EVENING VIEW FROM THE RIDGE:
Replacing Confusion with Foundation
There is an old oak tree down the road from where we live that has stood for over a hundred years. It has survived blizzards, droughts, and winds that would rip the roof right off a barn. It survives because its roots go straight down into the bedrock. It doesn't adjust its nature based on whatever way the wind happens to be blowing that morning. It just stays an oak.
Lately, it feels like our entire culture is being asked to pretend that up is down, left is right, and that the fundamental truths that built human civilization are suddenly up for debate. We are told to nod along with things that defy basic reality, basic biology, and the divine order of GOD. We’ve spent years watching common sense get watered down to appease people who have traded timeless morality for temporary trends, and millions of hardworking people across this country are flat-out exhausted from coddling it.
But the wind might finally be shifting.
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From Bioengineered Food Awareness Uncensored on FB

Something crazy: I've been buying this sugar for years. I live in an area where we have Hummingbirds, finches, woodpeckers and other birds year-round. The number of visitors slows down in the winter, but I usually do a lot of baking around the holidays, so I still use a lot of sugar. This year I did not, so I'm not sure when I purchased the previous bag I'd been using. However, I recently needed to buy a new bag. I made a batch of the "juice" with the new sugar, and filled my 3 hummingbird feeders up last week. Not a single bird, of any kind, would even touch them! My yard is usually bustling with activity. I noticed that the water had a darker tint than normal and thought maybe something was off with the batch. After 3 days of zero birds even landing on my feeders, I returned the sugar to Costco. I made sure the new bag I purchased was from a different lot. I had the same thing; no visitors. So, I grabbed a small bag of white ...