Sunday Quick Thought: Trump to Visit Memphis as Teens “Takeover” Beale St.

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It’s Sunday and here’s your quick thought for today: Tomorrow President Donald J Trump is coming to my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

He is coming there to praise the great work of the Safe Task Force for curtailing crime. And, he is right to do so. Crime is down 78%.

However, there is still a problem in Memphis Tennessee and other cities in the country.

Teenagers, using social media, are organizing takeovers of downtown areas where they gather to play music out of their cars, doing donuts in the middle of the street, having fights with one another, shooting off fireworks, and, even worse, guns.

One such event happened Friday night as 200 Memphis “teens” gathered downtown, resulting in one person being injured.

The problem is, Memphis doesn’t have enough police and the municipal government is too gutless to do something about it because they are too busy flapping their gums.

I have seen a lot of turbulence and trouble in the Bluff City over those years.

I can remember being 9 years old watching the Lone Ranger on my parents’ blonde wood black and white console TV, wondering if the rollie pollies that I’d put in a pill bottle on the top of it were going to survive, when all of the sudden a Civil Defense sign came up and a voice told all National Guard members to come to the Armory immediately.

My mother was already at home in Midtown Memphis, having returned from work at Sears Crosstown, which was basically down the street, but my dad had to come about 15 miles to make it home.

Those were anxious hours.

As time marched on, I was part of the busing generation beginning in 9th grade as black and white students were bused to schools that they were reticent to attend with a lot of the white students leaving their homeschools to go to private schools that their parents placed them in out of fear.

Back in the day, those of us who were in school at that time learned that we weren’t so different from one another. We all had parents who expected us to behave and to achieve.

Over the years, I have watched Memphis, formerly known as the City of Good Abode, become anything but with violence growing, carjacking, assaults, robbery, and murders happening every night and even in broad daylight.

I left Memphis for DeSoto County Mississippi 25 years ago after the “yutes” on the block set up their basketball goal right at my driveway giving my former wife and I dirty looks as we came in from work, later breaking into our house and robbing us.

Since then, the crime in Memphis has gotten worse and worse with every succeeding city administration as individual criminals and gangs took over the former annual winner of the City Beautiful Competition as crime spread out to the suburbs.

The current mayor even invited the gangs to City Hall for tea or something… probably to receive his payoffs.

President Trump sent in the Safe Task Force to try to help get the city back under control from all this chaos.

Unfortunately, while they have made right strides, President Trump found out the hard way that he’s going to have to overcome the corruption in both the county and city administrations and even the school board.

Y’know, Elvis Presley would not recognize the town that he used to ride through on his Harley with his girlfriend on the back.

The rest of us who grew up there don’t either.

Thank you, Mr. President for sending the Safety Task Force to Memphis.

There is still work to be done, though.

However, it does not fall exclusively on your shoulders.

The truth of the matter is, these are all black teenagers who are doing this. They organize the teen takeover through means of social media and their parents are either divorced, never married, or have never disciplined them at all.

The Black Family Unit somehow has to be restored.

Having a child out of wedlock can no longer be glorified. Children need to be encouraged to work for a living. And, families need to go to church in order to leave their children in the way in which they should go.

Oh, and we can start enforcing our laws, too, instead of putting district attorneys in office who refuse to do so.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Saturday Quick Thought: CBS Lays Off 15% of Employees, Closes Radio News

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Well, we finally made it to Saturday. Here’s your quick thought for today: Per Breitbart News …

“Today we are reducing the size of our workforce, and employees who are affected will be notified by the end of the day,” reads a memo released Friday from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and CBS News president Tom Cibrowski.

“It’s no secret that the news business is changing radically, and that we need to change along with it. New audiences are burgeoning in new places, and we are pressing forward with ambitious plans to grow and invest so that we can be there for them,” the memo adds. “That means some parts of our newsroom must get smaller to make room for the things we must build to remain competitive.”

The layoffs will completely cut the staff of CBS radio news. What is significant about this is that CBS News has been around for 100 years and was the home to Edward R Murrow and his legendary coverage of World War II.

They are laying off and buying out 15% of their employees.

The parent company of CBS, Paramount, was sold to Skydance Media. Skydance Media has a more middle of the road political viewpoint than Paramount and as good businessmen they want CBS News to be watched and listened to by more Americans than just Far Left Democrats.

While I am sure that both viewers of their Nightly News truly enjoy their current product, the name of the game is Advertiser Dollars. If the viewership numbers are garbage, advertisers are not getting their money’s worth from their investment.

As a former College Radio News Director who had the opportunity to report the murder of John Lennon and the Iranian Hostage Crisis, I am sad to see CBS Radio News go down the ol’ porcelain receptacle so bad that they had to be flushed.

However, it’s like the old saying goes, “Money talks and BS walks”.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Sunday’s Quick Thought: When Political Ideology Ignores Biology

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Have you ever been in a discussion with someone whose political ideology blocks them from seeing reality? If your argument is that the sky is blue they would immediately argue with you that the sky is green?

This purposeful obtuseness has gotten so bad among the Far Left Democrat Party that they refuse to accept the fact that God made man and woman and that there are physical differences between the two.

Here’s an example of something that happened last Tuesday courtesy of foxnews.com:

“Former Utah State volleyball star Kaylie Ray became a viral folk hero in the “save women’s sports” movement after sparring with Arizona state senator Catherine Miranda.

Ray shared her experience enduring the San Jose State volleyball scandal and leading a team forfeit in protest of a male athlete, at a state education hearing Tuesday, while lobbying for a bill that would provide protections for girls’ and women’s sports in Arizona.

Miranda responded by commenting on Ray’s body before asking, “so how competitive do you think you really are?”

It did not go over well with Ray, during or after the hearing.

“How could you look me in the eyes and ask me if I’m competitive. Obviously I’m standing in front of you fighting for something right now. I don’t know what part of that is not competitive to you. But if you want to go toe-to-toe then we can go toe-to-toe,” Ray told Fox News Digital.

Ray fired back in the chamber, reiterating her point in the same tone she began with. But she had to make an effort to keep her composure.

“I, in the moment, was trying to maintain professionalism, we’re in a professional environment. I was just trying to be respectful and courteous,” she said. “But inside, I was fuming.” Ray even had to call her parents after the hearing, to vent.

When Miranda initially began to address Ray, the senator said, “I mean, you look pretty healthy… You look very much in shape and strong.”

“Obtuse” doesn’t even begin to describe the ignorance of the state senator.

What is it about the Democrat Elite and the Wokesheviks that drives them to push against the moral and ethical boundaries of American Society?

There is nothing brave and daring about having men beat women at anything…much less high school and collegiate events that are supposed to celebrate human achievement under fair athletic circumstances.

All the actions of biological men who want to compete againt women are saying to me is that they can’t make it competing against other biological males, so they decided to pick on women, who are genetically physically weaker than men for the most part.

I’m not demeaning women. I am married to one whom I love with all my heart. I also have a daughter . In fact, some of my best friends throughout the years have been women.

However, I am stating a fact. For proof, please go back and read the fact that the physical training of our Armed Forces had to be changed because the women were failing.

I am not against women competing against males in the workplace. I’ve met intelligent women who are successes in their chosen profession.

I have a problem with a political ideology that places the rights of a miniscule minority above, as Riley Gaines says, “51% of the population.”

I also have a problem with the Far Left Democratic Party trying to tell Americans that what is morally and ethically wrong is “normal” and justified.

This must be stopped now. Otherwise, next these people will be pushing for pedophiles to start playing in little league football, basketball, and baseball.

It is garbage like this that caused Sodom and Gomorrah to be blown straight to Hell.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Saturday Quick Thought: The Difference Between Christianity and Islam

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I have heard and read the critics of our military operation in Iran, and coincidentally, those who want DHS to be defunded and want them to be closed as a department, who claim that there is not any difference between Christianity and Islam.

Quite frankly, that’s like saying that there’s no difference between an in-ground swimming pool and a garden hose.

In Islam, the way to “walk with Allah” and escape his judgement on that final day of judgment is through ‘falah’, which means self-effort or positive achievement. The faithful must submit to Allah and follow all of his laws as found in the Koran. Judgment Day in Islam involves some sort of measurement of what the believer has done wrong and what they’ve done right. And even then you might not be let into “heaven” if Allah decides you’re not good enough.

This is the direct opposite of Christianity.

According to the Bible, no man can ever be good enough to deserve God’s favor, to win God’s Heaven, because from birth we have Free Will. This Free Will may cause us to reject God and live our lives our own way. That’s why it was necessary for Jesus Christ to die for our sins, covering us in His blood with the New Covenant.

God’s Word tells us that what we need is not ‘falah,’ but faith. To have faith in, to trust, to rely on Jesus and his death as as “the expiation for our sins”. Those who have been Saved by Jesus Christ can be sure that in the future God will welcome them into heaven with wide open arms, because they have been washed by His blood.

Islam and Christianity present two very different Deities, who may share some similarities, but who have different identities and ultimately different standards. To pretend they are the same is not only to be clueless of the faith of the majority of Americans, but also, to be ignorant of an integral part of our American Heritage, the legacy of Christian Faith, which our Founding Fathers bequeathed us.

Now, I am not saying that every Muslim is on a jihad against “the infidels”.

However…

When Christians become “radicalized”, we want to share the testimony of what God has done for us through His love, with everyone we meet. We get involved in our local church and we become better fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, and American citizens.

When Muslims become “radicalized”, they want to “kill the Infidels” in the name of “Allah the Merciful”.

In the case of the Lone Wolf Islamic Terrorists committing the attacks that America has been witnessing on our shores, their immersion into Radical Islam led them to attempt to “kill the infidels” just as their “brothers” along with the Mad Mullahs in Iran have been doing for 47 years.

For Democrats to deny that, is disingenuous at best, and just plain out-and-out lying at worst.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Chuck “Mr. Magoo” Schumer & “Company” Refuse to Fund DHS as Terrorist Attacks Increase

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It’s Friday! Here’s your quick thought for today: Yesterday, as a radical islamist wounded Americans at Old Dominion and a radical islamist crashed his vehicle into a synagogue in Michigan creating a fire which sent 30 First Responders to the hospital because of smoke inhalation, Chuck “Mr Magoo” Schumer and the rest of the myopic Democrats and Vichy Republicans refused to fund the Government Department that would greatly help stop these “soldiers of Allah”. Per TheHill.com “Senate Democrats on Thursday defeated a motion to proceed to a House-passed bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and end the 27-day shutdown that has hampered the functions of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and other critical agencies. The motion failed by a vote of 51 to 46. Centrist Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) was the only Democrat to vote with Republicans to advance the funding bill. It needed 60 votes to advance. It marked the fourth time since Feb. 12 that Democrats have voted to block Homeland Security funding legislation.” Just like Mr Magoo, the Senators who keep on ignoring the rising number of Radical Islamic Terrorism attacks happening in our Sovereign Nation are driving the vehicle known as the Senate off of a cliff and completely ignoring what is going on around them. Their lust for power has blinded them to what their duties are as  senators to serve and protect Americans. As I’ve written before, 80% of Americans want the Save America Act to become law. It is only those suffering with Trump Derangement Syndrome and a lust for the political power they lost in November of 2024 who do not want this bill to pass because they are afraid that they will lose all the illegal aliens whom they are hoping will turn into Democrat voters. To trade the reality of the danger to the American people for a dream of political power, is like trading an iPhone for a flip phone. Only in case of these blind, deaf, and dumb senators, it is not they who are getting the short end of the deal. They have both government and private security. Average Americans do not. Have a great Friday. God bless

Until He Comes,

KJ

Thursday Quick Thought: What’s Going on With The Save America Act?

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It’s the day before Friday and here’s your quick thought for today: Per the White House’s website, “The Save America Act is a common sense, bipartisan bill that would simply require A Valid ID Before Registering to Vote in a Federal Election
Proof of Citizenship
No Mail-in Ballots (Except for Illness, Disability, Military or Travel)” If you believe the Democrats, the Save America Act will make voters bring their birth certificates, blood type, next of kin, college degree, high school diploma, first girlfriend or boyfriend, and the bill from the last time you went to the dentist.(I exaggerate  …but, not by much. ) In reality, 80% of Americans support this bill because it is doing what they have asked for for a long time and that is to keep people from cheating at one of the most important things we do as a republic and that is vote. That is why it is an amendment to the Constitution. Voting is our constitutional right as American citizens. It is not the right of those here illegally. It is not the right of people who use dead people’s names or multiple mail-in ballots to cheat and steal the election from Americans who are voting in an honest way. The following Republican Senators are standing in the way of this bill getting voted into law:
John Cornyn
– Lisa Murkowski
– Katie Britt
– John Curtis
– Kevin Cramer
– Thom Tillis
– And  Senate Leader John Thune
President Trump has told Senator Thune to be a leader. In response, Thune has come up with more excuses than Madonna in a Confessional. The truth is, Thune and the rest of these senators are what I call “Vichy” Republicans. What are Vichy Republicans? Well, they are from the Mitch McConnell School of Politics that taught his students that Republicans always bend over backwards for the Democrats and to believe that the Conservative Base is only to be listened to as a political expediency to be ignored until campaign time.They hate Trump because he remains a threat to the Vichy Republicans. He actually listens to average Americans, the “Silent Majority”, if you will.These are the Americans who Hillary Clinton referred to as “Deplorables” in the Presidential Campaign of 2016…the average Americans living in America’s Heartland between the coasts. You know…the ones who elected Citizen Statesman Donald J. Trump the 45th AND 47th President of the United States of America.These Vichy Republicans had better pass this bill that the president and the overwhelming majority of Americans want or else they’re going to find themselves in the minority in both houses of Congress or looking for work after the next election. Have a great Thursday. God bless.

Sunday Quick Thought: The Iranian Christian Underground and College Campus Revivals

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Good morning! Here’s your quick thought for this Sunday morning: Did you know that there is a growth in Christian Underground Churches in iran? Over the last couple of years, 50,000 of the 75,000 mosques in Iran have closed. This growth in people turning to Jesus Christ in Iran was mentioned this morning on Fox and Friends. Did you also know that Generation Z here in the middle of Culture War-torn America have been turning to Christ as well? There have been revivals on college campuses with young people giving their lives to Jesus Christ. 15% of young men in Generation Z have already given their lives to Christ. There have even been high school kids standing up to protesters on high school campuses and while that is not visibly a proclamation of salvation, it is a sign that more kids are being raised in the way in which they should go. What hit me is the fact that during the darkest times of the Roman Empire after the death and resurrection of Christ, Christians would meet in the homes of Believers just as the Iranians are doing. This growth in Christianity was a backlash to the embracing of evil and moral iniquity which the Romans championed. In times of personal and national struggle, historically, people have always turned toward the Everlasting Light of Salvation. Sir Isaac Newton said that “for every action there is an equinoxidant reaction”. I have friends who are saying that what we are seeing now is biblical. I see that as well. What is interesting to me is that the congregations of non-denominational Bible-believing Churches are growing while those in the denominations who have forsworn the Eord of God for the word of man are shrinking to the point to where churches are closing. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the light. No one cometh to the father, but by me.” (John 14:6) The fact that those who are surrounded by darkness are seeking the Light of The World should give us all hope.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Saturday Quick Thought: 53 Dems Refuse to Declare Iran “Terrorist State”

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Here’s your quick thought for this Saturday morning.

Per Breitbart.com,

“A significant number of House Democrats voted “no” on declaring the Islamic Republic of Iran a “state sponsor of terrorism”.”

“Sponsored by Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), the resolution passed the U.S. House on Thursday by a 372-53 vote. Two Democrats voted present. While squad members like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) were expected to vote “no,” a full 53 proved somewhat surprising.”

Actually, if you look at the direction that the Democratic Party has taken since their nomination of Barack Hussein Obama as their presidential candidate, it is not surprising at all.

Barack Hussein Obama, with his Radical Islamic ties, was the most divisive president that the United States has ever had. Do you remember when he gave his address to the Muslim World on June 4th, 2009?

Since that day, the Democratic Party has politically traveled farther and farther to the Left of the Political Spectrum until now they have fallen off that Spectrum into Bizarro World.

As they traveled to the Left, the Democrats decided that being a Patriotic American and embracing traditional American faith and values was somehow wrong and that paying off our enemies in order to buy their friendship was a brilliant strategy.

Instead, this turned out to be the worst political strategy since England’s Neville Chamberlain tried to be friends with the Nazis. It made America the laughing stock of the entire world and a footstool for all those who would take advantage of us.

Look at all the garbage that happened during Joe Biden’s presidency. You had political activists pouring over the open Southern Border along with Lord knows who else.

You had Radical Islamists infiltrating college campuses and convincing the faculty and the students that Hamas were heroes and the Israelis were evil.

And while all this was happening, you had anti-Semitic Radical Islamists Ilhan Omar and Rasheed Tlaib somehow get elected to Congress as a result of the out-of-control immigration policies of the Democrats.

This combination of the embracing of evil as good and radical totalitarianism as a preferred form of government by the Democrat Elite (aka “The Smartest People in the Room”) makes the vote of these 53 members of the House of Representatives not surprising at all.

Offensive and anti-American …but, hardly surprising.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Sunday Quick Thought: Operation Epic Fury Day 1 – Ayatollah Dead …Iranians Celebrate

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Here’s a quick thought for this Sunday: I spent most of the day yesterday watching Fox New’s coverage of the successful military strike by the United States and Israel against Iran that resulted in over 40 Iranian leaders being killed, including the Ayatollah Khomenei.

During the attack, the Iranian Forces struck back using missiles and suicide drones aimed not only at United States Military Bases in the area and Israel, but also at surrounding countries, hitting several airports.

Tbe aftermath of the first day’s attack has been interesting.

Several Democrats on Capitol Hill were upset because Trump did not follow their sacred War Powers Act and confer with them and allow them to vote on whether he should eliminate Iran, the World’s State Sponsor of Islamic Terrorism and a country who has been a danger to the United States of America for 47 years.

Fox News Legal Advisor Gregg Jarrett put it succinctly last night. The War Powers Act is unconstitutional. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the President to do exactly what President Trump did yesterday.

It is not required by the United States for POTUS to seek the permission of anybody, including the self-important, TDS suffering Democrats on Capitol Hill.

It was revealed yesterday afternoon that Americans approved of President Trump’s actions by 54 to 37% in an Insider Poll.

I mean, what American would not?

The Radical Islamic Terrorists who were running Iran had killed a lot of Americans through their roadside bombs and their sponsored proxies, not to mention back in 1993 when they blew up those Marine Barracks in Beirut.

The Democratic Presidential Administrations of Obama and Biden believed that they could negotiate with the barbarians of Iran like you would an English gentleman.

All they did was waste a lot of time and a lot of taxpayers’ money while they emboldened our enemy.

The money that they gave back to Iran, that had been frozen in accounts where they could not get it, was used to buy more arms and finance their proxies against America and Israel.

What prPesident Trump was willing to due yesterday was to cauterize an open wound in America’s National security that had already cost us too much blood.

The videos of Iranians celebrating on the streets of America and back on the streets of Iran, with the women dancing in modern dresses instead of being covered from head to toe, was a wonderful thing to see.

I’m sure that as Operation Epic Fury continues today, we will see more of that.

The Iranian people must take back their country. It is all up to them now.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Saturday Morning Quick Thought – Iran Finds Out What “FAFO” Means

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Last night, as Americans slept, our 47th Commander-in-Chief, in a coordinated attack with our ally Israel, took steps to end the reign of the barbaric State Sponsor of Worldwide Terrorism in a dramatic example of Presiden Ronald Reagan’s “Peace Through Strength” as “Operation Epic Fury” was launched.

Ever since President Ronald Reagan was able to get American hostages back and put them on their heels, they have been spreading terrorism throughout the world and have been involved behind the scenes through proxies in terrorist attacks upon America and Americans.

The Strategy of Appeasement, attempted under Democrat Administrations, like England’s Neville Chamberlain tried with the Nazis, has never proven to work, and only emboldened and financed the Radical Islamists of Iran.

However, that didn’t stop previous Democrat administrations to attempt to buy off Iran and to negotiate in a gentlemanly fashion with monsters who worship evil.

Trump tried to negotiate with Iran as well, but when negotiations broke down because of the Mad Mullahs and their desire to take over the world, Trump and our ally, Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu,  decided to take decisive action.

We first destroyed their nuclear capability.

And now, when negotiations failed again, President Trump saw them attempting to build it back, and ready to launch an attack against us with ballistic missiles, president trump, once again supported by our ally Israel, launched this well prepared attack.

He did not take this decision lightly and he gave the Mad Mullahs of Iran every chance to, as we say in the South, “get with the program”.

Those who seek total power, as we have watched time after time in the history of the world, through both biblical history and secular history, always fail.

Those nations and kingdoms who worshiped evil totalitarian power fell as good people finally got fed up with them and their barbaric ways.

President Trump is doing what he has to do in order to keep us safe.

God bless him and all our brave men and women involved in this attack on evil.

Please pray for them all. God bless.

Until He Comes,

KJ