Roy Exum
My daily habit is to search a good many Internet sites that I enjoy, trying to find stories that relate to my many interests and cast light on things I think about. I’m a huge fan of Israel and, in morning readings, I keep up with the never-ending barrage of battle against God’s chosen people. I care a great deal about the Children of God, and I am one among many who monitor today’s stories.
Yesterday I found two examples of what I love to share.
The first is about Israel and it is an easy given that I love cheering on my champions. The Jesus I follow was the tenderest Jew who ever lived and all of my life I have lived in gratitude for the grace of my Savior. It’s as easy and as simple as that. If you maul Israel, you maul God. Maul God and you maul me… I’m thinking that’d be a bad idea and ain’t gonna’ work really well for you.
The second “read” is about how the Chamber of Commerce has become a leftist organization and defies financial support from the city and the county. When you read about the national platform, it is accented by a royally pompous former Chamber leader Tom Wilson, chief executive of the insurance giant Allstate and former chair of the U.S. Chamber board, who said the Chamber makes no apologies for its decision.
“Sure, there are some people who don’t like what we’re doing, because they signed on thinking it was a wing of the Republican Party,” Wilson said in an interview. “And we’re like, ‘That’s okay. If you want to join something that’s a wing of the Republican Party, go for it. And if we don’t fit your needs, that’s fine.’”
Stay tuned: Here’s Israel’s battle first:
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NOT GOOD ENOUGH … LEAVE!
This turns out to one of the best stories lately from our friend Howard Galgon and the current Hamas invasion of Israel. galganov.com/2021/05/18/not-good-enough-for-you-leave
Howard Galvano is a longtime columnist and, as of late as a firebrand, has gotten my attention. He happens to love Israel as much as I do, and … you’ll see … he’s had it with Hamas all the way up to here.
He recently wrote a column …
“THEY HATE ISRAEL . . . BECAUSE ISRAEL WON'T TAKE A KNEE
In it he explains he never considered himself ‘hard right’ or ‘hard left’ but … “even though I Have Never Been Real Hardcore – With The Exception Of Freedom Of Expression . . . Things For Me Have Changed.”
If You Think . . . You Can Rain Rockets (Missiles), Fire-Balloons, Fire-Kites and the Such on the Jewish State of Israel, with the Support of Anti-Semites & Self-Hating Jews like Bernie Sanders & Ignorant Self-Hating American Anti-Semites like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez . . . who couch their Jew-Hatred in DISHONEST Rhetoric Under the FALSE Premise that Israel is Somehow an Evil Nation . . . Don’t Whine When The Jews Fight Back.
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“I AM NOT A JEW WITH TREMBLING KNEES . . .”
Let Me Repeat This As I’ve Written Before . . . On June 23, 1982, as Israel was Once-Again Up Against the Wall with Israel’s War Against Palestinian Terrorists (Yasser Arafat) & Syrians from Lebanon . . . Senator Joe Biden – At A Senate Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin . . . THREATENED the Israeli Prime Minister, that if Prime Minister Begin Doesn’t Heed the Demands of the US Senate . . . America Will Withhold Necessary Military Aid From Israel
IN RESPONSE TO BIDEN’S THREAT – THE BATTLE TESTED MENACHEM BEGIN SAID . . .
“Don’t Threaten Me . . . I Am Not A Jew With Trembling Knees.
“I Am A Proud Jew With 3,700 Years Of Civilized History. Nobody Came To Our Aid When We Were Dying In The Gas Chambers & Ovens. Nobody Came To Our Aid When We Were Striving To Create Our Country. We Paid For It. We Fought For It. We Died For It. We Will Stand By Our Principles. We Will Defend Them. And When Necessary, We Will Die For Them Again . . . With Or Without Your Aid”. That was 39 years ago … so what has changed?
Nothing Has Changed Between 70-AD & 2021 . . . Other Than Enough Jews Will Fight Back . . . And That Bothers Anti-Semites. In Israel . . . As In the United States & Elsewhere . . . The Anti-Semites & Israel-Haters (Same Thing) are Using a Page out of the Antifa & Black Lives Matter Playbook, Demanding by their Chant . . . “Say The Word – Palestine”, are Encouraging Arab/Israeli Nut jobs to Riot, Beat, Burn & Cause Mayhem in Israel, while Israel Fights an Existential Battle Against An Enemy Sworn to Destroy the Jewish State & Drive the Jews Into the Sea.
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IF YOU DON’T HAVE SECURE BORDERS . . . YOU DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY:
So, While I’m At It . . . Kick-Out the Illegals & Pass Legislation that will Forever . . . NEVER Give Citizenship or the Right to Vote to Dreamers in Any Type of American Election – School Board, Municipal, State Or Federal. If The So-Called Dreamers Want To Be Citizens . . . Let them Leave America & Do It Like Everyone Else.
I’VE COME TO THE CONCLUSION – THE WORLD NEEDS A RESET BACK TO NORMAL:
We Are Living In A Kafkaesque Dystopian Society Of Evil Ignorant People Who Can Be Best Described As Lunatics Who Are Governing The Asylum – Worldwide.
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DECENT PEOPLE JUST AREN’T GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE:
First They (Nazis & Communists) Took Away Freedom Of Expression Then The Guns . . . That Was Then – This Is Now.
This Insanity Is Going To Change . . . It’s Beginning to Change Now – And Sooner Rather than Later, there will be a World War, but Not the Kind of World War we all Imagine. This World War Will Pit Freedom-Loving Conservatives Against the Despicable LEFT Worldwide, which we’re Already Beginning to See, and which will be Coming Much Sooner . . . Rather Than Later To A Community & A Country Near You.
Why Do You Think The LEFT Are So Concerned About The Second Amendment? If I Was Them, I’d Be Too.
Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov
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Now we read…
“Go Pound Sand ”
(NOTE: This story on the Chamber of Commerce becoming all that it shouldn’t be, appeared on the conservative site, redstate.com on Monday and was brilliantly written by “Bonche.”
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The old alliance between the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Party has officially collapsed. Fractures started in 2020 when the Chamber endorsed 23 freshman Democrats for re-election despite their anti-business voting records. Now, the GOP is becoming openly hostile, most recently barring the Chamber’s representatives from hearings.
(According to) The Washington Post, the (national) leadership of the Chamber remains aggressively stubborn about their new strategy. Meanwhile, it remains to be seen exactly what that strategy hopes to accomplish. Tom Wilson, chief executive of the insurance giant Allstate and former chair of the U.S. Chamber board, said the Chamber makes no apologies for its decision.
“Sure, there are some people who don’t like what we’re doing, because they signed on thinking it was a wing of the Republican Party,” Wilson said in an interview. “And we’re like, ‘That’s okay. If you want to join something that’s a wing of the Republican Party, go for it. And if we don’t fit your needs, that’s fine.’”
Even so, the conservative backlash has led to alarm even among some of the organization’s closest allies. A veteran U.S. Chamber board member, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid reprisal, said: “It is a legitimate question how well-thought out this strategy is. People are concerned, and they’re discussing where else they can send revenues to support free enterprise.”
Do you know where you shouldn’t send revenues to support free enterprise? The Democrat Party. Yet, because of the Chamber’s fairly new, more progressive leadership, how they score candidates changed. Because of that change, they managed to rate the guy who wrote the 2017 tax cuts lower than someone who endorsed the PROAct, a pro-union destruction of small businesses and sub-contractors. Contrast that with the Chamber’s bullheaded assistance that their endorsements are about policy as seen below.
“We expect criticism when we work with Republicans who are aligned with us on key issues, and when we work with Democrats for the same reason,” the spokesman said. “No member of Congress has a right to our support — they have to earn it and re-earn it. We focus on the issues, not the parties, and we won’t back down.”
In fact, all 14 freshman Democrats the Chamber backed in 2020 that won ended up supporting the PROAct, so how exactly are they focusing on “issues” as claimed above? They simply aren’t, and it’s obvious. There is no real pro-business faction within the Democrat Party these days, and because of the Chamber’s stupidity, they are quickly losing that faction within the Republican Party as well.
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MAJOR GOP FIGURES HAVE SPOKEN OUT AGAINST THE CHAMBER
In recent months, the Chamber has been the object of sharp attacks by leading conservatives. Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) called it a “front service for woke corporations.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) called it “confused.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) was so irked by the Chamber’s decision to endorse 23 freshman House Democrats for reelection last fall that he said he doesn’t even want its endorsement anymore.
As I’ve written before, Republicans don’t need the Chamber. What they contribute monetarily is minuscule in the grand scheme of fundraising (only $5.7M in 2020 to GOP candidates). Further, Republican voters aren’t keen on blind worship of huge, woke corporations, and while the Chamber claims to represent the little guy, it’s fairly clear they are simply a lobbying front for big business at this point.
And that’s really what we are seeing here, in my opinion. The Chamber’s new leadership is following the path that its corporate masters are blazing in regard to “social justice” and woke politics. That’s being done in an attempt to appease the Democrats in hopes the alligator eats them last. Meanwhile, the small businesses and entrepreneurs that the Chamber claims to exist for stand to get even more crushed.
Telling the Chamber to pound sand is the right move. Let them wither on the vine under the scorching sun of their own decisions. Republicans should not be there to answer the phone when they come calling.
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CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FLUBS BADLY ON ‘WOKE’ RACIAL EQUALITY PLEDGE
(NOTE: A postscript written by Roy Exum)
The Chatttanooga Chamber of Commerce suffered a terrible lapse of judgement three weeks ago when two liberal women, chair Valoria Armstrong of Tenn-American Water Co., and a disillusioned president, Christy Gillenwater, foisted their prejudices on the 2,500-member group by asking each CEO of member companies to publicly affirm a Racial Equality pledge. It has since turned into one of the most deplorable moments in the Chattanooga’s Chamber's history.
The pledge reads in part, “We will educate ourselves and share the history of systemic racism in Chattanooga and Hamilton County and the barriers that continue, so that was we recognize them, we can find new ways to overcome them.” The names of the 2,500 members who bought into such self-ridicule and faux-courageous aggrandizement are printed on the Chamber’s website. As of last night, there were considerably less than 100 signatures, which some will say means that over 2,400 members of the Chamber are biased and racist because they openly shun the ‘woke’ belligerence.
For the City and the County to fund a “woke” Chamber is wrong; we need business not socialist help and added with a national turn by the Chamber that endorses in full one political party over another, the Democratic National Party should underwrite the Chamber of Commerce instead of the public’s taxpayers. Let’s see how far such folly will get us.
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