#no i do not want 50 locusts thanks!!

[skridz]

Just unlocked this guy & I love his design but why is he so useless

Look at him I love him

[neonmetro]

Tehe...apocalypse horsemen brainrot goes crazy.... *tweaks* GUYSSSSSS I KNOW IM GOING IN LIKE A FUCKING FULLLL ROTATION OF BRAINROT BUT I CANT HELP IT *does shinji chair pose*

They are all so sillyyyyy I NEED THEM ALL HAPPY ‼️‼️

Do you have any miscellaneous information / any facts about any of the apocalypse horsemen... or any funny things with them 💚💜💛❤️ *jumps on horse and flies away*

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF 🫵🏼🫵🏼

-Paris anon

THE WORST NIGHTMARE BLUNT ROTATION EVER FEATURING MY FUCK ASS CHARACTERS /JJJ

no... i understand so bad i need them to be happy too (actively makes their suffering worse and making them physically separated in pink overkill and they can only see each other for short periods of time)

i do in fact ! have many

war's arm was ripped off by conquest during a mission where an entire town was massacred and war was adding to the body count

there is just SO MUCH merchandise of the horsemen. they're like evangelion levels of merch they have collabs with everything

war and famine are each others' first choice to try out new things together and just cause so much chaos together

war and conquest trust each other more though and do a lot more things together in general

DEATH AND FAMINE ARE LITERALLY LESBIAN JUDAS AND JESUS. HOPE THIS HELPS.

the horsemen have a swear/chores jar (for whenever someone has to miss chores) that they use to fund for famine's hospital flowers

death is usually the one who brings famine flowers and they're the main reason she overworks herself.

war and conquest first met each other at military school, but war dropped out while conquest stayed

famine and death met at famine's parents' funeral

war's ability is checkmate, conquest's is no man's land, famine's is law giver, death's is gott ist tott

THANK YOU FOR BEING SO INTERESTED AS ALWAYS !!!!! have a wip of some standees i want to make of the horsemen... smiles

more in depth discussion of their abilities under the cut

War (Vive Boulonnais)

Check and Mate

Catalan Opening (Can change the attachment on gun to a different chess piece up to Bishop (Basically can have 1 of each piece on the field at a time, 2 for pawn, and the amount of pieces on a side is the amount of reuses available))

Bright Side Promotion (Changes a pawn to rook, knight, bishop, or queen +25% Attack and Agility on that piece)

Queenside (Can change any current attachment to king or queen +60% Attack and Agility, -35% HP and Endurance)

Queen's Gambit (+25% Agility and -25% Endurance, if Bishop is active, provides +15% Attack.)

King's Gambit (+50% Attack and -15% Defense)

En passant Capture (Disable the target for 10 minutes)

Conquest (Almagro Galiceño)

No Man's Land

Got Your Six (His power takes from himself and forms his weapon, he can take others' body parts to replace a piece and gains +10 attack and heals +10)

On the Frontlines (+45% on all stats, but when used for more than 30 minutes will start draining HP by -10% every minute)

Bite the Bullet (When HP + SP reaches 0, revive with -100% Defense and Endurance and +70% Attack and Agility)

Famine (Laimos Arravani)

Law Giver (Has the ability to friendly fire)

Fasting (Switch to MOTH Status: +150% Defense, -25% attack REQUIRES: 10SP)

Barmecide Feast (Switch to BUTTERFLY Status: +25% HP, +175% attack, -25% defense REQUIRES: 50SP)

Pestilence (Switch to LOCUST Status: -75% HP, +275% attack, +50% defense REQUIRES: 80SP)

Death (Mori Schwarzwälder)

Gott ist Tott

Ashes to Ashes (Passive: reduce soul magic/power effectiveness by -25%)

Dust to Dust (Reduces effectiveness of medallions by -25%)

Earth to Earth (Debuffs weapons effectiveness by -25%)

Und wir haben ihn getötet (+55% Attack + Agility, -20% HP (if summon is active +50% Attack + Agility))

Damnatio Memoriae (Gathers the item: Dust around a 5 meter radius to form a summon (attack: 200% of Mori's attack, 0% of Mori's defense) REQUIRES: 20 Dust (20 L of blood))

[autonomousllama]

Get to Know Me - Sims Edition

Thank you @papermint-airplane for the tag!

What's your favourite Sims death?

In the Sims 1 it would have to be death by fire, the screams were very messed up. What does that even day about me?

In the Sims 2, death by locusts. I just think it's very creative really, and karma for not cleaning up lol.

In the Sims 3 it would have to be either death by meteor or being crushed by a vending machine. They are jsut so abrubt and random, not to mention if a school gets hit by one, the children can't escape! Thta's messed up.

I haven't played the sims 4 in ages so uh, i dunno...

Alpha CC or Maxis Match?

In the sims 2, Maxis Match, sort of, all my defaults are clay hairs now. They used to not be, but I will never use Alpha cc.

The sims 3 is a bit tricky because I feel like there isn't really maxis match or alpha. I guess maxis match since I don't really like the really shiny alpha hair.

When I used to play sims 4 it was primarily maxis match.

Do you cheat your sims weight?

Nope, I don't even have to, these people lose and gain weight quicker than I can even notice it, it's weird.

When I was playing with the Bunch family in the sims 3, Jack had to get athletic points for his job and he immediately lost tons of weight even though it had only been a day!

Do you use move objects?

Yup, well, mostly in the sims 2, it hasn't really come up often in the sims 3...

Favourite Mod?

In the Sims 2, it has to be 50 New Lifetime Wants and Lifetime Want Chooser by Lamare, it's changed my life honestly. I would also reccommend Semester Changes by Cyjon which makes University 8 days long, which is a lifesaver.

For the Sims 3, I have a few. There is this one here that stops snow day from happening at all, but it is in a different language. There is also Faster Gardening by berryblonde. I also use the Random Genetics Mod by NeuroBlazer that has been deleted by the links are saved in this post here

First Expansion/Game Pack/Stuff Pack?

For Sims 1, I got the ultimate collection, so they all were the first one...

Um, I don't remember for the sims 2, I really don't, I used to play it when I was really young and my mum just bought them whenever she found them.

I do remember that I bought every expansion pack as it came out for the sims 3, the exception being world adventures for some reason. I think there was some kind of problem with that pack? Well, it was Ambitions for me, I love that pack!

For the sims 4, I think it was either Dine Out or Get to Work.

Do you pronounce live mode like aLIVE or LIVing?

aLIVE, no shame here.

Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made?

Lain, I feel like I put a lot of effort into making here since I was going to show her off to the internet. I also feel very attached to her since I've given her so much backstory and personality, which I haven't really done for other sims in the past. Not including Jane...

Have you made a simself?

Only once, back in the sims 2. I made me and my family and played for a bit with them. Haven't done that since, by maybe I will try and do that some day.

Which is your favorite EA hair color?

Well...I like the red hair swatch in the sims 2 I guess? And the sims 3 plantinum blonde is fun. Don't know about sims 4 though....

Favorite EA hair?

Although I replaced them all with clay hair, I do still feel a lot of fondness for the sims 2 hairs. I think my favourite is the one with the beanie and long straight hair.

Sims 3 hair...is not good. Although, the hairs that came in later expansions were better. I like the surfer hair for guys that came in Island Paradise.

I like none of the sims 4 ea hairs. I feel like the community does a better job at making clay hair than the sims team, sorry.

Favorite life stage?

I'm also going to be boring and say YA. It's were the fun starts. Teens are also fun in sims 2 and and 3.

Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay?

Gameplay. I've gotten more into building lately, but I do get kinda impatient with it.

Are you a CC creator?

Nope! I have no talent for it at all.

Do you have any Simblr friends or a Sim Squad?

I have no idea what a Sim Squad is supposed to be, but I do have Simblr friends.

Do you have any sims merch?

I wish I did.

How has your “Sims style” changed throughout your years of playing?

In the past, I just jumped into the game and messed around for a bit then started a new game. It's only now that i've been trying out challenges and legacies. It's made me want to play the games a lot more.

What’s your origin id?

The fact that I had to go and check. It's persona34a. I've had it for a while, it's in reference to the persona games when Persona 4: The Animation came out. You can add me if you want but I have never used Origin as anything more than a way to access the games I play so I have no idea what any of that will do...

Who’s your favorite CC creator?

For sims 2: @platinumaspiration and @midgethetree

For the sims 3: @sweetdevil-sims, i've just gotten so many stuff from them

How long have you had simblr?

uuuuuu-

Over a year now I think, that's when I first started the Doe Legacy.

How do you edit your pictures?

I use Gimp to edit my pictures, which was a rather steep learning curve when I first started. I'm still a little rusty on it but It's not like I need to do much them other than cut out the bits of UI.

What expansion/ gamepack is your favorite?

For sims 1: Vacation, I had a lot of fun jsut sending them on vacation and quitting when their needs dropped too low, lol.

For sims 2: Apartment Life. What can I say, I love apartments and Belladonna Cove

For sims 3: Now that's a tricky one, but I am going to say Generations just because it so much depth to family gemplay and finally gives kids and teens something to do.

Sims 4: um...pass...

Edit: How the hell did I forget to tag people?

I am tagging: @hause-of-pancakes @treason-and-plot @erasabledinosaur @frostedshore @uglynormie @faeriefrolic @igglemouse @platinumaspiration @hurricanesims @kevinvoncrastenburg @tsims @simsdastra

[mstexalicious1961]

Thank you Abba, Father 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

DOTK

devotion by Kesha Trippett

The Lord said, "Your Help Comes from Me"

“Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me” Psalms‬ ‭50‬:‭15‬, NKJV‬‬.

Don’t you remember what I have told you? Your help comes from Me. All of your help. Not just some, but ALL of your help comes from Me. Call on Me in the day of trouble and I will answer you. Cast your cares upon Me, for I care for you. Come to Me when you are weary and heavy laden and I will rest you. I will speak to you where deep calls unto deep.

I am Jehovah Rapha, your healer and I am Jehovah Jireh, your provider. Whatever you need, I will give to you. Do not look to the world for your needs and desires, for it has nothing to offer you. I can and I will offer you all you need and want that is good for you and pleasing to Me.

I will give you all of Me. Look to Me when you are distressed and I will give you My peace that surpasses your understanding. When you are sad, surround yourself with My presence. There, you will experience fullness of joy, even in the hardest of circumstances. I am your strength and your shield. Your defense and your strong tower. Your head lifter and your soul keeper. Your heart healer and your life changer.

I am omnipotent and omnipresence. There is nothing I don’t know about you and there is nothing I can’t do for you. I love you. There is nothing that you can do that would stop me from loving you. And I am willing to do everything for you and be everything to you. I will bring rivers in the desert for you and when you find yourself in the wilderness, I will make a way for you. I will tear down walls of injustice for you and I will lift you up out of the deepest pit.

I will heal scars of brokenness and make you whole again. I will take back the years for you that the locust has stolen. I will bless you with the abundant life I have promised to you. I will always be here for you. And I will never leave you nor forsake you, says the Lord.

(Scripture references: Psalm 50:15, 1 Peter 5:7; Psalm 18:1-3; Job 42:1-2; Hebrews 13:5; Isaiah 43:19)

By Maria Coffyn, A DOTK Community Writer

[elminx]

Scrambled Words about my "God phone"

I would never call it a "god phone" if other people hadn't phrased it that way because in no way could I or should I claim that any majority of the things that I communicate with are gods. Spirits is a much better term. A few of them are really Big Spirits and might be gods. A few of them call themselves gods. I'm pretty polite with all spirits so it doesn't make a lot of difference to me if we're being honest.

I feel energy. I always have. If I try to quantify it, I can best claim that I'm Clairsentient. That, combined with a heavy dose of Claircognizance is a lot of my "god phone". I feel and know things. When I experience this it does not appear that the feeling or knowing comes from inside of me. It is always "other". The more sentient the spirit is - or at least the more that the spirit and I have a way of communicating in a way that I can understand as human communication - the closer to words that it appears. Sometimes I hear words but it is very rare. Almost always if I hear actual words it is from the dead. My cemetery once told me to run. That's not right - they told me that the other people in the cemetery were not safe and that I needed to get out of there as fast as possible. My brain heard it as "Run" though. When there is a really vast language barrier, I hear a buzzing somewhere behind my ears. This happened to me in Portugal at a cemetery and again in Iceland. (It did not happen to me in Paris but almost 50% of my heritage is French and I speak it at least on a rudimentary level so I assume that's why)

Sometimes it involves other senses, too. My cemetery likes to tell me what it wants by sense of smell. The things that I've smelled after I asked if it wanted something included: rum, coffee, cigarettes, roses, and frankincense. When I originally asked to see the guardian of the graveyard and for permission to do spirit work there, a giant raven the size of a man appeared right behind me. When I turned to look at it, it jerked in surprise and was gone.

Less human Spirits "talk", too, but it's more strictly in feeling. I can tell when my plants are thirsty. My house tried to warn me when my garbage disposal was on the fritz but I didn't understand until afterward. I told my friend that she should watch out for her garbage disposal completely randomly while standing in front of mine.

This is to say that I definitely still get it wrong. I don't understand or miss the message on the regular. The first time that I set up alarm wards around my house, every single neighborhood squirrel came and screamed at my doorstep when somebody tried to attack me. I'm not kidding - it was 6-8 squirrels. I had to go outside and say to the squirrels "Okay, I understand your message. You are my alarm system. You can stop now" to make them stop. (You can be fucking sure that I specified that I wasn't looking for a squirrel alarm after that)

Loki insists that I mention them. They fuck with my technology in ways that aren't problematic but significantly annoying until I get the message.

They made my phone go off with a Facebook notification to friend somebody at 10am on the day after Christmas in 2019 during the eclipsed Capricorn new moon when I can promise you that I have never allowed my phone to make noises. (It was an important notification - thank you Loki) When I was scared shitless because my cat was incredibly sick and I didn't know what to do, I asked the fairies for help. I'm not even sure WHY I asked the fairies, but I did. A voice spoke clear as day inside my head "He has a secret name." And they were right. I named my cat after a character from a book whose name changed over the course of the book. So I changed the name of my cat and (with veterinary help), he got better.

When I asked a yard full of rose bushes who wanted to come home with me, my rose bush volunteered. My locust tree told me her name. (I want to talk about Naming more sometime soon its just, like this, pretty hard to quantify). I don't think that I'll ever have a better explanation than I know when it is happening. I know my own voice pretty damn well. I know my fantasies. I know my thought patterns. I know the thought patterns that my ego tries to hide from me. Through shadow work, I have become very clear in my understanding of when a thought/feeling/voice comes from inside of me and when it does not.

Sometimes I don't notice when my "god phone" gets all jammed up - especially when it's jammed full of other people's emotional chatter - but I know it when it's working.

[purpleandgreen13]

Stardew Valley Inktober 2021

Inspired by @buttonso 's SDV Inktober list, I'm writing a one shot every day for October. I have done 4 already (the fifth will be later today) but thought I would post them here too.

October 1st Junimo

Inspired by the Star Trek original series 'The Trouble with Tribbles'

Dammit Lewis, I’m a doctor not a vet.” Grumbled Doctor Harvey at his clinic where he, Marnie and Mayor Lewis are stood looking the five tiny figures laying in a large cardboard box on the examination table. They are covered in scratches and making distressed cooing noises.

“Please Dr Harvey?” Pleads Marnie, her eyes filling with tears, “I found them in the barn, the cows didn’t mean to rough them up, they were just curious.”

“What are you doing with these creatures anyway Marnie? Junimo’s import to Ferngill is strictly controlled.” Doctor Harvey peers over his glasses.

Marnie looks shifty all of a sudden and Mayor Lewis shuffles uncomfortably, “Lewis got me a special license!” Marnie protests a little too loudly, “We’re breeding them as pets. Look how cute they are! People are going to love them!”

“You are aware of their other reputation?” Harvey asks, “They’re prodigious breeders. They can have up to seven litters a week and they’re banned in some places. In the wild they have plenty of predators but in domestic situations you can easily get overrun."

“Please Doc. We can make it worth your while.” Lewis wheedles.

“Lewis. I don’t want your money, except for the medical bills. I don’t like seeing any creature in pain. Leave them with me, I’ll make sure they’re well looked after and I’ll patch up their wounds, give them a course of antibiotics and they should be right as rain in about four days.”

“Thank you so very, very much, Doctor Harvey.” Marnie gushes with relief as she clutches Harvey’s hand. Harvey frowns. This is very much against his better judgement, but the animals need care and he WAS the closest thing this town had to a vet, he supposed.

Once Marnie and Lewis left, Harvey lifted the blanket covering the box.

“Oh Yoba.” He muttered quickly lowering the blanket again. Already the junimos, which he had to grudgingly admit were cute, were In flagrante delicto, busy at work in the cardboard box creating the next generation of apple-like creatures.

Harvey mused that the small animals were getting more action than most people in the valley, including him.

He fetched his medical equipment and carefully lifted each Junimo out of the box, whenever one was free from its activities. Each one squeaked in protest as Harvey checked it over, applied antiseptics to cuts and grazes, then administered antibiotic in a small pipette to each of the five Junimos. They’d need a few days care, but they were mostly badly shaken up. They would all be fine, he was confident.

He supposed he should separate them into males and females, but honestly, Harvey had absolutely no way of telling them apart, so he left the blanket on the box after giving them some guinea pig food provided by Abigail and a bowl of water, and retired for the night.

Maru was first in the clinic the next morning and when Harvey entered the reception area, still a little bleary-eyed from sleep, she looked furious.

“What- what’s up Maru?” Harvey asked nervously.

“Why are you keeping so many animals in such a tiny space Doc? It’s downright cruel!”

“What are you talking about?”

There are almost 50 Junimos squished into a cardboard box in the hospital section! I can’t believe you left them like that? You do know it’s illegal to keep them without a license?” “Fif-FIFTY? Harvey suddenly felt a bit faint. “There were only 5 yesterday!”

Well, there’s about 50 of them now. We’ll need to find them better housing.”

After searching through the clinic for boxes big enough to house 50 Junimos, Maru makes a decision, that Harvey mutely agrees with.

They let the Junimos loose in the hospital wing of the clinic, leaving them food and water. At the end of the day locking the door behind him, Harvey couldn’t help but feel he’d made a terrible mistake.

‘Junimos reach sexual maturity within 24 hours of birth’, he read in one of his encyclopaedias, ‘as beings who derive their bright coat colouring from magic in the air around them, they live relatively short lives and breed as much as they can to ensure survival of the species. The magic that sustains them, makes them attractive to female junimos also kills them. Their twin purposes in life are to procreate and eat.’

In the morning there were more than 500 Junimos on the hospital wing. Maru could barely open the door and then could not close it. There were junimos everywhere, in the pharmacy cupboards, under every chair in the waiting room. Maru found two in the drawer of the till.

Harvey was going spare. His beautiful clean, sterile clinic had turned into a zoo. He coped as well as he could, but that evening, he called Lewis in a panic. His first attempt to pick up his phone he picked up a Junimo instead, he swept 7 of them off his chair in his office. Several of them piled on his warm lap once he sat down. There were several of them sleeping on the examination table. The noise of Junimo mating was cacophonous.

“Hello!” He bellowed into the phone when Mayor Lewis picked up. “LEWIS! It’s Harvey here! You’re going to have to do something about these Junimos! There’s hundreds of them!” “Sorry Doc! I can’t hear you! Are you having a party? I will come and pick up those Junimos from you on Friday! You said 4 days for the antibiotics to work didn’t you? I’ll see you then!” and with that the line goes dead.

Harvey has had enough. He wades through the Junimos lining the stairs to his apartment, grabs his jacket from the hook behind the door, empties the pockets of Junimos that have settled there, and makes his way gingerly out of the clinic and to the saloon. He stays far later than he should and he dreams in junimos the entire night.

Wednesday is hell. Exponential Junimo growth means that every surface is covered with squeaking, breeding and pooping animals with no regard for Harvey’s cleaning routines. He opens his kitchen cupboard for his coffee mug and is rewarded by e seemingly never-ending shower of small apple like creatures bouncing off his head and scurrying away. He tries to count them but here are far too many. That night he goes hungry because there is not a crumb of food in the house. When he climbs into his bed, he is surrounded by the creatures, cocooned in a kind of living Junimo blanket. The sleeping creatures start snoring. By itself a junimo snoring is a sweet sound, like sighing, but by the thousand, the noise is deafening.

When Maru arrives on Thursday morning, Doctor Harvey is a broken man. She pushes the door of the clinic open with some difficulty, the sheer weight of the creatures holding back the door.

Harvey is seated behind the counter, asleep, head in arms, dishevelled and unshaven. Junimos on his lap, his shoulders, in every one of his pockets. The squeaking and chirruping is so loud that Maru has to cover her ears as she approaches the sleeping man covered in the apple creatures.

“Doc!” She shouts above the row. “Doc!”

Harvey jolts awake. The junimos on his lap fall off, but are replaced with many more, jostling for a place on the doctor’s warm knees.

“I’ve brought someone who might help!”

Through the mounds of apple shaped bodies Harvey can just about make out a large cowboy hat and a purple beard. He scoffed to himself, the crazy guy from the tower? What was he going do here? Set traps? Give them all contraceptives. (Harvey had already considered it, but he calculated that the cost would be more than he made in a year).

With some difficulty the self-proclaimed wizard moved to the wall of the waiting room and in chalk drew a large circle with undecipherable symbols within its parameters. He yelled one word “Quiet!” Which made Harvey and Maru both jump. Surprisingly, the Junimos still and there is peace in the clinic for the first time in days.

He grinned at the medical staff, “Couldn’t hear myself think in here.”

Harvey has to keep himself from rolling his eyes when the wizard gets out a wand. Seriously? He’s muttering something that Harvey can’t quite catch and is sure is gibberish. He almost wants to laugh when the man turns around and makes an extravagant gesture with his arm. Harvey takes off his glasses and rubs his eyes, feeling overwhelmingly tired. When he opens his eyes again, the Junimos are gone.

He blinks. Not a single Junimo remains.

The place is a mess however. Chairs are overturned, the plants have all been eaten. Magazines shredded. Harvey dared not look at the damage in his neat pharmacy and sterile hospital room.

“Where did they go?” He stammers, his entire belief system shaken.

The Wizard smiles enigmatically, “Somewhere I think they should be.” With a dramatic swirl of his cape, he exits, leaving Harvey and Maru to clean up the mess. Harvey thinks he can smell sulphur, but blames his overtired fevered brain.

**~~**~~**

In the Mayoral Manor, Lewis is doing his weekly book work for the town finances. A little bit off the top here and a little added to his own bank account. No-one ever asks to check the books. The amounts would not be missed.

There is a flash and suddenly Lewis is surrounded by small apple shaped creatures. They’re everywhere. A heaving mass of Junimos covers the floor and already some of the creatures are getting into his food cupboards, locust-like they start to methodically eat everything they come across.

Over in the clinic, broom in hand, Harvey swears he can hear screaming coming from Lewis’s house.

[thisdayinfavrd]

July 23, 2009

Ever gotten an apology and didn't know why?  Canadian ninja.   @sween (Jason Sweeney) – 150

The first rule of Scapbooking Club is to tell everyone we're in a Fight Club.   @badbanana (Tim Siedell) – 137

WHY WON'T ANYONE HELP ME BE SELF-RELIANT?!!   @sween (Jason Sweeney) – 87

Jim is self-conscious about his man-purse so he fills it with manly things: condoms, beef jerky, a hammer.   @CcSteff (Stephanie) – 82

If I had a beer for every hour I had to spend sitting in meetings today-- Hey, I think I just planned my evening.   @adamisacson (Adam Isacson) – 74

My favorite kind of lettuce is butter lettuce. My second favorite kind of lettuce is Nintendo pizza BJ lettuce.   @lonelysandwich (Adam Lisagor) – 67

I call it a pushup bra.  He calls it bearing false titness.   @gordonshumway (Jelisa Castrodale) – 65

You remind me of my mother, except she's much prettier and doesn't dress like a whore.   DO YOU HEAR ME GRANDMA?   @thedayhascome (Josh Hopkins) – 62

Driving next to a UPS truck always feels like an invasion of the driver's privacy, like you've caught him with the stall door open.   @lonelysandwich (Adam Lisagor) – 60

Adding "Balance the checkbook" to my bucket list.   @badbanana (Tim Siedell) – 60

Baby needs prune juice. 10 year-old wants liverwurst. Wife wants sour candies. My grocery list looks like it was written by Matlock.   @awryone (Josh Donoghue) – 56

i killed a man once.  but that was a long time ago...  wait.  what was the question?  oh, and a large Diet Coke too please, thank you.   @theduty (duty) – 56

These complimentary pretzels haven't said one nice thing to me the whole flight.   @biorhythmist (matt) – 53

If my inlaws want to stay here then they need to stop getting upset when I run around the house after my shower yelling naked boy naked boy.   @OverlandParker (Michael Pierce) – 50

Reason #438 that cats are better than humans: Cats don't file harassment charges when you repeatedly call them Snackypuss O'Whiskerballs.   @Zaius13 (Damn Dirty Ape) – 49

Fragrant <-- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 --> Smelly   @poeks (Poeks) – 47

Most of the biblical plagues were probably just undiagnosed venereal diseases. "Oh no! A swarm of locusts!" Nice try, Moses. Those're crabs.   @tehawesome (Henry Birdseye) – 47

A horse is a horse. Of course, of course. That is, of course, unless the horse is married to Matthew Broderick.   @crustyjuggler72 (Unavailable) – 46

Want to feel in-shape? Hike with a couple who are both nearing 60.   STAND IN AWE OF MY POWERFUL LEGS AS I WALK A FEW FEET WITHOUT RESTING.   @katefeetie (one katie please) – 46

I think it's more than safe to say...  Jesus was the world's first pin-up model.  meee-ow!   @theduty (duty) – 45

[gaudeixcc]

Peloton news – Old dog – new tricks

I don’t believe in God and I don’t believe in gravel bikes.

Oddly enough though, I got talked in to doing an 88-mile gravel bike ride by Macca and Drip…. Good Lord.

As I don’t believe in gravel bikes, I don’t own one. This particular sportive had an answer though. Rent one.

I don’t normally believe in renting either. Good job. They’d run out of rental gravel bikes.

So far, this ride was a screaming success.

‘Why don’t you borrow my hardtail?’ suggested the every-helpful McEvoy.

Good idea.

One problem. Drip has had custody of Macca’s ex whip for a while now, so the thing is likely to be un-washed, un-oiled and in need of some recommissioning.

Not so good an idea.

‘Ask RTA if you can borrow his. He’s not doing this ride so you should be fine’.

Thanks Macca.

I left it late. Very late. I’d not done any riding recently and felt distinctly out of condition.

I thought to myself ‘if I can do 30 miles, then I’ll be able to extend that to 40. And if I can do 40 miles, 50 should be easy enough’.

I carried on this line of logic till I reached 88 miles. ‘fuck it, I’ll send RTA a text. Hopefully he’ll tell me to do one’.

He didn’t.

God (in whom I believe-eth not) must have been smiling on me.

Now, Macca likes his gravel bike. In fact, I think the feelings may run deeper. A lot deeper.

At times in recent months, I had wondered if there was some sort of commission angle I’d missed here. I checked the website for the ‘UK gravel bike appreciation society’. Couldn’t see his name as a patron or sponsor.

I checked the ‘North American brotherhood of gravelers’. Same thing. No trace of our pilot.

Finally, I googled all new religions registered in the last 12 months to see if there had been a reverend McGraveloy positioning his ‘new order of the Gravelatti’. Nout.

I did wonder if it was just me. I did wonder if post ride, I would see the religious light and (tail between legs) go off to C&N to place an order. Afterall, James had done so on the mere whiff of new toys in the Peloton. Perhaps I was just being an old stick in the mud and not moving with the times.

‘It’s like when you were a kid…riding around all over the place just for the pleasure of it. No GPS..no heart rate monitor..it’s a breath of fresh air’ sayeth the Reverend many a time over the previous months.

Un-prompted, Drip asked Macca ‘If you had a fire, which bike would you rescue?’.

This is likely the best question Drip has ever asked. Perfectly judged and a response which would be very revealing indeed. This is in contrast to the worst question Dripping has ever asked which was ‘does anyone have any Tramadol’ just before he took a load of drugs and tried to ride in his near catatonic post-crash injured state.

Anyway…. Answer the question Mark…..

‘It would be the gravel’ said Monsignor McEgravel.

Wow.

Bold statement.

So off we set.

RTA’s bike was a perfect fit. And beautiful too. The ride off grass and onto the first bit of gravel (10 yards of carpark prior to the road) was nothing short of…well… nothing short of riding a road bike on a football pitch. It worked. I immediately and whole heartedly declared gravel bikes the future of cycling, computing, politics and life in general.

That statement lasted for about 15 minutes, at which time stamp we found ourselves on a muddy track which was completely and utterly impassable using this sort of bicycle.

Dripping and I dismounted (involuntarily) and trudged after Macca who was stubbornly trying to stay upright.

This was admittedly a low point and things perked up not long after. Much of the route was beautiful. From the North to the South downs and off toward the coast we went.

Drip had prepared well and had his road cleats fitted. The sort of fuck up most of you normally associate with me. It was pleasing to a) stop fairly often (see ‘lack of fitness’ comments earlier) and b) watch Dripping pay for his mistake by extracting mud using nothing more than sharp stones scraped across the bottom of soft cleats, an activity which is akin to Nelly’s ‘removal-of-pedals-with-a-boat-shoe’ trick. Macca took many photos of this. When confronted by the sight of Nelly with his shoe in a death grip he took none and was not making that mistake ever again.

The absolute highlight of the trip was the road support we received from both Bex and Dawn. Bex arrived at strategic points armed with cake, popcorn, energy stuff and a big smile. Fucking ace. Sweets and a sit down. Exactly what I was hoping for. I ate much of what I saw before me.

Low-lights were however many in number.

Dripping being a lot fitter than me was one. If there’s one thing that I don’t like, it’s being a) overtaken by Dripping, b) being overtaken by Dripping and then Dripping and Macca buggering off up a hill and to cap it all c) waiting for me at the top of the hill chatting. Each time I tried to arrive composed with an air of ‘I don’t give a fuckery’ about me.

That didn’t work.

Dripping was very nice about it all… which meant that inside he was doing fucking cartwheels.

I had a quiet word with the God I don’t believe in and enquired about the possibility of delivering some pestilence or maybe locusts onto Dripping, his bicycle and his new found legs. ‘Bit old Skool don’t you think?’ Said the non-existent almighty. ‘maybe’ I muttered. ‘maybe’.

I had much time to think on this ride. It’s lonely being a shit cyclist, but I could at least analyse the pickle I’d agreed to find myself in.

Throughout the course of the day, I think I’ve puzzled it out. I think I have the answer to the question. The big question. Not the meaning of life, the meaning of gravel bike.

Macca was right. If you can have only one bike, then it makes sense.

If you can have only 2 bikes. It doesn’t. I’d always take a road bike, because they are perfect for the road and a gravel is a slight compromise. If I wanted off-road I’d always take a mountain bike, because a gravel is an even bigger compromise.

If I could have 3 bikes, this is where it makes sense…. And then I’d definitely have a gravel because it would be perfect as a winter/commuter bike and if I ever wanted to do a route with a ‘downs link’ type element, then that’s its habitat.

This 88-mile ride wasn’t perfect for the gravel. But it was probably just about the best compromise out of gravel/road/mountain.

But my rides tend to be on or off road. So if off-road, an mtb is just so much more comfortable, capable and suited to the hills.

And for big road rides, particularly our tour trips with big down hills, then I’d always favour the purity of a road weapon.

I’ll leave with this thought though. Both Macca and RTA’s bikes are lovely. Really nice examples. Expensive, tight, slick. Lovely to ride. And they are growing in popularity judging by the crowd who rocked up for the run to the coast. James has got one too, so when the German lands back he’ll be all over it and Strava will be awash with JT/RTA/Macca gravel rides where there will be much declaring of ‘It’s like when you were a kid…riding around all over the place just for the pleasure of it. No GPS..no heart rate monitor..it’s a breath of fresh air’ and other such snake-oilery.

Ultimately though it’s a bike, it’s outdoors, it’s with your mates.

Really, that’s all that matters. The bikes have always been secondary to that and always will.

Gravel onward my friends, gravel onward.

Hoppo

Ps Damo… just price one up for me…just out of curiosity you understand, yeah?

[courage-a-word-of-justice]

BnHA 49 - 50 | Hinamatsuri 11 - 12 (FINAL) | MSO 12 (FINAL) | Boueibu HK 10 - 11 | Rokuhoudou 11

BnHA 49

“Tsukauchi…All Might…” – Come to think of it, what is Tsukauchi doing at this moment in time, anyway?

“…the ones who are smiling are the strongest.” – This reminds me of what Atro Spyker said in Rokka no Yuusha…“If you want to be strong, smile! He who can smile, even when he's so sad that he wants to die, when it's so painful that he wants to give it all up and run away, is the one who becomes strong.”

Why is there a person wearing a LLENN cap in the crowd, anyway? Is that intentional?

“What is with that pitiful back?!” – You can really see parallels between Bakugo and Izuku now between Endeavour and All Might…hmm.

Gran Torino in his prime…looks like Knuckleduster from Vigilantes somewhat.

Interestingly, the word daikokubashira (central pillar) comes to mind with all this talk about pillars. Normally I’d use that word in conjunction with a nuclear family and apparently the word can be used in a more literal sense with a house. However, in both cases, All Might is the pillar to the structure he made with society itself. Now that he’s pretty much done for, it’s like a Jenga game’s end. Everything falls apart. (Hey, I have a post on this topic in progress! Probably shouldn’t have mentioned all this…)

Hypertrophy.

All for One looks…normal when he’s dead. I thought he was creepy when he was still up and about, but now I’m no longer afraid. Ha…haha…

Hey, it’s Uwabami! Haven’t seen her in a while.

Oh, the guy in the ED is Eraserhead with his hair slung back.

Hinamatsuri 11

One more episode until we have to say goodbye to this show…I really liked it while it was around.

Isn’t Rairaiken the name of the Chinese restaurant Anzu works at…?

Wait, so Nitta’s sister knows karate?! What?! Why didn’t anyone mention that earlier?!

This scene with the ashtray reminds me of Nitta’s senpai, although I forgot what the senpai’s name is…wasn’t he in the previous episode though? I really do have a terrible memory sometimes, huh?

“Is he really just a regular nice guy?”

It’s basically the Ember Island Players all over again! Hahaha…

Hina’s shirt says doutoku. The only kanji combo I could get for that means “morals” or “morality”.

What’s up with the line about yaks, anyway?

Hina’s shirt says sugosugi = “too awesome”. Then it said “haha”, which could mean her mother…but I think it’s more the English meaning, out of context.

I’d read in an interview on Seiyuu+ that “Anzu is an angel” and that Nitta wanted to keep Anzu instead of Hina, but I never thought it meant either so literally…

“Reality (Hina) is coming home.” – LOL!

What…? Hina’s gone missing, in the mountains? What if Ikaruga took her??? Oh dear…

Boueibu HK 10

Well, there ain’t nothing more manly than sleeping in nothing but your birthday suit on a futon…right? (kidding)

I laughed so hard at Kyoutarou sneezing. The “person’s drowning” trope for fanservice at least goes back to 2004 or so – DN Angel (the anime, I believe) did it, I definitely remember that.

Poor Kyoutarou is being used as a demo dummy in this set of illustrations, LOL.

Everyone’s using the phrase nechatta, which holds some interesting implications. You see, the meaning of chatta means either completion…or the fact the action being done has negative implications. In this case, it’s both.

I think Kyoutarou called Karurusu “Karuru” or “Karu” or something.

Turtle-kun is so smol, I wanna cuddle him!

Hey, even the subs use “Martha” now…I’m so confused, still.

The word the old men want is “monster” (kaijin), but then the other word they thought of was katsukare- (pork cutlet curry), so I can see why the word was bent out of shape like that now. Notably, Karurusu didn’t age at all…

Taishi’s using the word yancha (naughty), which basically confirms he was a delinquent when he was younger. Just in a very roundabout way.

Notably, Nanao hasn’t stopped drinking tea after all those years, and Karurusu seems to have a very very long lifespan if he comments on it like that…

Inago = locust. Ichigo = strawberry. The former is correct (it’s in katakana, so there’s one stroke’s difference between na and chi).

Wow…spoilers told me I should’ve seen that coming, but watching old men transform is not my gig, so thank goodness I was spared from that ordeal…

Hey, we’re back to our old tradition of dark skies for the finale…although we didn’t have that in s2, eh?

They don’t even have voice roles for smol!Ata, Ryoma and Kyoutarou! That’s unfair!

The reason we all call the show “Boueibu” is because the staff did it first…so here’s (the next ep preview) just some extra proof of that.

MSO 12 (FINAL)

Noticeably, Yamo uses the word taoshite (to collapse), so literally his demand is to “make me collapse”…it’s a bit weird to translate it like that, which is probably why the subbers went with a different translation.

What did Mohiro ever do to be hurt like this, anyway? He doesn’t deserve to be hurt, Yamo…dangit. This is why you can’t be MVP anymore.

More montages…*sigh*

What the-orbefjvpenfp, Hyoue?! Don’t ruin the moment, regardless of whether it constitutes yaoi or not!

So…uh, somehow demons are talked about in terms of code? Y’see, this is why you need a good garbage collector.

I love how they were just called “The Hyoue Squad”, even though this show is called “Mahou Shoujo Ore”.

Gah! Anime-original characters steal the spotlight again…well, there goes my hopes for a good MSO ending, eh?

To think that Michiru’s male form is voiced by Kisho Taniyama – the guy who voiced Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs) – though…I still don’t match those voices with each other in my head, y’know.

…and somehow they were in Tokyo Tower. Of course, because Tokyo is the centre of the universe (sarcastic).

The thing about this show is that it’s so off-the-wall it doesn’t quite make emotional moments work, even ones like Yamo’s final handshake…sure, it kind of hit me in the feels because I’ve known this series for longer than some people, but not really…if you get what I mean.

I think Astral was thinking about this during one of the other episodes, but…they’re only bringing the topic of who Ore is to Michiru now??? Wuh???

The experience of this show wasn’t as bad as I was making it out to be in the beginning, but it wasn’t the most perfect thing either. I would rather they have done more filler with Saki and Sakuyo instead of coming up with anime-original characters to fill the gaps, but I’m also fine with what we got in the end...it’s a complex set of feelings that I don’t think I’ll ever get over. Anyways, that’s another show over and done. See you next time!

Rokuhoudou 11

Demi-glace.

Gotta love Sui’s Gendo poses! By the way, ponzu is some kind of citrus sauce.

This isn’t a particularly standout OP, but I might miss it for a week or two after this show’s end…I don’t want this show to end, actually. But as they say, be careful what you wish for.

(I still have no idea why they say “girls be ambitious” in the OP when the main stars are dudes…)

You might’ve noticed the one I like best from Rokuhoudou is Tokitaka. His voice, his hair, his caring nature (as demonstrated here with the old people), his ability to cook great food…*sighs dreamily* what a man he is!

You might not know this is you haven’t read the character pages for the show, but Tokitaka runs a pottery class. That’s why Osada and co. call him “Sensei”.

“Nagae”? I’ve never seen Sui refer to Tokitaka by his last name before! This is really something!

Oh dear, more Hotel East Side…notably, Osada is using very polite words (keigo) since she’s not really familiar with Sui.

There’s a shot where the light from the window streams on to Sui and you can’t tell if he’s wearing a kimono or a business suit…ooh, that must be symbolic in some way, y’know?

Mirin is a type of alcohol.

Rokuhoudou keeps surprising its customers…I wonder if I, as a blogger, can keep surprising people that way too…then I’d be set for life.

So that’s how Tokitaka uses unused stuff from his classes (using them at the Rokuhoudou)?! Wow, didn’t see that coming!

Osada looked like she was gonna cry, and that almost made me cry for a second!

“My father built East Side Grande.” – *spits out half-eaten food* Holy shiitake mushrooms! Rokuhoudou is best enjoyed with food, but if I keep spitting it out, I’m going to have to clean up around here…(kidding)

I didn’t even realise half the episode had gone so quickly! Yipes!

Hinamatsuri 12 (FINAL)

“It’s snow big deal.” – I get the feeling it was meant to have a pun in Japanese, but I don’t hear one when I listen to the audio…

Oh, there’s no Utako at the end of the OP! I kept skipping it, so that’s why I never knew…

Interestingly, the yuki is in kanji and the rest is in hiragana, which probably means it has to be a riff on the show’s name and not referring to any particular snow festival in particular.

Wait, forcible shipping? C’mon, they’re 13! That just lowered my opinion of the show somewhat.

Doesn’t this remind you of when Mao got stranded on the island and then made Hina go “Feed me”? She was on the ball after all…

Geez, that kid on the left (either Kengo or the other guy) is sadistic…

“Although you’ll be getting a roe deal.” – This was a pun on ikura (salmon roe)…although I can’t tell exactly how the pun works…

Is this Namahage Town, or what? What is up with all the namahage puns? Can someone tell me???

Wait, if credits are appearing here, then why is there half an episode left…?

Montage time…*sigh*

Why did a shot of Anzu appear (LOL)?

The yakuza guys are still watching that documentary?! What (LOL)?!

The horse seems to be called Eiyon Size…or something like that.

Hey, I think it was pretty accurate for “Oi, get your hands off her!” or “Oi, young man, don’t touch her!” in Chinese…or something like that. It is pretty garbled though…

LOL, Atsushi’s screaming in English though…”Mayonnaise is Atsushi!”

The monk’s name is Shinyhead (LOL)!

Ehh? Ain’t this the same scene from the beginning? Aw man, don’t make it like DN Angel…

“Watashi no smartphone ga!” Gets me every time, man.

In the end, Pruny Shinyhead just wants money, eh?...Haha.

Wait, so Pruny Shinyhead is like Mao like the boss man to Hina, huh?

That’s an actual plane company written on the side of that plane! Lufthansa! (The writing gets cut off when it’s at its most visible, though.)

So…in the end, we don’t discover what happened to Hina and Anzu three years later. Read the manga…I get it. *sigh*

BnHA 50

Noticeably, the sign says “stop!” in katakana.

I read on the wiki Shouto’s sister is called Fuyumi. That makes sense if she has an ice quirk like her mother (fuyu = winter).

“I can’t accept it. Not like this…” - Once again, you can see Bakugo in Endeavour…

Yap! (Yahoo!) News, LOL. The site doesn’t even bother parodying the purple or other style things about Yahoo!, though.

They…actually told us what happened to Ragdoll and Best Jeanist? That’s kinda sad, y’know?

Jiro’s parents are rockers? Well…that makes a lot of sense, actually.

Didn’t Brian the Sun do…yep, BnHA ED 1!

I’ve never seen a kid embarrass their dad before. It’s amazing…and so fresh.

Wow, Bakugo’s mum is…really something else. She’s got exactly the same temperament, I wonder how that family functions…

Midoriya’s shirt says “dress shirt”, LOL!

Inko’s feelings for Izuku resonated so strongly with me, I nearly cried…nearly.

I just realised…that computer in the flashback is a Windows 10. It’s got the menu and everything!

Wait…there’s an extra bit after the credits! The credits are way too long! Keep watching, keep watching…

Tartarus…? Like Alcatraz or something?

Hmm…in a lot of stories, the mentor dies. Here, the mentor doesn’t die. Good point, All for One.

Boueibu HK 11

Can I stop screaming “No duh!” every time they say “This is bad!”?

Manza the delinquent is exposed!

They’re attaching –san to the end of people’s magical aliases! Fabulous, if I do say so myself.

“We’ll stand up again and again!” – Uh, Karurusu? Kyoutarou’s sitting down…(LOL)

And…skip the transformation sequence again…and skip the purification sequence again…*sigh*

Notably, the kanji word on the wall not too far away from the pictures is “hope”.

*screams* My LOVE! boys! They’re back! (I knew they were coming because spoilers said they would, but this…this is wonderful…)

“…fail to realise…”

This entire conflict…it really is Kin-chan all over again.

This pink pigeon…is adorable! Like Turtle-kun last episode!

You can clearly see a purple hand (paw?) taking Kamopapa away, which is clearly Wao, that scoundrel of a lemur.

*voice caught in throat as Karurusu cries* Karurusu…don’t cry…

Does this mean the thing Ata wanted all along…was a handshake?

The next ep preview says "Danger is approaching King Kamopapa! Now isn't the time to be arguing!", by the way.

[cfijerusalem]

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE WITH  GOD: ONE MONTH OF RAIN IN ONE NIGHT.

“I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?” Jeremiah 32:27.

“In those days, ten men from nations of every tongue will take hold – they will take hold of every Yehudi by a corner of his cloak and say, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that Hashem is with you’” Zechariah 8:23 (The Israel Bible). 

We have many miracles here in the Land of Israel all year round. We want the nations to hear about them. One recent one is rain. The word for rain in Hebrew is geshem. It literally means “timely/blessed rain” geshem bracha. If it rains earlier or later, it can damage the produce. For that reason, the Hebrew language has special words for the first rain yoreh and for the last rain of the season malkosh. The Torah tells us that rainfall in Israel is dependent on keeping God’s laws. Prayers for rain have been bountifully answered this year. Reports inform us that Israel normally receives seven inches of rain for the entire month; seven inches fell overnight on a Sabbath when Jews read the Torah portion of Toldot making it one of the rainiest days in modern Israel’s history. Some areas of Israel’s coast have already seen over 40% of their average annual rainfall. Mount Hermon in the north received its first snow of the season.

“Rain in Israel is a reflection of the relationship between the Jews and God. ‘If, then, you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, loving Hashem your God and serving Him with all your heart and soul, I will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late…’ Deuteronomy 11:13-14. Eleven years ago, Israel was suffering from a horrible drought. Recently during this pandemic, rains fell here, but another plague of locusts hit Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It was right after Israel recited a passage in the Bible ‘For if you refuse to let My people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts on your territory’ Exodus 10:4 The Israel Bible.” ~ Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Biblical News

A massive swarm of locusts ate up everything in its path in Africa and crossed the Red Sea into Saudi Arabia. For now, the Arabians have it under control, but if it continues to spread (which it seems to be doing), it could bring a welcome respite to war-torn Yemen whose starving inhabitants consider the locust to be a delicacy. In the summer of 2019, locusts invaded Yemen just prior to the month-long Ramadan fast. The insects were snatched up by the Yemenis who traditionally eat them roasted as a protein served with rice and vegetables. Yemenis claim that eating them has health benefits which include easing diabetes and hypertension. Despite human consumption of insects being strictly forbidden by the Torah, locusts are the notable exception and are kosher (Leviticus 11:22-23). It is interesting to note that recently Jews in synagogues all around the world were reading Parsha Bo - the section of the Torah describing the plague of locusts that struck Egypt before the Exodus. Locusts invaded all the land of Egypt and settled within all the territory of Egypt in a thick mass; never before had there been so many, nor will there ever be so many again. They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt (Exodus 10:14-15).

According to Jewish tradition and based on a verse in Micah, the ten-plagues will reappear before the Messiah. “I will show him wondrous deeds, as in the days when You sallied forth from the land of Egypt” Micah 7:15. Jewish sources predict that all of the plagues will reappear in the final Redemption but in even more powerful forms. It is written in Midrash Tanchuma, homiletic teachings collected around the fifth century, that “just as God struck the Egyptians with 10 plagues, so too He will strike the enemies of the Jewish people at the time of the Redemption.” Rabbi Bahya Ben Asher, a 13th-century Spanish commentator, wrote, “In Egypt, God used only part of His strength. When the final redemption comes, God will show much, much more of His power.” The world is ripe for judgment, including God’s People who need to return to God’s ways. However, we know that God is at work in Israel, as well as in the nations. Nothing – nothing at all is impossible with Him. We need to “watch and pray” Matthew 26:41 as Jesus instructed us. This way we will be encouraged that we are moving forward in redemption for Israel and the nations. Keep looking “up” and you will “hear” more about what He will do with His Chosen People in the latter days.

Let’s Enter the Throne Room in Unity and Purpose

REAL TIME PRAYER CONCERNS

Syrian media reported seeing Syrian Army Troops on the Lebanese side of the Hermon Mount recently. (With its summit straddling the border between Syria and Lebanon, Mount Hermon was captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. After becoming the northernmost point in Israel and therefore of huge strategic significance, the Hermon was recaptured by Syria at the outset of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. It was recaptured by Israel after fierce fighting by the Golani brigade.  

The pre-Yom Kippur War Syrian-controlled sector was returned to Syria after the war. Syria maintained an extended occupation of Lebanon from 1976 to 2005.) Headlines here read: “Syrian Troops Spotted Amassing Near Israel’s Mt. Hermon Border” (Adam Berkowitz, January 2021).The area has become very active lately. Recently also, four Syrian family members were killed by falling debris from the Syrian air-defense system reacting to an alleged Israeli airstrike. On January 13, airstrikes also attributed to Israel targeted dozens of sites in the Deir al-Zor region of eastern Syria resulting in 25-50 casualties. Two weeks earlier, an attack attributed to Israel targeted a munitions factory in north-western Syria near the city of Masyaf. There is so much hatred of Israel by Arab nations; however on the other hand, a Muslim Mayor of Nazareth says :We love Israel” (David Sidman reported).

Pray for Godly leaders in Israel’s government (Memshala, ממשלה ) in Hebrew, to arise in Israel to replace the disunity with unity. The real King of Israel is yet to come back. That’s Yeshua! Until then “...give them a warning. Tell the people what a king will do to them. Tell them how a king rules people” (I Samuel 8:9 ERV).

Ask God to give Israel wisdom as the IDF prepares in a massive war drill slated for this upcoming summer. The drill is expected to last a month and will simulate a full-scale war, including with Gaza, and extending to the northern threat, which will be the main focus. “Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you.” (Proverbs 4:6-7).

Intercede for a real spiritual change to take place in the people of Israel as disunity and division is reigning at the moment. All need to draw back to God and follow His Ways. “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near” (Isaiah 55:6).

Thank God that even though Israel claims democracy, they must still look for their King. May they be able to see that they can never be truly satisfied with a political kingdom, but need a theocracy in which God Almighty will rule. (Isaiah 2:3, Micah 4:2). Proclaim the Coming Kingdom under God’s government and according to His Ways.

Be hopeful and look up for the Torah will “go forth” to the world the way the Coming King will deliver it, not the way of rabbis, not the way of pastors, but the voice of the Word of God through the King of Kings.

Praise the God of Israel that He has a plan to remove the system(s) of the world. Man has tried to perfect it - but it is worldly. Thank God for the days when man shall not have positions, titles, nor power, but all will bow the knee to the God of Israel and His Messiah. (Isaiah 45:23; Romans 14:11).

Pray and intercede for Yeshua to come and establish God’s Kingdom on earth in Jerusalem. Christians are citizens of that Kingdom along with a redeemed Israel that will emerge when He arises. Our identity is here with Israel. “Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12).

Keep our eyes upon the Mountain of the Lord, Mount Zion in Jerusalem. Pray for Godly voices to arise in Israel to want to bring the people back to the Torah of Almighty God. Yeshua (Jesus) was always teaching it to His Disciples as we see in the New Testament. May the Church, along with Israel, no longer reject the truth of God’s Word, but abide by it and be reminded that in spite of hardships and hard days, God is going to fulfil every “jot and tittle” of His Word just as Jesus told us He will. (Matthew 5:18).

Many here in Israel realize that Israel is on her way to Redemption. It may not appear to be that way, but God is always working towards His Goals and His Word. That means in our Christian terminology that the approaching of the Messianic Kingdom is in motion. Birth pangs will be difficult, but as in any birth, one must “pass through” or “pass over” the pain of it all. Each new day here brings forth new opportunities to be a shining light to Israel and to prepare the way of the Lord. Thank you for every prayer warrior around the world. Let us all continue to pray, “Thy Kingdom come...on earth...” (Matthew 6:10). Won’t it be wonderful to see how the Lord changes many hearts upon His arrival?

Until that time, continue to persevere in prayer, believe the Promises of God for Israel and the Nations, and to remember to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem” (Psalm 122:6). Troubling days lie ahead.

Lots of love always.

In His Service Together,

Sharon Sanders

Christian Friends of Israel - Jerusalem

[tiablackraven]

100 questions challenge

1.) What is you middle name? I don’t have a middle name

2.) How old are you? 22

3.) When is your birthday? 14th April

4.) What is your zodiac sign? Aries

5.) What is your favorite color? Blue

6.) What’s your lucky number? 3? Maybe..?

7.) Do you have any pets? Some fishes in an aquarium (they’re names are: Andelina, Guendalina, Leopoldo, Dino, Sergente Baffetti, Olaf, Martino, Pasquino and Pinguino) and a family of 3 blackbirds that lives in my garden (Merlo, Merlino and Tondina)

8.) Where are you from? Friuli, in Italy

9.) How tall are you? 155cm

10.) What shoe size are you? 38/39

11.) How many pairs of shoes do you own? 2

12.) What was your last dream about? In my last dream, I was running along a foggy street at night trying desperately to get home. At one point I find a gray house and on the balcony there is a little girl, faceless, dressed in black with a white fulard that observes me. I ask for help and she indicate the right way by pointing with a finger, I thank her, and I can get to the front door of my house.

13.) What talents do you have? Just draw

14.) Are you psychic in any way? Uh? I don’t think.. ( .3.)

15.) Favorite song? I like a lot of songs… Let’s say that at the moment I choose Glass Walls and Waterfalls-Nick Ammar

16.) Favourite movie? Same thing as before.. I like too many movies! Uuuh..Harry Potter’s Saga..? Jurassic Park….?

17.) Who would be your ideal partner? I like “giants with a cream heart” and, physically, I prefer boys that black hair, a bit of unkempt beard and light eyes

18.) Do you want children? At the moment no

19.) Do you want a church wedding? I… don’t know…..?

20.) Are you religious? Yes, but not at extreme levels. Only behave well with others

21.) Have you ever been to the hospital? When she was a child a lot, but I do not remember anything. For the rest only for checks or vaccines, nothing special

22.) Have you ever got in trouble with the law? Fortunately no and I hope also in the future

23.) Have you ever met any celebrities? Nope

24.) Baths or showers? Showers

25.) What color socks are you wearing? Light grey with white stripes

26.) Have you ever been famous? Nope

27.) Would you like to be a big celebrity? Yes, but only on Internet

28.) What type of music do you like? I like a lot of genres, but I think that what I listen to is more punk-rock

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p>29.) Have you ever been skinny dipping? I don't understand the question ('-' )?/p>

30.) How many pillows do you sleep with? 1

31.) What position do you usually sleep in? I sleep on my side when I’m curled up; but in winter, if it’s really cold, I’m in “caterpillar” mode where I wrap myself up with blankets

32.) How big is your house? Big enough: 2 floors + ground floor + cellar

33.) What do you typically have for breakfast? Coffee with milk and cookies

34.) Have you ever fired a gun? Nope but I have challenged more than a real sword

35.) Have you ever tried archery? Nope but I would like to try in the future

36.) Favorite clean word? “Nani?”[“What?” from japanese]

37.) Favorite swear word? “Babbeo!”[“Looby!” from italian] and “Cretino!”[“Nitwit!” from italian]

38.) What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep? 37 hours below

39.) Do you have any scars? One on the left shoulder, falling off the bike because a great St. Bernard was coming to me (with his nitwit master who did not give a damn and kept talking with someone), trying to dodge the big dog I jumped on purpose by the bike but I was at the beginning of a descent and therefore I rubbed the shoulder well, not to mention that it was summer and the asphalt was very hot (I’m not there with the dog but only with his stupid master)

40.) Have you ever had a secret admirer? More than one: One on DeviantArt, three in real life (one of which is soooo much younger than me) and two in online video games

41.) Are you a good liar? Yes, but only when I need

42.) Are you a good judge of character? I don’t think. I do not like talking bad about people (apart from some rare cases, really bastard people)

43.) Can you do any other accents other than your own? Yes, but just to joke

44.) Do you have a strong accent? Absolutely not

45.) What is your favorite accent? Neapolitan..? Japanese..? I don’t know.. But I really like the Italian accent in English films

46.) What is your personality type? Mediator

47.) What is your most expensive piece of clothing? I have no idea, but I’m not one that tends to spend a lot on clothes or things signed

48.) Can you curl your tongue? Nope

49.) Are you an innie or an outie? Uh…Innie?

50.) Left or right handed? Right

51.) Are you scared of spiders? Nope, also someone are nice (^w^)

52.) Favorite food? As a complex dish Sauce of Mixed Fish with Polenta (very tasty) as a simple ice cream (chocolate-mint and milk)

53.) Favorite foreign food? Cantonese rice

54.) Are you a clean or messy person? A bit of both

55.) Most used phrase? “Ma daiiiiiiii!”[“Come ooooooon!” from italian]

56.) Most used word? “Hoooooooooi!” or “ anyway..”(at the end of a phrase)

57.) How long does it take for you to get ready? Not a long time

58.) Do you have much of an ego? Naaaah..

59.) Do you suck or bite lollipops? Suck

60.) Do you talk to yourself? Few times

61.) Do you sing to yourself? When I walk in a street with nobody around, in the car with my mother, while I work at home and, most importantly, when I take a shower

62.) Are you a good singer? I don’t know..maybe yes..?

63.) Biggest Fear? The locusts, the cockroaches and the future

64.) Are you a gossip? Naaah..

65.) Best dramatic movie you’ve seen? “Interstellar” worth?

66.) Do you like long or short hair? Short

67.) Can you name all 50 states of America? Pffft..nope!

68.) Favorite school subject? Art (UvU)

69.) Extrovert or Introvert? Introvert

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p>70.) Have you ever been scuba diving? Nope, but i wanna try on future

71.) What makes you nervous? Exams and social events

72.) Are you scared of the dark? Noway

73.) Do you correct people when they make mistakes? Nope

74.) Are you ticklish? Yeah (^-^)“

75.) Have you ever started a rumor? Nope

76.) Have you ever been in a position of authority? I was a class representative in high school, but apart from that nothing more

77.) Have you ever drank underage? Nope, but for my will and not because my parents told me

78.) Have you ever done drugs? Hell no!

79.) Who was your first real crush? My first real crush I had in the third year of high school: it was a guy with black hair, beard and dark eyes. He was part of the Fashion class (which was “close to class” with my class of Design) he was very nice and kind, we often met for the corridors and to draw in the class of the bright tables ….. then I discovered he was gay ( ç-ç)

80.) How many piercings do you have? I do not have, but I’d like to have them at the top of the ear

81.) Can you roll your Rs? Yup!

82.) How fast can you type? Enugh

83.) How fast can you run? The ride is not for me ..I hate runing

84.) What color is your hair? Black (but I have some of white hair)

85.) What color is your eyes? Greens (with some small light-blue spots)

86.) What are you allergic to? Nothing

87.) Do you keep a journal? More or less: I have a “Diary of Dreams” which I transcend my dreams and look for possible meanings

88.) What do your parents do? My mother works in the office in the Ministry of Works and my father runs an electronics repair and sales shop

89.) Do you like your age? Yeah

90.) What makes you angry? People who say “shut up”, rudeness (of people and the environment), not be believed or listened to

91.) Do you like your own name? Noway..but I like what they call me in the family: “Siana”

92.) Have you already thought of baby names, and if so what are they? If males, Marco or Lorenzo, if females, Selene or Artemisia

93.) Do you want a boy a girl for a child? Both

94.) What are you strengths? I’m brave enough,I can wait,I can play videogames, I can draw, I try to help others and I’m a good goalkeeper

95.) What are your weaknesses? I am dyslexic, I think too much about the future, I have mood swings, I am not good at subjects (nor explain them),I don’t know very good english, I have a bad memory, I struggle to relate, I can not make decisions, I can not cook, I have little self-esteem and I tend to lose sight of people over time

96.) How did you get your name? My father wanted a complex name so that, if he called me out of school, twenty little girls would not turn around

97.) Were your ancestors royalty? Pffft.. I don’t belive!Although I do not actually know the story of my father’s family

98.) Do you have any scars? Yes on the shoulder (uh? déjà vu?)

99.) Color of your bedspread? Blue

100.) Color of your room? Withe, brown and light brown

[quranreadalong]

THE BAD QURAN, PT 6: SURAH 7

Given that half this surah involved recounting various incidents of Allah committing genocide, it probably will not surprise you that we have far more bad ayat to cover than good ones. 55 more of them, in fact.

7:4-5 sets the tone for the surah, with Allah bragging about how many towns he’s terrorized and destroyed. Towns of disbelievers, of course. 7:9 (and 7:53) reminds us that the act of disbelieving destroys one’s soul; 7:27 and 7:30 later remind us that the disbelievers are friends with devils.

In case you hadn’t already gotten the message, 7:32-33 tell us yet again that only Muslims go to heaven, because people who “lie” about Allah are sinful. If that still wasn’t enough for you to get the message, Mohammed then launches into a long-ass diatribe about the disbelievers. Those who deny his revelations are going to hell (7:36). They will be made to testify against themselves before Allah (7:37). Generation after generation will be thrown into The Fire for their disbelief (7:38-39). They will never be allowed into heaven and will be forced onto the “bed of hell” (7:40-41). Believers will taunt the disbelievers from heaven (7:44-45). The disbelievers in hell will beg for water, which will be denied to them, because they denied Mohammed’s revelations (7:50-51).

What a happy start to the surah!!!

At this point, the surah transitions into Prophet Dodgeball mode, throwing a shitload of stories about prophets telling people to stop being disbelievers, them not listening, and then Allah killing them at you. Noah is first. Noah tells people that he fears Allah will punish them if they don’t stop disbelieving (7:59). But they don’t, so Allah drowns them all in 7:64.

The next story is of the prophet Hud. “Stop being disbelievers,” he tells his people, but they don’t stop, so Allah kills them in 7:72.

Following Hud is Saleh, the one with the magic camel sent by Allah. Saleh tells people not to touch the camel, but they, being disbelievers, don’t listen and kill the camel. So Allah kills them too in 7:78.

Next is Lot, the Sodom guy. In 7:80-81, Lot expresses great displeasure that the people of Sodom are gay. Allah then kills everyone in the city besides Lot and his family (but excluding his wife) with a rain of brimstone in 7:83-84.

After Lot comes Shuaib, who has the same story: people are disbelievers, Allah punishes them (in 7:91-92 he sends an earthquake to kill them because they did not believe Shuaib). 7:93 tells us that Shuaib doesn’t care, since they were disbelievers and all.

Allah then explains in 7:94 how, every time he sends people a prophet, he also sends them misery. Then he switches it up and sends down goodness instead of badness, and gets pissed off when the people refuse to thank him for these mind games, so he takes the goodness away as punishment for being disbelievers (7:95-96).

Allah’s punishment for the disbelievers can come at any time, states 7:97-98: while they’re sleeping or awake. Anyone who thinks that they’re safe from his wrath is doomed (7:99).

As we have seen several times before, Allah seals people’s hearts so they cannot heed prophets’ warnings (7:100). If you disbelieve once, Allah curses you to disbelieve forever (7:101). (This is repeated in 7:146.) Seems a bit dickish. It’s okay, though, because most of the doomed disbelievers were wrongdoers anyway, according to 7:102.

That was a 17-ayat-long rant, if you hadn’t noticed. But back to Allah committing collective punishment. 7:130 has him sending a famine to the Egyptians to punish the pharaoh, then 7:133 brings up the various plagues (locusts, etc). The story ends in 7:136, with Allah drowning the Egyptian army.

Later in Exodus Abridged, Allah says that the whole persecution thing was a trial from him (7:141) and Moses says that the wrongdoing Hebrews (7:148) who became idolatrous will be destroyed (7:139) by Allah’s wrath (7:152).

The works and deeds of people who disbelieve are pointless; they are hellbound no matter what, according to 7:147.

Two more tales from the Moses days: first, the Jews are told to enter a city and say a certain prayer. Some of them say something else instead. 7:162 informs us that Allah sends “punishment from the sky” for this transgression. Then Allah gives the Jews fish on the Sabbath (when they aren’t allowed to fish) and no fish on other days (when they are) in order to test them, in 7:163. Allah punishes those who don’t want to play his bullshit fishing minigames in 7:165, with 7:166 informing us that they were turned into apes.

 7:167 is a hilarious ayah that states the following:

And (remember) when thy Lord proclaimed that He would raise against them till the Day of Resurrection those who would lay on them a cruel torment. Lo! verily thy Lord is swift in prosecution and lo! verily He is Forgiving, Merciful. 

Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful for sending the Jews enemies forever because... their ancestors fished on a prohibited day and stuff.

In 7:168, we are told that Allah scattered the Jews and has tested them repeatedly to bring them back to loving him. Just for good measure, Mohammed’s contemporary Jews are called greedy in 7:169.

One last Exodus-era story: there’s a prophet (traditionally Balaam, the guy whose tongue fell out) who Allah favored with revelations, but he turned to disbelief. 7:176 compares him to a dog and says that disbelievers are like him, as they are also evil (7:177). But also they are sent astray by Allah according to 7:178, so is it really their fault? (7:179 suggests the answer is yes, they’re going to hell!)

7:182-83:

And those who deny Our revelations - step by step We lead them on from whence they know not. I give them rein (for) lo! My scheme is strong.

Following that, 7:186 says that no one can help those Allah sends astray.

Finally, 7:202-03 says that evildoers (like those who ask Mohammed to prove he’s a prophet) are misled by devils.

So... that’s six separate incidents of Allah punishing specific groups of disbelievers, from Noah’s day to the days of Moses, not including the ones Allah will punish in Mohammed’s day.

SPECIAL BONUS SECTION: HALL OF SHAME!

The following ayat condemn disbelievers to hell and pinged our kuffar hell counter. They will be copied and pasted word-for-word. Given that Allah preferred to just murder disbelievers instead of waiting for them to die and then punishing them in this surah, this section is surprisingly short! It does, however, contain an enormous 6-ayat rant.

Say: Such, on the Day of Resurrection, will be only for those who believed during the life of the world. Thus do we detail Our revelations for people who have knowledge.

But they who deny Our revelations and scorn them - each are rightful owners of the Fire; they will abide therein. Who doeth greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie concerning Allah or denieth Our tokens. (For such) their appointed portion of the Book (of destiny) reacheth them till, when Our messengers come to gather them, they say: Where (now) is that to which ye cried beside Allah? They say: They have departed from us. And they testify against themselves that they were disbelievers. He saith: Enter into the Fire among nations of the jinn and humankind who passed away before you. Every time a nation entereth, it curseth its sister (nation) till, when they have all been made to follow one another thither, the last of them saith unto the first of them: Our Lord! These led us astray, so give them double torment of the Fire. He saith: For each one there is double (torment), but ye know not.  And the first of them saith unto the last of them: Ye were no whit better than us, so taste the doom for what ye used to earn. Lo! they who deny Our revelations and scorn them, for them the gates of heaven will nor be opened nor will they enter the Garden until the camel goeth through the needle's eye. Thus do We requite the guilty. Theirs will be a bed of hell, and over them coverings (of hell). Thus do We requite wrong-doers.

And the dwellers of the Fire cry out unto the dwellers of the Garden: Pour on us some water or some wherewith Allah hath provided you. They say: Lo! Allah hath forbidden both to disbelievers (in His guidance), Who took their religion for a sport and pastime, and whom the life of the world beguiled. So this day We have forgotten them even as they forgot the meeting of this their Day and as they used to deny Our tokens.

he whom Allah sendeth astray - they indeed are losers. Already have We urged unto hell many of the jinn and humankind, having hearts wherewith they understand not, and having eyes wherewith they see not, and having ears wherewith they hear not. These are as the cattle - nay, but they are worse! These are the neglectful. 

Well then.

I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the next surah is way shorter than this one, and also contains less genocide.

The bad news is that it’s called “The Spoils of War”, and yes, it means literal war booty!

Join us tomorrow for the rules of distributing shit you’ve grabbed from your vanquished foes!

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[dfroza]

Move your heart closer and closer to God,

and he will come even closer to you.

A line from Today’s reading of the Scriptures from the Leter of James with chapter 4:

[Living Close to God]

What is the cause of your conflicts and quarrels with each other? Doesn’t the battle begin inside of you as you fight to have your own way and fulfill your own desires? You jealously want what others have so you begin to see yourself as better than others. You scheme with envy and harm others to selfishly obtain what you crave—that’s why you quarrel and fight. And all the time you don’t obtain what you want because you won’t ask God for it! And if you ask, you won’t receive it for you’re asking with corrupt motives, seeking only to fulfill your own selfish desires. You have become spiritual adulterers who are having an affair, an unholy relationship with the world. Don’t you know that flirting with the world’s values places you at odds with God? Whoever chooses to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy!

Does the Scripture mean nothing to you that says, “The Spirit that God breathed into our hearts is a jealous Lover who intensely desires to have more and more of us”?

But he continues to pour out more and more grace upon us. For it says,

God resists you when you are proud

but continually pours out grace when you are humble.”

So then, surrender to God. Stand up to the devil and resist him and he will turn and run away from you. Move your heart closer and closer to God, and he will come even closer to you. But make sure you cleanse your life, you sinners, and keep your heart pure and stop doubting. Feel the pain of your sin, be sorrowful and weep! Let your joking around be turned into mourning and your joy into deep humiliation. Be willing to be made low before the Lord and he will exalt you!

Dear friends, as part of God’s family, never speak against another family member, for when you slander a brother or sister you violate God’s law of love. And your duty is not to make yourself a judge of the law of love by saying that it doesn’t apply to you, but your duty is to obey it! There is only one true Lawgiver and Judge, the One who has the power to save and destroy—so who do you think you are to judge your neighbor?

Listen, those of you who are boasting, “Today or tomorrow we’ll go to another city and spend some time and go into business and make heaps of profit!” But you don’t have a clue what tomorrow may bring. For your fleeting life is but a warm breath of air that is visible in the cold only for a moment and then vanishes! Instead you should say, “Our tomorrows are in the Lord’s hands and if he is willing we will live life to its fullest and do this or that.” But here you are, boasting in your ignorance, for to be presumptuous about what you’ll do tomorrow is evil!

So if you know of an opportunity to do the right thing today, yet you refrain from doing it, you’re guilty of sin.

The Letter of James, Chapter 4 (The Passion Translation)

Today’s paired chapter in the Old Testament is Leviticus 11 where God describes various animals that the Hebrews were allowed and not allowed to eat. and of course there are certain foods that are better for us than others, yet we see the Lord commanding Peter thousands of years later to kill and eat such things that were considered “impure” according to Jewish law, such as pigs which many now enjoy as pork. and it was also stated to Peter that such things are now “clean” to consume when done so with thanks to God.

i myself do enjoy a good pulled pork sandwich or spiral sliced ham. and barbecue ribs. i’m thankful for such things.

[Leviticus 11]

God spoke to Moses and Aaron: “Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, Of all the animals on Earth, these are the animals that you may eat:

“You may eat any animal that has a split hoof, divided in two, and that chews the cud, but not an animal that only chews the cud or only has a split hoof. For instance, the camel chews the cud but doesn’t have a split hoof, so it’s unclean. The rock badger chews the cud but doesn’t have a split hoof and so it’s unclean. The rabbit chews the cud but doesn’t have a split hoof so is unclean. The pig has a split hoof, divided in two, but doesn’t chew the cud and so is unclean. You may not eat their meat nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

“Among the creatures that live in the water of the seas and streams, you may eat any that have fins and scales. But anything that doesn’t have fins and scales, whether in seas or streams, whether small creatures in the shallows or huge creatures in the deeps, you are to detest. Yes, detest them. Don’t eat their meat; detest their carcasses. Anything living in the water that doesn’t have fins and scales is detestable to you.

“These are the birds you are to detest. Don’t eat them. They are detestable: eagle, vulture, osprey, kite, all falcons, all ravens, ostrich, nighthawk, sea gull, all hawks, owl, cormorant, ibis, water hen, pelican, Egyptian vulture, stork, all herons, hoopoe, bat.

“All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you. But you can eat some of these, namely, those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground: all locusts, katydids, crickets, and grasshoppers. But all the other flying insects that have four legs you are to detest.

“You will make yourselves ritually unclean until evening if you touch their carcasses. If you pick up one of their carcasses you must wash your clothes and you’ll be unclean until evening.

“Every animal that has a split hoof that’s not completely divided, or that doesn’t chew the cud is unclean for you; if you touch the carcass of any of them you become unclean.

“Every four-footed animal that goes on its paws is unclean for you; if you touch its carcass you are unclean until evening. If you pick up its carcass you must wash your clothes and are unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.

“Among the creatures that crawl on the ground, the following are unclean for you: weasel, rat, all lizards, gecko, monitor lizard, wall lizard, skink, chameleon. Among the crawling creatures, these are unclean for you. If you touch them when they are dead, you are ritually unclean until evening. When one of them dies and falls on something, that becomes unclean no matter what it’s used for, whether it’s made of wood, cloth, hide, or sackcloth. Put it in the water—it’s unclean until evening, and then it’s clean. If one of these dead creatures falls into a clay pot, everything in the pot is unclean and you must break the pot. Any food that could be eaten but has water on it from such a pot is unclean, and any liquid that could be drunk from it is unclean. Anything that one of these carcasses falls on is unclean—an oven or cooking pot must be broken up; they’re unclean and must be treated as unclean. A spring, though, or a cistern for collecting water remains clean, but if you touch one of these carcasses you’re ritually unclean. If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean. But if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, you must treat it as unclean.

“If an animal that you are permitted to eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass is ritually unclean until evening. If you eat some of the carcass you must wash your clothes and you are unclean until evening. If you pick up the carcass you must wash your clothes and are unclean until evening.

“Creatures that crawl on the ground are detestable and not to be eaten. Don’t eat creatures that crawl on the ground, whether on their belly or on all fours or on many feet—they are detestable. Don’t make yourselves unclean or be defiled by them, because I am your God.

“Make yourselves holy for I am holy. Don’t make yourselves ritually unclean by any creature that crawls on the ground. I am God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Be holy because I am holy.

“These are the instructions on animals, birds, fish, and creatures that crawl on the ground. You have to distinguish between the ritually unclean and the clean, between living creatures that can be eaten and those that cannot be eaten.”

The Book of Leviticus, Chapter 11 (The Message)

my personal reading of the Scriptures for Thursday, may 7 of 2020 with a paired chapter from each Testament along with Today’s Psalms and Proverbs

[andromedahawking]

OC Bullshit AKA: Group Project Part 1

Maria hated group projects. With a passion. Every time, she ended up pulling all the weight while everyone else skived off.

This time, though, she seemed to have joined a group that shared her pain.

The project was daunting: a full rundown of the 2056 election, primaries and general, due in one month. Five people in the group: Adrien Cranston, Hannah Chase, herself, Tatjana Mekall, and Xander York. By her logic, that was one person for each primary and one for the general, if they wanted to divvy it up that way. Although, none of them were exactly equally weighted—she knew for a fact that the Progressive primary had been a beast that election.

She had been the one to set up the group chat after class that day, already gearing up for another hellish month of dealing with four useless partners and doing the heavy lifting all the way—but this time was different.

Tuesday 2 October 2084, 17:47

MT Hey guys, Maria here. This’ll be a big project, we should schedule time to get together soon to work on it.

XY Hey! Agreed, we should meet ASAP.

If we can get this done early that would be ideal, I have big stuff in English Week 4.

AC I’m free every Monday, Wednesday and Friday after 16. Free all weekends, but Tues/Thurs are no-gos.

TM I’m in Xander’s English too, Week 4 is a major due date so finishing this quick is a really big priority.

MT I’m free past 16:30 on weekdays. Not free until 16 on weekends.

XY I’m free every day after 17.

HC I’m busy Mon Tues and Weds, free after 17 otherwise.

TM I’m free until 20 on weekends, free after 16 on weekdays.

MT So Friday and weekends after 17 work best for everyone?

AC Yeah that works

XY Can do.

TM Yup.

HC That’ll work.

MT Okay. Let’s meet up Friday at 17:30.

AC Meeting point?

HC Does everyone know Lac de la Lune?

XY Yeah I’ve heard of it.

AC Are you kidding I love that place Let’s do it

TM That’s in Walnut Creek, right?

That works for me.

MT Yeah, it’s in Walnut Creek near the Millenial Cinema on Locust.

So, Lac de la Lune at 17:30?

AC Let’s do it

HC That’s good

XY Yes

TM Yeah

MT Alright. It’s set.

See you guys there.

Bonus points to Hannah for suggesting Lac de la Lune. They served the best drinks there. Maria had arrived at 17, not wanting to be late, and got a booth for them. She’d brought her laptop and her textbook with her, and promptly supplemented that with a White Russian. Alcohol made History go down more smoothly.

17:10 gave her the first pleasant surprise of the day: Adrien arrived with all his materials.

“Afternoon,” he said with a wave, sitting down opposite her. “I’m glad you got a booth, I always liked them better.”

“History requires a cushy seat and strong drinks,” she said, smiling crookedly.

“God, relatable…” he groaned. “I look at the project outline and I feel my soul die in my chest.”

“Have you seen the Wikipedia article on the 2056 election?” she asked. “It makes me wanna die. It’s a nightmare.”

“I have,” he said. “I also wanted to die when I saw it. It’s so long.”

“And that’s just the Wikipedia article,” she said. “There’s so much stuff about this whole thing, you could write an entire textbook about it.”

“Someone probably has.” Adrien picked up a menu. “I don’t know what I want to eat…”

“Pick a drink first, that’s my advice.”

“I already know what I want to drink, that’s easy. Food is a lock I can never pick.”

“Burger. You can’t go wrong with a burger.”

“True, but…” He bit his lip. “Burgers weigh me down. I need something lighter.”

“Pizza? You can get it thin-crust and plain.”

“Ooooo. Oo, yeah, that sounds good. I’ll do that.”

The others trickled in early as well. It was 17:20 by the time Xander came in and completed the group. Everybody was actually prepared. It was amazing to see: all five of them, laptops and books at the ready, eager to get this damn thing done swiftly and painlessly.

“Okay, so, first of all,” Hannah began, “we need to figure out how to break this up. It goes from about June 2055 to January 2057. There’s the four primaries, then the general and everything between that and the inauguration.”

“We shouldn’t do one primary or the general apiece,” Xander said. “The Pros and Dems' primaries are a huge mess compared to the Reps and Cons.”

“Yeah, Mazer and Birch were locked in way before Hanover or Scott,” Maria nodded. “We’d be better off going by subjects or something.”

“We also have to remember the 29th Amendment,” Tatjana said.

“Oh, fuck, you’re right,” Maria groaned. “The proportional voting totally changed the dynamic.”

“Yeah, that’s true,” Adrien agreed. “And there’s also the VAP Automatic Registration Act.”

“Okay,” Hannah said. “So we can break it up into five groups of subjects, like, um, election changes and things like that… uh, debates, other things.”

“Yeah, that oughta work better,” Xander said.

“Cool,” Maria said. “Let’s do it.”

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They made some decent headway before their meals came, but it was to be expected that once it was time to eat, work ground to a halt.

“My favourite part of the whole thing is how she was president for two terms, and now she’s a Senator,” Xander laughed. “Like, there’s nothing in the Constitution that says you can’t be a Senator after you’re President! We have two former Presidents as Senators right now!”

“It’s so fucking weird, man,” Maria sighed. “The government is a shitshow.”

“I mean, to be fair, Mazer is a pretty darn good Senator,” Adrien said. “Even if she is a Republican.”

“Don’t you know?” Tatjana said with fake disgust. “Labels are fake. Politics are a lie.”

“Yeah, haven’t you heard of RINOs before?” Hannah giggled. “She used to be a Progressive.”

“Yeah, yeah, I know, I know,” Adrien said, taking a big bite of pizza. “But still, she’s the only Republican I ever voted for.”

“Oh, so you’re one of those people?” Hannah asked. “You vote along party lines?”

“Not always! I cross the aisle sometimes.”

“Fuckin’ weirdo,” Maria said. “Be a good little Democrat and stay in line.”

“I’m a Progressive, thank you very much.”

“Same here,” Tatjana said. “I don’t matter, though, since I’m first-gen.”

“What, your parents are immigrants?” Xander asked.

“Mm-hm. They immigrated from Germany back in the 40s.”

“Oh yeah, so you’re locked in, basically,” Adrien said.

“Pretty much,” Tatjana said, grinning widely. “I’m a good girl. I vote Progressive.”

“I’m not that far gone,” Maria said. “I stick with the Democrats.”

“Establishment hack!” Hannah gasped dramatically.

“California corrupted you, didn’t it?!” Xander said. “The conservatives got to you!”

“Oh my god, is being a Democrat really being a conservative?” Maria laughed. “I thought there were two other parties that had that base covered!”

“All Democrats are conservatives in disguise,” Adrien deadpanned with a thick Southern drawl. “Don’t y’all get that? If you ain’t Progressive you ain’t American.”

“Oh good, can we get rid of Washington and Oregon, then?”

“Only if we toss in Wisconsin.”

“I can live with that.”

“What? You can’t do that!” Xander said. “That messes up the borders!”

“Look at this noob,” Tatjana said. “He thinks borders are something to be honoured!”

“Toss Wisconsin to the dogs, borders be damned!” Hannah said. “And I’m speaking as a Minnesotan, we’d be better off!”

“Well, of course you want them gone, then!” Maria said. “You have state rivalry in play!”

“Duh!” Hannah took a big sip of her drink. “It’s in my blood!”

“Okay, we obviously need to pro-con getting rid of Wisconsin,” Adrien said. “On one hand, it makes Minnestoa happy; on the other, it fucks up the borders, as Xander pointed out.”

“Wisconsin is good for industry,” Maria said. “I say that cancels out the wingnuts.”

“Well, by that logic, Montana should be counted as an asset too,” Hannah said.

“I mean, they have Teller City!” Maria said. “Teller City does some amazing stuff for robotics.”

“Okay, but that’s only industry,” Adrien said. “What about other things? What does Wisconsin add or subtract from the nation?”

“They have the cheeseheads,” Hannah said.

“We can enjoy cheese memes just as fine without Wisconsin,” Tatjana said. “They can leave and still make dumb memes.”

“You’re right. Memes are a constant,” Adrien said.

“I think we should get rid of Wisconsin,” Maria said. “50 states is a nicer number.”

“Yeah, but 51 divides into 17, and 17 is cool,” Xander said.

“I think we should nix Wisconsin on the grounds that they beat the 49ers last season,” Tatjana said.

“An excellent position,” Adrien said. “You know what? It’s decided. Wisconsin is expelled from the Union. Fifty states again.”

“I’ll drink to that!” Maria said.

“And good riddance!” Hannah cheered.

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12/09/2017 DAB Transcript

Joel 1:1-3:21, Revelations 1:1-20, Psalms 128:1-6, Proverbs 29:18

Today is the 9th day of December. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian and, of course, it is always great to be together around the global campfire. And as it gets colder and colder outside, it's warmer and warmer when we’re snuggled up in community. So, it's great to be here with you today. And today marks a little bit of a shift. And that is this, for the last little while we’ve been moving more rapidly through the New Testament, as we read through a lot of letters and those are shorter documents. Today, we reached the final book of the New Testament and will be spending the rest of the year in that book, the book of Revelation. At the same time, we’re moving through, what is known as the minor prophets, not so much because the profits were minor, but because the books are shorter, some as short as the letters that we read in the New Testament. And we’ll start moving more rapidly through the Old Testament. So, for example, in just a second, we’re going to read in its entirety, the book of Joel from the Old Testament.

Joel:

So, let's talk about the book of Joel. The prophet, Joel, wrote this book of prophecy, more than likely, somewhere around the mid-800s BC. So, we’re talking seven or eight centuries before Jesus. And he writes of a vast horde of locusts that have invaded the land and subsequently obliterated the crops and just about everything else causing great famine. And he uses this natural disaster as his backdrop to call the children of Israel toward repentance. And, as is true with most of the Bible, this brings the children of Israel to a fork in the road where a choice must be made. They can return to God and enjoy his blessings and restoration or they can continue to reject God and face what is called the day of the Lord, the day of God's judgment. And of course, as we can see the arching narrative of the Bible, it’s not ever God's will that His people suffer these terrible repercussions. So, He's constantly calling them back, just like He still does today. And we’ll see that there is some of the most beautiful promises of restoration and hope that we’ll find in the entire Bible. And they are spoken in this very short book of prophecy, the book of Joel. And, so, we begin with Joel chapter 1 verse 1 through 3:21. And we’re reading from the English Standard Version this week.

Revelations:

Okay. So, as we move into the New Testament, like I said at the beginning, we’re moving into the final book of the Bible. But the book of Revelation is not really a book at all. It’s more like a letter. But from a literary perspective, it would be classified as apocalyptic, apocalyptic literature. In fact, for a long time this writing was known as the Apocalypse or the Apocalypse of John. And apocalypse is Greek, it means Revelation. And we know this writing by that name because that's what an Apocalypse is, a revelation. It's this unveiling of things that were not known previously and that couldn't be known outside of the Revelation, outside of the unveiling. And we normally think of, like, the word apocalypse as a scary word that speaks of like the ultimate end in destruction of everything, but there's all a lot more going on in the book of Revelation than that. And there are a lot of other apocalypses. Like, so, there's a lot of other apocalyptic writing in many cultures, and other apocalyptic writings that were, or that came out of the Christian tradition, the early Christian tradition. This one was canonized into the New Testament. And traditionally, the author has been thought to be the apostle John. And that this was written on the isle of Patmos, where he had been exiled. And there's a lot of scholarly debate, there has been a lot of scholarly debate for a long time, about who this John is. Is this really the apostle John, or was this a Christian prophet who was a follower of John, or whose name happened to be John? And that continues to be debated. However, early Christian writers, apostolic fathers, so like the second generation after the apostles, so like the grandchildren of the apostle’s generation, identify John the apostle as the John of Revelation. And the isle of Patmos is an island that’s southwest of Ephesus. And the Romans used this island to banish people who had committed crimes against Rome's. So, if we’re talking about the apostle John writing this from the Isle of Patmos, he would've been a very old man at this point. And he wrote this letter to different churches that had been established during the time of Paul's missionary journeys in the early church's activity some 50 years earlier. So, some of the earliest Christian churches that were now into and moving into their second generation. And Revelation is one of the more controversial or misunderstood books of the Bible, but no matter which school of interpretation you adhere to, when you boil this all down, it's a call to repentance and spiritual renewal. It's a letter to encourage Christians, not to scare them and freak them out, to encourage Christians and bolster their faith in the face of tribulation and trial. And it's actually a letter of great hope, because once again it shows that our Lord and Savior, Jesus, is in fact all-powerful. And in the end, He remains victorious and because He remains victorious we can remain victorious with Him. And, so, we begin the final book of the New Testament, Revelation chapter 1.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You so much as we do every day for Your word and the gift that it truly is in our lives. And we see the promise today from the book of Joel that You will pour out Your Spirit on all people, and Lord, let us be those people. Our hearts are open to You God. we ask that Your Holy Spirit lead and guide us, rebuke us, correct us, shape us as we move deeper and deeper into the relationship that You have offered us. Come Jesus. Come, we pray in Your holy name. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website. It’s home base. It’s where you find out what's going on around here. And a lot of Christmas things are going on around here right now.

And one of those things is your calls, your holiday greetings back into the Daily Audio Bible community. We do this every year. It's a joy, a joyous time. It's our version, as a virtual community, of our annual Christmas party, our family gathering for Christmas time. So, we take these calls for a period of time and then we start assembling this all together and move through the Christmas story and talk about the year and hear from each other and it's just a wonderful time. And you can get involved in that. You should get involved in that. All you have to do is call the prayer line. 877-942-4253 is the number. But you can call any of the prayer lines. If you're in the UK or Europe, 44-20-3608-8078, or if you're in Australia or that part of the world, 61-3-8820-5459 is the number. And you just call in your Christmas greetings. And the only rule about that, because these are the prayer lines, are that you don't mix a holiday greeting with a prayer request in the same call. Make those separate. And it'll just be a beautiful time as it always is. So, we’re doing that right now for the next few days.

The Daily Audio Bible Christmas Box is available and it's full of resources and goodies - some that you’ll give away as gifts, some that you’ll want to keep for yourself and you get to kind of go through and pick. So, that's available in the Daily Audio Bible shop at dailyaudiobible.com.

Registration, early registration, is open for the More Gathering for women that's coming up this April. That's our annual women's conference. And you can find out all about that at dailyaudiobible.com as well. Just go to the Initiatives section and you'll find the More Gathering 2018. And all the information that you want or need to know is there. So, check that out.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible as we approach the end of the year, thank you. Thank you, humbly, profoundly, deeply, gratefully for your partnership. There’s a link on the homepage of dailyaudiobible.com. If you prefer, the mailing address is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And I mentioned the numbers before, but if you have a prayer request, or comment, or holiday greeting, 877-942-4253 is the number.

And that's it for today. I’m Brian I love you and I'll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer Requests and Praise Reports:

Hello my DAB family. This is Goddess, the Kings Daughter. I am praying for every single request that comes through. As I’ve stated on here before, I’m not really the one to call in but I am praying in the background. I feel that is where I am called to operate. So, I am calling to speak to my sister Gloria. I’ve been praying about your mom's situation, and also the situation between your brother and yourself. And all I hear in my spirit is that you should be still and know that God is God. Be still and know that he is God. I will encourage you to read Psalm 46, with emphasis on verse 10, saying that be still know He is God. He is our refuge in times of need. He is not going to…He hasn't abandoned you. He is fighting for you. Because you're not hearing from Him doesn’t mean that He's not working. So, be still and have that peace in your heart my dear and know that God is working on your behalf. You may not see it, but I for one, if I have to tell you what I've been through, what I went through all of last year, and I’m still going through, which I need to actually call for a prayer request for myself and I haven't done so yet. My sister be still and know that that God is with you. All is well. Praying for you. Bye-bye.

Good morning DAB family. This is Spoken By Faith from New York City. Today is December 5th and I’m calling to just let you guys know that I’m praying and I heard Christi from New York asking for prayer for marriages and that’s always been on my heart. I’ve have a request also for my sister in Virginia, she’s doing much better. She was bleeding out from a vain in her esophagus and have made several transfusions and now they are finding bandings and therapy so hopefully they will stop the bleeding and she won’t need a __. I’m asking for prayers for her. Her name is __. And I ask for prayer for my brother also in his marriage. And today my heart is broken because my son’s wife, just yesterday, told him that she needed space and just…my grandson…and I’m just broken hearted for him. That’s why I just feel such a burden, I’ve always had such a burden for marriages, and I’m praying with him to be able to…just... hold onto the Lord as so many are going through…spouses that just want out for no reason…they want space…whatever it is…it just doesn’t make any sense. God is in control and I pray that you would intercede with Him as he’s going through this very trying time. And I intercede with those that are also in difficult marriages and difficult situations and need healing. Whatever your need is, and I’ve been listening every day and I pray and intercede and I ask you to keep my son in prayer as he’s also going through this and that. That God would speak to…

Hello Daily Audio Bible community. This is Greg from Stow, Ohio. And my prayer request is for all international students that are visiting our country, that they would hear the gospel and respond to the gospel, especially during this holiday season. There’s over a million international students from countries where the gospel is not really proclaimed. So, let's pray that God draws them to Himself while they are here visiting us and that Americans would reach out to them. Lord, thank You God for bringing these people from all across these nations, from all across the world to our doorstep and God, I pray that You would draw them to yourself and that Christians would be motivated to invite them to church services, to Christmas programs, to befriend them, and to share the love of Jesus with them. I pray that many would find Christ and become missionaries to their own countries. Thank You Lord. And I pray for the missionaries that work with these students, that You would bless them and protect them from the enemy, protect them from the spiritual warfare they encounter and guard their marriages, provide for them, funding wise. And I just thank You for their work and I thank You for the amazing opportunity we have as believers to share the gospel with people who don't know You. Help us to do it with this with boldness but with humility. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen. Thanks a lot. This is Greg. I’m on Instagram actually on @daily_bible_devotional or you can find me at gospeldriven.org. God bless you guys. Thank you so much for your ministry. I’ve been reading through the bible every year for the last 20 years and your audio broadcast…

Lord, our God, how majestic is Your name in all the air. The heavens and creation all around us declare Your glory. You are the source of all things. You sustain all things. You keep this world spinning and my feet moving. Lord, the cares of this world are threatening to overwhelm me. You know what they are. Help me to let them go and give them to you. Help me to cast my anxieties on You. Help me to trust in Your love, Your strength, and Your provision. Help me learn to be content. Help me know that I can do all things through You who gives me strength. I’m sorry Lord for all the times I’ve relied on myself to get me through when I should have trusted and relied on You. I’m sorry for the times I’ve doubted. Help me to remember Lord that I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Thank You Lord for how you’ve made me and help me to remember that I am loved by You and that You made me to be me. [singing] If I were a butterfly, I thank You Lord for giving me wings. And if I were a robin in a tree, I thank You Lord that I could sing. And if I were a fish in the sea, I’d wiggle my tail and I’d giggle with thee. But I just thank You Father for making me me. For you gave me a heart and you gave me a smile. You gave me Jesus and You made me your child but I just thank You God for making me...

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Ten Plagues of California Are Turning The Golden State into a Third-World Hell Hole PJ Media ^ | 06/04/2019 | Stephen Green

In your typical Third-World megalopolis, basic city functions fall into disrepair, while once-eradicated diseases run rampant -- and the local bigwig boasts about saving the world.

Los Angeles is quickly becoming a typical Third-World megalopolis, and the rest of the state isn't far behind.

Yesterday the New York Post reported "rats running everywhere among piles of decaying garbage," in a "sprawling 50-block area that is believed to be the base for around 4,200 homeless people."

Local columnist Steve Lopez called his city a "giant trash receptacle" and asked, "Did someone turn back the calendar a few hundred years?” No, Steve, the city government turned hard left is all. Although debate fans might note that that's a distinction without a difference.

So where did all that trash come from? Los Angelenos are dumping it out in the streets -- and the city isn't collecting it. Two weeks ago Fox News reported that the problem goes back at least to last October, when the city noticed nine cases of typhus. The city "cleaned up some of the worst piles of garbage," but then they slacked right back off. The huge pile returned quickly, but officials at first said that it "could take up to 90 days before it's cleaned up." The same local news report described it this way:

Even the city's most notorious trash pile, located between downtown LA's busy Fashion and Produce districts, continues to be a magnet for rats after it was cleaned up months ago. The rodents can carry typhus-infected fleas, which can spread the disease to humans through bacteria rubbed into the eyes or cuts and scrapes on the skin, resulting in severe flu-like symptoms. The story also noted that an "out-of-control rat population can even lead to the spread of dangerous strains of salmonella and bubonic plague."

Yuck.

City services are so strained that it now appears to be playing whack-a-mole with garbage dumpers. As I began writing this piece, a new Fox News report popped up in my MSN feed, complete with video you might not want to watch during lunch.

Statewide, California's problems aren't limited to trash dumpers, the homeless, rat infestations, and infectious disease... as if that weren't already too much Third World fun in the once-Golden State. Stories about San Francisco's Human Poop Hurdle Olympics are now de rigueur, and you'd better watch where you stick the landing or a used syringe might stick you.

Elsewhere, rolling blackouts are about to become not only normal, but celebrated.

The editors of the Los Angeles Times opined last week that in order "to prevent wildfires, California may need to endure power blackouts." The editorial goes on:

De-energization, as it is called, has always been a tool for utilities to use when the risk of wildfire is high, though it has been infrequently deployed. But after two horrible years of catastrophic wildfires ignited by downed power lines, regulators are poised to give utilities the authority to shut off power more aggressively during high fire season. The change will primarily affect people in high-fire-risk zones, such as mountains, forests and foothills, but the resulting outages may affect anyone on the grid, including coastal urbanites if utilities power down high-voltage transmission lines. "De-energization" is one of those euphemisms Ayn Rand might have had economic dictator Wesley Mouch employ in the last third of Atlas Shrugged. And just like in the famous novel, California's descent into the Third World is entirely self-inflicted. The New York Times noted last year:

It’s counterintuitive, but the United States’ history of suppressing wildfires has actually made present-day wildfires worse. “For the last century we fought fire, and we did pretty well at it across all of the Western United States,” Dr. Williams said. “And every time we fought a fire successfully, that means that a bunch of stuff that would have burned didn’t burn. And so over the last hundred years we’ve had an accumulation of plants in a lot of areas.

“And so in a lot of California now when fires start, those fires are burning through places that have a lot more plants to burn than they would have if we had been allowing fires to burn for the last hundred years.”

In other words, downed power lines do cause wildfires, but mostly because there's so much flammable brush that the state government refuses to clear in one way or another. And rather than clean it up -- sound much like the trash situation? -- California is going to deny electricity to some of its poorest inland residents during the hottest time of the year.

Because caring, or whatevs.

Blackouts, typhus, poop, an army of homeless, wildfires, contaminated syringes, garbage, rats, fleas, and Progressive government -- these are the Plages of California. I'd ask the last person to leave California to please turn off the lights, but they'll have gone dark long ago.

TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California KEYWORDS: california; disease; thirdworld

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OPINION:  The Democrats in Congress don’t care as long as where they live is picture perfect.  You would think that the Democrats would call California poorest inland residents during the hottest time of the year ‘Immoral’ because they (Democrats) have not helped the situation in over a decade.

So, where are these ‘big mouth’ Democrats that call ‘Building A Safety Wall’ is ‘Immoral’ in this country.  Ask them to explain California poorest Inland residents! What do they call that?

If not, tell them to shut up and go pass some real legislation or resign from Congress so some real Americans that care about this country can make a ‘real’ difference’ in our (American Citizens) Congress.

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individuals Comments/Posts:

To: SeekAndFind

The worst plague destroying the Golden State is the Democrat Party.

The Democrat Party has systematically destroyed California.

6 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:51:42 AM by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.) _______________________________________________________________ To: SeekAndFind A problem caused by the left?

The media is uninterested. The local public tolerates it, because of the good feelings they get from all the virtue signaling. The wealthy live far enough away from the mess that they continue to support the insane left, while hiding in their enclaves.

It’s incredible to watch.

7 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:53:12 AM by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.) __________________________________________________________________ To: SeekAndFind

It’s really quite stunning that California’s “leaders” run all over the world preaching about saving the planet from environmental catastrophe, yet preside over a state that has incredible self-inflicted environmental catastrophies affecting everything from its urban cores to rural small towns.

8 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:53:47 AM by Behind the Blue Wall __________________________________________________________________ To: PGalt Poor Randy. Died body surfing in Hawaii. Never found the body.

9 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:54:02 AM by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: BenLurkin “The Democrat Party has systematically destroyed California.”

For a lot of years California has been a predictor of what’s coming to the rest of the country.

10 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:54:26 AM by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: SeekAndFind And yet the invasion continues unabated.

11 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:55:49 AM by Altura Ct. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: SeekAndFind Always thought it odd that so many snowflakes congregated in California. Oh well as predicted they seem to be melting into the mire. Bye.

12 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:56:41 AM by allendale (.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: SeekAndFind Just a couple of weeks ago, the mayor of LA (along with his pompous dad) was here bragging about his city and virtue-signalling about my own. He should have stayed home and taken care of business.

13 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:57:01 AM by miss marmelstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: PGalt Fresh garbage. Ha. I gotta line on you.

14 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:57:02 AM by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: SeekAndFind LA, SF, Portland and Seattle. All marching to the same drum...all doomed to the same fate.

15 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:57:02 AM by Zathras -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Vaquero Thanks. I did not know that. The things you learn at FRU (FRUniversity).

16 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:57:41 AM by PGalt --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: SeekAndFind Vote for democrats, sleep with typhusrats.

17 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:58:08 AM by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: SeekAndFind; artichokegrower "Even the city's most notorious trash pile, located between downtown LA's busy Fashion and Produce districts..." That really makes me want to run out and buy vegetables from California.

18 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:58:11 AM by null and void (The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Vaquero Good tunes from “back in the day”.

19 posted on 6/4/2019, 10:59:32 AM by PGalt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: SeekAndFind And after the locust eat LA they will move on to greener pastures! I'm very heartbroken that our government in California let this happen to a once blessed beautiful state ...now it's locusts will spread like cancer across this nation!! 😢 20 posted on 6/4/2019, 11:00:10 AM by RoseofTexas --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------