Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.  
-1 Peter 1:3-5

------------------------------------

And when they vote Democrat, they are automatically, and always, voting for people who believe that a woman has a right to murder her unborn baby; that men can become women, and vice-versa, just by saying they are; that children can be mutilated for life and have a “gender change” for purely sexual reasons; that two people of the same gender can be acceptably “married” with God’s approval; that people from any nation on earth can come to America illegally for any reason they desire, be given the hard-earned money of American taxpayers, have a right to “free” healthcare, education, driver’s licenses, have the right to vote, and don’t even have to be deported to their home country when they commit the most heinous crimes against American citizens; etc., etc. etc.  My space is limited. This is what people who vote Democrat vote for, regardless of how “nice” they might be themselves. This is not righteousness, godliness, or decency; this is depravity gone to seed—at least based on the traditional moral values of the United States and Western Civilization. Image



New Yorkers Are Already Mad at Mamdani, and He's Just Getting Started  "New York residents are furious at Zohran Mamdani over power restrictions," Wall Street Apes reported on Monday. "Con Edison implemented 8% voltage reductions in parts of Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and northern Manhattan. This means residents have to deal with things like slightly [dim] lights and appliances not working at full power."

Release the Clowns! Desperate Dems Send in the Odd Squad, Hilarity Ensues   The recent crop of Democrat politicians and the spellbound scullions who support them have something in common: They're crazier than squirrel scat.
   Each successive wave appears to be wackier than the last, which seems impossible considering what the Democrats have thrown at us in the last five years...

------------------------------------

Anglican Church of Canada: Pastoral Liturgies Blessing Euthanasia  By offering the supposed imprimatur of Christ — because that is whom the church is supposed to represent as His mystical body — to being euthanized and euthanizing, the Canadian Anglican Church has further normalized killing as an answer to human suffering. Perhaps even worse, its validation could result in deaths that might have been prevented as receiving the blessing could become the tipping point for some suicidal persons choosing lethality over struggling on.
   This will be of no consequence to those who are not believers. But for Christians throughout history, blessing euthanasia would be a most profound scandal.



PCUSA declares support for body-deforming trans surgeries for kids  The Presbyterian Church (USA), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, has passed a measure expressing support for body-deforming sex-change surgeries for youth exhibiting gender dysphoria.

------------------------------------

63 Million Barrels Of Iranian Oil Stuck At Sea After US Pulls Iran Sanction Waiver  The Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday prompted immediate US reaction with the USmilitary striking multiple targets in Iran and the Treasury canceling the waiver on Iran’s oil sales that was supposed to be in place until August 21.


------------------------------------

Syracuse chancellor launches task force in wake of enrollment declines and financial deficit  The school’s tuition has continued to rise alongside its commitments to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives.


------------------------------------


------------------------------------

posted by Pat Dague @ 12:55 PM   0 comments

Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation...

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.   -2 Corinthians 5:17-21

The love, therefore, wherewith God loveth, is incomprehensible and immutable. For it was not from the time that we were reconciled unto Him by the blood of His Son that He began to love us; but He did so before the foundation of the world, that we also might be His sons along with His Only-begotten, before as yet we had any existence of our own.  -Augustine

------------------------------------

The Democratic socialists are dissembling much the same way that Islamists use taqiyya, a doctrine of duplicity, to cover their fundamentalist beliefs so they can fit in with the West. France 24, the state-owned news outlet, characterized taqiyya in a headline as “the terrorist ‘art of deception.'”




------------------------------------


Surveillance State Has Arrived, And Masked Heroes Are Already Fighting Back Solar-powered black boxes have been installed in communities across the U.S. under the guise of “public safety.” Yet, in true American fashion, resistance is rising against what can only be described as the arrival of a full-fledged surveillance state.

------------------------------------





------------------------------------

An Independence Day movie depicts a young man learning to carry the weight of destiny.

------------------------------------

posted by Pat Dague @ 5:32 PM   0 comments

Monday, July 06, 2026

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more...

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. -Philippians 1:9-11

Grant to us, O Lord, to know that which is worth knowing, to love that which is worth loving, to praise that which pleaseth Thee most, to esteem that which is most precious unto Thee, and to dislike whatsoever is evil in Thine eyes.  -Thomas à Kempis

------------------------------------

Trump's America 250 Celebration Was One for the History Books Despite the inclement weather, President Donald Trump ensured that the celebrations for America’s 250th birthday went on. The fireworks show and his speech were something for the history books. Image



A Tale of Two Countries: On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration, America’s story is cast as either triumphant inheritance or unfinished grievance, with no neutral ground in between  It is indeed curious that just as America begins to recover its political specific gravity, shedding the smothering carapace of top-down regulatory excess and the insanity of woke ideology, pustules of socialist or communist hysteria pop up in susceptible municipalities. I suspect that, like some virulent fevers, it will run its course and then die out. But Trump is right to warn about its danger because, ignored, it might well turn into the sort of all-consuming illness that the twentieth century saw ravage many other societies across the globe. Zohran Mamdani still trots out his ensorcelling smile when the cameras are running. But be warned. Behind that seductive mask are all the hideous evils that Donald Trump adduced in his brief speech.

------------------------------------

 
TRUMP recognizes 107-YEAR-OLD NAVY VETERAN
 and D-DAY SURVIVOR Arthur Rose on Independence Day

------------------------------------

------------------------------------

Even so, you would have to have been hiding under a multicultural rock in the Arabian desert to not have noticed the social problems that have arisen in Britain in correlation with the unprecedented levels of Islamic immigration in recent years. To take the most obvious and most harrowing example, there has been a discernible increase in police-recorded rape offences in the UK, which went from around 8,000 a year in the early 2000s to a staggering 74,000 per year today. Astonishingly, this is an almost 1000% increase, with the very highest spikes all coming from 2021–2025, a time during which Britain has also experienced record numbers of mass immigration by people of Muslim background.

In Europe, a new chapter has been written in the grim history of Islamist abuse of European women—and the story of Europe’s historical enmity with Islam. The establishment has done everything to pretend that this story is not unfolding, despite riots, no-go zones, infidel-free ghettos, and growing civil unrest. Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry has blown that story wide open, and it can no longer be ignored.

The LGBTQ Movement Just Found Out How Islamic Nations Actually Feel About Them  Turkish authorities have banned a cruise ship catering to American LGBTQ2S+ travellers from docking in the country's ports, citing "moral standards" and "family values," the CEO of the events company behind the upcoming Mediterranean tour said Thursday.

posted by Pat Dague @ 10:05 AM   0 comments

Saturday, July 04, 2026

Awaken Us Today...

 
Awaken Us Today
From the Original Motion Picture "A Great Awakening"

From the oceans, through the valleys
From the mainland to the shore
Let Your Kingdom be awakened
In the hearts of men once more
Call Your children into freedom
Captive souls to liberty
Come awaken, Holy Spirit!
Come awaken us today!

Love unending, grace unyielding
Tender mercies from thy throne
Brings the lost soul into families
Calls the wayward sinner home
Bring salvation, Great Redeemer
Holy fire fan to flame
Come restore us, come revive us
Come awaken us today!

I will serve Thee, Precious Jesus
Unto Thee I give my all
Lay my hands unto thy service
And my heart unto thy call
Perish every fond ambition
Lay aside all selfish gain
All forsaken for thy glory
Come awaken us today!

Wake, O sleeper, from your slumber!
Saints awaken, come to life!
Christ will rise and shine upon you
In His heav'nly light divine
Like the sunrise in its dawning
Breaking darkness with new light
Rise upon us, King of glory
Come awaken us today!
For Your Kingdom, For Your Glory
Come awaken us today!

posted by Pat Dague @ 11:07 AM   0 comments

Friday, July 03, 2026

If my people...

"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." -2 Chronicles 7:14

--------------------------------------

Today we are still fighting for freedom, at home and abroad. Brave men and women wearing the cloth of a sometimes-grateful nation work to protect us from terrorists who seek to kill us for no reason other than that we are not one of them. God-fearing patriots stand up every day for the unborn and their right to be born. Good guys with guns have to remind politicians and special interest groups that the right to keep and bear arms is not about hunting. As AI increases and privacy is decreasing, it is up to us to come together and protect that which no one has a right to: intrusion of personal information and space.

General Washington And The Other Declaration of 1776  In July 1776, Congress proclaimed independence—and George Washington prepared an army to defend it.

5 Things You May Not Know About the American Revolutionary War  As Americans gear up to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, many of the most fascinating facts from the war that brought U.S. independence are sometimes forgotten.
   From the woman who disguised herself as a man to fight in defense of the colonies, to the deadly smallpox epidemic that claimed more lives than the war itself, these are five interesting facts you might not know about the American Revolutionary War.

--------------------------------------

How did we arrive at this patriotism gap? We got here via more than a half century of the cultural Marxist assault on the culture, the “long march through the institutions” which resulted in the radical Left takeover of every influential arena from the news media to the entertainment industry to education. Through those organs spread the anti-American narrative that our nation’s origins were rooted in racism and slavery, not liberty; that our country has historically been a fount of oppression, exploitation, and genocide, not a force for good in the world; and that, as Barack Obama put it, “American exceptionalism” is no more exceptional than British exceptionalism or Greek exceptionalism.
   That toxic narrative has successfully poisoned generations of Americans and driven a widening wedge between Left and Right, between young and old, between urban and rural. And American now finds itself, on its 250th birthday, teetering on a brink. Which way we fall – toward chaos and collapse, or toward renewed unity and vibrancy – will depend upon which party prevails in the current cold civil war – a cold civil war that has already turned hot – in which we are deeply engaged.


Why the Left Really Hates Trump’s America 250 Celebration   At its core, much of the backlash reflects a deeper disagreement. Trump’s events celebrate love of country, national pride, and American achievement—ideas that directly challenge the strain of anti-American sentiment common on the political left. Many critics view the United States not as history’s greatest force for peace, prosperity, and liberty, but as a flawed or villainous power. They tend to see patriotism itself as problematic.

--------------------------------------

Historic Tall Ship Elissa Sets Sail From Galveston for America 250 Celebration

--------------------------------------

posted by Pat Dague @ 11:04 AM   0 comments

Thursday, July 02, 2026

I will remember the deeds of the Lord...

I will remember the deeds of the Lord;
    yes, I will remember your wonders of old.
I will ponder all your work,
    and meditate on your mighty deeds.
Your way, O God, is holy.
    What god is great like our God?
You are the God who works wonders;
    you have made known your might among the peoples.
You with your arm redeemed your people,
    the children of Jacob and Joseph. 
      -Psalm 77:11-15

----------------------------------------

The “Red-Green Alliance” (also known as the “Red-Green Axis” or “Islamo-leftism”) refers to the tactical and ideological collaboration between the radical political left (socialists/communists/progressives) and political Islamists. Despite vast ideological differences, the two movements often align against Western hegemony, capitalism, and certain foreign policies.

'Now Is the Time for War': French Mother Calls for Massive Protest After 17-Year-Old Son Louis Is Beaten to Death   Louis’s death is not an isolated tragedy. France has seen a disturbing rise in brutal gang violence, often involving youths from migrant backgrounds targeting native French victims. The case has ignited widespread outrage over integration failures, lenient justice, and the everyday insecurity many communities now face.


Six women have served on the highest court in the land… and they all have something in common. They allow their personal feelings and emotions to get the best of them.




Transgender Democrat Activist Urges Followers To ‘Kill Your Local Republican’   ...Teha Delaruelle speaks against a background displaying the words “Kill Your Local Republican,” then points to the message. “We’re going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin,” Delaruelle says, giving followers a one-month window to act.





----------------------------------------

----------------------------------------

 ----------------------------------------

posted by Pat Dague @ 10:49 AM   0 comments

Wednesday, July 01, 2026

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love...

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
    for in you I trust.
Make me know the way I should go,
    for to you I lift up my soul.

   Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord!
    I have fled to you for refuge.
Teach me to do your will,
    for you are my God!
Let your good Spirit lead me
    on level ground!
   -Psalm 143:8-10

-------------------------------------

The Waning Of The West...Demographic eclipse and cultural surrender in post-Christian Europe   Post-Christian Europeans, absorbed in narcissistic reverie, accelerate developments by abdicating reproduction and confrontation alike. The historical thrust is clear: this is civilizational suicide, abetted by a fear that paralyzes action. Importantly, the waning of Christian Europe’s descendants was never an inexorable fate but a consequence of choices—individualistic excesses, fearful silences, and demographic denial.
    The public spaces, until recently emblems of liberty, now echo with alien assertions; the feminists and intellectuals, guardians of progress, cower before the storm. Millions of Muslims, while not monolithic, provide the momentum for a shift that exploits Western largesse without gratitude.
   European Westerners have chosen to perish in obscurity; the cradle stands empty, and the veil descends.

Detroit Archbishop Surrenders to Islam: Celebrates New Mega-Mosque While His Own Churches Are Shuttered At the very moment a Catholic archbishop publicly blesses the expansion of an ideology whose scriptures call for Christianity’s eventual eradication, the Mass, the source and summit of Catholic life, is being diminished across his diocese.


-------------------------------------

Cheer Up! The Birthright Citizenship Case Moves Us Toward Inevitable Victory  Calm down about today’s birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara. We were always going to lose. That was expected by anyone who understands how the courts work; what wasn’t expected is that this ruling was such a huge step toward eventual victory. You don’t have to be happy, but you don’t have to freak out. We’re winning.




-------------------------------------

posted by Pat Dague @ 6:44 PM   0 comments