Muslims try to make us all Muslims. Yes, here.

https://www.facebook.com/messages/t/jerry.boyd.3914

Weknow how Muslims work trying to make others Muslim. By terrorism. This Congresswoman declares herself to be a terrorist.

Poems for our friends who lost a loved four legger.

Lucky Cat

My eyes are getting heavy now, my time has come to leave,

but one thing I must tell you as you stay behind to grieve. . . .

You always did your best for me, your love it knew no end,

I really was a Lucky Cat to have you as my Friend.

I see how much you miss me now,

your days seem bleak and bare,

I know you well, your heart is big,

you still have love to share.

So please don’t sit and cry for me,

we’ll meet around the bend,

til then another Lucky Cat

is waiting for a Friend.

A Dog’s Bequest

Before humans die, they write their last will & testament, give their home and all they have to those they leave behind.  If, with my paws, I could do the same, this is what I’d ask. . . .

To a poor and lonely stray I’d give my happy home; my bowl and cozy bed; soft pillow and all my toys;

The lap which I have loved so much; the hand that stroked my fur; and the sweet voice that spoke my name.

I’d will to the sad, scared shelter dog the place I had in my human’s loving heart, of which there seemed no bounds.

So, when I die, please do not say,l “I will never have a pet again, for the loss and pain is more than I can stand.”

Instead, go find an unloved dog, one whose life has held no joy or hope, and give my place to him.

This is the only thing I can give. . .

. . . . .The love I left behind.

Comments of the Betsy Ross flag.

Why Nike’s Capitulation To Kaepernick Matters

Stop normalizing the brittle sensibilities of social justice warriors.

By David Harsanyi

JULY 2, 2019

Colin Kaepernick has made a fantastic living out of protesting the America flag. That’s fine. No political speech should be inhibited, not even pseudo-intellectual historical revisionism. But let’s stop pretending that kneeling during the national anthem at sporting events is really about “respecting the flag” or criminal justice reform or any fixable policy problem.

Whatever the underlying causes for Kaepernick’s popularity—some of them certainly legitimate—these protests are acts of contempt toward an irredeemable nation created in sin. This view of our founding is an increasingly popular position on the left. And if it ever takes hold in mainstream American life, we’re in real trouble.

After pictures of Nike’s Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July edition were released online, Kaepernick, who “sacrificed everything” by making tens of millions of dollars as a corporate-sponsored activist, reportedly complained to company officials that the Betsy Ross flag on the back of a proposed sneaker was an offensive symbol because of its “connection to an era of slavery.”

It seems unlikely that being triggered by an 18th century Quaker seamstress is going to help reduce police brutality. But the sneakers themselves aren’t really the point. (I’m skeptical that the entire episode wasn’t just cooked up to bring attention to the company.) As an old-timey flag-waver, though, I am curious which other American icons and beliefs will be deemed offensive as we head towards full wokeness.

After all, everything about the founding is—tenuously or otherwise—connected to an “era of slavery.” This pretty much means not only every patriotic symbol of the era, but all the principles that gird the small-l, freedom-guaranteeing liberalism that was codified by the founders—many of whom, it should be stressed, were far more enlightened than their contemporary critics, certainly the Fidel Castro-praisingKaepernick.

Without this tangible set of enduring ideals, we have nothing as a national entity but a batch of constantly evolving progressive grievances.

Now, if you’re genuinely upset by the legendary embroidery of Betsy Ross—and it seems unlikely that many Americans are—you’re probably not equipped to engage in serious political discourse, anyway. I can assure you Kaepernick will be the victor in any debate over slavery, since there will be no one taking the other side. That discussion ended after a bloody war a long time ago.

Still, the usual suspects rushed to defend Kaepernick, claiming that “some” white nationalists had adopted the original flag, making it offensive. BuzzFeed was only able to dig up two instances to bolster this risible theory. In one, a member “of white nationalist group Identity Evropa” reportedly displayed the flag and, in another, a bunch of high school students in Grand Rapids, Michigan, “displayed the Betsy Ross flag along with a Trump campaign flag” because, I guess, we’re just going to keep conflating Trump supporters with Klansmen.

Even if this theory were correct, and even if Kaepernick’s problem with the sneakers involved the flag’s appropriation by racists and not a connection to an “era of slavery,” white nationalists have no claim to an iconic image. Mass consumption of sneakers with a Betsy Ross flag image would be a great way to take it back, in fact.

As far as I can tell, Kaepernick has never claimed to protest the American flag because we, as a nation, have failed to live up to the inherent values it represents. He protests it because he thinks the image epitomizes oppression.

“Instead of celebrating American history the week of our nation’s independence, Nike has apparently decided that Betsy Ross is unworthy, and has bowed to the current onslaught of political correctness and historical revisionism,” Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said, after announcing he was ordering the Arizona Commerce Authority to withdraw incentives for Nike building a manufacturing plant in the state.

I don’t typically care for this sort of political showboating, but corporations shouldn’t be getting any crony carve-outs from state governments, anyway. And rent-seeking mega-corporations that are offended by iconic images of the nation’s founding certainly don’t deserve them. Yet, we also don’t need the state monitoring anyone’s speech.

Then again, progressives who try to use the state to destroy chicken-sandwich chainsand cake shops that fail to pledge allegiance to their doctrines, can’t act surprised when Americans start being offended that a giant sportswear company has adopted regressive hard-left positions.

Nike can do what it likes, of course. For example, just this week, the company submitted to the authoritarian Chinese government and stopped selling certain products after one of its fashion designers went on Instagram to support protests in Hong Kong. If an iconic American company like Nike, built in a free enterprise system, is helping to normalize both the brittle sensitivities of social justice warriors and Chinese communists, I suppose people might start getting offended themselves.

Many of the same people who treat flag-waving Americans as jingoistic rubes claim that Kaepernick’s protests were meaningful and important. Either the flag matters or it doesn’t. If those who see the flag as a representation of the worst aspects of American life believe it’s worth protesting, then surely those who see it as a symbol of our best characteristics should find it worth defending, as well.

David Harsanyi is a Senior Editor at The Federalist. He is the author of First Freedom: A Ride Through America's Enduring History with the Gun, From the Revolution to Today.Follow him on Twitter

The duck and the lawyer.

THE DUCK AND THE LAWYER

A big city lawyer went duck hunting in rural North Dakota. He shot a bird, but it fell into the field on the other side of the fence.

As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked him what he was doing.

The litigator responded, "I shot a duck and it fell in this field, and now I'm going to retrieve it."

The old farmer replied, "This is my property, and you are not coming over here."

The indignant lawyer said, "I am one of the best trial attorneys in New York and, if you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take everything you own."

The old farmer smiled and said, "Apparently, you don't know how we settle disputes in North Dakota.  We settle small disagreements like this with the Three Kick Rule."

The lawyer asked, "What’s the Three Kick Rule?"

The Farmer replied, "Well, because the dispute occurs on my land, I get to go first. I kick you three times and then you kick me three times and so on back and forth until someone gives up."

The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local custom.

The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the attorney. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy steel-toed work boot into the lawyer's groin and dropped him to his knees!

His second kick to the midriff sent the lawyer's last meal gushing from his mouth. The lawyer was on all fours when the farmer's third kick to his rear end sent him face-first into a fresh cow pie.

The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and remaining strength and very slowly managed to get to his feet. Wiping his face with the arm of his jacket, he said, "Okay, you old fart. Now it's my turn."

(I love this part)

The old farmer smiled and said, "Nah, I give up. You can have the duck."

This is NOT idiocy. It is beyond that.

We have not had an IDIOT OF THE DAY award like this for a while.

But we do today. It is getting harder and harder to believe that some folks are serious. Is she putting us on?

A gun accident and its aftermath in California.

  Linda Burnett, 23, a resident of San Diego, was visiting her 

in-laws and while there went to a nearby supermarket to pick up some

groceries. Later, her husband noticed her sitting in her car in the

driveway with the car running and the windows rolled up.  Her eyes were

closed with both hands behind the back of her head. He became

concerned and walked over to the car. He noticed  that Linda's eyes

were now open and she looked very strange. He asked her if she was

okay; Linda replied that she had been shot in the back of the head and

had been holding her brains in for over an hour (at least it seemed

that way to her, it actually had been 15 minutes, she blamed the

inability to tell time on her head injury).


The husband called the paramedics, who broke into the car because

the doors were locked and Linda refused to remove her hands from her

head.


When they finally got in, they found that Linda had a wad of bread

dough on the back of her head.  From the back seat a Pillsbury biscuit

canister had exploded from the heat, making a loud noise that sounded

like a gunshot, and the wad of dough hit her in the back of her head.

When she reached back to find out what it was, she felt the dough and

thought it was her brains. She initially passed out, but quickly

recovered.


Linda is blonde, a Democrat, and a Biden supporter; but that

could all be a coincidence.


The defective biscuit canister was analyzed and it was determined to

be Trump's fault. 

Tongue and Cheek Crammer Lesson

Everyone can use a little "grammar" update now and then, so here's yours for today... enjoy!

  Is it "complete", "finished", or "completely finished"?

No English dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference between these two words - "Complete" or "Finished". 

In a recent linguistic competition held in London and attended by, supposedly, the best in the world, Samdar Balgobin, a Guyanese man, was the clear winner with a standing ovation which lasted over 5 minutes. 

The final question was: 'How do you explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED in a way that is easy to understand?  Some people say there is no difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED.' 

Here is his astute answer: 

"When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE.  When you marry the wrong woman, you are FINISHED.  And when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!" 

He won a trip around the world and a case of 25 year old Scotch!