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Bad mother fuckers are about. They're gonna getcha. With Rock 'n Roll.

I'm not sure this poo outbreak even makes a dent in taco bell's reputation. Don't people eat there expecting it? There's been a joke around about saving on a colonoscopy by getting the tbell version for $4.99 What a likely scapegoat.

The Listeners is a fascinating show on Starz I've been watching. Other Anons would dig it too, I think.

Majority of Muslims and Jews Are Democrats: Pew Research

Many more U.S. Muslims identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party than the GOP (66% vs. 13%), but the share who are Republican has held steady over the last 10 years, including after the election of President Donald Trump, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data collected between 2007 and 2017. In 2007, 11% of Muslims identified as Republican. The share changed very little in surveys conducted by the Center in 2011 (11%) and 2017 (13%). [2018]

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/11/06/republicans-account-for-a-small-but-steady-share-of-u-s-muslims/

U.S. Jews are still a largely Democratic and politically liberal group today, as they have been for decades. Overall, about seven-in-ten identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, including 68% of Jews by religion and 77% of Jews of no religion. Just 26% of U.S. Jews overall identify with the Republican Party or lean toward the GOP. [2020]

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/u-s-jews-political-views/

However apparently there has been a surge of muslims becoming Republican:

For much of the last two decades, Muslims have been far more likely to identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. But Pew Research Center’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study shows that the Democratic advantage has shrunk considerably. Around half of Muslim adults (53%) identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, while 42% identity with or lean toward the Republican Party. [2025]

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/21/muslim-americans-share-political-attitudes-with-both-the-democratic-and-republican-parties/

Discuss?

Right Reasons Cartoons

https://www.therightreasons.net/topic/121671-todays-toons-71426/

Silver is up, miners are up, DJT/WW & GME are up.

Today is starting to look up!

PSLV & AG are up anyway, maybe others too but they're what I'm holding.

I am hoping the Thursday address will actually talk about what everyone's talking about, the 2020 election, and not just a rug pull, getting everyone to panic then Trump will divert to something else like how it has been hot lately this summer or whatever.

The time is now to announce this and get this over with (Yes I know, they're not on our time, but theirs but it has been a long time coming!)

St. Augustine's "The City of God"

HTML version: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1201.htm

PDF from "Great Books of the Western World" With a Couple Other Works: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126595/mode/2up

via Wiki entry:

On the City of God Against the Pagans (Latin: De civitate Dei contra paganos), often called The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD. Augustine wrote the book to refute allegations that Christianity initiated Roman decline and is considered one of his seminal works, standing alongside the Confessions, the Enchiridion, On Christian Doctrine, and On the Trinity ... As a work of one of the most influential Church Fathers, The City of God is a cornerstone of Western thought, expounding on many questions of theology, such as the suffering of the righteous, the existence of evil, the conflict between free will and divine omniscience, and the doctrine of original sin.

57.97 spot silver.

HA!

CNBC ranked the worst states to live in for quality of life - by “Khalida Rahman”

1. Tennessee (64 of 290)
2. Texas (78)
3. Indiana (82)
4. Louisiana (89)
5. Georgia (89)
6. Utah (95)
7. Missouri (98)
8. Alabama (99)
9. Oklahoma (103)
10. Arkansas (103)

Factors involved in the ranking included “designating June as ‘Nuclear Family Month’ instead of the widely recognized ‘Pri demon th’ that other states recognize.”

Gavin Newsom squawked that all ten states were led by republicans suffering from California Derangement Syndrome.

Great! Now that California is better than all these Republican states, can all the blue Californian refugees that fled to them in true locust fashion and proceeded to buy up all the property go home? It’s great back there! You’ll love it. CWAG!

Obey Gavin. Obey Bernie.

— S

The price of gasoline in California is so high now that Paul Pelosi is remaining at the scene of the accidents he’s caused.

Silurian Horseshoe Crab BY FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)

https://www.icr.org/article/silurian-horseshoe-crab/

Supposedly, throughout the past hypothetical millions of years, sub-human primates became man, dinosaurs evolved into birds, and a group of mammals even returned to the oceans to become whales. But also according to evolution theory, the amazing horseshoe crab (order Xiphosura) “goes back practically unchanged to the Triassic period.”1 Natural selection2 and random mutations have not affected these chelicerates at all.3 This is hardly surprising to creation scientists because the Bible indicates that horseshoe crabs have always been horseshoe crabs since their creation thousands of years ago—that’s why the fossils match the living creatures.

Horseshoe crabs are arthropods, but they are not true crabs (crustaceans). They are instead classified as chelicerates belonging to the family Limulidae. Although horseshoe crabs are an alleged ancient lineage with an evolutionary history stretching back almost a half-billion years (Ordovician period), evolutionists generally consider them to be examples of living fossils.4 In fact, evolutionist James Lamsdell said, “The group [Xiphosura] is famous as an example of an evolutionary conservative lineage [i.e., no change] and is considered to comprise archetypal [standard] ‘living fossils.’”5

Recently, science writer Sergio Prostak stated,

A paleontologist from West Virginia University has described a new genus and species of true horseshoe crab from a Silurian-age specimen unearthed in Indiana, the United States. The species bridges the 80-million-year gap in the horseshoe crab fossil record and has an overall morphology similar to that of the Ordovician species.6

But this supposed 80-million-year gap does not exist except in the mind of the evolutionist. There’s no evidence for such missing time. It was a 100% horseshoe crab extracted from Genesis Flood sediments. As ICR’s Jeff Tomkins states,

While evolutionists have no good explanation why such creatures [such as horseshoe crabs] would abruptly appear hundreds of millions of years ago and then disappear for millions of years only to reappear and now be happily alive, a biblical Flood-based interpretation perfectly explains the data. Creationists know from both the rock record and the Scriptures that the Genesis Flood was a progressive year-long global event. The succession of fossils in the rock strata largely represents the progressive burial of ecological zones [such as the “Silurian-age” specimen of horseshoe crab] characterized by the plants and animals they contained.”7

But despite this better alternative explanation for these living fossils, conventional scientists maintain that this single horseshoe crab fossil—Ciurcalimulus discobolus—found in the Wabash Formation of sedimentary rock in Indiana is 424 million years old.

The greatly inflated age is based on “finely laminated dark dolostones [a sedimentary carbonate rock] and is considered to be Silurian in age based on conodont [extinct marine jawless vertebrates] data [emphasis added].”6 In other words, the sedimentary strata that Ciurcalimulus was found in also had conodonts—index fossils of the Silurian (i.e. the Kokomo Member of the Wabash Formation).

An index fossil, or zonal fossil, is the fossilized remains of a creature that is found in a particular unit of sedimentary rock and is used by evolutionists to correlate and date the age of rock layers. So Ciurcalimulus is dated by strata it was found in and the same sedimentary strata is dated to be Silurian because the conodonts were found there, which were themselves dated by other index fossils or uncertain radiometric dating. Clearly, it’s not exactly a precise dating system.

The minor change seen in these creatures from the Ordovician to the Late Devonian is just that, variation within the created kind such as what we also see in dandelions (over 250 species), dinosaurs, or dogs. There is no real horseshoe crab evolution documented in the sedimentary rocks. Nor are they definitively millions of years old. To conclude, “The origins and early evolution of horseshoe crabs are poorly known.”6 When fossil horseshoe crabs are found, they only vary within the kind as predicted by the creation model.8 Horseshoe crabs have always been horseshoe crabs since the beginning of creation.

References

Hickman, C. et al. 2024. Integrated Principles of Zoology. Columbus, OH: McGraw Hill, 418. Thomas, B. Lizard Study Questions Natural Selection. Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org June 4, 2010. Sherwin, F. Arachnid Origin—WGD (What God Did). Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org March 10, 2025. Thomas, B. Should We Drop the Term ‘Living Fossil’? Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org, July 18, 2016. Lamsdell, J. 2025. The First Silurian Horseshoe Crab Reveals Details of the Xiphosuran Ground Plan. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 292 (2049). Prostak, S. Paleontologist Discovers First Known Silurian Horseshoe Crab. Sci.News. Posted on sci.news August 29, 2025. Tomkins, J. 2020. The Fossils Still Say No: The Cambrian Explosion. Acts & Facts. 49 (12): 10–13. Morris, J. 2003. Do Creationists Really Believe in Evolution? Acts & Facts. 32 (3).

• Dr. Sherwin is a science news writer at the Institute for Creation Research. He earned an M.A. in invertebrate zoology from the University of Northern Colorado and received an honorary doctorate of science from Pensacola Christian College.