tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088587647616204792024-03-28T16:32:36.242-06:00Unabashedly AmericanThe unapologetic thoughts and meanderings of a patriot that was blessed by God beyond measure to be born in the United States of AmericaDarrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.comBlogger782125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-43976753779075195842024-03-26T07:00:00.001-06:002024-03-26T11:11:10.669-06:00The Unbridgeable Divide Between Left and Right<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP_X6mRZ38aTST2__KQFxG-2bgMcbZ-LrqOzXEeizvuMlIeGW8QoWOM-XZJxrTefRXSdlmxZeroLbtjrucL-TQwEiXdK0Iwl2AxKxz637MDxHKIhfKetJMURTEED5G5612ZKPEfgbhsfxKet5LSpNsUzSbCReVMErrXW-B2vvf3_gnkj3oGswgEXw_ROo/s237/leftright.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="237" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP_X6mRZ38aTST2__KQFxG-2bgMcbZ-LrqOzXEeizvuMlIeGW8QoWOM-XZJxrTefRXSdlmxZeroLbtjrucL-TQwEiXdK0Iwl2AxKxz637MDxHKIhfKetJMURTEED5G5612ZKPEfgbhsfxKet5LSpNsUzSbCReVMErrXW-B2vvf3_gnkj3oGswgEXw_ROo/w320-h232/leftright.PNG" width="320" /></a></div>The United States of America is irredeemably divided today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much so that to call us the “United”
States seems like a mockery of the name. <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Obama ran his
duplicitous campaign on “hope and change” with an underlying theme of bringing
Americans together, or so the politically ignorant thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ironically our first black president did more
to destroy race relations and divide the nation than any other politician in
recent memory… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>up until that point in
time anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Trump came along next and, surprisingly
to the left, won the oval office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
absolute hate and venom spewed at the man who actually brought far greater prosperity
to most Americans (especially those of color), energy independence, and
stability and greater prospects for lasting peace in the world was demonized by
teeth-gnashing leftists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">And then Biden tripped
up the steps to the White House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is
a man with a long history of racist comments, no significant accomplishments,
and as former Obama defense Secretary Robert Gates so aptly characterized as having
“been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue
over the past four decades.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add to that
an unmatched penchant for corruption and apparent cognitive degradation while systematically
seeming to be in a hurry to finish the “fundamental transformation” of America
that Obama promised, and the chasm between right and left has widened to the
point of being irreparable today.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We often hear talk about this un-spannable divide these days
with folks on both sides of the chasm wondering if a new civil war is
coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There does indeed seem to be
damned little to suggest that we can fix this divide and unite our nation once
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does one find common ground
when many of the points of contention are diametrically opposed and argued so
vehemently?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The self-declared “party of science” believes men can become
women and vice versa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They believe that
men can menstruate, while the other side knows that it is a biological fact that
this only occurs to women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They think
that men should be able to compete in sports as girls, while the other side
sees the absurdity, dangerousness, and unfairness of this charade.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The leftists believe that being “colorblind” is a racist
notion while the other side happens to believe what that great “racist” Dr.
Martin Luther King believed in that being colorblind was the antidote to racism
and that character is what matters.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How are we to bridge the chasm between those that think the
murder, rape, torture, and kidnapping of innocent men, women, and children in
Israel which surpassed even the Nazi regime with their glee of doing so is
morally superior to the Israelis wanting to only live in peace instead of constantly
being attacked by Hamas, Hezbollah, and myriad other Iranian-backed
morally-repugnant terrorists?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the middle of this truly existential crisis where the
people of Israel are fighting for their very existence so as to live in their
country in peace and freedom, it seems that President Biden and his political
allies, including Senator Majority Leader and ironically Jewish Chuck Schumer
(D-N.Y.), are making efforts to overthrow the elected prime minister of Israel,
Benjamin Netanyahu, by calling for new elections. These activities are nothing
but a cynical attempt to influence Muslim voters in key states during America’s
upcoming election.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leftist think this is
permissible or even good, while the other side sees this for the morally detestable
political chicanery that it is.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How are we to reconcile the divide between those who believe
young children should be brought to drag queen shows and those who believe this
hyper-sexualization of our children is morally despicable?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What about those that think defunding the police will reduce
violent crime and help curb racism over those that fall victim to the surge to such
crime in areas where such policies have been enacted?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And what about those that think “defending democracy” means
to try and throw up any roadblock imaginable to ensure an opposing candidate or
issue is unable to get on a ballot for the people to decide?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, if a majority of the citizenry wants and
votes for a particular value or candidate deemed conservative, democracy is
“threatened” according to the left? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isn’t that the very definition of
democracy—the candidate or policy with the most votes wins?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How are we to bridge the divide between those who believe in
suppressing free speech if they deem any given speech as “hateful” or “misinformation”
and those who believe in actual free speech, even when they disagree with it?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What about those that think cutting off healthy body parts
of our still-developing children and injecting dangerous cross-sex hormones and
hormone blockers into them in the name of “gender affirming care” with those
that see this as genital, psychological, and bodily mutilation of our
children? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ironically the Left never perceives itself as imposing its
values, and yet it was largely the Left that forced as many Americans as
possible to get the frequently harmful COVID-19 vaccine and to utilize ineffectually-proven masks in public. The Left forced young people who were at minimal risk
from the virus to get vaccinated and forced children to miss school for nearly
two years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do we bridge that gap
with the other side that saw this as hyperbole, governmental over-reach, and unacceptable
intrusion into personal choice.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And speaking of “choice”, how do we ever bridge the gap
where one side thinks abortion on demand up until the time of birth should be a
woman’s right to choose her own “reproductive health care” and the other side’s
acknowledgement that this is a human life that is being slaughtered on the
altar of “choice”?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Finally, leftists either deny Biden’s corruption and
accepting of bribes despite a mountain of evidence in support of the facts or
they simply think it doesn’t matter as long as Trump doesn’t return to
office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other side may not support
Trump but they think that bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors committed by our president matter
and that Biden should be impeached and removed from office for such deplorable
violations of trust accordingly.<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is just a partial list of some of the greatest arguments
that divide our nation, and every last one of these positions is mutually
contradictory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is ironic that those
that hold these diametrically-opposed positions on either end of the issues
also acknowledge that these are unbridgeable.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I wish I had a solution to bridge this divide, but like
those flipping me off on the other side of the chasm, I am not willing to compromise
on these core values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And neither are
they.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, what happens from here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does the chasm only widen, the rhetoric become
even more heated, and eventually the violence in support of opposing ideas
finally come to horrible fruition?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does
the nation divide into blue and red states of separate nations?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sadly, it seems that the Left-Right divide we are seeing
today is at least as great as the Union-Confederacy divide before and during
the Civil War. Ironically the only thing that remains the same is that it was
the Democratic Party that opposed freedom then, and it is the Democratic Party
that opposes freedom today.</p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4UOrSJG1RF1RIHK1lMGJsRvhEymZgceE7bpggQMvaC2vGVydyrB0OBDSCrc71Jl3cVH072aB94IuMXrUd2_cCncUnc8iTwrYUu5-fQdDhegheD4iWyOvwCX4CG8pLZfUDpCVmGEP8MGwJhFctadTlQyWWLrf6NV-05kGUJ8-xUvfRTSkVSpJCvkaETI/s776/impeachables.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="776" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4UOrSJG1RF1RIHK1lMGJsRvhEymZgceE7bpggQMvaC2vGVydyrB0OBDSCrc71Jl3cVH072aB94IuMXrUd2_cCncUnc8iTwrYUu5-fQdDhegheD4iWyOvwCX4CG8pLZfUDpCVmGEP8MGwJhFctadTlQyWWLrf6NV-05kGUJ8-xUvfRTSkVSpJCvkaETI/s320/impeachables.PNG" width="320" /></a></div>I find it to be utterly amazing the lengths that partisan
leftists (is there another kind?) will go to defend the indefensible Joe
Biden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The twisting of facts or the
outright ignoring of them to support this senile and seemingly congenitally
corrupt “leader” confounds and baffles common sense. The list of crimes, faux
pas, dangerous and foolish decisions, and outright lies that Biden has
committed throughout his VP and presidential careers should have long ago been
enough to have him removed from office either by the 25th amendment due to his
cognitive disability or by impeachment for his accepting of bribes and high
crimes and misdemeanors, which many on the left naively or perhaps duplicitously dub as fairy tales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The left points to the recent hyper-partisan State of the Union speech
last week where Biden seemingly slammed three Red Bulls prior to delivering it
as proof that he is cognitively able to continue on his destroy-America agenda. I guess one semi-articulate speech is enough to overcome untold myriads of unintelligible giberish and prevarication-filled ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regardless, the list of his impeachable offenses is long and could fill
a large tome, but here is just a brief summarization of some of the more
serious ones which is in no way exhaustive of his malfeasance.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Illegal Immigration</b> – Biden’s utter and complete dereliction
of duty in upholding federal immigration law has reached such a pitch that even
many blue-state, sanctuary city types have called for Biden to halt the flow of
over 8 million illegal aliens that have entered this country since he came into
the oval office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden disingenuously claims
that he is waiting on congress to send him an immigration bill so he can fix
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bull!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The huge inflow was largely being squelched
under Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden’s handling of this
has been to issue 89 executive orders that basically eliminated Trump era
policies on immigration, to include eliminating the stay-in-Mexico policy, the
establishing of catch and release, and the halting of building an effective border
wall.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of the primary duties of the president is to faithfully
execute the laws of this nation and protect its citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden has failed on this issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is well past a point of neglect as he is
absolutely intentionally encouraging illegal immigration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is striking how many of these illegal aliens
coming across our border are military-aged adult males along with the myriad of
criminals and people on terrorist watch lists from adversarial countries that
are coming across our border.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Too many are sex-traffickers and drug smugglers.<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As Trump pointed out, “Last year, almost half of all ICE
arrests were criminal aliens charged for more than 33,000 assaults, 3,000
robberies, 6,900 burglaries, 7,500 weapons crimes — this is all migrant crime —
4,300 sex crimes, 1,600 kidnappings, and 1,700 homicides and murders.”
Tellingly, the legacy media’s numerous “fact-checks” of Trump’s speech found no
error in these grim statistics.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Further, Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security has been impeached
for his handling of Biden’s border policy while claiming the “border is secure”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while the leftist-led senate will not
conduct a trial of Secretary Mayorkas, the House of Representatives could
credibly and constitutionally also use this as grounds for impeachment against
Biden.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Weaponizing Federal Law Enforcement</b> – Biden has misused
and weaponized the federal government agencies to include intelligence agencies
and law enforcement to enforce his woke policies on Americans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The FBI prosecuted supposed FACE act
violations against abortion clinics but turned blind eyes to crimes perpetrated
against pregnancy resource centers and destruction/vandalism of churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They investigated parents who stood up in
school board meetings to protest transgenderism and other leftist policies in
schools, while investigation (let alone prosecution) of criminals vandalizing
or burning pregnancy resource centers and churches is often left unaddressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden continues to use the government to
persecute and prosecute political adversaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is an egregious mis-use of executive power and impeachable.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Retreat from Afghanistan </b>– Biden, against the advice
of his senior military officers, precipitated a hasty and disastrous retreat
from Afghanistan that left over seven billion dollars of military equipment and
weapons behind for the Taliban to capture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In this most asinine and evil decision, his actions were directly
responsible for the deaths of 13 US service members and untold Afghan allies
left behind to be tortured and killed by our enemies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This disgraceful action served as a beacon to
Russia, China, Iran and other enemies that America was weak and would not stand
by its allies any longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
intentional and cowardly executed retreat failed to protect our assets, allies,
and own military personnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This action alone
is unworthy of a commander in chief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
preventable death to our people and the strengthening of mortal enemies desiring
our eradication is another impeachable offense.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Student Loan Forgiveness</b> – In another cynical attempt
to buy votes, Biden has repeatedly issued executive orders and promulgated
policies to pay off student loans with tax payer dollars in the hope of
ingratiating himself further to leftist students and woke academia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has often been done in defiance of the
Supreme Court decision of Biden v. Nebraska in which a co-equal branch of the
federal government said that he did not have the authority to make such
transformative changes to existing law when it came to student loan forgiveness.
Biden has continued anyway in violation of SCOTUS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden and his vote-buying policies are not
above the federal law of which he took an oath to support and faithfully
execute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One more impeachable offense.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Interfering with Israel/Supporting terrorists</b> – After
10/7/2023, Biden came out the gate saying all of the right things to our ally
and only democracy in the Middle East after the pernicious attacks on Israeli
civilians by the barbaric Hamas terrorists in Gaza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone that has watched Biden knew this
wouldn’t last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, Biden has
consistently mettled in internal Israel affairs and repeatedly called for
cease-fires against the egregiously evil Hamas terrorists so that they can
regroup and attack Israel once again, as they have repeatedly stated they WILL
do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile Biden wants more US Aid to
Hamas and their indisputable allies in the corrupt and vile UNWRA to “help”
Gazans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This aid always gets diverted to
the Hamas terrorists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are we
supporting such disgusting sub-humans that killed, raped, and tortured civilian
men, women, and children whom STILL hold Israeli and AMERICAN hostages?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">I guess that the Rashida-Tlaib-Muslim vote is
just too important for Biden to stand against abject evil instead of with our
democratic ally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that Biden
wants a cease fire which only strengthens Hamas, refuses to support Israel in eradicating
these vermin and getting our own American citizens back from these ghouls is
another astounding dereliction of Commander in Chief duties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden has even recently been advocating for a two-state
solution once again with this terrorist regime side by side with Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the while he acquiesces and placates
Hamas’ sponsor of the world’s largest state actor of terrorism, Iran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iran funds, trains, and provides supplies to
Hamas, Hezbollah, and various other groups including those that have launched
over 130 attacks on US troops since October 7<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden’s solution is to play nice with Iran
with the hope that they will reciprocate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Biden should be impeached for appeasement of a deadly enemy while
undermining our staunchest ally in the Middle East.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Classified Files</b> – It is ironic that the "elderly and forgetful" president who illegally removed classified files while still a senator
and as Vice President, which is itself illegal, is not going to be charged with
this federal crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile President
Trump who had presidential authority to remove such files to his secure and
secret service protected home was charged with a crime and falsely impeached
accordingly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Special Counsel Robert Hur
released his report in February, concluding that Biden “willfully retained and
disclosed classified materials” after his vice presidency ended in early 2009.
However, the special counsel opted not to bring charges, writing that a jury
would be unlikely to convict because of Biden’s “diminished faculties in
advancing age.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden stored these files
in his GARAGE and at his office at the Penn Biden Center as well as discovered
in materials donated to the University of Delaware.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Remember, Biden attorney general Merrick Garland is the
person who made the decision to bring the unprecedented charges against
President Trump for the non-crime of a former president having his presidential
records in the office of a former president, which is allowed by the Presidential
Records Act. The former president’s office is guarded by the Secret Service. He
gets federally-funded staff. They have security clearances. Contrast that with
Biden, who had at least five stashes — maybe six — of stolen classified records
from his time as vice president, even his time as a senator, meaning he had to
have stolen these classified records out of the Senate. Schiff and Merrick
Garland did not bring charges against his boss, Joe Biden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Further Biden stole some of these classified documents for
his own financial advantage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He got an
$8 million advance to write his book. That’s why he had some of these stolen
classified records. The New York Post’s Miranda Devine also reported that
Hunter Biden almost certainly used stolen classified records to write a
23-paragraph geopolitics memo to Burisma to secure millions of dollars in
corrupt funding to the Bidens. The Bidens stole classified records and used
them for their financial gain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a
legitimate impeachable offense, unlike the partisan charges against Trump.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bribes</b> – The constitution specifically states that TREASON,
BRIBERY, and other high crimes and misdemeanors are impeachable offenses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And where there is this much smoke, it is
painfully obvious that a raging fire is the source of it all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a gargantuan amount of evidence that
supports the assertion that Biden is guilty of taking bribes from foreign
entities for his influence as Vice President and Presidenton their behalfs, laundered through
the corrupt Biden Crime Family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Indeed, one of the famous incidents in which Biden’s family
was enriched due to Biden’s direct influence is even see on video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I, of course, refer to then-VP Biden telling
Ukraine to remove Viktor Shokin from investigating the corrupt Burisma Holdings
(a Ukrainian oil and gas company) for which his congenitally corrupt son Hunter
Biden held a very lucrative position on the board despite having no experience
or qualifications other than his last name for being appointed to such a
position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joe Biden threatened to hold
up US loan guarantees to Ukraine if they refused to fire Shokin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They of course fired Shokin for which Biden
brags about on video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When President
Trump asked that the Ukrainian government look into this for any signs of
corruption, the Democrats in congress decided to impeach Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ironic.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The fact is that there is plenty of evidence and testimony
that Biden regularly met with and corresponded with Hunter and brother James
Biden’s shady business associates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
included a 2014 meeting between Biden, then vice president, and his son’s
business associates at Cafe Milano restaurant about 2 miles northwest of the
White House, and another meeting at the restaurant in 2015. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The 2014 meeting included billionaire Yelena Baturina, the
widow of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who invested in Rosemont Seneca
Thornton, one of the younger Biden’s business operations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Devon Archer, a Hunter Biden business associate, testified
that, when vice president, Joe Biden was on speakerphone with his son’s
business associates “maybe 20 times.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The FBI recorded an interview with Rob Walker, another
associate of the Biden family, in which Walker said the elder Biden attended a
meeting about CEFC, a Chinese energy company that his son was in business with.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Walker is the same Biden associate who once wrote in an
email about the split of financial proceeds: “Ten [percent] held by H for the
big guy.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The “H” was presumed to stand for Hunter, and the “big guy”
was presumed to be Joe Biden. (One former business partner of the president’s
son, Tony Bobulinski, has said he had no doubt that Biden was “the big guy.”)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">According to other testimony, evidence showed that on July
30, 2017, Hunter Biden demanded payment of $10 million from CEFC, the Chinese
energy company, in a WhatsApp message to CEFC executive Raymond Zhao. In the
same message, the younger Biden claimed that his father was seated “next to”
him at the time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to
understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” the WhatsApp
message shows Hunter Biden writing. The younger Biden adds:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now
before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or
text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang [Jianjun Zang, CEFC’s
executive director], or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man
sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a
grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here
waiting for the call with my father.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Dec. 5, the House Ways and Means Committee released 327
emails that showed that while serving as vice president, Joe Biden used aliases
to correspond directly with his son’s business associates. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of those, 54 emails were exclusively between Joe Biden and
one of Hunter Biden’s business partners, Eric Schwerin, who was in charge of
structuring the Biden family’s various shell companies. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Another 38 emails were sent from White House staffers to an
email account in the name of an alias for Joe Biden, with copies to Hunter
Biden.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The committee discovered that the president’s brother, James
Biden, wrote a $200,000 check in 2018 to him and noted it was a “loan
repayment.” The check was cut the same day that James Biden got a $200,000
payment from a rural health care company called Americore Holdings LLC. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The panel also released bank records of a $40,000 check in
2017 to Joe Biden from James Biden and his wife Sara, which committee
Republicans say is linked to China’s CEFC.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In May, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee
released financial records showing that Hunter Biden and other Biden family
members received several million dollars from Chinese nationals and companies. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“In 2017 alone, bank records show President Biden’s family
and their related companies received millions of dollars from Chinese foreign
nationals’ companies,” the committee’s report from March says. “This amount
does not include payments from Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Romania, Oman, or
other foreign business deals the committee is investigating; it also does not
include any payments related to Hunter Biden’s interest in BHR Partners or
Jonathan Li.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Li joined Biden and Archer in 2012 to found BHR Partners,
also called Bohai Capital, a company linked to the Chinese government.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The same committee report also noted “the Biden family’s
troubling receipt of payments from China, particularly the individual Ye
Jianming and his company, CEFC, to show what was from 2015 to 2018 a growing
interest by people closely tied to the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] in
cultivating a relationship with the Biden family.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These allegations for which there is substantial evidence
alone is enough to impeach, remove, and imprison the corrupt and senile Joe
Biden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, this will not happen
though as the leftist media and the Democrat-controlled senate will not conduct
a trial if articles of impeachment were brought forth by the house.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These are just a few of the IMPEACHABLE offenses for which
Biden should be removed from office NOW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As I said the list is far from exhaustive and doesn’t include non-impeachable
but equally dangerous executive branch decisions made by Biden or whomever is
feeding him Red Bulls, Ensure, and anti-American policies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regardless, Biden at the very least must not win in
November.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ironically the leftists that
vote for him in order to “save democracy” will be dooming that very cause if
this corrupt and dementia-addled charlatan is re-elected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Evidently though, you can be above the law if you are a leftist president.<br /></span></p>
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<![endif]--></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJEwmHVSBOiiTwQZeAfPgc8DtsBt5w0DdM3UhqMhzwj0eEzgliyQVoeLkm9kxqXwYSbbLEC6aHZcwrO-5-sewzG3sgf60IsaZHwCArrTc9JupzlGEZTE83QeDaa586KrdsevD2iZLuFDkN-L-mOarodkAov01FM-ncB6nqhOaB4wOZgsjthy-X2T9WAww/s317/10%25%20to%20the%20big%20guy.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="317" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJEwmHVSBOiiTwQZeAfPgc8DtsBt5w0DdM3UhqMhzwj0eEzgliyQVoeLkm9kxqXwYSbbLEC6aHZcwrO-5-sewzG3sgf60IsaZHwCArrTc9JupzlGEZTE83QeDaa586KrdsevD2iZLuFDkN-L-mOarodkAov01FM-ncB6nqhOaB4wOZgsjthy-X2T9WAww/s1600/10%25%20to%20the%20big%20guy.PNG" width="317" /></a></div>I love the United States of America deeply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not just a throw-away line of sun-shine
patriotism or some saccharine statement of sentimentality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I truly believe in the principles upon which
this nation was founded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I have put
my butt on the line by defending this nation for six years on active duty and
in the first Persian Gulf war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
father, grandfather, and uncles have similarly served honorably in the military
to protect this nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our actions back
our sentiments.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I believe in We The People, limited and constitutionally constrained
federal government, and that the powers given to our elected leaders are
derived from us American citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our natural
rights are given to ALL of us by God as stated in our founding document as a
nation, and not by some supposedly benign government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is incumbent upon the executive, legislative,
and judicial branches to govern according to the limited powers given them by
the constitution and NOT to exceed those mandates, as anything not specifically
granted the federal government in the way of powers, duties, and
responsibilities is reserved to the individual states and/or the people of America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that all three branches have broken
this trust is precisely why we are in the mess we are today and why we see a dangerously
precipitous decline in the greatness of this nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our corrupt government though is only a sad symptom of the underlying
cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem is the malignant
infection of progressivism in our schools, culture, businesses media, and even in
many of our houses of worship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is our
lack of objective and accurate education in history, economics, and civics (let
alone reading, writing, and arithmetic) that has created lazy, ignorant, or even
malicious citizen voters that want to elect officials to provide for them lucre
from the federal treasury for which they are not entitled and for which the
officials have no constitutional authority to give.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This November may very well be the defining point of whether
this country that I love collapses under the weight of its $34 trillion in debt
and unconstitutional laws and mandates, or whether it begins to repair the
damage done by decades of various administrations and corrupt congresses of both
major political parties.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That said, the race for the presidency is looking to be a
rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is a match up that many on both the left and the right wish for a
different candidate for their champion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many
play the good soldier though and tout their party’s candidate in public while
suffering from dyspepsia in private.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
will let my heart burn be known publicly. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As many of my readers know, I do not like Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is an egotistical jerk whose main
purpose is to champion himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
said, the contrast is starkly clear between the way he governed with many of
the good things Trump accomplished and that of the current senile and thoroughly
corrupt head of the Biden Crime family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once again, I will likely end up casting my general election vote for a
candidate I dislike and refuse to vote for in the primary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The consequences are far too great if Biden
were to miraculously/cursedly be re-elected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I dare say the standing of our republic hangs in the balance of this
decision and that of whom will control the House and Senate.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It amazes me how bright and articulate people, some of whom
I consider friends and family, are actually touting the necessity of putting
Biden and whomever pulls his strings back in the oval office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is readily apparent that Biden does not
have the cognitive, let alone the moral ability to govern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His senility and duplicitous character is on
stage for the world to see, including our enemies, every single time Biden
makes a public appearance.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His accomplishments are none.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Zero. Zilch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every decision made seems to be in direct
contradiction to what is constitutional and/or best for our nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At times, it almost seems as if Biden thinks
Orwell’s “1984” is a how-to book.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Despite self-described “old-fashioned Americans”, Wilsonian-style
progressives, Democratic Socialists, and other assorted leftists with their
screeds to the contrary, they do NOT love America and its ideals of justice and
liberty for all. They want to "fundamentally transform" our nation into an unrecognizable woke socialist utopia open to all of the human detritus of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, our country has often fallen far short of those lofty
ideals, but the fact that we have always tried to reach towards them is what
has kept this the strongest and greatest nation in the history of
humankind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It saddens me to think that
so many misguided and miseducated Americans hate this country, whether by their
words or by their actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or both.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It baffles me how someone can hate a political adversary so
much that they are willing to sacrifice the goodness of this nation and its
tenuous future to the wiles and schemes of a corrupt, senile, self-serving and evil
chief executive such as Joseph Biden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes,
Trump falls far short of all that I want in a president, but we have seen the
many great results for our country as a whole during his first term.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have also seen the destruction of our
economy, the suffering of many Americans, the rampant disregard for the rule of
law, and the dangerous emboldening of our enemies and terrorists under the
Biden regime during his first and hopefully only term as president.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I know many have hyperbolically stated that past elections
will determine the final fate of our nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I greatly fear that come this November they may finally be right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four more years of Biden or whomever is
controlling him behind the curtain will surely bode towards disaster for my
beloved United States of America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only
hope and pray that there are enough TRUE old-fashioned Americans out there that
see these facts and similarly choose to vote for the lesser of two evils
accordingly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nation will not survive
another four years under this corrupt leftist administration.</p>
Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-71433341383949229592023-12-08T14:49:00.000-07:002023-12-08T14:48:59.999-07:00Ending the Two-State Solution Folly<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Yesterday was the 82nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day. On December 7th 1941,
the Japanese Empire executed a surprise attack on our naval and military bases
at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii killing 2403 Americans. This pernicious event caused the
United States of America to enter into WWII in order to stop the totalitarian
evil of Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. </p><p> Fast forward nearly 82 years and the barbaric Palestinian terrorist group Hamas conducted an unexpected
attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023. Unlike Imperial Japan, Hamas’ attack of
their militant terrorists targeted civilians, including women, children, and the
elderly. Over 1200 people were killed in this tiny country. 240 civilian
hostages were also taken back into Gaza by these thoroughly evil barbarians.
This is Israel’s Pearl Harbor or 9/11 event. </p><p>Captured video from the terrorists
and tales of some of the 100 released hostages tell of brutal rapes, tortures,
and killings of the Israeli civilians by these sub-human terrorists. There has
been video evidence of babies decapitated or put into ovens while parents
watched. Wives and daughters were raped while sons and fathers were forced to
watch before being killed while Hamas terrorists reveled in their butchery and
debauchery. </p><p>These are the inhuman evil scum that many leftists in the Muslim
world, throughout Europe, and in America champion with their “solidarity
protests” in cities and on college campuses. Indeed, this week three presidents
of once-renowned institutions of higher learning testified under oath on Capitol
Hill their combined refusal to denounce calls for the genocide of Jews. These
Hamas/Palestinian supporters are either useful idiots that are fully ignorant of
the truth of the evil they support, or worse, they seek to justify it by
claiming oppression of the Palestinians by Israel. </p><p>The Gaza strip has been
self-governed for many years after Israel pulled out of the territory. In 2007,
Hamas was elected by the Palestinian people in Gaza to govern them. The result
has been near-constant rocket and terrorist attacks on Israel civilians, three
wars, and crushing poverty for the Palestinian people there while the Hamas
leadership becomes wealthy on foreign aid. And all the while Iran bank rolls
their human rights attacks against Israeli civilians. </p><p>In all conflicts,
including the current war, Israel does all it can to safe-guard erstwhile
innocent human life of civilians, often at risk to their own soldiers in doing
so. Indeed, they ruin strategic and tactical advantages by telegraphing where
they will attack in order to allow civilians to escape the areas ahead of time. </p><p>Hamas, on the other hand, uses its own people for shields as they build their
command-and-control centers underneath schools, mosques, and hospitals. If civilians are
injured or killed because of this, then that is just one more club for Hamas to
use against Israel. Meanwhile, Hamas uses deadly force to ensure their human
shield civilians don’t run away or head to safer areas in the south of Gaza, as
the Israeli government has warned them to do. </p><p>The American and other antisemite
“protestors” throughout the world when they chant “from the river to the sea,
Palestine will be free” are calling for the genocide of all Jews and the
destruction of Israel, whether the realize this or not. Israel is a small
country that lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The
so-called Palestinians claim that all of this land is theirs, despite the fact
that the Jewish people have called this land home for millennia and was given to
them by God in Hebrew scripture. Archeology and history only serves to confirm
this. </p><p>Leftist idiots/terrorist supporters call Israeli Jews “colonizers”. How
does one colonize a land to which one is indigenous, that long preceded the
birth of Islam and even the term given to the Arab people in the area by the
Roman Empire of “Palestinians”? </p><p>The fact of the matter is that the “Palestinian”
people have never wanted peace with Israel. Israel has had peace with its
neighbors of Jordan and Egypt for many decades, so it is possible when the will
for peace truly exists. Israel has offered many times to make peace with the
“Palestinians” in a so-called two state solution time and time again. </p><p>Indeed,
during one of those many attempts at peace negotiations, President Clinton back
in 2000 brought PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
together at a Camp David Summit to discuss in supposed good faith an end to the
strife and a creation of a peaceful two state solution for Israel and Palestine.
Ehud Barak offered remarkable concessions to Arafat including 92% of the West
Bank, 100% of the Gaza strip, dismantling of most of the Israeli settlements in
the West Bank, and proclaiming East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital. </p><p>Clinton and Barak both have claimed that in every instance, Yasser Arafat’s
answer was no without a single compromise or concession being offered on his
behalf, despite being offered over 90% of what the PLO was demanding. Arafat
walked away from the Camp David summit accordingly. Later when asked why he did
not accept what was surely an amazing deal and best offer that would likely ever
come from Israel so that peace could finally be achieved, Yasser Arafat
responded that if he had accepted such a peace offer from the Jews he would end
up “having tea with Mussolini”. In other word his own people would kill him for
settling for peace with the despised Jews. </p><p>Israel has long withstood egregious
condemnation from the impotent and corrupt United Nations and much of the Muslim
world for simply defending itself against virulent and pernicious evil and
antisemitism. Israel has never sought to initiate war with any of its
surrounding Muslim neighbors. And now that the ghoulish terrorists that the
Palestinian people elected to govern them have perpetrated this horrific attack
against civilian men, women and children, I think the time for forbearance and
hopes of peace with the Palestinians has come to and end. </p><p>Current Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is correct and thoroughly justified in destroying
every last Hamas militant still alive. Further, taking full military control of
Gaza and the West Bank should be the goal to make sure such horrific actions are
never done against the Israeli people again by the “Palestinians”. The
“Palestinian” people have never wanted a two-state solution so believing in the
fantasy that this is an achievable goal one day is pure folly. </p><p>Those Palestinian
people that want to live in peace that are not members of Hamas should be
allowed to live under Israeli control in a fenced off Gaza, never to have their
own country. Either that or they can emigrate to any other Muslim country or any
country that will accept them. There are serious ramifications and repercussions
for voting for an Iranian-backed and funded terrorist organization to govern
you. As for Hamas, EVERY LAST ONE OF THE EVIL TERRORISTS SHOULD BE KILLED. Not
captured. Not imprisoned. They care nothing for life and goodness. They value
only death, evil and depravity. </p><p>Those of you that support Hamas and the
“Palestinian” people in this regard are similarly evil and need to look within
your own dark soul. I want nothing to do with any of you. </p><p>The journalist Bob
Lonsberry stated it well when he said, “across the Muslim world there is
cheering in the streets. Because, though the furnaces of Auschwitz have gone
cold, the hatred of Jews in the hearts of evil people burns white hot, as
malicious and insatiable as it has ever been.” Sadly, that hatred exists in
America today too, and it enrages and sickens me.
</p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-91960463312572127902023-03-01T14:24:00.000-07:002023-03-01T14:24:30.545-07:00The Beauty and Majesty of Ancient Jordan<p>My wife and I took a bucket-list trip of mine back in December to Egypt and to Jordan. While Egypt was always a fascination of mine, I was afraid the trip would not live up to my expectations. It ended up surpassing them and you can see some of the highlights from Egypt<b><u><i> <a href="https://savingcommonsense.blogspot.com/2023/01/out-of-egypt.html" target="_blank">here</a></i></u></b>. </p><p>The second half of our trip was to continue our adventure in the country of Jordan. It was an amazing contrast. Egypt was mired in poverty which afflicted the warm and welcoming people there. The socialistic governing of the nation contributed to their plight. Arriving in Jordan, it was apparent that things were definitely better here. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is more of a market economy and right away one could see that on average the Jordanian people lived at a higher standard of life. The ramshackle multi-story tenement buildings that were ubiquitous in Cairo were seldom seen in Amman and the cleanliness of Jordan was orders of magnitude better than Egypt. </p><p></p><p>Our driver and guide was a very knowledgeable and enterprising Jordanian man of middle age who started his own business as a private contractor tour guide for Jordan. The first place he took us was south of Amman to Mt. Nebo. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGH3rtv1M_T1K8Cm2zA3EKRLel_xd8b-Af_ET6VTPlgeDofFvMLFOEnIsu4SXbbo5F9JDEaZLiKcpDfx2DYIOFopMe008M9DYxJD3pPI8F02WPGp616Qul9XKel33HVb6uUh2Sl3lxGAuV5jFqGsvZdE1CKSyWFEjKVVoWsoZG6yj7oin2rIblhXh/s4032/IMG_6923.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGH3rtv1M_T1K8Cm2zA3EKRLel_xd8b-Af_ET6VTPlgeDofFvMLFOEnIsu4SXbbo5F9JDEaZLiKcpDfx2DYIOFopMe008M9DYxJD3pPI8F02WPGp616Qul9XKel33HVb6uUh2Sl3lxGAuV5jFqGsvZdE1CKSyWFEjKVVoWsoZG6yj7oin2rIblhXh/w400-h300/IMG_6923.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The picture above is looking down from Mt. Nebo to an area called Moses Springs. This is the location in scripture where the Jews following Moses after escaping the slavery of Pharaoh and wandering the desert finally cried out in thirst. The Old Testament says that this is where Moses, guided by God, struck a rock with his staff and a spring burst forth from it for the people - thus Moses Springs. <br /></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='323' height='268' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyDKntXcg5Sq2eo4cHCjW1OVpDjR7BwTeAChMClhux-8gy5gduo_u2pmCWJkVUWh-4gLXatrmMq6aAjtya0cA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The above video is looking down from Mt. Nebo to the north towards the valley of Moses Springs. The sound you hear is the rather cold wind whipping past.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrlhv-mqsNSRHrK3gLDCJ-FJ77GTB0-5XNE73Ed3jtTLbidZGL7pLfXbWSbM5WoKVCwatAfEaMw8YIJFm54g4ydz0TixFbugIbqK_GyZXbyprqtK8cR0Tr-vd984Ks69dFq66Vfqb-tHDgrS7STIBHjLIgJL0OLGXjRuDSnv-lnz9LpyQFF7VQ0sm/s4896/P1020113.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrlhv-mqsNSRHrK3gLDCJ-FJ77GTB0-5XNE73Ed3jtTLbidZGL7pLfXbWSbM5WoKVCwatAfEaMw8YIJFm54g4ydz0TixFbugIbqK_GyZXbyprqtK8cR0Tr-vd984Ks69dFq66Vfqb-tHDgrS7STIBHjLIgJL0OLGXjRuDSnv-lnz9LpyQFF7VQ0sm/w400-h300/P1020113.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is a picture looking west from the top of Mt. Nebo where a Christian Church that memorializes Moses now sits. This is what Moses saw before he died as he peered out to the promised land that God had told would be the home of the Jewish people. You can see the north end of the Dead Sea to the center left of the picture. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='321' height='267' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzpOwOqHyTLWn2ZZaa8EuTaoimTPDbI6p8fE8F1wopCYk5qvtZrLsO7CMXAkGXNY3CnpWaFPjNYREogaRW7ZQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is a video of the landscape that Moses would have surveyed as he looked out towards the Promised Land for the Jewish people. There was a large group of Nigerian pilgrims here when we visited and their excitement was contagious.<br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfqrEZK3ZPCgO2oDWTo6ssPDh4ghuAdFGysbOcqoOO4LOFQCV_KkptxT60FEvIZlwLoMEA0K1MeuxiuEpfaSb_N9P5U0w46okrVARRj0YvmQN9DFvh6gx5dNwc8OXbRVDDL19Bnx7XXo1LeWNBc5-dRByOxgaRpsdgLmZjO9piFgenHTXGlXsRKM_l/s4896/P1020134.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfqrEZK3ZPCgO2oDWTo6ssPDh4ghuAdFGysbOcqoOO4LOFQCV_KkptxT60FEvIZlwLoMEA0K1MeuxiuEpfaSb_N9P5U0w46okrVARRj0YvmQN9DFvh6gx5dNwc8OXbRVDDL19Bnx7XXo1LeWNBc5-dRByOxgaRpsdgLmZjO9piFgenHTXGlXsRKM_l/w400-h300/P1020134.JPG" width="400" /></a> <br /></div><p></p><p></p><p>In the town of Madaba, east of Mt. Nebo, is the church of St. George that still shelters the remnants of an ancient Byzantine mosaic map of the Holy Land in the floor of the church. It was fascinating despite the labeling being all "Greek" to me. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP3a2CY0pU28R993RFyTzGid565e2PChCj-RhkrG86tTizJBz7otYIKxY8h2-Wl49RGyY-_149xY-UL6VebIqbiqP1DliNl5QMhuo2YbLBfmNqEmH_y1tlBISecAawqismMLR8xPRIedhHQcFEqRse0mwP_cq4DAqHncsopzm-okFylu-MvSnVEEzO/s4032/IMG_6935.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP3a2CY0pU28R993RFyTzGid565e2PChCj-RhkrG86tTizJBz7otYIKxY8h2-Wl49RGyY-_149xY-UL6VebIqbiqP1DliNl5QMhuo2YbLBfmNqEmH_y1tlBISecAawqismMLR8xPRIedhHQcFEqRse0mwP_cq4DAqHncsopzm-okFylu-MvSnVEEzO/w400-h300/IMG_6935.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXHqLpG8GNnT6AD0e2FpHuJmwQATXsm7d-QqFXzAoBiaArs5NQGfVy6RW9Lnkry26cNPuR7wmVeoxjlGg537gu9GmQexwQQbicSoKFYluKsWf92vhgYFytAUKHgCrDpqX6q3Wc7w5BYRUI9wG8yDPq8uMOj1n9oVeGConEQHqps9blUw-AkSX75L0u/s4896/P1020135.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXHqLpG8GNnT6AD0e2FpHuJmwQATXsm7d-QqFXzAoBiaArs5NQGfVy6RW9Lnkry26cNPuR7wmVeoxjlGg537gu9GmQexwQQbicSoKFYluKsWf92vhgYFytAUKHgCrDpqX6q3Wc7w5BYRUI9wG8yDPq8uMOj1n9oVeGConEQHqps9blUw-AkSX75L0u/w400-h300/P1020135.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p>The church was also adorned with many beautiful mosaic picture depicting
New Testament events. The artistry of placing these thousands of small
colored tiles to create such vibrant scenes was truly amazing. Indeed the city of Madaba, Jordan is rightfully known as "the city of mosaics".</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd4PZn9r7SHqQv02bRtkinqxUTmTtkZ5WmhgFdrCP-cPiorRApiz573IvTcqECDmpMHagTLkDBVwkDuUn4oB4XlXPiyQQ7ffxk288kDQUvYwbDF3vn_CtEveyornaKO7XXudIO3vC9iTLu_U0JhrxYnXf0ODU5wELtCs5dbpksvAo8C6OVJwf7GNcI/s4896/P1020138.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd4PZn9r7SHqQv02bRtkinqxUTmTtkZ5WmhgFdrCP-cPiorRApiz573IvTcqECDmpMHagTLkDBVwkDuUn4oB4XlXPiyQQ7ffxk288kDQUvYwbDF3vn_CtEveyornaKO7XXudIO3vC9iTLu_U0JhrxYnXf0ODU5wELtCs5dbpksvAo8C6OVJwf7GNcI/w300-h400/P1020138.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">This mosaic portrays the transfiguration of Christ. <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUVQrwLSsWdHbieoSga_ARXqgOhr69_pT1fwvh1POnBfedblpKNNSXyaa6y64BvwkYchiSFwoPBb7fk3xEEDQ0lW77sSHy_yp1GodCpZfe5zD9anPXCJPIXtjy4_G4P7OuW6dRY3VFHZrwoWLVW2IhT47kcaXO7OS-uiExE_nMircGa-A1Flp68o4P/s4032/IMG_6957.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUVQrwLSsWdHbieoSga_ARXqgOhr69_pT1fwvh1POnBfedblpKNNSXyaa6y64BvwkYchiSFwoPBb7fk3xEEDQ0lW77sSHy_yp1GodCpZfe5zD9anPXCJPIXtjy4_G4P7OuW6dRY3VFHZrwoWLVW2IhT47kcaXO7OS-uiExE_nMircGa-A1Flp68o4P/w400-h300/IMG_6957.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After leaving Mt. Nebo, we proceeded down the mountain and headed south along the Dead Sea for several hours as we then turned east and up over a jagged and desolate red rock mountain range towards the "lost" city of Petra. Most people think of Petra only as the iconic Treasury carved into the sandstone walls of the valley. Petra, however, was an ancient city that was occupied and created by the Nabatean people in the 4th century B.C. It was a wealthy trading post ideally situated between Damascus, Syria and the Red Sea. It was taken over by the Romans in 106 A.D. It was finally abandoned in the 8th century A.D. after earthquakes and a decline in political and trade route importance. The "lost" city was then rediscovered in 1812 by Swiss explorer Johan Burckhardt. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of the few ways to enter Petra was through a two kilometer long path through a slot canyon. You can see the opening of the entrance to the canyon center in the picture above.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDwmS6EH3_D5ysZEYLmps5gFbgiacjaeNMHE3baDMgZr10CNbJbNcB6dZ55E6ig-_t1PcHbBwj2lS0kkU7MuNCTiX3qFU--rmHsjPSIDomuBjWaItmqfHQeWlrtwwpomJfQgxjYziTaJj-QW8Xg_6n4VI8H2tPOeYDc5Y4jh1g5pRmasxvU86AweTo/s4032/IMG_6966.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDwmS6EH3_D5ysZEYLmps5gFbgiacjaeNMHE3baDMgZr10CNbJbNcB6dZ55E6ig-_t1PcHbBwj2lS0kkU7MuNCTiX3qFU--rmHsjPSIDomuBjWaItmqfHQeWlrtwwpomJfQgxjYziTaJj-QW8Xg_6n4VI8H2tPOeYDc5Y4jh1g5pRmasxvU86AweTo/w300-h400/IMG_6966.JPG" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The above is typical of what the slot canyon or siq looked like as one traveled gradually down a slope towards "The Rose City" of Petra itself.</div> <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEill8moiG8UyrZKUwnYMJ8kCS5qYJtDKVfdjOk6HjAwkESraMA45coQ1hovJE2jZJ2MxEyvi5oh0S6nxwuBNZz3MDkuU_IZViiN636WudyKdk3D35FeCncPuby-qg1xKDaJUnCs4JZM2euSV6NW2WQUnxrjw9y7wy9XFeNZUCly40qvI7jUhKyurBMQ/s4032/IMG_6969.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEill8moiG8UyrZKUwnYMJ8kCS5qYJtDKVfdjOk6HjAwkESraMA45coQ1hovJE2jZJ2MxEyvi5oh0S6nxwuBNZz3MDkuU_IZViiN636WudyKdk3D35FeCncPuby-qg1xKDaJUnCs4JZM2euSV6NW2WQUnxrjw9y7wy9XFeNZUCly40qvI7jUhKyurBMQ/w300-h400/IMG_6969.JPG" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Along the siq walls, the ancient Nabateans carved shrines to their gods into the sandstone cliffs. Above is one such carving.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_-hDfy0QwqtAXLO2CQ-QESWb7p12JbvytLqDrRUNXcPupw7qB3YQs7iSTMI0Sla_xjjS6_OIkGpLJYJTa0icBLuWzJjAOp2C9lWQzfEvj1WeaJ-b_mtD0YdeBG4O3U4xsL5IzhktKkFIYW7m_AM3GLWIXDE0keIhTHNJqmDN7CUB-nIzrjVWAn7t/s4896/P1020233.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_-hDfy0QwqtAXLO2CQ-QESWb7p12JbvytLqDrRUNXcPupw7qB3YQs7iSTMI0Sla_xjjS6_OIkGpLJYJTa0icBLuWzJjAOp2C9lWQzfEvj1WeaJ-b_mtD0YdeBG4O3U4xsL5IzhktKkFIYW7m_AM3GLWIXDE0keIhTHNJqmDN7CUB-nIzrjVWAn7t/w300-h400/P1020233.JPG" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Parts of the siq still have the ancient Roman stone paved road as seen above. The raised trench on the right was an aqueduct to bring water to the town of Petra. These aqueducts were on both sides of the siq as the ancient Nabateans were masters of constructing dams, cisterns, and aqueducts to provide for water in their desert city.<br /></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqmHA4ic8jHS8yG1PGI7p19TUyEaeV71zaBkWQUMv3Nn1sHDZAEkhZyJa1VtDt4yXdRDXCKbBa418iuLVyqqLNvsfX2FYQMEGz9Etodo7e_vQbixEaiV2suHNnff4hjAajjHEWp6NYUcrlSJaJ-IYMX5xj4pp2Z270NtkFvI7kFCmsedbdvSqF5p1/s4032/IMG_6977.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqmHA4ic8jHS8yG1PGI7p19TUyEaeV71zaBkWQUMv3Nn1sHDZAEkhZyJa1VtDt4yXdRDXCKbBa418iuLVyqqLNvsfX2FYQMEGz9Etodo7e_vQbixEaiV2suHNnff4hjAajjHEWp6NYUcrlSJaJ-IYMX5xj4pp2Z270NtkFvI7kFCmsedbdvSqF5p1/w400-h300/IMG_6977.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you look carefully you can still discern the feet and lower half of a man leading his camel in a caravan down the siq to Petra. A faint outline of the camel and its feet are all that remain of the dromedary here. <br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho4mQkBURC6HugzHNdxT_Ru5ZvOhM5JcMTlUSqT6Kgqubltlo1cRYSTaL2XNUDnE5T2NWRt02ifQLxIGZRG5mTLtuEUeQmwR2z2GszabUCY8N-ZhtXI6inwn1N8lA2GT4zxQo4Hv-KsPTbJQL1DSFkgJ5wxylpQMoxEHxPpEpC28npObTwOmwheQOS/s4896/P1020274.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho4mQkBURC6HugzHNdxT_Ru5ZvOhM5JcMTlUSqT6Kgqubltlo1cRYSTaL2XNUDnE5T2NWRt02ifQLxIGZRG5mTLtuEUeQmwR2z2GszabUCY8N-ZhtXI6inwn1N8lA2GT4zxQo4Hv-KsPTbJQL1DSFkgJ5wxylpQMoxEHxPpEpC28npObTwOmwheQOS/w400-h300/P1020274.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p>Many of the Bedouin people of Jordan still dwell in the desert here in their well ordered tent camps. My guide explained that the dark tents, orderliness, and lack of garbage was how one could tell if it was a Bedouin camp or a gypsy camp. The gypsy camps usually were haphazard things with brightly colored tents and lots of clutter and garbage strewn about their encampment. Our guide pointed out several examples of each on our route, lending some credence to his assertion. Evidently our guide was not particularly fond of the gypsies. The picture above is of a couple of Bedouin men taking a break in an old carved out cave in the siq. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6p7701cNhZ2pXP7R-5UkgMDhUij4Z9ZUwuWAaeDMf3M7M62gmlJtS--QzGxgBztZBPAOHpFZeJXdO9MuY9VXoLLzdvMMsZirDl-2zHRmFKR7ewJXbcD7Wory3LLu_Ym3deozMwbllqYi2yU7LL2fM1TNIph5t_UFj6AMVarQDDAQi6MvHsBNVKAPa/s4896/P1020447.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6p7701cNhZ2pXP7R-5UkgMDhUij4Z9ZUwuWAaeDMf3M7M62gmlJtS--QzGxgBztZBPAOHpFZeJXdO9MuY9VXoLLzdvMMsZirDl-2zHRmFKR7ewJXbcD7Wory3LLu_Ym3deozMwbllqYi2yU7LL2fM1TNIph5t_UFj6AMVarQDDAQi6MvHsBNVKAPa/w300-h400/P1020447.JPG" width="300" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As we finally exited the end of the siq it opened up into a small valley where the iconic Treasury is carved into the sandstone cliff. I started videoing my approach from about this point when my tour guide decided to provide a soundtrack for my adventure courtesy of his iPhone - the theme song from Raiders of the Lost Ark. I chuckled in spite of my mild annoyance at this.<br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9QUJdzFSoyQmRIiq2fGs0rSP_P0F5BsoEofpteqkC3YxtuXJIOlu1Wn9AZEbpgcKV3zQI1ySGuSZYiJvhWbyNqKV1cto_jZe6pGQIm-ycfmHKPLtB3VstTYOkGLppPUWnjzYY_CW2VxuN0YAYh9wYLtTKQwDmDpISLhyu_f__Ach-fp8dJ1hGsntl/s4032/IMG_6987.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9QUJdzFSoyQmRIiq2fGs0rSP_P0F5BsoEofpteqkC3YxtuXJIOlu1Wn9AZEbpgcKV3zQI1ySGuSZYiJvhWbyNqKV1cto_jZe6pGQIm-ycfmHKPLtB3VstTYOkGLppPUWnjzYY_CW2VxuN0YAYh9wYLtTKQwDmDpISLhyu_f__Ach-fp8dJ1hGsntl/w300-h400/IMG_6987.JPG" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Finally we exited the siq to behold this amazing structure that had survived for thousands of years. The rose city was amazing to behold! <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVwBpltfWUQwv4sF6CuLxxJlg_dHNG0H0jqL3XMqEzuocsImMvf9IrpuRZ78mz5FajToUJ2cWWKe08-JUz_ePHzTJqA7X1UYx7TejtAKSaysZvzB0-k3YAOqpeWWEbBxUq2K01x_h4atCXubP2stiUwOauBzASZnqsDcS2MgiPMhrZea_bt7FWC84/s4032/IMG_7003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVwBpltfWUQwv4sF6CuLxxJlg_dHNG0H0jqL3XMqEzuocsImMvf9IrpuRZ78mz5FajToUJ2cWWKe08-JUz_ePHzTJqA7X1UYx7TejtAKSaysZvzB0-k3YAOqpeWWEbBxUq2K01x_h4atCXubP2stiUwOauBzASZnqsDcS2MgiPMhrZea_bt7FWC84/w400-h300/IMG_7003.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Despite the beautiful detail still readily apparent in the gables and column capstones, you can tell that the figures carved into the upper part were damaged. Bullet holes pockmarked some of these carvings as bandits thought that the "Treasury" must hold gold or other treasure in the treasury. In actuality the Treasury was not a treasury at all.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPPrriGnw-7yxsYV7S_Tz260uFakAK3wgcKvjJezaUhvK_U9W1okglUIzj3BNuRBYLJ9uWKPUPkR4G5q6uOw33Zs3qobE3Lp2s0CkUmQd1mxyoL0t7dq6c8urJTkXTeLQM11Iv6xHAAThLDqJ2paTPCCfzNbMYiv-VqFfvpdliayQpROkzYqrvg6jf/s4896/P1020283.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPPrriGnw-7yxsYV7S_Tz260uFakAK3wgcKvjJezaUhvK_U9W1okglUIzj3BNuRBYLJ9uWKPUPkR4G5q6uOw33Zs3qobE3Lp2s0CkUmQd1mxyoL0t7dq6c8urJTkXTeLQM11Iv6xHAAThLDqJ2paTPCCfzNbMYiv-VqFfvpdliayQpROkzYqrvg6jf/w300-h400/P1020283.JPG" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0DR5hAfhhtVAcGqv4zixmdZPKRM0lGXYSHFqH1yQ22w7Jp3ZSGEpxrL3QgsObaqECoGXSKCf48jqD_gLOLDF4IUaVBMrdjV8TcxYd6XXHONBNpw9VGEkDDX9DlK2L-Mn658vT35f72G9f2WfKOFjASixSAKXg-My63UxSaOjna5IxSUV0fF7Oyyug/s4896/P1020191.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0DR5hAfhhtVAcGqv4zixmdZPKRM0lGXYSHFqH1yQ22w7Jp3ZSGEpxrL3QgsObaqECoGXSKCf48jqD_gLOLDF4IUaVBMrdjV8TcxYd6XXHONBNpw9VGEkDDX9DlK2L-Mn658vT35f72G9f2WfKOFjASixSAKXg-My63UxSaOjna5IxSUV0fF7Oyyug/w300-h400/P1020191.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">One of the highlights of Petra was seeing Petra at night. We purchased a special permit and followed a candle-lit path through the siq to the small valley in front of the treasury. A spot light illuminated the treasury and hundreds of candles lit the ground in front of it. People sat and listened to local Bedouin artists playing traditional music. It was enchanting to say the least.<br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKDhk_diqEW1uO0BA9yNNQ5LSI_nK1sdm4tulBqmZlIr3Fdt7RCUnmO6jt3pVEPvXa_l9kM95d-_wb2PEJTXNCdzoqp2xQd2HDEst1LuN4FAnzm9E_X5H1qTXSCVB0qgNDQdVKKFDYRZkUJ-IyjFRHe-n4h66zCK261iX00idXHqMhV5C1pA0bmkZ/s4032/IMG_7032.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKDhk_diqEW1uO0BA9yNNQ5LSI_nK1sdm4tulBqmZlIr3Fdt7RCUnmO6jt3pVEPvXa_l9kM95d-_wb2PEJTXNCdzoqp2xQd2HDEst1LuN4FAnzm9E_X5H1qTXSCVB0qgNDQdVKKFDYRZkUJ-IyjFRHe-n4h66zCK261iX00idXHqMhV5C1pA0bmkZ/w400-h300/IMG_7032.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Most people think of the Treasury when they think of Petra, but the city of Petra is huge and contains many dwellings and such carved into the sandstone cliffs for miles. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3XebIfwxYQMPh7_2Fj7YEh6vWc4azddLyVE5w4A6WhhHhGLLh6hlJDd1hsIqZ8swjaPeD7S0CmOKxXh4O5XRFnJuE9wOH9F7ejdhresUnYvKhSuC5WAbQG7H5pGAMjnP_-GspibMa7-eIjiCdIf4dcD1JRetj7G0z6ehJ1wvkisLk4yaZH8bZd9Ry/s4032/IMG_7027.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3XebIfwxYQMPh7_2Fj7YEh6vWc4azddLyVE5w4A6WhhHhGLLh6hlJDd1hsIqZ8swjaPeD7S0CmOKxXh4O5XRFnJuE9wOH9F7ejdhresUnYvKhSuC5WAbQG7H5pGAMjnP_-GspibMa7-eIjiCdIf4dcD1JRetj7G0z6ehJ1wvkisLk4yaZH8bZd9Ry/w400-h300/IMG_7027.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here are a few of the Bedouin shops and eatery's that exist inside Petra beneath the ancient buildings in the cliffs beyond them. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI2JHY0wqSrayA1Kgp30-rtMuRCt4J0LGza4oKDzEwqRgtMoJHFsIP1TADT1SyOBzV41cfy-CQXk4pMGp2vv3NzlwXIl_13dX5lh_vD20un78lcX17VkJM4wSbrqVN8eCe1VC0sGTOlfMauLKvibmP1o41uMHzR3C9y2EO11lXybxEbQ3SETnpMCrm/s4032/IMG_7022.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI2JHY0wqSrayA1Kgp30-rtMuRCt4J0LGza4oKDzEwqRgtMoJHFsIP1TADT1SyOBzV41cfy-CQXk4pMGp2vv3NzlwXIl_13dX5lh_vD20un78lcX17VkJM4wSbrqVN8eCe1VC0sGTOlfMauLKvibmP1o41uMHzR3C9y2EO11lXybxEbQ3SETnpMCrm/w300-h400/IMG_7022.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKc0YwWpCPBkNXz_CM2TRXpUTzZdrkPqnmOtbOL08q9ZN5pL5mRkiek38mSlfszJw-prwlGyrspaPtlaoPoBWjqa2f4zYEvnEcFHRhFAjWCautdgxOAtR3T9aezaF9rP-31FUaMyzCWd9w4w7OUNZm3bIq-h-T1Y9ngkipCPPk-DnkPBMfCI9t59Eh/s4896/P1020373.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKc0YwWpCPBkNXz_CM2TRXpUTzZdrkPqnmOtbOL08q9ZN5pL5mRkiek38mSlfszJw-prwlGyrspaPtlaoPoBWjqa2f4zYEvnEcFHRhFAjWCautdgxOAtR3T9aezaF9rP-31FUaMyzCWd9w4w7OUNZm3bIq-h-T1Y9ngkipCPPk-DnkPBMfCI9t59Eh/w400-h300/P1020373.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The previous two photos show the large amphitheater that was built within the city of Petra. <br /></div><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-tRbi9Z1i99wsIoVaBkmaxKjl4ernzKYF6cdB_-_L5sfk6z_e9veGztdY8Yvx8CM6Epf7RpxKWYKa9JcI4unQr75Nx3POmabFiA_XR1_orHeq3lKw4DVKowJB1ox24yiACtbLhsH7BBLFcf0gDvnPvEc4S1opE9EbE33mzqw4tfX-UrEu_sXKlvnm/s4032/IMG_7013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The less ornate homes were usually the domiciles of the working class or less rich members of the city. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg82djg_qLs0RlKgUFvKICgREoNKt-nDTCcebVsgNVCH6Z1GM_NCPN2-BoS1Scj0nQYKMDrwvftPVm65zFVSJal40OWkca1y0EfbbZ8azu5ViNyTr9Om7mjcOS691-5OeljZVpxWkfXU22q0OkkbrKNTgRxGDjx8-Io5XH-I5vQtVVt1wI0d0su557h/s4032/IMG_7011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg82djg_qLs0RlKgUFvKICgREoNKt-nDTCcebVsgNVCH6Z1GM_NCPN2-BoS1Scj0nQYKMDrwvftPVm65zFVSJal40OWkca1y0EfbbZ8azu5ViNyTr9Om7mjcOS691-5OeljZVpxWkfXU22q0OkkbrKNTgRxGDjx8-Io5XH-I5vQtVVt1wI0d0su557h/w400-h300/IMG_7011.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Petra's version of Wall Street. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUJTelRnT3i7kKk4-R-tLXmGgGBQa21L2fpw3G08kH0aA8ui7sS7wCa1Je5ZD7AFiJzJY4YYMxymykITsTDhqz5AOEO7DsX3guoSj8j0vLVSMUGAP941PIdtrC-1a5WtBN_tsWo3xXY3MrHvKjbQ56lGHCW6_JLCZKOR7iccIl9nnCmM7fVgMcayz/s4896/P1020429.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUJTelRnT3i7kKk4-R-tLXmGgGBQa21L2fpw3G08kH0aA8ui7sS7wCa1Je5ZD7AFiJzJY4YYMxymykITsTDhqz5AOEO7DsX3guoSj8j0vLVSMUGAP941PIdtrC-1a5WtBN_tsWo3xXY3MrHvKjbQ56lGHCW6_JLCZKOR7iccIl9nnCmM7fVgMcayz/w400-h300/P1020429.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIJk0a_y_URO2wGAkUkfJIAjakoyP3CF433UleVDLqWT2WHdxqO83VsjTKUpApfIk1dXi9w6neZKtNpFw-c2FO-8Y9IllPCmJjQR6TsxFpz6MI8iFu5ANz1jlvK5seIrv6OilaxwBGZSJHIyaYM8Q12DO6dZLVfz7JC7mveLLc0EoryROAIVHMnXIV/s4032/IMG_7056.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIJk0a_y_URO2wGAkUkfJIAjakoyP3CF433UleVDLqWT2WHdxqO83VsjTKUpApfIk1dXi9w6neZKtNpFw-c2FO-8Y9IllPCmJjQR6TsxFpz6MI8iFu5ANz1jlvK5seIrv6OilaxwBGZSJHIyaYM8Q12DO6dZLVfz7JC7mveLLc0EoryROAIVHMnXIV/w400-h300/IMG_7056.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Towards the other end of Petra, there are a series of over 800 steps carved into the side of the mountain to ascend to a high plateau where the Monastery is located. Although I am more than fit enough to have tackled such an easy trek (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!), my wife was not feeling very well that day so we opted to ride donkeys up this arduous trail. They were pretty sure footed but at points I had doubts and was seriously considering dismounting and doing it on my own. (Heights and kryptonite are my only known weaknesses.)<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxKkvBT_IPUuYZjqpZdfZr80CxabIVGeQNFb5fDBzLzo2R7FiVd8oicsmGcLc8ExaAcNtD055IKaWDB6QwvJa3J_-YaC10Y4DJLV960rjQDAKoWK0Kho_laoa6noiP5AVRC0EEUskG0GC46HuxzVf66K3HYq7pdIRZTiDvnQL2jwHgagpiqPir7sE/s4896/P1020408.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxKkvBT_IPUuYZjqpZdfZr80CxabIVGeQNFb5fDBzLzo2R7FiVd8oicsmGcLc8ExaAcNtD055IKaWDB6QwvJa3J_-YaC10Y4DJLV960rjQDAKoWK0Kho_laoa6noiP5AVRC0EEUskG0GC46HuxzVf66K3HYq7pdIRZTiDvnQL2jwHgagpiqPir7sE/w400-h300/P1020408.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some of the hardier women Bedouins had little kiosks or shops along wider sections of the trail where they plied their beautiful rugs, scarfs, and statuary. One Bedouin artist had a $50 American bill and asked us if we could exchange it for her with Jordanian dinar (their currency). Unfortunately we did not have more than $15 worth of dinar and I was not going to take advantage of her. She said that living up in the cliffs with no easy access to the town outside of Petra to exchange the American bills made it very difficult for her. She typically wouldn't accept foreign currency, but needed to do so when sales were slow. I wished that I had been able to help her.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR55BVV9CpBwsGgugwasKCdq1W5muCD3BjOQ9jITxMHdSmqmWLjmpayZyj_41P5_DWkUFCOtFnmvH8nH7FLmK626ojFt4UFNKvfuCGzVvU0-7rVGC7KSD--QDlabhhDrP7WCV8uBh0xMeuRM4kH5-bswniEOg8q7ze5LiDYFelzvDW7thYEe4GleMS/s4032/IMG_7059.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR55BVV9CpBwsGgugwasKCdq1W5muCD3BjOQ9jITxMHdSmqmWLjmpayZyj_41P5_DWkUFCOtFnmvH8nH7FLmK626ojFt4UFNKvfuCGzVvU0-7rVGC7KSD--QDlabhhDrP7WCV8uBh0xMeuRM4kH5-bswniEOg8q7ze5LiDYFelzvDW7thYEe4GleMS/w400-h300/IMG_7059.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The lady said she lived far off at the bottom of the canyon in the picture above. It is hard to see from this picture but the two semi-circles in the center of the picture at the valley bottom with a hint of green were citrus trees that her village was cultivating. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-z0ga5CSWywueVDwz4nZlyB5JOtUR6GaDgnrsCmsfn-ukvY0kIbddFQTrn08Mqt5ogvPznzFvlymqm8rb4Zkhcpz3bVc_kZ1fg-StnudDWTuw_EHIscE2JxpIcn4P0O8Jnjgq6tTYJthCO8bLoVe2mV4mefxOGQ2fSNUkFHuvyxJuwhyYlxy7oUi3/s4032/IMG_7088.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-z0ga5CSWywueVDwz4nZlyB5JOtUR6GaDgnrsCmsfn-ukvY0kIbddFQTrn08Mqt5ogvPznzFvlymqm8rb4Zkhcpz3bVc_kZ1fg-StnudDWTuw_EHIscE2JxpIcn4P0O8Jnjgq6tTYJthCO8bLoVe2mV4mefxOGQ2fSNUkFHuvyxJuwhyYlxy7oUi3/w400-h300/IMG_7088.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />Finally we made it to the top of the long path which opened up to the Monastery. It is not quite as ornate as the Treasury at the other end of Petra, but was majestic in its own right. We were glad that we made the trek up the mountain and even more glad that we did it in December instead of the during the scorching heat of the summer! The Nabateans of the past and the Bedouins of today are tough hardy people!<br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRRldR-Ns4QxWsDjWmVPBMLGn6qHWIur3J0qjRAN5BkavsKrRyqPQvPeNAJRNuRNiu_viAeKI0Kr3P7pPKkog0SHG10tBIo_jWKiR--6u8DusEj072Bo15Jycnh-J2EbEeJt_e5M3PAg0G2Yjgj55IdNg7E4FPXAvIODQ9z4w8zXc5altbJ9ycwKsD/s4896/P1020143.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRRldR-Ns4QxWsDjWmVPBMLGn6qHWIur3J0qjRAN5BkavsKrRyqPQvPeNAJRNuRNiu_viAeKI0Kr3P7pPKkog0SHG10tBIo_jWKiR--6u8DusEj072Bo15Jycnh-J2EbEeJt_e5M3PAg0G2Yjgj55IdNg7E4FPXAvIODQ9z4w8zXc5altbJ9ycwKsD/w400-h300/P1020143.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After leaving Petra we traveled north towards Amman again on a route that bordered the east side of the Dead Sea. Israel was visible on its opposite shore. No boats are allowed on the Dead Sea except police and security vessels. One of the remarkable things to me was the fact that on the highway along the Dead Sea were numerous fields and farms with beautiful roadside produce stands. Above you can see a date palm orchard. Evidently there are many natural springs here today to irrigate the land next to the Dead Sea.<br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7NMuDZi9HRBQMKSLIzJJBpqKZ58eeN2YlN5Gif_WIyfN1ci2lYMyzZqx4mMEw0l_ppULsE58AdXJM9OaMm6IooakZpbP4q6hCWRyVjMruq2n2-VI3F5PW2M_skEt_EVPQYdwQdwrOmhk3M5nUO4MBUWLevLr8fVrsRN0YdVikUaj9-ifbfBJgpH3/s4896/P1020457.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7NMuDZi9HRBQMKSLIzJJBpqKZ58eeN2YlN5Gif_WIyfN1ci2lYMyzZqx4mMEw0l_ppULsE58AdXJM9OaMm6IooakZpbP4q6hCWRyVjMruq2n2-VI3F5PW2M_skEt_EVPQYdwQdwrOmhk3M5nUO4MBUWLevLr8fVrsRN0YdVikUaj9-ifbfBJgpH3/w300-h400/P1020457.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbKVZId2FErbkzh6eEG7HuuJyCpcqTylmgKOFx4I2xeShOZqcnIUUpFT5Wr1QGOybTI4rGYcM8lRp_cdScqQc_hMPS7-H7A_Hcaoyb0T6cpbxRWyB8CSl7TDp12yi4VEDKizq4Bu0Tqfw431_eNMa96sTVlGZ5B9yLaCzbMY8XezUCplNaNOyPmdk-/s4032/IMG_7103.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbKVZId2FErbkzh6eEG7HuuJyCpcqTylmgKOFx4I2xeShOZqcnIUUpFT5Wr1QGOybTI4rGYcM8lRp_cdScqQc_hMPS7-H7A_Hcaoyb0T6cpbxRWyB8CSl7TDp12yi4VEDKizq4Bu0Tqfw431_eNMa96sTVlGZ5B9yLaCzbMY8XezUCplNaNOyPmdk-/w400-h300/IMG_7103.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Dead Sea is so salty that nothing can live in it. It is about ten times saltier than the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Indeed we got to float in it. Due to its amazing buoyancy caused by this saltiness it kept one high up in the water; however, they strictly warned us to NOT get the water in our mouths, noses, or eyes, as it could be seriously painful and even dangerous. You can see the salt encrusting the rocks along the shore line from the waves' action in the pictures above. <br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz8HfT6SLR0pJavlk7zEYc5eyZi8oEuhQLUCeFsL1c3I4sUhymh93pCbwMZDJcSVR7h_4gsksbZqcR-SIyqbc4U8-IsU8d7nmjnr7nXWbpoj089brlYHFKDXGPpnycnjGNVwY-PhgObV_0H2nkqEEWsD839nVLgJjjXShUfidNYErdRSeKjkKbob5-/s4032/IMG_7098.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz8HfT6SLR0pJavlk7zEYc5eyZi8oEuhQLUCeFsL1c3I4sUhymh93pCbwMZDJcSVR7h_4gsksbZqcR-SIyqbc4U8-IsU8d7nmjnr7nXWbpoj089brlYHFKDXGPpnycnjGNVwY-PhgObV_0H2nkqEEWsD839nVLgJjjXShUfidNYErdRSeKjkKbob5-/w300-h400/IMG_7098.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><p>At one point along the Dead Sea, our guide pulled off in a viewing area and told us that the Dead Sea occupies the space that used to be where the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were located. If you recall from scripture, Lot and his wife fled God's destruction of these cities due to the wickedness of their inhabitants. Lot and his spouse were warned not to look back as they escaped, but when Lot's wife did look back over her shoulder, she was turned into a pillar of salt for her disobedience. The pillar in the picture above is supposedly Lot's wife. My thought was that Lot's wife was really tall. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZVVpDPZf2AVa4GcGXl8qZoUm1KbzwnoAJAtBcFThBSOoMKydSwwqqURM53wB-03VD6Kw_77dd4XIR9xtbpoiVDEcbjWIVDr-yzm3fEfwj7kGQeeScHeKodm2oSCpPyQLU43WkIzeeqcuEHPNnEfpCJHne5_ZrSomLsRUnmEaZpusmpkujE_tRfDv/s4032/IMG_7111.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZVVpDPZf2AVa4GcGXl8qZoUm1KbzwnoAJAtBcFThBSOoMKydSwwqqURM53wB-03VD6Kw_77dd4XIR9xtbpoiVDEcbjWIVDr-yzm3fEfwj7kGQeeScHeKodm2oSCpPyQLU43WkIzeeqcuEHPNnEfpCJHne5_ZrSomLsRUnmEaZpusmpkujE_tRfDv/w400-h300/IMG_7111.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p>The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest land masses on our earth. They reside below sea level by as much as 436 meters or more than 1430 feet. The Dead Sea continues to evaporate and lowering in its depth as each year passes.</p><p>Overall, our Jordanian trip was fascinating, the people were warm and friendly, and the sites were amazing in their beauty and history. This was an unexpected bonus to the tag end of our Middle Eastern trip. My only wish is that I had more time to explore Petra. Perhaps something for a return visit some day!<br /></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-44718598439955993782023-02-06T16:42:00.001-07:002023-02-06T16:42:57.250-07:00YouGov Poll on American Demographics<p>A copy of this particular YouGov poll was sent to me by a friend and I found the results rather interesting. Granted, the poll is just slightly dated as the data was collected last year from January 14th to the 20th of 2022. That said, I don't think the results would skew much from this time last year. Indeed, on some issues such as transgenderism, I suspect the public would overestimate the population even more so today. </p><p>Let's do a quick test and see how you do on some issues.</p><p> <i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1. What percentage of the country is black?</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2. What percentage is Hispanic?</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span> 3. What percentage of the country is gay?</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 4. What percentage of the country is transgender?</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i>The answers will likely surprise you. They surprised me on some of the questions, although I think I was generally a lot closer than the average American's estimate. Ready for the answers for the above?</p><p> 1. 12% of Americans are black, while those polled thought it was 41%.</p><p> 2. 17% of Americans are Hispanic, while those polled thought it was 39% </p><p> 3. 3% of the population is gay or lesbian while people estimated it to be 30%.</p><p> 4. 1% of the population is transgender, while people estimated it to be 21%.<br /></p><p>Of course these skewed viewpoints are often exacerbated by our media, entertainment, news sources, and even our sports and politics. I won't bother going into an in-depth dialogue regarding the polling estimated numbers versus the actual numbers. There are a few things that did stick out for me though. </p><p>1. Most people polled think 20% (1 out of 5 Americans) have a household income of $1 million or more. The actual number is a fraction of 1%.</p><p>2. People thought only 49% owned a house while 65% is that actual number.</p><p>3. People said only 66% of Americans own a car, while actually 88% do.</p><p>4. People said 33% (1 in 3 Americans) is atheist. In reality only 3% identified as such.</p><p>5. People thought 40% of Americans are veterans. The truth is only 6% actually served in the military.<br /></p><p>I think most of this poll speaks for itself, but I did find the average American's perception of the truth versus the reality to be quite fascinating. What do you think?<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisOqPhOzGVf3UM4VoUc-Mbi04dH2WgwxX3SuPF3HT4tNTIzemmedcaqGYwXmpDyX6D_3mohouGOhT_OCXU5pAYHmEpyir2K2AiLm20W_dRZAsXAF0rt2Lhub-QjZAQ_0fo8kEJoR0OAqpO-v1UBtuKX12IrW0Is63d9sFIxXD7uD_zwq8CteoD53ew/s926/YouGov.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="780" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisOqPhOzGVf3UM4VoUc-Mbi04dH2WgwxX3SuPF3HT4tNTIzemmedcaqGYwXmpDyX6D_3mohouGOhT_OCXU5pAYHmEpyir2K2AiLm20W_dRZAsXAF0rt2Lhub-QjZAQ_0fo8kEJoR0OAqpO-v1UBtuKX12IrW0Is63d9sFIxXD7uD_zwq8CteoD53ew/w541-h640/YouGov.PNG" width="541" /></a></div><br /><p>H/T: Carrie<br /></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-36058297235643488512023-02-03T12:28:00.000-07:002023-02-03T12:28:14.971-07:00The Week's Stories of Democrat Incompetence, Ignorance, Malfeasance, and Unfitness<p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p>There are several stories going on lately that have caught my attention and
I wanted to share with my dear readers. Enjoy looking down the rabbit hole with me!<br /></p>
<p><b><u>Federal Debt Ceiling</u></b></p>
<p>Most Americans oppose raising the federal debt ceiling without accompanying<strong>
</strong>cuts to <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/tag/spending/" target="_blank">federal spending</a>, or even with spending cuts according to a
new RMG Research poll.</p>
<p>Of the 1000 registered voters surveyed, 45% said congress should raise the
debt ceiling only with corresponding spending cuts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>16% said congress should refuse to raise the
ceiling at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>24% said that the debt ceiling
should be raised without spending cuts, and 15% were “not sure”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p>The U.S. national debt stands at $31.5 trillion which is approximately 120%
of the nation’s GDP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Profligate spending
by both parties cannot continue or economic collapse will ensue.<br /></p>
<p><b><u>Informed Patriotism</u></b></p>
<p>Only 16% of Gen Zers are “proud” to live in the United States.</p>
<p>That finding comes from a recent<a href="https://morningconsult.com/2023/01/9/gen-z-corporate-activism-is-local-first/">
Morning Consult poll</a>, which assessed generational attitudes about the
United States. The poll shows that there has been roughly a 20-percentage-point
drop of pride in country every generation since the Baby Boomers, 73% of whom
express pride in the country.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The net shares of each generation who say they are proud to live in the United
States:</span><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">
Baby Boomers: 73<br />
Gen X: 54<br />
Millennials: 36<br />
Gen Z: 16</span></p>
</figure>
<p>Many on social media noted with exasperation that those who say they have no
pride in country are in no hurry to move somewhere else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do we expect when we teach ONLY
revisionist history about how the United States is founded on slavery, oppression,
and still embraces racism and other “-isms” today?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We are reaping what our "education system" has sown as parents have negligently stood by and let it happen.<br /></span></p>
<p><b><u>Further Biden Incompetence in the Judiciary</u></b></p>
<p><a href="https://www.congress.gov/nomination/117th-congress/2664?s=1&r=1" target="_blank">Biden’s nomination</a> of Charnelle Bjelkengren for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
sat before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p>Having served in multiple high-level judicial roles, including as an
administrative law judge, a superior court judge, and as an assistant attorney
general for Washington State, one would assume that Bjelkengren would have a
solid grasp of the U.S. Constitution.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In the hearing, Senator John Kennedy R-LA asked Biden’s nominee a few softball questions
that a person of her background should have easily been able to answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Starting off, Sen. Kennedy called on
Bjelkengren to describe what Article V of the U.S. Constitution does.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Article V is not coming to mind at the moment,” Bjelkengren replied.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">As virtually anyone who took middle or high school civics
class would know, <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-5/#:~:text=The%20Congress%2C%20whenever%20two%20thirds,all%20Intents%20and%20Purposes%2C%20as" target="_blank">Article V</a> describes the procedures to make amendments to
the Constitution. How someone of Bjelkengren’s legal background could not
answer such a shockingly easy question is concerning, to say the least.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Kennedy continued. “How about Article
II?” Kennedy asked.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">With a blank stare and awkward smile, Bjelkengren responded, “Neither is
Article II.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The confirmation hearing probably should have been stopped at this point,
as an experienced judge who doesn’t know that <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-2/#:~:text=No%20Person%20except%20a%20natural,been%20fourteen%20Years%20a%20Resident" target="_blank">Article II</a> of the Constitution describes the Executive
Branch of government should not be allowed to sit in a powerful federal
judgeship that could have massive implications on future policies concerning
Executive Branch decisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">I think her incompetence is typical of many of Biden’s appointees and
staff.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Unfit Democrats Removed from House Committees</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/mccarthy-completely-annihilates-reporter-questioning-decision-remove-schiff-swalwell-committee/" target="_blank">made clear</a> on Wednesday, that Democrat congressmen Adam Schiff
and Eric Swalwell were removed from the intelligence committee because their
presence in a sensitive position posed a particular hazard to the American
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Schiff lied repeatedly in the
run-up to the first impeachment of Donald Trump that he had incontrovertible
evidence of Trump’s collusion with Russia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He did not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Swalwell was found to
have been sleeping with Chinese spy Fang Fang while sitting on the intelligence
committee, and even had a Chinese intern working for him that was recommended
by her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Ilhan Omar was also removed from the House Foreign Affairs
committee for her numerous anti-Semitic remarks over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course the anti-Muslim and race cards were
played in her defense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Schiff went on the Chinese spy-ware platform of Tik-Tok to
denounce his removal from the intelligence committee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It reads like a bad SNL skit actually.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><u>Many House Democrats Refuse to Denounce Socialism</u></b></p>
<p>The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/tag/socialism/" target="_blank">condemning
socialism</a> on Thursday, with nearly all Republicans and half of the Democrats
supporting it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, only somewhat amazingly, 86 Democrats
voted against it.</p>
<p>H. Con. Res. 9, a resolution “Denouncing the horrors of socialism,” passed
328 to 86, with 14 Democrats voting present, and six members (three Republicans
and three Democrats) not voting.</p>
<p>Rep Maria Elvira Salazar, R-FL, who is the daughter of Cuban exiles, was the
sponsor of the resolution. “As the representative of the city of Miami, and
daughter of Cuban exiles, I say that this resolution hits close to home
for us all,” she added. “We know that socialism only brings misery,
oppression, and exile, wherever it is tried.”</p>
<p>The resolution states “That Congress denounces socialism in all its forms,
and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States of
America.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">The resolution also attributes the deaths of “over
100,000,000 people worldwide” to socialism, including 10 million people sent to
the gulags in the Soviet Union; between 15 million and 55 million starving in
the wake of the famine caused by the Great Leap Forward in China; 1 million
people dead in the killing fields of Cambodia; and up to 3.5 million people
starving to death in North Korea. It also notes that socialism devastated the
once-thriving economies of Cuba and Venezuela.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Many prominent Democrats voted against the resolution, including
Reps. Julian Castro and Al Green of Texas, Jerry Connolly of Virginia, Rosa
DeLauro of Connecticut, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Summer Lee of
Pennsylvania, Jerry Nadler and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar
of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and
Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I guess my only surprise is that only 86 of the House Democrats voted against it. I guess most of the others still wanted to maintain plausible deniability. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><u>Chinese Surveillance Balloon</u></b></p>
<p>Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder said Thursday, according
to Reuters, “The United States government has detected and is tracking a
high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States
right now. The balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above
commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to
people on the ground.” </p>
<p>Joe Biden agreed with supposed advice from military leaders not to
shoot down the balloon. The leaders had cautioned that the debris could be a
safety threat. China says they are looking into it but respect the United
States' air space.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">In a letter sent Thursday to Defense Secretary Lloyd
Austin, Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana wrote, “The fact that this
balloon was occupying Montana airspace creates significant concern that
Malmstrom Air Force Base and the United States’ intercontinental ballistic
missile fields are the target of this intelligence gathering mission.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">I wonder if we do decide to shoot it down if
the “Big Guy” will still get his 10% from China with Hunter’s business deals?</p><p class="MsoNormal">Sleep well, and keep voting Democrat if you like what you read here. <br /></p> <br /><p></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-43831899302877445882023-01-27T17:32:00.001-07:002023-01-27T17:32:24.832-07:00Memes for the Weekend<p>If we didn't laugh with gallows humor at the ruination foisted on us by leftists, we'd simply cry ourselves out of the drought we are seeing in the western states. 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</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWHaA3ig2zpqIm21skG5rJWPtb18mdlOCXrEPc5c7zmzFD_792x9_1RD1tYJ9rI6tnAr2FxxSE7fwadYcZMh5zB1fdfn89-YKfgH1nL45iFF1KRaoRPQdmAjvnZNB9Xbtapr5gMnxb5d90sUizLfESjLU_QK82N5wxiavkwv9RPgbL8PmJ3JZPu7V5/s399/lie%20cheat%20steal.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="137" data-original-width="399" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWHaA3ig2zpqIm21skG5rJWPtb18mdlOCXrEPc5c7zmzFD_792x9_1RD1tYJ9rI6tnAr2FxxSE7fwadYcZMh5zB1fdfn89-YKfgH1nL45iFF1KRaoRPQdmAjvnZNB9Xbtapr5gMnxb5d90sUizLfESjLU_QK82N5wxiavkwv9RPgbL8PmJ3JZPu7V5/w400-h138/lie%20cheat%20steal.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br />It would seem that just maybe the bloom has started to come off of the rose in the
Biden leftist garden of corruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
many reliable allies on the left have begun to criticize the egregiously
corrupt Biden and his crime family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
fact that even the democratic industrialized media (DIM) has started
criticizing let alone covering the latest Biden classified documents debacle is
telling in and of itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Are they beginning to realize what average Americans with
common sense have seen all along?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden
is suffering from some form of mental degradation and in conjunction with his congenital
lying and corruption and the fact that he knows where his co-conspirators’ skeletons
are hidden has now made him a huge liability to the left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this the beginning of the end for
Biden?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is the leftist establishment
seeing enough real and potential problems with ol’ Joe to think it is time to
throw him out?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is the broadcasting of his
lies and corruption to the American people a sign that they are even willing to
put up with a President Kamala?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even Biden’s “reason” for running for the oval office was
based on a demonstrably false lie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
he announced his candidacy in 2019, Biden accused Trump of describing white
nationalists who engaged in violence at Charlottesville, Virginia, in August
2017 as “very fine people.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was
patently false.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, Trump said, “I’m
not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should
be condemned totally”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nonetheless,
Biden hammered that lie over and over on the campaign trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden’s supposed reason for running was
predicated on a lie from the beginning.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There have been a lifetime of lies told by Biden, often
repeated even though they have been debunked as false.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has been such a fixture of Biden’s “character”
that The Republican National Committee compiled a list of 21 times Biden’s been
truth-challenged since moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">1. Biden claimed
— on multiple occasions — he “used to drive” an 18-wheeler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Biden rode in an 18-wheeler once
nearly 50 years ago. He’s never driven one. <a href="https://t.co/o7Za8LaR4J">https://t.co/o7Za8LaR4J</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. In November 2022, Biden claimed that he met with the
“inventor” of insulin, but multiple scientists are credited with discovering
insulin, and two died before the president was even born.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Dr. Frederick Banting and professor John James Richard
Macleod were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1923 for their 1921
discovery of insulin. Banting died in 1941 and Macleod in 1935. Biden was born
in 1942,” the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/biden-suggests-he-spoke-to-doctor-who-invented-insulin-and-died-before-he-was-born/" target="_blank">New York Post</a> reported.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="https://t.co/LJtBwkxeG5">https://t.co/LJtBwkxeG5</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“At the same event, Biden incorrectly stated that his late
son Beau lost his life while serving in Iraq,” the Post further noted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His son died of brain cancer in the United
States.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. In October 2022, Biden <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-2004-fire-kitchen-story" target="_blank">said</a> he “had a house <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10228241/Biden-claims-Delaware-house-razed-ground-wife-it.html" target="_blank">burn down</a> with my wife in it” and <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-2004-fire-kitchen-story" target="_blank">said</a> they “almost lost a couple firefighters.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the truth is in 2004, there was a “<a href="https://www.firehouse.com/home/news/10516121/lightning-sparks-fire-at-bidens-house" target="_blank">small fire</a>” in Biden’s house caused by a lightning strike
that was contained to the kitchen, and “there were no injuries.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://t.co/smEweQxg4E">https://t.co/smEweQxg4E</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4. Also in October
2022, Biden claimed during a visit to Puerto Rico that he was “raised in the
Puerto Rican community” in Delaware.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We
have a very, in relative terms, a large Puerto Rican population in Delaware
relative to our population,” Biden said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“According to the 1970 US Census, Delaware had about 2,154 people who
were either born in Puerto Rico or descended from Puerto Rican parents —
roughly 0.39% of the First State’s population of nearly 550,000 at the time,”
the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/biden-claims-he-was-raised-in-the-puerto-rican-community/" target="_blank">Post</a> noted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is
no evidence of Biden being raised in such a community accordingly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://t.co/OAziqOd0es" target="_blank">https://t.co/OAziqOd0es</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">5. In September
2021, Biden recounted visiting the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh
following the Oct. 2018 shooting that left 11 dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Barb Feige, executive director of the Tree
of Life, said that Biden did not visit the synagogue in the nearly three years
since the anti-Semitic attack,” the Post reported, nor did he visit prior to
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>The synagogue said Biden
never visited. <a href="https://t.co/9z0C8jo0fl">https://t.co/9z0C8jo0fl</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6. In December 2021, Biden said that he served as a
“liaison” to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Biden was in law school at the time, and Meir didn’t become PM until 1969. He
was apparently referring to the Yom Kippur War, which took place in 1973, but <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-claims-to-have-served-as-liaison-during-six-day-war-despite-still-being-in-law-school-at-the-time" target="_blank">Fox News</a> reported it is unclear what he meant about being a
liaison during the war, because the record shows a then-Sen. Biden met with
Meir nearly six weeks before hostilities broke out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://t.co/c5k0UvApj7">https://t.co/c5k0UvApj7</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7. In September 2021, Biden said his first job offer was
from the Boise Cascade lumber yard in Idaho.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, Boise Cascade spokeswoman Lisa Tschampl told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/13/biden-claims-first-job-offer-from-idaho-lumber-company-no-record-of-it/" target="_blank">Post</a>, “We have no record of President Biden’s application
or of him having worked for the company.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="https://t.co/xLYMpUa1z9" target="_blank">https://t.co/xLYMpUa1z9</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">8. In January 2022, Biden said the “first time I got
arrested” was at a civil rights protest. Washington Post fact-checker Glenn
Kessler <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/13/biden-claims-yet-another-arrest-which-theres-little-evidence/" target="_blank">pointed out</a> that Biden has made similar claims in the past.
Kessler gave Biden’s remarks, which the journalist’s research could not
substantiate, even after reaching out to the White House, four Pinocchios, the
Post’s worst rating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no
evidence Biden has ever been arrested and he was not a civil rights activist. <a href="https://t.co/NqZoxg7DVj">https://t.co/NqZoxg7DVj</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">9. In June 2021, Biden repeated a claim he’s made multiple
times of having a conversation with an Amtrak conductor Angelo Negri about
traveling over one million miles on Air Force 2 as vice president. “Biden’s
account simply does not add up. Biden did not reach the million-miles-flown
mark as vice president until September 2015, according to his own past
comments. But Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993 and died in May 2014,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/politics/fact-check-biden-amtrak-angelo-negri-miles-traveled/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a> reported.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://t.co/92RvdxUtFc" target="_blank">https://t.co/92RvdxUtFc</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10. In June 2022, while speaking at the Naval Academy’s
graduation, Biden said he was <a href="https://twitter.com/softwarnet/status/1598747398137749504" target="_blank">appointed</a>
to the school in 1965.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/no-record-of-biden-naval-academy-appointment-he-boasted-about/" target="_blank">New York Post</a> reported that there is no record of Biden
being nominated to the academy, and he graduated from the University of
Delaware in 1965.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further, no record
could be located of Biden being appointed to the school between 1960 and ’65. .<a href="https://t.co/2kVar3COyI" target="_blank">https://t.co/2kVar3COyI</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">11. In July 2022, Biden said he had cancer due to emissions
from oil refineries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only cancer the
White House said Biden had is skin cancer, which is caused by the<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jul/20/joe-biden-says-he-has-cancer-fossil-fuel-emissions/" target="_blank"> sun</a>, not fossil-fuel emissions. <a href="https://t.co/cKFXXoZNCp" target="_blank">https://t.co/cKFXXoZNCp</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12. In February 2020, while campaigning for president, Biden
said that he “became a professor” after leaving office in 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden was in fact <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/28/biden-penn-professor-south-carolina/" target="_blank">named</a> the “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice
Professor” with the University of Pennsylvania in 2017, “but neither the school
nor Biden expected him to teach any classes, according to comments at the
time,” the Daily Caller reported.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further,
he never taught a class. His work was based in Washington, D.C., at the <a href="https://global.upenn.edu/penn-biden-center" target="_blank">Penn Biden
Center</a>, where those <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-finally-addresses-classified-documents-scandal-statement-wont-help-case/" target="_blank">classified documents</a> recently showed up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://t.co/SJyp6rA5nh" target="_blank">https://t.co/SJyp6rA5nh</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">13. In May 2021, Biden said that his “great-grandpop” was a
coal miner. There is at least some truth in this claim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Biden’s great-grandfather, Edward Blewitt,
went to college and became a civil and mining engineer, and eventually a state
senator,” The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/20/bidens-claim-that-his-great-grandpop-was-coal-miner/" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> reported.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Biden probably called him a coal miner, rather than an engineer, because
it made him sound more working class. <a href="https://t.co/qbKkOW64V5" target="_blank">https://t.co/qbKkOW64V5</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">14. In December, Biden claimed after he was elected vice
president in 2008, he awarded his uncle Frank Biden, the Purple Heart for his
service during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The president said he did so at the request
of his father, Joe Biden Sr. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden even
recalled how he and Joe Sr. went over to Frank’s house to deliver the award to
him, but his uncle refused it, saying those who died deserved it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/16/biden-claims-his-uncle-frank-won-purple-heart-but-story-doesnt-add-up/" target="_blank">New York Post</a> pointed out that Frank Biden died in 1999 and
Joe Sr. in 2002, making the account impossible to be true. Further, there is no
military record of Frank ever having been awarded the Purple Heart, which would
be required for Biden to have one to try to give him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://t.co/QmZWvxx3c6" target="_blank">https://t.co/QmZWvxx3c6</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">15. In July 2021 while hosting the World Series champion Los
Angeles Dodgers, Biden told the players that, in his second congressional baseball
game in 1974, he hit a baseball 368 feet off the center field wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, he actually <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/joe-bidens-baseball-tall-tale/" target="_blank">went 0-2</a> at bat during that game, according to a newspaper
account from the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://t.co/dXbPJJrfEP" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/dXbPJJrfEP</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">16. In October, while stumping for now-Sen. John Fetterman
in Pittsburgh, Biden <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-was-joe-bidens-grandfather-all-american-football-player-1753914" target="_blank">said</a> his grandfather, Ambrose Finnegan, was an all-American
football player at Santa Clara University in California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finnegan did attend the school, according to <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-was-joe-bidens-grandfather-all-american-football-player-1753914" target="_blank">Newsweek</a>, but there is no record of him being an
All-American football player. The news outlet noted he may have been a second
or third-team All-American, for which records were not kept at that time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or he may have received some other special
local recognition that people (or just the Biden family) equated with being an
All-American. <a href="https://t.co/sQbpTMT3se" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/sQbpTMT3se</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">17. Last year, Biden took his football tales a step further
and said in <a href="https://youtu.be/LzRfuZ_xBm4?t=5989" target="_blank">January
2022</a> that he “could have been an All-American” football player.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seemed to be joking, saying if Fetterman
had been blocking for him, he could have been an “All-American.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s doubtful. The president played just
one semester on the freshman football team for the University of Delaware. He
did not letter because he left the team before the season was over due to low
grades, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fact-check-bidens-too-tall-football-tale-flna1c6504609" target="_blank">NBC News</a> reported.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
it would have taken a lot more than Fetterman as a teammate for Biden to become
an All-American.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://t.co/rgBhoddAwp" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/rgBhoddAwp</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">18. In December 2021, while <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/12/08/remarks-by-president-biden-on-how-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-delivers-for-missourians/" target="_blank">promoting</a> an infrastructure bill, Biden said he thought he
could have made it to pro football. He even asked a friend of his who played in
the NFL if he could help him get a walk-on tryout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe this is more delusional than a lie, but
again, Biden barely played college football. <a href="https://t.co/YgejcjFFcQ" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/YgejcjFFcQ</a></p>
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19. In February 2021, Biden told State Department employees that he got “shot
at” while he was overseas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/02/04/joe-biden-revives-controversial-claim-he-was-shot-at/" target="_blank">New York Post</a> reported that the president made a similar
claim during a CNN Democratic presidential debate in 2007, recalling it
occurred in Baghdad’s Green Zone in Iraq.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Biden later revised his claim saying, “I was near where a shot
landed.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It never happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://t.co/kX424rAwhE">https://t.co/kX424rAwhE</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">20. In February 2022, Biden told attendees of the National
Association of Counties conference that when he was county council member, he
received a call from a woman demanding he remove a dead dog from her lawn, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-mocked-story-leaving-dead-dog-womans-doorstep" target="_blank">Fox News</a> reported.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
said instead of doing that, he put it on her doorstep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, Biden had reportedly previously told
the story, saying he drove to her home and <a href="https://www.naco.org/articles/biden-harris-roots-lie-county-government" target="_blank">removed</a> the animal. <a href="https://t.co/2MiWKOWQwU" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/2MiWKOWQwU</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">21. In October 2021, Biden said he <a href="https://twitter.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1450189547120300035" target="_blank">was</a> “involved in the civil rights movement.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When this issue came up when he was running
for president in 1987, he was forced to backtrack, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/02/14/ahead-south-carolina-vote-joe-biden-faces-questions-claims-civil-rights-activism-2/" target="_blank">The Intercept</a> reported.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At a news conference in September of that year, Biden said, “I was not
an activist.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I was involved, but I was
not out marching. I was not down in Selma, I was not anywhere else,” he added.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather Biden said he was aware and concerned
about civil rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://t.co/ijty46nY83" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/ijty46nY83</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If those 21 tall tales are not enough, Washington Post fact
checker Glenn Kessler and his team put together a list in 2021 of the “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/biden-fact-checker-100-days/" target="_blank">false and misleading claims</a>” Biden made just in his first
100 days in office.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They include his claim that former President Donald Trump
had not ordered enough COVID-19 vaccines and had no plan to distribute them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden also falsely asserted that the vast
number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. are those who have overstayed their
visas.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The president also said there was a broad consensus of
economists that his tax and spending plans would be good for the economy, but
the Post pointed out some prominent economists warned the proposals <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/trumps-top-economic-advisor-lays-exact-causes-inflation-biden-falsely-blaming-others/" target="_blank">would be inflationary</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Evidently Biden has such a penchant for telling falsehoods, coming up
with over 21 of them was not too hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If someone is going to lie about little things, it makes the likelihood
of lying about larger things all too likely… like being in business with Hunter
and his international pay-off schemes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All of this leads to the question of why hasn’t our “fourth
branch” of government been doing its job and investigating/ reporting on Biden
instead of simply fabricating false evidence on the Republicans all along?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get me wrong; we need to hold all
parties accountable, but up to this point, it has typically only been
Republicans that have been held accountable by the DIM allies of the left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The media has always ignored or excused
Biden’s lies in the past simply by chuckling and saying that that is just ol’
Joe with another gaffe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, well
someone who seems to have an intrinsic ability to lie repeatedly, even when the
lie has been proven to be exactly that, perhaps the media and the left, (but
then I repeat myself) are simply reaping the rancid fruits of the rotten seeds
they have sown.</p> <br /><p></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-80468596716844651492023-01-12T13:22:00.000-07:002023-01-12T13:22:06.990-07:00Creating Right Wing Cranks From Leftists Normalizing Deviancy<p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBh20hIv2jRGZC758qUmfK1ltUlv7h-jEZjI9PYDF0al6wJFrkmYgEEoYqR8VoAR5noDDJfZYTi2uyiqB61D8AZXpVoxU-yaopCcLUSoi1vxngbUeLsswdZRlC9F4zZ7Y62Y2XjcdRQtXHsdoI06cSoEh9fSanMtM4S5uVWDpi5keiEPMsUZpYaYZ_/s292/crank.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="292" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBh20hIv2jRGZC758qUmfK1ltUlv7h-jEZjI9PYDF0al6wJFrkmYgEEoYqR8VoAR5noDDJfZYTi2uyiqB61D8AZXpVoxU-yaopCcLUSoi1vxngbUeLsswdZRlC9F4zZ7Y62Y2XjcdRQtXHsdoI06cSoEh9fSanMtM4S5uVWDpi5keiEPMsUZpYaYZ_/w400-h292/crank.PNG" width="400" /></a></div>I have been blogging for thirteen years more or less now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During that time, I have reported or commented
on everything from God and faith, politics, current events, history, comedy, travel,
and people that have been important parts of my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have made what I consider to be good
friends on the interwebs along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some of these people (gasp!) were even left-leaning in their politics or
held views on God that were radically different than my own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, some of the most rewarding and
informative discussions I have had have been with precisely such friends of
differing opinions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, some
of the most unpleasant encounters I have had have also been with a few leftists
whose seemingly only agenda was to burn the place down, just like the liberal
cities after a mostly peaceful BLM riot.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As an example of atheist liberals with whom I formed friendships,
I look with great fondness to the past repartee between John Myste and myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John had a wickedly sharp wit and a great
sense of humor in trying to make his often erroneous points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I miss his contributions as he has
disappeared from the internet, it seems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another example is my leftist but God-fearing friend, Burr Deming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Burr is an amazing writer and story-teller
whom I consider to be a good man and a real friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That said, I have noticed a distinct shift
with him and nearly all left-of-center bloggers as the Overton window has lurched
leftward dramatically in the last few years of what is now acceptable as
policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When the “norm” is now even more left-leaning as a starting
point in conversation, it only serves to make someone on the right who has held
consistent in nearly all of their views over the last 13 years to appear as a “conservative crank”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Evidently it doesn’t
occur to the self-proclaimed party of science that it is their views that have
become wildly outside of the norm and are actually what the average American
now considers to be left-wing extremism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Or their adherents to be the “leftist cranks”)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I recall a time not too long ago when gay couples insisted
that they only wanted the right to marry the person they loved and that would
be the end of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, the LGBTQ lobby
insists on sexualizing kids with age inappropriate drag queen story hours and
shows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They indoctrinate our youth to
tell them that their gender is fluid and that there is nothing wrong with mutilating
one’s body to conform with the gender that they identify with at a given
moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is nothing short of evil.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Liberals have decried racism and inappropriate actions of some
law enforcement personnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All good people on the right concur with this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, I don’t know of a single person on
the right that condones the actions of the police against George Floyd and
others who were murdered by law enforcement actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet, the left, instead of working with
the right to root out the bad cops and punish those that deserve it would rather
destroy our cities and defund the police in order to embolden criminals that
have even less to fear now.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let’s look at abortion next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The left used to say that they wanted to keep abortion legal and
rare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nowadays that has shifted to a
position of abortion on demand and without apology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, the Democrats in the house, nearly to
a person, voted yet again the other day against a bill requiring medical attention to be
given to the surviving baby of an attempted botched abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, these ghouls voted for infanticide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pro-life pregnancy centers and churches
sustained 52 attacks in 46 days after the Supreme Court’s leaked Dobbs decision
on May 2, while the FBI did nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is the extremism that is now present on the left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The left tells us that men can get pregnant, gas stoves are
bad for people and the environment, spending trillions of dollars for special
interest groups has nothing to do with inflation, outrageous energy prices that
disproportionately affect the poor have nothing to do with Biden’s anti-fossil
fuel policies, and men identifying as women should be allowed to compete in
women’s swimming, track and other sports.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And these wildly radical ideas are merely the tip of the leftist
iceberg.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, when the left has shifted so far to the extreme end of
the leftist spectrum as their norm, no wonder why those of us on the right must
appear as conservative cranks to these misguided people. It is an epithet I will embrace and proudly wear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Barry Goldwater at the GOP convention in July of 1964
uttered perhaps his most famous quote, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is
no vice.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One cannot help but wonder
what the leftist equivalent to that would be today?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Extremism in the furtherance of leftist
utopianism is a “moral” imperative?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
guess it would depend on what the left’s definition of “moral” is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guarantee it won’t be the same definition
that our parents and grandparents understood it to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what do I know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just cranking along here on the
right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <br /></p><p></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-12450847358895870782023-01-06T17:14:00.004-07:002023-01-06T17:15:43.497-07:00Out of Egypt<p>Since I was a little boy, I was absolutely fascinated with the great pyramids and absolutely anything regarding ancient Egypt. The year after my father died, the King Tut exhibit toured the nation and my mother took my brother and me to see it up in Seattle. I was mesmerized! The awe of seeing such beautiful antiquities that predated Christ by more than 1300 years was spell-binding to me. Since then it has always been a bucket list item of mine to travel to Egypt and see these wonders in person. This last month, my beloved wife and I were finally able to realize this dream of mine. </p><p>I literally took thousands of pictures, but wished to share some of the ones that were most striking to me. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdnqJioED4eeP08qpvWSVTD3ybvGmv6pO1d9JpL9WEInnPJdeDO-saA5bNlVU-UUZ1sUjNoDYWIxYoUIpePy5IaepZ6zxrCcjq9AXUyLLWjN2U2I9dxMxp-sOv09cJKm1ZlHYhcEAo_f5JSKKGUn7ErMJPzkIdTC_adZDxJv2v9bp5QEoCndSePjN/s4032/IMG_5718.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdnqJioED4eeP08qpvWSVTD3ybvGmv6pO1d9JpL9WEInnPJdeDO-saA5bNlVU-UUZ1sUjNoDYWIxYoUIpePy5IaepZ6zxrCcjq9AXUyLLWjN2U2I9dxMxp-sOv09cJKm1ZlHYhcEAo_f5JSKKGUn7ErMJPzkIdTC_adZDxJv2v9bp5QEoCndSePjN/w400-h300/IMG_5718.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">First are the great pyramids of Giza lying on the west side of the Nile River. The dead were to be buried in the west and the living lived on the east side of the river. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Z6mji3dW7-V1h4d64re9j23uy0u52mUW482SgAeNdBkrbZoi7CTK-_KWdmXY2yo_sEFK6cTJoBGl_LQjQj48GmrlHPeXtWihIKOl9KHFweztjsaPoDati-RxIjUqZcnGr5ANnbqMsaGPb-bIfzVzVPqngbCbv85f5SwRwK6G2ek5554JMqHdFo86/s4896/P1010225.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Z6mji3dW7-V1h4d64re9j23uy0u52mUW482SgAeNdBkrbZoi7CTK-_KWdmXY2yo_sEFK6cTJoBGl_LQjQj48GmrlHPeXtWihIKOl9KHFweztjsaPoDati-RxIjUqZcnGr5ANnbqMsaGPb-bIfzVzVPqngbCbv85f5SwRwK6G2ek5554JMqHdFo86/w400-h300/P1010225.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Of course this is the Great Sphinx in front of the Great Pyramid of Kufu (or Cheops as the Greeks named him.) The air quality in Cairo and on the Giza plateau was full of dirt and pollution which greatly saddened me to see; however, it did not diminish from the grandeur of these last remaining seven wonders of the ancient world. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJrgnubVPQOIADnkZ0XPLxQBNB2-3lkFKYL1Lyc9uTsk77qm9a1Eq-dWLZg9QTHVdUZpvH06MXgCRtDeu41rvilHW4kuLIh0fnmz7xnsyIru-CZegSd6_8-4EufltvZ6V_JUujhQaamSl1EEb0UcENF_9l6B1kJVlW3jz5yE01oVXe1ITCgbtmhl10/s4032/IMG_5713.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJrgnubVPQOIADnkZ0XPLxQBNB2-3lkFKYL1Lyc9uTsk77qm9a1Eq-dWLZg9QTHVdUZpvH06MXgCRtDeu41rvilHW4kuLIh0fnmz7xnsyIru-CZegSd6_8-4EufltvZ6V_JUujhQaamSl1EEb0UcENF_9l6B1kJVlW3jz5yE01oVXe1ITCgbtmhl10/w480-h640/IMG_5713.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The sheer size of the pyramids was truly breathtaking. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSQpnf4B_nfNIZQgTS-iyiykKmWp3g6EdsmcVFVQA308Q0C4n-pbVuVQfYg2usq0UWAUM6KuylL95fiVQbRLlXKMvjnNZtl3Twzh2o2GQ-kIMBTKWnujZxNUMQnP52vW5ooRzfH0rb-ll5StI4P6JtW0352xBGwmT1vA430L5CLD5DOb-PhISwb5T1/s4896/P1010173.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSQpnf4B_nfNIZQgTS-iyiykKmWp3g6EdsmcVFVQA308Q0C4n-pbVuVQfYg2usq0UWAUM6KuylL95fiVQbRLlXKMvjnNZtl3Twzh2o2GQ-kIMBTKWnujZxNUMQnP52vW5ooRzfH0rb-ll5StI4P6JtW0352xBGwmT1vA430L5CLD5DOb-PhISwb5T1/w400-h300/P1010173.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My wife and I did opt to go inside Kufu's pyramid and climb up to the burial chamber. This is not something I would recommend if one is claustrophobic or has breathing issues as the air gets rather close at spots. As you can see in the picture above, there is one stretch of roughly 100 yards where one has to ascend this rather steeply inclined walk-way in a hunched over manner. (Coming down was equally fun!) <br /></div><br /> </div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQbEnububILbWjLmNu22XMjgs_vv1TxYIJsfP-MffqWdQeGAAbcPDIG7c1p7BuEIwxSjuX3OLNuwVAb2BPSw-vrwnjs2NhGHOSS1CmHrnHSkHn4rQjijw5ZkVU4hllDlQ0Br6gwVfx2dBdoFYKp9uMi0qwG1kYroMozk26Re30vFwMft1wzkkoxOLp/s4032/IMG_5704.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQbEnububILbWjLmNu22XMjgs_vv1TxYIJsfP-MffqWdQeGAAbcPDIG7c1p7BuEIwxSjuX3OLNuwVAb2BPSw-vrwnjs2NhGHOSS1CmHrnHSkHn4rQjijw5ZkVU4hllDlQ0Br6gwVfx2dBdoFYKp9uMi0qwG1kYroMozk26Re30vFwMft1wzkkoxOLp/w480-h640/IMG_5704.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For those tough or crazy enough to crawl through the passages to the burial chamber, one is rewarded with the view of a large barren room with a giant stone sarcophagus located towards the far end. While some seemed to think it was anti-climatic, I found the 4500 year old tomb to be fascinating!</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXuAG6RdP7CohsKNRZEajofCcBlBKCP0818RJNhuECSe1fm9GrJXxRSwopsBMfV328kVesTKEjVLKmsZZJIwc4Ezqg6AzJ99Kjn8LeP7UJUi4RZfUpEj8iL_-cH7_xcoOA1F4mp5_q8fCOfjftjMwENwzg4QTMF5zeHJ6dkxE2itVWjuk5xjJuAsgD/s4032/IMG_5814.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXuAG6RdP7CohsKNRZEajofCcBlBKCP0818RJNhuECSe1fm9GrJXxRSwopsBMfV328kVesTKEjVLKmsZZJIwc4Ezqg6AzJ99Kjn8LeP7UJUi4RZfUpEj8iL_-cH7_xcoOA1F4mp5_q8fCOfjftjMwENwzg4QTMF5zeHJ6dkxE2itVWjuk5xjJuAsgD/w400-h300/IMG_5814.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We then later that day went to see the even older (4700 years old) step pyramids of Saqqara. They were similarly beautiful and other-worldly. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6fLEaElzIFFgkw0EQ-dXvXIYdfOkRw0Izx91THT0VQ7wCAUffUFGHugukA3EPq5J7Q_Qub51_H4m5DqHFL4H_hBzXywqvr57tVvQg92T5P_oKZPxJ0vI4tI93CHkrQBpUFSy5AO4sCQmPW2Y2w_XyUifWZqrcxxVDBRDodu3kNT3VE1QvoGd9GcdA/s4032/IMG_5966.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6fLEaElzIFFgkw0EQ-dXvXIYdfOkRw0Izx91THT0VQ7wCAUffUFGHugukA3EPq5J7Q_Qub51_H4m5DqHFL4H_hBzXywqvr57tVvQg92T5P_oKZPxJ0vI4tI93CHkrQBpUFSy5AO4sCQmPW2Y2w_XyUifWZqrcxxVDBRDodu3kNT3VE1QvoGd9GcdA/w480-h640/IMG_5966.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is King Tutankhamun's chair (throne) that was found in his tomb from the Valley of the Kings and now resides in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. My apologies as I was not entirely able to eliminate glare and reflections from the glass case. The artistic detail, even for such a minor king, was stupendously beautiful!<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMpXAsIe2v8DVLMTB-7uK51QFOdWbwrCiwSowLLsnYavlFNYqQIZT-AZ259HuE7HGmXyHkRZpBzVfLZYGkumEqJceYPWvqG1--h5PyCg9uCqaz6v3iyI_qqEP2qfCHrLgClxSafD1rYKU-nMZeInwPWnEcZFyh0nYjBd3ILDfa8lriAupATm6KnkZ/s4032/IMG_5973.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMpXAsIe2v8DVLMTB-7uK51QFOdWbwrCiwSowLLsnYavlFNYqQIZT-AZ259HuE7HGmXyHkRZpBzVfLZYGkumEqJceYPWvqG1--h5PyCg9uCqaz6v3iyI_qqEP2qfCHrLgClxSafD1rYKU-nMZeInwPWnEcZFyh0nYjBd3ILDfa8lriAupATm6KnkZ/w480-h640/IMG_5973.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the gold leaf covered case that held the four alabaster jars containing King Tut's organs. King Tut's death mask and sarcophagus was also displayed in the museum in their striking beauty; however, security would not permit photography in that room, to my great chagrin. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNQhd693HwBCTOvTt0AO3pl0IvLrBkEvnk_oUiJVfZiDmC5YifSZo3Svzx9IEhhVm-_qXkTWFwqkDCTSkOAO3npCQ4Rk3QBRBLr-dTbEFuv3ML_AZWP66hvtCLEkeqQZVXdm_g2QHGDebeZIY2MYrXr0CdrpABTeL5HYs7jEt4VnvVrtmJVWanAxRX/s4032/IMG_6009.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNQhd693HwBCTOvTt0AO3pl0IvLrBkEvnk_oUiJVfZiDmC5YifSZo3Svzx9IEhhVm-_qXkTWFwqkDCTSkOAO3npCQ4Rk3QBRBLr-dTbEFuv3ML_AZWP66hvtCLEkeqQZVXdm_g2QHGDebeZIY2MYrXr0CdrpABTeL5HYs7jEt4VnvVrtmJVWanAxRX/w400-h300/IMG_6009.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next we visited the <span class="module__title__link">Mosque of Muhammad Ali which was built on the fortress of the existing citadel constructed by the great Saladin. Cairo is considered the city of a thousand minarets due to the myriad of mosques throughout the city; however, today I suspect that number of minarets far surpasses even that. This beautiful mosque's architecture was modeled after the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="module__title__link"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBRZ9kP6dsYDzLjS2KbCXGLTQEq9ij9QqLbe_7HE_3aBTn4VRnfBm--7_RMBNppmTSe_HYbRYDeqpbZ8-G2RAhEGSMcxmEhwnYI2ucY8dS-PRKzq2qQxm_NQF2b_77vMa76c-3jTLV0NRGceokS9xPCq2kg45PeXRgFyes89wAQlP_aZ6YPeQQ1din/s4032/IMG_6041.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBRZ9kP6dsYDzLjS2KbCXGLTQEq9ij9QqLbe_7HE_3aBTn4VRnfBm--7_RMBNppmTSe_HYbRYDeqpbZ8-G2RAhEGSMcxmEhwnYI2ucY8dS-PRKzq2qQxm_NQF2b_77vMa76c-3jTLV0NRGceokS9xPCq2kg45PeXRgFyes89wAQlP_aZ6YPeQQ1din/w480-h640/IMG_6041.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The stained glass, chandelier, and beautiful craftsmanship throughout made this place an unexpected treat. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmwKR8fDITyRuDaKowJOnrEMNFljQVtYtu-L3ubYDwtX9wxpaR9srPVXXbmodBOeh8E_F4rNbMcCg41cgy9mCk3_enAtNl9WO2tC2G-ztjWih0wFtUlZcp0kzCNHmIV9rCqeNML4o_06FsjPw42D5oWGPC52V9fz01n2Kao3qn5xfb6KSI_1ZV2Zq/s4032/IMG_6060.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmwKR8fDITyRuDaKowJOnrEMNFljQVtYtu-L3ubYDwtX9wxpaR9srPVXXbmodBOeh8E_F4rNbMcCg41cgy9mCk3_enAtNl9WO2tC2G-ztjWih0wFtUlZcp0kzCNHmIV9rCqeNML4o_06FsjPw42D5oWGPC52V9fz01n2Kao3qn5xfb6KSI_1ZV2Zq/w400-h300/IMG_6060.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a view of the city of Cairo from the citadel where the mosque was perched. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWa7SuW0vSAP8haaDX43_1SW7WyTYjP3x_Jfc9IgxcCAuEEQNCtlyL13rPCn4NQeKrl091L0ZGXVUSuFTtK_WCnYaEdFY1wl2d3-PjUwPXp0iFmGTqC0IAuucASUpUki9oxmGR9oHn88Ue_eIUJbO5XLyvlxROkWWLwxUOvMpXP-CCg30vBi1LtHUX/s4032/IMG_6097.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWa7SuW0vSAP8haaDX43_1SW7WyTYjP3x_Jfc9IgxcCAuEEQNCtlyL13rPCn4NQeKrl091L0ZGXVUSuFTtK_WCnYaEdFY1wl2d3-PjUwPXp0iFmGTqC0IAuucASUpUki9oxmGR9oHn88Ue_eIUJbO5XLyvlxROkWWLwxUOvMpXP-CCg30vBi1LtHUX/w400-h300/IMG_6097.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The following day we flew from Cairo to the city of Aswan in the south of Egypt. From there we drove three hours south nearly to the Sudan border to see the incomparable temple of Abu Simbel. This temple was carved into the stone by Pharaoh Ramses II to serve as a monument to him. A smaller and less grand temple sits nearby to honor his wife Nefertari.<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORGjfNuu-4P6gCUn_0Xil_Zx-wgz2xFPdu5T2HUDKKUrA_F_jdd9RpcXRU6g1XS4uzPFaGdaMsoI7dgnf-_zpNZGQR4lUFGyj35Lt6tW9XvuKgzq1GGWJr-4ZE4_X2MwZozi6AOn1QqHJLXSTV7SGKs-Za6Ar_oIdWCrH9lwyHCZoUbyVXMWN0vn0/s4032/IMG_6105.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORGjfNuu-4P6gCUn_0Xil_Zx-wgz2xFPdu5T2HUDKKUrA_F_jdd9RpcXRU6g1XS4uzPFaGdaMsoI7dgnf-_zpNZGQR4lUFGyj35Lt6tW9XvuKgzq1GGWJr-4ZE4_X2MwZozi6AOn1QqHJLXSTV7SGKs-Za6Ar_oIdWCrH9lwyHCZoUbyVXMWN0vn0/w480-h640/IMG_6105.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The temple of Abu Simbel was built in the 13th century B.C. but was relocated in 1968 by archeologists to higher ground when the high dam at Aswan was constructed, otherwise this priceless treasure would have been submerged under the massive Lake Nasser that the dam created. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxAhi6Yn2TmRkzxz5a0KZWuLt04bbIg577Iu0MeHVnK4Uwcelc57d4Q5YE4tTamuXhtPy3j20yLnVAwcuTYUaLyGT9EW7F9Dv1TkRvmgQblDF3REWjYRU-ADehdHeEb0fJ0YySVqH-3RrOPnyqyER2agYH98z6gdH9PYFBvo69UObwhgon9HAx1tuY/s4032/IMG_6137.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxAhi6Yn2TmRkzxz5a0KZWuLt04bbIg577Iu0MeHVnK4Uwcelc57d4Q5YE4tTamuXhtPy3j20yLnVAwcuTYUaLyGT9EW7F9Dv1TkRvmgQblDF3REWjYRU-ADehdHeEb0fJ0YySVqH-3RrOPnyqyER2agYH98z6gdH9PYFBvo69UObwhgon9HAx1tuY/w400-h300/IMG_6137.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Statues of King Ramses II inside his temple at Abu Simbel. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJTfjJNtWPNWypSV5F_VtrYw-CrrDn8tlYdQ8itSVCsoONSgo5anqCQ-IKXMYb0Vleq4a37I4dDSqs3Yjacio81ANvLEXjr6OJ89NRhNbBwCuyOoebD14VJ5CLazPTS1Nwy2kSldmZqpXXf3qXXeYZPVrNoER6RgavdQTe9CSmKfvQhjqSDLtcDp29/s4032/IMG_6263.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJTfjJNtWPNWypSV5F_VtrYw-CrrDn8tlYdQ8itSVCsoONSgo5anqCQ-IKXMYb0Vleq4a37I4dDSqs3Yjacio81ANvLEXjr6OJ89NRhNbBwCuyOoebD14VJ5CLazPTS1Nwy2kSldmZqpXXf3qXXeYZPVrNoER6RgavdQTe9CSmKfvQhjqSDLtcDp29/w400-h300/IMG_6263.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This next one was an unexpected delight as well. This is the Temple at Philae, which is a temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. It sits on an island in the middle of the Nile river near Aswan. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2sK133kEortRo84nmeyeG31QPXdiGw9S2-QkalPORCV6wYig9vSTDR3hc4TZe_M7ZFvwYNtRl5NKWa5Cc4zoq49rI5zTjYvlD-OlIDH080urnVi954deEJJAHFPXktqbwrXb4pXzAiJaIBjqumZRg_Ah8CfkNq5f7qjHY_ey1LmR4vOeu272F53NM/s4032/IMG_6331.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2sK133kEortRo84nmeyeG31QPXdiGw9S2-QkalPORCV6wYig9vSTDR3hc4TZe_M7ZFvwYNtRl5NKWa5Cc4zoq49rI5zTjYvlD-OlIDH080urnVi954deEJJAHFPXktqbwrXb4pXzAiJaIBjqumZRg_Ah8CfkNq5f7qjHY_ey1LmR4vOeu272F53NM/w300-h400/IMG_6331.JPG" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It would seem that a not uncommon theme was the defacing of some Egyptian temples by later inhabitants. The outside of this temple of Isis was co-opted eventually by the Coptic Christians and there were several spots where a Coptic cross was carved into the walls. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvs6XA1o-wU8dGtohzr9u2q8mLIEiQ2-CsxIKfB4jsNXDS7fhKAavyg_zy54XeWNGoy0sFaBMiThLrkHWVS7KNQkDbtcR4CkW6ulo95RGZ_Rkw11_3kGjpfgvrERcp7LF84Cu0fFxg0b1lPwZB5DH1Hku6y6QMSDK_Qdj-wCH50528aR0FokNqL7Df/s4896/P1010587.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvs6XA1o-wU8dGtohzr9u2q8mLIEiQ2-CsxIKfB4jsNXDS7fhKAavyg_zy54XeWNGoy0sFaBMiThLrkHWVS7KNQkDbtcR4CkW6ulo95RGZ_Rkw11_3kGjpfgvrERcp7LF84Cu0fFxg0b1lPwZB5DH1Hku6y6QMSDK_Qdj-wCH50528aR0FokNqL7Df/w480-h640/P1010587.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is looking out on the Nile from the east side of the Philae Temple courtyard. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCfFJnvoeFXAtr9wERrjptx2qBrhY4q_DTm-DPQRq6u5h31OOMXjJ7HhMwz4hLa7b_GpfZy4j9FKPntMyfzylo7XDwBhcvxho5wVTd5RmZEvVnrDzhvxbwVTh-Nb3nuYRlGpl2_-pxeBFtPnw-3WvmgbFtbpq-ia5V5HEzh0F09q4kGtQrID4I8ETk/s4032/IMG_6360.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCfFJnvoeFXAtr9wERrjptx2qBrhY4q_DTm-DPQRq6u5h31OOMXjJ7HhMwz4hLa7b_GpfZy4j9FKPntMyfzylo7XDwBhcvxho5wVTd5RmZEvVnrDzhvxbwVTh-Nb3nuYRlGpl2_-pxeBFtPnw-3WvmgbFtbpq-ia5V5HEzh0F09q4kGtQrID4I8ETk/w400-h300/IMG_6360.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy4rjRh2MWENVg0XKaNdJbknTsPR1mLt03Di9AZpb0TKiV2WO8-SmQ-xdLxMeJuV4f8Eo6nOutfcjmo6g88GRGn5vKAUMUmnVDKjaTkPrKFT2BwzAzccs3wVqAua6eGIou09nGgzj1rz83fwbbfcneEs5zeWtTZ72DdT9oXh6hBfmbUZpBCdNPy3CY/s4032/IMG_6443.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy4rjRh2MWENVg0XKaNdJbknTsPR1mLt03Di9AZpb0TKiV2WO8-SmQ-xdLxMeJuV4f8Eo6nOutfcjmo6g88GRGn5vKAUMUmnVDKjaTkPrKFT2BwzAzccs3wVqAua6eGIou09nGgzj1rz83fwbbfcneEs5zeWtTZ72DdT9oXh6hBfmbUZpBCdNPy3CY/w400-h300/IMG_6443.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Part of our tour included a three day cruise on the Nile from Aswan to Luxor. I found the dichotomy of the lush verdant vegetation along the banks to the stark beige of the sand shortly past its banks to be striking. Truly the Nile is the source of life for this nation still to this day as a vast majority of its population remain living along its banks. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHgDLGYeeV15Lt_ozr4gFUNRM-VqIJueRho-0mO5QfPNLGyn9S-9B6UFYMAaoC2iiKIPL1iGTXKSiWbMy41kNe-SmSvOMnlaf3FNfUitfDvgUTu_epI4i3RERp055aEgai4xwJHqejITkn-UPKWZFE5XkIuFQoRJsJAvttgI2-LCYB0aEWhFsokLOR/s4032/IMG_6439.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHgDLGYeeV15Lt_ozr4gFUNRM-VqIJueRho-0mO5QfPNLGyn9S-9B6UFYMAaoC2iiKIPL1iGTXKSiWbMy41kNe-SmSvOMnlaf3FNfUitfDvgUTu_epI4i3RERp055aEgai4xwJHqejITkn-UPKWZFE5XkIuFQoRJsJAvttgI2-LCYB0aEWhFsokLOR/w400-h300/IMG_6439.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxe1ok2fJhbYCR4EGYWUwA4w8uDIgkfQKqgj5g6pUFGpwp9cLcPsxfxOdAfE8h4KvZWDcuSaI1CbNkGYHNHxootBHBZ1QzbmtT90TRSzeXNxnuF9v9KVToTfHAfLYOTet1JI7sG1yBGEDNaqjnlsB13PekSXyEbB54PXOwR8gPNzRD6wByZq5fNgoP/s4896/P1010642.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxe1ok2fJhbYCR4EGYWUwA4w8uDIgkfQKqgj5g6pUFGpwp9cLcPsxfxOdAfE8h4KvZWDcuSaI1CbNkGYHNHxootBHBZ1QzbmtT90TRSzeXNxnuF9v9KVToTfHAfLYOTet1JI7sG1yBGEDNaqjnlsB13PekSXyEbB54PXOwR8gPNzRD6wByZq5fNgoP/w400-h300/P1010642.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1YBUAzzggcwN_NnGP-txO9oc-PvZvfZ0GLKcEYjgaG3S-T5Da53uDr5voDZidYHTed4d181rbk1iN2IhMgsgG2eQgtitdbMr9iwsnXvc7tFhYd0wdcokZd_PZuu6LOCVPw9CyGM-dJU0zEX_8Ja1WA5qtFMdnV8FLMryeaXOoygT0rQ0S3Vog5-lP/s4032/IMG_6368.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1YBUAzzggcwN_NnGP-txO9oc-PvZvfZ0GLKcEYjgaG3S-T5Da53uDr5voDZidYHTed4d181rbk1iN2IhMgsgG2eQgtitdbMr9iwsnXvc7tFhYd0wdcokZd_PZuu6LOCVPw9CyGM-dJU0zEX_8Ja1WA5qtFMdnV8FLMryeaXOoygT0rQ0S3Vog5-lP/w480-h640/IMG_6368.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We also took a felucca boat (Egyptian sail boat) ride on the Nile to an island botanical garden which I found very peaceful and thoroughly enjoyable. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghBQaBMl395wuvfTDnaE1mBJJoUhmrDjYYvwIIFVPl3w-6RzDpjV-RY10xAhaSxOhiJKFh9g-uEHfb5XbdyUUdQcoKgmKTAHpIuSDKeZmbBIRB0tJMWIi6E3ZD5hwsA7DNSP-TODiFjI5-Z8-H9x1eHGDE-N1izj2gz5Tnv5BZc91aF-vr-UMXpH8-/s4896/P1010651.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghBQaBMl395wuvfTDnaE1mBJJoUhmrDjYYvwIIFVPl3w-6RzDpjV-RY10xAhaSxOhiJKFh9g-uEHfb5XbdyUUdQcoKgmKTAHpIuSDKeZmbBIRB0tJMWIi6E3ZD5hwsA7DNSP-TODiFjI5-Z8-H9x1eHGDE-N1izj2gz5Tnv5BZc91aF-vr-UMXpH8-/w400-h300/P1010651.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of the things I found fascinating, hidden in the hieroglyphics of an ancient Egyptian hospital at the temple at Kom Ombo, is a depiction of their surgical instruments. This can be seen in the upper center part of the picture above. At one point a depiction of what could only be described as a sperm cell was carved into the stone. No one has been able to explain how a microscopic cell could be known by these ancients prior to the invention of the microscope.... and yet, there it was. Amazing. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFNs9-slFVOVc8Bu5awdQ6TYWWceW5qD3YLElIbrhMqUoA0HqSO4GbpypMXrSnNbMuZNNHGHc6GitWfX3vkPOq2CrlHmiksPx7r9FXRMw09MzRURIGCetlSo-meDd2gcFa_lrhkd8gH8gT6541qqdB42gW7Z2shYPYa6WAj-FK6jR9prQ9VfmNMKXH/s4032/IMG_6413.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFNs9-slFVOVc8Bu5awdQ6TYWWceW5qD3YLElIbrhMqUoA0HqSO4GbpypMXrSnNbMuZNNHGHc6GitWfX3vkPOq2CrlHmiksPx7r9FXRMw09MzRURIGCetlSo-meDd2gcFa_lrhkd8gH8gT6541qqdB42gW7Z2shYPYa6WAj-FK6jR9prQ9VfmNMKXH/w400-h300/IMG_6413.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Part of the Temple of Kom Ombo was dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek. The Egyptians would pray to Sobek for protection from the numerous gargantuan crocodiles that proliferated in the river at that time. Luckily, now there are no crocodiles in the lower Nile anymore since the construction of the high dam at Aswan. Evidently these prayers did not always work. Above are the mummified remains of some intimidating specimens!<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy4rjRh2MWENVg0XKaNdJbknTsPR1mLt03Di9AZpb0TKiV2WO8-SmQ-xdLxMeJuV4f8Eo6nOutfcjmo6g88GRGn5vKAUMUmnVDKjaTkPrKFT2BwzAzccs3wVqAua6eGIou09nGgzj1rz83fwbbfcneEs5zeWtTZ72DdT9oXh6hBfmbUZpBCdNPy3CY/s4032/IMG_6443.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcDGv_jNyYRxRVZY_wIf3xU3ivYTlZKd7sDMsjH2V3J82PjU1f9wQ-vf3in1cpToJMK00TMnR3Z6YlBYmGARygPao73LRrRMC8UmLbfCe9miCsL54Q8IewF0xqnP_CEjlpZ9c7A2mQUSPMKKYmxEUkgORM__-hNmqixs7pnc8sop8Hcq-srB-cVwr2/s4032/IMG_6533.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcDGv_jNyYRxRVZY_wIf3xU3ivYTlZKd7sDMsjH2V3J82PjU1f9wQ-vf3in1cpToJMK00TMnR3Z6YlBYmGARygPao73LRrRMC8UmLbfCe9miCsL54Q8IewF0xqnP_CEjlpZ9c7A2mQUSPMKKYmxEUkgORM__-hNmqixs7pnc8sop8Hcq-srB-cVwr2/w480-h640/IMG_6533.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We also were able to tour three of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Currently there are 63 known tombs that have been discovered here, including the famous tomb of Tutankhamun. The picture above shows the intricate artistry adorning the walk way to the burial chamber of Ramses IV. The vibrancy of the colors and lack of degradation of the tomb was astonishing in its beauty. You can see the large stone sarcophagus in the center of the picture above.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJxbqdHei0iwlwTD7VBXncvaagjpK0XH4Jt9pecN71GCFdyNRSyFp2YNcVh7-zhRq0IgTmITdx0F-BVfki-17Z_GDHDO6am8IUY-Y0X0y8jVFDwmErAduAd22Pa9KY0zN26xrdPySr9Hd_DkF0SV2CLQqitipWlteOR9z_SRWLc7FXs4ok-GSnaF7k/s4032/IMG_6572.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJxbqdHei0iwlwTD7VBXncvaagjpK0XH4Jt9pecN71GCFdyNRSyFp2YNcVh7-zhRq0IgTmITdx0F-BVfki-17Z_GDHDO6am8IUY-Y0X0y8jVFDwmErAduAd22Pa9KY0zN26xrdPySr9Hd_DkF0SV2CLQqitipWlteOR9z_SRWLc7FXs4ok-GSnaF7k/w400-h300/IMG_6572.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Merenptah, which many archeologists believe is the Pharaoh of Exodus in the Old Testament that pursued Moses and the Jews to the Red Sea. Supposedly they have come to this assertion based on the unique salt content in the wrappings of the mummy of Merenptah that are found only at the Red Sea.<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFyL012s3qpXiMBQHhj2PQOWFyI9IjU5iHWFoQARBaWHLQfG8Mrt-Vq_K_ORbAPx7YwyEHoUzTaOj-re3OsaKM69Ib4ZAip7yipKh2P7-L1oaXbnLUDrG2JNxutaOj6PC7-kF_fMrdQVveptZJy-7qTMamFdZ26ou1WFtIAOl31IBiKy8WgfNQFVgl/s4032/IMG_6602.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFyL012s3qpXiMBQHhj2PQOWFyI9IjU5iHWFoQARBaWHLQfG8Mrt-Vq_K_ORbAPx7YwyEHoUzTaOj-re3OsaKM69Ib4ZAip7yipKh2P7-L1oaXbnLUDrG2JNxutaOj6PC7-kF_fMrdQVveptZJy-7qTMamFdZ26ou1WFtIAOl31IBiKy8WgfNQFVgl/w400-h300/IMG_6602.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This last carving was found by us in the tomb of Ramses III. Beautiful! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCW6Z-0qtl1UpMbmLExcjglw55N8ixVZH4lblX7vdPR2xNqXlAzwHF7rQPQvIqyznmkho-_KY3SjxKSptUBpo82tetBw2TVoeKjBsYtKCVghbuL6JgIFlg44RmPWpiYe-KGnWaDAoCquhZD-40n-F_4Q6Z52UaPC82ud7RUULgN3cXgksUqc5WmxcM/s4032/IMG_6621.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCW6Z-0qtl1UpMbmLExcjglw55N8ixVZH4lblX7vdPR2xNqXlAzwHF7rQPQvIqyznmkho-_KY3SjxKSptUBpo82tetBw2TVoeKjBsYtKCVghbuL6JgIFlg44RmPWpiYe-KGnWaDAoCquhZD-40n-F_4Q6Z52UaPC82ud7RUULgN3cXgksUqc5WmxcM/w400-h300/IMG_6621.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the temple of the Queen <span class="module__title__link">Hatshepsut. She was the second confirmed female pharaoh to rule Egypt. Her temple was near the Valley of the Kings on the east side of the Nile from Luxor. Indeed, if one was looking from the entrance of Karnak Temple, one could see across the river to see this grand temple carved into the mountain on the west side.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="module__title__link"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="module__title__link"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwMsDy0ns5lIt8I72R8Wi4YCbk8nSxvqlFzLjWa-Yd5egR0ZTximGw0M4vimjNPdsmGzv86Kf1r4W8X7x0wk1QKGcap_4wYKErH8B-RZo9d2HiOyv_tMcb7xZRgPp0HV3DDaBsgsegpHNuQpAPT6SgOot4fU8NEdH8zroC3i4P0awG5r1Biq5JZiu/s4896/P1010799.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwMsDy0ns5lIt8I72R8Wi4YCbk8nSxvqlFzLjWa-Yd5egR0ZTximGw0M4vimjNPdsmGzv86Kf1r4W8X7x0wk1QKGcap_4wYKErH8B-RZo9d2HiOyv_tMcb7xZRgPp0HV3DDaBsgsegpHNuQpAPT6SgOot4fU8NEdH8zroC3i4P0awG5r1Biq5JZiu/w400-h300/P1010799.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of the interesting things about Queen <span class="module__title__link">Hatshepsut's temple was the fact that part of it was unfinished, which gave a remarkable insight into how the ancient Egyptian's decorated their temples and tombs. You can see the red ink on the wall outlining two figures that were to eventually be carved into the stone of the temple.</span> </div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdRI3DuJtGLXfU5anxjsyhtLquUn9tT1EKdv9aGrWKpJJSr4BhBCUwLuGwNtttq71yzw5ZaYhQeb0BKeCE4XsX39aP6D6G-ORdhhiAAtaDZUUOCmw_2yhh6tbdRQHc4UHqx6aMGVFWkYrNcFqpSbWDcd71q782tBiRPb_fV9PQm2_fztjRfDiLLGBt/s4032/IMG_6706.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdRI3DuJtGLXfU5anxjsyhtLquUn9tT1EKdv9aGrWKpJJSr4BhBCUwLuGwNtttq71yzw5ZaYhQeb0BKeCE4XsX39aP6D6G-ORdhhiAAtaDZUUOCmw_2yhh6tbdRQHc4UHqx6aMGVFWkYrNcFqpSbWDcd71q782tBiRPb_fV9PQm2_fztjRfDiLLGBt/w480-h640/IMG_6706.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The next day we proceeded to the temples of Karnak and Luxor. Above and below are some of the striking columns from the remains of Karnak. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTrr2kcqF3uGv9p4rMoqDQv3tOmG013PJmDSRETMe84aj_QFudyilZRdmMqXdrXBj1slZzgzjPvziZqdogkD0aXRistajA9TKRdMUHHYzl06VdNn2DuIBZ4E6-k3myxIJfSzgBtAi0z-dguJc9qv2MVn87qa8KHgXzbBH0HmxLivK1fUmUKNtMJ5m/s4032/IMG_6717.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTrr2kcqF3uGv9p4rMoqDQv3tOmG013PJmDSRETMe84aj_QFudyilZRdmMqXdrXBj1slZzgzjPvziZqdogkD0aXRistajA9TKRdMUHHYzl06VdNn2DuIBZ4E6-k3myxIJfSzgBtAi0z-dguJc9qv2MVn87qa8KHgXzbBH0HmxLivK1fUmUKNtMJ5m/w400-h300/IMG_6717.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div>These columns constitute the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun-Re, a hall area of 50,000 sq ft with 134 massive columns arranged in 16 rows.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizvfhGwlG5wjdvFdeClJKHYaZmGHG_Pj_GkPHQWtH-stCdpQ5tN2PyBnduOBn2Upte9MT-MfO6sYmw2Z9hjfh2RA6RMSv5T0dUeVfRTgoe8yEqftPEJgMNqC28Jg-Sb04r8JztMJY6a-iEiWCdpXRH-xQYwPyqHJin3NUZWoOw190vDbuqxmf4HozG/s4032/IMG_6727.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizvfhGwlG5wjdvFdeClJKHYaZmGHG_Pj_GkPHQWtH-stCdpQ5tN2PyBnduOBn2Upte9MT-MfO6sYmw2Z9hjfh2RA6RMSv5T0dUeVfRTgoe8yEqftPEJgMNqC28Jg-Sb04r8JztMJY6a-iEiWCdpXRH-xQYwPyqHJin3NUZWoOw190vDbuqxmf4HozG/w480-h640/IMG_6727.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is one of the three remaining Obelisks that adorn the temple at Karnak. One of them was damaged in a great earthquake many centuries ago, and only the top of it is still displayed at this temple. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzrphewBDjMy9C3xRgqXxJUo4yvj8rlRBNUjJMb9J-j9TWybBGeGG5em7qpdeDYYA7pB-L8ErRsOiLrYdyacYSneNZqEODWXQFysgjZdZWxAyDFI9oDZFafjoimHfTSHWjmjibZbNhpXOXKcCw4g7fXUOEOrIRhDhspl1RYXZ0she1DZa_xVilh2QN/s4032/IMG_6737.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzrphewBDjMy9C3xRgqXxJUo4yvj8rlRBNUjJMb9J-j9TWybBGeGG5em7qpdeDYYA7pB-L8ErRsOiLrYdyacYSneNZqEODWXQFysgjZdZWxAyDFI9oDZFafjoimHfTSHWjmjibZbNhpXOXKcCw4g7fXUOEOrIRhDhspl1RYXZ0she1DZa_xVilh2QN/w480-h640/IMG_6737.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The architecture of most of these ancient temples was such that the common people were only allowed into the first courtyard of the temple. The wealthy and more elite of society were allowed to worship in the second section of the temple, whereas only the pharaoh and high priests were allowed to access the "holy of holies" in the third section. Above is the stone altar at Karnak, where a idol would have been placed in its day. Karnak was dedicated to the gods Amun (god of the sun & air), Mut (goddess mother), and Khonsu (son of Mut and god of the moon.)<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNadPFJi9zwgdk0Lmc0aFguxPMH7VLJCAqKTNUNbpOmpP5s_sFMyfl-ABpF_WtSZls_UZWsloBwbLFkxO85ZCBw8PTq8fi0SAUZL3KADPpmh8-6sHw8iBYq8mV7FEAa9XU-CnzTp-aIEpYXRM0r_hG7dMQl6EZMl1NikSrXO_fbTbSe_jwX0EwXIF/s4032/IMG_6782.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNadPFJi9zwgdk0Lmc0aFguxPMH7VLJCAqKTNUNbpOmpP5s_sFMyfl-ABpF_WtSZls_UZWsloBwbLFkxO85ZCBw8PTq8fi0SAUZL3KADPpmh8-6sHw8iBYq8mV7FEAa9XU-CnzTp-aIEpYXRM0r_hG7dMQl6EZMl1NikSrXO_fbTbSe_jwX0EwXIF/w400-h300/IMG_6782.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are some of the statues in the second (wealthy) courtyard of Karnak. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8qRlzekH767VFbjTExoXojv9SkZd6UPp_hMEgnG_1zF2QE1EljIqHOqLgMcjWDI4z8hA3ZrSB9Cb1tkbUgDZPHL8K90Dz0gf7IWIHS2vkg46j0h3UhshZnC0yqxy7wqAeXG8lIGvjGJerPlQ3smRC0gJy_iFe6ZYakaSdDqJN92arsvrJisQeo7M4/s4032/IMG_6809.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8qRlzekH767VFbjTExoXojv9SkZd6UPp_hMEgnG_1zF2QE1EljIqHOqLgMcjWDI4z8hA3ZrSB9Cb1tkbUgDZPHL8K90Dz0gf7IWIHS2vkg46j0h3UhshZnC0yqxy7wqAeXG8lIGvjGJerPlQ3smRC0gJy_iFe6ZYakaSdDqJN92arsvrJisQeo7M4/w480-h640/IMG_6809.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Towards the back of the Karnak temple is a carving of an "ankh" in the wall which recent superstition says will bring you luck if you place your hand upon it. I don't know that it works, but they say it does whether you believe it or not. :) The ankh is the symbol of life for ancient Egyptians. My wife, with her Nubian henna tattoo couldn't resist the opportunity to garner good luck and touched it accordingly. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-fu7_aZoVf_n8YgR4mZjCTNWR9K9g2X9soDIukVH0M5SiyZuCWfXQz_MRF4o5HlN9nS8l5KJCFN1kJQznYUz1MbCwxvRz6-QxL5yhU6VlsvzFWb3dtEuLonkNuxZ7R_dtzE1lUCzWBvvaqmXqIkkXrExFMiooUidBYJ_6oW3wlVzwFOiI7dQpvQK/s4032/IMG_6831.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-fu7_aZoVf_n8YgR4mZjCTNWR9K9g2X9soDIukVH0M5SiyZuCWfXQz_MRF4o5HlN9nS8l5KJCFN1kJQznYUz1MbCwxvRz6-QxL5yhU6VlsvzFWb3dtEuLonkNuxZ7R_dtzE1lUCzWBvvaqmXqIkkXrExFMiooUidBYJ_6oW3wlVzwFOiI7dQpvQK/w400-h300/IMG_6831.JPG" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next was the Temple at Luxor, which is located down a three kilometer road lined with sphinxes from the Temple of Karnak. The expanse of this is not fully open yet, but you can see the beginning of the path from Luxor and its sphinxes below.<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRWbDk2qOzR3_VvnXVv-VLHlUkm4np8PY-KF4iv1S7GhtYjjEkDMER-xWB7b7zcEvDWnTzjdGWMQLgUEh8Az2dUiCJnGMNJdvCSEoRJJCPXL6m8j2JPKgInAQRfFJt-3hAame_bYQKH9hVjUaYHS6YAH0wt-Kcjbq46_pB60pFpIU4GigQHeS8n3u/s4896/P1010969.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRWbDk2qOzR3_VvnXVv-VLHlUkm4np8PY-KF4iv1S7GhtYjjEkDMER-xWB7b7zcEvDWnTzjdGWMQLgUEh8Az2dUiCJnGMNJdvCSEoRJJCPXL6m8j2JPKgInAQRfFJt-3hAame_bYQKH9hVjUaYHS6YAH0wt-Kcjbq46_pB60pFpIU4GigQHeS8n3u/w400-h300/P1010969.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />I am still trying to wrap my head around all of the beautiful things we saw and reflect upon each location. It is interesting as I still have been unable to determine a "favorite" as each was spell-binding in its own way. I am truly blessed to have been able to realize my childhood dream and spend this time in the land of the pharaohs!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div></div></div></div></div>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-16262889521780107152022-12-29T10:21:00.002-07:002022-12-29T10:21:35.317-07:00Gun Logic for Beginners<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1 - Eleven teens die each
day because of texting while driving. Maybe it's time to raise the age
of Smart Phone ownership to 21. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2 - If gun control laws actually worked, Chicago would be Mayberry, USA. <br aria-hidden="true" />
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3 - The Second Amendment makes more women equal than the entire feminist movement. <br aria-hidden="true" />
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4 - Legal gun owners have 300 million guns and probably a trillion
rounds of ammo. Seriously, folks, if we were the problem, you'd know it.
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5 - When JFK was killed, nobody blamed the rifle. <br aria-hidden="true" />
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6 - The NRA (National Rifle Association) murders 0 people and receives
($$$$ 0) nothing in government funds. Planned Parenthood kills 350,000
babies every year and receives $500,000,000 in tax dollars annually. <br aria-hidden="true" />
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7 - I have no problem with vigorous background checks when it comes to
firearms. While we're at it, let's do the same when it comes to
immigration, Voter I.D., and candidates running for office. <br aria-hidden="true" />
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8 - Folks keep talking about another Civil War. One side knows how to
shoot and probably has a trillion rounds. The other side has crying
closets and is confused about which bathroom to use. How do you think
that would work out? <br aria-hidden="true" />
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9 A man who left 300,000 guns for the Taliban is lecturing us on gun control and lives in the White house. </span></span><br /></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-16117617846825630502022-12-02T16:44:00.001-07:002022-12-02T16:44:09.425-07:00Thoughts on the Ruinous Mid-Term Elections<p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaF6xGGFhApfgssGuv5pVEgpYUBi-mUi6tv4Hbbh5kvGAtDcy5ELocorY_W_T35wLBuzoxKfmHDS4_vwSa725hDMpTzFwyjilSXC1c_MWp1SpVHAKIEKQi9SspOK_4hRSXvK_6WxpYbwTjx4YTyaXvrSLKdzeZEbQ9fniKHg5svsB7yYeZfZIaOW9E/s474/flag%20upside%20down.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="299" data-original-width="474" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaF6xGGFhApfgssGuv5pVEgpYUBi-mUi6tv4Hbbh5kvGAtDcy5ELocorY_W_T35wLBuzoxKfmHDS4_vwSa725hDMpTzFwyjilSXC1c_MWp1SpVHAKIEKQi9SspOK_4hRSXvK_6WxpYbwTjx4YTyaXvrSLKdzeZEbQ9fniKHg5svsB7yYeZfZIaOW9E/s320/flag%20upside%20down.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>After the mid-term elections a few weeks back, I was admittedly
disheartened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not that I bought
into the rhetoric of the mythically monumental “red wave” that was supposed to
sweep the leftist hate-America-first congress critters and senators from
office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew better, and if there is
ever a way for Republicans to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, they will
consistently find a way to do so it seems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps if they ran on a clearly articulated pro-Constitution
agenda instead of just against the senile and corrupt Biden and his flying
monkeys in congress, they would have fared better.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That said, the stage has been increasingly set in this once
great nation to support socialist/leftist candidates and their dangerous ideas
which have been demonstrably proven to fail repeatedly along with their profligate
spending on extra/un-constitutional things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I know – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know – </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anything that the left wants to spend tax payers’ dollars on
is covered under the Constitution’s “good and plenty” clause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Er, I mean under the general welfare
clause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never mind that this is so much
nonsense and that anything not specifically enumerated as a right or duty of
the federal government in the constitution is supposed to be reserved to the
states or the people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Seems like I have read that somewhere before too…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now if only our elected officials would
likewise do us the minimal favor of reading the freaking constitution they are
supposed to support and defend. But I digress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After all, why would the leftists care about governing in a manner
faithful to the constitution when they despise America? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even their previous messiah Obama was swept
into office on the promise of fundamentally transforming America with “hope and
change” for free stuff for everyone that towed the manifesto line.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Academia has tilted left for so long that they have
indoctrinated the current generation of students and much of the previous one
as well to their leftist propaganda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Question this and one is labelled a fascist, racist, sexist, homophobe,
transphobe, xenophobe, authoritarian, blah blah blah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oh, and one’s grade will likely reflect one’s inability to regurgitate a
leftist professor’s beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have seen it personally for many people.<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know if we have reached the tipping point where we
will not be able to save America from its own self-inflicted destruction or
not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vocal left and its myriad
special interest groups of hate America always propagandists seem to have an
unassailable hold on the direction this country is headed, and they aren’t
beyond doing whatever is necessary to ensure that they hold on to their power, elections
be damned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(There are ways to make sure
elections always tilt to blue rather than red if the outcome is in doubt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just ask Kari Lake in Arizona.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyway, I figure that I will simply go on about my life and
try to associate with good like-minded people who appreciate what REAL
old-fashioned Americans are: Those that love liberty, the constitution, and a
government that protects those rights and nothing more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the meantime, I will trust in God and keep
my powder dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think perhaps not focusing
on worldly things right now may be the only way we have left of saving our once
great nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My prayers are always
directed as such towards God accordingly. May He still bless America.<br /></p> <br /><p></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-9277920324112502152022-10-28T17:01:00.001-06:002022-10-28T17:01:00.192-06:00The Religion of the Left: Poem by Norma Bruce<h3 class="post-title entry-title">
<a href="https://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-religion-of-left.html">The religion of the Left</a>
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<p> The Party's faith in Sustainability, a poem</p><p>(by Norma Bruce, based on an idea in <a href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-sustainability-becoming-one-true-corporate-religion">How Sustainability is Becoming the One True Corporate Religion</a> by Ellen Weinreb, Dec. 20, 2011)</p>Their Religion, the One True, is Sustainability <br />Their Cult is Climate Change<br />Their Cathedrals are on every college campus<br />Their Priests are staffing corporate H.R. departments <div>Their Sacrament is Abortion<br /><div>Their Baptism is a sprinkle of mRNA</div><div>Their creed is a CRT screed<br /><div>Their church fathers are Marx, Nietzsche, Sarte, Marcuse, and Foucault.</div><div><br />Their testimonies speak lived experience of oppression</div><div>Their scripture contains no objective truth</div><div>Their Revivals are George Floyd riots<br />Their Galileo's trial is a January 6 Committee </div><div>Their boards deny Corpernicus a seat<br />Their choir directors creates castrati </div><div>Their missionaries translate language into chaos</div><div>Their pulpits are filled with media CEOs and intersectional academics.</div><div> </div><div>Note from Darrell Michaels: I have long been a reader and admirer of the wisdom and wit always posted by Norma Bruce on her blog <a href="https://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/">Collecting My Thoughts</a>. The above was one of her recent postings that I thought was brilliant and perfectly encapsulated the leftist mindset in their "religion". I heartily recommend putting her site on your blog reading list!<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div><p> </p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-31711750093253653232022-10-21T16:53:00.005-06:002022-10-21T16:53:46.803-06:0024 Memes for the Weekend!<p> No time to write this week, so I figured I'd share some great memes to do the writing for me! Cheers and have a great weekend!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3sz2T8I_VUQ4EmxtiHbimgfzYrtkFVjNt6720aV5godvsl-OMT1APrZZGZy_ActWDiipFqCuYVcldNtUpYZBmExB3HCsjXNRJjksR_IAfgsXEVl32K3XyR_m-XIFNhYGvHSeD9R15ICxwCI73sSZqcGsCeTWnWrgeTb3bnDUTMRhXTzPsysV1PV-t/s632/aint%20black.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="632" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3sz2T8I_VUQ4EmxtiHbimgfzYrtkFVjNt6720aV5godvsl-OMT1APrZZGZy_ActWDiipFqCuYVcldNtUpYZBmExB3HCsjXNRJjksR_IAfgsXEVl32K3XyR_m-XIFNhYGvHSeD9R15ICxwCI73sSZqcGsCeTWnWrgeTb3bnDUTMRhXTzPsysV1PV-t/w400-h283/aint%20black.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVLDLXn7Szk0XFLEN9x1GvevHaOW25dclQih1XmHR8HNZJnkWNAErfxLPrM6Xg07xDALoXsvfkhJgIO3m3EE_WbnAKUh87Afz_b9k32BytZsjRL3I63kpuRjLi-8gaOA9TrMNwBr_EAnKq4Os3LFDn9U1Rkxkwp0NnmPgvGXVY_S9y5OsBUr6m5iZz/s380/bad%20guys.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" dir="rtl" style="clear: both; margin-right: 40px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb5-Te-LOnukaj557Eh-WySwTrn6vDT08GOafvKWsE4NovbnNo9SEwvtDxg9qvVS4QhSHiyIt68IGYweVHN9yXYmU5jqg_FEBdABmiSUCHoF7VKM7uivKRFpP-491nlP2pVHg1Fx04vr8Griwb-4REcXqQF-DmqNA6HWYAfA26MH9ym5M39hRdWJf5/s741/praying%20Biden.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="741" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb5-Te-LOnukaj557Eh-WySwTrn6vDT08GOafvKWsE4NovbnNo9SEwvtDxg9qvVS4QhSHiyIt68IGYweVHN9yXYmU5jqg_FEBdABmiSUCHoF7VKM7uivKRFpP-491nlP2pVHg1Fx04vr8Griwb-4REcXqQF-DmqNA6HWYAfA26MH9ym5M39hRdWJf5/s320/praying%20Biden.PNG" width="320" /></a></div>America’s founding fathers, after successfully fighting a
war to free our newly formed nation from the chains of tyranny, were adamant
that we the people would not replace one tyrannical regent with an equally tyrannical
federal government over our nascent nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Out of that legitimate concern, the brilliant United States Constitution
was written to limit the role of what the federal government could and should
do and to further enshrine in our Bill of Rights what our rights were that the
government was sworn to protect under this new constitution.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of our 1<sup>st</sup> amendment rights as Americans is the
“right of the people peaceably to assemble”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As such, America has many such groups, clubs, professional societies, service
organizations, and institutions of faith where like-minded people are free to assemble
in furtherance of their intended causes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many of these groups and faith organizations have developed their own
by-laws and codes of conduct in order to be a member in good standing with that
said group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Roman Catholic Church is one such group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, the very church built on the rock of
Peter by Jesus Christ himself has long established such rules and codes that a Christian
is to live by if he or she is to remain faithful to God and His teachings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These teachings are encoded in Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church for anyone
to read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of these teachings regards the mortal sin of abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Catechism specifically states the following, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">“2270<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Human life must
be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the first moment of his existence, a
human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person – among which
in the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you
were born I consecrated you.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Jer 1:5)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘My frame was not
hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>depths of the earth.’ (Ps 139.15)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2271<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the first
century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This teaching has not changed and<u><b> remains
unchangeable.</b></u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><u><b> </b></u> </span>Direct abortion, that is
to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the
moral law: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not
cause the newborn to perish.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Didache 2,2)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble
mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>it out in a manner worthy of
themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life must be protected with
the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are
abominable crimes.’ GS 51 3</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2272<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Formal
cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Church attaches the canonical penalty of
excommunication to this crime against human life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘A person who procures a completed abortion
incurs excommunication latae sententiae’ ‘by the very commission of the offense’
and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Church does not thereby intend to
restrict the scope of mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather, she
makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to
the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of
society.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2273<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The inalienable
right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a
civil society and its legislation:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and
respected by civil society and the political authority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These human rights depend neither on single
individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and
the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue
of the creative act from which the person took his origin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among such fundamental rights one should
mention in this regard every human being’s right to life and physical integrity
from the moment of conception until death.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>CDF Donum vitae III</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘The moment a positive law deprives a category of human
beings of the protection which civil legislation ought to accord them, the state
is denying the equality of all before the law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of
each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of
a state based on law are undermined… As a consequence of the respect and
protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of
conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every
deliberate violation of the child’s rights.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Donum vitae III</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, what are we to make of public figures such as Joe Biden
and Speaker Pelosi who insist that they are being good, devout Catholics, while
giving support and indeed even promotion and tax-payer dollars to what their
faith describes as a mortal sin?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Further, that mortal sin that they have committed unrepentantly has not
only brought great scandal upon the Catholic Church as it can and has given permission
to those Catholics that are less well-versed in their faith, scripture, and catechization,
to support this grave and mortal sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Catholicism teaches that in order to partake of the Eucharist, Holy
Communion, one must not be in a state of mortal sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To partake anyway in such an unworthy fashion
is to commit another grievous sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And yet, many of our Catholic leaders still insist upon
their own piety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They disregard the very
rules of the Church of which they profess to be members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they deny the sacredness of life from
conception to natural death, then perhaps Catholicism is not a compatible faith
for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps they should look for salvation
elsewhere accordingly if they are invincibly ignorant in their steadfast support
of abortion.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They certainly should not be propping themselves up as
spokespeople for the Church when they are clearly and obstinately not abiding
by its core tenets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many
bishops, including Nancy Pelosi’s own Archbishop Cordileone, that have instructed their dioceses
not to distribute Holy Communion to such transgressors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Luckily, the sacrament of reconciliation offers Christ’s
mercy to reestablish communion with the church for these transgressors, but
they must truly be repentant for the support of this grave evil and work to not
fall back into such sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
meantime, it brings great shame and scandal to the church for such high-profile
politicians to proclaim their Catholicity while blatantly ignoring its
teachings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If Mitt Romney, as a Mormon were to be a heavy drinker and
smoker and promote such things, he would likewise bring scandal to his church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints would similarly be greatly dismayed as
such intractable behavior that goes against their church laws. Certainly one can understand that a group can establish its own rules. Churches in particular have a right and obligation to do so. Membership in such suggests that one is willing to abide by those organization's rules. This becomes of the utmost importance when the rules are dictated by God himself!<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Renowned Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin recently wrote, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">“…someone who still professes to be Catholic—even
unfaithfully—remains so, even if it is purely in a “bodily” way and not “in his
heart.” <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Although there is no doubt that public figures—as well as
private individuals—gravely compromise their communion with the Church when
they reject key Catholic teachings and values, this doesn’t mean that they
literally cease to be Catholics.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bad Catholics are still Catholics. And that just makes their
betrayal of the Faith worse.”</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Indeed, and that is why Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi may view
themselves as devout, but their sins and hypocrisy is clear for all who know to
see this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prayers for their conversions
of heart is greatly needed from the truly devout accordingly.</p> <br /><p></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-85079324004053504202022-10-10T08:38:00.003-06:002022-10-10T08:38:29.537-06:00Ronald Reagan's Words on Christopher Columbus<p>"<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #706f72; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Columbus is justly admired as a brilliant navigator, a fearless man of action, a visionary who opened the eyes of an older world to an entirely new one. Above all, he personifies a view of the world that many see as quintessentially American: not merely optimistic, but scornful of the very notion of despair."</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #706f72; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">~President Ronald Reagan <br /></span></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-14923953002233941622022-09-30T13:19:00.001-06:002022-09-30T13:19:09.411-06:00Sanford and Son Spoof<p>There is a lot to write about with the ongoing corruption and incompetence of the Biden administration continuing, but sadly there simply isn't the time for me to do so this week. That said, a friend sent me this video spoof of the fabulously funny Sanford and Sons TV show that I enjoyed in my younger days. I figured it was good for a well-needed laugh for everyone. Have a great weekend!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='478' height='398' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzW_8UapmoerY-DlJaQZ7xB_nedQFSWqzP9VW-NcTC6tIyAAyklOVzaQQqpyB90S74_zsrmVXxF_vVt2rsAhQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><br /><p></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-36737560028504796322022-09-22T09:06:00.001-06:002022-09-22T09:06:45.812-06:00A Naturalized American's Message to Joe Biden<p><span class="" style="font-size: large;">A friend forwarded this video to me of a gentleman who is a recently naturalized citizen of the United States of America. His name is Elmo Heniopari (spelling?). He will have the privilege of voting for the first time this November. He made this video specifically for Joe Biden. I doubt that Biden will ever see it and almost assuredly would ignore the message if he were to see it. That said, this man's faith and goodness evidently far exceeds my own.</span></p><p><span class="" style="font-size: large;">The video is a little over five minutes long but is well worth the time to watch. This gentleman articulately makes a good case in his statement to Biden and there are tens of millions of his fellow Americans that share his sentiments. God bless him and all such legal immigrants that hope and share in the promise of America!</span><br /></p><div class=""><span class="" style="color: #26282a; font-size: 18pt;"></span></div><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='440' height='366' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyVNHAU07Kq0Rnn0AJ3eKL0xvpsmMWF-QgMeI5E44UjVbrFe27dJykfS0Od9t0qaMXeWsSy8KnYE3yl9i3yzg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>H/T: Carrie<br /> <p></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-88354266676669127772022-09-16T18:38:00.000-06:002022-09-16T18:38:47.782-06:00Constitution Day and our Woefully Inadequate Education System<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPfVcebNs7aS3KQyW2CQnF00FKuhzUGaupn85jE2MQ1HVrbD6O0rxj1NxBjGMmQpvxfqItPxI_I5zWdTHbN0We0zDSZmoK2S_B4wMxq1NUj-SJEEbFkdavIJ8zmuJ5BwV8ZNbgtEheiR7VhJdRBN2QADYw3vYX_lw1yhrP3Ztxhk75C5ZLEuL7WKCD/s474/constitution.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="474" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPfVcebNs7aS3KQyW2CQnF00FKuhzUGaupn85jE2MQ1HVrbD6O0rxj1NxBjGMmQpvxfqItPxI_I5zWdTHbN0We0zDSZmoK2S_B4wMxq1NUj-SJEEbFkdavIJ8zmuJ5BwV8ZNbgtEheiR7VhJdRBN2QADYw3vYX_lw1yhrP3Ztxhk75C5ZLEuL7WKCD/w400-h266/constitution.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Years ago, I received a text from my college-educated daughter on September 17th, saying "Happy Constitution Day, as I know you are a fan, Dad." My response was something to the effect of, "How come you and so many Americans today are not fans, considering that is the very document that codifies your liberties and restrains a potentially tyrannical government from usurping them?" My daughter, unfortunately had succumbed to the leftist indoctrination of our educational system in college and now sees America as an unjust and racist nation. <p></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">This is the quality of our educational system today with the ridiculously erroneous attempts to rewrite American history with largely debunked political diatribes such as the 1619 project. Leftist professors are free to pontificate on the evils of America to a captive audience, and anyone asking critical questions is automatically mocked at best, or intimidated and chased out of school at worst.</span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">There are a few strongholds of educational integrity left though. Hillsdale College is one of these that teaches classical liberalism and the humanities. They proudly teach American history and civics to all of their students in an unbiased fashion. Further, they accept no money from the federal government whatsoever, including in the guise of students using federal aid for student loans. They do this so as to have complete academic independence so as not to be beholden to leftist government bureaucracies demanding that their dictates be followed in the educational process. </span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">From time to time, Hillsdale College will send out emails to me. I wanted to share this one as such endeavors in regaining control of our educational system from leftists may be the only way we can save America. If your are so inclined, look into this and see if you might be interested in supporting Hillsdale College and our United States Constitution!</span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Following is the email I received:</span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> <br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Dear Mr. Michaels,<br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">September
17 is Constitution Day—the day in 1787 that the members of the
Constitutional Convention, meeting in Philadelphia, signed the final
draft of the American Constitution. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">America’s
Constitution endured for more than two centuries—longer than any other
constitution in human history—because it was brilliantly conceived and
based on the principles of liberty in the Declaration of Independence.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Today, however, certain parts of the Constitution have been completely subverted. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">For
instance, many of the functions intended to be carried out by our
elected representatives are instead in the hands of unelected and
unaccountable bureaucrats. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">And
some of the remaining parts of the Constitution—including the
fundamental rights of free speech and freedom of religion in the First
Amendment—are seriously under attack.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Underlying
these efforts to destroy our Constitution is the movement in American
schools and universities to push a false and dishonest account of
American history. This account portrays our nation as essentially racist
and irredeemably unjust. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">It’s
no surprise, then, that a recent Rasmussen poll found that over half of
President Biden’s strong supporters think the Constitution “should be
mostly or completely rewritten.” </span></strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">Or that two law professors—one from Harvard and the other from Yale—wrote an op-ed in <em>The New York Times</em> titled “The Constitution is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed.” </span></strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">American
education has become a battleground, and reviving a proper
understanding of American history and a proper reverence for the
Constitution—<strong>especially among younger Americans</strong>—has become <strong>one of our </strong><em>most urgent priorities</em><em>. </em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">You are already a generous and reliable supporter of Hillsdale’s educational efforts on behalf of liberty. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">That’s why I’m asking you to join Hillsdale’s </span></strong><em><strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">Liberty & Learning Society </span></strong></em><strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">today</span></strong><em><span style="color: #0e101a;">.</span></em></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><em><strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">Liberty & Learning Society</span></strong></em><span style="color: #0e101a;"> members are vital to our expanding efforts to educate citizens (<strong>especially younger citizens</strong>) <strong>about</strong><strong> American history, the importance of the Constitution to liberty, and free-market economics. </strong></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Joining the<strong> </strong><em><strong>Liberty & Learning Society</strong></em><strong> </strong>is easy. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Members commit to an automatic, recurring monthly gift of <strong>$5, $10, or even $20 or more each month</strong>, which automatically advances the important work of <strong>reaching</strong> and <strong>teaching</strong> additional millions of citizens on behalf of liberty.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Most members give in the $25 a month range, but we are grateful for every single member at whatever level they can afford. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">In these trying and uncertain times, when so much is at stake, we have set an ambitious Constitution Day campaign goal: <strong>1,200 new </strong><em><strong>Liberty & Learning Society</strong></em><strong> members by midnight on Constitution Day, September 17. </strong></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">When
you join, you become a partner in educating additional millions of
Americans about the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, and America’s great heritage of liberty through efforts
like our free speech digest <em><strong>Imprimis</strong></em>, our <strong>free online courses</strong>, and our expanding work in the area of <strong>classical K-12 education</strong>. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">By joining the <em><strong>Liberty & Learning Society</strong></em>, you also help us reduce fundraising expenses and maximize the impact of every dollar given.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Hillsdale has a tradition of and a reputation for being wise with our resources because we are almost unique in <em>refusing to accept even one penny of government funding—</em>not even indirectly in the form of federal or state student loans and grants.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">All
of Hillsdale’s work depends entirely on the support of individual
citizens who understand the importance of our educational mission on
behalf of liberty.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Will you consider being one of the 1,200 citizens we need to sign up for the <em><strong>Liberty & Learning Society </strong></em>before midnight on Constitution Day?<em><strong> </strong></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">You can learn more about and join the </span></strong><em><strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">Liberty & Learning Society</span></strong></em><strong><span style="color: #0e101a;"> using this secure link:</span></strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: #0600ff;"><a data-hs-link-id="2" href="https://info.hillsdale.edu/e3t/Ctc/LS+113/c2xp-04/VWVrtd7QWsmpW2V7mNk3MB6tSW5r_q0D4Q1HhBN8tN9Dc3q3phV1-WJV7CgLhNW7Xs_Gb8x8RMkVVHqjh48BdBQW5jXmfJ9bdPFnW8PX2yf8DmBDPW1gkKZX3Lxr4lW2qWdMF7pw_hbVK8Gb47PpQkwW1CdXtZ3f7zt2W9jNwtN84hhxyW8b5v6L5F6RLBW12NF9F2MZnBdW45-lf19lp_1yW2qBNMJ4ltDDNW7Jj_HC9fx6bkN20DfFCqCCPKW64T0Cs6lBQtfN7jzDQhqy7BMW4RyX8w2nvs-_W2wY0lZ4cxYR_W246pjF7FxfZ-W8T37bw1QDTbTW8T3HdX8zSVW_VYnNYk1N4FdzW815fRl3hNzczW1H-fVR7fHh0QW8p-1pv7pLHkrMK0TKHN-QYxW1VFFwh6Nbjtm360_1" rel="noopener" style="color: #0600ff; font-weight: bold; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;" target="_blank">https://secured.hillsdale.edu/hillsdale/constitution-day-liberty-learning-society</a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">And if you accept my invitation to join Hillsdale’s <em><strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">Liberty & Learning Society</span></strong></em> on or before September 17, I’ll send you a link to a session of our upcoming free online course, <strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">“Understanding The American Founding: A Conversation.”</span></strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">We
are deeply grateful for your support of our ongoing work to recover and
preserve liberty and limited government for future generations of
Americans. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Warm regards,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Larry P. Arnn</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">President, Hillsdale College</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Pursuing Truth and Defending Liberty Since 1844</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">P.S. </span></strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">I’m grateful for your steady and reliable friendship, which is why I hope you will join our automatic monthly giving group, the <em><strong>Liberty & Learning Society</strong></em>, before midnight on Constitution Day, September 17.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">When
you do, you will become our partner in educating additional millions of
Americans about the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, and America<strong>’</strong>s great heritage of liberty.</span></p>
<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">Joining is simple, safe, and convenient</span><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #0e101a;">—</span></span><span style="color: #0e101a;">learn more at this secure link:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; padding-left: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: #0600ff;"><a data-hs-link-id="3" href="https://info.hillsdale.edu/e3t/Ctc/LS+113/c2xp-04/VWVrtd7QWsmpW2V7mNk3MB6tSW5r_q0D4Q1HhBN8tN9Dc3q3phV1-WJV7CgNJVW1ckTnL1rjPRwN1bxGpGFqRkrW8GH31p25vHv_W4LtBHg6Vj0prW6fKhjc3thPRYW4Hz8Kz2MWnhGW4Hkfkq6vdnb3W6nrmkj328dk3W5jlCnG1QnlGFW1l6zwF2NJJb-W2ndH9f4Xm0lLW2Hj61P7rNSDFW3T_77C47hKRqW8DR4BR6wbV27W8C-k1V5cjFSqV2TLsK4x1RmrW3kf1r_2DCVpTW7Btjm839Frp3N24g77-jGYshW6WvCB04DhsMrW1nSfC4720w3gF4S0Q711D8DW5cz7dB1TspRQW5Nhlkw1Lx9--W3_ZwXz3Jp2zpN4YLtzMkWlTdW9fzrv56TjYVnW8LSlZQ8mZTqT3kNZ1" rel="noopener" style="color: #0600ff; font-weight: bold; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;" target="_blank">https://secured.hillsdale.edu/hillsdale/constitution-day-liberty-learning-society</a></span></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-77859762917630162432022-09-09T13:27:00.000-06:002022-09-09T13:27:19.753-06:00If I Were a Fascist Bent on Destroying America...<p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI3eFS1f7-yOPkbwM30lMOWF_SPVi1Jk_zr3lN_AJzLKfPRii5tL_7gPac8rgU_iOc18tKa_2vAvJUMos8IC3U2bGccbieYhrAoV65Dk_J3OQnDJD98wQ-Y5QPNYI-nVI8aPiG0BxLa_hFyC2LwTBe0QeRT5vp9pVtaUixxtNlZrPEzjh35nk9SKSL/s788/Biden%20fascist.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="788" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI3eFS1f7-yOPkbwM30lMOWF_SPVi1Jk_zr3lN_AJzLKfPRii5tL_7gPac8rgU_iOc18tKa_2vAvJUMos8IC3U2bGccbieYhrAoV65Dk_J3OQnDJD98wQ-Y5QPNYI-nVI8aPiG0BxLa_hFyC2LwTBe0QeRT5vp9pVtaUixxtNlZrPEzjh35nk9SKSL/w400-h238/Biden%20fascist.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><b>If I were a fascist</b> or even a semi-fascist and wanted to
destroy our democratic republic and eradicate the freedoms that our constitution
was formed in order to protect, how could I best go about doing so?<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well, I would first want to take over our education system
in order to indoctrinate our kids into believing that they live in an unjust
and racist nation that brings nothing but ruin to others throughout the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would ignore teaching them of
the United States history where we overcame so many great sins, like slavery
and women’s inequality in rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
would bury the truth of how the United States fought and buried hundreds of
thousands of men in defense against the true fascism of Nazi Germany, Imperial
Japan, and Mussolini’s Italy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I surely
wouldn’t tell of the largesse in charity and foreign aid given to nations
throughout the world, especially in times of disaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, that would go against the woke narrative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, and I’d erase college debt for the rich
that went to college and put the burden on the tax payers that chose not to go,
as they couldn’t afford it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would champion that I was a member of the party of science
and then explain how gender is fluid and boys can actually be women and
dominate girls’ sports, walk around naked in girls’ shower rooms, and any
complaining about that or the man’s ability to menstruate or become pregnant would
immediately be mocked and shut down with cries of transphobia.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Which leads to the next thing that I would do, which would
be to weaken and eventually destroy the traditional nuclear family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is just another form of patriarchal
oppression designed to keep women and children in their places, even though I
would ignore the fact that my supreme court justice would be unable to define what
a woman was.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Next, I would raise taxes on the “rich” and on corporations
that “don’t pay their fair share” in order to appease the ignorant and greedy among
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sure wouldn’t let it be known that
the top 1% of income earners pay nearly 40% of the federal tax burden while only
making 20% of the national income.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
would never tell that the bottom 50% of income earners pay 3% of the overall
federal tax burden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, and I wouldn’t
let the foolish know that corporations simply pass the cost of corporate taxes
onto their customers via higher prices for their goods and services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d certainly never point out the waste,
fraud, and abuse of our federal revenues by our congress and president to fund
things never intended and often forbidden in our constitution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I would definitely add 87000 more IRS
agents to bring in additional revenue anyway.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would abandon our non-woke allies, especially those that
have fought and died beside us, like the myriads of good people we left behind
in Afghanistan along with not too few Americans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would ignore the only stable democracy and
friend in the Middle East and champion the creation of a terrorist state right
beside Israel with a divided Jerusalem as their respective capitals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would give the terrorist mullahs of Iran
whatever they wanted in exchange for proven empty promises of not building
nuclear weapons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would sacrifice America’s energy independence by fiat so
that inefficient and woefully inadequate “green technologies” could be subsidized
by tax payers and thus create enormous inflation in energy costs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, those cost would be transmitted on
down to the necessary goods we need as the price of creating them and transporting
them to market skyrocket accordingly.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would collude with like-minded fascist politicians, media
outlets, and social media CEOs to ensure that only my narrative of the good I
am doing was promulgated to the ignorant masses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would ensure that any contrary opinion,
especially if backed by evidence, was censored at best or ridiculed as false information
and ironically as propaganda at worst.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Continuing, I would point out that the constitution is a “document
of negative liberties” that restricts the benevolence of our federal government
from taking the steps necessary to take care of us all from womb to the
tomb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Assuming one makes it out of the
womb alive, that is.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would find non-existent rights in the constitution to kill
our unborn and decry the ruin of democracy as the court sends the issue back to
the people of the United States to actually vote on the issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the while, I would take firmly existing
rights that the constitution clearly states are rights of all Americans and
restrict them to my own benefit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Freedom
of speech would be curtailed if it was offensive and be branded as hate
speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Owning any firearm greater than
a musket would be curtailed as a tool of violent extremists, while ignoring the
actual violent extremists who burn down our neighborhoods in mostly peaceful
protests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d defund the police too, but
ensure that a social worker shows up to handle any hostile but misunderstood ne’er
do well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Religious liberties would
continue to be ignored and restricted.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would ensure that laws were enforced and evidence fabricated
against my enemies while turning a blind eye to the law breaking by those whom
agree with my fascism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d weaponize the
FBI and make sure that those with the temerity to rise up against me would be
brought low with the full might of the federal government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While I understand that America is a fascist, racist, sexist,
homo-phobic nation, I would still open the borders to those foolish enough to
still want to come here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wouldn’t ask
about their vaccination status, let alone their criminal record as I welcome
the drug traffickers, human smugglers, and terrorists into our nation with open
arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This does not excuse citizens
from not being vaccinated as per my fascist mandates, mind you!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would do all of this to unite this nation while pointing
out that those that disagree with me are violent extremists bent on destroying
our way of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yep, if I were a fascist extremist this is the very formula
I would use to take this country down a few notches as I sought to fundamentally
transform it, so help me God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oops… just and expression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God has no place in this Amerika.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’d continue to make sure of that too.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Euripides said, “Those whom the gods destroy, they first
make mad.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, I don’t know if Biden
is mad or just in the final throes of dementia and terminal senility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of that said, if I am a semi-fascist
according to him, one cannot help but wonder what that makes him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Complete destruction of our liberties in this
great American experiment cannot come fast enough for the real fascists in our
government evidently. <br /></p><p></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-51934476006442608222022-02-12T06:31:00.003-07:002022-02-12T06:31:59.126-07:00"Why Ideology Is the Ancient Enemy of Civilization" by Victor Davis Hanson<p>Great article worthy of sharing from The Daily Signal which was written by Victor Davis Hanson.</p><p><br /></p><p>What ultimately destroyed the evil empires of Nazi Germany and Soviet
Russia were bankrupt dogmas. Crackpot ideology destroyed free
expression. It ruined meritocracy and ensured unequal application of the
laws—and so paved the way for far worse.</p>
<p>The Nazi idea of a superior Aryan race adjudicated everything from
physics to tank design. Soviet commissars did the same, subordinating
rational thought to communist agendas.</p>
<p>Zealots in both systems infiltrated the universities and schools to institutionalize indoctrination.</p>
<p>Wokeism, while not yet as lethal, is similar. Racial wokeism posits
that the race and gender of the vice president and the next Supreme
Court justice subordinate all other considerations. <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/02/11/why-ideology-is-the-ancient-enemy-of-civilization/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGCjGRGYZaS0214Ce4kZOIwe08qswKQU_90zevZBFxvZi_mYYOizby_uui6QNhkLIuWhyeN3UqB-F1TXqWe1GZDnkXa5O28L-KH_j1e5EpVt8Px8w" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a><br /></p><p> </p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-6052774427462434972021-12-30T14:50:00.000-07:002021-12-30T14:50:01.611-07:00Memes that Capture 2021 Perfectly<p>Despite several issues I wanted to write about, I simply have not had the time to do so. I figured I'd embrace my inner leftist and look for the easy way out by simply posting some of the best memes I have run across lately. (Disclaimer: My inner leftist is DEEP on the inside and I want him out. Perhaps an exorcism is needed.) :)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbsLBk2Sj7FmYzd9m181vTe-qUrAIbPI-PEXiJGAChDlfkRCQdyCFVSOFUlOUjHjurgVy9TpDzEhliJWdEqsBi_YnZ2p7oHVHBQ3UrThcq5j2OVJP43pkwgwAHrujf5wIE7WfINAAvfvKO5PQsswu4JX3rxUhn5u0nvuvjZBq6jWD5hpN_atgK9RzM=s282" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="282" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbsLBk2Sj7FmYzd9m181vTe-qUrAIbPI-PEXiJGAChDlfkRCQdyCFVSOFUlOUjHjurgVy9TpDzEhliJWdEqsBi_YnZ2p7oHVHBQ3UrThcq5j2OVJP43pkwgwAHrujf5wIE7WfINAAvfvKO5PQsswu4JX3rxUhn5u0nvuvjZBq6jWD5hpN_atgK9RzM=w320-h271" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'd blame leftists rather than Democrats on this, but these days there are few Democrats remaining that aren't leftists. <br /></div><br /><div><div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG35Eoom6qG66p5-eUXxR3s0gnNE9gCdjrqJO4dhmDs7YhovHn6oavkE9225rMsDDplyE9s2GmWfKLRLrxEJOykXYCVYfVi0zESzaXkM_vLe9KS2XtlZJYD-o0lZEGpEKpxMfNh45D5_U2R2Ucmd-IylN5D_wCHamPoEMq99usKkZpFK_BNkWgmDm7=s507" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="507" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG35Eoom6qG66p5-eUXxR3s0gnNE9gCdjrqJO4dhmDs7YhovHn6oavkE9225rMsDDplyE9s2GmWfKLRLrxEJOykXYCVYfVi0zESzaXkM_vLe9KS2XtlZJYD-o0lZEGpEKpxMfNh45D5_U2R2Ucmd-IylN5D_wCHamPoEMq99usKkZpFK_BNkWgmDm7=s320" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's right and I'd rather be hated for who I am then loved for what I am not! <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6cNLwVARp5Yz-m9QdYGDzHxhaHpyW6agnNYBHSefA38iRO79R4_ONZnxwKzXXtshAVjzW6NYU3FXEkWrDwWUvZbN1k_q_r6Q57pfBHvu3zDKp-9-g-qWQzyOht6qbxTiieJuyIE1cd6QlvBxHDiQUDzsUgdkySem10M4nbVBh1sFU1y2DnaVAWOTK=s573" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="476" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6cNLwVARp5Yz-m9QdYGDzHxhaHpyW6agnNYBHSefA38iRO79R4_ONZnxwKzXXtshAVjzW6NYU3FXEkWrDwWUvZbN1k_q_r6Q57pfBHvu3zDKp-9-g-qWQzyOht6qbxTiieJuyIE1cd6QlvBxHDiQUDzsUgdkySem10M4nbVBh1sFU1y2DnaVAWOTK=w266-h320" width="266" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">To be fair, Warren was talking about the "safety" of having an abortion. The underlying ghoulish idea of an abortion still stands.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUwZG75ZYH_5UGZxj5RkgQVM2UOZPXAplGJnbLkOHRI2yHLWDhrvmLuzSUaSsCDVy0_XytH8dMrQZM0rdF1F72wuqAFeRVAdzqVUPhKCxJIsD30tyqV9YAPJQbK8bkDx5EnDT-UcqeR_60mwXkKUT_iNZDskIFAGGpVBo3AINTtiAoWFtyEAVouI7Y=s481" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="479" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUwZG75ZYH_5UGZxj5RkgQVM2UOZPXAplGJnbLkOHRI2yHLWDhrvmLuzSUaSsCDVy0_XytH8dMrQZM0rdF1F72wuqAFeRVAdzqVUPhKCxJIsD30tyqV9YAPJQbK8bkDx5EnDT-UcqeR_60mwXkKUT_iNZDskIFAGGpVBo3AINTtiAoWFtyEAVouI7Y=s320" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yeah, and why is Ilhan Omar still a congresswoman despite her fraud? (Because she is a leftist!) <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1Qk49PVBC66UqHmNjC1pzux4sx6ysH8hq6SCLp0jUGX7qtIUV9HySsteU6FHSKNifXLyfek5kk-z4GccQbHHP2ZUJcto48q6Tl16_1u4rC-hLemF3dl4WOqTA9smV2ZWhN88I__ngpFBSWaL5C-3EUfMdWnJi7AvW_zqf1r3Onazpv_3kNdXMzzSE=s489" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="482" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1Qk49PVBC66UqHmNjC1pzux4sx6ysH8hq6SCLp0jUGX7qtIUV9HySsteU6FHSKNifXLyfek5kk-z4GccQbHHP2ZUJcto48q6Tl16_1u4rC-hLemF3dl4WOqTA9smV2ZWhN88I__ngpFBSWaL5C-3EUfMdWnJi7AvW_zqf1r3Onazpv_3kNdXMzzSE=s320" width="315" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Stupid is as stupid does... and the woke are leading the way. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1S0cQaIEtqEl7GKcMuAer8Rwk3E15sbpHnemjIEj7aLEHVuvGs1iZWDhmzopUTMe2scmyAuIRY4w5BNUHEl1PKG1r_RitxmdjHebxVDdF8DggioHScq6dmyS1XgT9B4aJqMTuLX-DXD3lZSJnUkdemYY1F7NXpqC0VpKVQ9spiBCZjrS_7rp1X8t8=s481" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="481" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1S0cQaIEtqEl7GKcMuAer8Rwk3E15sbpHnemjIEj7aLEHVuvGs1iZWDhmzopUTMe2scmyAuIRY4w5BNUHEl1PKG1r_RitxmdjHebxVDdF8DggioHScq6dmyS1XgT9B4aJqMTuLX-DXD3lZSJnUkdemYY1F7NXpqC0VpKVQ9spiBCZjrS_7rp1X8t8=s320" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Frankly this is an unfair comparison for poor Gilligan.<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj19nc9RSDCiuDXzEdMRCEOnb7CK7B9KDJyElOvIQdSyE4j1fYZHrZWZlJWSQCaPdZEsPxG2qtFNlBADiypxxYRDMaGeevnwtrfT7fPWcqETB2jVa4lWZKPJtaIxv6wUTvELPrvmLVHKvclC2JnLmrySd4sJN-ogN3vDwPIuWb8hjucSWFGiPF5myFr=s481" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="481" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj19nc9RSDCiuDXzEdMRCEOnb7CK7B9KDJyElOvIQdSyE4j1fYZHrZWZlJWSQCaPdZEsPxG2qtFNlBADiypxxYRDMaGeevnwtrfT7fPWcqETB2jVa4lWZKPJtaIxv6wUTvELPrvmLVHKvclC2JnLmrySd4sJN-ogN3vDwPIuWb8hjucSWFGiPF5myFr=s320" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Do these people realize that further reducing their oxygen intake will NOT improve their IQ's? <br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOzoRIY-_imNRPfxW84MFnGGEFnVPPTO-Cyga-RNzC2aBZic2ZpjLDGK39XiYDMfbxJTp8VjTuiivHNM_GZSWA_j9tOrpvFuTdj5xBHck1mW94NBipe4RJEqmCOvwZiqG08P2t_uDjuEmxY-ks9shCkO78AgjEMj20DNM6wEuBr3MFWOsZTgetcd7s=s442" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="341" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOzoRIY-_imNRPfxW84MFnGGEFnVPPTO-Cyga-RNzC2aBZic2ZpjLDGK39XiYDMfbxJTp8VjTuiivHNM_GZSWA_j9tOrpvFuTdj5xBHck1mW94NBipe4RJEqmCOvwZiqG08P2t_uDjuEmxY-ks9shCkO78AgjEMj20DNM6wEuBr3MFWOsZTgetcd7s=w309-h400" width="309" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And according to the leftists, we will all live happily ever after in a "Democratic Socialist" utopia. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFLZ_JjmYEjGRclLv2Wf7KrOPatFgO8ZFQVFEhrba1ST-XsU4F2WXMWRgQ5iFrLSfGhST7LcH7Nm1pXcXcbuWJvB3FAr7k0odwwJ9Jvhrw7R8w_QlJ84ufYS-rXuJTDM4BrpZqTT_pM0N2UVOCRPz2FEcAuUrA_kuV98hjyeAZKxrYc-Q1PzIR49sm=s585" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="585" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFLZ_JjmYEjGRclLv2Wf7KrOPatFgO8ZFQVFEhrba1ST-XsU4F2WXMWRgQ5iFrLSfGhST7LcH7Nm1pXcXcbuWJvB3FAr7k0odwwJ9Jvhrw7R8w_QlJ84ufYS-rXuJTDM4BrpZqTT_pM0N2UVOCRPz2FEcAuUrA_kuV98hjyeAZKxrYc-Q1PzIR49sm=s320" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One has to wonder how large Trump's margin of victory would have been if the democratic institutionalized media (DIM) actually reported these things to the general public like they did the false Russia hoax information. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_S8uNwMCIk6ogZ2vf8lZLwgnpRIjCcgYsO9txp5wVxb1GNKgGgrvKsvN6jpHopcNjIOs2uUWIi52l0yJirhqRUZ6mMsfCXAIyXIU8hmMRO4LaFlxFM-bg54q_9D3TCjd51rjlXZMaVzHOq-xj6gCCz1X_WDaGMqVGcGDE_fdPZXokccG-ODH6jvYQ=s629" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="629" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_S8uNwMCIk6ogZ2vf8lZLwgnpRIjCcgYsO9txp5wVxb1GNKgGgrvKsvN6jpHopcNjIOs2uUWIi52l0yJirhqRUZ6mMsfCXAIyXIU8hmMRO4LaFlxFM-bg54q_9D3TCjd51rjlXZMaVzHOq-xj6gCCz1X_WDaGMqVGcGDE_fdPZXokccG-ODH6jvYQ=s320" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's almost enough to make me miss some mean tweets right about now. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibuSR1YIOj5qTSMDcOdyKbH_NOp0XOMwsZxjtagaqowWZ6Ux19Mlj2jtOVcK-Tz__Reys92b8ErDOOJdjb5X3KzxQDPdmUyhRN4pRQyh9DujxY_uF8ziIm7_l13VjPkUoNHXDUfEpisxVJpb5T3pBlvsSwlJRTk5hS3nwqPgylg6vyJOD6zDFPXwJj=s573" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="486" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibuSR1YIOj5qTSMDcOdyKbH_NOp0XOMwsZxjtagaqowWZ6Ux19Mlj2jtOVcK-Tz__Reys92b8ErDOOJdjb5X3KzxQDPdmUyhRN4pRQyh9DujxY_uF8ziIm7_l13VjPkUoNHXDUfEpisxVJpb5T3pBlvsSwlJRTk5hS3nwqPgylg6vyJOD6zDFPXwJj=s320" width="271" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Just my luck... <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG4UTerO86KUO8oTitogDNpxgtb6TthI0ySMnqfjm0KRh78rRiwBSlX_Ducc_u_kwvDdJRlDiePBG_0KuWZUrZO--uM4ZjoTEyXjJRiNIKLNv1xEPYFSv4SS-BR3CF_BAPvOQf8-T-K2IVRJjlYp0uE2L1jKT1gaSnciRpFoqXNO8s08X_ZpvBWHvV=s373" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="373" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG4UTerO86KUO8oTitogDNpxgtb6TthI0ySMnqfjm0KRh78rRiwBSlX_Ducc_u_kwvDdJRlDiePBG_0KuWZUrZO--uM4ZjoTEyXjJRiNIKLNv1xEPYFSv4SS-BR3CF_BAPvOQf8-T-K2IVRJjlYp0uE2L1jKT1gaSnciRpFoqXNO8s08X_ZpvBWHvV=s320" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yep! Let's go Brandon! <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFgdC3LhcjHBw_mISEbxXADg4wBT5iRsWX8wPH0DEYLQHn4Ky5ut9Ga4Lsfat7ppW3ZPsClGSkBuvn2oBQfDlp5n4gQRl9moWB-45FPvDXTsCqKVAbc65yb9QL-8w5guXI-6c1Vl-x1rGpOQxOw1biZKw63inhsgWht3J052kHGXCS6Vr6onlj6Wwf=s484" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="484" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFgdC3LhcjHBw_mISEbxXADg4wBT5iRsWX8wPH0DEYLQHn4Ky5ut9Ga4Lsfat7ppW3ZPsClGSkBuvn2oBQfDlp5n4gQRl9moWB-45FPvDXTsCqKVAbc65yb9QL-8w5guXI-6c1Vl-x1rGpOQxOw1biZKw63inhsgWht3J052kHGXCS6Vr6onlj6Wwf=s320" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I about wet myself laughing at this one, particularly because it is true! <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQeR35HroA8SQWGxPojbODAaI5hGxQV82S6OUUQnCGsnfrj9obG_4BaWnJjB5ewhVWcEbBCu9f4UIlSKIS-50VhcvATLQUkKeN_tN5htDE3-xDB3kPOHHXMIbpz6BcLxKG48q3bxLqEqiSNUQ_DrVZii_78urYfbgaynvYx583Bp216A3Iyj9Rf6kQ=s482" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="479" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQeR35HroA8SQWGxPojbODAaI5hGxQV82S6OUUQnCGsnfrj9obG_4BaWnJjB5ewhVWcEbBCu9f4UIlSKIS-50VhcvATLQUkKeN_tN5htDE3-xDB3kPOHHXMIbpz6BcLxKG48q3bxLqEqiSNUQ_DrVZii_78urYfbgaynvYx583Bp216A3Iyj9Rf6kQ=s320" width="318" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Amen! If Fauci were a conservative, he would already be in jail for lying to congress. (Doesn't he know that lying is THEIR prerogative?) <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqJtSSy3K_eInY-b7AbI4bZxjS8_ZzU4buog2a7lttP--XCV21Iv3l_m6-Kmv7TZWMFJuKFQpQohJrIbPQ-_4NeR-KbAEvvrVqBx8rxpcqVnHStNmhJrji2-frOgevRwrJNlb21_hiZ7AuS8U5VAZ1yuxZi30uF8WG3tezX7J9gcRPysH1MaTZWuJL=s582" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="350" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqJtSSy3K_eInY-b7AbI4bZxjS8_ZzU4buog2a7lttP--XCV21Iv3l_m6-Kmv7TZWMFJuKFQpQohJrIbPQ-_4NeR-KbAEvvrVqBx8rxpcqVnHStNmhJrji2-frOgevRwrJNlb21_hiZ7AuS8U5VAZ1yuxZi30uF8WG3tezX7J9gcRPysH1MaTZWuJL=w240-h400" width="240" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Damn! There goes my plan to retire in Montana! <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRoUdSpO6T53XXn3bTb80Ud6MDDY96UdVANleuYBjGlsrTxDGQKQBVa0lx5B4eNMVBCuseZH-HvoWXLrPEaBpEUarXKHLyxx2rxaLQ-wuvlmcz2oE8NESxuozYl6TUr-1dPMCMIbfOM7r_V0y285hGx75LNhT7Yau-v2Br8zHiRkB86PuHdsssNHvf=s484" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRoUdSpO6T53XXn3bTb80Ud6MDDY96UdVANleuYBjGlsrTxDGQKQBVa0lx5B4eNMVBCuseZH-HvoWXLrPEaBpEUarXKHLyxx2rxaLQ-wuvlmcz2oE8NESxuozYl6TUr-1dPMCMIbfOM7r_V0y285hGx75LNhT7Yau-v2Br8zHiRkB86PuHdsssNHvf=s320" width="317" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Again, I'd substitute "leftists" for Democrats in this meme, otherwise it is right on target. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7NS9oLvKgko99zledaE8p2041Gfh9iAG7n-SI8XIwxZOc-7Wh7HW4m30540I661cyiwvGeEH4QoRdzOtjXS-9dZNgNMQO_HKNdPHNJvxosEeqDksJb7Im2rhf6ygiRd4332EUtD3lDrkIvNeS2PUEWBTE7V7uWNKqYRcC7ZLvXfTQwKcIYlKa56VS=s247" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="247" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7NS9oLvKgko99zledaE8p2041Gfh9iAG7n-SI8XIwxZOc-7Wh7HW4m30540I661cyiwvGeEH4QoRdzOtjXS-9dZNgNMQO_HKNdPHNJvxosEeqDksJb7Im2rhf6ygiRd4332EUtD3lDrkIvNeS2PUEWBTE7V7uWNKqYRcC7ZLvXfTQwKcIYlKa56VS=w320-h307" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And this is how you kill American energy independence... <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuVS-EiTN2bCmP25N4UVRtF6U24aEu4B9SZ_Hhj5991HRjInNdnXw-eC9jDYUZtO7xaawe9LIFTYsSTqq82VS95rqlr5u8NaZG0RcxxaWtsydXmTd-JLgSn2LPrgK4GCGFHCpMjPVFa0XNyi7WN50_noMvdA4JciOA0ExrF0PI7m_IxOzhPEATqYMH=s482" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="478" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuVS-EiTN2bCmP25N4UVRtF6U24aEu4B9SZ_Hhj5991HRjInNdnXw-eC9jDYUZtO7xaawe9LIFTYsSTqq82VS95rqlr5u8NaZG0RcxxaWtsydXmTd-JLgSn2LPrgK4GCGFHCpMjPVFa0XNyi7WN50_noMvdA4JciOA0ExrF0PI7m_IxOzhPEATqYMH=s320" width="317" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And THAT is the truth of the matter! <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTsSE4lqaaBbrSzijkamDZM_qOh8Gd9fU4XcWqOfi_UGgF25PFuk7QeLSKYpSdGrwKCtdPndcgEg1QAB2GxbljAvBqoyfVDgxzsCGCIA5lqw77Mgq4VPoAiDxQwv--uLj35V8Bga2OBFuGm42AXImGZ6vl8rOF59B3yKbo5aNtMP-XQpTLSMvWDhl9=s481" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="481" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTsSE4lqaaBbrSzijkamDZM_qOh8Gd9fU4XcWqOfi_UGgF25PFuk7QeLSKYpSdGrwKCtdPndcgEg1QAB2GxbljAvBqoyfVDgxzsCGCIA5lqw77Mgq4VPoAiDxQwv--uLj35V8Bga2OBFuGm42AXImGZ6vl8rOF59B3yKbo5aNtMP-XQpTLSMvWDhl9=s320" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am still baffled about that racist elk statue that the leftist horde tore down in Portland.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCKyDtPXUssW_u2rmc8fxJR-jmqmJYWhFYXUybFA8kAfInkEyJ8dhqjelormJ2G9rqCiZ-ZYG1L2qXtYvQyaKBqYCD4zCOQa0FnEr-lKxvLlKDDLgIipLumxFOCCI6dvQ98M-MjaJ864bZeRRXflJX9hfP4qojRdXgyLU7t-CZKDcg_tb1v41YgjnU=s570" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="493" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCKyDtPXUssW_u2rmc8fxJR-jmqmJYWhFYXUybFA8kAfInkEyJ8dhqjelormJ2G9rqCiZ-ZYG1L2qXtYvQyaKBqYCD4zCOQa0FnEr-lKxvLlKDDLgIipLumxFOCCI6dvQ98M-MjaJ864bZeRRXflJX9hfP4qojRdXgyLU7t-CZKDcg_tb1v41YgjnU=w346-h400" width="346" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm sure Kamala is working on this though... <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqeUiVZZ3weSmU9Mhl4GSyBsVjnrOh_jV0YY7G4cdigtelZ_2hV119Ziy5WoLdSR5ExhAkg_Wn7MtVSDjVvkGO6Z-O8JlPL9SrK7CmsQv5Wwp1D-ZGG0Vq95Hb6dPZc6M5AjkZUIWkEMJi8yzRu_fdOsWylx1rFygDP5_giegwrBGawRYRA9SkDzr8=s536" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="536" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqeUiVZZ3weSmU9Mhl4GSyBsVjnrOh_jV0YY7G4cdigtelZ_2hV119Ziy5WoLdSR5ExhAkg_Wn7MtVSDjVvkGO6Z-O8JlPL9SrK7CmsQv5Wwp1D-ZGG0Vq95Hb6dPZc6M5AjkZUIWkEMJi8yzRu_fdOsWylx1rFygDP5_giegwrBGawRYRA9SkDzr8=s320" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yep, and Biden should still be removed from office for leaving Americans behind in Afghanistan. THAT is not a joke!<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUtYm64ScwWdg4x_C4Mu0OO2z6uyLxX2WSPn1ZW1VqnUg6rHLG2u6NBrhhjqT0aNr_1frvC0wJY_XV3qwPxNetofn3fqGhT1noGxLDG4M-Kox9Rj28xRf3dScYkBLQP7IMudjUWjG0nsw8ZpDYqRYn6Ejtd1ARVJk7zsF2_iEypQXrK6GkgfvSA89z=s598" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="482" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUtYm64ScwWdg4x_C4Mu0OO2z6uyLxX2WSPn1ZW1VqnUg6rHLG2u6NBrhhjqT0aNr_1frvC0wJY_XV3qwPxNetofn3fqGhT1noGxLDG4M-Kox9Rj28xRf3dScYkBLQP7IMudjUWjG0nsw8ZpDYqRYn6Ejtd1ARVJk7zsF2_iEypQXrK6GkgfvSA89z=w323-h400" width="323" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yeah, why is that? <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_EcUbGHulAfvfaxD88maknLNGrNz6-xnz1zOK1ZebF7_QAWsK1-b9gZlvehChIWPr8opaKZ8T00Kp9mXykGE6s_NCFL3Rg6s0iz5PQEBj6_eOu-OCKDJqiZ0nwGZtLL_dnyryLif_kPVZ9e0_OZzn5xLDeZFeiVLjcktHBwXvq20PGCjCySKpBsBE=s482" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="482" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_EcUbGHulAfvfaxD88maknLNGrNz6-xnz1zOK1ZebF7_QAWsK1-b9gZlvehChIWPr8opaKZ8T00Kp9mXykGE6s_NCFL3Rg6s0iz5PQEBj6_eOu-OCKDJqiZ0nwGZtLL_dnyryLif_kPVZ9e0_OZzn5xLDeZFeiVLjcktHBwXvq20PGCjCySKpBsBE=s320" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Polls already show that there is a LOT of voter remorse among those Biden voters. <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOopaqAVbLvWmYQp28Iwzwi1pBVxELUA0HtKRWM53oYDoVKIVJlmVYi10bIPPzo-HPwfrUDpWPdaB7fijQUXNxcf21J1weY3P8kJJkSpRpxxcbObRDOfLEWIhVq5LnIrCvtb_K_FRYA3w_n6ZPHhd-dC-qqEVLGSwI1Ivg-YtC7XS13CWMvQdfk1FA=s480" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="480" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOopaqAVbLvWmYQp28Iwzwi1pBVxELUA0HtKRWM53oYDoVKIVJlmVYi10bIPPzo-HPwfrUDpWPdaB7fijQUXNxcf21J1weY3P8kJJkSpRpxxcbObRDOfLEWIhVq5LnIrCvtb_K_FRYA3w_n6ZPHhd-dC-qqEVLGSwI1Ivg-YtC7XS13CWMvQdfk1FA=s320" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Leftist logic for you. Papers please! (unless you are voting, then it is vote early, vote often.) <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7tY7-B4If0Mnz163Epsn1zkCGBGWB60ihcSs4gfyzxEKVTykVd_l7E1WJkfgLo-AiOwXUMntz6od5gmO2Vm7RAPWiTJhA17c2_XqOmerC1nqB-jG8lNAMxDL-gmqY2KUuyTQTHKJVYplIZuQPceg4xF_OfqTtu9d2fvbDz8vZw_kJpqaA9CN1X-pu=s288" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="212" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7tY7-B4If0Mnz163Epsn1zkCGBGWB60ihcSs4gfyzxEKVTykVd_l7E1WJkfgLo-AiOwXUMntz6od5gmO2Vm7RAPWiTJhA17c2_XqOmerC1nqB-jG8lNAMxDL-gmqY2KUuyTQTHKJVYplIZuQPceg4xF_OfqTtu9d2fvbDz8vZw_kJpqaA9CN1X-pu" width="212" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lastly, I have seen several businesses with variations of this sign around my town. It is sad that I have also seen some mom & pop businesses close because big government pays more than they do. Lets hope we can right the ship come next November! <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Happy New Year!<br /></div><p></p></div></div></div></div>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-33485826121804411782021-11-19T10:47:00.004-07:002021-11-19T10:47:57.855-07:00The Resultant Misery of Denying God to Champion Ourselves<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguP1NO1g7Ib3D_e7Zl6FGML5mIwRi4pNNBlGDoyrcVm6DS5El1f812GiX4uG3fHIe03ICvXfaOy23SJ24yMxBQ5tuZ1MvHUJ0khFi9j1_eF-EInihWxj7Onf2Nefhw6nMUc0Q8jkvQ4Lw/s692/denying+God.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="692" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguP1NO1g7Ib3D_e7Zl6FGML5mIwRi4pNNBlGDoyrcVm6DS5El1f812GiX4uG3fHIe03ICvXfaOy23SJ24yMxBQ5tuZ1MvHUJ0khFi9j1_eF-EInihWxj7Onf2Nefhw6nMUc0Q8jkvQ4Lw/w400-h269/denying+God.PNG" width="400" /></a></div>I would like to share a secret that not many people know
about me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am imperfect and a sinner.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Okay, everyone that knows me even in passing actually knows
this poorly kept secret.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing
I can say in my defense is that I seem to be in good company with the rest of
the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is often apparent these
days though is that not everybody realizes that they too are imperfect
creatures made and sustained by a divine and perfect Creator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not that this is a great credit to me, but I
am painfully aware of the many transgressions I make on a daily basis and how
often I fail to do what God wants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
not a very good Christian far too much of the time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sadly, in this day and age of post-Christian modernity, it
seems that those that still do believe in God and are thus trying to live their
lives accordingly are seen as superstitious rubes and fools by most people in
society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The biggest growing religious
affiliation group today is the “nones”; that is those folks having no religious
affiliation or belief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far too many of
the remaining people that still “believe” in God have redefined him so that
their “god” agrees with their thoughts, beliefs and world view, rather than
conforming their own beliefs to what God has taught us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is almost a new kind of atheism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“There is a god, BUT he thinks just like ME!”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Most people have subjected God to either agreeing with them
or simply denying his very existing altogether.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And why not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For most of us, It
is hard to live by God’s rules in this fallen world today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is far easier for us to change what God
thinks so as to align with our own thoughts, or failing that, to simply no
longer acknowledge his very existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After all, if God doesn’t exist, then I can think and do as I see
fit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am no longer constrained by an
informed conscience that is guided by a divine loving creator God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am free!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am not shackled by any authority greater than my own needs, wants, and
desires.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My ego is now the supreme
authority over my actions in this great cosmic lie.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bishop Robert Barron succinctly states, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“All of us sinners have, to one degree or another, bought
into the lie. At the heart of the lie—and we can see it in the Genesis
account—is the deification of the ego. I become the center of the universe, I
with my needs and my fears and my demands.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And when the puny ‘I’ is the center of the cosmos, the tie
that binds all things to one another is lost. The basic reality now becomes
rivalry, competition, violence, and mistrust.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Indeed, if everyone does precisely what their own ego and
its desires dictate, of course we are going to run into conflict with our families,
friendships, and society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We no longer
are governed by God’s commandment to do unto others as we would have them do
unto us, or if we do treat others well, it often is because we expect something
in return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing is ever done simply
out of a loving heart with no expectation of reciprocation these days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The result of all of this self-centeredness
untethered from a higher purpose (God) are broken relationships, broken families,
increased rates of drug use and suicide, meaningless and empty promiscuity,
abuse, and violence. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, these things have always been with us as part of the
fallen human condition, but for all of our societal advances, we seem to have
an increase in these things rather than having mitigated them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have seen too many friends, acquaintances, and even family
members choose to go down this path of denying the existence of God, seemingly
so as to not have to justify their actions that God has clearly spoken out against.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From supporting sexual conduct outside of
marriage to championing the redefinition of marriage itself to accommodate homosexual
marriage or plural marriage, I have witnessed the chaos and self-destruction
that inevitably comes when we intentionally turn our backs on God’s plan for
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is especially true when it
comes to those championing the killing of innocent newborns and then justifying
it under the more tender euphemism of “pro-choice”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our society has increasingly turned away from God and an
abiding belief in him and his desires for us to be happy and TRULY free by cooperating
with his plan for each of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The results
have been disastrous and sorely evident throughout or “enlightened” society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From comparatively lesser problems like nearly
half of marriages ending in divorce, if one no longer acknowledges the
commitment, let alone the sacred nature of marriage, then any reason one
chooses can be a valid excuse for dumping your spouse.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Today, often times because people no longer understand or
respect the sacrament of marriage, many couples just choose to live together as
an unmarried couple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This “temporary”
arrangement without a true sense of commitment usually fosters insecurity and a
decidedly unharmonious life together often times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With few exceptions, I have not seen this
work out well for more than a few years at best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have also witnessed a good-hearted young woman agree to be
a surrogate mother for two “married” men and then suffer emotionally at giving
up the baby she carried for nine months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let alone that common sense and psychology used to tell us that children
do far better in a stable home with a married mother and father, now we can put
the best needs of the child aside because two men who can not procreate
together as per God’s design have selfishly decided that they want to “have a
child”.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then there is the matter of abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God tells us that murder is wrong and a grave
sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pope Francis recently reiterated
unambiguously once again that abortion is murder, and yet this issue today is
one that is highly contentious in America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let that sink in for a moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is a CONTENTIOUS ISSUE that tens of millions of Americans support killing an
unborn child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over 62 million unborn
babies have been killed in the United States alone since the passing of Roe v.
Wade in 1973.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing can justify the
intentional taking of an innocent life, but the problem is especially egregious
when the deification of one’s ego justifies this act for matters of convenience
or financial reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now this is not to say that all atheists or agnostics are
bad people, anymore than it is to say that all self-professed Christians are
good people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither is obviously the
case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally, I have known and do
know many atheists that live very moral lives and actually care about others
for the sake of the others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having once
been an atheist myself, I can understand what I consider to be the false religious
doctrines of atheism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even here on my
own blog, some of my favorite interlocuters have been atheists such as John Myste,
Heathen Republican, and Jerry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of
these gentlemen are obviously exceptionally bright and seemingly very good
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They make the world a better
place for their parts in it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately, far more of the quasi-Christians, agnostics, and
atheists are only in this world for themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nothing greater is in control of their lives and actions than what their
egos tell them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life is meaningless in
all things except to get whatever one can out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If others can help in that goal, then great,
otherwise to hell with most others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is a sad existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I once lived it too.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regrettably, I forget where I came across this quotation,
but it seems particularly relevant to this topic regarding our human nature and
history as God’s creatures.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“It is a history of creatures attempting to make their
Creator into their own image and likeness. But the most the creature can do is
turn away from what truly is and live in a world of his own imagination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If insanity is measured by the degree to which what one
believes corresponds to what truly is, the story of mankind’s revolt against
reality is really the story of mankind’s descent into insanity.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sanity produces the opposite. When you see things as they
truly are (and live accordingly), good things result. Sanity invariably leads
to human flourishing, whereas its opposite alienates us from ourselves and from
all that is around us—to regression, human misery, and destruction.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p>In Vatican II’s words, “when God is forgotten . . . the
creature itself grows unintelligible,” seem prophetic in retrospect. <br /></p>Darrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.com20