Wonderful life off cuts “No Deal”
Both Libertarians and leftists offer awful deals to conservatives. In this off cut from It’s a Wonderful Life, we see the Libertarian character of Sam Wainwright chortling of having offered the ground floor of a plastics deal which George Bailey rejected so as to save his buildings and loan. In modern terms it is how conservatives have said ‘no deal’ to laws weakening borders or drug laws, which Libertarians have at times demanded. Libertarians chortle every time an illegal immigrant does well despite the costs to society, or a druggie succeeds temporarily despite their handicaps.
But consider how the Potter offer to Bailey has a ‘no deal’ in similar terms as the left wing offer their terms. No ID elections. Votes received anonymously by mail after voting day. Preventing scrutiny of voter fraud. However, providing exceptions to when a recall effort is made against the California Governor? The character of Potter is a thief who steals thousands of dollars and never faces justice over it, just like the Democrats of today. And, he offers insulting terms for success. Terms similar as what McConnell has accepted?
https://rumble.com/vepa97-wonderful-life-off-cuts-no-deal.html
Wonderful life off cuts Democrats Tossing away what they have to embrace corruption (Dem Preselection)
Dems are exercising power using Congress and the Presidency. But they are tossing away their voter base as they try to entrench corruption like voter fraud and double down on social engineering. The Dem ownership of the black vote dates back to FDR exploiting Democrat corruption in stealing aid Hoover had meant for stricken communities in the 1920’s. However, the Democrat controlled and exploited communities of minorities are leaving Democrats and moving to Trump Republicans. Can corruption, alone maintain the Dem powerbase?
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Acquainted with the Night is a poem by Robert Frost. It first appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and was published in 1928 in his collection West-Running Brook.
https://rumble.com/vbfa6n-acquainted-with-the-night.html
Go sit in a corner with a razor blade and mutilate your sorry sack of shit body." "RICHARD WHO ANOTHER SCUM OR THE EARTH ROT IN HELL" "What a bunch of fucken crooks" People I know do not comment that way, except people I know who support ALP and have a vested interest in shutting down such pages. And it becomes impossible to admin such sites as a result when they gang up and support each other, denouncing an admin who prunes the comments and tries to focus conversation. Which is the point of what Red Shirts are trying to achieve, being paid for by the taxpayer to support just the one political party.
It is not merely 21 ALP members who availed themselves of taxpayer money, it is every ALP member. It includes those who did not use the service because their seat was safe enough, and their constituents could be taken for granted. Also, the media who colluded with the ALP to cover up the corruption even when it was apparent what had happened. A million dollars of taxpayer money was tossed away on legal bills defending the corrupt acquisition of $387k. And the truth is it is not limited to Victoria. Red Shirts overstepping their brief as volunteers happens around Australia. They illegally remove and deface election posters and illegally place them with impunity. My blog has documented such. By rights, for Victoria, the Governor should declare the Government is vacant and order a double dissolution election as there can be no confidence in the current administration.
I am at a crossroads. There is no possibility of full time work for me in my profession in Victoria. I gave eight months of volunteer service last year that Centrelink won't recognise and the political party I served seems to despise. I'm not a good salesman and my casual job is not long term, although I work for the world's best boss who has been a brick for me. The idiot doctors at the hospital I went to for specialist advise messed me around and now I'm gaining weight at the moment. I thank well wishers who suggest fasting regularly but the reality of medication is that is not possible in the short term. Exercise is part of the solution, and an appropriate diet. My new medication include Byetta, replacing Jardiance. Both are good for diabetics. Jardiance caused me to urinate every three hours. Byetta is supposed to limit my hunger. I don't eat because I'm hungry. I eat because I must, usually to take medication. Byetta needs to be taken an hour before meals. But I need to have medication at meals too. But my day of travelling to places means instead of having two meals a day with medication I'm having four in order to time the medication while I'm on the move in public places. Shooting up insulin in a public place is something I feel intense shame. Keeping medication protected from excessive heat is a problem too. Strangers ask why I carry so many bags with me to work. I have no alternative, in the short term. In the long term, everything is possible. I must exercise more, eat right and lose weight. But what do I do to get a steady job? I won't wear a red shirt, or troll FB pages.
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Federal investigators probing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's management of nursing homes and patients infected with coronavirus have focused on whether the governor or his staff manipulated or falsified data given to the U.S. Justice Department, The New York Times reported Friday...... [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made Acquainted with the Night
Acquainted with the Night is a poem by Robert Frost. It first appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and was published in 1928 in his collection West-Running Brook.
https://rumble.com/vbfa6n-acquainted-with-the-night.html
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. And don't limit condemnation to only some of ALP's rorters in Victoria who used tax money to pay for Red Shirt 'volunteers.' Australians billed themselves to pay for jerks who behave appallingly to make a political point. And there is no depth these state supported rorters will not sink. For example, I run a FB page with over 30k members, THE BOLT REPORT SUPPORTERS GROUP. It is natural to believe that many who join this closed page would wish to discuss issues regarding Andrew Bolt and things he discusses. I present a meme of Green leader and activist Richard DiNatale who had blamed AGW for bushfires. Some may agree, or disagree, but the responses I get are just appalling, preventing real discussion and obfuscating issues. "Arsehole.!!!!!!!Go sit in a corner with a razor blade and mutilate your sorry sack of shit body." "RICHARD WHO ANOTHER SCUM OR THE EARTH ROT IN HELL" "What a bunch of fucken crooks" People I know do not comment that way, except people I know who support ALP and have a vested interest in shutting down such pages. And it becomes impossible to admin such sites as a result when they gang up and support each other, denouncing an admin who prunes the comments and tries to focus conversation. Which is the point of what Red Shirts are trying to achieve, being paid for by the taxpayer to support just the one political party.
It is not merely 21 ALP members who availed themselves of taxpayer money, it is every ALP member. It includes those who did not use the service because their seat was safe enough, and their constituents could be taken for granted. Also, the media who colluded with the ALP to cover up the corruption even when it was apparent what had happened. A million dollars of taxpayer money was tossed away on legal bills defending the corrupt acquisition of $387k. And the truth is it is not limited to Victoria. Red Shirts overstepping their brief as volunteers happens around Australia. They illegally remove and deface election posters and illegally place them with impunity. My blog has documented such. By rights, for Victoria, the Governor should declare the Government is vacant and order a double dissolution election as there can be no confidence in the current administration.
I am at a crossroads. There is no possibility of full time work for me in my profession in Victoria. I gave eight months of volunteer service last year that Centrelink won't recognise and the political party I served seems to despise. I'm not a good salesman and my casual job is not long term, although I work for the world's best boss who has been a brick for me. The idiot doctors at the hospital I went to for specialist advise messed me around and now I'm gaining weight at the moment. I thank well wishers who suggest fasting regularly but the reality of medication is that is not possible in the short term. Exercise is part of the solution, and an appropriate diet. My new medication include Byetta, replacing Jardiance. Both are good for diabetics. Jardiance caused me to urinate every three hours. Byetta is supposed to limit my hunger. I don't eat because I'm hungry. I eat because I must, usually to take medication. Byetta needs to be taken an hour before meals. But I need to have medication at meals too. But my day of travelling to places means instead of having two meals a day with medication I'm having four in order to time the medication while I'm on the move in public places. Shooting up insulin in a public place is something I feel intense shame. Keeping medication protected from excessive heat is a problem too. Strangers ask why I carry so many bags with me to work. I have no alternative, in the short term. In the long term, everything is possible. I must exercise more, eat right and lose weight. But what do I do to get a steady job? I won't wear a red shirt, or troll FB pages.
=== from 2017 ===
Lots of people are coming out saying that they see racism everywhere. Racists always do. But it is wrong to confuse rudeness with racism. At the moment, there is legislation that does not appropriately address racism, but which is supposed to. Section 18c of the racial discrimination act in Australia allows for a journalist or a cartoonist to be prosecuted as racist for raising important issues, but has no bite when terrorist sympathisers spout their nonsense. Two aspects of the law make it very bad. The first is the onus of the offence resting with the person being offended, rather than the person giving the offence. So that a university student might point out the hypocrisy of segregation and be sued for it. The second part of the act which is troubling is the partisan position of the Human Rights Council of Australia. It seems to have no competent member at the moment, so that it chases its' tail in hounding cartoonists, university students or journalists if they are perceived to be conservative. The law is an ass. It needs to be changed. To be improved. And the oversight body disbanded.
Also on this day in 1556, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake. Mary had had an ax to grind with him over her mother's divorce. Cranmer had approved it in doctrinal terms. But Mary was not in a position to kill him for it. He was accused of heresy and tortured. After two years, when he was said to be reconciled with the Catholic Church, he was executed. At his execution, he recanted his reconciliation. Queen Elizabeth 2nd has not got that authority, but then neither did Mary. Mary had willing supporters engaged in a power struggle. A strange concept.
=== from 2016 ===
I greatly appreciate the help and love I have been given as I try to settle in Melbourne. I haven't much, but I've been given much. Still waiting on that bond Ray White Cabramatta claim they have sent to me, minus $100. Three weeks after I left, leaving behind a new oven and air conditioner. But I must be more grateful that I don't have courtiers like Emperor Antoku in 1188 in Japan, he went to the throne age three. But five years later, after losing a naval battle, a courtier drowned him to spare him the indignity of losing the throne. I can live with indignity. Malcolm Turnbull lives with indignity all the time. The PM is asking the senate to make a decision for him so he can call an election. It isn't even a clever call, but the longer he delays the more likely an implosion from support of the party he undermined and divided. Katich is running for the GOP, hoping to deny either Trump or Cruz. He is definitely going to be successful with one. Meanwhile, the world is heating up over the Democrat primaries. Will it be Hillary or Sanders? It is a two horse race and a horse will definitely win.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
Will Colvin has told the world why he should be unemployed. But he isn't. He is paid by the ABC for work despite his bragging of his employer abuse. The reason may be that his incompetent journalist father is also employed by the ABC. Suggesting a closed shop the like of which ended many years ago on the waterfront. One possible excuse for Will's fraudulent employment at News.com.au is that there was an assumption of competence not made at the ABC where supervision is trained to turn blind eyes to bias. News.com.au paid him to party, so why move to the ABC? Why should the government bankroll the family of bludgers? They could do better work working for the dole, which is supervised better and which safeguards against political commentary.
Today is the New Year, called Newroz, in Iran which in 1935, the Shah named instead of Persia, because Iran means Land of Aryans and that is how Iranians know it. Aryans are a sect of Christians who don't embrace the Trinity in their theology. There are many Aryan sects today that are completely unrelated to Iran. In 1844, the Bahá'í calendar began. In 1152, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine had her marriage to King Louis VII of France annulled by the pope. She had failed to bear French sons, although she had given him two daughters that were declared legitimate. Two years later, she married her second cousin, 8 years her junior, Henry II of England. For England she bore eight children, including five sons, three of whom were to become king, including Henry the young king, Richard I and John. In 1188, Emperor Antoku acceded to the Japanese Throne, age three. Five years later he would lose a naval battle and be drowned in a river by a courtier wanting to spare him losing his throne. In 1413, Henry V became king of England. In 1800, the new Pope, Pius VII, was crowned pope with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
In 1861, Confederate VP Alexander Stephens gave the extemporaneous Cornerstone Speech which set out Democrat ideals they never felt the need to repeal. In the speech, he compared the constitutions of the Union with the confederacy, and said "Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition." In 1871, Journalist H M Stanley set out to find evangelist David Livingstone. In 1918, the German Spring Offensive began. In 1925, The Butler act absurdly prohibited the teaching of Evolution in Tennessee. In 1933, Dachau was completed. In 1937 the Ponce Massacre took place where nineteen people in Puerto Rico were gunned down by US forces and so the world saw how a Democrat President was to be excused for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 1946, The LA Rams signed the first black player, Kenny Washington, the first Black player in American Football since FDR had hoodwinked Blacks to support Democrats. In 1960, under Apartheid in South Africa, police opened fire on unarmed black demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180. In 1980, as Carter announced the US boycott of the Moscow Olympics, the TV Program, Dallas, aired its House Divided episode which resulted in eight months of fantasy flashbacks over the shooting of JR. In 2006, Twitter was born on this day.
Today is the New Year, called Newroz, in Iran which in 1935, the Shah named instead of Persia, because Iran means Land of Aryans and that is how Iranians know it. Aryans are a sect of Christians who don't embrace the Trinity in their theology. There are many Aryan sects today that are completely unrelated to Iran. In 1844, the Bahá'í calendar began. In 1152, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine had her marriage to King Louis VII of France annulled by the pope. She had failed to bear French sons, although she had given him two daughters that were declared legitimate. Two years later, she married her second cousin, 8 years her junior, Henry II of England. For England she bore eight children, including five sons, three of whom were to become king, including Henry the young king, Richard I and John. In 1188, Emperor Antoku acceded to the Japanese Throne, age three. Five years later he would lose a naval battle and be drowned in a river by a courtier wanting to spare him losing his throne. In 1413, Henry V became king of England. In 1800, the new Pope, Pius VII, was crowned pope with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
In 1861, Confederate VP Alexander Stephens gave the extemporaneous Cornerstone Speech which set out Democrat ideals they never felt the need to repeal. In the speech, he compared the constitutions of the Union with the confederacy, and said "Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition." In 1871, Journalist H M Stanley set out to find evangelist David Livingstone. In 1918, the German Spring Offensive began. In 1925, The Butler act absurdly prohibited the teaching of Evolution in Tennessee. In 1933, Dachau was completed. In 1937 the Ponce Massacre took place where nineteen people in Puerto Rico were gunned down by US forces and so the world saw how a Democrat President was to be excused for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 1946, The LA Rams signed the first black player, Kenny Washington, the first Black player in American Football since FDR had hoodwinked Blacks to support Democrats. In 1960, under Apartheid in South Africa, police opened fire on unarmed black demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180. In 1980, as Carter announced the US boycott of the Moscow Olympics, the TV Program, Dallas, aired its House Divided episode which resulted in eight months of fantasy flashbacks over the shooting of JR. In 2006, Twitter was born on this day.
From 2014
It was a strange concept. Simple and straight forward, like all good ideas. It built in complexity. It was placed in a movie and became very popular and well known as the theme for the Exorcist, but Tubular Bells is not a horror track. The second side is a comedy track. It took me a long time to get to the second side, because I liked the first so much, and the second began in a more sophisticated way. Vivian Stanshall, born on this day in 1943, was in his late twenties when he recorded his voice over. He was a party person who got along well with Keith Moon. His voice then was that of an old drunk. Perfect for the concept.
Also on this day in 1556, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake. Mary had had an ax to grind with him over her mother's divorce. Cranmer had approved it in doctrinal terms. But Mary was not in a position to kill him for it. He was accused of heresy and tortured. After two years, when he was said to be reconciled with the Catholic Church, he was executed. At his execution, he recanted his reconciliation. Queen Elizabeth 2nd has not got that authority, but then neither did Mary. Mary had willing supporters engaged in a power struggle. A strange concept.
Historical perspective on this day
In 537, Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempted to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but was repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius. 630, Emperor Heraclius returned the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem. 717, Battle of Vincy between Charles Marteland Ragenfrid. 1152, Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. 1188, Emperor Antoku acceded to the throne of Japan. 1413, Henry Vbecame King of England. 1556, in Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was burned at the stake. 1788, A fire in New Orleans left most of the town in ruins.
In 1800, with the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII was crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché. 1801, the Battle of Alexandria was fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt. 1804, Code Napoléon was adopted as French civil law. 1814, Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repelled French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube. 1821, Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta. 1844, the Bahá'í calendar began. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz. 1857, an earthquake in Tokyo, Japan killed over 100,000. 1861, Alexander Stephens gave the Cornerstone Speech. 1871, Otto von Bismarck was appointed Chancellor of the German Empire. Also 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
In 1913, over 360 were killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio. 1918, World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, began. 1919, the Hungarian Soviet Republic was established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia. 1921, the New Economic Policy was implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism. 1925, the Butler Act prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee. Also 1925, Syngman Rhee was removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. 1928, Charles Lindbergh was presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
In 1933, construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, was completed. 1935, Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asked the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, meaning "Land of the Aryans". 1937, Ponce Massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico, were gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship. 1943, Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plotted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan fell through. Von Gersdorff was able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. 1945, World War II: British troops liberated Mandalay, Burma. Also 1945, World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bombed Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians were killed. Also 1945, World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully completed their defence of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concluded. 1946, the Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933. 1952, Alan Freed presented the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1960, Apartheid in South Africa: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police opened fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180. 1963, Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closed. 1965, Ranger program: NASA launched Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. Also 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 1968, Battle of Karamehin Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
In 1970, the first Earth Day proclamation was issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto. 1980, US President Jimmy Carter announced a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Also 1980, Dallasaired its "A House Divided" episode, which led to eight months of international intrigue regarding Who shot J.R.? 1986, Debi Thomas became the first African-American to win the World Figure Skating Championship 1989, Sports Illustrated reported allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling. 1990, Namibia became independent after 75 years of South African rule. 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. 2000, Pope John Paul II made his first ever pontifical visit to Israel. 2006, the social media site Twitter was founded. 2009, four police officers were shot and killed and a fifth was wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
=== Bible Reading ===
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Today's reading: Joshua 4-6, Luke 1:1-20 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Joshua 4-6
1 When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua, 2 "Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, 3 and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from right where the priests are standing, and carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight."
4 So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, 5 and said to them, "Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites,6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, 'What do these stones mean?' 7 tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever...."
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 1:1-20
Introduction
1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. 3 With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught....
=== Morning and Evening ===
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March 20: Morning
"My beloved." - Song of Solomon 2:8
This was a golden name which the ancient Church in her most joyous moments was wont to give to the Anointed of the Lord. When the time of the singing of birds was come, and the voice of the turtle was heard in her land, her love-note was sweeter than either, as she sang, "My beloved is mine and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies." Ever in her song of songs doth she call him by that delightful name, "My beloved!" Even in the long winter, when idolatry had withered the garden of the Lord, her prophets found space to lay aside the burden of the Lord for a little season, and to say, as Esaias did, "Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard." Though the saints had never seen his face, though as yet he was not made flesh, nor had dwelt among us, nor had man beheld his glory, yet he was the consolation of Israel, the hope and joy of all the chosen, the "beloved" of all those who were upright before the Most High. We, in the summer days of the Church, are also wont to speak of Christ as the best beloved of our soul, and to feel that he is very precious, the "chiefest among ten thousand, and the altogether lovely." So true is it that the Church loves Jesus, and claims him as her beloved, that the apostle dares to defy the whole universe to separate her from the love of Christ, and declares that neither persecutions, distress, affliction, peril, or the sword have been able to do it; nay, he joyously boasts, "In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us."
O that we knew more of thee, thou ever precious one!
"My sole possession is thy love;
In earth beneath, or heaven above,
I have no other store;
And though with fervent suit I pray,
And importune thee day by day,
I ask thee nothing more."
O that we knew more of thee, thou ever precious one!
"My sole possession is thy love;
In earth beneath, or heaven above,
I have no other store;
And though with fervent suit I pray,
And importune thee day by day,
I ask thee nothing more."
Evening
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church." - Ephesians 5:25
What a golden example Christ gives to his disciples! Few masters could venture to say, "If you would practise my teaching, imitate my life;" but as the life of Jesus is the exact transcript of perfect virtue, he can point to himself as the paragon of holiness, as well as the teacher of it. The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model. Under no circumstances ought we to be content unless we reflect the grace which was in him. As a husband, the Christian is to look upon the portrait of Christ Jesus, and he is to paint according to that copy. The true Christian is to be such a husband as Christ was to his church. The love of a husband is special. The Lord Jesus cherishes for the church a peculiar affection, which is set upon her above the rest of mankind: "I pray for them, I pray not for the world." The elect church is the favourite of heaven, the treasure of Christ, the crown of his head, the bracelet of his arm, the breastplate of his heart, the very centre and core of his love. A husband should love his wife with a constant love, for thus Jesus loves his church. He does not vary in his affection. He may change in his display of affection, but the affection itself is still the same. A husband should love his wife with an enduring love, for nothing "shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." A true husband loves his wife with a hearty love, fervent and intense. It is not mere lip-service. Ah! beloved, what more could Christ have done in proof of his love than he has done? Jesus has a delighted love towards his spouse: He prizes her affection, and delights in her with sweet complacence. Believer, you wonder at Jesus' love; you admire it--are you imitating it? In your domestic relationships is the rule and measure of your love--"even as Christ loved the church?"
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I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.
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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.
Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?
January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.
The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
UK .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01683ZOWG
French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG
Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG
German .. http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B01683ZOWG
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Other Stuff
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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship
https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664
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I'm looking for former students to endorse me
https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html
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