I’m writing a book in fifth person.
Every sentence starts out with: “I heard from this guy who told somebody…”
*.*
A man went to his lawyer and stated, "I would like to make a will but I don't know exactly how to go about it."
The lawyer said, "No problem, leave it all to me."
The man looked somewhat upset as he said, "Well, I knew you were going to take the biggest slice, but I'd like to leave a little to my children!"
*.*
As he stood at the bar for the first time with his son the proud father said, "Now is as good of time to talk about some of the facts of life. Remember. a man that drinks beyond his capacity is no gentleman. To enjoy life you must observe a happy medium. Have a drink occasionally, but never, never, never get drunk."
"Yes sir," replied his dutiful son, "but how am I to know when I am drunk?"
"Well, you see those two men over there in the corner?" said the father. "If you were to see four men, you'd know you were drunk."
"Dad, give me the keys; there's only one guy over there."
*.*
Six-year old Angie and her four-year old brother, Joel, were sitting together in church. Joel giggled, sang and talked out loud. Finally, his big sister had had enough. "You're not supposed to talk out loud in church."
"Why? Who's going to stop me?" Joel asked.
Angie pointed to the back of the church and said, "See those two men standing by the door? They're hushers."
*.*
A survey found sniffling noses is the most annoying sound in the workplace.
The people in that survey have obviously never worked with my co-worker, "Flatulent Fred."
Quote of the Times;
"I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious, on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy, but while it lasts it is more bloody than either." - John Adams
Link of the Times;
Israel’s Man Inside the CIA Betrayed the US, New Files Show:
https://www.unz.com/article/israels-man-inside-the-cia-betrayed-the-us-new-files-show/
Issue of the Times;
Another Non-English Speaking Truck Driver Causes Major Crash by Katie Pavlich
Another illegal alien who was given a commercial driver's license in California, a violation of federal laws and regulations, caused a major car crash.
"Dalilah Coleman’s life was forever changed when an illegal alien driving an 18-wheeler slammed into her and her family. The crash resulted in her inability to walk, talk, eat orally, or attend kindergarten as planned. She was in a coma for three weeks and required six months of hospital treatment before her family could bring her home. On June 20, 2024, Partap Singh—an illegal alien from India—caused a multi-car pileup while driving a commercial 18-wheeler in the Sanctuary State of California. Governor Newsom’s Department of Motor Vehicle’s issued him a commercial driver’s license. On August 29, 2025, ICE arrested Singh in Fresno, CA pursuant to a warrant for his arrest. Singh will remain in ICE custody pending immigration proceedings," the Department of Homeland Security details.
Dalilah's father, Marcus Coleman, is speaking out about the crash. Coleman says there was construction on the road with multiple signs warning of a lane closure. Singh ignored the signs, likely not understanding them in English, and change Dalilah's life forever.
Singh crossed into the United States illegally in 2022 and released by the Biden administration. The state of California issued Singh a commercial license and Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom is nowhere to be found.
"We never received anything back from the governor. We never received a call back," Coleman said about attempts to reach Newsom.
"Dalilah Coleman’s tragedy was entirely preventable. This is sadly another example of Gavin Newsom’s California DMV issuing an illegal alien a Commercial Driver’s License. How many more innocent people must become victims before Gavin Newsom stops playing games with American lives? DHS is working around the clock to remove dangerous aliens— like Singh— who have no right to be in the U.S." Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem added.
In August, illegal alien Harjinder Singh was arrested after causing a fatal car crash in Florida. He failed an English test and was still granted a commercial driver's license in California.
"During Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration interview with the driver, investigators administered an English Language Proficiency (ELP) assessment in accordance with FMCSA guidance. The driver failed the assessment, providing correct responses to just 2 of 12 verbal questions and only accurately identifying 1 of 4 highway traffic signs," the Department of Transportation found during their investigation.
Earlier this year President Trump issued an executive order requiring truck drivers to speak and understand English.
News of the Times;
Ukraine has lost 1.7 million servicemen:
https://twitter-thread.com/t/1958164295625109593
The Miserable Left:
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/07/the-miserable-left.html
FBI Had 275 Plainclothes Agents Embedded In Jan. 6 Crowds:
https://cdm.press/news/national/2025/09/25/blaze-fbi-had-275-plainclothes-agents-embedded-in-jan-6-crowds-congressional-source-says/
Israeli Addresses Used to Register Multiple Permanent Absentee Voters:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/bombshell-development-mi-sos-jocelyn-bensons-crooked-voter/
Japan Ends Mandatory Child ‘Vaccines,’ Sudden Infant Deaths ‘Disappear’:
https://slaynews.com/news/japan-ends-mandatory-child-vaccines-sudden-infant-deaths-disappear/
Whistleblower FIRED After Exposing HUGE SCAM:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/whistleblower-fired-after-exposing-huge-scam-multiple-kentucky/
MP Warns That UK Faces “An Invasion On Our Culture” By “Medieval” Muslim Men:
https://modernity.news/2025/08/12/mp-warns-that-uk-faces-an-invasion-on-our-culture-by-medieval-muslim-men/
DOJ subpoenas more than 20 doctors and clinics providing transgender medical procedures to minors:
https://nypost.com/2025/07/11/us-news/doj-subpoenas-over-20-doctors-and-clinics-that-mutilated-children-during-transgender-medical-procedures/
Here’s How the Obama Admin ‘Manufactured’ Bogus Russia Hoax Intelligence:
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/18/revealed-how-the-obama-admin-manufactured-bogus-intelligence-for-russia-hoax-narrative-n4941888
California's Minimum Wage Hike Cost 18,000 Fast-Food Jobs as Employment Ticked Up in Other States:
https://reason.com/2025/07/16/californias-minimum-wage-hike-cost-18000-fast-food-jobs-as-employment-ticked-up-in-other-states/
The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites:
https://www.unz.com/article/the-cia-built-hundreds-of-covert-websites-heres-what-they-were-hiding/
Japan Votes Against Globalism And Multiculturalism In Latest National Election:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/japan-votes-against-globalism-and-multiculturalism-latest-national-election
Dear NPR and PBS — The 'Public' Shouldn't Have to Fund Anything:
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/07/17/the-morning-briefing-dear-npr-and-pbs-the-public-shouldnt-have-to-fund-anything-n4941831
Pixar’s obsession with ‘queerifying’ your kids just blew up in their face:
https://revolver.news/2025/07/pixars-obsession-with-queerifying-your-kids-just-blew-up-in-their-face/
After 9 underage girls sexually abused by Syrians:
https://rmx.news/article/germany-after-9-underage-girls-sexually-abused-by-syrians-at-swimming-pool-cdu-mayor-points-to-hot-weather/
Another?
Avoiding?
A thief made off with an ice cream truck in Phoenix this week, during their record temperatures.
The suspect was described as "happy and overpriced."
*.*
In Ohio, a deer was seen walking around with a bird feeder on its antlers.
It didn't mind the birds so much. It's those darn squirrels!
*.*
Punk Musician Skips Heroin Phase and Goes Directly Into Sanctimonious Vegan, Yoga, Advice-Giving Phase
Punk musician Miles Finney is forgoing a descent into heroin addiction and skipping right ahead to being a sanctimonious, advice-giving vegan yogi, sources close to the musician report.
“I just figured that poppy seeds belong in my soy yogurt and not in my veins,” said Finney, his nose in the air. “Yoga, along with a vegan diet, has really helped me stay clean and off drugs. Not that I was ever on drugs, but it’s given me a perspective that needs to be shared. It’s like I’ve always said, ‘I know why the caged bird sings.’ You might remember that from a song I wrote last year called ‘Caged Birds.’”
Family members are concerned by the condescending turn Finney has taken.
“I’m relieved Miles never got into hard drugs. It would have been tough to stage an intervention, or worse, have him overdose and lose him,” stated his mother Rosalynn Finney. “But I never imagined I’d have to stage an intervention to stop him from being such a raging tool. At least with heroin, the person is cagey and doesn’t talk your ear off about how great it is. Now he won’t shut up about how downward dogging and veggie burgers can cure my sciatica.”
Unfortunately, Miles’ new lifestyle has also put strain on his relationship with his bandmates.
“When Miles pitched a song called ‘Killer H,’ I obviously thought it was going to be about heroin,” said drummer Shanna Curie. “But the ‘H’ is a reference to hamburgers. I mean, yeah… I guess high cholesterol from too much red meat is a bad thing, but the line, ‘Heat up the spoon and inject the burger king into your veins’ is just shitty writing.”
“Miles thinks he’s so much better than us because he’s exercising regularly, eating well, and not in and out of the hospital because of out of control drug use like we are,” agreed bassist Matt McInerney. “I mean, he’s probably right, but get the fuck off your high horse already.”
At press time, Finney was lecturing lions at the local zoo about their poor stretching and eating habits.
*.*
Honestly, vegan food isn't that bad.
Once you add meat and cheese to it.
*.*
I'm now accepting invitations to get drunk on your patio.
Book me early.
Quote of the Times;
"Race matters. Ethnicity matters. History matters. Faith matters. Nationality matters. While they are not everything, they are not nothing. Multiculturalism be damned, this is what history teaches us." - Pat Buchanan
Link of the Times;
Do we Need Central Banks?
https://professorwerner.org/category/articles-essays/
Issue of the Times;
'Deliberately avoiding them': How Big Tech quietly locks out Americans by Amanda Bartolotta
'Evidence is overwhelming that companies like Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others, despite consistently lobbying for more foreign-worker visas on the basis of a so-called talent shortage, are fully capable of finding qualified Americans'
In a time when Americans face mounting student debt, stagnant wages and increasing job competition, a little-known government program continues to certify hundreds of thousands of permanent jobs for foreign workers, even when qualified U.S. citizens are available, willing and able.
The labor certification process known as "PERM" (Program Electronic Review Management) allows employers to sponsor foreign nationals for green cards only if no qualified U.S. worker is available. According to federal law, employers must first complete a good-faith test of the U.S. labor market, which includes specific recruitment steps such as two Sunday newspaper ads, internal postings and three additional recruitment methods from a Department of Labor-approved list.
But in practice, employers can exploit the outdated list of approved recruitment methods by avoiding major online platforms and even their own company career sites. Instead, they often use limited-access alternatives such as obscure job boards, local or ethnic newspapers, or short-duration radio ads that technically satisfy the rules on paper, but drastically reduce the chances that qualified U.S. workers will ever see or apply for the position.
In 2024, the Department of Labor processed 116,427 PERM applications to hire foreign workers, approving nearly 88% of them. Only 5.4% (6,364) were denied. This means tens of thousands of U.S. jobs were certified for foreign workers without a transparent or fair recruitment process. The Department of Labor publishes quarterly data on employer applications to sponsor foreign workers, including both H-1B and PERM filings, which offers insight into the hiring and immigration practices of U.S. employers and their immigration attorneys.
An analysis of PERM filings from 2020 to 2024 reveals how major U.S. technology companies use the green card sponsorship process to secure foreign labor for high-paying roles, often without conducting genuine or competitive hiring searches. The data show consistent reliance on minimal recruitment efforts, including outdated tactics like requiring U.S. applicants to submit paper resumes by mail.
These methods, previously flagged by the Department of Justice as barriers to American workers, were often used even by large tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Google and Workday.
For example, PERM-required job ads published in the May 9, 2021, print edition of the Mercury News instructed jobseekers to apply via postal mail, despite the fact that these companies already had digital hiring systems in place.
Similar tactics triggered a high-profile federal investigation involving Facebook – now Meta. In 2021, the Department of Justice and the Department of Labor reached a settlement with Facebook after alleging it had intentionally implemented PERM recruitment in a way to deter U.S. applicants. According to the complaint, Facebook did not post PERM roles on its public careers page and it required submission of resumes by physical mail, methods the DOJ concluded discouraged American workers from applying:
"Facebook created a separate hiring process for PERM positions that intentionally discouraged U.S. workers from applying. For example, while Facebook typically accepts applications online, it required that applications for PERM positions be submitted by mail only."
"Facebook used recruitment methods for PERM positions that were less effective than those it used for other positions, intentionally deterring U.S. workers from applying to positions that the company sought to fill with temporary visa holders."
As part of its settlement, Facebook was required to change its PERM practices, posting jobs on its public website, accepting electronic applications and using the same hiring processes for PERM roles as for other jobs. The company also agreed to federal oversight, employee training and regular reporting on its hiring activity.
Since then, industry reports on the platform Blind show that Meta has seen a rise in PERM denials, suggesting that when forced to conduct fair recruitment, companies do in fact encounter qualified American candidates.
The evidence is overwhelming that companies like Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others, despite consistently lobbying for more foreign-worker visas on the basis of a so-called "talent shortage," are fully capable of finding qualified Americans when they are actually required to recruit them.
Indeed, when employers go to such lengths to avoid recruiting qualified U.S. workers, even under a program like PERM that explicitly requires a good-faith labor market test, their own actions contradict claims of a shortage. The evidence suggests it is not that they can't find qualified Americans, it's that they are deliberately avoiding them.
If this is happening in a program like PERM, which includes at least some legal safeguards and penalties, the risks are far greater under programs like H-1B and STEM OPT, which contain no such protections for U.S. workers. Without enforcement or accountability, these visa channels allow companies to bypass the domestic workforce entirely, undermining both the integrity of the labor market and the future of American employment.
News of the Times;
Popular "all-American" Companies That Are Now Internationally-Owned:
https://go.tutorialrepublic.com/en/companies-internationally-owned
Everyone hates HR:
https://jennifersey.substack.com/p/everyone-hates-hr
When Will They Fire Comey’s Son-in-Law Who Prosecuted Jan-6ers:
https://joehoft.com/jim-comeys-daughter-maurene-finally-fired-from-doj-when-will-they-fire-comeys-son-in-law-who-prosecuted-jan-6ers-as-well/
Garland Favorito and VoterGA Appeal Inexplicable Dismissal of Curling vs. Raffensperger Election Ruling:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/garland-favorito-voterga-appeal-inexplicable-dismissal-curling-vs/
Cowardly British press:
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/cowardly-british-press
"Renewable" Electricity Champion Denmark Now Looking Into Nuclear:
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2025-5-19-renewable-electricity-champion-denmark-now-looking-into-nuclear
Democrats’ Confederacy of Dunces:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/democrats_confederacy_of_dunces.html
Canada Might Begin Euthanizing Kids Without Parental Consent:
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/20/canada-might-begin-euthanizing-kids-without-parental-consent-n4939990
New Pope, Still Only Two Genders and Marriage Only Between a Man and a Woman:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/new-pope-still-only-two-genders-marriage-only/
Trump Administration Plans to Finance $120 Million Rare Earths Mining Project:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/trump-administration-plans-to-finance-120-million-rare-earths-mining-project-in-greenland/
Majority of California Community College Applications Will Be Fake:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/by-2028-a-majority-of-california-community-college-applications-will-be-fake/
Harvard Law Review Axes 85 Percent of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/06/19/exclusive-harvard-law-review-axes-85-percent-of-submissions-using-race-conscious-rubric-n3803960
New Study Reveals People Vaccinated Against Shingles 15X More Likely:
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/new-study-reveals-people-vaccinated-against-shingles-15x-more-likely-to-develop-shingles/
Three Years Left To Save The World From Climate Doom:
https://www.thepiratescove.us/2025/06/19/bummer-three-years-left-to-save-the-world-from-climate-doom/
Doomed Air India Pilot’s Medical Records Probed Amid Reports of Depression, Mental Health Struggles:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/07/15/ghastly-doomed-air-india-pilots-medical-records-probed-amid-reports-of-depression-mental-health-struggles-n3804803
The suspect was described as "happy and overpriced."
*.*
In Ohio, a deer was seen walking around with a bird feeder on its antlers.
It didn't mind the birds so much. It's those darn squirrels!
*.*
Punk Musician Skips Heroin Phase and Goes Directly Into Sanctimonious Vegan, Yoga, Advice-Giving Phase
Punk musician Miles Finney is forgoing a descent into heroin addiction and skipping right ahead to being a sanctimonious, advice-giving vegan yogi, sources close to the musician report.
“I just figured that poppy seeds belong in my soy yogurt and not in my veins,” said Finney, his nose in the air. “Yoga, along with a vegan diet, has really helped me stay clean and off drugs. Not that I was ever on drugs, but it’s given me a perspective that needs to be shared. It’s like I’ve always said, ‘I know why the caged bird sings.’ You might remember that from a song I wrote last year called ‘Caged Birds.’”
Family members are concerned by the condescending turn Finney has taken.
“I’m relieved Miles never got into hard drugs. It would have been tough to stage an intervention, or worse, have him overdose and lose him,” stated his mother Rosalynn Finney. “But I never imagined I’d have to stage an intervention to stop him from being such a raging tool. At least with heroin, the person is cagey and doesn’t talk your ear off about how great it is. Now he won’t shut up about how downward dogging and veggie burgers can cure my sciatica.”
Unfortunately, Miles’ new lifestyle has also put strain on his relationship with his bandmates.
“When Miles pitched a song called ‘Killer H,’ I obviously thought it was going to be about heroin,” said drummer Shanna Curie. “But the ‘H’ is a reference to hamburgers. I mean, yeah… I guess high cholesterol from too much red meat is a bad thing, but the line, ‘Heat up the spoon and inject the burger king into your veins’ is just shitty writing.”
“Miles thinks he’s so much better than us because he’s exercising regularly, eating well, and not in and out of the hospital because of out of control drug use like we are,” agreed bassist Matt McInerney. “I mean, he’s probably right, but get the fuck off your high horse already.”
At press time, Finney was lecturing lions at the local zoo about their poor stretching and eating habits.
*.*
Honestly, vegan food isn't that bad.
Once you add meat and cheese to it.
*.*
I'm now accepting invitations to get drunk on your patio.
Book me early.
Quote of the Times;
"Race matters. Ethnicity matters. History matters. Faith matters. Nationality matters. While they are not everything, they are not nothing. Multiculturalism be damned, this is what history teaches us." - Pat Buchanan
Link of the Times;
Do we Need Central Banks?
https://professorwerner.org/category/articles-essays/
Issue of the Times;
'Deliberately avoiding them': How Big Tech quietly locks out Americans by Amanda Bartolotta
'Evidence is overwhelming that companies like Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others, despite consistently lobbying for more foreign-worker visas on the basis of a so-called talent shortage, are fully capable of finding qualified Americans'
In a time when Americans face mounting student debt, stagnant wages and increasing job competition, a little-known government program continues to certify hundreds of thousands of permanent jobs for foreign workers, even when qualified U.S. citizens are available, willing and able.
The labor certification process known as "PERM" (Program Electronic Review Management) allows employers to sponsor foreign nationals for green cards only if no qualified U.S. worker is available. According to federal law, employers must first complete a good-faith test of the U.S. labor market, which includes specific recruitment steps such as two Sunday newspaper ads, internal postings and three additional recruitment methods from a Department of Labor-approved list.
But in practice, employers can exploit the outdated list of approved recruitment methods by avoiding major online platforms and even their own company career sites. Instead, they often use limited-access alternatives such as obscure job boards, local or ethnic newspapers, or short-duration radio ads that technically satisfy the rules on paper, but drastically reduce the chances that qualified U.S. workers will ever see or apply for the position.
In 2024, the Department of Labor processed 116,427 PERM applications to hire foreign workers, approving nearly 88% of them. Only 5.4% (6,364) were denied. This means tens of thousands of U.S. jobs were certified for foreign workers without a transparent or fair recruitment process. The Department of Labor publishes quarterly data on employer applications to sponsor foreign workers, including both H-1B and PERM filings, which offers insight into the hiring and immigration practices of U.S. employers and their immigration attorneys.
An analysis of PERM filings from 2020 to 2024 reveals how major U.S. technology companies use the green card sponsorship process to secure foreign labor for high-paying roles, often without conducting genuine or competitive hiring searches. The data show consistent reliance on minimal recruitment efforts, including outdated tactics like requiring U.S. applicants to submit paper resumes by mail.
These methods, previously flagged by the Department of Justice as barriers to American workers, were often used even by large tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Google and Workday.
For example, PERM-required job ads published in the May 9, 2021, print edition of the Mercury News instructed jobseekers to apply via postal mail, despite the fact that these companies already had digital hiring systems in place.
Similar tactics triggered a high-profile federal investigation involving Facebook – now Meta. In 2021, the Department of Justice and the Department of Labor reached a settlement with Facebook after alleging it had intentionally implemented PERM recruitment in a way to deter U.S. applicants. According to the complaint, Facebook did not post PERM roles on its public careers page and it required submission of resumes by physical mail, methods the DOJ concluded discouraged American workers from applying:
"Facebook created a separate hiring process for PERM positions that intentionally discouraged U.S. workers from applying. For example, while Facebook typically accepts applications online, it required that applications for PERM positions be submitted by mail only."
"Facebook used recruitment methods for PERM positions that were less effective than those it used for other positions, intentionally deterring U.S. workers from applying to positions that the company sought to fill with temporary visa holders."
As part of its settlement, Facebook was required to change its PERM practices, posting jobs on its public website, accepting electronic applications and using the same hiring processes for PERM roles as for other jobs. The company also agreed to federal oversight, employee training and regular reporting on its hiring activity.
Since then, industry reports on the platform Blind show that Meta has seen a rise in PERM denials, suggesting that when forced to conduct fair recruitment, companies do in fact encounter qualified American candidates.
The evidence is overwhelming that companies like Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others, despite consistently lobbying for more foreign-worker visas on the basis of a so-called "talent shortage," are fully capable of finding qualified Americans when they are actually required to recruit them.
Indeed, when employers go to such lengths to avoid recruiting qualified U.S. workers, even under a program like PERM that explicitly requires a good-faith labor market test, their own actions contradict claims of a shortage. The evidence suggests it is not that they can't find qualified Americans, it's that they are deliberately avoiding them.
If this is happening in a program like PERM, which includes at least some legal safeguards and penalties, the risks are far greater under programs like H-1B and STEM OPT, which contain no such protections for U.S. workers. Without enforcement or accountability, these visa channels allow companies to bypass the domestic workforce entirely, undermining both the integrity of the labor market and the future of American employment.
News of the Times;
Popular "all-American" Companies That Are Now Internationally-Owned:
https://go.tutorialrepublic.com/en/companies-internationally-owned
Everyone hates HR:
https://jennifersey.substack.com/p/everyone-hates-hr
When Will They Fire Comey’s Son-in-Law Who Prosecuted Jan-6ers:
https://joehoft.com/jim-comeys-daughter-maurene-finally-fired-from-doj-when-will-they-fire-comeys-son-in-law-who-prosecuted-jan-6ers-as-well/
Garland Favorito and VoterGA Appeal Inexplicable Dismissal of Curling vs. Raffensperger Election Ruling:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/garland-favorito-voterga-appeal-inexplicable-dismissal-curling-vs/
Cowardly British press:
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/cowardly-british-press
"Renewable" Electricity Champion Denmark Now Looking Into Nuclear:
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2025-5-19-renewable-electricity-champion-denmark-now-looking-into-nuclear
Democrats’ Confederacy of Dunces:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/democrats_confederacy_of_dunces.html
Canada Might Begin Euthanizing Kids Without Parental Consent:
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/20/canada-might-begin-euthanizing-kids-without-parental-consent-n4939990
New Pope, Still Only Two Genders and Marriage Only Between a Man and a Woman:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/new-pope-still-only-two-genders-marriage-only/
Trump Administration Plans to Finance $120 Million Rare Earths Mining Project:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/trump-administration-plans-to-finance-120-million-rare-earths-mining-project-in-greenland/
Majority of California Community College Applications Will Be Fake:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/by-2028-a-majority-of-california-community-college-applications-will-be-fake/
Harvard Law Review Axes 85 Percent of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/06/19/exclusive-harvard-law-review-axes-85-percent-of-submissions-using-race-conscious-rubric-n3803960
New Study Reveals People Vaccinated Against Shingles 15X More Likely:
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/new-study-reveals-people-vaccinated-against-shingles-15x-more-likely-to-develop-shingles/
Three Years Left To Save The World From Climate Doom:
https://www.thepiratescove.us/2025/06/19/bummer-three-years-left-to-save-the-world-from-climate-doom/
Doomed Air India Pilot’s Medical Records Probed Amid Reports of Depression, Mental Health Struggles:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/07/15/ghastly-doomed-air-india-pilots-medical-records-probed-amid-reports-of-depression-mental-health-struggles-n3804803
King?
We used pet tranquilizer to help deal with the firework noise this year.
It worked so well, next year, we might get a pet!
*.*
Joey Chestnut downed 70.5 hot dogs to win the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island New York on Friday.
Not surprising, no one asked to have that remaining half hot dog.
*.*
Top 5 Signs It's REALLY Hot Outside:
Your shadow called in sick
Even mirages are sweating
Your weather app simply says, "Nope"
Birds are using potholders to land on power lines
The Ice Cream Truck melted
*.*
Scientists in New Zealand are attempting to genetically engineer a new version of the now extinct South Island giant moa bird, which stood 12-feet tall.
It could end up meaning even more leftovers than ever before at Thanksgiving.
*.*
My self-challenge this week: try to watch a movie or TV show that doesn't have Pedro Pascal in it.
Quote of the Times;
“All human institutions slide downwards like a landslide, unless they are perpetually forced upwards by criticism and reform.” - GK Chesterton
Link of the Times;
How the IPCC Buried the Medieval Warm Period:
https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/how-the-ipcc-buried-the-medieval
Issue of the Times;
World’s ‘Highest IQ Holder’ Says He Believes “Jesus Christ is God, the Way, the Truth, and the Life” by Jim Hᴏft
Christ is King.
Dr. YoungHoon Kim, founder and president of the United Sigma Intelligence Association (USIA) and a South Korean scholar widely recognized as having the world’s highest recorded IQ—estimated at 276—has publicly affirmed his Christian faith.
On Wednesday, Dr. Kim posted on X:
As the world’s highest IQ record holder, I believe that Jesus Christ is God, the way and the truth and the life.
— YoungHoon Kim (@yhbryankimiq) June 18, 2025
According to a recent report in Human Events, Dr. Kim’s intelligence credentials have been validated by established bodies—such as the Official World Record, the World Memory Championships, and the World Memory Sports Council (in partnership with Guinness World Records).
Additionally, elite groups like the GIGA Society and Mensa reportedly confirm his IQ, lending further gravitas to his self reported figure.
My World’s Highest IQ certificate by Official World Record® and World Memory Championships & World Memory Sports Council, which is in official partnership with Guinness World Records. Thank you everyone for your trust in me.
– Highest IQ Man pic.twitter.com/itkwD9UrhQ
— YoungHoon Kim (@yhbryankimiq) February 20, 2025
More on his biography:
As of 2024, Dr. YoungHoon Kim established the world record title “The World’s Highest IQ Person Now” with IQ 276 verified by the Official World Record®, World Memory Championships and World Mind Sports Council, which is in official partnership with Guinness World Record. His record accreditation as having the world’s highest IQ comes from the World Memory Sports Council, World Memory Championships, World Speed Reading Championships, World Mind Mapping Championships, GIGA Society, Supertalent World Record & Supertalent of the World, Korea Masterpiece & Master Certification Committee, Challenge Korea Headquarters, Korea Best Record Institute, Korea Record Institute, World Genius Directory, Global Genius Registry, Esoteriq Society, Ultima Society & Nano Society. With perfect scores on various clinical and experimental high range intelligence tests, YoungHoon Kim’s high intelligence was verified by the GIGA Society (1/billion), Yale Clinical Neuroscientist PhD (1/10 million), Olympiq Society (1/3 million), Mega Society (1/million), Triple Nine Society (1/1000), and Mensa (1/50). In 2024, Dr. YoungHoon Kim was named as number one with the world’s highest IQ by Reader’s Digest, The Economist, CNN, CNBC, Us Weekly, Newsweek, etc., and he was recognized and interviewed as a South Korean with the world’s highest IQ by Arirang TV under South Korea Ministry of Culture.
According to Collin Rugg, YoungHoon Kim is citing quantum physics to support his belief in God and the existence of an afterlife.
YoungHoon Kim: I would like to share my idea—my thoughts—about the afterlife. I think our consciousness continues beyond death, definitely. Our consciousness is not just brain activity; it is something deeper. I think you believe this.
Science says that when the brain stops, our consciousness disappears. You believe this now. But quantum physics says that information never disappears—never. It only changes in form.
If our consciousness is quantum information, it may continue after the body is gone. For example, like computer data stored in the cloud, our consciousness may not be trapped in the brain. Quantum entanglement suggests that our consciousness is part of a bigger system beyond the physical world.
Some scientists and philosophers believe that our world may be a simulation created by a higher-dimensional being—which I believe. If this is true, then death is not the end, but a shift to another reality.
Just like a video game character disappears, but the player still exists, our consciousness may continue in a higher dimension like this.
Many people with near-death experiences say they saw their bodies from above or felt warm light and deep peace. They felt—yes, they say—they felt warm light and peace.
These experiences seem like moving from one system to another, I think.
If reality is part of something bigger, then death is not the end—but a transition, a shift to another reality. Science is growing now, and we are learning more about consciousness and reality. Our death is not destruction, but change and shift. Humanity will keep searching for the truth about what comes after—after life.
News of the Times;
RFK Jr. Unloads Disturbing Vaccine Secrets on Tucker:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/rfk-jr-unloads-disturbing-vaccine-secrets-tucker-surprises/
A Catholic Perspective on Christian Nationalism:
https://realclearcatholic.com/2022/07/25/a-catholic-perspective-on-christian-nationalism/
“F*ck Americans”:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/fck-americans-breaking-state-department-visa-specialist-fired/
Gay Couple Charged with Rape and Murder of Adopted Child:
https://nationalfile.com/infant-murder-adoption-scandal/
Shanghai Billionaire’s Chinese Communist Party Network Fuels America’s Anti-ICE Riots:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/exposed-shanghai-billionaires-chinese-communist-party-network-fuels/
$550 million USAID fraud scheme results in multiple convictions:
https://www.wnd.com/2025/06/550-million-usaid-fraud-scheme-results-multiple-convictions/
Outlaw Public Sector Unions:
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/21/outlaw-public-sector-unions-2/
1 In 4 People In Germany Now Has Migrant Background:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/1-4-people-germany-now-has-migrant-background-data-shows
Retired Navy Admiral Found Guilty of Bribery:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/retired-navy-admiral-found-guilty-bribery-attempted-award/
FBI 'Butchered' Probe, Lied About Congressional Baseball Shooter's Motives:
https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2025/05/06/shock-report-fbi-butchered-probe-lied-about-congressional-baseball-shooters-motives-n4939529
'Awakening a generation': Largest mass baptism in history?
https://www.wnd.com/2025/05/awakening-a-generation-largest-mass-baptism-in-history/
Teenagers With Mental Health Disorders Spend An Extra Hour On Social Media:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/teenagers-mental-health-disorders-spend-extra-hour-social-media
"I Can't Understand My Professor":
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/i-cant-understand-my-professor
‘Apparently, We Are at the Behest of the SPLC,’ FBI Staffer Wrote:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/04/apparently-we-are-behest-splc-fbi-staffer-wrote-response-anti-catholic-memo/
It worked so well, next year, we might get a pet!
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Joey Chestnut downed 70.5 hot dogs to win the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island New York on Friday.
Not surprising, no one asked to have that remaining half hot dog.
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Top 5 Signs It's REALLY Hot Outside:
Your shadow called in sick
Even mirages are sweating
Your weather app simply says, "Nope"
Birds are using potholders to land on power lines
The Ice Cream Truck melted
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Scientists in New Zealand are attempting to genetically engineer a new version of the now extinct South Island giant moa bird, which stood 12-feet tall.
It could end up meaning even more leftovers than ever before at Thanksgiving.
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My self-challenge this week: try to watch a movie or TV show that doesn't have Pedro Pascal in it.
Quote of the Times;
“All human institutions slide downwards like a landslide, unless they are perpetually forced upwards by criticism and reform.” - GK Chesterton
Link of the Times;
How the IPCC Buried the Medieval Warm Period:
https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/how-the-ipcc-buried-the-medieval
Issue of the Times;
World’s ‘Highest IQ Holder’ Says He Believes “Jesus Christ is God, the Way, the Truth, and the Life” by Jim Hᴏft
Christ is King.
Dr. YoungHoon Kim, founder and president of the United Sigma Intelligence Association (USIA) and a South Korean scholar widely recognized as having the world’s highest recorded IQ—estimated at 276—has publicly affirmed his Christian faith.
On Wednesday, Dr. Kim posted on X:
As the world’s highest IQ record holder, I believe that Jesus Christ is God, the way and the truth and the life.
— YoungHoon Kim (@yhbryankimiq) June 18, 2025
According to a recent report in Human Events, Dr. Kim’s intelligence credentials have been validated by established bodies—such as the Official World Record, the World Memory Championships, and the World Memory Sports Council (in partnership with Guinness World Records).
Additionally, elite groups like the GIGA Society and Mensa reportedly confirm his IQ, lending further gravitas to his self reported figure.
My World’s Highest IQ certificate by Official World Record® and World Memory Championships & World Memory Sports Council, which is in official partnership with Guinness World Records. Thank you everyone for your trust in me.
– Highest IQ Man pic.twitter.com/itkwD9UrhQ
— YoungHoon Kim (@yhbryankimiq) February 20, 2025
More on his biography:
As of 2024, Dr. YoungHoon Kim established the world record title “The World’s Highest IQ Person Now” with IQ 276 verified by the Official World Record®, World Memory Championships and World Mind Sports Council, which is in official partnership with Guinness World Record. His record accreditation as having the world’s highest IQ comes from the World Memory Sports Council, World Memory Championships, World Speed Reading Championships, World Mind Mapping Championships, GIGA Society, Supertalent World Record & Supertalent of the World, Korea Masterpiece & Master Certification Committee, Challenge Korea Headquarters, Korea Best Record Institute, Korea Record Institute, World Genius Directory, Global Genius Registry, Esoteriq Society, Ultima Society & Nano Society. With perfect scores on various clinical and experimental high range intelligence tests, YoungHoon Kim’s high intelligence was verified by the GIGA Society (1/billion), Yale Clinical Neuroscientist PhD (1/10 million), Olympiq Society (1/3 million), Mega Society (1/million), Triple Nine Society (1/1000), and Mensa (1/50). In 2024, Dr. YoungHoon Kim was named as number one with the world’s highest IQ by Reader’s Digest, The Economist, CNN, CNBC, Us Weekly, Newsweek, etc., and he was recognized and interviewed as a South Korean with the world’s highest IQ by Arirang TV under South Korea Ministry of Culture.
According to Collin Rugg, YoungHoon Kim is citing quantum physics to support his belief in God and the existence of an afterlife.
YoungHoon Kim: I would like to share my idea—my thoughts—about the afterlife. I think our consciousness continues beyond death, definitely. Our consciousness is not just brain activity; it is something deeper. I think you believe this.
Science says that when the brain stops, our consciousness disappears. You believe this now. But quantum physics says that information never disappears—never. It only changes in form.
If our consciousness is quantum information, it may continue after the body is gone. For example, like computer data stored in the cloud, our consciousness may not be trapped in the brain. Quantum entanglement suggests that our consciousness is part of a bigger system beyond the physical world.
Some scientists and philosophers believe that our world may be a simulation created by a higher-dimensional being—which I believe. If this is true, then death is not the end, but a shift to another reality.
Just like a video game character disappears, but the player still exists, our consciousness may continue in a higher dimension like this.
Many people with near-death experiences say they saw their bodies from above or felt warm light and deep peace. They felt—yes, they say—they felt warm light and peace.
These experiences seem like moving from one system to another, I think.
If reality is part of something bigger, then death is not the end—but a transition, a shift to another reality. Science is growing now, and we are learning more about consciousness and reality. Our death is not destruction, but change and shift. Humanity will keep searching for the truth about what comes after—after life.
News of the Times;
RFK Jr. Unloads Disturbing Vaccine Secrets on Tucker:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/rfk-jr-unloads-disturbing-vaccine-secrets-tucker-surprises/
A Catholic Perspective on Christian Nationalism:
https://realclearcatholic.com/2022/07/25/a-catholic-perspective-on-christian-nationalism/
“F*ck Americans”:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/fck-americans-breaking-state-department-visa-specialist-fired/
Gay Couple Charged with Rape and Murder of Adopted Child:
https://nationalfile.com/infant-murder-adoption-scandal/
Shanghai Billionaire’s Chinese Communist Party Network Fuels America’s Anti-ICE Riots:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/exposed-shanghai-billionaires-chinese-communist-party-network-fuels/
$550 million USAID fraud scheme results in multiple convictions:
https://www.wnd.com/2025/06/550-million-usaid-fraud-scheme-results-multiple-convictions/
Outlaw Public Sector Unions:
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/21/outlaw-public-sector-unions-2/
1 In 4 People In Germany Now Has Migrant Background:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/1-4-people-germany-now-has-migrant-background-data-shows
Retired Navy Admiral Found Guilty of Bribery:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/retired-navy-admiral-found-guilty-bribery-attempted-award/
FBI 'Butchered' Probe, Lied About Congressional Baseball Shooter's Motives:
https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2025/05/06/shock-report-fbi-butchered-probe-lied-about-congressional-baseball-shooters-motives-n4939529
'Awakening a generation': Largest mass baptism in history?
https://www.wnd.com/2025/05/awakening-a-generation-largest-mass-baptism-in-history/
Teenagers With Mental Health Disorders Spend An Extra Hour On Social Media:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/teenagers-mental-health-disorders-spend-extra-hour-social-media
"I Can't Understand My Professor":
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/i-cant-understand-my-professor
‘Apparently, We Are at the Behest of the SPLC,’ FBI Staffer Wrote:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/04/apparently-we-are-behest-splc-fbi-staffer-wrote-response-anti-catholic-memo/
Ritual?
I still refuse to think that any Friday could be unlucky.
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The World Cup is just a year away from coming to the United States.
For the world of soccer, it's the biggest event on the calendar.
For I.C.E. agents, it's their version of the Super Bowl.
*.*
16% of drivers have hit someone's mailbox.
In my defense, I was trying for my neighbor.
*.*
A lady dropped her handbag in the bustle of holiday shopping. An honest, little boy noticed her drop the handbag, so he picked it up and returned it to her. The lady looked into her handbag and commented, "Hmm... That's funny. When I lost my bag there was a $20 bill in it. Now there are twenty $1 bills."
The boy quickly replied, "That's right, lady. The last time I found a purse, the owner didn't have any change for a reward."
*.*
Johnny Depp is back in Hollywood, filming a new movie called, "Day Drinker."
Since they never asked for permission, I'm suing.
Quote of the Times;
“The World Health Organization is about as interested in world health as the arms industry is interested in world peace.” – Christine Anderson, Member of the European Parliament
Link of the Times;
'They laughed while they destroyed us':
https://www.wnd.com/2025/04/they-laughed-while-they-destroyed-us-agonizing-ordeal-of-one-j6er-at-the-hands-of-a-weaponized-fbi/
Issue of the Times;
From Torah to trauma: A Satanic child abuse scandal blows up in Israel by Dr. Mathew Maavak
There are crimes so profound that words fail to capture them. Last week, several survivors testified to the Israeli Knesset about just such a horror.
The story broke with an investigative report published by Israel Hayom, which unearthed a long-standing pattern of ritual sexual abuse, psychological manipulation, and spiritual desecration occurring not on the margins of society but from within its most sacred institutions. Survivors speak of torment that begins in early childhood and lasts decades, often committed under the guise of religious observance. It is not just a crime of the flesh. It is a theft of the soul.
Israeli children, some as young as infants, were subjected to methodical abuse masked in religious ritual. Survivors describe ceremonies invoking biblically-vilified deities, conducted by members of observant Jewish communities. As a survivor named Noga (all of the victims’ names are changed in the report) recalled: “The gods I remember are Baal Peor and Ashtoreth... our lord Peor and our lady Ashtoreth.” (Note: All these deities are categorically condemned in the Bible).
The culprits are not fringe radicals. These are individuals who keep kosher, celebrate the Sabbath, and adhere to the minutiae of Jewish law even as they engage in acts so depraved that they defy comprehension. Here is snippet from a survivor’s testimonies:
“I remember a pentagram on the floor, usually in red. When the ceremony was in the forest, the pentagram was marked with a hoe and surrounded by lit candles in a circle. The rabbi would bless…they would repetitively read Psalms, like ‘A Psalm of David, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.’ They told me ‘you are special, you are chosen’ and they would insert... I remember a palm branch, Hanukkah candles, a shofar.”
Some of these perpetrators are qualified to blow the shofar on Rosh Hashanah — a high privilege among observant Jews. Family members, most of whom may have once been victims themselves, are often the ones who hand over their little ones to these monsters.
Several rabbis’ names appeared repeatedly in survivor testimonies. Multiple complaints filed at different police stations across Israel were quickly nipped in the bud. Prosecutions leading to imprisonments are rare. Much like anywhere else on this planet. Have any elite members of the Jeffrey Epstein pedophile network – itself rumored to be a Mossad operation – been charged in any court of law? Have the victims been asked to identify the perpetrators of these wicked deeds during the trial of Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell?
A twisted safari for the elites
Ritual child sexual abuse is a twisted safari sport of sorts for the elite. It combines satanic predilections with congenital moral turpitude. It also serves as a rites de passage for entry into a very select club of global movers and shakers whose inclusivity is dependent on mutual blackmailability. They are motivated by self-preservation and the accumulation of wealth and power foremost even as they dish out copious servings of faux nationalism.
According to the Jerusalem Post, which followed up on the Hayom report, “doctors, educators, police officers, and past and present members of the Knesset were involved in these abuses.” With prominent members of the public engaging in such activities, do not expect justice to be served. Instead, expect international coordination of the most depraved kind, with the United Nations reporting an alarming rise in child trafficking worldwide. What are those entrusted to guard our borders doing? While the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency comes down hard on undocumented immigrants, the dismantling of major child trafficking networks has been sporadic at best.
Evidence – even if it amounts to thousands of files – will be swiftly buried or distorted. This was the case when US Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel contradicted each other over the Epstein tapes. Elon Musk, on his part, alleged that President Donald Trump himself was “in the Epstein files.” Musk conveniently deleted the damning tweet a few days later. One cannot just open a Pandora’s Box involving the most powerful men on earth and expect things to die down.
MK-Ultra redux?
According to Rabbi Dr. Udi Furman, “ritual abuse occurs when a religious, political, or spiritual authority uses their position of power to manipulate victims’ belief systems and thereby control them.” But where does that control lead to? One only has to look up MK-Ultra.
MK-Ultra was a covert CIA program (1953–1973) designed to develop methods of mind control, interrogation resistance, and behavioral manipulation. Children were used in specific subprograms (e.g. Project Monarch, a rumored offshoot of MK-Ultra), often selected from vulnerable populations or foster systems. Sexual abuse, torture, and ritualistic elements were employed not merely for sadism, but for a purpose: to shatter the psyche of the child into dissociated identity fragments (commonly known now as Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly Multiple Personality Disorder). These fractured parts could allegedly be programmed with distinct “roles” (e.g. messenger, spy, seductress, pimp) for use in espionage, blackmail, or other covert operations. This is how the Ghislaine Maxwells of this world are forged.
The core idea was that through trauma-induced dissociation, an abuser could gain unprecedented access to the mind – sealing off traumatic memories, while implanting new behaviors or triggers without conscious awareness. Some survivors claim this created a form of “programmable human.”
Twofold crime
The goals of ritual child sex abuse are twofold: to violate the body and to distort the spiritual framework of victims. Children are indoctrinated into believing their suffering serves a divine purpose, replete with scriptural justifications.
This is spiritual abuse in its most sophisticated and perverse form. In Israel, the perpetrators manipulate foundational concepts in the Torah to legitimize unspeakable acts. As Noga puts it: “To achieve the great correction, one must suffer, because suffering purifies and advances redemption.” In a macabre parody of mysticism, victims are told they are instruments in a holy mission. Sexual exploitation is reframed as divine service. Trauma becomes theology.
Just what happens when child sexual abuse is perpetrated under religious pretexts? The victims end up hating God. It is hard to overstate the gravity of this spiritual wound. Just as sexual abuse damages trust in people, spiritual injury robs a child of faith. This is why Jesus Christ – the divine embodiment of salvation and forgiveness itself – decreed that it is better for monsters who perpetrate such acts to be drowned by having a millstone hung around their necks (Matthew 18:6). One can heal a broken limb. One cannot easily heal a soul that has been taught to interpret rape as redemption.
This is also about calculated spiritual inversion. Good is called evil; suffering is called sanctity and Satan is celebrated instead of God. Sacred symbols are used to consecrate violence. Some of the ceremonies uncovered by Hayom included cross-dressing, incest, and group sexual acts within family units – all under the banner of spiritual transcendence. They blur boundaries between good and evil, between sexuality and love, and family.
Legal loopholes and enduring travesties
Israeli legal frameworks do address sexual abuse and human trafficking, but they are ill-equipped to prosecute spiritual abuse wrapped under religious performance. This is ostensibly the reason why survivor testimonies have not led to arrests.
In truth, this is part of a well-worn pattern: the same silence that once cloaked clerical abuse across every major religion now shields elite institutions, where power exists to protect itself. Israel is arguably a global epicenter for child sexual abuse and trafficking, and has even provided sanctuary to a number of high-profile pedophiles.
Within religious communities, there is a deep impulse to preserve the illusion of sanctity at the expense of truth and justice. As Orit Sulitzeanu, head of Israel’s Association of Rape Crisis Centers, observed: “The conspiracy of silence within religious society often prevents exposure of severe exploitation and abuse cases.”
Over time, these debauched collusions and derelictions of justice lead to terminal moral decay. Ever wondered why some Israeli soldiers commit acts that defy all norms of human decency, including war crimes that are perpetrated with chilling ease? They are the products of a society where the brutalization of children is disturbingly normalized. As adults, they project the trauma and violations they once endured onto the defenseless. The abused become the abusers. And so, the cycle of violence renews itself – again and again.
News of the Times;
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Says He Only Hires Blacks:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-says-he-only-hires/
Two Mexican Nationals Busted in Colorado With 180,000 Rounds of Ammunition:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/two-mexican-nationals-busted-colorado-180000-rounds-ammunition/
This is no longer immigration:
https://rmx.news/article/this-is-no-longer-immigration-this-is-displacement-for-the-first-time-muslim-students-outnumber-christians-in-viennas-schools/
Germany Is Revoking Gun Rights from AfD Supporters:
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/gun-confiscation-afd-supporters-germany/
Ancient altar found in Guatemala jungle apparently used for sacrifices, "especially of children,":
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tikal-altar-guatemala-jungle-used-sacrifices-mayan-teotihuacan-cultures/
NASA axes ex-DEI chief:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/11/us-news/nasa-axes-ex-dei-chief-neela-rajendra-report/
Pope Francis Made the Roman Catholic Church Take a Massive Left Turn:
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/04/21/pope-francis-has-died-at-age-88-n4939080
Vox Day’s Socio-Sexual Hierarchy:
https://postcardsfromtheageofreason.com/2025/04/24/vox-days-ssh/
Washington Becomes 1st State To Recognize Islamic Holidays As State Holidays:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/creeping-sharia-washington-becomes-1st-state-recognize-islamic/
Crickets from the mainstream media…
https://revolver.news/2025/05/another-white-teen-brutally-attacked-by-thugs-crickets-from-the-mainstream-media/
Harriet Tubman probably didn't exist:
https://gab.com/NeonRevolt/posts/114626783717988889
Canada Wants to Euthanize Couple’s Daughter Because She Has Autism:
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/05/06/canada-wants-to-euthanize-familys-daughter-because-she-has-autism/
The Emerging Neomedieval Order:
https://bluevir.substack.com/p/emergence-of-the-neomedieval-order?triedRedirect=true
13-year-old girl attacked by grown man used jiu-jitsu skills:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/carmel-girl-jiu-jitsu-attacker
Eugenics and Planned Parenthood – Margaret Sanger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP7ZzV4Z338&t=102s
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The World Cup is just a year away from coming to the United States.
For the world of soccer, it's the biggest event on the calendar.
For I.C.E. agents, it's their version of the Super Bowl.
*.*
16% of drivers have hit someone's mailbox.
In my defense, I was trying for my neighbor.
*.*
A lady dropped her handbag in the bustle of holiday shopping. An honest, little boy noticed her drop the handbag, so he picked it up and returned it to her. The lady looked into her handbag and commented, "Hmm... That's funny. When I lost my bag there was a $20 bill in it. Now there are twenty $1 bills."
The boy quickly replied, "That's right, lady. The last time I found a purse, the owner didn't have any change for a reward."
*.*
Johnny Depp is back in Hollywood, filming a new movie called, "Day Drinker."
Since they never asked for permission, I'm suing.
Quote of the Times;
“The World Health Organization is about as interested in world health as the arms industry is interested in world peace.” – Christine Anderson, Member of the European Parliament
Link of the Times;
'They laughed while they destroyed us':
https://www.wnd.com/2025/04/they-laughed-while-they-destroyed-us-agonizing-ordeal-of-one-j6er-at-the-hands-of-a-weaponized-fbi/
Issue of the Times;
From Torah to trauma: A Satanic child abuse scandal blows up in Israel by Dr. Mathew Maavak
There are crimes so profound that words fail to capture them. Last week, several survivors testified to the Israeli Knesset about just such a horror.
The story broke with an investigative report published by Israel Hayom, which unearthed a long-standing pattern of ritual sexual abuse, psychological manipulation, and spiritual desecration occurring not on the margins of society but from within its most sacred institutions. Survivors speak of torment that begins in early childhood and lasts decades, often committed under the guise of religious observance. It is not just a crime of the flesh. It is a theft of the soul.
Israeli children, some as young as infants, were subjected to methodical abuse masked in religious ritual. Survivors describe ceremonies invoking biblically-vilified deities, conducted by members of observant Jewish communities. As a survivor named Noga (all of the victims’ names are changed in the report) recalled: “The gods I remember are Baal Peor and Ashtoreth... our lord Peor and our lady Ashtoreth.” (Note: All these deities are categorically condemned in the Bible).
The culprits are not fringe radicals. These are individuals who keep kosher, celebrate the Sabbath, and adhere to the minutiae of Jewish law even as they engage in acts so depraved that they defy comprehension. Here is snippet from a survivor’s testimonies:
“I remember a pentagram on the floor, usually in red. When the ceremony was in the forest, the pentagram was marked with a hoe and surrounded by lit candles in a circle. The rabbi would bless…they would repetitively read Psalms, like ‘A Psalm of David, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.’ They told me ‘you are special, you are chosen’ and they would insert... I remember a palm branch, Hanukkah candles, a shofar.”
Some of these perpetrators are qualified to blow the shofar on Rosh Hashanah — a high privilege among observant Jews. Family members, most of whom may have once been victims themselves, are often the ones who hand over their little ones to these monsters.
Several rabbis’ names appeared repeatedly in survivor testimonies. Multiple complaints filed at different police stations across Israel were quickly nipped in the bud. Prosecutions leading to imprisonments are rare. Much like anywhere else on this planet. Have any elite members of the Jeffrey Epstein pedophile network – itself rumored to be a Mossad operation – been charged in any court of law? Have the victims been asked to identify the perpetrators of these wicked deeds during the trial of Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell?
A twisted safari for the elites
Ritual child sexual abuse is a twisted safari sport of sorts for the elite. It combines satanic predilections with congenital moral turpitude. It also serves as a rites de passage for entry into a very select club of global movers and shakers whose inclusivity is dependent on mutual blackmailability. They are motivated by self-preservation and the accumulation of wealth and power foremost even as they dish out copious servings of faux nationalism.
According to the Jerusalem Post, which followed up on the Hayom report, “doctors, educators, police officers, and past and present members of the Knesset were involved in these abuses.” With prominent members of the public engaging in such activities, do not expect justice to be served. Instead, expect international coordination of the most depraved kind, with the United Nations reporting an alarming rise in child trafficking worldwide. What are those entrusted to guard our borders doing? While the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency comes down hard on undocumented immigrants, the dismantling of major child trafficking networks has been sporadic at best.
Evidence – even if it amounts to thousands of files – will be swiftly buried or distorted. This was the case when US Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel contradicted each other over the Epstein tapes. Elon Musk, on his part, alleged that President Donald Trump himself was “in the Epstein files.” Musk conveniently deleted the damning tweet a few days later. One cannot just open a Pandora’s Box involving the most powerful men on earth and expect things to die down.
MK-Ultra redux?
According to Rabbi Dr. Udi Furman, “ritual abuse occurs when a religious, political, or spiritual authority uses their position of power to manipulate victims’ belief systems and thereby control them.” But where does that control lead to? One only has to look up MK-Ultra.
MK-Ultra was a covert CIA program (1953–1973) designed to develop methods of mind control, interrogation resistance, and behavioral manipulation. Children were used in specific subprograms (e.g. Project Monarch, a rumored offshoot of MK-Ultra), often selected from vulnerable populations or foster systems. Sexual abuse, torture, and ritualistic elements were employed not merely for sadism, but for a purpose: to shatter the psyche of the child into dissociated identity fragments (commonly known now as Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly Multiple Personality Disorder). These fractured parts could allegedly be programmed with distinct “roles” (e.g. messenger, spy, seductress, pimp) for use in espionage, blackmail, or other covert operations. This is how the Ghislaine Maxwells of this world are forged.
The core idea was that through trauma-induced dissociation, an abuser could gain unprecedented access to the mind – sealing off traumatic memories, while implanting new behaviors or triggers without conscious awareness. Some survivors claim this created a form of “programmable human.”
Twofold crime
The goals of ritual child sex abuse are twofold: to violate the body and to distort the spiritual framework of victims. Children are indoctrinated into believing their suffering serves a divine purpose, replete with scriptural justifications.
This is spiritual abuse in its most sophisticated and perverse form. In Israel, the perpetrators manipulate foundational concepts in the Torah to legitimize unspeakable acts. As Noga puts it: “To achieve the great correction, one must suffer, because suffering purifies and advances redemption.” In a macabre parody of mysticism, victims are told they are instruments in a holy mission. Sexual exploitation is reframed as divine service. Trauma becomes theology.
Just what happens when child sexual abuse is perpetrated under religious pretexts? The victims end up hating God. It is hard to overstate the gravity of this spiritual wound. Just as sexual abuse damages trust in people, spiritual injury robs a child of faith. This is why Jesus Christ – the divine embodiment of salvation and forgiveness itself – decreed that it is better for monsters who perpetrate such acts to be drowned by having a millstone hung around their necks (Matthew 18:6). One can heal a broken limb. One cannot easily heal a soul that has been taught to interpret rape as redemption.
This is also about calculated spiritual inversion. Good is called evil; suffering is called sanctity and Satan is celebrated instead of God. Sacred symbols are used to consecrate violence. Some of the ceremonies uncovered by Hayom included cross-dressing, incest, and group sexual acts within family units – all under the banner of spiritual transcendence. They blur boundaries between good and evil, between sexuality and love, and family.
Legal loopholes and enduring travesties
Israeli legal frameworks do address sexual abuse and human trafficking, but they are ill-equipped to prosecute spiritual abuse wrapped under religious performance. This is ostensibly the reason why survivor testimonies have not led to arrests.
In truth, this is part of a well-worn pattern: the same silence that once cloaked clerical abuse across every major religion now shields elite institutions, where power exists to protect itself. Israel is arguably a global epicenter for child sexual abuse and trafficking, and has even provided sanctuary to a number of high-profile pedophiles.
Within religious communities, there is a deep impulse to preserve the illusion of sanctity at the expense of truth and justice. As Orit Sulitzeanu, head of Israel’s Association of Rape Crisis Centers, observed: “The conspiracy of silence within religious society often prevents exposure of severe exploitation and abuse cases.”
Over time, these debauched collusions and derelictions of justice lead to terminal moral decay. Ever wondered why some Israeli soldiers commit acts that defy all norms of human decency, including war crimes that are perpetrated with chilling ease? They are the products of a society where the brutalization of children is disturbingly normalized. As adults, they project the trauma and violations they once endured onto the defenseless. The abused become the abusers. And so, the cycle of violence renews itself – again and again.
News of the Times;
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Says He Only Hires Blacks:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-says-he-only-hires/
Two Mexican Nationals Busted in Colorado With 180,000 Rounds of Ammunition:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/two-mexican-nationals-busted-colorado-180000-rounds-ammunition/
This is no longer immigration:
https://rmx.news/article/this-is-no-longer-immigration-this-is-displacement-for-the-first-time-muslim-students-outnumber-christians-in-viennas-schools/
Germany Is Revoking Gun Rights from AfD Supporters:
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/gun-confiscation-afd-supporters-germany/
Ancient altar found in Guatemala jungle apparently used for sacrifices, "especially of children,":
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tikal-altar-guatemala-jungle-used-sacrifices-mayan-teotihuacan-cultures/
NASA axes ex-DEI chief:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/11/us-news/nasa-axes-ex-dei-chief-neela-rajendra-report/
Pope Francis Made the Roman Catholic Church Take a Massive Left Turn:
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/04/21/pope-francis-has-died-at-age-88-n4939080
Vox Day’s Socio-Sexual Hierarchy:
https://postcardsfromtheageofreason.com/2025/04/24/vox-days-ssh/
Washington Becomes 1st State To Recognize Islamic Holidays As State Holidays:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/creeping-sharia-washington-becomes-1st-state-recognize-islamic/
Crickets from the mainstream media…
https://revolver.news/2025/05/another-white-teen-brutally-attacked-by-thugs-crickets-from-the-mainstream-media/
Harriet Tubman probably didn't exist:
https://gab.com/NeonRevolt/posts/114626783717988889
Canada Wants to Euthanize Couple’s Daughter Because She Has Autism:
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/05/06/canada-wants-to-euthanize-familys-daughter-because-she-has-autism/
The Emerging Neomedieval Order:
https://bluevir.substack.com/p/emergence-of-the-neomedieval-order?triedRedirect=true
13-year-old girl attacked by grown man used jiu-jitsu skills:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/carmel-girl-jiu-jitsu-attacker
Eugenics and Planned Parenthood – Margaret Sanger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP7ZzV4Z338&t=102s
Passion?
Spider: Why are you terrified of me?
Me: Well, the reasons I had are now all replaced by the fact that you can talk.
*.*
Where does Christmas come before Easter?
The dictionary!
*.*
The famous Olympic skier Picabo (pronounced Peek-A-Boo) Street is not just an athlete, she is a nurse. She currently works at the Intensive Care Unit of a large metropolitan hospital.
She is not permitted to answer the telephone, however, as it caused simply too much confusion when she would answer the phone and say,
"Picabo, ICU..."
*.*
President Trump is now 6-foot 3-inches, weighing 224 pounds and 4.8% body fat.
We may lose him to the NFL draft.
*.*
What's the best way to make Easter easier?
Put an "i" where the "t" is.
Quote of the Times;
"Ten years ago it would be unthinkable that El Salvador would be considered safer than Sweden. But now that has happened. Malmö is now ranked as dangerous as Baghdad. There has been almost daily bombing attacks in Sweden. Something went very wrong in my home country." - @PeterSweden7
Link of the Times;
Tulsi Gabbard Exposes Alarming Biden-Era 'Domestic Terrorism' Strategy:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tulsi-gabbard-exposes-alarming-biden-era-domestic-terrorism-strategy
Issue of the Times;
The Passion of the Christian by David Kupelian
"And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
– Mark 8:34-37
"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me."
– Luke 9:23
"And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me."
– Matthew 10:38
Every Easter, many dazzlingly eloquent words are written and spoken about Christ's "Passion" – a singular historical event, graphically portrayed in films like "The Passion of the Christ," "Jesus of Nazareth" and "The Greatest Story Ever Told." That these screen depictions serve to powerfully rekindle many believers' gratitude for what Jesus endured for their sake is undeniable. But I wonder, how often does that appreciation for Christ's sacrifice ignite a fire in the belly of believers to "take up the cross" themselves?
But first things first. What in the world does "taking up your cross" really mean?
'I die daily'
In ages past, Christians dwelt a lot more on the concept of taking up the "cross" than they do these days. Today, the phrase "it's my cross to bear" is usually a self-congratulatory reference to the fact that we have to put up with a vexing medical condition, or a child in trouble with the law, or perhaps an overbearing, live-in mother-in-law.
Admonitions from the pulpit may not shed much more light. Oh sure, a well-intentioned minister will reverently read one of the scriptures cited above on "taking up the cross," and he might even briefly plug the ideal of self-denial. But too often this amounts to a polite nod to a notion that seems both archaic and almost irrelevant, or at least unattainable, and the pastor just moves on to more pleasant topics – like how grateful we are for Christ's death and resurrection.
It wasn't always so. Throughout past centuries, Christian philosophers and mystics dwelt at length on the crucial, life-and-death need for repentance, resignation, "mortification," the "crucifixion" of sin in man, and the "death of the carnal man" or of "the creaturely self" and so on.
The Apostle Paul said it most powerfully and succinctly when he wrote: "I die daily."
Unfortunately, much of what has been written in more contemplative eras about this inner transformation of man is highly poetic and allegorical – an attempt to use mere words to chart the narrow path that connects man's lowly estate with God's heavenly one. Although such archaic language may be profound, it's probably insufficient for Christians today, buffeted as we are on the outside by a voracious and atheistic secular culture, and on the inside by what is increasingly a simplistic and far less rigorous Christianity than that embraced by our forefathers.
Please allow me to take a stab at this, from a somewhat different angle – this command from Jesus Christ that each of His followers "take up his cross daily."
Killing the creature
What exactly is this "creaturely self" that Christian thinkers throughout the centuries have so colorfully warned we must "slay" or "crucify" if we're to inherit the Kingdom of God?
It's self-evident that we're all born with a troublesome nature called "pride." Basically, pride is the part of us that wants to be like God. It loves being praised, quickly puffs up with angry judgment over the real or perceived wrongs of others – and as a rule is oblivious to its own faults. Moreover, you can think of pride as a "life form" – a living, breathing "something" which, like any other life form or "creature," can be fed or starved. When it's fed, it grows and enlarges; when it is starved, it diminishes and dies – daily.
As our pride – our "sin self" – diminishes and dies through obedience to God, the direct result is that our good side, our true God-centered character and identity, enlarges.
We're not talking about matters of dogma here. Nor is this just a matter of outward behaviors and "works." So please don't e-mail me with arguments about "faith vs. works." This is about real change – about transformation – the mystical heart of the true Christian life, about "dying to the world." Not an archaic, poetic and hopelessly idealistic notion, but the very heartbeat of our everyday life, as we deal with stresses and problems ("trials and tribulations") in our lives.
Of course – and this is something of a divine paradox – as Christians, we know we can't save ourselves, and yet we are most definitely called to obedience. So, let's not slough off our responsibility to "die daily" by comfortably presuming on the unending mercy of God. His mercy is unending, indeed, but also balanced with justice, and these two seemingly contradictory qualities work together mysteriously and wonderfully toward our redemption, but only in the truly sincere human soul that doesn't tempt God.
A different kind of love
To understand what "taking up the cross" means, we have to understand why Jesus Himself had to suffer.
More pointedly, if our loving God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent – which He is – why then did His own Son have to be tortured and executed? Countless people throughout the ages have asked, "If God is love, why would he require his own son to endure such torture and death?" Indeed, many have judged God, concluding: "I could never worship a god like that."
Although we say "God is love," we don't really know what either one is, do we? "God" is beyond our comprehension – like understanding infinity. And "love" – well, we use that word to describe our "strong feelings" for anything and everything we're attracted to.
Let's talk about real love.
There's one element present in almost every authentic manifestation of real love among us human beings. And that is – are you ready for this? – suffering. From the ultimate expression of love – "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend" – to the simple act of being patient with others, love implies forbearance, longsuffering and kindness in the midst of problems.
Here's how Webster defines "patience": "the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain without complaint, loss of temper, or anger."
Certainly, Jesus' words as he was dying on the cross – "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" – are the kindest, most patient words ever spoken.
Thus, patience is nothing less than the basic "cell" or building block of love for each other. The very idea of being patient implies suffering with grace. The recipient of your patience – say, your spouse or child – experiences that patience as love, just as they experience your impatience as a lack of love.
Still, why is love inextricably tied to suffering?
Just think: God is the architect of an awesome expanding universe involving heavenly bodies and distances and speeds and temperatures beyond human comprehension, as well as of a never-ending microscopic cosmos of orbiting particles and universes within universes, all too small for human eyes or minds to conceive. And yet, there's one thing the Creator of all couldn't just … create out of thin air. And that's love.
Oh sure, He loves us. But I'm talking about our love for Him and for each other – fulfilling Jesus' two greatest commandments. The only way God could "create" loving children was for us to have a choice: a choice to love Him, or to be our own god – literally, a choice to make something more important than our own lives, well-being and comfort – a choice to love, in other words – and to be able to demonstrate that love, which involves suffering.
After all, if I compel you to "love me," is it real love? Of course not. Love always involves a choice.
Jesus' teaching that there's no greater love than laying down your life for a friend doesn't only mean that you have to be willing to die for someone else by jumping into a lake to save them, or taking a bullet meant for them. Remember, Paul said, "I die daily." It's a different kind of "death" that's being called for. You have to be willing to let your pride-self die – for the sake of your "neighbor" – and particularly, for your family's well being.
Small example: If someone puts you down or treats you in a cruel or unjust way and you become angry and upset, you've simply failed to find God's love in that moment and to extend it to the offending person. All of us have fallen for this temptation over and over – I know I have many times. But if we are genuinely patient – that is, if we suffer the cruelty with grace, and resist the temptation to puff up with anger because our pride was offended – we can then respond to the other person with the energy and spirit of God's love.
So do I need to be a martyr?
Do an Internet search on the phrase "Take up your cross" and you'll discover sermon after sermon on the necessity of being willing to be tortured and executed for Christ.
"Are you living with a martyr's attitude, that is, willing to suffer and/or die for the cause of Christ?" asks one sermon on the topic. "We are to be Jesus' present-day martyrs, as millions in the past literally were proven to be by giving their lives for the cause of Christ."
Others regard the "take up your cross" reference as a call to the celibate, monastic life.
And of course there are lots of references to the conflict between man's "natural will" and God's will, and how they are at war with each other.
Indeed, "taking up the cross" has always been a common sermon topic. Most typically, listeners are admonished to visit the sick, feed the poor, put their spouse's desires ahead of their own, tithe and volunteer time for church work, and the like. And while these are all fine actions to take, the problem is, one can do all of them and still remain the same faithless, resentful, doubtful, guilt-ridden, but heavily compensated "nice" person. Worse, the approval and adulation we receive from others for our "good works" often serves to further blind us from seeing and repenting of our well-concealed sinful nature.
The point is, we're not so much in need of a behavior change as we are of a nature change. The "cross" Christ prescribes for us is an instrument of death. But just as He died to bring life, we are supposed to "die" to sin that we may share His life.
All of which boils down to this: The real "cross" we have to bear is that we have a fallen nature, which we need to understand and relate to properly — which allows God to change us.
Let's start with an obvious example – sex. Men in particular are born with a sexual nature that needs to be restrained. If not, men would want to express this drive virtually all of the time. Obviously, men need to control this "animal nature" or "creaturely self."
Likewise, what if somebody wrongs you so egregiously that you have an impulse to do him bodily harm? You better restrain that impulse too, right?
So much for the obvious. How about something more subtle?
Let's say we suffer from envious thoughts. To covet is to break one of the 10 Commandments. So how do we deal with these troublesome feelings? How do we "restrain" them? Certainly not by wallowing in them and indulging them. But also not by repressing them, or attempting to manufacture "good" thoughts and feelings in their place. The Christian answer might be to pray, but what form of prayer? Try this out: If you notice envious thoughts, just observe them – honestly, sincerely, without escaping or trying to change them or making excuses for them or justifying them or getting upset over them. Just see what you see, with poise and dignity – and quietly, wordlessly, cry inwardly to God for help. He will.
This is true transparency, which is resignation of your will to His. It calls forth the very process of regeneration, imperceptible though it may be to us.
Put another way, "dying" to the world is like fasting – but not from food. The real "fast" God desires is that we fast from evil thoughts, from anger, from envy, from lust, from greed and so on. He wants us to abstain from being irritated by provocations, from becoming impatient and angry toward others, from temptation of all sorts.
The truth is, we're never closer to God than when we're just plain quiet and still, aware of all of our defects in each precious moment, looking at ourselves first and foremost, without judgment or worry, and having quiet faith that God is there with us and that He will help us.
Shortly before His Passion and death, Jesus gave his disciples what He called "a new commandment" – namely, "That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." Of course, since He had previously brought forth the Old Testament commandments to love God "with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might" (Deuteronomy 6:5) and to "love thy neighbor as thyself" (Leviticus 19:18), how was this Last Supper commandment then "new"?
It was new because He was raising the bar to a higher standard. He was now asking us to love one another as He loved us.
We are supposed to live the way Jesus lived, and to suffer the way He suffered. (I said, the way he suffered – with love for each other through obedience to the Father – though obviously not to the extent He suffered.) And, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, that does not mean only sharing the Gospel of Christ's atoning death and resurrection with as many people as possible. We are called to a still higher standard – to live as He lived – or maybe to put it more aptly, to love as He loved.
Love and logic
In the classic story of "Ben-Hur," Judah, long-consumed by hatred and a desire for revenge against Masala for falsely condemning him as a galley slave and imprisoning his mother and sister, now lepers, witnesses the crucifixion of Jesus.
In the final unforgettable scene, Judah tells his betrothed Esther: "Almost the minute He died, I heard Him say, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.'
Esther, amazed, responds in a whisper: "Even then …"
"Even then," echoes Judah. "And I felt His voice take the sword out of my hand."
The real Passion of Christ must connect directly with our own internal programming and strengthen our own spirit, as it did in the story of "Ben-Hur." We too must die the death God has prescribed for us – the death of pride, the ancient compulsion to be our own god – that we may share the true life He prepared for us, and which His Son purchased so dearly for us.
One of the main reasons I'm a Christian is simply because it makes so much sense to me. If God wanted to demonstrate His love for mankind, how else could He do it? Go ahead, tell me! What could He do to demonstrate the depth of His love? Make mountains of pomegranates for everyone? Give everyone a great job and a big house and three luxury cars? Give us everything our proud little heart’s desire?
No, if God wanted to demonstrate His love for us, and at the same time provide us with the perfect, ultimate example of real love for our fellow man, what could be a more perfect expression of love than the willing suffering and death of His Son – Who while dying asked God to forgive His tormentors? The sheer beauty, logic and power of it is transcendent. If you're looking for love in this loveless world, that's it.
I know some will be offended by this message, as though by even mentioning and holding up the standard Jesus clearly demanded of His followers, I am somehow denying the sufficiency of His substitutionary death for all mankind.
But you see, there's something really wrong with today's Christianity. Over 70 percent of Americans consider themselves Christians, but our country's government, laws, culture and institutions, from its education system to its entertainment industry – are increasingly and overtly hostile to Christianity. Even Christian families all too often are falling apart. Clearly, we're missing something big.
So, can you handle a little tough love? Here it is: Just continually telling each other about Jesus' death and resurrection is not enough. It's not what He taught. Jesus didn't say, "Just talk about me and you'll be saved." Rather, He said: "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Matthew 4:17) And "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." (John 15:10) And "… he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." (Matthew 24:13 KJV)
So, while as Christians during the Easter season we reflect on the Messiah's suffering and sacrifice, the question is: What are we willing to suffer and sacrifice? Can we face our own sinfulness? It's the one enemy most of us don't really want to confront.
To take up our cross – to "lose our life" for His sake so that we "shall save it" – we need to repent. And we cannot repent without looking in the mirror and honestly facing the sin in our minds and hearts. To stand transparent before God so He can heal us through understanding and repentance may be as hard as watching Jesus being scourged and crucified, but watch it we must.
God honors the sincere soul who, with quiet dignity, simply faces the darkness within and repents. This is the heartbeat of our life, without which there is no real life. Each of us has this moment-to-moment choice to make, whether to defend, excuse and enlarge our sinful, hell-bent nature, or whether to pick up our cross, deny our (wrong) self, and follow Jesus – first to death, and then to life.
News of the Times;
Another Fed Op?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/another-fed-op-former-cia-officer-says-ryan/
Harvard University: The Ivy League teaching remedial math:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/05/opinion/harvard-univ-the-ivy-league-teaching-remedial-math/
UConn med school drops mandatory ‘DEI-infused’ Hippocratic Oath:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/uconn-med-school-drops-mandatory-dei-infused-hippocratic-oath/
This Nonprofit Got $22 Million in Government Grants to Teach Kids About Sex Toys:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/center-for-innovative-public-health-research-minors-sex-toys-federal-funding
Woke, DEI-Obsessed Navy Vice Admiral Who Allegedly Refused to Put Up Trump’s Portrait:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/woke-dei-obsessed-navy-vice-admiral-who-allegedly/
Republicans pause Florida bill that gives stiffer penalties to cop killers because it might:
https://notthebee.com/article/pathetic-supermajority-republican-legislators-in-fl-pause-a-bill-to-impose-stiffer-penalties-to-cop-killers-because-it-might-disproportionally-affect-black-people-
USAID paid Czech groups to ‘wage war’ against Russia:
https://www.rt.com/news/615422-usaid-czech-novotny-interview/
Molestation and Murder of a 13-Year-Old Boy Unmasked as Illegal Alien:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/california-soccer-coach-charged-molestation-murder-13-year/
Ten Environmentalist Myths:
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/09/ten-environmentalist-myths/
How Deep the Fraud:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/how-deep-the-fraud.php
China Fires Child Slaves:
https://www.thewashingtonwick.com/post/08apr25b
U.K. Educators Rewrite History to Include Gender Ideology:
https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/04/11/warning-uk-educators-rewrite-history-to-include-gender-ideology-nonsense-n4938818
High Tax + High Welfare + Low Defence = European Good Life Threatened by Trump:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/04/11/high-tax-high-welfare-low-defence-european-good-life-threatened-by-trump-n3801683
Democrat Massachusetts Lawmaker Arrested on Federal Fraud Charges:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/democrat-massachusetts-lawmaker-arrested-federal-fraud-charges-stunning/
Decriminalize Shoplifting = “Food Deserts”:
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=55965
Me: Well, the reasons I had are now all replaced by the fact that you can talk.
*.*
Where does Christmas come before Easter?
The dictionary!
*.*
The famous Olympic skier Picabo (pronounced Peek-A-Boo) Street is not just an athlete, she is a nurse. She currently works at the Intensive Care Unit of a large metropolitan hospital.
She is not permitted to answer the telephone, however, as it caused simply too much confusion when she would answer the phone and say,
"Picabo, ICU..."
*.*
President Trump is now 6-foot 3-inches, weighing 224 pounds and 4.8% body fat.
We may lose him to the NFL draft.
*.*
What's the best way to make Easter easier?
Put an "i" where the "t" is.
Quote of the Times;
"Ten years ago it would be unthinkable that El Salvador would be considered safer than Sweden. But now that has happened. Malmö is now ranked as dangerous as Baghdad. There has been almost daily bombing attacks in Sweden. Something went very wrong in my home country." - @PeterSweden7
Link of the Times;
Tulsi Gabbard Exposes Alarming Biden-Era 'Domestic Terrorism' Strategy:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tulsi-gabbard-exposes-alarming-biden-era-domestic-terrorism-strategy
Issue of the Times;
The Passion of the Christian by David Kupelian
"And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
– Mark 8:34-37
"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me."
– Luke 9:23
"And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me."
– Matthew 10:38
Every Easter, many dazzlingly eloquent words are written and spoken about Christ's "Passion" – a singular historical event, graphically portrayed in films like "The Passion of the Christ," "Jesus of Nazareth" and "The Greatest Story Ever Told." That these screen depictions serve to powerfully rekindle many believers' gratitude for what Jesus endured for their sake is undeniable. But I wonder, how often does that appreciation for Christ's sacrifice ignite a fire in the belly of believers to "take up the cross" themselves?
But first things first. What in the world does "taking up your cross" really mean?
'I die daily'
In ages past, Christians dwelt a lot more on the concept of taking up the "cross" than they do these days. Today, the phrase "it's my cross to bear" is usually a self-congratulatory reference to the fact that we have to put up with a vexing medical condition, or a child in trouble with the law, or perhaps an overbearing, live-in mother-in-law.
Admonitions from the pulpit may not shed much more light. Oh sure, a well-intentioned minister will reverently read one of the scriptures cited above on "taking up the cross," and he might even briefly plug the ideal of self-denial. But too often this amounts to a polite nod to a notion that seems both archaic and almost irrelevant, or at least unattainable, and the pastor just moves on to more pleasant topics – like how grateful we are for Christ's death and resurrection.
It wasn't always so. Throughout past centuries, Christian philosophers and mystics dwelt at length on the crucial, life-and-death need for repentance, resignation, "mortification," the "crucifixion" of sin in man, and the "death of the carnal man" or of "the creaturely self" and so on.
The Apostle Paul said it most powerfully and succinctly when he wrote: "I die daily."
Unfortunately, much of what has been written in more contemplative eras about this inner transformation of man is highly poetic and allegorical – an attempt to use mere words to chart the narrow path that connects man's lowly estate with God's heavenly one. Although such archaic language may be profound, it's probably insufficient for Christians today, buffeted as we are on the outside by a voracious and atheistic secular culture, and on the inside by what is increasingly a simplistic and far less rigorous Christianity than that embraced by our forefathers.
Please allow me to take a stab at this, from a somewhat different angle – this command from Jesus Christ that each of His followers "take up his cross daily."
Killing the creature
What exactly is this "creaturely self" that Christian thinkers throughout the centuries have so colorfully warned we must "slay" or "crucify" if we're to inherit the Kingdom of God?
It's self-evident that we're all born with a troublesome nature called "pride." Basically, pride is the part of us that wants to be like God. It loves being praised, quickly puffs up with angry judgment over the real or perceived wrongs of others – and as a rule is oblivious to its own faults. Moreover, you can think of pride as a "life form" – a living, breathing "something" which, like any other life form or "creature," can be fed or starved. When it's fed, it grows and enlarges; when it is starved, it diminishes and dies – daily.
As our pride – our "sin self" – diminishes and dies through obedience to God, the direct result is that our good side, our true God-centered character and identity, enlarges.
We're not talking about matters of dogma here. Nor is this just a matter of outward behaviors and "works." So please don't e-mail me with arguments about "faith vs. works." This is about real change – about transformation – the mystical heart of the true Christian life, about "dying to the world." Not an archaic, poetic and hopelessly idealistic notion, but the very heartbeat of our everyday life, as we deal with stresses and problems ("trials and tribulations") in our lives.
Of course – and this is something of a divine paradox – as Christians, we know we can't save ourselves, and yet we are most definitely called to obedience. So, let's not slough off our responsibility to "die daily" by comfortably presuming on the unending mercy of God. His mercy is unending, indeed, but also balanced with justice, and these two seemingly contradictory qualities work together mysteriously and wonderfully toward our redemption, but only in the truly sincere human soul that doesn't tempt God.
A different kind of love
To understand what "taking up the cross" means, we have to understand why Jesus Himself had to suffer.
More pointedly, if our loving God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent – which He is – why then did His own Son have to be tortured and executed? Countless people throughout the ages have asked, "If God is love, why would he require his own son to endure such torture and death?" Indeed, many have judged God, concluding: "I could never worship a god like that."
Although we say "God is love," we don't really know what either one is, do we? "God" is beyond our comprehension – like understanding infinity. And "love" – well, we use that word to describe our "strong feelings" for anything and everything we're attracted to.
Let's talk about real love.
There's one element present in almost every authentic manifestation of real love among us human beings. And that is – are you ready for this? – suffering. From the ultimate expression of love – "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend" – to the simple act of being patient with others, love implies forbearance, longsuffering and kindness in the midst of problems.
Here's how Webster defines "patience": "the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain without complaint, loss of temper, or anger."
Certainly, Jesus' words as he was dying on the cross – "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" – are the kindest, most patient words ever spoken.
Thus, patience is nothing less than the basic "cell" or building block of love for each other. The very idea of being patient implies suffering with grace. The recipient of your patience – say, your spouse or child – experiences that patience as love, just as they experience your impatience as a lack of love.
Still, why is love inextricably tied to suffering?
Just think: God is the architect of an awesome expanding universe involving heavenly bodies and distances and speeds and temperatures beyond human comprehension, as well as of a never-ending microscopic cosmos of orbiting particles and universes within universes, all too small for human eyes or minds to conceive. And yet, there's one thing the Creator of all couldn't just … create out of thin air. And that's love.
Oh sure, He loves us. But I'm talking about our love for Him and for each other – fulfilling Jesus' two greatest commandments. The only way God could "create" loving children was for us to have a choice: a choice to love Him, or to be our own god – literally, a choice to make something more important than our own lives, well-being and comfort – a choice to love, in other words – and to be able to demonstrate that love, which involves suffering.
After all, if I compel you to "love me," is it real love? Of course not. Love always involves a choice.
Jesus' teaching that there's no greater love than laying down your life for a friend doesn't only mean that you have to be willing to die for someone else by jumping into a lake to save them, or taking a bullet meant for them. Remember, Paul said, "I die daily." It's a different kind of "death" that's being called for. You have to be willing to let your pride-self die – for the sake of your "neighbor" – and particularly, for your family's well being.
Small example: If someone puts you down or treats you in a cruel or unjust way and you become angry and upset, you've simply failed to find God's love in that moment and to extend it to the offending person. All of us have fallen for this temptation over and over – I know I have many times. But if we are genuinely patient – that is, if we suffer the cruelty with grace, and resist the temptation to puff up with anger because our pride was offended – we can then respond to the other person with the energy and spirit of God's love.
So do I need to be a martyr?
Do an Internet search on the phrase "Take up your cross" and you'll discover sermon after sermon on the necessity of being willing to be tortured and executed for Christ.
"Are you living with a martyr's attitude, that is, willing to suffer and/or die for the cause of Christ?" asks one sermon on the topic. "We are to be Jesus' present-day martyrs, as millions in the past literally were proven to be by giving their lives for the cause of Christ."
Others regard the "take up your cross" reference as a call to the celibate, monastic life.
And of course there are lots of references to the conflict between man's "natural will" and God's will, and how they are at war with each other.
Indeed, "taking up the cross" has always been a common sermon topic. Most typically, listeners are admonished to visit the sick, feed the poor, put their spouse's desires ahead of their own, tithe and volunteer time for church work, and the like. And while these are all fine actions to take, the problem is, one can do all of them and still remain the same faithless, resentful, doubtful, guilt-ridden, but heavily compensated "nice" person. Worse, the approval and adulation we receive from others for our "good works" often serves to further blind us from seeing and repenting of our well-concealed sinful nature.
The point is, we're not so much in need of a behavior change as we are of a nature change. The "cross" Christ prescribes for us is an instrument of death. But just as He died to bring life, we are supposed to "die" to sin that we may share His life.
All of which boils down to this: The real "cross" we have to bear is that we have a fallen nature, which we need to understand and relate to properly — which allows God to change us.
Let's start with an obvious example – sex. Men in particular are born with a sexual nature that needs to be restrained. If not, men would want to express this drive virtually all of the time. Obviously, men need to control this "animal nature" or "creaturely self."
Likewise, what if somebody wrongs you so egregiously that you have an impulse to do him bodily harm? You better restrain that impulse too, right?
So much for the obvious. How about something more subtle?
Let's say we suffer from envious thoughts. To covet is to break one of the 10 Commandments. So how do we deal with these troublesome feelings? How do we "restrain" them? Certainly not by wallowing in them and indulging them. But also not by repressing them, or attempting to manufacture "good" thoughts and feelings in their place. The Christian answer might be to pray, but what form of prayer? Try this out: If you notice envious thoughts, just observe them – honestly, sincerely, without escaping or trying to change them or making excuses for them or justifying them or getting upset over them. Just see what you see, with poise and dignity – and quietly, wordlessly, cry inwardly to God for help. He will.
This is true transparency, which is resignation of your will to His. It calls forth the very process of regeneration, imperceptible though it may be to us.
Put another way, "dying" to the world is like fasting – but not from food. The real "fast" God desires is that we fast from evil thoughts, from anger, from envy, from lust, from greed and so on. He wants us to abstain from being irritated by provocations, from becoming impatient and angry toward others, from temptation of all sorts.
The truth is, we're never closer to God than when we're just plain quiet and still, aware of all of our defects in each precious moment, looking at ourselves first and foremost, without judgment or worry, and having quiet faith that God is there with us and that He will help us.
Shortly before His Passion and death, Jesus gave his disciples what He called "a new commandment" – namely, "That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." Of course, since He had previously brought forth the Old Testament commandments to love God "with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might" (Deuteronomy 6:5) and to "love thy neighbor as thyself" (Leviticus 19:18), how was this Last Supper commandment then "new"?
It was new because He was raising the bar to a higher standard. He was now asking us to love one another as He loved us.
We are supposed to live the way Jesus lived, and to suffer the way He suffered. (I said, the way he suffered – with love for each other through obedience to the Father – though obviously not to the extent He suffered.) And, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, that does not mean only sharing the Gospel of Christ's atoning death and resurrection with as many people as possible. We are called to a still higher standard – to live as He lived – or maybe to put it more aptly, to love as He loved.
Love and logic
In the classic story of "Ben-Hur," Judah, long-consumed by hatred and a desire for revenge against Masala for falsely condemning him as a galley slave and imprisoning his mother and sister, now lepers, witnesses the crucifixion of Jesus.
In the final unforgettable scene, Judah tells his betrothed Esther: "Almost the minute He died, I heard Him say, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.'
Esther, amazed, responds in a whisper: "Even then …"
"Even then," echoes Judah. "And I felt His voice take the sword out of my hand."
The real Passion of Christ must connect directly with our own internal programming and strengthen our own spirit, as it did in the story of "Ben-Hur." We too must die the death God has prescribed for us – the death of pride, the ancient compulsion to be our own god – that we may share the true life He prepared for us, and which His Son purchased so dearly for us.
One of the main reasons I'm a Christian is simply because it makes so much sense to me. If God wanted to demonstrate His love for mankind, how else could He do it? Go ahead, tell me! What could He do to demonstrate the depth of His love? Make mountains of pomegranates for everyone? Give everyone a great job and a big house and three luxury cars? Give us everything our proud little heart’s desire?
No, if God wanted to demonstrate His love for us, and at the same time provide us with the perfect, ultimate example of real love for our fellow man, what could be a more perfect expression of love than the willing suffering and death of His Son – Who while dying asked God to forgive His tormentors? The sheer beauty, logic and power of it is transcendent. If you're looking for love in this loveless world, that's it.
I know some will be offended by this message, as though by even mentioning and holding up the standard Jesus clearly demanded of His followers, I am somehow denying the sufficiency of His substitutionary death for all mankind.
But you see, there's something really wrong with today's Christianity. Over 70 percent of Americans consider themselves Christians, but our country's government, laws, culture and institutions, from its education system to its entertainment industry – are increasingly and overtly hostile to Christianity. Even Christian families all too often are falling apart. Clearly, we're missing something big.
So, can you handle a little tough love? Here it is: Just continually telling each other about Jesus' death and resurrection is not enough. It's not what He taught. Jesus didn't say, "Just talk about me and you'll be saved." Rather, He said: "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Matthew 4:17) And "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." (John 15:10) And "… he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." (Matthew 24:13 KJV)
So, while as Christians during the Easter season we reflect on the Messiah's suffering and sacrifice, the question is: What are we willing to suffer and sacrifice? Can we face our own sinfulness? It's the one enemy most of us don't really want to confront.
To take up our cross – to "lose our life" for His sake so that we "shall save it" – we need to repent. And we cannot repent without looking in the mirror and honestly facing the sin in our minds and hearts. To stand transparent before God so He can heal us through understanding and repentance may be as hard as watching Jesus being scourged and crucified, but watch it we must.
God honors the sincere soul who, with quiet dignity, simply faces the darkness within and repents. This is the heartbeat of our life, without which there is no real life. Each of us has this moment-to-moment choice to make, whether to defend, excuse and enlarge our sinful, hell-bent nature, or whether to pick up our cross, deny our (wrong) self, and follow Jesus – first to death, and then to life.
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