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Ok I have to tell you guys with a sweet tooth that are trying to eat less sugar. I used a foaming milk machine and added it to crushed lavender flowers and real maple syrup. Delicious.

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Restoring Independence: The Foundation of the American Experiment

We need to restore a strong "sense of independence" to all local communities. The American experiment cannot survive long without it. It is self-evident that the more worthy of trust an individual becomes, the more genuine individualism and independence can be exercised. God desires man’s cooperation—not because He lacks anything, but because we require goodness, and He is its only source. Dependence on a benevolent Creator is therefore not servitude, but the logical precondition for true freedom. Only trustworthy people can sustain liberty without descending into chaos or tyranny. When character erodes, centralized power fills the vacuum—first promising security, then demanding obedience. Local independence thrives when virtuous citizens handle their own affairs: families raise children with moral clarity, neighbors resolve disputes without courts, towns govern themselves with minimal coercion, churches and voluntary associations meet human needs before bureaucracies do. The path forward is not nostalgia for a lost past, but deliberate cultivation of personal honor, family strength, and community self-reliance. When enough individuals become trustworthy, dependence on distant rulers becomes unnecessary and unnatural. The American experiment succeeds only when free men, accountable first to God and then to one another, choose to live independently together. Anything less invites collapse.

Hegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has imbued U.S. military actions with a Christian moral underpinning that suggests they are divinely sanctioned.

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On the first day, God created the dog and said, "Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years."

The dog said, "That's a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I'll give you back the other ten?"

And God saw it was good.

On the second day, God created the monkey and said, "Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I'll give you a twenty-year life span."

The monkey said, "Monkey tricks for twenty years? That's a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the dog did?"

And God, again saw it was good.

On the third day, God created the cow and said, "You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer's family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years."

The cow said, "That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. How about twenty and I'll give back the other forty?"

And God agreed it was good.

On the fourth day, God created humans and said, "Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you twenty years." But the human said, "Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?" "Okay," said God, "You asked for it."

So that is why for our first twenty years, we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves.

For the next forty years, we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years, we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren.

And for the last ten years, we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Life has now been explained 😁

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We went to the Philly Pizza Company and ordered some hot tea. The waitress said, "Well no, we only have it iced." So we jumped up on the table and shouted, "ANARCHY!" And someone played a Beach Boys song on the jukebox. It was "California Dreamin,'" so we started screaming "On such a winter's day."

...Dog Woo...

Revolutionary Act

“Every war when it comes, or before it comes,

is represented not as war but as an act of self-defense

against a homicidal maniac…We have now sunk to a depth

at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent beings.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people

what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit,

telling the truth will be a revolutionary act…

“All the war-propaganda,all the screaming and lies and hatred,

comes invariably from those who are not fighting.”

George Orwell

Nils Peterson - Hamlet and the Act of Betrayal, Part One

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/03/hamlet-and-the-act-of-betrayal-part-one.html

Lily-Rose Dawson - How Modern Bread is Killing You...Once you learn what really goes into modern bread, chances are you won't be feeding it to your family ever again.

https://www.thewisewolf.club/p/how-modern-bread-is-killing-you

Sunday Poem...The Christian by Eliza Wolcott

https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/eliza-wolcott/the-christian/

Tatiana Eva-Marie & Avalon Jazz Band - I LOVE PARIS (Cole Porter)

https://youtu.be/-hU_X6Vr1MY?si=biz_gHm88id_C2ph

Image published with permission of Albin Sadar

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