Don't Tread On Me

Cognitive Dissonance

When I finally got around to reading my email this morning, I got to this snippet in the Dec. 29 edition of Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web by James Taranto:

"And what was God thinking when the Angel Gabriel was sent by God to reveal the sacred Quran to the prophet Muhammad?"--Christmas sermon, the Right Rev. John Bryson Chane, Episcopal bishop of Washington, Dec. 25

So, it's more than official now. The episcopal religion is fully and completely apostate. Don't comment about not capitalizing. From now on, they don't warrant enough respect for that. They've thrown out the Bible. They wouldn't understand the identity of Jesus Christ if he raised dead people right in front of them.

Departing from the clear teaching of Scripture on the homosexual issue was bad enough, but this is the icing on the coffin lid.

To say that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob sent the Quran to Mohammad is at minimum terribly insulting, but worse than that it is just plain stupid. To contend that the one True God would establish his authority through a history of 4000 years, many miraculous events, culminating in the incarnation of Himself and proving His identity by fulfilling hundreds of prophecies given hundreds and thousands of years prior, performing hundreds, if not thousands, of miracles, then 600 years later give a book to an illiterate epileptic child molester, with no corroborating evidence is (signs, wonders, witnesses, miracles), at the least, moronic.

Really Scary

This proves that there is a segment of America that needs to be taken to the woodshed.

A Liberal said to me this weekend while I was in Maine: "I'll vote for anyone they put up against Bush. I hate him that much". That's judgement without reason. That's scary.

Go here and read the whole post. This is the ultimate example of feelings overriding thought.

The Bush Doctrine

As I've stated in some past posts, I have a lot to gripe about, domestically with George W. Bush. His spending is worse than a drunken sailor's because, at least drunken sailors are spending their own money.

But this post at http://econopundit.com is just delicious. I don't expect any trolls to comprehend it.

Can we paraphrase George Patton maybe? It might go something like this:

No jerk of a leader ever made a country safer by seeking a diplomatic solution. The jerk of a leader makes the country safer by getting the other country to seek a diplomatic solution.

Seriously, do you think Mo'hammer Qa'Daffy just woke up several days ago and said, "Ya know, I just don't like being thought of badly by the U.N. I think I'll just make it clear to everybody that I don't have any WMDs and don't intend to pursue them any more, yeah, that's the ticket."

Atheism?

This is such a worthy area of thought. I know that I will have to devote several posts to this issue. A caveat is warranted. Any opinions submitted from this point on are not intended to attack anyone unless they become a troll. As long as you stick to the issues and avoid ad hominem attacks, you will be permitted to argue on this thread.

I suggest you go and read the complete text of the Imperial Firearms Advisor’s post, before you comment here. I choose to deal with certain portions of Kim’s post, but you should be fully informed before considering my opinion.

Du Toit:
“But Kim, you ask, you're a devout atheist. How can you preach religion as a code of behavior? And doesn't observance of religious behavior lead to a theocracy?”

Comment: "devout atheist" I find that funny, and only definition 3 saves Kim from embarrassment.

1. Devoted to religion or to the fulfillment of religious obligations. See Synonyms at religious.
2. Displaying reverence or piety.
3. Sincere; earnest: devout wishes for their success.

But never mind all that. The question is, which society would we rather live in? Do you want to live in a world where people all around you believe that there is no higher power that they will ever have to answer to, or do you want the people all around you to believe that whatever they do is going to be judged and that they ought to keep this in mind when dealing with others around them?

Things I Believe

These are in no particular order. The first one is no more important than the last one. If you think you can state it better, leave a comment. If you disagree, leave a comment. If you have a contribution to make and I deem it worthy, I will amend the list and re-publish.

1. The only thing a degree from Harvard proves is that your family spent a lot of money for a piece of paper.

2. Having grown old in the United States after WWII simply means you are lucky and is no indication alone that you have a shred of wisdom.

3. Men with strong sex drives and women with weak sex drives tend to marry each other and vice versa.

4. Hoplophobes (Gun Fearing Wussies) not only can't stand being around weapons, but they want to deny everybody else from being around them as well.

5. Hoplophobes in the United States walk around oblivious to the fact that they enjoy relative safety because people like me are trained, ready, and able to put bullets into a bad guy in less than two seconds.

6. Anyone who buys supermarket tabloids such as the STAR, et al, should be required to surrender their voter registration cards, on the spot, to the cashier. Only after passing an intelligence test and a test on the constitution, would such a person be allowed to vote again.

7. Anyone who does not know the names of both of their Senators and the name of their Representative in the U.S. Congress, must immediately surrender their right to vote until they pass the requirements of item #6.

8. No person receiving welfare, in any form, including: food stamps, medicaid, medicare, social security, or the evil "earned income tax credit," should be allowed to vote.

9. Any person who actually has a few thousand dollars withheld from his paycheck and then believes that the IRS "gave" him money after April 15th, should be slapped and denied the right to vote for at least two years.

10. If you think that medical treatment, housing, and a living wage are "rights," you should immediately be put aboard a C-5 and airdropped over the nearest communist country, where they think like you do. You will have to provide for your own parachute, since they are not listed as a right.

11. Public education is when you take your own home-schooled child on a field trip to a museum or zoo or factory, etc. Government education is that catastrophe that the taxpayers are funding to propagandize children into socialism.

12. "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain." -- Thomas Sowell

13. In a free society, 95% employment is the absolute optimum, because only in a communist society is everyone guaranteed a job.

14. Only in a free market economy can things be so good that at least 5% of the population is between a job and a better job.

15. Considering how many laws are currently on the books; if you hear someone utter the words, "There oughtta be a law," just beat the hell out of them.

16. The Supreme Court of the United States is now the most dangerous oligarchy the world has ever seen. What part of "Congress shall make no law" (1st Amendment) and "Shall not be infringed" (2nd Amendment) do you not understand? You arrogant freakin' tyrants!

This is by no means the last you'll see of this post. Get crackin' people!

Merry Christmas

. . . and Happy Hannukah.

Regardless of the pagan roots of some of the pomp and circumstance that is associated with this holiday, this is a great time to be with family and friends and to reflect on the Incarnation. I actually prefer the historical accuracy of the Festival of Lights, but I find it more than a coincidence that celebrating the coming of LIGHT is celebrated by Hebrews and Goyim at almost the same time.

Pretty cool.

I'll get back to ranting after the weekend.

For now, I just want to revel in the fact that I married into an incredibly loving family. I don't think it's just luck that an orphan from a terribly abusive childhood married into a family that deeply believes in trying, no matter how imperfectly, living by the teachings of Christ. God knows, I don't deserve near the forgiveness and love that these people have shown me for nearly 20 years. My in-laws (such an inappropriately cold term) have come to my aid in crises and difficulties and have overlooked my selfish moments to amazing lengths.

My "blood" relatives, save two, have never expressed a single concern whether I was alive or dead. And the "two" were so abused by my real mother, that I can't blame them for the distance they must feel for me.

But I digress. The important thing is here and now. I will spend Christmas Day surrounded by people I love and who love me. And when the Mrs. and I come home late in the day, I'm going to play my "It's A Wonderful Life" DVD and laugh and cry. I'm going to remember that people with good hearts and good intentions want so much to make tremendous contributions to humanity, that they often can't see how their day to day existence makes eternal impacts on the lives of those around them.

If you can find "It's A Wonderful Life" on your TV set in the next 48 hours, watch it. And think hard about the fact that we may never fulfill all of our dreams, but along the way, the effect we have on other people's lives may be more than we can imagine.

I say think HARD, because Karl Marx was a spoiled, aristocratic college student who thought that his ideas would liberate the working class. His ideas resulted in the deaths of over 150 million people. Mother Teresa was humble beyond description and we can't count how many lives she saved.

Whoever you are, I wish you the best. In the spirit of that Christmas event in World War One, when Germans and Englishmen ceased fire and crossed lines to celebrate Christmas, I express the same sentiment to you. I don't know who you are, but because God Himself came down to Earth to live among us and pay the ultimate price to redeem us, I humbly bow to the greatest act of love and selflessness ever recorded, and say, I love you.

There are plenty of jaded and calloused people out there, who no doubt have departed this post by now, but that's okay. Hope springs eternal. Especially in the heart of someone like me who has seriously contemplated suicide on too many occasions. But I've seen God at work in too many lives to discount him. You skeptics can snicker all you want, but I've seen things that can't be put in a mass spectrometer. Human relationships can't be shoved into a test tube and subjected to litmus paper.

Whatever your level of understanding of physics or truth, have a Merry Christmas. If you're an atheist or agnostic or whatever, just rejoice in the people you love and care about and enjoy this time.

Personal Responsibility

This article really got my juices flowing.

A few years ago, I decided to get into shape. I started using a Navy SEAL workout video. Damn.

Damn. You know how a parent gives you what you need in spite of what you think will feel good?

Dealing With Ignorance

You know, it is very difficult to deal with rumors. I feel confident that anybody intelligent enough to surf to this blog has lived enough life to understand what I'm talking about.

Perception is reality. Especially in the political world.

I go from link to link, blog to blog, and I keep running into this moronic myth. It doesn't seem to matter if it is a conservative or liberal blog, but this most damnable concept keeps getting promulgated by the most well meaning souls.

As an aside, let me just say that George Orwell was a prophet, par excellance because he understood the nature of language and its affect on people. If you redefine terms in a slow and subtle way, you really can influence people. He was trying to warn us of the danger of how those who seek and seize power would convince us that it was all for our own good.

First of all, no individual, no citizen has a right to vote on who the president of the USA is going to be. Ah, Ah, Ah, . . . before you start fussing and fuming, pull out your copy of the constitution and read it thoroughly.

Pay attention boys and girls, the president is elected by an electoral college of delegates. An ingenious method to make sure that popular vote by more populated urban centers could not dominate and squelch the rights and the voice of more agrarian and rural areas and states.

The constitution was written to allow States to choose their own method of selecting delegates to represent their own best interests in selecting a federal president. Any state legislature could pass a law that deemed the selection of their delegates to the electoral college in any manner they see fit.

Let's dispense with another awful, horrible, nightmarish idea. This country was not designed to be a democracy.

Don't just parrot the stupid crap you were told in the government propaganda centers ("Public Schools"), show me one mention of "democracy" in the founding documents. Read the Federalist Papers. Nothing good said about democracy. My favorite line from Mel Gibson's "The Patriot": "Why would I trade one tyrant 2000 miles away for 2000 tyrants one mile away?"

"Certain unalienable rights" can only be assured with a CONSTITUTIONAL republic. A democracy is a sure way to tyranny of mob rule.

The founders, by their own writings, envisioned a weak federal government that only served to protect the interests of several states when necessary, in the affairs of international issues and in settling minor disputes between the several states.

Look, It's Christmas

You know, all of us who post to these blogs are extremely grateful for thos of you who come to read them. But, we're people too, and some of us have families, we may even be going out of town. For some of us, the idea of worrying about posting and keeping up readership is taking a backseat to just being with our loved ones. Hope you can understand that.

So, barring any special news or events; don't complain that we aren't posting enough. On the positive side, go out and do something incredibly generous and unexpected for someone who both needs it and will be very appreciative of it.

God Bless, Commander Will

As If Things Couldn't Get Worse

Before 1800 hours EST, POTUS went on the air to reveal that Libya will now cower and submit to weapons inspections, etc.

This can only mean that the leftist Demmings will now be going into meltdown.

More to post later, when the Demmings start offering up hysteria over the hegemony of the U.S. imperialistic aggression under King George the 43rd.