No doubt everybody has seen it. The things you have to do to save the planet! It did make a good visual though, people pushing their battery cars in the snow. Elon Musk is something akin to a genius, but surely he knows that battery technology is no good in sub freezing temperatures. Who doesn’t know this? We have tremendous respect for his achievements in sending rockets to space and the opportunities for communication that governments can’t easily stop. But he might have stopped thinking about winter and Teslas too soon.

No doubt these battery cars are wonderful under ideal conditions. But sometimes you need transportation, which is why a battery car is a status symbol. It has to be a second or third car, unless you’re a true fanatic. Nevertheless, the endless harangue over “clean energy” continues to plague us. The windmills are frozen, useless. The solar panels? It’s winter. Somehow I don’t remember warnings about energy outages when I was a kid. Now they’re warning that people should unplug their appliances, because the grid is under strain.

But they’re having their elite meetings in Switzerland. As if anything they decide will matter if you know who is re-elected. The shadow of Donald Trump hangs over the meetings at Davos. Amazonian witch doctor or whatever, no amount of whooshing on people’s foreheads is going to solve the world’s energy problems. Facepaint or no facepaint. Does the world really have an energy problem, or are these slick talkers just blowing smoke and getting richer by the panic they create?

There’s a full court press on TV news. They hate the prospect of another Trump presidency, or more accurately, fear it. They’re scared to death. If he does a fraction of what he’s promising in his campaign speeches, they should be. Seems to me he tried to play nice the first time around. It could be that they’ve misjudged him. That’s what they’re afraid of.

Oh no! What if the deep-state is dismantled. Call it what you want, but events over recent years proves it exists. They fear Trump, and they fear us. Maybe that’s why the border is wide open and they’re giving away the farm. Cell phones, accommodations, we can’t give them enough. Is it true that a replacement is going on? Are we destined to be a minority in our own county? One that God ordained and blessed abundantly.

The carnage continues on i24. You can’t watch much. Your heart can’t take it. What are we supposed to do? You watch little children tell their stories. You see civilians walking around the scene of the festival the terrorists crashed and tell you what happened where.

If the comments I’m reading are any gauge, people have had about enough. It’s clear that the pretender is not forging policy. In fact, long-standing American policies to do with Israel and the hostile surrounding nations have put this administration at odds with its base. You see all these demonstrations? Shutting down freeways and bridges. What are these people doing here?

Are we going to squander our blessings? If you read the Old Testament, it looks like the United States is what was promised to Abraham. We’ve got a Constitution that has been copied elsewhere, but is unique in the world. Nobody has the kinds of freedoms and protections that the American citizen has under the Law. Maybe some of these people blocking traffic ought to get a clue, or go home.

Mark

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We wish we didn’t, but we live in historic times.  Look at who’s leading this nation at a time when our enemies are consolidating and our presumptive president needs sleep.  It’s starting to feel like the worm is turning.  The gaffs, the mumbling, the pratfalls, and now something really important. There’s something we haven’t been told.

The usual suspects are out in force, doing interviews and telling us that the impeachment inquiry is nothing but a conspiracy theory with no facts to back it up.  Those three or four pesky loudmouths are playing rough with no evidence, they claim.  But things are falling apart on every front.

Can you stand to see what’s going on at the border?  It’s a stomach turning exercise, particularly after the play by play manhunt that went on this week ending in the capture of an illegal, wanted for murder in Brazil, convicted of murdering his girlfriend gruesomely.  He was just another sad sack who’d made his way to the land of opportunity.  How much did the manhunt cost?  How much is the incursion at the border costing?   What on earth is going on?

At no time in human history has anything like this taken place. The details are too idiotic to go into. Our national debt is admittedly out of hand, and we act like the well will never go dry. The truth of many untenable situations is obvious to anyone paying attention, but the networks tell us otherwise.

That may be about to change, insurance policy for the ages or not.  

We’re having electric cars waved in front of our faces day and night.  Why?  Has a panel discussion taken place somewhere that convinces us that electric cars are the future?  The news today is that auto workers are on strike at several factories.  They’re worried that electric cars will be built in such a way that they’re no longer needed.  They also want a big raise.  Where does the power that charges electric vehicles come from?  

Do you remember the news worrying whether the power grid would hold up during inclement weather?  Maybe the demands are greater, but we never worried that there wouldn’t be sufficient wind to generate what we needed.  Texas is on board with saving the planet.  Well, we’ve got windmills anyway, the life expectancy and power generated is a taboo subject.  Things are being done on the basis of feelings rather than brass tacks.  You’d think this would all be explained logically, but that’s not the case when it comes to saving the planet.  China and India think it’s nuts.

Word has it that we’re about to be legally bound by W.H.O. regulations. 

They’ve got to convict Donald Trump of something!  Otherwise the destruction might be turned around, and no self-respecting liberal can stand for that.  How dare we love the United States?  We hate seeing what is being done, and even worse, why.  The idea of the nation being saved, being turned back to the traditions we were founded upon, is reprehensible to the “new” values that we’re being spoon-fed on a daily basis.  

The values this nation was founded upon were enduring. These buffoons have tried everything and they’re almost there! If they could just stamp out those of us who remember that God’s blessings are beyond anything these do-gooders can come up with. We’d like to preserve them. The Feast of Trumpets falls tomorrow, and pictures the return of Jesus Christ to this earth. We celebrate it every year as the Bible dictates. Some things we’re never going to stop doing, no matter what.

Mark

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It has only been one year since the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.  Whether intended or not it was a pivotal moment in world events.  For the United States to manage such a debacle after years of occupation, the stockpiling of weapons and vehicles and the construction of one of the most capable airbases on earth, was shattering to America’s reputation.  There are stories of our modern weaponry being sold to the highest bidder on the international arms market.  Lots of it.  That debacle alone casts the U. S. in a weak light, and every would-be enemy on earth took note.  

Now every rotten actor is on the rampage.  They probably watched that reprehensible speech last night and gleaned accurately that the president is involved in an emotional war with the country he’s supposed to represent.  The Marines, at ease, were silhouetted at the flanks to tell us what?  That this angry old man can enforce his mental illness with military might?  He’s at war with those ultra-maga people who are a threat to our democracy!  Really?  That’s the problem?

Insanity reigns on television and the internet.  Conventional wisdom says much that’s just not true.  We’ve got agencies, seemingly out of control while they wield anti-American power and then don’t bother to explain themselves.  You wouldn’t understand anyway.

We’re supposed to ignore inconsistencies in logic, and believe the mainstream no matter what.  The people in charge have it all figured out.  Apparently they’re going to wait until after the mid-terms to announce Donald Trump’s indictment.  For three years they’ve made false accusations for which they’ve never apologized and now this? Anchors sneered at “deniers” of all stripes.  Notice how many “deniers” there are?  Years ago the only time you heard the word was in connection with the holocaust  and that came with anti-Semitic baggage.  Let’s just say it carried a mighty negative connotation. 

If you’re a denier, you must be bad, wrong, even evil.  So now we’ve got climate change deniers and election deniers, and probably holocaust deniers!  They’re all bad, all terribly misguided and probably a threat to democracy.  That’s the phrase now, you hear it everywhere sometimes with a lisp.  

It’s official.  If you love the United States and want to salvage our traditions and laws you must be some kind of terrorist, or a denier of some sort.  If you don’t agree with gender transitions, global warming, and Donald Trump being the worst traitor, document mishandling criminal the world has ever seen, you’re a threat to democracy.  He condemned Trump supporters as the greatest national danger.  It took him less than 24 hours to walk it back, and he did.  Too late.  You don’t suppose somebody pointed out the folly of calling half the country a danger to democracy?

The Texas governor, Gregg Abbott is sending busloads of illegal aliens to New York, and now Chicago.  The mayors couldn’t be happier.  Well, maybe they could if they could figure out who’s going to pay for all the hotel rooms and food.  But they’re welcoming, while calling our governor a racist for sending illegals up there.  How dare he?!?  Meanwhile, they’re just happy to have them.  Good.  

Whatever you do, don’t use your head.  That will get you labeled if not banned.  Suddenly you’re an idiot if you don’t buy what the mainstream is selling.  Count me in.  

We can’t believe California, or its governance could get any more ridiculous.  Stand by.  Not only are they outlawing internal combustion cars, but the grid is overloaded.  So, please don’t charge your electric cars between the hours of…  

It’s looking likely that the political power that demands the people of the world worship their false system is probably going to be saving the planet.  If it becomes a global movement, look out.  We’re already being called a bunch of names if we don’t support things we know are condemned in the Word of God.   Already the technology firms do the government’s bidding.  They’ll decide what is and isn’t fit for human consumption.  Never mind that they’ve been wrong on critical subjects.  If something violates the mainstream narrative, it must be racist, homophobic, climate denial or Covid misinformation. We’ve got larger concerns.  We don’t go by their rules. 

Mark

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