Illegal immigrants are warning each other to stay away from New York’s new “tent city” for migrants which is located at Floyd Bennett Field. They say the controversial Brooklyn shelter is “crazy” and “not suitable for children” which has prompted families to either flee the site and/or refuse to be transported there.
This has created a significant problem because this site, which is made up of four congregate sleeping dorms that can hold up to 2,000 people, is currently the only shelter the city is offering to illegal immigrants with children, according to the New York Post.
Let me get this straight. People who have entered the United States ILLEGALLY are “refusing” to stay at the shelters Americans have paid for and erected to house them and “this has created a significant problem”?
Dude, the “significant problem” is that these people are in this country in the first place.
A Venezuelan couple who arrived in the Big Apple with their three small children a few days ago said that they refused to be transported to Floyd Bennett after another illegal migrant family had warned them about the facility.
“They said they were going to send us to Floyd Bennett Field yesterday,” the 23-year-old father told the Post.
“We did not go because we already know the situation over there. We saw people returned with children. They say it’s not suitable there. There is nothing there…not even a television,” he said.
I don’t even know what to say. Imagine someone breaking in and squatting in your home, then complaining that you suck as a host because there’s no Bud Light in the fridge. Besides telling them that you no longer buy Bud Light, you’d tell them they were the most entitled ingrates you’d ever seen and to get the <censored> out of your home.
The Venezuelan family had been sleeping on chairs at The Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan before they were told to relocate to Floyd Bennet Field. But since they refused the offer, the parents say that they might have to sleep on the streets with their children ages 5, 3, and 10 months.
“They told me that if we didn’t take that address…they couldn’t help us and we were going to stay on the streets or go to another city in the United States,” the father told the outlet.
The mother explained that the City won’t help them since they rejected the offer. The family was bused to the Big Apple after illegally entering the US through Texas.
“We arrived four days ago and they sent us to the tent and we rejected it so they don’t want to help. They don’t want to show us anywhere else,” she said in tears.
The father said he would rather sleep in the hotel lobby and added, “Right now we have nowhere to stay. Sleeping in the chair is the safest thing I see. We are going to be on the streets with the babies.”
The mother has the sadz because no one is HeLPiNg HeR after rejecting attempts to HeLP hER. Her husband is fine with sleeping on a chair in a hotel lobby. It sounds like they may need some marriage counseling.
I truly wonder what this family thought they were going to get when they traipsed across the southern border illegally. A red carpet? Slippers, cigar and smoking jacket? A new car from Oprah and an Xbox for the kids?
In what world does a foreigner waltz into another country and start demanding television and better accomodations?
An upside down world.
A world in which the government of the native people has invited an invasion of foreign nationals to displace the current population, degrade the country’s uniqueness and exceptionalism, and import a horde of new voters who will keep the kleptocrats in power until they no longer need the voters and rule with an increasingly iron fist.
How sad that these interlopers think they’ll have a better life here.
Our southern border is non-existent, the federal government having abandoned any pretense of providing for the common defense. Everything is political now, and the hordes of third-world peasants and fit young men from enemy countries are invading at the express invitation of the Democrats and their like-minded anti-Americans in the media and institutions of “higher” learning as they seek to undermine and degrade America’s dominance on the world stage.
Cloaked in risible bumper sticker slogans like #DiversityIsOurStrength and #NoOneIsIllegal, the onslaught is exacting a toll on us.
Caring for illegal aliens currently within the United States could cost American taxpayers up to $451 billion per year, a Monday interim staff report from House Republicans has concluded.
Originally obtained by the New York Post, the 49-page report entitled “The Historic Dollar Costs of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ Open-Border Policies” became public the same day that the House voted to refer a resolution to impeach the eponymous security official to the Homeland Security Committee.
“Every day, millions of American taxpayer dollars are spent on costs directly associated with illegal immigration and the unprecedented crisis at the Southwest border sparked by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ policies,” the report begins. “Only a small fraction is ever recouped from the taxes paid by illegal aliens, with the rest falling on the shoulders of American citizens and lawful residents.”
“Mass illegal immigration, accelerated by Mayorkas’ open-borders policies, now represents a massive cost to the federal government and state governments alike, as well as the pocketbooks of private citizens and businesses,” it continues. “The range of costs inflicted by Mayorkas’ border crisis cover everything from emergency medical care to increased demands on law enforcement to housing and shelter benefits for illegal aliens.”
Illegal aliens pay taxes, but they are dwarfed by the outlay from the American taxpayer.
In the end, Republicans drew damning conclusions about Mayorkas’ job performance from the data.
“It is morally unacceptable that American taxpayer dollars should be funneled to those who violate our laws and demand expansive, taxpayer-funded benefits like education, health care, housing, and more,” the report went on. “Many of these individuals will likely represent a drain on American society for the remainder of their days in the United States, constantly absorbing more benefits from the state than they ever contribute–to say nothing of the fact that they have no lawful basis to remain in the country to begin with.”
Just because it’s a partisan report doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
Former President Donald Trump is planning a widespread expansion of his first administration’s hardline immigration policies if he is elected to a second term in 2024, including rounding up undocumented immigrants already in the US and placing them in detention camps to await deportation, a source familiar with the plans confirmed to CNN.
The plans, first reported by The New York Times, would necessitate building large camps to house migrants waiting for deportation and tapping federal and local law enforcement to assist with large-scale arrests of undocumented immigrants across the country.
Should Congress refuse to fund the operation, Trump could turn to a tactic used in his first term to secure more funding for a border wall — redirecting funds from the Pentagon, the source confirmed.
In a sane world, Mayorkas would be fired and replaced by the president for his failure to secure the southern border. About 8 million illegal aliens have crossed the border during Biden’s time in office, including about 2 million who are gotaways, the ones that no one knows where they are. They didn’t turn themselves into Border Patrol. They ran and spread out through the country. This is Biden’s world and nothing is sane. He did away with the immigration policies in place at the border on his first day in office. He was desperate to prove he was not like the previous president. Word spread quickly and before anyone knew it, the southern border was overwhelmed with illegal immigrants. The rest is history.
Many of us don’t trust the government because it continues to encroach further and further into our lives. This is no longer a free society, but a surveillance society.
🚨 The federal government has mandated that all vehicles sold after 2026 must have a kill switch that can disable your vehicle based on your driving performance.
My amendment to defund that unconstitutional mandate failed tonight.
An amendment proposed by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to stop the federal government from basically taking over private vehicle ownership in 2026 and beyond has failed, meaning Americans will soon become prisoners in their own cars.
Massie, disappointed in his amendment, known as Part B Amendment No. 60, to H.R. 4820, the “Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024,” tweeted the following after it was shot down, including by 19 House Republicans who voted against it.
Don’t tell me the Republicans are the conservative party when they’re the ones helping the anti-American, pro-tryanny power-grabbing Democrats pass laws like this. And as I wrote last week, the garbage media is all about helping the elite consolidate power to force everyone into compliance with their way, not the highway (no pun intended).
It should be noted that prior to Massie’s amendment, the media was busy denying that there was even a kill switch provision in the Biden infrastructure bill at all.
USA Today, for instance, reported back in January that: “No, there’s no vehicle ‘kill switch’ in Biden’s 2021 infrastructure bill.” The article continues to repeat this lie again and again, only to end the piece with an admission that:
“Whether or not the technology will become a part of the infrastructure bill’s final rule remains to be seen …”
It turns out that the infrastructure bill does contain provisions for a kill switch, prompting Massie to send USA Today a copy of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act with the following entry in the “Definitions” section circled:
“The term ‘advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology means a system that … can … passively monitor the performance of the driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired; and … prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected …”
Again, the issue of “safety” is used to take away liberty. It sounds noble, but it is a gateway to further restrictions. What you’re reading there is the government giving itself the power to regulate your driving. Sure, it starts with monitoring for “drunk and impaired driving,” but it ends with “you support Donald J. Trump for president.” And don’t think it won’t.
In other words, new cars in 2026 and beyond will contain not just a breathalyzer ignition interlock but also an embedded kill switch that allows a third party, including the government, to turn off a person’s car, leaving him or her stranded until someone reengages the vehicle.
This has been coming for more than a decade, according to Ammoland. And that suggests to them that there is a pathway through this law for cars that allows them to come for your guns.
Some of us have been raising this warning flag for as long as we’ve been warning people about so-called “smart guns.” From “Things to Come,” a Guns and Ammo article I wrote in 2002:
But perhaps the most immediate and insidious threat we face from technology comes under the guise of “safety— for the children,” so-called “smart guns” under development and soon to be required in a state near you. Because…they’re also lobbying for another technology they developed to be required on cars— a “shutoff switch” that police can activate by remote control, making the rest of us pay for the infinitesimal fraction of drivers who lead them on car chases.
As writer Vin Suprynowicz warns (and I and some others independently predicted), this technology could be used by the police as “an `electronic master key’ to `disable’ any `smart guns’ in the house,” and be used as a pretext to “ban the manufacture of any gun that ISN’T a `smart gun’.”
So police can turn guns fitted with one “off” and incapable of firing—and that could be mandated. Anybody doubt it will be if remote shutoff technology becomes widespread?
Massie lists the 19 Republicans who joined 210 Democrats to defeat his amendment: Gus Bilirakis (FL), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Mike Carey (OH), Chuck Fleischmann (TN), Andrew Garbarino (NY), Mike Garcia (CA), Garret Graves (LA), John Joyce (PA), Thomas Kean, Jr. (NJ), Kevin Kiley (CA), Young Kim (CA), David Kustoff (TN), Mike Lawler (NY), Nancy Mace (SC), Michael McCaul (TX), Zach Nunn (IA), María Elvira Salazar (FL), Chris Smith (NJ), and Glenn Thompson (PA).
If any of them are your representatives, I suggest you get on the phone and ask them what the H-E-double-hockey-sticks they’re doing.
Circling back to the unfolding war in Israel—we learned yesterday that Gaza-based photojournalists working for CNN, the Associated Press, Reuters, and The New York Times were embedded with Hamas during the October 7 slaughter.
You may ask yourself: how did the photojournalists know to meet the attackers early that morning as they accompanied them over the border into Israel? Did they know their assignment was to document a surprise raid on innocent Israelis? Did they let anyone know? If not, why not?
On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions.
What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning? Was it coordinated with Hamas? Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators? Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media, like CNN and The New York Times, notify these outlets? Judging from the pictures of lynching, kidnapping and storming of an Israeli kibbutz, it seems like the border has been breached not only physically, but also journalistically.
Four names appear on AP’s photo credits from the Israel-Gaza border area on October 7: Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali.
Eslaiah, a freelancer who also works for CNN, crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank, and then captured infiltrators entering Kibbutz Kfar Azza.
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Reuters has published pictures from two photojournalists who also happened to be at the border just in time for Hamas’ infiltration: Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa and Yasser Qudih.
They both took pictures of a burning Israeli tank on the Israeli side of the border, but Abu Mustafa went further: He took photos of a lynch mob brutalizing the body of an Israeli soldier who was dragged out of the tank.
Reuters was kind enough to add a graphic warning to the photo caption, but it didn’t prevent editors from shamelessly labeling it as one of the “Images of the Day” on their editorial database.
It seems that the photojournalists knew the attack was coming and participated in it—and then the mainstream media bought the photos.
As if to underscore how closely aligned these “photojournalists” are with the enemy, here’s one of them literally embracing Hamas.
#DontLookAway but this is @AP photographer Hassan Eslaiah, getting a kiss and a hug from head of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, who ordered the massacre of Oct 7, in which over 1,400 people were slaughtered, raped, burnt, mutilated, shot and decapitated. @APMiddleEasthttps://t.co/4VwdsAthM7
You can’t trust the mainstream media. They’re part of the Left and the mouthpiece of the Democrats. They no longer function as a check on government. They function as an extension of government.
I am urging you. I am pleading with you. I am imploring you. Wake up! The irrational hatred of the Jewish people and the demonizing of Israel is reaching proportions so dangerous that if people of conscience do not stand up, speak out, and push back, Jewish blood will start flowing in America, England, and many other countries around the world. Wake up!
When Muslims in Sydney Australia are chanting, “Gas the Jews” you know that violence is near.
When Jewish students at a university here in America have to hide in a library in fear for their lives, you know that violence is near.
When Jewish children in Germany are afraid to go to school and parents warn their children not to wear the Star of David in public you know that violence is near.
When I post an image of the Israeli flag on Facebook and draw comments like, “Children killer. Hospital bombers” you know that violence is near.
When a BBC headline reads, “British Jews are ‘full of fear, like I’ve never seen before’,” you know that violence is near.
When Rep. Rashida Tlaib can post a 2024 election warning to President Biden, featuring crowds chanting “From the river to the sea” – meaning, no more State of Israel – you know that violence is near.
Wake up!
What I think he was referring to is the possibility of full-on worldwide Jewish persecution like the Holocaust under Adolph Hitler in World War II. I don’t think he was thinking his prophetic words would be fulfilled that very day—in America, of all places.
A 69-year-old man demonstrating in support of Israel died Nov. 6 after sustaining a head injury during a fight with a pro-Palestinian protester at a weekend rally in Thousand Oaks, about 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
This is the only report I’ve found that says Mr. Kessler’s injuries were the result of “a fight.”
The Ventura County medical examiner has ruled Paul Kessler’s death a homicide, and the county sheriff’s office has not ruled out a hate crime. Mr. Kessler was Jewish, according to the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.
Officials say Mr. Kessler was attending the rally Sunday afternoon when he became involved in an altercation with a counter-protester who was demonstrating nearby at a pro-Palestinian event.
Below I link to a post from Red State reporting that the pro-Palestinian protestor who assaulted Kessler was led to the corner where Kessler was counter-protesting on behalf of Israel. in other words, this wasn’t the chance encounter of two groups meshing in the same spot.
The incident happened at the intersection of Westlake Boulevard and Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Ventura County.
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office responded to the altercation after several citizens called 9-1-1 to report a battery at about 3:20 p.m.
Deputies arrived to find Mr. Kessler suffering from a head injury. Witnesses told police he fell backwards during the fight and struck his head on the ground. He was taken to an area hospital for treatment but succumbed to his injuries Monday, the sheriff’s office reported.
The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office determined Mr. Kessler died from blunt-force head injury, according to the sheriff’s office.
Here’s a clip of Mr. Kessler lying on the ground after the assault and LE had arrived.
A Jewish man named Paul Kessler was killed while peacefully supporting Israel at a protest in Westlake Village, CA. A pro-Palestinian attacker reportedly hit the 65 year old man over the head with a megaphone. The man hit his head on the ground and died at the hospital of a brain… pic.twitter.com/E3tBgGqt2O
Over at Red State there’s a more in-depth report with several videos.
During the November 5 protest, eyewitnesses say that [a known agitator] led an older gentleman over to the corner with the Shell station (across from where the bulk of the pro-Hamas faction were located), to where Mr. Kessler was, as if he was pointing Kessler out to the older gentleman.
The pro-Hamas faction were located on the southwest corner of the intersection, in front of Paul Martin’s American Grill.
Eyewitnesses, who have shared this information and their photos and videos, say the attack happened within five minutes of the time the agitators went to the corner where Kessler was. The eyewitness doesn’t have video of the moment the attack occurred, but says that the gray-haired, bearded man in khaki pants is the man who confronted Kessler then hit him in the head with the bullhorn.
The man who allegedly assaulted Mr. Kessler is the heavyset guy in the blue-ish shirt below. He apparently called 9-1-1 and was cooperative with authorities. And while there’s no video of the incident made public (yet) the report in Robby Starbuck’s post says police have seized his phone.
In the screengrab the alleged assailant stands with an officer as Mr. Kessler is prepped inside the ambulance for transport to the hospital. The man is reportedly “a college professor and ardent Muslim.”
Mr. Kessler’s death has been ruled a homicide, which means it was caused by another person. Whether or not it will become a “murder” has yet to be determined. In ultra-liberal California, it’s anybody’s guess.
So now we have the death of a Jewish man in the streets of America. It’s happened before, but not in an environment as hostile as this one. We’ve imported thousands of Middle Eastern Muslim Arabs and Palestinians who are doing what they do in every country they inhabit: agitate and protest in a mob that demands the death of the ultimate Out-Group: the Jews.
#DiversityIsOurStrength
And don’t forget that after the Jews, it’s the Christians. You may want to heed Dr. Brown’s warning:
In light of all this, and with tremendous urgency in my spirit, I urge every person of conscience, every lover of justice, everyone who fears and honors God.
Please, today, speak out against the demonization of Israel and the Jewish people.
Categorically denounce Hamas and distance yourself from those who support Hamas (and Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah and the rest of these terrorist groups).
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But without hesitation and without shame, you must raise your voice in support of Israel and the Jewish people now, letting the haters know that when they come against Israel, they are coming against you. It really is a matter of life and death.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem—and for peace here in the United States.
Back in March of this year a troubled young woman who pretended she was a man walked into a Christian school in Nashville and gunned down six people, including three kids, before being taken out by a responding officer. The killer was identified as Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old former student of the school.
Nashville Council member Courtney Johnston told The Post the FBI has already ruled the manifesto would not be released in its entirety.
“What I was told is, her manifesto was a blueprint on total destruction, and it was so, so detailed at the level of what she had planned,” she said, when reached by phone.
“That document in the wrong person’s hands would be astronomically dangerous,” she added.
She said she believed part of Hale’s writings would come out but that “the vast, overwhelming majority of it,” presented too much of a danger to the public.
Louder with Crowder is publishing three pages of the long-awaited Nashville transgender mass shooter’s manifesto. These pages of the manifesto were exclusively obtained by MugClub Undercover.
The never-before-seen manifesto details how Audrey Hale planned to carry out the targeted massacre.
In the pages reviewed and corroborated by MugClub Undercover, Hale said she hoped to have a “high death count” and wanted to “kill” kids with “white privileges.”
A mentally unbalanced white woman who believes in the woke slur of “white privilege.” A detailed list was offered earlier on in the article:
The manifesto detailed thoughts Hale had leading up to what was referred to as “DEATH DAY”, as well as a timeline in which the shooting would take place.
Audrey Hale: “Can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m ready…I hope my victims aren’t.”
Hale: “I hope I have a high death count.”
Hale: “Kill those kids!!!”
Hale: “going to fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles.”
Hale: “Wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little faggots w/ your white privileges”• Hale: There were several times I could have been caught especially b—ack in the summer of 2021.
Hale: “It might be 10 minutes tops. It might be 3-7. Its gunna go quick.”
Taking this alleged manifesto at face value, I’m struck by the depth of hatred over superficial qualities that indicate “white privilege.” She writes about “going to fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles.”
Fancy khakis? Sports backpacks? Sports cars?
That sounds a lot like self-pity and envy. It’s the kind of thing a high-schooler would say when trying to insult someone who is elevated on the social ladder. By “fancy” she probably means “expensive” or “name brand” since khakis aren’t particularly “fancy.”
The Covenant School, where she was a student, is a private Christian school, serving Pre-K through 6th Grade students. Tuition ranges from $7,250 to $16,500 per student per school year. Not inexpensive, but scholarships and other financial aid is available.
Audrey was able to enroll back when she was a little kid. Was she, too, “privileged”?
We still don’t know why she chose her former school as her target. If she attended there through sixth grade, she would’ve been 11 or 12 years old. At the time of the shooting, she was 28. That’s a 16-year differential.
Was she holding onto some slight or victimization from her time there? Was she blaming the school’s overt affirmation of faith in Jesus Christ for her sexual confusion?
Her woke demonization of “white privilege” hardly applies to 6th graders or younger students. How many of them are driving daddy’s car to school?
Whatever her motivation, it’s clear she wanted to kill children, white people, and the Christians at The Covenant School.
So why suppress the manifesto? Because you’re supposed to see the protected classes as victims. It won’t do for you to have evidence that there are, in fact, hateful spiteful woke people who harbor murderous intentions before they carry them out. That would leave the regime looking like it’s hiding something—like their implicit support for hateful, spiteful killers.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The images leaked on social media Monday morning are confirmed to belong to The Covenant School Shooter, a source told WSMV4 Chief Investigator Jeremy Finley.
On Monday morning, a political commentator released documents he said were related to The Covenant School shooting in Nashville.
Steven Crowder, host of “Louder with Crowder,” released three photos of writings in notebooks. Crowder claims they are images of the shooter’s writings. Now, a source has confirmed to WSMV4 that those images are indeed from the shooter.
On Saturday I attended a Veteran’s Appreciation Night put on by my local church fellowship and sponsored by local VFW posts. We had vets from the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard.
The program included the singing of the national anthem, a dinner, some light musical entertainment, a comedienne, a raffle, and the offer of hope found in Jesus Christ.
But the whole night started with the entrance. Every veteran who walked in the door was greeted with a reception line of volunteers from the church, who cheered, applauded, waved American flags and shook their hand as they walked a red carpet to the registration table, where they had their photo taken by a red, white and blue balloon arch, and then were escorted to their table by other volunteers.
As part of the greeting committee, I got to shake hands with many of the vets, but a highlight was shaking hands with a sprightly 101-year-old WWII veteran and thanking him for his service.
Do you realize it’s been 78 years since the end of World War II? According to US Department of Veterans Affairs, only 119,550 Americans who served in WWII are currently alive. Even the youngest enlisted men, knowing some snuck in at age 16 or 17, would be in their 90s now.
I was there with my wife to host, meaning that I would wait on the guests seated at my assigned table. As it turned out, only one vet and his wife sat at my table. Because there weren’t any other guests for that table, I was invited to have dinner with them so they weren’t stranded by themselves.
Denny (not his real name) was a Navy vet who had always wanted to serve in the armed forces. He enlisted before he graduated from high school, then spent 10 years in the service. He now works for the DOJ. I asked him if he was busy tracking “white supremacists” like me, and he laughed. No, that’s not what he does.
When I asked him how he got to the appreciation dinner, he said that his neighbor is also a veteran and had attended the dinner last year. It was so good, he said, that he kept badgering Denny to attend this year. I asked him if he ever attended an appreciation night like this and he said no.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get to ask him how he enjoyed the evening when it was all over; I was busy cleaning up with the rest of the volunteers when he and his wife left. I hope it was enjoyable for them.
The idea behind the event is to truly appreciate our vets. We live in polarized times, when our military is being wrecked by social experimentation, our war heroes are being “cancelled,” our past and present military engagements are being criticized, and our veterans have been abused by government incompetence.
We forget that our veterans are people who were asked or who volunteered to serve our country and often faced dreadful circumstances in which they had to engage in terrible acts that perhaps defeated our enemies, but that some carried home in their psyches.
To thank a 100-year-old man who served in our military is not to approve of what he did or didn’t do. I didn’t get to have a conversation with him, so I don’t know his rank or where he was deployed or what sort of experience he had. For all I know, he was a clerk in a general’s office in Topeka, Kansas.
My appreciation is to recognize that he performed a noble act, that he took on a role that put “country” before himself, that he put himself at risk on behalf of those who couldn’t. Many of our vets never made it home, having made the ultimate sacrifice. That could have been him, and I deeply appreciate the courage it took to expose himself to that risk on behalf of a country to which he pledged his loyalty.
A “country” isn’t some amorphous entity. A country is citizens like you and me. Every veteran who served in the military did so on behalf of the people who make up the country.
I’ve made it a personal commitment to thank our servicemen and women. While many of them aren’t looking for thanks, I can see that it’s meaningful to them when they are thanked.
I encourage you to thank a vet this Veteran’s Day, November 11.
Welcome to November. I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but on October 31 we had flurries that actually became blizzard-like for about 10 minutes during the afternoon with strong winds and the snow blowing sideways across the front of the house.
I hope that’s not a taste of what this winter will be like.
It was the debut 45 by the Beatles – though, at the time, that name didn’t mean much to many English fans outside of Manchester and their native Liverpool. (The band’s frequent performances at the Star Club in Hamburg had already won them a devoted following in Germany, however.) The song was a surprise hit, rising to Number 17 on one of the many weekly charts around the U.K., a strong enough showing to convince EMI they had made a smart bet in signing the Beatles.
Paul McCartney began writing “Love Me Do” a few years earlier, in 1958, when he was playing hooky from school at age 16. Soon afterwards, he sat down with John Lennon to flesh it out. “It was completely co-written,” McCartney later said. “It might have been my original idea, but some of them really were 50-50s, and I think that one was. It was just Lennon and McCartney sitting down without either of us having a particularly original idea.”
Lennon had a slightly different recollection of events. “‘Love Me Do’ is Paul’s song,” he said in 1980. “Let me think. I might have helped with the middle eight, but I couldn’t swear to it. I do know he had the song around, in Hamburg, even, way, way before we were songwriters.”
The Beatles, as we all know, went on to become the biggest and most influential rock ‘n’ roll band of all time. Their catalogue of hits included “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “All You Need is Love,” “Get Back,” “Yesterday,” “Eight Days A Week,” “Cant’ Buy Me Love,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Twist and Shout,” “Help,” “A Hard’s Day Night,” “Penny Lane,” and their masterpiece watershed album, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
They wrote and recorded all of that, and much, much more, from October 1962 to April 1970—just 7 years—when they broke up and went their separate ways. They were all still in their twenties.
Now, 61 years after they released their first single, and long after both John Lennon (1980) and George Harrison (2001) died, comes a new song featuring all of The Beatles.
The song started as a demo that John had recorded and that Yoko Ono had given to George. But whereas they were able to record “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love” from similar cassette demos, “Now And Then” presented a bigger challenge because they couldn’t separate John’s voice from the piano he played on while recording the demo.
After giving it a few tries, they gave up.
It wasn’t until Peter Jackson developed the software to separate vocals, voices and instruments during the creation of the documentary, “Get Back,” that an opportunity presented itself to complete “Now And Then.” They had John’s voice, George’s guitar and backing vocals, and Paul and Ringo took the pieces and added their parts including bass, drums, vocals, and some strings.
What they produced is a meloncholy, down beat tune. Yet with John’s soulful vocals and the harmonies added by Paul and George, it sounds like … The Beatles.
It’s astonishing that more than a generation later, the surviving half of the band were able to perform, once more, with their missing bandmates.
According to Paul McCartney, this is the last Beatles song. There are no more recordings. It truly is The End.
In the Bible is a story that almost everybody is familiar with.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” 22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him. (Genesis 6:11-22 NIV)
All three theistic religions — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — include the story of the flood, and flood stories are found in nearly every culture. Atheists argue that this means there’s nothing special about the account in Genesis because that just means as humanity spread out, they carried the “myth” with them. Then the “myth” took on a life of its own and was embellished with each culture’s priorities.
But a nearly universally existing “flood” account doesn’t prove a myth. The obvious question is that if every culture has an account of a worldwide flood, couldn’t that instead point to some kind of ancient cataclysmic event? (By the way, the primary meaning of cataclysm is “flood.”)
Strickling concluded from his study of flood legends from all over the world that “nearly all” flood accounts “are variations of the theme in the biblical account … however, a statistical analysis indicates the purity of the biblical account and reveals evidence of subsequence [sic] upheavals having corrupted in varying degrees all other accounts” [53, p. 152]. Among the similarities that Strickling found include a favored family was saved in thirty-two of the flood accounts, and in twenty-one survival was due to a “boat” of some type. He concluded that a correlation exists between them in the following areas: 1) survival by boat, 2) a forewarning, 3) one flood only, and 4) preservation of non-human types of life such as animals. The same correspondence with the biblical account is also found in world wide-creation accounts.
Among the aspects of the early history of the world found in Genesis and the flood that also appear in many or most creation stories are the confusion of tongues at Babel. Syrian, Sumerian, Greek, Babylonian, Chinese, Persian and even the Estonian, Irish, American Indian, Toltec and Cholulan creation stories all include a variant of the flood story. In the American Indian tradition the flood causes “universal destruction” because the world grew “extremely sinful” [37]. Warshofsky notes regarding the great flood that “with variations” the
biblical account of a great, universal flood is part of the mythology and legend of almost every culture on earth. Even people living far from the sea—the Hopi Indians in the American Southwest, the Incas high in the Peruvian Andes—have legends of a great flood … covering the tops of the mountains and wiping out virtually all life on earth [56, p. 129, emphasis mine].
Scientists have placed humans at the site of what is believed to be the “ruins of Noah’s Ark,” in the eastern mountains of Turkey.
The findings, released earlier this week, of rock and soil samples determined that “clayey materials, marine materials and seafood” were present in the area between 5500 and 3000 BC, according to the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.
The study is comprised of three Turkish and American universities that have been investigating the theory of the site since 2021.
It certainly looks like a boat. What’s also fascinating is that the structure pictured above corresponds to the dimensions of the ark as described in Genesis 6:
The size and shape of the formation correlate with the dimensions of what the ark is said to be in the Bible Book of Genesis, a “length of three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.”
In the Bible readings, God commanded Noah, a 600-year-old father of three, to build the ark and fill it with two of every animal before a global flood hit.
The Durupinar site is 18 miles south of the Greater Mount Ararat summit, which the Book of Genesis states is where the ark came to rest on the seventh month and seventeenth day.
There have been many other claims of finding the remains of the ark frozen in the snow and ice on Mt. Ararat, none of which have been conclusive, but many of which are consistent in what they describe: a very large, dark rectangular object sticking out of the ice and resembling a barge.
That description does not fit the object nor the location being discussed in the Post article. However, the very next sentence in the article does reflect the skeptics:
The holy texts of three major religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam all have references to Noah and the ark, but scientists have yet to determine the authenticity of the stories.
You see, we have to wait for SCIENCE to validate scripture in order for it to have any credibility. Just like SCIENCE validated the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. Which means we’ll have to wait for Dr. Fauxchi, who is the SCIENCE, to weigh in.
JK! Some of us are willing to look at the rest of the Scriptures and, seeing that they are reliable, trust that the stories of creation, the flood and, say, the Tower of Babel, are true. After all, both Jesus and Peter referred to the account of Noah as though it really happened:
36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.” (Jesus in Matthew 24:36-39)
18For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,21and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also.” (1 Peter 3:18-21)
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others…” (2 Peter 2:4-5)
If Jesus and Peter spoke of it as a real-world event, then I trust that it did, in fact, happen. It’s fun to speculate along with the explorers and researhers what might come from their investigations.
Even if they were to prove that there is some kind of giant ship-like structure, however, it still wouldn’t be enough to convince the atheists, who would explain it away as not “proving” anything about the existence of God or the reliability of the Bible because you couldn’t conclusively prove that the structure was in fact “Noah’s.”
Even so, it’s amazing that after 5,000 years, there’s still interest in trying to discover whether or not the remnants of Noah’s ark still exist.
Circling back to the issue of Israel and Hamas, Bibi Netanyahu announced that Israel, after three weeks of preparation, has entered the “second stage” of their plan to wipe out Hamas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday announced that his forces have entered the “second stage” of its war with the terrorist group Hamas, calling the fight a “second War of Independence.”
“The war inside the Gaza Strip will be long and difficult, and we are prepared for it,” Netanyahu said during a press conference in the evening, local time. “This is our second War of Independence.”
“We will fight for the defense of the homeland,” he continued. “We will fight and not retreat. We will fight on land, sea and in the air. We will destroy the enemy above ground, and underground. We will fight and win.”
I, for one, am glad to hear his resolve. There can be no waffling on whether or not to destroy Hamas. They are a recognized terrorist organization. They committed unspeakable atrocities on October 7 against innocent, civilians.
A baby was found in an oven, baked to death by Hamas terrorists, leading Israeli first responder @EliBeerUH recounted to an @RJC gathering last night.
His group was among the first to respond to and witness the Oct 7 atrocities.
Hamas is inhuman, bestial, barbaric, cruel, brutish, primative, unrestrained, unrepentant, savage, sadistic. There can be no quarter taken, and none can be given.
Of course the usual suspects are calling for a cease-fire.
Netanyahu spoke at the end of a difficult week for Israel, with more discussion and frustration on both sides of the conflict as some world leaders called for a humanitarian pause or a ceasefire. The United Nations voted on several motions and passed one calling for a ceasefire, which Israel outright rejected and labeled “despicable.”
The UN was founded in the wake of the Holocaust. If I had my way, the U.S. would withdraw from the UN and kick them out of our country. They’ve outlived their usefulness.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu flatly rejected calls for a cease-fire in comments to the press on Monday.
Netanyahu compared the October 7 massacre by Hamas to the Pearl Harbor and 9-11 attacks on the U.S., saying Israel is equally justified in retaliating against Hamas terrorists in Gaza. He went on to say that Israel will continue its war against Hamas “until victory.”
“Calls for a cease-fire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism. That will not happen,” Netanyahu said.
“Ladies and gentlement, the Bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war. This is a time for war. A war for our common future,” he continued. “Today we draw a line between the forces of civilization and the forces of barbarism. It is a time for everyone to decide where they stand. Israel will stand against the forces of barbarism until victory. I hope and pray that civilized nations everywhere will back this fight.”
Israeli forces entered the second stage of their conflict with Hamas this week, greatly expanding ground operations within the Gaza strip. Military officials have warned that the war will be long and difficult.
I agree with him that this is a time for war — against a savage, primative death cult that wants no less than the eradication of the Jews and of Israel as a nation. You can’t reason with fanatical, irrational, ideologically-blinded hatred.
Hamas and some portion of their civilian population hate Israel so much that they won’t let their own people out of Gaza. Israel has been warning the people in the north of Gaza to leave, to move south. But Hamas wants to make “martyrs” of them all: young, old, men, women, children. All for the glory of dying in service to Allah. When I say it’s a death cult, I mean it.
And if you think this is just a “Jewish” problem, you might want to think again. An Islamist slogan is “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.” First they destroy the Jews, then they destroy all the Christians. Israel is the “Little Satan” (Jews) but the United States is the “Great Satan” (the Christians).
They are coming for us. As the last three weeks have demonstrated, there are plenty of them in our country due to our insane immigration policies and our open southern border. Don’t think there isn’t great hatred just waiting for its moment to strike.
After the Holocaust, the world declared “Never Again.” Unbelievably, we are at a moment when that declaration is being stress-tested.
The intent of the Islamic jihadists is clear and Hamas is the most high-profile expression of it at the moment, just as ISIS was a decade ago. If you stand for “never again,” as I do, you understand why Isreal can’t dialogue with people like this. You must take the fight to them, destroy them and make sure that any survivors never forget “never again.”
