The Sun Causes Earth Temperatures to Rise and Fall

 We are a little over a month away from the UN's big confab on climate change known as COP 30, or the 30th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Brevity is not the UN's strong suit. Prior to that event, you will hear all sorts of drivel claiming that the "world will end in 10 years unless we do something now!"  Naturally, that something is always to stop using fossil fuels.

The use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas necessarily produces carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4).  Thus, burning fossil fuels is a very grave sin according to the climate alarmists.  But, "very important people" such as Leonardo DiCaprio and John Kerry will fly to Brazil in their private jets to lend a hand to the COP 30 proceedings, thus adding yet more CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere.  While there, they will dine on sumptuous meals while back home, we can barely afford hamburger.

Note, that I do not begrudge these people their private planes.  I would own one of I had a need for it.  The problem is not that these people fly all over in private jets, but that they do so while lecturing the rest of us who use automobiles to get to work every day that we should give up our cars and drive horses and buggies or just walk.

Anticipating the onslaught of climate alarmism, Douglas J. Cotton has a post at the American Thinker entitled Why climate models fail. They fail, in that they cannot replicate past climates, because their premises are flawed. Cotton is not, as you may have guessed, a climate "scientist" but instead views the climate problem through a physicist lens understands a field called thermodynamics.

Mainstream climatology models are fundamentally flawed because they ignore a now established physical reality: gravity — not radiative forcing — governs the temperature gradient in the troposphere. This gradient arises from gravity’s direct influence on individual air molecules, slowing those with upward velocity components and accelerating those moving downward. The result is a vertical stratification of molecular kinetic energy — what we measure as temperature.

To visualize this, consider a sealed vertical cylinder, initially devoid of air. Introduce air molecules through a central aperture. Those that ascend lose kinetic energy (cool), while those that descend gain it (warm). This produces a stable temperature gradient — an equilibrium state of maximum entropy — where the sum of kinetic and gravitational potential energy remains constant with altitude. There are no unbalanced energy potentials; the system is in what we physicists call thermodynamic equilibrium (not to be confused with thermal equilibrium).

Thus, what drives the surface temperature of the earth is not a gas that represents 0,04% of the atmosphere, but the Sun itself. Try as we might, there is nothing we can do to change the Sun.

The Government Cannot Always Protect You, But It Shouldn't Keep You From Protecting Yourself

 Over at Ammoland today, Sean Malony has an article entitled The Second Amendment: America's Timeless Equalizer for the Weak and Vulnerable, that makes the point that the Second Amendment to our Constitution is as relevant today as it has ever been:

The Second Amendment matters today for the same reason it mattered in 1791: government cannot always protect you, but it should never prevent you from protecting yourself.

Gentle readers should go and read the article in full. Yes, it is preaching to the choir, but the choir needs preaching to in order to keep the faith in the face of constant propaganda opposing the faith. But I am done debating these issues. I doubt I have changed a single mind other than my own. But the choir still needs to be preached to.

Trump Hates Both Sin and Sinner, as God Directs

 I know, I know...I have been harping on the threat of Islam for the last week or so, and you come here for gun news.  I'm sorry, but there appears to be a reason for it.  Douglas Schwartz today at the American Thinker has an article explaining Why Trump Hates His Enemies. Now, I don't know if Trump is that familiar with the Bible or not, but in the Psalms we learn, as we do elsewhere as well, that God hates His enemies, and expects us to hate them as well. The fact that God forgives men who are repentant and loves them does not cancel out the hatred felt for both the sin and the sinner.

Who preaches hatred while eulogizing “a missionary”?

Trump spoke deliberately.

He’s preparing America for war while placing enemies on notice. He doesn’t support understanding the sinner and seeking to reform him. He hates the sinner and the sin.

So, President Trump hates the people who support the murder of Charlie Kirk. Good for him. But his hatred goes further. It extends as well to the Islamist who are planning war against the United States. Of course, they frame it as vengeance for things done to them. But, just like a bully, they started it and then look at defensive reactions as somehow out of bounds.

Schwartz presents an abundance of evidence that Islam is planning an attack on America comparable in scope to that of October 7, 2023 on Israel, but scaled up to America's giant size. In many ways, it sounds much like Kurt Schlichter's imagined story line in his book The Attack. But this assault will feature the Bin Laden sons for Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah and who knows what other Islamic terrorist groups. They have been training, sneaking into America, strategizing how to turn our system against itself. They will use our technology against us. Note that they never build or use their own stuff, because they never build anything. Instead, they tear down. Even the great wealth of the Saudi's is only because the West needed oil, and Western corporations went and drilled for it, transported it, refined it and distributed its products, while paying the Saudi's for the privilege.  We're funding the attack on ourselves.

Tomorrow Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth is scheduled to meet with flag officers (those with the rank of general or admiral.) Some commenters have supposed that he should have a zoom call instead. But Hegseth is correct here. He doesn't want anyone hacking into his call, and he has learned that electronic communications are not secure. Schwartz points out that if Trump attends, that will also be a signal that war is imminent.

Sarah Adams, Jane Doe, etc. aren’t wild conspiracy theorists. Shawn Ryan (a former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor) hosted her multiple times on his podcast, as well as interviewing Trump, Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, Tom Homan, etc. He isn’t Tucker Carlson promoting crackpot agendas advancing our enemies’ objectives. Lara Trump has also interviewed Adams. Congressional representatives Tim Burchett, Elise Stefanik, and Eli Crane are among those warning about upcoming terrorist attacks. Al-Qaida training camps are flourishing under the Taliban, reconstituted under Hamza bin Laden’s leadership, Osama's eldest son. Individuals such as Sarah Adams or Laura Loomer promulgate information gleaned from open sources or intelligence community leaks. Trump possesses the highest quality intelligence. When he restores the War Department’s name and convenes his military leadership, this means, unlike Pearl Harbor, 9/11, or Abbey Gate, intelligence isn’t ignored, resulting in reactive responses. This time it will be proactive.

Note any threats Trump issues against Middle Eastern officials while attempting to preempt or respond to attacks. Iran, the Taliban, al-Qaida, and Qatar’s leaders may soon experience turbulence.

Gentle readers should get a cup of coffee and read the entire article, as well as check into the hyperlinks. Some of them are quite long, so break it up if necessary. But prepare, as much as you can. If you have a permit, or live in a Constitutional Carry state, carry always. Keep your head on a swivel and stay safe. Remember too, that God put us here for such times as these. We don't want to disappoint him, but remember too that He is always in control, and He will win our battles. We must trust in Him.

Update:  Gentle readers are reminded that the Left is working with the Islamists to bring down America.  Afterwards, they will no doubt fight among themselves, but for now, the enemy of my enemy is my frenemy.

What's To Be Done About Islam

 Vince Conyer has an article today at the American Thinker entitled Nineteenth Century Utah Provides a Template for Dealing With the Threat of Islam. I don't agree with his entire program, but I think he has presented a good start. We, the citizens of the United States need to devise some program to stop Islam in its tracks. Otherwise, Islam will overwhelm us.  It is what Islam has done for 1400 years.  It builds nothing; indeed, it is a religion of hatred and death.

You don't think that will happen. Well, here is some history. The Middle East was majority Christian from around the 3rd Century until the 7th Century. Then Islam came storming out of Arabia and now there are little pockets of Christians left. Those who remain are tortured and persecuted and murdered. While Sub-Saharan Africa was never majority Christian, the Christians living there regularly face death and persecution at the hands of Muslims.

Muslims regularly kill unbelievers, homosexuals, trans-sexual, and other deviants.  That would include "furries."  Say you are a principled atheist. You would be among the first to go. But say you convert to save your life. It is the ideal "religion" for the unbeliever. You don't need actual faith. The devil cannot read your inward thoughts, so as long as you do the outward minimum, you are good to go.  Unlike Christianity, where faith and loyalty are the coin of the realm, in Islam, it is performing your Islamic duties.  But since nobody can do everything perfectly, there are no 72 virgins awaiting Muslim martyrs.  Sorry about that.

Conyer frames the problem of Islam as a danger to the republic by comparing it to Communism, a very appropriate analogy. This is because while Islam and Communism appear as polar opposites, they have much in common in practice.

Islam is not Communism, but it has at its core the goal of eliminating all other religions, quashing free speech, relegating women to 2nd class status, and replacing secular government with Sharia law. Those goals are equally as dangerous to the Republic as anything communism ever dreamt of doing. The difference is that, while the former was shunned or even denounced in the media, in academia, and among most of the citizenry, the latter is celebrated by the media and the intelligentsia while being supported by NGOs and leftist government bodies across the country.

Of course, we have a First Amendment that promises freedom of religion. That’s true, we do, but it’s not an absolute. The latter half of the 19th century saw the United States government essentially wage a 50-year war against the Mormon Church over polygamy, a core tenet of the faith. The United States did everything within its power to eradicate the practice, including outlawing the practice via law and arresting violators while Utah was just a Territory, to refusing to allow it to become a state until the practice was officially expunged. The Church finally relented and, in 1890, banned the practice, thus clearing the way for Utah to be admitted as an ultimately hugely successful state in 1896.

Polygamy—a practice that is explicitly part of Islam—is indeed problematic, but certainly far less dangerous to the nation than the threats that Islam writ large poses for America.

So, what is his proposal?

1. Explicitly outlaw Sharia law nationally and in every state.

2. Monitor and close any mosque that hosts a speaker or features an imam who calls for Sharia law.

3. Ban all funds to organizations in the US coming from nations that have Sharia law.

4. Close any school that teaches or encourages Sharia law.

5. Demand that every mosque and Muslim affiliated organization affirm that the supreme law of the United States is the Constitution and that they will not seek to undermine it, replace it with Sharia, or ngage in or support terrorism in any way.

6. After designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, do the same for organizations in the United States and beyond that support it or any other terrorist organizations.

As I have said, these are a good start. We should outlaw Sharia law as incompatible with a Constitutional republic, and we should enforce it by closing down any mosque that hosts a speaker or features an imam who calls for Sharia. You can do numbers 3 and 4 as well, though it may be tougher to enforce those. Number 5 seems almost pointless. Organizations such as CAIR might publicly say that they don't support terrorist organizations, but they would be lying under Taqiyya, the Islamic doctrine meaning to lie for the cause of Islam.

Right now, a person like Mamdani can claim to be both a Communist and an Islamist. But after these two "religions" have destroyed the United States as a world power, they will war on each other. Frankly, I will not be around for that day, thank God. But my money is on Islam.

Without the Law of Apostasy, Islam Wouldn't Have Survived

 Raymond Ibrahim is a Christian scholar of Islam.  One of his books which is written with the average person in mind is The Sword and the Scimitar, which tells the true history of Islam from original sources. Some have theorized that Islam arose because of the divide between those who believed that Christ was divine, and those who thought he was just a great man. But understand that those who thought he was a great man only are doing the work of the devil. Orthodox Christianity believes that he was true man AND true God. This belief is supported in the Bible, but it is not the topic today.

Instead, I want to write about a YouTube video of Raymond Ibrahim talking with Winston Marshall. The YouTube video is part of a longer interview that you can find on YouTube as well. But it takes over an hour to watch the whole thing. Twenty seconds into this 13 minute segment, Ibrahim discusses the death of Muhammed and the second generation of Islamic leaders. The important thing to note is that war was waged against breakaway groups of Arabs for apostasy. Note what Ibrahim says: "Muslim clerics will tell you that without the law of apostasy, which is that you kill anyone who tries to leave Islam, Islam would have died out." Let that sink in. The only way Islam can survive is by intimidating and killing anyone who tries to leave. It reminds of the Left, where countries ruled by the Communists kill anyone who tries to leave. Hmmm. I wonder if there is a common thread there.

Gentle readers will want to watch the whole video because what you hear is typically the opposite of what really happened. In light of this history, the crusades make perfect sense, at least from the perspective of secular rulers whose land is being overrun by Muslims. But of course God does not need defending. In any case, He doesn't live in church buildings, nor is He tied to any one land. Rather, He is present wherever one or two are gathered in His name.

Jesus tells the story of the prodigal son who asks for his inheritance now. In the story, the prodigal son is the apostate and the father is God. The father gives it to his son, who goes off and wastes it on wine, women and song. Eventually, in a lucid moment, as he has become a swine herder, he realizes that his father's servants have it better off than he does. He thinks to himself that he will throw himself on his father's mercy and appeal to his father to become his servant. To make a long story shorter, the father had a great party to celebrate his son, who was lost and now is found. This is how the Christian God treats the apostate person. Islam's "god" kills them. I would rather throw myself on the mercy of Christ than to be at the mercy of Islam's "god."

The Left Is Doing the Work of the Devil

 Ted Noel has an article today at the American Thinker that is quite explicit in telling the truth about the unseen realm and its influence on the material world around us, entitled Evil Is Real And Has Embedded Itself In the American Left. I was especially happy to note that Noel cites Michael Heiser's Supernatural. One can read the Bible from cover to cover, as I do each year, but without some guidance, such as Michael Heiser, there are parts you will not understand. The people for whom the Bible was originally written knew this background material and had this worldview. We do not and need additional help. But once it is explained, you can read it with more understanding, and it really does make sense. Of course, to truly makes sense, one needs to read it with the eyes of faith.

Noel begins by noting that a number of people seem to be throwing around the term "evil" with reference to Charlie Kirk's murder without understanding what evil really is. Many may be, for all I know. I have not tossed it out lightly, but I haven't defined it either. It seemed obvious, but maybe not be so.

With the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the word “evil” is being tossed around. It seems to be little more than a verbal equivalent to “fascist,” “racist,” and a handful of other words that are used without a second thought for what they actually mean. We are appropriately repulsed by the act, so we call it evil. But few of us truly understand that these “horrific” acts have a fundamental connection to the realm we cannot see. Yes, I’m going to discuss theology, because there is no other proper explanation for the acts of the assassin and any co-conspirators. Argue all you want, but it is the truth, and the truth remains the truth, whether you agree or not.

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If you steal my stuff, I’ll get upset. But it’s the state statute that makes it criminal, and that law was created by a legislative body that has the right to make laws governing our behavior. It has the higher authority required for law-making. The law against theft echoes “Thou shalt not steal” from the Ten Commandments for a good reason. Good laws follow God’s moral commandments.

Good and evil are actually descriptions of loyalty to God or rebellion against God. It’s just that simple, and evil’s as old as creation. We all know the story of the snake in the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The “shining one” (literal Hebrew) tempted Adam and Eve, and the rest is history. But this doesn’t tell us the back story. (Bible geeks can read Ezekiel 28:1-19 and Isaiah 14:1-20. Just don’t let theologians tell you those are just metaphorical. They’re real.)

Noel, better than I have, makes the point that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, YHWH is real, the Devil is real, the unseen realm is real. The war that goes on in the unseen realm has become obvious to us in the material world.

“Evil,” in the simplest public sense, is service to fallen elohim. They operate to destroy, while YHWH creates and enhances. Every left-wing politician, commentator, and useful idiot is in open rebellion against YHWH, and thus in league with the fallen elohim. They ridicule the two divinely created genders. Christian values are belittled as repressive. Simply failing to bow to the evil ones is an “aggression.” Free speech that disagrees is “violence.”

Many are coming to realize that the Left has fully sold out to evil. The sequence is simple. Some of God’s celestial created beings rebelled. They were given a chance to straighten up and fly right, but instead subverted the humans they were tasked with protecting. YHWH declared their death sentence if they did not repent, but they doubled down. Huge numbers of gullible people have followed their lead, not recognizing that that choice is the source of their troubles.

Peace and fulfillment are good and come from serving YHWH, not the fallen gods. The war has now broken out into the open. The only real question is in the details, but the outcome is certain. As my wife’s license plate frame says, “I know the future. God wins.” Our allegiance will determine our ultimate fate.

Please read Ted Noel's article. The late Michael Heiser can be found at a number of places on Youtube. Additionally you can read an excellent book by Heiser called The Unseen Realm which explains much of what Noel writes. Even if you don't believe, it is good to know this understanding of Christianity.

The Left Will Not Stop, You Must Understand

Mike McDaniel has an important reminder for normal Americans in a post at the American Thinker today entitled After Charlie Kirk's murder, what now?. That reminder we'll get to in a moment, but I wanted to bring you along, as McDaniel does, rather than just blurt it out.

Who could have imagined one day we’d be saying: “I think murder is a bad thing. What’s your opinion?”

The Ten Commandments tell us we shall not kill, but the correct translation is “murder.” It’s a distinction the Bible makes abundantly clear. Killing is sometimes justified; murder is not. The Left rejects God and God’s Word, and every bit of necessary behavior, every bit of morality that flows from it, while simultaneously thinking themselves morally and intellectually superior.

When vile, drugged felons are killed in self-defense, or commit suicide by cop, they become instant unholy social justice martyrs—so long as there is political advantage in their faux canonization. The ascension of such demons as Michael Brown and George Floyd is celebrated by rioting looting, arson, assault and murder, which fuels the further degradation of civilized society.

When a Godly man like Charlie Kirk is assassinated, no one elevates him to sainthood. They mourn a life well lived, a man worthy of emulation, a man who accomplished much in a short life. The mourning is brief because people of faith know there is more than this life, and they celebrate that such a man lived. There is no rioting, no looting, no one is harmed. There are prayers. memorials and candlelight vigils, which leftists mock and try to disrupt.

Normal Americans and radical Leftists are not the same. Not even remotely. Oh, the left often imitates normal behavior, but they are not normal. In the strictest sense, they are not possessed by demons, but they are often in thrall to demons because they get what they most desire by being willing to do the demon's work. And what is the demon's work? Undoing the good that God has created.

There is embedded in McDaniel's piece a X post by one Kevin Bass that explains what McDaniel is saying very succinctly. I don't know Kevin Bass, but what he says rings true based on what others who were leftists and have left that world behind have also said: the Left will never stop until it achieves victory. The only two options are to be crushed or to crush them. Got that? To live in peace we must defeat them. But since someone will always find the devil's ways advantageous, we must always be vigilant and ready to crush them.

Make no mistake, this is a war of good versus evil on this plane of existence. But there is another plane, a spiritual one which once you get a glimpse of it, you can't unsee it. I think this is what St. Paul meant in 1 Corinthians 13:12 "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." The battle rages there as well.  As soldiers in God's army, we cannot fight as they fight, but must fight as He would have us fight:

Some argue now that Republicans are—barely—in power, it’s necessary to weaponize the DOJ against Leftists, to abuse power and treat them like they treated us. To so crush them they’ll beg for mercy and promise never to misbehave again if we’ll only stop doing to them what they did to us.

They’re not like us; they glory in that.

What we must do is fully restore the rule of law, which eschews tribalism, which demands individual responsibility, which treats everyone as equal under the law and guarantees individual liberties, the liberties the Left gleeful revoked under Biden’s Handlers.

Letitia James isn’t being prosecuted because she badly abused the law to get Donald Trump, but because there is compelling evidence she broke the law, and that’s something a state Attorney General can’t do. The same is true of Lisa Cook and Adam Schiff, because members of the Federal Reserve and Senate can’t break the law either. They’re our hired hands, not our rulers. It’s not political retribution, but the equal application of justice from which leftists thought they were immune.

Normal Americans need only keep their hard-earned understanding in mind as they keep a much closer eye on America’s domestic enemies, because they know Bass is right. When Leftists demand Normal Americans refrain from doing to them what they did to Normal Americans they’re admitting their sins and their never-ending intentions.

Again, I urge gentle readers to go read McDaniel's post.