Send him the Book of Mormon to occupy his feeble mind. [tnc.news]

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 19, 2021:

Rende unto Caesar what is due Caesar. A strong reminder that religious belief doesn't place one above secular laws.

timon_phocas replies on Feb 19, 2021:

@KeithThroop Well spoken, brother. Amen.

Parler resumes social media app after securing new computer servers I haven’t yet accessed ...

timon_phocas comments on Feb 15, 2021:

Howdy @Garsco, I just signed in. Parler seems to be up and running. There's content to browse.

timon_phocas replies on Feb 15, 2021:

@Garsco, Howdy again. App.

TransRepublican

angelo comments on Feb 15, 2021:

The man should be expelled from the GOP.

timon_phocas replies on Feb 15, 2021:

New term trending: DIABLO: Democrat In All But Label Only

NeonNettle: Judge Releases Dominion Audit Report: System 'Designed' to 'Create Systemic Fraud' ...

angelo comments on Feb 15, 2021:

Dominion has sued Rudy Giuliani for a $ billion + for defamation. What's the bet this lawsuit will not go ahead, and will be quitely dropped?

timon_phocas replies on Feb 15, 2021:

Howdy @angelo, I think they got all they wanted out of the lawsuit when the headlines appeared. They only want the headlines. A discovery phase will destroy them, much less a trial

DavidHarrisJr.

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 11, 2021:

Democrats where shorted as well. It has since been determined that is was human input error, not a machine error. Old news.

timon_phocas replies on Feb 11, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Interesting that all the Republicans received exactly the same input error.

Are women aware of the risks of postponing having children?

Charter comments on Jan 23, 2021:

Age and miscarriage

timon_phocas replies on Feb 11, 2021:

Yep, it gets harder and harder to conceive after thirty.

OpenSecrets' investigations and data are often interesting.

timon_phocas comments on Feb 10, 2021:

Every public event has expenses. Sound systems, stages, flag displays, jumbotrons, portapotties, etc. Of course the Trump campaign paid for these things. This does nothing to alter the fact that thugs were breaking into to the Capitol before Trump even began speaking. So it was not a case ...

timon_phocas replies on Feb 10, 2021:

@Naomi Howdy again, The cancel crowd goes after companies and individuals who work for Trump. Working through shell companies disguises the source and can give contractors plausible deniability. Cover from shrill attacks by the mob. A secondary effect is Trump's attackers shrilly attack the methods their attacks made inevitable.

TheVerge: NASA delays moon lander contracts, as the Biden administration mulls the moon program.

Mike999333 comments on Feb 9, 2021:

Despite it just being a cool rock to land on what is it that we believe the moon has that's valuable ? H3 ???

timon_phocas replies on Feb 10, 2021:

Howdy @Mike999333, I don't think we've actually examined the Moon with an eye for mining. I've heard sound bites from China about mining the Moon. Nothing from NASA. I have heard Luna's Earth side was so pulverized that it broke up mineral veins and makes mining uneconomic. That was a comment in a report, not the subject of the report. And it was years ago and the only time I ever heard that The discovery of water means Lunar bases are much more economic. So bases for prospecting are definitely on the horizon. And lifting out of Luna's gravity well will be pretty cheap. Like Mars, however, we will need to send fleets of prospecting rovers across the Moon to find minerals. I think this may be the time when private companies take the lead.

Are you watching this now?

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 9, 2021:

Watching it has shades of 9/11 for me, that feeling of "this cannot be happening. This is unreal. Not here. Not in the USA."

timon_phocas replies on Feb 9, 2021:

Howdy @Naomi, The accounts given are from the Prosecution team for the impeachment trial. They emphasize assertions they think will increase chances for a conviction. So their assertions are not necessarily "the truth" but "a case." As for the deaths... The death of Officer Sicknick was not caused by assaulting rioters. A pre-existing condition probably triggered a stroke. Nobody knows, and autopsy reports are not being released. https://www.lawofficer.com/family-of-fallen-capitol-police-officer-says-cause-is-unknown-stop-making-it-political/ One rioter was shot by Capitol Police. Three others died from pre-existing medical conditions. They use the phrase, "which caused five deaths" to inflate the impact of the event.

NYPost: pandemic could continue for another seven years under the current vaccination rates.

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 8, 2021:

> ""fifteen days to flatten the curve"? A good example of Trump's failed COVID response. ***Trump's 15-day plan to slow the coronavirus' spread is too short, experts say. Flattening the curve could take at least several more weeks.*** ...

timon_phocas replies on Feb 8, 2021:

@TheMiddleWay Howdy again. So the answer to COVID is universal quarantines with ferocious, police state enforcement? All in our best interests, of course. Save democracy through totalitarianism.

NYPost: pandemic could continue for another seven years under the current vaccination rates.

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 8, 2021:

> ""fifteen days to flatten the curve"? A good example of Trump's failed COVID response. ***Trump's 15-day plan to slow the coronavirus' spread is too short, experts say. Flattening the curve could take at least several more weeks.*** ...

timon_phocas replies on Feb 8, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, It was bait and switch because no one would have agreed to a year-long shutdown that destroyed the economy. The lockdowns didn't stop COVID. We would have starved if we had a quarantine comprehensive enough to stop COVID. States like Florida (or Sweden), which had more targeted lockdowns, had no worse COVID statistics than states with more pervasive lockdowns.

CNBC: cancel Summer, folks.

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 8, 2021:

It's easy to disparage a plan when you are wholly ignorant of the science: *"Flatten the curve" and "Herd immunity" are two WHOLLY distinct concepts that have NOTHING to do with each other.*

timon_phocas replies on Feb 8, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Maybe it's because, a year later, "fifteen days to flatten the curve" sounds a lot like "bait and switch."

CNBC: cancel Summer, folks.

coalburned comments on Feb 8, 2021:

Unbelievable. So Trump got blasted for his covid response when we were dealing with something completely novel and had no vaccine. Here we are a year later, masks on, vaccines available, 6 ft apart, and still dealing with restrictions. I thought Joe was gonna make everything better.

timon_phocas replies on Feb 8, 2021:

Howdy @coalburned, Yep, he was gonna "stop COVID in its tracks!" But that was last year.

DO YOU KNOW THAT REAL ALIENS SWIRL AROUND US NOW?

timon_phocas comments on Feb 1, 2021:

So you're saying Joe Biden was replaced by a pod person? That explains a lot...

timon_phocas replies on Feb 3, 2021:

Howdy @eschatologyguy, To be truthful, I think Slo Joe sold himself to ambition a long time ago. But now he's a husk of his former self, having to be constantly reminded of what his hendlers expect him to do. He has earphones to give home helpful hints at every public event. And aren't we glad that he listens to the voices in his head...

Breitbart: Joel Pollak: Biden is reversing Trump policies and putting the Middle East on a path to ...

Garsco comments on Jan 31, 2021:

Of all the gifts President Trump left to Mr Biden (and there are quite a few), the peace trajectory of the Middle East May be the most significant to the world. It’s a shame to see Biden waste this one.

timon_phocas replies on Jan 31, 2021:

Howdy @Garsco, Ol' Slo Joe has botched every national security issue he's addressed since 1973. I don't have high hopes.

GatewayPundit: The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) told the Senate it had 2 certified voting ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Jan 29, 2021:

A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 29, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Wow! A left wing 'fact checking site' doesn't trust a right wing news source. Brilliant discovery. Keep it under your hat until the Nobel Prize committee meets.

View of Toledo (year approx 1600) by El Greco:

iThink comments on Jan 29, 2021:

Just so people know this is Toledo, Spain: an ancient city and home to El Greco Toledo Ohio wasn't founded until 1833 Toledo is an ancient city set on a hill above the plains of Castilla-La Mancha in central Spain. The capital of the region, it’s known for the medieval Arab, Jewish and ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 29, 2021:

Howdy @iThink, That's right, when El Greco was in Ohio, he lived in Youngstown... Would that be his 'farmerist' period or his 'industrialist' ?

GatewayPundit: Over half of Biden's twitter followers are fake and were created in January.

TheMiddleWay comments on Jan 26, 2021:

Laughable. Election fraud all over again. A person says something conservatives want to hear and conservatives accept that persons word as gospel... despite no corroborating facts to support that what they say is valid. In this case, what evidence is there outside of this: > Twitter user Bre ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 26, 2021:

@TheMiddleWay Howdy again, There is a long history of of Dem pols ginning up twitter numbers with fake accounts. Here's an example, please note that it's not from the GatewayPundit: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038621/More-2-MILLION-Hillary-Clinton-s-Twitter-followers-fake-never-tweet.html Here's another article about Obama's 19.5 million fake twitter followers. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430875/Barack-Obama-19-5m-fake-Twitter-followers.html Trump was variously reported to have 53 to 88 million twitter followers, and very few fake accounts. Biden is adding 100k twitter followers a day. Accounts with no activity and no links to other accounts. Why shouldn't I believe Biden's accounts are fake? It fits in a long historical pattern. And it fits with the overall pattern of a politician who couldn't even fill a parking lot in the most emotionally charged presidential campaign in my lifetime.

GatewayPundit: Over half of Biden's twitter followers are fake and were created in January.

TheMiddleWay comments on Jan 26, 2021:

Laughable. Election fraud all over again. A person says something conservatives want to hear and conservatives accept that persons word as gospel... despite no corroborating facts to support that what they say is valid. In this case, what evidence is there outside of this: > Twitter user Bre ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 26, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, "Be careful who you put your faith in, timon" I put my faith in the Word of God and its revelation to mankind. For the rest of this world's information I believe in sources that accurately describe current conditions and predict future conditions. Multiple sources being better confirmation.

Breitbart: At least 20 people were shot, five fatally, Friday into Sunday morning in Chicago.

ZuzecaSape comments on Jan 25, 2021:

Those are rookie numbers. We need to get those numbers up!

timon_phocas replies on Jan 25, 2021:

Howdy @ZuzecaSape, JV numbers, you say?

Leftists write a history depicting Trump as a Nazi, with the goal of discrediting all republicans.

timon_phocas comments on Jan 25, 2021:

Howdy @jaymaron, Fine summary. Democrats got us into the Vietnam War. Nixon extricated us from that unholy, stinking mess. All while being relentlessly pilloried. Nixon's arms airlift to Israel was awesome. He realized there would be howls of outrage for a single planeload of ammo, so he...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 25, 2021:

Howdy @Setright, I have a Marine friend who was in combat in Vietnam when LBJ said those words. His battalion suffered so many casualties that it had to be disestablished and then rebuilt back in the States. He was very upset, to say the least

[rumble.com] Watch: Marines Refuse To Salute Joe Biden

timon_phocas comments on Jan 23, 2021:

My understanding is that you don't salute indoors unless you are under arms. It's been a long time, so I may be wrong.

timon_phocas replies on Jan 23, 2021:

On another topic, it's nice to know Slo Joe Biden is still listening to the voices in his head...

HooverInstitution: VDH Podcast.

wolfhnd comments on Jan 23, 2021:

I happened upon another example to add to Hanson's list of tragic "heros". It is hard to see a narcissist billionaire as any kind of hero but Hanson better than most because of his historical perspective makes the case in "The Case For Trump". How the Democrats have come to represent the ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 23, 2021:

Howdy @wolfhnd, I just watched that video yesterday. Cochrane was certainly born with big brass balls. I wonder if he was the inspiration for the Horatio Hornblower novels?

Agritecture.

jaymaron comments on Jan 21, 2021:

Growing 1 kg of biomass requires, in grams, Nitrogen 15 Potassium 15 Phosphorus 2 Calcium 2 Magnesium 2 Sulfur 2 Nitrogen can be obtained from Martian air. Potassium is found wherever there is sodium salt. Mars had water and it's likely that there are sodium salt deposits. Endorheic ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 21, 2021:

Howdy @jaymaron, I've been thinking along the same lines. We need a fleet of robotic prospectors to inventory a geographic region around a potential landing area. I suppose I'd start perusing Mars orbital imagry for clues about mineral deposits.

Happy Holiday

Welder1 comments on Jan 18, 2021:

One of the greatest Generals to step foot on a battlefield.

timon_phocas replies on Jan 18, 2021:

Howdy @Welder1, And a great advocate for reconciliation to the Union after the Civil War. His moral example, on and off the battlefield, is inspiring.

The only prophecy I know of any book anywhere of a leader crapping in his "pants" out of fear.

timon_phocas comments on Jan 16, 2021:

Speaking of Biblical references to nether parts, my friends and I christened this section of 1st Samuel as the 'book of hemorrhoids.' 1st Samuel chapter 5: 1¶And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. 2When the Philistines took the ark of God, they ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 16, 2021:

@eschatologyguy Oh to have the Preparation H franchise for Philistia!

Fox: Katie Pavlich: world-wide condemnation of big-tech censorship. [foxnews.com]

TheMiddleWay comments on Jan 15, 2021:

I would like to mention that the same reason Big Tech is, and should be, allowed to do this is the reason little tech Christian bakers are, and should be, allowed to deny gay wedding cakes. Throw one out and you throw the other one out as well...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 15, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Newspapers and other media enterprises have both 1st Amendment protections and liabilities for libels, slander, defamation, etc. Our digital masters in Big Tech have 1st Amendment protections with no liabilities. They gleefully use monopoly power to deny access to the digital commons to those they disagree with. This is the very essence of censorship.

Elle: AOC claims she almost died in the Capitol Riot and that she feared 'white supremacist' ...

angelo comments on Jan 14, 2021:

What a shame she didn't at least lose a few of her front teeth!

timon_phocas replies on Jan 14, 2021:

Howdy @angelo, I don't want any physical harm to come to her. I want her to be so entangled in her own lies and fabulust claims that she's never taken seriously.

Agritecture.

eschatologyguy comments on Jan 13, 2021:

IMO, they should try their theories on planting crops in orbit or on the moon first.

timon_phocas replies on Jan 13, 2021:

Howdy @eschatologyguy, Lunar soil is like minute glass shards. When they tried to grow plants in it, the shards kept piercing the roots.

Instapundit: The Reichstag Fire, how a crime was staged to destroy a democracy.

RobBlair comments on Jan 11, 2021:

I also saw this parallel. The latest theory is that Q-Anon has become a misinformation campaign from the deep state and is motivating people to "save" our country by persuading them to do illegal acts, like storming the capitol and stealing laptops (kidnapping a governor comes to mind too). These ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 11, 2021:

Howdy @RobBlair, It doesn't have to be an entirely false-flag operation. The most straightforward explanation of the Reichstag Fire is that Goering's men found a stooge in van der Lubbe and exploited his credulity. I think BLM infiltrators incited useful idiots. The minotaur guy and people with confederate or nazi flags are just too cartoonish to be real. Real riotous revolutionaries disguise themselves. They don't make themselves instantly recognizable. Even even high schools thugs know that much.

CBN: Trump considers making his own social media platform.

TheMiddleWay comments on Jan 11, 2021:

I look forward to it! I will join and keep track of how long it will take for that platform to ban me for my views the same way other platforms have banned Trump for his.

timon_phocas replies on Jan 11, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Have you been banned on IDW? Were you banned from Parler or Gab?

Instapundit: The Reichstag Fire, how a crime was staged to destroy a democracy.

RobBlair comments on Jan 11, 2021:

I also saw this parallel. The latest theory is that Q-Anon has become a misinformation campaign from the deep state and is motivating people to "save" our country by persuading them to do illegal acts, like storming the capitol and stealing laptops (kidnapping a governor comes to mind too). These ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 11, 2021:

Howdy @RobBlair, I felt it was a propaganda operation the moment I saw pictures of Confederate flag boy and that weird minotaur guy. It was an obvious leftist caricature of Trump supporters. Way too photogenic.

RedState: Parler hits more roadblocks in it's efforts to get back online.

TheMiddleWay comments on Jan 11, 2021:

Free Speech rolls on: You can't force a catholic church to host a baptist service they don't want to host ; you can't force a company to host a web service they don't want to host.

timon_phocas replies on Jan 11, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Two or more companies conspiring together to force a third company out of business is the very definition of an anti-trust violation, as well RICO. It is a free speech issue. Parler's CEO said Amazon demanded they censor their content or they would be forced off Amazon's servers. Amazon was trying to dictate Parler's content. Parler may make more out of its lawsuits than it ever make out of its business operations. May your Brave New World bless your soul

PostMillennial: Amazon kicks Parler off its hosting servers.

Dmwils comments on Jan 10, 2021:

It may seem frightening to some but for many of us we do remember days of no internet and we survived.

timon_phocas replies on Jan 10, 2021:

Howdy @jaymaron, Encyclopedia Britannica (1990), great books collection, American history documents collection, hundreds of history & biography, lots of SciFi, misc novels, Bibles and religious topics, mountaineering. Bring on the Hammer.

PostMillennial: Amazon kicks Parler off its hosting servers.

Dmwils comments on Jan 10, 2021:

It may seem frightening to some but for many of us we do remember days of no internet and we survived.

timon_phocas replies on Jan 10, 2021:

Howdy @Dmwils, Yep, I am an omnivorous reader and we have a couple thousand books in the house. So unless they turn the lights off, I'll find ways to amuse myself.

TownHall: Liberal reporter says the new authoritarian left will be absolutely ruthless.

N0DD comments on Jan 9, 2021:

If you tolerate this.....what next?

timon_phocas replies on Jan 9, 2021:

Howdy @N0DD, I don't tolerate it. Everyone who breached police lines and illegally entered the Capitol should be arrested, charged, tried and punished. Oh, and BTW, so should the "mostly peaceful demonstrators" who rioted all summer long.

Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.

Naomi comments on Jan 9, 2021:

Hello. I have a question. How do you think your daily life is going to be different? Are you fearful that Biden will destroy your life?

timon_phocas replies on Jan 9, 2021:

Howdy @Naomi, I think the best we can hope for is another Obama economy. The stock market went bananas under Obama. After all, investment bankers were some of his most important contributors. Big tech was protected, Hollywood and favored news outlets were protected. In short, all of Obama's contributors prospered to the extent he could help them. What didn't happen was economic and employment growth. But employment statistics have this odd loophole, in that if you're unemployed for more than 6 months and stop applying for jobs you drop off unemployment statistics. The labor participation rate was theowest since women entered the labor force back in the seventies. So reported unemployment was low and the stock markets were high. Headlines supported Obama's assertions. If the Green New Deal is enacted, energy prices will skyrocket. Other downstream costs will be passed on to the consumer. We know this because of what we see in Germany's green energy program.

Back in 2016 I didn't like Trump.

TheMiddleWay comments on Jan 8, 2021:

Four of Trump's dead people also spoke in the Capitol on Jan 6. Is that better than a klepto-admistration?

timon_phocas replies on Jan 8, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, May your Brave New World bless your soul. I am afraid that your Brave New World will turn out to be another Brave New Venezuela.

What was brought up in the following article should be shared far and wide.

timon_phocas comments on Jan 7, 2021:

Howdy @SpikeTalon, The whole concept of a "Republican Riot" sounds oxymoronic, like June and Ward Cleaver throwing Molotov cocktails. I am suspicious of all those pictures of rioters with Confederate flags. I don't see those at the Trump rallies. Never. It's just too over the top to be real....

timon_phocas replies on Jan 7, 2021:

@JacksonNought If there were Confederate, much less nazi, flags at Trump rallies it would have been trumpeted to high heaven by every mainstream news outlet on the planet. It hasn't been on the newsfeeds, therefore it wasn't there. To say nothing about my seeing them.

I guess the South rose again. Cue someone telling me this is a Democrat...

timon_phocas comments on Jan 6, 2021:

Just like Jeff Davis, Pierre Beauregard and Nathan Bedford Forrest, staunch Republicans all!!

timon_phocas replies on Jan 6, 2021:

@WilyRickWiles Everett Dirkson, Republican minority leader, led the movement to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rghts Act of 1965. A far larger percentage of Republican voted for these acts than Democrats, who filibustered the acts. Today's Republicans would do the same. The Republican Party was formed to abolish slavery. The Democratic Party was formed, under Jackson and his successors, to perpetuate it.

I guess the South rose again. Cue someone telling me this is a Democrat...

timon_phocas comments on Jan 6, 2021:

Just like Jeff Davis, Pierre Beauregard and Nathan Bedford Forrest, staunch Republicans all!!

timon_phocas replies on Jan 6, 2021:

@WilyRickWiles You're fighting a losing topic here. Just who forced end of the Reconstruction? Why it was those friendly Democrats, that's who.

I guess the South rose again. Cue someone telling me this is a Democrat...

timon_phocas comments on Jan 6, 2021:

Just like Jeff Davis, Pierre Beauregard and Nathan Bedford Forrest, staunch Republicans all!!

timon_phocas replies on Jan 6, 2021:

@WilyRickWileand let's not forget that Nathan Bedford Forrest founded the KKK as the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.

Christian terrorism in DC right now.

timon_phocas comments on Jan 6, 2021:

Christian terrorism? How many people died? How many buildings were torched? How many bombs went off?

timon_phocas replies on Jan 6, 2021:

howdy @JacksonNought, So Antifa and BLM are the only ones allowed to do that?

The same pattern prevails.

TheMiddleWay comments on Jan 6, 2021:

> We face the end of the Republic. Nah. Liberals said the same thing in 2016 with Trumps election and yet after 4 years the republic is still here. It's important not to get bogged down in hyperbole so that one can address issues realistically and not bombastically. It's also important not to ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 6, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, *Democrats have never called for repealing the 1st Amendment. No, they've only called for making certain kinds of speech illegal; the kinds they find objectionable. So we'll have a 1st Amendment, it just won't mean anything. * Republicans, not Democrats, eliminated the Senate filibuster on Supreme Court nominees. Filibusters are not part of the constitution. Democrats, led by Sen. Reid of Nevada, eliminated the filibuster for all federal judges, with the exception of Supreme Court Justices. Republicans simply decided it applied to Justices as well. The filibuster, like the House Motion To Recommit, was designed to slow legislation and enforce compromise as a way of passing legislation. The House as already eliminated the Motion To Recommit rule. Democrats have promised to eliminate the Senate filibuster as well. We stare at pure, untrammeled majority fiat. * GOP has been aggressively trying to pack supreme courts at state level The number of SCOTUS people is not part of the constitution and has changed 6 times since 1790. Packing a court means expanding a means expanding the number of judges in it until a partisan majority is ensured. I have never heard of that happening under Republicans. The last time someone tried to pack the Supreme Court was about 90 years ago under FDR. At that time the Dems had an overwhelming majority in the Senate, but even they were appalled at the suggestion. Not so today's Democrats. * The Republic, as enshrined in our constitution, has survived challenges in the past and there is no reason to think it won't survive present challenges. With effective censorship of news, entertainment, and social media. With an ideologically driven educational system (kindergarten through post-grad). With election fraud institutionized and elections meaningless. With untrammelled ideological majorities in Congress. What kind of a republic will it be? Theoretically, the Roman Republic lasted until May 29, 1453. Roman soldiers still had SPQR emblazoned on their shields. Senatus Populus Que Romanus, but it was no republic that they died for and hadn't been for over fourteen hundred years. Neither will ours.

The same pattern prevails.

TheMiddleWay comments on Jan 6, 2021:

> We face the end of the Republic. Nah. Liberals said the same thing in 2016 with Trumps election and yet after 4 years the republic is still here. It's important not to get bogged down in hyperbole so that one can address issues realistically and not bombastically. It's also important not to ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 6, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Republicans never promised to end the Senate filibuster. Republicans never promised to end Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and free speech. Republicans never promised to pack the judiciary. Democrats have promised all those things. Important not to be a sure loser? From the side that screamed Russian collusion accusations and a baseless impeachment? From the side that urged people to attack Trump supporters in restaurants and theaters? From the side that was publicly planning impeachment of Trump before he was inaugurated? From the side that proclaimed Trump to be "a literal Hitler?" Sorry guy, your side already poisoned that well.

The same pattern prevails.

TheMiddleWay comments on Jan 6, 2021:

> The same pattern prevails.You go to bed with Republicans in the lead and wake up with them losing. If it holds to the pattern both Republicans will lose. Never understood why this is a mystery or malfeasance to some. Maybe you can help me understand or without being presumptuous, may help you ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 6, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Democrats never complained about "Landslide Lyndon's electorial fraud. They never complained about Tammany Hall. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, a Republican, had to oust them. Democrats never complained about the Daley Machine's obvious fraud that put JFK over the top in 1960. They don't complain about the fraud and corruption that permeates California politics. It's not just Georgia and it's not just 2020. As for whether the Dems will make good on all their radical promises this year, all I can say is that you will know them by their fruits. I they don't abolish the Senate filibuster. I they don't move to give statehood to Puerto Rico and D.C. If they don't radically raise taxes, I will humbly repent of my opinions and rejoice that I was wrong. In the meantime, fallen, fallen is the Republic.

StrategyPage: Air Forces fade away.

dd54 comments on Jan 5, 2021:

What do you percieve as a dem president and dem Congress in regards to our military readiness status. Obama and biden were definite hawks in terms of regime changes so will biden follow in that pattern in your opinion or will globalist thinking revamp national military readiness status and if so to...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 6, 2021:

Howdy @dd54, I think the military budget is an obvious target for the cultural revolutionaries. Rebuilding the Navy was already constrained by the budget. Rebuilding the air fleets was as well. I think budget cuts are on the way for the US military.

The same pattern prevails.

RobBlair comments on Jan 6, 2021:

Ephesians 5:8-20 (NIV) For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 6, 2021:

Howdy Dear Brother, We will live as our siblings in Christ live in China, as they lived in Imperial Rome. Our fortunes, our ultimate citizenship is in the City whose founder and architect is God.

TownHall: Kevin McCullough: All those vote subtractions prove Trump won Georgia.

TheMiddleWay comments on Jan 4, 2021:

Any alleged vote subtraction world have been obvious on handcount. Yet handcount confirmed bidens victory. I trust handcount over second- hand data analysis any day

timon_phocas replies on Jan 4, 2021:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, This is, again, an artifact of two different media worlds. If you hand count every ballot with the assumption they are all equally valid, you will get the same results as running them through tabulating machines multiple times. https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/11/13/georgia-gop-protests-fake-hand-recount-n279413 https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/georgia-recount/

UniverseToday: Incredible image of IO's shadow passing over Jupiter's surface.

eschatologyguy comments on Jan 3, 2021:

But wouldn't that shadow make IO bigger than the earth?

timon_phocas replies on Jan 4, 2021:

Howdy @eschatologyguy, I remember when I was a very little guy, when I looked up at doorknobs, I would go out as the sun set and watch my shadow stretch down the hill. It was the only time of day I felt like a giant. So yes, shadows expand just like flashlight beams.

WattsUpWithThat: New studies show the ancient climate was warmer than today's.

Bay0Wulf comments on Jan 1, 2021:

“New Studies”? I dunno ... why did they need “new studies”? I mean, I think I was all of 8 years old when I was taught that “Eric the Red” and “Leif Ericsson” (early 1000ACE) discovered and created a Self Sustaining Community in “Greenland” which they named “Greenland” ...

timon_phocas replies on Jan 1, 2021:

Howdy @Bay0Wulf, Yeah, my particular knowledge base led me to look at the Medeival Warm Period. England grew the grape varietals to make surprisingly good wine. Wine so good and cheap that it was outlawed by France because it competed with domestic production. Doesn't happen now, of course, too cold.

Blaze: Samuel Little, identified by the FBI as the most prolific serial murderer in America, died ...

coalburned comments on Dec 31, 2020:

Unbelievable. I'd never heard the name.

timon_phocas replies on Jan 1, 2021:

Nor I, it kind of amazed me I'd never heard of him.

How important is Christianity to the future of the Western world?

timon_phocas comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Even unbelievers among the Founding Fathers felt Christianity was important as transmitter of moral values, and therefore important to citizenship.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 27, 2020:

@EgyptianRedpill Howdy again. Assertions that someone else knows more than I do about what my words are intended to mean are incongruous at best.

How important is Christianity to the future of the Western world?

timon_phocas comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Even unbelievers among the Founding Fathers felt Christianity was important as transmitter of moral values, and therefore important to citizenship.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 27, 2020:

@EgyptianRedpill Howdy again. You make your claim based on an incomplete quote. "Even unbelievers among the Founding Fathers felt Christianity was important as transmitter of moral values, and therefore important to citizenship." ...Christianity as a transmitter of moral values... and therefore important to citizenship... important because it was a transmitter of moral values. This is a statement about transmitting moral values to citizens, not doctrinal adherence

How important is Christianity to the future of the Western world?

timon_phocas comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Even unbelievers among the Founding Fathers felt Christianity was important as transmitter of moral values, and therefore important to citizenship.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 27, 2020:

@EgyptianRedpill Howdy again. I have claimed the Founding Fathers were profoundly influenced by the moral standards of the Bible. I have claimed the Founding Fathers depended upon the churches to instill moral virtues into the citizenry because, in their view, only a virtuous citizenry could maintain the Republic. Yes, the Jefferson Bible excised miracles and theological claims. What was left he extolled as "most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man." Hardly a rejection of Biblical morality. I have never claimed that only Christians can be citizens. This is your accusation, not my assertion.

WorldNetDaily: Michael Brown: It's Dangerous to Conflate Americanism with Christianity.

Rick-A comments on Dec 26, 2020:

Wrong. In God we Trust! Written on the dollar bill.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 26, 2020:

Howdy @Rick-A, The Hohenzollern's motto was, "Gott mit Uns" (God with us). It didn't save Kaiser Wilhelm II, and it won't save us.

How important is Christianity to the future of the Western world?

timon_phocas comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Even unbelievers among the Founding Fathers felt Christianity was important as transmitter of moral values, and therefore important to citizenship.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 26, 2020:

@EgyptianRedpill, Howdy again. "Deism: A religious belief holding that God created the universe and established rationally comprehensible moral and natural laws but does not intervene in human affairs through miracles or supernatural revelation." And yet Jefferson the Deist's proposal for the Great Seal of the United States was an image of Moses leading the Children of Israel to freedom. Jefferson the Deist described Jesus' teachings as "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man." Jefferson the Deist attended church services in the US Capitol's House Chambers. He attended his first service there just two days after he penned his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association. So obviously his vision of the 'wall of separation' was different than today's secularists. Deist or not, the biblical account undoubtedly had a great influence on Mr. Jefferson. And again, his views about the moral matrix of the biblical account were essentially universal in early America.

How important is Christianity to the future of the Western world?

timon_phocas comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Even unbelievers among the Founding Fathers felt Christianity was important as transmitter of moral values, and therefore important to citizenship.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 25, 2020:

@EgyptianRedpill Howdy again. I do not have to cherry pick quotations from our founding fathers about their reverence for the Bible's moral vision. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of quotes expressing similar sentiments. Letters, diaries, newspapers and books of the time are replete with them. As to whether they were biblical literalists or Deists makes little difference for the purposes of this discussion. These would be differences about the Bible's theology, not it's moral vision. Reverence for that moral vision was essentially universal in early America.

How important is Christianity to the future of the Western world?

timon_phocas comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Even unbelievers among the Founding Fathers felt Christianity was important as transmitter of moral values, and therefore important to citizenship.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 24, 2020:

@EgyptianRedpill Howdy again. Here are quotes from America's Founding Fathers: While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian." --The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343. Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God ... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be." --Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9. "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever..." --Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237. John Hancock - "Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. ... Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us." --History of the United States of America, Vol. II, p. 229. Benjamin Franklin - Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped. -Benjamin Franklin wrote this in a letter to Ezra Stiles, President of Yale University on March 9, 1790. Samuel Adams - Father of the American Revolution. And as it is our duty to extend our wishes to the happiness of the great family of man, I conceive that we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world that the rod of tyrants may be broken to pieces, and the oppressed made free again; that wars may cease in all the earth, and that the confusions that are and have been among nations may be overruled by promoting and speedily bringing on that holy and happy period when the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and all people everywhere. -As Governor of Massachusetts, Proclamation of a Day of Fast, March 20, 1797. James Madison - father of the American Constitution. 4th President. A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to ...

How important is Christianity to the future of the Western world?

timon_phocas comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Even unbelievers among the Founding Fathers felt Christianity was important as transmitter of moral values, and therefore important to citizenship.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 24, 2020:

@EgyptianRedpill Howdy again. This, on my part, is not a theological discussion. It is not, on my part, a Christian apologetic. It is a discussion about American culture and importance of religion to it. My small contribution was a statement of our founders' views about religion. There is ample historical evidence to support it. All those other discussions are valuable, essential even, and I would love to have them with you.

Larry King was once asked who, of all the people in history, he would want to interview.

maxmaccc comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Mithras was born from a rock. Does this count as a virgin birth?😜

timon_phocas replies on Dec 24, 2020:

Howdy @maxmaccc, Well, I've seen a few rocky births, does that count?

How important is Christianity to the future of the Western world?

timon_phocas comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Even unbelievers among the Founding Fathers felt Christianity was important as transmitter of moral values, and therefore important to citizenship.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 24, 2020:

@EgyptianRedpill Howdy again. "Because that's the same faulty logic of assuming that I (an ex-Muslim who was born, raised, live in Egypt and have a Muslim family) use the Quran as the source of my morals." Did you synthesize your moral values out of thin air? Or were they transmitted to you through family and society and were they influenced by the religious milieu infusing your society?

How important is Christianity to the future of the Western world?

timon_phocas comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Even unbelievers among the Founding Fathers felt Christianity was important as transmitter of moral values, and therefore important to citizenship.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 24, 2020:

@EgyptianRedpill Howdy again. "It's funny how you make that leap from "morality is essential" to that wild conclusion and make that claim especially when many of them were not religious themselves!!!" Many children, (maybe even most, I need to read more history on that to be sure about the 'most' part) learned to read from the King James Bible. That Bible was often the only book families owned. Why is it such a leap to think they would use those Bibles as the source of their morals, even when they weren't part of a church?

How important is Christianity to the future of the Western world?

timon_phocas comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Even unbelievers among the Founding Fathers felt Christianity was important as transmitter of moral values, and therefore important to citizenship.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 24, 2020:

Howdy @EgyptianRedpill, The people who designed our Republic believed morality to be essential to its survival. They believed religion, which in their culture was Christianity, to be the essential transmitter of those morals. Thomas Jefferson wrote his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut in 1801. This is where his "wall of separation" phrase originates. The Danbury Baptist Association was experiencing discrimination because they were not Congregationalists, the established church in Connecticut. Jefferson wrote that he would work to lessen the discrimination, to place a wall of separation between the government and religion. It was to prevent government from interfering with religion. It was not to prevent religion from affecting society and therefore its government.

Chuck Yeager talks about air combat.

Josf-Kelley comments on Dec 23, 2020:

On the subject of G loads, the 109 and 190s had pilot seats tilted so as to raise legs high in the effort to help combat the effects of high g, forces. This subject matter is very interesting to me, and for sure a G suit - all else being equal - is going to allow the pilot to turn a higher G load at...

timon_phocas replies on Dec 24, 2020:

Howdy @Josf-Kelley, I had a similar reaction listening to Yeager. I, however, thought of Japanese aces like Saburo Sakai, who had been in combat since the middle 1930s. I think one of the factors in Yeager's statement was by rhe Spring of 1944 the Luftwaffe training system was in shambles and what Yeager fought against was a barely trained mass with a relative handful of experten.

TownHall: VDH: It's a brand new, upside down, old fashioned post election world.

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Trump, Obama, Bush... all were treated the same until a few months or a year after innaguration by which time their character came through and their action and inaction on policies became points of fact. Just because the media criticizes someone doesn't mean they are wrong... nor when they ...

timon_phocas replies on Dec 24, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Impeachment preparations for Trump started before he was inaugurated. Press outrage and vituperation began before he was inaugurated. George W Bush was vilified because of the Florida recount legal battles. There was a brief period where he received favorable coverage after the 9/11 attacks, but Democrats and the media made a conscious decision to vilify him shortly after. Here are links discussing George W Bush as fascist, nazi, Hitler, etc. https://newpol.org/issue_post/bush-administration-fascist/ https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/flashback-times-liberals-called-george-w-bush-nazi https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u19KHbTJEOk http://socialistworker.org/2003-2/471/471_09_Fascism.php

NASASpaceFlight: China launches its Long March 8 rocket; designed to be reusable.

eschatologyguy comments on Dec 23, 2020:

If the CCP weren't such a hostile bunch, this would be welcome news. This is an unwelcome news. The name itself sounds too Maoist to be peaceful.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 24, 2020:

Howdy @eschatologyguy, All their government launch vehicles are named after the Long March, a defining, grueling campaign in which the PLA escaped Chang Kai-Shek's armies. For an American, it would be like naming a ship after Lexington or Valley Forge.

Are we witnessing the beginning of the end for FOX News? [redstate.com]

timon_phocas comments on Dec 21, 2020:

If one news outlet is CNN and the other news outlet is a CNN imitation, why bother watching the imitation?

timon_phocas replies on Dec 21, 2020:

Howdy @dmatic, Point taken.

JustTheNews: Maricopa County refuses to hand over ballots and voting machines demanded by Arizona ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 20, 2020:

What's Trump's favorite line, "all legal options must be exhausted?" Cool when Trump does it; not cool when other do it?

timon_phocas replies on Dec 20, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, It was cool when Jill Stein and a host of other liberal luminaries did it in 2016 and not cool when Trump does it in 2020? A forensic audit has no downside. If it proves the election to be honest, it bolsters Biden's legitimacy. If it proves cheating below a threshold necessary to throw the election, Biden's legitimacy is bolstered. If it proves cheating above that threshold, then the people know their government takes election fraud seriously. In the last case, if it means Trump "loses" a rigged election but we make sure such electorial fraud cannot happen again, then I will be mollified.

Do you have a "line in the sand" regarding political or social change?

timon_phocas comments on Dec 16, 2020:

I believe we are the victims of massive coordinated fraud. The news media, ostensibly the guardians of a free society, have rapturously endorsed the fraud. Entertainment, sports, education, and corporations have all enthusiastically claimed their part of the collectivist message. We are segueing...

timon_phocas replies on Dec 16, 2020:

Howdy @Admin, Generally speaking, institutions with explicitly conservative focus are maintaining their independence. Here in my state the Centenial and Independence Institutes are still sound. Institutions with an explicitly Biblical focus are maintaining their indepence. This forum has not, to my knowledge, surrendered

A weird conversation with my wife.

timon_phocas comments on Dec 14, 2020:

Howdy @govols, Christianity isn't meant to be a solitary pursuit. I think your wife needs to to be encouraged by other Christians. If church isn't possible or comfortable, try a Bible study with some like minded women.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 14, 2020:

@govols Howdy again. Is there a Bible study in a coffee shop or other neutral place?

TimPool: Forensic Analysis of Dominion Voting machines.

Josf-Kelley comments on Dec 14, 2020:

Witch Courts have this power to decide facts concerning an ongoing treasonous crime in progress?

timon_phocas replies on Dec 14, 2020:

Howdy @Josf-Kelley, That is the nettle that has to be grasped firmly. We're asking somebody to stand and be counted and it's so much easier to let someone else be the hero and pay the price for it.

TownHall: Michael Brown: Can American survive this perfect storm?

coalburned comments on Dec 13, 2020:

Great article that drives home something very important to me, even though almost every day I find myself caught up in worry over the state of our nation. God knows exactly where this is going. His grace and mercy are blind to political ideology. My prayer is that he would bring us unity and an ...

timon_phocas replies on Dec 13, 2020:

Amen, brother.

Cartoon Network releases a PSA schooling kids on America's systemic racism against non whites- ...

Naomi comments on Dec 13, 2020:

Hello. Is it the case that race issues, or more precisely, black vs white conflicts are so deeply embedded in the American history that racism has to be constantly thrown even at small children? IMO, it would be much better to teach them about bullying and develop the sense in them that mistreating ...

timon_phocas replies on Dec 13, 2020:

Howdy @Naomi, America most certainly has its wicked failings. We are like broken beings trying to live up our marriage vows. The vows are not the cause of the failings, they are the source of our progress. The more we pay attention to our vows, our ideals, the more progress we shall make. In the meantime, a very joyous holiday season to you.

Blaze: Virginia Dem.

ZuzecaSape comments on Dec 13, 2020:

God told me He demands I worship by pissing on the Governor's lawn. Who am I to argue with God? 🤷‍♂️

timon_phocas replies on Dec 13, 2020:

Howdy @ZuzecaSape, Are you going to find this revelation in I Hezekiah or II Hezekiah? Or is it a direct revelation? 😗

The Republic is dead.

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 12, 2020:

"Let the courts decide" They decided. Why can't you accept it?

timon_phocas replies on Dec 12, 2020:

@TheMiddleWay Howdy again. As I said before, I fully accept the defeat. I understand why even Constitutional literalist judges would hesitate to involve themselves in this election's results because of the monumental gravity of the issues. I just as fully believe this election's results were because of coordinated fraud perpetrated by Democratic Party operatives in six metropolitan areas that swung their states' votes to a mumbling nebish who spent the campaign in his basement. That's the Democrat's formula for national success. Manufacture ballots on your own printing presses. Feed them into voting machines your party controls and voila! Perfect results for managed democracy. "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." Stalin said that. Putin follows that maxim. Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro followed that maxim. They never lost an election, and now Democrats won't have to either. The Republic is dead.

The Republic is dead.

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 12, 2020:

"Let the courts decide" They decided. Why can't you accept it?

timon_phocas replies on Dec 12, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, I fully accept accept the defeat and the industrial scale election fraud that made it possible. The Republic is dead. Democrat machines killed it.

As Swalwell spy scandal spirals, Pelosi won't say how many other House Intel Dems had sexual ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 11, 2020:

I don't know why this is considered a "scandal" when it's not been shown *at all* that she was a spy nor that she carried away any particularly important or relevant secrets.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 11, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, The difficulty I see is that you are demanding a priori proof of Christine Fang guilt. That is unlikely to be achieved since she fled back to China when she learned she was being investigated by the FBI. In cases like this, preponderance of evidence is a better standard.

Adam Carrola talked about Elon Musk leaving Cali for Texas, “Let’s just do this simple ...

Serg97 comments on Dec 11, 2020:

The problem is that people like Musk are leaving the mess they help to create and moving else where!!! I live in one of those "else where's"!!! These people leave their messes behind, but not there way of thinking!!!

timon_phocas replies on Dec 11, 2020:

Howdy @Serg97, I think the difference is Musk wants to accomplish something whereas Zuckerberg just wants to exploit what he already has. I'm sure Zuckerberg and the other tech titans have already moved to protect their wealth. They basically run Cali. They commute by helicopter and private jet. They live in high-tech Versailles estates. Marie Antoinette was less cloistered than they are.

Blaze: Louder with Crowder: Is it strange that a Chinese "honey pot" sex spy infiltrating American ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 9, 2020:

Alleged spy. Prove that she's an actual spy... As was done for Maria Butina... And then it's news.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 10, 2020:

@TheMiddleWay Howdy Again. Christine Fang reportedly enrolled as a student at Cal State East Bay in 2011 and, according to friends and acquaintances, was in her late 20s or early 30s, according to Axios China reporter Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian. During this time, Fang is believed to have had regular contact with a suspected Chinese Ministry of State Security officer who was under diplomatic cover in the San Francisco consulate. Fang fled the United States in mid-2015 as she was being investigated by authorities. Suspected. Investigated by FBI counter intelligence. The subject of defensive briefings by the FBI with politicians. Fled the country.

TownHall: Ann Coulter: Election Fraud never happens! Except for all the times it does, but that's ok...

Haraldson comments on Dec 10, 2020:

I found Ann Coulter to be a smart, sharp and articulate commentator, but her incessant flip-flopping makes it hard (for me) to take her seriously. On this point in the linked Townhall article however I completely agree.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 10, 2020:

Howdy @Haraldson, Yeah, I've been annoyed at her quite a bit. I guess she's sort of the Maureen Dowd of the Right.

CNBC: SpaceX Starship aborts launch 2 seconds before takeoff. [cnbc.com]

Haraldson comments on Dec 9, 2020:

Looks like that (launch?) failure rate just went up, SN8 exploded on landing. https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/12/video-spacex-rocket-prototype-explodes-on-landing/

timon_phocas replies on Dec 9, 2020:

Howdy @Haraldson, You should watch a video log of Werner von Braun's rocket failures. Par for the course in new rocket testing. This was the most complex set of maneuvers ever attempted by a rocket. It very nearly succeeded. It did prove the airfoil system worked.

Blaze: Louder with Crowder: Is it strange that a Chinese "honey pot" sex spy infiltrating American ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 9, 2020:

Alleged spy. Prove that she's an actual spy... As was done for Maria Butina... And then it's news.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 9, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Maria Butina did not confess to being a spy until after she was arrested. The FBI was concerned enough to give Swalwell a defensive briefling.

RedState: Eight states have joined Texas's SCOTUS suit. [redstate.com]

cRaZyTMG comments on Dec 8, 2020:

The south shall rise again!

timon_phocas replies on Dec 9, 2020:

Howdy @cRaZyTMG, I thought the SouthEastern Conference of NCAA football had already accomplished that?

Instapundit: Robert Zimmerman: Ware County, GA Dominion Voting Machines audited.

AnomalousAnon1 comments on Dec 8, 2020:

Just for the record, there appears to be some updated confirmation from the Constitution Party representative here. [Interview with Garland Favorito after his testimony was left unheard in Georgia](https://youtu.be/Zrpw0rI-APU)

timon_phocas replies on Dec 8, 2020:

Howdy @AnomalousAnon1, Thank you. This adds to the credibility of the report

HotAir: New Jersey's contact tracers are meeting mass resistance.

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 8, 2020:

> "When a stranger in a mask shows up at your door and demands a list of everyone you’ve come in contact with over the past week, how do you expect people to respond?" If they have proper documentation, I would expect more cooperation for the good of yourself and your neighbors. OFC, even if...

timon_phocas replies on Dec 8, 2020:

@TheMiddleWay Howdy again. I know the public health doctrine. It works well with fairly limited diseases. With an pandemic, not so well. I've read articles where COVID contact tracing isn't working in China, where GPS location tracing on phones is government data. If they can't do it in a Big Brother totalitarian state like China, it won't work here. The point of the article was that citizens in New Jersey feel the government has been too intrusive for too long. Pandemic or no, government edicts will only be followed as far as the people are willing to go.

HotAir: New Jersey's contact tracers are meeting mass resistance.

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 8, 2020:

> "When a stranger in a mask shows up at your door and demands a list of everyone you’ve come in contact with over the past week, how do you expect people to respond?" If they have proper documentation, I would expect more cooperation for the good of yourself and your neighbors. OFC, even if...

timon_phocas replies on Dec 8, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, I live a pretty restricted life. Home with the wife, working with/interacting with maybe a dozen people. We sit in church with nobody else in arm's reach. Shopping brings us into contact with other people, but how would we recognize COVID positivity? Will they wear placards? Will they attach bells to their clothing and yell, " unclean!"? I take vitamins, wear a mask in indoor public places and wash hands a lot. The rest is up to God.

CNN: Canadian man drives an American family up the AlCan highway to Alaska.

eschatologyguy comments on Dec 7, 2020:

That's no small favor. That's a long drive.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 7, 2020:

Howdy @eschatologyguy, Not only that, it graded dirt and gravel, and nasty packed snow and ice in the winter. Through the Yuhon mountain range. Very generous of the man

Newt Gingrich: The True Story of a Great Patriotic American: Gen. Michael Flynn [newsmax.com]

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 6, 2020:

Hmmmm... patriotic military service in the past doesn't excuse call for sedition in the present: ***Lawyers Condemn Michael Flynn and Lin Wood’s ‘Breathtakingly Morally Treasonous’ Call for Trump to Declare Martial Law and Hold New Election*** ...

timon_phocas replies on Dec 6, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, One of the effects of this coordinated censorious coverage is there is no balanced worldview being presented. Looking at it from the Right side, Biden trailed both Obama and and Clinton in votes. But something happened in six metro areas. These six areas stopped counting at roughly the same time on election night. When they reopened Biden mysteriously leaped into the lead and outperformed both Clinton and Obama (super performed them actually). These six metro areas threw the election to Biden. This sounds a conspiracy to my side of the ideological spectrum. Along with statistical impossibilities, there are literally hundreds of sworn affidavits alleging illegal acts. A conspiracy to subvert a national election strikes at the very heart of the Republic. Flynn sees it as treason; reason to invoke the Insurrection Act. A forensic audit would clear up any questions about this election. It would ensure the legitimacy of whoever wins. But there is vociferous opposition to this from the Left, which only raises suspicions on our side.

Breitbart: Former White House doctor says there's something questionable about Biden's health.

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 6, 2020:

Ask yourselves if these comments are coming from the congressman elect or from the doctor. For if they are coming from a doctor, then It's an ethical violation for a doctor to diagnose without examining and consent of the patient

timon_phocas replies on Dec 6, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, I remember reading back in nursing school that there is a great cluster of mortality around the age of 80. I haven't looked at the standard deviation for the textbooks' statement, but I'm willing to bet money Biden's within it. Churchill led the western allies through WWII in his sixties. He was brilliant. He led Britain again in his seventies; less brilliant but still very sharp. Biden was never brilliant, and he's a lot less than sharp now. He says he broke his ankle "buck naked and trying to pull his dog's tail." Bizarre. Churchill lived into his nineties. I don't think Biden will make it to eighty.

When the first wave of lock downs occured the first news stories I saw of the jack booted thugs in ...

Xtra comments on Dec 5, 2020:

I don't think they're going to take back his Emmy anytime soon. To me he doesn't seem to have much of a conscience and possesses even less integrity.

timon_phocas replies on Dec 5, 2020:

Howdy @Xtra, Emmy? Best supporting actor in a daytime soap opera?

MarineCorpsTimes: Commandant Berger calls for a longer, more intense training at the School of ...

RobBlair comments on Dec 4, 2020:

Marines have to be trained? I thought they were born that way. What do you think of this?

timon_phocas replies on Dec 4, 2020:

Howdy @RobBlair, Heinlein dreamed up a 'Bug' enemy in **Starship Troopers** that was hatched ready-to-fight. That's not how it works with humans, not even Marines. Army Cavalry Scouts have to qualify on all direct fire weapons of mech infantry. So requiring Infantry Marines to master mortars, machine guns and ATGMs is not impossible. As for pushing complex decisions down the chain of command, I think it's been an inexorable evolution. The last wars have been have been run by sergeants and corporals down at the tip of the spear. Berger is talking about squad and fire team sized units scattered through contested spaces in the South Pacific. I think this will require Green Beret type training in leadership, military history and tactics. Recon and Force Recon seems to fit this description. The downside is when there's a public failure, it will be very easy to scapegoat some LCpl Schmuckatelli very publicly.

TownHall: James O'Keefe: O'Keefe reports on what listening to CNN editorial conference calls showed ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 3, 2020:

Water is wet. People are biased. Do we really need these recordings to tell us that CNN skews left? No one should be surprised that CNN will do everything to promote their bias the same as the NYP (for e.g.) will do everything to promote their bias. I have ZERO doubt that if a similar ...

timon_phocas replies on Dec 3, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, If the NYPost found a sex tape featuring a prominent Republican, they'd feature it on their headlines instead of burying it. That's the difference. One is a newspaper, the other is a deliberate propaganda outlet.

BabylonBee: Kamala Harris proposes a housing plan where everyone gets a 10' by 10' room and three ...

eschatologyguy comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Would that be the dimensions of a jail cell?

timon_phocas replies on Dec 2, 2020:

Howdy @eschatologyguy, Yep. She had a reputation for putting people in jail and keeping them there for political purposes. She even kept some inmates in jail thru the fire season so the state could use them as cheap fire fighters.

RedState: James O'Keefe dials into CNN"s morning conference call, tells Jeff Zucker he's been ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 1, 2020:

This very likely violated federal wire-tapping laws. > If an individual is found to be hacking into or disrupting online meetings, classrooms, and conferences, charges may include: disrupting a public meeting computer intrusion using a computer to commit a crime hate crimes fraud ...

timon_phocas replies on Dec 1, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, He did not hack into the call. He was given the number by an inside informant.

PJMedia: Rand Paul tweets that four vote dumps in the 'witching hours' threw the election to Biden.

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 1, 2020:

Who wrote this paper? I see no actual author...

timon_phocas replies on Dec 1, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay The article, just above the photo, says it was authored by Tyler O'Neil.

This is circulating late this afternoon. Not on any newsfeeds that I can find. Truth?

timon_phocas comments on Nov 30, 2020:

General McInerny said that is exactly what happened. Have not heard about Gina Haspel

timon_phocas replies on Nov 30, 2020:

@dd54 Howdy again, When I ran few queries about Gina Haspel I got articles that she was being frozen out of presidential briefings and she might be fired

Who invented the 3 rules to protect yourself from Covid-19?

timon_phocas comments on Nov 28, 2020:

I copied the book of Leviticus when I was going thru nursing school. A lot of priestly duties amounted to public health nursing. It struck me as very straightforward, very applicable to today's standards. Contrast this with the Assyrian approach to disease. They arributed disease to offending ...

timon_phocas replies on Nov 28, 2020:

Howdy @Hanno, Jesus claimed that a specific case of epilepsy was caused by demons. He was proved correct, in that he cured the patient. Egyptian medical practice was like the Assyrians. They understood direct injuries and treated them with emperical practices. Illness, however was the realm of spirits and magic. The spirit world was like an invisible, preditory mafia that had to be continually paid off.

Reuters: Ethiopian civil war goes badly for Tigrayan TPLF forces.

Bay0Wulf comments on Nov 27, 2020:

Unrest and War in Africa ... How novel a concept. Can’t say I’ve been paying much attention but ... Does anyone know what either side “Stands For”? Is there a Good Guy/Bad Guy scenario here? Or is it simply Bad Guy/Worse Guy?

timon_phocas replies on Nov 27, 2020:

Howdy @Bay0Wulf, The Tigrayans (6% of Ethiopia's population) held an outsized position (Reuters say it dominated) in the ruling coalition. They had a leading role in overthrowing the Marxist Dergue a generation ago. After the current Prime Minister was elected, the PM arrested senior Tigrayan officials for peculations and other offenses. He called it democracy, the Tigrayans called it persecution and rose in rebellion. The PM got the Nobel prize last year for negotiating a peace with Eritrea. The dictator of Eritrean saw the rebellion as a chance to weaken Ethiopia and has sent his troops in to help the Tigrayans. If anyone is the quintessential bad guy it's him. Quite the mess.

PJMedia: Sidney Powell released her 'Kracken'.

toronto_Georgia comments on Nov 26, 2020:

She also filed a similar suit in Michigan the same day. And now we wait.

timon_phocas replies on Nov 26, 2020:

@torontogal4388 Thanks