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https://www.latintimes.com/boat-targeted-us-strikes-was-carrying-marijuana-report-claims-593082
So reddit is latching on to this saying Trump is evil...
Any insight from frogs?
So if it had traces of marijuana that means the boat did not have anything else?
Thats all I need to know this is typical liberal hitpiece.
ACTS & FACTS FEATURES
Dinosaur Ridge: Last Stand of the Dinosaurs BY TIM CLAREY, PH.D. * | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2025
https://www.icr.org/article/15661/
Paleontologists have ranked Dinosaur Ridge as the top dinosaur track site in North America.1 Run by the nonprofit group Friends of Dinosaur Ridge, it was designated by the National Park Service as a National Natural Landmark.2 Located just 20 minutes west of Denver and just north of the town of Morrison, Colorado, it consists of a 1.1-mile-long rock outcrop that showcases strata from the lower Dakota Group and its underlying Morrison Formation. Over 300 individual fossil prints of dinosaurs and crocodiles are visible in the Dakota alone, with many darkened for easy visibility.
Approximately 250,000 visitors take the self-guided walking tour, ride bikes, or take a bus tour each year.2 But visitors are only exposed to the conventional, old-earth explanation for this site. Few likely realize that this topographic ridge is a stunning reminder of the judgement of the global Flood.
Geology of Dinosaur Ridge
Dinosaur Ridge exposes sedimentary units from what uniformitarian geologists call the Cretaceous and Jurassic Systems. Both rock systems are part of the dinosaur fossil-bearing strata found across the globe. ICR geologists place them in the upper part of the Zuni Megasequence. This set of rock layers reflects the time during the Flood year when the water was approaching its highest level.3
The lower strata (Jurassic) are part of the famous Morrison Formation. This unit was named for the nearby town of Morrison, CO. In 1877, Arthur Lakes and Henry Beckwith found the very first dinosaur bones within the Morrison exposures on the west side of the ridge.4 These bones represented Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, and Diplodocus specimens.4
Conventional scientists think a series of rivers deposited the Morrison over many thousands of years or more. They believe the overlying Cretaceous layer, in some places called the Dakota Sandstone, was deposited over a vast amount of time by a shifting shoreline or beach environment with some influence from rivers along the coast.4 But do beaches and rivers preserve footprints and create fossil bones today? Not at all.
Footprints in Stone
Most of the dinosaur footprints along Dinosaur Ridge were made by Iguanodon-type dinosaurs. These animals walked on all fours, making footprints from eight to 18 inches long.5 But there are also many other prints found along the trail, including those belonging to crocodiles. Even bird tracks are preserved just north of the site.5
In addition, the dinosaur footprints at Dinosaur Ridge are part of a massive line of tracks called the Dinosaur Freeway.5 These tracks extend south from Dinosaur Ridge hundreds of miles along the Colorado Front Range to parts of the high plains of Oklahoma and New Mexico.5 What could have caused these tracks to be preserved over such a vast region?
A Better Explanation: The Global Flood
Four observations testify that the global Flood best explains both the rocks and the fossils at Dinosaur Ridge.
In outcrops and in well cores, the Dakota is full of ripples and cross-bedded sands.4,6 These sedimentary structures indicate water flow. Cross-bedded sands form as ripples or dunes migrate during energetic water flow. Moving water shoves sand grains up the back of the ripple. The sand then falls down the lee side where the grains stop, forming a bedform that appears to cut across the bedding.
Fossils found in the Dakota also reveal water’s influence. Many burrows and trails of worms and other invertebrates like crustaceans are found in the sandy sediment.4 And many of the crocodile tracks indicate they were swimming in shallow water, having left only scratches in the substrate.5
Not only does the science point to a watery deposition, but several observations demonstrate that the Dakota Group was deposited right after the Morrison. First, in order to preserve tracks, prints, and ripples, they must be buried fast so they are not destroyed. Footprints on beaches or in rivers do not last long today.
The Morrison also contains downward bulges from dinosaurs stepping into freshly deposited sedimentary layers. These demonstrate that the sediment was still soft when the dinosaurs stepped upon it, compressing several individual beds at once. The bulges are most likely from large, long-necked dinosaurs like Apatosaurus, whose bones were found just a short distance away in the quarries.
Conventional geologists believe that there is a gap of 30–40 million years in between the deposition of the Morrison and the overlying Dakota Group. But the contact between the two shows little evidence of erosion and missing time, being nearly flat along Dinosaur Ridge and beyond. Just one million years of erosion should have marred the contact with gullies, channels, and canyons cut into the Morrison. Flat, planar erosion does not occur today. The Morrison and Dakota units were most likely deposited one atop the other in a matter of days or hours. Thus, the pancake-like deposition is again best explained by the global Flood. Massive tsunami waves washing back and forth across the continent could both deposit and erode vast planar surfaces.
The 200- to 300-foot-thick Dakota Sandstone extends from near the Arctic Circle in Canada to northeast New Mexico and Oklahoma and from Minnesota and Iowa to west of the Continental Divide.6 How many shorelines today extend across such a vast, wide region of the continent? Zero. Even a large seaway migrating across North America for eons, as envisioned by conventional geologists, would not result in such a relatively uniform blanket of sand.
Similarly, the 300-foot-thick Morrison Formation extends from Canada down to southern New Mexico and from central Utah to Nebraska and Kansas. Layers deposited by rivers should be dominated by narrow sandy channels mixed within mostly muddy floodplains. Instead, we see individually deposited, continuous layers in the same order and in the same relative thicknesses across this entire, multistate region. Both the Dakota and the Morrison are best explained by massive water waves that pushed across the continent, leaving mostly continuous beds.
The fossils found at the various quarries by the nineteenth-century dinosaur hunters on the south and west side of Dinosaur Ridge testify to the catastrophic conditions needed to bury these animals. And there are also dinosaur bone beds in the Morrison at hundreds of sites throughout Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, including Dinosaur National Monument. Bone beds like these do not form in such numbers or across such a vast region anywhere today. They need the special conditions provided by the global Flood.
The reason so many dinosaurs and other animals left their footprints here is because they likely lived near here in the pre-Flood world. ICR researchers have suggested a long peninsula of lowlands existed where dinosaurs lived, which is now found near the center of the continent.3 Before the dinosaurs were completely swept away by floodwaters, many likely tried to find any remaining land, or at least the shallowest water, where they could still stand and walk. This temporary respite created the Dinosaur Freeway as many dinosaurs congregated there to survive. Eventually, though, they were all swept away.
Conclusion
The remarkable sets of trackways exposed at Dinosaur Ridge could only have been preserved by rapid burial. Beaches and rivers do not preserve vast bone beds, ripples, or footprints. And the massive extent of the sand and mud layers that encapsulate the fossils are better explained by colossal waves washing across the continent than the conventional story of rivers and/or beaches slowly spreading across the continent. The global Flood, detailed in the book of Genesis, provides the perfect conditions to explain Dinosaur Ridge.
References
About Dinosaur Ridge. Dinosaur Ridge. Posted on dinoridge.org. Dinosaur Ridge Trail. Dinosaur Ridge. Posted on dinoridge.org. Clarey, T. 2020. Carved in Stone: Geological Evidence of the Worldwide Flood. Dallas, TX: Institute for Creation Research. Lockley, M. and L. Marquardt. 1995. A Field Guide to Dinosaur Ridge, 2nd ed. Morrison, CO: Friends of Dinosaur Ridge and the University of Colorado at Denver Dinosaur Trackers Research Group. Lockley, M. and A. Hunt. 1994. Fossil Footprints of the Dinosaur Ridge Area. Morrison, CO: Friends of Dinosaur Ridge and the University of Colorado at Denver Dinosaur Trackers Research Group. Macfarlane, P. A. et al. 1998. User’s Guide to the Dakota Aquifer in Kansas. Technical Series 2. Lawrence, KS: Kansas Geological Survey.
Cite this article: Tim Clarey, Ph.D. 2026. Dinosaur Ridge: Last Stand of the Dinosaurs. Acts & Facts. 55 (1), 10-13.
Bravo fren.
Spot silver 71.73 we are trading again, but the Shanghai market will be closed
Spot 73.62 at 10 central.
Asian Guy posted a video about what we can expect will happen when the markets open - both Western and Shanghai. Mainly because China's export controls for Silver goes into effect.
I am not sure if it will be as dramatic as he said, but the rift between paper and physical has opened up and its gonna tear the house of cards apart, hopefully.
He's not lying about a break in the paper as. Real silver, we expected it would happen at some point. The crimex will be out of silver soon,and Shanghai will set the price.
I pray for truth, justices and righteousness in the year 2026. I hope you all have a blessed year. Stay safe, sane, and healthy. God bless y'all.
I've been praying that the crooks in office will receive the justice they deserve since Trump was first elected. Maybe this will be the year it happens.
Frens, for as long as I can remember my family has a tradition of eating black eyed peas on New Years Day. Big pot cooking in the kitchen right now. With bacon and other goodies.
Black-eyed peas are traditionally eaten on New Year’s Day in the Southern United States to bring good luck, prosperity, and fortune for the coming year. The beans symbolize coins, collard greens represent paper money, and cornbread signifies gold, with pork often included to symbolize progress as pigs root forward.
Recipes for this tradition continue to emphasize slow-cooked dried black-eyed peas with ingredients like bacon, ham hocks, or smoked sausage for rich, smoky flavor.
Praise God for all the blessings of my life. I truly believe I am still here because I am on a mission from God.
😎😎
I grew up with that tradition, but since I married a woman from Maine, it hasn't continued :)
You have my sympathies fren.
I'll trade that loss for the gains resulting from marrying a woman from Maine :)
"Big pot cooking in the kitchen right now."
...set out an extra bowl...
...getting the corn bread out of the oven and heading south...
u/#howl
The new day of a New Year starts much as any other day. Winter in full swing in the Northern parts, a beautiful cover of snow. I am feeding more birds this year than I have seen in 40 years, big healthy flocks of BlueJays and Mourning Doves, finches yellow and purple, juncos, woodpeckers, nuthatches, red and white breasted. Just another morning of putting out seeds, they watch me from high up, "here she comes!", they call to one another, and then, here they come. If life is a circle, it is a shame that we must age through each turn. But, we do. I know a new day is coming, but I don't know what a new day will bring, let alone a New Year. I hope everyone here will have a good New Year filled with hope and new beginnings, but remember, some things do not change with time, either, nor do they age. No Jesus, no Peace, is one of those things that remain solid, if you have the Peace of the Lord, may it sustain you through exterior news and sensations, but as the Lord has promised us in Philippians 4:7, "And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus" . God in Christ also reminds us that we must stay awake: Matthew 24:42 & Mark 13:35-37: "Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—lest he come suddenly and find you asleep . It is an annual renewal to HIS word that keeps our minds pondering on these things, and on our purpose, to be at peace while remaining alert. Have a Happy New Year of our Lord in 2026. And remember to keep your bird feeders filled, it will give you hours of delight.
We started feeding birds about 10 years ago and have seen a really good variety after moving only about 15 miles north of where we used to live. My favorite one, that I haven't seen in over a year, is the rose-breasted grosbeak. When I first saw one, I thought somebody's pet bird escaped :)
They are gorgeous, I thought it was a giant purple finch when I first saw them! I have a lot of the evening grossbeaks, but the "RBGB" is rare for me too, I have only seen them about a dozen times in 40 years! I live up near the border in Vermont.The nature pages I follow predicted large flocks from Canada north of here to show up earlier and in larger numbers, due to the wildfires in Quebec, they lost a lot of seed sources. Well, they are all here thinning my purse.
We went from feeding a cat to feeding the birds :) (our cat of 19 years had to be put down two years ago) We had a pair of the RBGBs a couple years ago, saw at least one of their children, but haven't seen any in more than a year. I think they are so classy looking :) We also get those piliated woodpeckers that look like terradactyls :) among several smaller woodpeckers and all those finchy birds. I once saw about a dozen blue jays outside our house!
"The new day of a New Year starts much as any other day. Winter in full swing in the Northern parts, a beautiful cover of snow. I am feeding more birds this year than I have seen in 40 years, big healthy flocks of BlueJays and Mourning Doves, finches yellow and purple, juncos, woodpeckers, nuthatches, red and white breasted. Just another morning of putting out seeds, they watch me from high up, "here she comes!", they call to one another, and then, here they come"
...lovely prose...
...I love our birds...
...their antics around the feeders...
... gives me the courage to face the winter's worst...
"And remember to keep your bird feeders filled, it will give you hours of delight."
...and a heated water source...
...winter is a time of drought for the winged ones...
...carry on Pilgrim...
HAPPY NEW YEAR FRENS.
Happy New Year GAW. Some of the best People on the Planet..
Plus some cats and dogs.
u/#howl
You're right on cue.
Happy new year everyone
When you're awake every holiday feels like Thanksgiving
I am very thankful.
Oh and Merry Christmas. Here Christmas was super warm so I am enjoying it's actually cold. I even wore a Christmas sweater today
Just a thought, this wonderful site is based on religion and Christianity but the actual talk is about evil and the Crimes by our Gov. and many others that are Obvious. 'Civilization' depends on Laws and EVERYONE following those laws. IF. being 'civilized' and religious makes US weak, and that allows the Evil to break the law at will, civilization will not stand. My meaning is WE (the American citizen) are the greatest Force on Earth and at some point the evil must be crushed.
Q put the plan into motion so we could just be cozy. I agree with you but just remember Trump and the team don't want our hands dirtied
FYI, this has been our family tradition for 30+ years.
On New Years Eve, we gather close to midnight. Sing some hymns, read some scripture, then at 0:00 we offer a prayer to heavenly Father, thanking him for the past year, exhorting him to guide us over the new year. Someone prayers as a representative, then all pray in unison.
Then, we celebrate by talking, maybe playing a board game, etc.
We want to start the year with heavenly Father, and dedicate it to him.
For us, New Years Day is a holy day.
Cheers.
Hey everyone, happy new year 2026.
Happy New Year! I think it’s going to be a great one.
Amen
2026 will be an epic year!
Not if the Techbros and other Tyrants are allowed to run free.
Here’s some helpful instructions to kick New Year’s off with a song you’re all familiar with. You may know it from the ending of the movie “The Sum of All Fears”, or from the RNC last year, or just from the FIFA conference thing at the Kennedy Center, that song being from the famous opera “Turandot”, more specifically in Act III, “NESSUN DORMA” or “No one must/will sleep”.
Pull up whatever you’d want to play the song with and look for whatever version/artist you prefer. (I particularly enjoy Luciano Pavarotti’s live version from his performance with the Three Tenors in L.A. from 1994, which is what I’ll refer to and be using for my celebration tonight.)
For the aforementioned version of the song, you will need to press play at exactly 2357 and 10 seconds, or 11:57:10 in standard format. For any other version, you will have to calculate it based on the length of the song.
Enjoy! If you used my preferred version, Pavarotti will sing his last “Vincero!” exactly at midnight!
Happy New Year, Frens!
Oh man, this would have been so useful yesterday !
Happy new year frens. Blessings on us all.
Hapy new year America!!
U 2, 2nd.
Psalm 90:17
Let the favord of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!
Amen!