WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? Should any Liberal based views from the relatively new Publisher of the TimesDaily newspaper surprise anyone in the Shoals area of north Alabama? Certainly not me.
If you have followed my blogs and other writings over the years, you will know that in January 2007 I began posting in the Religion Forum of the TimesDaily, my hometown newspaper. At that time it was owned by the liberal New York Times - but seemed to maintain its moderate, often conservative, Alabama point of view. I began posting on that Religion Forum, forgetting my own bias against public forums since I have long viewed them as venues for "spitting contests."
But I swallowed my own distaste for forums and joined that one for one reason. The Religion Forum of my hometown newspaper, my Bible Belt, Belt Buckle north Alabama hometown where I grew up - was being dominated by two devout atheists. I enter the fray to refute and rebut their anti-Christian, anti-God writings.
And I will admit that I began to enjoy the dialogues-in-writing with Friends I found on that Religion Forum. Yes, the two atheists stayed for a long time - and a number of other agnostics and vanilla-flavored non-believers filled in for them when they were absent. Those were joined by a few New Age religionists and some Legalistic Christians who could not swallow my conservative Christian views.
All in all, from 2007 until 2015, I enjoyed a lot of good discussions, allowed a lot of thrown stones to bounce off, and felt that I was effectively sharing the Word of God among my fellow Alabamians.
Then in 2015 a new Publisher was hired who, if not atheist, most definitely leaned heavily toward that world religion. Right away he did away with Forum Moderators and took that effort into his own office. So he became the Publisher/Forum Moderator for the TimesDaily newspaper.
A few months later one of the more antagonistic forum members posted that "Bill Gray should be killed!" Naturally I reported that post to the new Forum Moderator - who immediately banned both the Threator and the Threatee from the TimesDaily Religion Forum.
Within a week the man making the threat "to kill Bill Gray" was back posting on the forum. But Bill Gray was still banned. I wrote what I viewed as a nice, factual letter to the Publisher/Forum Moderator asking that I be reinstated. He replied in a caustic message that "Bill Gray would NEVER again be allowed to post on His Forum!"
Not a problem. I have long known that God will give believers a ministry - and when we have accomplished what He wants - He may remove that ministry and give us another. So I began to look for new venues and have settled on doing the best I can on my Friends Ministry eNewsletter, our Bill & Dory Gray Christian Ministries blog site, and in Facebook discussions. I will stay with these until He points me in a new direction.
All of that is to introduce you to the latest Editorial from that Publisher of the TimesDaily. While I know that a large percentage of my fellow Alabamians in the Shoals area of north Alabama, and most likely all of Alabama, are Conservatives like me, and most are Conservative Christian believers like me - we still have the "Pharaoh of the TimesDaily" publishing his extreme Liberal Left Looney point of view.
And, to no surprise, he is against President Trump, National Security, Closed Borders, and the Border Wall. Gee, as Gomer Pyle always said, "Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!"
This is Pharaoh's latest Editorial in the TimesDaily:
And that, my Friends, is how a Liberal Left, Atheist leaning Newspaper Publisher writes an Editorial. But we real Americans know that President Trump has worked diligently to keep ALL of his campaign promises to we Americans.
And we know that President Trump is not in the White House to increase his wealth - for he entered the White House as a billionaire.
We know that President Trump did not enter the race to be president to gain publicity - for he was already one of the most publicly recognized Americans of our generation.
We know that President Trump did not enter politics as a way to attract a beautiful wife - for he brought the most beautiful, elegant, and educated wife into the office of First Lady - that America has seen in the history of our nation.
So, why did Donald Trump enter the political fracas and become President Trump? He did it for one purpose and one purpose only. He wants sincerely to Make America Great & Strong Again. He wants to protect American families. He wants to give Americans a prosperous economy and American homeland.
It is our duty to help President Trump achieve those goals - for our own benefit.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
If you have followed my blogs and other writings over the years, you will know that in January 2007 I began posting in the Religion Forum of the TimesDaily, my hometown newspaper. At that time it was owned by the liberal New York Times - but seemed to maintain its moderate, often conservative, Alabama point of view. I began posting on that Religion Forum, forgetting my own bias against public forums since I have long viewed them as venues for "spitting contests."
But I swallowed my own distaste for forums and joined that one for one reason. The Religion Forum of my hometown newspaper, my Bible Belt, Belt Buckle north Alabama hometown where I grew up - was being dominated by two devout atheists. I enter the fray to refute and rebut their anti-Christian, anti-God writings.
And I will admit that I began to enjoy the dialogues-in-writing with Friends I found on that Religion Forum. Yes, the two atheists stayed for a long time - and a number of other agnostics and vanilla-flavored non-believers filled in for them when they were absent. Those were joined by a few New Age religionists and some Legalistic Christians who could not swallow my conservative Christian views.
All in all, from 2007 until 2015, I enjoyed a lot of good discussions, allowed a lot of thrown stones to bounce off, and felt that I was effectively sharing the Word of God among my fellow Alabamians.
Then in 2015 a new Publisher was hired who, if not atheist, most definitely leaned heavily toward that world religion. Right away he did away with Forum Moderators and took that effort into his own office. So he became the Publisher/Forum Moderator for the TimesDaily newspaper.
A few months later one of the more antagonistic forum members posted that "Bill Gray should be killed!" Naturally I reported that post to the new Forum Moderator - who immediately banned both the Threator and the Threatee from the TimesDaily Religion Forum.
Within a week the man making the threat "to kill Bill Gray" was back posting on the forum. But Bill Gray was still banned. I wrote what I viewed as a nice, factual letter to the Publisher/Forum Moderator asking that I be reinstated. He replied in a caustic message that "Bill Gray would NEVER again be allowed to post on His Forum!"
Not a problem. I have long known that God will give believers a ministry - and when we have accomplished what He wants - He may remove that ministry and give us another. So I began to look for new venues and have settled on doing the best I can on my Friends Ministry eNewsletter, our Bill & Dory Gray Christian Ministries blog site, and in Facebook discussions. I will stay with these until He points me in a new direction.
All of that is to introduce you to the latest Editorial from that Publisher of the TimesDaily. While I know that a large percentage of my fellow Alabamians in the Shoals area of north Alabama, and most likely all of Alabama, are Conservatives like me, and most are Conservative Christian believers like me - we still have the "Pharaoh of the TimesDaily" publishing his extreme Liberal Left Looney point of view.
And, to no surprise, he is against President Trump, National Security, Closed Borders, and the Border Wall. Gee, as Gomer Pyle always said, "Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!"
This is Pharaoh's latest Editorial in the TimesDaily:
OUR VIEW:
BORDER WALL WOULD TAKE DECADES TO BE A REALITY
TimesDaily Editorial Section - Jan 16, 2019
https://www.timesdaily.com/opinion/editorials/border-wall-would-take-decades-to-be-a-reality/article_b410f9cf-28a1-5dcf-bb8a-978da450e03c.html
The Issue: President Donald Trump has a history of trying to take other people's property for his personal gain, and his proposed border wall is just a new and more extreme example. President Trump wants to build a wall. Maybe it will be concrete. Maybe it will be steel. Maybe it will have slats you can see through. Who knows?
The president says something different almost every day. But, we are assured, it will be big and beautiful and keep America safe from a flood of terrorists the Trump administration has claimed are crossing the U.S. border with Mexico.
A key element in the proposal to build a border wall is eminent domain. Let’s Google that: “Eminent domain. noun. The right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation.”
Trump is talking about declaring a national emergency, bypassing the restrictions even eminent domain law places on property seizures, to take land along the southern border for his wall. It’s worth noting that the “national emergency” comes even as illegal border crossings are at nearly their lowest level in nearly 20 years, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics.
Bill Gray Note: The third major "caravan" of ILLEGALS is now on its way from Honduras and is approaching the southern border of Mexico. This will bring the total of ILLEGALS flooding through Mexico toward America to well over 10,000 people - mostly men of military age - with plans to flood into America. What else can we call that but an INVASION? Forget past statistics.
We are absolutely talking about a National Emergency - for an army of more than 10,000 military age men are continuing their attack on our southern border.
The idea there is a national emergency on the U.S.- Mexico border is political fantasy, not fact. But by claiming there is a national emergency, Trump hopes to beat back legal challenges to taking the land he needs for his wall.
It may not be that easy. Legally, declaring a national emergency likely won’t let Trump get around the eminent domain requirement that the government demonstrate a public use for the land and provide landowners with compensation. Regardless, the Trump administration will face legal challenges, either to the president’s authority to bypass eminent domain requirements or to the eminent domain seizures themselves.
Landowners in Texas aren’t taking Trump’s wall project lying down. “You could give me a trillion dollars and I wouldn’t take it,” landowner Eloisa Cavazos told the Associated Press. Cavazos owns land along the Rio Grande, which separates the U.S. and Mexico. And Cavazos is not alone. The Catholic Church also owns property needed for the wall, and the local diocese is putting up a fight, denying surveyors access to the land, according to the AP.
Bill Gray Note: Would anyone care to ask if Eloisa Cavazos (Hmmm? Hispanic name. Wonder how many relatives are in the caravans from Honduras?) voted for Obama and Hillary in recent elections?
And not a surprise that that the Roman Catholic church would oppose the Border Wall. The Pope has come out publicly stating that no country should have border walls to prevent people from entering. Yet have you seen the massive wall which surrounds the Vatican?
The federal government could be mired in years of legal challenges, and even then it would take “an estimated 10,000 construction workers more than 10 years to build the kind of 1,000-mile wall President Trump has said he wants,” according to The Washington Post.
That means the “national emergency” wouldn’t be solved for maybe 15 or 20 years, roughly 40 years after the peak of illegal border crossings.
Bill Gray Note: No National Emergency, or any other emergency can be solved - UNTIL that nation or person takes the first step. For America that first step is the Wall. President Trump ~ BUILD THAT WALL!
And that, my Friends, is how a Liberal Left, Atheist leaning Newspaper Publisher writes an Editorial. But we real Americans know that President Trump has worked diligently to keep ALL of his campaign promises to we Americans.
And we know that President Trump is not in the White House to increase his wealth - for he entered the White House as a billionaire.
We know that President Trump did not enter the race to be president to gain publicity - for he was already one of the most publicly recognized Americans of our generation.
We know that President Trump did not enter politics as a way to attract a beautiful wife - for he brought the most beautiful, elegant, and educated wife into the office of First Lady - that America has seen in the history of our nation.
So, why did Donald Trump enter the political fracas and become President Trump? He did it for one purpose and one purpose only. He wants sincerely to Make America Great & Strong Again. He wants to protect American families. He wants to give Americans a prosperous economy and American homeland.
It is our duty to help President Trump achieve those goals - for our own benefit.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
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