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Good grief, I don’t know what’s going on out in the world and I’m thinking perhaps it’s best to just be confused? First, the Chinese weather balloon spy melodrama. I can’t make heads or tails out of that one. The lies are coming so fast and furious that trying to sort reality from fantasy has gotten darn near impossible. First of all, I want to know who sold the top secret WW1 balloon technology to the Chinese? That’s sarcasm folks. Does no one in American know about modern spy satellites and even Teh Google? Weather balloons as spy ships are like, so last century. Is this some kind of James Bond/ Steampunk thing? Makes absolutely no sense from any angle.
Hey, I may know next to nothing about how these things work, but I’m going to go out on a limb and I suggest, I probably do know more than the President.
Which brings me to the red carpet and the epic tragedy that we call The Grammy’s. Okay, so I haven’t been able to watch for years, mostly on account of the fact that the majority of the glamorous “ladies” in ballgowns are now men. To add insult to injury, they are ugly men in ugly ballgowns. Call me a bigot if you like, but seeing some guy in a 70’s polyester jumpsuit three sizes too small, simply does not give me my fashion fix.
This year however, really took the cake on account of the fact that we actually had a couple of men who self identify as satan, singing “Unholy,” and re-enacting BDSM sex scenes while we all collectively celebrate the joys of hell. Call me a fussy Christian or something, but I don’t think we’re supposed be watching a satan wannabe prance around and sing while cheering and giving him awards. Pardon me for assuming his gender, too! Which all brings me to TobyMac who I love to listen to, and a photo of him proudly on his way to the Grammys. Yes, getting a Grammy for, “Best Contemporary Christian Album” is an actual thing! Satan wannabe himself, complete with horns, flames, and pornographic dancers, will apparently hand you the award if you win.
That is just all too surreal for my little brain to handle. Let me just mention that TobyMac owes me nothing, that perhaps in his shoes I would have the same struggles, but I’m just going to be all judgy and call him out anyway. I don’t have a lot of expectations or standards for Christians, none of us are perfect, but when some guy is literally wearing a red suit and horns, role playing BDSM, and singing lyrics praising Balenciaga, well, those should all be huge red flags. (Balenciaga for those who don’t know, did some really skeevy advertising stuff actually promoting child sexual exploitation.)
One simply cannot clutch their pearls lamenting the sheer number of pedophiles in high places, entertain the idea of secret satanists infiltrating our society, and bemoaning transgenderism, all while it is literally paraded right in front of us 24/7. Like, there is no conspiracy theory here! We have arrived. It is a done deal. It took us years to build. We cheered it on. We not only allowed it, We clapped and encouraged it. We continue to do so.
Some of the non Christians, (the nyets as in not-Christian-yet) did a much better job of calling this weirdness out. Some of my favorite comments were, “this is not very life affirming” and “creepy end of the world vibe.” It’s not much, but it’s still something. A few people’s little discernment antenna went, ewww, no.
I actually don’t need a bunch of Christian social media influencers dropping satanic Grammy memes. I sure don’t need anymore pastors running about self rightiously preaching about the horrors of the world as if “the world” has nothing to do with any of us at all. I need more actual Christians to go, “Oh! We built this.” We built this, so we can just unbuild this, with the Lord’s help of course.
Darkly humorous, but I live in a small town and so like it or not, it just is what it is. You get to know people. Long ago I got so tired of going to church and just hearing all about the liberals and the drug dealers, the adulterers and the pedophiles. You mean most of your congregation, right? Nope, they meant the others, the bad guys, the not us, those people. The world. Those of us in church apparently levitate 3 feet off the ground in a bubble and have absolutely no influence on the world at all. A world we kind of hope will just destroy itself because allegedly it’s beyond redemption.
I would walk out of church and encounter these very same people all week long in regular life, people who contribute a great deal to why I actually call this place, the 9th circuit of hell.
I wasn’t going to lament today, but someone smart reminded me that being content with the way life really is, or completely disinterested, is not exactly evidence of new birth, of being a new creation, of having a reason for the hope that is in us. Like, if we’re good with the status quo, if we are content with the world, if our lives are pretty comfortable, then maybe we aren’t quite as reborn as we think we are.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
Re: the grammys… if you had any doubt whatever who these people are and what their goal is… you shouldn’t anymore. They let you know exactly who they are and what their “mission” is. Don’t watch or listen to garbage that’s only intent is to insult you or turn you against God. We shouldn’t need the reminders that the “culture” gives us from time to time, but they are more than faithful to keep supplying them. Disgusting.
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Wait, you know more than Joe Biden? Talk about setting the bar low…
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Ha! Yep, it’s a very low bar.
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It is a sign of the times for sure. Even in my supposedly “one of the best places in America to live.” Last night I heard they were voting to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes because of their addicting effects. Then in the same newscast there was discussion about the vote to legalize marijuana. It starts little and grows like weeds. Satan is the best liar and he’s working overtime to win souls.
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Speaking of legal pot, check out this from NYC:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/05/new-york-weed-real-estate-00080188
I was going to do a post about this, but what can you say? Sometimes I think: ‘If I have to EXPLAIN what’s wrong with this picture, we really are in deep trouble.’
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Write your article. If we don’t voice our opinions, our country is on a fast train to hell.
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Grows like weeds -LOL I made a joke.
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IB, Allow me to explain the 19th century spy balloon business: that is what a Red Chinese bitch slapping looks like. Chairman Xi owns Brandon and he is just rubbing it in so We the Little People know who the real boss is.
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I didn’t enjoy the Chinese Communist spy balloon story, but I hope backfires on them. How foolish do our people have to be to put up with something like this? We cannot stop a balloon?
The problem with a balloon is steering it. A well-made balloon can operate above the service ceiling of any aircraft that could shoot it down, but operating strictly at high altitudes makes it impossible to steer.
How does one steer a balloon? The operator has to choose an altitude (by inflating or deflating the balloon) that brings the balloon where the winds are blowing in the desired direction. Of course, the Chinese probably got the weather data they needed from us.
That said, there is no excuse for not shooting that thing down before it was allowed to cross our territory. Our corrupt president once again demonstrated for all the world that he has sold his soul.
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Steerability has to do with how a balloon is pressurized. Zero-pressure balloons like this can’t be steered. They’re designed to go straight up to 100,000 feet where they either burst from the low pressure (and sometimes with a small explosive charge). The equipment drops with a parachute and gets recovered on the ground. If they get underinflated, they don’t rise high enough and get caught in wind currents.
Some on the Internet have said that the finned device on the balloon was a propellor; actually it’s a radar antenna to collect atmospheric data. As for it being a ‘spy balloon’ two others just like this one over the last year have crashed in the jungle: one in South America and the other somewhere in SE Asia, IIRC. There’s not much that China could be spying on there.
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Our Defense Department has said the Chinese Communist balloon was an intelligence gathering device. If that was its mission, then the balloon has to at least be able to adjust its altitude. Otherwise, it does not have a reliable way of getting over its target.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinese-spy-balloon-has-unexpected-maneuverability/
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That is one of the many lies that just make this story so confusing. A weather balloon simply can’t have “unexpected maneuverability” no matter how many experts attempt to explain that.
And if by some stretch of the imagination, it actually was an “intelligence gathering device,” then letting it float about in our air space until it had gathered all it’s alleged intelligence, also makes no sense.
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That “weather balloon” supposedly had a 900 KG payload. It wasn’t a weather balloon.
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Well said . Keep up the good fight .
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Chinese balloon … Grammys … and tonight, the State of the Union speech …
What next?
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This is the most overt Satanic Grammys…the sign of the times
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Don’t forget that our Defense Department also says that Masculinity is toxic and that the Loyalty Vaxx is safe. When the Junta took over in 2021, one of Lloyd Austin’s minions said that “Right Wing Extremism” in the ranks was the greatest security threat that America faced. These are the same guys who thought that outsourcing control over military equipment in the Middle Eastern Command to local Arab contractors was a great idea—then were shocked when half of it came up missing.
The alleged spy balloon was supposed to have entered over Alaska. Here’s an example of how reliable our bases up there are:
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/09/02/extra-days-off-promised-alaska-units-can-avoid-getting-trouble-booze-and-drugs.html
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Ditto on spy balloon. I met Toby Mac once. He gave me a fist bump. Surprisingly short guy.
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I don’t think I’ve ever watched the Grammys. Completely off my radar. Boring music. Annoying people. Nah, I’ll just stay in my bubble or go up up and away in my beautiful balloon. Is that how the song goes?
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The whole ordeal was pathetic. There is zero chance the govt. knew that balloon was ‘harmless.’ But, since it was ‘harmless,’ there was also no need to ‘shoot it down.’ Could have easily been harnessed to the ground-
Rest assured though, it was remote controlled by CH. and they played USA like a fiddle. Try flying a balloon over CH.
A national embarrassment.
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When I’d heard that the brilliant gang over at the Pentagon had used a $500,000 rocket instead of deflating it with $100 in ammo; I thought: ‘but doesn’t a missile have to hit something solid before it explodes?” Well…
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/84073/us-uses-400k-missile-to-shoot-down-chinese-spy-balloon-destroys-all-its.html
This morning the Media Jackals announced that the balloon had an antenna on it: which anyone could see on the photos, for Heaven’s sake. I mentioned to Tom in a comment on my article that I really suspect at the very bottom that all of this anti-China hype is just so that our politicians and business leaders can get higher bribes from them. It’s like the Drug War was: creating a hostile climate raises the price.
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Yes, I was all confused about the very expensive missile, too! Bit of an over kill and you destroy all the electronics.
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Apparently there’s some kind of international treaty where in these cases, the recovered equipment is supposed to be returned. (I think it’s presumed that it will be analysed first). That’s what China is so angry about; they offered to provide technical data and assistance for its recovery, but were turned down so that Biden could ‘appear strong’ and get a photo-op. According to China, the balloon belonged to a commercial company which had a contract with them to record atmospheric conditions, but they haven’t said publicly who.
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There are a number of international treaties involving 40+ countries, all studying things together like the ozone and climate change, often using weather balloons. Seems reasonable to simply ask if China was participating in any if that. I know they are in many places around the world.
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I’ve read that our intelligence community gathered useful information on Chinese intelligence gathering capabilities by monitoring the balloon. Information we couldn’t have obtained had we shot the balloon down before it crossed into U.S. territory.
I think the best argument is that the balloon could not have gathered an intelliegence that is not already freely available to China through other means (satellites, spies on the ground, etc.).
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