, and certainly for God to act. Of course, from God's viewpoint, being infinite, He knows what is going to happen every moment of every future day so, who knows, but Him, what shall come next week, next month, next year?
I had hoped Americans who desire freedom and liberty, all Americans, would be able to somehow rally together to stop this but, it has become painfully obvious too many Americans do not care about freedom and liberty, truth, the rule of law, and the other principles of Americanism that kept us safe.
America is about to become a shadow of Communist China, a servant of the CCP. Biden is a CCP puppet. He is a gangster, himself, now too old to lead himself off a rostrum. He'll be removed soon enough and Kamala Harris, GOD FORBID, will take the position of the the most powerful person in the Western hemisphere. All because of ignorance, that could have so easily been averted, especially in these days of the information highway, America is about to be lost and become Amerika, the USSA - The United Socialist States of Amerika.
Ninety-nine percent of Americans can educate themselves to the truth. The majority just didn't care.
My nation, that I did not guard all my life, is sinking into man-made, totalitarian control.
No. It is not a Happy New Year.
In watching 2020 develop, as I observe it, here's the problem, and I admit, I do not see a workable solution. The biggest problem, always, is lack of God. That is always the biggest problem because God is ALWAYS the ultimate solution. That problem just gives way to a million others but, it's a sweeping, general problem. The more specific problem is ignorance of Americanism: American history, American guiding principles, American solutions to problems. Over the years, decades, other things have crowded out the principles of Americanism. I am first to admit that problem was my own.
My young life was all about music. Then I became a Christian and especially got into Bible prophecy, both fulfilled and yet to be, and just lived my life watching America fulfill its role as though the nation's destiny could not be sidetracked or derailed. I was so wrong it leaves me almost breathless.
Since 2009 and a friend's provoking me about my lack of understanding 9/11, and my subsequent search for the truth of that event (for most assuredly the "official" story is not the truth), and the obvious detour prophecy was taking (which is another subject), I began to see things far more clearly. The reason America is in prophecy is because of its place in history as a different nation, and if Americans do not understand those differences, well, most do not, hence the current events taking place.
Wicked people only get away with wicked acts when flaws exist in the barriers and walls that should be there to protect the nation from wicked encroachment. GOD is a barrier and obviously people are making decisions, for decades, to become godless. Each generation farther removed from the realities of the Creator's role in human affairs, and even bloviating about it.
TRUTH is a barrier. Unfortunately most people do not care about truth, hence the ease of wicked people to instantly marginalize those seeking it with being TRUTHERS.
Knowing history is a barrier. You know the old phrase, Those who do not know history are destined to repeat it.
What is now happening in America is just a replay of what has taken place among nations for centuries, millennia. The problem is ancient. Each generation must be vigilant or it all just revolves in a repeat cycle. Americans do not know their own history.
How did wicked people gain control of the news cycle? How did they gain control of the narrative? Right now, in a nation invented, enlarged, invigored, and enlightened by principles of Conservatism, before it was even called that, Conservatives are being marginalized, swept away by the tens of thousands on social media platforms. Serious lunatics are even promoting Conservatives be gathered up and put away. Inalienable rights: free speech, free assembly, dissent, seeking for truth and when you find it, proclaiming it, the entire scope of the Bill of Rights, are being crushed, and the only voices attempting to protest and educate people are conservatives, who are being cast las the problem that must be dealt with.
Times came in the history of God's people, when He declared light was darkness, darkness light. Good was evil, evil was good. Truth became error and error became truth. That last one is pretty much a given because the Bible shows, generation after generation, no majority ever seeks after truth. They leave it to others and forget their own safety in the process as evil works to dethrone truth and replace it with lies. Liars lie. They get so good at it, it becomes a fine art. With them, anyway.
On any given day hundreds of websites will show you what politicians are lying and why. How do you know THEY are telling the truth? If each individual does not know the truth; know that they know the truth, then they are always, perpetually susceptible to lies. Satan, Christ said, is the father of lies. Today, lying is seen as a daily necessity for millions of people. Multiplied millions of people think nothing of lying. It's just what you have to do to get by, right? That's what they say. Little "white" lies turn into grey ones, then black as night ones.
Right now thousands of troops are being placed around D.C. because these Trump supporting "rioters," these "insurrectionists," these dangerous grandmas, mom's, average, everyday middle-class working (at least trying to work) citizens are being cast as dangerous villains, all led by Trump. One, a proven liar and covert operator, former FBI agent Andrew McCabe, even stated on a news program that when Trump states people should be peaceful and orderly during the coming inauguration (of the man who stole the election while better people slept, Joe Biden), that is all code for people to attack! Trump speaks code to grandma's! When he says be peaceful, that means attack! Hence, we need thousands of national guard troops all over the place to protect us from insurrectionist soccer mom's!!! You cannot make this stuff up. If anyone, anyone in America believes that rubbish they are a prime example of those who are ignorant of the truth and why all this has happened.
John Sullivan, a young man who, earlier this year, spoke at a rally and said he wanted to see Trump ripped from the White House (I wrote about him in a previous blog), now brags, on-line, for anyone to see, that he was at the Jan 6th rally and was part of the group, posing as Trump supporters, who engaged with those other plants who stormed the Capitol. He brags! He brags? How is that possible that he is running around free, causing chaos, and those who just want TRUTH and showed up to support Trump and oppose the steal are cast as the criminals, now being blacklisted, arrested, spoken of in the most egregious terms, 24/7 on main stream news cycles, and these professional liars in the msm are getting away with it? How is this tolerated? How is it even possible?
Videos, testimony, of those on both sides, no less, exists to show no insurrection took place the 6th. Does anybody realize the nature of what would have happened if 250,000 to a 1,000,000 people at that rally actually decided to storm the Capitol??? The Capitol would be in the hands of insurgents! Please, do let us have common sense.
The problem is not liars. Not really. Of course lying is a problem but, the greater problem, the foundational problem is that Americans no longer care about the truth, no longer care about making sure the principles of Americanism remain stable, functional, and active. If that were the case 2020 would have never been able to have taken place. The principles of the rule of law would have never allowed it. The principles of inalienable rights would never have allowed it. A government guarded and protected to be of the people, by the people, and for the people would never have allowed it. Ignorance of America has brought the nation to the brink of literal destruction as a Constitutional Republic.
Twenty-five percent of Americans would like to see new borders, two nations, red and blue. Forty percent of Christians in that number want to see division. Why? Because too late they see that America has been overtaken by people who hate them, hate the rule of law, hate rights they are not in control of. These people are total control freaks. That is how totalitarianism gains its foothold. Most Americans want government to leave them alone as they go about their daily lives. These control freaks cannot abide by that. They live to control others. They are under control, themselves; under the control of darkness.
There is a distinct reason why and how the Bible can state darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people.
The only way 2020 could have taken place, and any evil, is because darkness overcomes light.
I watch videos of Capitol police leading groups of people into the building and ask, What is this? Why is that? How did that take place? It is obvious as a train wreck something was horribly out of place. By the time more evidence and facts are placed before me, as I seek to educate myself on what happened, a truth emerges. What happened was a preplanned event, a "false flag" operation, designed to be used to castigate and marginalize Trump and any supporters. It descended on millions of those people, literally in hours. The absolutely ridiculous, outrageous things being stated by politicians and press was astonishing. How can people say such stupid things and get away with it? How can they lie with such abandon, such freedom and pull it off?
The election fraud, now so intrinsically investigated by so many different people, producing a mountain of obvious evidence, that a child could see it, was easily swept away and too late, those who know the election was stolen, protested. Trump never had the guts to do anything more than complain about the fake news. For whatever reasons, Trump failed in his duty to lead. He failed in his duty to be the top law enforcement officer in the nation. One might give him a pass on desiring to work with people in D.C. four years ago, and bringing in swamp dwellers who told him how he could make America great again, who stabbed him in the back, month after month, after painful month of watching that man make the most foolish choices for advisors ever made in that office. First dog bite, dog's fault. Second dog bite, my fault. Dozens of dog bites? I'm an idiot. Trump, proving my earliest suspicions true, is just a NY billionaire businessman not capable of the kind of fortitude it takes to lead a nation in its most basic and necessary principles it was founded on, in a crisis. He does not really know those principles, himself, nor do most of his supporters. It was four years of TRUMP by both sides. One side seeking his destruction, which should have been enough to tell 98% of Americans something is way wrong in D.C.. The other side, seeking to support the man, a man who cannot articulate the principles that make, made America what it was, just pressed on, enjoying a better economy not realizing the ineptitude of the man to act in a real crisis. Most citizens are more concerned about money than their rights, and as Thomas Jefferson predicted, our rights are now being removed by despotism. He said the nation would either convulse to expiration or somehow, someway right itself. Frankly, based on the evidence, I do not see that happening. I see everything collapsing in a convulsion. I see nothing to give me hope.
I feel sorry for my children who are about to live in a real, authentic, Orwellian nightmare. NO DISSENT ALLOWED.
Five days left. Plenty of time for Trump to act, and certainly for God to act. Of course, from God's viewpoint, being infinite, He knows what is going to happen every moment of every future day so, who knows, but Him, what shall come next week, next month, next year?
I had hoped Americans who desire freedom and liberty, all Americans, would be able to somehow rally together to stop this but, it has become painfully obvious too many Americans do not care about freedom and liberty, truth, the rule of law, and the other principles of Americanism that kept us safe.
America is about to become a shadow of Communist China, a servant of the CCP. Biden is a CCP puppet. He is a gangster, himself, now too old to lead himself off a rostrum. He'll be removed soon enough and Kamala Harris, GOD FORBID, will take the position of the the most powerful person in the Western hemisphere. All because of ignorance, that could have so easily been averted, especially in these days of the information highway, America is about to be lost and become Amerika, the USSA - The United Socialist States of Amerika.
Ninety-nine percent of Americans can educate themselves to the truth. The majority just didn't care.
My nation, that I did not guard all my life, is sinking into man-made, totalitarian control.
No. It is not a Happy New Year.
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184. An Astounding Website For Doubters - January 15, 2021
Now that algorithms are tracking certain types of statements about the 2020 election and tens of thousands of pages on social media are being censored, canceled, banned, and all those other American-value ideals are being shoved down people's throats, like being put on no-fly lists, one has to wonder how long this website I link to will be allowed to function.
The link is to a website that has more facts and evidence and statistics than you will be able to process on the anomalies, problems, and outright law breaking that took place Nov. 3rd and beyond.
If you are an honest person and care about America being a place where freedom and liberty actually mean something, than this website is for you, if you doubt fraud took place to elect a new POTUS.
It's a crowd sourcing website with 1,666 links to news and sites putting up information meeting court status of admissibility; evidence of what took place. It is mindboggling. Not just that all this evidence has been compiled (continually) on one website but, that there is not enough honesty in the American national and state systems to get it seen and addressed.
2,036,041
Ballots Touched By Admissible Anomalies
923
Fact Witnesses
50+
Courts Blocked an Evidentiary Hearing
Information establishing a mountain, the height of Everest, that what took place was not just odd but, wrong, by any standards of honesty, integrity, and transparency, and also, illegal.
Categories established - Voting Legislation, Illegal Votes, Polling Place Irregularities, Discarded or Destroyed Ballots, Voting Machine Irregularities, and General Categorization.
https://hereistheevidence.com/
Here is the edge of where we are at:
"Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman (D) on Friday said President Trump does not have the right to say the election was stolen.
According to Fetterman, saying the election was stolen or rigged is not protected under the 1st Amendment.
“This idea that saying that Pennsylvania was ‘rigged’ or that we were ‘trying to steal the election’ — that’s a lie. And you do not have the right, that is not protected speech,” Fetterman said.""
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/democrat-pennsylvania-lt-gov-not-right-say-election-rigged-not-protected-free-speech-video/
Now, I ask the simple, logical question. How do I know if election tampering took place if no one has a right to investigate legitimate claims? I need the permission of politicians to claim they did something illegal?
You cannot make this stuff up.
North Korea, Communist China, Venezuela, anyone?
The link is to a website that has more facts and evidence and statistics than you will be able to process on the anomalies, problems, and outright law breaking that took place Nov. 3rd and beyond.
If you are an honest person and care about America being a place where freedom and liberty actually mean something, than this website is for you, if you doubt fraud took place to elect a new POTUS.
It's a crowd sourcing website with 1,666 links to news and sites putting up information meeting court status of admissibility; evidence of what took place. It is mindboggling. Not just that all this evidence has been compiled (continually) on one website but, that there is not enough honesty in the American national and state systems to get it seen and addressed.
2,036,041
Ballots Touched By Admissible Anomalies
923
Fact Witnesses
50+
Courts Blocked an Evidentiary Hearing
Information establishing a mountain, the height of Everest, that what took place was not just odd but, wrong, by any standards of honesty, integrity, and transparency, and also, illegal.
Categories established - Voting Legislation, Illegal Votes, Polling Place Irregularities, Discarded or Destroyed Ballots, Voting Machine Irregularities, and General Categorization.
https://hereistheevidence.com/
Here is the edge of where we are at:
"Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman (D) on Friday said President Trump does not have the right to say the election was stolen.
According to Fetterman, saying the election was stolen or rigged is not protected under the 1st Amendment.
“This idea that saying that Pennsylvania was ‘rigged’ or that we were ‘trying to steal the election’ — that’s a lie. And you do not have the right, that is not protected speech,” Fetterman said.""
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/democrat-pennsylvania-lt-gov-not-right-say-election-rigged-not-protected-free-speech-video/
Now, I ask the simple, logical question. How do I know if election tampering took place if no one has a right to investigate legitimate claims? I need the permission of politicians to claim they did something illegal?
You cannot make this stuff up.
North Korea, Communist China, Venezuela, anyone?
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185. I Haven't Touched My Drums In Weeks - January 16, 2021
I don't know how many musicians, mostly those into drums and cymbals, come to this website. Since the beginning of last year I began to realize my concerns had drifted far closer to concerns of my nation and patriotism, than music and drums. Since that time my blog has become far more political than musical. Even with crossover subjects, like lockdowns affecting live music, etc., the bulk of my need to speak out and share have been about the attack by Leftists upon America.
My spirits were lifted when I began the album project months ago. So much energy was going into that. It was about the only thing keeping my head from sinking below the surface of the water; something positive to think about and pursue, as American cities were being torched, and now proven and senseless mandates and lockdowns crushed the country, all countries but, Sweden, where they just put in place common sense protocols and let the nation work, play, go to school, and live life normally, under the circumstances. People died, yes, but statistically, those who died from complications of the virus compared to the population number, put the percentage of danger into an almost no concern zone. Despite the loss of life, which happens every single year with the Flu and other diseases, maladies, and medical problems by the score, Sweden did the right thing. America? The leaders of this nation made an absolute mess of things and still are, and I am depressed and discouraged to see so many millions of people buying into the fear mongering and lies, absolute, provable lies.
Children are displaying serious mental and emotional problems now. Same with teenagers. Our lives are being controlled by elitists with an agenda, one they have pulled off with striking ease, and I am saddened by it all.
With the collapse of the album project and seeing the election criminalized to an astonishing successful degree, I just walk past the drum room every day. No desire, no will, no reason to play.
The idea of shaking it off surrounds me. I know anyone who has seen my set, pictured on this site or on my Youtube channel, would think I am crazy not to play that set all day long. They tell themselves they certainly would if they had it. Unless a tragedy struck, unless something debilitating dropped like a bomb on their lives. When those things happen some have a greater desire to play their chosen instrument. Others, it's like having no appetite when something heavy comes into life.
For a long time, 25 years, I have thought about making a recording of concepts for solo drum set; a collection of solos based on various concepts of approaching a drum solo. Musical concepts, percussive concepts, imagination, life, inspirations: things I have thought about in approaching the art of the drum solo. I have the recorder now, the mics are still set up. I took down all the "fluff" hanging in the room to tone it down but, all that could easily go back up. I know I could easily play 60-70 minutes of solos. I know Tom would be happy to process the files and we'd send them off to our replicator for our own projects, and I can do desktop publishing, or at least come up with a design and have a local graphic designer set it up for me to send off. I could put a finished CD out there and see what happens. I'm just ... tired. Spirit, soul, body tired. Tired of pain. Tired of epic failures in life. Tired of watching the world sink lower and lower into animal passions and madness dressed up as freedom and a higher plane of existence.
Now that I have the recorder and some experience using it, I have thought about doing more recordings with Tom. I was running errands yesterday. As I drove around all day I listened to Time To Tip The Tornado and Ride of a Lifetime, the fourth and third Miledge Muzic CDs. I know instrumental, multi-genre improvisation is not a popular type of music but, what Tom and I recorded in those sessions over a five year period remains my favorite music to listen to. I was inspired in so many moments to play like I did. Tom is not of the play as many notes as fast as you can culture. He plays slow on purpose, and creates sonic soundscapes that seem far reaching and ethereal and it causes me to just explode behind the kit and the whole thing becomes an energized mystery. To know where you are but, not where you are going is so cool, to me, even after listening to these sessions so many times, it all seems new again. I drive and listen and I think, this is just so moving. What few people have heard these recordings comment on how two guys can create such energy. Indeed. Lots of unbridled energy. So much music. Naturally composed music. A musical conversation between two people. Perhaps better stated as a conversation that melds into one, unified musical statement.
We began a little over ten years ago, in 2011 and it all sounds fresh and alive to me. I miss playing with Tom immensely. Why not try doing it remotely? The technology is there.
I just can't seem to harness any motivation. The world really is coming to an end. Not today, not tomorrow. I don't know when. Nobody does. We can just know the event of the ages is steadily moving towards us. A terrible detour has drained my energy. At least, it appears to be a detour. Who knows?
I want Christ to return. I'm tired of this world, turning upside down, inside out. Is that a song? It seems familiar. A song title from the 60's or 70's maybe? Anyway, the world is going mad, going dark. Playing a set of drums just doesn't seem very important anymore. It has lost much luster.
Many Christians in America are now fearful and expecting political persecution. I don't fear that. Persecution takes place all over the globe. Many have gone to sleep in Christ under the blades and bullets of evil. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Gospel. It is much harder to truly live for Christ than die for Him, if you analyze it spiritually. Millions have been put to death for their faith down through time. Millions shall be as time moves onward towards its final destiny in the battle between good and evil, Christ and Satan. Through all that war and testimony sealed with blood, many will be moved to take their stand for Christ and truth, and have a place made in heaven just for them. Can you imagine the joy of someone coming up to you in heaven and telling you your witness for Christ caused them to take their stand? There is no need to fear the future. God is in control.
There is good reason for sadness to see a nation die from the disease of political corruption. A nation so blessed as the United States of America.
Five days left.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
My spirits were lifted when I began the album project months ago. So much energy was going into that. It was about the only thing keeping my head from sinking below the surface of the water; something positive to think about and pursue, as American cities were being torched, and now proven and senseless mandates and lockdowns crushed the country, all countries but, Sweden, where they just put in place common sense protocols and let the nation work, play, go to school, and live life normally, under the circumstances. People died, yes, but statistically, those who died from complications of the virus compared to the population number, put the percentage of danger into an almost no concern zone. Despite the loss of life, which happens every single year with the Flu and other diseases, maladies, and medical problems by the score, Sweden did the right thing. America? The leaders of this nation made an absolute mess of things and still are, and I am depressed and discouraged to see so many millions of people buying into the fear mongering and lies, absolute, provable lies.
Children are displaying serious mental and emotional problems now. Same with teenagers. Our lives are being controlled by elitists with an agenda, one they have pulled off with striking ease, and I am saddened by it all.
With the collapse of the album project and seeing the election criminalized to an astonishing successful degree, I just walk past the drum room every day. No desire, no will, no reason to play.
The idea of shaking it off surrounds me. I know anyone who has seen my set, pictured on this site or on my Youtube channel, would think I am crazy not to play that set all day long. They tell themselves they certainly would if they had it. Unless a tragedy struck, unless something debilitating dropped like a bomb on their lives. When those things happen some have a greater desire to play their chosen instrument. Others, it's like having no appetite when something heavy comes into life.
For a long time, 25 years, I have thought about making a recording of concepts for solo drum set; a collection of solos based on various concepts of approaching a drum solo. Musical concepts, percussive concepts, imagination, life, inspirations: things I have thought about in approaching the art of the drum solo. I have the recorder now, the mics are still set up. I took down all the "fluff" hanging in the room to tone it down but, all that could easily go back up. I know I could easily play 60-70 minutes of solos. I know Tom would be happy to process the files and we'd send them off to our replicator for our own projects, and I can do desktop publishing, or at least come up with a design and have a local graphic designer set it up for me to send off. I could put a finished CD out there and see what happens. I'm just ... tired. Spirit, soul, body tired. Tired of pain. Tired of epic failures in life. Tired of watching the world sink lower and lower into animal passions and madness dressed up as freedom and a higher plane of existence.
Now that I have the recorder and some experience using it, I have thought about doing more recordings with Tom. I was running errands yesterday. As I drove around all day I listened to Time To Tip The Tornado and Ride of a Lifetime, the fourth and third Miledge Muzic CDs. I know instrumental, multi-genre improvisation is not a popular type of music but, what Tom and I recorded in those sessions over a five year period remains my favorite music to listen to. I was inspired in so many moments to play like I did. Tom is not of the play as many notes as fast as you can culture. He plays slow on purpose, and creates sonic soundscapes that seem far reaching and ethereal and it causes me to just explode behind the kit and the whole thing becomes an energized mystery. To know where you are but, not where you are going is so cool, to me, even after listening to these sessions so many times, it all seems new again. I drive and listen and I think, this is just so moving. What few people have heard these recordings comment on how two guys can create such energy. Indeed. Lots of unbridled energy. So much music. Naturally composed music. A musical conversation between two people. Perhaps better stated as a conversation that melds into one, unified musical statement.
We began a little over ten years ago, in 2011 and it all sounds fresh and alive to me. I miss playing with Tom immensely. Why not try doing it remotely? The technology is there.
I just can't seem to harness any motivation. The world really is coming to an end. Not today, not tomorrow. I don't know when. Nobody does. We can just know the event of the ages is steadily moving towards us. A terrible detour has drained my energy. At least, it appears to be a detour. Who knows?
I want Christ to return. I'm tired of this world, turning upside down, inside out. Is that a song? It seems familiar. A song title from the 60's or 70's maybe? Anyway, the world is going mad, going dark. Playing a set of drums just doesn't seem very important anymore. It has lost much luster.
Many Christians in America are now fearful and expecting political persecution. I don't fear that. Persecution takes place all over the globe. Many have gone to sleep in Christ under the blades and bullets of evil. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Gospel. It is much harder to truly live for Christ than die for Him, if you analyze it spiritually. Millions have been put to death for their faith down through time. Millions shall be as time moves onward towards its final destiny in the battle between good and evil, Christ and Satan. Through all that war and testimony sealed with blood, many will be moved to take their stand for Christ and truth, and have a place made in heaven just for them. Can you imagine the joy of someone coming up to you in heaven and telling you your witness for Christ caused them to take their stand? There is no need to fear the future. God is in control.
There is good reason for sadness to see a nation die from the disease of political corruption. A nation so blessed as the United States of America.
Five days left.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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186. January 20th - January 16, 2021.
Four days away.
You have read my positions on what is has, is and will happen if Joe Biden becomes POTUS.
Now, based on things I am reading and listening to, I throw another spoon in the soup.
I am told in "The Art of War" the statement and principle is made that whoever makes the last move, wins the war. You hold out until the other side has no more moves to make. You outlast them, make the last move, you win the battles, you win the war.
On January 20th, at the inside inauguration of Biden and Harris, an inside event they decided upon because of their narrative that an outside event is too dangerous because of Trump supporters and their insurrection, they shall be gathered in one place, and when the inauguration of Biden happens, the sedition of political insurrection of the greatest criminal cabal in history shall be arrested by the military, martial law declared, military tribunals begin, Trump remains in office, returns the nation to a gold standard, works with patriots to rebuild the government from the ground up, drains the swamp, etc., and America moves forward.
Everybody in a position of power in D.C. knows what is about to happen and are making plans to avert the disaster of their moves. Pelosi's last move was to try and force Pence to have the Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment and have Trump declared unfit and removed from office, as Pence would be declared POTUS and finish out the administration's duration. Pence declined. I guess he'd rather not be declared a traitor after all. Pelosi is out of moves. An assassination attempt is logical. That would not necessarily stop a military move but, would certainly bring in chaos to cover Biden's placement. The left is great at creating chaos and never letting a crisis go to waste. Expect Trump to be out of sight for a few days.
I'll save the possible scenarios that could be truly biblical until another time. For now, that is the info being put out there by people with their ears to the tracks, and sources they depend on.
I'm not holding my breath. Just sharing. Yeah, of course I hope it happens, as precarious as martial law can be. Of course I hope the traitors are taken down. Right now 20k national guard troops are assembled in D.C. Americans are being told they have been brought in to make sure Trump insurgents do not cause a problem. Is that actually why they are there, or is that just the media spin because they all know, all of them, the hammer is about to drop and they are frantically finding a way to get out of Dodge?
Keep your eye January 20th. High Noon, if ever there was one.
One guy is calling it the biggest sting operation in history. Well, you know, a sting op is something those getting stung don't know about. In this case, I can see the JAG attorneys lining up to defend and get immunity deals far and wide. The word is, national guard troops are going to be moved into all the state capitols as well.
Probably logical and wise to have a few weeks or more of food and water on hand, and other essentials should this all happen. Chaos will ensue. Riots, disruption of major services, etc.
The proverbial barnyard defecation may be about to hit the biggest fan ever seen.
Hey, a patriot can hope.
You have read my positions on what is has, is and will happen if Joe Biden becomes POTUS.
Now, based on things I am reading and listening to, I throw another spoon in the soup.
I am told in "The Art of War" the statement and principle is made that whoever makes the last move, wins the war. You hold out until the other side has no more moves to make. You outlast them, make the last move, you win the battles, you win the war.
On January 20th, at the inside inauguration of Biden and Harris, an inside event they decided upon because of their narrative that an outside event is too dangerous because of Trump supporters and their insurrection, they shall be gathered in one place, and when the inauguration of Biden happens, the sedition of political insurrection of the greatest criminal cabal in history shall be arrested by the military, martial law declared, military tribunals begin, Trump remains in office, returns the nation to a gold standard, works with patriots to rebuild the government from the ground up, drains the swamp, etc., and America moves forward.
Everybody in a position of power in D.C. knows what is about to happen and are making plans to avert the disaster of their moves. Pelosi's last move was to try and force Pence to have the Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment and have Trump declared unfit and removed from office, as Pence would be declared POTUS and finish out the administration's duration. Pence declined. I guess he'd rather not be declared a traitor after all. Pelosi is out of moves. An assassination attempt is logical. That would not necessarily stop a military move but, would certainly bring in chaos to cover Biden's placement. The left is great at creating chaos and never letting a crisis go to waste. Expect Trump to be out of sight for a few days.
I'll save the possible scenarios that could be truly biblical until another time. For now, that is the info being put out there by people with their ears to the tracks, and sources they depend on.
I'm not holding my breath. Just sharing. Yeah, of course I hope it happens, as precarious as martial law can be. Of course I hope the traitors are taken down. Right now 20k national guard troops are assembled in D.C. Americans are being told they have been brought in to make sure Trump insurgents do not cause a problem. Is that actually why they are there, or is that just the media spin because they all know, all of them, the hammer is about to drop and they are frantically finding a way to get out of Dodge?
Keep your eye January 20th. High Noon, if ever there was one.
One guy is calling it the biggest sting operation in history. Well, you know, a sting op is something those getting stung don't know about. In this case, I can see the JAG attorneys lining up to defend and get immunity deals far and wide. The word is, national guard troops are going to be moved into all the state capitols as well.
Probably logical and wise to have a few weeks or more of food and water on hand, and other essentials should this all happen. Chaos will ensue. Riots, disruption of major services, etc.
The proverbial barnyard defecation may be about to hit the biggest fan ever seen.
Hey, a patriot can hope.
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187. Two Days and Getting On With Life (hopefully) - Jan. 18, 2021
Voices everywhere either trying to tell Americans Trump will remain POTUS or the building cancel culture putting down all dissenting voices to what has, is, and will take place if Biden makes it into the WH. It is ferocious out there.
Yesterday, I spent a great deal of the day reading and listening to information relating to what may, what must, what will happen on or shortly before or after the 20th.
D.C. literally looks like a concentration camp, with citizens asking is all of it designed to keep people out or keep people in? It is shocking to see all the chain link fence and razor wire all over the place. Check points everywhere. Bridges under military control. What a sad spectacle for the world to see.
Talking heads on the Left continue to bash Christians and/or Patriots with lies on top of lies, threats on top of threats, and I must wonder at the mental acuity of these people. They are either shills and/or people absolved of intelligence. The craziest radicals are being given airtime to spew the most ridiculous and offensive nonsense I have ever seen in six decades of life as an American.
At the end of the day I stated to my wife, What if all this info out there about the Insurrection Act, Trump is going to take matters into hand as he should, people need to stay away from DC and all state capitols because false flag ops are going to take place to have more barnyard defecation to blame on innocent people marveling at the entire dog and pony show Leftists have put together, is all misinformation, disinformation and junk from CIA operatives, to keep the citizenry calm while traitors in Congress and Deep State take over the nation? What if it is all a ruse?
Not five minutes went by when I came upon this website and this info:
"Today’s Situation Update for January 16th is largely bad news, so listen at your own discretion. Trump’s pathways to victory are collapsing, but they are not yet gone. There remain three options for Trump to remain in power and secure a second term:
Even worse, it appears to us that the FBI, Antifa and deep state actors are preparing a large-scale false flag event in the coming days, which will be used to justify incoming President Biden declaring his own Insurrection Act and ordering nationwide gun confiscation.
Adding to the confusion, we have now confirmed that a prominent, popular voice on the ‘net who has been shrouded in secrecy — but whose videos are widely shared — is in fact a CIA psyop agent who was tasked with running disinformation campaigns to pacify patriots by telling them there is a secret plan for Trump to achieve a last-minute victory. There are, in fact, a few individuals who we now know to be bad faith actors who are spreading deliberate disinfo to pacify patriots into non-action while their nation is conquered by communists.
For the record, this does not in any way involve Sidney Powell or Gen. Flynn, both of whom are unrelenting patriots working to defend America."
The article goes on.
Situation Update, Jan. 16th, 2021 – “Operation Trust” psyop revealed, DC prepares for large-scale WAR
So, what is the truth? I have no idea. I believe the traitorous cabal is going to take over in two days. I believe God has a vested interested in America, as I have stated before, and something may happen to surprise and shock the nation at His hand. That said, I just have no idea what is actually going to happen, beyond what logic tells me. Evil is about to overtake righteousness in America. God is going to let America reap what it has sown.
As I have stated many times, America has big-time faults and problems. The problems are not with the Foundation documents and principles of the nation. The problems arise from apostates who refuse to be bound by them.
How many Americans realize the kind of election meddling America has gotten into around the world? It is the same kind of meddling that has taken place now. America has been a total bully at times. D.C. is filled with pirates and devils. Black ops, black budgets, dark this, dark that. Is it any better than the USSR? People can be detained indefinitely; no charges, no legal counsel, no light of day. People can be tortured in dark rooms. People can be killed, and nobody can do a thing about it. A drone can drop death on you as an American citizen anywhere in the world and your citizenship means nothing, a trial before your peers to weigh evidence means nothing. There is no innocent until PROVEN guilty. The rule of law IS GONE. Anybody who thinks it will get better under a Biden administration is a moron, plain and simple. An unthinking, unreasonable moron as distant from fact as the moon is from the Earth. Or, a typical planted talking head doing their job. Very intelligent people used to spin the biggest web of lies that can be spun. It really does come down to the collective gullibility of the American populace.
Aside from those people and their wicked work, America has been a light to the world. NOBODY can argue that fact. The entire world still wants to get here to have a better life. If Biden is allowed to give amnesty to 11-22 million illegals in his first week in office, and allows the surging caravan on its way in, with more to come, America sinks into a third-world hell-hole within a couple years. America WILL BECOME Venezuela. That's just common sense, cause to effect.
My wife tells me to stop reading and listening. I get too upset. Up and down, up and down. She's the same. Look, anybody who cares about America as a patriot loving God, family, country, and inalienable rights, is going up and down trying to understand how on Earth did such a steal take place and NOBODY in a position of responsibility seems to care? Just the opposite. They are telling me dissent from their treason is domestic terrorism!!!
Welcome to, The Twilight Zone.
Do not touch your television dial. We control the volume. We control the picture. We can do it all. You are about to enter The Outer Limits. Please stand by.
Getting on with life? How?
Yesterday, I spent a great deal of the day reading and listening to information relating to what may, what must, what will happen on or shortly before or after the 20th.
D.C. literally looks like a concentration camp, with citizens asking is all of it designed to keep people out or keep people in? It is shocking to see all the chain link fence and razor wire all over the place. Check points everywhere. Bridges under military control. What a sad spectacle for the world to see.
Talking heads on the Left continue to bash Christians and/or Patriots with lies on top of lies, threats on top of threats, and I must wonder at the mental acuity of these people. They are either shills and/or people absolved of intelligence. The craziest radicals are being given airtime to spew the most ridiculous and offensive nonsense I have ever seen in six decades of life as an American.
At the end of the day I stated to my wife, What if all this info out there about the Insurrection Act, Trump is going to take matters into hand as he should, people need to stay away from DC and all state capitols because false flag ops are going to take place to have more barnyard defecation to blame on innocent people marveling at the entire dog and pony show Leftists have put together, is all misinformation, disinformation and junk from CIA operatives, to keep the citizenry calm while traitors in Congress and Deep State take over the nation? What if it is all a ruse?
Not five minutes went by when I came upon this website and this info:
"Today’s Situation Update for January 16th is largely bad news, so listen at your own discretion. Trump’s pathways to victory are collapsing, but they are not yet gone. There remain three options for Trump to remain in power and secure a second term:
- DECLASS documents coming Monday may be game-changers.
- The Insurrection Act can still be deployed, but it seems no one in the military is willing to follow those orders (unless they are keeping it a really good secret, which is certainly possible…).
- The military itself may be carrying out a pro-America “military coup” to overthrow the deep state and save the republic.
Even worse, it appears to us that the FBI, Antifa and deep state actors are preparing a large-scale false flag event in the coming days, which will be used to justify incoming President Biden declaring his own Insurrection Act and ordering nationwide gun confiscation.
Adding to the confusion, we have now confirmed that a prominent, popular voice on the ‘net who has been shrouded in secrecy — but whose videos are widely shared — is in fact a CIA psyop agent who was tasked with running disinformation campaigns to pacify patriots by telling them there is a secret plan for Trump to achieve a last-minute victory. There are, in fact, a few individuals who we now know to be bad faith actors who are spreading deliberate disinfo to pacify patriots into non-action while their nation is conquered by communists.
For the record, this does not in any way involve Sidney Powell or Gen. Flynn, both of whom are unrelenting patriots working to defend America."
The article goes on.
Situation Update, Jan. 16th, 2021 – “Operation Trust” psyop revealed, DC prepares for large-scale WAR
So, what is the truth? I have no idea. I believe the traitorous cabal is going to take over in two days. I believe God has a vested interested in America, as I have stated before, and something may happen to surprise and shock the nation at His hand. That said, I just have no idea what is actually going to happen, beyond what logic tells me. Evil is about to overtake righteousness in America. God is going to let America reap what it has sown.
As I have stated many times, America has big-time faults and problems. The problems are not with the Foundation documents and principles of the nation. The problems arise from apostates who refuse to be bound by them.
How many Americans realize the kind of election meddling America has gotten into around the world? It is the same kind of meddling that has taken place now. America has been a total bully at times. D.C. is filled with pirates and devils. Black ops, black budgets, dark this, dark that. Is it any better than the USSR? People can be detained indefinitely; no charges, no legal counsel, no light of day. People can be tortured in dark rooms. People can be killed, and nobody can do a thing about it. A drone can drop death on you as an American citizen anywhere in the world and your citizenship means nothing, a trial before your peers to weigh evidence means nothing. There is no innocent until PROVEN guilty. The rule of law IS GONE. Anybody who thinks it will get better under a Biden administration is a moron, plain and simple. An unthinking, unreasonable moron as distant from fact as the moon is from the Earth. Or, a typical planted talking head doing their job. Very intelligent people used to spin the biggest web of lies that can be spun. It really does come down to the collective gullibility of the American populace.
Aside from those people and their wicked work, America has been a light to the world. NOBODY can argue that fact. The entire world still wants to get here to have a better life. If Biden is allowed to give amnesty to 11-22 million illegals in his first week in office, and allows the surging caravan on its way in, with more to come, America sinks into a third-world hell-hole within a couple years. America WILL BECOME Venezuela. That's just common sense, cause to effect.
My wife tells me to stop reading and listening. I get too upset. Up and down, up and down. She's the same. Look, anybody who cares about America as a patriot loving God, family, country, and inalienable rights, is going up and down trying to understand how on Earth did such a steal take place and NOBODY in a position of responsibility seems to care? Just the opposite. They are telling me dissent from their treason is domestic terrorism!!!
Welcome to, The Twilight Zone.
Do not touch your television dial. We control the volume. We control the picture. We can do it all. You are about to enter The Outer Limits. Please stand by.
Getting on with life? How?
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188. Getting On With Life, Part 2: Drums and Music - January 18, 2021
So, how to get on with life when your nation goes from a government of the people, by the people, and for the people to a government of the corrupt politicians, by the corrupt politicians, for the corrupt politicians and the rest of their cabal.
Does music even matter? I began to wonder if God did not shut the doors on the Hendrickson-Frigon Project because He knew what was coming, and a musical message such as the one we came up with would be denounced, canceled, censored and crushed any way shape and form the useful idiots out there could manage, including showing up on our doorsteps to terrorize us in the middle of the night. Of course, in my neck of the woods that is far more unlikely than Gary's but, the political lunatic fringe exists everywhere now and perhaps God just wants to save us a world of grief. When you write a song called Fake News and let the world know why it exists, obviously people will be upset. The thing is, common sense (and rights) declare that in a nation with free speech as a foundation principle, everybody gets to state what they want, how they want, as long as they remain within the constraints of the rule of law. If you do not like it, do not listen to it. Simple as that. But, you see, Leftists are radical, violent, bullies and if they do not like something, they cannot abide in a situation of freedom for all. They can only allow freedom for them. All others must be denounced and shut down. So, how can there be any kind of relevant musical message when one side determines, by their standards, what stays and what goes?
Basically what is coming will affect every facet of life in America. It already affects government policy, education and its institutions, sports, entertainment, science, positions on family and humanity; well, everything is already affected by Leftists and their obstinate bullying. It is about to get exponentially worse.
If I believe God created everything, people believe my children are threatened and should be taken away from me. If I believe humans are male and female, people believe I should not be allowed to practice medicine or be involved in education, or have a place in government, or even have a say-so in sports.
If I believe ALL politicians are to be bound and limited by the Constitution, I am a conservative crazy, a domestic terrorist that cannot be allowed an audience.
How about drums? How about instrumental music?
I've been communicating with guitarist Tom Cranor, my musical partner in our Miledge Muzic recording project, and we are going to try and go down some new roads in our passion for instrumental, multi-genre, duo explorations. Aside from the five CDs we've released and we still have sessions to release from previous years but, a new path is what we are considering, and The Cranor-Frigon Duo is going to get into some interesting areas of recording ventures. I was listening to a session the other day, from back in 2016. I love that sound, that energy, that whole mysterious thing of not knowing where the music will go as we improvise our way through sixty or seventy minutes of time. I love what Tom does. I miss making music with him. Being 1000 miles apart is the new challenge. Remote improv? Hm. Why not? Time to forge ahead.
The other project I want to get into is something I have wanted to do since the mid-90's. When it comes to drums these days, video is everything. Still, for me, when I listen to drums, can't see them, can only listen, it's a whole other experience. I would like to record a CD of drum solos, based around my Concepts for Solo Drum Set ideas. Admittedly, this would be something for those who loves drums, who love drum solos, and would like some ideas for constructing them, if and when the time arrives in their own musical journey. I believe there is plenty of room for just the sound of a drum set, the pristine soundscape and soundstage of those distinct frequencies and the aural atmosphere of drums, cymbals and other effects a kit can have employed within it.
I can still remember my first experiences listening to recorded solos from Buddy Rich, Ginger Baker, Dino Danelli, Ron Bushy, Ian Paice, John Bonham, Don Brewer, Bill Ward, Carl Palmer, Billy Cobham, Lenny White, Alphonse Mouzon, all the Jazz greats, like Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, Philly Jo Jones, and so many others, and the wonderful Tony Williams. I still have the cassette tapes I made of nothing but, drum solos, taken from every record I had, and I would listen to them as I drove around.
For those who love drum set artistry as I do, listening to a drum solo, that personal, musical, percussive statement by one player, is a special thing. It's a moment of truth when the time comes to perform one. My thoughts translated through my limbs into a wave of sound, an avalanche of sound, a battle, a march, a torrential downpour of sound. The steady stream or the rushing white caps of sound. For me, the essence of nature comes alive in a drum solo. The environment, the animal kingdom; it all comes into my mind when it comes to a drum solo.
I admit, my admiration and love of drum solos is probably not the norm, even among drummers. Today's crop of players have soared into the stratosphere with talent and technique, well beyond my capabilities but, in the realm of placing down one's thoughts on a drum set, I have always believed there is room for everyone to make an enjoyable statement to listen to, when the listener loves the drums.
So, that journey is now on the map, as well. Tom will take the files and do his magic to them, and I'll send everything off for replication and simply offer it here on the site and see what happens.
When you want to share, you should. Anybody and everybody has a voice. Put it out there. If nothing else, as an inspiration to the young, to excel and follow their dreams.
Music is a good thing. One must wonder what happens to the entire music industry under what is about to befall America, and the world. If you corral people, you corral music, too, because music comes from mind and heart, from experience, from convictions, thoughts and ideas. If you shut people down that do not agree with you, you damage music as a result. You damage everything, actually, and it is beyond a shame so many cannot see that in America right now. The cancel culture is an enemy to life. It is a testimony to the culture of death that presides among so many millions of people.
May God help those who want to freely walk in the light, as they understand it.
Does music even matter? I began to wonder if God did not shut the doors on the Hendrickson-Frigon Project because He knew what was coming, and a musical message such as the one we came up with would be denounced, canceled, censored and crushed any way shape and form the useful idiots out there could manage, including showing up on our doorsteps to terrorize us in the middle of the night. Of course, in my neck of the woods that is far more unlikely than Gary's but, the political lunatic fringe exists everywhere now and perhaps God just wants to save us a world of grief. When you write a song called Fake News and let the world know why it exists, obviously people will be upset. The thing is, common sense (and rights) declare that in a nation with free speech as a foundation principle, everybody gets to state what they want, how they want, as long as they remain within the constraints of the rule of law. If you do not like it, do not listen to it. Simple as that. But, you see, Leftists are radical, violent, bullies and if they do not like something, they cannot abide in a situation of freedom for all. They can only allow freedom for them. All others must be denounced and shut down. So, how can there be any kind of relevant musical message when one side determines, by their standards, what stays and what goes?
Basically what is coming will affect every facet of life in America. It already affects government policy, education and its institutions, sports, entertainment, science, positions on family and humanity; well, everything is already affected by Leftists and their obstinate bullying. It is about to get exponentially worse.
If I believe God created everything, people believe my children are threatened and should be taken away from me. If I believe humans are male and female, people believe I should not be allowed to practice medicine or be involved in education, or have a place in government, or even have a say-so in sports.
If I believe ALL politicians are to be bound and limited by the Constitution, I am a conservative crazy, a domestic terrorist that cannot be allowed an audience.
How about drums? How about instrumental music?
I've been communicating with guitarist Tom Cranor, my musical partner in our Miledge Muzic recording project, and we are going to try and go down some new roads in our passion for instrumental, multi-genre, duo explorations. Aside from the five CDs we've released and we still have sessions to release from previous years but, a new path is what we are considering, and The Cranor-Frigon Duo is going to get into some interesting areas of recording ventures. I was listening to a session the other day, from back in 2016. I love that sound, that energy, that whole mysterious thing of not knowing where the music will go as we improvise our way through sixty or seventy minutes of time. I love what Tom does. I miss making music with him. Being 1000 miles apart is the new challenge. Remote improv? Hm. Why not? Time to forge ahead.
The other project I want to get into is something I have wanted to do since the mid-90's. When it comes to drums these days, video is everything. Still, for me, when I listen to drums, can't see them, can only listen, it's a whole other experience. I would like to record a CD of drum solos, based around my Concepts for Solo Drum Set ideas. Admittedly, this would be something for those who loves drums, who love drum solos, and would like some ideas for constructing them, if and when the time arrives in their own musical journey. I believe there is plenty of room for just the sound of a drum set, the pristine soundscape and soundstage of those distinct frequencies and the aural atmosphere of drums, cymbals and other effects a kit can have employed within it.
I can still remember my first experiences listening to recorded solos from Buddy Rich, Ginger Baker, Dino Danelli, Ron Bushy, Ian Paice, John Bonham, Don Brewer, Bill Ward, Carl Palmer, Billy Cobham, Lenny White, Alphonse Mouzon, all the Jazz greats, like Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, Philly Jo Jones, and so many others, and the wonderful Tony Williams. I still have the cassette tapes I made of nothing but, drum solos, taken from every record I had, and I would listen to them as I drove around.
For those who love drum set artistry as I do, listening to a drum solo, that personal, musical, percussive statement by one player, is a special thing. It's a moment of truth when the time comes to perform one. My thoughts translated through my limbs into a wave of sound, an avalanche of sound, a battle, a march, a torrential downpour of sound. The steady stream or the rushing white caps of sound. For me, the essence of nature comes alive in a drum solo. The environment, the animal kingdom; it all comes into my mind when it comes to a drum solo.
I admit, my admiration and love of drum solos is probably not the norm, even among drummers. Today's crop of players have soared into the stratosphere with talent and technique, well beyond my capabilities but, in the realm of placing down one's thoughts on a drum set, I have always believed there is room for everyone to make an enjoyable statement to listen to, when the listener loves the drums.
So, that journey is now on the map, as well. Tom will take the files and do his magic to them, and I'll send everything off for replication and simply offer it here on the site and see what happens.
When you want to share, you should. Anybody and everybody has a voice. Put it out there. If nothing else, as an inspiration to the young, to excel and follow their dreams.
Music is a good thing. One must wonder what happens to the entire music industry under what is about to befall America, and the world. If you corral people, you corral music, too, because music comes from mind and heart, from experience, from convictions, thoughts and ideas. If you shut people down that do not agree with you, you damage music as a result. You damage everything, actually, and it is beyond a shame so many cannot see that in America right now. The cancel culture is an enemy to life. It is a testimony to the culture of death that presides among so many millions of people.
May God help those who want to freely walk in the light, as they understand it.
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189. A Day Of Infamy - January 20, 2021
Over the months I have echoed what millions of other have, and know, and saw, and believe: 2020 was the year the totalitarian cabal invaded America with plans, lies, misinformation, disinformation, threats, and the greatest act of treason and tyranny yet seen in American history.
For those who come here, you know I am not a Democrat, nor a Republican. I'm a registered independent.
After listening to Limbaugh for just a few minutes, out in my shop yesterday, I know what I wrote about the uselessness of talking heads in the Conservative movement is true.
I know I will never vote for the GOP again because it is filled with traitors and liars like Mitch McConnell, who stood on the Senate floor and blamed Trump for the enormous rally turned tiny, Antifa led, fake riot at the Capitol on the 6th, calling Trump a liar, and Limbaugh did not have the guts to simply and straight-forwardly point that out. He chose to tell his audience how McConnell has been a good guy over the years of his show and felt bad he was about to share some researcher's info that McConnell's wife and Mitch have financial ties to the CCP. Ya think?!
I read just one statement from the outgoing POTUS wishing success to the incoming thief and Chinese puppet, about to be installed by Chinese meddling in the election, through electronics, as part of the fraud. The same fraud, total wastes of space are telling me and 80 million others who actually voted for Trump, that it would end the GOP if the issue of election fraud were given merit.
There's a Greek word, "idiotace," where we get the English word "idiot" from. It means a simpleton, a fool. Those in the Republican party who see a future for themselves better get ready to print and send out and falsely mail back in and send through the machines millions of fake ballots because the GOP is dead. It is toast. As Mitch and Schumer discuss how to have a joint Senate, proving the cabal that much more, Americans who KNOW they had their votes stolen, literally in real time, will never vote for a Republican again. Voting no longer matters. All that matters now is secession; getting the hell out of this coming train wreck asap.
I spent four years reading and listening to Leftists tell me how disgusting I am for voting for Trump, which as I said before, was more a vote against Clinton. I know what she is all about; the same as Biden. I'd have voted for a telephone pole rather than a Democrat to be POTUS. Trump was unproven in civic affairs. I had my doubts back then and retain them this morning, after he wished the incoming CCP puppet success. The CCP puppet is about to turn America into a third-world, hell-hole, and do it ALL in weeks and quick months ahead.
Socialism, Communism, Totalitarianism, is the use of force to gain and retain power. America is now about to reap what it has sown. We are all to blame, save for those voices that tried to warn us for decades.
I feel sick this morning. I'll feel sick tomorrow. I'll feel more and more sick by the time 2022 arrives.
Democrats said NOTHING when actual riots took place in January of 2017 at the hands of dissidents who hated Trump and America then, and still do, operating under the instructions, orders, and money of Anti-American entities STILL and now more in control than four years ago.
Idiotace! Useful idiots who only see policy, not principle. Cowards and traitors who only see position and power and reelection and careers in the corrupt Capitol. All idiotace when America begins to collapse all around them.
Every, single day I read things and say, "You cannot make this stuff up."
Today is a day of infamy. Today is the day that marks the entry and acceptance of Communism into the control of the once United States of America.
Today is the day I become, in the eyes of lunatics on the Left, a 'domestic terrorist' because I dissent from the hellish defecation those people call patriotism, the rule of law, and Democracy. I stand for a Constitutional Republic. Today, that makes me dangerous, someone that needs canceling, reprogramming, a vacation in some internment camp to undergo Orwellian mind-manipulation. Who'd have ever thought the Borg is a reality, at all, let alone in America?
I plead in all sincerity, God help them. Judgment comes.
God, help us.
For those who come here, you know I am not a Democrat, nor a Republican. I'm a registered independent.
After listening to Limbaugh for just a few minutes, out in my shop yesterday, I know what I wrote about the uselessness of talking heads in the Conservative movement is true.
I know I will never vote for the GOP again because it is filled with traitors and liars like Mitch McConnell, who stood on the Senate floor and blamed Trump for the enormous rally turned tiny, Antifa led, fake riot at the Capitol on the 6th, calling Trump a liar, and Limbaugh did not have the guts to simply and straight-forwardly point that out. He chose to tell his audience how McConnell has been a good guy over the years of his show and felt bad he was about to share some researcher's info that McConnell's wife and Mitch have financial ties to the CCP. Ya think?!
I read just one statement from the outgoing POTUS wishing success to the incoming thief and Chinese puppet, about to be installed by Chinese meddling in the election, through electronics, as part of the fraud. The same fraud, total wastes of space are telling me and 80 million others who actually voted for Trump, that it would end the GOP if the issue of election fraud were given merit.
There's a Greek word, "idiotace," where we get the English word "idiot" from. It means a simpleton, a fool. Those in the Republican party who see a future for themselves better get ready to print and send out and falsely mail back in and send through the machines millions of fake ballots because the GOP is dead. It is toast. As Mitch and Schumer discuss how to have a joint Senate, proving the cabal that much more, Americans who KNOW they had their votes stolen, literally in real time, will never vote for a Republican again. Voting no longer matters. All that matters now is secession; getting the hell out of this coming train wreck asap.
I spent four years reading and listening to Leftists tell me how disgusting I am for voting for Trump, which as I said before, was more a vote against Clinton. I know what she is all about; the same as Biden. I'd have voted for a telephone pole rather than a Democrat to be POTUS. Trump was unproven in civic affairs. I had my doubts back then and retain them this morning, after he wished the incoming CCP puppet success. The CCP puppet is about to turn America into a third-world, hell-hole, and do it ALL in weeks and quick months ahead.
Socialism, Communism, Totalitarianism, is the use of force to gain and retain power. America is now about to reap what it has sown. We are all to blame, save for those voices that tried to warn us for decades.
I feel sick this morning. I'll feel sick tomorrow. I'll feel more and more sick by the time 2022 arrives.
Democrats said NOTHING when actual riots took place in January of 2017 at the hands of dissidents who hated Trump and America then, and still do, operating under the instructions, orders, and money of Anti-American entities STILL and now more in control than four years ago.
Idiotace! Useful idiots who only see policy, not principle. Cowards and traitors who only see position and power and reelection and careers in the corrupt Capitol. All idiotace when America begins to collapse all around them.
Every, single day I read things and say, "You cannot make this stuff up."
Today is a day of infamy. Today is the day that marks the entry and acceptance of Communism into the control of the once United States of America.
Today is the day I become, in the eyes of lunatics on the Left, a 'domestic terrorist' because I dissent from the hellish defecation those people call patriotism, the rule of law, and Democracy. I stand for a Constitutional Republic. Today, that makes me dangerous, someone that needs canceling, reprogramming, a vacation in some internment camp to undergo Orwellian mind-manipulation. Who'd have ever thought the Borg is a reality, at all, let alone in America?
I plead in all sincerity, God help them. Judgment comes.
God, help us.
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190. The Inimitable Roy Haynes - January 21, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27lwYRhjBtE
As you can see, that link is to a Youtube video that I just watched and felt inspired to write about; the performance of Mr. Roy Haynes. It's a Chick Corea music video, and as always in Chick's bands, all the performers are great.
It's listed as Roy Haynes - Chick Corea The Unbelievable Drum Solo, which comes at the end of the song. It's incredible. Here's why. Roy Haynes was born in 1925. He'll be 96 sometime this year. He was in his 80's when the performance took place. If for no other reason someone in their 80's can play with that much fire, energy, passion, and drive it's a wonderful testimony to the career and musical lifespan of that giant of Jazz. But, the solo contains more than that, to the ears of the discerning listener.
I'm going to blend a couple things into this. I remember a joke I saw about Roy years ago. "When it comes to drums, Roy Haynes did it 'n did it 'n did it 'n did it." A tribute to Roy's flat ride cymbal, part of his style and sound for decades. A flat ride cymbal, if you don't know, has no bell on it. As such, it's generally a quieter ride cymbal with definitive articulation when played. Roy can make one come alive, seemingly like no one else can. His career, spanning so many decades, has covered so many artists and styles he is a walking drumming encyclopedia. While I was never a serious student of or listener to straight Jazz (my thing has been Fusion), any drummer with any interest in the history of the instrument and those with unique voices upon it, must listen to Roy Haynes. I have never failed to find terrific enjoyment in his solos.
As I mentioned in the last blog, I have always been a fan of drum solos. All night long the drum artist is laying down time, feel, drive, tempo, propulsion, energy, direction, punctuation, "fills," and musical statements from the percussive end of the musical spectrum. The player may not get a solo in a given performance but, if they do, if they take that time, they get to stretch out their own personal vision of what a drum set can do. It might be less than a minute. It might 15 minutes or more. It depends on the music, the band, and the player. He might lay down ideas along with a riff the rest of the band plays. Down through history, it could also be a time when everybody else in the band takes a break and leaves the stage. I've been in both situations. For me, it was always flying time. For others, the moment can bring on such fear and dread it almost causes them to vomit but, they get through it. For Roy Haynes, you see and/or hear his joy, passion, soul, spirit, and essence say what he wants to in those moments. It might be complex, it might be simple, it might be somewhere in between but, it's always Roy Haynes.
A couple years ago I put up a video of the latest prototype of my "tabletop" drum sets. I was shocked to see some of the comments, negative comments about how I played some cymbals at the beginning or used the cymbals too much. I started off the solo with a mood I created on the cymbals for around 30 seconds before the first drum tone comes in, which was a bass drum note. Then I brought in the toms, and just went at it. You'd have thought expressing myself in that way was an offensive treatment of a drum solo or the drum set, itself.
I mean, seriously. It is my personal YT channel. I share on it like millions of others. In my situation, I am not selling anything. I am not demonstrating something to uniquely set it apart like an advertisement. Why would anyone make negative comments about playing some cymbals for 30 seconds? Is it that the YT generation does not have 30 seconds of patience? Apparently not. Is it that people actually think those who post videos must do it in a way people viewing must be satisfied? "Do it my way or I will not watch" kind of thing? Are they not computer savvy enough to forward the cursor and find what they want to hear, in this case the drum set, itself?
I have written about the attitudes on YT before. Thankfully 95% or more of people that have commented on the videos I have placed on my channel are positive and encouraging. I don't mind criticism. Sixty-six years of life have given me pretty thick skin. I just wonder why it is people feel the need to tell people posting videos how it should be done, as though there is some standard, rote way of doing it. If you don't, it is unacceptable to them. And this is for free viewing on top of it. In most cases on YT, it isn't as though they are paying to view it.
I bring this up because some people commenting on Roy's solo made negative comments. Eighty-two people gave it a thumbs down, at this moment in time. That is their comment on the percussive artistry and expressiveness of a man in his 80's blasting away with more well-placed passion and energy than people far more than half his age could produce. Maybe they are all young kids caught up in the whole speed-thing. If you can't play 1000 strokes a minute, you aren't any good. A moronic view of music like that is a real tragedy. It seems to come from ignorance of so many things, not the least of which is respect for the elderly. Roy plays with more life and love than most players ever known behind the set. Need they be reminded the man is playing along with the top musicians in their field, a position detractors are unlikely to ever achieve, and Haynes has been doing it for longer than they have lived?
Jazz is an American artform and Roy Haynes is an American treasure. There is no place for subjective or even objective criticism of such a giant of music. "Everybody is a critic." We all are, for one thing or another, at one time or another. We have our subjective and objective reasons for it. Sometimes it's appropriate. Other times, it is not. In the case of Roy Haynes, silence is golden, and the adage the parents of my generation taught us is true, "If you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all."
Play on, Roy. Play on. You are a living legend, an inspiration, and your voice upon the instruments of your profession will be forever cherished by those who understand the essence of the drum set.
As you can see, that link is to a Youtube video that I just watched and felt inspired to write about; the performance of Mr. Roy Haynes. It's a Chick Corea music video, and as always in Chick's bands, all the performers are great.
It's listed as Roy Haynes - Chick Corea The Unbelievable Drum Solo, which comes at the end of the song. It's incredible. Here's why. Roy Haynes was born in 1925. He'll be 96 sometime this year. He was in his 80's when the performance took place. If for no other reason someone in their 80's can play with that much fire, energy, passion, and drive it's a wonderful testimony to the career and musical lifespan of that giant of Jazz. But, the solo contains more than that, to the ears of the discerning listener.
I'm going to blend a couple things into this. I remember a joke I saw about Roy years ago. "When it comes to drums, Roy Haynes did it 'n did it 'n did it 'n did it." A tribute to Roy's flat ride cymbal, part of his style and sound for decades. A flat ride cymbal, if you don't know, has no bell on it. As such, it's generally a quieter ride cymbal with definitive articulation when played. Roy can make one come alive, seemingly like no one else can. His career, spanning so many decades, has covered so many artists and styles he is a walking drumming encyclopedia. While I was never a serious student of or listener to straight Jazz (my thing has been Fusion), any drummer with any interest in the history of the instrument and those with unique voices upon it, must listen to Roy Haynes. I have never failed to find terrific enjoyment in his solos.
As I mentioned in the last blog, I have always been a fan of drum solos. All night long the drum artist is laying down time, feel, drive, tempo, propulsion, energy, direction, punctuation, "fills," and musical statements from the percussive end of the musical spectrum. The player may not get a solo in a given performance but, if they do, if they take that time, they get to stretch out their own personal vision of what a drum set can do. It might be less than a minute. It might 15 minutes or more. It depends on the music, the band, and the player. He might lay down ideas along with a riff the rest of the band plays. Down through history, it could also be a time when everybody else in the band takes a break and leaves the stage. I've been in both situations. For me, it was always flying time. For others, the moment can bring on such fear and dread it almost causes them to vomit but, they get through it. For Roy Haynes, you see and/or hear his joy, passion, soul, spirit, and essence say what he wants to in those moments. It might be complex, it might be simple, it might be somewhere in between but, it's always Roy Haynes.
A couple years ago I put up a video of the latest prototype of my "tabletop" drum sets. I was shocked to see some of the comments, negative comments about how I played some cymbals at the beginning or used the cymbals too much. I started off the solo with a mood I created on the cymbals for around 30 seconds before the first drum tone comes in, which was a bass drum note. Then I brought in the toms, and just went at it. You'd have thought expressing myself in that way was an offensive treatment of a drum solo or the drum set, itself.
I mean, seriously. It is my personal YT channel. I share on it like millions of others. In my situation, I am not selling anything. I am not demonstrating something to uniquely set it apart like an advertisement. Why would anyone make negative comments about playing some cymbals for 30 seconds? Is it that the YT generation does not have 30 seconds of patience? Apparently not. Is it that people actually think those who post videos must do it in a way people viewing must be satisfied? "Do it my way or I will not watch" kind of thing? Are they not computer savvy enough to forward the cursor and find what they want to hear, in this case the drum set, itself?
I have written about the attitudes on YT before. Thankfully 95% or more of people that have commented on the videos I have placed on my channel are positive and encouraging. I don't mind criticism. Sixty-six years of life have given me pretty thick skin. I just wonder why it is people feel the need to tell people posting videos how it should be done, as though there is some standard, rote way of doing it. If you don't, it is unacceptable to them. And this is for free viewing on top of it. In most cases on YT, it isn't as though they are paying to view it.
I bring this up because some people commenting on Roy's solo made negative comments. Eighty-two people gave it a thumbs down, at this moment in time. That is their comment on the percussive artistry and expressiveness of a man in his 80's blasting away with more well-placed passion and energy than people far more than half his age could produce. Maybe they are all young kids caught up in the whole speed-thing. If you can't play 1000 strokes a minute, you aren't any good. A moronic view of music like that is a real tragedy. It seems to come from ignorance of so many things, not the least of which is respect for the elderly. Roy plays with more life and love than most players ever known behind the set. Need they be reminded the man is playing along with the top musicians in their field, a position detractors are unlikely to ever achieve, and Haynes has been doing it for longer than they have lived?
Jazz is an American artform and Roy Haynes is an American treasure. There is no place for subjective or even objective criticism of such a giant of music. "Everybody is a critic." We all are, for one thing or another, at one time or another. We have our subjective and objective reasons for it. Sometimes it's appropriate. Other times, it is not. In the case of Roy Haynes, silence is golden, and the adage the parents of my generation taught us is true, "If you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all."
Play on, Roy. Play on. You are a living legend, an inspiration, and your voice upon the instruments of your profession will be forever cherished by those who understand the essence of the drum set.
********************
191. Buyer's Remorse, Already? - January 23, 2021
I know God is in control. I'll even capitalize that for emphasis - CONTROL.
I know the Bible states Satan is the god of this world, the father of lies, the prince of the power of the air, the accuser of the brethren, the adversary, etc.
What's below him? Who is below him? We know the Bible speaks frequently of angels. They are a separate form of creation, and have levels of command and authority, themselves. Most remain loyal to the Creator. A third rebelled with Lucifer and continue to follow him. I wonder if they have buyer's remorse by now?
Okay, so after the angels what or who is next? People. Who controls money and commerce on planet Earth? Who's got the power?
For twelve years I was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church. I left it in 1991. I remain exposed to its existence by various personal extensions but, more importantly are the exposure I have to writings from a little woman named Ellen Harmon, who married a preacher named James White, and she became Ellen White. If you look her up on the web, you'll see a lot of information, both positive and negative, as well as all the things she wrote until she passed away in 1915. She hand wrote 100,000 pages of manuscript turned into a whole stack of books on all kinds of subjects addressing the life of everyday Christians, and the life of the SDA denomination, as well as currents events from her day onward; things based in Bible prophecy. And that is not to mention her commentary writings on the Bible, itself. Her book, The Desire of Ages, on the life of Christ, is a classic, hailed by some pretty prominent, non-SDA people down through the years, for its scope and insights. She wrote on health, and the well-known health reformer, Jethro Kloss (Back to Eden) remarked that her writings on health saved his life. You might be surprised to find that in many naturopathic doctor's offices you will see books she authored on their book shelves. So, this paragraph is just a little reference for you to catch context here.
In 1903 she wrote this statement:
"The work of the people of God is to prepare for the events of the future, which will soon come upon them with blinding force. In the world gigantic monopolies will be formed. Men will bind themselves together in unions that will wrap them in the folds of the enemy. A few men will combine to grasp all the means to be obtained in certain lines of business. Trades unions will be formed, and those who refuse to join these unions will be marked men.--Letter 26, 1903.
1903. Multi-national corporations. The power of trade unions. The banksters of Earth, like the Rothschild's, and the Bilderberg Group, let alone the Freemasons and other enormous secret societies exist, handling vast wealth and tremendous influence and power. George Soros is a name that has surged in recent years because of that European billionaire's money funneling into Leftist causes in the USA. These entities are all in the folds of the enemy.
While everybody with concerns for the Republic of the United States of America watched 2020 closely, and especially the Nov. 3rd election and aftermath, and have beheld a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party planted in the White House by complete criminal stealth and activity in an outrageous fraudulent election scheme, looking deeper they must realize the planet is run by people with power well beyond governments. The money and the power is held by people who control most all nations through central banks and national debts. Banking and constant war and implementations of war are their constant source of wealth building.
Already, less than one week into Joe Biden's regime, Twitter is ablaze with buyer's remorse. Democrats and whoever else voted for Biden or against Trump, take your pick, have seen what the man has done with a few swipes of a pen on new executive orders that have removed 70,000 jobs, and threaten hundreds of thousands of others. He has radically changed female sports (and male for that matter). He has sent troops back into Syria, while housing our own borrowed national guard troops in a cold parking garage, which caused at least two governors, Abbott of Texas and DeSantis of FL, to withdraw them as soon as they were informed of that situation. Upon knowledge of the situation and governor backlash, the troops were given decent accommodations. And, to top it off, Biden admits he does not have a plan to fight Covid. Well, why would he? Now that he has been "elected," even the most egregious politicians in this debacle, Lightfoot, Cuomo, and Whitmer are now saying businesses must open for their economies sake, and restaurants are allowed to have open doors again for inside dining. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
The nation was warned. The nation was given more than adequate evidence. The nation had every opportunity to know the truth of Biden, Harris, and the fanatical Democrat cabal seeking to gain power and control and root out all dissenting voices. It has begun and what do you know? Now, the people too lazy to actually look into things are upset their world is about to be rocked, and if you are one of the 70k who lost jobs, or a female athlete knowing you will have to compete against biological males, your world is already rocked. And did I mention the radical elements in Portland and Seattle still rioting, wrecking and burning the places down? Nothing but total anarchy and dismantling off all order in society will please them.
Buyer's remorse is a real pita, isn't it?
But, back to the White statement and our current world. What she wrote in 1903 has come to pass. In actual fact a presidential election means so little it is almost inconsequential. Democrat voters were not the force that put Biden into the WH and removed Trump. Corporations that made and handle and program voting machines were. Companies from China that printed millions of fake ballots were. Actually, the Chinese virus and their corruption of information about it preceded the plans to elect Biden. Investigators have found that up to 64 different nations were involved in the election of Biden. Talk about an information highway! That one fact, alone, invalidates the entire election.
You mean nothing. I mean nothing. Our votes means nothing. The planet is now controlled by a small group of men who control vast wealth, vast corporations gobbling up smaller ones, and through various surrogates basically tell politicians what to do, "or else." There is no other logical explanation why members of the Republican Party would be so hateful towards Donald Trump and turn their eyes and ears from mountains of evidence the election was a fraud. I can call them traitors and believe they are guilty of treason. It may be much simpler than a big conspiracy to remove Trump. They may all be threatened to cooperate or their lives will be turned into burnt toast. Money buys armies. Money buys allegiance. Money buys power and control. Money buys good on threats to people.
These few men that are controlling the big sticks of planetary commerce and wealth have one motive - power. They have one agenda - control. They have one master - Lucifer.
Take a look at the process to impeach Trump a second time. Americans with common sense, regardless of political persuasion, are looking at this wondering what is happening? Why? The man is gone. Not only why impeach him but, according to the Constitution, you cannot do it:
Article II, Section 4:
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
How much more plain can it be stated? Impeachment is for removal from office. Trump is gone. What is the point? Who is actually behind this movement to obliterate this man? They want Trump totally driven into the dirt and make it certain he never gets influence in government as an office holder again. Whether or not he'll decide to make good on impressions of starting another political party - The Patriot Party - remains to be seen. There is no treason. On the contrary!!! There are no high crimes or misdemeanors that can be used to impeach him. He uttered nothing to incite what fake Trump supporters attempted on January 6th. Of course, can his lawyers be trusted to do a proper job of defending him? I'll not hold my breath. Based on Article 1, sec. 3, clause 7, just a simple vote of the Senate can keep an impeached individual from holding office again. They want his ability to hold office ever again torched.
I can put all of this behind me and just go on with life until something about my life becomes a nuisance or perceived threat to those I will dissent from but, if Biden voters are already experiencing buyer's remorse, how close are we to the reality, the actual existence and implementation of an Orwellian society where every human is just a number, no property ownership, no artistic expressions allowed that dissent from the Controllers. The only thing that shall matter to them is humans abiding in their appointed tasks, living a grey life of repetition and morbidity to enrich them more.
Science fiction, you say? Science fact, seems to me.
And, most definitely, I am thankful God is in CONTROL, and when He ultimately takes the reigns and has His say, the Controllers will see just how little control they actually have.
I'm not expecting Hollywood's version of a dystopian future. I am expecting civil war. Yes, the fire power is on the side of the Controllers, apparently. Remains to be seen how true the military would be to their oaths. That will not stop Americans who believe truth matters, and freedom and liberty matters, and God matters, from rising up. "Give me freedom or give me death" does mean something.
Where will America be in 3 months, if in 3 days people are already experiencing buyer's remorse?
I know the Bible states Satan is the god of this world, the father of lies, the prince of the power of the air, the accuser of the brethren, the adversary, etc.
What's below him? Who is below him? We know the Bible speaks frequently of angels. They are a separate form of creation, and have levels of command and authority, themselves. Most remain loyal to the Creator. A third rebelled with Lucifer and continue to follow him. I wonder if they have buyer's remorse by now?
Okay, so after the angels what or who is next? People. Who controls money and commerce on planet Earth? Who's got the power?
For twelve years I was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church. I left it in 1991. I remain exposed to its existence by various personal extensions but, more importantly are the exposure I have to writings from a little woman named Ellen Harmon, who married a preacher named James White, and she became Ellen White. If you look her up on the web, you'll see a lot of information, both positive and negative, as well as all the things she wrote until she passed away in 1915. She hand wrote 100,000 pages of manuscript turned into a whole stack of books on all kinds of subjects addressing the life of everyday Christians, and the life of the SDA denomination, as well as currents events from her day onward; things based in Bible prophecy. And that is not to mention her commentary writings on the Bible, itself. Her book, The Desire of Ages, on the life of Christ, is a classic, hailed by some pretty prominent, non-SDA people down through the years, for its scope and insights. She wrote on health, and the well-known health reformer, Jethro Kloss (Back to Eden) remarked that her writings on health saved his life. You might be surprised to find that in many naturopathic doctor's offices you will see books she authored on their book shelves. So, this paragraph is just a little reference for you to catch context here.
In 1903 she wrote this statement:
"The work of the people of God is to prepare for the events of the future, which will soon come upon them with blinding force. In the world gigantic monopolies will be formed. Men will bind themselves together in unions that will wrap them in the folds of the enemy. A few men will combine to grasp all the means to be obtained in certain lines of business. Trades unions will be formed, and those who refuse to join these unions will be marked men.--Letter 26, 1903.
1903. Multi-national corporations. The power of trade unions. The banksters of Earth, like the Rothschild's, and the Bilderberg Group, let alone the Freemasons and other enormous secret societies exist, handling vast wealth and tremendous influence and power. George Soros is a name that has surged in recent years because of that European billionaire's money funneling into Leftist causes in the USA. These entities are all in the folds of the enemy.
While everybody with concerns for the Republic of the United States of America watched 2020 closely, and especially the Nov. 3rd election and aftermath, and have beheld a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party planted in the White House by complete criminal stealth and activity in an outrageous fraudulent election scheme, looking deeper they must realize the planet is run by people with power well beyond governments. The money and the power is held by people who control most all nations through central banks and national debts. Banking and constant war and implementations of war are their constant source of wealth building.
Already, less than one week into Joe Biden's regime, Twitter is ablaze with buyer's remorse. Democrats and whoever else voted for Biden or against Trump, take your pick, have seen what the man has done with a few swipes of a pen on new executive orders that have removed 70,000 jobs, and threaten hundreds of thousands of others. He has radically changed female sports (and male for that matter). He has sent troops back into Syria, while housing our own borrowed national guard troops in a cold parking garage, which caused at least two governors, Abbott of Texas and DeSantis of FL, to withdraw them as soon as they were informed of that situation. Upon knowledge of the situation and governor backlash, the troops were given decent accommodations. And, to top it off, Biden admits he does not have a plan to fight Covid. Well, why would he? Now that he has been "elected," even the most egregious politicians in this debacle, Lightfoot, Cuomo, and Whitmer are now saying businesses must open for their economies sake, and restaurants are allowed to have open doors again for inside dining. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
The nation was warned. The nation was given more than adequate evidence. The nation had every opportunity to know the truth of Biden, Harris, and the fanatical Democrat cabal seeking to gain power and control and root out all dissenting voices. It has begun and what do you know? Now, the people too lazy to actually look into things are upset their world is about to be rocked, and if you are one of the 70k who lost jobs, or a female athlete knowing you will have to compete against biological males, your world is already rocked. And did I mention the radical elements in Portland and Seattle still rioting, wrecking and burning the places down? Nothing but total anarchy and dismantling off all order in society will please them.
Buyer's remorse is a real pita, isn't it?
But, back to the White statement and our current world. What she wrote in 1903 has come to pass. In actual fact a presidential election means so little it is almost inconsequential. Democrat voters were not the force that put Biden into the WH and removed Trump. Corporations that made and handle and program voting machines were. Companies from China that printed millions of fake ballots were. Actually, the Chinese virus and their corruption of information about it preceded the plans to elect Biden. Investigators have found that up to 64 different nations were involved in the election of Biden. Talk about an information highway! That one fact, alone, invalidates the entire election.
You mean nothing. I mean nothing. Our votes means nothing. The planet is now controlled by a small group of men who control vast wealth, vast corporations gobbling up smaller ones, and through various surrogates basically tell politicians what to do, "or else." There is no other logical explanation why members of the Republican Party would be so hateful towards Donald Trump and turn their eyes and ears from mountains of evidence the election was a fraud. I can call them traitors and believe they are guilty of treason. It may be much simpler than a big conspiracy to remove Trump. They may all be threatened to cooperate or their lives will be turned into burnt toast. Money buys armies. Money buys allegiance. Money buys power and control. Money buys good on threats to people.
These few men that are controlling the big sticks of planetary commerce and wealth have one motive - power. They have one agenda - control. They have one master - Lucifer.
Take a look at the process to impeach Trump a second time. Americans with common sense, regardless of political persuasion, are looking at this wondering what is happening? Why? The man is gone. Not only why impeach him but, according to the Constitution, you cannot do it:
Article II, Section 4:
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
How much more plain can it be stated? Impeachment is for removal from office. Trump is gone. What is the point? Who is actually behind this movement to obliterate this man? They want Trump totally driven into the dirt and make it certain he never gets influence in government as an office holder again. Whether or not he'll decide to make good on impressions of starting another political party - The Patriot Party - remains to be seen. There is no treason. On the contrary!!! There are no high crimes or misdemeanors that can be used to impeach him. He uttered nothing to incite what fake Trump supporters attempted on January 6th. Of course, can his lawyers be trusted to do a proper job of defending him? I'll not hold my breath. Based on Article 1, sec. 3, clause 7, just a simple vote of the Senate can keep an impeached individual from holding office again. They want his ability to hold office ever again torched.
I can put all of this behind me and just go on with life until something about my life becomes a nuisance or perceived threat to those I will dissent from but, if Biden voters are already experiencing buyer's remorse, how close are we to the reality, the actual existence and implementation of an Orwellian society where every human is just a number, no property ownership, no artistic expressions allowed that dissent from the Controllers. The only thing that shall matter to them is humans abiding in their appointed tasks, living a grey life of repetition and morbidity to enrich them more.
Science fiction, you say? Science fact, seems to me.
And, most definitely, I am thankful God is in CONTROL, and when He ultimately takes the reigns and has His say, the Controllers will see just how little control they actually have.
I'm not expecting Hollywood's version of a dystopian future. I am expecting civil war. Yes, the fire power is on the side of the Controllers, apparently. Remains to be seen how true the military would be to their oaths. That will not stop Americans who believe truth matters, and freedom and liberty matters, and God matters, from rising up. "Give me freedom or give me death" does mean something.
Where will America be in 3 months, if in 3 days people are already experiencing buyer's remorse?
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192. Banning Speech??? - January 27, 2021
In just seven days the non-president of the United States has been signing executive orders like people do crossword puzzles every day. The latest?
INSANE: Joe Biden Signs Executive Order Banning the Term “China Virus”
That's a headline from Gateway Pundit's site. Of course, the story is all over the place because of the outrageous nature of it all. Whatever authority the Constitution gives a president, banning speech is not in there. Banning speech is the very definition of a dictatorship, despotism, tyranny. I'd expect to see that from the dark ages about things forbidden to say about a king or a pope but, in 2021??? Maybe in Islam but, not America.
Welcome to Orwellville.
It is especially grievous when Biden stated this just a few months ago:
“I have this strange notion. We are a democracy,” Biden sardonically declared, pointing out that “Some of my Republican friends, and some of my Democratic friends occasionally say ‘well if you can’t get the votes, by executive order you’re going to do something'”.
“You can’t do it by executive order, unless you’re a dictator,” Biden declared, adding “We’re a democracy, we need consensus.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/remember-when-joe-biden-said-you-cant-legislate-executive-orders-unless-youre-dictator
First of all, America is not a democracy. It employs elements of representative democracy but, again, America is a Constitutional Republic. Second, hypocritical politicians are a dime a dozen. Just the same, and allowing for Biden's mental lapses because of illness, how can he get away with this? Corruption.
I'm pretty much done with politics. If HR1 is passed into law no future election will be fair, or honest, or transparent, or anything but, corrupt. So, for me, America is going to drift into civil war at some point. In just a week this poor, feeble, mentally disabled man, being used in a most dreadful way by radical leftists all around him, has done more to divide the nation than anything Obama could do in 8 years. To say Trump divided the nation is not so. Obama already divided it, which is why tens of millions of people voted for Trump to begin with, especially this time around where he received more votes than any sitting president in history. Leftists hate the man and his love for America, and did nothing but seek to remove him from office for four years. They did, and they are still going after him. That strikes me as sick and obsessive. They are consumed with malice.
Anyway, I bring this up because how can music NOT be affected, if government gains power to tell people what they can and cannot say? Think of what Biden has attempted to do! This is so '1984' it is shocking, and how much does it take to shock an American these days?
Let alone the fact that story after story coming out of investigations show that, as others stated and I rehearsed, back, almost a year ago, the virus began in an American lab, a Chinese researcher took it back to China after a moratorium was placed upon researching these virulent viruses and man-made strains off of them, and ultimately, either by accident or by agenda, it got out of the lab it was being worked on in Wuhan, so YES! The strain that has plagued the world can legitimately be called the Wuhan, China Virus!
Biden's edict not only rises above POTUS' authority, it rises above fact and shows beyond any reasonable doubt referring to Joe as Beijing Biden, the Chinese Puppetman, is truth.
Good grief, how much absolute disgust was hurled at Trump for four years and nobody in the Democrat party and most in the GOP said not a word? Now, somehow the non-president does not like anyone referring to the virus as the China virus and attempts to ban the phrase?!? YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS STUFF UP!
If an E.O. can force people not to say something, anything, then everything, absolutely everything of speech and beyond speech, all actions, of any kind, that someone is insulted or offended by, can be banned!!! If you ban actions and speech, that leaves thought. Thought police. Asking someone "What do you think?" is an invitation to the Gulag!
Every single American who knows anything about the principles of Americanism and Constitutional law sees this as just another step into the darkness of totalitarianism.
Think of how this affects music. Lyrics, song titles, album titles, band names. All of it no longer protected by free speech. There is no more Constitutionally protected free speech. If I mention 'election fraud' I can be canceled, censored and banned. If I mention ... well, where does it stop? Secession. Civil war. That's where this is heading and where it will stop.
Even today, more evidence continues to come in that the election fraud went past the seven states implicated, the swing states, the ones they knew would be close so they went after them. Law is cast into the street. Freedom and liberty are only for those with power. Not authority, mind you but, power. Police power. Military power. There is no power in their words, their arguments. They cannot plainly state what they believe because the majority of Americans would reject them, and did, on November 3rd. They cannot win on principle so, they must change policy and do whatever they have to, to win. The laws of the land be damned.
All I can see now is every alt news site and agency putting the term 'China Virus' on their front pages to challenge the insanity of this. Could any police officer, of any political stripe, arrest someone for this flagrant violation of free speech RIGHTS? Inalienable rights granted by God?
The nation will be watching now. An explosion of civil disobedience is coming.
I'd expect the 25th amendment to be used much more quickly than anticipated. China Joe will go. Imagine what a radical like Kamala Harris will sign her name to as she flows through E.O.'s like a casino card dealer.
The Federal government is not just broke. It is rogue. It is a danger to all Americans. What does the Declaration say about such a government and what must be done, if a people want to live in freedom and liberty?
It appears it is going to get ugly before it gets better, if it can get better.
God help us.
INSANE: Joe Biden Signs Executive Order Banning the Term “China Virus”
That's a headline from Gateway Pundit's site. Of course, the story is all over the place because of the outrageous nature of it all. Whatever authority the Constitution gives a president, banning speech is not in there. Banning speech is the very definition of a dictatorship, despotism, tyranny. I'd expect to see that from the dark ages about things forbidden to say about a king or a pope but, in 2021??? Maybe in Islam but, not America.
Welcome to Orwellville.
It is especially grievous when Biden stated this just a few months ago:
“I have this strange notion. We are a democracy,” Biden sardonically declared, pointing out that “Some of my Republican friends, and some of my Democratic friends occasionally say ‘well if you can’t get the votes, by executive order you’re going to do something'”.
“You can’t do it by executive order, unless you’re a dictator,” Biden declared, adding “We’re a democracy, we need consensus.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/remember-when-joe-biden-said-you-cant-legislate-executive-orders-unless-youre-dictator
First of all, America is not a democracy. It employs elements of representative democracy but, again, America is a Constitutional Republic. Second, hypocritical politicians are a dime a dozen. Just the same, and allowing for Biden's mental lapses because of illness, how can he get away with this? Corruption.
I'm pretty much done with politics. If HR1 is passed into law no future election will be fair, or honest, or transparent, or anything but, corrupt. So, for me, America is going to drift into civil war at some point. In just a week this poor, feeble, mentally disabled man, being used in a most dreadful way by radical leftists all around him, has done more to divide the nation than anything Obama could do in 8 years. To say Trump divided the nation is not so. Obama already divided it, which is why tens of millions of people voted for Trump to begin with, especially this time around where he received more votes than any sitting president in history. Leftists hate the man and his love for America, and did nothing but seek to remove him from office for four years. They did, and they are still going after him. That strikes me as sick and obsessive. They are consumed with malice.
Anyway, I bring this up because how can music NOT be affected, if government gains power to tell people what they can and cannot say? Think of what Biden has attempted to do! This is so '1984' it is shocking, and how much does it take to shock an American these days?
Let alone the fact that story after story coming out of investigations show that, as others stated and I rehearsed, back, almost a year ago, the virus began in an American lab, a Chinese researcher took it back to China after a moratorium was placed upon researching these virulent viruses and man-made strains off of them, and ultimately, either by accident or by agenda, it got out of the lab it was being worked on in Wuhan, so YES! The strain that has plagued the world can legitimately be called the Wuhan, China Virus!
Biden's edict not only rises above POTUS' authority, it rises above fact and shows beyond any reasonable doubt referring to Joe as Beijing Biden, the Chinese Puppetman, is truth.
Good grief, how much absolute disgust was hurled at Trump for four years and nobody in the Democrat party and most in the GOP said not a word? Now, somehow the non-president does not like anyone referring to the virus as the China virus and attempts to ban the phrase?!? YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS STUFF UP!
If an E.O. can force people not to say something, anything, then everything, absolutely everything of speech and beyond speech, all actions, of any kind, that someone is insulted or offended by, can be banned!!! If you ban actions and speech, that leaves thought. Thought police. Asking someone "What do you think?" is an invitation to the Gulag!
Every single American who knows anything about the principles of Americanism and Constitutional law sees this as just another step into the darkness of totalitarianism.
Think of how this affects music. Lyrics, song titles, album titles, band names. All of it no longer protected by free speech. There is no more Constitutionally protected free speech. If I mention 'election fraud' I can be canceled, censored and banned. If I mention ... well, where does it stop? Secession. Civil war. That's where this is heading and where it will stop.
Even today, more evidence continues to come in that the election fraud went past the seven states implicated, the swing states, the ones they knew would be close so they went after them. Law is cast into the street. Freedom and liberty are only for those with power. Not authority, mind you but, power. Police power. Military power. There is no power in their words, their arguments. They cannot plainly state what they believe because the majority of Americans would reject them, and did, on November 3rd. They cannot win on principle so, they must change policy and do whatever they have to, to win. The laws of the land be damned.
All I can see now is every alt news site and agency putting the term 'China Virus' on their front pages to challenge the insanity of this. Could any police officer, of any political stripe, arrest someone for this flagrant violation of free speech RIGHTS? Inalienable rights granted by God?
The nation will be watching now. An explosion of civil disobedience is coming.
I'd expect the 25th amendment to be used much more quickly than anticipated. China Joe will go. Imagine what a radical like Kamala Harris will sign her name to as she flows through E.O.'s like a casino card dealer.
The Federal government is not just broke. It is rogue. It is a danger to all Americans. What does the Declaration say about such a government and what must be done, if a people want to live in freedom and liberty?
It appears it is going to get ugly before it gets better, if it can get better.
God help us.
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193. TIA's - "mini strokes" - Then ... Now What? - January 31, 2021
Friday morning. 8:13 a.m. Wanted to begin recording files for the planned, Concepts for Solo Drum Set, CD. Also putting down some ideas for new recordings with Tom Cranor.
My face began to sizzle. My right arm began to feel slow and heavy. I couldn't type. I knew exactly what was happening. I tried to speak some words. My speech slurred. I quickly got up and told myself to move around, concentrate, think! Pray! I did, and never stopped.
I tried calling my wife. I could not get a signal. I didn't want to panic. Was not going to call 911 for various reasons, not the least of which was I wanted my wife to know what was happening, and if an ambulance came I'd be taken to a local hospital a number of neighbors and people have told us NEVER to go to. I need Cindy.
Went outside on the back patio. No signal. Sat for awhile. In 15 min. it subsided. Went back inside, sent Cindy a message on the office's contact page. Felt another episode coming on. Got up, thought I'd force some movement and sat on my exercise bike that I attached a practice pad to. I could not play a simple paradiddle. Weakness set in. My arm seemed to move in slow motion. Figured I need to get off the bike before I fell off. Walking back from the exercise room (converted garage), back into the house, I could not lift my right leg far enough and tripped going through the door, slamming against it.
Went back outside and tried the phone. Nothing. Sat and thought about a very bleak future. Another 15 minutes, everything subsided. Went back inside.
Put my laptop on the kitchen table. Opened my email. A bunch of frantic messages from Cindy. I answered them. Tried to write emails to my daughters. Just could not use my right hand again. More slurred speech. Went back outside and tried to calm down. Once again, 15 minutes and it all went away.
Back to the laptop. Am I going to die right here and now? Email family, friends. Asked for prayer. Slurring speech again. Dozens of typos in emails. Just typed with one finger to get something down and sent. Couldn't do it. Back outside. Fresh air. Stay calm. Another fade away. Back to the laptop. Here it comes again. Kind of cold outside. Went to get some gloves. Opened the drawer, reached for the gloves, fell over on my right side, toppling into the trainer machine. Lie there till Cindy got home? What if this is it? Have to get up. Left side is good. Get up!
Some friends, and a cousin began replying, praying. A friend I had not heard from in many years sent me an email. How odd to write back and tell him I was in the middle of a series of strokes and he might be the last person on earth I communicate with. Yeah, dramatic, to say the least but, at that point the world was spinning pretty fast in my mind.
By the time my wife got here the 9th episode passed. She was taken home by a coworker's husband. She was too upset to drive. What to do? I consented to drive back with them to her office to pick up her care. A hospital right across the road from the office. We all spoke for awhile as I stood there, seemingly okay, debating medical issues. My wife and her coworker on their cellphones trying to look up various things as quickly as they could.
My speech was there. I was standing there. I do not want a mass of tests, drugs, being poked, prodded, stuck, hooked up to every machine on earth ...
Had not eaten all day. Felt weak, overwhelmed, beginning to get confused. I just wanted to go home. On the way home, episode #10. Speech so slurred it scared Cindy. I cried. To have your brain think what you want to say and your mouth will not do it is a feeling of helplessness I had never experienced before.
Once again, 15 minutes, all over. Three o'clock. Feeling okay. Hard talk with Cindy. Six hours pass. Nothing. 9 p.m. Writing, answering emails. Another one seems to be ascending. My wife hears a couple words that sound "off." Nothing developed, though.
Went to bed at 10:38. Fell asleep after a little while watching Bob Ross videos. What can I say? So relaxing and peaceful. Puts me out every time.
I awake at 3 a.m. Felt ... odd. Tried to sleep. 4 a.m. Can't sleep. Decide to get up and take a shower. Here it comes. By the time I finish my shower I'm afraid I'll trip getting out. Dried off. Clothed myself with difficulty, trying to think. The blow drier became heavy as led. Very hard to shave. I have to wake up Cindy. She's afraid. I'm scared. We decide to go to the hospital. Arrive at 6 a.m. Still having the event. Walked slowly and weakly through the emergency room door as Cindy parked the car. They put a wrist tag on me. Sent me to the emergency desk. What about my wife? Sorry. Covid. Nobody allowed in. Go to the desk. I slowly shuffle the 50'.
A kind woman asks me what's going on. "I'm having a stroke." In a wheel chair, off to a room. Six women in various scrubs, bringing in machines, and here comes the needles, the chest patches, the wires, the machines, the questions, I try to answer, my blood pressure is 190 over 102 or something. I'm frustrated, scared, getting pissed off, can't speak to Cindy, trying to stay calm. Throughout the day a literal international cast of characters, some I can understand, others I cannot. Masks, double masks, face shields. I ask for repetitions, feeling embarrassed to do so. It seems wrong for people to assume I can understand what's being said to me in a very thick accent, speaking quickly, especially while I'm in a condition that can also effect your hearing. Words came, words went. If anyone else was in the room, I asked them what was said to me. If not, I just let it go. The drill is now obvious.
The event lasts five hours. It is now a stroke. A nurse lent me her phone so I can speak, try to speak, to Cindy, sitting in the car out in the parking lot. A Cat Scan. Moved to admissions and another room after feeling overwhelmed and pretty helpless. We are going to be financially crushed by this. Cindy says to be calm, we'll be alright. In the 6th hour, after a 30 minute nap, I am speaking again. Doctors, assistants to doctors, nurses, techs, one after another, all asking me the same questions over and over. Scanning the barcode bracelet every time they come in. Off to the MRI. Ear plugs. Foam pads. A plastic cage around my head. Slid into the craziest sounding machine on the planet. A massively loud cacophony of noise and percussive rhythms. I begin to move my toes to the rhythms. Back to the room. One after another, blood tests, blood pressure, questions for me, same questions over and over, same answers. Questions from me, no solid answers. You had a stroke. Hear are the drugs you need to take. I tell one after another, I'm a vegetarian, most of the time vegan, I exercise, I play drums, 99% of the time I only drink water. How did I get into this situation? Many things they say. Many things, many factors. Just make sure you take your meds or the massive stroke will likely come.
In the international cast of characters are nice people; some more friendly than others. I share my convictions about health. They listen politely. You need to take your meds. I refuse to ask for help to go to the bathroom. They're getting kind of edgy with me. They have rules, protocols, policies, legal responsibility. I don't care. I'd as soon go home. I'm not an invalid. Give me my space. "Well, you did fall." That was yesterday. "What if you fall today?" And if I do, your little person is going to keep a 250lb falling man from hitting the floor? Not happening. I don't mean to be rude or unmanageable but, I'm not calling anybody in to help me walk ten feet. I am frustrated. They are frustrated. A stand-off.
I never put the gown on, save for the MRI. Put my jeans back on and they stayed on. I didn't lie in the bed. I stayed in the recliner. The sonogram guy had me lie on the bed on the second day. He was actually a funny guy. We were quite entertained by him. He approached his job like someone playing a computer game. He was quite animated. Otherwise, no bed. My back was burning on the one down in the ER. The recliner was fine.
Finally, Cindy is allowed to see me. We visit. She leaves as it's getting dark. She had her own adventure trying to get out of the building and back to her car.
I sit and try to find something intelligent on the wall-mounted, flat screen. I just want to go to sleep. Not happening, with someone coming in every three or four hours to take a test, prick a finger, bring in a pill or something. I maybe get two hours sleep. As I watch tv, drug commercials come on, over and over. Picnic scenes, dogs, children, balloons, fields of green, people dancing, all the lovely music. Then voices describing all the side effects of these drugs. I hear stroke, heart attacks, bleeding, even death. Death. Take this drug to heal but, just know it can kill you. If you feel yourself dying, call your doctor! This is insanity.
I drift off, I wake up. I stay awake. I just wanted to sit and chill, stay calm. Someone comes in. They speak. I speak. My speech is back to normal. I am going crazy sitting in that room. Was told I am a "Fall Risk" and have to stay in the room. Not happening. I pull off the Fall Risk bracelet and told a tech, who was very sweet, I need to get up and walk. I'm fine. I need out of this room. I end up walking around the floor a few times. Quiet place. Everybody in a mask. Can't see faces. No one speaks to me as I walk. They look at me. Who is this? I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone.
In 37 hours I am preparing to leave the hospital. Many people praying for me. God is good. People around me are surprised. The physical therapist, the Internal Medicine physician, the nurses, the techs. They wish me well. The international cast of characters goes about their business. I can tap out a simple paradiddle but, not more complicated patterns. I can sign my name but, it's a bit shaky. I walk out of the hospital, to the car, back home. Now, five or six hours later, sit and type this blog.
From getting ready to record drum solos and files for more music with Tom, to being reduced to a weak, slurring senior citizen, then back to "normal," I know not what will happen now. My job, my employment is to get better without meds. Sorry acute care people, I have believed for 42 years in natural methods of healing, allowing the body to heal itself by reinforcing elements of sound health: nutrition, exercise, clean pure water, sunshine, fresh air, temperance in all things, plenty of rest, and trust in God and His natural doctors. This is my job now. Get better. Allow the greatest living machine in the universe to do its thing; every cell, all two trillion of them. My heart goes out to those severely incapacitated by a massive stroke and their long roads back to health.
Will I be able to play 32nd notes, whipping around the kit? Will I be able to play complex patterns again? Will I be able to record again? Use power tools? Make things? I don't know. I just don't know. I hope so. I hope so.
I must believe so.
My face began to sizzle. My right arm began to feel slow and heavy. I couldn't type. I knew exactly what was happening. I tried to speak some words. My speech slurred. I quickly got up and told myself to move around, concentrate, think! Pray! I did, and never stopped.
I tried calling my wife. I could not get a signal. I didn't want to panic. Was not going to call 911 for various reasons, not the least of which was I wanted my wife to know what was happening, and if an ambulance came I'd be taken to a local hospital a number of neighbors and people have told us NEVER to go to. I need Cindy.
Went outside on the back patio. No signal. Sat for awhile. In 15 min. it subsided. Went back inside, sent Cindy a message on the office's contact page. Felt another episode coming on. Got up, thought I'd force some movement and sat on my exercise bike that I attached a practice pad to. I could not play a simple paradiddle. Weakness set in. My arm seemed to move in slow motion. Figured I need to get off the bike before I fell off. Walking back from the exercise room (converted garage), back into the house, I could not lift my right leg far enough and tripped going through the door, slamming against it.
Went back outside and tried the phone. Nothing. Sat and thought about a very bleak future. Another 15 minutes, everything subsided. Went back inside.
Put my laptop on the kitchen table. Opened my email. A bunch of frantic messages from Cindy. I answered them. Tried to write emails to my daughters. Just could not use my right hand again. More slurred speech. Went back outside and tried to calm down. Once again, 15 minutes and it all went away.
Back to the laptop. Am I going to die right here and now? Email family, friends. Asked for prayer. Slurring speech again. Dozens of typos in emails. Just typed with one finger to get something down and sent. Couldn't do it. Back outside. Fresh air. Stay calm. Another fade away. Back to the laptop. Here it comes again. Kind of cold outside. Went to get some gloves. Opened the drawer, reached for the gloves, fell over on my right side, toppling into the trainer machine. Lie there till Cindy got home? What if this is it? Have to get up. Left side is good. Get up!
Some friends, and a cousin began replying, praying. A friend I had not heard from in many years sent me an email. How odd to write back and tell him I was in the middle of a series of strokes and he might be the last person on earth I communicate with. Yeah, dramatic, to say the least but, at that point the world was spinning pretty fast in my mind.
By the time my wife got here the 9th episode passed. She was taken home by a coworker's husband. She was too upset to drive. What to do? I consented to drive back with them to her office to pick up her care. A hospital right across the road from the office. We all spoke for awhile as I stood there, seemingly okay, debating medical issues. My wife and her coworker on their cellphones trying to look up various things as quickly as they could.
My speech was there. I was standing there. I do not want a mass of tests, drugs, being poked, prodded, stuck, hooked up to every machine on earth ...
Had not eaten all day. Felt weak, overwhelmed, beginning to get confused. I just wanted to go home. On the way home, episode #10. Speech so slurred it scared Cindy. I cried. To have your brain think what you want to say and your mouth will not do it is a feeling of helplessness I had never experienced before.
Once again, 15 minutes, all over. Three o'clock. Feeling okay. Hard talk with Cindy. Six hours pass. Nothing. 9 p.m. Writing, answering emails. Another one seems to be ascending. My wife hears a couple words that sound "off." Nothing developed, though.
Went to bed at 10:38. Fell asleep after a little while watching Bob Ross videos. What can I say? So relaxing and peaceful. Puts me out every time.
I awake at 3 a.m. Felt ... odd. Tried to sleep. 4 a.m. Can't sleep. Decide to get up and take a shower. Here it comes. By the time I finish my shower I'm afraid I'll trip getting out. Dried off. Clothed myself with difficulty, trying to think. The blow drier became heavy as led. Very hard to shave. I have to wake up Cindy. She's afraid. I'm scared. We decide to go to the hospital. Arrive at 6 a.m. Still having the event. Walked slowly and weakly through the emergency room door as Cindy parked the car. They put a wrist tag on me. Sent me to the emergency desk. What about my wife? Sorry. Covid. Nobody allowed in. Go to the desk. I slowly shuffle the 50'.
A kind woman asks me what's going on. "I'm having a stroke." In a wheel chair, off to a room. Six women in various scrubs, bringing in machines, and here comes the needles, the chest patches, the wires, the machines, the questions, I try to answer, my blood pressure is 190 over 102 or something. I'm frustrated, scared, getting pissed off, can't speak to Cindy, trying to stay calm. Throughout the day a literal international cast of characters, some I can understand, others I cannot. Masks, double masks, face shields. I ask for repetitions, feeling embarrassed to do so. It seems wrong for people to assume I can understand what's being said to me in a very thick accent, speaking quickly, especially while I'm in a condition that can also effect your hearing. Words came, words went. If anyone else was in the room, I asked them what was said to me. If not, I just let it go. The drill is now obvious.
The event lasts five hours. It is now a stroke. A nurse lent me her phone so I can speak, try to speak, to Cindy, sitting in the car out in the parking lot. A Cat Scan. Moved to admissions and another room after feeling overwhelmed and pretty helpless. We are going to be financially crushed by this. Cindy says to be calm, we'll be alright. In the 6th hour, after a 30 minute nap, I am speaking again. Doctors, assistants to doctors, nurses, techs, one after another, all asking me the same questions over and over. Scanning the barcode bracelet every time they come in. Off to the MRI. Ear plugs. Foam pads. A plastic cage around my head. Slid into the craziest sounding machine on the planet. A massively loud cacophony of noise and percussive rhythms. I begin to move my toes to the rhythms. Back to the room. One after another, blood tests, blood pressure, questions for me, same questions over and over, same answers. Questions from me, no solid answers. You had a stroke. Hear are the drugs you need to take. I tell one after another, I'm a vegetarian, most of the time vegan, I exercise, I play drums, 99% of the time I only drink water. How did I get into this situation? Many things they say. Many things, many factors. Just make sure you take your meds or the massive stroke will likely come.
In the international cast of characters are nice people; some more friendly than others. I share my convictions about health. They listen politely. You need to take your meds. I refuse to ask for help to go to the bathroom. They're getting kind of edgy with me. They have rules, protocols, policies, legal responsibility. I don't care. I'd as soon go home. I'm not an invalid. Give me my space. "Well, you did fall." That was yesterday. "What if you fall today?" And if I do, your little person is going to keep a 250lb falling man from hitting the floor? Not happening. I don't mean to be rude or unmanageable but, I'm not calling anybody in to help me walk ten feet. I am frustrated. They are frustrated. A stand-off.
I never put the gown on, save for the MRI. Put my jeans back on and they stayed on. I didn't lie in the bed. I stayed in the recliner. The sonogram guy had me lie on the bed on the second day. He was actually a funny guy. We were quite entertained by him. He approached his job like someone playing a computer game. He was quite animated. Otherwise, no bed. My back was burning on the one down in the ER. The recliner was fine.
Finally, Cindy is allowed to see me. We visit. She leaves as it's getting dark. She had her own adventure trying to get out of the building and back to her car.
I sit and try to find something intelligent on the wall-mounted, flat screen. I just want to go to sleep. Not happening, with someone coming in every three or four hours to take a test, prick a finger, bring in a pill or something. I maybe get two hours sleep. As I watch tv, drug commercials come on, over and over. Picnic scenes, dogs, children, balloons, fields of green, people dancing, all the lovely music. Then voices describing all the side effects of these drugs. I hear stroke, heart attacks, bleeding, even death. Death. Take this drug to heal but, just know it can kill you. If you feel yourself dying, call your doctor! This is insanity.
I drift off, I wake up. I stay awake. I just wanted to sit and chill, stay calm. Someone comes in. They speak. I speak. My speech is back to normal. I am going crazy sitting in that room. Was told I am a "Fall Risk" and have to stay in the room. Not happening. I pull off the Fall Risk bracelet and told a tech, who was very sweet, I need to get up and walk. I'm fine. I need out of this room. I end up walking around the floor a few times. Quiet place. Everybody in a mask. Can't see faces. No one speaks to me as I walk. They look at me. Who is this? I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone.
In 37 hours I am preparing to leave the hospital. Many people praying for me. God is good. People around me are surprised. The physical therapist, the Internal Medicine physician, the nurses, the techs. They wish me well. The international cast of characters goes about their business. I can tap out a simple paradiddle but, not more complicated patterns. I can sign my name but, it's a bit shaky. I walk out of the hospital, to the car, back home. Now, five or six hours later, sit and type this blog.
From getting ready to record drum solos and files for more music with Tom, to being reduced to a weak, slurring senior citizen, then back to "normal," I know not what will happen now. My job, my employment is to get better without meds. Sorry acute care people, I have believed for 42 years in natural methods of healing, allowing the body to heal itself by reinforcing elements of sound health: nutrition, exercise, clean pure water, sunshine, fresh air, temperance in all things, plenty of rest, and trust in God and His natural doctors. This is my job now. Get better. Allow the greatest living machine in the universe to do its thing; every cell, all two trillion of them. My heart goes out to those severely incapacitated by a massive stroke and their long roads back to health.
Will I be able to play 32nd notes, whipping around the kit? Will I be able to play complex patterns again? Will I be able to record again? Use power tools? Make things? I don't know. I just don't know. I hope so. I hope so.
I must believe so.
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194. A Sigh of Relief - February 2, 2021
My wife is convinced God brought me out of the hospital in rather amazing fashion. I concur. So many praying for me, wishing good thoughts. A lot of positive energy flowing my way.
I sat at the kit yesterday. I was really surprised at what I could do. Probably 99%. I only played for a few minutes and got really fatigued but, I was doing things I hoped for, just a little shaky.
Today, played longer, twice. I think I'm at 100%. I'm floored. In two days, from not being able to write my name and speak, to this? If I did not praise God for His goodness I'd be an ungrateful idiot.
I played some ideas for the solo CD. I'm actually pretty psyched. Time to think positive and move forward.
Concepts for Solo Drum Set are ideas for drum solos I thought into back in the 90's. Back then, I borrowed a camera from a friend and shot three, single-angle videos. I was getting online, meeting drummers on forums and and some of the DIY sites. I sent the videos to guys I met all over America and other nations, too, if the video format worked for them. I got great responses. It began to surpass the cost I could keep up with so I stopped but, the purpose was to inspire others to share and players would be sending videos to each other. Never came together, though. Now, there's YouTube and other sharing sites.
Why make a CD of Solos? Being raised listening to only audio and trying to figure out what was happening was my motivation to learn to play. I still remember so many solos from back then. I mentioned some of that in blog #88.
I even made cassettes of nothing but solos off of albums I had. I still have them. I drove around and listened to them on a boom box plugged into the cigarette lighter. Listening, grabbing ideas. I remember Carl Palmer saying drummers are great thieves. We are!
That powerful sound of thunderous drums and bronze inspires me. Some see drums as a rhythm instrument. I see the drum set as a musical instrument. So many things can be done on it. And with this three-mic set-up I use, and the sound quality Tom brings to the table, I am really looking forward to doing this.
So, I'll record some ideas and see what happens. Send files to Tom for mastering, then everything off to the replicator in Nashville. Not sure how I will sell them. I'll figure that out later. All things considered, I hope players are interested because when the hospital bills begin pouring in, some extra funds coming in will be a tremendous blessing.
I certainly will not be the first to put together a recording like this. And I certainly hope I might inspire others to do it.
I don't have a name in drumming, outside the collector's Metal community because of Legend and From the Fjords. The Iron Horse, the song with the solo in it, is about all anyone might know, aside from those who visit my YT channel. Well, as the Bible says, Despise Not The Day of Small Beginnings. Have to start somewhere. Hey, I'm only 66. Ever see the number of successful business people who started out in their fifties and sixties? It's encouraging to me.
I dodged a bullet. I could be totally incapacitated. I've already brought my BP numbers down 10-40 points from the past weekend event. Heart rate down, as well. Lost 4 lbs. already. Smoothies, juicing, drumming, exercise machines, and anything and everything I can do to get off the meds and live my life in good health, giving glory to God, my Creator, and Lord.
Concepts for Solo Drum Set is coming. For those interested, stay tuned.
I sat at the kit yesterday. I was really surprised at what I could do. Probably 99%. I only played for a few minutes and got really fatigued but, I was doing things I hoped for, just a little shaky.
Today, played longer, twice. I think I'm at 100%. I'm floored. In two days, from not being able to write my name and speak, to this? If I did not praise God for His goodness I'd be an ungrateful idiot.
I played some ideas for the solo CD. I'm actually pretty psyched. Time to think positive and move forward.
Concepts for Solo Drum Set are ideas for drum solos I thought into back in the 90's. Back then, I borrowed a camera from a friend and shot three, single-angle videos. I was getting online, meeting drummers on forums and and some of the DIY sites. I sent the videos to guys I met all over America and other nations, too, if the video format worked for them. I got great responses. It began to surpass the cost I could keep up with so I stopped but, the purpose was to inspire others to share and players would be sending videos to each other. Never came together, though. Now, there's YouTube and other sharing sites.
Why make a CD of Solos? Being raised listening to only audio and trying to figure out what was happening was my motivation to learn to play. I still remember so many solos from back then. I mentioned some of that in blog #88.
I even made cassettes of nothing but solos off of albums I had. I still have them. I drove around and listened to them on a boom box plugged into the cigarette lighter. Listening, grabbing ideas. I remember Carl Palmer saying drummers are great thieves. We are!
That powerful sound of thunderous drums and bronze inspires me. Some see drums as a rhythm instrument. I see the drum set as a musical instrument. So many things can be done on it. And with this three-mic set-up I use, and the sound quality Tom brings to the table, I am really looking forward to doing this.
So, I'll record some ideas and see what happens. Send files to Tom for mastering, then everything off to the replicator in Nashville. Not sure how I will sell them. I'll figure that out later. All things considered, I hope players are interested because when the hospital bills begin pouring in, some extra funds coming in will be a tremendous blessing.
I certainly will not be the first to put together a recording like this. And I certainly hope I might inspire others to do it.
I don't have a name in drumming, outside the collector's Metal community because of Legend and From the Fjords. The Iron Horse, the song with the solo in it, is about all anyone might know, aside from those who visit my YT channel. Well, as the Bible says, Despise Not The Day of Small Beginnings. Have to start somewhere. Hey, I'm only 66. Ever see the number of successful business people who started out in their fifties and sixties? It's encouraging to me.
I dodged a bullet. I could be totally incapacitated. I've already brought my BP numbers down 10-40 points from the past weekend event. Heart rate down, as well. Lost 4 lbs. already. Smoothies, juicing, drumming, exercise machines, and anything and everything I can do to get off the meds and live my life in good health, giving glory to God, my Creator, and Lord.
Concepts for Solo Drum Set is coming. For those interested, stay tuned.
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195. TROLLS - February 5, 2021
TROLLLLLLLS!!! Muahahahahaha!!!
I didn't even know what that meant until over a couple years ago. Trolling, to me, is associated with fishing, and boats and bait dragging behind. Or, some kind of ogre or some big, gross creature.
I kept seeing it everywhere and decided to look it up.
Ohhh, that's what those people are.
I bring this up because it fascinates me. There's only so much time in a day, right? Everybody is busy, running around, falling behind, getting stressed out and all. Trust me, I have grown into a professor on "stress." I knew a lot before my stroke. I know a lot more now. Everybody is stressed out, except the fortunate few who somehow maintain homeostasis seemingly all the time. Nothing much rattles their cage. They have been genetically blessed. For the rest of us ... life continues to get more and more complicated, and unless you decide to live off the grid, which carries with it its own stressors, you are being poked at from every direction.
So, trolls. People who like to stir up trouble online. They like to hide behind their anonymity and blow torch everybody and everything they don't like. Or, just shop and around and hit and run and see what happens. Personally, I logically see that as a waste of time, and also, sick.
Now some people, for some reason, will even identify themselves, knowing there's nothing anyone can do to them if they get nasty and totally uncivil with their fellow man. They don't care if you know who they are. They actually like you knowing who they are. It gives them a false sense of power.
One my YT channel there are around 85 videos. In one playlist are 16 (so far) addressing the ultra, super-hype, that drum manufacturers put out there in their catalogs and on their websites about their proprietary drum shells and the sound they deliver. I've written about this subject in several blogs. I do not believe there is any empirical evidence for such claims. The companies make the claims, they do nothing to back them up with audible evidence. Cymbal companies have sound files of cymbals on their sites. Why don't drum companies? As far as I know, last time I researched this, there were none. To their credit, Gretsch and Premier do not engage in all this uber-hype about their shells. They stick with general aspects companies have shown about their products back in the 60's, 70's, and even the 80's.
Anyway, those 16 videos have created more trolling, or just anger and vitriol than I ever imagined. Now, most commenters thank me. Some agree to disagree and I'll engage them in discussion in the comment section. I try to keep everybody on the subject matter: manufacturer ultra- hype about their proprietary shells and claims about sound, dollar for dollar.
I found out the videos, at least the first and some others, have made it to some drum forums/discussion boards. I went and checked some out, based on one comment that basically said the entire drumming world thinks I'm an idiot. Yet, when I went and checked links, I found the opposite. The ratio of people agreeing with my premise was about the same as commenters on YT.
So now, I have some of these "trolls" or just nasty people, not only calling me every name in the book, attacking my knowledge, my experience, my intelligence, my personality and character, they are also lying to me. They somehow practice selective reading when it comes to posts. One guy got so intolerable, I now just delete his posts. I tried to reason with him in rational ways. He just refuses to do anything but, attack me. Hey, my skin is thick enough (although my BP probably skyrockets when I see this kind of stuff) but, I refuse to have people visit my channel and castigate things in ignorance. Charge me correctly and I will gladly be corrected. Come at me with ignorance, and I will attempt to correct you on my positions and see if we can't find the avenue of truth I always try to walk in. Maintain your ignorance on my positions and I leave you alone. Start using foul language and battery acid to make your points? Your gone.
I see my YT channel no differently than I'd see living in an apartment. The building belongs to others. I rent from them. My apartment is still my home and coming into it as a guest and haranguing me is not going to happen. Challenge me? Fine. Come at me with attacks on my character and personality, making snide remarks about the info I share, obviously showing you haven't even watched an entire presentation which would reveal your erroneous position? No. I wouldn't do it in your home, or your YT channel. Why are you doing it in mine?
Some commenters may be drum shop owners or builders. I don't know. I'm raining on their hype parade or something. But, even there, some builders come, watch, and comment I'm basically right, even if we disagree on minor points. I don't mind agreeing to disagree.
Interestingly enough, other commenters will call these trolls out. I know it isn't just me who sees their blitzkrieg as bothersome to peace.
And I have come to see trolls are everywhere. Democrat activists troll Conservative sites and vice versa. Creationist videos get loads of trolls. Religion videos, in general do, as well.
I am most definitely not a person who says, Can't we all just get along? No, we can't, when it comes to major issues impacting our lives, such as political, government policy. Drums? I mean, something that is a pastime hobby for most players out there, who maybe get together and jam with people now and then? It makes no sense to flip out over drums. I'm certainly not going to change the way then industry markets their products, even if some commenters think my sharing of ideas about this subject could go that far. So, why the contempt and hostility?
Probably 99% of people watching things on YT never comment, one way or the other. Those who see a video they do not like and comment are an even smaller percentage. Most everybody just moves along. Those who stage a bloody bombing raid are an even smaller number. I could ignore them, and once I discover their purpose, or their lack of ability to have a rational discussion, I do. I don't want to see any foul language on my site, either. It's unnecessary.
One guy said, repeatedly, I was an embarrassment to the drumming community. His colorful venom and maliciousness must give him the impression he's a comedian. Frankly, I look at him as a sad embarrassment to the human race. Considering most of the videos in the series only have hundreds of views, I'm certainly not having a big exposure. Why the necessity to attack? I suppose some players that just spent a boatload of money on a dream drum set and expected ultimate sound and found out their drums don't sound any better than their last kit, from a lesser line, could be right upset. I even had a commenter state he hates that I am right.
I say again, it is your money. Purchase what you want. Spend more and expect a better finish, better hardware, or more options of hardware adjustments, etc. but, better sound? Not that I have seen or heard any proof of.
To get vicious about this subject seems completely unnecessary to me. Trolling about any subject is unnecessary.
A sign of the times. The love of many grows cold.
I didn't even know what that meant until over a couple years ago. Trolling, to me, is associated with fishing, and boats and bait dragging behind. Or, some kind of ogre or some big, gross creature.
I kept seeing it everywhere and decided to look it up.
Ohhh, that's what those people are.
I bring this up because it fascinates me. There's only so much time in a day, right? Everybody is busy, running around, falling behind, getting stressed out and all. Trust me, I have grown into a professor on "stress." I knew a lot before my stroke. I know a lot more now. Everybody is stressed out, except the fortunate few who somehow maintain homeostasis seemingly all the time. Nothing much rattles their cage. They have been genetically blessed. For the rest of us ... life continues to get more and more complicated, and unless you decide to live off the grid, which carries with it its own stressors, you are being poked at from every direction.
So, trolls. People who like to stir up trouble online. They like to hide behind their anonymity and blow torch everybody and everything they don't like. Or, just shop and around and hit and run and see what happens. Personally, I logically see that as a waste of time, and also, sick.
Now some people, for some reason, will even identify themselves, knowing there's nothing anyone can do to them if they get nasty and totally uncivil with their fellow man. They don't care if you know who they are. They actually like you knowing who they are. It gives them a false sense of power.
One my YT channel there are around 85 videos. In one playlist are 16 (so far) addressing the ultra, super-hype, that drum manufacturers put out there in their catalogs and on their websites about their proprietary drum shells and the sound they deliver. I've written about this subject in several blogs. I do not believe there is any empirical evidence for such claims. The companies make the claims, they do nothing to back them up with audible evidence. Cymbal companies have sound files of cymbals on their sites. Why don't drum companies? As far as I know, last time I researched this, there were none. To their credit, Gretsch and Premier do not engage in all this uber-hype about their shells. They stick with general aspects companies have shown about their products back in the 60's, 70's, and even the 80's.
Anyway, those 16 videos have created more trolling, or just anger and vitriol than I ever imagined. Now, most commenters thank me. Some agree to disagree and I'll engage them in discussion in the comment section. I try to keep everybody on the subject matter: manufacturer ultra- hype about their proprietary shells and claims about sound, dollar for dollar.
I found out the videos, at least the first and some others, have made it to some drum forums/discussion boards. I went and checked some out, based on one comment that basically said the entire drumming world thinks I'm an idiot. Yet, when I went and checked links, I found the opposite. The ratio of people agreeing with my premise was about the same as commenters on YT.
So now, I have some of these "trolls" or just nasty people, not only calling me every name in the book, attacking my knowledge, my experience, my intelligence, my personality and character, they are also lying to me. They somehow practice selective reading when it comes to posts. One guy got so intolerable, I now just delete his posts. I tried to reason with him in rational ways. He just refuses to do anything but, attack me. Hey, my skin is thick enough (although my BP probably skyrockets when I see this kind of stuff) but, I refuse to have people visit my channel and castigate things in ignorance. Charge me correctly and I will gladly be corrected. Come at me with ignorance, and I will attempt to correct you on my positions and see if we can't find the avenue of truth I always try to walk in. Maintain your ignorance on my positions and I leave you alone. Start using foul language and battery acid to make your points? Your gone.
I see my YT channel no differently than I'd see living in an apartment. The building belongs to others. I rent from them. My apartment is still my home and coming into it as a guest and haranguing me is not going to happen. Challenge me? Fine. Come at me with attacks on my character and personality, making snide remarks about the info I share, obviously showing you haven't even watched an entire presentation which would reveal your erroneous position? No. I wouldn't do it in your home, or your YT channel. Why are you doing it in mine?
Some commenters may be drum shop owners or builders. I don't know. I'm raining on their hype parade or something. But, even there, some builders come, watch, and comment I'm basically right, even if we disagree on minor points. I don't mind agreeing to disagree.
Interestingly enough, other commenters will call these trolls out. I know it isn't just me who sees their blitzkrieg as bothersome to peace.
And I have come to see trolls are everywhere. Democrat activists troll Conservative sites and vice versa. Creationist videos get loads of trolls. Religion videos, in general do, as well.
I am most definitely not a person who says, Can't we all just get along? No, we can't, when it comes to major issues impacting our lives, such as political, government policy. Drums? I mean, something that is a pastime hobby for most players out there, who maybe get together and jam with people now and then? It makes no sense to flip out over drums. I'm certainly not going to change the way then industry markets their products, even if some commenters think my sharing of ideas about this subject could go that far. So, why the contempt and hostility?
Probably 99% of people watching things on YT never comment, one way or the other. Those who see a video they do not like and comment are an even smaller percentage. Most everybody just moves along. Those who stage a bloody bombing raid are an even smaller number. I could ignore them, and once I discover their purpose, or their lack of ability to have a rational discussion, I do. I don't want to see any foul language on my site, either. It's unnecessary.
One guy said, repeatedly, I was an embarrassment to the drumming community. His colorful venom and maliciousness must give him the impression he's a comedian. Frankly, I look at him as a sad embarrassment to the human race. Considering most of the videos in the series only have hundreds of views, I'm certainly not having a big exposure. Why the necessity to attack? I suppose some players that just spent a boatload of money on a dream drum set and expected ultimate sound and found out their drums don't sound any better than their last kit, from a lesser line, could be right upset. I even had a commenter state he hates that I am right.
I say again, it is your money. Purchase what you want. Spend more and expect a better finish, better hardware, or more options of hardware adjustments, etc. but, better sound? Not that I have seen or heard any proof of.
To get vicious about this subject seems completely unnecessary to me. Trolling about any subject is unnecessary.
A sign of the times. The love of many grows cold.
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196. No, I'm Not Rich - February 8, 2021
That is the general thought or claim or statement or question that comes when people see my set. "You must be rich," or "Are you rich?" The reply, the answer is, No, not even close.
How did I acquire a set like this? For one, I build my own drums. I'll even make some of my own hardware. I make my own sticks and stuff. Drummers are great at "bastardizing" things and exercising the "necessity is the mother of all invention" principle. That lowers the costs substantially, sometimes. Of course, that does not account for cymbals, although some of the drums and cymbals are used, and cleaned up and/or renovated. I have cracked cymbals I've gotten off ebay and modified and such. Deals.
Then there is the aspect of lifestyle. I do not smoke, drink, do drugs. I drive a used, 1997 Chevy Astrovan I got around 2003, now with around 340,000 miles on it. I eat simply (I happen to be a vegetarian). We never really go out. Since I was a teenager about all I spent money on was music and drums. When I became a Christian and went into ministry, I spent all my money on stuff for doing seminars. When that aspect of my life changed, and I got back into drums, especially building drums and/or stuff for drums, I saved and got things as I was able.
The Legend; From the Fjords reissue never really got the exposure I hoped for. It stayed in the small, collector's field of sales, like it does for most reissues of old bands that have some fans. Money spent on the KIT festival and the HFP album broke me even there.
As it happens, I am basically "retired" and collecting S.S. Anybody collecting that knows it is not enough to live on. It is what it is.
So, in reality, what you are looking at there is about all I have. I began acquiring and assembling things around 1991. After I left Legend and sold everything to pay off the album loan, I had a set or two but, sold them for ministry things.
If I had to, I could live in a one room house and as long as there's room for the set, a bed, and a comfortable chair, I'm good. Matter of fact, if the chair were a recliner, I'd be okay without the bed. Give me a knife, spoon, fork and bowl, 99% of what I eat has a place to feed my face. Now, as is often the case, my austere parameters meet some change when a hen wants to "fluff the nest." My idea of necessity meets another side of the coin but, we still live very frugally, and now, with hospital bills soon to begin filling the mailbox, life is about to get as tight as an elastic band around a basketball.
I can guarantee you there are hundreds and thousands of players, any musicians, who skimp and save, and sacrifice to get their instruments and do something with them; whether that is playing out live or recording. They sacrifice. I'm sure many are among those of you reading this. Any person with a passion for anything lives that way. For someone into painting it's brushes, canvas, easels, and a lot of paint. Cars? It's cars and tools. Sports? It's gear. Golfing, fishing, hunting, baseball, hockey, doesn't matter. You sacrifice to get the things you enjoy, if you cannot just purchase them based on regular income.
Many people do not realize that well-known names in music do not live big. Their record company execs do but, depending on the contracts artists and bands sign, they might be into their third album and tour and barely make enough to pay bills. They owe the companies and their handlers. And we have all seen the sad and even tragic stories of famous people who ended up with nothing for various reasons of not realizing the types of people they hired for things, especially those running the books.
If I was rich ... well, I never will be so, it isn't something to think about or strive for, in my life. If I could be a recording musician, or live performer, in the right vehicle, I would be. If I had the space, I'd teach.
Someday the time will come to sell it all. A bad back, knees, and wrists can't go on indefinitely. I'll have a drummer's yard sale. Maybe you'll stop bye and pick up a deal.
See you then.
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197. China's New Policy For Children - February 13, 2021
While I continue to recover from my stroke I have purposefully stayed away from most news sites because it just causes stress, which raises my blood pressure, which, etc., etc.
I did see a headline in a couple of places this week, though. China has a new policy of teaching it's children in school that Christianity is an "evil cult."
Many people do not know that the Christian movement in China is the fastest growing segment of Christianity in the world. It is referred to as the "underground church," for the churches regulated by the Chinese government are mostly dead, and places for form and ceremony, only. They pose no threat to the CCP. The underground church is alive and thriving, and heavily persecuted. China decided to take down crosses and put up pics of Xi on churches. He decided the text of the Bible should be changed to uplift policies of communism and the regime. Now, he sees the need to teach children how evil the religion is.
Now, I'm going to connect a necessary bridge here. What does it say about Democrats, and especially the Biden administration, to cozy up to a nation that not only brutally persecutes all dissent but, especially Christians who just want the freedom and liberty to live according to the dictates of conscience? The non-president claims Catholicism as his faith. Others in his administration claim some form a Christianity as their faith. Like Obama's administration, some have pictures of Mao in their offices. They hide nothing. They are proud Communists.
Did America put another Communist in office after four years of across the boards growth in every sector of American society? Of course not.
The cabal that stole the election is now free from all investigation, even as each week exposes more direct evidence of foul play with voting machines, mail-in ballots and all the rest. The tech oligarchs are removing anything and everything from their platforms that says a word about election fraud, and the usual main-stream junk news media, being part of the entire corporate cabal, continues to hide Biden, the election, and anything else that could harm their agenda from all investigation. Same ol,' same ol.'
I don't know how much soldiers in the CCP get paid. I shouldn't think very much but, consider the logic. If every, single person in China that wanted freedom and liberty stood up and said, Xi is done, the CCP is done, it would be over. A billion and a half people, including members of the military that still have a conscience, would easily become a wall of resistance that would topple the regime.
The exact same thing would happen in America if every patriot, including those in the military, stood up, stood together, and told the cabal the election was a criminal enterprise and we reject the results, based on evidence, and point blank tell Biden and Co. to vacate the premises or a wave of resistance shall come that shall topple it all, and do so quickly. There comes a point in world history where numbers do mean something, and those with the numbers defeats those with fewer numbers. It's just simple arithmetic; cause to effect; basic science.
Do I believe such a rise will take place? No. Americans are too docile as a people, having lived with relative freedom for 200 years. We have been willing to fight outside aggressors, even if they pose no real threat to America's borders. Of course, the Biden administration has no respect for America's borders, the same as his boss. Many people believe the logic of the premise it is Obama still running things. Personally, I believe Barack Obama is just a puppet, same as Biden. Far more powerful people run Obama and the Democrat Party. Same as the GOP, which, also seen in a few headlines, has a bunch of people in it thinking about starting a new party; the GOP now a worthless wreck of bought and paid for shills. Why start a new party? The Constitution Party is already there. Build it and make it something to reckon with.
Anyway, as a Christian, I find China repulsive and a dangerous threat to the planet. The Chinese people are like all people, all humans, all life that desires freedom and liberty because the Creator made us free and wants us to be "free indeed."
The situations in Hong Kong and Taiwan will grow to a head. All humanity is now heaving, just as the Bible predicted 2000 years ago.
Did you know there are 28 active and alive volcanoes along the "ring of fire?" I saw that this past week, too.
I saw headlines that young people are becoming more active in criminal activity than ever before.
I saw headlines that the WHO, the CDC, and other voices within the health cabal, now that Biden is "elected," are backtracking on death numbers from Covid, while at the same time, the Covid industry, because that is what it is now, is planning on having the virus around for another few years, maybe several, and some say "indefinitely."
The world is coming unglued, my friends. It is going to get worse, much worse.
Hey, the global warming community is about to take another hit as North Texas is about to experience a blizzard and cold temps not seen in 40 years, as low as -8 degrees. Mmm. Toasty warm for all the radicals in the Mother Earth movement. Of course I believe all the trash floating on the oceans is horrible. Of course I believe pollution is horrible. Of course I believe mankind has an impact on the planet. To what degree? That is the question. Man-made global warming? No. The agenda of climate alarmists is to ultimately take away freedom and liberty to citizens of the world. It is ALL part of the New World Order, now called, the Great Reset. It is all a nightmare for freedom and liberty and individualism.
Once again, I know my site is about drums and drumming, and I have begun recording things for a new album as I have energy to do so, but, times are changing, and things are changing within them, and there is ONE thing that I absolutely know can be trusted: the Bible. Nothing has come, even close, to proving it wrong. To the contrary. It remains as vital as when it was written thousands of years ago, a vital testament to its ultimate Author.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I did see a headline in a couple of places this week, though. China has a new policy of teaching it's children in school that Christianity is an "evil cult."
Many people do not know that the Christian movement in China is the fastest growing segment of Christianity in the world. It is referred to as the "underground church," for the churches regulated by the Chinese government are mostly dead, and places for form and ceremony, only. They pose no threat to the CCP. The underground church is alive and thriving, and heavily persecuted. China decided to take down crosses and put up pics of Xi on churches. He decided the text of the Bible should be changed to uplift policies of communism and the regime. Now, he sees the need to teach children how evil the religion is.
Now, I'm going to connect a necessary bridge here. What does it say about Democrats, and especially the Biden administration, to cozy up to a nation that not only brutally persecutes all dissent but, especially Christians who just want the freedom and liberty to live according to the dictates of conscience? The non-president claims Catholicism as his faith. Others in his administration claim some form a Christianity as their faith. Like Obama's administration, some have pictures of Mao in their offices. They hide nothing. They are proud Communists.
Did America put another Communist in office after four years of across the boards growth in every sector of American society? Of course not.
The cabal that stole the election is now free from all investigation, even as each week exposes more direct evidence of foul play with voting machines, mail-in ballots and all the rest. The tech oligarchs are removing anything and everything from their platforms that says a word about election fraud, and the usual main-stream junk news media, being part of the entire corporate cabal, continues to hide Biden, the election, and anything else that could harm their agenda from all investigation. Same ol,' same ol.'
I don't know how much soldiers in the CCP get paid. I shouldn't think very much but, consider the logic. If every, single person in China that wanted freedom and liberty stood up and said, Xi is done, the CCP is done, it would be over. A billion and a half people, including members of the military that still have a conscience, would easily become a wall of resistance that would topple the regime.
The exact same thing would happen in America if every patriot, including those in the military, stood up, stood together, and told the cabal the election was a criminal enterprise and we reject the results, based on evidence, and point blank tell Biden and Co. to vacate the premises or a wave of resistance shall come that shall topple it all, and do so quickly. There comes a point in world history where numbers do mean something, and those with the numbers defeats those with fewer numbers. It's just simple arithmetic; cause to effect; basic science.
Do I believe such a rise will take place? No. Americans are too docile as a people, having lived with relative freedom for 200 years. We have been willing to fight outside aggressors, even if they pose no real threat to America's borders. Of course, the Biden administration has no respect for America's borders, the same as his boss. Many people believe the logic of the premise it is Obama still running things. Personally, I believe Barack Obama is just a puppet, same as Biden. Far more powerful people run Obama and the Democrat Party. Same as the GOP, which, also seen in a few headlines, has a bunch of people in it thinking about starting a new party; the GOP now a worthless wreck of bought and paid for shills. Why start a new party? The Constitution Party is already there. Build it and make it something to reckon with.
Anyway, as a Christian, I find China repulsive and a dangerous threat to the planet. The Chinese people are like all people, all humans, all life that desires freedom and liberty because the Creator made us free and wants us to be "free indeed."
The situations in Hong Kong and Taiwan will grow to a head. All humanity is now heaving, just as the Bible predicted 2000 years ago.
Did you know there are 28 active and alive volcanoes along the "ring of fire?" I saw that this past week, too.
I saw headlines that young people are becoming more active in criminal activity than ever before.
I saw headlines that the WHO, the CDC, and other voices within the health cabal, now that Biden is "elected," are backtracking on death numbers from Covid, while at the same time, the Covid industry, because that is what it is now, is planning on having the virus around for another few years, maybe several, and some say "indefinitely."
The world is coming unglued, my friends. It is going to get worse, much worse.
Hey, the global warming community is about to take another hit as North Texas is about to experience a blizzard and cold temps not seen in 40 years, as low as -8 degrees. Mmm. Toasty warm for all the radicals in the Mother Earth movement. Of course I believe all the trash floating on the oceans is horrible. Of course I believe pollution is horrible. Of course I believe mankind has an impact on the planet. To what degree? That is the question. Man-made global warming? No. The agenda of climate alarmists is to ultimately take away freedom and liberty to citizens of the world. It is ALL part of the New World Order, now called, the Great Reset. It is all a nightmare for freedom and liberty and individualism.
Once again, I know my site is about drums and drumming, and I have begun recording things for a new album as I have energy to do so, but, times are changing, and things are changing within them, and there is ONE thing that I absolutely know can be trusted: the Bible. Nothing has come, even close, to proving it wrong. To the contrary. It remains as vital as when it was written thousands of years ago, a vital testament to its ultimate Author.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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198. Creation Is A Conspiracy Theory?
Well, well. That ever so popular, leftist, fact-checking site, Snopes, is now claiming belief in creation places me in the believer of conspiracy theories category. They would include, of course, the tens, if not hundreds of millions of Christians around the globe who do, indeed, believe God created the universe. The Bible says He spoke, and it stood fast. Now, that is power: unimaginable power.
But, Snopes says, No, no. That is a conspiracy theory.
https://www.faithwire.com/2021/02/08/snopes-article-says-creationism-bears-all-the-hallmarks-of-a-conspiracy-theory/
I found this really interesting at the close of this particular article:
"The well-known creationist [Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis] noted that, at the top of the article, which was first published by The Conversation, Snopes added an editor’s note explaining the piece “does not … represent the work of Snopes fact-checkers or editors.”
Ham, though, said the decision by Snopes to republish the article “is no different than them affirming it,” accusing the site of doing “exactly what they say not to do: they passed on false information.”
I consider that the criteria of leftist news: just print it, don't concern yourself with fact-checking. How ironic, though, for a fact-checking web site. You cannot make this stuff up.
Now, a conspiracy, by definition, is a plan or process of doing something by two or more cooperating parties. Well, certainly that which calls itself "Christianity" has conspired to do plenty of nefarious things in the last 2000 years; popes, prelates, and secular rulers conspiring together to stop the Protestant Reformation, consign "heretics" to prison and death, start wars, and things like that.
What conspiracy would creation come under? Probably, as Bill Nye thinks, a conspiracy to ruin the minds of children everywhere. Of course, that's a totally subjective opinion.
Now, a theory is a yet unproveable idea or hypothesis. In science, a theory is an accepted premise. It does not have to be proven absolute, it just needs to meet a certain criteria for acceptance. It may be proven wrong by more evidence and investigation, as many theories in science have. The theory of evolution is a prime example. You cannot test either creation or cosmic evolution to be absolutely true. BOTH positions run on faith. That is why many call belief in evolution a religion. It's deity is Time. Given enough time, Time can do anything. Time has done everything we see.
I'm sorry. That is not just faith but, faith that not only 'moves mountains' but, made everything from nothing. Everything from nothing is an act of deity, is it not? It is supernatural. Then the theory of evolution is a religion. Regardless of how many mathematical equations are written on blackboards, everything from nothing is a non-provable theory.
Calling belief in creation a conspiracy theory is not just foolishness and void of technical merit, by definition of terms but, anyone can as easily call cosmic evolution and materialism and naturalism conspiracy theories. The large body of scientists and scientific institutions use it to control what can be studied, investigated, and believed and/or proclaimed by anyone wanting to be an accepted scientist by definition of methods, the scientific method.
One seeks to show God is the Sovereign of the universe. The other seeks to show deity does not exist. Somewhere in between those two positions thousands upon thousands of day to day scientists, exist.
Belief in creation is a model. Belief in evolution is a model. Believe what you want. Neither is proven 100% true by empirical fact. It is impossible to prove either absolute by the methods of science. You cannot recreate or test either one. Both leave lists of unanswerable questions. Both are matters of faith to some degree because both are supernatural miracles. Both claim evidence. Both have detractors, based on the same evidence everyone can look at, and does look at to draw conclusions. BOTH have adherents that come to the table with preconceived ideas. A few are changed in the process and leave one side for the other. That is no conclusion of truth, nor are numbers. Consensus is not the measure or standard of truth. Consensus is a measure and standard for acceptance.
Not only would I not trust Snopes to tell me the truth about anything, I have little reason to trust scientists who cannot even come up with a decent, working definition of 'science' that everyone abides by. Scientists who believe in creation do science every, single day for a living. Calling them conspiracy theorists is just plain dumb.
Like I have said, having been an atheist, it takes a lot more faith to believe everything sprang from nothing, by itself (!!!???) and innumerable accidents took place to bring us what we see and experience in all the fantastic design we have around us and in us, than to believe a Creator, Who loves us, created it all for our wonder and enjoyment. Design comes from designers. Logic and common sense, 101.
Please, do let us have common sense.
Believe what you will. Just don't believe anything Snopes tells you is free from agenda, prejudice, and partisanship.
But, Snopes says, No, no. That is a conspiracy theory.
https://www.faithwire.com/2021/02/08/snopes-article-says-creationism-bears-all-the-hallmarks-of-a-conspiracy-theory/
I found this really interesting at the close of this particular article:
"The well-known creationist [Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis] noted that, at the top of the article, which was first published by The Conversation, Snopes added an editor’s note explaining the piece “does not … represent the work of Snopes fact-checkers or editors.”
Ham, though, said the decision by Snopes to republish the article “is no different than them affirming it,” accusing the site of doing “exactly what they say not to do: they passed on false information.”
I consider that the criteria of leftist news: just print it, don't concern yourself with fact-checking. How ironic, though, for a fact-checking web site. You cannot make this stuff up.
Now, a conspiracy, by definition, is a plan or process of doing something by two or more cooperating parties. Well, certainly that which calls itself "Christianity" has conspired to do plenty of nefarious things in the last 2000 years; popes, prelates, and secular rulers conspiring together to stop the Protestant Reformation, consign "heretics" to prison and death, start wars, and things like that.
What conspiracy would creation come under? Probably, as Bill Nye thinks, a conspiracy to ruin the minds of children everywhere. Of course, that's a totally subjective opinion.
Now, a theory is a yet unproveable idea or hypothesis. In science, a theory is an accepted premise. It does not have to be proven absolute, it just needs to meet a certain criteria for acceptance. It may be proven wrong by more evidence and investigation, as many theories in science have. The theory of evolution is a prime example. You cannot test either creation or cosmic evolution to be absolutely true. BOTH positions run on faith. That is why many call belief in evolution a religion. It's deity is Time. Given enough time, Time can do anything. Time has done everything we see.
I'm sorry. That is not just faith but, faith that not only 'moves mountains' but, made everything from nothing. Everything from nothing is an act of deity, is it not? It is supernatural. Then the theory of evolution is a religion. Regardless of how many mathematical equations are written on blackboards, everything from nothing is a non-provable theory.
Calling belief in creation a conspiracy theory is not just foolishness and void of technical merit, by definition of terms but, anyone can as easily call cosmic evolution and materialism and naturalism conspiracy theories. The large body of scientists and scientific institutions use it to control what can be studied, investigated, and believed and/or proclaimed by anyone wanting to be an accepted scientist by definition of methods, the scientific method.
One seeks to show God is the Sovereign of the universe. The other seeks to show deity does not exist. Somewhere in between those two positions thousands upon thousands of day to day scientists, exist.
Belief in creation is a model. Belief in evolution is a model. Believe what you want. Neither is proven 100% true by empirical fact. It is impossible to prove either absolute by the methods of science. You cannot recreate or test either one. Both leave lists of unanswerable questions. Both are matters of faith to some degree because both are supernatural miracles. Both claim evidence. Both have detractors, based on the same evidence everyone can look at, and does look at to draw conclusions. BOTH have adherents that come to the table with preconceived ideas. A few are changed in the process and leave one side for the other. That is no conclusion of truth, nor are numbers. Consensus is not the measure or standard of truth. Consensus is a measure and standard for acceptance.
Not only would I not trust Snopes to tell me the truth about anything, I have little reason to trust scientists who cannot even come up with a decent, working definition of 'science' that everyone abides by. Scientists who believe in creation do science every, single day for a living. Calling them conspiracy theorists is just plain dumb.
Like I have said, having been an atheist, it takes a lot more faith to believe everything sprang from nothing, by itself (!!!???) and innumerable accidents took place to bring us what we see and experience in all the fantastic design we have around us and in us, than to believe a Creator, Who loves us, created it all for our wonder and enjoyment. Design comes from designers. Logic and common sense, 101.
Please, do let us have common sense.
Believe what you will. Just don't believe anything Snopes tells you is free from agenda, prejudice, and partisanship.
********************
199. The Law Of The Jungle ... Uh, Back Yard - February 17, 2021
As Texas deals with the deep freeze we are more fortunate than many. We retained power, save for a few hours. Others are without power for a day or two now. We only had pipes on the North side of the house freeze. Many have no running water at all.
If you live down South, you know when there is snow or ice, the roads remain empty. Up North, it's just another day of winter. You don't see studded tires anymore. They chewed up the roads too much. You still see chains, though. Real bad ice keeps everybody home. You just cannot maneuver safely no matter what tire tread you have. You need weight, and even that is useless on ice. Just look at the semis in vehicle accidents. They actually have it worse, pulling a separate part of the rig which will entirely do its own thing if the driver loses control.
So, it's pretty quiet right now. Nowhere the snowfall predicted. Not here, anyway. Just unreal cold. I haven't felt this since I left Maine 20 years ago.
Anyway, right now people in Texas are seriously PO'd at the governor, the power companies, and anybody else they can send their ire towards. "Green" energy is actually a joke, and everybody who has it, knows it, when mother nature decides to throw curve balls. Three, 60' blades are worthless if they get heavy ice all over them and can't turn. The thing is, the power companies had the option to upgrade their turbines and refused to do so.
UPDATE: I read that the turbines are not the problem, natural gas systems are. But, wait. Anyone who knows Texas knows wind. It is constantly windy here. Why not have enormous wind farms? How is it a transference of power capability could not be transferred from gas to wind? Again, because the turbines are frozen. The whole point of expenditures from fossil to green energy is both back-up and ultimately take-over. Miles and miles of turbines can be seen in places around the state, especially the western side. I remember a story about wealthy billionaire, T. Boone Pickens pushing wind power some years back. Wind for electricity, natural gas for autos, and a lessening of oil and gasoline for the automobile industry. The story came with a warning of a ruse being pitched. The natural gas industry, like almost all fuel corporations, never wants to adapt and change and remodel. The old systems work fine. Nobody ever expected cold like this. NOT SO. It happened in 1983, and again, though not as bad, 11 years ago. I had frozen pipes here with temps down to 5 degrees without a wind chill here in this house. We have lived here five years now. It happens. Regardless of blame to go around, customers are paying for a service they are not getting, as rates constantly go up and infrastructure gets old.
Solar is fine when you have sun. Days of clouds and icy mist, snow and sleet, and all the rest, you better hope your battery systems are better than most.
Leftists are, in my humble opinion, enemies of common sense. "Green" energy is a great concept with zero practical results. It will never be cost efficient. It has constant physical problems fossil fuels do not have to provide energy for heat and such. I already know Leftists are enemies of the Republic. They show that every single day they have any power or control over a populace. And frankly, people like Mitch McConnell wear the same colors. I don't think there's a color for common sense. If there was, few in D.C. or other centers of government, wear it. They disdain, even pollute Red, White and Blue.
The situation in Texas is acute, to say the least. People are ANGRY, as well they should be. Whether fires in California or people in the cold in Texas, politicians can screw everybody into the ground and they always will, when they decide they have authority to control free markets.
Now, to my jungle (my back yard). I like birds. I have made some bird feeders and hung them off the house. Like all critters, most can get pretty feisty when it comes to territorial survival. NEVER have I seen such meanness and craziness out there. I put up a few more feeders and suet cages and they are still going at each other, pecking, scratching, screeching at each other to protect their hold on seed, even if for just a few seconds. Size does not matter. The smaller Finches will be all over the Cardinals when they approach. If a Cardinal has a feeder, they will do whatever they have to, to keep the Finches out. Little by little, the activity has drawn in others, the larger, flock birds I call the hordes. They are everywhere in Texas, now. They fill the powerlines, the edges of buildings, the parking lots ... One bird fills up a feeder, lets nothing else in, and eats until the feeder is empty. I scare them away. It's hard to keep up.
The woodpeckers, they just hang upside down and sneak a beak into a corner and grab a seed and let everybody else battle it out. The little, friendly Chickadees have to wait for a quick spot to open up. Otherwise, it gets nothing. And even then, it must quickly hit a corner, grab a seed and fly away before it gets descended upon.
The Red-Winged Blackbirds must think their calendar is all messed up. Same with flocks of Robins. I doubt they expected anything like this. I have never seen four dozen Robins at the same time. All these birds huddling in the trees on the South side of the house, trying to stay warm. The Juncos, they just seem immune to it all. They stay on the ground and take whatever falls out of the feeders. All things considered, the way everybody above them are duking it out, seed is flying around all over the place.
I see humanity in it all, especially in the last days. Right now, all things considered, the usually calm and law-biding citizens remain so. As the Biden administration and the cohorts in the cabal make things continually worse for Americans, as they are committed to do, things among humans are going to start looking like my bird feeders. Call it in Winter or the blazing heat of Summer, if the power grid fails, people will become desperate. The outbreak of Covid showed that last year. Empty shelves. Supply lines for everything will begin to shrink, dismantle, come unglued, and the populace will follow.
The Bible talks about a Time of Trouble that shall come, such as never was, or ever shall be. A small time of trouble shall precede that. Desperate humans past the point of no return will form hordes, rogue militias, gangs. Many in America think such a thing is not possible. Certainly rioters exist and always have, especially in the cities but, in the heartland? No way. Yes, way. It will come. The Bible predicts it. It shall be so.
As far as the current situation I think of the book of Job, that man totally devastated by circumstances beyond his control. I think of this statement in the 38th chapter:
"Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? " Job 38:22,23
No army can fight cold. The cold can literally stop any army, even modern armies, in its tracks. What does God have in store to stop the hordes of the world now building?
And this little insight into humanity:
"My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that overflow,
Which are black by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow hideth itself; Job 6:15,16
Up in Maine you could get a crust of ice and walk on top of the snow. More and more people will walk over anybody they have to, to get by in what is coming. Blackness from snow? Frostbite. Humanity is going to suffer a blackness, a coldness Christ warned about. And black ice? We all know what that is, as far as driving. The most treacherous road hazard known. It hides under the snow. Hit it, and you are out of control almost instantly.
For many in Texas, right now, cold, not a decent night's sleep, haven't bathed in a few days, and more cold to come until the weekend, not seeing such a time of "winter" in forty years here, they are distraught. And that is not yet really known until pipes thaw out and then leaks may be everywhere and plumbers will be busy for months to come. This event has a long way to go.
And I add this. A Mayor in Colorado City, Texas has resigned after blasting citizens crying out for help. The backlash was swift. Sure, there are citizens in the USA that have been taught and raised to expect government help to live, in perfectly fine times. Now is not that time. Twenty people have frozen to death. To tell citizens they have no right to expect anything from power providers has to be one of the more ignorant things I have ever seen proceed from a civil servant. People PAY for power. They PAY for fuel. They have EVERY right to expect it from providers that provide it at a substantial cost every month. The governor has stated he is now looking into ERCOT, the Energy Reliability Commission of Texas, into exactly why these blackouts were placed upon Texans. Would I be surprised to learn this non-profit outfit is composed of "Green" Leftists? I would not.
The Bible says the Lord will not test us beyond which we are able to bear. That's believers. Real believers, not the twice a year kind of believer that enter a church at Christmas and Easter. The CEC's they are called. No, they, and all those who think religious faith in a wise and loving Creator and Savior is a waste of time, they will be rattled beyond credulity when what is coming strikes.
When humanity seems at a total breaking point, gold, silver, wealth, power, none of it will matter in that day, a time of peace and safety will be declared, a peace and safety built on sand, and then, the end of it all.
Yeah, I watch these birds and I can see what is coming.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
If you live down South, you know when there is snow or ice, the roads remain empty. Up North, it's just another day of winter. You don't see studded tires anymore. They chewed up the roads too much. You still see chains, though. Real bad ice keeps everybody home. You just cannot maneuver safely no matter what tire tread you have. You need weight, and even that is useless on ice. Just look at the semis in vehicle accidents. They actually have it worse, pulling a separate part of the rig which will entirely do its own thing if the driver loses control.
So, it's pretty quiet right now. Nowhere the snowfall predicted. Not here, anyway. Just unreal cold. I haven't felt this since I left Maine 20 years ago.
Anyway, right now people in Texas are seriously PO'd at the governor, the power companies, and anybody else they can send their ire towards. "Green" energy is actually a joke, and everybody who has it, knows it, when mother nature decides to throw curve balls. Three, 60' blades are worthless if they get heavy ice all over them and can't turn. The thing is, the power companies had the option to upgrade their turbines and refused to do so.
UPDATE: I read that the turbines are not the problem, natural gas systems are. But, wait. Anyone who knows Texas knows wind. It is constantly windy here. Why not have enormous wind farms? How is it a transference of power capability could not be transferred from gas to wind? Again, because the turbines are frozen. The whole point of expenditures from fossil to green energy is both back-up and ultimately take-over. Miles and miles of turbines can be seen in places around the state, especially the western side. I remember a story about wealthy billionaire, T. Boone Pickens pushing wind power some years back. Wind for electricity, natural gas for autos, and a lessening of oil and gasoline for the automobile industry. The story came with a warning of a ruse being pitched. The natural gas industry, like almost all fuel corporations, never wants to adapt and change and remodel. The old systems work fine. Nobody ever expected cold like this. NOT SO. It happened in 1983, and again, though not as bad, 11 years ago. I had frozen pipes here with temps down to 5 degrees without a wind chill here in this house. We have lived here five years now. It happens. Regardless of blame to go around, customers are paying for a service they are not getting, as rates constantly go up and infrastructure gets old.
Solar is fine when you have sun. Days of clouds and icy mist, snow and sleet, and all the rest, you better hope your battery systems are better than most.
Leftists are, in my humble opinion, enemies of common sense. "Green" energy is a great concept with zero practical results. It will never be cost efficient. It has constant physical problems fossil fuels do not have to provide energy for heat and such. I already know Leftists are enemies of the Republic. They show that every single day they have any power or control over a populace. And frankly, people like Mitch McConnell wear the same colors. I don't think there's a color for common sense. If there was, few in D.C. or other centers of government, wear it. They disdain, even pollute Red, White and Blue.
The situation in Texas is acute, to say the least. People are ANGRY, as well they should be. Whether fires in California or people in the cold in Texas, politicians can screw everybody into the ground and they always will, when they decide they have authority to control free markets.
Now, to my jungle (my back yard). I like birds. I have made some bird feeders and hung them off the house. Like all critters, most can get pretty feisty when it comes to territorial survival. NEVER have I seen such meanness and craziness out there. I put up a few more feeders and suet cages and they are still going at each other, pecking, scratching, screeching at each other to protect their hold on seed, even if for just a few seconds. Size does not matter. The smaller Finches will be all over the Cardinals when they approach. If a Cardinal has a feeder, they will do whatever they have to, to keep the Finches out. Little by little, the activity has drawn in others, the larger, flock birds I call the hordes. They are everywhere in Texas, now. They fill the powerlines, the edges of buildings, the parking lots ... One bird fills up a feeder, lets nothing else in, and eats until the feeder is empty. I scare them away. It's hard to keep up.
The woodpeckers, they just hang upside down and sneak a beak into a corner and grab a seed and let everybody else battle it out. The little, friendly Chickadees have to wait for a quick spot to open up. Otherwise, it gets nothing. And even then, it must quickly hit a corner, grab a seed and fly away before it gets descended upon.
The Red-Winged Blackbirds must think their calendar is all messed up. Same with flocks of Robins. I doubt they expected anything like this. I have never seen four dozen Robins at the same time. All these birds huddling in the trees on the South side of the house, trying to stay warm. The Juncos, they just seem immune to it all. They stay on the ground and take whatever falls out of the feeders. All things considered, the way everybody above them are duking it out, seed is flying around all over the place.
I see humanity in it all, especially in the last days. Right now, all things considered, the usually calm and law-biding citizens remain so. As the Biden administration and the cohorts in the cabal make things continually worse for Americans, as they are committed to do, things among humans are going to start looking like my bird feeders. Call it in Winter or the blazing heat of Summer, if the power grid fails, people will become desperate. The outbreak of Covid showed that last year. Empty shelves. Supply lines for everything will begin to shrink, dismantle, come unglued, and the populace will follow.
The Bible talks about a Time of Trouble that shall come, such as never was, or ever shall be. A small time of trouble shall precede that. Desperate humans past the point of no return will form hordes, rogue militias, gangs. Many in America think such a thing is not possible. Certainly rioters exist and always have, especially in the cities but, in the heartland? No way. Yes, way. It will come. The Bible predicts it. It shall be so.
As far as the current situation I think of the book of Job, that man totally devastated by circumstances beyond his control. I think of this statement in the 38th chapter:
"Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? " Job 38:22,23
No army can fight cold. The cold can literally stop any army, even modern armies, in its tracks. What does God have in store to stop the hordes of the world now building?
And this little insight into humanity:
"My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that overflow,
Which are black by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow hideth itself; Job 6:15,16
Up in Maine you could get a crust of ice and walk on top of the snow. More and more people will walk over anybody they have to, to get by in what is coming. Blackness from snow? Frostbite. Humanity is going to suffer a blackness, a coldness Christ warned about. And black ice? We all know what that is, as far as driving. The most treacherous road hazard known. It hides under the snow. Hit it, and you are out of control almost instantly.
For many in Texas, right now, cold, not a decent night's sleep, haven't bathed in a few days, and more cold to come until the weekend, not seeing such a time of "winter" in forty years here, they are distraught. And that is not yet really known until pipes thaw out and then leaks may be everywhere and plumbers will be busy for months to come. This event has a long way to go.
And I add this. A Mayor in Colorado City, Texas has resigned after blasting citizens crying out for help. The backlash was swift. Sure, there are citizens in the USA that have been taught and raised to expect government help to live, in perfectly fine times. Now is not that time. Twenty people have frozen to death. To tell citizens they have no right to expect anything from power providers has to be one of the more ignorant things I have ever seen proceed from a civil servant. People PAY for power. They PAY for fuel. They have EVERY right to expect it from providers that provide it at a substantial cost every month. The governor has stated he is now looking into ERCOT, the Energy Reliability Commission of Texas, into exactly why these blackouts were placed upon Texans. Would I be surprised to learn this non-profit outfit is composed of "Green" Leftists? I would not.
The Bible says the Lord will not test us beyond which we are able to bear. That's believers. Real believers, not the twice a year kind of believer that enter a church at Christmas and Easter. The CEC's they are called. No, they, and all those who think religious faith in a wise and loving Creator and Savior is a waste of time, they will be rattled beyond credulity when what is coming strikes.
When humanity seems at a total breaking point, gold, silver, wealth, power, none of it will matter in that day, a time of peace and safety will be declared, a peace and safety built on sand, and then, the end of it all.
Yeah, I watch these birds and I can see what is coming.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
********************
200. Nate Smith - February 18, 2021
I cannot imagine I have written 200 blogs now, most within the last year. It's an outlet and I enjoy it. Well, I don't always enjoy writing about some things, all things considered but, I'll put out there what is on my heart and mind.
Despite the rolling blackouts, and intermittent internet outage, I managed to watch some YT vids last night of these Zildjian LIVE performances. I recognized almost everyone I watched. The Ghost Note Band is phenomenal. I really enjoyed them.
In the side bar I saw a video for a name I was not familiar with, Nate Smith. The video was a performance of his band, Kinfolk, at the Berklee College of Music, in a Zildjian sponsored format. The players were all sharp and tight, and his sense of time and articulation is impeccable. He has his own voice and style at the set and that is something not heard very much anymore. I really enjoyed it. It's in three parts, the first is linked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-I3sCt3bOI
Whoever the sound tech was, also the recording engineer deserves great notice. Every instrument in his set-up, as well as each member of the band had distinction and great separation. His kit sounded fantastic.
I don't often mention new names (for me) on this blog. I remember being on top of Gergo Borlai and Damien Schmitt before many others out there were familiar with them. That's because I listen to Fusion and it isn't as popular a genre as it once was, and those guys found their way into the spotlight through that avenue, for the most part.
I sit hear thinking about the rise of players, the young lions in the last 20-30 years or so. It is so difficult to find a place. Thousands of players from all over the planet, even young kids, are monsters on the drums. The bar gets raised, they meet and exceed. A while ago I wrote a blog on how I believe the limits of speed have been reached. Human physiology is only going to move just so fast. That leaves what you say on the instrument being far more important than how fast you can say it. Nate Smith definitely has a voice.
If you were to place ten or twenty players or more, a hundred, doesn't matter, of the "Gospel Chops/Fusion/Jazz" category in front of me, I honestly could not tell the difference who was playing. That is not a dig on the style. The same could be said for all genres and styles. It's just a comment on the enormous field of players out there now, from every continent, in every genre and style.
The first time I heard Virgil Donati, I knew I was listening to, perhaps THE most recognizable voice in a generation. Then he got cloned. The same for Vinnie, Dave Weckl, Dennis, and any other voice that comes along and today, different then when I was growing up, the exposure stage is planetary, and almost overnight. One year a player is doing their thing in a band, maybe not even a big selling band, and the next he is playing drum festivals.
Consider one of the most recognizable players ever, Keith Carlock. Went to school here in Denton, TX at UNT. Came under the tutelage of a Jazz great that teaches there, Ed Soph. I met Ed at a dental office my wife worked at. I happened to be there one day and my wife introduced us. I shared with him our first Miledge Muzic CD. He liked it, which I have to admit was really gratifying. He's a really nice guy, too. We only interacted for a couple minutes. He was very impressed with Keith, and Carlock went on to do great things. My first exposure? YouTube. I might say, my only exposure to him is YT. I've never seen him live. The same could be said for so many players, YT is the source for hearing new players for me and literally millions of others.
One of the most incredible players on the scene, since he was a kid, no less, is Dylan Elise, from New Zealand. He is a YT discovery for people. He was not in a name band. He or someone else, uploaded a video of his playing a solo, at 16, for some kind of national competition. He is so good, it is uncanny, and many people put him down because, how can anyone be that good and unknown? Well, he is a phenom. Even with international exposure and accolades he seemed destined to play his tiny drum set at street festivals and whip up a crowd to a screaming frenzy by the time he finished his amazing solos. Were it not for the web, I doubt I'd have ever heard of him. Even without a big name band he made it to festival stages throughout Australasia.
I remember my first exposure to Steve Gadd, hearing Aja on a turntable in someone's house back in the 70's. How different that exposure then compared to what can take place today. Back then, it was radio and albums. Done. Add word of mouth. Today, it is that, plus the web, and everybody would like some exposure, and it is jam packed. Gigabytes always leaves room for more but, think of the scale and it's another needle in a vast haystack. Today, it isn't the need for exposure through platforms. It is the sheer number of people on the platforms.
I'm going to go ahead and record my stuff for the Concepts for Solo Drum Set album, and do it all myself, with Tom's help, and put it out there and starkly realize, though not many drummers are putting out solo drum CDs, name recognition, viability, and all the rest shall make it a mountainous climb for even the smallest amount of exposure. That isn't going to stop me. It's just the hard reality.
My hat is off to talents of Nate Smith and his band. Great stuff. Highly enjoyable.
Despite the rolling blackouts, and intermittent internet outage, I managed to watch some YT vids last night of these Zildjian LIVE performances. I recognized almost everyone I watched. The Ghost Note Band is phenomenal. I really enjoyed them.
In the side bar I saw a video for a name I was not familiar with, Nate Smith. The video was a performance of his band, Kinfolk, at the Berklee College of Music, in a Zildjian sponsored format. The players were all sharp and tight, and his sense of time and articulation is impeccable. He has his own voice and style at the set and that is something not heard very much anymore. I really enjoyed it. It's in three parts, the first is linked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-I3sCt3bOI
Whoever the sound tech was, also the recording engineer deserves great notice. Every instrument in his set-up, as well as each member of the band had distinction and great separation. His kit sounded fantastic.
I don't often mention new names (for me) on this blog. I remember being on top of Gergo Borlai and Damien Schmitt before many others out there were familiar with them. That's because I listen to Fusion and it isn't as popular a genre as it once was, and those guys found their way into the spotlight through that avenue, for the most part.
I sit hear thinking about the rise of players, the young lions in the last 20-30 years or so. It is so difficult to find a place. Thousands of players from all over the planet, even young kids, are monsters on the drums. The bar gets raised, they meet and exceed. A while ago I wrote a blog on how I believe the limits of speed have been reached. Human physiology is only going to move just so fast. That leaves what you say on the instrument being far more important than how fast you can say it. Nate Smith definitely has a voice.
If you were to place ten or twenty players or more, a hundred, doesn't matter, of the "Gospel Chops/Fusion/Jazz" category in front of me, I honestly could not tell the difference who was playing. That is not a dig on the style. The same could be said for all genres and styles. It's just a comment on the enormous field of players out there now, from every continent, in every genre and style.
The first time I heard Virgil Donati, I knew I was listening to, perhaps THE most recognizable voice in a generation. Then he got cloned. The same for Vinnie, Dave Weckl, Dennis, and any other voice that comes along and today, different then when I was growing up, the exposure stage is planetary, and almost overnight. One year a player is doing their thing in a band, maybe not even a big selling band, and the next he is playing drum festivals.
Consider one of the most recognizable players ever, Keith Carlock. Went to school here in Denton, TX at UNT. Came under the tutelage of a Jazz great that teaches there, Ed Soph. I met Ed at a dental office my wife worked at. I happened to be there one day and my wife introduced us. I shared with him our first Miledge Muzic CD. He liked it, which I have to admit was really gratifying. He's a really nice guy, too. We only interacted for a couple minutes. He was very impressed with Keith, and Carlock went on to do great things. My first exposure? YouTube. I might say, my only exposure to him is YT. I've never seen him live. The same could be said for so many players, YT is the source for hearing new players for me and literally millions of others.
One of the most incredible players on the scene, since he was a kid, no less, is Dylan Elise, from New Zealand. He is a YT discovery for people. He was not in a name band. He or someone else, uploaded a video of his playing a solo, at 16, for some kind of national competition. He is so good, it is uncanny, and many people put him down because, how can anyone be that good and unknown? Well, he is a phenom. Even with international exposure and accolades he seemed destined to play his tiny drum set at street festivals and whip up a crowd to a screaming frenzy by the time he finished his amazing solos. Were it not for the web, I doubt I'd have ever heard of him. Even without a big name band he made it to festival stages throughout Australasia.
I remember my first exposure to Steve Gadd, hearing Aja on a turntable in someone's house back in the 70's. How different that exposure then compared to what can take place today. Back then, it was radio and albums. Done. Add word of mouth. Today, it is that, plus the web, and everybody would like some exposure, and it is jam packed. Gigabytes always leaves room for more but, think of the scale and it's another needle in a vast haystack. Today, it isn't the need for exposure through platforms. It is the sheer number of people on the platforms.
I'm going to go ahead and record my stuff for the Concepts for Solo Drum Set album, and do it all myself, with Tom's help, and put it out there and starkly realize, though not many drummers are putting out solo drum CDs, name recognition, viability, and all the rest shall make it a mountainous climb for even the smallest amount of exposure. That isn't going to stop me. It's just the hard reality.
My hat is off to talents of Nate Smith and his band. Great stuff. Highly enjoyable.