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Weekend Open Comments

You may have noticed, the Commies in America are taking a page out of the homosexual playbook lately and coming out loud and proud. Their chief propagandist these days seems to be Jesse Myerson. You may remember his recitation of the Communist Manifesto calling all “Millenials” to adopt five of the ten planks. Sean Davis at The Federalist wrote about it:

If you’re a Millennial who loves bread lines, prison camps, forced famines, and abject human misery, then you’ll love the latest offering from Rolling Stone. Over the weekend, Jesse Myerson, a twenty-something former Occupy organizer, finally stumbled upon a foolproof recipe for success for today’s struggling Millennials. The recipe? Communism, naturally.
Myerson, whose Twitter bio includes the hashtag #FULLCOMMUNISM (for when fractional communism just can’t murder people quickly enough), listed five economic reforms that he thinks every Millennial should demand: Guaranteed jobs, guaranteed income, no more private real estate, no more private assets at all, and a public bank in every state (a great place to store all those financial assets you no longer own). If that sounds eerily similar to a Yoko Ono-infused brainstorming session by John Lennon, it’s because it is eerily similar to a Yoko Ono-infused brainstorming session by John Lennon.

Last week Myerson came right out with it: Communism is da bomb.
With the rise to power of a president who is the spiritual offspring of the Pete Seeger-style communists of yesteryear, today’s communists have decided now is the time for their Great Leap Forward.  They’re no longer hiding in the shadows.  No more secret meetings in dingy apartments.  They’ve got a kindred spirit in the highest elected office in the land!  Nothing can stop them now.
When Comrade Obama was elected, anyone who questioned whether he was a socialist was ridiculed and branded as a McCarthyite.  As his first term ended the question of his socialist leanings had be asked and answered in the affirmative.  Then the question became: Is he a full-on communist?  One year into his second term I contend that has been answered in the affirmative as well.  Each day he remains in office Ol’ Joe McCarthy is vindicated a little more.
So the question is (as Squawk asked earlier this week): What are we going to do?  If you’re waiting for elected Republicans to do something you may as well start your march to the gulag right now.  Isn’t it interesting that Cornyn is suddenly talking tough about Obama now?  Why is he suddenly tough when running against other Republicans?  I guess the memory of Dewhurst’s 2012 primary is still too fresh.  Where has he been the last five years?
Me?  I’ve given up on saving the country through the political process.  Let their communist Shangri-la crash and burn, just like all the rest, and rebuild on the ashes.

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  1. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here we go! #1

  2. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I was up late last night and found a good writeup on the CBO report of 3X the number of expected jobs disappearing due to Obamacare.

    The charitable explanation, he says, is that there was “a general lack of awareness” and economists simply didn’t realize everything that government was doing to undermine incentives for work. “You have to dig into it and see it,” he explains. “The Affordable Care Act’s not going to come and shake you out of your bed and say, ‘Look what’s in me.’ ”
    Judging by their reaction to the CBO report, the less charitable explanation is that liberals would have preferred that the public never found out.

  3. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Public service announcement from the company that hosts hamous.org:

    Tomorrow night, beginning between the hours of 8 PM – 4 AM MST, we will be performing a kernel update on your server. We estimate the outage to be approximately 15-30 minutes. During this time, your email, website and account will not be accessible.

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That’s alright. I’m the only one up at that time. 🙂

  5. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    What if I don’t want my kernel updated?
    That happened once just outside the Main Gate at Fort Sill and it wasn’t any fun at all.

  6. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Societies will fail, if they don’t turn boys into men. They won’t need outside enemies. It’s as simple as that. Dennis Prager

    Low marriage stats, high out-of-wedlock birth stats, high 26-y.o. pajama boy stats, etc.

  7. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Adee last night:

    Not a good idea to walk into the hobby room in the dark, however, since the additional stuff on the floor is in the usual pathway. Serious need to sort it and fill boxes for donation pickup.

    That’s what I need to do too. I filled my craft room to overflowing, and was still buying irresistible kits and supplies, several years after I had in fact stopped “making things”. Mostly it was a matter of time, especially during a 2-year period when I was working 60 hours a week. It’s been impossible to walk to the far wall for a long time now, due to boxes and shopping bags piled up on the floor after the shelves were full. so it will be difficult to get started… some day. 🙁

  8. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Well I hope your tweeny bucks got refunded.
    I thought ones kernel didn’t need updating till you’re 50’s.

  9. phil Avatar
    phil

    Worst classic werewolf movie ever but Sam the Keeper is great.
    He appears about 27:00 minute mark.

  10. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The real action does not involve liberal “Catholics” at all. Liberal Catholicism, while well-represented in elite circles of the Democratic Party, qua Catholicism is finished. Liberal Catholicism has no future—like liberal Protestantism, it is fated to become liberalism simpliciter within a generation. The children of liberal Catholics will either want their liberalism unvarnished by incense and holy water, or they will rebel and ask if there’s something more challenging, disobeying their parents by “reverting” to Catholicism. While “liberal” Catholicism will appear to be a force because it will continue to have political representation, as a “project” and a theology, like liberal Protestantism it is doomed to oblivion.
    The real battle is taking place beyond the purview of the pages of Time Magazine and the New York Times. The battle pits two camps of “conservative” Catholicism (let’s dispense with that label immediately and permanently—as my argument suggests, and others have said better, our political labels are inadequate to the task).

  11. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    “Matelli’s statue does not speak to the power of art to inspire dialogue but rather to the power of the nearly nude, white, male body to disturb and discomfit. . . . What does this statue do if not remind us of the fact of male privilege every single time we pass it, every single time we think about it, every single time we are forced to acknowledge its presence. As if we need any more reminders.”

  12. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    The problem with that statue is: who wants to see a somewhat out-of-shape man in his underwear? I mean, unless he is your very own honeybun.
    🙂

  13. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    But what about “male privilege”??? It’s a monument to rape culture, for goodness sakes!

  14. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Not so much “male privilege” in big organizations these days. It disgusted me, the degree to which I saw the big company I worked for, going out of its way to promote women into upper management, whether they were actually the best candidate, or even minimally capable in some cases.
    That “rape culture” stuff comes from indoctrination in liberal colleges. All-girls school, for pete’s sake.

  15. CFree Avatar
    CFree

    A wonderful story about the foreign relationships the Prez and his diplomat’s diplomacy is building in the EU. And ya’ll think he’s not smart enough…

    What’s the phrase again? “Beam me up Scotty”

  16. CFree Avatar
    CFree

    Also shows his “F”lexibility with Russia.
    Sen. Cornyn is just about staying in power, keeping folks away from him for 5 out of 6 years. He comes home long enough to tell the folks how good he is and then – whoosh, he’s back there fighting for us – and he’s pro 2nd amendment – I mean gosh; he owns guns for Pete’s sake!
    I know it’ll never fly – but term limits come to mind in thinking about our Senators/Representatives – of course, if the people would step up – the voting booth would (should) be it’s own term limiting condition.

  17. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #11
    They’re just mad their instincts keep telling them to bring him a beer and a sammich.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #16 CFree
    If a person were to read only Richard Fernandez and David P. Goldman and Victor Davis Hanson on foreign affairs, they would know more than most anyone else about what is really going on in the world. Find them all at PJ Media and for this moment, here is the always brilliant Fernandez on our diplomatic disaster in the Ukraine and the utter failure of Barack Obama on the world stage:

    Under his watch the 70-year-old Pax Americana has fallen apart. Al-Qaeda has flourished. President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines caught the tone of rising concern when he warned, in an interview with the New York Times, that China was doing to Southeast Asia what Nazi Germany did to Central Europe in the late 1930s. “At what point do you say, ‘Enough is enough’? Well, the world has to say it — remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent World War II.”
    But you wouldn’t know it for the panegyrics still being sung by the mainstream media. To read some papers you would think the world’s biggest problem was gay rights at the Sochi Olympics.
    The Sudetenland? Things are not as bad as that yet. But the operative word is “yet.” Someone — perhaps the elders of the Democratic Party — have got to put some competence back in the White House. Someone needs to stop the rot. An administration too inept to roll out a website; too obtuse to do much more than watch a US consulate burned by — dare we say it? — video protesters — such an administration may be overmatched in a contest of brinksmanship with a rival nuclear power.

  19. CFree Avatar
    CFree

    Texpat, thanks for the link, always enjoy your summaries…unfortunately he
    is displaying his intelligence every day and per the article, putting our country
    at risk – I’m not sure most of those in the know (or should) don’t understand these
    maneuvers, I just don’t think they have what it takes to reveal the truth that the emperor has no clothes. Nevel Chamberlain comes to mind. Appeasement at all costs.

  20. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    20

  21. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    The Numeral Meister?

  22. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    XXII

  23. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    111010011101111100101110111011101001111001 11101001101000111001011001011100101

  24. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    He’s core dumping, folks! Run for the hills! Ooops, no hills to save us. Rats.

  25. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Is SquawkterTOOTER in the catnip agin? 🙂

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    23
    yesyesyesnoyesnonoyesyesyesnoyesyesyesyesyes
    You know, for some reason, this computer code stuff reminds me of an old girlfriend down in Texas…

  27. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Someone — perhaps the elders of the Democratic Party — have got to put some competence back in the White House.

    There’s the rub, all the elders came from the 60’s.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #27 GJT
    The real problem is the Clinton administration contained the last remnants of reliably mature, sane and loyal Americans on the Left – the ones who could be counted on to step into the breach at the moments of existential survival.
    Honest partisans like Lanny Davis from that era are out of power and helpless to the cause. It’s pretty damned scary to scan through the Obama cabal looking for those strong individuals in the circle with access who might be able to bring some sobriety to the table.

  29. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Howdy y’all. Been on a Texas road trip visiting our bases and having meetings. Put about 2000 miles on this week.
    Here is something I just heard about. The secret hurricane.
    http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=20030525&id=nxxZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h0YNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3950,6152091

  30. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Wow, never heard about the 1943 hurricane!

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    10 Hammie
    Thanks for posting this one. It’s a keeper for future reference.

  32. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Possibly even the non-FB members of The Couch Society have heard rumors of the Facebook “Movie” or Looking Back Video. The more highly clicked and shared items any account has posted are strung together to make 62 seconds of personal presentation.
    And now we have the Bronco Bama video, posted outside of FB so anyone can view it:
    http://www.ijreview.com/2014/01/113733-watch-obamas-facebook-looking-back-video/

  33. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Morning all, wake up the sun will be up soon.

  34. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Sun’s up, let’s do this.

  35. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Gonna be a gorgeous day and here I am stuck inside sanding and painting.

  36. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Gonna be a gorgeous day and here I am stuck inside sanding and painting.

    Painting the doublewide? You did sell Casa del Tom, right?
    Mornin’ Gang

  37. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Yep, painting the doublewide. Nothing major just trying to bring it out of the 80’s. 😀

  38. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    And I shoulda looked outside, it ain’t gorgeous out here yet.

  39. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #29 Texandian, That is just plain interesting, I’ve never heard of that storm. My thoughts; They said that the weather chief in Houston downplayed the storm and officials didn’t realize that they had a strengthening hurricane on their hands. I know that they didn’t have any good way to track the storm in the gulf but when the 1900 hurricane hit Galveston, it was reported in Cuba and Miami a few days before and had been reported by ships to be in the gulf. When the storm approached, the local weather chief noticed the barometer falling like a rock and knew that the storm was going to be bad, but most people wouldn’t listen to him until it was too late. That said, did the weather chief in Houston deliberately suppress the news because of Washington? Another thought, it was reported that the FBI shut down the telegraph office in La Porte because someone had sent out a telegram to report the damage. In any emergency, anywhere in the world, the Ham Radio operators are usually the first and sometimes the only way to get communications out of a disaster area. So did they report the storm? During the war they worked with the military and relayed calls across both oceans for soldiers to talk back home, so did they keep quiet because of national security? Ms Adde can you shed some light on this?

  40. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Yep, painting the doublewide. Nothing major just trying to bring it out of the 80′s

    That orange shag carpet kinda’ gives it way, no? Not to mention those “Swag Lights” 😀

  41. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Dave, I think swag lamps date back to the 70’s. I rented a house in Austin back then that had Western-theme swag lamps, with wagon wheels and saddles on ’em. I know some people now on FB who’d like those. 🙂

  42. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oh, 42 and good morning, Hamsterville!

  43. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Hey, what’s wrong with swag lamps!?

  44. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m always the last to know when styles change.

  45. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Prolly why I can’t find replacement parts for my bean bag chairs.

  46. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’m always the last to know when styles change

    As evidenced by the bell-bottoms and the Dingo boots.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Squawk has parts for beanbags.

  48. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Yeah but he’s a hoarder and won’t part with em.

  49. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Hey! What’s wrong with Dingo boots? 😉

  50. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hey! What’s wrong with Dingo boots? 😉

    Logged many a mile in Dingo boots, I wear Redwing Ropers now, steel toes doncha’ know.

  51. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Foggy and 48 at 6, and here we wait for the gloom to flee before glorious sunlight–which is not happening so far.
    Kinfolk from Madison made it here ok, left O’Hare around 7:30 yesterday morning as the snow was falling but not hindering takeoff much. Arrived in Houston half an hour late, and spouse was waiting for them in the cell phone lot. And waiting because their luggage was not on the carousel and in fact had arrived on an earlier flight. Finally a PA call came for them to pick it up at the baggage claim office. They finally were ready to go and spouse got them home around noon. This business of luggage coming in on an earlier flight happened to us last year returning from Madison, and we likewise stared at a virtually empty carousel for around 15 minutes before an announcement was made. Next time we shall know where to check, but this is a lousy way to run things.

  52. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Ms. Adee, our airport system = a lousy way to run things.

  53. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Hey Shannon, you seen the new Chase format for this year? Can’t decide if I like it or not.

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    No, I guess I need to check it out.

  55. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Almost like the college basketball tournament – sixteen cars get in, eliminations each Chase race down to four, those four duke it out at Homestead for the championship.

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just read about it.
    Should be interesting.
    My problem is that they lose me when they go to ESPN, since I don’t have it.

  57. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    There’s a bright spot in the clouds now that we must assume is the Sun, but it is not out yet. Kinfolk went for a walk around 10, up and down both streets in our subdivision, when it was 52 out. They are delighted to be in our temps and only needing a light jacket outside instead of bundling up like the Michelin Tire Man. At home it’s likely some 40 degrees colder than here.

  58. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Adee, glad your folks got here in decent weather. We have had some lately that they would not have liked, even if it was better than where they came from!

  59. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Regarding the hurricane. My informant told me that due to the war they didn’t the Germans and Japanese to know that our oil refineries and a major shipping port were in trouble and shut down. It would have had a huge impact on fuel oil for our navy and supplying the war effort. Lose lips sink ships and all that.

  60. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Get the paddles! Resusitation required… clear…

  61. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    My daughter, Heartcrusher, who will graduate from St. Edwards MAGNA CUM LAUDE in May just suffered and evulsion fracture to the inside of her right ankle yesterday. She is in good spirits and will see the orthopedic surgeon sometime this week.

  62. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Me, I been working on the Chez Harp 1040 this weekend. It is getting complicated with IRA distribution for him, SEP contribution for me, and Social Security income for him. Next year, if’n the gubmint is still afloat, it will have SS coming in for both of us. Plus we’ll both be taking distributions from the various retirement plans.

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I had to look up dingo boots to remember what they were. When I had a pair they didn’t call them that.
    I figured GJT was more of a desert boot kinda guy.

  64. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    That’s right. And with brown socks and short shorts.

  65. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Well the mostly cloudy description later this afternoon was accurate. Sun domination of our area actually happened for maybe half an hour before the clouds moved in and gloom prevailed again. The partly cloudy optimistic forecast early this morning was, um, overly optimistic. Rats. It did soar to 66, however. Snoopy Happy Dance from the kinfolk.
    Now if the rainy and cold forecast for the next couple of days is as off the mark as today’s was, that will be good for our visitors. And us.
    Can sympathize with mharper42 in wading through heaps of paper to assemble the required documentation to file the evil tax return. The evil voluntary tax return, that is.
    Have been doing that for us and been hunting down donation receipts that some charities have not sent yet, even though they were supposed to be sent by the end of January. I realize that thanks to Obamramadingdong’s lack of economics sense or interest, fiscal screw-ups, and such insanities that many charities have had to reduce staff owing to reduced donations, or rely on volunteers. However, since donations over $250 must have receipts rather than mere cancelled checks as documentation to be deductible, that can be more than a nuisance to donors. Particularly when a donation amounts to a significant sum that did not grow on a tree. 🙁

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ms. S completed our tax prep yesterday. We’ll drop it off to the CPA tomorrow!

  67. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I had to look up dingo boots to remember what they were. When I had a pair they didn’t call them that.
    I figured GJT was more of a desert boot kinda guy.

    Had ’em both, about 7th to 8th grade. Along with a pea coat and a plaid CPO jacket.

  68. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    Had ‘em both, about 7th to 8th grade. Along with a pea coat and a plaid CPO jacket.

    Yeah, but did you have car tire sandals?

  69. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Fat Albert
    Yabbut not everyone could make tire sandals and mil field jacket look good like I did. 🙂

  70. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I had some car tire sandals but mom tossed em. I kept doing burn-outs on the white vinyl floor and it wissed her off.

  71. phil Avatar
    phil

    69+2

  72. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Yeah, but did you have car tire sandals?

    In this part of the world it would have been Tiddies.

  73. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    39 Super Dave,
    All Amateur Radio Communications were banned during WWII. Ham radio service did not resume until after August 1945.
    Curiously, all of the major oil companies and some of the largest construction companies operated radio telegraphic transmitters, which were used to communicate with their far flung operations. (Remember KMB at Brown&Root). You would think there would be plenty of gossip tucked in between business comms.
    Regards
    Simple Simon

  74. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well not only do we have “tunes” in the Sea Ray, we now have LEDs! I helped the boy install the dang things this afternoon, not exactly what I had in mind but we got to spend some time together so it was a good day. Did I tell you that life is good!

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tiddies?
    SD must’ve been a surfer, dude.

  76. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #73 Simple, thanks I didn’t know that. Back in the 70’s I worked with a Ham radio operator that was a member of the MARs network (civilian) and he said it operated a transmitter on Guam just after WW II while he was still in the Army.

  77. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This whole thread is one giant men’s fashion train wreck.
    It’s a miracle any of you guys ever found a wife.
    I remember when Shannon and his friends (I don’t think Katfish took his off even for a shower) wore those dumb looking Dingo boots.
    Bad form, dudes, really bad form.

  78. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I knew Katfish wore Dingo boots. Prolly still does.

  79. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    30 minutes left and Yoko hasn’t “sung” yet.
    /fingers crossed

  80. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    It’s a miracle any of you guys ever found a wife.

    Mine was under the mistaken impression that she could clean me up. To keep peace we agreed that when I die she can dress me anyway she wants. 🙂

  81. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Apparently I was still styling the CPO in high school.

  82. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Course I have always been a fashionista trendsetter.
    /ICNBIAPTP

  83. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Tiddies?
    SD must’ve been a surfer, dude.

    Nope, remember I got here late, 1981, a buddy of mine grew up with the kid that invented Tiddies, started out as a Beer Coozy if memory serves.

  84. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #81 Great picture!

  85. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s a miracle any of you guys ever found a wife.

    Not only did I find my lovely bride, this February 15 will be our 39 th anniversary and we’re going to Fredericksburg next weekend. 😉

  86. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Barack Obama was not the only one to give a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast:

    Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) gave the keynote, concluding remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, probably the first time a Latter-day Saint has been selected for such a prominent position in this gathering. It is certainly a rare event for a Latter-day Saint to be sharing personal feelings about the prayer and atonement before a large national audience.
    The National Prayer Breakfast is held the first Thursday in February, and despite its name, it is an all-day event, widely attended by members of Congress, people from all 50 states and 100 nations. Started in 1953, every President since Dwight D. Eisenhower has come.
    The event is hosted by the Fellowship Foundation, otherwise known as “the Family,” a conservative Christian group.

    What Sen. Mike Lee Told a National Audience about Prayer
    First paragraph:

    It’s a pleasure to be with you this evening. I’m honored to address what some refer to as ‘the family dinner’. As I’ve said in the past, a group this large could easily be mistaken for a family in Utah.

    Haha!!! 🙂
    Second paragraph:

    Unlike so many privileges and blessings we enjoy in this world, the right to pray cannot be restricted by government, interrupted or intercepted by technological means, and is not allocated on the basis of one’s social or economic status. One’s prayers will not be ignored. Prayer is free. It requires no electricity, advanced technology, or advanced education. But prayer doesn’t happen by chance. It requires us to assert ourselves by approaching our Heavenly Father in faith and humility.

    Amen.
    Paragraph 20 (I think); second page:

    While the analogy certainly isn’t perfect, this kind of conversation is far more similar to prayer than most others. It’s a reminder of how we should approach our Father in Heaven not with an eye toward changing God, but with an eye toward changing ourselves, acknowledging our dependence on Him, and qualifying ourselves for His assistance, which we so desperately need. We aren’t telling Him anything He doesn’t already know. In this respect, “prayer is the act by which the will of the Father and the will of the child are brought into correspondence with each other.” (LDS Bible Dictionary, Subject: Prayer)

    Another amen.
    Paragraphs 4-6; page 3:

    I find it especially significant that, immediately after advising us of the need to glorify our Father and his name, emphasizing our dependence on Him, Jesus reminds us to approach prayer in the attitude of “thy will be done.” Jesus would later demonstrate ultimate devotion to this principle, “thy will be done.” In Gethsemane, the night before his crucifixion, Jesus warily approached the daunting, unimaginable task of taking upon himself the sins, the pain, and the agony of all mankind. While humbly submitting the will of the Father, he was not anxious to endure what was coming. At that moment, he said “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done” (Luke 22:42).
    As we all know, the allegorical cup, the bitter one he took upon himself to redeem mankind, was not removed from him. Nor could it be. For reasons we don’t entirely understand, some cups cannot be removed, as badly and as understandably as we might want them to be. It was the will of the Father that this cup could not pass. The Father did, however, send an angel, “strengthening him” for the immeasurable task at hand (Luke 22:43).
    As Jesus began to endure what would be the most difficult thing anyone has ever experienced, he found himself in absolute agony, bleeding from every pore. “And being in agony he prayed more earnestly” (Luke 22:44).

    Thus we are all indebted to His mercy.
    The speech was excellent.

  87. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Great Lakes ice cover approaching highest levels for twenty years

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