Donald Trump is America's Santa Claus

If the blind are leading the blind, who is watching out for the potholes?

A few weeks ago word leaked out that one of the most popular Christian businesses in America, Chick-fil-A, had dropped three of their long time charities. To make matters worse, that news was followed by confirmation that the Chick-fil-A Foundation had decided to become more socially inclusive and had begun to support LGBT and anti-Christian groups. The entire list was discovered buried inside the organizations massive IRS form 990-PF list of charitable contributions. Right there on page 11, among hundreds of groups, the name of the arch-enemy of every Conservative was the $2500. donation to the SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC, 400 WASHINGTON AVENUE, MONTGOMERY, AL 36104.

Damn history always repeats itself when people ignore it. The Boy Scouts of America is on the verge of bankruptcy today because they capitulated to the demands to become inclusive. First they changed their policy and allowed homosexual scouts, then they changed their policy and allowed homosexual scout leaders, then the secretly covered up the abuses of the homosexual scout leaders, then they mortgaged their possessions to pay for the lawsuits.

Memo to Chick-fil-A From the BSA

Alexander's Column on The Patriot Post

There is a lot to admire about Chick-fil-A, but good, faithful people can make poor decisions.

Mark Alexander · Nov. 26, 2019

I was a Boy Scouts of America leader for almost 15 years, my two sons are Eagle Scouts, and for the last 10 years, I have served on the Executive Board of a historic Council. It is with that background for context that I issue the following warning to our friends at Chick-fil-A.

I have watched the National BSA’s slow-motion slide from one of the nation’s leading character-building organizations for young men into the cultural abyss that inevitably follows the implementation of policies endeavoring to comport with the current gender devolution orthodoxy.

I was struck this week by a comment from Russell Ballard, a leader of the Mormon Church and member of its Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Ballard was explaining the upcoming divorce between the Boy Scouts of America (now “The Scouts”) and Scout Units associated with the Mormon Church.

Ballard claimed, “The reality is we didn’t really leave them; they kind of left us. The direction they were going was not consistent to what we feel our youth need to have … to survive in the world that lies ahead for them.”

That statement is grossly inaccurate because, in 2013, it was BSA President Wayne Perry, a Mormon, who led the charge to allow gender-confused youth — those who identify as “gay” — into the ranks of the Boy Scouts. Announcing that policy change in May of that year, Perry insisted that the “resolution reaffirms our core belief in doing one’s ‘duty to God,’” but insisted the BSA “would maintain the current membership policy for all adult leaders,” prohibiting homosexual leaders. But Perry was also quick to note: “Some have voiced concerns that this proposal could put children at risk of being abused. The BSA makes no connection between sexual abuse and homosexuality.”

Ahead of that national BSA board decision, I wrote an open letter to an Eagle Scout, knowing that after so much effort to obtain that rank, this decision would be demoralizing to many Eagle Scouts. I also warned that opening this capitulatory door would lead to demands for homosexual adult leaders.

Indeed, in July 2015, the BSA national board changed their policy to allow homosexual leaders. I responded with a critical analysis of that terrible decision: “The Boy Scouts’ ‘Gay Pride’ Merit Badge.”

In January 2017, the BSA national board capitulated to the next demand, allowing so-called “transgender youth.” For the record, there is no such thing as “transgender.” Regardless of what self-mutilation one undertakes, genetically they will be the same gender from birth to death. But I digress…

It is no small irony that, last year, the BSA announced it was facing the prospect of bankruptcy due to lawsuits in response to homosexual predation on boys — given that BSA leaders had attempted to conceal information about these predators for decades. (They have even mortgaged their crown jewel, Philmont Scout Ranch, reportedly for a line of credit to settle claims.)

In other words, the national BSA board already knew there was a history of adult predators, but still implemented policies that would expose more boys to predation. Despite the fact that virtually all BSA sexual assaults have been homosexual, recall Perry’s mindless assertion: “The BSA makes no connection between sexual abuse and homosexuality.”

As a result of the absurd BSA policy changes, from 2013 to 2018, scouting membership dropped from 2.7 million to 2 million. In January of next year, the BSA will lose an estimated 400,000 LDS Youth members, bringing national membership down to 1.6 million.

So what is the lesson here for Chick-fil-A and its recent policy changes regarding Christian organizations it supports?

First, one reason the BSA capitulated to homosexuals is that the national board is populated with wealthy corporate types — they are fundraisers who also have to be concerned that their association with the BSA might cause a boycott of their corporations. Thus it is a “Faustian Bargain” to invite wealthy corporate types as board members and trustees, thus the board pressure behind these changes.

But Chick-fil-A is a privately held company and its board is controlled by CEO Dan Cathy, son of company founder Truett Cathy, and his family. Thus they do not have the same public corporate motive to abide by leftist social orthodoxies. The primary question for the Cathy family is one of balancing principles with profits.

Second, I have met the Cathys, and many folks with Chick-fil-A, and I know well the extraordinary support they have provided to faith-based groups over the decades. But they have been under assault by homosexual advocacy groups since 2012, when Dan Cathy made clear his opposition to same-sex marriage based on clear Christian principles.

The recent decision to drop some Christian organizations from their support roster after their commitments expired, was arguably based on the company’s store expansion priorities — and not wanting to meet homosexual resistance in those markets. Chick-fil-A President Tim Tassopoulos commented on those priorities as they related to dropping some Christian ministries: “There’s no question we know that, as we go into new markets, we need to be clear about who we are. There are lots of articles and newscasts about Chick-fil-A, and we thought we needed to be clear about our message.”

But the decision to make those changes originated with Rodney D. Bullard, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility for Chick-fil-A, which includes Community Affairs and Environmental Sustainability initiatives. Bullard is also executive director of Chick-fil-A Foundation, from where the company’s $10 million in annual charitable donations are awarded.

Bullard is an exceptional person. He grew up in Decatur, Georgia, the son of a minister and educator, in a faithful household with limited means. He struggled to read at an early age but overcame that struggle with the help of a teacher who took a special interest in his situation and tutored him. He says, “If not for Mrs. Adams, I might have lost faith in myself and never realized the power of my ability to learn.”

Bullard is a model of that “power and ability,” coming a long way uphill since he learned to read. From modest beginnings, he earned an appointment to the Air Force Academy. After graduating from USAFA, he achieved loftier goals, including being selected to serve as a White House Fellow under the Bush(43) administration. He earned a law degree from Duke University and worked for the Department of Justice prior to being hired by Chick-fil-A.

In a May interview, Bullard declared that Chick-fil-A Foundation was guided by a “higher calling than any political or cultural war.” But the political and cultural doors he has opened imply that “higher calling” is being unduly influenced by the “political or cultural war.”

There is a lot to admire about Rodney Bullard, the Cathy family and Chick-fil-A. This is a good company run by good people who do a lot of good things for their employees, customers and the communities they serve. But good people of faith can make poor decisions and, in my estimation, the recent decision to drop Christian organizations that support the timeless traditional definition of marriage and family hints at a trend toward placing profits over principles. Moreover it may foretell a slide toward simultaneously being “in the world” and “of the world,” rather than in the world, but not of the world. That is a faith and culture bridge that Truett Cathy would never have attempted to cross.

All said, the primary lesson from the BSA for Chick-fil-A is this: Similar to the BSA, Chick-fil-A’s corporate model and customer base have been built on a foundation of strong Christian principles.

Devaluing those principles devalues their customer base. And opening the door to such devaluation has already invited more efforts to silence the principles upon which this good company was founded.

My name is Nelson Abdullah and I am Oldironsides

RINO's without backbones

Its unfortunate that the mighty African Rhino has to share an acronym with the weakest low life in politics, the Republican In Name Only. Too many times the voters have given control of Congress and the White House to Republicans only to find a bunch of weak-kneed do-gooders who couldn't flush a toilet let alone drain a swamp.

As soon as the Republicans took control of both houses of Congress in January 2017 I suspected President Trump was going to have trouble cleaning out the swamp when some leading Republicans began saying we don't prosecute our opposition like third world countries do. That attitude is going to be the downfall of the GOP unless our leaders begin to adopt the same aggressive tactics that the Democrats have used.

The political facts of life

I thinks its a bad idea to consider political opponents untouchable for their crimes just because some politicians feel prosecuting opponents would make us appear to be like some third-world dictatorship. This is why the Democrats have so many candidates running for president.

 My name is Nelson Abdullah and I am Oldironsides

When are we going to start fighting the lying liberal news media?

Ever hear the expression, Everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it? 

Yeah, and what about the lying liberal news on television? Did you know that every TV station has a broadcast license and they have to get it renewed by the Federal Communications Commission. And you have a right to file an objection. One objection doesn't bear enough weight but tens of thousands do. So when are conservatives going to start?

All of the following links came from the FCC web site. If you want read them and find out how to fight back and then start writing letters.

Broadcast Television License Renewals by STATE

https://www.fcc.gov/media/television/broadcast-television-license-renewal-dates-by-state

Petitions to Deny / Informal Objections

https://www.fcc.gov/media/television/broadcast-television-license-renewal#P2D

License Renewal Applications for Television Broadcast Stations

 https://www.fcc.gov/media/television/broadcast-television-license-renewal?fbclid=IwAR3H5tnyYoCV9fX_9dfCfFPhK9VN59IS94Rkrm4usl-1XNyKhflJ74uv510

Public-participation-in-the-license-renewal-process.pdf

https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/public-participation-license-renewal-process.pdf

Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554

Public Participation in the License Renewal Process

All broadcast station licenses are granted by the Commission for a term of eight years. Currently, all radio station licenses are scheduled to expire between 2019 and 2022. All television station licenses are scheduled to expire between 2020 and 2023

Commission’s Rules. Internet links to that schedule are provided in the next paragraph.

During the license renewal process, viewers and listeners of the stations whose licenses are up for renewal may participate in the process either by filing a petition to deny or an informal objection against a renewal or by filing positive comments about a broadcaster’s service. The petition to deny is more formal and must meet certain procedural requirements discussed below.

Go to this web page and download the PDF instructions

My name is Nelson Abdullah and I am Oldironsides

These are the faces of The New Democrats in 2020

Democrat makes Gun Control promise

A person drunk with power will never tell you a lie. Neither will a political party. Now we know what Gun Control really means to Democrats. 

This is what it means to me.

September 11, 2001 the day that changed every life in America

Documenting how "Evil Never Sleeps" may be an unending story.

Two things happened yesterday on different sides of the country that explain how badly Democrats and RINOs have ruined our nation. In a Federal Court in Alexandria, Virginia U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga, who was appointed by President George W. Bush,  ruled that the government’s Terror Watchlist that placed suspected Muslims on the “No Fly” list violated their constitutional rights. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the unindicted co-conspirators in the Hamas Holy Land terror funding case, challenged the watchlist on behalf of Muslims.

In California, the Board of Supervisors for the City and County of San Francisco voted unanimously to declare the National Rifle Association as a Domestic Terrorist Organization. To put things into proper perspective it should be noted that the NRA has been accused of almost every crime in recent years except hijacking airplanes and flying them into buildings.

Evil never sleeps and neither do Liberals trying to change America.

The liberal mob has been working overtime for decades to redefine our society. They have a unique talent for coining hot words that get embedded into our vernacular and live on forever. 50 years ago in N.Y. the liberals wanted to ban "Saturday Night Specials" supposedly a cheap, sometimes home made, device that was able to shoot bullets. When the law was finally written it included dozens of name brand expensive revolvers and pistols.

Today, sporting guns often imitate the appearance but not the function of military weapons. So the liberals coined a new scary term, "Assault Weapon", a term the military doesn’t even use.  And any rifle that isn't made with a wood or plastic stock and is black in color is now described as an assault weapon. And liberals don’t even know what they’re talking about. Watch this video on CNN about the “fully semi-automatic” assault weapon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xVQXCL2JGA

There are two points about the 2^nd Amendment that everyone needs to understand. First, the purpose of the Amendment was: “necessary to the security of a free state” that is, to arm the public to stand against a tyrannical government. Second, when it was written, the public was allowed to own the same weapons that the military was using. 

A long time ago someone described the gradual loss of our liberty as the Salami Principle. If that group wishing to deprive American citizens of their freedom sliced off a large chunk it would be made immediately clear and civil war would result. But if the salami was whittled down, one thin slice at a time, no one would notice.

Such is the case with The Right To Keep And Bear Arms. At one time prior to the Second World War it was not illegal to own a fully automatic sub-machine gun. Today any modern weapon that looks anything like a military weapon is scorned as an Assault Weapon. The goal of the Liberal mob is to disarm American citizens and they are patiently trying every little sneaky tactic they can think of. They claim they want enhanced background checks but wrap that around gun registration. Once our guns are registered we stand to witness a repeat of confiscation as happened in pre-WWII Germany. Now they have dreamed up something new, the Red Flag laws. 

A few years ago, during the Obama administration the anti-gun liberals managed to change the law affecting older recipients of Social Security. They decided that anyone collecting Social Security who used a family member to pay their bills was incompetent to handle their own affairs and shouldn't own guns. Luckily, this rule was cancelled when Donald Trump became president.

The SH!T is about to hit the fan.

Weak-kneed Republicans are now leaning toward RED FLAG laws. Like any new law passed with good intentions, anti-gun fanatics will find a way to abuse it. So be very aware of the Red Flag Laws. The theory sounds good, a family member alerts police of an older relative that has signs of emotional problems so they go get a court order to remove that person's guns. But then the law gets misused and it becomes a friend or neighbor or a stranger that complains to the police and there is no burden of proof before they take away your guns.
 
The comments from the anti-gun mob prove only one thing, being Liberal is a mental illness. And you cannot win an argument with a Liberal by using facts. They have never offered a concise rational rebuttal to the simple phrase: "When all guns are outlawed, only outlaws will own guns." I am not referring to the logic that law-abiding patriots will become outlaws when they refuse to surrender their guns, I am referring to the simple fact that criminals today, by virtue of the fact that they are criminals, would not be expected to give up the tools of their trade nor would they be impeded by any proposed gun laws any more than they are impeded by existing gun laws.

 My name is Nelson Abdullah and I am Oldironsides