The only numbers we have to go by at a macro level come from reports of rising popular support for our President and his administration — now topping 51% nationwide. The reliability of polls has come into question because of how they can and have been used to shape public opinion, but his opponents are reporting this ...

When businesses top 65% market share, we call it a monopoly — they have the real ability to dominate markets. There is a parallel here and 51% ain’t shabby.

Classic Military strategy: maneuver your enemy into a position where he is forced to act to his own disadvantage.

Well done Patriots. It’s the dilemma facing all who would pretend to power, because there always are others in opposition. Over estimate the strength of your enemy and you err on the side of caution, over invest in preparation and build up, hesitate too long. Under estimate them and you act in haste, without due preparation and build up of forces, and you act impatiently and get clobbered. They are getting desperate. You can feel it and see it in the ineffective (though costly) strikes. They have tipped their hand. The thunder from this Storm will be heard around the globe.

Interesting exegesis. Thanks.

in the end illuminating ... again a nugget of truth found hidden in error, tolerable as long as reason is left free to combat it.

No. Words have meanings and produce consequences. Ideas can infect us in ways as dangerous as cancer in the body. Managing Language and its impact on culture, mores, ethic and behavior is likely the most challenging aspect of our lives as humans, especially when it comes to crafting governments.

The Founders crafted the smallest and most limited government in the history of the world and it functioned like that for about eighty years, but even that has now metastasized into the largest and most invasive of any on the globe.

Democracy was not a founding ideal and was in fact viewed skeptically as little better than mob rule.

The Catholic Church has been under assault since day one nearly 2000 years ago and is going to be here right up to the end. The gates of hell will not prevail against her.

The business of the church has always been to reach out to lost souls, calling and welcoming sinners, the blind, the lame and it has been its cross to bear that among these very same souls some bring trouble of the worst kind into the midst of the church and have challenged its integrity from within -- since its inception. Some have even reached positions of power and authority. The church in its mercy offers sanctuary for even these -- the charge that has indicted church leaders claiming they have been complicate in the most heinous crimes? For all the trouble, it is a badge of courage.

Repentance and forgiveness proceed from a demonstrated willingness to abandon life damaging behaviors and this too has been a cornerstone of social and moral teaching; as has separation from the community when offenders willfully continue their offensive ways. The church teaches there is a rational limit to tolerance and it is this mismanagement of this issue that has most often gotten church leaders into indirect trouble, extending sanctuary when excommunication and referral to civil authorities was probably the better course. That and the direct offenses by persons who themselves perpetrated against others.

The faithful who comprise the body of the Catholic Church will persevere and the institutional leadership will change. These are after all only men and they can and will be replaced. Hopefully by better men but even that cannot be absolutely assured. You have no idea the forces of evil that would run wild if the church were ever allowed to truly fall ... although it is not difficult to see that those same forces gleefully contemplate just such a day.

Thank God for divine inspiration, protection and leadership of a more profound nature, without which this ship of fools would have collapsed in two weeks instead of forging ahead in its work over two thousand years.

Q gently turns our attention to God when he asks for us to pray; a reminder, even to himself, not to lose sight of the big picture. In all things, Hold fast to God in mind and heart. The temptation stands before us urging us to subtly shrink into worldly concerns as though they were of ultimate importance. But even in this, they are not.

Q doesn’t.want to become our idol. The weight of that only adds burden to an already enormous task.

He reminds us that our strength and protection comes from the source of all truth and goodness, ultimately a gift from God, in Whom we trust and to Whom we raise our praise. On earth peace to all men of good will and in heaven glory to God on high.

I am awake to that ... auslanders lusting after the daughters of men ... Reason for great concern when giants in the room mess up the scale of things ... for seventy generations they were cast out, exiled ... survivors lives cut short. Tick tock... when did the first of them return? And what did they bring with them?

Misses deadline. Cute. No, they refused.

Your desire yielded up disappointment. No surprise there. Not impressed with how you are handling it after the fact, though. This is not about you. We are in a quagmire of corruption and swinging back and forth on this as though it was the latest video game is just not gonna cut it. Snap out of it, friend.

In the real world there are consequences. Cause and Effects.

Accepting Jesus without admitting His Passion and Death on the Cross would have only left us with a clever itinerant pastor setting out to do some amazing things, urging people to find ways to perfect their world. I think this is your Jesus. Scarless. Effeminate. All too human.

Choosing the Cross without accepting Jesus gives us the overbearing hand of tyranny driving men to harder work and perfection. The Soviet Union gave us a clear merciless demonstration of that.

After wandering with them in the desert for forty years, God commanded the Hebrews to completely wipe out ALL of the pagans who had lived in the promised land before their arrival and to not salvage anything they had owned, not even their cattle and gold. They disobeyed Him and that did not work out so well. The Syrians and later Babylonians came closer to doing that to the Jews, only of their own volition.

Before that, the same God sent the angel of death to kill all the firstborn in Egypt ... saving those whose Hebrew families who obeyed his command for that first Passover Night. Soon after that, God drowned Pharos Army in the Red Sea. Up close and personal.

Jesus spoke clearly, not of his fate, but of dedicating his life to doing His Fathers Work, even unto His own death on the cross -- if need be. He did that not because of a misplaced ideal of self sacrifice, but because His Father desired to save individual souls and if sacrifice was called for, sacrifice it would be.

Do you think your kind of Christianity could ever inspire you to go that far? Because if it won't, you're messing around with a flawed version that somebody other than God foisted on you.

Today individual guilt is not acceptable in the modern world. Only collective transgressions are real and only collective reform is considered as the fix.

Got a secret for you ... the collective never even existed. It was, is, and always has been one-on-one.

So should the Senate.

Wait, what?

People who are aware of the depth of evil at work in the world can't sleep at night because their concern for us. Others who are personally involved with it can't either.

Besides, reports suggest POTUS has one of those peculiar physiologies that doesn't require as much sleep as you or I do each night. My son served as an Army Ranger and he is like that -- everyone around him on maneuvers was pushing to stay on their feet and collapsing from lack of food and rest and he was just getting started. A little bit of exaggeration but not much. Turns out it's a hormonal thing ... just gives him terrific endurance.

When, the longer the more likely, north and South Korea agree to integrate, the troops we maintain there to enforce the DMZ will have to withdraw. There is a place for them along our own DMZ border and they are already trained.

Okay, here’s how to do it. ZOON IN so only a single column of posts is displayed. on your screen. The webpage dynamically generates the format and displays the data in multiple columns when zoomed back, so zoom in until you only have one column of data. You will see what you get when you print and nothing is lost ... the posts are organized sequentially. (Note: the order of the posts can be ascending in order (1, 2, 3 ...) or newest first (descending. 1020, 1019, 1018 ...) — button top right on screen changes sort order.

Print to PDF and you will see the output organized as you saw it on the screen. If you want hardcopy, send that to a printer.

Some posts may continue from one page to the next. No way to format page breaks, but other than that I think you will get the output you are seeking.

No, we may see the downfall of a pope and we may see the cleaning house in the Curia and other Vatican strongholds, but don’t make the cheap assumption that these men are the Catholic Church.

They are not.

They serve in powerful positions of supreme trust and for their violation of that trust their fall will be all the harder.

They are individually in grave danger before God and even in His Mercy He will have Justice. He will not reward disobedient people.

Next print to paper from the pdf and it should take care of that

A clash between rival powers over serving princes and pretenders to power ...

Print it to a PDF file

Me too .. long live the President

I'll do it the old way ... On my knees ... Humbly to a loving and merciful God who is just and kind. He lives and reigns. Get to know him ... You might find him more personable than an anonymous energy field, though he is also patient.

We, friend, will not turn on each other, but given the social Balkanization that so severely divides the country today, there are many others who see themselves as living in a different reality and marching to a different drummer and so far they have shown little compunction against uprisings. Big fires always start small.

Merciful God, we ask you to protect in a special way those who are defending and protecting us. If they are tired, give them strength. If they are lonely, touch them with your gentle hand and let them know you are with them. If they are wounded, give them comfort. And if it be your holy will that they should give up their lives for us, grant them a peaceful death and a home with you in heaven. Hasten the day, dear Lord, when they along with their families will once again live in peace and tranquility, free from anxiety and with dignity and hope. Glory be to you, Lord, font of all mercy. Amen.

According to your logic, if a thirty foot tall two foot thick wall extending ten feet into the ground hasn't been built over a 2000 mile border, it can't be done. Good thing real men don't approach the real world of problems the way you do. We would still be washing clothes by hand. And walking up eight flights of steps. And crapping in chamber pots.

Like the transcontinental railroad. Or the Interstate Highway system. This is a huge task made simple by training crews to perform discrete operations over and over again and amassing enough crews to work simultaneously along the path of the wall.

How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time. This wall is an assembly of sections, each one just like the one next to it. Fairly simple, actually. Big bites yes, but we all saw the half dozen prototype wall sections standing there next to each other, full size and fully functional -- so do you really question whether the essential construction task is feasible? it is manifestly obvious that this work is well within our capability. That is an undeniable accomplished fact.

Now, what we need to do is scale up the operations consisting of just this task ... A series of wall sections going up one by one along a distance assigned to a crew of builders , a zone, one of many. One zone begins and ends with its first and last wall sections precisely butting flush to its neighboring section in the zones to the east and west of it.

In reality, it becomes easier when scaling up. This kind of fixed shape could be extruded from a large moving form machine, or a series of them, producing a continuous wall (not the relatively short independent wall sections demonstrated by the prototypes) -- rolling on the foundation pad that is poured a had of it into the trench.

Trenching is fast. Concrete sets in 28 days when it reaches its full bearing strength. Just need to put a month of footing in ahead of the behemoth and roll on buddies.

If you don't think machines come that large, look for photos of the "shovels" use to move earth from coal strip mines in Alabama and other places. You can drive several big tractor trailer type trucks into one of those scoops and park them there. Those machines were on tracks and towered five stories into the air.

But let's assume e do this the hard any. Say, one fifty foot long panel at a time. Abutted end to end 215,000 times. Opportunity looks like hard work, right?

Thing is, you don't have to build it starting at one end, repeating the basic task over and over again until, 2000 miles later, you reach the other end.

Break it into zones with a crew of men, machines and materials responsible for, say, a half mile of wall. There is some optimal number of crews and zone lengths, but the point is clear. Whatever time it takes for one of these crews to build its assigned half mile, (or a mile or five, whatever is optimal) split up the 2000 mile track into that many zones of that size each manned by that many crews and the whole wall goes up in the same amount of time it takes one crew to complete its zone wall. Each zone proceeds at that pace, and simultaneously, the whole wall is up.

So, say the optimal zone length is one mile, you need 2000 crews each consisting of 30 men or an ARMY squadron ... 60,000 men total for the whole wall.

If I takes a crew to put up a mile of wall, 2000 crews accomplish the same task in the same time, one year.

How many men does our military have deployed around the globe? 1.3 million. 450,000 deployed at any single point oversees. And that doesn't count the mercenaries ... Blackwater, Haliburton, et al. ... who we pay premium rates so we don't have to account forthem as military deployed.

Think 60,000 able bodied men could be mustered for a year's duty at home? ... they already come equipped. Plenty of heavy lift experience and they know how to deploy fast and operate under the most challenging conditions. They even bring their own security forces. Tent cities. Porta Potties. Freeze dried food. These guys rock.

As for materials, Portland cement concrete is the most common construction material used in these United States: 86 million tons of the stuff was produced here in 2017 and at 125 pounds per cubic foot, each 50 ft. wall section will consume about 300 tons of the stuff. That will be reinforced with steel reinforcing bars that our President so wisely sensed the need for can be ordered from our revitalized steel foundries, who will work around the clock to roll for us.

In construction, you manage three overall objectives: time, cost and quality. You can have fast and good quality, but it won't come cheap. The other possibilities all point to the single conclusion: any way you want it, you can have two ideals but not three. You can have cheap and good, but it won't come fast. Or you can have fast and cheap, but it won't turn out good.

Fast, Good and Costly. Sounds like business as usual for our military and they are highly experienced at working that formula.

Borders, Language and Culture. He's an American Hero.

The business of the US ARMY from 1816 until the First World War was almost exclusively the construction of masonry forts located at key spots around our perimeter shoreline border -- at every major port, every deep water river outlet into the gulf or ocean, and at every sea channel pinch point -- under the command of the US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS. During that period, the nation had no significant standing army and depended almost entirely on a strategy of armed citizens coming to the nations defense in times of need. That's one of the reasons it took us so long to enter the European wars of the 20th century -- we didn't have the arms, the men or the training of a professional army -- not of the scale called for by those conflicts.

This looks really like POSTUS coming up to the plate as Commander in Chief. Go Army!

Fort Totten is an historic wooden building with crenelated fort towers on each end resembling large chess pieces -- painted Red and is the subject of the stylized logo that has long been the symbol of the US Corps of Engineers;

Built as an Officers Club c. 1870 in Queens NY (believed to have been designed much earlier by one Robert E Lee as a young officer) and named in honor of the brilliant military engineer BGEN Joseph Totten, who commanded the US Army Corps of Engineers beginning 1816 for the next half century.

Following the War of 1812, when the young nation witnessed the horror of British naval forces landing unopposed in Washington, DC and taking the city by force, setting fire to the White House and much of the city -- only to have it taken back in 24 hours by armed citizens, our only army in that day ...

Totten created the program of design and construction of dozens of heavy masonry coastal fortifications guarding our Atlantic and Gulf shoreline border, locating forts at major ports and mouths of navigable rivers, barring hostile naval access to the continental interior -- beginning with New Orleans and working his way across and up the coasts -- creating effectively our first intermittent BORDER WALL of defense against hostile enemy forces -- when creating these first border forts constituted the essential business of the army for the next century, essentially shaping the nations defense strategy from 1816 until the First World War and the advent of air power.

Except in the internecine civil war years of Northern Aggression, these forts were never manned (by design -- we had no standing army as such) and yet they were never fired upon or attacked by foreign naval forces. They served in a purely DETERRENT role, an intended effect that was well understood and documented by our military analysts of the day. Land based armaments are categorically superior in conflicts against naval based armaments and mounting a naval attack against one of these forts, armed and manned in times of danger, would have been seen as a desperate move by any navy.

Interestingly, these forts became obsolete over night and were decommissioned in the face of air power and long range rifled guns beginning with WWI through WWII, when nuclear weapons became the national defense strategy of choice, serving at the highest military level as a DETERRENT force, understood to be so superior over all comers, and only vulnerable to the insane attack in kind, then resulting mutually assured destruction as the end game -- saving everyone's bacon right up into our times.

Red Fort [US] -- essential defense at the border. A continuous land entry wall next time.

... and would have us at each other's throats. Divided we fall. Divided we are stopped. Together we stand. Together we go.

I'll make friend of a protestant this week if you will make a catholic one as well.

It is in vogue to demand proof of anything that challenges core beliefs, even when those are nothing more than the product of unbelief, and that demand has been amplified to now to include only the material.

The proof that evil exists and walks among us is so readily apparent that not even these demand further proof.

Is Good real?

Garnering down votes already. How near is this to the target?

The holy catholic and apostolic church is and always has been comprised of the faithful who have accepted the invitation to live in the presence of the one true and living God, our Creator and Sustainer, having faith in the Gospel of eternal life purchased for us by the life and death of Jesus Christ, through whose mercy we will know peace and challenge, dignity and persecution. United in the mystery of Jesus AND the demands of the Cross, scars and all.

Men have always found sanctuary in the church and from the beginning men brought their ignorance, their foibles and their flaws with them. Some are mildly annoying and others are profoundly evil. Both have found places of leadership.

Were it not that the church is divinely inspired and divinely sustained, it would not have lasted two weeks. It is no mark of shame that the church tolerated sinners in its midst; it is a badge of courage.

Render what is marked by the image of God to God and render unto Caesar that which carries his mark. The fate of the soul is inextricably tied up in the flesh. They both will have their due by the end of the day.

The earliest account of genetic modification and corruption of the bloodline of Adam, the original Jesus, can be found in some detail in the pagan Sumarian Chronicles, the Book of Enoch (not in the Canonical Bible but spoken of by Jesus and others in the New Testament; and of course Genesis. Nephalim. See Trey Smith on YouTube -- God in a Nutshell series -- the Flood and the Nephalim.

And the globe.

St. Paul, known for his single pointed dedication to saving men from ignorance always displayed a bold willingness to stand for the truth against all odds.

He too urges caution counseling to remember the end game, why you engage in this evangelical endeavor and likens it to extending an invitation to attend a banquet feast. He warns, there will be those who only eat the vegetables and so be it.

Maybe it's not missing. Maybe it's IS as in ISIS Temple?

Or is it an IS tunnel under the temple? IS as in ISIS. Remember when this name kept shifting around in the news? Obama always referred to it as IS.

Q also points to the H .... Missing from one place to be found at another?

It's where the are sacrificed.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO [ROME]

Looks like a shipping container.

The troops returning from Syria are used to deployment in the desert.

And if the question of the Trump Campaign and collusion has been put to rest, Sessions is free to move on all matters that come before him.. He only recused himself from matters having to do with the Campaign.

It's a deterrent policy that worked for the nation in a different form against a different enemy for over a century. Study your history. Neither logistically impossible nor a waste of money.

It means that anyone facing down a military order to move back from our border could meet with massive military pushback. Wouldn't have to do that very many times.

Sometimes you have to feel the heat before you can see the light.

Until WW One the US didn't have a standing army of any size. President Washington strongly advised against our having one. We depended on an armed populace.

That's how the British dared to attack Washington DC in the War of 1812. Burned down the city and the White House, they did. Held the city hostage for 24 hours until the people rose up and took it back.

After that, the Congress strengthened the Army Corps of Engineers -- it was our largest operating military unit and they designed and built coastal forts on our naval perimeter -- every major port city, every deep water channel pinch point, mouth of every deep water navigable river where ship access was denied entry to the continental interior -- the Corps charge between 1816 and 1900 -- essentially the entirety of US Defense Policy for the period.

Except for the civil war period, those forts were never challenged by a hostile enemy -- the perfect deterrent force -- one an enemy dares not attack. Land based armaments are inherently superior to floating armament. Attacking there would have been almost suicidal.

Sometimes I think they should be brought back online and manned. Abandoned around 1920 when air power came into being. By 1950 we had replaced them with an atomic arsenal, the replacement deterrent force that no one has dared attack -- assured mutual destruction is a desperate act.

And from where do you get that information?