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Sometimes I’m so exhausted with the incessant tribal whine of politics that I’d just rather have the wits scared out of me. That way I don’t have to think about the dark, sinister political arts.(snip) What really scares me for Halloween? What curdles my blood? Well, how about being locked in a dark elevator alone with Sen. Mitt “Pierre Delecto” Romney? That’s scary. A senator with a fake Twitter handle like “Pierre Delecto” is quite obviously deranged. And in an elevator, perhaps even a cannibal. The only thing worse than being eaten alive by Sen. Delecto, with a side of...

Many of you will never have heard of Miriam Shaded of the Esther Foundation in Poland. Recently the Esther Foundation, which seems to based on promoting a youthful and attractive persona based on Shaded herself, has been working with the Barnabas Fund to bring Syrian Christian refugees to Poland. Further information on one of the controversial founders and international director of the Barnabus Fund, Patrick Sookhdeo can be found here. (It should also be stated that the Barnabus Fund have stated that Sookhdeo was the international director and not employed by the Fund in the UK.) Sookhdeo previously converted from...

Morning "I have chosen you out of the world." John 15:19 Here is distinguishing grace and discriminating regard; for some are made the special objects of divine affection. Do not be afraid to dwell upon this high doctrine of election. When your mind is most heavy and depressed, you will find it to be a bottle of richest cordial. Those who doubt the doctrines of grace, or who cast them into the shade, miss the richest clusters of Eshcol; they lose the wines on the lees well refined, the fat things full of marrow. There is no balm in Gilead...

“He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor” (Proverbs 28:8).

An Iowa woman was killed by debris from an explosion at a gender reveal party on Saturday, police said. The Marion County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call at around 4 p.m. on Saturday reporting that a woman, 56, had been seriously injured in an explosion in rural Knoxville, Iowa, according to a press release from the sheriff's office. The woman, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead on the scene. An investigation concluded that a gender reveal announcement created an explosion, from which a flying piece of debris struck the woman.

Our fake news media’s love affair with Islamic terrorists never dims, nor does its knee-jerking to take every possible shot at President Donald Trump, no matter how absurd it might be. – The Washington Post got things started in the immediate wake of the announcement of the U.S. military’s killing of the mass murdering ISIS “leader” with the most sympathetic headline it could muster to describe him: “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.” Oh, see, the guy who ordered his forces to film the chopping off of innocent victims’ heads and posting...

Earlier this month, Insider Online got hold of the FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2018, and among the revelations is the slight decline in firearm-related homicides, which could force some fast-talking by the gun prohibition lobby. Last year, the FBI report says there were 14,123 murders, of which 10,265 involved firearms. Back in 2017, by comparison, the FBI reported 15,129 slayings, including 10,982 committed with firearms. According to FBI data, handguns are used in the majority of homicides, yet gun prohibitionists want to ban semiautomatic rifles. The FBI report says 6,603 of last year’s killings involved handguns, which is...

Tweet from Governor Newsom’s office:You didn’t expect him to call them blackouts did you? Or brownouts?Response was immediate. Even from normally like-minded allies. Tweet from Seth Mandel of the Washington Examiner: Power to the People! Except of course in states that spend all of your money on electric trains to nowhere, subsidies for wind, solar and electric car (that run on, duh, electricity) companies instead of proper oversight of your Public Service Commission that is supposed to be providing oversight of the state’s public utility companies. In case I’m unclear: oversight would include verifying that the monopolistic companies are providing...

Adam Fisch Has to Die Stephen Kroszt arrived near the meeting place first, more than an hour early, but Paige Lissat didn’t know that. It was exactly quarter past nine in the morning when, as arranged, she first jogged past the isolated picnic table located in a remote corner of Washington DC’s 2,000-acre Rock Creek Park. She jogged hundreds of yards up and down the trail past the designated meeting point several times in both directions before Kroszt emerged from the woods. She nearly broke out laughing when she realized that the elderly man shuffling through the fallen leaves toward...

Many cities across Texas are racing to max out property tax rates before strong new taxpayer protections take effect early next year. But this isn’t the case in Von Ormy, Texas. That’s because this small town doesn’t collect property taxes. Located south of San Antonio, Von Ormy is flourishing, thanks in large part to its liberty-centric view of government—an approach that’s been favored for more than a decade. It hasn’t always been that way. In the past, Von Ormy did collect property taxes, but local leaders implemented a plan to reduce them by roughly 10% a year—and eventually phase them...

“‘How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?’” (John 5:44–47). Jesus’ pensive question, “How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek...

SEPULVEDA PASS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A fire erupted on a hillside along the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass area early Monday morning. The fire broke out on a hill around 1:30 a.m. close to the southbound side of the 405 Freeway at Getty Center Drive near the Getty Center museum. It quickly burned 75 acres and jumped the freeway. The California Highway Patrol said homes in the area were being threatened and all offramps on the southbound side from Sepulveda to Sunset Boulevard were shut down. Mandatory evacuations were issued for the MountainGate and Mandeville Canyon communities as...

The former FBI director James Comey has joked – or not – that he will move to New Zealand if Donald Trump is re-elected in 2020. Comey was interviewed on C-Span and asked what he would do if Trump was returned to office. “From my new home in New Zealand, I still will believe in America,” Comey said, to laughter from the audience. The former FBI boss worked for the Obama administration and was fired by Trump in May 2017, fuelling concerns for the bureau’s investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election. The comment...

The lawmaker leading the impeachment inquiry into President Trump said Saturday that Democrats are "making rapid progress" in their investigation into the president's dealings with Ukraine. "We're trying to work expeditiously, but we're also trying to be methodical in our work," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, told reporters in the Capitol. "I think we're making rapid progress - and that's our goal." Schiff's comments came after the Intelligence Committee had finished interviewing its latest witness in the quickly evolving impeachment investigation into Trump, which launched just over a month ago. Philip Reeker, acting assistant secretary of...

Umar Zaman, 31, and Samuel Fikru, 32, have both been found guilty of two counts of rape. Four other men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were found guilty of 12 sexual offences including rape, rape of a child under 13, arranging the commission of a child sex offence and trafficking. They will be sentenced on November 1. The conclusion of the trial at Leeds Crown Court today, is part of Operation Tendersea - a series of linked trials, all relating to the same police investigation into the systematic sexual exploitation of young and vulnerable girls in the Huddersfield...

Today’s Cryptogram Courtesy The Arkansas Gazette WBY NYOW IKOYO CWO LKCEW VBYE BY VBK HUXYO CW CO WBY DCGOW WK IUFTB. —NKBUEE DGCYSGCZB QKE OZBCIIYG You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any...

In Hurtigruten’s most extensive stateside event ever, the Norwegian company just gave nearly 300 US and Canadian travel advisors and media a taste of its new hybrid-electric ship, Roald Amundsen. ‘The US market is very important to us, both as a destination and as a source market,’ Hurtigruten CEO Daniel Skjeldam said. The company ‘hasn’t been that present in the US market, but that’s going to change,’ he added. Just 10% of business came from the US last year. That is targeted to rise to 25% to 30%, and Hurtigruten’s Seattle office has bulked up from a few people to...

Senator Bernie Sanders believes that the super-rich and large corporations are actively working against working class Americans and in an interview with CBS News compared some of the ultra-wealthy to drug addicts. Ending corporate greed was the theme of a five-stop, two-day swing through Iowa this week - marking his return to a first in the nation state since suffering a heart attack 25 days ago. "There's always been greed in this country - no question about it. But I think 40, 50 years ago, the big money interest in this country made a decision that they were going to...

Duh, no one expected him to be cheered in a district where he only got 4% of the vote in 2016. And the Nationals are currently getting their butts kicked #TrumpCurse

Under the color of law and in the tradition of its earliest republican institutions, tyranny thrived in Imperial Rome. Likewise, the Deep State covers its criminal tracks in Constitutional practices. Did Navy Admiral McRaven recently confirm that senior officer ranks joined the Deep State? Is the Deep State an emergent Praetorian Guard whose ring Presidents must kiss? Despite media avoidance of the obvious, its an open secret that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton descended to new depths when they sicced American Law and foreign intelligence agencies on the Trump campaign. Our institutions are so rotten that only one man, Admiral...