Rome Aids Washington Border Policy

Roman Catholic charities and organizations are supporting the Democrat left's border policy despite the church's opposition to the left's abortion policy. Scripture says the whole world will "wonder after the Beast." Seems like the Beast is wondering after the Image to the Beast despite their political differences. 

The last two popes have come out openly in favor of a global (i.e. socialist) government with teeth (Pope Benedict's words). The teeth would be to keep troublesome nations like the US in line. Despite its firm stand on abortion, the Vatican is far more supportive of global socialism these days than they are of liberty. The Holy See prefers social "justice" to freedom it seems. So, in fact, do many progressive Protestant churches. There is even a movement to reunite Protestant churches to the so-called "mother church." Pope Frances has issued a video declaring an end to Martin Luther's little protest. The churches that seem most interested in reuniting with the "mother church" are those with political ties to progressivism. Here's what Frances had to say to a gathering of Protestant evangelicals of the charismatic strain.

As it turns out, socialism may be the glue that will cement the power of the 3 unclean spirits like frogs that come out of the mouth of the Dragon (pagan secular powers), the Beast (which received its power from pagan Rome, and the false prophet (who could that be)? What we do know is that these 3 powers will "perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty." Revelation 16:13. 

This is all one more sign of Christ's imminent coming. The forces of darkness are gathering. You cannot watch or read the news. You cannot avoid the pressure to surrender and join the dark side. Whether you do or not depends on your faith and trust in He who is coming soon.

Note: We are called by Christ to love and not hate, even our enemies. We are also called to be watchmen on the wall, wise as serpents and gentle as doves. We see in these things the signs of Christ's coming. It is a call to Christians everywhere. Let us watch and be ready for as the old hymn says, "He will come!"

© 2022 by Tom King

Well Doesn't This Sound All Mark of the Beastish?

 

 

Apparently President Puddin'head has got the Federal Reserve working on his truly disturbing all digital currency idea.  The Federal Reserve's Board of Governors has issued a White Paper titled: 

Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation, published January 2022. 

The paper as one conservative news pass-through pointed out "Promotes consumer protection and community development through consumer-focused supervision and examination… and administration of consumer laws and regulations." A Central Bank Digital Currency sounds like a good idea on the surface of it and admittedly it might work if this were a different world that didn't have evil megalomaniacs in it that live for the day when Marxist global socialism is the universal power. The Founding Fathers of the United States deliberately limited the power of government to do that sort of heavy-handed thing.

The White Paper admits that under current regulations, a central bank digital currency would be an overreach. "The Federal Reserve Act does not authorize direct Federal Reserve accounts for individuals, and such accounts would represent a significant expansion of the Federal Reserve's role in the financial system and the economy." No kidding. 

The paper outlines a process for gradually creating a digital currency as the standard US dollar to replace paper money. It begins by using intermediary financial institutions to shuffle money from sender to recipient. In practice, the paper points out, "this would mean that a Central Bank Digital Currency intermediary would need to verify the identity of a person accessing CBDC, just as banks and other financial institutions currently verify the identities of their customers." As the rollout of the system takes place, all human creatures great and small would have a Federal Reserve managed CBDC account.

This will be good says the Fed because, "A central bank could pay no interest on CBDC." Still because a liability of the central bank is essentially riskless, depositors (meaning us members of the proletariat) may prefer CBDC over bank deposits in a crisis even if the CBDC has a less attractive rate of return. 

And here's the tricky bit. "A central bank could potentially address this risk by limiting the total amount of CBDC an end user could hold, or it could limit the amount of CBDC an end user could accumulate over short periods."

The Fed worries about the "potential effects of CBDC on bank deposits and bank lending, QNE the potential effects of CBDC on the economic decisions of households and businesses." By expanding the power of the Fed to control money and with the eventual elimination of paper currency and coins, it also provides government authorities to see and potentially "to manage" every penny you've got. Potentially, a fully implemented digital currency could be used to control and individual citizens ability to buy and sell. Why does that sound familiar?

Central Bank Digital Currency, the paper claims, could "possibly" interact with the Federal Reserve's other tools in conducting monetary policy to achieve its "macroeconomic objectives."  In other words, a digital currency under control of the Fed could be used to implement government monetary policy. Socialism, by the way, is just such a monetary policy. The game could be rigged to cripple citizens who step out of whatever prescribed financial practices the government decides to implement.

For instance, if the government wanted people to stop buying corn because powerful politicians wanted all corn to go to make ethanol, it could. It could easily block any purchase of corn products like tortillas, Doritoes or cans of corn chowder effectively deciding what consumers buy and sell. If you wanted people to service the Fed's centralized economic plan, what better way than to make it impossible to guy or sell stuff the government disapproved of. The potential for abuse is stunning, given the proclivities of our self-appointed intellectual betters.

The trouble is, a digital dollar won't exist in print form. Once the CBDC transition is complete, you can't go to the bank or an ATM and get physical cash from your account, not even from your CBDC account that contains your digital currency. Even more creepy, digital currency will surely be designed so that government via the Federal Reserve would have substantial control over your money .

In general a Central Bank managed digital currency could and likely will "generate data about users' financial transactions in the same ways that commercial bank and nonbank money generates such data today." In intermediate stages of CBDC implementation intermediaries like banks, credit card companies or money market managers would address consumer privacy concerns using existing tools, basically luring folks into a false sense of security. Then the Feds take over all that.

The Fed now forces financial institutions to comply with what the paper describes as a "robust set of rules that are designed to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. " Given who the sorts of people government enforcement agencies are and who they now consider "terrorists," bloggers, conservative pundits and journalists, conservative Christians, etc., a fully deployed digital currency would provide federal law enforcement agencies a relatively simple way to track down any resistance to government policy.

The Fed's rules not only enforce customer due diligence, record-keeping, and reporting requirements for corporations and large companies. According to the paper, any digital currency controlled by a Central Bank would "need to be designed in a manner that facilitates compliance with these rules." Even during the intermediary ramp up of the CBDC system, private-sector partners with established programs would help ensure compliance with Fed rules even before the system is fully implemented. They seem to believe that it's a good idea to hit the ground running; get everybody onboard as soon as possible.

The Federal Reserve Board's Technology Lab is researching how to use application programming interfaces to support the issuance, distribution, and use of privately issued digital currencies. Note, the interfaces would be designed to support the use of your personal digital money. The Fed sells the idea by claiming that "central bank money is the most trusted and safest form of money because the Federal Reserve, as a central bank issuer, presents no credit risk and no liquidity risk." This supposed "safest form of money" is considered safe because security agencies would have much easier access to your financial records. Doesn't sound safe to me.

Digital currency could well be a highly efficient way to get money around. Indeed, it already is, No paper, no shipping things around in boxes, and no cubicles filled with file clerks. But those who would control us need to simplify everything in order to effectively centrally plan our lives. Computers help these simple souls who completely buy-in to Marxist socialist ideas. 

Trouble is that making things simple through control of complex systems via computer, deceives the upper echelons who make decisions based on simplified data. Artificially simplified answers convince those using those systems that the decisions they make about complex issues about how more than 300 million of us live, where we live, where we work and whether or not we reproduce, that they are making wise decisions. 

They are not capable of making decisions for millions of us. There are too many of us and too few of them and the issues are too complex.

© 2022 by Tom King

 References:

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/us-government-digital-currency-rcna19248
2. https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/599768-biden-is-planning-a-new-digital-currency-heres-why-you-should-be-very-worried/
3. https://www.eutimes.net/2022/03/biden-announces-new-digital-currency-that-will-completely-replace-paper-us-dollar-by-the-end-of-2022/
4. https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-plan-digital-dollar-massive-threat-freedom-opinion-1688803
   

 

 

Pro-Life Conservatives WILL Take In Babies That Are Not Aborted

Eli Boyd: Adoption Day, July 2017

It's a lie that pro-life conservatives don't want to adopt unwanted babies. Progressives see through their own behaviors and attitudes. Many of the most vehement pro-abortion activists simply don't want babies themselves and can't understand anyone who would want to adopt. 

But we over on the Christian Conservative side do embrace adopted kids. Christian families of all kinds take babies and children into their homes all the time - babies like my grandson Eli. Our church in Tyler loved this little guy from the time Grieta Talios took him in as a foster kid at his birth. Grieta began taking in medically fragile babies a short time after her husband passed away. She became a leading foster parent in the area at an age when most of us retire, specializing in crack babies and kids with genetic and physical issues. And God bless her, she picked out my daughter and son-in-law to take in Eli. She gave him a great start his first year, but soon began handing off Eli to Meghan at church. I think the rest of the church was kind of in on the plot, making sure Meg and Eli got together often during church and church activities.

Much loved by Grammy & Poppy

After a time, this little fellow became so dear to my daughter and son-in-law that they couldn't live without him. They'd fallen in love and shortly after his first birthday, signed up to be his foster parents. Months later, they and half the church crammed into the courtroom on his adoption day as witnesses. 

Nobody can tell me pro-life Christians won't welcome the little guys with open arms into their congregations. The Tyler SDA Church has practically adopted Eli as well. Meg is never short for baby sitters and playmates for him. His grandparents (that's us) adore him and do our best to spoil him. I wouldn't mind if they got another one (hint, hint). If we weren't so old and arthritic, we'd probably have picked up an adopted child ourselves along the way. As it was, we started and managed two day care centers (one that doubled as a senior day center). We worked with special needs kids and several that had been kicked out of other daycare centers. I spent 9 years helping start one treatment center and working at two residential treatment centers for children with multiple psychiatric, physical and emotional disabilities. Sheila worked with seniors with age-related disabilities. We raised 3 kids of our own and they worked with children themselves at daycare centers, treatment centers, Boys & Girls Clubs and in youth groups. Lots of our "kids" still write us and follow us on Facebook. Many have gone on to become teachers, therapists, nurses, firemen and artists. We are proud of them all.

My young cowboys circa 1984

Millions of innocent babies have been lost during the abortion epidemic. I know the estimated two million families that want to adopt would have taken in many of those lost children. If we don't get them here, in Heaven and the New Earth, I think God will raise them and give them to new parents in the new world. God can certainly give some of them to me - 10 at a time if He would, so I can raise a ball team or a crew for the schooner I plan to build. What a joy to raise kids in heaven or the new Earth. (They'll be dogs and cats and horses there too).

Sheila and her seniors.

So, if one of the guys, that posts memes about how cruel conservatives are unwilling to take in unwanted children, drops such an accusation on your newsfeed, tell them they're wrong. We don't just take in American babies either. We go all over the world helping children and families anywhere we can. The pro-abortion folks just don't know us very well. They look at us through their own prejudices and beliefs. We, who choose life, put our money, our time and often our very lives on the line where our beliefs are concerned. We don't just talk about it or vote for people who claim they will do all that pesky hard work helping people on our behalf. We can be bothered. And when we are, we do what needs doing ourselves. We don't wait for the government to take 40-60% of the money in admin costs and then take decades to get around to doing the job the money was taxed for. Jesus told us to do it ourselves, to visit the poor and sick and prisoners. To care for widows, orphans and the unwanted. Hard to believe for a progressive maybe, but for us, it is our great joy to obey.

© 2022 by Tom King

Just What We Need - A "Left-Leaning" Democrat

Democrat - No relation

I live in one of those rare Washington State Republican enclaves on the edge of the Seattle liberal-dome. Our representatives, city and county officials tend to be reliably conservative. To the north of Puyallup, where I live there are enough Democrats to elect the governor all by themselves. To the south of us live Washington's version of East Texas only a skootch more conservative. My first men's prayer breakfast of my Graham SDA church ended with everyone loading up and going to the gun show. Our head deacon was buying parts to make a fully automatic AR-15. The elders often met at the gun range to discuss church budget.  

Puyallup is where the tides meet. Currently, builders here are putting up senior-living apartments as fast as they can cut down fir trees to build them. Don't worry, those things grow back fast. I counted the rings on a giant one we cut down last year and discovered that I was quite a bit older than that huge hunk of lumber. There's enough wood in one of those to build a 3 bedroom house.

Seniors are fleeing Seattle, a once lovely city, called the Emerald City by folks who loved the city and they are fleeing in droves. They are fleeing a massive influx of homeless, drug addicts and growing crime and a government that pretty much encourages it. They don't prosecute shop-lifting so long as you can stuff it in your jacket and get out the door. They do prosecute business owners who knock down shoplifters and sit on them till the police come. The "summer of love" we had up here left a whole once-beautiful section of town trashed and storefronts empty as store-owners fled. Apparently the old people followed. They are filling up senior apartment complexes as fast as builder can put them up.

Sadly, the predators who preyed on them in Seattle, seem to have followed them here. We've had a spike in car thefts, porch piracy, vandalism, arson, robberies and mugging have increased dramatically in our little once quiet neighborhood. And the bull-dozing of local woodlands for new senior housing has displaced the local wildlife. We've got a couple of deer herds roaming our neighborhood using the patches of woods around our houses for shelter. Also displaced have been coyotes, bobcats and even a bear, so much so that people's pets are coming up missing.

So into all this, the above announcement appeared on the Neighborhood app letting us know that help was on the way in the form of a "slightly left-leaning Democrat" we might have the privilege of writing in for county council "person". His post sparked a huge, sometimes rancorous debate. I have the right to remain silent but not the ability, so I jumped in on the discussion. I was polite mind you and to his credit so was he. Some folks, however did get a little nasty. I find it's a waste of time trying to communicate with delusional people, but not every leftist on the thread was unreasonable. Though Mr. King lost me at "Left-leaning Democrat", we were able to have a civil discussion about my issues with the Democrat approach to governance. 

My grocery bill doubled starting from the day Joe Biden put his hand on the Bible and was sworn in. Governor Jay Inslee is a nightmare and has presided over massive open and hidden tax increases that have essentially along with Biden's inflation made it harder for those of us on fixed incomes. Now my friend Mr. King wants an opportunity to bring "regressive" leftist notions to our local community (and no I didn't misspell progressive). The last thing we need is solid Democrat representation all the way up the chain to Washington, DC. 

These guys talk a good game, but all they've gotten us with their piles of government programs that sound good is a crime rate that's through the roof (see Seattle), a grocery and gas price increase that's no more 17%, than the moon is made of green cheese. We've suffered an explosion of drug crimes, homelessness and unpunished shoplifting, virtually non-existent borders, and a military that's being gutted and replaced with as many political radicals as they can recruit. We've had a crime wave in our neighborhood that has touched everyone. My wife's meds were stolen from our mailbox. It's so bad that a guy who set fire to the highway last year, was released in an hour, then walked down the street and tried to rob a store. Then a few months later he shows up here and was caught ripping off packages from people's porches and breaking into a car, stuffing it full of stolen packages, then trying to steal the car. Wanna bet he's out again? 

All we need is another elitist leftist trying to tell us how all us members of the proletariat ought to live, think, eat, work, play and procreate, while figuring out how to disarm us and make us subservient to the collective (see leftism = Marxism). Even the left-leaning light agenda of Democrats is riddled with bad ideas, discredited and dangerous notions.

How's that for what I disagree with about left-leaning Democrats? This thread started out openly left-leaning political so the moderators didn't delete the thread. Here in the suburbs, naked hypocrisy is a little too out there. So if the thread were deleted, we'd all know what party's doing the editing and, probably, the vote counting around here. 

Do I sound angry and disgusted with the political left. Well I do because I am. I paid attention in history class and read extensively on the subject over the past 58 years since I was 10 years old. left-leaning is not to be trusted and definitely not something we want to see running our little corner of Pierce County. Puyallup is facing an invasion from the gulag north of us as surely as the border states are being invaded from the South. I get why refugees want to leave Mexico and Seattle. The trouble is they bring the predators with them. If you read our website and count up the car theft, property theft and damage and general crime increase in our once pleasant little neighborhood, you'll see the problem.

Why is it important that government be largely local? I sat in on meetings as a reporter in Klickitat County where it was discussed whether or not to copy a neighboring Oregon county and create survey teams with Public Health officials and armed Homeland Security officers to go around and record whether or not families were vaccinated or not, and while they were at it to check for flags (like the Betsy Ross flag which has been declared a white supremacist dog whistle), whether the household possessed any guns, evidence of pro-Trump signs, religious iconography and other potential indicators of domestic white supremacist terrorism.

Fortunately the county commissioners were NOT left-leaning Democrats. When asked if she would organize such a survey team, the county public health director answered, "Oh, hell no! I don't want to get shot!" Having that sort of power at the local level is how we guard our communities from federal meddling. 

For me, it's why not to vote for left-leaning Democrats - to prevent this sort of collectivist nonsense from gaining a foothold. We don't need politicians telling us how to take care of our local problems. I was for 20 years a community organizer in Texas working across party lines. We got things done for our communities that a bunch of central planners in the halls of government had screwed up. We don't need left-leaning Democrats in power here either. We threw them out in East Texas. I recommend we do that same thing in the sensible parts of Washington State. Sorry to ramble on, but I have way too much experience with left-leaning Democrats. They're some bad juju I'm here to tell you. I don't hate them. I've even converted some of my left-leaning Democrat friends. They just have latched on to some bad ideas and run with them.

© 2022 by Tom King 

Rain, Snow, Sleet, and Gloom of Night Will Absolutely Stay These Postal Worker Union Snowflakes From Their Appointed Rounds

Our terrible, horrible, very scary "blocked" driveway.

I used to admire postmen. They brought the mail no matter what, right to your door or mailbox. And I still admire many of them and express my appreciation when they go that extra mile. They've gone dramatically downhill since postal workers got themselves a woman. Even then many of them continued to do their jobs above and beyond the call of duty and I respected them all for that.

That is, until we got a new post "person". It's not that she is a woman. Our two prior post persons were women and lovely people. I used to leave them little gifts at Christmas. If a package was too big for our oversized box, they would cheerfully run it up our pleasant tree-lined driveway (see above). It runs a quarter of a mile back into the woods and they would leave the package as the bottom of the stairs to our garage apartment at the very end of the lane. Then she'd drive on circling the house on the circular drive. No backing up. No difficult turns. The worst hazard she'd face was fat lazy deer in the road.

The first time this new gal brought a package to my house, she took one look up our driveway (above) and wrote down that the package was undeliverable because the front door of the driveway was blocked. This was an out and out lie. There were no fallen trees, no washouts, not even a pothole of any size. A big fat FedEx truck rolled up the drive just a day before to deliver a package to us. My two neighbors up here both are business people and with my wife and I both disabled seniors with no car depending on Amazon and Walmart delivery to deliver our stuff to us, there is a steady stream of FedEx, UPS, DSH, Amazon, Uber, Dominoes, Door Dash, and the disabled transport bus up this "inaccessible" driveway. We just laid down new gravel to fill any dips, bumps or potholes.

This guy gets up our drive every week.

But our snowflake postgal, the Amazing Kreskin, took our package back because she sensed that the road was blocked. Apparently she received some sort of premonition that it would be too difficult to get that 4 wheel drive jeep of hers down the lane. Now let me 'splain what happens when she does that.

1. My package is late, a day maybe two. You can't tell because the post office won't talk to me, they list the wrong phone number, the wrong post office and make you hang online for hours before a live person will talk you to. Then that very nice person files a case and gives you a number and tells you someone will call back. (Six day later, still waiting).
2. My package is taken to an undisclosed location and Amazon is informed that the package is "undeliverable". Meanwhile the USPS tracking number lists the package as "out for delivery" for the past week. 
3. Amazon won't give me a live person to talk to and apparently expects me to wait two to three days to be reimbursed, meanwhile reordering the item (an $11 watering can for my wife's flowers) to be redelivered.
4. Of course, if they redeliver it, that same postgal is going to refuse to deliver it again. This is the second time we have gone through this with her.
5. Last time I had to take an Uber to the post office ($15 plus tip and an hour waiting for the ride), wait another hour in line at the post office which they might or might not have, wait an hour for another Uber and another $15 plus tip to get back home.  Final Cost $15+$15+$11 plus the steep Washington State sales tax) = better than $41 for a watering can that lists for $11. 

Even this beast got down our driveway.

Our service and retail industries had to work hard to stay alive over the CoVid "pandemic". They had to kiss customer behind to keep people buying stuff from them. Now that the pandemic is almost over to the chagrin of the Democrat party, the big business boys seem to have decided they can start treating customers badly again.

More on the slow death of civility in a coming blog.

© 2022 by Tom King

Lies, Damned Lies and Even More Damned Lies

 The devil's lies are intricately constructed. Check out his first series. (#9)

1. God said do not eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil neither shall ye TOUCH it. (He demonstrated by touching the fruit, something God didn't mention.)

2. You shall not surely die. (Here he introduced the idea that the soul is immortal by nature, though Adam did not become a living soul until God breathed into his newly constructed body. But Eve is meant to doubt God since touching the fruit didn't kill the snake or, we assume, Eve if she'd handled it already).

3. Finally, he said that if Eve ate the fruit she would be like a god. (There's only one of those, but since Lucifer has already introduced the idea that she isn't going to die and would be immortal after she ate the fruit, it's becomes a much shorter step to believing she could be a god.)

Note the progression. Small lie assumed to be true -> Bigger lie presented as truth -> The Biggest lie he was hoping to sell is believed.You will see evidence of this sort of thing when you find they are saying things about how you think and how you are going to act if you were to get any power yourself that you know are not true.

Satan tactic is to lie, then confuse with a whole web of interconnected lies, blames his failures on his enemies (followers of God), then further claims God's people are doing exactly what his followers are doing. Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" outlines strategies the left uses to manipulate and deceive the proletariat to achieve the aims of collectivist socialist progressivism.)

Beware of these logic bending tactics. People who wish to rule over you will claim they wish to make your life better. They justify their deceptions because they have your best interest in heart. They mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They intend to be good masters, but make no mistake about it, they mean to be masters.

© 2022 by Tom King