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The true President of the United States of Israel has finally arrived; the puppet President welcomes him, acting as a good goy. Something’s creepy about this video though.

Cop investigates pedo and to comfort the pedo and make him feel comfortable states “Hey, this isn’t Nazi Germany dude” Cop doesn’t know it. But he just confirmed your children were safer in “Nazi Germany”

how long it took America to build things: transcontinental railroad: 6 years (1869) Empire State Building: 410 days (1931) golden gate bridge: 4 years (1937) hoover dam: 5 years, finished 2 years early (1936) the pentagon, largest office building on earth: 16 months (1943) alaska highway, 1,700 miles through wilderness: 8 months (1942) a liberty ship: 42 days average, one built in 4 days as a stunt (1943)

One of the greatest things I learned in college came from an old ex-hippie prof who tried to convert to Buddhism in the 70's. She went to Nepal to see the Dalai Lama speak. At one point, he addressed the hippies directly, saying: "It's nice you came to see us from the West, and there is a lot you can learn here. But you did not need to travel to the other side of the planet to learn what is important. You could have just as well knocked at the door of the Church down the street from where you grew up. Never think that the West is devoid of spiritual truth." (I am paraphrasing, of course) As a 19-year-old lapsed Catholic with an orientalist bent, an obsession with Lao Tzu, and a craving for all kinds of exotic spirituality, this hit me hard. It would stick with me for the rest of my life. For some reason, I'd had this idea that all things Western were hopelessly corrupt, not worth considering, bogged down by a kind of hollow myopia that only non-Western cultures had the answer to. I had assumed that Christianity was dead on arrival, and that Catholicism in particular was just shameless grift, power politics, and perversion -- and that somehow, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism (and later, Eastern Orthodoxy) were all somehow "purer." I never thought about this very deeply; the idea was totally reflexive, like an instinct that came from nowhere. But the way my old professor related the Dalai Lama's teachings on spiritual orientalism really changed that for me. It planted a seed that would eventually bring me back to the Church at the center of the most dynamic civilization in human history. It led me to recognize that just because something is foreign does not make it "purer" or "more true." There's something profound in that. Something deeply nourishing about staying home, keeping it simple and even kind of boring. Because the thrust of the spiritual life probably ought not to be some kind of a high-drama sojourn into dizzyingly foreign worlds if we can help it. Because the real core of the thing is simple prayer. It is the imitation of Christ and the reception of His sacred Flesh and Blood into our bodies. It is the quiet unity of the only truly global Church, in union with Rome, and the steadfastness of the old ladies praying the Rosary at the daily Mass. To participate in this is not to miss out on anything; it is not to err or stray or delve into a corrupt, impure world of control and power at all... I ultimately concluded that there is simply no reason for a Westerner to ever "go East" for anything, unless it is simply to learn, to share the Gospel and to sow unity, and to make friends before taking the journey back home. No disrespect to those who have not arrived at this conclusion too; all I will say to them is that if you ever get exhausted at being "the foreigner," know that you can come home anytime, and you will be just as fulfilled here as you would be "out there," if not moreso. That door is open, if you want it. A blessed Sunday to all, praise to our Lord Jesus Christ.