Apparently YouTube learned a valuable lesson: try to stifle the Second Amendment and Second Amendment-supporting companies and people will be up in arms about the decision.
YouTube Learns A Valuable Lesson: Don’t Mess With The Second Amendment Community
There are candidates who are very vocal on gun control right now. They’re convinced that Parkland was some kind of a turning point, that the media’s push against guns is swaying the populace and soon everything will be free and clear. They’ll finally be able to enact the kind of gun control they want.
There’s a technical term for some of these candidates. It’s “idiot.”
Traditionally pro-gun states aren’t likely to switch to anti-gun states simply because of the wishes and unicorn farts of anti-gun activists and their allies in the media. While Florida–an ostensibly pro-gun state–has enacted a handful of gun control measures in the immediate aftermath of Parkland, the state isn’t likely to pass anymore in the near future despite emotions still being raw.
As a result, there are a handful of smart candidates who are walking a very thin line between alienating their base and alienating the public as a whole.
Despite Anti-Gun Media Push, Some Candidates Still Mum On Gun Control
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June 12
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8,9).
How do you know what thoughts are your thoughts versus God’s thoughts? One of the great paradoxes of walking with God is discerning the difference between a “natural idea” versus a “God-idea.” One of my mentors challenged me one day to make sure that my ideas and the actions I take are directed by God and not from my own reasoning. But being in a marketing profession, there is a constant rub between the “natural” and the “spiritual.”
There are three places from which a thought or idea originate: 1) Our natural man, 2) Satan, and 3) The Holy Spirit. There are a few ways to discern from which place a thought is coming. If a thought comes into your mind that you know you would never have thought of, and it might be something you would not normally consider doing. This is likely God speaking.
I once participated in a conference when an offering was being taken to make up for a poorly organized event that left the organizers very short on funds. It was clearly a case of poor management. Nevertheless, I prayed. I assumed I would give a token gift. However, the figure that suddenly came into my mind was $1,000. I argued with God and struggled with my attitude. I thought He must have two zeros out of place! But I obeyed – as I knew that was not my idea.
In order to be obedient, we must not make advance decisions about a particular matter. Each of our decisions must be submitted to the Lord for His counsel to us, not just based on our reasoning.
via Today God is First Daily Devotional, Os Hillman, Work, Christian Business Leaders
June 12
Is trust idealistic?
For reading & meditation: Proverbs 29:19-27
“Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.” (v.25)Sometimes someone says to me: “Isn’t it idealistic to expect me to be vulnerable to further hurt after I have been let down and betrayed?” My answer is to point them to Jesus. If He can do it, then so can we – providing we depend on His strength and not ours. Our Lord knows better than anyone what it means to be let down and betrayed. In all the heaped up pain of His passion, few things would have hurt Him more than being betrayed by His disciples. Did our Lord’s experience of Peter’s denial cause Him to conclude: “Never again will I trust that man”? Come with me to Galilee and let us see. Simon Peter, no doubt feeling disillusioned, returns to his trade as a fisherman, whereupon Jesus pursues him and puts Himself in a position of being hurt once again. He says to Peter, “Do you love Me?” using the strong Greek word for love – agape. Peter responds, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You,” using the weaker Greek word for love – philia (John 21:1516, NKJV). How would you feel, do you think, if you plucked up courage to say to someone who had already let you down. “Do you love me?” and he or she responded: “Well, I like you.” Would you not feel hurt, wounded, perhaps slightly rejected? I think Jesus must have felt most keenly the thrust of Peter’s words, yet He did not allow it to deter Him from continuing, even pursuing, the relationship. That’s what I mean by vulnerability. That’s what I mean by love.
Prayer:
Father, is it possible that You can make me so secure that I, too, am able to be vulnerable in my relationships? I must believe it; I do believe it. Help me to demonstrate it in every relationship I am called by You to pursue. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.For further study:
Matthew 26:31-75; John 21:7-19
1. What was Peter entrusted with?
2. What did Peter declare?
via Everyday Light Daily Devotional from Selwyn Hughes, Christian Bible Devotions
Back in 2015, I wrote about the scandal involving former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and said we got the right result (legal trouble for Hastert) for the wrong reason (government spying on financial transactions).
Something similar happened over the weekend with the G-7 meeting.
Largely because of his misguided protectionist views, Donald Trump refused to sign a joint statement with the other G-7 leaders (Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom).
Trump’s protectionism is deeply troubling. It threatens American prosperity and could lead to tit-for-tat protectionism that caused so much damage to the global economy in the 1930s.
That being said, we shouldn’t shed any tears because a G-7 Summit ended in failure or that Trump didn’t sign the communique.
To be sure, the vast majority of the language in these statements is anodyne boilerplate. Sort of the international equivalent of “motherhood and apple pie.”
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It’s Chick-Fil-A….
These poor, upset snowflakes can go hug a root….
via Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO, blasted for patronizing Chick-fil-A – CBS News
From Illinois Democrats…
Illinois Democrats on Capitol Hill are backing a plan that would outlaw unlicensed gun ownership in the nation.
The bicameral measure was introduced this week in the House by U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush as H.R. 6024 and in the Senate as S.3002 by U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth. It would make it a crime to own a gun without a federally issued license and direct the Attorney General to establish and a system to track gun sales.
via Bill in Congress would require all gun owners to be licensed, sales tracked
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