lummi island wine tasting Oct 31/Nov 1
Hours this weekend: 4-6 pm Friday & Saturday
our first date, Halloween ’81
This Week’s Wine Tasting
Juggernaut Chardonnay ’22 Sonoma $17
Barrel fermented; aromas of apple, Asian pear and lemon meringue open to rich, lingering flavors of stone fruit, honeysuckle, and yellow plum, with finishing notes of vanilla, butter cream and hints of clove.
MAN Vintners Pinotage ’22 South Africa $14
Aromas of dark coffee beans, red berries, nutmeg, and vanilla spice turning to dark berries and smoky plum; rustic yet silky and juicy, with smooth tannins, balanced acidity, and comforting intensity.
Domaine de l’Amauve La Vigne de Louis ’23 France $21
Youthful nose offering freshly crushed berries, mild spices, and garrigue. Rounded and supple palate with fresh red berry flavours and a vibrant finish..
Economics of the Heart: Historical Jesus & Project 2025
“Christ in house of parents” Tate Britain, London John Everett Millais c 1850
Over many centuries scholars across the planet have studied and analyzed countless scrolls, tablets, and artifacts related to the historical Jesus and concluded that yes, Jesus was a real human guy who actually did lots of the things the gospels talked about. He lived at the right time in the right place, enough to convince centuries of scholars that he was a real human being known to a lot of people and actually was crucified by Pilate and died. Many of the narratives of the gospels correlate with verified facts.
The same cannot be said of his divinity, his virgin conception, hosts of flying angels in Bethlehem, his resurrection, or his ascension to heaven. Nevertheless over the next 2000 years the religions created in his name and centered around all of those deliberate superstitions eventually spread across the entire world, acquired vast wealth, power, and influence, and maintained a vast following.
The reality of this moment in American history was captured by the elusive author of the oft-quoted warning that “when Fascism comes to America, it will be “wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” In a 2024 article in the Daily Montanan, retired lawyer and former Montana Supreme Court Judge James C. Nelson wrote a prescient article with the same title, in which he described his experience at the Feb ’26 CPAC meeting in DC where “right-wing conspiracy theorist” Jack Posobiec openly greeted attendees with: “I just wanted to say, welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it…because all glory, all glory is not to government, all glory is to God.”
So let’s be clear: these politically motivated so-called “Christians” have nothing to do with the life or teachings of the historical Jesus or devotion to any God. They are the culmination of a decades-long conspiracy to overthrow our 250-yr-old Constitutional government and replace it with an autocratic-authoritarian state. All power will be concentrated in the hands of a small, self-selected number of multi-billionaire white men who will remain completely above the laws they will be using as weapons against all who resist.
As we have discussed before, the Project 2025 objective is complete control of this country by dominating the Seven Mountains of Education, Government, Religion, Family, Business, Media, and Entertainment. Their well-funded and well-organized game plan has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the wanton destruction of Constitutional democracy. Watching these videos makes coherent sense of the deliberate 24/7 chaos of the last ten years of MAGA politics and the last forty years of targeted media propaganda from Republican politicians, news networks, and media celebrities.
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