Amy Weick

Traditionalist. Catholic. Love my Boys, my Dogs, the Dawgs, Golden Lions. 🇺🇸🇮🇱

Proverbs 3:5

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

In LOTR, the shire spent so long sheltered from evil that it began to think evil did not exist.

The west is like the shire.

We must save the shire.

[Amy Weick @amyweick]

@wsbradio @EWErickson from your flagship station. This is unbelievable.

[Amy Weick @amyweick]

@wsbradio Have you read the indictment? The SPLC is now doubling down on fomenting hate. They have lost all credibility.

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

WATCH: Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX): Your organization said that restricting and banning abortion is a tool that the far right uses to maintain white supremacy. Do you believe that pro-lifers are white supremacist?”

SPLC CEO Bryan Fair: “Ummm, I believe that reproductive liberty is... I can’t answer that question yes or no.”

Brandon Gill: “How many babies that are in the United States that are aborted are black?”

Bryan Fair: *Speechless*

Brandon Gill: “About 40% of abortions nationwide are of black babies—blacks represent about 13% of the population. Does that sound like something a white supremacist would oppose?”

I love this guy!

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

There is no greater crime than a parasitic government that repeatedly steals from you under the guise of the greater collective good. I have more stories to share but I’ll refrain from doing so for now. It is truly unimaginable what is tolerated. I’m livid.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

The Democrats have just nominated for Governor the woman who presided over the first burning of Atlanta since the Civl War, whose own constituents turned on her so much that she could not run for re-election as Mayor of Atlanta. Law and order is going to be a big issue now.

[InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022]

🚨 DDHQ: GOP-Appointed Incumbent Sarah Hawkins Warren Defeats Liberal Jen Jordan in Georgia Supreme Court 1 Race

Warren's victory locks in Republican-appointed conservative control of the Georgia Supreme Court through 2028.

[Amy Weick @amyweick]

@MellishMeterWSB Heavenly outside.

[Amy Weick @amyweick]

@NYCMayor Probs his wife.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

In the early months of the war with Gaza, soldiers found an abandoned, broken and abused dog. Muslims hate dogs and you can see the fear the dog has for humans after years of abuse.

So a soldier decided to help.

He brought the abandoned dog back to Israel, looked after it, cared for it, nurtured it back to health, and gave it real love.

And just look at this dog now. Healthy, happy, confident, playful.

This is who we are. We love life.
And dogs truly are man’s best friends.

[Amy Weick @amyweick]

@ReverendWarnock Disingenuous

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà?

The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history...

Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl.

His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?"

Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect.

The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature:

"Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio."
"Virgin mother, daughter of your own son."

Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator.

But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home.

And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him...

Happy Mother's Day.

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[Amy Weick @amyweick]

@JBPritzker You're nothing more than an overinflated hypocrite. Heavy on the overinflated.

[Georgia Baseball @BaseballUGA]

Champions has a nice ring to it 😎

#GoDawgs

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

So glad Trump is President during our 250th. Had Kamala won we’d spend the whole year apologizing to all the countries that live off our tax dollars.

[Amy Weick @amyweick]

@Meta0308 @AP Sounds good. You do know Virginia is part of the south, correct?

[Amy Weick @amyweick]

@greg_price11 😂🤣😂🤣

[Carson Bowen @CarsBow910]

Ted Turner spent 20 years making sure a kid in Montana could watch the Braves. MLB spent 20 years making sure a kid in Atlanta couldn’t

[Ben🕊️ @2BJDJ]

Very Important Message!!

Do NOT, and I repeat do not buy plants treated with Neonicotinoids. Bees take the pollen back to the hive and feed it to the brood.

This is a number one cause of the colony collapse. It's important to NOT buy these plants!

Make sure to share this post!

[Amy Weick @amyweick]

@SenWarren Ummm, your unwillingness to allow a merger was the issue. Lying again, Pocahontas.