Spoilers for the new episode
AND a really nerdy rant about a subject I'm passionate about (land surveying.)
...I know. I know. Hear me out here...
So while y'all are over here freaking about Gov's secret family I'm here cracking up at Tennessee describing his boundaries.
So my literal job irl involves land surveying and the description of Tenn's borders is not even an exaggeration for how completely fucked old land descriptions can be.
It's a historic European-influenced survey system called "metes and bounds" which relies on physical landmarks and--sometimes--local lore to describe boundaries.
[On TN's border with Mississippi]: "Okay, so you're going to go exactly 26 chains and ten lengths north of the Thompson's line, and..."
[On the border with Georgia]: Tenn: "So there's this rock, right? ...it's two feet high, four inches thick, and fifteen inches broad. You got to start there, then you got to find the sort of middle of the near town... and go near the top of the mountain nearby. And then you got to find where Georgia and Alabama allegedly meet. Oh wait a sec? Do you even know where John and David live? You're going to need to know that!"
That's the shit I deal with all the time in my job. 😂 it's not even an exaggeration: that's literally how they're written.
They replaced the metes and bounds system with the public land survey system, which divides the rest of the country into a rectangular grid. It's *slightly* less fucked but as you can imagine, drawing a 2D grid on terrain that's NOT at all flat is going to result in interesting and weird errors!
Map of the public land survey states and non-PLS states because I'm completely feral for this shit:
Colored states are PLS (rectangular grid) and white states have a different system. Most of the OG13 colonies (and Tennessee obvs) use the old metes and bounds system and most of the west (with one notable exception *coughTexascough*) use the rectangular grid.
Texas was surveyed by Spain and then Mexico first so they have their own system (because of course they do). So was the rest of the Southwest so there's massive Spanish land grants that the US grid just kinda... incorporated 😂
BUT long story short. If you look at an aerial view of like, North Dakota, you get THIS:
It's squares!!!!
This was how it was *supposed* to work.
But in places like Nevada that have mountains it's more like
There are lots of places where they were just like "fuck walking through this desert; let's guesstimate."
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Some fed-up migrants already heading home: ‘American Dream doesn’t exist anymore’
Some Venezuelan migrants who trekked thousands of miles to the US in search of a better life are so disheartened, they say they’re already heading back home.
Michael Castejon, 39, told the Chicago Tribune he has had enough after he, his wife and teenage stepdaughter spent five months sleeping either in a police precinct or a crowded city shelter in the now-brutally cold Windy City.
He’s also been unable to secure a job permit or enroll his daughter in a local school — two of the main reasons things they thought would bring a better life in the US.
“The American Dream doesn’t exist anymore,” Castejon told the paper on the eve of his family’s departure.
“There’s nothing here for us … We just want to be home,” Castejon told the Tribune of the South American country he earlier fled.
“If we’re going to be sleeping in the streets here, we’d rather be sleeping in the streets over there.”
More than 20,000 migrants have made their way to Chicago since August 2022, when Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began loading them onto buses and shipping them off to sanctuary cities.
Many of them ended up sleeping at O’Hare International Airport, at local police stations or in the streets.
Migrants Michael Castejon and wife Induliz Seville wait for an Uber to the airport to start their journey back to Venezuela.TNS
Fed up with the lack of housing and job opportunities, Castejon eventually followed in the footsteps of other disillusioned asylum seekers and turned to Catholic Charities to obtain plane tickets for his family to travel to Texas.
From there, they will somehow find a way to return to their native Venezuela, he said.
“How many more months of living in the streets will it take? No, no more. It’s better that I leave,” he said.
“At least I have my mother back home,” he said of the South American nation he fled earlier this year.
Yorbelis Molero (second from left), 16, says goodbye to a friend as Molero and her family of five wait to leave a Chicago police station and head to a Greyhound bus station on Nov. 2, 2023. TNS
Castejon and his family were among numerous disheartened asylum seekers who have decided to leave Chicago in recent weeks as the weather in the Windy City has grown colder and wetter, the paper found.
Some suggested they had been drawn to Chicago after being wrongly led to believe that they could be swiftly granted asylum status and a work permit, paving the way for a better life.
“We didn’t know things would be this hard,” Castejon said. “I thought the process was faster.”
Others said they have realized that Chicago’s limited resources have been depleted by waves of migrants that have overwhelmed the Democrat-led sanctuary city over the past 16 months, leaving the latest newcomers with nothing but scraps.
“If we’re going to be sleeping in the streets here, we’d rather be sleeping in the streets over there,” Castejon said.AP
Jose Nauh, 22, also returned to Texas earlier this month after sleeping in a police station in Chicago for more than two weeks.
Nauh said he came to Chicago because he heard there was shelter, food and other resources for asylum seekers, but “that’s not true,” he said.
In a scathing letter to President Biden in October, Illinois’ Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker accused the federal government of failing to provide adequate assistance to Chicago for a migrant crisis that has brought the city to a breaking point.
“The humanitarian crisis is overwhelming our ability to provide aid to the refugee population,” Pritzker wrote. “Unfortunately, the welcome and aid Illinois has been providing to these asylum seekers has not been matched with support by the federal government.”
Pritzker noted that more than $330 million had already been spent by the state to house and feed the migrants.
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Created Problems (Prophecy update)
By Daymond Duck Published on: August 22, 2021
Created problems are piling up in the U.S. as the globalists continue their effort to weaken America and establish a world government by 2030 or sooner.
These are facts, not conspiracy theories.
Oil—The Biden administration deliberately reduced America’s oil production by stopping construction on the Keystone XL Pipeline, halting oil production on federal lands in Louisiana, New Mexico, etc., and this caused the price of oil to soar. Now, Biden wants production increased to bring the price of oil back down, but he doesn’t want U.S. companies and U.S. workers to increase production, get their jobs back, etc.; he wants OPEC and foreign workers to increase production and have those jobs.
Crime—The Defund the Police movement has resulted in police budgets being cut in many cities, thousands of criminals being released from jails, soaring shootings, killings, and thefts; this is by design because globalists want to gain control of the police.
Border—The Biden administration has deliberately destroyed what few immigration laws the U.S. had. This week, Biden’s Homeland Security Sec. visited the U.S./Mexico border and was secretly recorded saying the border crisis is unsustainable (just the opposite of what he is saying in public). About one million immigrants (many with Covid) have come across the border, drug and human trafficking have increased, etc., and there is no effort to stop it (just an effort to hide what they are doing by lying about it.).
Covid—Only U.S. citizens are required to wear masks and be tested. Illegal aliens are not required to be masked or tested, and many are deliberately bussed and flown to other parts of the U.S., especially TX and FLA (at taxpayer expense) in what appears to be an effort to spread Covid, turn TX and FLA from Red to Blue (from Republican to Democrat) and blame unvaccinated citizens for spreading Covid to justify forcing everyone to be vaccinated for the global good or the common good (deceptive phrases meaning world government).
Inflation—Inflation is rising faster than wages are increasing, meaning money is declining in value and buying less and less. There seems to be two reasons: 1) Unending stimulus packages with pork-barrel spending, and 2) Disruption of production due to the deliberate spread of Covid and imposed lockdowns. This is increasing the price of everything (food, clothing, vehicles, rent, mortgages, medicine, etc.; gas is $1 per gallon higher than it was this time last year). It is destroying the U.S. economy and hurting every American, especially the poor.
Critical Race Theory (CRT)—Socialists have increased their power in the Democrat Party, and they are pushing CRT (a new form of segregation) to divide the U.S. They know that a nation divided against itself cannot stand. Why else would they want to re-establish segregation? Note: On Aug. 16, 2021, the Arkansas Attorney Gen. said separating children based on race violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Afghanistan—Biden told America the Afghan military had enough modern weapons and troops to defend itself. Then, we read that Biden sent a letter to the Taliban asking them to hold off taking over the country until we could evacuate our people. Then, we read that most of the major Afghan cities fell in 24 hours. Then, we read that the Afghan capital fell a few hours later. Then, we read that Biden offered the Taliban foreign aid for a promise to not attack the U.S. embassy.
Biden’s hasty exit sends the message that America is not a reliable ally; it dooms thousands of Afghan soldiers to death that helped the U.S.; it dooms Afghan women to second class citizenship, covering their face, etc.; it dooms Afghan girls to forced marriages, no education, etc.; it dooms Afghan boys to brainwashing, very little education, etc.; it dooms Afghan men to beatings, amputation of limbs, etc.; and it dooms the Christians to convert to Islam or be executed. Thousands of Americans were injured or killed in Afghanistan, and Biden squandered everything America accomplished in a matter of hours.
Update One: On Aug. 16, 2021, it was reported that French Pres. Macron was advised to call an emergency meeting of the EU Council because “the security of the world” is in danger. Some EU leaders say an Islamic Caliphate in Afghanistan will be a serious threat to the western world.
Update Two: On Aug. 16, 2021, an editorial in a Chinese-affiliated newspaper declared that war will break out between China and Taiwan, and the U.S. will not help Taiwan. Amir Tsarfati said China, Russia, and Iran are declaring that the post-American world order is over, and he believes that Russia and Iran no longer believe the U.S. will help Israel if they decide to launch an attack.
Update Three: On Aug. 17, 2021, it was reported that China has been emboldened by America’s apparent weakness, and her military is already preparing to practice an attack on Taiwan.
Update Four: On Aug. 17, 2021, it was reported that the Taliban is already sending letters to house churches saying, “We know who you are, and we’re coming for you.” The Antichrist will use beheadings as a terror tactic, and the Taliban does that too.
Here are some of my afterthoughts on Biden’s Afghan debacle.
Biden had a choice. He didn’t have to run. He was advised against it, but he did it anyway.
Biden has led America to defeat in the War on Terror, and his claim to love women and children is nothing more than a campaign slogan that he used to get elected (tell the women and children of Afghanistan that Biden loves them).
The Taliban, Iran and others will declare that Allah has given Islam a major victory over the Great Satan and be encouraged to fight harder (and Biden has just given them weapons worth many millions of dollars). They are surely blaspheming God, His name, and His people.
The success of radical Islam will increase the pressure on Israel and the Arabs to sign a peace treaty.
Israel must realize that she needs to rely on God, not America.
Biden has created a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists, and a borderless world is more dangerous than ever. (The security of the U.S. is threatened by America’s open border, and the Taliban won’t hesitate to cross it.)
It is clearer than ever that the Christian’s hope is the Rapture, not a better, stronger America.
As the world grows darker, the cries for a world leader to solve the world’s problems will grow louder.
God brought Afghanistan (and Babylon) down in a matter of hours, and He can bring the U.S. down in the blink of an eye if He wants.
The U.S. is led by people that are following Satan or it wouldn’t be supporting a godless world government, godless world religion, abortion, gay marriage, censoring Christian ministries, etc.
Biden raised the gay flag over our embassies, and the Taliban will probably take it down and raise their flag over our embassy.
There are many reasons to believe the lukewarm church needs to wake up, or God will eventually bring our sin-filled nation to its knees.
Here are some more reasons to believe that the Rapture is close.
One, deceit and lying have existed at least since God created Adam and Eve, but it will be common practice at the end of the age.
What could be more deceitful than deliberately spreading Covid-19 and blaming it on the unvaccinated?
Could it be internment camps to deliberately incarcerate the falsely accused unvaccinated?
This writer has seen several reports lately that the CDC is planning to have incarceration camps in every U.S. city.
Several sources have reported that on Aug. 6, 2021, TN Gov. Mike Lee signed an executive order authorizing the National Guard to seize unvaccinated people for incarceration.
Natural News reported that it has information that the CDC has been working with the University of Chicago to develop a plan to call homes in an effort to determine if there are any children between 6 months and 17 years in the home that have not been vaccinated.
The activation of incarceration camps in every U.S. city and perhaps a phone call to every household is very troubling.
It has also been reported that starting this month in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, people will not be allowed into restaurants, theaters, and several other venues without proof of vaccination.
This writer is far from knowledgeable on Covid-19 and the mutations or variants, but this is some of what I have read and the way I understand it:
The Covid-19 virus doesn’t want to be killed by a vaccine, so it tries to stay alive by mutating.
Some medical professionals believe the mutations are developing in and being spread by vaccinated people.
This explains why the world will never reach herd immunity (vaccinate so many people on earth that the spread of Covid-19 is unlikely). For whatever it is worth, about 2/3 of the new Covid cases in Israel are people that have been fully vaccinated.
Here is a repeat from my last week’s article with the addition of one sentence: we are seeing the global development and advancement of technology and policies that many excellent Bible prophecy teachers believe will lead to the Mark of the Beast (forced compliance, loss of one’s job, development of passports or passes, a demand for government databases to track people, a demand to prevent the unvaccinated from entering stores to buy or sell, the spread of anti-Christian rhetoric, etc.). We are seeing a preview of things to come and a warning from our merciful God (that knows what is going to happen before it happens) to be sure we are saved.
Two, concerning earthquakes:
On Aug. 11, 2021, a 7.1 quake struck off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines.
On Aug. 12, 2021, an 8.1 quake struck near the South Sandwich Islands (South Atlantic Ocean).
On Aug. 14, 2021, a 7.2 quake struck Haiti. Three days later, it was reported that 6,900 were injured, 1419 were killed, and 84,585 homes were damaged or destroyed.
On Aug. 14, 2021, a 6.9 quake struck in the Gulf of Alaska.
On Aug. 16, 2021, as Haiti was trying to deal with the 7.2 quake, Tropical Storm Grace was bearing down with strong winds and perhaps as much as 8 inches of rain (up to 15 inches and flooding in some areas).
Three, concerning an increase in frequency and intensity of natural disasters (like birth pains): on Aug. 14, 2021, The Moscow Times reported that Russia’s Pres. Vladimir Putin said the scale of natural disasters (floods, droughts, and forest fires) that have hit Russia this year is “absolutely unprecedented.”
According to the article, “Russian weather officials and environmentalists have linked the increasing intensity of Siberia’s annual fires to climate change.”
More:
On Aug. 15, it was reported that at least 51 people have been killed by floods and mudslides in Turkey.
On Aug. 16, the U.S. announced that the water level in Lake Mead is at the lowest level since the Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s, a water shortage on the Colorado River was declared, and it was announced that there will be water cut-backs in 2022. Farmers and ranchers will cut production.
Four, concerning the Battle of Gog and Magog: on Aug. 13, 2021, Monte Judah (Messianic World Update) said, “It is very clear that the IDF and the government of Israel is planning to attack Iran soon to stop the nuclear weapons program. This is evidenced by the fact that the IDF, the Air Force, has been running long-range bombing training missions with the nation of Greece, and they have been doing in-flight refueling and other things of that type with Benny Gantz, the Defense Minister, announcing and giving warnings to the U.S. and other nations that Israel is going to stop Iran if they continue to do it.”
FYI: Several pastors say they are being inundated with requests for a “Religious Exemption Letter.” Here is a link to a letter that Rock Harbor Church (Rev. Brandon Holthaus) is using, and it can be printed off:
RHC Religious Exemption for Vaccines and PCR Swabs.pdf
Finally, are you Rapture Ready?
If you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.
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