“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.”
~ St. Paul, 1st century
Philippians 4:8 ~
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in
heavenly places.”
~ Ephesians 6:12 ~
"Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. This is why it is said: 'Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.'"
~ Ephesians 5:11-14 ~
"Blessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust, and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies."
~ Psalm 40:4 ~
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables."
The narrative’s been firmly established by the mainstream media propagandists: The water in Flint, Michigan was contaminated with lead, Michigan’s Republican governor knew all about it, he didn’t do anything, ergo – it’s all his fault.
Of course even ten months ago the actual facts told a different story ~
The Democratic government of a Democratic city destroys that city’s finances so thoroughly that it must go into state receivership; a Democratic emergency manager signs off on a consensus plan to use a temporary water source; the municipal authorities in that Democratic city responsible for treating and monitoring drinking water fail to do their job; a state agency whose employees work under the tender attention of SEIU Local 517 fails to do its job overseeing the local authorities; Barack Obama’s EPA, having been informed about the issue, keeps mum.
And now as it turns out, according to a new report from the independent Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that very same agency knew there was a problem, and should have issued an initial emergency order in Flint seven months before the water crisis engulfed the town and its population.
“EPA Region 5 had sufficient information to issue an emergency order to Flint as early as June 2015, but did not,” the report indicates, “While events were complicated, given what we know about the consequences of the Flint drinking water contamination, it is clear that EPA intervention was delayed. These situations should generate a greater sense of urgency. The EPA must be better prepared and able to timely intercede in public health emergencies like that which occurred in Flint.”
Forgive my suspicious nature but one hopes that their delayed response wasn’t calculated, deliberately slowed until the damage was done and public outrage could be deftly misdirected at the governor… The Left couldn’t possibly be that deviously cold-hearted and self-serving could they? Nah…
Flint is a mess made by Democrats, made worse by the Democrats in Detroit, and ignored by the Democrats in the White House. The worst that can be said of the Republican on the scene is that he failed to save the local Democrats from the worst effects of their own excesses.
But in any event, it won’t matter. The mainstream media will totally ignore the OIG report leaving the Republicans-don’t-care-about-you narrative firmly implanted in the minds of the low-information crowd.
Scarier than any Halloween costume, haunted house or slasher movie this year is the thought of a Hillary Clinton presidency. In light of these latest email revelations it’s pretty clear she should be going to prison instead of the White House – but the praetorian guard media isn’t about to let that happen.
YIKES!
Of the original 17-candidate field of Republicans running for president, Donald J. Trump was probably number 15 or 16 on my list. Trump as POTUS will be every bit as risky as playing roulette in one of his casinos. The man was a total wild card a year ago and he still is. Unfortunately, he’s the one we’ve been dealt.
At this point, a MUCH scarier prospect would be watching Hill and Bill move back into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. So before you even think about checking the box for Clinton here are some crucial facts to keep in mind (via Saul’s Newstand) ~
Now Donald Trump – and his loyal supporters – SAY he will do a lot of things.
• Trump will shake up Washington, for better or for worse
• Trump will “build a wall” and attack the illegal immigrant problem
• Trump has taken a pro-life stance
• Trump has the NRA’s endorsement and supports the 2nd Amendment
• Trump has named respected conservative judges that are on his list for the Supreme Court
• Trump has conservative lawyers advising him on appointments and policy
• Trump has vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare
• Trump will make America militarily strong again
• Trump gets the lefts attacks on religious liberty and will support the principle of religious liberty
Not sure how much of that we can actually believe…
On the other hand, we have a track record with Clinton, and it’s a spooky one. Based on past performance, if Hillary wins…
• Clinton will continue Obama’s policies, dragging our country down
• Clinton supports Open Borders and Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants
• Clinton does NOT respect the sanctity of life
• Clinton is an avid supporter of “gun control”
• Clinton will appoint 2-3 Supreme Court Justice with the goal of moving the court to the left
• Clinton will appoint 250+ lifetime Federal Judges to the bench across this country
• Clinton will “fix” and expand Obama care…costing working Americans even more
• Clinton will continue the Obama/Clinton foreign policy which has made America weaker and less safe
• Clinton does NOT support religious liberty
America has been bruised, battered and beaten down by Barack Obama. If Hillary gets in, we’re totally…
Our country is about to (or was about to—we’ll see) elect a woman president who, to a great many of us, possibly a majority, is indisputably a criminal and about to draw our federal government into nonstop litigation, more than likely leading to an impeachment trial at the least, weakening our already weakened state, blotting almost everything out, and dominating all our attention and the airwaves for the next several years. […]
(Right now) the Middle East falling apart, radical Islam spreading across all the continents save Antarctica (maybe even there), Russia and China expanding their influence, North Korea and Iran building their militaries and weaponry with impunity, and the global economy in tatters (and that’s not counting relatively local issues like the disintegration of Obamacare and the execrable condition of our inner cities).
And we have to listen to that appalling witch Hillary Clinton complaining that the FBI isn’t being “transparent” enough. This is the same woman who took her entire business as secretary of State offline and lied about it so many times it would take all the abacuses in China to count it up.
Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Yale, Beyond The Pale ~ “Tolerance” in the new intolerance. If college students from the 1960’s were suddenly teleported to an American university today, demonstrations and protests would commence immediately over the fascist thought police on today’s “inclusive” campuses.
Archbishop Jean Clement, the Melike Catholic leader in Aleppo, read: “Please help us to pull our country back from the abyss of the fundamentalist regime in which they are trying to immerse us.”
“Just stop selling arms to the terrorists,” begged Father Mtanios Haddad, a Melkite now serving in Rome.
“The Islamic State is “almost finished,” (Mustafa Saadi, Shiite militia commander) said. “They are weak. If only America would stop supporting them, we could defeat them in days.“
In states where doctor-prescribed suicide is legal, a growing number of sick people are being denied medical treatment coverage and offered assisted suicide instead. Most recently, Stephanie Packer, a California wife and mother of four who was diagnosed with a terminal form of scleroderma, said her insurance company refused to cover the cost of her medical treatment […]
Packer said, “As soon as this law was passed — and you see it everywhere, when these laws are passed — patients fighting for a longer life end up getting denied treatment, because this [assisted suicide] will always be the cheapest option.”
If Hillary Clinton becomes our next president, one of the changes you can expect is an invasion of industrial wind development in your community that has the potential to severely damage your property values, ruin the viewshed, impact your sleep patterns, and cause your electricity rates to “necessarily skyrocket” — all thanks to your tax dollars.
Babies and their mothers in Kenya are afforded unprecedented protections against abortion because of Article 26(4) of the Kenyan constitutional that bans abortion except in emergency situations or danger to the life or health of the mother.
But the abortion industry and the global abortion lobby are trying to undermine these protections for life.
The Bully Party ~ “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams weighs in on the thuggery of some Clinton supporters ~
I’ve been trying to figure out what common trait binds Clinton supporters together. As far as I can tell, the most unifying characteristic is a willingness to bully in all its forms.
(D)octors in Beverly Hills are increasingly fielding requests from male patients who want to smooth out their downstairs area, so to speak, apparently inspired by female-equivalent treatments made increasingly popular by actresses like Gwyneth Paltrow.
Before Barack Hussein Obama fundamentally transformed the office of the presidency into a rogue bureau of despotism, one of the principal duties of the executive branch (as many of us actually learned in middle school) was to uphold and enforce the laws of the land. Instead, ever since he declared that the Cambridge police acted stupidly, this president has been on the wrong side of the law more often than not. Today’s news is just the latest example; Obama commutes sentences of 98 people ~
President Barack Obama on Thursday commuted the sentences of 98 inmates, most of whom were convicted on nonviolent drug charges, the White House announced.
With Thursday’s announcement, that brings the total number of sentences commuted by Obama during his presidency to 872 individuals, 688 in 2016 alone, “more than the previous 11 presidents combined,” 😯 the White House said in a blog post.
Why? Well boys and girls, Barack Obama is “transcendent.” He just arbitrarily gets to rewrite laws and second-guess the judicial system. And like all good dictators, el presidente handily justifies his extralegal actions ~
The commutations are part of a White House push to bring existing sentences — many given under the conditions of strict “mandatory minimums” no longer in place — in line with current standards.
Obama has argued the severe sentencing practices more than 20 years ago, a byproduct of the larger “war of drugs,” have destroyed communities and led to an exploded prison population that far exceeds the rest of the world.
[Apparently we’ve surrendered in the “war of drugs…” No wonder there’s a Heroin Epidemic.]
So who do you think has actual credibility on this criminal justice issue? An former “Choom Gang” member? Or a guy like Sheriff Clarke (Milwaukee County, MN) who’s spent his entire life on the RIGHT side of the law?
“Today’s society confronts us with many threats from criminal behavior. In fact, our criminal-friendly president spends his final days releasing violent career criminals back onto the streets of already struggling communities,” Clarke said. “He is the only president in U.S. history to visit a prison and tell killers and rapists and drug dealers that they are the product of a racist criminal justice system.
“As my good friend Sean Hannity is fond of saying, let not your hearts be troubled for in 244 days and a little less than 10 hours, Barack Obama will exit the White House for the very last time. And finally, his reign of terror over your freedom, over your Constitution, and over your right to keep and bear arms, his reign of terror will be over,” Clarke said.
Let’s hope he’s right… In the meantime, Obama’s continued commutations, his tacit acceptance of the destructive behaviors of the Black-Lives-Matter movement, and his failure to support law enforcement and “Blue Lives,” only serve to further divide and destabilize American society.
So Hillary Clinton, and rest of the climate alarmists, want us to believe that all life on the planet will end in the next few decades if we don’t immediately redistribute our income on a world-wide basis and return to the horse and buggy days. Are they right? Let’s consider a quick hypothetical shall we?
• Assume “global warming” (very doubtful)
• Assume “global warming” is killing us all (it’s not)
• Assume returning to pre-industrial conditions will save us (won’t that be fun?)
Aside from lifting billions out of abject poverty, through the use of cheap, efficient and reliable fossil-fuel based energy, (smart) China and India recognise the growing manufacturing vacuum left by a “global warming” obsessed West destroying their jobs and industries with draconian climate policy and overreaching green regs.
How in the name of Gaia do these warmists think that a bunch of puny little humans can have any impact at all on global weather patterns? And how are we supposed to prevent other nations from industrializing? Nuke em?
Ironically, while the West aims to impoverish itself by regressing to the days of rain dances and sun, stars and earth worship , it’s Asia that’s living in the real world these days; embracing progress and prosperity.
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This silliness really does beg to be mocked. Let’s all sing along ~
• Hundreds of US troops will be deployed to Poland as part of NATO effort
• They will lead one of four battle groups stationed across eastern Europe
• Is the latest indicator of Russia’s fraught relationship with the West
• Putin unveiled the country’s latest nuclear weapon earlier this week
• He is suspected of ordering hack on the Democratic National Committee
• Critics say he is trying to influence outcome of the presidential election
Tensions have been building since Crimea and the West’s decision to impose retaliatory sanctions, but the breakdown of a US-Russia brokered ceasefire in Syria on October 3, followed by US accusations that Russia has used cyber attacks to disrupt the presidential election, have signalled a sharp worsening of East-West relations.
Putin’s behavior is becoming increasingly provocative; the recent hacking incidents…
After categorically denying hacking U.S. politicians and organizations, Putin and his spokespersons are now claiming that nothing has been proven so far.
The Russian leader also suspended a treaty on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium, suggesting he was willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States over Ukraine and Syria.
Tensions between Russia and the rest of the West are also high.
Last week Putin sent an aircraft carrier on a bombing mission to Syria in a fleet that passed through the English Channel. In the past week, Britain has deployed RAF fighter jets to intercept Russian bombers nearing UK airspace twice in four days.
On Tuesday, Russia unveiled chilling pictures of its largest ever nuclear missile – Satan 2 – which is capable of destroying an area the size of obliterating small European countries including the UK.
Is the earth really millions – or even billions – of years old? Not according to these fossils…
Paleontologists dig up all kinds of fossils, mostly just small bones or sea shells. But occasionally they discover unusual fossils, like squid with ink, lizards with skin, or even a T. Rex with blood!
Here are a couple more links I forgot to include in yesterday’s post on UNESCO’s bogus resolution on Jerusalem’s history.
The first is an Elder of Zion post from 2013 that proves – in a Muslim writer’s own words from the 15th century – that they were well aware of the Jewish history of the Temple Mount site.
(A) 15th century book by Jalal-addín [or Shams al-Dîn] al Síútí, translated in 1836 by James Reynolds, shows that Muslim tradition believed without a shred of doubt that the Al Aqsa mosque was built on the spot of both Jewish Temples.
Andrés Roemer Slomianski, Mexico’s newly-arrived ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, is not only a diplomat, political analyst, attorney, economist, think tank founder, and author of 16 books and two award-winning plays.
He is also a hero.
When it came time last Thursday for 58 country representatives on the UNESCO executive board to vote on an Arab-drafted resolution that effectively denied Jewish ties to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and the Western Wall—by using Islamic terms only for Judaism’s holiest sites—Mexico was one of only 24 states that voted for the pernicious text. (Full UN Watch analysis and country voting sheet here.)
Yet Ambassador Roemer, who is Jewish, had already walked out of the hall. Out of conscience, he could not bring himself to carry out his government’s instructions and support the outrageous resolution; one of his deputies had to cast the vote instead.
Unfortunately, he did get fired. But at the same time – surprisingly – Mexico said it would change its vote from approval to an official “abstention” in recognition of the “undeniable” Jewish cultural heritage in Jerusalem. Perhaps Slomianski’s principled stand will encourage many more to reject this nonsense as well.
UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a UN agency whose ostensible mission is to promote peace, social justice, human rights and international security through international cooperation on educational, science and cultural programs.
(Note: Once “social justice” is one of your objectives, truth is automatically going to be a casualty)
The agency’s resolution is mostly a pack of lies drafted by the Palestinians (themselves a historical farce) that totally ignores the Jewish ties to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount by simply denying reality.
To begin with – contrary to both Hebrew and Christian scriptures – Jerusalem is not even mentioned in the Quran. So for Muslims to be making exclusive claims to the area is simply preposterous.
According to tradition (both Jewish and Muslim), the Temple Mount is first mentioned as the area of Mount Moriah where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Issac at God’s command. The first Jewish temple was built there in the 10th century B.C. by King Solomon. Briefly, here’s the rest of the site’s history, from The Jewish Virtual Library ~
(The First Temple) was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, but 70 years later Jews returning from exile built the Second Temple on the same site. King Herod refashioned it into an edifice of great splendor […]
Following the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in the year 70, the area of the Temple was deliberately left in ruins (first by the Romans, then by the Byzantines). This desecration was not redressed until the Muslim conquest of the city by the Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab in 638. He ordered the clearing of the site and the building of a “house of prayer”.
Some 50 years later, the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik built the Dome of the Rock to enshrine the outcrop of bedrock believed to be the “place of the sacrifice” on Mount Moriah. He (or his son, the Caliph al-Walid I) also built the large mosque at the southern end of the Haram, which came to be called al-Aksa after the Koranic name attributed to the entire area.
During the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, Jordan retained control over Jerusalem’s Old City and the Temple Mount and subsequently refused entry to the area to any Jewish person. During the 1967 Six-Day War, the Israeli Defense Forces conquered Jerusalem and liberated the Temple Mount, reclaiming Jewish control over the area for the first time since the destruction of the Second Temple.
When religious Jews pray three times a day, they always turn toward the Holy City. Synagogues likewise place the holy ark (the place where Torah scrolls are kept) on the wall closest to Jerusalem. Many observant Jews keep small section of an eastern wall of their house unpainted as a sign of mourning for the destruction of the Temple. Every year we close the Passover Seder with the words La-Shanah Haba’ah Bi Yerushalayim! (“Next year in Jerusalem”).
So how did Muslims come to have so much control over the site that UNESCO now pretends the Jews have no claim on it at all? Unfortunately, Israel itself shares much of the blame. Many Israelis are as secular as most Americans these days and simply may not have the reverence for the Temple that we might expect. Also, they have perhaps been fearful of international condemnation.
In any event, they agreed after 1967 to allow the Jordanian, Islamic Waqf (religious committee) to continue managing the Temple Mount ( though Israel provides security and upholds decisions made by the waqf about access to the site). But since Islamists don’t even recognize Israel’s right to exist, of course that wasn’t enough. It’s never enough.
Here’s the first half of an informative video – the Truth about the Temple Mount – including the part about the Waqf trucking away all archaelogical proof of earlier temples! Naturally, if they destroy the evidence, it makes it that much easier to ignore the history ~
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz,the Rabbi of the Western Wall, responded dismissively to the UNESCO decision on the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.
“In all of world history I don’t know of an ‘occupying power’ whose land is full of the relics of its ancestors. The holiness of the Temple Mount and the Western Wall for the Jewish people goes back many generations. It does not need anyone’s approval. It is ridiculous to deny the (archaeological) discoveries that are occurring all the time.”
“The millions of worshipers who come to pray at the Western Wall in front of the Temple Mount are the Jewish answer to UNESCO.
“UNESCO, which was founded in the name of higher values, attacked Israel, which works to ensure the accessibility of the holy sites of all religions. It also encouraged the Muslim Waqf, which works to systematically destroy all archaeological relics o the Temple Mount. After this decision UNESCO has forfeited its right to exist.” Rabbi Rabinowitz added.
Tomorrow, October 24th, is United Nations Day. Wouldn’t it be nice if the organization celebrated by permanently disbanding itself?
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I’m sure God is not amused by this fiasco. But He will deal with this in His own way, in His perfect time.
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We thank you our Father that your eyes and your heart are always on Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and that Jesus has affirmed his identity by bearing the name of YAHWEH at that same holy place. Help your people to also affirm these truths at every opportunity. In Jesus’ name, AMEN!
Just days after the UN’s cultural agency voted in favor of a resolution denying Jerusalem’s Jewish history, archaeologists have discovered the site where the Romans breached Jerusalem’s walls in the prelude to the destruction of the Second Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago, confirming those ties, The Times of Israel reported Thursday.
(Frida Ghitis)described the Temple Mount as “the holiest sites in Judaism,” and that the existence of the Temples there is backed by “overwhelming archaeological and historical evidence — in addition to the Jewish bible and the Christian gospels.” Yet in the UNESCO resolution, “Jewish and Christian history does not exist. Jews surface only in the present, as a malevolent force, mercilessly attacking Palestinians for no reason at all.”
In any society, the chief magistrate’s first duty is to uphold the law, and throughout human history his easiest temptation, once in office, has been to regard himself as above it. In this case, the American people would be electing someone who, not yet in office, is already above the law, and way beyond it. (Even her bodily fluids are above the law.) That would be an extraordinary act, and Hillary and her cronies would be entirely justified in treating such an electorate with utter contempt.
Judicial Watch today (10-1-16) released 128 pages of documents it obtained from the mayor of Rutland, Vermont, showing a concerted effort by the mayor and a number of private organizations to conceal from the public their plans to resettle 100 Syrian refugees into the small southern Vermont town […]
In December 2015, Judicial Watch sued the U.S. State Department to obtain documents about the Obama administration’s plan to resettle Syrian refugees across the country. Judicial Watch is investigating the Obama administration’s Refugee and Resettlement program, which plans to bring an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States in 2016, and even more in 2017. Obama is pressing ahead with his plan even though 129 people were killed and 350 were wounded by Syrian-trained terrorists recently in Paris.
Like criminals who constantly expand their repertoire, Whole Foods’ violations of state and federal law have been escalating. They’ve gone from defrauding their customers in various ways to adopting food preparation practices that actually endanger them.
Turkish officials in the coastal city of Izmir detained American Christians Andrew and Norine Brunson on 7 Oct., refusing ever since to allow daily requests for access to them by U.S. consular officials and lawyers.
According to authorities at the Migration Administration’s detention facility in Izmir, the Turkish Interior Ministry had ordered the couple’s deportation within 15 days. Specifically, the directive reportedly accused them of activities said to constitute a “national security risk”.
Residents of Turkey for the past 20 years, the Brunsons are currently leading the Izmir Resurrection Church, a small Protestant congregation averaging 30 to 40 worshippers, located in the city’s Alsancak district.
A church with only 30-40 members… That’s a national security risk?
More than two and a half years since the war in Ukraine began, and more than 17 months after the Minsk II cease-fire was signed, life remains a daily struggle for survival for the 1.7 million Ukrainians who fled the conflict.
The Angel of Dachau ~ Inspiration for the growing persecution of believers ~
A German priest arrested for defending Jews during the Holocaust, he cared for fellow prisoners in Dachau concentration camp, where he ultimately lost his life. […]
As the Nazis began their persecution of the Jewish people, Unzeitig defended Jews during his sermons. This caused him to be arrested by the Gestapo in 1941. For his actions, Unzeitig was sent to infamous Dachau concentration camp.
An Irish pro-life advocate received a death threat at his home this weekend at a time when the debate over the nation’s abortion laws is growing increasingly hostile.
How apropos of the death-cult of rabid pro-aborts.
Donald Trump is the seedy boss you’re pretty sure will sexually harass your daughter. Hillary is the cool, unflappable doctor whom you learn, too late, intends to euthanize your parents.
Before the war, it was rare that a Muslim would become a follower of Jesus Christ. The war has changed everything. According to one of the Christian workers of a church in Lebanon, many new converts say they had their doubts about Islam before they converted. “Doubt is many times the key to start a change,” says the church worker.
A non-partisan group calling itself the World Ad-Hoc Association of Witches has pledged to “exert mental influence” on the debate which, it claims, will force the billionaire to quit the race.
The group has urged pagans and witches across the world to participate in what it describes as a “call to action”.
I wouldn’t say this exactly puts Trump on the side of angels – but at least we know who the “darker forces” support…
Saul Alinsky commenced his magnum opus (“Rules for Radicals”) — the one for which he is hailed by the left, a book not only read by Hillary Clinton but used as a text by Barack Obama as a teacher of community organizing — with an acknowledgement of the Devil.
The narrative’s been firmly established by the mainstream media propagandists: The water in Flint, Michigan was contaminated with lead, Michigan’s Republican governor knew all about it, he didn’t do anything, ergo – it’s all his fault.
