Praise to the King of Creation

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Heavenly Father,
 
We glorify you as the creator of all things. You spoke and the universe came into existence, You spoke and there was light. Later, at Your command, flowers, trees, and plants sprang from the ground, the seas teemed with living things and the earth with living creatures. Then in your perfect time, you created man.
 
Dear Lord, we come before you now to give you glory for that which you have created. In our flesh, we sometimes speak of sustaining your creation, but we are thankful that only you are the sustainer of all the things that you have made.
 
We, your servants come humbly before you seeking your face and your guidance acknowledging that you have appointed us as stewards of your creation. Let our stewardship, like your creation, be only a means to honor and glorify you. Help us, Lord, never to cling to our role as though it were a thing to be prideful about or possessive of, but let us see it as a responsibility, which makes us accountable to you.
 
Let us steward your creation as a means to glorify and worship you. Let our love of the creation be no more than a way to express our love for you, the creator. We pray that we will always remember and always be faithful to tell others, that no matter how beautiful the mountains, no matter how breathtaking the sunset, that these are only types and shadows to remind us of the glory we will behold when we come into your kingdom.
 
Amen

 
Prayer to the Creator via Cornwall Alliance

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Inconvenient News: Steve Scalise shooting

If Representative Steve Scalise(R-LA) were a Democrat is there any doubt that his name would be a household word by now? Instead, it’s only been 6 weeks since the third-ranking House Republican was critically wounded (four others were injured as well) by a deranged Bernie Sanders volunteer who tried to murder as many Republicans as possible during an early morning congressional softball practice, and most Americans probably can’t even recall his name.

 
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Had James T. Hodgkinson been a Trump supporter who had taken aim at a bunch of Democrats, we’d still be getting daily updates on the victim(s)’s conditions and regular rants from leftists on the radical, hateful ideology of the Right. Dennis Prager speculated on the progressive reaction had the tables been turned ~

The New York Times, the rest of the left-wing media and the Democratic Party would have made the shootings the dominant issue in American life […]
 
If Democrats had been shot by a Trump supporter, all you would be hearing and reading about is how much hate the Trump election has unleashed in America, how his election is threatening our democracy and how he is unleashing fascism […]

 
Almost immediately after the shooting, the Left was cautioning against “politicizing” the attack. The New York Times eagerly reported on the “harmony” engulfing Democrats and Republicans in the wake of the shooting.
 
Prager continues ~

As sure as the sun rises in the east, had a Trump-supporting fanatic shot Democratic officials, the Democrats would not have said a word about the need for “harmony,” or the need to lower the temperature in American political discourse. On the contrary, they would have greatly raised the temperature of their already blistering rhetoric. They would have attributed the shooting entirely to Trump’s “hateful” rhetoric having permeated conservative and Republican America.

 
Conspicuously absent from the mainstream media coverage surrounding this tragedy was any objective analysis of the “hateful rhetoric” from the Left that actually fueled Hodgkinson’s rage. John Zmirak pointed out some relevant facts that were conveniently overlooked in the rush to avoid “politicizing” ~
 
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• (The killer, James T. Hodgkinson) was a Bernie Sanders volunteer and a supporter of the Southern Poverty Law Center — just like Floyd Lee Corkins II, who in 2012 attempted to massacre the staff of the Family Research Council, after seeing the FRC listed as a hate group on the SPLC website.
 
• The attack happened scant days after New York City’s elite Shakespeare in the Park mounted a production of Julius Caesar that lip-smackingly dramatized the murder of President Trump.
• It occurred not two weeks after Kathy Griffin produced her murder porn, ISIS-style photo of herself with the head of the president.
• As Breitbart reports, there have been 15 separate instances of celebrities calling for or justifying violence against Trump himself or Republicans in general.
• As The Hill reports, “The office of Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) received a threatening email with the subject line ‘One down, 216 to go …,’ shortly after a shooter opened fire on GOP lawmakers who were at a congressional baseball practice, according to her office.”

 

In a deliberate, calculated attack, Hodgkinson shot up 5 Republicans on an Alexandria, VA baseball field that morning. Oddly enough, the story failed to grab the attention of the anti-gun crowd. Probably because 1.) the shooter was a leftist; and 2.) there were some “good guys” on the scene who were able to take out the bad guy – because they had guns. They couldn’t manipulate the facts in this case to fit their “guns are bad” narrative.
 

Last week, Rep. Scalise was finally discharged from the hospital to begin a period of intensive inpatient rehabilitation. There was barely any mention made in the media, just a lame AP story that few news outlets even bothered to pick up. Again, had the parties been reversed, his medical status would have dominated the news last Wednesday and launched a brand new wave of demonizing the Right.
 
Anyone out there who’s still oblivious to the Left’s selective outrage and their partisan hypocrisy isn’t paying attention. As Dennis Prager concluded ~

The difference between what has happened after these shootings and what would have happened had a right-winger shot Democratic officials is, in a nutshell, the moral difference between the left and the right; and between Democrats and Republicans.

 
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Related:
Progressive agitation yields bloody harvest
Bizarre: FBI Calls Scalise Shooting ‘Spontaneous,’ Gunman ‘Had No Target In Mind,’ Motive Unclear 😯 ~ When even the FBI has been this politicized, we’re doomed.

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Did you hear the one about California Imam calling for the extermination of the Jews?

No? Apparently the mainstream media doesn’t find this virulent anti-Semitism among the Muslim community to be very noteworthy ~ Islam’s Veil Slips In California [from WatcherofWeasels (WOW)] ~

Davis, California is a small city in northern California just west of Sacramento, the state capitol. It has a well established Islamic center. The Islamic Center of Davis’s imam is one Ammar Shahin.
 
Last Friday,Imam Shahin called explicitly for the annihilation of Jews in his sermon. Since it was mostly in Arabic, he felt safe to communicate this kind of bigotry. Unfortunately for him, a video of his sermon slipped out and was translated into English by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). These are brief excerpts of the entire two hour hate fest, but I assure you they are utterly representative of the whole.

 


 

“Oh Allah, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews.
Annihilate them down to the very last one.”
~ Ammar Shahin

 

Folks, this is the true face of Islam. The guy is quoting directly from the the Hadiths, which are Muslim scriptures basically equivalent to the Christian Gospels. They contain Mohammed’s deeds and words as recorded by his most devout followers. So Shahin is merely repeating Mohammed’s directives.
 

JoshuaPundit at WOW continues (Note- the Islamic Center of Davis has accused MEMRI of mis-translation) ~

Aside from the fact that many Israelis speak Arabic fluently (Arabic is one of Israel’s official languages) MEMRI is known for its accurate translations. The problem the Davis Islamic Center and others have with MEMRI is that its translations are a little too accurate. They don’t like it when Islam’s veil slips.
 
And if these are such poor translations and the quotes so out of context, why have so many Muslims been acting on them for over 1400 years? The death toll, according to some fairly conservative estimates could be as high as 200 million, all murdered to the tune of that ancient battle cry ‘Allahu Akbar’ and the Qur’anic Verse of the Sword…”Fight those who believe neither in Allah nor the Last Day, nor what has been forbidden by Allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, even if they are People of the Book, until they pay the tribute and have been humbled. – (Qur’an 9:2)

 

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Related:
What Happens When an Imam Calls for Killing Jews ~ Shahin and useful idiots like the Washington Post and the Unitarian Universalist Church are trying to divert, downplay and whitewash the imam’s hateful rant ~

“The last thing I would do is intentionally hurt anyone,” Shahin insisted in his apology. His denunciations of violence however ring rather hollow. Not when he quoted a genocidal Hadith which calls for hunting down and killing the Jews. And not necessarily just in Israel, but potentially everywhere.
 
Some time ago, David Horowitz called on Islamic organizations to repudiate the Hadith in the Declaration Against Genocide. Not a single Muslim group, including MPAC, agreed to do it.

When will European elites get it? Islam IS the perversion

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About that voter fraud…

Funny how even after last November’s election, when Left felt like they’d been somehow been robbed of a victory, we still didn’t hear them whining about voter fraud (They prefer to clamor for the elimination of the equitable Electoral College). That’s probably because they’re generally the ones perpetrating it. In fact here in Michigan, Democrats demanded a recount of Detroit votes (which overwhelmingly went for Hillary). Curiously, they backed down when it was discovered that some 37% of the voting machines registered more votes than poll workers had tallied voters!
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And they definitely don’t what this publicized: New Report Exposes Thousands of Illegal Votes in 2016 Election ~

A new bombshell study released by the Government Accountability Institute shows why President Donald Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity has such an important job ahead of it.
 
The Institute concluded in its report that thousands of votes in the 2016 election were illegal duplicate votes from people who registered and voted in more than one state.[…]
 
The probability of 45,000 illegal duplicate votes is the low end of the spectrum, and it does not even account for other types of fraud such as ineligible voting by non-citizens and felons and absentee ballot fraud.[…]
 
To put this number of fraudulent votes in perspective, Hillary Clinton won New Hampshire by fewer than 3,000 votes out of over 700,000 cast. Just this number of duplicate votes alone has the power to swing state results and, in turn, elections.
(Unfortunately, New Hampshire refused to turn over its data for this study.)

Source: Hans von Spakovsky & Ben Janacek writing at The Stream

 

When the Trump Administration election fraud investigation was announced in June, most the the “blue” states naturally started squawking immediately ~

The Trump administration’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity sent all 50 states a letter Wednesday (June 28th) requesting data from the their voting rolls, including the full names of registered voters, dates of birth, party registration, last four digits of Social Security numbers and voting history.
 
But as of Friday afternoon (June 30th), at least 27 states had publicly expressed reservations or legal barriers to turning over all of the requested information, particularly with regard to the privacy of Social Security numbers, according to a CNN inquiry to all 50 states.

 

The Virgina governor’s dismissive attitude was typical of what we’ve come to expect from the belligerent Left ~

“I have no intention of honoring this request,” Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, said in a statement. “Virginia conducts fair, honest, and democratic elections, and there is no evidence of significant voter fraud in Virginia. This entire commission is based on the specious and false notion that there was widespread voter fraud last November.

Oops. Not exactly Terry.
 
As the Stream article points out ~

The fact that these election officials did not want to thoroughly investigate possible voter fraud illustrates one of the problems in this area: Too many election officials don’t want to know about these problems, and refuse to do anything when it is brought to their attention.[…]
 
The Heritage Foundation has a database that is being constantly updated. It documents nearly 1,100 proven instances of voter fraud, including cases where elections were overturned because of proven fraud.

 
Voter fraud is the Left’s preferred method of swinging elections. That’s why they oppose investigations like this. And that’s why they oppose any attempts at voter I.D. regulations. They like to cheat.
 

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“It is enough that the people know there was an election.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who
count the votes decide everything.”

~ Joseph Stalin (attributed)

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Saturday Shorts – 7-29-17

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Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
The Amazing Story Of What Really Caused Trump’s Military Transgender Ban ~ Trump’s announcement on Wednesday seemed to come from left field. RedState explains what led to his decision.
 
Corrupt Mexican Officials Are to Blame for Illegal Human Smuggling Racket ~ Michelle Malkin points out the real culprits in those sad deaths of 10 illegal immigrants in Texas ~

Human rights watchdogs and border reporters left, right, and center—from The Huffington Post to Breitbart Texas—have exposed callous Mexican government officials selling out their own people while turning a blind eye to massacres, kidnappings, extortion, and racketeering across the Mexican border states.
 
These usually mouthy Mexican leaders are now quiet as church mice about the latest casualties of open borders. Why? Because illegal immigration is the country’s budgetary bonanza.

 
Pretty White Australian Girls’ Lives Matter ~ Ann Coulter’s take on the Somali (Muslim) police officer with the itchy trigger finger in Minneapolis last week ~

Noor’s African-American neighbor, Chris Miller, said he was shocked when he heard about Damond’s shooting — until he found out it was Noor. Miller told The Daily Telegraph (Australia) that his Somali neighbor was quick to anger and was always going off on women and children. “He is extremely nervous,” Miller said, “a little jumpy … he doesn’t really respect women, the least thing you say to him can set him off.”

Just what you’d look for in a police officer eh?

 
(College) Marxist group disbands because members were too rich, white ~ Too bourgeoisie ~

• A Marxist student group at Swarthmore College disbanded itself earlier this year after realizing that its members were too rich and too white to be real commies.
• A farewell letter from a former member complains that the group’s founders where “entirely white, with the exception of one person of color,” and that none of them came from “low-income and/or working class backgrounds.”

 
Disregarding Danger: Sweden to Deport Christian to Iran ~ Is Sweden officially a Muslim country now? (Absurdistan) ~

STOCKHOLM – Sweden is about to deport Iranian Christian actress Aideen Strandsson back to Iran, where she faces torture, rape and even death in an Iranian prison.
 
It is a clear violation of international law. But, as Swedish officials have told Aideen, becoming a Christian was her decision, and now it’s her problem and not theirs.

 
Protesters wall off access to French migrant shelter ~ Interesting. Could we be witnessing a new French Resistance?

Locals in southwestern France have built a wall around the entrance to a disused hotel in protest against plans to turn it into a migrant centre.
 
Protesters in a town in southwest France have built a nearly-two-metre-high wall around the entrance to a disused hotel to try to prevent it being turned into a migrant shelter.
 
Working under cover of darkness, a few dozen residents of Semeac in the Pyrenees mountains erected a wall 18 metres (60 feet) long and 1.8 metres high barring access to the Formule 1 hotel, a spokesman for the group confirmed.
 
“We not against taking in migrants,” Laurent Teixeira told AFP. “But you have to take account of the citizens.”

 
World War II Veteran Assaulted While Defending Flag at His Home ~ 92 year-old Howard Banks is legally blind! And this is in Texas! Hopefully the police can track down these cowards ~

(The Kaufman Police Department) praised the veteran as an American hero who joined the Marine Corps at the age of 18 to fight in the war against Japan. He survived battles in Iwo Jima and other Pacific Theater locations.
 
“This gentleman is a hero to our officers and the city’s residents should be extremely proud to have him as part of our community.”

 
What HBO Won’t Tell You About Slavery and the Bible ~ Bryan Fischer explains how the upcoming HBO series “Confederate” will turn into a year long smear campaign against white American Christians, tagging them as unrepentant racists. Because without re-writing history, leftists could never advance their godless agenda ~

The ultimate purpose will be to inflame as much white guilt as possible, make white Americans feel guilty for, well, being white, and persuade them to feel a brooding weight of guilt for something they had nothing to do with. The fact of the matter is that it was white evangelical Christians – the abolitionists in the North – who were responsible for ending slavery in America. But you likely will never know it watching this exercise in racist demagoguery.

 
U.S. Abuses Its Mandate to Spread Democracy and Freedom in Iran ~ Radio Liberty is supposed to be helping to undermine the regime – not act as its propaganda arm ~

Radio Farda, the Prague-based Persian-language branch of the U.S. government-funded network Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, recently fired one of its journalists for doing his job: providing Iranians at home and abroad with access to information they are denied by the ayatollah-led regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

 
5 Reasons You Should Turn Off The News And Watch The ‘Great British Baking Show’ ~ Couldn’t agree more – love this show! 🙂
 
The Foster Mom, the Walmart Cashier and the Voice of God ~ Heartwarming incident, makes you wonder, am I listening to the right voice?

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Nanny states are guilty of citizen abuse

Update 7-29-17:
While little Charlie Gard lay dying in the UK, his sad tale took on a life of its own. Now that he’s gone, many Brits are claiming that we conservatives here in America were too quick to hold him up as an example of heartless, government-run healthcare, that we were ill-informed about the details of the case.
Conceding that some of us may have been over-zealous in our rush to judgement, Michael Brown points out that ~

(Q)ur biggest questions remain, namely: 1) Who gave the hospital the power to stop the parents from getting experimental treatment for their children? And: 2) Who gave the hospital (or courts) the power to decide what “condition of existence” is worthy of further care?

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7-28-17:
Trying to come up with an analogy that most of us can relate to, I think socialist governments are like really crappy parents. Oh, maybe not deliberately bad or abusive, just totally incompetent and clueless about performing their primary duty to their offspring – that is, raising them to be mature, responsible, self-sufficient, productive members of society. Possessed of a superior attitude, they’re convinced that they always know what’s best for their charges. Unrestrained, this authoritarianism can end in otherwise preventable tragedy.
 
CharlieGardPoor Charlie Gard is just latest and most glaring example of how the overbearing nanny state controls every aspect of their subjects’ lives – and deaths. The state – Britain – literally usurped the rights of Charlie’s parents, leaving them helpless to do anything to extend the life of their small son ~

The court knows better than the parents according to British law. The judge had reason to rule as he did. Section 1 of the Children’s Act 1989 instructs the court to “look at the question from the assumed point of view of the child.” The “welfare of the child shall be the paramount consideration.” Article 8 of the European Convention states that parental rights are limited by the requirements of the public good and the rights of others.

 
No, socialism doesn’t take kindly to personal initiative and independent action.
 
Not exactly life and death, but closer to home, this recent story from Canada is an great illustration of this unfortunate “bad parent” phenomenon.
 
Seems a resident of Etobicoke, Ontario saw an unsafe condition in his local park and took matters into his own hands to address the problem ~

Retired mechanic Adi Astl told CP24 that he recently built a small eight-step wooden staircase down an embankment in Tom Riley Park for $550 after getting frustrated with the city’s insistence that the project would cost between $65,000 and $150,000. Astl raised money from the community to tackle the job himself and then enlisted the help of a homeless man in the park who offered his assistance in exchange for a little money and breakfast.

 
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Unfortunately for Mr. Astl and his neighbors, it seems exercising personal initiative is frowned upon in this west suburban area of Toronto ~

Shortly after installing the staircase late last month, Astl said a bylaw enforcement officer placed yellow tape up around the stairs and contacted him to inform him that he had violated section 608 of the Toronto Municipal Code.
 
Astl, who has not been charged, said he just wanted to build the staircase as a shortcut for the countless seniors and young children he saw walking down the steep hill to get to a community garden and soccer field that are located in that end of the park. He said that safety should be “more important than money.”

 

So here’s a stellar citizen, concerned not only with his neighbors’ physical safety but their fiscal well-being as well, and the overprotective, authoritarian government rushes in to quash his pro-active efforts.
 
Fortunately, for Mr. Astl and his fellow Etobicoken’s it does seem that a measure of sanity will prevail in this case ~

The councillor for the area, Justin Di Ciano, conceded that Astl built the staircase to “a standard that is not the city’s standard” on Wednesday but said the hill is certainly safer than it was previously when residents climbed the grade while grasping a rope that someone had left in the area.
 
Di Ciano said he has asked staff to leave the stairs for now while he works with the city’s parks and recreation department to come up with a more permanent solution that won’t cost taxpayers an arm and a leg.
 
“I think we all need to have a bit of common sense here,” he said.

 
Whew. Still, it’s a cautionary tale. Essentially, socialism is a form of citizen abuse (See Venezuela for an extreme example.).
 
The feckless “parents” of socialism believe they’re supposed to care for their “children” forever. They won’t allow them the independence to grow into adulthood, make their own decisions/mistakes or support themselves in any meaningful way. No, the nanny state knows best.

 
[Let’s hope these clueless kids figure that out before they vote themselves into perpetual childhood.]
Related:
Why God, Guns, and Grunt Work Go Together. Socialism Smothers Them All

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Reversing Obama’s trans-formation of the military is a good thing

Ever since Barack Obama instituted his radical social makeover of the armed services, conservatives in both Congress and the military have been intent on undoing the damage. Yesterday’s announcement from President Trump is a good start ~

“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.”

 

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Not only did the Obama administration repeal the Clinton-era “Don’t ask; don’t tell” policy – allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military, last year they decreed that transgendered individuals were welcome as well. And the taxpayers – who had absolutely no say in the matter by the way(!) – get to cough up roughly $3.7 billion over the next 10 years for gender reassignment surgery and related expenses.
 
Active military members weren’t asked for their input before the fact either ~

A Military Times/Institute for Veterans and Military Families poll of 1,664 active-duty troops conducted on a voluntary and confidential basis as President Barack Obama’s term was coming to an end last December found significantly more respondents believed it to be hurtful than helpful […]
 
On balance (four-to-three in favor), they view the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” as a good thing (Sure they do, they’ve had the PC propaganda shoved down their throats for the last ten years), but they frown upon mixed-gender combat units (two-to-one against) and transgender service members (more than three-to-one against).
 
More specifically, when asked how the policy allowing transgender individuals to serve openly “affected military readiness,” 41 percent said it “hurt” while 12 just percent said it “helped.”

 
They’re certainly right about the negative impact on military readiness – how could it possibly not be?! The United States employs a standing military to defend the country, fight wars and kill the enemy. It wasn’t created to act as an incubator for social experimentation.
 
Furthermore, service is a privilege, not a right. And there are numerous medical conditions that may prevent individuals from enlisting – including psychiatric disorders.
 
Here’s what a courageously outspoken former MTF (male to female) transgender has to say on the subject ~

I think (Trump) made the right decision—and as someone who lived as trans-female for several years, I should know.
 
When I discovered Congress voted earlier this month to not block funding for transgender-related hormone therapies and sex change surgeries, I wondered if it considered how devastating this will be to the fitness, readiness, and morale of our combat-ready troops.
 
Paying for transition-related surgeries for military service members and their families is beyond comprehensible.
 
Perhaps they have forgotten that our military was forged to be the world’s strongest fighting force, not a government-funded, politically correct, medical sex change clinic for people with gender dysphoria […]
 
Over 60 percent of this diverse population suffer from co-existing mental disorders. Consider Bradley Manning (now Chelsea Manning), a former Army soldier who was so psychologically and emotionally unbalanced that he stole confidential documents from the military and forwarded them to WikiLeaks.
 
In my view, as a former trans-female who works every day with regretters, allowing the military to pay for sex change surgeries will make a mockery of the U.S. military.

[Walt Heyer’s article should be required reading for all progressives who try to deny the reality of gender dysphoria.]

 
Unfortunately, Barack Hussein Obama was so successful at transforming the United States military that many of the brass no longer gives a damn about readiness or effectiveness – or even the welfare of their own troops. So now we’re hearing “Not so fast” from Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ~

In a memo to all military service chiefs, commanders and enlisted military leaders (Dunford) said “there will be no modifications” to current policy for now, amid questions about Trump’s announcement on Twitter that the U.S. government will not “accept or allow” transgender people to serve in any capacity in the military.
 
“I know there are questions about yesterday’s announcement,” Dunford began, adding that nothing would change until the president’s direction has been received by Mattis and Mattis has issued “implementation guidance.”

 
We know how relentless the left is when it come to pursuing their radical socially disruptive agenda. They’re already throwing the usual hyperbolic fits over Trump’s announcement. For the sake of our troops – and the country – let’s hope this return to sanity is allowed to stand.

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I’ll leave you with these wise words from our first Commander-in-Chief (via The Patriot Post) ~
 

“It is required and expected that exact discipline be observed and
due subordination prevail thro’ the whole Army, as a failure in these
most essential points must necessarily produce extreme hazard, disorder,
and confusions; and end in shameful disappointment and disgrace.”

~ George Washington (1775)

 
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Related:
FACT CHECK: Are 15,000 Trans People Serving In The US Military? ~ No

Our new gender-confused armed services
Transgender Accommodations Aren’t Compatible With Military Realities
Plans, Trans and Auto-Repeals: Pentagon Must Roll Back Obama’s Radical Military Agenda ~ Not one bit of Obama’s radical social policy has been systematically studied by the military.
Transgender Mandates Delayed but Still on Auto-Pilot ~ Report from the Center for Military Readiness
Holdover Transgender Mandate Impedes Efforts to Strengthen Military ~ Before the debate on this issue continues, all Americans should be made aware of the insane trans guidelines that military personnel are expected to comply with ~

For example, an official Transgender Implementation Handbook states that before transition occurs, a person may live a double life called “Real Life Experience.” RLE means that commanding officers must support male personnel wearing uniforms by day and going out in female clothing by night.
 
The handbook includes nineteen model scenarios, some of which are simply bizarre. Scenario #3 explains what a commander should do when “Marty” announces he is pregnant. And #15 makes it clear that women who have minimal expectations of privacy in close quarters should accept biological men and “gender pretenders” entering women-only facilities such as showers.
 
In all situations, the handbook recommends consultation with remote “Service Center Coordination Cells” (SCCCs) and “expert” consultants who are committed to full implementation of LGBT law in the military.
As stated in the Memo for the Movement, these mandates were imposed administratively without congressional oversight or approval; they can and should be revoked in the same way.

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So Hillary’s new book is out…

“What Happened?” -aka- “Why didn’t I win?”
 
Where to begin…?
 
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Greece – broke, barren and besieged

Western civilization was birthed in Greece. Our laws, literature, religion, philosophy, arts and architecture are all rooted in Greek culture. In the ancient world, where tyrants ruled with iron fists, Greece stood out as a shining beacon – the first-ever democracy. When establishing our republic, America’s founders were greatly influenced by the Greeks’ model.
 
Today the country is a shambles. It’s out of money, out of offspring, and out of room (and patience!) for foreign refugees.
 
The most pressing current problem is the ongoing Muslim invasion. Because they’re a member of the authoritarian European Union, Greece is obliged to take in more Middle East refugees than they’re realistically able to accommodate. They’re being overrun by a people who are not interested in assimilating ore even coexisting.
 
A recent story is just the latest episode ~ Muslim refugees on island of Lesbos terrifying and driving out Christians.
 
Greece-LesvosLesbos (or Lesvos), picturesque, tranquil and a favored tourist destination, is one of several Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Unfortunately for its native inhabitants, it’s a little too close to Turkey. Not only has Lesbos been invaded by Syrian refugees, now many have fled to the island from Turkey as well. On a 630 square mile piece of land, a population of around 86,000 has been flooded with more than 6,000 migrants. Things are not going well; Muslims just can’t seem to play well with others ~

Several clashes have broken out in recent days at Lesbos Island’s Moria Camp for refugees, with Greek authorities arresting 35 Muslim rioters who threw large rocks at police officers and set fire to tents both inside and outside the bounds of the camp. A disabled Christian was nearly burnt alive while sleeping in one of the shelters, reports Pakistan Christian Post […]
 
“Christians are being prevented from holding church services, worshiping and praying by their Muslim neighbors. Moreover, reports of tents being burned down, violence, bullying, harassment and severe threats paint a very bleak picture of the quality of life for Christians caught up within the camp,” reads a plea from the British Pakistani Christian Association to the Greek ambassador to the United Kingdom […]
 
Some Greek hierarchs have spoken out against the influx of refugees and the damage it is causing to Greece and Greek culture. In March 2016, Metropolitan Ambrose of Kalavryta stated “No! We cannot shelter so many Islamists who are forcibly being sent to our country in order to seize it and change its identity! We sympathize with the refugees and accommodate them, feed and clothe them, protect them and so on. But we cannot allow them to stay in Greece forever!”

 
But the elites in the EU don’t care, nor do most Greek politicians. As Maria Polizoidou reported in this Gatestone Institute article last March ~
 

The Greeks, for the last seven years, have been requesting: strict measures against illegal immigration; mass deportations of illegal immigrants; parliamentary independence from supranational organizations; accountability from their leaders; transparency in political life; security and economic liberalization from their lenders; combating corruption and protecting the country’s national identity.

 
Greece’s financial situation is precarious and their aging population is shrinking. According to Polizoidou, the situation is nearing meltdown ~

The Greek people have just about reached the limits of their strength. The economic situation is tragic. Illegal immigration is out of control, criminality increases day by day. The political system is steeped in corruption and the media have stopped being the communication channel between citizens and the political system. The Greek media are functioning as the praetorian guard of the euro; they favor the massive admission of Muslim populations into Greece and they fiercely attack every voice that opposes their own.
 
The country is rotting inside the EU and the eurozone. The Greek people have crashed economically. Greek cities, because of massive illegal immigration, look less like cities in Europe and more like cities in Afghanistan. Banks have begun the mass-confiscation of residences. The people are on the verge of revolt.

 
Considering the trajectory Greece is on at present, Polizoidou sees a few possible outcomes – none of them pleasant. All involve civil unrest and internal revolt of some type ~

Poverty, criminality, corruption, illegal immigration and the delegitimization of the political system are the dots which, if one connects them, point to Article 48 of the Greek constitution. This article, which determines when the government can suspend the constitutional rights of citizens, can be activated when the state is under siege from internal or domestic enemies.
 
With more taxes in the offing, with more pension and salary cuts, and with Turkey sending more immigrants to Greece, there is no way for Greece to be governed without the government declaring martial law to enforce its policies on the population.

 

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What’s happening to the Greeks is a harbinger of what’s coming to all Western countries. The rest of Europe is nearly is the same predicament already. And we’re not far behind (Birthrates are down, we’re almost 20 trillion in debt, we’re being overrun by immigrants as well, and our ruling class is ignoring it all).

 
Greece’s pending implosion is a loud and clear warning that Western civilization is approaching collapse. Is anyone listening?
 
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Related:
Greece: A Democracy in Crisis
“We’ve Reached Our Limits” – Greece Begins Blocking Refugees
A century in the making, Athens set for first mosque since Ottoman times ~

In May, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared building a mosque long overdue. The government, he said, would push ahead “out of respect for the Muslim residents in our capital, but also because we are obliged to actively defend our values.”

[Sounds more like you’re obliged to commit national suicide.]

Culture-Enriching Street Warfare in Catania (Sicily)

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“Socialism? I mean it’s like definitely, um…”

That moment you realize your youth has been spent absorbing vast amounts of propaganda which you’re able to parrot back perfectly, but you have absolutely no idea how to make sense of any of it because they failed to teach you critical thinking skills… (and the truth about socialism) ~
 

Video from Campus Reform

 
Folks, this is the tragedy of mis-education; confidently ignorant young people.
 

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“Give me four years to teach the children
and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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Here are some helpful links which illustrate the miserable realities of socialism:
Putting a happy face on communism
Redistributing Christmas
Another socialism fail
Socialism ALWAYS fails…
Socialism: The World’s Greatest Generator of Poverty
Socialism ~ How to ruin a perfectly good country

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Every little thing

Please take a few minutes to experience Crescendo, a short but powerful film from Movie to Movement founder, Jason Jones.
 
Choose life. Because you never know what God has planned…
 

Video via The Stream

 

“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life,
that both thou and thy seed may live;”
~ Deuteronomy 30:19

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Saturday Shorts – 7-22-17

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Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Big government butting in: British man ordered to remove butt-baring gnome ornaments ~ 😯 Authoritarian bureaucrats have nothing better to do? (Bear in mind, the gnome butt in question looks to be smaller than a baseball)

Lauren Perry, 77, was ordered to remove two cheeky ornaments from outside his Wistaston home because they were deemed a possible distraction to motorists, the Telegraph reported.

 
Unemployed dad with face tattoo rejects 45 job offers since going viral with desperate work plea ~ “Slacker generation.” Because apparently life should be consequence-free.

 
How to Keep Your Soul Intact While Investigating Planned Parenthood: An Interview With David Daleiden ~ John Zmirak spoke with the dauntless pro-life advocate this week ~

The question I most wanted to ask Daleiden was this: What was it like to put on a different identity, to burrow into the dark world of organ trafficking and abortion? How could he manage it, day in and day out, for more than a year? We’ve all seen TV movies about the harsh impact that undercover work can have on police. What sustained him in his journey through the darkness?
 
The answer almost staggered me. It told me why someone like him, not someone like me, was the person whom God called to do this crucial work. He said that he kept in the front of his mind that his work was an act of love. Not just for unborn children. But also for the people who worked at Planned Parenthood. They had found themselves in a horrible and diabolical place.

 
Unapologetic Mass Murderer Motivated by Darwin Lives in Comfort in Prison, While Victim Trauma Continues ~ You may remember Anders Behring Breivik as the man who murdered 77 young people in Norway exactly six years ago today. The media continues to refer to him as a ‘right-wing’ extremist despite the fact that he considers himself a “traditional neo-Nazi.” Oh, and he just loves Darwin ~

Breivik detailed in his document why he was an unapologetic champion of the Darwinian worldview. Breivik’s vision of “a perfect Europe” involved the strict application of Social Darwinism, opining that the application of “national Darwinism” should be at the core of our society. He does not believe that science should be left in private hands, but instead should be lavishly supported by the government.
 
Breivik also stressed that science trumps religion: “As for the Church and science, it is essential that science takes an undisputed precedence over Biblical teachings.” Breivik listed Darwin’s Origin of Species as one of the most “important” books that he has ever read.

 
Union boss: Hundreds of EPA employees’ jobs at risk ~ On the rare occasion that someone tries to shrink the federal leviathan, entitled leftists throw a fit ~

“EPA wants over 1,200 of us to leave, purportedly to save money going forward and claiming that they no longer need the positions occupied by staff that in some cases worked at EPA for over 30 years,” (American Federation of Government Employees Local 704 Michael Mikulka) said.

Gasp! “You mean we have to deal with reality?!”
 
Here’s another self-righteous federal employee who thinks he’s invaluable ~ Government Climate Scientist: Native Alaskans Are In Danger Because I Was Reassigned ~

(Joel Clement) claims that leaving his former position empty will “exacerbate the already significant threat to the health and the safety of certain Alaska Native communities,” and filed his complaint “because the Trump administration clearly retaliated against me for raising awareness of this danger.”

Boo-hoo. Maybe you could try the private sector for a while. You know, become a productive member of society?

 
“Queer Arabs” feel marginalized because Halifax gays voted to allow Zionists to march ~ This story’s from Nova Scotia – just had to include it on the basis of the headline alone 😀 Don’t they realize they’ve all marginalized themselves, simply by engaging in the game of identity politics?

 

The Predator in the Fashion Magazine: Teen Vogue Coaches Teenagers in Sodomy ~ Just when you think our culture can’t sink much lower. Teen readers should follow up this article with a visit to Joseph Sciambra’s site to discover the tragic physical and emotional consequences of anal sex.

 
Bill Nye Says Old People Must Die For Climate Science To Progress ~ For once, Nye is actually telling the truth; we “older” folks haven’t been brain-washed by today’s public indoctrination centers. We grew up when science was still based in reality. We have to go ~

Comedian Bill Nye “The Science Guy” said Wednesday that the climate change movement can only move forward once the older generation begins to die off [..]
 
“We’re just going to have to wait for those people to ‘age out,’ as they say,” Nye said, adding that “age out” is a euphemism for dying. “But it’ll happen, I guarantee you — that’ll happen.”

 
The Latest Absurd Manifestations of Transgenderism ~ All a 15 year-old high school boy has to do to win a track meet these days is say he’s a “she” ~

(L)iberals, if your daughters lose their track meets, or swim meets, or tennis tournaments, or golf tournaments, or whatever other sporting events to inherently stronger biological boys declaring themselves girls—and perhaps lose D-1 scholarships in the process—then suck it up and take one for the liberal team.
 
You’ve created this monster. And now you can live with it.

 
What’s going on in Jerusalem? Elder of Zion has regular up-dates on the ongoing Temple Mount violence ~ 07/21 Links Pt1: Temple Mount Crisis: It’s Not About the Metal Detectors; The Palestinian Mountain of HateArab Countries Condemn Israel for Closing Temple Mount, Failing to Mention Terrorist Attack that Prompted Closure ~

Two Israeli Border Police Officers were murdered and a third was wounded on Friday when three Palestinian terrorists opened fire at security forces near an entrance to the Temple Mount at the Lions Gate and then fled into the Mount complex. The Palestinian assailants, reportedly carrying two rifles and a pistol, were pursued by Israeli forces and were shot and killed as they tried to escape toward the mosques on the Mount.

(The rest of the media can’t seem to find anything newsworthy beyond “Russian collusion”)

 
Shroud of Turin bears blood of torture victim according to latest research ~ My May 7th edition of Saturday Shorts made mention of the burial coins used on the corpse in “The Shroud” being dated to the first couple of decades A.D.. Now blood analysis has shown that the man covered with the cloth was a victim of multiple acts of trauma and torture ~

New atomic resolution research indicates that the mysterious Shroud of Turin does in fact contain the blood of a torture victim, thus undermining theories that the shroud was painted, reports Catholic News Agency.
 
“On the basis of the experimental evidences of our atomic resolution TEM studies, the man wrapped in the [Shroud of Turin] suffered a strong polytrauma.”

There’s an excellent chance that this burial cloth is the real deal 🙂

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