The Courts Have Gone Wild
Are We Truly There?
The American Thinker has a great, and highly disturbing article about American tipping point. It begins:
Truly great disasters come like a thief in the night. How many foresaw Rome’s sacking in 410 A.D., her collapse 66 years later, WWI or WWII? As for today, how many see that the United States is at what some call a tipping point, what others may call a Fourth Turning? Whatever you call it, the American republic is in its last days. This is too scary for many to contemplate, but there’s something far scarier: playing ostrich and not being prepared for things to come.
The so-called Left, ever violent since its French Revolution birth and as power hungry as ever, wholly controls the culture: the media, mainstream and social; academia; and entertainment. This means it controls long-term politics, since the latter is downstream of culture. So is big business, mind you, which is why the Left controls most of it as well; this, of course, translates into funding.
Trump’s 2016 victory will not MAGA; it was merely a stay of execution, a prolonging of the inevitable. This should have been obvious in a country that could elect Barack Obama and then, like the Titanic having backed up to hit the iceberg again, re-elect him. If it wasn’t, it should be obvious now that the Democrats have seized the House in a Watergate-level rout.
The Ultimate Insult
Ouch !
The Provenance of Thomas
As we read what Ron Cameron writes on the Gospel of Thomas, we need to remain cognizant that there are other works that are ascribed to Thomas. Some of these works are dated to the third century, while the Gospel of Thomas is said (depending on who does the saying) either in middle of the first century (some few years after the death of Jesus) on the first part of the 2nd century. Cameron says:
The fact that Judas “the Twin” was the apostolic figure particularly revered in Syriac-speaking churches is important evidence for the date and place of composition of the text. For as Koester (in Layton 1989: 39) has shown, Gos. Thom.’s identification of this author as Jesus’ brother Judas does not presuppose a knowledge of the NT, but “rests upon an independent tradition.”
In addition, the peculiar, redundant name Didymus Judas Thomas seems to be attested only in the East, where the shadowy disciple named Thomas (Mark 3:18 par.; John 14:5) or Thomas Didymus (John 11:16; 20:24; 21:2) was identified with Judas in the Syriac NT and called Judas Thomas (John 14:22).
The occurrence of variants of this distinctive name in the Acts of Thomas is especially striking, not only because the latter evidently shows acquaintance with Gos. Thom. 2, 13, 22, and 52, but also because it is widely held that the Acts of Thomas was composed in Syriac in the early 3d century. Other documents that invoke the authority of Judas Thomas by name are also of Syriac origin, such as the Teaching of Addai,the Abgar legend (Eus. Histl. Eccl. 1.13.1-22), and the Book of Thomas the Contender (NHC II, 7).
Gun Wisdom
“Do not harm, but if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you … it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
– Dalai Lama
Around the Farm
Postings have been slim for the last couple of days and will probably be just as sparse through the Thanksgiving holiday.
I’ve been in the ‘shoot-house’ a lot over the last couple of days, we are covered up in deer and I’m really wanting to knock down one of the several eight points, or one of the two ten points I’ve discovered on the game-cams. I’ve been seeing plenty of deer, but not the ones worthy of pulling the trigger on. Yesterday afternoon I had 8 deer within 50 yards of the shoot-house at the same time.
We put the hay-rings out and loaded them with a couple of 5×6 round bales. Probably could have waited another week, but the grass has been eaten down pretty well. We have enough in reserve that it doesn’t hurt make it available to the cows now.
Also need to get some ‘Stabil’ treated fuel into the gas operated equipment. This includes: tiller, cultivator, log spliter, zero turn mower, weed-eater, chainsaws, auger, boat, etc. What runs on diesel will be OK.
I’ve worked around the idiots at the Alabama department of motor vehicles and have gotten the 2019 stickers for the boat. I wanted to make sure that I had the boat registered in Alabama because all of the lakes and water ways are about 10 miles south of my home in Tennessee. Before I bought the boat and initially registered it in Alabama (while I lived in Alabama) I was certain that I did not need to be a resident in order to do so. Unfortunately the folk at the county motor vehicle office cannot either read or understand their own regulations. So I renewed the registration on line, used my Tennessee address and Tennessee Drivers License, and had the stickers in a week. Really need to find the time to hunt down the Crappie, I hear they actually want to be caught right now.
Stick with me folks, will be hitting on all cylinders again shortly.
A Civics Lesson for the Cortex
As seen at Breitbart: Representative-elect Occasional Cortex cannot even name the three branches of the federal government as shown while she spoke on a video conference call with prospective left-wing candidates on Saturday.
“If we work our butts off to make sure that we take back all three chambers of Congress — uh, rather, all three chambers of government: the presidency, the Senate, and the House,”
Contrary to this moonbats claim, the U.S. government is divided into branches and not chambers. From my youth: executive, judicial and legislative.
A Little Cabin for Tuesday Morning
Across our Planet
Lightning in the Grand Canyon
Y’all Yankees Stay Warm
A blast of cold air will bring one of the coldest Thanksgivings on record for some folk up in Yankee Land. You folk try and stay warm.
A strong area of high pressure from the Arctic Circle will descend across Canada and into the Northeast, sending temperatures plummeting toward levels more common on New Year’s Day, not Thanksgiving Day.
High temperatures on Thanksgiving could be close to the coldest on record no matter what day of the month the holiday was celebrated. (Nov. 22, Nov. 24, Nov. 26, etc.).
New York City has only had three Thanksgivings dating to 1870 when the high temperature failed to rise out of the 20s, according to National Weather Service statistics. The coldest was a high of 26 degrees on Nov. 28, 1901.
Forecast highs Thursday could be near that all-time record-coldest high set almost 117 years ago.
Good News
From a Navy Veteran
I stopped by the Ford Dealership yesterday, for a look at the new 2019 F-150 aluminum pickup. Just for fun, I took it out for a test drive. I wanted to sense that new truck “feel” before they become old.
The salesperson (a nice looking lady wearing a “RESIST”lapel pin) sat in the passenger seat next to me, describing the truck and all its “wonderful” options. The seats were of particular interest. She explained that the seats directed warm air to your butt in the winter and directed cool air to your butt in the summer heat.
Feeling like messing with her, I mentioned that this must be a CONSERVATIVE truck. Looking a bit angry, she asked why I thought it was a CONSERVATIVE truck. I explained, “If it were a LIBERAL truck, the seats would just blow smoke up your ass year-round!”
I had to walk back to the dealership but it was worth it.
Bernie’s Plan
Snatched From the Diogenes Sarcastica
It was just too damn good to leave it alone. HT to Diogenes Middle Finger
Mind Candy: Quantum Theory Made Easy
Yep, Here’s Your Sign
This is the Lunacy We Are Up Against
Meanwhile, there is a good read about Nina and kneepads at Victory Girls. It’s worth the read
Little Adam Schitt
And so it begins anew, the Trumpster and Little Adam are certain to tangle in the coming congressional session.
The Donald described Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California as “little Adam Schitt” in a tweet Sunday, criticizing the likely incoming House Intelligence Committee chairman for his comments about acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker earlier in the day.
The tweet was still up on the president’s Twitter page more than an hour after Trump first posted it.
“So funny to see little Adam Schitt (D-CA) talking about the fact that Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker was not approved by the Senate, but not mentioning the fact that Bob Mueller (who is highly conflicted) was not approved by the Senate!”
I guess if we can’t have good government we can at least have a reasonably good comedy as a consolation prize.
The Night Before Monday Morning
A Sunday Cabin
Saturday’s Cabin
Interlude: Temple Of Silence
Christmas is Right Around the Bend
Can’t wait for the dingle bells to begin tolling
Not Even if I Won the Lottery
Liberal Logic
The Bullet We Dodged
Can You Remember When?
Christmas Special
Your Opinion
Gun Logic
As the Worm Turns
More Flatfoot with Rebecca Stout
Ron Cameron on the Independence of Thomas
Those who argue that Gos. Thom. is dependent on the Synoptics not only must explain the differences in wording and order, but also give a reason for Gos. Thom.‘s choice of genre and the absence of the gospels’ narrative material in the text. To assert, for example, that Gos.Thom. erased the passion narratives because Gnosticism was concerned solely with a redeeming message contained in words of revelation (Haenchen 1961: 11)is simply not convincing, since the Apocryphon of James (NHC I, 2), the Second treatise of the Great Seth (NHC VII, 2), and the Apocalypse of Peter(NHC VII, 3) all indicate that sayings of and stories about the death and resurrection of Jesus were reinterpreted by various gnostic groups. For any theory of dependence of Gos. Thom. on the NT to be made plausible, one must show that the variations in form and content of their individual sayings,together with the differences in genre and structure of their entire texts, are intertial modifications of their respective parallels, designed to serve a particular purpose.
Our Common Enemy
A Cabin by the Sea
Quote of the Day
“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”
– General Douglas MacArthur
Pink Floyd – Wearing The Inside Out
Two Years of Laughs and Giggles
We can expect a gloriously ridiculous **it show for the two years following the swearing in of the new congress. As much as I wish Trump could have maintained both houses to advance his agenda, my consolation prize is the world class entertainment that is sure to follow.
Truer Words are Rarely Spoken
The Next Ice Age is on The Way
That’s the warning from a Nasa scientist who fears sunspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped so low that it could herald the arrival of a uniquely grim mini Ice Age.‘We see a cooling trend,’ Martin Mlynczak of Nasa’s Langley Research Center told Space Weather.‘High above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy.
If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold.’Sunspot activity follows a cycle which is believed to last 11 years as the number of patches peaks and drops.
There have been very few spots on the sun for most of this year, meaning that it could be about to get very cold, very quickly.‘It could happen in a matter of months,’ Mlynczak added.
The full story is at Metro News
Gayness Exists Across the Universe
Third World Problem at The Doorstep
A Wicked Gaggle Leads
It seems that every narrative produced by our politicians is designed to exclusively advance their own self interest. In this instance, the tweets by the minority (soon to be majority) leader, the self interest involved is diminishing the authority of the President and disparaging his motives. What a wicked gaggle we have placed in positions of power.
Nationalism: Fighting Against Self Interest
Benjamin Franklin once stated that: “When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.”
I can’t help but think that we have already reached that tipping point in our culture, self interest at the ballot box, and we are on the very short slide into the ash heap of history. The country cannot long endure a populous that will place their own slovenly habits and self interest above the health of the republic. While critics vocally disparage ‘nationalism’, it is nationalism that drives patriots past self interest and inspires the selflessness needed to keep the nation robust.
From the Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin
Another Great Joe Dan Commentary
Thursday’s Cabin
Socialist Math
That Moment…..
A Moral Impossibility
“It is a lesson of history that it is ethically, morally, and philosophically impossible to have too many personal weapons, whether they be edged, impact or projectile.”
– David W. Loeffler