John Matzat

Retirement - how sweet it is! 😀

Love the LORD Jesus Christ for making my life better than I deserve.

Conservatism - It is the Way.

IU Cubs

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Charlie Kirk left a tweet for everything

[Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 @seanhannity]

Justice Alito is FUMING. In a blistering dissent, he warns the Court's new ruling could hand U.S. citizenship to the child of an enemy nation -- someone "inculcated with hatred of this country" who can travel the world on an American passport and cannot be stripped of citizenship even if he plots to harm us. "A mistake that will seriously affect the country's future," Alito wrote.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A massive bull moose leaps over a fence in Rocky Mountain National Park.

A reminder to always keep at least 35 yards of distance from such an animal.

[📹ColoradoAdventures]

[John Matzat @GenKnight72]

@CarolJoyce24 @GuntherEagleman Lol 😆 🤣 😂

[Releasethelion @CarolJoyce24]

@GuntherEagleman

[TheMicahBeckwith @MicahBeckwith]

There was once a movement that swept across America and the West called Muscular Christianity.

Its message was simple: following Christ wasn’t meant to produce weak men, passive men, or absent men. It was meant to produce men of conviction, courage, discipline, and service.

These Christians believed men should be:
• Strong in body
• Sharp in mind
• Steadfast in faith
• Courageous in leadership
• Sacrificial in service

From the YMCA to scouting, from church athletics to missions, an entire generation was challenged to live out a faith that was active rather than passive.

The Apostle Paul wrote:

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7

Perhaps our culture doesn’t need less masculinity. Perhaps it needs redeemed masculinity.

Strong men who love their wives.
Strong fathers who raise their children well.
Strong leaders who serve rather than dominate.
Strong Christians who are willing to stand for truth with humility and courage.

Faith was never intended to make men smaller.

It was meant to make them stronger for the service of God and neighbor.

#MuscularChristianity #FaithFamilyFreedom #BiblicalManhood #ChristianLeadership #MensMinistry

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The orphan lamb that Eduardo adopted in the spring has now, beyond all doubt, decided it is an alpaca. This is causing mild confusion across the flock and a great deal of quiet pride in Eduardo.

It began as plain survival. The lamb lost its mother, Eduardo had a vacancy in his heart roughly the size of a small herd, and he took the post without hesitation. He stood over it in the rain. He hummed to it, the soft alpaca hum, and the lamb learned to answer in a sound no sheep has ever made.

But a young animal becomes whatever it grows up beside, and this lamb has been studying the wrong tutor with total devotion. It has given up grazing like a sheep, head down and shuffling, and taken up grazing like Eduardo, lifting its head between mouthfuls to scan the horizon for threats it does not understand and could not fight if they came. It has tried to kush, folding its legs to sit the way alpacas do, which on a lamb reads less as dignity and more as a deckchair quietly collapsing.

And last week, in the moment Eduardo will treasure to the end of his days, the lamb met a startled rambler on the footpath, drew itself up to its full and unimpressive height, and tried, with everything it had, to spit. It does not yet possess the equipment. What came out was mostly hope.

The other sheep regard the lamb with the patient bewilderment of relatives at a long Christmas dinner. Eduardo regards it as the finest alpaca in all of Wales.

There is something genuinely true beneath the comedy. An animal is never only its breeding. It is also the company it keeps. Raise a creature alongside calm and care and unshakeable attention and it grows up shaped by exactly those things, even if it also grows up faintly ridiculous.

The lamb thinks it is an alpaca. Eduardo is not about to be the one who tells it otherwise.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The idea that a pregnant woman from Guatemala can sprint across the US border, have the baby 30 minutes after arriving here, and the baby is magically a citizen of the US, is one of the most retarded and indefensible notions ever conceived

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Why does no one care?

In Africa, black Christian kids as young as 4 years old are being sold inside bags as slaves by Muslim slave traders.

The media, progressives, Palestinian protesters, the UN, and even the Pope remain silent.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have awful news...

A North Carolina mother of two and postal worker has been kidnapped and m*rdered in rural North Carolina while out delivering mail.

Her name was Brandi Reynolds, she had two little girls who are now orphaned because sadly they also lost their dad 6 months ago.

Brandi was a rural mail carrier in Wilkes County, NC.

On Friday afternoon, while she was working her route, police say William Craig Durham restrained her, took her against her will, and sh0t her to death inside a vehicle.

Brandi was already a widow. Her husband Brent passed away in a car crash on December 23rd. Two days before Christmas.

She had spent the last six months raising their two daughters alone.

In her own words, those girls were "the reason I get up every morning. What makes life worth living."

And now those two little girls have no mother and no father.

Please pray for these two girls, Bayla and Addy...

I cannot imagine losing both parents.

I pray that this evil man is brought to justice SWIFTLY!!!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Kjeragbolten: a massive 5-cubic-meter boulder wedged into a mountain crevasse on the Kjerag massif in Norway.

It hangs nearly 1,000 meters above the fjord, and yes—you can walk out onto it if you have the nerves.

[AG Todd Rokita @AGToddRokita]

The Constitution is not a suicide pact. It does not require the U.S. to recognize birthright citizenship; it has never required the U.S. to recognize birthright citizenship. SCOTUS got this seriously wrong and its decision will have damaging consequences. That makes our work combatting illegal immigration more important than ever.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

Well the Supreme Court has made their decision…and apparently 5 of the justices think the authors of the 14th amendment clearly meant anyone could randomly show up illegally, have a baby, and that suddenly meant citizenship.

We should now move to significantly cut all immigration, and significantly reduce visas.

Look, I wanted to be reasonable. But reason doesn’t seem to work for some people, so now we have to take more drastic measures.

It’s a shame really, but that’s where we are.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Oh my gosh!! Isn’t this adorable?🥰 🦌

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

This breaks my heart. 💔

Look closely at this 14-year-old girl. Her name was Czesława Kwoka. In the photo, you can see a small cut on her lip and a haunting fear in her eyes. Just moments before this picture was taken, a guard had whipped her across the face with a stick. Czesława did not understand why she was being hit.

She did not understand why she was in a place called Auschwitz. She was just a child, and she was terrified.

Czesława was born in a small Polish village called Wólka Złojecka. She was a Catholic girl who lived a simple life until the horror of the Holocaust reached her home. In late 1942, she and her mother were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Her mother died just a month after they arrived. Czesława was left all alone in a world of striped uniforms and barbed wire.

The man behind the camera was Wilhelm Brasse. He was not a Nazi soldier. He was a fellow prisoner, a professional photographer from Poland who had been arrested because he refused to swear allegiance to Hitler.

The Nazis forced him to take identification photos of every person who entered the camp. He took over 40,000 of these "mugshots," capturing the faces of men, women, and children who were marked for death.

Brasse never forgot the day Czesława walked into his studio. He remembered her beauty and her absolute innocence. He watched as a female guard, a Kapo, lost her temper and struck the girl. Brasse recalled the moment vividly in a later documentary.

He said: "She was so young and so terrified. The girl didn't understand why she was there and what they were saying to her. Then a female Kapo took a stick and hit her in the face."

He watched the young girl cry. He saw her use her hand to wipe the blood and tears from her face before he had to click the shutter. Brasse wanted to help her, but he knew that any movement or word of protest would mean his own death.

"To tell the truth, I felt as though I had been hit myself, but I couldn't intervene," he admitted. "It would have been fatal. You couldn't say absolutely anything."

Czesława was murdered on March 12, 1943. She was one of 230,000 children and adolescents who were sent to Auschwitz. Most of them did not survive.

When the war was ending and the Soviet army was approaching, the Nazis ordered Brasse to burn all the photographs. They wanted to destroy the evidence of their crimes.

However, Brasse chose to risk his life one last time. He and another prisoner managed to hide thousands of negatives in the barracks. Because of his bravery,

Czesława’s face was not erased from history. Her eyes still stare at us today, demanding that we acknowledge what happened to her.

After the war, Wilhelm Brasse returned to his hometown. He tried to go back to his old life, but he found that he could no longer take pictures. The faces of the victims were burned into his mind.

"Despite having a Kodak camera, I couldn't bring myself to photograph again; I had a repulsion to it," he explained. He spent the rest of his life working in a deli, carrying the weight of those 40,000 faces until he died in 2012.

When we look at Czesława, we are not looking at a statistic; we are looking at a human being who deserved a future. History is made of individual lives, and it is our duty to protect the humanity of every person, especially when the world around us turns to darkness.

This is only one story among thousands. Behind every photograph from Auschwitz lies a human life, a family, and a future that was stolen. The full history reveals far more than what one image can show.

A 14-year-old girl. A single photograph. And a story the world was never meant to forget.

Post credit on Fb to: Strange stupid or silly signs.

[Ken Colbert @KColbertReport]

INDIANA

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

I have a feeling Trump KNEW the Supreme Court would overturn his birthright citizenship changes. He says he has a plan for what to do next. I have a few suggestions as well:

- Strengthen border security, interior enforcement, and visa restrictions.

- Increase removal of noncitizens before they have US-born children.

- Limit federal/state benefits for illegal immigrants and require proof of parental status for as much as constitutionally possible.

- Cut back and tighten H-1B, student, and tourist visas.

- Improve the tracking of immigration status for birth records.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A 1905 Case 150 steam tractor, the largest ever built by Case, pulling 44 John Deere plows

[John Matzat @GenKnight72]

@LabLover0625 @GuntherEagleman Maybe go somewhere with a suit in place?

You can't sue someone into real protection which really is the point.

[Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow]

Here are some pictures from my hometown in Kentucky.