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Forgive, the life changing message.

The folks that forgive here on Earth

have treasures of heavenly worth.

For as Christ did forgive

on the Cross, they might live.

In His death, He proclaimed the new birth!

And this, my dear friends is why the Cross, Jesus Christ, His death, burial and resurrection is an offense to the non-believer.

They refuse to acknowledge sin, and cannot grasp the Christian concept of forgiveness: Because He forgave us, we too must forgive, and in so doing become more like Christ.

It was in Antioch, Syria they were first called Christians. It was meant as a derogatory term, but the believers were it proudly, and it took. It survived through the early persecutions through love and forgiveness. Many were martyred for their beliefs, but through their testimonies the Church grew stronger.

The times of persecutions have returned. There are now more people martyred yearly then at any time in history. We are seeing it in so many ways. Yet, true Christians forgive. We have been given many examples of true Christian forgiveness. Let me mention just two:

cityRUNDATE:100406--Two Amish young women from Michigan came to the West Nickel Mines Amish School, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006, to grieve for the killed children that were shol on Monday, in Lancaster County. The two came with a small group that had came to Pennsylvania for a wedding.(PHOTO BY GARY DWIGHT MILLER) — cityRUNDATE:100406–Two Amish young women from Michigan came to the West Nickel Mines Amish School, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006, to grieve for the killed children that were shol on Monday, in Lancaster County. The two came with a small group that had came to Pennsylvania for a wedding.(PHOTO BY GARY DWIGHT MILLER)

On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, and wounded the rest, some very severely, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse. It received worldwide attention, and press and TV reporters descended on the small community. The Amish responded like they always do, mostly silence. The wife of the murderer was invited and went to the funeral of at least one of the girls. The Amish message was consistent, forgive and choose to not remember the offense. To that effect the one room schoolhouse was torn down, the privys and the fence removed and the ground plowed. A week later there was no indication there ever was a schoolhouse there. Another schoolhouse was built nearby. This act of forgiveness was broadcast over the whole world. It even reached the Kurds of Iraq. A pastor, a couple of Amish believers and a Christian psycho therapist were invited to Iraq to speak with the Governor and some doctors about this concept of forgiveness. They were then invited to teach about the healing effect of forgiveness to a multitude of health care professionals. Their message was given, and accepted by the Kurds. Only in Christ can we find forgiveness and be able to forgive. The Kurdish doctors accepted their message with awe, this forgiveness is unknown in Islam.

At the bond hearing June 17, 2015 of Dylann Roof, the murderer of 9 in Emanuel AME Church in Charleston S.C. something very unusual occurred. One after another of the family members of the victims stood up and proclaimed their deep sorrow for what had happened, but they forgave him in Christ, prayed for his soul and asked him to repent and turn to Christ. This was Christian living in action.

No such forgiveness exists among the secular people, nor can it be found in any other religion, especially not in Islam. They still have not got over the loss of Spain. Yet the Christian message of forgiveness has survived nearly two thousand years, from Christ’s words on the Cross “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do” to Stephens exclamation “Lord, do not hold this sin against them” when he was stoned to death as the first Martyr. This message will be victorious even in the coming battle.

Some thoughts on the horrendous murders in a historic church in Charleston, S.C.

After the horrendous murders at the historical Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina 17 June, President Obama said early the next day at the White House. “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this kind of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”

Not to be outdone Hillary Clinton said at the beginning of scheduled remarks at the annual National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference in Las Vegas: “We have to face hard truths about race, violence, guns and division,” and then continued: “How many innocent people in our country from little children, church members to movie theater attendees, how many people do we need to see cut down before we act?”

The Nordic countries have very strict gun-laws, and the murder rate from guns is much lower than in the U.S. Yet , they have had their fair share of mass murders,

Scotland, population 5.1 million.
Shortly after 9 a.m. on March 13, 1996, Thomas Hamilton, a 43-year-old former Scout leader, burst into the gymnasium of a primary school in the tranquil Scottish town of Dunblane.
Within minutes 15 children aged five and six had died in a hail of bullets. One died later in hospital. Their teacher, Gwen Mayor, a 44-year-old mother of two, died in the attack, reportedly while trying to shield her pupils. Two other teachers were also seriously injured while heroically trying to protect children. Hamilton turned one of his four handguns on himself and was found dead at the scene.
Norway, population 5.1 million
OSLO — A lone political extremist bombed the government center here on Friday, killing 7 people, the police said, before heading to an island summer camp for young members of the governing Labor Party and killing at least 80 people. The police arrested a 32-year-old Norwegian man, Anders Behring Breivik, in connection with both attacks, the deadliest on Norwegian soil since World War II. Breivik was at first accused of being a fundamentalist Christian, but as the investigation started it was established he was bent on reestablishing Nordic Pride including the Nordic Gods and the time-old traditions.
Finland, population 5.3 million.

on November 7, 2007, at Jokela High School in the municipality of Tuusula, Finland, a gunman, 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen, entered the school armed with a semi-automatic pistol. He killed eight people and wounded one person in the toe before shooting himself in the head; eleven others were also injured by flying shattered glass. Auvinen died later that evening in a Helsinki hospital.
He described himself as “a cynical existentialist, antihuman humanist, antisocial social darwinist [sic], realistic idealist and godlike atheist”

A year later, on September 23, 2008, at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences[4] in Western Finland, a gunman, 22-year-old student Matti Juhani Saari, shot and fatally injured ten people with a Walther P22 semi-automatic pistol, before shooting himself in the head. He died a few hours later in Tampere (Tammerfors) University Hospital. One woman was injured.

Here are 4 horrendous shooting murders in very civilized and advanced countries in less than 20 years. The population of U.S. is 20 times larger than the combined population of Scotland, Norway and Finland. To have the same frequency of horrendous murders the U.S. should expect 80 mass murders in 20 years, of about 4 a year.

The common thread of these mass murders is that they occur in gun-free environments. Obama’s assertion is therefore false, Hillary’s call for action is even worse: Removing legal gun ownership, but ignoring the multitude of illegal firearms, expanding gun-free zones to include whole high crime districts, leaving the illegal weapons possessors to rule those areas.

(The picture to the right shows the perpetrator, Dylann Roof with a jacket with the insignia of apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia, from his Facebook page, now taken down. Warning: The patches may be photo-shopped. One never know those things anymore.)

What is the solution?

Governor Sarah Palin had a fantastic link on her Facebook page : Prayers for Charleston: http://www.ijreview.com/2015/06/347576-the-only-comment-on-dylann-roof-s-facebook-profile-photo-will-bring-you-to-tears/

Trust me, it will bring you to tears. Pray!

Congress stands up to Obama on Trans-Pacific trade deal. A Limerick.

U.S. President Barack Obama, with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi at his side, walks from a meeting room to make a last-ditch appeal to House Democrats to support a package of trade bills vital to his Asian policy agenda in the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 12, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque — U.S. President Barack Obama, with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi at his side, walks from a meeting room to make a last-ditch appeal to House Democrats to support a package of trade bills vital to his Asian policy agenda in the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 12, 2015.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

The bill on the trade Trans-Pacific

defeated in Congress: Terrific.

It was more like a pact

to lose freedoms – a fact.

Obama as leader – Horrific.

The Veterans Administration, a model for Government Healthcare? Obama promised so in 2008. A Limerick.

The Veterans waiting lists grow.

Obama can no longer crow

about healthcare reform.

Wait for months is the norm

for some it is six feet below…..

Remember that Obama was going to reform VA and make it a model of health care so that when Obamacare failed he could point to the perfect system and transition everybody into “People’s Healthcare Administration”.

This is a statement from Obama in 2008:
“Make the VA a leader of national health care reform. … This includes efforts to improve electronic records interoperability, expand effectiveness research, promote wellness programs, and instill more accountability for performance and quality improvement initiatives.”

Sources:”Fulfilling a Sacred Trust with our Veterans” Click on (original link) and see what happens. This is what you get when you browse https://www.barackobama.com/pdf/VeteransFactSheet.pdf/

Well, at least they claim healthcare.gov is working. That should encourage our veterans.

The U.S. economy shrank by 0.7% in first quarter due to lack of Global Warming. A Limerick.

The U.S. economy shrank by 0.7 in the first quarter of 2015 as harsh weather dampened consumer spending and energy companies struggling with low prices slashed spending.

Gross domestic product contracted at a 0.7% percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said Thursday, coming dangerously close to a recession. That was a big step down from the fourth quarter’s 2.2 percent rise and does not bode well for the rest of the year.

This winter’s cold Climate Disruption

has caused a big growth interruption.

When it’s warm it is good

makes the plants grow more food.

This CO2 scare: Just corruption.

CO2 concentration has increased from about 280 ppm in pre-industrial times to over 400 ppm today, and is increasing at a rate of 2 ppm per year. We are way past the point of no return, 350 ppm which would lead to a temperature catastrophe. But instead, something rather interesting is occurring. The earth is getting greener! This 40 % increase in CO2 the last 250 years has led to a more than 30 % increase in agricultural production all by itself without adding fertilizer or using higher yielding seeds. Thanks to this we can now feed an additional two billion people on earth without starvation. The news are so good, that the per capita food production is increasing, even as the population is increasing.

Look at it this way. The value of basic agricultural products is more than 1.5 trillion dollars worldwide. 30% of that is due to increased CO2. That means that the CO2 emitted is worth 450 billion dollars, spread out over all farmers and ranchers worldwide. This wealth transfer is occurring right now, and knows no national boundary. It is a gift from the developed countries to the rest of the world. Who could be against that?

It turns out that this wealth transfer occurs without global governance. The leaders of the world will not have their say in who gets the wealth transfer, the U.N. bureaucrats will not get their cut, and politicians cannot get a campaign issue since it occurs without their involvement.

The support for this argument: https://lenbilen.com/2014/02/22/co2-the-life-giving-gas-not-carbon-pollution-a-limerick-and-explanation/

Hillary Clinton as a nursery rhyme.

Hillary Clinton as a nursery rhyme.

Hillary, Hillary, where have you been?

“It’s none of your business, for I am the queen.”

Hillary, Hillary, what did you see?

“I saw heads of states so that they would fund me.”

Hillary, Hillary, what did you do?

“No evidence found that there was quid pro quo.”

Hillary, Hillary, what did you say?

“It’s old news by now, won’t you please go away.”

Hillary, Hillary, when did you lie?

“Benghazi for starters, I have a supply.”

Hillary, Hillary, what did you write?

“Deleted my e-mails to give you my spite.”

Hillary, Hillary, why do you run?

“Entitled I am, it’s my turn in the sun.”

Hillary, Hillary, what do you eat?

“Genetically modified food ’til I bleat.”

Hillary, Hillary, what’s with your hair?

“Blond coloring hides I’m an old, graying mare.”

Hillary, Hillary, why did you speak?

“To take all the cash from the poor and the weak.”

Hillary, Hillary, do you love life?

“Not if they’re unborn, abort with a knife.”

Hillary, Hillary, why UBS?

“They paid the best, now excuse my B.S.”

Hillary, Hillary, why did you cry?

“I was broke and in debt, it was hard to get by.”

Hillary, Hillary, what was your fee?

“For the students, two millions, I’m cheap, don’t you see?”

Hillary, Hillary, what was the deal?

“Our Uranium to Russia, Bill had a great spiel.”

Hillary, Hillary, why the State Fair?

“Iowa food, that’s the truth, I do swear.”

Hillary, Hillary, why all the lies?

“Maybe, just maybe, I’m Lord of the flies.”

Hillary, Hillary, what is the day?

“Bloody Monday it is. I’m a witch. Hip, Hooray!!”

Hillary, Hillary, what’s classified?

“I really don’t know, I have nothing to hide.”

Hillary, Hillary, are you contrite?

“If I say ‘I’m Sorry’, it makes all wrongs right.”

Hillary, Hillary, are you for real?

“My focus group gives me that warm, homespun feel.”

Hillary, Hillary, why the long breaks?

“I’ll sit on the throne for as long as it takes.”

Hillary, Hillary, are aliens here? (1)

“Yes, many, I think, we must welcome and cheer.”

Hillary, Hillary, are Spirits for real? (2)

“Yes, Eleanor Roosevelt sure was, I did feel.”

Hillary, Hillary, are you a felon? (3)

“In a dream that the right wing conspirators dwell on.”

Hillary, Hillary, are you immune? (4)

“I’m too big to jail, what do you impugn?”

Hillary, Hillary, are you insane? (5)

“My rat poison clot drugs play tricks with my brain.”

Hillary, Hillary, what’s wrong with coal? …(6)

“I’m clean, I’m green, no coal is my goal.”

Hillary, Hillary, do you remember? (7)

“We lost no one in Libya, not one single member.”

Hillary, Hillary, my health care’s sky high!

“I know best, so obey and pay up, you gadfly! (8)

Hillary, Hillary, have you been hacked?

“Indeed, I’ve been hacked, code cracked and bushwhacked.” (9)

Hillary, Hillary, are the borders secure?

“As secure as my server, of that I am sure.” (10)

Hillary, Hillary, can you tell truth?

“I’m better at lies, I have lied since my youth.”

Hillary, Hillary, what is top secret?

“I’m too dumb to know if it hasn’t been marked yet.” (11)

Hillary, Hillary, are you a crook?

“I make the rules and couldn’t care less, it’s not in MY book.” (12)

Hillary, Hillary, does love trump hate?

“It’s Bills and mine perverted

LOVE

Trumps’

Hate” (13)

Hillary, Hillary, what’s your foundation?

“A charity fraud; a Clinton creation.” (14)

Hillary, Hillary, what? Go to where?

“When are they going to get those f—ing ree-tards out of here?!” (15)

Hillary, Hillary, are you corrupt?

“As corrupt as they go. Go away, don’t disrupt!” (16)

Hillary, Hillary, did FBI call?

“I cannot recall, I’ve had a great fall.” (17)

Hillary, Hillary, why do you lie?

“To conceal my true aim, and so Congress can’t spy!” (18)

Hillary, Hillary, are you untouchable?

“Obama told FBI and Loretta: Not culpable.” (19)

Hillary, Hillary, what’s classified?

“Have no idea. I’ve nothing to hide.”

Hillary, Hillary, nothing to hide?

“Only the personal, nothing beside.”

Hillary, Hillary, no secret e-mail?

None that were marked, it’s the hackers tall tail.”

Hillary, Hillary, will you go free?

“Absolutely! It’s only a vast right wing conspiracy.” (20)

Hillary, Hillary, what’s FBI?

“Speaking of witch. I can lie, I can sigh, I can fly!”(21)

Hillary, Hillary, do black lives matter?

“Not if they’re unborn, serve their heads on a platter.”(22)

Hillary, Hillary, do you love dogs?

“Like Muslims I hate them. Get that Fu****g dog away from me!” (23)

Hillary, Hillary, do you short-circuit?

“When tell truth is duty, I always will shirk it.” (24)

Hillary, Hillary, can you climb stairs?

“I am weak, I am frail, I’m unstable, who cares?” (25)

Hillary, Hillary, do you wear diapers?

“It’s the least of my problems, I have to dodge snipers.” (26)

Hillary, Hillary, what’s your disease?

“It’s Parkinson’s. That’s why there’s “no flashes, please.” (27)

Hillary, Hillary, are you THE threat?

“I’m the most careless, don’t you forget!” (28)

Hillary, Hillary, can your recall?

“I can’t, my memory’s shot since I had my blood-clot.” (29)

Hillary, Hillary, how was your concussion?

“That’s sexist and bigoted, end of discussion.” (30)

Hillary, Hillary, why do you cough?

“I’m allergic to Trump. Now will you buzz off!” (31)

Hillary, Hillary, lost your devices?

“Who? Me? It depends. What do you devise a device is?” (32)

Hillary, Hillary, laundering money?

“I wipe it untraceable, isn’t it funny?” (33)

Hillary, Hillary, were you sedated?

“After the week I had, I felt deflated.” (34)

Hillary, Hillary, what’s with your eyes?

“Oh, nothing compared to my failures and lies.”(35)

Hillary, Hillary, will you be in jail?

“I always escape. I will not fail.”(36)

Hillary, Hillary, is your goose cooked?

“I’m too big to jail, for the White House I’m booked.” (37)

Hillary, Hillary, why so alone?

“Lost election and friends, I am bad to the bone.” (38)

Hillary, Hillary, who do you blame?

“The FBI, James Coney, the Russians, Vladimir Putin, ‘Anti-American forces’, low information voters, voters wanting change, Obama winning two terms, people assuming I’d win, misogynists, racists, homophobics, suburban white women, anti women’s reproductive rights groups, Christians still believing God’s word, misleading polling numbers, the vast right wing conspiracy paper ‘The New York Times’, television executives showing right wing bias, cable news, the right wing documentaries of netflix, democrats not making progressive documentaries, Facebook, Twitter, Wikileaks, Fake News, ‘Content farms in Macedonia’, hostile local news reporters, the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, and the DNC being so broke that I personally had to inject funds to get their full cooperation,

but not me, and not Trump, that’s a shame.”

(1) https://lenbilen.com/2016/01/05/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-aliens-aliens/

(2) https://lenbilen.com/2016/01/05/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-spirits-alive/

(3) https://lenbilen.com/2016/02/10/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-hillary-the-felon/

(4) https://lenbilen.com/2016/03/02/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-immunity-for-hillarys-e-mails/

(5) https://lenbilen.com/2016/03/14/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-the-dangers-of-blood-clot-medication/

(6) https://lenbilen.com/2016/03/15/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-closing-the-coal-mines/

(7) https://lenbilen.com/2016/03/15/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-hillarys-memory/

(8) https://lenbilen.com/2016/03/16/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-obamacare-best-for-you/

(9) https://lenbilen.com/2016/03/18/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-hillary-hacked/

(10) https://lenbilen.com/2016/03/18/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-secure-borders/

(11) https://lenbilen.com/2016/04/11/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-what-is-top-secret/

(12) https://lenbilen.com/2016/04/18/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-crooked-hillary/

(13) https://lenbilen.com/2016/04/29/love-trumps-hate-one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme/

(14) https://lenbilen.com/2016/05/11/a-charity-fraud-the-clinton-foundation-one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-as-a-nursery-fryme/

(15) https://lenbilen.com/2016/05/21/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-losing-it/

(16) https://lenbilen.com/2016/05/21/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-hillary-the-corrupt/

(17) https://lenbilen.com/2016/05/23/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-the-fbi-men-cometh/

(18) https://lenbilen.com/2016/05/30/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-hillary-the-liar/

(19) https://lenbilen.com/2016/06/14/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-hillary-untouchable/

(20) https://lenbilen.com/2016/06/30/four-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-confidential-classified-secret-whats-that/

(21) https://lenbilen.com/2016/07/02/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-the-fbi-interview/

(22) https://lenbilen.com/2016/07/17/do-black-lives-matter-one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme/

(23) https://lenbilen.com/2016/08/03/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-her-love-for-dogs/

(24) https://lenbilen.com/2016/08/06/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-hillary-short-circuits/

(25) https://lenbilen.com/2016/08/08/5256/

(26) https://lenbilen.com/2016/08/18/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-is-is-wikileaks/

(27) https://lenbilen.com/2016/08/21/5317/

(28) https://lenbilen.com/2016/08/22/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-national-security-threat/

(29) https://lenbilen.com/2016/09/02/one-more-verse-of-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-perfect-unrecall/

(30) https://lenbilen.com/2016/09/03/one-more-verse-of-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-concussion-discussion/

(31) https://lenbilen.com/2016/09/05/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-cough-cough/

(32) https://lenbilen.com/2016/09/06/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-hillary-lost-her-devices/

(33) https://lenbilen.com/2016/09/14/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-the-clinton-foundation-money-laundering-machine/

(34) https://lenbilen.com/2016/09/18/5453/

(35) https://lenbilen.com/2016/09/24/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-hillary-clinton-cross-eyed/

(36) https://lenbilen.com/2016/10/10/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-jail-for-hillary/

(37) https://lenbilen.com/2016/10/29/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-cooked-goose/

(38) https://lenbilen.com/2017/01/01/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-hillary-left-alone/

The whole nursery rhyme: https://lenbilen.com/2015/05/17/hillary-clinton-as-a-nursery-rhyme/

Nikki Haley did it again! Snagged the Volvo deal

Nikki Haley did it again! She had a meteoric rise in the South Carolina Legislature, and her big break came when Governor Mark Sanford had some extramarital incidents and then he and his (ex)wife endorsed her for Governor in 2010. Even with the Sanfords’ endorsements she was mired in fourth place in the polls. Then Governor Sarah Palin endorsed her and it propelled her to first place. She forced a run-off in the GOP primary, which she easily won, and after some planted stories from fellow Republicans Sarah Palin stood by her, and she became Governor, the youngest U.S Governor, female minority to boot. She has done a lot of things right for South Carolina since then, so she won re-election easily in 2014.

Her latest feat is snagging the Volvo assembly plant.

Gov. Nikki Haley and state Commerce officials made the bombshell revelation that Volvo Cars has decided to open its first U.S.-based plant in Berkeley County, bringing millions in investment and 4,000 jobs to the state by 2020

Haley said the Charleston Port was a deciding factor in snagging the deal.

“And they wanted to see a state that was going to care about the business atmosphere, but more than that, a state that was going to have a relationship. Because they wanted to be made in America, and all credit goes to Volvo Cars for saying we want to make it in America. More importantly, we love that they’re now going to be made in South Carolina,” Haley said.

The $500 million facility at the Berkeley County timber plantation, which is nearly 40 miles northwest of port and export-rich Charleston. At full capacity, 100,000 cars will be built at the factory each year.

Haley credited the state’s workforce for helping land the automaker.

“They saw the fact that this is a state where they build planes,” Haley said. “We now have three car companies, we now have five tire companies. We have carbon fiber, we have TV. What they knew was if we build it, we build it well, we build it with quality, we build it with loyalty, and we build it with pride. And that’s something you can’t just find anywhere.”

Information on jobs at the plant can be found online. Or, if you’re a vendor interested in doing business with the plant, you can find that information on the Commerce Department’s website.

So, what is so good about the South Carolina Workforce? Besides being a right to work state, and a nearby good port in Charleston, what else is there?

South Carolina has a very good Technical College system with Workforce Training with readySC™, providing well-trained employees to qualifying companies that invest in South Carolina. A comprehensive and customized process, readySC™ includes recruiting, screening and training, tailoring guidelines and curriculum to fit a company’s needs. This is not Crony Capitalism, just concern for a well trained and educated work force.

This is the future of manufacturing. Rather than concentrating of University education, the backbone of manufacturing is through Technical College, and even trade schools.

Good going, Nikki Haley and South Carolina!

The Bosch Fawstin cartoon of Muhammad. A Limerick.

If “You cannot draw me” means fiefdom

then “That’s why I draw you” is wisdom.

This Bosch Fawstin cartoon

does Muhammad lampoon.

Islam* means to stamp out our freedom.

Islam means submission. It originally meant submission to the will of God, but has morphed into submission to Sharia law as interpreted by the local governments, the Mullahs, the Imams and above all the Caliph.

The Koran does not forbid drawing pictures of Muhammad. In 1935 a fresco relief of Moses, Muhammad, Confucius, Hammurabi and others was put up in the U.S Supreme Court building, and nobody objected.. The idea that all images must be destroyed came from the Taliban and they destroyed among other things the Buddhas of Bamiyan in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols.

Freedom of religion and speech must be defended at all cost, and Bosch Fawstin has asked his prize winning cartoon to be widely distributed, since the official media is not doing it and his Facebook page is taken down.

Christian nun from Nineveh denied visa to testify before Congress. A Limerick. Update: Visa granted thanks to pressure from the American People.

A Nineveh nun fled from ISIS,

deny her a visa not wise is.

For she would testify

before Congress, and why

Islam – Peace the biggest of lies is.

Background:

A leading conservative is asking why the Obama State Department is barring a persecuted Iraqi nun from entry into the United States to share her message about the brutal treatment of Christians in her country.

Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, writes in a National Review op-ed that Sister Diana Momeka is “an internationally respected and leading representative of the Nineveh Christians who have been killed and deported by ISIS.”

Yet this nun is being “barred from coming to Washington to testify about this catastrophe?”

Sister Diana was the only Christian in the delegation and the only member blocked from the trip, the Washington Times reported, leading some of her American supporters to question why she was singled out.

Shea, in her op-ed titled “With Malice Toward Nun,” exposed the real reason why Obama denied the visa for Sister Diana.

“Sister Diana Momeka of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena was informed on Tuesday by the U.S. consulate in Erbil that her non-immigrant-visa application has been rejected.

“The reason given in the denial letter, a copy of which I have obtained, is:
‘You were not able to demonstrate that your intended activities in the United States would be consistent with the classification of the visa.’”

Full story at http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/obama-blocks-iraqi-nun-from-describing-christian-persecution/#R2cfAgkcw6eSMEDe.99

Update: Pressure from outraged Newsmax TV viewers and others has forced the State Department to reverse course and grant a visa allowing an Iraqi nun into the United States to speak out about “Christian genocide” in the Middle East, author Johnnie Moore revealed Friday on “Newsmax Prime.”

In an interview with host J.D. Hayworth, Moore credited Newsmax TV viewers with helping to put enormous pressure on the Obama administration to allow Dominican Sister Diana Momeka to come to Washington to talk about the persecution of Christians in her war-torn nation.

“Newsmax made the first call to contact government officials, and I’m absolutely convinced that we wouldn’t have seen the response that we saw had Newsmax not stepped up. I’m incredibly grateful for what you did,” Moore said.

Story continues at: http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Johnnie-Moore-nun-granted-visa/2015/05/08/id/643594/#ixzz3Zdmk5hNx

A Limerick comparison of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.

Who fears Sarah Palin? Elite, left and right.

That leaves us the people. Oh, what a delight.

With Clinton the dimwit*

and Palin the true grit.

The choice is quite clear and the fight is a sight.

*Definitions of dimwit:

1: A person looking up the word “dimwit” in a dictionary not knowing what it means.

2: Someone with crazy ideas that could be considered dangerous

3: Someone who doesn’t know what she is doing

4: Someone who does things just to gain acceptance from others, not because she is a real personality.

A couple of observations. Sarah Palin released all her official e-mails, both public and private, a total of 41935 (24199 + 17736)

There was nothing unlawful or even embarrassing about any of them. They showed a hard working Governor, working for the people of Alaska, using descriptive words that encourage both creativity and loyalty. She did not blame others, but remedied situations most effectively.

Hillary Clinton on the other hand used exclusively a personal server in violation of Government rules, professionally set up and maintained with proper backups. After being asked by Congress to provide all pertinent e-mails to Congress she deleted 30000+ “personal” e-mails. And not only that, she had the server professionally wiped clean, and one can only assume the professionally maintained backups were destroyed too. Incidentally, all her e-mails during the Benghazi crisis were “personal.”