Monthly Archives: May 2022

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Daily Broadside | Keep Your Hands Off My Guns

Daily Verse | Job 19:4
“If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.”

Tuesday’s Reading: Job 20-21

Happy Tuesday, my friends, and welcome to the last day of May. Just like that, we’re through five months of 2022.

I hope that in addition to taking a moment to reflect with a grateful heart on those who fought, bled and died to secure our freedoms and strengthen our country, you enjoyed time with family and friends. I slept in, spent the day working in the yard, and enjoyed some juicy, grilled steaks for dinner followed by a homemade strawberry-rhubarb pie with vanilla ice cream.

Very American!

And we gave thanks for the freedoms we enjoy and for those who gave their lives to make it possible. The older I get and the more aware I am of how fragile (and rare) true freedom is, the more grateful and humbled I am to live in this great nation.

If we could only get our leaders to think the same instead of going through the motions and mouthing empty platitudes that sound right but ring hollow. Brandon laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National Cemetery where he said, “Today, we renew our sacred vow. It’s a simple vow. To remember. To remember. Memorial Day is always a day where pain and pride are mixed together.”

I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and trust that he was sincere in his comments. I have my doubts but maybe in that moment, he meant it. Where it gets sticky for me is that the Resident visited the site of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas over the weekend. On Monday, he said some things about the right to bear arms that these multitudes of men and women he so honored died to protect.

President Biden on Monday took aim at 9mm handguns, appearing to suggest that the “high-caliber weapons” ought to be banned.

Let’s just stop there a second, shall we? “High caliber weapons”? Caliber is the nominal bore diameter of a firearm. Think of the gun barrel as a pipe. The inner diameter of the pipe is the nominal bore diameter.

Nominal bore diameter also applies to the diameter of a bullet. So when we talk about 9mm handguns, we’re talking about barrels that accommodate a 9mm bullet.

But where is Brandon getting the notion of a “high-caliber weapon”?

You might have a “large caliber” weapon or a “high-powered weapon” but, technically, there isn’t a “high-caliber” weapon unless you’re referring to wider diameters. But that doesn’t necessarily mean more powerful cartridges.

It’s like calling an AR-15 an “assault rifle.” There is no such thing except in the fevered ignorance of a progressive.

“High-caliber weapon” is a misnomer, perhaps to create the perception of something more dangerous—or maybe it’s evidence of “I don’t know what I’m talking about and neither do the people talking in my earpiece so I’m making $#!+ up.”

It’s hard to know since these people are both ignorant and lie with great enthusiasm, but I’m betting it’s the latter with Brandon.

Either way, it’s inaccurate.

Also, why the 9mm handgun? There are .22 caliber handguns, .45 caliber handguns, .357 caliber handguns, .38 caliber handguns and more. Why is Brandon picking on the 9mm handgun? Is it more dangerous than any of the others? It’s smaller than the .45 caliber. It’s nearly the same diameter as the .357 caliber.

Why the 9mm?

Recounting a visit to a New York trauma hospital, Biden said doctors showed him X-rays of gunshot wounds.

“They said a .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out — may be able to get it and save the life. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body,” Biden said.

Ah. He’s comparing the damage done by a .22-caliber bullet and the damage done by a 9mm bullet. One lodges in the lung, the other “blows the lung out of the body.” With one, the person is still alive and might make it home with both lungs intact. With the other, the person has lost a lung and presumably died.

My question is, Why would that person end up in the hospital with a bullet in their lung or missing a lung?

Maybe Brandon is thinking of gangbangers who shoot indiscriminately at each other in Democrat-run cities?

Oops, no, he makes clear that he’s thinking of personal defense.

“So, the idea of these high-caliber weapons is, uh, there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection, hunting,” Biden added.

Ah, so the guy he’s thinking of is in the hospital with a .22 bullet in his lung because he was shot in self-defense. But according to Brandon, there is “simply” no “rational” basis for these “high-caliber weapons” when it comes to “self-protection” or “hunting.”

Huh.

You don’t say.

Then why does the U.S. Secret Service equip all of their agents—the very same agents that provide around-the-clock security for the Resident—with a 9mm Glock handgun instead of a .22 handgun?

I’ll tell you why. Brandon is singling out the 9mm because it is the most popular caliber among law enforcement, the military, and the general population. It is as powerful, more accurate, and easier to shoot than the larger .45 or slightly larger .357 calibers, which often have more recoil than a 9mm.

In other words, citizens with 9mm handguns have (mostly) equal fire power with what the authorities carry.

Can’t have that.

Most egregious were Brandon’s comments on the Second Amendment.

“Remember, the constitution was never absolute.”

What in the actual blazing bullocks does he mean? “The constitution was never absolute“?! I mean, first of all, is he really referring to the entire document? That would be par for the course with progressives, who see the constitution as a “living document” which is another way of saying, “it can change when it suits our agenda.”

Then the Waffle Cone-in-Chief narrowed his focus with the ridiculous argument he’s used before.

“You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed,” Biden said. “You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weaponry.”

Ackshully, Joe, you could.

This is a slightly revised talking point that he used in an interview with Wired magazine in 2020, which Politifact ruled “False.” In another article about Brandon’s statement, the authors write, “Indeed, as pointed out by Politifact, personally-owned ship’s cannons were used on American privateers in the War of 1812, with more than 500 letters of marque issued by President James Madison’s administration authorizing such legal piracy. Should we mention here that Madison was a Framer of the Second Amendment?”

In other words, Brandon is lying. You could own a cannon, the U.S. Constitution is absolute, and the only reason he wants to ban 9mm handguns is that they are the most popular handgun in America.

Do not trust this man.

Period.

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Daily Broadside | Economy Implodes While Old Man Mumbles About How Great It Is

Daily Verse | Job 10:18-19
“Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me. If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!”

Friday’s Reading: Job 11-14
Saturday’s Reading: Job 15-17

It’s Friday and the completion of another trip around the drain here in the Land of Brandon. Things are not looking good, my friends, as we stare a global food shortage in the face and it’s likely millions will die, especially in third-world countries where people are living on less than a dollar a day. We’ll face some shortages and inflated prices here in the U.S, but most of us will be able to navigate the financial tsunami even while the government takes its pound of flesh while doing nothing to alleviate the pain.

Equity and all that, prol.

As many predicted, Q1 GDP is worse than thought, down 1.5 percent.

First-quarter gross domestic product declined at a 1.5% annual pace, according to the second estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That was worse than the 1.3% Dow Jones estimate and a write-down from the initially reported 1.4%.

Downward revisions for both private inventory and residential investment offset an upward change in consumer spending. A swelling trade deficit also subtracted from the GDP total.

The pullback in GDP represented the worst quarter since the pandemic-scarred Q2 of 2020 in which the U.S. fell into a recession spurred by a government-imposed economic shutdown to battle Covid-19. GDP plummeted 31.2% in that quarter.

I’m old enough to remember when we were assured that inflation was just a passing phase and recession wasn’t a thing to worry about.

One factor helping to propel growth is a resilient consumer fighting through inflation that accelerated 8.3% from a year ago in April.

“Fighting through inflation” by … spending? How long do you think that will last as Americans blow through their paychecks faster on things like, say, gasoline? Not much discretionary cash left over for remodeling the house or buying the new transgender Barbie doll.

Plus, consumer confidence is tanking.

The University of Michigan consumer sentiment for the US fell to 59.1 in May of 2022, the lowest since August of 2011, from 65.2 in April and below market forecasts of 64, as Americans remained concerned over the inflation. The current economic conditions index fell to 63.6, the lowest in 13 years while the expectations gauge sank to 56.2 from 62.5. The median expected year-ahead inflation rate was 5.4%, remaining near a four-decade high for the last three months. To make things even worst, the index of buying conditions for durable goods, such as household appliances, fell to the lowest level since the survey began in 1978.

The adults are back in charge, baby!

Although Americans aren’t all that impressed with the adults. Sixty percent of Americans disapprove of the current Resident. Okay, really, it’s 59 percent, but what’s a point here or there?

U.S. President Joe Biden’s public approval rating fell this week to 36%, the lowest level of his presidency, as Americans suffered from rising inflation, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday.

The two-day national poll found that 59% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s job performance. His overall approval was down six percentage points from 42% last week.

Biden’s approval rating has been below 50% since August, raising alarms that his Democratic Party is on track to lose control of at least one chamber of Congress in the Nov. 8 midterm election.

In a sign of weakening enthusiasm among Democrats, Biden’s approval rating within his own party fell to 72% from 76% the prior week. Only 10% of Republicans approve of his job in office.

Behold, 81 kA-ziLLiOn VoTEs!

As low as Biden’s overall approval rating is, it remains higher than the lows of his predecessor, Donald Trump, whose approval rating bottomed out at 33% in December 2017.

At least he’s more popular than Trump! And best of all — NO MoAR MeeN TwEEtS!

And besides, totally not his fault, says the totally not biased fairly unbalanced Reuters staff writers.

This year, Biden has been dogged by a surge in U.S. consumer prices, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine helping drive fuel prices higher and global supply chains still hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

He’s been HOUNDED, I tell you. Hounded by that totally autonomous “surge” in those evil right-wing conspiratorial “consumer prices” and them evil Ruskies whose invasion has increased the cost of gas and … oh, wait. They forgot to mention that Brandon shut down the Keystone Pipeline on Day One and has banned drilling on federal land and killed fracking and is letting drilling permits off the coast of Alaska expire even though we have as much oil as we need literally beneath our feet because … climate change!

But this is a good thing. You guys just don’t understand.

“[When] it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,” [Brandon] said during a press conference in Japan following his meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

“God willing.”

The [R]esident then insisted that his administration’s actions, rather than increasing the price of gas, had actually been able to “keep it from getting worse — and it’s bad.”

He’s a hero, you understand. Like in the Marvel universe.

I just can’t understand why his numbers are down.

I just can’t.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Hot Takes on Massacres Won’t Change a Thing

Daily Verse | Job 4:15
“A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.”

Thursday’s Reading: Job 8-10

Thursday and I’m back after a short visit with my mom for another milestone birthday. I hope to be remembered as one of those children who “arise and call her blessed” (Prov. 31:28).

I was in upstate New York during my time away, about an hour away from the Tops grocery store in Buffalo where a white 18-year-old self-described “mild-moderate authoritarian left[y]” shot and killed ten people in a racially-motivated massacre. On my trip home, another massacre occurred, this time in Texas, where an 18-year-old Hispanic, Salvador Ramos, killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.

The two massacres bookend a string of shootings; in a church in California where an Asian man shot and killed one and injured five, and in a Dallas hair salon where a black man shot and injured three Korean Americans. All come just a month after a black man, Frank Robert James, was arrested for shooting and wounding ten people in an attack on a New York City subway train.

I remind you; I only mention their skin color because the Klown Klub in Washington DC is convinced that “white supremacist domestic terror attacks are the number one threat we face, you guys!” and of the five shootings I just mentioned, only one was a white dude—and he wasn’t even of the correct political persuasion. I mean, of course, that he wasn’t a right-wing conservative Trump supporter protesting a stolen election while bitterly clinging to his guns and religion.

These are horrific crimes not only for the loss of life, but the fact that these are innocents—people just going about their daily lives. Particularly heinous is the killing of the children.

Worse still are the absolute hot takes of our political class in the wake of these killings. Progressives waste no time in capitalizing on these calamities because they are, for the most part, heartless trolls who have a political life to juice with outrage. If they can just get in front of the cameras and gnash their teeth with the latest sound bites, it keeps them in the news to advance their political agenda.

Here’s Irish-American Robert Francis O’Rourke, otherwise known as “Beto,” the fake Latinx and failed presidential candidate, storming a press conference held by Texas governor Greg Abbot and other officials as he gives an update on the shooting.

The bodies weren’t even cold yet. I’m sure Beto, who’s currently challenging Abbot for the governorship, thought this stunt would “fire up his base” and he’d be heralded as “speaking truth to power.”

Nah. He’s a disgusting male Karen who steps on the bodies of dead children to score cheap political points.

Then there’s Resident Teleprompter, another fake humanitarian who, to his credit, started with some heartfelt words.

To lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away. There is a hollowness in your chest. You feel like you are being sucked into it and never going to be able to get out. Suffocating. It is never quite the same. It is a feeling shared by the siblings and the grandparents and the family members of the community that is left behind.

[…]

So tonight, I asked the nation to pray for them and give the parents and siblings the strength in the darkness they feel right now.

But then he raised his voice and began a rant filled with lots of rhetoric and no specifics. He also called on “God’s name” a lot.

“When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?” he said.

Oh good. He’s identified the culprit: the “gun lobby.” And he knows what needs to be done.

Good.

Good.

What are we going to do?

Next, he invoked the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, Santa Fe High School, Oxford High School and other shootings.

“I am sick and tired of it. We have to act.”

Good.

Good.

What are we going to do?

“And don’t tell me we can’t have an impact on this carnage. When we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled.”

Wait. This is a flat-out lie. The “assault weapons ban” of 1994 had no discernible impact on mass shootings. Yes, the number of shootings with so-called “assault weapons” tripled—but only in 2012, eight years after the so-called ban ended. Otherwise, the number of shootings remained essentially the same.

So “don’t tell me” that we should do what you did in 1994—which did nothing.

“What in God’s name do you need an assault weapon for, except to kill someone? Deer aren’t running through the forests with Kevlar vests on, for God’s sake!”

This lame joke was from his “campaign” for resident. He thinks that “assault weapons” are some kind of military-grade guns that are powerful enough to penetrate “Kevlar vests.” The truth is that an “assault weapon,” often (wrongly) called an “assault rifle,” is a semi-automatic rifle that shoots .223 caliber rounds that pack less punch than the .308 caliber rounds used by the M-1 rifle the AR-15 replaced.

“For God’s sake, we have to have the courage to stand up to the industry.”

OK, finally. We’re going to stand up to the “industry.” Great. When? How?

“Most Americans support common sense gun laws.”

Define “common sense gun laws.” Then show me the data.

“These kind of mass shootings rarely happen anywhere else in the world. Why?”

Well, in Australia they took everybody’s guns away. In a lot of other countries, citizens are not allowed to possess guns. That might have something to do with it.

Wait. Is that what you’re suggesting?

“Why are we willing to live with this carnage? Why do we keep letting this happen?”

Who said we’re “willing” to live with it? Why are you blaming us for “letting this happen”?

“Where in God’s name is our backbone to have the courage to stand up to the lobbies [sic]?”

It’s the lobbyists’ fault. I have heard this before.

“It’s time to turn this pain into action … It’s time to act.”

Right. You said that.

“It’s time for those who obstruct or delay or block the common sense gun laws, we need to let you know that we will not forget.”

Is that what time it is?

“We can do so much more. We have to do more.”

So I gather.

What I think I heard was, we need to act. We have to “stand up” to the gun lobby, implement “common sense gun laws” like the failed 1994 assault weapons ban, and we must not forget those who oppose “common sense gun laws.”

Like I said, short on specifics.

Here’s the bottom line: nothing that Brandon or any other politician says or does will “fix” this problem we have because it’s not a “gun” problem.

It’s a heart problem.

“But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man ‘unclean.’ For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man ‘unclean’; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him ‘unclean.’” — Jesus, Matthew 15:18-20

We were a nation founded on Judeo-Christian values, and our Founding Fathers understood that only a virtuous citizenry would be able to responsibly handle the freedom that our Constitution gave us. As John Adams said,

“We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.“

As I’ve argued before, we are clearly no longer “a moral and religious People.” If Adams was correct, then our Constitution is wholly inadequate to govern us. It will take a return to faith and the virtues of Judeo-Christian values.

Fox News published an article titled, “Does Texas school shooting highlight need for faith, higher purpose in kids’ lives?” It quoted a few Christian faith leaders who answered in the affirmative. Of the quotes, here’s the one that rung most true to me:

Hancock added, “At the heart of the problem is the fact that the majority of the young men that were involved [in shooting incidents such as the one in Uvalde, Texas] do not have an active father at home. It points to something that’s relatively recent in our society: a national boy crisis.

“We are praying that God will be near in this time of pain and loss, that the church will rise up, and that amid tragedy, courageous men of faith will stand in the gap to love, serve and mentor a generation of hurting boys struggling to understand what it means to be a godly man,” added Hancock of Trail Life USA.

As Dana Loesch wrote in a series of tweets:

Not a single politician is asking: 1) How did this murderer get into the school? 2) What security did this school have and how can we protect schools like we protect our concerts, banks, museums? 3) WHERE WERE HIS PARENTS AND THE ADULTS IN HIS LIFE? 4) How did he buy a handgun? 5) Did he pass a background check? 6) No one in his house saw what was going on?

These are the questions asked by people who not only want answers, but solutions.

The “gun lobby” didn’t head his household, the “gun lobby” didn’t neglect to monitor his behavior, the “gun lobby” didn’t neglect to secure the school, the “gun lobby” didn’t leave any doors unlocked, and the “gun lobby” didn’t tell him to murder anyone.

Right.

We have to rebuild a virtuous culture. “Culture is a powerful force for good. When good behavior is normalized and deviant destructive behavior is ostracized, shamed, and marginalized, you get more good behavior.”

The foundation of a virtuous culture is a return to God.

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Daily Broadside | The Democrat Serpent Needs a Heel to the Head this November

Daily Verse | Nehemiah 13:24
Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah. I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair.

Thursday’s Reading: Esther 1-2

Happy Thursday, my friends.

I’ve consistently said that the Democrat party should be outlawed (examples here, here, here) and have noted many times that the Democrats need to be kicked to the curb completely this November. What I’d like to see is a tsunami of voting that destroys the Democrats’ hold on power, a defeat so devastating that it will take them years to regain what they lost, if ever they could.

I’m not the only one who feels that way about a political party that is trying to destroy this country by any means necessary; so does Deroy Murdoch.

The vital mission of everyone on the Republican-Right in the upcoming elections should be to demolish the Democrat Party and relegate it to the Smithsonian along with the relics of the Whig and Know Nothing parties.

This is no time for Republicans to squeak by at the polls. By heaping devastating defeats upon the Democrat Party, the GOP justifiably must treat this leftist force as a clear and present danger to the Republic. Everything the Democrat Party touches goes to hell. One would be hard-pressed to find a formerly GOP constituency where a Democrat win has made life better.

The Democrat Party of JFK, LBJ, and even Bill “Welfare Reform” Clinton is long gone. The Democrat Party of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, and Gavin Newsom has nothing positive to offer and deserves to be voted into oblivion.

Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.

The problem here is that when we vote, we assume we have conservative candidates running, which is an ignorant assumption these days. Unfortunately, we often end up with establishment “Republicans” like Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney who have an R next to their name but are functional Democrats in practice. That’s why voting “harder” doesn’t really get us anywhere.

However, the Democrats’ threat to our country is so great that getting rid of them is like cutting gangrene out of your foot. You just need to slice it out of the flesh now and worry about reconstructive surgery later.

We’re also a mostly evenly-divided country between Ds and Rs with lots of Independents. The only way to crush the Democrats at the polls in November is if enough indies and disaffected Dems vote Republican. Signs are good that parts of the traditional Dem base are disillusioned with the radicalism of the anti-American left, especially among Blacks and Hispanics.

Josh Hammer in this article wonders aloud just what Brandon’s intent is toward the American people.

[T]he better question to ask is not whether President Joe Biden is engaged in a cold war merely against the “deplorables.” We know the answer to that: yes. Instead, the more relevant question is whether the Biden administration is now engaged in a cold war against a broader target: the entire American citizenry. The answer to that question, based on all relevant data and metrics, seems to be the same: yes.

It’s easy to present the evidence, including inflation, open borders, profligate spending, restricted energy development, climate change alarmism, white supremacy gaslighting, radical abortion laws, sexually grooming school children, and creating a Ministry of Truth, to name a few of the radical Marxists’ tactics.

They’re madmen.

Murdock concludes:

Republicans and Libertarians henceforth should make up America’s two-party system. Voters then can choose between 80-proof and 150-proof varieties of limited, constitutionalist government. The Democrats’ deadly Wokistani socialism should be deported to Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela where it belongs. Better yet, the neo-Marxist Left’s parasitic philosophy should plague no nation and, instead, languish on library shelves.

Sure, but the only way to stamp out Marxism is to make teaching or advocating any of the totalitarian political ideologies illegal. We have free speech, but those ideas are the antithesis of free speech. We can’t allow our freedom to be co-opted by domestic enemies to enslave us, like the radical jihadists did in the “free” elections in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But that’s exactly what the Democrats are doing.

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Daily Broadside | What Bible Do You Read?

Daily Verse | Nehemiah 9:17
“But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love.”

Wednesday’s Reading: Nehemiah 11-13

Wednesday and a bit of rabbit trail this morning. Usually, I’m posting my latest take on Brandon and the nutters in Washington who are driving this country off a cliff while listening to Beyonce’s Formation. Not today.

I believe that politics is downstream from culture, and culture is downstream from faith. Our faith individually and collectively reflects our spiritual life, and our spiritual life reflects, to some degree or another, our interaction with scripture.

One of my kids is on a focused search for her ‘forever’ Bible, one that she can get now and use for a lifetime. We’ve talked a lot about what translation to use, what kind of features she’d like, and what ‘trim level’, (i.e. quality) she’d like to have.

As we’ve been researching Bibles, it amazes me what’s available. According to this 2006 story in The New Yorker magazine,

[T]here are distinctions within each category. There are study Bibles that focus on theology, on historical context, or on practical applications of Biblical teachings. There are devotional Bibles for new believers, couples, brides, and cowboys. On an airplane recently, I saw a woman reading a surfers’ Bible very similar to the proposed skaters’ one. The variety is seemingly limitless. Nelson Bible Group’s 2006 catalogue lists more than a hundred titles.

They also write, “The familiar observation that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time obscures a more startling fact: the Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year.” Estimates of Bibles currently in print worldwide are between 5 and 6 billion.

We’ve initially settled on a leather-bound New International Version (NIV), wide margins, Jesus’ words in red text, cross-references, and a concordance. It’s similar to my everyday bible, which is a Zondervan NIV Wide Margin Bible, published in 2001 with the 1984 text. I had it rebound after the cover and spine began to fall apart. I write, underline and highlight in my bible, so it was important to me to keep it and extend its life.

Coincidentally, I’m putting together a ‘Bible Basics for Beginners’ course for my church this fall and one of the topics we’ll cover is “How to Choose a Bible.” There are so many variations and features to choose from that I’m thinking of creating a matrix that would help someone figure out what’s important to them and what Bibles meet their criteria.

All of this leads me to wonder what kind of Bible you read and why. If you’re so inclined, I’d love to hear from you in the comments. What version do you use and why? What format do you use? What features are important to you? Why did you choose the Bible you use?

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Daily Broadside | Huge Spike in Deaths in the 25-54 Demographic

Daily Verse | Nehemiah 4:14
“Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”

Tuesday’s Reading: 8-10

Tuesday and we’re already half way through May. “The days are long but the years are short.” Months too.

Riddle me this: Why is excess mortality skyrocketing?

Something is killing off large numbers of 25- to 54-year-olds in the United States, and the powers that be in government and the media are pretending it is not happening.  There is no visible effort to study the alarming statistics gathered by actuaries for the life insurance industry, which keeps track of deaths because they directly impact their bottom line through claims from the insured.

First spotted by Aaron Kheriaty, M.D. in a report from the Society of Actuaries Research Institute.

Note that these deaths are not Chinese Lung Pox deaths, but occur soon after the majority of the U.S. population (221 million or 67%) had capitulated to the vaccine merchants. The sudden spike of mortality from other causes in the 25-54 demographic in the third quarter of 2021 strongly suggests the Covid vaccines may have something to do with this.

So here we have evidence that may or may not indicate that people who participated in the grand lab experiment are at increased risk of a major trauma because they got vaccinated by an untested and unproven vaccine.

Here’s a chart from the original report that puts the spike in perspective. “The following chart shows the number of acquired immune disorders, including AIDS, that have been reported to VAERS as adverse reactions to all vaccines (including the Covid-19 jabs) by the year reported, and the Covid-19 vaccines only by the year reported.”

I hope that’s not you or your loved ones.

No one is even talking about this troubling finding. No one wants to create fear in those who took the vaccine — they can’t “undo” the taking of the vaccine. But we shouldn’t ignore what is happening, like the mainstream media is doing with this major development.

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Daily Broadside | Buffalo Killer Breaks the Stereotype The Left Pushes About The Right

Daily Verse | Nehemiah 1:11
“O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name.”

Monday’s Reading: Nehemiah 4-7

Monday and a horrific mass murder on Saturday evening in a Buffalo, New York, Tops Friendly Market in a predominantly black neighborhood. The alleged assailant, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, shot 13 people and killed ten of them, including retired Buffalo police officer Aaron Salter, who was working as a security guard at the store.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t roundly condemn this atrocity. I unequivocally do.

It seems to have been a premeditated attack, violating the unambiguous sixth commandment: “You shall not murder.” Of course, that admonition no longer has much power in our increasingly godless and violent culture.

The teenager seems to have specifically targeted blacks, allegedly making “it known he was targeting the Black community” after his arrest. He also live-streamed his attack on social media, broadcasting his rampage for the world to see.

Most media outlets immediately attributed the attack to “white supremacy,” “racism,” “terrorism” and “hate crime.”

It seems clear that the young man did, in fact, target a demographically black neighborhood. He allegedly arrived the day prior and “conducted reconnaissance on the area and store the day before the shooting.” During his rampage he reportedly pointed his gun at a white person, then said “sorry” and didn’t shoot. So, even though he shot two white people, it seems almost certain that his targets were intentionally blacks.

This is deeply disturbing, of course, but not just because it was racially motivated. It’s deeply disturbing because it occurs in an era when the FBI and the DOJ have claimed, without presenting any specific evidence, that “domestic terrorism” is the greatest threat to the homeland. In an article titled “Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11,” The Guardian US newspaper wrote,

Earlier this year an intelligence report warned that racially-motivated extremists posed the most lethal domestic terrorism threat. It said the menace was now more serious than potential attacks from overseas, and the White House published a strategy for countering the problem.

The FBI director, Christopher Wray, told Congress that the 6 January insurrection wasn’t an isolated event and “the problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a number of years”.

Wray added that white supremacists comprise “the biggest chunk of our domestic terrorism portfolio overall” and “have been responsible for the most lethal attacks over the last decade”.

Director Wray said that white supremacists and “racially motivated extremists” posed the greatest threat to the U.S. Now we have a white male who seems to have deliberately targeted a black community and indiscriminately killed ten people and wounded three others.

It would seem that the DOJ and the FBI now have a prime example of what they have warned about.

The problem, however, is that in a 180-page “manifesto” attributed to Gendron, he doesn’t identify himself as a “far-right” supremacist, as the title and the body of The Guardian article talk about (along with other publications, such as NPR’s “Wray Stresses Role Of Right-Wing Extremism In Hearing About Jan. 6 Riot“). Instead, Gendron describes himself like this:

“When I was 12 I was deep into communist ideology, talk to anyone from my old high school and ask about me and you will hear that. From age 15 to 18 however, I consistently moved farther to the right. On the political compass I fall in the mild-moderate authoritarian left category, and I would prefer to be called a populist.”

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Later in the manifest, the shooter insists, “I would prefer to call myself a populist. But you can call me an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist if you want, I wouldn’t disagree with you.” He also repeatedly attacks capitalists, and rejected the conservative label because, he wrote, “conservativism is corporatism in disguise, I want no part of it.”

If this is indeed the shooter’s manifesto, it’s hardly the writing of a “far-right extremist.” But the Left has a narrative to prop up and the mainstream media are all Democrats with bylines.

Without downplaying the white supremacist angle or the devastation Gendron visited on 13 people and their loved ones, this is hardly a slam dunk for what seems to be an all-out effort ahead of the November midterms to demonize not just the “far-right” but the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump, about whom Brandon, extending his hand in unity, said, “This MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in recent American history.”

I don’t think it’s a stretch to predict that what happened in Buffalo this past weekend will continue to be spoken of as “white supremacy” and “racially motivated hate crime” (which it certainly seems like it was) but without the detail that Gendron described himself as being on the Left. In other words, the media will use the words that most Americans associate with the far-right but conveniently ignore that those words, at least in this case, actually describe someone on the Left.

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Daily Broadside | The Democrat Cartel Prioritizes Foreign Children Over Our Own

Daily Verse | Ezra 7:28
Because the hand of the Lord my God was on me, I took courage and gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.

Friday’s Reading: Ezra 9-10
Saturday’s Reading: Nehemiah 1-3

It’s the end of another week and in true Friday the 13th fashion, the server on which this blog sits refused to let me schedule its publication for early this morning. So, it’s a little late today and I hope it didn’t upset your morning routine too badly. It’s never too late for another cup of coffee.

It’s also the end of another week we can check off our list as we suffer under the demented goons sitting atop our political superstructure. I’m not even trying to make sense of what they’re doing any more. These people are evil. All indications suggest they are intentionally wrecking the country, but at this point it doesn’t matter whether they’re doing it intentionally or not. It’s being done and there is precious little we can do to stop it.

The latest in a long string of offenses against the American people is our illegal junta sending baby formula to foreigners before getting it to American mothers who are rightly panicking over the shortage on store shelves.

Pallets of baby formula are being sent to holding facilities at the border amid a shortage that has seen many parents unable to find it at their local stores, according to a GOP representative.

“They are sending pallets, pallets of baby formula to the border,” Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., said in a video posted to Facebook Wednesday. “Meanwhile, in our own district at home, we cannot find baby formula.”

The baby formula shortage is the result of a perfect storm of manufacturing issues, facility shut-downs, formula recalls, inflation, trade restrictions on baby formula, and a rush on stores when formula was back on shelves. But now we’re back to empty shelves and Brandon and his spokesfolk can’t tell us when supplies will be restored. Also unknown is when Abbott’s Sturgis, Michigan, plant — one of the largest producers of formula — will be back online.

Be that as it may, our government is making sure that foreigners, who are not supposed to be in this country, are getting what should rightfully go to American children first. I’ve got nothing against the children and infants of foreigners who are here illegally. It’s not their fault that their parents are taking full advantage of Brandon’s invitation to invade our country without penalty.

But people who cross into this country illegally need to be kicked out immediately and sent back to the country they came from. We’re not the world’s homeless shelter.

The SJWs will damn me for having no compassion. I have compassion, of course, but no one has the right to force a responsibility on me, or on us collectively. And that’s not even the right way to think about it—as a “responsibility.”

Flooding the country with foreigners isn’t an act of compassion. The third-world invasion facilitated by Brandon and Mayorkas is a deliberate attempt to overwhelm the system (i.e., our economy, culture, and infrastructure), so that it eventually buckles and falls in on itself.

It’s also about changing the demographics of the country so Democrats can lock out Republicans.

Ronald Brownstein, senior editor for the Atlantic, noted this year that nearly 90 percent of House congressional districts with a foreign-born population above the national average were won by Democrats. This means that every congressional district with a foreign-born population exceeding roughly 14 percent had a 90 percent chance of being controlled by Democrats and only a ten percent chance of electing a Republican.

Making the invasion about compassion frames it as a moral issue that shames those who object, and shame is a tactic that the Left uses to great effect as they tear down the country. Honestly, I don’t even think the Left is trying to obscure what they’re doing anymore. It’s an open secret.

Of course, sending “pallets and pallets” of baby formula to the border is right in line with a party who hates normal Americans and hates American babies. If they can’t kill them with abortion, they’ll kill them by starving them death.

“Screw the citizen’s kids—give our future voters the food! We need to get them depending on us right from the get-go!”

Their party motto should be “Democrats First.”

The party of Brandon is taking care of Ukraine with a $40 billion package supported by too many Republicans, and Brandon is taking care of foreigners’ children who are crossing our border with impunity. What Brandon is not doing is taking care of America’s children or solving the myriad of crises that he’s created here at home.

Prioritizing lawbreakers is all part of a plan to wreck our freedoms by the neo Marxist revolutionaries. As Victor Davis Hanson wrote yesterday in “Imagine the Unimaginable,”

The administration wanted no border. Only that way can politicized, impoverished immigrants repay left-wing undermining of the entire legal immigration system with their fealty at the ballot box.

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The common denominator in all of this is ideology overruling empiricism, common sense, and pragmatism.  Ruling elites would rather be politically correct failures and unpopular than politically incorrect, successful, and popular.

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Why? The Left has no confidence either in constitutional government or common sense.

So as the public pushes back, expect at the ground level more doxxing, cancel culture, deplatforming, ministries of disinformation, swarming the private homes of officials they target for bullying, and likely violent demonstrations in our streets this summer.

When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of the people, and face looming disaster at the polls, it is then they prove most dangerous—as we shall see over the next few months.

As always, if you haven’t bought ammo, what are you waiting for?

Have a good weekend.