Don Lemon Suggests That Joseph Was A ‘Gay Man’ Who Helped the Virgin Mary

Gloriel Howard;RTM

” 'In a 2012 segment on atheism, Lemon opened by saying, “God: Does he exist? More and more young people doubt he does — or she,” per The Federalist."

"Former CNN host Don Lemon is facing major backlash with Christians after claiming that the Virgin Mary’s husband, Joseph, was just a gay man who helped her reach Bethlehem so she would not face persecution for being unmarried and pregnant.

"He made the outlandish comment on his recent appearance on the “Michael Steele Podcast.”

"Lemon, who claims to have a relationship with God, told host Michael Steel that the Biblical Nativity Story was just a gay man’s journey to save the Virgin Mary and himself from being persecuted. 

" 'I said, well, maybe Joseph was this sort of gay guy who said…” said Lemon, not being able to finish his sentence due to finding it hilarious.

"Steele, laughing hysterically, jumped in and told viewers to pick themselves “off the floor” after hearing the blashphemous remark.

“…right, I [speaking as Joseph] I don’t want her to die or be stoned to death, or whatever because she got pregnant and she’s not married…and then I am not married, or whatever,” Lemon continued, per Breitbart. “So, okay, this is kind of perfect.”

" 'Because he was an older gentleman, unmarried gentleman,” Steele replied." . . .

Pro-Palestinian group desires to rub salt into wound with Oct. 7 protest

  Michael Berenhaus  

Dr. Michael Berenhaus is a freelance activist who works to combat anti-Israel bias in the media.  He has been widely published in news sources such as The Economist, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. 

When Hamas visits you.

"In “Pro-Palestinian group urges judge to allow Oct. 7 vigil at University of Maryland” (09/30/24), a pro-Palestinian group has chosen October 7 as the date for a “vigil to mourn people killed in Gaza during the ongoing war.”  October 7 was the date when the Hamas terrorist group invaded Israel; slaughtered over 1,200 Israelis; and kidnapped over 230 individuals, including Israelis and other foreign nationals.  

"That is like pro-al-Qaeda protesters choosing Sep. 11 to mourn people killed in Afghanistan.  It’s horrid, disgusting, and insultingly insensitive.

"But it does show the world the humanity of the Palestinian movement, more specifically the lack thereof.  Who would support this movement or even want to be associated with it?" . . .

Evil Exists, Don’t Look Away: Visiting the Hell of October 7th | Caroline Glick In-Focus   "Join JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick for this special Oct. 7 episode of In-Focus from one of the communities most affected by the Hamas massacre, Kfar Aza. Glick reflects and discusses some of the lessons Israel, the Jewish people, and the entire free world must learn from that horrific day and this once-flourishing town."

‘Evil so profound’: Andrew Bolt on distressing October 7 footage  Sky News host Andrew Bolt discusses the October 7 terror attacks by Hamas and how the Albanese government has failed to “back” Israel in its defence against terror.

“You would think what happened to Israel then … that would have united us in outrage, would have opened everyone’s eyes to the enemies Israel faces, that we increasingly face too,” Mr Bolt said. “Instead, we have seen an explosion of Jew hatred here that shames this country.”

FEMA sets up a ‘rumor response’ webpage to set the record straight after all the scrutiny of its response to Helene

"For example, if you have insurance that covers your temporary housing costs, but you ask FEMA to advance you some money to help you pay for those costs while your insurance is delayed, you will need to pay that money back to FEMA after you receive your insurance settlement."  From the FEMA webpage:

Olivia Murray  "When enough of the public harbors such deep distrust for our federal government that our federal agencies feel compelled to establish official “rumor response” websites to try to convince the people that they’re not corrupt and incompetent, I’d say it’s game over, and there’s no road to redemption. You’ve blown it. Obliterated everything. Nuked your last shred of credibility.

"In light of mounting accusations against FEMA as bumbling the response to Hurricane Helene beyond all comprehension, the disaster relief agency took it upon itself to create a fact-checking website, to battle the “rumor” mill—despite what those conspiracy theorist MAGA haters are saying, FEMA takes its mission seriously, and is adeptly handling the emergency response!

"Is this like the time the CIA investigated itself and found no evidence it was involved in the drug-trafficking trade?

Because it really seems like it.

“ 'FEMA finds no link between itself and the failure of the federal government to provide disaster relief to American communities decimated by Hurricane Helene” or “FEMA concludes that it’s doing a great job and not culpable for the pathetic emergency response” would be apropos.

"I mean, the agency established an online portal for impacted Americans to quickly apply for disaster assistance (in a community that doesn’t have power), it handed out preloaded debit cards (in a place where all the ATMs and stores have been washed away by the flood waters), and it dropped off electrical chainsaws so people could start to clear downed trees (with no way to recharge the tools when the battery dies)." . . . 

The government shipped up 3 pallets of electric chainsaws to us in a community without power pic.twitter.com/LTy1vkRkUY

— Masters (@M_C_Masters) October 8, 2024

Harris on Colbert May Be Her Most Inauthentic, Cringe Interview Ever, With One Especially Bad Moment

Bonchie, RedState  

 "When you are on Colbert, you aren't supposed to stare at the audience and lecture them. Harris can't help herself, though. She is so over-rehearsed and inauthentic, and it comes out in every answer she gives." 

"When Kamala Harris first announced her presidential run after shivving Joe Biden in the back, her campaign wrapped her in bubble wrap and stuck her behind a teleprompter. That hasn't led to her running away with the race as expected, which means something had to change. What's changed is the Harris campaign unleashing the vice president in a variety of "un-scripted" interviews with friendly faces. 

"On Tuesday, she was on "The View," a setting that should have been impossible to screw up. Harris found a way, though. Her appearance with noted degenerate Howard Stern, who once put on blackface and repeatedly shouted a racial epithet, wasn't much better. 

"Then there was "The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert. That was supposed to be the crescendo. It ended up being one of the most inauthentic, cringe interviews she's ever done. Whatever precautions the campaign had taken to that point to hide the true Kamala Harris, it all went out the window with a cackle and some bad jokes.". . .

"Colbert asks Kamala what she would do differently than Joe Biden (the second time she has been asked this question today).
"She responds by whipping up a truly epic 60 second word salad that does not answer the question. pic.twitter.com/6buNheLitS

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 9, 2024

Byron York: Only Harris could manage to botch a friendly interview! 

. . ."What is certain is this: Harris botched an easy interview. And then she botched a hard interview. She appears to lack some very basic preparation for the job she seeks. Until now, her campaign has counted on a supportive press to paper over, to look past, that deficiency. Whether that will last for another month is an open question."

One Year Later

 Ben Shapiro

"For a moment after Oct. 7, the West sympathized with the Israelis. And then the West decided to go back to sleep — to watch its children march with Hamas and Hezbollah flags alongside terror supporters imported from abroad." . . .

"In the West, we are on vacation from history.

"That's because we are living on the interest earned by our parents and grandparents. The European continent, until the war in Ukraine, had never experienced a more peaceful respite from history than since the end of the Cold War; America has enjoyed its own peace dividend, with spending ballooning to unprecedented levels and our wars fought in distant lands.

"When you are on vacation from history, you tend to engage in foolish fallacies. Fallacies like the idea that evil doesn't exist; that negotiation solves all conflict and that weakness brings with it peace instead of war; that apologizing for Western civilization is a corrective to past injustice rather than an incentive for future violence.

"On Oct. 7, 2023, history returned with a vengeance.

"On that day, Hamas — an evil terrorist group — invaded Israel and engaged in a triumphant orgy of rape and slaughter, the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Some 1,200 Israelis were murdered; 250 were dragged back into the hellhole of Gaza.

"Hamas proved that evil does exist. The terrorists and their civilian counterparts celebrated their evil. They livestreamed it. They cheered as the broken and mutilated bodies of the slain were paraded through Gaza. They handed out candies as teenage dancers were raped and shot at a music festival.

"Yes, evil exists. It turns out that human beings are not all seeking the same things — that we do not all have the same priorities or the same values.

"Hamas proved that conciliation with evil and weakness toward it bring about only suffering. Israel has surrendered territory to a variety of terrorist groups over the past few decades: areas of the West Bank — Biblical Judea and Samaria — to the terrorist Palestinian Authority; the Gaza Strip to Hamas; southern Lebanon to Hezbollah. All have become terror havens. The only way to defeat evil is through credible threat of crushing force. The Western fallacy that negotiation is a strategy rather than a tactic — that we can talk our enemies into peace — is indeed a lie. Victory brings about peace; strength brings about peace.

"And the year since Oct. 7 proved that the West has lost her way.

"We have lost our way." . . .

 

Whoda thought? A bum charge against John Kerry

 Jeff Jacoby   

. . ."Ironically, Kerry has been falsely accused of an offense that other prominent Democrats have committed. Just last month, Hillary Clinton publicly suggested that Americans who engage in Russian-backed election "propaganda" ought to be "civilly or even in some cases criminally charged." . . .

"I am no fan of John Kerry, a fact I have never disguised. In my view he was a poor senator and a worse secretary of state and I am enduringly grateful he never became president. A column I wrote about him in March opened with the observation: "I have followed John Kerry's career for 40 years, but I still cringe at things that come out of his mouth." (Kerry had told journalists that if Russia would reduce its carbon emissions, people would "feel better" about its assault on Ukraine.)

"So when Republicans and conservatives began berating Kerry over the weekend for the latest thing to "come out of his mouth," I figured at first that he had indeed said something egregious.

" 'John Kerry and other elite [D]emocrats hate the Constitution," Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, seethed in a post on X. In a column headlined "John Kerry against the First Amendment: Saying the Quiet Part Aloud," National Review's Andrew Stuttaford accused the former secretary of state of a "disturbingly authoritarian" desire to see media outlets "muzzled" if they disagree with him. The respected New York Sun and The Daily Wire played up the story, while the right-wing website PJ Media declared that Kerry had "literally" called for the "end of First Amendment speech rights." Even Elon Musk got in on the act: "John Kerry is saying he wants to violate the Constitution," he claimed.

"But Kerry was saying no such thing."  [contrary to my own posts, TD]

"Last week, during a World Economic Forum panel, Kerry fielded a question about "tackling climate misinformation." He responded by noting that there is considerable "anguish over social media" and its impact on society. That impact includes "our problem, particularly in democracies ... of building consensus around any issue." Few would disagree that the rise of the internet dramatically weakened the influence of traditional media outlets that were once trusted sources of information. The old system has "been eviscerated, to a certain degree," Kerry said. People now "self-select where they go for their news, for their information.' " . . .

What speech has been more reprehensible than the demagoguery vomited out by Joe Biden at his speeches before Freedom Hall (lit in red), his SOTU in Congress, and his vile diatribe at the Democrat convention?

NO SENSE OF IRONY: Pro-Palestinian Protesters Liken Israelis to Nazis—Across From Holocaust Museum

 Daily Signal 

"Protesters eventually began slowly marching across several city blocks, complete with a police escort, megaphones, drumbeats, and local Baptist pastor Frederick Haynes slamming Israel as an “apartheid” state from the back of a pickup truck." ...

DALLAS—Two days before the first anniversary of the start of Israel’s war with Hamas, hundreds gathered in Dallas on Saturday around historic Dealey Plaza—and across the street from a Holocaust museum—to call for the Jewish state’s destruction.  

"Pro-Palestine activists swarmed the famous site of President John F. Kennedy’s November 1963 assassination for an afternoon of chanting and defiant speeches before marching through city streets. 

"The rally was one of dozens across the U.S. and Canada that anti-Israel groups had planned as part of an “International Day of Action” to commemorate “one year of genocide” in Gaza and “one year of resistance” since Oct. 7, 2023—when Hamas terrorists killed or kidnapped, raped, and tortured, some 1,200 people in Israel. 

"Numerous protesters likewise praised Palestinian “resistance” and demanded no more U.S. military aid to Israel.  

"Several of the protesters’ signs equated Israel to Nazi Germany. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who is Jewish, made the same comparison during a speech, saying she understands “genocide” because her own people endured it under Adolf Hitler." . . .

TV host breaks down hearing former Hamas hostage’s torture story

New Site Allows Voters to Calculate their Cost of Living Changes During Disastrous Biden-Harris Era

Warner Todd Huston

 ‘Was my life better under Donald Trump’s policies or is my life better under Kamala Harris’s policies?'” Collins continued."

A new tool has launched online to help voters track how high their cost of living has soared under the disastrous Biden-Harris administration.

The tool was created by former political director of the National Republican Convention Gentry Collins who launched his “Gas and Groceries” calculator this month.

“Survey after survey after survey shows that swing voters in swing states care about household affordability,” Collins told the hosts of “Just the News, No Noise.” “They can’t afford their gas, they can’t afford their groceries, they can’t afford the mortgage, their credit card bills are going through the roof and nobody is talking to them about it as directly as we ought to be.”

“What we’ve been able to do with our gas and groceries project is to allow voters in any zip code in the country to enter their zip code online and to see just the plain facts [with] no spin, no issue advocacy [and] no advocacy,” Collins added.

“What was your life like when it came to the price of a car to groceries or or a gallon of gas or mortgage affordability and so on in your zip code at the end of the Trump presidency, versus what it looks like here at the end of the Biden Harris administration,” Collins continued.

“Gas and Groceries cites that groceries are up 25% in cost since Biden became the president-specifically that egg costs are about 72% higher than when Trump was in office,” Just the News added."

J.D. Vance cuts to the quick of the problem with disaster agency FEMA's resources going to the illegals

terrellaftermath

Monica Showalter  . . ."When Fox News journalists brought up that Republican complaints about FEMA blowing its budget on illegals and not having enough cash to help hurricane survivors, were being met by Democrats retorts that that was false owing to the federal budget structure, Vance did a pretty good job of getting to the quick of the problem and sorting the matter out." . . .

 . . ."How was that money really spent? Florida's Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio first noticed the problem last May.

The bottom line here, is that the agency has lost focus. That has cut into its ability to achieve its core mission, which is disaster relief. It was bad in fire-hit Lahaina, Hawaii, very obvious in this Hurricane Helene aftermath, and now with a new hurricane is on the way, with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying they may not have enough money to respond to that. That's an agency that has done everything but pay attention to what it's supposed to do.

J.D. Vance had it right on that, and in his later suggestion that the military needed to be called in to coordinate the response. He's a good man for President Trump to have in a storm, the biggest of which will be in draining the Washington swamp in 2025.

Trump Airs ‘Impactful’ Ad About Kamala Harris’ Support of Taxpayer-Funded Sex Changes for Prisoners During NFL

 Megyn Kelly

 Given the Biden-Harris administration’s slow response to Hurricane Helene relief, Megyn said it is but the latest example of where their priorities lie. “So, we are going to fund the sex change operations of serial killers… meanwhile, the Biden administration is saying that we need to dig deep into our pockets to help the victims of Hurricane Helene,” she noted. “Help! Make it make sense.”

   "While TV viewership may not be what it once was, millions of Americans still gather to watch the NFL every Sunday. And with the election just five weeks away, it appears as though the Trump campaign is looking to make a splash with a national audience by running a new attack ad against Kamala Harris across the networks covering the big games.

"The 30-second spot focuses on Harris’ support of taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for prisoners and illegal immigrants, and it has been called “effective” even by those who are no fan of the former president.'

"On Tuesday’s show, Megyn was joined by Joe Pagliarulo, host of The Joe Pags Show, to discuss the success of the ad and who the Trump campaign was able to reach with its placement." . . .

Late last month, team Trump debuted a new ad that takes aim at one of Harris’ most controversial positions – her support of so-called ‘gender affirming care’ for incarcerated criminals and  illegal immigrants. Watch it here on X

 

IDF chief: Commemoration is day of ‘deep soul-searching’ as Israel continues fight ‘for our right to be a free people in our land’; Herzog: We aim for ‘space for national mourning’

"I’ve heard psychologists speak of the need for “closure” in the aftermath of tragedies. Personally, I don’t think such a thing as closure can exist for the family or friends of those taken on Oct. 7th. I pray that the God of Israel will grant His peace, a peace that passes all understanding, to those left behind. I know they will never forget their loved ones and neither should anyone with a heart and a conscience." Comment to this article.

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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 367   "Israel on Sunday evening prepared to mark the first anniversary of the worst terror attack in its history, as the wounds of the October 7 massacre still feel raw, many of the bereaved continue to seek answers about their loved ones, the plight of the hostages looms over commemorations and fighting still rages on several fronts.

"President Isaac Herzog vowed to “make space for national mourning,” as military chief Herzi Halevi promised to undergo a deep soul-searching, while the IDF released never-before-seen footage from the October 7 onslaught, as many questions still remain about the chaos and turmoil of that day.

“ 'A year has passed since life came to a halt, the skies darkened, and all of us witnessed the monstrous cruelty of the enemy that sought to bring destruction upon the Jewish people, the State of Israel, and Israeli society,” said Herzog in a statement on Sunday.

“ 'We are all still in pain, and we seek to make space for national mourning, for the tears over the terrible disaster that struck us,” he said, announcing a three-day tour of the Gaza border communities devastated by the attack. “I pledge — we will rebuild and restore everything anew, and that rebuilding will not be complete until the hostages return home.”

"Halevi, meanwhile, said the first anniversary of the massacre “is not only a day of remembrance but also a day calling for a deep soul-searching. To recognize failures and learn from them, while examining the challenges, those that have been and those that are yet to come.” . . .

Horrors at Netiv Ha’asara

"Channel 12 news on Sunday aired more extensive and unedited footage of the horrors carried out in the home of Gil Taasa, a firefighter who lived in the border community of Netiv Ha’asara.

"The video shows Gil and two of his sons running for the backyard bomb shelter amid the early morning rocket sirens. Later, terrorists are seen bursting into the backyard and throwing a grenade inside the shelter. Gil jumps on the grenade and is killed, saving the lives of his children, Koren and Shay, who were wounded. The terrorists force the kids back into the apartment, where one of them rummages through their fridge, ignoring the pleas of the bleeding children, as he casually sips from their bottle of Coca-Cola.

After the terrorists left the apartment, the two boys ran to the nearby home of their mother, Sabine — who was separated from Gil, and was living in an attached apartment. They were ultimately rescued alive. The Taasas’ older son, Or, was slain separately that day, at the Zikim Beach, where he was out fishing with friends" . . ..

New York’s Unequal Rights Amendment

Linda R. Killian

The underhanded purpose of Prop. 1 is to memorialize a laundry list of left-wing policies that had zero chance of passing through normal legislative order and public comment.  

"In November, voters in New York will be asked to approve Prop. 1, an Equal Rights Amendment to the state’s constitution that progressive Democrat politicians claim will provide ironclad protections for abortion rights, reproductive freedom, and equal rights for everyone.  It is a lie and a deceitful trap.

"If approved, Prop. 1 will add nothing to the state’s existing statutory rights to abortion on demand, a right that was enacted more than half a century ago in 1970.  Prop. 1, or, more formally, an Amendment to Protect against Unequal Treatment, creates over a dozen new special categories of protected individuals, beyond the traditional legal categories of race, color, creed, religion, and sex.  Prop. 1 would codify new constitutional protections for age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy outcomes, national origin, and autonomy.  There is no mention of abortion.  Other special protected categories such as LGBTQ and disabilities have long enjoyed constitutional protection in New York.  There are no new “rights” for women.

"The title of the constitutional proposal betrays its real intent: the unequal treatment of individuals." . . .