This isn't where I wanted to be in my life. Shouldn't have taken the wrong turn in Albequerque

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February 28, 2024

□ [“Biden Makes Unannounced Trip to Walter Reed for Physical Exam"]

It appears like someone is worried that might not be in top shape.  He just refused to have a cognitive function test because it might show people what they already know, but this looks like it's actually a big deal.  This isn't like Woodrow Wilson being hidden from the public, we've all lived through decades of the real POTUS being able to appear in public and in the media.  If Biden wants to make that claim, he's gotta show he can live up to the standard, which he obviously can't.

On the bright side, maybe he can visit his son Beau, who is there before he deploys to Iraq.  No word yet if Kamala Harris has even been told what's going on, so no one's in charge of the executive branch.  They can get away with anything.  Even some Obama speechwriters are speaking out that he looks and sounds horrible, so he needs to appear in public more often.  Not sure what that's supposed to do, but there you go.

I'm just being paranoid, but is he going to have an operation to insert a working brain?  Or maybe he'll go in and an imposter will walk out.  At this point, he's had recent meetings with Obama, Nancy Pelosi and big donors, they can obviously see the problem even better than the rest of us.  But as near as we can tell, they never bothered to work out a back-up plan, so what else are they going to do about it?  Maybe stolen elections are the actual plan, but they'd still need someone who can actually fill the spot and they haven't even started finding that yet.

And maybe it's a coincidence, but Pope Francis just went to the hospital suddenly too.  He's even older than Biden so that's not much of a surprise, but the timing is odd.  The "new world order" has destroyed the US, they'd want to do the same to the Catholic Church.  For that matter, maybe Trump will suddenly drop dead.

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□ [“U.S. Air Force Member Who Set Himself on Fire Was Anarchist Who Advocated to Disarm Military"]

Why is this guy still getting attention?  He's dead, move on.  Ok, someone finally got around to checking his social media and it turns out he was a standard leftist, but we would have know that anyway.  Who else would be so stupid to not even be a suicide bomber?

Might as well ask why the military didn't check on him before he joined?  Ok, he's Air Force so he was probably gay, but you're supposed to have standards for a reason.  You should know how much he hates this country *before* he signs up to defend it with his life.  Just to be on the safe side.

So was the point just to commit confusion, which is typical among leftists, or are they trying to inspire more people who want to grow up to be just like him?  That would explain why he's getting any attention at all.  It helps others who want to destroy Israel find each other.  He claims to be an anarchist who says "Democracy is a sham" but he won't tell the Philistines to vote Hamas out of office, or give up their guns.

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□ [“McConnell to Step Down as Republican Senate Leader"]

Might not be as big a deal as it sounds, and not just because he's in the uniparty.  He specifically says he'll stay in the Senate until his term ends in 2027.  He's older than Biden, but insists he'll stick around for another three years.  How... benevolent of him.

It's also being said that this is just a ploy.  There's people who disagree, so he'll just claim he's stepping down from leadership, so when the problem goes away he can change his mind and still take orders from the Democrats be in charge.  Sort of like Nancy Pelosi is doing with the House.

You don't get this old in a position like this and be willing to give it up if you aren't declared dead.  Or not even that, in Biden's case, but seriously, he's not going to leave.  Things like this makes me wonder if the elites have always had a plan to keep themselves around, no matter how old they got.  And maybe why they always seem to focus on people who are much younger.

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□ [“France’s Macron Floats Idea of Sending Troops to Ukraine – EU and NATO Leaders Shoot Him Down"]

One of the many weird aspects of the Russia/Ukraine thing is how eager the left is to rush to war and don't seem to have the slightest interest in any disagreement.  Or what their allies think, as Britain responds that they have no plans for a large-scale deployment, Finland isn't ready for that, Germany says no one supports the idea, Poland says NATO countries disagree with the idea and no decisions have been made, Sweden and Czech aren't interested, Italy isn't at war with Russia and NATO has no plans to send combat units.  But France will just ignore all that?  How... French of them.

One advantage Russia and China have from all their decades of leftist dictatorship is that they have a clue how far people can be pushed.  It's easy to claim they're just tyranny and whatever the ruler wants is what happens, but the only way that works is when the ruler knows what he can't get away with.  Even the dictators live under far stricter requirements because they can be overthrown and they're the ones who set up that opportunity to betray.

But to a large extent, our rulers don't seem to understand that.  It seems impossible to believe, but they really seem to think that their subjects will just obey whatever the rulers came up with this morning.  They want war, here it is.  They think there's brand-new genders, anyone who disagrees must be punished, all that stuff.

It's basically the worst of both worlds, they can steal elections, they think they're in charge of everything and don't recognize those levels of human nature that they aren't going to control and it will go badly for everybody if they try.  And they're trying to do exactly that.  No declaration of war, haven't even started getting a draft, certainly won't be sending any of their family members to a dangerous place.  They just expect compliance.

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I've made it through Exodus.  I must admit, that was tiring.  The last 15 chapters are mostly all about building the tabernacle, with a lot of repetition.  As far as putting down designs that future generations can use, it makes sense that they'd put down everything you need to know, but there's just no need to put it in the scripture.

I get that tabernacles are mobile, you pack them up and move them to wherever, but I still don't see how that works.  They're using all this metal and wood, that's not light.  Just carrying this stuff would be difficult, even if you have horses.  They supposedly have 600,000 people making the escape from Egypt, they aren't going to fit in one tabernacle.

But they need a lot of gold, silver and brass to put all the different parts of one tabernacle together.  Where is all of this coming from?  Who's paying for it?  No idea how economics worked back then, but precious metals wouldn't be cheap enough to put gold on everything just to get the worship started.

There's also the support for sacrificing animals.  I sort of get the concept in theory, and it's possible that this will finally be banned later on in scripture, but the priority is still disturbing.  As Moses is setting up the brand new first tabernacle, when he gets to the burnt offerings altar, he immediately provides a burnt offering and then goes on with the laver and filling it with water.

There's the notion of 'sacrifice,' giving up something that you could eat.  There would be the procedure itself, chopping the body up and using whatever oil is required and whatnot, all of which would be part of the religious requirements and little else.

The other thing that stood out for me was Aaron, whom I haven't trusted since we first learned he was Moses' adult brother we'd never met before.  Why didn't his mother throw him in the river to get caught by Pharaoh's sister?  But right away, he was established as the priest for Moses' brand new religion.  And his sons, this is a family operation to last for the rest of eternity.

He doesn't need to prove anything, he's just there and that's good enough.  Moses is going up the mountain to talk to the Lord, he tells Aaron to run everything down here.  Despite Moses having gotten them out of Egypt and led them this far, everybody was immediately willing to turn away from God and told Aaron they wanted a new one.  So he gets all their jewelry and makes it into a golden calf.  He even builds the altar for them.

And there's nothing suspicious about this?  Either he's the one betraying God and Moses or he's just going along with whoever spoke last.  But Moses keeps him around for the next several books.  And his sons, they're all wearing the gold and silver garments to be in charge of everybody else.

I do think this is part of the larger discussion which even Moses doesn't see, much less anybody else.  I think scripture is essentially a discussion between God and His adversary as they work things out on earth, and this is happening between Moses and his brother, just as the Israelis against Pharaoh and every other relationship in the text.  Aaron and his sons probably did more work to establish the religion than Moses did and got all the benefits.  You don't meet too many people named "Moses" but his brother is a very common name.

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