Jesus spoke in parables because people such as you, slatten and Tom, see but do not see, and hear but do not hear, nor do you understand.

Which means you don’t understand that the point of “the wood in your eye” which correctly stated by Jesus says, “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

I find this fascinating because the words Jesus used imply that the speck (mote)—the splinter I see in my brother's eye—is of the same exact material as the beam in my own eye, only smaller in dimension. That's why I can spot certain sins in other people very easily. They're my sins. Whatever sins you struggle with personally are the sins you will point out in others most readily. David found this to be true. The prophet Nathan came to him and said, "David, we have a problem. There's a rich man who has all sorts of sheep. Someone came to visit him, and instead of going out to his own herds and taking one of his own lambs, this rich man went to his neighbor who was very poor, grabbed his neighbor's one and only lamb, and killed it to serve his guest."

Outraged, David said, "What? The man who has done this thing shall surely die!" The Old Testament Law never prescribed death as the penalty for this kind of transgression. Yet, with blood vessels bursting and finger pointing, David said, "Kill him!"

Then Nathan said, "David, you are that man. It's you. You have many wives and concubines, yet you stole Uriah's wife, Bathsheba, and you took her into your house. You are that man."

Why was David so eager to mete out excessive judgment? Because we're always harshest with the sin in others that also lurks within our own hearts. The old saying is true: You can always tell a preacher's sins by what he preaches against. And Jesus is saying, "If you see splinters in others, realize it's a splinter off the beam that is in your own eye."

Jesus was not saying you shouldn't help the brother who has a splinter in his eye. Instead, He is saying to make sure you recognize and deal with the beam in your own eye first. “Create in me a clean heart, O God,” David prayed. “Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You” (Psalm 51:10, 13).

Once You deal with me, Lord, my attitude will be entirely different as I deal with others.

Those are not facts. That is the most stupid analysis and blame shifting I've seen this century. Your dishonest clowns will tell any lie to shift the blame for record setting oil and gasoline prices off of your boy Joe the idiot and onto President Donald J. Trump.

Donald J. Trump was trying to save American Oil Producers from going bankrupt, so that when demand came back, there would be an American oil industry to serve the needs of American citizens.

That you accept this outright embarrassment of a claim " Thus, in the last year of his presidency, Trump oversaw the worldwide cuts in oil production that would lead to today’s prices soaring well past $130 a barrel. " means you are not very intelligent or not very honest. So which is it ?

Again you have proven that facts have zero meaning to you. For what ever reason, that is the truth.

Absolutely any untruth to excuse President Biden's total incompetence in setting energy policy.