The regular visitors to our little garden know I’ve had my challenges. I’ve been broken financially, physically and spiritually. I’m cranky, grumpy, sarcastic,cynical and profane. When it seems things are at their darkest, Almighty God says:’Hey, I’ve got your back. I died for you,didn’t I?’ As we struggle to make sense of the chaos going on around us we must remember that He has never, and will never, fail. We don’t understand a lot of things, it is all we can do to follow His example and stay faithful.
Have a blessed Easter weekend and stay faithful.
The Challenge: What is Good about “Good Friday?”
Darkness fell across the land and the man they thought would be their savior cried out in a loud voice, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Soon after, he breathed his last. The people standing at the foot of the cross beat their breasts and walked away. From a distance, his mother and friends watched in somber silence as all this took place.
Yesterday was such a beautiful day. SD had some business in town so DW and I were charged with keeping Isabel and Olivia for most of the day. We took them to lunch, then to a park to burn off some of that excess energy. It was the warmest day so far this year, high in the upper 70’s, blue sky and a nice southerly breeze. I didn’t want the day to end because God signaled the annual renewal of life after a long cold spell.
After the children went home I fired up the Univac and what do I see? The government-supported blitzkreig had not only crushed Mike Pence in Indiana, but also Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas. All the republicans cut and ran from the phony charge of sexual discrimination and fell all over themselves to placate the UDSCMA (Union of Dick Smokers and Carpet Munchers of America). For only being 2-3% of the population they sure get a lot of special privileges.
Then an article caught my eye about the Gay Nazi Brigade coming down on a mom-and-pop pizzeria for saying they would serve gays, but not cater homosexual weddings. Excuse me? Who the hell serves PIZZA at a wedding reception? It didn’t matter. It was all the excuse they needed to vent their wrath on a simple business couple.
They got so much hate directed at them, they were forced to close and perhaps never reopen. Ah, but never underestimate pissed-off Christians. Here’s the timeline:
Indiana’s ‘Memories Pizza’ FORCED TO SHUT DOWN Due to Threats After Gay Comments
A Walkerton, Indiana pizza shop told an Indiana news channel they would not provide pizzas at a gay wedding.
The O’Connor family said they were not discriminating against anyone – they just wouldn’t cater at a gay wedding.
Kevin O’Connor tells TMZ he’s had to temporarily close his business after he told a reporter he would refuse to cater a gay wedding under Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
ADDED by CtH:
O’Connor says he was immediately flooded by threatening phone calls, and social media postings.
A GoFundMe page was set up on Tuesday to help out the restaurant owners.
Already $23,000 has been raised online for the family.
*UPDATE* – Indiana Pizza Shop Gets Set Up By Local Reporter – Instantaneous National Moonbattery Ensues – *Update* Pizza Joint Forced To Close, GoFundMe In Action…..
You might have noticed an absolute apoplectic reaction to an article about an Indiana Pizza Shop, Memories Pizza, which is being sold as the “First business (restaurant) to publically deny service to same sex marriage”.
Check out the screenshot from their story. Note the “HEADLINE“, and note the “AUTHOR“:
So curious people wanted to know how this story came about:
AND THAT’S HOW THINGS GET STARTED…..
ONE ANGRY, MAN-HATING BUTCH IS BEHIND THE WHOLE THING
ANGRY CHRISTIAN HATING LESBIAN: Coach Suspended After Threatening to Burn Down Christian Pizzeria
Posted on April 1, 2015
This teacher and coach has been suspended after threatening to burn down the Christian pizzeria in Indiana that said they wouldn’t cater a gay wedding.
The head coach of an Indiana high school girl’s golf team has been suspended after apparently threatening to burn down a Christian-owned pizzeria.
Jess Dooley, a coach at Concord High School of Elkhart, Indiana allegedly struck out at the owner of Memories Pizza in Walkerton, IN who made news on Tuesday by saying that she would not cater a wedding if a gay couple tried to hire her for the job, after the state passed its own Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
“We are a Christian establishment,” pizza shop owner told the media.
On the heels of the news from the pizza shop, coach Dooley allegedly took to Twitter to say, “Who’s going to Walkerton, IN to burn down #memoriespizza w me? Agree with #FreedomofReligion bill? “That’s a lifestyle they CHOOSE” Ignorant.”
Not long after the Tweet was posted, the entire Twitter account under Dooley’s Twitter handle “@dooley_11″ was deleted.
When Gov. Pence signed Indiana’s Religious Freedom Recovery Act it was stunning how rapidly the leftists and their pack of media hounds sprang to the attack. What was all the fuss, since there is a federal law, signed by the Bent Penis himself, and more than 20 states who already have similar laws.
I have two thoughts. One, the ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ lie was at last shown to be complete and utter bullshit, so they needed another lie to take the focus off Obama handing a terrorist nation a nuclear device and the future president blatantly flaunting her criminal acts in view of the world, daring anybody to stop her.
The other reason, I think, is that none of the other states has what may be a potential presidential candidate in 2016 and this is their way to bloody him preemptively. They’ve been trying with Scott Walker but haven’t had much luck. I have been whining as long as I’ve been here about our side playing by the rules while the other side lies ,cheats, stops at nothing to win. Apparently the Blitz worked, since Pence said they’ll rewrite the law so as not to offend the gay mafia. Pity. Wish he’d have stuck to his principles.
Pence Buckles Under Powerful Gay/Media Blitzkrieg
Governor Mike Pence of Indiana seems to have caved into enormous pressure and will ask the state legislature for new legislation to make it clear that Christian florists and bakers could be forced to participate in weddings that violate their religious beliefs.
Last week, Indiana joined 19 other states and the federal government by enacting a law to protect religious believers from governmental encroachment on religious freedom. Such legislation was cited in the recent Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision that determined religious employers could not be forced to supply abortion drugs to employees under ObamaCare. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/31/pence-buckles-under-powerful-gaymedia-blitzkrieg/
Mike Pence: ‘Was I expecting this kind of backlash? Heavens no.’
Then you haven’t been paying attention.
He’d waffled in recent days over whether or not he would support a legislative fix to the law before finally announcing that he wanted one — but he didn’t say what that fix would be.
Potentially complicating his effort to quell the criticism, Pence said he opposes adding sexual orientation to the list of Indiana’s protected categories under state anti-discrimination law.
Pence: Bill Clinton, Obama Also Supported Religious Freedom Bills
Too bad the rules don’t apply to them.
Ironically, Hillary Clinton and President Obama’s aides to President Obama are also standing in line to slam Pence and Indiana; Hillary Clinton tweeted, “Sad this new Indiana law can happen in America today. We shouldn’t discriminate against ppl bc of who they love.”
Yet the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), passed in 1993, was brought by Representative Chuck Schumer, now a New York senator; Bill Clinton signed it into law. In 1998, Obama voted aye on a law similar to Indiana’s.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said on ABC’s This Week. “Look, if you have to go back two decades to try to justify something you are doing today, it may raise some questions about the wisdom of what you’re doing,” Obama has had no comment.
PONDER THAT LAST STATEMENT BY BARRY’S LATEST STOOGE
To arms ! Quick everyone grab a bag of Chick-fil-a sandwiches and start chucking them with random disregard (they work like hand grenades against the rainbow Moonbats). …And into the valley in the shadow of Hobby Lobby rode the doomed Christians….
LETS ALL GO TO INDIANA AND FIND SOME CHRISTIANS AND FORCE THEM TO GO AGAINST THEIR BELIEFS JUST BECAUSE WE CAN!
Mayor Of Seattle Prohibits City Employees From Traveling To Indiana Over Religious Rights Law
The mayor of Seattle today prohibited municipal employees from traveling to Indiana on city funds, as the backlash spread against the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Conn Dem Gov. Dan Malloy Attacks Mike Pence: “When You See A Bigot, You Have To Call Him On It”…
Governor Malloy just called himself a “bigot” as well since Connecticut also has a religious freedom law on its books.
HEY!KICK THOSE CHRISTIANS AGAIN!
The reason these critics crawl with ease through legislators’ thought processes is easy enough. In recent months, same-sex couples intending marriage have sued florists and bakers who declined their business on grounds that Christian teaching has historically held male-female marriage to be the estate congruent with God’s will.
OF COURSE,THE MOUTH THAT ROARED HAS AN OPINION, ALBEIT ONE WE’VE HEARD AD NAUSEUM
Al Sharpton Compares Indiana Religious Freedom Law To Slavery And Jim Crow…
I CAN’T DO ITALICS OR BOLD TYPE OR PUT SCRIPT IN DIFFERENT COLORS. THIS IS THE BEST I CAN DO. SORRY.
It just never ends. The right may win some small battles but the left wins the big ones. They set the agenda because they are the aggressors. It would be interesting to see if once… just ONCE… the media treated democrats the way they do republicans. Of course, it will never happen.
Lurch Kerry is representing Iran’s interest in Lucerne, Switzerland in accordance to his master’s orders. The master had a fine weekend in sunny Florida, exiling the press to an equipment shed. The Mooch was dancing like a ghetto queen at some BET award show. The talking heads all attacked Mike Pence for signing the same legislation Obumbles voted for during his brief visit to the state senate. There are over 20 states with similar legislation already on the books. The big difference the Dems are trying to stop Pence’s plans to run for president. It doesn’t take long for them to identify threats to their rule and set the media dogs loose.
Some nitwit group called ‘the 98%’ posted a picture on facebook of blacks at a segregated lunch counter from the 1950’s, claiming that’s what Indiana’s new law was intending to do. With them it’s always about race. It’s just sickening. OK, spleen vented, rant over.
TORNADO RIPS THROUGH OKLAHOMA….GOD LEAVES A MESSAGE
There’s usually not much traffic on weekends,but perhaps somebody will wander by looking for a chuckle.Truth is,after a weekend there’s more stuff than can be squeezed into a Monday post.At any rate,maybe somebody would get a grin out of one of these.
Believe it or not, on Fridays I really try to find some relevant political topics to bring you. For some reason people refuse to stop doing really stupid, bizarre things that should be ignored, but it’s almost like a car wreck you can’t help gaping at. That said, there’s some actual news interspersed with the silliness.
FROM BIG FUR HAT ON FB
REMINDS ME OF A JOKE I MADE UP ONCE:
LITTLE BILLY KLINTOON IN SCHOOL:
TEACHER:”BILLY,USE THE WORD ‘HARRASSMENT’ IN A SENTENCE”
BILLY:”HER LIPS SAID ‘NO’,BUT I KNEW WHAT HERASSMENT”
BUH BYE, HARRY; DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOUR SCRAWNEY ASS ON THE WAY OUT!
HEY,DINGY
Since the day I was having breakfast with my daughter and my cousin and uncle walked in the restaurant, we’ve been meeting every Thursday morning for breakfast. My cousin Trish brings her dad, sometimes her sister and niece, and today her son showed up, who went from a toddler the last time I saw him to a grown man. Trish also brought her latest romantic interest, and of course Uncle Roger is always there, grinning from ear to ear anticipating the memories.
It’s just breakfast, a seemingly innocuous thing, but it means the world to two old men I love dearly. Part of today’s discussion was the produce we raised on the farm and how Granny canned and froze everything. Then the price of produce today was compared to what it was back then. Roger talked about milking their old cow Lulabelle when he was a boy. Uncle Bob reminisced about an old Mercury he used to drive. Just idle chat with a bunch of old men. We all go dutch, since being cheap… uh… thrifty is a trait that is prevalent in our family. Thursday has become my favorite day of the week.
There are fundraisers and then there are fundraisers. Let me tell you about two that are about as diametrically opposed as is possible.
First is a bowling fundraiser started by butt-ugly feminist-lesbian-frustrated she can’t get laid liberal stalwart Sally Kohn.
CNN’s Sally Kohn Sets Up Bowling for Abortion Fundraiser
CNN host Sally Kohn had an important PSA for her Twitter followers yesterday.
YOU GUYS!!! I’m bowling for abortion access. Donate now.
— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) March 24, 2015
I’m bowling because I believe that everyone should have access to the abortions they need, regardless of how much money they have.
Because of unfair and unnecessary laws, safe and legal abortions can be out of reach of those who don’t have the money to pay for them. I don’t think that’s right, so I’m doing something about it. I’m bowling to break down barriers to abortion access.
Tempting. Yet, instead of joining her, many social media users responded in disgust.
But my hands down favorite had to be this message from The Blaze’s Dana Loesch, in which she used Kohn’s pro-abortion promotion to donate to the National Right to Life organization.
Just made a $100 donation in honor of @sallykohn to @nrlc . #DonateForSally #ProBaby — Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 24, 2015
The other fundraiser was held March 14 for the bravest 6 year old I know, my grandson, Tyler.
It was well attended, and the total amount raised from the bowling, 50-50 raffle, and the silent auctions was not made public. He’s had good days and bad days, which I will go into at another time. Both of my daughters were there, as were their mothers. D#2’s mom I hadn’t seen since about 1985. She looks old.
This is Tyler, mom and grandma
DW AND I WERE THERE. THIS IS MY OLDEST DAUGHTERS’ DAUGHTER. SHE’S 13 AND EATS EVERYTHING IN SIGHT. HER METABOLISM MUST BE VERY HIGH BECAUSE SHE IS ONLY GROWING TALLER.
One fundraiser was to celebrate the slaughter of innocents, the other to help a precious child of God fight a deadly disease.
Woke up this morning to almost 4″ of snow in our driveway. We have the honor of being the only residence on the whole street that didn’t get plowed. Our landlord doesn’t like to spend money unless he absolutely has to. The forecast for tonight is rain and thunderstorms. This weather sucks.
Had a really nice weekend. Went to see Miss Isabel in her school’s production of the Wizard of Oz. Those kids put an awful lot of work into it, as the production lasted for more than 90 minutes. Many of the costumes and scenery were borrowed from two local theater companies. The boy who played the Cowardly Lion slipped in a couple ad libs and was really funny. I got a chance to talk to him after the performance and complemented him on his sense of comedic timing and told him he could do anything he dreamed of if he worked hard enough for it. We met some of SIL’s family that we hadn’t before and had a nice lunch at Portillo’s with everybody before coming home.
I went to work this morning, as usual, and it was just starting to snow a bit when I left. Minutes later, the streets were covered with snow. I friended BigFurHat from IOTW Reports on FB yesterday and first thing this morning he was condemning Fat Al Gore to Global Warming Hell as he shoveled three inches of the white stuff. Guess Old Man Winter isn’t quite done with us yet.
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