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DAILY BIBLE VERSE
14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Colossians 3:14
Corrected: The “Civil Rights Struggle" in 2023
An obese “social media influencer” is calling on the FAA to make airlines give obese passengers as many seats as they need for free to accommodate their wide rear ends. It gives a new meaning to "wide body jets."
As an almost constant flyer, let me say that the response to this isn’t as obvious as it might appear. First, people need to realize that “body positivity” doesn’t mean encouraging people to be unhealthy and shorten their lives. This became both dangerous and ridiculous during the pandemic when some doctors were afraid of being “canceled” if they told patients the truth, that obesity was one of the top factors in COVID deaths.
And while it’s also ridiculous to expect airlines to give away space they could sell to other passengers just because some are so wide, they take up three seats, there’s also the issue that airlines have been making seats smaller and smaller to cram more people in. It’s gotten to the point that even a medium-sized person can barely fit into one, and a slender person with long legs will have just as much discomfort as an obese person.
I think it’s reasonable that if you are so large you take up two seats that you should have to pay for two seats. But the airlines should be providing seats that are big enough to accommodate most people, so that everybody doesn’t require at least two seats to be comfortable.
And can we all agree that if we have to be crammed in like sardines, people should stop reclining their seats so that they’re crushing the laps of the people behind them?
Dr. Charles Stanley RIP
I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of one of my spiritual heroes, Dr. Charles Stanley, who pastored the influential First Baptist Church of Atlanta for over 50 years.
Dr. Stanley believed and preached the Bible as the infallible and inerrant Word of God, and was twice elected President of the Southern Baptist Convention and helped steer it to its roots as a Bible-centered denomination that challenged the culture to adhere to Scripture rather than try and twist Scripture to adhere to the culture.
One of my favorite memories was a private dinner we enjoyed in New York several years ago. He was a gracious and humble gentleman who cared deeply about people. He has no replacement. He was one of kind. No doubt the first words he heard in Heaven were, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
Sick of the lies about the border
Tuesday, our DHS Director-In-Name-Only, Alejandro Mayorkas, appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security regarding President Biden’s proposed 2024 budget request for the DHS, and things got pretty heated.
Sen. Josh Hawley was rightly and righteously furious over a report by the New York Times that nearly 346,000 unaccompanied children had entered the US on Mayorkas’ and Biden’s watch. The story was titled, “Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the United States.” That’s a massive surge in numbers, and it doesn’t even address the horrific stories we’re seeing about child abuse and sex trafficking of minors.
Hawley tore into Majorkas, pointing out that their policies had done nothing but make these problems worse. Majorkas tried to claim that he was “misstating the facts so terribly,” but Hawley fired back that he was reading the facts that came directly from the government as reported in the New York Times. Majorkas then protested that “what we do is enforce the law,” but Hawley interrupted, “You’re not!” Majorkas then tried to blame the Trump Administration, which Hawley also didn’t let him get away with:
“So you’re not going to take any responsibility for the indentured servitude and exploitation of children that is happening on your watch? A moment ago, you were crowing about the fact that you treated children so well. And yet we find tens of thousands of children who are forced to work as slaves because of your policies, and you turn around and blame a prior Administration.”
Hawley concluded, “You do it every time you appear before Congress. I, for one, am sick and tired of it. And thousands of children are in physical danger — danger — because of what you are doing. You should have resigned long ago. And if you cannot change course, you should be removed from office.”
He’s 100% correct, but of course, Mayorkas won’t resign or be removed from office because (A.) open borders are the desired Democrat policy, and (B.) “accountability” is yet another word that Biden can’t even pronounce.
By the way, Majorkas is so willfully awful at his job that even Mitt Romney took him apart.
Personally, I agree with Sen. Hawley. I’m sick to death of all the lies, excuses and blame shifting. But I’m also sick of hearing Democrats cry crocodile tears about protecting the children when they’re fighting like badgers to let children be killed in the womb up to the moment of birth, they have more sympathy for a trans mass murderer than for the Christian children she murdered, and they don’t seem to care at all what happens to migrant children as long as open borders are politically expedient for them.
Related: The open borders aren’t just a danger to children, they are also a danger to all of us, and not only because of drugs, crime and terrorists. New York City’s health commissioner announced that the 50,000-plus migrants who arrived in New York in the past year are bringing in serious contagious diseases like tuberculosis and polio. There are diseases that were nearly eradicated in the US, back when we had a border (yet another reason why nations have secure borders.) And since New York gets only a fraction of the illegal immigrants, imagine what diseases are being brought into border states like Texas, Arizona and California.