The establishment of both parties have conniptions that Trump doesn't behave like Little Lord Fauntleroy. Instead, his negotiating technique seems much more similar to New York City fishmongers.
Trump seems to negotiate w/friend & foe alike in the manner of NYC fishmongers🐟💪
"It was more like a street brawl than a commercial transaction…the cursing would start both in English & Yiddish…at the end they all lit up cigars &put their arms around each other & told jokes" pic.twitter.com/Vt4gTL9UY3
The counter man said, "You know it can get pretty irritating with some of those customers. They'll say, 'Gimme a nice white fish.'
So I'll say, 'One white fish, coming right up.' Cheerful, pleasant.
Trillin: And they'll say, 'A NICE white fish.' [sarcastically] 'Oh, well I'm glad you said that because I wasn't going to get you a NICE white fish....'
Trillin: 'If you hadn't said that I would've looked for a white fish that's been sitting there since last Tish b'Ov. An old greasy, fershtunkene white fish
Morley Safer: There's a kind of wonderful noise about the place. People didn't keep hushed tones in any of those places.
Narrator: Mark Russ Federman, Anne and her son, witnessed the Russ and Daughters scene from an early age. Mark said his most pungent childhood memories are of early morning trips to the fish smoke house with the Russ men.
Mark: The smell is both sweet, smokey, briny, and acrid, all at the same time. Most stores had their fish delivered to them by middle men. But Russ and Daughters thought it was necessary to see, taste, and feel each piece of fish. And it was more like a street brawl than a commercial transaction. My family would reject a piece of fish and say it's awful and then the verbal brawl began. 'What do you mean it's awful? You don't even know a good piece of fish! If you knew a good piece of fish you wouldn't have to sell fish.' 'I know fish. [My family has] been selling fish for generations. That's a bad piece of fish.' And then the cursing would start both in English and Yiddish. Whatever words or phrases they could come up with at that moment they used. Somehow, at the end of all of this abuse they all lit up cigars and put their arms around each other and told jokes and we left with a truckful of smoked fish.
Narrator: After the smoke house, the men would stop off at Ratner's Dairy Restaurant on Delancey Street where the blintzes were sweet and the waiters were salty.
Mark: These guys were...were...they did it as an art. They could insult you, and you enjoyed it.
An article in the June edition of Marie Claire attacks homeschooling, especially Christian homeschoolers, and most particularly Christian homeschoolers who might support Republicans.
Stankorb, Sarah. “Crossing to Safety.” Marie Claire, June 2018, pp. 118–126.
Script:
"Daughters raised under the Christian patriarchy are defined by complete subservience to their father, mastering homemaking skills, and abstaining from college or a career. But even while the ideology gains influence on the national stage, a small minority of brave young women are defying their families and churches to live life on their own terms."
Growing up, Eleanor Skelton was taught to respect her father's God-given authority and obey his every wish. She dressed in long skirts and blouses buttoned to the top, and she avoided the color green because her dad didn't like it. He had an "obsession with having no leftovers," so Skelton stuffed herself until she gained an extra 20 pounds. Her family's Colorado Springs-based fundamentalist Christian church banned TV and rock music "because syncopated music is a disorderly beat, and disorder comes from the devil," Skelton, now 28, explains.
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When I read "syncopated music is a disorderly beat: I was reminded of Us3 song "Different Rhythms, Different People"
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She didn't have friends and felt compelled to hit herself with rulers and belts if she did something bad. Homeschooling was the way to train her "up in the way of the Lord," she remembers being told, so Skelton memorized Bible verses and read books like those from the 19th-century Elsie Dinsmore children's series -- tales of a pious girl who struggled to remain submissive to a spiritually dubious father -- in a windowless storage room in the back of her dad's orthodontics office. "As a stay-at-home daughter, there are so many expectations that your subculture has of you," Skelton says. "I had dreams and ideas outside of this box I was put in, and I just wanted so much to be normal." If you ask Skelton's mother, many of her daughter's strict rules were self-imposed. They were a result of following the lead of others at the family's church, her mother says.
"Stay-at-home daughter" is a term used in some evangelical fundamentalist Christian homes to describe a woman who lives at home until marriage and is raised to submit to male authority. She's homeschooled to protect her from wordly ideas and made to mimic her mother's "helpmeet" role(a Scripture-inspired term defining women as their husbands' helpers)
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Actually, the term "helpmeet" is not just a "Scripture-inspired term" but a direct quote from Genesis 2:18
King James Bible
"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."
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until her mid- to late teens or early 20s, when her father approves a husband. Her wifely training includes helping to raise siblings and mastering what such families call "advanced homemaking skills," ranging from menu planning and budgeting to interior design and disaster preparation. As the name suggests, stay-at-home daughters aren't supposed to go to college or have a career; proponents describe independent women and egalitarian men as "destructive of civilization."
For the uninitiated, it can be hard to believe such faith-based oppression still exists in 21st-century America. Stay-at-home daughterhood is one practice among a set of beliefs often referred to as "Christian patriarchy" (and in its less rigid forms, "complementarianism"), which places men's authority over women and father's authority over children. It's seen as the way to protect a family from a life of sin in the modern world.
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sounds like leftists are hell bent on destroying traditional families as well as Christianity
"The identifying features of right-wing families, it contends, are that they are 'inconspicuous, blond, cute and engaged'.
'First of all, [right-wing families] are nice and dedicated' Michaela Köttig, sociologist" pic.twitter.com/hUmoXuGDB5
— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) May 31, 2018
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"Christian patriarchy" is not a church in itself but a movement aimed at popularizing certain gender norms within a range of evangelical fundamentalist churches and families. It's impossible to quantify how many believer are out there, but for those in the movement, the conviction that God wants women to submit to male authority is reinforced at church, in Bible studies, in children's lessons, and in the media they consume. By selling life manuals and school curricula, as well as promoting conferences to strengthen families, a number of Christian-patriarchy-preaching ministries have profited in the millions, even as the most well-known leaders have been sued for sexual harassment and assault.
In 2016, with the election of President Donald Trump, Christian patriarchy gained influence as those familiar with its beliefs assumed national roles. Vice President Mike Pence attended a church in Indianapolis whose lead minister has preached that women should submit to men's spiritual authority.
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This sentiment is not unique to Mike Pence's denomination, this is a direct quote from the Bible Ephesians 5:21-23
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior
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Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue counts prominent patriarchy-preaching pastor Bill Gothar's teachings as one of "his life's greatest influences."
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I'm not certain what source Stankorb is quoting. I did a google search for "life's greatest influences." [which she put in "quotes" indicating it is a verbatim quote] AND Perdue and the only result was her own article:
Perhaps Stankorb was paraphrasing Perdue, in which case she shouldn't include the statement inside quotation marks.
It does appear Standkorb is engaging in guilt by association from Bailey, Sarah Pulliam. “Updated: Bill Gothard Resigns Following Abuse Allegations.” Baptist Standard, 5 Mar. 2014, www.baptiststandard.com/news/faith-culture/bill-gothard-on-leave-following-abuse-allegations/.
He’s also rubbed shoulders with conservative Republican luminaries. He and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee were photographed at a campaign lunch together; former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue spoke at one of Gothard’s conferences; and Sarah Palin, when she was a small-town mayor in Alaska, attended his International Association of Character Cities conferences and declared Wasilla among Gothard’s “Cities of Character.”
If Republican politicians who were passing acquaintances to now disgraced Gothard are to be held accountable for all of his actions, should Obama be held accountable for associating with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers and "God Damn America" Wright?
Should all Democrats be condemned by all the foul mouthed leftists purporting to be preachers?
Bishop @TalbertSwan, does God tell you to call black people "coons"?
Should Obama denounced for associating with antisemite Farrakhan?
6). To Understand Why The Obama White House had a huge stake in Politically fueling this deadly inferno, you only need to look at his associations. Who his mentors are according to his own words. Anyone remember his Pastor Jeremiah Wright? Then there's Louis Farrakhan; but wait.. pic.twitter.com/4eXMw42KFj
LIB DERSHOWITZ: “Would never have campaigned for Obama if I had known about the photo with him condoning Jew-hater Farrakhan”
-Dems pressured photographer to suppress pic showing Obama buddying up in a photo op with racist antisemite Louis Farrakhan #tcothttps://t.co/NHi4npusWX
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, has attended Gothard-led conferences, as has 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee and ex-Alaska governor Sarah Palin, (After hearing a list of character qualities defined by Gothard -- including faith, obedience, and meekness -- at a conference in 2000, when she was mayor of Wasilla, Palin directed her city council to pass a resolution pledging that the city would uphold the 49 trait.) [I'm not an expert, but I suspect that separation of powers prevents the mayor from directing a council to pass any resolution. I suspect they are their own independent governing body] Roy Moore, the Alabama GOP Senate candidate who lost to Doug Jones in 2017's special election after being accused of sexual misconduct by nine women, coauthored a Law and Government course published by the ministry of another leader, Doug Phillips, that questioned whether women should have the right to vote and directs people to vote against women who run for public office because the only role for women is in the home. "The rhetorical impact of this ideology is far more pervasive than most people understand," says Christy Mesaros-Winckles, communications chair at Adrian College in Michigan, who studies evangelical culture. "We have individuals who espouse Christian-patriarchy ideas who have access to the most powerful public officials in America."
Caught in the crosshairs are the women taught to believe rebellion is akin to witchcraft. But growing numbers of stay-at-home daughters are rejecting their upbringings. They're awaking to their realities thanks to confessional website that have cropped up in recent years: No Longer Quivering, Homeschoolers Anonymous, Spiritual Sounding Board, Love Joy Feminism, and Recovering Grace. Some are escaping via an informal network of safe houses run by former stay-at-home daughters. "It's an underground movement," says Skelton, a pioneer of the network with her Unboxing Project, which counts over 30 volunteers and half a dozen safe houses. "We're like this really big family all over the nation."
In lieu of a formal post-secondary education, many stay-at-home
daughters study advanced homemaking skills. Many in the movement
preach against sending women to college
Rebecca, another stay-at-home daughter, had a relatively normal childhood in Saratoga, California. Then her family joined a patriarchy-preaching church when she was 12. "When we joined the church, it became clear our jobs were to be wives and mothers and daughters," remembers Rebecca (whose last name has been omitted here), now 34, who as a kid harbored dreams of becoming a physicist. After her family joined the church, Rebecca realized if she wanted physics to be part of her life, it would be through preparing a future son to enter the field. "All of my dreams would have to live through any sons I had," she says. "I hoped I would have a lot children so I could vicariously live through them."
Rebecca's father was largely absent, working in Silicon Valley, so domestic authority often defaulted to her mother, who, Rebecca says, pressed her to be the "ideal" Christian daughter: submissive, obedient, lovely. Rebecca never spoke unless spoken to and wasn't allowed to leave the house without her mother accompanying her. "Daughter doesn't just mean you are born from somebody," Rebecca explains. "You serve the parent, always thinking about their needs." She cooked, cleaned, and followed her mother's orders with a smile. She kept Bible verses in her pocket to recite if she didn't want to do something her mother commanded, because she wasn't supposed to complain. Making her parents unhappy contributed to Jesus's suffering on the cross, she was told. (She remembers wishing she hadn't been born so Jesus wouldn't have to suffer so much.)
Calls for women's submission are as old as the Bible, but preaching the practice became a profitable endeavor for a spate of ministries beginning in the 1970s. Chief among them is the Oak Brook, Illinois-based Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), led by Bill Gothard, a pastor and home-schooling advocate who started the ministry with the name Campus Teams Inc. in 1961. Decades and two name changes later, IBLP has training centers in five states and claims its seminars and conferences have been attended by 2.5 million. Through conference fees, book and tape sales, home-education tuition, training-center fees, and donations, at its height in 2014, IBLP made $3.96 million and reported assets of $76.9 million, according to its tax filings. Gothard's ministry espouses an authoritarian structure called the "umbrella of protection," which places fathers at the top of the family hierarchy and damns "eye traps": women wearing pants, skirts above the knee, or shoulder-baring tops.
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Forbidding "eye traps" sounds like CCNB Bank's corporate dress code
ott I worked for CCNB Bank & got reprimanded for posting subversive comix in break room pic.twitter.com/VU5yGFioHl
— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) May 13, 2016
I was reprimanded by my bank manager for violating dress code for wearing sleeveless sundress pic.twitter.com/cNxZG7lMdB
— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) July 13, 2017
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While the umbrella of fatherly authority was Gothard's trademark, it was the San Antonio, Texas-based Vision Forum ministry's Doug Phillips who popularized the term "stay-at-home daughter" in books and films starting in the mid-2000s. Vision Forum has marketed daughters' lifestyle guidebooks, including So Much More, which states, "Women holding seats of authority, whether it be in business, church, family, law, or politics, is one of the distinguishing marks of a society under God's curse." Another, Joyfully at Home, admonishes against sending women to college: “I can see no pattern in Scripture for a young woman to pack up and head cross-country to be disciplined outside of the framework of the church and home.” Vision Forum also produced documentaries: 2007’s Return of the Daughters, in which minister Voddie Baucham says America is suffering an “epidemic of unprotected women,” and The Monstrous Regiment of Women, released the same year, which suggests Hillary Clinton exemplifies how feminism is destroying our country. The ministry turned antiquated gender stereotypes into merchandise, hawking a “Beautiful Girlhood” catalog with guidebooks for stay-at-home daughters and quilting supplies, while boys’ catalogs sold frontier weaponry and blow-dart guns. At its peak, in 2011, Vision Forum grossed $3.4 million and had $2.7 million in assets, according to its tax filings. But in 2013, Phillips resigned. In a lawsuit, a nanny for his eight children claimed that he used her as a personal sex object, groping her and masturbating on her for years. (The case was settled in 2016.) In the fallout, Vision Forum shuttered. Phillips, who denies the allegations, and his
wife disappeared from the public eye, reemerging on Vision Forum's old Facebook page in the months following Trump's election, offering up links to Breitbart News and thanking Vice President Pence for speaking at an antiabortion [otherwise known as prolife] event.
Gothard, who never married and famously claims to have never kissed a woman, was the subject of allegations from 34 women, including groping and emotional, spiritual, and physical abuse. After an investigation by IBLP's board, Gothard stepped down in 2014. "My actions of holding of hands, hugs, and touching of feet or hair with young ladies crossed the boundaries of discretion and were wrong," he said in a statement at the time. In the years since, 16 women and two men have filed a lawsuit accusing Gothard of sexual abuse and harassment. The case was dropped in February 2018 due to "unique complexities," including the statutes of limitations, according to a statement from the plaintiffs. "We want to make it abundantly clear that by dismissing our lawsuit . . . we are not recanting our experiences or dismissing the incalculable damage that we believe Gothard has done," the plaintiffs added. Gothard has asked the court for attorney's fees, claiming the lawsuit was frivolous.
Some stay-at-home daughters have been able to flee their strict
upbringings by contacting women like themselves who have
managed to escape their own families and are now helping
others do the same
But while Phillips and Gothard may have fallen out of the public eye, the teachings are still very much alive. "Quiver-full families," a subculture within Christian patriarchy asserting it is women's duty to reproduce to create an army for God, have been fodder for TLC reality shows in recent years --Kids by the Dozen and 19 Kids and Counting-- that showcase such families without making their theology explicit.
When Eleanor Skelton hit college age in 2009, her dad bucked church teachings and enrolled her at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, to study dentistry, preparing her to work for him one day. Her parents tracked her via T-Mobile's FamilyWhere. But they couldn't stop her from making friends. She was frank about her home life, and her new friends' reactions clued her in to the fact that it was anything but normal. One joked that her wardrobe and background made her seem like she "came from a 'Little House on the Prairie' convention from hell," Skelton recalls.
After three years, her parents worried secular influence was leading her astray: She was reading "Harry Potter" and had asked to extend her curfew past 7:30 p.m. Her parents insisted she transfer to Bob Jones University, a Christian college in South Carolina founded in 1927 by fundamentalists and a necessary whistle-stop for Republican presidential candidates. For the first time, Skelton pushed back.
Her parents took her to their pastor, who said her rebellion was a sign of the devil. "Because I was unmarried, he said I needed to obey," Skelton says. The pastor insisted, "You're just letting yourself be confused by Satan." From then on, she was unwelcome at that church, her lifetime of obedience undone.
Skelton began putting plans in place to move into her own apartment. Her parents caught wind, and Skelton believes they tried to thwart her ability to pay a deposit on an apartment. But she was given $900 from a professor, and after she'd secured a place, Skelton told her parents she was moving out. They gave her three hours to remove her belongings before they locked the door. Her departure felt anticlimactic: Her mother took her key and she left, unsure if she'd speak to her parents again.
It should have been a relief to be out, but it wasn't. Skelton had never spent a night away from her parents; her new roommate taught her to make ramen in the microwave. She worked two jobs but barely got by. She became depressed; her grades slipped. She missed her family and wanted her siblings to visit, but her parents "wouldn't allow it because I was a bad influence," says Skelton. "They poisoned my siblings against me...I had chosen the wrong way."
Soon enough, Skelton found her purpose. That first fall she was on her own, a homeschooled friend she knew from church committed suicide. Skelton thought of other stay-at-home daughters who were at their breaking points. By then, another former stay-at-home daughter Skelton met through school had moved in, and the trio got to work, "We started informally organizing." Skelton says. "We made plans to hide people the way you hide women fleeing abusive partners."
One of the first women they helped was Raven (an alias), a then 19-year-old whose parents had been advised by their pastor to "disown" her -- their only child -- for dating a boy outside the faith. In 2013, Skelton, who knew Raven through her university friends, and her roommates went with Raven to her parents' house in Colorado Springs to pack her belongings strewn on the porch, her mattress in a dumpster, her purse dumped out in a car. It occurred to Skelton that they didn't know where Raven's father, or his guns, were located. She called three more friends for backup; they worked fast and got out before anyone came home. (Skelton learned a lesson: Call for a police escort next time, just in case.)
That night, Raven settled into Skelton's apartment across town. The two-bedroom space was now crammed with four women and three cats. Raven had no car, no money, and "no knowledge of how to do anything because I was just supposed to get married to a preacher and have a bunch of kids," she says. (Now 23, Raven attends college off and on and lives with her fiancée, also a former stay-at-home daughter whom Skelton helped to escape.)
In the fall of 2014, Skelton started a blog called the Girl Who Once Lived in a [CONTINUED ON P. 126]
[CONTINUED FROM P. 121] Box. (In college, she used to explain her restrictive upbringing to new friends by saying, "I came from the box.") [I doubt that is true, because that name sounds totally stupid, but I guess all the good blog names were taken by 2014] Almost immediately after the blog went live, Skelton was flooded with e-mails and Facebook messages from women desperate to escape. The Unboxing Project was born. If she was the girl who came from the box, now it was up to her to unbox as many people who wanted out as she could. "I was trying to pay rent for all of us and pull everybody else along" while struggling to keep up with her coursework, Skelton says. "I wasn't really in a place to be taking care of other people" -- mentally, emotionally, or financially -- "but I did it anyway."
The Unboxing Project has since launched a hotline and e-mail helpline for Skelton and her friends to advise women to gather essentials before leaving, including identifying documents, cash, bank information, clothes, keys, and medication. For those who share a phone plan with parents, Skelton suggests shutting off the phone until they get a new SIM card and number so their location cannot be tracked. Families often withhold identifying documents (like birth certificates) or drain joint bank accounts to force daughters' return. "I tell them, 'We'll help you if you want to get out,'" Skelton says. "We know how to do it." They know counselors and how to apply for food stamps and low-income housing. [Great, this article is encouraging more big government dependent Democrat voters] "I tell them, 'You won't be alone.'" To date, Skelton has aided 13 stay-at-home-daughter escapees. One was a Colorado Springs transplant whose evangelical family customarily refused her even basic medical care [I wonder if that means birth control and abortions]. And her help extends beyond [Christian ] stay-at-home daughters. Skelton once assisted an Indian-American woman in her mid-20s in avoiding an arranged marriage.
Elizabeth Joy Burger followed Skelton's blog for months before working up the nerve to e-mail her. Soon, Burger, who is originally from Indianapolis, and Skelton were chatting almost daily via Facebook Messenger. "She helped me process through stuff," says Burger, who was homeschooled and has seven younger siblings. Skelton helped plan her move and introduced her to her first roommate, who taught her about the existence of contraception. "I'm glad I finally had friends I could talk about it with," Burger says. In the roughly two years since she left her parents, she has worked as a nanny, caregiver, and pet sitter to save for college, and she is in a healthy relationship, living [in sin] with her boyfriend in Georgia.
Despite struggles to overcome gaps in her education, Rebecca, the stay-at-home daughter from California, was eventually accepted at Oxford University, instigating what she describes as a years-long effort to establish boundaries and extricate herself from her parents' control. (Her mother says she was happy Rebecca went to Oxford, but insisted she call or e-mail at least once a day.) In case 2013, she helped start the confessional blog Homeschoolers Anonymous, and over the years she's offered her couch to women who find her online. Another former stay-at-home daughter, Ashley Easter, was once one of the staunchest supporters of the movement. Raised in an independent Baptist church in Lynchburg, Virginia, Easter used to run the website Stay-at-Home Daughter, where she coached 3,500 subscribers on homemaking skills, submission to fathers and husbands, and "biblical femininity." When she was 20, Easter spiraled into depression and began questioning her theology. She eventually abandoned her family's church and began using her online platform to argue against her former beliefs.
Among the most well-known onetime stay-at-home daughters is Samantha Field. When she was 10, Field's family began attending a patriarchy-preaching independent fundamentalist Baptist church in Florida. Once she was college age, she persuaded her father to let her attend Pensacola Christian College, a 45-minute drive from home. Their pastor verbally attacked Field's parents from the pulpit for letting their daughter go. Congregants told her mother her chronic health issues were punishment for their decision, and Field was inundated with pamphlets for online "advanced homemaking" courses. Eventually, she and her parents left that church. Today, Field, now 30, has assisted over 100 people in making exit plans to leave abusive situations. "It's kind of been my job for three years now," she says. "We all feel very strongly about helping anyone who's from where we came from."
Fleeing family is an emotionally complicated journey. For all her success leading others women to freedom, Skelton has been plagued by a sense of loss. She loves her family and says she "wanted things to still be OK with them even though I had moved out." It's gotten easier with time. Her siblings are now adults, and she communicates with them regularly.
Recently, with the encouragement of a new pastor she started seeing for counseling in 2016, Skelton wrote a letter to her parents to explain how she'd been hurt. She didn't anticipate they'd understand., but to her surprise, her mother called. She told Skelton about a recent day in church: As the congregation was interviewing new pastoral candidates, Skelton's mom stood up and said the advice she and her husband had been given by the last pastor -- to ostracize their daughter -- was wrong. Skelton was shocked her mother had critiqued a man, a pastor no less, and stuck up for her. It doesn't undo the years of hurt, but it's a sign her family is coming to understand how much control they, too, had given up. mc
=========== It seems Democrats want to possess a monopoly on brainwashing children by keeping them in government run schools:
Home Schooling is the ONLY way to go.
My children and now grandchildren are free of social engineering. My morals, my beliefs.
Liberals are bent on brainwashing—
I SAY NOT MY KIDS‼️ https://t.co/Ke3DPzxsHN
Trump train supporters often cite King David to rationalize Trump's moral shortcomings,
Your biblical namesake David slept with Bathsheba & had her husband killed on the front. Didn’t God nevertheless make David His man? https://t.co/C0WddhuVJa
— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) May 5, 2018
Perry Stone: [ quoting the King James version of 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Philippians 3:13-14] "forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." So in other words, once you enter into a redemptive covenant with the Lord, Jesus Christ, all things are passed away.
Perry Stone: So when you're sitting at the king's table, you might know that you can't walk. When you're sitting at the king's table, you might know that you've been wounded, just like Mephibosheth.
Perry Stone: You might know that you're carrying an injury, just like Mephibosheth. But guess what? Nobody around you can see the wound. Nobody around you will ever know it's there because you're sitting at the king's table. You might be broken from beneath, but you're still blessed from above. So for those of you who are watching the world wide telecast of "Manna - Fest"
Perry Stone: I want to encourage you to do something. The Bible says [quoting Psalms 147:3 ] "He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds." When you can enter into a redemptive covenant, not only are your sins forgiven, to where the shame is removed. God says [quoting Isaiah 61:7 ] "I will give you double for shame." There is shame in sin. There is shame in being disobedient. There are things that you do in life that you are ashamed of. But listen! Mephibosheth's name when you take the Hebrew roots has the connotation of shame.
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I know, Wikipedia isn't the best source of information, but their article on the etymology of Mephibosheth's name:
After the deaths of Saul and Jonathan, Mephibosheth's nurse took him and fled in panic. ... The Hebrew name is מְפִיבֹשֶׁת Mefivoshet, meaning "from the mouth of shame" or "from the mouth of god Bashtu", or Merib-baal (Bib Heb: מְרִיב־בַּעַל, Trans: Meriv-Ba'al, Mərîḇ-Báʻal).
✂️--------------------------------------- Perry Stone: But the king to the shame from him. God will remove the shame from your past. He will remove the shame of your youth - the things that you did. You know I think it's a pity sometimes that people will enter certain arenas in life and the higher they go whether it's in the politics or even spiritually, somebody comes along and wants to talk about something they did thirty and forty years ago that they were long forgiven of. That was back in B.C. - Before Christ. You know, if people brought up everything you did before Christ, how embarrassed would you be? What kind of shame would you carry? Aren't you glad that the past is forgiven? Aren't you glad that Jesus has redeemed us and he's cast our sins into the sea of forgetfulness, never to remember them again [citing Micah 7:19] ? Oh, I know people can remember, but God won't. So today, may I encourage you that if you're not a believer, if you've never come to the Lord Jesus, say, "Jesus, I'm a sinner. Forgive me of my sins." Why don't you do that? And ask him to heal you emotionally, mentally, and physically. Here's the great thing. You don't have to have a lot of people around you. You may live in a country where there's not even a church. But you sit down there, you call on the Lord with your mouth. I'll tell you what will happen. You'll sense His presence if you'll believe! When you call upon His name, He'll be there.
Clip from Perry Stone sermon "Blessed Above - Broken Beneath"
And here's a Korean version of the story of Mephibosheth:
David French is acting a like a concern troll Iago trying to depress & suppress the Evangelical vote to help out a blue wave & ensure planned parenthood is fully funded & more babies are killed - [which I primarily blame RINOs in Congress vs Trump for] pic.twitter.com/KYp46IxEjQ
— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) May 5, 2018
Concern troll 1: Don't you think you're being too hard on the Queen?
Concern troll 2: Maybe you should rethink the "hiding out" stance
Concern troll 3: We're on YOUR side, Snow!
I trust #NeverTrumpers are following their principles, but I've lost the logic now. Porn Star Guy vs a party of Marxist abortionists who oppose both 1A and 2A is not a hard choice, even for evangelicals. Plus @realDonaldTrump is doing a great job within the Constitution!
if leftists don't win at the ballot box, they engage in a two pronged attack of anarchy on the streets and lawfare in the courts. An example of the latter was the interminable "John Doe" fishing expedition against Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin to uncover GOP donors so Democrats can boycott and harass them, which was eventually shut down by the US Supreme Court
There was a downside to the election for Wisconsin conservatives:... https://t.co/4hyLbQUTco
"Earlier this year, they asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the state Supreme Court’s ruling because the prosecutors claimed two of the conservative judges on the case should have recused themselves. The U.S. Supreme Court made quick work of rejecting the petition for review.Even now, Chisholm et al are fighting to hold onto the many possessions they took from the people they hounded, and face potential civil rights lawsuits now that the John Doe truly is dead."
Wisconsin Republicans now want to turn around and investigate the investigators:
"The lawmaker said he is hopeful his fellow Republicans finally get behind the bicameral investigative committee after the new session begins in January. 'We cannot as a Republican Party stand by and let people’s civil rights be abused,” Craig said in the September interview. “We cannot allow that to occur while these individuals’ rights have been trampled, because what we are saying by our inaction is that we are willing to stand by as the people who hold the power of the purse, the power of impeachment, we are going to allow bad actions to occur in the future from our government.'"
I pointed out the left's hypocrisy of only accepting the outcomes of elections when their side wins by citing an example illustrated from an old Woody Allen comedy:
I then went back and forth with a Woody Allen fan on twitter who complained, pedantically, that "Annie Hall" is only a comedy. My counter is that, to the modern left, "comedy" is only political invective with a sneer.
Another really good article about comedy, and how actually being funny is no longer required by the SJW class of... https://t.co/kjYTxbYyAE
"On late-night television, it was once understood that David Letterman was beloved by coastal liberals and Jay Leno more of a Middle American taste. But neither man was prone to delivering hectoring monologues in the style of the ‘Daily Show’ alums who now dominate late night. Fallon’s apolitical shtick increasingly makes him an outlier among his peers, many of whom are less comics than propagandists — liberal “explanatory journalists” with laugh lines.Some of them have better lines than others, and some joke more or hector less. But to flip from Stephen Colbert’s winsome liberalism to Seth Meyers’s class-clown liberalism to Bee’s bluestocking feminism to John Oliver’s and Trevor Noah’s lectures on American benightedness is to enter an echo chamber from which the imagination struggles to escape."
"At the same time, this echo chamber of smuggery isn’t helping Americans have shared cultural goals, much less an ability to work together to achieve them. Jon Stewart is known for brutally deriding a show that featured people of differing views civilly discussing issues of the day. He got that show killed and significantly strengthened the world where cultural elites engaged in groupthink mockery of those with whom they disagree."
"The results include a further erosion of civility, a decrease in Americans’ ability to understand each other and their concerns, and, of all things, President-elect Donald Trump. Should late-night political comedy continue in its path, who knows what the future holds."
I supported Senator Ted Cruz for the GOP Primary because he supports limited Constitutional government and prosperity through free enterprise. I continued to support Cruz even after he suspended his campaign, hoping to keep Trump from winning 1237 delegates so there would be a contested GOP convention
You're trash talking psyche out games won't work - nobody is out until one candidate wins 1237 delegates #CruzCrewhttps://t.co/dmY4txkjjw
A footnote to the above tweets - Major Whittlesey was the American commander of the "The Lost Battalion" in World War I who was surrounded and outnumbered by overwhelming German forces but refused to surrender. A comment from a nasty youtuber sore loser German who still holds a grudge from a hundred years ago:
which either translates to:
"Shit Ammis can die all" or
"Shit amis they can all get lost" depending on which version of google translate you use. After Trump won the GOP nomination, I then turned my eyes to the Libertarian Party in hopes that they would nominate Austin Petersen.
.@VLibertarian >@AP4LP "The argument liberals make is that they don't understand the difference b/n govt & society" pic.twitter.com/4lYGvKzy9O
— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) May 28, 2016
Unfortunately, the so-called Libertarian Party chose former Republican Governor Gary Johnson, who is hostile to religious liberty protected by the First Amendment, and former Republican Governor William Weld, who is hostile to individual gun right ownership protected by the Second Amendment.
I then held out (admittedly) minimal hope to the Never Trumpers promise to helicopter in another candidate at the last minute. However, their choice of Evan McMullin was disappointing. He believes in open borders and amnesty and that the USA can do business with the terrorist Hamas front group, the Muslim Brotherhood.
After running out of options, I settled on the same decision as former Cruz supporter, Mark Levin, that the USA is damage control and needs to elect Trump as the only practical alternative to stop pro Saul Alinsky Hillary Clinton.
Some supporters of defeated candidates seem to have taken Trump's insults even more personally than the candidates, themselves, kind of like the angry German youtuber above.
If Cruz can find it in his heart to forgive Trump and support him in the general election then I think his voters should, too https://t.co/PRh9dRJNqD
I suppose a strategic error Trump made was to not establish plausible deniability when trash talking his opponents like George W Bush reportedly did against John McCain in South Carolina in 2000 and Romney reportedly did against Gingrich and Herman Cain in 2012. Some people cite the so called "Hamilton Rule" where they'd prefer the rapscallion to be of the other party so our party won't be blamed, from Black, Eric. "Why Republican Never Trumpers Are Turning to Alexander Hamilton for Guidance." MinnPost. N.p., 5 May 2016. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.
Actually, I question the quote's accuracy since I could not find a primary source document online to corroborate said quote.
@ChuckNellis@Genius_Parks Hamilton 's advice doesn't work b/c Democrats go thru space & time to fob off blame to #GOP ...
This is assuming citizens can even find out the truth. The US media is currently the Tass, Pravda, Izvestia trifecta of Trotskyite trumpery and obfuscating flimflammery for the Democrat Party.
All in all, this election is like a real world engineering problem where one needs to maximize positive variables and minimize negative variables versus a hypothetical pure mathematics problem with no constraints.
"difference b/n a candidate who has sinned &yet promises good policies & a candidate who has sinned & promises bad policies" @JSObservationspic.twitter.com/RJRhmrkiby
The blog title, "noli insipientium iniurias pati" is Latin for "Don't let the turkeys get you down." Benjamin Franklin bookcases the blog header title for two reasons:
1) He allegedly suggested the US adopt the turkey as its official mascot
2) His discovery of electricity helped Al Gore invent the internet
Quantum Physics equation under profile picture explained here
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