Things To Ponder 5

The title to this piece is disturbing but the evidence it is true is readily available.  Quote: "Papa Johns Fiasco: Leftists are Ruining How Americans Do Business"  And,  "The United States of America used to be a place – THE place – where people could dream of a better life. The basic premise of America is that if you work hard, you can achieve everything that you deserve. You can gain rewards that directly coincide with the effort that you put in. There is literally no other country on the planet that takes this as an ideal. Perhaps the United States no longer takes this as an ideal, either. John Schnatter, founder of Papa John’s Pizza, was forced to step down as chairman of his own company because of a claim that he used a racial slur on a conference call. Forget the context of the statement or the accusations that the other party on the call may have tried to blackmail Mr. Schnatter for $6 million. This is about how anything you say — even in confidence — can be used to strip away everything you have by the hard progressive left."    https://www.libertyplanet.com/articles/papa-johns-fiasco-leftists-are-ruining-how-americans-do-business/ 

This item substantiates what many of us already know.  Christians are the most persecuted religion on earth.  Quote: "According to a report issued by the Pew Research Center in February of 2018, Christians are persecuted more than any other religious followers in the world — and Beijing is the worst offender of them all. Unfortunately, this troublesome reality presented itself clearly on July 5, 2018. On this day, a group of thugs hired by China’s communist government showed up at Zion Church, the largest house church in China’s capital of Beijing. International Christian Concern, ICC, a persecution charity, reported that the ruffians prevented church members from getting to the third floor of Zion Church’s Yizhuang campus where a worship service was underway. The troublemakers also charged the Christians with being involved with a “cult.”"    https://1776christian.com/chinese-government-hires-thugs-to-intimidate-christians/ 

In their quest to destroy Trump the political leftist politicians and media personalities focus on Russia, Russia, Russia.  They are grossly misguided.  The American public has a whole set of different priorities.  Quote: "There’s just one problem with the Democrats’ unending focus on Russia and the media’s constant collusion chatter: few Americans care, because – drumroll – they have real lives in the real economy to worry about. As the latest survey from Gallup shows: when asked what the most important problem facing the nation is, Russia did not even warrant a 1% – and worse still, it is declining in importance from there."     https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/07/19/gallup-shows-how-much-americans-really-care-about-the-situation-with-russia/

This item is for those who think Obama's presidency was filled with nothing but good things, decisions, actions.    Quote: "That is the question then-President Barack Obama asked as he rode along in his presidential limousine with his foreign policy guru Ben Rhodes. The question came in the aftermath of the surprise presidential election victory by political newcomer and television reality star Donald Trump. Obama questioned whether he and liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had pushed a progressive agenda too far, too quickly. Obama wasn't only wrong in understanding where the electorate was in 2016 but was frequently wrong throughout his presidency. The following Washington Free Beacon supercut displays 77 instances when Obama was wrong. The episodes touch on all aspects of his presidency, from his signature legislative achievement of Obamacare to his naivety towards Russian President Vladamir Putin."    https://freebeacon.com/politics/77-times-barack-obama-totally-wrong/?

George Burns