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For Christian American readers of this blog:


I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Friday, February 10, 2017

What obama hath wrought fr America - Three Muslim Brothers Fired . . . Thx Marge R!

Isn't this interesting?   






Three brothers who managed office IT for government officials were relieved of their duties last week on suspicion that they accessed specific computer networks without permission, also known as hacking.

Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives Thursday.

They accessed computers unauthorized. They were getting foreign information. The three brothers were making $161,000, $165,000, and $160,000.
One of the brothers has a criminal background.

Now this…
The three brothers funneled House data to an external server.
The Daily Caller reported:

Chiefs of staff for dozens of Democratic lawmakers who employed the four were informed last week that a criminal probe was underway into their use of congressional information technology systems, including the existence of an external server to which House data was being funneled, and into the theft of and overbilling for computer equipment.

Brothers Imran, Abid, and Jamal Awan and Hina Alvi, Imran’s wife, each made $160,000 a year as information technology workers for the House. Their salaries and time were shared among dozens of Democratic members, including former Democratic National Committee Chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. The lawmakers also include members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Despite the generous salaries, the four were involved in multiple suspicious mortgage transfers and a debt-evading bankruptcy. Abid had more than $1 million in debts following a failed business called Cars International that he ran in Falls Church, Va., from November 2009 to September 2010. Business associates said in court documents that Abid had stolen money and vehicles from them.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


Good answer by Abby . . . Thx Tom Q!

Sam Kegley

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Family & Friends,         Rom Tom Q

 

Dear Abby,
My husband hasn’t worked for the last 14 years. All he does is get dressed in the morning and hop in his fancy car to visit his cronies. I know he’s cheated on me many times with young girls who could be his grand-daughters. I know this because he brags about this to me. 
He smokes fancy cigars and drinks the most expensive Champagne day and night. We sleep in separate beds because he tells me he knows I am a lesbian and my varicose veins and fat behind turns him off. Should I clobber him with a frying pan, or should I just leave him?
Your advice would be appreciated.
Sincerely, Mad as hell.
********************
Dear Mad as hell,
You don’t have to take that kind of treatment from any man. I suggest you pack your bags and move out ASAP.  Don’t resort to clobbering him with the frying pan.
Try to act more like a lady.
Remember…….you lost big time running for President of the United States, so try to act like you have some dignity left!
Best of luck to you Hillary.
Signed, Abby


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David Horowitz - "Left Wing Hate Groups" Book

David Horowitz Freedom Center

Dear Sam,

You may have seen what happened last week when conservative Milo Yiannapolous tried to give a speech at UC Berkeley...

In a portent of things to come, a mob of masked, black-garbed left wing thugs went berserk. U.S. flags were torched, university equipment was destroyed and windows smashed – over $100,000 damage in all. 

Bystanders waiting to hear Milo's speech were attacked with truncheons, one of them bloodied so badly that he lay unconscious on the ground, as the campus police stood by, ordered by administrators not to interrupt the rampage.

It was a scene out of Hitler's Germany – hatred and bloodlust on the loose; hatred at war with free speech and expression; hatred looking for someone to hurt. 

But this shouldn't surprise us. Hatred has always been the lifeblood of the Left. Hate has always been the Left's political homeland and its reason for being. For the Left, hatred is never having to say you're sorry.

And that's why the Freedom Center is excited to announce a new e-book by our own John Perazzo titled Left Wing Hate Groups. 

You see, one of the biggest of the Left's Big Lies is that conservative political groups and movements are universally motivated by hatred – of blacks, Hispanics and other ethnic groups; of homosexuals, transsexuals and other gender minorities; of immigrants, Muslims and others who are "marginalized" and therefore vulnerable. 

This Big Lie is an exercise in what Freud called "projection" and which psychologists define as denying abhorrent emotions in oneself by attributing them to others

There are indeed haters on the Right, but for the most part, they are on its fringe – demented individuals or tiny groups whose political apparatus consists of little more than an obscure post office box and a toxic website. 

For the Left, however, hatred is a mass movement. Left hate groups swim successfully in the American mainstream.

And because of the Left bias in our culture and media, their followers, like those at the women's marches, can posture as idealists and protectors of the downtrodden while spewing hate. For them, hatred is no fault. 

But Left Wing Hate Groups warns about what lies ahead during the next four years – which is why I urgently need your help to get this book into the hands of politicians, law enforcement, concerned media and ordinary citizens. 

Will you make a donation of $25 to help us get this critical information out?

In return for your support, I'll send you a link to Left Wing Hate Groups so you have your own copy.

These groups don't operate in the dark any more than the thugs who trashed UC Berkeley did. 

They spew their hate every day as proud members of the vast left wing network that supported Barack Obama's efforts to "radically transform America" and they've already declared open war on the Trump administration. 

Just look at the Southern Poverty Law Center that raises millions of dollars every year attacking respected conservatives like Charles Murray as "racists" and anti-Islamist intellectuals like Ayaan Hirshi Ali as "Islamophobes..." 

Or how Black Lives Matters hate-filled rhetoric has had deadly consequences for police officers... 

And let's not forget Students for Justice in Palestine, which has become the chief organizer and sponsor of anti-Israel hatefests that have become common occurrences on our campuses! 

You can read about these – and other hate organizations – in Left Wing Hate Groups. Left wing hate is something we will see more of in days to come, as these thugs use Donald Trump's election as an excuse to trash America.

So please follow this link to make a donation of $25 or more to help us get this vitally important e-book into as many hands as possible.

Your support will help warn people about left wing hatred, which will now ratchet up as "progressive" Democrats no longer have control over our political system – AND you'll receive your very own copy. 

Thank you for your vigilance and your help! 

Sincerely, 
David Horowitz
David Horowitz 

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Refugees all over this world - Washington Post 2/7/2017

Today's WorldView: The refugees are here, whether you like it or not

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Refugees have become the object of opportunistic political grandstanding in much of the West. Entire electoral campaigns hinge on the spectral menacethey pose. Right-wing politicians and talking heads demonize them as rapists and criminals; others mock their flight from war zones as a lack of courage. Some even go on television and invent massacres committed by refugees that never took place.
What's obscured in this relentless politicization of the refugee crisis is the actual plight of refugees. So here's a brief survey of the situation, such as it is.
According to UNHCR, the U.N.'s refugee agency, there are an unprecedented 65.3 million people around the world who have been forced from their homes — the largest such displacement ever measured by the organization. Of that overall figure, there are around 21.3 million people registered as refugees — that is, people who are in limbo outside the borders of their countries rather than internally displaced. Crucially, over half of all refugees are under the age of 18.
More than half of current refugees come from just three countries: Syria, Somalia and Afghanistan. And the overwhelming majority of these refugees are not living in the West, nor are they on the verge of traveling there.
Despite the hysteria fanned in Europe and North America — consider President Trump's suggestion that refugees are "pouring in" — the real burdens of the crises have always been in the Middle East and Africa. Governments and humanitarian organizations in those regions are straining under the pressures.
Every fifth person in Lebanon is a refugee; in Turkey, there's a controversial scheme afoot to naturalize some of the more than 2 million Syrians now living in the country to try and cope with the costs of accommodating them. In both countries, vulnerable Syrians have fallen victim to human traffickers and militant groups.
UNHCR argues that around 1.19 million people will need to be resettled in 2017, due either to the dire conditions in which they're currently trapped or specific family needs. The United States, which accepts more resettled refugees than any other country, will take only a tiny fraction of that number — and will even slash the number of refugees it accepts per year by half. Since the war in Syria broke out in 2011, 5.5 million Syrians have fled their country. The United States has taken in just under 20,000 in total.
Now Trump's executive order seeks to suspend the resettlement of Syrian refugees indefinitely. The move horrifies rights advocates and leading officials of international organizations. 
"Resettlement means taking refugees from places like Lebanon, where they are already refugees, selecting the most vulnerable and taking them to other places," said Filippo Grandi, head of the U.N.'s refugee agency, in a statement last week. "If we weaken that program, as has been done in the United States, this is a very dangerous weakening of the international solidarity for refugees."
Grandi repeated the same desperate plea his organization has made since the first wave of Syrian refugees started: "These are people that flee from danger. They’re not dangerous themselves."
Trump and his far-right counterparts across the pond claim there's no way to properly vet refugees and point to earlier security lapses to justify blanket bans. The open borders within the European Union and poor coordination between national governments did enable a few jihadists to infiltrate the refugee exodus. But in the case of the United States, it's simply not true that tough structures aren't already in place.
Just ask a former immigration officer: "I conducted in-person interviews with hundreds of refugees of 20 different nationalities in 10 countries. I saw countless refugees break down crying in my interview room because of the length and severity of the vetting process," wrote Natasha Hall in a piece published by The Post last week. "From that experience and numerous security briefings, it’s clear that the authors of Trump’s order are unfamiliar with the U.S. immigration system, U.S. laws, international law and the security threats facing our nation."
"This is a test for the western world not just for America," declared David Miliband, the former British foreign secretary who's now head of the International Rescue Committee. "It’s a test of whether or not we hold fast to the values of non-discrimination and to universal values of freedom from persecution, so the stakes are very high."
By the look of things, it's a test the western world is currently failing.Around 370,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Europe in 2016, most of them by sea. Close to 5,000 died making the passage. Many of the survivors are being processed in various countries for asylum. But at this very moment, tens of thousands remain stuck in frigid makeshift camps in the Western Balkans, marooned after European Union countries like Hungary slammed the door shut on asylum seekers.
A refugee stands next to a pool of mud at camp on the eastern Greek island of Lesbos in mid-January. (Petros Tsakmakis/InTime News via AP, file)
A refugee stands next to a pool of mud at camp on the eastern Greek island of Lesbos in mid-January. (Petros Tsakmakis/InTime News via AP, file)
Of course, it's not just the wealthy West that has let down Syrian refugees and those of other nationalities. Influential Arab governments in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states have been criticized for not doing more: It doesn't help that the Saudis aren't signatories of the U.N.'s major international convention on refugees, making it hard to track their efforts to aid Syria's displaced.
In the meantime, organizations like UNHCR issue appeals about the positive contributions of refugees — seemingly without any impact on policy.
Ultimately, as my colleague Robert Samuels reports, it's the refugees themselves who can change the minds of those opposed to them.
“I hated Muslims,” said John Dutcher, a 61-year-old Nebraskan who voted for Trump and was initially angry about the relocation of a Syrian family to his town. But that was before he met his new neighbors.
“The Muslims here were all about family and they just loved everyone,” Dutcher told Samuels. “I remember the people who lived here before; they took for granted everything this country gave them. These people, they really changed my heart.

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