Friday, February 13, 2026

In this is love...

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. -1 John 4:10

It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace, which is revealed to the humble, but hidden from the proud.  -Augustine Image

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Something Big Is Happening 
I've always been early to adopt AI tools. But the last few months have shocked me. These new AI models aren't incremental improvements. This is a different thing entirely.
   And here's why this matters to you, even if you don't work in tech.
   The AI labs made a deliberate choice. They focused on making AI great at writing code first... because building AI requires a lot of code. If AI can write that code, it can help build the next version of itself. A smarter version, which writes better code, which builds an even smarter version. Making AI great at coding was the strategy that unlocks everything else. That's why they did it first. My job started changing before yours not because they were targeting software engineers... it was just a side effect of where they chose to aim first.
   They've now done it. And they're moving on to everything else.
   The experience that tech workers have had over the past year, of watching AI go from "helpful tool" to "does my job better than I do", is the experience everyone else is about to have. Law, finance, medicine, accounting, consulting, writing, design, analysis, customer service. Not in ten years. The people building these systems say one to five years. Some say less. And given what I've seen in just the last couple of months, I think "less" is more likely. Image
 
Scientists and business leaders are responding to a viral essay warning of AI's impact on jobs with a mix of agreement and skepticism.

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UK's Insane New Trans Guidance Says School Kids As Young As Four Can 'Change Gender'   According to reports in The Times, the guidelines state that parents should be involved in the “vast majority” of cases where a child questions their gender, and schools should not initiate steps towards social transitioning.
   However, the move has sparked outrage, with critics arguing it undermines parental rights and exposes vulnerable children to harmful ideologies.

UK: When did child sex abuse become a petty crime?   OF ALL the indicators of a civilisation in rapid decline, the most disturbing is the attempt to normalise the sexual abuse of children.
   Recent court cases in the United Kingdom have proved that the judiciary regards paedophilia as a petty crime.

Are cross-sex drugs driving trans shooters to kill? 
“Anecdotally, oestrogen appears to lead to severe mental disorders in some men, with some needing admission to a psychiatric ward for treatment. We know that there are oestrogen receptors in critical parts of the brain that affect behaviour and mood, and that oestrogen is produced in the brain of both men and women.
   “We also know that oestrogen has different effects in the male and female brains, sometimes opposing. Studies on male animals where oestrogen is blocked demonstrate that low oestrogen is associated with less aggression. Whether the reverse is true is unclear. What is very clear is that cross-sex hormones in adults lead to worse health outcomes, as well as in children.”

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One Simple Graph Demonstrates How Dems Tried to Destroy America With Illegal Immigration 
Most Americans still don’t fully understand what happened under Biden…
8% of Nicaragua entered the US in 4 years.
8% of the entire country.
7% of Cuba.
6% of Haiti.
5% of Honduras.

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Canada: Liberals return to pushing Bill C-9, which could criminalize quoting Bible on homosexuality   The Liberals ultimately backed off on limiting debate on Bill C-9 to two hours but still intend to prioritize the attack on religious liberty over other justice legislation. It appears that the Liberals want to get the fractious issue of Bill C-9 out of the way in hopes that the ongoing public backlash will quiet down, perhaps in advance of a federal election later this year.

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Less Than Words Can Say...“Her and I have wrote papers about this company!” 
The fact is that college graduates with substandard communication skills will find themselves handicapped in the job market, regardless of their race or ethnicity. So says Ian Siegel, CEO of ZipRecruiter, which uses artificial intelligence to match employers with job applicants. Siegel forewarns applicants that “spelling and grammatical mistakes are among the top reasons a job applicant’s résumé lands in the trash.”

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Thursday, February 12, 2026

A life devoted unto God...

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.  -2 Corinthians 1:3-5 Image

A life devoted unto God, looking wholly unto Him in all our actions, and doing all things suitably to His glory, is so far from being dull, and uncomfortable, that it creates new comforts in everything that we do.  -William Law

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ABC News' Headline About Canadian Trans Shooter SO UNBELIEVABLY BAD They Lock Down Replies   Would you look at that? ABC News was so concerned about showing respect to the monster that shot and killed nine people (at the time of this writing, many are still in critical condition) that even in death, they called him a woman. Jesse Van Rootselaar was a man.

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Last week, I plucked up the courage to visit ground-zero, that is, that part of south Minneapolis wherein Floyd, Good and Pretti needlessly lost their lives. I was appalled by what I saw. The sordid squalor of George Floyd Square remains in place, surrounding buildings covered in some of the most obscene and minatory graffiti I’ve ever seen, its grime accentuated by the melting snow. It seems to me that what is taking place in the Twin Cities, especially Minneapolis, augurs a departure in American culture, something dark and dystopic and that has as its goal the ultimate destruction of the country I’ve come to love very much indeed, a country the world, if it’s honest, needs more than ever if the standards that have their origins in Western or, if you prefer, Christian civilisation are to survive.

ICE Director Says Agency Is Tracking 800,000 Criminals With Deportation Orders  While every illegal alien is a criminal to the extent that he or she broke the law to be present in America, millions of them also have charges or convictions for other crimes too, including such horrific crimes as murder, rape, pedophilia, assault, human trafficking, drug trafficking, and terrorism


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Report Accuses Philadelphia Of Implementing Anti-American, Antisemitic Curriculum For 200,000 Students  The curriculum dedicated an entire unit critiquing capitalism and relayed an overall message to students that capitalism as an economic system is unjust, according to the report. The unit fails to criticize communism in a similar way, only mentioning the ideology in relation to capitalism or as a reaction to European colonialism, the report alleges.


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Anti-Truth Media Bend Over Backward To Call Canadian Trans School Shooter By His Preferred Pronouns  Without missing a beat, so-called “journalists” moved quickly to display their subservience to radical gender ideology by making sure they referred to the male alleged killer as a female.

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But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith...

But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.   -Jude 20-21

Prayer has everything to do with moulding the soul into the image of God, and has everything to do with enhancing and enlarging the measure of Divine grace. It has everything to do with enriching, broadening and maturing the soul’s experience of God. That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray. -E.M. Bounds

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Epstein’s Island And The Gateway To The Psychology Of Evil  For the elites who link themselves back to the pagan practices of ancient Babylonian times, from the era of Molech worshipers (Bohemian Grove) and beyond, the ritual of cannibalism is integral to their religion. They believe that human sacrifice gives them power and this is a common thread within most pagan systems including satanism.
   Luciferianism/satanism is an integral element of globalism. The evidence of its practice within globalist circles is immense and cannot be ignored. Some skeptics would denote a separation between “satanism” and “luciferianism”, but for all intents and purposes they are intertwined belief systems.
   Satanists are occupied with the pursuit of pleasure at the expense of morality, while luciferians are occupied with the pursuit of power and godhood at the expense of morality. For adherents of both practices, their motto is “Do What Thou Wilt.”

The media need to stop gaslighting us about the reality of trans mass shooters  After Canada suffered one of its deadliest school massacres Tuesday, police identified the biologically male shooter as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar — noting that he began to transition six years ago.
   That’s right: another deadly attack by someone who is transgender.
   Yet the elites go to lengths to avoid any suggestion of a linkage.

Our Super Bowl Satyricon...VD Hanson  Super Bowl halftime has devolved into a stale Roman bacchanal—gaudy, raunchy, and empty—leaving millions bored, alienated, and wondering who the spectacle is even for anymore.

Well-funded and well-organized, the Left-wing insurrection currently ravaging the failed state of Minnesota and picking up steam elsewhere across America is Astro-turfed, not authentically grassroots

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You Can't Stop AI in Schools: Here's What Parents Can Do Instead   As artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology begin to take over classrooms across the nation, a parental rights group is releasing model policies for states and school boards to ensure children’s privacy and education are being protected.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

“My grace is sufficient for you..."

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  -2 Corinthians 12:9

Workers, here is your first lesson: learn to be nothing, learn to be helpless. The man who has got something is not absolutely dependent; but the man who has got nothing is absolutely dependent. Absolute dependence upon God is the secret of all power in work. The branch has nothing but what it gets from the vine, and you and I can have nothing but what we get from Jesus.  -Andrew Murray

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Canada Mass Shooter's Uncle Confirms He Was Trans According to Report - 10 Dead, at Least 25 Others Injured   If the report is accurate, Strang would be the third prominent transgender-identifying school shooter in North America in only three years.

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"Everybody knows that the United States is the easiest game in town," says McClenahan.
   Some stolen funds go to alleged terrorists.
"We literally rang the dinner bell for the whole world, and they answered," he says.

Taxpayers have forked over hundreds of billions in federal and state tax dollars in subsidies that were designed to “kick start” the EV car market. They paid thousands toward the cost of each EV sold. They paid companies to build battery factories. They paid for charging stations.
   Fuel economy standards imposed another hidden subsidy for EVs. The only way automakers could meet increasingly stringent federal fuel economy standards, commonly known as CAFE standards, was to sell more EVs. For each EV sold, they’d get an oversized credit toward the miles-per-gallon average of all cars sold in any given year.

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US Seizes 134 Acres in Texas Used by Mexican Cartel: ‘They Thought They Were Untouchable’  The Gulf Cartel is a drug trafficking organization from Mexico that moves arms and migrants into the United States, and has engaged in the kidnapping and murder of American citizens. Drug cartels have been known to use U.S. lands to grow marijuana, with such activities exploiting sanctuary state policies and the sovereignty of native tribal lands.
   In a message to the cartels, CBP said, “You think this is just about arrests? It’s not. We are dismantling your operations from the ground up. We’re cutting out your safe houses, your staging areas, your corridors. This is your warning.”

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 What if the easiest way for AI to conquer the world isn’t through violence, but with cuteness, or sexiness, or simply friendliness?...
...All it takes to fool people is an ability to take advantage of basic characteristics of human personality and cognition — which machines of only moderate intelligence are well equipped to do.
Not brute-force brilliance, but merely superlative sneakiness.
Seduction, not raw domination. Conquest through cuteness.
We humans are suckers for cuteness and social connection, even the simulated kind. Image

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Monday, February 09, 2026

If we are going to be used by God...

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,
    who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in the high and holy place,
    and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly,
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.
               -Isaiah 57:15

A great many think because they have been filled once, they are going to be full for all time after; but O, my friends, we are leaky vessels, and have to be kept right under the fountain all the time in order to keep full. If we are going to be used by God we have to be very humble. A man that lives close to God will be the humblest of men. I heard a man say that God always chooses the vessel that is close at hand. Let us keep near Him.   -Dwight Lyman Moody

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Why Minnesota Keeps Erupting in Anti-Government Chaos  It is especially noteworthy that the anti-government protests are well-organized and funded, which suggests the involvement of groups with substantial networks.

Mamdani Hires Slew of Anti-Israel Activists, Including Brooklyn Borough Director Who Praised 'Heroes' Ripping Down Israeli Hostage Posters and Adviser Who Led College Divestment Movement   The list also includes a policy analyst who accused Israel of terrorism and a 'Community Engagement Training Specialist' who said the Jewish state amounts to 'modern-day Nazi Germany.

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New York Becomes 13th State to Legalize Assisted Suicide   The law expanding the state’s culture of death will go into effect in six months to allow the Department of Health to put regulations into place, making New York the 13th state, plus Washington, D.C. to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Hochul released a statement equating assisted suicide with “freedoms” and a “right to bodily autonomy” — a similar argument used by pro-abortion and pro-transgender activists who promote mutilation and the killing of unborn babies.

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Drug traffickers are increasingly adding medetomidine, a powerful animal tranquilizer, to illicit fentanyl supplies in the United States, according to public health officials and law enforcement agencies. The drug, which is approved only for veterinary use, has been detected in seized samples in cities including New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, raising new concerns about the growing unpredictability of the illicit opioid market.

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Washington Post Mocked for Calling Bad Bunny‘s Vulgar Halftime Show ‘Wholesome‘  Perhaps explaining why the Washington Post is failing so badly, the paper has declared that Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was “wholesome” entertainment with “family values” despite that the rapper’s songs were filled with drug references, and had explicit sexual content including both gay and straight sex.

Tucker Carlson’s and Candace Owens’s Terrifying Descent Into Madness Careers that began as critiques of establishment politics have devolved into outlandish conspiracy theories that blend New Age spirituality, esoteric metaphysics, and elaborate claims about the hidden masters of reality and society.

Zuckerberg Follows Billionaire Exodus To Florida As California Pushes New Wealth Tax Chamath Palihapitiya wrote on X: "With Zuck’s move to Florida, California’s total taxable wealth from billionaires has plummeted to well under $1T from over $2T just a few weeks ago. The loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever. All because Gavin Newsom stood motionless as this stupidly written bill, from a fringe union and a handful of socialist academics with an axe to grind, meandered its way into the public conversation without any action from him and freaked everyone out."

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High School Wrestler Says She Was Sexually Assaulted By Trans-Identifying Male Opponent   A high school wrestler in Washington says she was sexually violated during a match by a trans-identifying male athlete. Even more disturbingly, school officials failed to report the alleged assault to law enforcement for nearly two months after she came forward.

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Sunday, February 08, 2026

Cast your burden on the Lord...

Cast your burden on the Lord,
    and he will sustain you;
He will never permit
    the righteous to be moved.
-Psalm 55:22

Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord. -John Baillie

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Wait, That's Why Dems Are Scared About ICE Agents Wearing Body Cams First it was, “We want body cameras.” Then it became, “We want them with restrictions.” Which turned into, “We want them with restrictions because insane white liberals say so.” And now we’re at, “These body cameras are mass surveillance.” Image


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Inside ‘Shangri-La’ homeless scam as taxpayer millions bankroll jets, mansions and luxury excess — and Newsom won’t cut ties “The state has facilitated the spending of billions of dollars to combat homelessness, with little to show for it and almost no oversight.”
   “Thankfully, the federal government has begun auditing California’s spending and today’s is just one example of how fraudsters have swindled millions of dollars from taxpayers,” he added. “This money should have gone to those in need, instead it lines the pockets of individuals subsidizing their lavish lifestyle.”

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The fact is that men and women are different, something there’s been a concerted effort to not merely ignore but to overthrow by informal social coercion and the force of law. Oddly, it’s the feminine side that propels this campaign. If you track back the roots of the worst cultural trends of the last century, they all originate in a perversion of the feminine. For example, the greatest advocates of bizarre transsexual deviance are not men, though a significant number of men go along either passively or actively – they probably think they’re going to score if they show their tolerance bona fides. It’s women who are driving this big rig, the only kind of big rig women drive as a rule. It’s the women who decide that young Billy is really Susie and schlep over to the local butcher in her minivan. The invertebrate dad just sort of nods along. It’s the women pushing for men in women’s locker rooms, ironically. Imagine it getting traction if men had been at the forefront of the “Let us leer at you in the shower” movement. It would have never started, and if women right now said, “No,” this would end overnight. But for some reason that real men can’t fathom – maybe it’s the Chardonnay, maybe it’s the SSRIs, maybe it’s the dissatisfaction that comes with having leftist partners who can’t satisfy them –women as a whole refuse to reject this nonsense. And so it persists.

As I steeped myself in this type of feminism: the type that emanates from online Tumblr echo chambers and the ideological enclaves of Women’s studies departments, it taught me a number of ideas and values I was eager to apply to my own life.
   For example, feminist ideology taught me that any opinions that were conservative, or just didn’t align with the party line were violence. It also taught me that the best way to fight opposition is to try to silence it.

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Modern Irish history is a cautionary tale for Western nations that take the incessant attack on faith and freedoms lightly.   Last week, the Irish government released a St. Brigid’s Day video that mocks the Catholic saint while celebrating abortion and gay marriage. The video shows a cloaked figure—a pagan witch—carrying fire from one feminist milestone to the next, boasting images from when Ireland redefined marriage and created a constitutional right to abortion. The Irish government elite confused (or conflated) the Catholic saint with an old Gaelic goddess of the same name. This was not merely a mistake. It is the latest example of the elite’s contempt for Ireland’s Catholic heritage.

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Saturday, February 07, 2026

God Leads Us Along...

 
God Leads Us Along

Verse 1 
In shady, green pastures, 
so rich and so sweet,
  God leads His dear children along;
  where the water’s cool flow 
bathes the weary one’s feet,
  God leads His dear children along.

Refrain:
Some through the waters, 
Some through the flood,
Some through the fire, 
but all through the blood;
Some through great sorrow, 
but God gives a song,
in the night season 
and all the day long.

Verse 2 
Sometimes on the mount 
where the sun shines so bright,
  God leads His dear children along;
  sometimes in the valley, 
in darkest of night,
  God leads His dear children along.

Verse 3 
Though sorrows befall us
 and evils oppose,
  God leads His dear children along;
  through grace we can conquer, 
defeat all our foes,
  God leads His dear children along.

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Friday, February 06, 2026

"That they may all be one..."

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me."  -John 17:20-23

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This Awful Thing That the Super Bowl Has Become Belongs on the Hallmark Channel  In the 1980s, the Super Bowl went from being the most important football game of the year to being the most important television event of the year. There was a decided shift in focus, with the party taking precedence over the Super Bowl itself. The beginning of the end, in other words...
...Real sports fans loathe commercials. In fact, if there were an Olympic event that involved racing to grab a remote and mute an ad while we're watching a game, we would all be contending for gold medals. Heaven help the person who gets between me and the remote as a football broadcast goes to a commercial about medication for leaping chlamydia. Image

AP Ridiculed Over Article on Lack of Ethnic Diversity at Winter Olympics  The purported news outlet thoroughly embarrassed itself with a piece that centered around the lack of ethnic diversity at the winter games, presenting it as a problematic and discriminatory issue that needed to be addressed by society and the people in power (aka government)...

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Peaceful Protesters, or Fifth Column Insurrectionists? A sobering analysis of Chinese ties to progressive politicians. If foreign enemies were attempting to start an insurrection in the U.S., agitating the public into anarchy, they would probably start where the most unhinged of the American population lives. Well, what do you know, we’re having riots/protests in New York, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles.
  What evidence is there that these “peaceful protests” are coordinated efforts? Read it all...

Fifth Circuit upholds Trump administration's mandatory detention policy  A panel of judges ruled 2-1 that the government can lawfully require detention for all noncitizens in removal proceedings who entered the U.S. without being legally admitted.

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A globalist utopia? No, a European caliphate under Islamic mob rule  A proselytising religion cannot stand still. It can either expand or contract. Islam endeavours to expand in Britain . . . It aims at bringing its message to all corners of the earth. It hopes that one day the whole of humanity will be one Muslim community, the umma. Image

EU Censorship Threatens Free Speech Beyond Europe, Warns US  On 5 February, the battle over online free speech took a decisive international turn. In a warning aimed squarely at European regulators, US lawmakers accused the EU of exporting censorship to American citizens through pressure placed on US-based technology companies.
   What began as a regulatory disagreement has evolved into a broader confrontation over sovereignty and constitutional values. At issue is whether foreign governments, operating through regulatory frameworks such as the EU’s Digital Services Act, can shape what Americans are allowed to say, read, or publish online, even when that speech is lawful under United States law.

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There’s a new study claiming that Gen Z is the first generation to score lower on IQ tests than the millennials before them. For decades, rising IQ scores have become the norm, and they’ve been linked to formal education, complex problem solving, literacy, and abstract reasoning. Across many generations, those skills were trained consistently, but for some reason today, the education looks entirely different. Suddenly attention is fragmented, information can’t be absorbed, memory is treated like cloud storage, and reading is practically nonexistent.

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