Today is good Friday.  Dad used to ask, “What’s good about it?”  The Christian world is set to face the East on account of Easter.  If you read the encyclopedia entries on this subject, you’ll realize that the whole thing jumps the bounds of logic.  But that’s why you just have to get with the program and “believe.”  We won’t be having a sunrise service.  

Speculation is all over the place on the Baltimore bridge collapse.  Purported proof, one way or another hasn’t shown up.  We’ll have to find out more.  You mean, you can’t steer the boat if the power goes out?  You can watch the video, and have probably already seen it.  This is not an inconsequential bridge.  The problems haven’t even been imagined yet.  It better not have been anything but an accident.

War or no war, they’re still trying to get Netanyahu.  Something about the Supreme Court and religious types not wanting to serve.  I thought it was bottles of champagne!  Whatever happened to that case?  We’ve seen nearly everything tried to get rid of Netanyahu.  Even with the war ongoing, it’s just too important to be postponed.  Kind of reminds me of the continuous efforts to get Trump.

This Update probably should not be used to provide the latest on all the cases against you know who.  Let’s just privately watch as the Proverbs take their toll. There’s already been off the chart embarrassment for his tormentors, and we haven’t heard the last of it. They’ve got to be wondering about the wisdom of what they’ve undertaken.  

The media touted it as a “show of force.”  Tickets cost from $500 to $500,000 dollars, and all your favorites were on display.  Clinton, Obama, and Biden made nice for all to see.  Everyone was there for one reason, and that was to make sure that Trump doesn’t return to wreck all their lives.  Maybe you’ve noticed, it’s like Joe Biden is suddenly twenty years younger.  He’s everywhere.  We’re lucky we can’t see behind the scenes.

Outside were a bunch of protesters in support of Gaza.  This could emerge as a problem.  Maybe the big money is on another term, but some percentage of Joe’s support comes from these lunatics that are out waving “Palestinian” banners.  We hear rumblings about a peacekeeping force in Gaza.  Who’s going to volunteer for that?  Already UN facilities have been compromised, and a good job they did of keeping the peace!  Are we to believe they had no idea Oct. 7 was coming? Apparently the pretender thinks he can dictate Israel’s military posture, and is pretending he can!  He better, or the crazy people won’t come out and vote.

Alarms are being sounded about all the money raised and how far behind is his opponent. Trump is being forced to post bizarre sums of money on account of law-fare? Money that should have gone for the campaign is held up by legal niceties? Biden is promising to pay off student debt. How is that not illegal?

There’s an old saying that if you shoot at the king, you’d better kill him.  Please understand, I’m not making any suggestions.  But Trump is alive and kicking.  The mainstream media is trying to make a case for the pretender, but he ain’t getting any younger!  Whether he pumps his arms on the way to a pratfall or not.  They’ve fired everything in their arsenal, hopefully.  

There’s a confession here.  There’s nothing in this world I’d rather see than Trump ruining their plans to wreck this country, already well along. I hope he takes stock, though he didn’t the last time he had the chance.  

The downfall of Sean Combs? Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.  Who knows what was transpiring behind the walls?  Maybe this will be the beginning of the end for the rap industry. We can only hope. 

Mark

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Everybody is in the Easter spirit, wishing each other a happy good Friday and looking forward to the “Easter” holiday.  My Dad always asked, “What’s good about good Friday?”  He explained that you can’t fit three days and three nights into the period between Friday and Sunday, no matter how you slice it.  Many took heart, and now they’re spread out between countless organizations with “leaders,” some of whom claim to be apostles wielding authority far beyond any human government.

Now all the mainstream companies and corporations are doing back-flips to become the enforcers of “woke philosophy.”  They are doing what the government can’t do Constitutionally, if that even matters anymore.  First we had the “mark” of the mask.  Now we’ve got the “mark” of the vaccine.  What do you think is coming?  It won’t necessarily be on the authority of government (though in some cases, and in some countries it is), it seems that corporations, financial institutions and travel companies can’t wait to impose their “woke” regulations and policies on us all.  All the rage now is the “vaccine passport,” making it nearly impossible to participate in commerce or travel unless you’ve got the “marks” they’ve imposed and unless you express fear and dread of whatever the latest craze may be.  The Governor of Florida is currently the most visible example of someone bucking the “vaccine passport.”

Very few are standing against the goody two-shoe movement, and the mainstream media ridicules anyone who dares.  In some cases, they bring false allegations and bogus prosecutions against those bucking the trend.  The military is being emasculated, forced to behave as if they’re enrolled in one of the institutions of “higher learning.”  We’re all starting to wonder if there’s a play on words there somewhere.  We hope not.

Internationally, it’s as if we’ve returned to the days of Jimmy Carter, meaning nothing but ashamed embarrassment for red-blooded Americans.  The world is threatening once again, and the US. is once again the world’s whipping boy. The current administration (regardless of who’s calling the shots) is bending itself into a pretzel trying to appease Iran and get back into the insane nuclear deal. But Iran has conditions, and there are currently “third party” talks on the calendar to satisfy whatever demands the Mullahs impose.  Re-entering the “Iran Nuclear Deal” might require another planeload of untraceable cash, and that will seem entirely reasonable to the “team” running American policy.  It worked last time.

There have been more examples of the absolute inhumanity taking place on the southern border.  Children, sometimes not much more than toddlers, are being used and abused in startling ways.  They seem to be little more than currency to be gambled for the benefit and profit of smugglers, or perish the thought, families.  Sometimes they’re sent back to be used again.  Border enforcement and ICE are “processing” immigrants as quickly as possible so they can get them on a bus or a plane and relieve some of the overcrowded conditions we’re not supposed to see.  Meanwhile, the smugglers are able to take advantage of the situation to transport their “products” without being chased down.  Enforcement agencies have been overwhelmed, and that was the plan. The Cloward-Piven strategy.  Very humanitarian, mind you.

The insanity is such that we can be thankful that God instituted a schedule that takes our minds off much that is going wrong in this world in order to remember how we got here, and the ultimate sacrifice made to secure our place in His kingdom.

We’ve been boosting that message, using means we don’t particularly like while we still can.  Our “boosted” message appeared on the screens of 33,858 individuals.  Of those, approximately 5000 engaged in some way (some only to wish us a happy Easter, having not understood what was going on,) but 240 actually followed the “link” and read the article.

This weekend entails the last Holy Day of the Days of Unleavened Bread, and the early activities are underway.  Last evening we had a get-together at a vacation home acquired by two families that came to visit.  We had a good turnout for a luncheon today at a local Mexican restaurant, and the crew is (as I write) bowling at a facility in town.  More visitors will be coming for the H. D. service tomorrow, and we hope that everyone far and wide is making use of this annual event.  Thanks to all who are with us in these most ignorant of times.

Mark

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