Weekly Update  by Mark Armstrong – August 16, 2024 

Greetings from Tyler,

Is it just my imagination, or is this one of the coolest Summers ever?  East Texas is my Mom’s home, and we visited often.  One time when my Mom and Dad went to tour Europe, they left us kids with my Mom’s parents.  It was the only house on the right when you enter the Big Sandy property.    The global warming set must be in a panic.  But it’s hot in Dubai.  Do tell.

Andrew McCarthy, who usually knows what he’s talking about, says Trump will be found guilty and sentenced to prison two months before the election.  Can you imagine?  Having watched most of the Trump rallies, people are fired up.  Those that fear or hate Donald Trump better watch what they hope for, or they risk setting off something they apparently don’t see coming.  We still don’t know what the crime was.  An accounting error?  

More videos related to the assassination attempt are coming out all the time.  I just saw one where the kid is walking on the ground, carrying his rifle.  Trump is praising the Secret Service, and publicly mourning the murder of one of his supporters, a fireman who shielded his family with his body and was fatally hit.  Now, it’s like it never happened.  Just a lone crazy person who was a genius at protecting himself.  There were mistakes by the score, almost too many to be coincidental.  How is it possible that there was no communication between the local Police units and the Secret Service?  Not even a phone number?

The good news is the would-be assassin only managed to clip an ear.  Then they killed him, after he got off eight shots (reportedly).  Imagine the disappointment when Trump walked off the stage under his own power.  Phones must have been ringing.  Now what are they going to do?  They’ve tried everything.  You think they’ll stop?  We don’t even want to consider where we’d be if he hadn’t turned his head when he did.  He’s crediting the fact that he’s still alive to Divine intervention, saying he believed in God before, but he’s crediting God with having saved his life, to a huge roar from the crowd.  

The Israel war against the terrorists in Gaza goes on and on.  The bad guys must have dug deep.  You don’t suppose that’s where all the aid has been going?  There’s a much more difficult situation than there was a few short years ago.  Some Arab leaders who would like to make peace are afraid to do it.  Remember Anwar Sadat.  They cursed his name and celebrated when he was assassinated.  How dare he have anything to do with the hated Jews.  

Suddenly the news has Ukraine on the offensive, and Russian positions being evacuated.  Whatever.  So Ukraine is going to defeat Russia?  In Zelensky’s dreams.

I think everybody realizes that the next few months are an extremely dangerous time for the United States.  We have no leadership at the moment.  All important functions have been delegated to the woke bunch they brought in with them, or so we’re told.  The border czar never went to the border, and whatever the policies are now, they’re letting untold numbers invade the United States.  When you think of all the paperwork you have to carry to cross any border, anywhere in the world… and these people just walk in to be let go.

There’s talk everywhere of civil war.  I was going to dismiss it.  Talk is cheap, but it’s all over the internet.  They better hope nothing happens to Trump, or these keyboard warriors are going to have to back up their words.   

Mark