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Because of rent regulation, New York’s rental housing stock is older, It didn’t take long for the mainstream media to come up with a preferred This story is 100% FAKE NEWS Donald Trump Checkmates Iran On Day 14 How Trump Is Defusing Iran’s Oil Bomb - Thanks to the U.S. president’s keen political acumen, the Islamic Republic has lost a key point of leverage. It’s time for the US to intervene in Cuba and save the island nation UK Councils Warn Schools: Children's Drawings Could Be Blasphemous Under Islamic Law Israel Preparing ‘Massive’ Ground Invasion of Lebanon to Wipe Out Hezbollah: ‘We Are Going to Do What We Did in Gaza’ Comments
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Had family members in Lebanon that were killed by an Israeli airstrike.....
Preventive medicine is to deport any and all that have family members in Lebanon. re Donald Trump Checkmates Iran On Day 14
This is an interesting read. If events play out as the author sees in his crystal ball, we could be winding this up sooner, rather than later. "UK Councils Warn Schools: Children's Drawings Could Be Blasphemous Under Islamic Law" Once cultures give in to Islam even by a small degree they will demand demand you follow their beliefs even if it isn't fair to the established culture of the country. Friends have family in France and their teenage relative cannot have meat in high school because if it isn't halal it isn't allowed to be served at all. Several years ago in Spain Christian children eating a ham sandwich might have it taken out of their hands and thrown away by Muslim kids at the table as it wasn't allowed in their their eyes. Don't give an inch to Islam.
A great quote on censorship from a great author, Robert A. Heinlein:
"Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." The Democrats get on TV and lie, straight face lie. Yes I understand that they believe their number one priority is to win elections and gain power but they are willing and eager to do that at whatever cost to Americans it takes. They lie, we know they lie, they know we know they lie and they don't care. There is literally something wrong with them, a psychosis, that allows them to do this without regret or shame. Gavin Newsom is one of the worst liars and his track record as governor is dismal at best. And he is likely to become the next president!! I sincerely fear for the future of America. We need the Democrat party to become what they were when JFK was president. Don't get me wrong they lied then too, they stole elections too but they at least believed in putting America and Americans first. They have fallen so far that they are literally a threat to our republic.
SNAP does not decide what you may consume so much as stipulating what they will pay for. If you want items that are not on the approved purchase list, use your own money, purchase what you want and be grateful that a benevolent government has taken from the mass and redistributed to the indigent.
In Massachusetts the socialist governor allowed them to purchase lap dances, liquor, tobacco and treated the EBT as though it were a credit card. At this point, IIRC, there may be separate cards for SNAP and the one for cash. I was stationed in Germany for four years in the 60's. We had a 2 YO boy at the time. My wife and child and I went to a castle near where we lived that was open to the public. There was a long uphill path to the main gate. As we were walking up I had my son's hand and of course he wanted to be carried. I insisted that he walk. He whined and reached for his mother who picked him up and carried him on her hip. as we continued up the slope an older German woman walking the other way mildly berated me for "forcing" mom to carry the child.
That is a two part lesson IMHO of why women should not be leaders of a country. Women do the most important job in the world; they birth, care for and raise our children, feed the family and take care of the home. They need compassion and love to do that job. A man's job in life is literally everything else... and one very important task. And that task is to make men out of boys. No one ever said we need to make men out of little girls, of course not we want them to be compassionate, loving and caring. We want boys to become men capable of protecting, leading, providing, building, and literally everything else. The problem with having women as leaders of a nation or an army is that they are incapable of being men and men are what is needed. There is no doubt in my mind that Ursula von der Leyen is intelligent and capable. But as leader of the EU she is failing. Angela Merkel is intelligent and capable but arguably destroyed or nearly destroyed Germany. The list of women leaders who's innate female traits have caused failure as leaders is long. Yes there are a few exceptions: Golda Meir, Margret Thatcher, come to mind. But in general women are simply not suited for the job. Yes I know how offensive that sounds. I did not understand the lesson on that spring day in Germany in th 60’s. In fact I was embarrassed and believed I was wrong at the time. I know now that I was naively the victim of feminism and not yet fully cognizant of how important the man's job is in raising children capable of taking on life's challenges. Looking at the links, you seem to have bought into all the neocon/christian zionist nonsense.
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