A sea of Palestinian flags dominated the protests.
Chants of “No justice, no peace,” “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be freed,” and “Intifada” were shouted repeatedly.
“I never imagined seeing the flag of a terror group holding eight Americans hostage for 292 days waved in the streets of our nation’s Capitol,” Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) said on X. “Over a million Americans have given their lives to protect that right — including my own father.”

As I've said, Israel is first and then the United States. Why are there not more troops there to defend the Capitol?

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Cut it up!
cut cut it, cut, cut, cut, cut it, cut it
cut, cut it, cut it up one time!
cut it up one time!
Hu, Heaven, hu, hu, huh heaven
Huh, Heavenbound!
Heavenbound,
don't you know I'm heavenbound?
Heavenbound,
reaching for that higher ground.
Heavenbound,
don't you know I'm heavenbound?
Heavenbound,
reaching for that higher ground.
Cold rappin' for the king with a sting in my voice
Not condemnin' men and women, but relayin' a choice.
Higher ground is the sound that I'm talking of.
Opportunity knocks through a different love.
Not love like we know it, like ya love your girl.
It's a love from above, not of this world.
Kinda profound, a trump will sound;
and all God's children are heavenbound.
Heavenbound,
don't you know I'm heavenbound?
Heavenbound,
reaching for that higher ground.
Heavenbound,
don't you know I'm heavenbound?
Heavenbound,
reaching for that higher ground.
Jump on the job, and live for him.
Do you lie satisfied in a state of sin
Listen while I christen a serious sound.
Rap cold revin' cause I'm heavenbound.
Serious lyrics don't disregard
No treason, gotta reason that I rap so hard.
Don't look down or stand around
But keep on reachin' for higher ground
Heavenbound,
don't you know I'm heavenbound?
Heavenbound,
reaching for that higher ground.
Heavenbound,
don't you know I'm heavenbound?
Heavenbound,
reaching for that higher ground.
Call us the heavenbound crew and you can be, too.
If ya only knew what he did for you.
Christ died, don'tcha see, to set us free.
Look in the word, unblurred, you can find the key.
Gotta choice to be voiced, reveive him or not.
Like right or left, cold on the spot.
It seems kinda easy when ya break it down.
As for me and my boys, we're heavenbound.
If you want eternal life,
choose my friend, he's Jesus Christ.
Only he can set you free
from your sin and misery.
Ooh, God's promised us a home in glory.
Trust in him,
a trump will sound,
and all God's children are hea-hea-heavenbound.
Don't look down, stand around
keep on reachin' for higher ground.
Kinda profound, a trump will sound,
and all God's children are heavenbound!
Don't you know, don't, don't you know
I'm heavenbound, that I'm heavenbound?
Can't ya see, can't, can't ya see
that I'm heavenbound, I'm heavenbound?
HEAVENBOUND!!!

As those who saw my praise that after eleven years of retail and three at my current place of employment, I was finally getting the opportunity for Front End Advancement training. Well I took my first of four tests tonight, passed with a 90%!

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I found myself looking into the mirror
Knew I wasn't who I wanted to be
I was living like the way that I wanted
But my eyes reminded me, I'm not free
Believed a lie so everything that I know
Says I got to go, tired of going solo
But I'm never gonna go there again
This is what it is
This is who I am
This is where I finally take my stand
I didn't wanna fall
But I don't have to crawl
I met the One with two scarred hands
Giving Him the best of everything that's left of
The life inside this man
I've been born again (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I see you walking like you're living in fear
Having trouble even looking at me
Wishin' they would give you more than words
Sick of people telling how it should be (how it should be)
What's your download, where'd you get your info?
You saw that I'm show, now you're in the in load
Gonna tell you what I believe, oh
This is what it is
This is who I am
This is where I finally take my stand
I didn't wanna fall
But I don't have to crawl
I met the One with two scarred hands
Giving Him the best of everything that's left of
The life inside this man
I've been born again (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
We are the ones they call by name
(I'm never gonna look back)
Let go, let go the guilt, the shame
(Said, "I'm never gonna look back")
This is who I am
This is what it is
This is who I am
This is where I finally take my stand
I didn't wanna fall
But I don't have to crawl
I met the One with two scarred hands
Giving Him the best of everything that's left of
The life inside this man
I've been born again
This is what it is
This is who I am (am)
I didn't wanna fall
But I don't have to crawl (crawl)
I met the One with two scarred hands
Giving Him the best of everything that's left of
The life inside this man
I've been born again
I've been born again
(Never gonna look back)

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This is probably one of the BEST and MOST famous songs by the Newsboys!!!! I love this song!!!! *chair-dances*


Let love explode and bring the dead to life
A love so bold to see a revolution somehow
Let love explode and bring the dead to life
A love so bold to bring a revolution somehow
Now I'm lost in Your freedom
In this world I'll overcome
My God's not dead, He's surely alive
He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion
God's not dead, He's surely alive
He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion
He's roaring, He's roaring
He's roaring like a lion
Let hope arise and make the darkness hide
My faith is dead, I need a resurrection somehow
Now I'm lost in Your freedom
In this world I'll overcome
My God's not dead, He's surely alive
He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion
God's not dead, He's surely alive
He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion
He's roaring, He's roaring
He's roaring like a lion
He's roaring, He's roaring
Let heaven roar and fire fall
Come shake the ground
With the sound of revival
Let heaven roar and fire fall
Come shake the ground
With the sound of revival
Let heaven roar (let heaven roar) and fire fall
Come shake the ground
With the sound of revival
My God's not dead, He's surely alive
He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion
God's not dead, He's surely alive
He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion
God's not dead, He's surely alive
He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion
God's not dead, He's surely alive
He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion
He's roaring, He's roaring
He's roaring like a lion
He's roaring, He's roaring
He's roaring like a lion
He's roaring like a lion

I believe in human rights - as we are made in the image of God - and our primary ethic is to love God with all our heart and soul and might and strength, and love our neighbour as ourselves.

But I think human rights are best protected by a minimalist set of rights that guarantees the democratic process continues. Then nimble democratic processes in parliament can respond better than a dusty old parchment interpreted by equally dusty old judges. Let me explain.

1. A Bill of Rights can be waffly words stuck in an ivory tower - and is not specific or real!
2. A Bill of Rights will make unelected Judges the interpreters of our rights. The risk is that a dusty old parchment is interpreted to mean the wrong things in specific instances. Basically - every extra “Right” written into a Bill of Rights could potentially apply to unanticipated areas of social policy. It could slow down a democratic response to a challenge or crisis in specific policies in the real world.
3. Australians have just enough rights in the Constitution to guarantee democracy – and trust democratic debate to handle the rest.
4. A Bill of Rights will encode the silly prejudices and blind spots of our generation forever!
5. A Bill of Rights enshrines petty selfishness over the rights of the community, sometimes at a vastly disproportionate cost to the community and very little reward for the individual.
6. A Bill of Rights will politicize the judiciary

For example, a “right to privacy” is a concept that Australian’s generally take for granted. Life here is pretty much like life in the USA - but is actually better in certain instances. A “right to privacy” sounds fine - until it protects drunks on our roads and puts us vastly more danger of having our families wiped out by a drunk driver! Now imagine society has a huge debate over whether or not police should have the right to RBT - Random Breath Testing. The idea is that without any indication of bad driving or due concerns, police can set up random testing stations, wave drivers over, ask them to count to ten across an alcohol sensor - and test you! At random. A large number of people might agree - and campaign for it. But they’re prevented by “THE PARCHMENT” that says it is forbidden. This thing was written hundreds of years before the motor car was even invented!

Now imagine a majority REALLY want RBT. The Judges are helpless - “THE PARCHMENT” is clear. But Big Alcohol are funding all the political parties to favour them and get involved in the stacking of the Supreme Court. By its very nature, constitutional reform is slow and tardy. Society cannot be prevented from the harm that is drink driving. Ironically, the “Right to Privacy” ends up infringing on my most basic right of all - my “Right to Life.”

But in Australia we do not have a “Bill of Rights” in the Federal government. We have a few basic rights in our Constitution - and that’s the way I like it! We have the right to vote (Section 41), protection against acquisition of property on unjust terms (Section 51 (xxxi)), the right to a trial by jury (Section 80), freedom of religion (Section 116) and prohibition of discrimination on the basis of State of residency (Section 117).

That’s it. Pretty minimalist hey?

What it means is that questions of privacy can be sorted through the democratic arguments of the day. The government can hold an enquiry - and the public submit thoughts and arguments from their different disciplines. The media gets involved. And we vote.

Australia decided decades ago that RBT was vastly better than protecting drunk drivers. In practice, deaths to DUI are now 8 TIMES lower. Being pulled over for RBT less than once a year is worth being 8 times safer from drunk drivers killing me and my family.

A parliament acting in accordance with the wishes of the people and the latest social policy and best science can! Legislation is just profoundly better and more nimble to meet the needs of the day compared to changing a Bill of Rights!

EG: Australia had an awful mass shooting at Port Arthur. The government passed tough gun control laws straight away! Huge categories of firearms were suddenly illegal. They ran an amnesty and firearm buyback scheme to encourage owners to hand in now illegal firearms. We have not had a mass shooting of that scale since. Try doing that in America!

Conditions and technologies change. Back when America's founding fathers talked about a well organised militia having the right to firearms they were talking about muskets in a mostly walking transport system, not teenagers with automatic rifles able to flee a scene in a 4 wheel drive!

For more on this - here's my blog page.
Here's the Australian ABC podcast - "Don't leave us with the bill."

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Heard the Preacher talking
about three wood crosses
Up on a hill everyone to see
Two sinners on the outside couldn't save themselves if they tried
All I could think is man that sounds like me

Ive been the one on the left full of guilt and regret
long gone on the wrong side of living
I've been the one on the right always looking for a fight thinking I could never be forgiven
i'm standing here today
overwhelmed by grace cause I know who paid my cost
Thank God
for the man on the middle cross

He didn't have to do it
But for me He went thru it
A love like that I'lI never understand
Lord knows I don't deserve it
And I know I couldn't earn it
Mercy rained down on this desperate man

The cross is where he went
But that ain’t where he stayed
He brought me back to life when He rose up out of that grave
Someday I’ll stand before him
And I’ll See Jesus face to face
I’ll worship and adore him
For a life forever changed

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I walk a bit different now
Now that my heart’s been found
Nothing really feels the same
I hold my head a bit higher
I lift my voice a bit louder
Yeah, something inside has changed

I am a mountain mover
Water walker
More than just an overcomer
Cause I've been set free
I am a gospel preacher
Heart on fire
Freedom singing
Testifier
Cause I’ve been redeemed
I am a believer
I am a believer

I know this is not my home
I know I don’t walk alone
No matter what comes my way
I have peace through the trouble
I have joy though the struggle
And now my hope’s in a brighter day

I am a child of the Father
An orphan, no longer
No doubt about who I am
I’m in the hands of the Healer
The arms of the Savior
His grace makes me who I am

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I could listen to my heart
I could listen to the world
I could listen to my problems
But what I think I need to hear
Nice and loud and crystal clear
Is about the who’s gonna solve them

Oh
I need something that can fill my soul
Oh
On a record or the radio

Ain’t nothing like a gospel song
Makes me want to sing it all day long
Something ‘bout that amazing grace sound of praise
Makes my troubles not seem so strong
Let me hear a heart set free
Holy Bible to a melody
Turn it up and then play it again, play it again, play it
On and on and on
Ain’t nothing like a gospel song

Let me stop and testify
I was dead and brought to life
By the power of my Savior
But if I’m being real with you
Sometimes I forget it’s true
I could use a reminder

Oh
I need something that can fill my soul
Oh
On a record or the radio

I will sing, I will sing the name of Jesus
I will sing, I will sing of all he’s done
I will sing, I will sing the name of Jesus
I will sing, I will sing ‘til kingdom come

Two of the best Christian men I know are being persecuted, and so I ask everyone to pray for God to intervene and help both men in this dark hour of need. These two guys have saved more lives than I can count, and right now, they need support from the Lord.

Thank you for any and all prayers,

Jeff

Tulsi not only exposed Kamala's record in 2016

But she just exposed additional info for the current race

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And apparently Democratic party politicians facing a contested election - are less than over-the-top in support for Harris.

From Politico -- https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/22/swing-seat-democrats-kamala-harris-endorsements-00170231

"Most of the Democratic challengers running for competitive seats across the country had glaring omissions in their statements Sunday about President Joe Biden bowing out of the race. They didn’t mention Vice President Kamala Harris.

"It was an eyebrow-raising contrast to the dozens of House and Senate Democratic incumbents who immediately came out in support of Harris as their party’s nominee. And it was even more noticeable in the blue states of New York and California, which hold a slew of districts where voters chose Biden in 2020 but have supported GOP candidates down the ballot since.

... Harris is a relative unknown. Few campaigns have polling data indicating her standing in key states and districts.
“It’s likely her,” said one Democratic operative working on multiple competitive House races, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “But what’s the harm in trying to hold out hoping someone better happens?”

(Not exactly the equivalent of the blow-out event of the Republican Convention of 2024)

============ efforts to document the democratic attempt to re-write Harris' record

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In this next vid - we see
BLM question the transition to Kamala for the 2024 election
We see CBS question Kamala on being the most extreme left of all democratic Senators
We see Axios try to delete its reporting about Kamala being assigned Border Czar role in 2021

revising history for Kamala?

More about revising history for Kamala -

That article is titled " Why the Kamala Harris of Four Years Ago Could Haunt Her in 2024"

"In a video drawn from a 2021 interview on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” J.D. Vance, now the GOP vice-presidential nominee, said that Harris and other prominent Democrats (including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) “don’t really have a direct stake” in the country’s future because they are “people without children.” In the clip, which has amassed more than 25 million views since it was shared Monday on X, Vance also refers to Democrats as “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they’ve made.”

Harris is the step-mother of two children.
Buttigieg has two children (born in 2022).

Having seen how successful the impeachment of DHS Secretary Mayorkas was over border issues, Andy Ogles has gone back to the well.

'Never heard anything so ridiculous': Rep. mocked over effort to impeach Harris​

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, following a House GOP caucus meeting in which members frantically strategized over how to stop momentum for Harris' newly kicked-off presidential campaign.

The impeachment articles proclaim that Harris has committed high crimes and misdemeanors through "incompetence" in her role as "border czar" (a position she has never actually had) and then proceeded to cite several anecdotes of women killed by unauthorized migrants

Nowhere in the resolution does it list a purported act of misconduct or abuse of power by Harris — something that was noticed by commenters on social media who roundly ridiculed the measure.

"Ogles claims in this resolution that Harris is the 'designated border czar,' a nonexistent position that Biden did not name her to," wroteimmigration law expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, providing a link to the White House announcement on the subject. "Here is the primary source. Biden is clear that Harris agreed to lead the admin's diplomatic 'root causes' strategy only."

Here are some observations of what can only be described as, the illegal handling of the 2nd Amendment.

Today you can hear with regularity, "Violence has no part in our Democracy." Yet, across the board among those who support the 2A, you will also be equally hard-pressed to find any remaining expression to its germane purpose, which was to correct tyranny, if necessary, by the means of shedding blood.

We are accustomed to “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” To be a peacemaker means to engage unrest, that is if there remains some room for reason to have rational course as long as violence is not already being waged which would have exceeded our parameters of giving out "pearls".


The interesting thing about this orphaned element of the Second Amendment is it is on everyone’s mind, never fully banished but seldom spoken and never allowed its original context. Is that any way to treat the firstborn of the 2ndA?

Again interesting, ask any law enforcement officer on what the likelihood of utilizing the 2nd Amendment for the sole purpose of removing a tyrant from power?


In my thinking, one of the hottest topics of the day, so much so amusingly – hazardous.

So my transgendered friend has yet again unfriended me on discord. This is a big deal because every single time he has unfriended me and I mean everytime he has done it to me over 6 times in the last 3-4 years he has attempted to harm himself and had to go away for a little while and I'm always stuck praying and worrying about him for months on end not knowing if he's alive or dead. I told him the last time this happened that if it happened again I would call the police but he moved about 3 months ago and he told me where in Ohio he moved to but I can't remember the name of the town he moved to. So all I can do at this point is sit, wait, and worry for several months for him to get out of the hospital and spend several months in a row googling his name checking for obituaries and/or updates because they don't post Psychiatric hospitalizations online or in the paper.

I'm just worried to death and this time I'm considering not being his friend anymore when the inevitable friend request comes from him several months in the future. I just don't know if I can deal with the pain anymore because he hurts himself on a regular basis. He takes meds for it and it doesn't matter how much my wife and I be his friend he has a mental illness and hes always constantly hurting himself. I should have sympathy and be sympathetic because I also have a lifelong mental illness but right now? I'm just hurting. I don't know if he is alive or dead and if he Is gone I don't think I could EVER forgive myself. Mainly because it's my fault I'm such a bad friend. If I was a good friend to him he would not attempt to harm himself every 5 minutes. I mean... come on. I don't think I could take a lifetime of this and that just makes me feel even worse. So... please pray that he's okay and gets the help he needs and finds a friend who actually makes him not want to hurt himself anymore. Instead of a friend who constantly makes him want to hurt himself... *sigh*

If the thread title got your attention and made you go huh? Perhaps even angered you? Good! I have two very sincere and very relevant questions for my ECT brothers in Christ.

1). If God made man in His own image, why would He send any of His Image bearers to hell?

Ans: He most definitely would NOT and will NOT …The Scriptures are clear … man is made in God’s Image. Yes? Therefore it follows, were God to send even one man, let alone the majority of mankind to hell, He would be condemning His own Image to hell! No? Hmmmmmmm, I can’t see how anyone can disagree with this logical conclusion.

God’s Name is on the line here folks. His Name is who He is and He is the only true God and there is no other! AMEN! He declares He will not give His glory to another … I would here be referring to Satan. The Adversary of God and man. Is God going to allow Satan to torment Him via His image bearers? Forever? At all?


2). If Jesus died and paid the penalty for our sin, and according to so many that penalty is ECT, why is Jesus seated at the Right Hand of God instead of suffering ECT in hell for all the redeemed who have trusted Him to pay the penalty for their sin?

Ans: Because “the wages of sin is death …” Both physical and spiritual death. First death, Second Death … doesn’t matter. Death is death. The last enemy to be defeated is death! No? Jesus is not suffering ECT in hell because this carnally minded concept of man is NOT what the Scriptures teach. Plain and simple. If the wages of sin was ECT … He lied! Currently Jesus is not in hell, nor is He in a perpetual state of searing pain, paying the penalty on your behalf. Your debt is still your debt!

This kind of carnal minded theological concept, when taken to its logical conclusion, shows itself to be what it really is; the most God forsaken, wicked assault ever perpetrated against His Name. It completely negates the completed work of Christ. If He were forever suffering the eternal consequences on behalf of His people, He would not have been able to be resurrected! Contempt is being pour out on all His other promises by adhering to this carnal minded doctrine and mockery of the Gospel. Once again, I can’t see how anyone can disagree with this logical conclusion.

Blessings …

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Please pray for my mouth. A hard crust has formed around it and my doctor doesn't know why. I just got an allergy test today. Hoping to get to the bottom of this soon. These symptoms have been going on for months now.

Young voter registration spikes to record numbers in 48 hours after Harris takes helm​

The nonpartisan Vote.org website saw its highest level of new voter registrations of the 2024 election cycle in the first two days after Biden dropped out and endorsed vice president Kamala Harris, with 38,500 people signing up – a 700 percent spike, reported Politico Playbook.

That's even higher than when Taylor Swift made an Instagram post urging her fans to register, Playbook noted, and most of the new registrations came from voters who are 34 years old or younger.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee about the agency's ongoing investigation of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, providing new information uncovered while other factors continue to be investigated.
Wray said Wednesday during the House hearing the would-be Trump assassin conducted a Google search on "how far away was Oswald from Kennedy?"

At one point during the hearing, Wray said that Crooks purchased a ladder prior to the shooting but it was not found at the site. Wray said the FBI is still looking into how Crooks was able to get on the roof.
The FBI is leading the investigation into the incident and so far has not found the motive of Crooks, who fired eight shots from a rooftop about 150 yards from the rally – killing one and wounding three, including Trump.

Committee member Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., asked Wray whether or not the gunman worked alone.
"So far we have not found any evidence of accomplices or coconspirators ... foreign or domestic," Wray replied.
Wray also said the FBI has yet to find a motive in the shooting, but that Crooks clearly had a fascination with public figures and that about a week before the shooting he became "very focused" on Trump and the rally. In addition, Wray said Crooks was not on the FBI's radar or in the agency's database before the shooting and that investigators found about 14 guns in his family home. Early in the hearing, Wray said that FBI has uncovered a drone that gunman used the day of the attempted assassination and that he flew it in the vicinity of the rally site about two hours before Trump took the stage, at about 5:30 p.m.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., pressed Wray for more information.
"When I say area, not over the stage and that part of the area itself," Wray said. "I would say about 200 yards."
He also called the assassination attempt a "threat to democracy."
"The attempted assassination of the former president was an attack on our democracy and our democratic process and we will not and do not tolerate political violence of any kind, especially a despicable account of this magnitude," he said in his opening statement. He also said the FBI is working "tirelessly" to figure out the failures of the rally.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers remarks to a joint meeting of Congress on July 24.

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Pastor Steven Furtick’s multi-campus Elevation Church, headquartered in North Carolina, collected more than $108 million in tithes and offerings in 2023, as in-person church attendance soared to more than 17,000 worshipers weekly with three new campuses, according to the megachurch’s 2023 annual report.

The church, which withdrew its affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention last summer, after more than 20 years of cooperation with the nation's largest Protestant denomination, reported a 21% year over year increase in in-person church attendance and hundreds of thousands more from the U.S. and around the world tuning in online via the church’s website or social media such as YouTube.

Elevation Church noted that they added permanent church campuses in Belmont, North Carolina, and Orlando, Florida, as well as a second campus in Toronto, Canada. At the end of 2021, Elevation Church reportedthat they had 19 physical locations spread across North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Florida. Eight of those locations were reported as owned by the church, while 11 of the locations are leased.

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