ISIS Prisoners Moved To Iraq

SPEAKER_01 0:07

It's Friday, folks. Thanks for joining us on the Wall Builder Show for a Friday. We love Good News Friday around here. David and Tim Barton have been collecting good news stories over the last couple of weeks, and they're going to share as many as we can possibly get to today. I'm Rick Green. Thank you for joining us. Wallbuilders.show is our radio website where you can get more good news since we will not get it all in today, and you'll just be yearning from work going into your weekend. So check it out today, wallbuilders.show, and then our regular website, wallbuilders.com. David and Tim, I'll keep it short because I want to hear some good news. David, what's the first piece of good news today?

SPEAKER_02 0:38

Well, it deals with some international relations going on, obviously, with everything happening in Iran. And the Middle East has been a hotspot from Gaza to Iran to Lebanon to Jordan, everything else. And so this one's about Syria. And Syria, it's been a little over a year now, maybe coming up on two years, where they had a revolution that overthrew their last leader, who was a really bad dude. And the the guy that came in was really questionable as to whether or not he was going to be any good or not, because he's associated with al-Qaeda. And Al-Qaeda, if you go back to the war on terror uh under George W. Bush, Al-Qaeda was was the ones who came after the Twin Towers, and Al Qaeda was the big big fighters, and they were one of the terrorist groups. And so the question was, all right, this guy is from Al-Qaeda, and that's not going to be good. But as he pointed out, and we have mutual friends that that had talked to him, he said, look, look, in our in our part of the of Syria, two groups that were always fighting were ISIS and Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda, was the one that protected us from ISIS, and ISIS was the really crazy ones. And so in that sense, he's connected to Al-Qaeda simply because they were the ones fighting ISIS and trying to defend the community. So as it turns out, this guy has a lot more kind of Western-leaning views than anybody really suspected. Now, back at the time, I think Trump and others had had understood where he was, but a lot of critics didn't think that Syria could survive or be stable or anything else because you got an Al-Qaeda leader in there, but he's really Western-leaning in so many ways, and he's tried to bring some stability, but that's such a goofed up country that it's really hard to bring stability. And so they he hasn't been able to protect everything. And so as a result, uh some ISIS forces went in and tried to uh free a bunch of the ISIS terrorists that he had in prison. And so you you have all these ISIS terrorists that that got freed from prison, escaped because they attacked the prison, and and it's just it's been a real mess up there. And so what's happened is I and this is the first time I've heard about this story, but U.S. forces went to Syria and they took all the ISIS prisoners in Syria and they moved them to Iraq. So you have all these ISIS terrorists that have been incarcerated in Syria trying to keep ISIS under control, and of course, Iraq, since George W. Bush really freed that country back in the war on terror, they've been fairly stable as far as stability goes in the Middle East. They've been a fairly stable country, they've been an ally, and so they were willing to accept fifty na and by the way, this is the part that blew me away. There were 5,700 ISIS terrorists being held in Syria, and the U.S. moved all of those ISIS terrorists into Iraq where they're not likely to get away, not likely to escape, etc. And first off, that blew my mind that there were 5,700 ISIS terrorists incarcerated in Syria trying to keep them off the streets. And ISIS, it's understandable now why ISIS would go in and try to free some of their comrades and get these guys out of prison, but it is significant that Trump took and moved 5,700 ISIS terrorists to one of our ally countries who will hold them safely, and ISIS is not going to get in there and free those guys. It's just it's not happening given the current composition of that country. So I thought that that's really good news to have 5,700 ISIS terrorists who are out of circulation. Now, that's not near enough as far as ISIS goes, but that's a huge chunk of change. And you know, again, this was all news to me. I had no idea. I knew about Syria because our buddy has told us about Syria and the leader of Syria trying to move toward the West and the big fights he's got with all the different factions there. And evidently Trump sees that as well. So we helped Syria out by moving these terrorists out of Syria, putting them in a much safer place. That's good for America. It's good for the whole world. That's 5,700 ISIS terrorists off the streets. That's good for everybody. That to me is a piece of good news story that came out of the Trump administration that I'd not I was not aware of.

Research On Moms And Dads

SPEAKER_01 4:53

That's one of the strangest good news items I think we've ever had, right? Like that you have to really understand who the good guys and bad guys are, and the guys that are kind of bad, but they're good in this situation or whatever. Anyway, yeah. Wow. And Trump again, Ford HS all over the map, uh, all over the country. Tim, your first piece of good news.

SPEAKER_00 5:11

Yeah, well, this article came out uh highlighting a study from about a month ago, and that the title says, Research proof children need both mom and dad in the home. Now, I know this is gonna be a mind blower for most of the audience, but I love when research confirms the obvious that culture is denying and rejecting. So, this is according to research from the Journal of Child and Family Studies. What they found is when it comes to raising children, mothers are generally more emotionally available, self-controlled, and responsive to their children to attributes that help children feel accepted and supported. Moms also tend to be more lenient with their children than dads. Fathers, on the other hand, are generally more inclined toward discipline and structure than mothers. That does not mean dads don't enjoy time with their children. In fact, research shows that fathers are more likely to initiate active play with young children and keep them physically active as time goes on. Yet uh yes, fathers may show less affection as their children grow older when compared to moms, but they are more likely to grant the type of autonomy that launches teens into adulthood. Researchers have found that fathers also push their children to take chances and overcome limits. While these traits are not universal, they clearly point to the differences in how mothers and fathers approach parenting. Yet, despite these seemingly contradictory attributes, studies find that most couples acknowledge and appreciate the balance men and women bring to the home. Now, the study goes on a long time, just continuing to affirm and highlight the things that all of us would have said were obvious. And well, of course that's the way it is. That's why God didn't just make them male and female, God put a mom and dad over the family, knowing that together they are far better than just having one parent in the home. So that this is one of those pieces of good news that really shouldn't be that big of a news story. But given the cultural climate, rejecting this notion of moms and dads. In fact, guys, it reminds me, even earlier in the week, uh we had a couple of programs uh with Katie Faust on them before us, uh, with uh the state legislation happening up in Tennessee, uh, where people are taking active steps to help try to restore the the parental understanding of a mom and dad in the home. This is research affirming that very thing, how much it benefits children when there is a mom and dad in the home. And this is not uh a mom that identifies the man, uh a dad that identifies the woman. Nope, this is the biological male and female. When a mom and dad is in the home, it's just better for the kids.

SPEAKER_01 7:53

It it just seems like sanity's returning. You know, we're starting to get past some of this crazy, crazy stuff, and people are uh starting to find their minds again, I guess. David, where are we headed next, man?

SPEAKER_02 8:05

Well, this one is very near and dear to my heart. It deals with accountability, and it deals with educational accountability. It's something we covered at the ProFamily Legislators Conference, I don't know, two, three, four years ago, and it dealt with educational accountability. And it's the kind of thing where that what we were seeing was kids are going to college, they're coming out of college with the$70,$80,000,$90,000 debt, um, and it's taking them a long time to pay off, and some of them can't do it because, as it turns out, if you graduate from college with a degree, only about 24% of college graduates are able to find a job in the career field in which they're trained. And so, as it turns out, college is not doing a very good job of preparing students for a career in anything at this point. They're unable to get jobs where they are trained, and they have to get jobs elsewhere. And so their education that they're having is not really beneficial except for a$70,000,$80,000 debt that they have, and no good job to go with it. So as a result, what we're seeing is this is becoming such an obvious problem that across the country, we're seeing uh a lot of states start saying, okay, it's time to start holding professors accountable because you basically have a government welfare job. The state's paying for you, you're tenured, you can't be fired, no matter how stupid you are or how stupid the things are that you talk about, we can't get rid of you because you're tenured. And it is really a good news piece to me that we're starting to say, hey, you know what? Everybody's accountable. And that includes professors. And so what's happening now is right now the university tenure reform movement is gaining steam. And several states have now said, no more tenure, no more guaranteed jobs, no more guaranteed protection for professors. We're going to start measuring the results we get. And so many states have already banned DEI that they're saying, okay, if you're still teaching DEI, you got to find another go to California or somewhere that wants you. But we want we want people who can actually teach our kids something that'll be useful, that'll get them a job and a career. And so what we're seeing now, and the latest to come on board is Oklahoma. Oklahoma, and I think there's now uh I think eight states have passed that, or seven states, and there's another seven or eight in the middle of doing it. So it's a growing trend. It's not where it needs to be yet. But the fact that it's even started, it is so hard. The educational lobby, uh, or I don't know, there's probably a much stronger word than that. They're not a lobby. The the ed educational mafia um has had it locked up for a long time down at the legislature. I remember uh it was a number of years ago, but down at the legislature talking to legislators down there, and one of the proposals was that school educators cannot take school days to go down and lobby the legislature for higher pay and more benefits and et cetera. I think that'd be like every other citizen and and and go down on their own dollar. You know, take a take a day of vacation and go down. But you can't well, what we found out was that 50% of the staff that's hired in a school is administrative staff. So they send those part of those staff down. And and this goes back to um Joe Pitts when he was in Congress. He had uh he was a great guy out of Pennsylvania, but he had the Dollars to the Classroom Act that said, hey, we think that 65 cents out of every dollar on education should be spent in the classroom. And as that started moving to the states, they said, we can't do that. We only spend 50 cents out of every dollar in the classroom. 50 cents is spent on administration. So literally, they had a one-to-one match of administrators of teachers. And so when states were trying to do that Dollars of the Classroom Act, they couldn't get it passed because they're finding out for every teacher you got an administrator for them. And it's just such a bloated bureaucracy. You know, we talked about this last week, even how that we we've lost 900,000 students in public schools over the last year, but there's been 700,000 new hires of teachers and administrators in that period of time. So with all this craziness going on, they've had a mafia that has protected their money, protected all their benefits, et cetera. And of course, they want more money, and everybody who doesn't, every every institution that I know of wants that. But right now, you're having the the states have the backbone to push back and say, we're not doing that. We're not going to give you um tenure. We're not guaranteeing that you can continue to get paid for teaching everything you teach and not having results to go with it. So Oklahoma, um, they now are having reviews for their professors every five years, no lifetime tenure, um, even tenure at community colleges and two-year institutions being phased out and replaced with renewable contracts. You're gonna have to earn your keep. And so this is performance accountability at all public institutions. Uh you got here, Ohio has done the same thing. Arkansas, the Higher Access Education Act, Utah, Indiana, uh, Texas, Florida, North Dakota. Uh, and it's just good to see that we're starting to get some common sense back into an institution that's been broken for so long, that is so underperforming across the world as well as in America. That's just some great news.

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Gay Days Orlando Paused At Disney

SPEAKER_01 13:20

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SPEAKER_00 14:35

Well, guys, this good news is coming from Florida. Uh, and I do want to invite you guys in June. Uh, we can all go to Disney now. And here's why because the headline is gay days at Disney World on Ice after sponsors pull out. Now, the odd ice is a pun, uh, that it's a slippery slope. Why? Because gay days is canceled at Disney this summer, June, which uh there are now organizations saying June should be life month or family month. We have friends in Congress uh around the state that are doing things to try to reframe June away from like this gay pride month for lots of reasons, but for more than 30 years uh in June, it's been gay days at Disney. Uh Disney World specifically. And what is so great is the the organization that has been uh leading this up, they put out a very sad announcement for them that after 35 years, they said after careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to pause Gay Days Orlando event scheduled for June 2026, changes to our host hotel agreements, a loss of key sponsorship support, meaning that people that used to help pay for this, companies and organizations that paid for this are no longer paying for it. That's great news. Continuing on, they say, and brighter challenges currently impacting LGBTQIA plus events nationwide made it impossible to deliver the experience our community deserves. So they're announcing that they're not having gay days at Disney. Uh, and also to be fair, Disney did not have this as an officially recognized event. It was a fan-organized event, although a lot of the Disney uh personnel were very supportive and engaging and embracing of this. Uh, and and not to digress, we can go on some anecdotal stories in a moment. Um, but what fans identified is there was excessive displays of public affection, inappropriate revealing attire, and and things that just did not align with the family theme of Disney parks that were going on, and so it frustrated so many people. And and guys, I can tell you, my my wife wanted us to go for several years to Disney, and I kept telling her no. We not not just on the broader scale, that we're not gonna support Disney when uh back when they had an executive saying that they want at least 50% of the the the stars of their new upcoming TV shows and movies to uh be a a LGBTQIA plus or minority character, and and so they're literally trying to push some of this trans nonsense propaganda down people's throats. I said, not only are we not doing that, we uh had a friend that went and we saw videos on social media that affirmed what our friend told us that when they took their daughter to go get a princess dress, that there was a dude in a beard who was in a dress welcoming girls into the princess palace, whatever they were going into to go buy their princess dress. And I told my wife, I said, We're not taking our girls to be so confused by the nonsense or exposed to so much of the stuff that we're not gonna do. But guys, if gay days is canceled, maybe we can have like homeschool days or something can can return to Disney, we can redeem this. And I I say this also with a little caveat because dad, I don't know if you remember years ago, uh Six Flags over Texas and Arlington, they had a homeschool day. Uh-huh. And I remember going on homeschool day and looking around, being so confused by all the guys that were walking around holding hands together, and we saw guys kissing. And come to find out, they had gay six flags. This was their event. Six flags hosted gay day and homeschool day on the same day.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

It was somebody's planning, was it?

SPEAKER_00 18:26

Oh, yeah, like they clearly knew what they were doing. They're like, let's traumatize these homeschool kids, let's put a bunch of dudes out here making out together. But uh, hopefully that's not what we have this summer at Orlando. But guys, the fact that you have now major sponsors that aren't gonna fund this anymore, they're having to cancel gay days because hotels aren't giving them the discounts anymore. This is such a win in culture. This is such good news that even though we're not seeing the complete reversal of the LGBTQI, whatever, uh, you know, R2D2 agenda and movement, we're not seeing all of it canceled, but we are seeing a drop-off and decline from the endorsement and promotion from so much of the larger culture, and that is really encouraging.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

All right, Tim. The only problem with that is even if all of that happens, I still think of Disney, I just think like hot, you know, sticky popsicles the kids were trying, you know, got all over me, standing in line forever for it's a wonderful, you know. I I I I don't know, man. I mean, even if it's okay to go, I I don't know. I gotta I gotta think about how much I love my grandkids.

SPEAKER_00 19:37

Well, I would say, but Rick, now you have grandkids, you buy them the popsicles, and your kids have to deal with it. That's not your problem. Oh, that's true.

Pulling Back From Climate Accords

SPEAKER_01 19:44

They get it all over the kids instead of me. That's uh I okay. I'm in. Let's go. No, that's good news, man. These are again, these are big, these are things that we've been fighting for for a long time, guys. I mean, I did the same thing. I I told everybody, no Disney, we're not going back. I encourage people not to go. I mean, I I I just think it's great to see the turn in the culture. Uh, David, what's next, man?

SPEAKER_02 20:05

This has to do with something that I uh our our friend Jim Enhoff, the senator from Oklahoma, uh, passed away. Um, great guy. He's just a phenomenal guy. But he was maybe the first anti-climate change champion I knew in Congress. And it went back for years. And if you remember the stuff that was happening with climate change, and you go back to what was called the Paris Accords, and then we had uh the Copenhagen Treaty and then the Kyoto Accords, etc., where the whole world got together and said, you know what? Human activity is increasing the temperature of the planet, we're all gonna fry at some point. It's causing all the polar ice caps to melt and disregard the fact that polar ice caps have increased 43% in that period of time. It's it's all gonna melt. And and there were all these studies out. I went through the studies, and it they they predicted that everybody in Washington, D.C. would drown as a result because the the when the polar ice caps melted, it would right raise the ocean 40 feet, and anything that was along the coast, it was gonna wipe out roughly three-fourths uh of the world's population because they all live along the coast within 40. None of that ever happened. And so we were pouring billions and tens of billions into that, and you know, Trump has called it nonsense, and he pulled us out of that thing, and and that's that's the good news is we're no longer pouring money into this, and you cannot imagine how much your car costs. Um that automatic shutoff that you have on your engine that when you pull up to a traffic light, it shuts it off. Uh it cost about 2,300 bucks extra to put that stuff on your car, and now they're finding out you know what? We've always had climate change. Temperatures have always gone up and down. There's always been cycles on the earth, some hotter, some colder. We had cold ages back in the 1800s, and it's just it's always the cycle, the human cycle, and they are so arrogant that they think humans are capable of effect. The world. Look, we sent off two atomic bombs in World War II, and 99% of the world never felt anything as a result of that, and it hasn't damaged the atmosphere since then. And we're just we're so proud of ourselves that we're convinced that we affect everything, and we really don't. And so now that Trump has pulled out of these climate accords, it's interesting. The Paris Accords and others, most of the European nations are pulling out of these climate accords too. They're saying, you know, this is a lot of wasted money. We put a lot of effort into this, and there has been no noticeable change. We've changed human behavior. You know, we've gotten more cars off the streets, more group stuff going, and it hasn't had any noticeable change except destroying economies. And so just the good news that we have actually gone back to science and doing what science says, um, the cycles that have always been there. You can measure these cycles for hundreds of years. We're back to actually following science rather than following philosophy. And that kind of goes with the tenure professor stuff. Um you won't be able to keep teaching this kind of nonsense, which doesn't help you get a job when you get out, and it doesn't work anyway, and it adds all these extra costs. There's just so many good things that are coming together right now. Now, a lot of this is going to take, you know, there's a lot of people in their 40s and 50s that were taught this really heavily back 20 years ago under Bill Clinton and under Obama, et cetera. It's going to take them a while to get this out of the system because this is the way they were trained. But the new generations coming up will have a different view, hopefully, of climate, climate change, and man's role in the planet than what we've had in previous years. So I consider that to be really good news. It's going to save a ton of bucks for America. It's going to get the government out of more aspects of our life. Uh, it's it's just going to have a lot of good effects.

SPEAKER_01 23:49

I have lost count at the number of issues that took literally decade, two decades, sometimes three decades to turn it around, but has turned around in the last couple of years or even in the last few months. Really good stuff. Tim, we got time for one more, man. What you got?

Seahawks Coach Gifts Players Bibles

SPEAKER_00 24:04

Well, this one is going to the Seattle Seahawks. The title says, Seahawks, Clint Kubiak gifted every player a Bible for Christmas. What better gift? Now, this is actually coming out. I think the story came out in February because he was uh on a sports station and somebody had found out he had done this. Uh, and so just to read a few highlights from this, it was a sports spectrum interview that he said that the Bible was the most important gift he could have given. He said, Man, every year you're trying to find Christmas gifts for guys to show them that you love them. And and what better gift than that? One of the things he he said in the interview is I have learned from many chaplains that I got to be around with different teams that your identity is not your job. Our identity is in Christ. And when I learned that, and I spent more time in the Word from all the mentors I had in coaching that helped me get into Bible studies and read the word every day, it took a really heavy load off, just knowing that I'm a child of God and football is something that I do, but trying to be a good father and a faithful husband is way more important than any of that, which already just it's so cool that not only is there a coach giving out Bibles, but then when he's in an interview and asked about it, he's so clear on some of his faith. One of the assistant coaches, Leslie Frazier, who is actually an assistant head coach, he was asked about the gift and he said it meant a lot. It meant a lot to everybody in our building, just that he would do that. His whole point of it was that he wanted everybody to be able to find out what it means to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. This is the starting point, having a Bible. No one should walk away from this building without having a Bible. Guys, when the assistant head coach is reiterating that everybody needs a relationship with Jesus and don't leave this building without a Bible, that is one more of many reasons that it's so encouraging watching what's happening in some of the sports world and seeing that Christianity is becoming trendy and cool again. And not that we want people to be Christian because it's cool and trendy, but the fact that it's it's pushing back on some of this worldly opposition that we have been seeing for decades in culture. And now when you have so many noted individuals coming out boldly proclaiming their faith, that is really good news.

Where To Find More Good News

SPEAKER_01 26:19

Yeah, and it's it's literally sharing the gospel, right, guys? It's actually preaching truth and sharing truth and and uh helping these folks to to get out of you know whatever situation they're in. I mean, in the athletic world, the temptations and everything else. So just absolutely love seeing this. What a great influence out there. Thanks, guys, for all the good news today. Folks, you can get more at our website, wobblers.show. And then don't forget our main website, wobbleders.com. Have a great weekend. You've been listening to the Wobblder Show.