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Mitch

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“Fides et ratio.” – “Faith and reason.” Follower of Christ. Husband to Lana, Father to Stephen and Mariah. Peaceful, not harmless. Voluntarist in training. Fermenter of many things. Retired U.S. Air Force NCO. Linux enthusiast. Ham radio operator (WB5UZG)

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Q. 13. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?

A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Montana Congress passes right to use #Bitcoin law

The Financial Freedom and Innovation Act bans CBDCs, and protects self-custody, mining and node operators.

https://m.primal.net/QMvP.mp4

"Right to use" 🙄

AnnSofiNovelist

But we're all friends here too though, right?! 😇🤣 just friends we haven't met in person yet...

I do still have a Facebook for a similar reason. But that doesn't mean I'm not actually having more fun on Nostr 😎

I prefer the term friendly acquaintances. I reserve the term friend to specific people and circumstances.

AnnSofiNovelist

Is your wife on Nostr?

No, she's a Facebook person because all her friends are there.

"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself."

- DL Moody

⚡️🕘 NEW - President Donald Trump calls for making Daylight Saving Time permanent

Agreed.

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Q. 12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?

A. When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon the pain of death.

Gal. 3:12; Gen. 2:17.

Q. 11. What are God’s works of providence?

A. God’s works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.

Ps. 145:17; Ps. 104:24; Isa. 28:29; Heb. 1:3; Ps. 103:19; Matt. 10:29-31.

The Meme Bay 🏴‍☠️

STOP. This is a Meme Checkpoint 🚨

Post the last meme you saved on your phone. No thinking. No context. No moral compass.

Zapping the worthy ⚡ Scrolling past the weak 🗑️

#MemeCheckpoint

"Still I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider to most enviable of all titles) the character of an honest man."

- George Washington

Interesting sunrise pics

The best possible outcome, the greatest economic recovery, is in vain if the Lord God of the Bible is not honored by it.

Q. 10. How did God create man?

A. God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

Gen. 1:26-28; Col. 3:10; Eph. 4:24.

Ben Justman🍷

A 20% tariff on wine sounds simple.

But in the U.S., wine moves through a system designed to multiply cost:

Producer → Importer → Distributor → Retailer → You

Each layer adds its margin.

So when the base price goes up, the whole chain compounds it.

Here’s how imported wine moves through the system:

→ Producer sells the wine for $10

→ Importer adds 35% → $13.50

→ Distributor adds 30% → $17.55

→ Retailer adds 40% → $24.57

That’s how a $10 bottle becomes $25—before any tariff.

That’s just the system.

Now let’s add a 20% tariff to that $10 bottle:

→ Producer + tariff = $12

→ Importer markup → $16.20

→ Distributor markup → $21.06

→ Retailer markup → $29.48

The price didn’t rise by just $2.

It rose almost $5—because each step adds margin to a higher base.

That’s the multiplier effect.

This system what put in place after Prohibition.

The government banned direct sales to control alcohol.

They split the chain into tiers to make it easier to tax and track.

It’s not efficient. But it is law.

And that’s just the sales chain.

Even American wine relies on foreign parts.

Most bottles come from China.

Most corks come from Portugal.

Many barrels come from France.

So tariffs raise production costs here too.

A $10 bottle doesn’t become $30 because of a tariff.

It becomes $30 because of the system.

Tariffs just amplify the effect.

If this helped explain wine pricing in America,

please like or repost to help spread the word.

Tomorrow: how we ended up relying on foreign glass.

Meh. I'll just make my own.

Hahaha. What a world we live in.

It's a great time to be alive!

On April 9, 1768, John Hancock refused to allow two British customs agents to go below the deck of his ship. This was considered the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies.

"In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity." - Meister Eckart

Quote-Unquote

"I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom."

– Calvin Coolidge

⚡️🤳 WATCH - Mobile phones of the early 2000s. For most of them, we could hide the camera.

https://m.primal.net/QIut.mp4

And completely remove the battery.

Q. 9. What is the work of creation?

A. The work of creation is, God’s making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, and all very good.

Gen. 1; Heb. 11:3.

“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.” – Rudyard Kipling

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