Friday, January 18, 2019

It is now evil to practice belief in Christ if that involves sharing your beliefs.

CNN’s Cuomo Draws A Parallel Between Rep. King’s ‘White Supremacist’ Remarks And Karen Pence Teaching At A Private Christian School
. . . "Immanuel Christian School, the Springfield, Virginia institution at which Karen Pence is teaching, allegedly has its employees sign a statement of faith, and place their initials next to a series of "articles of employment."
"The statement of faith contains, more or less, boilerplate theological teachings based on a Christian interpretation of the Bible, such as: the scriptures are the "authoritative written revelation to mankind"; the "death of Christ is full payment for our sins"; and that Christians "will enter a new heaven and new earth prepared for them to enjoy perfect, everlasting fellowship with God" after Christ returns.
One of the articles of employment states:
I will strive to live a personal life of moral purity that is separated from the world according to Scriptures, as defined by the Statement of Faith of Immanuel Bible Church and agreed upon by the Elders and Pastors of Immanuel Bible Church. I understand that the term "marriage" has only one meaning; the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive covenant union as delineated in Scripture and that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other and that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity is engaged in outside of marriage between a man and a woman.
. . .  "To draw any parallel between Rep. King’s unacceptable remarks and Karen Pence’s job at a Christian school that asks teachers and students to abide by Christian codes of conduct is ludicrous. But because such a line has been drawn, the question must be asked – if Cuomo believes that this particular Christian precept is comparable to white supremacy, and should thus be abandoned, what comes next?. . .

After dismissing grieving angel moms, Schumer leads parade of Dems holding pics of furloughed fed workers

Angel Moms Storm Chuck Schumer’s Office: ‘Get the Wall Done’

"Angel Moms storm Chuck Schumers office"
BizPacReview

JANUARY 16: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., leads the Senate Democrats, carrying large photos of federal workers affected by the government shut down, down the Senate steps a news conference to call on President Trump to re-open the government on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019.
 
. . . "Many Americans, including some of the mothers and fathers of those men and women slain by criminal aliens, found the rally to be equivalent to a stage “performance” because of the false narrative.
"Every government employee affected by the ongoing government shutdown — which as a reminder was triggered because of Schumer’s refusal to back a spending bill that would have funded both the government and a southern U.S. border wall — will eventually be paid.
"President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that specifically “requires the compensation of government employees for wages lost, work performed, or leave used during a lapse in appropriations that begins on or after December 22, 2018.”
"Moreover, the temporary loss of income is not equivalent to the loss of a loved ones, according to “angel mom” Sabine Durden, a legal immigrant whose son Dominic was killed seven years ago when a drunk criminal alien with two prior DUI convictions slammed into his motorcycle." . . .

Air Pelosi grounded for now

Trump Postpones Pelosi’s Upcoming Trip Abroad Citing Urgency of Shutdown Negotiations   "She found out on the way to the airport".
. . . "Wednesday, Pelosi wrote Trump recommending he delay the State of the Union address until the government re-opens. And now we know that was on the eve of a week-long trip abroad… in case there was any question about the gamesmanship here.
"Cue political posturing from all sides and hyperbolic claims of a pending Armageddon due to Pelosi’s trip being canceled." . . .
Breaking News Live was seething with anger over the President's actions:

 
Pelosi demands Trump postpone State of the Union address. This was a plea for Trump to "call Pelosi's bluff". I guess he did.
 
. . . " 'It was just two weeks ago Nancy Pelosi went to the floor and said, 'We're going to be transparent, we're gonna be a town hall, we're gonna allow debate.' She wants to shut down the debate because she knows the president will win this argument," Chaffetz said.
"He said he's proud of Trump for "forcing the issue" and demanding funding for border security, including his long-promised wall." . . .
 
. . . "Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) gave a biting answer that was dead right: Pelosi doesn’t want Trump to directly address the American people because then they will get a different message than the mainstream media will give them." . . .
 
Don Surber: Trump to Nancy: You're grounded . . . "She tried to stop him from meeting a constitutional obligation.
" He stopped a "public relations event."
" Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill tweeted, "The purpose of the trip was to express appreciation and thanks to our men and women in uniform for their service and dedication, and to obtain critical national security and intelligence briefings from those on the front lines."
" In other words, a public relations event.
" The Washington Post wrote, "Trump didn’t explain what authority he has to cancel Pelosi’s trip, but it would likely require the use of military aircraft controlled by his administration. He said Pelosi could fly commercial if she wanted to go forward with the visit."
" Article II, Section 2, says, "1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States..."
"What part of commander-in-chief do they not understand?" . . .

 
Chris Matthews: Trump’s Letter to Pelosi Made Democrats ‘Look Like Fools’ . . . "The segment concluded with Matthews and his guest debating over border security, with the host shockingly defending the need to secure the border, one way or another." . . .
 
 
 

Trump’s Reelection Chances May Be Better Than You Think. But Hillary's? "(H-Rod", as she is called here)

Victor Davis Hanson


"Whether or not they like Trump, millions of voters still think the president is all that stands between them and socialism, radical cultural transformation, and social chaos."  (Emphasis mine, TD)
Full article . . .

What Is Hillary Clinton Thinking? 
 "She actually believes she still has a shot at the White House."

“They don’t know the real me.” Homer Simpson
  "When Homer Simpson looks in the mirror, he sees ripped chest muscles and arms like the trunks of beech trees. When Hillary Clinton looks in the mirror, she sees America’s sweetheart. She thinks: America adores me. She thinks: America already chose me to be president once! She thinks: Everyone is comparing me with Donald Trump and realizing I’m a better choice. She is hoping for a call that will never come: an earnest, sobbing plea from the Democratic party to be their standard bearer in 2020.

 
"How else to explain Clinton’s latest media blitzkrieg? You’d think she’d be in Jimmy Carter mode: quiet, making a display of humility, working hard to rebuild her reputation for posterity by doing good deeds and writing non-political books (like Carter’s disarming series of memoirs). Instead, she is acting like a fired-up political candidate. The poor dear actually thinks she’s still in the game. The woman who, on Election Night 2016, slunk away in ignominy from thousands of supporters in the glass-ceilinged Javits Center without even saying thanks to the many who would have lain down in front of a bus for her, these days is once again singing her fight song. But it’s a pathetic 4 a.m. karaoke act and no one can bear to tell this frail elderly lady to stop screeching so they can mop the floors and turn out the lights. Because she has the personality of a cactus and hates everyone, H-Rod never should have entered politics to begin with, but her inability to leave it behind is an embarrassment. Not to me, mind you. Not to Republicans. We all hope she keeps talking. For us every HRC tweet and MSNBC appearance is a dopamine cookie. It is merely herself she is embarrassing." . . .
 

California’s New Governor Wants to Tax Drinking Water; Where will this taxing madness end?

Leslie Eastman at LI


"California Governor Gavin Newsom certainly has been busy since assuming office Jan 7th.
Within hours of becoming the state’s Chief Executive, the highly progressive former mayor of the disease-ridden city of San Francisco proposed offering free healthcare benefits to illegal immigrants under the age of 26.
"Now, Newsom is proposing to
tax drinking water.
In what is sure to be a controversial move, Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a tax on drinking water to help poor communities in California deal with contaminated water systems.
The plan to establish a ‘safe and affordable drinking water fund” is part of Newsom’s budget proposal, according the Sacramento Bee. A similar idea was proposed last year, but it never made it through the Legislature, the Bee reported.
Newsom wants to spend $25 million for safe drinking water as part of the cleanup effort. The exact details of the tax to raise the funds were not known.
   "As a California resident, basic public health services like safe drinking water should already be taken care of by a combination of water fees and state taxes. My small family pays over $100 monthly for our water use, and California state taxes are the highest in the nation. Where exactly is this money going if it is not going to pay for necessities such as drinking water?
"State bureaucrats have been notoriously neglectful of our water infrastructure. Legal Insurrection readers may recall that it was 2 years ago that an emergency was declared when the Oroville Dam looked like it might fail. Work continues of the spillway today.
"Perhaps instead of taxing citizens more, Newsom can take some of the $144 billion budget surplus he says we have and redirect it to getting drinking water to under-served communities by enhancing our water processing and storage facilities?" . . .

You take it from here, Gavin:

Former Staffer Claims Sheila Jackson Lee Fired Her After Rape Allegtion

Legal Insurrection


"Believe all women, right? Isn’t that what the left has been saying since the #MeToo movement began?
"Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) faces a lawsuit from a former staffer who claimed the congresswoman fired her after she said a former employee of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) raped her in 2015.
"From BuzzFeed News:
The woman, identified in court papers by the pseudonym Jane Doe, alleges she was raped in October 2015, when she was a 19-year-old intern for the CBCF, by the foundation’s intern coordinator at the time, Damien Jones. The woman said she reported the alleged rape to police and told several people, including Rep. Terri Sewell, her former boss and a distant relative of her mother’s, but did not pursue legal action at the time.
Several years later, when Jane Doe was working for Jackson Lee, the woman decided she did want to pursue legal action, and told Jackson Lee’s chief of staff Glenn Rushing in early March 2018. The woman alleges that she asked to speak with Jackson Lee about it, but a meeting never happened, and several weeks later she was fired. Jackson Lee is chair of the board for the CBCF.
Jones did not return requests for comment. After leaving the CBCF in late 2015, he continued to work in Democratic politics and recently served as the regional political director for former representative Beto O’Rourke’s Senate campaign. Chris Evans, a spokesperson for the O’Rourke campaign, said in an email to BuzzFeed News, “The Beto for Texas campaign was absolutely not aware of these allegations until today and no longer has a relationship with Damien Jones.”
"Rushing told BuzzFeed that Jackson Lee’s office “had nothing to do with any of the actions that have been cited and the person was not wrongfully terminated.”
"The complaint detailed what happened to Doe:" . . . Keep reading...

Will CNN or The View cover this?

Trump grounds Pelosi junket. CNN will not speak well of this.

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/
Thomas Lifson:   "When Nancy Pelosi seemed to cancel the State of the Union address in the House of Representatives’ chamber that she controls, did she imagine that President Trump would passively absorb the insult, based as it was on a phony contention that security concerns were the issue? President Trump is a man who openly boasts that he “hits back ten times as hard.”
So, as Pelosi and a “Condel” (congressional delegation) complete with entourage were on the busses taking them to Join Base Andrews for an Air Force private jet to whisk them to Brussels for a grueling stay in the culinary hotspot, before continuing on to Cairo and Afghanistan (“to thank the troops”), President Trump pulled the plug on a resource that he controls:
. . .
. . .  "Pelosi is so rich that she could easily afford to pay for her own travel, first class. But of course, she won’t.
"I doubt very much that this is the last move that President Trump will take, denying resources to Pelosi."


Sure enough, CNN was not happy with the President's actions.
One can only hope this won't spoil their relationship.