Melissa Carlton

Awesome Aunt, Connoisseur of TV, Movies, & other fun time-wasters, St. Louis Cardinals fan, daughter of a Cubs fan, Social Worker, Conservative

[HisRoyalFlyness The Timbersmith @FlyIngenuity]

I love this.

[Brent Beshore @BrentBeshore]

https://t.co/y9vSEqKkBT

[Melissa Carlton @AuntMo9]

@Sargon_of_Akkad @ick_real Ethel was my grandmoter's name and everyone called her Tillie

[The Gospel Coalition @TGC]

Good Friday reminder:

“The man on the middle cross said I could come.”

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

From Artemis II.

Psalm 19:1

The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

[Dr. Kat Lindley @DrKatLindley]

This was not written by me, but it touched me deeply…
Sunday is coming.

“He received 39 stripes because 40 was known to kill a man. They wanted him alive. They held handfuls of his beard, and hair and pulled it out by the roots. They wanted him alive. They kicked, punched, and spit on him for hours. Until there wasn't a single spot on his body not covered in blood. They wanted him alive.

They shoved a crown of thorns down on his head so harshly it stuck in his skin. They wanted him alive. After hours of being beaten, mocked, whipped, flogged, and tortured they made him walk with a cross. They made him carry it. A rough piece of wood with splinters digging into fresh wounds. They wanted him alive.

They wanted him to feel every ounce of pain they could bring. He had to feel it in order to heal us. Crucifixion was historically one of the cruelest most tortured deaths a human could face. Hours upon hours of torture. Torture most of us can not mentally think of because the cruelty isn't normal. It isn't something our minds can comprehend. We celebrate Easter with pastel colors, happy children hunting eggs, and chocolate. Truth is there was absolutely nothing happy about the day Jesus died. It was cruel, bloody, and nasty.

He could have stopped all of it. He could have called every angel in heaven to demolish every person standing and shouting "Crucify Him!" He didn't. He knew in order to have a Sunday you have to have a Friday. He knew in order to have joy you have to carry your cross. He felt everything that day. He felt how your heart broke wide open when you had to watch your baby die. He felt how heavy your life was when you were staring down the barrel of a gun wondering if the man you called husband was going to shoot you. He carried the weight of the burden you have felt since your spouse died, and life just doesn't seem right since.

On that cross he held the rapist and murderers, the sinner and the saint. He leveled every playing field and said ALL of you are worth it. He knew he had to carry the cross. He never promised the cross you carry in this life would not be heavy. His wasn't. His promise is that Sunday is coming.

No matter how heavy Friday is. Financially, emotionally, mentally, or physically. Friday is heavy. That cross is weighing you down and you are about to crumble under its weight. His promise was simply this. He won't make you carry it alone. What kind of king would step down from his throne for this?

Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God did. For you. He did every bit of it for you and me. Oh yes, it is heavy. So heavy sometimes you do not think you can take one more step. But look up, because Sunday is coming.”

[Melissa Carlton @AuntMo9]

It's Friday, but Sunday's coming!

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Woke Ninth Circuit decides Korean spas have to let biological men swing their gear in front of women and children.

The dissent is pure gold:

[Caleb Parke @calebparke]

ALYSA LIU IS GOLDEN! 🏅🇺🇸
Her father fled communism.
She just won Olympic gold.
That's the American dream!

Congrats Alysa, God bless you and your family! 👏❤️🤍💙

[Larry Alex Taunton @LarryTaunton]

By all accounts, John Wayne was a gentle, kind man.

Upon seeing him for the first time, Marlene Dietrich said to her agent: “Get me one of those.” She set out to seduce him.

Maureen O’Hara said that John Ford, the director who made him famous, bullied him out of jealousy, but Wayne never complained.

His children said there was never an autograph that he wouldn’t give and he was never unkind to a fan, especially children.

Rock Hudson said that when no one in Hollywood would give him a job once his homosexuality was public, Wayne, who didn’t like homosexuality, gave him a job, saving his career.

He was raised in a poor household and had to work for the family. When Hollywood saw his potential, Wayne, loyal to the last, made it a requirement that his friends in the acting industry get roles in his films. It’s why you see the same people in so many of his movies.

He loved America and hated communism. Stalin was convinced he was the reason for American morale and sought to have him assassinated.

He never held a grudge and was notably kind to people who had wronged him. His image defined the American male for generations and the Left sought to destroy him for it. He pushed back, but gently, always listening to his critics.

Maureen O’Hara, who played his love interest in multiple films, said he was gentle and patient when he had every right to be angry and mean. She said he was most comfortable with ordinary people rather than the fashionable. And that’s because he wasn’t pretentious and liked people.

He died an unapologetic patriot.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

I’d like to ask my non-conservative followers to pay attention here for a moment. I don’t need a response or a rebuttal or a ‘whatabout.’ Just read on and consider what I’m saying. Please.

We are only a few weeks removed from a leading conservative figure being shot in the throat and killed by a leftist, for and during his speech, at a public speaking event. Stunning, jarring numbers of leftist Americans justified or celebrated this assassination, aligning with multiple public polls showing that a sizable minority of leftists in this country think political violence can be acceptable.

Today — just today — many conservatives are thinking about:

(1) a major leftist statewide candidate being exposed for sending texts to a political opponent (R) explicitly hoping for the death of another conservative political opponent…along with the deaths of that opponents’ young children. He WROTE DOWN that the pain of those deaths might promote his own agenda, which would be worth it, in his estimation. This candidate is now condemning his current conservative opponent for noticing this information.

And also (2) a development in the case of a leftist would-be assassin of a conservative Supreme Court Justice, who traveled across the country, heavily armed, with the stated intent of murdering up to three right-leaning Justices because he was angry about their abortion jurisprudence. The leftist judge in the case rejected prosecutors’ request for a multi-decade sentence, giving the defense team the very lenient sentence they’d sought. The leftist judge, in her reasoning, cited the criminal’s trans identity as a factor & expressed happiness that the assassination plot and its aftermath helped with the criminal’s family therapy around the trans issue.

And also (3) yet another violent leftist attack — this time an apparent ambush — against federal immigration officers. This did not take place in Dallas, where a leftist sniper very recently went on a deadly spree while trying to murder as many ICE officers as possible. This one happened in Illinois, where the leftist governor just called these officers “jack booted thugs.” Violent attacks on these federal agents (thugs, fascists, gestapo, per various leading leftist politicians) are up approximately *one thousand percent,* per DHS.

And also (4) a prominent university being pressured into reversing its attempt to shut down a conservative event commemorating the second anniversary of the Oct 7 terrorist massacre of Jews — because, the school said, they were worried about the security situation around the event. They were referring, of course, to the violent Islamist-Leftist coalition pro-Hamas mob, which has engaged in harassment, threats, violence and murder ever since that mass slaughter.

AND YET, we see many of our leftist friends tweeting and posting about how *their opponents* are the “dangerous” and “authoritarian” “fascists.”

I ask you to try to contemplate, even for a quiet moment or two, how this might strike many of us.

That’s all for now. Thank you.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

"I skipped school today. I was wondering if I could get a picture with you."

@VP: "Well, I guess you gotta have some excuse to skip school, so I might as well..." 🤣

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Charlie Kirk’s assassination is not random. History shows the pattern:

1.Label your opponents “evil”. For example “Nazis” and “Fascists”.
2.This implies normal rules don’t apply to them
3.Excuse or celebrate the violence

It has happened before in Germany, Rwanda, and even here in America.

This is why so many people are celebrating it and are okay with it.

The left has created a permission structure for violence and they are perpetuating that permission structure for violence by not taking accountability for what their rhetoric does.

We need to call this out aggressively.

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

Marco Rubio summoned his inner Father Mike Schmitz and explained the entire story of salvation history in under 90 seconds.

🙌❤️🔥✝️

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

[Matt Beebe @TheMattBeebe]

🔥Charlie Kirk is not in heaven because he gave his life for his savior, he’s in heaven because his savior gave His life for Charlie -Frank Turek 🔥

[Pastor Mark Driscoll @PastorMark]

These politicians are clearer on the gospel than half the pulpits in america.

[JohnRocker @itsJohnRocker]

ALL
CHARLIE
KIRK
DID
WAS
HAVE
A
RESPECTFUL
DIALOGUE
WITH
PEOPLE
HE
DISAGREED
WITH

[Ada Lluch @AdaLluch]

At least we know he will spend eternity in Heaven. 💔

[Melissa Carlton @AuntMo9]

@llandoniffirg @kevinda64634889 @LillianDonahue