I’m not a Never Trumper, not an Anti Trumper, not a Swamper, not a RINO

I am at best agnostic about Trump

I am a hardcore conservative Republican. I always have been since before I could vote for Reagan in ‘80. I’m not into personality, I’m into policy and action. Reagan was as close to hero worship I have come.

Trump is a joke, he’s a punchline. I don’t know if it’s more Archie Bunker or P.T. Barnum, but he is a showman that Billy Mays would have been envious of. His trash talk is legendary as well as his thin skin and childish reaction rants.

But he ours, he’s what we got right now, and he has some things that concern me.

He is not conservative. He told us during the primary “I’m not a conservative, I’m a Republican”. He is not pro life, pro gun, spends like a Democrook. I haven’t heard the word ‘deficit’ since the 2016 election and its huge (to coin a term) if the definition of RINO is “Republicans in name only” then Trump is the embodiment of it.

He is all show, all about his brand. Greatest, unmatched wisdom, stable genius, most, best, biggest EVAR!!!

And thats ok, it’s who he is. The tax cuts (mine increased) are temporary for us, permanent for the corporations. This may have been the Party’s idea and the current trend of “keep voting for us or the tax cuts will go away” style of campaigns.  I understand that, it’s a manipulation the Democraps used for years. I don’t like it, but it is what it is.

what worries me are the believers.

We made fun of the Obama faithful. When he made his 57 States remark they did everything to include counting Commonwealths and Territories to try and get to 57 so that he wasn’t wrong. Over and over, corpseman, clinging to guns and bibles, pictures of rainbows from his hands, halos, Roman columns, etc

we laughed and made memes and joked about the church of Obama.

Now we have our own people, some of the same ones that laughed at the Obamaites, searching foreign language dictionaries to find ‘covfefe’, memes af riding bears in shining armor waving a flag, tough guy that’s 100 lbs slimmer and Melania with bigger boobs and no pouch, biggest, greatest, EVAR!!!

And if nothing can be found to justify or excuse then….he’s just trolling the left, making heads explode, brilliant, genius.

And if you aren’t  completely, full throatedly, MAGA screaming, Trump Uber Ales……then by default you are attacked as an America hating, swamp creature, Deep State communist operator, never Trumper, fake news, Hillary lover, RINO, establishment, globalist.

Nothing in between, one or the other. Attack with us or be attacked. If you’re not beside us, you’re against us.

I hear today and most likely will for days that Bagdadi was much, much bigger target than Bin Laden. (I’m glad he’s dead, we have excellent people, don’t get me wrong) but the story is getting bigger and bigger. Whimpering and crying, ran into a tunnel with no end (that’s called a cave) much more important that Bin Laden, etc, etc

In January 2025 (hopefully) he is going to leave office and leave the place to Pence/Haley (again hopefully)

The weeping and wailing, gnashing of teeth is going to be off the charts. Trump TV will start (with a paid subscription) the Trump brand will be huge, greatest, biggest, in history of the universe.

Thin skinned, whining, ranting, knee jerk attacks, blind loyalty demands, deep seated need for continuous praise and adoration from everyone around him. Soprano parody of an administration can end

And we can get back to an approximation of statesmanship. Policy not based on brand. Slightly smaller ego’s

A fight between an elephant and a crocodile in Africa ended in both creatures dying. But what shocked onlookers is that the massive mammal landed on top of the crocodile, flattening the reptile in the process.

A photo of the bizarre sight was posted to Kafunta Safari’s Facebook page and it was deemed an “extremely strange situation,” with authorities called in to investigate.

“The park authorities were called (to investigate death of elephant and eventually remove the tusks) and they suspect the elephant was injured and the croc was following it, when the elephant collapse while trying to climb the bank of the river,” Kafunta wrote on Facebook. “Squashing the croc. Very strange. The park authorities didn’t find any trace of human foul play in regards to the elephant’s death.”

https://www.foxnews.com/science/elephant-found-dead-squished-crocodile

As we celebrate the Assumption of Mary, I thought it would be good to repost this. The Genetics of the Lord.

On Mary

 With the honoring of the Immaculate Conception this last Saturday, I’m submitting this post again;

On Mary
(A look at the genetics of The Lord)

Few things are as contentious as Mary. Her position, importance, and place in the history of the church.
But I want to take a look in a fresh way at Mary and her history. God does things in a very methodical way, layer upon layer and precept upon precept. Laying a foundation and building on it one step at a time in a logical manner. Could He have snapped His fingers and made His wishes instantly? Yes, but that is not how He seems to do things.
Let’s go all the way back to the Garden of Eden and the creation of Adam. Where does Adams DNA come from? From God of course, it was designed and created by Him for modern mankind. It was developed complete and without corruption. Adam had full genetic expression, perfectly functional and without error.
When the time came for the creation of Woman, God didn’t go back to the dust of the Earth but took a rib from Adam. Why the rib?
What is in the rib but bone marrow. The genetic structure of the DNA of the host. Stem cells, RNA etc.
God took Adam’s DNA from the marrow and genetically modified it into the female version of his DNA, XX from XY, and created the woman. (God didn’t call her Eve, “they” were Adam. Mankind in male and female form, the species of Man) Thats why Adam said upon seeing her “this is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh” (Genesis 2:23)
As much as I love and adore my wife she is not bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. Thats a child not a spouse. She was literally of his bone and flesh,
male and female.
After the Fall (which is a whole other topic) corruption (sin) entered into the genetic structure of mankind. All the talk of the “sons of God entering into the daughters of man” notwithstanding (again, another topic) the genetic structure of man became corrupt until the point where “the thoughts of man were only evil continually” but Noah was “perfect in his generations” (Genesis 6:9) his DNA was not corrupted to the point of irreparable. So God saved Noah and his sons and his daughters in laws. (That will be important later)
We hear no more about the sons of God after the flood. All the corrupted DNA was purged and the Plan started again fresh with Noah’s DNA.
Dr. Rob Carter does great work on the genetics after the fall. With a study titled “Mitochondrial Diversity within Modern Human Populations” in his lecture series “Mitochondrial DNA and the Three Daughters of Noah”
As he focuses a great deal on the Tower of Babel and the effect on genetic diversity.
Eventually Abraham was called from his land and led away. After receiving the Promise of being the father of a great nation and the Covenant between God and Man through Abraham he was told of his upcoming son. After Abraham had Ishmael with Hagar, God rejected him and told Abraham that he will have a son by Sarah. (Genesis 17:19) And the others were sent away.
When Isaac was born and old enough to marry he was told not to marry local women but to take a wife from the family line. (Important) Sending a servant to find a wife from the family and returning with her.
When Isaac and Rebecca had children they were the twins, Jacob and Esau.
The boys looked very different. (Important)
Esau married local women but Jacob was sent to take a wife from the family line of his mother (mitochondrial line) and wed Leah and Rachael. Scripture states that “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated” (Romans 9:13)
The sons of Leah and Rachael were the influential tribes of Israel. The lessor tribes were the sons of the handmaids. The tribe of Judah was chosen even though he was not the firstborn or by any means the most moral. Why was not the tribe of Joseph the chosen tribe? He was the moral and upstanding son of Israel.
Joseph was given a wife by Pharaoh, not from the line of Israel. His sons were to receive an inheritance but were not important or influential compared to Judah or Levi.
When Israel and the brothers were introduced to Pharaoh, Joseph told them not to tell him the are shepherds as the are an abomination to the Egyptians.
They then told Pharaoh that they were shepherds. Separating themselves from the Egyptians and inadvertently (or by direction) segregated their line and culture from the local peoples. (Genesis 46:34-47:4)
When the son of Judah took Tamar as a wife he died without a son. The law said that his brother should marry and raise sons with his widow. But the son refused (a polite way to put it) and God killed him as well. When Judah promised his youngest son to Tamar but was later not given to him she took action on her own. Was this at Gods direction? Was her Mitochondrial DNA important to the Plan? I believe so. Remember that Tamar is listed in the genealogy of The Lord. (Genesis 38:6)
When Moses’s story begins and the people are led from captivity the people are a much more numerous but distinct people. When the law is given it is very explicit about marrying outside of the people of Israel. Keeping the genetics pure and on track. Upon the entry into the Promised Landwe are introduced to Rahab. We don’t know her genealogy but she was from Jericho and helped the Israelites enter the city. She later converted to Judaism and traditionally married one of the spies sent into Jericho. She is also listed in the genealogy of The Lord. (Joshua 6:25)
The book of Ruth is during this time and her mitochondrial DNA is also added to the narrative via Boas. The grandfather of David.
The book of Judges list all the times the people of Israel fell short of these laws, many times with marriages and religions outside of Israel. Again and again God sent judges to return the people to Him and His law until he gave them a king. The long story of the rise of David notwithstanding, lets look at him. David was not the firstborn of Jesse, and was different in appearance to his brothers. (Important) David was smaller and we are told he had a “ruddy” completion. But he was told that through his line the Messiah would come.
David married many women from different peoples but his line would be from Solomon, his mother Bathsheba was known for her uncommon beauty. (Genetics again)
Ten tribes were separated including the tribes of the handmaids and Israel was reduced to Judah and Benjamin. Benjamins land was within the borders of Judah. After many twist and turns, wars and idolatry, faith and falling of the Israelites. They are sent into captivity.
There are many stories about the captives keeping with their faith and returning to God. After the return of the captives and the rebuilding of the temple there is not longer any problem of idolatry amongst the people of Israel. In fact when Ezra returns and rebuild the nation, he is very distressed about the men marrying local women. After discussion and prayer, Ezra orders the men to put away their foreign wives and (important) their children. And take wives of Israel. Restoring the genetic line. (Ezra 9:1-10:44)

What was God trying to do this whole time?

Step by step, generation by generation, God was selectively breeding his people. Remember Noah’s daughter is laws, they were not perfect in their generations as Noah was. Noah’s sons were genetically correct but the daughters were not. We ate told that mitochondrial DNA can be traced back farther than nuclear DNA. This is because it is traced back through the daughter to Eve. Nuclear DNA goes back to Noah. Thus the adjustments to the mitochondrial (mothers) DNA through Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth.
God was rebuilding, a little at a time, logically, step by step the original DNA of Adam and Eve. Separating distinct people and then distinct individuals. Massaging the genetics of the people until he finally got to…Mary.
I don’t believe God sat on his throne and said it was time for His Son to come into the world then look down on the crowd in Israel and pick Mary at random. She was prepared and designed for this time.
When Gabriel came to Mary he said “full of grace” as a greeting. There had not been a salvation yet, how could she be full of grace. When he told her that the Holy Spirit would come upon her and she would bear a son.

No, God did not rape Mary, The Holy Spirit didn’t molest Mary, aliens didn’t inseminate Mary. Thats modern mans foolishness.

God did the same thing that he had done with Adam. He modified her DNA and inseminated her with a male version of her own, original, DNA.
That is what God meant in the Garden when he told the serpent that He would put enmity between him and her “seed”. Woman doesn’t have seed, men do, women have the egg. How can she have seed? he also didn’t say “woman’s seed” but “her” seed, referring to Eve as an individual. Mary was genetically the same as Eve. And a male version of her DNA was the same as Adam’s. Fulfilling Gods word from the beginning. (Genesis 3;15)

Points to consider:
St Paul refers to Jesus as the last Adam. (1 Corinthians 15:47)

One of the criticisms of the Church is that the traditional image of Jesus doesn’t look like a typical Jewish man of the era. Why should he, he was not the same as them genetically, he probably looked a lot like Adam

The Church has described Mary as the Immaculate Conception, the pinnacle of Creation, and teaches that she was born without original sin. I’ll quote Pope Pius IX;

In 1850, Pope Pius IX taught that all Catholics must accept an ancient Christian belief about Mary, the mother of Jesus: that God granted her a kind of baptism at her conception.
Since God stands outside of time, He could give her the graces of Christ’s redemption in advance. So when she was born, she was just like Adam and Eve at their creation: free of original sin.

The only people born without original sin were Adam and Eve…

And Mary

Remember the good old days when a nut job would shoot up a McDonald’s because he wanted to “hunt humans” or shoot up a workplace because Batty Sue rejected him?

Now its political, the younger generation is more isolated than the pre industrial farmers by the online communities that feed into a self sustaining spiral of extremism on both sides.

The El Paso shooter was fighting the INVASION of his beloved country by the Mexicans enabled by the socialist commies in Congress. Is online presence was likely Alex Jones, Stormfront, and any other that fired up his own ignorance. Helped by the Talking Heads spouting the collapse of the country, Omar, AOC, etc.

The Dayton shooter was fighting the Nazi takeover by the racist, LGBTQWTF haters, the misogynistic pussy grabbers, and the killers of migrant children in cages. Fed by Maddow, MSNBC, Warren, Sanders, AOC, etc

We still have the nutjobs, they just get fed by politicians and media in a bubble of their own psychosis. and every time it happens, these same sources repeat the same idiocy over and over again. you want to reduce mass shootings? Stop the political bullshit.

Just because somebody disagrees with your party doesn’t make them evil incarnate, haters, killers, Nazi, Stalin, etc. we don’t vote for anything anymore, we must vote to defeat the “evil of the world from destroying the planet” or “defending our way of life from those who would destroy the country”

Politicians, talking heads, commentators, race baiters, make a living off of keeping the low IQ faction “fired up” and on the edge of their seat waiting for the next attack on everything they hold dear by the (fill in the blank)

Someone that doesn’t agree with your tax plan or budget priorities is not a Satan worshiping commie bent on destroying your way of life and putting you in FEMA camps or just killing you outright because they didn’t vote along with “your guy”

Can we go back to “going postal” instead of “fighting the Nazi Concentration Camp baby killers who hate everything warm and fuzzy” or “defending our very way of life from those commie socialists who want take away God, baseball, and apple pie”

Get a freaking grip

UNITED STATES INVADES FRANCE!

NORMANDY, FRANCE (June 6, 1944) Three hundred French civilians were killed and thousands more were wounded today in the first hours of America’s invasion of continental Europe. Casualties were heaviest among women and children.

Most of the French casualties were the result of artillery fire from American ships 
attempting to knock out German fortifications prior to the landing of hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops. Reports from a makeshift hospital in the French town of St. Mere Eglise said the carnage was far worse than the French had anticipated, and that reaction against the American invasion was running high.

“We are dying for no reason,” said a Frenchman speaking on condition of anonymity. “Americans can’t even shoot straight. I never thought I’d say this, but life was better under Adolph Hitler.”

The invasion also caused severe environmental damage. American troops, tanks, trucks and machinery destroyed miles of pristine shoreline and thousands of acres of ecologically sensitive wetlands. It was believed that the habitat of the spineless French crab was completely wiped out, thus threatening the species with extinction. A 
representative of Greenpeace said his organization, which had tried to stall the invasion for over a year, was appalled at the destruction, but not surprised.

“This is just another example of how the military destroys the environment without a second thought,” said Christine Moanmore. “And it’s all about corporate greed.”

Contacted at his Manhattan condo, a member of the French government-in-exile who abandoned Paris when Hitler invaded, said the invasion was based solely on American financial interests. “Everyone knows that President Roosevelt has ties to ‘big beer’,” said Pierre Le Wimp. “Once the German beer industry is conquered, Roosevelt’s beer cronies will control the world market and make a fortune.”

Administration supporters said America’s aggressive actions were based in part on the 
assertions of controversial scientist Albert Einstein, who sent a letter to Roosevelt 
speculating that the Germans were developing a secret weapon — a so-called “atomic bomb.”  Such a weapon could produce casualties on a scale never seen before, and cause environmental damage that could last for thousands of years. Hitler has denied having such a weapon and international inspectors were unable to locate such 
weapons even after spending two long weekends in Germany.

Shortly after the invasion began, reports surfaced that German prisoners had been abused by American soldiers. Mistreatment of Jews by Germans at their so-called “concentration camps” has been rumored, but so far this remains unproven.

Several thousand Americans died during the first hours of the invasion, and French officials are concerned that the uncollected corpses will pose a public-health risk. “The Americans should have planned for this in advance,” they said. “It’s their mess, and we don’t intend to help clean it up.”

The invasion is blamed on Roosevelt’s hawkish military advisers and the influence of British Prime Minister Churchill, who have repeatedly ignored calls for a negotiated settlement to end the war and who have reportedly rejected peace overtures from Germany through several neutral parties. Instead, the Roosevelt administration and its allies have chosen to insist on maintaining their extreme policy of demanding 
unconditional surrender.

There have been notable voices of opposition from sports figures and celebrities decrying the horrific violence and saying that this is not who we are.

Hat tip to https://oldnfo.org

I’ve been getting questions about Mercy and her story, well here are the basics.

We first got Mercy (not her name) when she was three weeks old as a foster child. Born with cocaine in her system and removed by DCS. We spent the first five month with withdrawal.

She had seizures and her muscles would tighten up. Throwing her head back and clench for a minute or two. Totally silent.

She also couldn’t sleep for more than twenty minutes or so at a time. Making her care pretty difficult for a working me and the wife giving aerobics classes. Eventually we started to swaddle her and she could sleep a lot more comfortably. She finally got through it but it wasn’t easy.

We went back and forth with DCs and the courts. She was returned to her birth mother twice. We found out much later that she tried to drown her in the bathtub. There was also a suicide attempt. We got her back the second time and decided to get a lawyer and fight for her.

Finally we got full custody of her and set the supervised visitation with the birth mother. She was about fifty-fifty on showing up. When she figured out that she was not getting her back, she got pregnant again. (Needed the meal ticket) and pretty much gave up on our girl

When we finally reached the magic numbers of one year of no support (we never got any and never expected any) and six months of no contact, we applied for a contested adoption. And changed her name to Mercy. She was almost five.

She was diagnosed early (4) with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Anxiety Disorder, Attachment Disorder.

She has since been diagnosed with DMDD and ADHD as she has gotten older and started to reach her teens.

Do we have issues from time to time? Of course we do. But she is ours. She will be thirteen in August

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Top 10 Things I Hate About Star Trek

10. Noisy doors.
You can’t walk three feet in a starship without some door whooshing or screeching at you. My office building has automatic sliding doors. They’re dead silent. If those doors went “wheet!” every time a person walked through them, about once a month some guy in accounting would snap and go on a shooting rampage. Sorry Scotty, the IEEE has revoked your membership until you learn to master WD-40

9. The Federation.
This organization creeps me out. A planet-wide government that runs everything, and that has abolished money. A veritable planetary DMV. Oh sure, it looks like a cool place when you’re rocketing around in a Federation Starship, but I wonder how the guy driving a Federation dump truck feels about it?

And everyone has to wear those spandex uniforms. Here’s an important fact: Most people, you don’t want to see them in spandex. You’d pay good money to not have to see them. If money hadn’t been abolished, that is. So you’re screwed.

8. Reversing the Polarity.
For cripes sake Giordi, stop reversing the polarity of everything! It might work once in a while, but usually it just screws things up. I have it on good authority that the technicians at Starbase 12 HATE that. Every time the Enterprise comes in for its 10,000 hour checkup, they’ve gotta go through the whole damned ship fixing stuff. “What happened to the toilet in Stateroom 3?” “Well, the plumbing backed up, and Giordi thought he could fix it by reversing the polarity.”

Between Scotty’s poor lubrication habits and Geordi’s damned polarity reversing trick, it’s a wonder the Enterprise doesn’t just spontaneously explode whenever they put the juice to it.

7. Seatbelts.
Yeah, I know this one is overdone, but you’d think that the first time an explosion caused the guy at the nav station to fly over the captain’s head with a good 8 feet of clearance, someone would say, “You know, we might think of inventing some furutistic restraining device to prevent that from happening.” So of course, they did make something like that for the second Enterprise (the first one blew up due to poor lubrication), but what was it? A hard plastic thing that’s locked over your thighs. Oh, I’ll bet THAT feels good in the corners. “Hey look! The leg-bars worked as advertised! There goes Kirk’s torso!”

6. No fuses.
Every time there’s a power surge on the Enterprise the various stations and consoles explode in a shower of sparks and throw their seatbelt-less operators over Picard’s head. If we could get Giordi to stop reversing the polarity for a minute, we could get him to go shopping at the nearest Starship parts store and pick up a few fuses. And while he’s shopping, he could stop at an intergalactic IKEA and pick up a few chairs for the bridge personnel. If you’re going to put me in front of a fuseless exploding console all day, the least you could do is let me sit down.

5. Rule by committee.
Here’s the difference between Star Trek and the best SF show on TV last year:

Star Trek:

Picard: “Arm photon torpedoes!”
Riker: “Captain! Are you sure that’s wise?”
Troi: “Captain! I’m picking up conflicting feelings about this! And, it appears that you’re a ‘fraidy cat.”
Wesley: “Captain, I’m just an annoying punk, but I thought I should say something.”
Worf: “Captain, can I push the button? This is giving me a big Klingon warrior chubby.”
Giordi: “Captain, I think we should reverse the polarity on them first.”
Picard: “I’m so confused. I’m going to go to my stateroom and look
pensive.”

Firefly:

Captain: “Let’s shoot them.”
Crewman: “Are you sure that’s wise?”
Captain: “Do you know what the chain of command is? It’s the chain I’ll BEAT YOU WITH until you realize who’s in command.”
Crewman: “Aye Aye, sir!”

4. A Star Trek quiz:
Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and ‘Ensign Gomez’ beam down to a planet. Which one isn’t coming back?

3. Technobabble.
The other night, I couldn’t get my car to start. I solved the problem by reversing the polarity of the car battery, and routing the power through my satellite dish. The resulting subspace plasma caused a rift in the space-time continuum, which created a quantum tunnelling effect that charged the protons in the engine core, thus starting my car. Child’s play, really. As a happy side-effect, I also now get the Spice Channel for free.

2. The Holodeck.
I mean, it’s cool and all. But do you really believe that people would use it to re-create Sherlock Holmes mysteries and old-west saloons? Come on, we all know what the holodeck would be used for. And we also know what the worst job on the Enterprise would be: Having to squeegie the holodeck clean.

1. The Prime Directive.
How stupid is this? Remember when Marvin the Martian was going to blow up the Earth, because it obstructed his view of Venus? And how Bugs Bunny stopped him by stealing the Illudium Q36 Space Modulator? Well, in the Star Trek universe, Bugs would be doing time. Probably in a room filled with Roseanne lookalikes wearing spandex uniforms, walking through doors going WHEET! all day. It would be hell. At least until the Kaboom. The Earth-shattering Kaboom

Hat tip to https://oldnfo.org/2019/07/10/snerk-26/

The lovely and long suffering wife, Mamasita Caliente, is doing well.

Hernia surgery and esophageal lengthening. She has five small (1 cm) incisions and stitches in her navel.

They gave her Dualdid for pain after surgery of .5 mg and then eight minutes later gave her 1.0 mg.

When she wouldn’t wake up and her O2 started dropping they checked her respiration and when it was 8 breaths per minute they called for help. At 5 they called a recovery team.

The nurse came around the bed and said “there’s about to be a lot of people in here”

Well, I wasn’t leaving, but I’m not stupid so I’m in the corner keeping my mouth shut. They wound up giving her a Narcan and when it didn’t work….gave her another.

She was in the hospital for three days and doing breathing treatments.

Still on a liquid diet for another week, but she is getting better everyday.