Exploring the Divine

V.L.Murray: author, editor, poet, composer & devout Christian.She has studied many religions & philosophies & seeks the truths in all. Fiction & non-fiction.

[Exploring the Divine @Explo_thedivine]

@SenAdamSchiff Sure. On your side 1st dump Trump & his gang, apologize 2every country they’ve insulted &/or attacked like Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland, Canada & Iran! Make Israel stop the genocide in Palestine, &imprison Netanyahu!Then we’ll talk.

[Sue Stroud NAFO 🧡🇨🇦🇺🇦💛💙🌻🐦🧡 @suestroud]

@SenAdamSchiff @KamalaHarris @BarackObama @MichelleObama @HillaryClinton @BillClinton you might want to have a talk with Adam. He's starting to sound like @USAmbCanada. We've had enough.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

This is possibly the best example of guerrilla marketing by an airline all year - SAS - Scandinavian Airlines😍

[Abigail Miller @Abigail_M2050]

Rep. Ted Lieu played Pam Bondi video of Trump partying with Epstein and asked if underage girls were present. Bondi snapped: This is ridiculous. There’s no evidence Trump committed a crime. Lieu fired back: I believe you just lied under oath

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The dog at the shelter holds the reporter's hand and refuses to let go.

In the end, the reporter adopts the dog.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Carney on Erdogan's gift: "I would like to reassure Canadians, they keep guns away from me ... Struck me that my gift of maple syrup kind of undermatched the whatever it was."

[Catholic News Agency @cnalive]

The canonization cause for Servant of God Rhoda Wise crossed another hurdle after formal documents that outline her life, heroic virtues, and holiness were submitted to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.

https://t.co/INVgR6hgZI

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Historian and Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bukoba Diocese in Tanzania, Method Kilaini, has spoken of his immense gratitude for Pope Leo’s moral courage in issuing the first papal apology for the Holy See’s role in legitimising the transatlantic slave trade.
https://t.co/c55t4DPZKI

[Acyn @Acyn]

Nichols: It’s almost like we have a relative in the room, and there’s something deeply wrong with him. And we’ve all agreed not to talk about it. But there is something deeply wrong with him.

His friends know it, his critics know it. His staff, I’m sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.

Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy.

You know, I spent years teaching students that when the president speaks, it’s policy, and you must pay attention when the president speaks because nobody can contradict him.

Now, you know, are we really cutting off all trade with Spain? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. It might have just been a stray electron, you know, careening around inside his brainpan. Who knows?

But this is really dangerous because in the middle of all this stuff—and we can laugh about, you know, the Islamic Republic of Japan and all of that—but he made several statements about an ongoing war that the United States is losing. And no one’s even trying to pretend that they can make any sense of it.

And I’ll just add one last thing that you just brought up.

If this were any other president, this would be a national crisis. I mean, Joe Biden got somebody’s name wrong, and it was headlines. The president gets all kinds of things wrong, completely, you know, is out to lunch at an important NATO summit, and, you know, it’s Wednesday.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1916, a pack of dogs attacked a private zoo in Hawaii. Two terrified wallabies broke out of their cage and escaped into the mountains.

What happened next is one of the wildest accidents in wildlife history.

After the wallabies vanished into the forested cliffs of Kalihi Valley, the zoo's owner called for a massive public hunt. Nobody caught them.

A local newspaper joked that they might eventually "produce a breed of Hawaiian wallabies."They were exactly right.

Despite being 5,000 miles from Australia, the steep volcanic rock faces in Hawaii turned out to be the perfect habitat.

By 1984, researchers counted roughly 250 wallabies thriving in the valley. They had even started developing their own unique evolutionary characteristics.
The craziest part?

They aren't considered invasive.They only eat non-native plants.

They don't compete with native species (Hawaii has no native land mammals).
Because they peacefully coexist with the ecosystem, the state of Hawaii officially protects them. It is strictly illegal to hunt or harm a Hawaiian wallaby.

Back in their native Australia, the brush-tailed rock wallaby is fighting for its life. Predators, habitat clearing, and the devastating 2019-2020 bushfires wiped out an estimated 70% of their remaining habitat.

But that accidental Honolulu colony?
They have no foxes. No feral cats in the cliffs. No bushfires.

Two wallabies that broke out of a cage 110 years ago accidentally founded what might be the most secure population of their species anywhere on Earth.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

🇭🇺 PM Magyar: Let me make it very clear concerning the war in Ukraine, on behalf of Hungarian government, that Ukraine is the victim, Russia is the brutal aggressor and Ukraine has the right to defend its territorial integrity. We maintain our humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.

[Exploring the Divine @Explo_thedivine]

JD, you sold your soul to Satan, young man!!!

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

JD Vance: “The November midterms give us a choice: keep fighting fraud with Republicans or send criminal fraudsters a life boat from the Democrats.”

Just a quick reminder, this administration has pardoned more fraudster than every other administration combined.

Here is an incomplete list of fraudsters pardoned by Trump/Vance. It’s incomplete because the list is so long it exceeds the X post character limits.

• Dinesh D’Souza: Convicted of campaign contribution fraud via illegal straw donations.
• Conrad Moffat Black: Convicted of mail fraud and obstruction related to business dealings.
• Michael Robert Milken: Convicted of conspiracy, securities fraud, mail fraud, and tax fraud in the 1980s junk bond/insider trading scandal.
• Philip Esformes: Convicted in one of the largest Medicare/Medicaid fraud schemes (over $1 billion in fraudulent claims via nursing homes and kickbacks).
• Salomon Melgen: Convicted of health care fraud involving tens of millions in fraudulent Medicare billing as an eye doctor.
• Faustino Bernadett (and similar health care figures like those in large-scale schemes): Convicted in health care fraud with sham contracts and kickbacks exceeding $900 million in fraudulent bills.
• Michael Ashley: Convicted of bank fraud tied to a mortgage company collapse.
• John Duncan Fordham: Convicted of health care fraud as a pharmacist.
• Steve Stockman: Convicted of mail and wire fraud, campaign finance violations, and money laundering (misusing charitable donations).
• Chris Collins: Convicted of securities fraud and insider trading (providing material nonpublic information).
• Sholom Rubashkin: Convicted of bank fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering in a large-scale meatpacking financial scheme.
• Judith Negron: Convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, kickbacks, money laundering, and structuring (part of a major scheme).
• Fred Davis Clark Jr.: Convicted of bank fraud and false statements in connection with federally insured loans.
• Albert J. Pirro Jr.: Convicted of conspiracy, tax evasion, and multiple counts of fraud.
• Additional health care executives/doctors (at least 10 total in first term): Convicted in large-scale Medicare fraud schemes involving false billing and kickbacks.
• Trevor Milton: Convicted of securities fraud and wire fraud (false statements to investors about Nikola Corp. technology).
• Devon Archer: Convicted of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud (defrauding a Native American tribe in a bond scheme).
• Brian Kelsey: Convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States and aiding excessive campaign contributions.
• Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley: Convicted of bank fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to defraud banks (over $30 million in fraudulent loans).
• George Santos: Convicted of wire fraud, identity theft, aggravated identity theft, and embezzlement/fraud from campaign donors and unemployment benefits.
• Michael Grimm: Convicted of tax fraud (underreporting income and filing false tax returns).
• Jacob Deutsch: Convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud (mortgage fraud scheme).
• Adriana Isabel Camberos (aka Adriana Shayota): Convicted of mail and wire fraud in a counterfeit 5-Hour Energy scheme (millions in restitution; previously had a related sentence commuted in first term).
• Andres Enrique Camberos: Convicted alongside his sister in the mail and wire fraud counterfeit product scheme.
• Terren Peizer: Convicted of insider trading and securities fraud (health care company scheme).
• Wanda Vázquez Garced: Convicted of campaign finance violations tied to bribery and wire fraud scheme.
• Julio Herrera Velutini: Convicted of wire fraud and related bribery/conspiracy.
• Mark Rossini: Convicted of wire fraud in the same bribery scheme.
• Michele Fiore: Convicted of wire fraud and charity fraud (misusing funds for slain officers).
• Glen Casada

[Exploring the Divine @Explo_thedivine]

Excellent!!!

[Jen (ESC) 🇨🇦❤️🦋 @Smil3yAngel]

PM Mark Carney is looking to spend about $4.9 billion on new Army vehicles.

And, he has cancelled any bids from outside Canada.

Carney supports Canadians and Canadians support Carney 🇨🇦❤️

[kristy @DeborahWil2]

Raise your hand! 🙌

[LysLight @JudithS98475]

"When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens, I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth."
-St. Therese of Lisieux

O little Flower of Jesus, pray for us!

[A @bluhue123]

Who agrees? ✋

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

ICE killed a father of three yesterday and no one is talking about it.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo spent 35 years in Houston building homes and raising a family.

According to people interviewed, every night after work you'd find him on his porch, listening to music, petting his dog. He helped his three kids (U.S. Citizens) get through college.

It certainly seems that he was doing everything right, and then a federal agent shot him dead during a stop and his own son found out from a Facebook video, recognizing his father's voice as he lay bleeding in the street.

His son says that if his father had recognized any sign of law enforcement, he would have complied without question.

DHS says he "tried to run him over." This is the exact same lie they used to justify murdering Renee Good, a mother of three.

We are being asked to trust a rogue, lawless agency's word over a dead man's family, again, with no body cam release and no independent investigation.

Everyone should be outraged.