Wednesday, November 20, 2024

News and Views: November 20, 2024

Laken Riley case: Suspect found guilty of all counts in campus killing  The suspect accused of murdering Laken Riley on the University of Georgia's campus was found guilty on all charges Wednesday, including malice murder and felony murder.
   Prosecutors called the evidence against the suspect "overwhelming," while the defense raised the theory that the defendant could be an accomplice but not the killer during closing arguments in his trial. Screenshot

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Do You Want to See How Elections Are Stolen? Watch Pennsylvania   Pennsylvania changed its laws. Democrats seek to ignore them. We're all losers.
   Now what? We're told that there aren't enough outstanding ballots to change the outcome of the election. I've lived long enough to see a governor's race in Washington State stolen by the discovery during the multiple recounts of Shazam! Lookie here! We found ballots in a car trunk! It's a miracle!  Democrats "won," changing the political trajectory of what used to be a fairly normal state. In 2024's election, Washington State was the only state that went further left. 
   If everyone ignores the law and if Bob Casey pulls this senate seat out of the bottom of the outhouse, who will stop him from taking office? Who will say that this election (as well as 2020's), was, ahem, the word that must not be spoken? Surely the media won't set the record straight, and neither will Chuck Schumer. The U.S. Supreme Court blew its chances.

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Today [Nov. 19] marks the 161st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln delivering his iconic Gettysburg Address. The address was made amidst a war started by Democrats who refused to accept election results or compromise on slavery, as many wondered if our republic could endure. It not only endured, it flourished to new heights, but now the Democrat Party once again is trying to destroy our republic from within. It is up to Donald Trump and his administration and supporters, including us, to see that we weather the crisis of our own time as the Civil War generation weathered theirs.

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Travesty: Elderly Vet Told to Remove Trump Signs or FEMA Officials Would View Him As ‘Domestic Terrorist’   "My staff just made contact with a new whistleblower who provided a credible account that a FEMA contractor visited the home of an elderly disabled veteran's family around October 10," Comer stated. "While there, he recommended that the family remove Trump campaign materials and signs from their house and yard, stating that his FEMA supervisors view Trump supporters as domestic terrorists."
   "The elderly homeowners were so frightened by this and afraid that they would not recover their loss that they removed the signs. Nevertheless, FEMA has not returned to their residence. This took place not in Florida, but Georgia."


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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada 'could have acted quicker' on reining in immigration  Meanwhile, Trudeau's liberal government has seen waning support among voters this year. Amid that decreasing support, Canada began cracking down on visa requirements and started turning away more immigrants showing up at its front door, Reuters reported in September. On average, Canada turned away roughly 20% more immigrants per month during the first seven months of this year, the outlet indicated. Image

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Thousands of British farmers protest against 'tractor tax' on inheritance  Thousands of farmers protested at Britain's parliament on Tuesday, some driving tractors through central London, to demand the scrapping of an inheritance tax that they say will destroy family farms and threaten food production.
     The measure, dubbed the tractor tax by critics and announced in the new government's budget last month as it sought to raise funds, has drawn an angry backlash from farmers who say the ruling Labour Party does not understand rural communities.

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Bible Found Stuck on Post in North Carolina After Hurricane Helene Was Opened Up to Prophetic Chapters (VIDEO)   Residents of a North Carolina town where Hurricane Helene hit last month have encased a Bible discovered stuck to a post.
   North Carolina resident Benjamin Fuller was one of the first to discover the Bible and noted that it was open to the Book of Revelation, chapters 14 and 15.
   In a video, Fuller states, “The man who lives here had to be rescued off of the roof by a raft, and they’re just demoing the entire house.”
   He adds, “And this Bible was found on a pole open to Revelation.”

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

News and Views: November 19, 2024

So here’s the point: The return of Donald Trump may pump the brakes on some of the nastier momentum in our culture, but changing its basic direction is a much bigger, and arguably less likely, task. In other words, woke or one of its ideological variants will recover and be back. So how do we turn the culture around?  
   Well, maybe we can’t. Maybe that’s the wrong question. Problems we behaved ourselves into have no silver-bullet cure; no easy escape hatch. But we can at least change our thinking and our actions. Over the past year, I’ve read and reread the Epistle of James a dozen times, especially verse 1:22: “Be doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”

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2,400 anti-Christian hate crimes reported in Europe  The countries that published police statistics on anti-Christian hate crimes in 2023 reported that the majority of incidents targeted places of worship.
   Across Europe, OIDAC documented a total of 232 incidents involving verbal and physical attacks on Christians, supplemented by civil society data. The most common form of violence was vandalism, accounting for 62% of the incidents, including numerous cases involving desecration. Arson attacks made up 10%, threats 8% and physical violence 7%. OIDAC also recorded one case of murder, seven attempted murders and 68 personal attacks on Christians motivated by anti-Christian bias.

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DoJ Reportedly Pushing For Google To Divest Chrome To Dismantle Search Monopoly   The US Department of Justice is reportedly planning to ask a federal judge to force Google's parent company, Alphabet, to sell off its Chrome internet browser, potentially marking one of the biggest tech industry crackdowns in the US in decades.
   On August 5, US District Judge Amit Mehta, Washington, DC, ruled that Google violated antitrust law by spending billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly as the world's default search engine on smartphones, computers, and tablets. The ruling paved the way for antitrust enforcers to submit a 32-page document about potential remedies for the judge to consider.

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This poor lagomorph might have felt differently had she been aware that moving to Canada meant paying $8 for a gallon of gasoline, close to 50% higher food prices across the board, a capital gains tax docking her investments at 67% past a certain relatively moderate limit, an utterly useless carbon tax devastating Canadian households, hamstringing industry and bankrupting farmers, runaway inflation dwarfing that of other G-20 nations, and legislative abominations snaking their way through parliament like Bill C-63 levying fines of up to $70,000 and possible life imprisonment for anonymously reported “hate speech” offenses — that is, for things said or written years ago, said or written today, or that might be said or written in the future. Shades of "Minority Report." One would only have to look to North Korea or Keir Starmer’s terminal U.K. sliding into a socialist nightmare to see the political vector on which Canada has embarked.

So how does Prime Minister Justin Trudeau relate to all of this? Well, he has condemned attacks on churches as ‘unacceptable and wrong’, and his government has made money available to improve churches’ security. Good. However, he has also stated that one of his ‘personal reflections’ is that he ‘understands’ the anger against churches for their schools’ historic crimes...
...That last point is a reckless thing to say, for it will encourage those angry arsonists to continue their deadly and destructive campaign. It would have been better if he had said that anger over past crimes should not lead to crimes in the present, for Christians in Canada today cannot be held responsible for historical abuse they did not commit. Would Trudeau have said he understood the anger of arsonists if they were targeting mosques? Not in a million years.

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Spy Drones? "Unusual Activity" Reported Over Morris County, New Jersey, Near Military Research Facility  This incident in Morris County comes after a fleet of spy drones swarmed some of America's most sensitive national security sites, including Langley Air Force Base on Virginia's shoreline late last year.

Monday, November 18, 2024

News and Views: November 18, 2024

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Five Reasons Why The 2024 Election Has Been Devastating For Leftists    This year's election, though, seems to have broken progressive brains.  They aren't just lashing out, they've gone completely insane.  Liberal women have been shaving their heads in protest of men (as if men care), Kamala Harris supporters have taken to social media to scream incoherent gibberish about misogyny and racism, and many are threatening to divorce their spouses, cut off ties to their families and even kill Trump voters using poisons, guns, knives, etc.
  
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There is no longer an “art” to practicing medicine.  I have seen it morph from independent judgment to insurance guidelines to hospital protocols.  As the larger entity takes over the smaller, the protocols change, seemingly by whim.  “It’s how we do it at [fill in the blank].”  That is, unless a patient’s medical insurer requires “precertification” of my proposed treatment.  Interestingly, no other entity or individual is listed on my malpractice policy.

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UFC Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones Does the Dance, Then Hands Trump His Belt

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Blessed Assurance

Blessed Assurance
CityAlight 

All my attempts to be satisfied
Were vain and empty
Until the moment you rescued me
And your love filled me

My soul sings
Now my soul sings

What blessed assurance
I’ve found in you
I’ve found in you
I won’t be shaken I will not be moved
How steadfast your strong hand
Is keeping me
Is keeping me
I won’t be shaken I will not be moved
Oh blessed assurance

No other love that I’ve ever known
Compares to you God
No other love that I’ve ever found
Has done what you’ve done

Ever my anchor
Ever my strength
Ever my portion
And all I need

Ever my healing
Ever my hope
Ever the truth that leads me home
That leads me home

News and Views: November 16, 2024

Ballot Curing Exposed: How CCP-Linked Operatives and Radical Leftists Are Stealing Elections (Video)   Leftist activists have been descending on “strategic” locations in the wake of the 2024 election to salvage tight races in Arizona and Nevada. It is almost unbelievable that ballot curing is legal, as it is clearly being exploited by partisan actors.
What is Ballot Curing?
Ballot curing is a process where election officials and volunteers give voters an opportunity to fix errors on their mail-in ballots, such as missing or mismatched signatures. Not all states have a ballot curing process. But according to the indispensable website Ballotpedia, “33 states required officials to notify voters and allow voters to correct signature errors through a process called ballot curing.” Every state has different rules surrounding the process.

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The biggest blunder in the history of American politics was the premeditated, unabashed, and overt theft of the 2020 presidential election by the Democrat Party, the legacy media, and their fellow left-wing elitists in the Ruling Class as that alliance failed to create an unquestioned landslide defeat of Donald Trump and were thus, forced into the impossible task of placating the extreme left-wing faction of the coalition. This blunder set the stage for the 2024 Trump landslide and hastened the demise of the Democrat Party and the legacy media.

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'Power Lesbian' accused of hacking dad to death on U.S. election night  Self-proclaimed “power lesbian” Corey Burke told cops she butchered her housebound dad as an “act of liberation” and was determined to set “boundaries … about his emotions.”

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'Human…Please Die'-Google AI Chatbot Responds to Grad Student's Query with Threatening Message A graduate student at a Michigan university experienced a chilling interaction with Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini.
   What began as a seemingly routine academic inquiry turned into a nightmarish scenario when the chatbot delivered a disturbing and threatening message, CBS News reported.
   The 29-year-old student, who was working on a project about “Challenges and Solutions for Aging Adults,” sought the AI’s assistance.

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Friday, November 15, 2024

News and Views: November 15, 2024

After Trump’s Victory, DEI Is On Life-Support – Pull The Plug  Donald Trump was catapulted to victory by a broad multi-racial multi-ethnic multi-religious coalition. This win destroys the entire premise of the leftist Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion agenda that we are a nation of feuding identity groups.

West Point’s move to rename and “disguise” its controversial diversity program was hit with a lawsuit Wednesday. The military’s larger DEI campaign is coming under fire now that President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a Defense secretary who wants to end the efforts.

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Teacher resigns after video threatening Trump voters circulates online and sparks backlash  A special education teacher in Connecticut has reportedly resigned after a video posted online appeared to show her threatening violence in response to the presidential election results, sparking widespread backlash.

Scientific American Editor Resigns After Incendiary Anti-Trump Rant  Laura Helmuth has resigned from her position as Editor-in-Chief from the Scientific American after she sparked significant backlash with an unhinged, incendiary rant against Trump voters.
   Last week, in the wake of President-elect Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris, Helmuth referred to Trump voters, specifically Gen-X, as “fascists” in a series of deleted posts on Blue Sky.

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DOGE: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Government are Not the Problem-Bureaucratic Power is  Our problem isn’t that the government is too big or too costly. Our problem is that it has gone rogue...
...The real question isn’t “How many bureaucrats can we cut?” – it’s “How thoroughly and quickly can we restore this agency’s obedience to the rule of law?”

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But the FEMA supervisor, Marn’i Washington, isn’t going gently into that good night. She says she’s being made the scapegoat.
   “FEMA’s very well aware of the incidents that take place, not just with my crew, but with all the crews in the states,” Washington said on a podcast. “This is not isolated. This is a colossal event of avoidance.”
   She said the agency lied when it claimed she’d acted on her own, and that her supervisor approved the message.

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The WHO appears to be attempting to displace the spiritual guidance of faith, setting itself as the educationalist and replacing parents as the provider of guidance on moral issues. It is deciding what is age-appropriate and when is age-appropriate.
   Driven by global interest, it seems to me to be well beyond the remit of the WHO, which appears to be using education as a strategy for delivering its globalist agenda. Education, because of its multifaceted nature and purposes, must not become a subset of health nor a means of driving policies for political purposes. Image

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Archbishop of Canterbury who criticized Israel repeatedly forced to resign   “The Makin Review has exposed the long-maintained conspiracy of silence about the heinous abuses of John Smyth. When I was informed in 2013 and told that the police had been notified, I believed wrongly that an appropriate resolution would follow."
   “It is very clear that I must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long and retraumatising period between 2013 and 2024.” 
   The departure of the archbishop follows many months of inflammatory statements regarding the Jewish state. Screenshot

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

News and Views: November 14, 2024

US Deficit Explodes: Blowout October Deficit Means 2nd Worst Start To US Fiscal Year On Record  It is only fitting that the twilight days of the Biden admin would exhibit more of the same fakeness that defined not only all of the past four years, but certainly the fakeness of that Kamala Harris presidential campaign which had a billion dollars a month ago and ended up in failure, broke and in debt. We are talking, of course, about the relentless debt-funded spree that somehow became synonymous with economic success in the US.
   According to the latest Treasury data released today, in October - the first month of fiscal 2025 - the US spent a massive $584.2 billion, a 24.3% increase from the prior year, and a record government outlay for the month of October. On a trailing 6 month moving average basis, to smooth out outliers months, the spending hit $586 billion, effectively at an all time high with just the record spending spree during covid pushing government spending higher.

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Consumers Are Drowning In Debt As Hordes Of Businesses Fail All Over The U.S.   U.S. consumers have piled up the largest mountain of household debt in the history of the world.  If the federal government was not almost 36 trillion dollars in debt, the fact that U.S. households are nearly 18 trillion dollars in debt would be making a lot more headlines.  Sadly, our entire society is absolutely saturated with debt at this point.  Government debt on all levels is spiraling out of control, corporate debt has ballooned to absurd levels, and consumers have been gorging on debt as if there will never be any consequences.  Unfortunately, a time of reckoning has arrived, and it is going to be incredibly painful.

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'Kristallnacht 2.0': Amsterdam Uber Drivers Accused of Planning Coordinated Pogrom Against Jewish Fans (Video)  According to Beesemer, the violence was not spontaneous but part of a meticulously organized assault involving certain Uber drivers. “Uber drivers drove their Jewish passengers to places where they were beaten up,” Beesemer told Christians for Israel, exposing a level of coordination that has shocked communities and drawn global outrage. These drivers, allegedly connected through WhatsApp and Telegram, planned their ambush weeks in advance, turning their cars into traps for unsuspecting Jewish passengers.

‘Islamic Army’ in Europe: Muslims Are Using Fitness Gyms to Train Fighters ‘To Take Over the World’(Video)  Full Force is a troubling reminder that Islamic groups are gaining footholds in European societies, using popular platforms to indoctrinate impressionable youth and fellow jihadis. While Full Force markets itself as a means of self-improvement, critics warn that a deeper agenda may lie behind its call to join an “army” in Allah’s name.

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Catholic priests in Nicaragua have been prohibited from entering hospitals and cannot offer those who are dying the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick. While there has been no official document recording this prohibition, the news comes thanks to local press outlets and independent journalists reporting to Agenzia Fides.

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As Democrats and others assess the fallout from last week’s red bombshell, they’re looking at surprises in the exit polls. Here’s one that shouldn’t be missed: The nation’s Catholic voters split 56 to 41 in favor of Donald Trump. 
   In one way, that endorsement might seem to require explanation. After all, no one’s personal failings have been more exposed to global sunlight than Trump’s; and Catholics as a whole, unlike many evangelical Protestants, weren’t ground-floor MAGA fans. Even so, the fact that a Catholic majority in 2024 signed on to Trump-Vance makes inescapable sense, for at least three reasons. Image

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Hilarity following the Trump-Biden meeting 

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

News and Views: November 13, 2024

Church of England Leaders Kept Evangelical Beatings Secret...Archbishop Justin Welby resigns after abuse report exposes cover-up dating back to 1982  Justin Welby, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, worked at the Christian camps while Smyth was there and knew Smyth. One victim claimed Welby learned about the abuse in 1978. Welby said this is not true. He said he heard some vague accusations from a minister in Paris 1981 but didn’t learn detailed allegations until 2013, when he became archbishop.

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Who are You? Voter ID law and election integrity should be top priority in new Congress.  Republicans need to push these reforms, which as noted above are popular with voters, as soon as possible, while they control both houses of Congress.  Congress has ample authority to do this under the Constitution, and the best time to do it is before tensions begin to build before the next election season, and when states have time to make the necessary changes.

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Remember Peanut: A Treatise On Evil And Why The State Killing Of A Squirrel Matters So Much  Regardless of who swatted Longo and his animal sanctuary, it was the State of New York and the DEC that was responsible for handling the case and they did so in the worst way possible. According to Longo they treated him like a drug dealer and then they killed his beloved pets without telling him and without due process. Longo and Peanut were guilty until proven innocent.

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