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Christian courage means not voting for a government that is evil. The Bible teaches us to hate evil, not condone it based on its classification.
Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. Too many people want to believe that the ship is not sinking but there is no political solution.
If you disagree with my assessment, answer this simple question: who caused the problems that our political elite say they are going to fix?
David DeGerolamo
It is not just Caterpillar that continues to post horrendous numbers, and has now recorded 38 consecutive months of declining Y/Y sales, double the length of the contraction of the great financial crisis. Moments ago heavy farm equipment maker Deere likewise shocked its investors with a round of terrible numbers, when at first it reported a revenue and EPS beat, announced it had earned $0.80 EPS in Q4, above the $0.71 estimate, on $5.53BN in revenue, well above the $4.90BN expected, however it was the unprecedented drop in the forecast that was the punchline.
According to the company’s announcement, equipment sales are projected to decrease about 10% for fiscal 2016 and to be down about 8 percent for the second quarter compared with the same period a year ago.
Here is how CEO Samuel Allen tried to spin the cut in guidance which DE had previously seen at just -7%: “Although Deere expects another challenging year in 2016, our forecast represents a level of performance much better than we have experienced in previous downturns,”Allen said.
Downturn? We thought the Fed was hiking because of the “strong recovery.”
Some more details: Deere cuts 2016 U.S. farm cash receipts forecast to $381.3b, had seen $394.4b (Nov. 25)
Owing to an absolutely unavoidable scheduling conflict involving a critical tee time, Barack Obama has decided to skip Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral on Saturday, but will “pay his respects” on Friday.
According to a highly-placed White House source who may or may not be imaginary, the president was reported to have said “I would have gone, but it’s not like we’re running out of Supreme Court Justices. Hell, we’ve still got eight of ’em! Moreover, if I go to the funeral of one, then they’ll all expect me to come to their funerals. That’s a dangerous precedent I’m not willing to set.”
South Dakota lawmakers just made a decision based on decency and common sense. The state’s Senate approved a bill that requires students in government schools to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their “chromosomes and anatomy.”
In other words, no boys pretending to be girls in girls’ restrooms, and vice versa.
The state’s House passed its version of the bill in January. The question remains whether the Republican governor will sign the measure into law. Even if he does, how long until a court strikes it down?
An excerpt from the Christian News Network:
“We’re talking about our youths commingling in bathrooms and locker rooms, biological males and biological females,” Sen. Brock Greenfield, R-Clark. “Do you feel it appropriate for a 13-year-old girl to be exposed to the anatomy of a boy? Or for a boy to be exposed to the anatomy of a girl because of the decisions we make out here?”
The state of Tennessee is one step closer to filing a Tenth Amendment lawsuit in federal court to end the United States Refugee Resettlement program in that state.
The Finance, Ways & Means Committee of the State Senate overwhelmingly passed Senate Joint Resolution 467 in a bi-partisan nine to one vote.
The resolution now goes to the State Senate floor, where it is likely to pass, then on to the State House, where it is also likely to pass.
In Tennessee, the state legislature (called the General Assembly) has the authority to file this lawsuit, which may prevail in the courts on Tenth Amendment grounds, if Republican Governor Bill Haslam fails to act.
Israel-Syrian border tensions have soared in the five days since Russia and Syria stepped up their air strikes over rebel positions in southern Syria, drawing ever closer to the Israeli border. The raids are covering a wide radius from the town of Daraa on the Jordanian border up to Quneitra on the Golan. How to react if those raids actually reach the two borders is no doubt a burning topic at General Staff HQ in Tel Aviv and Amman. Neither army wants a head-on collision close to their borders with the coalition of Russian, Syria, Iranian and Hizballah forces. However, the intensified air raids are putting large numbers of Syrian refugees to flight from their homes towards the Israeli and Jordanian borders. The Jordanian border area is in chaos. The kingdom’s army has seized the positions formerly held by Syrian rebel units to hold back the influx of refugees into Jordan. The rebels are dropping their weapons and fleeing in all directions in disarray.
Israel has ordered a blackout on news from Ein Zivan, its border crossing at the Golan town of Quneitra.
Wednesday, Feb. 17, as DEBKAfile reported exclusively earlier, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent Dore Gold, Director General of the Foreign Ministry to Moscow in search of answers about Russian intentions regarding the Israeli border district.
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An updated report from an earlier article.
David DeGerolamo
The new label to marginalize our country is “hater”. We hate Muslim women so much that they live in fear.
This is an effective strategy:
I would ask these Muslim women what their feelings are concerning this judgment:
How many Muslim women have been raped in this country? Add the Muslim concepts of honor killings, kitman and taqiyya to establish a moral baseline for this “religion”. Then make your decision from the above list of choices.
David DeGerolamo
