Peters Family Not Always in Agreement with One Another : a grandson refutes his grandfather Leo Peters in Chimes 1989

Peters Family Not Always in Agreement with One Another : 

a grandson refutes his grandfather Leo Peters in Chimes 1989

(Phil Kok is the son of Jim & Linda Kok. Linda was one of Leo Peters six daughters from his first marriage. Linda married Jim Kok, a Calvin College basketball star in the 50's who later became a CRC pastor. Linda attended GR Christian High. Jim attended Holland Christian, although he also lived in Bellflower CA during his elementary school years, being the son of a CRC pastor as well). Leo Peters also had 3 children from his 2nd marriage, after his 1st wife Helen died at a young age. 

The children of Jim & Linda also grew up mostly in Grand Rapids & 3 of the 4 attended GRCH at the same time that the children of Leo Peters 2nd marriage were there also. Mark, Ani, & Teri were the 3 kids from Leo's 2nd marriage. 

After GRCH all 4 of Jim & Linda's kids went on to Calvin College and Phil was there at the time that his grandfather Leo Peters began his attack on Calvin College and Howard Van Til re the book "The 4th Day" that questioned the timeline of the Biblical creation story .. 

Around this time Phil penned this short letter to the Chimes . 

HOW FBI ENTRAPPED PATRIOTS ON JAN6 "Meet Ray Epps, Part 2: Damning New Details Emerge Exposing Massive Web Of Unindicted Operators At The Heart Of January 6 - "

Not just Ray Epps. Numerous FBI agents enticed innocent patriots unknowingly into restricted capitol area & subsequent prosecution for trespassing. In other words textbook entrapment just like the hoax Witchmer kidnapping plot in MI. 

"The clip below is checkmate. It should make ScaffoldCommander one of the top criminal suspects on the entire FBI Capitol Most Wanted List (spoiler alert: he isn't even on the list, and no charges have been filed, and the FBI to date has still never acknowledged his existence.."

https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/ 

Andy's Wedding

The WORST LIFEGUARDS are the full-time permanents at Sunset Beach OC 👎. terrible bossy gangsters "lifeguard's pay tops $500,000, investigation discovers" | Fox Business

The WORST LIFEGUARDS are the full-time permanents at Sunset Beach HB OC 👎. terrible bossy gangsters "lifeguard's pay tops $500,000, investigation discovers" | Fox Business

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/los-angeles-lifeguard-pay-tops-500000.amp 

Walmart at 19340 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503

6.7.22

Cashier felt it necessary to inform everybody that she was experiencing 'menopause'. Appropriate? 

Will she tell us when she's having her period too ?

re American Tire Depot @ 141 W Foothill Blvd, Pomona, CA

re American Tire Depot @

141 W Foothill Blvd, 

Pomona, CA 91767

Richard is the best mechanic, & honest. Josh is decent but you got to push him a little to get the best deal. You have to bargain with him. Don't accept first offer. Make a counter - offer. 

Then there's a BIG fat fellow who DOESN'T seem to know much about anything. He hangs around in the garage - maybe does tires only. He tries to intimidate people. That may be the main reason I won't return. They DON'T need a bouncer. He should be fired 👎

Space X Building in Hawthorne CA

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Who is this guy ?

I remember driving by this little historic movie theatre (Gardena Cinema) but never managed to go there for a movie. Sadly , now it has finally closed (2021)

I remember driving by this little historic movie theatre (Gardena Cinema) but never managed to go there for a movie. Sadly , now  it has finally closed (2021) 

https://www.facebook.com/GardenaCinema/

this starbucks in palos verdes is NO LONGER HERE in 2022. used to be SO popular & busy. What happened ?

this starbucks in palos verdes is NO LONGER HERE in 2022. used to be SO popular & busy. What happened ? I don't go to starbucks anymore so it doesn't bother me-- I stopped going once I found out they support planned parenthood. ProLife  people should NOT support starbucks .  

A Day in the Life: Check this out: Dear Teacher. I was the substitute ...

Check this out:

 Dear Teacher. 

I was the substitute ... 

(based on true event but all real

names removed or altered)

see 

https://pray4lausd.blogspot.com/2022/06/dear-teacher-i-was-substitute-based-on.html

The Soy Infant Formula Fiasco at University of Iowa Fomon Infant Nutrition Program led by Dr. Ekhard Jerkoff Ziegler

The Soy Infant Formula Fiasco at University of Iowa Fomon Infant Nutrition Program led by

 Dr. Ekhard Jerkoff Ziegler

The Soy Infant Formula Fiasco

https://soyinfantformula.blogspot.com/

Review of Palos Verdes hiking

Used to love hiking here to "get away" ...  I managed to accept & work around all the parking "mickey mouse"  🐁 👎 that continues ( new rules every month). 

BUT then the new "ranger(s)"  (seem like city kids barely out of high school) in their white trucks became overbearing - they seem to think they have a right to drive up to you & speak thru their window at you while you walk down the sidewalk. & Later parking near where I was resting - clearly an attempt to assert their presence. 

This is the way it is now going in even the most remote parts _ even a "lifeguard" all year at remote Abalone Cove. It has an ulterior motive: to tell the people that the CA government is IN CONTROL of you in ALL places (whether local city or state) at ALL times. So I just QUIT hiking here.

 I think the residents are finally achieving their goal of getting rid of people. What a SHAME. I can easily LEAVE the state & enjoy epic hiking areas around the country & stay out of CA for months on end. 

BUT NOT all others are so lucky. PV used to be such a special place . I've been coming here since the MarineLand  days.  Key words: "used to be". Farewell. Enjoy the prison you created for yourselves

Dear St Columban Catholic, Garden Grove CA ✝ ❤ 🙏

Update: hello Vietnamese community. I am a white American male & usually attend the English mass but occasionally if i miss daily morning mass i will drop in at the Vietnamese-language evening mass. Notice i say "language" because it is NOT reserved for ONLY Vietnamese-Americans. White Americans ARE allowed too. Please DON'T stare at me like I'm a intruding. I can follow the liturgy on the screen & even use a translator app to understand the homily. We ALL need the eucharist . Please be accepting of me as a fellow believer in Jesus Christ.

CẬP NHẬT: Xin chào cộng đồng Việt Nam. Tôi là một người đàn ông Mỹ da trắng và thường tham dự Thánh lễ tiếng Anh nhưng đôi khi nếu tôi bỏ lỡ Thánh lễ buổi sáng hàng ngày, tôi sẽ ghé vào Thánh lễ buổi tối bằng tiếng Việt. Lưu ý tôi nói "ngôn ngữ" vì nó không được dành riêng cho người Mỹ gốc Việt. Người Mỹ da trắng cũng được phép. Xin đừng nhìn chằm chằm vào tôi như thể tôi đang xâm nhập. Tôi có thể theo dõi phụng vụ trên màn hình và thậm chí sử dụng ứng dụng dịch để hiểu bài giảng. Tất cả chúng ta đều cần Bí tích Thánh Thể. Xin hãy chấp nhận tôi là một người đồng hương vào Chúa Giêsu Kitô

Dear Angels baseball ⚾

@Angels i buy my tickets @ the window because i DON'T like doing it electronically & DON'T want to share my "data" with U & DON'T want an "account" & I DON'T want to share my email. & If i use a signed credit card u have NO legal right to demand ID  , let alone write down my info 🚫. DON'T be jerks 👎

Re Beverly Hills Library

There's a creepy little kid (young adult) who roams around the library with a laptop bragging that he's a " computer programmer " as if anybody cares. On top of that he calls people "faggots" . And if you complain, the staff treat it as an argument between 2 patrons. 

But it's a one-sided un-instigated attack by the creep with the laptop.

 Plus he tries to sit at the library computers with his laptop when there's tables everywhere for laptop users. He got kicked out one time after lying that he had "special permission".  I hope staff permanently bans him sooner before later. 

Re octopharma plasma garden grove CA

They DIDN'T like me after a while because I wasn't cheerful & smiling all the time which tells me that none of the workers themselves regularly donate plasma. Donating plasma usually is NOT painful but it is tiring & is a "job" so to speak. You have to prepare yourself mentally & physically. It's NOT "easy money". It takes time, good health, & dedication. And personally I prefer to watch a movie on my phone while donating rather than chit chat with the workers. 

And occasionally things DO go wrong. A bad jab by one of the workers may have permanently eliminated one of my arms from being useful for future donations. And It was painful for several months. I also detected that they talk about people in the back (ie gossip). This location may need a total shake-up . 

I think this location has stagnated & even a few of the employees have bully personalities & a few are a little lazy. These are NOT exactly the cream of the crop workers.  They even tried to SHAME me for expressing that I was feeling a little pain & discomfort. 

You should feel totally FREE to say something DOESN'T feel right. It usually means they simply need to adjust the needle. NOBODY should feel ashamed for saying it hurts. 

And if you leave it in too long when there is pain it could cause long-term issues to the point that you are unable to donate again. But they have an almost endless line of bodies so they are MORE concerned with quantity than quality. 

 You become expendable.

 Do NOT let them take advantage of you. Keep your own records. Document everything. It's your body. You only live once. DON'T let them treat you like a pin cushion 🚫.

 Assert your rights in a polite manner & if they cut you off for doing so, you know this is NOT the right place to be. There are OTHER places to donate plasma. Or NOT at all. What's more important: a few bucks in your pocket or your health & peace of mind. 

Personally i am  disappointed & am  moving on. A lot of the best workers have moved on too. A few good ones are still there. I wish them the best 

Re John Baptist Catholic, Costa Mesa

I'm concerned about the leadership creating a cult like following. And now you are required to kneel before them to receive the eucharist. Of course they say it's kneeling before God & showing respect to God but it FEELS LIKE YOU'RE KNEELING to the PRIESTS .

 Puchner & Bushmaker are both midwest dudes . Puchner used to be a virtuous brother but I'm concerned he's losing it. I wonder if it's time for the bishop to shake things up a little. These 2 priests have been here for SO LONG now. Pray about it.🙏🙏✝️✝️🙏🙏✝️✝️

re Harbor Auto Service Center Costa Mesa 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟

Harbor Auto Service Center
(949) 574-1858
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ENV1rNVC5Z8YjP1k9 

April 2022: This was one of my BEST experiences ever at an auto repair shop ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. 

They gave me a fair price 💰 to do the job 👨‍🔧 & they did it in a timely manner. They even checked all the fluids and air in my tires and they gave me a discount for cash 💵. And they're very nice and friendly.  Good honest family operation 👍. Not greedy. 

Review re Henry's Towing Service, Santa Ana CA

Henry's Towing Service

(714) 702-6514

https://maps.app.goo.gl/5pD3cC27Gh9A29ss5

My experience with Henry's towing unfortunately was NOT very positive.  Although the driver did a good job of hooking up my vehicle and taking all the  safety precautions,  when I got in the truck with him to get towed to the repair shop he started blaring  "gangsta rap" included all the profanities like the F word S Word B Word  as well as the N word & lyrics very degrading towards women. 

 And I'm a Christian woman and don't like nor approve of this kind of music.   I know there are those people who like to blare it in their car when their driving to annoy people  but you DON'T expect it from a so-called professional tow truck driver while you're driving with him 🚫👎😡.  NOT just very unprofessional but dehumanizing and degrading.

Re Angel Stadium Ticket 🎟 Box Office walk-up Window

What's the deal at the ticket box office window? I  just came there to buy a ticket & he  asked me for my email address.  I said "Why? Are  you going to email it to me? I don't get a hard copy?  

He  said "No we just do that for your account."  I said " I don't have an account. He said " I know. We're going to make an account for you ". I said " I don't NEED nor WANT an account.  Then he asked for my license and  wrote down  my address &  my full name - maybe even my driver's license number etc.

Then he looked over my credit card several times in that white Orange County arrogant style. 

All this just to buy a single baseball ticket. I've been coming here since 1984 when they had the old style Stadium  when the Rams used to play here too.  

 In this day and age NOBODY wants all their information out there without their consent esp not just for a baseball ticket.  GOOD freakin grief. What the hell is going on ? 

Are  they harvesting our information so they can sell it ? Or use it for marketing etc. We're tired of all that facebook crap 👎.  I drive here to buy a ticket in the old school way because I DON'T want to do it online. I DON'T want to make an account and buy a ticket electronically. I just want to buy an old fashioned ticket made of paper.  IT'S already bad enough you can't use cash anymore.  You have to use a credit card.  But now we have to give all our information as well .  I was waiting for him to ask for my social security number.  It's getting tiring & sickening. STOP using us as marketing data 👎. Just STOP . 

Review re Beverly Hills Library

So I've been coming here for years since 1984 when our family moved to Southern Cal and then more regularly later when I started using the computers for a while and then covid shut things down & I was traveling most of the time but returned one Sunday & decided to drop in and use a computer for my ongoing project.

AND as I sat down in the upstairs area at a computer a little while later a young man comes in and sits nearby at another computer but pulls out a laptop- seems to be using his laptop at the computer station . Then pulls out some kind of bottle and starts shaking it with some liquid in it and starts taking his medication or whatever. 

SO I turn and look over that way and stare at him trying to figure out what's going on with this  young dude ? I'm thinking maybe I should go tell the lady behind the desk about it. He shouldn't actually be there if he's not using the computer & he shouldn't be eating or drinking at the computer . 

He seemed to be "setting up shop" &  was annoying and distracting. But I decided to let it go if he would quiet down and do whatever he's doing and he did for a little while. But then another patron arrived and told the lady behind the desk that this young dude shouldn't be there and he wanted to use that computer. 

SO they walked over to the young dude and told him he had to leave he had to move. The young dude first tried to say he has  "special permission" to be here. And he didn't - he was just lying. And then he tried to mistreat the lady saying "Are you new here?" and she isn't but she is a little bit foreign.  

I think this young dude was of a special religion that's  prevalent in Beverly hills. Not to denigrate the religion but some who practice this religion are NOT actually sincere and they're sometimes quite self-centered. 

Others who practice this religion are more sincere and honest. So the young dude reluctantly gets up & starts to leave and as he passes me by he whispers in my ear a term of HATE. It was very creepy & strange & annoying & disturbing. And not true to who I am either. I live a highly moral life. So I reported the incident to a staff member and we confronted  the young dude who was now downstairs. And his initial  response was not to apologize or even any remorse but to say "who is this guy? "  as if he was the center of the world.  I've been coming to this library probably since before he was born. And now I'm the victim of his hateful ignorance . I am STILL trying to get it OUT of my head several months later - it was so creepy & hateful & misplaced. SICKENING creep. 👎

Malaga Cove library review

In general very decent. they leave you alone . however sometimes if there's an event & parking gets full in the lot & on the road one time I had to park down the street in front of a neighbor's house & he didn't like my older model  car & called the police & falsely reported that it was parked overnight. 

 So the police came & put a tow warning on my car. subsequently I called the police department & told them that I had only been there a few hours and this is a very good PD & very respectful & they don't  judge you by  your socio economic status and they said "Sorry about that" .

 They took this resident at his word &  they trusted this neighbor & got burned. They won't trust him next time.  I felt like I should go and confront the guy but it would just escalate & since he is clearly a "person of the lie" he would probably NOT be honorable & apologize & might even falsely accuse  me of something. 

This kind of person is one to AVOID at all cost.  So I just know to avoid parking by that guy's house 👎. But the library has nothing to do with the neighbor being an A-hole. 

Review of Palos Verdes Library (peninsula)

It has been quite a journey since I first arrived at Palos Verdes Library many years ago. I remember when I first came in I was impressed with the spacious setting & ability to use the computers without interruption and  do some work upstairs on my laptop ( which later got stolen after getting broken into by Dodger Stadium and I decided I would never buy another laptop).  

And it's still pretty good but over the years there have been newcomers; The Good the Bad and the Ugly as they say.  I mean some will come with an attitude.  Some seem like they just got out of prison. And there's some nice ones as well.  Some of those here have an attitude & just keep coming back day after day -there they are again.

  One guy with a ponytail is on the computer every day in the same spot. I remember when he first arrived. I call him "the machine." I think he must have some kind of obsessive compulsive issues.  

And then there's a lady who always wears the hoodie and seems angry. I just call her the " hoodie lady" or under my breath some other words. Such an angry vibe from her it really spoils the atmosphere 😞. 

And then just recently somebody came and I was sitting at a computer and she kept staring at me. She stood behind me and stared at me until I turned around and glared at her wondering what the heck she wanted. And then there's also another girl maybe of a certain religion - highly supercilious- I try to avoid getting on her bad side cuz she has a  sneer that'll kill. As they say "If looks could kill". Not a surprise that she's not employed anywhere the way she treats other people. 

And then there's those who came for a while and then they disappeared - haven't seen them for many months or years now. 

And then we had the covid interruption -I spent most of the time traveling during this covid Interruption.  Now I've come back and am seeing who is who and what is what. I still use the computers periodically for very moral, ethical, & legal  tasks & purposes pertaining to my Christian Ministry which of course I don't talk much about because people  around Southern California are very closed off & definitely NOT open to engaging in conversation about being saved by Jesus Christ.

 Therefore most of the time I (& we) do my evangelism outside of California where people are more open to talking about being saved by Jesus Christ. But I have roots here so I periodically return and do a little R & R and update things and spend time in Palos Verdes and Newport Beach etc.  

And i  hike  the trails a mile up the hill which has changed  as well with all the mickey mouse parking issues and now the rangers who roam around in their white trucks - a little too bossy. I mean I've been hiking here for years and they come along and think that they're in charge of everybody - and they never hike by the way - they just sit in their  trucks & drive around like they're the boss.  So now I have to drive an extra mile to go to a different trail just to avoid them and the bad bossy vibe they emit.  

REVIEW OF 500PX.com 3/29/22 a so-called PHOTO SELLING WEBSITE (very disappointed. can't recommend)

SO I've been looking around for websites to offer my photos for sale. These are mostly smartphone traveling photos. I signed up here and then they offered me a pro account trial for a week and encouraged me to upload my entire portfolio. 

So I started uploading a large amount of my stored photos and was hopeful that this was a good website to try to market my photos. 

THen suddenly I was logged out and I tried to log back in and it said I was "banned" and to contact them via email which I tried but they did not respond. 

Are they "ghosting" me? What's wrong ? If they only want professional photos they should say so. I offer medium quality but excellent QUANTITY-- photos which can be enlarged and enhanced etc.

 IF 500px.com is some sort of high brow that calls anything not taken with a professional camera a "potato" ? IF that's their attitude I don't want to be part of them anyways. 

But it's very amateur of them to just cut me off without explanation. Is there some dude in a basement somewhere just personally running this operation ? i JUST wasted 2 days here. DISAPPOINTED. 

Oscars 2022 Live Updates: Will Smith smacks Chris Rock in the face then accepts Best Actor award

"He also included an apology to the Academy and his fellow nominees before going back to thanking the KingRichard team, Venus and Serena Williams included. "Art imitates life: I look like the crazy father, just like they said about Richard Williams. But love will make you do crazy things."

https://www.vanityfair.com/live/oscars-2022-live-updates 

One thing if people are sincere about wanting to "help the homeless" ..

One thing if people are sincere about wanting to "help the homeless" or the so-called homeless,  those who live in "homes with mortgages" MUST STOP THINKING they are superior beings to those who sleep somewhere else.

re my Wayne State Law School experience early 1990's. True Story

I dropped out of Wayne State Law School back in the early 1990s after walking into my roommate and finding him masturbating. 

And  then he actually accused me of doing what he was doing - and told others that I was doing what he was doing - a total FABRICATION by him. 

At that point it was just too embarrassing to be around him. 

I didn't want to be part of that kind of culture. That's why I left and never looked back.  Today that roommate is a famous prosecutor. 

Re Rolling Hills Covenant Church, Palos Verdes

When I see the same ushers in the same spot & the same parking lot attendant in the same spot every Sunday -week after week -never coming inside to hear the message, it tells me that the message really is not that important and  you're not going to really learn or grow from it. 

 Otherwise the church would require the workers to sit down during the service and learn something - take a few notes- & also participate in prayer. 

 So the sermon (& even prayer) apparently is just some sort of ceremony we all sit thru and go to - maybe it's good for families with kids - but for the rest of us -we already know it all -so why go to church at all ? 

I'll  just grab a coffee & go direct traffic in the parking lot or be a security guard & tune everything else out - just watch the people & make sure they stand & sit & obey. Or be an usher at the same door 🚪 for 25 years - just make sure people go in, & get out when its over.

  This is what Rolling Hills Covenant is REALLY teaching me. 

What happened to Malaysian flight 370

https://malaysian-flight-370.blogspot.com/2022/03/expert-claims-he-knows-exactly-where.html

ONE OF MY BIGGEST HONORS WAS MAKING ACADEMIC DEANS LIST HONORS AT CALVIN COLLEGE 1989

ONE OF MY BIGGEST HONORS WAS MAKING ACADEMIC DEANS LIST HONORS AT CALVIN COLLEGE  1989  SEE LINK BELOW 

https://calvin-knights.blogspot.com/2015/09/fwd-42789-34th-annual-honors.html

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#Repent&BeBaptized !                        #acceptChrist2bSaved2day !

MOSTLY CALVIN BASKETBALL ARTICLES from the mid-50's

https://calvin-knights.blogspot.com/2019/02/photo-march-7-1951-future-calvin-stars.html

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#Repent&BeBaptized !                        #acceptChrist2bSaved2day !

REPORTING BAD TRUCKER from SunView Logistics (license plate # was 4TV131) on highway 90 approaching Langry TX

REPORTING BAD TRUCKER

 from SunView Logistics 

(license plate # was 4TV131) 

Around 5pm on March 11 2022 I was going west on highway 90 approaching Langry TX using cruise control to maintain a steady speed of 60mph. Lots of drivers want to go faster and so, whenever there's a "pull off" for slower traffic, I use it and allow others to pass. 

However, it is NOT my obligation to put on my brakes and stop or even slow down to allow them to pass. It is THEIR obligation to be going faster or speed up in order to successfully pass before the pull off merges back to one lane.

 A trucker from Sunview Logistics was NOT going fast enough to successfully pass. I waited as long as I could to the last moment and he was NOT increasing in speed as we approached the return to one lane. I was STILL in front of him so I merged back in and he continued to try to pass even with oncoming traffic.

 I had to FLOOR my gas pedal to avoid a dangerous situation. He was 100% wrong and I think was having one of those "hollywood moments" in his head (ie "a legend in his own mind") .

 I think his license plate # was 4TV131 . I drive 1000's of miles regularly and have a perfect driving record without conflict with others. Please REPRIMAND your driver. Very rash and dangerous of him. 

Re The Church of Bethesda-By-The Sea, Palm Beach, FL

Re The Church of Bethesda-By-The Sea, 141 S County Rd, Palm Beach, FL 33480

There's a blend of good and not-so-good here. One of the NOT so good is the old school stereotypes that still rule the nest. For example, when one of the elderly greeters saw my facial hair, I could see his smile instantly disappeared as he signaled his disapproval.  

Excuse me sir, but this IS 2022. We're NOT living in the 50's anymore. I have nicely groomed facial hair. That's NOT a bad thing. It's NOT rebellious. It DOESN'T make me a bad person. 

But there are some positive things here as well. Obviously there is beautiful architecture and also some very kind and friendly  people who seem to care about others and that's a good thing 👍.

 God Bless 

Jim Vonder

BA/BA/M.Div ✝

Academic Honors 🎓

Re Lake Worth Park Beach at 10 S Ocean Blvd, Lake Worth, FL 33460

Don't waste your time coming here.  You might as well go down the road to Lantana  & pay half price for a  better Beach and  nicer people. Plus at Lake Worth they have a 2 hour MINIMUM on the meters so it's AUTOMATIC 6 dollars even if you want to stay less. 👎

The worse thing is there's a few locals here - a couple of who wear red shorts and like to PRETEND  they are lifeguards when they're NOT.  One of them is an older man with a white beard. I call him  the Santa 🎅 Claus creep (opposite of a real Santa). The other has long hair & looks like a pothead hippy loser.

These LOSERS have nothing better to do than harass visitors who come from all over the world to enjoy the water. Why don't they let the REAL lifeguards do their job?

THese CREEPS are major A-hole dropouts with  NOTHING going for them except that they think they can control the little stretch of water while laying on their surfboards. 

 And they're the kind of surfers that DON'T know how to surf. They just sit in the water for a few hours and say they went surfing. Losers & creeps 👎. Avoid Lake Worth beach .

-Sally, a real surfer- 🏄🌊

hunley submarine - Google Search

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SHAME on Washington DC parking enforcement 👎

 This is a true story:

 I arrived in Washington DC on January 20th after driving several thousand miles for an annual DC event. And upon arrival I had to go for a covid test at the nearby CVS medical lab near Le Enfant Plaza . I had never been to this area before & I was using Google Maps for navigation.

Suddenly I realized I need to empty my bowels urgently. Unfortunately there is not a lot of public restrooms in many places as I travel so I've devised a way to take care of restroom business inside my vehicle as I travel either discreetly using a bottle or a bucket which I appropriately dispose of later.

So as I was arriving at the covid testing place I realized I need to take care of bathroom business first. I pulled up to the parking meter intending to pay the meter AFTER I took care of bathroom business which would probably take 5 to 10 minutes. I figured    parking enforcement wouldn't come so quickly.

 I was wrong. In the middle of 'taking care of business', a parking enforcement officer came up to my vehicle and gives me a $30 parking ticket. I could see through the cracks of the coverings that I put over the windows when I need privacy.

Obviously I couldn't leave my vehicle and I couldn't get up and start the car or talk to her in the middle  of 'doing business'. 

So  I finished  doing my duty & then I stuck my head out & told her I had just arrived ... without explaining the exact circumstances. She responded she had 'no way of knowing how long I had been here.' Nor did she offer to void the ticket.  I expressed my feelings about it and that was that. 

However, there is a lesson to be learned: the parking officer clearly could have discerned that somebody was in the vehicle. She could also simply feel the hood to see HOW WARM is the engine to verify the car had just been turned off. 

Unless she is intentionally taking pleasure in reducing a person's savings, her goal should be to honestly & fairly issue tickets to those who are clearly disregarding parking rules. NOT trying to "get" people in a game of 'cat & mouse' all about seconds or a few minutes. This is NOT a basketball '3 seconds in the lane' violation. 

 This felt like she was being zealous & vexatious. And almost like she knew I had just arrived. I was literally there only a few minutes & literally taking care of a personal emergency inside the vehicle. It just seems too coincidental that she could arrive so quickly. Do they use cameras? Was she following me ? This was BEYOND casually doing one's parking enforcement job. It was targeting. SHAME ON YOU 👎.

I feel violated.

To: HBC Transportation, Complaint re truck driver near Clinton MS USA

To: HBC Transportation, 

100 KENNEDY RD S
BRAMPTON, ON L6W 3E7

re: Complaint re truck Clinton MS

On January 17 at approximately  3:20 p.m. I was on interstate 20 in a passenger SUV  going eastward near exit 31 approaching Clinton MS and one of your truckers aggressively tailgated me seemingly because he thought I was going too slow at 60mph.

It felt like he was trying to intimidate ,  scare, or harrass me etc.  If I had hit the brakes it would have been very dangerous - I'm afraid he might have rear-ended me.

I want to let you know about this so you can keep a record of complaints against this driver in case of further (or previous) incidents. 

This will help you know if you have a rogue  driver. Please look into this & counsel him if he has an anger issue etc. I do a lot of driving and I'm a safe & good driver . I don't go too slow or too fast.  Nobody really ever has a problem with me unless they have an anger problem or other emotional issues. 

Thank you very much. 

Joy V

The license plate of the

 truck was Ontario Canada V47-60Z 

I sent this on your contact form 

but you did NOT reply .

Review of Regal University Theatre Irvine , Dec 2021

I'm a longtime customer here - I LIKE the new renovations -but when I arrived for Spiderman on Tuesday December 21 2021 at noon the gal employee behind the counter at first pretended to NOT know about the Tuesday discount. But said I get the matinee discount for $12. 

I knew I'm supposed to get the Tuesday discount for approx $6 & stated so. She said "oh yeah" & asked for my card. I said I didn't have it knowing she could look it up by my number. She pretended at first to NOT know about the number lookup. She seemed intent on trying to get $12 bucks from me.Finally she realized I wasn't a "rich fool" & started doing her job. 

Dear Management, please have a conversation with this young lady about honesty & people on a budget. We're NOT ALL rich fools in this neighborhood. 

STOP the #CopyrightCreed 👎 #NFL #NBA #MLB

STOP the

 #CopyrightCreed 👎

#NFL #NBA #MLB

THE ANNOUNCERS ARE SICK OF SAYING IT AS WELL .

WE'RE ALL SICK OF IT. https://t.co/TxC3oWKJRF

At least once every sports broadcast the announcer recites the "COPYRIGHT CREED" re "reproduction is strictly forbidden". Would it really make a difference if they DIDN'T ANNOY US with this every freakin broadcast ? It's STILL under copyright whether or not they announce it.👎 https://t.co/IygFucPCXy

There's a new "thang" going on in the #LGBTQIA community. sickening stuff 👎

There's a new "thang" going on in the #LGBTQIA community. Select individuals are finding it "funny" to go around town & harass straight males by catcalling "faggot'" at  them as they walk down the street. It's sickening stuff 👎. Needs to stop 

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#Repent&BeBaptized !                        #acceptChrist2bSaved2day !

Review of OctaPharma Plasma Garden Grove CA

It's ok but a few of the employees are prima donnas. They think they are more important than the  donors & will take their time to come to you when your green light is on. They will do it intentionally to show you "who's the boss". 

My green light was on for about 2 minutes  and finally I waved to Dominique  to make sure that he knew I was finished because none of the employees were looking my way. He was casually talking to a female employee at the moment and responded "we'll be with you in a moment" and then he DIDN'T come over in a moment. Instead I had to wait for the gal nearby who was still cleaning one of the chairs.

 Finally she came  and tried to make me feel like I was the one who was being pushy telling me she was "cleaning the blood that had dripped  on the floor" as if I was the bad guy for wanting to get unhooked in a timely manner. And I DON't want to hear about blood dripping 👎. I was NOT being demanding -just expecting timely service as able ( & Dominique was able as well the gal he was talking to).  They were just chit-chatting .

Every single person who comes in there to donate blood is doing a good job by coming in patiently, obeying all the rules, being polite.  Many I've talked to  have jobs  and this is just to help make ends meet. We all have hardships  we could tell but nobody  wants to hear  sad stories. 

 If you're one of the workers and you're  just casually talking  to a coworker and you won't take time to come and take the needle out of somebody's arm ASAP then that's really LOUSY & MEAN  of you. shame on you. 

You're NOT superior to us. You're NOT more important. We've done our best as clients to come in in an orderly manner ... quietly & patiently obeying the rules and it's NOT too much to ask that when we're finished that you come over in a timely manner to let us out. It's NOT being demanding of us . It's a normal expectation. We  are doing our best so it's normal to expect that you do your best. It's mutual . Make it a win-win.

 

KINGDOM OF BLOG

KINGDOM OF BLOG

 for the

 KINGDOM of GOD 

🦃🇺🇸🦃🇺🇸🦃🇺🇸🦃🇺🇸🦃🇺🇸 1st T-Giving 🇺🇸🦃 without America'sVoice Limbaugh

🦃🇺🇸🦃🇺🇸🦃🇺🇸🦃🇺🇸🦃🇺🇸

1st T-Giving 🇺🇸🦃

 without  America'sVoice ,

but u can still enjoy 

 "The True Story of 🆃🅷🅰🅽🅺🆂🅶🅸🆅🅸🅽🅶

Thanksgiving - by  Rush Limbaugh Show"

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/11/24/the-real-story-of-thanksgiving-2/ 

Also see

https://peters-appreciation.blogspot.com/?m=1

This black female is a very depressing person _-always wears hoodie -

This black female is a  very depressing person _-always wears hoodie -sits at same place every day at this  library.  She has such an angry negative vibe even tho the white management doesn't enforce any rules against her. She's special. & thinks she owns her area. If u sit at a nearby computer she becomes rude & gross . white management afraid to do anything 👎

Can we END abortion by paying 💰people to NOT abort ? 💥🌟😇

Can we END abortion by

 paying people to NOT abort ? 

ie Paying good money 💸 for a 

LIVE BABY 👶✔ 👍

Can we END the abortion industry by paying 💰 abortion workers to STOP doing their business ? Give them a retirement payout if they 

promise to stop aborting babies ? https://t.co/Y3aEaBY8pu

Many people fighting to keep the abortion industry going in a lot of cases are fighting for their OWN careers AND salaries💰. My proposition is to shift the money directly to them & let them live in luxury BUT at the SAME TIME ban abortion. Will they accept that?

 Pay to NOT abort

#ChiefBigFaith was here 🌟💥

FYI for Ralphs Grocery Store workers

THIS is an FYI for  Ralphs Grocery Store workers, especially the check- out people and maybe especially the self-checkout employees (particularly in Torrance CA):  because of the bag policy in California and they're trying to reduce the use of plastic for the environment sake I have accepted the burden of NOT using bags and so I place  purchased items back in my cart and take the cart to my car 🚗 at which point I transfer everything from the cart into my car. And then when I get home I transfer everything from my car to my counter & refrigerator etc.  I do NOT bring my own bag because I do NOT like to reuse bags.  They get dirty and unsanitary very quickly.  

I explain all of this in detail because there are those workers who apparently negatively stereotype or profile people who do NOT use or buy bags as being poor or maybe even homeless & trying to walk off with the grocery cart with their your items in it.  

God forbid 🚫. This is NOT the case. First of all if I was homeless  I would NOT be shopping at Ralphs. 2nd,  as mentioned above, I do this to be as environmentally friendly as possible and also NOT because I can't afford a dime per bag. 

Your hypersensitivity to socioeconomics coming from where you come from as employees is VERY hypocritical. So it's a shame that I have to explain all this. 

It's like the professor at Berkeley who comes with his lunch in a brown bag. It's NOT because he can't afford to eat in the cafeteria;  or the professor at Stanford who drives an older car. It's NOT because he can't afford a newer car. There are eclectic people who do things for eclectic reasons . 

It's a shame when you stereotype in a negative way because that's where you came from. I hope this helps you understand things a little bit more. If you would have stayed in school long enough instead of becoming a clerk right out of  high school  you might have grown in your awareness and knowledge & appreciation of living for a higher purpose. God bless you. #acceptChrist2bSaved2Day 

John

BA/BA/M.Div

re Ralphs Grocery at 3455 Sepulveda Blvd, Torrance, CA 90505. #Pray4 🙏The African-American ..

re Ralphs Grocery at 3455 Sepulveda Blvd, Torrance, CA 90505. 

#Pray4 🙏The African-American young man who works at the self-checkout. He actually is semi-illiterate & lives in a van behind the store, but at the same time he is very cocky & condescending ESPECIALLY towards white males, & annoys customers. The management  originally hired him out of compassion but now is afraid to do anything about him because they're afraid of a lawsuit. Meanwhile he's driving good customers away. It's a terrible situation. This store is REALLY struggling in the poor side of Torrance/Redondo .

Re Ralphs Grocery at 5035 Pacific Coast Hwy, Torrance, CA 9050

Re Ralphs Grocery at

5035 Pacific Coast Hwy, 

Torrance, CA 90505

 I will never return here again until the African American who works at the self-checkout area gets FIRED. This guy is so cocky and demeaning and I know I'm not the only one who feels that way. People try to avoid him, & even drive farther to the other Ralphs. He is such an arrogant capital A-hole. I know complaints have been filed against him previously.  I don't know why they DON'T do anything about. He is SO very condescending. 

Re Ralphs Grocery at 3455 Sepulveda Blvd, Torrance, CA 90505

Re Ralphs Grocery at 3455 Sepulveda Blvd, Torrance, CA 90505. 

NOBODY here seems to know how to use the digital coupons. In the cheese section there was an item on sale and the sticker next to it said "scan the QR code " which I did and I got the Ralph's website but NOT  a digital coupon. I clicked  around a little bit but couldn't find what I needed to get the discount. 

So I asked a nearby guy stocking shelves & he shrugged & said "Ask them up at front", not overly concerned about trying to help me. Then I asked the guy at self-checkout & he first said "You have to download the app." And then he added "Next time you come in, go up to the customer service and ask them."

 Clearly these employees themselves have NOT actually gone through the whole process of ever using digital coupons which is kind of surprising.

You would think the management would make sure everybody who works for them has a little bit of an idea of how things work - at least the ABC's - so they can be helpful  to the customers rather than shrug it off and send you to somebody else. Have to give

 the store a grade of C in this regards.

Re American Latinos who Hate White Americans

Re American Latinos who

Hate White Americans

( or Latinos living in America who

Hate White Americans )

Here's the city of Shafter.  Now at an  ATM and a  Latino girl saw me and she started swearing on her phone 📱 just to try to perturb me -it looked like a fake phone conversation as an excuse to use profanity- to prove something -but prove what ?

IT'S NOT the first time it's happened but now I know it's intentional so I'm trying to psychoanalyze it. It's a bad phenomenon - some Latinos intentionally exhibiting extremely rude behavior as they walk by -in one case at Newport Beach a stoned pothead Latino intentionally burped very loudly as I walked by on the beach then he laughed maniacally - very rude and crude.

It's like they're saying " I don't give a blank and I want you to know it" as opposed to polite society where at least they pretend that they do care and want to be known as good citizens.

 It's really the ultimate slap in the face when they do that. You can't get more insulting than that -like saying "I'm an A- hole and I'm proud of it " . It's almost like they're trying to pick a fight even though they are being cowardly - they know that you're in such a situation as a good citizen that to get in a fight would be self-defeating NOT because you couldn't win a fist fight with the skinny chumps (or in the case of female antagonists they know you won't hit a girl) but because you'd end up getting in trouble with the law which would cause you many more problems as a good citizen than a person who could sit in jail for a year and their life would be the same -going nowhere. 

So they intentionally act worse than animals - what they really want, I think - in this case its a predominantly Latino community- is they want to keep white people out. It's actually racism but they can't be overtly racist so they have to exhibit behavior that makes you want to stay away from them - to think of them as worse than animals even though you know Mexico actually has a polite culture -so they're saying "if we treat them (ie white people) like blank indirectly they WON'T want to be around us & we can have our own private Idaho here in the USA.  We can't ban them but we can make them want to stay away by acting worse than animals."

Its total racism by them toward whites.

  IT'S like they hate the people who open the doors 🚪to welcome them in (a lot of us, including me, are kindhearted & want you to do well & have opportunities) & to keep us away from them, they will make us miserable to be around them by acting worse than animals. At least I know the rationale behind it now - it took me awhile to figure out. Shameful. 👎

10/19/21 Re Walmart at 8230 Talbert Ave, Huntington Beach, CA 92646

10/19/21 Re Walmart at 8230 Talbert Ave, Huntington Beach, CA 92646

I've been coming here for many years  only because it's the closest Walmart &  I don't want to drive several miles away to get to the other one in Westminster. SO I just usually put up with the bad behavior by some of the clerks who monitor the self-checkout and they have some really ice cold ladies - I hate to use the b- word - but that's what comes to mind. 

Most recently I was checking out mostly groceries but also purchasing one of those storage bins & the lady made me take the top off it  to prove that I hadn't hidden anything in it.

 It was VERY embarrassing & humiliating.  I think I'm going to call Walmart headquarters and make a formal complaint about it.  She was SO ice cold about it too - NOT even  respectful towards me. 

 Maybe they could have a policy posted that says "any  empty containers being purchased must have the lid taken off " or something like that so that you don't feel like they're picking on you, but there's NOTHING like that - so she can't claim she was just following policy-  it really did feel like she was TARGETING me - ie profiling me as a bad person. I'm NOT a bad person & had NO intention of stealing anything 🚫. I DON'T deserve to be treated like a criminal . 

Have some decency: If you arrive late at church, DON'T sit in the front 👎 🚫.

⛪ one thing that bothers me is when parishioners come in late for whatever reason- maybe it's not their fault - maybe they got caught in traffic or  whatever ; but at least in such cases DON'T come all the way up to the front with such audacity.  just sit in the back.

 Today a couple came in AFTER the homily was finished (which is pretty late) they had the arrogance to sit in front of me. it's sort of like they insert themselves into a story that they weren't part of from the beginning.  It feels rude.

 It happens to everybody -arriving late for whatever reason & it's just plain decency to sit in the back in such cases.

Re San Carlos Cathedral, Monterey CA

The church building is historic 👍. The priests good. But there's a few local yokels who are using the church like it's their club. If they don't know you, they WON'T even greet you. It's rather dehumanizing 👎. This is a problem in some Catholic Churches where people DON'T  have  sincere commitment to the doctrines of the church nor sincere conviction to the faith they pretend to practice. And it explains why there are so-called anti-Life Catholics -cuz they're NOT real Catholics . 

i hope you will love and enjoy my Glacier & Yellowstone photos (2021)

i hope you will love and enjoy my Glacier & Yellowstone photos (2021)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-7LOwVkN2p8LqeN0XK7FvWdO_yznXTdU/view?usp=sharing

🇺🇸 leaders lead 👍: "FL Governor invites L.A. cargo ships to unload in Florida " without waiting 4 weeks

#DEFENDtheUNBORN ! 👶👣👼🌹🥀🎵🎶✝️⛪🙏♥️😎🇺🇸 (@PRAISETRIUNEGOD) tweeted at 11:36 AM on Sun, Oct 10, 2021:

🇺🇸 leaders lead 👍:
  "FL Governor invites L.A. cargo ships to unload in Florida " without waiting 4 weeks 

https://t.co/PJyv3hq2UW

 https://t.co/qMyMeO8BtW

(https://twitter.com/PRAISETRIUNEGOD/status/1447269749759430657?t=X02C_WLxQNePAh1M9jwxJQ&s=03) 

re Walt Disney Museum, Presidio San Francisco 🌉

You will be amazed how much info & hands-on interactive displays they have in this modest non-descript brownstone building . i was blown away by the amount of information given in an entertaining format ... & was swept away in my imagination & memories as I reminisced on all the many Disney experiences I've had over my lifetime .... 

From the movies 🎥 ..to music 🎶 ... to Disneyland 🎢 & more. Thanks to Walt & family 👪. 

Let's Hope Disney can remain family-friendly & maintain decency standards going forward 👍. Don't cave in to far-left lefties 🚫

SHAME ON AbbVie 👎"New lows reached with drug ads ...Selling obscure diseases to sell obscenely priced drugs is unethical for .."

SHAME ON AbbVie 👎 "New lows reached with drug ads | ..  ...Selling obscure diseases to sell obscenely priced drugs is unethical for two reasons. It doesn't just raise everyone's health care costs ... It makes a mockery of the entire U.S. health care system by aggressively seeking people who are NOT sick to "treat" while ignoring millions who really are sick but for whom there is no profit in treating.."

https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/2018/03/17/new-lows-reached-drug-ads 

my side of the story: re the girlie mag & cousin Tom & Arnold

I need to tell the story about taking a magazine away from cousin Tom (not real name) and the implications that arose from it. So the summer that I was staying at the PG's House in Jackson Hole - one  day Aunt Mary (not real name) asked me to pick up the mail from the post office.  They get all their mail at a PO Box because the mailman doesn't deliver out to the houses out there. 

So I went and picked up the mail and included with it was a girlie magazine addressed to my cousin Tom (changed name to respect his privacy). Now I'm not saying I'm a saint or that we shouldn't appreciate female beauty but as a Christian I think we should try to avoid sins of the flesh especially that kind of stuff, so I took it upon myself to hide the magazine from Tom figuring he probably wouldn't know or remember it.

But the same day later that afternoon I'm downstairs and suddenly I hear an argument out there next to my cousin's bedroom which is right next to mine.  It's my special needs cousin Arnold (not real name)  & Tom arguing and then Aunt Mary (not real name) gets involved about where is the magazine . They know I picked up the mail so there's no one else to blame, but WHY would they know it's coming that exact day, that's the question.

So I pull out the magazine which I had not yet thrown away & not sure really what explanation I gave them -I didn't start preaching although I probably should have - I think I just handed it to them and walked away and that was the end of it.

But somebody started gossiping -probably Arnold (or was it Mary ?) ( who I think has always really hated me - not sure why cuz I really didn't know him personally much at all growing up - only a few times meeting on holidays or big family gatherings which were very few and far in between) to the Beatrice & Lonny family which is Uncle Warnock's brother & sister-in-law (who has since deceased, RIP ) about this incident & implied that I was taking the girlie magazine for my own self-gratification rather than the real reason. 

And I never was given a chance to explain, and it became exceedingly obvious that Beatrice's opinion of me dropped precipitously after that. She wouldn't even talk to me.  But the fact that they knew the magazine was coming that day & noticed  it missing actually led me to believe that this was a setup to see if I would take it so they could actually create a false narration that I had taken it for my own self-gratification even though that was NOT the truth.

That was the only time Aunt Mary ever asked me to pick up the mail for them as well, before or after.  So I just wanted to lay that out there and let people decide for themselves. By that time in life I was long past any kind of adolescent behavior such as the kind implied by this incident. 

Re Stanford Coin Wash & Dangerous Assumptions

Stanford Coin Wash

https://maps.app.goo.gl/EmEQ48oqqxPDxNtPA

Used to come here when i was a college student living off campus. Now I'm a homeowner with my own washing machine but I just returned from 4 months traveling cross-country thru national parks etc. Discovered my house washing machine NOT working . 

So I came here. Everything worked fine but my blue pants came out of the wash with some lint or something on them. So I used the sink to rinse some of it off. 

An African-American mother & her daughter happened to stop in & she made the wrong assumption that I was a homeless person trying to wash my pants in the sink. 

She says to me "Can I pay for a load of wash for you ?" I say "huh ? It took me a moment to discern her misperception - putting 2 + 2 together .😎. I say "I'm NOT homeless" & tried to explain to her what I was doing.

 But then she said "me too". I said "you too what ?" This was like a comical "Who's on 1st" conversation. Anyways, thanks for caring about me lady but I'm fine 👌. 

Proud that I've done well in life by the grace of God but also personal initiative. I will NEVER QUIT until God takes me ✝ ❤ 🙏 

BA/BA/M.Div

9/5/21 Review of St Ann Cathedral, Great Falls MT

Unfortunately, not a very good experience as I was just passing through town I was here on Sunday morning so  i went  to St Anne's cathedral for noon service. Part of the problem is that here in Great Falls I don't find regular internet connection on my phone so I couldn't easily check the times of mass and so it was taking me awhile to find a place just to figure out the time for Catholic mass and then figure out where Saint Anne's Church is. 

 Beautiful ⛪ inside but I was a few minutes late & the black guy there who apparently is some kind of usher chided me for being late and then during the offering time he kind of gave me a disapproving side eye for not putting any money in the plate.  

I'm a traveler so I've always been under the impression by most churches if you're not a regular attendee you're not really expected to be putting money in the offering plate given the expenses it takes just to be traveling all the time. & I'm NOT a millionaire. I do have a budget.

 So I just kind of felt bad about the experience & the atmosphere and I left a little early and probably won't be back there for sometime 😞. By the way a lady in shorts came in after me and I didn't notice the black guy  showing any disapproval towards her. Why picking only on me ?

8/24/21 Review of Fault Lake Trail near Sandpoint Idaho

8/24/21 started hiking at 630 am. All  of the places I've been hiking this summer so far have been crowded with other hikers including  Mount ⛰Rainier &  the Leavenworth area near Enchantments & also Mount Baker, but I had this trail all to myself BOTH ways - not a single other hiker & when I got back to the trailhead  no other cars. Really felt like "My Own Private Idaho". 😎

The hike was great & the 6 miles there went very quick. I enjoyed the lake & I had brought a fishing 🎣 line just in case because I read the reviews that there is some good fishing here. So I dropped my line in with a little red cherry lure and sure enough a beautiful rainbow 🌈🐟 trout took the bait in a few seconds. I quickly released him - too early for a fish dinner.

On the way back I think I heard 👂  one bear and I saw another 🐻. I also think I saw  the back end of an elk running away or something with a white rear end.  The bear that I did see cracked a branch so I saw him before he saw me. In fact I don't think he saw me but I think he did smell me or heard me cuz he was looking for something.

He was through the trees on a ridge above me. I had a good view of him with my naked eye but I couldn't get a good picture 📷 of him - too many shadows & branches.

HE 🐻 stood there for a few minutes just looking around and then he started coming down and was on a trajectory to  intersect with the trail in front of me so I started running to avoid being seen and probably ran about half a mile to make sure I was out of his distance. HE  was a big 🐻 boy - i DIDN'T want to tangle with him.

Back at the parking lot i explored the river for about an hour before leaving.  There's lots of little pools and waterfalls you can cool off in although the water is a bit too cold to stay in for too long but it is warmer than Fault Lake itself which was too cold to swim in. Also by the way there were NO flies or mosquitoes up there this time of year 👍.

Getting to the trailhead is a fairly easy drive except for the last half a mile  is a bit rough - a dirt road with big bumps and rocks but if you go slow enough you can make it even with a regular car 🚗

Review: 1st Presbyterian Spokane

Pretty nice. I was just visiting & the people were nice to me even though i did NOT wear a mask 😷 which the sign says were encouraged but NOT required. 

But since almost everybody had one on AND were not being holier-than-thou about it, I decided I would put one on just to be nice & put their minds at ease- those with weak consciences who think that the masks are going to save them (which they won't). 

So I reached to the box of new masks they had on a table and one of the ladies - I guess she was an employee- kind of  growled "yes" as if that was the right thing to do. If that was her idea of behavior modification it  was very off-putting, more like being a mask bully. 

So at that moment  I decided NO I will NOT put a mask on because I DO know better. Apart from this one lady, everything was excellent 👍. Thanks

-John-

BA/BA/M.Div

I was there 👍 ⚾ 8/21/21 "Spokane Indians 11, Hillsboro Hops 3, (Final Score) "

https://www.milb.com/gameday/hops-vs-indians/2021/08/20/642661#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=642661 

Review of Stuart Lake Trail, Enchantments region, Leavenworth WA

I notice  one review says they  "saw two bears". How come there's no pictures  📷 ? First thing I would want to do if I saw a bear 🐻 is take a picture unless  it's aggressively charging at me which doesn't sound like it did , so I kind of doubt that he actually saw two bears, but it's a nice story. 

2nd , to the two weirdos I saw near Stuart Lake who called me SIR. You don't do that out here on the trail.  This ISN'T like some kind of formal environment.  We're all just fellow hikers . YOU ruin the vibe. Go home. Go back  to west Hollywood or wherever you came from 👎

Re St James Cathedral ⛪Seattle & Archbishop Etienne

Great church ⛪, but i am disappointed with archbishop Etienne 's recent pronouncement re  communion basically without any standards 👎- even if you're in favor of abortion - even if you are in a position of political power & take steps to support abortion rather than preserve life -Etienne says you can STILL receive communion because it's "about grace".

 But these are NOT people apologetic nor repentant about abortion - they are NOT in a state of grace - they're NOT even asking for grace at the communion table - they are arrogantly in defiance of God & the catholic church position on abortion. Just like going to hell 🔥- the only reason you end up there is if you DON'T want to go to heaven . God grants you your choice. It's that simple. 

  Etienne is either obtuse or corrupt himself - neither of which is tolerable at such a high position .

The Truth ✝

8/10/21 Review of Seattle Seahawks training camp

So this was my first experience at the Seattle Seahawks training camp in Renton Washington a suburb of Seattle - right on the shore of Lake Washington. In fact you could see boats cruising by while watching them practice. 

I think one boat tried to come and watch by the space between the bushes but it seemed like a couple of fellows shooed them away.  I'm not sure how they can legally keep boats away but the boat took off - seems like you could swim or take a stand up paddle board up to the shore and watch the practice but people from Seattle aren't like that- too reserved in nature. 

.  I've been to several different NFL teams training camps and this is the only one so far that I've been to that charges an  admission fee.  about $14. There's no way to come and watch for free. And you have to park at a shopping mall a few miles away and they take you in a school bus to the practice.  

One thing I DIDN'T like upon arrival was a guy yelling at me to make sure I put the admission bracelet on and snap it -as if I was going to try  some kind of scam or  something.  WHAT a JERK 👎.  & he wasn't even the one who was supposed to be checking for bracelets.

 Just a busybody minding everybody else's business. After from that I didn't have any problems with anybody -although I didn't like them telling us we can't take videos of the practice. 

Once again Seattle people are so nice and compliant about everything they'll just accept it as an order when it's really probably even NOT constitutional to tell people they can't take a video of something.

The practice was pretty normal and then they had a scrimmage at the end. Unlike other training camps the players here do NOT come over to the sidelines and give autographs during or even after the practice.

 The coach Pete Carroll was dressed in all white looking like a painter or something - kind of running around barking commands but in his nice guy kind of way.  HE might be TOO nice to really command  the kind of performance needed to get to the Superbowl. 

Overhead we  saw bald eagles flying - that was pretty incredible- &  fits well with the name of the team . And then practice ended after 90 minutes.  

 And I prayed for the players and  continue to pray for them- hopefully they can find a higher calling beyond football 🏈 &  the coaches & spectators too ✝ 🙏 ❤ #RepentAndBeBaptized

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