The Trump Bible....That is how a lot of the media reports the God Bless The USA Bible that Donald Trump and Lee Greenwood are advertising for about $60. My take on this is a little different. This is not a church sponsoring a Bible that includes the Constitution and Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights and Pledge of Allegiance but individuals. Yes it is political but surely some of the people buying this would have the Word of God in their hands for the first time.....and others might open God's Word for the first time in a long time so I try to focus on that.
I might as well be watching local news from L. A. or New York....Israeli citizens demanding the government make a deal to get the hostages back....as if such a deal or some law will end all imminent existential threats to the country and the world? They do know that their enemy wants to kill them all....do they not....deal or no deal? The reports right now are that the government is considering releasing about 800....terrorists...for forty hostages. Other reports within the past two days are that IDF forces just captured about five or six hundred combatants in Gaza. How does this make sense for Hamas....get 800....lose almost as many? Possibly the ones to be released are more important than the ones captured at this stage of the war? As for Israel....releasing 800 serious terrorists at first glance does not make sense....unless the government knows that as soon the hostages would be released that the war to eradicate Hamas would be taken to the next step....making 800 released terrorists neither here nor there.
Prime Minister Netanyahu's government is putting forth a law that would continue military deferments to the Haredi....(or the Ultra-Orthodox.) This obviously isn't going over well....to put it mildly....but Netanyahu needs those votes.
The return to a military draft in America is a probability....but it's also the elephant in the room. No one wants to talk about it. Do we even know that it is already settled that there would no longer be any college deferments? Do college students know this? They would get to finish out their term. Who gets drafted? Women? No. Aliens? What do you think? There is no longer a homosexuality clause. I don't have any idea....nor do they....on transgenders. What a mess. And what would the wartime basic training be like? We can't really hurt anyone's feelings anymore can we?
The following paragraph was posted in August of 2018! It is being reported in many places that Trump is considering bringing Paul Manafort back on the team.
So let's go over this again....Paul Manafort was recruited by a political party in the Ukraine because of his expertise in taking up the case of despots and oppressors....he was recruited to help the Ukraine's pro-Putin candidate....pro-Putin candidate....and Manafort had been in business as a lobbyist with longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone.....but President Trump says....hey....the guy worked for me 100 days and I fired him.....and we believe that to be a fair appraisal of what happened....to top it off....President Trump bashes NATO unmercifully.....which coincidentally Putin despises with a passion......and we conservatives still think that the Mueller investigation is a witch hunt.....and we're supposed to be the smart ones.....and conservative talk radio defends Paul Manafort as if he's Oliver North.....and they're supposed to be the honest ones?
Franklin Graham tweeted or X'd or whatever the terminology is....a recommendation to read an article by Newt Gingrich titled....Seven Keys To President Trump's Triumph. I read it. Franklin's Graham's recommendation of this article is an endorsement of Trump. If asked who he will endorse I would expect he would say no one....maybe not....but either way you do not recommend an article like this without the purpose of it being a full-fledged endorsement. Billy Graham's son has been instrumental in Trump's continued bewitching of evangelicals. By the way....every one of those "Keys" that Newt Gingrich writes about can be challenged by anyone whose first priority is the need for truth and not the need for an election victory.
Ben Shapiro recently published his own list of positives of Donald Trump....and as with Franklin Graham....I can go over every one and challenge Shapiro....but what is odd is that Ben Shapiro is known for his intellectual abilities....how does a Shapiro or a Lindsey Graham or a Ted Cruz....so successfully play dumb? They must go home and just try to avoid looking in the mirror.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is our....A. O. C....how did she wind up in the hierarchy of the Republican Party? Well we know how....by the same spirit that just commandeered the RNC. MTG and Boebert and Mace are our squad. Voices of dissent are swiftly being dealt with. Consider this thought....'first they came for the establishment.'
Easter is an arbitrary date....settled long ago.....arbitrary in that someone picked the first Sunday after the first full moon of Spring. This year March 25 is that full moon....so March 31 is Easter. What about Passover? The Jewish Passover is in the middle of the Hebrew month of Nisan every year. It could fall on any day of the week. Complicating the situation is that since the Jewish lunar cycle is only 360 days...it loses days every year compared to the 365 day Gregorian calendar. So....long ago....the Jewish calendar added a leap year....but in this leap year it adds an entire additional month. This happens every few years. This is a leap year. So there are two months of Adar....Adar I and Adar II. Purim celebrates the events in the book of Esther. In a leap year....with two months of Adar....it is celebrated in Adar II. Purim this year is March 23.
My own denomination doesn't think much of Israel one way or the other. They are locked into that thinking because of their tradition. They get most things right....but not this. The treacherous recent attack from this past October.....as Sukkot was concluding....was prophetic....as God often uses events on the Jewish holidays as signs. Jesus had this to say in Matthew 16:2,3...."He answered them, 'When it is evening you say, 'it will be fair weather, for the sky is red.' And in the morning, 'it will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening,' You know how to interpret the weather signs in the sky, but you don't know how to interpret the signs of the times!"
I am usually outside with my camera and monocular for every blood moon....(I missed the blood moon that Trump was born on....June 14, 1946....because I wasn't born yet....but I did see all four of the 2014/2015 tetrad blood moons within which Trump came down that escalator)....and eclipse and asteroid shower and rare planetary alignment....a couple of times at the highest point in our area....alone....in the middle of the night. In 1997 I was on a special job assignment....outdoors....and for months on end watched Comet Hale-Bopp gloriously inch across the northern sky. Well this latest solar eclipse is set for April 8....a little over a month away. Could this possibly be a sign of some sort from God to man? Yeah...I think that it probably is....because of the timing with other events....but I would be outside trying to view it even if it were not. We thought about taking a short trip to Erie....(we do that on occasion anyway)....for an overnight....but the motel prices....around $200 a couple of days earlier than the eclipse....jumped to $1000 to $2000 for the night before and after the eclipse.
The Devil's Comet....there is a comet in the sky right now that supposedly can be seen with a telescope or even binoculars. A photo was taken of it where some of the gases escaped and it appeared as a devil's horns....thus the nickname. It may be visible at the same time as the April 8 solar eclipse.
I go into more depth in the post below this....but I want to add here that Donald Trump's mind and character never developed. He cannot conduct a normal conversation because he does not possess the ability. In all of these years of studying him I have never heard an interview where he appeared to be a normal....analytical human being. Let me give you one example. His constant comments on the importance of loyalty. This is interpreted in the media as his need for his people to obey without considering if the command were right or wrong. I believe that to the case but Trump is supposed to be so smart politically. If he were then in an interview he could simply say that we hold loyalty to friends...there may be two friends for life...and one might have an important job....and the other in need of a job....so the former simply does a favor for a friend and hires him....but Trump's mind is utterly incapable of expanding upon any concepts! He has since his early twenties only been able to see himself as the most important person in any situation. The computer of his mind stores only data pertaining to or supporting that concept. All criticism of him....the loyalty....or revenge....or lack of ethics....does not compute! It frustrates him....and unable to navigate a simple conversation....he lashes out by doubling down on the comments that drew the criticism to begin with. That is half of the problem....the other half being our inability to spot the problem....and deal with it.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder....."Exaggerated feelings of self-importance, excessive craving for admiration, reduced levels of empathy....usual onset....early adulthood....duration....long term." This is from Wikipedia.
