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I just watched some of a talk by Neil de Grasse delivered in Australia.

He ut up numbers of what percentage of various groups of people are religious, how many are atheists, how many are religious, how many are doctorates, and so on. He seems intrigued that 7 percent of scientists with advanced degrees believe in God.

Of course he left out the scientists from earlier generations, the most famous, the ones that actually advanced science more than others. He decried on Muslim scholar who he says promoted the idea that all things happen because Allah wills it, and De Grasse says that’s when intellectual advancements spawned during a “golden age” of advancements among Arabs stopped.

Of course to make his point he. had to totally act like the major advances of science in Christendom did not happen, because they were made by believers, like Isaac Newton, who believed the creation account in Genesis, and invented calculus, and articulated the three laws of thermodynamics. Like Michael Faraday, another creation believer, who found the relationship between electricity and magnetism, among other things. Roger Bacon and the parade of believers who founded most of the major areas of scientific study today.

You can find a long list of such scientists at icr.org.

It took generations of “free” government “education” (aka “public education”) to indoctrinate its consumers of dumbed down “knowledge” to get disbelief among scientists.

The folllowing is pulled from Tom Woods’ email list. I’m sure he won’t mind me passing it on. It is super-important and very timely….

You’ve surely seen the back-and-forth between Donald Trump and Thomas Massie, Republican congressman from Kentucky.

The president is unhappy that Massie won’t support the so-called “continuing resolution” to keep the government funded for another six months, and is threatening to primary him.

Congressman Massie, I remind the reader, defended the president over Russiagate and January 6 at a time when many scared Republicans were running home crying to their mothers.

Massie’s point is: how can we possibly justify a spending bill that spends all the money DOGE has identified as wasteful?

The president just got elected, and he has more influence now than he’ll have in six months or at any other time in his term, so why not fight back now?

We keep getting told: now isn’t the time to fight. Wait six months and we’ll fight next time.

Now I understand if you youngsters haven’t caught on yet, but there’s no excuse for us oldsters, who should have figured out the trick by now: next time never comes. So you may as well fight right now.

David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, is suggesting: rather than just capitulate to the Democrats as usual, why not introduce a perfectly constitutional rescission package, clawing back some of the leftover spending, in order to get the budget at least partly under control, as a condition of approving any continuing resolution?

Why the hell not indeed?

Why simply cave, and then get angry at the guy who refuses to go along?

Stockman explains that the spending situation “is a consequence of the stacked institutional mechanics that Elon Musk is just beginning to grasp”:

For example, the appropriations authority for every one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of idiotic foreign aid contracts that DOGE has exposed and cancelled must by law be recycled and re-spent on another contract. So the “savings” will be therefore be wasted on projects perhaps only slightly less stupid but in any case no less unaffordable.

We are referring to the impoundment control act of 1974 and the passel of UniParty-appointed Federal district judges sitting out there across the land waiting to pounce in favor of lawsuits claiming funds are being illegally withheld by the executive….

Fortunately there is a pretty creative hack…. To wit, as Elon Musk apparently discovered earlier this week the congressional rescission tool is a pretty good workaround to un-spend money that has already been appropriated.

This method of cutting existing spending authority does require Congressional approval within 45 days, but rescissions are subject to an up-or-down vote with no amendments and
no filibuster in the Senate.

So what the DOGE team needs to do right now is bundle up a massive pile of rescissions and send them to Capitol Hill to be approved as a pre-condition for passage of the next CR. We think there is enough fraud, waste and abuse based budget authority lying around the Federal bureaucracy such that a massive $600 billion rescission package could be sent to the Hill within the next week; and it should rightly become known as “The Mother of All Rescissions,” or MOAR!

The White House proposition to Congress would be simple. Either pass MOAR or shutdown the government when the current CR expires on March 14th. You choose.

That’s much better than just caving to the Democrats.

And what specifically would he ask for?

This:

• Rescission of Leftover Pandemic Relief Appropriations at SBA and the Departments of Energy, Education, HHS, Labor and HUD: $139 billion.
• Cancellation of Leftover Green New Deal/IRA funding: $317 billion.
• Rescission of Wasteful Foreign Aid Spending: $30 billion.
• 6.9% Across-the board Rescission of FY 2025 CR Funding Levels for all Discretionary Appropriations: $114 billion.
• Total Rescission Package (MOAR): $600 billion.

You won the electoral college, the popular vote, and all the swing states. Act like it! Criticizing Thomas Massie instead of following David Stockman’s recommendation is an extremely sad move.

Just today I spoke to David about Massie and the President, as well as about Stockman’s new book: How to Cut $2 Trillion.

Netanyahu and his cohorts have committed genocide in Gaza, and they’ve started on “the West Bank”.

This will be the death knell of both Israel and the United States.

Job (in the Bible) said “If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me”. Bibi did just that when he invoked the Amalekites to justify himself for what they’ve done in Gaza. With that, he telegraphed his intention to the Jews that the intention was to wipe out the Palestinians altogether.

But today’s Israel is not ruled by David or Solomon, it’s ruled by Pharisees, Saducees, and Zionists. The Cyrus Scofield Bible notes in the USA, and Charles Darby’s horrendous mis-translation of the Bible in England, and a hundred more “translations” from the 20th and 21st centuries, have warped Christian teaching in the West.

Israel is filling its cup of iniquity, and Trump is marrying the fate of the States to the fate of Israel, in the cup of wrath that god is going to bring in judgment against the oppressors of the poor Palestinians, both Muslim AND CHRISTIAN, in the Levant.

Your story about “DOJ will not bring charges” is misleading to say the least. Pretending to be a good news source does not work with this one!

The reason they are dropping it is because it was another lawfare project of the Biden regime to protect Hunter Biden and distract from the revelations about the scandalous lifetime behavior of Joe Biden, Hunter’s Biden.

Be skeptical, liike Albert Einstein and a lot of others have warned.

I was in college in the late 1960s and had an experience like that lady’s. 

I was merging from the on-ramp to a very busy I-40 in the middle of “greater” St. Louis, on my way home for the weekend. 

It had just started raining and the road was slick from the mix of oil drips on the road and the rain drops. My car began to slide. I panicked for a fraction of a second, but suddenly a great, overwhelming calm came over my whole body. But I can say I “lost control” over my body, and “something” took over my actions. I remember that my arms steered the car “into the spin”, and the car did a 270-degree spin until it stopped on the side of the freeway and perpendicular to it. 

All the while, I felt liike a spectator inside my brain looking out through what my eyes showed me. That’s the best way to describe what I exprienced.

When the car stopped, “my eyes (and head) turned to the right, then to the left, and when it was apparent that I was safe, I “recovered control over myself”. That’s what my experience felt like. 

As soon as I knew I was safely out of harm’s way (in the only place on the shoulder for miles both ways where my car fit that way, that’s when my heart immediately started pounding fast and hard, in that adrenaline rush. 

The only way I can describe it is to say that an angel took control of my body to do what was needed. And I realized God had a future for me. After my last year of university studies, soon after that incident, I joined a youth missionary movement associated with the Jesus People Revolution of those days, And led many people to Christ. 

I would say that the criteria differentiating “hard” and “soft” science should be determined mostly (largely?) by the strict version of the “scientific method”, all the steps. Provable experimentally. That would exclude sociology and “political science” and history and other “social sciences” fro being hard science.

I would classify any “non-hard” science under that definition as “soft science”, remembering the root of the word means “knowledge”.

(I’m not sure about Mathematics, because math would be a formalization of rules of logic and measurement.) But obviously some patterns that have emerged in Mathematics (my college major) have found amazing reflection in the real world. Natural logs, the patterns of leaves on a tree for maximum sunlight, and so on.

But PLEASE don’t try to ‘save the planet’ by experimenting with things like blocking sunlight when “climate change” is oBVIOUSLY NOT a “hard science”.

By the way, beware of psychology and related disciplines. Some psychiatriests have blasted Freud’s “ideas” as mostly nonsense.

After California blowing up three dams that held water for LA County….

After the water management authority taking a year to begin repairs to the water reservoir cover that left Los Angeles without the water reserve needed for emergencies…

After so leaving fire hydrants bone-dry so fast that firemen did not have enough to hold back the conflagration…

After the mayor going AWOL during a time when fire officials warned that the situation was catastrophe waitng to happen…

After the LAFD got three lesbians in the very top leadership spots, who immediately replaced merit promotions to do DEI promotions instead….

And again, all this after California’s governor with his greasy-kid-stuff hair, blew up three dams that held back water that was a reserve backup water supply for the cry California climate…

The usual suspects blame it all on “climate change”, which has been debunked by hundreds of climate scientists, none of which are ever interviewed on the usual government-approved radio or TV stations or web sites.

–aec Truthrerator