“RALEIGH- North Carolina legislators decided to rein in local governments by approving a bill Wednesday that prevents cities and counties from passing their own anti-discrimination rules. The legislation expected to become law, will deal a blow to the LBGT movement after successes with protections in cities across the country”.
What happens is that Charlotte passed a law that it is OK for someone of a different gender to use a restroom other than the one his/her physical equipment indicate.
Robert Jeffress, pastor of the 12,000 member First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, is rebuking talk radio host Glenn Beck for his recent criticism of evangelical Christians who live in the South and are not supporting
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
At Bible study last night, Pastor Steve criticized Jeffres forhis stand. He thinks that preachers should stay out of public partisan politics. (Say that real fast. 😉 )
He is for Cruz, but didn’t[‘t elaborate. There was some discussion with his conclusion that the term “evangelical” doesn’t have a practical meaning anymore.
I have come to despise the term “evangelical”. While it once was an apt description of good Christian people the media has turn it into a term that evokes, “back woods,in-bred, ignorant, red-neck pond scum”. They may as well print pictures of a tent revival when the snakes are being passed.
YES! I do believe that clergy should stay out of public politics. One of the things I have always appreciated about my church is that in the Prayers of the People we pray for Barack our President. I don’t care for Obama at all, but as the President he does deserve our prayers. In my opinion he hasn’t done much to earn our respect, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t respect the office of the President and pray for that person who holds that office.
“The State Department on Wednesday offered a grant worth up to $1.5 million to produce a “television drama series” aimed at “countering violent extremism among young people in contemporary Afghan society.”
The U.S. mission to Afghanistan put out the grant offer.
“This grant will fund the development and broadcast of a television drama series in which young people grapple with everyday frustrations and lack of opportunity, while growing and learning through new experiences,” the offer said.”
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And Hillary’s no better, today calling for “waging online battles with extremists.”
What politician was it (Hillary?) who said Jihadists need are jobs and an economic future. … ?
The church should speak out on issues that also happen to be political. It becomes tricky when those issues are so political that they’re also quite partisan, but the church can’t and shouldn’t be muzzled.
We all pray for all of our leaders, including the president — I don’t do enough of that on my own, I’ll admit.
I think evangelical has now replaced “fundamentalist” in the sense that it conjures up some rather horrific visions for my liberal colleagues and friends. 😉
“Brussels bombers DID plan to attack nuclear power station as police uncover 12 hours of footage jihadists filmed outside a plant director’s home
Investigators found 12 hours of footage filmed by the jihadi cell in Brussels
It included film of the Belgian nuclear power chief’s home in Flanders
The ISIS terrorists are believed to have wanted to kidnap him to gain entry
It has now emerged the creators of the footage were the Bakraoui brothers
The footage was seized following the Paris terror attacks in November”
… In its continuing effort to quash religious liberty legislation across the nation, the National Football League (NFL) last week threatened Georgia with the loss of a Super Bowl bid if Gov. Nathan Deal does not veto the recently passed Free Exercise Protection Act. This marks the fourth time in two years the NFL (whose teams are worth an average of $1.97 billion each, according to Forbes) has threatened to pick up its ball and multi-million dollar economic windfall and go elsewhere if a state enacted conscience protection laws.
“[The NFL] told Georgia, ‘If you build a new stadium, the Super Bowl will come. If you build a new parking complex, the Super Bowl will come. If you give five certain tax breaks, the Super Bowl will come. And now, if you’ll veto the religious freedom bill, the Super Bowl will come,” said an exasperated state Rep. Kevin Tanner, one of the bill’s sponsors. …
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“The Obama administration expressed concern in 2009 about skyrocketing health care premiums in a report entitled, “The Burden of Health Insurance Premium Increases on American Families.” They were concerned that premiums had increased by 5.5 percent from 2008 to 2009. So the Democrats fixed it with Obamacare.
However, from 2010 to 2011 in the first year after Obamacare was enacted, premiums increased by 9.4 percent.
“In 2009, when the [Executive Office of the President] issued its report, states had seen premiums increase on average by 30 percent between 2004 and 2009,” states the Freedom Partners report. “But since 2009, health insurance premiums have continued to grow faster than wages in nearly every state, averaging a 28 percent increase from 2009 to 2014, resulting in a greater amount of disposable income being consumed by rising premiums.”
According to the report, while premiums increased by 28 percent from 2009 to 2014, wages increased by only 7.8 percent. From 2004 to 2009 when premiums increased by 30 percent, wages increased by only 12.2 percent.
It looks like we are going to need a heap of other people’s money to keep O’Care alive.
The data also finds that health care costs have exceeded the rate of inflation. “The average annual cost of a family’s employer-sponsored health insurance policy was $17,545 in 2015, which marks a 4.2 percent increase from the 2014 average of $16,834, while the inflation rate remained low at 0.1 percent,” states the report. “With health care costs still rising faster than inflation six years after passage of the Affordable Care Act, it is clear that the law is not helping lower the burden of health care expenses for American families.”
After Trump’s latest threat against Cruz’ wife, Cruz should do what needed to be done decades ago: Challenge Trump to a fight. Let’s handle things the Texas way.
There was just a segment on the local news of the two of them standing on a sidewalk. I am no body language expert but they were facing each other and were much too close to each other. I told Paul I would NEVER stand that close to Guy. Yes I have had to walk closely beside him on occasion when we were sharing an umbrella, but I would never stand that close face to face with any man other than Paul.
Cruz likes The Princess Bride. He needs to adopt my “Nothing after 1960” rule and go watch The Big Country. Gregory Peck whipped Charleton Heston in a great fight, then revealed Chuck Connors to be a Trump-like sniveling coward in a duel.
” A longtime NFL reporter revealed Wednesday the NFL agreed to a deal where the Los Angeles Rams — then St. Louis — didn’t have to do HBO’s “Hard Knocks” series in 2014 if they drafted Michael Sam.
“Sources say NFL agreed not to have Rams on Hard Knocks in 2014 if they drafted Michael Sam,” Howard Balzer tweeted.”
“Balzer reported the NFL was concerned Sam wouldn’t be drafted, so a deal was made with the Rams.
“Rams didn’t want Hard Knocks even without Sam. League concerned he wouldn’t be drafted. Deal made,” Balzer said.
Rams head coach Jeff Fisher called the report “absolutely absurd.”
“Conservative legal watchdogs have discovered new emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server dating back to the first days of her tenure as secretary of State.
The previously undisclosed February 2009 emails between Clinton from her then-chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, raise new questions about the scope of emails from Clinton’s early days in office that were not handed over to the State Department for recordkeeping and may have been lost entirely.
Clinton’s presidential campaign has previously claimed that the former top diplomat did not use her personal “clintonemail.com” account before March 2009, weeks after she was sworn in as secretary of State.
But on Thursday, the watchdog group Judicial Watch released one message from Feb. 13, 2009, in which Mills communicated with Clinton on the account to discuss the National Security Agency’s (NSA) efforts to produce a secure BlackBerry device for her to use as secretary of State.
The discovery is likely to renew questions about Clinton’s narrative about her use of the private email server, which has come under scrutiny.”
In the old days the perverts generally confined themselves to Broadway and women’s tennis. Now they are inching their way into sports we actually like and watch.
Women’s tennis is tough to watch. Very few women are big or strong enough too play a serve and volley game, so it is sort of like watching Pong on an old Atari set.
On the other hand, I love to watch women’s basketball. It is much more a team game than men’s basketball. Plays and strategy are crucial instead of great individual athletic ability. A great female point guard is a joy to watch.
I was taught to go forward as quickly as possible. Fortunately, I played mostly against players who could not do that so it made me look good. Didn’t do so well when I left the little pond and became a little fish in a big pond. Now, the only tennis court within miles only has the net up about two months out of the year. I might play a little catch but never football.
I can watch a little baseball or soccer (which is not around here at all). And I tell my boys I will watch one of their home games each year for football. I will watch girls’ basketball but not boys.
I think I will blame it on this stupid phone. Except I have a flip phone and never use it for anything but talking. So I can blame it on autocorrect on my computer. But I will just say, I clearly mistyped and that was not my intent.
Wandering Views 
From the Hendersonville Times-News
“RALEIGH- North Carolina legislators decided to rein in local governments by approving a bill Wednesday that prevents cities and counties from passing their own anti-discrimination rules. The legislation expected to become law, will deal a blow to the LBGT movement after successes with protections in cities across the country”.
What happens is that Charlotte passed a law that it is OK for someone of a different gender to use a restroom other than the one his/her physical equipment indicate.
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From Brietbart, via Drudge:
Robert Jeffress, pastor of the 12,000 member First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, is rebuking talk radio host Glenn Beck for his recent criticism of evangelical Christians who live in the South and are not supporting
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
At Bible study last night, Pastor Steve criticized Jeffres forhis stand. He thinks that preachers should stay out of public partisan politics. (Say that real fast. 😉 )
He is for Cruz, but didn’t[‘t elaborate. There was some discussion with his conclusion that the term “evangelical” doesn’t have a practical meaning anymore.
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I have come to despise the term “evangelical”. While it once was an apt description of good Christian people the media has turn it into a term that evokes, “back woods,in-bred, ignorant, red-neck pond scum”. They may as well print pictures of a tent revival when the snakes are being passed.
YES! I do believe that clergy should stay out of public politics. One of the things I have always appreciated about my church is that in the Prayers of the People we pray for Barack our President. I don’t care for Obama at all, but as the President he does deserve our prayers. In my opinion he hasn’t done much to earn our respect, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t respect the office of the President and pray for that person who holds that office.
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This is why liberals are useless in this fight. They simply don’t know how to fight, unless it’s a Republican target.
How do you stop ISIS? John Kerry says we need a TV drama. 🙄
SMH. Repeatedly.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/kerry-team-fight-violent-extremism-with-television-drama-series/article/2586687?custom_click=rss
“The State Department on Wednesday offered a grant worth up to $1.5 million to produce a “television drama series” aimed at “countering violent extremism among young people in contemporary Afghan society.”
The U.S. mission to Afghanistan put out the grant offer.
“This grant will fund the development and broadcast of a television drama series in which young people grapple with everyday frustrations and lack of opportunity, while growing and learning through new experiences,” the offer said.”
——————————-
And Hillary’s no better, today calling for “waging online battles with extremists.”
Ya. That’ll do it. 🙄
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I want my $1.5 million back!
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What politician was it (Hillary?) who said Jihadists need are jobs and an economic future. … ?
The church should speak out on issues that also happen to be political. It becomes tricky when those issues are so political that they’re also quite partisan, but the church can’t and shouldn’t be muzzled.
We all pray for all of our leaders, including the president — I don’t do enough of that on my own, I’ll admit.
I think evangelical has now replaced “fundamentalist” in the sense that it conjures up some rather horrific visions for my liberal colleagues and friends. 😉
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we ALSO pray for our leaders (meaning our church on Sundays), that should have read.
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I see over at Drudge that Obama tangoes as the world burns … 😀
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This is cause for concern………
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3507417/Brussels-bombers-DID-plan-attack-nuclear-power-station-police-uncover-12-hours-footage-jihadists-filmed-outside-plant-director-s-home.html
“Brussels bombers DID plan to attack nuclear power station as police uncover 12 hours of footage jihadists filmed outside a plant director’s home
Investigators found 12 hours of footage filmed by the jihadi cell in Brussels
It included film of the Belgian nuclear power chief’s home in Flanders
The ISIS terrorists are believed to have wanted to kidnap him to gain entry
It has now emerged the creators of the footage were the Bakraoui brothers
The footage was seized following the Paris terror attacks in November”
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From World Magazine:
http://www.worldmag.com/2016/03/will_nfl_interference_block_georgia_s_religious_liberty_law
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… In its continuing effort to quash religious liberty legislation across the nation, the National Football League (NFL) last week threatened Georgia with the loss of a Super Bowl bid if Gov. Nathan Deal does not veto the recently passed Free Exercise Protection Act. This marks the fourth time in two years the NFL (whose teams are worth an average of $1.97 billion each, according to Forbes) has threatened to pick up its ball and multi-million dollar economic windfall and go elsewhere if a state enacted conscience protection laws.
“[The NFL] told Georgia, ‘If you build a new stadium, the Super Bowl will come. If you build a new parking complex, the Super Bowl will come. If you give five certain tax breaks, the Super Bowl will come. And now, if you’ll veto the religious freedom bill, the Super Bowl will come,” said an exasperated state Rep. Kevin Tanner, one of the bill’s sponsors. …
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Seems our Governor is up to it again…or never stopped. He needs to resign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/24/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when-you-say-what-alabama-gov-robert-bentley-just-said/
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I just have to say … When it comes to “optics,” this president surely is tone deaf (and blind).
Churning up the dance floor, sightseeing in Argentina and cheering at a Cuban baseball game in the midst of yet another terror crisis.
Really?
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Kim, based on the governor’s picture, it’s clear that women are more attracted by power than looks or “sexiness.” 😉
Good grief.
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Egg zackly! His wife of 50 years divorced him in 2015. He can deny all he wants but a woman doesn’t walk away after investing 50 years in a man.
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“The Obama administration expressed concern in 2009 about skyrocketing health care premiums in a report entitled, “The Burden of Health Insurance Premium Increases on American Families.” They were concerned that premiums had increased by 5.5 percent from 2008 to 2009. So the Democrats fixed it with Obamacare.
However, from 2010 to 2011 in the first year after Obamacare was enacted, premiums increased by 9.4 percent.
“In 2009, when the [Executive Office of the President] issued its report, states had seen premiums increase on average by 30 percent between 2004 and 2009,” states the Freedom Partners report. “But since 2009, health insurance premiums have continued to grow faster than wages in nearly every state, averaging a 28 percent increase from 2009 to 2014, resulting in a greater amount of disposable income being consumed by rising premiums.”
According to the report, while premiums increased by 28 percent from 2009 to 2014, wages increased by only 7.8 percent. From 2004 to 2009 when premiums increased by 30 percent, wages increased by only 12.2 percent.
It looks like we are going to need a heap of other people’s money to keep O’Care alive.
The data also finds that health care costs have exceeded the rate of inflation. “The average annual cost of a family’s employer-sponsored health insurance policy was $17,545 in 2015, which marks a 4.2 percent increase from the 2014 average of $16,834, while the inflation rate remained low at 0.1 percent,” states the report. “With health care costs still rising faster than inflation six years after passage of the Affordable Care Act, it is clear that the law is not helping lower the burden of health care expenses for American families.”
http://freebeacon.com/issues/health-insurance-premiums-rising-faster-than-wages/
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After Trump’s latest threat against Cruz’ wife, Cruz should do what needed to be done decades ago: Challenge Trump to a fight. Let’s handle things the Texas way.
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There was just a segment on the local news of the two of them standing on a sidewalk. I am no body language expert but they were facing each other and were much too close to each other. I told Paul I would NEVER stand that close to Guy. Yes I have had to walk closely beside him on occasion when we were sharing an umbrella, but I would never stand that close face to face with any man other than Paul.
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One wonders if dueling will make a comeback.
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Yes, a duel is in order this year, I think
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Who was on the sidewalk? Cruz and Trump? Or Kim’s governor and the other woman?
Politics is so confusing any more.
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Cruz likes The Princess Bride. He needs to adopt my “Nothing after 1960” rule and go watch The Big Country. Gregory Peck whipped Charleton Heston in a great fight, then revealed Chuck Connors to be a Trump-like sniveling coward in a duel.
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As usual, Matt Walsh nails it:
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/if-we-lived-in-a-truly-christian-nation-donald-trump-would-not-be-winning/
Warning: Trump is quoted so there is some bad language.
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And since Donna brought up the NFL……
Anyone with a clue already knew Sam wasn’t that talented, that he was just another social experiment.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/03/23/michael-sam-rams-hard-knocks/
” A longtime NFL reporter revealed Wednesday the NFL agreed to a deal where the Los Angeles Rams — then St. Louis — didn’t have to do HBO’s “Hard Knocks” series in 2014 if they drafted Michael Sam.
“Sources say NFL agreed not to have Rams on Hard Knocks in 2014 if they drafted Michael Sam,” Howard Balzer tweeted.”
“Balzer reported the NFL was concerned Sam wouldn’t be drafted, so a deal was made with the Rams.
“Rams didn’t want Hard Knocks even without Sam. League concerned he wouldn’t be drafted. Deal made,” Balzer said.
Rams head coach Jeff Fisher called the report “absolutely absurd.”
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Well looky here….
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/274230-lost-emails-discovered-from-clintons-server
“Conservative legal watchdogs have discovered new emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server dating back to the first days of her tenure as secretary of State.
The previously undisclosed February 2009 emails between Clinton from her then-chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, raise new questions about the scope of emails from Clinton’s early days in office that were not handed over to the State Department for recordkeeping and may have been lost entirely.
Clinton’s presidential campaign has previously claimed that the former top diplomat did not use her personal “clintonemail.com” account before March 2009, weeks after she was sworn in as secretary of State.
But on Thursday, the watchdog group Judicial Watch released one message from Feb. 13, 2009, in which Mills communicated with Clinton on the account to discuss the National Security Agency’s (NSA) efforts to produce a secure BlackBerry device for her to use as secretary of State.
The discovery is likely to renew questions about Clinton’s narrative about her use of the private email server, which has come under scrutiny.”
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In the old days the perverts generally confined themselves to Broadway and women’s tennis. Now they are inching their way into sports we actually like and watch.
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I’d play tennis over football anytime. I would even watch tennis but probably not football.
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Women’s tennis is tough to watch. Very few women are big or strong enough too play a serve and volley game, so it is sort of like watching Pong on an old Atari set.
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On the other hand, I love to watch women’s basketball. It is much more a team game than men’s basketball. Plays and strategy are crucial instead of great individual athletic ability. A great female point guard is a joy to watch.
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I was taught to go forward as quickly as possible. Fortunately, I played mostly against players who could not do that so it made me look good. Didn’t do so well when I left the little pond and became a little fish in a big pond. Now, the only tennis court within miles only has the net up about two months out of the year. I might play a little catch but never football.
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I can watch a little baseball or soccer (which is not around here at all). And I tell my boys I will watch one of their home games each year for football. I will watch girls’ basketball but not boys.
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Mumsee, my sister got a job and moved to Boisie. Go Boisie!
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God Boise. It is not such a bad place. After all, I have two daughters, a son in law, and a grandbaby living there.
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Did I just say God Boise? That would be Go Boise.
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I think I will blame it on this stupid phone. Except I have a flip phone and never use it for anything but talking. So I can blame it on autocorrect on my computer. But I will just say, I clearly mistyped and that was not my intent.
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Mumsee is fast elevating the status of Boise
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I played baseball as a kid.
When I tried tennis in high school PE, I whacked that tennis ball waay outta the park/school campus. It was awesome. I was quite pleased.
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then what?
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People had to go get the ball.
I was not very popular.
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Would have been a home run
But that was another game altogether, of course
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