Do you run a little book? Taking odds? 
Tut tut, Dave. You know I couldnât do that as a card-carrying Reformed church member. 
But, you could act as the US agent and do with the vigorish what your conscience might allow. 
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Well, I would say that The Walking Dead and Fear The Walking Dead on AMCâŚare "future reality TVâ shows. 
You canât go wrong, with the AMC shows I mentioned previously!
Of course, this is probably âyesterdayâs realityâ - from the BBC. 
True for the political ruling class in general, I think:
"Politicians love narratives because a narrative neednât be true to be a narrative. Their assessment criteria are identity-tribal rather than logical. A good narrative is a coherent story that enhances the tribeâs power. Whether true or false is not to the point, the point being power. Truth is not politicianâs value. It is not a norm that constrains their speaking and thinking. That is not to say that politicians donât sometimes speak the truth; they do when it serves their purposes. They donât when it doesnât. Truth for a politician has a merely instrumental value, not an absolute value.
Some have the chutzpah to deny that there is truth, which is different from admitting that there is and denying its value. There is no truth, only power. If you ask them whether it is true that there is no truth, only power, they dismiss the very question with a power-move. They either have no intellectual conscience or they suppress it. They enforce the power-is-all doctrine which is not admitted to be a doctrine. A doctrine is a teaching, and a teaching can be true or false; but then a transcendental norm comes back in.
If might makes right, then there is no right. It is inconsistent to hold that all is power and that some of its deployments are evil. But, as I said, you canât reach them because they will just make another power move and dismiss the question of consistency as they dismissed the question of truth.
If there is right irreducible to might, that right is impotent here below if every broker in this broken world is a power broker. Only those spiritually sensitive to right and its claims can guide might in the ways of right, but such sensitive souls do not flourish in this mighty brutal world." MavPhil
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Bob, I canât open your LA Times article. Why not give me your own opinions instead of sending me what others think and write? I donât even know if you post them because you agree with them or otherwise.
This article from todayâs Patheosâ Catholic newsletter - is very interesting. And it fits here, since the authorâs perspective differs from that of President Trump. I will share it without commentary.
Because Iâve already detailed my opinions on the hearings many times, and no one challenges or responds to any of it. So continuing to expound my own observations seemed a bit indulgent.
But I think itâs worthwhile to consider a variety of vantage points, even if we donât totally agree.
(I donât know why la.times.com wonât open for you; I can access it in Canada; I do share the articleâs perceptions that much evidence confirms that the diplomats serving the president have typically tried to faithfully carry out his policies and wishes even when they may personally disagree with them. Indeed it was Sondlandâs insistence that everyone, from secretary of state to the lowest professional diplomats, were on this same pages and trying to carry out what they saw Mr. Trump was pressing for, that I emphasized in my own recent opinion pieces.)
What does Trump have to with climate change? Gads he does not have that kind of power. lol
Itâs the science that counts, not opinion.
Since you brought up the climate change myth, Conrad Black had this to say today:
âHistorians of the future will wring their hands in wonderment that we have succumbed to a cultic madness, and elevated its most strident or spectacular espousers to a position of totalitarian intellectual authority.â
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But this is what happens, at US ivory league football games.
But perhaps folks would like this BBC story instead.
And when you find yourself getting angry, you can try these suggestions. Which I shared with someone asking for help - with anger on Facebook.
Exercise in a gym. Take up yoga, Zen or mindfulness. Practice Tai chi, Hatha yoga or Qigong. Look at homeopathic medicines and Bach flower remedies (often at your local, health food store). Buy a punching bag from someplace like Amazon and start punching it. I hope some of these suggestions are helpful.
But anyway, I have a 10-second educational video - that summarizes all this threadâs content.
Canada seeks peace in space as U.S. prepares to weaponize it
To a striking degree, the country itself is under attack from those who purport to lead it. The New York Timesâs â1619 Projectâ is one of many elite-driven initiatives to instruct Americans that their country has a criminal foundation. Efforts to remove monuments to Christopher Columbus reflect the same spirit of self-negation. Multiculturalism slices society into groups defined by DNA and denies our unity as a people. Liberal pundits describe expressions of national pride as dog whistles for white nationalists. For many ordinary people, their heritage as Americans is their proudest possession. Yet they are told, again and again, that this heritage is tarnished and their patriotic pride masks racism. - RR Reno
Why does the Democrat party allow fools like Maxine Waters to speak for them?
Surely you realize that the Russians and Chinese and other nations are ahead of us in that weaponization? Do you suggest that we drop our efforts to defend ourselves - AND YOU - from the horrifying danger of war waged from space? Or does pacifism suggest we leave ourselves - AND YOU - vulnerable to massive deaths from up there? Iâm not happy about the world we humans have made and have to live in, but there it is.
Maybe this would be the best thing?
https://amgreatness.com/2019/11/23/make-alberta-american/
After watching the Democratsâ impeachment/inquisition show for the last week or so, Iâve come to the conclusion that the whole thing is just a form of chess game being played out on prime time.
Adam Schiff needs to take chess lessons as would be highly appropriate for a man who can obviously wield a gavel with such flourish as he demonstrated. A chess master could never make a final checkmate move with more panache.
I too love this great nation. But I instead personally think that whether itsâ heritage is or is not tarnished by any blemishes should be a matter of whatever the facts are, not at all based on our desire or need to base our pride upon nationalism.
My own bias is that having our worth or pride most dependent upon whatever nation we are in, often leads to unnecessary conflict, and that our greatest possession should not be our nationalism, but more securely based on our universal relationship to our Creator in whose image we are made.
I got the latest, on the Trump impeachment press conference. Letâs hear President Trump speak.
I think this is even better. My opinion only. A short discussion of âThe Man in the High Castleâ and its relevance. This would drive never-Trumpers crazy; except that I believe they already are, at least the Far Lefties.
"If you think these storylines are relegated to dystopian dramas, think again. They will be the storylines of American life, should the far left of the Democratic party ever ascend to permanent power.
Enter our Man in the High Castle.
Like the mercurial Hawthorne Abendsen, who bolsters the Nazi Resistance with captivating images of a free and open society, our Man in the High Castle is a radical resistance unto himself, using his bully pulpit on Pennsylvania Avenue to preach unashamedly about the traditional American values and common sense correctives we need to defend Jeffersonian democracy against the onslaught of collectivism.
Heâs the first existential threat to socialist ideology since Ronald Reagan and will continue to be public enemy number one to every Marxist, globalist, secularist and identity politician in America, especially in the election year ahead.
As such, progressives and their media allies will put a target on his back every minute of every day â a target heâll move to the front of his Brioni suit, place over his heart, and wear as a badge of honor."
Now this is interesting, from the BBC today.
Yesterday, I was watching Folk Rewind on PBSâŚalong with the mid-season finale, of The Walking Dead.
And this song, from Folk Rewind - got me to thinking.
Maybe this whole President Trump impeachment soap opera - will usher in, the Eve of Destruction. And Iâm sure that Z-Hell (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), wonât be too far behind. Now Iâm not sure if these will be Biblical zombies. Scientific zombies (AKA - science run AMOK), or a hybrid of both.
But Iâm sure this whole impeachment soap opera, could trigger our âEve of Destructionâ.
Or I could be just tying yesterdayâs newscast, the PBS Folk Rewind and AMCâs The Walking Dead - together in a creative way. Who knows?