The MSM as represented by the likes of T.Friedman of the NYT recently stated on video that he would like for Iran to be defeated but is conflicted because it would be politically beneficial to DJT and Bibi. So he and the rest of the Marxist/Democrat/Hate America Party don’t care about America, they only care about their own political power. Outrageous to say the least.
06/16/26: There is NO reward for being correct in Friedman's world. You parrot the party line, whatever it might temporarily be, because if you don't, you are SWALWELLED. And I add, another brilliant column by Mr. Surber. Between Don and Jeff Childers, I'm getting the real news about sixty days before the rest of the country does.
04/16/26: The pattern is that if this unstoppable urge to (at least once) tell the truth erupts, the force of the counter-reaction is an equally explosive event.
Friedman is a Communist China fan boy which automatically means his opinion on anything is bogus. Like Paul Krugman, he is a poser with a big bullhorn, but someone has to carry on the legacy of Walter Duranty.
TF has always thought that the USA should be more like China & he wanted Obama to ignore Congress & be a dictator - just like Xi. Then the lefties project that onto PDJT.
I do not trust Xi or the terrorist leaders who still oppress and execute Iranian protestors. And I think our President is wise enough not to trust them either. But I do trust his administration because so many patriotic Americans lift them up in daily prayer. God is a very real help in times of trouble.
Can you think of any other person who could have pulled this war in Iran off? I can't. It seems that the President is very good at picking exceptional people and letting them work. He fires a few but that's the sign of an aggressive leader. You gotta perform above average at that level. His cabinet is the best in my lifetime. There'll be more winning soon. I'm not tired of it.
I firmly believe that, while Trump made some errors as 45, his time spent while FJB ran the country(?) was well spent. He came out swinging as 47 and hasn't missed many opportunities. May God protect and defend President Trump and the USA.
His biggest error as 45 was being naive....He was thinking like a CEO not like an unwanted interloper into the muck of a corrupt government....He did not know who to trust and trusted unwisely. The biggest aspect of covid was that he was out of his element and HAD to trust people who were supposedly experts in the health field. Never forget that he had agreed to just two weeks for shut down....the governors of blue states would not let that happen....they did not give a rat's ass about the people....they cared only about taking down Trump....not once did I read anywhere that what was going on was being called what it was: A Coup.
Re the vaxx: He made a competitive deal with companies to create a vaxx which was safe and effective. I am certain that those terms must have been in any contract issued. Another error was not suing them for breach of contract.
Anyone who has never worked among treacherous jackals cannot fully appreciate what he was working in....and with a second in command who also was a treacherous jackal....a government full of people who thought that they were, individually, decision makers....and would fight to the death to keep that ability.
What do you think his comments mean about possible replacements on the Supreme Court? I realize that Alito and Thomas both are getting older by the day, but they are such trustworthy conservatives, I'd sure hate to see them replaced by someone who turns out to be another ACB
perhaps signaling that he would support an impeachment or two. probably nothing more than that if alito and or thomas (and roberts?) were to retire, to not let your heart be troubled...trump is ready.
I'm a golfer but I can't play at Rory Macilroy's level. The Trumpster is the Rory M of geopolitics today. The other world leaders are all bogey players.
The chances are greater than zero that he'll pull another Venezuela/Iran style attack on them. He might further expose and cleanout their graft/grift machine. I have no idea how or when but it's going to happen.
Yes to MikeyMac and Jake, I, too, really feel that something big is coming that's going to make mincemeat of the Democrats. Maybe it will be a barrage of a huge number of smaller things, instead of one single big thing.
The Democrats "project" an image of menace and power and vicious aggression, but they are SO FAR GONE on the corruption and incompetence spectrum that it really seems to me they are teetering on ground that is already shaking and may soon be quaking.
Good comment. I can think of a few presidents who could have pulled it off………but chose not too. Lazy? Complacent? Or just not willing to do what was right? We will always wonder but they and we have to live with their choices.
I confess, I do have this little niggling worry in the back of my mind that wonders if these Iranians are preparing to "fight to the death" which would mean the death of the world. I hope my fears are untrue, but if so, I'm ready to go to my heavenly home.
I hear you. But consider that even if they “dig out” and rehabilitate decapitated missile launchers, we have obliterated 80-90% as well as industrial production of low scale weapons like drones.
Even more important is that the regime is, literally, running out of $$. Unemployment at large levels reported in Iran. Last night I read that the regime is acknowledging reality by stopping ANY oil exports and directing production solely for domestic use. Gulf neighbors are done with Iran and their actions to decapitate the banking and fin’l arrangements of Iran (in UAE most notably) accelerated that.
Of course regime insiders have stashed a lot of money in London…no wonder Starmer is so compromised as an ally.
Also, heard somewhere Trump that has floated the idea of extending the "ceasefire" another two weeks--would let them feel the impact of the blockage, PLUS give us more time to get small arms into the hands of regular Iranian citizens, so they can have an internal "Wild West" moment to root out the IRGC and gain a degree of real regime change.
We already know that the Vatican resents the loss of US subsidies to Catholic Charities for “resettling” immigrants. These had been cancelled as per last year’s work on USAID, but some Dem tried to tie this to the Pope/POTUS kerfuffle. Problem is the cancellation pre dated the words exchanged between the Pope and Pres. Trump by several weeks.
Yes, and I'm not sure it's wise for JD Vance to go in person--to Pakistan--for further talks, because "m*rder". Negotiate by Zoom, not in person with fanatical people.
Exactly. God doesn’t promise that our earthly lives will be without pain and suffering. He promises that he will always be close to us even to the end of the world.
God deliberately limited His intervention in man’s affairs by gifting all of us with Free Will, the agency to choose between that which is good or that which is evil.
If a person or group is planning to harm you in some way, and other people become aware of it, but instead of warning you choose not to intervene, or bungle an intervention due to ignorance, willfulness, or poor planning the consequences of their choices is on them.
I can think of the lead up to October 7, 2023, when certain Israeli units based at the border with Gaza tried to warn the higher ups of an increase in suspicious activity there. But those higher ups chose not to heed it, or even pass it up the chain.
Humans have been making wrong and deadly choices since the garden of Eden.
But no one will escape judgment for their choices, whether it be this life and most certainly not in the next.
Well said ; unfortunately evil must be recognized/ experienced in order to teach and deal with . That said , there is no earthly reason for what happened to those souls in WWII .
God gave man free will. What happened in those showers were the acts of evil men. This life is but a stop on the way to eternity. The victims of those evil men are enjoying eternity. The evil men, not so much.
…until He is asked. We cannot possibly know how God has intervened in the affairs of man, except those few stories and historical accounts that show us where good conquered evil. Our own lives are filled with evidence of the fruit of our choices.
We also can have no idea how many things God has PREVENTED which we may never even be aware of, but have saved us and our lives countless times.
But be assured of this: God is working, 24/7, 365 days a year in the lives of the men and women who call upon Him and trust in Him.
Do bad things, horrific things still happen? Yes but this is a sinful and evil world which works in opposition to God and all that is good.
It will come to an end, but God will bless those who, in spite of the ravages of evil, held fast to their faith in even the darkest of times.
Life here is short and a great sorting. Eternity is forever. Choose wisely.
Don, do you think that those people who died and suffered in the Holocaust did so in vain? Do you not think that the world was changed for the better by the event? Nothing happens for no reason..
What you're really asking, dbw, is that age-old "Question of Evil". Does God "permit" or "authorize" evil because it suits His overall purpose, or because God is mean in some way? Or is God helpless before evil and incapable of stopping it? Is Evil a co-power with God?
Many INDIVIDUALS during the Holocaust did experience the protection of God.
But a theological shift is needed. Too involved to comment on in this forum. But as a brief comment, as INDIVIDUALS we are free, even in this human life, to advance towards the Kingdom of Heaven. Are we reaching out to God? Do we feel His presence? Are we increasing in our realization of His Reality, His Kingdom? Are we becoming less impressed with Evil? Are we experiencing moments and events in our life where our closeness to God has addressed some bad situation or feeling?
Humanity as a whole collectively does have a long ways to go, and therefore does have difficulty struggling with evil. But as individuals we certainly can make progress, albeit by baby steps. But the Bible verses are true, such as: Isaiah 26:3: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee."; and Psalms 34:22 "...none of them that trust in him shall be desolate."
To my many liberal friends and acquaintances, who over the decades have assured themselves that they hold the high ground; let me say you support and are led by the most twisted and sick offal mankind has ever produced.
Today is April 16th. It's 707 a.m. I'm getting ready to read my favorite news source the historical Oracle Don. He is inspiring, truthful, and humorous, which may be an understatement since he often gets me to laugh loudly, necessitating under the advisement of my liberal, honorable, female friends, to stay isolated in my cave. That is all for now, boys and girls. Later Gators.
Hopefully the Trumpster will figure out a way for Iran and Venezuela to pay for this war as the cost of this will be the next attack point on Trump. I already saw Bill O’Reilly talking about 1 trillion dollars for a cost of this. If he is on it the leftist are already cooking up stories about it.
And every other blue state. If the republicans were smart,(they aren’t) they would’ve made an ad to be broadcast everywhere yesterday asking the people “It’s April 15th. Do you know where your taxes went?” And then showed video of the endless CA hospices, and the MN Learing center. There should be hordes of agents in every blue state pulling up to all the phony grift hidey-holes and dragging out the perpetrators.
Agreed. Rather get rid of a fifty year virus like Iran with that trillion than see us throw yet another trillion dollars into ngo’s that finance the Democrat party with kickbacks.
04/16/26: Don't give the mullahs any ideas, they'll start murdering ten year-old-girls by the thousands to replenish the supply in "Moslem Heaven" (Hell).
By my count the exports of oil are 400MM day (per the estimable Don Surber’s notes above). However long that lasts ($12B for 30 days) could make a decent dent in the pricetag.
Just curious, do you believe we all just came from some single celled creature who managed to crawl out of the sea and somehow learned to walk upright?
You know how sometimes when you wake up, you see things more clearly from perspective unpolluted by a lot of confusing and often contradictory information? You see more directly into the heart of things. I've had that sensation often lately, as the US under Trump is making the World a safer and better place. A girlfriend from Lebanon about 15 years ago, who was a survivor of their civil war, told me she can't understand Americans who don't trust our soldiers...she was shocked to be trained in an Obama-era class on sexual abuse, which taught that US soldiers might abuse you or even rape you. She proclaimed, "where I once lived, people cheered any news of the Americans, they are the Good Guys!"
So maybe the rest of the World will wake up to the fact that America, while it first looks after its interests, is not out to conquer and pillage, that we are in history simply the greatest force for Good the World has ever known. We are proving that in Iran, as we proved it in Venezuela and will continue proving indefinitely, if the Dems and other forces of Evil don't stop us.
Your girlfriend is sadly misinformed, though a better description would be that she 's got her head in a dangerous place, i.e. the clouds. A quick search produced this: "In France alone, 152 U.S. soldiers were tried for rape, and 139 of those charged were Black soldiers."
I have read that part of the problem was American propaganda directed at the GIs that described France as a sort of sexual heaven where anything goes. Whatever the truth of that, the number of prosecutions (and executions) for rape was dwarfed by the number of complaints. Again, quoting: "These [small numbers of] convictions occurred despite high reported rates of sexual assault, with some reports showing 500 rape reports flooding the Judge Advocate General's office per week by April 1945."
That said, whatever the real number was, it is dwarfed by the millions of rapes committed by the Soviet military, which Stalin condoned until well after war's end, when he started shooting his men. That, plus the immense volumes of looted German property which was brought back to Russia, much of it in donated US Studebaker trucks.
As George Bernard Shaw observed: "When the military man approaches, the world packs up its {silver] spoons and packs off its womankind."
How many million soldiers were in Europe during 1945? Were they all “choir boys”? No, they were draftees and enlisted from all walks of life. Yes, you will get some thugs that do horrific acts, just like we get in the US everyday. The Vietnam War had guys charged with rape, same deal, bad actors, evil. Human nature is sinful but Heaven will be Divine.
I imagine by now the CIA has the weapons the Persians need to have to hunt down their oppressors. No one better to do it than those who suffered at their hands and know where they live. And PDJT will be bringing his special brand of strength, stealth and surprise to the homeland democrats who deserve to be finished off just like Khomeini. There just won’t be enough popcorn in the world to watch what happens this summer!
The leader of the Basji was just knifed 14 times. He assumed room temperature without the use of guns. Not the Mossad's MO so it must have been locals who are sending a stark message. Get out now or you'll see all those virgins later.
I agree, but that's one of the best things about this whole operation. The traitors in our midst don't have advance knowledge of any plans, and are unable to leak to our other enemies. That may be the biggest lesson Trump learned and refined since his first term in office.
And I thought surely, Cheney was gonna do that to them when we were in Iraq…. Dick was just making bank while our soldiers were getting blown up by Iranian supplied IEDs…..Until TrumpZilla squished Soleimani into little 9/11 type bits of meat & bone all over the Baghdad tarmac.
Ratcliffe had better step up and get’r done in Iran…..have my doubts on him….never blew the whistle on Deep State frame job on Trump of RussiaRussiaRussia, even though he knew it was all Lies….
Supposedly we made an effort to provide guns to Iranian civilians through our Kurd contacts. Who essentially confiscated the weapons for themselves. No wonder POTUS said that they weren’t on his good list (think that was early March).
amazing that the mid-terms are even in doubt. shows you how apathetic (or should that be pathetic?) the american voters are and also how the cheating, stealing and lying about the cheating and stealing of elections has earwicked itself into our collective brains.
Too many Americans know what is going on in the political world and choose to do nothing. Just watch the turnout numbers in the midterms. You couldn’t get a record turnout of Republicans in an off year elections if you paid them to show up. Too much apathy.
And there's your answer to why the mid-terms might be in doubt. Most people think locally....not geopolitically....they do not see the big picture of what is really going on and, as the saying goes, you cannot hate the MSM enough....
Voters may read about wars and conflicts in Africa and the ME, but they LIVE gas and grocery prices. Which one do you think will be foremost in their minds? Can you blame most of them? Life is hard for many people; they cannot worry about the Big Picture.
Gas is over $4 on base at Fort Belvoir. It’s frustrating but the same people who make a huge deal out of it are some of the same people who still voluntarily pay over $5 once or twice a day for a drink at Starbucks and they keep spending on lottery tickets daily or weekly. Not saying it doesn’t tick me off to pay so much for gas but it won’t change my travel plans. I just refuse to let it control my life. I’ll cut something else out to offset it. If I still owned a business I would probably be really irritated though. Gas prices fluctuate continually and have become the bellwether for our economy.
Visiting Greece & it’s €2.20 a litre, or $11.75/gallon, but at least they still have gasoline. Glad we are flying back n/s to Dallas this weekend, understand last ship w jet fuel from Straight of Hormuz was getting to Amsterdam pipeline this week. Travel to EU this summer w/b full of delays, disruptions & cancellations. Jet fuel, diesel, petrol, electricity, desalination in Greek islands…. We’ve not planned any trips here till next summer - both for travel and political unrest…and that trip we just put a deposit - until the end of this year….
The MSM as represented by the likes of T.Friedman of the NYT recently stated on video that he would like for Iran to be defeated but is conflicted because it would be politically beneficial to DJT and Bibi. So he and the rest of the Marxist/Democrat/Hate America Party don’t care about America, they only care about their own political power. Outrageous to say the least.
I don't think Friedman has been right on anything - only academic eggheads value his garbage.
06/16/26: There is NO reward for being correct in Friedman's world. You parrot the party line, whatever it might temporarily be, because if you don't, you are SWALWELLED. And I add, another brilliant column by Mr. Surber. Between Don and Jeff Childers, I'm getting the real news about sixty days before the rest of the country does.
Pretty typical. But at least he is honest.
Sometimes A.D., sometimes .
He just admitted that his TDS governs his positions. What a sad way to go thru life.
And apparently to clueless to understand his predicament .
04/16/26: The pattern is that if this unstoppable urge to (at least once) tell the truth erupts, the force of the counter-reaction is an equally explosive event.
04/16/26: Surely this must have been an accident.
You didn't give his full name: Turd Friedman.
Rush's name for TF was Tom "Loopy" Friedman.
Friedman is a Communist China fan boy which automatically means his opinion on anything is bogus. Like Paul Krugman, he is a poser with a big bullhorn, but someone has to carry on the legacy of Walter Duranty.
04/16/26: Klaus Fuchs, Tom Friedman, Bruno Pontecorvo, Paul Krugman, and Alan May Nunn: The Apostates of Hell. Three down, two to go.
TF has always thought that the USA should be more like China & he wanted Obama to ignore Congress & be a dictator - just like Xi. Then the lefties project that onto PDJT.
So, what you are saying is, we are surrounded by Scumbags, Nationally and Globally!!👍🤣
Knowing is half the battle!
Yep. POS( plural ) flock together .
I do not trust Xi or the terrorist leaders who still oppress and execute Iranian protestors. And I think our President is wise enough not to trust them either. But I do trust his administration because so many patriotic Americans lift them up in daily prayer. God is a very real help in times of trouble.
Can you think of any other person who could have pulled this war in Iran off? I can't. It seems that the President is very good at picking exceptional people and letting them work. He fires a few but that's the sign of an aggressive leader. You gotta perform above average at that level. His cabinet is the best in my lifetime. There'll be more winning soon. I'm not tired of it.
I firmly believe that, while Trump made some errors as 45, his time spent while FJB ran the country(?) was well spent. He came out swinging as 47 and hasn't missed many opportunities. May God protect and defend President Trump and the USA.
His biggest error as 45 was being naive....He was thinking like a CEO not like an unwanted interloper into the muck of a corrupt government....He did not know who to trust and trusted unwisely. The biggest aspect of covid was that he was out of his element and HAD to trust people who were supposedly experts in the health field. Never forget that he had agreed to just two weeks for shut down....the governors of blue states would not let that happen....they did not give a rat's ass about the people....they cared only about taking down Trump....not once did I read anywhere that what was going on was being called what it was: A Coup.
Re the vaxx: He made a competitive deal with companies to create a vaxx which was safe and effective. I am certain that those terms must have been in any contract issued. Another error was not suing them for breach of contract.
Anyone who has never worked among treacherous jackals cannot fully appreciate what he was working in....and with a second in command who also was a treacherous jackal....a government full of people who thought that they were, individually, decision makers....and would fight to the death to keep that ability.
Very well said!
What do you think his comments mean about possible replacements on the Supreme Court? I realize that Alito and Thomas both are getting older by the day, but they are such trustworthy conservatives, I'd sure hate to see them replaced by someone who turns out to be another ACB
perhaps signaling that he would support an impeachment or two. probably nothing more than that if alito and or thomas (and roberts?) were to retire, to not let your heart be troubled...trump is ready.
04/16/26: Do it now. And do it swiftly while his momentum is still unstoppable.
even noem and bondi weren't mistakes. he was simply proving a point.
Now, if we just had a Congress who supported him……….
I'm a golfer but I can't play at Rory Macilroy's level. The Trumpster is the Rory M of geopolitics today. The other world leaders are all bogey players.
trump does what patton dreamed of doing but never quite got accomplished.
in my lifetime (1948) the only world level leader even close was winston churchill.
04/16/26: As a golfer, you will enjoy this: https://www.declassified.live/p/jeb-boasbergs-contempt-trap-snaps?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1666532&post_id=194298670&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=10j5hz&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
"...more winning soon..." Amen!
I can't wait to see what Trump has planned for the Dems (and Rinos) right before the midterms...
The chances are greater than zero that he'll pull another Venezuela/Iran style attack on them. He might further expose and cleanout their graft/grift machine. I have no idea how or when but it's going to happen.
Please, God!
Three things come to mind, at a minimum:
*The grand jury sitting in FL on Russiagate (with more revelations of how *interconnected all the corrupt Dem/Left pols and media are)
Act Blue investigations
*Fraud work—esp in CA and the potential savings for Medicare and Medicaid
04/16/26: We could invade and occupy the foreign adversary of Communist California.
trump casino in havana?
Your lips to God’s ears. 🙏✝️
Election integrity issue? Please!
Yes to MikeyMac and Jake, I, too, really feel that something big is coming that's going to make mincemeat of the Democrats. Maybe it will be a barrage of a huge number of smaller things, instead of one single big thing.
The Democrats "project" an image of menace and power and vicious aggression, but they are SO FAR GONE on the corruption and incompetence spectrum that it really seems to me they are teetering on ground that is already shaking and may soon be quaking.
jake, not only that but i can't think of any person who would or could even think it up, let alone accomplish it.
Good comment. I can think of a few presidents who could have pulled it off………but chose not too. Lazy? Complacent? Or just not willing to do what was right? We will always wonder but they and we have to live with their choices.
I confess, I do have this little niggling worry in the back of my mind that wonders if these Iranians are preparing to "fight to the death" which would mean the death of the world. I hope my fears are untrue, but if so, I'm ready to go to my heavenly home.
I hear you. But consider that even if they “dig out” and rehabilitate decapitated missile launchers, we have obliterated 80-90% as well as industrial production of low scale weapons like drones.
Even more important is that the regime is, literally, running out of $$. Unemployment at large levels reported in Iran. Last night I read that the regime is acknowledging reality by stopping ANY oil exports and directing production solely for domestic use. Gulf neighbors are done with Iran and their actions to decapitate the banking and fin’l arrangements of Iran (in UAE most notably) accelerated that.
Of course regime insiders have stashed a lot of money in London…no wonder Starmer is so compromised as an ally.
Also, heard somewhere Trump that has floated the idea of extending the "ceasefire" another two weeks--would let them feel the impact of the blockage, PLUS give us more time to get small arms into the hands of regular Iranian citizens, so they can have an internal "Wild West" moment to root out the IRGC and gain a degree of real regime change.
Indeed , and I am starting to hear Iran money laundering rumors tied to the Vatican .
Ah…wouldn’t that be interesting.
We already know that the Vatican resents the loss of US subsidies to Catholic Charities for “resettling” immigrants. These had been cancelled as per last year’s work on USAID, but some Dem tried to tie this to the Pope/POTUS kerfuffle. Problem is the cancellation pre dated the words exchanged between the Pope and Pres. Trump by several weeks.
Yes, and I'm not sure it's wise for JD Vance to go in person--to Pakistan--for further talks, because "m*rder". Negotiate by Zoom, not in person with fanatical people.
Certainly makes sense to me TPG
really? where was god during the holocaust inside the chaos of ww2?
Same place He always is.
Exactly. God doesn’t promise that our earthly lives will be without pain and suffering. He promises that he will always be close to us even to the end of the world.
how close was he in those zyklon b showers of the women, the sick, the old and the young or was that too early in the evolution of the human genome?
God deliberately limited His intervention in man’s affairs by gifting all of us with Free Will, the agency to choose between that which is good or that which is evil.
If a person or group is planning to harm you in some way, and other people become aware of it, but instead of warning you choose not to intervene, or bungle an intervention due to ignorance, willfulness, or poor planning the consequences of their choices is on them.
I can think of the lead up to October 7, 2023, when certain Israeli units based at the border with Gaza tried to warn the higher ups of an increase in suspicious activity there. But those higher ups chose not to heed it, or even pass it up the chain.
Humans have been making wrong and deadly choices since the garden of Eden.
But no one will escape judgment for their choices, whether it be this life and most certainly not in the next.
Well said ; unfortunately evil must be recognized/ experienced in order to teach and deal with . That said , there is no earthly reason for what happened to those souls in WWII .
God gave man free will. What happened in those showers were the acts of evil men. This life is but a stop on the way to eternity. The victims of those evil men are enjoying eternity. The evil men, not so much.
The world has always been in the fight between good and evil....and always will be....God will not interfere....
…until He is asked. We cannot possibly know how God has intervened in the affairs of man, except those few stories and historical accounts that show us where good conquered evil. Our own lives are filled with evidence of the fruit of our choices.
We also can have no idea how many things God has PREVENTED which we may never even be aware of, but have saved us and our lives countless times.
But be assured of this: God is working, 24/7, 365 days a year in the lives of the men and women who call upon Him and trust in Him.
Do bad things, horrific things still happen? Yes but this is a sinful and evil world which works in opposition to God and all that is good.
It will come to an end, but God will bless those who, in spite of the ravages of evil, held fast to their faith in even the darkest of times.
Life here is short and a great sorting. Eternity is forever. Choose wisely.
you can be sure of that.
Don, do you think that those people who died and suffered in the Holocaust did so in vain? Do you not think that the world was changed for the better by the event? Nothing happens for no reason..
What you're really asking, dbw, is that age-old "Question of Evil". Does God "permit" or "authorize" evil because it suits His overall purpose, or because God is mean in some way? Or is God helpless before evil and incapable of stopping it? Is Evil a co-power with God?
Many INDIVIDUALS during the Holocaust did experience the protection of God.
But a theological shift is needed. Too involved to comment on in this forum. But as a brief comment, as INDIVIDUALS we are free, even in this human life, to advance towards the Kingdom of Heaven. Are we reaching out to God? Do we feel His presence? Are we increasing in our realization of His Reality, His Kingdom? Are we becoming less impressed with Evil? Are we experiencing moments and events in our life where our closeness to God has addressed some bad situation or feeling?
Humanity as a whole collectively does have a long ways to go, and therefore does have difficulty struggling with evil. But as individuals we certainly can make progress, albeit by baby steps. But the Bible verses are true, such as: Isaiah 26:3: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee."; and Psalms 34:22 "...none of them that trust in him shall be desolate."
To my many liberal friends and acquaintances, who over the decades have assured themselves that they hold the high ground; let me say you support and are led by the most twisted and sick offal mankind has ever produced.
Well, there are many historical examples with similar “profiles”. That said, these folks are astonishingly corrupt, venal and evil.
Under Biden the dollar as the world’s reserve currency and the US position as the world’s only superpower were on the ropes.
What a difference a year & a half makes!
Agreed. So important to protect the petrodollar vs. BRICs insurgents. This op in Iran and the Venezuela op in Jan were quite essential to that.
Don’t know about you Vince, but every time I see a photo of Obama or Biden I cringe. What a truly dark age that was for America.
You and me both. 😂🙏👍🐣
Today is April 16th. It's 707 a.m. I'm getting ready to read my favorite news source the historical Oracle Don. He is inspiring, truthful, and humorous, which may be an understatement since he often gets me to laugh loudly, necessitating under the advisement of my liberal, honorable, female friends, to stay isolated in my cave. That is all for now, boys and girls. Later Gators.
“Buying a politician is nice but you keep having to feed the squirrel, which is why blackmailing one is even better.”
Political wisdom worth the price of admission. Sometimes Don is the only show in town.
Blackmail is cheaper.
is this what happened to John Roberts and his inexplicable behavior on
SCOTUS? From my viewpoint in IDAHO, it appears that the only explanation for his behavior is that someone has something on him!
Unverified, but seems a given to me.
Hopefully the Trumpster will figure out a way for Iran and Venezuela to pay for this war as the cost of this will be the next attack point on Trump. I already saw Bill O’Reilly talking about 1 trillion dollars for a cost of this. If he is on it the leftist are already cooking up stories about it.
Is it worth it?
Darn right it is!
Still less than the somali fraud in MN.
And every other blue state. If the republicans were smart,(they aren’t) they would’ve made an ad to be broadcast everywhere yesterday asking the people “It’s April 15th. Do you know where your taxes went?” And then showed video of the endless CA hospices, and the MN Learing center. There should be hordes of agents in every blue state pulling up to all the phony grift hidey-holes and dragging out the perpetrators.
That would have been excellent! Unfortunately, there are too many "red" states involved in shenanigans as well.
Agreed. Rather get rid of a fifty year virus like Iran with that trillion than see us throw yet another trillion dollars into ngo’s that finance the Democrat party with kickbacks.
Trump iced so many mullahs so far they must be running out of virgins.
LOL!
04/16/26: Don't give the mullahs any ideas, they'll start murdering ten year-old-girls by the thousands to replenish the supply in "Moslem Heaven" (Hell).
The Paul guy from Kentucky was bitching about the cost on Newsmax last evening with Rob Schmidt. Fookin turd. And he voted with the Democrats.
What is it with the turds from KY ? As I write this Fox News is talking about Beshear claiming PDJT will use a nuke in order to be famous. JEEZ !
Well, it is Fox , Brian.
I left when it called AZ for Biden when the polls remained open.
04/16/26: The man has had an ideological sex change. And like the California educational system, he kept it a secret from his parents (the voters).
By my count the exports of oil are 400MM day (per the estimable Don Surber’s notes above). However long that lasts ($12B for 30 days) could make a decent dent in the pricetag.
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that Donald Trump has been anointed by God to save our country. He’s a genius…and a good dancer.
well...i don't believe in life after death ...so my take is he had a great father.
If you really believe that this life is all you get, I’m sad for you.
I have a feeling that something is going on in your life right now because I don’t remember you being this negative in every reply before.
Just curious, do you believe we all just came from some single celled creature who managed to crawl out of the sea and somehow learned to walk upright?
You know how sometimes when you wake up, you see things more clearly from perspective unpolluted by a lot of confusing and often contradictory information? You see more directly into the heart of things. I've had that sensation often lately, as the US under Trump is making the World a safer and better place. A girlfriend from Lebanon about 15 years ago, who was a survivor of their civil war, told me she can't understand Americans who don't trust our soldiers...she was shocked to be trained in an Obama-era class on sexual abuse, which taught that US soldiers might abuse you or even rape you. She proclaimed, "where I once lived, people cheered any news of the Americans, they are the Good Guys!"
So maybe the rest of the World will wake up to the fact that America, while it first looks after its interests, is not out to conquer and pillage, that we are in history simply the greatest force for Good the World has ever known. We are proving that in Iran, as we proved it in Venezuela and will continue proving indefinitely, if the Dems and other forces of Evil don't stop us.
Your girlfriend is sadly misinformed, though a better description would be that she 's got her head in a dangerous place, i.e. the clouds. A quick search produced this: "In France alone, 152 U.S. soldiers were tried for rape, and 139 of those charged were Black soldiers."
I have read that part of the problem was American propaganda directed at the GIs that described France as a sort of sexual heaven where anything goes. Whatever the truth of that, the number of prosecutions (and executions) for rape was dwarfed by the number of complaints. Again, quoting: "These [small numbers of] convictions occurred despite high reported rates of sexual assault, with some reports showing 500 rape reports flooding the Judge Advocate General's office per week by April 1945."
That said, whatever the real number was, it is dwarfed by the millions of rapes committed by the Soviet military, which Stalin condoned until well after war's end, when he started shooting his men. That, plus the immense volumes of looted German property which was brought back to Russia, much of it in donated US Studebaker trucks.
As George Bernard Shaw observed: "When the military man approaches, the world packs up its {silver] spoons and packs off its womankind."
How many million soldiers were in Europe during 1945? Were they all “choir boys”? No, they were draftees and enlisted from all walks of life. Yes, you will get some thugs that do horrific acts, just like we get in the US everyday. The Vietnam War had guys charged with rape, same deal, bad actors, evil. Human nature is sinful but Heaven will be Divine.
I imagine by now the CIA has the weapons the Persians need to have to hunt down their oppressors. No one better to do it than those who suffered at their hands and know where they live. And PDJT will be bringing his special brand of strength, stealth and surprise to the homeland democrats who deserve to be finished off just like Khomeini. There just won’t be enough popcorn in the world to watch what happens this summer!
The leader of the Basji was just knifed 14 times. He assumed room temperature without the use of guns. Not the Mossad's MO so it must have been locals who are sending a stark message. Get out now or you'll see all those virgins later.
Haven't seen anything of late about supplying the people with some much needed weapons - hope it's happening.
I agree, but that's one of the best things about this whole operation. The traitors in our midst don't have advance knowledge of any plans, and are unable to leak to our other enemies. That may be the biggest lesson Trump learned and refined since his first term in office.
And I thought surely, Cheney was gonna do that to them when we were in Iraq…. Dick was just making bank while our soldiers were getting blown up by Iranian supplied IEDs…..Until TrumpZilla squished Soleimani into little 9/11 type bits of meat & bone all over the Baghdad tarmac.
Ratcliffe had better step up and get’r done in Iran…..have my doubts on him….never blew the whistle on Deep State frame job on Trump of RussiaRussiaRussia, even though he knew it was all Lies….
Damning that Ratcliffe knew & did nothing - just like Barr. I hope he's turned over a new leaf or he should be banished from this Admin.
Supposedly we made an effort to provide guns to Iranian civilians through our Kurd contacts. Who essentially confiscated the weapons for themselves. No wonder POTUS said that they weren’t on his good list (think that was early March).
Recently I visited my daughter and son in law in the Big Apple.
My SiL is a subscriber to the wsj I noticed. What a waste of money.
How could anyone write that wsj headline?
Thanks Mr. S for another wonderful column
the wsj specifically targets white women and minorities...and they're very good at it.
Some people read the WSJ only for the stock market.
There is that remote chance
It is rumored that St. Joan of Arc wants to give up her French citizenship and become an American Saint.
amazing that the mid-terms are even in doubt. shows you how apathetic (or should that be pathetic?) the american voters are and also how the cheating, stealing and lying about the cheating and stealing of elections has earwicked itself into our collective brains.
Most of the American public gets their news from the MSM....what do you expect them to think?
Too many Americans know what is going on in the political world and choose to do nothing. Just watch the turnout numbers in the midterms. You couldn’t get a record turnout of Republicans in an off year elections if you paid them to show up. Too much apathy.
not much!
And there's your answer to why the mid-terms might be in doubt. Most people think locally....not geopolitically....they do not see the big picture of what is really going on and, as the saying goes, you cannot hate the MSM enough....
Voters may read about wars and conflicts in Africa and the ME, but they LIVE gas and grocery prices. Which one do you think will be foremost in their minds? Can you blame most of them? Life is hard for many people; they cannot worry about the Big Picture.
Too many people disconnected from reality.
04/16/26: For God's sake, warn her not to get on a flight to LaGuardia aboard Air Canada!
Surber does it again: "Peace through strength, stealth, speed and surprise" Trump’s four Esses!
If you can’t run with the big dog stay on the porch.”
Thank you! Trump is THE Big Dog! Too bad he is almost 80.
Gas at my Denton TX neighborhood Walmart is around $3.60 a gallon. By November it'll be down a buck a gallon.
$3.56-$4.10 here in Buffalo, NY.
Buffalo! City of my youth! Have not been back in more than 40 years now. No more family living there.
04/16/26: Recommended, look up Arch Merrill, genial chronicler of the upstate NY area. Start with "Stagecoach Towns" (1947): https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ds=20&kn=stagecoach%20towns%20merrill%20arch&ref_=ds_ac_sk_1_17&sts=t
Gas is over $4 on base at Fort Belvoir. It’s frustrating but the same people who make a huge deal out of it are some of the same people who still voluntarily pay over $5 once or twice a day for a drink at Starbucks and they keep spending on lottery tickets daily or weekly. Not saying it doesn’t tick me off to pay so much for gas but it won’t change my travel plans. I just refuse to let it control my life. I’ll cut something else out to offset it. If I still owned a business I would probably be really irritated though. Gas prices fluctuate continually and have become the bellwether for our economy.
$4.29 - $5.49 in Chicago. $3.69 - $4.29 in Illinois outside Chicago area.
Visiting Greece & it’s €2.20 a litre, or $11.75/gallon, but at least they still have gasoline. Glad we are flying back n/s to Dallas this weekend, understand last ship w jet fuel from Straight of Hormuz was getting to Amsterdam pipeline this week. Travel to EU this summer w/b full of delays, disruptions & cancellations. Jet fuel, diesel, petrol, electricity, desalination in Greek islands…. We’ve not planned any trips here till next summer - both for travel and political unrest…and that trip we just put a deposit - until the end of this year….
How fast things are moving! It is getting somewhat easier to discern rhetoric versus actual fact. No time to spike the football.