Go see this movie tomorrow (or Thursday, the 16th) to learn why Darwin’s theory – in light of what we now know about creation – has been disproven many times over, and how belief in evolution has done so much damage to our culture ~
“The truth will set you free.”
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Related:
God doesn’t need millions of years
Scopes’ godless legacy
Creation-Evolution Headlines
Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Tuesday’s Elections Reveal That Many Americans Are Suffering From a Mental Disorder ~ Unfortunately, it looks like the takers now outnumber the makers. D. C. McAllister at P.J. Media takes a lengthy but very informative look at what’s happened to the electorate over the past couple of decades; buying into the bankrupt socialist mindset ~
“Social justice” — making everyone the same in the name of fairness — is more important to people than freedom. Like children, they’d rather no one have candy as a reward for performance if some children are going to have less — this is the essence of the socialist mindset.
‘Any taboo has gone’: Netherlands sees rise in demand for euthanasia ~ Rather ironic, physician-assisted suicide is a real “growth” industry in the Netherlands ~
“Starting from 2007, the numbers increased suddenly,” Boer said. “It was as if the Dutch people needed to get used to the idea of an organised death. I know lots of people who now say that there is only one way they want to die and that’s through injection. It is getting too normal.”
Soon it will become an obligation, “you don’t want to be a burden to your family do you…?” It’s encouraging to see some fighting back against this latest trend to devalue human life ~ A Legal Challenge to the European Culture of Death ~ Represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Belgian man is appealing to the European Court of Human Rights which made it far too easy for his mother to end her own life (without even saying “good-bye!”) ~
If you can’t cope with the fact that an oncologist has killed your mother because of chronic depression, then you must have emotional dysfunctionality. I thought I was a humanist. But if this is humanism, then I’m not a humanist.” ~ Tom Mortier, Belgian chemistry professor
Art professor doubles down on defense of Confederate monuments ~ Good to know there’s at least one brave soul with some common sense in a bastion of leftism ~
“In my view, monuments are the physical, aesthetic culmination of diverse and unpredictable human actions. They are dynamic,” she said, adding they are filled with a potential for education.
“These works are of course about race and Jim Crow,” she said, “but I contend that monuments are about more than that. We don’t need to whitewash their unpleasant aspects, but we do need to think about them in more complicated ways.” ~ Professor Michele Bogart, Stony Brook University
But it’s tough trying to swim against that progressive tide ~Liberal Author Says She’s Being Blackballed for Warning about Dangers of Early Daycare ~
Ms. Komisar spent three decades working directly with children and parents in New York City. During that time she noticed a disturbing uptick in ADHD among boys and depression among girls. These patients often had one thing in common: mothers who weren’t present as much as they needed to be during the first three years of their child’s life […]
Until we acknowledge the vital role mothers play in the lives of their children, and do everything we can as a culture to support that role, our children and our nation will continue to pay a very dangerous emotional and psychological price.
Texas Shooter Was Angry Atheist ~ Somehow this part of the story was air-brushed out by most media sources ~
Mainstream media reports downplay testimony of people who knew shooter as an avowed atheist who considered Christians stupid […]
“Former classmates described him as ‘creepy’, ‘crazy’ and an ‘outcast’ who had recently started preaching about atheism and picking fights on social media.“
Michael Brown gives four reasons why there is so much hatred against Christians in America these days. “First, it is a natural fruit of the harsh and condescending ‘new atheism,’ which continues to poison many hearts and minds with its venom,” he begins. “God is not simply to be rejected; He is to mocked and ridiculed, as are His followers.” Those sentiments, expressed often enough to a wide enough audience, are likely to lead to violence.
Harvard University hosts anal sex workshop ~ Ugh.
Berlin: Syrian (Muslim) Rapes Pony On “Children’s Farm” in Public Park ~ double ugh.
Renewable energy – by royal decree – meanwhile, the poor suffer ~ St. Louis city council attempts to create their own reality by mandating 100% “clean, renewable” electricity by 2035. They’ve also decreed that pigs will fly by that date ~
In 2016, Missouri generated 96.5% of its electricity with fossil fuel and nuclear power, 1.6% with hydroelectric, and just 1.5% with wind and solar. The St. Louis Metro Area did roughly the same.
But now, by royal decree, the St. Louis City Crown has made it clear, the climate must be perfect all year – and by 2035 the city will somehow, magically be powered by 100% “clean, sustainable” electricity […]
People in impoverished and developing countries have little interest in wind and solar power, except as a stopgap for distant villages. They want abundant, reliable, affordable electricity. That’s why they have built hundreds of coal-fired power plants and have 1,600 more under construction or in planning.
Lord, open European eyes ~ A quiet, surprising revival ~
Europe in many ways is becoming “Eurabia,” with recent migration swelling the number of Muslims in Amsterdam and other cities. But while immigration is giving Islam a beachhead, some immigrants are reviving churches that had turned to sandcastles before a high tide of atheism. “We hope for revival, but mostly it comes from the immigrant communities and their charismatic churches,” says Klaas Van der Zwaag, a Dutch journalist and author of the two-volume Reformation Today
Newborn infant left in Safe Haven Box at Indiana fire department ~ Wow. I don’t know if these guys were inspired by the documentary “The Drop Box” or not, but what an awesome story!
NFL Ratings Nightmare Likely to Get Worse, Not Better ~ Especially since patriots are calling for a Veterans Day boycott ~
One way to honor veterans: No matter how much you like football, turn off the @NFL & watch something else instead #BoycottNFL
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) November 11, 2017
We remember the fallen , O Lord – those who laid down their lives in a just war that we might live in freedom. Indeed, we honor all military veterans, the men and women who have served our country. Give us grace and wisdom too, O God, to care for the wounded, to support the widows, and to work diligently for the return of those who are still missing in action. In Jesus’ name. Amen
It’s stunning how rapidly Turkey is devolving into an iron-fisted Islamist regime -while the West barely bats an eye. As I’ve blogged about before, Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is moving with ruthless determination to recreate the Ottoman Caliphate. And he’s more than happy to crush any of his fellow Turks who get in the way.
In addition to rounding up journalists, opposition politicians and academics, last year Turkish authorities issued an executive decree ordering the permanent closure of 375 non-governmental organizations. According to Amnesty International ~
The closure of nearly 400 NGOs is part of an ongoing and systematic attempt by the Turkish authorities to permanently silence all critical voices […]
The work of NGOs like these is especially vital during the ongoing human rights crisis in Turkey, where flagrant misuse of emergency powers has cast a dark shadow over an already ravaged civil society.
Since then, Open Doors has moved the country up in their persecution (of Christians) rankings from #45 to #37 (North Korea being #1) ~
Turkey’s rank on the World Watch List rose sharply this year… There are three notable trends in Turkey at the moment: the presence of radical Islam, the ethnic conflict and the changing political scene. Each of these trends are linked to each other, and all of them will affect Christians in Turkey.
Persecution in Turkey is shaped by Islamic extremism, and is increasingly marked by violence. Pressure on believers from Muslim backgrounds is especially acute due to the Islamic social environment. Increasing pressure on Christians is fueled by Turkish nationalism and a regime that aims to Islamize the country.
Most recently, Erdoğan has been imprisoning popular authors whose work he disapproves of ~
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey has already made headlines for jailing dozens of journalists in a round-up that has transformed Turkey into “the world’s biggest prison for reporters”. Perhaps even more objectionable is Turkey’s persecution of novelists who do not even take part in the political debate. They are hated by Erdoğan’s Islamist government simply for conveying Western ideas and fighting for freedom of speech. What is happening in Turkey is even more urgent than what is happening in Iran and Saudi Arabia, two other Islamic countries that persecute and jail writers: Turkey is, at least rhetorically, a democracy as well as the Islamic world’s purported bridge to Europe […]
Nazis used to burn books; Turkey’s Erdoğan is following the Soviet Stalinist method of burying the books, often along with their authors.
In the last month alone, four great Turkish writers made headlines not for their novels, but for their arrests, trials and persecution. Erdoğan’s plan, however, goes beyond these writers’ fate. Turkey is purging culture. The purge has been called an “intellectual massacre” that “has hit faculties from physics and biology to drama and politics at some of Turkey’s best universities, chilling teachers and students alike”. After a failed coup, last year, Erdoğan fired “21,000 teachers” and “1,577 university deans”. It is the beheading of Turkey’s academic culture. Shamefully, Europe has kept silent about this ideological massacre.
One lucky Turkish-Armenian blogger actually managed to flee ~
Sevan Nisanyan, an Armenian, just escaped from jail a few days ago and fled. “Turkey has turned into a veritable madhouse,” he said.
He had been sentenced to 16 years and seven months for having made ironic comments about the Prophet Muhammad.
This Turkish despot is nearly as bad as Kim Jong Un. He still refuses to release Pastor Andrew Brunson – detained now for more than a year on trumped-up charges – and recently admitted to using the pastor as a bargaining chip against the U.S. ~
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has for the first time explicitly admitted he is using an American pastor jailed in Turkey as a bargaining chip to force the U.S. government to extradite one of his main political foes, the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. (See my 8-26-16 post)
“The U.S. wants a pastor from us. You have a pastor of your own; you give him to us, then we return pastor to you,” Erdoğan told a group of police officers at the presidential palace in Ankara on Thursday.
We better not cave to this extortion! Pastor Brunson has done NOTHING. Gulen, a former Erdoğan ally, has been in the U.S. since 1999 but is accused of having spearheaded last year’s failed coup. Who knows? But he will no doubt will be tossed in prison for life – or worse – if he’s returned to Turkey.
The Daily Caller reports on our rather anemic efforts to resolve this travesty ~
Trump has reportedly raised the issue of Brunson’s imprisonment with Erdogan. Sec. of State Rex Tillerson has also pressed the Turkish government to release the pastor…
It’s not enough – not by a long-shot!
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Related:
Please pray for Pastor Brunson!
Turkey’s Islamist regression – Trump approves?
… And only the States can fix it. In another great video from Prager U, Jim DeMint, former Senator from South Carolina, explains Article V, the only means we really have left to return power to we-the-people and restore our Constitutional Republic.
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Related:
Why we need a “Convention of States” (not a “Constitutional Convention”)
Here’s another one of those stories that disappear from the headlines as the truth gradually emerges and the hard, cold facts don’t fit the mainstreams’ narrative.
Recall that after the deaths of four special forces troops in Niger last month the Left was quick to pin the blame the Trump administration for the tragedy. A disingenuous media that never really cared what happened in Benghazi was suddenly desperate for answers – because now there’s a Republican president to malign.
Well, if this account from E.T. Williams is true – and there’s no reason to suspect otherwise – it’s no wonder their curiosity suddenly vanished. It’s the tale of an American soldier driven by his leftist ideology to betray his own brothers-in-arms ~
Was La David Johnson another Bowe Bergdahl?
New evidence has emerged that reveals that Sgt. La David T. Johnson, the center of the fracas between President Trump and Rep. Wilson, had betrayed his own squad by helping to set up the ambush in Niger by Islamic militants that would ultimately lead to the death of three American soldiers as well as his own.
These are just some excepts from Williams’ well-written, detailed account (Read the entire piece HERE.) ~
U.S. troops started arriving in Niger in 2013. During this time, extremists were on the rise in northwest Africa […]
Former president Barack Obama deployed 40 U.S. military personnel to provide support to the French forces. This brought the total number of troops in Niger to 100 in 2013. However, the small troop numbers were grossly insufficient to deal with the complexity of the insurgency and Islamic terrorist activities. The number of U.S. troops in Niger has since ballooned to 800 […]
On October 4, four soldiers died in Niger “as a result of hostile fire while on a reconnaissance patrol,” according to the Defense Department. According to the Pentagon, twelve American soldiers were attending a routine patrol in the area when they were ambushed by up to 100 Islamic militants who engaged in a fierce firefight with the patrol. Four American soldiers died that day and the first three identified were Army Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black, 35, Army Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, 39 and Army Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, 29.
The fourth soldier identified was Sgt. La David T. Johnson, 25 – the soldier whose widow President Donald Trump called and the source of the controversy between President Trump and Representative Frederica Wilson.
Although Johnson is said to have died on October 4, his body was found over a mile away from the site of the Islamic militant’s ambush and it took a whole 48 hours to retrieve his body, according to the Defense Department […]
One of the main problems with the timeline in Niger is that the area which was alleged to have been patrolled by U.S. forces was familiar to the soldiers and had not been deemed to have required additional security. The area had been patrolled numerous times with no incident […]
According to a senior White House official who was privy to the discussions between the Pentagon and the Oval Office regarding the Niger ambush and requested anonymity, part of the reason that President Trump took four days before he could publicly comment on the death of the American soldiers is that Johnson was the one who had leaked the position of the patrol to Islamic militants who then launched the ambush, which killed three of Johnson’s fellow soldiers.
Why?! While Johnson had been highly regarded in the army and moved up the ranks quickly, it seems that he, like so many of his fellow Democrats, wasn’t able to cope very well with last November’s election ~
Johnson hated Donald Trump and thought that he was a white supremacist and a racist and made that clear in conversations with other soldiers. Whereas before, Johnson was more than happy to serve under former president Barrack Obama, the thought of serving under President Donald Trump was something that he had not prepared for.
During the ambush itself on October 4th, one of the survivors who spoke on condition of anonymity revealed ~
“As we came under heavy fire, I looked up and saw Johnson jump into one of the Land Cruisers and speed off in the other direction. That Land Cruiser was manned by the Nigerian soldiers who were with us, so I thought it was weird that he would do that instead of providing covering fire.”
Furthermore ~
Nigerian officials shared intelligence with the American forces in Niger that the meeting with the Tongo Tongo village chief had been arranged by Johnson and that he had leaked the information of the size of the squad and the convoy that would be at the village that day […]
Which is why the American forces in Niger were extremely reluctant to return to pick up Johnson’s body. The bodies of the Nigerian soldiers in the Land Cruiser with Johnson were picked up on the day of the deadly firefight, but it took the Americans a whole 48 hours to reconcile Johnson’s betrayal before they decided to return and pick up his body.
When Johnson’s personal effects were gathered, a letter was found to Johnson’s wife, which spoke at length about how he no longer felt that it was justifiable to put himself in harm’s way for a “racist president” and that he would “find a way out, no matter what.”
Too bad he couldn’t find “a way out” without taking along three other men that didn’t deserve to die that way.
So self-proclaimed “rock star” Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) had her 15 minutes of fame slandering President Trump as an insensitive racist, while the real villain in this story – directly responsible for the deaths of his fellow soldiers – is made to look like an innocent victim. What a damn outrage.
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Related:
Pentagon: Probe of Niger killings likely to come in January ~ The “official” version that is.
“Trump’s Benghazi?” Americans Were Deployed to Niger Under Obama
Well, this looks promising. While Saudi Arabia is suddenly in a huge state of turmoil, just across the Red Sea it seems Egypt is actually moving toward a more open, pluralistic, democratic society ~ For the first time in history, a leader of Egypt, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, met with American evangelical leaders ~
(Al-Sisi) on Wednesday (November 1st) welcomed a delegation of American evangelical leaders for the first time. General Intelligence Services Chief Khalid Fawzi and the president of the Protestant community in Egypt, Rev. Dr. Andri Zaki also attended. The meeting covered a wide range of issues.
The evangelicals told the president that they came to build a long-term friendship. They want a friendship between Sisi and people of Egypt, as well as other Christians.
The meeting, arranged by Joel C. Rosenberg (NYT best-selling author and founder of the Joshua Project) was attended by a dozen Americans including Michael Youssef, Michele Bachman and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.
President Sisi looks to “build on the legacy of President Anwar Sadat,” said Rosenberg. The Egyptian leader signed a peace agreement with Israel in 1978, and was killed because of it. SiSi now has more confidence in his stability and position. Now he will focus on more regional issues.
Michael Youssef (on the extreme right in the above photo), himself born in Egypt, was quite moved by the meeting ~
I was grateful for the opportunity to meet President el-Sisi personally and shake his hand. With tears in my eyes, I told him how my wife and I had watched him on television from our home in Atlanta, Georgia, when he visited the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo on Christmas Eve 2015. I thanked him for his promise to rebuild Christian churches that had been destroyed in recent years.
For the one-year period that Obama’s pal – Muslim Brotherhood member Mohammed Morsi – was in charge of the country, Coptic Christians were running for their lives. Now, instead of the mislabeled “Arab Spring” which only made the Middle East a more fractious, volatile place, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi seems intent on ushering real, promising renewal.
The beleaguered Coptic community remains skeptical of Sisi’s committment, possibly because they’ve been disappointed one too many times. Egypt is still #21 on Open Doors list of nations with the highest levels of Christian persecution ~
President al-Sisi’s authoritarian style of government has to some extent restored the rule of law in Egypt, but also implies a stricter compliance with the relatively restrictive legislation related to religious affairs. This is not in the advantage of the country’s Christian population.
Let’s hope that last week’s meeting wasn’t just a photo-op for President Sisi. Let’s pray that he’s sincere about protecting religious freedoms for all Egyptians.
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Related:
Copts: “Mr. Obama is supporting terrorism” (August 2013)
Talking Mideast peace and Christianity, Egypt’s Sissi makes unprecedented overture to U.S. evangelicals
Christian Girls Are Being Abducted in Egypt—Never to Return (October 2017)
November 7th, 1917 was a dark day in human history, as John Zmirak writing at The Stream reminds us ~ A Bloody 100th Birthday for the Russian Revolution ~
One hundred years since the small but devout faction of Marxists called the Bolsheviks lost a popular election. It was the last one Russia would see for 70 years. Instead of accepting the people’s will, the Bolsheviks overthrew that country’s fledgling provisional government. That revolution unleashed a nightmare: a vicious civil war, the mass killing of clergy and religious believers, the slaughter of businessmen and landlords, and the building of concentration camps, 20 years before Hitler. In a single day, the Bolsheviks were known to boast, they killed more dissidents than the Spanish Inquisition had in 300 years.
That the vast majority of Russians opposed Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s utopian vision for their country mattered not one whit. The murderous tyrant had other plans. Acting rapidly to quash all dissent, immediately after overthrowing Russia’s fledgling Provisional Government Lenin abolished all private ownership of land and banned the non-socialist press.
By 1922, as his miserable life was nearing its end, Lenin grew increasingly paranoid that others were maneuvering for power (he was correct – Joseph Stalin certainly was) and also began to realize what a vast state of corruption the Bolsheviks had created. One wonders if he ultimately ever realized that, devoid of morality, an authoritarian regime can only descend into soul-destroying wickedness.
Sadly for the Russian people, Lenin’s despotism only gave way to Stalin’s ~
Contrary to the wishful thinking of Western leftists, Stalin was a faithful Bolshevik, and an orthodox Marxist. His policies followed Lenin’s goals to their logical end: the extermination of religion, the persecution of ethnic minorities, and the seizure of all private land. According to genocide scholar R.J. Rummel, the number of people murdered in the Soviet Union during 70 years of Communism is probably 61,911,000. That’s about the number of people now living in California and Florida. All shot, starved, frozen, beaten or worked to death in pursuit of “utopia.”
What a glorious legacy. And yet, apparently it’s one that appeals to the American millennial generation. According to a recent poll, ~ Half Of Millennials would rather live under socialism or communism than capitalism.
Marion Smith, executive director of (the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation), was genuinely concerned, asserting, “Millennials now make up the largest generation in America, and we’re seeing some deeply worrisome trends. Millennials are increasingly turning away from capitalism and toward socialism and even communism as a viable alternative.”
These young people have been woefully mis-educated. Perhaps, as I’ve mentioned before they need to read The Gulag Archipelago. Or as Zmirak suggests, watch this tragic film about the Ukrainian genocide ~
Famine 33 (1991) is the first movie made in Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union.
It dramatizes the artificial famine that Stalin inflicted on Ukraine in his quest for
Marxist equality in farming. That resulted in between four and twelve million
deaths, and caused the outbreak of cannibalism within families.
The New York Times denied that the famine was even happening. Its reporter
on the spot, Walter Duranty, was a Communist sympathizer and Stalin’s
personal friend. Duranty won a Pulitzer for his coverage, which the
Times has never returned.
Something needs to wake up these naive, idealist-yet-ignorant, young people before they mindlessly embrace totalitarianism. (Maybe send them to Venezuela for six months?)
Fun fact: The Bolshevik Revolution is also known as the “October Revolution” even though it occurred on November 7th. At the time, Russia was still following the Julian calendar, which trailed much of the rest of the world by 11 days. It wasn’t until March 1918 that they switched to the Gregorian calendar.
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Related:
Making the World Safe for Communism—Again ~
A recent surge of Communist nostalgia suggests that a Marxist revival of sorts may be afoot in some elite American quarters. Nowhere is this more apparent than in “Red Century,” the New York Times editorial page’s yearlong series of op-eds commemorating the centenary of the October Revolution[…]
Taking the “Red Century” project as a whole, then, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Times’ editorial-page editors seek to put a fresh and attractive gloss on totalitarianism.
A musical tribute to… Communism
Putting a happy face on communism
Survey Finds High Support For Communism Among Millennials
Millennial Communists ~ Young and confused ~
Sometimes it is hard for people to accept that there really aren’t many new ideas. Sure, there are new policy innovations and new possibilities created by technology. But the really big ideas about how we should organize society vary between being merely antique and downright ancient. Plato argued for collective ownership of property on the grounds that it would erase social divisions. Aristotle disagreed, insisting that, “when everyone has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because everyone will be attending to his own business.”
Another tragic mass murder… and before the bodies are even cold – while we know nothing of the shooter or his motivation – the one-note leftists start screeching for gun control ~
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Texas church shooter, 26, who killed at least 26 people – including a pastor’s 14-year-old daughter – had been dishonorably discharged from the US Air Force for assaulting his wife and child ~ And once again, bad guy with a gun was stopped by a good guy with a gun ~
The attack only stopped when Kelley was tackled by a heroic local man who shot back at the mass shooter as he left the church.
Warren to GOP: Thoughts and prayers not enough after Texas shooting
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Sunday slammed Republicans for offering their condolences in the wake of the Texas church shooting while failing to take concrete steps to curb gun violence.
“Thoughts & prayers are not enough, GOP. We must end this violence. We must stop these tragedies. People are dying while you wait,” Warren wrote in one tweet.
Dear Fauxcahontas ~
Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Viktor Orbán: We Did Not Repudiate Communism Only to Embrace Globalism! ~ Hungary’s P.M. is an inspiration to we who love liberty – and national sovereignty ~
The Hungarian Revolution was an inspiration to the Free World in 1956, and it remains an inspiration today. For ten days the Hungarian nation regained its independence as a sovereign state. There was no hope of success in the long term against the Soviet behemoth, but for that proud moment Hungarians knew that they, as a people, had not surrendered their identity nor abandoned their dignity.[…]
On the European political stage, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is a giant among pygmies. Sixty-one years after the uprising, he connects the events of those days with Hungary’s long historical experience, with its subjugation under Communism, and with the current attempts to subjugate it under globalist rule from Brussels.
Something’s fishy in Puerto Rico ~ In the wake of Hurricane Maria, those familiar with Puerto Rico politics warned that things might get even worse since so many government officials were susceptible to corruption. Well, here we go ~
Amid Puerto Rico’s slow recovery from Hurricane Maria, questions about how a tiny Montana energy firm won a $300 million contract to rebuild the island’s electrical grid are quickly piling up […]
From the beginning, critics insisted something just wasn’t right about the agreement, noting PREPA (Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority) didn’t seek offers from any competing companies to get the best value. Under the contract, Whitefish charged $330 per hour for a site supervisor and $227.88 an hour for a “journeyman lineman.” Its subcontractors charged even more: $462 an hour for supervisors and $319.04 an hour for linemen.
Lansing mayor calls Trump ‘despicable,’ ‘pathetic’ in MSU class ~ The mayor of Michigan’s capitol city is another unhinged leftist who would savage any Republican who behaved like he does were the tables turned. What a stellar citizen ~
Students say Bernero refused to let them record his discussion, during which he took a knee in front of the class to express solidarity with national anthem protesters.
Giant Planet Sends Planetologists Scrambling ~ Oops! When your underlying premise is incorrect, reality forces you to regularly shift the narrative ~
Secular astronomers are experts in telling the public about things that are observed but should not exist.
Astronomers have discovered a “monster planet” that challenges planet formation theories.
Wisconsin Office Max Refuses to Print Poster Advertising LaBarbera Speech Exposing ‘Homosexual Agenda ~ But Christian business owners must bake cakes, rent banquet facilities and take photographs – for gay weddings? Ironically, the store’s refusal to print the poster only proves the point of LaBarbera’s speech, that there is a Homosexual Agenda.
Ending the War on American Energy ~ Definitely a big step in the right direction. For too long the feds have monopolized far too much land and resources in this country. This is a huge boon for energy independence ~ ~
Last week, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced his department’s proposal for the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history… the Department of the Interior will be offering leases totaling 76.9 million acres… sale will be held and livestreamed from New Orleans in March of 2018 […]
The U.S. dependence on foreign oil places us in a strategically vulnerable position where we must rely on another country (often those who do not share our interests) to fuel our cars, boats, planes and military equipment. Energy independence means that we gain self-sufficiency, and do not have to play political games with oil-supplying countries who use their energy supply as a way to manipulate our geopolitical position and our loyalties.
Northern Michigan University to Offer Marijuana Studies Degree ~ Creative new way to boost enrollment?
Speaking to The College Fix, a spokesperson for the university explained that the program is designed to produce graduates who are analytical chemists who understand the science behind medicinal plants such as marijuana.
Far out.
Kaepernick and Christian Athletes ~ And the glaring double standards ~
(W)hat if you’re an athlete with passionate beliefs about Jesus Christ? That, folks, is a bridge too far. Jesus Christ is a name that should probably be avoided in mixed company.
They made it almost toxic with Tim Tebow. Liberal radio host Bill Press told him to “STFU,” or “shut the f—- up,” about his “Lord and savior.” He called Tebow a “disgrace.”
Terror suspect was a ‘very friendly’ Uzbek immigrant who drove for Uber ~ Yep. Just another happy-go-lucky member of the Religion-of-Peace ~
The man who mowed down eight people on the West Side Highway Tuesday afternoon was “very friendly” and working for Uber, his friend told The Post.
“He is very good guy, he is very friendly… he is like little brother… he look at me like big brother,” (Kobiljon Matkarov) said by phone Tuesday from his home in Miamisburg, Ohio.
And then there’s this guy ➡ Egyptian Lawyer Says It Is a ‘National Duty’ for Men to Rape Girls Who Wear Ripped Jeans ~
“Are you happy when you see a girl walking down the street with half of her behind showing? I say that when a girl walks about like that, it is a patriotic duty to sexually harass her and a national duty to rape her.” – Nabih al-Wahsh
The shock remarks came in a panel show broadcast on Al-Assema during a debate over a draft law on prostitution and sparked outrage across the country. Egypt’s National Council for Women now plans to file a complaint against the lawyer and the TV channel.
Most Americans Feel Silenced by Political Correctness – Thank a Democrat ~ Driven apart by identity politics we’re more divided than ever, afraid to even discuss our opinions ~
71% Americans believe that political correctness has silenced important discussions our society needs to have. The consequences are personal — 58% of Americans believe the political climate prevents them from sharing their own political beliefs.
Lots of interesting insights into our worldviews; the Left and the Right are polarized on almost every issue.
Let’s pray it doesn’t lead to total societal breakdown ~
Antifa threatens to behead whites and small biz owners on November 4
Antifa, the
Progressivecommunist group identified by the Obama administration in April 2016 as “domestic terrorists,” has declared tomorrow, November 4, to be a day of “revolution” in the United States.
An Open Letter to Dan Brown ~ Dr. Michael Brown with an honest appeal to the author of the Da Vinci Code, a proselytizing atheist ~
Are you genuinely unaware of the large number of highly educated scientists and researchers – from physicists to biologists to astronomers to geologists and others – who reject Darwin’s naturalism? Have you ever read a scholarly tome on intelligent design (written with no reference to religious belief at all) that makes the intellectual case for a creator? Have you spent a day with someone like John Lennox, a committed Christian who has debated men like Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, and who has served as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford, with Ph.D.’s from Oxford and Cambridge in Mathematics and in Science?
I just happened to surf through the cable news networks this evening (on the way to Fox’s coverage of Trump’s arrival in Hawaii) and all they seemed to be discussing – like a broken record – was Russia-Trump-Russia-Trump-Russia…. To CNN and MSNBC there’s apparently nothing newsworthy in the president’s Pacific trip, in the scandalous Uranium One story – or even in the latest blockbuster: Hillary Clinton robbed Bernie Sanders of the Democratic nomination, according to Donna Brazile. Instead, loyal partisans that they are, the mainstreams are desperately clinging to the hope that Mueller will pull a Trump-is-guilty-of-Russian-collusion rabbit out of his hat.
The current round of their frantic speculation is fueled by the recent announcements from the Justice Department. David French explains the latest chapter of Robert Mueller’s “investigation,” at National Review Online ~ A Guide to Understanding the Manafort Indictment ~
(On Monday) Manafort and his business partner, Richard Gates, surrendered to federal authorities, and the special counsel’s office released its indictment.
Hours later the special counsel’s office released a “statement of the offense” indicating that former Trump-campaign foreign-policy adviser George Papadopoulos pled guilty to providing material false statements to the FBI.
Essentially, Manafort and Gates are accused of money-laundering in connection with contracts they had with pro-Russian Ukrainians. Papadopoulos was a fringe player on the foreign policy advisor team who the Russians apparently attempted to bait with “dirt” on Hillary.
Now I don’t doubt that Mueller has Manafort and his partner on something. The political consultant is no girl scout. Far from it. He’s not particularly discerning when it comes to selecting clients. In fact he seems to be the kind of guy you’d hire to apply very expensive lipstick to an especially ugly pig. The UK Telegraph reported on his controversial associations back in April 2016 ~
Mr Manafort, who was hired by the Republican front-runner last month, knows a thing or two about rebranding strongmen.
The Washington operative has an extraordinary past roster of clients, including Ferdinand Marcos, the dictator of the Philippines, Unita rebels in Angola and Siad Barre, the military ruler of Somalia until his downfall in 1991.[…]
One Republican strategist described the selling point of his firm, Black Manafort Stone & Kelly: “If you needed a gunslinger they knew how to shoot.”
Mobutu Sese Seko, the brutal and corrupt dictator of Congo, paid Mr Manafort’s firm $1 million (£600,000) for representation in Washington in 1989.
Last week (April 2016) it emerged that Mr Manafort lobbied for the Kashmiri American Council, which was later revealed as a front for Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI), an agency with a long record of collusion with Islamist terrorists.
So controversial were his associations that in 2008 John McCain vetoed a plan for Mr Manafort to join his presidential campaign as convention manager.
The indictments that Manafort is currently facing are related to his consulting work for former Ukrainian Prime Minister, and Putin pal, Viktor Yanukovych. In 2014, another former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, brought a federal lawsuit against Manafort accusing him of complicity in a complex scheme of retaliation against Tymoshenko and her political allies for impeding the business interests of Ukrainian gas tycoon Dmitry Firtash. (According to the Washington Free Beacon)
Tymoshenko’s suit was dismissed. Not exactly for lack of evidence, but because the racketeering allegations involved conduct in foreign countries that was outside the jurisdiction of U.S. courts. It’s these implications of shady dealings in Ukraine that seem to be the basis of Mueller’s indictment. (Incidentally, Firtash, the Ukrainian industrial magnate, was arrested over corruption/bribery allegations earlier this year and was supposed to extradited to the U.S., but Spain wants him too… Not sure where he is at present.)
Now the fact that Manafort is an unscrupulous image polisher doesn’t make President Trump guilty by association – which is how the Left is trying to spin this. According to Andrew C. McCarthy, these recent indictments are ~ Much Ado about Nothing ~
To be clear, I am not saying the case is unserious for Manafort and Richard Gates. I am saying it is “much ado about nothing” in the greater scheme of things — meaning: Mueller’s (highly elastic) mandate is to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election and any possible Trump-campaign collusion therein; yet the Manafort case is utterly unrelated to that.
If you want a better understanding of what’s going on with this circus, McCarthy provides a detailed explanation for his position that’s a worthwhile read ~
The cynic in me cannot help but think they are pushing the “Russia attacked our democracy” mood music that has accompanied the “Trump collusion” investigation, even though the Manafort indictment has nothing to do with the Putin regime’s interference in the 2016 election.
Still, as David French summed up, “when it comes to Manafort, Trump didn’t drain the swamp. He hired the swamp.” In the end however, this continues to be what it’s always been, a dog and pony show to distract the sheeple, and hearten the dejected Democrats.
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The Papadopoulos Case ~ The longer this whole Russian fiasco drags on, the more it looks to be that Putin and his comrades were trying to rope both parties into some sort of intrigue with the goal of destabilizing our entire political system ~
(W)hile it seems clear that the Trump campaign would have been delighted to get dirt on Clinton from Moscow (just as the Clinton campaign was delighted to get dirt on Trump from Moscow), it appears — at least in the context of Papadopoulos’s case — that they were taking pains not to make express or implied deals with the Kremlin.
Speaking of Russian collusion…
Oops – it was the OTHER candidate colluding with the Russians…
Most of the alleged crimes committed by Manafort occurred b/t 2006-2014. Mueller was the FBI Dir from 2001 to 2013, where was he then??
— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) October 31, 2017
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Updated 11-4-17:
Forgot about this one 🙂
1. Manafort indicted for hiding $75 million from IRS before he met Trump
2. ?
3. Trump colluded with Russians to interfere in the election— Seymour Sludgeworth (@SSludgeworth) October 30, 2017
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