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The first song one that is a "Sanity Test Song" and when I first heard it... An "Escaping Reality Update" The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever" is the theme song... "What is most irresistible is the image-ingestion aspect of our relation to photos. Eye-candy. They taste so good! They feed an appetite. They feed the appetite they create. Both the appetite and food are pseudo. Have we become more prone to ingest image reality than experience real reality (whatever that is)?..."... The Late Ron J (Roy Kuljian) Writes Of Image Junkies Decades Ago In His Book "Lust Virus" Considering Mere Photographs......

Barbra Streisand sings "Avinu Malkeinu" which translated from Hebrew is "Our Father, Our King" a song associated with these Jewish Holy Days from Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur that we now find ourselves in. It's a song of repentance which is my theme... How about a Pro-Life Update this song Number One when Abortion on Demand... This repentant sinner as Pro-Life as he ever was admitting his pride, vanity and his lust can end up having Anti-Life consequences. A Recovering Luster and a Recovering Politician the game in politics is to be saying what a majority of people are believing...

US politics and Donald Trump in Valdosta, Georgia devastated by Hurricane Helene... A rocket attack tonight on a base housing US troops near the Baghdad Airport... A least three Israeli airstrikes tonight in the Damascus, Syria area... Israeli airstrikes in Beirut tonight and also a refugee camp in Sidon... A drone intercepted in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tel Aviv... Protesters outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home calling for a hostage deal... Ryan Routh, accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump... 12 migrants dead after a boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia... The US moving additional warplanes...

Senior US officials say that a ceasefire-hostage deal in Gaza is unlikely.... The Sheriff of Letcher County, Kentucky arrested after he allegedly shot and killed a judge... "outrageous lies" "high-tech lynching" US politics a CNN report with a list of allegations against the Republican candidate for Governor of North Carolina... In Portugal 14 arrests of arson suspects in the wave of wildfires... The Israeli military striking dozens of targets in southern Lebanon... One person killed in a stabbing attack at the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam... US politics three national polls today the NY Times Sienna Poll puts Donald Trump and...

Your host back with you again it's good to be moving forward a mature adult in the room with you more grown up. "Puff the Magic Dragon" the little boy leaves childhood fantasy... I got the newsgathering instinct back then would write down what I heard and take it to school to tell others at the lunch table about what I heard from the other places. And here I am your host... Obsession with politics leads to other kinds of obsession frankly... I was one within 24 inches of Taylor Swift early in her career she was working the autograph...

In Hawaii "Phase 2" of the state Attorney General's report...deadly Maui wildfire disaster... The lengthy trial of organizers of the 2022 Freedom Convoy truckers protest against COVID mandates wrapped up... An inquest opened in the UK today regarding the suicide of an autistic teenager...arrested by police on terrorism charges... Police in Portland, Oregon suspect fentanyl is involved in the death of a two-year-old girl... "Against Life" The view of Pope Francis regarding the two major party presidential candidates... Three Americans among 37 sentenced to death in connection with a coup attempt in Congo... US Central Command said tonight that US...

A high-rise residential fire in the southeast suburbs of Moscow as a Ukrainian drone... US Central Command reports destruction of a Houthi drone over the Red Sea along with... Late tonight a deadly Israeli strike in a Gaza... Leaders of former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party in Pakistan arrested by police... Israel's Jewish Strength (Otzma Yehudit) party condemning the call by President Isaac Herzog for a "unity government"... In northern Israel today two soldiers hurt in Hezbollah drone strikes... Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green holding a hearing on treatment of January 6th prisoners... Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wants controls...

I continue to feel the strong stirring here the change of heart the repentance so allow me to share: "We are afflicted in every way but not crushed: perplexed but not driven to despair. Persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed. Always carrying in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us but...

At least 81 killed, others missing following a Boko Haram terrorist attack in northeastern Nigeria... US Central Command says a Houthi operated missile system in Yemen was destroyed... The US Justice Department charging leaders of Hamas including current leader... The United States said to be moving towards providing Ukraine long-range cruise missiles... A governmental shakeup underway in Ukraine... A former aide to New York Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul arrested accused of being an agent of China... The new government in the Netherlands continuing the probe of the old government considering restricting the right to protest...relates to protests involving the burning...

US Central Command announcing a joint operation against ISIS in Western Iraq said to have killed...unofficial reports 6-7 members of the US military wounded... An explosion at a gas station in Yemen's port city of Aden causing deaths and injuries... The commanding officer of the USS John McCain guided missile destroyer fired... Police in Germany saying the stabbing attack that injured five people on a bus this evening was not a 'terrorist act'... Tensions in the Balkans as Kosovo authorities raided Serbian minority government... Two missiles exploding near a merchant vessel off the south coast of Yemen... In Ireland today...

Two Ukraine wide air raid alerts late tonight... Israel's military conducting an attack in Tulkarm in the "West Bank" with five terrorists killed... Biden Administration special prosecutor Jack Smith seeking to revive the "classified documents" case... The Palestinian health ministry says Jewish settlers attacked a village near Bethlehem with one killed... French law enforcement acknowledging the questioning of an 'unnamed person' who is in reality Telegram owner Pavel Durov...arrest has been extended... In the midst of constant Israeli evacuation orders the United Nations suspending humanitarian aid in Gaza... A sea drone and small boats reported near a merchant vessel off...

In Calgary, Alberta a pastor who protested drag queen story time events found guilty of four charges of criminal harassment and... Late tonight more than a dozen Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon... Iran has determined that the helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi was an accident... In Southwestern France a 46-year-old man seriously wounded by police after he entered a town hall and started a fire... Word tonight that the "USS Abraham Lincoln" aircraft carrier and escort warships have arrived in the Central Command area of operations in the Middle East... Joe Biden talking to Israeli Prime Minister...

Welcome to another attempt at media excellence my formerly stained fingers at the keyboard again. If Rush Limbaugh were with us today his message regarding wildfires raging around the world from Jasper, Canada to Athens Greece would be clear... Those disturbances in the UK consider this the new Keir Starmer government wants to reverse Brexit move the UK away from closer USA ties back to ties... It's time for a Lindsey Graham Update Linsdey on the Armageddon Highway in Ukraine... Why don't they give us footage like that from the Ukraine War... We also learned this week that Joe Biden...

It's time for a "Black Clothing Update" and in my lifetime of experience this song touched me... The old "Safety and Security" thing from the public school bureaucracy but in Big Government and Big Business FEAR is the Order of the Day... Cori Bush defeated in a Primary Election in St. Louis. She pointed the finger at the Israel Lobby (AIPAC)... Kamala Harris got an earful from the Pro-Palestinian camp in Detroit the other day. But Kamala... In the Good Ole USA the Democrats bend the knee for the powerful money supporting Israel but what about our "Mother Country" the...

Dozens of Ultra-Orthodox protesters broke into an Israeli military base before being cleared by police... US Central Command reporting destruction of a Houthi drone and two Houthi missiles launched from Yemen... US F-22 Raptor stealth fighters are moving closer to the Middle East arriving at Royal Air Force...About a dozen US F-18 warplanes flown off the carrier "Theodore Roosevelt" to land at a base in the Middle East... Hamas naming Yahya Sinwar as its new leader... Late word tonight that Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus will lead an interim government in Bangladesh... "There are battles on the border" Part of...

Nothing but the blood of Jesus saves me from my wickedness. Christ is Coming every time the Middle East heats up I go back to the preaching and messaging of my teenage years about a Second Coming of Jesus.... Well it's time for a Benjamin Netanyahu Update the pride of Cheltenham High School Class of 1967 Bibi went to high school on the doorstep of Philadelphia... And how does Israel deal with the United Kingdom and its new "Soviet" leader? Tommy Robinson has openly identified himself as Pro-Israel while Sir Keir Starmer tries to steer a less friendly course purging...

Well, here we are its vacation week your host on the road thankful and grateful to the Lord giving me another day to keep the road trip moving forward some of the geography I've visited reflected in the music above. Gasoline Prices In The USA At the start of the week gasoline in Somerset, Pennsylvania 375.9 a gallon. At the week's end gasoline on west side of Knoxville, Tennessee 275.9 a gallon. In Taxylvania our gasoline tax can be bumped up by a decline in wholesale gasoline prices... On a brighter note I visited this place during the week... RFK...