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PufPuf23's JournalRalph Reed's army plans $62 million spending spree to boost evangelical turnout
Source: Politico
Faith & Freedom plans to spend big registering and turning out evangelicals and handing out 30 million pieces of literature at churches.
A prominent evangelical advocacy organization plans to significantly ramp up political spending in the 2024 election with one goal in mind: returning Donald Trump to the White House
Faith & Freedom, a conservative-leaning organization, intends to spend $62 million registering and turning out evangelical voters, texting and calling supporters, and door-knocking — $10 million more than it spent four years ago. The group is expected to, among other things, hand out 30 million pieces of literature in 125,000 churches — many of them in battleground states.
“In terms of home visits and voters reached at the door, to my knowledge it’s the largest effort on the right outside of the Republican National Committee ever,” Ralph Reed, a longtime Republican strategist and Trump ally who oversees the organization, said of the direct voter contact enterprise.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/ralph-reed-army-spending-trump-00146170
Why don't these churches pay taxes?
What about separation of church and State?
Thirty million pieces of literature at 125,000 churches.
California Primary Election Results 2024: Live Maps
The San Fransisco Chronicle has live charts and maps of the March 5 California Primary election.
I do not like the "jungle" primary system.
Live election results for California's once-in-a-generation Senate race, the presidential primary and more
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/california-primary-election-results/
Christian Nationalist Space Lasers Destroying Hippie Mail in Ballots.
The second video (40 sec) is a POV closeup of a redwood tree sheared by lightning, a blazing Post Office, and large pieces of the shattered tree trunk on the highway.
Pretty sure mail in ballots were destroyed.
Lots of weirdo weather in progress.
[UPDATE 7:13 P.M.] LEGGETT POST OFFICE ON FIRE FOLLOWING REPORTED LIGHTNING STRIKE
Friday, 1 March 2024, 6:11 pm Matt LaFever; RedheadBlackBelt
The Post Office in the Northern Mendocino County town of Leggett is on reportedly fire this evening after being struck by lightning.
A firefighter at scene reported a structure, the Leggett store, which is nearby is actively being threatened.
The initial dispatch regarding the structure fire came out around 5:44 p.m. indicating a fire was burning inside Leggett Post Office located at 67674 Highway 271.
The reporting party told dispatch the fire ignited after the structure was struck by lightning.
Videos, photos, air photo, and updates at link: https://kymkemp.com/2024/03/01/leggett-post-office-on-fire-following-reported-lightning-strike/
POTUS Biden Settlement Policy in Israel.
Note just made the same post prior to seeing this three.
The quotes are from TwitterX and don't have an account.
US senator applauds restoration of settlement policy
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen has welcomed the Biden administration’s decision to reverse a Trump-era policy that refused to say that Israeli settlements in the occupied territories are illegal under international law.
“I applaud @SecBlinken for taking this important step to reassert U.S. policy against illegal settlements and to advance a viable two-state future where Israelis and Palestinians can live with equal measures of dignity, rights and security,” the senator said in a social media post.
Former US ambassador to Israel hits out at Blinken over settlement policy
David Friedman, who served as ambassador to Israel under the Trump administration and earned a reputation for controversial acts underscoring his firm support for Israel, has slammed current Secretary of State Blinken’s remarks earlier today that Israeli settlements violate international law, a position the Trump administration did not take.
“Blinken is 100% wrong. I researched this for over a year with many State Department lawyers,” Friedman said in a social media post. “There is nothing illegal about Jews living in their biblical homeland.”
Gov't Mule ft Robert Randolph, Samantha Fish, Ron Holloway - Rambling Gambling Man - Island Exodus14
Several years past, Samantha Fish retired the "Fishcaster" as main guitar and replaced with a white Gibson SG that is a copy of Sister Rosetta Tharpe's white SG. Before that, I was ignorant of Sister Tharpe.
Alarming new warnings about Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
Feb. 19, 2024
Nearly two years since the war in Ukraine began, the IAEA and Ukrainian officials are increasingly worried that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant -- the largest in Europe -- could be on the brink. NBC News' Richard Engel reports.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/alarming-new-warnings-about-russian-held-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-204507205815
The Bible is full of lies formulated and used to manipulate and dominate people by liars.
Not suggesting Bible should be burned but properly educated.
I've read several versions of the Bible plus many books Biblical history by authors like Pagels, Scholem, etc. Have literally 100s of scholarly and collector quality books.
Main use of organized religions is to "otherize" and justify mistreatment or unfair treatment of people who won't or cannot comply or are just in the way. Convenient tool for bullies and haters, however subtle. Convenient tool for politics. Why the USA has separation of church and state, the Founding Fathers were not perfect but got religion correct. Where one finds religions, one finds victims. Christianity and Islam for example.
Anyone recall Vaughn Meader and his parody of JFK - The First Family?
Abbott Vaughn Meader (March 20, 1936 – October 29, 2004) was an American comedian, impersonator, musician, and film actor.
Meader began his career as a musician but later found fame in the early 1960s after the release of the 1962 comedy record The First Family, written and produced by Bob Booker and Earle Doud. The album spoofed President John F. Kennedy – who was played by Meader – and became the fastest selling "pre-Beatles" album in history[1] and went on to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1963. At the peak of his popularity, he performed his Kennedy impersonation on television variety shows and in nightclubs around the country and was profiled in several magazines and newspapers.
Meader's career success came to an abrupt end after President Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963. Meader's TV and nightclub bookings were all canceled. Producer Bob Booker quickly pulled The First Family records from stores so as not to appear to be profiting from the deceased President. Meader attempted to take his career in a different direction by performing non-Kennedy-related comedy and released a new comedy album, Have Some Nuts!!!, in early 1964. However, sales for the album were low as public interest in Meader had waned. His career never rebounded as he was too closely associated with President Kennedy. Meader eventually returned to his native Maine where he resumed performing music and managed a pub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_Meader
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Here is a rare treat about the Klamath River and how appeared 100 years ago.
California's Redwood Wonderland - Humboldt County; Thornbury, Sunset Press 1923The entire book is some kind of wonderful. Two of the later chapters describe a trip by dugout canoe from Somes Bar (mouth of Salmon River where Humboldt County meets Siskiyou County to where the Klamath meets the Pacific Ocean at Requa in 1921. The road from the coast reached Orleans in 1921. Chapter XXIV (page 148) Down the Klamath and Chapter XXV (page 156) From Martin's Ferry to Requa (Martin's Ferry is the is the intersection with Bald Hills Road (still partially unpaved) that is the back entrance to Redwood National Park and traverses Lady Bird Johnson Grove prior to joining 101.
What is described is country that after less than 75 years of miners and other settlers and the impact of their activities, most that occurred when the area was only accessed by mule, horse, or foot. Thornbury drove to Orleans and went by trail to Somes Bar. The dams being removed are father up the Klamath in Siskiyou County and Oregon.
Here is the link to a pdf (page 149): https://archive.org/details/californiasredwo00thor/page/148/mode/2up
The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begun
The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begunAs US dams age, removal is always an option—and it can be done well.
ALKA TRIPATHY-LANG - 1/11/2024, 4:00 AM, Ars Technica
Wending its way from the Olympic Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington’s Elwha River is now free. For about century, the Elwha and Gilnes Canyon Dams corralled these waters. Both have since been removed, and the restoration of the watershed has started.
The dam-removal project was the largest to date in the US—though it won’t hold that position for long. The Klamath River dam removal project has begun, with four of its six dams—J.C. Boyle, Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2, and Iron Gate—set to be scuppered by the end of the year, and the drawdown started this week. (In fact, Copco No. 2 is already gone.)
Once the project is complete, the Klamath will run from Oregon to northwestern California largely unimpeded, allowing sediment, organic matter, and its restive waters to flow freely downriver while fish like salmon, trout, and other migratory species leap and wriggle their way upstream to spawn.
Article with maps and photos: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/the-largest-us-dam-removal-effort-to-date-has-begun/
With one down, Klamath dam removal proceeds on schedule
By Juliet Grable (Jefferson Public Radio); July 16, 2023 6 a.m. Updated: July 18, 2023 11:17 a.m
Removing the Copco 2 Dam takes deconstruction crews one step closer to drawdowns of the remaining three reservoirs next January.
The first of four hydroelectric dams along the Oregon-California border has been removed from the main stem of the Klamath River. All that remains of the dam known as Copco 2 in Siskiyou County, California, is the headworks of a diversion tunnel adjacent to the now free-flowing river.
“As little as a month ago, it was a 35-foot concrete dam that spanned the entire width of the Klamath River right there,” says Mark Bransom, CEO for the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, which is overseeing dam removal.
From a nearby overlook of red volcanic rock, an excavator looks like a child’s toy as it chips away at the remnants of the concrete wall that was embedded in the river.
When complete, the overall project will be the biggest dam removal in U.S. history and will reopen 400 miles of fish habitat that was cut off for more than a century.
Deconstruction activities on Copco 2 will continue until September. Getting this first dam out of the way takes deconstruction crews one step closer to drawdowns of the remaining three reservoirs next January.
More article and photos at: https://www.opb.org/article/2023/07/16/klamath-dam-removal-copco-2/
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