Those who have never heard of “FRANKQUOTES” are more apt to watch CNN, MSNBC, read the NY Times, Washington Post, or stay glued to Facebook, Twitter, or China’s TIK-TOK.
It was General Robert E. Lee who said, “You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.”
Here are some recent FrankQuotes from Gab. They bill themselves as “A Library Of “We The People” Frank Quotes For The Modern Age | Alternative InfoNews Media | The Way, The Truth and The Life | FREEDOM.”
Here are the same guys with the exact same car 50 years later:
Only Baby Boomers understand.
In the 1970s, I changed the oil, set the timing, cleaned the carburetor and installed Jenssen speakers for the 8-track player (also self installed) in my car.
President Donald J. Trump accomplished more to support America in four years than Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill and Hillary Clinton in their lifetimes.
🔹Violent crime fell every year Tump was in office after rising during the two years before he was elected. Under Biden, crime has drastically increased.
🔹Trump removed over 8,200 government employees from their Deep State positions and had planned to remove at least 20,000 more.
🔹Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil. Biden destroyed that.
🔹 Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.
🔹Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.
🔹Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms.
🔹The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaced a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country’s highest-paid workers.
🔹Trump signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.
🔹Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.
🔹Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.
🔹Low-wage workers benefitted from higher minimum wages and from corporations that were increasing entry-level pay.
🔹Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land.
🔹Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.
🔹He signed a bill allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down.
🔹Trump signed an executive order forcing all healthcare providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans could comparison shop and know how much fewer providers charge insurance companies.
🔹When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance.
🔹Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.
🔹Hospitals became required to post their standard charges for services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept.
🔹In the eight years prior to President Trump’s inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices year-over-year declined. Under Biden, they have increased.
🔹Trump created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.
🔹VA employees were being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 Deep State VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended.
🔹Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.
🔹Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, in 2020, most federal employees saw their pay increase by an average of 3.1% — the largest raise in more than 10 years.
🔹Trump signed into law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers.
🔹Trump administration provided HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.
🔹Prior to the year of the fake news and Democrat pandemic scheme, there was an all-time record sales during the 2019 holidays.
🔹 Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying insurance to get a better price.
FOCUS ON BLACK AMERICANS
🔹President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act to provide funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans.
🔹 In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill that enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society.
🔹The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.
🔹The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in the sentencing of non-violent crimes.
🔹Over 90% of those benefitting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans.
🔹The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime.
🔹 Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.
🔹Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs.
🔹New single-family home sales increases up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just the year prior.
🔹 Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.
🔹Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments.
POVERTY DOWN EMPLOYMENT UP
🔹 The poverty rate fell to an 18-year low of 11.1% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment.
🔹Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.
🔹President Trump signed a bill to create five national monuments, expand several national parks, add 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorize the Land and Water, Conservation Fund. Biden’s Executive Order cancelled this.
🔹 Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.
🔹Consumer Confidence and Small Business Confidence reached an all-time high. Under Biden, historical lows.
🔹More than 7.6 million jobs were created under Trump.
🔹More Americans were employed under Trump than ever recorded before in our history.
🔹Almost 500,000 manufacturing jobs were created.
FIERCELY FOUGHT HUMAN TRAFFICKING WITH RECORD RESULTS
🔹 Through Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts.
🔹Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet’s leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking.
🔹 Trump’s OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to more effectively combat human trafficking.
🔹 Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations arrested over 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking.
🔹Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need.
🔹The hotline identified 17,805 potential human trafficking cases.
🔹Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims – serving over 10,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2019.
🔹The Department of Homeland Security hired more victim assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support.
🔹President Trump called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code.
🔹He signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million.
🔹The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promoted school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education.
🔹Under his leadership, ISIS lost its territory and was dismantled. They are back with Biden in charge.
🔹 ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed. Biden can’t bring him back.
🔹Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
🔹Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.
🔹Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith.
🔹 President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions.
🔹Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens.
🔹 Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea.
🔹Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.
🔹Withdrew the U.S. from the job-killing TPP deal. Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam. Okay’d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.
🔹Had over 20 US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed.
🔹Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades.
🔹Despite Nancy Pelosi’s resistance, Trump secured billions to fund building of the wall at our southern border.
* President Trump’s historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country. 8,764 communities across the country were designated as Opportunity Zones. Opportunity Zones spurred nearly $100 billion in long-term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country.
🔹Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.
🔹Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.
🔹Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.
🔹Companies brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed.
🔹Manufacturing jobs grew at the fastest rate in more than 30 years while the Stock Market reached record highs. Median household income hit the highest level ever recorded.
LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT EVER
🔹 African-American unemployment was at an all-time low. 🔹 Hispanic-American unemployment was at an all-time low. 🔹 Asian-American unemployment was at an all-time low. 🔹Women’s unemployment rate was at a 65-year low. 🔹 Youth unemployment reached a 52-year low. 🔹We had the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.
🔹The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. Biden destroyed that.
🔹95 percent of U.S. manufacturers were optimistic about the future— the highest ever. Under Biden, lowest in history.
🔹 Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.
🔹Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don’t have children to work or look for work if they’re on welfare.
FOUGHT BIG PHARMA
🔹Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history.
🔹Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors 100’s of millions of $$$ this year alone.
🔹Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try an experimental treatment that wasn’t allowed before.
🔹 Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic. Biden and Pelosi send much to Ukraine for kickbacks.
Frontline Doctors
🔹Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
🔹 U.S. oil production reached an all-time high and we were not dependent on oil from the Middle East. Biden destroyed that.
🔹The U.S. became a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957. Biden destroyed that.
🔹 NATO allies increased their defense spending because of Trump’s pressure campaign.
🔹Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction in carbon emissions.
🔹Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
🔹 Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
Fought Big Pharma
🔹Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
🔹Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, to advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
🔹 The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it.
🔹 The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provided a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.
🔹 In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocated $1.8 billion in funding over the following five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families.
🔹 In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well as an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER.
Once upon a time, when gas was less than $2 a gallon, we had border protection and some fake experimental ‘vaccinations’ weren’t killing our population, America was turning great.
Then the 2020 election was criminally stolen, with much evidence, from true voting citizens.
We soon learned Mike Pence was a traitor, Joe Biden a puppet, news was still fake and Anthony Fauci is a lunatic. The “Make America Great Again” slogan was replaced with “F___ Joe Biden,” “FJB,” and “”Let’s Go Brandon” chants throughout the nation.
As citizens learn more about the massive corruption of New World Order, World Economic Forum, Biden Regime, CDC, DOJ, CIA, FBI, IRS, EPA, RINOS, and other Deep State LMNOPS, there are solid signs of American determination and patriotism kicking in.
Fake News continues to lose their audiences. Trump backed candidates are winning primaries, and patriot caps are making a comeback!
“Yesterday during my Daddy’s funeral procession, led by the United States Marine Corps, my family noticed the man in this photo pulled over on the side of the road,” posted Rona Wallace. “His hat was in is hand and his hand was over his heart, honoring my father and our family as we passed by.”
“His respectful act touched my family and the entire procession so deeply,” she noted. “We passed many other cars along the way that simply went about their day.”
“Since his license plate showed in the photo, my daughter did some digging and we found him!!!”
“His name is Ernest Boerlin and he is also a veteran – US Navy,” she continued. “When I messaged him privately to thank him for honoring my father, he said:”
“It was an honor to show my respect for a fellow serviceman and their family. Please accept my prayers and condolences to you and your family for your loss. Fair winds and following seas. God bless.”
“Thank you, Ernest. Your act of kindness and respect touched our family and friends very deeply and we are grateful. May God bless you and yours as well,” she commented. “Let’s thank Ernest for his service and show him some love, y’all!”
Sometimes, if you are capable, it is a good idea to know where you stand.
Those of us who know some history tend to understand (where we stand) versus those who skip the historical lessons.
Those who spend their time on less reading, more television propaganda, lots of video gaming, and indoctrination activities have no clue where they are standing.
A lot of times, you’ll get exactly what you put up with, no more and no less.
Once you start catering to people’s pathologies, it seldom ends well or at a reasonable point.
One of the best rules to live by is if you realize there’s something you should do, but you’re afraid to do it, you MUST do it. It’s hard at first, but after you overcome your fears enough times, you learn to live a life without fear.
Not that you feel it, you do, but once you believe you can force yourself to act even though you’re afraid, fear isn’t that troubling of an emotion.
Unless you understand both sides of the argument, you don’t understand the argument.
If you listen to God when He whispers, He won’t have to lead a whale into your life to swallow you in order to get your attention.
If someone couldn’t tell what your priorities are by watching you for a week, maybe you’re fooling yourself about your priorities.
It is time. Honor those who fought and advocated for our freedoms. Do your duty.
Vote in person. Share wisdom, truth and real history. Less TV (far less). Read. Walk. Smile. Defend freedom. Pray.
IF THIS EXPLANATION DOESNT FRIGHTEN PEOPLE ENOUGH TO WAKE UP, WHAT WILL?
Henry Kissinger-99, George Soros-91, Jacob Rothschild-86, Pope Francis-85, Nancy Pelosi-82, Joe Biden-79, Bill Clinton-75, Hillary Clinton-74, Bill Gates-66, Valerie Jarrett-65, Barack Obama-60, Susan Rice-57.
Here’s a reliable take on how and why Susan Rice and her Joe Biden puppet have been failing miserably. It is from Benjamin Fulford of benjaminfulford.net.
The fake US President Biden failed to get oil on his recent begging trip to the Middle East. This means the countdown for the implosion of the US and Western Europe has begun. Revolution is in the air and there will be no turning back, multiple sources agree.
Biden’s handlers’ hoped to use Iran as an “enemy” in order to justify massive arms sales in exchange for oil. Saudi ambassador to Washington Remma bint Bandar Al Saud summed up the region’s thinking when she dismissed the “oil-for-security paradigm” as “outdated and reductionist.”
🔹No weapons for oil means no oil for the US and its’ client states. No oil means no economic activity.
The Khazarian mafia meanwhile, like a dying beast, is spitting out fear porn, bio-weapons and threatening war in a desperate effort to stave off the inevitable. However, their medical mafia is being systematically hunted down and killed.
Fulford submits that, “the result was US industry lost its competitiveness and over 50 years of trade deficits turned the US into the most indebted country in world history.”
“Then finally the rest of the world decided to stop lending money to the US in 2008, leading to the ‘Lehman shock,’” he continued.
Note, in September 2008, the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a crisis that paralyzed financial markets around the world.
“The Americans were able to buy time then by promising to put a black communist in as president,” he stated, indicating the public should realize that “communism was created by the Vatican or should I say the P2 freemasons who control the Vatican and that Obama was/is their house slave.”
“In any case, the Obama ruse convinced the Asians to hand over 700 tons of gold to the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan,” Fulford claims. “This was leveraged over a thousand-fold to create $23 trillion that kept the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CORPORATION going until 2020.”
“When the money ran out in January of 2020 the Khazarian Mafia-controlled West responded with a massive bio-weapons and vaccine attack,” he stated. “They hoped to murder enough people so that they could stay in power. This effort has failed.”
OBAMA’S FRONTMAN BIDEN
“They also managed to get some funding for the US CORPORATION by promising to bring back Barack Obama with Joe Biden acting as his front man,” Fulford indicates.
“Now, as a result of general disgust with the antics of the fake Biden regime, this money has been cut off,” he explains. “This is the background to the truly historic events that are unfolding before our eyes.”
In the news, this can be seen in the fall of multiple governments and the isolation of the G7 from the rest of the world economy.
Fulford offers insight to Biden’s recent failed Beg For Oil visit to the Middle East.
“His failure to get continued free oil in exchange for money printed out of nothing is going to have ramifications far beyond the United States,” he surmises. “It will mean the end of the BIS, the UN, the EU and perhaps even the Papacy.”
To understand why this is, Fulford offers a historical review:
🔹The BIS, or central bank of central banks, was founded in 1930 using Asian gold.
🔹This gold was lent to the Germans to help them pay their obligations under the Treaty of Versailles signed at the end of World War I.
🔹In exchange, the Asians were promised the United Nations would be set up as a world parliament with the ancient royal families of East and West (the dragon family) acting as background supervisors.
🔹However, at the end of World War II the victorious allies reneged on their promise to spend the gold that was lent to them to develop the entire planet, Instead, their Marshall Plan only developed the countries they controlled (now known as the G7).
🔹In retaliation, the Asians cut off any further access to their gold.
🔹When the US ran out of gold, we had the “Nixon shock” of 1971. That is when the dollar was decoupled from gold.
🔹Instead, the countries of the world had to use dollars to buy oil.
“This was a giant sugar high to the US,” Fulford makes clear. “The countries of the world had to have a trade surplus with the US in order to buy oil. This led to a strong dollar and free money for the Americans.”
“However, the result was US industry lost its competitiveness and over 50 years of trade deficits turned the US into the most indebted country in world history.”
BLEAK FUTURE?
Where do people like Bill Gates and George Soros fit into this?
Soros, like Biden, and Henry Kissinger, may not be around much longer due to age and health. Perhaps their hope is in Gates and his contemporaries, as they continue on buying up businesses, farms, ranches, land and technologies to move their odd like agendas forward.
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Fulford sums it up:
“When we look at what has happened to us, especially in the West, over the past two years, we can see that a powerful group has been trying to alter our genes with vaccines designed to turn us into domesticated animals.
“As Henry Kissinger once famously boasted: ‘In the future it will be as impossible for the ordinary people to rebel against us as it is for a sheep to rebel against a farmer.’
“We are fighting against a tribal group that wants to monopolize the ability to become superhuman. They want the rest of us to have short, ignorant lives of inescapable and permanent slavery.
There’s nothing better than time away from the noise to recharge your batteries and uplift your mood. There are many isolated, but sight-worthy places within the U.S you can visit.
Here is a sampling of just some of the places that are popular among nature lovers, easy to locate, and the perfect adventure for boosting your dopamine levels.
Havasupai, Arizona
This location is known to many for the Havasu Falls located in Havasupai Canyon in Arizona. The waterfall itself is located in a remote area on Havasupai Native Reservation.
To get to the falls, you’ll have to walk a distance of 10-miles or join a horseback excursion. This might be a bit stressful for people who don’t like walking or riding horses, but it’s definitely worth the walk.
Once you arrive, you’d be in the midst of one of the most beautiful places on earth. The crystal clear turquoise water plunges down the fiery red cliffs into travertine swimming holes at the bottom.
There are also four other major waterfalls nearby; Upper and Lower Najavo Falls, Beaver Falls, and Mooney Falls. You may as well take this opportunity to explore them too.
Bob Marshall Wilderness, Montana
Montana is known for its abundant open spaces of wilderness. And the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, located in the northwestern part of the state, is one wilderness that tops them all—the third-largest wilderness area in the Lower 48.
It follows the Continental Divide for 60 miles, spread across 1.5 million acres of rocky ridges, alpine meadows, and dense forest.
Within the Bob Marshall Wilderness, you can find all kinds of wildlife. From moose to elk, wolves, grizzlies, mountain lions, mountain goats, and deer.
Not only is this wilderness a magnificent place to visit, but the area also contains what is believed to be the most dramatic natural feature of the Rockies: the Chinese Wall, a limestone escarpment deep in the wilderness and a part of the Continental Divide.
Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming
The Bighorn Mountains are one of the best places to visit in Wyoming and quite an isolated area—Visited only by a few people even during high peak travel seasons.
A 58-mile drive on the Bighorn Scenic Byway will bring you over its crest. The mountain stretches from the Powder River Basin to the Bighorn Basin, following Highway 14 from outside the town of Greybull.
If you love camping and a good hike, an adventure on this mountain is definitely for you. You’ll find miles of trails for hiking and perfect places to set camp. However, if you prefer to sleep in a hotel or hostel, the town of Buffalo is nearby and offers many options for accommodation and attractions of its own.
Gila National Forest and the Gila Cliff Dwellings
Fancy a trip to SouthWest America in Arizona? Then head over to Gila National Forest. The Gila National Forest has more official wilderness than any other protected forest in the Southwest.
The 558,000-acre Gila Wilderness was the first designated wilderness area in the world. With terrain varying from grassy foothills to juniper woodland, ponderosa pine and spruce-fir forests on high peaks. The Gila Wilderness connects the Blue Range Wilderness and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness.
The Gila Cliff dwellings, built as far back as the 13th century, are located within the Gila National Forest. For thousands of years, groups of ancient nomads used the caves above the Gila River as a temporary shelter. Until the late 1200s, when the people of the agricultural Mogollon culture made it their homes. They built rooms, crafted pottery, and raised children in the cliff dwellings for one or two generations before moving away by 1300.
Boundary Waters Wilderness, Minnesota
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeast Minnesota is one of America’s most beautiful and remote places. With over 1,100 lakes and hundreds of miles of waterways, its vast wilderness extends 150 miles along the U.S.-Canada border, covering approximately 1,098,000 acres.
It offers some of the country’s best canoeing, with 1,200 miles of canoeing trails attracting over 150,000 visitors yearly. From paddling from one lake to the next and stepping off onto countless miles of untouched shoreline, there are many interesting things to do in the Boundary Waters wilderness.
If you need some time alone, that can be arranged. Head to the Boulder and Adams lakes. They are some of the most remote lakes around here—it’s almost certain you’d see absolutely no one.
Spending time in isolated places doesn’t mean you wouldn’t have fun. Some of the most isolated places in the country are some of the most beautiful sights in the world. Don’t forget to breathe fresh air amidst nature. There are many open spaces around America perfect for recollecting thoughts while away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
🔹Spiritual growth is the goal of Christians. It’s in the Bible, II Peter 3:18, TLB.
“But grow in spiritual strength and become better acquainted with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
🔹Spiritual growth results from discipline. It’s in the Bible, I Corinthians 9:25, NIV.
“Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.”
🔹God has promised continuous growth until Jesus returns. It’s in the Bible, Philippians 1:6, TLB.
“And I am sure that God who began the good work within you will keep right on helping you grow in His grace until His task within you is finally finished on that day when Jesus Christ returns.”
🔹Growth takes practice and is essential to the Christian life. It’s in the Bible, Hebrews 5:12-14, TLB.
“You have been Christians a long time now, and you ought to be teaching others, but instead you have dropped back to the place where you need someone to teach you all over again the very first principles in God’s Word. You are like babies who can drink only milk, not old enough for solid food. And when a person is still living on milk it shows he isn’t very far along in the Christian life, and doesn’t know much about the difference between right and wrong. He is still a baby-Christian! You will never be able to eat solid spiritual food and understand the deeper things of God’s Word until you become better Christians and learn right from wrong by practicing doing right.”
In 2006, Jack Dennis had the honor of interviewing the second man to walk on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin.
It’s been over half of a century that earth celebrated one of the most historical milestones in history as United States astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin explored the moon for 21 hours. Many Baby Boomers and space enthusiasts today recall Armstrong’s first words as his boots touched the lunar surface: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Dr. Aldrin, (now 92 at this writing), was bestowed the nickname “Buzz” from his baby sister who could only say “Buzzer” instead of “brother” in their New Jersey home.
Little did they know this would evolve into the recognizable inspiration for Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear’s name decades later.
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. stepped on the moon at 03:15:16 Coordinated Universal Time on July 21, 1969. “Beautiful view,” Aldrin simply uttered the first words to describe what he was experiencing. “Magnificent desolation.”
Jack Dennis with Buzz Aldrin, 2006
New information previously not generally known by the public released by Aldrin recently, combined with the 2006 interview by Dennis, is revealed below:
When probed about Armstrong and him sighting a UFO on their voyage to the moon, Aldrin beamed. “Yes, we saw something,” he clarified. “But you have to remember the times. We could not blare it out that we saw any UFO because everyone was listening and hanging on to every word we said.”
“Delicately, we asked Houston the location of the SIVB (booster rocket) and they told us something like it was 6,000 miles away,” Aldrin continued. “I remember we talked about it as being L-shaped.”
“Over the years, there have been many suppositions and misrepresentations, but we believe now it was a panel left over from the separation of the spacecraft,” winked Aldrin playfully.
The two were on the lunar surface for 21 hours and returned to earth with 46 pounds of moon rocks and specimens.
Did Aldrin feel any pressure to say or not say anything publicly while he was on the moon?
“Not censorship, if that is what you are implying,” he answered. “We knew what we were doing was unparalleled and extraordinary in human history so we took our choice of words into account as part of our responsibility.”
“Just a few minutes on the moon, I did make a statement of reflection asking everyone to give thanks for the moment,” Aldrin said. “And then, with the radio off, I read from the Scripture. Only Neil (Armstrong) heard me.”
Aldrin took a communion wafer and vial of wine from his minister to the surface of the moon.
“I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me,” wrote Aldrin years after the mission. “In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup.”
“Then I read the Scripture, ‘I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much fruit.. Apart from me you can do nothing,’” he wrote.
Aldrin continued, “It was interesting for me to think: the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the very first food eaten there, were the communion elements.”
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin
It is also interesting to note that Aldrin was the first astronaut to earn a doctorate degree. His thesis was the foundation and idea for the docking procedures used in the Gemini and Apollo missions. He was the first astronaut to accomplish a successful spacewalk, while during the Gemini 12 mission of 1966, he was outside the capsule for 5 1/2 hours.
What are Aldrin’s ideas about climate change?
“I think the climate has been changing for billions of years. If it’s warming now, it may cool off later. I’m not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today. I’m not necessarily of the school that we are causing it all, I think the world is causing it.”
Moon germ worries.
Amid concerns over what germs the astronauts might have brought back with them from the moon, they were kept in quarantine for three weeks after their return to Earth before they could be reunited with their families. The quarantine experience “quickly became oppressive” according to a NASA history of the mission.
The astronauts had to wear “biological isolation garments” before they went into quarantine, where they had to keep themselves entertained with an exercise room, a ping pong table, television, reading material and phone calls to their families. The suits were to ensure that “the lunar dust we brought back wouldn’t give people on earth our moon germs,” Aldrin said.
“I always found it funny that the rags used to wipe us down that were covered with moon dust were dropped in the ocean,” he tweeted. “So the poor underwater creatures got our moon germs instead.”
Aldrin then suggested that the moon dust in the ocean could be “fodder for a Godzilla movie.”
Data from United Van Line’s “45th Annual National Movers Survey” tracks their exclusive data for customers’ state-to-state migration patterns.
Data from the survey indicates:
🔹Vermont is the state with the highest percentage of inbound migration during 2021, at 74 percent.
🔹South Dakota follows with 69 percent
🔹South Carolina at 63 percent
🔹West Virginia at 63 percent
🔹Florida at 62 percent.
Where are they moving from?
States with the highest percentage of outbound migration include:
🔹New Jersey at 71 percent
🔹Illinois at 67 percent
🔹New York at 63 percent
Connecticut at 60 percent
🔹California at 59 percent
In addition to the state-by-state data, United Van Lines conducts an accompanying survey to examine the motivations and influences of Americans’ interstate moves.
Primary reason for move: 2018-19, 2020-21
🔹Job change or transfer: 51.4%, 37.1%
🔹Physically closer to family: 23.2%, 29.6%
Retirement/lifestyle: 29.8%, 31.8%
The United Van Lines data analysis shows that the pre-pandemic move patterns were mostly the same as pandemic-era moves. However, the number of moves was substantially lower after the pandemic began.
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