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Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) 1 Kings 10 Solomon’s Splendor 14 The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,[e] 15 not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the territories. 16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels[f] of gold went into each shield. 17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three minas[g] of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. 18 Then the king made a...

The 2019 Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act (WCCA) is perhaps the most significant attack on private property rights in decades, perhaps ever. A simple look at the list of sponsors of the proposed legislation provides plenty of warning about what this new law portends. The WCCA was introduced in Congress in May 2019. In the Senate, the bill is being led by Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM), and was cosponsored by Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Cory Booker (D- NJ), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Jon Tester (D-MT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Ron Wyden (D-OR). The bill...

I now get a screen block and am unable to read the articles at the NYTimes and WashPost. Clearing cookies doesn't help. Looks like an effort on their part to force me to register? Yes I know I can get a throw away google email account, but are there other ways? Use to have BUGMENOT log ins but that doesn't seem to work either.

Conversion stories are usually beautiful and poignant where someone embraces liberating truth. Sometimes, sadly, the story of transformation is because of capitulation to a blatant lie. Unfortunately, for “Reverend” Rob Schenck, his change is the latter. The former pro-life activist penned a poorly written defense of abortion on the pages of the nation’s leader of fake news, The New York Times. In his piece, “I Was an Anti-Abortion Crusader. Now I Support Roe v. Wade,” he says that overturning Roe “should not be anybody’s idea of victory.” Killing over 60 million innocent human beings since 1973 and harming countless mothers and...

Chernobyl shows what happens when authority and appearance are more important than science and truth. “What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. When the truth offends, we lie and we lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth and sooner or later, that debt is paid.” - Valery Legasov (1936 - 1988)

Our 'Greeneyes' has been FOUND, but she is STILL having computer issues, so I have been asked to keep the Weekly Garden Thread rolling until she returns. That said, I will be posting once a week, and I will TRY to stick to her schedule of a Friday Night/Saturday Morning Weekly Post, but it depends upon what is going on here at MY farm. (It's Spring; it's BUSY!) The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to...

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand appear to have squeaked in to participate in the first Democratic presidential primary debates later this month. A Politico analysis has the pair of New York pols crossing the threshold to get two of 20 coveted spots at the June 26-27 debates in Miami, hosted by NBC News. To qualify, the Democratic National Committee is requiring that candidates earn 1% in at least three polls or get donations from 65,000, with 200 in 20 different states. Gillibrand is polling at an average of 1.3% and de Blasio at 1%, the analysis showed.

The University of Alabama gave back a philanthropist’s $26.5 million donation and took his name off the law school Friday, a week after he called on students to boycott the institution over the state’s new abortion ban. Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr., a 70-year-old Florida real estate investor, said he has no doubt the board of trustees acted in response to his remarks, and he complained that the state of Alabama is only reinforcing its reputation as “the land of the backward,” full of “hicks.” University officials emphatically denied the decision had anything to do with Culverhouse’s stand on the abortion...

In Brief The Facts: The Russian Ministry of Defense published an article about the existence of military parapsychology in Russian military techniques, which allows one to penetrate into the thoughts of another, hack computer programs, and communicate telepathically. Reflect On: Why is this type of science studied at the highest levels of various governments, yet ridiculed and not studied at all within the mainstream? Is telepathy real? It’s hard to argue against it; in fact, I would say that it’s not really up for debate. That being said, when it comes to topics like these, the field is polluted with...

Orlando Sentinel Logo SUBSCRIBE POLITICS NEWS Andrew Gillum’s $5,000 settlement accepted by state ethics panel ORLANDO SENTINEL | JUN 07, 2019 | 11:25 AM Andrew Gillum’s $5,000 settlement accepted by state ethics panel Andrew Gillum, Forward Florida Chair, speaks during an Elections Subcommittee field hearing on 'Voting Rights and Election Administration in Florida' at the Broward County Governmental Center on May 06, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale. (Joe Raedle/Getty) TALLAHASSEE - A state ethics panel Friday approved a $5,000 fine for former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum despite some concerns a settlement wasn’t tough enough or that he has claimed vindication...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) This is how the #fakenews works, New York Times style. – President Trump won his standoff with Mexican President AMLO last night, securing an agreement in which the failed state off of the U.S. Southern border made a series of concessions designed to slow the free flow of illegal immigrants from various nations in Central and South America. But you would never know that from reading the piece the New York Times posted about the deal, unless you read all the way down to the 1,500 word story’s 9th paragraph, where the...

Economic and regulatory policies play out in the economy in the market in two ways. First, they are anticipated. That's why the market tanked 16 percent in the 4 months after Obama was elected and rose 12 percent after Trump -- and kept rising. Americans knew Obama’s policies would be bad, and Trump’s would be good. Once implemented, policies begin to work. Depending on their aggressiveness, and both Obama's and Trump's were, the effects would be seen after about a year, and certainly after two. Economically-illiterate Democrats love to believe that any economic success that President Trump’s administration has enjoyed...

Fair Oaks Farms Apologizes After Video Surfaces Of Workers Abusing Calves; 4 Employees Fired CHICAGO (CBS) — The owners of an Indiana dairy farm are apologizing after undercover video released by an animal rights group showed workers kicking, beating and throwing around newborn calves. The video was filmed at Fair Oaks Farms, a popular destination for school field trips and tourists about 75 miles southeast of Chicago. The video was filmed by a member of Animal Recovery Mission, which had an undercover investigator get a job at Fair Oaks Farms from August to November of last year in order to...

Demand for taxpayer-funded abortions is where the Democratic Party platform now stands, and so it was only a matter of time before frontrunner Joe Biden caved to such a position. It was a matter of a day, to be precise. Biden’s campaign on June 5 confirmed that he backed the Hyde Amendment, a rider passed each year by Congress which prohibits federal funds from paying for abortions except in instances of rape, incest, or the life of the mother. It is estimated the Hyde Amendment, first enacted in 1976, has saved over 2 million lives.And then came the backlash from Biden’s...

A CNN panel had a pretty pessimistic view of the U.S.-Mexico deal President Trump announced Friday in hopes of ending the migration crisis. Late Friday, Trump tweeted that threatened U.S. tariffs against Mexico were being "indefinitely suspended" because Mexico had agreed to help slow the flow of migrants heading toward the U.S. border. But some folks on the liberal news network were not impressed. Former Republican U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent called the negotiations "bluster" and insisted that Trump never would have gone through with his tariff threat because it would have hurt border states like Texas, where he noted that Democrat Joe Biden was leading...

Do you know what we need around here? That’s right, a little…That’s right, somebody crazy enough to just say no.International Border AheadAs it happens, we elected such a guy.The result, after all the breast beating, kvetching, threatening and posturing about PDJT’s threatened Mexican tariffs, this:Terms of Agreement with Mexico Mexican national guard deployed Action to dismantle human smuggling and trafficking Asylum seekers returned to Mexico Mexico to offer asylum seekers jobs, health care, and education Further action if no results in 90 days Seriously folks, this isn’t rocket science. It’s more like raising a child. Children need to be taught...

“‘For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?’” (Matthew 6:25). For Christians to worry is to be disobedient and unfaithful to God. Nothing in our lives, internal or external, justifies our being anxious when God is our Master. Worry is basically the sin of distrusting the promise and providence of God, and yet it is a sin Christians commit perhaps...

President Trump's tariffs against Mexico have been "indefinitely suspended," he was proud to report on Friday night. He explained that the two parties managed to reach some sort of agreement. I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico. The Tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the U.S. on Monday, against Mexico, are hereby indefinitely suspended. Mexico, in turn, has agreed to take strong measures to....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 8, 2019 ....stem the tide of Migration through Mexico, and to our Southern Border. This is being done...

Veteran journalist Art Moore was editing a story on the Trump-Russia probe last October when he heard a knock at the door. He saw a couple of men in suits on the front porch of his suburban Seattle home and thought they were Jehovah’s Witnesses making the rounds. But they weren’t missionaries there to convert him; they were FBI agents there to interrogate him, sent by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The G-men wanted to talk about WikiLeaks, specifically whether the Trump campaign had any connection to the hacktivist group’s release of thousands of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton’s campaign during...

Michael Bloomberg is giving away more of his personal fortune to advance his radical environmental agenda, this time pledging $500 million to shutter every coal mine in the United States and slow the production of cheap, clean, and plentiful natural gas. The New York Times reported on the former mayor of New York City’s Beyond Carbon campaign. “The effort will bypass Washington, where Mr. Bloomberg has said national action appears unlikely because of a divided Congress and a president who denies the established science of climate change,” the Times reported. “We’re in a race against time with climate change, and...