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Mold in your home can be an unseen problem that can cause health problems for your family. Increasingly, people are hiring a mold protection dog to scan their homes and provide an early warning. While air tests and traditional mold inspections might find the source, a mold detection dog can pinpoint the source more accurately. @mold_hunt When you’re so focused on finding mold… even a toy tiger can’t break your concentration But don’t worry — Indy handled it like a pro Need to sniff out hidden mold (minus the jungle drama)? Visit https://moldhunt.com #MoldHunt #MoldDog #MoldInspection #K9Detection #FunnyDogVideo #FloridaHomes #HomeInspection #Remediation #RealEstateTikTok ♬ Jaws style suspense jingle(1111319) – moshimo sound design Indy is a black Labrador retriever specially trained to sniff mold. He works with Mold Hunt, LLC, in Florida, and he and his handler are certified for mold detection. During a recent home mold inspection, Indy’s nose was busy, and he was concentrating on his job. Reaching the corner of a child’s playroom, the intense dog ran into a life-size stuffed tiger hanging out of a toy box. The toy startled the dog for a brief second, but he recovered quickly and continued his patrol of the house. Image from TikTok. Mold detection dogs are an accurate and indispensable tool for finding hidden mold. Their noses can “see” your home’s out-of-sight nooks and crannies. A dog inspection is completely nondestructive. There is no moving furniture, drilling into walls and floors, or other invasive ways to access the source of mold, and it is much quicker. Using a mold detection dog can save money. The accuracy of the dog’s nose is superior to any mechanical or electronic test. Since mold can impact your health, having a home inspection can help you provide a better environment for your family. Most mold detection dogs receive training from detection dog veteran Bill Whitstine. After years of training dogs in bomb detection, Bill shifted his focus to this much-needed area. Even though a dog may be distracted temporarily, it recovers quickly and returns to the task. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Mold Detection Dog Runs Into “Trouble” When He Gets A Little Too In The Zone appeared first on InspireMore.

Humans tend to adopt wild animals and consider them “pets” when we feed them. Kayla felt that way about a duck near her home, which she had fed all spring. Living on a farm can be challenging without “adopting” wild critters. Kayla has a couple of horses, a goose, at least one cat, and two kids. But she wasn’t too busy to feed the little mama duck. That paid off this week because the mama brought six baby ducks to show Kayla. @kkaaay11 I am SO honored!! #ducksoftiktok ♬ suara asli – Capricorn – Capricorn The mama duck paraded her baby ducks right up to Kayla, as if to say, “Look what I made!” The commenters said she was now an Auntie or Grandma to the little fluff balls. After the visit, the mama duck moved her little brood under the children’s playset. And so, with the new duties of guardianship foisted upon her, Kayla set about making them feel at home. First on the agenda was a duck pond, also known as a kid’s swimming pool. Kayla filled it and added a ramp. It took a little while, but the mama duck finally took a swim. Then she showed her little ones how to climb the ramp. @kkaaay11 Replying to @aae06_ This is my Super Bowl #ducksoftiktok ♬ original sound – Headbangers Dan Kayla continues to feed the little family cracked corn. There is also plenty of natural food on the farm. The baby ducks are growing quickly. Kayla is enjoying watching the little family grow up. She’ll keep tossing them extra food. Ducks are migratory and often return to the same nesting area every year. This might start many years of watching baby ducks grow up in her yard. You can follow Kayla on TikTok to watch her fulfill her duties as an adoptive Aunt or Grandma. They’ll be swimming very soon. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post “I’ve Been Feeding This Mama Duck All Spring & Today She Brought Her Babies To Me” appeared first on InspireMore.

Alasdair MacIntyre (1929–2025) was one of the 20th century’s most significant moral philosophers. He was a highly sought-after professor, with stops at prestigious institutions like Oxford, Brandeis, Duke, and Notre Dame. Though I never met MacIntyre, his work exposed the ways my assumptions about the world were often formed more by modernistic, liberal values and Kantian ethics than by God’s truth. “We are all of us,” explains MacIntyre, “inhabitants of advanced modernity, bearing its social and cultural marks.” MacIntyre’s most famous work, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, was published in 1981. It has remained in print ever since. This carefully argued book has gone through three editions and been translated into numerous languages. His thesis is that the lack of a coherent philosophy within culture meant that “we have—very largely, if not entirely—lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, [of] morality.” For this reason, we have no standard against which to compare our moral arguments. The solution to this problem, he proposes, is an Aristotelian virtue ethic (which he later modified to a Thomistic version) that can fill in the void. After Virtue is a seminal book that shaped public ethical debates, and it became the first of a trilogy of books that also includes Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (1988) and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition (1990). Throughout his works, MacIntyre consistently points out our culture’s collective amnesia about the past and the always true goodness of, well, goodness. As MacIntyre, a Roman Catholic, notes in After Virtue, “What liberalism promotes is a kind of institutional order that is inimical to the construction and sustaining of the types of communal relationship required for the best kind of human life.” By pointing to something other than liberalism as a means by which we can live the good life—namely, virtue—MacIntyre put into words an idea that changed the way I understood Scripture. I came to see how the Bible pointed me toward purpose and virtue, which are experienced in Christian community and grounded in the Christian tradition. Morality Beyond Duty In my late teens and early 20s, I read the Bible as a Kantian liberal. I obeyed God’s will because it was simply there in the text. No need to think about telos, meaning, or metaphysics. I believed we simply needed to obey, and I was skeptical of those who’d reflected deeply on God’s creation. The Bible was a book filled with rules for living. The Bible gave me oughts. But I had no sense of the universe’s grand meaning or of the “theater of God’s glory,” to use Calvin’s phrase. I was a modernist, but I didn’t know it. I thought I could follow God by paying attention to his Word without loving his world. I didn’t see the beautiful meaning and purpose in God’s creation. My perspective changed gradually as I read the apostolic fathers and theologians like John Calvin. They introduced me to a way of seeing the world as God’s good creation corrupted by sin and in desperate need of a Redeemer, but full of grace and goodness from God. Because of common grace, that world is filled with wonder and beauty; God made it that way. There’s purpose and meaning in this world that should inform our moral reasoning. Though I arrived at this countercultural understanding of the world through premodern sources, I couldn’t articulate my shift until I discovered MacIntyre. After Virtue gave me a vocabulary to describe my experience. More broadly, his book explains why talking about ethics in public produces more heat than light: We lack shared definitions of what is good. “There seems to be no rational way of securing moral agreement in our culture,” writes MacIntyre. Believing in a purposeful world created by God means we’re often intractably at odds with thinkers who deny God as the Creator of heaven and earth who gives all his creatures purpose. To use MacIntyre’s term, there’s an incommensurability to these ways of moral reasoning. Seeking Creation’s Purpose As someone born and raised in a thoroughly modern (or postmodern) culture, I considered a fractured understanding of morality the only possibility. Yet MacIntyre reveals this is a new way of living, since there’s a tradition of morality that our culture has, in cosmic terms, only recently abandoned. That earlier moral tradition relies not on utilitarian calculus—a relatively recent cultural adoption—but on an understanding of purpose, or telos. We know a watch that tells time is good. Why? Because that’s its purpose. Prior to the Enlightenment, people largely assumed that every created thing has a real and inherent purpose. A good seed grows into a tree. A good carpenter builds sturdy furniture. A boy becomes a man. As Proverbs 16:4 says, “The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.” By achieving the purpose for which God created us, we embody truth, beauty, and goodness. We gain happiness, the status of a life well lived. By achieving the purpose for which God created us, we embody truth, beauty, and goodness. After Virtue spotlighted the modernistic assumptions of my youth, revealing their deficiencies. Despite my efforts to be thoroughly biblical, I was Kantian. I believed I could be sufficiently guided in life by obedience to God’s ought without reference to creation’s nature and purpose. MacIntyre, through his advocacy for virtue ethics, helped me appreciate God’s world more and gave me a better vocabulary to discuss morality in public. Beyond Virtue There’s much more to MacIntyre’s legacy beyond recovering an ancient ethical tradition. He also reveals the ways our Enlightenment assumptions continue to fail us. For example, he states in Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, “The legacy of the Enlightenment has been the provision of an ideal of rational justification which it has proved impossible to attain.” The result is that, though we live in an age that claims to be rational, much of our moral reasoning is reduced to emotivism. According to MacIntyre, in After Virtue, “Emotivism is the doctrine that . . . all moral judgments are nothing but expressions of preference.” It’s the ethical outworking of what we often call expressive individualism. Many of us take MacIntyre’s critiques for granted four decades later. But they were provocative when first published. Many of us take MacIntyre’s critiques for granted four decades later. But they were provocative when first published. MacIntyre reveals that we all used the language of ethics without remembering why. He opened up the past to us who’d forgotten that everything has a purpose—the created order has telos. We were created for a purpose. When we don’t live according to that purpose, we’re unhappy and frustrated. Thus, he helps readers understand the malaise of modernity, which has largely emptied human existence of meaning. It’s no surprise, therefore, that MacIntyre is a key thinker for postliberal and integralist thought. Yet his influence extends beyond those political spheres. There’s been something of a resurgence among evangelicals of virtue thinking, which is embedded deeply in the Christian tradition and found in the moral order of creation. For example, Karen Swallow Prior, in On Reading Well, shows how literature forms virtue within us. She joins a cohort of writers that, knowingly or not, owe a debt to MacIntyre’s work. Furthermore, when Tim Keller argues that secular concepts of justice are insufficient, he’s building on MacIntyre’s critique of the Enlightenment. Evangelicals have much to glean from MacIntyre’s philosophy. I find reason for hope in MacIntyre’s continued influence, especially in the recovery of the cardinal and theological virtues in ethical discourse. MacIntyre revealed my Enlightenment assumptions. He helped me read Scripture better and see the world as Christians for millennia had—full of beauty, truth, and goodness. For that, I’m thankful. I’m hopeful he’ll do the same for others.

Every pastor has the joy (at least, it’s usually a joy) of officiating Christian weddings, which can be a beautiful picture of the gospel. In this episode of The Everyday Pastor, Ligon Duncan and Matt Smethurst offer practical advice for stewarding these opportunities and making the most of a wedding weekend.

Hellyeah formed in 2006 when members of two heavyweight metal outfits—Mudvayne and Nothingface—linked up in Dallas, Texas, to explore a groove-driven strain of modern metal. Mudvayne vocalist Chad Gray and guitarist Greg Tribbett connected with Nothingface guitarist Tom Maxwell and bassist Jerry Montano during Ozzfest’s touring downtime, trading riffs and ideas that felt too loose and southern-fried for their primary projects. The spark intensified when former Pantera and Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott agreed to climb behind the kit after months of persuasion, giving the nascent super-group a rhythmic backbone rooted in Texas groove metal heritage. From that first rehearsal The post Complete List Of Hellyeah Albums And Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from the press and broadcast media, and with burgeoning financial and high-tech sectors of the economy, manage to lose just about everything across the board? The Biden administration has been repudiated by voters over the inflation that resulted from its heedless spending and open border policy on immigration, and it has been discredited by recent disclosures of former President Joe Biden’s incapacity and by Democrats in and outside the White House who concealed and lied about his condition. Most of what used to be called the mainstream media has also been discredited, long since distrusted by perhaps half of Americans, and now shown to have been incompetent or partisanshiply complicit. The Democratic Party’s hopes that President Donald Trump’s job approval rating would zoom down toward zero have been temporarily frustrated, as it has risen slightly in May and is higher than at any point in his first term. To illustrate the pickle Democrats are in, it’s helpful to provide a little historical perspective, at least as far back as a dozen years, on the very different political climate following the 2012 election. That saw the third consecutive reelection of an incumbent president, something not seen since 1820. The respected Democrat pollster Stanley Greenberg argued that Democrats’ increased support from college graduates, plus huge margins from blacks, Hispanics, and young people, would form a “coalition of the ascendant” dominant for years to come. Greenberg was right about trends up to that point. However, he failed to account for the Newtonian law that says for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. His coalition spurred a coalition of the nonascendant. White non-college-educated people living outside million-dollar-plus metropolitan areas spurned Democrats and elected Trump over Hillary Clinton. A similar coalition in Britain produced the unexpected victory for Brexit five months before. By 2024, after one term each from Trump and Biden, that movement continued, including among non-college-educated Hispanics, Asians, and blacks. Figures compiled by the Democrat firm Catalist and spotlighted by Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini showed Republicans gaining 36 points among Latinos aged 18 to 29, 33 points among black men, and 30 points among non-college-educated Asians between 2012 and 2024. In the process, the Democratic Party has become increasingly dominated by white college-educated people, who reliably turn out to vote, contribute lots of money, and have poor judgment about what matters will appeal to majorities of the entire electorate. As the financial adviser Dave Ramsey put it, “The hardest people to convince to use common sense are the smart people.” High-education voters, repelled by Trump’s crudeness, provided the enthusiasm behind the Russia collusion hoax and the various lawfare prosecutions and attempts to remove Trump from office somehow. They provided the impetus behind the flawed “science” to extend school closings and other undue COVID-19 restrictions. After George Floyd’s death in May 2020, they gave support or silent acquiescence to radical calls for defunding the police, to reparations for descendants of slaves, and to continued racial quotas and preferences—all positions opposed by large majorities of voters. Biden, having secured the nomination after winning the majority-black South Carolina primary, felt obliged to name a black woman for vice president, although the party nominated a black presidential candidate twice in the previous three contests. In a process described by Greg Schultz, manager of Biden’s 2020 primary campaign, the voters and officeholders of what he called “the (mostly) safe middle” of the party have embraced or accepted policies advocated by “the (much smaller) far Left,” but that actively repel “the majority-makes” whose votes Democratic candidates need to win. That didn’t happen when “the (mostly) safe middle” was typified by Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg’s non-college-educated housewife from Dayton married to a machinist. However, it has happened now that the voter looks like the college-educated professional woman married to a lawyer in the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia. You can see how this works out on controversial transgender matters. College-educated Democrats, noting the public majorities favoring same-sex marriage, have enthusiastically backed stands supported by transgender advocates and expressed scorn for the few elected Democrats opposing them. They have failed to reflect that it took 22 years from Andrew Sullivan’s 1989 New Republic article advocating same-sex marriage to the first Gallup poll showing a national majority in favor. Those two decades included partisan and civil arguments from Sullivan and Jonathan Rauch that marriage would consensitize gays and need not affect others, just as standard wedding etiquette allows you to decline an invitation without giving a reason or a gift. In contrast, transgender activists impinge on others. They insist that inevitably more muscular biological men must compete in female sports, and they pummel the rare Democrat, such as Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., when they question that. As transgender demands have become better known, they have lost support, as Pew Research reported. Most voters are motivated by concrete concerns—direct economic interests and ethnic or racial concerns. College-educated voters tend to have more theoretical concerns. Sometimes they may alert others to injustice and persuade them to address it, such as supporters of equal rights for blacks. The danger is that their high regard for their own views leads them to take impolitic stands, such as former Vice President Kamala Harris’ support of government-paid transgender surgeries for prisoners and illegal immigrants. Every political party must strike some balance between the demands of its core constituencies and the beliefs of voters. That’s hard for a party dominated by college-educated activists with theoretical rather than practical concerns. The Democratic Party today, with its discredited leadership and its college-educated core, seems badly off kilter. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Democrats: Leadership Discredited, Party Off Kilter appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Americans aren’t buying journalists’ claims that they didn’t know about former President Joe Biden’s declining mental condition during his time in office because they were somehow duped by his staff, a national survey of U.S. likely voters reveals. Nearly three-fourths (72%) of voters rate the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive condition by White House staffers a “serious scandal,” including half (48%) who think it’s a “very serious” scandal, according to results of a Rasmussen survey released Wednesday. Almost two-thirds (63%) of voters say major media weren’t fooled, but instead helped with the cover-up, including 42% who deem it “very likely.” Fully 89% of those voters who believe the cover-up is “very serious” also say it’s likely media were aware of Biden’s mental decline, but chose to cover it up, including 74% who consider it “very likely” media were willfully complicit in the cover-up. Conversely, 95% of those who think it’s no big deal that White House staff covered up Biden’s mental problems don’t care if media helped them do it. Eight-three percent (83%) of Republicans, 43% of Democrats and 63% of unaffiliated voters consider it at least somewhat likely that media were aware of Biden’s declining mental condition, but chose to help cover it up.

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