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Fascinating to see the evolution of the Unified Communications suppliers in the world.  Of course, different companies have varying levels of strength depending on the country.

(BrightCitizen.com) If you’re American, you’re probably an American Football fan. In American football, we don’t use our feet to control the ball, we throw and carry the ball to score points points in a game that mimics Rugby and less of what Europeans call “Football” where players do use their feet that is called Soccer in North America.

In American football, a pumped up or inflated ball is a must, but an under-inflated ball is easier to grip. The National Football League, who owns and runs the multi-billon USD American “Football” franchise sets rules for the game to keep consistency and fairness among their teams.

Each winter the NFL season culminates with a national watch game and associated events that climax the event for the season called the Superbowl. In 2015, Tom Brady, the team leader and quarterback for the New England Patriots team was caught directing people to deflate game balls he would use below regulated standards. In short, this player was caught cheating in a game before the Superbowl.

The NFL likely did not want to disrupt their climatic event and made no judgment. Following the big game, the NFL commissioner suspended quarterback and confirmed cheating player to a 4 game suspension in the new season.

When you are a thief and get caught, it’s best to make good and move on. The same goes for someone who broke the rules to win. Let’s not get it wrong, The player has some talent in this American game. However, the sad part to the story is this, instead of recognising his guilt and paying the penalty, the player apparently thought he was above “the law” and hired a lawyer to take his employer to court to try to void his suspension. This sue-happy mental attitude is a bad sign for the US.

Something is wrong when you go to court over a game. Something is even worse when you are the one who cheated and you’re not willing to pay the consequences.

Unfortunately, the player’s cheating and unwillingness to pay for what he did is a self-centered, ugly, and arrogant display of what we are beginning to see in our nation today. This is likely the first time that American courts were asked to make judgments for a game. Clearly, the NFL made their judgment and if you want to play the game you need to follow the rules.

If the player is successful in breaking the rules and getting away with it, we may see continued degradation in the moral fiber of America. Our hope is that justice will triumph and the player will serve out his time. There’s a saying, “Cheaters never prosper.” It will be interesting to see what happens to this example of sports in courts. Doing the right thing, working hard, and correcting where you have failed and moving on, has been the strength of our nation.

Carson, Huckabee and Walker all performed credibly, with Carson having the debate’s best line: “I’m the only one on the stage to separate Siamese twins. I’m the only one to remove half a brain, though you would think if you went to Washington that someone had beat me to it.”

In a video posted to YouTube last week, Pastor Rit Varriale of Elizabeth Baptist Church in Shelby explained that his church had installed a flag pole so it could hold a “special ceremony” to raise the Christian flag above the American flag.

That ceremony took place on Sunday.

“We hope congregations all across the U.S. will join us on this,” Varriale said. “And prayerfully it will sweep across our country as a message to congregations to reevaluate our priorities. We serve God first.”

“If you already have a flag pole at your campus, go ahead and flip that order around. Start putting the Christian flag above the American flag,” the pastor recommended. “If you don’t have a flagpole — we didn’t have a flagpole — get one, put those flags up there, and demonstrate to everybody that drives by you’re a congregation that’s committed to God first.”

Varriale told the Baptist Press that U.S. flag etiquette was “completely improper.”

“We should be flying the Christian flag above the American flag” as a demonstration that Christians will respect and obey the federal government up to the point that the government asks something that is inconsistent with what God has called His people to do,” he opined.

In a directive issued in the last few hours, Texas Governor Gregg Abbott has informed all those agencies that they are to comply with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, Article I of the Texas Constitution, and the Texas Religious Freedom Act. In other words, he just shut down same-sex marriage in Texas and ordered everyone to preserve the religious liberties and First Amendment rights of all Texans.

Read it here:

“Texans of all faiths must be absolutely secure in the knowledge that their religious freedom is beyond the reach of government,” Governor Abbott wrote in the memorandum obtained by Breitbart Texas. “Renewing and reinforcing that promise is all the more important in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. The government must never pressure a person to abandon or violate his or her sincerely held religious beliefs regarding a topic such as marriage. That sort of religious coercion will never be a ‘compelling governmental interest,’ and it will never be ‘the least restrictive means of furthering that interest.’”

“With these obligations in mind,” Abbott continued, “I expect all agencies under my direction to prioritize compliance with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Article I of the Texas Constitution, and the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act. All state agency heads should ensure that no one acting on behalf of their agency takes any adverse action against any person, as defined in Chapter 311 of the Texas Government Code, on account of the person’s act or refusal to act that is substantially motivated by sincere religious belief. This order applies to any agency decision, including but not limited to granting or denying benefits, managing agency employees, entering or enforcing agency contracts, licensing and permitting decisions, or enforcing state laws and regulations.”

See official letter from Texas government here.

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(BrightCitizen.com) In a very sad attempt to force Christians and history showing the importance of marriage, the United States’ Highest Court of unelected lawyers have decreed (6 to 4)  that all Americans must accept marriage as something between two people of the same gender.  This occurred 26 June 2015.

Row vs. Wade was a sad day for American history as the blood of the billons of aborted American babies are on the hands of those who aborted and the court justices who said it was something ‘legal” in 1974.  This decision in 2015 is comparable as it forces people with the principles and ethics of the founding fathers of the nation.

More on it here on Wikipedia (biased reporting).  CBN News reported,

In his dissenting opinion, Justice Anthony Scalia disagreed.

“It is not of special importance to me what the law says about marriage,” he wrote. “It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me.”

“Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court,” he continued.

“The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact-and the furthest extension one can even imagine—of the court’s claimed power to create ‘liberties’ that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention,” he concluded.

This discussion on marriage does not discuss morals or religion.  This talk by Ryan Anderson at Stanford University in the US.

See this happen all the time with firms.  SO thankful for a great team of people who communicate so well and know what’s required and how to put it in.