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Inside of every gook is an American fighting to get out.
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
and other such American documents available for download and discussion: https://www.theconstitutionalistsociety.com/historical-documents/
This came up in a "canon of American writing" search (although is commonly known)
Thanks 😊 Happy Independence Day 🎆🇺🇸
Here's something I made for the America I love: Quarter Millennium. Enjoy.
Which Star ?
Customer: “Fourteen.”
Cashier: “Hmm, if he were younger, it might be Star Wars, but I know a lot of teens who are into Star Trek now. Does he like Darth Vader or Captain Picard?”
Customer: “I don’t know what any of those words mean.”
Cashier: “Is he into pew pew bang bang, or utopian space socialism?”
Customer: “What the h*** are you talking about?!”
I decide to help.
Me: “Ma’am, is your nephew the kind of kid who would do sports or join the debate team?”
Customer: “He’s… on the football team. Why is that relevant?”
Cashier & I: Simultaneously. “Star Wars.”
The cashier takes the customer to the ‘Star Wars’ section of the Funko Wall.
Cashier: “All of these are Star Wars.”
Customer: Getting out a folded piece of paper. “This is what he wants.”
The paper has ‘Ahsoka Tano’ written on it, and the cashier and I share a look of “couldn’t you have started with that?!”
The cashier got the Funko for her (she still didn’t know what she was buying, but she was happy to get out of there), and the cashier’s coworkers started mocking the cashier for how he tried to differentiate between the ‘Star’ franchises, resulting in a series of similar attempts by the rest of the workers after the customer had left:
Other Worker #1: “Ma’am, does your nephew like cowboys in space, or civil servants in space?”
Other Worker #2: “Ma’am, is he into space wizards or space accountants?”
Other Worker #3: “Ma’am, does he enjoy prophecies or performance reviews?”
And my attempt:
Me: “Ma’am, would he rather overthrow the government or work for it?”
That’s hilarious. The last question is the best and should be included in job interviews. Then you and the company know if you are a good fit.
I just want to wish y'all a safe and wonderful Independence Day! Love y'all! 🐸
Was anyone else surprised? In PDJT's speech at Mt Rushmore last night he mentioned Senator John Thune, said Thune is a friend of his. (If I recall correctly PDJT said Thune is a good friend). It didn't sound like he was being sarcastic either. Perhaps what appears to be a traitorous betrayal of America is part of the plan, part of the timing. I just thought it seemed incongruous with a message about patriotism and America's greatness, our bright future.
Everything is part of the plan to bring us to the precipice that wakes everyone up, while also tracking down every last traitors amongst us. But that doesn't mean people are given a script and they just pretend thats what they are doing. Everyone is being tested and they are making their own choices.
Thune might indeed have been Trump's good friend, but might have made his choices for his own reasons - that also serves the Plan.
Happy Treason Day to y'all! Do we expect any happenings today?
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY
MURICA!!!!
How many cast iron pans does it take to stop each kind of bullet?
That’s surprising. Reminded me of this scene…
https://youtu.be/MIzAfXcCX3c?si=8NWwWM1Kiv6KqBQc
Isaiah 45:22&23.
“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. 23 By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.’
Why does it seem all the Independence Day firework shows and community events are happening/happened, Friday the 3rd and not THE ACTUAL 4th of July? It’s weird to me. I questioned it all day Friday when I saw my town and surrounding towns did their thing Friday night.
I live ten minutes from two towns. The smaller more hometown vibe has them on the 4th. The larger gangster corporation gov has always been on the 3rd. Well except this year the corrupt town doesn’t have any money for fireworks. As long as I remember it’s been on those days. Maybe so close communities can see both.
That makes sense, that’s exactly what I’m seeing. Funnily enough, the “big” small town in my area had theirs yesterday. I have noticed so much recent corruption in that town. I think they sold themselves to the “man.”
There'll be plenty tonight and Sunday, for sure. At least in my town. We've been raging it up all week!
NBC is supporting NY’s DSA by producing a new show for the fall called, Sharia Law and Order.
Trump ended his speech with the best is yet to come.
SOON. https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2073228854752080033
Greenland: Ice-Free Not That Long Ago BY JAKE HEBERT, PH.D.
https://www.icr.org/article/greenland-ice-free-not-that-long-ago/
Preserved leaves and twigs in a tube of soil show Greenland was largely ice-free in the relatively recent past.1 This discovery has important implications both for the ages that uniformitarian scientists assign to the deep ice cores and the global warming debate.
In 1966 United States Army scientists drilled the Camp Century ice core in northwest Greenland. The bottom of the core included a 15-foot-long section of frozen dirt. This frozen soil sample was long forgotten but was re-examined by a University of Vermont scientist in 2019 who saw twigs and leaves within the soil. A recent science news article says:
An international team of scientists... has studied these one-of-a-kind plant fossils and sediment from the bottom of Greenland. Their results show that most, or all, of Greenland must have been ice-free within the last million years, perhaps even the last few hundred-thousand years.1 Creation scientists agree! Greenland was ice-free in the recent past, but much more recently than these scientists think. Even if thick ice sheets had existed in the pre-Flood world, they would have all been destroyed during the Flood cataclysm. This means that Earth’s thick ice sheets, including the one in Greenland, began forming just 4,500 years ago, after the Genesis Flood.
Secular scientists think there have been many past ice ages, but there is strong geological evidence for only the most recent one, which creation scientists think was the only Ice Age.2 And the Genesis Flood provides a much more plausible mechanism for causing an Ice Age than do secular theories.3,4 Heat from rapid-seafloor spreading during the Genesis Flood greatly warmed the world’s oceans, causing greatly increased evaporation. This moisture precipitated as ice and snow at high latitudes and on mountaintops. Massive late Flood and residual post-Flood volcanism injected aerosols into the stratosphere, providing the summer cooling needed to keep the snow and ice from melting. Over hundreds of years, thick ice sheets built up. Eventually, the oceans cooled and volcanic activity decreased sufficiently for the Ice Age to come to an end.2,5
This preservation of plant material may not actually prove that the ice is only a few thousand years old, as colder temperatures extend the times that biological materials can be preserved. But it is certainly surprising—one uniformitarian scientist was “stunned”1—if you think the ice sheets are extremely old.
There is a popular misperception that ice cores, because of the vast ages that have been assigned to them, are “slam-dunk” evidence the earth is old. However, arguments for ancient ice sheets are not nearly as strong as many believe,6-8 and there is positive evidence that these age assignments are greatly inflated.9
As noted above, uniformitarian scientists think the Greenland ice melted a few hundred thousand years ago, possibly a million years ago. Since humans could not possibly have contributed to global warming in the “prehistoric” past, these scientists think this shows that Greenland’s ice is very susceptible to melting, and now even more so due to human-caused “climate change.” Hence, they are worried that melting of the Greenland ice could result in flooding of coastal cities within 50 years.1
This is a classic example of how incorrect beliefs about past climate change can lead to incorrect conclusions about future climate change. Creation scientists agree that Greenland was ice-free not that long ago, but this is not because a previous ice sheet melted. Rather, it’s because no ice sheets existed anywhere on Earth after the Flood! So the recent absence of Greenland ice does not prove that the Greenland ice sheet is particularly sensitive to melting, and this argument for catastrophic flooding is invalid. Nor is this an isolated example. Uniformitarian beliefs are needlessly contributing to climate change worries in other ways, too.10-12
This is a great example of how the origins controversy is no mere academic debate. It has profound spiritual implications for every single one of us, and it is incredibly relevant to many of today’s political and scientific controversies.
References
The Bible does not say that the entire world was flooded. That is a modern churchianity false translation.
The original Hebrew says the "land" was flooded, not the "Earth" or "world."
The land of Mesopotamia, where Noah lived, was flooded. But there is NO EVIDENCE of any flood in China or elsewhere on Earth.
So, you can't assume when ice sheets did or did not form based on that false translation.
62.39 final price of silver for the week.
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Celebrating One Nation Under God!!
God wins and blesses this nation with His omnipresence. Miraculous Nation.
u/#merica
u/#trumpflag