Month: October 2013

Rep. Trey Gowdy Berates National Parks Director for Favoring `Pot-Smoking` Occupiers Over `Veterans`

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10/16/13 – During a prescheduled House hearing Wednesday morning, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) spent several minutes berating National Parks Service director Jonathan Jarvis over the closing of several Washington, D.C. monuments during the government shutdown. Contrasting the parks service’s decision to allow in 2011 the Occupy Wall Street movement a one-hundred-day-long encampment in D.C.’s McPherson Square with the turning away of visitors to the National Mall this October, Gowdy scolded Jarvis for favoring the “pot-smoking” Occupiers over the “war veterans” who “helped build” the monuments.

The South Carolinian lawmaker repeatedly pressed Jarvis to cite a regulation for why he’d erected barricades and turned away veterans from war monuments on the first day of shutdown.

The parks director explained: “On the very first day of the closure, I implemented a closure order for all 401 national parks in compliance with the Anti-Deficiency Act. And immediately, that day, also included, as a part of that order, that First Amendment activities would be permitted on the National Mall.”

But Gowdy was unconvinced. “Do you consider it First Amendment activity to walk to a monument that you helped build, or is it only just smoking pot at McPherson Square?” he asked with an accusatory tone.

“We are content-neutral on First Amendment and on the National Mall,” Jarvis responded.

“That wasn’t my question,” Gowdy shot back. “Do you consider it to be an exercise of your First Amendment rights to walk to a monument that you helped build?”

Bonnie Doon Ice-Cream Goes Under Via Obamacare

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Via The Blaze:

An ice cream plant in Elkhart, Ind., was reportedly forced to close its doors last Friday after its owners decided that it would cost too much to comply with Obamacare, President Obama’s massive health care law.

Now Its Serious: Obamacare Reportedly Kills Ice Cream Plant

The sluggish economy and increases in production costs have hurt business, according to the owners of the Bonnie Doon ice cream plant.

But they stressed that the new health care law was the number one factor in their decision to close up shop.

Rough sales and local construction have also forced one of the two remaining Bonnie Doon restaurants to close its doors permanently.

“I’ve been with the company for 21 years, it was my first job and I started working for them when I was 14,” said Adam Carroll, owner of the one restaurant left standing, adding that he has no plans to go anywhere.

Carroll’s Bonnie Doon restaurant used to rely on the Elkhart plant for its trademark product. But now he says he’ll have to find another supplier.

“With the Obamacare it just will affect the businesses too much so that was their main reason for shutting down the ice cream plant at this time,” he said….

A Christian Family Group Labeled a Terrorist Org by Our Military!? (link in pic)

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Via The Blaze:

One soldier, an evangelical Christian who spoke on condition of anonymity, was so troubled by the group’s inclusion that he later sent Starnes a picture of the slide. Under the headline announcing the AFA’s placement on this list, it included an image of Fred Phelps, the virulent Westboro Baptist Church preacher, holding a sign that read, “No special law for f***.”

If accurate, this description is photo’s inclusion is particularly odd, seeing as the AFA and Westboro have no official connections to one another. In fact, Bryan Fischer, who directs issue analysis at the AFA, has spoken out against the anti-gay protest group in the past.