Friday, August 29, 2014

Seattle Schools Boot Boy Scouts

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Seattle Public Schools has ended its affiliation with the Boy Scouts of America.

Why would they do this? The Boy Scouts have been helping a lot of kids.

An example of the Scouts contribution to kids is in the popular outdoor education program at Garfield High School called "POST" that educates about 500 kids.

But that program is at the heart of Seattle Schools' dismissal of the Boy Scouts.

The district, in a letter, said they were booting the Boy Scouts because of concerns over "academic rigor."

Do you believe that?

Neither does anyone else.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Faux Leadership, Faux Plans And A Faux Vision

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The world is ablaze with wars, rumors of wars and utter confusion around the globe---the first of its kind terrorist state (caliphate) has been carved out in Northern Iraq and Syria (ISIS), while a second terrorist state was declared this week in Nigeria (Boko Haran). Both "states" are killing people by the thousands for a variety of reasons, but mostly because they believe differently than the leaders of the "state."

The military leaders in this administration, in an unguarded moment this week, told the American people, "We have not seen anything like this before" and "It is a direct threat to America."

In the following days, after political considerations and likely some direct conversation, they walked back their statements and, as they say, "Put it in context."

However, a new West Point Center report out last night challenges the notion that the terrorist movement just materialized in the last few weeks. The Center says this has been building for the past 4 years. Remember the president called them the "jayvee team" just a few weeks ago?

Returning from vacation with the world burning, President Obama is unveiling his new Global Warming Treaty, which isn't really a treaty, rather what a treaty would look like if he could get 2/3 of the Senate to approve it.

He says he is counting on "global peer pressure" to stop global warming.

Even the New York Times seems to be questioning his thinking and timing on the matter.

And there is a greater issue that looms over this great country. What is the vision for America?

What is your vision for America? Keep in mind that if there is no vision.....

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Assault On Religious Freedom Expands To Pizzas

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Steve Rose is a Christian and believes it is a "good thing" to go to church.

Steve also owns Bailey's Pizza.

He, like many small business owners, is very creative.

Recently he began offering a 10% discount to people who brought in a church bulletin---indicating they had gone to church.

The assault on our freedom of religion is expanding and accelerating. Almost daily we hear of people in the wedding services business being sued, fined and put out of business because of their deeply held beliefs in biblical marriage.

Abortion advocates, including our own government, continuously try to force businesses to provide abortion pills to employees, even though the business owner believes in the sanctity of life and opposes abortion because of their religious convictions.

Now the assault on religious freedom---particularly Christianity, has expanded to food services---specifically pizza places.

An atheist organization, run by a former evangelical minister, is threatening to sue Steve Rose if he doesn't stop giving people a 10% discount because they went to church.

The charge?

Discrimination.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Same-Sex "Marriage"- America's Ball And Chain?

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A New York judge has issued a ruling after a Christian family refused to allow a same-sex couple to use their upstate family farm as a setting for their "marriage."

Cynthia and Robert Gifford have been subsidizing their farm income by renting out the farm and part of their large barn-like house for special events, including weddings.

Because they politely refused this particular "wedding" business, they have now been slapped with a $13,000 fine, with $3,000 of it going to the lesbian couple for the "anguish" they suffered by the rejection.

The Giffords and their employees must now go through a "re-education program."

A similar situation occurred at Le Blanc's Rice Creek Hunting and Recreation preserve in Minnesota.

The Christian owners supplement their income from the 1,700 acre farm by renting out the facilities for special events, including weddings.

When threatened with an expensive court trial and the possibility of fines in the thousands of dollars, they decided they did not have the money to fight the two homosexual men who were demanding the use of their property and the force of the state, so they worked out a compromise.

American Founder Patrick Henry famously said as he looked at the British ships anchored off the coast of the Colonies, "When people forget God, tyrants forge their chains."

Is the obsession with same-sex marriage, the homosexual agenda, and the laws that have been enacted to enforce the agenda becoming the ball and chain of 21st Century America?

Monday, August 25, 2014

Abortion Industry Changes Their Words But Not Their Ways

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The lucrative abortion industry is in panic mode. This generation is not buying their marketing message of killing unwanted babies as a "pro-choice" act.

Planned Parenthood and their first cousins NARAL, Emily's list---you know their family, are now advocating a "pro-abortion reversal" of Roe v. Wade.

They are changing their words and their tactics.

They are now advocating the idea that abortion is a Second Amendment right, equivalent to the right to keep and bear arms.

They are dramatically changing their words and tactics, but be assured, Planned Parenthood's founder Margaret Sanger's philosophy and mission is intact. They have not departed from her eugenicist goals.

Here's the new game plan.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Government Run Education Attacking US History

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The College Board's Advancement Placement Program (AP) has delivered a "comprehensive course redesign" of US history for the 2014-15 school year.

US history has evolved to better reflect the far left secular progressive view of America.

They say it will better prepare your child for college.

Informed parents are asking, "What happened to George Washington?"---and the values and principles that made America the freest and most prosperous nation in the history of the world?

This is a defiant step toward revising America's heritage to "remake America" into the image of mediocrity and secularism.

The College Board, whose efforts are linked to Common Core Standards, says their revised US history will "help students' ability to think critically, construct solid arguments and see many sides of an issue."

However, my personal review does not reflect "many sides" of any so-called "issues" of historical significance. It reflects a very narrow view which highlights and advances the far left progressive Cultural Marxism that is nurtured in public education.

Here's a couple of things I think parents and grandparents should know.

Thursday, August 21, 2014

How To Vote: "Distinguish Choosing Evil from Limiting Evil." Really?

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I appreciate the work of Priests For Life.

However, they are circulating a message that I believe every conservative and person of Christian faith should very carefully evaluate.

It is regarding your vote. Its titled, "Ten Easy Steps for Voting With A Clear Conscience."

Steps #7 and #8 caught my attention.

Number 7 is "Remember the Party Matters."

Number 8 is "Distinguish 'Choosing Evil' From 'Limiting Evil'."

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

"Black Americans Being Merchandised By Liberals"

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Joseph L. Green is Black, he is a pastor, he is not a Republican and he tells it like it is.

He says he has never been a Republican, but is a conservative and says "Black America is being merchandised by the liberals."

He recalls a conversation he had with a caller to his radio show who said, "I'm surprised that, as a black man, you are against same-sex marriage."

Green says this is one of the many ways the liberal or progressive left is deceiving the Black community.

He says, "To equate homosexuality with race is absurd." Yet, he says, there is a disconnect in the Black community between what they believe and how they vote. Their politics don't match their beliefs.

However, he says, Blacks are beginning to move off the "mental plantation" that is run by the liberals.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Ayatolla Lectures U.S. On Morality

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Just when you think you've seen it all...you haven't.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spent the weekend lecturing and condemning the United States over the tensions in Ferguson, Missouri.

The Ayatolla was not only speaking to the press, but was on Facebook and Twitter accusing the US of claiming to support human rights even as "people are deprived of a sense of security only because they have dark skins."

He said, "This is not about the past...50 or 100 years ago...It is about today and the major cities of the United States."

Does anyone in America believe we need a lecture from the Ayatolla on morality and human rights?

Apparently some do, as they are advancing a narrative that is very similar to that of the Ayatolla's on the matter in Ferguson, Missouri.

A memo from Jam Wallis' religious left SoJourners seems to indicate they have already tried the case, at least in their own minds.

Their statement begins with, "I'm angry..."

Clearly the Ayatolla is trying to exploit this issue in Ferguson and further divide America with the intent of destroying the country. He has been clear about Iran's intentions toward both Israel and the US.

But what is Jim Wallis and his religious left cohorts trying to accomplish?

Monday, August 18, 2014

37,000 Illegal Minors to Show Up for the First Day of School

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The Department of Justice issued a statement reminding public schools that they are required to enroll all children, regardless of their immigration status.

According to the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 62,998 "unaccompanied minors" under the age of 17 have illegally crossed the US border since last October, and the government is integrating them into classrooms across America.

More than 37,000 are ready to begin school when classes resume, the balance of the 62,998 are being held in processing centers and will soon be introduced into the classroom.

Some states will be more impacted by this than others, but all will feel the impact and none feel they are prepared for it.

Clearly this issue will create a crises for local public schools. It is also pointing out, once again, that America's public education is miserably failing even before this latest crises hits the classroom and the budgets next month.

Friday, August 15, 2014

Lesbian "Brides" Bully Bridal Shop

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Another small business is under attack because they believe in God's model for marriage.

A woman came into the W.W. Bridal Boutique in Bloomsburg, Pa., and said she was shopping for "wedding dresses."

She explained she was "marrying" her lesbian lover.

The folks at W.W. Bridal Boutique told her " unfortunately" they were not currently servicing same-sex weddings---"it's just not something we do," they said.

Rather than displaying the tolerance homosexuals claim to practice and demand of others, the lesbians started a campaign against the owner and the business.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Navy Throwing Bibles Overboard

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Despite a long standing relationship with the Gideons to supply Bibles to our military, that practice is continuing to be attacked and undermined.

A memo just out from the Navy has, in effect, caused Navy employees to begin disposing of Bibles at naval facilities.

Employees are saying they have been instructed to "box up the Bibles" so they can "be taken to a donation center somewhere."

The "purge" is said to be, according to Rear Admiral Robert Bianchi, an effort to "standardize" the availability of Bibles in the naval facilities.

He says some facilities had Bibles, some did not, so his new policy will bring "consistency."

Consistency with what?

And why the increased efforts to remove God and Scripture from the American experience?

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Cheney Schools Apologize For Having Christian Speaker

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Although Cheney School District has apologized for allowing a Christian to speak at an assembly last school year, for parent Terry Fiala, that's not enough.

Terry says the speaker "violated my daughter's rights---I feel I have been violated because having him in a school is a validation of his opinion."

"Him" is Gary Horton who is an openly Christian speaker and has done thousands of school assemblies.

Cheney School District is attempting to rectify this "violation."

I called Cheney School District office yesterday and was told the people there could not speak about this issue, but Sean Dotson, who is in the district office could, but was not available at this time, promising he would return my call. As we publish this article, he has not returned my call.

I'm wondering what the ultimate goal of the school might look like. Is it to eliminate any voice that may not agree with the public education narrative, or is it simply to eliminate any voice that is favorable toward God and country?

The school district is promising the public they are "taking steps to see that this never happens again."

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

University Prof Fired For Disclosing Facts

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Cal. State University professor and researcher Mark Armitage was fired after he disclosed discovering "soft tissue" on a triceratops fossil.

The discovery stands in opposition to the acceptable narrative taught to our children regarding the earth's origins.

The scientific narrative in the classroom states as indisputable fact that dinosaurs roamed the earth about 60 million years ago, long before man evolved and joined the evolutionary progression.

A couple of problems with Professor Armitage and his discovery:

1. It does not support the predetermined outcome of present day science and its doctrine of evolution.

2. Armitage's discovery was published in a respected peer review scientific journal and given significant consideration in that several other similar discoveries have also surfaced.

Following the publication of Armitage's discovery, he was fired by the university.

CBS is reporting that the professor is now suing Cal State University.

Court documents reveal the university, following the professor's discovery, began a personal attack on his religious faith which was followed by his dismissal.

Friday, August 08, 2014

Which Part Of The Bible Should We Believe?

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Talking with James Dobson earlier this week, Dr. Ben Carson asked "If the Bible is wrong on gay marriage, then why isn't it wrong on everything else?"

It's understandable that atheists and secularists take every opportunity to undermine the authority of the Bible.

But how can those who claim to be "Christian" square up with the notion that we can "selectively" accept biblical teaching on morality?

The Presbyterian Church, the United Methodist church and other denominations are being torn apart by this and similar issues.

Too many Pastors and political leaders continue to claim a belief in the Bible, yet condition their professed belief by only believing certain parts of it.

How does one chose which part to believe, and which not to believe?

Should the Bible shape the culture, or should the culture shape the Bible?

If the culture should shape the Bible, what then becomes the moral compass for society?

Thursday, August 07, 2014

US Military: Bible Camp-"No," Gay Parade-"Yes"

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The military has again selectively applied their policy saying "no" to an invitation to meet kids at a summer Bible camp and "yes" to marching in uniform in a gay pride parade.

A local pastor wanted the kids to meet various "rescue groups" and learn how they help and serve people in the community.

All the agencies showed up---except the National Guard. They said it violated "policy."

How can our military justify marching in gay pride parades while standing up a group of kids who admire and look up to them?

One Guardsman said, "It makes me wonder what I'm actually fighting for."

The pastor and the locals are in disbelief. The pastor says, "I don't think most Americans realize how much their religious liberty is in jeopardy."

Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Terrorist Commander Offers Prayer For Israel and US

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Yesterday morning Israel withdrew its forces from Gaza honoring a 72-hour cease-fire. Both Hamas and Israel agreed to the cease-fire late Monday night.

The head of Iran's shadowy Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qod's Force (Jerusalem Force) has sent a message to all the terrorist operatives in Gaza.

He has also offered a prayer for Israel and the United States.

Governor Mike Huckabee also has a prayer and some strong words on the subject of Israel, the US and why true Christians support Israel.

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

FBI Now "Rating" News Stories

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It was discovered this weekend the Federal Bureau of Investigation plans to hire a contractor to monitor media coverage and grade stories about the agency based on content and tone of coverage.

The stories will be rated as "positive," "neutral" or "negative."

I'm no fan of the news media. I personally think most all are biased and are a useful tool in helping to advance the agenda for the most secular progressive president in the history of our country.

But this, along side all the other revelations about government manipulation, domestic surveillance and the collecting of data on regular American citizens, is a bit much.

Are you comfortable with this? Or is it just me?

Why is the FBI "rating" media coverage of itself? At taxpayer expense.

And what are they going to do with the information they collect on writers and publishers?


Today is Primary Election Day in Washington State.

If you have not yet done so, be sure to mark your ballot today and submit it by 8 PM at a drop box or if you mail it in, be sure it is postmarked today.


Friday, August 01, 2014

Obama: "Muslims Built The Very Fabric Of Our Nation"

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Last Sunday, President Obama thanked Muslims for "building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy."

On the same day, ISIS---now called "The Islamic State," released a 30-minute video on YouTube and Liveleak with images of Muslims killing fellow Muslims, shooting them in the head, mass executions, at least 9 crucifixions and drive by random killings.

In both cases, the celebration was Eid-al-Fitr, the final day of the month long fast of Ramadan.

President and Mrs. Obama said in their statement that "'Eid' celebrates the common values that unite us in our humanity."

Most Americans understand there are Muslims that are radical terrorists and some who are not.

But it is a bit much for the average American to understand just how Islam "built the very fabric of our nation."

And has Islam "strengthened the core of our democracy?"