Who said this? New post!

 Time once again for a new "Who said this" post.

Here's the quote:

‘Look,’ he said to his subjects ‘these people... have become so numerous and strong that they are a threat to us. We must be prudent and take steps against their increasing any further, or if war should break out, they might add to the number of our enemies. They might take arms against us and so escape out of the country.’

Was it Donald Trump (ICE Handbook, 2025), or the king of Egypt in 1400BC (Book of Exodus)? 

Who said it? Round 1

I think this will be a recurring theme in the next four years.

Who said this: Trump or Biden?

Addressing Mexican immigrants: "I can say quite clearly: Don't come." CNN, March 17, 2021

 

This is what's wrong

Yep, I'm gonna take out all my frustrations with the world (Covid-19, wearing masks everywhere, house renos, work, not writing, etc) in this blog post.

This is what set me off today:

It's a news item taken from CNN.com

In the run-up to one of the most important elections the American people have ever faced in their short 200-year history as a nation, Kamala Harris' shoes are the hot topic that Americans are "raving" about. I don't want to tell 330 million people what they should or shouldn't be raving about... well, I guess I DO want to tell them what not to rave about, and that would be a politician's shoes.

I mean, really? Look around, America, might there possibly be some other topic that could be more important than fashion. Hmm? Maybe?

Because, otherwise, the rest of the world reads a headline like this and they think that maybe Americans are so vapid, clueless, and superficial that they got exactly what they deserved in President Trump. 

And we all know that can't be right? Can it?

I feel much better now.

Connect the Dots

Here's a fun Wednesday exercise, let's put two facts together and see how many of us can connect the dots:

#1 Sunday October 6, 2019
President Trump decides to pull troops out of Syria

#2 Wednesday October 9, 2019
Turkey launches attack on Syria.

Hmm... what can we make of this?

Dear President Trump

On this blog, I ask all the hard questions. So, I'll start off the new year with this one:

Dear President Trump, are you no longer a Russian agent?

Psalm 52 and the American Election

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, I make no claim to the ownership of this image. 

I don't have a dog in the fight that is the upcoming U.S. presidential election, Deo Gratias, but this psalm expresses my opinion:

Psalm 52
Against a calumniator
If anyone would boast, let him boast in the Lord (1 Corinthians 1:31).
Why do you boast of your wickedness,
you champion of evil,
planning ruin all day long,
your tongue like a sharpened razor,
you master of deceit?

You love evil more than good,
lies more than truth.
You love the destructive word,
you tongue of deceit.

For this God will destroy you
and remove you for ever.
He will snatch you from your tent and uproot you
from the land of the living.

The just shall see and fear.
They shall laugh and say:
“So this is the man who refused
to take God as a stronghold,
but trusted in the greatness of his wealth
and grew powerful by his crimes.”

But I am like a growing olive tree
in the house of God.
I trust in the goodness of God
for ever and ever.

I will thank you for evermore;
for this is your doing.
I will proclaim that your name is good,
in the presence of your friends.

Praying for my American friends and neighbors. May their choice for a political leader bring them, and all of us in North America, closer to God.

~JT~