Politically Incorrect to Express Patriotism?

A story in the AP newswire today tells of a single customer who has complained to Dairy Queen, Inc. about what he/she believes to be a 'politically incorrect' sign on display in a Wisconsin restaurant. Here's the text...

"A Wisconsin Dairy Queen owner is defending a sign describing his restaurant as "politically incorrect" for its unabashed support for "God and country.

The sign at the franchise in Kewaskum notifies patrons that staff may say "Merry Christmas," ''Happy Easter" and "God Bless America," among other things.

Owner Kevin Scheunemann tells WDJT-TV he "felt the sign was appropriate to hang in terms of being transparent about the views of the owner and staff supporting God and country."
One customer who apparently doesn't agree took a picture of the sign and complained about it on Dairy Queen's page on Facebook.
The chain tells the station the sign "expresses the views of this independent owner only" and doesn't speak for the company or any other franchise owners."

Are you freaking serious?! This complaining customer is so horrifically offended by an expression of patriotism, Christmas and other things that they must try to make an example of the franchise owner as being insensitive to people's feelings?!
Well, let's just make the whole world come to a screeching halt because one person is supposedly aghast by someone else saying, "God Bless America!"

HOW COMPLETELY LUDICROUS!

I would love to know just how many times a day this outraged individual says something akin to "Oh My God!" in their daily speech. Talk about coming from a hypocritical position to effect YOUR feelings on everyone else around you, or on those who enjoy hearing 'Merry Christmas, etc.'

This person really needs to stop thinking that the world revolves around themselves!

Plain and simply, I say to them, "Get a life and stop telling everyone else what to say, think or express."

Then, grow a spine and realize that your personal views aren't the will and whim of the Universe.

(Absolutely disgusting!)

College Campuses No Longer Free Speech Zones?

From Alliance Defending Freedom, a watchdog legal group whose aim it is to ensure our freedoms as guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, comes disturbing information from college campuses across the country. Below are a few excerpts of highly questionable actions happening to the young students there to learn, instead of being indoctrinated by liberal thinking and attitudes that ultimately deprive them of freedoms they take for granted. Please read these examples...

(Caution, if you are a free-thinking American dedicated to the principles this country was founded upon, these blurbs will both infuriate and exasperate you at the same time.)

*A few years ago, Stephen Trachtenberg, who was then the president of George Washington University, declared at graduation: “If anyone has a mortarboard, you can move your tassels from right to left, right to left, which is what I hope happened to your politics in the last four years.”

*Bill Savage, a professor at Northwestern University, explained why liberals will dominate in the long-run despite the fact that conservatives have a lot of children.

“The children of red states will seek a higher education,” he explained, “and that education will very often happen in blue states or blue islands in red states. For the foreseeable future, loyal dittoheads will continue to drop off their children at the dorms. After a teary-eyed hug, Mom and Dad will drive their SUV off toward the nearest gas station, leaving their beloved progeny behind … And then they are all mine.”

*When a study revealed that Duke University employed far more politically liberal professors than conservatives, the Chairman of the Philosophy Department defended this disparity saying since “stupid people are generally conservative, then there are lots of conservatives we will never hire.”

This next one is especially mind boggling!

*Campus security arrested Michelle Gregoire and two associates at Kellogg Community College in Michigan for handing out copies of the U.S. Constitution. The school claims these individuals violated its solicitation policy, which requires students to obtain permission from the school before they engage in any expressive activity anywhere on campus.
Ironically, this repressive policy apparently forbids efforts to circulate the very document that protects free speech in our country!

*California State University — San Marcos funds pro-abortion and other favored views with almost $300,000 in mandatory fees charged to all of its students. When the campus president of Students for Life attempted to bring a pro-life speaker to campus and simply asked for $500 in funding, the request was denied.

*A Fresno State University professor instructed students in his class to join him in defacing and erasing Fresno State Students for Life’s sidewalk chalk messages on campus. The professor even had the audacity to claim that “College campuses are not free speech areas.”

These examples are but a few that ADF actively opposes in court in order to protect our college students from the dangers of the current liberal socialistic agenda. They report that the ADF is successful in winning over 90% of their cases against the repressive policies on many college campuses. If this attitude of our institutions of higher learning concern you as much as they do me, I hope that, as parents of college students, or just as concerned citizens, you call or write your elected Representatives and Senators at ALL levels of local, State and National Governments and demand that colleges be returned to places of free thinking, free speech and open ideas of all philosophies wherein our children can learn and express themselves without fear of retribution, intimidation or unfair policies towards unfavored viewpoints.
You may also contribute to the Alliance Defending Freedom so that their freely given legal work continues to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights for ALL students on ALL college and school campuses in these United States.

Absolutely Mindboggling: Gitmo Terrorist Prisoners' Medical Treatment

Here's a truly mindboggling news item from Judicial Watch, the non-profit Governmental watchdog legal group. To say this one is astounding comes far short of the truth...

"As the nation prepares to commemorate the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military, a Pentagon insider reveals that Al Qaeda terrorist jailed at Guantanamo get better medical treatment than our own veterans.

As disgraceful as this may seem, it’s not at all far-fetched considering the Obama administration has gone out of its way to accommodate the prisoners—the world’s most dangerous terrorists—at the U.S. Naval base in southeastern Cuba. We’re talking about 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) and his partners in crime, Ramzi Binalshibh and Ali Abdul Aziz Ali. USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is also locked up there.

Since 2008 Judicial Watch has regularly traveled to Gitmo to monitor the Military Commission proceedings of these Islamic jihadists. On many occasions, members of the U.S. Military have expressed to JW representatives that captives in the high-security compound have better living conditions than American soldiers stationed there. This includes food service, sports facilities and even high-speed internet, according to information obtained directly by JW during trips to Gitmo.
Now, in the midst of the scandal involving the Veterans Affairs healthcare system, a Pentagon insider confirms what many have suspected; while our veterans are receiving deplorable healthcare services, the VA is providing jailed terrorists with topnotch medical treatment. J.D. Gordon, a retired Navy Commander who served as a Pentagon spokesman in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, offers enraging figures via a news site. During his tenure Gordon visited Gitmo dozens of times and he got to go behind the scenes.

There are approximately 150 terrorists at Gitmo yet the VA has 100 doctors, nurses and healthcare personnel assigned to them, Gordon says. “Doctors and medical personnel are at their beck and call,” he confirms, adding that they are readily available for things as minor as a cold, fever, toothache or chest and back pain. The jihadists who murdered thousands of Americans never have to wait, Gordon says, because the Gitmo patient to healthcare provider ratio is 1.5 to 1. “No problem, come right on in,” Gordon writes in his piece.

If you risked your life serving your country, however, the ratio is 35 to 1, according to Gordon who discloses that there are 9 million veterans receiving VA healthcare and 267,930 providers. This is egregious, to say the least. The VA healthcare system has been notoriously flawed for many years—under both Democrat and Republican administrations—but the sad fact that even terrorists are getting better services from the agency really accentuates the severity of the problem.
The system is so inept that military veterans are needlessly dying because of long waits and delayed care at VA hospitals, news reports and federal audits have confirmed. The worst part is that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the nation’s second-largest presidential cabinet agency, is well aware of the crisis but has done nothing to correct it. In fact, VA managers have actively covered up the wrongdoing with fraudulent record keeping, including a secret list to conceal exorbitant waiting periods to receive medical attention. Now the VA Inspector General and Congress are investigating this atrocity. In the meantime it seems that veterans must relocate to a Gitmo jail cell to get adequate medical care from the from the U.S. government."

Flying the US Flag Upside Down in Protest?

A very recent movement by leftist democrats who overtly oppose the Donald Trump Presidency have made a call to fly the US flag upside down as a form of protest to his supposed abuses and impeachable offences in his first seven months in office. This is just a ludicrous protest simply for the fact that flying the flag upside down in a signal to neighbors and passersby that you or your household are in great distress.
The following is my response...

"Let's see...Under King Obama, the Constitution was endangered more than at any point in our history. He also used the NSA, IRS and possibly the FIB to subvert and inhibit Third Party opposition in the past two elections...which is totally illegal. He used Executive Privilege to bypass Congress while attempting to make laws...which is illegal. Obama supported the Black Lives Matter movement which is actively militant and a danger to the general public...which is illegal. He tried to force the State of Arizona to accept his open borders policy...which is illegal according the Arizona State Constitution, and which is prohibited by the Federal Constitution under the US States self-determination clause.
The then monarchical wannabe tried repeatedly to eliminate citizens owning guns...which is illegal under the Second Amendment. He tried to force churches to accept Gay Marriage under threat of removing tax exempt status...which is illegal under the First Amendment. He failed to see that an American Ambassador under attack in Benghazi was given the military support that was desperately needed...which is, at the very least, morally reprehensible and shameful before the American public. He gave illegal immigrants actual rights in this country that they don't deserve, and gave them more benefits (education, housing, healthcare, public assistance) than our own citizens receive...which is morally bankrupt, if not outright illegal. I could go on and on about the failures and scandals of President Barack Obama. However, his actions in office were more than enough for impeachment, but no party enacted the proceedings despite King Barry's glaring abuses of the Constitution and the public trust.

President Trump has not even been in office for seven months, and the Democrats are calling for impeachment for nothing. Sure, he has a big mouth and a huge ego; but there is not one verifiable thing he has done that even comes close to impeachment. They just need to get past the election and start governing again. The seeming witch hunt is beyond ridiculous. Let the man do his job. If he truly deserves impeachment, then I will join in the calls to do so. Until then, I sure wish the left would stop their whining about President Trump.

And so readers know, I am an Independent voter, and did NOT voter for Trump, or Hillary. Both were sad choices. But I am giving our President the benefit of the doubt until he proves that he doesn't deserve my support."

President Lincoln and the Comfort of Providence

A bit of REAL history here, that completely dismisses the revisionist historians seeking to remove God from the history of this Nation, and from the public square in general.

Please read... 

The one word that truly represents the Fourth of July is 'Freedom'

With the countless threats to religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family that abound in our land, it is important to maintain perspective in the fight God has called us to in this battle before us. Our nation has faced many perils before, and each time God has delivered us by His hand. Consider that in 1863, on this very day, the bloody Battle of Gettysburg ended with over 50,000 horrible casualties. President Lincoln, who was increasingly drawn to utter dependence on His Maker, was asked by one of his generals if he was fearful of the outcome at Gettysburg. He responded:

No, I was not; some of my Cabinet and many others in Washington were, but I had no fears…. In the pinch of your campaign up there, when everybody seemed panic-stricken, and nobody could tell what was going to happen, oppressed by the gravity of our affairs, I went to my room one day, and I locked the door, and got down on my knees before Almighty God, and prayed to Him mightily for victory at Gettysburg. I told Him that this was His war, and our cause His cause, but we couldn’t stand another Fredericksburg or Chancellorsville. And I then and there made a solemn vow to Almighty God, that if He would stand by our boys at Gettysburg, I would stand by Him. And He did stand by you boys, and I will stand by Him. And after that (I don't know how it was, and I can’t explain it), soon a sweet comfort crept into my soul that God Almighty had taken the whole business into his own hands and that things would go all right at Gettysburg. And that is why I had no fears about you.

Twelve days after the Battle of Gettysburg, on July 15, 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed a National Day of Prayer. God delivered our nation then. And He will deliver our nation and those who put their trust in Him now.

The "Rights" of Illegal MS-13 Gang Members in the U.S. Were Violated?

Here's a story that just leaves me baffled.

From Judicial Watch is a story that makes me wonder just what the Democratic Judges in this country are more concerned with...US citizens, or the supposed "rights" of illegal aliens (even the violent ones) currently wreaking havoc on our streets. Please read...

In Freeing Illegal Alien Gang Member Obama Judge Says U.S. Violated Rights of Due Process, Family Unity JUNE 21, 2017 An Obama-appointed federal judge in Virginia ordered an illegal immigrant member of a violent street gang released from prison because immigration authorities supposedly violated his rights when he entered the U.S. illegally through Mexico. The Honduran teen crossed the Rio Grande during the influx of illegal alien minors a few years ago and turned himself into the U.S Border Patrol, according to a lengthy mainstream newspaper article, after acknowledging his gang history. The feds held him without a hearing in Virginia because he’s also a known drug dealer, but this month he was freed by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon. The judge ruled that, by holding the illegal alien gangbanger without a hearing, the government violated his rights to due process and family unity. Here’s an excerpt from the newspaper article, which refers to the release as remarkable: “For immigration advocates, U.S. District Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon’s June 1 order was a major legal victory over the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the federal agency charged with caring for children apprehended at the border without their parents. The decision could lead to the release of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of long-detained unaccompanied minors, they said. The teen’s release was remarkable for another reason: Before coming to the United States, he had sold drugs and witnessed murders as a member of MS-13. The violent street gang is on the rise in the United States, fueled, in part, by the surge in unaccompanied minors. MS-13 has been linked to dozens of recent killings, from the Washington area to Long Island, Boston and Houston. President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have voiced alarm about MS-13 and the way it has taken advantage of the U.S. immigration system.” Some 150,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC)—mostly from Central America—entered the U.S. through the Mexican border under the Obama administration and this disturbing case out of Virginia is one of many illustrating the threat they represent to the American public. Judicial Watch has covered and investigated the UAC influx for years and has obtained public records from the various government agencies responsible for relocating the illegal alien minors throughout the country. From the moment the UACs began arriving in 2014, sources in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Judicial Watch that the nation’s most violent street gangs—including the MS-13—were actively recruiting new members at U.S. shelters housing the illegal immigrant minors and that they used Red Cross phones to communicate. Both the MS-13 and the 18th Street gangs embarked on a recruiting frenzy at the various facilities housing the newly arrived illegal aliens, according to Judicial Watch’s law enforcement sources. The UACs also brought in dangerous diseases— including swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis—and occupied the nation’s military bases as shelters. The MS-13 is a feared street gang of mostly Central American illegal immigrants that’s spread throughout the U.S. and is renowned for drug distribution, murder, rape, robbery, home invasions, kidnappings, vandalism and other violent crimes. The Justice Department’s National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) says criminal street gangs like the MS-13 are responsible for the majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs. A year after the Obama administration began allowing droves of UACs to remain in the U.S., the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed that the MS-13 emerged as a top tier gang in the Lone Star State thanks to the influx of illegal alien gang members that crossed into the state the previous year. In an alarming 19-page report, the agency writes that the number of MS-13 members encountered by U.S. Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley sector increased each year, accelerating in 2014 and coinciding with increased illegal immigration from Central America during the same period. This clearly refers to the UAC crisis that saw thousands of illegal immigrants—many with criminal histories—storm into the U.S. in a matter of months. Authorities in Texas predict the problem will only get worse. “Gang members from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador could be destined for locations in Texas with large Central American communities, including the Houston and Dallas areas,” the Texas Department of Safety writes in its report. Even if that doesn’t materialize, the state already has a serious gang crisis. “Reports of increased MS-13 gang activity have already surfaced in the Houston area,” the Department of Safety confirms. “MS-13 gang members are known for highly violent crimes, including brutal murders and dismemberments. Several recent crimes in Texas illustrate the criminal threat associated with MS-13.” Here are some gruesome examples included in the agency’s report: “On September 15, 2014, the mutilated body of a 14-year-old middle school student was discovered in the woods near Houston after he was murdered with a machete.  Initial information from the investigation indicates the victim was a U.S. citizen and an MS-13 member who was murdered after trying to leave the gang. In October 2014, a 14-year-old and three adult males were arrested and charged with murder in this case. The adult males are from El Salvador, and at least two are documented MS-13 gang members.  In mid-August 2014, a 29-year-old 18th Street gang member was stabbed to death in Houston by a 16-year-old El Salvadoran member of MS-13. The victim suffered multiple stab wounds outside of a bar and was discovered a few days later in a bayou. According to investigators, the juvenile suspect revealed he illegally crossed into the U.S. in March 2014.” Another huge concern is the relationship between street gangs and Mexican drug cartels, the report says, because it’s a very profitable partnership. “These groups pose the greatest gang threat to Texas due to their relationships with Mexican cartels, high levels of transnational criminal activity, level of violence, and overall statewide presence.” The lucrative gang/cartel business endeavors are also expanding into human smuggling and gambling, the Texas Department of Safety reveals in its report. The recently freed MS-13 member will live with relatives in Kentucky, the news story says, further revealing that it’s not the only case of a UAC with gang ties being released by the feds. The mainstream media won’t identify the gangbanger because he’s 17-years-old and they want to protect his “safety.” The article quotes Attorney General Jeff Sessions confirming this: “If they come as undocumented minors, the federal government transports them wherever in the interior they say they’d like to go. The bad guys know how this system works, and they have exploited it.” Just last week the same newspaper, Washington D.C.’s largest, published a piece titled “MS-13 gains recruits and power in U.S. as teens surge across border” that analyzes dozens of court cases and includes startling anecdotes of UACs with gang ties. “In the Washington region alone, at least 42 young people who crossed into the United States by themselves have been involved in MS-13 violence over the past three years,” the article states. “That includes 19 charged in connection with slayings or attempted slayings and four who were killed.” After years of relative quiet, the MS-13 has made a comeback, the news probe discovered, and it’s been fueled by the recent influx of illegal alien teens. “The rise in violence has hit especially hard on Long Island and in Boston, Houston and the D.C. area, with authorities linking dozens of killings to the gang,” the article says.

Happy Birthday to the US Army and the US Flag

Happy Birthday to the US Army AND The US Flag

Today is the birthday of the Army, created by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775. The next day, George Washington was elected Commander-in-Chief and soon issued orders that set the tone for the military, including one declaring:

"The blessings and protection of Heaven are at all times necessary but especially so in times of public distress and danger. The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor so to live and act as becomes a Christian Soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country."

Over the 242 years since its inception, the US Army--and indeed the entire American military--have repeatedly lived up to the high ideals set forth by its first Commander-in-Chief.

Speaking of the Army after the Civil War in 1871, Frederick Douglass reminded the nation:

"We must never forget that the loyal soldiers who rest beneath this sod flung themselves between the nation and the nation destroyers. If today we have a country not boiling in an agony of blood (like France)--if now we have a united country, no longer cursed by the hell-black system of human bondage--if the American name is no longer a by-word and a hissing to a mocking earth--if the Star-Spangled Banner floats only over free American citizens in every quarter of the land, and our country has before it a long and glorious career of justice, liberty, and civilization--we are indebted to the unselfish devotion of the noble army who rest in these honored graves all around us."

During WWI, General John Pershing reminded Americans:

"Three thousand miles from home, an American army is fighting for you. Everything you hold worthwhile is at stake. Only the hardest blows can win against the enemy we are fighting. Invoking the spirit of our forefathers, the army asks your unflinching support, to the end that the high ideals for which America stands may endure upon the earth."

And in WWII, General George Marshall spoke about the mission of the United States:

"We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other."

By the way, today is also Flag Day, commemorating June 14, 1777, when the Continental Congress passed a resolution "that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."

Today, let's celebrate the flag as well as the Army and American military who so ably defend our God-given freedoms and God-blessed nation!

Pastors Lead the Charge

March 17 is annually celebrated in Boston as "Evacuation Day," commemorating the departure of the British from the city after an extended eleven month occupation at the start of the American War for Independence. That occupation lasted from April 19, 1775, through March 17, 1776, encompassing the Siege of Boston and including early notable events of the War, such as the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and George Washington taking command of the American army.
The occupation started when British leader Thomas Gage led troops into Boston, and then dispatched hundreds to seize or destroy ammunition stored in Concord. Riders such as Paul Revere set out to warn local inhabitants, and also to alert John Hancock and Samuel Adams (who were under threat of death by the British) of the approach of the British army.
Hancock and Adams were staying in the home of Lexington Pastor Jonas Clark. Pastor Clark and 77 militia from his church gathered to meet the approaching British--a skirmish easily won by the 800 British troops. (In the WallBuilders library is a sermon preached by Jonas Clark on the one-year anniversary of the Battle of Lexington.)
After Lexington, the British pressed on to Concord, where they were met by Rev. William Emerson and some 400 Americans. After the British suffered casualties in that skirmish, they retreated to Boston, and all along the way, British forces were fired upon by American militias from the surrounding countryside, including those led by pastors such as Philips Payson and Benjamin Balch. (Many additional preachers also fought in other engagements throughout the War.)
Evacuation Day is a reminder of the courage and backbone shown by the spiritual leaders of earlier generations--a spiritual leadership still badly needed today!