โAll the ends of the world Shall remember and turn to the Lord, And all the families of the nations Shall worship before You. For the kingdom is the Lordโs, And He rules over the nations. All the prosperous of the earth Shall eat and worship; All those who go down to the dust Shall bow before Him, Even he who cannot keep himself alive. A posterity shall serve Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation, They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born, That He has done this.โ
Psalms 22:27-31
Itโs all about pleasing the Unions. They own their candidate. Teachers Unions are major voting blocks so the money talks. The unions are all about power; not quality education. You canโt fire non performers, pay is not merit based, and remember when they decided they werenโt going to reopen the schools?? They set back the children years in learning skills. Just because they didnโt want to go back to work.
Douglas Murray:
"Imagine what kind of a psychopath you have to be to gang rape a girl and then shoot her in the head. Most won't be proud of that, but Hamas is."
The vast majority of Gazans celebrated this.
Socialists praise the worker who creates value through labor, right up until that labor produces enough value for him to stop being just a worker.
The moment he becomes an owner, investor, entrepreneur, or employer, the product of his labor is suddenly no longer fully his.
Apparently owning the product of your labor is virtuous only as long as it doesn't lead to success.
Then they insist it belongs to everyone but you.
When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.
But this one broke me:
Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.
I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.
I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.
But bro, you know what shook me?
Thereโs a night missing.
After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.
A lamb is slaughtered.
Its blood painted on the doorposts.
And death passes over every house covered by that blood.
The Passover.
I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.
Islam just skips it.
And hereโs what wrecked me.
The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.
Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.
70 times.
So I had to ask myself the honest question:
If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?
You donโt forge a document 70 times.
Thatโs just not corruption.
That to me is preservation.
And then I read the line that finished me off.
1 Corinthians 5:7.
โChrist our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.โ
Thatโs when it hit me.
The whole story was never just about Moses.
It was always pointing to a King.
The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.
Forever.
The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.
Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passoverโฆ
heโs one step away from the cross.
Socialists: "I don't want free stuff."
Also socialists: "I just want food, housing, healthcare, education, childcare, transportation, and retirement guaranteed regardless of what I produce."
So you want free stuff.
"No, I want someone else forced to provide it."
Ah. Free stuff with slavery as the payment plan.
In 1995, doctors gave an 8-month-old baby a second heart.
For the next 10 years, two hearts beat inside her chest.
Then something happened that changed medical history.
Her original heart healed itself.
Her name was Hannah Clark.
As a baby, she developed a severe form of cardiomyopathy โ a disease that left her heart dangerously enlarged and too weak to pump blood properly.
Without surgery, she was going to die.
But there was a problem:
Her lungs had also been damaged by the strain on her failing heart, making a standard heart transplant extremely risky.
So legendary heart surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub proposed something radical.
Instead of removing Hannahโs failing heart, he would leave it inside her chest and add a second donor heart beside it.
The donor heart would do the heavy work.
Hannahโs own exhausted heart would finally get a chance to rest.
In 1995, surgeons performed the operation successfully.
Hannah woke up with two hearts beating inside her body.
And for the next decade, she lived that way.
She went to school.
Played with friends.
Grew up carrying two hearts inside her chest.
But survival came at a cost.
To prevent rejection of the donor heart, Hannah had to take powerful immunosuppressant drugs every day.
Those drugs weakened her immune system so severely that she later developed cancer.
She also battled pneumonia, kidney failure, and rounds of chemotherapy during her childhood.
Then, in 2005, doctors discovered another problem:
Her body had started rejecting the donor heart.
The situation looked impossible.
Increasing the drugs could worsen the cancer.
Reducing them could destroy the donor heart.
And then came the shock.
After ten years of rest, Hannahโs original heart had recovered enough to function on its own.
The heart doctors once believed would never sustain her life again had quietly healed itself.
In 2006, surgeons removed the donor heart completely.
For the first time in medical history, a child survived after having a transplanted โpiggybackโ heart removed because their original heart had recovered.
As the donor heart was disconnected, everyone waited.
Then Hannahโs own heart took over.
Steady.
Strong.
Working normally.
Without the donor heart, she no longer needed the immunosuppressant drugs.
Her immune system recovered.
And eventually, so did she.
Today, Hannah Clark lives with the same heart she was born with the heart that once seemed too damaged to save her.
Her story changed how doctors think about heart failure in children.
Because sometimes healing doesnโt come from replacing whatโs broken.
Sometimes it comes from giving it enough time, support, and rest to recover on its own.
I was strolling through the @concordia Loyola campus. An individual looks at me and says: "Oh, it's the first time that I see you in person." I smilingly say something akin to "there you go" and he then proceeds to say in a friendly tone "but I'm not a fan." I retort "That's ok. In a free society, people can disagree with each other." We both smiled, I give him the thumbs up and we headed off on separate ways. This is how civilized people act. Kudos to the young man for having a positive disposition.
Steve Hiltons plan is simple--make our state Califordable:
โ Your first $100K tax-free
โ $3 gas
โ Cut your electric bills in half
โ A home you can afford
It's not about party lines--these are things everyone wants to see and this is what you will get when I am elected in November. โ๏ธ๐
Zohran Mamdani ran on a platform of social justice. The moment he won, he is spending most of his time celebrating the expansion of mosques and Islamic centers, hanging Arabic billboards on the streets of New York City, vilifying Israel, and defending the ayatollah.
Today Adam Hamawy is running on a platform of health care, but the moment he reaches the House, his focus will be Islamic grievances and the advancement of the cause of the ummah.
The useful idiots keep sending more people like this to rule over them in the legislative branch.
๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐
Major Shadi Khalloul, a decorated IDF officer from Israelโs ancient Aramaic Catholic community, has a message for the people claiming Israel persecutes Christians: ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง.
๐๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ป๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข, ๐๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ด๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ด๐ณ๐ข๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ด, he said, ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ด๐ณ๐ข๐ฆ๐ญ.
His point is blunt: ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐๐งโ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฌ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ, ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ฑ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ. More than three million Muslim citizens also live freely in the country its critics smear as an โapartheid stateโ.
The โethnic cleansingโ narrative, he argues, exists to fracture the Judeo-Christian alliance and isolate Israel.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ข๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ: ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐๐.
So, I donโt post often and mainly repost.
As Iโve mention before I really started coming here after October 7th 2023.
Prior to that date, I knew Israel was the Jewish homeland; and had had struggles. I knew about the Holocaust (visited Dachau Concentration Camp when I was 15). But I never fully grasped nor bothered to learn about Jewish history.
October 7th started me down a rabbit hole of trying to learn everything I could about the Jewish people. The more I learned; the more respect I had; and the more I realized I didnโt know.
So I mainly repost as there are far more learned people out there than this middle aged white gentile.
Thank you to the folks who support Israel and the Jewish diaspora.
She was pregnant and homeless in the 8th grade.
But Trameka Pope defied the odds to become valedictorian!
As an eighth grader, Pope was facing an uphill battle: she was homeless and pregnant. Many people would say she was too young and that she had too much ahead of herโ that having a baby before she even started high school would ruin her future.
Pope knew that none of that was true.
โI was told that God donโt make mistakes and he wouldnโt give anyone a child who wasnโt ready for one,โ Pope said.
Now, Pope is more than a teenage mom graduating high school at the top of her class.
โI always said that I wanted to make change, and I wanted to be in the history books, and I started with myself,โ she said. โI didnโt give up. I pushed myself hard. And my baby motivated me every day because I wanted to provide for her, and I also didnโt want to be a statistic.โ