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The Devil's Faux Christian Church is birthed

Why churches shouldn’t endorse candidates despite IRS ruling | Tacoma News Tribune

 

 

Amos is what the scholars call a peripheral prophet, meaning he was an outsider, sent to preach to the Kingdom of Israel, even though he wasn’t an Israelite. God famously sent him in with a vision of a plumb line, a weight suspended from a string to tell if a line is straight, because the people were so morally malformed that they could no longer tell the difference between crooked and straight.

Because, over time, the Israelite prophets had stopped speaking for God and started working for the King. They used God’s name to push the government’s agenda. The book of Amos includes the threats made by the head prophet Amaziah, who demands that Amos quit preaching “against” Israel and go back to where he came from because “this is the King’s sanctuary and the temple of the Kingdom.”

Amos was political. God anointed him to call the people back to covenant values of justice, mercy and protection of the weak.

 

 Amaziah was partisan. He was the King’s man. He taught the people that obeying the King was the same as obeying God. He did not teach the people the difference between power and righteousness. That’s why God had to send in an outsider, because the local prophets would no longer say anything that offended the King. And the King’s treatment of the poor and powerless offended God.

 

 

Entry #161

MAKE AMERICA GRIEVE AGAIN

. Now meteorology experts are urgently warning that  the Trump administration’s staff firings and funding cuts at the National Weather Service (and its parent, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) threaten to disrupt these crucial operations and turn back the clock on forecasting.

 

“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,”

wrote five former NWS directors from both Democratic and Republican administrations in an open letter on May 2.

Ultimately, storm experts say, disruption caused by existing and proposed cuts will hit multiple fronts. An understaffed and underfunded NWS could mean that a tornado warning doesn’t come in time, that a hurricane forecast is off just enough so that the wrong coastal areas are evacuated or that flights are less likely to be routed around turbulence. “The net result is going to be massive economic harm,” said climate scientist Daniel Swain during  one of his regular talks hosted on YouTube. “As we break these things, eventually it will become painfully and unignorably obvious what we’ve broken and how important it was. And it’s going to be unbelievably expensive in the scramble to try and get it back—and we might not be able to get it back.”

 

 

The NWS punches above its economic weight, too: it costs the average American about $4 per year. “It’s a cup of coffee,” says JoAnn Becker, president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization, a union that represents the NWS and several NOAA offices. With one third of the U.S. economy—from farming to trucking to tourism—being sensitive to weather and climate, the NWS provides an overall benefit of $100 billion to the economy. This is roughly 10 times what the service costs to run, according to an American Meteorological Society white paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

From <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-trumps-national-weather-service-cuts-could-cost-lives/>

Entry #160

Stay on your square

Do Knowledge

 

  Confidently assert your beliefs, values, or principles, and to remain steadfast in them despite external pressures or challenges. It embodies the idea of being true to oneself and maintaining integrity in various situations. Personal accountability and the importance of not compromising one's stance or identity.

 

Entry #155

President Donald Trump is not wrong on everything

Charlie Munger wanted Donald Trump to be the last person to become US President: ‘Vainglory, puffery…’

 

“Well, I think he has qualities that make him unsuitable for the office,” he said.

Speaking about the qualities, Munger said, “Vainglory, puffery to a large extent. I could go on and on.”

He had reiterated his sentiments in 2016, just before Donald Trump became President for the first time.

“My attitude is that anybody who makes money running a casino is not morally qualified,” he said.

 

  President Donald Trump is not wrong on everything. Just because he isn't like us, roll with it. And if there's a little danger, what the hell, you're not going to live forever anyway,” he had said at an annual meeting at the publishing company Daily Journal Corp in Los Angeles, which he used to chair.

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