Man, is it cold? https://www.facebook.com/viral
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How is this for a prayer? You decide. (See 1 below.)
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Where's the beef? (6 out of the 7 countries Donald Trump has banned don't accept Israeli passports because the holders are Jewish ... and they have the NERVE to protest to the US about Donald's temporary suspension of their citizens because they are Muslim.)
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Well over 12 years ago Lynn and I attended a lecture at Rollins College, in connection with a parent weekend event (our youngest daughter was enrolled at the college in Winter Park, Fl.) The lecture was sponsored by an organization that was unconnected with the school but the subject and speaker attracted our attention.
Dr Ellen Cannon PHD, spoke about the future of the Muslim community in America and how, over time, they would increase their political involvement beginning with running for positions on local school boards and then increasing their political participation by obtaining media outlet positions etc.
When I returned from Winter Park, I wrote up what I had heard and from time to time I have referred to Dr. Cannon's speech. In today's Wall Street Journal an article caught my attention and showed, once again, how prescient Cannon's comments were.
The points Dr. Cannon made did not question the right's of Muslim citizens participating in political life but the influence they might have with respect to imposing their culture and the fact that it could bring significant changes , ie. Sharia Law. Just take a stroll down one of Michigan's city's where the Muslim population is significant and you will not believe you are in America. (I recently posted a video of such and several years ago discussed the effort to introduce Sharia Law into our legal system in Georgia , as is being attempted in other states etc.) (See 2 below.)
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What an energetic president can accomplish. Some of Trump's actions were precipitous and not well planned and that has caused some consternation and heart burn but he and his staff are learning and seem willing to mend their ways. He will not stop tweeting though there are times when he probably should not and he will continue to press forward and keep his commitments which enthuses the deplorables. (See 3 below.)
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Meanwhile Florida gets tough regarding who gets welfare. (See 4 below.)
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Libs freaking out regarding Ginsburg's health. (See 4 below.)
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1) Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and
guidance.
We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done.
We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem..
We have abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.
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American Muslims Push Themselves Into Political Arena
Members of Muslim communities in the U.S. say the campaign rhetoric, and recent actions by the Trump administration, are spurring them into action
By Jennifer Levitz and Ian Lovell
MALDEN, Mass.—A mother of three in this Boston suburb, Nichole Mossalam had never planned to run for office. But when her 8-year-old son heard a friend at school disparage Muslims last fall, she decided she had no choice. She had to run for the local school board.
Ms. Mossalam is part of a wave of American Muslims who—faced with a political climate that they see as increasingly hostile toward their faith—are pushing themselves into everything from labor organizing to local government.
Muslims helped lead protests over the weekend at airports around the country, where they demanded the release of people who had been detained because of President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration.
They are joining with other religious groups to offer sanctuary in houses of worship to immigrants of all faiths who are facing deportation. They are helping form labor unions. And a small number of Muslims, like Ms. Mossalam, are planning to run for public office.
“We need to put ourselves out there and make people aware that we are their neighbors, that we all want the same thing,” said Ms. Mossalam, whose home north of Boston has a white picket fence out front and an American flag on the porch.
Members of Muslim communities have long said they felt alienated, especially in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Since then, they have struggled to find their political voice.
The first Muslim Congressman was elected in 2006, and the second followed in 2008. Nearly a decade later, though, there are still only two Muslims, both Democrats, in Congress. At roughly 1% of the country’s population, they don’t wield the kind of influence that other religious minority groups like Catholics or Jews have built up over decades.
In addition, many older Muslims—especially immigrants, some of whom fled authoritarian regimes—were reluctant to speak publicly about their faith, fearing retaliation.
“In general, I think older, immigrant Muslims are not as inclined to get involved,” said Omar Ricci, chairman of the Islamic Center of Southern California, one of the largest mosques in Los Angeles.
But there is a growing hope among American Muslims that this could be a politically galvanizing moment.
Many Muslims were spurred into action by rhetoric from last year’s presidential campaign, during which Mr. Trump suggested banning Muslims from the country. He has since backed away from the idea of an outright Muslim ban. Still, his executive order suspending immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, which he has said is necessary for national security after attacks in the U.S. linked to the Islamic State terror group, has already impacted hundreds of Muslims with family abroad.
“For us Muslims born and raised here, the feeling is more, ‘Damn it, this is our country,’” Mr. Ricci said. “We’re not going to let this happen.”
So far, much of the political organizing remains at the local level. In Portland, Maine, Pious Ali, a Ghanaian immigrant, recently became the first Muslim on the city council. Mr. Ali says he pulled in donations from across the nation after he organized a peaceful protest against Mr. Trump’s rhetoric about Muslims during the campaign.
Employees at the American Roots garment factory, where the stitchers are mostly Muslim immigrants, unionized in August. PHOTO: YOON S. BYUN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Sarah Khatib, a 41-year-old practicing Muslim, said Mr. Trump’s campaign and election victory motivated her to try to run for a seat on the local planning board in suburban Walpole, Mass.
“I think a lot of times we’re not going outside our community as much as we should,” said Ms. Khatib, who has a background in structural engineering. “The people who voted for Mr. Trump did so for a variety of reasons and no doubt share many of my beliefs and hopes for the country.”
At the American Roots fleece garment factory in Portland, stitchers—mostly Muslim immigrants—formed a unit of the United Steelworkers union in August.
On Thursday in New York City, hundreds of Yemeni grocers closed for the afternoon in protest of the immigration ban. The protest follows a similar work stoppage by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance at John F. Kennedy International Airport Saturday.
Also on Thursday, a nonprofit led by a Muslim city councilor in Cambridge, Mass., launched an initiative to get Muslims to run for office nationwide.
“Many of us, horrified, are asking, what now? What can we do?” says 33-year-old Cambridge Councilor Nadeem Mazen in an online video.
By Friday, the non-partisan group—which formed in late 2015 amid what it saw as a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment—had received more than 120 responses to their open call to run.
Some Muslims say there are still limits to how much visibility they want. Sherif Shabaka, a 52-year-old college Arabic teacher who immigrated to the U.S. from Egypt in 2000, said he had recently considered, but decided against, a more high-profile form of civic engagement—running for city council in Malden.
“I felt I would be looked at as an outsider because I’m Arab and Muslim,” he said. “It intimidated me.”
Still, with many Muslims already working as lawyers and civil-rights activists, the Muslim community is better equipped to mobilize now than they were after Sept. 11, according to Sally Howell, an associate professor of history and director of the Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
“The difference now is that the community is so much better organized,” Ms. Howell said.
Rosa Rad, a 24-year-old Muslim from Arlington, Va., has attended protests over the past several weeks. During the campaign, she opposed Mr. Trump, but called herself a “slactivist,” who did little more than vote and post on social media.
Since then she has become more active. She called the American Civil Liberties Union and offered to volunteer as a translator from Farsi to English. She also attended the women’s march in Washington, as well as another protest at the Capitol on Sunday, called “No Muslim Ban,” which she heard about on Facebook.
Though she said the executive order felt like an attack of her faith and Iranian heritage, she added, “I’m an American as well. I live here. I grew up here.”
—Melanie Grayce West contributed to this article.
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3) Trump erased all mentions on the White House web site of “climate change.” He did that within ONE HOUR of taking the oath of office.
3) Trump erased all mentions on the White House web site of “climate change.” He did that within ONE HOUR of taking the oath of office.
Trump issued an Executive order to “ease the burden of Obamacare”
Trump returned the bust of Winston Churchill to the oval office
Trump withdrew America from the TPP treaty
Trump erased all Spanish language from the White House web site. It is now “English Only.”
Trump issued an Executive order starting the construction of “THE WALL.”
Trump issued an Executive order banning funding to foreign pro-abortion groups
Trumps new Secretary of Defense James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis took the fight to ISIS by bombing them 31 times on his first day as the new Secretary of Defense
Trump announced temporary ban on refugees from Syria and Middle Eastern war zones
Trump imposed a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding new contracts or grants
Trump announced a ban on visas from dangerous Muslim-majority countries with inadequate screening
Trump announced the end of “Sanctuary cities” and the defunding of federal funds for any city that chooses to continue breaking the law
Trump announced the hiring of 10,000 new border agents
Trump signed an Executive order demanding the Secretary of Homeland Security publish a weekly list of violent crimes committed by illegal aliens
Trump signed an Executive order freezing the hiring of non-essential federal employees
Trump said out loud the words “radical Islamic terrorism.”
Trump stopped payment on Obama’s final hour giveaway of $220 million to the Palestinian Authority
Trump used Executive orders to give the go-ahead to the long-stalled Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines
Trump got the State Department’s entire senior management team to resign in frustration.
Trump announced his intention to withdraw From Climate & Environmental Accords Along With UN Funding Cuts of 40%
Trump tweeted “Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, is now calling President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!”
Trump announced he’ll begin a major investigation into voter fraud in the 2016 election
Trump got the chief of the Border Patrol to leave the agency in frustration at having to actually do his job!
State Dept. Arms Control chief fired while on airplane by Trump, told to turn around and fly back!
Miami-Dade mayor orders jails to comply with Trump crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ counties
THIS JUST IN: Trump deported 95 Somalis and 2 Kenyans
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4)Hooray for Florida !
I-95 and I-75 will be jammed for the next month or so with druggies and deadbeats heading North out of Florida, because this is the first state in the union to require drug testing to receive welfare!
In signing the new law, Republican Gov. Rick Scott said, "If Floridians want welfare, they better make sure they are drug-free." Applicants must pay for the drug test, but are reimbursed if they test drug-free. Applicants who test positive for illicit substances, won't be eligible for the funds for a year, or until they undergo treatment. Those who fail a second time will be banned from receiving funds for three years!
Naturally, a few people are crying this is unconstitutional. How is this unconstitutional?
It's a legal requirement that every person applying for a job has to pass drug tests in order to get the job, why not those who receive welfare?
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Libs are freaking out over Ginsburg’s health, desperate to find ways to keep her alive for at least 4 more years
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is suddenly on the minds of many liberals.
With the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the US Supreme Court this week, liberals came to the frightening realization that the 83 year-old Ginsburg could give President Donald Trump another seat to fill if she retired – or got sick.
“I’m very interested in this,” Jeanette Bavwidinski, a community organizer in Pennsylvania, said according to SF Gate.
“I’m interested in what her daily regimen is. Like, what are you all feeding RBG? Is she getting enough fresh air? Is she walking? Is she staying low-stress? What is she reading? Is she reading low-stress things?” Bavwidinski inquired.
One of only four women to ever serve on the Supreme Court, the liberal justice has become a kind of mascot and hero to those on the left. Ginsburg was appointed to the bench 23 years ago by President Bill Clinton and is one of four dependably liberal voices on the Court.
With Gorsuch replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in Februray 2016, the number of conservative judges is restored as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy provides the swing vote. If Ginsburg were to vacate her seat during Trump’s administration, liberals know what that could mean.
“I kept thinking, you know, I could organize a bunch of gays,” John Hagner, a Washington consultant for Democratic campaigns, said according to SF Gate. “I could organize the gays, and we would just make a protective circle around her at all times. We could help her get up and down the stairs. We got this.”
“Can she eat more kale?” forest ecologist Kim Landsbergen from Ohio asked. “Eat more kale, that’s all I can say. We love you. Eat more kale.”
The tiny-framed justice, and the oldest member of the Court, has already survived both colon and pancreatic cancer.
“What I’m mostly concerned about is the cancer,” Hagner said. “Is she getting her checkups? Do her doctors realize how important it is for her to get her checkups? Do they? The woman is 98 pounds.”
Liberals are channeling their positive thoughts and energy to Ginsburg in the hopes that she will keep on keeping on.
“I was just talking to a friend about this,” Michael J. McClure, an associate professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin, said.
“Like, what could we do? What could we do to help Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Could we protect her with packing peanuts? Then it turned into, ‘I need to become a vampire. Like in ‘Twilight.’ I need to become a vampire so I can make her a vampire with eternal life.’ If I’m damned to eternal life myself, so be it. It’s a sacrifice worth making,” McClure said, according to SF Gate.
Starbucks can hire all the refugees it wants, its competition vowed to hire 10 thousand veterans
Thankfully for her panicked supporters, Ginsburg made an appearance Wednesday at Virginia Military Institute for a live-streamed Q&A where she was asked about her health.
She told the audience she does situps and “something called a plank.” She also regularly does full push-ups, not the knee variation, and can do about 20. Ginsburg told the crowd that she has a personal trainer who works with Justices Elena Kagan and Stephen G. Breyer as well.
“He does his best to keep us all in shape,” Ginsburg said.
That ought to help liberals breathe a bit easier. Or not.
“I have O-negative blood that she’s welcome to at any time,” Mikayla Thatcher, a lecturer at the University of Michigan, offered. “I feel like this is getting a bit post-apocalyptic – no wait, that’s not the right word. Dystopian. I feel like this is all getting a bit dystopian. But she’s welcome to my O-negative blood at any time.”
Many took to Twitter to weigh in on Ginsburg’s health and their hopes that she may, in fact, be immortal.
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