Neighbors from hell....

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Saturday August 13, 2022 · 10:23 AM PDT

2022/08/13 · 10:23

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Neighbors from hell. That’s it. That’s the diary.

911 audio recordings of Lauren Boebert’s neighbors calling the police on the Boebert family for harassing the neighborhood has been released. Hear the audio here!

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GarCo sheriff deputies respond to incident near Boebert home

By CHARLES ASHBY Charles.Ashby@gjsentinel.com Aug 12, 2022

Can we understand the danger Q presents without understanding its religious underpinnings?

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Saturday February 06, 2021 · 5:02 AM PST

2021/02/06 · 05:02

www.rawstory.com/...'Trumpism is a Christian nationalist movement': Bill Maher blasts religion for Capitol riots

HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher blasted QAnon and Christianity on his Friday evening show.

"New rule, as long as we're going to go through the trouble of another impeachment trial, we might as well be honest about what it's really about. The events of January 6th were a faith-based initiative," Maher said.

"And Trumpism is a Christian nationalist movement that believes Trump was literally sent from heaven to save them."

"It's fun to laugh at QAnon with the baby-eating lizard people and the pedophile pizza parlors, but have you ever read the Book of Revelations?" he asked.

He then went on to describe how the world ends in the Book of Revelations, "but space lasers from Jews?”

www.rightwingwatch.org/...By Kyle Mantyla | August 30, 2018

How God Confirmed The Legitimacy Of QAnon Via A Prophetic Dream

http://christianitytoday.com MORGAN LEE|MAY 20, 2020

What the Bible Says About QAnon

The powerful are scheming. The biggest truths have been hidden.

Did the apostle Paul love conspiracy theories?

www.cnn.com/...By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor October 15, 2020

How QAnon uses religion to lure unsuspecting Christians

www.christianpost.com/...By Jim Denison, Op-ed ContributorOCTOBER 26, 2020

What is QAnon? Why it's dangerous and how Christians can respond

www.cnn.com/...By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor October 15, 2020

How QAnon uses religion to lure unsuspecting Christians

www.politico.com/...By ZACK STANTON. 02/04/2021

It’s Time to Talk About Violent Christian Extremism

There’s a “strong authoritarian streak” that runs through parts of American evangelicalism, warns Elizabeth Neumann. What should be done about it?

religioninpublic.blog/…

The Anti-Semitism of Christian Nationalists Thanks to QAnon

wordandway.org/...JANUARY 27, 2021 AUTHOR: WASHINGTON POST (CURATED)

Christian Nationalists & QAnon Followers Tend to be Anti-Semitic. That was Seen in the Capitol Attack.

Our research finds that identification with QAnon, Christian nationalism, Donald Trump, and anti-Semitism are tightly linked.

www.huffpost.com/...Elana Schor 01/28/2021

Christian Nationalism Displayed At Capitol Riot Sparks Soul-Searching

Some Christian leaders have spoken out to denounce what they saw as the misuse of their faith to justify a violent attack.

news.yahoo.com/...Sun, January 31, 2021,

Christian nationalism is a threat, and not just from Capitol attackers invoking Jesus

www.theamericanconservative.com/...FEBRUARY 5, 2021 ROD DREHER

How To Deal With The QAnon Qrazies?

My message to Christians in this country. pic.twitter.com/VH6a18HkPR
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) February 5, 2021

www.relevantmagazine.com/...AUGUST 3, 2020

Why Are So Many Christians Falling For QAnon?

www.christianitytoday.com/...BONNIE KRISTIAN|AUGUST 26, 2020

QAnon Is a Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing

There’s nothing sheepish about this insidious internet demon.

www.technologyreview.com/...by Abby Ohlheiser August 26, 2020

Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead.

How the growing pro-Trump movement is preying on churchgoers to spread its conspiracy theories.

news.yahoo.com/...Christianity on display at Capitol riot sparks new debate

www1.cbn.com/...Pastors Say QAnon Conspiracy 'Poses a Threat to the Global Church'

www.newsbreak.com/...Christian nationalism is a threat, and not just from Capitol attackers invoking Jesus

talkingpointsmemo.com/...Christian Nationalism’s Role In The Insurrection Was Four Decades In The Making

www.getreligion.org/...The New York Times looks at QAnon leader who is, wait, a Manhattan mystic from Harvard?

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Space X Flies Again....and more, because of course there is

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Sunday November 15, 2020 · 5:51 PM PST

2020/11/15 · 17:51

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Ps1gPq4dw. link to Musk on plans for moon base

The first four person commercial launch of a space capsule is on its way to the space station after an on-time launch this evening. The first stage booster has returned and landed back on the drone ship ready to be re-fitted for its next launch. Docking at the Space Station will take place in about 24 hours if all continues to go as planned.

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Falcon 9’s first stage booster has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship! pic.twitter.com/HSFJKpR4Rm
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 16, 2020

Meanwhile, work continues on the Super Heavy’s test launch to 15km, “belly flop”, glide, and landing back on the launch pad. Musk said all of this was incredibly difficult and there was a very good chance of crashing, but they’d learn from it and have several more test phase versions of the stainless steel monsters ready to launch & learn from a few crashes if that’s what it takes to figure things out.

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And, just to make use of any free time that may develop there’s a couple of huge factories going up in Austin, TX with crews working three 24/7 shifts, and production of game changing electric semi’s and pickups set to begin in May. Daily drone videos can be addictive.

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Of course, no game changing electric semi or pickup would be up to snuff if it didn’t also include an self-driving feature….which has recently released for public use on public roads:

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But wait. there’s more because of course there is. From launching people into space to sun/wind powered self-driving semi’s to holes in the ground. Yep, apparently having his head in space and feet on the ground isn't enough when you could be boring holes in the ground to get around.

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And on from here with battery technologies, solar roofing, and who knows what else. All of this is 100% rational, science based invention going on right now even in this crazy, anti-science daze of ‘rumpian dystopia and alt.facts creating alt.realities. There should be some silver linings in there because Musk maybe the singular genius behind all of this, but he has gotten to where he is by tapping into the incredible wealth of human talent and potential which is all around us. We are the answer, the question is when will we finally figure that out and act accordingly?

Bonus video, because why not.

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(shouldn’t have to say this ‘cause it’s none of anyone’s business, but I own no stock in anything connected with Musk, I just find all that he has going on to be amazing)

DEEP STATE, DEEP CHURCH: HOW QANON AND TRUMPISM HAVE INFECTED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

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Saturday October 31, 2020 · 4:42 AM PDT

2020/10/31 · 04:42

Ready or not, it looks like we are now at the confluence of the forces & agendas of Trumpism, “Rad-Trad Catholicism, and Qanon’s dangerous weirdness.

www.vanityfair.com/…

DEEP STATE, DEEP CHURCH: HOW QANON AND TRUMPISM HAVE INFECTED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Catholicism’s increasingly powerful political right reflects fringe America, fueled by paranoia, conspiracy, racism, and the threat of apocalypse.

BY KATHRYN JOYCE. OCTOBER 30, 2020

...Viganò’s June Trump letter had also entwined his message with the convoluted worldview of QAnon, the conspiracy theory turned mass delusion. At its heart QAnon is rooted not just in centuries-old anti-Semitic slurs like blood libel but similar anti-Catholic claims as well. Last fall a believer allegedly attacked an Arizona church with a crowbar, ranting that the Catholic Church supports human trafficking; the year before that, QAnon followers helped a fabricated quote—Pope Francis saying America must be ruled by a world government “for their own good”—go viral. Yet days after Viganò’s letter to Trump, a Q drop linked it approvingly, and two subsequent messages reposted its entire text.

“The mere fact that Q links to the LifeSiteNews posting of Viganò’s letter to Trump means that many thousands of QAnon adherents will read the letter and absorb it into their twisted mythology,” Lafferty wrote at Where Peter Is. There were already disconcerting parallels in the language Viganò and QAnon used: about the “deep state” and “deep church,” certainly, but also about light and darkness, Trump’s role in an apocalyptic showdown, even certain grammatical tics. There was also the connection of Michael Flynn, Trump’s embattled former national security adviser, considered a martyr in Q lore. By fall Flynn’s brother Joseph, a board member of Catholics for Trump, would tell Church Militant that Viganò had become the family’s spiritual guide.

But, Lafferty continued, it also represented a shift: that QAnon no longer viewed Catholicism as pure enemy, but rather, contested ground, with Francis and his supporters on one side and righteous rebels like Viganò on the other.

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Here’s the recent letter in full. Since it is an open letter, I assume I’m not breaking the rules here by linking and pasting it in full.

www.furorteutonicus.eu/...

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OPEN LETTERTO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DONALD J. TRUMP.

Sunday, October 25, 2020 Solemnity of Christ he King

Mister President,

Allow me to address you at thís hour in which the fate of the whole world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity. Iwrite to you as an Archbishop, as a Successor of the Apostles, as the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America. T am writing to you in the midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities. May you accept these words of mine as the “voice of one crying outin the desert” (Jn 1:23).

As I said when I wrote my letter to you in June, this historical moment sees the forces of Evil aligned in a battle without quarter against the forces of Good; forces of Evil that appear powerful and organized as they oppose the children of Light, who are disoriented and disorganized, abandoned by their temporal and spiritual leaders.

Daily we sense the attacks multiplying of those who want to destroy the very basis of society: the natural family, respect for human life, love ofcountry, freedom of education and business. We sce heads of nations and religious leaders pandering to this suicide of Westem culture and its Christian soul, while the fundamental rights ofcitizens and believers are denied in the name of a health emergency that is revealing itself more and more fully as instrumentaltothe establishment ofan inhuman faceless tyranny.

‚A global plan called the Great Reset is underway. Its architect is a global elite that wants to subdue all of humanity, imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire populations. In several nations thís plan has already been approved andfinanced; in others it is still in an early stage. Behind the world leaders who are the accomplices and executors of this infemal project, there areunscrupulous characters who finance the World Economic Forum and Event 201, promoting their agenda.

The purpose of the Great Reset is the imposition of a health dictatorship aiming at the imposition of libertieidal measures, hidden behindtempting promises of ensuring a universal income and cancelling individual debt. The price of these concession from the International Monetary Fund will be the renunciation of private property and adherence 10 a program of vaccination against Covid-19 and Covid-21 promoted by Bill Gates with the collaboration of the main pharmaceutical groups.

Beyond the enormous economic interests that motivate the promoters of the Great Reset, the imposition of the vaccination will be accompanied by the requirement of a health passport and a digital ID, with the consequent contact tracing of the population of the entire world. Those who do not accept these measures will be confined in detention camps or placed under house arrest, and all their assets will be confiscated.

Mr. President, I imagine that you are already aware that in some countries the Great Reset will be activated between the end of are year this and the first trimester of 2021. For this purpose, further lockdowns planned, which will be officially justified by a supposed second and third wave of the pandemic. You are well aware of the means that have been deployed to sow panic and legitimize draconian limitations on individual liberties, artfully provoking a world-wide economie crisis. In the intentions of is architects, this crisis will serve to make the recourse of nations to the Great Reset inreversible, thereby giving the final blow to a world whose existence and very memory they want to completely cancel. But this world, Mr. President, includes people, affections, institutions, faith, culture, traditions, and ideals: people and values that do not act like automatons, who do not obey like ‘machines, because they are endowed with a soul and a heart, because they are tied together by a spiritual bond that draws îts strength from above, from that God that our adversaries want to challenge, justas Lucifer did at the beginning of time with his “non serviam.”

Many people — as wewell know — are annoyed by this reference to the clash between Good and Evil and the use of “apocalyptic” overtones, which according to them exasperates spirits and sharpens divisions. It is not surprising that the enemy is angered at being discovered just when he believes he has reached the citadel he seeks to conquer undisturbed. What is surprising, however,is that there is no one to sound the alarm. The reaction of the deep state to those who denounce its plan is broken and incoherent, but understandable. Just when the complicity of the mainstream media had succeeded in making the transition to the New World Order almost painless and unnoticed, all sorts of deceptions, scandals and crimes are coming to light.

Until a few months ago, it was easy to smear as “conspiracy theorists” those who denounced these terrible plans, which we now see being carried out down to the smallest detail. No one, up until last February, would ever have thought that, in all of our cities, citizens would be arrested simply for wanting to walk down the street, to breathe, to want to keep their business open, to want to go to church on Sunday. Yet now it is happening all over the world, even in picture-posteard Italy that many Americans consider to be a small enchanted country, with its ancient monuments, its churches, its charming cities, its characteristic villages. And while the politicians are barricaded inside their palaces promulgating decrees like Persian satraps, businesses are failing, shops are closing, and people are prevented from living, traveling, working, and praying. The disastrous psychological consequences of this operation are already being seen, beginning with the suicides of desperate entrepreneurs and of our children, segregated from friends and classmates, told to follow their classes while sitting at home alone in front of a computer.

In Sacred Scripture, Saint Paul speaks to us of “the one who opposes” the manifestation of the mystery of iniquity, the kathekon (2 Thess 2:6-7). In the religious sphere, this obstacle to evil is the Church, and in particular the papacy; in the political sphere, it is those who impede the establishment of the New World Order.

As is now clear, the one who occupies the Chair of Peter has betrayed his role from the very beginning in order to defend and promote the globalist Ideology, supporting the agenda of the deep church, who chose him from its ranks.

Mr. President, you have clearly stated that you want to defend the nation — One Nation under God, fundamental liberties, and non-negotiablevalues that are denied and fought against today. It is you, dear President, who are “the one who opposes” the deep state, the final assault of the children of darkness.

For this reason, it is necessary that all people of good will be persuaded of the epochal importance of the imminent election: not so much for the sake of this or that political program, but because of the general inspiration of your action that best embodies — in this particular historical context — that world, our world, which they want to cancel by means of the lockdown. Your adversary is also our adversary: it is the Enemy ofthe human race, He who is “a murderer from the beginning” (Jn 8:44).

Around you are gathered with faith and courage those who consider you the final garrison against the world dictatorship. The alternative is to vote for a person who is manipulated by the deep state, gravely compromised by scandals and corruption, who will do to the United States what Jorge Mario Bergoglio is doing to the Church, Prime Minister Conte to Italy, President Macron to France, Prime Minster Sanchez to Spain, and so on. The blackmailable nature of Joe Biden — just like that of the prelates of the Vatican’s “magie circle” — will expose hím to be used unscrupulously, allowing illegitimate powers to interfere in both domestic politics as well as international balances. It is obvious that those who manipulate him already ‘have someone worse than him ready, with whom they will replace hím as soon as the opportunity arises.

And yet, in the midst of this bleak picture, this apparently unstoppable advance of the “Invisible Enemy,” an element of hope emerges. The adversary does not know how to love, and it does not understand that it is not enough to assure a universal income or to cancel mortgages in order to subjugate the ‘masses and convince them to be branded like cattle. This people, which for too long has endured the abuses of a hateful and tyrannical power, is rediscovering that it has a soul; it is understanding that it is not willing to exchange its freedom for the homogenization and cancellation of its identity; itis beginning to understand the value of familial and social ties, of the bonds of culture that unite honest people. This Great Reset is destined to fail because those who planned it do not understand that there are still people ready to take to the streets to defend their rights, to protect their loved ones, to give a future to their children and grandchildren. The leveling inhumanity of the globalist project will shatter miserably in the face ofthe firm and courageous opposition of the children of Light. The enemy has Satan on its side, He who only knows how to hate. But on our side, we have the Lord Almighty, the God of armies arrayed for battle, and the Most Holy Virgin, who will crush the head of the ancient Serpent. “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Rom 8:31).

Mr. President, you are well aware that, in this crucial hour, the United States of America is considered the defending wall against which the war declared by the advocates of globalism has been unleashed. Place your trust in the Lord, strengthened by the words of the Apostle Paul: “I can do all things in Him who strengthens me” (Phil 4:13). To be an instrument of Divine Providence is a great responsibility, for which you will certainly receive all the graces of state that you need, since they are being fervently implored for you by the many people who support you with their prayers.

With this heavenly hope and the assurance of my prayer for you, for the First Lady, and for your collaborators, with all my heart I send you my blessing.

God bless the United States of America!

+ Gaat oel poss + Carlo Maria Vigan

Ti. Archbishop of UlpianaFormer Apostolic Nuncio to the United States ofAmerica

Frank Schaeffer on People of Praise, Barrett, and his family's role in creating the religious right

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Wednesday October 21, 2020 · 6:23 PM PDT

2020/10/21 · 18:23

Frank Schaeffer expounds on the history his family’s & others roles in creating the modern radical evangelical religious right along with highly critical observations about Barrett and People of Praise. Well worth the time to listen to, imho.

Schaeffer’s main comments on Barrett and the cult of People of Praise begins at the 29 minute mark.

mindshiftpodcast.co.uk/…

Amy Coney Barrett: The Legal, Political, and Religious Ambition to turn America into a Theocracy

18OCT

This special bonus episode features author, filmmaker, artist and activist Frank Schaeffer, son of Francis Schaeffer–the hugely influential intellectual evangelical and anti-abortion activist.

Frank, along with his famous father, helped to launch the evangelical anti-abortion movement back in the 1970s and 80s with their film series “Whatever Happened to the Human Race?”

As we discuss the backstory of how abortion came to be the biggest single-issue topic for Republican and evangelical voters of today, Frank fills us in on the details–and helps explain why the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court poses such a threat to all Americans.

PEOPLE OF PRAISE

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Monday September 21, 2020 · 6:35 AM PDT

2020/09/21 · 06:35

en.wikipedia.org/...“People of Praise was formed in 1971 by Kevin Ranaghan and Paul DeCelles. Both men were involved in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, in which Pentecostal religious experiences such as baptism in the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues and prophecy were practiced by Catholics. In its early history, it influenced the institutional development of the Catholic Charismatic movement in the United States and played important roles in national charismatic conferences.

People of Praise practices a form of spiritual direction that involves supervision of a member by a more spiritually mature person called a "head". People of Praise maintains that members retain their freedom of conscience under such direction.

The community excludes women from the highest leadership positions and teaches that men are the spiritual leaders of their families. At the same time, it encourages women to pursue higher education and employment.”

www.rawstory.com/…

Trump has made it clear that he plans to nominate someone who is not only fiscally conservative, but a severe social conservative who would have no problem overturning the Roe v. Wade ruling of 1973. …...one of the possible nominees is 48-year-old Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appellate judge.

Barrett fits the bill, especially in light of her reported association with an extremist, predominantly Catholic group called People of Praise.

There's No Time Like the End Times

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Tuesday January 15, 2019 · 6:01 AM PST

2019/01/15 · 06:01

First of all, let’s get this basic fact out of the way: I am not a diarist. My wheelhouse for words favors hit and run snarky comments. In other words, I’m a (wannabe) sprinter not a distance runner. I know my limits so here it is short and not so sweet:

"Pompeo is a genuine, end-of-days, believer in the apocalypse - a cloud-parting eschatology he shares with Mike Pence." Mine and @RanaForoohar's Swamp Notes on the apocalyptic theologists around Trump.

"Pompeo is a genuine, end-of-days, believer in the apocalypse - a cloud-parting eschatology he shares with Mike Pence." Mine and @RanaForoohar's Swamp Notes on the apocalyptic theologists around Trump. https://t.co/M46D5gSdJz
— Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce) January 14, 2019

www.rawstory.com/...Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo belong to a doomsday cult — and may be trying to bring on the apocalypse

Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo are each a “genuine, end-of-days, believer in the apocalypse,” and Financial Times journalist Edward Luce said their religious beliefs about the end times exerts a troubling influence on their duties.

“Generally I believe a public figure’s beliefs should be irrelevant to their job,” Luce wrote. “Whether they’re atheist, Opus Dei, Buddhist or Muslim, should have no bearing on our assessment of their fitness for office. Yet I can’t help but feel anxious that both of Donald Trump’s main global envoys, Pompeo and Pence, have a conflict between their private beliefs and what they publicly claim to be doing.”

Luce argued that both Trump administration officials were part of a “millenarian cult,” and he worried their “militant creed” would influence their public policies to spark a “final conflagration in which the righteous will vanquish the wicked.”

“Call me a serial fretter, but I don’t take comfort from the fact that Pence is a heartbeat away from being commander-in-chief,” Luce wrote. “Nor do I see Pompeo as one of the grown-ups restraining Trump. He’s an enabler, not a preventer. Where Trump goes, Pompeo will follow. Let’s hope Trump never gets religion.”

For a Change of Pace.....

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Sunday June 11, 2017 · 4:07 PM PDT

2017/06/11 · 16:07

For a Sunday afternoon change of pace, it’s on and It. Is. Awesome. Banff to Mexico along the Continental Divide self-supported on a mt. bike. Bookmark the links as a place to take a break from the dark side of human nature we all seem to be living in the shade of these days. Bio links at the tracking site reveal a whole bunch of fit, talented, interesting and highly motivated people taking on a major life challenge for a whole varieties of personal reasons. So, when you need a break from your daily exposure to all the yuck & schmucks, check out the riders’ progress in real time. I think I burned a few extra calories just thinking about what these people of doing.

Live, real time tracking: trackleaders.com/…

Spirit: Above all, attempts are intended to be solo / self-supported, self-timed, and observed as one stage, i.e. the clock runs non-stop.

Modus operandi: To complete the Route, a rider may resupply food / equipment, rent a room, launder clothing, even service their bike at commercial shops along the way. The intent is to ride unsupported between towns, and function self-supported when in towns. Any services utilized must always be commercially available to all challengers and not pre-arranged[1]. No private resupply, no private lodging.

tourdivide.org/…

The Tour Divide challenge is simple: Race the rooftop of North America by mountain bike; travel self-supported along all 2,745 miles of Adventure Cycling Association's Great Divide Mountain Bike Route; keep moving and be moved; exist well outside one's comfort zone in tackling a cross-continent bikepacking odyssey; finish as fast as possible without cracking.

Speed may be substance when it comes to Divide racing, but a flexibile, sang-froid style is the best attack for the Route's multiple personalities.

Divide racing format requires no designated rest periods or set distances a racer must travel daily. The clock runs non-stop. She and he who can ride the fastest while making fewer, shorter stops usually hold the course records. With an average time-to-completion of three weeks in the saddle, Tour Divide is the longest–arguably most challenging–mountain bike time trial on the planet. It is a challenge for the ultra-fit, but only if ultra-prepared for myriad contingencies of backcountry biking.

“They’re looking at Donald Trump” as the messiah, ..."

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Saturday December 24, 2016 · 8:16 AM PST

2016/12/24 · 08:16

No longer fringe, the end times crowd is now firmly seated in our nation’s control booth.

Merry Christmas one and all.

www.rightwingwatch.org/…

“They’re looking at Donald Trump” as the messiah, Horn said of “the rabbis,” saying that Trump’s name “actually means ‘messiah.’”

Among the clues that Trump may be the messiah, he said, is that the president-elect is a kingly and warrior-like leader committed to protecting Israel and, according to Horn, rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem.

Horn said that if Trump is not the messiah, then he is likely “the forerunner” to the messiah who “will start the message in the wilderness and the messiah is going to come in on his heels.”

If Trump turns out to only be a John the Baptist-like figure, Horn explained, then his inauguration will signal the beginning of the “countdown to the appearance of the messiah.”

But the “rabbis” who “do think he is the messiah,” Horn said, are looking for proof that Trump’s “bloodline goes back to the Davidic dynasty.”

Horn added that the Antichrist is also about to materialize, but is definitely not Trump.

www.rightwingwatch.org/…

During his “Black Friday” special last week, Jim Bakker continued to gush over Donald Trump and extol his election as president, but this time with a new twist: Trump, he said, may usher in the Last Days.

While hawking his survivalist products, the right-wing televangelist said that Trump may rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and hasten Jewish immigration to Israel, citing two articles from an End Times outlet called “Breaking Israel News.”

One article quotes neo-Zionist Hillel Weiss urging Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to work together in rebuilding the Temple, and the other discusses two rabbis who have called on American Jews to see the election “as a clear message to come home to Israel.”

“Putin and Trump, I don’t know what’s going on, but they’re talking about helping Israel rebuild their Temple,” Bakker declared.

“When they start talking about building the Temple and the Jews all coming back to Israel, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords comes after that,” he added.

www.splcenter.org/...The Council for National Policy, a highly secretive group, is a key venue where mainstream conservatives and extremists mix.

www.dailykos.com/…

Theocratic Right Now Runs Trump Campaign - Bannon and Conway are in the CNP !

By Troutfishing Thursday Aug 18, 2016 · 8:34 AM PDT

While the relatively few mainstream media and alternative media covers of the CNP have typically described the group as merely “conservative”, that hardly sums things up.

Over the years, these would-be masters of the world have included a number of leaders from the Christian Reconstructionism movement who advocate the imposition of strict biblical law including execution for adultery, blasphemy, homosexuality, and witchcraft (and a much longer list of offenses).

In effect, the CNP is command central for the culture wars that have since the mid 1970s wracked America ; it is the organizational center for a movement engaged in a slow-motion “soft revolution” to “reclaim” America and return it to its alleged “Judeo-Christian” roots.

The time is long overdue for mainstream media to stop pooh-poohing this movement ; especially because that crass dereliction of journalistic duty has helped pave the way for the rise of Donald Trump.

amen.

Trumpism, Milgram, & Stochastic Terrorism

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Wednesday August 10, 2016 · 6:00 AM PDT

2016/08/10 · 06:00

Given the events of the last few days, I decided to copy and paste these couple of comment exchanges into a diary to bring them more to the forefront of the discussion. The original thread for the comments here: www.dailykos.com/...

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Aug 09 · 06:29:15 PM

Two words: Stochastic terrorism.

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www.dailykos.com/...

Are Trump Comments "Stochastic Terrorism?"

By Bethesda 1971 Tuesday Aug 09, 2016 · 5:47 PM MST

Stochastic Terrorism was defined here in 2011 by G2Geek in a diary titled Stochastic Terrorism: Triggering the shooters.

Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.

Psychologist Valerie Tarico further defined its elements in an aritcle. Christianist Republicans Systematically Incited Colorado Clinic Assault

(1) A public figure with access to the airwaves or pulpit demonizes a person or group of persons.
(2) With repetition, the targeted person or group is gradually dehumanized, depicted as loathsome and dangerous—arousing a combustible combination of fear and moral disgust.
(3) Violent images and metaphors, jokes about violence, analogies to past “purges” against reviled groups, use of righteous religious language—all of these typically stop just short of an explicit call to arms.
(4) When violence erupts, the public figures who have incited the violence condemn it—claiming no one could possibly have foreseen the “tragedy.”

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G2geek

Aug 10 · 03:31:16 AM

Yes, I agree, Trump has reached the point of stochastic terrorism.

His statement had an element of plausible deniability to it, but Wolf Blitzer pretty well checkmated Trump’s spokesperson on that: Trump couldn't have meant “at the ballot box” because if HRC is nominating Justices, she’s already in the White House.

In the minds of a certain number of people, what he said will be interpreted solely on the basis of its most emotionally-provocative elements, and the interpretation will be “he said it’s OK.” Trump is rapidly becoming a one-man jobs program for FBI, DOJ, US Secret Service, and US Marshals, all of whom have roles in detecting, investigating, arresting, and prosecuting violent actors.

But there’s more than just wink-nudging assassination: his entire demeanor as well as many of the things he’s said, give a kind of permission for pervasive low-level violence, such as punching someone in an argument. This is the kind of overtly harmful demagoguery we normally associate with the KKK and other terrorist groups. (bold added by praesepe)

Thanks for the links, it’s interesting to see how my theory* has gotten around. I wouldn’t mind having email addresses for these folks so I can let them know I’m reachable for Q&A if they’re interested. (I don’t do Twitter etc., so yeah I need actual email addresses.) Or perhaps I should post a public email address where anyone interested can write.

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*Theory: Strictly speaking it’s not a “theory” as that term is used in the hard sciences, to mean an overarching explanation of a set of natural phenomena that are accessible to testable hypotheses. Clearly it’s not testable in any practical or morally-acceptable sense. In this context the word “theory” is used as it applies in journalism and in the law, as a logical explanation for a set of observables, e.g. “the theory of the crime” and so on.

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praesepe

Aug 10 · 06:46:12 AM

I hope your “theory” gets a lot more attention as it certainly deserves to, especially with tRumpism loose upon the land.

I’d also tie it into the infamous Milgram Experiment.

www.nature.com/...

More than 50 years after a controversial psychologist shocked the world with studies that revealed people’s willingness to harm others on order, a team of cognitive scientists has carried out an updated version of the iconic ‘Milgram experiments’.

Their findings may offer some explanation for Stanley Milgram's uncomfortable revelations: when following commands, they say, people genuinely feel less responsibility for their actions — whether they are told to do something evil or benign.

“If others can replicate this, then it is giving us a big message,” says neuroethicist Walter Sinnot-Armstrong of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved in the work. “It may be the beginning of an insight into why people can harm others if coerced: they don’t see it as their own action.”

The study may feed into a long-running legal debate about the balance of personal responsibility between someone acting under instruction and their instructor, says Patrick Haggard, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, who led the work, published on 18 February in Current Biology¹.

New Cash Crop for Colorado? Industrial/Ag (non-thc) Hemp

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Wednesday July 27, 2016 · 12:27 PM PDT

2016/07/27 · 12:27

Could a commercial, non-thc, industrial/ag hemp industry help boost struggling rural Colorado economies which have been hit hard by low energy prices and coal mine closings….among other things?

Hemp on the Slope: www.saltcreekhempco.com/…

Hemp On the Slope

July 30 @ 11:00 am - 7:00 pm

Presented by Salt Creek Hemp Co · Produced by Colorado Hemp Company

Speakers, Workshops, Exhibitors, Live Music, Hemp Food, Conversation, Networking, Community

July 30, 2016

11:00 am to 7:00 pm

Salt Creek Ranch, Collbran, CO

#hempontheslope

www.westernslopenow.com/…

"We were saving the ranch. It wasn't selling and we had to come up with a way to cover expenses," said Margaret Richardson, a co-owner at Salt Creek Hemp Company.

After consideration of what to grow, one plant stood above the rest.

"With corn, I think they're talking $300 an acre. This crop [hemp] and with the new emerging market, it's hard to pinpoint an exact price on what we'd get per acre, but let's just say it could easily be ten times to 100 times that," said Aaron Rydell, another co-owner.

It's for that reason, along with the multitude of the plant's uses, that those at Salt Creek Hemp Company believe it will not only save their ranch, but Mesa County's agricultural industry."

Most interesting thing I’ve learned from a little bit of googling...hemp as a replacement for graphene in supercapacitors?

“

As hemp makes a comeback in the U.S. after a decades-long ban on its cultivation, scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can pack as much energy and power as graphene, long-touted as the model material for supercapacitors. They're presenting their research, which a Canadian start-up company is working on scaling up, at the 248th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Read more at: phys.org/...

www.google.com/...

The Battle of Valley Forge.

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Saturday August 01, 2015 · 8:27 AM PDT

2015/08/01 · 08:27

"...and you will learn about the Battle of Valley Forge." Ann Coulter last week at the Eagle Forum’s Collegian Summit at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

There was no "Battle of Valley Forge", Ann.

Wow.

I would like to be the head of Donald Trump’s Homeland Security. I’ll get it all done before breakfast. I’m only slightly joking with that. I don’t think it’s that hard to figure out. I mean it’s not that hard to figure out are you taking in more than you’re paying in. We used to do it pretty well. It was a lot easier when we didn’t have a welfare state and could be laissez-faire: you can’t make it, you better go home or you’re starving. Well that doesn’t exist anymore.
But, um, any criminal, any possibility of a criminal, um, do not pass go, you’re gone, and by the way, I think I could kind of guess who the criminals are going to be at least 50 percent of the time. People who don’t speak English…they don’t understand the culture, the language, and worst of all, we’re not even teaching that anymore. I mean, not only did people prove their hardiness to get here by vomiting all the way across the Atlantic Ocean…and then if they couldn’t make it, it was starve or go home, um, but there was no pussy-footing around. We’re assimilating you, you’re here and you’re going to be an American.

There will be no celebration of Cinco de Mayo, there will be no Ramadan, in fact there won’t even be a Feast of the Immaculate Conception – No, we are an Anglo-Protestant country, and you will learn about the Battle of Valley Forge.

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