Posted on 12/02/2019 8:34:07 AM PST by DollyCali
First couple honors recipients (including Jon Voight) at the National Medal of Arts and Humanities Award event 11/3/19
FLOTUS welcomes the official White House tree (11/25/19)
Conan the warrior special forces dog is (cautiously) welcomed at WH by the first couple 11-25-19
First Family leaves WH for FL 11-26-19
Guess who's coming for dinner?
POTUS suprises troops on Thanksgiving in Afghanastan 11-28-19
And back home to Fla for Tgiving dinner w/family 11-30-19
Keep the Truth coming Mr. President
Keep on Tweeting!
Thank you, Lord, that they are home!
Thanks for the update and pic, Gran.
Always feel better, once theyre home.
Local paper says WV national guard being called up for Cuba......wonder if things are happening we don’t see?
Guantanamo Bay?
NIKK....THIS is why we will never change the minds of a liberal. This is what a former professor posted on a group e-mail list. Read his brainwashed beliefs. Scary.
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Liberals believe that rights are social constructs, defended by force and open to change and improvement. Rights cannot be natural, like laws of nature, because nature enforces its laws absolutely, whereas rights are frequently broken. Rights cannot be inalienable, because governments frequently revoke rights. They cannot be God-given, because God originally blessed the rights of monarchy, genocide, polygamy, parental killing of disrespectful children, and other rights no one seriously defends today. Rights cannot be self-evident, because philosophers have been vigorously arguing over them for thousands of years.
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Self-evident rights: These are rights that are supposedly so obvious that their nature and origin do not need to be defended by analysis. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson declared that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Even if true, these claims are extremely difficult to prove with logic and evidence, so Jefferson sidestepped this swamp by simply claiming these rights were self-evident.
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God-given rights also fail the test of the real world. Unfortunately, rights are not only highly contradictory among the worlds religions, but within the same religions over time. This makes it impossible to use religion as a source of rights. In Judeo-Christian cultures, for example, our modern, post-Enlightenment concept of rights is seldom found in the Bible. The story of Abraham leading Israel out of slavery from Egypt has long been celebrated as a triumph of the right to freedom. But the Israelites did not celebrate their freedom by creating a Jeffersonian constitutional republic based on individual rights. Instead, they first created a theocracy, then a monarchy, both of which are dictatorships. And these dictatorships enacted laws that many would decry today as human rights abuses. For example, the Torah permitted parents to kill their children if they disrespected them. Slavery was allowed, if regulated to prevent the more egregious abuses. Even so, it was legal for a master to beat slaves so severely that they could not get up for two days. Male prisoners of war and non-virgin females were often killed, and virgin females taken into sexual slavery. The New Testament offered no improved philosophy of individual rights; indeed, the apostle Paul commanded, Slaves, obey your masters. The changing nature of religious-based rights precludes them from being used as a guide for rights today.
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In fact, these quasi-religious explanations of rights are intellectually dishonest. The origin of rights is a messy and complex debate. What many conservatives and libertarians claim are inviolable rights are really their own narrow and potentially flawed opinions. But instead of proving their opinions logically, they attempt to avoid the unpleasantness of debate by using rhetorical tricks to elevate their opinions to infallible dogma, like claiming that their opinions come from God, are self-evident, or are unbreakable laws of nature.
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Yes, so happy they are safely home.
And now I can take myself off to bed and not worry about them at least.
Can’t even make it through Hannity.
Nighty-night!!!
CBS News' Major Garrett: Democrats' selective questioning reinforces that Democrats dont even have a minimum standard of fairnesspic.twitter.com/mtg17W16xc— Tommy Pigott (@TCPigott) December 4, 2019
And now I can take myself off to bed and not worry about them at least.
Youre so cute, waiting up to make sure your kids get home safe :-)
Boris Johnson signals he could block Huawei from building UK’s 5G network over national security fears after Trump said the Chinese tech giant is a ‘danger’ and called on the UK to ditch it
Satan is a liar and Democrats have believed every one of his lies.
Just now trying to catch up. Does the gal from Stanford? Have any connection to BallsyFord ?
You are right on.
Weak from laughing. We are having too much fun! It
@realDonaldTrump
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When I said, in my phone call to the President of Ukraine, I would like you to do US a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. With the word us I am referring to the United States, our Country. I then went on to say that......
....I would like to have the Attorney General (of the United States) call you or your people..... This, based on what I have seen, is their big point - and it is no point at a all (except for a big win for me!). The Democrats should apologize to the American people!
Oh yuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izrk-erhDdk
The message of “Cornerstone” is simple. Christ at the Cornerstone. Reuben Morgan explains that “When the earth shakes, we look to our feet and wonder what it is that we are standing on? When darkness seems to hide His face; In every high and stormy gale; Through the storm; My anchor holds”. It is a desire to place emphasis on Jesus and a prayer that people everywhere - regardless of circumstance - will be encouraged to find hope in Christ, the Cornerstone.
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