President Obama appeared to break from his script for a moment at Tuesday morning’s Easter Prayer Breakfast to opine on Christians who espouse “less-than-loving” views.
“On Easter, I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian, I am supposed to love,” Mr. Obama said toward the end of his speech. “And I have to say that sometimes when I listen to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.”
The Colorado Civil Rights Division has ruled that a baker who refused to make cakes with anti-gay messages did not discriminate.
Marjorie Silva, owner of Azucar Bakery in Denver, says she got the news on Friday but knows that Bill Jack, a Christian from Castle Rock, Colo., will likely appeal the decision.
“I’m happy that we were not just morally right but legally right,” she said in an interview with Yahoo News. “Hopefully this will lead to a better world where we are friendly to each other.”
In March 2014, Jack asked Silva to make him a Bible-shaped cake with anti-gay messages, such as “Homosexuality is a detestable sin. Leviticus 18:22.” He also wanted the cake to include two men holding hands with a large X over them.
Despite being an otherwise staid, traditional news service, the professional banking division of the Financial Times recently released an utterly scathing assessment of the British economy.
It was entitled, “The UK economy is a ticking time bomb,” and the editor didn’t pull any punches in completely shattering the conventional fantasy that ‘all is well’, and that advanced economies can simply print and indebt their way to prosperity.
I’ll quote below, emphasis mine:
“What is the problem? Quite simply, the key numbers are terrible. According to the OECD, after five years of ‘austerity’ the UK’s budget deficit is 5.3%, down from 11.2% in 2009.
“In other words, it has gone from being close to meltdown to a situation that is merely dreadful.
One of the greatest tools the Intelligence Analyst has in his arsenal is the ability to query databases and look at previously collected information. We have an incredible ability (and luxury) to have all this knowledge literally at our fingertips. Yet it still does us no good if we have Intelligence information in our databases, but can’t find it because we’re not proficient at querying what we’re looking for.
Now this brings up an important point for us. We can only process and analyze information in our conscious awareness. One thing that makes our job as Intelligence analysts so difficult is the necessity to make conclusions often involving future events or trends based on incomplete information. This is akin to the algebra problems of yore, where we had to solve for x, but we now have an equation littered with unknown variables. As my section chief used to say, predicting what the enemy is going to do is a hell of a way to make a living.
So applied to the Patriot-Prepper Intelligence Analyst, collection and storage of intelligence information becomes immensely important! Consider for a moment that you didn’t have the internet, nor access to any other forms of collection. It’s unfeasible that you’d be able to do your job of producing threat Intelligence and early warning to your family and prepared peers, yet that’s exactly what you must do. A top priority for each of us is to ensure that we have an ability now to collect, catalogue, and store Intelligence information. This is one of the things we talk about in the courses I teach.
President Barack Obama is rejecting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for Iran to recognize the state of Israel as part of a final nuclear deal.
“The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won’t sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment,” Obama said in an interview with NPR on Monday.
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Obama has stated that he would fundamentally change the United States. Why would he not try to transform the country whose leaders publicly chant “Death to America” while negotiating a peace treaty?
David DeGerolamo
Assuming the death rate of Christians slows down from this weekend’s horrific attacks, Pew Research notes that Muslims will outnumber the world’s Christians by 2070.
As of 2010, Christianity was by far the world’s largest religion, with an estimated 2.2 billion adherents, nearly a third (31%) of all 6.9 billion people on Earth. Islam was second, with 1.6 billion adherents, or 23% of the global population.
But, if current demographic trends continue… Islam will nearly catch up by the middle of the 21st century.
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Does it take numbers to impose Islam on the infidels? Or does it take “leaders” such as the pResident? Look at the reality of our situation in the United States:
1. Israel has become a liability instead of an ally.
2. Sunni Muslims and the Muslim Brotherhood are represented at the highest levels of our “government”.
3. Sharia Law is operating in parts of the country.
4. Obama is using taxpayer funds to influence elections in Israel.
5. Obama installed a Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt which was overthrown by the people and military.
6. Obama is supporting Iran over our traditional allies (and I do know that Iran is Shi’ite).
7. The pResident tells us that the United States is not a Christian nation.
8. The pResident tells us that the crusades were an example of terrible deeds done in the name of Christ to deflect criticism of ISIS.
9. The pResident tells us that Islam is a religion of peace.
10. The pResident tells us that ISIS is not Islamic.
All you have to ask yourself is why is the government preparing for civil unrest by purchasing less lethal and lethal munitions? The infidels must be controlled or eliminated.
David DeGerolamo
Our entire way of life can be ended in a single day. And it wouldn’t even take a nuclear war to do it. All it would take for a rogue nation or terror organization to bring us to our knees is the explosion of a couple well-placed nuclear devices high up in our atmosphere. The resulting electromagnetic pulses would fry electronics from coast to coast. Of course this could also be accomplished without any attack. Scientists tell us that massive solar storms have hit our planet before, and that it is inevitable that there will be more in the future. As you will read about below, the most recent example of this was “the Carrington Event” in 1859. If a similar burst from the sun hit us today, experts tell us that life in America could suddenly resemble life in the 1800s, and the economic damage caused could potentially be in the trillions of dollars. This is one of the greatest potential threats that we are facing as a nation, and yet Barack Obama has essentially done nothing to get us prepared.
The technology necessary to conduct such an electromagnetic pulse attack against the United States has become much more accessible in recent years. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, even rogue nations such as North Korea and Iran either already have or will soon have the capability to hurt us in this way…
Rogue nations such as North Korea (and possibly Iran) will soon match Russia and China and have the primary ingredients for an EMP attack: simple ballistic missiles such as Scuds that could be launched from a freighter near our shores; space-launch vehicles able to loft low-earth-orbit satellites; and simple low-yield nuclear weapons that can generate gamma rays and fireballs.
by Leo Gerald
After Indiana Republicans passed a license to discriminate law, a restaurant called Memories Pizza in the Hoosier town of Walkerton stepped up last week to make sure potential customers knew its religious rules: “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Certification of Heterosexuality, No Service.”
Indiana GOP Gov. Mike Pence provided official sanction for such acts of oppression when he signed a gay-bashing version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. It enabled individuals and businesses to legally claim their faith required hateful acts of intolerance. Pence got all huffy when human rights groups accused him of seeking to change the state’s slogan from Hoosier Hospitality to Hoosier Hostility.
Marriage-equality-hating Indiana Republicans were joined by counterparts in Arkansas, North Carolina and Georgia in advancing government-sanctioned discrimination. This is not the way Americans treat each other. Well, not in 2015 anyway. America traveled down the path of intolerance for too many centuries. Now, Americans look back at all-white lunch counters with shame. Despite anxiety about ISIS, they disapprove of blaming terrorism on all Muslims. Americans aren’t perfect inclusive egalitarians. But they’re trying. On a deeply spiritual level, they hate institutionalization of minority hate.
And that’s what was going on in Indiana, Arkansas, North Carolina and Georgia. Bans on marriage equality have failed. So these states tried to crash those ceremonies by denying the couples wedding flowers and cakes, then cloaking that vicious discrimination in a sheepskin of religiosity.
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Another example of how Leo Gerald pulls the strings to manipulate our nation. Ask yourself why religious doctrine must be vilified? Since when is faith a liability that must be superseded by immorality or public opinion? The state cannot take control over your life if you have faith. And that is the reason that the labor unions and the government are attacking religion: they want to be your god.
David DeGerolamo
Washington State Governor Jay Inslee posted the Communist Chinese flag between the American and state flag at the capitol building in Olympia in “honor” of his meeting with Cui Tiankai, the Chinese Ambassador, in which they were to discuss trade issues. However on Saturday, American patriots showed up to remove the flag.
h/t Dee S
The Social Security Administration (SSA) approved disability benefits for hundreds of Puerto Ricans because they do not speak English, despite the fact that Puerto Rico is a predominantly Spanish-speaking territory.
According to a new audit by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the agency is misapplying rules that are intended to provide financial assistance to individuals who are illiterate or cannot speak English in the United States. Under the rules, Puerto Ricans are allowed to receive disability benefits for their inability to speak English as well.
“We found the Agency did not make exceptions regarding the English-language grid rules for claimants who reside in Puerto Rico, even though Spanish is the predominant language spoken in the local economy,” the OIG said.
The U.S. Justice Department is urging a federal court in Georgia to side with a prison inmate who was born male but wants to continue taking the “feminizing” hormone treatment that produces attributes “such as breasts and soft skin.”
In a Statement of Interest filed in the case of Ashley Diamond, the Justice Department concluded that “Failure to provide adequate treatment for transgender inmates with gender dysphoria constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.”
The case (Diamond v. Owens, et al.) has landed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia.
At issue is whether the Georgia Department of Corrections may employ a so-called “freeze-frame” policy, which says inmates who are not identified as transgender and referred for treatment at the time they enter prison may receive no treatment for the condition once they end up behind bars.
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Does anyone think that supporting immorality is Constitutional? Other than the people trying to destroy our country?
David DeGerolamo
Last week, the government of China closed the enrollment window to join its new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a ‘founding member’.
The AIIB, if you haven’t heard of this yet, is designed to essentially displace the Western-controlled IMF and World Bank.
And prior to last Tuesday’s deadline, dozens of nations around the world from New Zealand to Denmark signed up to join.
Even staunch US allies like the United Kingdom and Israel agreed to be part of AIIB.
This is a huge coup for China, and probably the most obvious sign yet that the global financial system is in for a giant reset.
Under the weight of nearly incalculable debt and liabilities, the United States is in terminal decline as the dominant superpower.
From Ancient Rome to the British Empire, this has happened many other times in history.
This time is not different. And everyone else in the world seems to get it. . . except for the US government.
