Don’t let the Left abuse 9/11

A timely post from http://www.yaf.org about the 9/11 anniversary. This follows this post about Donald Trump's immigration speech. This follows this post about rap songs referencing Donald Trump.
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Don’t let the Left abuse 9/11

Don’t let the Left use the 15th remembrance of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, to promote its politically correct, multicultural agenda. Young America’s Foundation launched the 9/11: Never Forget Project in 2003 when we noticed that most college and high school campuses were doing little, if anything, to remember those murdered by radical islamists. September 11 impacted and forever changed our entire country, yet liberals and the Obama administration have tried to sanitize the anniversary by turning it into another day of “national service.”

Those who lost family members and loved ones are aghast that there are those in this country who want to remove all meaning from the anniversary. Vincent Forras, a firefighter at the World Trade Center who was buried under rubble for two hours and survived, expressed why it is so important that young people are reminded of what took place on that day. “I believe that there is so much piled up against us at our nation’s schools and it is through organizations such as [YAF] and experiences such as mine…that we can succeed in leveling the playing field. My story is one of both the Greatest Tragedy and the most blessed and wonderful outcome which we can choose to cultivate after such a disaster. The story brings folks of all religions, parties, ages, and beliefs together for a brief moment in time, similar to what was experienced in America immediately after the 9/11 attacks. Remember that time? I do, and it is up to folks like us to tell this story over and over again in a way that wins over those who…had preconceived notions about who we are and perhaps not only get them to join us but to promote us through their peers and more.”

You can unite your campus community to properly remember the victims of the terrorist attacks by taking part in Young America’s Foundation’s 9/11: Never Forget Project. We have found a strong program on 9/11 brings positive coverage for clubs and can lead to additional members as well.
The following are activities you can plan to properly commemorate those who were murdered by jihadists on September 11. If the anniversary falls on a weekend (like this year), we recommend scheduling the display on the Friday before the anniversary, or if possible, in conjunction with your school’s football game over the weekend of the anniversary.
We urge you to prepare an American flag memorial for the anniversary of September 11. Your club will incur relatively minor costs, but the visual impact will leave a lasting impression on all who witness the display.

Make It Happen

Arrange a display of 2,977 American flags to be placed in the ground of your campus, with each flag representing an individual murdered in the terrorist attacks.
Allot several hours the night before or very early on the day you plan to set up your flag memorial. Enlist enough club members to help with set-up and tear-down.
Select a high traffic area near the student union building, campus quad, or other area frequently visited by students. You will most likely need to attain permission for the display from your student activities or campus life office.
You should reserve a table near the display for your members to distribute Never Forget buttons and stickers as well as other resources provided by Young America’s Foundation, and to answer questions about the display and monitor the flags.
Proper flag etiquette requires that the American flag be lit at night. If the display is in a high traffic area, lighting should be sufficient. If not, you can purchase outdoor flood lights at a hardware store for minimal cost. You should also do your best to ensure the flags do not touch the ground.

Students use string to create parallel rows of flags, maximizing the visual impact of their display.

Maximize Your Display’s Impact

Consider the following suggestions and ideas to maximize the impact of your display before moving ahead with your memorial.
Pick a field or area on campus that will emphasize, not diminish, the visual impact of your display. Attempting to stretch small flags across a large field reduces the visual impact of your display. It is much better to group the flags close together or select a smaller field that will appropriately hold all of the flags within its borders. Of course, it is also important to pick a high traffic area.
Use twine or thread to help align the flags in parallel lines. Jagged or uneven lines will have a less-impressive visual impact. If the ground is hard, flat-head screwdrivers can be used to dig holes for the flags.

Other Ideas To Consider

When preparing your 9/11: Never Forget Project activities, consider incorporating existing infrastructure on campus and in your community to enhance your event, such as a clock tower that could mark a moment of silence at 9:11 a.m. or fountains on your campus that could be used to symbolize the Twin Towers.
Recruit and work with other campus groups and community leaders including local churches, synagogues or even mosques, your campus chaplain or campus ministries office, ROTC, Cru, or local police and fire departments.
You can read aloud the names of all those from your area who died in the attacks on 9/11, or see if any community members or students lost family members in the attacks and ask them to participate, and request that flags be lowered to half-staff on campus.

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If you don’t act, students will encounter bizarre alternatives. Your work to establish a memorial to those lost on 9/11 will ensure that your school doesn’t forget what happened on 9/11, or the 2,977 lives that were lost.
See the list of school’s already confirmed to participate in the 2016 9/11: Never Forget Project here, and if your school IS participating but isn’t on the list, add it here.

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The Racial Subtext of #DeflateGate

A timely post about from http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com about DeflateGate. This follows this post about the Youth Misery Index.
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The Racial Subtext of #DeflateGate

By Fisk Ellington Rutledge III

At first I wondered why the sportswriters were so insanely hostile and jumping to wild conclusions about DeflateGate. They were acting as if DeflateGate were the equivalent to mass murder.

Then it occurred to me that after an entire season of Blacks Behaving Very Badly in the NFL, that the writers were relieved to be able to dump on two high-achieving White men like Brady and Belichick.

I'm sure someone has noticed this too, but I have yet to read about it.

Have You Had the “The Conversation” Yet About the NFL?

By Stan D Mute

[In response to:

“Racist Seahawks Pre-Schooler Richard Sherman Goes Out of His Way to Insult White Reporter (Video)”]


The thing to keep in mind is that every white man who watches football or basketball is himself personally putting money into the pockets of negro criminals and their white apologists/cheerleaders.

The "but I like football" crap is bogus. I like cocaine, but I know how harmful the substance is not only to myself but to our society overall. Just quit it. Spend the time reading. Spend the time watching old westerns. Spend the time with your kids. Spend the time scratching yourself, if you prefer. Just STOP supporting negro thug millionaires and the media. Starve them out. If you don't, then stop the hypocrisy and become a full-fledged negro fanboy, cheering for illiterates who make more in a year than you'll make in a lifetime.

Trust me, quitting is easy. It's harder convincing friends and family to quit with you, but the conversation needs to occur. Turn off your TV next Sunday and discuss negro crime for four hours instead.


N.S.: I wish it were so easy. I grew up playing (badly) baseball, football, and basketball, and constantly watching them. It is simply not normal for a red-blooded American boy to grow up and swear off pro sports.

However, I watch less and less, and race is part of the reason, the entire reason, where the NBA is concerned. I haven’t watched an NBA game in years, because of black supremacism. (On rare occasion, I’ll watch college or NBA highlights during TV news, but I rarely watch those broadcasts, either.)

During the mid-1980s, after being away for almost 10 years, I noticed that black NBA players were flagrantly violating basic rules, like traveling and palming. Then during the late 1990s, they began flagrantly assaulting and bettering white head coaches.

I still watch Jet losses, but at the rate at which pro football players are openly displaying their black supremacism, the NFL will be next.

With baseball, the problem is reconquista, which is another story for another time.


[See also:

“LeBron James is a Black Supremacist; Will Any White Basketball Fans Make Him Pay for It, or are They All Uncle Toms?”

“St. Louis Rams Players Do ‘Hands-Up, Don’t Shoot’ Dance Before Game Against Raiders: Racist Thugs Showing Their Support for a Failed, Racist, Black, Aspiring Cop-Killer”;

“Racist NBA Star LeBron James, Female Impersonator Serena Williams, and Other Famous Racists are Outraged that Ferguson Grand Jury Failed to Uphold Mike Brown’s License to Kill, and Officer Darren Wilson’s Duty to Die”; and

“NBA Racism: Player Nik Stauskas Says He Expects Opponents to Attack Him on the Court ‘Because I'm a Rookie and I'm White.’”]

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Basketball Is Her Second Goal...Her Religion Is Number One

article by Jim O'Brien

Sports have been a big part of life for Jenny Stewart. So have her religious beliefs.

When she entered high school, it was pretty much expected that Jenny would play for her school basketball team. Always in the back of her mind was the cloud of conflict that games would inevitably be scheduled on the Sabbath. That time came when she entered her sophomore year at Clark County High School, located about 45 miles from Lexington, Kentucky—the home of the University of Kentucky Wildcats.
Some say that's the heart of basketball country. Jenny was a rising star in a sport that made her name a household word in her community. But the dreaded conflict reached Jenny, and she made a decision she believed was irrevocable. She quit the sport she loved. She decided faith and family were more important than basketball, even in Kentucky. Following is an account of the tough decisions and why she did what she did through high school and into college.
When her junior year in high school began, Jenny's coach asked her to return to the team. He was willing to work around her religious beliefs. He would not bench her for missing Friday night games. Miraculously, Jenny was again playing the game she loved. The local newspaper, The Winchester Sun, wrote glowingly of her achievements.
"Stewart missed Friday night's game because of her faith. The religion she practices observes the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday and it proscribes such activities during that time as basketball...
"Very few people in Norton Gym Monday night would have known that Stewart's 23-point performance against the Montgomery County High School Lady Indians in the opening round of the district tournament would be the last time she ever played on her home floor in a Lady Cardinal uniform.
"And it was classic Jenny Stewart Monday night, her patented stop-and-poppers, her leaning, floating one-handed jumpers in the lane, her graceful layups on fast breaks.
"The Lady Cardinals could have used Stewart's services Friday but it was no problem. They knew it was something Jenny had to do, and they respected that."
After the game Clark coach Larry Allison said, "It's never been a problem. It's an understood fact. As a coach I've always told my players that basketball and athletics are great parallels in life. And as a coach there are two things that come before basketball and that's faith and family. I know how much Jenny loves the game of basketball. She knows she's missing a game for a reason. She is doing what she thinks is right. And I don't know if coaching her has made me a better coach, but it sure has made me a better person."
You hear a lot about talented athletes. Their stories and pictures appear with regularity in the local newspaper and on the evening news. Sometimes you hear about people with character. But when talent and character come together in one person, a leader emerges. Jenny didn't go to school to change anyone else. She just wanted to obey God and play basketball. When a conflict arose, she chose obedience to God. And then the coach learned something about life from the student.
Jenny's senior year in high school (2000-01), she was nominated for the Wendy's High School Heisman Award, as well as several state and county honors. On April 28, she sat at a table in the school lobby surrounded by family, coaches and her high school principal. As cameras clicked, she signed a letter-of-intent to play basketball for Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky.
Interview with Jenny
After Jenny's first year on the Alice Lloyd College team, she gave up her scholarship to play for a larger school at a more challenging level. Jenny enrolled at Morehead State University and became a "walk-on" her first year. She has also carried a 4.0 GPA through her first two years of college.
Are you still playing collegiate basketball?
No, I'm not playing for Morehead State anymore or probably anywhere else.
Why?
The coach told me that they weren't going to have any walk-ons this year. She mentioned that the schedule was a problem (meaning that the Sabbath was too inconvenient to work around).
Were many games scheduled on the Sabbath?
Some, but the bigger problem was the games on Saturday night. The team practiced on the Sabbath before the Saturday night games and the coach didn't like it when I missed the "shoot around" prior to the game.
What was the rest of the team like? Were they supportive?
Most everyone on the team was religious. They would pray before each game and the coach was a religious person. One of the assistant coaches would even fast once a week. One of the team members was president of the BSU [Baptist Student Union]. She conducted some of the meetings for BSU. They were all nice girls, but they felt a little bit condemned because I was keeping the Sabbath.
This has been a trial for you for several years.
This has been a trial almost my whole life. I started playing in a "knothole" league in the fourth grade and began playing on a school team in the seventh grade.
There is nothing in this physical, material life that is worth giving up your salvation. I always went to church. I always listened. But until this happened, I never realized how important the truth is and how important it is to live a life that's pleasing to God.
What did you learn from the experience?
I learned that I could live without basketball. When I was in high school, I thought there was no life beyond basketball. I would shoot hundreds of shots a day and progressed to shooting a thousand shots a day. It was the most important thing to me. Now I realize that the people who play only get to play so long. The physical things, they just pass.
What have you learned about self-denial?
It was a small sacrifice. It was a game. In my mind it was big, but other people have given up their lives for the truth. Denying yourself makes you a stronger person and increases your faith. It will all come out good in the end.
Are you glad you've played high school and college ball?
Oh sure! Some of my best memories have been playing ball. I was given this talent, and I was able to meet a lot of people and overcome my shyness by excelling in a sport.
What would you recommend for other teens wanting to play ball for their school or college? What about your younger brother? How would you advise him?
That's a tough question. Giving it up caused a lot of heartache. Hopefully he would make the right decision for himself. My parents told me what was right and I knew what was right. After that you have to make your own decision for your own conscience. My dad always encouraged me, but he told me there would come a day that I would have to confront this dilemma.
Basketball teaches you how to work with other people and it teaches you how to become a team player, but you have to know that the decision time will come when you have to choose between what's right and what's wrong.
Is it worth it?
It is worth it if you make the right decision, but it's not worth it if you make the wrong one! VT