Riddleblog and Blessed Hope Podcast Updates:
A new musings photo taken on a sleepy afternoon in the Eastern Sierras. I’m about to finish a good cigar, some lemonade, and read more of good book. There were deer meandering through area just a few feet away earlier in the day
Lord willing, look for Season Five of the Blessed Hope on Paul’s Epistle to the Romans later this Spring
Lots of Riddleblog updates/corrections of late
Thinking Out Loud:
So glad to see the Most Interesting Man in the World (Jonathan Goldsmith) back on the Dos Equis commercials! You were missed!
Putting sporting events like MLB opening day (Yankees vs. Giants) on Netflix, March Madness and college football games behind paywalls ain’t gonna go over well. Not with me anyway
I am all in favor of taking out Iran’s nuclear program, but after King Charles and Prince William praised Ramadan and ignored Easter, perhaps we should also be worried that the first Islamic nation to possess nukes might just be Great Britain
For the media hand-wringers still refusing to see any possible victorious outcome of Epic Fury, keep in mind that for the last 47 years, the Shia revolutionary government of Iran has been declaring “death to America.” Unlike lemming-like progressives in America who chant slogans, the implications of which they don’t fully understand (i.e., “defund the police,” “free Palestine”), the Shia Revolutionaries really mean it—they have killed over a thousand Americans, countless Israelis, blown up embassies, and turned their guns and torture apparatus upon 30,000 (or more) of their own people. The Iranian Shia government is an apocalyptic death cult! Do we want these guys to have nuclear weapons? No! Do we trust them to self-disarm? No! This needed to be done. Not easy, but still . . . it needed to be done—for the sake of a real and lasting peace
A bit of realpolitik making the rounds: If we as a nation are not willing to endure short-term higher gas prices or take military casualties (terrible as those are) to root out a long time state sponsor of terrorism in Iran, then America is not really a superpower
Trump’s ever-shifting and vague strategic goals and inability to articulate them clearly is an altogether different matter—those who know him claim it is intentional and tactical. But from now on let Marco do the talking, please . . .
And despite higher gas prices now, don’t overlook the fact that the eventual peace dividend of a free (or defeated) Iran will be huge. Cheaper gasoline and LNG prices, a working peace between Israel and the Arab gulf states (along the lines of the Abraham Accords), and we can greatly reduce our military footprint in the region with huge defense savings
The way Mossad commandeered the traffic cameras in Tehran to spy on the Mullah’s comings and goings makes me nervous about them here—whoever is watching might catch me in a fast food drive through cheating on my diet
Predictive Betting Sites (i.e., Polymarket, Kalshi) are all the rage. How long before there’s a Christian equivalent? We could bet on whether or not Scott Clark wears a hat during his next Heidelvideo. Or we can bet on how many books Harrison Perkins will get published next year? Someone may even want to bet on whether or not I find a new way to introduce my show notes during the Blessed Hope?
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