Told ya

Also, CNN reports that George Papadopoulos’s cooperation 

has surprised the White House and is 

“stirring even more unease among Trump’s allies.”

Seems

appropriate.

"Whosoever diggeth a pit, shall fall in it."

Midterms

about a year away :-).

$934,000+

on rugs.

(Allegedly)

If you make 50,000 a year?

And work for 18 years?

You still wouldn't have made what this guy allegedly spent on rugs.

He made my stomach turn watching him that Sunday on one of the AM news shows my step-dad and I like to watch.

"If Manafort pursues his self-interest, my bet is that he’ll sing."

says New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

Guy spends $934,000+ on rugs (Allegedly)

and people really have to question whether or not he is going to pursue his self-interest?

Come on.

Wonder if they're still yucking it up down at Hillbilly's?

Or if they're all excited to have their taxes increased?

The

Papadoupolous plea is a big deal.

They never saw it coming.

They were expecting Manafort and Gates.

They weren't expecting that.

Not in the least.

"He was a low-level staffer"

Well so what the fuck what 

if he knew what went on, 

wore a wire, 

had e-mails 

or other evidence.

What level you were wouldn't matter.

He obviously has information of value 

or he wouldn't have gotten a plead deal from the feds.

It's like they were waiting on the left hook and got hit with an uppercut instead.

Well done sir.

Well done.

What

an absolute piece of garbage.

Antique rugs and suits?

WTF?

Nothing else better to spend his money on?

Seriously?

 Rugs?

WTF is wrong with these people?

Oh!

Yeah!

It's the same old story it has always been.

Greed, power etc...

At least Gates spent his on his children's tuition.

10 takeaways from Mueller’s shock-and-awe gambit

“Mueller’s opening bid is a remarkable show of strength,” Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes explain on their Lawfare blog. “He has a cooperating witness from inside the campaign’s interactions with the Russians. And he is alleging not mere technical infractions of law but astonishing criminality on the part of Trump’s campaign manager, a man who also attended the Trump Tower meeting. Any hope the White House may have had that the Mueller investigation might be fading away vanished . . . Things are only going to get worse from here.”

“At this point, it would be a truly remarkable coincidence if two entities that had so many ties to each other, that had so much information about what the other was doing, and that were working so hard toward the same goal never found a way to coordinate,” Vox’s Ezra Klein writes.

"Papadopoulos has been working with Mueller’s team for three months now, and he is described in court documents as a “proactive cooperator.”

Former public defender and professor Seth Abramson explains why that term is probably bad news for others in Trump’s orbit: “Prosecutors often require a defendant to perform cooperative services for the government well in *advance* of his or her formal plea,” he tweeted. “The reason for this is that — via both ‘proffer’ and sometimes actual performance — a defendant must show they're of value to the government. So there is *every* reason to think that Papadopoulos was wired for sound not long after his arrest on July 27th, 2017 at Dulles airport. For Papadopoulos to get his October 5th plea, one of two things had to be true: (a) the feds had already got good sound from him; or... ..(b) he'd made a sufficient proffer establishing that he *could* get good sound for them — valuable evidence — shortly after October 5th.”Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who Trump fired earlier this year, told Politico Magazine: “Hard to tell, but the George Papadopoulos guilty plea tells us (a) Mueller is moving fast (b) the Mueller team keeps secrets well (c) more charges should be expected and (d) this team takes obstruction and lying very, very seriously. That should be of concern to some people.”

"A former Watergate assistant special prosecutor, Nick Akerman, said the court filings “all spell bad news for Trump” because he cannot see any strong defense to the Manafort indictment. “The only defense that you’ve got is to go in there and start singing like a canary to avoid jail time,” he told our colleagues. “And once he starts singing, one of the tunes is bound to be Donald Trump.”

"one purpose of the indictment is to gain leverage to persuade Manafort to testify against others in exchange for leniency. If Manafort pursues his self-interest, my bet is that he’ll sing. That then can become a cascade: He testifies against others, who in turn are pressured to testify against still others. And all this makes it more difficult to protect the man at the center if indeed he has violated the law.”  adds New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

“This is the way you kick off a big case,” said white-collar defense lawyer Patrick Cotter, who formerly worked alongside the man spearheading the prosecution of Manafort and Gates. “Oh, man, they couldn’t have sent a message any clearer if they’d rented a revolving neon sign in Times Square. And the message isn’t just about Manafort. It’s a message to the next five guys they talk to. And the message is: ‘We are coming, and we are not playing, and we are not bluffing.’”

“Mueller's team controlled the selection of facts in the Papadoupolous plea. Three messages, at least, shaped their choice,” author and former Post reporter Barton Gellman‏ explained in a series of tweets: “One: Mueller knows things, some of them about Russia, and has proof. He's warning other campaign witnesses against perjury. Two: He's not saying exactly what he knows or how. Uncertainty there inspires dread, may flush out evidence he doesn't even know about. Three: Early cooperation will save you from the worst. Mueller could have taken a lot harsher approach to the Papadopoulos facts. Classic leverage … He may know what you're hiding. He'll scorch you & yours if you lie. Spill and he'll go easier. Don't wait too long.”

‘The walls are closing in,’ said one senior Republican in close contact with top staffers … ‘Everyone is freaking out.’”

"Finally, and perhaps most significantly, Mike Pence is only vice president today because Manafort persuaded Trump to pick him. It was very clear last summer that the then-Indiana governor would not have gotten tapped for the ticket if Manafort hadn’t prodded the GOP nominee."

LA Times:

“In Beverly Hills’ ultra-luxury shopping district, it’s easy to get sticker shock. Still, some merchants expressed disbelief that someone could spend that kind of money on clothes in a four-year period.”

$934,000 to a rug store?

A fucking rug store?

Does their greed know no bounds?

We already know that answer.

Why

did you just write all of that?

Because it's offensive to me that this guy

helps build hospitals, 

orphanages, 

schools, 

donates tons of his $ to charity

fights for human rights

and oppressed people

all over the world...

and all people wanna know about him is he smoked ganja.

It just makes me sick.

There is only one image of him at my house of him smoking.

There's plenty of him where he isn't.

Just

in case anybody was wondering.

10 Things To Know About Rastafarian Beliefs

All the eighteen/nineteen year old white boys in the suburbs in 1981-82 who were into this?
 Please stand up, please stand up.

I can tell you right now.

There weren't that many. 

He has a plan for us.

We just never see it as it's unfolding.

"Rastafari is a very serious philosophy that takes much direction from the Bible. 

While there are some people who claim to be Rastafari just as an excuse to do drugs, 

there are many true believers, and the public idea of them is often quite inaccurate."

"Some of them may be surprised then that smoking ganja is not only optional for Rastafarians but isn’t really all that central to their faith. Some Rastafari simply choose not to smoke weed at all."

"However, while most people would not believe in a second coming of the messiah solely based on prophecy, the Rastafarians wouldn’t either."

"The Rastafari don’t wish to take part in the system as they deem it oppressive. For this reason they refuse any processed foods. They also won’t eat red meat, believing that it rots inside your body. The main idea of course is simply to eat natural foods that are good for you."

(No red meat or processed foods?

On my way :-).

"Rastas believe that “ians” and “isms” represent the corrupt “Babylonian” system that oppresses people all over the world. 

Considering themselves a religion or anism of any sort is seen as accepting a system that is anathema to what they believe. 

... as some Rastafari don’t like the term “religion” either 

and prefer to consider their movement a philosophy.

"it may not be too surprising that 

Rastafari as a belief system completely rejects the standards and structure of western society.

(Sound familiar?)

By rejecting the “Babylonian” system that was deemed corrupt and oppressive, 

Rastafari are able to take back their own culture and connect to their roots.

(Okay that culture and those roots?

Not mine obviously, but that corrupt and oppressive Babylonian system?

Yeah, that is flat out on point.

Period.)

The red, yellow, and green colors of Rastafari are pretty ubiquitous, 

although most people probably associate them more with Bob Marley and ganja 

than they do any spiritual movement...

However, many people don’t realize there are actual four Rasta colors.These colors all have symbolic significance in Rastafari beliefs. The yellow color is said by some to refer to the wealth of their homeland in Africa. The red is perhaps unsurprisingly symbolic of blood and the martyrdom of past Rastafari. The color black is an obvious reference to the black people who originally started the Rastafari movement in order to return to their roots, and the green is related to the abundant plant life of their native homeland.

(When I wear a bracelet?

When I look at it?

I think:

"Fuck this world and all the nonsense, corruption, oppression, rampant consumerism, materialism etc."

Thats why I wear one sometimes Lucy :-), it helps me remember whats important sweetheart.

My buddy David Lash?

I was talking to him and another friend of ours, Constance who also is African-American, at the guard desk at Kindred one evening.

I don't even remember what we were talking about but David said:

"You must have been black in another lifetime."

Constance bout fell out in agreement :-).

"Our God

is an awesome God..."

nasa

Each glowing speck in this Hubble Space Telescope (@NASAHubble) image is a different galaxy…

except for the bright flash in the middle, which is actually a star within our own galaxy that just happened to be in the way. 
The Universe contains structures on various scales — 

planets collect around stars, 

stars collect into galaxies, 

galaxies collect into groups, 

and galaxy groups collect into clusters. 

Galaxy clusters contain hundreds to thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity. 

Dark matter and dark energy play key roles in the formation and evolution of these clusters, so studying massive galaxy clusters can help scientists to unravel the mysteries of these elusive phenomena.

This image was taken in infrared as part of an observing program that looked at 41 massive galaxy clusters with the aim of finding the brightest distant galaxies for the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope to study. Such research will tell us more about our cosmic origins.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Each lil glowing spec is a galaxy.

Unreal :-).

Only?

It's not unreal.

It's real.

So,

I go to the library yesterday, 

all intent on reading/studying up on about:

Tertullian

Christian Aologetics

Egyptian Coptics

Egyptian desert monasteries

Pigs/Demons/The Abyss in Luke.

All the references in Revelation to other Biblical text (Pretty big undertaking)

and reading all the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament again.

Lets just say?

5000+ images made that more of a challenge than it would have been normally :-).

:-).

(Thank you.)

They're mostly all artys fartsy people, so relax lol, although I suppose some might find a small percentage of them objectionable.

Whatever, not my concern.

She knows I was about to loose my mind
and she sends me tons of cool stuff
to help me keep my mind off of other things
and I love her for it.

I mean only 1500 more this AM?

Whats your problem?

 Slacker.

Bahahahahahahahaha

Anyway, I made it through the first chapter in Revelation today.

Getting things prepped to be assembled anyway.

"Just get started", that voice says.

I was told a while back that there would be a lull period for a while.

That I should enjoy my "recompense" for a while when it comes in this realm.

That there was no way things could continue on with the intensity that they had been

or I would burn out and fizzle away.

A time for everything pretty much is what that voice was saying.

That voice said to enjoy it, but understand, the intensity will be back.

It said once were together things will really be ratcheting up a notch.

Judging by the news yesterday, I can see why that would be the case :-).

At one point not long ago,

I was concerned about how I could continue along this path once were together.

That voice?

It said don't worry, 

things won't diminish,
they will be amplified when you're together and the celebration settles down.

Different parts of the same whole and all Lucy.

Fifty.

Fifty references to other bible verses in the first twenty verses of the first chapter of revelation.

Thats two and a half other verses for every verse in the first chapter.

Thats two and a half other chapters worth of verses to look up for the first chapter of twenty two chapters.

I'll get it done but it's not a sit down and write it all up at one time kinda thing.

It's kinda like getting your term paper assignment the first day of the semester and you have the entire semester to turn it in.

Just get it done when you can.

Seriously, it's like a large homework assignment to be done a lil at a time.

That voice knows I'm about to busy for a while :-)

Like I said, a "lull" period is coming.

Anyway, I got started.

Good enough.

The eye candy had been downloaded :-).

That is for home :-).

When I'm here?

There's work to do while I have Internet access.

Love you Bambi.

Thanks again sweetheart.

Morning

Knucklehead.

Happy Halloween, Grateful Dead style.

Trust me :-).

I've got 'em :-).

Love you.

"Womanesques Bullshit"

pretty much exhausted your "Womanesques Bullshit".

You understand that right?

I can see it already.

You'll start in on some nonsense while I'm reading, studying up on something, what have you, and I'll just look over the frames of my glasses like: 

"Bitch, if you don't just shut the ever livin fuck up." 

I would never say it to you. 

The point here is? 

I won't have to, you'll just be able to look at the look on my face and be like,

"Oops, went to far."

What I will say to you is this:

"Remember all that bullshit nonsense I put up with for five plus years?'

You will sheepishly reply: 

"Yes."

"I did it for a reason, know what that reason is?"

"No."

"Well here is why, 

So I wouldn't have to put up with it ever again. 

Sweetheart? 

You used up a whole lifetime of 

"Womanesques Bullshit" 

in a matter of years, 

it's like using up all your political clout 

early on in your term. 

Big mistake."

Then?

If you keep rambling on?

That's when I'll just jingle jangle the bike keys in front of your face, 

not say a word, and go for a ride, on the bike, that's going to look exactly, I mean exactly, like the image I've had in my head for years now. 

I don't care if it cost the price of two brand new HD48's, 

it will be that bike, looking exactly, I mean exactly, like I want it to.

That and the Audi seems like a small price to pay if you ask me :-).

Any questions?

Good :-).

You've been told.

If only things really worked like that right Bambi?

Trust me I know better lol.

But you get my point right?

You'd better.

Love you :-)

Love you :-)

Did

the whole "Nothing I do is ever good enough" thing.

Few times as a matter of fact.

If nothing you ever do is good enough?

Then why bother doing in the first place?

I

know you're trying and I appreciate it.

But I am just fucking fed up.

Just

sayin :-).

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If

I could ever get to the bottom

of this IG page?

So I could download all the images?

All sexy, artsy and whatnot?

I might feel a lil different.

Maybe.

Not sure yet.

You know the drill.

It's

just very upsetting

to me

when you act like

what I feel

or my emotions

or what I go through for us...

Is of no count whatsoever.

Notice

there is not any 

bahahahahahahahahaha's

after what I'm saying?

Cause I'm not kidding.

Everybody knows what I'm saying is true.

Everybody.

So climb down off that high horse of your princess

and give a boy his due :-).

You

should be so blessed 

to have a man of my caliber 

in your life :-).

"Are

you okay?" 

people ask.

Fuck no I'm not okay.

Haven't been since the first time I laid eyes on you.

Won't be till I see you, 

in that dress, 

walking toward me, 

then sayin, 

"I do."

I told you,

years ago,

I won't have peace of mind,

till I know your mine.

What don't people understand?

I

could always go join a monastery you know?

I mean a got my bonafides and all.

It's

not my fault 

you can't believe 

someone as spectacular

as I am wants to be with you...

Still. :-).

Being taken

for granted doesn't just mean being ignored.

It also implies thinking someone will just continue to tolerate what you think they will.

Others have found out different.
It may have taken a while, but eventually?
They found out different.

Any Tell City crackhead could be taking me for granted.
If that's what I wanted?
I would have had it years ago.

You're fucking things up again Lucy.

It's not appreciated.
Not in the least.

You

go do it.

Pissed

Way to much bullshit for way to fucking long.

Lies

and deceit all around me.

Like I can't tell.

Chafes my ass.

This is how you want me?

Pissed and upset?

Seems like.

Thirty

cents to my name.

Just put my last there dollars in the truck for gas.

1 potato.

I bag of ramen.

1 can of mixed veggies.

No running water.

No heat.

Sheriffs deputies are trying to deliver an eviction notice.

Excuse me for being pissed the fun hasn't started yet.

Fucking tired of it.

So?

Did you set the Guinness World Record 

for longest time to plan a wedding or something?

Why didn't you just tell me thats what you were doing Lucy :-) ?

Love you.

Yep.

"One reason white supremacists exercise their First Amendment rights in places where they’re not wanted is because provocation is just as much their goal as hateful proclamation. Even the potential for violence attracts attention, which is also what Nazis want."

Where have you heard that before Lucy?

"Heimbach was giddy for Trump back then, contending that a Manhattan oligarch might somehow be a populist answer for the country.

Now Heimbach has pivoted. “Donald Trump is not one of us,” he says. “We can’t trust a New York billionaire to bring social and economic justice to poor folks.”

Well no shit brainiac.

It took him this long to figure it out?

Why Nazis And White Supremacists Are Putting The Fear In Middle Tennessee This Weekend

Everybodys

all up in arms (myself included sometimes) about:

Trump

Russia

Syria

Pakistan

Climate change.

Rising sea levels.

Radical Islam.

Neo-Nazis

Freedom of expression on college campuses.

Gun violence/control.

The middle east.

The economy.

The global shifting geo-political winds.

The economy.

Africa.

Republicans.

Animal species dyng off.

Greed.

Corruption.

Hollywood scandals.

Democrats.

Finance campaign reform.

Corporatism.

You could just go on and on ad infinitum...

The point I've been trying to make on here for some time now?

It's all part of the same ongoing event.

It

came to me last night.

The "New Church"?

Will be like the old church.

Like the one before Constantine.

Like the family practice suggested in the Mendenhall bible.

The old will become new.
The new will become old.
The end is the beginning.
The beginning is the end.

So?

Where are the right to lifer's who are all upset about this?

"More than 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

“We cannot arrest our way out of the heroin and opioid addiction crisis,” said Brian Moran, Virginia’s secretary of public safety and homeland security, speaking at a federal hearing in July."

"Alcohol and cigarettes were — and remain — the nation’s primary addictions. Both kill far more people than drugs."

Opioid epidemic shares chilling similarities with the past

Kuddos

to the Hancock County and Perry County Public Libraries Lucy.

The facilities are nice and well kept the staffs courteous and friendly :-).

I would have been dead in the water without them.

I

mean it just insane.

"Were protecting the small banks

and the family farmer" they want you to believe.

Yeah, they're protecting them so well they almost don't exist anymore.

Same here.

How dare you working people try and save for your retirement.

"House Republicans are considering a plan to sharply reduce the amount of income American workers can save in tax-deferred retirement accounts as part of a broad effort to rewrite the tax code, according to lobbyists, tax consultants and congressional Democrats."

Republicans Consider Sharp Cut in 401(k) Contribution Limits

How much longer do people think this is sustainable?

:-).

Ready when you are.

Only been waiting for five+ years :-).

Love you.

"In

your house
I long to be

Room by room
patiently

I wait for you there
like a stone.

I wait for you there
alone..."

Love you.

Gotta get.

It

wasn't lost on me the four books of the Bible 

I was told to revisit?

Prophecy
Poems
First hand account.
Prophecy.

:-)

"...Their bread will be supplied,

and water will not fail them..."

How

can you?

You're you :-).

If

you only knew how good it felt to finally get done what he wanted me to do :-).

Talking bout the Bible verse earlier today.

I'm exhausted Lucy.

Love you.

Thanks

so much
to so many
for so much :-).

Thank you so much for everything...

Really?

Read the whole article.

I usually like Lindsey Graham.

“I think that the Trump administration is slow when it comes to Russia,” 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) 

said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” 

in response to a question about the delay.

“They have a blind spot on Russia I still can’t figure out,” he added.

He still can't figure it out?

WTF Lindsey?

Moscow decries 'hostility' as Trump moves toward new Russia sanctions

Not

but one thing 

on this planet 

I'm willing to risk 

hurting my back over

 at this point 

and it involves you :-).

I bet ya can figure it out :-).

How

in the world am I gonna continue to write for you 

like your not there,

when you are right across the table from me Lucy?

Inquisitive minds wanna know :-).

"Our

God is an awesome God..."

Visitor from Far, Far Away: Interstellar Object Spotted in Our Solar System

How

dare you relax, enjoy a natural product 

and enjoy yourselves!

What are you lunatics thinking?!

It Turns Out, Smoking Weed May Actually Be Good For Your Sex Life

I

would have thought there might have beena 

lil more eye candy today but noooooooo

My baby way to hardcore for that y'all.

I wanna

go :-).

tour Egypt monasteries

Nervous

fucking wreck Lucy.

Yall had years.

It's just something I've been thinking about.

Reality hit me this AM looking around the house, 

heading to the library etc...

Isaiah 1:18

Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord:..."

Psalm 19:1

"The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork."

Romans 1:20

"For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities
—his eternal power and divine nature—
have been clearly seen,
being understood from what has been made,
so that people are without excuse."

1 Peter 3:15

but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy,
always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

I also

had a relative of a friend stop by and say hey to me the other day at the the library.

He saw my bible, 

not the Mendenhall one, 

I didn't take it that day, 

but my copy of the NIV that I had, that is worn out with all the highlighting :-).

"A bible?" 

He asked?

Seeming surprised.

"Yeah, you should see this other one I got at the highway sixty yard sale."

I went on to tell him about it.

"I just would have never thought that would be something you're into."

1 Samuel 16:10-12

"Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, “The Lord has not chosen these.” So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?”

“There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.”

Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.”

So he sent for him and had him brought in. He was glowing with health and had a fine appearance and handsome features.

Then the Lord said, “Rise and anoint him; this is the one.”

I promise you it's exactly what popped in my mind when he said that.

What am I supposed to do?

Not tell you the truth?

It's always, always, always, the most unlikely of people.

You would think people would catch on by now.

But they don't.

They just can't.

Just glad I get it.

Makes it easier to deal with :-).

Love you Lucy.

Constantine

Constantine, Constantine.

They will throw this one at you as well, to counter your arguments about the universe proving God exist, or the number pf prophecy's proven true, or the apostles not recanting under the most dire of circumstances.

"Well if it wasn't for Constantine and The edit of Milan stopping the persecution of Christians and making Christianity the state religion of Rome then Christianity wouldn't have been as successful as it was."

The fact is we don't know what might have happened if  Constantine hadn't converted, issued the edit of Milan etc.

Here's what Crowder has to say in his book (The New Mystics) were some of the effects of Constantine's conversion. (Paraphrased)

These are things you won't here from someone fighting against the church:

1) Church Building.

He began a massive program of church building projects (sounds fun to any one who has ever been involved in one right?). Prior to his conversion the church hadn't even considered buildings. It was a living network of people that met in homes and had nothing to do with the physical structures. They spoke to the vast beauty and glory of God but on the other hand the mesmerizing architecture made God seem distant and out of reach.

(The Mendenhall bible I received?

It suggest daily family worship and a family alter for the bible.

A prayer, a few verses or a chapter a day, singing, prayer, close.

Daily. 

At home. 

It goes on to say if small children are involved in the worship to make sure the verses or chapters are suitable, the classics, the great stories of the Bible, etc.)

2) Hierarchical Government

The Roman system of government was transposed into the church leadership model with Bishops, arch-bishops etc. Scriptures would leave the hands of ordinary believers and theological baggeage would be piled on top of them for centuries untill the reformation.

3) Clergy

They started wearing costumes that set them apart of average believers.

4) Pulpits and choirs were added

5)Rhetorical practices would bring polished snappy oratory into the church.

6) As well, the twisted unity between civil government and church authority caused problems (and still does)

7) Council of Nicea

After the Council of Nicea, church leaders who did not sign the Nicene Creed were persecuted.

For the first time, Christians were fighting among Christians.
(Hasn't stopped since)

Crowder:

"I believe Constantine was a legitimate believer, but a very confused, immature believer at best. He may have been sincere in his efforts to further Christianity, but without much depth of understanding, he did much more harm than good. The church can not be built by human means.

(Another supernatural birth anybody? :-).

So?

When people wanna point out what good Constantine did for Christianity?

Don't be afraid to point out the not so good things he did as well.

People will be shocked when you can repudiate their arguments.

They're just not used to hearing them.

Here's

what just eats me alive about how Republicans present their arguments.

And yes people can do the same thing with Dems I get it, but this kinda shit just burns me up, because people just fall for it hook line and sinker.

The estate tax.

They portray it like the poor lil old farmer down the road is going to loose everything, his poor children won't have a thing, bag bad federal government blah blah blah...

Here's the truth.

18 of the richest families in the country decided to spent 500 million dollars to make this go away.

Must be nice right?

Why would they spend that much Drew?

Oh IDK, cause it saves them 70 billion dollars in the long run?

Excuse me while I brush up my math skills here for a second.

Well, it really wasn't me but google that did the brushing up :-).

70 billion / 500 million =

one hundred forty.

140% return on their investment.

140 dollars back for every dollar they spend to defeat this tax.

If Senators and congressmen wanted to be honest?

Here is what they would say:

"These people are so greedy you can not even conceive of it.
They are so greedy in fact that .7% of the population takes an affront to it when anyone, anyone suggest that they give up on average 1/6 of their wealth."

It's just unconscionable.

Here another one.

Consumer protections against Big Banks.

This one I couldn't believe I actually read, several times by several different senators, congressmen etc.

"This protects small banks from frivolous lawsuits."

(Not letting people use class action suits against banks)

First of all?

What small banks?

Where are they?

Not many left.

Not much money in them either compared to the big boys.

Promise.

So?

Did the small banks go to the senators and say:

"Hey, you know what is killing us? 

Frivolous lawsuits, could you do something about this for us?"

Well of course they didn't and that is how you know it's all a bunch of hooey.

If one of them were honest?

They might have said something a lil more like:

"Hey, you know when Wells Fargo just created accounts for people out of the blue and charged people all kinds of fees and charges?
Yeah, we not only want them to be able to do so (to the consumer) but in all honesty?
We want them to be able to get away with it, because the consumers only recourse will be arbitration in front of a group of ex bankers who will a large % of the time side with the large banks."

I mean who do you think is paying off the arbitrators?

It's just the cost of doing business to the big banks.

The congressmen and senators who are enabling this?

They are sheltering the robbers.

It makes them complicit if you ask me.

Can't wait till I have the chance to tell them each and every one to their face exactly what I think about their position.

Senate seat without one dollar from special interest groups anybody?

It's comin.

And of course you got Mike Pence casting the deciding vote in the matter.

He's no different than the rest of them.

Time for new blood if you ask me.

Isaiah 59:4

No one calls for justice;
no one pleads a case with integrity.
They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies;
they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

Pakistan

also supplies intelligence to Islamic Extremist, 

while our other "good ol' ally?

Saudi Arabia?

They, along with other wealthy Sunni Gulf States, supply their funding.

The article here is kinda unrelated but it does point out the attacks on Pakistan's nuclear weapons facilities and the radicalization of it's armed services that has been going on for three decades now.

Think that ongoing radicalization of Pakistanis armed services is going to just go away sometime in the future?

I doubt it.

The Dangers of Pakistan's Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Wanna

take a guess who supplied Iran and North Korea with

"crucial technological and intellectual building blocks for making nuclear weapons."

Yep, our good ol ally Pakistan.

Arms Control Association, Pakistan 03/2004

Ezekiel 3:3, Revelation 10:9

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - It was in my mouth as honey, etc. The words remind us of Psalm 19:10; Proverbs 24:13; and again of those of Jeremiah in the darkest hour of his ministry (Jeremiah 15:16). 

They are reproduced yet more closely by St. John (Revelation 10:9). 

There is, after the first terror is over, an infinite sweetness in the thought of being a fellow worker with God, of speaking his words and not our own. 

In the case of St. John, the first sweetness was changed to bitterness as soon as he had eaten it; and this is, perhaps, implied here also in ver. 14. The first ecstatic joy passed away, and the former sense of the awfulness of the work returned.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:1-11 Ezekiel was to receive the truths of God as the food for his soul, and to feed upon them by faith, and he would be strengthened. Gracious souls can receive those truths of God with delight, which speak terror to the wicked. He must speak all that, and that only, which God spake to him. How can we better speak God's mind than with his words? If disappointed as to his people, he must not be offended. The Ninevites were wrought upon by Jonah's preaching, when Israel was unhumbled and unreformed. We must leave this unto the Divine sovereignty, and say, Lord, thy judgments are a great deep. They will not regard the word of the prophet, for they will not regard the rod of God. Christ promises to strengthen him. He must continue earnest in preaching, whatever the success might be.

Revelation cont

Revelation 19:20-21

But the beast was captured,
and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf.
With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection.
The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.

Second Death

Revelation 20:10

And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown.
They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Revelation 21:3-5

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

Revelation 21:6-8

He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Revelation 22:6

John and the Angel

The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.”

Revelation 22:13-15

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Revelation 22:17

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!”
And let the one who hears say, “Come!”
Let the one who is thirsty come;
and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.

(Kinda like that one as the last one in this series, just seems fitting :-).