Trump Learned Something From The Italian Mafia..."New York Values"

However it all turns out, This is fascinating.

There is an old axiom, "Don't get a grizzly in a corner"

The New York Mafia still has a grip on some of that cities businesses and labor. Many contractors have had to pay off the mob to get anything done. There is no way Trump has been totally spared from being delayed or unable to get something legitimate done because of Mafia pressure and interference. The same thing happens at the border entering Mexico. I have had to deal with these crooked customs agents, when taking food, clothing or building materials past those guys. Old Brother Clouse and I were once held for most of a day in a police compound in Laredo for refusing to pay what they called el poco, "a little bit". After that I just paid it in order to get on with feeding the poor hungry Mexicans or building a church there. The New York mob has done the same for many years. Many business owners have paid the Mafia for what they call "protection". Anyway, my inference is that President Trump has learned how to deal with problem cases with what some who live there call New York Values. So Trump has a real problem with a renegade in his inner circle leaking information to the opposition. He doesn't want to personally eliminate the guy because of the bad press and repercussions, so New York Values comes up with a plan. You bring in an amoral hit-man named Antonio Scaramucci to do the removal job. Then, as soon as this culprit has removed the offending culprit, and Reince Priebus disappears, Trump calls in the cops, General Kelly, a Marine, and does away with Antonio ScarFaceMucci, for trying to kill Proenus with dirty words, but then gives Mucci the opportunity to fall on his sword and call it "A resignation".

That's New York values. Hire a hit-man, then as soon as the elimination job is done ...shoot him quickly, and make it look like a suicide so your name is not affected. Or, maybe it wasn't that way at all. Maybe Trump, oblivious to what makes Evangelicals tick, had an Epiphany Moment when an unexpected Evangelical explosion of communications was dumped on the Oval office about his newly appointed nasty speaking Communications Detractor. Either way, I admire Trump's dexterity and ability to drain the swamp amidst the screams, hoots, growls, screeches, curses and insane complaints from the left.

Marine General Kelly was actually Trump's Force Majeure of last resort. The General had an M1 rifle to Scaramucci's head and told him, "You have either just resigned or good-by anyway". Now there's a real man among boys. I love you General Kelly, fellow Marine, keep up the good work sir. Send these weakie leakers and freaky speakers to boot camp sir for a dose of Marine Values. RB

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Women, Men, And Transgenders In Same Barracks, Showers Or Extreme, Constant Combat

Is Not Common Sense

In all the single country battle zone wars since WW2, only about 10% of our military were ever actually in a single or continuing combat fire-fights. Another 10% may have been close enough, to actual battle, to be under mortar or rocket danger. The other 80%, were in support of those in combat in a supply line all the way back to the U.S. or in training or some other military function. Women or transgender persons could reasonably serve in supporting positions in the military, but, in my opinion, not in actual front line, constant combat for long periods of time. If you have never been in real, sustained combat, your opinion means nothing in the debate. You have no idea of what combat is like. My experience was in North and South Korea as a 19 year old Marine in almost constant combat for nearly a year. I have 4 major battle stars and was involved in innumerable smaller battles.  Many women could have endured and participated in single battles. Fewer could have endured for a year of constant battle. But the Battle Of Chosin Reservoir, in the frozen mountains of North Korea, in minus 30 degree ... below zero cold, suffering from frostbite, hunger, thirst and exhaustion with maybe two hours sleep each night, frozen water, frozen food, diarrhea under 4 inches of unchangeable  cold weather clothing, and under day and night attack by thousands of Chinese soldiers, for days on end .... No woman should be there. The nature of a man is to protect women and he would continually be concerned about helping the women around him, even at the risk of his own life or that of others. The distraction would be lethal to most men. In combat such as that, every man must carry his own weight and do his own job or people die. In that one battle, we Marines lost over 3000 killed, 6000 wounded and 100% frostbite. We had no women with us but barely survived. Google the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
Even in peacetime, women and men living and showering together would be so volatile that the men, regardless of rules of order, would be competing for female attention and fighting each other. A more ridiculous experiment cannot be imagined. If it doesn't work on a pro football team, which doesn't compare with real war, it certainly wouldn't work in actual military combat. RB


This from The Daily Wire

Combat Vet Gives Powerful Testimony Against Trans Troops

"Serving in the military is a privilege not a right. And it is sure as hell not a social experiment." J.R.

Iraq combat vet and wounded warrior J.R. Salzman is certain "war is no place for people who are mentally, emotionally, or physically confused or in turmoil."

Reacting to President Donald Trump's announcement to rescind former President Barack Obama's last-minute order to accept openly transgender troops in the military, Salzman unleashed his own testimony via Twitter. 

"I served in Iraq in 2006. For the first five months I was on a 12 man firebase out in the middle of nowhere in the desert," said the veteran, before explaining the every day hell of war. 

"Everyday was Groundhog Day. Wake up and do the same patrols, the same shifts, every single day. It was so damn hot. 150° in the gun trucks," he wrote. "Tracer fire would go overhead occasionally at night. IED's on the road were a daily threat. We got resupplied food every 8 days."

"The stress of being out there and doing the same job every single day eats away at you. The younger guys had problems with that overtime," continued Salzman. "Any tiny little personal issue they had suddenly became a mountain. And that ___ came out on that fire base. And they snapped mentally. ... Guys would literally snap over a dear John letter. Their personal issues came out and they were instantly combat ineffective."

Salzman argued that the reality of such harsh circumstances of war make it no place for those confused about their gender. 

"Now take someone confused about whether they are a man/woman. Take those psychological and emotional issues and put them in that environment," he said. "Take someone who is right off the bat not uniform or part of the same team. Give them special treatment because of their identity."

"Take that person, put them in that stressful war environment and watch what happens. It's a ____ time bomb," Salzman pointedly added. 

"You have to be incredibly tough mentally, physically and emotionally. War is not a ____video game. It tests every ounce of your being," asserted the vet. "You can't teach someone to be a fearless warrior in a ____ PowerPoint. You either have it or you don't. You can hack it or you can't."

Salzman argued that those who were mentally unstable on the battlefield were a "liability."

"War is no place for people who are mentally, emotionally, or physically confused or in turmoil. You have your ___ together, or you don't," he stated. "And if you don't, you'll just get people needlessly killed. Political correctness has absolutely no place in the military."

As previously reported by The Daily Wire, transgender veterans are found to be particularly plagued by mental health issues, with the "highest rates of mental health problems in the U.S. ... A 2016 study found 90% of military members who identify as transgender were diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder, and almost 50% were hospitalized after attempting or considering suicide."

Salzman ended with this....
"Enough for now. This one armed veteran has a business to run. Unlike Iran, the country that took my arm, Obama didn't pay me millions."

The amputee is an apparent business owner now. RB

Image below of Salzman finishing 2nd in the 30K Bicycle Disability Race (May 12, 2013):

Mr. President, You Will Lose Evangelical Support By Elevating Vile Idiots

Consult Your Vise-President Not Old Buddies

Last year I wrote that....  considering the unrestrained flood of curse words heard in public, on TV and in news print, these days, that it would be a relief to hear "heck" and "gee whiz" again. But, today, a year later, with the rising tide of sewage and toilet talk, it would be a relief to hear "damn and hell" (unrelated to Biblical usage), again.

This week, Donald Trump made one of his most serious mistakes by appointing a loose cannon, nasty talking, expert cusser as his "Communications Director", who says he "has Trump's blessing" to say what he wishes. "Having Trump's blessing" is a strange formulation of words to justify dirty language. Whatever other talents, Anthony Scaramucci may have, "Communications" is not one of them. His vocabulary is so limited he can hardly make a sentence without vulgarity. Right off the bat, this Saramucci guy publicly accused Steve Bannon, a hyper Conservative and patriot,  of "sucking his own ____". Then he spewed out his opinion of White House Chief Of Staff, Reince Priebus, as "a f______  paranoid schizophrenic". A paranoid schizophrenic he may be, but to include the "f" word in the mix says a lot more about accuser than the accused. I don't care for Priebus either, but what benefit is it to resort to filthy language, especially as a government official representing the President.  Such language in private is bad enough, but to openly vomit it up "in your face", in public, reveals more about Scaramucci than it does about Priebus, how ever disloyal he may be to Trump. Simply fire him.

Being what is commonly called an "Evangelical" Pastor, I know Evangelicals quite well. and I can tell you with certainty that President Trump is going to rapidly lose their support with a foul mouthed Communications Directer speaking for him. It may have worked for him in dealing with sharks, con-men and business elites and in "The Art Of The Deal" he brags about, but it will backfire in his face with Evangelicals. Trump should consult his Vise President, Pence, on moral and Christian issues and reign in the use of vulgarity by this Mafia mouthed Italian, Scaramucci. 

If you think my criticism is disloyal to Trump, I will remind you that our choices came down to him or Hilary, and I voted for him to avoid a proven corrupt and evil person who would have turned our county into a Socialistic dictatorship. But by doing so, I did not sell my soul to Trump. He is my President not my master. Compared to Hilary or Obama he is at least a patriot and defender of the Constitution. That is not to say I like his "New York City values". I Don't.
       

A Look Behind The "Snopes" Curtain At Its Liberal Creators' Own Facts And Fiction

Lies beget lies, corruption begets corruption. These people shape the facts to fit their own perverted presuppositions. They convert facts into fiction and fiction into facts just enough to appear to be fair and accurate. Its like assuming that Congressman Al Sharpton is honest because he claims to be an "Ordained Baptist Reverend", Which he does. RB

Google's list of similar articles is at bottom of this post.

This one from "Constitution: defending the Union"

Fact-Checker Snopes On Verge of Financial Meltdown Amid Divorce Scandal

 By Andrew West

In the new liberal war on information, the very definition of the word “fact” has been called into question in order to create doubt among their voter base. 

While Hillary Clinton was floundering in the 2016 election spin-masters in the mainstream media, along with her campaign advisors, found themselves struggling to find a scapegoat for their “inevitable” candidate’s coming demise.  They had previously tried to attack Donald Trump on several fronts, but to no avail.  It seemed as though Hillary Clinton’s purported, and later proven, corruption was too far embedded in the character of her candidacy.  That’s when the democrats decided to try something desperate:  They would fight a war of perception. 

Instead of arguing with journalists and outlets with whom they disagreed, the democrats and the mainstream media would simply decide that those outlets were “fake news”.  It was a quick and easy dismissal to use, and the concept went viral.  Soon, any and every conservative news outlet found themselves on some imaginary “list”, concocted by some low-level liberal arts professor at You Name It Community College.  In short, it was a mess.  Who, then, would validate the validity of these claims? 

Enter Snopes.com, one of the earliest authorities on the internet.  As the advent of the world wide web created a need for verifying the identity of those Nigerian Princes and getting the real story behind that photo of the guy on top of the Twin Towers, Snopes became the de facto destination for separating the wheat from the chaff of internet urban legends.   As the internet grew, so did Snopes, who began branching out into real world legends shortly after. 

As the war against Fake News continued to devolve into pure madness, with no authority truly able to right the ship, Facebook and Google decided that Snopes was the answer.  These two liberal 
leviathans of the online world would give the job to the husband and wife team behind the debunking website, and then forcefully interject the Snopes opinion in their own search results.  The obviously flawed plan is currently still in place. 

But for how long? 

“So-called ‘fact-checking’ website Snopes.com is reportedly on the verge of financial collapse since one if its founders has been accused of using company cash to fund his contentious divorce and to pay for fancy vacations with his new wife, a former escort and porn actress. 

“The financial situation has apparently become so dire that Snopes owner David Mikkelson launched a crowd-funding website to solicit donations, according to London’s Daily Mail. Readers contributed more than $500,000 in just the first 24 hours. 

“Snopes.com’s founders, former husband and wife David and Barbara Mikkelson, have been embroiled in a lengthy and bitter legal dispute in the wake of their divorce. At one point, Barbara accused the CEO of using company money for prostitutes. Barbara Mikkelson also accused her ex-husband of embezzling more than $100,000 in company funds. She urged the court to limit access to David’s bank account because she said she feared he would drain the company funds due to his wild spending habits. 

“David claimed Barbara took millions from their joint accounts and bought property in Las Vegas. He has since remarried to a former escort and porn actress, Elyssa Young, who is one of the site’s staff members. Young, who was a Las Vegas escort until at least 2015, charged $500 for her services. She also starred in porn films as ‘Erin O’Bryn.'” This, folks, is the group in charge of determining “fake news” for the liberals.
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World Net Daily also covered this story in more detail at link below: RB

http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/hookers-lies-and-fraud-snopes-in-danger-of-closing-doors/

Also, here is a long list of articles by other news outlets found by Googling "Is Snopes In Trouble"....

https://www.google.com/search?q=is+snopes+in+trouble&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS709US709&oq=is+snopes+in+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j69i59j0l3.17272j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Can It Be True That A Famous, Radical, Harvard Law Professor Defends Trump?

Yet ... Always Supports Only Liberal Democrats ...

It is strange indeed when two radical, leftist Lawyers, one of whom defended O.J. Simpson, speak out with such fervent passion against their Liberal comrades in the News Media and Democrat Party, for their unjustified, frivolous attacks on President Trump. But here it is .... RB


This from "Constitution, Defending The Union"

Liberal Legal Scholars Warn Dems to Stop Overreacting on the Trump-Russia Story, It’s “Dangerous”

Liberal legal scholars Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz were very well regarded and respected legal minds on the left before President Trump’s election. I’m not sure their reputations are going to survive the Trump era.

While the two men are most certainly dyed-in-the-wool liberals, they are also intellectually honest and responsible men. They will not attack conservatives simply for being conservative, and they will not twist the law to say something it does not say simply for political purposes. They care deeply about the Constitution and our laws, and so they genuinely try to decipher the law accurately whenever they are called to do so.

Sadly, for them, this bent towards honesty has put them on the opposite side of the hyperventilating liberal media and their leftist allies for the last few months. While Democrats, and the media, have been escalating their attacks on Trump for perceived Russian ties, the two legal scholars have been begging the Left to tone down the extremist rhetoric. But to no avail, Turley and Dershowitz have been roundly ignored, and recently Dershowitz has even seemingly been blacklisted from his normal slate of TV, radio, and print interviews.

“I said that I thought the readers of the New York Times were entitled to hear or read the other side of the issue whether there were crimes committed,” said Dershowitz, a professor emeritus of Harvard Law School. “And I really do think The New York Times does not want its readers to hear an alternative point of view on the issue of whether or not Trump administration is committing crimes.”

Dershowitz said he attempted to reach the opinion page editor and deputy editor without success. He said he wants to “get out in the liberal media” but that his opinion is “not the narrative they’re pushing.”

The hate that they’re getting from the Left isn’t stopping the two men from speaking out though, and both were back on TV over the last few days to explain why the liberal narrative on Trump’s possible “crimes” is nothing but Hot Air.

Professor Turley joined Fox News’ Martha MacCallum to tell the Left to stop hyperventilating about the Trump’s supposed misdeeds, and to argue that the Left’s cries of “treason” is bizarre and dangerous.

“It does reflect a level of hyperventilation we have in Washington now. The story broke and all of a sudden there are questions of more ‘undisclosed meetings’ These were two leaders at the G-20 meeting, with other world leaders. The fact that they had these meetings –public or not– is not surprising and it’s certainly not evidence of any crime. The problem is people are now looking through this glass darkly. Whenever they see any type of new meeting, they see evidence of collusion. They see what they want to see. Prosecution requires something more. First of all, define a crime. Collusion is not a crime… People are so eager to say “well now we have a crime here” they fail to actually define it. People don’t want to be in a world where a meeting like that could be treason… Do you want to live in a country where treason can be defined like that?

Will Trump Survive As President For 42 More Months on 42% Support?

Not Without Prayer And Pliers

So... six months into the Trump administration, will he survive 42 more long months of Democrat autopsies on his living body? Could anyone survive that? He might, if he had not made so many enemies within his own Party, early on. It is true he still has a solid 42% approval rate, nationally. But, though the other 58% may not all be against him, they are not "for" him. They are pretty much solidly against him. And that includes a large segment of wounded Republicans who supported his opposition candidates in those primary debates. He ruthlessly shot down most of those other Republican candidates, their friends, supporters and some innocent by-standers. Now, their battle wounds have scarred over, but they still carry a limp in their support of his Presidency. President Trump won the battle for the nomination but left an inordinate  number of casualties on the battle field, and neglected sufficient rescue efforts, after the fact, when only he had that power.

Trump still appears to stand for the Conservative principles he campaigned for, but has only moderated, slightly, his anger at opposition and accusation from both the right and left. If he can't at least fake a little more Presidential prestige in his unavoidable dealings with disagreement, that 42%, though solid, will not increase ... and may even diminish. A full plate of courage and determined commitment will not satisfy a starving public without a generous flourishing of humility and a large glass of wisdom to wash it all down.

What our President needs now is not more experts, better advisers or the good will of that 42%. What he needs now is not just great courage and what makes billionaires, which he already has, but what makes a great man and a good President .... courage plus wisdom, honesty, humility and love of the truth as God knows it. And only God can provide that.... and will, if asked.

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." James 1:5.

Wisdom is not all God gives; He gives courage, humility and truth to all who desire it more than their fears, pride, greed and fantasy. Your prayers will help him be that great man and good President. But without our prayers Trump will not make the next 42 months

If you think I am being disloyal to our President, I see myself more as his friend who happens to see his problems and has sympathy for him and a set of pliers. My son Robert Paul (Bob), related an experience with man's best friend, a great guard-dog. He was not a perfect dog, but there are no perfect dogs or people. One morning, when he lived on a remote farm in Montana, Bob's loudly barking and overly exuberant dog, a good hunter and enemy of all skunks, snakes, rodents, thieves and other varmints, showed up one morning with his face, lips, nose and gums full of porcupine quills. He had obviously come out second in a battle with a porcupine. The best of dogs often come home from the wars with snake-bite, smelling like a skunk or with wounds they cannot survive without help. Bob, like a good friend to man's best friend, got out his pliers and pulled out every one of those hooked barbs. Very painful. Lesson one! The same dog did the same thing again, but with fewer quills, lesson two, and a third time with only three or four quills, lesson three. But that was the last time he made that mistake. Bob was not the enemy of his inexperienced, imperfect friend. It took great pain to a good guard-dog to save him from himself.

And don't forget, the final race was not between Trump and Billy Graham, but between an inexperienced guard-dog, a well trained skunk and an adept snake.

Application: Pray for President Trump, but do not pretend he is perfect, nobody is. He lacks political experience with political porcupines, political skunks and political snakes. And don't leave your pliers in the holster or the anesthetic in the medicine cabinet when your friend needs help. Tell him the truth, not what he wants to hear.

New Stats Prove "Right To Carry Guns" Reduces Crime Rate

The statistics on the number of Concealed Carry Permit Holders vs. the crime rate in the U.S. is just another example of the inability of the anti-2nd Amendment Liberals to discern truth from error, fact from fiction or absorb elements of logic. It is almost funny to watch a highly educated and fully experienced adult, with an adolescent brain, trying to argue the case of increased safety and low crime rates in strong anti-gun law cities ... like Chicago, L.A., New York and New Jersey. RB 

New Data Shows Lower Crime Rate as Concealed Carry Increases

 By Andrew West in "Constitution Defending The Union"

We have all heard the old adage that the most effective response to a bad guy with a gun happens to be a good guy with a gun. There have been a number of famous cases of exactly this scenario playing out in our modern world, with viral videos and daily news stories to back it up.  More alarming, however, is just how easy it is to find examples of a lack of firearms and increased violent crime.  Incidents such as Columbine, Sandy Hook, and any weekend in Chicago will serve to remind us of just how unfortunately ineffective those “gun free zone” signs truly are. 

Now, we have yet another bit of data to examine in the ever-present argument regarding guns and crime, and this one is a doozy. 

“A study from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) shows during the time period 2007 to 2015, the percentage of adults with carry permits rose 190% and violent crime fell by 18%. 

“The cut-off year is 2015 because it is ‘the last full year that crime data is available.’ 

“According to CPRC,  from 2007 to 2015 the ‘murder rates fell from 5.6 [per 100,000] to 4.9 per 100,000. This represents a 12.5% drop.’ At the same time, ‘overall violent crime fell by 18 percent.’ And again, these drops are coinciding with a 190% increase in ‘the percentage of adults with permits.’ 

“This news comes in the same report in which the CPRC showed that the number of concealed carry permit holders ‘grew by a record 1.83 million’ in 2016. This beats the previous record of 1.73 million, set in 2015, and means ‘6.53% of American adults have permits.’ Moreover, ‘outside the restrictive states of California and New York, about 8% of the adult population has a permit.’” Once again, the evidence suggests that the United States is a much safer place when the 2nd Amendment remains unmolested by liberal lawmakers. 

While this is common sense to many, the American political left has continued to implement their own bizarre gun rights infringements throughout the nation.  How failed experiments in New York City and Chicago have somehow been unable to convince the left of their erroneous handgun stance is beyond comprehension.

Teen Vogue Mag. Encourages The Sin Of Sodom For Children (Its True)

That's Why It Is Called Sodomy.
Where In Hell Will This End? In Its
Deepest, Darkest, Dirtiest Crevice.

There are not words to describe the exceeding depravity and depth of disgust we are now seeing unfold in our America. But it didn't develop over night. It grew out of small deviations which were "tolerated" as too insignificant to matter... by pastors, the press, law enforcement, government and then by the majority of our citizens. Even as weed seed are ignored in a vegetable garden, only to later see weeds take over the entire garden and produce even more seed.
The sad fact is that we citizens of the land of the free and home of the brave have allowed our nation to become the land of the vassal and home of the wimp. Yes, there is still a percentage of patriots, champions and committed Christians in this land, but we have allowed ourselves to become outnumbered by evolutionists, abortionists, homosexuals, Liberal socialists, atheists, agnostics, and one worlders. My own voice is weakening with age, but even a small spark can ignite the fuse to a very large explosion. God's word is just as powerful as ever, when it is delivered like an arrow to an evil target. Sodomy is second only to the abortion of innocence.

"... Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain (Sodom and Gomorrah), and pitched his tent toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly." Gen.13:13.


This from FOX News Opinion by Todd Starnes

Teen Vogue defends teaching kids how to engage in sodomy

Teen Vogue is defending its decision to publish a graphic tutorial to anal sex for children and teenagers – calling critics homophobic.

“This is anal 101, for teens, beginners and all inquisitive folk,” author Gigi Engle wrote in “A Guide to Anal Sex.”

“Anal sex and anal stimulation can be awesome, and if you want to give it a go, you do that,” wrote Engle, a self-described sex educator. “More power to you.”

The original article did not include any references to practicing safe sex – but was later amended to include a line about condoms being “non-negotiable.”

“Here is the lowdown on everything you need to know about butt stuff,” the writer declared.

Parents across the nation became enraged upon learning that Teen Vogue wanted to turn their children in sexual deviants.

“I was truly flabbergasted,” Elizabeth Johnston said on The Todd Starnes Show. “They should not be teaching sodomy to our children.”

Johnston, known as The Activist Mommy, launched a national campaign to urge local stores and public libraries to pull Teen Vogue from bookshelves - #PULLTEENVOGUE.

“This is not a Republican issue or a Democrat issue. This is not a conservative issue or liberal issue. This is a parent issue,” she told me.

More than 10 million people have viewed a video of Johnston burning a copy of Teen Vogue in her backyard.

Phillip Picardi, the magazine’s digital editorial director, fired back in a flurry of tweets – culminating with a photo of him embracing another man while holding up his middle finger.

He said they had been “inundated with hate mail saying we promote sodomy and want teens to get AIDS.”

“How can you expect young women to not get pregnant without access to reproductive health care,” he tweeted.

Picardi then accused his Catholic school of being “guilty of endangering all of us by sheer omission of FACTS. EDUCATION doesn’t equal ENCOURAGEMENT.”

Well, I think we can all agree that Hell would freeze over before a Catholic school would teach children about anal sex.

Picardi then played the phobic-card – a favorite among liberals.

“The backlash to this article is rooted in homophobia,” he wrote. “It’s also laced in arcane delusion about what it means to be a young person today.”

“This has nothing to do with homophobia,” Ms. Johnston told me. “This is about parents protecting their children from perversion.”

Teen Vogue would have you believe it’s offensive for parents to be offended by the smut they are peddling.

And in their perverse world, the magazine’s editors would have you believe that a bunch of 12-year-olds are frolicking across the fruited plain having anal sex with Lord-knows-what.

Remember the good old days when kids just used to play spin the bottle?

Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentary. His latest book is “The Deplorables’ Guide to Making America Great Again.” Follow him on Twitter @ToddStarnes and find him on Facebook.

Don't Waste This Crisis ... The Destitution Of A Brother Or Sister In Christ

Rham Emanuel, the Liberal, Democrat Mayor of Chicago, who takes political advantage of every serious crisis, put his philosophy into this quote, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste." Rham built his political career taking advantage of a series of "serious crises". Well, he now has, as mayor of Chicago, his best opportunity ever, to ride a crisis to some personal gain. Chicago is the most broken part of the broken, bankrupt, state of Illinois. Chicago has the highest crime rate, and the most murders of any of our 50 states and is totally bankrupt financially on top of that. I have to wonder how Rahm is going to slither around and use this crisis for his own personal gain or success. He may even twist this one into his becoming the Democrat candidate for President in 2020.

That is the negative aspect of using serious crises ... devious gain. The Democrat party is famous for using war, tragedy, and even hurricanes for their and their party's gain in the polls. But there is another side to using crises for gain. There is a good side, a good opportunity when a serious crisis, calamity or attack befalls a person or a nation. 

Crisis is an opportunity for sinners to judge themselves and repent.

Crisis is God's opportunity to convict, convert, restore and save.

Crisis is the Christian's opportunity to realign himself with God.

Crisis is an opportunity to awaken to truth, reality and holiness.

Crisis is a time to forgo evil surmising of the reason God allows tragedy to befall a person and judging that victim of calamity instead of  realizing that person's pain may be God's trial of our own reactions more than it is of them. Did you judge them  or go to them with prayer, encouragement, and help? Remember the person Jesus spoke of who, when they saw the destitute need of a brother or sister who had no clothing or food, and self-righteously gave them nothing but words ...   "Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." James 2:15-16. 

That attitude most likely imagined the needy person's suffering was their own fault and they deserved no help. That was the attitude of many religious people when Jesus came among the Jews ...

"And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." James 9:1-3.

One of the most wicked sins, by number of Biblical references, is judging others. But the sin with the most references are all the sins of the tongue such as evil surmising, cursing, dissimulating, condemning, slander, boasting, deception, verbal false presumption, using God's name in vain (lightly, jokingly, without reverence). 

"And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell." James 3:6.

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Its Just A Matter Of Time ... Measured In Weeks Not Years

The Illinois Comptroller recently said, "you can kiss what little is left of the State goodbye" http://youtu.be/HH-Z7-PMIwI

And Then What? Which Liberal, Democrat State Is Next? RB

Here is a snippet from a Report by CNBC

These states are a bigger fiscal mess than Illinois :

But as bad as things are in the Land of Lincoln, three other states are in worse fiscal shape, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey are coping with even bigger problems thanks to large accumulated debts, underfunded pensions, and looming deficits, among other measures of fiscal health, the researchers found in an analysis of the latest state financial statements available.

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George Mason University also listed as nearly, as bad off fiscally as the above, New Hamshire, New York, Maine, California, and Maryland, all of which are on the brink of bankruptcy. RB

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Now, this latest report, concerning Illinois

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Welcome To The Third World, 

Illinois About To Default?

From Dollar Collapse.com by John Rubino

The train wreck that is the state of Illinois has generated a lot of questions lately, including “Will its government ever pass a budget?”, “Will it ever pay its overdue bills?”, and “Is it possible for a state to go bankrupt?”

Looks like we’re about to get some answers to these questions, along with one more: “What happens to the financial markets when people finally realize that Illinois is far from the only impending bankruptcy?”

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an anecdote-filled article illustrating what certainly looks like a case of terminal financial mismanagement (How Bad Is the Crisis in Illinois? It Has $14.6 Billion in Unpaid Bills):

Among the many, many data points:

• The state comptroller predicts unpaid bills will soon top $16 billion. “It is almost hard to say those numbers out loud because they seem so insane, but that’s where we are right now.”
• Unfunded pension liabilities now total $250 billion. That’s about one-third of state GDP, and is in addition the myriad other debts taken on in recent years.
• S&P Global Ratings has warned that it could lower the state’s rating to junk as early as this week if a budget isn’t passed.
• Peoria-based OSF Healthcare, a network with 10 Illinois hospitals, is owed about $115 million for bills over four months old, the equivalent of 18 days of operating expenses.
• The state owes Illinois dentists $225 million. Some dentists with lots of state workers are selling receivables to keep the lights on. Others are asking state employees to pay in cash.
• The state owes two Springfield hospital systems more than $200 million.
• The Coliseum building at the state fairgrounds closed indefinitely earlier this year after the state failed to fund needed repairs.
• Eastern Illinois University has received $53 million less in state funding in the past five years than the previous five. Professors in the chemistry department haven’t been able to print in color since the department’s printer ran out of yellow ink a year ago. Enrollment has fallen from 12,000 to 7,000 in the past decade.
• If the state doesn’t pass a budget in the current special legislative session or allocate emergency funding, about 700 road projects under way across the state—worth $2.3 billion and employing 20,000 people—will come to a stop.
• Some social-services agencies are operating without state help while others have closed entirely, leaving some rural communities without mental-health clinics, domestic-violence shelters and drug-treatment clinics, despite a raging opioid crisis.
• Illinois has lost more residents than any other American state for the third year in a row, with 90% of the state’s counties seeing a drop in population, shrinking the state’s tax base. In 2016, a net of 37,508 people left, according to census data, putting the population at its lowest in nearly a decade.

The impending downgrade to junk status might be the final push off the cliff, since Illinois – despite a constitution that kind-of-sort-of requires a balanced budget – still borrows a lot of money each year, mainly to fund its out of control pension system. As a junk-rated borrower, its interest costs will be much higher, making its financial imbalances that much worse. Assuming that anyone will lend money to the state on any terms.
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Yes, Chicago is ill and Illinois is ill. It is not a "budget" they need but a budget, not exceeding their income, which they rigorously keep. To think their budget busting spending can continue is foolish fantasy which will end in disaster. The same goes for the other states which do the same stupid nonsense, which they have learned from our Federal government, and which is in the same shape but has the Federal Reserve printing presses to just print the budget shortfalls of their excessive spending.  

So what can you do? Pray for our country, save your money in some form other than stocks and bonds, and be prepared for some rough times wherever you are, but especially in the above states. RB

Obama's Shadow Government Set To Destroy Our Elected Govenrment

The degree of political intrigue and evil hypocrisy, within the Washington, Liberal establishment, is beyond a layman's comprehension. It it so extensive that it cannot be accredited to mere human conspiracy or hatred alone. It has more similarity to Lucifer's insatiable lust for God's place upon the throne of deity, which diminished not a whit, even after he was outcast from heaven's glory into a godforsaken pit of black emptiness ... created by his own presence there. He has continued fighting for power and control for over 6000 years. RB 

"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do ... there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44.

How Obama is scheming to sabotage Trump’s presidency

By Paul Sperry

When former President Barack Obama said he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000 — who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House. 

In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular “America First” agenda. 

He’s doing it through a network of leftist nonprofits led by Organizing for Action. Normally you’d expect an organization set up to support a politician and his agenda to close up shop after that candidate leaves office, but not Obama’s OFA. Rather, it’s gearing up for battle, with a growing war chest and more than 250 offices across the country. 

Since Donald Trump’s election, this little-known but well-funded protesting arm has beefed up staff and ramped up recruitment of young liberal activists, declaring on its website, “We’re not backing down.” Determined to salvage Obama’s legacy, it’s drawing battle lines on immigration, ObamaCare, race relations and climate change. 

Obama is intimately involved in OFA operations and even tweets from the group’s account. In fact, he gave marching orders to OFA foot soldiers following Trump’s upset victory. 

“It is fine for everybody to feel stressed, sad, discouraged,” he said in a conference call from the White House. “But get over it.” He demanded they “move forward to protect what we’ve accomplished.” 

SEE ALSO How Obama is bankrolling a nonstop protest against invented outrage How Obama is bankrolling a nonstop protest against invented outrage “Now is the time for some organizing,” he said. “So don’t mope.” 

Far from sulking, OFA activists helped organize anti-Trump marches across US cities, some of which turned into riots. After Trump issued a temporary ban on immigration from seven terror-prone Muslim nations, the demonstrators jammed airports, chanting: “No ban, no wall, sanctuary for all!” 

Run by old Obama aides and campaign workers, federal tax records show “nonpartisan” OFA marshals 32,525 volunteers nationwide. Registered as a 501(c)(4), it doesn’t have to disclose its donors, but they’ve been generous. OFA has raised more than $40 million in contributions and grants since evolving from Obama’s campaign organization Obama for America in 2013. 

OFA, in IRS filings, says it trains young activists to develop “organizing skills.” Armed with Obama’s 2012 campaign database, OFA plans to get out the vote for Democratic candidates it’s grooming to win back Congress and erect a wall of resistance to Trump at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. 

It will be aided in that effort by the Obama Foundation, run by Obama’s former political director, and the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, launched last month by Obama pal Eric Holder to end what he and Obama call GOP “gerrymandering” of congressional districts. 

Obama will be overseeing it all from a shadow White House located within two miles of Trump. It features a mansion, which he’s fortifying with construction of a tall brick perimeter, and a nearby taxpayer-funded office with his own chief of staff and press secretary. Michelle Obama will also open an office there, along with the Obama Foundation. 

The 55-year-old Obama is not content to go quietly into the night like other ex-presidents. Critical to the fight is rebuilding the ravaged Democratic Party. Obama hopes to install his former civil rights chief Tom Perez at the helm of the Democratic National Committee. 

Perez is running for the vacant DNC chairmanship, vowing, “It’s time to organize and fight .?.?. We must stand up to protect President Obama’s accomplishments,” while also promising, “We’re going to build the strongest grassroots organizing force this country has ever seen.” 

The 55-year-old Obama is not content to go quietly into the night like other ex-presidents. 

“You’re going to see me early next year,” he told his OFA troops after the election, “and we’re going to be in a position where we can start cooking up all kinds of great stuff.” 

Added the ex-president: “Point is, I’m still fired up and ready to go.” 

Paul Sperry is the author of “The Great American Bank Robbery,” which details the link between race-based housing policies and the mortgage crisis. 
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Pray for a restoration the Constitutional Government which our Christian forefathers and founders envisioned when they wrote it. RB

God's Single Authorization Of Human Government

Chosen by and representing the people.
If Governments did only what God authorized, there would be safety, peace.... and a balanced budget.

"And surely your blood of your lives will I require ... at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man, shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." Genesis 9:5-6.

The word, "man" in these two verses translated from the original Hebrew word for "adam", means "mankind", the human race, each and every society, state or nation of human beings. This statement, designating responsibility for the life and safety of every individual, is here assigned to human, civil, government, which is the original, foundational authorization and command for every major body of people to institute a civil, human government. The people's government was to be chosen by the people and charged to make laws, enforce laws, and judge lawbreakers who hurt or killed other people. God's reasoning for Civil government was that it was for protecting and securing justice for those created in His own image. He concludes this Civil Law Authority with His reason ... being ... "Because each human was created in God's own image ... and therefore ... an unjustified attack upon any human was an indirect attack upon God Himself. Thus, "the sanctity of life". Capital Punishment was the foundation of all lesser Civil Laws.

That, my friends, is the only divine authorization of human, civil government... to protect life and punish those who violate the life and safety of others. If governments did only that, the nations of the world would not be bankrupt and approaching total collapse. At which time, they will no longer be able to accomplish the one thing God authorized them to do.

That is why 2 Samuel 23:3, speaking of civil magistrates, warns, "He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." 

The Apostle Paul expanded upon this subject in Romans 13:1-7. In these verses, Paul implores Christians to obey the laws, and show respect to such governments as our Christian forefathers established upon these precepts. 

The American System of Justice has gone astray from our Constitution's just demands for the life and safety of our citizens and so, is coming apart. The only remedy is a spiritual revival which leads to civil law justice and peace.

These Are The Days Of Ezekiel ...

"The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest ...
and the hand of the LORD was there upon him." Ezekiel 1:3.

Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord God..... I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters...."   Ezekiel 24:24-25

Don't miss "These Are The Days Of Elijah",
at the bottom of this page, sung by Marines.

George Soros spotted Barack Hussein Obama early on and began promoting him from a Community Organizer to an Illinois Senator and then quickly into the Presidency of the United States Of America. How could that happen, considering his background and contempt for the Constitution? An evil miracle, with Soros' help.

Now we meet another of George Soros' Champions destined to be another Democrat Candidate for President of what was once "Christian America" and the Greatest Nation on Earth. My study challenge to you is that you keep an eye on this young genius being groomed by the Soros $Billions. These are the days of Ezekiel. RB

Another Of Soros' Champions Takes The Stage
He is everything the left half of the U.S. wants.

Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships 

for new Americans

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a candidate for Governor of Michigan. Previously, he was the Executive Director of Public Health and Health Officer for the City of Detroit under Mayor Michael E. Duggan. In his role, he directed the Detroit health department and other health-related initiatives. 

Dr. El-Sayed is an internationally recognized expert in population health policy, the social determinants of health, and health inequalities. Previously, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University, where he directed the Columbia University Systems Science Program and Global Research Analytics for Population Health. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles, commentaries and book chapters, in journals including JAMA, the American Journal of Public Health, and Pediatrics. He has been a featured speaker at national and international conferences. He is the recipient of numerous health policy research awards, including being named a Policy Innovator by the Carnegie Council. Dr. El-Sayed’s writings on urban health policy has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, Al-Jazeera, The Hill, Project Syndicate, and Huffington Post. In addition he has appeared as an expert commentator on local, national, and international networks.

Dr. El-Sayed earned a doctorate in Public Health from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and an MD from Columbia University as a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan with Highest Distinction in Biology and Political Science, where he delivered the University-wide student commencement speech alongside President Bill Clinton in 2007. 

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was born in Michigan to parents who had come to the United States from Egypt. 

Education

• MD | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2014

• PHD PUBLIC HEALTH | OXFORD UNIVERSITY 2011

• BS BIOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE | UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 2007

Awards

• POLICY INNOVATOR BY THE CARNEGIE COUNCIL

Additional Fellowships

• RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

Work History

• CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN | FEBRUARY 2017

• CITY OF DETROIT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH OFFICER

• DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

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My Comment... RB

Meanwhile, back at the Marine Camp, 

our finest young Americans were 

preparing for war and singing .......

"These Are The Days Of Elijah".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjZ_IlP9c5A