Last December during a town hall meeting hosted by Al Sharpton and the National Action Network in Chicago to address gun violence something unexpected happened.
The audience almost exploded into a revolt against: “Chicago Machine” politics, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a black alderman in City Hall.   The surprise came with a panel and audience members calling to actually vote out their elected officials.
One 82-year-old preacher even called for “Tea Party” style meetings in some of Chicago’s south side communities such as Altgen Gardens and Trumbull Park. (via Breitbart)
[The last statement in the video is, well, um… just watch it]

When the supporters of the Bundy family stood in the road they demanded to know what federal agents were doing with a convoy of dump trucks and back hoes.  In response the supporters  were thrown to the ground, tazed and met with attack dogs and automatic weapons.   BLM goons pointed machine guns and sniper rifles at supporters to keep them away.   Why were the questions about the equipment so troubling to answer:
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Now the real discoveries are surfacing, showing what was taking place behind the gates erected by the Federal Bureau of Land Management:

“The mass grave that was dug was about 50 feet long, 18 feet wide, 10 feet deep, and about a third of the way filled back in with cattle.”  (link)

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Finally someone, actually Howard Kurtz, asks the question that many people want to know the answer to.

BACKSTORY – For those who might not have paid attention over the past two years, Sharyl Attkisson was doing some great investigative reporting on the DOJ, Eric Holder and Fast n Furious gun running scandal. Her reporting then shifted to look into what actions were taken by the DOJ *AFTER* the scandal broke, and the wagon circling around the White House began.
Then, in the fall and winter of 2012 and 2013 Sharyl began looking closely at the Benghazi fiasco.
In the midst of her investigative reporting (May 2013) a mysterious series of hacks began into her computers both at home and at work, in addition her phone was tracked and hacked.
CBS publically admitted in June of 2013 something nefarious was going on.   Sharyl reported after several weeks of looking at the issue she knew ‘what’ and/or ‘who’ was to blame.
Howard Kurtz asks what was the outcome of all of this ?

Have you ever had a dish of peaches and cream?
Not half-and-half. Not Cool Whip. Cream.
The thick cream from our cow’s milk would be called whipping cream in today’s check out lines but it was just every day cream on the farm, kept in the cream can in the fridge.
The cream can was galvanized tin and probably held something over a quart. It had been re-purposed from some grocery-store purchase, perhaps orange juice since fresh fruit wasn’t available in winter. Juice from cans like that always had a metallic taste. The paper that announced the original contents had been stripped off and sharp edges around the edge ground away and the shiny can is now, forevermore, the cream can.
There was another cream can made of sturdier stuff that stood about three feet high. It held five gallons accumulated over a period of weeks in the cool basement before it would be taken to the train depot where it was put on the next freight to Williston. It was delivered to the creamery where it was combined with hundreds of gallons from other five gallon cream cans, bottled and delivered to all the grocery stores in the same towns from which it had come, and then returned as an empty on the same freight train westbound. My father always got the very same can back because it had a metal name tag with our rural route box number in raised metal letters, attached with a small wire to the handle.
Some of it became became homemade ice cream on a hot July Sunday afternoon- in the shade of the old porch on the north side of the house – the one that always had daddy long legs spiders under it.
Those daddy long legs were a favorite weapon in the hands of older brothers. It was routine entertainment to pick one of them up by one or two legs and toss them toward any girl in the vicinity whether she be sister or the sister of a friend.
The boys threw the spiders and the girls dodged them, yelling a bit as they did.
The very quiet girls who were held up as worthy role models (for the consideration of those of us who were not quiet) seldom had spiders thrown at them. I still think the reason is that the boys were afraid they’d start crying, instead of yelling like we did just before we started planning some harmless revenge.
But I digress – back to the warm-from-the-cow cream and the peaches. (more…)

– from Mere Christianity

“I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.”

That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.

He would either be a lunatic – on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the devil of hell.

You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse.

You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon, or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God.

But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher.

He has not left that open to us.

He did not intend to.

Southwest New Mexico – The Diamond Bar Ranch was acquired by the Laney family in 1986, and its adjacent Laney Cattle Company was allowed to utilize grazing lands since 1883.
According to the US Forest Service, however, they are no longer entitled to do so, and the USFS has posted notices along the fence line of their property advising people not to attempt to enter the ranch. Lands are being seized, and the cattle removed, “one way or the other.”

Now they say that the cattle may be redeemed if the Laney’s pay for the costs of rounding up the 80 head of cattle – a hefty $40,950.
Reductions in the herds, loss of appeals, a hard life, all because of a fish. (more…)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

The case of the Kansas City Shooter provides an excellent example of Political Correctness running amuck.
The ideological left proclaim the religious/political ideology of Mohammed Whitaker is unknown because his birth name was Pedro Whitaker, and he is Hispanic.   They proclaim the fact he changed his name to Mohammed is not evidence of his conversion to Islam.

The fact that Pedro changes his name to Mohammed after some self-discovery event in his life is apparently something we are supposed to look upon with caution.   And we must absolutely not infer the fact he shot people in cars around Kansas City over the course of several weeks to label him as a danger.
But immediately Harry Reid knew some other guy, Clive Bundy, a rancher, was a “domestic terrorist”.