Year: 2014

Vietnam veteran Joe Koblenzer thinks that his Veteran status entitles him to steal from Cracker Barrel

The video:

The story via Fox News:

A 73-year-old Vietnam veteran paid a high price for a free muffin.

Joe Koblenzer says he was fired by a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Florida after he gave a needy person a corn muffin for free, WWSB reported.

Koblenzer, who had been with the eatery in Sarasota for three years, told the station that he was previously written up twice before the muffin infraction: once for having a fountain drink while on duty, and another time for allegedly giving a woman a free cup of coffee. In the latter instance, Koblenzer says the customer paid for the coffee.

Cracker Barrel, however, says the muffin giveaway was Koblenzer’s fifth violation of company policy, which includes not giving away food and not consuming food without paying for it.

Koblenzer told WWSB that on the day he was fired, a man who looked like he may be homeless asked him for mayonnaise and tartar sauce.

“He said he was going to cook fish,” Koblenzer told the station.

Koblenzer said he got the man the condiments, and added a corn muffin to the bag as he handed it over.

The kindness cost the Vietnam vet his job, but he understands why he was fired.

I have news for Mr. Koblenzer; being a United States Veteran does not entitle him to rob a business of its merchandise. Furthermore, being a Military Vet does not entitle him to rob a business of its profits. Here is why I say this: If Cracker Barrel allows this guy to do this; then, they would have to allow ALL of their employees to do such a thing. Then, if word gets out that people who are needy and want free food, can go over to Cracker Barrel and tell a sob story; and they will get free food — this would cause Cracker Barrel to go out of business in short order. The last time I checked, Cracker Barrel is a business and is not a charitable organization like gleaners.

I understand the mans moral argument; but morals are one thing. However, running a business is another entirely. Cracker Barrel is not in the business of feeding the poor; they are in the business of preparing food for customers who have money to buy it. This is why the founder of this business, decided to go into business for himself in the first place!

I noticed the comments of this story at Fox News channel; and the only people who are making an issue of this; are obviously liberals who are anti-business anyhow. Furthermore, I am quite shocked that Fox News even went with this story in the first place. Perhaps Rupert Murdoch’s conservative influence is waning over there.

Again, if the poor want free food; let them get it from organizations who are in the business of providing for the poor; not from a business who are in the business of profit.

This is why I was never much into the entire In-Vitro fertilization thing

I hate to sound like an old curmudgeon; but sometimes, I just think that if you cannot have kids; you should just accept it as God’s will. This is a good reason:

The Story via LifeNews.com:

This story is so heartbreaking and so indicative of the complicated ethical web the fertility industry has spun. Gracie Crane is a UK teenage girl full of angst, but not the kind that troubles most teenagers. She was adopted as a “leftover” IVF embryo. Gracie keenly feels the loss of her genetic roots, but the law in the UK prevents her from ever knowing who her biological parents are. The pain is so acute, some days she says she wishes she were never born.

In-Vitro fertilization, in my humble opinion, is tampering with God’s will. This above is the fallout from that. It’s a sad tale; and one of millions, I would be willing bet. I am all for people having children; the natural way. Not by this method.

West Virginia Democrat lets the mask slip and says what he really feels about coal miners

Basically, he says that most people in W. Va. are too stoned to even work in the coal mines.

via The Charleston Daily Mail:

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A comment Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., made to political blog Politico has sparked fierce backlash from conservative groups.

Rahall, speaking to reporter Erica Martinson for a series on how national policy issues are affecting 2014 midterm elections, said substance abuse is a big reason coal miners can’t find jobs in Southern West Virginia.

“Times are tough,” he told Martinson. “People turn to drugs — no question about it. Our coal companies can’t hire coal miners because they can’t pass a drug test.”

Since the article was published Thursday morning, Rahall’s Republican opponent, state Sen. Evan Jenkins, and other conservative groups such as Americans for Prosperity issued statements calling Rahall’s comments “absurd,” “wrong” and “deeply offensive.”

“As someone who screens and drug tests hundreds and hundreds of coal miners for potential employment in the mines, I can tell you that Nick Rahall’s comments are totally wrong and deeply offensive to the miners with whom I work,” Mike Grose of Elite Coal Services said in a statement issued by the Jenkins campaign.

“Since 2013, out of several hundred potential miners we’ve drug tested, just eight have tested positive. These hard-working men seeking employment are not the drug addicts Nick Rahall’s comments make them out to be.”

Elite Coal Services is one of the state’s leading coal contract labor service companies, recruiting and training miners to fill available positions at surface and underground mine sites across the state. Grose also was interviewed for the Politico piece.

Just a bit more of that, “You didn’t build that!” from the Obama left. What more do people need to see and hear for them to realize that the left is not the party of the working class American people?

Pew Poll: Most leftists hate America and everything it stands for

This is something that I have known for a very long time. Especially since I started blogging back in 2006. However, it became very real to me, around 2007, when I saw that the left no longer stood for America and its founding values. I hate to say it, but it is very and sadly true.

The Graphic:

Polls do not lie! You cannot say this is a Fox News poll either. It’s a pew research poll.

Via The Washington Post:

Michelle Obama took some heat in 2008 for saying that, “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country…”

As it turns out, that sentiment isn’t all that unusual on the far left of American politics. According to a new Pew Research Center study, only 40 percent of consistently liberal Americans say they often feel proud to be Americans.

The other 60 percent say that doesn’t describe them.

The finding is contained in Pew’s new “Political Typology” report, which breaks Americans down into seven different categories — rather than the usual three. Among the seven categories, “solid liberals” are the only group in which a majority say they aren’t regularly proud to be Americans.

This is due to one thing and one thing alone: Cultural Marxism.

Others: JustOneMinute, Weasel Zippers and Washington Free Beacon

 

W. James Antle III at the Daily Caller says, “Pat Buchanan was right all along”

I think this is a refreshing change of pace. This would have never been printed on a Conservative website in 2003.:

Many of the people you now see on your television offering advice about what to do next in Iraq weren’t terribly prescient the first time around. They or their bosses thought the war likelier to last six days or six weeks than six months. They feared a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein.

“The United States overestimated the threat from Saddam Hussein in 2003,” David Frum acknowledges in 2014. “Without an active nuclear-weapons program, he was not a danger beyond his immediate vicinity. That war cost this country dearly.”

Perhaps the war pundits’ flawed track record is understandable. “Rarely do wars, once begun, work out as anticipated,” wrote Pat Buchanan on the eve of the Iraq war.

But some people anticipated more than others. Buchanan predicted the initial invasion would go well. “An Iraqi air defense, unable to shoot down a single U.S. plane in 40,000 sorties in ten years, cannot long withstand U.S. air power that can deliver 1,000 smart bombs and cruise missiles on target each day,” he observed. “And Iraqi ground forces cannot long resist Abrams tanks that can guarantee the kill of an Iraqi armored vehicle with every shell fired.”

The occupation, however, would be another story. And instead of washing in a tidal wave of liberal democracy across the region, Buchanan warned a prolonged campaign in Iraq might empower anti-American, anti-Western and anti-Israel political forces.

“What would it profit America to march to Baghdad,” he asked, “only to have Cairo fall to anti-American mobs?”

After the Muslim Brotherhood interlude in Egypt, it’s no longer an open question.

via Pat Buchanan Was Right | The Daily Caller.

If only more people, like this man, realized that Pat Buchanan was right. Maybe Dick Cheney would have to find a new career.

Link removed on Blogroll

Just some quick housekeeping here.

For a long time, I had a link on my blogroll to a site called Jesus-is-saviour.com that is owned by David J. Stewart, who lives in Guam. Well, I have known about that website since my returning to the Independent, Fundamental, Baptist type of Churches and Doctrine.

However, I was not aware at all that Mr. Stewart was involved in a sex related crime and was also putting things on his website that were questionable at best. I just happened to google his name and noticed these things. I am fully aware that the people making these accusations against him are not Fundamental Baptists and they are in disagreement with the belief that the King James Bible is the Word of God for the english speaking people. However, screenshots and public records do not lie.

Therefore, after some thought and prayer, I have decided to remove his link from this site. I truly hope that Mr. Stewart gets his life in order and his heart right with the Lord. What he is doing is a terrible sin and is damaging to the IFB movement and to the Church as a whole. I simply do not want to be associated with someone, who has been accused of such things and with someone who has those sort of feelings about Israel and the Jews. Plainly put; anyone who accuses the Jews of doing 9/11 has no business being linked to by this blog. I truly hope that other IFB websites who link to this man, will remove his links; because this man’s site is dangerous and could cause a young believer in the Lord to go astray.

….and I do not want that on my conscience.

Video: Multiple Law Enforcement Agencies in Idaho shoot one suspect

Why did several agencies descend on one person?

Video via Facebook:

Post by Julian Mosher.

That sound is the kid’s dog whimpering. The gunfire sounds are scaring him, most likely.

But, that is a bunch of fire power, for one person.

The Story via KREM.COM:

POST FALLS, Idaho.—Authorities shut down part of I-90 early Sunday morning to investigate a multi-agency officer involved shooting in Post Falls.

Authorities said officers and deputies from the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, Coeur d’Alene Police Department, Post Falls Police and Idaho State Police were involved in an early morning shooting near the Spokane Street overpass. The lone suspect was taken to Kootenai Health and listed in critical condition Sunday morning according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office.

Idaho State Police said the westbound lanes of I-90 were closed between Highway 41 and Spokane Street. The eastbound lanes on this stretch of the interstate were unaffected.

The freeway remained closed well into the morning Sunday as law enforcement continued investigating at the scene.  Authorities said it was unclear when the westbound lanes would reopen.

The Critical Incident Task Force, led by the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office, launched an investigation.

Police State? Ya think?

Here’s hoping

That the man who wrote this here dies from a bad case of ass cancer. 😡

I mean, my Dad is a retired General Motors worker of 31 years. This guy owned a supplier for GM and ended up losing his business. Cry me a river, he should have ran his business better. Instead, he blames General Motors and the unions for his failure. He should look in the mirror first.

 

 

Just for the record: I do not endorse burning mosques down

I happened to see this on a anti-jihadi blog that I happen to link to; and needless to say, I am quite disappointed to see them taking the stance that they did on there. 🙁

The reason why I say this is because burning someone’s house of worship down; because you happen to disagree with their beliefs smacks of fascism of the highest order. My friends, if someone who was an atheist — or worse, a Muslim — burned down a Christian Church or worse, a Jewish synagogue; the outrage in the Christian and Jewish World, not to mention the Conservative world would be utterly deafening. But yet, these people at that blog say that this burning of a mosque is perfectly fine? I seriously do not think so!

As much as I know Jihad is an issue, as much as I know Sharia law is an issue, as much as I know the infiltration of Islam into American culture is an issue; I simply cannot and will not ever believe that burning of Religious houses of worship to be an acceptable practice, ever. There is a line that you simply do not cross and this is one of them with me.

If someone suspects that radical Jihad doctrine is being preached in one of these mosques; then let the United States Government handle it —– doing this sort of a thing does nothing to solve the issue of radical Islam. In fact, it only serves to motivate terrorists to carry out acts against Americans.

There is a fine line between being aware and blind hate; and wise is the man who knows the difference between the two.

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Signed,

-Charles Patrick Adkins

Owner

The Americanist