Waching daily Feb 17 2019

This is Philip Wyeth. Pretty ecstatic right now that the Jussie Smollett hate crime

hoax story's falling apart. Why? Because on the night of the alleged

attack, I wrote this on Twitter in response to the claim that the people

who attacked him said, "This is MAGA country!"

I wrote, "This is Egg-On-Your-Face country." Millions of credulous fools allowing

themselves to be whipped into a Pavlovian frenzy by media manipulators.

But 'the feels' of virtue signaling are too good to resist." Now here we are, two, three

weeks later, and it's all falling apart in outrageous fashion. Every day some new

ridiculous detail is coming out. Will this guy take the fall? Will he go to

prison? Or will it just be one of those things where in the media, "He needs to

take some time for himself, he needs to go to rehab"? And there would be no

consequences for what? Essentially slandering white people, Republicans,

Trump supporters. But what gets me about this whole Smollett thing is it reminds

me of the Ice Bucket Challenge a few years ago. Who had the courage to resist

doing that stupid shit? You know, it took on a life of its own, and so every friend,

every co-worker, every relative kept retweeting or forwarding the Facebook

videos of them taking it, and "I challenge you." And this time it was the celebrities,

the politicians, the media pouncing on this story dujor about some sort of

hate crime. How many of these high-profile people are now gonna post,

"Hey, I was wrong. I had the Fox Mulder reaction from X-Files.

I want to believe." They all wanted to believe that this crime was true because

it allowed them to believe in their narrative, and then do some sort of

public display of... reconciliation, lecturing, self-righteousness about, "We

need to have that conversation." But now that it's all falling apart and proving

to be a lie... No, we need to have this conversation, where jerks like me, assholes

like me who called it out--because my spidey sense was correct weeks ago--I was

the one who was right. Yeah, I'm a straight white guy who called bullshit

on it the day of, while all of you got to pat each other on the back for weeks

because you're part of this self-righteous, progressive,

forward-thinking--allegedly--movement. When in truth it was all a lie.

How many other hate hoaxes have been a lie since the 2016 election?

Remember the Muslim girl who said that guys in MAGA hats ripped off her hijab?

Turns out she was late for her curfew and didn't want to get her dad mad. And

when she went into court a few days later, her head had been shaved by her

father for lying to him! Where were you calling him out for his

toxic masculinity? We're not even two months into the year

and we've had a handful of these events that, on the surface were one thing, which

made straight white males for the most part look bad--and then when the real

story came out, it was anything but us who did it. When will you learn? Or

because you're part of this axis of the education, media, entertainment matrix you

never face consequences for your incorrect assumptions. Your slanders, your

lies. How much money has the Chicago Police Department wasted that could have been

spent on tracking down real criminals, chasing down this lie? How many times are

you allowed to bear false witness against your political enemies before

you face real-life consequences, and not just a retraction or a correction on

page 28 of the newspaper? And all of the websites like TMZ, New York Times, Good

Morning America on TV, who made money on this story, promoting it, not doing their

due diligence on the facts. Do you have to return that money, or maybe donate it

to a charity in the same way that a celebrity or politician gets in trouble

has to essentially give money to some organization that is tangentially

related to the party they aggrieved? I think at the root of this we can track

down conformity as being one of the worst afflictions of modern American

life. And it's particularly evident among the political Left, because they're in

this arms race of going along to get along. I remember when I was at a cigar

shop last year and there was one man I was talking to, probably around my age,

late thirties, smart guy, a lawyer. And he was saying something to the effect of, "change

equals progress." And I disagree, and here's two examples why. Let's say you

lose your arm in a car accident. That is a change, but that is not progress. You

find out you have a tumor on your arm. Again, that is a change but that is not

progress. My guess is that even if Jussie Smollett did

some kind of perp walk press conference, like Tiger Woods did years ago, the true

believers who tweeted about this, wrote articles about it, held rallies about it...

They just will not be able to back down and let it go. They are too invested in

this narrative. You just can't reason with people or so

bought into a certain ideology, narrative, group hug mentality that they are not

capable of healthy skepticism, common sense, or just waiting to see how things

play out. Because the rewards are instant in the Twitter, Instagram, Facebook world.

The bottom line is that the people who are skeptical and had to hold out, hold

the line for the past few weeks and are now proven right tonight--all you've done

is reduced the level of patience or pity we would have for such stories. "The Boy

Who Cried Wolf" is a fable that has stood the test of time for a reason. And it's

now not just the boy who cried wolf, because we can't assume his gender! But

it's basically an ideology that has cried wolf, a mob that has cried wolf. And

I just think that if you keep trying to pull these things over the next couple

of years, you're taking us to the breaking point. And you really don't want

to see what happens when we get that glaze over our eyes and

we just don't care anymore what you think.

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God's Will Is Always to Heal - Duration: 20:18.

(Singing) I know my God has made the way for

me. I know my God has made the way for me.

ANNOUNCER: Jesus is the same yesterday, today,

and forever. And his compassion continues to heal.

Join Kenneth Copeland today on the Believer's Voice of

Victory, as he teaches from healing school that it is

the perfect will of God to heal you.

KENNETH: Let's open our Bibles this morning

to Matthew, chapter eight, verse two, please. We're

gonna look at this. Three different accounts. If you

search Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, there are 19 individual

healings. Now, of course, there's a lot ... Multitudes of

people were healed in the ministry of Jesus. Now it looks

like more than that. But this one. This was recorded three

different times. But there are 19 individual healings. And it's

... Oh. What a marvelous study to see people receive from

Jesus. And I want you to see this morning just how easy it is

to receive from him. And the second verse, Matthew eight.

There came a leper and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you will,

you can make me clean." Now there are millions upon millions

upon millions of Christian people today that have this same

problem. They know He can but is it His will? Well, he is the

same yesterday, today, and forever. Amen! Look what Jesus

said. I will! I will! He's no respecter of persons. If he ever

said that to anybody, then he says that to everybody. Because

he is the will of God in action for all men for all time. Glory

to God. You missed a place to shout right there. Jesus put

forth his hand and touched him, saying, "I will. Be thou clean."

And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Now Mark, chapter one.

And we'll look at the 40th verse. There came a leper to

him, beseeching him and kneeling down to him. And saying unto

him, "If you will, you can make me clean." Now Mark adds this

comment: Jesus moved with compassion, put forth his hand

and touched him and sayeth unto him, "I will. Be thou clean." As

soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed

from him. And he was cleansed. Now, we'll look in Luke, chapter

five. In the 12th verse, Luke 5:12. It came to pass when he

was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy. Now Luke

being a physician, he gives more detail in several places about

sick people. So Dr. Luke let us know he's in stage four. He's

full of leprosy. In other words, he's dying. It's all over him.

My God. My, my, my. Now, who seeing Jesus fell on his face.

Now we see something. We see from these accounts that he

kneeled and worshiped him, and then at some moment there he

just fell on his face. Because you see, those two writers don't

contradict one another. Both of them are right. He kneeled, and

then he just fell on his face worshiping him. This sounds like

it only took 10 seconds. We don't know how long this went

on. We don't know how long. He just worshiped him and just

worshiped him and worshiped him. Moved with compassion. Jesus

moved with compassion. Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.

He put forth his hand and touched him, saying, "I will. Be

thou clean." And immediately, the leprosy departed from him.

Now, let's take a look at this. A man in stage four leprosy. Can

you imagine how nasty and filthy those old leprous sores, all

over him, probably open, running sores. Nobody's had anything to

do with this man for years except another leper. Nobody

would dare touch him. But compassion did. Does that same

something to you? Oh, it does to me. How dare you, the compassion

of God. The compassion of Jesus himself. Glory to God. And now

the man's on his face. So Jesus, I just see him. I can just see

him just get down there right in the dirt with him. And just get

right in his face, and say, one translation says, "Of course I

will." Isn't that good? Of course I will. That what he said

to you this morning. Of course I will. And now you and I are on

this side of the cross. Amen. He bore our sickness. He carried

our pain. Amen. And he's saying the same thing to you and me

this morning. Of course I will! What's he saying? Of course it's

my will. Absolutely my will. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Can you

imagine how ridiculous it would be to have the idea that Jesus

bore our sicknesses and carried our pains in his own body on the

tree. And then say it's not God's will to heal today? Let me

ask you something. Does God ever change? CONGREGATION: No!

KENNETH: Did you know his name's not God? That came out of German

theology. Gott. He's got a lot of names. And in the English

Bible, it's just God this and God that and God this. But he is

Jehova Rapha. CONGREGATION: Yes! KENNETH: I am the lord that

healeth thee. CONGREGATION: Amen! KENNETH: His name is

healing. CONGREGATION: Amen. KENNETH: So when did he change

his name? He didn't. CONGREGATION: Amen! KENNETH: He

didn't. He had theologians take care of that for him. And they

really screwed it up! Because he's never changed. He is the

Lord that healeth thee. Well, yes, Brother Copeland, but you

see that was in the Old Testament, and that was for the

Jews. Well, what about the other 11 tribes? Huh? I like that.

Huh? Yeah. Jew is just short for Judith. CONGREGATION: Amen.

KENNETH: No, it's not the Jews. It's the seed of Abraham.

CONGREGATION: Amen to Lord the God! Hallelujah. Hallelujah!

KENNETH: And if the new covenant is a better covenant with better

promises, we didn't get cut out. We got more of it. Amen!

Hallelujah! Somebody got healed of asthma right then, just while

I was talking. Praise God! Thank you Jesus. I'll suck some good,

clean air down in those healed lungs right now. Hallelujah! Oh,

I got healed of that when I was a little boy. I now what that's

like when I was just a little guy. For short time. Praise God!

But thank God. I thank God for mothers that pray. CONGREGATION:

Amen! KENNETH: Now my daddy was a praying man, but you know,

mama was serious. Now I mean, while dad's at work and she's

praying. And she prayed polio off of me when I was a little

kid. I tell you, that's amazing. And this is back during the time

when polio was just ... And I had a good friend. She was a few

years older than me. And that horrible disease attacked her.

Well, I was in bed with what they thought was the flu. And I

had a stack of magazines laying on my bed there. I was 12,

probably. I don't think it was any older than that. 10 to 12,

something like that. But I was feeling better. And my magazines

were stacked down there, and so I decided, well, I'm gonna get

one of my magazines. And I couldn't. And why can't I? Why

can't I make my body move? I'm propped up in the bed, but I'm

wanting to reach over there and get my magazines. But my body

not working. And I'm sitting there, I'm thinking, well, you

know, I hollered mama. She came running in there. And I told

her. Well, it never occurred to me. Polio never occurred to me.

I just couldn't figure out what was happening to me. Man, I tell

you, she hit her knees. And she didn't get up. She stayed right

there until I could pick up that magazine. CONGREGATION: Amen! Oh

yeah. Amen. KENNETH: Amen! We were preaching in Shreveport,

Louisiana. Glory me. This is back in the very early days of

our ministry. And I had ... Holding meeting in Life

Tabernacle. And Life Tabernacle was Carolyn Savelle's home

church. And it was at the same time that Jerry Savelle got

saved. In the meeting. It wasn't this particular meeting, but it

was in the same church. And let's see. Jerry had accepted

the Lord, the next time I was there, I believe. Anyway. I

checked in there on Sunday night, and the meeting started

on Monday morning. And I felt a tightness that night in church,

Sunday night. And we were just sitting there in the pew.

Particularly during the worship service. They had one of the

greatest piano players I've ever heard in my life. Anna Jean

Price, tell you, she's something. And I'm just enjoying

the music. And I felt this thing kinda tighten inside my leg. But

I didn't pay any attention to it much. And the next morning, when

I got up, oh man. I had pain. It was, oh. And it just kept on

getting worse. And it started moving down my leg. And lodged

in there somewhere inside my leg there above my knee. And it got

so bad. I'd walk out on the platform under the anointing,

and the pain would leave. I'd step off that platform, and

there was one time I stepped off a platform, and I screamed out

loud before I could stop it. It just slammed me with the worst

pain that I'd ever had up to that time. Well, I won't go

through all the things, but that happened day after day after day

and got worse and worse and worse. Well, this is during the

days. We didn't have an airplane yet, and so we were still riding

airlines. And this is back when Love Field was the airport; DFW

didn't exist. So we got to the gate, and oh man, sitting in

that airline seat. I'll tell you, you know that leg is

sitting there thum, thum, thum, thum, thum. Man, I'm hurting.

And I'm quoting every scripture I can think of. And just, you

know, believe in God. Believe in God. Standing on the Word of

God. You're not doing this to me, Satan, in the name of Jesus.

And I just took my stand, just bit down on it, what Glory

called bulldog faith. CONGREGATION: All right, all

right. KENNETH: The mascot at KCBC is the bulldogs. We got

bulldog face. Amen! So, and the devil said it's a mile from that

gate up to the terminal to get your luggage. And I'm gonna kill

you. He said, "I'm gonna kill you with that." I said, "No, you

ain't. You ain't killing anybody." We got off of the

airplane. There was a guy standing there, nobody called

him. He was standing there with a wheelchair. He said, "You need

this." That wheelchair looks so good. Oh, man. I said, "No thank

you. Healed men don't need wheelchairs." And it was just

about a mile walk on that ... It was the furtherest gate from the

terminal where that airplane parked. And I said, "Oh Jesus,

here we go." So my dad and mom picked us up at the airport. And

I said, we had to go past their house to get out to our house. I

said, "Daddy." I said, "Let's go home. Let's go to your house. I

don't wanna stay in this car for long enough to get to my house."

He said, "Okay." So they just stopped there at the house. And

I went back to that back bedroom, which was my bedroom

for when I lived at home. And by this time, it's about, oh, you

know, it's about midnight, I guess, by the time I got to bed.

And I got in bed, and fell off to sleep. Now mama set down in a

chair right there at the end of my bed. Praying in tongue.

Praying in tongue. Like I told you last night, mama'd say, "Hit

it in tongue, boy. Hit it in tongue." Man, I mean, she

sounded like a machine. Praying in the spirit, praying in the

spirit, praying in the spirit. And I went off to sleep. About

three o'clock, I set straight up in bed. I mean, just sat

straight up in bed. Mother said, "That did it! Good night." Every

symptom gone. Now I'm talking to somebody. I'm talking to

somebody. Somebody in here that God's been dealing with you to

do that. CONGREGATION: Hallelujah. KENNETH: And you

haven't been doing it. CONGREGATION: Oh, hallelujah.

KENNETH: My grandfather had malignant tumors across the back

of his shoulders. And he'd been in the hospital, but they sent

him home. And she's sitting up with him. Guess what she's

doing? Oh, she's praying. And she fell off to sleep. Ne he

woke her up. It frightened her at first. She felt she'd let him

die. And she woke up, and he was out of the bed. And he's doing

this. She said, "Papa, what are you doing?" He said, "I'm

getting rid of this cancer." She said, "You're getting rid of the

cancer?" He said, "Yeah." And he said, "This is what Jesus told

me to do." And he's doing this. She said, "why?" He said, "I

don't know! He's standing right there. Ask him!" Totally healed.

CONGREGATION: Amen! Amen! KENNETH: Totally healed. Praise

God. It is the perfect will of God to heal the sick.

ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth

Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.

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Richard Gere is Too Old to Be a Father - Duration: 3:01.

Big Hollywood birth news this week.

Richard Gere has reportedly

just become a father for the second time.

After his wife, Alejandra Silver,

is said to have given birth to a baby boy

a few days ago.

That's right. Soon-to-be 70-year-old

Richard Gere is a dad.

Which means, when the kid graduates

high school, he'll probably be..

dead. He'll probably be dead.

I just-

I just hope they pack in all those

fun father-son activites before then,

ya know? Like going to ball games, and

organizing medications, senior-proofing

the bathroom.

You understand these aren't

old people jokes, I'm making.

I'm describing what this kid's

reality is gonna be.

How selfish are you

to have a baby at 70?

The only person who wins here is the mom.

She doesn't have to get up, three times a night,

to feed the baby,

because Richard is already up taking a p**s.

Now, that was an old person joke.

That was an old person joke.

Unapologetic.

Cause 70 is too old for having babies.

Matter of fact, I see guys way younger than 70

doing a lot of stuff they're too old for,

and we've gotta put an end to this

age-inappropriateness, once and for all.

It's time for The Voice of Reason.

Alright, listen. As a public service for all of you,

I've come up with some general 'don'ts'

for the over-40 crowd. Okay?

Some rules. Alright, first off, your clothes.

Alright? None of this crap. No crazy jackets,

no ripped jeans, no trucker caps.

Alright? You've got crows-feet now,

you're not fooling anybody.

Stop trying to be cool altogether, alright?

You shouldn't be requesting songs

from the DJ anymore.

Matter of fact, get your ass

out of the club altogether.

The only dancing I want to see from you

is slow-dancing with your wife

at somebody's wedding. That's it!

And you can listen to new music,

but you're no longer allowed to listen

to it loudly in your car.

Alright? 'Hey, check it out, Travis Scott.'

Check it out, you're in a school zone.

Move it along, you creep.

No more riding a skateboard.

That's done.

You're somebody's dad!

Finally, you're getting older. Work out.

It's good for you, alright? But it's

far too late for you to start hardcore

mixed martial arts. Alright?

Nobody at the accounting office

cares about your blue belt,

or your first tattoo. Enough.

And, your days of rec-league basketball?

Those are over too.

Sorry. 'Oh, but we're gonna

win the championship.'

No, you're gonna tear an ACL.

Professionals retire at 35.

Get your old ass on the elliptical,

like everybody else.

And that's The Voice of Reason.

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Opinion Is Nancy Pelosi a Climate Skeptic? The New York Times - Duration: 2:31.

Opinion Is Nancy Pelosi a Climate Skeptic? The New York Times

Its time to reckon with the internal contradictions of climate policy.

Opinion Columnist

Is Nancy Pelosi a climate skeptic? Of course not — . But you might be excused for thinking so, given the curt wave off the House speaker delivered to the liberally ballyhooed, legislatively stillborn

The green dream, or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but theyre for it, right? That was Pelosi talking about the deal as if it were a grandchilds latest video game obsession. The San Francisco Democrat is nothing if not a political realist, and that kind of realism means that no Congress is going to mobilize the country to fight climate change as if it were an alien invasion, as my colleague Farhad Manjoo .

Higher mileage standards, more subsidies for wind and solar, signing the Paris climate deal? Those are the sorts of policies Nancy Pelosi believes in, and would happily endorse if stars align under a future Democratic president.

But obtaining 100 percent of Americas power needs through renewable energy, upgrading all existing buildings in the United States to meet maximal efficiency standards, and dealing with the issue of cow flatulence by reducing meat consumption, as the Green New Deal proposes? Fuhgeddaboudit.

Then again, if climate change is a potentially humanity wrecking event, why shouldnt we treat it as an alien invasion equivalent? Lets assume and we dont have a moment to lose in substantially decarbonizing the global economy, no matter what the financial cost or political pain. In that case, isnt Pelosis incrementalist approach to climate absurdly inadequate?

Isnt it, in fact, like trying to put out a forest fire with a plant mister?

Marxists of old liked to talk about the fundamental contradictions of capitalism. Today we should also reckon with the contradictions of climate policy. Are we dealing with a problem so severe that it requires the of war socialism? Or should we think of climate change roughly the same way we think about global poverty — a serious problem we can work patiently to solve without resort to extreme measures like or depriving of the attention they deserve?

If its the former, then another windmill subsidy or carbon trading scheme wont do. We need to take extreme measures: to declare a , every citizens carbon footprint, raise taxes on the rich and middle class alike to fund trillions of dollars in green infrastructure projects worldwide, and even impose economic sanctions on China and India if they dont stop .

If the latter, however, then can we at least end the apocalyptic talk, especially since we arent prepared to take more than piecemeal steps?

So far, activists have been able to elide this contradiction, claiming both that climate change is a , and that we can deal with it relatively easily. That may do wonders for public awareness — do your part and bike to work! — but it is self deceiving, if not dishonest. Whatever else might be said of it, the Green New Deal blows the lid off that delusion. Its a remarkably honest attempt to offer a massive answer to what its authors see as an epochal problem.

Yet its virtue is also its undoing. The Green New Dealers may want to spend trillions on a climate moonshot and trillions more on their other policy hobbyhorses . Most people dont even want to spend pennies, at least if its their own money. , voters in Washington rejected a carbon fee by a margin of 12 percentage points. Thats a blue state. Endorsements of the Green New Deal may have rolled in from Democratic presidential hopefuls, but the chances of them enacting any of it if they take office are about as great as Scott Pruitt being elected to the board of the Sierra Club. Even Barack Obama didnt endorse a gas tax when he had a chance to do so in 2009.

All of this means that climate activists should get wise to a central fact: If Pelosi is skeptical of their policies, where do they imagine the rest the country is? Those who believe climate change will become irreversible, uncontrollable and catastrophic in a few years should get to work on their fallout shelters. The E.P.A. wont be coming to the rescue.

By contrast, those who think climate change is a real but manageable problem would do well to say as much, too. Climate change means change, not doom. It shouldnt be hard to make the case, even to conservatives, for large scale investments in climate resilience, such as better coastal defenses. It shouldnt be hard, either, to make the case even to liberals that dynamic market economies are essential for creating the kind of wealth that makes environmental protections affordable, along with the innovations that make environmental fixes possible.

Pelosis seal clap sealed the fate of the Green New Deal. Now its time to move climate policy beyond impractical radicalism and feckless virtue signaling to something that can achieve a plausible, positive and bipartisan result.

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