Caption: She was young once, and she spent much of that youth on you. How do you plan to spoil or remember your grandmother, mother, or wife today?
Bullet Points:
** Question of the Day – Does God punish children for the sins of their parents as explained in the Bible? (Sermonette)
** We’re thankful for the new baptismal tank that was so graciously donated to us. It was used for the first time this morning during church. What a great start to a perfect Mother’s Day Sunday in the Arizona mountains. (Sermonette) – right
** Proposed solutions to the Australian fuel crisis.
** It’s a Mother’s Day video clip – in its essence.
** Secretary of State Marco Rubio directly debunked claims of a U.S. oil blockade on Cuba during a White House briefing. “There’s no Oil Blockade on Cuba per se,” Rubio stated. “Here’s what’s happening with Cuba, okay? Cuba used to get free oil from Venezuela. They would take like sixty percent of that oil and resell it for cash. It wouldn’t even go to benefit the people.” He continued: “So the only blockade that happened is the Venezuelans have decided we’re not giving you free oil anymore.” Rubio added, “And you can only imagine nowadays the way oil prices are. No one’s giving away free oil, much less to a failed regime.” He went further: “So the problem of Cuba is worse, okay. Their economic model doesn’t work. The people who are in charge can’t fix it. And the reason I can’t fix it is not just because they’re communists. That’s bad enough, but they’re incompetent communists.”
** (Mother’s Day) Larry Correia laments that the writing market has swung toward romantcy. Here is his rant: I am officially announcing my new pen name and series -❤️🔥 Lobellia Troutswallow’s A Kingdom of Angst and Boning. When beautiful 20-year-old Glorendirerial Pufferdown goes to magic dragon school for magical dragons, she meets Prince Tyrendrial Starfire, who is cruel yet hot. And probably an elf or something. Their passion ignites a war between the gnomes and the local planetarium. Only then, Gloreandreal is kidnapped by the minotaur pirate Hernand the WellHung. Swooning with even more passion, will Glerendreiaiel choose the dragons of prophecy or forbidden love?
Book 1: A Crown of Wolves and Roses
Book 2: The Sword of Length and Girth
Book 3: The Sword of Length and Girth: The Swordening
Book 4: A Knight of Mist and Lilacs
Book 5: A Shadow of Flame and Shadows Book 5.5: A Moat of Sorrow and Burritos
Book 6: The Loins of El’ve’ns’mo’oor
Book 7: A (noun) of (noun) and (noun) TBD
Book 8: A Court of Wings and Thorns and Crowns and
Book 9: Gundum Wing Onyx Tensai Angel Genesis Alpha Force Go
Book 10: Smut Throne — I figure I should be able to bang out all ten books by the weekend. I will make BILLIONS.
Alas, he does not jest. Should I join him in the world of writing soft porn fantasy for the Female of the Species?
** Jordan Peterson takes on Mars and Venus – and it’s Mother’s Day.
** AIRLINE X – Elon Musk has his lawyers drawing up paperwork to purchase Spirit Airlines from the bankruptcy trustee, not to revive it, but to build a new brand. “Airline X will be the premier low-cost carrier in the world,” Elon wrote in a post on X, “We’ll upgrade the planes with new tech and bold new paint jobs. We’ll offer higher wages and better benefits to all those unemployed workers, while still offering the lowest priced travel available.” Elon says he expects the airline to lose a decent amount of money until fuel prices come down. “I have confidence that President Trump will solve that problem very soon.”
** Does your mother want to drink her dessert on Mother’s Day?
** It is scary to be a student of history and watch all these movements of group identity vs the individual descend into bloodbaths of fear and murder. From the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror through all of the Marxist takeovers. The virus of group identity as a be-all and end-all is the most pernicious evil unleashed upon humanity. At their heart is the sin of envy. (Sermonette)
** How do mothers in Scotland cope with the loss of a son? (Mother’s Day)
** Mother’s Day Crime Nexus
** U.S.-Mexico tensions are rising, with indictments coming down on many Mexican politicians serving actively in the government. The Trump administration is currently evaluating the value of having 53 Mexican Consulates across the U.S. Mexico allows 9 U.S. Consulates. What’s wrong with parity?
The Noble Savage
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a major Enlightenment political philosopher, is often cited as espousing the most sympathetic version of the noble savage myth. In his Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men and The Social Contract, he wrote that men in a state of nature do not know good and evil, but their independence, along with “the peacefulness of their passions, and their ignorance of vice”, keep them from doing ill.
Rousseau’s idea was less of a real theory and more of a pure myth—just how much of a myth is now being understood through DNA and archeological finds of mass killings and extreme extinction-level events. The idea that violence and vice came about because of civilization is complete BS, and for a long time, we have been sold a comforting fiction about the past. It is the kind of story modern people like to tell themselves: that before institutions, before hierarchy, before the hard edges of organized society, human beings lived in some loose, cooperative harmony. Conflict was rare, violence incidental, and brutality largely a byproduct of civilization itself.
With mounting evidence, that framing is coming apart at the seams now that evidence suggests life before civilization was not a pastoral utopia interrupted by progress, but a far more uncomfortable reality: human beings have always been capable of violence, and in many cases, exercised it more directly, more personally, and more frequently than we might like to admit. The difference is not that violence didn’t exist. It wasn’t hidden behind systems; it was intimate, immediate, and visceral.
Archaeology, inconveniently, does not deal in narratives. It deals with bones, and bones, examined without ideological filters, tell a story that is hard to romanticize. Mass graves with signs of blunt force trauma. Skeletons with projectile points embedded in ribs and skulls. Entire communities that appear to have been wiped out in what can only be described as coordinated violence. Not isolated incidents, either, but patterns—repeated across regions, cultures, races, and time periods. That doesn’t fit neatly with the Rousseau-flavored idea of the “noble savage.”
That’s not to say human life was a nonstop bloodbath. There is also strong evidence that human societies were built on cooperation, albeit often tightly bound. Inside the group, there was cohesion and cooperation, while outside it, there was suspicion, competition, and sometimes lethal force. In other words, the line between “us” and “them” was largely cultural, and crossing that cultural line could be fatal.
This matters because it reframes a modern assumption that violence is primarily a failure of systems rather than a feature of human nature. The popular instinct is to believe that if we could just fix institutions, redistribute resources, or improve communication, conflict would largely dissipate. The fallacy is that the position assumes the underlying material is neutral, even though the historical record suggests otherwise. The capacity for violence is not something civilization created; it is something civilization has attempted, however imperfectly, to manage, implying that what we call “progress” may not have eliminated violence so much as reorganized it.
Modern societies have reduced interpersonal violence. You are less likely to be killed by your neighbor over a dispute than your prehistoric counterpart was, but we have also created systems capable of scaling up violence and even excusing it in ways earlier humans could not have imagined.
The emerging picture of early human life strips away a layer of comforting illusion and forces us to confront something far more durable than any particular political system or social arrangement: human beings are both cooperative and combative, capable of building communities and destroying them, something just as true today as it was at the dawn of mankind.
The real question is how violence is expressed, contained, and justified in any given era. The contemporary fascination with illegal immigrants and “migrants” as always the good guys and Western society and culture as always the baddies seems an echo of 400-year-old romantic primitivism reverberating across time to Western societies today.
Rousseau’s theory is just as wrong today as it was when he proposed it. There is no nobility in savagery – or in continuing to allow it.
Some excellent reflections on the basic nature of human interactions, deconstructing the myth of the “Noble Savage”. An excerpt: “This matters because it reframes a modern assumption that violence is primarily a failure of systems rather than a feature of human nature. The popular instinct is to believe that if we could just fix institutions, redistribute resources, or improve communication, conflict would largely dissipate. The fallacy is that the position assumes the underlying material is neutral, even though the historical record suggests otherwise. The capacity for violence is not something civilization created; it is something civilization has attempted, however imperfectly, to manage, implying that what we call “progress” may not have eliminated violence so much as reorganized it.
Modern societies have reduced interpersonal violence. You are less likely to be killed by your neighbor over a dispute than your prehistoric counterpart was, but we have also created systems capable of scaling up violence and even excusing it in ways earlier humans could not have imagined.
Culture
Snacks at the swapmeet. The deep-fried butter is at the next truck.
If you’re looking for a Mother’s Day Tribute, maybe wait for the next truck?
Identify the Aircraft
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Be careful not to go down the wrong rabbit hole. The fighter was developed in 1940 by Miles Aircraft.
Identify the Ship
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There’s enough of you to take a stab at it (she has a twin, so either way you go)
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Identify the Aircraft:
1. Miles M.20
Identify the Ship:
2. KM Gneisenau
3. KM Admiral Hipper
Outstanding, Surly!
Noble Savage – an oxymoron created by a moral moron?
Like military intelligence and jumbo shrimp.
Military intelligence nearly killed my men and I during a training exercise! More time spent trying to prove it was our fault than anything else.
It was your fault. Military Intelligence is never wrong. You must have misheard.
Written instructions.
Made the cover up harder.
They did.
Rousseau was an asshat. Living as a hunter/gatherer is only easy in the tropics. To a point. Because the tropics allow for surpluses above the immediate need. Everywhere else, well, the farther towards the poles or up mountains the harder it is to live because the margin of surplus gets smaller and smaller.
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First that go are the old folks and the sickly and infirm, then the ‘excess children.’ Every ‘noble savage’ culture ditches the oldsters, the infirm and the excess children. Kind of like Canada….
The Canadians proudly wear that mantle.
It has been reported that the rabbit hole costs extra.
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RE: the “noble savage”: https://web.archive.org/web/20130522152542/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH1973Massacre_Cnyn.pdf
See also The Battle of Pryor Creek 1861 and The Battle of Rainy Buttes in 1858. (Crow vs Sioux Confederation)
See also: Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest by Christy G Turner II
Noble Savages
Similar rubbish in Australia. The local tribe where I grew up were well known canibals (prefered Chinese to European shepherds). Nowadays totally removed from school curriculum and history.
In ethnic Asian & African communities in the US, dogs and cats are still consumed.
When will Larry Correia’s new romance series be available, print, kindle and hopefully audio? And only ten books, that’s pretty lame. I mean, between birthdays, mom day, Christmas, days one did something aggravating, wife, mom, Mon in law, so one I can easily give away twenty volumes a year, forever.
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Was Prince Eugene in that class with the Hipper?
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MrsK noted they didn’t have elephant ears on the food truck. Where is the elephant ear truck? First tease her with Larry C’s new romance book series and now no elephant ears. It’s Mother’s day! Geez. You’d better do better next year LL.
I usually go past the ‘corndog/fried turkey leg/‘some sort of Mexican fare’ truck and head straight for the funnel cake vendor, true country Fair nirvana…because ya just know the fry oil is a coupla years old, which gives it that special sumpthin’.
If the oil isn’t “thick” how does it cook your butter properly?
Yes. the Prinz Eugen was an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser.
Amazing blog fodder this Sunday morning…from the leading Joan Collins/Liz Taylor looking gal, to one that invokes my own mother (classic)…to Correia…who needs to fill the void left by Jackie Collins so young girls can have something to read on the beach in Summer…and learn ‘things’. Altho, do young gals…uhh…read?
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Q of the Day: No, hence The New Covenant. God may be just, but He is not unfair.
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Cubans will uprise soon, once they get a taste of freedom away from the ‘incompetent Communists’ that have destroyed the place…despite AOC, MadMommie, Sanders, and their ilk telling us ‘it’s nirvana’. For them maybe, but the Peons take it in the shorts every time.
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Airline X , Musk may have some competition for the purchase, apparently a Crowdfunding operation has netted some $375M to purchase the [now bankrupted by Warren et al…🤬] economy airline (which she on her scumbag cohorts said was to allow competition for other low cost airlines, proving the galactically stupid are running congress).
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Mothers Day: Remembering my mom, one of the rare best…and one finds this out later in life.
I wouldn’t bet against Elon if he gets a head of steam up. He does have the capital to see it through.
What I found interesting is the fact people stepped up to combat the morons in charge….Musk will win the bet and make it his own, Starlink is similar, internet for the masses, especially (so-called) under served rural areas…total game changer for folks. This will be no different as he transitions from EV’s to another business.
About the question of the day – there is word in Ezekiel and Jeremiah that that children thing was on it’s way out. For some reason the Jews at that time didn’t want to hear it.
Mother’s Day video clip – It’s not gossip it’s research – Funny – Cause it’s true!
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AIRLINE X – You Go Elon – I would not bet against him on this – The man has a way of looking at and seeing things different from the trained monkeys/Experts
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Happy Mother’s Day to all Mothers that visit this esteemed blog – To all of you men here If your mother is still with us visit or call her today and any day that you can. I will spend the afternoon with my wife, mother in law and daughter in law. The 3 most important women in my life. I will raise a toast to my mother gone 37 years now and my sister gone 26 years.
There’s a nonsense going around these days about “generational curses” and breaking them with prayer and fasting, etc.
There’s disease and behavior that gets transferred.
Jesus was asked, “Who sinned? This man or his parents?”
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Jesus answered, “Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.”
It makes it sound like He was cursed for this demonstration of God’s power to heal or to show Jesus’ bonafides.
I prefer to read it:
“Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents (stuff happens), but that the works of God should be made manifest in him, I must work the works of Him that sent Me….”
Sooo, only in the Old Testament. Ahab should NOT have “pissed against the wall”….
“The white wall tasks me.”
Avoid the urge to whip it out, WWW.
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AIRLINE X is a prank.
Yeah, but a good one.
It’s a better business model than the original Twitter.
Al, there were five ships in the Admiral Hipper Class, among which was the Prinz Eugen.
Prinz Eugen was scuttled after the nuclear test at Bikini Atoll. 22 December 1946. My father was there, saw the Prinz Eugen and the test. He recounted his experience before his passing.
The Eugen was towed to Kwajalein Atoll and started taking on water, so the US Navy tried to beach it on Carlson Island (the island directly west of Kwajalein Island. She resisted, took on lots of water and rolled over. Her stern is in the air just off the lagoon side of Carlson Island and her bow is in deeper water.
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I’ve touched her and snorkeled around her back in the early 70s. My parents wreck-dived her, using basically the same rules as for cave diving, which was, multiple lights, backup air, rescue divers and using lines to mark the way in and out (that you take with you on the way out.) She’s killed a couple divers who didn’t follow common sense.
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One of her screws was salvaged off of her and taken to Germany for a memorial at a naval museum.
Airline X is secretly Speed Airline’s brother!
– Kle.
Initial D
Fun Baptisms in the hollar…I can hear The Stanley Brothers playing the fitting ‘Mountain Dew’ in the background during the festivities.
Of course. It’ll tickle your innards.
Does God punish children for the sins of their parents?
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G-d is perfectly capable of doing so. I would not dare to say that G-d cannot do this, or do that.
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On the other hand, I believe a great deal of the Bible is *descriptive*, not *prescriptive.* The kosher laws made perfect sense for a stone into bronze age tribe living in an arid semi-desert. Was G-d saying “Thou shalt not”, or was G-d saying “if you do this, you’re going to die a horrible death, so don’t do that”? Are the ten commandments arbitrary laws from G-d, or are they a basic primer for how not to destroy your life? The Sermon on the Mount is another great example – was Christ commanding us, or was he attempting to (rather bluntly) lay out “This is how the world works. Change your mental furniture to accommodate this reality, and act accordingly”?
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Certainly, I have found that when I follow His examples and statements… reality does seem to change to work the way He said it would. Knock, and it is opened. Ask, and I will be answered. (I may not like the form of the opportunity or the answer, but that’s not the same as not getting one.)
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So, too, sins of the father carrying down seven generations seems an awfully lot more descriptive than prescriptive. I have seen far, far too many people who do things because that’s how they were brought up, and worldviews imbibed with their mother’s milk and their father’s fist sink in so deep it that it’ll take a whole lot of hard work and sometimes a miracle to change them. Folks who deal with abuse talk a lot about “the cycle of abuse”, diagramming it out like an inevitable circle that comes back around and turns a boy into his father, and a woman into her mother. I disagree, in that I see so many people in every generation trying not to repeat the sins, or the mistakes, of their parents – despite the rest of the community “knowing” that “he’s a bad seed, from *that* family; he’s going to turn out the same as the rest.”
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Some make it, some don’t, and most only do so partially, while also making new and different mistakes.
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So, that someone sets the example for the whole family of unrestrained anger, or lust, or greed, or covetousness… I can fully believe, in a relatively closed culture, that it takes seven generations for the family, and the rest of the tribe, to move past the sins of the father, bury the feud, and the present generation not to be haunted by, or raised to repeat, them.
Well put.
X2!
Those pesky archaeologists, along with advances in DNA, keep destroying comfortable narratives. Few can agree with each other, sowing more discord. Mix in anthropologists, religious scholars of all stripes and the discord is deafening. There is one constant. Unless the strong defend the weak, the weak are toast.
Sometimes the woke…I mean weak…need to be allowed to go the way of the dodo bird.