The old relationship is over

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April 2, 2025

The Canadian PM has sobered up the United States’ first felonious president to the tune of punishing tariffs and burning the bridge with an eye on forging new alliances and markets.

Mark Carney: The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperations is over.

Who needs a friend that pays more attention to chaos agents on his shoulder than to vetted reliable briefings from proven public servants?

The border between Canada and the United States has not been under scrutiny as it is in 2025.  Why?  The US government claims that border porosity is responsible for illegal drugs pouring into the United States.  The truth is that thousands of illegal guns have been pouring into Canada for decades, and both governments seem unwilling to push away from the popularity of firearms used for legal and highly regulated purposes.

   New deal on the Ontario-Michigan crossing.
No exchange of felons.

Let us hope that felons will continue to be barred from crossing the border.

Over one year ago, the world heard PM Carney chart a new path.  Let us not forget how his political opponents were sidling up to their US partners to find deals. Today, January 22, 2026, we can say the Canada USA business relationship is certainly yesterday.  We can also be sure that felonious greatness has one hour.  The intelligence quotient of MAGA appointees to the 2025 cabinet amounts to a few academic degrees, no government or management experience, little respect for the law, and intense interest in personal gain for the rich and influential.  That combination of persons and gifts cannot last long.

Winning the electoral college is thought to be evidence of genius, but losing money in a casino and having to close it not once but twice is not evidence of business savvy.  POTUS should be an expert at something good.

Great and acclaimed business acumen never recommended anyone for top gun, and one leader had it the whole world would be copying it.  Rogues will tell one another they’re just wonderful. And even the blind will see things gigantic and powerful. One hour for the greatest of all time! Timber! Fell fell fell.

Howling like a wolf and barking up the wrong tree

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus antisemitism, with the announcement of a new “comprehensive review” that could jeopardize billions of dollars for the Ivy League college.

A federal antisemitism task force is reviewing more than $255 million in contracts between Harvard and the federal government to make sure the school is following civil rights laws, the administration announced Monday. The government also will examine $8.7 billion in grant commitments to Harvard and its affiliates.

April 1st, 2025

The felonious occupant of the White House, oblivious to the centrality of religious education to early American independence and  stability, takes aim at Harvard.  He does not know that the Pilgrims established the environment in which neither Jesus nor Moses were the dictators of society’s norms at Harvard.  It is also clear that the hordes of evangelicals, who are pretending to support the state of Israel, do not give a rat’s backside about EVERYONE’S right to exist,  much less the right to participate in the quest for improved prosperity, more mature unions and guarantees of security.

All who think that American power will bring the globe to harmony and peace are dining on delicious tidbits from a table of wasted dreams and rejected nutrients.  Since the felon of Mar a Lago confesses that he likes illiterate and rich people a deadlier combination cannot help but lead to more greatness like a civil war, Jim Crow, rampant disease and a failed State.

Good luck dismantling the scaffolding while the tower is under construction.  Huff and puff, ye moguls of law, moronic excellence and greed.  Little Piggy’s house will stand.  He’s always stood for mercy, justice and humility.

My first hour is pure inspiration

eejoseph,

What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?

The ritual can happen in bed, or in the kitchen, or any room.  It can happen with written material, with digital media, or quietness with my thoughts.  I have been known to ruin the start of the day by listening to my heart beating and falling asleep for another hour or more.  I love and am perfectly satisfied with beginning any day with gratitude for my loved ones and the whole planet.

I am determined to renounce robotic days.  I prefer to do what impresses me.  I do not like trying to impress myself by the things I do. A ‘good boy’ to myself is the least of my priorities.

I love to let a song, a kiss, the sound of finches or robins, a Bible verse or passage speak to me.  Very often I am subconsciously tagging something simple, a word, a musical phrase, a rhyme, the beating of my heart, anything that might help to shape my day.

One and only fate

eejoseph,

Which aspects do you think makes a person unique?

Right now, inside the smooth programming of commercial and cultural ventures, there are intense and criminal plots to digitize millions of human beings. It is my understanding that human beings are unique from head to toe, and I have warmed up completely to the idea that imitating our heroes is a waste of time.  There is only one John the Baptist.  There will never be another Sojourner Truth. The colour of our eyes is not copied onto any other human being.  I believe in extreme uniqueness.

The discovery of finger prints did nothing to dampen racist conspiracies and religious bigotry.  The billions of dollars spent on looking for another Earth might have been put to giving boys and girls all over the planet a chance to put their unique treasures on display and to good practical use.

It is a shameful outrage for the manipulators  of public thought, health and wealth to try to make people gather up and mindlessly mimic the stars and personalities of our times.  The dignity and majesty of unique personhood are often the first elements to be stripped away when people begin to assert their legacy and dreams.  Every combination of human traits and attributes is unique.  Oh my! What will the quantum equations be?  Can the computers handle the complexity?

Slipping and sliding around in the curse

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When the Jewish people arise to tell their children the story of the Exodus I am sure that the more curious children would want to hear about the generation before the Exodus, about the patriarchs, about the generation who entered Canaan, and the generations who became the victims of Canaanite domination (see the Book of Judges chapters 2, 4 and 6) and they would also want to be informed about God’s judgment upon the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, the exile and the restoration.  The more discerning children would notice the gaping hole in the narrative between the Exodus and the possession of Canaan.  A tradition of lies keeps the generations apart, because the adults in the room are living a lie, pretending that they have faithfully followed the best features of Abraham’s legacy.  It is still a quick and convenient detour for adults to lecture young people about things the young believers know all too well.  You see, there is much more to leadership in the 21st century than a few self-serving slogans and a minority shocking the majority with vile pronouncements, armed atrocities and discredited rhetoric about self-defense and superior culture and undisputed military power.

Lead yourself out of the curse

“He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.” Malachi 4:6

Here at the end of the Old Testament period, Malachi’s prophecy comes forth that the hearts of Israelite fathers need to turn (perhaps return )  to the children and vice versa, which refutes the notion that Jewish life is more family-centred than others.  Even with a covenant stipulation for children to honour (kabbed, כבד) their parents a thorough failure is evident, since this covenant demand is the only one in the Ten Words written with God’s own finger without a negative particle, and perfectly complied with by people with no conscious recognition of God.

Willingly bewitched

The emphasis on generational transmission of tradition and responsibility is however far from negligible.  Every generation since the Exodus has wanted to be remembered as the hero who fixed the broken down walls and repaired the house.

When Christians gather to celebrate salvation I am sure that there will be people who want to know what does salvation have to do with Moses and the prophets. They will want to hear about the sub-apostolic age, the many centuries of Christian scholarship and the diligence of many believers and their pastors who have resisted the numerous assaults by cults, other religions and eastern mysticism.     You see, there is much more to leadership in the 21st century than a few self-serving slogans and a minority shocking the majority with armed atrocities and discredited rhetoric about self-defense and superior culture.


ELOHIM defines himself as trans-generational

The Eternal One has no regrets about involving himself in space and time. His involvement, whether pictured as angel of the Lord, terrifying manifestations of thunder, tempest, earthquake, fire and cloud, must certainly waken human imagination about our participation in the eternal glories. Sadly, the generation that is most iconic to modern observers is that one that questioned this very thing. It is a pathetic slice of tomfoolery to intimate that God violates himself by clothing himself in humanity, and the corollary is that humans are presumptuous and blasphemous to believe that partaking in divine nature is possible.

“who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”” (Exodus 34:7, NASB)


ELOHIM THREATENS CONSEQUENCES ON SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS


You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, (Exodus 20:5, NASB)


JOSHUA PREDICTS THE  INTEREST OF GENERATIONS IN THE EXPLANATION OF HISTORY

He said to the sons of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’” (Joshua 4:21, NASB)

Of all the things one might expect people who are committed to the Ten Commandments to accomplish honouring one’s parents has to be near the top of the list.  Obligations towards one’s parents do not call for spiritual or special insight, education, knowledge or wisdom.  Apparently many people are perfectly naive mucking around in glaringly natural traditions, and the cautions of the Galilean fisherman still ring louder and more distinctively than Big Ben.

And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!” (Acts 2:40)

You have a set of terminal whatabouts

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When asked to verify the accuracy of their soundbytes some people see an opportunity to sling accusations at the questioner and/or compare traitors and heroes, felons and innocents, and even Moses to Yeshua. If you compared my sins and crimes to yours  if I confronted you, it would prove you have more than one terminal disease. If you think that there are no incurable diseases you are incontrovertibly in the school and care of an illiterate scholar and a medical quack, certain to wail when the whirlwind of ineffective remedies, bottomless research and development funding, and empty promises of healing stops spinning fatality.

Well, what about dining with strangers and aliens?  No, we dare not.  Well, what about criminal tyrants at the helm of nations and mega corporations? There is nothing to see here. Well, what about God and country as equals?  We swear that there is no power to control our lust for power and curb the exercise of our military. Well, what about the idols we create, and revere daily, weekly, monthly and annually? They might swear that they are idolatry-proof, all because they say they keep the Ten Commandments, or they are convinced that they have checked all the boxes that make them eligible for divine approval. But what about those things that lurk inside both the sinner and the saint? Do you know the thatabout?

What a whirl! Get ready for the last twirl

Empires are typically the result of the forcible gathering of discrete languages, peoples, and nations into a functional whole. That is the principle behind family, village, town, nation. I suppose the expectations are that the rape and plunder of the pirates we love to idolize will continue until every Tom, Dick, and Harry has a kick at the colonial can or empire bucket. Sometimes the bucket comes first, as in the case of Syria trying to overrun Canaan, or even the great Egypt exercising control over trading routes into Palestine and the maritime lanes of global commerce. Note how the successors of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome are still active in global affairs, without actually calling the shots everywhere, as they did when they each dominated the world they knew. They are going to kick the bucket at the same time. But note how Russia and China have cobbled together a number of Asian and East European nations respectively, with no empire emerging. A quick crash is all there is, and it happens without fanfare. Russia and China are past life support, waiting to kick the bucket because, like the great harlot who thinks herself to be beyond poverty and mourning, these will fall in quick time, and people will not know of the descent of these powers into irrelevance because the narrative of “my crime is no worse than yours” will have lulled the global population into accepting mediocrity as greatness and crime as nationalism and patriotism.

Perhaps the best example terminal whataboutism is the rampant self-talk by the very fractured UK and USA about strength when the only whiff of unity is the conspiracy to rob national treasuries, deny the essential movements of migrants, when in fact they have made their fortunes through the monumental forced migration of peoples and the unequal immigration policies they have encouraged.

It may seem that we can all tolerate one or two limitations on our ability to function, but having more death-dealing companions than we have fingers is pretty much the end of the road physically and the beginning of glory if we absorb the daily cross-initiated dying. We have no authorization to observe musch less decide when one of our fellow travellers no longer feels God’s prompts or no longer accepts the divine judgment on unbelief.

Internal and fatal whatabouts

  • evil thoughts
  • sexual immorality (prostitution, porneia)
  • theft
  • murder
  • adultery (Mark 7:21)
  • coveting
  • wickedness
  • deceit
  • sensuality
  • envy (evil eye)
  • slander
  • pride
  • foolishness. (Mark 7:22)

Terminal whatabouts are essential to the hypocrite’s toolkit. A spiritual physician might say “the prognosis is devastating” and “the patient’s inside is caput”.

I laugh for things for which I also cry

eejoseph,

What makes you laugh?

I snicker, I giggle when a fool thinks a ridiculous proposition is perfectly clear to everyone.  I laugh out loud when I understand  the comedian’s lead  and punch line.  I laugh with my whole body when events fall into place without warning and when nothing seems to work.  I laugh at the person who trips and falls at the same place day after day because they are going to learn the hard way.  I laugh when the rain pours torrentially for forty-five seconds.  I laugh when I hear people say they are lucky to be alive because I know that living is much more than being alive.

Life is funny!