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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
Why a Little Girl Should
Not Be Allowed to Join the Cub Scouts
by Pastor Michael Brown
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Top Headlines
Record firearm sales in 2016 — good for the Republic! (Washington Free Beacon)
Trump to tap Wall Street lawyer, Jay Clayton, to head SEC. (The Washington Post)
Senate advances budget resolution with liar-nObamaCare repeal. (Roll Call)
Preparing to build the wall? Trump team seeks agency records on border barriers, surveillance. (Reuters)
Assange claim Russia not WikiLeaks source despite Intel claims. (Fox News)
Six New Year resolutions that are a must. (Daily Signal)
Marine Corps assigns first female infantry to battalion. (Marine Corps Times)
U.S. fines TransUnion, Equifax for deceit over credit scores. (Reuters)
Shock (not): CNN least trusted among likely voters. (Washington Examiner)
Seattle voters get $100 of their own money back in "Democracy Vouchers." (NBC Seattle)
Policy: Two strategic energy pivots for the new administration. (Manhattan Institute)
Policy: How to curtail the UN's power. (Daily Signal)
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Paul Ryan: Russia Didn't Put the Server in
liar-Hillary Clinton's Basement
by MELANIE HUNTER
by MELANIE HUNTER
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday that while Russia "clearly tried to meddle in our political system," they did not put the server in liar-Hillary Clinton's basement or tell her not to campaign in Wisconsin or Michigan... "Russia clearly tried to meddle in our political system. No two ways about it," Ryan said when asked if he doubted the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the presidential election. "Let me say a couple of things. First of all, and I think this is what the president-elect is legitimately upset about. There are attempts on the left to try to delegitimize this election. That's just bogus. He won fair and square. He won clearly and convincingly. Russia didn't tell liar-Hillary Clinton not to go to Wisconsin or Michigan. They didn't put the server in her basement or put the stuff on Anthony Weiner's laptop," Ryan said... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/paul-ryan-russia-didnt-put-the-server-in-hillary-clintons-basement?f=must_reads
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UN Security Council Res. 2334:
A Victory of Jihadism
by Bat Ye'or
by Bat Ye'or
A vote at the UN Security Council
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ UN Security Council Resolution 2334, adopted on December 23, 2016, politically reinforces UNESCO's resolution that erased the history of Israel in its historical homeland in order to replace it with the Koranic version of the Bible... This UN resolution once again proves that there is Islamic control over the politics and culture of international institutions. Led astray from their primary mission, these international organizations have become tools of corruption or terrorism, reinforcing global Islamic power. But let us not forget that those who vote are Heads of State, fully conscious and responsible individuals, motivated by interests and ideologies that are often criminal, and not all of which represent the opinions of their people whom they tyrannize, including those from European "democracies". Their latest resolutions not only confirm the victory of jihadism and illiteracy: they also express the success of the years of effort made by this post-war Europe that continues to destroy, defame and delegitimize the Hebrew State in the name of Islamic justice. The beginning of this long journey dates back to 1967, in France... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9725/security-council-resolution-israel
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House Democrats To Challenge Trump’s
Electoral College Win
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ At 1PM on Friday January 6th Congress is slated to count the Electoral College ballots to officially elect Donald Trump as President… but up to ten House Democrats, led by Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado, are planning to challenge the results. Perlmutter released a statement saying the House Democrats’ protest “is not about trying to stop Donald Trump from becoming President,” but “the fact that our liberty, freedom and democracy were compromised by Russia’s intrusion into America’s election.” Do they really expect us to believe it’s not about stopping Trump, or at least an attempt to de-legitimize the nascent Trump administration?...GIVE IT UP..The Election is OVER.
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Trump Asks Why DNC Refused To Allow
FBI Access To “Hacked” Server
by Rick Wells
htt{rickwells.us} ~ President-elect Donald Trump raised an interesting point on Thursday regarding the supposed hacking of the DNC and their unwillingness to cooperate with the FBI afterwards... as they sought to investigate the source and nature of the hacks into their servers. The DNC contends that the FBI never requested access to its servers after they were supposedly breached, The Hill quotes a senior law enforcement official as stating the FBI repeatedly asked for access “only to be rebuffed.” Mr. Trump tweeted, “If the FBI itself never examined DNC servers, how and why are they so sure about hacking?” He added, “What is going on?” A few possibilities come to mind, not the least of which is the existence of incriminating evidence of other crimes by the Democrats that they did not want to risk revealing or the possibility that it would allow the FBI to document that there actually was no breach, that is was a leak of some sort and then deprive them of their whole “the Russians did it” offensive and distraction... http://rickwells.us/trump-asks-dnc-refused-allow-fbi-access-hacked-server/
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hanoi-Kerry Makes Official Excuses For
His Disaster At The State Department
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ John hanoi-Kerry declares, in an effort to rewrite history and create a legacy of his own, “So we are on the right path, both diplomatically and militarily and we need to stay on that course... And I guarantee you that over the period of this next year, and into the future, Daesh [ISIS] is going to be thoroughly defeated.” What he doesn’t state is why, if we’re on the right path and he’s willing to guarantee victory, a word this regime never uses, is it going to take a year and “into the future” to defeat them. If hanoi-Kerry and liar-nObama knew what they were doing and were really capable of fighting their sometimes adversary, most times ally, both militarily and diplomatically, wouldn’t they be able to work something out a little quicker? Since ISIS is the regime’s ally in Syria and elsewhere, why can’t they just say something along the lines of “Okay boys, stop with the terrorism now,” a diplomatic overture, followed by “and we won’t bomb you straight to Hell,” a military one? It seems simple enough. They’ve already got each other’s cell phone numbers and it would give some substance to what is otherwise an empty hanoi-Kerry guarantee...
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Why a Little Girl Should
Not Be Allowed to Join the Cub Scouts
by Pastor Michael Brown
{townhall.com} ~ The Cub Scouts are now under increasing pressure for refusing to allow an 8-year-old girl, who identifies as a boy, to join their ranks. As reported on a New Jersey website the child is from Secaucus, NJ, “From the moment he joined, 8-year-old Joe Maldonado eagerly looked forward to camping trips and science projects as a member of the Cub Scouts. But his expectations were dashed after his mother said she received a phone call from a Scouting official who told her that Joe would no longer be allowed to participate because he was born a girl” (my emphasis).
To be more accurate, Jodi (the child’s original name) is no longer allowed to participate because she was not just born a girl. She is a girl, and Cub Scouts are for boys. That’s why CBS News reported that, “Joe’s family says parents of other children had complained.”
Surprise, surprise. They had ample reason to complain, since Cub Scouts are for boys – little boys – and Jodi is a girl – a little girl.
But for Jodi’s mom, this came as a total shock, since, she says, the Cub Scouts were aware of Jodi’s biology and had no problem with initially accepting him. Plus, her mom reports, Jodi was now accepted at school as a boy.
CBS News reporter Errol Barnett asked Jodi’s mother, “As a parent, how do you know that you don’t just have a girl who is a tomboy, and that it’s a transgender issue?”
She replied, “I took a couple years; I didn’t realize it.”
With all respect to Jodi’s mom, there are experts who say that the worst thing a parent can do is accommodate a younger child’s gender confusion, while others would remind us that most kids experiencing gender confusion no longer do so after puberty.
But no, Jodi is Joe, and she/he is sure of it, even at 8. Not only so, but the rest of the world must accept it.
When Barnett asked Jodi, “Why did you want to join the Boy Scouts?”, she replied, “Because all of my favorite friends were there.”
And that’s why the Cub Scouts should change their policy and allow girls to join their groups: because a little girl has more boy-friends than girl-friends and because she identifies as a boy.
According to CBS News, “The Boy Scouts of America told CBS News it offered the family alternative, co-ed programs for Joe, but Maldonado told us she’s not interested and instead wants an apology for her son.”
No surprise here either. It’s not a matter of working out a practical solution. It’s about the rest of the world changing its policies to accommodate a confused little child.
Of course, the Boy Scouts of America have only themselves to blame, since their accommodation to gay activism has made them as an easy target for trans activism, making their official statement sound quite lame and short-sighted: “No youth may be removed from any of our programs on the basis of his or her sexual orientation. Gender identity isn’t related to sexual orientation.”
Do the Boy Scouts of America really think that they will be able to say yes to gay activism but no to trans activism, that they will be able to dodge the accusation of being homophobes without being nailed with the accusation of being transphobes? Have they not noticed that the acronym LGBT – notice that T at the end! – has been around since the early 1990s? If you say yes to the LG part, the B part is automatically included and the T part is right behind.
Let’s see how long the Boy Scouts hold out on this one. After all, if the liar-nObama administration was pushing for this kind of acceptance in the schools – with penalties for non-compliance – and if Bruce Jenner being named woman of the year is old hat, why should the Scouts resist? Plus, the already-more-liberal Girl Scouts of America announced a few years back that a boy who identifies as a girl would be welcome in their midst. Social madness indeed.
But the worst thing about this whole story with 8-year-old Jodi is that the media is talking to her as if she was an expert, asking her how she felt about why she was excluded, to which this precious little child can only say, “I don’t know,” sounding sadly baffled.
To be more accurate, Jodi (the child’s original name) is no longer allowed to participate because she was not just born a girl. She is a girl, and Cub Scouts are for boys. That’s why CBS News reported that, “Joe’s family says parents of other children had complained.”
Surprise, surprise. They had ample reason to complain, since Cub Scouts are for boys – little boys – and Jodi is a girl – a little girl.
But for Jodi’s mom, this came as a total shock, since, she says, the Cub Scouts were aware of Jodi’s biology and had no problem with initially accepting him. Plus, her mom reports, Jodi was now accepted at school as a boy.
CBS News reporter Errol Barnett asked Jodi’s mother, “As a parent, how do you know that you don’t just have a girl who is a tomboy, and that it’s a transgender issue?”
She replied, “I took a couple years; I didn’t realize it.”
With all respect to Jodi’s mom, there are experts who say that the worst thing a parent can do is accommodate a younger child’s gender confusion, while others would remind us that most kids experiencing gender confusion no longer do so after puberty.
But no, Jodi is Joe, and she/he is sure of it, even at 8. Not only so, but the rest of the world must accept it.
When Barnett asked Jodi, “Why did you want to join the Boy Scouts?”, she replied, “Because all of my favorite friends were there.”
And that’s why the Cub Scouts should change their policy and allow girls to join their groups: because a little girl has more boy-friends than girl-friends and because she identifies as a boy.
According to CBS News, “The Boy Scouts of America told CBS News it offered the family alternative, co-ed programs for Joe, but Maldonado told us she’s not interested and instead wants an apology for her son.”
No surprise here either. It’s not a matter of working out a practical solution. It’s about the rest of the world changing its policies to accommodate a confused little child.
Of course, the Boy Scouts of America have only themselves to blame, since their accommodation to gay activism has made them as an easy target for trans activism, making their official statement sound quite lame and short-sighted: “No youth may be removed from any of our programs on the basis of his or her sexual orientation. Gender identity isn’t related to sexual orientation.”
Do the Boy Scouts of America really think that they will be able to say yes to gay activism but no to trans activism, that they will be able to dodge the accusation of being homophobes without being nailed with the accusation of being transphobes? Have they not noticed that the acronym LGBT – notice that T at the end! – has been around since the early 1990s? If you say yes to the LG part, the B part is automatically included and the T part is right behind.
Let’s see how long the Boy Scouts hold out on this one. After all, if the liar-nObama administration was pushing for this kind of acceptance in the schools – with penalties for non-compliance – and if Bruce Jenner being named woman of the year is old hat, why should the Scouts resist? Plus, the already-more-liberal Girl Scouts of America announced a few years back that a boy who identifies as a girl would be welcome in their midst. Social madness indeed.
But the worst thing about this whole story with 8-year-old Jodi is that the media is talking to her as if she was an expert, asking her how she felt about why she was excluded, to which this precious little child can only say, “I don’t know,” sounding sadly baffled.
To quote little Jodi, “It made me mad. I had a sad face, but I wasn’t crying. I’m way more angry than sad. My identity is a boy. If I was them, I would let every person in the world go in. It’s right to do.”
It’s a great sentiment, but it’s also the lens of an impressionable, still-developing, 8-year-old. When else do we go to little kids for life counsel and direction? And don’t the parents have a responsibility to shield their kids from this kind of attention? Don’t they actually set their children up for further pain and rejection by presenting them to the world as the opposite of who their biology and chromosomes say they are?
Interestingly, when National Geographic recently featured a 9-year-old boy who identifies as a girl on the cover of its “Gender Revolution” issue, I wrote that the magazine was complicit in a form of child abuse. Unknown to me, the American Family Network was sending out the message that, “National Geographic exploits children to further an agenda.”
Also unknown to me, in 2015, Camille Paglia, the controversial academic and social critic, and herself a lesbian, told a Brazilian TV station that, “Nothing... better defines the decadence of the West to the jihadists than our toleration of open homosexuality and this transgender mania now.”
She also said this, “Parents are now encouraged to subject the child to procedures that I think are a form of child abuse. The hormones to slow puberty, actual surgical manipulations, etcetera. I think that this is wrong, that people should wait until they are of an informed age of consent.
She added, “Parents should not be doing this to their children and I think that even in the teenage years is too soon to be making this leap. People change, people grow, and people adapt.”
Further confirmation for this position comes from Dr. Michelle Cretella, president of the American College of Pediatricians, who also feels that medical facilities that support a child’s transgenderism are engaging in child abuse.
She said that National Geographic is “promoting a political agenda over science and the wellbeing of innocent children” by displaying the young child as the face for their first ever transgender cover.
“Affirming so called transgender children means sterilizing them as young as 11-years-old,” Dr Cretella told Lifesite News. “Puberty blockers plus cross-sex hormones causes permanent sterility. And biological girls who ‘transition’ to male by taking testosterone may have a double mastectomy at age 16. The life time use of cross-sex hormones also puts these children at risk for stroke, heart disease, diabetes, cancers and more.”
Is this what lies ahead for little Jodi?
I seriously doubt that the Boy Scouts of America will be able to hold their ground against trans activism, but I have no doubt about this: They will one day regret the decisions they made, first caving in to gay activism and then to trans activism.
As for Jodi’s parents, I imagine that they deeply love their child and would do anything to make her happy. Sometimes, though, it’s the job of the parents to do things that make a child unhappy for the moment, knowing that, in the end, it will be for that child’s lifelong happiness.
I look forward to the day when the very real confusion of a little child, which I do not minimize, is not the measure of reality or the arbiter of societal norms. In fact, that day cannot come too soon.
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