Courage...

is in short supply lately.

Seeing people "going along to get along" should bother any thinking moral person. It ranks up there with "I was just following orders" and the sort of clever "not my monkeys, not my circus." 

I have some news for those who think like that. It is your circus, they are your monkeys, and going along to get along is displaying a monumental lack of courage. 

I like this definition of courage: the mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. 

And also: the quality of being ready and willing to face negative situations involving danger or pain. A close synonym is bravery. Showing courage is often thought of as facing such situations without fear, but it also involves facing them despite fear.

I just finished a novel which, while not very good, did have this little nugget:

If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway.

All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.

What you create, others can destroy. Create anyway.

Because in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and anyone else anyway.

Life rarely lets us choose our battles. It takes courage and bravery to stand up and be counted when the war is trying to kick down our door.  It's not always easy, but no one said it would be - including God.

And like that ending line above - it is between you and God. 

My opinion, and I hope I'm wrong, is we've got some very hard times and difficult decisions to make in the near future. The evil godless "elites" are not through with us yet.  

Monday

My favorite day.

No silly groaning anti-Monday memes here. Monday is the first day of the week and metaphorically it's the first day of the rest of your life.

Make it count!

It's Monday again...

 no matter what we think or do, it just keeps rolling around.

Since there are so many disturbing things happening in the world, I like to keep Mondays for starting fresh. Right now, I have 455 articles stored in my One Tab of some importance. Just because I'm quiet, that doesn't mean I'm not doing anything. Research takes time.  However, we have plenty of time to get to the disturbing stuff later. 

The following video gives us some idea of how to plan your days, and it's all packed into 5:52 minutes. I already do most everything mentioned with the addition of starting my morning with prayer before heading into planning. The one takeaway for me was the idea of checking up on your progress every hour. With a tendency to fall down rabbit holes, it will be a good way for me to keep on track. 

I hope you all had a peaceful and holy Christmas and may God bless you all...

And...

Monday kittehs:

It's time to start living again...

and that includes taking care of yourself and spreading good information to others.

By others, I mean those who are willing to listen.  It's a waste of time to spend energy on those who are hypnotized.  I'm aware it may be painful, since many of those hypnotized may be members of your family or close friends.

Hopefully, the article I will be linking will give you enough ammunition and may act as a wakeup call for the people mired in disinformation.

I'm not a fan of re-inventing the wheel, so please carefully read this important article.

Ron DeSantis’ Newly Appointed Surgeon General Promotes Nutraceuticals* for Covid

*A "nutraceutical" is defined as any substance that is a food, or part of a food, which provides medical or health benefits, including the prevention and treatment of disease. The food products used as nutraceuticals can be categorized as dietary fibre, prebiotics, probiotics, polyunsaturated fatty acids, antioxidants and other different types of herbal/ natural foods.

The article also covers the vitamin and mineral supplements you should be accessing. 

I will add this: if you are significantly overweight, it's time to drop those extra pounds. 

Monday

Monday is not just the first day of the week (yeah, I know calendars disagree with this, but in my world Monday is number one). It's also the first day of the rest of your life. So quit bashing Mondays, even if it's in a joking manner or a silly meme. Your brain doesn't recognize "humor."  It thinks you're serious. 

 Here's a few excellent videos to help you out:

It's Monday and you can't fix stupid...

and there's plenty of stupid to go around.

The comment section of this article at American Thinker Hold on There. Civil War Not Necessary has erupted and it's not good for the author.  It's also not a great way to start the week.

The author thinks that all we have to do is vote the miscreants out of office. See, you silly people - it's really simple. No it's not. 

She fails to recognize that the "long march through the institutions" has produced an electorate that is ignorant of history and morally empty.  She also ignores the vast amount of voter fraud due to millions of illegal aliens who are supported by the commie/libtards so they can spout off about "diversity" and call conservatives Nazis.  

This comment stood out for me:

Wow, the title indicates that the author is proposing some novel, clever way to right the ship. But her solution is simply voting in better politicians? Man, none of us ever thought of that (/sarc) 

Seriously? That's her solution? How does that work when the majority of the population comprises foreigners (in spirit), hateful SJWs and brain dead, apathetic know-nothings? Try running for office in my leftist area and see how far you get. 

Voting only works with an informed, moral populace. And ponder that the Founding Fathers didn't rely on a vote of the people to determine if we'd revolt against Britain. They just did it.

Enough!

Let's move on to celebrating Advent.

First a look at the White House decorations for 2019:



I've always been partial to all white/clear lights.  However, in the past few years I've added a few (very few) colored lights with an emphasis on the addition of blue lights.

Monday Inspiration

This article by Benjamin Hardy, PhD is very uplifting and a great way to start your week.  It's not as long as it first appears because the pictures are taking up a bunch of room.

These 20 Pictures Will Teach You More Than Reading 100 Books

So - I'm off to write in my journal, make a lovely breakfast, and trim my Christmas tree. 

But first a question:

Lately I've been coming across two words in many of the novels I read.  Suddenly it seems that people are "munching" and "nibbling" their food rather than just "eating."  I guess they're okay kind of words and describe an action separate from actually sitting down to dinner.  I'm starting to like the two words.  How do you feel about "munch" and "nibble."  

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Robbery in the first degree...

is what the commie/libtards are doing.

No - I'm not talking about taxation without representation.

I'm also not talking about being waylaid in an alleyway and having your wallet stolen.

I'm talking about having your peace of mind threatened on a daily basis by the vile maggots who call themselves politicians.  And that includes the people who follow and support these awful people.

Gallons of cyber ink is being spilled by main stream media in defense of the indefensible.

Can they be defeated?

Yes.

They can and will be defeated.

As to your peace of mind?

“Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.” St. Teresa of Avila

Monday


If you'e one of those who posts "woe is me, it's Monday crap" - stop it! Stop it right now!  It's not funny and it does damage to your brain.








More

Lone Star Parson: They're Satanists  (Beautifully and succinctly stated.  Thank you LSP)

Fletch Daniels at American Thinker:  The Democratic Cold War on Christianity Heating Up  (Can you imagine anything more silly then to go to war against God?  Me either...)

Newsbusters:  Bad Optics: American Music Awards Virtue Signal in Costumes, Scenery (This is what passes for "music" in today's world.)

Patrik Edblad:  Social Influence: How to Easily Build Good Habits  (the message is one our mothers gave us when we were young.  Don't hang with bad peeps if you don't want to be a bad peep too - or something like that 😉)


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It's Monday...

so what, you ask?

Monday - the first day of the rest of your life.

I have trees to plant.  You know - those things that clean the air, provide shade (and often food), and look pretty. Wonder what the greenie-weenies are doing?

Here's Your Monday Kick in the Booty

In this year’s 2019 PragerU Commencement Address, Navy Seal (Ret.) and best-selling author, Jocko Willink, offers some hard-learned, practical advice. It all starts with Discipline. That’s what will get you on the road to personal fulfillment and success – and keep you there. Watch and find out why.

You are never too old to work on your discipline.  I'm 72 (how the hell did that happen?) and my main goals every. single. week. involve discipline.  Do I make it?  Oh, hell noes - but I keep trying.




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Yesterday I found some Costco baby back ribs which had been vacuum sealed and shoved to the back of my freezer since 2014.  Seriously!  They were just as fresh as the day I sucked all the air out of that package.  I cooked them for 15 minutes in my Instant Pot and finished them under the broiler for about 10 minutes.  They were fabulous.  If you don't have a Food Saver or an Instant Pot, you're missing out on a great way to save money and time.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg flunked Theology 101...

and Beto O'Rourke of the flailing arms thinks Bebe Bibi Netanyahu is a racist.

But, of course.

So Pete - a guy who has sexual relations with other guys, a vision that most straight people don't like to entertain, and is a firm supporter for women to slaughter their offspring, slams Evangelicals who voted for Trump, questions Trump's belief in God, and thinks Mike Pence is a really bad Christian because he thinks marriage is between a man and a woman.

Now the money shot is Pete saying:

“That’s the thing that I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand,” Buttigieg said of the vice president, who has opposed same-sex marriage. “That if you have a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.” source: left-wing fake news site CNN

Listen up, Pete - you call yourself a "devout" Episcopalian. Last I checked even the Episcopal church, as messed up as it is, believes in original sin and free will.  If I'm wrong about this, perhaps an Episcopal in good standing could correct me.

If we follow Pete's logic then mass murderers, rapists, and serial killers get a pass because "God made them that way."

And if God made you that way, didn't God also make those little babies you're so fond of killing?

See, Pete, I don't need a bunch of pesky Bible verses to back up what I'm saying.  Simple logic will suffice.

Beto Drags Out the "R" Word

Abortion supporting "Catholic" Beto jumped up on counter somewhere with his filthy shoes contaminating where people have to eat and flailing his arms about declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a racist. Why? Because Bebe Bibi wants to protect the people of Israel from being slaughtered by invading forces that hate Jews. 

More:

Dissecting Leftism:  Jordan Peterson Unpacks What Drives the Left and How to Restore Meaning

Breitbart:  Pollak: ‘Mayor Pete’ Buttigieg and Liberal Religious Bigotry

DC Clothesline:   The Unholy War Against Chick-fil-A — Christian hating leftists continue banning franchises from government-run facilities

Monday

Since today is Monday and it's the first day of the rest of your life, if you're addicted to your smart phone (which is making you dumb), take 15 minutes to listen to this TED talk.  I guarantee it will get you fired up! Chris does an excellent job!

I may not have a smart phone, but I'm guilty of all the rest. There are days when my mind is racing so fast the cars at the Indy 500 cringe in fear.  What do I do?  I get out my morning journal and the first thing I write is, "Take a deep breath and calm down. One thing at a time."

Off to the gym...

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Magical Monday: Spend it with Mark Levin and Victor Davis Hanson...

have you planned your week yet?

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life"

Sounds good, right? 

Except I think that's rather short notice to get your life in order.

How about this:

Monday is the first day of the rest of your week.

That's better - bigger than an acorn and smaller than a breadbox.  

My long time readers know that I'm a bit of a planning freak because if I didn't plan nothing of importance would ever get done.

You don't need to be all OCD to have some insight as to what you need to do this week.  A simple calendar or a to-do list on the back of an old envelope will do just fine until you get the habit, but you will find having a little bit more detailed tracking system will improve your life.

Don't be this kitteh

For instance, this week is Thanksgiving.  Ordinarily, when a trip to Costco was on my list Wednesday after history club would be my preferred time.  Wait - the day before Thanksgiving and Costco in the same sentence makes my blood freeze solid in my veins.  So this morning I will be at Costco when the doors open at 10 am.

After my planning session last night I now know exactly what has to be done all they way through Thursday.  And so I settled down to watch this most excellent interview with Victor Davis Hanson.

It is well worth your time to listen to a super smart guy chat with Mark Levin (who is also no slouch in the brain department.)  Maybe listen at lunch time? 



More helpful tips on Monday 

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What fresh hell awaits us the week before elections?...

I think we're all a bit tired of it all.

In particular the families of the people in Pittsburgh gunned down while at prayer.

What you are witnessing is what happens when you remove God from the center of society.

It's what happens when the standards by which our society functions shun all traditional Christian/Judeo moral imperatives.

We now live in a world where Christians are openly and derisively mocked.  A world where the Cloward-Piven Strategy  and Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is more important than the Bible.

Don't let them jerk you around.  Vote them out!

Monday

   If you were smart you spent last evening planning the upcoming week.  I don't qualify as smart this week, so my prayer book, journal, and weekly planner sit patiently on my desk waiting for me to get off the odious time-sucking internet and do something productive.

"Time Management"

Speaking of odious -  the term "time management" is way up on my list of stupid catch phrases.

You can't manage time.  Time just is.  Look at an old fashioned clock with those little cool stick like things that move around the clock face (clockwise, doncha know?)  What exactly are you going to do to change their tick-tocking the minutes away?  Nothing.

Really - all you can manage is yourself.  Are you going to have a wonderful day/week?  It's up to you.

Have a wonderful Monday and dress for a party.

Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.  St.Alphonsus Liguori

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Dinesh D'Souza: Death of a Nation...

excellent!

I apologize for my silence lately, but the fact is I had nothing to say.  Rather than waste my time, and more importantly - your time, I refrained from cobbling together posts just to post.

We also had a mini-heat wave reaching a staggering (for us) 107° degrees on August 10th. Even though our portable air conditioner did a magnificent job of keeping us comfortable the heat, accompanied by extremely low humidity, leaves a person feeling wiped.

During the heat wave I also had to deal with an insurance adjuster who, as per his job requirements, was determined to not fix my car that his client so rudely smashed up.  I'm sure he wasn't used to dealing with someone who was very pleasant, but very, very prepared.  If you'd like I'll do a post on how to deal with adjusters later this week. 

After our little chat, he called back the next day and said, "Hey, good news.  We're going to fix your car and provide you with a rental."   But, of course you are, my precious little cabbage.

Death of a Nation

"A book is an intellectual argument.  A movie is an emotional narrative." Dinesh D'Souza

I can highly recommend seeing the movie and reading the book.  I'll let Dinesh speak for himself in this excellent interview.  It's well worth your time.



It's Monday Again

Funny how that day just rolls around every 7 days.  For naturally organized peeps (all 5 or so of you) Monday is a start to a new week of "getting stuff done." 

For the rest of us squirrel brained souls, we've allowed it to become a  day of dread and anguish.

As I said in a previous post, quit picking on Monday.

Since my work around here was severely compromised by my cataract surgeries, the natural inclination is to sink into despair of ever catching up.  If you feel perpetually behind and anxious a simple "flow chart" will help.

I call such a list "putting things in order."  For instance, this morning I plan on working on finishing the landscaping on our pond area. My simple list looks like this:

-        Pond entrance

     Manure

     Transplant daylilies/Siberian iris

     Weed

      Plant black eyed Susan

      Straw

      H20 daylilies/front bed

Notice that the last item on my list is watering the front daylily bed which is in anticipation of weeding that area tomorrow.

Trust me on this, if you suffer from squirrel brain, you must do this for all your activities or you will end up being the last ball rattling around in a pinball machine.  In the pinball machine of life, you want to be the first ball down the hole - not the last.  Capisce?

There's another yuuuuge reason for putting on your blinders and following your list.  At the end of the day you will be able to actually see what you have accomplished.  You do not want to end your day with, "What the hell did I do today?"

As I said on that previous post on Monday being the most abused day of the week:

I welcome each Monday with great enthusiasm, enormous hope, and my tank full of energy.  Learn to love Monday.


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In Praise of Monday...

the most abused day of the week.

Yesterday the peeps on Facecrap were moaning and groaning and making not very funny jokes about Monday.  Horrible! Awful! Is it over yet?

For the 9 to 5'ers who work weekdays, the constant complaining about dragging themselves to a job they seem to hate is missing the real point of Monday.

Do you know when you keep the "I hate Monday" mantra spinning in your head your brain doesn't know you're joking?  FYI your brain has no freaking sense of humor.  So quit with the Monday "jokes."

And about that job you claim to hate?  Either learn to love it or find something else to do.  An entire lifetime of a crappy job is no way to live.  And as to weekends?  A lifetime of weekends becomes pretty boring after a while too.

Monday, which I consider the first day of the week, should be a brand new beginning.  It's a chance to renew your New Year's Eve resolutions every 7 days.

Remember how excited you were when you made all those promises to yourself about the upcoming year?  You can do that every single Monday.

On Sunday evening I do a quick weekly review of the past week.  I note went well, and what could be better.  I list the things I wish to accomplish in the upcoming week in my agenda, and make some tentative scheduling decisions.

I welcome each Monday with great enthusiasm, enormous hope, and my tank full of energy.  Learn to love Monday.

Dear Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of the great State of Kansas.

Dear Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of the great State of Kansas.

Belinda nails it:

****"Hey , let's have a little "girl talk". I hear that the great State of Kansas has a 186, 000, 000 dollar short-fall, and I noticed that our State Capitol is in a mess." read more

Saddled With Faith

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IR does a pretty good job of summing up how I feel most days....
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****"I'm Catholic. I'm not real sure that I have any choice in this matter. I understand that I can just chuck it all and become a born again turtle worshipper, or atheist, or even a Mennonite. But that's just theory." read more
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One in a Billion
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*Father Cranky (is he really a priest?), scores another home run. Be sure and read the comments. Illuminating!
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****"In a previous post I wondered what it would be like to simply inform people who skipped the Holy Day on Jan. 1st that they couldn’t receive Holy Communion the next Sunday. Apparently one of my priest friends did just that and a tempest in a teapot has erupted around him." read more

Barack Obama’s Polluted Mind

Beer drinkers - you need to listen up before the next football game.....
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****"How far do politicians believe they can push the global-warming scam? We know, after his inauguration, Barack Obama intends to officially classify carbon dioxide as a "dangerous pollutant." After such a declaration, his actions will reveal whether he truly views carbon dioxide as a threat to humanity or whether he is simply using a shameless scare tactic to further consolidate Federal power and to move the U.S. further along the road to socialism." read more
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Don't forget to vote on my poll. And for the two people who voted "most of them", I want to know where you are. I think I may move there......