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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

Genesis 1:28 [Full Chapter] God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Now California is shutting off the power to prevent forest fires when the real culprit is the worshiping of the forests which is killing them. If you had been pumping oil on the ground for the past four decades would you turn off the power to avoid a spark or would you clean up your mess? In California they turn off the power to avoid having to look at the real problem and continue to get their virtue signaling high from Mother Earth.

Pacific Power and Electric which has declared bankruptcy from the Paradise fire two years ago has decided it was better to shut off the power rather than address the real problem. With the power of the Global Warming religion they could not stand up to those who claim the fires are caused by Global Warming than the truth which is they are caused by mismanagement of them. The truth of the matter is the forests need to be thinned and cut on a regular basis or they will die from overgrowth from too high a density of trees.

Ever since the Spotted Owl fraud the Sierra Club and their fellow eco-terrorists have convinced the people to worship the forests rather than manage them. They have turned resource management into a religion rather than a science and have pushed the Save the Trees and Hug a Whale theme to make people believe the forests can magically grow without the slightest touching by mankind. Even the Natives would burn the forests to keep them healthy by taking out the dead and dying trees to leave it an open area for the wildlife and food bearing plants.

Northern CA and Oregon have what were the most magnificent forests on the planet and now are being wasted away by the environmental cult. If they were managed scientifically with biological and ecological planning they could be the most incredible forests ever seen. The first thing which needs to be done is to thin out the areas which are overgrown and dying. There also needs to be a concerted effort to take out the blowdowns which are littering the forest floors causing the massive heat the fires are now producing. Those two efforts would cut the fire danger by half and would eliminate the need to cut the power on these forests.

It is a delicious irony that all the Tesla owners are stuck in their homes having to use their backup fossil fuel driven car. These people are getting a taste of what the Green Raw Deal would look like although it is just a taste since they are not enjoying the 100% tax increase they would enjoy to save the dirt. They do not have the gummit enforcement of every facet of your life in the institution of earth saving doxology. No this is just a brief look into the future if this path continues as a worship rather than stewardship of our natural resources.

The first step which needs to be taken is the selling of federal lands to the people. Private ownership would bring stewardship of these lands overnight and begin the path to healing the forests from forty years of neglect by the eco-fanatics. They believe the forests have a human spirit when in reality they are God’s perfect creation which should be maintained as worship to the creator. The healthiest the forests were was when they were being managed and selectively harvested like the fields of Kansas only they are the forests of Oregon.

The Oregon forests if managed properly would make Texas and California look like failures. There is fifty thousand square miles of neglected forests waiting to be the wood supply of the world. If rotated biologically and properly they would create jobs and billions of dollars of income only to be replenished every twenty to fifty years as a worldwide powerhouse.

Selling this land to the people would begin the healing with gentleman forests which could a personal getaway or forest farms which would have trees properly spaced and maximized for health. Healthy forests mean healthy wildlife as well as cleaner water and air. For those fooled by Climate Change the healthier the trees the more CO2 can be converted into oxygen although the trees love CO2.

There is an ecological crisis in the forests of N Cal and Oregon and the only answer the state and federal gummits have is to turn off the power. This is the ultimate Band-Aid on a cancer. Until the billion dollar legal industry gets out of the way we are going to see more and more fires and less and less lumber. The state of Oregon has a bill coming that will completely eliminate the lumber industry due to Global Warming when this will only make the fires worse.

At what point do you admit the path you are on is not working? The only reason the fires have not been bad this year is it was the coldest and shortest summer in decades in the West. While people are dying from fires and now from turning off their electricity due to high winds the gummit is promoting a fake crisis in Global Warming when there is absolutely no actual proof. There is proof the forests are dying so how about take a look at some real solutions to a real crisis? The reason they will not look is that does not promote a bigger government and bigger Democrat power.

The forests are being devastated by a religion that says to worship trees rather than be stewards of them. This religion is devastating the country as the virtual attempt at perfection to the earth is actually destroying it. When are we going to put down this dangerous cult which is killing people who become blind to the truth?

The worship of our resources has destroyed lives and communities and now is destroying the very forests they claim to want to protect. At what time do we turn to the Creator and stop bowing down to his creation’s worshipers? God is a God of love while his creation is perfection, it leads to hate and death. It is time to manage the creation as worship to the creator.

Save our forests.

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.

Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank you Rodguy for fishing tales and political perspectives from all angles, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.

Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.

Tues-10/8/19

Since it’s all impeachment all of the time thought time for just a few miscellany stories.

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Botham Jean's neighbor, a key witness in Amber Guyger trial, shot to death in Dallas

This is a new story as of this writing with not many details yet known.

Seems the fellow who testified against Amber Guyger, the lady cop who accidentally shot her neighbor, Botham Jean, when she thought he was in her house.

Now there’s lots of rumor about this event, mostly that Guyger and/or her cop buddies arranged the shooting.

As of this writing, this appears to have nothing to do with that incident.

Seems this fellow was also shot at last year, that there is evidently some ill will against him around that apartment complex.

Weill update as more details come in.

Meanwhile, story link below.

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Corey Booker Gonna take you on.

So Former VP Joe Biden, not to mention mine own former state senator, is under a little scrutiny.

Seems Corey Booker will not stand for anyone making fun of his good buddy. And let us not forget Booker has proclaimed himself to be Spartacus.

Biden has a son, apparently a talentless lad who was kicked out of the navy for cocaine use. This lad, Hunter is his name, got millions of dollars from Ukraine and China but do not fear. The fact that his father was America’s VP at the time had nothing to do with it.

China and the Ukraine could tell that Hunter Biden could build a nuclear reactor in his basement, might well be able to clean all the ocean waters, definitely has a huge brain if not on cocaine.

How dare you question the Biden integrity. Corey Booker’s Gonna get you.

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"I've said time and time again that this is unacceptable, that if you come after Joe Biden, you're going to have to deal with me in this case. There is no — as you said — these are baseless, unfounded, scurrilous lies, plain and simple, trying to undermine the character of one of the statesmen of our country, not our party, but our country. And so, yeah, you've got a problem with me," Booker told CNN's Ana Cabrera on "Newsroom."

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Weds-10/9/19

McConnell among Republicans criticizing Trump's Syria decision

Why are we in Syria? What do we owe these people?

Because it would seem that President Trump wants to wind it down in Syria, home of Optometrist Assad and a bunch of ragtag soldiers fighting who knows who.

First, let us all agree that politicians are the worst people to run a war. From Vietnam to North Korea to Iraq to Iran and definitely toward Afghanistan…..all pretty much failures.

A war to be fought, well first there should be a good damn reason. If citizens of a country being abused by a dictator need help, we don’t need to send our soldiers to die. We can send them weapons and perhaps independent contractors to teach them the art of warfare.

And we should leave once the fighting is over. We’ve been in Afghanistan 18 years. WHAT THE HELL IS IN AFGHANISTAN TAKING ALL THAT TIME?

I listened to Trump describe how he feels when he signs the death certificate of a promising American soldier who died in a country where they have no sense of self-governance, a religion that oppresses, no liberty, no freedom of religion.

He expressed extreme sorrow when he signs off on that young American soldiers life and who can blame him?

Now some of these politicians begin to get money from munitions manufacturers and over time a politico has money to get re-elected, much money from those who benefit from war.

It’s a bad system people. Trump has it right. Re-assess while we have soldiers in the countries they are in, get as many as possible out because Trump is tired of signing death certificates, and get the pentagon, state department and the congress to re-consider where we are going.

However, many Republicans, including Lindsay Graham (who adores wars) and including Senate majority leader below, think Trump is on the wrong track.

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Top Republicans in Congress -- including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- criticized President Donald Trump over his decision to remove US troops from northern Syria as Turkey plans a military offensive there. McConnell urged Trump to reverse his move, saying "a precipitous withdrawal of US forces from Syria would only benefit Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime."

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ELIZABETH WARREN CAUGHT IN ANOTHER LIE.

I heard her prattle about being pregnant and immediately being fired for same by the principal at her school.

Turns out Warren is lying.

And who is surprised?

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RIVERDALE, N.J.—The Riverdale Board of Education approved a second-year teaching contract for a young Elizabeth Warren, documents show, contradicting the Democratic presidential candidate’s repeated claims that she was asked not to return to teaching after a single year because she was "visibly pregnant."

Minutes of an April 21, 1971, Riverdale Board of Education meeting obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that the board voted unanimously on a motion to extend Warren a "2nd year" contract for a two-days-per-week teaching job. That job is similar to the one she held the previous year, her first year of teaching. Minutes from a board meeting held two months later, on June 16, 1971, indicate that Warren’s resignation was "accepted with regret."

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Political cartoon of the week

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Thurs-10/9/19

HILLARY RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT?

The past day of this week, as of this writing, there’s been rumors that Hillary Clinton might throw her hat in the ring for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

Man I wish she would. That would be a political junkee’s nightmare.

Below an actual tweet by Hillary Clinton in response to President Trump’s challenge to Hillary to run again.

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Don’t tempt me. Do your job.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 8, 2019

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THE TRUMP ADMIINISTRATION EXCORIATES THE STUPID DEMOCRATIC IMPEACHMENT QUEST

So the White House sent a letter to the House of Representatives stating firmly that they would not produce any documents as requested by this so-call “impeachment inquiry” until the entire House VOTES for it.

So the Speaker of the House, my childhood friend Nancy Pelosi, declares there will be an impeachment inquiry because…? THEY WANT TO SEARCH AND SEARCH UNTIL THEY FIND SOMETHING TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP ON.

Best thing the White House can do is exactly this. And I’m betting that there are administrative investigators behind the scenes that are finding a boatload of damaging information.

AND WHERE THE HELL IS HUNTER BIDEN?

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The Trump administration all but made a “declaration of war on the House over the impeachment inquiry” on Tuesday in a letter from White House Counsel Pat. A Cipollone, who told House Democrats that the president would not comply with their “illegitimate proceedings.”

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NOT POLITICS BY PAT

Siegfried and Roy

I chanced to watch a 20/20 show that gave the latest update on the famous magician act of Siegfried and Roy. They used tigers in their act and it was one of the greatest acts in the history of Las Vegas.

Everyone probably knows by now that one of that team’s most famous members, Roy, got bitten and dragged across stage by one of those beautiful animals.

The show went over how the horrible attack happened, although Roy says his beloved tigers wasn’t attacking him but was, instead, “rescuing” him. The trainer says that is not true, that the tiger was indeed attacking Roy.

I’ll tell you my opinion….that tiger grabbed Roy around his neck. Exactly like tigers do when felling a gazelle or other prey. I don’t know this through any special tiger expertise but hey, I’ve seen it time and again on various nature shows on the Animal Planet.

Siegfried and Roy did prepare and present an updated act that had the attacking tiger. They both dressed up to disguise themselves and the tiger was calm, probably by the time of this new show, quite old.

Finally, what the hell were these two doing, no matter how famous, with some 30 tigers on their property near Las Vegas?

That issue too became the subject of discussion and some new rules.

Roy survived but he had a long, long recovery. He can walk but it’s tough. He can talk. He seems to have a working brain and God bless for surviving and the entertainment you provided.

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THE POLE PEOPLE ARE READY FOR HALLOWEEN

Somebody dresses up these so-called “pole people” made from two chopped down utility poles alongside the road of Route 9 near me.

Nobody knows who does all this work….or why.

But it does bring a smile.

Fri 10/11/19

John Solomon is one of my favorite journalist mostly because he IS a real journalist.

And now we are to find out that former Ukrainian ambassador Yovanovich has been doing some strange things. Like denying Ukrainian officials visas to come to America to hand over evidence of misconduct by Obama administration officials.

Solomon was a bit vague about alleged evidence that Yovanovich, who was fired by the Trump administration in May of this year, on Hannity the other night.

But it seems that these people in our Deep State have been spying upon the likes of John Solomon.

It’s a tangled web to figure out who is the good guy and who are the bad guys. But Ukrainian Ambassador Yovanovich has been a witch of bitch and joined the crowd spying on innocent Americans just doing their job.

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HERE

The president ordered her removal from her post in Ukraine in May 2019. She was openly anti-Trump.

Starting in 2018 Yovanovich denied Ukrainian officials visas to enter the United States to hand over evidence of Obama administration misconduct to Trump administration officials.

Wednesday night on Hannity John Solomon announced that the former Ambassador Yovanovich was monitoring the reporters digging into Ukrainian lawlessness.

There is evidence now that Yovanovich was spying on John Solomon.

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FORMER VP JOE BIDEN TOO GOT LOTS OF BUCKS FROM BURISMA

Why haven’t either Joe or Hunter Biden, or both, been yet thrown in jail?

Yes we know Hunter Biden is an expert on all matters gas and running a business, as is ole Joe who leads the pack on lobbying.

But the truth slowly comes out.

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KYIV. Oct 9 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 for lobbying activities from Burisma Group, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada member Andriy Derkach said citing investigation materials.

Derkach publicized documents which, as he said, "describe the mechanism of getting money by Biden Sr." at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine's press center in Kyiv on Wednesday.

"This was the transfer of Burisma Group's funds for lobbying activities, as investigators believe, personally to Joe Biden through a lobbying company. Funds in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to the U.S.-based company Rosemont Seneca Partners, which according to open sources, in particular, the New York Times, is affiliated with Biden. The payment reference was payment for consultative services," Derkach said.

He also publicized sums that were transferred to Burisma Group representatives, in particular Hunter Biden, a son of the former U.S. vice president.

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FRIDAY EDITORIAL PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PRESS CONFERENCE 10/9/19

I chanced to listen, mesmerized, to President Trump as he answered questions on his impromptu press conference on 10/9/19.

I am looking at age 70 close up and can say I’ve never heard a president calmly and honestly explain situations that presidents don’t normally talk about it.

Trump lambasted the Bidens as well they deserve. He explained how Schiff should be censored or removed from congress for his blatant lies read into the congressional record on what was said during the conversation between Trump and the president of the Ukraine.

I was totally immersed with his honesty and lack of fear of the truth. Never would Dubya ever, not ever and not in three lifetimes, been able to express this mess so deftly and truthfully. And thank God Romney never won the election because what a gem he turned out to be.

I will always be grateful for this president who has me believing he is telling the truth, he is telling it like it is, he is not trying to deceive or lie.

Below is a link to a video to that little talk should it work.

HERE

Sat 10/12/19

I am quite confused about this so-called “whistleblower” nonsense. First there was one whistleblower, then another. Then there was the ambassadress to the Ukraine and the first whistleblower knew her and now we are to understand that the second whistleblower had some sort of tie to Joe Biden.

Joe Biden seems to have ties to everyone and now he’s known and beloved by whistleblowers.

More will likely be coming out on this soon.

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The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a "professional" tie is Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials.

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THE GREAT MINNEAPOLIS TRUMP RALLY

Why yes I did watch President Trump’s grand rally in Minneapolis. He spoke for almost two hours and for the first time, well not ever but infrequent, I have some criticism of Trump.

NARROW THE SPEECHES DOWN TO AN HOUR, MAYBE A LITTLE MORE!

I just think he overdoes it and he does, I insert softly, repeat himself.

But that’s a minor gripe. His speech this past Thursday night 10/10/19, was terrific.

But let us now fool ourselves. He was tough. He was especially tough on Joe Biden.

I loved it when he beat on Joe Biden. Come on people, Joe Biden, stupid one that he is, has been receiving bribes from every country on the planet to include East Outer Mongolia and the Islands of Capris. And not only does he not bother to hide that fact, he gets himself videotaped bragging about how he held the financial gun to the Ukrainians’ heads lest they keep that guy investigating his son for getting paid in the thousands by Burisma, the Ukraine natural gas company.

Trump pointed out that no one has heard from Hunter and proposed that new Tshirts be created that ask, loud and clear “WHERE IS HUNTER?”

Trump also spared Minnesota’s cheating and lying Somali congress critter who described the 9-11 attacks as people doing something.

Yes, it would be nice if our politicos don’t have to be so nasty to each other but ask Dubya or goodness, Mittens Romney, how being nice and not defending yourself works out.

Finally Trump ended up with a great synopsis of why America needs to get out of these Middle East disaster countries, such as Syria, because it’s getting us nowhere.

Trump described the agony of parents as they arrive at Dover to meet their son’s coffin. He told us….get this…EIGHTEEN YEARS IN AFGHANISTAN!!!

Those people can’t seem to defend themselves. It’s not like they have some kind of constitution and honest government. Instead they have an oppressive religion to mistreat their citizens.

It was a great speech and with about 20-25 minutes cut down it would be perfect.

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TIME FOR CHELSEA CLINTON TO RUN FOR OFFICE?

Some new york politico, Nita Lowey, is retiring in 2020. Scuttlebutt has it that there is behind-the-scenes push to get the wonderful, delightful, intelligent, born to honest parents….Chelsea Clinton, to take a run for the office.

My mind boggles. If God really does love America He will make the Clintons go away.

ALL OF THEM!!

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Top officials in the Westchester County Democratic Party were pitching Chelsea Clinton Wednesday on launching a 2020 bid for Nita Lowey’s seat in light of the longtime congresswoman’s retirement announcement, according to a party source familiar with the matter.

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