Photos from the Salute to Veterans Keni Thomas event held November 3, 2017.
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Jim Carter
Congratulations to the salute to veterans team led by John Thomas! Awesome job! Members of the team were RussellTuff, Reg Buxton, Tom Donahue, Chad Gillenwater, Pete Koenig, Neil Curly, Art Garrison, Frank Seninsky, Charlie Sues, Randy Cash, Jim Burke and yours truly.
Jim Carter,
President
Thomas Terrell joins us with a dynamic program. His British wit , humor and fast paced program is one you don’t want to miss!
Thomas Tyrrell is an international lawyer, historian and genealogist. He has been lecturing in Southwest Florida about the geopolitics of World Events since 2003. He is a British citizen with an American father and English mother. Thomas brings a fresh ‘Transatlantic Perspective’ to his presentations that encourages active participation by audience members. He seeks to place modern events in their historical context thereby perhaps giving his American audience reason to pause and think.
He has been a guest presenter at the Collier County Public Libraries, the Renaissance Academy at Florida Gulf Coast University, Shell Point Retirement Community, the English Speaking Union, the Naples Press Club, the International Men’s Club of America, as well as several local men’s and women’s clubs and church societies.
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Last week, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, Congressman Ed Royce, named Congressman Francis Rooney Vice-Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
In the release, Chairman Royce stated, “I am excited to have Rep. Rooney as our vice chairman. His previous experience as the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and as a successful businessman has been valuable in our efforts to counter global threats, and promote peace and American prosperity abroad.”
Congressman Rooney stated, “I am honored to be named Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, especially at such a turbulent and pivotal time. With significant national security concerns related to North Korea, Iran, Russia, and elsewhere, I look forward to working with Chairman Royce, our committee and our national foreign policy resources to define and secure American interests around the world.”
Francis Rooney was elected to represent Florida’s 19th Congressional District in 2016. Prior to serving in Congress, Rooney served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See from 2005 to 2008 in President George W. Bush’s Administration, and as a member of the Advisory Commission on the Panama Canal from 2002 to 2005 and 2008 to 2016.
During his time at the Vatican, Ambassador Rooney represented United States interests in working with the Holy See, which uses moral persuasion and “soft power” diplomacy to combat crises including Islamic-inspired terrorism, human trafficking and medical epidemics.
Prior to serving in Congress, Ambassador Rooney wrote extensively on foreign affairs. In November 2013, Ambassador Rooney published The Global Vatican, a review of the diplomatic relationship between the Holy See and the United States and of the unique nature of Holy See diplomacy. Additionally, Ambassador Rooney has written op-eds on the United States relationship with the Holy See, Latin American politics, the crisis in Venezuela, and fighting
Islamic terrorism. He also co-chaired a study of Latin America published by the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress entitled “Trends in Latin America & Presidential Leadership.”
As a member of congress, Ambassador Rooney has written about issues relevant to his committee assignments, including Venezuela, United States-Cuba relations, the need for reform at the United Nations, American policy towards Russia, the importance of religious freedom and about fighting Islamic-inspired terrorism.
Join the Collier County Republicans for a private showing of “Only the Brave” followed by a discussion with local authorities about the movie. It was only a few months ago that our local fire departments responded to the Everglades’ fires that threatened many of our homes. This movie will help us to understand the risk that these brave firefighters and their families take to help us, and what we can do to help them.
All proceeds from CCREC-sponsored events will be used to support Collier County Republican campaign activities to elect our candidates in November!
Tickets are $20, in advance only, at www.colliergop.org. Seating is limited. Sign up today!
I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called “Organizing for Action” (OFA).
OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our current president’s administration is trying to do. This organization goes against our Democracy, and it is an operation that will destroy our way of governing. It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago. If it is allowed to proceed then we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run. What good is it to have an established government if it is not going to be respected and allowed to follow our laws?
If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the decades with judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage could you do to a country? We are about to find out in America!
Our ex-president said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues and that appears to be one post-administration promise he intends to keep. He has moved many of his administration’s top dogs over to Organizing for Action.
OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the resistance to the Trump Administration that we are seeing across America, and politically active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution.
OFA is dedicated to organizing communities for “progressive” change. Its issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual equality, climate change, and of course, immigration reform.
OFA members were propped up by the ex-president’s message from the shadows: “Organizing is the building block of everything great we have accomplished Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines. Commit to this work in 2017 and beyond.”
OFA’s website says it obtained its “digital” assets from the ex-president’s re-election effort and that he inspired the movement. In short, it is the shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA.
Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says, “The OFA will fight President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.”
Sperry writes that, “The ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the Trump administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide. The OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate that the OFA has 32,525 (and growing) volunteers nationwide. The ex-president and his wife will oversee the operation from their home/ office in Washington DC.
Think about how this works.. For example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; the OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant groups; the ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action in support of these activities; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; and violence follows. All of this happens from the ex-president’s signal that he is heartened by the protests.
If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years.
If this does not scare you, then we are in worse trouble than you know.
So, do your part. You have read it, so at least pass this on so others will know what we are up against. We are losing our country and we are so compliant. We are becoming a “PERFECT TARGET” for our enemy!
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“Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life.
It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your Honor.
That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by
a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed
at ditching and shoe-making and fetched up in journalism
on their way to the poorhouse.”
Mark Twain
Our flag has been in the news a lot lately. Please watch this amazing video of Robin Williams impersonating it. The man was a genius and he was just 31 when he made this video. It’s about 3 minutes long, but I don’t think you will ever see anything like this or as creative as this again. His presentation and comments are particularly germane today and I hope you’ll enjoy and appreciate HIS perspective on our flag.
Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch; photograph by Franz Jantzen, 2017.
Neil Gorsuch has only been on the Supreme Court for a short while.
Recently he ignited the fire of liberty and broke 40 years of precedent
when he refused to join the SCOTUS “cert pool.”
The cert pool was established in 1973 during the early days of the
Burger Court, in order to efficiently review the near 8,000 petitions
received each term. In practice, the petitions are apportioned among
the Court’s law clerks, who then circulate a memo to the justices
recommending a grant or denial. The obvious problem here is that this
gives the power in these 8000 cases to the law clerks instead of the
Justices. It also, in theory, allows 3rd parties to unfairly influence
a case through the clerks.
That is NOT how the Supreme Court was designed to operate.
Neil Gorsuch just managed to set his foot down in the
Supreme Court and say it is NOT okay to pass off judgments to the
discretion of legal clerks. This is the kind of story everyone should be
hearing or reading in the media, but obviously is not.
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Today the United States Supreme Court issued a direct and final blow
to the Islamic Indoctrination of the young in this nation.
The full panel of the United States Supreme Court which consists of
9 judges met to decided the fate of Islamic indoctrination in our
American public schools. In a typical 5 X 4 decision, common
sense won out, and we have sanity restored to our schools once again.
The United States Supreme Court was able to hand out this decision
banning Sharia Law and Islam from being taught in classrooms because
of the tie-breaking vote of just appointed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Gorsuch went on to write about the decision:
“The government certainly has no business being involved in religion,
but this isn’t a government issue or a religious issue. This is about
the judicial branch interpreting the laws as they apply to the
teaching of religion. We shouldn’t be teaching any religions in the
public schools of this country
Amen, Justice Gorsuch, Amen!
Liberals are all about teaching Islam and Sharia Law but they have
issues with “Under God” in the pledge of allegiance and “In God We
Trust” on our currency.
This should have been a unanimous decision, not 5 to 4,
but it seems like the 4 liberal judges on the Supreme Court
don’t care about the constitution, nor our values.
Perhaps this is the start of restoring America to its founding glory.
Thank goodness for our new Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch,
a great selection by President Trump.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Francis Rooney introduced legislation to eliminate wasteful government spending programs currently existing within the Department of Education. The bill, H.R. 3957, would repeal Title VIII of the Higher Education Opportunity Act. This repeal will remove the ability to fund dozens of special interest programs, resulting in smaller government and less spending.
Congressman Rooney stated. “Eliminating waste and cutting government spending is one of the main reasons the voters sent me to Washington. Title VIII established numerous narrowly focused carve-outs and special interest programs that, although currently not funded, have been appropriated and are on the books. We must remove the temptation to fully fund the millions of dollars these programs could receive, by eliminating them completely.”
The bill would repeal Title VIII of the Higher Education Opportunity Act and title VIII of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Francis Rooney is the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 19th congressional district. He serves on the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2008.