Church to Give $5 Million to Families Struggling With Medical Debt

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Christian Assembly Church in Eagle Rock, California, will be giving struggling families the greatest gift this Christmas: Canceling over $5.3 million in medical debt.

According to Good Morning America, Christian Assembly partnered with the non-profit RIP Medical Debt to bring $5.3 million in aid to families crushed by the weight of medical bills. . .

In a video released online, co-pastor Tom Hughes said the gift will have “no strings attached,” noting that 75% of people struggling with medical debt went bankrupt despite having health insurance.

“For many people in our communities, medical debt is a crushing weight during a most challenging time in their life,” said Tom Hughes. “Medical debt is one of the leading causes of personal bankruptcy and contributes significantly to the likelihood of a person experiencing homelessness.” . . .

“We mapped out all of the active households that call Christian Assembly Church home, and we chose the top 28 neighborhoods. This gift is really impacting the poor in the 28 neighborhoods where we live,” said Hughes. “Because of the generosity of the people of Christian Assembly Church, we are able to make this gift possible. All of this is being done in Jesus’ name because of the generosity of our God and the compassion and mercy He has shown us.” (Read more from “Church to Give $5 Million to Families Struggling With Medical Debt” HERE)

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CE0 of Major Company Handwrites Over 9,000 Holiday Cards a Year for His Employees

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According to Business Insider, CEO Sheldon Yellen personally hand writes over 9,000 cards a year for his employees — and according to him, all the hard work really pays off in the end.

Yellen is the CEO of Belfor Holdings, a large company that aids in disaster relief efforts and in property restoration. They operate domestically as well as in many foreign countries.

According to Business Insider, Yellen has handwritten a holiday and birthday card to each and every single one of Belfor’s employees since 1985 — before he even became CEO. Today, he is estimated to write over 9,200 of these cards a year.

And it isn’t just birthday and Christmas that provoke handwritten notes from Yellen — he is also scrupulous about anniversary cards, thank you cards, notes to employees who are sick, and many more. The project has become incredibly time consuming for Yellen, who brings large stacks of stationery and writing utensils everywhere he goes, including on planes.

In fact, the work has become so time consuming that Yellen told Business Insider that when his company acquires new business and new companies, he worries less about the company’s financial figures than he does how many new Christmas cards he has to write. (Read more from “CE0 of Major Company Handwrites Over 9,000 Holiday Cards a Year for His Employees” HERE)

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Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison After Burning Pride Flag

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By Associated Press. A man has been imprisoned for burning an LGBTQ flag that was flying at a church in central Iowa.

Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years for the hate crime of arson and given a year for reckless use of explosives or fire and 30 days for harassment. The sentences are to be served consecutively, Story County court records said.

A jury convicted Martinez in November. He’d been arrested in June. At the time of his November conviction, KCCI reported that the “habitual offender” charge filed against Martinez called for a lengthier penalty. Hate crime charges also carry enhanced penalties. (Read more from “Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison After Burning Pride Flag” HERE)

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Man Says Burning Gay Flag was a ‘Blessing from the Lord’

By Chris Gothner. [Martinez] did make his motive clear when KCCI went to his house to ask him about the charges Wednesday.

“It’s my honor. It is written. It is a judgment and it’s written to execute vengeance on the heathen and punishments on the people,” Martinez said. “It’s my honor to do so. It was an honor to do that. It’s a blessing from the Lord.”

“So this was about homosexuality?” KCCI reporter Chris Gothner asked.

“Yes, yes, yes. Exactly,” Martinez replied. “I burned down their pride, plain and simple.”

Martinez said he had no regrets whatsoever and has no plans to fight the charges.

“No, I’m guilty as charged,” he said. (Read more about the gay pride flag burning case HERE)

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Parents Don’t Want Teachers Talking to Their Children About Unhealthy Food Because It’s Triggering (VIDEO)

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Colorado parents are asking the state to make teachers stop talking about nutrition in ways that “trigger” them into body image and health crises.

One parent told the Colorado State Board of Education that his daughter was triggered by a teacher remarking that fat in food becomes fat in the body.

The Denver Post explained helpfully that this was medically inaccurate, since a “body stores any calories beyond its needs as fat, and our bodies need some fat stores for insulation and to protect our organs.”

Another father said his daughter was triggered when a teacher made their students use an app to count caloric intake. . .

Another example of “triggering” classroom lessons was one where students lined up to have their body mass percentage measured.

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Man Wanted in Connection With Murder of Brother of 49ers QB Had Just Been Released From Jail

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Tennessee’s allegedly Republican governor, Bill Lee, has promised to “empty our jails.” He claimed, “We have to be creative and innovative and disruptive and challenge the way we’ve been doing things forever.” Well, if the man Nashville police are seeking in connection to the murders of Clayton Beathard, 22, and Paul Trapeni III, 21, indeed committed those murders, it will be precisely because he was let out of jail so “innovatively.”

Fans of the San Francisco 49ers undoubtedly noticed yesterday that the team’s quarterback, C.J. Beathard, was absent for one of the final games of the regular season headed into the playoffs. It turns out he was traveling to Nashville to be with his family after his brother, Clayton, was murdered along with his friend Paul Trapeni at a Nashville bar on Saturday.

While they have not announced the suspects yet, Nashville police stated that, based on surveillance video, Michael D. Mosley, 23, is a person of interest in the stabbing that allegedly took place at the Dogwood Bar in midtown Nashville and resulted in the deaths of Beathard and Trapeni as well as the non-fatal stabbing of a college student.

Police say the fight resulted from “an unwanted advancement made by a man toward a woman in the bar.” Mosely was identified by police as the man talking with the woman on surveillance video believed to be at the center of the altercation and is “believed to have definitive information about the murders” As of now he is only wanted for questioning, and no arrest warrant has been issued. However, the fact that someone like Mosley is out on the streets to begin with is just the latest glimpse into the world of weak-on-crime sentencing.

According to arrest records, Mosley had a history of burglary and drug charges during his early days. He barley served time in jail. Then, according to WKRN, Mosley was involved in a stabbing in May 2015 for which he was found guilty. He was involved in an inmate brawl at Cheatham County Jail this March. In October 2018, he was charged with domestic assault resulting in bodily injury. On December 5, 2018, he was charged with viciously punching a woman in the store “over and over again.” It appears that he was arrested for the December 2018 incident on November 5 of this year and was released on just $5,000 bond. Which means, despite the previous conviction for violent assault, he was out of prison some time earlier this year after serving just a few months.

According to Channel 4 News, in the December 2018 incident for which he was arrested last month, according to Davidson County Court records, “Mosley charged towards the woman striking her in the face and knocking her to the ground,” and then once she was on the ground, “Mosley continued to violently punch and kick the victim before dragging her across the floor by her hair to continue to punch and kick her again and again.”

$5,000 bond, despite his conviction for stabbing someone three years earlier, injuring another woman a year earlier, and being involved in a prison brawl eight months ago? As of now, there are no charges against him in this incident, but how is someone like that out on the streets anyway? And it appears he never served too long in prison, despite serious violent offenses. Yet the Republican governor of Tennessee thinks the laws are too strict?

Like many states, Tennessee has seen an uptick in violent crime in recent years after nearly two decades of declines. After bottoming out in 2013, the homicide and rape rates are now 42 percent higher, and the rate of aggravated assaults is up nine percent as of 2018, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting. When are Republicans going to finally focus on victims, not on criminals?

Bill Lee is the same Republican governor who is opening his arms to more refugees at a time when Tennessee is taking in more illegal aliens than ever before and Nashville is plagued by the cost of sanctuary policies. What’s so sickeningly backward is that these GOP governors complain about the cost of incarceration (never mind the cost of crime), but somehow they have extra funds to bring in refugees on top of record low-skilled legal and illegal immigration. If prisons are really that crowded, then build more of them. Letting out violent repeat offenders is not an option. Why is there always funding for illegal aliens, refugees, and criminals, but not for the safety of law-abiding citizens?

While both parties continue to lie about an epidemic of over-incarceration for nonviolent offenders, there is a true epidemic of little or no incarceration for repeat violent offenders. Last week, a Chicago man out on parole, after serving just half a year for aggravated assault of a police officer, was charged with brutally beating and raping a 91-year-old woman.

One might expect this sort of travesty to occur in Chicago and New York, but it’s happening all over red states as well. Texas is full of jailbreak problems. The Houston police union is outraged after a man convicted on eight counts of possession of child pornography of children between the ages of one and eight got deferred judgement with no prison time.

Why is Trump not shaming GOP governors into being tougher, not weaker, on crime? Sadly, instead of pushing a tough-on-crime agenda, Trumps set the tone for the GOP governors by passing jailbreak last year. Then, exactly a year later, in the “defense” bill he signed on Friday, Congress slipped in a new provision barring federal employers from asking about criminal histories of prospective applicants for federal jobs. It’s all about Christmas presents for criminals, but not for victims of crime.

Perhaps, this Christmas, some of the politicians who have a conscience will think about all of the people who will not spend the holiday with their families because they were murdered by people who should have been taken off the streets. (For more from the author of “Man Wanted in Connection With Murder of Brother of 49ers Qb Had Just Been Released From Jail” please click HERE)

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Mom Says Her 11-Year-Old Daughter’s Number Was Listed On Escort Website

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The mother of an 11-year-old girl said her daughter’s phone number was listed on an escort website.

At least one john who saw the child’s phone number listed on the escort website called the little girl, Wisconsin mother Faith Baldus told ABC affiliate WISN 12 News. Baldus said a John called her daughter’s phone number and listened to the voicemail on the child’s phone, which directed callers to her mother’s number in case of an emergency. . .

“He asked for my name, and I said, ‘Are you sure you’re looking for me at this number?’ He said, ‘Yes, you need to search the site and get your daughter’s information off of there,’” Baldus said.

The mother contacted the escort website to remove her daughter’s phone number and got the child a new phone number as well.

A spokesperson from the Oak Creek Police Department (OCPD) told WISN that it appears the child’s number was accidentally listed on the escort site. (Read more from “Mom Says Her 11-Year-Old Daughter’s Number Was Listed On Escort Website” HERE)

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The Phrase ‘Pillow Fight’ Is Now Offensive to Homosexuals

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The phrase “pillow fight” is now offensive to gay people, according to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).

As reported by Newsbusters, the LGBT activist organization criticized Politico for uttering the words “pillow fight” in reference to the argument that erupted between Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). . .

“GLAAD sent us a note yesterday about Playbook PM, noting that our use of ‘pillow fight’ when describing a fight between Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren may have offended people,” Politico said.

Drew Anderson, GLAAD’s Director of News and Rapid Response, wrote that the LGBT community generally views the phrase pillow fight as a slur.

“For women and LGBTQ people at the workplace, hearing phrases like ‘dramatic,’ ‘over the top,’ and even ‘pillow fight’ during office disagreements fosters negative stereotypes and diminishes a person simply because of who they are,” wrote Anderson. “Disagreements happen in politics, but using these loaded terms during disputes feed into the sexist and homophobic tropes that simply have no place in our political coverage and rhetoric.” (Read more from “The Phrase ‘Pillow Fight’ Is Now Offensive to Homosexuals” HERE)

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U.S. Navy Begins Construction on Ship Named in Honor of Homosexual Pedophile Harvey Milk

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The U.S. Navy has begun construction on a ship that will be christened the “USNS Harvey Milk” after the murdered San Francisco Supervisor who made history in the 1970s as the California’s first openly homosexual elected official.

The man the U.S. Navy has chosen to honor was also a homosexual pederast. . .

Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a former police officer and former city supervisor, on Nov. 27, 1978. Although his homosexuality had nothing to with his murder, the implication that it did has led to Milk becoming a gay martyr, icon, and even a saint.

Omitted from most accounts of Milk’s life are his alleged sexual relationships with underage boys. . .

One of his young victims was allegedly Jack Galen McKinley, a 16-year-old runaway from Maryland. Jones also had a relationship with a 25-year-old alcoholic named Jack Lira, who eventually killed himself. (Read more from “U.S. Navy Begins Construction on Ship Named in Honor of Homosexual Pedophile Harvey Milk” HERE)

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Leftists Demand Hallmark Atone for Ad Scandal with LGBT Movie

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The Hallmark Channel’s decision to reinstate an ad featuring a lesbian kiss at a same-sex “wedding” isn’t enough to satisfy pro-LGBT activists and their allies, who are now demanding the network feature a homosexual romance in one of its films.

For years, the Hallmark Channel’s made-for-TV movies have been a source of wholesome comfort entertainment in contrast to Hollywood’s increasingly “woke” output, but that may be changing in the near future. Bill Abbott, CEO of Hallmark parent company Crown Media Family Networks, recently said the company is open to adding same-sex relationships to its films in the name of “broadening out the demographic.” . . .

Having gotten the network to acquiesce to one demand, LGBT advocates are following up with others, The Daily Wire reported. In an op-ed at IndieWire, Jude Dry calls on the channel to “greenlight an LGBTQ script ASAP.”

“Hallmark has perfected its tried-and-true formula — generic, cozy, formulaic — over years, it wouldn’t be hard to simply swap one gender in its pile of un-produced scripts,” Dry argues. “Better yet, solicit an up-and-coming LGBTQ writer to craft the script, hire an LGBTQ director and cast the movie with LGBTQ actors. In an ideal world, an LGBTQ Hallmark movie would be exactly like every other Hallmark movie, except with queer actors playing the estranged twins who decide to swap lives.” (Read more from “Leftists Demand Hallmark Atone for Ad Scandal with LGBT Movie” HERE)

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Psychotherapist: Using ‘Slurs’ like ‘Nerd,’ ‘Geek,’ ‘Egghead’ — and Even ‘Smarty-Pants’ — Against High-IQ People Should Be Hate Crimes

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A United Kingdom psychology lecturer and psychotherapist said using “slurs” against those with high IQs — such as “nerd” or “geek” or “egghead” — should be called hate crimes, the Telegraph reported.

Sonja Falck has studied the impact of bullying on high-IQ children and the “divisive and humiliating” anti-IQ terms should be categorized the same as homophobic, racial, and religious slurs in the U.K. — and are hate crime’s “last taboo,” the outlet added.

. . .Her recent research on the subject can be found in her new book, “Extreme Intelligence” — and at the book’s launch Falck said the next government must take legislative action to force societal change, the outlet said.

“The N-word was common parlance in the U.K. until at least the 1960s. Other insulting slurs about age, disability, religion, and gender identity remained in widespread use until relatively recently. Society at the time turned a blind eye to their impact by passing them off as harmless banter. It is only with the benefit of hindsight and academic research that we realize how wrong we were. The same can be said about anti-IQ words like ‘nerd,’ ‘brainbox,’ ‘geek,’ ‘egghead,’ ‘smart-arse,’ ‘dweeb,’ and ‘smarty-pants,'” she said, according to the Telegraph. “Slurs such as these will continue to be used unabated at the expense of the brightest members of society unless and until legislative action is taken.” (Read more from “Psychotherapist: Using ‘Slurs’ like ‘Nerd,’ ‘Geek,’ ‘Egghead’ — and Even ‘Smarty-Pants’ — Against High-IQ People Should Be Hate Crimes” HERE)

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