This is the day the church celebrates Three Kings Day (Epiphany). Informally, it begins "Mardi Gras Season". It also begins "Epiphanytide", which officially lasts until the 10th next month, and unofficially lasts until Mardi Gras.

The wildness will just be beginning. If you have a birthday that lands anywhere from January 6 to February 16, you could have the King Cake as an additional birthday item.

In both the American Revolution and the Civil War, the opposing armies had regular troops as a backbone. The American Revolution itself would've failed had the Continental Army not transformed from the militia to a real Army. They also had the benefit of the regular military of the Netherlands, France, and Spain being on their side.

Thanks to the Indian wars that occurred after the American Revolution, Congress realized that we needed a regular military and took action on it. This saved us when the War of 1812 came around. When the Civil War broke out, the regular military formed the backbone of both sides.

Meaning, citizen militias were not sufficient to keep the fight going... Even if they had veterans among them.

Historic reality shows that we would not end up having a revolution or a civil war if the Democrats succeed with their steal... Without the regular military as a backbone. At best, we could have sectarian violence but it would not benefit our side in the long run.

What would more than likely happen is that "Constitution Sanctuaries" would be established. Conservative counties and localities would likely declare themselves a sanctuary where the Constitution would be respected and protected. What's considered as "unconstitutional" would not be enforced. There could be states that join in this effort, and refuse to enforce federal laws deemed unconstitutional.

Here's a good news when it comes to military action... There's not enough people in the military to effectively put these counties under control... the more counties declare themselves constitutional sanctuaries, the more difficult to enforce. The geographic and climate problem that makes the United States nearly impossible to invade works against attempts to implement martial law in large areas when support from the population is absent.

However, sectarian violence could erupt if Antifa or BLM tries to harass these counties. The anger and rage being bottled up, and shown online, would rear its ugly head during these confrontations.

First, the commandment (Exodus 20:2-3):

"I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

The first sentence is a reminder of the fact that it took an act of God for the Hebrews to obtain their freedom. He forced both nature and man to do his bidding in the process.

Why would it require an act of God to regain freedom? Because once you lose your freedom, it is hard to gain it back. The longer a people remain without their freedom, the harder it gets to regain that freedom.

The second sentence is a hack for remaining free. Having no other god before God means to do the right thing (defined by God) no matter how much a person would rather not do the right thing.

Note the difference in "God" versus "gods". God is not saying that there are no other gods. Each human emotion was represented in the ancient times by a "god". When a person does something that is "not right", but "is right" in this person's eyes, they are doing the bidding of one or a combination of their emotions... Each represented by a deity.

The DNC theft of the election is an example of this. Theft is a violation of the commandment against stealing. Among the reasons they're doing this include anger (Lord of Wrath), narcissism (Lord of Pride), and control (Lord of Control). One of the ancient terms, used for "lord" in the Middle East, was "Baal".

These are many of the same folk who pay lip service to Christianity, but who would rather wage war on Christianity. You guys know the ramifications of their actions, and intended policies, against our long term freedom. What the left has done is redefine what is right (in their eyes) at the expense of God's definition of it.

History tells us that if they get their way, it would not be long before we lose our freedoms.

I've seen many posts showing graphics or expressions of communists being thrown out of helicopters. The urban legend I'm familiar with is an alleged incident in Vietnam where special forces were in a helicopter interrogating two communists. Neither spoke, so they beat the crap out of the first communist, then threw him out of the helicopter. His buddy, seeing what happened, ended up singing like a bird. After they received the information they needed from the second communist, they beat the crap out of him and threw him out of the helicopter.

The real story began when they were loading wounded enemy onto a helicopter. The helicopter was hovering above the area, not too high, just low enough to quickly load the wounded and then fly to the next destination. They pulled the wounded up on stretchers and ropes.

This was during the Vietnam War.

They were gathering the dead in one area, and the wounded in another area for collection and transport to medical facilities for treatment, then release into detainee camps. It so happened that one of the wounded enemy that was loaded into the helicopter died on the way to the medical facility. The helicopter turned around and returned to where they were gathering the dead. They lowered the body to the ground.

Unfortunately, the body wasn't properly tied. Partway from the helicopter to the ground, the body slipped and fell to the ground. Again, the helicopter wasn't at a crazy height. It was hovering low enough to gather the wounded and then fly to the next destination.

This created an urban legend that grew over time... This story evolved to where the helicopter kept being "higher" as the body dropped... Then it wasn't a dead body, but a person that was alive who eventually was thrown out of the helicopter.

There may be other versions of this, or events of people being dropped from helicopters, but the one that I'm familiar with originated in Vietnam and was told by many a military embellisher and military imposter to friends who didn't know any better.

10 U.S. Code § 246 - Militia: composition and classes

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.

(b) The classes of the militia are--

(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246

Each state and territory has a state level militia law. Some states specify just males, others include everyone and may have a wider age range.

This is just the statutory militia. The Constitutional Militia is bigger and consists of those protected by the 2nd Amendment.