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Scripture for Today, 1-31-18: Good Courage

1/31/2018

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Ten Times in Old Testament We See "Good Courage"

God told Joshua to fear not when his army was fighting the Amorites.
God sent hailstones and the sun stood still. Joshua 10:1-13
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“Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people
shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land,
which I sware unto their fathers to give them” Joshua 1:6

1996, Henry Morris, PhD. -- This admonition to be strong and of “good courage” (Hebrew, amass) is given some ten times in the Old Testament, plus another nine times using a different word (chasaq). The first occurrence of amass is in Deuteronomy 3:28 where it is translated “strengthen:” 

“But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him:
for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause
them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.”

Christians today surely need good courage to face a dangerous world, with all its temptations and intimidations, but nothing today could compare to the challenge facing Joshua. Trying to lead a nondescript multitude of “stiffnecked,” desert nomads into a land of giants and walled cities would surely require courage beyond anything we could imagine. Giants and walled cities are no match for the children of God when He goes with them.

However, Joshua had access to invincible resources and so do we God said:

“Be strong and of a good courage. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed:
for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” Joshua 1:9; Romans 8:31

God did go with Joshua, and the Israelites defeated the giants, destroyed the walled cities, and took the land. And we have the same promise today, for “He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me” (Hebrews 13:5,6). Courage is really another name for faith, and “what He had promised, He was able also to perform” (Romans 4:21). HMM
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Joshua 5:13-15
Joshua met Jesus
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Health News: Vaccine Dangerous 'Tamiflu'

1/31/2018

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The flu vaccine increases your flu risk - Most people are never told that the flu vaccine actually increase your risk of getting the flu. In fact, scientists issue a big warning about the flu shot.

How does the flu vaccine actually harm the body?
The vaccine is known to cause an overall immune suppression effect. All vaccines are immune suppressors in a variety of ways. The chemicals in the vaccines; the virus even when it’s not a ‘live’ shot; heavy metals and the foreign DNA/RNA from animal tissues can all cause serious health problems.
In fact, scientists suggest, the flu vaccine may actually fuel a pandemic outbreak of the flu.

​Could avoiding the flu vaccine be better?
The unvaccinated control groups had fewer complications and milder pneumonia. There is an association between the vaccine and respiratory diseases, called vaccine-associated enhanced respiratory disease (VAERD). This has been reported with the formaldehyde-inactivated respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination, which was followed in the vaccinated group by a wild-type (RSV) infection.

​WARNING! Flu Drug Tamiflu Has Dangerous Side Effects
As the U.S. is in the midst of one of the worst outbreaks of influenza in years, frightening reports are coming in regarding an FDA-approved drug TAMIFLU.
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1/31/18, BREAKING: Chartered GOP Train Crash

1/31/2018

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Virginia High Speed Train Crash
Truck Parked on Tracks
All Republicans on board safe ...

1-31-18, Fox News -- Amtrak released a brief statem1ent saying the train "came into contact" with the vehicle. "Local law enforcement is investigating the incident and crews are inspecting the equipment for damage," Amtrak spokeswoman Kimberly Woods said in a statement.  House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was on the train but is fine, Fox News is told. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Wis., was not on the train.  The accident took place in Crozet, Va., near Charlottesville, Va.

Members were on a special chartered Amtrak train to the Greenbrier resort, where Vice President Pence was set to speak Wednesday night, with a planned appearance from President Trump on Thursday. 

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Comics, 1-31-18: Pres Past & Present SOTU

1/31/2018

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US Presidents Trump & Reagan shared a common goal, American greatness
​1-20-18, Pres Trump, 
truly wants to return the USA to greatness as it was under Ronald Reagan; who always believed that America’s best days were yet ahead. We must still believe in our God, goodness, compassion, ingenuity, productivity, optimism and liberty.  In the recent past, our nation has been immersed in a perpetual bath of hatred, cynicism, negativity and criticism about our nation and her people. Pres Trump is a hard working optimist and based on his successes so far, the hatred from the left is not deterring his goals for the American people.
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1-31-18, The language used by Pres Trump in his first ever State of the Union speech contrasted sharply with the words of Obama's address in 2010. According to a transcript of the speech released by CNN, Trump referred to himself in the first person singular 30 times. He said the word “I” 29 times and one “me.” Obama, when he delivered his first State of the Union, used “some version of ‘I’ or ‘me’ nearly 100 times”
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Pres Trump SOTU NOW, 1-30-18: 9 pm ET

1/30/2018

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The Democrats wouldn't even stand for our national motto: 'IN GOD WE TRUST!' Despicable ...
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRYbfTJMbPM
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Scripture for Today, 1-30-18: Praying Leaders

1/30/2018

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We should pray for our leaders and our leaders are praying for us at the White House Prayer Meeting - it's been ongoing since 2001
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1-30-18, Annette -- I posted about the lawsuit filed by atheists who don't approve of the prayer meeting at the White House here - one of the complaints is their claim it's on taxpayers money also that participants may be coerced into attending. I got the following from the government website here
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Who We Are
Our Reference/Advisory Board
Our Board of Directors & Staff

Since 2001, The Presidential Prayer Team has been the source thousands of Americans have turned to for encouragement and inspiration to pray for America’s leaders.
We are a national ministry dedicated to a focused mission of encouraging, inspiring and praying for our president and national and military leaders. We also seek to be a catalyst in the development of a robust prayer lifestyle, by providing tools to encourage prayer – through email, web, mobile phones and other communication tools. Ultimately, we believe that prayer will transform our nation, one heart at a time.

We believe that Almighty God rules over the affairs of men and moves in response to the prayers of His people.  So, with unflinching devotion, members of The Presidential Prayer Team are working every day to raise the shield of prayer over our president and national leaders.

1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing

James 5:16
Pray for one another, that you may be healed; the prayer of a righteous person has great power.

Romans 8:26   
The Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

Philippians 4:6   
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

As you join us, you become part of the largest group of intercessors in America, and we’ll provide you with an extensive variety of tools and resources to assist and support your prayer life.
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Mission, Purpose and Beliefs:
 The Presidential Prayer Team exists to provide a consistent urging toward prayer for the president and leadership of the United States of America, for all who have the Spirit of the Living God active in their hearts. This rises from a few beliefs which form our core values:
  • We believe that prayer is effective, and is a gift given to us by God to affect Him in this world. Thus, we value prayer in general, as means to accomplish the will of God in this country.
  • We believe that the Apostle Paul’s “urging” for us to offer “prayers, petitions, intercession, and thanksgiving for all people: for kings and all those in authority,” is an urging from the heart of God, so that we may lead “quiet and peaceful lives in all godliness and holiness” (I Tim 2:1-5). This leads us to value urging others to pray for our leaders.
  • We believe that empathy motivates people to pray. Thus, we value promoting understanding among our members, so that they find themselves wanting to pray.
  • We believe that our adversary is the Devil and his forces, and not people and their plans. Further, we believe that our adversary is actively attempting to undermine us. Thus, we value spiritual quickness to perceive the spiritual battle in which we are engaged.
  • We believe that hiring talented online ministers, who have various skills in the online delivery of motivational content, allows us to pioneer a highly specialized ministry on a digital frontier. This leads us to value talent-focused hiring.
  • As a non-denominational Christian ministry, The Presidential Prayer Team believes that the prayers of its members can transform the nation. We believe this because of four key things: God and the Bible as well as People and the Mission. 
God and the Bible:
  • We believe there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  • We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ and the redemptive and reconciling work of his sacrificial death and resurrection.
  • We believe in the Holy Spirit and His life-giving work in the world to fulfill the purposes of God.
  • We believe that God exists and that the Bible is His Word. It is the inspired Word of God and the only document to be vested with such divine authority. We believe its instructions and principles to be the guide of our individual lives.
  • What we believe is based on the Bible, but there are many important things in the Bible that may not be within the scope of our work.
  • We believe the work of evangelism and discipleship to be that of the church, and as such, it is not the primary mission of this ministry. 
  • Through strategic investments in staff and technology growth, we will expand the reach of The Presidential Prayer Team throughout the country to see us aggressively grow the active number of praying members of the Prayer Team.
  • We will consistently re-evaluate our activities to fine tune our efforts toward this growth projection. While content production will be important, we will increasingly focus on the tools needed to get more people to pray and keep them praying.
  • We will draw our membership into a relationship with us, always targeting having at least half of our members involved in some way beyond being passive recipients. This will include: sharing comments, engaging their friends to pray, giving a gift in a 12-month period, being an active giver, being a content contributor, being a major donor, and more.
Financial Accountability

The Presidential Prayer Team is firmly committed to good stewardship of funds entrusted to us by our friends and donors. We promise to use your gifts wisely and effectively in Christ’s name. We are a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.
The Prayer Team also undergoes an annual audit through an independent certified public accounting firm and files annual financial statements with all U.S. States to meet their individual fundraising requirements.
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​1 Samuel 2:30
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We must pray for President Trump as he is under tremendous attack from the wicked and haters of America.

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Money just for breathing? Yeah, $6k/year Stockton CA

1/30/2018

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First US City to File Bankruptcy [2012] NOW launching "basic income" program annually giving residents $6,000 JUST FOR BEING ALIVE!

October 18, 2017, Stockton California Mayor Michael Tubbs said that by August 2018 he hopes to enroll an undisclosed number of Stockton's 315,000 residents in the free money program. He said the city is set to hand out $500 a month, or $6,000 a year — would ideally last for a period of three years.

Stockton is a unique candidate for so called "basic income," which has gained traction over the past few years as a solution to poverty and a safeguard against the looming threat of robot automation. Tubbs is 27 years old; was elected last year at 26, becaming the youngest US mayor in a city of more than 100,000 people.

The city Tubbs oversees — about 50 miles east of Berkeley — became the first in the USA to file bankruptcy, in 2012; it's still very much in recovery. More here
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Spying on Presidential Candidate: Memo Worse than Watergate

1/30/2018

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1-29-18, Nancy Pelosi interview on CNN ... Cuomo actually acting like a real truthful journalist and Mark Dice dissects it ... true conspiracy of unlawful behaviors by govt agencies against candidate for president, Donald J. Trump. This video is actual truth yet humorous at the same time. After Christopher Wray read the memo, Andrew McCabe was terminated. What does that tell us? 6 min video here
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On 1-29-18, CNN interview: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi got a bit testy with Chris Cuomo telling him that he didn’t know what he was talking about.

Cuomo responded:  “Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI obviously recently selected by President Trump, he got the memo. He could have come out and said ‘This is reckless, don’t release it,.”
“Let me just say this with all due respect, you really don’t know what you’re talking about right now,” Pelosi replied.
Cuomo: “But did Christopher Wray look at it or not?”
Pelosi:  “I can’t say whether he did or not but he did not, he did not–in order to redact, you have to have the people who know…”
Cuomo interrupted: “I’m not saying redact, I’m saying if these concerns are so sharp and obvious…” More here from Daily Caller
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Comics, 1-30-18: Muslim rights

1/30/2018

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​Survey: Large percentages of Muslim men approve of honor killings...
5-8-17, Robert Spencer -- Honor killing, wife-beating, marital rape, polygamy — all justified in Islamic texts and teachings, and all approved of by large numbers of the Muslims.
60% of Moroccan men said “if a woman is raped, she should marry her rapist.”
​62% of Moroccan men said “a woman should tolerate violence to keep the family together”, and 38% agreed “there are times when a woman deserves to be beaten”. Shockingly, 20% of Moroccan women agreed with this.
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Scripture for Today, 1-29-18: Waters = People

1/29/2018

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The UN Agency that Creates Palestinian "Refugees"
Never helped the Jews ...
​Revelation speaks of flood of  locusts & waters = people

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​1-29-18, Gatestone Inst -- In the context of announced budget cuts, the US administration recently announced that it will drastically reduce its financial support of UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees). US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley wanted the outright cancellation of the $364 million allocated each year to the UN agency, as long as it did not implement reforms and transparency, but US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was for the time being content to halve the first tranche of aid, originally set at $125 million.

At the heart of this case is the desire of US President Donald Trump to stop financing any agency or international organization that does not reflect American interests. There is also, however, a 180-degree turn on the US position in the Arab-Israeli conflict by the new administration. It seems determined not to make the same mistakes -- and fall into the same traps -- as previous administrations.

What is UNRWA?

Established in December 1949 with a one-year mandate, UNRWA aimed at its birth to help resettle the 600,000 Palestinian Arabs who had fled the conflict zone during the rebirth of the state of Israel, after five Arab [Muslim] armies had attacked it -- and lost. The causes of this exile were threefold, according to several polls undertaken in refugee camps and summarized in an article by Tibor Mende, published in French newspaper Le Monde on April 21, 1951:

"Some did not want to live in a Jewish state, others fled the battle and, once that was over, could not return home. Many more left because they were told that it was for a few days, a few weeks at most, and that they would return with the triumphant Arab armies. "
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Surprisingly (or not), no parallel office was created to help the 870,000 Jews expelled and despoiled by the majority of Arab-Muslim countries between 1948 and 1974 -- including those militarily forced out of Judea and Samaria by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which hastened to rename this region the "West Bank" after illegally annexing it in 1948.

It is true that most of the Jews expelled from Arab countries were welcomed by Israel and in the Western world, whereas, with the exception of Jordan, no Arab country bordering the Jewish state made the slightest gesture to help its own victims in a conflict the Arabs had begun. They apparently preferred, instead, to let their co-religionists languish in the worst conditions, presumably in an effort to place the blame for their suffering on Israel.

Waters are people
Revelation 17:15
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Revelation 9:7-10 Flood of people like locusts
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In 1950, when Canada's General Howard Kennedy and Sir Henry Knight, the first UNRWA leaders, realized that their work was rendered impossible by the politicization of the humanitarian crisis with which they were charged, and that their mandate could not be fulfilled in such a short time, an English Labour MP, Richard Crossrian, was called to explain their failure in the House of Commons. His answer, as reported by Mende in Le Monde, was eloquent:

"As long as we rely on the United Nations to do something serious for the settlement of refugees, we will only deceive ourselves because the United Nations is a political organization. There is the Arab League, and all the politics of the Arab League. The Arab League needs the refugee problem to maintain cohesion against Israel. The refugee settlement would deprive her of her most important complaint ... "

This statement is arguably the best explanation for the fact that UNRWA, created for one year, as noted, is still in operation 70 years later.

In seven decades, the small humanitarian agency has become a monster. UNRWA now has responsibility for more than five million souls, of which only some 20,000 should be considered refugees according to the definition of the UN, which applies to millions of exiles around the world... with the intriguing exception of Palestinians.

According to the UN's own definition, the status of "refugee" cannot be passed from generation to generation -- as it conveniently has been for the Palestinians. A Palestinian with a European, American or Jordanian passport has no reason to be considered a refugee. Except by UNRWA. Excerpted more here
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Democrats Block Ban Late Term Abortion: Killers!

1/29/2018

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Why Do African American Mothers
Keep on Killing Their Babies?

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LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Monday, January 29, 2018 LifeNews.com
• Democrats Defeat Pro-Life Senate Bill Banning Late-Term Abortions After 20 Weeks [they want to keep killing after 20 weeks!]
• President Donald Trump Would Sign Pro-Life Bill Banning Late-Term Abortions After 20 Weeks

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Singer Joy Villa Stuns Grammys [1/28/18] With Pro-Life Dress
Joy Villa, princessjoyvilla.com  [25] known by her stage name Princess Joy Villa, is an American singer and songwriter. Wikipedia Orange, California, U.S.
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Comics, 1-29-18: Illegal Migrants in US

1/29/2018

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​Pres. Trump says he's open to a pathway to citizenship for Illegal Migrants aka 'Dreamers'
1-24-18, Senior White House officials say that President Trump is proposing a plan providing a path to citizenship for 1.8 million of the so-called “Dreamer” illegal migrants [aka DACA]. It includes tighter restrictions on legal immigration & $25 billion for border security.  This preview is cast as a compromise that could pass the Senate. The proposal represents a reversal for Pres Trump, who promised to eliminate the DACA program that protects illegal migrants. This will likely find resistance from many of the president’s conservative allies.
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Scripture for Today, 1-28-18: JD Farag Prophecy Update

1/28/2018

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January 28, 2018
Pastor JD Farag

The Wicked Attempt to Force 'Two States' on Israel Will Destroy Israel
See 39 minute video from Pastor
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf4N4mVXjpU

Zechariah 12:1-3
The Lord Who laid the foundations of the earth declares,
"I am going to make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all surrounding nations.
All the nations are gathered against her ... I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock!"

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President Trump Says He'll Cut Off Palestinian Money 
1-25-18, Bloomberg -- President Donald Trump said in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the USA will cut off funding to the Palestinians unless they seriously return to peace negotiations ... Israel's Muslim leader, Mahmoud Abbas assailed the Trump administration's peace initiative as the “slap of the century,” and said of the U.S. threat to halt funding, “Damn your money."

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'Trans' - Age - Man: "I'm a Nine Year Old Boy"

1/28/2018

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Trans Sexual, Trans Animal and Trans Age
 [what's next?]

1-28-18, A Chicago man, Joseph Roman is accused of sexually abusing three young girls allegedly told police he committed the crimes because he is a boy in a man’s body. More Joseph Roman, 38, faces felony sexual assault charges for allegedly making repeated attacks on three girls ages 6 to 8 years old. More here
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The Trans-Aged Deserve Equal Rights, Too - The Federalist
We are now told not to conflate gender with sex, so no one should conflate age with ... dawning of the Age of the "Trans" ...​
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Trans-Species? Meet the Grown Men Who Identify as Dogs ...
Meet the grown men who identify as dogs. ... I remember when "trans-species" was just a fancy word ... where judging a grown man who thinks he's anything other ...

Yes, There Are Trans Animals 
Many people think that there's an absolute biological distinction ...
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Super Blue Blood Eclipse Moon: Jan 31, 2018

1/28/2018

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Super Blue Moon to Coincide With Lunar [Moon] Eclipse First Time in One Hundred and Fifty Years
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​Will occur Wednesday, January 31, 2018

1-27-18, AccuWeather -- Three lunar events - supermoon, blood moon AND eclipse separately are not uncommon, however it is very rare for all three to occur at the same time.  The same time for North America was on March 31, 1866. 

People all across North America will be able to see the moon light up the night sky [as long as clouds do not interfere] however only those in the central and western parts of the continent will be able to see a 'total' lunar eclipse. 

There was a supermoon and a lunar eclipse occurring at the same time on Dec. 30, 1982, but only for the Eastern Hemisphere.  

View on NASA TV or NASA.tv/live More here
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Comics, 1-28-18: Mueller & FBI

1/28/2018

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Carrier deal with Trump: Won't move jobs to Mexico
Nov 29, 2016 · "We are pleased to have reached  deal with President-elect Trump VP-elect ... said neither Trump we won't be moving production to Mexico.
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Flashback: That Time Obama Mocked Trump
 12-16-16,  Townhall -- For Not Having a 'Magic wand to keep Carrier Air Conditioning from moving to Mexico. 
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Civil War Begins With Politics

1/27/2018

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This Civil War

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​Transcript of speech from Daniel Greenfield, January 21, 2018 in South Carolina*: [Note: It's lengthy, but well worth it. Highlighted here and there by Annette. There's a link at the bottom to watch the 39 minute video.]

"This is a civil war.
There aren’t any soldiers marching on Charleston… or Myrtle Beach. Nobody’s getting shot in the streets. Except in Chicago… and Baltimore, Detroit and Washington D.C. But that’s not a civil war. It’s just what happens when Democrats run a city into the ground. And then they dig a hole in the ground so they can bury it even deeper. If you look deep enough into that great big Democrat hole, you might even see where Jimmy Hoffa is buried.

But it’s not guns that make a civil war. It’s politics. Guns are how a civil war ends. Politics is how it begins. How do civil wars happen?

Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge. That’s the basic issue here.

Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war. I know you’re all thinking about President Trump.

He won and the establishment, the media, the democrats, rejected the results. They came up with a whole bunch of conspiracy theories to explain why he didn’t really win. It was the Russians. And the FBI. And sexism, Obama, Bernie Sanders and white people.

It’s easier to make a list of the things that Hillary Clinton doesn’t blame for losing the election. It’s going to be a short list. A really short list. Herself.

The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it’s not the first time they’ve done this.
The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn’t really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There’s a pattern here. Trump didn’t really win the election. Bush didn’t really win the election. Every time a Republican president won an election this century, the Democrats insist he didn’t really win. Now say a third Republican president wins an election in say, 2024. What are the odds that they’ll say that he didn’t really win? Right now, it looks like 100 percent.

What do sure odds of the Dems rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don’t accept the results of any election that they don’t win. It means they don’t believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections.

That’s a civil war.

There’s no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government. This isn’t dissent. It’s not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they’re the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election.

When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don’t win, what you want is a dictatorship. Your very own dictatorship. 

The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to the left, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it’s inherently illegitimate. The attacks on Trump show that elections don’t matter to the left. Republicans can win an election, but they have a major flaw. They’re not leftists. That’s what the leftist dictatorship looks like.

The left lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can’t scratch his own back without his say so, that’s the civil war.

Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that’s not the system that runs this country. The left’s system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country. If it’s in the White House, then the president can do anything. And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He’s a dictator. [Obama -- Ed.]

But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can’t do anything. He isn’t even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented.

A Democrat in the White House has “discretion” to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn’t even have the “discretion” to reverse him.
That’s how the game is played. That’s how our country is run.
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When Democrats control the Senate, then Harry Reid and his boys and girls are the sane, wise heads that keep the crazy guys in the House in check. But when Republicans control the Senate, then it’s an outmoded body inspired by racism.

When Democrats run the Supreme Court, then it has the power to decide everything in the country. But when Republicans control the Supreme Court, it’s a dangerous body that no one should pay attention to.

When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren’t even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. 

Under Obama, a state wasn’t allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.

The Constitution has something to say about that.

Whether it’s Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land.

This is what I call a moving dictatorship.

There isn’t one guy in a room somewhere issuing the orders. Instead there’s a network of them. And the network moves around. If the guys and girls in the network win elections, they can do it from the White House. If they lose the White House, they’ll do it from Congress. If they don’t have either one, they’ll use the Supreme Court. If they don’t have either the White House, Congress or the Supreme Court, they’re screwed. Right? Nope.
They just go on issuing them through circuit courts and the bureaucracy. State governments announce that they’re independent republics. Corporations begin threatening and suing the government. 

There’s no consistent legal standard. Only a political one.

Under Obama, states weren’t allowed to enforce immigration laws. That was the job of the Federal government. And the states weren’t allowed to interfere with the job that the Feds weren’t doing. Okay.

Now Trump comes into office and starts enforcing immigration laws again. And California announces it’s a sanctuary state and passes a law punishing businesses that cooperate with Federal immigration enforcement. So what do we have here?

It’s illegal for states to enforce immigration law because that’s the province of the Federal government. But it’s legal for states to ban the Federal government from enforcing immigration law. The only consistent pattern here is that the left decided to make it illegal to enforce immigration law.

It may do that sometimes under the guise of Federal power or states rights. But those are just fronts. The only consistent thing is that leftist policies are mandatory and opposing them is illegal. Everything else is just a song and dance routine.

That’s how it works. It’s the moving dictatorship.
It’s the tyranny of the network.

You can’t pin it down. There’s no one office or one guy. It’s a network of them. It’s an ideological dictatorship. Some people call it the deep state. But that doesn’t even begin to capture what it is. To understand it, you have to think about things like the Cold War and Communist infiltration.

A better term than Deep State is Shadow Government.

Parts of the Shadow Government aren’t even in the government. They are wherever the left holds power. It can be in the non-profit sector and among major corporations. Power gets moved around like a New York City shell game. Where’s the quarter? Nope, it’s not there anymore. The shadow government is an ideological network. These days it calls itself by a hashtag #Resistance. Under any name, it runs the country. Most of the time we don’t realize that. When things are normal, when there’s a Democrat in the White House or a bunch of Democrats in Congress, it’s business as usual. Even with most Republican presidents, you didn’t notice anything too out of the ordinary. Sure, the Democrats got their way most of the time. But that’s how the game is usually played. It’s only when someone came on the scene who didn’t play the game by the same rules, that the network exposed itself.

The shadow government emerged out of hiding and came for Trump.
And that’s the civil war.

This is a war over who runs the country. Do the people who vote run the country or does this network that can lose an election, but still get its agenda through, run the country?

We’ve been having this fight for a while. But this century things have escalated.
They escalated a whole lot after Trump’s win because the network isn’t pretending anymore. It sees the opportunity to delegitimize the whole idea of elections.
Now the network isn’t running the country from cover. It’s actually out here trying to overturn the results of an election and remove the president from office.
It’s rejected the victories of two Republican presidents this century.

And if we don’t stand up and confront it, and expose it for what it is, it’s going to go on doing it in every election. And eventually Federal judges are going to gain enough power that they really will overturn elections. It happens in other countries. If you think it can’t happen here, you haven’t been paying attention to the left.

Right now, Federal judges are declaring that President Trump isn’t allowed to govern because his Tweets show he’s a racist. How long until they say that a president isn’t even allowed to take office because they don’t like his views? That’s where we’re headed.

Civil wars swing around a very basic question. The most basic question of them all. Who runs the country? Is it me? Is it you? Is it Grandma? Or is it bunch of people who made running the government into their career?

America was founded on getting away from professional government.

The British monarchy was a professional government. Like all professional governments, it was hereditary. Professional classes eventually decide to pass down their privileges to their kids. America was different. We had a volunteer government. That’s what the Founding Fathers built.

This is a civil war between volunteer governments elected by the people and professional governments elected by… well… uh… themselves. Of the establishment, by the establishment and for the establishment.

You know, the people who always say they know better, no matter how many times they screw up, because they’re the professionals. They’ve been in Washington D.C. politics since they were in diapers. 

Freedom can only exist under a volunteer government. Because everyone is in charge. Power belongs to the people. A professional government is going to have to stamp out freedom sooner or later. Freedom under a professional government can only be a fiction. Whenever the people disagree with the professionals, they’re going to have to get put down. That’s just how it is. No matter how it’s disguised, a professional government is tyranny.
Ours is really well disguised, but if it walks like a duck and locks you up like a duck, it’s a tyranny. 

Now what’s the left? Forget all the deep answers. The left is a professional government.
It’s whole idea is that everything needs to be controlled by a big central government to make society just. That means everything from your soda sizes to whether you can mow your lawn needs to be decided in Washington D.C. Volunteer governments are unjust. Professional governments are fair. That’s the credo of the left. 

Its network, the one we were just discussing, it takes over professional governments because it shares their basic ideas. Professional governments, no matter who runs them, are convinced that everything should run through the professionals. And the professionals are usually lefties. If they aren’t, they will be. Just ask Mueller and establishment guys like him.

What infuriates professional government more than anything else? An amateur, someone like President Trump who didn’t spend his entire adult life practicing to be president, taking over the job. President Trump is what volunteer government is all about.

When you’re a government professional, you’re invested in keeping the system going. But when you’re a volunteer, you can do all the things that the experts tell you can’t be done. You can look at the mess we’re in with fresh eyes and do the common sense things that President Trump is doing. And common sense is the enemy of government professionals. It’s why Trump is such a threat.

A Republican government professional would be bad enough. But a Republican government volunteer does that thing you’re not supposed to do in government… think differently.
Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can’t serve in if you’re not a member. If you haven’t been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If you aren’t in the club.
And Trump isn’t in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren’t in the club with him.

Now we’re seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down. That’s not a free country. 
  • It’s not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an “insurance policy” against Trump winning the election.
  • It’s not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition.
  • It’s not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media.
  • It’s not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn’t supposed to win, won.
We’re in a civil war between conservative volunteer government and leftist professional government. The pros have made it clear that they’re not going to accept election results anymore. They’re just going to make us do whatever they want. They’re in charge and we better do what they say. That’s the war we’re in. And it’s important that we understand that.

Because this isn’t a shooting war yet. And I don’t want to see it become one. And before the shooting starts, civil wars are fought with arguments. To win, you have to understand what the big picture argument is. It’s easy to get bogged down in arguments that don’t matter or won’t really change anything. This is the argument that changes everything.

Do we have a government of the people and by the people? Or do we have a tyranny of the professionals?

The Democrats try to dress up this argument in leftist social justice babble. Those fights are worth having. But sometimes we need to pull back the curtain on what this is really about.
They’ve tried to rig the system. They’ve done it by gerrymandering, by changing the demographics of entire states through immigration, by abusing the judiciary and by a thousand different tricks. But civil wars come down to an easy question:

Who runs the country?

They’ve given us their answer and we need to give them our answer. Both sides talk about taking back the country. But who are they taking it back for? The left uses identity politics. It puts supposed representatives of entire identity groups up front. We’re taking the country back for women and for black people, and so on and so forth… But nobody elected their representatives.

Identity groups don’t vote for leaders. All the black people in the country never voted to make Shaun King al Al Sharpton their representative. And women sure as hell didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton. What we have in America is a representative government. A representative government makes freedom possible because it actually represents people, instead of representing ideas. The left’s identity politics only represents ideas. Nobody gets to vote on them. Instead the left puts out representatives from different identity politics groups, there’s your gay guy, there’s three women, there’s a black man, as fronts for their professional government system. 

When they’re taking back the country, it’s always for professional government. It’s never for the people.

When conservatives fight to take back the country, it’s for the people. It’s for volunteer government the way that the Founding Fathers wanted it to be. This is a civil war over whether the American people are going to govern themselves. Or are they going to be governed. Are we going to have a government of the people, by the people and for the people… or are we going to have a government. The kind of government that most countries have where a few special people decide what’s best for everyone.

We tried that kind of government under the British monarchy. And we had a revolution because we didn’t like it. But that revolution was met with a counterrevolution by the left.
  • The left wants a monarchy.
  • It wants King Obama or Queen Oprah.
  • It wants to end government of the people, by the people and for the people.
That’s what they’re fighting for. That’s what we’re fighting against. The stakes are as big as they’re ever going to get.

Do elections matter anymore? I live in the state of Ronald Reagan. I can go visit the Ronald Reagan Library any time I want to. But today California has one party elections. There are lots of elections and propositions. There’s all the theater of democracy, but none of the substance. Its political system is as free and open as the Soviet Union. And that can be America.

The Trump years are going to decide if America survives. When his time in office is done, we’re either going to be California or a free nation once again. The civil war is out in the open now and we need to fight the good fight. And we must fight to win. 
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* South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention in Myrtle Beach
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Comics, 1-27-18: The Pope

1/27/2018

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It's a joke ... as far as we know, the Vatican doesn't own a yacht, although it was circulating for awhile ... However, in January 2013 it's been revealed:
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The Vatican has secret London property portfolio ...
The Vatican secret London property portfolio ...
  • In 2006 Vatican paid £15 million for one St. James's Square property
  • Owns New Bond Street property that houses jewelers Bulgari
  • Investments started after Mussolini gave church windfall for its support
  • Council of Europe report: the Vatican controls assets worth £570 million [$808 mill]
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Pope Francis lectured America
9-24-15, Daily Mail -- The first pope in history to address the US Congress took advantage and lectured America on security wall, Muslims, illegals, gay marriage, abortion and death penalty. [Okay to kill innocent babies, but not despicable criminals?? Apparently yes to Francis ... abomination!]
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Scripture for Today, 1-26-18: Pray for Leaders

1/26/2018

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Franklin Graham Warns:
"Pray for President Trump as Forces at Work to Destroy Him and Take Government Over by Force"

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I Timothy 2:1-2 "I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—  for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness."
 
1-25-18, Todd Starnes* -- (Washington, DC)— Franklin Graham, President and CEO of Samaritan's Purse, is one of the nation's most prominent Christian leaders; recently he said:

 “The Trump presidency faces a grave, domestic threat. I believe we are in a coup d'etat. There are people in this country who are wanting to destroy the president and take over the government by force."
 
Proverbs 2:10-11, 11:14  "Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth.  Serve the LORD with fear and celebrate His rule with trembling. For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers."
 
Graham said, "They're not going to use bullets. They're using the media — to plant thoughts in people's minds that he's incompetent, that he's dangerous, that you can't trust him with nuclear weapons, that he is mentally unstable. We need to pray for those that surround the president that God will protect them and keep them safe. I believe that he's the president of this nation because God allowed it. And I think on election night, God intervened. He wasn't supposed to win ... it was God Who worked in a mysterious way on election night to turn the tables."

We must pray for President Trump,
his family and staff.
 
Ezekiel 22:30 God said, "I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one."

 [Could Donald Trump be a man for such a time as this?]

* http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=23521
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Warning: Don't Block a Sneeze!

1/26/2018

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Man who tried to stop sneeze by holding his nose blasted a hole through the back of his throat... and it could have killed him
1-15-18, Natural News -- If you feel a sneeze building up, whatever you do, don’t try to stop it by pinching your nose. Recently a man who did just that ended up blasting a hole through the back of his throat. The un-named 34-year-old in excruciating pain and barely able to speak or swallow after he held his nose and closed his mouth in a failed bid to stifle a sneeze was hospitalized for a week. He had to be fed through a tube. Doctors report the outcome could have been far worse.

The explosive internal forces caused by holding your nose while sneezing can kill you.

It could perforate membranes, eardrums and even rupture of cerebral aneurysm that is potentially fatal as it bursts blood vessels in the brain.

www.naturalnews.com/2018-01-26-man-held-his-nose-to-stop-a-sneeze-and-blew-a-hole-through-the-back-of-his-throat.html
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California: Lawmaker Proposes Jail for Restaurant Waiters

1/26/2018

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California Democrat Majority Leader, Ian Calderon
Proposes Six Month Jail Time for Waiters Delivering
Unrequested Drinking Straws to Diners
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Apparently straws danger to environment ... who knew?!

Jan 25, 2018, A California lawmaker has introduced new Assembly Bill 1884, that would make it illegal to distribute single-use straws to consumers at restaurants unless requested.
Ian Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California’s lower house, claims the straws affect the environment; he said: “We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans.” Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.  More here
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Davos Switzerland: Swiss Band Welcoming Pres Trump

1/26/2018

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Davos: Trump lands in Switzerland - Crowds in line waiting to hear his speech 
1-25-18, DailyMail -- Photos of advance security helicopters ...

January 26, 2018, Transcript & Video
President Trump's Economic Speech
Davos, Switzerland

“It’s a privilege to be here at this forum an business and science diplomacy and people from world affairs gathered for many, many years to discuss how we can to advance prosperity and peace. I’m here to represent the interests of the America people and affirm America’s friendship and partnership in building a better world.
 
Like all nations represented at this great forum, America hopes for a future which everyone can prosper and every child can grow up free from violence, poverty, and fear. Over the past year, we have made extraordinary strides in the U.S. We’re lifting up forgotten communities, creating American dream. The dream of a great job, a safe home and a better life for their children.
 
After years stagnation the nights is once again experiencing strong economic growth. The stock market is smashing one record after another, and has added more than $7 trillion in new wealth since my election. Consumer confidence, business confidence, and manufacturing confidence are the highest that they have been in many decades.
 
Since my election we’ve created 2.4 million jobs and that number is going up very, very substantially. Small business optimism is at an all-time high. New unemployment claims are near the lowest we’ve seen in almost half a century. African-American unemployment reached the lowest rate ever recorded in the United States and so has unemployment among Hispanic-Americans.
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The world is witnessing the resurgence of a strong and prosperous America. I’m here to deliver a simple message. There has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest and to grow in the united States. America is open for business and we are competitive once again. The American economy is by far the largest in the world and we’ve just enacted the most significant tax cuts and reform in American history. We’ve massively cut taxes for the middle class, and small businesses to let working families keep more of their hard earned money.
 
We lowered our corporate tax rate from 35 percent all the way down to 21 percent. As a result, millions of workers have received tax cut bonuses from their employers in amounts as large as $3,000. The tax cut bill is expected to raise the average American’s household income by more than $4,000. The world’s largest company, apple, announced it plans to bring $245 billion in overseas profits home to America. Their total investment into the United States economy will be more than $350 billion over the next five years. Now is the perfect time to bring your business, your jobs, and your investments to the United States.
 
This is especially true because we have undertaken the most extensively regulatory reduction ever conceived. Regulation is stealth taxation. The U.S. Like many other countries unelected bureaucrats, we have, believe me, we have them all over the place, and they have imposed crushing and anti-business and anti-worker regulations on our citizens with no vote, no legislative debate, and no real accountability. In America those days are over. I pledged to eliminate two unnecessary regulations for everyone new regulation. We have succeeded beyond our highest expectations. Instead of two for one, we have cut 22 burdensome regulations for everyone new rule. We are freeing our businesses and workers so they can thrive and flourish as never before.
 
We are creating an environment that attracts capital, invites investment, and rewards production. America is the place to do business, so come to America where you can innovate, create and build.
 
I believe in America. As president of the United States I will always put America first just like the leaders of other countries should put their country first also. But America first does not mean America alone. When the United States grows, so does the world. American prosperity has created countless jobs all around the globe and the drive for excellence, creativity, and innovation in the U.S. Has led to important discoveries that help people everywhere live more prosperous and far healthier lives.
 
As the United States pursues domestic reforms to unleash jobs and growth, we are also working to reform the international trading system so that it promotes broadly-shared prosperity and rewards to those who pray — play by the rules. We cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others. We support free trade but it needs to be fair and it needs to be reciprocal because in the end unfair trade undermines us all. The United States will no longer turn a blind eye to unfair economic practices including massive intellectual property theft, industrial subsidies, and pervasive state-led economic planning.
 
These and other predatory behaviours are distorting the global markets and harming businesses and workers not just in the U.S. But around the globe. Just like we expect the leaders of other countries to protect their interests, as president of the United States, I will always protect the interests of our country, our companies, and our workers. We will enforce our trade laws and restore integrity to our trading system. Only by insisting on fair and reciprocal trade can we create a system that works not just for the U.S., but for all nations.
 
As I have said, the United States is prepared to negotiate mutually beneficial, bilateral trade agreements with all countries. This will include the countries within TPP, which are very important. We have agreements with several of them already. We would consider negotiating with the rest either individually or perhaps as a group if it is in the interests of all. My administration is also taking swift action in other ways to restore American confidence and independent. We are lifting self-imposed restrictions on energy production to provide affordable power to our citizens and businesses and to promote energy security for our friend all around the world. No country should be held hostage to a single provider of energy. America is roaring back and now is the time to invest in the future of America.
 
We have dramatically cut taxes it make America competitive. We are eliminating burdensome regulations at a record pace. We are reforming the bureaucracy to make it lean, responsive and accountable and we are insuring our laws are enforced fairly. We have the best colleges and universities in the world and we have the best workers in the world. Energy is an abundant and affordable. There is never been a better time to do business in America. We are also making historic investments in the American military because we cannot have prosperity without security. To make the world safer from rogue regimes, terrorism and revisionist powers, we’re asking our friend and allies to invest in their own defenses and to meet their financial obligations. Our common security requires everyone to contribute their fair share.
 
My administration is proud to have led historic efforts at the united nations security council and all around the world to unite all civilized nations in our campaign of maximum pressure to de-nuke the Korean peninsula. We continue to call on partners to confront Iran’s support for terrorists and block Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon. We’re also working with allies and partners to destroy jihad it terrorist organizations such as ISIS and very successfully so. The nights is leading a very, very broad coalition to deny terrorists control of their territory and populations, to cut off their funding and to discredit their wicked ideology. I am pleased to the support that the coalition to defeat ISIS has retaken almost 100% of the territory once held by these killers in Iraq and Syria.
 
There is still more fighting and worked to be done. And to consolidate our gains. We are committed to insuring that Afghanistan never again become as safe haven for terrorists who want to commit mass murder to our civilian populations.
 
I want to thank those nations represented here today that have joined in these crucial efforts. You are not just securing your own citizens but saving lives and restoring hope for millions and millions of people. When it comes to terrorism we will do whatever is necessary to protect our nation. We will defend our citizens and our borders. We are also securing our immigration system as a matter of both national and economic security. America is a cutting-edge economy but our immigration system is stuck in the past.
 
We must replace our current system of extended family chain migration with a merit-based system of admissions that selects new arrivals based on their ability to contribute to our economy, to support themselves financially, and to strengthen our country.
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In rebuilding America we are also fully committed to developing our workforce. We are lifting people from dependence to Independence because we know the single-best anti-poverty program is a very simple and very beautiful pay check. To be successful it is not enough to invest in our economy.
 
We must invest in our people. When people are forgotten the world becomes fractured. Only by hearing and responding to the voices of the forgotten can we create a bright future that is truly shared by all. The nation’s greatness is more than the sum of its production and a nation’s greatness is the sum of its citizens, the values, pride, love, devotion and character of the people who call that nation home.
 
From my first international G-7 summit to the G20, to the U.N. General assembly, to APEC, to the world trade organization and today at the world economic forum my administration has not only been present but has driven our message that we are all stronger when free, sovereign nations cooperate towards shared goals and they cooperate toward shared dreams. Represented in this room are shared dreams.
 
Represented in this room are some of the remarkable citizens from all over the worlds. You are national leaders, business titans, industry giants and many of the brightest mind in many fields. Each of you has the power to change hearts transform lives and shape your country’s destinies. With this power comes an obligation however, a duty of loyalty to the people, workers, customers, who made you who you are.
 
Together let us resolve it use our power, our resources and our voices, not just for ourselves but for our people, to lift their burdens, to raise their hopes and to empower their dreams. To protect their families, their communities, their histories and their futures. That’s what we’re doing in America, and the results are totally unmistakable. It’s why new businesses and investment are flooding in. It’s why our unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in so many decades. It’s why America’s future has negative been brighter.
 
Today, I am inviting all of you to become part of this incredible future we are building together. Thank you to our hosts, thank you to the leaders and innovators in the audience but most importantly, thank you, to all of the hard-working men and women who do their duty each and every day, making this a better world for everyone. Together let us send our love and our gratitude to make them because they really make our countries run. They make our countries great. Thank you and God bless you all. Thank you very much. Source

See twenty-eight minute video of Pres Trump's speech here
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White House Bible Study Attacked

1/26/2018

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Atheist Organizations Targets
White House Bible Study
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1-23-18, ChristianHeadlines. -- Freedom From Religion Foundation [FFRF] and Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics [CREW] in Washington is suing the U.S. Dept of Housing & Urban Dev about a weekly cabinet Bible study in the White House. The FFRF wants to know how government resources are being used and if employees in the agency feel “coerced into organizing and even participating in the event.” The Bible study is for cabinet secretaries only. According to CBN News, the lawsuit was filed when HUD refused to waive fees for the FOIA requests. HUD said the fees were needed because the records were “not in the public interest or related to HUD operations or activities.”  More here 

8/7/17, See five minute Fox News video interviewing atheist and evangelist
... atheist contends it's unlawful and not 'proper' to pray on US grounds ...
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The atheist speaking on Fox News, Andrew Seidel, is relying on a false premise that 'separation of church and state' is in the US Constitution; it is not [it was a comment in a letter by Thomas Jefferson]. America's founders escaped the Church of England and wanted freedom to choose the denomination of their choice. BUT did not ban religion or prayer. This country was founded as a Judeo Christian Country, not a Muslim etc. country. 
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1/24/18,  HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s response:

"The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) are apparently filing a lawsuit against HUD and me, alleging that they are being treated unfairly because they are required to pay a standard fee when requesting information through the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) regarding my participation in the weekly Bible study for cabinet members. They are fearful that a hot beverage or a bagel may be consumed at the expense of taxpayers or that staff may be coerced to participate in religious activities against their will.

First of all, taxpayer funds are not used to support the ministry, and secondly, no staff are involved in the Bible study.

More importantly, I refuse to be intimidated by anti-religious groups into relinquishing my spirituality or religious beliefs. One of the principles of our nation‘s founding is freedom of religion. I will not stop being a Christian while in service to this country, in fact, it is my faith that helps me serve the nation even better.

The relentless attacks on the spirituality of our nation must be resisted. We are not like everyone else, which is precisely the reason that we rose so rapidly from obscurity to become the most powerful and free nation in history.

We sometimes smugly say that we won the cold war with the Soviet Union, but it was Joseph Stalin, the Russian tyrant who said the United States could be destroyed from within by eroding three things:
  1. our patriotism
  2. our morality
  3. our spirituality

​These things are currently under severe attack. We the people must decide who we are and what we stand for. If we don’t, the ending of the Cold War might change dramatically. Source

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​Jefferson's 1802 Letter to the Danbury Baptist
 The Final Letter, as Sent ... "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
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Comics, 1-26-18: NFL Football

1/26/2018

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Scripture for Today, 1-25-18: Forgiveness, Larry Nassar

1/25/2018

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“Mercy & Forgiveness For Convicted Sexual Pervert, Larry Nassar?”

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Jesus said, “If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him;
and if he repent, forgive him.” Luke 17:3
 
1-25-18, * --  At the court hearing of sports doctor and sexual predator, Larry Nassar [1] [he was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison. One hundred and fifty girls spoke of the horrors he did to them. One of the victims, Rachael Denhollander also spoke about her faith. She used her statement as a testimony and message of grace and forgiveness. Following is an excerpt of what she said to Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and to Nassar at his sentencing hearing:
 
"Larry is a hardened and determined sexual predator. I know this first-hand. At age 15, when I suffered from chronic back pain, Larry sexually assaulted me repeatedly under the guise of medical treatment for nearly a year. He did this with my own mother in the room, carefully and perfectly obstructing her view...  He penetrated me, he groped me, he fondled me. And then he whispered questions about how it felt.  He engaged in degrading and humiliating sex acts without my consent or permission.
 
"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:  And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." Ephesians 4:31-32
 
[When I came out and testified of what Larry did to me] I was attacked for wanting fame and attention making up a story trying to get money.
 
Larry, in the early hearings you brought your Bible into the courtroom and have spoken of praying for forgiveness. And so it is on that basis that I appeal to you. If you have read the Bible you carry, you know the definition of sacrificial love portrayed is of God Himself loving so sacrificially that He gave up everything to pay a penalty for the sin He did not commit. By His grace, I, too, choose to love this way.
 
 You spoke of praying for forgiveness. But Larry, if you have read the Bible you carry, you know forgiveness does not come from doing good things, as if good deeds can erase what you have done. It comes from repentance which requires facing and acknowledging the truth about what you have done in all of its utter depravity and horror without mitigation, without excuse, without acting as if good deeds can erase what you have seen this courtroom today…
 
The Bible carries a final judgment where all of God's wrath and eternal terror is poured out on men like you. Should you ever reach the point of truly facing what you have done, the guilt will be crushing. And that is what makes the gospel of Christ so sweet; because it extends grace, hope and mercy where none should be found. And it will be there for you.
 
 I pray you experience the soul crushing weight of guilt so you may someday experience true repentance and true forgiveness from God, which you need far more than forgiveness from me -- though I extend that to you as well."
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Jesus said, “After this manner therefore pray ye: " Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.  Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."

"For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” Matthew 6:9-15
 
* Full testimony transcript from Rachael here: https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/us/rachael-denhollander-full-statement/index.html 
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Larry Nassar pleads guilty to 7 criminal sexual conduct charges
​11-27-17,  LANSING Michigan - For more than 14 months, through more than 100 sexual assault allegations, former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar maintained that he performed legitimate medical procedures on his young female patients. That changed when finally Nassar, 54, of Holt, pleaded guilty to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with seven victims.
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Larry Nassar case: The 156 women who confronted the sexual predator - BBC ...
1-24-18, In a Michigan USA courthouse, former Olympic doctor, Larry Nassar, has been convicted and sentenced 175 years in jail for abusing young girls he was supposed to be treating for their sports injuries. 

IF Larry Nassar has truly repented of his horrific abuses to these girls asking the Lord Jesus to forgive him of his sins ... the Bible says Jesus came to cleanse all sinners who come to HIM. Larry must be born again**... [even the Apostle Paul***] ... God wants all sinners to repent; all can be forgiven. Rachel's testimony is inspiring.

**  John 3:3, John 3:7; Matt 9:13, Mark 2:17, Luke 19:10
*** 1 Timothy 1:15 Paul chief of sinners
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