... Good News Friday
May 10, 2024
Dear Patriot,
Thirteen items of GOOD NEWS! Rejoice and share.
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1- It is unsettling to see this foundational aspect of life in America ruined by leftist. The good news is, there is an alternative to look into for your young boys.
Franklin Graham Slams Boy Scouts for Going Fully 'Woke,' Offers 'Christ-Centered Alternative'
QUOTE: The Boy Scouts of America's decision to "rebrand" itself is a sign of bigger troubles. Franklin Graham is offering a different idea.
In a news release issued on Tuesday, BSA announced that the organization will soon become known as “Scouting America.” The change will go into effect on Feb. 8, 2025, the Boy Scouts 115th anniversary.
“This will be a simple but very important evolution as we seek to ensure that everyone feels welcome in Scouting” said Roger A. Krone, president and chief executive officer of BSA.
Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, didn’t hide his disappointment at the decision.
“Talk about losing your way,” Graham wrote in a Facebook post criticizing the announcement. “Being woke isn’t the need – staying focused and true to what God calls you to do is what’s important.”
Graham also pointed out that BSA’s attempt at inclusivity is driving parents away from the organization.
“It’s no surprise that thousands of parents are choosing other options like Trail Life USA which is a great Christ-centered alternative,” Graham wrote.
Trail Life USA is a Christian-based group that started in 2013 after the Boy Scouts decision to allow openly gay Scouts to remain in the organization, as The Associated Press reported in 2015. It describes itself as “the premier national character development organization for young men which produces generations of godly and responsible husbands, fathers, and citizens,” according to its website.
Trail Life’s program caters to boys ages 5-17. It offers three stages, “Woodlands Trail,” “Navigators” and “Adventurers,” each of which teaches various skills and values.
During the “Woodlands Trail” stage, the website states, for those ages 5-10, the program holds weekly meetings “designed to delight the raucous, rowdy, unruly nature of a boy. Trailmen engage in hands-on experiences that develop character, deepen faith, and hone practical skills in the seven program branches.”
2- You have to love the karma of this award.
Life hack: when you use a green mud clay face mask, do not take a photo.
Reason
California Students Get $1 Million After They Were Expelled for Wearing Supposedly Racist Acne Masks
QUOTE: During a sleepover in August 2017, three 14-year-old boys, two of whom were about to start attending St. Francis High School in Mountain View, California, took a picture of themselves wearing dark green acne masks. One of the boys, who was hosting the other two, had severe acne, and his friends applied the masks in an act of playful solidarity. They took the picture because they thought they looked "silly."
Three years later, after another teenager obtained the picture and posted it online, the two St. Francis students were falsely accused of posing in blackface and forced to leave the school under the threat of expulsion. This week a California jury awarded the boys, identified as A.H. and H.H. in their lawsuit against the school, $1 million in damages, plus a tuition reimbursement of about $70,000.
The jury agreed that St. Francis had treated the boys unfairly, thereby violating an oral contract. More controversially, the jury accepted a claim under the California Supreme Court's "common law doctrine of fair procedure," which extends due process requirements to private actors such as unions, hospitals, insurers, and professional organizations. Last year, the court ruled that the doctrine also applies to private universities. But according to the attorneys who represented A.H. and H.H., this is the first time the doctrine has been applied to a private secondary school.
The plaintiffs' attorneys note that "St. Francis expelled the boys within 24 hours, without considering their evidence or offering any hearing." They add that "the school's actions led to significant personal, educational, and emotional consequences for the students."
The boys' parents amplified that point. "We would never wish the pain, humiliation, and suffering St. Francis has inflicted on our families on anyone," they said, "but we are thankful that the jury has spoken," "vindicated our boys," and "forced St. Francis to finally take responsibility for their repeated personal attacks."
3- It would be a wonderful development if the knuckleheads in Congress finally learned to be courageous and had Trump’s back as he fights against the massive lawfare deployed against him.
One Of Trump-World’s Favorite Lawyers Hatched Playbook With House GOP On Ending Biden Lawfare Against Trump
QUOTE: One of former President Donald Trump’s biggest legal defenders and advisers, Mike Davis, held a meeting last Wednesday with a select group of House Republicans to discuss ways to fight back against President Joe Biden’s lawfare against Trump, the Daily Caller has learned.
Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project, met with lawmakers from the House Conservative Opportunity Society, which is chaired by Republican South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman. The group does not share how many members it has or when it holds meetings, which are off the record with no staff or media present.
Davis was asked to speak to the group about Trump’s ongoing legal battles and ways House Republicans can help the former President from Congress. Davis told the Caller that there were over a dozen members present for the meeting, which took place the morning of May 1 at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington D.C.
“I want to maintain the privacy of the discussions the members of COS had with Mr. Davis, but I can say it was a productive meeting,” Norman told the Caller. “On the matter of why House Republicans are rallying around President Trump, I see it as a very simple choice. This race is between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, that’s an easy decision for me and many of my colleagues. It’s a decision between how we’ve been living under the Biden admin the past 3 years versus the freedoms we had under the Trump admin.”
Davis would not divulge which members attended the meeting, but said that the group is eager to fight for Trump.
4- It is comforting to see how fast a circling-the-drain country can rebound with an undaunted leader.
Milei Is Absolutely Killing It in Argentina
QUOTE: President Javier Milei entered office like Jack Nicholson breaking his way into the bathroom in "The Shining" — with an axe. Armed with emergency powers granted by the Argentine Congress, he balanced the country's out-of-control budget in one month, fired government workers by the thousands, eliminated more than 200,000 "corrupt" social welfare programs, and even cozied up to NATO.
“There’s a lot more chainsaw" to come, Milei promised in March.
Let's look at the numbers.
Inflation down from 300% to 11%; the first quarterly budget surplus since 2008; interest rates cut three times in three weeks; and the Argentine peso becomes the world's best performing currency. Milei proves the Left-wing economic establishment wrong.
"It may also get better over the months ahead," the UK Telegraph's Matthew Lynn wrote last week. "With stabilising prices, and a rising currency, investment should start flowing again into a country rich in natural resources and hyper-competitive on wages costs.” "If so, Argentina would be defying a global economic establishment addicted to bigger government, more regulation, and rising deficits."
It's early into Milei's term and his reforms have barely had time to take hold. There will be pain ahead because decades of bad policies don't work themselves out in weeks or months. But shrinking government, tamping inflation, and stabilizing the currency, make for a solid foundation for future prosperity.
Free markets work. Milei's results speak for themselves. There's a lesson there for any Republican bold enough to learn it.
5- Thankfully, no one will be getting this particular Clot Shot anymore. We pray for the victims of this and all injections.
AstraZeneca Withdraws Its COVID Vaccine Worldwide, Citing Dangerous Side Effects
QUOTE: The British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has decided to globally withdraw its COVID-19 vaccine, citing a rare and dangerous side effect associated with the jab.
The company has voluntarily withdrawn its “marketing authorisation," meaning it will no longer be available for purchase.
AstraZeneca has come under intense scrutiny over recent months over evidence that their version of the COVID-19 vaccine, known as Vaxzevria, has caused dozens of cases of Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), leading to at least 81 deaths. Around 50 victims and grieving relatives are also suing the company as a result.
6- Now, let’s watch and see if those in charge will follow these new laws.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp Signs THREE Major Election Integrity Bills into Law Ahead of 2024 Presidential Election
QUOTE: Governor Brian Kemp made a significant move on Tuesday by signing three pivotal pieces of legislation that aim to reshape Georgia’s election procedures in preparation for the 2024 presidential elections.
The new legislation, House Bill 974, House Bill 1207, and Senate Bill 189, aims to enhance ballot security, voter eligibility verification, and auditing protocols in the battleground state.
Of course, the lawless Democrats are not happy with these three laws, which aim to bolster the security of our elections.
7- Claire Woodall-Vogg has been cheating in Milwaukee for the past two election. She has allegedly printed ballots, filled them out herself and kicked out Republican observers. Good riddance and good to see some accountability.
Milwaukee removes elections chief in unexpected battleground-state shakeup
QUOTE: The top elections official in Milwaukee County was removed from her post Monday in an unexpected shakeup in the most populous county in battleground Wisconsin six months before Election Day.
A spokesperson for Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson said Monday that Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Claire Woodall would be replaced by her deputy, Paulina Gutierrez, citing “internal” issues within the commission.
In a statement, Johnson spokesperson Jeff Fleming said that the move was not related to how Woodall or her office oversaw elections but that it was a result of “other issues internal to the election commission office and to city government that raised concern." Fleming did not elaborate on the nature of the issues when asked. The unexpected move comes just under six months from a presidential election likely to be decided by a small handful of states, including Wisconsin.
Wisconsin’s past two presidential elections were decided by fewer than 23,000 votes each. And Milwaukee — a Democratic stronghold where Trump allies falsely portrayed slow counting of mail ballots as a sign of fraud in 2020 — was at the center of the drama in both elections.
Woodall is leaving just two months after a grand jury found her former deputy, Kimberly Zapata, guilty of official misconduct and election fraud charges related to her having obtained fake absentee ballots.
8- Disney is not doing anything to pull themselves out of their tail spin. But, then, over half of America is on to their tactics and will not be fooled ever again.
Far-Left Disney Lost $628 Million on Four Woke Flops
QUOTE: The Disney Grooming Syndicate released four of last year’s five biggest flops and lost $628 million. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of leches.
The Disney sycophants over at the far-left Deadline crunched the 2023 box office numbers and published the five most costly bombs from last year. Only The Flash, which came in second, wasn’t a Disney production.
Here are last year’s five biggest bombs with their net losses:
• The Marvels: -$237 million
• The Flash: -$155 million
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: -$143 million
• Wish: -$131 million
• Haunted Mansion: -$117 million
All on its own, The Marvels lost nearly a quarter of a billion — with a “B” — dollars.
By the way, those numbers factor in theatrical grosses and revenue made from home video, along with licensing deals with TV and streaming. It’s all included.
People don’t want to watch propaganda, and no one wants to watch propaganda again, and blockbusters are created by repeat viewings in the theater and at home. And no decent parent leaves their children alone with Disney.
9- A pricey Super Bowl ad and celebrity endorsements have not pulled this company off the ledge.
Bud Light Still an Epic Failure Since Transgender Mulvaney Scandal
QUOTE: Just over one year following Bud Light’s terrible decision to hire transgender influencer and professional toddler Dylan Mulvaney to promote its once pro-America beer, the company's sales are plummeting. Again.
According to the first-quarter earnings report released Wednesday, Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light’s parent company, has decreased 9.1% in revenue in the U.S.
Aside from the 9.1% decrease in revenue in America, “sales to retailers in the U.S. were down 13.7%” in the first-quarter earnings." Essentially, distributors don’t want to buy Bud Light to sell because they know that consumers won't buy it!
As former Anheuser-Busch President of Operations Anson Frericks said, “I think the biggest problem is that they’ve lost trust with their customers,” he added, “and they still haven’t gone out and personally asked for their customers to come back to them and until they restore that trust, I don’t think that this brand is gonna turn around and get back to growth anytime soon.”
The truth is, people don’t want woke ruining our perfectly good brands, and Bud Light is learning that the hard way.
10- A nice thing has happened to a hard working agent who was falsely maligned.
Border Agent Biden Falsely Accused of Whipping Migrants Is Given a Major Award.
QUOTE: A Border Patrol agent who was hung out to dry by the Biden administration for months on false charges of whipping illegal immigrants at the southern border has now received a Border Patrol achievement award.
In September 2021, images circulated of Border Patrol agents on horseback trying to round up illegal immigrants from Haiti. The images were initially interpreted by some as showing an agent whipping the illegal immigrants.
The incident was denounced by President Joe Biden, who promised to punish the agents responsible.
However, a subsequent investigation revealed that the horses’ reins were the objects that, at the angle some images were taken, appeared to be whips. Despite that, the agents under investigation were found to have used “unnecessary” force, with one agent found to have maneuvered his horse “unsafely” and used “denigrating and inappropriate language,” according to the New York Post. Biden has never apologized to the agents.
The agent’s name has never been released, but the Post said a source it did not name at the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that the agent was among those awarded.
11- This is such good news. Ill-educated future attorneys have no place in the US Judical System.
13 Federal Judges Announce Boycott of Hiring Law Clerks from Columbia University, Citing Rampant Antisemitism and Campus Disruptions
QUOTE: A group of federal judges has announced a boycott of Columbia University, citing concerns over the institution’s handling of recent campus disruptions and allegations of fostering anti-semitism.
The judges, who hire law clerks annually, expressed their loss of confidence in Columbia University following the aftermath of the October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas.
The university, once renowned for its academic excellence, has now been labeled by the judges as ground zero “for the explosion of student disruptions, antisemitism, and hatred for diverse viewpoints.”
In a letter addressed to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, the judges expressed their dissatisfaction with the university’s handling of recent campus events.
In a stern warning, the judges make it clear that unless Columbia makes “extraordinary change,” they will refrain from hiring law clerks from Columbia University.
12- Interestingly, leftist in the bluest of all cities aren’t flocking to see Hillary Clinton’s musical about suffragettes.
Hillary Clinton’s Feminist Musical – ‘Suffs’ – is Bombing on Broadway.
QUOTE: Hillary Clinton‘s feminist Broadway production “Suffs” is struggling at the box office and failing to attract an audience, despite being praised and promoted by the mainstream media. “Suffs” is a musical about the rise of the suffragette movement. Clocking in at nearly three hours, the production features a cast comprised entirely of women and “non-binary” individuals.
Last week, it played to 81 percent theater capacity; the previous week, it played to 78 percent capacity, according to data from The Broadway League.
Broadway operates under the strategy of dynamic ticket pricing, leading to a possibly inflated occupancy figure as shows often resort to significantly discounted tickets to bolster attendance. This can result in a net loss to producers. Clinton is one of the producers of “Suffs” along with Kamala Harris’s niece, Meena Harris.
13- This is how discrimination in woke companies is stopped. The company needs to feel great financial pain.
America First Legal Sues IBM Subsidiary “Red Hat” for Alleged Anti-White, Anti-Male Discrimination
QUOTE: America First Legal (AFL), with its co-counsel, including Robert Barnes, filed a lawsuit on behalf of its client against the International Business Machines Corporation’s (IBM) subsidiary, Red Hat, for violating Civil Rights laws by allegedly engaging in discriminatory employment and termination practices against white males.
AFL’s plaintiff is a white male and was a dutiful Red Hat employee for eight years, rising to the position of Senior Director. He was an exemplary employee who had never received a negative review during his time at Red Hat. But for the discrimination he faced, he was on the path to becoming one of the top executives at Red Hat.
In 2021, Red Hat began implementing illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements. In accordance with its illegal activities, Red Hat hired a Chief Executive Officer of DEI to spearhead these programs – mandating employee training while implementing employment quotas aimed at achieving diversity goals by illegally treating race as a dispositive factor for employment and advancement.
On several occasions, managers and executives at Red Hat commented to AFL’s plaintiff and other employees expressing their dismay at the lack of diversity in the workforce and their desire to achieve certain workforce quotas based on race and gender. Red Hat executives indicated that these DEI initiatives would influence certain hiring and employment decisions.
This is not the first time IBM has been caught violating the Constitution and Civil Rights laws. Last year, James O’Keefe released a recording of IBM Chief Executive Officer and Board Chairman Arvind Krishna promising to fire, demote, or deny bonuses to corporate executives who fail to meet the corporation’s racial, national origin, and sex-based hiring quotas or hire too many Asian individuals.
Following this shocking footage, AFL filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against IBM for alleged racial and sex discrimination. AFL also wrote to IBM’s Board of Directors, demanding an end to the corporation’s systemic violations of law to prevent the waste of corporate assets and harm to shareholders.
PRAY for divine intervention. PRAY for all those burdened by leftist lawfare.
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