​Floridians often joke about Publix being our one shared pride as a State. Whether Republican or Democrat; North Floridians or South; white, black, Latino, or otherwise, it seems the one thing that the vast majority of residents can completely agree upon is that we love a good Publix supermarket. Shopping there is, as we all know, an absolute pleasure. 
 
We know this, and yet we didn't expect that a special panel assembled by the state government would recommend replacing a statue of a Confederate General with one of Publix and its founder George Jenkins.  
 
That's right, Florida could send a statue of Jenkins to sit in the Capital Building in Washington, D.C. 
 
The National Statuary Hall houses two statues from each state, honoring their most historic and important citizens in the halls of the U.S. Capitol building. One of Florida's current statues is of the Confederate Army's Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith. 
 
This week an ad hoc committee of the state's Great Floridians Program met to select the three finalists who should replace him.
 
Here are your contestants: 

• *      environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas
• *      Civil Rights icon Mary McLeod Bethune
• *      George Jenkins, the Publix guy. 

 
The panel selected the finalists from 259 names submitted by Floridians. That said, 153 of the 259 votes were for Tim Tebow. Also beating the three "finalists" in the vote count were two of the States more famous icons: Flipper the dolphin and Mickey Mouse.
 
The voters of Florida be damned, Douglas and Bethune have dominated the conversation since the beginning of the movement to replace Smith. Their finalist status is no surprise. Jenkins is really the only shocker on the shortlist. 
 
By the way, the other Florida person honored in the Statuary Hall is John Gorrie, a doctor who invented an early form of air conditioning. So, yes, there's a chance Florida could end up paying homage to A/C and everyone's favorite supermarket deli in the U.S. Capitol. Talk about Publix and chill. 
 
The state Legislature will have the final say, and the vote will, in all likelihood, come down to Douglas and Bethune. Either would become just the tenth woman honored in the hall.
 
Marco Rubio, a University of Florida alumni who by the way led the Tebow statuary campaign, will Run for Senate. Maybe that will go better than his failed presidential and Tebow for statuary campaigns. 



CONGRESS REMOVES CONFEDERATE FLAG BAN
 
A measure to bar confederate flags from cemeteries run by the Department of Veterans Affairs was removed from legislation passed by the House early Thursday.
 
The flag ban was added to the VA funding bill in May by a vote of 265-159, with most Republicans voting against the ban. But Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) both supported the measure. Ryan was commended for allowing a vote on the controversial measure, but has since limited what amendments can be offered on the floor.
 
In negotiations to reconcile the House funding measure with the Senate bill, the confederate flag provision was dropped. The bill passed the House 239-171.
 
Of the eight House Republicans Ryan appointed to the conference committee that ultimately stripped the measure, four had voted against the ban on the floor.
 
A GOP aide declined to comment on the internal deliberations that led to the removal of the ban.


Senator Criticized For Attacking "Confederate Flag Funeral"
 
South Carolina Senator Margie Bright Matthews is facing criticism for slamming a Colleton county funeral procession that prominently displayed several Confederate flags.
 
"Shame, shame, shame!!" Matthews wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post containing video of the procession - which passed by her home.
 
The funeral procession was for 28-year-old Marshall Catterton, who died last weekend when a car struck him as he attempted to move a dead deer from a local roadway.
 
"Be a good citizen, get killed - then get mocked by your own Senator," said James Bessenger.
 
Matthews claimed her post was justified - "Given all of the horrible events that have happened recently and their connection (or not) to this flag, it evokes ... distress in others," she wrote on social media.  "My grandson was in the house and was upset that someone was going to hurt him."
 
Bessenger said Matthews was making excuses for her action and that she was looking for a reason to attack the flag. "She was just chomping at the bit to be able to say something about a Confederate flag," Bessenger said.  "She saw an opportunity to look like a righteous social warrior and ended up putting her ugly liberal foot in her mouth.  How can someone claim to represent her district when she mocks the deaths of her own constituents?"
 
Hard to argue that point ...
 
Bessenger has launched an online petition demanding Matthews' resignation.  The petition calls out Matthews for her "poor understanding of history" and for harboring a "desire to stir racial division" in South Carolina.


Caledonia County Fair (VERMONT) Prohibits Sale of Confederate Flags
 
Are they "Feelin' the Burn?"


STATUE MOVEMENT IS FINALIZED

Jefferson Circuit Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman's written ruling on June 20th affirmed a May 25 verbal decision to deny an injunction sought by plaintiffs, including the Sons of Confederate Veterans, who had earlier won a temporary restraining order halting removal work. It also granted Fischer's motion to dismiss the case - allowing the city, which had pledged to do no removal work until the ruling, to press ahead.
 
He said the public art commission will hold a meeting within a month to consider possible relocation sites, and no removal work will occur until a site is determined. Some sites suggested by the public in recent weeks have included Perryville Battlefield State Park and the Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery.
 
Jefferson County Attorney Mike O'Connell called the plaintiffs' case "a sham" that was totally devoid of any real evidence.
 
Fred Wilhite, an officer of the Kentucky Division Sons of Confederate Veterans who was a plaintiff, said he didn't know whether the ruling would be appealed.
 
Recently, attorneys for the plaintiffs sought to be relieved from representing them claiming that their client was "racist." 

​What The Confederate Stranger and A Small Town in Maine Can Teach Us
 
In 1862, a man named Lt. Charles H. Colley of Gray, ME was killed during the Battle of Cedar Mountain. When his grieving family opened up the casket that was supposed to contain their son, they were stunned to discover that a fully uniformed Confederate soldier had been shipped to them instead. Having no way to identify the soldier, and also lacking the means to ship him back to Virginia, Lt. Colley's family decided to bury him in Gray Village Cemetery alongside the Union soldiers who had been killed in the war. They figured that this unknown Confederate's family would appreciate the gesture, even though they'd never find out about it. 

The Ladies of Gray, a group of mothers whose sons were either missing, injured, or killed in the war, paid to put up a headstone for this unknown Confederate.
The headstone's inscription is simple and gut-wrenching: "Stranger. A soldier of the late war. Erected by the Ladies of Gray."

For the first 90-something years after Stranger's most unexpected arrival in Maine, his headstone was treated the same as all of the other veterans buried at the cemetery. Since 1956, however, a Confederate battle flag has been placed next to Stranger's gravesite each Memorial Day--a pop of solid red amidst a sea of American flags.

Gray sent more people to fight for the Union Army per capita than any small town in Maine, and nearly 200 of them didn't get to come home. The people of Gray, especially mothers whose sons could have been shot at or killed by Stranger, had every right to have simply buried Stranger in an unmarked grave in a field somewhere in the town. It would have been completely understandable -- this person was, after all, an enemy soldier during a time of war. Instead, they recognized their shared humanity with this unknown man, and buried him alongside local heroes and treated him like one of their own.

Which brings me to today.

We've come a long way from 1862, but not entirely in a good way. Our nation, and in particular its liberals should look to the actions of the Ladies of Gray for inspiration on how to behave with decency and respect in times of fighting and conflict. 

In 1862, America had divided into two nations at war -- it doesn't get more polarized than that. If the Ladies of Gray could find it within themselves to create and maintain a dignified memorial to a man who was quite literally shooting at their sons before he died, there's no excuse for the attacks against Southern memorials 150 years later.



Last Confederate General Surrenders

On yesterday, in 1865, more than two months after Lee's surrender, Cherokee Stand Watie became the last Confederate General to surrender his forces in the final days of the WBTS. 

Born in Georgia, Watie had sided with the Cherokee faction supporting removal to the West and signed the Treaty of New Echota. 

At the time of the outbreak of the War, Watie was a planter in the Indian Territory. He sided with the Confederacy and was commissioned as a Colonel and was later promoted to General. Watie spent much of the war waging guerrilla warfare in the Indian Territory and adjacent states.

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As we stated in last week's Letter, our response to the Condemnation of the Confederate Battle Flag by the Southern Baptist Convention "will be ongoing."
 
That attack has been led by liberal / modernist Dr. Russell Moore, President of the SBC's Ethics And Religious Liberty Commission.
 
Moore has essentially been fighting a TWO-front war because at the same time he has been violently attacking the founders of his denomination and our heritage, he has also been actively working to unite the Southern Baptist Convention with Islam.
 
I believe that the real reason why Moore pushed the flag resolution at the recent annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was because he knew that its debate would eat up all of the time that could have been better used examining the documents which Moore has been signing on behalf of Southern Baptists that will yoke their denomination with Islam.
 
Still, Moore could not dodge the issue entirely. He was asked a direct question from a messenger at the annual meeting about his intentional support of Islam. This pastor posed to Moore the same question that Joshua posed to the religious of his day in Joshua 24:15, "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
 
Here is the question posed to Dr. Moore regarding his alliance of Southern Baptists with Islam:
 
"I would like to know how in the world someone in the Southern Baptist Convention can support the defending of rights for Muslims to construct mosques in the united states when these people threaten our very way of existence as Christians and Americans.  They are murdering Christians, beheading Christians, imprisoning Christians all over the world.  Do you actually believe that if Jesus Christ were here today, He would actually support this and that He would stand up and say, well, let us support the rights of those Baal worshippers to erect temples to Baal?  Do you believe that Dr. Moore?"
 
The query, offered by a Southern Baptist pastor, is straightforward and Biblically-informed received a smug and condescending reply from Moore:
 
"You know sometimes we have to deal with questions that are really complicated and we have to spend a lot of time thinking them through and not sure what the final result was going to be.  Sometimes we have really hard decisions to make.  This isn't one of those things."
 
Joshua, who led God's chosen to settle the promised land, destroyed pagan nations worshipping their foreign gods and idols as God promised Israel He would do.  He forbade His chosen people to engage in alliances with those pagan nations.  He also commanded the wholesale destruction of not only the idolatrous temples and altars of those foreign gods but also the destruction of those who worshipped them.
 
It's important to remember a fundamental attribute of God that Baptists believe - His immutability.  God does not change.  What He hated in the days of Joshua, He yet hates today.  His expectations of faithful obedience by His chosen people - of whom Southern Baptists purport to be among - has not changed.  The New Testament affirms the command for the church to be separate from the pagan world around us, not to, as Moore entreats, to create alliances with it (2 Corinthians 6:17).
 
Intending to belittle the Southern Baptist pastor who dared question him, Moore, the elitist, made it very clear that it was not a difficult decision for him to align the SBC with Baal.  It took no thought.  It wasn't given any consideration as to worthiness.  It was a no-brainer, guided as it was by the tenets of "American" Christianity, rather than rightly being directed by actual Bible Christianity.
 
Moore then provides this definition of "Baptist" for the rebuked, insolent questioner:
 
"What it means to be a Baptist is to support soul freedom for everybody."
 
At this point, supportive applause for Moore ensued around the meeting hall indicating the pervasiveness that this culturally-worshipped idol of tolerance represents among too many in the SBC who sadly would rather be seen as co-conspirators in a treaty of co-existence as Americans rather than as a Bible-believing denomination standing, alone if necessary, on the promises, and commands, of God's Word.
 
The Baptists of old very loudly proclaimed the doctrine of Soul Liberty without promoting, assisting, or otherwise yoking up with Muslims. Moore, in typical modernist fashion, lacks their understanding of the defining doctrine.
 
Russell Moore is attempting to cloth everything in the garments of religious liberty. Disagree with Moore's alliances with Muslims and you oppose religious liberty. Disagree with Moore's abuse of SBC resources to promote the flooding of our nation with hundreds of thousands of new refugees from Muslim nations and you are opposing religious liberty.
 
No one is against religious liberty in America. (Perhaps especially not the Muslims!) We are thankful for it. We benefit from it. We ought to stand boldly for it. But it is not necessary, nor Biblically-tolerable, for Southern Baptists to intentionally join hands with pagans as they pursue their own rights under it. It is that alliance that is unnecessary and, as is being seen around the world in God's saving grace, it is not a necessity for our - or His - faithfulness.
 
As Baptists, we'd do well to err on the side of Scripture.  He's called us to obedience, not to unfettered and Scripture-free tolerance, and He has certainly not called us to enter into unholy alliances.
 
Russell Moore would do well to remember the preaching of one who led many of our Founding Fathers to faith, 18th-century evangelist George Whitefield:
 
"The sins of the church are far more offensive to God than the sins of the nation."
 
And fellow Baptists, we are in sinful, willful, disobedience to our God, led as we are by the likes of Russell Moore and every applauding hand-clapper who fails to acknowledge, by active obedience, the sovereignty of the Lord our God and His command for us to not be unequally yoked with unbelievers.

Our regular contributor, Al Benson, contributes the following:

Let me start off by saying that I have several friends who are Southern Baptists and I know some Southern Baptist preachers who are good, patriotic pastors for their congregations. My comments here are not directed at them or their congregations. I realize they see some of the same problems I am addressing here as much as I do.

Last week and earlier this week (this was originally written on Sat. June 18th) I did two articles on my other blog spot http://thecopperhead.blogspot.com  about the Southern Baptist resolution to disavow and remove all Confederate battle flags. The Southern Baptists have  been holding their yearly meeting this past week and the anti-Confederate flag resolution was of many that passed by a healthy margin so I am told. The people in the Southern Baptist Convention that pushed this resolution feel that all Christians should show "solidarity" (a good Marxist term) by removing any Confederate flags they have up anywhere. I hope they don't hold their breath!

This resolution denies the legitimacy of the Cause that all Confederate soldiers fought for (which was not "racism" or slavery) and it verbally slaps in the face today anyone who has a Confederate ancestor that resisted Yankee/Marxist aggression, and that includes me. Whatever Confederate flags  I have out  (and I vary them) are going to stay out and I seriously question the "concern" of those Southern Baptists that tell me I am "racist" for keeping them out. Oh, I don't doubt the politically correct do have a concern-but for what and who? A lot of us here in the South are really getting fed up with the "perpetually offended" who expect us to totally dismantle our Christian culture and heritage just because they claim it bothers them. If I got to the point where I started listing things in their cultures  that bother me we could really have a donnybrook.

Unfortunately, the situation with the Confederate flag seems to be a symptom of where the Southern Baptists are headed in the main. I just read an article on http://www.wnd.com the headline for which was: Pastor to Southern Baptist Convention: Stop push for Muslim refugees.  The article stated: "The Southern Baptist Convention threw down a gauntlet at the feet of Republican nominee Donald Trump and many conservatives, adopting a resolution encouraging churches and families to welcome and adopt refugees into their churches and homes...The resolution did not specifically refer to Islam or Muslims. However, Russell Moore, the head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Commission has been a prominent critic of Donald Trump and his proposed immigration policies...The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention is also supporting the building of a mosque in Bernard, New Jersey."

Needless to say, some of the local residents in that area are not overly enthused about the mosque and their concern about Shariah law in their area is a legitimate one. So why is the Southern Baptist Convention even doing this? I could see some of the culturally Marxist churches such as those in the National Council of Churches supporting this because they have been making common cause with the enemies of Christ for decades now, so it would come as no surprise to see them involved. But the Southern Baptist Convention is supposed to be a "conservative" group. Or has the definition of conservatism been changed?

One Southern Baptist pastor, Carl Gallups noted: "What should the Southern Baptist Convention have done about the mosque in New Jersey? They should have stayed out of the situation altogether!  They should have left the matter up to the voice of the local people and their elected and appointed officials..." Gallups made an accurate observation when he said: "...the ERLC would be hard pressed to find anywhere in the scriptures, or elsewhere, where the early church was aligning itself with government entities and 'interfaith coalitions' to assist in the constructing of more pagan temples, shrines and altars to Emperor worship in the Roman Empire-in the name of 'religious liberty'."

Gallups also noted that this was not the first attempt by the SBC committee at supporting the building of mosques.  The WorldNewsDaily article also observed that: "Gallups also pointed to the history of the ERLC in supporting mosque construction, notably the support of the Executive Director Richard Land for building the 'Ground Zero mosque' in 2010." Gallups said: "I find it very suspicious that the ERLC, just a few years ago, under Richard Land attempted the same 'mosque building agenda'...Now, only five years later, Dr. Russell  Moore does the very same thing." Whether he realizes it or not, Pastor Gallups is observing cultural Marxism at work and in living color. The cultural Marxists, whether in churches or out (and there are a number of them within churches) do not deviate from their agenda and their agenda is ultimately anti-Christian, so they will work to get the church, in our apostate day, to support the cutting of its own spiritual throat-all in the name of "love" naturally.
Pastor Gallups mentioned Richard Land a couple times in his comments. So who is Richard Land? Richard Land, who used to hold high positions in the Southern Baptist Convention, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, at least they have him listed as a member as of June 18th of this year.  So why does a leading Southern Baptist belong to the CFR? There would seem to be a contradiction or at least a major conflict of interest here. A prominent Southern Baptist as a member of the premier One World Government organization in this country, a member of the leading organization that promotes One World secular government! Something smells here and it ain't in Denmark.

Now I've had a few folks over the years my Dad included, who told me I had a suspicious mind, but when you start to see things like this, how can you not have a suspicious mind unless you've quit thinking altogether?

I also ran across another interesting article on http://www.texemarrs.com that was published back in 2007 that dealt with the Council on Foreign Relations and Christian pastors that seem to be part of that group. The article dealt with "global spirituality." It stated, in part, "To achieve this, the Illuminti's premier political and economic organ, the socialistic, pro-Zionist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), has elevated to membership two key operatives, two men who are at the helm of America's most influential Christian evangelical groups. I refer to Pastor Rick Warren, Saddleback Community Church in California, and Dr. Richard Land, reigning religious potantate and poobah  of the massive Southern Baptist Convention. For the first time in the almost 100-year history of the CFR, evangelical leaders have been elevated to elite status as members of the exclusive globalist secret society." I have often wondered about these evangelicals that end up with hundreds of churches following their agenda, whatever it happens to be at the time, and when I found out that Rick Warren was a big supporter of Obama in his first term, I knew I had been right to be suspicious. In regard to Dr. Richard Land, it turns out that he was (is) a big promoter of environmentalism.  It has been said that "Land essentially believes that Jesus died on the cross to save Mother Earth and to save human souls. Land says that the Great Commission includes the preaching of environmentalism just as much as it does the traditional John 3:16 message."
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So, has the CFR suddenly become interested in the Gospel message-or is it more interested in finding usable Christian pastors to push its "gospel" message onto unsuspecting Christian believers? It might be worthwhile and good for Southern Batist believers to start doing a little homework on Dr. Land and this One World Government organization he is part of.  If you want to read about the Council on Foreign Relaltions check out Gary Allen's book None Dare Call It Conspiracy. It was published way back in 1976 but it is still relevant today. I understand that it is now out on the Internet and so you can check it out there for nothing, and you DO need to check it out.


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​Commander in Chief of the SCV addresses the Southern Baptist Convention's purge of the Southern Cross
 
The history of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has been inextricably tied to the Confederacy and her heirs for over a century and a half. Great pulpit expositors, as well as seminary professors that left their mark in the area of Biblical thought and world view offered service to the Confederacy, as chaplains and men of arms, as well. Therefore, it was a profound disappointment and excruciatingly disheartening to hear the anti-Confederate Battle Flag resolution that was approved by SBC messengers meeting in St. Louis on June 14.
 
The resolution offended on several levels -- first of all, simply put, it did not adequately deal with the Truth of the nature of the Flag, particularly disappointing as Christians should place a premium on the Truth. The 800,000 men that served the Confederacy held, and always will hold, full title to that banner -- it is a soldiers' flag and their political agenda was nothing more than defense of their home. Furthermore, as the Fifth Commandment compels us to "honor father and mother", those of us who enjoy Confederate ancestry are bound to tell the Truth of our ancestors fight and flag. Finally, the tone of the resolution has the effect of intimidating the consciences of Southern Baptists into holding a terribly negative opinion of Confederate symbols.
 
All that said, the SBC is not a hierarchy; local congregations are in no way bound to the resolution. They may continue on as they have done, in some cases, for many years, in helping their community to retain its history and honoring the men that rebuilt their community after a tragic war and devastating reconstruction. Today, we call upon the great SBC congregations throughout the South to do just that, ignore this distraction and get on with the priorities of Gospel proclamation, building up of the fellowship of Faith and pursuing a witness of goodwill in the community. Untold numbers of these SBC churches, over the years, have cultivated great relationships with SCV camps by opening their facilities for regular meetings and special occasions, not to mention the cemeteries owned by SBC churches where the remains of legions of Confederate heroes lie -- these are sites for numerous memorial services.
 
Of course, in addition to the historical ties of the Confederacy and SBC, thousands of SCV members are also members of SBC churches. In closing, we call on our camps to pursue "peace with all men" (Heb. 12:14) by cultivating good relationships with all organizations in their community, particularly houses of worship, be they SBC, other Christian denominations or Jewish Synagogues.
 
Deo Vindice!
Charles Kelly Barrow
Commander-in-Chief
Sons of Confederate Veterans



SBC STATISTICAL PREDICTION

Convention statisticians, who can predict coming trends with pinpoint accuracy, are anticipating that the Convention's churches will loose at least 225,000 members as a direct result of the resolution against the Confederate Battle Flag. 



One of our readers in Virginia sent the following letter to his pastor this week: 

Greetings Rev. Smith:

          We were in church when you made the announcement that the Convention had voted to pass the Anti-Confederate Flag, Anti-Christian resolution.  The devil shouted with glee that his will has been done!  It is hard for me to believe that with that many preachers present, none took a stand for the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
          You are well aware that the Confederate flag proudly displays the Cross of St. Andrew: next to the Cross of Jesus the most scared symbol in all Christianity!  The Constitution of the Confederate States of America plainly stated that God (the Christian God) was the founder of the nation.  It was no accident that the Confederate Congress adopted the Cross of St. Andrew as the symbol of the nation.

          The Southern people loved their country and their flag.  Southern Baptist boys fought hard for the Cross of St. Andrew; many willingly gave their lives under that flag!  Those who founded the Southern Baptist Church; those who preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ; those who have been members and who have advanced the church unto this day strongly stood for the Gospel.  Now, the Convention has defecated on all their graves!

          By taking an Anti-Cross of St. Andrew; Anti-Gospel stand, the Southern Baptist Convention has replaced Jesus with the devil.

          When you made the announcement that the Baptist Church was no longer a Christian organization, we walked out!

          If you would like to discuss this e-mail or anything related to the War Between the States, please contact me.

          I end most of my personal communications with "God Bless!" but I cannot with this letter.

Southernly Yours,
Gary C. Walker

Former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he's "clearly going to vote" for Donald Trump for president, calling Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton, "unacceptable."

"The way I think of it is this," Rumsfeld said Wednesday night on Fox News Channel's On the Record with Greta Van Susteren. "On the Democrats' side, we have a known known. On the Republican side, we have a recent entry, who's a known unknown."

That line, of course, was a play on a famous series of statements uttered at a Pentagon briefing in February 2002 in response to a question about whether there was evidence Iraq had tried to supply terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.

"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know," Rumsfeld said then. "We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know."

Trump, apparently, falls into the second category, according to Rumsfeld.

Rumsfeld, who served as Defense secretary for both Presidents George W. Bush and Gerald Ford, went on to cite the reasons he found Clinton "unacceptable" for president, including her handling of the Benghazi attack in September 2012 and her use of a private email server to handle government information while serving as secretary of State.

As for Trump, Van Susteren asked Rumsfeld if he was endorsing or just supporting the presumptive GOP nominee, a distinction some Republicans have made in announcing their support of the real estate mogul.

"I don't know that there's any difference," but added: "No one asked me for my endorsement."

"I'm clearly going to vote for him," Rumsfeld said of Trump. "I just can't imagine not."
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Trump tweeted Thursday morning that he "very much appreciated" the support of the former Defense secretary.



 
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Hall says that the change in windows is being made to facilitate what he calls a conversation, "about the wrongs of the racist 'white church' in America."
 
The decision was made at the same time that an invitation was extended by Cathedral officials to host an Islamic prayer by various Muslim radical groups invited into the supposedly Christian National Cathedral. The invited Islamists included leaders of the Islamic Society of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.  In 2009, both groups were identified as co-conspirators in a plan to provide funding to the HAMAS jihad group. Both groups are also suspected to have ties with ISIS.
 
The record highlighted by experts shows that CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Texas-based criminal effort to deliver $12 million to HAMAS jihad group, that CAIR was founded with $490,000 from HAMAS, and that the FBI bans top-level meetings with CAIR officials. "The FBI policy restricting a formal relationship with CAIR remains ... [but] does not preclude communication regarding investigative activity or allegations of civil rights violations," said Oct. 2, 2015 an email from FBI spokesman Christopher Allen.
 
Cathedral officials did not ask the Islamic groups for any reciprocation, not even for a polite request to the groups' to disavow their associations with HAMAS and ISIS.
 
Reverend Hall said, "The original purpose of the confederate-flag windows was to promote national unity, but the window is now an immoral homage to slavery that needs to be eradicated."
 
No timetable or system of removal has been determined to eliminate the decades-old windows, but in the meantime Cathedral officials announced the scheduling of a program called "What The White Church Must Do." With its recommendations clearly setting the "white church" apart from those serving blacks and other ethnic groups.
 
Reverend Hall is well known for his political activism. He has made national news defending his decision to turn the National Cathedral over to Muslims on the anniversary of the day the last Caliph declared war on all non-believers. It was "appropriate" to have a Muslim event in a Christian church on that day, without any comparable reciprocation, said Hall. He has also organized high profile anti-gun vigils held in the Cathedral.
 
 
 
A NEW YORK CITY TO BAN FLAG IN FUTURE PARADES
 
Officials in Saratoga Springs say they'll create guidelines for parade participants after a motorcyclist flew a Confederate flag from a staff attached to the rear of his motorcycle during the upstate city's annual Memorial Day event. A smaller U.S. flag was next to the Confederate banner.
 
During a City Council meeting Tuesday night, Saratoga Springs Mayor Joanne Yepsen assured the public that additional steps will be taken in the future to make sure that those participating in city parades are screened.
 
A few residents in the popular tourist destination expressed anger against the presence of the flag. However, most of those who commented on the initial story that ran in the Times Union on Tuesday, as well as five people who emailed, support the man who flew the flag, saying it's, "freedom of speech," and, "the man was honoring Confederate Civil War veterans."
 
Yepsen says the man may have been from Georgia, but she's unaware of how he got into the parade. City officials are investigating.
 
 
 
AMERICAN FLAGS ON CONFEDERATE GRAVES?


Some people still believe that American flags do not belong on Confederate graves. Some feel so strongly about it that they remove those flags.
 
In one recent instance, however, the flag snatcher had a change of heart.
 
An unknown person removed 163 U.S. flags from Confederate graves at Shiloh National Military Park over the Memorial Day weekend. Staff discovered the flags were missing on that Saturday and replaced them in time for official ceremonies on Memorial Day (May 30). The next day, custodial staff at the park in Tennessee found a bag with all 163 flags accompanied by a handwritten note. "It was an apology that went on to express the person's feelings that American flags should not be flying over graves of Confederate soldiers," park superintendent Dale Wilkerson told CNN on Tuesday. "But history teaches us that they do belong there," Wilkerson said.
 
"People need to understand that American flags are out there as a sign of respect, not disrespect," Wilkerson said. "It's a sign of respect for those American soldiers." A post on the park's Facebook page titled "Why There Are American Flags on Confederate Graves" laid out the events that led Congress to recognize Confederate veterans as American soldiers, according them the same benefits and honors as American veterans of other conflicts.
 
Responses to the Facebook post reflected a big difference of opinion. One commenter claiming to be a descendant of five Confederate soldiers said he took offense to the American flag being placed on Confederate graves. "Yes they are considered American soldiers but that isn't the flag they [fought] under. Placing THAT flag on their graves is nothing more than a slap in the face!!!!!!" the commenter wrote.
 
Said another, "Use some common sense. Don't put a Yankee flag on a Rebel grave. They [should have] been taken off. Put a Rebel flag on a Rebel grave."
 
Others felt equally strongly about decorating Confederate graves with the American flag.
 
A minority advocated not honoring or decorating Confederate graves at all.
 
Michael Landree, executive director of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, was quoted by CNN to have said that, "there is nothing wrong with a 50-star flag on a Confederate grave." He then is quoted to have said, "But, a Confederate flag would be more appropriate." "That's the flag they fought and died under," said Landree, who retired from the Marines in 2015 as a lieutenant colonel. "We don't disparage the use of a U.S. flag on them, but a more appropriate flag is a Confederate flag."
 
Park service regulations allow for the placement of small flags at federal cemeteries on two days: Memorial Day and Confederate Memorial Day in states that observe it. Members of the local Sons of Confederate Veterans camp held a memorial service at Shiloh battlefield on May 30 and decorated the burial sites with Confederate flags with the park's permission, Wilkerson said. "It's our honor to place those flags out there," he said.
 
 
 
 
New Jersey Democrat takes up fight to remove the Confederate flag from Citadel
 
"NEVER TRUMP" leaders in the U.S. House were unsuccessful in their recent efforts to force the removal of the Confederate flag from The Citadel's Summerall Chapel.
 
Now, a Senate Democrat is taking up their cause.
 
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., has filed an amendment to the pending 2017 National Defense Authorization Act identical to the one that failed in the House version earlier. Both call for withholding all Reserve Officers' Training Corps funding from any military academy that flies the Confederate flag.
The Citadel in Charleston is currently the only institution that fits this category.
 
U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., who spearheaded the failed effort in the House, said he gave Booker all the relevant information weeks ago so he could pick up where House members left off.
 
South Carolina Republicans, including Gov. Nikki Haley and Senator Lindsey Graham, are actively working on the State level to take down the flag. U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., shares these sentiments and is a close ally of Booker's. But Scott said he would not go on record voting for Booker's amendment on the Confederate flag because doing so would be political suicide in South Carolina. Lindsey Graham is also taking Scott's approach to the issue for the same reasons and will simply arrange to be absent from voting on that day according to Graham's spokesman.
 
It's unlikely Booker will succeed where Clyburn has so far fallen short. But that will only be because Senators from other states will do what Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham, and Tim Scott of South Carolina REFUSE to do - support and vote in favor of keeping the Confederate heritage for which their State has so long been known.

 

TED CRUZ DAD REALLY WAS A CIA OPERATIVE? SO WAS GRANDAD?

Some of you may remember back a few weeks, in response to the news story that a previously unidentified man in a photo with the infamous Lee Harvy Oswald may have been Raphael Cruz, father of Ted Cruz, that I postulated that Ted's father being a CIA operative would certainly explain a lot.

Well, it may just be, as Uncle Reamus would say, "its factual."
 
CIA: Requests for Documents on Ted Cruz's Father

The Obama administration has been playing a cat-and-mouse game, in response to media generated freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the Central Intelligence Agency for "copies of all records generated between January 1, 1947 and May 5, 2016, concerning the Central Intelligence Agency's employment of or contacts with Rafael Bienvenidos Cruz, Sr., the Cuban-born grandfather of Texas Senator Ted Cruz."

Also requested were all similar records generated between January 1, 1956 and May 5, 2016, concerning the CIA's relationships with Rafael Bienvenidos Cruz y Diaz, Jr., the Cuban-born father of Ted Cruz.

The agency has not only rejected numerous requests for expedited processing of the request for not demonstrating "a compelling need" but has used Privacy Act requirements to stymie several of the FOIA request on Ted Cruz's father's past association with the CIA.

The CIA has responded that requests on living [emphasis in original] third parties to provide a signed affidavit or declaration from the third parties waiving all or some of their privacy rights. In the case of Ted Cruz's father, who is still alive, it is highly doubtful that he will waive any of his privacy rights in order that any CIA records of his association with the agency in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Cuba, or Canada be released to the public.

As for Ted Cruz's grandfather, an employee of the RCA Corporation in Cuba, a followup request for documents remains possible as long as a media outlet can supply the CIA with his date and place of birth and date and place of death, with the death affirmed by a death certificate or obituary notice in hard copy (good luck with that).

The CIA's reason for the requirement for a death certificate or obituary notice is that they "may be unable to distinguish between individuals with the same or similar names" in order to "ensure there are no privacy considerations." The names of Ted Cruz's father and grandfather are identical.

So if there were not records documenting that both Ted's father and grandfather were in fact CIA operatives why doesn't the agency simply refuse the requests on the grounds that there are no such documents?

Could this be the real reason Ted dropped out of the race so suddenly?





NEW YORK TIMES OFFENDS ALL SOUTHERNERS

The New York Times made a curious editorial decision earlier this week regarding the picture they picked to go with their article about Donald Trump's speech before the Rolling Thunder motorcyclists in Washington D.C.

In their piece, the Times described how Trump addressed an "incongruous constituency" at this event. The Rolling Thunder Rally is meant to 'honor educate, facilitate, and never forget by means of a demonstration for service members that were abandoned after the Vietnam War.'

However, in what might have been the most peculiar part of the article, though, the Times decided that their top featured image from the event would be one with a Trump-supporting biker with the Confederate Flag patched on the back of his jacket.

The Times decided to go with the picture of the flag when there were many images from the rally for them to choose from. In fact, we reviewed coverage from several different mainstream media outlets and we didn't find anyone else featuring an image with the Confederate Flag.  Trump's event received a great deal of media coverage as per usual, and there were plenty of pictures available where the controversial image is not seen.

The fact is that the New York Times believes the Confederate Flag to be evil. That is why they chose it in their not so veiled effort to paint Donald Trump as evil. Neither Trump, nor the flag of our ancestors is evil. But maybe, I'm starting to think, that the New York Times is!   
 
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SLAVERY WAS NEVER ABOLISHED

Mauritania, the West African country long thought to be home to the world's highest percentage of enslaved people, no longer holds that lamentable title, according to a report released late Monday.

The Walk Free Foundation's slavery index says the percentage of people living in modern slavery in Mauritania dropped from 4% in 2014 to about 1% this year.

The country, which CNN featured in the 2012 documentary "Slavery's last stronghold," now has the world's seventh-highest incidence of slavery.

North Korea ranks worst on the index. Nearly one in five people there are thought to be enslaved.

"Slavery is not a thing of the past, and we must stop thinking that it is," the Walk Free Foundation said in a statement issued to CNN. "The very nature of modern slavery means it is clandestine and hidden from view, but that doesn't mean it isn't everywhere. Every country in the world is affected."


A NOTE FROM H.K.

Any knowledgeable Southern Black can tell you that the Honorable Thomas (Stonewall ) Jackson, and his wife were more than just a friend to the African people. They cared for his spiritual welfare, and opened their home and Church and gave them an introduction to Jesus Christ like no other. And to this day that influence is still incorporated in the beings of their African ancestors.

However, it is important for you to understand that the NAACP set upon the attack of the Christian Cross of St. Andrew to raise funds for their depleting coffers, and for the new occupation of our homeland by the sons and daughters of the thieves and murders who came here under orders of Lincoln to rob, steal, rape, and murder innocent old men, men and children. Nothing else. There is no other reason that we find ourselves as a Black race once again being used as the weapon of choice against our White Southern family.

It makes no difference that the whole world was complicit in the economic institution of slavery, or that the Christian charity of the Southern White people to the African race has no parallel worldwide. Or that General Jackson and General Lee's Virginia was working so hard up until the South was illegally invaded to free the African people in honor. The bottom line is that those White folks who own the NAACP have an agenda of Southern social and cultural genocide that will make it comfortable for them to attain what they left behind. And could care less about the African people that they have duped as the Honorable General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne so well predicted.

The NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center are the foremost hate organizations in America today and try to disguise this fact as if they are friends to the African people. Having me to write to them is like feeding food to a dead man. I can only try to educate the masses to their treachery. God bless you!                      


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