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✈️ Welcome aboard Flight #2025. We are preparing for an on-time departure into the New Year. Please make sure your Attitude and Actions are secured and locked in an upbeat and upright position. All self-destructive thoughts should be turned off at this time and remain off forever. Any negativity, hate, and discouragement must remain completely stowed. In the unlikely event we lose Altitude while under pressure, simply reach up and pull down a Prayer. Prayers will automatically activate if you have Faith. With Faith, you will be able to assist other passengers. There will be NO BAGGAGE allowed on this...

Haven't heard anything at all about drones since the Las Vegas and New Orleans fiascos.....

In my younger days, I couldn’t imagine living in the year 2025. It sounded so futuristic. Still does. But here we all are…and still without the flying cars that Popular Mechanics promised were just around the corner back in 1969. In elementary school, our teacher once gave us an assignment to draw a picture of what the year 2000 would look like. If I recall, mine included big satellite dishes on homes. I have no idea what I thought they’d be used for — they just looked futuristic to me, and I assumed they’d have a very important purpose. Now...

WATERTOWN, N.Y. – Several communities across the Great Lakes region are preparing to be blasted by feet of snow as winter weather moves in just as millions of people across the U.S. ring in 2025. Numerous communities along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario have been placed under either Winter Storm Watches or Lake-Effect Snow Warnings as the region once again gets set to dig out from under feet of snow after a brief pause in the treacherous weather conditions. The Winter Storm Watches stretch from Ohio to New England and include cities like Cleveland and Syracuse and Watertown in New...

VIDEOAll night we kept going up and then down then up and then down. Here is a sample when we were $1 down. Normally when we lose our entire $20 we initially put into the slots we stop but it was February 10, Chinese New Year, so I "splurged" with an extra buck into the slots and... we were up again! The problem was that even though we hit a bunch of lucky spins they did not yield much. At the end of the evening we lost our $20 but, hey, we had fun with that whole Chinese New Year...

In this 2024 year, who knows what to expect in our EXPONENTIAL deteriorating and lawless day, but in it all, we know WHO we are expecting and looking for with great joy (John 14:3, 1 Thes. 4:13-18, 1 John 3:1-4))! Beloved, daily bombardments from this demonic world seek to rattle and destroy the faith of the men and women of Almighty God (John 16:33; Eph. 6:10-12, 1 Peter 5:8). It is so easy to look inwardly and subjectively and see ourselves as poor wretched victims. It is sad to say that many blood brought children of Almighty God in Christ...

A major Massachusetts healthcare system is kicking off the new year with mask mandates for some staffers in their facilities. As of January 2, 2024, healthcare staff that interacts directly with patients will now be required to mask up. According to an October 31 press release from Mass General Brigham, respiratory illness season officially starts when over 1.9 percent of patients “presenting to emergency departments or outpatient clinics have symptoms of respiratory illness.” However, when that percentage reaches 2.85 percent, certain mask mandates automatically go into place.

Palestinian terrorists rang in the New Year on Sunday evening by firing a large barrage of rockets at Israeli cities at midnight, in a statement of defiance against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) advance deep into the Gaza Strip. According to the Cumta Telegram channel, which tracks Israel’s Red Alert system, the barrage targeted the cities along the corridor from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, just seconds after 12:00 a.m.

In three days and a few hours, we ring in 2024. In New York City, as per tradition, there will be an event in Times Square, including the famous "ball drop." But this year, things are liable to be different. The NYPD is mustering what strength it has left, and there's a report that Mayor Eric Adams is "sure" pro-Palestinian protestors will try to disrupt the event. He's not wrong about the disruption part. He is wrong about the "pro-Palestinian" part.Mayor Eric Adams said he is “sure” pro-Palestinian protesters will try to interrupt the New Year’s Eve ball drop in...

Each point that follows merits a book-length treatment, and some are receiving that, but in as few words as possible, here’s 2022-in-review: 1. Fauci (“I am the science”) continues perpetrating greatest crime against humanity in history by non-stop pushing his experimental vaccine for all, forbidding use of therapeutics. 2. His history of malfeasance had been chronicled previously by RFK Jr’s 2021 book The Real Anthony Fauci. Best-seller was no. 1 on Amazon but, strangely, received no reviews in major media. 3. Fauci struck by amnesia. Deposed by state attorney generals in spring 2022, and released in November 2022, when asked...

(pdf) Bipartisan Select Committee on the strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. Strategic Production Response Act (pdf) Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act (pdf) Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act (pdf) Tough-on-crime resolution (pdf) Border Safety and Security Act (pdf) Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act (pdf) No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (pdf) resolution (pdf) that would condemn attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches

I posted this under conspiracy because this is conspiracy

Merry Christmas everyone! May God have mercy on us this coming year and relieve of us evil leadership. Turn back to God this year and live for Him. We will be blessed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mCWIsmSFN8

My daughters 18th birthday was yesterday. As I was watching her and her friends I began to ponder on things I'm thankful for from this year. What are you thankful for?

New Year old school southern cooking

It is a positive mitzva to hear the blast (teru’a) of a shofar on Rosh Ha-shana, as it says, “In the seventh month, on the first of the month…. You shall observe it as a day of blasts (yom teru’a)” (Bamidbar 29:1), and “In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe complete rest, a sacred occasion commemorated with loud blasts (zikhron teru’a)…” (Vayikra 23:24). The primary theme of the prayers on Rosh Ha-shana is crowning God as our king. For this reason, the third berakha of the Amida concludes with “ha-Melekh ha-kadosh” (the holy...

Haven’t seen what’s in - what’s out lists the year so I thought I’d start one. Feel free to add.

Goldman Sachs said Sunday that it will join other major banks in encouraging employees in the U.S. to begin the new year working from home. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America have also asked staffers to work from home as the country endures a major uptick in COVID-19 cases fueled by the omicron variant.

This is one of the greatest renditions of "Auld Lang Syne" I've heard. It's kind of a bluegrass / Americana mix with a great fiddle and (I think) ukulele. Of all things, I heard it a few minutes ago on an Accuweather review of New Years celebrations around the world and Shazam identified it for me. It was recorded in 2006