WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Strange Daze
byVanderleunonFebruary 12, 2021
Q&A: “We are in our 50s and have no real retirement savings. What do we do now?” What do we do? How did anyone retire before? Without retirement accounts or Social Security what did people DO when they got old? They. Had. Children. CHILDREN ARE THE PARENTS’ RETIREMENT. And not one or two, but eight, ten, twelve, fourteen children. As many as God Almighty saw fit to bless them with. That’s right, Boomers and Gen X’ers, Those children that you “just simply couldn’t afford” and thus contracepted and whose existence YOU FREELY AND WILLFULLY CHOSE TO THWART… THEY were your retirement. Oopsie!!
Barnhardt Axiom #2 Reminder for the “Little Guys” If you can’t stand in front of it and defend it with long guns, it isn’t “yours”, and probably never was. “But…but…but… I have a VAULT CERTIFICATE!! I have a BROKERAGE STATEMENT!!” Aren’t you adorable
Email from Jeff Bezos to employeesAs Exec Chair I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives but also have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions. I’ve never had more energy, and this isn’t about retiring. I’m super passionate about the impact I think these organizations can have.
“Well, if you’re gonna reprogram human genetic material, you need a delivery system, and nothing works better than virus. It’s like a suitcase. You…you pack in genetic mutation, infect the body and the vectrons lowers into the target cells. Getting it where you want it, how you want it, is the nightmare, unless you have a map. There was this terrible accident at Fort Detrick in 1985. Five researchers dropped dead in the lab and it was…it was such a catastrophe that they brought in Dan Hillcott from Stanford to asses the damage. And he got in there and he realized that underneath it all was this incredible breakthrough in viral receptor mapping. He had a map. Now, you’ve had some very minor alterations made to different chromosomes.” ~ The Bourne Legacy (2012)
An AD commenter’s prayer fromThe Brave New 1984 Expansion Pack: Love Your Servitude – Aldous Huxley & George Orwell Lance de Boyle: I’m gonna be praying, and praying hard, that the L-rd gives every one of these demon bastards cancer of the asshole so huge that their guts fall out and drag behind them; that their every joint swells with gout and makes them scream in agony; that the blood flow to their face stops and they die with a bare skull and hanging shreds; that the little prick Jamie falls down the stairs, crushes his cervical vertebrae and lies helpless for 30 years under the care of a sadist; that every traitor, every commie, every coward, and every smug son of a bitch falls under a harrow and is dragged across the field and shredded; that they boil in burning pitch. Pain without end, Amen.
The State under Leftism: Totalitarian with Bread and Circuses Although the state under contemporary leftism is totalitarian and demands conformity and submission in matters of moment, it tolerates and indeed encourages the cultivation of a politically inconsequential individualism of private self-absorption. A people given bread (food stamps and other forms of infantilizing dependency), circuses (mass sporting events), dope (legalization of marijuana), HollyWeird pornography and violence, politically correct propaganda, and such weapons of mass distraction as Twitter and Facebook is kept distracted, enervated, and submissive.
Maverick Philosopher: Why am I so Happy? I believe that, after our brief sublunary tenure, we continue on as individuals in some way that, from this side, must remain mainly a matter of faith and speculation. What we do now is meaningful because there is something like a future for us. To live well we must not only hope within this life but also hope beyond it. If you believe that death spells the utter end of the individual, then I will ask you: whence the meaning of your life? Are you really fulfilled by the little meanings of the quotidian round? Are you satisfied by yet another repetition of a paltry pleasure, a further concupiscent twitch, another unneeded material possession, one more uptick in your net worth? Is hitting a little white ball into a hole enough to make you happy?
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage …. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Vox Popoli: Death camp for Boomers And if you ever had any doubts about the charge of “radical, lifelong immaturity” applying to Boomers, this picture of the “cheerleading squad”, for which there is a two-year wait to join, should erase them for good.
What is being proposed here, in effect, is rolling back the last 25 years of technological and economic change that no one contemplated, debated, or voted on. This all just evolved quickly before anyone could contemplate the impact. A generation-long real-world experiment has proven it was a bad idea. We have created a world of outraged shut-ins and snitches. The only thing everyone agrees upon is that everyone hates the world they experience, either in reality or through their device. Would people riot in the streets if their phones suddenly became useful only in emergencies as a way to call for help? Would there be protest marches over the loss of Facebook and YouTube? Would Zoomers begin forming militias when they can no longer video every moment of their life with their phone? Obviously not, as these things did not happen over Covid. In fact, people would adapt and maybe regrow the backbone and spirit needed to protest such things.
We live in an age when a Puerto Rican barmaid and a bald black woman with the IQ of a goldfishstand on the floor of the House sharing their “lived experiences”, which are totally fabricated. Not only that, these people are our rulers or at least members of the ruling class. Things would be less ridiculous if a state put a horse in the Senate. Calling this clown world is an affront to the men who dedicated their lives to making kids laugh at the circus.
The World Goes on While America Sleeps | Meanwhile, hundreds of billions of dollars and countless hours of once-productive labor are diverted to unproductive ideological censorship, career canceling and indoctrination. Our allies, such as democratic France, warn America that it is cannibalizing itself — and becoming dangerous to others. Our enemies, such as the totalitarian Chinese, are delighted with our suicidal wokeness.
The cost is not just the expense of cleaning up the billions of dollars of destruction from the summer riots, the thousands of memorials and statues destroyed and defaced, the hundreds of schools and buildings to be renamed. Far more consequential is the suppression of creative thinking — from humanistic study to scientific research.
The Islamic world, as the historian Bernard Lewis once observed, stagnated in the 19th and 20th centuries once radical Islamists began squelching all free inquiry.
Really? Riddle me this: Would said branch flunkie or maintenance tech gain access to the ATM innards they would supposedly clean with a key, inserted into a lock?Does Homeless Depot not also sell squirt tubes of epoxy and cyanoacrylate Krazy Glue…?
I can’t stand Twitter, but one function it has often served is to display and highlight the feet of clay of our very own chattering classes. It is all too often a tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing except the propaganda that helps shape our lives and the future of this country and the world.
How Strong Is A Giraffe’s Kick? – In fact, a giraffe’s kick can generate an impact of 2,000 Pounds-of-force Per Square-inch (PSI). That’s about the same as the strongest kick ever recorded from a horse and a lot more powerful than a kangaroo kick, which generates just 850 PSI. As for humans, the most powerful impact recorded in Thai kickboxing was a relatively puny 450 PSI (though that’s still more than enough to fracture a skull or dislocate a jaw, as fans of the sport will know).
Ranked: The 20 Most Populous Cities in the World More than half of the world’s population currently lives in cities—and as time goes on, it’s clear that more urban dwellers will find themselves living in megacities.
Megacities are defined as urban areas with a population of more than 10 million people. This means that the world’s top 20 most populous cities are all megacities.
This visualization, using data from Macrotrends, shows the 20 most populous cities in the world….
By 2035, two new cities are expected to crack the top 20 list. Specifically, it’s projected that Bangalore (India) and Lahore (Pakistan) will boot out Tianjin and Buenos Aires. In addition, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Chennai are all expected to meet the megacity definition by 2035.
Urban growth will continue mainly in Asia and Africa, as some cities in regions such as Europe actually begin to shrink in population due to aging citizens and declining birth rates. Since 2012, deaths in the EU have actually been outpacing births—and in 2019, there were 4.7 million deaths compared to 4.2 million births, though net migration kept population numbers from falling.
“What do we do? How did anyone retire before? Without retirement accounts or Social Security what did people DO when they got old? They. Had. Children.”
Barnhardt, by all accounts as I understand, has never married nor had children.
I’m not judging that unto itself, I’m divorced with no kids, but I’m not writing on the intertubs about people deciding to not have kids have made a mistake.
Donald SensingFebruary 12, 2021, 12:12 PM
“If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.” — Malcolm Muggeridge
But as we know now, it was not either-or, it is both-and. The party most obsessed with no-rules sex is also psychopathically obsessed with power.
SkorpionFebruary 12, 2021, 12:29 PM
@tim: Yeah, I thought that as well. I like Ann, but she often goes overboard with her rhetoric, and sometimes seems like she’s projecting. From what I’ve derived in Ann’s writings, she seems to believe she’ll be martyred before old age, so marriage, kids, and retirement were never part of the plan.
(For the record, I’m yet another aging Gen-Joneser with no kids. Never met the right woman.)
gwbnycFebruary 12, 2021, 12:33 PM
did the Barnhardt~
I’ve said from time to time, concerning civil rights struggles for instance, that the heavy lifting was done already- so it seems then injustice has to be found in such small amounts one has to wonder just how “real” a particular issue is. as presented in the video, if it isn’t there, just concoct an issue. obama stated when he began his activist’s career he needed an issue, it could be one so simple as the absence of a traffic light at an intersection, to push his ideology.
gwbnycFebruary 12, 2021, 12:37 PM
apologies-
I’m riffing on a video that was linked on the Sout Park vid at Barnhardt, dealing with Orwell, Hitler, Mein Kampf-
“Pain without end, Amen”
Before you can invoke this prayer you have to forgive those who have sinned against you. All of them. Completely. Not just say it, but make it happen in your heart.
If you can do that and you still want to invoke this blasphemy, start over – by forgiving those who have sinned against you.
Jahaziel notes that forgiving those that sin against you, as admonished in The Lord’s Prayer, is rather important, but I fully appreciate the sentiments expressed by Lance, but note, too, that Christians are admonished to hate what is evil, and there is plenty of evil to hate, most of which is promulgated by the political class, and justifies being angry.
Perhaps this prayer, prayed Pastor Joe Wright, at the opening of the Kansas State senate, on January 23, 1996, would be somewhat more appropriate, afterall, it made a number of Kansas senators squirm enough to walk out on the prayer, as speaking the truth can do.
Heavenly Father, we come before You today to ask Your forgiveness and seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, “Woe on those who call evil good,” but that’s exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values.
We confess that: We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism; We have worshiped other gods and called it multiculturalism; We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle; We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery; We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation; We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare; We have killed our unborn and called it choice; We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable; We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self- esteem; We have abused power and called it political savvy; We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition; We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression; We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of Kansas, and who have been ordained by You, to govern this great state. Grant them Your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your will. I ask it in the name of Your Son, the Living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Re: Vox Day
He’s like a bag of those magic jelly beans from Harry Potter. You may get Merry Cherry, Peach Delight, or Vulture Shit. Love him or hate him, he’s always worth a listen.
JWM
JewelFebruary 12, 2021, 3:44 PM
The precatory psalms is well worth praying. As for Barnhardt’s perpetual singlehood, I think it makes perfect sense. She’s the type who’ll get martyred just because of her yap. A lot of people don’t marry and have children. A lot of people hook up, live together a while, and then go on The People’s Court to fight over who gets the dog. Modern times. Crazy times. What Ann fails to mention in her well reasoned article is that many people who had a passel of kids are now raising grandkids because growing up is hard, and babies don’t stay cute. If you go to the lonely McDonald’s playland Everywhere, USA, you will find the old ones raising the young ones. People in their 70s stuck with great grandchildren as their proteges. Despair smells like McNuggets and plastic Happy Meal toys.
John SmithFebruary 12, 2021, 4:10 PM
magaville is incorrect about the mRNA COVID vaccine. It is not gene therapy, it does not modify your body’s genes.
NoriFebruary 12, 2021, 4:55 PM
The only thing missing from Lance de Boyle’s powerful prayer is Vanderleun at the end,intoning:
“So it is written. So shall it be.”
If an mRNA vaccine was approved for coronavirus, it would be the first of its type. ‘It’s a very unique way of making a vaccine and, so far, no (such) vaccine has been licenced for infectious disease,’ said Prof. Bekeredjian-Ding.
Vaccines work by training the body to recognise and respond to the proteins produced by disease-causing organisms, such as a virus or bacteria. Traditional vaccines are made up of small or inactivated doses of the whole disease-causing organism, or the proteins that it produces, which are introduced into the body to provoke the immune system into mounting a response.
mRNA vaccines, in contrast, trick the body into producing some of the viral proteins itself. They work by using mRNA, or messenger RNA, which is the molecule that essentially puts DNA instructions into action. Inside a cell, mRNA is used as a template to build a protein. ‘An mRNA is basically like a pre-form of a protein and its (sequence encodes) what the protein is basically made of later on,’ said Prof. Bekeredjian-Ding.
Just a small sample.
Also, the FDA authorization letter to Pfizer, word for word:
“This product has not been approved or licensed by FDA…”
I don’t like stupid people flapping their lips when they haven’t bothered to engorge at least one brain cell with knowledge. The further you go back in my blog, you will see that I had incessantly looked into this Corona-Cooties nonsense. BTW, I have been exposed personally to 16 PCR tested positive people that I know of. Still waiting to suddenly drop dead in a China street. My wife 20+ at her work. A small fraction had the sniffles and got tested. All but one, the majority, got tested because the government scared them into getting tested, and they ended up positive although they had no symptoms. ONE, who I had my head under the hood of a car with, being breathed on and coughed on, ended up in the hospital with pneumonia a few day later. He has type 2 diabetes and had just recently been through cancer chemotherapy. They had him on oxygen laying on his stomach, steroids to control the immune system, antibiotics in case his pneumonia went bacterial, and C-D3-Zinc-B1. He was out in 5 days. Thank God they didn’t murder him by intubation <— Follow? No? I still haven't had so much as the sniffles, much less drop dead in the middle of a China street.
I asked him what all his symptoms were. And of course, there was the dreaded "I couldn't smell or taste anything." I told him to go to the CDC website and look all the symptoms of the Flu-Cooties from minor, moderate, to severe. Well, he did. The same symptoms I had 30+ years ago when I got the SEVERE FLU.
Turn off the damn stupid box full of pseudo "experts".
Anyhow, I'm not going to clog up Gerard's blog with research. The fact is, 98% of Boobus AmeriKanus hasn't spend an iota looking into the plandemic, other than the TeeVee people said, or the government "expert" said.
ghostsniperFebruary 12, 2021, 6:02 PM
John Smith sed: “It is not gene therapy, it does not modify your body’s genes.”
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Can you provide proof of that?
How? Easy I/we did what my parents did, my grand parents and my great grand parents did, what we were taught. I/we invested early, continued to invest, ups downs just part of life, so far a home run, we’ll see what’s up at seventy. Mostly invested in mans vices!.
Barnhart, the rest are Internet personalities, I played their game for the last six years, WRSA, American Partisan, all the ” Right” “Informative” right wing sites, took me a few years to understand their all cowards, all hat no saddle.
Recently was told by some clown who calls himself NC Scout, I’m an Idiot!!!! I roared with laughter, he’s right I am an idiot at times. I grow tired of these self serving ” experts” and “Staff” using the language and the Tools of the left, ” Censorship” , explaining THEIR DPMS or Olympic arms, M4 war fighting rifle. Best old school mil pack ” pure garbage” by today’s standards Seems these guys intend to talk the left to death.
I think my point is, 99% of us had good growing up models, we were taught the difference between the truth and a lie, right from wrong. Other then the theft of an election in which NOBODY, did a thing, nothing. I include myself in this crowd. Nothing has changed.
I’m done listening to these knuckleheads, these personalities. tired of being angry, not a thing has changed on our mountain, what will change soon was noted and addressed years ago. with pieces parts, work arounds. Any of us whom are serious about our families or friends their health welfare, should have been addressing what’s to,come long ago.
We see food shortages next. But then you all are aware.
And with that I’ll say good night using my “new” titled given by the wise all seeing Marxist, NC Scout!
Sometimes, I find it comforting to read the psalms and see there that David – who after all was a man after God’s own heart – often cried out to God to utterly destroy the wicked. Hearing about acts of utter depravity such as the wanna-be baby-raping Republican staffer who was arrested this week, I wonder if someone as far gone as that even has a spark of humanity left that can be saved. It must be possible – for with God, all things are possible – that such a man might experience a true conversion; however, if such a man did experience a true conversion, he would surely long to tie the millstone around his own neck in horror at what he had been.
Joe RedfieldFebruary 12, 2021, 10:35 PM
Jeff Bezos(paraphrasing) “I’m running for President. Get out of my way. Now.”
Lance de BoyleFebruary 12, 2021, 11:22 PM
I believe the deal is, if you admit wrongdoing and a wicked heart, reject your former self, try to make amends, and seek forgiveness, then you get it. Forgiving seals the deal.
Otherwise, the forgiving has no effect (“Ha! And the asshole actually forgave me for killing his little girl! What a putz!”), and is virtue signaling. “Oh, look at me forgive this killer. This proves I’m better than he is.”
John Smith, you’re wrong. My dear wife has been a member of the American Chemical Society since she was 19 (she’s much smarter than meself), when she saw the “M” in the mRNA COVID vaccine she screamed, “That’s used in cloning! The M stands for ‘messenger’ used for copying a gene from the DNA, it’s used in gene therapy. I’ve used it myself!” So yes John, it does and will modify your body’s genes.
captfleeFebruary 13, 2021, 8:58 AM
Perhaps the dismal weather here, what with the entire shootin’ match, Manteo to Murphy, receiving endless precipitation of one sort or another and thus not amenable to grinding out more miles on the Mountains to Sea, has me inclined toward just a bit of the black dog, surely not helped by taking in the latest episode of the ongoing shit show from the Capitol. I’m apparently getting pretty jaded these days, as my younger self would be up in arms. I figure into the near future we could be seeing ANYTHING, up to and including scenes from “Idiocracy”. I look to see the wraith of poor old Mikhail Nikolayevitch in the dockby Tuesday,at the latest.
JackFebruary 13, 2021, 12:00 PM
Here is a link to a cogent and informative tell all discussion on the so-called Covid vaccine. I trust this doctor far more than our Godless, sexless, directionless loon of a government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mPIomjWwd4&t=1597s
Lance’s ‘prayer’ (I really don’t think of it as a prayer) is a fine and fitting application that should be applied to the Left, the Deep State, NWO and other communists sympathizers and assorted psychopaths who are deliberately in league to destroy the good folks, world wide, who only want to live in liberty and in peace and deal with whatever life has for them.
These oppressors are monsters whose only fate should be death and whose last act on earth should be one in which they are lined up without blindfolds to face a lethal firing squad and then to be summarily dispatched to whatever lies for them on the other side of this existence. They’re sheep killing predators and free men have two choices, either live under their fist or do just as Eve should have done and hunt up a big stick and use it with dispatch. History and their intent has proven too many times that there are no other choices.
Sentiment and forgiveness are necessary but this thing we’re living through now is war and it cannot be called anything else, either in the spirit or desire to be right before God or to be politically correct so that you don’t piss your neighbors off.
Most of us, even us veterans, do not want to engage anyone in conflict but we will if we’re forced, at any age. Soldiers on battle fields typically do not desire, wish or pray for the good fortune and success of deadly enemies and we damned sure don’t come forward with arms outstretched, holding a white flag of surrender, begging them for mercy and telling them that despite their vicious wickedness and desire for death that we want their forgiveness.
God judges our hearts and I think that must mean who we are when we are just going about our daily routines and not when placed into situations where we have to do what is necessary to protect what is right and to destroy what is evil.
No gene mods? I kinda like the conspiracy theory the vaccine will sterilize the population & the birth rate will drop drastically some nine months from now, not affecting non vaccinated criminal alien invaders, of course.
Vox Day? Often a pompous ass. Having said that, I admit, it takes one to know one.
Retirement savings: Haven’t really paid attention to what the boomers are doing, I’m a generation older, but avoiding debt worked will for me. Paid off my property purchase ASAP, built my house paycheck to paycheck, paid cash for used vehicles, invested in stocks, etc., but only money I could afford to lose. So far in my dotage I still remember to and can afford to pay my heating bills even with heating oil at $2.50 a gallon here.
Bread and circuses; probably haven’t had the TV turned on for more than an hour over the last 5 years. I do enjoy my shot of Jameson’s and or a beer or wine, including beer & wine I brew myself. Yep, on occasion, pretty much any occasion but my drinking can’t hold a candle to those old guys, Washington, Ben Franklin, et al, & they seemed to get a wee bit done in spite of their drinking.
Why am I so dang happy? To paraphrase the Maverick Philosopher;
Well, I live in Alaska, a state where you can stretch your arms and shout freely if ever there was one, and I have lived here for going on 58 years. Today is another one of those exquisitely beautiful, halcyon, February days on top of the world. I am sitting here, a fire in the wood stove, the sun peeking through the snow covered spruce. My working for money days are long past and any work I do for the fun of it is going well. My health is good. I enjoy the bliss and security of obscurity while garnering all the recognition I need.
Sentiment and forgiveness are necessary but this thing we’re living through now is war and it cannot be called anything else, either in the spirit or desire to be right before God or to be politically correct so that you don’t piss your neighbors off.
Most of us, even us veterans, do not want to engage anyone in conflict but we will if we’re forced, at any age…
God judges our hearts and I think that must mean who we are when we are just going about our daily routines and not when placed into situations where we have to do what is necessary to protect what is right and to destroy what is evil.
Amen, Jack. Well said.
anonymousFebruary 14, 2021, 11:02 AM
SO. It’s been 8 weeks since the coup ‘etat took place. You know. You all know that there are things YOU can and must do to save this country. Here are some examples:
stop buying from these companies:
Amazon
Microsoft
Washington Post and New York Times
Costco
Help your children and grandchildren get into local community Home School Associations. If their community doesn’t have one–well, get out there and help them build one up. Help them do online schooling from private schools which are not “common core”. You can organize it through places that were formerly Protestant Churches. They will rent your group a room too meet in for very little money.
These are things that you can do without threat to your well being. Have YOU done any of them?
whateverFebruary 14, 2021, 8:28 PM
Sorry, Barnhardt comes across as an unhinged loon. Couldn’t get past the second paragraph.
Casey KlahnFebruary 15, 2021, 6:25 AM
Such a rich post and a hale phalanx of commentators. It’s a privilege of the moment to read here.
DC is under military occupation, and they’re coming for your guns. The gun law won’t pass in its current form but your enemy has flagged for you his next moves. The economy of the US is: all the money the government has control of. Your property belongs to the government, in effect. You are only allowed firearms until we can figure out how to pry them from your c… d… hands, says congress and the president.
What guns Casey? I’m sure you lost all yours just like I lost all mine when the canoe tipped over. Been a real rash of those accidents happening lately.
Casey KlahnFebruary 15, 2021, 3:24 PM
James, I lost all of mine swimming my tank through a river crossing. Never liked them, anyway.
I love Obama, Biden, Hillary, et al. I want to birth Biden’s love child, and call him Karl Marx.
VanderleunFebruary 15, 2021, 5:22 PM
I* birth Biden’s love child every morning after coffee while sitting in the smallest room in my home.
ghostsniperFebruary 15, 2021, 5:38 PM
The ocean levels are rising due to all the lost gunz.
Call me butterfingers but I’ve lost ’bout 40-50 guns in my lifetime.
I hope to own another one someday when they become available again.
Casey KlahnFebruary 15, 2021, 6:22 PM
Geez, Gerard! Stay away from Biden, then. Yeesh.
AnneFebruary 16, 2021, 1:56 PM
Oh c’mon you guys I don’t know what “I * birth Biden’s love child” means. What does “I*”mean?
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Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Q&A: “We are in our 50s and have no real retirement savings. What do we do now?” What do we do? How did anyone retire before? Without retirement accounts or Social Security what did people DO when they got old? They. Had. Children. CHILDREN ARE THE PARENTS’ RETIREMENT. And not one or two, but eight, ten, twelve, fourteen children. As many as God Almighty saw fit to bless them with. That’s right, Boomers and Gen X’ers, Those children that you “just simply couldn’t afford” and thus contracepted and whose existence YOU FREELY AND WILLFULLY CHOSE TO THWART… THEY were your retirement. Oopsie!!
“Well, if you’re gonna reprogram human genetic material, you need a delivery system, and nothing works better than virus. It’s like a suitcase. You…you pack in genetic mutation, infect the body and the vectrons lowers into the target cells. Getting it where you want it, how you want it, is the nightmare, unless you have a map. There was this terrible accident at Fort Detrick in 1985. Five researchers dropped dead in the lab and it was…it was such a catastrophe that they brought in Dan Hillcott from Stanford to asses the damage. And he got in there and he realized that underneath it all was this incredible breakthrough in viral receptor mapping. He had a map. Now, you’ve had some very minor alterations made to different chromosomes.” ~ The Bourne Legacy (2012)
Vox Popoli: Death camp for Boomers And if you ever had any doubts about the charge of “radical, lifelong immaturity” applying to Boomers, this picture of the “cheerleading squad”, for which there is a two-year wait to join, should erase them for good.
“But if anyone did something, they’d just send a maintenance tech or branch flunky to clean it out, and they’d be back up in a couple of hours…”
Gerard Van der Leun
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“What do we do? How did anyone retire before? Without retirement accounts or Social Security what did people DO when they got old? They. Had. Children.”
Barnhardt, by all accounts as I understand, has never married nor had children.
I’m not judging that unto itself, I’m divorced with no kids, but I’m not writing on the intertubs about people deciding to not have kids have made a mistake.
“If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.” — Malcolm Muggeridge
But as we know now, it was not either-or, it is both-and. The party most obsessed with no-rules sex is also psychopathically obsessed with power.
@tim: Yeah, I thought that as well. I like Ann, but she often goes overboard with her rhetoric, and sometimes seems like she’s projecting. From what I’ve derived in Ann’s writings, she seems to believe she’ll be martyred before old age, so marriage, kids, and retirement were never part of the plan.
(For the record, I’m yet another aging Gen-Joneser with no kids. Never met the right woman.)
did the Barnhardt~
I’ve said from time to time, concerning civil rights struggles for instance, that the heavy lifting was done already- so it seems then injustice has to be found in such small amounts one has to wonder just how “real” a particular issue is. as presented in the video, if it isn’t there, just concoct an issue. obama stated when he began his activist’s career he needed an issue, it could be one so simple as the absence of a traffic light at an intersection, to push his ideology.
apologies-
I’m riffing on a video that was linked on the Sout Park vid at Barnhardt, dealing with Orwell, Hitler, Mein Kampf-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LA4gI69CMsg&feature=emb_rel_end
“Pain without end, Amen”
Before you can invoke this prayer you have to forgive those who have sinned against you. All of them. Completely. Not just say it, but make it happen in your heart.
If you can do that and you still want to invoke this blasphemy, start over – by forgiving those who have sinned against you.
Jahaziel notes that forgiving those that sin against you, as admonished in The Lord’s Prayer, is rather important, but I fully appreciate the sentiments expressed by Lance, but note, too, that Christians are admonished to hate what is evil, and there is plenty of evil to hate, most of which is promulgated by the political class, and justifies being angry.
Perhaps this prayer, prayed Pastor Joe Wright, at the opening of the Kansas State senate, on January 23, 1996, would be somewhat more appropriate, afterall, it made a number of Kansas senators squirm enough to walk out on the prayer, as speaking the truth can do.
Heavenly Father, we come before You today to ask Your forgiveness and seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, “Woe on those who call evil good,” but that’s exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values.
We confess that: We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism; We have worshiped other gods and called it multiculturalism; We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle; We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery; We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation; We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare; We have killed our unborn and called it choice; We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable; We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self- esteem; We have abused power and called it political savvy; We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition; We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression; We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of Kansas, and who have been ordained by You, to govern this great state. Grant them Your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your will. I ask it in the name of Your Son, the Living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Re: Vox Day
He’s like a bag of those magic jelly beans from Harry Potter. You may get Merry Cherry, Peach Delight, or Vulture Shit. Love him or hate him, he’s always worth a listen.
JWM
The precatory psalms is well worth praying. As for Barnhardt’s perpetual singlehood, I think it makes perfect sense. She’s the type who’ll get martyred just because of her yap. A lot of people don’t marry and have children. A lot of people hook up, live together a while, and then go on The People’s Court to fight over who gets the dog. Modern times. Crazy times. What Ann fails to mention in her well reasoned article is that many people who had a passel of kids are now raising grandkids because growing up is hard, and babies don’t stay cute. If you go to the lonely McDonald’s playland Everywhere, USA, you will find the old ones raising the young ones. People in their 70s stuck with great grandchildren as their proteges. Despair smells like McNuggets and plastic Happy Meal toys.
magaville is incorrect about the mRNA COVID vaccine. It is not gene therapy, it does not modify your body’s genes.
The only thing missing from Lance de Boyle’s powerful prayer is Vanderleun at the end,intoning:
“So it is written. So shall it be.”
Hi John Smith.
Word for word:
If an mRNA vaccine was approved for coronavirus, it would be the first of its type. ‘It’s a very unique way of making a vaccine and, so far, no (such) vaccine has been licenced for infectious disease,’ said Prof. Bekeredjian-Ding.
Vaccines work by training the body to recognise and respond to the proteins produced by disease-causing organisms, such as a virus or bacteria. Traditional vaccines are made up of small or inactivated doses of the whole disease-causing organism, or the proteins that it produces, which are introduced into the body to provoke the immune system into mounting a response.
mRNA vaccines, in contrast, trick the body into producing some of the viral proteins itself. They work by using mRNA, or messenger RNA, which is the molecule that essentially puts DNA instructions into action. Inside a cell, mRNA is used as a template to build a protein. ‘An mRNA is basically like a pre-form of a protein and its (sequence encodes) what the protein is basically made of later on,’ said Prof. Bekeredjian-Ding.
Just a small sample.
Also, the FDA authorization letter to Pfizer, word for word:
“This product has not been approved or licensed by FDA…”
I don’t like stupid people flapping their lips when they haven’t bothered to engorge at least one brain cell with knowledge. The further you go back in my blog, you will see that I had incessantly looked into this Corona-Cooties nonsense. BTW, I have been exposed personally to 16 PCR tested positive people that I know of. Still waiting to suddenly drop dead in a China street. My wife 20+ at her work. A small fraction had the sniffles and got tested. All but one, the majority, got tested because the government scared them into getting tested, and they ended up positive although they had no symptoms. ONE, who I had my head under the hood of a car with, being breathed on and coughed on, ended up in the hospital with pneumonia a few day later. He has type 2 diabetes and had just recently been through cancer chemotherapy. They had him on oxygen laying on his stomach, steroids to control the immune system, antibiotics in case his pneumonia went bacterial, and C-D3-Zinc-B1. He was out in 5 days. Thank God they didn’t murder him by intubation <— Follow? No? I still haven't had so much as the sniffles, much less drop dead in the middle of a China street.
I asked him what all his symptoms were. And of course, there was the dreaded "I couldn't smell or taste anything." I told him to go to the CDC website and look all the symptoms of the Flu-Cooties from minor, moderate, to severe. Well, he did. The same symptoms I had 30+ years ago when I got the SEVERE FLU.
Turn off the damn stupid box full of pseudo "experts".
Anyhow, I'm not going to clog up Gerard's blog with research. The fact is, 98% of Boobus AmeriKanus hasn't spend an iota looking into the plandemic, other than the TeeVee people said, or the government "expert" said.
John Smith sed: “It is not gene therapy, it does not modify your body’s genes.”
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Can you provide proof of that?
How? Easy I/we did what my parents did, my grand parents and my great grand parents did, what we were taught. I/we invested early, continued to invest, ups downs just part of life, so far a home run, we’ll see what’s up at seventy. Mostly invested in mans vices!.
Barnhart, the rest are Internet personalities, I played their game for the last six years, WRSA, American Partisan, all the ” Right” “Informative” right wing sites, took me a few years to understand their all cowards, all hat no saddle.
Recently was told by some clown who calls himself NC Scout, I’m an Idiot!!!! I roared with laughter, he’s right I am an idiot at times. I grow tired of these self serving ” experts” and “Staff” using the language and the Tools of the left, ” Censorship” , explaining THEIR DPMS or Olympic arms, M4 war fighting rifle. Best old school mil pack ” pure garbage” by today’s standards Seems these guys intend to talk the left to death.
I think my point is, 99% of us had good growing up models, we were taught the difference between the truth and a lie, right from wrong. Other then the theft of an election in which NOBODY, did a thing, nothing. I include myself in this crowd. Nothing has changed.
I’m done listening to these knuckleheads, these personalities. tired of being angry, not a thing has changed on our mountain, what will change soon was noted and addressed years ago. with pieces parts, work arounds. Any of us whom are serious about our families or friends their health welfare, should have been addressing what’s to,come long ago.
We see food shortages next. But then you all are aware.
And with that I’ll say good night using my “new” titled given by the wise all seeing Marxist, NC Scout!
Good night.
The Village Idiot.
JWM, re. Vox, that’s an excellent way to put it.
John V. , thanks for sharing that prayer.
Sometimes, I find it comforting to read the psalms and see there that David – who after all was a man after God’s own heart – often cried out to God to utterly destroy the wicked. Hearing about acts of utter depravity such as the wanna-be baby-raping Republican staffer who was arrested this week, I wonder if someone as far gone as that even has a spark of humanity left that can be saved. It must be possible – for with God, all things are possible – that such a man might experience a true conversion; however, if such a man did experience a true conversion, he would surely long to tie the millstone around his own neck in horror at what he had been.
Jeff Bezos(paraphrasing) “I’m running for President. Get out of my way. Now.”
I believe the deal is, if you admit wrongdoing and a wicked heart, reject your former self, try to make amends, and seek forgiveness, then you get it. Forgiving seals the deal.
Otherwise, the forgiving has no effect (“Ha! And the asshole actually forgave me for killing his little girl! What a putz!”), and is virtue signaling. “Oh, look at me forgive this killer. This proves I’m better than he is.”
The L-rd.
“Dickhead!”
John Smith is wrong. I think BillyGates would also confess as such. “BIG COVID is a trillion-dollar industry and those who profit from it will make sure covid never goes away.” Take as much as you can tolerate. Leave me alone. https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-02-12-big-covid-trillion-dollar-industry-profit.html
John Smith, you’re wrong. My dear wife has been a member of the American Chemical Society since she was 19 (she’s much smarter than meself), when she saw the “M” in the mRNA COVID vaccine she screamed, “That’s used in cloning! The M stands for ‘messenger’ used for copying a gene from the DNA, it’s used in gene therapy. I’ve used it myself!” So yes John, it does and will modify your body’s genes.
Perhaps the dismal weather here, what with the entire shootin’ match, Manteo to Murphy, receiving endless precipitation of one sort or another and thus not amenable to grinding out more miles on the Mountains to Sea, has me inclined toward just a bit of the black dog, surely not helped by taking in the latest episode of the ongoing shit show from the Capitol. I’m apparently getting pretty jaded these days, as my younger self would be up in arms. I figure into the near future we could be seeing ANYTHING, up to and including scenes from “Idiocracy”. I look to see the wraith of poor old Mikhail Nikolayevitch in the dockby Tuesday,at the latest.
Here is a link to a cogent and informative tell all discussion on the so-called Covid vaccine. I trust this doctor far more than our Godless, sexless, directionless loon of a government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mPIomjWwd4&t=1597s
Lance’s ‘prayer’ (I really don’t think of it as a prayer) is a fine and fitting application that should be applied to the Left, the Deep State, NWO and other communists sympathizers and assorted psychopaths who are deliberately in league to destroy the good folks, world wide, who only want to live in liberty and in peace and deal with whatever life has for them.
These oppressors are monsters whose only fate should be death and whose last act on earth should be one in which they are lined up without blindfolds to face a lethal firing squad and then to be summarily dispatched to whatever lies for them on the other side of this existence. They’re sheep killing predators and free men have two choices, either live under their fist or do just as Eve should have done and hunt up a big stick and use it with dispatch. History and their intent has proven too many times that there are no other choices.
Sentiment and forgiveness are necessary but this thing we’re living through now is war and it cannot be called anything else, either in the spirit or desire to be right before God or to be politically correct so that you don’t piss your neighbors off.
Most of us, even us veterans, do not want to engage anyone in conflict but we will if we’re forced, at any age. Soldiers on battle fields typically do not desire, wish or pray for the good fortune and success of deadly enemies and we damned sure don’t come forward with arms outstretched, holding a white flag of surrender, begging them for mercy and telling them that despite their vicious wickedness and desire for death that we want their forgiveness.
God judges our hearts and I think that must mean who we are when we are just going about our daily routines and not when placed into situations where we have to do what is necessary to protect what is right and to destroy what is evil.
No gene mods? I kinda like the conspiracy theory the vaccine will sterilize the population & the birth rate will drop drastically some nine months from now, not affecting non vaccinated criminal alien invaders, of course.
Vox Day? Often a pompous ass. Having said that, I admit, it takes one to know one.
Retirement savings: Haven’t really paid attention to what the boomers are doing, I’m a generation older, but avoiding debt worked will for me. Paid off my property purchase ASAP, built my house paycheck to paycheck, paid cash for used vehicles, invested in stocks, etc., but only money I could afford to lose. So far in my dotage I still remember to and can afford to pay my heating bills even with heating oil at $2.50 a gallon here.
Bread and circuses; probably haven’t had the TV turned on for more than an hour over the last 5 years. I do enjoy my shot of Jameson’s and or a beer or wine, including beer & wine I brew myself. Yep, on occasion, pretty much any occasion but my drinking can’t hold a candle to those old guys, Washington, Ben Franklin, et al, & they seemed to get a wee bit done in spite of their drinking.
Why am I so dang happy? To paraphrase the Maverick Philosopher;
Well, I live in Alaska, a state where you can stretch your arms and shout freely if ever there was one, and I have lived here for going on 58 years. Today is another one of those exquisitely beautiful, halcyon, February days on top of the world. I am sitting here, a fire in the wood stove, the sun peeking through the snow covered spruce. My working for money days are long past and any work I do for the fun of it is going well. My health is good. I enjoy the bliss and security of obscurity while garnering all the recognition I need.
Sentiment and forgiveness are necessary but this thing we’re living through now is war and it cannot be called anything else, either in the spirit or desire to be right before God or to be politically correct so that you don’t piss your neighbors off.
Most of us, even us veterans, do not want to engage anyone in conflict but we will if we’re forced, at any age…
God judges our hearts and I think that must mean who we are when we are just going about our daily routines and not when placed into situations where we have to do what is necessary to protect what is right and to destroy what is evil.
Amen, Jack. Well said.
SO. It’s been 8 weeks since the coup ‘etat took place. You know. You all know that there are things YOU can and must do to save this country. Here are some examples:
stop buying from these companies:
Amazon
Microsoft
Washington Post and New York Times
Costco
Help your children and grandchildren get into local community Home School Associations. If their community doesn’t have one–well, get out there and help them build one up. Help them do online schooling from private schools which are not “common core”. You can organize it through places that were formerly Protestant Churches. They will rent your group a room too meet in for very little money.
These are things that you can do without threat to your well being. Have YOU done any of them?
Sorry, Barnhardt comes across as an unhinged loon. Couldn’t get past the second paragraph.
Such a rich post and a hale phalanx of commentators. It’s a privilege of the moment to read here.
DC is under military occupation, and they’re coming for your guns. The gun law won’t pass in its current form but your enemy has flagged for you his next moves. The economy of the US is: all the money the government has control of. Your property belongs to the government, in effect. You are only allowed firearms until we can figure out how to pry them from your c… d… hands, says congress and the president.
Enjoy your day.
What guns Casey? I’m sure you lost all yours just like I lost all mine when the canoe tipped over. Been a real rash of those accidents happening lately.
James, I lost all of mine swimming my tank through a river crossing. Never liked them, anyway.
I love Obama, Biden, Hillary, et al. I want to birth Biden’s love child, and call him Karl Marx.
I* birth Biden’s love child every morning after coffee while sitting in the smallest room in my home.
The ocean levels are rising due to all the lost gunz.
Call me butterfingers but I’ve lost ’bout 40-50 guns in my lifetime.
I hope to own another one someday when they become available again.
Geez, Gerard! Stay away from Biden, then. Yeesh.
Oh c’mon you guys I don’t know what “I * birth Biden’s love child” means. What does “I*”mean?