This morning, President Trump announced that Joshua Boyle and his wife Caitlyn and their three children were rescued from Taliban kidnappers and are now free. The family had been held hostage during the entirety of Obama's second term, but Trump secured their release only nine months after taking office.
Boyle is a Canadian national and his wife is American. According to a statement from the White House, the American, Canadian, and Pakistani governments coordinated the efforts to bring the family home. The CIA located the Boyles in a village along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and, this morning, Pakistani troops raided the camp bringing the family away unharmed, though Boyle is being treated for a shrapnel wound. The Jihadist guards were all killed, according to a communique from the Pakistani General Staff.
President Trump stated that the rescue was a positive sign, and vowed that remaining kidnapped Americans would also be freed.
The Corporate Media likely won't give Trump any credit for this achievement, but it's noteworthy that, once again, Trump accomplished in a few months what Obama neglected to do in several years. Along with swamp-draining, stalled Obama-Era crises and scandals are being unraveled and cleaned up. We've seen long-standing trade issues resolved; the drug and gang problems taken on; and several legal issues getting mopped up. Among the latter, the Volkswagen Scandal, Epipen, LIBOR, the 'Fat Leonard' Scandal and a constellation of lesser-known issues that spanned Obama's term are either resolved or close to resolution.
Another positive thing about this story is that Trump achieved the hostage-release without violating Pakistani sovereignty. Under both Bush and Obama, this was a major issue between the two countries. Hopefully, the days of unilateral US military interventions in Pakistan are over; and Trump will pursue a win-win cooperative arrangement as he did today. The Pakistani Media was expressing the same hope in its editorial pages today.
The Boyle Family lives in New Brunswick, and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said that they would be repatriated to Canada shortly. She asked the media to respect the family's privacy but declined, on national security grounds, to comment on Canada's role in their release.
From the US State whose fanatical Attorney-General built a reputation suing Christian businesses and denying Right of Conscience protocols, a story has emerged of reverse discrimination.
A group called Abolish Human Abortion had been passing out literature when they decided to go to a local coffee shop---appropriately named Bedlam Coffee---when some uptight local told the owner that the customers were part of the demonstration. The owner suddenly went berserk; drove the customers out while screaming obscenities and homosexual propaganda. Some have reported that the owner was actually foaming at the mouth and overturning tables during the rampage. Other customers fled the scene as well.
The Seattle Media, which is made up of the same kinds of people as the shop owner, was naturally sympathetic to his outburst. But demonstrating less hypocrisy, the Pro-Life group has declined to take any legal action in accordance with their principles that businesses should be allowed to serve whomever they wish. But so much for Seattle's vaunted commitment to Safe Spaces.
The Gay Mafia has such a stranglehold on Seattle politics and culture that it's doubtful any legal action would have gotten anywhere anyway. We're talking about a city here that has both the highest percentage of homosexuals and the highest percentage of drug addicts in the country. Scenes like that which occurred in the coffee shop are common on the city streets.
We're talking here about a city where references to Columbus Day have been effaced, but monuments to Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin are honored:
And where the first (openly) homosexual mayor was forced to resign after being accused of drugging and raping teenage boys:
And where children's playgrounds are named after homosexual pederasts:
So naturally, like vampires, Seattle Leftists are triggered and outraged at the Sign of the Cross.
However, the group Abolish Human Abortion deserves credit and commendation for the dignified and responsible way they handled the matter. Hopefully, the incident will shame a few Seattle residents into more civilized behavior. But we're not holding our breath.
While Left-Wing whackos were desecrating national monuments---an activity something like a temper-tantrum---President Trump proudly proclaimed today Columbus Day.
"525 years ago, Christopher Columbus completed an ambitious and daring voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. The voyage was a remarkable and then-unparalleled feat that helped launch the Age of Exploration. The permanent arrival of Europeans to the Americas was a transforming event that fundamentally and undeniably changed the course of human history and set the stage for the development of our great nation. Therefore, on Columbus Day, we honor the skilled navigator and man of Faith whose courageous feat brought together continents and has inspired others to pursue their dreams and convictions even in the face of extreme doubt and tremendous adversity."
President Trump went on to praise the contributions of other Italian-Americans. But this speech was a refreshing change from the decades of anti-Columbus propaganda issuing from the crackpots on the Left. Nonetheless, the Corporate Media passed over the Presidential Proclamation in silence. Mostly because they've used token Indigenous Peoples to spread their Cultural Marxism; but support for Trump has been growing among this demographic.
Most of the anti-Columbus nonsense emanates from White Liberals posing as indigenous Americans like Senator 'Pocahontas' Warren and malcontent activists who've been kicked off the reservations and are willing to serve these corrupt Whites for a price. President Trump has been quite proactive in Indian affairs---moreso than his predecessors. Under Trump, Indian Tribal Police have, for the first time, been granted law enforcement status equal to all other jurisdictions. Trump's first infrastructure project is a $62 million water-system upgrade on an Apache Reservation. He's also relaxed Indian access to Federal Lands and forced big corporations like Starkist and Tyson to stop polluting indigenous territories and to pay for the clean-up.
As a side note, Christopher Columbus is our only remaining national historical figure---other than Martin Luther King---to have a federal holiday in his honor. It may be worthwhile bringing back some of the others. This is especially true since our so-called public schools do little to honor great Americans or even teach about them.
The effete degenerates in Media and Academia are not what made America a great nation. As President Trump noted, it's about good men doing good things---like Christopher Columbus. Columbus had faith, took risks, and moved forward to accomplish his goals. Those goals, in turn, led to the creation of a New World. Had he stayed in Genoa and played the Victim Card as modern Liberals do, he would have been long forgotten.
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It does give us pause to think about technology and our dependence on it. Some believe it a good thing; others a dangerous one. In our opinion, it's simply a natural thing in overall human development.
Many Atheists of the vulgar Stephen Colbert variety sneer at Christians, for example, as 'Bronze Age barbarians.' If any of them could get into a time machine and travel back to those days; our forefathers would consider them the greatest ignoramuses imaginable. Simple things that everyone knew how to do like weaving ones own clothes, or cooking without metal pots, or riding a camel---today's people would be lost in such a society. And to be fair, residents of the Bronze Age no doubt considered themselves far advanced of those in the Stone Age; while Stone Age people would be aghast at all the basic skills that their descendants had forgotten.
What is interesting to note though is that the Eternal and Spiritual aspects of things never change. Mankind has believed in God, an afterlife, and a basic moral code from Prehistoric times to the present. According to secular Evolutionary Psychology, this shouldn't happen. In fact, Atheists have a difficult time explaining how religious beliefs could have evolved in the first place; since by their own admission there is no evolutionary necessity for them.
The mainstream Moslems hold the belief that technological advances are a gift from Allah, and that God occasionally reveals the Secrets of Nature to us to better our lives. In the days when many of our own scientists were Christians, they believed much the same thing. There used to be a certain morality to Science and Technology which doesn't seem to be around anymore.
Science and Technology devoid of morality is clearly a dangerous thing. In reading accounts of the recoil-technology of the firearms employed in last Sunday's massacre in Las Vegas, one sees the moral element clearly. A weapon like that in evil hands commits a massacre; in good hands it can stop a gang-attack alone.
The problem then is not a matter of losing skills but of losing the Faith and morality that went with them. It doesn't matter if a man who can build a rocket can't make an stone arrowhead or vice-versa. What does matter is what he does with that knowledge; and his recognition of the fact that he must answer to the Omniscient for how he uses it.
It's not just the effete NFL ownership and management who, like Jimmy Kimmel, are flipping off Trump supporters. Newly released documents by 2nd Vote show that the NFL Players' Association has a long track record of donating to Left-Wing causes---many backed by arch-criminal George Soros. In fact, donations to Soros-backed groups seem to be especially prevalent during the tenure of NFLPA chief DeMaurice Smith. Smith has held the office since 2009. He succeeded Gene Upshaw who died under mysterious circumstances in 2008 and has several shady re-election controversies since.
The Center for Community Change an anti-Trump 'Resistance' group funded in part by Soros also received a $5,000 donation from the NFLPA in 2015. They also contributed to Working America, an anti-Trump, anti-Republican union lobby and in 2014 to Jobs With Justice, and The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy---all of which Soros also funds.
Open Secrets shows likewise that the NFLPA is just as active inside the Beltway as its parent company, the NFL. In 2016, the NFLPA retained two major D.C. lobbying firms---at the cost of nearly a quarter million dollars---Fierce Government Solutions and Forbes and Tate. The Players' Association had 14 lobbyists among these two groups, 13 of whom were revolving-door former government bureaucrats.
It's noteworthy that the NFLPA has spent 3-5 times as much on lobbying every year since 2008, Gene Upshaw's last year.
As for DeMaurice Smith himself, public records show him as having been a huge donor to John Kerry's campaign in 2004 and to Obama's campaigns in both 2008 and 2012. Smith formerly worked for Beltway lobbyist and law firms Patton-Boggs and Latham-Watkins; and as a counsel to Eric Holder in the Obama Administration.
Whatever the Players' Association represents, it certainly isn't the fans. Revenues and viewership for the NFL have been crashing across the board. Let's hope for a Make Football Great Again movement that will arise out of the ashes.
Between outbursts of Trump-bashing and politicizing the Las Vegas Massacre, the media punditocracy has been wringing its hands as more and more information comes out about the shooter. 'How can we understand such evil?' the media complains. Actually, most of the media doesn't recognize the evil within themselves; so trying to explain it in others is a task for which they are not equipped.
In fact, the media should be focusing on the good people are doing; like coming together to help the victims. But they, and the public at large, seem obsessed with the motives of the gunman. What few understand today---that our forefathers learned from Faith---is that Evil is irrational and the motives for these types of crimes wouldn't make sense to a normal mind even if we knew it.
A well-remembered line from the classic Western film Barquero is worth remembering here. When a gang of outlaws led by the vicious Jake Remy try to steal Travis' barge to escape the pursuing Army and Travis moves it and the refugees across the river, one of the refugees asks: "Why don't we just give him the barge? Then he'd have no reason to kill us" To which Travis replied: "His kind don't need a reason to kill."
Wise words. We can't unravel a reason for the Las Vegas Massacre precisely because it had no reason. Postmodernists have a hard understanding this, because their belief systems are wholly materialistic and sensual. They reject God because they cannot comprehend Infinite Goodness; but by the same token they cannot fathom Satan, who represents Evil beyond human understanding.
The best that we can really do is to comfort the victims, and help them rise above tragedies like these. We may be limited in our understanding of evil, but not limited in understanding its consequences.
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