We originally posted the story of Pastor Nardarkhani over a year ago.  It has been a while since we were able to update the status of Pastor Youcef.  Good news GREAT NEWS comes today…..  FREEDOM !!  What an amazing testimony to faith…

Hat Tip WeeWeed (Fox News) Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who was originally sentenced to death in  his native country for his Christian faith, was acquitted of apostasy charges  and released from custody.

Nadarkhani, 32, was imprisoned for three years and waiting execution for  refusing to renounce his Christian faith. His charges were lowered to  evangelizing to Muslims, which carried a three-year sentence. He was released  with time served, according to the American Center for Law and Justice, a  Washington-based watchdog group that had been campaigning for the pastor’s  release.

“Today our sources in Iran reported that Pastor Youcef was acquitted of  apostasy and released from prison. After languishing in prison for almost three  years, he has been reunited with his family,” Jordan Sekulow, executive director  of ACLJ said in a statement to FoxNews.com. (more…)

In Franklin Indiana, parents must pay for their children to be provided with transportation to school.   One woman campaigned to get the fees removed for lower income students and for subsidies to offset the cost (taxpayers to foot the bill).

In essence, she wanted to help poor children whose parents wouldn’t pay for them to ride the bus.   Consequently the majority of those helped by her action and advocacy, for free bus transportation, were black students.

On the first day of the school year, at the first opportunity for those assisted students to ride the bus free of charge,  her own 14 year own son was brutally beaten on the school bus by one of the black students benefitting from her efforts.

Quick grab the Snuggies and comfy blankies for the Sniffy Occupoopers, and Occupy Wailstreet peeps.   No one showed up to their protests.  Oh noes, the horror of the disappointment  🙁

Aghast at the optic of a law enforcement response to their multi-month long threatening proclamations of violence, anarchy, plan of attack and disruption, the occupoopers are depwessed and need some skootchin snuggles, or something.

…and lest ye forget, this is the home town of the President.

(Via WZ) At least nine people were killed and 28 others wounded in a spate of shootings since Friday night in Chicago, according to local reports.

The most recent shooting death occurred on Sunday afternoon in the city’s South Side, where a 19-year-old was shot from a passing vehicle, according to the Sun-Times Media Wire.  The man died in the hospital after the 2:50 p.m. (3:50 p.m. ET) shooting, the Sun-Times Media Wire reported.

At least 17 people were shot, one fatally, from 6 p.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday alone, according to the Chicago Tribune. (more…)

There is something going on, something odd, with returning combat military soldiers.   They are closely tracked, there is a concerted and coordinated following of their activity, and, in many cases, odd interventionist steps by the federal government via law enforcement to remove/restrict their assimilation into mainstream society.

I don’t know how to connect all these seemingly random, yet not disparate, dots into a cogent discussion thread, but something is definitely afoot.   Something.

We saw it recently with the former Marine who was removed from his home for a facebook post questioning government; and in a larger sense, that one example does not stand alone.  Located within various chat-rooms, websites, patriot corners etc. etc. you will find multiple examples of government officials taking custody of veterans under various auspices, mostly psychological concerns.

A couple of examples from similar stories below: (more…)

On August 15th former Marine Brandon Raub was arrested by the local police and FBI for comments he made on his Facebook page.   Yes, he was arrested specifically, and only, for comments made on his Facebook page.  (more…)

(Britainistan)  The parents of Shafilea Ahmed have been jailed for life after being convicted of her murder.  The 17-year-old went missing from her home in Warrington, Cheshire, in 2003 and her body was found in the River Kent in Cumbria six months later.

Iftikhar, 52, and Farzana Ahmed, 49, had denied her murder but the jury at Chester Crown Court returned guilty verdicts against them both.  Mr Justice Roderick Evans said they would both serve a minimum of 25 years.

The judge told them: “Your concern about being shamed in your community was greater than the love of your child.”

The couple suffocated Shafilea with a plastic bag after years of abuse.

After the trial. Det Supt Geraint Jones described the killing as a “vile and disgraceful act against someone they should have been very proud of”. (more…)

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — An Eyewitness News exclusive — a violent home invasion has Philadelphia police hunting for some preteen suspects. Authorities say they beat a 51-year-old woman with some unusual items, including a plunger.

Police say it happened around 3:30 p.m. on Monday in the 1200 block of Luzerne Street.  Authorities say a family friend found the victim in the backyard, on her knees, crying and begging for her life to be spared.

When police arrived, they found her room ransacked, cabinets emptied and the victim, an Asian female with mental disabilities, beaten and robbed.

“They hit her in the face with a rock, they used rope and also sticks and a potted plant,” Lt. John O’Hanlon explained. (more…)

On June 24th President Obama called newly elected Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi to congratulate him.   Since that time Morsi has taken some highly alarming action including:

• Announcing the Camp David Peace Accord with Israel would be re-evaluated.
• Firing the Egyptian Military Generals in charge of the Army, and placing himself in charge of the military.
• Firing the editors of Egyptian news publications and replacing them with his people.

Now a recent confirmation of how brutal things have become.   The Muslim Brotherhood is crucifying people in front of the Presidential Palace. (more…)

(FOX News) A security guard at the Family Research Council’s headquarters in Washington,  D.C. is being hailed as a hero after he stopped a gunman posing as an intern,  taking a bullet in the arm before wrestling the suspect to the ground.

The gunman entered the lobby of the organization’s Chinatown headquarters  around 10:45 and expressed disagreement with the conservative group’s policy  positions, Fox News has learned. When the guard, who was not identified, asked  him where he was going, he opened fire, according to police.

“The security guard here is a hero, as far as I’m concerned,” D.C. Police  Chief Cathy Lanier said. ”He did his job. The person never made it past the  front.” (more…)