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Rep. Rashida Tlaib Friday rejected Israel’s offer to allow a “purely humanitarian” visit to her elderly Palestinian grandmother in the occupied West Bank. The firebrand critic of Israel tweeted that she would not “bow down to their oppressive & racist policies.”

“He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he” (Proverbs 16:20).

Elijah E. Cummings @RepCummings Today, "Team Maryland" & I sent a letter to Governor Hogan urging him to make meaningful improvements to voter registration, voter access, & election security to ensure that Marylanders can exercise their constitutional right to vote in the 2020 elections. 10:29 AM · Aug 15, 2019·Twitter Web App 683 Retweets 3.4K Likes Elijah E. Cummings @RepCummings Voting is our democratic right, & allows us to control our destiny. I thank @senatorCardin, @ChrisVanHollen, @LeaderHoyer, @Call_Me_Dutch, @RepSarbanes, @RepAnthonyBrown, @RepRaskin, & @RepDavidTrone for joining me on this important letter.

rogressives in America have always embraced the flawed concept of social engineering. Through centralized planning and manipulation, they believe they can manage social change and regulate the development and behavior of individuals in a society. They denounce individuality and social freedoms and reject equal opportunity and self-motivation as sufficient for a society’s success, instead demanding equal results for all -- a statutory per capita quality of life. Fortunately this type of faux engineering has never worked in any society in the history of man -- had it, we’d all be little more than robots. Still, progressives attempt to use it...

Buttigieg reportedly helped create a phone tree to alert families about ICE raids South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg reportedly helped create an alert system that would notify families if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided his residents’ homes or businesses. The “phone tree,” according to The Daily Beast on Wednesday, was one of several actions Buttigieg took to protect illegal immigrants in his town. Phone trees consist of an automated calling system that helps spread messages quickly and efficiently. Those would presumably help alert immigrants to the type of surprise raids that resulted in nearly 700 arrests in Mississippi....

It looks like #TBT was a hit. And social media chatter to the contrary I still believe Tucker has simply gone fishing.Which means it’s still summer, although look out, it’s going fast.Therefore - as chief blog functionary – I hereby declare today officially a follow-on to #TBT…which is to say, Flashback Friday (#FBF). What’s the difference? Duh, it’s Friday.Do feel free to discuss the NYT gear-grinding shift out of Russia, Russia, Russia! into Racist, Racist, Racist!! if you like. Or chortle over Israel’s masterful  b***h-slapping of a couple of anti-Semite b*****s if you’re in the mood for a feel good...

I was working at the Trane Home Comfort Center in South El Monte, CA. Door to door sales.

Morning "Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name." Psalm 29:2 God's glory is the result of his nature and acts. He is glorious in his character, for there is such a store of everything that is holy, and good, and lovely in God, that he must be glorious. The actions which flow from his character are also glorious; but while he intends that they should manifest to his creatures his goodness, and mercy, and justice, he is equally concerned that the glory associated with them should be given only to himself. Nor is there aught in ourselves...

For Christians, the ancient rites of Passover and the Passion of Christ are deeply connected. To deliver the People of God from slavery in Egypt, God sent an angel of death, a great power that stole from families the lives of those they deemed most precious. To protect His own People from this destroying angel, He commanded the Hebrews to gather as families, slaughter a lamb and to sprinkle the blood of this lamb on the doorposts of their homes. Seeing the blood, the angel of destruction passed over the homes of those who belonged to the Lord. In the...

TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and we have Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers with McMichen's Breakdown. That's Clayton McMichen & Lowe Stokes on fiddle. Recorded in Atlanta on October 24, 1931. Read more about Stokes, a one-handed fiddler, by going here https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lowe-stokes-mn0001211461/biography THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com

A man was walking down the street when he was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked him for a couple of dollars for dinner The man took out his wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked, "If I give you this money, will you buy some beer with it instead of dinner?" "No, I had to stop drinking years ago,” the homeless man replied. "Will you spend this on green fees at a golf course instead of food?” the man asked. "Are you NUTS!" replied the homeless man. I haven't played golf in 20 years!" "Well,"...

On the morning of February 12, 2008, Brandon McInerney, 14, a good student and athlete at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, California, left for school with his mother’s .22 cal. pistol in his backpack. Brandon entered Computer Lab, took a seat directly behind 15-year-old Larry King, a transgender boy who suffered from ADHD and a reactive detachment disorder. Larry, AKA Latisha, was unable to form close relationships with the serial foster parents appointed to care for him. At approximately 8:15 that morning, Brandon shot Larry in the back of the head. Larry died two days later. Mass media...

There are many reasons for San Francisco’s homelessness crisis: Gentrification. Job losses. Evictions. Mental health and substance abuse struggles. But … Texas?

'Colin Dowler ended up in a Life-or-Death Struggle with a Grizzly Bear in British Columbia' A Canadian man from Dowler, British Columbia survived a brutal grizzly bear attack by stabbing the animal in the neck with a 2-inch pocket knife, according to reports. Colin Dowler, 45, was mountain biking in the remote back country of British Columbia outside of the city of Power River on July 29 when he spotted a large male grizzly. Dowler stopped about 100 feet away from the bear in order to decide what he should do next—stay still, ride past the bear, or cycle in...

If there were ever a survey asking gun owners why they buy guns, I’d wager the majority of them would say that it basically is for protection. The Second Amendment was not written for hunters but for the people’s self-protection, including protection from tyranny. The first thing smart dictators do is remove guns from registered owners. While the media and the left pontificate about the evil of guns used in recent mass shootings, Senator Lindsey Graham told the blatant truth when asked about why he owned an AR-15. His comments were reported in an article by Hunter Lovell in the...

The number of National Instant background Checks (NICS) done by the FBI for July, 2019, is up dramatically. There were 2,030,661 background checks done in July of 2019. That is the second-highest July on record, with only July of 2016 being higher. July of 2016 had 2,197,169 NICS checks. The 2019 number is positive for gun retailers and gun manufacturers, even after we take into account the changing nature of the type and numbers of background checks done through the FBI system.When the system was started in 1998, over 20 years ago, most of the checks done were for...

Today’s Cryptogram HTIDGX, FAO IGVH. CJDX ICKUNGD CJFC YKA SFIC. ---HTGGTFU IJFQDIBDFYD You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you might give the group on how you solve these puzzles as...

Democrats, fake news media, and Hollywood are desperate to block Trump's reelection in 2020. Their problem is that Trump has been awesome for America. Our economy is booming. Blacks, Latinos and women are experiencing unprecedented prosperity as Trump continues to restore power back to We the People. Trump's swiftly growing list of achievements towards making America great again is extraordinary. Democrats hope to win the presidency with their usual lies, addicting voters to government dependency, and convincing everyone that they are victims. Therefore, the Democrats' presidential campaign is built upon falsely branding Trump as a racist white supremacist, promising free...

The Second Amendment is non-negotiable. It’s the glue that holds the Bill of Rights together. Benjamin Franklin once stated, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” I agree. Whenever mass shootings happen power hungry politicians rush to microphones to exploit the dead and demand more gun control. But America doesn’t have a gun problem, we have a morality problem. “Red flag” laws, which flip due process on its head, won’t stop mass shootings anymore than past gun control measures have. Laws address societal symptoms, but they can’t change one’s...

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