{"id":53801,"date":"2024-01-15T06:29:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53801"},"modified":"2024-01-14T18:31:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T02:31:26","slug":"personal-update-january-15-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/15\/personal-update-january-15-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update January 15, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a quiet day for me. I slept late, while still making sure to get up in time for my grocery delivery, which was mostly accurate, and which the drivers (it was a couple) did help me get into the house so I wouldn&#8217;t have to step over the threshhold. There was one odd substitution which I haven&#8217;t figured out yet. But they did bring the fresh fruit I ordered (cherries and pears) and it was all in good condition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/january-13-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson, writing in Substack,<\/a> has also addressed the brutal murder of a mother and two children by Texas Guardsman, under the eyes of Border Patrol agents, who were prevented from dong anything to save the victims&#8217; lives because &#8220;state&#8217;s rights.&#8221; She has found a very telling quotation to oppose Abbott&#8217;s view of state&#8217;s rights in the writings of, of all people, Andrew Jackson &#8211; one of the last Presidents whom one would call &#8220;woke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/soOUXzFI5WQ?si=l76fGU3YTPCLjZEp\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/crTA1Gwu79E?si=I9VLcq3LAI9yQCeZ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I put Beau second today because I wanted to re-post this from 2021 to demonstrate that I was on the Pope&#8217;s side even before the Pope was. I have been since long before I made the graphic even. The problem with early Christian lifestyle and also with Marxist Communism is not their principles, which are sound. The problem is that for a society to actually live that way and sustain it is that everyone involved needs to be too good to live.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Communism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Communism.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Communism-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Communism-150x130.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><br \/>\nBut I don&#8217;t want to leave out this one today of all days &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53803\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Untitled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Untitled.jpg 714w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Untitled-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Untitled-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a quiet day for me. I slept late, while still making sure to get up in time for my grocery delivery, which was mostly accurate, and which the drivers (it was a couple) did help me get into the house so I wouldn&#8217;t have to step over the threshhold. There was one odd <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/15\/personal-update-january-15-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4111,5096,3751,3725],"class_list":["post-53801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-communism","tag-gop-insanity","tag-holiday","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}