Weeds need no sowing William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-5-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Weeds need no sowing.
John Quigg
Veteran’s Infant On Terror List While Border Wide Open
Veteran’s Infant On Terror List While Border Wide Open — America’s borders are wide open and we have no idea who is crossing them other than they are mostly young men.
Never fear though. The ones in charge of security have an eagle-eye on things.
They put an 8-week old infant and his mother on the Quiet Skies terror list, just last month.
Why? Because the baby’s father, AJ Fischer, an Air Force veteran, was a participant in the J-6 protests and is facing trial because that.
The woman is Fischer’s fiancee. She was no where near Washington that day.
Only a fool would sincerely believe that either she or the child pose any danger.
Their boarding passes, though carry the SSSS mark to make sure they get extra attention from the TSA and air marshals.
The first two S’s apparently stand for stupidity and sadism.
Those so labeled get enhanced screening which includes strip searches and swabbing ever zipper and hem. It can take hours to complete.
Which also means that security people have to spend hours dealing with people obviously not any kind of threat.
That’s where the stupidity comes in.
Very bad — and stupid — people are running things.
Those of you who have not been in the habit of speaking out must learn to do so.
It’s for the sake of your children.
And you will be surprised at how many you find that agree with you.
Hey, did you see where communist Venezuela is preparing to invade its smaller neighbor Guyana to steal its oil?
And freighters and a U.S. warship were just attacked in the Red Sea, and not by moms with infants?
And the Ukrainians are about to lose a war that should have ended with a negotiated peace a year and a half ago?
Or that the House Select Committee on the January 6 protests lost all the tapes of witness interview statements.
All. The. Tapes.
How many people still believe the garbage they spewed?
Let’s Go Brandon!!
Hat tips Gateway Pundit and Dawn Bancroft
Veteran’s Infant On Terror List While Border Wide Open
Lord’s day will come like a thief William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-4-23
Lord’s day will come like a thief William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-4-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: But the Lord’s day will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will pass away with a great rushing sound, the elements will be dissolved in fire, and the earth and all the works on it will be disclosed. Since everything is going to dissolve in this way, what sort of people should you be? You should live lives that are holy and godly.
2 Peter 3:10
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The Legendary Saint Nicholas
The Legendary Saint Nicholas — The absence of “hard facts” of history is not necessarily an obstacle to the popularity of saints as the devotion to Saint Nicholas shows. Both the Eastern and Western churches honor him, and it is claimed that after the Theotokos, he is the saint most pictured by Christian artists. And yet, historically we can pinpoint only the fact that Nicholas was the fourth-century bishop of Myra, a city in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor.
As with many of the saints, however, we are able to capture the relationship which Nicholas had with God through the admiration which Christians have had for him — an admiration expressed in the colorful stories which have been told and retold through the centuries.
Perhaps the best-known story about Nicholas concerns his charity toward a poor man who was unable to provide dowries for his three daughters of marriageable age. Rather than see them forced into prostitution, Nicholas secretly tossed a bag of gold through the poor man’s window on three separate occasions, thus enabling the daughters to be married. Over the centuries, this particular legend evolved into the custom of gift-giving on the saint’s fest which is Dec. 6.
In the English-speaking countries, Saint Nicholas became, by a twist of the tongue, Santa Claus — further expanding the example of generosity portrayed by this holy bishop.
The critical eye of modern history makes us take a deeper look at the legends surrounding Saint Nicholas. But perhaps we can use the lesson taught by his legendary charity, look deeper at our approach to material goods in the Christmas season and seek ways to extend our sharing to those in real need.
The Legendary Saint Nicholas
First step toward finding God William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-3-23
First step toward finding God William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-3-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Thomas Merton
Truth in Education Controversial Part of CHD Conference
Truth in Education Controversial Part of CHD Conference
By Bob Small
One of the more controversial groups represented at the 2023 Children’s Health Defense (CHD) Conference was Truth In Education (TIE).
TIE says that Comprehensive Sexuality Education commonly taught in public schools “is an assault on the family and the health and innocence of children.”
Of course, this brings back the old problem of parents, as many are, who are reluctant to have that conversation and doesn’t account for the addition of the internet.
Another issue they oppose is Critical Race Theory (CRT)
“Simply put, instruction in Critical Race Theory as presented in Black Lives Matter curriculum and The 1619 Project pushes American students down the road of hate,” says TIE.
As long as the totality of American History is taught, including slavery, emancipation, including both US Support for Israel and Operation Paperclip in the curriculum, there would not be a CRT or the 1619 Project. One wonders if most students even know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, not a Democrat.
Under the “what can you do” section, they list many good suggestions, including “attend school board meetings and know what is being taught in your school”.
One wishes there would be a line about running for the school board.
Most local school boards do not require “professionals.” What we need more of are carpenters, factory workers, waiters and waitresses. In 2005, Mary Gay Scanlon ran for the Wallingford Swarthmore School Board and lost.
She eventually did win an election.
And how about we teach students to question authority, especially government authority, such as covid mandates and election results that seem unrealistic?
Teachers rarely let their students challenge the things they teach.
“Critical thinking” lessons is too often teachers playing pretend.
“The Socratic education begins … with the awakening of the mind to the need for criticism,” it is said. This is another way of saying always question.
Lastly, another critique is Why Truthful, Inclusive Education Benefits All Students
Dr. Kesha Moore of LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute is quoted: All children have a right to know the truth, to know who they are, to know who they live with, and what their community is like.
So where do we go from here?
Garvey Gains Traction in California Senate Primary
Garvey Gains Traction in California Senate Primary
By Joe Guzzardi
The Sacramento Bee thinks that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Garvey has a chance to qualify for the November 2024 ballot. At first blush, the idea that the nation’s bluest state could possibly elect a Republican to the U.S. Senate is too far-fetched to take seriously. Not since 1988 when California voted in Pete Wilson to represent the state for a second term has a Republican held a U.S. Senate seat.
But California’s primary system has quirky guidelines that could favor Garvey over his three Democratic opponents. In 2010, California passed Proposition 14, a ballot initiative that created a top-two primary election system. Gone were the historic Republican and Democratic primaries in which voters from each party chose their winning candidates, who then face off against each other in a general election.
Today, all candidates, regardless of party, run in the same primary, and all voters, also regardless of party, may vote for any of them. The top two vote-getters then move on to the general election. Political insiders rate Garvey’s chances of reaching the final two March 5, 2024, primary slots in what’s currently a four-way race, at about 50-50.
In addition to Republican Garvey, the leading Democratic candidates are the collectively unimpressive U.S. Reps. Adam Schiff, Barbara Lee and Katy Porter. Leeand Porter are little known outside their districts, the Democratic strongholds of Oakland, and south-central Orange County, respectively. Schiff, on the other hand, is well-known, mostly for his highly publicized false promises that he had evidence which would prove that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. Subsequent House Intelligence Committee investigations found that Schiff knowingly lied about his Trump-Russian collusion allegations.
If the three big Democratic contenders – Schiff, Porter and Lee – each win significant blocs of votes while Republicans rally around a single candidate, that could be enough to boost Garvey into the top-two mix. Garvey is already close. In the November 11-14 Emerson Polling Institute/Inside California Politics survey of 1,000 registered voters, Garvey was third, with 10 percent, ahead of Lee, 9 percent. With the poll’s margin of error plus or minus 3 percentage points, the former Los Angeles Dodgers’ and San Diego Padres’ All-Star is competitive with frontrunners Schiff, 16 percent, and Porter, 13 percent. A plurality remains undecided.
Garvey’s biggest advantage is that the popular, high-name recognition baseball star could motivate GOP voters to turn out in big numbers. In California’s most recent U.S. Senate elections, Republicans haven’t had a horse in the race, e.g., in 2016, then-Attorney General Kamala Harris routed U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez, and in 2018, Dianne Feinstein beat California State Senate pro-tempore Kevin de León. With liberal Democrats facing each other in the general election, registered Republicans stayed home.
History confirms the pattern that without two top candidates, Democrats don’t turn out as heavily as Republicans. In 2008, when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama competed for the presidential nomination, Democratic turnout in California was 63 percent, 20 percentage points higher than the party’s 20-year average. But in 2012, when Obama ran unopposed, Democratic turnout plunged to 31 percent, then increased again to 54 percent in 2016 when Clinton battled with Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders. Paul Mitchell, vice president of Political Data, Inc., a California-based analytics firm, said “Democrats have a tougher time turning out their voters when there is no top of the ticket partisan battle in the Democratic primary side. On the Republican side, we don’t see the same drop in turnout.”
If Garvey prevails in his bid, he still will have the formidable task of winning the general. But Garvey would have plenty of fodder if he made the surviving Democrat’s immigration voting record a campaign issue. Schiff, the likeliest to reach the final two, has, during his two decades in the House, unwaveringly voted against enhanced border and interior security, against ending asylum entitlements, against reducing unnecessary employment visas, and against ending chain migration. Schiff has favored an illegal alien amnesty and higher refugee resettlement levels. Much like in Europe, tolerance for unchecked immigration has waned in California.
Schiff’s votes are a tangible. But a huge intangible will also be a factor: the “I’ve-had-enough” variable that would play especially well among older voters who remember California before smash-and-grab thieving, homelessness, unaffordable housing, soaring living costs, overdevelopment, environmental degradation and woke schools.
Californians recall 2003 when disappointment with incumbent Democratic Gov. Gray Davis led to his recall and to Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger’s election. Schwarzenegger then, like Garvey now, was a political neophyte who voters deemed vote-worthy. Only three months remain until Primary Day; the results of Garvey’s quixotic U.S. Senate bid will soon be known.
Joe Guzzardi is a Project for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org.
Garvey Gains Traction in California Senate Primary
December’s wintery breath William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-2-23
December’s wintery breath William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-2-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.
John Geddes
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not Crazy
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not Crazy — Congressional firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene (R?-GA14) spoke with Tucker Carls0n for 37 minutes and Tucker posted the interview, yesterday, Nov. 30.
She persuasively describes the captured, cowardly and instinctive cronyism of our legislative branch, especially those calling themselves “conservatives.”
She explains her support for dethroned Speaker Kevin McCarthy and gives little reassurance that his replacement Mike Johnson (R-La4) is up for the task.
What MTG does best, though, is debunk the numerous smears against her that she is crazy or an extremist.
The interview is worth watch and here it is:
By the way, the captured, cowardly and instinctive cronyism of those calling themselves “conservatives was just demonstrated a few hours ago. George Santos, the Republican who represented 3rd Congressional District was expelled by a 311 to 114 vote, with 105 Republicans joining the Democrats.
For what? Well, he had not been convicted of any crime. Apparently, it was just being a political hack.
The most blood-boiling thing is that he was far from the worst in the House. A dozen Ds can be named whose demonstrable deeds are more despicable starting with Adam Schiff.
Those who don’t fight, don’t win.
Democrat voters, please wake up to the reality that the people running things hate you every bit as much as they hate us. The difference is that they are laughing at you when you vote for them.
Republican hacks don’t do that with us. They actually kind of look at us with nervous suspicion.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not Crazy
House Gives Traitorous Mayorkas a Free Pass
House Gives Traitorous Mayorkas a Free Pass
By Joe Guzzardi
Even the lowest hanging fruit is beyond the hapless Grand Old Party’s reach. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment, a ripe peach waiting to be picked, never happened.
Since prior to the 2022 mid-term elections in which the GOP dramatically underperformed, Republican legislators have promised to restore border security which, under Mayorkas’ criminal, anti-constitutional, impeachable refusal to enforce immigration law, has devolved into chaos. At the time that then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy released the Commitment to America, Mayorkas had allowed 3.8 million illegal aliens to cross, and 900,000 gotaways to escape into the interior. In all, foreign nationals from more than 160 nations had been processed and released. There are 195 countries in the world.
The invasion continues unabated. Over the past 12 months, Customs and Border Protection has encountered 3.2 million illegal aliens, and the gotaway total has likely doubled. A closer look at the 2023 statistics reveal more criminal disregard for Americans’ safety and security. In FY 2023, CBP caught 52,000 Chinese nationals. China is America’s greatest threat, according to the FBI directorand others. CBP also encountered a record-high number of aliens who appear on the FBI’s suspected terrorist watch list: 172. Of this number, 169 were attempting to evade capture at the southern border, and three were apprehended trying to sneak in through the increasingly porous northern border.
The DHS guideline for a secretary’s competency is whether his agency has “operational control” of the border. Operational Control, as defined in the 2006 Secure Fence Act, Section 2 (b), mandates that the secretary “achieves and maintains” operational control which means “the prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband.” The statistics cited above, and thousands of online and nationally broadcast videos, prove that unlawful entries have flourished since President Biden’s inauguration, January 20, 2021. Because aliens keep arriving, and continuously accessing costly affirmative benefits like medical care, education, housing and transportation, pinpointing the precise cost to citizen taxpayers is impossible. The House Committee on Homeland Security provided a dollar-cost range. But what a staggering range it is – from $150 billion to $451 billion annually.
Before Congress left on its Thanksgiving recess, the GOP had a golden opportunity to impeach Mayorkas, but it punted. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) brought Articles of Impeachmentagainst Mayorkas to the House floor as a privileged resolution which means that members would vote on it within 48 hours. But eight Republicans joined with Democrats to vote 209-201 to send Greene’s resolution to the House graveyard for possible consideration at some undefined future time.
Mayorkas gets off, free to keep the status quo of wide-open borders alive and well. The eight who joined with Democrats are Colorado’s Ken Buck, North Carolina’s Virginia Foxx and Patrick McHenry, Oregon’s Cliff Bentz, Ohio’s Mike Turner, and California’s Darrell Issa, John Duarte and Tom McClintock. Colorado, North Carolina, Oregon, Ohio and certainly California have felt the fiscal burden of Mayorkas’ criminal neglect. All except Duarte have strong pro-enforcement voting records, but on the Mayorkas matter, they chose to join the other side.
The most curious nay vote was from McClintock, the influential Chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s Immigration Subcommittee. If the GOP can’t count on high-ranking officials like McClintock to support the overdue Mayorkas impeachment effort, then border security is a fantasy. McClintock’s defense of his vote overlooked the national crisis that Mayorkas has encouraged and enabled.
While McClintock acknowledged that Mayorkas had opened the border to drugs, terrorists and criminals, he concluded that those crimes represent policy disputes and didn’t rise to impeachment level. Then, traveling far afield from Mayorkas’ malfeasance, McClintock said the Republicans must not “allow the left to become our teachers,” a reference to the Democrats’ two unsuccessful impeachment attempts made on President Donald Trump. In McClintock’s view, drugs, terrorists and criminals are okay, but the sanctity of the House impeachment process is more important than protecting the homeland.
Even though the Senate would never have upheld a House vote to impeach, the opportunity missed was huge. Impeaching Mayorkas would show that the Republicans are serious about protecting Americans from the danger that unvetted migrants represent. A related takeaway from a successful Mayorkas impeachment would be that the GOP also has its eye on the soaring costs of funding illegal immigration, a concern that taxpaying Americans share.
The most devastating outcome: shelving Mayorkas’ impeachment means that, over the coming months, hundreds of thousands of aliens will be processed and released into the interior – not an exaggeration. In South Texas, to select one example among many, border officials reported encountering 1,200 migrants daily, exposing the treasonous handiwork of Mayorkas. By the time Inauguration Day 2025 arrives, likely more than 8 million people from locations across the globe will have been released into the general population in cities and towns across the U.S.
Joe Guzzardi is a Project for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org.
House Gives Traitorous Mayorkas a Free Pass