Overheard at Table 4: Culiacán

Heard the news that Culiacán is on fire today ... apparently last night the Mexican government captured the son of El Chapo Guzmán, and then the cartel set cars on fire on the roads in and out of the city.

There are videos of an army or navy helicopter raining bullets down on houses, and other videos showing the workers at the airport hunkering down behind their kiosks.  Seems like the Cartel also attacked the airport.  Other buildings were also set on fire.

There's some conflicting news that the government may have also released the guy to try to stop the cartel from the violence, but by midday, that didn't seem to be happening.

When I looked at some of the comments on social media, seems like most of the Americans were simply saying things like, "And now Biden wants all the Cartel members to come here" and "If they had an army like ours, this'd be over in 20 minutes"  ... further indication that Americans are so arrogant, pompous, and bellicose, that they truly have zero empathy and compassion for the people who live in that city who just want to live, love, laugh, people who go to work at their various non-Cartel jobs every day and get caught in this crossfire in this failed state.  But do American commenters even think about that?  No.  Americans are all "They can't come here" and "pew pew pew!" will save the day.

Also, here's a little inconvenient fact-line:

1) Sinaloa Cartel's main source of income: Fentanyl.

2) Main consumer of Fentanyl: White Americans.

Ergo, 

3) If White Americans weren't addicted to opioids, THEN the Cartel's income stream would dry up and so would their ability to burn down cities.

From 1440 Daily Digest

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/19/1047223109/fentanyl-is-one-reason-why-the-u-s-drug-addiction-crisis-is-roaring-back

 

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths-by-raceethnicity/?dataView=1&currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D

Small Stage: Armadillo Railroad "Send Me On"

The video plays behind on the small stage, but you can hear some of the patrons clapping out of time...

ARMADILLO RAILROAD "Send Me On"

Overheard at Table 3: Supplements vs Cookies

Why are you buying these cheap supplements?

Because they say they're good to help slim down?

And are you slimming down?  No!  No, you're not.

That probably has something more to do with the bags of cookies that I keep inhaling every time I go to the grocery store.

Overheard at Booth 2: Deuteronomy 7:6-7

Deuteronomy clearly speaks out against the Jewish people being somehow "special" in and of themselves:




6 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

7 The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.




In fact, God chose Israel because they were the fewest - the weakest - the most insignificant - of all people groups of the time. His grace upon Israel was to show GOD's awesome might, NOT theirs.

With Christ, that grace has been expanded to include ALL believers, all those who accept Christ as the Triune God - Lord and Savior - Galatians 3:28 "There is no Jew nor Greek"

We are now all one in Christ. Saved by HIS grace ... and not by ourselves.

This is why we must be supremely humble.

This is also why we must deny the tendency toward Nationalism.

Overheard at Booth 1: Send Me On

Send Me On

If I get to be a burden 
Send me on, send me on
If I get to be a burden 
Send me on to see the Lord

If a machine is breathin' for me
Send me on, send me on
If a machine is breathin' for me
Send me on to see the Lord

If you have to wipe my bottom
Send me on, send me on
If you have to wipe my bottom
Send me on to see the Lord

Just give me sweet morphine
Pull the plug from that machine
Put a pillow on my face
So I can feel my Father's Grace
Just send me on to see the Lord!

MR

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