Douglas Vandall

Not perfect—just forgiven
Follower Jesus the Son of God
Loving my Neighbor
Love the Constitution & the USA
Standing firm on Truth & Speaking it from Love

[Douglas Vandall @Chainman1965]

Conviction with humility
I am a Christian and a Constitutionalist. I am also a sinner saved by grace, so I do not speak from a pedestal. But I will not call good evil or evil good. Truth in love means both words matter.
Jesus is the perfect Son of God
"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'"
John 14:6
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[Douglas Vandall @Chainman1965]

@LoriMadsen21712 @RepRoKhanna https://t.co/RyuZh3edGZ

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The 1948 Palestinian displacement (~700–750k) was smaller than several 20th-century transfers, including India–Pakistan partition (10–18m) and German expulsions (12–14m). After 1948, ~800–850k Jews left Arab countries. The Palestinian exodus occurred during the 1947–49 war after the UN partition was rejected; causes included flight, fear, and expulsions. The 1947 plan and later talks in 2000 and 2008 also failed.

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OK fact check you again

You cant start a war and not expect clamp down

Palestinians are people, not props. One U.S.-led file sketches a Rafah zone where housing and services require biometrics, checkpoints, and tracked shekel wallets. Another sketches a hardened multinational troop camp. JPMorgan sat outside the World Bank’s public fund. That is two control plans—not one master blueprint of a 5,000-man underground AI fortress with secret Chase billions occupying every Palestinian. Argue the ethics. Don’t fuse the papers.

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@MikeLevin You must have talked to some elses lawyer or your Facts are a lie.
His attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, said records she has seen indicate the removal order was finalized in July 2026.

Every law enforcement shooting should be toughly investigated

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@NHTeaParties @MikeLevin His attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, said records she has seen indicate the removal order was finalized in July 2026.

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Agree that UAE is very open to Christians and churches. My list is about Bibles not any hostility to Christians.
UAE fell in this list because of this.
Christian expat can usually keep a Bible. You cannot treat the UAE like a place where Bibles are freely printed, imported in bulk, and given to Muslims. The limit is possession for Christians, not mission to Muslims.Not a total ban. Restricted.Christians in the UAE can have Bibles and use them in licensed churches. Christmas is public. Churches exist.
What is restricted:
Import: Customs can inspect and seize religious books. Bulk import is mainly for recognized churches, not open street sale to everyone.
Printing Bibles locally is generally not allowed.

Distribution / evangelism: You may not preach Christianity to Muslims or hand out Bibles as outreach. That is illegal.

Conversion from Islam is not recognized in practice and can fall under blasphemy / public-order rules.

Non-Muslim worship is supposed to stay in licensed churches, not random public preaching.

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You do know you can check the fact check with Grok before you post

Across history the first move is almost always a defended foothold: Rome, Napoleon, UN missions, Korea, Vietnam. If the peacekeepers are killed, they cannot stabilize anything. The Gaza ISF camp follows that same sequence .

Builder named Arkel International, a Louisiana construction firm
Award reported, not finalized
U.S. government work under Obama, Trump, and Biden
Already in theater in 2025 on Gaza aid logistics
No public record it is a Trump company, donor vehicle, or subsidiary

People say Gaza is a prison controlled only by Israel.

Look at a map.

Gaza also has a southern border with Egypt. Egypt built steel and concrete walls there, including deep sections meant to cut smuggling tunnels, then added more concrete.

In Israel, about 1.7–2 million Palestinian Arabs are citizens. They vote and hold Israeli passports.

In Egypt, Palestinians are a smaller community with weaker status. Pre-war estimates were about 50,000–110,000. Egypt generally does not naturalize them. They are treated more as foreigners than as citizens.Egypt refused a general opening during the war because it did not want Gaza’s civilians dumped into Sinai. It allowed mainly the wounded, plus people who paid large fees or had special papers. Egypt was not an open back gate. Israel controls air, sea, and most goods; Egypt controls Rafah. Both sealed the territory. They are not identical jailers.

The plan is a multinational stabilization force, not a U.S. or IDF army of 5,000 Americans.

A U.S. general would command it

No U.S. troops in Gaza

Planned later capacity: up to about 5,000
If the big pledges arrived, most of those troops would likely come from Muslim-majority countries

First small camp: Morocco (~150)

Also discussed: Indonesia, Kosovo, Albania, Kazakhstan (Muslim-majority) and Uganda

Asked and refused: Saudi Arabia and the UAE

That “mostly Muslim” point is about who might fill the barracks, not who runs the mission. Command and the land under the camp stay U.S.-led and Israeli-held.What was designed
Phase 1: a rudimentary ~150-person camp
Later-phase design: up to ~5,000
Small protective bunkers and a survey for existing tunnels
Not a deep underground combat fortress
Laser tracking arrays are not in the published ISF specs

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@RepRoKhanna That is in our national interest. The munition would be made in US supporting US jobs .Look the in waste your own state. Especially the number of Children that fraud could feed at the bottom

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Thomas Jefferson who signed the the treaty of Tripoli was a skeptic. Of the 13 original states all but 2 required a professional of faith in their state constitution 7 of them required you to be a Protestant only before you hold office. Sounds like a Christian Nation to me.

The Founders held diverse religious views, ranging from orthodox Christianity to deism, Unitarianism, and religious skepticism; they were not uniformly orthodox Christians.

The Constitution reflects several intellectual influences, including John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government and broader natural-law traditions. It also contains concepts that can be compared directly with themes in Deuteronomy, particularly the idea that rulers are subject to law, that justice must be administered impartially, that the vulnerable must be protected, and that political authority is limited by a higher moral order. Deuteronomy military power, and requires justice without partiality. The Constitution similarly divides governmental power, subjects officials to written law, establishes legal procedures, and rejects hereditary monarchy. These similarities do not prove that the Constitution was copied from Deuteronomy, but they show that biblical ideas about lawful government, justice, and limits on rulers are compatible with—and may have contributed to—the political principles reflected in the constitutional system.

The Constitution prohibits religious tests for federal office and does not establish Christianity or any other religion as a national religion. These provisions protect religious liberty and prevent the federal government from making religious belief a condition of public service. They can be understood in relation to Christian teachings about voluntary faith, but the Constitution’s text does not establish Christianity as the legal foundation of the federal government.

James Madison and James Monroe were shaped by Christian traditions, although their personal beliefs and religious commitments differed. Madison played a major role in drafting the Constitution and later became known as its “Father,” while Monroe was not a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Congress authorized the printing of the Aitken Bible in 1782, and the Continental Congress commended the edition, but this action did not establish the Bible as the nation’s official religious text. The Bible and The New England Primer, which included religious instruction alongside reading and spelling lessons, were widely used in some early American schools, although educational practices varied by region and period.

Christian ideas, institutions, and cultural practices significantly influenced colonial and early national America. The founding also drew on classical republicanism, English constitutional traditions, Enlightenment political philosophy, and diverse religious perspectives. The United States was therefore shaped by multiple intellectual and religious influences, including Christian ideas about moral law, justice, human responsibility, and limits on political authority. It was not founded as a theocracy and does not establish Christianity as the official religion.

John Leland, a Baptist minister from Virginia didn’t feel there was enough protection of religion from the government. That’s why there is a first amendment. Not to protect government from religion.

The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion was while prohibiting Congress from establishing a religion. The Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms. Its historical purposes include concerns about tyranny, self-defense, and militia service, all of which appeared in eighteenth-century discussions of the right to bear arms.

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You do realize that white liberal women supported and actively helped the Muslims in On June 13, 2023, the Hamtramck, Michigan City Council voted unanimously to ban Pride flags from city property.
The council, which was at the time entirely Muslim,
Mayor Ghalib ran explicitly on unseating a 16-year white incumbent (Majewski) who had flown the Pride flag .
Think on that

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Rebekah Was Not 3 Years Old

According to the Old Testament or the Tawrat as you would call it Starting at the first time we read of Rebekah:
Isaac's servant Eliezer asked her for a drink from the well she not only got him water but said she would water his camels. Proving she was the women he was looking for to marry Isaac. Now here is where it gets interesting.

We know by archeological evidence the jars held 3 to 5 gallons of water. Weighing 25 to 45 pounds. Eliezer had 10 camels. A thirsty camel can drink 20 to 30 gallons. 10 camels would require 200 to 300 gallons to drink. Rebekah carried an amazing 1,600 to 2,500 pounds of water down stairs to get to the water. Wells in Middle East at that time were not the fairy tale type. The whole town got it water there and water was life.

It would take 1 to 2 hours of exhausting physical labor. How old would you guess she was? I am sure your Iman has told you the truth.3 years old. A healthy weight for a 3 year old is approximately 26 to 38 pounds. The water jar 35 to45 pounds. See the problem.

Using Bone density , joint fusion, cardiovascular and grip strength the youngest she could have been was Olympic class 15 year old but she was most likely 17 or older. So there is historical, archeological, physics and medical sciences she was a minimum of 15 years old or most likely
SEVENTEEN YEARS OR OLDER.

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@RepSylviaGarcia More victims due to Democrat policies

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Yes we need answers why your haven’t stood on the floor of Congress demanding justice
not isolated Examples specifically naming Austin-area cases:

•Honduran national Jose David Sifuentes was serving a five-year sentence for sexually assaulting a child in Caldwell County when ICE lodged a detainer; he was federally charged with illegal re-entry after having been previously removed to Honduras in 2019.
•One DOJ release covering a batch of Western District cases noted prior convictions among the group including aggravated assault, rape, aggravated robbery, and assault family violence, and stated the vast majority of these crimes were committed by illegal aliens found in and around Austin.
•Abel Alejandro Martinez Robles, an illegal alien from Mexico previously removed twice and convicted of aggravated sexual abuse, was transferred to ICE custody out of the Burnet County Jail near Austin.
•Nelson Romero-Membreno, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was found in the Travis County Jail serving a sentence for his second DWI

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I really don' t think you want to talk enemies.
Through out history the THREE choice Islam gave the Christian was :
1. Convert and to take shahada.
2. To pay the jizyah a tax to humble us
3. TO BE BEHEADED

Quran 9:29 — fight People of the Book who do not accept Islam “until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.” from Medina The Sword Verse

When Muslims were weak: the same verse was not operational. Power, not the ayah alone, decided whether it was applied.

400–900 Banu Qurayza Jews were executed after they had taken the Prophet in for 5 years after his own kick him out Mecca
Bukhari and Muslim report Sa‘d’s judgment: kill the fighters, enslave women and children, and Muhammad saying that matches God’s judgment.

Why am I writing this it is an example. Because you will be told that verse applied to treaty breaker and war. Even if they had betrayed him as is said. according to that verse they should have been given the choice not just executed.

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The Jews did not kill Jesus which is a common misconception. It was prophesied that he would be rejected by his own referring to the Jews and they did BUT ..... the Romans nailed him to the cross BUT... they did not kill him BECAUSE Jesus says in John 10:17–18,

"Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father."

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@jjjjovian Jesus was a common name in Israel at the time here is way you do not believe in the same Jesus the Son of God
https://t.co/P5PNTZteJE

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Totally Impossible: Bible vs. Quran

Why They Are Not The Same People

Jesus

Bible: The eternal, uncreated Son of God and God Incarnate whose central mission was his literal death by crucifixion—suffering on the cross as the substitute sacrifice for human sin—before physically rising from the dead on the third day to conquer death and secure eternal salvation.

Quran ('Isa): Strictly a created human being and mortal prophet who was explicitly NOT crucified, NOT killed, and NOT resurrected—the Quran flatly denies the crucifixion entirely, stating it only appeared so to the crowd while God saved him and raised him directly to Heaven—and he is categorically NOT the Son of God.

Biblical Trinity vs. Quranic Non-Trinity: The Bible reveals Jesus as the second person of the Holy Trinity (one God in three co-equal, eternal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), whereas the Quran explicitly rejects the Trinity, declaring God to be absolute, indivisible oneness (Tawhid) with no partners, offspring, or divine equals.

Mary

Bible: The young Jewish woman chosen to give birth to the Son of God.

Quran (Maryam): The uniquely named, sinless model of righteousness raised in the Temple who gave virgin birth to a prophet.

John the Baptist

Bible: The herald preaching repentance and baptizing Jesus in the Jordan River.

Quran (Yahya): A noble, chaste prophet known for his wisdom from youth, without a focus on baptism.

Zechariah

Bible: Struck mute as a rebuke for doubting he would have a son in his old age.

Quran (Zakariya): Given silence as a blessed sign confirming God's promise to an elderly believer.

Adam

Bible: Created in God's image; his initial disobedience brings original sin, spiritual death, and a fallen nature upon all humanity.

Quran (Adam): The first prophet, created from clay; after eating from the tree, he genuinely repents, is fully forgiven by God, and passes down no inherited or original sin to his descendants.

Abraham

Bible: The patriarch of Israel through his covenant son Isaac, who was offered on the altar on Mount Moriah.

Quran (Ibrahim): An uncompromising monotheist (hanif) who destroyed his father's physical idols, was saved from a fiery furnace, and established the Kaaba in Mecca with his eldest son, Ishmael (Isma'il), who is widely understood as the son intended for sacrifice.

Moses

Bible: The lawgiver who led Israel out of Egypt, struggled with anger, disobeyed God at Meribah, and was consequently barred from entering the Promised Land.

Quran (Musa): The most frequently mentioned prophet in the Quran, portrayed as a resolute leader whose encounter with God on the mountain and miracles against Pharaoh serve as a divine prototype for the trials of the Prophet Muhammad.

David

Bible: The warrior king of Israel who, despite being a man after God's own heart, committed severe sins including adultery with Bathsheba and the orchestrated murder of Uriah.

Quran (Dawud): A righteous king and prophet granted the Psalms (Zabur), celebrated for his piety, judgment, and iron-smithing gifts, completely untainted by the biblical accounts of adultery or murder.

Solomon

Bible: A wise king who later in life was led astray by his foreign wives into building altars for idols, causing the eventual division of his kingdom.

Quran (Sulaiman): A completely faithful, uncorrupted prophet-king who never fell into idolatry or sorcery, granted extraordinary command over the wind, jinn, and animals.

Jonah

Bible: A reluctant prophet who attempted to flee from God's command, resented God's mercy toward Nineveh, and pouted over a withered plant.

Quran (Yunus): A pious messenger who left his post in anger, recognized his error inside the whale, praised God, and whose entire city successfully repented and was spared.

Job

Bible: A blameless man who severely questions God's justice during intense suffering, demanding an explanation from the Almighty.

Quran (Ayyub): An absolute pattern of uncomplaining patience (sabren) who humbly endured his afflictions without ever questioning God's fairness or righteousness.

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Actually the the rate of apostasy pretty much nullifies the rate of conversions. If you add in hidden apostacy (which is a Pew research shows is a real effect) You go from 23% to as high as 31% Also the the birth rate of American Muslims and will reach 2 or lower by 2030. As Muslim country become more modern the birth rate drops. Saudi Arabia is proof it is barely above replacement rate at 2.1 today. If the immigration laws remain in place by 2050 Islam will stop growing in the US and even out.

[Douglas Vandall @Chainman1965]

Conviction with humility
I am a Christian and a Constitutionalist. I am also a sinner saved by grace, so I do not speak from a pedestal. But I will not call good evil or evil good. Truth in love means both words matter.
Jesus is the perfect Son of God
"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'"
John 14:6
Start Here