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2 Peter  3:8
My friends, here is one thing that you must remember. In the Lord God’s mind, one day and 1,000 years are the same. For him, 1,000 years is like a single day.

Believe me my friends. I trust The Lord God a lot more than I trust the government. In fact, there is no comparison possible.

By my calculation, instead of 75 years old, I am 27,375,000 years old.

I am an Optimist and this means two things to me:

1.  I do not look bad, considering my age.

2.  Social Security owes me a REALLY HUGE CHECK!

Today’s Word is….FLUCTUATIONS

I will never hear or see this word again without
thinking of
this joke.
-Sheila Tolley-

Image result for fluctuations
I was at my bank today; there was a short line.

There was just one lady in front of me, an Asian lady
who was trying to exchange yen for dollars.

It was obvious she was very irritated.

She asked the teller, “Yesterday, I get two hunat dolla fo yen. Today I only get hunat eighty? Why it change?”

The teller shrugged his shoulders and said,

“Fluctuations.”

The Asian lady says, “Fluc you white people too!”

Daily Wisecracks & Wisdom

Stop asking a clown why he keeps acting like a clown,
ask yourself why you keep going to the circus.
Anonymous

Fun Facts: Amazing Facts Part 8

In the town of Laguna, Brazil, a pod of bottlenose dolphins has been cooperatively fishing  with fishermen since 1846. The dolphins herd mullet fish toward the shore and signal the fishermen to cast their nets.

The Pronghorn Antelope has ten times the vision of humans, which has left scientists to believe that on a clear night they can see the rings of Saturn.

For eight consecutive years, a Greyhound dog named Jasmine, who survived in a shelter, was the surrogate mother to over fifty rescued animals; including puppies,foxes, four badger cubs, fifteen chicks, eight guinea pigs, fifteen rabbits, a deer, and a goose!

There is a limestone wall in Bolivia that is home to over five thousand dinosaur footprints, some of them dating back nearly sixty-eight million years.

In 2013, a cat named Cookie went missing while on holiday with her owner in Grasse, Southern France. Eighteen months later, Cookie returned dirty and emaciated, having traveled a journey of 700 miles to get home.

A stray junkyard named Lillico walked up to eight miles every night through the streets of San Carlos, Brazil to collect a food parcel. Upon returning home, she shared the food with her family: a dog, a cat, some chickens, and a mule.

In 2015, a goat was placed in a Siberian Tiger enclosure in the Far Eastern Safari Park in Russia. It was supposed to become the tiger’s food, except the tiger and goat became friends.

THE SPHINX—HISTORY VERSUS MANMADE

Trump says not a dime.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/17/trump-shuts-down-300b-iran-rumor-were-not-putting-up-10-cents-n2203434

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Senator Kennedy is right—-release the agreement.

https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/us-news/skeptical-republicans-in-congress-arent-backing-trump-on-iran-deal-before-reading-text/

https://www.newsmax.com/ruddy/uae-graham-gulf/2026/06/16/id/1259849/

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Be careful on the Gulf of America.

https://www.breitbart.com/weather/2026/06/16/officials-storm-gulf-america-threatens-millions-intense-rainfall-flooding/

https://weather.com/2026/06/16/storms/hurricane/potential-tropical-cyclone-depression-storm-arthur

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A Reagan biopic is to be re-released.

https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/06/13/america250-special-edition-of-reagan-biopic-rereleasing-in-movie-theaters-n2203326

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Georgia Senate and Governor race.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/06/16/its-official-we-know-who-will-be-duking-it-out-for-georgias-senate-seat-in-the-fall-n2677866

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/06/16/rick-jackson-wins-the-republican-ga-governors-runoff-beating-trumpkemp-endorsed-burt-jones-n2203415

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Alabama runoff.

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/06/16/barry-moore-wins-runoff-for-tubervilles-senate-seat-despite-a-dewey-defeats-truman-snafu-n2203406

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Trump on lying media.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2026/06/16/trump-levels-legacy-media-over-lies-about-iran-deal-n2677824

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Honolulu is a Hell on Earth.    This is why you need to keep local officials on a short leash.

https://nypost.com/2026/06/13/us-news/widow-faces-losing-home-of-56-years-after-city-racked-up-10k-a-day-penalty/

Armed citizens in Georgia, USA.

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/06/12/potential-mass-shooting-in-georgia-stopped-by-armed-citizens-n1232848

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Children and beagles are being removed from the medical experiment options.

https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/06/15/kennedy-and-rollins-make-a-huge-announcement-about-ridglan-farms-n4954007

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More crime caused by the Democrats.   I miss the caravan photos of illegals marching thru Mexico to get here.

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/06/15/report-hazardous-device-incident-prompts-evacuations-at-cleveland-area-dhs-office-n2203373

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They need more signs or warnings.

https://nypost.com/2026/06/15/us-news/friends-killed-while-sleeping-on-santa-cruz-beach-along-highway-1/

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The History Editor:    What’s up with history, LL ?

The Santa Anna Cat:    Here is one reason that California has so many wild fires.    Before modern times the fires would burn naturally.   The last 50 years or so the under brush has been allowed to accumulate.

https://longnow.org/ideas/the-historical-land-practices-behind-californias-fires/

People deliberately start some fires, electric lines start some.   Californians build in areas where it is dangerous, and brush isn’t allowed to be cut.   They build in the path of the Santa Anna Winds, which happen every year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds

People get an idea and go against nature with stupid stuff.   This is a totally preventable disaster.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/04/wyomings-golden-eagles-now-facing-extinction-risk-from-wind-farms-n2203028

They will finish before the general election.

https://genesiustimes.com/california-vows-to-keep-counting-votes-until-pratt-hilton-are-eliminated/

https://portlandtribune.com/

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Get the Morning Joe guy on MS NOW.

https://babylonbee.com/news/60-minutes-begins-search-for-new-pompous-blowhard

https://www.breitbart.com/

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Possible Supernova Remnant in Galactic Center
Image Credit & Copyright: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UCLA/Z. Zhu et al.; ESA/XMM-Newton; Optical: PanSTARRS; Radio: MeerKAT; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and P. Edmonds
Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
Explanation: Do you see that blue blob to the lower right of the image center? Astronomers think that it shows where a massive star exploded as a supernova whose light reached Earth 1,700 years ago. The image combines optical data from the PanSTARRS telescopes in Hawaii (background stars in red, green, and blue), radio from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa (large red cloud) and X-rays from NASA‘s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton (shown in blue). The large cloud is a star forming region called Sagittarius C, which is approximately 50 light-years in extent and about 26,000 light-years from Earth. It is located only about 260 light-years from the supermassive black hole in the center of the Galaxy (off to the left of the image). If the blue blob is confirmed to be a supernova remnant, it would be one of the closest ever discovered to the Galactic Center. In this dense region, the deaths of massive stars are connected to the birth of new stars through gas and magnetic fields in a complex way.

Tomorrow’s picture: Vincent

Bible Verse

I will help those who feel tired. I will make those who feel weak strong again.