how to make your own Xylitol Spearmints to save $165!!

 Order organic xylitol crystals by the pound (at 1/5th or 20% of the price of the premade xylitol spearmints aka $11.50 a pound vs $14 for 1/4 pound)  so - $46 for four pounds organic xylitol crystals including tax/shipping vs $224 for the premade - a savings of....$165!!

  buy silicone candy molds (135 cubes) or $3 for 

Silicone Crushed Ice Tray (165 cubes) and $10 for organic spearmint essential oil

  134 to 150 grams of granulated cooking xylitol (same as one bottle of premade xylitol spearmints) in 165 mL of volume of ONE silicone crushed ice tray. So four of those trays = 1 pound or four bottles of xylitol spearmints. 

Place the xylitol in your pan over medium-low heat. Heat it slowly so it melts down to a clear liquid. Do not let it boil or burn. [1, 2, 3]

Cool and Flavor: Take the pan off the burner and let the liquid cool for a minute so the hot syrup does not spatter. Stir in the spearmint oil quickly and thoroughly. [1, 2, 3]

Molding: Work fast because xylitol hardens very quickly as it cools. Pour or drop the liquid mixture into your silicone molds

 

Why bring back the Eisenhower "maximum income" tax rates on the rich? 91% on $2.5 million income or above + oil tax

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/07/trump-windfall-tax-big-oil-iran-war 

 The usual reason for imposing an ordinary income tax rate on short term gains is to tax investors and dealers in securities and futures contracts for whom the making of a market in commodities and stocks, and the speculation in their short-term price movements, is their ordinary business, such that the gains are, in fact, their ordinary income.

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/higher-rate-short-term-capital-gains-questionable-policy-choice/ 

Only the top .1% of the US in annual income would pay this 91% tax rate that Eisenhower had from the Truman era.  

 The 91% top marginal income tax rate was enacted during the Truman administration under the Revenue Act of 1950, which raised individual rates to fund the Korean War. Right before this act, the top individual rate sat at roughly 82.1% ...In 1940, the top federal income tax rate on income above $200,000 was already 66 percent. As war spending accelerated through 1941 and 1943, rates climbed further. By 1944, the top marginal rate peaked at 94 percent. It remained above 90 percent — sitting at 91 percent for most of the period — continuously from 1944 through 1963.

 https://danismart.substack.com/p/a-note-on-the-numbers-what-the-91

First, the 91 percent rate kicked in on income above $200,000 — equivalent to roughly $2 to $3 million in today’s dollars. Second, fewer than 10,000 households in the entire country qualified. This was not a broad tax on success. It was a ceiling on the accumulation of dynastic wealth by a tiny fraction of the population, during a period when that fraction was doing extraordinarily well.

The economy, meanwhile, grew faster than it has at any point since....

 At 91 percent, that slice would generate approximately $1.0 to $1.3 trillion in taxes. The current 37 percent top rate applied to the same income generates roughly $400 to $520 billion. The difference — the additional revenue a restored top rate would theoretically produce — is somewhere between $600 billion and $800 billion per year.

 https://www.warresisters.org/war-tax-resistance/

That group estimates 80% of U.S. debt is spent on military funding and a new record of 58% of income tax will now go to the military in 2027!!

 

https://www.warresisters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/FY2027-pie-chart-web.pdf 

 At least the top 5 to 10 major U.S. weapons contractor CEOs have total annual compensation packages well over $2 million, with median total packages ranging from $19 million to $23 million each

Phebe Novakovic (General Dynamics): ~$25.9 million

Kathy Warden (Northrop Grumman): ~$25.3 million

Christopher Calio (RTX): ~$24.8 million

Kelly Ortberg (Boeing): ~$23.5 million

Jim Taiclet (Lockheed Martin): ~$23.4 million

 The chief executive officers of the top five U.S. weapons contractors receive guaranteed base cash salaries between $1.2 million and $1.8 million annually, supplemented by short-term cash performance bonuses ranging from $2.8 million to $6.6 million per year

Did my Irish Rodger Hanly or Hanley ancestors convert to methodist via Sparling marriage in Canada or before in Ireland? Still not sure where

 Susannah Sparling (John5, Philip4, John3, George P2, Peter1), born Apr 1808 in Killaloe, Clare, Ireland; deceased 9 Jun 1898. She married in 1842 in St Marys, Perth Co, Ontario, Canada, Rodger "Rody" Hanley, born Jan 1812 in Ireland; deceased 16 Jul 1894. 

Did Hanley convert to Sparling's Methodism in Canada? Or did Sparling convert to Hanley's Irish Catholicism? And then Emma Hanley (Irish Catholic) converted to Switzer's Methodism...? I found the answer (at least according to AI)

Mary Ann Hanly (born August 23, 1853, in Perth, Ontario) belonged to an Irish Palatine family of Methodist (specifically Wesleyan Methodist) heritage, rather than Catholic. Her parents, Rodger Hanly and Susanna Sparling, came from Irish Palatine roots in County Limerick and Tipperary associated with early Methodism in Ontario ..

So Rodger Hanley probably converted to Methodism in Canada and not Ireland... 

1) Sparling was a Palatine-German name of a family that moved to Ireland and then married a Roger aka Rodd Hanley (my great-great-great grandparents). They moved to Canada, give birth to Emma Hanley who then married Henry Switzer, my great-great grandparents 2). 

My mom returned back to her Canadian roots with her grandmother, Alvina Switzer, the daughter of Emma Hanley.

Alvina Switzer married Thomas Chappell 3) - my great-grandparents - they were both already Methodists even though the Chappell family moved from England to Canada - and Thomas Chappell went to Methodist seminary in Chicago, even becoming a Methodist preacher, as my great-grandfather. He was an itinerant horseback preacher in Canada then who would camp out surrounded by wolves. 

They moved to Devil's Lake North Dakota to a parish that had a dirt floor as my mom's grandmother told my mom.

That was around 1901....

As we can see - Roger Hanley and Susan Sparling had a HUGE grave memorial in Canada - so they must have been successful farmers. My mom says that Emma Hanley still had a "Palatine" background - meaning that Susan Sparling was Methodist since she was also a Palatine-Irish. But was Roger Hanley also methodist? 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157473080/roger-hanly 

 

So we know there was a mass conversion of the German Palatine-Irish to Methodists and that would include the Sparling family and the Switzer family.... but what about the Hanley family?

 

 Johann Adam Legier (often later recorded as LeGear) is indeed tied to the historic German Palatine migration of 1709.  He was born in the 1600s and he was part of the Palatine move to Ireland. He married a Sparling in Ireland...

 

So there were several generations of Irish-Palatines or German-Irish that married each other before moving to Canada and the U.S.

But once they were in Canada they married into Irish families directly.

 

 John SPARLING, Blanshard township
John Sparling (1812-1871) settled in Blanchard Township in 1842, along with his uncles, Peter and Christopher Sparling and his older sister and brother-in-law, Suzanne and Rody HANLEY. His younger brother, Frederick, joined them a few years later. This was an Irish Palatine family from County Tipperary and County Limerick. They were Wesleyan Methodist. John was elected to the District Council and was Captain of the local milita. He was later appointed Justice of the Peace and moved to St. Marys where he built a fine stone house which still stands at --. He relocated to the United States with his second wife and younger children in 1862 in the face of a political scandal. His adult children stayed behind to farm or pursue careers in the Methodist Church and teaching.
Contact person: Lois Sparling, Calgary, Alberta,

The Didache is the original Apostles Creed? Academic book by Vicar Dr. John Alan Garrow says yes

 https://cdn-static.supadu.com/baker-academic-us/pdf/Excerpt_9781540970138.pdf

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVsts-Uj4ro

Did the Didache Hide Christianity's Missing First-Century Documents? | Dr. Alan Garrow

closer to the "sayings of Jesus" than the Gospels...

 A "Jewish Christian" teaching book for Gentiles...

 https://bakeracademic.com/products/9781540970138_the-didache-discoveries

 Alan Garrow (DPhil, University of Oxford) is vicar of St. Peter's Church, Harrogate, United Kingdom, and is a member of the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies.

https://www.alangarrow.com/anglican-ministry.html 

 https://www.alangarrow.com/uploads/4/4/0/3/44031657/apostolic_decree_english_website.pdf

https://www.alangarrow.com/uploads/4/4/0/3/44031657/missing_epistle_english_esource.pdf 

 

Why the AI "scientifc consensus" about abrupt global warming is totally wrong

 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4607703/

 Some authors believe [And AI CLAIMS THIS IS THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE WRONG] that CH₄ fluxes from subsea permafrost, more than 80% of which occur in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS), will depend on rates of CH₄ production in gradually thawing sediments [6], while subsea permafrost will remain frozen for millennia [7]. Others believe that permafrost failure caused by long-lasting warming by seawater due to sea-level rise and global-change-induced warming, which in the twenty-first century is very pronounced over the ESAS [8], will destabilize massive gas reservoirs, leading to large-scale CH₄ releases, including release of pre-formed CH₄ long preserved within and beneath subsea permafrost [9,10].

............ 

 The other factor that AI is not considering is the Aerosol Masking Effect research of Daniel Rosenfeld's research group as this is also excluded from current climate modeling. Rosenfeld's research discovered that a 40% decrease in coal production heats up Earth another 1 degree celsius global average. This means the "scenario" of reducing co2 emissions from coal actually heats up earth faster as James Hansen now emphasizes that the main cause of global atmosphere temperature increase is from the increase in renewables.

 

 

 

why is Papias so confusing? Michael Kok and Dr. Stephen Carlson

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w8zmAKheQE

Justin Martyr knows the material of Paul, but he never mentions Paul by name. This means Paul's sayings were going around anonymously with a title like "the sayings of christ" or "the sayings of the apostles". A few examples: “Do nothing from selfish ambition… but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.” Paul (Philippians 2:3–4) “Christ commands humility and love of one’s neighbor, not seeking one’s own advantage.” Justin (1 Apology 33) “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.” Paul (Ephesians 5:8) “Christ teaches us to walk in the light, for we were once in darkness.” Justin (Dialogue with Trypho 61) “Be imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love..." Paul (Ephesians 5:1–2) “Christ commands us to imitate God and live in love..." Justin Martyr (1 Apology 33)

Old Testament fulfillments sounds like 1 Clement

So Papias corroborates the existence of Paul via Phillip? Wild.

 

 Michael J. Kok, Four Evangelists and a Heresy Hunter: Investigating the Traditions about Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Self-published, 2025. Pp. 111. Paperback

It is feasible that other named characters mentioned in the Gospels served as eyewitness informants for the evangelists. Each example must be evaluated on an individual basis. Some of the oral traditions may very well go back to the apostles. Peter might have been the source of the story about the healing of his mother-in-law. Of course, the evangelists did not obtain all their material directly from eyewitnesses. Certain traditions could have been accurately transmitted even when eyewitnesses were not involved in the process.

Kok, Michael (2025). Four Evangelists and a Heresy Hunter p. 114 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEsUvum-u1g

Paul argues the Human Body is the Temple after the Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD: 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZLRR_CezEE

 

 

Google Glitch! Third party apps require a smart phone text for google verification even though google lets you use a landline

 While you can use a landline to receive verification codes via a voice call, some sign-in prompts may only offer text message (SMS) options. If you're unable to receive texts on your landline, you can add a mobile number or set up other verification methods to ensure you don't get locked out.

That's a serious google glitch! If google allows a landline phone call for verification then why does google set up only a text msge option for google sign in via third party apps? Google is trying to blame the thirty party apps that it created? strange.

That's what happens when you have three people owning over 50% of the wealth in the U.S.  - you get a fascist culture requiring you to own a "smart phone" that can track your every movement...