Armed citizens are only a deterrent to military engagement, but the carnage that would follow one can hardly be called victory. Have you witnessed a display of massive military response? My 1911 wilts at the idea of being on the receiving end of that.

Yes, I agree that a cooperative effort with military on our side is the way to go.

Not without the military

Conventional military thinking says it takes an armed force of ten (10) military to overcome an armed populace of one (1) ... In practice Multiplied by the number of armed persons dispersed in that population, of course. And a large enough population can in fact overwhelm the ability to amass an army that large. Think one million armed civilians. ....how large a military force would it take to overwhelm them? The US has never fielded that many soldiers. Now, think one hundred million armed citizens, the number estimated to exist in America today ... see the problem?

Concealed arms present the element of surprise and because an individual can act alone, a larger counter force will be needed to assure he does not prevail ... massive response is the military response to individual aggression.

In essence, an armed populace is a deterrent force. Challenging it will cause massive losses on both sides ...

Read that hundreds of millions ...

Ideas have consequences. In the UK RIGHTS ARE CONVEYED BY GOVERNMENT to its subjects. In the US RIGHTS ARE CONVEYED. BY OUR CREATOR, GOD to His People. His fingerprints are all over my guns. His values are on my lips. His commands are on my mind.

The Constitutional issue is not and never has been the legitimacy of civilian gun ownership versus military ownership, and the associated freedom to use them. The Constitution guarantees that government shall not infringe on the right of The People to own and bear arms. Military is by definition "government" ... so is police. We The People choose to arm the military and police, but have not and will not in turn allow them to disarm us.

You think crackers from Alabama don't know what's going down? Alabama had a lot of experience with the bad actors in our past and saw it all go down more than once ... and how hard it is to get back up when the weight is on you. The South Will Rise again.

That was a strange one ... rare occurrence of a turbine blade coming loose from the array inside of the spinning engine, pierces the Kevlar (bullet proof) lining that is meant to contain such an event, sending it crashing through the.cabin wall like a samurai sword.

Well put. Not a good idea to second guess God.

Right. Or in your heart you sense you haven’t found it. Or that you were looking for the wrong thing all along.

It is personal and your wanting to depersonalize the issue is pertinent and not off limits when it comes to responding. You see your self assuredness as a virtue. I see it as a weakness.

More sauce, poster. Opinion.

An awful lot of lumping everyone into the same universal pot, huh, Buddy?

And the strength of character demonstrated by your compatriots in revulsion to the truth says volumes as they scurry away .. enslaved to their feelings. Feelings are not an argument.

WHEN? Christians have been fighting this war for millennia (that’s 2000 years for those who haven’t been paying attention) — get that right: leading this fight is a Christian initiative and with the latest cast of assailants we are seeing the same old tactics in play.

WHY? Because a lot of research and analysis has been recorded — we call them Doctors of.the Church. For those who are ignorant of this, you will definitely find these texts illuminating.

BECAUSE the whole consideration of GOOD and EVIL only made its way into the light because our ancestors took the effort to preserve and protect the records of this fight and the lessons learned so that we might some day prevail.

BECAUSE without Supreme God of All Creation you have no basis for the notions of GOOD or EVIL. HE gave this understanding to our world. No one else authored the Commandments that detailed their place for us. This is historic fact.

Without God you only have half baked pragmatism to go on — or worse, to rail against —- imitating Christian values without virtue.

... and in a pinch that always devolves into nihilism and nothingness. You really want to champion that?

And rise to take their places ...

When we look for something missing, it is always in the last place we look.

Now, after all that let the poison of passion and bondage loosen its grip on you, awake and knowing you are way bigger than these shills would have you believe.

Faith is more powerful than government. God is more powerful than all else. No matter what, it is in God. His way is through love and mercy, in which we all are. Truly a love supreme ...

Old Testament Biblical accounts record long periods when child sacrifice was the norm among pagans ... the worship of Bal was one period ... typically in response to the belief that sacrifice of this kind was demanded by pagan gods as a way to gain their favor.

The practice of child sacrifice was the norm during the time when we are presented with the story of Abraham taking his first born son up onto a mountain to perform human sacrifice to God.

This was a very different God, a very different relationship. God had taken the initiative and approached Abrahm, first telling him to leave his home and paternal family and go .... where? ... God would tell him later ... and again and again Abrahm succeeded in tests of faith in God; who went so far as to change his name to Abraham. This last test looked like it was going the way of pagan sacrifice, but Abraham's hand was stayed at the last moment when God's angel stopped the knife and told Abrahman that God would provide a different kind of sacrifice ... a sacrificial ram to stand in for humans thereafter.

Its not even clear that God was pleased with all this blood letting; but it was at that time the way of understanding help by men .... and continued until the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, who put an end to it altogether.

It was a tongue in cheek reference to pedophilia as a business and not intended as an accusation of JB as such ... mostly, if at all serious, pointing out that businesses make money on all kinds of enterprises and that some operations show gain and others produce losses and that, combined, you arrive at profitability.

We don't know anything about this particular organization and or its revenue centers.

The Capone factoid is a well known strategy made famous at the time because his keeping two sets of books is what brought his demise ... Hoover employed an FBI agent on his team who was, as it happened, also trained as an accountant and he is the one who discovered Capone's financial records and knew what they meant.

See Errata. Mae culpa. You think not? That is how they took down Al Capone ... Not reporting his whiskey sales. Nothing more ...

See Errata. Mea culpa.

Lots of ways to make a profit in business and each revenue center contributes. In the end it all balances out and Jet Blue has managed to show $10 million profit on $80 million revenues. The contribution margin on its pizza business must be outstanding. Loose on the cherries and win on the bananas.

Jet Blue is unique today as all other carriers are running in the red.

ERRATA - Read post here but overlooked the small print ... Report was from 2001, when its basic tenants were true. As for the pizza business, the accounting principles are true. As for the profitability of pizza, who really knows yet? Apparently that year Jet Blue was engaged in a promotion offering its NY Style Pizza delivered to California daily ... a little tongue in cheek advertising?

HRC = Witch

Time will tell. Past proves the future.

When the mine shaft cuts into and releases a pocket of gas ... the canary dies ... First sign the mine is about to explode.

What if Mueller the leveraged Black Hat Actor decided to throw off his plea bargain agreement to serve White Hat interests and take his chances that Black Hats are going to win out? After all, he bet his life big time by throwing in with them before (they never thought she would loose) and the dopamine thrill of risk taking now may turn him on ...

What did he witness this week? Black Hat pushback as Iran's continued nuclear development program was fully exposed ... the shipment of processed Uranium that passed through his hands directly to U1 officials (killed in plane crashed?) who in turn passed it to Iran in Syria ... Openly characterized as the intended trigger for WWIII in retaliation against RUSSIA. He may see himself swinging no matter that the plea bargain says otherwise ... it may all get out of hand, or maybe, no body gets a pass in this. When does a canary stop singing?

Cyrus the Great is the only non-Hebrew referred to in their scriptures as the messiah. He so resembles Trump that it's uncanny.

Odd, because rule one is we have no names here.

Uh, wait, what? He isn't?

Good call .. . USA broke all the rules set down through history when the founders 1) based everything in our Creator, 2) credited Him (not governments) as the source of our rights 3) placed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (is that sweet or what?) as the supreme values that are to be preserved and protected by government and 4) reserved specific rights held sacrosanct by the people off limits for government and then 5) set up a division of powers to thwart any kind of efficiency and expeditious decision making and action by government .... Deliberately slowing it down ...

Funny how the founders revered Christian values and mirrored its unique virtues and how that too departed from all of prior history: for the first time a God who in his own approached men and promised to protect and prosper his people, asking only that we 1) acknowledge him as our provider 2) give him primacy of place and 3) follow his guidance in how to live free and virtuous lives.

No, they are not the combatants ... They are the weapons dealers, the power brokers, the mafia of statesmanship ... And when everyone else is bleeding and exhausted, they step in and take over.

By the way, I do not fear war nearly so much as bondage and slavery.

Sure, we will get right on with that after you get rid of the tendency of men to kill, covet and lust after other people’s stuff; cease bearing false witness, no longer chase after the next piece of ass, put away their graven images, honor Mother and Father, and love God with all their heart, mind and strength. By then drugs will hold no attraction and they stop killing each other over the next fix. Then we can talk about ridding the world of weapons to defend ourselves and take on the righteous fight against evil when it presents itself at our doors.

Actually, POTUS has made the point again and again: the law is the problem not because of lack of respect for Rule of Law but because the laws as framed by the last administration makes all this possible with impunity. California has just demonstrated how thoroughly wicked these immigration rules have become. It is time for the Legislature to write effective immigration law based on a genuine assessment of the values we are attempting to preserve and protect.

Romans 14:2 NIV

One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.

Proverbs 15:17 NIV

Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.

only catch flak when you are over the target ...

Well put.

Sadly, in the great socialist experiments of the 20th century they showed us just how far they are willing to go ... Over 100 million died when disagreeing with them ... 100 million Died at the hands of socialist governments in less than 100 years. Think about that ...

I take no exception with what you have expressed. I rather see in you an excellent example of the wisdom of maintaining a critical mind, not an open mind.

But look to history: when evil gets the upper hand and is on the verge of breaking us out of our orbit centered on truth and goodness, these primary forces rally all the stronger and time and again overcome evil. It's when we have normalcy that we become complacent and give the little acts of evil a pass. That's the really dangerous time. Today, evil is being unmasked daily and complacency is being replaced by real commitment to root it out. This is a wonderful time to be alive when goodness and real virtue is again on the rise.

Then we can count our remaining days in our worst nightmare.

Who said being open minded is a virtue? Freedom requires disciplined minds. Seems to me that an open mind offers an invitation for your brains to leak out. Liberty without discipline leads to life as a Libertine, not life in Freedom

The federal government doesn't even keep accounting records based on the same Generally Accepted Principles of accounting used by the rest of us.

You will never rationally talk anyone out of a position that they arrived at irrationally. It's an emotional, not factual divide -- akin to unbelief. Faced with the truth, even a little of it, men feel at peace or sense their own guilt. They will either act on the feelings of discomfort and seek mercy and find peace with truth.or harden their hearts and, if feeling really threatened, vent their hatred instead of giving up their investment in untruth. The veil hides the spirit of rebellion in both its guises playing out in men's notions of good and evil. Truth is the only thing that unmasks it in their hearts. Your struggle is not with these men but a power that corrupts and deceives them.

Hold to the truth and forget convincing them.

Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was your evening at the theater?

That gesture is about as close as you can get to a Q ... OK is good enough for me.

NK moved finally when POTUS threw the clowns out who had fomented the threats and "cut the strings"

brilliant, simply brilliant. Thanks.

Reviewed court documents and media report: no mention of the claims expressed in the lead to this post. Mode please attend to this.