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Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee by Rembrandt von Rijn (1633)

Rembrandt’s only seascape, the painting was stolen from a Boston museum in 1990; it is still missing.

The biblical scene pitches nature against human frailty – both physical and spiritual. The panic-stricken disciples struggle against a sudden storm, and fight to regain control of their fishing boat as a huge wave crashes over its bow, ripping the sail and drawing the craft perilously close to the rocks in the left foreground. One of the disciples succumbs to the sea’s violence by vomiting over the side. Amidst this chaos, only Christ, at the right, remains calm, like the eye of the storm. Awakened by the disciples’ desperate pleas for help, he rebukes them: “Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?” and then rises to calm the fury of wind and waves.

Biblical References:
Luke 8:22-26
Matthew 8:23-34
Mark 4:35-41

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103 responses to “Friday Open Comments”

  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good morning.

    Catherine Herridge exclusive interview with SecState Marco Rubio.

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Pfizer CEO booed at White House event.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I saw that. 😀

  3. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Zelenskyy changes tune overnight.

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      The link is broken.

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Heat wave in Austin County.
    Above freezing and rising.

  5. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texas Lottery could be abolished after group bought every possible ticket combination through “couriers” to secure $54million win in 2023.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Dang, that lottery business is a mess. Sooner or later, all gambling schemes, legal or otherwise, devolve into corruption.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Boker Tov from Baghdad-on-the-Hudson. It’s 21 degrees and even though our brief high will be 32, windchill factors remain in the teens all day.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Shabat Shalom, Texpat.

  7. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Kent Rollins is making Cat Head Biscuits and real camp coffee. And dancing.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The first time I ever used a cast iron dutch oven in a campfire was as a Boy Scout. My uncle Jolly taught me how to make peach cobbler on a campout and I was shocked it turned out and how good it was.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        That is a good story and I’m sure brings back good memories.

  8. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It’s that time of year, so I have jumped headlong into the best-selling historical novel The Gates Of The Alamo by Stephen Harrigan.
    A gift from my special friend, I told her that the 577-page tome with a smaller font is a bit intimidating.

  9. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Your new Director of the FBI, Kash Patel.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Kash left the Senate after the vote and went over to C-PAC. When he walked in the place exploded. He was like a super rock star.

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Oh yes and judging by the terrified responses from the Democrats, he’s going to do a great job. I was a little surprised that the Turtle voted for him so they didn’t need JD Vance.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    God bless JD Vance.

    Vice President JD Vance has a powerful message for young men

    “My message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you’re competitive.

     

    Our culture “wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same.”

     

    “We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men, and as young women. And we’re going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.”

    Amen.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has already seized $90 million of Palestinian funds to compensate the families of murdered and kidnapped victims of October 7, 2023. Now he has said Israel will annex 5% of Gaza land for every killed or injured hostage of Hamas, with the support of the US White House.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Israel needs to annex the entirety of Gaza and expel all the occupants. The occupants have clearly demonstrated OVER THE LAST 60 YEARS that they refuse to live in peace and represent a constant existential threat to Israel, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
      Yes, I am advocating cleansing the area of all the current occupants in precisely the same way that the Jews were expelled from the surrounding countries shortly after WWII.

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Checking in late and NO I don’t have a note form home. It was 28 when I got up about 4:30 and 27 about daylight and 32 now but in any case too damn cold! Oh and we’ll be lucky to make 50 but 3 PM, may not.
    BUT It’s Friday!
    Mornin’ Gang

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    How many billions of dollars was Joe Biden sending the Taliban each month ?

    Women are no longer allowed to be visible from house windows under any circumstance. If the kitchen has a window, women can’t even cook near it.

    This comes after other rulings that women are forbidden from making sounds or even speaking to each other.

  14. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mornin peoples.

    Bad link at 5:40 Shannon.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Glenn Reynolds asks,

    “IF ISRAEL TREATS GAZA LIKE THE ALLIES TREATED DRESDEN OR TOKYO, HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL REALLY CARE?”

    The Grand Mufti of Dubai, Ahmed al-Haddad, reportedly stated after watching the scenes of dead Israeli babies being paraded in coffins in Gaza:

    ‘Hamas has brought shame to Islam on a level never seen before.’

    and,

    Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia:

    “What we saw today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah.”

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This crap had better stop now. It is mostly Republicans House members spending taxpayer money on their favorite alma maters.

    Last year, 31 House members earmarked money for the universities they attended as students, including five who did it twice, according to OpenTheBooks’ review of the House Community Project Funding from fiscal year 2024. The dollar total was $121 million — a rather generous alumni gift.

    Key facts: The largest of the 36 earmarks came from Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), who brought home $36.5 million for airport improvements at the University of Oklahoma, where he received his Ph.D. It was the 32nd-largest earmark out of all 8,052 passed by Congress in 2024.

    There were two other alma mater earmarks worth more than $10 million. Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) secured $25 million for agricultural research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he attended graduate school. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL) got $13 million for a “community STEM facility” at the University of North Alabama, where he was once an undergraduate.

    Five House members managed to get two earmarks each for their alma maters: Mark Takano (D-CA) for the University of California Riverside; Mike Rogers (R-AL) for Jacksonville State University: Maria Salazar (R-FL) for the University of Miami; Drew Ferguson (R-GA) for the University of Georgia; and Mark Pocan (D-WI) for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A drunken surgeon with a gun eating fentanyl lollipops and you are paying his salary. Even worse, he is from Texas.

    Topline: Alexander Eastman, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection acting chief medical officer, is accused of drinking while carrying a firearm and rewriting government purchasing rules to buy fentanyl lollipops. He is the highest-paid employee in the history of the Department of Homeland Security, according to payroll records obtained by OpenTheBooks.com.

    Key facts: Eastman was hired in 2017 with a salary of $133,443. By 2020, he was earning $301,146, making him the first and only Homeland Security employee with a salary above $300,000. 

    He has been the highest-paid employee in the department every year since, with a salary of $323,933 in 2024. 

    Eastman worked at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as an assistant professor of surgery from 2009 to 2018, earning at least $300,000 in taxpayer-funded salary nearly every year.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk linked to a story in The Judean this week. I’ve been reading news stories there and finally realized the publisher, Jay Engelmayer, is the son of my old rabbi here. I’ve met Jay in the past although he and his family have lived in Modi’in, Israel for many years. Jay is politically opposite his father and is a conservative Zionist of the first order. Jay’s beautiful daughter is serving in the IDF. Here is his X account.

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Remember when ISIS burned Yezidi civilians alive, and millions of muslims worldwide marched in protest?

    Yeah, me neither.

  20. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

     Rabbi Dr. Yakov Nagen has a message you would do well to heed.

    My only comment is this:
    Psalm 121:3-4
    He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

    The Prophecy in Zechariah about the fall of Gaza
    By Rabbi Dr. Yakov Nagen | October 24, 2023

    A message to the Christian friends of the Jewish people, for all those for whom the Bible is a source of hope and inspiration:

    For the Jewish people, October 7th was our darkest hour since the Holocaust. The Hamas perpetrated unspeakable horrors reawakening past traumas. In these dark times we can find some hope in the words of the book of Zechariah that predicts a conflict with Syria, Lebanon (=Tyre and Sidon) and Gaza and foretells the fall of the leadership of Gaza. It even mentioned freedom of captives from their prisons and the call “never again”. May by the grace of God this salvation come swiftly, for the sake of the Children of Israel, for the sake of humanity.

    1 A prophecy: The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrak
    and will come to rest on Damascus—
    for the eyes of all people and all the tribes of Israel
    are on the Lord.
    2 and on Hamath too, which borders on it,
    and on Tyre and Sidon, though they are very skillful.
    3 Tyre has built herself a stronghold;
    she has heaped up silver like dust,
    and gold like the dirt of the streets.
    4 But the Lord will take away her possessions
    and destroy her power on the sea,
    and she will be consumed by fire.
    5 Ashkelon will see it and fear;
    Gaza will writhe in agony,
    and Ekron too, for her hope will wither.
    Gaza will lose her king…. Never again will an oppressor overrun my people,
    for now I am keeping watch.

    In the next chapter it is written: “I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.”

    Yakov Nagen is the Director of Ohr Torah Stone’s Blickle Institute for Interfaith Dialogue and the Beit Midrash for Judaism and Humanity. He is also a Rabbi at the Yeshiva of Otniel. His book “Be, Become, Bless – Jewish Spirituality between East and West” was recently published by Maggid.

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I don’t, as a rule, link to Gateway Pundit. However, Hoft has a very important story today. These administrative law judges have been operating as the Grand Poobahs of the Deep State for decades with impunity. There have been layers of procedural protections shielding them from the President and the DOJ. The Democrats and the Left want it this way. Trump and Bondi are now breaking the back of the Swamp.

    These admin law judges want to have independent judicial power while working for the executive branch, but they do not warrant the protection given members of the judiciary. It is not constitutional.

    The Department of Justice under President Trump has determined that the multiple layers of removal restrictions shielding administrative law judges (ALJs) are unconstitutional.

    The DOJ has concluded that current laws make it too difficult for the government to remove ALJs from their positions. These laws require multiple steps and layers of approval before an ALJ can be fired, which limits the President’s power.

    ALJs in the United States are supposed to be “impartial officials” who preside over administrative hearings within federal agencies. They operate within the executive branch, not the judicial branch.

    A letter from Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) outlined the DOJ’s stance, explaining that restrictions preventing the removal of ALJs under 5 U.S.C. 1202(d) and 7521(a) are unconstitutional under Article II of the U.S. Constitution.

  22. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sorry about the bad link at 5:40.
    That was almost 5 hours ago, so I don’t remember the source.
    It highlighted Zelenskyy’s apparent realization that angering President Trump is a dubious negotiating strategy.

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Some truth in this one. How many syllables are in ‘caramel’? 😀

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Depends on the day. 🙂

  24. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I heard the Jack Reacher series is back.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I can’t stomach that jackass anymore.

      1. wagonburner Avatar
        wagonburner

        He’s an improvement over that crazy midget Tom Cruise.

  25. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Obama-era solar plant to close despite $1.6 billion in loan guarantees.

    An Obama-era California solar power facility known more for incinerating birds than helping the environment is on the road to closing down.

    The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System received $1.6 billion in loan guarantees from President Barack Obama’s Department of Energy in 2011.

    It was built in the Mojave Desert in 2014 as the world’s largest solar thermal power plant. The facility was touted by then-Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz as an “example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy.”

    In January, Pacific Gas & Energy announced plans to cancel its agreement with Ivanpah 14 years early, determining that “ending the agreements at this time will save customers money compared to the cost of keeping them through 2039” – ultimately putting Ivanpah on notice for closure.

    “Ivanpah is yet another failed green energy boondoggle, much like Solyndra,” Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, an American energy advocacy group, told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Despite receiving $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees, it never lived up to its promises, producing less electricity than expected while still relying on natural gas to stay operational.”

    “Now, with its power contracts canceled, Ivanpah stands as a testament to the waste and inefficiency of government-subsidized energy schemes,” Isaac said.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I’m liking JD Vance more and more every day.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Vance was responding to Niall Ferguson who has always been a reliable conservative. The analogy Ferguson uses is pretty lame. Any comparison between Ukraine/Russia and the 1990-91 Gulf War is very thin. Don’t know what he was thinking.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Nioh Berg, famous Iranian Jewish Ex-Pat and Resistance Fighter responds to the claim:

    “White people have no culture.”

    Meanwhile, white people:

    I don’t know who this incredible young girl is, but am enthralled by the beauty of her voice. I don’t speak French, but her words are obviously having a profound effect on the audience.

    Compare and contrast this with the Kendrick Lamar hiphop disaster at the Super Bowl.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Yo ! USE THIS LINK !

    FOX: “The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients. Will that really happen?”

    @AGPamBondi: “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review. That’s been a directive by President Trump.”

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      White type on pale yellow is almost impossible to read. Bummer.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        Sorry, I never know when it’s going to do that.

        USE THIS LINK.

      2. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Bones. Yes, it is a very strange intermittent occurrence.

        One never knows when hyperlinked text is going to be white, black, or some other color.

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I so wanted this to go to trial. I wanted to see Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes squirming on the witness stand.

    NBCUniversal quietly settled a $30 million defamation lawsuit filed by a Georgia doctor after MSNBC’s biggest stars—including Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, and Chris Hayes—falsely accused him of performing “mass hysterectomies” on women detained at an immigration facility during the first Trump administration and dubbed him the “uterus collector.”

    The network settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed sum Thursday, avoiding a jury trial that was scheduled to begin on April 22 in Georgia’s Southern District. The suit arose from explosive MSNBC reports in 2020 alleging that Mahendra Amin, whom network anchors dubbed the “uterus collector,” conducted unnecessary and unauthorized gynecological procedures, including hysterectomies, on immigrant women at an ICE facility.

    and,

    A federal judge ruled last year that the MSNBC hosts made 39 “verifiably false” statements about Amin. The judge found that a jury could reasonably conclude the network acted with “actual malice.”

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So nobody liked today’s OC?
    🙂

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      This Jew voted a 5 on it. All paintings and photography are always about the light…and Rembrandt was a light Master.

    2. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Beautiful. I got hung up on the question of stolen rare art, what can you do with it?

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        If you have access to the morality-free Super Rich, you can unload anything.

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Professor is a bit overwhelmed this week.

    Top 10 – instead of Top 5!!!

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If Shannon doesn’t feature Kash Patel’s girlfriend on a Friday, I’ll have to do it for him. Breathtaking.

    It is now officially FBI Director Kash Patel.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Yes, we are the proud Letch Brothers.

  33. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Calling dr fraudci, dr brix, dr fraudci.

    report to Dr Graves office.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Personally, I think the next coronavirus pandemic merits a nuke on the Wuhan Institute of Virology. So far China (with the help of Fauci, et al) has unleashed mass murder on the world and have suffered no punishment. This needs to change.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This RC guy has created a 2025 Papal Conclave Ideological Makeup Chart.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I don’t know how accurate that is. Pachapapa has spent his time promoting a lot of questionable figures to the College. And this chart doesn’t take into account all of the backroom shenanigans that will be repeated from the time pp was rejected.

  35. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Mama mama please
    no more fraudcis
    i don’t want no more
    bat soup skins

    mama mama please
    no more brixies
    her scarves fold on
    her double chin

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    TT
    You made it to North Texas okay?

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Yep. Stuff is about you start.

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My wife is fixin’ supper and I don’t know what to do with myself. She won’t let me in the kitchen. 😉

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Who knew Super Dave’s wife could cook?

      Another sign of the approaching apocalypse.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        😀

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Call in for a pizza delivery – just in case.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        😀

    3. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Look at this beautifully boiled egg!!

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

        1. Shannon Avatar
          Shannon

          Maybe that’s why they eat so many deviled eggs?

          ROFLOL

          1. GJT Avatar
            GJT

            😀 😀

      2. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        HA!

    4. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Oh and it was dang good. Homemade red beans N rice, Polish sausage and cornbread. Wife has decided that she needs to cook once in a while to give me a break and she does pretty good when she wants to.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The mainstream media is flopping around like a dying trash fish in the bottom of a boat.

    Thus, the patricidal Menendez brothers are the big story of the day.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      I didn’t see that. Good, Netflix started it but then everyone else tried to claim new evidence of the father abusing them warrants a new trial. They murdered their parents, they are guilty.

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        The MSM and most of the bored women of America cannot wait for these guys to get out of prison. And appear on the Bachelorette program.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Ace claims Stephen Miller is paying Representative Jasmine Crockett as a political planted dirty trickster.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    More sign of the collapsing culture:

    The New York Yankees have dropped their ban on player beards.

    /sigh

    Can face tatts, nose studs, lip/tongue piercings, ear gauges, and nipple rings be far behind?

    /smh

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Austria says stabbing attack suspect swore allegiance to Islamic State

    The Syrian asylum seeker suspected of carrying out a deadly stabbing rampage in the Austrian town of Villach had sworn allegiance to Islamic State and was radicalised online, authorities said on Sunday.
    
    A 14-year-old boy was killed in Saturday afternoon’s attack in the centre of Villach.

    At least he didn’t rape the boy first.

  42. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Saw several posts that FBI Director Kash Patel has ordered approximately 1,000 agents be redeployed from DC headquarters to field offices nationwide, 500 going to Alabama. Super Dave must be up to a lot of stuff.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      As long as they’re not ATF he should be okay.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I was wondering if Super Dave was clearing all those spaces in the woods to grow opium.

      1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
        Dr phil Good-E=1984

        Super Dave is probably cultivating his own cbd farm so he can produce a new cbd oil called super Dave’s rocket blast cbd oil with the following printed on the bottle.

        ‘outer space never looked or felt so good’

        who knows? The fib agents could become his best customers.:)

        1. Shannon Avatar
          Shannon

          That’s award-winning repartee.

  43. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RE: Shannon’s 6:34 PM

    I think this is the link to Shannon’s Austrian ISIS attack.

  44. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Insight from Gale Banks re turbochargers.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      That is interesting.

      1. Bonecrusher Avatar
        Bonecrusher

        Do you remember the link I posted when he talked about back pressure? The guy thinks in fluid dynamics?!?

  45. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This feud between James Carville and Stephen A. Smith is getting hilarious.

    1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      A squashed bug on the windshield looks better than that old communist, Clinton enabling and loving, relic and has been carville.

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Aw come on.

        Carville is way down the list.

        He makes me laugh.

    2. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      If Carville still married? I never see his wife anymore.

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Yes. I saw them interviewed fairly recently.

        They are just as much fun together now as they always were.
        They’re one of the best comedy teams I ever saw.

      2. GJT Avatar
        GJT

        Since he’s been out there more recently, I’ve wondered the same thing. Can’t even remember her name.

        1. Bonecrusher Avatar
          Bonecrusher

          Mary Maitalen or something like that.

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    For your enjoyment
    https://granitegrok.com/national/2025/02/friday-meme-thing-10

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Come to think of it, blonde jokes are down.

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Outstanding memes! Thank you.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The reliable, delightful Mary Matalin. An unapologetic Pat Buchanan Republican.
    Still putting up with Serpent Head after all these years.

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Them Louisiana people are weird.
    But lovable.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Best friend or worst nightmare. Especially south of I-10.

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Heh

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I guess I incorrectly assumed that eventually one of you would shoot Limu Emu?

    Do I have to do everything around here?

    Damn.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Don’t shoot the bird. Shoot the idiot he works with.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Thousands of quart jars of peanut butter later, for the first time in my long life, I was able to easily, cleanly, pull off that annoying seal on top.

    Signs and wonders.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Should I return it to the store??

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