Today’s readings are universally needed but woefully unappreciated, especially at this interesting time in human history. Important for we homeschooling moms & dads, as well as traditional and distance learned ones. Realize God gave David’s son, Solomon, the lottery opportunity, revealing to him the five numbers and the bonus to win! My beloved daughter, Amanda, is quick to point out the IFs, ie “if and when we win the lottery!” But you ARE blessed beyond measure already if only you look closely…
Are we slaves or free people of God, free to seek wisdom and not the misdirections, the whims of doctrines of a dying culture and society? YOU, yes YOU are the building blocks of the up and coming Renaissance as the Dark Ages pass away.
“The LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, “Ask something of Me and I will give it to you.”
Solomon was young and following in the greatest King in the Davidic line except for Jesus; yet, he did NOT ask for the Powerball or California (for the children) lottery numbers:
His answer: ““O LORD, my God, you have made me, your servant, king to succeed my father David; but I am a mere youth, not knowing at all how to act. I serve you in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a people so vast that it cannot be numbered or counted. Give your servant, therefore, an understanding heart to judge your people and to distinguish right from wrong. For who is able to govern this vast people of yours?”
Wow! one simple response from humility by the son of a king, thrust into the limelight to lead the chosen people. Solomon asked for wisdom, an undeniably important gift of the Holy Spirit. Our confirmandi (confirmed young people) learn about the gifts and the fruits of the Spirit. Davidson chose wisdom WITH wisdom
“Because you have asked for this— not for a long life for yourself, nor for riches, nor for the life of your enemies, but for understanding so that you may know what is right— I do as you requested. I give you a heart so wise and understanding that there has never been anyone like you up to now, and after you there will come no one to equal you.”
The wisest man of all time. Pretty impressive result. Many of you know the story appropriate to today’s world, in which two mothers brought their pleas to King Solomon. Do you recall how it turned out?
I I now do as you request. I give you a heart so wise and discerning that there has never been anyone like you until now, nor after you will there be anyone to equal you. In addition, I give you what you have not asked for: I give you such riches and glory that among kings there will be no one like you all your days. And if you walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and commandments, as David your father did, I will give you a long life. Solomon awoke; it was a dream! He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, sacrificed burnt offerings and communion offerings, and gave a feast for all his servants.
Parents and young readers: seek wisdom; the Scripture says to “ask and it shall be given unto you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened unto you…” God wants to bless you mightily. Solomon’s time was an incredible time; so is our! Just because mayhem is around us, does not mean we have to adopt anarchy or even buy in. We have free will to do good, seek truth, separate right from wrong and reject evil.
Evidence that God kept His promise to Solomon follows: the highest virtue is love, but do not neglect to pray that the Spirit will guide you and give YOU wisdom to pronounce right judgement. Our nation, our culture, our world desperately needs men and women of God, willing to seek right over wrong, to do the honorable and honest and right thing. Rioting, looting, anarchy are NOT from God but from the father of lies, lucifer/satan/devil. We honor God when we do charitable works for the less fortunate and tell the truth. Do NOT bear false witness against your neighbor, your parents or children, your president, yes your president even your “enemies”. Truth can win them over if done properly. The Story of Two Moms could be a news report in 2020:
Later, two prostitutes came to the king (Solomon) and stood before him.
17One woman said: “By your leave, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth in the house while she was present.18On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. We were alone; no one else was in the house with us; only the two of us were in the house.19This woman’s son died during the night when she lay on top of him.20So in the middle of the night she got up and took my son from my side, as your servant was sleeping. Then she laid him in her bosom and laid her dead son in my bosom.21
I rose in the morning to nurse my son, and he was dead! But when I examined him in the morning light, I saw it was not the son I had borne.”22The other woman answered, “No! The living one is my son, the dead one is yours.” But the first kept saying, “No! the dead one is your son, the living one is mine!” Thus they argued before the king.
23Then the king said: “One woman claims, ‘This, the living one, is my son, the dead one is yours.’ The other answers, ‘No! The dead one is your son, the living one is mine.’”24The king continued, “Get me a sword.” When they brought the sword before the king,25he said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one woman and half to the other.”
26* The woman whose son was alive, because she was stirred with compassion for her son, said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby—do not kill it!” But the other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours. Cut it in two!” What did Solomon do?
27The king then answered, “Give her (the real mom) the living baby! Do not kill it! She is the mother.”28When all Israel heard the judgment the king had given, they were in awe of him, because they saw that the king had in him the wisdom of God for giving right judgment.
Do not be a slave to evil, nor to the father of deceit. 600,00 died to end one kind of slavery 155 years ago. Learn that lesson well. But, other forms of slavery persist. Truly OUR nation needs our prayers, reform and actions.
Note that, this is the 17th sunday in ordinary times but nothing is ordinary about these morsels of Truth.
The number 17 is used in the Bible to signify victory; there are numerous examples. In the physical world, it was the 17th step to the entrance in the Giza Pyramid. The other pyramids were poor copies of the original; discussion for another time about the Christ Angle and Giza. But, wisdom and common sense are not valued in today’s world. Parents: your kids need you to practice sharing your wisdom. Don’t wait until they are grown, asking for the keys (not to the workshop) to the car or telling you “Daddy, i think i like this boy” Tempus fugit; time IS short but always remember; it IS a great day to be alive.
The 2nd reading is important, too: “Brothers and sisters: We know that all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.” believe it or not, God has known YOU from all eternity and known that YOU will live forever with Him. He has CALLED you to follow Him, His Son Jesus and the Church Jesus founded. Think about this carefully: everyday you wake up, you are a day older. But you remain in the exact middle of eternity. Eternity past Eternity future. Pray for wisdom, the Rosary IS your weapon & tool of choice. And remember, God sees your heart: a sharp knife in the hands of a criminal is a weapon; in the hands of a heart surgeon, a tool to give life.
You probably are sensing it: good and evil, right and wrong, are becoming obvious, like black and white. Some people, who have evil intentions, are being forgiven, repenting, reconciling, seeking forgiveness and forgiving others. Like your president, who may not be to your liking in all things, but then, before you throw a big stone on the St Mary Magdalene week, look at yourself deeply in the mirror. What log must you remove before you despise or hate another? Before you remove the splinter or sawdust from his or her shoulder, remove your forest first.
Multiple choices are quickly becoming binary choices, like a polarized magnet with north and south ends.
The Big 4:
BKind 4Give B4Given Help1Some1~2day…or more if you can. Practice these four wise maxims and see what happens.
Thank you again; you’ve been “homeschooling Grandpa Len”. He learns as much as he shares with you.
Len is a realtor/broker helping people sell and buy homes; a 30 + year homeschooling veteran with 11 awesome kids and blessed to work with amazing people in the homeschooling, public and private education realm. When someone asks you what day it is, you simply shout “It’s a great day to be ALIVE!”
It’s easy to not care if you don’t see the other, put the face with her heart and her mind with her life. “Love thy neighbor”, “help1some1-2day you don’t know” both carry the command for OUR well-being, our survival to look beyond ourselves and make a better world.
When we help someone else, the first beneficiary is always ourselves. We FEEL blessed and enervated.
Jesus wasn’t into the trivia: He wants us all happy and living “far beyond mortal man”, immortal living forever and ever. Scary thought? Sometimes!
No one can understand God NOR truly understand they will ALLLLLWays exist beyond death. Yet, the command for OUR well-being is also pre-empted by the currents of today’s world. UNTIL we reclaim the ideal and idea that enslaving or killing others is the worst kind of evil, we will not thrive, improve or live a healthy life. As families and as a country. Don’t get me wrong: we are THE most blessed nation of earth for some very good reasons, but our current path can only lead to more misery.
This may be the ironic wisdom of Stalin’s evil message that “one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” It harder to kill someone you know, love and see; the unseen humans, not so much! Sound morbid or wrong? You tell me in the comments below. I value your input. After all, so many are “homeschooling grandpa Len” these days.
One of my beloved sons pointed out on Saturday, it lessens the message, my message to others to “nickname” leaders. His beautiful wife, another son, have done so, as well. I will stop even though they are accurate portrayals because they turn a human into a caricature. King Newsom the Red becomes Gov. Newsom; NOT my Savior Xavier becomes AG Becerra again. With all due apologies to those I may have slighted by naming them by their performances.
I will honor my sons and daughters’ wisdom on this. After all, they are ‘homeschooling grandpa Len’; I am NOT perfect.
Well, except for one: the more righteously real name of Covid, “the plague of Xi”. It is not transference or misdirection in this case because it is immaterial if he used the leaked virus or required it be made in the Wuhan lab: Xi Jingping incubated it in his people late Oct 2019 and sent them via jet to Italy, Spain, the US, etc. … OR if his lieutenant did the wet work, the dirty deeds, the real Dr. Chen Wei who is the hero of the 2017 nationalist China’s action movie Wolf Warrior I & II.
That muscular actor “Dr Chen” in 2015 saves the world from Ebola and LaManla. As it is, the real Dr. Chen is Chen Wei, a major general in the People’s Liberation Army and the virologist who leads the Institute of Bio-engineering at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences. Xi Jingping is a master propagandist. learning directly from his father who served another megamass murderer, Mao Tse Tung as minister of propaganda.
These leaders have a certain worldview, as do you and I. Xi and the CCP knowingly took a controllable virus and turned it into a silent worldwide killer, restricting movement out of Wuhan EXCEPT by international flight. That IS evil. As to whether Hollywood or Beijing Pictures is a better disinformationalist, I will leave that to history to decide.
It’s time for each of us to take a long look in the mirror. Are we part of the “good” seed sown?
Xi is just doing what his worldview dictates: he believes the pure Chinese blood is supreme, a form of Sino racism, if you will. He is an honest hegemon, looking for the 2020 dynasty separate from the world peoples but using and “conquering” other countries resourcesProof is in his words, movies and actions. There are a million Chnese Muslim Uighers in 85 concentration work camps as you read this. Like the 19th century TransAmerican railroad’s builders, the Chinese coolie, Xi uses them for reportedly Nike shoes and other products cheap labor. He uses sterilization, birth control and abortion on Uighers as well, to control the “inferior” Muslim residents of XiLand.
He incubated the virus, but we can’t blame Xi for HOW we deal with it and each other today or the missteps and successes so far. But he IS the source, incubating for months and sending out until flights were banned on Jan 31st. By Jan 7th, we already knew it was a particularly severe Flu season, with 166 under 18 yr olds already perishing. Just like the Swine flu came out of Mexico, Covid19 came from Wuhan. Undoubtedly, the American left looked at this plague differently than most of the country; evidence is all around us.
The last thing I want to do is fail my children; I only get one shot at that, and statistically I have less years and time to do it than most.
Each of us has a worldview, the Millennials often different than the boomers, the toddler much different than the mature adult. The last living relics of true racism, Holocaust survivors dwindling in number.
Catholics, Lutherans and others may have heard at today’s outdoor Mass or live streaming, Sunday’s Gospel, the shorter, lazier version but sooo appropriate in light of today’s world:
“Jesus proposed another parable to the crowds, saying: “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off. When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well. The slaves of the householder came to him and said,
‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?’
He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ His slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. Let them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
As Jesus explains His parable, our neighbors are not just those who look like us, think like us, live like us.
Neighbors include the Bidens, the American left, conservatives, liberals, small, large, young and old; Trump lovers, NeverTrumpers, silent majority “fly over country” citizens, the silent coup who tried to kill off Trump and continue to try; the rich, poor.
God sees, not the superficialities or immutable traits, but the heart and mind of each of His creations. He desires each to be happy as long as He is: forever.
The good and the evil on the same field of dreams. No man is completely good but Christ, nor always completely evil. As Catholics and Christians, not perfect but just forgiven. The Good Seed and the Sown Weeds must co-exist in our fractured, fallen world. My attitude is simple: I LEARNED TO NOT HATE ANYONE. so must you if you haven’t already.
It’s a tough lesson but life giving and healthy. I don’t hate anyone. Dislike what some people do, but everyone needs a Savior, needs repentance, reconciliation. Renewal. A Renaissance.
Some of my kids and their cousins have kind, good hearts, working through self-examination about racism; are you a racist? I even bought a book that is on many knee jerk corporate booklists this summer “White Fragility” to better understand. I don’t think any of them are racists, but trying to be sensitive to others who have been victimized.
Unless you mind read or belong to the futurist thought police, you CAN’T know if the next person you meet is a racist; so, since we MUST discriminate as humans, don’t assume so.
Their actions may not even show this. So, you can spend a lifetime looking for that racist in your work/company, at church or school, your siblings. Racism means you DON’T believe there is ONE human race, and that some sub “races” are more supreme, ie better, created superior or ARE superior, than another. BLM Inc., for example (rarely mentioned) is run by many black supremacists. Huh, blacks can’t think blacks are superior to whites or Polish Germans? When you say “ALL lives matter!”, ie the truth, you are pummeled. Yet all lives DO matter.
BEST solution to real and perceived racism (thinking you are better than another because you exist) is to practice true charity: Help1Some1-2day and MORE if you can.
You can’t change the world easily. But you CAN effect it, one needy person at a time, no matter WHAT color they are. Or just talk talk talk endlessly about THAT other person, a racist behind the tree. The lessons in the new movie, Uncle Tom by Larry Elder, that of MLKing and John Lewis, sheds light on this persistent area of human thought. But it’s time to focus on other realities in the universe.
My kids’ stepmom Mary and I heard an excellent exorcist recently, (yes, exorcists are real) who has researched and understands the invisible world of angels. No white or black racism, just “invisible” total racism it turns out: There are “racists” among the angels, one in particular. I know, some of you don’t believe he/she/it exists, but Jesus spoke matter of factly about the devil and those angels, the 1/3 who rejected God’s dominion and sealed their fate. Believe it or not, Lucifer, one of the top archangels, known as the most powerful and “beautiful” of angels, was ticked off knowing God was going to create humanity. They don’t have the luck we have: we have a lifetime to follow and decide on Christ and His Church; the first created angels eternal fates are sealed.
The angels’ expert teaches each angel was specifically designed and created with a certain “charism”, talent or function: a specifice virtue like chastity. If they rebelled, that talent or virtue became their eternal vice (opposite of chastity is obvious) that they use effecting the world, whatever level of angels they are from. Makes a lot of sense. A study for another time readers.
Lucifer is the ULTIMATE hater, despising God for creating a separate “race” of beings, ie US! This one being, more than any, is responsible for so many human souls living a forever hell. Yes, Jesus spoke of hell, money, life and the devil. All four exist. Read the longer version of the good seeds and sown weeds gospel below for the end game.
Our enemy is NOT flesh and blood, black or white but the principalities and the powers (different levels) of the “dark side” angels. Even the American Left are our brothers and sisters. Yes, they believe taking other peoples’ property, hard earned income, even okaying the taking of human lives by choice (abortion); this is not necessarily what I or you believe. Sadly, the American Left feels supreme over the large families, struggling middle class families, who just want a level playing field, equal justice, fair treatment.
But they ARE members of the same human race God created; just as Governor Newsom, his aunt Pelosi, Don J Trump, my sons and daughters, your friends, are.
The best solution to any problem is often the simplest. Pray for America and its renewal by a loving God; some believe you can’t find the solutions in America anymore, but that is foolish for one good reason:
YOU the reader are IN America. You are PART of the solution IF a solution is needed.
It’s not the person, no matter what creed, lineage or color, but their worldviews, beliefs and even actions we disagree with. Real mature adults can separate the two: the person that matters, the unique, never repeated human being we love or disagree with and the views they hold. This is missing in our inability to forgive another or believe what God believes: every human CAN change for the better, learn from their past and others’ actions and change. Greek: Metanoia.
This author and dad of 11 always assumes the best about another (unless their words and actions prove otherwise): the best about teacher, politician, son/daughter and believes they CAN do better. Now, I can’t call Newsom king anymore, but this I can: I can help one someone today.
A simple solution is measurable and effective: Help1Some1-2day…or more if you can. T Better rendered:
“Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.i This is the law and the prophets.”
The US Left and others may not realize this is the message of the Transfiguration: Jesus/God in His glory, flanked by the Law (Moses) and the Prophets (Elijah) showed three simple men, Peter, James and John, just how beautiful God on earth was; He believes His creation was good. These three guys were the LAST on earth to see the Unblemished Lamb in His perfect glory.
We will be resurrected unblemished in our new bodies for eternity: but Jesus will always appear with His blemishes, the wounds, scars, the nail marks that Doubting Thomas saw, as a reminder that Perfect Love existed and exists on earth. Mother Teresa lived that life, helping dying humans who didn’t even believe in her God but were worthy, in their dignity, of being helped.
OUR neighbors on the American Left will continue to ignore God and try and divide us by so many techniques and so much misdirection; we must stay humble AND…we MUST stay focused on the truth that the GOOD seed, whom I hope you are a part of, are NOT the sown weeds.
Human “weeds” kill people, destroy buildings, steal things that don’t belong to them; can rioters, looters and arsonists who use a false flag to justify their “sins” be redeemed? You betcha! If WE help them see the errors of their ways.
Look at St Peter: though He loved him, Jesus called him “satan” once. Yet Peter became Petra, the rock of a whole new Church that the Cornerstone, the Rock of Ages, entrusted with for all time. It is never too late to change our heart and minds. Until we die.
I am blessed beyond measure. In a world that doesn’t value children much anymore, I have 11 plus adopted married spouses of a few. My ex-wife by death and the mother of these amazing, still Christ centered kids mostly adults, is in heaven. Their amazing step-mom Mary, so selfless, is named for Jesus’ mother now resident above as Queen of the Heavens: Regina Coeli.
Who knows, someday one of these 11 beautiful offspring type people might even marry a Regina Coeli. Only time will show and tell. But, pllllleeeeeeeaaaaze, see the good in others. Start from that platform for your next interaction. ONLY this way can all lives matter to you.
God did it in a moment, thousands or over billions of years as some believe: I don’t care, as Bill Murray said, “It just doesn’t matter”.
To Him, since He made us, ALL lives matter, after all. God did NOT intend us to judge by color or size, age or location. We are told to judge by righteous (character, actions not color) judgement in Matthew 7 but you have to read the whole chapter; judge yes, but with a clean heart. This is difficult since so many have permanent chips of different sizes on their shoulders. Want freedom? Take the forest out of your eye before you help someone else remove the splinter in theirs.
All of us are blessed: one of my newer blessings over the last few years, is a large family of ten, amazing, respectful, full of life, God fearing Catholic loving people. It is a mixed marriage: mom is female and dad is a man. I know, there are 160 different gender ideologies but I just follow the Creator’s design. Not mankind’s latest venture of creating their own; a top angel made that mistake aeons ago.
Like most large families of mixed marriages, there are struggles and joys. They even home school like this dad whose kids are homeschooling (grandpa Len) him. Mom’s ancestors are from Asia, dad’s from Africa or some place where melanin is more available, but the only color you will see is the color of red: deep abiding love for each other, respect for others, a sense of life too many need replenishing in this divisive, zany, Covidian world.
Best journal we have says He made this 553 sextillion mile wide universe, starting with the easy stuff: billions of stars, planets & plants, millions of animals, trillions of insects…but only one human man. But God was NOT done yet as the angels watched. Think about it: God’s last act of His general Creation, the most complex, beautiful, incredibly complex but infinitely well designed being who can turn a single cell into another human being in 280 days. WOMAN.
But as capable as the Trinity, the only God, has been for all eternity past, it’s not easy to create billions of angels and billions of human, all fully autonomous thinking for themselves, sentient, free willed beings. And not have rebellion. Same on earth as in the heavens. The first rebel was a big one.
The arrogant, ‘I am god’ is a role that was already taken for all eternity. God is: I AM WHO AM or as the deeply reverential YWHW or Adonai. Today, God appears in too many swearing situations, but the Israelites wouldn’t even use His name in daily parlance. But God knows what He is doing; He doesn’t need our counsel: we need His!
That IS the difficulty of being too smart, too beautiful, too talented. Intelligence, knowledge and wisdom are yes, related but entirely, different things. Satan/Lucifer wasn’t satisfied being at the top level: he wanted to BE God. Same problem on earth: too many want to own or control other human beings unfairly. Jimmy Jones gave his contingent of “sheep” humans poisoned kool-aid in Jonestown.
600,000 Blue and Grey died in the 1860s to continue the path and process the Constitution and Declaration of Independence set up: end slavery in America, just as the slave ships were finally stopped (tho slavery continued) in the time of John Newton, the “Amazing Grace” song writer and slave ship owner who repented of his sins, and William Wilberforce. If you want to understand racism, control or bias against another, your primer move IS “amazing grace”. Wisdom comes to those who ask.
SEEK WISDOM NOT CONFORMITY FOR CONFORMITY’S SAKE
In the old testament, when asked what he wished for, Solomon asked for the highest gift: wisdom. God granted that and gave him the lesser gifts: power, wealth, intelligence, knowledge. Seek wisdom more than wealth. Seek to be a part of the solution instead of just talking about it. Find ways to truly improve ourselves as we help others. I am a positive realist or a realistic optimist about so many. I believe all my kids and their offspring will be in heaven forever. At 68, I can dream still. Same with those they make contact with, as homeschooled Catholic kids now grown up sharing the same Gospel Peter and the apostles shared two millennia ago.
“In the longer version, Jesus explains the good seeds and the sown weeds. “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” He said in reply, “He who sows good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the children of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil.
The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. Just as weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all who cause others to sin and all evildoers. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears ought to hear.”
God gave us TWO ears and only ONE mouth: take that as a strong command to listen and read with “ears that ought to hear”. I don’t know about you, I prefer being a good seed…not perfect but forgiven and forgiving. Not a sown and owned weed by the most racist being of all eternity, the devil.
Updated (July 31 2020)safety hygiene ideas for the Plague of Xi
Everyone, Millennial, snowflake and parent, old and young, are trying to stay sane during this zany time of scientists, prostiticians, evil despots, anarchists, viruses and protect our kids.
And of course, deal with the Plague of Xi, the well designed SARS-Cov-2 virus / Covid19 disease.
And no, Hydroxychloroquine with Zinc and Azithromycin, with doctor oversight is NOT evil: it IS cheap and successful (HCQ covered in another blog). Problem is it only costs less than $30 for a full regimen vs Remde$ivir which costs 100 times as much. Follow the science? We’d love to if so many scientists weren’t so complicit… Even Facebook, as Matt Franklin found out, suppresses dialogue and the free exchange of ideas. Too much shadow banners shadow boxing. Hang in there Matt (my son) and Matt the dad of 3 girls, married to an amazing Golden athlete.
This blog site is updated as guidelines change. Corrections or additions are welcome.
We ARE in this together, some more than others. Yes, in the same ocean of uncertainty but in different boats. As a dad of 11, 30 years homeschooling, real estate professional and the overt Virus Hunter, I must update the Safety Guidelines from the various “experts” out there. As a scientist who practices the scientific method at numerous science fairs over the decades, it is as much an art in many areas. All of us are scientists by omission or commission.
Vesting means to: “to put (something or someone) into the possession or safekeeping of another“. It also means “to give official or legal power to”. God has entrusted each of your children and your spouses to you for a time. We do not “Own” each other though slavery has existed from the dawn of time, as well as at the dawn of this great country (1776 NOT 1619 NYTimes!) we are blessed to live in..
Question the experts; science is not perfect nor even epidemiologists: the only all knowing is your omniscient God Who created you. Question authority goes back to the sixties, not this Ozian poppy field of conform to every whim or doctrine to get along.
Life is full of risks. IF you want zero risk, dig a big hole and crawl in. Life IS an adventure
I am responsible for the safekeeping, nurturing and future growth of 11 kids, their stepmom, 14 and growing grand kids, and nieces & nephews too numerous to tabulate.
And all these are “Homeschooling Grandpa Len”. Of course, they keep me in line with their suggestions and requests. Such is life!
The definition of Responsibility is built into the word: “Ability to RESPOND!”
But each of us have different ideas, goals, levels of standard of care and viewpoints. My standard of care as a real estate broker is different than someone who never Think about it: A single college safe zoned 19 yr old has a different vesting: him or herself. Most reading this, have 1,2 or 13 kids. As multi-kid (in)vestors, we must take ownership and do due diligence. Parents are the primary educators of their children, in what we call the “Domestic Churches”. Each family has this privilege and blessing. Don’t give it up too easily.
Some things are missing in the CDC and public protocols; though NOT mentioned, I am including them here and you can adopt them in your family safety protocols.
This I recommend: draw up a family emergency plan, including virus/Covid safety guidelines. Bacteriological. Home invasion. How to handle strangers at the door. Those of you longtime or new homeschoolers who have hired the Home School Legal Defense Association, HSLDA, know what to do if someone comes to your door claiming to be “authority” this or that. Keep the HSLDA number handy. The rest of you; be prepared for any and all situations. Don’t be paranoid, but there are things much more dangerous out there than a contagious virus.
As you know, there is a lot of data to digest on how to protect ourselves and others from the Plague of Xi. Many of you reading this have large or emerging families. We are blessed as a nation, but It’s all about reducing risks. Life IS filled with them; the only way to prevent getting hit by a car is never drive or go outside your home. Like the ghost bike pictured above that signifies an encounter between bike rider and vehicle, we must be vigilant. But it’s the same with drowning; drain your pool, ocean, lake or bath tubs? So risk reductions to zero may be impossible.
But, preparation and execution works wonders if EVERYONE in the family understands the plans, their role and what to do. Write, update, rehearse and do dry runs.
Here’s my humble list to combat the Plague of Xi:
Wash your hands with soap...often. Grandma was right.
Do it often. 20 seconds at least, in and out of your fingers; it’s only two Hail Marys’ time or equal time for atheists, repeat “Zero, zero…. for 20 seconds”.
Then wash again. Time is all we have and these 20 seconds could be the most important. Be thorough. I have included a hand washing poster but there are many. Just be frequent and consider any surface, door knob, etc as a source of viruses. Germs as Grandma used to call them. Frequent soap washing is the secret. Liquid or bar, just do it!
Mask protocol:
Of all the precautions, I believe masking is the most controversial, yet it has both physical and psychological benefits. And guess what! It doesn’t hurt IF you do it right. Just DON’T start believing your ears were designed for the mask: don’t eat with it, sleep with it. You ARE a critically thinking, smart person as it is!
Maskquerades and masks have been around for centuries; the Iron Mask, the Phantom, bank robbers on Knott’s Berry Farm trains, etc.
Jennifer Horn, the caped Conservative Crusader on AM870, points out that women do not like their face covered. No one really does. But, do not fear them; recognize though that you aren’t brain surgeons or nurses: you don’t need them on 24/7. Take them off when not in proximity of humans; if you wash your hands, less chance to infect yourself via the mask. Wash the cloth ones frequently. And always be careful not to touch your face unnecessarily when adjusting or removing.
There are five types in typical public use: cone style (looks like a chicken beak.
Wrap around Bandana.
N95 filtration. And a Face Shield
Fabric pleated double sided mask. The cloth mask has been shown the most effective in general use, according to a recent study.
The Virus Hunter seeks the truth. With the Sword of Truth at his side, and a quiver of arrows of hope in his stride, he looks for the truth in the insanity of a virus fearing world
Mary the Maskmakeer has made 300 of these for the needy including Little Sisters of the Poor, Norbertines, Vin Skully, our bishops and more. We know of one team of maskmakeers who have made over 53,000 for Indian reservations and the homeless. The purpose is to stop droplets laden with virus. Not necessarily to be fashionistas but looking ok IS ok!
Big recommend: Wear a mask when you are within 25 feet of another human to maximize safety for both of you. If THEY are wearing masks, you lower the physical separation measuring distance to 6 feet (scientists: that’s one 165 Hertz wavelength).
Three points:
1) studies recently published believe the cloth double fold double sided generally are the most effective.
2)If both are wearing when proximity close, better the odds. It is ALL about the risks and the odds: and reducing them.
3) Do it for the psychological health of your neighbors: mental health IS a component of this pandemic. But, unless you believe it is a fashion statement, you don’t need to wear one if the closest homo sapiens is a mile away. And maskophiliacs, DON’T pepper spray someone not wearing one.
Wear a face shield for maximum and extra protection from viral droplets entering your four facial entry points: eye ducts, nose and mouth. These are connected to your respiratory system. These are used in hospitals, restaurants etc a portable version of the lexar plastic panels to cut down aerosolized transfer. But look at the tradeoffs: are you going to live life shrinked wrapped from head to toe?
Covid is a lower respiratory disease that replicates quickly WHEN the host, you or family, has immune system challenges (underlying medical conditions) and gets sufficient droplets loaded with the virus. Point is, extra protection can only help.
Life IS a risk: you want to lower it like all maladies. Be careful of the Covid bias syndrome (CBS) danger. See more at the end of the blog
Wear eye protection. This is rarely mentioned but you should know viruses are very small. AND much smaller than the ducts. Eyes are both the “window to your soul” and part of the sinus/respiratory system. I wear glasses because my eyesight sucks, but wearing sunglasses helps to reduce the risk. No, Dr Fauci, we won’t be wearing bug eye goggles like on the Star Wars outer rim lady.
Use hand sanitizers (CDC recommends 60% minimum alcohol content.) ALSO there are nine NOT recommended with glycol, poisonous alcohol derivatives & other additives. Only when no soap & water is available.
Remember, water is the universal solvent and disinfectant when used in a conscientiously applied system of facial hygiene amid regular medical care. (Sound like a toothpaste panel?). I use a belt loop hand sanitizer as well as table top since as a real estate guy I am out and about a lot.
Wash off hand sanitizer residue as quickly as possible. Reduce the risk; note that Covid is lower respiratory and the aim is to keep the viral load minimized to prevent infection.
Surface disinfecting. It’s still a good idea for both bacteriological agents and viruses. Believe it or not, SARS-CoV-2 virus does not have an exclusive contract to scare and infect humans. If you have small kids in shopping carts, some have gotten chemical burns from the cart handle with their little hands touching what the well meaning basket clerk just used chemicals on. I’d carry a small spray bottle with soapy water and paper towels for outings outside of the home.
GLOVES. I keep a box of 200 disposal gloves and single use surgical masks in my car kit. Along with an ice chest with chilled bottled water to be a good neighbor.
Viral HOTSPOTS. Gas pump handles, for one. Common public sinks not cleaned. Point is any place can contain viruses and bacterium, so following the protocols above can only help, do what? Reduce the risk. You will be doing you and your kids a favor NOT getting the more dangerous flu as well (166 kids died from the most severe flu late 2019 vs 30 for Covid19)
Therapeutics. So far, the CDC does not recommend any therapies. But we CAN discuss them; including one that is getting a wierd full court press by “doctors” even though it has been highly successful and safe for immunological diseases, malaria etc: HCQ
Hydroxychloroquine w/ Zinc and Zpak under doctor’s care is about $30-50 for a regimen; it has been shown to be highly successful for reasons worth reviewing.
Remdesivir is under development but at 60 cents a dose for HCQ vs $3100 for Remdesivir for a full treatment?? Acetaminophen even gets “prescribed”. Among others. Yet, ask them: Doctors and others are using HCQ as a prophylactic (preventative treatments) since it is proven safe over 5 decades of use by doctors likeCedar-Sinai’s Dr Daniel Wallace (he has 2000 Lupus patients, who use HCQ and no one caught Covid! And most are elderly.) and the newly released Henry Ford study. More on this later. (under construction)
Data is not perfect There has been considerable corruption of the data set; don’t assume anything. CASES are Covid positives NOT people taking their last breaths on a ventilator at Covid Hospital Central. Tho the death rate is plummeting (kid rate is .0000088% for example) but stay vigilant. Too much $$ and camera lust is going on.
MOUSTACHIOS and Beards. Dads: keep them trimmed to minimize the retention of aerosolized or virus laden droplets. You will look better, too!
Below, for completeness are other information sources
Stay home. Most people with COVID-19 have mild illness and can recover at home without medical care. Do not leave your home, except to get medical care. Do not visit public areas.
Take care of yourself. Get rest and stay hydrated. Take over-the-counter medicines, such as acetaminophen, to help you feel better.
Stay in touch with your doctor. Call before you get medical care. Be sure to get care if you have trouble breathing, or have any other emergency warning signs, or if you think it is an emergency.
Avoid public transportation, ride-sharing, or taxis.
Separate yourself from other people
As much as possible, stay in a specific room and away from other people and pets in your home. If possible, you should use a separate bathroom. If you need to be around other people or animals in or outside of the home, wear a cloth face covering.
Symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, cough, or other symptoms.
Follow care instructions from your healthcare provider and local health department. Your local health authorities may give instructions on checking your symptoms and reporting information.
What to look for and seek medical attention:
Look for emergency warning signs* for COVID-19. If someone is showing any of these signs, seek emergency medical careimmediately:
Trouble breathing
Persistent pain or pressure in the chest
New confusion
Inability to wake or stay awake
Bluish lips or face
*This list is not all possible symptoms. Please call your medical provider for any other symptoms that are severe or concerning to you.
Call 911 or call ahead to your local emergency facility: Notify the operator that you are seeking care for someone who has or may have COVID-19.
DO NOT LICK DOORKNOBS. Grandma knew best on this.
Remember: you are NOT alive if your risk level is zero. The only one who can’t get sick or catch a cold or worse is already dead.
Did you know this year was a particularly severe flu season. 166 children perished from the flu before Jan 7th, 2020 because it was a serious flu this year. Covid takes the oxygen out of the air. Sadly, the unintended consequences of this laser focus are numerous.
Meanwhile 30 total kids have passed away from Covid. Also, CAUTION: the data set for this Covid scenario has been corrupted, and irretrievable in many ways. Too much $$ to get a Covid bonus: $39,000 per death cert has tainted the process of data collection, even today. I believe this Fed cash cow poisoned governor Cuomo to issue his death sentence for the 593 nursing homes on March 25th, since he could have used 5 free built and staffed hospitals instead of forcing infected into the elderly rooms. 4500 insanely were dumped into the eldercare facilities in NYC. I have written on these and other subjects at lifeoutloudest.
Good luck. We need your thoughts, comments and additions.
Helping our neighbor stay safe and secure, is our mission. The government is responsible for maintaining law, order and safety, but we are responsible to hold THEM accountable and take the initiative. Remember, we discussed vesting above.
But, stay focused. Don’t trust all the information on the internet without verifying it; if I missed something, last i checked my birth certificate, I am human.
You owe it to your family. Just as I do. And I KNOW you are capable. God gave you your kids for a time; make the most of it. And don’t get so paranoid about Covid over other risks. Let it sink in enough to keep you prepared and doing what you believe is right for your family.
EVERY life is precious and yes, 30 kids died from Covid or .000088%. 166 from the severe flu no one discusses. 800 H2O accidents in 2019. To reduce that risk to zero, as we said above, you’d need to drain all pools, ponds, lakes, oceans and oh yeah, baths. Drowning killed 30 times as many as covid has. Both are controllable and preventable with diligence, observation and action.
We must be vigilant in ALL areas but don’t let it turn you into a fearful zombie. You have family and friends who can help you devise an emergency plan and its various protocols. More on this later. But by all means, do NOT treat your family and friends like lepers if they have been exposed or test Covid+. You CAN’T get it over the phone, Zoom, Facetime or even the internet. Even if the CDC or some epidemiologist says so.
Covid Bias Syndrome
Most of Len’s postings have a hidden quiz or object for the $2 prize: first to comment what does the bike have to do with this, including what it is called. Answer: it is a ghost bike honoring cyclists who died doing what they love, hit by a vehicle. Stay safe Congrats Matt! Sharp eye.
CBS~Covid Bias Syndrome
Rush shared the story about a woman diagnosed with Covid and kept getting worse and worse; the doctors said there was nothing they could do and she had days to live. The doctor who told the story requested they do a battery of tests. It turned out it was Legionnaire’s disease. She was treated and out in 2. They traced it to the mask.
If you reuse, wash them in the machine and dry as frequently as possible. You only have one life to live and give. The Covid Bias Syndrome, with profit incentives on covid19 results, creates a human bias to Covid. The woman almost died. Some other unintended consequences include isolation related suicides, including much younger (more teens have died from Covid induced suicide than the Plague of Xi itself), increased alcoholism, depression etc.
Two studies (the New England Journal of Medicine Lancet just PULLED them quietly) that linked HCQ plus Z plus Azithromycin to hear disease was BS and the prestigious journals just pulled them due to their scientific fraudulence. No one knows how many lives have been lost due to shadow banning this toddler silliness of a successful, safe and successful anti Covid regimen that costs less than $30 vs Rem$$ which costs $3100 and is yet unproven. I will add citations for the successful and the bogus anti HCQ loonies later
Thank you all for reading and comments to make it better. After all, you’ve been Homeschooling Grandpa Len. For a long, long time. Feedback please. This is YOUR site.
Newspaper: “The Voice of Truth” for the Latinam challenged…
Volume 48 Edition 7-11 Investigative journalists contributing include Justin Tyme, David Daleiden, Jr., Jennifer Horn and Susan Shelley Trump; legal counsel by Jay Sekulow at the ACLJ.
30 years ago, in the first phase of the Plague of Xi the Merciless, Psalm 100 was removed from all Bibles in the kingdom of California.
Jay Sekulow, consistent with the ACLJ’s battle for religious liberties pointed out:
“Singing is a fundamental part of worship. The Bible commands us to “Make a joyful noise to the Lord . . . . Come into his presence with singing.” (Psalm 100:2) Banning this is one of the most draconian abuses of power in a pandemic.”
That, readers, is ancient history. When Governor NewsoMeanie survived the recall vote in June 2021, thanks to Bogus Beijing Balloteers Inc. and Dominion “fair and balanced” voting systems, he declared himself King Newsom the Great for life…or at least decades.
Now, approaching decade four of the SARS-Cov-48 Sino-designer pandecade panicdemic, the Bishops of California are meeting to discuss what to do about the soon to be named Emperor of Taxifornia.. Of course, CoVax48 is coming off the production lines at Johnson, Pfizer & Maderna Pharmaceuticals, with the annual tweak of the spike protein “antibody-immunity enhancement” issues still. They finally admit, with St Anthony Fauci in the grave for five years, there NEVER will be a universal vaccine (like polio or smallpox) for Corona and other respiratory virals. Mao’s birthday was declared a feast day for Dr Fauci, who’s bones are buried in the meat market outside Wuhan Labs.
For this secret meeting, the Most Reverend Bishop Kevin Vann, still adept at the ivories as ever, offered the Christ Cathedral; though electricity is intermittent or shut off with the abandonment of fossil fuels throughout Newsom’s kingdom; at least, the 10,660 windows provide sunlight and window venting in early summer will help. Meeting is scheduled for July 4th, 2048.
Bishop Tom will smuggle in the US Constitution, Bishop Tim is bringing the State Constitution (specifically Article 1, section 3-4); for sourcing, his excellency Archbishop Jose Gomez is bringing the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo; ironically, it will be the 200th anniversary of its proclamation of the Treaty at the Christ Cathedral meeting.
Unfortunately, Blessed Sacramento’s Bishop Jaime Soto has been arrested and may not make the required $2 million in state issued Pelosi dollars, nicknamed “Do as I say, NOT as I hairdo” dough, to post bond. Money remains tight over these decades long house arrest and violation of religious rights violations by the Blessed Sacramento castle.
HRH King Newsom the Red… is pleased to announce that phase 661 has been reached in dealing with the California plague of Xi the Merciless that began in October, 2019 in Wuhan, China .
Despite numerous violations by the less relevant Catholic Church in recent weeks, of the required song suppression protocols to protect the holy people of God, the elderly and of course, ” the children”, HRH Newsom believes it is time for him to show mercy and for his subjects to resume the next level of church worship:
HUMMING. Yes, Silence is Golden but humming is sublime in the Taxifornia’s state run religions. Baby steps to freedom
HRH Newsom opines that they have been silenced for decades now, and as this venerable newspaper points out from it’s archives, former Governor Newsom released 8000 hardened criminals for less in the 2020’s. Dr Fauci notes that protesters (not mentioned in the Constitution: freedom to assemble is) have a special genetic immunity sans masks and physical distancing with Covid.
Not so much for NYCity style criminal sardine packing. Compassionately, since Covid19 supposedly could have run rampant in the prisons and to protect other prisoners, HRH demanded a massive release of murderers, rapists, rioters, looters and of course arsonists was necessary. The state is big enough for everyone and can weather wildfires well. Except, back then one of those arsonists torched the San Gabriel mission because, as the LA Times puts it, oppression and Spanish colonialism. Thankfully, the revisionist urinalist historians at the left leaning tower of yuck NYTimes did not realize the oldest church was in their backyard, St Catherine of Alexandria on an island 26 miles off the LA coast. Missed statue topple opportunity!
Our investigative journalists caught up with His Royal Highness in his 30th year of reign at the Blessed Sacramento Castle. He had just finished his morning royal court proceedings. Former Catholic Court jester NOT our Savior Xavier Becerra had new guidelines to provide the willing populace.
VVG: “Your royal highness, it has been 28 years since the Taxifornia legislature, by a vote of 119-1, declared you governor-king for life. What brought you to this kind decision to move from total silence in the Catholic and Christian churches during the Mass & services, to limited humming. And why humming? Why not just outright singing with appropriate PPE & physical separation?”
HRHNewsom the Red: “Well, the religious freedom division of the Taxifornia Dept of Viral Compliance after their weekly meeting reported to me that, despite scattered evidence of public health endangering vocal worship of Jesus or God inside the state sponsored churches, the outrageous singing episodes have come almost completely to a halt! The big exception, as usual is that reprobate county of Orange. We are dealing with our local ordinary in Blessed Sacramento. After all, equal justice under the law.”
VVG: “What was the catalyst, o great one, nephew of satan’s high priestess of The Church of Negro Harvesting & wholesale baby parts business (it’s “for the children”). Did she, as the spiritual head of planned parenthood, appear to you in a dream? Your “O great Queen Aunt Nancy Pelosi RIPWSI?”
Newsom: “WE took a play out of the Martha Stewart IRS playbook. I believe it was the public arrest of Bishop Jaime Soto to show we in the Castle take public health very seriously.
Yes, my subconscious saw an image that Stretched through the night. More like a nightmare. All I remember is a multi-colored cloth, like that techno-colored dream coast Joseph had in OT, hanging around her neck. I recall it was the West African slave master’s Kente cloth Auntie wore on bended knee during the BLM~Antifastan uprisings in her last days as speaker.”
VVG: “Sad to hear about Auntie’s sudden death this month, although she was 108 years along. If we might ask, Bishop Soto is believed to be an amazing leader in the Church, well, what is left of it here in Taxifornia. He has worked tirelessly to meet your demands for well, sometimes unscientific and spurious requirements on private citizens. We investigative journalists realize you are king of the scam, your awesomeness one.
To this day, despite the massive cooldown of the Maunder and Dalton Minimum decreased solar heat in the 2020s and 2030s, the peons STILL believe the manmade climate change rubbish. Only the ignorant can’t see the scam your kind perpetrated: ONE molecule of carbon dioxide per every 2500 air molecule can’t do squat to affect the temps. I still love former president Michelle Obama’s hubby, FMOTUS Barack Barry Soetoro, scamming the world that Denali would be covered due to CO2. 21,000 feet. What a rouse. While he stood on the Exit Ice Field in Alaska while HE was president.”
HRHNewsom: “It’s the science, stupid VVG. Why do I let you in my throne room!!!
One of our deputized plebe & surf VSS informants (Viral secret service or VSS) was walking past one of the few remaining churches in the Diocese of Orange, St. Norbert’s. Just miles from our flagship coven at Tustin at 22 fwy, where VSS#666 works Mon thru Sat (sorry VVG: like Eric CIAmarella, her anonymity is important, as you know in the media and ObamaNation spy games)
VSS666 heard a melody come from the nearly empty building, then shot a photo at just the right angle like our famous OC Beach VSS shoot forcing me to shut down Newport & Hungtington for the safety of the children. Her seminal work made 100 people look like thousands. For her vigilant work, we promoted her to director of the VSS OC bureau. As a rookie back in preCovid48 days in 2020, VSS#666 snitched on the music team at St Thomas More for having more than two music ministers at the 8am Mass early in this pandemic. Imagine, you don’t really need music people. You don’t need priests in fact; but we believe in Religious Freedom as encased in the California and US Constitutions; we still honor these ancient documents in Taxifornia. Just common sense regulations for “the safety of the children”.
VSS#666’s juvenile mistake was to NOT remain for the next Mass at Thomas More to catch a whole slew of singers at the 10am; she could have complained to the pastor and filed a report with our DVC. And, we can’t depend on Antifastan to burn down the churches, like they did with the San Gabriel mission in the early stages of this crazy pandemic. So, artificially restricting them is the best idea.
God knows, i am diverse though I hate Catholics and Orange Countians and Winery Competition. In that order.
The historical irony is, Thomas Moore had the audacity to tell one of my predecessors in England he was wrong in telling the truth to the 8th King Henry, that adultery with Anne was wrong. You DON’T defy a King, even in a Federated Republic like ours.”
VVG: “your righteous royalness, since you lowered the max number acceptable (for the safety of the children of course) to 25 from 100 back in late 2020, we can see why St Norberts was empty; and Bishop Soto, who is the ordinary for the Blessed Sacramento CAthedral, with the Blessed Sacrament in the middle behind the Blessed SAcrament altar. ON the Blessed Sacramento River of course…”
Newsom interrupts: “Is there a question coming VVG? Or just another rambling monologue.”
VGG: Yes, my ‘lege. Two: can you cite one royal edict from the past you just love. 2nd: What melody or song caused you to throw a royal tantrum, O Petty Tyrant of the People?”
Newsom: “watch your mouth. I already expelled “Just the News” John Solomon and Sarah Carter for asking non prescreened questions.
Hmm…I am particularly fond of shutting down the Church completely on July 13, 2020.
I had just shut down singing and to my surprise many of the Churches complied. So this emboldened me to use the confusing and unscientific data as an excuse to shut them down yet again.
VVG: What about planned parenthood. Did you shut them down as well?
King Newsom: Oh you mean my Queen Aunt Pelosi’s favorite church of satan (May she Rest In Peace Wherever She Is)? Of course not. Not once during the Covid19 thru Covid48 have we interrupted their elective surgeries schedule. Parts demand for black hearts and livers never subsided, despite the occasional ambulance showing up. I am proud it is the ONLY church we kept open for services, servicing the loaded wombs of so many minorities that yielded excellent specimens (and speciwomen) for our med lab buyers worldwide.
In case you don’t know Catholic lore, that July 13th was the date in 1917 where the Catholic sheep believe Mary appeared to three kids in Fatima, Portugal. What fools! Mary doesn’t get frequent flyer miles appearing all over the world. Total superstition. Back then, the bishops of California believed the words this figment of their imagination said: “The children then looked up at Our Lady, wo said to them so kindly and so sadly:
“You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart…”
I’ve never liked Catholics; but if they want hell, I can deliver it with or without a mask. Ask Bishop Soto…”
By the way, the song I despised was an ancient one with the title of “How Can I Keep From Singing?”. We were told by our perpetual church-state negotiating team that earlier in his ministry, Bishop Soto favored this particular song, a serious threat against the state and the crown.”
VVG: “With all due respect, O gracious keeper of the Taxifornia Treasury and Billion Dollar storehouse of defective Chinese masks, how can a song hurt you…err, we mean, the health of Taxifornia’s paupers and minions?”
Newsom: “Listen, Vox Veritas Gazette, the Church has acquiesced and allowed our oversight of such piddling matters as the length of worship, the number of participants, and the content of the worship, for decades now. We can’t turn back the clock. They like to suffer. We like to make them suffer.
In fact, we have restricted them eating that little round bread stuff my former Catholic Great Aunt loved to confiscate for her friends in the PP covens around the state. Our Public Health Organic Wheat Regulation Dept. claimed unleavened bread has NO nutritional value so we banned it in the state.
VVG: “Isn’t that a bit of overreach. Did the legislature go along?
Newsom: What legislature? Those feckless dweebs have no power over me. And we’ve tried to meet these religious bible bitter clingers half way: their current 15 minute masses with 25 people are still live streamed aren’t they? Even when Bishop Soto said Mass back in the OC. What’s the problem?
VVG: “But, isn’t 25 people a bit low for such large buildings? Isn’t the former Crystal Cathedral now Christ Cathedral maxed over 2200 seats? That’s less than 2%. Even 100 is about 4.5% of the 10660 glass paned beauty?
Expected site of the Taxifornia Bishops’ Conference on July 4, 2048
Newsom: “Yes my church-state team realize that 25 people for the 2243 seat Christ Cathedral is a bit of overkill, emphasis is overkill, but its “for the children”.
Remember, public safety is #1 above all others. Yes we know the private sector never recovered, with 87% of the businesses failing over these decades with our slow walk reopening-closing-reopening schemes. After all, no government job or teachers’ union type jobs was ever lost.
WE have our priorities, VVG! As journalists you must know: the government, especially Taxifornia’s, fuels the survival of the states…not the plebes, surfs and peon private sector mouth breathers. Not the pitiful deplorable people. We NEED the unions ‘for the children’.
Recall, years ago, Al Shanker of AFT mentioned his priorities in saying: “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children. … I don’t represent children. And when the churches start paying my kingdom taxes, then we will talk. Only satan’s PP church gets a free pass & $$ from the people’s coffers since Auntie Pelosi robbed the first Covid bailout for her beloved cult satanist surgeons. May she rest in peace wherever she is.”
VVG: A bit unfair? Do you really do it to keep the children and elderly alive?
Newsom: “well, the children at least. We adopted that famous March 25, 2020 royal NYC Cuomo decree to reduce the excess Social Security drainers by putting infected Covid carriers in with vulnerable elderly at NYC’s 593 nursing homes. Those 6500 Covid transferrees did wonders to kill off the useless eaters. It worked well for Andrew and Comrade DumBlasio; influx of $39K per dead old lady from the Feds, 10% city death tax. What’s NOT to love. But anyways, look at our track record:
Not one parishioner of Bishop Vann, Archbishop Gomez or now under house arrest Bishop Soto’s respective dioceses have caught Covid48 this year from live streamed worship. Of course, locking them out helps considerably.
Silencing the singing was necessary just in case the life streaming pseudo worship videographer, though 50 yards away, caught a stray droplet of Covid48 and die the next day. I know no one has died in decades but Dr Fauci’s avatar still speaks daily that “until the last case of Covid48 is discovered, we MUST stay shut down. Except for those protesting peacefully with Molotovs, glass breakers and loot flash mobs, who have the immunity gene. The vaccine WILL work this year. Finally”
Yes, we realized no one is dying, from Covid at least, but the Catholic leadership doesn’t know that, nor does their sheared sheep. VVG, do you want continued access to my castle? They call me King Newsom the Red since we built a permanent video feed in the master bedroom of the Blessed SAcramento Castle and the RED signal LED is perpetually on. The people love me and want to make me Emperor in 2050.”
VVG: “Emperor, first we’ve heard. Is this a scoop. Apologies, your most gracious King and Xavier of the people. Speaking of Xavier, will your court jester Xavier the Deceiver Becerra be issuing the written All Humming, No Strumming guidelines?”
Newsom: “Of course, Xavier has been my Igor, my vizier since he fabricated those fraud manmade climate change, gas tax repeal nonsense for the Prop 6 ballot so many years ago. Talk about flummoxing the people! They still pay an exorbitant 66.6% gas sales tax rate, especially since the Gas Wars under Secretary of the Interior Alex Ocasio Cortes reign in the 2030s.
I have instructed him to draft herculean guidelines for the proper lip positioning, moisture level of the lips and dB levels of humming sounds. NO kazoos WILL be accepted. However our Chinese PPE partnership team, having procured successfully those 250 million masks from Wuhan so many years ago, is working on a humming device with built in safety measures. Since he has zero grandkids thanks to my Auntie’s persistence, Xavier certainly has the time.
VVG: “are the specs out for multi sourcing, O Emperor in Training as the Constitution requires?”
EIT Newsom: “no, we are single sourcing the new King Newsom Hummer Tube. A prototype will be available for the public and you nuisance reporters soon.
It involves a 12′ section of 3″ ID black (BLM Inc. demanded we use ABS black pipe as our contract with them requires) drain pipe with a cloth mask attached at the other end. No droplets will escape and even the biggest of mouths will be able to hum inside the mouth end. The mask will do what all masks do: keep the sheep under control. Stop germ laden droplets. I know it is a bit cumbersome, but if hymns and song are to return to Catholics in 2050, we must take baby steps. By then, just maybe we can up the attendance to 75 on the way back to 100. Works for me!
. And, YES the Newsom HummerTube with versatile voice mask will be manufactured in WuHan by the same Chinese company I used for his pandemic masks back in 2020. The Department of Viral Compliance is doing ZOOM TikTok training as you read this. Gotta go get my fitting!”
VVG: “One last question, your amazingness future Emperor of Taxifornia. What happened to Soto and of course, what fitting?”
Newsom: “It’s not easy being, what do the surfs call me, a petty tyrant? We locked him up in the dungeon in my Castle until he retracts his statements about “Where evil abounds, GRACE abounds more”… I am NOT evil and who the heck is Grace?
I am king and future Emperor. I just wish my 108 yr old Aunt Nancycould have been here for my crowning; she died from excessive botox poisoning in the PP waiting room while napping after her latest treatment by Dr Mary Gatter and Jon Dunn CEO of Planned Parenthood Orange & San Berdo.
Now you see the wisdom? Since we kept PParenthood baby milling operations open throughout the whole Covid shutdown thing, they have perfected killing the black kid, extracting the cells and tissue and directly treating the wealthy Demonrat patients on site. But most important, Soto must also stop that infernal Song of his. It drives me crazy when i hear “When tyrants tremble in their fear”.
VVG: “And the fitting?”
Newsom: “My buddy Xi sent over his best tailors from former independent city of Hong Kong to make the Emperor’s New Clothes. Word has it they will be so shear they are almost invisible. I am sooo excited to parade around in the world’s most expensive but chic fashion.”
VVG: “TY your emperorness. We are sure you will look better than when you wore your first birthday suit”
Babylon Bee is great; the Onion stinks not so much. Butthe Vox Veritas Gazette just tries to live up to the official standards of national parodic news reporting.
The song that caused the ruckus in the castle:
“How Can I Keep From Singing?”
I AM the King! I love it when Jesus’ Church kowtows to my ever changing pronouncements. My fave mask so far is the Iron Mask of King Louis. Now THAT one served a royal purpose! ~Emperor Newsom the Red
My life goes on in endless song Above earth’s lamentation I hear the real, though far-off hymn That hails a new creation
Through all the tumult and the strife I hear its music ringing It sounds an echo in my soul How can I keep from singing?
While though the tempest loudly roars I hear the truth, it liveth And though the darkness ’round me close Songs in the night it giveth
No storm can shake my inmost calm While to that rock I’m clinging Since love is Lord of heaven and earth How can I keep from singing?
When (petty) tyrants tremble in their fear And hear their death knell ringing When friends rejoice both far and near How can I keep from singing?
In prison cell and dungeon vile Our thoughts to them are winging When friends by shame are undefiled How can I keep from singing? (hat tip to AZlyrics/Enya)
Full disclosure: the managing editor of the Vox Veritas Gazette had the privilege of providing a guitar and liturgical songs at St Peter’s in Rome and St Francis d’ Assisi for Bishop Soto during World Youth Day 2000. A barely credible musician to fill in for the amazing Tony Melendez and Steve Agrisano.
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WE are in month 2929 of this covenant land. 2928 months ago, 56 Founders signed a revolutionary declaration 13 British colonies were going independent from King George III and their colonizing Englanders. Do you love America? They did and they ALL lost their fortunes and lives for their John Hancock’s on the bottom of the parchment. And that YOU, yes you, have a blessed and thriving Federated Republic. What Reagan called “shining light on a hill.”
Check 190 countries’ calendars worldwide; most EVERYONE has a July 4th. Day 185 with 181 to go. Just a few of us ascribe importance and celebrate this date annually.
What do you love about these United States? What do you dislike? Is Juneteenth or SeptemberSeventeenth more important to you? Comment below with your wise and whys. Last I checked, amendment 1 still protects you from government overreach and suppression, even if Google, Twitter and Apple love to shadow ban with their gameboy basement content cops.
If you’ve seen Hamilton on Disney or in the theater, King George III levied a 3d pence (not the VP) tax on the American colonies and Boston Harbor became the first tea party. A bit salty that tea. People ARE tired of tax without representation even then.
Our current royalty is King Newsom the Red (my affectionate name for our overreaching governor), ruler of Taxifornia, resident of Blessed Sacramento castle.
This week, he and his court jester, Xavier the Deceiver is charging a 67% gas sales tax RATE on something just as critical as tea.
That fossil fuel gasoline & diesel which powers what’s left of the frayed $23 trillion robust economy. Any riots at the gas pump? Any looting of windshield squeegee paper towels?
Haven’t seen any, though among the anarchist teams (windowbreakers, looters, rioters, arsonists) which is the progression of current destruction tolerated by feckless petty tyrant mayors and governors. King George III would be proud.
Yes, you can find a few free assembled protesters if you get there in the first few minutes. But, Life, Liberty, Property & Happy Pursuits may be inalienable, but they always are vulnerable. We STILL, to this day, have a form of slavery in e Pluribus Unum
USHistory lesson: there is no Constitutional “protesters” clause: yet amendment 1 says “…the right of the people peaceably to assemble…” is guaranteed. This RIGHT comes with a responsibility that so many young people, of all creeds, colors and ages, continue to undertake. To speak up “against other worldviews and actions” they find objectionable.
Like the 10-100 peaceful protesters at each statuary riot today. Always remember, blessed American, everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but there is ONLY one set of truths or facts.
I have been and will be a protester for life, having dedicated myself to the plight of the woman and preborn children, but peaceably for the Truth…not a lie like the Fabricator of Burbank continues to spin.
AS you, the reader, as your legacy unfolds, become committed to loving your neighbor as yourself. So many have spent a lifetime to discover this simple solution.
Black lives seem to be on tongue tips this Independence Month 2020.
William Wilberforce, with Mr. Tom Clarkson and others, battled for decades to end the slave trade in England (I recommend the movie “Amazing Grace”). The diabolic slave ships did end with royal ascent for the Slave Trade Act on March 25, 1807 and in the US in 1808, but freedom for “all men and women created equal” received the blood test decades later. 600,000 bloody tests in the Civil War six feet under and we are still learning the results.
Are you racist? Vast majority of Americans, no; I don’t think you are. In another piece, I outline the history of this mass marketed “institutional racism” theory. WE are duped so easily BECAUSE we are decent, loving people. 99.9999 % of Americans are such.
Answer it simply: do you believe that all humans have equal value at creation, from womb to tomb? Then you are not racist; and please, remember, ANYONE can accuse you of whatever, ‘virtue signal’ you, make you feel guilty. But YOU must pack your bags, buy the train ticket for the heavy guilt trip others seem so easily to book you on.
Basically, we have racists among us but not genetic racism.
How do I know? I have 11 amazing kids, 14 grand kids (4 of which are black in complexion), numerous nieces and nephews, grappling with fragile whitity or white fragility, and other microcosms of “uncomfortableness”.
In fact, i was asked “are you uncomfortable talking about racism?”
No, uncomfortable is when the bed is too soft or the car too hot. But in a blessed land where even the poorest are wealthier than any king on earth 100+ years ago, though they need help UP, I am perfectly comfortable discussing as adults, racism but i prefer as well to tout Americanism. We have the best Republic, IF we can keep it, a prophecy going back to Ben Franklin.
Like you, i can smell a rat and a con a NY minute mile away. But, do we have the courage to DO something about it?
I can prove that within the last 24 hours, I have physically talked to someone who has a beautiful dark complexion, and have friends as well with similar facial characteristics; even with the Phantom masks everywhere, you can see their beauty behind the PPE of the Plague of Xi. You see, it’s not about color. ANYONE can treat another as less than human….you don’t need less or more melanin to do that.
Mr. MLKing points to character not color as the test of a person of integrity.
Quick primer: ONE human race. God began with ONE huMAN and more importantly, the most complex, infinitely beautiful and last creative Creation act: woman.
ONE race? Len you are nuts! Ok sanity is highly overrated at times…
Yes, although the 1854 Party of Slavery likes to divide to conquer, we have divisions, some God ordained, others by man.
190 nations, blessed with good and not so good. One world government, like one world village is dangerous; there is success in boundaries, just as in disciplining a spoiled child.
If you don’t have boundaries, a border, sometimes called a wall like Pelosi, Obama and the Vatican have, you have no security. No sovereign nation, just like Poland, Venezuela and Syria, a thread mill for despots, is universal proof power corrupts.. ABout absolute power?
But, people! Do the anthropological science: There are NOT 12 first couples, a Chinese first couple, black, Japanese, American knees… we are genetically, DNAly one species.
Like different foods, different cultures ARE a blessing. One great thing about being Catholic, our faith encompasses food: Filipino, Mexican, Cajun, Polish, American, the Eucharist: ALL kinds of flavors, styles, sizes of servings… just like the human neighbors we have.
Are you a true RACIST, seeing there is only ONE race, beyond the angels? Take the test.
Look closely to the two fine gentlemen flanking Tina at the March for Life in San/St. Pelosiville Francis(co).
All three EACH have two arms, two legs, and the only real difference between the brothers and my Tina is obvious:
they are MUCH taller!!
A head or so closer to heaven. Is Tina less human because she is shorter? The guys more human because they can outrun her.
Read the shirts: Be a Voice for Life. Shout it, Gov Cuomo, as he faces manslaughter charges needs to hear it: ALL LIVES are important, precious, valuable. Whether kicking mom inside her womb or at 85 in a NYC nursing home.
Good maxim, racist you. How does that feel, when YOU are called a racist?
It’s like breaking up first or being the first in line, you feel better if you break up first or call the other person racist before they pull out the 1854 Party Deck “racism” card. Or do we?
Like a radio caller said well, we are NOT hyphenated Italian-Americans, Polish German-Americans, Green radical -Americans, black or white Americans, we ARE members and residents of the last free country on earth.
The trip from Amerigo Vespucci to V as in Venezuela is just a socialists’ stone’s toss IF we are NOT Ben Franklin vigilant regarding keeping America American, not regressive leftist sheep divided for the shearing.
Of course, there is room for diversity, as long as you don’t rape, loot or murder another like the stone tablets say so well. See your neighbor as yourself: a Gift from God put here for a purpose. Like MLK, Washington, Jefferson, Churchill and Wilberforce abroad. Saying Black, Gay, Trans or the 160 gender ideologies (as of midnight today) MATTER indicates certain humans are most valuable and valued than others. I know God left the best for last in making woman, but “Love your Neighbor” IS the ultimate equalizer.
Do we love America enough to fight for the Constitution & keep her as the beacon of hope she is to, soooo many around the world. When the plague of Xi was unleashed, the world still looked to American for solutions. Don’t be fooled by the foolish who tear down the great Emancipator because they think slavery is wrong. Of Course it is wrong! For millenia, heaven and earth has known this; even today ten nations still practice it and human trafficking slavery is a vein that runs through continents over the seas.
Many of you reading this are Catholic and/or Christian, or other faith. Wilberforce said ““true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude”. Let those words sink in as you tabulate your blessings balance sheet. ALWAYS remember, no one can outGive God; but we can try by:
Help 1 Some1-2day. More if possible
Without the attitude of gratitude first, all can be lost.
These United States are fragile, not white or black immutables. We have been battling XYZ since we first landed in 1620, the Mayflower Compact days.; there’s always a friend, as well as enemies, to work with or protect from.
No, former journalists: the NYTimes activists’ 1619 project is a vacuous fraud by misery merchants. US did NOT invent slavery!
Total revisionist history and worse: propaganda. Again, Wilberforce battled with other Abolitionists in the Atlantic, Africa and Europe. I remain an abolitionists for maiming moms, killing their kids before they have a chance to throw a handful of food at dad in the high chair.
Ever hear of Egyptians having 2 million slaves 4 millennia ago? It didn’t take 600,000 human grey and black and blue lives to gain freedom; just 10 plagues, not so unlike the Plague of Xi the mass murdering dynastic despot.
“Let my People Go!” finally got results after Passover’s angel of death did NOT pass over the pharoah’s first born.
It’s in the history books and called the EXODUS for a reason, with the largest, instantaneous slave migration into freedom in history…And marked by the earliest and last ancient wonder of the world: the Giza pyramid.
Black slave masters, like those West African human merchants who sported the Kente cloth that Pelosi and her Dems unwittingly kneeled with, had black AND white slaves.
If only Pelosi’s staff had the interweb: “Kente cloth has its origin from the Akan-Ashanti kingdoms in Ghana; the Akan empire of Bonoman. Most Akans migrated out of the area that was Bonoman to create various states.
This is where the West African slave trade happened; Pelosi’s appropriate use of slave signage is ironic and telling. Her 1854 party originated East and South America’s slave trade and practices a form of slavery even today. Freedom is NOT free and must be defended. By YOU. By me.
July 4th’s Declaration of Colonial Independence was NOT the first.
In case you missed civics or AmHistory, there’s the Declaration of Rights (King George not Newsom the Red) Oct 19, 1765 in the very sad Big Rotting Apple, NYCity. Quoting the 2nd paragraph: “That His Majesty’s liege subjects in these colonies are entitled to all the inherent rights and privileges of his natural born subjects within the kingdom of Great Britain”
The Congress was declaring “rights and grievances” to their governing King George III across the pond; just like today, with fires burning, statues being destroyed trying to change history, grievances of all kinds are being televised to the world: ‘Cops are evil,’ certain lives matter more than others; “we founded slavery” (VP Tim Kaines); America is systemically racist since 1619 and the Mayflower compact.
The Compact or Agreement was to undertake a “Voyage to plant the first Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia.” They landed further north, survived the socialism experiment in year one, morphed to free enterprise capitalism year 2 and are still historically significant BECAUSE of these lessons of life. Planted they did.
One of our early founding documents, the Mayflower Compact was signed on Nov 11, 1620, long before the allies signed an end to the bloodiest World War on the 11th day of the 11th month at the 11th hour. Armistice day, 11/11/1918. Le Francport France.
IF ONLY WE COULD LEARN THAT ALL LIVES MATTER. THE INNOCENT PREBORN THRU THE ELDERLY. MAYBE SOON…while we have a country.
What hypocrisy, fellow Americans. One of our greatest international cities, NYCity, is a big rotting apple, dying because King George III is replaced with Mayor Wilhelm and Gov Cuomo’s systemic incompetence and elder racist systemic kill off.
The date that England declared slave trade over in 1807, 213 years later in 2020 became the ElderSlave kill off. Unprecedented! what with 7 governors following suit. Salvation History, Jesus was born and died on this date, as well. Auspicious. But, ALL LIFE and lives are precious, not just the anointed or most powerful.
Just this month no more hypocritical words can be found:
“We’re devastated, grieving, and outraged by violence against Black lives,” it said. “We must continue to demand accountability, justice, and an end to the inequity that continues to define every moment of life for Black America from the racist institutions that uphold white supremacy.”
Planned Parenthood IS the ultimate evil empire, master racist that makes Hitler look like a misguided boy scout. White supremacy? 20 million DEAD black kids; note that they kill nine times as many blacks as non-blacks and they used to be 12% of the population. No more. Sanger IS getting her blackenasian wish: eliminating the “Negro population”.
They perform 1000 acts of VIOLENCE against innocent Black lives and like good emissaries of hell, they lie and deceive about it.
Freedom has its responsibilities, tho NOT enumerated in founding docs.
In month 2929 of America as a nation, I AM a modern abolitionist, trying to get doctors to learn science, and mothers to see there is a better route for their womb-chained girl or boy.
Wombs do open, chains can fall. Answer the slave’s hopeful scientific truth: “Am i not a man and a brother?” Says the 6 pound child to her mother “Am I not a girl and your daughter?”
The answer may surprise you. YES!
Prostiticians just don’t get it: How else do you explain putting Plague of Xi infected agents of death INTO 593 nursing homes PURPOSEFULLY on March 25? Where were the voices for life when this man and womanslaughter royal Cuomo decree printed above, was issued (not rescinded until May 10 after 4500 infectors unleashed)?
99.999% of American families are law abiding, decent multinational melting pots.
My kids have English, Scottish, Cherokee, Polish, German etc blood. They have married into Sri Lankan, English and more. WE are blessed with beauty, brilliance, innovation, initiative, entrepreneurial prowess, love, did I say love, disagreements, some diseases NOT covid19, hope and the willingness to forgive and ask for forgiveness.
Things ALL families possess if they turn off the burning statues for a moment and look, really look at their fellow American offspring!
Music and cooking, baking, bee keeping, real estate, computer science, sculpturing, living. Crosby said it “Count your blessings instead of sheep…”
In fact, when Bri married Gavin in the Covidiminished 100 max wedding at St Norberts, we upped the siblings count 15 more! We live on a street that is a cross-section of American life, with Protestant, CAtholic, Hindu, Muslim, fire chiefs, engineers and more. The BEST street in America. Something YOU should say or work toward it being true.
Sadly, the impatient gratified, those who won’t work smart and hard want it ALL now, instantaneous gratification and will break glass, loot, burn even kill, must be dealt with by ADULTS, recallers of the rights of ALL Americans. Not just the anarchists.
Catholics never know when NOT to procreate: My 10 sibs married into Taiwanese, Asian, Indian, etc (my sibs and kids will correct me and i will edit this mini geneology).
We ARE the world but we are Americans who believe we are NOT of this world once we die. Look at your own lifeblood history. Americans are from xxx but ARE brothers and sisters of the parchment. Founding documents all too many haven’t read.
ANOTHER DECLARATION OF RIGHTS 1774: In the “City of Bro Love” Philadelphia (my beloved grandGodchild is Phia Del Phia) on Oct 14, 1774 (Continental Congress) these words should be particularly poignant and relevant:
“And, whereas, assemblies have been frequently dissolved (by the Crown), when they attempted to deliberate on grievances”… Today, many grievances are tossed but solutions will come. Further, “Resolved, NCD1. That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.”
People love to own other people…and other people’s time, wealth, mind and hopes.
But, God puts in His Story special people.
Martin Luther King, Jr. looked forward to a time when his four kids saw people judged for the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
600,000 died in early 1860s to free slaves yet the Southern Democrats battle on! Even today blacks (and non blacks) are slaves today; or do you not see the racism in slicing up kids for parts at the Newsom state church of satan, planned parenthood. I know, I saw all of you just now, go, “come on Len; give it a rest. Abortion is as American as apple pie!
Looking for a MASTER racist? Look no farther
What, like the Big Rotting Apple, with 41 abortion mills, and 593 nursing homes, which today take out the very young with knives and the very old with Covid implants by royal decree.
We all must detest owning others like property, which was a roadblock to the Declaration of Independence we celebrate today. The Southern slave states would NOT budge until “property” was struck and replaced with “pursuit of happiness”, a noble goal.
Yes, we have other celebrations of key milestones which is great, like Juneteenth, when word finally got to Texas that Lincoln’s emancipation happened 18 months before. OR…
Christmas, Easter, Eid a Fitr, Passover, Ramadan from the various cultures that make up the melting pot and salad bowl (dependent on your view) of these United States! But, even with Covid, burning toppled statues, riots and more, people are battling to get INTO these United States. We are sooo blessed if only we opened our eyes and did the simple, as Christ requires and America is good at: Help 1 Some1-2 day
Can it be that simple, helping a neighbor? Of course, diversity and variety not only are the spice of life, but the badge of courage of a free, the last free, nation on earth.
Outside of Israel, where thousands more French Jews just emigrated because of Semitic “racism” re-emerging. Hitler not only wanted to own all things Jewish via the Nuremberg Racial Laws of 1935, he like the modern master racist, Margaret Sanger, wanted Jews dead.
Sanger’s blood lust is more directed at “useless eaters”, Puerto Ricans, blacks and anyone she DIDN’T like much. Her soldiers of medical fortune carry on her work, having killed off 63 million Americans in 47 years. Why do we look for the sawdust of racism in decent people’s eyes while ignoring the forest of abortion, true ultimate racism in the eyes of Pelosi, Dementia riddled Bunker Biden, Jon Dunn, King Newsom, AGXavier, kid haters, kid killers everywhere. I know Trump sinned. So have i. But he IS the most prolific pro life president since Washington, who had slaves.
Did you know, the 1774 wording “life, liberty and PROPERTY” was objected to by the Southern Democrat slave states and the plantation masters? Now you do.
We had free blacks in the North, and enslaved blacks in the South AND North. Transitions are rarely easy. And BLM opportunists ignore the 700 young blacks killed by other young blacks in Chicagoland in 2019. WE NEED each other. WE are IN this together.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…”
We are a covenant land, based on the rule of law and order. The lawless and disorderly, the anarchists, the racism pimps and victocrats, the misery merchants all agree: they hate America and want to strip mine it completely, like the Billy Jack song “One tin soldier” themes out, of its good and decent people., their hard won freedoms and hard earned cash and property.
BKind 4Give B4Given Find 1 Some1-2Help2day Words to live by: AND wake up to “It’s a GREAT day to be alive!”
Yes, we are in the Dark Ages, but the light of Christ AND of truth is being shown like a laser on so much. I honestly believe an American Renaissance will continue IF we see the next neighbor in our masked path as family.
I can’t force you to look past the misery merchants, the Regressive Leftists who like BLM Inc., Antifastan, coach Bill Ayers, etc. and see the truth:
a GIFT we may not deserve but it has been granted us:
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND, THIS LAND IS MY LAND. willing to fight for it or buckle to the culture of death?
Listen to Greewood’s, God Bless America. It’s not a sin to love your homeland; it IS a sin to lie about its good qualities and results while finding its pimples supreme.
Venezuela is one of those destinations open to the Hollywood liars who keep promising they would leave our country based on an election they disagreed with. Still here, for some reason; maybe they like to talk before walking the blood route. Or are as two dimensional as the movies they repeat lines in.
Adam “Schitty” Sciffty is the best example of such misery merchants: he lies deeper than a green shag carpet drenched in blood soaked patriot’s shed blood preserving freedom.
Whether you love the devoted Catholic Melania’s husband or hate his guts, his words rang true on Independence Day 2020:
“On this day in 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the United States Declaration of Independence in what is now known as Independence Hall in Philadelphia. In taking this historic step, the Congress proclaimed “these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.” Today, we celebrate our Nation’s independence and the vision of our Founding Fathers revealed to the world on that fateful day, as well as the countless patriots who continue to ensure that the flames of freedom are never extinguished.
The enduring commitment to the ideals of liberty and justice that have come to define our American spirit stem from our Nation’s founding. In declaring that our rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” should be safeguarded for posterity and that “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” our Founding Fathers launched the American experiment that espoused freedom and democracy over tyranny and monarchy. Two hundred and forty-four years later, the principles grounded in the Declaration of Independence continue to guide our Nation forward and maintain its standing as a beacon of liberty, prosperity, and opportunity for all.
Over the past months, the American spirit has undoubtedly been tested by many challenges. Yet, it is in the face of adversity that our country has had some of our proudest moments of triumph. Today, especially, we are reminded of the extraordinary feats that our Nation has accomplished since its founding nearly 250 years ago. Together, we must ensure that we live up to the ideals of our Declaration of Independence and do all that we can to protect and preserve the freedoms that make our country the greatest in the world.
The First Lady and I wish each and every American a happy and blessed Fourth of July and proudly join you in celebrating our great Nation. May God bless the United States of America.”
Donald J. Trump at Mt Rushmore, South Dakota. Guest of a real governor Kristi Noem.
As I do, your Virus Hunter, Real estate guy, Homeschooling Grandpa Len and Mary the Maskmakeer’s husband. Len
2020 hindsight in 2020 is always much more simple than guessing the future. Take an arson investigator; he or she digs through the rubble, looking for clues. Sometimes it’s an accelerant in a warehouse, a flare or matchbook at a campfire in tinder rich wild fire country.
Over the decades, our culture has changed alongside incredible advances in technology. Yet, one change we hopefully can re-examine is how and why we warehouse the elderly as well as monetize the young. Our culture of death both sells black babies in parts and gets $39,000 per elder CoviDeath in nursing homes, of which Dr Cuomo has 593 in the Big Rotting Apple. His able bodied assistant Mayor Warren Wilhelm at the helm of destruction is hell bent on ruining a great city, like many that are dying with one party decades long leadership..
Little was known about the behavior of the Plague of Xi since it first hit the streets in Wuhan October 2019. You might recall the epidemic became pandemic (pan means crossed borders) on the first Sino-Covid Viral Air flight out of Wuhan International to Italy, Spain, NYC, USA etc.
Looking back for that spark that started a wildfire,
Fatherhood IS an essential job, even when the fathers in the fatherhood aren’t seen as that important in the Post Millennial patriarchal social media saturated world we live in. And yes EVERY job under the Plague of Xi is critical for someone.
Happy daday dads! Actually, happy dad year and family life! We NEED you. Even national talk show host, Jennifer Horn, loves her dad and considers him essential.
Do you know a good father? Most of you reading this actually came through a mother who had a man she married who turned her INTO that mother with you inside. That’s a mouthful…
But many in our enlightened society believes men in general and dads in particular are expendable he should just go boil the water, learn laMaze and get out of the way once the kidling crowns on the way out of the birth canal.
Some have or had an excellent relationship with their dad, the more endearing term for father. Father God sees all, after all: some have had disastrous times with papa. Father’s Day or any day is good to celebrate him; if he did you wrong, which only you know, good time to push the ten pound chip off your tired shoulder and forgive him. Yes, he probably doesn’t deserve it, but forgiveness and being forgiven is the most healing thing one can do at times. Or maybe he does, and the misunderstanding happened both ways. Having that reconciliation, having your dad back before he or you go six feet down.
If he treated you like an angel or saint, then get him that tie; or make him a handmade something or other, because he has enuf stuff to stuff a heShed.
Even though God designed woman incredibly complex and created her last, Father God did have a role in mind for dad.
In the post WWII 50s, it was sole provider while mom had the kids at home, got them to school, cooked the meals, etc. In the 60s, fathers in too many homes became less relevant due to LBJ’s poverty war. Haight Asbury’s long hair hipsters came on the scene, who became today’s radical left Harvard tenured professors of indoctrinating poison. Ever hear of the Ivy League’s finest, the Prophet Alexandria (Ocasio Cortez)? who thinks our world’s over in 12 because of the terrorist substance carbon dioxide? Indoctrination indeed… Yes, there are good professors.
I knew one, Thomas Aquinas College parental alumnus Professor Steven Atchley, whom I’d like to dedicate this Fatherhood piece to…this was his first father’s day in heaven. And the first the Atchley offsping are fatherless on earth.
I didn’t know him that well, except at occasional homeschool related gatherings, but he is the consummate father who put his beautiful wife Patrice and their kids before HIS needs.
Irony is, as a professor, he taught many international students at two private universities, including a healthy amount from mainland China & yes, some from that busling metropolis of Wuhan. Therein lies this claim:
Like in this krazy covid confused times, my guess is he was California covid death #2 or #3, (he passed Feb 16th) before King Newsom went royal on us March 21st. 17 days after Trump shut down Wuhanian viral transfers on Sino-Covid Spreadit Air flights Jan 31st. Misdiagnosed flu, co morbidity heart attack, exhibiting symptoms now readily known about the Plague of Xi. You know the drill.
I know his family would prefer to have their uncle the priest NOT celebrating a final Mass, have him tossing jokes, celebrating the afterglow of another wedding this past month. But, God had other plans. Best to the Atchley family
Dear Leonard, TAC Alumni Dad
Please pray for the repose of the soul of TAC father Stephen Atchley, who died of complications from a heart attack on February 16. Please also pray for the consolation of his family, including his wife, Patrice (Ford ’81), and their eight children: Liam (’14), Clare (’12), Angelique (Cotugno ’14), Gabrielle, Juliet (’18), Sophia, Dominique (’22), and Lisette. A 9:30 a.m. Rosary and 10:00 am Funeral Mass are scheduled for Saturday, February 22 at San Segundo d’Asti Church in Ontario, California.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace.
Sincerely, Robert Bagdazian Coordinator Thomas Aquinas College Parents’ Association
So if your dad, like Bilbo Baggins, is off on a new adventure beyond earth, think and pray for him.
Fathers called dads are blessed. Not just the amazing homeschooling dads, the dads of all shapes and sizes worldwide, but all fathers.
Yes, we dads screw up, do stupid at times. But then, if YOU the reader are perfect, enjoy your geography: you must be in heaven or well…hell o number nine. Perfection is what we work towards, but not in the genetic code for homo sapiens sapiens.
Some dads work two maybe three jobs to make ends meet these days. Yes, women and moms are essential too, AT home or IN the workforce, or both, a notable change from 50 years ago where parents share burdens and joys in miraculously good ways…some not so good.
Much like the fatherless ness that plagues inner city families, especially of the Negro persuasion. This goes back to LBJ and creating a $$ incentive NOT to have a father in the home to fight poverty; funny, his efforts directly has fueled enormous pain and suffering. 700 mainly black youth killed by other black young men last year in Chicago, did NOT die because all 700 murderers had a dad in their home. The exact opposite, IF we cared to go deep about why people kill people, is true. Maybe one or three?
Look at the good examples: my son Matt has four kids (no, he didn’t gestate them, his lovely wife Emily did) in the Sa Diego area, raising them as a couple to be Godly good Catholic citizens in a zany world; both are professionals workwise but learning parental excellence every day. Truth be told, this dad is definitely a life long learner, with enough stakes and mistakes to fill a Tuff Shed.
That’s why plank three in my 4 plank mantra (BKind 4Give B4Given Help1Some1-2day) is so important; yes we are falsely accused of burning the toast, talking too loud, committing child abuse (Dr. Tenured Professor Lizzie Lighthead of Harvard Law article “Risks of Homeschooling”) claims that because we homeschool, the oldest profession, we are serial child abusers.
All 2 million homeschoolers by choice, local learning, not forced via distance learning to do so. What a hack and loony ivory tower academic disguised as a solid researching “author”. Hit job.
But, we can forgive and be forgiven. Hey smug brainiac, you are human: there is always three phalanges aimed at your face when you point the index finger at another.
Jesus told us, after commanding us to Love God completely, you know the One who made you and this 553 sextillion mile wide playland universe: LOVE your neighbor. Forgive her or him 490 times and then again. Why? Because hate kills. YOU, not the one you hate; every one has an irregular person in their lives. Hate never solves a thing, whether for a president or a teacher, half-sibling like in Israel or even at the dinner table with broccoli. But please do NOT hesitate to tell the truth even if the person doesn’t receive it well; when someone stifles YOUR speech it typically is because their “arguments” and “opinions” are hollow and empty words: nonsense.
America CAN solve it’s systemic stupid problem of dehumanizing so many, one person at a time, starting with me.
Hey, rioters and statue urinators, Lincoln topplers, arsonists blaming a 1619 NYTimes article that never happened: THERE IS ONE HUMAN RACE. ONE SET OF FIRST PARENTS, NOT A POLISH, NEANDERTHAL, BLACK, CHINESE, AMERICAN first couples yielding different chromosomal Beings. Get real. Find a cop to help and get fat with donated cookies.
Get off this kick that hate can be contained (hate only kills the hatee, not the hated), that i am a poor helpless victim of racism or ageism (damn baby boomers on the Soc Sec millions they put in) or Lamarckism. Everyone reading this, whether family, friends, SBLM or AntiFActsists: NO ONE OWES YOU REPARATIONS FOR YOUR GREAT GRAND….PARENTS EXISTENCE. But I will, like Jesus did on the cross, fall on this sword to help the victocrats, race pimps, grievance generals and misery merchants.
My Reparations offer, good until 2065, the 200th anniversary of Juneteenth:
$100 in $2 freedom bills to the first DAD or person who can prove they have picked cotton (or corn, tobacco, the more common plantational crops) on a Southern Democrat plantation recently with a Greek Revival Mansion. Ok, you qualify IF you worked on the land, harvesting same and not in the Masta’s mansion. Ready to pay. You just need to prove it.
Examples are everywhere of successful black, green, tall, short Americans not wallowing in self-pity or infused with any color guilt; if you take off that white fragility privileged smog laced eye mask and see the truth.
The only debt we owe is a debt of love.
Ask Tom; Mr. Sowell is one of those plentiful black leaders (just not on ABCNNBCBS & the radical American hating left) such as the MLKs, Williams, Owens, Elders etc., who know the score and stand apart from the Sharptons, JessieJacksons and other racism pimps pushing their toxic mix of divisional hatred and lies. And more lies. Fatherhood is NOT to be bought. Everyone needs a Savior, and certainly, everyone is better off with both parents, ie including Mr. Cleaver or other.
The untold tragedy is the 63 million father started kids who never saw daylight but the lady who just doesn’t like people who aren;t rich nor look like here. With all the mayhem around us, one of the constants has been a dad who loves us, a mom who nurtures us, a life worth living. We need a cure for this lady’s toxic masculinity; her company pushes vasectomies and worse short-circuiting so many lives, including the 20 million blacks children killed for parts. True tragedy that can be repaired without reparation. We are STRONG as a nation, we lost 600,000 to free the slaves and DON”T NEED THIS NEW NEO-PLANTATION WHERE YOUNG BLACKS & WHITES ARE HARVESTED.
Wake up, America! we are much better than this. What the heck do I know? I’m the grandfather of black children and know of their struggles; too many monopolies on victimhood silliness out there, that because today you are a certain size, location or age, or color, you deserve MORE than being free to live a long life. Opportunity, not reparations. Love not hate. Peace not war. Intact statues not revising the history of the Southern Democrats KKK Krowd to continue the deception. Fathers ARE essential.
People, keep looking for the good in others. Josh and Maryann have three amazing kids, one who proceeds them to the above (ask mom Donna how John’s doing) but is one of my grandkids nonetheless. I am selfish this way: there is ALWAYS room for one more at the Beckman Ranch table. Always.
There is NO -less in my grandoffspring vocabulary, even for temporarily raised precious children.
The kid that made me a TAC parental alum, Nathan and Jen, TAC alum too, have raised five foster kids in a northeasterly state…they love each and every one and now have three fostering along.
If the stars and courts lined up, they would adopt em all, and take another 7 for jollies. Today, father Nathan and mom Jen had a returnee, Javarre come by on his 3rd birthday because birth mom so appreciated their love for the child she bore. Nathan and Jen are patient, ready to adopt when they are allowed to adopt. The best kind of a woman’s right to choose….Life.
Fostering is a noble profession, critical in this fractured culture today, where divorce is more common than sand and sanity. Every body should foster a child…or at least mentor an at-risk kid near them, in this culture which chomps, chews and spits out kids like a pitcher’s nicotine chaw mouthful. Kids need dads and moms. Parental units, vice versa! God created us this way: He made trillions of insects but only one dad and one mom to populate the 3rd rock from the sun.
There are all kinds of dads, not necessarily by scientific genetics means: adoption, step parenting, coach mentoring, etc. I was a single dad for seven years and I know it is hard but worth it; single momhood still is a tough way to raise the NextGen. Take Societal Evolution 101, with guest lecturer Mrs Doubtfire.
Mrs. Iphegenia Doubtfire: [reading a letter] Dear Mrs. Doubtfire, two months ago, my mom and dad decided to separate. Now they live in different houses. My brother Andrew says that we aren’t to be a family anymore. Is this true? Did I lose my family? Is there anything I can do to get my parents back together? Sincerely, Katie McCormick.
Mrs. Iphegenia Doubtfire: “Oh, my dear Katie. You know, some parents, when they’re angry, they get along much better when they don’t live together. They don’t fight all the time, and they can become better people, and much better mummies and daddies for you. And sometimes they get back together. And sometimes they don’t, dear. And if they don’t, don’t blame yourself.
Just because they don’t love each other anymore, doesn’t mean that they don’t love you. There are all sorts of different families, Katie. Some families have one mommy, some families have one daddy, or two families. And some children live with their uncle or aunt. Some live with their grandparents, and some children live with foster parents. And some live in separate homes, in separate neighborhoods, in different areas of the country – and they may not see each other for days, or weeks, months… even years at a time.
But if there’s love, dear… those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever. All my love to you poppet, you’re going to be alright… bye bye.”
My oldest daughter Amanda surprised me on a July afternoon. Her man Brian and she packed the covered wagon and moved East (this real estate guy has many clients considering it) to Houston-Galveston with their (currently) four kids. We need Spock to invent a grandparent/dad transporter to connect up the movers, better than FacialTimes or Zoom. Not complaining, just asking.
It’s easy for me to love Larissa, David, Rosie & Bri & Kieran & Gavin, Zach and Regina, and Faustina and the mighty Katrina Irene, named for two future hurricanes. These are awesome or better. But Dads…
Dads, love your wives; loving the mother of your kids is the BEST gift you can give them. If no wife, dad, don’t hesitate a second to call your kiddoes, no matter which Mrs Doubtfire time snapshot you are in. Reconcile if you must; at least try (Plank 2 always before plank 3 can happen). Don’t let a nanosecond go by without that Facetime, Zoom, Go2Meeting, all the interweb tools available.
We can work on this. Before the grets and regrets surface like a Covid virus on the counter. IF we put on Truth lens, get over the hurt, burn the 10 pound shoulder forest and pitch the you, you ‘you are a white privileged racist’, “you, I hate you because you did xxx…”; “you are a mean daddy because you grounded me” etc.
Impediments to reconciliation. As a family, as a city, county, state…even nation.
America IS great because of its people, moms and dads, granddads and GrandMArys. Do plank 4: find someone you DON’T know who is at-risk and HELP. You’ll figure out how. Just don’t let a derailing take you off the focused goal.
But we do need, in this so blessed country,to correct the solvable problems. A big one is building up the fractured state of familyhood in the neighborhoods, which have been derailed by this godless anarchical society of the last decades. But hope springs Eternal. We can do this.
Like re-valuing families, including fathers. Rewrite the historical revisions spewed by anarchistic academia that we are a patriarchal paternalistic evil place. We can only change that which is truly wrong, but euphemisms and emoticon laden guilt trains (ever get booked on a heavy guilt trip and you almost put your luggage through the dining club car?) will always be with us. Prostiticians never sleep but they lie like a rug. Schitty Adams will also always be with us, until voted out. But look to the positives, accentuate them over falsies…
Thank you dads, and happy father’s dad’s day. Try a windsor on that new tie. And pray for Steve’s family who are fatherless this June 21st. Best to you, Patrice and Atchley kiddoes.
And thank you Paul, my dad, for your love. I became a real estate guy like you, still have your Yellow Taxi hat and love the siblings you and Irene our mom provided us to love together.
Happy Father’s Day in heaven. I bet Jesus’ mom’s day, Mary, get more play up there. But then, God saved the best for last: woman.
At this time of supposed national racial unrest, pyromaniacs, petty larceny looting and the occasional peaceful protesters, we can see we have been here before.
Something from a 2000 year old letter to remind ourselves in these Covid Chauvin ravaged times: “Remember this, my dear brothers and sisters: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and should not get angry easily.” James 1:16
After the Watts Riots in the 60s, Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at CSU, Long Beach, created Kwanzaa in 1966. Dr. Karenga searched for ways to bring African-Americans together as a community. Thus, this week long celebration from Dec 26th through the new year. That riot began August 11th, 1965 lasted for six days, resulting in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries and 4,000 arrests, involving 34,000 people and ending in the destruction of 1,000 buildings, totaling $40 million in damages.
Mobocracy in action; been to CHAZistan, Seattle lately? Speaking of mobs:
100 years ago, the worst “race” involved battle since the Civil War, happened in Tulsa, OK, May 31-June 1st, 1921. (hat tip Mary Murphy)
Tulsa, Southern Democrats stronghold, is the same place where a century later, Trump’s rally was pranked by Chinese owned TikTok teens reserving a million tickets to depress the turnout. There was nothing depressing about the energy at the rally, but proof dirty tricks and cheating is not beyond sympathizers for the party of slavery, secession and Jim Crow segregation.
The trigger in Tulsa, May 30th 1921 was a rush to judgement witness on Memorial Monday:
19 year old Dick Rowland, due to Jim Crow segregation laws, had to go next door; he had permission to use a restroom at the top of the Drexel Bldg.
17 yr old Sarah Page operated the elevator; the most plausible explanation of many was: “A common explanation often offered is that Dick Rowland tripped as he got onto the elevator and, as he tried to catch his fall, he grabbed onto the arm of Sarah Page, who then screamed”
35 square blocks of Greenwood, Tulsa, OK
Her scream led to said witness. Many people knew Mr. Rowland, a shoe surface engineer, as a nice young man working at the shoeshine parlor next door and were shocked he was the “assailant”.
In fact, Sara Page refused to file a police report, saying he just had grabbed her arm. Sometimes adults act less than adults.
Irony how this could be played out today, 100 years later, with destruction in mainly one party controlled major cities. Truth didn’t matter in 1921. And 55 years after Civil War bloodshed, 800 in the hospital and 36 dead, black and white. At least today, the rioters, arsonists and looters aren’t using drones. From Wiki: “The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district—at that time the wealthiest black community in the United States, known as “Black Wall Street”.
Catalysts for mob rule happen in the oddest ways; the Officer Chauvin powder keg during the Plague of Xi far eclipsed either of these. James 1:19
But, remember if any Civil War statue (or Lincoln himself) still stands, 600,000 people died leading up to the Juneteenth incidents in 1865. Apparently, Tulsa didn’t get the message, just as Galveston, right away.
Juneteenth is rooted in a document undelivered, a proclamation slow to get to the Lone Star state in the 1860s. Here is that story:
Southern Democrats, from the party founded in 1854, were not happy. Even Senator Robert Byrd, KKK king, centuries later did not agree and became the Clintons’ mentor. But truth is well, truth.
ALL slaves go free. ALL humans have a right to life, to liberty, to property and the right to pursue being happy.
“Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.
Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation – which had become official January 1, 1863.
Most American History buffs know the Republican party was the party founded by abolitionists, who were trying to free humans owned as property, the slaves.
But, giving up things you own, in this case precious human beings, doesn’t often happen without a fight.
“The Emancipation Proclamation had little impact on the Texans due to the minimal number of Union troops to enforce the new Executive Order. However, with the surrender of General Lee in April of 1865, and the arrival of General Granger’s regiment, the forces were finally strong enough to influence and overcome the resistance.
Later attempts to explain this two and a half year delay in the receipt of this important news have yielded several versions that have been handed down through the years. Often told is the story of a messenger who was murdered on his way to Texas with the news of freedom. Another is that the news was deliberately withheld by the enslavers to maintain the labor force on the plantations. And still another is that federal troops actually waited for the slave owners to reap the benefits of one last cotton harvest before going to Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation. All of which, or none of these versions could be true. Certainly, for some, President Lincoln’s authority over the rebellious states was in question. Whatever the reasons, conditions in Texas remained status quo well beyond what was statutory.”
The word didn’t get to Texas, in part, because smart phones and satellites were 120 years away. But, there also was a reluctance to turn your black (or white if you were a white slave) property into human and have to pay them as employees.
Here is Lincoln’s next bit: General Order Number 3 ALL slaves are free.
“The people of Texas are informed that in accordance
with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States,
all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights
and rights of property between former masters and slaves,
and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes
that between employer and hired laborer.”
Talk about creating Human Resources Departments with one swoop of the wand. But, in this Covid hysteria as we battle the Plague of Xi, always look for relief: BBQ! But first, look at the first reactions to the delayed news…
The reactions to this profound news ranged from pure shock to immediate jubilation. While many lingered to learn of this new employer to employee relationship, many left before these offers were completely off the lips of their former ‘masters’ – attesting to the varying conditions on the plantations and the realization of freedom. Even with nowhere to go, many felt that leaving the plantation would be their first grasp of freedom. North was a logical destination and for many it represented true freedom, while the desire to reach family members in neighboring states drove some into Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Settling into these new areas as free men and women brought on new realities and the challenges of establishing a heretofore non-existent status for black people in America. Recounting the memories of that great day in June of 1865 and its festivities would serve as motivation as well as a release from the growing pressures encountered in their new territories.
The celebration of June 19th was coined “Juneteenth” and grew with more participation from descendants. The Juneteenth celebration was a time for reassuring each other, for praying and for gathering remaining family members. Juneteenth continued to be highly revered in Texas decades later, with many former slaves and descendants making an annual pilgrimage back to Galveston on this date.
Food and Fun!
A range of activities were provided to entertain the masses, many of which continue in tradition today. Rodeos, fishing, barbecuing and baseball are just a few of the typical Juneteenth activities you may witness today. Juneteenth almost always focused on education and self improvement. Thus, often guest speakers are brought in and the elders are called upon to recount the events of the past. Prayer services were also a major part of these celebrations.
Certain foods became popular and subsequently synonymous with Juneteenth celebrations such as strawberry soda-pop. More traditional and just as popular was the barbecuing, through which Juneteenth participants could share in the spirit and aromas that their ancestors – the newly emancipated African Americans, would have experienced during their ceremonies. Hence, the barbecue pit is often established as the center of attention at Juneteenth celebrations.
Food was abundant because everyone prepared a special dish. Meats such as lamb, pork and beef which were not available everyday were brought on this special occasion. A true Juneteenth celebrations left visitors well satisfied and with enough conversation to last until the next.
Dress was also an important elementin early Juneteenth customs and is often still taken seriously, particularly by the direct descendants who can make the connection to this tradition’s roots. During slavery there were laws on the books in many areas that prohibited or limited the dressing of the enslaved. During the initial days of the emancipation celebrations, there are accounts of former slaves tossing their ragged garments into the creeks and rivers and adorning themselves with clothing taken from the plantations belonging to their former ‘masters’.
So, people, if you were a slave on a Southern Democrat plantation or in Galveston of the Lone Star state, I will pray for you. And if you can prove you worked the cotton fields as a slave, I will pay you three fifths of a $20 bill in rePAIRations for your pain.
If NOT, let’s figure out the best way to help get out of this Dark Ages of Radical Anarchy. And begin or restart the American Renaissance.
Be a life long learner. Look for opportunities to be a man of chivalry, and a woman of valor. If you are black and want to find a black national figure as a mentor, look to Dr. Ben Carson. Clarence Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Frederick Douglas, MLKing, Shelby Steele, Candace Owens and so many more. If you don’t worry about the color of one’s skin but access the quality of one’s character, you are well on your way to being an American adult. We live in the most blessed country on earth. Even our poorest have more conveniences and opportunity than the most wealthy Southern Democrat plantation owner in their Greek Revival mansions just 150 years ago.
The New York Times, known for ignoring 6 million jews dying in the 40s, came up with a fake way to revise American history. Project 1619. The radical leftists at the Dem’s propaganda orgs (ABCNNBCBS, NYTimes and WAPO) don’t care about the truth. They want you to believe our founding is not in 1776 and 1789, but like Senator Raisin’ Tim Kaine said “US created slavery” and “We didn’t inherit it from anyone”
Poor Tim, never took world history. The Israelites were slaves to the Pharaoh in Egypt. Slaves ships in England brought over African slaves until Wilberforce became the English Lincoln and emancipated slaves in London. Pelosi and pals 8 minute kneeling shrouded with Kente cloth is interesting, since it was from the Asanti tribe and Ghana’s clothing. They ran the West African slave trade. Appropriate since Queen Aunt Pelosi runs with AOC the Dem party of slavery, secession and segregation founded in 1854. The top kleagle of the KKK, became Senator Robert Byrd and his statues still stand reminding us that history matters.
Slaves of all colors, sizes and nations of origin continue today. Googol it yourself
Remember this: there is not systemic racism clouding like a virus and permeating America. But we do have racists in our midst (KKK Robert Byrd is dead). To combat it, we can’t pull down the #1 racist org, the Southern Democrat party of 1854. They love their dead babies sold for parts and honoring their beloved mentor, Margaret Sanger, who hated blacks. Just be careful telling your favorite radical revising history leftist anarchist Maggie and Planned Barrenhoodlums love blacks…as long as they are sliced up and packaged for resale to UTexas Med Branch or Yale Med.
But we CAN do this: BKind 4Give B4Given and most importantly:
FindSome1-2help2day
Amazing what doing something nice, like surprise and celebrate, to someone else does for you. There is only ONE human race and we have but ONE life. Live Life as if you only have that one. Love God and Love your neighbor. As Bob Dylan sang “you’ve gotta serve somebody” why not serve your Creator God. Not the whiners, racist pimps, rioters, looters and pyromaniacal anarchists.
Funny, if Truth is your desire, the Republican party were the Abolitionists, the party of FREEing the slaves. The other one that enslaves most major cities that are dying, was founded in 1854 to KEEP the slaves employed with a zero per hour maximum wage.
You’re a grownup or smart kid. Do your research and since you are helping Homeschooling Grandpa Len, where i went wrong
Mendy compared seat belts to the Plague of Xi situations, and in many ways she is right. Here are my updated suggestions as the Virus Hunter continues his rounds.
Well said, Mendy. IF you are super susceptible or have comorbidity indications like heart disease etc, STAY INSIDE. DON’T GO OUT OF YOUR BEDROOM EXCEPT FOR POTTY BREAKS AND FOOD. Get an air purifier. Make sure visitors wash and mask up. I believe everyone should have the right to stay inside for life or to protect others’ lives. A woman’s right to choose.
The rest of us need to listen to grandma’s lessons. Let’s look
Physical separation when you can (social distancing belongs to dads looking at that pimply face male miscreant wanting to first date your daughter) at least six feet. You risk increases 67.9% if you are only 71 inches apart.
Don’t lick doorknobs (I have kids) but spray and wipe them, plus surfaces. Liquid soap beats disinfectants on smooth surfaces. . Wash hands with soap often and then some more.
Use hand sanitizers carefully and wash hands with soap as soon as possible.
UNDERSTAND MASKS are not for you to stop the Plague of Xi’s virus in the atmosphere; it’s to protect you from propelled droplets airborne viruses. Sooo… Wear masks when closer than the one wavelength at 165 hertz rule: ie 6 feet.
DO NOT WEAR MASKS continuously for hours because you risk other respiratory ailments like Pleurisy. Why? You increase your viral load AT your respiratory entrance points, your mouth and nose. In public, when beyond 10 feet from another human, and when running for exercise or away from a virus cop, take the mask off. Oxygen deprivation has its own set of problems. USE common sense.
And I am glad Mendy is alive and well. Seatbelts do work, especially with the insane CAFE standards that have killed more people due to bamboo roller skates disguised as a car.
Sanitary remains the most important, especially since social isolation has negative side effects (unless symptomatic for Plague of Xi, flu, colds, radical leftism and other communicable diseases) because well, suicides, alcoholism, fatness are the unintended consequences of suspending sanity in a crisis.
We knew in 2 weeks the curve was flattened to keep hospitals empty. We know 43% of the CoviDead are lonely elderly, most of whom abandoned to die in nursing homes nationally. 52% of the nation’s deaths were in close confines NYCity, # 5 in the WORLD as a city.
WE should have followed the example of Life Care Center (first epicenter in WA) and Gov DeSantis of Florida, NOT Mayor Warren Wilhelm at the NYC Helm or Cuomo: protect the elderly don’t kill the $23 trillion economy
Be careful what you hear: Fauci just admitted he lied to protect masks from use by millions of Americans to keep the stockpile high for HCworkers. My wife just finished 300th mask for nurses, poor etc. Mike Lindell retooled his MyPillow as did Ford via the push by Trump. You think it’s not political and $$? Your prez built 4 hospitals in NY, Franklin Graham brought a field hospital to Grand Central Park. Trump shipped billions in PPE, vents and respirators to CuomoLand.
What did Cuomo do? Issued his March 25 royal decree that killing nursing home residents is ok as long as you send in Covid infected patients to help kill them softly with the Xi disease. 4500 infected in fact were sent to the 593 NYC nursing homes. Think about it.
Definitions: Quarantine is restricting the movement of sick/infected/vulnerable people. Tyranny is restricting the movement of healthy people.
Cases are up or spike due to arbitrary though increasing testing. But testing’s false positives and negatives are legion as we move to the elusive vaccine and other treatments. Science fiction matches with political science in killing off Hydroxychloroquine +Z+Zpk in favor of more expensive protocols.
Continue to be sanitary: it will help protect you from other diseases too.
Don’t be polyanna: the side effects of covid vigilance IS massive increase in suicides, poverty, depression, social isolation etc. AND: NO universal vaccine exists for AIDS or flu like polio. Rely on YOURSELF to help curb the incidence of ANY disease. Lose weight since the biggest comorbidity is fatness and diabetes.
Don’t smoke since the Plague of Xi is repiratory in nature.
Don’t shove your beloved 80 year old grandma into a Cuomo death trap nursing home, if at all possible; our wise elderly deserve better. If you must, make sure you “must”. Too many alone elderly are abandoned.
Have more kids IF you want someone to be there so you WON’T be alone and abandoned in a Cuomo death trap nursing home. It’s always in the numbers. We only had 11 but we did try to compensate for those who couldn’t have kids or preferred their ShitZoo on their shoulders and Prius in the lot with NO car seat in the back.
Use the brain God gave you The Virus Hunter is back.
Mary Mary Beckman, PhD is #10 of 11 kids, one of the most brilliant molecular biologists in the world. But she really needs your help, folks…
But, when it comes to climate science, she, like so many in the public sector government science world, can’t answer a simple puzzle:
If you take an air sample in any of our national labs’ offices, LifeCareCenter, Mt Rushmore area and find out there are 2500 air molecules in the sample:
How many are carbon dioxide?
The five different molecule amounts you can guess follow (yes they add up to 2500):
1950 523 23 3 1
So, for the prize, match up the amounts to the various gases. To be included in the drawing on Christmas Day 2020 for $20 in the form of ten $2 bills, you must
get just two out of the five right. But, one must include the right amount for CO2. Any adult or junior scientist who guesses ALL of them correctly, gets two chances in the drawing.
Carbon dioxide
Nitrogen
Argon
Oxygen
The Rest (trace gases)
Scientific data and assumptions:
It shouldn’t be that difficult a task. You have access to the interweb, Instascam and FAcialBook and can consult a bro or phone a friend.
Some facts to help:
We are told by the Supreme Court that CO2 is pollution.
For decades now, young student scientists have been indoctrinated with carbon dioxide being responsible for the planet burning up.
That polar bears are dying, especially polar moms and her cub.
Rising seas. The seas, according to the ObamaNation chief scientist (Dr Barry O) standing on the Exit glacier in Alaska, would rise higher than Denali.
Androgenic Climate change deniers are terrible people and don’t know science. They should contract Plague of Xi and die.
That global warming is now androgenic carbon dioxide which…
…then became androgenic carbon dioxide and then androgenic climate change. Who could EVER deny climate changes?
That we must levy a carbon tax on California gasoline to protect the Golden State from being destroyed. current gas tax rate is 66.6% + CapNTrade tax. That high for a critical family budget busting commodity?
That the world ends in 12 years by Dr. A. Ocasional Cortex unless we reduce CO2 to zero, stop using fossil fuels and no more jets above
That the Algorean Heresy IS scientific law.
Hint: the concentrations in the atmosphere are to the right, something even a Chief Justice and Supreme Courtiers can read>>>>
Contestants, go for it! You can comment below or email your answer to this author at Lenbeckman@gmail.com. Please type Carbon Dioxide Contest in the subject line. We will video the drawing and include it in the update to this post with the winners ($20 top and 3 $2 secondary prizes
Next, we will attack the most dangerous chemical on earth, dihydrogen monoxide, currently a menace in 3rd world countries.
As my kids say, homeschooling grandpa Len is a full time job.