An Angel Appears in
Michigan?
It
certainly doesn't appear to be photoshopped. A sign of coming
Armageddon?
“I
said, 'That's an angel!' And I was just blown away,”
Glen Thorman, a fire chief, told
local TV station 16WNDU. Thorman quickly contacted his wife and
pastor to share news of the find.
Jordan Rivers Church posted the pictures on its
Facebook page, saying the photos had not been altered, and sparked a
debate over what the camera had really captured.
16 GOP Senators tell
Senate Majority Leader "Do the job or don't take the Summer
Break"
Lots
of highfallutin' words but I doubt we'll see the action. No way will
the 33 Senators up for reelection give up all that time to campaign
in their home states.
Conservative senators have sent a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) demanding that lawmakers confirm President Donald Trump’s 271 outstanding nominations and pass a spending bill before the August recess or skip the break altogether.
“We continue to witness historic obstruction
by the minority party when it comes to funding the federal government
and confirming the president’s nominees,” the letter said. “If
we are complicit we are on the track for another last-minute spending
battle come September.”
“However, if we take action now, we can break
the cycle of continuing resolutions and omnibus spending deals,”
the letter said. “Therefore, we want to offer our full support to
expedite floor consideration, even if we must work nights and
weekends and forgo the August recess to get it done.”
Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) spearheaded the
letter, which was also signed by Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Ted Cruz
(R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Deb Fischer (R-NE),
Dean Heller (R-NV), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Kennedy (R-LA), James
Lankford (R-OK), Mike Lee (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Ben Sasse
(R-NE), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Roger Wicker
(R-MS).
Ban Guns - Murder
Rates Rise
Should
that surprise anyone other than Leftsts/Progressives? Town after
town, country after country. The statistics speak for themselves.
So,
think banning guns is going to solve America’s murder problem? The
data should tell you to think again.
Yes, in spite of the fact that we’ve been
told that Mr. and Mrs. America turning all their guns in is the best
way to fix violence, that’s actually a complete lie. And the Crime
Prevention Resource Center has the numbers to prove it.
The 2013 study looked at murder rates from
places that had banned guns around the world, from Washington, D.C.
and Chicago to England, Wales, Jamaica and even the Solomon Islands,
an archipelago in the South Pacific which only had mass shootings
after
they decided to ban guns.
Much
more @
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/exhaustive-study-murder-rates-rise-every-place-that-bans-guns/
250k TPS Types to be
Sent Home After 20+ Years Here
Just
what is the Temporary Protected Status system? It is a
"humanitarian" policy that allows people from various
nations to remain in the USA on a "temporary basis."
The
Secretary of Homeland Security may designate a foreign country for
TPS due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the
country's nationals from returning safely, or in certain
circumstances, where the country is unable to handle the return of
its nationals adequately. USCIS may grant TPS to eligible nationals
of certain countries (or parts of countries), who are already in the
United States. Eligible individuals without nationality who last
resided in the designated country may also be granted TPS.
From
U.S.CIS
Temporary Protected Status with lots and lots more about the
whole thing.
This
all comes from the piece, We
need a path to citizenship for long-term TPS enrollees, says …
that discusses the president and his chief of staff on immigration.
The idea arises that they should be given a path to citizenship.
I
disagree.
The
order impacts 195,000 refugees from El Salvador and 57,000 from
Honduras, assigned TPS status since December 1998.
Just
who are these people? If they've been 20+ years, one has to wonder
how much money they sent home to their families. And what would that
money have done if invested here.
Think
about it. El Salvador's population is 6.345 million as of 2015,
mainly centered in two cities. What would happen if 195,000 people
who've benefited from their time here returned home and actively
worked to overcome the crime and corruption they ran away from? And
we offered to help them do so?
Honduras
may be more difficult as it has a larger population with even worse
crime and corruption.
And,
there are other countries under the TPS program; Haiti, Nepal,
Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. What are
they going to do about refugees from those countries?
There
are no easy solutions to this problem but, until such time as
Congress gets off its butt and enacts fair legislation, the president
has only one option, direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to end
the "temporary status" which means sending them back home.
I
would prefer seeing something like, "We're sending you back but,
if you are willing to clean things up there, we will help you."
Former Navy Seal
Says, Waterboarding, Sleep Deprivation; Just Another Day at the
Office
The
worts I ever went through was tear gas and sleep deprivation. But
thousands of Special Ops type go through "torture" before
deployment just to prepare them in case they get captured. It's part
of being prepared.
So
what the hell's the deal about the politicians who are horrified by a
paper cut?
This
is a very controversial topic. Many senators, like former prisoner of
war Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), stand in opposition to Haspel’s
nomination, stating
that “Her refusal to acknowledge torture’s immorality is
disqualifying.” Democrats like Kamala Harris were very displeased
that they could not get Gina Haspel to agree that the enhanced
interrogations utilized in the past were immoral and unethical.
Yet
many of my fellow veterans of all branches have undergone these
“torture” techniques and worse in preparation to deploy into
combat zones. This criticism of Haspel by both parties has me asking:
If they did this to us and we don’t have a problem with it, why are
we so concerned about doing this to terrorists to extract vital
intelligence to save lives?
More military dying
in training than in war
Sadly,
it's a combination of faulty equipment and poorly trained personnel.
As an example, when the Fitzgerald got hit by another ship, reports
indicate the radar wasn't working properly and those in charge knew
it. It was hard to evade the other ship when the radar didn't show
it. Also, I haven't read anything about having actual lookouts on
duty.
In 2011, while troops were still being deployed to Afghanistan,
the Pentagon reported 395 combat deaths and only two training deaths.
But by 2014, as troops were pulled out of Afghanistan and Iraq,
combat deaths fell to 38 and training deaths were at 15. In 2015, the
numbers reversed with 15 combat deaths and 24 training deaths. In
2016, there were 16 combat deaths and 20 training fatalities. By
2017, using the congressional statistics, training deaths were at 80
and combat deaths at 21.
So
far, the training death rate in 2018 seems to be on pace with 2016, a
year in which 35 pilots and crew members died, according to the
Military Times analysis. Since October, when the fiscal year began,
there have been 15 fatal accidents. There was at least one ground
incident at Camp Pendleton, in February, when a flight surgeon was
struck by a helicopter's tail rotor.
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