Opus 2022-248: Headline: Get Ready for the Sacrifice

One of the recent stories has to do with an FBI agent either resigning or getting the boot.  He has a checkered past of partisan posts on social media.  I first saw it in the Daily Wire.

He is the sacrificial lamb being offered to shield his superiors.

“Thibault in particular hid evidence from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland in order to win their approval to open an investigation of former President Trump, according to Grassley.”

I would suggest that we will soon see a headline about his suicide.


homo unius libri

Opus 2022-247: Headlines: A Genuine Odd Couple

Powerline had a post about a bad-taste billboard in California.  It seems to be designed to stop people from moving to Texas and is blamed on West Coast liberals.  I don’t question the accuracy of their information but a part of me wonders if the ads were not designed and paid for by Texans who are trying to stop Californians from moving to the Lone Star State.

It is strange when you find a common goal between the Commissars of California and the Gun Toters of Texas.  Maybe they both like puppies too.

homo unius libri

Opus 2022-246: God and I-Pads

We flew to Japan for the birth of our first grandchild.  It was an awesome time in the genuine sense of the word “awesome”.  Too soon we had to come home and for a long period our only contact was through the miracle of Facetime.  Later as we were waiting for Daddy to be rotated home the child’s only contact with him was through that app.  I had to laugh recently when I saw the Babylon Bee sharing about a grandmother giving her family a tour of the ceiling.  My granddaughter used to take the I-Pad and walk around giving her dad a view of all our light fixtures.

I have worried about the exposure to electronics.  We try to keep the screen time down and read to the kids.  At the same time, I wonder if the early exposure to Facetime will be an element that helps my granddaughter understand the existence of God.  Much of her contact was non-physical and yet real.  That is a lot like our experience of the divine.  

What a great time to be alive.

homo unius libri

Opus 2022-245: Headlines: Power Playing

The Gateway Pundit had a story about people who could not afford to pay their electric bills.  I did not bother reading it.  

I find myself saying, “So?”  Look at the possibilities.  First, with Biden’s policies the electricity might not be cut off, just not available.  You can’t buy what ain’t for sale.  Green energy exists but does not deliver on the dreams of the Communists pushing it.

Of course there will be a bail-out for those who toe the line.  It is a part of the modern march to totalitarianism.  In times past they might hold a gun to your head or throw you in prison.  Now they threaten your air conditioning and big screen TV.  Now that is Progressive for you.

It is coming.  They have shut down the coal industry, refuse to build nuclear and are working hard to take away the gasoline engine.  Of course, in the hallowed tradition of elites down through history, they will always be able to find enough energy to keep their Jacuzzis and security fences working.

Learn how to make candles and sharpen your wood chopping skills.

homo unius libri

Opus 2022-244: The Power of Choice

I made a choice recently.  I was at Dollar Tree and I had a choice between two buckets.  I chose the one that looked a bit rougher.  My criteria?  It was made in Mexico rather than China.

It was just one choice by one person.  The total money was $1.25, plus tax.  It was not an economy breaker unless you multiply it by the dozens of choices each of the 350,000,000 Americans make every day.

Check the label.  See where it was made.  If you have a choice, purchase a bit of freedom along with your closet treasures.  If we start caring enough to let it effect our choices then our world will be a better place.

homo unius libri

Opus 2022-243: Communist Style Future Planning

Did the millions who were killed in the Communist butchery strength or weaken modern Russia?  The twentieth century was the Socialist Death Era.  Between the National Socialists and the International Communist they set records in sociopathic killing that we can hope are never surpassed.  My thinking is focused on the Soviet Union because I just finished the second volume of The Gulag Archipelago.  It is a brutal reminder of the history that our current leaders would rather we not dwell on.

On the weakness side you need to take into consideration that the first targets were the best and the brightest.  The Russian Revolution was the product of the intellectuals working toward a perfect world in which they were in charge.  They didn’t know that the first step in achieving Utopia is to kill off all the creators.  So the first wave of people brutalized and murdered in the Soviet prison camps were the college professors, engineers, scientists, doctors and anyone else who had shown they had a creative bent.  In many of the cases it could not have happened to a more deserving bunch.  As time went on they kept weeding out people who had initiative and spoke up with an idea that went against the grain of the political officers.  

How much did the Communists lower the average IQ of the Soviet Union with their killing?

On the strength side you must understand the masses of compliant, non-resistant sheep that were slaughtered.  When they ran out of college professors and top-notch students they went for what was left over.  They had quotas to meet and if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time you found yourself on the way to a work gang.  The work often involved working in Arctic conditions with no coat and broken down shoes.  You also were starved.  

Which will have the greatest influence in the long run?

homo unius libri

Opus 2022-242: Wildflower Watch: Rain Lilies Are Back

This morning when I looked out the window I could tell that something was going to pop.  There were long slender stalks with buds on the end.  When they opened I thought they looked a lot like rain-lilies but they were a bright yellow.  I had seen white and purple but not yellow.  When I did a search it showed me that they do come in yellow, so rain lilies it is.

When I went walking it seemed that the only place I could see them was my back yard.  At least it is an indication that the seasons are changing.

homo unius libri