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Anita Barngrover

May 8, 2020

Gary G. Hostetter Sr

April 1, 2020

I copied this from a friend. Just stop scrolling for a minute and look at this photo. This is NOT a political post by any means. This is simply something that everyone should stop and think about.

Can you imagine the weight this man is feeling right now? I have one child and a wife that depend on me daily, yet on some days my stress level is through the roof and I feel like the weight of the world is all on me. When he signed up for this role (without pay) he did it for us Americans. He didn’t do it for the fame or glory, he already had all that. He was willing to take on the job, but the magnitude of what we’re currently experiencing has got to be paralyzing. To some, NOTHING he does is ever right or good enough.

Do you ever wonder how he must be dealing with it all? When his head finally hits the pillow at night after press conferences, the scrutiny of the media, countless meetings, the endless negative and derogatory comments thrown at him, and constantly trying to defend himself and protect OUR country.

Does he break down and cry from all the pressure?

Is he scared and confused?

Is he even able to sleep?

Can he shut his mind off at all?

Or does he lay there and talk to God all night praying for strength and answers?

Whether he’s making you proud or not, look at this photo and ask God to soften your heart just a little bit and lift this man up in prayer. He needs them right now more than ever. He is carrying the weight of OUR country on his shoulders and I don’t think anybody could or would be able to do the job better than he is.

Feel free to share this post and remind everyone to be kind (to everyone) and to pray for President Trump and for the entire world 🙏🏼❤️

As always... if you don’t have anything nice to say, there’s NO NEED to comment, just keep scrolling. No one wants to hear you bitch or negativity at a time like this. #repost #istandwithourpresident

The Truth About Democrat Debates

By Terry Orr 

While relaxing in my recliner this sunny, Sunday afternoon - was thinking about the ongoing circus (aka Democrat debates) - and trying to understand their logic (if they have one) for this coming November Presidential election.

I was thinking - If only 11 million people have Obama-Care, how will 24

 million people die if it is repealed? Will an additional 13 million people

 be randomly shot?

I was thinking - Why is it that Democrats think Super delegates are fine,

but they have a problem with the Electoral College?

I was thinking - If Democrats don't want foreigners involved in our

elections, why do they think it's all right for illegal's to vote?

I was thinking - If gun control laws actually worked, Chicago would be

Mayberry, USA.

I was thinking - I have no problem with vigorous background checks when it comes to firearms. While we're at it, let's do the same when it comes to immigration, Voter I.D. and candidates running for office.

In closing...

Right on Mike Rowe!!

Thomas Jefferson

Shared email

Thank you Bruce

Thomas Jefferson

was a very remarkable man who started

learning very

early in life and never stopped.

At 5, began

studying under his cousin's tutor.

At 9, studied

Latin, Greek and French.

At 14, studied

classical literature and additional languages.

At 16, entered

the College of William and Mary.

Also could write in Greek with one hand

while writing the same in Latin with the other.

At 19, studied

Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.

At 23, started

his own law practice.

At 25, was

elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

At 31, wrote the

widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America" And

retired from his law practice.

At 32, was a

delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

At 33, wrote the

Declaration of Independence.

At 33, took

three years to revise Virginia's legal code and wrote a Public Education

bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.

At 36, was

elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick

Henry.

At 40, served in

Congress for two years.

At 41, was the

American minister to France and

negotiated commercial treaties with

European nations

along with Ben

Franklin and John Adams..

At 46, served as

the first Secretary of State

under George

Washington.

At 53, served as

Vice President and was elected

president of the American Philosophical

Society.

At 55, drafted

the Kentucky Resolutions and

became the active head of Republican

Party.

At 57, was

elected the third president of the

United

States.

At 60, obtained

the Louisiana Purchase doubling

the nation's

size.

At 61, was

elected to a second term as President.

At 65, retired

to Monticello ..

At 80, helped

President Monroe shape the

Monroe

Doctrine.

At 81, almost

single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first

president.

At 83, died on

the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along

with John Adams.

Thomas Jefferson

knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government.

He understood

actual history, the nature of God, His laws and the nature

of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand

today.

Jefferson really

knew his stuff.

A voice from the

past to lead us in the future:

John F. Kennedy

held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds

in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps

the assembly of

the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in

the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined

alone."

"When we

get piled upon one another in large cities, as in

Europe,

we shall

become as corrupt as Europe ."--

Thomas

Jefferson

"The

democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those

who are

willing to work and give to those who would not."

--

Thomas

Jefferson

"It is

incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.

A

principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the

world."

--

Thomas

Jefferson

"I

predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government

from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of

them."--

Thomas

Jefferson

"My

reading of history convinces me that most bad government

results

from too much government."--

Thomas

Jefferson

"No free

man shall ever be debarred the use of

arms."--

Thomas

Jefferson

"The

strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms

is,

as a

last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in

government."

--

Thomas

Jefferson

"The

tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to

time

with the

blood of patriots and tyrants."--

Thomas

Jefferson

"To

compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he

disbelieves

and

abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

--

Thomas

Jefferson

Thomas

Jefferson said in 1802:

"I

believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than

standing armies.

If the

American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their

currency,

first by

inflation, then by deflation,

the

banks and corporations that will grow up around

the banks

will

deprive the people of all property -

until

their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers

conquered."

American Patriot

From Facebook

(Thanks Bruce)

"Dear President Obama,

My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don’t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos’n Mate. Now I live in a “rest home” located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.

One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.

So here goes.

I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.

I can’t figure out what country you are the president of.

You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:

” We’re no longer a Christian nation”

” America is arrogant”

– (Your wife even announced to the world,” America is mean-spirited. ” Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)

I’d say shame on the both of you, but I don’t think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.

After 9/11 you said,” America hasn’t lived up to her ideals.”

Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn’t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.

I don’t think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.

Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.

Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don’t, I’ll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue . You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don’t want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts , who was putting up a fight? You don’t mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don’t want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.

One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you’re the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you’re not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you’re thinking of.

You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.

You’re not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That’s not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.

And I sure as hell don’t want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle…

Sincerely,

Harold B. Estes