"Advice columnist Abigail Van Buren once received a letter from a Mr. Hooker, a relative of General Joseph Hooker of Civil War fame. 'I don’t know how my family name became a synonym for prostitute, whore, or harlot, but I find it very offensive', he said. The writer went on to say that his son contemplated a name change because his fiancee 'doesn’t want to be a ‘Hooker,’ and she says if she has daughters she doesn’t want them to be ‘Hookers,’ either.' The origin of Hooker, as a surname, has nothing to do with 'the world’s oldest profession.' Instead...
Surnames developed gradually and casually in the Middle Ages, not through a formal or legal system. In a growing population, there was a need to distinguish people with the same common first names within a village or town, and last names came about as a means of sorting who was who on the tax lists. But oftentimes our ancestors were saddled with surnames originating as uncomplimentary nicknames...
Blackinthemouth, Wiselheade (Weaselhead), Broadgirdel, Giddyhead, Druncard (Drunkard), Sot, Badneighbor, Bastard, Devil, Hellicate (Hellcat), Gabbers, Piggesflesh and Hoggesflesh are among these surnames, some of which are prefaced with the Norman le (meaning 'the'). The meanings of other surnames are not as easily apparent, such as Gadling or Gedling (a gossiper), Bugg (uncouth or weird), le Burgulian (the braggart), le Crump (a crooked back), Haine (wretched), Turk (rowdy), Clapp (obese) and Luske (slothful). Two Irish examples are Crotty (hunchback) and Fogarty (an outlaw or someone who has been banished).
Coote may have been a nickname for a bald man, comparing him to a fowl... But somewhere along the way, coot became slang for 'stupid' or 'foolish'. Another unflattering aviary nickname was Woodcock, meaning 'gullible', because (like the bird) he was easily caught. Le Lewed, though not meaning lewd, implied simplicity or ignorance. In Fourteenth Century Norfolk, Craske was a familiar raunchy take on the French cras and the Latin crassus. Not surprisingly, Richard le Cras and Stephen Crassus were Norfolk residents...
A number of unflattering surnames disappeared, due to an ancestor’s relocation, the family’s efforts in changing the spelling and pronunciation of their name, or simply dropping it all together. In Surnames, DNA, and Family History, authors George Redmonds, Turi King, and David Hey give an example of a Yorkshire family named Smallbehind who became Smallbend.
'As time wore on, and the nation became more refined, there was an attempt made, successful in many instances, to throw off the more objectionable of these names', Bardsley wrote. 'Some were so utterly gross and ribald as even in that day to sink into almost instant oblivion.'
Foulfish and Polecat faded, while Fool vanished rather quickly...
Not all shocking surnames faded into oblivion, however. Augustine Bastard is found in Devonshire during the reign of Edward II (1317-1327). Of Augustine’s surname, Bardsley remarks it was 'proudly borne by at least one ancient English county family'...
Hogg did not necessarily derive from a derogatory nickname. Instead, it may refer to an ancestor who worked as a butcher. Nevertheless, some American Hoggs prefer to pronounce their name as if it were spelled Hoag. The British, by no means, held a monopoly on derogatory names. Holsapple, an Americanization from Holzapfel (crabapple, indicating a sour disposition) and Bos (audacious or reckless) are both German. Broms (annoying) is Swedish, and Bobo (stammering) is Spanish.
In the Netherlands, my own ancestors became known as Slecht, the Dutch word for 'bad'... The new name stuck, and descendants continue to bear that surname, though it has been Americanized to Slack, Slaght, Slaught and Sleight.
Similarly, a friend received an e-mail from a farmer in Gordola, Switzerland— the home of her Robasciotti ancestors— with a note on the meaning of the surname. I don’t know if I must tell you this... in our Italian dialect the word robasciot means ‘stealing of cow or sheep dung'...
American last names have gone through so many transformations in spelling and sound, that only an in-depth genealogical study can answer the question of its meaning in a particular family— if at all.
As for my friend with the ancestral surname linked to dung theft, she learned that one of her Robasciotti forebears married into an English family named Crapp."
General George Hooker was notorious for his troops' entourage of loose women, prostitutes, and promiscuity. In some circles, a hooker is someone who makes rugs. It may be unfortunate for people in the 21st century to be saddled with that name, but whatcha gonna do?
('I know! Let's twirl across the hood of a police car to the sound of exciting trumpet-music and, while we're at it, jump on the hood of another, from a different angle!')
But anyway, different things, like names/name-mashups, push different people's buttons differently or not at all. Jim's response above for example perplexes me a little, but then I'm not Jim, nor anyone else. Here's to that, to diversity.
I know and/or have known people who could/can push my buttons without even trying and others who've tried so hard, to absolutely no effect. LOL
When I was a maintenance manager I had a planner who worked for me who I came to realize wasn’t receiving any of my emails; many that contained important information necessary for our work. It took us a while to figure out the IT security department was censoring her because her name was Sammye Hooker.
Too cute! Thanks to you, I let the next video run:
"If I was to personify the American Woodcock, it would be the person who marches to the beat of their own drum. The kid in high school who always tucked his t-shirts into his jeans, or the black sheep in the family. The one who is comfortable with their nonconformity because, well, it just makes sense to them.
This bird is comfortable in its own feathers, and it should be. In some ways, it was literally built backwards from how most other birds are. But the differences don't stop there. It dances, it struts, it becomes motionless when threatened. Packed within this robin-sized bird is a ton of endearing quirkiness. It's hard not to adore these birds.
Like a pet with a long list of nicknames, this bird has several monikers. It answers to the timberdoodle, the bog sucker, the hokumpoke, the Labrador twister, the mudsnipe and the night partridge.
Scolopax minor is its scientific name, and although it is technically a type of sandpiper and considered a shore bird, it's more likely to be found along the edges of woodlands and marshes than running along a beach."
Diversity is great, as long as it's free/grassroots and isn't top-down engineered.
Nevertheless, WRT my comment regarding button-pushing, if my last name was to be 'engineered', 'Robasciotti', it wouldn't faze me, since I do a bit of food-related gardening and therefore appreciate good compost.
Yes, Hellcat sounds fun. Perhaps that just goes to show you that, along with language, itself, names, such as if they're hung onto, can change, lose, or even gain in, their meanings over time.
Neo didn't like being called 'Mr. Anderson', incidentally, perhaps because it was the name that the Matrix gave him. ;)
If it has not been wiped, the Vindman brothers at about 4 years old are in a Ken Burns doc about Ellis island, immigration, etc. Cannot recall the name of the program but Amazing Polly a one time podcaster revealed it. Their names were given as was the woman who was identified as their caregiver. Something sinister about them growing up and immersed into American political deep state.
LCL Vindman looked like the Pillsbury Doughboy in his uniform when he testified against his president during the first impeachment hearing. I thought for sure that if one of his buttons popped off, the force would shatter the camera lens trained on him.
It would be nice to see the guilty swing from the gallows on the Washington Mall. However as history has shown that wish is optimism over reality. However for those with faith, Hell is open for all the scoundrels. FJB
God? Ha. As I progress in age to my twilight years my wisdom has evolved. My faith in God isn't what it used to be in the days of my youth. Today I believe two things about God. 1; God created us and has long since died off. 2; God created us and then took off with its buddies to play eternal golf on a golf paradise world and doesn't give a flying f___ about its creations.
I don't deny there is or was a God. But I no longer have faith that God is intimately involved with humanity. Either way, we are boned. It is up to us to issue justice upon the evildoers and that will never happen.
Life has a way of stripping everything from us. In a certain way I agree. He has given us all free will to live and do as we wish. I won’t get into much here except to say He gets involved in our personal lives only as much as we let Him in but he will do His will. No matter your or my opinions. Our will isn’t the last word on anything
Cheryl, you piqued another thought when you mentioned "free will." I often wonder if God sits his throne and doesn't intervene in the affairs of humanity because he has given us free will. If he were to start tinkering around with humanity he would be taking away our free will. If God takes away our free will and forces, any of us, to do or behave a certain way, God has then abrogated his responsibility to guarantee free will. If God does this God becomes a liar and a liar loses the faith of his subjects.
Maybe God doesn't intervene because God CANNOT intervene. God is subject to his own laws. If God is subject to his own laws he is therefore, not as ALL POWERFUL as we thought he was.
Anyway, the musings of a tired old brain. I am a person of faith but religions of late have done nothing but confuse me.
"Yes, we have free will; we have no choice but to have it.’ - Christopher Hitchens. Think about it!
EVERYTHING happens according to God's PLAN Christians will say. But when SOMETHING tragic happens, the Christian says God gives us FREE WILL. The age-old trick of constantly moving the goalposts.
If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able then he is not omnipotent.
If he is able, but not willing then he is malevolent.
If he is both able and willing then whence cometh evil?
If he is neither able nor willing then why call him God?
Apologists in a nutshell: "God is incomprehensible, now listen very carefully while I tell you all about him." If what God does is above us, then why do we have all these believers speaking FOR God, or forever explaining him?
The Bible was written, revised and edited many times BY the religious FOR the religious. The last thing it is, is truthful, reliable, unbiased, impartial or a neutral source. Folks that belief the entirety of Bible are willing to sacrifice their humanity on the altar of a book that they can't even prove.
Christianity: The belief that God sacrificed God to God to save God's creations from God.
If religion was kept in their churches and their heads, and that they didn't think they are superior to others, I'd be generally OK with that.
Well at the very basis of energy and matter, is the particle/ wave duality. We cannot understand this. Yet it is so. Your analysis of the logic of God's capabilities and motivations, is similar to this.
"I won’t get into much here except to say He gets involved in our personal lives only as much as we let Him in but he will do His will. No matter your or my opinions. Our will isn’t the last word on anything"
Do you see the internal contradiction in what you wrote? That your first sentence is your opinion which your second sentence nullifies? The mysterious Creator saw to it that the truth can only be known by the absence of contradiction.
Deists assert that God created the world and then left it to operate under natural laws. Deism emphasizes ethical conduct and rejects supernatural aspects of religion.
Furthermore, it is a philosophical position and rationalistic theology that rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge.
Deism is just religious cooptation of reason-besed animism which acknowledges the obviousness of a Creator about which nothing can be known but whose example (Creation) can be followed, like you said, by hewing to Natural Law.
When a fast draw Sheriff and a Hanging Judge would clean up a Western town, typically the good people would respond by voting them out of office. The disease of "Nice" has taken deep root in our collective psyche and will be the death of us.
Totally agree!! Invite Josie Wales to conduct the purging. We’ve been too civil. Had our lives F by the pandemic and grifting and now a legal pardon ???
Joe Biden doesn't have that many years left. I'd be surprised if he lasted for the next four. Any takers on how long Hunter's going to last? I'm thinking too many loose ends and liability.
I dunno but I think Joe Biden is subject to a lynching and I don’t care how fucking old or demented he is. It’s a fitting end for this thief in high places.
Indeed. He’s been a corrupt criminal all of his life, the court jester of the senate, everybody’s fool and liar. His age doesn’t earn any cuddles. He sold us to Chyna.
When was the last trial for treason? Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs or that Navy guy from the 70s? A serious investigation into treasonable offenses in government would keep the dockets calendared for decades.
I always look forward to your writings, suitably sarcastic, realistic and unique. Thanks for brightening my life is a world of the unreal hopefully transitioning to the real.
Remember that biden has the brain of a single-celled amoeba, and that was before he had dementia. This man dances like a marionette to powerful groups that have had his testicles in a jar for a very long time.
1. Israel lobby. 2. Chinese lobby. 3. Muslim lobby. 4. Big Pharma lobby. 5. Big defense lobby. 6. Any foreign entity who wants something lobby ….. shall I go on. The list of folks Joe owes is LONG and distinguished!
Before Obama entered the White House, Israel was always a reliable ally. The influence of China has developed because of Hunter's decision to sell influence. But, when we get down to facts, we must realize that Joe has got the brains of a well-chewed dog toy. Jill feeds, waters, and controls the old gangster.
Well of course. The picture of our illustrious leaders history is equally full of skullduggery, malfeasance and hypocrisy. The wonder of it all is how so many Americans could actually vote to put that gangster in the Oval Office in the first place. They are the morons. Alternatively, the well worn and custom built information warfare machine is very effective at producing what we see here every day. Sad. Bottom line: the war will depart the information arena and morph and become kinetic in our neighborhoods. Arm up.
The 3rd World War began when the Obama administration took over Ukraine. I would be very surprised if the AI that directs all of our government's actions doesn't agitate even more for violence around the world prior to January 20.
You are right about the ones who voted for Joe and Kamala. Anyone who did is a fool. I don't remember who said "if voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it." You never have a choice in candidates. They are all hand picked by the deep state.
Israel has never been a reliable ally to any nation. The same can be said of the modern US. If you ally yourself with the US, you are signing your death warrant.
Except when Israel won the 6-day war in 1967, the USA has always been able to count on Israel to do its bidding. But I agree with your third sentence. The yin/yang is always in play. Possibly we should worship Shiva. America is on the decline and that was proven when Biden abandoned our allies in Afghanistan. Now that Russia has hypersonic weapons that cannot be blocked or destroyed by the West, we are likely to see a major shake-up on the international scene.
Until recently, Israeli intelligence has kept America appraised of the actions of our mutual enemies in the Mideast. If it wasn't for Israel, it is likely that many 9/11's would have occurred in the past 20 years. I am not interested in debating or arguing.
Additionally, who are we really seeing when the "Joe Biden" marionette is brought to the podium. Possiblilties include, but not limited to, doubles, either with masks or some surgical enhancements to facial features., and AI generated avatars.
The same faceless globalist hucksters who brought (not “let in”) in millions of illegals from 100+ countries can just have President Skeletor blanket pardon ALL of the illegals, thus quashing Holman’s mission. Play that Big Humanitarian cue-card the Dems love so much!
Why not? They do what they like, after all. Hell they stole the 2020 election sure as Rootin Tootin Putin stole the low spark from High-Heeled Zelensky!
Pardon the illegals might work for their federal offenses of illegally crossing from prosecution but they are still here illegally and subject to removal.
Where’s Ben who touts all the wonderful benefits of these 3rd world “worker bees?” Oh wait! I guess the majority today aren’t happy to have a job worker bees. After all, most were just let out of prison where they resided in their own home countries and now live off of us
Exactly. Mop our floors, clean our toilets and watch our kids all for $3.00/hr. By golly! They hit the jackpot. Oh wait. They are a constant supply of young girls and boys. Not to mention a continuous stream of drugs. Calling Hunter Biden!!!
Well, that is one side of it. The other side of it, the one I'm referring to, is the anarcho-tyranny aspect. The elites have been trying to destroy the American middle class since at least the 1950's. Bringing in dumb, violent criminals and welfare loafers goes a long way in accomplishing that goal.
JHK, most Americans are unaware of the atrocities committed by the Administration and the list is too many to list here. The delays in investigations and prosecution are what allows for this type of abuse of power. Anybody ever know what happened to Inspector General Horowitz? If the Democratic party is going to try and "reform" their reputation and image most of us are still waiting...their actions since the election and their "remorse" reminds many of us of a circular firing squad. The Elite establishment gets away with so much bullshit while there is a high percentage of Americans who would prefer to focus on their daily lives and the hardships of the policies put in place by this Administration. Thus so much of the "joy and change" failed to sway the masses...BUT, the amount of people in the middle class (what's left of it) who DID vote for Kamala indicates that there are still people out there who are not doing their research and instead are sticking to their websites that support their current way of thinking...The dumbing down of America was never so evident by the amount of Americans who are either unaware of the happenings outside their personal universe or they stood to make out financially with a Harris Presidency...
Respectfully, "democrat" party not 'democratic" party...a mistake too often made. Not going to argue about the dumbing down of America, but also think it is a mistake to dismiss it as simply 'dumbness.' Dumbness suggests that there could be a possible cure (say, a dose of smartness or the 'right' information). Instead I would posit that the reasons for Harris support are far more complex and difficult to unravel. There is virtue signaling, there is feminist brainwashing--which is so strong that I don't think it can be undone for decades. The financial motive you suggest in your final words is, equally, huge. Graft and scams that have infiltrated every local, county and state governments--as well as all the people receiving some sort of dole or government paycheck--the sheer numbers of self interest alone are enormous.....
Naw, that's just some bullshit made up by Bob Dole as a talking point in his 1996 presidential campaign -- and I consider it a stupid talking point. The "Democratic Party" is fine as a label. Don't argue about that here.
You are right to call me out. I wrote the comment and then later looked it up after someone kindly suggested, without stating so implicitly, that I was wrong. I mistakenly picked up that notion somewhere--didn't know it originated with Dole.
I don't remember who first used the term "democrat party" instead of "democratic party"; but I think that name for the Progressive pro-crime racist party is more descriptive of the current organization. To suggest that the party that cheated Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020, the same party that discriminated against Hillary in 2008 and is dominated by "Super Delegates" has anything to do with democracy is a lie.
In fact, I could come up with a dozen names for that political party that are more descriptive of their actual essence than "Democrat".
There is a lot of room on top of that pile. If Adam Schiff is not pardoned, we will learn for certain what an evil creature he is. Certainly, Hillary is worse than Bernie. I have to believe that at one time the old Socialist had values and independent thoughts.
I see what you mean, but I still think it is far more complicated. I know people who read a lot and think a lot and still are just wrong. And sometimes wrong from the best motives--misguided. And I often ask myself where the sprocket stopped hitting the chain with them.
My wife has a relative who would have voted for Trump, but voted for Kamala instead because she heard that the Democrats were going to give her free Ozempic if they won. That, to me, appears to be equal parts stupid and evil.
As you wish. I can't get too up in arms justifying their various forms of crazy. My cousin is one. She calls herself a Republican but has a gay daughter and thinks that somehow Trump supporters are full of hate for gays. I was trying to follow her logic but couldn't and in those instances I know I am in stupid land.
They're captured by their ideology, and as Rush said all those years ago, democrats only talk to other democrats, listen to other democrats on the radio or TV, socialize with other democrats, or read what other democrats write. That's why they were so blindsided by Trump's victory and have returned to the tried-and-true of racism and misogyny.
Horowitz? He's working on the next whitewash. Spotlight some of the dirt, hide more of it, recommend some sort of process improvement, testify to Congress, listen to shouters and read memos, move on to the next SHOW.
It occurred to me that perhaps the blob might orchestrate a black flag event on Ukraine to one, destroy evidence of their true motivations in this war (perhaps those biolabs?) and two, blame Putin of course. Maybe that’s what’s behind all this.
Remember when Victoria Nuland was most concerned about those biolabs in Ukraine? What are they doing at those? I always thought she was oddly alarmist about this.
Pardons are for crimes charged and prosecuted successfully to conviction. What Biden is doing is granting immunity (forever) from future prosecutions. So, yes, he can "pardon" the entire DNC Crime Syndicate forever if this is not challenged. It needs to be. Otherwise, we'll have a new "law" that doesn't exist (see Illegal Immigration).
To make such a new law it would have to sail through the three branches for approval where it would most certainly die on the vine. Executive Orders can be instantly reversed with the swipe of a pen by the incoming president. Pre-pardoning for pre-crimes is a ridiculous concept not to be taken seriously.
The Blob gets to vet all of Trump's appointees. And the group in power hides behind its factotums. There's no voting our way out of this.
The guy who set himself on fire on the steps of the New Hampshire capital wrote of the "second set of book" - those which allow a woman to steal a man's kids. Now she can steal them, go to a trans sanctuary state, and castrate them.
My father died at the age of 85. He had cancer for the last 5 years of his life. No chemo. Refused it. He lived a full life until the last month. He never thought of himself as old or a cancer patient. Never. He started actively dying within two weeks of his death
Had he taken the chemo he'd have been dead in 6 months.
I hope I get to go the way your father did. Live a full life all the way to the end. Some suckers end up taking years to die, rotting away in a hospital or care facility having their asses wiped by uncaring workers, being fed with an IV. Not me. I'd rather eat the muzzle of a .357 before I ended up in one of these horrific places.
Well, when we realize we are one amongst billions who went before us. As many as stars in the sky who all lived full lives with children they loved. Had experiences they cherished. Were breathing, feeling people, our lives are put in perspective. Our own arrogance is what makes life and death, or even aging hard to accept. Intellectually I know this but like you it’s hard for me to accept too
Love the comment. I don't want to get old simply because I can't do the things I used to enjoy, physical things, that is. I love to draw and paint and it is getting hard to hold a pencil for long periods of time. However, I wouldn't go back to being a youth again. No way. Too hard. Too many harsh lessons learned. There is beauty in growing old and slowing down. Society keeps telling us to be young with all these drugs that jack up testosterone levels and sex libido and so forth. There is beauty in living a long life and then getting sick, dying, and leaving it all to our posterity.
Mayorkas did exactly what he was hired to do: throw open the borders and at the same time Gaslight Congress and the American public. At least 20 million 'New Arrivals' since 2021 -- some of them flown in on DHS sponsored aircraft -- so I'd say he's been successful at his job.
So hilarious. In trying to pardon these evil people. they are admitting guilt. Rats jumping ship. Let them drown. What I find so amusing is that Biden, one of the most corrupt politicians is destroying his own party. Intentionally. Why would anyone expect anything different from this sleezeball? And they installed him as president. Gawd they are morons. Pelosi is next
Where wealth accumulates and men decay -The Deserted Village
The baseline of morality is vanishing. End of empire degradation is upon us.
We must do something to meet this head on, and soon, because WE are responsible for our childrens’ future. No one else. And if we fail to fight this fight for them, we will have earned and deserve our fate of living in a burgeoning hell on earth, but they will have not, and we will be held accountable for failing them, either in this life or the next.
We need must unite and work together to build a future worth living in. Because if we do not, we will not have one.
We need to reconnect with our true nature. Rebuild the family. Let men and women fulfill their divine roles. Love our children. Re-establish faith in God for from faith in God comes the basis for morality. Take away faith in God and there is no basis for morality.
They’ve surrounded us completely. Full spectrum dominance: destruction of morals, tainted addictive food supply, injecting us with poisons over and over, filling the air with toxins. Meanwhile the majority get massages in their spare time. This sums it up well:
By Biblical Man: They didn't storm our gates.
They opened day spas.
Ancient Rome's greatest historian watched it happen:
Men who once conquered nations now conquered by comfort.
First came the lounges - "Just relax"
Then the baths - "You deserve this"
Finally the feasts - "Treat yourself"
They called it civilization.
Tacitus called it servitude.
Sound familiar?
Your grandfathers worked callused hands.
Your fathers built with blistered palms.
You? Getting your monthly massage.
While you're chasing comfort, your enemies are chasing power.
While you're "finding yourself," they're finding weakness.
While you're "living your best life," they're planning your worst nightmare.
Michael Yon recommended reading Joost Meerloo's 1956 book, _The Rape of the Mind_. I'm about halfway through, and Meerloo really does get to the heart of the problem: PURPOSELESSNESS, GODLESSNESS, BOREDOM, a cowardly, materialistic culture rotten from within, ripe for destruction, wise-ass, delusional, escapist, MENTALLY ILL.
America fell for the propaganda of Hollywood and Madison Avenue.
Again, thank you for your inspiring post.
There is a God. Anyone who says otherwise needs to get multiply vaxxed and boosted.
Don't forget "Capitalism"! Men used to retire from the Legion and be given enough acreage for a small farm. In other words, they could be somebody and not just a drunk with a lot of good stories. But the Elite didn't want to share the land anymore. So the good men stopped coming back to Rome and settled in the lands in which they had served, with their friends, marrying local women.
The Greed Heads can never be allowed to do what they want because they'll destroy everything. The boot must ever be on their neck. Athens (culture) must never forsake Sparta (militant power and discipline)
One time at the Olympic games, an old man couldn't find a seat. None of the Athenians would get up for him. When he got to the Spartan section, all of the men got up at once. He said, All Greeks know what is right. But Spartans do it.
Just back from 2 weeks sailing the Aegean, Adriatic and Ionian seas. We use these old civilizations as examples for today's woes. They are all burned out, earthquaked, tsunamied hulks. Piles of rocks left over from "the olden days". They are all destroyed by nature or even more so by the lassitude of human beings.
The greatest enemy of any civilization is when the people look to the government for the solutions to their problems, instead of themselves. The current situation is the perfect example. Watch and see, when DOGE, deportation and disarming the MIC all start to happen in 2025, the shit is going to hit the fan big time. When the lazy denizens of the cities of the USA start having to fend for themselves, watch out. It really accelerates when the government encourages the dependent behavior by force feeding the dependence. That is what we have witnessed so much recently.
BTW, when people here have mentioned the various people and groups they want to clobber, notice that most are elements of "city-States", like San Francisco, New York. Boston, LA, Denver, and Chicago. San Francisco; Pelosi, Schiff, Newsome; New York; Schumer; Boston: the mayor and Pocahantas, LA; the DA; Denver, my prior home; just name the cartel; and Chicago; just name the crook, the mayor, the DA, or Pritzker.
Sidebar - Who might be a common denominator here? Soros?
Absolute rubbish. The settlers could have never defeated the really powerful Indian tribes on their own. They helped, yes, but when the going got really bad they ran like hell to the military forts - Federal.
You only have what you can keep. And the billionaires depend on the police, army, and public roads just as much as anyone else.
Tom Homan has his work cut out for him. I posted the Maria Zeee / Michael Yon clip because it clarifies what we're up against.
There's such a thing as being too civilized.
Every Patriot needs to take stock of themselves / ourselves as a multi-generational investment. The snowflake b.s. has gotta end NOW.
I watch various international cartoons. Too many newer animations feature soft males who won't punch anyone.
Although I didn't see this myself, a forum member who watches a LOT of Chinese animation said that Chinese series think nothing of featuring heroes who, literally, blow up whole countries, or who commit genocide as though it were nothing. This seems like conditioning.
"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive."
~ Mao Zedong
Henry Kissinger really did a number on us, promoting China the way he did way back when.
"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive."~ Mao Zedong
Plus 2 to you.
It started here at least as far back as yabababa doo Fred Flintstone all the way to Homer Simpson. Media mind control: Emasculation has heen accelerating dramatically. Full spectrum dominance includes not just a tainted hormonal food supply, not just 72 injections, not just poisoning the air with nano metals and dangerous frequencies, but also destroying our minds, strong men, heroes, virtue, morals, valor:
Morality exists because consequences exist. Period.
True morality ~ doing what is right without the threat of divine retribution nor the possibility of divine reward.
We're animals. Our moralities are based on our species' survival. Nothing more but nothing less either. Combine that aspect with our vivid imaginations and presto! Religions are invented.
“The Bible; an ancient novel full of murder, corruption, homophobia, bestiality, incest and cruelty. Most often read to children on Sundays.” - Unknown author
As far as the Bible goes, no-one would believe these fantastical stories if they hadn't been born into a world full of people who already believed the same thing.
If a Jew, Christian or Muslim woke up tomorrow and found himself in a world where there were no other believers, how soon would it be before they became too embarrassed to admit to believing in such things as flying horses and talking snakes?
They'd rightly be thought insane.
The Bible was written from multiple sources.
But a political dynasty oversaw the compiling and editing of those sources at the Council of Nicaea.
That there was power and wealth to be derived from consolidating the fables into a single book calls it into question. Motivation was huge to mislead and deceive.
Also, the Romans at the time of Jesus, were meticulous record keepers. Historians and archaeologists have unearthed huge amounts of text written at that time. There is not one mention of anybody resembling Jesus, his healing magic, his supposed talents and powers, or his trial and crucifixion in any official Roman record.
The Bible is at best a compilation of previous Pagan mythology.
Why does it bother you so for some to profess a belief and then to be an absolute ass about it?
Let them believe smile nod and go along with what little in your life is purpose.
There belief does not affect your life one bit.
Its not like they are trying to ram carbon and vat taxes down your throat and destroy your way of life.
Or does them professing their belief make you realize how hollow your own life really is or is it some personal pass time that others would say is engaging in immoral behavior?
Well, there was Tacitus. And Josephus. And some other guy.
Sure, Tacitus wrote about Jesus and his trial and conviction via Pilate about 80-100 years afterward, so of course he would have never met Jesus in person. But then, he wouldn't have met Tiberius or Pilate in person either, and he wrote about them with the same surety.
As for the rest of your comment(s) on the subject, hard to argue. I'd just mention that no one (not one, ever) actually knows what the hell took place in lifetimes lived before us. But it doesn't mean accounts that are passed down are all untrue.
e.g. We had lizards roaming the earth at one time. Hey - the bones keep turning up. But no matter the science put into proving this or that about them, no one actually knows anything about them, how they lived, or when. Carbon dating is as flawed as the Council of Nicaea. And no one today professes to believe in dragons (that's all myth!), but we clearly had ginormous freaking lizards walking and flying at some point. So...in many ways, almost all archeology and history is a guessing game and a puzzle to be sorted by how each of us sees the world and trusts historical accounts, and the tools we have available to us when looking at it.
Letters from Pilate have been discovered, written to Tiberias, discussing his unease with the Jesus phenomenon in Judea. Lucanus, a Greek physician was a biographer of Jesus, along with John Mark. Both never knew or met Jesus, yet wrote biographies of his ministry that closely paralleled Matthew and John. Josephus followed closely behind.
Non-believers refuse to believe in anything bigger than themselves.
Dennis, you’re unbelief is it’s religion for which you clearly have need to proselytize. You hold many misconceptions about biblical texts.
Now that you’ve seemed to master the brilliance of Hitchens, I suggest you take on Aquinas for an opposing viewpoint.
Summa Theologiae
“We purpose in this book to treat of whatever belongs to the Christian religion, in such a way as may tend to the instruction of beginners. We have considered that students in this doctrine have not seldom been hampered by what they have found written by other authors, partly on account of the multiplication of useless questions, articles, and arguments, partly also because those things that are needful for them to know are not taught according to the order of the subject matter, but according as the plan of the book might require, or the occasion of the argument offer, partly, too, because frequent repetition brought weariness and confusion to the minds of readers.”
If you can walk away from the Summa thinking Aquinas a person lacking in the use of “critical thinking” for “willful ignorance,” you might want to see a professional for treatment of delusions of grandeur, my friend…
"Don't try to debate me; I'm an expert Christian..."
Surely there's Bible scripture about arrogance that you're breaching oh mighty expert with YOUR delusions of grandeur.
It's the all-loving omnibenevolent Gods desire to save sick babies.
Baby lives ~ God is amazing, and prayer works.
Baby dies ~ it was God's will and we aren't meant to know or understand the reasons these things happen.
It's in accordance with his plan you see. The baby was meant to die.
So, what purpose does prayer have?
This surely and precisely sums up the Christianity hoax, doesn't it?
GOD CAN'T LOSE!
A philosophical argument for God and a ham sandwich combined are worth slightly less than a ham sandwich, Granny. You and Aquinas can have as many philosophical arguments for “God” as you like, it doesn't change the fact that there's no evidence that there is one.
My God is The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), the holy deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism.
A Pastafarian prophet of the Venganza forums known as Solipsy received divine guidance and wrote The Loose Canon, the Holy Book of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The book was completed in 2010 and was made available for download.
Some excerpts from The Loose Canon include:
"I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Thou shalt have no other monsters before Me (Afterwards is OK; just use protection). The only Monster who deserves capitalization is Me! Other monsters are false monsters, undeserving of capitalization". - Suggestions 1:1-5
"Since you have done a half-ass job, you will receive half an ass! The Great Pirate Solomon grabbed his ceremonial scimitar and struck his remaining donkey, cleaving it in two" - Slackers 1:51–52
The New Testament of The Flying Spaghetti Monster: Dinner 2.0 (also known as the New and Improved Recipe) was published in 2018. It became the Holy Book of The Unitarian Church of Pasta and The FSM Revival Church of Ziti.
I have faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He is the one and only true God. It is my belief that every word in his Gospels are true. The Flying Spaghetti Monster commands us to go onto every internet site comment section, no matter what the subject, and spread the word of the FSM.
And, as with the Biblical Christian God, you are not permitted to ever question it. Ever!
Don't forget Alexander Vindman. He is a traitor loyal to Ukraine, not America. Check out Cringeman's remarkably dumb attacks on me thinking I'm a real Russian agent: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/alexander-vindman-cringeman-cringestack-kgb
"Cringeman" -- ??? Political puns not allowed here. They lower the tone of the conversation.
"Advice columnist Abigail Van Buren once received a letter from a Mr. Hooker, a relative of General Joseph Hooker of Civil War fame. 'I don’t know how my family name became a synonym for prostitute, whore, or harlot, but I find it very offensive', he said. The writer went on to say that his son contemplated a name change because his fiancee 'doesn’t want to be a ‘Hooker,’ and she says if she has daughters she doesn’t want them to be ‘Hookers,’ either.' The origin of Hooker, as a surname, has nothing to do with 'the world’s oldest profession.' Instead...
Surnames developed gradually and casually in the Middle Ages, not through a formal or legal system. In a growing population, there was a need to distinguish people with the same common first names within a village or town, and last names came about as a means of sorting who was who on the tax lists. But oftentimes our ancestors were saddled with surnames originating as uncomplimentary nicknames...
Blackinthemouth, Wiselheade (Weaselhead), Broadgirdel, Giddyhead, Druncard (Drunkard), Sot, Badneighbor, Bastard, Devil, Hellicate (Hellcat), Gabbers, Piggesflesh and Hoggesflesh are among these surnames, some of which are prefaced with the Norman le (meaning 'the'). The meanings of other surnames are not as easily apparent, such as Gadling or Gedling (a gossiper), Bugg (uncouth or weird), le Burgulian (the braggart), le Crump (a crooked back), Haine (wretched), Turk (rowdy), Clapp (obese) and Luske (slothful). Two Irish examples are Crotty (hunchback) and Fogarty (an outlaw or someone who has been banished).
Coote may have been a nickname for a bald man, comparing him to a fowl... But somewhere along the way, coot became slang for 'stupid' or 'foolish'. Another unflattering aviary nickname was Woodcock, meaning 'gullible', because (like the bird) he was easily caught. Le Lewed, though not meaning lewd, implied simplicity or ignorance. In Fourteenth Century Norfolk, Craske was a familiar raunchy take on the French cras and the Latin crassus. Not surprisingly, Richard le Cras and Stephen Crassus were Norfolk residents...
A number of unflattering surnames disappeared, due to an ancestor’s relocation, the family’s efforts in changing the spelling and pronunciation of their name, or simply dropping it all together. In Surnames, DNA, and Family History, authors George Redmonds, Turi King, and David Hey give an example of a Yorkshire family named Smallbehind who became Smallbend.
'As time wore on, and the nation became more refined, there was an attempt made, successful in many instances, to throw off the more objectionable of these names', Bardsley wrote. 'Some were so utterly gross and ribald as even in that day to sink into almost instant oblivion.'
Foulfish and Polecat faded, while Fool vanished rather quickly...
Not all shocking surnames faded into oblivion, however. Augustine Bastard is found in Devonshire during the reign of Edward II (1317-1327). Of Augustine’s surname, Bardsley remarks it was 'proudly borne by at least one ancient English county family'...
Hogg did not necessarily derive from a derogatory nickname. Instead, it may refer to an ancestor who worked as a butcher. Nevertheless, some American Hoggs prefer to pronounce their name as if it were spelled Hoag. The British, by no means, held a monopoly on derogatory names. Holsapple, an Americanization from Holzapfel (crabapple, indicating a sour disposition) and Bos (audacious or reckless) are both German. Broms (annoying) is Swedish, and Bobo (stammering) is Spanish.
In the Netherlands, my own ancestors became known as Slecht, the Dutch word for 'bad'... The new name stuck, and descendants continue to bear that surname, though it has been Americanized to Slack, Slaght, Slaught and Sleight.
Similarly, a friend received an e-mail from a farmer in Gordola, Switzerland— the home of her Robasciotti ancestors— with a note on the meaning of the surname. I don’t know if I must tell you this... in our Italian dialect the word robasciot means ‘stealing of cow or sheep dung'...
American last names have gone through so many transformations in spelling and sound, that only an in-depth genealogical study can answer the question of its meaning in a particular family— if at all.
As for my friend with the ancestral surname linked to dung theft, she learned that one of her Robasciotti forebears married into an English family named Crapp."
~ James Pylant, Genealogy Magazine
General George Hooker was notorious for his troops' entourage of loose women, prostitutes, and promiscuity. In some circles, a hooker is someone who makes rugs. It may be unfortunate for people in the 21st century to be saddled with that name, but whatcha gonna do?
TJ Hooker:
youtu.be/CRD9hCkpQ-c?si=3bvRnRgIm5t-k1bw
Cheesy stuff...
('I know! Let's twirl across the hood of a police car to the sound of exciting trumpet-music and, while we're at it, jump on the hood of another, from a different angle!')
But anyway, different things, like names/name-mashups, push different people's buttons differently or not at all. Jim's response above for example perplexes me a little, but then I'm not Jim, nor anyone else. Here's to that, to diversity.
I know and/or have known people who could/can push my buttons without even trying and others who've tried so hard, to absolutely no effect. LOL
There is a town in Somerset County, PA named Hollsopple.
When I was a maintenance manager I had a planner who worked for me who I came to realize wasn’t receiving any of my emails; many that contained important information necessary for our work. It took us a while to figure out the IT security department was censoring her because her name was Sammye Hooker.
"Ok, guys, the fun's over. Put the name back." ;)
+1 Many thanks! "Robasciotti" would make an outstanding name for the next overhyped, unnecessary AI intrusion.
However, Mr. Woodcock allows himself to be "easily caught" the better to ensnare the female heart with his dancing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6nj9AgY7M
Too cute! Thanks to you, I let the next video run:
"If I was to personify the American Woodcock, it would be the person who marches to the beat of their own drum. The kid in high school who always tucked his t-shirts into his jeans, or the black sheep in the family. The one who is comfortable with their nonconformity because, well, it just makes sense to them.
This bird is comfortable in its own feathers, and it should be. In some ways, it was literally built backwards from how most other birds are. But the differences don't stop there. It dances, it struts, it becomes motionless when threatened. Packed within this robin-sized bird is a ton of endearing quirkiness. It's hard not to adore these birds.
Like a pet with a long list of nicknames, this bird has several monikers. It answers to the timberdoodle, the bog sucker, the hokumpoke, the Labrador twister, the mudsnipe and the night partridge.
Scolopax minor is its scientific name, and although it is technically a type of sandpiper and considered a shore bird, it's more likely to be found along the edges of woodlands and marshes than running along a beach."
~ youtu.be/97nnyyvXzmA?si=Xf1dq1Kj40MTV7RT
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Diversity is great, as long as it's free/grassroots and isn't top-down engineered.
Nevertheless, WRT my comment regarding button-pushing, if my last name was to be 'engineered', 'Robasciotti', it wouldn't faze me, since I do a bit of food-related gardening and therefore appreciate good compost.
Noice!!! xD
I like “Hellcat” as a last name. Interesting list.
Yes, Hellcat sounds fun. Perhaps that just goes to show you that, along with language, itself, names, such as if they're hung onto, can change, lose, or even gain in, their meanings over time.
Neo didn't like being called 'Mr. Anderson', incidentally, perhaps because it was the name that the Matrix gave him. ;)
@jim
Have you read through some of these posts a pun while annoying is hardly what is lowering the tone or quality of conversations here.
Or Mayorkas and Blinken.
If it has not been wiped, the Vindman brothers at about 4 years old are in a Ken Burns doc about Ellis island, immigration, etc. Cannot recall the name of the program but Amazing Polly a one time podcaster revealed it. Their names were given as was the woman who was identified as their caregiver. Something sinister about them growing up and immersed into American political deep state.
You must be doing something right, you have all the crazies after you.
what a creep
Creep
youtu.be/sT1DdO3SISg?si=j2XPvFoBL-ZgKFm-
Love this song!!
This one is good too ❤️❤️
youtu.be/zFYEYRcjK2g?si=w781_47W7yj96APT
Oh I know that one, goes well with the last...
The lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, alas, died some time ago.
Yes, he overdosed on a tour bus. So many of them do.
Samantha powers?
Ick!
Aren't you still banned from his Substack like the rest of us?
LCL Vindman looked like the Pillsbury Doughboy in his uniform when he testified against his president during the first impeachment hearing. I thought for sure that if one of his buttons popped off, the force would shatter the camera lens trained on him.
It would be nice to see the guilty swing from the gallows on the Washington Mall. However as history has shown that wish is optimism over reality. However for those with faith, Hell is open for all the scoundrels. FJB
100 likes let’s send them there but let God ( whom they rebel against and despise) sort them out.
God? Ha. As I progress in age to my twilight years my wisdom has evolved. My faith in God isn't what it used to be in the days of my youth. Today I believe two things about God. 1; God created us and has long since died off. 2; God created us and then took off with its buddies to play eternal golf on a golf paradise world and doesn't give a flying f___ about its creations.
I don't deny there is or was a God. But I no longer have faith that God is intimately involved with humanity. Either way, we are boned. It is up to us to issue justice upon the evildoers and that will never happen.
Life has a way of stripping everything from us. In a certain way I agree. He has given us all free will to live and do as we wish. I won’t get into much here except to say He gets involved in our personal lives only as much as we let Him in but he will do His will. No matter your or my opinions. Our will isn’t the last word on anything
Cheryl, you piqued another thought when you mentioned "free will." I often wonder if God sits his throne and doesn't intervene in the affairs of humanity because he has given us free will. If he were to start tinkering around with humanity he would be taking away our free will. If God takes away our free will and forces, any of us, to do or behave a certain way, God has then abrogated his responsibility to guarantee free will. If God does this God becomes a liar and a liar loses the faith of his subjects.
Maybe God doesn't intervene because God CANNOT intervene. God is subject to his own laws. If God is subject to his own laws he is therefore, not as ALL POWERFUL as we thought he was.
Anyway, the musings of a tired old brain. I am a person of faith but religions of late have done nothing but confuse me.
"Yes, we have free will; we have no choice but to have it.’ - Christopher Hitchens. Think about it!
EVERYTHING happens according to God's PLAN Christians will say. But when SOMETHING tragic happens, the Christian says God gives us FREE WILL. The age-old trick of constantly moving the goalposts.
If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able then he is not omnipotent.
If he is able, but not willing then he is malevolent.
If he is both able and willing then whence cometh evil?
If he is neither able nor willing then why call him God?
Apologists in a nutshell: "God is incomprehensible, now listen very carefully while I tell you all about him." If what God does is above us, then why do we have all these believers speaking FOR God, or forever explaining him?
The Bible was written, revised and edited many times BY the religious FOR the religious. The last thing it is, is truthful, reliable, unbiased, impartial or a neutral source. Folks that belief the entirety of Bible are willing to sacrifice their humanity on the altar of a book that they can't even prove.
Christianity: The belief that God sacrificed God to God to save God's creations from God.
If religion was kept in their churches and their heads, and that they didn't think they are superior to others, I'd be generally OK with that.
You, sir, are a thinker and I like it.
If a parent is willing to prevent a child from hurting themselves when learning to walk or ride a bike, but is unable, then they are not omnipotent.
If able but unwilling, they are malicious, right?
Thus you are refuted, etc.
Well at the very basis of energy and matter, is the particle/ wave duality. We cannot understand this. Yet it is so. Your analysis of the logic of God's capabilities and motivations, is similar to this.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster, the ONE and ONLY true GOD, will sort them out, Cheryl.
I must have spoken a truth that woke the demons.
On the contrary, Cheryl. WADR.
"I won’t get into much here except to say He gets involved in our personal lives only as much as we let Him in but he will do His will. No matter your or my opinions. Our will isn’t the last word on anything"
Do you see the internal contradiction in what you wrote? That your first sentence is your opinion which your second sentence nullifies? The mysterious Creator saw to it that the truth can only be known by the absence of contradiction.
“Do you see the internal contradiction in what you wrote?” Of course I did and do Ben. You’re pretty easy.
This is your original, honest, much appreciated reply that landed in my inbox before you went into Shadow and edited it to suit your Shadow's persona:
“Do you see the internal contradiction in what you wrote?” I didn’t realize Ben. Thanks for pointing it out
"Life has a way of stripping everything from us."
"While I thought I had been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
~Leonardo da Vinci
@Cankerpuss
What God wants, God gets.
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God wants sedition
God wants sex
God wants freedom
God wants Semtex
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https://youtu.be/YRWRRBX3TB0?si=vfz3DgNcuuOYCRrw
The best album Roger ever made. That and pros and cons of hitchhiking.
Deists assert that God created the world and then left it to operate under natural laws. Deism emphasizes ethical conduct and rejects supernatural aspects of religion.
Furthermore, it is a philosophical position and rationalistic theology that rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge.
I grew up a Christian. Perhaps I have evolved into more a Deist than a Christian.
Deism is just religious cooptation of reason-besed animism which acknowledges the obviousness of a Creator about which nothing can be known but whose example (Creation) can be followed, like you said, by hewing to Natural Law.
Get out of your head. It’s dark in there. Now, I’m done
That the best you got my dear? LOL
It’s all I got. Buh bye
Spoken like one who knows nothing about what they are talking about.
Surly you are a biblical scholar..
Thanks for settling the whole issue for us.
🫏
By the way Zarathustra is obviously Jesus
Read the bible; God disappears more and more as it proceeds... it's up to us to call him back
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/430976.The_Disappearance_of_God
Cankerpuss, that belief system is Deism, similar to what T.Jefferson espoused. Perpetual golf? YEAH!
When a fast draw Sheriff and a Hanging Judge would clean up a Western town, typically the good people would respond by voting them out of office. The disease of "Nice" has taken deep root in our collective psyche and will be the death of us.
+1
Michael Yon has issues but, starting at 36:01 he says the same thing:
https://rumble.com/v5cfx3h-michael-yon-joins-maria-zeee-we-must-prepare-for-the-worst.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Totally agree!! Invite Josie Wales to conduct the purging. We’ve been too civil. Had our lives F by the pandemic and grifting and now a legal pardon ???
I don’t think this is the way it ought to end.
Joe Biden doesn't have that many years left. I'd be surprised if he lasted for the next four. Any takers on how long Hunter's going to last? I'm thinking too many loose ends and liability.
It might go down as a relapse. They'll find more dope in him than the cocaine bear.
I'm thinking he'll get some coke that's laced with fentanyl and that'll be all she wrote.
I dunno but I think Joe Biden is subject to a lynching and I don’t care how fucking old or demented he is. It’s a fitting end for this thief in high places.
Indeed. He’s been a corrupt criminal all of his life, the court jester of the senate, everybody’s fool and liar. His age doesn’t earn any cuddles. He sold us to Chyna.
💯
...with his body hanging from a light pole on Main Street.
BLM fucking blvd in dc
Their are no Pardons for Treason 🇺🇸
When was the last trial for treason? Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs or that Navy guy from the 70s? A serious investigation into treasonable offenses in government would keep the dockets calendared for decades.
The evidence is so overwhelming that they wouldn’t even need a trial, just sentencing.
I always look forward to your writings, suitably sarcastic, realistic and unique. Thanks for brightening my life is a world of the unreal hopefully transitioning to the real.
Remember that biden has the brain of a single-celled amoeba, and that was before he had dementia. This man dances like a marionette to powerful groups that have had his testicles in a jar for a very long time.
who is it honestly? who is running Biden?
1. Israel lobby. 2. Chinese lobby. 3. Muslim lobby. 4. Big Pharma lobby. 5. Big defense lobby. 6. Any foreign entity who wants something lobby ….. shall I go on. The list of folks Joe owes is LONG and distinguished!
Before Obama entered the White House, Israel was always a reliable ally. The influence of China has developed because of Hunter's decision to sell influence. But, when we get down to facts, we must realize that Joe has got the brains of a well-chewed dog toy. Jill feeds, waters, and controls the old gangster.
Well of course. The picture of our illustrious leaders history is equally full of skullduggery, malfeasance and hypocrisy. The wonder of it all is how so many Americans could actually vote to put that gangster in the Oval Office in the first place. They are the morons. Alternatively, the well worn and custom built information warfare machine is very effective at producing what we see here every day. Sad. Bottom line: the war will depart the information arena and morph and become kinetic in our neighborhoods. Arm up.
The 3rd World War began when the Obama administration took over Ukraine. I would be very surprised if the AI that directs all of our government's actions doesn't agitate even more for violence around the world prior to January 20.
You are right about the ones who voted for Joe and Kamala. Anyone who did is a fool. I don't remember who said "if voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it." You never have a choice in candidates. They are all hand picked by the deep state.
It was Mark Twain.
Truer words never said. That bitch is behind the Hunter pardon. A larger than life lying grifter you’ll never find.
Israel has never been a reliable ally to any nation. The same can be said of the modern US. If you ally yourself with the US, you are signing your death warrant.
Except when Israel won the 6-day war in 1967, the USA has always been able to count on Israel to do its bidding. But I agree with your third sentence. The yin/yang is always in play. Possibly we should worship Shiva. America is on the decline and that was proven when Biden abandoned our allies in Afghanistan. Now that Russia has hypersonic weapons that cannot be blocked or destroyed by the West, we are likely to see a major shake-up on the international scene.
Reliable, you mean like when they sunk the Liberty and killed 34 US sailors?
Oh? What did they ever do for us? You mean help us help them?
Until recently, Israeli intelligence has kept America appraised of the actions of our mutual enemies in the Mideast. If it wasn't for Israel, it is likely that many 9/11's would have occurred in the past 20 years. I am not interested in debating or arguing.
You mean the 9/11 perpetrators in our own cia?
Well said. There can be no MAGA until we get rid of MIGA in our halls of power - be it Israel, India, or Islam.
And Toto (China) too.
Tucker Carlson says Blinken. Scary thought. Blinken and all the payola bribes driving policy.
I believe that
Additionally, who are we really seeing when the "Joe Biden" marionette is brought to the podium. Possiblilties include, but not limited to, doubles, either with masks or some surgical enhancements to facial features., and AI generated avatars.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/25/1091772/new-generative-ai-avatar-deepfake-synthesia/
Was the "Joe Biden" of the June debate the real deal? It can be used as a control image for side-by-side comparisons to other "JB" apparitions.
I like your handle, by the way.
But wait, there’s more!
The same faceless globalist hucksters who brought (not “let in”) in millions of illegals from 100+ countries can just have President Skeletor blanket pardon ALL of the illegals, thus quashing Holman’s mission. Play that Big Humanitarian cue-card the Dems love so much!
Why not? They do what they like, after all. Hell they stole the 2020 election sure as Rootin Tootin Putin stole the low spark from High-Heeled Zelensky!
How angry are we? Extremely!
Pardon the illegals might work for their federal offenses of illegally crossing from prosecution but they are still here illegally and subject to removal.
Yes, problematical. But the DOJs gender-fluid attorneys will no doubt have a legal brief for that. Probably working from home…
But, it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest....
Thanks for reminding me of that wonderful Traffic album.
Skeletor is what we call Tony Evers in Wisconsin.
Where’s Ben who touts all the wonderful benefits of these 3rd world “worker bees?” Oh wait! I guess the majority today aren’t happy to have a job worker bees. After all, most were just let out of prison where they resided in their own home countries and now live off of us
Yes. The dumber, more violent and less capable they are, the better the more desirable they are for the elites.
Exactly. Mop our floors, clean our toilets and watch our kids all for $3.00/hr. By golly! They hit the jackpot. Oh wait. They are a constant supply of young girls and boys. Not to mention a continuous stream of drugs. Calling Hunter Biden!!!
Well, that is one side of it. The other side of it, the one I'm referring to, is the anarcho-tyranny aspect. The elites have been trying to destroy the American middle class since at least the 1950's. Bringing in dumb, violent criminals and welfare loafers goes a long way in accomplishing that goal.
JHK, most Americans are unaware of the atrocities committed by the Administration and the list is too many to list here. The delays in investigations and prosecution are what allows for this type of abuse of power. Anybody ever know what happened to Inspector General Horowitz? If the Democratic party is going to try and "reform" their reputation and image most of us are still waiting...their actions since the election and their "remorse" reminds many of us of a circular firing squad. The Elite establishment gets away with so much bullshit while there is a high percentage of Americans who would prefer to focus on their daily lives and the hardships of the policies put in place by this Administration. Thus so much of the "joy and change" failed to sway the masses...BUT, the amount of people in the middle class (what's left of it) who DID vote for Kamala indicates that there are still people out there who are not doing their research and instead are sticking to their websites that support their current way of thinking...The dumbing down of America was never so evident by the amount of Americans who are either unaware of the happenings outside their personal universe or they stood to make out financially with a Harris Presidency...
Respectfully, "democrat" party not 'democratic" party...a mistake too often made. Not going to argue about the dumbing down of America, but also think it is a mistake to dismiss it as simply 'dumbness.' Dumbness suggests that there could be a possible cure (say, a dose of smartness or the 'right' information). Instead I would posit that the reasons for Harris support are far more complex and difficult to unravel. There is virtue signaling, there is feminist brainwashing--which is so strong that I don't think it can be undone for decades. The financial motive you suggest in your final words is, equally, huge. Graft and scams that have infiltrated every local, county and state governments--as well as all the people receiving some sort of dole or government paycheck--the sheer numbers of self interest alone are enormous.....
Naw, that's just some bullshit made up by Bob Dole as a talking point in his 1996 presidential campaign -- and I consider it a stupid talking point. The "Democratic Party" is fine as a label. Don't argue about that here.
You are right to call me out. I wrote the comment and then later looked it up after someone kindly suggested, without stating so implicitly, that I was wrong. I mistakenly picked up that notion somewhere--didn't know it originated with Dole.
I don't remember who first used the term "democrat party" instead of "democratic party"; but I think that name for the Progressive pro-crime racist party is more descriptive of the current organization. To suggest that the party that cheated Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020, the same party that discriminated against Hillary in 2008 and is dominated by "Super Delegates" has anything to do with democracy is a lie.
In fact, I could come up with a dozen names for that political party that are more descriptive of their actual essence than "Democrat".
Bernie caved & sold his soul to the ghouls. Makes him worse than the thieves imo. He’s at the top of the hypocrite pile.
There is a lot of room on top of that pile. If Adam Schiff is not pardoned, we will learn for certain what an evil creature he is. Certainly, Hillary is worse than Bernie. I have to believe that at one time the old Socialist had values and independent thoughts.
Don't you think it can be simplified down to: "stupid or evil?"
I see what you mean, but I still think it is far more complicated. I know people who read a lot and think a lot and still are just wrong. And sometimes wrong from the best motives--misguided. And I often ask myself where the sprocket stopped hitting the chain with them.
My wife has a relative who would have voted for Trump, but voted for Kamala instead because she heard that the Democrats were going to give her free Ozempic if they won. That, to me, appears to be equal parts stupid and evil.
Unfortunately that idiot is allowed to vote
Yes, an IQ test in order to vote would be nice.
Agreed!
"And sometimes wrong from the best motives--misguided."
That's just plain old being stupid.
As you wish. I can't get too up in arms justifying their various forms of crazy. My cousin is one. She calls herself a Republican but has a gay daughter and thinks that somehow Trump supporters are full of hate for gays. I was trying to follow her logic but couldn't and in those instances I know I am in stupid land.
It's one of his great faults, but Trump is the most gay-friendly president in history. Either he or Reagan.
They're captured by their ideology, and as Rush said all those years ago, democrats only talk to other democrats, listen to other democrats on the radio or TV, socialize with other democrats, or read what other democrats write. That's why they were so blindsided by Trump's victory and have returned to the tried-and-true of racism and misogyny.
Horowitz? He's working on the next whitewash. Spotlight some of the dirt, hide more of it, recommend some sort of process improvement, testify to Congress, listen to shouters and read memos, move on to the next SHOW.
IG has no teeth.
We need ropes, not teeth.
How incredibly sick would you have to be to foment a nuclear war to hide your crimes. Unbelievable.
What was Satan's statement in Dante's Inferno, it's better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.
Or that line from Commissioner Gordon in the Batman movie with Jack Nicholson, Some men just want the world to burn.
Why would they change course now?
They may as well drop the nuke on us themselves. Save Putin the trouble.
It’s on their ToDo List…
It occurred to me that perhaps the blob might orchestrate a black flag event on Ukraine to one, destroy evidence of their true motivations in this war (perhaps those biolabs?) and two, blame Putin of course. Maybe that’s what’s behind all this.
Remember when Victoria Nuland was most concerned about those biolabs in Ukraine? What are they doing at those? I always thought she was oddly alarmist about this.
Plausible. The blob is in panic mode. I wouldn’t rule out anything
Pardons are for crimes charged and prosecuted successfully to conviction. What Biden is doing is granting immunity (forever) from future prosecutions. So, yes, he can "pardon" the entire DNC Crime Syndicate forever if this is not challenged. It needs to be. Otherwise, we'll have a new "law" that doesn't exist (see Illegal Immigration).
To make such a new law it would have to sail through the three branches for approval where it would most certainly die on the vine. Executive Orders can be instantly reversed with the swipe of a pen by the incoming president. Pre-pardoning for pre-crimes is a ridiculous concept not to be taken seriously.
The Blob gets to vet all of Trump's appointees. And the group in power hides behind its factotums. There's no voting our way out of this.
The guy who set himself on fire on the steps of the New Hampshire capital wrote of the "second set of book" - those which allow a woman to steal a man's kids. Now she can steal them, go to a trans sanctuary state, and castrate them.
Gotta love it when JHK “names names” for the Hall of Shame.
I am noticing a common theme amongst these names
Same as the Frankfurt School which infected academia.
+1
There is no law or institution so great that this regime can’t subvert
Biden reminds me of what we know of hitler. He ran away from his comeuppance into a bunker but died anyway. Death the ultimate equalizer.
Death and old age are the ultimate equalizers.
My father died at the age of 85. He had cancer for the last 5 years of his life. No chemo. Refused it. He lived a full life until the last month. He never thought of himself as old or a cancer patient. Never. He started actively dying within two weeks of his death
The chemo doctors themselves often refuse chemo.
Had he taken the chemo he'd have been dead in 6 months.
I hope I get to go the way your father did. Live a full life all the way to the end. Some suckers end up taking years to die, rotting away in a hospital or care facility having their asses wiped by uncaring workers, being fed with an IV. Not me. I'd rather eat the muzzle of a .357 before I ended up in one of these horrific places.
I agree but can’t abide a .357
Well, when we realize we are one amongst billions who went before us. As many as stars in the sky who all lived full lives with children they loved. Had experiences they cherished. Were breathing, feeling people, our lives are put in perspective. Our own arrogance is what makes life and death, or even aging hard to accept. Intellectually I know this but like you it’s hard for me to accept too
Love the comment. I don't want to get old simply because I can't do the things I used to enjoy, physical things, that is. I love to draw and paint and it is getting hard to hold a pencil for long periods of time. However, I wouldn't go back to being a youth again. No way. Too hard. Too many harsh lessons learned. There is beauty in growing old and slowing down. Society keeps telling us to be young with all these drugs that jack up testosterone levels and sex libido and so forth. There is beauty in living a long life and then getting sick, dying, and leaving it all to our posterity.
Jeeze I wish I could be there with you and know who you are.
❤️
So are the coming 100-pound hailstones.
Don Juan Matus often reminded Carlos of that. Poetically.
Mayorkis needs to be drawn and quartered for crimes against the State.
If that can't be accomplished, we could drop him off Miami and make him swim back to Cuba.
Check out Stew Peter's documentary, "Occupied" on Rumble. Stew goes full National Socialist at the end. His spirit is beginning to rise up.....
+1
Mayorkas did exactly what he was hired to do: throw open the borders and at the same time Gaslight Congress and the American public. At least 20 million 'New Arrivals' since 2021 -- some of them flown in on DHS sponsored aircraft -- so I'd say he's been successful at his job.
So hilarious. In trying to pardon these evil people. they are admitting guilt. Rats jumping ship. Let them drown. What I find so amusing is that Biden, one of the most corrupt politicians is destroying his own party. Intentionally. Why would anyone expect anything different from this sleezeball? And they installed him as president. Gawd they are morons. Pelosi is next
Joe's sticking it to the democrat party in return for having forced him out of his second term.
It’s not a joke and I’m not laughing.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay -The Deserted Village
The baseline of morality is vanishing. End of empire degradation is upon us.
We must do something to meet this head on, and soon, because WE are responsible for our childrens’ future. No one else. And if we fail to fight this fight for them, we will have earned and deserve our fate of living in a burgeoning hell on earth, but they will have not, and we will be held accountable for failing them, either in this life or the next.
We need must unite and work together to build a future worth living in. Because if we do not, we will not have one.
Here are some ways to fix this:
https://tritorch.substack.com/p/united-we-stand-divided-we-fall
We need to reconnect with our true nature. Rebuild the family. Let men and women fulfill their divine roles. Love our children. Re-establish faith in God for from faith in God comes the basis for morality. Take away faith in God and there is no basis for morality.
I'm a dinosaur in a dying world.
They’ve surrounded us completely. Full spectrum dominance: destruction of morals, tainted addictive food supply, injecting us with poisons over and over, filling the air with toxins. Meanwhile the majority get massages in their spare time. This sums it up well:
By Biblical Man: They didn't storm our gates.
They opened day spas.
Ancient Rome's greatest historian watched it happen:
Men who once conquered nations now conquered by comfort.
First came the lounges - "Just relax"
Then the baths - "You deserve this"
Finally the feasts - "Treat yourself"
They called it civilization.
Tacitus called it servitude.
Sound familiar?
Your grandfathers worked callused hands.
Your fathers built with blistered palms.
You? Getting your monthly massage.
While you're chasing comfort, your enemies are chasing power.
While you're "finding yourself," they're finding weakness.
While you're "living your best life," they're planning your worst nightmare.
Comfort isn't progress.
It's surrender in silk robes.
Wake up.
Put down the scented candle.
Pick up your purpose.
Michael Yon recommended reading Joost Meerloo's 1956 book, _The Rape of the Mind_. I'm about halfway through, and Meerloo really does get to the heart of the problem: PURPOSELESSNESS, GODLESSNESS, BOREDOM, a cowardly, materialistic culture rotten from within, ripe for destruction, wise-ass, delusional, escapist, MENTALLY ILL.
America fell for the propaganda of Hollywood and Madison Avenue.
Again, thank you for your inspiring post.
There is a God. Anyone who says otherwise needs to get multiply vaxxed and boosted.
Don't forget "Capitalism"! Men used to retire from the Legion and be given enough acreage for a small farm. In other words, they could be somebody and not just a drunk with a lot of good stories. But the Elite didn't want to share the land anymore. So the good men stopped coming back to Rome and settled in the lands in which they had served, with their friends, marrying local women.
The Greed Heads can never be allowed to do what they want because they'll destroy everything. The boot must ever be on their neck. Athens (culture) must never forsake Sparta (militant power and discipline)
One time at the Olympic games, an old man couldn't find a seat. None of the Athenians would get up for him. When he got to the Spartan section, all of the men got up at once. He said, All Greeks know what is right. But Spartans do it.
Lugh
Just back from 2 weeks sailing the Aegean, Adriatic and Ionian seas. We use these old civilizations as examples for today's woes. They are all burned out, earthquaked, tsunamied hulks. Piles of rocks left over from "the olden days". They are all destroyed by nature or even more so by the lassitude of human beings.
The greatest enemy of any civilization is when the people look to the government for the solutions to their problems, instead of themselves. The current situation is the perfect example. Watch and see, when DOGE, deportation and disarming the MIC all start to happen in 2025, the shit is going to hit the fan big time. When the lazy denizens of the cities of the USA start having to fend for themselves, watch out. It really accelerates when the government encourages the dependent behavior by force feeding the dependence. That is what we have witnessed so much recently.
BTW, when people here have mentioned the various people and groups they want to clobber, notice that most are elements of "city-States", like San Francisco, New York. Boston, LA, Denver, and Chicago. San Francisco; Pelosi, Schiff, Newsome; New York; Schumer; Boston: the mayor and Pocahantas, LA; the DA; Denver, my prior home; just name the cartel; and Chicago; just name the crook, the mayor, the DA, or Pritzker.
Sidebar - Who might be a common denominator here? Soros?
Absolute rubbish. The settlers could have never defeated the really powerful Indian tribes on their own. They helped, yes, but when the going got really bad they ran like hell to the military forts - Federal.
You only have what you can keep. And the billionaires depend on the police, army, and public roads just as much as anyone else.
+1 By far the best post I've read in a while.
36:01
https://rumble.com/v5cfx3h-michael-yon-joins-maria-zeee-we-must-prepare-for-the-worst.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Good clip. It’s so much worse than most people - even the ones who follow this stuff - know:
https://old.bitchute.com/video/ZHv2yLdFHnyc
+1 Watched the whole video interview. Thank you.
Tom Homan has his work cut out for him. I posted the Maria Zeee / Michael Yon clip because it clarifies what we're up against.
There's such a thing as being too civilized.
Every Patriot needs to take stock of themselves / ourselves as a multi-generational investment. The snowflake b.s. has gotta end NOW.
I watch various international cartoons. Too many newer animations feature soft males who won't punch anyone.
Although I didn't see this myself, a forum member who watches a LOT of Chinese animation said that Chinese series think nothing of featuring heroes who, literally, blow up whole countries, or who commit genocide as though it were nothing. This seems like conditioning.
"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive."
~ Mao Zedong
Henry Kissinger really did a number on us, promoting China the way he did way back when.
“This seems like conditioning.
"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive."~ Mao Zedong
Plus 2 to you.
It started here at least as far back as yabababa doo Fred Flintstone all the way to Homer Simpson. Media mind control: Emasculation has heen accelerating dramatically. Full spectrum dominance includes not just a tainted hormonal food supply, not just 72 injections, not just poisoning the air with nano metals and dangerous frequencies, but also destroying our minds, strong men, heroes, virtue, morals, valor:
https://old.bitchute.com/video/bkSSb3y9xdBL/
The CIA and MIC are always on all the time:
https://tritorch.substack.com/p/counterfeit-continuity-in-our-fourth
Let’s just agree that the odds are against us and the situation is grim but, there is always hope:
https://tritorch.substack.com/p/united-we-stand-divided-we-fall
Cankerpuss my friend, faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of willful ignorance that follows.
And religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thought.
Christopher Hitchens destroys the myth that morality comes from religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG-JLmc4Krw
Morality exists because consequences exist. Period.
True morality ~ doing what is right without the threat of divine retribution nor the possibility of divine reward.
We're animals. Our moralities are based on our species' survival. Nothing more but nothing less either. Combine that aspect with our vivid imaginations and presto! Religions are invented.
“The Bible; an ancient novel full of murder, corruption, homophobia, bestiality, incest and cruelty. Most often read to children on Sundays.” - Unknown author
The Bible shows man as he really is and why he needs a Savior.
As far as the Bible goes, no-one would believe these fantastical stories if they hadn't been born into a world full of people who already believed the same thing.
If a Jew, Christian or Muslim woke up tomorrow and found himself in a world where there were no other believers, how soon would it be before they became too embarrassed to admit to believing in such things as flying horses and talking snakes?
They'd rightly be thought insane.
The Bible was written from multiple sources.
But a political dynasty oversaw the compiling and editing of those sources at the Council of Nicaea.
That there was power and wealth to be derived from consolidating the fables into a single book calls it into question. Motivation was huge to mislead and deceive.
Also, the Romans at the time of Jesus, were meticulous record keepers. Historians and archaeologists have unearthed huge amounts of text written at that time. There is not one mention of anybody resembling Jesus, his healing magic, his supposed talents and powers, or his trial and crucifixion in any official Roman record.
The Bible is at best a compilation of previous Pagan mythology.
Why does it bother you so for some to profess a belief and then to be an absolute ass about it?
Let them believe smile nod and go along with what little in your life is purpose.
There belief does not affect your life one bit.
Its not like they are trying to ram carbon and vat taxes down your throat and destroy your way of life.
Or does them professing their belief make you realize how hollow your own life really is or is it some personal pass time that others would say is engaging in immoral behavior?
+1 @Ben_r, well said.
Enough of the ad hominen attacks my friend.
There truly is no hate quite like Christians Love!
Religious folk prove every day that arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.
BTW, God hasn’t spent a moment with me. We haven’t done a single activity together.
I’ve never heard a God’s voice or shaken a God’s hand.
Never had a “God” come and help me mow the lawn or fix dinner after a hard day.
Or comfort me when my wife was very ill.
Or bring me jumper cables when my car would not start.
My fellow humans have made infinitely more effort to be a part of my life and give it meaning than any “God” has.
How foolish would it be for me to say that this absentee “God” is what gives my life meaning?
But if you want to bask in self-imposed victimhood over something happening between your ears, no one can stop you.
Well, there was Tacitus. And Josephus. And some other guy.
Sure, Tacitus wrote about Jesus and his trial and conviction via Pilate about 80-100 years afterward, so of course he would have never met Jesus in person. But then, he wouldn't have met Tiberius or Pilate in person either, and he wrote about them with the same surety.
As for the rest of your comment(s) on the subject, hard to argue. I'd just mention that no one (not one, ever) actually knows what the hell took place in lifetimes lived before us. But it doesn't mean accounts that are passed down are all untrue.
e.g. We had lizards roaming the earth at one time. Hey - the bones keep turning up. But no matter the science put into proving this or that about them, no one actually knows anything about them, how they lived, or when. Carbon dating is as flawed as the Council of Nicaea. And no one today professes to believe in dragons (that's all myth!), but we clearly had ginormous freaking lizards walking and flying at some point. So...in many ways, almost all archeology and history is a guessing game and a puzzle to be sorted by how each of us sees the world and trusts historical accounts, and the tools we have available to us when looking at it.
Letters from Pilate have been discovered, written to Tiberias, discussing his unease with the Jesus phenomenon in Judea. Lucanus, a Greek physician was a biographer of Jesus, along with John Mark. Both never knew or met Jesus, yet wrote biographies of his ministry that closely paralleled Matthew and John. Josephus followed closely behind.
Non-believers refuse to believe in anything bigger than themselves.
Dennis, you’re unbelief is it’s religion for which you clearly have need to proselytize. You hold many misconceptions about biblical texts.
Now that you’ve seemed to master the brilliance of Hitchens, I suggest you take on Aquinas for an opposing viewpoint.
Summa Theologiae
“We purpose in this book to treat of whatever belongs to the Christian religion, in such a way as may tend to the instruction of beginners. We have considered that students in this doctrine have not seldom been hampered by what they have found written by other authors, partly on account of the multiplication of useless questions, articles, and arguments, partly also because those things that are needful for them to know are not taught according to the order of the subject matter, but according as the plan of the book might require, or the occasion of the argument offer, partly, too, because frequent repetition brought weariness and confusion to the minds of readers.”
PS to Dennis:
If you can walk away from the Summa thinking Aquinas a person lacking in the use of “critical thinking” for “willful ignorance,” you might want to see a professional for treatment of delusions of grandeur, my friend…
"Don't try to debate me; I'm an expert Christian..."
Surely there's Bible scripture about arrogance that you're breaching oh mighty expert with YOUR delusions of grandeur.
It's the all-loving omnibenevolent Gods desire to save sick babies.
Baby lives ~ God is amazing, and prayer works.
Baby dies ~ it was God's will and we aren't meant to know or understand the reasons these things happen.
It's in accordance with his plan you see. The baby was meant to die.
So, what purpose does prayer have?
This surely and precisely sums up the Christianity hoax, doesn't it?
GOD CAN'T LOSE!
A philosophical argument for God and a ham sandwich combined are worth slightly less than a ham sandwich, Granny. You and Aquinas can have as many philosophical arguments for “God” as you like, it doesn't change the fact that there's no evidence that there is one.
Take care my dear
We aren’t animals. We have free will.
“Yes, I have free will; I have no choice but to have it.” - Christopher Hitchens.
LOL Think about it Granny!
Why don’t animals have free will?
My God is The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), the holy deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism.
A Pastafarian prophet of the Venganza forums known as Solipsy received divine guidance and wrote The Loose Canon, the Holy Book of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The book was completed in 2010 and was made available for download.
Some excerpts from The Loose Canon include:
"I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Thou shalt have no other monsters before Me (Afterwards is OK; just use protection). The only Monster who deserves capitalization is Me! Other monsters are false monsters, undeserving of capitalization". - Suggestions 1:1-5
"Since you have done a half-ass job, you will receive half an ass! The Great Pirate Solomon grabbed his ceremonial scimitar and struck his remaining donkey, cleaving it in two" - Slackers 1:51–52
The New Testament of The Flying Spaghetti Monster: Dinner 2.0 (also known as the New and Improved Recipe) was published in 2018. It became the Holy Book of The Unitarian Church of Pasta and The FSM Revival Church of Ziti.
I have faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He is the one and only true God. It is my belief that every word in his Gospels are true. The Flying Spaghetti Monster commands us to go onto every internet site comment section, no matter what the subject, and spread the word of the FSM.
And, as with the Biblical Christian God, you are not permitted to ever question it. Ever!
That is very offensive to us Pastafarians.
Amen. Also RAmen.
You will meet your god after death in the Bardo. May the real God have mercy on you then.