Given the ongoing severe weather occurring in the Midwest and up/down the Mississippi & Ohio Valleys, God's peace, the peace that passes all understanding, is definitely needed here.
Friday, April 4, 2025
Founders' Quotes, 3-4 April 2025
Two quotes on the subject of national defense....
(1) Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace. - Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Monroe, 1823
(2) It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace. - Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
They're both right; Jefferson because the easiest way to keep peace between nations is to deter aggression and the easiest way to do that is prepare at every opportunity. Story is right because it is criminally or almost criminally easy to "War war," as Winston Churchill once said, but its very hard, in Churchill's words, "to Jaw Jaw."
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Wash, rinse and repeat..... *sighs* ...I'll be glad when summer arrives. In the meantime, stay safe everyone!
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Another Round of Severe Storms Strikes Mid-Central U.S.
Interesting couple of weeks weather-wise hasn't it?
Violent storms and tornadoes have torn across the US south and midwest, killing at least seven people and downing power lines and trees, smashing homes and upturning cars across multiple states.
The outbreak of storms and tornadoes has resulted in at least seven deaths in Tennessee and Missouri, with further fatalities expected to be confirmed. One of the victims has been named: a 68-year-old man named Garry Moore who was a fire chief in Cape Girardeau county, Missouri. At least a dozen injuries have also been reported from the storms.
The White House has approved a state of emergency request from Tennessee, where rising floodwaters have menaced Nashville. Indiana, meanwhile, has declared its own state of emergency, activating 50 national guard members to deal with severe weather that has affected 41 of the state’s counties. (The Guardian)
Much as I hate to say it, folks, but maybe the fine fine people over at DOGE (an agency originally created as the Digital Service by Pres. Obama) could remember that weather forecasting is as much a part of public safety as law enforcement and the military are. Yes, everyone inside the federal government needs to trim back a bit but the NWS is an agency that, given America's weather history, might need a boost of support.
Founders Quote, 2 April 2025
When divorces can be summoned to the aid of levity, of vanity, or of avarice, a state of marriage frequently becomes a state of war or strategem. - James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791
Interesting quote there from one of America's earliest legal scholars, James Wilson. A signer of the Declaration of Independence (one of nine from the Keystone State) he was an instrumental advocate for the Constitution and the early republic. His quote above on marriage hints at what sometimes happens when a marriage breaks down - instead of being a happy, loving union, it becomes an intractable war of wills between two increasingly cynical, bitter sides that doesn't end well for anyone.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Founders' Quotes, 31 March-1 April 2025
A pair of quotes on the topic of liberty....
(1) The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. - Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith — 1787
(2) In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. - John Adams, Inaugural Address, 1797
Liberty is one of the hallmarks of America - the liberty to think as one wishes to, to speak their mind, to read and listen to do what they wish within the bounds of the law. Not of society, the law.
But to ensure the law is fair and just, there must be liberty with which to fulfill its' promises.
The Main Ingredient | Randy Skeete
As Christians, we must align our lives with the commandments of God (you know, those ten Moses was given on Mt. Sinai) so that we may lives full of righteousness for God. Part of that is worshipping with fellow Christians on the Sabbath, the Seventh-Day Sabbath, which is as valid today as it was in past centuries.
Monday, March 31, 2025
Watch The FIRST EVER Human Polar Mission
Watched the launch via. SpaceX's live feed and it was awesome; this marks the first crewed polar orbital flight in history and as things stand (roughly 10:02pm US EDT) things are going alright. Good luck and Godspeed to them!
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Founders' Quotes, 29-30 March 2025
Law: Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country. - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #25, 1787
Laws of Nature: To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable. Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature....Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind. - Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
On the law, Hamilton is dead-to-rights correct in that, while its' easy for elected officials to add duties for the government to perform (especially if not enumerated in the Constitution) it is very hard for government to dispense of them as Donald Trump is finding out first-hand. With regards to the laws of nature, Hamilton is also correct in that, here in America, our rights do not derive from the benevolence of government. They derive from our sovereign rights as human beings, rights given to us from our Creator. Government's function is not to restrict them willy-nilly but to protect them at whatever cost.
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Another week, another severe weather outbreak hitting the Upper Midwest and Ohio/Tennessee Valleys; later today the bulk of the severe weather will begin moving towards the South....stay safe and weather aware, folks!
Jasmine Crocket's Bigotry Towards a Fellow Member of Congress
“Skin-folk that are not our kin-folk.”
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 30, 2025
“Married a white woman and now you’re whitewashed.”
This is open racism from a sitting member of Congress and face of the Democratic Party, and that’s apparently just fine with the press. pic.twitter.com/T4cd6mGYBZ
It must be a day that ends in a 'y'.
You'd think with how often Crockett says embarrassing things that backfire, she'd eventually figure out she's just not all that bright, and yet ... here we are. Again. This time she was trying to trash Byron Donalds for having a white wife.
Open racism there, nevermind the fact that Kamala Harris is herself married to a white person, Douglas Emhoff. But hey, I guess its' okay if you're a Klanocrrat, right?
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