[m.facebook.com] Candace Owen's delivers her short speech.

timon_phocas comments on Apr 10, 2019:

wow! Direct, eloquent and factual. And, of course, entirely uncovered by the MSM.

Am I pandering if I say, ”You go girl!” Candace bitch slaps dumbass politicians.

timon_phocas comments on Apr 10, 2019:

the word for the deliberate, calulated use of lies and half-truths to convey falsehoods is mendacity. They hate Candace Owens. She is attractive, compelling and convincing, which makes them hate her even more. The tools they use betray the kind of people they are.

Both Islam and Christianity talk about heaven but.

timon_phocas comments on Apr 9, 2019:

Islam's vision of heaven is basically the last 60 years of Hugh Hefner's life.

Whatever they put in their water in Florida, we need more of it from sea to shining sea.

timon_phocas comments on Apr 9, 2019:

Imagine that, a legislature passing laws to benefit its own citizens and not illegal aliens. Odd that this should be so odd.

Coming from Australia, the terms "left" or "right wing" are not thrown around nearly as much as say,...

timon_phocas comments on Apr 8, 2019:

I don't think Australians are as politically polarized as American. Or rather, Australian media is not as polarized as American media. I've watched videos of Australian panel discussions where the discussions are respectful on each side. The American equivalents start as verbal food fights and descend into gang rumbles. Down at street level, however, I don't think we are as radically polarized as our media are. I want to buy food from people in that store, not polemics. And they want to sell it to me. Pleasant and polite works all around.

Pete Buttigieg said he can't believe evangelical Christians support President Donald Trump.

timon_phocas comments on Apr 7, 2019:

It nice to know progressive leftists finally "got religion." Because for the last 27 years they've been telling us sex has the moral significance of a sneeze or (alternatively) that it's the single most important attribute of human identity. Glad to know they finally squared that circle. So now we evangelicals are supposed to disapprove of Donald John Trump because he has the same lifestyle as William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. No moral ambiguity there...

[youtu.be] IT'S WORLD HIJAB DAY! (FT. DINA TOKIO & YASMINE MOHAMMED!)

timon_phocas comments on Apr 7, 2019:

Meanwhile, back in Iran, women are being arrested for posting selfies of themselves without hijabs...

What are your opinions on Ben Shapiro's hypocrisy regarding his refute of identity politics and ...

timon_phocas comments on Apr 6, 2019:

I am not a Jew. I am a pretty serious Christian. I reject white supremicists and identity politics of all flavors. I am utterly in favor of the Jews living in their ancient, ancestral homeland. I believe it is in accord with Biblical promises and simple fairness. The US State Department says there are 196 countries in the world. They range from athiest to polythiest and all points in between. The Jews have one country and it's about twice the size of the county I live in. (had to look that up, I thought my county was larger)

I am a Life long follower of the Trinity and Jesus and God the Father!I have a question for my ...

timon_phocas comments on Apr 6, 2019:

The Koran's many exhortations to kill kaffirs are not taught from Christian pulpits. Most people aren't aware of them. The Bible's exhortations to provide for the poor, to be generous to the less fortunate, are taught from Christian pulpits. These exhortations have a surface commonality with old fashioned liberal ideas about the government's role in society. These views are reinforced in schools, news and entertainment. It's an entire worldview. A wilderness of mirrors where everything reflects back the same worldview image. Some people escape, most do not.

I have a question for our liberal members.

timon_phocas comments on Apr 6, 2019:

The only personal restraint I am aware of is courtesy.

Hello! I'm a Scottish portrait artist, I thought I'd share some of my artwork to see what you guys ...

timon_phocas comments on Apr 6, 2019:

Like your work, good contrast, nicely dramatic. I do some work in colored pencils. Always appreciate seeing other's works

No shortage of crazy to go around within the Democrat Party...

timon_phocas comments on Apr 6, 2019:

It's amazing to see all the loonies tumbling out of the Democrat's clown car

I almost feel a sting of sympathy for Joe Biden these days.

timon_phocas comments on Apr 5, 2019:

It's interesting to see what goes around and comes around. I remember Joe Biden saying his party was taken over by the "hard left" in 1972. He was part of that takeover. Now his party is being taken over by hard socialists. And he's being shoved out.

[flagandcross.

timon_phocas comments on Apr 4, 2019:

Fascinating lapse, accidental truth...

White farm murders in South Africa - Race hate, politics or greed? | Foreign Correspondent - YouTube

timon_phocas comments on Apr 4, 2019:

Think of how it worked in Zimbabwe. Mugabe stole the banks, mines, factories, airlines, railroads, etc. While he was busy salting these away in offshore accounts (and the country was going bankrupt), he distracted his grassroot followers by letting them loot the farms. And that's what seems to be happening in South Africa.

(John 6:29 KJV) Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him ...

timon_phocas comments on Apr 3, 2019:

Ephesians 2:10 For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them. I believe this means good works will flow out of us. Good works are a natural expression of our Savior's life within us.

Jordan Peterson Addresses Socialist Intellectuals [youtu.

timon_phocas comments on Apr 3, 2019:

I believe any system that tries to control the entire matrix of society is destined for totalitarian monstrosities. It does not matter if you hate a race, a religion or an economic class, the result will be totalitarian monstrosities. It is inevitable. And history shows this. Just like Doctor Peterson said, "Experiment, repeat, repeat..." There is a whole genre of literature by people who escaped communist countries. I remember reading one by a Polish man. When the Soviets occupied Poland they inustriously went about building a totalitarian society. Their goal was to eliminate any cultural leaders who had somehow escaped the Nazis. They had show trials and they put the prisoners in Auschwitz. Yes, Auschwitz. Auschwitz was equally valuable to Nazis and Communists. It was an inevitable product of both systems, because they were both totalitarian.

I think the history of Syria proves Israel should keep the Golan Hights [loreleesiemens.com]

timon_phocas comments on Apr 2, 2019:

A few extra bits of info. Syria controlled the Golan Heights until the very last 2 days of the 1967 war. From 1948 through June of 1967 they would shell the Galilee from the Golan whenever the mood struck them. And they would infiltrate terrorists down the hills under cover of that fire to kill and destroy in the Galilee. Once, they tried to dam up and divert the headwaters of the Jordan River,. The Jordan flows into Lake Genesseret (Sea of Galilee) which is the central reservoir of the entire Israeli water system. This caused a small but nasty battle. Israel won. Some analysts think this was the real precipitating event for the 1967 war. In the1973 war, Syrian attacks wore down and broke through Israel's Golan defenses. They were only stopped when their tanks reached the Galilee itself. If the Golan defense zone hadn't been there, Israel would have lost the war. Hafez al Assad was considered to be an Alawite Muslim. You are very right that he was not considered a Muslim by the Muslim Brotherhood, but rather a member of an apostate sect. Because he was part of a minority OTOH, he treated other minorities gently. They were a counter balance to the Sunni majority. And you are very right again that he was absolutely ruthless towards the Muslim Brotherhood. So Syrians were very dangerous neighbors when they controlled the Golan. Now that Bashar al Assad is a puppet of the Iranians, the Israelis are even less likely to give up control of the Golan.

I was thinking it would be a great Idea if we would share a hero of the week or day.

timon_phocas comments on Apr 2, 2019:

Sounds like a good idea. The news stream is relentlessly negative. Maybe this will encourage us to search out the good as opposed to simply damning the evil.

Do you see the propagation of young earth creationism as the only biblical view of creation as ...

timon_phocas comments on Apr 1, 2019:

One of the first classes I took in college was basic astronomy. The first lecture in that class was that, with two exceptions, the constellations were optical illusions. Those two exceptions were the Pleiades and Orion. They were the only constellations whose stars were actually close to one another. The Pleiades are a cluster, formed together but are drifting apart. Orion is in a parallel arm of rhe galaxy. It will always present the same image to us as we orbit the galactic core. The next year I read this in Job 38:31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, Can you loose the cords of Orion? And it blew my socks off... Classical Hebrew poetry is one of contrasting or complementary images. So the Creator is asking Job if he can gather stars that God has scattered and scatter stars God has gathered. And so it conforms to the rules of Hebrew poetry. But the knowledge behind that statement is staggering. There are 88 constellations in the sky. The odds of choosing the only two that aren't illusions is about one out of three-thousand. Pretty impressive odds. The odds of identifying the Pleiades as stars in motion and Orion as stars that will always look the same are literally incalculable. The first telescopes weren't invented until the 1600s. Thousands of years after Job. We did not know about galaxies until the 1930s. We had no ideas about spectranalysis or Doppler shifts in light. In short, at the time Job was written nobody except the Creator Himself could have made that statement. And for thousands of years afterwards, for that matter. Now if God is so surgically precise in a couplet of poetry, why would His creation account be any less accurate?

Seattle is Dying - YouTube

timon_phocas comments on Apr 1, 2019:

My mother died from a heroin overdose in March of 1962. I was a few months shy of 8. It was an aberration in 1962. Now it's just another lifestyle choice. See how tolerant we are? Each one of those people sprawled on the street is a catastrophe. It is a life gutted, reduced to a craving, so that some gangster can send bales of cash to cartels in Mexico. And in their wake there are hungry babies and lost, bewildered, hurting children. But see how tolerant we are?

Some educators seem to suffer from cognitive dissonance when describing the atmospheric greenhouse ...

timon_phocas comments on Apr 1, 2019:

Has anybody searched for correlations between sunspot cycles and historically observed climate variations?

One of our left leaning British cousins brought up the KKK.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 31, 2019:

Absolutely agree. Pioneers described the Platte River as "a mile wide and an inch deep." You can say the same thing about the US catalogue of racist kooks.

[youtu.be] Jordan B. Peterson - Liberty University

timon_phocas comments on Mar 31, 2019:

Doctor Peterson is right on so many levels. But he accepts that life is a finite, zero sum proposition. Like Socrates or the Stoics, he has answers for, he can improve, just about any sutuation except mortality. I find that unsatisfying. But then again, I am a Believer.

I happened to listen to Dave Rubin's discussion on abortion with a pro-life activist yesterday.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 31, 2019:

Abhorrent. They're looking more and more like the slave trafficers of rhe 18th and early 19th centuries.

I have to say I owe a lot to Ben.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 30, 2019:

Howdy SmartAlec, Welcome to classic liberalism. You are living proof progressive liberalism only exists because of the media monoculture. William F. Buckley, godfather of modern conservatism, once ran for mayor of New York City. He lost, of course, but there was an interesting side effect. The New York Times sent reporters to cover his speeches and rallies. The normal procedure was to assign a single reporter ro cover a candidate's campaign. In Buckley's case, however, they had to keep rotating reporters, because he kept converting them to conservatism. I guess nobody thought to rotate you out.

As a fan of Steven Crowder, I saw a change my mind post about, Socialism is Evil -Change my mind.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 30, 2019:

The basic problem with socialism as an overriding organizing principle is that it contradicts human nature. No socialist society has ever been prosperous. From Sparta on, they've all limped along and then foundered. But they all depend on helots to keep themselves afloat.

I spent my career in publishing, now retired.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Howdy IamPops, I visited UC Berkeley in the Fall of 1970. There was a Vietnam War protest at Sather Gate. About a half-dozen people walking in a circle and desultorally chanting slogans. There was also a television crew. That night we watched the report on Channel 4 CBS news. They had spliced together tape of the protest and the daily lunch rush (ten thousand students running through Sather Gate to be first in line for the perfect BigMac). They strongly implied, but did not actually state, there was a riot. So "journalistic integrity " has been a highly elastic standard for a long, long time.

"The simple answer is that all the public concern about “fake news” was just a ruse — the tech...

timon_phocas comments on Mar 27, 2019:

There's an old joke: "Commissar, Commissar! The people are revolting!" "You're not so pretty yourself, Karlov..." It's a joke, but it encapsulates what our "betters" think of us. They are appalled that we have heterodox, even heretical, opinions. We are, after all, the "smelly Walmart shoppers" of the political world. It is to be expected thay will try to censor us out of existence. It is just as inevitable we will migrate to platforms like this.

Originally, 51% voted to leave the EU. Seems the Brits have changed their minds. Thoughts?

timon_phocas comments on Mar 25, 2019:

The polls prior to the Brexit vote showed a majority in favor of the "remain" option. The polls have a history of being inaccurate.

[gellerreport.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 24, 2019:

JBS has a beef plant in Greeley. A lot of Somalis have been settled here and so a lot of Somali women work there. The men don't seem to be able to discipline themselves to eight hour work shifts (the make good OTR drivers, though). There have a lot of stoppages by the Somali women for the same issues listed in the article.

[gellerreport.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Orthodox Judaism separates genders in synagogue services. Observant Orthodox men avoid touching women outside of their immediate family. Ultra Orthodox neighborhoods in New York have signs on sidewalks warning women to behave modestly. And yet nobody is raising a hue and cry about Jewish Orthodox terrorism. I would submit to you that gender separation is not an indicator of violent intent. The doctrine of jihad is.

I wonder if Mueller will vindicated anything in the dossier that Hillary and the DNC paid for and ...

timon_phocas comments on Mar 23, 2019:

If there was any substance to the Steele Dossier, Adam Schiff would have leaked it already

At first I thought this group was just a fake scheme to cash in on a niche to get people into a ...

timon_phocas comments on Mar 22, 2019:

Perhaps I should take offense at that statement... I'm not a degenerate? There goes my wild, free wheeling self image! Oh wait, "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" reruns are on the TV. Gotta go...

hi everyone I'm so glad to be a part of this community.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 22, 2019:

Howdy David, Welcome to the food fight! Pass the mashed potatos... I do admire your outspoken courage, but as a recovering Jarhead (smile on when you day that!) I would encourage you to emphasize cover and concealment when you're under fire. If this is where you need to be to achieve a specific life/career goal, then lower your head and become one with the milling crowd. You'll have less chance to become a target of their ire. Try to find kindred souls to express yourself freely. And then treat the school like Sherman treated like Georgia, take everything of value and move on. God bless in your education

Sargon of Akkad with Tommy Robinson talking abut the UK police, deplatforming, immigration, racism, ...

timon_phocas comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Donald Trump

Greetings, Everyone! This is my first post on IDW.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Thank you and welcome to the community. Your story is compelling. The arc of your conversion is intriguing. I am reminded of Ronald Reagan saying, "I did not leave the Democratic Party, the Democractic Party left me." And that's what seems to have happened with you and academia. I remember registration at USC. A member of the Classics Department tried to recruit me. I turned him down and I've regretted it since. But the joy of knowledge is in the discovery and I've had lots of time for discovery. So thanks again, and welcome aboard.

Can free markets exist without legal intervention to guarantee competition?

timon_phocas comments on Mar 19, 2019:

Every monopoly seems permanent. The Vanderbilts and railroads. Rockefellers and oil. IBM and computers. And then, suddenly, they're not so permanent after all. Facebook and Google have one now. We're using one of the alternatives right now.

If there's no Russian collusion, what can we expect next?

timon_phocas comments on Mar 19, 2019:

The "investigation" wasn't designed to uncover Trump campaign collusion wirh Russia. It was designed to curry favor with the predicted incoming president, Hillary Clinton. It was a tissue of lies allowing US government intelligence agencies to comprehensively penetrate the Trump campaign and report any dirt to the Clinton campaign and it allies. They never expected any of this to see the light of day. Since Trump won, however, it's been a massive bureaucratic coverup. As long as Mueller continues, they can continue obfuscating.

How Are We Going To Pay Down The National Debt??

timon_phocas comments on Mar 16, 2019:

Newt Gingrich proposed a 'national mortgage' that would cover the debt. Then, like any homeowner, we would have to exercise fiscal restraint to not do it all over again.

Hello everyone.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 15, 2019:

I think there is an unspoken heirarchy here. If actions do not have consequences, then there is nothing to be responsible for. Consequences infer responsibility. If there is no responsibility for actions, no actions can be useful. I am using responsibility as a synonym for causation

Seeking feedback: can human rights be accurately described as "verbs, not nouns"?

timon_phocas comments on Mar 15, 2019:

Well, I hate to quote Bill Clinton, but it depends on what the definition of the word "is" is.. ?

Just joined.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 15, 2019:

I am so sorry the madness of our world has visited you. We all hope there is an island of calm in this frenzied world, even if we can't get there ourselves. May your peace return swiftly.

The recent grounding of 737 max 8s has me concerned.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 14, 2019:

These kinds of problems are fairly common in complex new machines. For instance, the nextgen Corvette is really buggy. They're trying to integrate hundreds of computers, electrical, electro-mechanical, and mechanical systems. And that's just a car. A new airliner has all those complexities at thirty thousand feet with hundreds of passengers.

Pleasure to meet y'all.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 14, 2019:

Howdy Dave, welcome to the asylum! The inmates are friendly. I think we're all looking for something better than, "Trump Sucks! -- Hillary Sucks!" diatribes.

What does the ideal society look like to you?

timon_phocas comments on Mar 13, 2019:

I do not believe in an ideal society. Or at least, as Beatrice says, "Not till God make men of some other metal than earth."

Why does everything have to be acronyms?

timon_phocas comments on Mar 13, 2019:

IDK, Y not TWT it? OTOH, Y?

The democrats are obcessed with getting rid of Trump.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 13, 2019:

Democrats have a unity problem. They have corporatists, crony capitalists, welfare statists, social justist warriors, and socialists. There's overlap between these groups, but also very wide differences. Their only unifying factor be is hatred of Trump. Throw in the fact House committee chairs gain media coverage with dramatic accusations. And political donations, let's not forget the money. Given all that, I think impeaching Trump is more or less inevitable.

Give us your (short) opinions on God 1) Does God exist?

timon_phocas comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Karl Barth, considered the most profound evangelical theologian of his time, summed up his writings by saying, "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." Simple yet elegant. I look at the universe and see the work of a creator. I look at history and see the same. I look at the Bible see it conforms to what I know about history and science. I am convinced this is correct. Others are not and I do not know why because I do not know their hearts.

Why did Hitler & Stalin go to war if they were both leftists?

timon_phocas comments on Mar 10, 2019:

I think a quote from Erdrogan of Turkey is illuminating. He said that democracy is like a street car, you get on it to go somewhere and you get off when you've arrived. Erdrogan used democracy to achieve power and then "got off." Socialism is the same kind of street car. You use it to achieve power. When dictators have the power, they act like the kings of old.. Well, the kings in their fever dreams, anyway. Hitler acted like the Kaiser. Stalin acted like the Czars. Erdrogan is acting like the sultans.

I recently watched Leaving Neverland.

timon_phocas comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Michael Jackson was a brilliant, sensitive, twisted deviant. His weird combination of family abuse, audience adulation and strict Jehovah's Witness religion put unbelievable stresses on him.

I'm not sure where I first heard about the IDW, but I DO remember that it was an interview with ...

timon_phocas comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Howdy Jordan, new here myself. Let's see how it works out.