I am a student in the University of Adversity, also known as The School of Hard Knocks. I just celebrated my 84th birthday and I will testify that there is no better school, IF you choose to learn the lessons offered. But that's true of any school isn't it. The education is worthless if you do not put it to good use.

There is no graduating from my school because it is a lifelong adventure and one can just keep on learning. In my lifetime so far, that education has produced some really great results. Some almost unbelievable, but I will not bore you with details. Instead, I will tell you how it worked for me.

The main textbook in my school is the Holy Bible. It holds the answers to almost everything if studied carefully. That philosophy worked for America's Founding Fathers and it still works for those who try. That t***h is so obvious because as our nation strays farther away from the Biblical principles of our founding, we see our once great nation crumbling before our eyes.

Revisionist history is being actively promoted by those who h**e America and all the good it stands for, and some use this site to promote their lies. I do a lot of research, and believe only that which can be verified. One terrific source is the Founders Bible put together by David Barton. He prints word for word speeches and letter by the founding fathers as they referenced the Bible for guidance. Barton tells where each of the original copies can be seen. They are in various libraries and museums, so the revisionists really cannot refute this, but they try anyway.

The basic thing I have learned from the Bible is to pray for wisdom and the courage to act on it. And never ever back down when you know you are right and have the Bible as your guide.

You are asking the wrong question. Instead of asking if the UN is pro Muslim, you should be asking yourself if Israel's Z*****t government is committing genocide against the civilian population in Gaza.

The UN is reacting to the 26,000 civilians that have died as a result of Israeli actions, and focused on the intent of those actions (clearly articulated by their military and political leadership) to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant made it clear that the Israeli military intends to treat Palestinian civilians as subhuman in its response, saying, “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.” Building on this logic, he announced: “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed.”

Deliberately attacking schools, hospitals, and refugee camps is not "self-defense", it is pure and simple genocide. Watch the video and get a different perspective on how the non-western world views this situation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2023/israel-war-destruction-gaza-record-pace/

There's something suspicious about the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which claims that the economy added 353,000 jobs in January—more than double what economists had predicted. Is it true? Most likely not, and I'll explain why.

For weeks now, there have been reports of mass layoffs in the tech industry, including at iRobot, Amazon, Google, and Meta, among several others. The news industry has also been plagued by mass layoffs in recent weeks. These layoffs weren't out of the blue, either. Newsweek predicted last month that "mass layoffs are in store for 2024, and it might end up affecting nearly half of companies."

But the Biden administration says everything is fine. Better than fine, actually.

"America’s economy is the strongest in the world," Joe Biden declared in a statement Friday. "Today, we saw more proof, with another month of strong wage gains and employment gains of over 350,000 in January, continuing the strong growth from last year."

But how legit are these numbers? Prior to the release of the report, Zero Hedge listed some (but not all) of the layoffs that were announced in recent months:

• Twitch (35% of workforce)
• Hasbro (20% of workforce)
• Spotify (17% of workforce)
• Levi's (15% of workforce)
• Zerox (15% of workforce)
• Qualtrics (14% of workforce)
• Wayfair (13% of workforce)
• Duolingo (10% of workforce)
• Washington Post (10% of workforce)
• eBay (9% of workforce)
• Business Insider (8% of workforce)
• Paypal (7% of workforce)
• Charles Schwab (6% of workforce)
• UPS (2% of workforce)
• Blackrock (3% of workforce)
• Citigroup (20,000 employees)
• Pixar (1,300 employees).

This is not a sign of a strong, growing economy.

How much can the Biden administration's numbers be trusted? Well, not much. As Zero Hedge noted after the release of the report, "Once again there was a huge dispersion between the Establishment and Household Surveys, and while the former indicated an increase of 353K, the latter reported a drop in Employment of 31K!"

A chart comparing the Establishment and Household Surveys shows that while the reports have generally been quite close, there has been a growing disparity between them since June 2022.



Moreover, in addition to the suspicious figure of 353,000 jobs added in January, Zero Hedge notes that overall employment actually dropped by 31,000, with full-time employment experiencing a decline of 63,000, while part-time positions saw a significant surge, increasing by 96,000.

Clearly none of that mattered to the BLS, however, which had just one mission: to make the Biden economy look double super good-good ahead of the November e******ns, and it wasn't just payrolls which blew away expectations, the unemployment rate also slipped, staying at 3.7%, vs expectations of an increase to 3.8%. That said, among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (3.6 percent), adult women (3.2 percent), teenagers (10.6 percent), W****s (3.4 percent), B****s (5.3 percent), Asians (2.9 percent), and Hispanics (5.0 percent) showed little or no change in January.

Even the alleged wage increase, the report boasted about is deceptive. A closer look reveals that this apparent wage growth is attributed to a decline in actual working hours rather than an authentic increase in wages. The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls decreased by 0.2 hours to 34.1 hours in January—a 0.5-hour decline over the year, which is the lowest level observed since the thick of the p******c.

It appears from the report that the BLS has been given the task of making the labor market appear strong and robust ahead of the e******n in November. Will it work? Did Biden's claiming for years that Bidenomics was working change attitudes about the economy?

Old, There is no such thing as a citizen m*****a. The m*****as you write about are nothing more than gangs. According to the Federalist papers, a m*****a must have a leader appointed by the governor of the state. Now a days, it's called The National Guard. A states National Guard can be federalized by the President of the US, as was the National Guard of Arkansas to desegregate the high schools in Little Rock in the late 50s. By the way the president that nationalized the guard was Ike Eisenhower, a Republican president.

Jim, The courts have outlawed machine guns for sale to civilians. The legal precedent has been made by the courts. The reason for this action is clear. It is just too dangerous to society to have maniacs and felons running around
murdering innocents by the score. The same can be said about AR type assault rifles. They have been the preferred instrument of death for crazies, and felons.
There are exceptions for many of the rights listed in the first amendment. Free speech has limits. A person may not yell fire in a crowded movie, unless there is an actual fire. A person may not use free speech to disrupt an educational environment. Slander is not protected either. If the First Amendment of the US Constitution has exceptions, why not the second amendment?
The federal government is supreme to state governments. This is the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution. In other words, the states may not have laws that go against federal law, so it doesn't really matter what laws Virginia
passes if it goes against federal law.