clashdaily--2020-01-06--In Acceptance Speech, Pregnant Michelle Williams Is Grateful For The Abortion She Had Early In Her C

In Acceptance Speech, Pregnant Michelle Williams Is Grateful For The Abortion She Had Early In Her Career

The Hollywood ghouls that turned a blind eye to the rapey behavior of Harvey Weinstein gave her thundering applause for her bravery .
It ’ s not brave to shout your abortion in 2020 .
It is rather ghoulish to do so while visibly pregnant , though , and that ’ s precisely what Michelle Williams did .
It appears that Williams wasn ’ t paying attention to host Ricky Gervais ’ s opening speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday night .
In it , Gervais told the invited guests that perhaps they shouldn ’ t use the acceptance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ speech .
Speaking as though directly to Williams who left school at age 15 to follow her Hollywood dream , he said , “ You ’ re in no position to lecture the public about anything .
You know nothing about the real world .
Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg .
So , if you win , come up , accept your little award , thank your agent and your god , and f**k off.
” To be fair , this isn ’ t anything new for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Emmy Awards , when she won the Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her role as Gwen Verdon in the FX series , Fosse/Verdon , she used that speech to speak about the Gender Pay Gap .
“ Thank you so much to FX and Fox 21 Studios for supporting me completely and paying me equally because they understood that when you put value into a person , it empowers that person to get in touch with their own inherent value , ” Williams said at the ceremony .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ value ?
They put it into her work.
” “ So the next time a woman , and especially a woman of color , because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white male counterpart , tells you what she needs in order to do her job , listen to her , believe her , ” she added .
“ Because one day she might stand in front of you and say thank you for allowing her to succeed because of her workplace environment and not in spite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Globe for Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie again for the role in Fosse/Verdun , but this time she decided to make her speech about abortion , electing more women , and voting for women ’ s interests… or something .
Sure , she can use that 2 minutes however she wants to , but it was that she made the speech about her previous abortion while she is pregnant .
The actress , 39 , shone at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night , keeping her baby @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Louis Vuitton gown ( which took 156 hours to create from start-to-finish ! )
as she walked the red carpet alongside fiancé Thomas Kail .
The silk crepe design , inspired by the label ’ s Spring-Summer 2020 collection , also features an asymmetric and draped body with knotted details across the shoulders and a draped , cinched waistband .
The Hamilton director , 42 , looked dashing in a traditional suit… …The four-time Oscar nominee is also mom to 14-year-old daughter Matilda , her only child from her previous relationship with Heath @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Michelle Williams , like the rest of us , has made mistakes in her life .
She has had joy , has suffered , and has both had tremendous success and things she has wished she hadn ’ t done .
But , at least she was given a life to live .
She didn ’ t give that same opportunity to the child she aborted .
Williams starred in the 2010 Blue Valentine alongside Ryan Gossling .
In that movie , Williams plays Cindy , a young woman who gets pregnant unexpectedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and decides at the abortion clinic that she can not go through with it .
Gossling ’ s character , Dean , although he knows he is not likely the father , stands by her and they start a family together with Dean raising the child as his own .
It wasn ’ t a “ happily ever after ” story , but at least there was some sort of acknowledgment that abortion ends a life .
It must ’ ve been a difficult role for Williams to play knowing that she didn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Who knows what the precise situation was that forced a young woman who only completed the ninth grade to choose her baby or her acting career , but isn ’ t it ok to lament that she felt compelled to make that choice ?
Shouldn ’ t it be a sad thing that in La-La Land a young woman is primarily valued for her looks and her sex appeal ( especially by the Harvey Weinsteins of the world ) and that she believed that a baby would hold her back ?
Although Williams @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she has sacrificed her unborn child on the altar of stardom .
How many more children have faced a similar fate ?
This isn ’ t a thing to celebrate as a society , it ’ s a thing that should make us all mourn .

The Hollywood ghouls that turned a blind eye to the rapey behavior of Harvey Weinstein gave her thundering applause for her bravery.
It’s not brave to shout your abortion in 2020. It is rather ghoulish to do so while visibly pregnant, though, and that’s precisely what Michelle Williams did.
It appears that Williams wasn’t paying attention to host Ricky Gervais’s opening speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. In it, Gervais told the invited guests that perhaps they shouldn’t use the acceptance speech as a platform for some political speech. Speaking as though directly to Williams who left school at age 15 to follow her Hollywood dream, he said, “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So, if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your god, and f**k off.”
WATCH: Ricky Gervais destroys out-of-touch celebrities –> pic.twitter.com/foA6D5ZbIj — Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) January 6, 2020
Did she listen? Nope.
To be fair, this isn’t anything new for Williams.
In September at the 2019 Emmy Awards, when she won the Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her role as Gwen Verdon in the FX series, Fosse/Verdon, she used that speech to speak about the Gender Pay Gap.
“Thank you so much to FX and Fox 21 Studios for supporting me completely and paying me equally because they understood that when you put value into a person, it empowers that person to get in touch with their own inherent value,” Williams said at the ceremony. “And then where do they put that value? They put it into her work.” “So the next time a woman, and especially a woman of color, because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white male counterpart, tells you what she needs in order to do her job, listen to her, believe her,” she added. “Because one day she might stand in front of you and say thank you for allowing her to succeed because of her workplace environment and not in spite of it.” Source: People
Williams won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie again for the role in Fosse/Verdun, but this time she decided to make her speech about abortion, electing more women, and voting for women’s interests… or something.
Sure, she can use that 2 minutes however she wants to, but it was that she made the speech about her previous abortion while she is pregnant.
Michelle Williams is one striking mom-to-be! The actress, 39, shone at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night, keeping her baby bump under wraps in a one-shoulder peach-colored Louis Vuitton gown (which took 156 hours to create from start-to-finish!) as she walked the red carpet alongside fiancé Thomas Kail. The silk crepe design, inspired by the label’s Spring-Summer 2020 collection, also features an asymmetric and draped body with knotted details across the shoulders and a draped, cinched waistband. The Hamilton director, 42, looked dashing in a traditional suit… …The four-time Oscar nominee is also mom to 14-year-old daughter Matilda, her only child from her previous relationship with Heath Ledger, who died in 2008. Source: People
Michelle Williams accepts The Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/afS9Hkuoky — NBC Entertainment (@nbc) January 6, 2020
Michelle Williams, like the rest of us, has made mistakes in her life. She has had joy, has suffered, and has both had tremendous success and things she has wished she hadn’t done. But, at least she was given a life to live. She didn’t give that same opportunity to the child she aborted.
Williams starred in the 2010 Blue Valentine alongside Ryan Gossling. In that movie, Williams plays Cindy, a young woman who gets pregnant unexpectedly, chooses to terminate the pregnancy, and decides at the abortion clinic that she cannot go through with it. Gossling’s character, Dean, although he knows he is not likely the father, stands by her and they start a family together with Dean raising the child as his own. It wasn’t a “happily ever after” story, but at least there was some sort of acknowledgment that abortion ends a life. It must’ve been a difficult role for Williams to play knowing that she didn’t make the same choice.
Who knows what the precise situation was that forced a young woman who only completed the ninth grade to choose her baby or her acting career, but isn’t it ok to lament that she felt compelled to make that choice? Shouldn’t it be a sad thing that in La-La Land a young woman is primarily valued for her looks and her sex appeal (especially by the Harvey Weinsteins of the world) and that she believed that a baby would hold her back?
Although Williams may not see it this way, she has sacrificed her unborn child on the altar of stardom. How many more children have faced a similar fate?
This isn’t a thing to celebrate as a society, it’s a thing that should make us all mourn.


clashdaily--2020-01-06--MONTY PYTHON: Cast Member Claims He Is ‘Transitioning’ For This Very Non-PC Reason

Well , if you ’ re going to make a change , it might as well be a BIG change .
And this guy is swinging for the fences .
While being interviewed for a new film , Terry Gilliam pushes a ‘ woke ’ interviewer beyond her ideological comfort zone .
How much does a society have to change before an original member of Monthy Python — which had one movie banned in Scotland and Norway — gets bored with being offensive Maybe it has something to do with an entire generation being raised with ‘ offended ’ as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ takes no effort at all to offend anyone anymore .
Guys like him used to have to work at it to shock someone ’ s sensibilities .
But now ?
Now , if you use the wrong pronoun and someone might be so offended that they ’ slap you with criminal charges .
Trending : Nobel Chemist With More Integrity Than Obama And Gore Just Retracted Her Prize-Winning Paper People are getting arrested for mean tweets .
( Seriously . )
And a comic was charged because he trained his girlfriend ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which is the doggy equivalent of teaching your buddy ’ s parrot to say some kind of a naughty or embarrassing catchphrase .
The Dog isn ’ t a Nazi , nor is the person ‘ punking ’ the pet owner .
But we live in an age where punchlines need to be explained ( and sanitized ) — ‘ or else ’ .
There aren ’ t many with the guts of a Chappelle or a Gervais anymore .
And those guys have already MADE their millions .
‘ Cancel culture ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it could ruin some others .
But — like them — Terry Gilliam is beyond the reach of any of Cancel Culture ’ s menacing threats .
He ’ s already earned his place in Hollywood history and they have nothing else they can threaten him with .
So he ’ s free to speak his mind .
“ Don Quixote is a mad man , ” says Gilliam , who has reluctantly deigned to talk about the film for a moment , “ but his view of the world is a noble @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It ’ s about rescuing maidens .
All these wonderful ideas.
” The film flits between the 17th century and the 21st .
Is it about the clash between modern masculinity and old-fashioned ideals of manhood ?
“ There ’ s no room for modern masculinity , I ’ m told , ” says Gilliam .
“ ‘ The male gaze is over , ’ ” he adds , letting his derisive air quotes hover for a moment .
He was trying to make a point with Angelica , though .
Played @ @ @ @ @ @ @ young woman who was in Toby ’ s film when she was 15 .
He told her she could be a star , but hasn ’ t spoken to her in the years since , and her attempts to make good on his prediction have failed .
Now , she works as a model and an escort .
“ In the age of # MeToo , here ’ s a girl who takes responsibility for her state , ” says Gilliam .
“ Whatever happened in this character ’ s life , she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ re living in a time where there ’ s always somebody responsible for your failures , and I don ’ t like this .
I want people to take responsibility and not just constantly point a finger at somebody else , saying , ‘ You ’ ve ruined my life.
’ ” Source : Independent The conversation shifted to news of the day , including Weinstein and MeToo… “ There are many victims in Harvey ’ s life , ” he adds , “ and I feel sympathy for them , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ambitious people who are adults and they make choices .
We all make choices , and I could tell you who did make the choice and who didn ’ t .
I hate Harvey .
I had to work with him and I know the abuse , but I don ’ t want people saying that all men… Because on [ the 1991 film ] Fisher King , two producers were women .
One was a really good producer , and the other was a neurotic bitch .
It wasn ’ t about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ position of power and how people use it.
” …Gilliam mentions a famous actor he was speaking to recently .
“ She has got her story of being in the room and talking her way out .
She says , ‘ I can tell you all the girls who didn ’ t , and I know who they are and I know the bumps in their careers.
’ The point is , you make choices .
I can tell you about a very well-known actress coming up to me and saying , ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get in your film , Terry ?
’ I don ’ t understand why people behave as if this hasn ’ t been going on as long as there ’ ve been powerful people .
I understand that men have had more power longer , but I ’ m tired , as a white male , of being blamed for everything that is wrong with the world.
” He holds up his hands .
“ I didn ’ t do it !
” Source : Independent The interviewer describes trying to harangue him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patriatchy or some such , and then he interrupts .
“ It ’ s been so simplified is what I don ’ t like .
When I announce that I ’ m a black lesbian in transition , people take offence at that .
Why ?
” “ Why am I not ?
How are you saying that I ’ m not ?
” “ You ’ ve judged me and decided that I was making a joke.
” You can ’ t identify as black , though .
“ OK , here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Type in the name Gilliam .
Watch what comes up.
” “ The majority are black people .
So maybe I ’ m half black .
I just don ’ t look it.
” Source : Independent The interviewer is clearly made uncomfortable by where Gilliam is going here .
The interviewer then adds in a condescending paragraph judging his motives before adding what he said next , not realizing that she was condemning own attitudes in the process : She ’ s not much of an interviewer if she was blindsided by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first time he ’ d said that .
He was ‘ taking flack ’ in 2018 for saying something very similar .
Any actual FAN of Monty Python should have instantly recognized his reference to Loretta which showed that Monty Python ’ s cultural predictions were far better than Nostradamus .
It was one of those ‘ teaching moments ’ one that was almost certainly lost on her .
Too bad .
She missed out on something pretty important .
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That is , if the man-child will put down his frappuccino ; shut the hell up and listen and obey everything he instructs them to do in his timely and tornadic tome .
Buy Now : The Effeminization Of The American Male

Well, if you’re going to make a change, it might as well be a BIG change. And this guy is swinging for the fences.
While being interviewed for a new film, Terry Gilliam pushes a ‘woke’ interviewer beyond her ideological comfort zone.
How much does a society have to change before an original member of Monthy Python — which had one movie banned in Scotland and Norway — gets bored with being offensive Maybe it has something to do with an entire generation being raised with ‘offended’ as practically the factory default setting.
It takes no effort at all to offend anyone anymore. Guys like him used to have to work at it to shock someone’s sensibilities. But now? Now, if you use the wrong pronoun and someone might be so offended that they’ slap you with criminal charges.
People are getting arrested for mean tweets. (Seriously.)
And a comic was charged because he trained his girlfriend’s dog to do the Nazi salute — which is the doggy equivalent of teaching your buddy’s parrot to say some kind of a naughty or embarrassing catchphrase. The Dog isn’t a Nazi, nor is the person ‘punking’ the pet owner.
But we live in an age where punchlines need to be explained (and sanitized) — ‘or else’.
There aren’t many with the guts of a Chappelle or a Gervais anymore. And those guys have already MADE their millions. ‘Cancel culture’ can’t destroy them the way it could ruin some others.
But — like them — Terry Gilliam is beyond the reach of any of Cancel Culture’s menacing threats. He’s already earned his place in Hollywood history and they have nothing else they can threaten him with. So he’s free to speak his mind.
“Don Quixote is a mad man,” says Gilliam, who has reluctantly deigned to talk about the film for a moment, “but his view of the world is a noble one. It’s about chivalry. It’s about rescuing maidens. All these wonderful ideas.” The film flits between the 17th century and the 21st. Is it about the clash between modern masculinity and old-fashioned ideals of manhood? “There’s no room for modern masculinity, I’m told,” says Gilliam. “‘The male gaze is over,’” he adds, letting his derisive air quotes hover for a moment. He was trying to make a point with Angelica, though. Played by Joana Ribeiro, Angelica is a young woman who was in Toby’s film when she was 15. He told her she could be a star, but hasn’t spoken to her in the years since, and her attempts to make good on his prediction have failed. Now, she works as a model and an escort. “In the age of #MeToo, here’s a girl who takes responsibility for her state,” says Gilliam. “Whatever happened in this character’s life, she’s not accusing anybody. We’re living in a time where there’s always somebody responsible for your failures, and I don’t like this. I want people to take responsibility and not just constantly point a finger at somebody else, saying, ‘You’ve ruined my life.’”
Source: Independent
The conversation shifted to news of the day, including Weinstein and MeToo…
“There are many victims in Harvey’s life,” he adds, “and I feel sympathy for them, but then, Hollywood is full of very ambitious people who are adults and they make choices. We all make choices, and I could tell you who did make the choice and who didn’t. I hate Harvey. I had to work with him and I know the abuse, but I don’t want people saying that all men… Because on [the 1991 film] Fisher King, two producers were women. One was a really good producer, and the other was a neurotic bitch. It wasn’t about their sex. It was about the position of power and how people use it.” …Gilliam mentions a famous actor he was speaking to recently. “She has got her story of being in the room and talking her way out. She says, ‘I can tell you all the girls who didn’t, and I know who they are and I know the bumps in their careers.’ The point is, you make choices. I can tell you about a very well-known actress coming up to me and saying, ‘What do I have to do to get in your film, Terry?’ I don’t understand why people behave as if this hasn’t been going on as long as there’ve been powerful people. I understand that men have had more power longer, but I’m tired, as a white male, of being blamed for everything that is wrong with the world.” He holds up his hands. “I didn’t do it!”
Source: Independent
The interviewer describes trying to harangue him on the issue of white privilege and patriatchy or some such, and then he interrupts.
“It’s been so simplified is what I don’t like. When I announce that I’m a black lesbian in transition, people take offence at that. Why?” Because you’re not. “Why am I not? How are you saying that I’m not?” Are you? “You’ve judged me and decided that I was making a joke.” You can’t identify as black, though. “OK, here it is. Go on Google. Type in the name Gilliam. Watch what comes up.” What’s going to come up? “The majority are black people. So maybe I’m half black. I just don’t look it.”
Source: Independent
The interviewer is clearly made uncomfortable by where Gilliam is going here.
Then Terry baits the hook:
“I’m talking about being a man accused of all the wrong in the world because I’m white-skinned. So I better not be a man. I better not be white. OK, since I don’t find men sexually attractive, I’ve got to be a lesbian. What else can I be? I like girls. These are just logical steps.” They don’t seem logical. “I’m just trying to make you start thinking. You see, this is the world I grew up in, and with Python, we could do this stuff, and we weren’t offending people. We were giving people a lot of laughter.”
Source: Independent
The interviewer then adds in a condescending paragraph judging his motives before adding what he said next, not realizing that she was condemning own attitudes in the process:
I’m into diversity more than anybody,” he says, “but diversity in the way you think about the world, which means you can hate what I just said. That’s fine! No problem. I mean, you can believe whatever you want to believe, but fundamentalism always ends up being, ‘You have to attack other people who are not like you,’ and that’s what makes me crazy. Life is fantastic, it’s wonderful, it’s so complex. Enjoy it and play with it and have fun.
Source: Independent
She’s not much of an interviewer if she was blindsided by that comment. It was hardly the first time he’d said that. He was ‘taking flack’ in 2018 for saying something very similar.
Allen said that if the comedy troupe were to form now, ‘it’s not going to be six Oxbridge white blokes. It’s going to be a diverse range of people who reflect the modern world’. Speaking at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Gilliam replied: “You know I no longer want to be a white male and be blamed for everything; I tell the world I am a BLGT, Black Lesbian in Transition and my name is Loretta. “Comedy is not assembled – a boy, a girl, white, black, a dog… I want to be trans-species. Transgender is not enough.” —Yahoo
Any actual FAN of Monty Python should have instantly recognized his reference to Loretta which showed that Monty Python’s cultural predictions were far better than Nostradamus.
It was one of those ‘teaching moments’ one that was almost certainly lost on her. Too bad. She missed out on something pretty important.
The Effeminization Of The American Male
by Doug Giles
Doug Giles, best-selling author of Raising Righteous And Rowdy Girls and Editor-In-Chief of the mega-blog, ClashDaily.com, has just penned a book he guarantees will kick hipster males into the rarefied air of masculinity. That is, if the man-child will put down his frappuccino; shut the hell up and listen and obey everything he instructs them to do in his timely and tornadic tome. Buy Now:The Effeminization Of The American Male


clashdaily--2020-01-06--The Death Of Qassem Soleimani

The Death Of Qassem Soleimani

Last week , the American Embassy in Baghdad was besieged by the Iranian-backed Kataib Hizbollah militia .
Such an attack was retaliation for a series of American attacks on the Kataib Hizbollah militia on December 29 — attacks that were carried out in response to the militia launching a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base , killing an American civilian contractor in the process .
So on January 3 , the United States launched an airstrike that killed General Qassem Soleimani , the commander of the Quds Force ( a unit of Iran ’ s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been praised by many people and protested by some as well .
Actress Rose McGowan ( who once expressed her sympathy for the Irish Republican Army ) took to Twitter with the following remarks : “ Dear # Iran , The USA has disrespected your country , your flag , your people .
52 % of us humbly apologize .
We want peace with your nation .
We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime .
We do not know how to escape .
Please do not kill us .
# Soleimani.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Integrity Than Obama And Gore Just Retracted Her Prize-Winning Paper McGowan also tweeted a series of attacks against the Trump Administration , a response to some of her followers speculating that she was doing drugs and calling for her to delete her comments or her Twitter account .
She also responded to one request to delete her comments by telling the individual to “ eat s—t.
” McGowan acknowledged that Soleimani was an evil man , but also tweeted the following remark : “ Of course # Soleimani was an evil evil man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that at this moment is not the f–king point .
The United States is morally corrupt and acts illegally .
It is only logical to appeal to Iran ’ s pride by apologizing .
I ’ m taking one for the team .
# TeamStayAlive.
” Some individuals referred to McGowan as a traitor , while others called for her to move to another country .
First of all , I ’ m not sure how the Trump Administration qualifies as a terrorist regime , let alone not knowing how to escape , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leaving the country .
Second , her begging the Iranians not to kill Americans will fall on deaf ears as the Iranians ( Soleimani in particular ) have killed Americans in the past , and intend to do so regardless of whether or not the United States launched its strike at Soleimani .
Third , how exactly is she taking one for the team ?
Meanwhile , Colin Kaepernick is also criticizing the Trump Administration for killing Soleimani , saying that he was targeted because of his race , labeling the airstrike as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brown people for the expansion of American imperialism.
” First , the airstrike was not a terrorist attack .
It was a response to terrorist attacks , given Iran ’ s role in sponsoring terror .
Second , Soleimani was not targeted because of his race , since Middle Easterners are considered to be Caucasian .
Third , I don ’ t think there are too many blacks living in the Middle East .
Fourth , the United States is trying to promote freedom , not imperialism .
Thus , the killing of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safer .

Last week, the American Embassy in Baghdad was besieged by the Iranian-backed Kataib Hizbollah militia. Such an attack was retaliation for a series of American attacks on the Kataib Hizbollah militia on December 29 — attacks that were carried out in response to the militia launching a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base, killing an American civilian contractor in the process. So on January 3, the United States launched an airstrike that killed General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force (a unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps).
Soleimani’s death has been praised by many people and protested by some as well.
Actress Rose McGowan (who once expressed her sympathy for the Irish Republican Army) took to Twitter with the following remarks:
“Dear #Iran, The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52% of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us. #Soleimani.”
McGowan also tweeted a series of attacks against the Trump Administration, a response to some of her followers speculating that she was doing drugs and calling for her to delete her comments or her Twitter account. She also responded to one request to delete her comments by telling the individual to “eat s—t.”
McGowan acknowledged that Soleimani was an evil man, but also tweeted the following remark:
“Of course #Soleimani was an evil evil man who did evil evil things. But that at this moment is not the f–king point. The United States is morally corrupt and acts illegally. It is only logical to appeal to Iran’s pride by apologizing. I’m taking one for the team. #TeamStayAlive.”
Some individuals referred to McGowan as a traitor, while others called for her to move to another country.
First of all, I’m not sure how the Trump Administration qualifies as a terrorist regime, let alone not knowing how to escape, considering no one is preventing her from leaving the country.
Second, her begging the Iranians not to kill Americans will fall on deaf ears as the Iranians (Soleimani in particular) have killed Americans in the past, and intend to do so regardless of whether or not the United States launched its strike at Soleimani.
Third, how exactly is she taking one for the team?
Meanwhile, Colin Kaepernick is also criticizing the Trump Administration for killing Soleimani, saying that he was targeted because of his race, labeling the airstrike as “American terrorist attacks against black and brown people for the expansion of American imperialism.”
First, the airstrike was not a terrorist attack. It was a response to terrorist attacks, given Iran’s role in sponsoring terror.
Second, Soleimani was not targeted because of his race, since Middle Easterners are considered to be Caucasian.
Third, I don’t think there are too many blacks living in the Middle East.
Fourth, the United States is trying to promote freedom, not imperialism.
Thus, the killing of Soleimani has made the world a little safer.


clashdaily--2020-01-05--Biblical Sexuality: Did Jesus And Paul Both Preach The Same Message?

Progressives claim traditionalists cite Paul and Leviticus only because they can ’ t cite Jesus .
Is that criticism fair ?
As American and Western culture changed , traditional views of sex and Christian morality were challenged .
Some denominations held the line while others changed with the times .
With the United Methodist Church currently splitting over this very issue , now seems the perfect time to revisit the question .
Activists on both sides would claim the TRUE reading of scripture supports them .
Trending : Nobel Chemist With More Integrity Than Obama And Gore Just Retracted Her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s favorite arguments is a variant of the same argument from silence they use to support Abortion — show me where JESUS ever said anything about that particular sin .
But how valid is that argument ?
The inference of their statement , of course , is that Jesus and Paul are in conflict and since Jesus is the Son of God , and Paul isn ’ t…well , Jesus beats Paul .
There are passages in Paul ’ s letters to the churches of Rome and Corinth , and to Timothy that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ practice .
( Romans 1 ; I Corinthians 6 ; 1 Timothy 1 ) A layman ’ s English breakdown of the Greek words used can be found here .
Those wanting to change with the culture and be accepting of what were ( not long ago ) called ‘ alternative lifestyles ’ couched their arguments as a defense of ‘ love ’ with an aim to be ‘ inclusionary ’ .
How did they get around the verses condemning sexual sin ?
By moving the goalposts and claiming we have been misinterpreting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ marriage relationships being normative and foundational , the emotional bond became normative and foundational .
Read this way , they would claim that moral imperatives were not directed against improper relationships between people of like gender , but other sexual practices outside of anything they would describe as ‘ loving relationships ’ .
( In fact , a person with those views down on defining ANY sexual practice as objectively sinful is not always easy . )
Jesus , they might argue , is all-loving , all-forgiving and infinitely inclusive .
He was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , don ’ forget !
They would describe Paul , by comparison , is an uptight rule-keeping stick-in-the-mud who expects others to conform to his private morality .
Alternatively , they would say that Paul was giving rules that pertained to his location and generation that should not be understood as morally binding beyond that local context .
Even leaving aside the Divinely-Inspired aspect of his word , there are a few problems with that view .
Here are just three , to start us off .
1 ) Both Jesus and Paul @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Paul preached a message grounded in love and repentance .
Any audience hearing the authentic gospel was never given a message of condemnation .
They were offered a message of hope , grace , restoration , and forgiveness .
Central to that message is a renunciation of the sins that fractured our relationship with God in the first place .
Paul saw his own sin — having been an active persecutor of Christ and his church — as an especially horrific sin .
And yet , even he could be forgiven .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ much more would the God he serves show grace to the more ‘ mundane ’ sins of his contemporaries who had never persecuted the church ?
Note , even in the letter to Corinth , after addressing that list of sins , Paul states an obvious fact — ‘ such were some of you , but… ’ : And such were some of you .
But you were washed , but you were sanctified , but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ call to repentance was given , it was to call them to a better life , and it is a new way of life with which their previous way of living ( whether that sin was lust , or pride , or greed or whatever other sin was being challenged ) was entirely incompatible .
A message of repentance from sin was never a club to beat sinners with , but an invitation into something better .
If there is any difference between the content taught by Paul and Jesus , much of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ audiences .
Jesus was mostly preaching to an explicitly Jewish audience , well-familiar with Moses and the Prophets , with the nature of God himself , with the moral expectations of a people called to be holy , and how the proper relationship between God and man was supposed to look .
Since archeological digs can differentiate between Jewish and non-Jewish historical settlements by the presence or absence of pig bones in their trash , it ’ s pretty clear that Jews and their neighbors lived their lives by starkly different moral codes… @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wouldn ’ t those distinctions also be mirrored in differences in attitudes toward sex ?
Some expectations of Jewish morality could already be taken for granted and Jesus would not have to explain them further .
His emphasis was instructing his followers about something much deeper than the superficial rule-keeping to which moralizing religious people can so easily default .
On the other hand , Paul — who we are often reminded was ‘ called to be an apostle to the gentiles ’ — had to go all the way back to square @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t think of God as a figure fashioned out of stone or wood or metal .
If Paul ’ s audiences didn ’ t even know the difference between God and an idol , should it surprise us that that would need more specific direction on God ’ s moral imperatives than a Jewish audience that already takes some for granted would ?
Not at all .
Therefore , the silence of Jesus can not be taken as proof of disagreement .
3 ) Jesus and Paul BOTH gladly kicked the hornets ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a lot of focus on Paul teaching about sexual do ’ s and don ’ ts .
But people forget that Jesus meddled in people ’ s sex lives , too .
You know that heartwarming story of the woman at the well ?
She was the village bicycle .
She answered ‘ I have no husband ’ .
Jesus corrected her : She had had five husbands , but the one she NOW had was not her husband .
Was that a difficult truth for her to hear ?
Of course @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her life .
‘ Sweet Jesus ’ was the opposite of ‘ Politically correct ’ .
He sometimes told some hard truths .
But it was always paired with the offer of welcome for anyone willing to choose God over their sins .
Progressives can argue as much as they like that Jesus never specifically mentioned anything about two dudes ( or two chicks ) knocking boots , but that doesn ’ t mean he was silent about sex .
They had something like ‘ no-fault divorce ’ back in the day , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So he challenged the social norms of the day .
‘ You have heard it said ’ … he began .
Pro-tip : Any time you see those words in the gospels , Jesus is about to BBQ a sacred cow .
He went after divorce by going straight back to the Garden of Eden .
Moses PERMITTED divorce in the law , but it was given as a concession ‘ because of the hardness of their heart ’ , not as the ideal .
“ In the beginning , it was not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as controversial a sermon then as it would be today .
And the exact same authoritative verse he appealed to condemn the problem of serial marriage and divorce ( Adam and Eve ) could just as easily be used to define marriage in a narrow way that would be upsetting to the progressives of today .
Even when Jesus offered unusual grace to sinners , it was never to merely approve of their sin .
He would tell them ‘ go and sin no more ’ .
He never LOWERED the bar for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The sin he called out doesn ’ t stop at illicit sex… he went further and named the lust behind it is as sinful .
After all , he DID come to save us from our sins , not to make us more comfortable in them .
Is there anything in scripture that can bridge the words of Jesus and Paul ?
Sure there is .
We can look to the apostle John writing the words given to him by none other than Jesus himself in the book of Revelation ( in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ single specific location or culture ) : Jesus seems to think the way we live our lives today matters , and has a direct connection to the future we will have ‘ in the hereafter ’ .
The message Jesus preached is obviously not ‘ just ’ about sexual purity .
But it by no means excludes it , either .
Anyone claiming that Paul was out of step with Jesus on Biblical sexual norms will have to make a stonger case than ‘ Jesus didn ’ t say… ’ Strictly speaking… not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but since Paul ’ s writings were affirmed by the apostle Peter as ‘ scripture ’ , they are in fact , the ‘ Word of God ’ .
Word of God… where have we seen that phrase before ?

Progressives claim traditionalists cite Paul and Leviticus only because they can’t cite Jesus. Is that criticism fair?
As American and Western culture changed, traditional views of sex and Christian morality were challenged. Some denominations held the line while others changed with the times.
With the United Methodist Church currently splitting over this very issue, now seems the perfect time to revisit the question.
Activists on both sides would claim the TRUE reading of scripture supports them.
One of the Left’s favorite arguments is a variant of the same argument from silence they use to support Abortion — show me where JESUS ever said anything about that particular sin. But how valid is that argument?
The inference of their statement, of course, is that Jesus and Paul are in conflict and since Jesus is the Son of God, and Paul isn’t…well, Jesus beats Paul.
There are passages in Paul’s letters to the churches of Rome and Corinth, and to Timothy that specifically condemn homosexual sex as an immoral practice. (Romans 1; I Corinthians 6; 1 Timothy 1) A layman’s English breakdown of the Greek words used can be found here.
Those wanting to change with the culture and be accepting of what were (not long ago) called ‘alternative lifestyles’ couched their arguments as a defense of ‘love’ with an aim to be ‘inclusionary’.
How did they get around the verses condemning sexual sin? By moving the goalposts and claiming we have been misinterpreting them all along.
Instead of Male-Female marriage relationships being normative and foundational, the emotional bond became normative and foundational. Read this way, they would claim that moral imperatives were not directed against improper relationships between people of like gender, but other sexual practices outside of anything they would describe as ‘loving relationships’. (In fact, a person with those views down on defining ANY sexual practice as objectively sinful is not always easy.)
Jesus, they might argue, is all-loving, all-forgiving and infinitely inclusive. He was a friend of tax collectors and prostitutes, don’ forget!
They would describe Paul, by comparison, is an uptight rule-keeping stick-in-the-mud who expects others to conform to his private morality. Alternatively, they would say that Paul was giving rules that pertained to his location and generation that should not be understood as morally binding beyond that local context.
Even leaving aside the Divinely-Inspired aspect of his word, there are a few problems with that view.
Here are just three, to start us off.
1) Both Jesus and Paul Preached a message of Repentance
Both Jesus and Paul preached a message grounded in love and repentance.
Any audience hearing the authentic gospel was never given a message of condemnation. They were offered a message of hope, grace, restoration, and forgiveness. Central to that message is a renunciation of the sins that fractured our relationship with God in the first place.
Paul saw his own sin — having been an active persecutor of Christ and his church — as an especially horrific sin. And yet, even he could be forgiven.
If a man responsible for the ow much more would the God he serves show grace to the more ‘mundane’ sins of his contemporaries who had never persecuted the church?
Note, even in the letter to Corinth, after addressing that list of sins, Paul states an obvious fact — ‘such were some of you, but…’:
And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. — I Cor 6:11
When a call to repentance was given, it was to call them to a better life, and it is a new way of life with which their previous way of living (whether that sin was lust, or pride, or greed or whatever other sin was being challenged) was entirely incompatible.
A message of repentance from sin was never a club to beat sinners with, but an invitation into something better.
2) Jesus and Paul addressed different audiences
If there is any difference between the content taught by Paul and Jesus, much of it can be explained by their target audiences.
Jesus was mostly preaching to an explicitly Jewish audience, well-familiar with Moses and the Prophets, with the nature of God himself, with the moral expectations of a people called to be holy, and how the proper relationship between God and man was supposed to look.
Since archeological digs can differentiate between Jewish and non-Jewish historical settlements by the presence or absence of pig bones in their trash, it’s pretty clear that Jews and their neighbors lived their lives by starkly different moral codes… right down to dietary practice. Why wouldn’t those distinctions also be mirrored in differences in attitudes toward sex?
Some expectations of Jewish morality could already be taken for granted and Jesus would not have to explain them further. His emphasis was instructing his followers about something much deeper than the superficial rule-keeping to which moralizing religious people can so easily default.
On the other hand, Paul — who we are often reminded was ‘called to be an apostle to the gentiles’ — had to go all the way back to square one, including that we shouldn’t think of God as a figure fashioned out of stone or wood or metal.
If Paul’s audiences didn’t even know the difference between God and an idol, should it surprise us that that would need more specific direction on God’s moral imperatives than a Jewish audience that already takes some for granted would? Not at all.
Therefore, the silence of Jesus cannot be taken as proof of disagreement.
3) Jesus and Paul BOTH gladly kicked the hornets’ nest on normative sexual sins.
There is a lot of focus on Paul teaching about sexual do’s and don’ts. But people forget that Jesus meddled in people’s sex lives, too.
No, really.
You know that heartwarming story of the woman at the well? She was the village bicycle. She answered ‘I have no husband’. Jesus corrected her: She had had five husbands, but the one she NOW had was not her husband. Was that a difficult truth for her to hear? Of course it was. But it also changed her life.
‘Sweet Jesus’ was the opposite of ‘Politically correct’. He sometimes told some hard truths. But it was always paired with the offer of welcome for anyone willing to choose God over their sins.
Progressives can argue as much as they like that Jesus never specifically mentioned anything about two dudes (or two chicks) knocking boots, but that doesn’t mean he was silent about sex.
They had something like ‘no-fault divorce’ back in the day, and Jesus saw it as destructive. So he challenged the social norms of the day.
‘You have heard it said’ … he began. Pro-tip: Any time you see those words in the gospels, Jesus is about to BBQ a sacred cow.
He went after divorce by going straight back to the Garden of Eden.
Moses PERMITTED divorce in the law, but it was given as a concession ‘because of the hardness of their heart’, not as the ideal. “In the beginning, it was not so.’
That would be every bit as controversial a sermon then as it would be today. And the exact same authoritative verse he appealed to condemn the problem of serial marriage and divorce (Adam and Eve) could just as easily be used to define marriage in a narrow way that would be upsetting to the progressives of today.
Even when Jesus offered unusual grace to sinners, it was never to merely approve of their sin. He would tell them ‘go and sin no more’.
He never LOWERED the bar for holiness, he made it higher. The sin he called out doesn’t stop at illicit sex… he went further and named the lust behind it is as sinful.
After all, he DID come to save us from our sins, not to make us more comfortable in them.
Is there anything in scripture that can bridge the words of Jesus and Paul? Sure there is.
We can look to the apostle John writing the words given to him by none other than Jesus himself in the book of Revelation (in a passage that is not directed to any single specific location or culture):
5 Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.” 6 And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. 7 He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. 8 But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Jesus seems to think the way we live our lives today matters, and has a direct connection to the future we will have ‘in the hereafter’.
The message Jesus preached is obviously not ‘just’ about sexual purity. But it by no means excludes it, either.
Anyone claiming that Paul was out of step with Jesus on Biblical sexual norms will have to make a stonger case than ‘Jesus didn’t say…’
Strictly speaking… not only was Jesus directly quoted in Revelation but since Paul’s writings were affirmed by the apostle Peter as ‘scripture’, they are in fact, the ‘Word of God’.
Word of God… where have we seen that phrase before?


clashdaily--2020-01-05--Watch: Full-Length Interview With Jack Wilson, Hero Of Texas Church Shooting

He describes the event itself , the firearms training he offers , and his thought on church security more generally .
Hat-tip to Ammoland for bringing this interview to our attention .
The interview is in-depth .
It covers Jack ’ s training methods at his range , the church shooting , and the formation of the church volunteer security team .
Jack Wilson gives details about how he acclimates new shooters to gun handling .
He shows the range layout and explains some of his policies on defensive tactics for the church security team .
Trending : Nobel Chemist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Just Retracted Her Prize-Winning Paper The reader finds out , for example , the security team was formed about 18-19 months ago , when the church moved to its present location in White Settlement .
One of the reasons for the formation of the team was the high crime incidence in the immediate area .
Jack says there were five homicides committed in 2018 within five miles of the church location .
Details are given of the shooting .
Jack tells us why he was suspicious of the individual who murdered Jacks two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The attacker was wearing a fake beard and a fake wig , with a “ toboggan ” ( knit cap ? )
on top .
He had on a long , 3/4 length coat .
He was continually adjusting the fake beard .
The reason we have a good video of the attack and the armed congregants ’ response , is Jack Wilson talked to the Church Audio Video group and told them to keep a camera on the suspicious person before the attack started .
Source : Ammoland He even goes into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the same time as the killer , but not quite getting the shot off , about how they had the killer under scrutiny from the moment he walked into the church , with one security officer taking a seat nearby to keep an eye on him .
The AV guy was also working as part of the security team , which is why the footage of the killer was trained on him in the first place .

He describes the event itself, the firearms training he offers, and his thought on church security more generally.
Hat-tip to Ammoland for bringing this interview to our attention.
The interview is in-depth. It covers Jack’s training methods at his range, the church shooting, and the formation of the church volunteer security team. Jack Wilson gives details about how he acclimates new shooters to gun handling. He shows the range layout and explains some of his policies on defensive tactics for the church security team. The reader finds out, for example, the security team was formed about 18-19 months ago, when the church moved to its present location in White Settlement. One of the reasons for the formation of the team was the high crime incidence in the immediate area. Jack says there were five homicides committed in 2018 within five miles of the church location. Details are given of the shooting. Jack tells us why he was suspicious of the individual who murdered Jacks two friends before Jack could stop him. The attacker was wearing a fake beard and a fake wig, with a “toboggan” (knit cap?) on top. He had on a long, 3/4 length coat. He was continually adjusting the fake beard. The reason we have a good video of the attack and the armed congregants’ response, is Jack Wilson talked to the Church Audio Video group and told them to keep a camera on the suspicious person before the attack started.
Source: Ammoland
He even goes into detail about one of the victims drawing at the same time as the killer, but not quite getting the shot off, about how they had the killer under scrutiny from the moment he walked into the church, with one security officer taking a seat nearby to keep an eye on him. The AV guy was also working as part of the security team, which is why the footage of the killer was trained on him in the first place.


clashdaily--2020-01-05--Thanks Mr. President for Placing American Lives Above Politics

I awoke around 7:30am , turned on the TV and flipped through channels .
I briefly stopped on CNN and MSNBC .
True to form , both fake news outlets were lying .
They were selling the lie that by killing Iran ’ s top general , Soleimani , Trump recklessly put the U.S. in danger .
While I realize that fake news medias ’ mission is to spin everything to make Trump look mean , incompetent and insane , it is amazing that they never take a break ; laser-focused on destroying Trump 24/7 .
Ninety-two percent of media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to have him removed from office .
Thank God we have a president who places American lives above politics .
In response to Iran-backed raiders attacking our U.S. Embassy in Baghdad , Trump said , “ This will not be Benghazi.
” Allow me to succinctly explain what Trump is talking about by referencing Benghazi .
Trending : Nobel Chemist With More Integrity Than Obama And Gore Just Retracted Her Prize-Winning Paper It was reelection time for Obama .
His Administration was spreading the narrative that Obama fixed terrorism , making it no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anniversary approached , Ambassador Chris Stevens at our U.S. Embassy in Benghazi alerted the Obama Administration to his concerns about a possible terrorist attack .
Ambassador Stevens requested extra security .
His request was denied because adding more security would undermine Obama ’ s narrative that terrorism is over .
Consequently , our U.S. Embassy was attacked , overtaken and Ambassador Stevens was raped and killed ; his mutilated dead body was paraded through the streets .
http : //bit.ly/39Fbcvc So rather than celebrating President Trump for immediately stepping up to protect American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , fake news media rushed to spread the lie that Trump behaved irresponsibility .
Folks , these people in fake news media are scum-of-the-earth .
They don ’ t give a rat ’ s derriere about American lives or our nation ’ s best interests .
Fake news media and their Democrat counterparts are laser-focused , obsessed with removing Trump , punishing his supporters and repealing our Constitutional power .
If they can get rid of their major stumbling block , Donald J. Trump , they can transform America into their socialist/Godless dream @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wicked enemy within by kicking their butts in November .

I awoke around 7:30am, turned on the TV and flipped through channels. I briefly stopped on CNN and MSNBC. True to form, both fake news outlets were lying. They were selling the lie that by killing Iran’s top general, Soleimani, Trump recklessly put the U.S. in danger. While I realize that fake news medias’ mission is to spin everything to make Trump look mean, incompetent and insane, it is amazing that they never take a break; laser-focused on destroying Trump 24/7.
Ninety-two percent of media coverage of Trump is negative, designed to have him removed from office.
Thank God we have a president who places American lives above politics. In response to Iran-backed raiders attacking our U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Trump said, “This will not be Benghazi.”
Allow me to succinctly explain what Trump is talking about by referencing Benghazi.
It was reelection time for Obama. His Administration was spreading the narrative that Obama fixed terrorism, making it no longer a threat. As another 9/11 anniversary approached, Ambassador Chris Stevens at our U.S. Embassy in Benghazi alerted the Obama Administration to his concerns about a possible terrorist attack. Ambassador Stevens requested extra security. His request was denied because adding more security would undermine Obama’s narrative that terrorism is over.
Consequently, our U.S. Embassy was attacked, overtaken and Ambassador Stevens was raped and killed; his mutilated dead body was paraded through the streets. http://bit.ly/39Fbcvc
So rather than celebrating President Trump for immediately stepping up to protect American lives in our U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, fake news media rushed to spread the lie that Trump behaved irresponsibility.
Folks, these people in fake news media are scum-of-the-earth. They don’t give a rat’s derriere about American lives or our nation’s best interests. Fake news media and their Democrat counterparts are laser-focused, obsessed with removing Trump, punishing his supporters and repealing our Constitutional power. If they can get rid of their major stumbling block, Donald J. Trump, they can transform America into their socialist/Godless dream.
Folks, we must defeat this wicked enemy within by kicking their butts in November.
Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American
Help Lloyd spread the Truth
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clashdaily--2020-01-05--The Use Of Language

The Use Of Language

The Left has always known how to use , or more accurately , misuse language .
They have a long history of using words as weapons .
It ’ s not hyperbole to say that tyranny starts with words .
Although Chinese Communist Chairman Mao is quoted as having said , “ All political power comes from the barrel of a gun ” , ( in 1927 at the start of the Chinese Civil War ) , it is the use of language that planted the seeds of that mindset .
Karl Marx is credited with the development of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strong enforcement of this system is what gave rise to communism .
Marx first published his “ Communist Manifesto ” in 1848 .
This was followed up by a far more in-depth , detailed 3 volume work entitled “ Das Kapital ” in 1867 .
Another example of a system that started out with words is National Socialism or Nazism .
( In German , the word is nationalsozialismus , or the National German Workers ’ Party ; or NSDAP ) It was an attempt by Adolph Hitler to create a “ nationalist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Marxism and capitalism .
This too started with words .
In 1925 , Hitler ’ s book “ Mein Kampf ” was published .
By the end of WWII , over 10 million copies had been sold .
The book is still being printed and sold world wide .
However , neither Marx or Hitler were original thinkers .
The seminal beginnings of communism/socialism as we know it go back to the 1600s .
Some scholars take it even further back to ancient times .
Regardless of the time frame , what ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ subtle as language , both written and spoken , can cause great change .
While that changes isn ’ t overnight , language nevertheless plants the seeds that can cause either chaos or contentment .
There are two separate , yet intertwined , fields of study that deal specifically with language : Homiletics pertains to carrying the meaning of words or text across time to communicate its meaning and significance .
It can also refer to homilies and/or conversation , and sometimes is called the “ art of preaching ” .
Hermeneutics is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of interpretation ; this also relates to the use and study of the Bible .
Some of the most meticulous and scholarly work concerning the use of language is by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein ( 1889-1951 ) .
Austrian by birth , he taught at Cambridge in the 1930s .
His best-known writings are “ Tracucus Logico-Philosophicus ” , “ Philosophical Investigations ” , and “ The Blue And Brown Books ” .
In the proverbial nutshell , though , a lot of Wittggenstein ’ s work comes down to the concept that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to it by its popular usage .
Okay , so thank you for making it through my introduction/history lesson .
I decided to approach this topic because it ’ s become so apparent the Left manipulates language at every opportunity .
I first started noticing this way back in the 1990s .
I had gay/lesbian co-workers at more than one job I had then .
The folks I knew weren ’ t the in-your-face militant types , and it was through them that I first heard the LGBT label .
Only back then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Soon , however , more letters started appearing- “ A ” , “ Q ” , and eventually half the English alphabet .
Add to this the bizarro world of gender-inclusive pseudo pronouns .
Currently , Facebook has a list of over 50 “ gender ” pronouns to choose from when filling out your online profile .
A good portion of the list actually sort of cancels itself out ; just read the list sometime .
But this is how it starts .
The subtle , slow pace of word manipulation .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ no one notices or cares if they do .
Then other letters appear , other “ genders ” appear , and suddenly you find that you can get into legal trouble and even lose your job because you unknowingly identified someone with the “ wrong ” label .
The writer Derek Hunter calls this mindset the “ Euphemism Nation ” .
( Townhall.com 11/8/19 ) Anyone who has been paying attention knows that language has been skewered by the left , with the help of the media .
Political correctness dominates higher education @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( a secret agreement or cooperation for an illegal purpose ) may sound sinister , but it ’ s not even a federal crime unless there is a violation of anti-trust law .
The media and the Left have used it to mean criminality , albeit wrongly .
Beware also any time you hear the Left start talking about “ democracy ” .
First of all , we ’ re a constitutional republic , not a democracy .
But according to the Left , the type of government they say we have ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mere existence of President Donald J. Trump .
Really ?
How can he be a threat to the type of government we don ’ t even have ?
If I took the time , and had the space , we could probably discuss dozens of such examples of language manipulation .
With just a short article , though , I don ’ t have that option .
But remember this : tyranny starts with words , and the end goal is control .
“ In a society they control , you will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no future .
Leftism always ends in tyranny and murder , which is why we ’ re blessed to have the Second Amendment .
And if you are ever disarmed and at the mercy of these aspiring monsters , the only safe space will be a mass grave.
” ( Kurt Schlichter , Townhall.com 12/9/19 ) Let ’ s practice some empirical awareness .
Start paying attention to EVERYTHING the Left is saying .
Learn to tune into that word manipulation .
Sometimes subtle , but increasingly more and more out front .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ watch what they do .
Tyranny starts with words .
Thanks in advance for your support .

The Left has always known how to use, or more accurately, misuse language. They have a long history of using words as weapons. It’s not hyperbole to say that tyranny starts with words.
Although Chinese Communist Chairman Mao is quoted as having said, “All political power comes from the barrel of a gun”, (in 1927 at the start of the Chinese Civil War), it is the use of language that planted the seeds of that mindset.
Karl Marx is credited with the development of the anti-capitalism system known as socialism. The strong enforcement of this system is what gave rise to communism. Marx first published his “Communist Manifesto” in 1848. This was followed up by a far more in-depth, detailed 3 volume work entitled “Das Kapital” in 1867.
Another example of a system that started out with words is National Socialism or Nazism. (In German, the word is nationalsozialismus, or the National German Workers’ Party; or NSDAP) It was an attempt by Adolph Hitler to create a “nationalist” socialism as an alternative to international Marxism and capitalism. This too started with words. In 1925, Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” was published. By the end of WWII, over 10 million copies had been sold. The book is still being printed and sold world wide.
However, neither Marx or Hitler were original thinkers. The seminal beginnings of communism/socialism as we know it go back to the 1600s. Some scholars take it even further back to ancient times.
Regardless of the time frame, what’s amazing though is that something so subtle as language, both written and spoken, can cause great change. While that changes isn’t overnight, language nevertheless plants the seeds that can cause either chaos or contentment.
There are two separate, yet intertwined, fields of study that deal specifically with language:
Homiletics pertains to carrying the meaning of words or text across time to communicate its meaning and significance. It can also refer to homilies and/or conversation, and sometimes is called the “art of preaching”.
Hermeneutics is the study of the methodology and methods of interpretation; this also relates to the use and study of the Bible.
Some of the most meticulous and scholarly work concerning the use of language is by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Austrian by birth, he taught at Cambridge in the 1930s. His best-known writings are “Tracucus Logico-Philosophicus”, “Philosophical Investigations”, and “The Blue And Brown Books”. In the proverbial nutshell, though, a lot of Wittggenstein’s work comes down to the concept that all language only has the meaning assigned to it by its popular usage.
Okay, so thank you for making it through my introduction/history lesson. I decided to approach this topic because it’s become so apparent the Left manipulates language at every opportunity.
I first started noticing this way back in the 1990s. I had gay/lesbian co-workers at more than one job I had then. The folks I knew weren’t the in-your-face militant types, and it was through them that I first heard the LGBT label. Only back then, the “G” came first.
Soon, however, more letters started appearing-“A”, “Q”, and eventually half the English alphabet.
Add to this the bizarro world of gender-inclusive pseudo pronouns. Currently, Facebook has a list of over 50 “gender” pronouns to choose from when filling out your online profile. A good portion of the list actually sort of cancels itself out; just read the list sometime.
But this is how it starts. The subtle, slow pace of word manipulation. One day, GLBT becomes LGBT and no one notices or cares if they do. Then other letters appear, other “genders” appear, and suddenly you find that you can get into legal trouble and even lose your job because you unknowingly identified someone with the “wrong” label. The writer Derek Hunter calls this mindset the “Euphemism Nation”. (Townhall.com 11/8/19)
Anyone who has been paying attention knows that language has been skewered by the left, with the help of the media. Political correctness dominates higher education as well as several corporations.
Collusion (a secret agreement or cooperation for an illegal purpose) may sound sinister, but it’s not even a federal crime unless there is a violation of anti-trust law. The media and the Left have used it to mean criminality, albeit wrongly.
Beware also any time you hear the Left start talking about “democracy”. First of all, we’re a constitutional republic, not a democracy. But according to the Left, the type of government they say we have (a democracy) is completely threatened by the mere existence of President Donald J. Trump. Really? How can he be a threat to the type of government we don’t even have?
If I took the time, and had the space, we could probably discuss dozens of such examples of language manipulation. With just a short article, though, I don’t have that option. But remember this: tyranny starts with words, and the end goal is control.
“In a society they control, you will have no rights, no voice and no future. Leftism always ends in tyranny and murder, which is why we’re blessed to have the Second Amendment. And if you are ever disarmed and at the mercy of these aspiring monsters, the only safe space will be a mass grave.” (Kurt Schlichter, Townhall.com 12/9/19)
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
Let’s practice some empirical awareness. Start paying attention to EVERYTHING the Left is saying. Learn to tune into that word manipulation. Sometimes subtle, but increasingly more and more out front. Listen to what they say, then watch what they do. Tyranny starts with words.
…and now…SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION
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Thanks in advance for your support.


clashdaily--2020-01-04--Gun Sales Skyrocket With Many Paying In Cash While Northam Hires Gun-Grabbers — Here’s The 411

If you thought Obama was fantastic for gun sales , wait until you see Northam ’ s Virginia !
With Democrats sweeping Virginia , they are poised to make some serious changes to legislation , and they have gun ownership in their sights , so to speak .
The public has been getting ahead of it by stocking up while they still can .
With Virginia Democrats taking over all branches of state government , a firearms store owner in the state says sales of guns , magazines , and ammunition are up 200 % , and more of his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Nobel Chemist With More Integrity Than Obama And Gore Just Retracted Her Prize-Winning Paper “ This is the largest Christmas and November , December that we ’ ve had , basically , since Trump has come on board .
The only other person that was a better salesman right now is when we had President Obama , ” said Jerry Rapp , owner of SpecDive Tactical , in Alexandria , comparing the administrations of President Trump and his White House predecessor , Barack Obama .
“ Every time [ Obama ] turned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or make something illegal .
But even that isn ’ t even close to the amount of sales we ’ re selling right now of magazines , of guns , of every kind of gun from pistol , rifle , shotguns , to AR platforms ” and ammunition , Rapp told the Washington Examiner .
“ We can ’ t keep it in stock.
” Source : Washington Examiner The NRA , for instance , has made the statement : The NRA has also put up a website in response to the coming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Gov .
Northam and his billionaire allies are desperate to yoke Virginians with some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation , and turn hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Virginians into felons .
Gov .
Northam knows that none of his gun control proposals will make Virginians safer , but it will make it harder for law-abiding Virginians to exercise their constitutional right to self-defense .
Click here to find your state legislators and contact them to voice your concern about Gov .
Northam ’ s anti-gun agenda .
What @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tommy Norment ( R-James City County ) had news about gun legislation in this year ’ s General Assembly session during a forum in Virginia Beach Friday .
Norment said mandatory background checks will likely pass in this year ’ s General Assembly .
…Norment said it ’ s clear recent gatherings at local government meetings supporting gun rights are making a statement .
There ’ s no legal impact , but the protests are expressions of pro-gun values .
“ Universal background checks , I predict , is coming out no matter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is going to happen because there is majority of Republicans and Democrats who will pass it , ” he said .
Norment then went on to make more news .
He said a “ red flag law ” that would take guns from those who are known dangers to themselves or others could also pass .
“ But let me be clear about that , ” he told the gathering of about 100 people .
“ If there is an appropriately , narrowly-drawn red flag law it will pass , but it must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is preserved.
” Source : WAVY Meanwhile , the Sanctuary city movement is continuing to grow : The City Council will hold a special session Monday to vote on becoming a Second Amendment Constitutional City .
The goal of the initiative is to signal the council ’ s support for gun rights and encourage state lawmakers to not pass laws that would infringe on the Second Amendment .
Since November , similar initiatives have been adopted by more than 100 counties and cities across the state , including in neighboring Chesapeake .
— @ @ @ @ @ @ @ art ?
You can click it to learn more .
Good Guy With A Gun : Armed Churchgoer Stops Wannabe Mass Murderer Cold Inconvenient Truths About Guns and Gun Control Here Are 3 Reasons Gun-Grabbers Are The Anti-Vaxxers Of Personal Safety And just for fun…

If you thought Obama was fantastic for gun sales, wait until you see Northam’s Virginia!
With Democrats sweeping Virginia, they are poised to make some serious changes to legislation, and they have gun ownership in their sights, so to speak.
The public has been getting ahead of it by stocking up while they still can.
With Virginia Democrats taking over all branches of state government, a firearms store owner in the state says sales of guns, magazines, and ammunition are up 200%, and more of his customers are paying in cash. “This is the largest Christmas and November, December that we’ve had, basically, since Trump has come on board. The only other person that was a better salesman right now is when we had President Obama,” said Jerry Rapp, owner of SpecDive Tactical, in Alexandria, comparing the administrations of President Trump and his White House predecessor, Barack Obama. “Every time [Obama] turned around he was going to ban something or make something illegal. But even that isn’t even close to the amount of sales we’re selling right now of magazines, of guns, of every kind of gun from pistol, rifle, shotguns, to AR platforms” and ammunition, Rapp told the Washington Examiner. “We can’t keep it in stock.”
Source: Washington Examiner
Second Amendment rights advocates are pushing back.
The NRA, for instance, has made the statement:
“Anti-gun billionaires who invested millions in the 2019 Virginia elections expect a return on that investment. While we mobilize our members and supporters to defeat Governor Northam’s political gun grab, the NRA remains committed to working with those members of the General Assembly who are focused on finding real solutions to violent crime in Virginia,” D.J. Spiker, NRA Institute for Legislative Action Virginia State Director, said in a statement.
Source: Townhall
The NRA has also put up a website in response to the coming gun-grabbing, on which they explain further:
Gov. Northam and his billionaire allies are desperate to yoke Virginians with some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, and turn hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Virginians into felons. Gov. Northam knows that none of his gun control proposals will make Virginians safer, but it will make it harder for law-abiding Virginians to exercise their constitutional right to self-defense. Click here to find your state legislators and contact them to voice your concern about Gov. Northam’s anti-gun agenda.
What restrictions are being proposed?
State Sen. Tommy Norment (R-James City County) had news about gun legislation in this year’s General Assembly session during a forum in Virginia Beach Friday. Norment said mandatory background checks will likely pass in this year’s General Assembly. …Norment said it’s clear recent gatherings at local government meetings supporting gun rights are making a statement. There’s no legal impact, but the protests are expressions of pro-gun values. “Universal background checks, I predict, is coming out no matter what the governor has said. It is going to happen because there is majority of Republicans and Democrats who will pass it,” he said. Norment then went on to make more news. He said a “red flag law” that would take guns from those who are known dangers to themselves or others could also pass. “But let me be clear about that,” he told the gathering of about 100 people. “If there is an appropriately, narrowly-drawn red flag law it will pass, but it must be drawn so tightly that due process is preserved.”
Source: WAVY
It gets WORSE:
“We see in the governor’s proposed budget that he wants $4 million and 18 new law-enforcement positions to enforce a ban on commonly-owned firearms,” said Erich Pratt, Gun Owners of America senior vice president. — Source: Washington Examiner
Meanwhile, the Sanctuary city movement is continuing to grow:
The City Council will hold a special session Monday to vote on becoming a Second Amendment Constitutional City. The goal of the initiative is to signal the council’s support for gun rights and encourage state lawmakers to not pass laws that would infringe on the Second Amendment. Since November, similar initiatives have been adopted by more than 100 counties and cities across the state, including in neighboring Chesapeake. — Source: The Virginian Pilot
Related:
Good Guy With A Gun: Armed Churchgoer Stops Wannabe Mass Murderer Cold
Inconvenient Truths About Guns and Gun Control
Virginia Democrats Double Down on Failed Gun Control Plans
Here Are 3 Reasons Gun-Grabbers Are The Anti-Vaxxers Of Personal Safety
And just for fun…
Hey Patriots: The Gilboa Double-Barrel AR-15 Will Give Gun-Grabbers Night Sweats (Video)


clashdaily--2020-01-04--Rose McGowan’s Bizarre Tweets After The Killing Of Soleimani Shows Trump Derangement Syndrome On STE

Rose McGowan’s Bizarre Tweets After The Killing Of Soleimani Shows Trump Derangement Syndrome On STEROIDS

When Trump-hatred has you writing adoring tweets to IRAN , you have a problem .
Rose McGowan , the actress that was a loud voice in the # MeToo movement is getting attention for her tweets again .
McGowan was the first woman to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of rape and has been in the public eye ever since .
It was on her Twitter account in 2016 that she said she was raped by an unnamed studio head , and in 2017 she accused Harvey Weinstein of being that studio head .
Her latest tweets , however , reveal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rights of women is ignorant of the human rights abuses that women face in Iran .
She also seems to be challenging her former Charmed co-star , Alyssa Milano , in the race to be the next Hanoi Jane .
Trending : Nobel Chemist With More Integrity Than Obama And Gore Just Retracted Her Prize-Winning Paper In the wake of the *ahem* explosive death of the General of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Head of the Quds Force , Qasem Soleimani , McGowan posted an apologetic tweet to Iran complete with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , yes , the flag does have emojis on it , and no , the Iranian flag does not have emojis .
Glad we had that talk .
She wrote , “ Dear # Iran , The USA has disrespected your country , your flag , your people .
52 % of us humbly apologize .
We want peace with your nation .
We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime .
We do not know how to escape .
Please do not kill us.
” Appealing to Iran for peace is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ones that have their fingerprints on a whole lot of attacks on U.S. troops all over the world .
Saying that President Trump ’ s administration is a “ terrorist regime ” is absolutely ridiculous .
Do you know how I know that ?
Because Rose McGowan wasn ’ t jailed , killed , or “ disappeared ” for her tweet .
Terrorists don ’ t take kindly when you tweet that they ’ re terrorists .
It ’ s quite the hot take for a woman who would be jailed in Iran @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bio pic .
Rose McGown is putting the “ suck ” in succubus in this look .
But hey , that ’ s her right to look like that if she wants to .
It ’ s positively modest compared to some of the other things she ’ s worn over the years .
Also , she ’ s not wearing a headscarf .
McGowan blamed the death squarely on President Trump and made her thoughts on the matter quite clear .
She was dragged on Twitter for this hot take and tried @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a battle of wits , the woman is unarmed .
She blamed the U.S. for the death of Americans at the hands of Soleimani .
She then posted a pair of very , very strange tweets… .
Did Rose McGowan just say that she ’ s a Republican ?
!
The lower-taxes , small government , Second Amendment defending , Freedom-loving , pro-America , revering the Founding Fathers kind of Republican ?
The woman that dated — and was engaged to — Marilyn Manson and photographed with him on the Red Carpet in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So… she wrote , “ I will never vote Republican .
I want the Democrats to win because we are less likely to die .
I am a conscientious objector to the USA , it ’ s policies , lies , corruption , nationalism , racism , and deep misogyny .
It is our right and duty as citizens to dissent.
” Followed by , “ I ’ m a registered Republican in California .
I loathe the Clintons .
I hate Trump .
I will not vote Republican , but I can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rather know what evil I ’ m getting , so I ’ ll go Republican .
This is about WWIII , so none of that shit matters anyway.
” If you can reconcile those two tweets , you ’ re a better man than I am , Gunga Din .
Maybe she was just tired .
Or drunk-tweeting .
In any case , after she slept on it and woke up to her initial tweet exploding , came the apology .
McGowan posted her tweet because she ’ s afraid of war with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are afraid of Iran .
Why is that ?
Simple , it ’ s because Iran is the largest state-sponsor of terror , providing weapons and a safe haven for members of Hezbollah , Hamas , Islamic Jihad , and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — all known terrorist organizations .
They have been doing this since the Iranian Revolution in 1979 .
Not only that , Iran has used their own militias to gin up problems in the Middle East and conduct a proxy war with the United States by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They did that primarily through the Quds Force which was led by… Qasem Soleimani .
It all comes full-circle .
She ’ s afraid of pissing off Iran because she ’ s afraid of terrorism against Americans .
Soleimani has been the leader of the Quds Force since 1998 .
He has been the mastermind of attacks on Americans for over 20 years .
He ’ s been assisting terrorists in other countries for all of that time .
Now that he ’ s dead , sure the Iranians could get themselves another @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that their beloved Soleimani was killed by the Americans .
They ’ re crying over it .
No one wants a war with Iran , least of all Iran .
They don ’ t have a chance against the military might of the United States .
But it doesn ’ t help when actresses with no clue spout off nonsense in defense of terrorist regimes .
Maybe don ’ t do that .

When Trump-hatred has you writing adoring tweets to IRAN, you have a problem.
Rose McGowan, the actress that was a loud voice in the #MeToo movement is getting attention for her tweets again.
McGowan was the first woman to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of rape and has been in the public eye ever since. It was on her Twitter account in 2016 that she said she was raped by an unnamed studio head, and in 2017 she accused Harvey Weinstein of being that studio head.
Her latest tweets, however, reveal that the woman who fights for the rights of women is ignorant of the human rights abuses that women face in Iran. She also seems to be challenging her former Charmed co-star, Alyssa Milano, in the race to be the next Hanoi Jane.
In the wake of the *ahem* explosive death of the General of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Head of the Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, McGowan posted an apologetic tweet to Iran complete with a waving flag gif.
Dear #Iran, The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52% of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us. #Soleimani pic.twitter.com/YE54CqGCdr — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) January 3, 2020
First of all, yes, the flag does have emojis on it, and no, the Iranian flag does not have emojis.
Glad we had that talk.
She wrote, “Dear #Iran, The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52% of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us.”
Appealing to Iran for peace is a non-starter. They’re the ones that have their fingerprints on a whole lot of attacks on U.S. troops all over the world. Saying that President Trump’s administration is a “terrorist regime” is absolutely ridiculous. Do you know how I know that? Because Rose McGowan wasn’t jailed, killed, or “disappeared” for her tweet. Terrorists don’t take kindly when you tweet that they’re terrorists.
It’s quite the hot take for a woman who would be jailed in Iran for wearing that outfit in her Twitter bio pic.
Rose McGown is putting the “suck” in succubus in this look. But hey, that’s her right to look like that if she wants to. It’s positively modest compared to some of the other things she’s worn over the years. Also, she’s not wearing a headscarf.
McGowan blamed the death squarely on President Trump and made her thoughts on the matter quite clear.
Thanks a lot, dickhead @realDonaldTrump — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) January 3, 2020
She was dragged on Twitter for this hot take and tried to defend herself. However, in a battle of wits, the woman is unarmed.
Of course #Soleimani was an evil evil man who did evil evil things. But that at this moment is not the fucking point. The United States is morally corrupt and acts illegally. It is only logical to appeal to Iran’s pride by apologizing. I’m taking one for the team. #TeamStayAlive — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) January 3, 2020
She blamed the U.S. for the death of Americans at the hands of Soleimani.
That sucks. Your friend wouldn’t have been murdered if the USA hadn’t illegally staged a coup and a phony war. https://t.co/yC4n85qiXm — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) January 3, 2020
Fuck your freedom and shove it up your #MAGA ass https://t.co/RQr2x5pCS1 — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) January 3, 2020
I do not side with Iran, but I most definitely do not side with the USA #TeamStayAlive https://t.co/ShWtvgWYqj — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) January 3, 2020
She then posted a pair of very, very strange tweets….
I will never vote Republican. I want the Democrats to win because we are less likely to die. I am a conscientious objector to the USA, it’s policies, lies, corruption, nationalism, racism, and deep misogyny. It is our right and duty as citizens to dissent. — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) January 3, 2020
I’m a registered Republican in California. I loathe the Clintons. I hate Trump. I will not vote Republican, but I cannot vote Democrat. I’d rather know what evil I’m getting, so I’ll go Republican. This is about WWIII, so none of that shit matters anyway. #TeamStayAlive #RoseArmy pic.twitter.com/l7MtDXUVuy — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) January 3, 2020
Did Rose McGowan just say that she’s a Republican?!
Like a Republican, Republican?
The lower-taxes, small government, Second Amendment defending, Freedom-loving, pro-America, revering the Founding Fathers kind of Republican?
The woman that dated — and was engaged to — Marilyn Manson and photographed with him on the Red Carpet in that dress is a Republican?!
So… she wrote, “I will never vote Republican. I want the Democrats to win because we are less likely to die. I am a conscientious objector to the USA, it’s policies, lies, corruption, nationalism, racism, and deep misogyny. It is our right and duty as citizens to dissent.”
Followed by, “I’m a registered Republican in California. I loathe the Clintons. I hate Trump. I will not vote Republican, but I cannot vote Democrat. I’d rather know what evil I’m getting, so I’ll go Republican. This is about WWIII, so none of that shit matters anyway.”
That makes zero sense.
If you can reconcile those two tweets, you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
Maybe she was just tired. Or drunk-tweeting.
In any case, after she slept on it and woke up to her initial tweet exploding, came the apology.
Ok, so I freaked out because we may have any impending war. Sometimes it’s okay to freak out on those in power. It’s our right. That is what so many Brave soldiers have fought for. That is democracy. I do not want any more American soldiers killed. That’s it. — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) January 3, 2020
Alright, let’s dissect that…
McGowan posted her tweet because she’s afraid of war with Iran. Fair enough. Many people are afraid of Iran. Why is that? Simple, it’s because Iran is the largest state-sponsor of terror, providing weapons and a safe haven for members of Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — all known terrorist organizations. They have been doing this since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Not only that, Iran has used their own militias to gin up problems in the Middle East and conduct a proxy war with the United States by both attacking American troops and cyberterrorism. They did that primarily through the Quds Force which was led by… Qasem Soleimani.
It all comes full-circle.
She’s afraid of pissing off Iran because she’s afraid of terrorism against Americans. Soleimani has been the leader of the Quds Force since 1998. He has been the mastermind of attacks on Americans for over 20 years. He’s been assisting terrorists in other countries for all of that time.
Now that he’s dead, sure the Iranians could get themselves another General, but it’s demoralizing that their beloved Soleimani was killed by the Americans. They’re crying over it.
No one wants a war with Iran, least of all Iran. They don’t have a chance against the military might of the United States.
But it doesn’t help when actresses with no clue spout off nonsense in defense of terrorist regimes. Maybe don’t do that.


clashdaily--2020-01-04--Inconvenient Truths About Guns and Gun Control

Politicians and journalists often portray fiction as fact .
It is easy to be opinionated , but hard to be informed .
This came to mind as I listened to Virginia Democrats tell us we ’ d be safer if we were disarmed .
What is the truth about gun-control laws ?
What politicians says a law will do might have nothing to do with what the law actually does .
Lives are at stake when gun-control laws fail .
Saying that the next gun-control law is necessary to stop violent crime admits that the 23 thousand firearms regulations already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as advertised .
It is a rare politician who admits how limited the government really is when it comes to public safety .
Fortunately , we ’ ve lived with firearms for several hundred years .
We know some things that work .
Here are a few inconvenient truths I ’ ve found after a few decades of study .
Inconvenient Truth : Most gun-related deaths are suicides , not murders .
Unfortunately , restrictions on firearms have not reduced the rate of suicide .
Fortunately , informed gun owners are reaching out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with mental illness .
Mental health treatment works .
We ’ re changing the gun culture for the better , no thanks to the politicians .
Trending : Nobel Chemist With More Integrity Than Obama And Gore Just Retracted Her Prize-Winning Paper Inconvenient Truth : Most murders with a firearm in the United States are committed by members of criminal gangs .
The police know who most of these murderers are .
Gun-control laws that restrict the actions of honest gun owners have not changed the actions of known criminals .
Most of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gang members who were shot by other gang members .
Unfortunately , some of the victims are also innocent bystanders or victims of crime .
Disarming the innocent victims doesn ’ t stop the criminals .
Inconvenient Truth : Background checks don ’ t reduce the rate of violent crime .
Criminals don ’ t buy their guns at gun shops or gun shows .
Criminals get their guns the same way they get their drugs ; they get them illegally from other criminals .
( By the way , there is no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outside a gun show also applies inside a gun show . )
Inconvenient Truth : Honest gun owners do not cause crime .
In fact , licensed concealed carry holders are both more law-abiding and more accurate with their guns than the police .
Civilians with a permit to carry a gun in public are the most law-abiding group that sociologists can find .
Inconvenient Truth : Civilian gun ownership is the most cost-effective way to reduce violent crime .
Inconvenient Truth : Owning a gun does not make you more likely to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It is true that people who live in high-crime areas are more likely to want a firearm for personal protection .
People tend to be more sensitive about personal safety when someone they know have been victims of violent crime .
Gun ownership is often a response to criminal violence rather than the cause of it .
Inconvenient Truth : Criminals don ’ t often take a person ’ s gun and hurt them with it .
There are more examples of victims disarming criminals than of criminals disarming victims .
Inconvenient Truth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a rape if the victim is armed .
The armed victim is such an uninviting target that the attacker usually runs away once he sees that the victim is armed .
Inconvenient Truth : Criminals don ’ t fight fair .
There are usually several criminals attacking a single victim .
We civilians are the first victims of crime .
Police are our backup and usually arrive after the fight is over .
Here is one last inconvenient truth : Politicians often exempt themselves from the laws they pass .
Some politicians own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ useful .
Some politicians have armed security .
They must think guns make them safer .
If politicians don ’ t live by the gun regulations they want for us , then the politicians don ’ t believe in gun-control .
I agree with what these gun-control politicians do even if I disagree with what they say , and that is the truth .
The world isn ’ t safe .
If you don ’ t believe me , then ask a policeman who deals with criminals every day .
The policeman wants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dangerous world .
Unfortunately , the average criminal will victimize over 20 civilians before the policeman catches him .
That is why you and I need a firearm too .
We have to protect ourself and our loved ones until the police arrive , and we only call the police after we ’ ve been attacked .
There is no doubt that self-defense is inconvenient , but I ’ d rather be inconvenienced now than be a helpless victim later .
To make matters worse , you don ’ t get to pick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ - ( I gave you 800 words .
Please share them with a friend .

Politicians and journalists often portray fiction as fact. It is easy to be opinionated, but hard to be informed. This came to mind as I listened to Virginia Democrats tell us we’d be safer if we were disarmed. What is the truth about gun-control laws? What politicians says a law will do might have nothing to do with what the law actually does. Lives are at stake when gun-control laws fail. Saying that the next gun-control law is necessary to stop violent crime admits that the 23 thousand firearms regulations already on the books didn’t work as advertised. It is a rare politician who admits how limited the government really is when it comes to public safety.
Fortunately, we’ve lived with firearms for several hundred years. We know some things that work. Here are a few inconvenient truths I’ve found after a few decades of study.
Inconvenient Truth: Most gun-related deaths are suicides, not murders. Unfortunately, restrictions on firearms have not reduced the rate of suicide. Fortunately, informed gun owners are reaching out to other gun owners who are dealing with mental illness. Mental health treatment works. We’re changing the gun culture for the better, no thanks to the politicians.
Inconvenient Truth: Most murders with a firearm in the United States are committed by members of criminal gangs. The police know who most of these murderers are. Gun-control laws that restrict the actions of honest gun owners have not changed the actions of known criminals. Most of the young people shot with guns are gang members who were shot by other gang members. Unfortunately, some of the victims are also innocent bystanders or victims of crime. Disarming the innocent victims doesn’t stop the criminals.
Inconvenient Truth: Background checks don’t reduce the rate of violent crime. Criminals don’t buy their guns at gun shops or gun shows. Criminals get their guns the same way they get their drugs; they get them illegally from other criminals. (By the way, there is no gun-show loophole. Every law that applies outside a gun show also applies inside a gun show.)
Inconvenient Truth: Honest gun owners do not cause crime. In fact, licensed concealed carry holders are both more law-abiding and more accurate with their guns than the police. Civilians with a permit to carry a gun in public are the most law-abiding group that sociologists can find.
Inconvenient Truth: Civilian gun ownership is the most cost-effective way to reduce violent crime.
Inconvenient Truth: Owning a gun does not make you more likely to be a victim of violent crime. It is true that people who live in high-crime areas are more likely to want a firearm for personal protection. People tend to be more sensitive about personal safety when someone they know have been victims of violent crime. Gun ownership is often a response to criminal violence rather than the cause of it.
Inconvenient Truth: Criminals don’t often take a person’s gun and hurt them with it. There are more examples of victims disarming criminals than of criminals disarming victims.
Inconvenient Truth: A sexual assault almost never becomes a rape if the victim is armed. The armed victim is such an uninviting target that the attacker usually runs away once he sees that the victim is armed.
Inconvenient Truth: Criminals don’t fight fair. There are usually several criminals attacking a single victim. We civilians are the first victims of crime. Police are our backup and usually arrive after the fight is over.
Here is one last inconvenient truth: Politicians often exempt themselves from the laws they pass. Some politicians own guns. They must think guns are useful. Some politicians have armed security. They must think guns make them safer. If politicians don’t live by the gun regulations they want for us, then the politicians don’t believe in gun-control.
I agree with what these gun-control politicians do even if I disagree with what they say, and that is the truth.
The world isn’t safe. If you don’t believe me, then ask a policeman who deals with criminals every day. The policeman wants a firearm because he lives in a dangerous world. Unfortunately, the average criminal will victimize over 20 civilians before the policeman catches him. That is why you and I need a firearm too. We have to protect ourself and our loved ones until the police arrive, and we only call the police after we’ve been attacked. There is no doubt that self-defense is inconvenient, but I’d rather be inconvenienced now than be a helpless victim later. To make matters worse, you don’t get to pick when you might be attacked. ;-(
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