Showing posts with label 2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2025. Show all posts

Sunday, November 30, 2025

So these Episcopal churches and Charities, the EMMs, Episcopal Migration Ministries, receive their money from the State Department to resettle "refugees" and effectively become the welfare arm of the state?  The church volunteered to do that? 

All Saints Church welcomes all refugees, and certainly in this Christmas season when Mary and Joseph were technically internally displaced persons.  But soon after Jesus was born, they were refugees as they fled to Africa to avoid Herod's wrath and this is a good time of year and this is a good time of year look at this and to learn what is going on in our church.  The Episcopal Church is a major player in refugee resettlement and to dream a little about how all Saints Church can continue to be involved.

2:00.  Now I want to speak a little bit about EMM in general before we get into the Asylum process.  So EMM prior to 2016 had 31 affiliate offices throughout the country.  And after the previous presidential Administration we landed with 11 affiliate officers now that's because we get funding through the US State Department to resettle refugees, and when that funding dried up because we just weren't resetting refugees at the same rate, we had to let go of a lot of staff.  And so are we dropped 20 affiliates.  When Afghanistan, when Kabul fell and we began to realize that we were going to be starting to relocate thousands upon thousands of Afghans, we had to staff up very significantly as did all the other refugees settlement agencies throughout the country.  Just to give you a sense, in 2020 all 9 Refugee resettlement agencies resettled about 18,000 refugees in the year 2020.  Right now, all nine Refugee resettlement agencies of which EMM has one we are resettling 4,000 refugees 4,000 Afghans a week so $18,000 for the whole year in 2020 and now we're at 4000 every week.  So the need for places to relocate Afghans is enormous.  They become a an asylee and they become eligible for public benefits, SSI, Medicaid, and are able to work legally.  Asylees can also apply to have some family members join them in the United States and a year after being granted Asylum asylees are eligible to apply for a green card.  So I work as a missionary for neighbor to neighbor so what is it well neighbors and neighbor is a program of EMM that equips congregations to welcome and the company known as Community sponsorship.  Community sponsorship in our context is we are inviting Episcopal congregation to minister to the needs of Asylum Seekers and Afghan arrivals I promised you it would Circle back through a model known as Community sponsorship.  So it's a unique opportunity for us to welcome a new neighbor into our community.  And sponsors we'd ask congregations to sponsor individuals by providing physical spiritual and emotional support to a newly arriving neighbor.

4:42.  Now, this is a lot of work, right, as Mike mentioned you'll have participated in sponsoring a family before.  And for anyone who's involved, you know it is not an easy lift and it takes about 5 to 10 people with to designated co-chairs of the committee to make this all happen.  As I mentioned, Afghan arrivals have complicated refugee resettlement in a way that is really we haven't seen since in the last 40 years.  So there are two tracks within neighbor-to-neighbor to respond to the need.  So, one, you can be matched with an Asylum Seeker right someone who either comes to the US border at a Port of Entry or maybe comes here on his tourist visa and, says, "Oh my gosh.  I don't feel safe going back to my home country."  They claim Asylum or we could you know it can be matched with an Afghan parolee so amidst the entire Afghan situation with Cobble falling the Department of Homeland Security issued a process known as "Humanitarian Parole," where they paroled in thousands of Afghans and that those were the planes that you saw, right, leaving the tarmac in Afghanistan.  So they were all paroled into this country and then placed on military bases and from these military bases right that's where all the 11 affiliate offices are relocating the Afghans throughout the country.  What's happening is there are so many Afghans and the military bases are not equipped to handle the winter that is upon us and so the US state department instituted a thing called sponsorship circles and so emm is becoming a sponsorship umbrella and local congregations can serve as a sponsor Circle so a sponsor circle is 5 to 10 people who say yep we are going to do the work of relocating an Afghan family and then emm supports you in that work and that is considered track two of neighbor to neighbor and based on the needs of the time the neighbor to neighbor missioner will determine which program best fits the congregation circumstances because the reality is the needs are changing so quickly within this work that one week we may think yep we have an Afghan arriving to Seattle or to Austin Texas or to Miami Florida and then everything changes and all of a sudden we have a Honduran family who needs a sponsorship and so that's why we have to be nimble and always on our toes ready to react to what is going on at the time

BREAKING911: "They're asking me to take down a part of my soul." Florida woman wins battle with HOA over displaying the American flag πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ’ͺ

DIANA WEST: 2 milestones: May 1942, FDR's Navy Sec Frank Knox made communists eligible to serve as radio operators (!). By end of 1944, asst SecWar McCloy issued secret directive enabling communists to gain commissions as officers & War Dept posts . . .

FDR's Navy Sec Frank Knox.  

MELISSA TATE: Tommy Robinson unloads on Tucker Carlson after his remarks embracing Pakistani Islamists

— C3 (@C_3C_3): Never forget why they didn’t want to release the entire video. Decarlos Brown can be heard saying: “I got that white girl.”

I.V. LENIN: "Our morality is completely subordinated to the class struggle of the proletariat . . ."

— C3 (@C_3C_3): Remember there was only 1 Democrat that voted to end healthcare for illegals in Tim Walz run Minnesota: Melissa Hortman. She was murdered by Vance Boelter.

Saturday, November 29, 2025

TERRI GREEN: Thanksgiving prayer originally written by Benjamin Franklin . . .

The Father Knows Best episode "Thanksgiving Day" November 1954 features a plot where the Andersons decide to go out for Thanksgiving dinner instead of cooking, much to the family's initial dismay. The episode shows Jim Anderson relating a Thanksgiving prayer originally written by Benjamin Franklin:

"Oh Lord, we give thee thanks from the depths of our humble hearts for all the blessings thou has seen fit to bestow upon us. We thank thee for the food, which graces our table, the roof, which covers our head. "We thank thee for the privilege of living as free men in a country which respects our freedom and our personal rights to worship and think and speak as we choose. "We thank thee for making us a family, for giving us sincerity and understanding. "But most of all, dear Lord, we thank thee for giving us the greatest gift a family may know--the gift of love for one another. Amen." 

— C3 (@C_3C_3): By the numbers the Democrats have around 50 fraudulent Congressional seats due to illegals. 760,000 people per seat. 40,000,000 illegals. Every 760,000 illegals deported the Democrats potentially lose a seat.

BRIAN YANG: Someone who can't be accountable is not cruel. They're drowning in shame.

Someone who can't be accountable is not cruel. They're drowning in shame. They grew up where mistakes weren't corrected, they were punished with shame, where doing something wrong meant you're bad, you're wrong, you're a bad child, and you ruined everything.  So now admitting their faults feels like total annihilation, like saying" I'm sorry" proves that they were always the problem.  And here's what no one tells you.  Their apology won't heal you because someone who needs accountability is carrying another wound, a wound where you felt unseen, unheard, and dismissed.  Your pain was twisted.  Your reality was denied.  So when someone can't own their behavior now, it reopens this very original wound.  For myself, it was my mother, never accountable, always twisted the facts, always the victim.  So I held that silent wish that many kids have.  If she could just admit it, I would feel safe and seen, and that wish becomes the wound. The wound then becomes the trigger.  Every time someone I loved refused accountability because they were too much in their shame as well, I was upset about that moment.  I was back in my childhood as a little boy begging to be seen.  You're not really waiting for their apology. You're waiting for the permission to trust yourself. The healing is not in what they say, it's in meeting the part of you that is still waiting to be believed and that means beginning to feel through your own emotions and meet that child inside yourself.  

I really don't like this concept of "finding the inner child."  The language is too simplistic, too psychobabble, and infantile.  The idea of authentic self is better; the child concept is time locked, whereas authentic self is fluid that involves your creativity, your imagination, your work arounds, your problem solving skills, pointing to your skills as a warrior where you've been tested, contested, bested, your valor sharpened. 

WALL STREET APES: 52% of all murders in the United States come from only 2 counties 1) Cook County, Illinois (Chicago and surrounding area) and 2) Los Angeles County, California

SAMA HOOLE: Doctors recommend immediate surgery. Survival rate is good. Jobs refuses. He's going to beat it with diet. His chosen diet: Fruitarian. Only fruit. Nothing else. His logic: Fruit is pure. Natural. Cleansing.

His biographer reveals: Jobs regretted the diet decision. Called it one of his biggest regrets. --Sama Hoole
2008: Steve Jobs diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Rare form. Treatable. Doctors recommend immediate surgery. Survival rate is good. Jobs refuses. He's going to beat it with diet. His chosen diet: Fruitarian. Only fruit. Nothing else. His logic: Fruit is pure. Natural. Cleansing. His doctors beg him to reconsider. Jobs: "The body can heal itself with proper nutrition." Nine months later: Cancer has spread. Jobs finally agrees to surgery. Too late. The delay was fatal. 2011: Jobs dies at 56. His biographer reveals: Jobs regretted the diet decision. Called it one of his biggest regrets. Where did these beliefs come from? That fruit heals and meat is poison? Victorian religious movements that thought meat caused moral corruption. Rebranded as "wellness" and sold to Silicon Valley. Jobs had access to the best medical care in the world. He chose fruit instead. Jobs revolutionised technology by ignoring conventional wisdom. He died following conventional "wellness" wisdom that's 200 years old.

Victorian sexual purity theology, rebranded as biohacking. 

DR. MAALOUF: Japan has just DENIED the construction of Muslim cemeteries in the country . . .

Japan has just DENIED the construction of Muslim cemeteries in the country:

“The Muslim request for cemeteries is denied. In Japan, cremation is the tradition.

The appropriate approach for Muslims is to return the remains to their own countries and bury them there!"
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Friday, November 28, 2025

WIKIBIAS: Wikipedia editors have deleted the entry on the Muslim Brotherhood's memorandum, which states the plan to “destroy and annihilate Western civilization from within.” A few lines have been moved to the Brotherhood article, which in effect emphasizes charity rather than terrorism.

— C3 (@C_3C_3): Our government imported entire countries.

The unvetted part has been confirmed by Biden's own Secretary of State, Antony Blinken

SAMA HOOLE: What Mongols ate: Fatty mutton. Fermented mare's milk. Horse blood. Dried meat mixed with fat. Milk curds. Bone marrow. What Mongols did not eat . . .

DR. MAALOUF: Islamist imam with a gun inside a mosque: “There’s no better way to worship Allah than by killing an infidel.” I don’t know about you, but I’ve never seen a religious leader of any other religion act like this!

SO THE AUTOPEN APPOINTED DEI JUDGES?

SAMA HOOLE: Training in the morning syncs with this natural spike. You use the cortisol for its intended purpose: physical exertion. Result: Cortisol levels drop after training. By evening, you're calm. By night, you sleep perfectly.

Cortisol pulses naturally in the morning. Peaks around 6-8am. This is intentional. Cortisol mobilises energy. Increases alertness. Primes you for activity. Training in the morning syncs with this natural spike. You use the cortisol for its intended purpose: physical exertion. Result: Cortisol levels drop after training. By evening, you're calm. By night, you sleep perfectly. Training in the evening, especially with caffeine and bright lights? You spike cortisol when it should be declining. Now you're trying to sleep with elevated cortisol, high body temperature, and a nervous system that thinks it's under threat. Result: Terrible sleep. Wake up unrested. Repeat. Morning fasted training works with your biology. Evening fed training fights it. One builds you. One breaks you.

HUH. I ALWAYS THOUGHT THESE GUYS WERE UNTOUCHABLES