There's some large boats at the docks
Off-topic Saturday History Reading:
Why did Stalin hate Switzerland?
foreignpolicy.com/2014/09/25/why-did-stalin-hate-switzerland/
Who was in Switzerland? Lenin. Zinoviev. Dzerzhinsky. Trotsky.
bbc.com/news/world-europe-42279427
Pope Francis has called for a translation of a phrase about temptation in the Lord's Prayer to be changed.
The current wording that says "lead us not into temptation" is not a good translation because God does not lead humans to sin, he says.
His suggestion is to use "do not let us fall into temptation" instead, he told Italian TV on Wednesday night.
The Lord's Prayer is the best-known prayer in Christianity.
The pontiff said France's Roman Catholic Church was now using the new wording "do not let us fall into temptation" as an alternative, and something similar should be used worldwide.
"Do not let me fall into temptation because it is I who fall, it is not God who throws me into temptation and then sees how I fell," he told TV2000, an Italian Catholic TV channel.
"A father does not do that, a father helps you to get up immediately."
It is a translation from the Latin Vulgate, a 4th-Century Latin translation of the Bible, which itself was translated from ancient Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic.
Since the beginning of his papacy, Pope Francis has not shied away from controversy and has tackled some issues head-on, Vatican observers say.
He has previously said the Roman Catholic Church should apologise to gay people for the way it has treated them.
He has also compared European migrant detention centres with concentration camps.
The Sedevacantist argument is looking mighty strong at this point.
There is an argument that a heretic cannot be pope.
There is an argument that the current pope is a heretic.
Why then is a heretic attempting to change the Lord's Prayer?
God is omnipotent. He can lead you into temptation if He wills it. This is a denial of His omnipotence and a change made by a heretic.
Compare to Quran 2:6-12
Indeed, those who disbelieve - it is all the same for them whether you warn them or do not warn them - they will not believe.
Allah has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing, and over their vision is a veil. And for them is a great punishment.
And of the people are some who say, "We believe in Allah and the Last Day," but they are not believers.
They [think to] deceive Allah and those who believe, but they deceive not except themselves and perceive [it] not.
In their hearts is disease, so Allah has increased their disease; and for them is a painful punishment because they [habitually] used to lie.
And when it is said to them, "Do not cause corruption on the earth," they say, "We are but reformers."
Unquestionably, it is they who are the corrupters, but they perceive [it] not.
Here's a tangent:
5.
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given angle to the side adjacent to the angle.
Monday will complete the dismantlement of another side of the triangle. Justice.
At least this is my read of it. Speculation.
[R]
Renegade
"Renegade", a term of religious origins having its origins in the Latin word "renegare" (to deny).
Randolph Alles
25th Director of the United States Secret Service. He previously served as the acting deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as well as in the United States Marine Corps, where he reached the rank of major general.
Compare current head of USSS with previous heads of USSS
Joseph "Joe" P. Clancy (born 1955) is an American law enforcement official. He was the 24th Director of the United States Secret Service. Clancy previously served as head of the agency’s presidential protection division until 2011, when he retired and became director of corporate security for Comcast.
Julia Ann Pierson (born July 21, 1959)[1][2] is an American former law enforcement official. She served as the 23rd Director of the United States Secret Service.[3] Pierson became director on March 27, 2013. Amid a series of security lapses involving the agency, Pierson resigned on October 1, 2014.
Mark J. Sullivan was the Director of the United States Secret Service from May 31, 2006 to March 27, 2013.[1] Sullivan succeeded W. Ralph Basham and was sworn in as the 22nd Director of the Secret Service on May 31, 2006. He was succeeded by Julia Pierson on March 27, 2013.
In April 2012, a scandal involving the President's security detail received international press attention. The scandal involved 11 agents and more military personnel from all four branches who allegedly engaged prostitutes while assigned to protect President Barack Obama at the 6th Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia. As of April 24, nine employees had resigned or retired.
William Ralph Basham, Jr. (born November 17, 1943)[1] has served at the head of four of the eight U.S. Department of Homeland Security agencies, including as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the largest federal security force in the United States government, Director of the United States Secret Service, Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and as one of the first employees as Chief of Staff at the Transportation Security Administration.
Upon leaving government service in April 2009, Basham founded Command Consulting Group, a Washington, D.C.-based international advisory firm which provides security advisory services to government clients and works with companies with security related products and services to develop and market products to federal security agencies.
In 2008, Basham was conferred the rank of Distinguished Executive by former U.S. President George W. Bush.[2] In October 2013, Basham was awarded the Founder's Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Border Patrol Foundation.
USSS detail on former presidents
On January 10, 2013, President Barack Obama signed the Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012, reinstating lifetime Secret Service protection for his predecessor George W. Bush, himself, and all subsequent presidents. Richard Nixon relinquished his Secret Service protection in 1985, the only president to do so.
Hence the use of spies, of whom there are five classes: (1) Local spies; (2) inward spies; (3) converted spies; (4) doomed spies; (5) surviving spies.
disinfo is improving here
ANONS. PRAY. REFOCUS.
EXPAND YOUR THINKING. READ THE MAP. FUTURE PROVES PAST.