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Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/28/23
"Stay tuned for a free health tip brought to you by Peloton. Whether you're doing a dance to your favorite artist in the office parking lot or being guided into warrior one in the break room before your shift. Whether you're running on your Peloton tread at your mom's house while she watches the baby or counting your breaths on the subway. Peloton is for all of us wherever we are whenever we need it. Download the free Peloton app today. Peloton app available through free tier or paid subscription starting at $12 .99 per month. Embrace the power of daily walks for improved health and well -being. Walking is a simple yet effective form of exercise that offers a wide range of health benefits. Whether you stroll through the park, walk around your neighborhood or take a brisk walk during your lunch break. There are a lot of health benefits to getting in your daily walks. Next time you may be craving that afternoon cup of coffee, try a Peloton walk outside to go grab your coffee. The Peloton app offers structured walking experiences regardless of your environment. So get out and enjoy that fresh air with the help of Peloton. Birthday 85 years old today. So a little stand by me. It was a joy. First of all, you did great. I was just saying the news channel product last night was fun and it was great to hook up from the house and just join you in the immediate aftermath. We've slept on it now. Do you feel any differently? I may resent it even more now than I did last night. What a colossal waste of time. Not for Donald Trump. The winner was Donald Trump. That's just it. I mean, and you said it earlier. He's he's a genius once again in his decision to stay away. And I've been thinking a lot about DeSantis's decision to go after Trump on this issue. I would think, you know, Governor DeSantis, if he has any chance at all, has to win over Trump supporters. Correct. How do you win over Trump supporters by trashing the guy who made the brilliant decision to stay away from that train wreck last night? And it was a train wreck. How many times in your career, Mark, have you decided to do something that you just wish like heck you could take back? I mean, I don't know. Maybe. Oh, I could. I could just start with Monday. You know, I mean, if you're Dana Perino, you're going to spend the rest of your career asking yourself, why did I think the survivor question was going to go over? Well, so stupid. So stupid. And that couldn't have been couldn't have been her. That's got to be some staffer, even some executive or some consultant who said, hey, let's lighten the mood or do something kind of fun. And sometimes I'm actually OK with the moment that sort of humanizes them. I mean, like in a one on one debate or maybe when there's just two or three people left or to say, look, you guys are up there to sort of knock each other around. Tell me one really good, praiseworthy thing about each other, you know, about you, about your opponent. And that's kind of neat. And it sort of cuts. But this was so unbelievably stupid. And and there were a lot of cringe moments. I mean, poor Mike Pence. I've slept with the school teacher for 38 years. And everybody kind of groaned. And Chris Christie, oh, you're not Donald Trump. You're Donald Duck. Somebody wrote that for him and he thought it would go well. Or maybe it was his. Once again, I don't know whose idea it was, but it was terrible. And let's go back to programing decisions. The Univision lady, are you serious? I want to be as careful as I've ever been for anything. Univision, God bless them. Great. Univision, whatever Hispanic news media. Great. And I bet she's great on it. I bet she's wonderful.
The Steve Holland Retirement Wealth Show
Fresh update on "school teacher" discussed on The Steve Holland Retirement Wealth Show
"Florida zero five six three four one. Hope you're enjoying your weekend. Mike and Christian appreciate you being along for the ride. This is why we make a good team. I'm like, I think I've heard this one thing and you're all that's impossible. That's not a fun fact. That's a false fact. I'm pretty sure. Check out the guarding your nest egg weekly video podcast on YouTube or catch the audio version on your favorite podcast platform. Search and subscribe, then listen or watch link up easily at guarding your nest egg dot com. That's guarding your nest egg dot Now back to the show. There we go. Kristen, another brick in the wall, part two, one of Rolling Stones. My mother was a school teacher. Felt weird listening to the song. What they were saying about teachers in a song. You should. Hey, teacher, those kids
WTOP
"school teacher" Discussed on WTOP
"Elementary school teacher and Marine Wife Tara is fighting to restore high standards in Virginia schools and to address learning loss she's working with Governor Youngkin to fix the economy and return money to taxpayers and Tara knows we have to do more to keep our community safe and support law enforcement endorsed by sheriffs David Decatur and Charlie Jett Tara will always back the blue Tara Durant mom and Marine Wife fighting for our families Joel Griffin Griffin is supported by those who want to defund fund the police and let violent criminals including rapists and murderers out of jail early back and on our streets Joel would make our community less safe the choice is clear vote vote for Tara Durant on November 7th or vote early visit www .terradurant .com to learn more this is Tara Durant candidate for State Senate and I pay for this 738 time for traffic and weather on the 8 starting with traffic and Rita well let's start out in Maryland on southbound 270 your delay southbound begin at 121 and coming off of 118 trying to make your way into Rockville to 28th and you're the gonna find delay after Falls Road headed on to the southbound spur to the point where it merges to the outer loop of the Beltway no reports of any incidents along that entire stretch now if you're on the Beltway it is the outer loop topside delays from 95 around toward Georgia Avenue southbound 29 delays are coming from East Randolph Road headed all the way into White Oak headed toward University Boulevard not quite as far as the Beltway you'll also find on the Beltway your inner loop delays in Prince George's County from Branch Avenue all the way past St. Barnabas Road where the earlier wreck has cleared headed on to northbound i -295 that delay continues toward Joint Base then before the Suitland Parkway headed on to the inbound 11th Street Bridge inbound on the Suitland Parkway those delays are from Silver Road Hill to the light at Stanton Road then approaching the light at First Sterling headed to and across the Douglas Bridge on to South Street eastbound 410 Veterans Parkway at Route 50 the center of the roadway was blocked with the wreck southbound Avenue Connecticut the crash was reported as after East West Highway at Leland it was one right lane getting by the wreck delays were back near Jones Bridge Road Branch Avenue at Surratt Road the traffic lights still flashing but under police direction you'll also find eastbound 32 near Route 3 had been the scene of a vehicle fire in Virginia northbound Route 1 after Belvoir Road and Fort Belvoir the crash taking the left lane hilltop road in Fairfax near Prosperity Avenue was a report of a wreck questions about your utility service the office of the People's Council DC's dot gov or DC OPC on social media I'm Rita Kessler WTOP traffic and here's 7News First Alert meteorologist Brian Van de Graaff tracking decreasing clouds today believe it or not after a great start we'll look for some sunshine to try to peer through those clouds highs this
Evangelism on SermonAudio
Fresh update on "school teacher" discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"Okay, here's the whole thing. We called it the summer surge, not the summer slump. Here's the whole point. I get tired of it. I always hear about summer swamps. So you know me. I got to turn around. I used to do this years ago. And you get something that works so good to quit it. So we called it the summer surge, you know. And that's August. Oh, here we go. You're invited. Join us here. Here's June. Youth activities for June. First one was hot dog roast sundae. You know, it was 90 degrees. But we had a new fire pit. So we had a couple guys just cook the hot dogs. Man, it was hot. But anyway, then the next one was float your boat sundae float. So that was sundae float. Next one was cotton candy and watermelon. We tried to keep it simple, but then the last one was sandwich sundae. Now, we buy these subs and we make subs. We make we get people to make them while they're out playing and kind of in force. You get four subs out of the sub, you know. So that went pretty good. Now, here's the key to this. It was on Saturday. We had a huddle. Saturday was called a huddle at 10 o'clock. So all Sunday school teachers and band workers had to be there, you know. Now, how we divided the team up, we just stood down and everybody came to our church. Oh, if anyone came once in two months, everybody came to our church. We put on a team. Now, a couple people we did put together because they served together like on a band or on a visitation. So we did put them together. Then everybody else was left over. We just went around and just like a draft. You got to pick somebody. You got to pick somebody. Just kept going around. Everybody picked somebody until everybody was on team. Now, so that Sunday morning I said, okay, everybody here is on team. Now, you may say, Pastor, I don't want to be on team. I said, that's all right. And you stand before God, you tell him that. I don't want to be on team. I didn't want to be on them. They stuck me on them. I said, that's okay. You know, I didn't give an apple at all. I just said, you just tell God that when he's standing before you, he didn't want to be there. All right. So anyway, you know, while I was there, we just got to the finish. We averaged in May 87 people. In June, we jumped to 120. From 87 average to 120. All summer long, we only had one Sunday, we was under 100. I was so disappointed at 97. But all summer long, we was 100 or better. One Sunday, we had 140 something. And in July, we averaged 122. But June, that was a 27% increase. That's a pretty good increase, you know. And we had one kid come, he said he had never been to church in his life. He said, well, I was there when my parents got married. You know. And he got saved the first Sunday he came. We had probably 18 people saved this summer. But here's July, we had the first Sunday, July 4th, Patriot Sunday. Then we had popcorn, hot dogs and popcorn. Then we had pull me over Sunday, anniversary picnic. Well, that's our point of the week. Had a guy come in and bring bouncy houses. He does that as a ministry. He brought like seven bouncy houses. He sets them up, tears them down, praise the Lord. And then we had a brownie Sunday Sunday, scavenger hunt Sunday. My wife, she puts that together. They like that. They had so much fun doing that, looking for things. In August we had pop, pop, pop, pop Sunday. Popcorn, pop, I don't know, she does bread. Then we had a state fair Sunday, corn dogs and lemon. Ate, you know, backpack, snack pack. Get to, you know. So anyway, so these are, you know, we had people, you know what they do? Man, this kid in the yard did just pull over and run up in the yard. And hey, we're enjoying baptism. We're having these things. We're trying to get kids back in church today. Don't you think that'd be a good idea? Don't you think we need to get our youth back in church? Man, people are stopping them. They're getting bold. They're just using these flyers. And anytime they see a kid in the park, wherever, they're just passing these things all over the place. You know, it was the best. It was just super. And, you know, she all knew last minute. I go, someone ain't going to come by the light and stay in my truck. I'll say to one, I go, hey, come here. I'm in my air conditioning truck. You're out there in the heat. He said, I can't believe you. He said, you call people over to your truck. Try to have a walk away bus. I don't either. But you know, I was just like, come here. You know, I'm invited to church. You know, I don't have to get out of the truck, you know. So, you work smart when you get over it. Amen? Yeah. So, but you know, you know, we reach people different ways. We used to have the boxing club. Of course, Jack died. You know, just different ways people bring people. We had some people this summer that had been praying for in their family for years that got saved. You know, don't give up. Don't give up. And God even answers prayers even after we die. Amen. We should die with a prayer list. Isn't that true? You know, what did it say on April the dead didn't speak of? You know, I think it was. You know, we just need to care about people. And you know, it gets to be fun if you make it fun. You know, if your Christian life is boring, don't blame anybody else. You're just boring. Amen. You get it? Quit looking to blame somebody. You're just a boring person. Don't hang around me. How many people think I'm boring? How many people think that he served God with me to be boring? Why? Because of my attitude. Isn't that the truth? Yeah. What do I got going for me? I'm hoping he's going to get out. Yeah? I just care about people. People want you to care about them. Get out your little cocoon. Plant where you're planting. They say you can't love flowers without hating weeds though. You got to hate sin. Isn't that the truth? Every gardener hates weeds. Trouble is the weed and the flower come up in the life for a while. And then that's how you get out of the mow in the yard. You just mow over that flower. And your wife will never ask you to mow again. She'll take that job from you. She says, oh man, you can grow your own flower. Leave that mower away. I'll do it. Oh, sorry. Then you'll be like Paul won't have a mower but without a bit by himself. We sing that to Esther. That's the first time I've seen that. Then I go in the house and he's vacuuming. That is a multi-tasker guy there. He was mowing. He was vacuuming and painting all at one time. I've never seen that. That's pretty good, isn't it? Man, you're a woman's charmer. Amen. Amen. You know, I like these guys because, you know, they thought outside the box but within the covers of the book of the Bible. I tell people, I like people who think outside the box would be careful. But make sure it's within the covers of the Bible. Make sure it's scriptural. Make sure it's right. We got people that are thinking outside of the Bible and doing things that are wrong. You know, we need to care about people. Just a couple thoughts about witnessing. One is everything you do, make it a ministry. Everything you do. Make it, turn it into a ministry. And have wisdom. Have wisdom. You know, Mindy worked in a factory. I think I told you. I can't remember if I told you or I told the church in California. In one year, 50 people came to our church through her director or indirect. Can you imagine working in a factory with 50 people? You know, when she first got there, they drew her aside and said, Mindy, you can't be passing out tracts here in the factory. Okay. I mean, our parents thought that. They can still talk. They didn't affect it. They didn't affect it. You know, we abide by the rules. Okay, that's fine. She still embodies it. I think it's the same effect as any. And, you know, don't be talking and you should be working. You know, we can give people a good day's work for a good day's pay, right? Use wisdom in things you do. Usually talk to people one-on-one, not in front of people. It's a personal thing. You know, there's lots of things you can do, you know, to, I think, to use wisdom. Remember to not to, here's the key to, that's what I've been talking about. Don't wait for opportunities. Make opportunities. You see the difference? If you wait on opportunities, you're not going to get much done. No one's knocking on my house door. You say, oh, Pastor Bill, you're such a great guy. I want to be like you. You know? No. I go knock on their door. And I tell people sometimes that, well, God has told me to find you, not for you to find me. They know that. I don't seem like they know that. Yeah. I'm just doing God's work today. Someone needs to do it. Don't you think? You know, just present it like that. Always have a smile on your face. If you don't have a smile on your face, then don't be mad if they don't like you. A smile can make a nickel face look like a half a dollar. I'm just telling my teenagers that all the time. I mean, I need that smile on my face. Amen? You do, too. Read them with a smile. You have about five seconds to sell yourself, so to speak. How do you greet them? And then greet them with a right countenance. Here we go. We should be closing. All right. I want to tell you one other thing about soul winning. Soul winning meets the needs of the church. It just does. You know who the biggest giver in the church is? There could be. I'm going to tell you. The soul winner. You could be the poorest person in this church and be the biggest giver. You know how? I wonder if you reached five families for God and they started tithing. And they started coming here because you invited them. Indirectly, you're the biggest giver because you brought five tithers to church. You with me? You know who the best nursery worker in the church is? The soul winner. That five families of women are helping in the nursery now. You know who the best worker in the church is? The soul winner. Because you've got five people now throwing in, pitching in, helping. Many of them make work of life. The soul winner's been powerful. The soul winner's the one that's giving you friends. You wouldn't even have a social life once that soul winner rang with you. You just love these people because they brought them to you. The soul winner. You wouldn't have known if they had one out there and found them for you. You see how soul winning meets the needs of the church in every aspect? Yeah. If your church has a money problem, they don't have a money problem. They don't have a soul winning problem. Yeah. Yeah, one time Jack and I led a couple of the Lord. He became the biggest giver in our church. He had a big job and started giving. I'll tell you why. That's nice. Churches have bills. Amen. Your commissioners need support. Amen. And God blesses the giver. Amen. I'm going to quit. You don't think I am, I am. This last night, I didn't see if I had anything else worth saying here. I just had that too. I said, you know, the more you witness, the more you learn. Visitation is a growth learning experience. You'd be surprised how people are. You learn a lot about people. You learn about how people really don't love the Lord. I always tell people, I said, you can talk about God. Talk about Jesus. You get a different response up here. Isn't that the truth? If you just talk about God most of the time, well, you know, I'll even talk about Jesus. There's a difference there. He brings conviction to our heart and he came to save our soul. Some of the best people, friends God's ever given me, have been because of slow winning. I tell you, I thank God for what he's done in my life and no regrets. Oh, I tell you what, I mean, you knock on a lot of doors. I always tell people, don't, nine of them, if you knock on ten doors, nine of them are not going to probably be interested. They look for the one that God's working on today. Look at, look for the one that God is speaking to and you can tell. And next time it'll be one of the other nine. Oh, there's a lot of people that talk pretty big and tell that things will circle in their heart, you know. Circumstances can change and can change how people think too. Plus you never know who's witnessing in somebody's life. You know, any time that I lead somebody to the Lord and they're relatively easy, I always know it's because somebody's behind their views. It may be someone in another state that's praying. I remember one night I was holding him way back early. This couple, they're still in church. They're out. He worked for DuPont. He's an engineer. That night I led him and his wife to the Lord. And in fact, what a blessing they were. And I almost forgot where I was going with that. I'm getting old, you know. What's that? I thought he was going to say everything he does, he used to think it was wrong or something. What he did say, he's the one that said to me, I said, man, after you get saved, he said, everything I was doing before never bothered me. Now I'm saved. Everything bothered me. You know what he said to me? He said, I wish I would have got saved before I came to the factory. So now, you know, I used to go up drinking with these guys and now I'm not drinking. It's hard. He said, you know, consistency is easy up front, you know. He was great. He said something to always remember, he became our church and he left for a while and he came back. When he came back, he said something I'll probably never forget. He said, you know, pastor, I want you to know that our family needs this church a lot more than this church needs our family. That's a pretty humble statement, isn't it? Not too many people think that. Most people think they're pretty important. And he's still in our church, we're still coming. He said, no, he said, we need your church more than your church needs us. Praise God. Just do his work and let him bless. Heavenly Father, I thank you, Lord, that I, this is just kind of a practical message, just trying to share some ideas, some thoughts, trying to get somebody to be stirred to go and serve you. Lord, I thank you, Lord, for the compassion you've given me for souls. I'm thankful I do have compassion. And I guess you can not have it. Lord, I pray, Lord, help us to die to self, help us not to be concerned about our life. But, Lord, just give it to you. Lord, I thank you, thank you for this week. And I pray that, Lord, you did some good thing out of it. Lord, bless this church and enter the valve. Bless the pastor, Lord, as he leads this church. Have your hand upon him. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Let the Bible, I suppose, stand at our feet. God's working. Let him finish his...
Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from BCB128_TIM NIEMEYER: History Echoes Bitcoin
"You know, the phrase Bitcoin fixes this, I really think it incentivizes this because what you're talking about is incentive, take these incentives away. What is there to do? Free societies lead to an increased quality of life for that very reason. Controlled societies lead to a decreased quality of life for that very reason. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast, a show where average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance and we talk shit. Welcome back into the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast. This week, Josh and myself dance sit down with Tim Niemeyer. Tim is the co -host of the Lincoln Land Bitcoin Meetup in Springfield, Illinois. He has a background in technology. He was a U .S. Air Force avionics technician. His degree is in psychology and his day job is as an elementary school teacher. He also loves history and he just authored a book titled History Echoes Bitcoin. Those of us who have spent any time studying Bitcoin recognize that it's like a sprawling, gorgeous cave. One small entrance leads to larger and larger chambers, each one blowing your mind more than the one before. What you thought was just some bizarre and useless internet money morphs into a species altering idea that could foundationally improve human cooperation. During this chat and in his book, Tim does a marvelous job leading us into the Bitcoin cave and exploring how Bitcoin's design and incentives mirror a variety of powerful and recurring patterns throughout history. Bitcoin's a big idea and history illuminates why. Speaking of history, one thing it teaches us is that too much trust in other human beings can leave you exploited and broke. We recommend that you keep at least a portion of your net worth in an asset you can fully control. And when it comes to Bitcoin, that requires you embark on self custody. We both use the cold card and there's a reason why this device has stood the test of time and is used by a large percentage of hardcore Bitcoiners. It's because it fucking works. It's reliable, ultra secure, easy enough to use, but still gives you room to grow if your technical aptitude and appetite increases. You can use code BCB that's BCB for a delectable discount on the cold card or visit the cold card link down in the notes for discounts on a bunch of their products, including the block locks. Couple of other quick shout outs and codes if they're helpful for you. If you do plan to attend Bitcoin Amsterdam coming up quick here in early October or Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville next July, take 10 % off your tickets with code BCB. These ticks aren't getting any cheaper, ladies and gents, so jump on it if you do plan to attend. Also open enrollment is upon us. If you have healthcare needs or healthcare bills and want to save money while supporting people rather than large insurance companies, check out crowd health at join crowd health .com and use code blue. That's code blue for a big discount on a three month trial period. Lastly, do us a huge favor folks. Can you just sit back, relax and strap in for a cosmic and occasionally comical romp with Tim Niemeyer. Tim, welcome to the show, man. You wrote the book History Echoes Bitcoin and I'm reading this book and I love history and obviously we love Bitcoin. So it's a great book and it reminds me, and I think you should take this as a high compliment. I don't know if you guys, either of you guys have read this book called Lessons of History by Will Durant. It's a short, it's very similar to yours and it's like short essays on different topics. This book is phenomenal and the fact that your book reminded me of it is I think high praise and if anyone hasn't read either of these books, you should read them both. Thank you very much. Thank you for helping me by the way. Appreciate that. Yeah, we're delighted to have you. It's a fun, interesting, very important angle. This kind of book and this theme that we're going to explore today really peels back the magnitude of Bitcoin. Like there's probably a newcomer or two out there listening that's like, I thought this was just some stupid quickly passing fad of fake internet money. And this is the kind of book that's saying, no, this whole decentralized protocol thing we call Bitcoin, it's hitting on some of the deepest, most powerful and important threads that date back through the history of our species. I mean, even if Bitcoin doesn't work, I think we learn a lot from Bitcoin. Obviously the three of us think Bitcoin is going to work, but my takeaway from reading this book is just a healthy reminder when I finished it. Bitcoin is a really, really big fucking idea. Absolutely. I mean, from what you're saying, it makes me think of the phrase in Bitcoin zoom out. So many in Bitcoin, we tend to hyper focus on the little things on the details of the code or whatever, the 21 million, this that, but when you zoom out far enough, you see how all of these ideas, all of the properties that are expressed in Bitcoin, they've been with us kind of throughout history. We've been wanting to be free of asking for permission or being censored or whatever. When you zoom out far enough, you're forced for the trees kind of thing. You're able to see how this all kind of comes together. 100%. Before we go too deep, let's rewind for a second. Who the hell are you? What do you do? You kind of have a little bit of an interesting story. We've never had anyone on here that's teaching music to kindergartners, Josh. So, Tim, who are you? Introduce yourself. I'm Tim Niemeyer. I'm from central Illinois. I grew up around here. My father was a farmer. I did a few years on that and I was thinking either do I want to be a farmer my whole life or do I want to see the world? So I ended up going in the Air Force, spent a couple of years in Japan, traveled around a little bit. And then after tour of service, I decided to go to college, got into psychology, got into elementary educating.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Dont Tread on Me
"We're proud to announce our brand new ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive. Our legal teams will be focusing on the issues that you, our ACLJ members, have told us matter the most to you, life and religious liberty. Join the ACLJ in the fight to keep America free. Dennis Prager here. Thanks for listening to the daily Dennis Prager podcast. To hear the entire three hours of my radio show, commercial free, every single day, become a member of Pragertopia. You'll also get access to 15 years worth of archives, as well as the daily show prep. Subscribe at Pragertopia .com Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Dennis Prager show. It is Wednesday, August 30th, 2023. My name is Julie Hartman. I am the host of the Dennis and Julie show, or I should say the co -host of Dennis and Julie, alongside Dennis Prager. That premieres every Monday on the Salem News Channel. I am also the host of my own three times weekly show, Timeless with Julie Hartman, which is on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays on the Salem News Channel. You can also catch those two shows, Dennis and Julie and Timeless, on the Julie Hartman YouTube page, and of course, you can download them on Apple and Spotify. It is great to be with you. To begin this morning, we're going to talk about a 12 -year -old Colorado student, who on Monday was kicked out of class for having a Gadsden flag patch on his backpack. For those who don't know what that is, the Gadsden flag patch, it is the don't tread on me flag that sometimes you see flying around the United States. According to the school district, which kicked this child out of class, that Gadsden flag is only flown in Trump 2020 flag flying white supremacist neighborhoods, which is obviously a lie, and not to mention insulting. This story, I think, provides a pretty apt synopsis of the state of American education for two reasons. First, the teacher who kicked this boy out of class falsely said that the Gadsden patch had, quote, origins with slavery. That is not true. This patch was actually made in the 1770s during the American Revolution, and the slogan don't tread on me was intended to be a message to the British that the American colonists who were rebelling against their rule were no longer going to put up with the British treading on them. That is the first thing that reveals the state of American education because it is very common nowadays for the content in schools to be taught incorrectly. Then the second reason why it says kind of everything you need to know about the state of our country's school system is that in addition to teaching the wrong content, students are being politically persecuted. There was another story in Massachusetts just about three or four months ago where a young 12 -year -old boy, Liam Morrison, was also sent home from school because he dared to wear a t -shirt that said there are only two genders. This is an ever -growing phenomenon in our country, but let's go here to this article I'm reading from American Greatness. On Monday, so two days ago, very recent, a Colorado Springs charter school removed a middle school student from class for having a Gadsden flag patch on his backpack, alleging falsely that the patch had origins with slavery. A video circulating on X features a Vanguard school administrator explaining to 12 -year -old Jaden and his mother why the boy was pulled from class. The confrontation has gone viral, and due to negative publicity, this is great news, the boy was allowed to have the patch in place when he returned to school on Tuesday. That is totally the right strategy. What happened is that Jaden and his mother were so outraged by Jaden being sent home from school that they went public with this clip. They were on Sean Hannity on Fox News. I believe that they also spoke with Tucker Carlson, or at the very least, Tucker Carlson covered this story. That is the right approach. When something insane happens, whether it's in your child's school or in your workplace, you have to go public with it. That is the only way that we are going to expose the rot of wokeism and try to get it unraveled. This past Monday, in addition to being the day that 12 -year -old Jaden was sent home from school, also marked the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the famous I Have a Dream speech. In addition to Martin Luther King's great activism, nonviolent activism, the thing that ended the racist Jim Crow laws in the South was the fact that Americans were seeing the discrimination against black people on their televisions. The start of cable TV, or at least the popularity of cable TV in the 50s and 60s in contributing to the civil rights movement cannot be underestimated. It is because people started taking video of black people in the South being hosed down by police officers, having dogs unleashed on them. And in the court of public opinion, the Jim Crow laws and other racist measures that were present in the South no longer became acceptable because people were seeing with their own eyes how disgusting it was. That is what we need to do now in this arguably new civil rights era in our country. We need to go public, show video, send audio of a teacher berating a student. So I just thought that was interesting that on the same day that this child was sent home was the same day that Martin Luther King delivered that speech. Similar lessons can be gleaned from both of those experiences. Continuing from American greatness, this is a quote from the school administrator. The reason that we do not want the flag, the reason that we do not want the flag displayed is due to its origins with slavery and the slave trade. The Gadsden flag, the surprised mother responded to which the administrator replied the don't tread on me flag. The mother asked what would happen if Jayden removed the patch and the staffer answered flatly the bag can't go back if it's got the patch on it because we can't have that in and around other kids. They're talking about this patch like it has cooties, like if you get within five feet of it, you are going to get a highly contagious deadly flu. We can't have this around other children. Lest they get infected with the imaginary bigotry of the Gadsden flag patch, the mother shot back. Yeah, it has nothing to do with slavery, I love this. The mother is teaching the teacher. That's like the Revolutionary War patch that was displayed when we were fighting the British. Thank you Jayden's mother for teaching basic elementary history to an elementary school teacher. The administrator responded, I am here to enforce the policy that was provided by the district. This is such cowardice. It's not me who's doing this, even though I'm the one who sent the child home. It's a policy. I'm just hiding behind the policy. The mother and son pointed out that other Vanguard kids, Vanguard is the school in Colorado, are allowed to have other various patches on their backpacks. That's exactly right. I bet that there are students at that school who have come in with Black Lives Matter patches or pride patches or even t -shirts with those symbols. Why is that okay? Arguably Black Lives Matter, not just arguably, I mean it's pretty evident, Black Lives Matter is far more offensive of a flag than the Gadsden flag. Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization which advocated for uprooting the Western prescribed notions of the nuclear family. The Black Lives Matter organization has accumulated billions and billions and billions of dollars that has gone absolutely nowhere to places that would actually help black people. They purported to raise this money for bail funds and for scholarships and for public school funding. What we have found out is that it has actually gone into the pockets of the founders so that they could buy $6 million mansions here in Los Angeles. Those billions of dollars were also used to, actually they were used for bail funds, but they were used to bail out violent rioters who set buildings aflame. Those riots in 2020 killed 25 people, many of whom were black. But the Black Lives Matter flag is okay. I bet you there would be no issue, but the Gadsden flag, oh yes, that is bigotry. How about the pride flag? You know, pride no longer represents tolerance of those with different sexual identification. It a represents movement that seeks to condone the genital mutilation of young children in the name of so -called gender affirming care. Is that offensive? Would that flag be allowed in schools? I bet you it would. 1 -8 Prager, 776 -1877 -243 -777 -6. Back in a moment. Precious metals, it's imperative that you buy from a trustworthy and transparent dealer that protects your best interests. So many companies use gimmicks to take advantage of inexperienced gold and silver buyers. Be cautious of brokers offering free gold and silver or brokers that want to sell you overpriced collectible coins claiming they appreciate more than gold and silver. What about hidden commissions and huge markups? Nick Grovitch and his team at AmFed always have your back. I trust this man. It's why I mention him by name. Nick's been in this industry over 42 years and he's proud of providing transparency and fair pricing to build trusted relationships. If you're interested in buying or selling, call Nick Grovitch and his team at AmFed Coin and Bullion, 800 -221 -7694, americanfederal .com, americanfederal .com. Triple G has notified me that we actually have a clip of this recording of the administrator telling 12 -year -old Jaden, the Colorado student, that he could not wear the Gadsden flag patch on his backpack. I just want to play a minute of the video for you so that you can hear this. And for those of you who are watching the show on the Salem News Channel, you will see that this boy is so polite. He's clean cut. He has a nice shirt on and he's sitting there, you know, with his hands clasped together and he's just nodding and taking it in, incredibly dignified and polite. He didn't say anything like, come on, this is ridiculous. What the heck is going on here? He handled that with such class. His mother should be proud. Let's hear a minute of this clip. Thank you. Do they know what the Gadsden flag is? It's a historical flag. So there, the reason that they do not want the flag, the reason we do not want the flag is due to its origins with slavery and slave trade. That is what was, that's the reason behind the Gadsden flag. The don't tread on me, which is the Gadsden flag. Okay, so he, what's going to happen if he doesn't take it all? He, I mean, he is able to go, I was actually just telling him, like, I was upset that he was missing so much school. I'm like, ah! So I asked him, can he just take his stuff out of his bag and go back to class? Like, I just want him to go back to class. The bag can't go back. It's got a patch on it, because we can't have that in and around other kids. So that's what I was trying, and then he said you were close, so I was like, oh, okay. It's amazing that this administrator is saying, you know, I hate that he's missing school. He's missing school because of you, my friend, or not my friend, my enemy. All right, reading continuing from American Greatness, the head of the school told Jaden's mother that the patch was, quote, disruptive to the classroom environment, and that the boy was welcome to return to class on Tuesday, but only if he removed the patch, okay? Because of its creator's history and because it is commonly flown alongside Trump 2020 flags, the Confederate battle flag, and other white supremacist flags, some may now see the Don't Tread On Me flag as a symbol of intolerance and hate or even racism. Oh, gosh. We could spend the entire three hours on that quote. Okay, so many lies in that one sentence. But they're saying that Trump 2020 flags are white supremacist flags. How is that not political persecution? So half this country are white supremacists, really? And then I love this line here. Some may see it as a symbol of intolerance, hate, or even racism. Welcome to the tyranny of the minority. If one person is made to feel uncomfortable by that flag, the entire school has to go along with that person's preferences. This child has to be sent home. As the administrator said, he loses out on learning because this one person may, in a hypothetical world, be uncomfortable. So this is interesting because let's look at these four adjectives that were used to describe this patch, disruptive, intolerant, hateful, and racist. We live in a world where there is such a profound assault on truth. And what comes alongside that assault on truth is an assault on the objective meaning of words, because that's basically another way of saying the truth, that words hold a objective, truthful meaning. You know, when people say, well, what's the harm of calling a man a woman or a woman a man? What's the harm of saying words are violent? This is the harm, because when words lose their objective meaning, the rules and the standards that are associated with those words also lose their objective meaning, and then all havoc breaks loose. There is this standard in American public education. It was established in a Supreme Court case in 1969. The case is called Tinker versus Des Moines, Iowa School District. And it dealt with the fact that students came to class wearing Vietnam War or anti -Vietnam War wristbands, and they were asked to remove those wristbands. And this case went all the way up to the Supreme Court, and the court established what's called the Tinker standard of regulating speech in schools, because they had to balance the fact that sometimes it is necessary and even good to regulate speech in schools for disciplinary reasons, but also respecting the fact that students have First Amendment rights. So they established this standard, which essentially says that students have a right to express political speech, wear shirts, wear backpack stickers, wear wristbands. As long as that speech is not disruptive to the classroom and does not infringe on the rights of other students to learn. So here we see that this school district in Colorado is saying that Jaden's backpack patch is disruptive. And so if we are now calling a backpack patch disruptive, then it means that they can lawfully tell Jaden to go home and get rid of it, because the Tinker standard says that they have a right to censor speech that is disruptive. Once the objective meaning of words change, then that paves the way for the objective meaning of rules and standards associated with those rules to change. Another story that we will cover in this hour is this Spanish soccer league craziness where the head, I believe it was, of the Spanish soccer league went up and kissed one of the female players after the Spanish female soccer team won the World Cup. This kiss, which by the way I do not condone, you shouldn't kiss someone if it is unwanted or without their consent, but this kiss is now being called sexual assault. And this man who planted the unwanted kiss on the female soccer player is under criminal investigation for sexual assault, which in Spain, as in the United States, carries prison time as a potential punishment. Another perfect example of the way that if we change words, then we change the laws associated with those words. Because now if a kiss is called sexual assault, then you can be prosecuted or brought to trial for alleged sexual assault if you kiss someone. This is very scary. That is why conservatives make such a fuss when words are used improperly, because it leads to a slippery slope. And by the way, this is going to affect all of us. There are going to be many people, we're already seeing it happen, who are going to be fired from their jobs or sent home from school for supposedly being disruptive or racist when they're not. We have calls. We'll take them in the next segment. 1 -8 Prager 776 -1877 -243 -7776. I'm eager to hear your reactions. Back in a moment. Mike Lindell has a passion to help you get the best sleep of your life. He didn't stop at the pillow. Mike also created the Giza Dream bed sheets. These sheets look and feel great, which means an even better night's sleep, which is crucial for overall health. Mike found the world's best cotton called Giza. It's ultra soft and breathable, but extremely durable. Mike's latest deal is the sale of the year for a limited time. You'll receive 50 % off the Giza Dream sheets, marking prices down as low as $29 .98, depending on the size. Go to MyPillow .com, click on the radio podcast's square, and use the promo code Prager. There you'll find not only this amazing offer, but also deep discounts on all MyPillow products, including the MyPillow 2 .0 mattress topper, MyPillow kitchen towel sets, and so much more. Call 800 -761 -6302 or go to MyPillow .com and use the promo code Prager. Welcome back to The Dennis Prager Show. I'm Julie Hartman, your guest host for today. We are discussing the fact that this 12 -year -old boy in Colorado was sent home from school on Monday for wearing a Don't Tread On Me patch on his backpack. The school said that he had to remove it. In order to return to school, he and his mother went public with a recording of the administrator admonishing him. And the public outrage over this incident led to the school allowing Jaden to come back with the patch on his backpack. I should also note that the school announced that they would be canceling Parents Night due to quote, unforeseen circumstances. Clearly, they do not want to face some questions about this incident. Let's go to Steve in Chicago, Illinois. Hi, Steve. Thanks for calling in. Yeah, Julie, thanks a lot. So, here's where I'm going to part company with you, okay? Whatever happened at School of Colorado sounds ridiculous, okay? But you beat it like a dead horse a thousand times to make it sound as if this is commonplace. You talk about transgender issues, and Dennis Prager does it nonstop. And what you do, and the way to deceive people, okay, which is what I think you and Dennis do, is to omit from your discussions and your narrative other information that would make what you're saying completely false, okay? What is that information that we are omitting? Well, I'll tell you. I'll tell you. You guys beat this transgender drum like they are going to take over the world and destroy civilization. The fact is - When have we ever said those words? That they're going to take over the world and destroy civilization? I listen to Dennis all the time. It's incessant. And the fact is, is there are very few transgender people relative to the population, okay? That's true. Most of us will never meet a transgender person. The few people who are transgender are afflicted with a horrible psychiatric illness, okay? They deserve empathy. No one is forcing them to undergo any transgender hormonal treatment. I'm going to pause you there, Steve. I don't mean to cut you off, but just for the sake of time, I'm going to pause you and I'd like to continue a discussion, but I have to cut in. You are right, Steve, that there is a relatively low number of transgender individuals relative to the population, which is why I ask the question, why is teaching that gender is non -binary and fluid becoming so mainstream if this is so rare? And I encourage you, Steve, and anyone listening who may agree with his disagreement of Dennis' position and my position, I encourage you to read the California Department of Education codes, the Arizona Department of Education codes, New Jersey, Michigan. Many states, blue states around the country, in these codes have things that say that you should teach kids that gender is non -binary. In New Jersey, they say that you should not refer to children using gendered pronouns. Here in Los Angeles, the LAUSD, which has about 450 schools under its jurisdiction, has monthly Rainbow Club meetings where students as young as four years old are subjected to drag queen story hour. This is not a fringe thing. This is very mainstream, and they are also taught these radical gender codes. I agree that people who are experiencing gender dysphoria deserve empathy. That is why I, and I feel comfortable speaking for Dennis, that is why Dennis and I are so disgusted. And that is the word disgusted by this movement, which is saying, legitimizing the fact that it is normal to not feel your gender. These individuals deserve empathy, they deserve therapy, but what they do not deserve is being subjected to doctors and students who are saying, yeah, you're 13 years old or you're 15 years old and you don't feel like your gender, here are some puberty blockers, and by the way, you should have your breasts cut off. This is happening at the Duke University Medical School, Medical Hospital, excuse me, Boston Children's Hospital. This is happening all over the country. I'd like to give Steve an opportunity to respond. We may have to go into the next segment, Steve. We don't have much time. OK. Yeah. What you're saying about people having their breasts, women having their breasts cut off and hormonal blockers, again, it's a misleading narrative you're giving. OK. No, no, no female is going to breast cut off without her consent, without substantial psychiatric involvement. OK. It is not substantial psychiatric involvement. That is not true. You know what? You know what? I've studied this issue. It is true. As have I. As have I. It is very common for these kids. OK, I'm sorry. We're going to have to continue into the next segment. Steve, stay on. We'll pick it up. Back in a moment.
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A highlight from The Preeminent Attribute of Christian Love
"Well, I invite you to take your Bibles this morning and turn with me to 1 Peter chapter 4, 1 Peter chapter 4, and returning to our expositional study in 1 Peter this morning our attention will be given exclusively to verse 8 of chapter 4. And, to set verse 8 in its surrounding context, I want to begin reading in verse number 1. First Peter chapter 4, beginning in verse 1. For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, alarm yourselves likewise with the same mind, for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lust of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquedings, and abominable idolatries, wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you, who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. But the end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. And then our text in verse eight. And above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. And the title of my message this morning is The Preeminent Attribute of Christian Love. The Preeminent Attribute of Christian Love. Having reminded believers in verses one through four that God in Christ had saved them to live unto the will of God, and having exhorted God's people to continually live in light of eternity, in verses five through seven, the apostle Peter in verse eight now urges these scattered saints to keep the flames of Christian love fueled and burning hot among the flock. Now here at the outset of our message, I want you to carefully think of the great wisdom of God in moving Peter to speak this particular message of exhortation. Why do you suppose it was needful for Peter to preach the message of verse eight to this congregation of believers at this particular time? Why do you think God desires that these people who are weak, discouraged, sincerely struggling, and trying to fight off discouragement, hear yet another sermon on the subject of Christian love? I'll give you the answer. It's because God and Peter know that during times of trial, during times of suffering, we have this subtle sinful tendency to focus on ourselves. Often during times of great distress, the spirit of self -pity rears its ugly head and causes us to grumble. In the midst of great trials, we often think and sometimes say things like, look at what I'm dealing with. Look at all the loss and heartache that has come my way. Can't you see that I'm hurting? Don't you know what great problems I'm dealing with? Why are you not feeling sorry for me? Why are you not comforting me? Why are you not encouraging me? Why, why, why, me, me, me? Come on, it's true. When we meet with the troubles of life, often there's this little voice that sometimes fuels our pride and harmfully accuses others of not doing for us what we think others ought to be doing for ourselves. If I've seen it once, if I've heard it once, I've seen it and heard it a dozen times among the fellowship of local churches. A church member frustratingly leaves the fellowship of the flock and when asked the reason for their departure, they say, quote, nobody called me. Nobody served me. Nobody cared about what I was going through, so I'm gone. Now, sometimes the complaints are legitimate and the body of Christ has not done their part in caring for a hurting brother or sister in Christ. But most of the time, the one who is making such accusations has amnesia and has forgotten the many ways the church has sought to care for them in their trouble. Or the one suffering has become so self -consumed in their trial that they want everyone to go around feeling sorry for them to the degree that they are feeling sorry for themselves. And listen, this is the context of 1 Peter. Peter is writing to real Christians who live in a real world with a real spiritual enemy like you and me who are really hurting. And in so many words, Peter is saying, I know you are hurt. I know you are discouraged. I know you are dealing with disappointments and losses, but you must avoid turning inward in the midst of your problems. If you're tempted to say, can't you see that I'm hurting, you need to honestly look around and recognize the fact that you are not the only one hurting. In fact, everyone is hurting in their own unique way. So this is the spiritual prescription given by Dr. Peter to this hurting community. The spiritual medication is for God's people to be like Christ in esteeming others better than themselves, looking not on their own problems, but every man also on the problems of others. Peter knows that God's people need another reminder that the greatest threat to their Christian testimony is their selfishness. And Peter knows that the greatest method of evangelism to the world is their selfless love. For it's Jesus who said, by this shall all men know that you are my disciples if ye have love one for another. In other words, Jesus says the world is watching. The world may not be reading a Bible, but they are reading your life. They are reading the testimony of Christ's church. They are watching how believers act and react to the problems of life. And it's one thing to say that you love God when the circumstances of life seem to be unpleasant. It's another thing to show that you love God when the circumstances of life are against you. So Peter is saying, watch yourself. Be on guard. Don't forget your mission. Watch on the prayer. Keep your eyes on Christ. Look outward, not inward. Have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Now having considered the contextual reason for Peter's exhortation and the remainder of our time together this morning, I want to take this one verse, and I want to analyze it by setting it in four natural points of consideration. First I want us to consider the presumption of love that Peter implies upon the text. Second I want us to consider the priority of love that Peter emphasizes within the text. Third I want us to consider the practice of love that Peter suggests from the text. And then fourthly I want us to consider the perceivable product of love that Peter declares to be the tangible result of true Christian love. Four natural points of consideration that are taken from this one verse. And that being said, looking to our first point, I want you to notice with me the presumption of love, the presumption of love. Implied within the text is the foundational biblical belief that those who know Christ savingly will have a natural love for other Christians. When Peter says it is needful for those who he is addressing, namely believers, to have fervent charity among themselves, he is automatically assuming that they've been born again. Peter is naturally assuming as a result of their new birth they will have a genuine love for the brethren. And let me just say that this is the presumption of every human author of scripture because this is the truth of God. God's word clearly affirms that those who truly know God will truly love others. And Jesus says that the first and great commandment given in the law is to love God with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength. And out of that love for God, there will be love for others. The apostle John says, we know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death, speaking of spiritual death. We know that God has done a work in our hearts. We know that we've been born again when there is tangible, visible love for God's people. And then Paul in Galatians tells us that the fruit of the Holy Spirit is love. Not only love for God, but also love for Christ's bride. So keeping in step with the doctrine of scripture and the teachings of the apostle John and the apostle Paul, Peter is declaring through this exhortation that if somebody is right with God vertically, they will be right with others horizontally. And I think the best biblical example illustrating this truth is found in the conversion experience of Saul of Tarsus. You remember, before God changed the heart of Saul, Saul hated those who identified with Jesus Christ. With great passion, we read that Saul made havoc of the church entering into the houses of believers, dragging them to prison. In his sin, Saul lacked compassion. He was merciless. He was vengeful. He was selfish. He was hard. He was filled with self -love. But you know the account. You know his salvation testimony. When Christ gave him spiritual life, when Christ birthed him into the kingdom, Saul had a new relationship. Saul had a burning love, not only for God, but also for God's people. If you'll go back and read the whole of Acts chapter nine, you will find that this persecutor became a preacher. This blasphemer became a believer. The one who had previously hated God's people before salvation desires to be with God's people after salvation. In his lost condition, he was focused on himself, but in Christ, he became focused on loving the brethren so that the brethren might then collectively evangelize the lost. I'm submitting to you this morning that the changes brought by God in the life of Saul are the same changes God brings about in all who come to Christ in their conversion experience. If you are truly in the faith, you will have a burning love for God and his people. If you are truly in the faith, you will have a humble desire to serve others as Christ served others. If you're truly in the faith, the primary focus of your life will be the advancement of God's kingdom that comes by the edification of Christ's church. So I ask you this morning, is there evidence in your life that God has brought you to himself? You say with your lips that you love God, but do you have a sincere love for the brethren? You see, we can't go on and talk about the need of Christ -like love abounding among the church if you've never experienced Christ's love in salvation in a personal way. And for many people among the church, this is the fundamental element that is missing in their life. The reason why some are so distant, so fickle, so careless and apathetic toward the things of God among the community of the believer finds its root in the absence of true living faith in Christ. And if this is you this morning, I urge you to come to Christ now. I urge you to see that the reason for your perpetual unhappiness and indifference towards the things of God is directly related to your spiritual bankruptcy. What you need is a glimpse of God's love for you in Christ. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. But God commendeth, God demonstrated his love towards you in that while you were yet a sinner, Christ died for you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. So in talking about Christian love among the church, we need to first understand that Christian love can only abound collectively as Christian love is known individually among its members. A Christian church cannot love as Christ loved unless a Christian church is Christian. Unless a Christian church is in Christ, you can't do it. And so we start with this presumption. The first element of love Peter highlights for us is the presumption of love beating in the souls of those who name the name of Christ. He presumes that the church is a place where there are people who love God and love one another. Now turning to our second point, I want you to take notice of the priority of love spoken in the text. Peter says, above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves. And these words of Peter remind me of Paul's words spoken to the church in Corinth. In 1 Corinthians chapter 13, Paul notes that it is possible for someone among the church to have great faith in God. It's possible for someone in the church to have great spiritual giftedness. It's possible for someone to have a great knowledge of scripture, great ability to speak the truths of scripture. Paul says that it's possible for someone to bestow all their goods to feed the poor and even lay down their own life as a martyr. But if they lack true love for God and others, it all amounts to nothing. Paul says, without charity, without love, you are nothing. This is what the church in Corinth was lacking. They were lacking true Christ -like love. They were gathering Lord's Day by Lord's Day. They were busy about ministry. They were submitting themselves to their favorite preachers, saying, I'm of Paul, I'm of Apollos, I'm of Cephas, and yet they were taking one another to court. They were involved in scandalous sins. They were boasting about their spiritual giftedness, thinking themselves to be better than their brothers. And Paul comes along and says, you can do all these things all you want. You can play church, but without love, you are nothing. So in essence, Paul is saying, you can have the best preachers. You can have the most luxurious buildings. You can have the most exciting ministries, the most expensive high -tech toys and equipment. But if you don't have love one for another, your church will be a dead church. This is what Peter is saying in verse number eight. Peter is saying that love, Christ -like love, ought to be the stimulating spirit of Christ's church. Love ought to touch every aspect of the church's existence. Without love, all other duties are dead. Let me illustrate. If I preach Sunday by Sunday, without a love for God, and without a love for God's people, for you, what will it profit? If a Sunday school teacher only performs their responsibility to lead a Sunday school class for the sake of a position or for the sake of the applause of men, while remaining cold to the ones that they are teaching, what will it profit? If you come to church with God's people, Lord's Day by Lord's Day, and you are particularly focused on what others can do for you, you will be missing out on the divine purpose for which the church has been instituted. The church has been given to us by God as an amphitheater to broadcast God's love toward the world.
The Mason Minute
School Bus Drivers (MM #4528)
"I don't know if you have this problem where you live, but the city of Louisville is having to delay the start of school because they don't have enough school bus drivers. It was supposed to start last week and they tried, but they couldn't get the kids to school. To me, school bus driver is probably one of the toughest jobs there is and that's taking nothing away from being a school teacher. So much of what you do is so pressure packed because number one, they don't have seat belts. Number two, you can't control the other drivers around you. It's a thankless job and I just can't imagine being a school bus driver. And of course, since COVID -19, it's a job nobody wants to do. Too much pressure, not enough pay. We've had a school bus driver shortage here in Middle Tennessee for the last six, eight years probably. I don't know if there's a solution. I know school systems are trying to figure it out, but the one solution they have that's not going to work is kind of staggering schools where they send the older kids to school earlier, then come back and pick up the younger kids and do it all over again. It's bad enough doing one run to school, but having to do two in the morning? That would be brutal.
The Mason Minute
School Bus Drivers (MM #4528)
"I don't know if you have this problem where you live, but the city of Louisville is having to delay the start of school because they don't have enough school bus drivers. It was supposed to start last week and they tried, but they couldn't get the kids to school. To me, school bus driver is probably one of the toughest jobs there is and that's taking nothing away from being a school teacher. So much of what you do is so pressure packed because number one, they don't have seat belts. Number two, you can't control the other drivers around you. It's a thankless job and I just can't imagine being a school bus driver. And of course, since COVID -19, it's a job nobody wants to do. Too much pressure, not enough pay. We've had a school bus driver shortage here in Middle Tennessee for the last six, eight years probably. I don't know if there's a solution. I know school systems are trying to figure it out, but the one solution they have that's not going to work is kind of staggering schools where they send the older kids to school earlier, then come back and pick up the younger kids and do it all over again. It's bad enough doing one run to school, but having to do two in the morning? That would be brutal.
The Mason Minute
School Bus Drivers (MM #4528)
"I don't know if you have this problem where you live, but the city of Louisville is having to delay the start of school because they don't have enough school bus drivers. It was supposed to start last week and they tried, but they couldn't get the kids to school. To me, school bus driver is probably one of the toughest jobs there is and that's taking nothing away from being a school teacher. So much of what you do is so pressure packed because number one, they don't have seat belts. Number two, you can't control the other drivers around you. It's a thankless job and I just can't imagine being a school bus driver. And of course, since COVID -19, it's a job nobody wants to do. Too much pressure, not enough pay. We've had a school bus driver shortage here in Middle Tennessee for the last six, eight years probably. I don't know if there's a solution. I know school systems are trying to figure it out, but the one solution they have that's not going to work is kind of staggering schools where they send the older kids to school earlier, then come back and pick up the younger kids and do it all over again. It's bad enough doing one run to school, but having to do two in the morning? That would be brutal.
The Mason Minute
School Bus Drivers (MM #4528)
"I don't know if you have this problem where you live, but the city of Louisville is having to delay the start of school because they don't have enough school bus drivers. It was supposed to start last week and they tried, but they couldn't get the kids to school. To me, school bus driver is probably one of the toughest jobs there is and that's taking nothing away from being a school teacher. So much of what you do is so pressure packed because number one, they don't have seat belts. Number two, you can't control the other drivers around you. It's a thankless job and I just can't imagine being a school bus driver. And of course, since COVID -19, it's a job nobody wants to do. Too much pressure, not enough pay. We've had a school bus driver shortage here in Middle Tennessee for the last six, eight years probably. I don't know if there's a solution. I know school systems are trying to figure it out, but the one solution they have that's not going to work is kind of staggering schools where they send the older kids to school earlier, then come back and pick up the younger kids and do it all over again. It's bad enough doing one run to school, but having to do two in the morning? That would be brutal.
The Mason Minute
School Bus Drivers (MM #4528)
"I don't know if you have this problem where you live, but the city of Louisville is having to delay the start of school because they don't have enough school bus drivers. It was supposed to start last week and they tried, but they couldn't get the kids to school. To me, school bus driver is probably one of the toughest jobs there is and that's taking nothing away from being a school teacher. So much of what you do is so pressure packed because number one, they don't have seat belts. Number two, you can't control the other drivers around you. It's a thankless job and I just can't imagine being a school bus driver. And of course, since COVID -19, it's a job nobody wants to do. Too much pressure, not enough pay. We've had a school bus driver shortage here in Middle Tennessee for the last six, eight years probably. I don't know if there's a solution. I know school systems are trying to figure it out, but the one solution they have that's not going to work is kind of staggering schools where they send the older kids to school earlier, then come back and pick up the younger kids and do it all over again. It's bad enough doing one run to school, but having to do two in the morning? That would be brutal.
Evangelism On Fire
A highlight from Ghizlaine Taft's God Story
"Welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. My name is Mark Thomas, an ordained pastor, a teacher of the bestselling Book of All Time, your host, and most importantly, your evangelism coach. In each week, I bring you an on fire message to empower and coach you to live the most exciting life God has created you to live by actively sharing your faith in Jesus with others. I'm so thankful for our time together today. It's such an honor spending time with you, Evangelism on Fire nation. This podcast will truly inspire you, and I believe that it will inspire so many people that you know. And if you're inspired and feeling moved to share this, then please message some friends. Post this on social media and let people know about this episode so we can get this message out there more. I appreciate you and everyone listening right now. And a quick reminder, please subscribe to our evangelism on fire over on Apple podcast right now and leave us a review at the end of this episode of the part that you were inspired by the most and spread the message of evangelism on fire forward. The youth today represent the future of our country. Many of them are putting their hope in everything other than God, they are being deceived. Grandparents aren't taking their grandkids to church like they did in the past. The church has been dwindling, which means the younger generation is not hearing about God and his word nearly as much as they used to. That's why it is so important for us to get in front of them and make sure that worldly desire is not leading them astray. We want to let them know that there is hope for them through a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. In order to do this and to make an impact, we need your help. We need you to join us on this mission of being an inspiration for the younger generation. To do this, become a partner at evangelism on fire ministry. Being a partner means making a commitment to give whatever you can to help us on our mission. We can't do this without you. We can't do this without the support of God's kingdom. Let's reach the world with the most important message that exists, the gospel message. Join us for the plans we have for ministry in 2023 by becoming an evangelism on fire ministry partner by going to today's show notes and clicking on the giving link to become a monthly partner by setting up a monthly donation or go to our website evangelismonfire .com. Click on the donate button to give a monthly reoccurring donation or a one time gift. Thank you for joining us to give hope to the world. Welcome evangelism on fire nation. And this is your host, Mark Thomas. Welcome to episode 151. In last week's episode 150 and in today's episode, we are going to the evangelism on fire podcast archives and I am putting in your ear the top two rated God stories from all of the God stories in our podcast archives. Today, I want you to listen to this amazing God story of Gigi. She grew up as a practicing Muslim who now follows Jesus with a fierce love and passion as a Christ follower. This is one of your favorite all time God stories on evangelism on fire podcast. So I want you to sit back, listen to this amazing, amazing God story and enjoy evangelism on fire nation. I have a special guest with us today. Her name is Gigi and I'm so excited to have her on our podcast today. She has an amazing testimony of what Jesus has done in her life. So Gigi, say hello to evangelism on fire nation and tell us a little bit about yourself so we can get to know you. All right. Good morning evangelism on fire. I pray that my message blesses you today. Yes. Yes. Amen. Yes. So let me tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Ghislaine Labar Taft, but I'm known as Gigi as my close friends call me. I was born and raised in Morocco in North Africa. I am actually the product of a French Catholic mother and a Muslim Moroccan father. How crazy is that? Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. That is right. They met in med school. They wed and they had two boys and a girl. That would be me. And since I am the youngest, I had to toughen up at a very, very young age. So when I was three years old, my mom had had enough of not being fully accepted by my paternal family. She didn't want to convert to Islam. And my father, who was very cool and very opened while he lived in France, became very Muslimish, so to speak, when he went back home. And that's part of the culture actually. So while on vacation, she met an American and just up and left us. My dad, who was a prominent doctor, found us a nanny who loved us unconditionally. And Pastor Mark, I truly believe that that's where my unconditional love for others come from. She really felt that in me, you know, those back. Right. That's amazing. To this day, it actually touches me to the core that someone would be willing to leave her just family to care for us. It actually brings tears to my eyes, truly, you know, so that's sacrificed right there, you know. And the reason she did that is at first she would come and take care of us during the day, but I would cry and wouldn't sleep all night because I missed her so much. So she gave it all up and came to live with us. Wow. That is so amazing. And you're right, Gigi. I mean, what a great expression of unconditional love. Absolutely. Absolutely. And so when I was six years old, my father died in a plane crash. There were 60 doctors on board. One survived to tell the tale. Very sad story. My dad's younger brother, my uncle, and his wife took us in. They had three kids. We were three. And you would think we were the Brady Bunch, except we were not a happy family, unfortunately. So my uncle, and like my father, was a practicing Muslim and taught us to pray five times a day, which is how we pray, how Islam teaches you to pray, basically. It would yank us out of bed to ensure that we had prayed. So literally we would be asleep at night and he'd yank us out to make sure that we had prayed. Not having the time to pray meant that you would pile up your prayers. Islam requires the faithful to pray five times per day and allows you to make up those prayers if you are busy or if you forget, basically. Allah is the authority and he's not to be questioned. Actually, nothing is to be questioned, period. So I grew up really fearing and hating this punishing God who sat up in heaven and seemed to enjoy tormenting me, at least that's how I felt, right? Nothing was going right at that time. When I was 16, I found my mom through the embassy, the French embassy, and I ran away. I literally went to school one day and ran away. My mom lived in New York. She sent me a plane ticket and I came to the US with not even my toothbrush, I tell people. My brother, $20. And that's what I had in my pocket. So you not even a toothbrush and you had $20. That's all the money that you had with you. That's all I had with me. And I crossed the ocean and came to this country with absolutely nothing, an empty heart, broken empty heart. I had left my brother and that's what happened. So it took a few months because we had to wait for the visa. My mom had gotten me a visa and I left Morocco. I never returned until 2013 when my brother, who's biologically my cousin, but as I had said before, we were three and they were three. So we call each other siblings, brothers and sisters. When he got married, he insisted for me to go back. And that was my first time back, 80s. So of course being the way I was, I looked for love in the wrong places. And I met a young man and we had a very bitter divorce and I moved to Florida. I was an empty shell and I studied religion, trying to find gods all over the place. I thought, well, if it's not in a guide, there has to be a God somewhere. And I landed on an ashram studying Buddhism. And I felt like that Buddha's teachings were calm, loving, and that was something that I could follow. Meanwhile, I earned my degree in teaching in education, but couldn't find a job. So I had to move to Charlottesville, Virginia to teach French and Spanish at a local high school. So that's pretty much what happened, like how I grew up, so to speak. That's an amazing, unique story of your life. It really is very different. So let me ask you this, Gigi, like when you came to this country, to our country with only, again, you said no toothbrush, only $20 in your pocket. What empowered you to have the courage to make that move with only $20 in your pocket? My brother wanted me to leave. He knew, my older brother knew that my family was trying to marry me. So in Islam, they marry people at a young age, really, or something. And people were starting to look at me and ask my uncle for my hand in marriage. And he was considering it. And at the time I was 16 and my brother wanted me to study and be educated and do something with my life. So he's the one who pushed me, really. Yeah, that is so awesome. So how did you discover Jesus as your savior, as a once practicing Muslim? Well, one day my friend Bob and his wife invited me to Efford Baptist Church, which is a church here in Savannah County, for their daughter's baptism. I really didn't want to go because I didn't believe in Christianity. You have to understand, for Muslims, the Trinity is not only foreign, but it's absolutely horrible. How can you be God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, right? It's just not heard of. So I really wasn't interested in religion and Christianity, but remember, I had a big heart and love that was instilled in me. So I went with a gift, because I love to give gifts, and I really did not go for any religious reasons. After all, what kind of a God would allow a three -year -old to be abandoned by her mother? Or what kind of a God would allow a six -year -old to lose her father to be raised by an authoritarian uncle? emotionally, My uncle physically, and sexually abused me, and that was hard for me. Yeah, so of course you're thinking, if there is a God, what kind of God will allow that pain and suffering into my life? Right, absolutely. And so at the end of the service, the pastor made an altar call, which I ignored completely. Actually I was thinking, I need to buy food, I need to do this, I need to do that. And he then asked everyone to stand and sing, give thanks with a grateful heart. And honestly, I don't even remember what happened. All I know is that the flood of tears emanated from my eyes. I couldn't even stand, and I crawled to the altar. Oh, wow. You literally, you crawled to the altar? I could not walk, Pastor Mark, and that is the God's honest truth. I couldn't even carry myself. I crawled there, and while I was crawling, I felt all the guilt from years of sin, all the shame, all the hurt, all the anger leave my body. Wow. I just felt instantly renewed, like a renewed body. And it was all replaced with love, with hope, with gentleness, with kindness, with goodness. Really the fruits of the spirits just oozed out of my body. The love of God, that love and peace that really encompasses all understanding. And literally, I met Jesus, my Lord and Savior, at the altar that day. Wow. And you literally, you weren't going to let anything stop you, Gigi. You literally crawled to the altar to accept Jesus as your Savior. I really did. I really did. Physically, I couldn't even do it. I just crawled. That's the bottom line. Wow. That is what I'm talking about. Wow. So you weren't ashamed of the gospel. You knew that Jesus was calling you and you crawled to the altar to receive him. And on your way there, he is totally cleansing you. And you're being reborn with each inch that you crawl to the altar. Wow. I just absolutely love that. You know what? You got me fired up. Just tell me that story of you accepted Jesus as your Savior. Wow. It's amazing. I still sometimes have to pinch myself just to be like, wow, I can't believe this happened to me. Yes, I was saved. I didn't feel the big, you know, anything. It was big. Right. It was big. Oh, wow. Wow. So if there's anyone listening to our podcast right now and they're thinking about coming to Jesus and, you know, accepting him as your Savior, but something that's holding them back. I want you as someone who literally physically crawled to the altar to receive Jesus. What would you tell that person right now? I would just say, just go. What have you got to lose? Honestly. Yeah. What can you lose? Just run. Don't even think about it. Who cares what others think? You know, the whole time I was there, I was like, oh, my gosh, what if somebody sees me? What if somebody recognizes me and my sins? And I just run, crawl, do what you have to do. Yeah, that is so good. Gigi said run, crawl, do what you have to do. Just don't hesitate and wait to accept Jesus as your savior. If he is calling you right now, don't wait. Just crawl to him. Run to him. So Gigi, how long have you been a Christian? I've been a Christian since 2003 when I received baptism. Wow. Since 2003. So what was your life like before you made a decision to follow Jesus? So honestly, as a Muslim, I was very bitter. I didn't understand Allah. And since nothing was to be questioned, we just went through the motions and we followed the teachings. I was empty, though. I was a high school teacher, so I was a contributor. I was really contributing to society. But I felt numb on the inside. I loved on children, but I had no love for myself. I chose abusive men to fulfill a void and I would then leave them or they would leave me. And that gave me like a feeling of justifying my victimhood. I was just a victim basically in this world. It was a dark period in my life, to be honest. Yeah. But living without having a relationship with Jesus Christ is really rocky. It's a costly life. I mean, the Bible is clear. It says the wages of sin is death. And I was dying on the inside. Yeah. Yeah. And many times that spiritual death will lead to an actual physical death. Exactly. Exactly. And maybe not for me, because I was teaching, I was coming home, but I was dying on the inside. And so, of course, you have anxiety takes over, depression takes over. So, yes, eventually, you know, suicidal thoughts were my middle name at one point. Oh, wow. That is darkness. Hey, Gigi, if there's a Muslim practicing Muslim listening or anyone who is outside of the faith of Christianity and they've been searching or they're considering searching for Jesus as their savior, especially to a practice of Muslim, you know, what would you what would you say to encourage them? I would say read the Bible. It's very factual. The history doesn't you cannot you cannot refute history, right? It's written. And I would say so study it for sure. But but have an open heart and just just come and visit a church, just meet the people. There's no questions that will not be answered. There's no doubt that will not be answered. People will put their arms around you and not judge you. I remember saying to Pastor John, who was the pastor of the time, an effort Baptist, I remember saying, but I don't understand the Trinity. And he would say to me, he would put his arms around me and say, keep coming back. Yeah, I would say keep coming back. That is so good. That is so good. Now, I know evangelism on fire nation. You're probably wondering what I'm wondering, you know, about Gigi. So, Gigi, how did your life change after you became a Christian? So after I became a Christian, I felt really free from the inside out. I felt free from oppression. You know, we're in a time where people talk about oppression. I felt free from oppression, which I had created in my own mind. And I will venture to say anyone who feels oppressed is because they have created that in their own mind. I had been a victim as a child, but now I'm a victor. I'm victorious over everything. Yes. My self -esteem is stronger. And I did that really by speaking positively as well. The Bible says we are snared by the words of our mouth. And I choose to speak life every day around me, around the people that are with me so that I can continue to be a positive person. I don't feel broken anymore. I don't feel ugly. I don't want to commit suicide anymore. I don't pursue every broken man to try to fix their life. That was my thing, right? Let me find the most broken person so I can fix them. Yeah. So I actually stopped dating. So I had decided to stop dating for a while so I could date myself and get to know myself. Yeah. Say that one more time. That's so good. I want everyone to hear that again. For sure. I stopped dating, going from one man to another, and I started dating myself. I had a relationship with myself. I started loving on myself, taking care of myself. And I prayed to God. I wrote down actually what I wanted in a man. And a year later, I met my husband, Mike. And we have been married for 21 years now. We have an awesome kid together, which is a whole story with our son, actually. And I wish I could say that everything was easy and smooth since I've been a Christian, but that would be lying. Right. It's not that smooth. A lot of people think, well, I'm going to become a Christian and everything will be perfect. And that's not so. We had, for example, we had to, we tried to have a child for three years and nothing happened. And at the time, like I said, I was a teacher at a local high school and I would see these 16, 17 year old get pregnant. And I would say, God, I'm serving you. I'm here 100 % for you. Why am I not getting pregnant? Right. We depleted a bank account with in vitro fertilization. And I was praying one day and I heard God loudly and clearly say, be still and know that I am God. And then he said, but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. And right then, right there. And then I went into all the fertility drugs and I flushed them in the toilet bowl. And I said, we're stopping this. God knows my heart and knows I want to be a mother. And that's what's going to be. Wow. So you totally trusted in the Lord with all your heart that he, not the fertility drugs, not anything else, that he was the one that's going to provide you with a child that you have a heart desire for. Yes, amen. Exactly. That's what I did. And I remember the devil one day saying to me, see, you're not pregnant. Like every month would pass. And you say, see, look at the God you serve. You're not pregnant. And I would literally open the front door. I could still see myself doing that. I would open the front door. I would put the Bible on the floor. I would stand on it and I'd say, devil, flee out of my house. I am standing emotionally, spiritually, and physically on the word. Amen. That's praise God. That is so powerful. So powerful. Two years later, two years later, I remember I even went and bought a pair of little shoes, like baby shoes, and I would put them in the living room because that was one thing with my husband. I'd always have to pick up his shoes. And that was very annoying to me. Right. So, so I bought little baby shoes and I would put them in the living room and pick them up and put them back. And it might sound crazy to some, but you have to visualize what you want in life. You have to speak it. You, if you want it to manifest, you have to manifest it by faith first, really. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. That is so true. And I want to encourage everyone listening, Evangelism on Fire Nation, whatever dreams God has put in your heart right now, I want you to visualize those dreams like Gigi did with having the expectation of her child and speak those things which be not as though that they're going to be and trusting God for him to bring it to pass and for him to manifest your dreams. So that is so good, Gigi. Hey, what now? This is the question of the day. OK, what what's one thing about your testimony that you've never shared with anyone? OK, so I have I've never shared with anyone that I have had two visions of Jesus, and that was while I was a Muslim and Jesus was rescuing me. One, when I was nine years old, I tried to commit suicide and I was we had we had a house that was very, very high and I was upstairs and I thought I should throw myself from the second floor building. And and he appeared to me and told me that he loved me and that scared me so much that I just rebuked him right away. Like I was like, no, I literally said no, because there could not be a Christian God in a Muslim family. So that I mean, if my family had heard of that, they would have destroyed me. I don't even I can't even imagine what could have happened to me, honestly. So so I just rebuked that and let it go. And the second one was after I had graduated from from college and all, I was in my bed and I was just crying because I felt like there was nothing for me to do. No one loved me. I didn't care. I was a victim. Nobody cared. And I wanted to kill myself. And I closed my eyes and I pictured myself throwing myself in the abyss. And I felt this hand, this huge hand pick me up and put me back on this mountain. And it happened like three times that same day, that same moment. And when I looked up, there was a bright light around me. The room was all bright and actually my eyes were open. So it's a it's a true vision, like not a dream or anything. And and Jesus was telling me that everything was going to be fine. Wow, that's absolutely amazing. Hey, I want to thank you so much for, you know, sharing those two really their personal touches from God. And I just I considered an honor and a privilege that you're sharing that part of your testimony that you've never shared with anyone before. Gigi, thank you so much for having the courage to do that. Thank you for having me, Pastor. Absolutely. Now, if someone's listening to this podcast right now and they haven't committed to following Jesus, what's the number one thing you want to share with them? If someone is listening today and I hope they are, I urge you to give your life to Jesus Christ. Jesus died on the cross to show me and you have to love that unconditional love, really. You know, it's one thing to love, but it's another thing to have that unconditional love. He offers us forgiveness of our sins. He washes them all away as we confess with our mouth that he is Lord. He took someone like me. Sometimes I think God has a funny sense of humor. He took someone like me, a piece of coal, and turned it into a diamond.
Jess Get Hired
A No-Bull$hit Approach to Coaching With Adrian Koehler
"Just Get Hired podcast fans, I'm excited to welcome in Adrienne Kaler, who I think is a pioneer in delivering a no -bullshit approach to coaching. So welcome, Adrienne, to the Just Get Hired podcast. Thank you so much. Great to be here. I'm excited for our conversation about coaching and your message around it. So before we kind of get started, I want to, instead of the usual things that people can read on the internet and doing a boring intro, I would like for you to maybe tell our audience a little bit about yourself in a different way. So maybe tell us about maybe the people that are in your life they're and how a part of who you are and what makes Adrienne Adrienne. Sure. Well, so where to begin? Yes, I'm married, an amazing wife, who was a very successful founder of a business called Drybar. She's in kind of round two of her life. She had a great exit, and now I'm with her and helping her figure out what that is. That means we're in lots of projects together helping and her sort out what she wants to do with her world. That's a big part of my life. Together, we've got four kids. She's got two from her first marriage, 18, 16, two from my first nine and seven. So that means lots of sporting events, lots of extracurriculars. So I'm really all over the place. Got three animals. I'm looking at two of them as we speak right now, sleeping in puppies. So anyway, we keep a lot of commotion around here. So I'm a family guy first. I think family is the center of anything that's worth having is the quality of the relationships you have right next to you. So that is a main focus of my life is doing everything I can to keep tilling the soil here. So great things can grow and legacy happens right here. So that's a big part. I mean, I live out in Los Angeles. I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Illinois. Two phenomenal parents, they're still married, both school teachers, both pillars of their community, got a brother in St. Louis, and his great family. Anyway, I'm a family guy first, I ex athlete type guy played ball and college play football in college. So drawn towards extreme stuff, love pushing myself to limits. And athletically, I'm 42 now. So that looks different than it did when I was 18. Everything looks different now. Everything looks. That's right. That's right. And I operate family across the board. I mean, I've got a business partner at take new ground or coaching and leadership training company. And he's a mentor of mine. He's 67. And I'm 42. So he's ob one and I'm Luke Skywalker in that. And he's phenomenal. As soon as I met this guy, Dan takini, I thought I want to learn how to do what this guy does. And so I was running a foundation at the time we were doing work in training, doing essentially intervention type work with people coming out of gangster lifestyles. So my first coaching clients were literally with murderers in prison.
Mark Levin
Gregg Jarrett: Previewing New Book 'The Trial of the Century'
"The trial of the century what is the trial of the century Which one You know there have been a lot of famous trials that have been dubbed as such by the media over the years The Nuremberg case Julius Ethel Rosenberg the O. J. Simpson double murder case which I covered for 9 months in Los Angeles They pale in comparison to the 1925 scopes monkey trial Because it stake was our cherished free speech rights America was at the precipice there was an effort and it was succeeding to ban books for example on evolution and they weren't going to stop there They were going to ban a variety of science books and other books And in the state of Tennessee they made it a crime for a teacher to teach out of the state approved textbooks a chapter on the cornerstone Darwin theory of evolution Because they feared it would undermine the story of the divine creation in genesis in the Bible Which it didn't Their harmonious and Clarence Darrow was incensed over it So when a young 25 year old school teacher was handcuffed criminally charged in front of the host gal Darrow came to the rescue the greatest trial lawyer who ever lived And he for free descended John scopes It became known as the scopes monkey trial which was derived from an evolutionary misconception that humans evolved from monkeys or other primates I traveled a couple of years ago to the courthouse in Dayton Tennessee where the trial took place It's closed now but buried in the archives of the basement and I gained access was the original trial transcript
AP News Radio
Jewish teacher arrested for threatening students who drew swastikas, police say
"A Wisconsin school teacher angered that his students drew swastikas on a paper in his classroom is charged with two felonies for allegedly threatening to use weapons against the children. The teacher who is Jewish was booked into jail for making terrorist threats against 7th grade students at a school in grafton Wisconsin. Police say he told the children he had guns in his basement and wasn't afraid to use them, also threatening to send a relative to their homes with a baseball bat. One boy told a local TV station at first, the teacher warned that he'd report the swastikas to the office, but became increasingly upset and compared it to the use of a racial slur. The teacher faces two felony counts and has been placed on leave. I'm Jackie Quinn
The Eric Metaxas Show
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert Exposes Michelle Obama's Privileged Past
"Back, talking to Joel, Gilbert, the filmmaker behind Michelle Obama 2024, which you can see at Salem now dot com. Joel, this is a very serious subject. And it's at least interesting that you're the only one that has really gone out there and made this case. And when you make the case, it seems like a very, very good case. Why do you suppose others aren't talking about this more? Well, they've kind of bought into the public persona of Michelle Obama that she's just this big forever First Lady and doesn't like politics. But behind it is a very, very political person. Her father was a precinct captain when she was growing up in Chicago working for the Democrat party machine. Michelle grew up in Jesse Jackson's house. She was best friends with his daughter santita when he was running for president. Michelle married a politician. She's very much a political person. And but you can see her now working the appeal to minority voters. And she's been doing this for years. One of the biggest stories she's been telling for 15 years is how her high school counselor racially profiled her regarding her Princeton University application. Well, I went and did the research. I went to Chicago and I found out that her Princeton University, the guidance counselor at the high school, was a church going black woman. So there's no way that was true. So the church going black woman racially profiled Michelle Obama. Right. That's very interesting. Well, the reality is Michelle tells these stories of racial slights talking about how she was held back in life because of her skin color and people held her back and she grew up as a black woman. The reality is completely different. I talked to three of Michelle's boyfriends her high school and elementary school teachers, classmates, you name it. Michelle had a very privileged childhood. She was in dance classes for ten years. She performed at the Chicago theater. She went to Paris when she was in high school with her French club. She was a very privileged kid. And interestingly, she even talks about openly in the book how she grew up afraid of black people. They
Mark Levin
Kayleigh McEnany: We Were Warned About Religion Secularism
"Something deeper happening and why do you think that's happening What's causing that Well when you look back I mean there was a recognition going back to let's say the 50s and 60s before they took prayer out of schools before a professor or a teacher or a high school teacher wasn't allowed to read a Bible and silent prayer at his desk before a football coach wasn't allowed to kneel at the 50 yard line in silent prayer You know as this was going on what we saw was a Supreme Court that warned even as we take these things away we are warning against a religion of secularism We are warning against taking out of our founding documents something that has been there And it was an admission that there's supreme being an admission that there's something guiding this country that the American Dream is alive and real and it's guided by a supreme being There was this recognition there even as these kind of boundaries were hashed out as to what no official state religion would look like But all of a sudden those boundaries went by the wayside and you have a radical left that has said we don't care about faith We're going to turn it on its head if a transgender slaughter Christians we're going to turn it around and make the victim the perpetrator and so forth It's insidious It's malicious And you wonder why all of a sudden in the last really 5 years I would say You have this resurgence of something that is so powerful so strong so evil and has really infected a side of the political aisle
The Dan Bongino Show
CNN's Scott Jennings Shreds Randi Weingarten Over School Closures
"Fortunately Scott Jennings who actually have met a few times He's a really nice guy He's a CNN contributor a Republican who works for CNN So God bless him right I mean can you imagine doing that every day Having to deal with some of these people But he got to take her to task really saying probably what every single American certainly would every parent would love to say to this lady Let's play cut 18 Millions of American parents I have four at home I had to teach them at home My wife had to teach them at home I am stunned at what you have said this week about your claiming to have wanted to reopen schools I think most you'll find that most parents believe you were the tip of the spear of school closures There are numerous statements You made over the summer of 20 scaring people to death about the possibility of opening schools And I hear no remorse whatsoever about the generational damage that's been done to these guys I have two kids with learning differences Do you know how hard it is for them to learn at home and not in a classroom that was designed for them And for you to sit in front of Congress and the American people and say oh I wanted to open them the whole time I am shocked I'm stunned I'm stunned and there are millions of parents who feel the exact same way Go ahead So I don't know you sir and you don't know me But I have worked for the last 20 or 30 years Helping kids every single day I've been a school teacher I've been a union leader Yeah sorry I wanted to cut her off I don't care what that lady says She's a liar It doesn't matter
AP News Radio
Teen to plead guilty in Iowa teacher's death
"One of the two Iowa teenagers charged in the beating death of a high school teacher has pleaded guilty to first degree murder. Willard Miller changed his plea to guilty, admitting he served as a lookout while Jeremy Goodell beat their Fairfield high school Spanish teacher 66 year old Noah McGregor, her body was found in a park in November of 2021. Prosecutors said the evidence shows both of them struck graver with a bat, investigators have said the attack was possibly over grades, as part of the plea deal with Miller, prosecutors agreed to recommend a sentence between 30 years and life in prison with the possibility of parole, Goodell had previously agreed to testify against Miller at his trial, which was expected to begin later this week. I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
NYC hires former educator to slaughter rats
"New York City has its first rat Tsar whose sole mission lead the battle against the four clawed vermin. Former school teacher Kathleen karate says she couldn't believe the raps are job was real. Bloodthirsty is not a word you usually see in a job description. She's ready to take on the city's rat population, which some pay get 2 million others much more. I will bring a science and systems based approach to reducing New York City's rat population. With a strong focus on cutting off the food, water, and shelter, rats need to survive. Mayor Eric Adams, who's had some rat problems of his own expects her to be merciless when it comes to the city's most cunning enemy. Rats think they run the city. And we are serious about this. Julie Walker, New York
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"school teacher" Discussed on Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"To your supposedly liberty and freedom ups so i think we just need to start looking at the world from work community based perspective. We need to look at the from as you were talking about before we focus so much property that we ignore the people and we don't have a just society affair and he will democracy when we're not looking out for every single person here in this country and the other thing is teachers and school staff who are talking about safety issues during a global pandemic are not being selfish. Were not trying to get out of working. I don't know one educator that doesn't work their behinds off every day even in the summer to do their jobs really well for your child to learn to their stability and i wanted to debunk bad as well. It's not laziness when we say that it's not safe at school. It's that we actually really worried about. Everyone's safety and not just our own and finally sarry. What gives you hope. The young people give me hope. And i know everyone says that but i know firsthand i spend most of my days not in the somber but the majority of the days i spent whether it's online or in person with gen z. With young people young teenagers and they give me hope every single day because even when we're discussing complicated sad parts of our history they look for the silver lining and they look for ways to fix it especially this generation. I've never worked with a group of people who are so goal oriented and change oriented and accepting of others. I know that bowling does exist but it doesn't exist in the way that it did when we were younger and if it does there's a word for it and people call it out. I know everyone says young people give them hope. But i don't think i'm being corny or cheesy by saying it. Because i see it every day they give me so much hope and it keeps me young. Or at least i've picked obviously. Don't yeah i think about that all the time i say well you know i'm going to be forty nine this year like all proudly and they're like yeah we know totally Well sairy beth rosenberg. Give me hope all and you give me hope to force. Thank you for all you do. And thank you for being a part of the podcast and one of the things that i find a little disingenuous. I suggest that people in where there is a high risk where the mass like you all are doing. I'm told the government should get out of the way and not do that. They don't authority find interesting. Some of the very people are saying that who were hold. Government positions are people who are threatening that if a schoolteacher as the student if they've been vaccinated or if a principal says that everyone in my school should wear a mask or the school board goes for governor. Will nullify governor has the authority to say. You can't do that. I find that totally counter intuitive in quite frankly disingenuous those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. It's an axiom that has often proved true and we have to wonder if that is the point of the right wing trying to erase the systemic racism from america's history from make america great again to the attacks on science art and history from conservative school boards across the country. It seems like the forces of oppression in america are desperately trying to push us back to the failings of our past. Teaching history matters telling your children the truth of who we were helps them make better decisions than those who came before us made. That's what we all want. Isn't it a world where our kids have better lives and do better things than we all did. So why is this so hard. Why the world would we force teachers and dangerous environments during a pandemic. Take away the tools they have to teach accurately and also take away the means they have to protect themselves and their families from cove it. Who the hell thinks any of this is a good idea to all the teachers out there. I'm so grateful for you. I'm proud of you for continuing to fight for our kids when so many americans are set on fighting against you all deserve better from us. Thank you sorry. Not sorry is executive produced by a lotta. That's me our associate producer. Is ben jackson. Editing and engineering. Natasha's jake guts and music by josh. Cooke alicia eagle and my locally ari. That's my boy. Please subscribe on spotify. I tunes or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like the show please rate review and spread the word..
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"school teacher" Discussed on Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"To go to new jersey is via boat. My starting student teaching was delayed. It was all a fog my second semester i was placed at stuyvesant high school. Which if people are listening. Don't know the geography of new york. Like i do that. Basically is right next to the towers were so. Every morning i walked past the carcass of what was once the world trade center and i taught the seniors who ran for their lives that day and they were numb. They don't wanna talk about it. I don't know it'd be interesting to talk to them about it now because back then. They did that teenage trauma protective thing. I think that's a coping mechanism. I don't think that's about being a teenager. I just think that's how our brain protects us is to put it out of our head. It would be interesting to talk to them now. Though and see twenty years later my husband's brother was in tower. One and he has not had a conversation with my husband about it at all. I'm not surprised. Yeah exactly. I just think that's a coping mechanism. You gotta think that's going to catch up with you though eventually trauma always does you host a series of web interviews for pbs. Newshour which you mentioned before and you focus on educators. What is the prevailing message that you hear from teachers and education professionals about what's happening in education today the prevailing message. Is they want more of a seat at the table. Educators educators they want more of a seat at the table however a lot of them if they're from district stat. Don't want them speaking up. Then they don't that per se. But i think the prevailing message is that teachers are not being treated enough as the professionals that they are. When did that happen. I feel like it's i think because of sexism and because teaching has always been considered a female profession even though there's many amazing men who are teachers as well i think it comes from. Pr goal standards. And i think it comes from this attitude. That teachers are simply just caretakers. Babysitters and no one should be treated that way. Even if you're a babysitter rate. But i think it does come from the fact that it's the primarily female dominated profession or at least had been for a long time and it's unfortunate because i've not met one educator who does not take this job seriously like a profession that it is and it's happening again. They're not talking to teachers about what we should do. If there is cove outbreak what should be the hybrid remote model. What actually does work for you. Because that's what works. Young people to is there any protocol in place for if there is an outbreak and it starts to get really bad in the school what happens. There's not a federal one. I think because it's localities are there cdc guidelines. I think there are. I'm not familiar with them specifically. I think it's like a certain number. Have tested positive. You do x. y. and z. But i've not heard anything we could. Fact check this later that there's a hard number about like. This percentage of kids just positive. You should shut down the school. I guess we can google that. But i've yet to see what that is the fact that i'm not aware of it as a bad sign because i should be aware of that of going back to school in a couple of weeks. I don't think there is really anything once again. The messaging off wanna say schools have been opened and we don't want to think about the fact that they're going to have to possibly be closed because of a pandemic that's beyond our control at this point. It's another example of how profits. I think are making us make poor decisions as far as the country goes. We're aware that women lost two million jobs during the pandemic because a caretaking shortage because caretaking is too expensive because schools were shut down so women had to quit their leave the workplace and become everything at home. What chunk of our economy was taken out of. The economy is probably a lot of money billions of dollars and so. I think what's happening in a lot of these states especially the states. That don't function and a surplus. I think people are saying you know schools find schools. Find you go back to work schools. Fine you go back to work because they need that money to be put into the economy now. I believe we should have done. What other civilized democratic countries have done which is hey people to stay home. Unfortunately british with a new immigrant in canada was laid off from his job as a result of team. But just a week later. He found two thousand dollars in his bank account. Hello friends and welcome to another episode of dc chile. Canada ever since the start of the nineteen to make the government of canada has taken exceptional measures to protect its citizens from the impact of the virus board in terms of ensuring the physical safety of their residents as well as making sure that the economic impact of the situation can be minimized by giving various incentives to the canadian public. And you know what that is enabled. It's enabled businesses to stay open because they're able to put their money into their rent. Their business is not dependent on whether or not people are leaving the house. When it's all over when you could go back to work you could go back to work. But until then here's two thousand dollars a month. Enjoy spend some time with your family and we will figure this out. It feels like in this country. We consider freedom to trump no pun intended to trump any sort of lifestyle that is conducive to health and wellness. And self care especially in hard times like a pandemic. it's crazy to think about how we're putting so much weight on getting the economy back. So here's a question for you if our listeners could take something away from this interview and bring something back into their communities and their school boards. That would help them support teachers. What would you want that to be what i want people to take back with them from this conversation. Is that number one. They mustn't be afraid of critical race. Theory that what. That really is for teaching young people about structural racism and some of the problems that exist in america but teachers aren't just teaching that when we teach about racism that teachers teach about the complexity of things. We can teach about america being an amazing place with amazing ideals in so many opportunities and we can also at the same time teach about the obstacles we still face as a nation that has structural racism and sexism and all of those awful and i want parents and everyone listening to know that young people even really young people are capable of understanding that complexity as well. Young people can handle learning. That america is both a wonderful place with a great opportunities and also a place that has worked to do. Because doesn't everyone doesn't every country in everything in this world. The other thing. I want people to take back from our discussion today. Our conversation is to just believe the science more about this virus and listened to what the teachers are sang. And if teachers aren't talking they might not be talking because they're scared of upsetting you with the reality the fact that when you say it's your right to not put a mask on your kid when you say it's your right to not get vaccinated or let your child is over twelve. Get accident when you say it's your right to send your kid to school sick because they need to be in school and you're using 'scuse that has your liberty and freedom to do so you're holding the rest of us hostage.
Newsradio 1200 WOAI
"school teacher" Discussed on Newsradio 1200 WOAI
"Do the same, but he did it first. Jesus went first. What Mark wants us understand is that when Jesus calls Follow. Way don't follow, without reason. Not an empty call. Because this calling has a purpose. It has meaning it has direction and the reason Jesus said. Follow me. And I will make you become fishers of men. What does it mean to be a Fisher of men? I mean, there are so many old preacher illustrations, so many old analogies to fishing in the evangelism ministry and things like that. And I just decided to cut to the chase and get right to the heart of it. Instead of using an analogy of a fisherman. Just give you an example of someone who I believe was a Fisher of men. Well, just a few years ago, I was privileged to G O to the birthday party to attend the birthday party of a 94 year old woman named Ellen Smith. And there were about 40 people at this birthday party. They ranged from ages 85 to 18 months. What you need to know about Ellen is that for At least 75 of her 94 years. Ellen Smith had been pouring her life out to what she referred to as the young people. Now that always meant young people relative to her age at the time. And so there were people that she was referring to as the young people of this party who were well into their seventies. But she had served as a Sunday school teacher. She has started with the youth group leader as a Children's choir directors. A choir director is a missionary. All these things she had done all these things, and throughout her life, she had shared her humor her love her talents or music or community spirit. Her activism. She shared her time. And most of all, she had shared her love of Jesus Christ with generation after generation of people. One.
KSFO-AM
"school teacher" Discussed on KSFO-AM
"The laser fund laser means liquid assets safely earning returns. On. I've averaged 8.2% some years. I don't make anything but other years I might make 25% or even with multipliers make 55%. But with index seen my money is not in the market. So when you retire My suggestion is no more than 30% of your retirement resource is should be invested in the market in yet to be taxed Diaries, a 41 K's. That's ridiculous. You know when people would come and they would, you know, be proud of themselves, and they should have been proud because they had two or 34 million bucks that they had saved between the husband and wife and they go. You know what we figure we've got about 200,000 year of of retirement income 160,000 coming out of these, I reasoned Forum in case the other 40,000 coming out of my school teacher's pension or fireman's pension or Social security. And so they had 200,000 of income and I would say way to go. But I do see one problem and they go. What is it? Well, you know, all 200,000 of his income is showing up on the front page of your 10 40 tax return. They would go. Well, You mean there's another way That's legitimate. And I go salute Lee. Yeah, And so we will start a strategic rollout and s so in five years we would get uh you know 40 to 60%. Of that 200,000 of income off of their 10 40 tax return. Now the Iris knows they're receiving that they arrest knows everything. But they know it's tax free has been a sacred tax free cash cow in the Internal Revenue code for over a century. It's protected under three section section, 72 East 77 or two and 11. It's tax free. You don't have to audit because it's been that way forever. And so long story short. What we would do is is from that point forward, they would only have 80,000 of income on the front of the 10 40 tax return. That's what they pay tax. On the other heaven. 20,000 is tax free. Now in a 33% combined federal and state bracket, I save them 40 grand a year of unnecessary tax with that one maneuver. All the strategic rollout. Now, if one of them a husband or wife lives 25 years 25 Years times 40,000 of tax savings. That's a million bucks. That we save them of unnecessary tax. Just with that one maneuver called a strategic rollout, So that's my advice to you, and so Savvy millionaires. They use the marvels of wealth accumulation compound interest. Yeah, but they use the second marvel, which is tax free accumulation, and that's what the laser fund is. Is the tax free vehicle. You want to compound your money tax free. Most people who have money in the market in tax deferred. I reason for one case, our only told to take the 4% payout that's called the 4% rule. My heavens. You have a million dollar nest egg and you only take 40,000 year you pay tax of 10,025% on that unit 30,000 by gas and groceries, well, other that same million and laser fund I've had many people pull out 9%. They're earning nine. Or they can pull out a 9% pay out without depleting principle. That's 90 grand tax free. How much more is 90,000 than a net of 30,000 out of the same money and Irish before one case, it's 300% more three times the money. Folks. I know you would like to learn about how to have dramatically more income and pay the least amount of tax necessary to redirect that the causes you support. Join us for a very powerful educational webinar to learn more about this. We're teaching this coming Wednesday. We're going to start at 12 o'clock noon. That is specific time. That would be 1. P.m. Mountain time. Two PM central. We're going to teach for about 90 minutes, and then we're going.
Biz Talk Radio
"school teacher" Discussed on Biz Talk Radio
"Welcome to do it. 6 10 363 11 10 6 10 363 11 10. It's rapid fire Friday. We're gonna do our best to get through calls as many causes. We can let me go to Vicki, Vicki's going us from Virginia. Hey, Vicki. Hey, Dan. I have a quick question. Am a 47. Should I elect to tend to shares in the exchange offer? I got a note from my broker. No. Okay, That's no. Thank you. Have a great Friday. Okay. Thank you, Vicky. All right. God bless you. Let me go to Jae in Mississippi. Hey, J. Hey, Good morning. I am now home food, Mom, but I was a public school teacher and I opened up a tech shelter for three bills the account do I need to invest it or withdraw it and add it to my savings. I would. How? How? How far? How old are you? J. I am 37. I quit public school teacher in eight years ago. I would on good for you, By the way you took on a a tough job and did a great thing for your Children. So I congratulate you and praise you for that. Um, I would say that You should probably invest it. You just want to be careful where you invest it so I would open up and IRA account. Um, somewhere at a brokerage account like fidelity dot com or TD Ameritrade or somewhere, you can do it online. It's real simple, and then they will transfer that money into that. And that way, I would probably tell you to put it into two or three Timothy et efs. That'll keep you biblically responsible, and you can just forget about it. You can just forget about it for a long period of time, and I think it'll be okay. I think that would be the way to do it. Thank you. Okay. All right. God bless. Thank you. Let's go to, um J. Craig Craig in Texas secret. You done? Good morning. Good morning. I I can't thank you. Enough. I'll let you don't matter To many things. My question is sent Jude donated. Um I have a friend that passed and You know what family would say? That's what you wanted this strange to do. Donate to the hospital said You'd, um, I don't know how you feel about those organization. It's a good organization. It's very sound. It's very solid. They they you know is one that I wouldn't hesitate to give to Okay, And that's actually and I just didn't want to support any of that stuff that we we we know is going to grieve the heart of God, right? So Mm hmm. Brother. Amen. You know, I'm glad you called. Like I'm glad you called. Thank you Appreciate you are gobbling this weekend on a great Sunday like you always I will. God Bless you. Button. You got you to thank you. We go to Jen and Oklahoma. Hey, Jack. Hello? The morning, Dan. Thank you again for sharing your gift that the Lord has given you with everyone question I have a T s P and I am looking at with what's going on in the next year, too. On with the changes, wondering about the stability of the Chief fund. I know they've I think in the past that followed from that cover our governments and government in the past, so Just trying to get the idea. Mm. I think the G fund is, you know, safe is any other Treasury Bond fund? Uh, um I mean, certainly it's government run its government owned, so they think and, um You know if something were to ever happen, where the government decided to take over any kind of IRAs or qualified money in some way, shape or form The very first place they're going to start is the G fund because it'll be very easy for them to do that. Um, I have a problem. I think in another month or so I know better. About what is going to happen. I assume that Biden is going to override President Trump's executive order to keep the government from investing its funds, G phones and others. Into China's military. I think that's going to be out the door and that's disturbing, but if you're still working and still contributing to it I would tell you to just continue. Continue doing it for now. Okay. Thank you so much. Dan have a block that weekend. All right, Jen. Thank you. You too. God bless We go to shoe and in Virginia High school in Good morning. How are you, sir? Good. Good morning. Good. I'm glad to hear that. I want to tell you how much your program means to me. It's helped me quite a bit. And, uh, Expressing Sonia. So I have 100,000 plus and the money markets setting doing next to nothing, So put you thanks best to do with that. You retired, too. In I'm 78. Yes, I'm retired. I do little jobs from one. But not that much time. Don't amount to nothing. I have some good in Italy. Mm hmm. I would leave it where it is. I wouldn't make any changes at all. I would just leave it. I know. I know You're not making anything there. I'm not making anything. I know you're not. Yeah, I know, but you're not losing anything. No, sir. And right now it right now, that's of great value not to be losing. Well, I love you. I love the Timothy plan. That's where I made a lot of money under your, uh Andre put you told me years ago and I followed what you said. Mm. Well, I think that Z great. I missed the very beginning of that statement just made there, but I'm glad you're following following alone. And I think it is. There's going to be some volatile times in some changes coming up, so I would do what you're doing. Continue listening so that we can catch any changes that we think we might need to make. Okay? I sure appreciate your help. And God bless you. Thank you so well and God bless you. I sure appreciate your listening to support all these years. Then we go to, um I don't know who that is. I don't think I have anybody there. At least there's nothing written Nobody. Okay, let me go to Well, we don't have anybody in the queue. Okay, so I don't know what happened there to that line saying to your car 6 10 363 11 10. I mean, well, we've got we've got a full board. We just don't have anybody cute up yet. Um, so you won't get through. But, um Keep doing. Make sure when you're calling, you know, It's not a great time to have a long, drawn out conversation with, um, darling because she's trying very busy on rapid fire Fridays and makes it difficult. So Let's see. Let's go to I'm trying to find as I speak here. The There it is, okay. Um So.
KCRW
"school teacher" Discussed on KCRW
"A cold peace with Israel and most other Arab countries refused relations with Israel as long as Palestinians don't have independence, But the U. A E gave Israelis what they have long sought. A sense of acceptance in the region were wanted in our country. I don't feel wanted by the Arabs and here they want me here. L a needs Ziegel Boim wonders to buy Spice market with six friends, all elementary school teachers Moratti's in the market are reluctant to speak on tape about their countries embrace of Israel, which is still controversial in the region. I asked the Israeli school teacher is this piece? I don't know if it's a real piece or not. I think that both countries have interest in this peace because we need them. They need us. The Israelis gain business opportunities. One Israeli I met signed a deal to grow lettuce using pipes and the Emirati desert and the Emirati is get Israel's blessing to buy American made F 35 fighter jets. Rain. Sudan and Morocco also normalized ties with Israel. And it was the U. S offering the incentives without concessions by Israel. Shalom tomorrow. Shalom, which Shalom middle what's MMA Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promoted the U A E deal as peace for peace Instead of the old paradigm land for peace, he says It sets a precedent. Israel doesn't need to give up land to the Palestinians to win friends in the Arab world. But I Moratti's still want Palestinians on their side U A e ambassador to the U. S. Yusif al Otaiba. We still want to see a two state solution. We still want to see a negotiation between the two parties. Perhaps just perhaps we might be able to have more influence and more leverage when we do have a relationship with Israel. Emirati commentators say the love fest Israelis feel Just the honeymoon. Tough love will come later. Israelis are seeing it more Netanyahu's way everybody by him they can't run in a tourist who gave just his first name to discuss his political views, says the Emirati is embrace proves Israel doesn't need to make sacrifices..
WGN Radio
"school teacher" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Previously on the Bob Surat Morning show on elementary school teacher who realized that we all need to reduce tension and need an outlet. And obviously can't hear our moment of Zen that we do occasionally here on the show has set up a hotline where you can just call up and scream as loud as you want it for as long as you want and then hang up and it's recorded. You're kidding me, right? No. Uh, grammar school teacher by the Mackris Gold Mar came up with this. He invites people to call a phone number, leave a voicemail for others to hear. So he created this phone line just for screaming. You know there's a lot to scream about these days. I'm looking for it doesn't tell us the phone number here. I do it here. This'll what you get not the Bijan screams on the six is now Vivian would explain this email here. That apparently posts the people who scream on it. Explain this. Basically, When you record your scream, they save it on their website. And you can find it there. But they do say that there is a backlog of over 40,000 screams that are waiting to be uploaded. So when you do scream, it will be posted. But we just don't know when the Colin number For just scream is 1561567 84 31 Go ahead and call it okay, I'll call it Tell me when it's when I can pick up, okay? If it's still working, and then we can all scream together. Show is it That'll be great. Let me see, it says here. I think they were gonna at least keep this available for a while. What's that? Press the button now? Yeah. Nothing. That was a scream. I missed the incoming message. We'll do that again. Bob. Call it again. Okay, So should I give the phone number again? Or is this some sort of Communist company making money on these calls? Do we know anything about this? I don't know, but I guess we'll find out. Yeah, I guess so. All right, so, so let's call the number and I'll scream again. But I want to hear what they what.
WGN Radio
"school teacher" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Daughters the HPV vaccine starting at age nine. To protect them later in life. You're listening to Chicago's afternoon news here on 7 20. W G. And I'm Steve Berg trend and I'm waiting for my vaccine. The Reverend William he Hall senior is the pastor at ST James Church. It's his turn. And he wants to take a pass. Reverend. Welcome. How are you, man? I'm well. All right. Tell me about your church 8000 block of South Michigan Avenue, right? Yeah, it's right there. Literally off 79th Street, Right? At the border of Chatham, one block down the street from Carter Temple Chatham. Another line used to be my nursery right there and take a funeral right there in church, And so your your numbers come up for the vaccine, and you would like to give that vaccine to Chicago Public school teacher instead. Absolutely. I mean, do the work that I do as a chaplain. In addition to pastor at you can, which is a social service agency on the West side. We've really been in the front lines over 30,000 Mills, countless upon countless numbers of mask and handsome ties, And so when I got the invitation in my box I was like one side of the coin. Do I think is needed? Absolutely Do I think it's um A part of our restoration is a city and country. Absolutely, however. You know, I wasn't raised to get in front of people and be ruled in. So one thing that I think is only right is to give it to someone that is, you know, right? They're being asked to be on the front line. I mean, luckily, at times, I can go two or three weeks, you know, working remotely, But you know, our teachers are being asked to be in the classroom every single day. Buildings for eight hours and more. And so I just want to do the right thing. I think your eyes a chap Ministers are in one B or we're captains on one B is that the group? Yeah, And the interesting thing is, um, When I saw that I was saying to myself, that's for the entire state. You know what I mean? And so you have to put into considerations those from the bottom all the way to the top. Of our of our state. And so you know, Lord knows when those that things will be available in a vast amount for our teachers here in Chicago. And in addition to that you're hearing stories of people who, you know, I don't want to take it. But then the shelf life and you know they haven't place vaccines. And so you know, there's a teacher. There's willing, ready and able to do it right now. And so, you know, I just wanted to again eight and what is being active us to say why they could save somebody's teachers they thinking or in one sea so they would be the next group after After your group. Okay, Reverend, But you know that you can't do that, right? I mean, that would just the they're already screwed up Logistically if people started because I actually was thinking of this, You know, I I'm coming up pretty soon. I would happen if we give it to my parents or one of my parents, but A just would so further complicate things, and I don't know if they're up to the job now. Well, I think that essentially, I mean, you know, constructing the system that will allow it. Here. People have got a little bit further advance and time doing such a thing. But I will say something that is simple is number one You can actually question and that's what you know. I'm simply asking a simple question. Can this be done? And I think the simplest way to do it is once I get my time you know to get scheduled show up allowed the person who's accompanying me to sign a waiver. And essentially at the end of the day and allow them to literally share their identification. Do go through the process because I know that the vaccination card sponsor, but how hard is it to send essentially delete someone who's scheduled and add a new name at the same time? That they're supposed to be there. Well, it's very generous of you, But is that what you're gonna do? Are you gonna bring a teacher with you? S so again. That's my intent on s. Oh, I you know, and waiting to get the logistics back in. The hope is that you know it could be done A B c, d e f g. I have not heard. Any word back from the mayor's office. Haven't heard back from the you know, Department of Public Health. But if this feasible why not? You know so again. I think that it should be done. I think it can be done. Hey, how's your congregation doing through all this? You know, we wait is difficult. I mean, we are adjusting with technology that we're in. But there's nothing like human touch is nothing like encouraging someone that you see when you know, Um you know when you're around, and what you feel from human touch is essentially best again. One of the reasons why I believe that. You know, our Children being in school is essential, but having safe teachers as well because the human touch is needed, So we just trying to figure out how to continue to stay in touch, But you know we're doing, say, simple and sacred Ministry on $1000 have have you lost members. You know, I have. Unfortunately in 2020 did not lose anyone to death because of covert. But literally last week I got word and it wasn't covert related. But we lost the eldest member in our church 96 years old, Mr Thomas, But throughout the pandemic people in our congregations, family members. Has passed away because of cold, including my uncle, but I have not had to, you know, walk with the family through grieving because they, you know, lost someone. That's a part of our faith community. Well, I'm sorry to hear about your eldest member, and I'm happy you've lost No one in your congregation. How about in general? How's life there? Well, you know me to be honest with you hopeful. I mean, you know, we write a different chapter on you know American history in a few days, so hopeful, But we are on alert. And what I mean by that is There are a lot of things that changing and after speed of time, and so we all on alert to figure out how to continue to love and serve all those that are in need that we are somehow connected and again when six teachers and my congregation, you know, are connected to our house. So we again alert on trying to figure out and being willing to help those in need. All right, Listen, I think when you show up with your teacher, they're not going to give it to the teachers. So I want you to roll up your sleeve because we need guys like you around too. Well, I appreciate you, man. And like I said, I'm gonna do what I can and can't hopefully get teaches a vaccine be well. The Reverend William E. Hall Sr. Pastor at ST James Church that is in the 8000 block of South Michigan Avenue is great to talk to you hope we can talk again. Rev. 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"But really, I just It's stuck the bad dog Darla stuff because my son when we would come in the house Um, you know, we could tell. She did something, audience her her little face in her ears and he would go bad dog, Darla, you know, and she would hide or, however, years back, and so it kind of it kind of stuck and I used to be an elementary school teacher, and I would love my favorite thing to do is to read to Children. I loved reading picture books, and it kind of had a ring to it, because a lot of my students in that early elementary years love to have something that's very repetitive and something they could join in on. And so I said. You know, that's just a great little ring to it. That dog, Carla, and of course we'd love on her. But you know, it was just she would know would come in the house and my son. So it started with my son saying bad dog Darla when she would have come in the house and find the trash knocked over or whatever she did that day. There was naughty. Well, she's 11, so she's a little bit more settle down. She has lots more for siblings. Now that kind of, you know, have taken over in her. Her role of she has another younger first sister. That's nine that has her own naughty ways. So I think now she's kind of letting them take over and she relaxes on the couch. Most of the time. I don't know if she knows how famous she is. You know, we try toe. Try to try to reward her with treats and say, Hey, look at your book, and you know what? She's 11. She likes to just relax now, so she's not as naughty as she used to be. No, I have never written anything. I had just a vision of what I wanted A picture book for young readers toe look like like, Yes, I fell in love with picture books when I started reading them to my son when he was a baby, And when I read him to my students,.
Biz Talk Radio
"school teacher" Discussed on Biz Talk Radio
"But really, I just It's stuck the bad dog Darla stuff because my son when we would come in the house Um, you know, we could tell. She did something, audience her her little face in her ears and and he would go bad dog, Darla, you know, and she would hide or hover years back, and so it kind of it kind of stuck and I used to be an elementary school teacher, and I would love my favorite thing to do is to read to Children. I loved reading picture books, and it kind of had a ring to it, because a lot of my students in that early elementary years love to have something that's very repetitive and something they could join in on. And so I said, You know, that's just a great little ring to it. That dog Darla, and of course we'd love on her. But you know, it was just she would know would come in the house and my son. So it started with my son saying Bad dog Darla when she will come in the house and find the trash knocked over or whatever she did that day. There was naughty. Well, she's 11, so she's a little bit more settle down. She has lots more for siblings. Now that kind of, you know, have taken over in her. Her role of she has another younger first sister. That's nine that has her own naughty ways. So I think now she's kind of letting them take over and she relaxes on the couch. Most of the time. I don't know if she knows how famous she is. You know, we try toe, try to try to reward her with streets and say, Hey, look at your book, and you know what? She's 11. She likes to just relax now, so she's not as naughty as she used to be. No, I have never written anything. I had just a vision of what.
WTOP
"school teacher" Discussed on WTOP
"Grandson with serious health issues. Smith was hired in 2016. He signed a second four year contract in February. Montgomery County executive Mark L. Rich, a former county school teacher, Thanks Smith for guiding the system through a challenging time, including the covert 19 pandemic. And Smith said in his statement. But I hope that this covered 19 situation diminishes and that the community will go forward in a strong united fashion on behalf of every child. Can't Ryan w. T O P news the school system will start the search for a replacement soon. This won't surprise you. But Capitol police say the Capitol complex is closed to the public and it will not be accessible on Inauguration day. The fencing that surrounds the building and street closures are in effect until further notice. National Guard members can be seen most everywhere across the complex. Capitol Police are emphasizing anybody trying to get onto the Capitol grounds by climbing a fence will be arrested. Meanwhile, local businesses are protecting their storefronts ahead of next week's inauguration, as well as the potential of violence after last week's storming of the capital here at the corner of End Street and 19th Street Northwest, there are several construction workers putting up big pieces of plywood to cover the storefronts of local businesses. This isn't an unfamiliar sight in DuPont Circle. This is actually the third time in the past seven months that restaurants and businesses have been boarded up. The first time, as you may remember, was over the summer during the social justice demonstrations, and the second was before Election Day in November in DuPont Circle, Jocelyn Justin W. T. O P. News of Virginia delegate has been stripped of his committee membership in part over his involvement with the so called stop the Steel Rally, which proceeded last week's deadly assault on the U. S. Capitol, Virginia. House speaker Eileen Filler. Corn removed Loudon County Republican David Iraq from the House Transportation Committee yesterday. Iraq who was white, later attacked those who criticized his participation participation in that rally using objectionable language. Last Wednesday, LaRock wrote on Facebook that it was not Trump's supporters who participated in that siege. He instead blamed a quote small element. He said he now believes there was a mixture of both agitators.
News Talk 1130 WISN
"school teacher" Discussed on News Talk 1130 WISN
"High As long as I've been doing this show the unionized public school teachers in Wisconsin have been complaining. They really started to complain after act head If they complain for 20 years before that. They have the sweetest system in the world before acted and they still have a pretty sweet system. Wisconsin right now teaches a pretty much guaranteed a pay raise every year and hardly ever do any of them get fired, and voters keep passing these tax referendums to put even better buildings for them to work. It. It's hard to imagine why any of them would be unhappy, given the fact that their pay scales are relatively high. The retirement benefits are incredible. Their health insurance is incredible, and they get to quit and go down to Florida. But there's no income tax after working into the mid fifties. Prior to acted, they added, even sweeter. Where the union could negotiate anything. Yet, as you know, they've been complaining for effort. They're always complaining. And I've joked on the show about the challenge that I always would would always put asking you night school teacher. How much money would we have to pay you? If in exchange you promised that you'd never bitch again? And they'll never give you an answer. Because that's what they wanted to his bitch. Then you'll see private school teachers who have almost the exact same same kind of job, but with few exceptions, unless you work at one of the really high end private schools Say university school book Feel the cattle, some of them, you know. Unless you work at them. They usually make less money and often don't have a pension and they certainly can't retire when they're 55. Yet those teachers seem far happier. I think again, It goes partly to who's attracted to the type of job that teaching is people that are looking for significant job security. You don't go into teaching if you're trying to become the star who's going to make $600,000 year by being the best teacher because the best teacher doesn't make $600,000 a year. You go into teaching because you're looking for the job security? Well, as they say that becomes a numbing type of experience because you never have the ability to get the ultimate human achievement. Proving you're better than everybody else. That doesn't make you happy, but the chance of getting it made as allows people to be aspirational. It's one of the great reasons to condemn the unionization will been in America. It prevents people from rising up above their fellow man, which saps their dreams. If you can't don't think you have a chance to do better than everybody else. What do you looking forward to? Add to this The whole point of it. The union is the whole point of civil rights leaders. And so what? They've got to push grievances because if they don't kill people how bad off they have it What need is there for them? Obama had the opportunity to be a transformational president by saying African Americans in this country we've made it. You could even become president of the United States in this country. But instead he simply pushed the grievance level and African Americans seem to be angrier than ever. Grievance industries with Democrats push, and it's also what the unions push the union's air. Constantly telling, remembers about the latest thing the school district is doing to screw them, even though the school district is filled by school board members that are pro union and administrators to do everything that the teachers want. So You've got no real opportunity to move up other than maybe I become a principal or a superintendent. And you've got your union constantly telling you how bad you have it. And then they are also telling that the Republicans they're screwing you in life. Well, there you end up miserable, especially after this goes way back to the point that the guy was making to me. I was referring to earlier works in government when he talked about how government workers why most of them tend to be Democratic. Shyness that wanted to fit in the looking for job security and so on. And the real need to conform. And part of that point that he made about sort of shyness and not moving ahead are being beyond conformity is very, very important. So therefore, if almost everybody thinks a certain way, If you're a member of that group, you're going to think that way too. So you're unhappy and they're telling you that the reason that you're unhappy is because Republicans that you venture anger at them. Then you get everything you want. You throw the Republicans that you persecute him. Take away your free speech and say you're here you are. You're still unhappy. Still unhappy. I can't think Of a single grope. Of workers in America. That we direct call Vid. Have on their own allowed to not work. Because they decided it was too dangerous for them other than teachers. Everybody else. The field that they're in, has decided. Radio. We decided the sales people could work from home and the on air. People are gonna work on the air. Although many companies allowing the on air people who work from home set up a studio and so on. Big office buildings in downtown Milwaukee. They've kept most of the people home they've decided Teaches the old ones like decided for themselves. We don't let the police of the firefighters or anybody else that we used to describe of essential workers say, Hey, I'm not gonna work. The teachers who have for so long told us How important they are, are also the ones that are telling us They're not so important that we should have to make them come into work. School. This successive told us how important facilities are that they passed. These massive referendums are then willing to say That if we cut the risk of a teacher getting sick from co bid that's a better positive. The using these buildings, we said, we're so important..
KQED Radio
"school teacher" Discussed on KQED Radio
"So I was really trying to protect that piece of equipment. Despite the challenges, Kirsten Robert says that her colleagues and the community are committed to keeping people safe. She says the support has made remote teaching more bearable. We showed up to teach remotely outside, and they were there, too, even though they didn't have to come into work they chose to do there. Remote learning day. Outdoors with us and they had helped organize things like a pear parent meal train, so parents were bringing us coffee. Hot chocolate. And warm soup. They had put out the call for people to bring those little backyard fire pits and wood and people did that folks from the community even who are not parents at our school. Heard about us on the radio on Kim and dropped us off hand warmers as a pre school teacher. Kirsten Robert's job is especially challenging because students in her class usually have never been to school before, and the curriculum is very hands on, which is a challenge during remote learning. Still, she says, she's found ways to cope. So we said, you know, next week bring a cardboard box. Always spent several days just exploring what a cardboard box could become an encouraging imaginative play, and so You know, we had our own cardboard boxes that we climbed inside of, um and modeled how we were pretending, and we really didn't have to model it because the kids were so immediately. Drawn to the possibility and potential of what a cardboard box could be transformed into. It was beautiful. Um, you know, they became pirate ships and race cars and trains and houses and caves. Kirsten Robert says she hopes to get back into the classroom when she thinks it's safe. And she told us that she plans to continue putting pressure on the school board to make the classroom safe for everyone to return. Although it feels like an eternity, given the gravity of the moment, it's been just four days.
KDWN 720AM
"school teacher" Discussed on KDWN 720AM
"No good will go to John. Hey, John, How are you? I'm all right. How can I help you, sir? Well, I think this kind of a lot of trouble. I'll tell you where I'm coming from A I'm a better be. I'm a doctor. I'm in intellect and I question actually everything. And the direction that I've seen over the last 10 years. Starting with the Obama administration is atrocious. And the fact that America doesn't recognize it is absolutely steri. Well, you're not wrong. But then again, how many people look at our students? They're just They're just they're not. They're preached like freebies. And they don't know how to work. I mean, I was born in 81 so I'm not a millennial. Uh, you know, my parents were teachers, and we just learned how to work hard. But that's not the American dream and more working. Heart does not do anything. Well, you gotta you gotta nail see running around telling everybody all. Maybe you should just pay more more money per hour. They shouldn't have to work two jobs and three jobs. You know, people around you work two jobs. Not because just extra money you like nice things. You know you people don't understand that. I mean, the sad part is wives, mothers and fathers. Both have to work this day and age back in the sixties. That was a different time. And the second thing is beyond all that this election was absolutely stolen. I hope that God is president at the up next level, and, uh, I'm just appalled at Basically how they're trying to divide us. L and you know, the people that are pulling strings. I don't even have the name. Um if you are smart American whatsoever, and unfortunately we don't have many of those and longer. It, Zraly said. How we're seeing such a sell out of our nation internally. It's amazing that the very people that are elected toe do what's right for the very people that support them. They're selling our south from it from for wealth. If you look at Biden's 47 years of trash, but look at the money he's accumulated and the fact that his wife was a school teacher, and they have the money they have should really make people worry to think about what's going on how bad it really is. No people don't even look. But, yeah,.
WTOP
"school teacher" Discussed on WTOP
"A former D C school teacher, is under arrest facing child sex abuse charges from an alleged relationship that took place more than a decade ago. The student was just 14 years old. See. Police have arrested 45 year old Joan Meyer, who now lives outside of Cleveland, Ohio, charging her with first degree child sex abuse after a former student claimed that they were in a sexual relationship that started in 2009 when he was 14 years old. She denies the allegations with her lawyer, telling The Washington Post. Her relationship with the students started when he was 18 Mayer used to teach at a charter school in North East and was the subject of two prior investigations that never led to charges That changed in 20. 19 when the former student contacted her boss at a new school to report the relationship. Myers now on leave from her job as an elementary school library in in Shaker Heights, Ohio. John Doman w T O P. News It's 10 21. A memorial fund has been established in honor of Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin son. He died recently at the age of 25. The Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund for People want Animals was launched with an initial contribution of $50,000. There will be a private funeral on Tuesday, and a public memorial service will be held. This month. Lots of new laws and regulations to ring in the New Year's one involves marijuana. Police in Virginia will no longer be able to search or sees any person place or thing just because they smell weed that takes hold March 1st the minimum wages going up in Virginia and Maryland in 2021. This starts immediately in Maryland, with the minimum wage of 11 70 an hour for businesses with 15 or more employees. Virginia's minimum wage goes to 9 50 an hour Beginning May 1st in D C and ever to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy use New environmental standards for large buildings kick in Kyle Cooper w T. O P. News There's a new report out that shows DC's economic recovery is gonna take some time problems fueled by the huge financial hit suffered by hotels and restaurants. There's been so much financial pain in 2020, but DC's hospitality industry was hit especially hard with tax revenue from hotels and restaurants down a staggering 46%. A new report from the district's office of the chief financial officer shows that overall revenue in D C isn't expected to return to fiscal year 39th level until 2022 with the widespread deployment of vaccines and an economic recovery. Over the next three fiscal years. DC's economy is projected to take a $461 million revenue loss that's actually better than initially projected, with DCs expected revenue revised upward by more than 320 million. Nick I. Nelly. W T O P. NEWS. It's 10 23. This might be the theme song for a lot of singles out there..
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