Alan Robertson

[email protected]; 🇺🇸 Retired software engineer, esp. open source software. Linux-HA/Pacemaker, committed to truth.

[Alan Robertson @OSSAlanR]

Here is the story of one of the first "miracles" that happened in my life.

I had recently become an adult believer, but most people assumed I’d been a believer since I was baptized at 13. But I was new to the faith as an adult, and had zero experience with following the direction of the Holy Spirit as an adult, and no one to mentor me.

In my church, the children’s choir director had resigned for personal reasons, and my daughters would not be able to participate in children’s choir, which I thought would be a good experience for them. So, I prayed that God would provide a children’s choir director for our church. After a few of these sessions, I got the impression that I was to be the new director.

However, I hated the idea that I might be trying to put my ideas in place and calling them God’s. People have been known to do that, and I despised it. There’s a certain leadership involved, and I didn’t want to do this if it wasn’t what God wanted done – not what I wanted done. I felt conflicted – I would do this, but only if God wanted me to. So, how would I tell if that was the case?

I had recently read about how Gideon had asked for a sign from God (in Judges 6), and decided I need to talk to God about this. So I went down to the basement where I would go to pray. Then I told God, I needed for Him to do something to make this clear to me, “your choice of methods - and none of this namby-pamby leading of the Spirit shit – just make it clear” (yes I really said that). To tell the honest truth, when I left the basement, I felt like I’d told God but good, and honestly doubted anything much would happen in response.

About 48 hours later, I was in a bookstore in the mall, about 20 feet inside the store, with my back facing the mall entrance when I felt a tug on the back of my shirt. I turned around and saw a girl, her chin a bit higher than belt height. She asked, “Mr Robertson, when do we start Children’s Choir?”. My eyes bugged out, and I felt the shock of a prayer answered dramatically, and the terror that people talk about when they’ve seen an angel. I won’t repeat my words, as they did not bring glory to God. But in essence, I told her “how would I know?”. The shock I felt is hard to explain. It felt like I had seen God face to face.

I went home to my basement, and prayed “OK God, I got it. You win” and I started the process of becoming the children’s choir director – which I did for about a year and a half, until other things in my life made it impossible for me to continue.

Because I was new to the faith as an adult, I wondered how likely this was to have happened, as it seemed so improbable. So, I put a little thought in the back of my mind to watch for the next time I saw this girl outside of church. Eventually I did see her outside church – it was 6 months later. This was not a highly probable event.

In Christian circles, my initial prayer would be called asking for a fleece (from the Gideon passage), and is considered to be a sign of bad faith, or putting God to the test. I tend to agree – but in spite of that, God answered my prayer in a very dramatic fashion that I *completely* didn’t expect. I think God knew the sincerity of my heart in that I truly was willing to do it, and I truly didn’t want to dishonor Him by taking on something He hasn’t assigned me to do, while claiming He had. The rest was more like God said “Watch this” 😉.

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[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

Besides being completely false, it destroys individuals and civilizations.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

Big Ben(z)

[Mike Engleman🇺🇲 @RealHickory]

John Thune wants MAGA to stop targeting him and other Republicans on getting the SAVE America Act passed and focus on Democrats?

Excuse us, Judas John, you control the Senate, 53-47, so it's on YOU and the Senate RINO's to pass it!

Signed,
MAGA
@LeaderJohnThune @SenateGOP

[NASCAR San Diego @NASCARSanDiego]

Honored to have the 29th Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, as our honorary starter for Sunday's race.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

They don't kill you because you're a Nazi.

They call you a Nazi so they can kill you.

Simple.

[The Gateway Pundit @gatewaypundit]

The Real Story Behind Juneteenth Holiday – Another Attempt by Democrats to Divert Attention Away from Their Slave Owner Past

Link in the comment section.

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

Atheists don’t have reason or logic, they steal these things from theism.

[msnatalie @realmsnatalie]

@LeaderJohnThune @OSSAlanR You’re so awful. How do you sleep at night????

[Rocky Mountain Gun Owners @RMGOColorado]

We need to pro-gun champions in the General Assembly.

Right now dark money groups like the so-called "Conservative Leadership Fund" are trying to install week-kneed traitors.

If you care about our God-given rights, support these candidates on June 30th.

[Sports Spectrum @Sports_Spectrum]

Win or lose, Jesus gets the glory!

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 #WorldCup

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Team USA stops to PRAY after their 2-0 victory over Australia in the World Cup

America is a Christian nation! 🙏🏻

These patriots are making their country proud on their home turf! 🇺🇸

[🌷 LIZZIE🌷 @farmingandJesus]

Republicans freed the democrats slaves.

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Tonight, on Real America w/ @DanNewsManBall – Physician, Inventor & Author Dr. Robert Malone @RWMaloneMD

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Do you agree that Major League Baseball players should be protected from radical, left-wing 'woke' mandates that target Christian athletes for simply expressing their faith on their uniforms?

Tonight, on Real America w/ @DanNewsManBall – Actor, Comedian & Director Rob Schneider @RobSchneider

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[James Dueck🇻🇦 @JamesDueck]

The Left: “Believe all women!”

British girls: “Here’s what happened to 250,000 of us.”

The Left:

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Are you glad to see the Trump DOJ stepping in to launch a civil rights investigation into MLB for trying to punish players who refuse to bow to the progressive agenda?

Tonight, on Real America w/ @DanNewsManBall – Actor, Comedian & Director Rob Schneider @RobSchneider

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[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

When I was a kid, the Bronx was burning. My dad was a fireman who happened to be an Ivy League graduate.

He told me it wasn’t the crackheads torching the city, whatever the news said. It was fraud.

Let me explain how it worked…. John Doe buys a rundown apartment building for $100k. He pockets the redevelopment tax break, then sells it to Joe Doe for $250k. Joe pockets the tax break, then sells it to Jerry Doe for $500k. Rinse and repeat until the building is worth $5 million.

The tax breaks are real. The money is not.

Because the buyers are all family, the cash flows out of Swiss bank account 27852 and right back into 27852 after every sale. There’s a transaction cost, sure, but the tax breaks more than cover it.

Then comes the payoff: they insure the building for $5 million and burn it down.

The name for this was “Jewish Lightning.” The phrase stuck around not because the landlords were all Jewish, but because the stereotype hit a nerve in a city run by Jewish mayors from 1974 to 1989, the peak of the burning. Fair or not, the term stuck.

So why was none of this investigated? NGO funding, of course.

The NYPD union was powerful, and NYC detectives had sweeping investigative authority over almost everything. Except arson. Arson belonged to FDNY detectives. NGOs, routing money through union donations, stoked the rivalry between cops and firemen.

Long story short, arson investigators got no funding and zero cooperation from the NYPD.

No money for investigations means no arrests.

Eventually the Bronx ran out of buildings to burn, and Giuliani drove the final nail into arson fraud’s coffin.

But the lesson survived, and it’s the foundation of today’s fraud. The lesson was this: the actual value of the asset doesn’t matter.

👉What matters is the movement of money.

Destruction is still very profitable. When the Baltimore bridge collapsed, the cleanup and rebuild were estimated at $1.7 billion, with the bridge reopening in 2028. The cost has since ballooned to $5.2 billion, and the wreckage still isn’t fully cleared.

Money pours into demolition,, engineering, environmental review, project management, waste removal.

But if the work doesn’t actually get done, the real expenses stay low. The money moves; the bridge doesn’t.

And here’s the leap: you don’t have to destroy anything at all. You just have to not build it.

Democrats allocate money to a government body, which hands it to a project manager, who hires consultants, who hire subcontractors, who hire more subcontractors, who funnel it back to Democrats, who allocate more money.

The fewer the actual costs (labor, materials, equipment) the more of the flow you can capture.

And if a taxpayer complains, you hire a PR firm and a few consultants to explain why costs keep exploding while nothing gets built. The easiest thing to blame is red tape.

So why does red tape exist?

Because destroying valuable property, while profitable, is too obviously unethical.

Burning buildings gets you arrested, eventually. Not building gets you a ribbon-cutting and a press release.

Here’s the deeper trap. Because our most valuable assets are fixed (houses, cars, index funds) we think of money as static. You have what you have. It grows over time, but it doesn’t flow.

That’s exactly where the fraud lives: in the flow.

The light bulb moment was realizing you don’t need to destroy physical property. You only need to destroy productivity.

If labor and materials are never purchased while money pours in, the fraud works.

You don’t have to build or destroy anything of value, just productivity. You just announce a project and start writing checks while throwing up enough red tape to block any real spending on labor and materials.

This is basically why Congress handed @PeteButtigieg $1.2 trillion and our roads and bridges still suck five years later. They put up signs, traffic cones, and red tape, and little else.

But there are a few residual problems. 1/2

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Concerning.

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

With all this talk about Newsom being under DOJ investigation. Take a look at this CA Dem Director we caught on hidden camera talking about how Newsom is using Prop 50 fundraising to funnel it into his own 2028 Presidential campaign.

[Alan Robertson @OSSAlanR]

Perfect list of who to oppose in Colorado

[thisisamy.b @thisisamy_b]

hey Colorado 👋
a helpful guide of what not to do 🙃