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It has been a long, long time since I posted here on America’s Watchtower. I lost my passion for the political arena and I found that as a newer Christian I was having trouble walking in the Spirit while trying to cover politics and current events. I hope this post finds everybody well.
I just wanted to take a few moments to say hello to anybody who still might be receiving updates for new posts, I am sorry I left so quickly and silently. I was truly burned out, and when it comes to politics I still am. I hope this post finds you all well.
After quite a bit of debate within myself, and with more than a little bit of trepidation, I have embarked on a new endeavor. Just a few hours ago I launched a new blog about Christianity and apologetics. I am not sure I am up to the task but I have been urged by a few people to give it a go.
To start I am going to rework some old posts on Christianity that I originally published here several years ago. We’ll see where it goes from there.
I am inviting anybody who sees this post to stop on by, whether you are a Christian, atheist, or are somebody who is seeking the Truth but has not yet found it. You are all welcome. The name of the blog is Cross Talk.
God bless you all!
Biden administration launches investigation into…broken McDonald’s ice cream machines
You cannot make this stuff up: with everything that is going on in the country and around the world today the Biden administration has launched an investigation into McDonald’s ice cream machines, which apparently break down quite often. Here is more:
President Joe Biden’s Federal Trade Commission has begun to look into the too-oft broken McDonald’s ice cream machines, which have angered consumers and franchise owners for years.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has carried out an inquiry into the Mcdonald’s broken ice cream machines. The inquiry seeks to discover if Taylor Commercial Foodservice LLC, the manufacturer of the machines, has engaged in practices that hinder McDonald’s owners’ abilities to fix machines themselves or seek repairs from a third party.
The FTC has ramped up efforts to prevent manufacturing companies from prohibiting personal or third-party repair of products sold to consumers and businesses.
In a statement, McDonald’s aimed to cool down any buzz regarding a potential FTC inquiry. “Nothing is more important to us than delivering on our high standards for food quality and safety, which is why we work with fully vetted partners that can reliably provide safe solutions at scale.”
We know that Joe Biden cannot multi-task and you have to have priorities I guess. And we all know how much good ole Uncle Joe loves his ice cream…
Joe Biden is in the process of trying to dismantle Donald Trump’s immigration policy and one of the items he tried to do away with was the “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while their case is heard.
The Biden administration was quickly sued by a couple of States, and on August 14th a Federal Judge reinstated the policy, claiming that the President broke Federal law by halting the program. Needless to say, the Biden administration turned around and appealed the decision. The Biden administration was seeking to have a stay granted so that the policy reversal could continue while the case made it through the court system but yesterday, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court refused to allow the administration to halt the remain in Mexico policy. Here is more:
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) denied a plea from President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to halt the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program while a lawsuit brought by Texas and Missouri makes its way through the courts.
On Tuesday evening, in a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS issued an order denying DOJ’s request for the Court to issue a stay that would block the re-implementation of MPP, commonly known as “Remain in Mexico,” while the case plays out in the courts — a process that could take more than a year.
Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, voted to deny the request, while Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan voted to grant the request.
“The application for a stay presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied,” SCOTUS wrote in the order:
The applicants have failed to show a likelihood of success on the claim that the memorandum rescinding the Migrant Protection Protocols was not arbitrary and capricious. Our order denying the Government’s request for a stay of the District Court injunction should not be read as affecting the construction of that injunction by the Court of Appeals.
This is not the first time the Supreme Court has allowed to remain in Mexico policy to continue during a court battle. Back in 2020 when the policy was first implemented and some States were suing to stop the policy the Supreme Court allowed the policy to continue. To me this is an indication that the policy is legal and I would believe this is a possible indication on how the Supreme Court will rule when the case finally makes it there.
Some people have raised concerns about the phycological long term effects of forcing children to wear masks for extended periods of time but have no fear the New York Times has found the bright side in this whole affair. It turns out children with masks on cannot pick their noses. Here is more:
Mask-wearing mandates for young children in schools offer many positive benefits according to a recent New York Times op-ed claiming masks provide “distinctive opportunities for learning and growth,” improve social and cognitive skills, strengthen self-control and attention, help conquer habits such as nose-picking and nail-biting, and empower children to “practice caring.”
Because there have been no studies done at this early date proving this theory one way or the other, the Times expert points to other certain cultures where some people are forced to cover their faces all day as proof there are no long term health concerns. But then to take it one more step she actually goes on to say that even blind people can speak and read. Who can argue with that logic?
FBI admits there is no evidence January 6th was an insurrection
For months we have heard from the Democrats and the mainstream media about the so-called armed insurrection by Trump supporters on January 6th. Democrats have gone so far as to form a commission to look into the attempted coup and we have heard some of our Democratic friends talk about how they feared they were going to be raped or killed in this violent overthrow of the government.
The FBI has been looking into this and now it is being reported that the FBI has found no evidence of any type on insurrection, here is more:
The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.
Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations.
“Ninety to ninety-five percent of these are one-off cases,” said a former senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. “Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized. But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages.”
FBI investigators did find that cells of protesters, including followers of the far-right Oath Keepers and Proud Boys groups, had aimed to break into the Capitol. But they found no evidence that the groups had serious plans about what to do if they made it inside, the sources said.
Yet the politically motivated January 6th commission plods onward and worse than that American citizens are rotting in solitary confinement and being abused and not one person is doing anything about this cruel and unusual punishment. It is truly unprecedented. Democrats made a scapegoat out of the Muslim cartoonist for the Benghazi attack and now they are showing us how far they will sink to make a political point.
Federal Judge reinstates Donald Trump’s ‘remain in Mexico’ policy for asylum seekers
Donald Trump had a policy that stated asylum seekers had to remain in Mexico while they awaited their hearings in the United States but back in June Joe Biden ended the policy. The State of Texas decided to sue the Biden administration to have the policy reinstated and now, according to this story, a Federal Judge in Texas has reinstated the policy. Here is more:
A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of former President Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which required border crossers claiming asylum to stay in Mexico while awaiting their hearings, after President Joe Biden ended the program earlier this year.
On Friday evening, Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, appointed by Trump, ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), commonly known as Remain in Mexico, after ending the program June 1 while releasing thousands of border crossers enrolled in the program into the United States interior.
Kacsmaryk, in his ruling, states that the Biden administration violated federal law when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ended Remain in Mexico and failed to consider “several of the main benefits” of the program — including that border crossers returned to Mexico who did not have legitimate claims for asylum were returning to their native countries on their own.
“DHS’s first duty is to uphold American law,” Kacsmaryk writes. “It cannot just point at diplomatic efforts as an excuse to not follow the [Administrative Procedure Act] APA or fulfill its statutory obligations.”
In addition, Kacsmaryk states that the Biden administration violated federal law by when it began releasing border crossers enrolled in Remain in Mexico into the U.S. interior because the law requires DHS to detain or return border crossers.
Kacsmaryk ordered that the Biden administration is “permanently enjoined and restrained from implementing or enforcing the June 1 Memorandum” that had ended Remain in Mexico.
This is sure to be challenged by the Biden administration so we will see how “permanently enjoined and restrained” from implementing the new policy the Biden administration is, but the Supreme Court has already ruled once that the policy can remain in place when the rule was challenged during the Trump administration.
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