Retired Registered Nurse, husband, father of four, grandfather, follower of Jesus Christ and rejoicing in the riches Jesus has given in the Catholic Church!
@BTUPDATES10 I would worship him by prayerfully discerning to whom God would direct me to give most of it (I’m guessing he would approve my using a portion to help my family.)
Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.
https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4
I was at the Iran vs Belgium World Cup match and saw with my own eyes so many Iranians waving the Lion and Sun flags. Why is FIFA cooperating with the Islamic Republic, censoring our flags, and working for this terrorist regime to hide the truth from the media? They can’t just run away from this. We need a response. @FIFAWorldCup
Tolkien’s greatest insight was that evil loses because it cannot imagine goodness.
That makes The Lord of the Rings far deeper than a simple story of heroes and monsters. Sauron is stronger than his enemies in armies, weapons, fear, and force, yet he makes one fatal mistake: he assumes everyone else wants power the way he does.
He cannot imagine someone carrying the Ring all the way to Mordor just to destroy it.
That is why Frodo’s mission works. Gandalf, Aragorn, Galadriel, and Elrond understand the temptation of evil, so they refuse the Ring.
Sauron understands only domination, so he watches the wrong places, fears the wrong enemies, and misses the small, broken hobbit walking toward the fire.
Even Gollum matters because Tolkien refuses to make the moral world too clean. He is dangerous, twisted, and ruined by the Ring, but he still receives pity. Bilbo spares him. Frodo pities him. Sam struggles with him. In the end, the creature everyone wanted to dismiss becomes part of the world’s rescue.
And that is why Tolkien still hits so hard.
Victory in Middle-earth comes with wounds. The Shire is saved, but Frodo cannot fully return to it. The Ring is destroyed, but beauty fades with it. Evil falls, but the cost remains.
Tolkien understood something most modern stories forget: goodness wins when it refuses to become what it is fighting.
And that is the age old lesson that many nations have yet to learn in the modern day.
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Mel Gibson is currently developing a limited television series centered on one of history's most striking military clashes: the Great Siege of Malta.
Mel had this recent remark to say about the series: "It’s an incredible story of defiance, faith, and hope against all odds. The fate of Europe was on the line. These guys weren't just soldiers; they were driven by something much deeper than just national pride."
For those who aren't familiar, in 1565, the formidable Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent dispatched an armada of 200 warships and an elite force of over 40,000 soldiers to seize the tiny Mediterranean island. Defending Malta were the Catholic Knights of St. John. Led by their 70-year-old Grand Master, Jean Parisot de Valette, a mere 700 knights stood alongside approximately 6,000 Maltese civilians and local troops.
For 112 grueling days, the island endured a relentless Ottoman bombardment. Even as key defensive strongholds were overrun, the vastly outnumbered defenders refused to yield, engaging in brutal hand-to-hand combat amidst the rubble of their own fortresses.
Finally, on September 8, coinciding with the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, the exhausted Ottoman forces retreated. The staggering triumph of the Knights and the Maltese people was hailed throughout Christian Europe as a true miracle.
Mel continued: "700 knights defended Malta against an onslaught from the Turks. Suleiman sent 40,000 men and ships and, wow, the knights won. They were the defenders of Christendom. They were the ones who stood in the way and said, 'No further.'"
This is going to be such a good series!
@isaacrrr7 It’s becoming increasingly evident that strong pushback measures must be taken to prevent our society from being overrun by Islamists who believe they are called to subjugate all non-Muslims.