04°C = 40°F
16°C = 61°F 28°C = 82°F 40°C = (1)04°FThursday, July 23, 2026
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
another down to earth Midwesterner
William Dafoe walking through New York like he’s not one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, and on top of that, he seems like a genuinely wonderful human being.
A soprano
https://x.com/GoodNewsMVT/status/1480319352243204098/video/1
A soprano was singing her 4th encore, "Sempre libera" an opera number that has a tenor part, a young opera student spontaneously joins her in song when he noticed there wasn't anyone else singing it
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What makes this moment so breathtakingly beautiful is that Mrs. Mitchell had taught a scrappy young Dwight Eisenhower Bible verses every Sunday from 1907 to 1911 in a tiny church basement, making him memorize Proverbs and Psalms when he'd rather be playing baseball, and she'd written him letters throughout his military career—through both world conflicts, through his rise to Supreme Commander, through his election—always addressing him simply as 'Dwight' and reminding him that 'character matters more than rank.' Eisenhower told his staff that Mrs. Mitchell once made him apologize to the entire Sunday school class for being prideful after he'd bragged about winning a spelling bee, teaching him a humility lesson that shaped his entire leadership philosophy, and he'd never forgotten how she'd pulled him aside afterward and said, 'Dwight, you're going to do important things someday, but never let success make you forget where you came from or who helped you along the way.'
During their White House tea, Eisenhower introduced Mrs. Mitchell to every cabinet member who passed by, saying with genuine reverence, 'This woman taught me everything that matters—respect this lady,' and she gently scolded him for not attending church regularly enough, which made the most powerful man in the world laugh and promise to do better.
When Mrs. Mitchell left that evening, Eisenhower walked her personally to her taxi, kissed her cheek, and pressed an envelope into her hand containing a check for her church and a note:
‘For the place that built my foundation—thank you for seeing potential in a troublemaker farm boy. Your student always, Dwight.'
What absolutely destroys you is understanding that Eisenhower commanded armies and led nations, but he never forgot the Sunday school teacher who taught him that true strength was moral courage, proving that the greatest leaders never outgrow gratitude and that honoring the people who shaped you when nobody knew your name is the most presidential thing you can do.
the trick
“The technique of the big lie consists of two things. It consists first of making a charge against one’s opponents which is frightening and horrible and so extreme that nobody could believe that a decent person would make it if it were not true. Hitler explained this very clearly. He said that if a lie is bold enough people will think there is some truth in it because it would never occur to them in their own experience, to lie on such an exaggerated scale. The second part of the big lie technique is to keep repeating the lie over and over again, ignoring all proof to the contrary.”
-Harry Truman, 1952
equivalent
A man's ability to make decisions is equivalent to a woman's ability to be obedient. Both are necessary for a successful marriage.
behind the scenes with gentiles
In his free time John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, liked to wake up around 5 in the morning, walk down to the Potomac River, strip completely naked, and go swimming. Every single day. This was a sitting President skinny-dipping in the river before breakfast as a personal routine.
There's a legendary story that a reporter named Anne Royall, who could never get him to sit for an interview, tracked him to the riverbank, sat on his clothes while he was in the water, and refused to move until he answered her questions. Historians think that specific tale is exaggerated, but the reason it spread is that the core fact is 100 percent real. Everyone knew the President was out there swimming naked in the Potomac. And the swimming isn't even the strangest part. Adams kept a live alligator in the White House. It had been left with him by his friend, the French war hero Lafayette, and Adams reportedly enjoyed putting startled guests in the room with it just to watch their reaction. He was also a relentless diary keeper who journaled almost every day of his adult life for around 68 years, leaving behind one of the most detailed personal records in American history, including his casual notes about, yes, the naked swimming. So the real John Quincy Adams: up at dawn, skinny-dipping in the Potomac, keeping a pet alligator to spook visitors, and writing it all down in a diary for nearly seven decades. That's a founding father's son, and a President.Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Monday, July 20, 2026
Honus Wagner
"I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum. Tobacco may shorten a man’s life and interfere with his baseball career, but I guess it hasn’t shortened mine a great deal. I have noticed that where a player starts to quit hitting, it will shorten his career a good deal quicker than tobacco. There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer." Honus Wagner. "Honus Wagner was the greatest athlete in baseball. Acknowledging that there may have been one or two whose talents were greater, there is no one who has ever played this game that I would be more anxious to have on a baseball team. The difference between the number one shortstop, all time, Wagner and the number two shortstop, whoever it is, is about the same as the distance between the number two shortstop and the number 30 shortstop. Honus Wagner was a gentle, kind man, a storyteller, supportive of rookies, patient with the fans, cheerful in hard times, careful of the example he set for youth, a hard worker. He was the most beloved man in baseball before Ruth." Bill James. Honus Wagner still ranks in the top 10 all-time, in hits, singles, doubles, triples and stolen bases. Honus Wagner hit an astonishing 20 triples at age 38 and 17 triples at age 41.
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Friday, July 17, 2026
not Muslims
Highest rates of prostitution in the World :
1.Thailand (Buddhist) 2.Denmark (Christian) 3.Italy (Christian) 4.Germany (Christian) 5.France (Christian) 6.Norway (Christian) 7.Belgium (Christian) 8.Spain (Christian) 9.United Kingdom (Christian) 10.Finland (Christian) Highest rates of theft in the world: 1.Denmark and Finland (Christian) 2.Zimbabwe (Christian) 3.Australia (Christian) 4.Canada (Christian) 5. New Zealand (Christian) 6.India (Hindu) 7.England and Wales (Christian) 8.United States (Christian) 9.Sweden (Christian) 10.South Africa (Christian) Highest rates of alcohol addiction in the world: 1.Moldova (Christian) 2.Belarus (Christian) 3.Lithuania (Christian) 4.Russia (Christian) 5.Czech Republic (Christian) 6.Ukraine (Christian) 7.Andorra (Christian) 8.Romania (Christian) 9.Serbia (Christian) 10.Australia (Christian) Highest homicide rates in the world: 1.Honduras (Christian) 2.Venezuela (Christian) 3.Belize (Christian) 4.El Salvador (Christian) 5.Guatemala (Christian) 6.South Africa (Christian) 7.Saint Kitts and Nevis (Christian) 8.The Bahamas (Christian) 9.Lesotho (Christian) 10.Jamaica (Christian) Most dangerous gangs in the world: 1.Yakuza (non-religious) 2.Agberos (Christian) 3.Wah Sing (Christian) 4.Jamaica Posse (Christian) 5.Primeiro (Christian) 6.Aryan Brotherhood (Christian) Largest drug cartels in the world: 1.Pablo Escobar – Colombia (Christian) 2.Amado Carrillo – Colombia (Christian) 3.Carlos Lehder – Germany (Christian) 4.Griselda Blanco – Colombia (Christian) 5.Joaquín Guzmán – Mexico (Christian) 6.Rafael Caro – Mexico (Christian) And then they say that #Islam is the cause of violence and terrorism in the world and want us to believe that. Who started World War I? Not Muslims. Who started World War II? Not Muslims. Who killed about 20 million of Australia’s indigenous people? Not Muslims. Who dropped the nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan? Not Muslims. Who killed more than 100 million Native Americans in South America? Not Muslims. Who killed about 50 million Native Americans in North America? Not Muslims. First, we must define terrorism or understand how terrorism is viewed by non-Muslims. If a non-Muslim commits a terrorist act, it is called a crime; but if a Muslim commits it, it is called terrorism. We must stop dealing with double standards.DNA
A recent study on mitochondrial DNA revealed that the female line of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry closely resembles that of Southern and Western Europe, rather than the ancient Near East, as many scholars proposed in the past.
Ashkenazim, a Jewish group who migrated to Central and Eastern Europe, make up the majority of the world’s Jewish population today.
A recent article in Nature Communications discusses the results of the mtDNA tests. The article, written by a team of scientists led by the University of Huddersfield’s Martin B. Richards, includes the following in its abstract:
Like Judaism, mitochondrial DNA is passed along the maternal line. Its variation in the Ashkenazim is highly distinctive, with four major and numerous minor founders … we show that all four major founders, ~40% of Ashkenazi mtDNA variation, have ancestry in prehistoric Europe, rather than the Near East or Caucasus. Furthermore, most of the remaining minor founders share a similar deep European ancestry. Thus the great majority of Ashkenazi maternal lineages were not brought from the Levant, as commonly supposed, nor recruited in the Caucasus, as sometimes suggested, but assimilated within Europe. These results point to a significant role for the conversion of women in the formation of Ashkenazi communities, and provide the foundation for a detailed reconstruction of Ashkenazi genealogical history.
Earlier DNA tests performed on male chromosomes in Jewish communities generally reveal Near Eastern DNA patterns. Population migration and conversion to Judaism may have led to the growth of the Ashkenazi population. Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry may, in fact, stem from the Jewish community in the early Roman Empire. The authors write that “a substantial Jewish community was present in Rome from at least the mid-second century BCE, maintaining links to Jerusalem and numbering 30,000–50,000 by the first half of the first century C.E. By the end of the first millennium CE, Ashkenazi communities were historically visible along the Rhine valley in Germany.”
Thursday, July 16, 2026
woman writes into happy wife channel
Thank you Karyn! I am a 38 year old female, married mama with three kiddos. I have failed miserably as a wife, finally seeing all of my errors and ways that I absolutely have destroyed my husband. Thank you for your videos, while it was a gut punch to listen to them at the beginning I am now understanding so much more. It is heartbreaking that we as women usually don’t understand it until it is too late.
I hope you have apologized to your husband and asked for forgiveness.
absolutely!
She stated she did say this to her husband. May God bless you as you love your family.
thank you! I have had very long conversations with my husband, before I ever decided to comment on YouTube about it. We have grown together tremendously since we started following Karyn.
Monday, July 13, 2026
the error of modern medicine
1885: they put cocaine in throat lozenges and children's teething drops.
1898: they put heroin in cough syrup and sold it as the non-addictive one.
1918: they put radium in toothpaste, face cream and drinking water, and called it the future.
1920s: they painted radium on watch dials, and the girls who licked the brushes to a point died with their jawbones crumbling.
1920s: they put asbestos in the ceilings, the school walls and the children's ironing boards, as a safety feature.
1923: they put lead in the petrol, the paint and the water pipes.
1935: they fitted x-ray machines in shoe shops, so children could bathe their feet in radiation to check the fit.
1945: they put DDT on the crops, the walls and the children, and filmed everyone smiling in the spray.
1950s: they handed pregnant women thalidomide for morning sickness, and a generation was born without limbs.
Every one of these was modern, scientific, and stamped with total confidence.
The list of things the experts swore were safe is a great deal longer than the list of things that actually were.
Progress has a poison aisle, and every bottle in it once had a lab coat standing behind it.
They'll tell you this time is different. So did they.
Sunday, July 5, 2026
H. L. Mencken
"The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought." ~ H. L. Mencken
What people used to be like
John Quincy Adams, when he discovered that both his father, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson had died on the 50th anniversary of independence on July 4, 1826, he believed it to be a palpable mark of divine grace.
“The time, the manner, the coincidence with the decease of Jefferson, are visible and palpable marks of divine favour, for which I would humble myself in grateful and silent adoration before the Ruler of the Universe—For myself all that I dare to ask is that I may live the remnant of my days in a manner worthy of him.”Pearly
talking about how christian leaders push men into marriage which often ends in disaster, just like in Orth Jud
read the comments from the men who thought they were marrying traditional women but are now divorced
bottom line, doesnt matter if a woman says she's against feminism, or says she's traditional
if she doesn't treat the man with respect
if she doesn't let him lead
if she talks behind his back
she is trouble
and that my friend describes 95% of women in the Western world
that she likes to cook (occasionally) doesn't make her a wife
what makes her a wife is if she likes to feed people
Saturday, July 4, 2026
What happens when you die:
They divide up your stuff
They summarize your life in 500-1000 words.
People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more.
Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work.
Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words.
You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way.
Might as well squeeze every drop out.
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