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Who Do American’s Trust Least?

There is one profession that Americans hold in lower regard than members of Congress.

Whoops.  Did I just give the headline away?

Telemarketers–they are the bottom of barrel in terms of integrity.

Joke time: how many telemarketers does it take to screw in a light bulb? One. But that one can only do it at dinner time.

The poll, conducted from November to December by the excellent Gallup organization, asked 1,020 Americans to assess the ethics and honesty of members of 18 professions.

Members of Congress came in 17th place, telemarketers were 18th.

This problem isn’t new.

Historical polling shows that the congressional approval rating began to decline steadily after 2001 and has never come close to recovering, even with brief upswings following the inauguration of new presidents.

This is pathetic, given that Congress and the federal government are obligated to secure the liberties of the people and promote their general welfare.

Third from the bottom were car sales people.

Top of the heap? The most trusted professionals are nurses. 79 percent of Americans rated nurses “high” or “very high” in honesty and ethical standards. Nurses have topped the Gallup poll regularly since their first appearance in the survey in 1999.  And why not? “Nurses are there when you’re born, nurses are there when you die, and everywhere in between,” said Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, president of the American Nurses Association. “Individually and collectively, we’re making a difference in people’s lives in the worst and the best times.”

Agreed.

In terms of public trust, no other profession came close to the nurses. Medical doctors and pharmacists ranked second and third on the Gallup poll, with 62 percent and 58 percent of U.S. adults, respectively, rating them high in ethics.

The entire poll is found here.

Last joke: How many members of congress does it take to change a light bulb?

Five to form a committee, twenty to co-sign a bill for light bulb installation, and 218 to pass the bill.  Then thirty to revive the bill after it dies in the senate (because the senate believed it should have been a more efficient bulb). Another forty to bicker about bulb type, and then 218 again to pass modified bill.

And then more insanity back in the senate.

Classified Docs Next to Biden’s Corvette?


The Beltway shenanigans continue.

I personally think the establishment is now out to sink President Joe Biden.

Today, Richard Sauber, special counsel to President Biden, issued a statement saying that “a small number of additional Obama-Biden Administration records with classified markings” were found “in storage space in the President’s Wilmington residence garage.”

Turns out the garage in question houses President Biden’s pet 1967 Corvette.

Shortly after the statement came out, President Biden took to the press podium to attempt some mop up.  It failed miserably. Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy asked Biden: “Classified materials next to your Corvette? What were you thinking?”

“Let me, uh — I will get a chance to speak on all this, God willing, soon,” Biden stumbled. “But as I said this week — and by the way, my Corvette’s in a locked garage, ok? So, it’s not like they’re sitting in the street.”

“So you’re saying it was in a locked garage?” Doocy asked.

Yes, as well as my Corvette,” Biden said.

The president continued: “But as I said earlier this week, people know I take classified documents and classified material seriously. I also said we’re cooperating fully and completely with the Justice Department’s review.”

Seriously, seriously?

I think this will be the end of the line for Joe’s presidency. There are too many questions with this document debacle for him to run in 2024. The establishment in D.C. knows Joe will have a tough time winning in 2024 and this could be a final straw to have him stand down, allowing someone like California’s governor Gavin Newsome to step in.

For example, some classified material was found at Biden’s D.C. office that was funded by the University of Pennsylvania, where the Chinese communist government gave millions and millions of dollars. Also, this leads back to Hunter Biden because the first wave of documents included documents about Ukraine at about the time that Hunter was getting hired by Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company, in large measure because he was the son of the vice president.

Finally, this makes the attack on Donald Trump’s document situation absurd.

Constitutional scholar and legal commentator Jonathan Turley noted while Biden said he was “surprised” by being caught with the documents, “The rest of us should be astonished.”

“After all, it was Biden who expressed revulsion at the very thought of his predecessor possessing classified documents at Mar-a-Lago: ‘How that could possibly happen, how one anyone could be that irresponsible,'” Turley writes. “Biden is not the only one who appears hopelessly conflicted. With the reported discovery of a second batch of highly classified documents connected to President Biden, the decisions of Attorney General Merrick Garland are fast moving from the inexplicable to incomprehensible.”

These are seriously dysfunctional times in which we live, friends. All the more reason to pray.

Marx Would be Proud: The So-Called “Respect for Marriage Act”

The U.S. Senate is currently deliberating over the counterfeit “Respect for Marriage Act,” which passed its first cloture vote a week and a half ago with bipartisan support. The bill would redefine what marriage is for purposes of federal law (man and wife, wife and wife, man-wife-wife, etc.), and it poses a severe threat to religious liberty nationwide. It would be a mega-win for the anti-God agenda that seeks to completely redefine the family. This redifition, by the way, is also in keeping with the original planks of Marxism.

Writing in First Things, Francis X. Maier reviews Helen Alvare’s new book, “Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution.” He calls it “a work of uncommon clarity and intelligence in a time of toxic political conflict.”

Maier quotes directly from the book and Mrs. Alvare:

“It seems increasingly undeniable that Christianity is being asked to step up at this time in history to preserve individual and community well-being in the realms of sex, marriage, and parenting. This work can also promise insights into various human and divine truths that romantic and familial relations are designed to illuminate. Even small Catholic institutions can’t duck and run. They are potentially one of the few lights to their communities on these matters. They maintain the personal relationships within which hard conversations can be had in fellowship and love … [and which] can ultimately illuminate the human and divine truths that these personal relationships point to.”

If your church is not addressing this issue and praying that the so-called “The Respect for Marriage Act” is tossed into the dump heap of demonic totalitarian efforts, talk to your pastor. If your church refuses to get involved in this fight shame on them. Perhaps it’s time to find another body of believers to fellowship with.

Tsunami Goes Flat: Voting Machine Issues Ridiculed By Media

Amazing, but not really.

Voting machine issues have been noted in several states, including Arizona, where Republicans Keri Lake (Governor) and Blake Masters (Senate) are behind in the count. Donald Trump has even weighed in on the FACT that in Maricopa County (Phoenix) alone some 20 percent of the voting machines had to be shut down with technicians brought in to see what happened.

Nonetheless, despite verified problems in Arizona the leftist media have decided any talk of voting irregularities is unjustified. After all, they are the keepers of truth (note my obvious sarcasm). They conduct no investigations of their own and instead write clever headlines besmirching all those who question the integrity of the vote.

New York Times: Voting Machine Problems in Arizona Fuel Right-Wing Fraud Claims

Time: Arizona Voting Machine Problems Spark Conspiracy Theories

NPR: Right-wing figures spread baseless claims about Maricopa votes.

The headlines are the news.  And the cheat goes on.

 

 

Another Example of Why President Joe Will Not Run in 2024

President Joe Biden misspoke during a speech in Florida on Tuesday. While talk about about the ongoing “war in Iraq,” he also claimed that is where his son died.

“Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia’s doing, excuse me, the war in Ukraine,” Biden said.

“I’m thinking of Iraq because that’s where my son died,” he added.

Oh, boy.

Beau Biden served in Iraq, but he did not die there. He died in 2015 at Walter Reed National Medical Center in Maryland with brain cancer, six years after he served in Iraq. He was 46.

This isn’t the first time Biden has made such an error regarding his son.

The president also made a similar claim in October, during a speech in Colorado.

“I say this as a father of a man and won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous service medal, and lost his life in Iraq,” he said.

Seriously, as much as I vehemently disagree with this man’s politics, we need to pray for him. This is now elder abuse. Mr. Biden is being used as a puppet by the democrat party, when in fact he should step down and rest, ASAP.

In the meantime, as I have been saying for years, the stage is being set for Nancy Pelosi’s nephew, California Governor Gavin Newsome, to run for president in 2024, against Donald Trump.