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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Stendhal
Tuesday Poem...Pat Mora - Ode to Teachers
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58830/ode-to-teachers
Bobby Darin “Beyond The Sea”
https://youtu.be/4T_7M-0lwds?si=y06pRRK4UvcjhmcI
Fighting Monarch - THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD...Below you can read about some of the technology that is used to attack targeted individuals with microwave harassment, neurostrike, and voice-to-skull.
https://fightingmonarch.com/2025/05/06/the-ordeal-of-gilbert-pinfold/
Worst Of Babylon Bee
10 People Trump Is Sending To The Reopened Alcatraz
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-people-trump-should-send-to-the-reopened-alcatraz
Democrats Offer Illegal Immigrants $1,001 To Stay In US
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrat-leaders-offer-illegal-immigrants-1001-to-stay-in-us
Woman Terrified Of White Men Leaves Africa For Minnesota
https://babylonbee.com/news/woman-terrified-of-white-men-leaves-africa-for-minnesota
Corporal Klinger Finally Discharged From Army After Trans Military Ban
https://babylonbee.com/news/corporal-klinger-finally-discharged-from-army-after-trans-military-ban
Parents Distraught After Finding Soccer Ball Under Son’s Bed
https://babylonbee.com/news/parents-distraught-after-finding-soccer-ball-under-sons-bed
C. H. Spurgeon's Evening Reading (May 6th)
"All the days of my appointed time will I wait." — Job 14:14
A little stay on earth will make heaven more heavenly. Nothing makes rest so sweet as toil; nothing renders security so pleasant as exposure to alarms. The bitter quassia cups of earth will give a relish to the new wine which sparkles in the golden bowls of glory. Our battered armour and scarred countenances will render more illustrious our victory above, when we are welcomed to the seats of those who have overcome the world. We should not have full fellowship with Christ if we did not for awhile sojourn below, for He was baptized with a baptism of suffering among men, and we must be baptized with the same if we would share his kingdom. Fellowship with Christ is so honourable that the sorest sorrow is a light price by which to procure it. Another reason for our lingering here is for the good of others. We would not wish to enter heaven till our work is done, and it may be that we are yet ordained to minister light to souls benighted in the wilderness of sin. Our prolonged stay here is doubtless for God's glory. A tried saint, like a well-cut diamond, glitters much in the King's crown. Nothing reflects so much honour on a workman as a protracted and severe trial of his work, and its triumphant endurance of the ordeal without giving way in any part. We are God's workmanship, in whom He will be glorified by our afflictions. It is for the honour of Jesus that we endure the trial of our faith with sacred joy. Let each man surrender his own longings to the glory of Jesus, and feel, "If my lying in the dust would elevate my Lord by so much as an inch, let me still lie among the pots of earth. If to live on earth for ever would make my Lord more glorious, it should be my heaven to be shut out of heaven." Our time is fixed and settled by eternal decree. Let us not be anxious about it, but wait with patience till the gates of pearl shall open.
Love y'all! Thanks for letting me tag along on this journey to the truth y'all!
This just happened two doors down from my daughter’s house, tonight. Her son’s friends are the boys mentioned in this bulletin. Please thank God with me that these boys weren’t killed. https://mynews4.com/news/local/lyon-county-man-arrested-for-kidnapping-after-juveniles-found-injured-in-basement
Praise God; I'm glad they are safe.
Wow, thats scary. Thank God the kids were found. Could have been so much worse if their luck was different.
Sending up prayers of gratitude with you! Thank you, Jesus, these boys are safe now!
Amen! I am so very thankful. The guy beat those boys with a rake handle and a scythe. He carved his initials in one boy’s hand. They are okay, though. Thank You, Sweet Jesus.
He sounds demonic. I know those poor kids are going to be deeply tramatized by this sick psycho. Thank God in Heaven that man has been caught!
Updated timeline: PRESS RELEASE UPDATED TIMELINE ON KIDNAPPING CASE. FERNLEY.
May 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM Timeline of events: Between approximately 5:45 PM and 6:00 PM - The juveniles were at the park on the swings located off Cory Way, where they were forced to leave by the suspect. 6:17 PM – The reporting party calls dispatch, stating her brother received a text that someone was threatening to kill him. The reporting party is currently driving around trying to find her brother. 6:18 PM - Dispatched as “threats” call. 6:23 PM - First unit arrived on scene 6:39 PM – Victim’s phone pings area the suspect’s residence (Not exactly at the suspect’s residence) 6:39 PM – Deputies in the immediate area searching for the juveniles / suspect 6:46 PM – Reporting party receives a phone call from her brother, stating that her brother is in a basement 6:55 PM - Juvenile victim calls 911, says they are in a crawl space 6:55 PM – Deputies arrived at the suspect’s residence, and the suspect is detained 6:59 PM – Juvenile located in the crawl space 7:03 PM - Suspect in custody: 7:03 PM Deputies ultimately used the reporting party’s cell phone to track the victim’s phone to the suspect’s residence. The juveniles were at the park on the swings located off Cory Way. SAAVERDA came out of nowhere with his fists balled up, asking a juvenile why he thinks he is so tough and telling them that he was a member of the Cartel. The juvenile stated SAAVERDA, then proceeded to slap him in the face, telling them that he was not scared of jail and that if he went to jail, he was going to kill them. The juvenile stated that SAAVERDA then told them they were going to go for a walk and to act normal and not look at any cars. SAAVERDA then took them down an alleyway where he had them hop the fence into the back yard of 250 Johnson Lane. The juvenile stated SAAVERDA, then took his phone and told him to unlock his phone and delete everything he had on there. The juvenile stated SAAVERDA used his phone to record them while he beat them. The juveniles were then forced into the crawl space under the house. The juveniles were continually removed from the crawl space and beaten. All three juveniles were transported to the hospital, and SAAVERDA was transported to the Lyon County Jail for booking. No further information will be released at this time. Respectfully, Sheriff Brad Pope Click here to View on Facebook Click Here to View on Instagram Click Here to View on Nextdoor View Image(s) at: https://cdn.myocv.com/ocvapps/a95889447/files/681ba6d49e262-495844992_1141277584713465_1924069610096631854_n.jpgShared from the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office app at https://apps.myocv.com/share/a95889447
This guy is insane! I'm so glad they are removing him from society. Hopefully he doesn't survive prison.
I’m hoping he’s illegal and getting transported to El Salvador. Edit: I heard tonight at church that the guy is from here and graduated from Fernley High School. I cannot confirm this yet but to be fair, I want the story as accurate as possible.
I was thinking the same thing.
Did they give you any explanation as to why he took them or what he wanted? Sounds like they weren't sexually assaulted, thankfully. Can you state the approximate age of the boys? Your daughter must have been freaking out to have something like that so close to home. So thankful they were rescued.
Edit: I just read your update. What a crazy story. Guy is insane. Where they little kids? (They were on swings, so it sounds like it - which makes it even worse. Three teenagers might have had a chance to get the jump on him.)
The boys were 13 and 14 years old. My 3 granddaughters were at the park when the man confronted the boys and hit one of them. The girls ran to my daughter’s house where they were at until my other daughter got home from school. Daughter 1 locked the doors and called the police. Meanwhile, the man was forcing the boys to walk through an alley and across the road with instructions to keep their heads down and not to make eye contact with any passing cars to the house they were found at. He tells them he’s cartel and he will kill them if they don’t comply. He tells them to jump the back fence. At this point, daughter one has taken the girls to daughter 2’s house as daughter 2 had just gotten home. Now daughter 2 has all three girls and was going to take them to a local restaurant to keep them together and distracted as the park incident happened in daughter 1’s neighborhood. As she is leaving, a police officer was asking her son about the location of one of those boys. My daughter asked why he was talking to him and he told her a boy was missing. She asked if she could help and at that moment, they see a very distraught woman walking down the street looking at her phone. Daughter 2 then finds out that the woman’s son sent her a message for help and had his location on. It was pinging in the area. She spoke broken English and her phone was in Spanish. Daughter 2 sends the girls into the house with their brother. She then helped the mother and the cop pinpoint the location to one house. The officer was told by another neighbor that he witnessed three boys jumping over the back fence. The officer then approached the man standing inside said fence and asks if the boys are there. The man tells him no, that they went to the canal. My daughter tells the cop, no, the phone is still pinging here. The cop tells her and the mother to wait there while he checked the front of the house and to call 911 if they saw him try to run. He goes around and lo’ and behold, the guy is running away from the house but was caught. Then they went into the house and further pinpointed exactly where the boys were-under the house in the crawl space, tied up and beaten. The mother collapsed on my daughter, thanking her for helping her save her son when she saw that he was okay. As for why the guy did this, I don’t know. They knew him from inside the mobile home park. If you saw the update I posted, you know the guy carved his initials into one boy’s hand and filmed himself repeatedly pulling them out and beating them with a rake handle with one of their phones. The man forced the boy to erase everything on his phone previous to the filming. He told them he’d kill them and he didn’t care about jail. Maybe the guy was upset about some beef that happened at school? I don’t know. Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ listened to them- the mother, my daughter and my granddaughters who were praying together that those boys would be found and okay. God delivered us. I found out after, as it’s not feasible to stop and call Mom for prayer when time is of the essence. All praise goes to Him.
Thank you. That story should go national. It should. I hope the boys aren't too traumatized. And it wasn't clear if the girls saw the boys leave the park. It sounds like maybe they didn't know what was going on, which might be a blessing. But the boy who was cut, my gosh, that's horrible and that monster should be locked up for a very long time. I wonder if he was illegal. If so, he needs to be gone asap. In a way, I wonder why the boys felt they had to go with him. If he didn't have a gun or weapon, he must have been very intimidating to persuade 3 boys to go with him. I'm so grateful that one boy still had his cell phone and was able to send a message. I agree, God gets the glory.
If this winds up on your local news, which it SHOULD, I hope you'll post it here so everyone can see and share it around. In order to get undesirable illegals out of the country as fast as possible, we need stories like this to be heard and shared. Thanks again for the in depth info and I'm so relieved it turned out this way. I just pray the boys will not be scarred for life from this incident.
You’re welcome. I should’ve clarified. If I’m not mistaken, the man had the scythe or a knife on him when he made them walk over to the other house. Also, the girls did not see them leave the park. They ran home to tell Mom.
You probably said it and I just missed it. No wonder they went. What a sicko!
My first post has the initial news4 link. The update is directly from the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office.
Oh gosh, I missed it. Duh! Thanks.
Edit. Oh, I see what I did. I just saw the photo and didn't realize it was a video. You'll have to let us know how this case proceeds. God bless your daughter and family, and all the others nearby. I sure hope they don't send him home. I see his bail was set very high so maybe he'll be stuck there for a while.
Dinosaur National Monument: Fossil Graveyard of the Flood BY TIM CLAREY, PH.D. | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025 https://www.icr.org/article/dinosaur-national-monument-fossil-graveyard Straddling the border of Utah and Colorado, Dinosaur National Monument (DNM) is one of the richest exposures of dinosaur fossils in the world.1 But not just dinosaurs are on display. DNM also contains equally breathtaking rock exposures and sheer canyons.
Visitors usually begin at the Quarry Visitor Center, located about 20 miles east of Vernal, Utah. Shuttle buses take them about a half mile to the Quarry Exhibit Hall where the dinosaur fossils are exposed in a steeply dipping wall of rock. About 30 miles east of this is the Canyon Visitor Center near Dinosaur, Colorado, which is the gateway to DNM’s canyonlands. Overlooks along Harpers Corner Road allow visitors to view the canyon walls that rise several thousand feet above the Green and Yampa Rivers.
The story of DNM began on August 17, 1909, when Earl Douglass of the Carnegie Museum found eight vertebrae of an Apatosaurus. This discovery led to the opening of the famous Dinosaur Quarry.2 In 1915, President Woodrow Wilson designated the 80 acres surrounding the quarry as a national monument. Since then, Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Gerald Ford, with the help of the U.S. Congress, expanded the protected area to over 328 square miles (210,280 acres).2
Today, the fully enclosed Quarry Exhibit Hall allows visitors to view over 1,500 fossils still in place in an exposed sandstone wall of the Morrison Formation. Amazingly, many of the dinosaur fossils are either partially articulated (still together) or nearly complete.
Because DNM is located on the eastern end of the Uinta Mountains, its eroded canyons expose many varieties of rocks.1 Totaling about 8,000 feet in thickness, these colorful, fossil-rich sedimentary rocks include five of the six megasequences (all but the Tippecanoe). And below this stack of rocks are thick layers of pre-Sauk (Precambrian) sediments of the Uinta Mountain Group, totaling over 6,900 feet in thickness.3 But how did this thick stack of sediments get here? And how did so many dinosaurs get buried in such a small area?
The Conventional Account
The conventional explanation is that these rocks began accumulating hundreds of millions of years ago and built up slowly over vast eons. Evolutionary paleontologists believe the layer that contains the dinosaurs, the Morrison Formation, was deposited about 150 million years ago by a series of rivers and floodplains.4
Furthermore, conventional scientists postulate that hundreds of dinosaurs died in a drought, leaving their bones along a dry riverbed.4 Later, rain-swollen rivers transported thousands of bones of at least 10 different dinosaur species into the deposit at Dinosaur Quarry.4
But there are some issues with this. The fossils and types of rocks in the Morrison Formation don’t match the conventional story. Instead, three features observed at DNM point to an origin from the global Flood.
Although the Morrison Formation is only about 300 feet thick, it has a vast areal extent. It is very consistent in its layering, sediment content, and color patterns, making it distinguishable across 600,000 square miles in the American West, from Canada to New Mexico. What rivers today deposit the exact same order of sand and clay beds uniformly across such a widespread expanse? Rivers carve sinuous, narrow channels within mud-dominated floodplains, not continuous sand and clay beds that correlate across 11 states.
The global Flood is a better explanation for this vast deposit and for the burial of the dinosaurs, too. Massive waves could easily deposit the same layers in the same order as wave after wave inundated the landscape. The dinosaurs were caught in one flow, similar to a logjam. The bed formed when the flow slowed and dropped its load of sediments and carcasses.
The Morrison Formation reveals recognizable evidence of marine (ocean) influence.5,6 For example, there are several rippled limestone layers up to 60 feet thick.5 Limestone usually forms in a marine environment. And ripples indicate persistent currents were active during the deposition of these layers. Recent flume studies have shown that thin-layered, lime-rich mud beds form by water flowing between 10 and 20 inches per second, creating ripples and thin-layered limestone beds similar to those observed at DNM.7
In addition, many distinctively marine seashells are found in the formation near DNM, including glauconite-rich sand beds.5 The mineral glauconite is commonly accepted as an indicator of marine influence.
There is also a persistent chert layer in the Morrison. This single bed is about 0.5 to 3 inches thick and is referred to as the welded chert.5,8 Chert, or flint, is a microcrystalline variety of quartz that is marine in origin. But what’s startling is the remarkably persistent nature of this one thin layer.8 This same thin chert bed has been found across Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.8
How can a single, few-inch-thick layer extend across so many states? Again, the global Flood provides the most reasonable answer. One massive tsunami-like wave with the right chemistry could spread a thin layer of chert across this vast region. Only ocean water transported by huge waves traveling across the continent can adequately explain the land and marine mixing that is observed in the Morrison. No conventional explanation has been satisfactory.
Just north of the Quarry Visitor Center, Split Mountain is over 7,600 feet high. Oddly, the Green River cuts diagonally through it to form Split Mountain Canyon, which has walls of rock that rise over 2,500 feet from the river level. Why does the river run through the large uplifted block of rock instead of flowing around it?
Some conventional scientists think these water gaps were carved by stream piracy, a unique process involving headward erosion.9 This is very tricky because it requires two streams flowing in opposite directions to meet at the exact same point and then somehow erode away enough for one stream to take over the other—hence the piracy. But this explanation doesn’t solve the problem. Even if the headwaters did touch at some time in the past, there is still a major drainage divide between the two rivers. Water would still flow away from the divide in opposite directions like it does all along the Continental Divide today.
A better explanation is that water once covered Split Mountain as the Flood reached its maximum height. Later, during the receding phase, sediments composing Split Mountain were folded upward into a cylinder shape.10 As the fold rose, vertical cracks formed, cutting across the folded layers. Water draining off North America at the end of the Flood ripped into the cracks, eroding and deepening the canyon through Split Mountain. The rather small Green River resides in this canyon today.
Conclusion
The features we observe at Dinosaur National Monument are reminders of the immense power of the Flood in depositing vast layers early in the process, then eroding great quantities in the later phase. The mass collection of dinosaur bones and many other fossils, the extent of the Morrison Formation and its marine influence, and the deep canyon through Split Mountain are best explained by the global Flood.
References
NPS Geodiversity Atlas—Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado and Utah. National Park Service. Posted on nps. gov. Dinosaur National Monument Park Statistics. National Park Service. Posted on nps.gov. Stratigraphy of Dinosaur National Monument. National Park Service. Posted on nps.gov. Morrison Formation. National Park Service. Posted on nps. gov. Sprinkel, D. A. et al. 2019. Stratigraphic Setting of Fossil Log Sites in the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) Near Dinosaur National Monument, Uintah County, Utah, USA. Geology of the Intermountain West. 6: 61–76. Hoesch, W. A. and S. A. Austin. 2004. Dinosaur National Monument: Jurassic Park or Jurassic Jumble. Acts & Facts. 33 (4). Schieber, J. et al. 2013. Experimental Deposition of Carbonate Mud from Moving Suspensions: Importance of Flocculation and Implications for Modern and Ancient Carbonate Deposition. Journal of Sedimentary Research. 83 (11): 1025–1031. King, R. J and D. F. Merriam. 1969. Origin of the “Welded Chert,” Morrison Formation (Jurassic), Colorado. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 80 (6): 1141–1148. Helble, T. and C. Hill. 2016. Carving of the Grand Canyon: A Lot of Time and a Little Water, a Lot of Water and a Little Time (or Something Else?). In The Grand Canyon, Monument to an Ancient Earth: Can Noah’s Flood Explain the Grand Canyon? C. Hill et al., eds. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 163–171. Clarey, T. 2020. Carved in Stone: Geological Evidence of the Worldwide Flood. Dallas, TX: Institute for Creation Research. Dr. Clarey is the director of research at the Institute for Creation Research and earned his Ph.D. in geology from Western Michigan University.
Cite this article: Tim Clarey, Ph.D. 2025. Dinosaur National Monument: Fossil Graveyard of the Flood. Acts & Facts. 54 (3), 10-13.
Creation science studies are interesting, there are a lot of scientific evidence zingers that go against the evolutionary models.
I love how cool our Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent is in responding to Congressional questions. 💕👍😊
Bessent is really cool and not unly does he fully understand Trump's vision and completely behind him, but is also the most qualified guy to lead through this unprecedented economic times.
Thats why so many "controlled opposition" paytriots tried to get Anons to turn against him even before he was confirmed.
Imagine how bad the Pakistan vs India war is gonna smell
For those who like to collect strange, irrelevant facts: I just found out that Pinball machines were banned in a lot of places in US, including Texas, for almost 30 years.
They thought it was based purely on luck and hence must be mob run. I cant blame them, they seem to be quite redpilled.
Luckily in 1976, a master pinball player demonstrated in front of the committee how he can call out a hole and drop the ball in that hole - proving it was based on skill and not luck, and the ban was revoked.
He was quite the pinball wizard, it seems. Here's Puddles the Clown singing about it to the tune of Folsom Prison Blues.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6bfPwtUTP4k&pp=ygUWUGluYmFsbCB3aXphcmQgcHVkZGxlcw%3D%3D
I found this place where they have all the old arcade machines, including a range of pinball machines in Ohio. One day I would love to visit them!
Are you in Australia? That would be a big trip, but I hope you make it someday.
Yeah, I used to live in US before moving here. Before the Plandemic I used to travel to US almost yearly for business. Used to be typically 20 hour flight, but good thing I love flying. Looking forward to coming again after everything is cleaned up. Hopefully for the next year celebrations!
That's going to be BIG, YUGE. Nobody throws an Independence Day party like Trump, and the 250th? Fagetaboudit. Be here or be square.
I definitely dont want to be square! (even though I have no idea wha it means, lol)
Haha, seriously? It means to be out of it, not cool, a dud. That sort of thing. It is a really old reference. I guess I was just in a weird mood because I don't use it very often, lol.
But seriously, I can't imagine being stuck on a plane for a 20 hour flight. I like to fly, but yikes! I mean, just trying to sleep ... I'd have to take a break somewhere for a couple of days before I finished the trip.
In Chicago there are a number of bars that have old arcade machines and pinball machines. It's the best! I go there with friends all the time
A few days ago I introduced a plan to form a Global Brotherhood and Sisterhood. Once the Great Awakening begins, every living person on Earth has a Quantum claim to Earth. This will be the pipeline all information travels. This is a Grandfathered and finite number. We will give ourselves 2 years to design and build a Quantum system that operates God's LOC. During this 2 years, we will keep the existing financial systems running while we operate a temporary system called the Giant T-Account. This will be the Golden Age for trustworthy accountants. All three newly formed Brotherhoods will act as Stewards , with the newly formed Sister hoods as a support. Every person in a Nation can put at risk $1 Million dollars. It might never be used, it acts as a backup security similar to a reinsurance investor fund..every person who ledges $1 million will have a high place in a Brotherhood and receive double their money once God's Line of Credit is up and running. If you are wealthy and want to pledge more, it has to go under another man. They have to receive at least half the profit when they are paid back from God's LOC, they also enjoy a higher initial ranking in the newly formed Brotherhoods. The key objective for the Giant T-Account is to keep all precious systems operating. We learned from the lockdowns that it is easy to achieve. During the two years, this period will be called The Great Philosophy Period. We will map out the best directions for our Communities, Cities, Nations, and World. More details to follow on the Dynamics of Each Brotherhood.
So you are saying that the future will be made up of two classes - those who have million dollars lying around to risk and those who don’t?
Not at all BB, I'm saying they are a conduit to help erect the God's LOC. during the transition period. The more you help and the less you take from the precious resources needed to move into the Golden Age, the higher you'll rise in the newly formed Brotherhoods. The people that recognize the vision of the future and are willing to help with whatever God given talents they possess. They too will rise. Those who AIM to exploit or abuse the vulnerability (during the 2 years transition period) will have missed a great opportunity in the LONG RUN. I'll explain more of the Dynamics of the 3 Brotherhoods later on. Then you'll see the bigger picture in a clearer LIGHT. The Wealthy class can choose to be part of a Better World, or not. It will be an easy line drawn for all to see.
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