Demonstration of How Fireworks Fountian Doesn't work. (Video)

''Here hold my deer, I'll show how it's done and done right!" The 4th of July is coming and the idiots are as well. So watch out, they might live next door.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1145475328871030785

The democrats debate Santa Clause As A Strategy to Win The Nomination!

More and more free stuff is the cry from progressive socialist liberal democrats as they find they have no other issues they can use to debate President Trump. This shuold anger the democrat base voter that are being lied to as a strategy.

What it sound like to those that have to work for a living is 'death to America'. The common citizen is not fooled but listening and wondering just what the liberal socialist democrats have in mind.

It's a contest to see who can give away the most stuff. Having to advocate

issues to better the country is no where to be found.

Reparations Will Destroy The Black Community

Why are black leaders making the problem worse by

advocating free stuff?

Reparations are just another tool to be used to gain an advantage over the black community and the white ''ruling class'' that is seen as the problem stemming from hundreds of years ago, and even to this day the progressive democrats, as they have for decades, generations used class envy, color and financial status as tools to divide the country.

Forget Reparations. Money Won’t Solve Black Community’s Problems.

Walter E. Williams / @WE_Williams / June 26, 2019

Several Democratic presidential hopefuls are calling for Americans to make reparations for slavery.

On June 19, the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights, and civil liberties held a hearing. Its stated purpose was “to examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community and the path to restorative justice.”

Slavery was a gross violation of human rights. Justice demands that all participants in the trans-Atlantic slave trade make compensatory reparation payments to slaves. However, there is no way that Europeans could have captured millions of Africans.

That means compensation would have to be paid by Africans and Arabs who captured and sold slaves to Europeans in addition to the people who bought and used slaves.   Since slaves and slave traders and owners are no longer with us, compensation is beyond our reach and it’s a matter that will have to be settled in hell or heaven.

Let’s pretend for a moment that the reparations issue makes a modicum of sense. There’s the question of responsibility.  More explicitly, should we compensate a black person of today by punishing a white person of today, by taking his money, for what a white person of yesteryear did to a black person of yesteryear?

If we believe in individual accountability, we should find that doing so is unjust.  In other words, are the tens millions of Europeans, Asian, and Latin Americans who immigrated to the U.S. in the late 19th and 20th centuries responsible for slavery, and should they be forced to cough up reparations?

What about descendants of Northern whites who fought and died in the name of freeing slaves? Should they pay reparations to black Americans?

What about non-slave-owning Southern whites—who were a majority of Southern whites—should their descendants be made to pay reparations?

Reparations advocates make the unchallenged pronouncement that the United States became rich on the backs of free black labor. That’s utter nonsense. While some slave owners became rich, slavery doesn’t have a good record of producing wealth.

Slavery existed in the Southern states and outlawed in most of the Northern states. Buying into the reparations argument suggests that the antebellum South was rich and the slave-starved North was poor. The truth is just the opposite.

In fact, the poorest states and regions of our country were places where slavery flourished: Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. And the richest states and regions were those where slavery was absent: Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts.

The reparations movement would be an amusing sideshow were it not for its damaging distractions. It grossly misallocates resources that could be better spent elsewhere.

According to the state Department of Education, 75% of black California boys cannot meet state reading standards. In 2016, in 13 of Baltimore’s 39 high schools, not a single student scored proficient on the state’s mathematics exam. In six other high schools, only 1% tested proficient in math.

The same story of low education outcomes can be told about most cities with large black populations.

I’d like to see lawyers bring class-action suits against public school systems in cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Detroit, and Los Angeles for conferring fraudulent high school diplomas. Such diplomas attest a 12th-grade level of academic achievement when in fact those youngsters often cannot perform at sixth- or seventh-grade levels.

The nation’s most dangerous big cities are Detroit, Oakland, St. Louis, Memphis, Stockton, Birmingham, Baltimore, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, and Milwaukee.

The common characteristic of most of these cities is that they have predominantly black populations and blacks have considerable political power as mayors, city councilmen, and chiefs of police. Energy spent on reparations should be used to solve those problems.

As of 2014, U.S. taxpayers have spent $22 trillion on Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty (in constant 2012 dollars). Adjusting for inflation, that’s three times more than was spent on all military wars since the American Revolution.

If money alone were the answer, the many issues facing a large segment of the black community would have been solved.

There’s another possible reparations issue completely ignored: Blacks as well as whites live on land taken, sometimes brutally, from American Indians. Do blacks and whites owe American Indians anything?

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A Drone Flims an Centuries Old Santurio Madonna della Cornoa In Italy : Very Nice Indeed!

A cool look at the centuries-old Santurio Madonna della Corona in Italy as filmed by a drone.

https://newsletter.biggeekdad.com/t/i-l-pjtldly-yudtjrtdyh-r/

Who Pays For Free Stuff? : Someone Has To Pay! Taxpayers!

Progressive liberal democrats say vote for us and we will

guarantee the good life where everything is free.

The willingness to ignore the reasoning of ''There is no free lunch'' is becoming the rule of the day given the 'give-away'' programs advocated by the porgressive socialists democrat candidates now running to lead the country.

The standard saying that explains socialism to a tee was first brought to us by Margaret Thatcher, ''The problem with socialism is you run out of other peoples money'' is of no concern to liberal democrats that believe they can make a system of 'free stuff' work where all others have failed

The question that remains here in America though is where exactly will they, the progressive socialists led and will the results be as bad or worse then we see happening in Europe?

Europeans Work 2 Months Longer Than Americans Do to Pay Their Tax Bill

Adam Michel / @adamnmichel / Travis Nix / June 24, 2019

On June 22, German workers celebrated their Tax Freedom Day—the day when taxpayers have finally earned enough money to pay the country’s tax bill. Germany’s Tax Freedom Day falls more than two months after taxpayers in the United States celebrated our freedom on April 16.



Germany is not alone in Europe when it comes to high taxes. European workers have to work on average more than two months longer than Americans to pay the taxman. In France, they have to work for more than half the year, twice as long as Americans.

The United Kingdom has one of the lower tax burdens in the European Union, but its Tax Freedom Day still comes 43 days after America’s. Even Canadian workers have to work 60 days more than their American neighbors to pay off the nation’s taxes.

The reason these countries have such high tax burdens comes down to one policy choice: expansive government welfare systems.

A large welfare state is increasingly popular among American voters. Presidential candidates on the left almost universally have endorsed some version of “Medicare for All,” free college, a Green New Deal, paid family leave, and other expensive government programs.

We are told not to worry about the cost. The rich will pay for all the new spending. But popular proposals, such as a financial transactions tax, a 70% top tax rate, or a wealth tax would raise only about 6% of their proposed spending.

In Europe, it’s not the rich who pay for these programs. Lower- and middle-income workers pay for the expensive European welfare state through high taxes on wages and consumption.

Workers in Europe making two-thirds their country’s average wage—the equivalent of $37,000 a year—pay a 50% marginal tax on every additional dollar they earn.

If a below-average wage earner gets a raise, the government takes half of every additional dollar. That same worker also has to pay a 20% value-added tax—EU-style sales tax—when they spend whatever income they are allowed to keep.

A $37,000 salary is not wealthy based on American or European standards. In the U.S., that same taxpayer is charged a 32% marginal wage tax and pays only a 6% sales tax on average.

In France, lower- and middle-income workers face some of the highest tax burdens. Marginal tax rates on below-average income earners are 70% in France and they have to work a full three and a half months longer than workers in the U.S. to reach Tax Freedom Day.

High tax burdens have negative effects on the well-being of the country’s citizens. And the programs they fund are less effective at meeting their goals than the private-sector alternatives.

The reason is simple. Private providers have to compete for business by producing value for consumers. Government monopolies can perform poorly and stay in business as taxpayers aren’t given the choice to take their money elsewhere.

High taxes and generous government-provided benefits reduce the value people gain from working harder to get a promotion or pay raise because they know the government will take half their new income.

When you don’t benefit from the fruits of your own labor, there is less incentive to start your own business or be an entrepreneur. High taxes facilitate a culture of complacency. Americans should be thankful they do not have to work as long as their European counterparts to pay the nation’s tax burden.

When candidates talk about increasing spending, U.S. taxpayers should understand that big government is expensive and must be paid for by all taxpayers, not just the rich. The 2017 tax cuts put more money back in the pockets of American workers, expanding the advantage Americans have over similar European workers.

These savings are only temporary if Washington’s spending growth continues on the current destructive course. Growing annual deficits without spending controls mean Congress eventually will raise taxes.

The Heritage Foundation’s 2020 “Blueprint for Balance” adopts spending controls and entitlement reforms to balance the budget in 10 years and make the 2017 tax cuts permanent.

Following this roadmap would prevent European-style tax burdens on Americans in the years to come, securing opportunity and prosperity for this generation and the next.

How Many Americans Are There? : The Census Doesn't Care!

It really is about common sense but then being a progressive socialsit liberal democrat has nothing to do with common sense. They know what common sense is but they also know it won't work to advance their agenda and ideology. Kind of a ''catch 22'' situation.

What went on during the liberal democrat debates leaves little to wonder just what they intend for those of us down here in the trenchs. What we have worked for all of our lives, the democrat want to give it away for just votes.

And that there are judges that are knowingly and willingly ready to subvert the law of common sense to support their agenda is very disturbing and frightening, and yet with more then 75% of all federal judges advocating progressive socialism as an ideology, this action on the census is not a surprise.

To bring our country back to some sort of common sense standing, never vote democrat again. It truly is about stopping he chaos, conflict and criminal subversion of our civil society just to gain an advantage for control.

The Sandpiper : The Little Things Do Matter!

Life is short and is as complicated as we want to make it. Being positive is a choice. 

This little story begs the question, are the things so important in one life, deciding to enjoy a minute of someone else's life that isn't complicated but pure, just to difficult.

'Enjoy your friends' - 'Walk to the edge' - 'Choose with no regret'

The Sandpiper   by Robert Peterson

She was six years old when I first met her on the beach near where I live.

I drive to this beach, a distance of three or four miles, whenever the world begins to close in on me. She was building a sand castle or something and looked up, her eyes as blue as the sea.

"Hello," she said.. I answered with a nod, not really in the mood to bother with a small child.

"I'm building," she said. "I see that. What is it?" I asked, not really caring. "Oh, I don't know, I just like the feel of sand." That sounds good, I thought, and slipped off my shoes.

A sandpiper glided by.

"That's a joy," the child said. "It's a what'' I asked? "It's a joy. My mama says sandpipers come to bring us joy.''

The bird went gliding down the beach. Good-bye joy, I muttered to myself, hello pain, and turned to walk on. I was depressed, my life seemed completely out of balance.

"What's your name?" She wouldn't give up. "Robert," I answered. "I'm Robert Peterson."

"Mine's Wendy... I'm six." "Hi, Wendy," I said

She giggled. "You're funny," she said. In spite of my gloom, I laughed too and walked on.

Her musical giggle followed me. "Come again, Mr. P," she called.. "We'll have another happy day."

The next few days consisted of a group of unruly Boy Scouts, PTA meetings, and an ailing mother. The sun was shining one morning as I took my hands outof the dishwater. I need a sandpiper I said to myself, gathering up my coat.

The ever-changing balm of the seashore awaited me. The breeze was
chilly but I strode along, trying to recapture the serenity I needed.

"Hello, Mr. P," she said. "Do you want to play?"

"What did you have in mind?" I asked, with a twinge of annoyance. "I don't know. You say."

"How about charades?" I asked sarcastically. The tinkling laughter burst forth again. "I don't know what that is."

"Then let's just walk."

Looking at her, I noticed the delicate fairness of her face.
"Where do you live?" I asked. "Over there." She pointed toward a row of summer cottages.

Strange, I thought, in winter. "Where do you go to school?"

"I don't go to school. Mommy says we're on vacation"

She chattered little girl talk as we strolled up the beach, but my mind was on other things. When I left for home, Wendy said it had been a happy day. Feeling surprisingly better, I smiled at her and agreed.

Three weeks later, I rushed to my beach in a state of near panic. I was in no mood to even greet Wendy. I thought I saw her mother on the porch and felt like demanding she keep her child at home.

"Look, if you don't mind," I said crossly when Wendy caught up with me, "I'd
rather be alone today." She seemed unusually pale and out of breath.

"Why?" she asked. I turned to her and shouted, "Because my mother died!" and thought,
My God, why was I saying this to a little child?

"Oh," she said quietly, "then this is a bad day."

"Yes," I said, "and yesterday and the day before and -- oh, go away!"

"Did it hurt?" she inquired. "Did what hurt?" I was exasperated with her, with myself.

"When she died?"

"Of course it hurt!" I snapped, misunderstanding, wrapped up in myself. I strode off.

A month or so after that, when I next went to the beach, she wasn't there. Feeling guilty, ashamed, and admitting to myself I missed her, I went up to the cottage after my walk and knocked at the door. A drawn looking young woman with honey-colored hair opened the door.

"Hello," I said, "I'm Robert Peterson. I missed your little girl today and wondered where she was."

"Oh yes, Mr. Peterson, please come in. Wendy spoke of you so much. I'm afraid I allowed her to bother you. If she was a nuisance, please, accept my apologies."

"Not at all --! she's a delightful child." I said, suddenly realizing that I meant what I had just said.

"Wendy died last week, Mr. Peterson. She had leukemia. Maybe she didn't tell you."

Struck dumb, I groped for a chair. I had to catch my breath.

"She loved this beach, so when she asked to come, we couldn't say no. She seemed so much better here and had a lot of what she called happy days. But the last few weeks, she declined rapidly..." Her voice faltered, "She left something for you, if only I can find it. Could you wait a moment while I look?"

I nodded stupidly, my mind racing for something to say to this lovely young woman. She handed me a smeared envelope with "MR. P" printed in bold childish letters. Inside was a drawing in bright crayon hues -- a yellow beach, a blue sea, and a brown bird.. Underneath was carefully printed:

A SANDPIPER TO BRING YOU JOY.

Tears welled up in my eyes, and a heart that had almost forgotten to love opened wide. I took Wendy's mother in my arms. "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry," I uttered over and over, and we wept together. The precious little picture is framed now and hangs in my study. Six words -- one for each year of her life -- that speak to me of harmony, courage, and undemanding love.

A gift from a child with sea blue eyes and hair the color of sand -- who taught me the gift of love.

NOTE: This is a true story sent out by Robert Peterson. It happened over 20 years ago and the incident changed his life forever. It serves as a reminder to all of us that we need to take time to enjoy living and life and each other. The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Life is so complicated, the hustle and bustle of everyday traumas can make us lose focus about what is truly important or what is only a momentary setback or crisis.

This week, be sure to give your loved ones an extra hug, and by all means, take a moment... even if it is only ten seconds, to stop and smell the roses.

This comes from someone's heart, and is read by many and now I share it with you.

May God Bless everyone who receives this! There are NO coincidences! Everything that happens to us happens for a reason. Never brush aside anyone as insignificant. Who knows what they can teach us?


I wish for you, a sandpiper.

Christian School Views On Sexuality Is Illegal : Christians Have No Rights?

One has to wonder if the school wanted to install new transgender polices if the state of Maryland would object?

Or how about allowing Muslim students to have a pray meeting in the mourning and one in the afternoon, would the state object?

Better yet, that this private school that accepts voucher money demands a Christian prayer in the morning before class and one before going home? How would the school board and state respond?

Something very wrong going on here!

Christian School Kicked Out of Voucher Program for Biblical Views on Sexuality

Tony Perkins / @tperkins / June 27, 2019

Don’t say America wasn’t warned. During the oral arguments for same-sex marriage in 2015, a question came up about the fallout for Christian education.

Asked if religious schools could be punished for holding a natural view of marriage, U.S. Solicitor Donald Verrilli was surprisingly honest. ” … [I]t’s certainly going to be an issue. I don’t deny that, Justice Alito. It is going to be an issue.”

Four years later, that prophecy is coming to pass. Out in Maryland, a Christian school was told by state officials that it can’t participate in the voucher program anymore because of its biblical beliefs on marriage and sexuality.

The leadership of Bethel Christian Academy was stunned. After all, it relied on that money to serve the school’s 280 low-income kids. For two years, those vouchers were what made their option to public school possible.

Now, intolerant bureaucrats are telling Bethel that not only is it barred from the program, but it has to pay back the $100,000 it received—which, to a small academy like this one, is a financial death sentence.

“Bethel Christian Academy offers an academically rigorous and caring Christian education in a diverse environment,” said the school’s attorney from Alliance Defending Freedom.

Nothing about its programs should be controversial. And until last year, nothing was. That’s when the Maryland Department of Education disqualified the academy after looking through the school’s handbooks.

In them, officials found statements of Bethel’s biblical beliefs on marriage and sexuality. And according to state officials, that’s discrimination.

But if there’s any discrimination, it’s not from Bethel Academy. As ADF’s Christiana Holcomb explained, the school has never turned anyone away based on their sexuality. All it does is ask that students maintain a biblical standard of intimacy, as the Bible teaches.

“Maryland let its hostility toward Bethel’s religious views, not the law, decide the school’s eligibility,” said legal counsel. “Maryland’s families deserve better.”

And hopefully, with this lawsuit against the state, they’ll get it. Until then, every private school is on notice: When it comes to state programs, Christians need not apply.

Originally published in Tony Perkins’ Washington Update, which is written with the aid of Family Research Council senior writers.

This article has been corrected to reflect that Bethel Christian Academy is a private school.

Arlington Va. School Board On Transgenders : We Decide, You Obey!

The question - why do so many among us believe it is necessary to educate children with an ideology that is held by .003% of the population but denied to children about an ideology held by more 80% of the population???

This is insane! To comprehend the absolute tyranny of this school board in their actions concerning gay and transgender, is astounding in the least and totally criminal at the worst!

To demand the 99.9% of the students comply with the 1%, even to the point that their safety is compromised, is not in any within Constitutional guarantees for the 1st Amendment. 

Parents Call Out School Board’s Transgender Policy Proposal

Kaylee Greenlee / June 27, 2019

ARLINGTON, Va.—A group of concerned parents held a press conference just ahead of a scheduled Arlington County School Board meeting Tuesday evening about the adoption of a policy concerning transgender student protections in the school district.

“[Arlington Public Schools] has far overreached its authority in this matter, and needs to be reminded by concerned parents and community members that political and cultural pressures should never outweigh the school’s responsibility to make safe and healthy educational policy,” said Maria Keffler, spokeswoman for the Arlington Parent Coalition.

The press conference’s purpose was to publicly air that parents of children in Arlington Public Schools have felt unable to voice their concerns for child safety regarding the proposed policy implementation procedure, or PIP.

The coalition’s website says it promotes the district’s policies, “which respect parents’ constitutional right to maintain responsibility and authority over their children and their children’s education, and to raise children according to the family’s values.”

“[The proposed policy] is an accommodation procedure, wherein transgender students are given preferences and privileges that deny other students their rights, such as Title IX protections for girls, and privacy rights for both boys and girls,” added Keffler.

Keffler said the school district has been working on the policy “exclusively” with Arlington Gender Identity Allies, a group made up of “parents [and] community members working to make Arlington Public Schools a welcoming place for transgender, nonbinary, [and] gender expansive youth/staff.”

She also complained that specific information on the policy proposal could only be received through Freedom of Information Act requests.

The policy being considered outlines a number of new rules for the treatment of transgender students.

Under the policy, the definitions for “gender identity” and “transgender” that are deemed acceptable by the school board are clearly spelled out.

Access would be granted to bathrooms and locker rooms that “correspond to a student’s gender identity,” and students would have the ability to participate in any “‘co-curricular or extra-curricular activity consistent with their gender identity,’ as regulated by the Virginia High School League.”

Overnight school events would allow students to sleep in a quarters consistent with the student’s gender identity.

Students would be allowed to use names and gender pronouns of their choosing that match their gender identity, with school staff making updates as needed to classroom records.

It is also stated that disclosing a student’s “transgender status, legal name, or gender assigned at birth” may be a violation of privacy laws.

If the policy is adopted, teachers would have to undergo periodic training to to keep up with transgender issues.

The policy proposal came after what Superintendent Patrick Murphy said is needed to ensure compliance with the school board policy known as J-2 Student Equal Educational Opportunities/Nondiscrimination.

“It is the responsibility of each Arlington Public Schools staff member to ensure all students, including transgender students, have safe, supportive, and inclusive school environments,” reads the policy document, which would serve as a supplement to the existing J-2 policy.

After the press conference, 39 community members showed up to voice their thoughts on the proposed policy at the public school board meeting.

Of those, 21 were parents of students in support of implementation and five were against it. Four Arlington Public Schools teachers and five current students also showed their support of the policy.

One student told the story of a friend, a 9-year-old fourth-grader who goes by “Griffin.” Griffin, who identifies as a transgender girl, wrote to the school board: “Thank you for supporting me and others. I will feel safe and more comfortable at school next year.”

The Daily Signal spoke with Sarah Priestman, an Arlington Public Schools teacher, about the policy at the school board meeting.

“I’m here because I support all the work these parents have done, and my own son is transgender and so years ago we did some work to create a more opening and supportive environment in the schools,” she said.

Now he’s in college so I’ve been sort of observing the work the parents are doing whose kids are in [Arlington Public Schools] now, and it’s amazing work and I want to support what they’re doing.

The most common complaint of parents at the meeting who oppose the policy echoed those from the Arlington Parent Coalition.

“The whole community should have been a part of it from the start,” one parent said to the school board. “The questionnaire didn’t even ask if people were residents of Arlington, yet that was the way for us to have an input.”

Another parent, who works as a psychiatrist, told the school board that “research on this topic (transgenderism in young children) isn’t clear yet.”

He wanted the school board to consider a “broader survey of research,” and wanted to “pause” action taken on the policy implementation program until those things could be completed.

Another parent expressed concern for students like her daughter who struggle with a mental disability. She also said she was frustrated with the school board’s lack of transparency concerning the policy, saying that “everything had to be requested by FOIA.”

During the school board meeting, Murphy, the superintendent, said a few major concerns surfaced in his morning meeting with citizens.

“We need additional time to come to a consensus, additional engagement for greater understanding, and that we need to establish consistency with guidelines for the upcoming year,” Murphy said.

However, when asked by school board member Barbara Kanninen if there would be any delay in implementing the policy implementation procedure, Murphy replied, “No, we will continue to move forward and place this by the start of the school year.”

The school board first considered the transgender youth policy last September. It sought suggestions from the Arlington Gender Identity Allies, and the school board “staff team” produced a draft of the policy in March.

A community questionnaire was released in June for Arlington residents to voice their opinions; however, the results of the questionnaire were not released by the school board.

The policy proposal will go through a two-week “office process” before any further development action is announced. The next scheduled meeting will be Monday, June 24, at 2 p.m. to host the School Board Policy Subcommittee on general policies.

It is not specified whether this meeting is open to the public.

Truly, "The One We Have Been Waiting For" : Donald Trump!

Finally she has found someone she can trust! After all it is always about trust to find security and propserity. Truly now we can say Donald Trump is "The One We Have Been Waiting For". 

Stephanie Grisham : New Press Secertary

Only time will tell what this new Press Secretary will do with the media and it's ''mad dog'' approach to destory the Trump administration.

Stephanie Grisham to Replace Sarah Sanders as White House Press Secretary

Fred Lucas / @FredLucasWH / June 25, 2019

First lady Melania Trump’s spokeswoman is set to become the new White House press secretary and communications director.

Stephanie Grisham will continue her role as spokeswoman for the first lady, while filling the two vacancies for President Donald Trump. The announcement was made Tuesday. Grisham’s previous title was assistant to the president and chief of staff for communications for the Office of the First Lady.

In a White House known for high turnover, Grisham will be the third press secretary, replacing Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whose last day will be June 30, and the fifth communications director, replacing Bill Shine, who left the post in March.

In a somewhat unusual move, the first lady—rather than the president—made the announcement in a tweet. The tweet highlighted Grisham’s role with both the president and first lady.

Melania Trump
✔ @FLOTUS

“I am pleased to announce @StephGrisham45 will be the next @PressSec & Comms Director!” first lady Melania Trump said in a tweet. “She has been with us since 2015 – @potus; I can think of no better person to serve the Administration and our country. Excited to have Stephanie working for both sides of the @WhiteHouse.”

Speaking to pool reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon, the president declared Grisham would be “fantastic” in the position.

“A lot of people wanted this job. A lot of people wanted to do it. I asked so many people, ‘Who do you like?’ and so many people said, ‘Stephanie.’ She’s here. She knows everybody. She actually gets along with the media very well,” Trump said.

“A lot of folks in the media like her very much. I think she’s going to be fantastic. So, I offered her the job this morning, and she accepted. The first lady is very happy for her. It’s a big job. It’s a very big job, but we think she’s going to do a good job.”

Grisham was part of the Trump campaign in 2015 and has been in the White House longer than anyone else on the White House staff except for social media director Dan Scavino. Holding multiple communications roles in the White House is unusual.

George Stephanopoulos was the communications director for President Bill Clinton in 1993, while also serving as a de facto press secretary conducting press briefings. However, the dual role lasted just five months.

It’s unknown at this point whether Grisham will bring back regular press briefings, which were mostly eliminated under Sanders.

Grisham previously served in Republican campaigns in Arizona, including as a spokeswoman for the unsuccessful 2012 presidential campaign of Republican nominee Mitt Romney, now a senator from Utah and a GOP critic of Trump.

After the Romney campaign, she ran a public relations firm in Arizona before joining the Trump campaign.

After Trump was elected, Grisham briefly was a deputy press secretary under the administration’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer, then moved to the first lady’s office in February.

Iranian Leadership Buying Time : Centrifuges Continue to Turn. They Never Stopped!

Iran will get a nuclear weapon and then use the threat 

to dominate the entire region. They cannot be stopped.

Exactly what purpose did Iran have in mind when they attacked the United States? 

What agenda are they running that makes sense to foster peace like they say? They want some negotiated process to end the conflict with the United States over Iran's head long race to get a nuclear weapon?

The reality is the ideology of the Iranians is chaos and conflict as a deflection, buying time to complete their task to build a nuclear weapon and then become a world power the rest of the world must recon with.

Iran Says White House Is ‘Mentally Retarded’ After Learning of New Sanctions

Daily Caller/ June 25, 2019

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said that the White House is “mentally retarded” Tuesday after new sanctions were imposed on the country.

“Hard-hitting sanctions” were placed on Iran by President Donald Trump Monday as tensions between the two countries increased.

The sanctions were specifically placed on the supreme leader of Iran and the Office of the Supreme Leader, among others. They are intended to deny government officials “key” financial assets that are under U.S. jurisdiction.

“The White House is afflicted by mental retardation and does not know what to do,” Rouhani said on television Tuesday, according to The Hill.  Rouhani also said that the sanctions were “outrageous and idiotic,” and that the decision by the Trump administration showed Trump was not looking to talk to Iran.

“You [Trump] immediately proved you were lying,” Rouhani said Tuesday, according to BBC. “You are not sincere; you are not looking to negotiate. You could have waited for a little while so that the world could believe that you were sincere.”

Iran’s “strategic patience” does not mean they are afraid of the U.S., Rouhani added. He also said that the Trump administration is “destroying” what the world uses as “mechanisms for maintaining world peace and security,” Aljazeera reported.

“Today, the Americans have become desperate and confused,” Rouhani said, according to The New York Times. “This has made them take unusual measures and talk nonsense.”

Iran shot down an unmanned U.S. Navy drone last week and allegedly attacked two oil tankers June 13 in the Gulf of Oman. The Trump administration planned to launch a military attack against Iran following the incidents, but Trump stopped the attack “10 minutes” before it started at the end of last week.

The imposed sanctions signal the “permanent closure of the path of diplomacy,” said Abbas Mousavi, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, according to BBC.

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Government Bureaucracys : FEMA Is Dysfunctional And Broken!

Government bureaucracy's are dysfunctional.

The question that still remains, as always, what agency in the federal government is operating efferently and legitimately to being positive results to civil society?

The answer of course has to none! How can an organization of more then 2 million without accountability or oversight be operated with any can of proficiency?

What is the answer to bring some accountability?  One thing to start with is the government is too big and must be trimmed of the fat that has been accumulated over the generation of federal workers and worthless and wasteful  programs at all levels.

And if you need more evidence of how just how bad our government is out of control, Social Securtiy, Medicare and Medicaid, the EPA, the FBI and DOJ, the CIA are good examples of being too big to fail? 

Now think back to the run-up to the OgbjmmaCare 'roll-out' and the catastrophic waste it brought just trying to it up and running, and now we know how it has totaled failed miserably to deliver health care.

But hey, pay no attention to those behind the curtain operating the levers of power. We know what's best for you. 'Trust us, we are here to help'.

But now what might be coming if the progressive socialsit liberal democrats win the White House is even worse by a magnitude of a 100 is 'Single Payer' health care. A ''mandated'' government agency running heath care for 330 million people! Just imagine the size of the government bureaucracy it will take to do this and the results. No? What about the Veterans Administration? Single payer would be 1000 times larger?

Retraction of 13 ‘Glowing’ Disaster Reports Throws Light on Dysfunction of Bureaucracy

Jarrett Stepman / @JarrettStepman / June 24, 2019

Another bureaucratic fiasco simply reinforces why the nine most terrifying words in the English language are still: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

The number of declared national emergencies—and how much we spend on them—is rising, yet one of the agencies tasked with handling national emergencies has been particularly opaque about its effectiveness.

A recent news report about the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, highlights how dysfunction within an administrative agency can get papered over for years without any kind of accountability.

According to The Washington Post, an internal investigation of a Department of Homeland Security watchdog found that the agency “whitewashed” a series of internal reports about FEMA’s disaster response. FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

The disclosure led to the resignation of John V. Kelly, a career government auditor and the department’s acting inspector general, who had ordered the reports. The Post reported that Kelly “chose to flatter FEMA’s staff in some reports, instead of hold them accountable.”

As bad as that is, it gets worse.

“Investigators determined that Kelly didn’t just direct his staff to remove negative findings,” according to the Post. “He potentially compromised their objectivity by praising FEMA’s work ethic to the auditors, telling them they would see ‘FEMA at her best’ and instructing supervisors to emphasize what the agency had done right in its disaster response.”

This led to the extraordinary action in which the inspector general’s office retraced 13 FEMA reports.

Jennifer Costello, the deputy inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, was undoubtedly correct when she wrote that the inspector general’s retraction of the FEMA reports was “not an insignificant matter” and that the reports “represent millions of wasted taxpayer dollars and understandably cast doubt on our credibility.”

So, basically, the glowing FEMA reports left the American people with no idea how to assess the work of our federal disaster response agency, which has a budget of $18 billion as of 2018.

Accountability developed only in 2016 when, according to the Post, House Republicans began to ask questions about a response to flooding in Louisiana that had received a glowing inspector general report based on an internal audit.

Something clearly was wrong with the FEMA reports, Mike Howell, senior adviser on executive branch relations at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal in an email. Howell previously was oversight counsel in the Department of Homeland Security and senior counsel at the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

“A few years ago when I was on House Oversight, we were reviewing the federal response to major flooding in Baton Rouge, [and] we found tons of issues, tons of wasted money, fraud, etc.,” Howell said, adding:

''The inspector general then issued a report that said FEMA did a great job. We flipped out and confronted them with the obvious evidence of FEMA not doing a great job. The result was they retracted the report and then began a look back at the series of after action reports the office of inspector general was issuing post disaster. Turns out nearly every one gave FEMA shining stars.''

Americans generally expect the federal government to play an active role in responding to natural disasters and crisis. The resources drawn from taxpayers are vast, but they aren’t infinite and shouldn’t be treated as such.

As the nation’s debt piles up, we need to be more cautious before we throw our hard-earned money into the salad bowl of endless acronyms that defines the modern federal government. Even causes that have broad support can become wasteful calamities.

It’s clear that handing enormous power solely to unchecked bureaucratic agencies opens the path for both monumental waste and outright abuse of power.

This is not the constitutional system of checks and balances that the Founding Fathers had in mind.

The FEMA report disaster is just the latest evidence that demonstrates the need for Congress to more actively take back the power it has surrendered to the “fourth branch” of government—our vast and growing federal bureaucracy.