Saturday, June 11, 2022

X Files Episode

 We know that Hollywood is very much NOT about God. We also know that Satan loves to broadcast what he’s planning.  With that being said watch this clip from a 2016 X Files episode (probably written in 2015?) and see if it doesn’t seem prophetic for what was coming 4-5 years later.

https://rumble.com/v17p806-this-should-make-your-skin-crawl..html

Friday, June 10, 2022

The Summer of Starvation

 We have commented that here in America, no one will starve to death in the next year.  We have enough wealth to continue to buy $8 box of Wheaties.  But in other nations around the world where they live on $5 per day, doubling their food prices will lead to starvation.  It would seem that planet earth is experiencing a perfect storm of “things going wrong”.   There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

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There is another problem: there just may not be enough actual fertilizer coming out of Russia, which has decided to punish the world by sending food prices for Western nations to record highs and spark social unrest in the process.  After all, the biggest reason prices are so high is because there is just not enough supply. And while speculators may have pushed prices somewhat higher than they should be, any farmers hoping that prices will fully renormalize will be disappointed.

Which leaves us with “demand destruction”; only as Rabobank’s Michael Every reminds us, when it comes to food “demand destruction” – especially at poor, third-world countries – it has a different, less pleasant name: starvation.

Consider what is going on in Chad: as DW reports, Africa’s fifth-largest country declared a food emergency due to a lack of grain supplies. The landlocked African nation on Thursday urged the international community to help its population cope with rising food insecurity.

Cereal prices across Africa surged because of the slump in exports from Ukraine — a consequence of the war in Ukraine and a raft of international sanctions on Russia which have disrupted supplies of fertilizer, wheat and other commodities from both Russia and Ukraine.

DW spoke with one couple in Chad who are dealing with the effects of collapsing food supplies:

Cedric Toralta and Anne Non-Assoum live in the Boutalbagar neighborhood of Chad’s capital, N’Djamena. Non-Assoum — who had just returned from the market — expressed her dissatisfaction with rising food prices.

”Look what I bought: Here is meat for 1,500 CFA francs ($2.45, €2.28), rice for 1,000 and spices for 600 — that’s more than 3,000 CFA francs only for lunch for four people,” she said.

https://www.activistpost.com/2022/06/the-summer-of-starvation-soaring-fertilizer-prices-unleash-chaos-hunger-worldwide.html

Thursday, June 9, 2022

Very Few Pastors in America Believe the Bible is True

 Sometimes it's pretty simple to see which churches have rejected the Bible.  When you see a huge rainbow flag and a sign on their front yard saying "All are Welcome Here!", you can' know that the church doesn't have a Biblical worldview.

When you go to the church website and see that all the staff has their PRONOUNS listed at the lead pastor has "she/her" listed under her name, you can know they don't have a Biblical worldview.

But what if Satan wanted to destroy the Biblical worldviews held by the most conservative evangelical churches in America?  How would he go about it?  First off, I'm guessing he would get some youth pastors who are "woke" in there who could start to slowly fade the next generation.  Then he would try and get a "woke" worship leader who would fill the air with nonstop love songs of how much God loves us. Next I think he would try to get a wolf right into the Senior pastor position.  That pastor would very much know WHAT TO SAY in order to get the job, but he doesn't actually believe it.

New analysis from Arizona Christian University's Cultural Research Center reveals a "particularly shocking" absence of biblical worldview among pastors of evangelical churches, "because evangelical churches, by definition, believe that the Bible is God's true and reliable words to humanity." 

The latest release of the American Worldview Inventory, conducted in February and March of this year, revealed that 37% of Christian pastors held a biblical worldview, and the numbers are only slightly better among pastors of evangelical (51%) and independent or non-denominational (57%) churches. 

"With barely half of evangelical pastors possessing a biblical worldview -- and that number continuing to decline -- attending what may be considered an 'evangelical' church no longer ensures a pastoral staff that has a high view of the scriptures," said George Barna, Senior Research Fellow with FRC's Center for Biblical Worldview.

"We're really not being the kind of light in the darkness that Christ has called us to be," said Barna, who conducted the research. "American culture is doing more transforming of the American church." The report comes as the nation continues to reel from recent mass shootings in Texas, New York, and California. "Historically, in times of tragedy, Americans look to the pulpit for answers," said FRC President Tony Perkins. "Fewer pulpits believe the Bible actually has the answers."

The research showed pastors without a biblical worldview (62%) hold to a blending of biblical ideas with other philosophies "best described as Syncretism," resulting in "a unique but inconsistent combination that represents their personal preferences." Barna's research identified a biblical worldview according to 54 questions in eight categories, which found a majority (57%) of pastors aligned with the Bible in only one category, "the purpose of life and their calling with it." 

The lowest category (39%) "might have been expected to top the list: beliefs and behaviors related to the Bible, truth, and morality." Only two percent of pastors aligned with the Bible in this category while lacking a comprehensive biblical worldview.

A biblical worldview is "a combination of beliefs and behavior because you do what you believe," said Barna. "Everybody makes decisions all the time ... and so we make those choices on the basis of our worldview, ... the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual filter that ... enables us to make sense of the world around us and our place within it." 

He explained a worldview "helps us determine right from wrong, ... what kind of person we want to be, ... all of those choices that we make." A worldview begins developing as young as 18 months, is established by 13, and "we refine it during our teens and twenties, but it rarely changes after," Barna explained. "Everybody has a worldview."

Barna's research revealed senior pastors are most likely to have a biblical worldview (41%) followed by associate or assistant pastors (28%). "They're the future senior pastors," said Barna, "so we're looking at a reduction in the future if that trend holds to be true." 

The research also identified biblical worldview among children's and youth pastors (12%), teaching pastors (13%), and executive pastors (4%). Executive pastors are presumably responsible for managing a church's finances, which means almost all churches handle their finances according to worldly business principles instead of according to a biblical worldview.

Teaching pastors are commonly found in large churches, explained Barna, but "you have to ask the question, 'what is it you're teaching?'" Among pastors of churches which average more than 600 adults at weekend services, around 15% are Integrated Disciples, according to the data, while over 40% are integrated disciples for smaller churches. 

Integrated Disciples "have a biblical worldview" and have "successfully integrated their biblical beliefs into their daily behavior." Barna suggested it was "plausible that pastors of some large churches attract people by teaching a cultural standard rather than a biblical standard."

The worldview deficit among children's and youth pastors is impacting the next generation. For "people who have a biblical worldview, it has largely been shaped through the coaching or mentoring of another individual who has that biblical worldview," said Barna, "not only teach it to them, but also model it for them and help them to be accountable for the choices that they're making." 

Here;  Have Our Spiritual Shepherds Become Wolves? Pastors Abandon Biblical Worldview (prophecynewswatch.com)

America has become a very dark place.  Our kids are sliding away under the public school teaching.  We had hoped that 40 minutes of Sunday School every week along with a week of VBS would give them some balance as they de-program from an entire week/year sitting under the influence of a "woke" teacher.  But it hasn't.  And now we find that most churches don't even bother trying to give some balance to combat the woke teachings at Public School because most pastors now BELIEVE what the Public Schools are teaching!

I know some of you out there are just positive than light always follows the darkness.  You might even believe that America's best days lie ahead!

But I'm reminded of the Bible stories of how Israel was allowed to be destroyed by God for their evil, wicked and disobedient ways.  Sometimes God says, "Enough!" and the nation is torn down.  I have that feeling that America has seen her best days.  And the light that should be the believer's joy and hope will be that day when we hear the trumpet blow and  voice tell us, "come up here!"

LGBTQ is Outraged Over Nancy Reagan Stamp

 Not sure when the Civil War is starting in America but I do know that it’s getting harder to imagine that Left and Right will be able to co-exist much longer.  The Left is constantly outraged over any and everything.  Statues need to be torn down, cities need to be burned down, kids need drag-queen dancers gyrating in their faces, guns need to be taken, there are 35 genders and everyone needs to know all their pronouns, there is no God, especially the God of the Bible, college should be free as well as all health care and every American at age 18 should get a national income to cover the basics of living.  This is the dream of the Left and the nightmare of the Right.  Today we read that Nancy Reagan on a USPS Stamp is just like a slap in the face to the LGBTQ.  Perpetual outrage!  A queer artist tries to explain why Nancy was responsible for so many AIDS deaths.  Of course no responsibility mentioned for the disesase-ridden practice of men having sex with men that causes so many health problems.  

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Members of the LGBTQ+ community are calling a new stamp featuring former first lady Nancy Reagan a "slap in the face," as it was unveiled at the beginning of Pride month and because of the Reagan administration's role in the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.

"I think it just brings up just this overwhelming, underlying grief that a lot of us have been having," said Sarah Epperson, a queer artist and illustrator who focuses on social justice issues and politics. "Not only did we lose an entire generation of our elders through the AIDS crisis in the '80s — you know, stories that we'll never have, people that we'll never have. ... But also we lost so, so many people. There would have been so many more of us had we not lost so many of them."

The stamp features Reagan's official White House portrait from 1987 by artist Aaron Shikler. Reagan was born on July 6, 1921, and the commemorative Forever stamp is meant to celebrate the centennial of her birth, which was last year but whose celebration was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.


The stamp was unveiled by first lady Jill Biden, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, Reagan's niece Anne Peterson and Fred Ryan, chairman of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.

"The Postal Service takes great pride in our mission to bind the nation together, and through the issuance of the Nancy Reagan stamp, we hope to provide the means for the public to come together in remembrance and commemoration of this great and impactful American," DeJoy said.

As news of the announcement spread, the backlash promptly followed, with people on Twitter and other social media platforms calling out the Biden administration for the timing of the unveiling and highlighting the late first lady's actions during the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.


https://www.npr.org/2022/06/09/1103575533/nancy-reagan-stamp-hiv-aids-pride-backlash-lgbtq

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

China and Russia Planning Simultaneous Attack on America??

 This guy, Mike Adams, from Natural News is pretty far out there when it comes to the "news' he reports.  So I'm not saying that anything in this article is true, you will have to discern for yourselves.  However, this blog has been posting the HEADLINES that come across our desk, the good the bad and the ugly.  People are seeing these headlines and so many, many of them are reporting on the soon demise of America.

Today we find Mr Adams reporting that he has information the Russia and China are planning a simultaneous attack on America with plans on occupying it.  

The summary of that interview is stated here, from the website: (emphasis ours)

According to Mr. Wang, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is financing Russia’s war in Ukraine. However, he says, Russia’s best forces are not being used in Ukraine. They have been deployed in the Far East, prepared for action against America.

According to Lude media sources, China will try to use nuclear blackmail and unrestricted warfare to collapse the United States while forcing Taiwan, Japan and South Korea under Chinese control. Failing this, China and Russia will launch a full-scale war against the United States. The Russian and Chinese fleets will be united – not in the same ocean – but by attacking the same continent, North America. The Russians will attack through the Arctic, the Chinese through the Pacific.

According to Mr. Wang, the lockdowns in China have been used to hide the deployment of mobile ICBMs and other weapons. Streets have been cleared and highways closed for this purpose. To avoid satellite detection, missile convoys have been disguised as medical or COVID convoys. Lude Media has reported that Russia and China have an agreement to invade and occupy North America, dividing the territory between them.

Here;  RED ALERT: Russia and China planning simultaneous attack to ELIMINATE the United States and occupy North America – NaturalNews.com

I think all of us watching movies in the 1980's remember the movie, RED DAWN which was the fictional story of Russia invading America and the brave high school kids who turned into guerilla fighters to stymy the nasty Reds.

I will tell you that with Americans having millions of firearms in the hands of private citizens along with billions of rounds of ammunition, it would be really hard for a nation to occupy America without taking serious losses.  This is probably why Satan is doing his best to continue pushing mass shootings in hopes the Democrats in power will be able to push massive gun control and start trying to remove some of these firearms from the citizenry. If nations were one day planning on occupying America it would be much, much easier to walk into Berkeley, CA and know that no one had any guns.

Food Prices to Double by This Fall

 My wife and I pray together most mornings.  Our prayer for the past months have included asking God for discernment. Asking to be like the “sons of Issachar” who were men who “understood the times and knew what Israel should do.”  Does God want us packing up and moving to South Dakota?  Are we supposed to stockpile food, firewood, gasoline?  Are we really going to experience the economic collapse of America and its people “going bananas”?  Or are we supposed to stay calm, spread the Gospel and know that Jesus is coming for us before the bottom falls out?

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Not too long ago, the elite were trying to put a happy face on our growing economic problems.  It was obvious that things were trending in a very alarming direction, but they kept assuring us that any bumps in the road were just temporary and that a new golden age of prosperity was just around the corner.  


Needless to say, there were dead wrong, and now some of them are publicly admitting the truth.  For example, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon just publicly admitted this week that an economic "hurricane" is rapidly approaching...

Jamie Dimon is no meteorologist, but the JPMorgan Chase CEO is predicting an economic "hurricane" caused by the war in Ukraine, rising inflation pressures and interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve.

"Right now it's kind of sunny, things are doing fine. Everyone thinks the Fed can handle this," Dimon said at a Bernstein conference. "That hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way."

JPMorgan Chase is one of the most important financial institutions in the entire world.

So it is a really big thing for Dimon to make a statement like this.

But as I keep warning my readers, this is just the beginning.

In fact, one prominent Texas farmer is warning that food prices "are going to double"...

"People don't realize what's fixing to hit them," said Texas farmer Lynn "Bugsy" Allen.

"They think it's tough right now, you give it until October. Food prices are going to double."

Can you imagine that?

Can you imagine what it will do to our country if food prices double from their already extremely inflated levels?

People will go absolutely bananas.

https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5395

Monday, June 6, 2022

Social Security Will be Depleted in 2034

 Can you even imagine a more perfect storm of calamity already descending upon America?  Let's count up a few clouds that are already here like $5.50 diesel fuel, skyrocketing food prices, epic droughts in the West, mass shootings, 10 weeks of wheat left, drug epidemic destroying our kids, Russia at war in Ukraine and delusional Democrats at the helm all while rejection of Jesus skyrockets.

Now let's look at a few that are on the horizon.  Maybe China invades Taiwan and we are forced to put up or shut up?  Maybe the US Dollar loses it's Reserve Currency status and global demand for it plummets causing even more inflation.  Maybe diesel fuel goes to $10 per gallon later this fall?  Maybe Social Security runs out of money in 12 years?  Maybe 70% of Americans have saved NOTHING but the money they hope to receive from Social Security?  Maybe America becomes a 3rd world country with rolling blackouts, bankrupt people by the millions living on the streets because they failed to save any money and now the NET of Social Security is even gone?  Maybe the US Government can't continue paying the interest on the $31 trillion of debt it has amassed?

As of right now, Social Security will be able to pay scheduled benefits until 2034—one year later than reported last year—according to the just-released 2022 report from the Treasury Department’s Social Security Board of Trustees.

The new report found that without changes, the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund is projected to become depleted in 2034, one year later than last year’s estimate. At that time, the fund’s reserves will become depleted and continuing tax income will be sufficient to pay 77% of scheduled benefits.

The report also found the combined asset reserves of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASI and DI) Trust Funds are projected to become depleted in 2035, also one year later than projected last year, with 80% of benefits payable at that time.

The DI Trust Fund asset reserves are not projected to become depleted during the 75-year projection period.

The Senior Citizens League’s Mary Johnson told 401k Specialist  Friday that while the solvency outlook improved as businesses got back up and running and wages grew to boost payroll tax revenues, there is a darker side to that rosier outlook.

“One factor playing a role in the improved solvency for the programs was the very high mortality rates of adults age 65 and up due to COVID-19 (according to the Congressional Budget Office). That lowered claims and program spending for both,” Johnson said.

In the 2022 Annual Report to Congress, the Trustees announced:

The asset reserves of the combined OASI and DI Trust Funds declined by $56 billion in 2021 to a total of $2.852 trillion.

The total annual cost of the program is projected to exceed total annual income in 2022 and remain higher throughout the 75-year projection period. Total cost began to be higher than total income in 2021. Social Security’s cost has exceeded its non-interest income since 2010.

Calls for Congressional action“It is important to strengthen Social Security for future generations. The Trustees recommend that lawmakers address the projected trust fund shortfalls in a timely way in order to phase in necessary changes gradually,” said Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security. “Social Security will continue to be a vital part of the lives of 66 million beneficiaries and 182 million workers and their families during 2022.”

Polls show that as many as a quarter of current working-age Americans don’t expect to receive Social Security benefits—a mistaken but understandable belief. A statement from the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) in response to the new Trustees Report said the sooner policymakers act, the more policy options are available with adequate time to phase them in and allow the public to prepare.

“Social Security’s financial shortfall has been well known for years, and now it’s staring us in the face just over a decade away. This year’s report shows yet again that we are well past the time for talking points and partisan entrenchment,” said Shai Akabas, Economic Policy Director  for the BPC.

Here;  Social Security Gains Another Year of Solvency: 2022 Trustees Report - 401(k) Specialist (401kspecialistmag.com)

So it's a good news-bad news type of thing.  

The bad news is that lots of seniors died when Covid pushed them over the edge.

The good news is that Social Security doesn't have to pay dead people any longer so they added 1 year to their solvency calculation!

The bad news that Social Security is going to start suffering serious payment problems in 12 years instead of 11 years that they had calculated last year.

The bad news is that this year Social Security isn't taking in enough money to pay for the program.

The REALLY bad news is that Congress needs to act on this right now if we have any hopes of "fixing" Social Security.

The REALLY, REALLY bad new is that the US Government borrowed all the money from the Social Security Trust Fund back when Bill Clinton was President and they stuffed the Trust Fund full of IOU's.  And now the US Government is going to have to start paying back the Trust Fund....with more printed money which is going to make inflation even worse.

It's getting VERY HARD to see how America is going to survive all of these storm clouds.  A train wreck seems right around the corner.

I sure hope Jesus is coming soon and very soon.  


Trump's Time in the White House Should be Done

 I'm not sure how many Conservatives are still dreaming of the day when Trump gets re-elected as President and marches back into the White House.  I hope it's a smaller and smaller number.  I loved the things that he accomplished as POTUS even while sometimes hating the things he said and Tweeted.  So I agree with Bill Barr that Trump is NOT the man that Republicans should be endorsing for President.  It's time to look for another guy who can carry the same agenda without all the baggage.

As followers of Christ, let's always remember that we shouldn't be looking to any man, other than Jesus, to worship and adore.  I'm concerned that some folks, even within the church, are spending more time thinking about Trump, talking about Trump and hanging Trump flags in their yards than they do thinking and talking about Jesus to a lost and dying world.

No man is going to fix America other than Jesus.  And sadly, we have removed him from just about every space in the entire country.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr says Donald Trump’s time in the White House is done.

In a candid interview with The Washington Examiner, Barr made it clear that he thinks it’s time for the Republican Party to start looking forward to a new candidate in 2024.

The Washington Examiner reports:

“I’m all for restoring America . That’s what I’m all about, is restoring the greatness of this country. And the principle threat is this progressive agenda. The only way to do that is not to speak about some other election and continue this trench warfare but instead a breakthrough election that will create and usher in an era just like Reagan did,” said Barr in an interview with the Washington Examiner.

“I don’t necessarily want to take a shot at Trump, but Trump is not that man,” he said, adding that the former president would be a 78-year-old lame duck the day he walked into office.

“He does not have the capacity to win the kind of transformative election. He may have been, historically, a necessary figure, and I give him all credit for bringing to a screeching halt the progressive march that occurred under the Obama administration and threatened the country going forward with Hillary Clinton,” said Barr.

Barr also acknowledged that many of Trump’s specific traits are what made him the man to do that. The former AG said that Trump’s willingness to fight and his pugnacity helped make him such a successful president.

“However, if you believe in the MAGA agenda, we’ve already punched the other guy in the nose. Now, how do we actually go about methodically restoring the United States?” Barr said. The first thing Republicans need to do, added Barr, is win a decisive, broad victory. “And you don’t do that by starting a civil war in the party and calling everyone who doesn’t believe that the election was stolen a RINO.”

Barr also went on to say he firmly believed Trump could have handily won the 2020 election had he slightly adjusted his behavior heading into the race.

Here;  Bill Barr Says Trump Should Not Run for President - Trump Train News


Ted Cruz is Correct

It would seem that almost no politician or reporter wants to even try to explain WHY there are so many folks willing to pick up guns and head into a church, school, mall or sports event and start shooting strangers.  The Left only wants to wag their fingers and say “It’s the guns!  Too big!  Too many!”  They don’t want to talk about a declining culture with broken families and absent fathers.  Of little kids smoking weed by the millions while they play violent video games that involve murdering people.  They don’t want to talk about the godlessness and lack of any morals that aren’t being taught to the vast majority of American youth.  So of course when you don’t train a dog, it turns into an animal.  When you don’t train boys, they also turn into animals.

Satan is having a pigeon shoot with our youth today.  He can send his demons to prowl around looking for the boys altering their brains with drugs and listening to porn music while they shoot people dead in virtual reality.  Once in the demon can begin to whisper the voices to his student, “that school is filled with bullies!  You should make them pay!”

Expect many, many more mass shootings.  It’s only going to get worse as marijuana is legalized in more and more states which will allow more and more demons access into our kids who have no fathers and no Jesus.

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Libertarian podcaster Joe Rogan recently warned of the dangers of giving in to the current gun control mob:

“I don’t think it’s wise to take all the guns away from people and give all the power to the government. We see how they are with an armed populace; they still have a tendency towards totalitarianism. And the more increased power and control you have over people, the easier it is for them to do what they do. And it’s a natural inclination, when you’re a person in power, to try to hold more power and acquire more power.”

Texas Senator Ted Cruz has also warned how dangerous it would be to surrender to anti-Second Amendment campaigners:

Speaking at the NRA conference in Houston this past weekend, Cruz stated, “It’s far easier to slander one’s political adversaries and to demand that responsible citizens forfeit their constitutional rights than it is to examine the cultural sickness giving birth to unspeakable acts of evil.”

“It’s far less comfortable to ask why despair and isolation and violent hatred is so prevalent in America,” he further urged, adding that “the elites who dominate our culture” are intent on pushing the idea that “firearms lie at the root of the problem.”

Cruz continued, “Tragedies like the events of this week are a mirror forcing us to ask hard questions, demanding that we see where our culture is failing – looking at broken families, absent fathers, declining church attendance, social media bullying, violent online content, desensitizing the act of murder in video games, chronic isolation, prescription drug and opioid abuse. And their collective effects on the psyche of young Americans is both complicated and multifaceted.”

“It’s a lot easier to moralize about guns and to shriek about those you disagree with politically, but it’s never been about guns,” the Senator further declared.

“Taking guns away from these responsible Americans will not make them safer, nor will it make our nation more secure,” Cruz said, adding that “In an age where elites embrace defunding the police, when homelessness runs rampant, when gangs dominate entire communities, and when radical district attorneys refuse to prosecute violent crime in cities across America, rarely has the Second Amendment been more necessary to secure the rights of our fellow citizens.”

About 100 years ago, you could walk into a pharmacy and freely purchase heroin and cocaine. You could then go to a hardware store and buy cases of dynamite. Today, it’s unthinkable to have these products for sale. What allowed them to be easily accessible is that there was a moral foundation that prevented most people from doing evil things with them.

 https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Meet a Teacher With $303,000 in Student Debt

Note how the article says “Cheryl HAD to take out loans...”  Really?  Was someone forcing Cheryl to take out absurd amounts of loans to get a teaching job that even a 5th grader knows won’t pay enough in salary to pay back a $300k loan?  Sorry Cheryl but the rest of us taxpayers should not be forced to pay for your very bad business decision.  

Should the Biden administration also consider forgiving up to $50,000 in car loans for every American?  “Meet John.  He’s a plumber who had to buy a truck to carry his plumbing supplies and now the payments are eating into his ability to buy a house.”  

The stupidity of these Democrats is becoming legendary.  

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If it weren't for compounding interest, Cheryl — who requested her last name be withheld for privacy concerns — thinks President Joe Biden's plans to forgive $10,000 in student debt for federal borrowers might have made a difference for her.

But with $303,000 in federal student debt — and an additional $20,000 in private student loans — the president's plan just isn't enough.

"It is not even a drop in the bucket," Cheryl, 53, told Insider. "If you wanted to make a real difference, you could do away with half the interest we've accrued, but for now I'll never be able to cover the payments."

As a teacher in Massachusetts, Cheryl had to take out student loans for her bachelor's degree in English and her master's degree in education. While she said she has no problem paying back the debt she borrowed, the problem is the interest that accrued while she was in school and her loans were in forbearance. That's making it nearly impossible for her to touch her principal balance at her current income level.

 https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-teacher-303000-student-loan-debt-biden-forgiveness-not-enough-2022-5

Dead Pool

We have blogged about this event quite a bit, but it just keeps getting more interesting.  Maybe America will have a judgment laid on us by God by Him deciding to shut off the rain and snow that fills Lake Mead and powers Hoover Dam? What would happen to Sin City if the toilets cease flushing and the golf courses go brown while the casinos deal with rolling black outs?  Is it possible that the celebration of sin that takes place in that city is having God saying “Enough!”?  

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 A once-in-a-lifetime drought in the western part of the US is turning up dead bodies - but that's the least of people's worries. 

Sitting on the Arizona-Nevada border near Las Vegas, Lake Mead - formed by the creation of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River - is the largest reservoir in the United States and provides water to 25 million people across three states and Mexico. Here, the stunning scale of a drought in the American west has been laid plain for all to see.

The water level is now so low that bodies of murder victims from decades back, once hidden by its depths, have surfaced. 

One was stuffed in a barrel with a gun shot wound - presumably because someone thought it would stay unnoticed at the bottom of the vast reservoir forever. 

While the dead bodies are fuelling talk about Las Vegas' mob past, water experts warn of even more worrisome consequences. If the lake keeps receding, it would reach what's known as "dead pool" - a level so low the Hoover Dam would no longer be able to produce hydropower or deliver water downstream.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61669233

Elon Musk has a “Super Bad” Feeling About the Economy

Elon has been a big hit among conservatives lately.  He is taking on some Liberals in Twitter wars and has emerged, to some anyway, as a new Conservative hero.  We aren’t sure he is a Conservative though and he certainly hasn’t announced that he has a biblical world view.  That being said he is a savvy businessman and he now is saying he has a super bad feeling about the economy.  

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O)CEO Elon Musk has a "super bad feeling" about the economy and needs to cut about 10% of salaried staff at the electric carmaker, he said in emails seen by Reuters.

A message sent to executives on Thursday laid out his concerns and told them to "pause all hiring worldwide." The dire outlook came two days after the billionaire told staff to return to the workplace or leave and adds to a growing chorus of warnings from business leaders about the risks of recession.

 https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-musk-says-tesla-needs-cut-staff-by-10-pauses-all-hiring-2022-06-03/