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Lord is our judge William Lawrence Sr Crytpowit 8-9-21
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; it is he who will save us.
Isaiah 33:22
Free to combat it William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-8-21
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
Pebble and a diamond William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-7-21
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: A pebble and a diamond are alike to a blind man.
John Quigg
Lindell Cyber Symposium Looms And Attacks Increase — The closer Mike Lindell’s Sioux Falls Cyber Symposium looms the more the establishment circles the wagons, and the more it seems there might be something to it.
Here’s the AOL story by Kylie Mar regarding Lindell’s interview by Drew Griffin that aired last night (Aug. 5) on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360.
Note the loaded words. “Futile”? Kylie, honey, the Symposium hasn’t happened yet. “False claims” as per the rolling banner that ran below the interview? If an adjective is all you have, you have nothing.
Griffin’s response to a challenge by Lindell as to why he thinks the initial audits were clean was that the county officials told him so.
That’s journalism?
One poll showed that more than half the country thinks cheating decided the election.
Those who want to unite the nation should give the doubters the audits they want. There should not be even the slightest implication that corporate IP trumps election transparency. Yes, the machines should be looked at. Yes, Maricopa County, obey the subpoena and turn over the routers.
And if you are a Democrat, add your voice to those seeking to end ballot harvesting and unsupervised drop boxes. Join the chorus to allow ballot counting when only certified observers are present and allowed to stand as close as they want to the ballots.
Lindell’s Symposium is Aug. 10, 11 and 12 and will be broadcast on https://home.frankspeech.com/.
The Pillow Guy is offering $5 million to “any attendee who can prove that this cyber data is not valid data from the November 2020 election.”
For what it’s worth, My Pillows really do help you sleep.
Burn human beings William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-6-21
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Heinrich Heine
Covid Vaccination Mistrust Understandable –– A massive propaganda — that’s the only word for it – push was made to get every American vaccinated for Covid-19.
It failed. Only about half are. Those who claim to be our betters are now resorting to coercion.
That’s not going to work either. All it’s going to do is create more division and mistrust.
The blame can solely be laid on the arrogance of the establishment. A little respect and honesty would have gone a long way. Legitimate concerns were dismissed, points ignored, and questions laughed at.
The vaccines are ill-tested and experimental. They are far more dangerous that the vaccines to which we have become accustomed. The Covid vax has caused 6,101 deaths and 6,815 permanent disabilities so far in 2021, according to the Health and Human Services’ Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
Compare that to the flu vaccine in which 25 deaths and 24 permanent disabilities were reported in 2020 and through 2021.
Most Americans, though, understood and accepted the reasons for the vaccines’ accelerated development and availability. It was a cost-benefit thing. Covid-19 is real and dangerous.
What raised red flags was the insistence that everyone get it immediately. Those under 18 are at very little risk for the disease. Only 349 have died from Covid as of July 31 according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Considering potential long-term effects, it may be possible that the vaccine puts those in this cohort in greater danger than the disease.
And there is the bizarre dismissal of natural immunity. It appears that those who have had Covid have a better immunity than the vaccinated, as the great Sharyl Attkisson points out. Why should they even consider risking the vax? Remember, the vax is still experimental; demonstrably risky and the long term effects are undetermined.
So trust by the establishment has been squandered and it is difficult to see how they get it back.
Hey, did you see where a double-blind Israeli study has concluded that Ivermectin, an inexpensive anti-parasitic widely used since 1981, reduces both the duration and infectiousness of Covid-19?
Of course not.
Just one more thing to make you go hmmmm.
If the study holds it would mean the vaccine is not necessary and therapeutics are the better path.
Who could possibly be upset about that?
Gov Lamm Supported Sensible Immigration
By Joe Guzzardi
On July 29, Richard D. Lamm, Colorado’s three-term governor, 1975-1987, died of complications from a pulmonary embolism. He was a week away from his 86th birthday. Lamm was a Democrat who earned his J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, served in the U.S. Army and became an attorney for the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission. Once his third gubernatorial term ended, Lamm was executive director of the University of Denver’s Center for Public Policy, and wrote several books.
During his 12 years as Colorado’s governor, Lamm spoke out unflinchingly about the issues most important to him – protecting the fragile environment, defending women’s rights and promoting commonsense immigration. Lamm, who criticized overdevelopment and the relentless sprawl it spawns, opposed Interstate 470, a proposed circumferential highway around the Denver Metropolitan area. Years later, and because of never-ending development, the highway was built. Today, Denver has some of the nation’s most congested highways, and much of Colorado’s open spaces are a distant memory as housing projects have paved over what was once rural land. Lamm knew and loved Colorado’s countryside; in 1974, running on his campaign to limit growth, he walked across the state to promote his platform.
Because it adds millions of new residents to the U.S.’s population annually, Lamm, unlike many Democrats with similar academic and professional credentials, bluntly criticized federal immigration policy as ill-conceived, destructive to the environment and harmful to low-wage American workers.
In 2003, Lamm gave his most widely known speech, “I Have a Plan to Destroy America.” At the time of Lamm’s speech, Congress had passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, and the Immigration Act of 1990. Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush had signed the two legislative acts that opened the borders to more illegal immigration, and created more employment-based visas that, over the last three decades, helped displace millions of American low- and high-skilled workers.
Presciently, Lamm foresaw immigration’s growing, detrimental effect on the U.S., as well as the amassed power that its advocates had on Congress and the media. Lamm’s eight-point program, which he subtitled “and many parts of it are underway,” include, despite multiculturalism’s multiple global failures, making America a bilingual, bicultural country; encouraging immigrants to maintain their own language and culture instead of, as previous immigrant waves did, assimilating; ensuring that the fastest growing demographic is the least educated, thereby creating a second, permanent underclass; getting big business and powerful foundations to donate huge sums toward promoting ethnic identity, victimology and diversity. Lamm’s most compelling point noted that all of his above observations must be treated as “off limits…taboo.” Make sure that opposition is squelched on unfounded xenophobe and racist charges that end debate. Because immigration was “once good,” Lamm predicted that its advocates would insist that it “must always be good.” Lamm anticipated that the immigration-related problems he identified in 2003 would grow worse over the years to come.
Although often at odds with Lamm, especially about immigration, the Denver Post’s editorial board wrote a mostly gracious commentary about the former governor, and referred to him as “a kind, humble and generous man…. a man of conviction… whose policy on immigration was drastically different from that of the modern Democratic Party.…”
I knew Dick from several Washington, D.C., conferences where we met, began and maintained a friendship. On a trip to Denver years ago, Dick and his wife, Dottie, invited me to their home for dinner. Dottie, once a Colorado U.S. Senate candidate, Dick and I spoke about his 2003 speech, and bemoaned how much of it had come true.
Dick enjoyed a long, full life. In an era where most politicians speak double talk or test which way the wind blows before addressing a crowd, Dick spoke his mind even when he knew his foes were ready to pounce. As the Postwrote: “Colorado will be poorer without him here offering his unvarnished and genuine takes on the most important policies of our time.”
Governor Lamm’s many allies in the uphill climb for stable, sustainable population and manageable immigration will deeply miss his strong, rational voice. The fierce battle that Dick predicted will be more challenging without him.
Joe Guzzardi is a Progressives for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@pfirdc.org.
Despotism to liberty William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-5-21
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas Jefferson
A Tranquil Time In Northern New Hampshire
By John Gilmore
A small town, almost a village in northern New Hampshire near Conway, the prime time tourist location in the winter for skiing, sledding, snowshoeing and winter sports, and in the summer hiking the many trails and pine forests, sits quietly and tranquil today.
It is rainy today, in Tamworth. I sit looking out the window in the wooded area from a small cabin in a community of people who seem to have found a way to live with all of the modern amenities, but be in a small, quiet community surrounding Moore’s Pond. No need to go to a park to walk the trails for the visitor. This small community is full of many dirt roads with beautiful cabins, all uniquely designed, close enough to see from the road.
It is rainy now. It just enhances the sleep ability factor here from the rain and most importantly, the quiet. Sometimes it is good just to be in a quiet place. To be away from the city and the roar of cars and blazing sirens, and the lawn mowers and weed wackers constantly going in the suburbs and immersed in the sounds of birds singing, wind blowing through the trees and the natural noises that we often don’t hear or even pay attention to anymore is both fulfilling and enlightening.
It is just life in it’s rawness and in its fullness instead of the hustle and bustle of living according to the wishes and demands of others and the great machine-like culture we often find in US American overcrowded cities . It is what is needed for the healing of the human soul. The human soul needs quiet, it needs solitude as well as community. The human soul thrives while immersed in nature with other human beings, not in avoidance.
As I sit and listen to the sound of distant conversation in the house in which I am staying, and look outside of windows and off of the balcony surrounded by the beauty of nature, I find that I am more relaxed and more at rest than I have been for quite some time. This seems more the real world than my small suburban town.
A Visit To White’s Lake
White’s Lake is a very large lake about two miles from Tamworth. There is a beautiful beach with a cordoned off area for swimming, many picnic tables, and a small store and rental shop where you can rent one and two people kayaks, paddle boats, and canoes. The water is warm. A lot of activity is going on.
Instead of going in the water we decided to hike the two mile trail around the lake, noticing the beautiful landscape, and resting along the edge, every so often, looking out over the beauty of the pristine looking, yet well utilized lake. The lake is large enough for people to swim in a very small section without disturbing the fisherman and people in boats and canoes, and large enough so people doing the boating don’t usually cross paths unless they want. The best part–no motor boats, or jet skis.
I realize those things must be fun, considering that almost every quiet lake where people swim, canoe, or kayak eventually gets overrun with someone loudly running up and down with a wake following so large that it can sometimes swamp a kayak if the paddler is not careful. Though it may be exciting for the few grinning speed lovers on those vehicles it usually ruins the atmosphere for everyone else. This doesn’t seem to be a problem at White’s Lake.
The major problem for me is the steep entrance fee of five dollars per person for out of state visitors compared to three dollars a car for state residents. Despite all of the fun, the water, the friendly atmosphere with music, picnic tables and children laughing and playing, I doubt that we will return there with only one day left to explore more of his fascinating area when we can for free elsewhere.
The trees, the trails, the quiet, the friendly atmosphere, all of these things add to the charm of the area. I marvel at how few African Americans and People of Color are located here, yet again, I lived in NH for several years so I shouldn’t be surprised. The greatest thing that I notice, and noticed back then, was that it is more comfortable for a black person here than it is in many of the suburban towns surrounding Philadelphia, or Boston. I think many of the people in NH believe in minding their own business and giving people the space they need.
On some issues they are quite conservative. On some they are quite progressive. They are, however, by no means moderate. I kind of like that to be truthful. Stand up for what you want, don’t hate people who don’t agree with what you want has always been my motto. Don’t water down everything that you want or need to the point that it is useless. I think we can all learn something from the state of NH. It isn’t perfect, but what is? And we can make what we learn from it perfect if we have the nerve to stop driving down the middle of the road and get to one side or the other appreciating the fact that we may need to go in the other direction sometimes if we want to get back home.
A Tranquil Time In Northern New Hampshire
Biden Bucks In Swarthmore Pa
By Bob Small
There’s always something to learn at your local Borough Council Meeting. We learned at the July 26 Swarthmore Borough Council Meeting that the Feds have allocated us $664, 230.82.
Now, according to the US Department of the Treasury, these funds can be used to “address negative economic impacts caused by the public health emergency” and “replace lost public sector revenues”, among other generalities.
Like many communities, we have a volunteer fire department. They could use some monies. Our police department is funded, though they could always use more. (They don’t need their own tank, though.) The Library and some of our Senior Groups always need additional funding. And, of course, our business community will all be vying for their share of the Biden Bucks. The new vaping shop will apply but that money could go up in smoke.
Luckily, we do not have an Antifa or Proud Boys Chapter in Swarthmore, as they might also try to apply. (I’m not suggesting formation of either for these purposes.)
I’m somewhat regretful that I’ve retired from coordinating any Political Forums or Poetics, which means I’ll miss out on this magic money tree.
A direct quote, says that within these overall categories, five overly broad categories, “recipients have broad flexibility to decide how best to use this funding to meet the needs of their communities” (home.treasury.gov)
Outside of a child’s allowance, when are monies issued without some guidelines?
I still remember hearing my parents say “Now, Bobby, don’t spend it all on cookies and beer.” (We lived in Northeast Philly.)
You don’t just give monies to local government. That involves a level of trust that most local government has yet to earn.
These are monies meant to earn approval ratings and votes, nothing else.
Bob Small is a resident of Swarthmore, Pa.