Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I am found
Was blind, but now I see
‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed
Through many dangers, toils and snares
We have already come
And grace will lead us home
Ahhhh what a beautiful song Amazing Grace is. I have heard so many versions done by a plethora of people and am always moved in some way being the words above resonate with my soul. Particularly when done with the bagpipes it is incredibly moving.
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There is a bit of eerie quiet in the country the night before the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States. That I just wrote that Joe Biden was going to be anything more than a failed Senator or ineffective Vice President is still a lil mind-numbing to me, but it is what it is.
Many generations of Americans went through much worse to allow me to sit here and ponder today about any of this to complain though. Americans prior to my age group, fought to create this country during the Revolutionary War, fought off an attempt to split the country during the civil war, and defended against fascism in two World Wars on lands that Americans did not live on. My sitting here in shock over having to write the above sentences about Joe Biden, simply pale in comparison to those things.
Ahhhhhhhhh how time flies when you are having some sort of fun.
I’m just old enough to remember the good ole days, like four years ago when you could go to a restaurant without having to wrap your face in a cloth that may or may not prevent you from killing someone. Facebook and Twitter hated you if you were a conservative, but they were still not bold enough to just throw you off the platform for being one because that somehow violated their terms of service. Also, Fox News was leading in the T.V. ratings not trying to chase CNN and the human potato Brian Stelter.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell – an ardent supporter of President Trump – says he would “welcome” a threatened lawsuit from voting machines manufacturer Dominion. Lindell told CBS News a suit would enable him to show the world the recent presidential election was rigged.
However, the Justice Department found no evidence of widespread voter fraud and Trump Administration national security and election officials have called it the “most secure election in American history.”
In a letter dated December 23, attorneys for Dominion asserted that Lindell has “participated in the vast and concerted misinformation campaign to slander Dominion.” They demanded that Lindell stop “making defamatory claims against Dominion” and preserve all documents related to the his “smear campaign” against the company. “Litigation regarding these issues is imminent,” the letter said.
“It’s criminal behavior,” Pressley told CNN’s Don Lemon on Thursday. “I don’t know what else to call it.”
“They have been complicit from the very beginning in their willful criminality to carry the water for Donald Trump and these science denials which allowed this pandemic to rage out of control,” she said of Republican lawmakers.
“And then by refusing to wear the masks, this is criminal behavior,” the Democrat alleged. “That’s chemical warfare so far as I’m concerned.”
Chemical Warfare?
I know that emotions are a bit high and sometimes people just rifle off the very first thing that pops into their heads, but not wearing a mask is akin to chemical warfare? I’m not sure the Kurds of northern or southern Iraq of the early ’90s or the Syrians of the last decade would agree, but I digress.