MyPillow CEO: COVID & Riots

Just a very interesting read: https://www.oann.com/mypillow-ceo-covid-riots-show-what-biden-presidency-would-look-like/https://www.oann.com/mypillow-ceo-covid-riots-show-what-biden-presidency-would-look-like/

The Inconvenient Truth

Well, if you want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, here it is. This is not an endorsement of the republican party. I'm an independent voter. This is just a matter of the truth.

Why All the Hate?

Do you wonder, "Why all the hate?"

I do.

People are not speaking to each other because of a preference. Or a political party. Or their values. I really really don't get it. Why? If you like purple, and I prefer yellow, is that a reason why I should quit speaking to you? Anybody who likes purple is hateful, is crazy, shouldn't be allowed to vote, to speak, to live.

Yes, that's how ridiculous it is. Just because I may be a democrat, and you a republican, should we stop speaking to each other? Yellow and purple.

Because you think a wall should be built, and I don't agree, I should quit speaking to you? Yellow and purple.

How about if you prefer blueberries and I like apples? Should we stop speaking? Yellow and purple.

What if I think abortion is wrong and you think it's moral. Do we stop speaking? We stop being neighbors? Does that mean I don't have a right to have a voice in this country? Should YOUR voice be silenced by whatever means, just because we don't agree? Whatever happened to "agreeing to disagree"? Or is it now, you don't agree with me, so you don't have the right to speak. Or vote? Or live.

Yellow and purple.

Whoever the president is, he or she is our president. Let's respect the OFFICE of the presidency. Let's respect our legislators, let's respect our senators. They are people, they are human beings. I think that lots of people who are criminals are getting more respect than a lot of people in our country who haven't broken any laws.

And let's pray for our leaders. They need our prayers, they need our intercession every day. And let's remember the Golden Rule: Treat others as you would have them treat you.

Or else it will all come down to yellow and purple. And don't think that because you're purple that things will go well with you. If things continue, none of us will have any freedom of expression, neither the yellows nor the purples, because, in the end, when there is social chaos, such as the kind that has been engineered in the United States of America for the past decades, the government will step in even more than it already has and will tell you what you're allowed to think, while it takes your hard-earned money to pay for programs we really don't need. But then that's another story.

It's time we think, really think things out. Do we let someone get away with things because they, too, like purple, but if the yellows do it, cry "Bloody murder!" and "Off with their heads!"? The government is trying to tell us what to think, the media is trying to tell us what to think. Are you going with the flow because it's easier, or will you stop and say, "Hey! Something's rotten here!" and calmly make your own decisions?

Just remember, Yellow and Purple.

The Equal Right

"The equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his Religion according to the dictates of conscience" is held by the same tenure with all our other rights."
               
— James Madison "Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments"

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" American Minute

American Minute with Bill Federer

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" announced President Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall, JUNE 12, 1987.

Begun after Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the Soviet Union existed from 1922 to 1991.



With its motto 'Workers of the World, Unite!' the Soviet tactic of conquest was to train agitators and organizers - "agent provocateurs" - to stir up riots so that the public would accept a military enforced marshal law to restore order.




Franklin Roosevelt addressed Delegates of the American Youth Congress, February 10, 1940:

"Some of you are Communists... You have no American right, by act or deed of any kind, to subvert the Government and the Constitution of this Nation."



Instead of setting up a utopian paradise, the workers were simply used as "useful idiots" to set up a communist dictatorship which gained totalitarian control over some 293 million people across 11 time zones.


Addressing naive students that thought communism would redistribute wealth equally, President Franklin Roosevelt told the American Youth Congress, February 10, 1940:

"The Soviet Union...is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world."



Under the Soviet dictatorship:

-privacy was nonexistent;
-press was censored;
-free speech disappeared;
-healthcare was rationed;
-economy was regulated;
-private industry was collectivized;
-political dissent was punished;


-media and entertainment was propagandized;
-children's education became indoctrination;
-marriage and families were subject to social engineering;
-religion was suppressed; and
-human life was valued only by its usefulness to the soviet society.



Franklin Roosevelt stated, February 10, 1940:

"I disliked the regimentation under Communism. I abhorred the indiscriminate killings of thousands of innocent victims...


...I heartily deprecated the banishment of religion,

though I knew that some day Russia would return to religion for the simple reason that four or five thousand years of recorded history have proven that mankind has always believed in God in spite of many abortive attempts to exile God..."

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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday and a Few Good Quotes

American Minute "We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence."-MLK, Jr. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated APRIL 4, 1968. Pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, he rose to national prominence through the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964, Congress set aside his birthday as a National Holiday. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, were influenced by the German Confessing Church leader Deitrich Bonhoeffer, who resisted Hitler's anti-Christian totalitarianism. Rev. King was also influenced by the non-violent methods of India's Mahatma Gandhi who resisted Britain's centralized big government. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said August 28, 1963: "Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children... In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence....

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Be Heard Project: Saeed Abedini

Be Heard Project: Saeed Abedini

				Be Heard Project: Saeed Abedini An American Pastor in an Iranian Prison
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My Day So Far and Plight of Christians and Others in the Middle East

It's a cool 83ºF over here on the island. We're expecting rain this weekend. That's good and bad. Good because it means no water rationing. Bad because there will be thunderstorms and landslides in the mountains. And Slinky will go nuts if there's thunder. I'll just give him Benadryl and put him in his cage, he can't hide in my closet amongst my yarn. Nope nope nope.

Eddie's book presentation is next Thursday. The small college where he teaches is sponsoring the event (it was their idea) and his friends from an advertising agency took over the promotion, for free. They are really going for it. I knew Eddie was well-liked among his peers, and respected for his knowledge, but he didn't have to call in any favors, people are just doing this because they like him and love him, too. Me, I feel that we are blessed. Eddie does things that I myself wouldn't, and earlier this week told me, "It's what I've always done, and it's what the Lord would have me do. I don't regret any of it."

I definitely have to keep him, yep yep yep.

Fearless Boss is having fun on his last free day. He bought Amanda some rattles (there's really no stopping him, he has so much fun looking and choosing) and I-don't-know-what-else and is sending me a box which is supposed to arrive on Tuesday. Soon I'll be working on that crochet dachshund my oldest sister wants, a little white cardigan for Amanda, and then finish a baby blanket I've been working on and off for about 3 years. It's so simple, but has I work on it only when I'm at a doctor's office, because it helps me while away the time.

I heard some thunder, or a large truck in the distance. I'd better locate the Benadryl. I hope Dan didn't place it on top of the kitchen cabinets. I've told them to quit putting things up there and they just laugh at me and call me "short Mom!" and then place it there again the next time. Okay, if that, and leaving their socks around and some dishes undone are my only complaints concerning my sons, then I'm blessed, aren't I? No signs of drugs nor any other stuff. I'm surely blessed.

See what's happening in the Middle East, a genocide. This is sad. I hope the US *and* the rest of the world see that this is bad, bad, bad, not only for them, but for the whole world. If good men do nothing, evil will prosper. The American government, if it does nothing, will eventually have to deal with this, because it won't stop nor be contained in Iraq and Syria. It will spread. And spread. And it will touch us and then some.

On The First Amendment...

“To those who cite the First Amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and every-day life, may I just say: The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.”

— Ronald Reagan, March 15, 1982,

in an address to the Alabama State Legislature

CLAUSE AND EFFECT

Clause and Effect

This just in: Congress is assuming control of all your personal economic decisions. Or so says Judge George Steeh, who yesterday became the first man ever to rule on the constitutionality of the new health care law. The suit, brought by our friends at the Thomas More Law Center, argued that it's an abuse of power for Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance. Judge Steeh disagreed, insisting (in his 20-page opinion) that the federal government has a "right" to force citizens to buy products whether they want them or not. Of course, there's nothing in the Constitution to support that argument. Nowhere does it state that citizens can be required by an act of Congress to purchase anything--including insurance policies. But that didn't matter to Judge Steeh, who also struck down a challenge over the financial penalty imposed on people who don't buy insurance. "The minimum coverage provision... is a reasonable means of effectuating Congress's goal," he wrote.
It all boils down to a very complicated debate over the U.S. Commerce Clause and whether it gives the government the power to bar "commercial non-activity." The Obama administration is arguing that inactivity (i.e. not buying insurance) is a form of interstate commerce. Think about that for a second. The government is suggesting that "doing nothing" is something to regulate. How ridiculous is that? To expand its power, Washington is literally making something out of nothing. Thomas More's Rob Muise talked about where this twisted logic could lead. "If Congress has authority to regulate non-activity then it has the ability to regulate anything," he said. "Congress can tell you to exercise three times a week, to take certain vitamins, to refrain from eating certain foods because, at some point, costs are going to be incurred to the health care market. I find that very troubling when we have a federal government that's supposed to be of limited, enumerated powers." Troubling enough, Muise said, that his organization plans to appeal.
Meanwhile, the health care law is already under fire in two other courts. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is fighting to overturn ObamaCare in Richmond's federal district court while his Florida counterpart, Bill McCollum, is leading 20 other states into a massive court battle in Pensacola. Yesterday's decision won't interfere with either of those challenges. Eventually, the law will make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. And when it does, let's hope it appeals to the justices' better judgment.

Deceived...

“One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. ”

—Italian statesman and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

Health Care Bill...

I like Michael Ramirez's cartoons.

More on the Situation on Our Island

People are growing desperate.  A grown man even threw an egg at the governor.  There is much anger and I fear that it can escalate into violence.  The students at our state university, their student council, that is, voted to ??? forgot the word in English.  They voted to boycott classes to make a statement that they are supporting the workers who were fired.

Today I heard on the news about several homes where both parents are now without jobs.  Some pregnant women were laid off, too.  Even a cancer survivor, who went to work even on her bad days. 

I also heard on the news that there will be a national work stoppage sometime next month.   I pray that there is no violence.  This is simple:  You cannot spend more than what you earn, because sooner or later, and it's usually sooner than you thought, it will catch up with you, and you'll have to "pay the piper."  This is a situation which has been accumulating for a few decades already.  You cannot, you MUSTN'T have a bloated government.  Why?  Because it is not a company.  A government does not sell a tangible product.  It provides services.  Therefore, we most certainly cannot spend more than what we take in.  If this were an automaker, the federal government would have made sure they went into bankcrupcy and paid their bills.

I'll spell-check tomorrow.  Well, maybe.  Perhaps.  Could be.  I might.  I might not... 

:D

River

Sad Day Here on the Island

It's a sad day in Puerto Rico.  Over 14 thousand people have been fired.  Yes, government employees, but many many are family people, just trying to keep body and soul together and feed their families.

I can't say what should be done.  I think that there must be something that can be done here to use money more efficiently, less projects to benefit buddies and more, and other things that can be done (sorry, Neurontin fogs me).  I understand that a country cannot function well  with a bloated government payroll, I do understand that, but it does not stop me from feeling sad and wondering what are they going to do now.

Thanks for reading this.

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River

I'm A Born-Again American Video: Wow!

Loved it!!





http://www.bornagainamerican.org/

Scalia Warns Judges against Relying on Foreign Law

Scalia Warns Judges against Relying on Foreign Law
by Jennifer Mesko, editor

SUMMARY: He says the Founders of this country did not want us to emulate Europe.

The U.S. Constitution is not a "living document" and should not be filtered through foreign law.

That's the message U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had for a group of judges and lawyers in Houston this week.

"I fear the courts' use of foreign law in interpreting the Constitution will continue at an accelerated pace," the 72-year-old jurist told the local chapter of the Federal Bar Association.

Scalia called on judges to adhere to the constitutional authors' intent. He said the Founders of this country did not want us to emulate Europe.

Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said Scalia is right to criticize his colleagues for relying on foreign law to justify their decisions.

"If judges are just going to make stuff up, they should have the courage to admit it," he said. "If we're not vigilant as citizens to protect our law-making authority under the Constitution, the judiciary will increasingly take that authority from us and use it to create a society in their own image.

"We must cry 'foul' whenever the court dabbles in its fondness for the use of foreign law to justify its own excesses."

Wendy Long, legal counsel at the Judicial Confirmation Network, agreed.

"The whole idea of America was that we were going to be a nation built on the consent of the governed," she told Family News in Focus. "That means we’re only governed by laws that a majority of us have assented to — that includes the Constitution."