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    Build Back Makes Bankruptcy

    CONGRESS
   CBO: Fully extended reconciliation bill could cost $3 trillion
   Dems have proposed many programs to be temporary, but costs would
   soar if they became permanent, according to the budget agency.

   Sen. Lindsey Graham, left, who requested the CBO analysis, says
the agency “has provided a true cost of the bill over ten years,”
but Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer says Graham's request
was "nothing more than a partisan attempt to mislead the public."
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

By David Lerman
    Posted December 10, 2021 at 12:46pm, Updated at 2:19pm
    The Democratic tax and spending package to expand the social
safety net and combat climate change would increase federal deficits
by $3 trillion over 10 years if most programs were made permanent,
the Congressional Budget Office said Friday.
    Republicans seized on the new cost estimate to argue that the
Democrats’ reconciliation measure is unaffordable and would only
accelerate rising inflation.
    “I am urging the Democratic party to stop the madness,” said
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Senate Budget Committee’s
ranking Republican, who requested the cost estimate from the non-
partisan budget agency along with his House counterpart, Rep. Jason
Smith, R-Mo.
    Graham and Smith, using CBO figures, estimated the gross cost
of the package would come to $4.9 trillion over a decade, assuming
all programs were made permanent without additional revenue or sav-
ings. That price tag would be more than double the roughly $2.2
trillion estimate of costs for new spending and tax breaks in the
House-passed bill, before offsets.
    The Democratic reconciliation bill, as passed by the House,
would increase deficits by $231 billion over 10 years, after ac-
counting for spending for increased tax enforcement and interest
costs on the debt, the nonpartisan budget agency said. To keep costs
down, Democrats called for many of their programs to be temporary
— particularly the child tax credit, which would expire in a year.
And some programs would take years to get started.
    But if those programs were made permanent, the CBO said, costs
would soar, increasing deficits in the first decade by more than $3
trillion, under a set of assumptions requested by Republican law-
makers.
    Much of the cost increase comes from extending the expanded
child tax credit, which provides most families with up to $3,600 per
child annually, which households can opt to receive in monthly in-
stallments.
    As passed by the House, the one-year expanded credit would cost
$185 billion. But if extended over the decade, as Democrats say they
want to do eventually, the cost jumps to nearly $1.6 trillion.
Similarly, child care subsidies and universal preschool programs,
which would expire after 2027 in the House bill, would cost $381
billion over 10 years. But if they are made permanent, the cost
jumps to $752 billion, the CBO said.
    “Nobody believes these programs were going to end,” Graham said
at a news conference he held to call attention to the CBO report.
“They'll never go away if you leave it up to the Democratic Party.”
    The estimate from the nonpartisan budget agency came on the same
day the Labor Department reported that the consumer price index rose
by 6.8 percent over the 12 months ending in November, the highest
increase since June 1982.
    “It is unthinkable that Senate Democrats would try to respond to
this inflation report by ramming through another massive socialist
spending package in a matter of days,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell said in a statement Friday.
    Democrats have denied that their reconciliation bill would spur
inflation, saying the programs in it are fully paid for with tax
increases on corporations and upper-income households, along with
increased tax enforcement and prescription drug cost savings. And
they said it would actually reduce deficits by $2 trillion in the
second decade since many programs would expire but the tax increases
and drug savings would remain in place.
    They have acknowledged wanting to extend the life of many pro-
grams, particularly the expanded child tax credit, but have said the
costs of any future spending would be offset with new revenue or
savings, as President Joe Biden has promised.
    In a statement Friday, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer
called the new analysis a “fake CBO score” that doesn’t take into
account Democratic commitments to offset any costs of future exten-
sions. He said Graham’s request was “nothing more than a partisan
attempt to mislead the public.”
    Graham, at his news conference, trained his focus on the one
Senate Democrat considered most likely to block the reconciliation
package from passing: West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III, who has
called for a “pause” and expressed concerns about spurring more
inflation. Graham said he talked with Manchin Friday morning to
discuss the new CBO report.
    “Joe Manchin, I believe, will listen to the facts,” Graham said.
    Jennifer Shutt contributed to this report.
    We have had the worst administration in history working to 
destroy our nation.
    Time for prayer and unity within the more moral and ethical
part of our country.

Conservatively,
John

    Truths, Ideals of MLK’s Message Have Been Lost to 'Wokeism'
    Star Parker / @StarParker / January 14, 2022

    We celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday 
of January. This year, that’s Jan. 17.
On Aug. 28, 1963, King delivered one of the great speeches in
American history, popularly known as the “I Have a Dream” speech. It
is a speech that must be dusted off and studied anew today, because
it contains the very message that our nation sorely needs to hear
and digest now.
    It’s a message that has been tragically lost and buried and re-
placed with great and destructive distortions.
    Two things jump out when reading through that speech: One is how
this black preacher captured in his words that day the heart and soul
of America. Second, how King’s great message that day stands in total
contrast to the rhetoric peddled by today’s progressives as the
remedy to our racial strife.
    The indictment of the woke movement is that America is the pro-
blem. King offered up America as the solution. He talked about the
“magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Inde-
pendence.”
    “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live
out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-
evident, that all men are created equal.'”
    The problem, as King explained, is not America or the eternal
truths that were brought to bear in its founding. The problem was
the failure of the nation to live up to the challenges of its great
founding principles.
    That was the heart of King’s message that day. He appealed to
the nation to realize the dream of its Founding Fathers, not to crush
it and bury it, as we hear today.
    The problem is not white people. “The marvelous new militancy …
must not lead us to a distrust of all white people,” he said. And, of
course, the most memorable and oft-quoted line of the speech, “I have
a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the
content of their character.”
    What has happened instead? Where has this great message of King
gotten lost? In the name of racial justice, our race campaigns today
are defined by selection and placement based on race, based on the
color of skin, and not based on the content of character, as King
implored the nation to do.
    King’s speech is divided into three parts. Part one is an appeal
to the nation to live up to its great founding principles. Part two
is an appeal to black Americans to rise up and act accordingly in the
noble cause of the pursuit of liberty and justice. Let’s not drink
“from the cup of bitterness.” Part three is an appeal to the ideals
of the Christian soul of the nation.
    He quoted the prophet Isaiah that “the crooked places will be
made straight … and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all
flesh shall see it together.”
    Biblical truths and ideals have been sadly lost to wokeism, which
has for all practical purposes become a religion in itself.
    Let’s honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. now, as we come out of
COVID-19 and enter 2022, by revisiting and taking to heart the great
truths he spoke on that summer day in Washington, D.C., in 1963. They
are great truths that have very sadly been cast to the side and re-
placed with the religion of politics and power.
    Let us honor King by seeing America as he presented it then, as
embodying the ideals of a free nation under God. And then we can join
hands and sing, as King appealed, “the words of the old Negro spiri-
tual: ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at
last.'”

    *There is not much to add to this, except to say that we should 
strive to live by King's words Every day.
    The Bible tells us that He will heal our land but we have to be
willing to embrace God first.*

Conservatively,
John

    Critical things to think about

    *A friend of mine forwarded this anonymous opinion piece to me
and I was so impressed at this viewpoint that I just wanted to share
it with everyone who is willing to take the time to REALLY read it.*

    Critical Things to Think About in 2022.

    I never dreamed that I would have to face the prospect of not
living in the United States of America, at least not the one I have
known all my life. I have never wished to live anywhere else. This
is my home and I was privileged to be born here. I am proud to have
served in the Armed Forces protecting our freedom and way of life.
But today I woke up and as I had my morning coffee, I believe every-
thing seems to be changing for the worse. No matter how I vote, no
matter what I say, no matter how much I pray, something evil has
invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same. I
have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at
people I have known all my life--so hate-filled that they agree with
opinions they would never express as their own. I think that I may
well have entered the Twilight Zone. We have become a nation that has
lost its collective mind!

    You can't justify this insanity:
    If a guy pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with
him.
    Somehow, it’s un-American for the census to count how many Ameri-
cans are in America.
    Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting
in our elections are good.
    It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of the
Ukraine.
    Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough
to vote.
    People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations
to people who have never been slaves.
    People who have never been to college should pay the debts of
college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.
    Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d
better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
    Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the
US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate
gang member or terrorist who jumps the southern fence is welcome.
    $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 tril-
lion for “free” health care is not.
    If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you
cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
    If you cheat in an election nothing happens to you, but if you
point out the mathematical errors of that election you are a "con-
spiracy theorist" & disdained.
    People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a
female President.
    We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it
seems like a great plan for us.
    Some people are held responsible for things that happened before
they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what
they are doing right now.
    Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people but stop-
ping them is bad because it's a violation of their rights.
    And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"?!
    Nothing makes sense anymore - no values, no morals, and no civ-
ility. People are dying of a Chinese virus, but it's racist to refer
to it as Chinese even though it began in China.
    We are clearly living in an upside-down world where right is
wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is
moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers
is wrong but killing unborn babies is okay!
    Wake up America, the great unsinkable ship Titanic America has
hit an iceberg, it's taking on water, and is sinking fast. We Amer-
icans are drowning. Speak up while you still have breath and a voice
for soon you will have neither if you don't!
    This needs to be sent on to a lot of people. Please do it.
Thank you
    “The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its
government.” – Edward Abbey
    2 Chronicles 7:14 Lord, heal our land. Pray

Conservatively,
John

    Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?
    Victor Davis Hanson / @VDHanson / January 06, 2022

    Recently, Democrats have been despondent over President Joe
Biden’s sinking poll numbers. His policies on the economy, energy,
foreign policy, the border, and COVID-19 all have lost majority
support.
    As a result, the left now variously alleges that either in 2022,
when it expects to lose the Congress, or in 2024, when it fears los-
ing the presidency, Republicans will “destroy democracy” or stage a
coup.
    A cynic might suggest that those on the left praise democracy
when they get elected, only to claim it is broken when they lose. Or
they hope to avoid their defeat by trying to terrify the electorate.
Or they mask their own revolutionary propensities by projecting them
onto their opponents.
    After all, who is trying to federalize election laws in national
elections contrary to the spirit of the Constitution? Who wishes to
repeal or circumvent the Electoral College? Who wishes to destroy the
more than 180-year-old Senate filibuster, the over 150-year-old nine
justice Supreme Court, and the more than 60-year-old 50-state union?
    Who is attacking the founding constitutional idea of two senators
per state?
    The Constitution also clearly states that “When the President of
the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.” Who
slammed through the impeachment of former President Donald Trump
without a presiding chief justice?
    Never had a president been either impeached twice or tried in the
Senate as a private citizen. Who did both?
    The left further broke prior precedent by impeaching Trump with-
out a special counsel’s report, formal hearings, witnesses, and cross
examinations.
    Who exactly is violating federal civil rights legislation?
New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in December
decided to ration new potentially lifesaving COVID-19 medicines,
partially on the basis of race, in the name of “equity.”
    The agency also allegedly used racial preferences to determine
who would be first tested for COVID-19. Yet such racial discrimina-
tion seems in direct violation of various title clauses of the 1964
Civil Rights Act.
    That law makes it clear that no public agency can use race to
deny “equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, oper-
ated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision there-
of.” Who is behind the new racial discrimination?
    In summer 2020, many local- and state-mandated quarantines and
bans on public assemblies were simply ignored with impunity—if
demonstrators were associated with Black Lives Matter or protesting
the police.
    Currently, the Biden administration is also flagrantly embracing
the neo-Confederate idea of nullifying federal law.
    The Biden administration has allowed nearly 2 million foreign
nationals to enter the United States illegally across the southern
border—in hopes they will soon be loyal constituents.
    The administration has not asked illegal entrants either to be
tested for or vaccinated against COVID-19. Yet all U.S. citizens in
the military and employed by the federal government are threatened
with dismissal if they fail to become vaccinated.
    Such selective exemption of lawbreaking non-U.S. citizens, but
not millions of U.S. citizens, seems in conflict with the equal pro-
tection clause of the 14th Amendment.
    After entering the United States illegally, millions of immi-
grants are protected by some 550 “sanctuary city” jurisdictions.
These revolutionary areas all brazenly nullify immigration law by
refusing to allow federal immigration authorities to deport illegal
immigrant lawbreakers.
    At various times in our nation’s history—1832, 1861-65, and
1961-63—America was either racked by internal violence or fought a
civil war over similar state nullification of federal laws.
    In the last five years, we have indeed seen many internal
threats to democracy.
    Hillary Clinton hired a foreign national to concoct a dossier of
dirt against her presidential opponent. She disguised her own role
by projecting her efforts to use Russian sources onto Trump.
She used her contacts in government and media to seed the dossier to
create a national hysteria about “Russian collusion.” Clinton urged
Biden not to accept the 2020 result if he lost, and herself claimed
Trump was not a legitimately elected president.
    The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has violated laws
governing the chain of command. Some retired officers violated Arti-
cle 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by slandering their
commander in chief. Others publicly were on record calling for the
military to intervene to remove an elected president.
    Some of the nation’s top officials in the FBI and intelligence
committee have misled or lied under oath either to federal investi-
gators or the U.S. Congress, again, mostly with impunity.
    All these sustained revolutionary activities were justified as
necessary to achieve the supposedly noble ends of removing Trump.
    The result is Third World-like jurisprudence in America aimed
at rewarding friends and punishing enemies, masked by service to
social justice.
    We are in a dangerous revolutionary cycle. But the threat is
not so much from loud, buffoonish, one-day rioters on Jan. 6. Such
clownish characters did not for 120 days loot, burn, attack court-
houses and police precincts, cause over 30 deaths, injure 2,000
policemen, and destroy at least $2 billion in property—all under
the banner of revolutionary justice.
    Even more ominously, stone-cold sober elites are systematically
waging an insidious revolution in the shadows that seeks to disman-
tle America’s institutions and the rule of law as we have known
them.

    This was so well written and factual, I had to share.
    Pray for the US and for the strength of those holding back the
evil that is trying to destroy our nation.

Conservatively,
John

Another great day to be an American. #7

    This follows Nov 30, 2021, Enter Bill and Hillary #6. I wrote
this in April 2020. Maybe I can finish this whole series in a few
weeks. #1 - #5 were published in Feb and Mar 2020.

    So, Bill and Hillary spread their propaganda but still need more
control with the media. I don't know what was used for leverage but
after that secret media meeting in the 1980s, things began to change.
    Cable news came on the scene and people got sucked in by their
constant unregulated lies they kept repeating. 
    With few controls, restrictions and heavily financed, they began 
to overwhelm the people. From the beginning it was biased and almost
immediately they destroyed journalistic ethics. All they had to do
was repeat their version of truth and fact 24 hours a day fulfilling
one of Alinsky's most important rules. Control the Media.
    CNN was the first Cable channel that began nearly 40 years ago
by Ted Turner. 
    It didn't take long to weed out the most gullible of their audi-
ence and pander to their weaknesses. 
    It was virtually impossible to know what was truth or outright
lies. They rarely apologize or retracted their lies, half-truths, or
fake news.
    As the internet grew, they were able to reach more people who had
still not seen through the attempts to push the socialistic agenda.
    Wreckless sites often use satirical, biased sources spreading 
unverifiable fake news. They just want to be first to post a story
and worry about the truth if they get fact checked.
    The repercussions for these shortcomings no longer even caused
embarrassment because their journalistic ethics had ceased to exist.
    Today, nearly all media is liberal and somewhat less than truth-
ful. But I am getting ahead of the progression.
    It was convenient in squelching their efforts to somewhat keep
a little control on things. Whitewater, Travelgate, numerous deaths
like Vince Foster, Filegate and, of course, Bill's antics in the 
Oval Office were somehow mostly kept out of the news. Then the vic-
tims began to complain. There are many more situations than just
these five.
    Things like Benghazi, Hillary's server, and the infamous Clinton
Foundation I plan to address later.
    So, with so much going on they still managed to continue pushing
their socialistic ideas.
    In 1920 the ACLU started admirably defending native Americans, 
racism, and police misconduct cases. Then they morphed into taking
on the government defending anti-war protesters and activists in the
1960s like Kerry.
    Then the Miranda case and today, they interfere in constitutional 
cases. They often overstep their boundaries in order to take on the
government from a liberal perspective and have disrupted American
traditions on several occasions. They have become a tool for trying
to overpower the rights of average Americans running their own small
businesses who can't afford to fight so they bully them into sub-
mission. I am sure that is far away from the reasons the founders
like Helen Keller, Arthur Garfield and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn had
intended. A sad chapter in American history. They are still very
much involved today. 
    Mixed in with all of this deception, Liberalism started raising
its ugly head with people like Bernie Sanders and 74 others elected
in our government today in the CFC. We are in a deep hole people.
    It has to stop.
    Again I got off track, so back to Clinton.
    In 1992 Clinton signed The Housing and Urban Development Act of
1992 that laid the groundwork of the housing bubble of 2008. It al-
lowed Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac to approve home loans with little or
no money down.
    In 1998, Bill passed a public housing reform that allowed Fanny
Mae and Freddie Mac to approve and back loans through the banking
industry. 
    These loans went to poor families they knew could not afford to
buy a home even with little or nothing down.
    Meanwhile Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and the C/P Strategy are
slowly getting embedded deeper and deeper into American culture and
weakening the fabric of the Constitution.
    In 2006 Democrats somehow managed to gain control of both houses
of Congress. This placed G.W. Bush in the position of a lame duck
president.
    Reid and Pelosi were passing anything and everything so loaded
with pork that they started overtaxing the stability of the nation's
economy.
    Now they needed to create a financial crisis in order to take
back the White House. 
    Let me tell you now, they created a big one. In 2008 dropped a
bomb on the American people that we're still digging out from under.
    Next week Obama enters stage Left and the push for, in his own
words, to "Fundamentally Transform America". That was his way of
saying 'socialize'.
    It's been a long slow process, but I promise it will all fit
together.
    Until next week. Love America while we can still recognize her.
    With God's grace we will again get past this.

Conservatively,
John

    Surprise! Biden didn't fix the country. Now what?

    The following was written by Convention of States Action
President Mark Meckler and originally published on SelfGovern.com.

    Americans are depressed.

    The New Year is usually a time of hope and expectation. No matter
how bad the last year has been, the New Year offers a chance to start
afresh.

    In 2021, many Americans pinned their hopes on Joe Biden. The new
president had vowed to end COVID, get our economy back on track, and
“unite” the nation around moderation and a “return to normalcy.”
Instead, we got two new COVID waves, skyrocketing murder rates,
a slumping economy, international embarrassments, and more division
than ever before.

    Is it any wonder that more than half of Americans are “fearful"?
for what the year 2022 holds in store for the U.S.”? According to a
new Axios poll, 54% of Americans are fearful about the upcoming year,
an 18% rise since last year. Twenty-six percent more Democrats are
more fearful than last year, and 11% more Republicans say the same.

    Turns out, President Biden failed to deliver on his promise to
fix the country. But here’s the honest truth that the partisans on
the left and the right won’t tell you: no president, no matter the
party, has the ability to get our nation back on track.

    Sure, we’d be in better shape if Donald Trump had won the elec-
tion. A block of cheese would have done a better job than Joe Biden
over the last 12 months.

    But the vaccine that can cure our national malaise won’t come
from Washington. It will come from the people, the states, and the
values and virtues that have made our nation great.

    The federal government is both too powerful and not nearly
powerful enough. It has far too much control over the daily lives of
the American people. Politicians like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi can
dramatically change the face of our country with a single piece of
legislation or a single executive order. They can influence what we
buy, where we live, who we work for, and how many kids we have.

    Because they have this awesome power, they’ve succeeded in con-
vincing the American people that they can fix our every problem. But
they’re not nearly powerful enough to do that. No matter how hard
they try, they’re incapable of fixing the economy, uniting the coun-
try, or stopping a highly transmissible disease.
There is no magic button in the White House. If the latest poll-
ing is any indication, Americans are starting to realize that.

    But that shouldn’t mean we lose hope. Everyday Americans built
the strongest, freest, most prosperous nation in the history of the
world, and they have the power to do that again. How? By reclaiming
their rightful authority in our system of governance.

    We must limit the power and size of the federal government and
unleash the industry, ingenuity, and compassion of the American peo-
ple. We must stop looking to the president and start looking to our
neighbors, our school board, and our state legislature. We must re-
claim the freedom that has made our nation great, and we must use
the power the Founders gave us in Article V of the Constitution.

    An Article V Convention of States is called and controlled by
the states and has the power to propose constitutional amendments
that shrink Washington’s power and put We the People back in the
driver’s seat. These amendments can limit the terms of office for
dinosaurs like Joe Biden and force Congress to spend our money
responsibly.

    This year can be one of hope and new possibilities, but that
hope won’t come from Joe Biden. It will come for you, me, and every
American patriot brave enough to stand up to Washington’s tyranny
and fight back with a Convention of States.
    ** I don't think anyone is really surprised but We the people,
can't afford to let this inept administration do any more damage
before only God can rescue us.
    Pray a lot and put your faith in the Lord.

Conservatively,
John

    Unfortunate Truth
    This has been passed around with an unknown author. Enjoy.

    Men, like nations, think they’re eternal. What man in his 20s or
30s doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that he’ll live for-
ever? In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you
pass 70, it’s harder to hide from reality.
    Nations also have seasons: Imagine a Roman of the 2nd century
contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East,
thinking: This will endure forever. Forever was about 500 years, give
or take. France was pivotal in the 17th and 18th centuries; now the
land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim
ummah.
    In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the
British empire; now Albion exists in a perpetual twilight. Its 95-
year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal
decline.
    In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world. Business
schools taught Japanese management techniques. Today, its birth rate
is so low and its population is aging so rapidly, that an industry
has sprung up to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who died
alone.
    I was born in 1947, almost at the midpoint of the 20th century
- the American century. America’s prestige and influence were never
greater. Thanks to the “Greatest Generation”, we won a World War
fought throughout most of Europe, Asia and the Pacific. We reduced
Germany to rubble and put the rising sun to bed.
    It set the stage for almost half a century of unprecedented
prosperity. We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia,
and fought international terrorism. We rebuilt our enemies and lav-
ished foreign aid on much of the world. We built skyscrapers and
rockets to the moon. We conquered Polio and now COVID. We explored
the mysteries of the Universe and the wonders of DNA...the blue-
print of life.
    But where is the glory that once was Rome? America has moved
from a relatively free economy to socialism – which has worked so
well NOWHERE in the world. We’ve gone from a republican government
guided by a constitution to a regime of revolving elites. We have
less freedom with each passing year. Like a signpost to the coming
reign of terror, the cancel culture is everywhere. We’ve traded the
American Revolution for the Cultural Revolution.
    The pathetic creature in the White House is an empty vessel
filled by his handlers. At the G-7 Summit, Dr. Jill had to lead him
like a child. In 1961, when we were young and vigorous, our leader
was, too. Now a feeble nation is technically led by the oldest man
to ever serve in the presidency.
    We can’t defend our borders, our history (including monuments to
past greatness) or our streets. Our cities have become anarchist
playgrounds. We're a nation of dependents, mendicants, and misplaced
charity. Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens
are put up in hotels.
    The president of the United States can’t even quote the beginning
of the Declaration of Independence correctly. Ivy League graduates
routinely fail history tests that 5th graders could pass a generation
ago.
    Crime rates soar and we blame the 2nd Amendment and slash police
budgets.
    Our culture is certifiably insane. Men who think they’re women.
People who fight racism by seeking to convince members of one race
that they’re inherently evil, and others that they are perpetual
victims. A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale said she fantasizes about
“unloading a revolver into the head of any white person.” We slaugh-
ter the unborn in the name of freedom, while our birth rate dips
lower year by year.
    Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even pretend
that we will repay it one day. It’s a $28-trillion monument to our
improvidence and refusal to confront reality. Our “entertainment” is
sadistic, nihilistic and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown
in the trash. Our music is noise that spans the spectrum from annoy-
ing to repulsive.
    Patriotism is called insurrection, treason celebrated, and per-
version sanctified. A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a
dress. We’re asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no
longer believe in. How meekly most of us submitted to Fauci-ism (the
regime of face masks, lockdowns and hand sanitizers) shows the im-
pending death of the American spirit.

    How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?
    · Fighting endless wars they can’t or won’t win
    · Accumulating massive debt far beyond their ability to repay
    · Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the nation to be inun-
  dated by an alien horde
    · Surrendering control of their cities to mob rule
    · Allowing indoctrination of the young
    · Moving from a republican form of government to an oligarchy
    · Losing national identity
    · Indulging indolence
    · Abandoning faith and family – the bulwarks of social order.

    In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicat-
ing an advanced stage of the disease. Even if the cause seems hope-
less, do we not have an obligation to those who sacrificed so much
to give us what we had?
    I’m surrounded by ghosts urging me on: the Union soldiers who
held Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, the battered bastards of Bastogne,
those who served in the cold hell of Korea, the guys who went to the
jungles of Southeast Asia and came home to be reviled or neglected.
    This is the nation that took in my immigrant grandparents, whose
uniform my father and most of my uncles wore in the Second World War.
    I don’t want to imagine a world without America, even though it is
becoming increasingly likely.
    During Britain’s darkest hour, when its professional army was
trapped at Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill
reminded his countrymen, “Nations that go down fighting rise again,
and those that surrender tamely are finished.” The same might be said
of causes. If we let America slip through our fingers, if we lose
without a fight, what will posterity say of us?
    While the prognosis is far from good, only God knows if America’s
day in the sun is over.
    *Another well written piece full of truth and patriotic love.

Conservatively,
John

    The Truth About Transgender Females’ Bodies & Athleticism.
    Michelle Cretella / Quentin Van Meter / July 22, 2021   
    COMMENTARY BY
    Michelle Cretella, M.D., is executive director of the American
College of Pediatricians.
    Quentin Van Meter, M.D., is a pediatric endocrinologist and
president of the American College of Pediatricians.

    When it was announced that Laurel Hubbard, a male athlete who
identifies as female, was selected to represent New Zealand on the
women’s weightlifting team in the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo,
it was considered by some to be a victory for the transgender move-
ment and “the power of inclusion.” Others consider it unfair to both
the sport and the athletes.

    Anna Vanbellinghen, a female weightlifter from Belgium who hoped
to qualify in the same event as Hubbard, made it clear that she
“fully supports the transgender community.” However, she correctly
pointed out that steroids—which give athletes unfair advantages—can
have retained benefits even years after their use.

    “So why is it still a question whether two decades, from puberty
to the age of 35, with the hormonal system of a man also would give
an advantage [in competing against women]?” she asked in a recent
interview.

    The International Olympic Committee ruled in 2015 that trans-
gender athletes “who transition from male to female are eligible to
compete in the female category” so long as their testosterone level
has been below a certain threshold for at least 12 months.

    At least two recent peer-reviewed studies challenge this rule.
One published in the journal Sports Medicine found “the muscular
advantage enjoyed by transgender women [men on estrogen] is only
minimally reduced when testosterone is suppressed” for 12 months.
A second review article found the male strength advantage to remain
even after three years of testosterone suppression.

    Even if the strength advantage could be eliminated, however,
to reduce the definition of female human being to having a certain
level of testosterone in your body for a certain amount of time com-
pletely ignores the scientific reality that genetics—not testoste-
rone—is at the root of all that makes the two sexes different.

    When males are allowed to compete in athletic leagues designed
for females, they deprive female athletes of the opportunity to safe
and fair participation in sports. As Vanbellinghen said, “Life-
changing opportunities are missed for some athletes—medals and Olym-
pic qualifications—and we are powerless.”

    She is not alone. Female sports at all levels have been infil-
trated by the transgender ideology. Here are just a few examples of
how females have been harmed when forced to compete against males:

    *In track and field, male high school runner CeCe Telfer won
three titles in the Northeast-10 Championships for women’s track,
and received the “most outstanding track athlete” award.
    *In softball, male player Pat (Patrick) Cordova-Goff took one
of 15 spots on his California high school women’s varsity softball
team.
    *In basketball, a 50-year-old, 6-foot-8-inch, 230-pound man,
Gabrielle (Robert) Ludwig, led the Mission College women’s baske
ball team to a national championship with the most rebounds.
    *In mixed martial arts, male fighter Fallon Fox shattered
female fighter Tamikka Brents’ eye socket and gave her a concussion.
Brents said she “never felt so overpowered in her life.”
    *In Connecticut’s state track and field championships, two male
high school runners, Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller, took first
and second place in multiple events, beating out top high school
girls from across the state. Yearwood was named Connecticut’s “ath-
lete of the year.”

    The simple truth is that males outperform females in regard to
speed and strength due to inborn genetics and sex hormones. This has
consistently been proven by long-term research on elite athletes
when matched for training.
    The sex hormone testosterone plays an important role in regula-
ting bone mass, fat distribution, muscle mass, strength, and the
production of red blood cells leading to higher circulating hemo-
globin. This is particularly true during puberty.
    After puberty, male circulating testosterone concentrations are
15 times greater than those of females at any age. The result is a
clear male advantage in regard to muscle mass, strength and circu-
lating hemoglobin levels even after adjusting for sex differences
in height and weight.
    Athletic differences are also due to genetics. Studies have
identified more than 3,000 genes that are differentially expressed
in male and female skeletal muscle. Obvious bone differences due to
a combination of genetics and hormones even exist at birth; the
average male is heavier and taller than the average female and this
advantage continues, when controlled for stage of puberty, through-
out life.
    Genetics is why a male who self-identifies as female remains
male, and giving estrogen to a male does not transform him into a
female.
    While it is true that a male using estrogen will lose muscle
strength and impair other aspects of his physiology, he does not
alter his genetics; he remains male at the cellular level in all
body systems.
    Similarly, a female who self-identifies as male remains female,
and giving her testosterone does not transform her into a male. In
terms of genetics, she remains female at the cellular level. 
    These inherent sex-based differences also mean that females are
at higher risk of athletic injuries. For instance, stress fractures
involving the long bones of the legs in runners are more frequent in
females. Male athletes are far less susceptible due to their larger
and denser bones.
    Taken together, these discrepancies render females, on average,
unable to compete effectively against males in power-based or en-
durance-based sports.
    Science and common sense agree. When males are allowed to com-
pete in athletic leagues designed for females, they deprive girls
and women of the opportunity to safe and fair participation in
sports.
    * These are the experts, not politicians. It is time to respect
God's creation and its intended limits.
    Whatever is being done to pervert those limits has to stop.

Conservatively,
John

    Parents Defending Education

    Fellow American, 

    I’ve shared with you many stories of “woke” policies damaging
our children.
    From Critical Race Theory to “social emotional learning” to
racially segregated spaces, radical and divisive ideas are being
forced on kids as early as kindergarten.
    But did you know that woke school policies threaten the core
of education — reading, writing, and arithmetic — as well?
    The Oregon Department of Education recently encouraged teachers
to register for training that encourages “ethno-mathematics." Among
the principles being taught in the training: the idea that empha-
sizing correct answers in math is part of “white supremacy.”
    Yes, you read that right: encouraging kids to find the right
answer to a math problem is racist.
    Oregon middle school teachers are being encouraged to use a
toolkit called "Equitable Math" for "dismantling racism in mathe-
matics." 
    "The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequi-
vocally false, and teaching it is even much less so," the toolkit
reads. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong
answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."
    Amazingly, the toolkit says teachers should "come up with at
least two answers that might solve this problem."
    Take Springfield Public Schools as another example. In one of
the activities in their “Induction Equity Training” the teachers
used beads to represent individuals’ races and placed the beads
along a pipe cleaner.
    The participants were encouraged to choose between various
color beads to place on the pipe cleaner in response to questions
like “My primary doctor identifies as…,” “The majority of my close
friends identify as…,”The majority of my mentors identify as…,” etc. 
    At the end of the activity, they were encouraged to discuss
questions like “How might this activity help you better address
Anti-Racism and White Supremacy?” and “Do you now have strategies to
expand your community so that the colors on your pipe cleaner may
diversify?”
    Fellow American, I know you believe as I do that our children’s
education should be based on scholarship and facts that nurture
their development into happy, resilient, free-thinking, and educated
citizens. 
    America’s classrooms should focus on rigorous instruction in
history, civics, literature, math, the sciences, music, art, and the
ideas and values that enrich our country --not Critical Race Theory,
gender ideology, and “woke” math.
But instead, our kids are at the mercy of a new educational mis-
sion at war with basic American values and our kids’ happiness and
ability to succeed in life. Many schools have already embraced this
campaign, and many more are preparing to embrace it.
    Schools are increasingly moving way outside their lane without
the consent of the students, parents, and communities who's inter-
ests the schools are supposed to serve. 
    Parents Defending Education is fighting back -- with your help
Fellow American. Our children’s hearts, minds, and education are too
important to sit in silence. You are not alone in being disturbed by
these destructive developments -- and it is time to join together
and stop the madness in our schools.
    Together we’re speaking out against the extreme, harmful, ideo-
logical agenda infiltrating our schools … and fighting to restore a
healthy, non-political education for our kids.

    Thank you for standing with us!
    Nicole Neily, President

    Parents Defending Education

    I thought that this was very well written and with God's help
maybe we can get our teachers and children's educations back on the
path to getting a real unbiased, fulfilling learning experience.

Conservatively,
John

    Democrats Are in Complete Disarray.
    Does Anyone Actually Know Who is in Charge when we have a
    Democratic President?

    I few weeks ago I posted a message on this very same subject but
everything seems to be evolving into complete chaos.
    On any given day, it might be Pelosi or Susan Rice. Other days
it appears that the Justice Department is controlling everything.
    Then they open the basement and Joe sticks out his head and acts
like he is going a completely different direction with an entirely
different agenda.
    Joe has spent his entire 50-year career lying to anyone who will
listen. He has made the US into a joke that the rest of the world
seems to lead him around as if he is on a leash.
    He has become an embarrassment and proven just how little he has
learned all these years. It is sad to watch.
    We can't forget Bernie who wants to hurry up and destroy the
economy ASAP. 
    He appears to have the help of the Squad who want to make the
United States into one of those horrible countries that they did
basically, ANYTHING to leave so they can corrupt our once great
nation into what they escaped from.
    We have arrived at this point through a long list of building
blocks carefully stacked against the American people with very few
people seeing what was being done.
    I will try to list as many as I can without dragging it out too
long.
    As far back as the 60s, the media discovered people would accept
whatever they were told if they told it enough on all the television
networks.
    While that was happening people like Soros, Alinsky, Hillary and
few others were getting very eager and hungry for power through
Marxism, Socialism, Communism and Fascism.
    In the late 80s and early 90s the Clintons figured out that they
could use the media to brainwash the American people similar to how
Hitler had done in the 30s and 40s.
Hillary met with the major media moguls and shared the Cloward-
Piven Strategy and Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and at some point
plans were designed and we have been going downhill ever since.
    With the media's help they discredited Bush 41 and they got Bill
Clinton installed into the White House.
    He convinced Congress to have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac back a
massive numbers (30%) of all HUD loans for housing to people unable
to afford them. By the time he left office they had raised that to
52% of all loans to poor people.
    The American people wised up and elected G. Bush, but Congress
was not willing to stop the madness.
    Then 9/11 happened and the wars based on bad intel from the CIA
told Bush that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction and he possibly
overreacted but his advisors mostly agreed that we should attack.
    While this was happening, the 2006 mid-term elections gave both
Houses of Congress to the Democrat.
    This gave Pelosi and Reid the power to cause the housing bubble
when they withdrew the government backing of millions of homes that
were sold through HUD. 
    The banks had no choice than to foreclose on mortgages that the
government had been taking the hit for those in arrears.
    And Americans got the crash.
    Democrats blamed Bush and then we got Obama and the wheels were
set to come to a screeching halt.
Obama took office and enacted over 14K regulations and withdrew
mining leases that forced the US to fall under the thumb of OPEC.
    This drove gas prices to their highest ever levels.
Millions lost their jobs and we started buying more and more
goods from China and other overseas countries.
    Then Obama created somewhere around 8-10K government jobs in
the Justice and State Depts. and filled them with liberal workers
and Judges that were willing to do whatever they were asked from
ignore Democrats that blatantly broke the law, to ignoring the LAW
of the LAND, to making false accusations against Republicans, and
pretending to be whistleblowers and lying in an effort to obstruct
and slow walking legitimate requests for judicial actions requested
by Conservatives.
    There seemed to be only one requirement, they had to blindly
follow instructions AND they HAD to HATE TRUMP and Republicans.
    So, we began a period lacking in ANY bipartisan discussions or
voting within Congress. There may have been a few exceptions but
it began a very dark period in our government that still continues
today.
    All of this opened the door for Obamacare, a gateway to a form
of socialized single payer healthcare.
    It didn't take long for Americans to see the error of the 2008
elections and Republicans gained control of Congress. 
    Then Obama tried to cover up his dismal unemployment numbers by
dropping people from the job participation rate when their benefits
ran out. So, with the stroke of a pen, some 4-5M people disappeared.
    FYI: Biden is doing the same thing now.
    Still waiting to find out what Obama did with about $6.4T of
our dollars. Word has it that he was spreading the wealth to poor
nations.
    The Left cheated in 2016 but forgot about the swing states so
America was blessed with Trump and even with the accusations, lies,
obstruction, fake impeachments, and fighting the corrupt left and
Justice Dept. he still accomplished more that his 3 predecessors
combined.
    You can do a search of the White House Trump Accomplish-
ments Archives, a .gov site that gives verifiable proof and truth.
    We are currently living the Biden crime family dismantling of
our once great nation.
    I am sure more truth will surface soon but for now we need to
pray for our future. God promises to protect His people. We are
surrounded with false prophets and evil people who will never know
the grace of God, so we pray.

Conservatively,
John