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16 Thursday May 2013

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AP, Benghazi, Conservative, democrats, Grant, History, irs, Liberals, Obama, politics, Presidents, Reagan, scandal

Scandals happen. From the illegitimate son of Grover Cleveland to The Whiskey Ring and Credit Mobilier scandals during the Ulysses S. Grant Presidency, or maybe the Reagan era Iran-Contra scandal, the Nixon Watergate or Monica (No additional titling needed).

All of the above scandals either had the TV exploding with breaking news or tested the speed and efficiency of printing presses across the US. Reporters loaded with more questions than they’d ever have the opportunity to ask, grasping at any open door presented to them to break the next big story; motivated by the possibility of a career rocketing moment.

You could argue that all Presidential scandals have been politicized, they’ve been used – maybe even flaunted – by the opposition; whether you carried a torch for the targeted prosecutor Archibald Cox, or laughed at the sheer hypocrisy of feminists accusing the right of a war on women while sharing a stage with President womanizer himself, we’ve all found ourselves choosing sides and pointing fingers to the other side of the aisle.

But what makes the Obama scandals different? Well, let’s go over a few prior scandals:

Glover Cleveland: A child without a Father, socially unacceptable…especially when the Father is leading the country.

Ulysses S. Grant: His cabinet was a mess. He was disgraced with the scandals, yet defended those close to him. Partiality was no stranger during his presidency.

Watergate: Bribery, wiretapping, perjury, OH MY!

Bill Clinton: Oh giggles. Though aiding in the crash of the housing market should have been bigger news, President Clinton claimed the headlines with his tumultuous relationships instead.

Reagan Presidency – Iran-Contra was a bit more detailed as there were hostages that the Reagan administration was concerned with saving. Wrong or right in their actions, I still wanted to list it so as not to seem “partial” to conservatives. I’ll also take advantage of the opportunity to show you what Reagan said concerning the scandal:

“First, let me say I take full responsibility for my own actions and for those of my administration. As angry as I may be about activities undertaken without my knowledge, I am still accountable for those activities. As disappointed as I may be in some who served me, I’m still the one who must answer to the American people for this behavior….A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. As the Tower board reported, what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages. This runs counter to my own beliefs, to administration policy, and to the original strategy we had in mind.”

We never really found out what exact roles Reagan played in the scandal; however, he still took on full responsibility for what happened within his administration.

The Obama scandals contain something that sets them apart from the rest. Far apart. Like miles apart. Oceans apart.

BODY COUNT

Fast & Furious: Although leftist enjoy tossing Operation Wide Receiver in our face whenever this is mentioned, I enjoy the fact that the tossing of this Bush gun running tactic is like a sweet pitch right over the plate. You see, during OWR the Mexican government was aware of the gun running, the guns were tracked, and once our government realized that the tracking devices were being removed the operation ended. Bringing up OWR actually helps in conveying the blatant disregard involved in Fast & Furious; A gun running scandal involving untracked guns and no knowledge of activities from the Mexican government. Fast and furious resulted in over 300 filled graves with individuals killed by our guns; left like calling cards to mock our stupidity and recklessness, US weapons show up at Mexican Cartel crime scenes.

Benghazi: If you don’t already know the details, you should. Unlike previous scandals, this scandal puts an entirely new level of meaning to the word ‘Scandal’. Specific orders given that guaranteed help was not sent to our brave men in Benghazi. For over 7 hours our government stood by while our Ambassador was raped and murdered, giving a “Stand down” order to anyone within the range of aiding the brave Americans under attack. No one has shouldered the blame, and we now know that those orders were given by the top of the food chain, not the low level employees who have been camped out under the bus during all of these scandals. Then to add yet ANOTHER twist to the scandal, a YouTuber is currently sitting in prison, and the Obama administration knowingly lied and deceived the people of this nation. The media ignores the truth about Benghazi so adamantly that most US citizens aren’t even aware of the victims that gave their life. The details of this case are so vast that they warrant their own post…book…impeachment.

IRS scandal: Targeting, auditing, profiling, OH MY!

AP scandal: The media finally awakens to the underhandedness of the Obama Administration.

Hundreds of graves? No.

Leaving Ambassadors to die? No.

IRS targeting conservatives? No.

Getting their phone records? Alright NOW you’ve crossed a serious line!

With shovels in hand the Obama administration is ready to bury any shred of evidence that points to them. But it seems as of late that in their quest to seek eternal innocence they’ve become rather sloppy in their crime scene clean-up. Like the robber that has to destroy the fan adorned with their fingerprints that they had to use to dry the newly applied paint on the walls that were scratched while removing the carpet that contained blood from their hand after they cut it cleaning up a vase that broke while they were trying to steal the stapler. Regardless of the actual crimes – despicable as they may be – any sane person would walk into the room and say “what the heck happened here!?!?”.

Now if only the media had been more like journalists and less like coconspirators back when Benghazi and Fast and Furious happened, we may not have the AP & IRS scandals going down right now. While they scrape the bottom of the dignity barrel for any shred of credibility they have left, those of us who saw the bloody writing on the wall in the first place are left clutching our pearls in shock over their new found interest.

While I’m hoping that the minor break in media malpractice continues until members of the Obama administration are held accountable, I won’t hold my breath. To be honest, I look at this sudden change and hope it is exactly what the media claims. I’ve viewed a few blogs from individuals who believe that the sudden outing of the last two scandals are very convenient for an administration that would rather deal with those scandals than face the facts being revealed about Benghazi.

I saw many posts from Republicans congratulating the President on taking “action” with the IRS debacle. As much as I’d love to give kudos, it’s hard for me to toss out accolades for someone who is a professional at throwing low level employees under the bus. I’ve also witnessed a lot of information that seems to suggest that Obama was more informed about the IRS targeting well before this. If that’s the case, it would bode well for him to throw his targeted blame takers under the bus and be over with this issue…Hmmmmm…Maybe there is a reason for his speedy action?

From another angle, you could say that taking care of such an issue in proper time would also paint him as a President who handles issues, which happens to be the exact opposite of what we are accusing him of doing in the first place. More motive? Let’s not forget that Obama puppet master George Soros gave millions to some of the groups that put pressure on the IRS to target Conservative Nonprofits.

My reasons are purely hypothetical and hopefully not true; however, I know how this administration works. They calmly bury the screaming boxes of evidence while releasing exactly what they want you to see. So, I’d caution those who are boarding the Thank Goodness The Media Is Finally Doing The Right Thing plane headed to Obamafinallydidsomethingrightville. Because I’ve heard of those flights, and the stewardesses are always serving kool-aid.

I would encourage everyone to read this —–> http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/15/beck-ties-together-benghazi-irs-ap-scandals-fundamental-transformation/

Cough…Sneeze…Boycott…

13 Monday May 2013

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On Friday I stumbled out of bed in what can only be described as an impeccable audition for a movie based on the coming Zombie apocalypse, due to the shards of glass I felt as though I was swallowing, I was grasping at my throat and speaking with the rasp of Marlon Brando; clearly I have a multitude of acting options. Zombie Godfather anyone? AmIRight?

After a couple days of sleep, cold pills, garlic tea, apple cider vinegar, honey and fish oil, I’m finally feeling like I’ve crossed over from “I’m going to die” to “watch it, I’m still not feeling great and the snark is strong.”

So what does one do at 2am while they’re choking down garlic tea? Or at 3am when steaming their face with a hot towel wrapped around their neck? Or at 1am while sitting on the couch dazed and confused and not even sure how I got there? Well, I decided to read Twitter and Facebook. I was able to catch up on all of the bitter – media hating – feelings circulating throughout the US…

I didn’t even know that parts of the US were still awake at that time…unless they were like me, choking down garlic water and fish oil…like a boss.

So, I started thinking about a conversation that took place on Twitter Thursday between Tweeters that have significant followers and more pull in the Conservative movement then I do. They were discussing the idea of taking down NBC, I concurred with them; NBC is the weakest link in the industry and thusly, the easiest kill.

I know, I’m even creeping myself out.

Basically their point is that by taking out NBC you send a message to the rest of the stations that we have reached the end of our rope with the media bias that blatantly ignored the mountains of evidence standing between the Benghazi victims and the truth, or the fact that the IRS is targeting innocent Americans simply because of their political stance. But you see – as those brilliant tweeters noted – we can’t possibly believe that ignoring NBC News would do any good. No, their bread and butter is in the entertainment television that airs during primetime. They also brilliantly pointed out that avoiding all channels, while noble, is a bit of a bigger bite than anyone is willing to take. Reach for the obtainable goals.

Point being, aren’t we tired of complaining yet? If we are adamantly against their truth censorship, why are we boosting their ratings? For entertainment purposes? So let me get this straight, when it comes to Benghazi we are revolted by their silence, yet we’ll watch our favorite show on their channel while we tweet about the evil media bias.

Example: Pass the popcorn and tub of ice cream, I’m going to rant about NBC on Twitter while I watch The Voice.

Mull it over. *Jeopardy Music*

In addition to the blatantly obvious option we clearly aren’t capitalizing on with the news channels, why are we watching shows with false equality preaching frequenters of Rodeo Drive? They preach on equality, yet attack us daily on Twitter and Facebook, mock us in movies, manipulate masses into hating us, and what do we do??? Being like the chronically enabling wife of a drug addict, we help them of course!

Example: We are like victims of the Soviet Union scattering outside intelligence for the dictators.

Somehow liberal entertainers have come to believe that they are the Lionhearts of world peace and unity, the Musashi of equality. Just for fun I thought about giving their tactics a run by punching someone in the gut and saying “bullying is bad!”…But then I realized that unless I am wearing something from the newest collection by Dolce & Gabbana and surrounded with bodyguards, my newly acquired ideals of helping the world finally realize the anti-violent truth would be futile.

This week I was reminded of a meeting that took place in the summer of 2012, a breakfast involving the leader of the free world and multiple A-list celebrities. Ok…so mostly b-list. Clearly lacking the credentials for involvement in the green energy discussions (unless you count emission ranting about airplanes…WHILE ON AN AIRPLANE), we must ask a simple question: why exactly were these red carpet gods there? Clearly the stars themselves exuding the sheer confidence in the fact that they’re advocates for all that is good and right made them qualified by status alone; however, the President on the other hand knows why such involvement was necessary, and it didn’t involve the brilliant brains situated behind the flawless faces.

See…Now you understand why I get my full 8 hours of sleep every night. Because in the shadows of the night, in the natural expectorants that cause the coughing up of lungs, in the putrid stench of garlic tea – the boycotter awakens in me.

So, like the great Twitterers (sp?) suggested, I’m beginning with NBC. It’s basically a 12 step program…I might even suggest some anniversary chips for those of us who make it past seasons of The Voice without watching. I’m also giving up a lot of movies, making a choice not to go see some of the new movies in theaters, etc. If the entertainment industry wants to become the US version of the Goskino, I don’t want to have anything to do with their rise to power…ok, more power. I’m starting to see the entertainment industry as not just being “biased” at this point, but as painting Socialism as the paragon of fairness while silencing any truth.

I went down the list of NBC shows, and to be honest I had a few on there that are in the series recording list on my DVR. For a brief moment I thought about ONLY watching those shows, slapping myself across the congested head for such an ignorant idea did indeed happen. It was 2am, people! I then remember 5 words that I will repeat whenever I think about supporting the targeted network after its most brutal display of leftist safety netting yet… “What difference does it make?”… Then it hit me, those boxes coming home from Benghazi containing the remains of Americans could have been filled with the remains of my family members. In the poignant words of Mr. Nordstrom: It matters.

It didn’t matter who was in those boxes to Hillary and Obama, standing over the caskets they spewed vitriolic lies and knowingly misled this country. The networks in question continuing to insult the intelligence of Americans with empty claims and false comparisons, propaganda that would give the Soviet Union a run for its money. Treating journalists with integrity as outcasts and spinning their own stories so as to take blame away from the people responsible.

Even now after some reporting has been done they are still managing to cover for our President. In the world that every other President lived in -Democrat or Republican – this would be a Presidential term ending occurrence. Yet somehow they have managed to place some blame on Clinton, some on the lower men on the totem pole, some on a few higher ups, the majority on republicans, a bowl full on Jay Carney, and nothing on the President of the United States…you know…their boss.

So what do I want out of this? Do I think the networks are going to shut down because of 1 person boycotting, or 100 people boycotting? No. But if we join the cause and encourage others to put aside their personal entertainment addictions for the sake of the Benghazi victims, Gosnell victims, etc. maybe we can make an impact. Maybe we can dent the ratings. Maybe we can send a message that those men deserve proper news coverage, those children and women deserve proper news coverage.

So, will you join me? Will you be a voice for those who are no longer with us? Will you fight the media bias you claim to hate?

So grab a book, take a walk, or watch other channels…Even if you never see them fall to their knees apologizing for their mistakes, you have the knowledge that you stood for something on behalf of the Benghazi victims. You’ve proven that in some little way that to you…

“it matters”.

Defining A Monster

22 Monday Apr 2013

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Conservative, equality, fair share, gun control 2nd amendment, Hitler, holocaust, Liberal, Nazism, USSR

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” – Patrick Henry

Lately it seems like turning on the News resembles an incredibly violent and depressing TV show that we would normally turn off. We’ve all seen the uplifting messages that attempt to answer the age old question – “What is this world coming to?”. I think somehow we’ve talked ourselves into believing that violence and pain are new additions to our society, that “back when I was a kid” was a utopian paradise where violence had no place.

Sometimes history is the best teacher.

Joe was born in May of 1907, his Mother was American, she had incredibly interesting ancestry that was linked all the way back to the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Those who described him would say he was an enthusiastic and passionate man. His moral stances were at the core of his being, he lived them, he believed them.

Joe was married at 29, he went on to have 4 children who I’m sure he would describe as inspirations for the passions he was so strictly devoted to. You could describe Joe like you would you or me, he had compassion, hope, etc. I’m sure he planned on growing old with his wife, seeing his Grandkids running around the yard playing with one another, I’m sure that when he looked into the eyes of his Newborn son he felt the same joy that you and I would have felt. Joe went through trials just like any of us, when his brother passed away at 19 it was a traumatic event for his entire family, including his 2 sisters and Father.

Joe was raised in a fairly easy upbringing, his family didn’t want for much. He wasn’t into religion, he actually believed it had no place in politics. So be it, we all have opposing views, right? Joe aged, he became closer with political influences. The party he associated with preached on profit sharing, helping the elderly, stabilizing the middle class, and helping to increase the standards of healthcare. Nobel causes. He believed in equal rights. He once wrote this about the leader of his party, whom he would have declared was a hero in moments of a falling nation:

“That is the greatest thing about him, That he is not only our leader and a great hero, but himself, upright, firm and simple, In him the roots of our world. His soul touches the stars, and yet he remains a man like you and me.”

It seems to me as though Joe put incredible levels of trust in this man. He trusted him to lead the country that his children would one day inherit, his beautiful 4 children. His statement doesn’t seem to indicate any underlying distrust in the man he is showering with accolades.

Now, I’ve given accolades to Ronald Reagan, we saw movie stars pledging their devotion to Barack Obama, kids worshiping Beyonce and Hollywood, etc. Through the years every leader has had their following, it’s the natural order of things. Some become dangerous, some sacrifice basic knowledge, historical evidence and integrity in the name of a man. Some people – not much different from you and me – remove their natural moral boundaries to do the very same. Lenin had an entire education system sporting badges of his face… Forgotten lessons of a tumultuous history, per se.

This family man with a wife and 4 children would soon say the words “contribution to European culture” after describing his success in the deportation of 65,000 Jews. He would consider it a “contribution to European culture” after sending countless men, women and children from Vienna to death camps. They would be tortured, raped, murdered and it was all for a “contribution to European culture.” You see Joe’s real name is Baldur Von Schirach, he would become a member of Hitler’s inner circle. He was the leader of the “Hitler Youth”.

During the Nuremberg trials Schirach proclaimed that he didn’t know about the death camps, that he disagreed with Hitler, that he had made it known that he didn’t agree with how the Jews were treated when being deported. But yet how many died under his command, how many lives were stolen? How many youth were brought up to hate the Jews under his command? How many Newtowns, how many Columbines, how many Auroras, how many young children were executed like criminals because of the choices he made? The number of deaths attached to his name make the men we label as monsters look like amateurs. His regrets couldn’t bring them back. His regrets wouldn’t give the empty arms of a Mother her child back. His regrets couldn’t reunite a family torn by the hate of men. His regrets couldn’t reverse the trains that led families like yours and mine to their death sentence.

Schirach knew what it was like to be a new Father, he knew what it was like to adore his wife, he knew the joy that comes with looking into the eyes of your child. He still destroyed lives. Why? How? He had been systematically brainwashed into believing that they were in the wrong, that they deserved the treatment, or at least the deportation…Even when his own morals reared their ugly head his dedication to a man overcame him until it was too late. The deeds were done, the graves were filled.

At the end of the opening statement made by Robert H. Jackson during the Nuremberg trials where Schirech was prosecuted, Jackson said the following:

“The American dream of a peace-and-plenty economy, as well as the hopes of other nations, can never be fulfilled if those nations are involved in a war every generation so vast and devastating as to crush the generation that fights and burden the generation that follows. But experience has shown that wars are no longer local. All modern wars become world wars eventually. And none of the big nations at least can stay out. If we cannot stay out of wars, our only hope is to prevent wars.”

America, the land of peace-and-plenty. The land of a free people. The land where the people kept their Government in check. You see, the atrocities that the Jews were subject to were preventable. In a world of the naïve evil flourishes, it finds the weakest point and attacks. It seeks out the defenseless, it invades the gun free zones with illegal weaponry because no one can stop it. It knows and cares not that it’s actions are cowardly, it has no aspirations of nobility, no goals of integrity, it – quite simply – seeks to destroy.

Over the past few weeks Washington has been pushing for gun control, hitting the emotional gut of a nation torn with heart wrenching acts. Preaching on the idea that evil is always in your face, the monsters are always wearing a scary mask, and the boogeyman is always hiding in your closet. But it is in these moments of possible change that we need to remember the truth…Evil has been around, it’s not going anywhere, and it’s not changing. The largest school massacre happened almost a hundred years ago, with no guns…While it is common to imagine that the times now are different (and they are to a degree), such tragedies have always existed…They always will.

The evil that causes spontaneous chaos and bloodshed is always recognizable. They may be able to cause mass casualties, enter schools and theaters causing terror, fly planes into buildings or bomb civilians, but from its beginning to its end we call it evil. Why? Because it is recognizable. It is clearly bad, and ending such evil is clearly good. It doesn’t give off the false assumption that it is trying to help others. It’s the outlaw that walks into the saloon gaining the immediate glares of fear.. These monsters are recognized as monsters, to call them anything else would be a denial of clear atrocities.

But evil that has a following that believes their motives are good can cause MUCH more damage. I’m not trivializing the spontaneous violence we have been witnessing of late by any means, just pointing out differences in body count.

One of the largest terrorist acts to ever take place was on 9-11, they claimed the lives of nearly 3000 people. The terrorists had a plan and they struck…They didn’t win over the hearts of the people, they carried out a day of mass chaos causing as much pain as they could. We stood with our hearts heavy, with horror and shock on our face as we watched our fellow citizens die. The Holocaust on the other hand started on a different note, they won many hearts and they laid out upstanding intentions to gain support from the people. This enabled them to enslave and slaughter MILLIONS of innocent civilians over a span of YEARS. The horror and shock didn’t set in until the stoves had already burned red at night and the bodies of men, women and children had been bulldozed into landfills.

Piers Morgan has asked multiple times “what do you fear, gun owners!?”. As though history is impossible of repeating itself.

What do I fear?

Of course I fear the violence we have been witnessing, like any sane human being. I can’t live my life in fear, I KNOW that violence is as old as the earth…When Cain crushed the skull of Abel their wasn’t a gun to blame for promoting a violent society. To say that guns in general awaken the evil in a man is shear buffoonery. But what I really fear is not a world where a man harms a human being and is condemned immediately, like I said, that’s been around forever and I can’t live my life in fear. I fear a world where a man exterminates a family under a direct order from his Government. I fear a Government that has the power and ability to give that order. I fear a people that watch in horror and obey the commands of a worshipped monster out of fear for their family. I fear an ignorant nation that has forgotten that the most successful monsters are the ones that preach peace, unity, fair share, and the idea of a violence free world. That the scariest boogeyman is not the one that hides in your closet, it’s the one you invite into your home.

Our 2nd Amendment is not for the right to hunt, it’s for the right to protect ourselves. The Schirechs of the world who believe that their intentions were good can’t be allowed to ignorantly load the trains. They made the 2nd Amendment so that we are not the regrets of manipulative maniacal leaders and ignorant followers, that our children are not the lessons in corrupted governments for other countries.

For every “It won’t happen here”, I can reference millions of silenced mouths that once muttered the same words.

For every “He’s a good person, he’s not capable of such atrocities”, I can reference hundreds of individuals once described as “good men” that loaded trains of Jews, manipulated hundred of Children in the USSR, or refused to take a position on a man who slaughtered hundreds of innocent infants.

For every “In other countries that are gun free there is peace”, I can reference thousands of statistics and data saying that in those countries crime increased, murder increased, rape increased, theft increased, etc. You will NEVER remove the evil of this world.

For every human prop that our Government uses to push gun control, I can reference the MILLIONS of victims that were denied the means to protect themselves BY their Government, that were silenced BY their seemingly good willed Government, that can’t be used as human props because they never made it out alive.

The targets for the devastating events that have taken place over the years have always been the weak or unprotected. For our Government to blatantly lie – without ANY proof or substantial research – and say that removing guns from law abiding citizens of the US would somehow reduce a societal influence of violence is unmitigated rubbish.

Just remember that those that deny that Governments can turn on The People are either ignorant, dangerously naïve, or are purposefully ignoring the millions of victims that prove otherwise simply for political objectives, including the goal of keeping you oblivious to what is going on. Just remember, the removal of guns or the tightening of gun control has NEVER worked. They may manipulate the numbers to make it seem like it has, but the ACTUAL data available to you proves otherwise. I’m not saying that it’s going to happen here, I’m just saying that I question both the intelligence and/or motives of any historically educated politicians that are seeking to remove guns while being privy to the statistical data…

Below is an excerpt from an Essay written by Ferdinand Von Schirach, the Grandson of Baldur Von Schirach:

“Crimes are examined in court. The judge investigates whether the accused was the perpetrator, and then he weighs his degree of culpability. Most of the guilty parties are not that different to us. They made a wrong move, dropped out of normal society or felt that their life was hopeless. Often it’s only a matter of chance whether a person becomes a perpetrator or a victim. Indeed, killing those we love and killing ourselves are very similar.

What my grandfather did is something completely different. His crimes were organized; they were systematic, cold-hearted and precise. They were planned at a desk. There were memos and meetings. He made his decision again and again. At the time, he said that his “removal” of the Jews from Vienna was his contribution to European culture.

After those kinds of sentences, any further questions, any attempts at a psychological explanation, are superfluous. Sometimes a person’s guilt is so massive that nothing else plays a role. Of course, the state itself was criminal. But that doesn’t exonerate men like him, because they are the very ones who brought this state into being. My grandfather did not break through the thin veneer of civilization; his decisions were not the result of misfortune, chance or carelessness.

In criminal trials these days, we ask whether the accused was conscious of what he did, whether he can understand it and differentiate between right and wrong. In the case of my grandfather, all of these things can be swiftly answered. In fact, he was particularly guilty: He came from a family that had enjoyed positions of responsibility for centuries. He had a happy childhood, he was educated and the world was his oyster. It would have been easy for him to decide to live another life. He did not innocently become guilty. In the end, a person’s degree of guilt is always also determined by their circumstances….

… I write about the postwar prosecution of crimes, about the courts in postwar Germany that handed down atrocious judgments, about the judges who only imposed five minutes of imprisonment on Nazi perpetrators for each murder they committed. It’s a book about the crimes committed in our state, about vengeance, guilt and the things we continue to fail at even today.

We believe we are safe, but the opposite is true: We could lose our freedom once again. Doing so would mean losing everything. That is our life now. That is our responsibility.”

Within the words of his essay he also notes that his Grandfather had the words “I was one of you” put on his gravestone, he says that the reported last words of his Grandfather were “What was I thinking”. The echoes of this man’s actions haunt his family, the Grandfather who played cards with his Grandson after his prison term is also the barbarian that his Grandson would grow up to be ashamed of.

-MB

Learning The Game

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Sequester
Woodward
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Guns
Michelle Obama dancing

While our rights are ~~slowly~~ ~~steadily~~ ~~quickly~~ with the speed of light being taken from us, the blog topics are endless…but lately I’ve been in one of those bad political moods, I am really struggling to imagine the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s been a week of fail. One thing after another, people ignoring the facts, politicians ~~lying~~ being politicians, etc. Finally this morning it hit me…If I read ONE more article about the sequester, someone is going to need a spatula to peel me of the ceiling. Alas, why would I put anyone else through that? #AmIRight?

Yes, I am aware that hashtags used in a blog post are as – if not more – annoying than hashtags used on facebook. But I want to use it, and I think I should get a pass this time…I’m one “kittens will spontaneously combust because of the sequester” tweet away from drinking a bowl of brownie batter and camping out under my desk with a copy of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

So, what does one do when feeling like the entire nation has become one big overindulged Veruca Salt? ~~Cry~~. ~~Mope~~. ~~Give up~~. Write.

This last week was a sad reminder for most conservatives, March 1st marked one year since the passing of Andrew Breitbart. He was a leader, a hero, and a rejuvenator to a people who had forgotten how to fight. For so many years we were scared to speak out, we had been labeled “greedy”, “racist”, and many other derogatory terms used to guilt someone into silence. He taught us how to fight the liberal narrative, and I fully believe that because of him we found our voice. Conservatives are louder than we have been in a VERY long time, and we face baseless accusations with truth. We are like the child getting beat up on the schoolyard by the merciless bullies that finally starts fighting back. And though we are bruised, we aren’t willing to give up the fight…We have Breitbart to thank.

So, after watching a few videos of Breitbart (they’re like my Tony Robbins workshops) I finally felt like I had moved on from being the embodiment of one of those depressingly emo teenage memes that say “Just because I smile, doesn’t mean I don’t hurt”. Who am I kidding, those things rank somewhere on the full spectrum of human emotion that I rarely – if ever – visit… Mine would be more along the lines of a meme with Grumpy Cat wearing the mask from SCREAM that simply says “run”. Anyway, I’m now out of my funk….Now let’s get down to business. (Applies war paint, tinfoil hat, and mounts horse yelling “FOR AMERICA!!!!”)

WARNING: Feeling rejuvenated, but residual heightened levels of sarcasm still present.

So I remembered hearing this quote from a very important historical figure, who’s name I can’t recall at this point in time. Maybe by the time I’m done with this post I’ll have an epiphany, or go to google and find this poignant individual. Or not. I honestly don’t know. Clearly if this rambling is still here when you’re reading this, I didn’t.

Anyway…the quote. I don’t even know the whole thing, but I know that it talked about some people chopping away at the branches of evil, and some going straight to the root. After I read this I was thinking about the myriad times I’ve said the words “Cloward-Piven” this week to only be met by confused faces. I said before the election that what our nation is facing goes back to 3 core issues:

1. Cloward-Piven
2. Saul Alinsky
3. Moral Corruption
5. Math

Heh.

So first up to the plate: Cloward-Piven

The Cloward-Piven strategy is a “common good” utopian paradise ideal owned by Richard Cloward, and Frances Piven. Basically you take the entire public welfare system, financially overload it leading to its collapse…and then replace it. It’s like not liking your lamp anymore, but not being able to convince the rest of your family to purchase a new one. So you shatter it…While the family is desperate for light after you shattered their lamp, you convince them that the lamp put out dangerous light, light created by dirty – oppressive child/race/poor hating – energy. While they are mulling over the evil light that once illuminated their home, you run out and purchase the lamp you want. YOU’RE A HERO! The problem? The lamp you just purchased has blown up every time someone else tried to use it, killing all of those within range. But you keep that on the DL, because it looks super awesome, maybe it even has a new lamp shade that makes it look updated and progressive in style.

Question: What kind of government system do they want?

Answer: Guaranteed annual income. FULL reliance on the government.

Creating a crisis so that you can deliver a terrible system to a delusional people, then having them label your system as a stroke of good will towards all men. Gee, I bet they’d even give that person a Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing…

Cloward and Piven wrote that “The ultimate objective of this strategy—to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income—will be questioned by some. Because the ideal of individual social and economic mobility has deep roots, even activists seem reluctant to call for national programs to eliminate poverty by the outright redistribution of income”

Their super duper difficult plan???? Inform the people that they have rights to welfare assistance, making sure that EVERYONE is taking FULL advantage of the system. Why? Because MATH tells us that when everyone is taking full advantage of a system that is already straining under the weight of a poorly distributed balance between the makers and the takers, it will eventual collapse. Which is EXACTLY what they wanted. Now if Barack is as brilliant as the media lapdogs and the deeply devoted Obama voters believe he is, don’t you think he is “brilliant” enough to figure this out?

You can’t scream from the rooftops that you’re not a Communist while following fellow Communists directions on “How To Be A Communist Country” without someone eventually saying, “Hey now, if you’re not a commie, why are you doing what they said would make a Communist country???” And you can’t peddle free Obama-phones without me thinking that you know EXACTLY how this system works.

The last step of the Cloward-Piven strategy – as listed above – is financial collapse. Financial collapse happens when you overload the welfare system. How do you do that, pray tell? Well, let’s go over a few pretty Commutastic ways someone could do such a thing. How about the largest tax increase in US history…The Affordable (Ha. Ha.) Care Act. Or how about taxing businesses KNOWING that they will terminate more employees? How about raising the minimum wage, KNOWING that it will terminate jobs and stop companies from hiring as many people? How about fighting for more spending…Well, I mean this one is pretty obvious…need more welfare dependency, create more welfare. Need people to be more dependant, make sure that they take home less money from their job.

But how do you convince a nation to implode themselves? First, you create the Veruca Salt mentality by saying that we are entitled to such things. It’s easier to oppress someone if you scream that you are trying to protect them from oppression. It’s like the shepherd leading the lamb to the field saying “this is where you’ll be safe”, but what the lamb doesn’t know is that the shepherd has a pretty sweet deal with the wolf. The lamb is just collateral damage. Second, you convince those “entitled individuals” that there are really selfish people who don’t want THEM to be happy. Then you whisper future promises in their ear and wait for them to look at you and say “But I want it NOW, DADDY!” (preferably in a thick English accent), then you fiercely point your finger in the direction of those selfish haters of the poor and scream:

“RACISTS! THUGS! RICH PEOPLE!”

Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Saul Alinsky to the discussion.

The collective: “Welcome, Saul!”

When you go to make an elaborate dessert, and you only have one shot to make it, do you look at a recipe or wing it? If someone has already perfected the recipe you usually stick with what works, that way you don’t go to your dinner party with what looks like a pancake version of the Grand Canyon instead of a soufflé. Well, the liberals did the same thing. Saul Alinsky already had it all laid out for them, so they got out their mixing bowl and added class warfare, manipulation, “pity me”, race warfare, and a bit of fake radical hatred towards government, mixed it on high for a few years and now it’s baking into a beautiful mixture of orchestrated madness. They targeted the college aged kids first, because if anyone is looking for a cause to support, it’s individuals who can afford to camp in a park next to rape tents and smoke pot while playing on an Ipad purchased with Daddy’s money…while complaining about Daddy’s money. Those moldable minds were the clear target…The less they would search for facts, the better. And these kids were used to not thinking about facts, they had been spending day in and day out with progressive professors who didn’t require them to think outside the box of political uniformity, content to be “bricks in the wall”, they went marching on a mission they didn’t even understand, but a mission that gave them purpose, none the less.

Saul Alinsky wrote the handbook for creating a radical uprising…He is the brilliant, yet dangerous mind that wrote Rules for Radicals. Using the race card is a favorite Alinsky-like tactic. You see, they are using a tactic that they know Conservatives will not refute on principle. We don’t want to abuse or use conservative minorities because we are the side that actually finds all men equal. Conservative minorities are beginning to stand up and refute the obnoxious lies, and they are being attacked and demonized. Honestly, being a black conservative in a “radicalized” location would be cause for legitimate concern for safety at this point.

One of the Alinsky rules is that, “Ridicule is a man’s most potent weapon.” Just look at movies, TV, Celebrities, the Mainstream media, etc. it is FULL of conservative ridicule. They have tried to demonize us as being behind the times. They make fun of conservative stances so that the younger – uneducated moldable minds – think that being conservative just simply isn’t cool. Another Alinsky rule is to go outside the experience of the enemy, then cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

One word: Sequester.

Conservatives don’t have experience in manipulating the people to agree with our beliefs. We stand on the principle that everyone has a right to their own opinions and should, therefore, decide what they believe when the facts are presented…the issue is that we fail to get the facts to the table. The left doesn’t get facts to the table, but they get pretty little cupcakes of false information to the table, and THAT is how they win. Give them a day and they can have the world believing that eating sand will cut the time it takes to solve a quadratic equation in half, within a week professors would be selling packets of “miracle sand”. It’s how they work, they OWN the narrative.

Alinsky wrote that, “In war, the end justifies almost any means.”

Yeah, digest that one.

Saul Alinsky was a community organizer that inspired both Obama and Hillary Clinton (any many other prominent democrats). While Obama was a community organizer in Chicago he worked with individuals who carried on the legacy of Saul Alinsky. Before getting involved with ACORN he was involved with Project Vote, PV was set up by the Alinsky community organizers, he ran the voter registration drive for Project Vote. He was then an attorney for ACORN during the Clinton subprime loan debacle. Pressuring banks to increase subprime lending, the same subprime lending that eventually led to the collapse of the housing market bubble. When Clinton shot steroids into the Credit Default Swaps in his National Homeownership Strategy, he partnered with ACORN.

Shhhh…Don’t tell anyone that the same ACORN that Obama and Clinton were so devoted to is the same ACORN that was caught on video teaching individuals how to set up prostitution rings and whorehouses. I feel like I should note here that I’m against the War On Women…the real one.

Those poor minorities that couldn’t get mortgages before could now get help from the benevolent Democrats and Communities organizers. Fannie and Freddie came along for the ride too. But you know what’s worse than NOT getting a loan for a home? Having your home foreclose and be repossessed. By the time Clinton was leaving, the foreclosure numbers had already begun to rise, nearly 540K JUST in year 2001. Jump to year 2011 – In 2011 alone Nearly 4 MILLION foreclosures took place, and roughly 1.2 MILLION Repossessions. So WHY would banks that KNEW this would happen go along with it? Because the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) in conjunction with Clintons newly put into place regulators made the liberals in Washington the Frank Nitti of mortgage lending. When banks didn’t comply what would they do? Cry racist and send their attack dog attorneys after them. Like Obama.

What did Bush do? Well, over EIGHTEEN times the Bush Administration mentioned that “financial trouble of a large GSE could cause strong repercussions in financial markets, affecting Federally insured entities and economic activity”, they warned the Democrat majority of the issues, and the progressives turned a blind eye to the unraveling of a country. Now should they have done more? Yes. If they knew how far gone our country would have been in 2013, I’m pretty sure that in their shoes most of us would have made a lot more noise. Yet liberals get away with this because of the Alinsky techniques they ever so brilliantly put into use. They created the side of devils long ago, and it wasn’t them. When their actions create catastrophic impact on a nation, they simply point the finger towards the opposition.

“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. . . . One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.” Saul Alinsky

When Michelle Obama gave her DNC speech in 2008 she used a term straight out of Rules For Radicals. This was just ONE more hint of what was to come…From the mouth of our President we have heard that he is still a community organizer. Don’t confuse that with the guy that organizes the bell ringing for United Way…No, his community organizing is more like the bully who “organizes” the take down of the kid who would like to keep his lunch money. Al Capone probably turned down a cannoli more times than Obama truly helped any community.

So, I’ll end this very long Saul Alinsky section by saying that if you DON’T know the rules for radicals that Alinsky lined out for all of his faithful followers, you should. Who knew that the man who dedicated his book to “the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom, Lucifer” could have such success in the political arena.

As for moral corruption, take a look at my last post. Until people of Faith, or people of moral integrity start standing up and facing the issues, we WILL be a lost nation. This doesn’t take 10 paragraphs to explain, turn on the news for 5 minutes and you can see how far we have fallen morally. It’s pure unmitigated carelessness, and it’s in that carelessness we have found a populous that no longer cares for their fellow man.

Regarding my comment about math, it’s pretty clear…we can recite the rhetoric just like the liberals, but when it comes to the facts more and more we are becoming like them. Do yourself a favor, learn about the Clinton administration and the years of denial that have led to the “blame Bush” mentality, then USE IT! I have debated with multiple liberals, and I can honestly say that when confronted with the financial facts concerning the Clinton era, they have ended the discussion with “let’s just agree to disagree”, that’s where you want them…doubting the story they’ve been told. They don’t have an answer…They’ve been living in a fairytale with rainbows that shoot out fairness, and unicorns that fly you to the nearest equal rights celebration after stopping by the peace cloud where you get to watch bulldozers run over guns. But shaking their thought process out of the utopian paradise is what will START the thinking process…We hope…I have NEVER heard a logical remark in response. Not. Once.

The cheap shots and immature nicknames for Obama and Michelle need to stop, we need to be facing the issues head on. We have facts on our side, we don’t need to stoop to their level by calling Michelle “Moochelle”, it’s not even funny anymore…Was it ever? Point being, use the MATH, use the fact that 2+2=4…That U-6 unemployment reflects the REAL story behind the unemployment and devastation in our country. That while the U-3 “looks” better (not really) than it was before, the LFP #’s are where they projected we would be in 2017. Use the fact that raising the minimum wage will only devastate the unemployment more. Use the amount of taxes added to the common American because of Obamacare. Fight with the weapon of knowledge in government activity.

You know what they say, whoever brings the bigger gun wins the fight. The liberal using their narrative when up against facts, is sort of like them trying to use a butter knife against your ~~steak knife~~ ~~machete~~ tank. Trust me, I lack in the knowledge department just like anyone else, but I constantly strive to learn more about our government, our history, and most importantly our God. It’s the only way that I can wholeheartedly fight for the future I want my nephews to have. Let’s do this!

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” – James Madison

Deafening Silence

02 Saturday Mar 2013

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“‘Mr Wilberforce, we understand you are having problems deciding whether to do the work of God or the work of a political activist,’ says Clarkson.

‘We humbly suggest you can do both,’ adds Hannah More.”

The unique and true story of William Wilberforce is profound, his political career started when we was young, but yet we could argue that he became even more political after becoming an evangelical Christian. His political opinions – though grounded before his conversion – were now backed with a certain passion, a passion demanding that he stand for those who were voiceless.

In a time when many people were content to sip their tea – tea sweetened by slave grown sugar – without recognizing the atrocities that afforded them their comforts, he was not. Without a doubt, Wilberforce knew that any comforts or financial gain obtained at the expense of the life or freedom of another human being was atrocious and unacceptable. The obvious evil he waged a war against was widely ignored by “God fearing individuals” who turned a blind eye and ignored brutality because their tea was sweetened, and their tobacco abundant. Over 75% of the foreign income in Britain came from slave grown products, Wilberforce was determined to show that no matter the cost, enslaving and killing millions of innocent people was not acceptable for ANY comfort.

It’s amazing to me how far we have fallen morally, in the current world we live in, the conscience mind is now considered a plague needing healing. The naïve mind is now the acceptable: Embrace the beliefs of the morally corrupt and you too can join the army of common thought, you may now focus on your comforts without guilt of where they were birthed. Recognizing the corruption is considered a flaw. Recognizing evil is what it has always been, an invitation for persecution.

We as Christians sit back in our pews mumbling prayers to a God that we prove we don’t even begin to understand through our actions. We run from all things political in the name of Faith, not realizing that in our retreat we have led the enemy to victory and the bloody trail of disregard is ours to own. When did truth become taboo? At what point did honesty become “unchristian”?

SIDE NOTE: 24 of the men that signed the Declaration of Independence attended seminary, or held a degree in biblical teachings.

Who exactly owns the blame for the darkness? Is it darkness itself, or is it the individual who refuses to turn on the light? If the darkness is guaranteed do we then refuse to turn on the light in the name of “knowing the outcome”?

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” – Winston Churchhill

I hear people say daily that we should be “REACHING THE LOST! NOT FIGHTING THE GOVERNMENT!”…And yes, it’s usually in that screaming – highly effective – typing tone. But what if these two objectives went hand in hand? What if by being involved in politics you shine more light into a dim world by illuminating the truth little by little? But what if it’s more than that, what if standing up for what is right is a biblical principle?

The truth is that by being informed and being able to educate others concerning the real issues plaguing our nation, you are able to illuminate not only our need for basic human compassion and care, but a need for individuals to find God. Every political action that we take effects someone’s livelihood. Every time we vote blindly we are putting someone into power that can change the life of another human being, or ourselves.

The truth: Our government is financially supporting countries that torture/murder women. Countries that brutalize little girls. Blind voting in this last election gave us a President that not only believes in financially supporting these tyrannical governments, but helps to put them into power.

It isn’t about the tax money coming out of YOUR paycheck to pay for the support of these brutal acts of carnage, it’s about the fact that as Christians we should be standing against those that support such evil acts. But in ignorance we help them, and in ignorance we do so all in the name of a deeper – not of this world – relationship with Christ. We use Him as a blinder…Not as armor…as a blinder.

The truth: Our country slaughters over 3000 children daily in the womb.

I once read a true story about a girl that went undercover as a teen, she was with a pro-life group that wanted to experience the response girls receive when in the situations we tend to judge without experience. She was playing a girl that had just learned that she was pregnant. She went to every church in her city and told them of her predicament, that her parents would not let her come back home unless she went through with an abortion. After visiting the multitude of churches she walked away with well wishes for choosing life, the promise of future prayers, and the deafening silence of being alone. If she was the character she was playing, sleeping hungry in her car or having the abortion would have been her only 2 options.

The girls who are actually in that predicament need people that are the answer to prayers…You can’t open your house up to EVERY girl in that situation, so how do you help? How about the Pregnancy Care Resource Centers that are non-profit and don’t receive the financial help from the government like Planned Parenthood does? Many PCR centers have lists of people, or even Hannah Houses that are willing to help. But instead our silence on this political issue has continued the growth of Planned Parenthood, and they will gladly give those girls an abortion without regard to their mental health. Planned Parenthood and feminist owned the “war on women” narrative during the last election, not enough people stood up and called them out on the blatant lies they were telling, in turn, they also owned the female vote. They have helped to hide the crimes of sexual abusers, and they are a money making machine that victimizes not only the innocent lives taken within their facilities, but the Mothers and Fathers who are manipulated into thinking that their choice to terminate a life will not live with them forever.

The truth: The economically uneducated populous has led to the increase of poverty, and a loss of hope. It has created an atmosphere that historically encourages the growth of pain and suffering.

The progressives preach on the rhetoric of a utopian society, a society that offers equality, fairness and common good. Slavery, poverty, elitism, famines, genocides and holocausts have ALL been born out of this rhetoric. The “collective” ideology KILLS innocent people, and enslaves the rest. The class and race warfare infiltrating our nation does nothing but cause division among people, throughout history this rhetoric has done more damage to human compassion and respect for life than any other. There is NO good turnout from this ideology. It has never worked. Period. You don’t think your God belongs in this debate? REALLY?

The truth: The role of a woman has been distorted, leading to the loss of the family unit, the objectification of young girls, and the furthering of immorality. They have demanded equality with men, and we have disregarded it’s dangers. Young girls now find approval and worth in being the objects of men. Lena Dunham is the star of the HBO show Girls. In this show, college aged women practice casual sex, live irresponsibility, make poor choices and treat themselves as nothing more than objects. But these actresses and feminists starring in this show are glamorized and awarded as being role models for young women everywhere. We then dare question why women have such a low view of themselves and human worth that they make themselves that same object, then take pride in their ability to erase their “mistakes” by snuffing out an innocent life.

The truth: Fathers have abandoned their post because human worth has been trivialized. Somewhere within the feminist movement – the new feminist movement – Fathering itself has been trivialized. Children grow up to be violent, irresponsible and reckless because on the path to a fathers personal “wants” he has shown that the value of his offspring is lower in worth than his freedom to enjoy life. So we create more individuals who grow up more concerned about their own outcome than that of a fellow human being. Individuals who would vote for “free healthcare” even if it meant Grandma could be denied treatment for cancer because she isn’t a productive member of society once she reaches a certain age.

The truth: While you sit at your dinner party discussing how you shouldn’t be involved in politics, maybe someone in the Middle East is being executed for believing in the same God you do. Maybe a woman has been raped and therefore is “guilty”, now punishable by being stoned to death. Maybe a daughter is turning from the faith of her family and accepting Christ, but unlike your faith, this beautiful act of acceptance is a death sentence, probably a sentence carried out by her Father as an honor killing. Maybe a Christian store owner in Egypt is being crucified for his beliefs. The passive nature in politics, the refusal to learn or talk about the issues is what has led to our government financially supporting the governments that label those above acts as justice. And we as Christians use Christ as a crutch to shrug these horrid acts off as promised persecution and “nothing that you yourself can change”.

Instead of realizing that we belong in these issues, we stand in a dark room refusing to turn on the light.

I’ve said before that I know the outcome of this world, I know what happens. My God triumphs. My God wins. There is no budging in these facts. I am not perfect, and I could most definitely do more. But we learn religiously from the bible that eternal life is not just about living forever…It’s about the intimacy we are given with Christ. Knowing the outcome should not change what we morally support. Otherwise, what exactly is the point of the bible. Why not a one page document that simply says “Don’t worry, I win, just believe in me and sit tight until I come back”…

But it doesn’t just say that, does it?

In 1st Timothy 6:12 we are told to “Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses”

Paul reiterates that “eternal life” is intimacy with Christ. The word “fight” was used in place of the Greek word “agonizomai”, which means to agonize, or to be in agony. To endeavor, contend with adversity…to accomplish. When translating the bible they used words like “fight”, “agonize”, “strive”, etc. depending on the context of the verse. We will never be without guilt or sin, it isn’t possible…But striving to be morally upright is commanded of us.

Philippians 2:4 “Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.”

1 John 3:17 “But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?”

John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”

Romans 15:1 “We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.”

Wilberforce was blessed with the burdens of those who so desperately needed a voice. Christians are called to love and stand for those who are voiceless. Somehow we’ve fallen into this line of thinking that if we slap a bumper sticker on our car that reads “pro-life”, suddenly we become advocates for life. We find it just and right to paint “murderer” on a picket sign, but we fail to voice the truth about political beliefs that if put in practice would have afforded that – coldly labeled – “murderer” another option.

“He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.” – Benjamin Franklin

Being of both political and spiritual mind is not “serving two masters”. Through politics we are able to educate others on the inhumanity surrounding us, how our silence has let evil expand and how we can CHANGE it…Not just shove a bumper sticker on our vehicle and head off to our bible study.

When we stay content to simply “show up and vote”, we are the same as the Christian that is content to ONLY “pray” instead of both praying AND being the hands and feet. Missionaries around the world sacrifice their lives, their time, and their safety…They are true heroes. What happens in many of those countries can be changed by the politics of your country. We have a history of helping to overthrow tyrannical governments, but in the last 5 years we have helped dictators and tyranny to spread across many countries. WE, the USA have helped them harm others.

During operation Fast and Furious the US provided guns to Mexican Cartel members, those guns have been linked to hundreds of deaths. Mothers, Fathers, children, sisters, brothers…. We then voted to keep the individuals responsible for those deaths in Washington. What is your guess on the percentage of voters that knew the truth about that? What is your guess on the percentage of voters that knew about Benghazi and how our government watched as 4 men begged for help? Was it not your place to stand up for those innocent people?

The idea that because we carry a bible means that we can’t stand up for what is right, or be a voice for the innocent is astounding to me. We are on the brink of our country being destroyed, poverty being the norm, and lives being lost. If there was EVER a time for your voice to be heard, it is now.

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.” – Billy Graham

The bible is filled with active/forceful verbs that describe what our life in Christ should entail. Flee, love, pursue, fight, agonize, take hold, etc…We are called to action. Obeying God with courage and doing what we know is right. Fighting through the deceitfulness and pain of this world…Being a voice for the voiceless. Persecution is promised! Ask yourself, when was the last time you were persecuted for your beliefs? When was the last time you gave evil a reason to want you persecuted?

“Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.” - J.C. Ryle

The Lion, The President, and The Wardrobe

01 Friday Feb 2013

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!!THIS IS A REPOST FROM OUR BLOG WRITTEN BEFORE THE ELECTION!!

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver. “Don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.” ~C.S. Lewis~ (The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe)

I’ve been thinking about a few things over the last few days that I’m going to write about. I tend to focus my blog posts directly towards politics and where Faith collides I weave it in…Today I’m reversing that.

The first thing I want to make clear is that my Faith is ALWAYS before my politics, but Collision of Church and State is directed towards a larger crowd. Collision is centered in current events and the activities of our politicians, and we try to provide an explanation of WHY exactly people of Faith should be involved…Today I’m placing politics on the sidelines to discuss why Faith should not be weaved into our lives, but why our lives should be weaved into our Faith.

In so many areas, Religion has replaced what was designed to be the most beautiful relationship we will ever have.

Facebook has provided us the ability to proclaim what we’ve done for Jesus that day. “I’m just here to post about how amazing Jesus is!”…We proclaim the verses we’ve read, and how much WE love Him. OR, we proclaim how much WE realize that HE loves us. It’s good to remember what Augustine said; “The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient”. I believe that sometimes our posts cross the line between wanting to give God the Glory, and allowing ourselves to be the filter for that Glory. My favorite saying of all time: “The only successful witness, is the one who points at the cross and then ducks”. We’ve lost the purity of the relationship. We’ve become humble and proud of it!

SIDE NOTE: The above point is not to insinuate that talking about Jesus on Twitter and Facebook is bad. I do exactly that. It is to remind ourselves to grab the mirror and examine where our heart is when we post those things. WHO is getting the actual glory.

Religion is commercialized…On Facebook I get requests to “share this photo” if I dare claim to “Love Jesus”. I just imagine Jesus telling the disciples “Why haven’t thou followed me on Twitter yet?”, like our salvation is somehow hinged on a cheap declaration found on a social media site. Like the dark underworld found a loophole into breaking off the once “un-pluckable” salvation by using the most diabolical three words in the English language: “Share this if…”.

Wouldn’t it be nice if it was that easy? What if hitting “Share”, “Like”, or “Follow” automatically put our name in the good book? You go sin and get flagged or reported for questionable lifestyle, only to instantly gain forgiveness and redemption when you retweet a bible verse, favorite a disciple, or post worship lyrics? But that’s not life, it’s not reality, and even though so many of us live in a way that places God at about the same importance or relevance level as the above description, we should rejoice in the actual and yet often ignored reality.

Everyone that knows me is aware of my slight obsession with C.S. Lewis, on Twitter my location is listed as Narnia, I’ve had SO many people DM me inquiring about that location choice…Maybe it’s a clever way of not listing my actual location, or maybe somewhere deep inside I would love to leave this world, it’s politics, it’s pain, and it’s suffering, and just walk on the beach with Aslan by my side. Though we know that Aslan can never be anything near the image of Christ, and I am in NO way saying that…But I find that in some way he is so much closer than the human images I had been shown for years. I could never accept the human ideal of Christ, I could see the actor or look at the pictures and feel as though I couldn’t relate to this human image of an indescribable being…I also know that C.S. Lewis said on many occasions that it was just a story, and I concur. The mysterious animals aren’t real, and in the end it IS just a story…A story with STRONG undertones, but a story.

For some reason I sob when I read The Chronicles of Narnia or watch the movie…for some unspeakable reason between the 2 manmade ideals, one being a probably inaccurate photo that seems to bring peace to some by putting a face to the name, and the other a Lion…I tend to relate to the Lion.

“At the name of Aslan each one of the children felt something jump in its inside. Edmund felt a sensation of mysterious horror. Peter felt suddenly brave and adventurous. Susan felt as if some delicious smell or some delightful strain of music had just floated by her. And Lucy got the feeling you have when you wake up in the morning and realize that it is the beginning of the holidays or the beginning of summer.”

I can relate.

For me the idea of Narnia explained something so intricate in such an elementary way. My relationship with Christ. Sometimes my King and Kingdom felt so far away, but his nearness was just on the other side of the wardrobe. His fingerprints were on me, and His whispers and guides were in my world. I felt His presence in my life, but longed for the visual, touchable magnificent being I knew existed on the other side of the wardrobe. Not a man, but something so much more powerful…Gentle enough to hold me, but strong enough to protect me. To me C.S. Lewis just gave me a visual to an already present reality, and for that I am a fan. Maybe you’re reading this thinking “Is she crazy?!”…No, I know the books don’t align completely, but the concept is what I’m going after here…So when I talk of Narnia or Aslan in this post, just think it through.

When I hear talk of religion my heart feels something that isn’t described by Lucy, Susan, Peter, or Edmund…It feels dull. I read a post the other day that said “The end is coming, you’d be crazy not to believe in a God”…All I could think was “No Atheist in a Foxhole, right?”. But what a dark idea that is…Not the “finding God” part, but the “I’m finding God only because of the turbulence.”. That my friends, is religion at its finest. I am so thankful for those coming to Christ during these turbulent times, but I hope that it is for the right and real reasons…that the seed is planted in the fertile soil, per se.

Knowing that Aslan is great and powerful was just one aspect, knowing his love however…THAT was the beauty. Remove everything about Narnia from your head, now think of Aslan as just a powerful being with no personal attachment to you, and no discernable care…Would you cross into the wardrobe? Or would you only enter if dangers where insurmountable? No, the truth is that we can only long for the other side of the wardrobe because we long for Aslan.

I’ve read the end times prophesies and I believe that we are living in them… I am struck with “mysterious horror”, sometimes I’m suddenly “brave and adventurous”, and sometimes feel fear and peace at the same time. Do I feel like I should let go of politics? No. Fighting for what is right shouldn’t be hinged on the promised outcome, it should be hinged on the dedication of the one that promised us that outcome, and what He stands for. He told me to stand for Israel, so with Israel I will stand. If Romney wins I still believe that the world has already changed and that America is forever changed/changing, this still plays into end times. If Obama wins I believe we are on a much faster track. I’m living in this world, but my heart is in the most peaceful Narnia (think it over). I fear the future of this world, but I’m promised a different future. I fight for this nation, I brace myself. My faults are fear, selfishness and being dissatisfied when I’ve been gifted with what should bring full contentment. But when I stop for a moment and think, I’m reminded of the gift I’ve been given to witness these times…Let’s face it, as we watch the news unfold, as we witness this world, Faith is swiftly changing from believing what’s unseen, to seeing what was once only believed.

At the end of the day we all have to look at ourselves and at our God and KNOW that he is in control. We fight the politics, or like me, you fight them with snark…when I shouldn’t. I always say that I’m that one child that constantly has the parents head shaking…

This world, for lack of a better way to put it, has lost its mind. But more importantly, we lost the most important aspect of our lives…The church (as in the people) have forgotten the relationship. We are walking around with knowledge, walking around with this belief system, leaping in and out of our foxholes…But right now, right this moment we are beginning to witness the roar.

“And now,” said Aslan presently, “to business. I feel I am going to roar. You had better put your fingers in your ears.”

What a frightening and yet beautiful roar it is.

Ending this I’m going to throw a few thoughts out there. The most frequent accusations or questions thrown a Christians way are concerning all of the “rules” that they believe you have to follow or live by to get to heaven…What an inaccurate depiction of our relationship. I always compare it to a marriage where the husband says “No matter what you do, I’ll always love you, if you cheat on me, hit me, swear at me…etc I’m still never going to leave you because I signed a marriage contract promising to always love you”…It is BECAUSE of that dedication that a wife would stay faithful and try her hardest to be what she is supposed to be, unless her heart was never there in the first place. It isn’t because salvation is looming over our heads, it’s because His dedication and faithfulness is living in us. Because of this relationship I am happy that my salvation ISN’T as easy as a Twitter follow away. It isn’t graded by my Facebook and Twitter posts. It’s depth is not judged by the multitude of times I talk about my bible studies.

I don’t know about you or where you are in your life…But “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”…Focus on politics and do what is right, but always remember WHY you are. Don’t just follow Christ because the times are hard, and don’t just encourage others to follow Christ because the times are hard. Show them why the relationship is more important. Show them why stepping into the wardrobe is worth all of the responsibility and choices that come with it quite simply, because of Aslan.

~Mb~

Welcome to school, Comrade!

31 Thursday Jan 2013

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Welcome to school, Comrade.

Oh my…where to start.

So the idea for this blog post, or what you may call a volcano of deeply buried and constantly building irritation, came yesterday after my nephew had his bus get stuck in the snow on the way home from school. So, I am now going to let the straw debilitate the camel and spew all of my pent up thoughts concerning schools.

SIDE NOTE: This is NOT an attack on those who dedicate their lives to educating the sponge-like minds of the young. I know that there are many good hearted educators who truly love children.

ADDITIONAL SIDE NOTE: I’m really tired of having to make “side notes” like the one above. If educators can’t see how destructive our education system has become, they are probably part of the problem. I am also tired of the emotional “my feelings are hurt” responses instead of logical rebuttals.

I think a lot of conservatives take the 10 foot pole approach when it comes to discussing the dysfunctions of schools. We all go to church with a teacher, have a family member that is a teacher, or have friends that are teachers. Just today on my Facebook page a friend posted “Hug a teacher!”. In order to avoid hurt feelings we choose to skip the issue.

Have you ever noticed that Google is the endless source of knowledge UNTIL you are typing ~~angrily~~ with passion? Yesterday I found myself taking to Google to try and find information on “How to file a formal complaint against a school for being stupid and endangering our children”…apparently this is not recognizable to Google.

SIDE NOTE FOR GOOGLE: When someone searches for the above information, the page should just say “Breathe, count to 10 and try again.”

So my beautiful 6 year old nephew is going to school yesterday during a snow storm. If you keep your child home it is an unexcused absence, if you send them you have to TRUST that the school has been paying attention to the warnings and will treat your children as the irreplaceable cargo that they are.

(Angry face)

The bus drivers called the school and advised that the roads were getting bad and that they should let out early, but no, that was not an option. If this was a onetime occurrence I would say “don’t do that again”, but this is frequent. I struggled getting home from work on the snow covered, iced over roads. Apparently so did my nephews bus as it became stuck in someone’s driveway, which made ALL of the kids very late getting home, and guardians very worried.

(Angrier face!)

If you know who Madea is, you have an idea of what kind of response I have to my nephew being in danger of any kind. Now, once you’re done saying a prayer for the people who had to hear me rant, keep reading.

Point being, why are our kids put in danger to avoid a snow day? It seems that this is becoming more and more frequent with many schools. Maybe we have a deeper issue? Now to the rest of the weight bogging down the camel. It may seem like I am getting off subject now, but don’t worry, it all comes together…Hopefully.

Let’s face it, schools have changed. Somewhere along the way education took a backseat, and politics took over the entire vehicle. I have noticed this for a long time, but the beast showed just how ugly it is during the great “recall Walker” debacle that took place here in WI. I won’t go into the actual reasons behind the recall (FYI – I support Walker), but the actions from teachers and school officials was beyond repulsive.

Grade school children of all ages were returning home with political filled minds, their little “sponges” saturated with the ugliness spewed by a liberal teacher done wrong (well, by her/his personal opinion). For many children they were explaining how their own parents political opinions and support of Walker were going to destroy their education, or at least that’s what Mrs. ***** said!

Teachers were encouraging high school students to attend the Union organized protests. They were encouraging CHILDREN to go on strike from school to show the state and parents how much they appreciate their teachers. The liberal teachers driving a wedge between the moldable minds of the young and the parents that supported our Governor.

Whispers between parents began: “Maybe I should school my children from home?”

So, “teachers used bad judgment” you might say…No, they didn’t. They used very good judgment, and it was a test to see just how far they have come, and what they can get away with. They used the children as pawns in a very dangerous game…Who else did that?

Comrade, meet the possibilities.

In the USSR children were brainwashed from the moment they started being educated, by the time they reached 9 they were able to join the Young Pioneer organization. The little “Octobrists” were very prepared for their future endeavors as a Young Pioneer, they had already been sporting star shaped badges with a photo of Lenin when he was a young boy emblazoned in the middle.

As a Young Pioneer you were given a great responsibility, to oversee and advise a group of roughly 5 “Little Octobrists”. You repeated the comrades promise: “to love and cherish the Motherland passionately, to live as the great Lenin bade us, as the Communist Party teaches us, as required by the laws of the Young Pioneers of the Soviet Union.”

They made them feel important in their political activity…Why?

“Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.” Lenin

“Give me a child when he’s 7 and he’s mine forever” Hitler

Not only are our children precious to us, our children are precious to a political party that plans on bringing up the next generation of children to be likeminded with them. Makes me think of the video for Another Brick In The Wall. Our kids are being manipulated, liberals in the school system whisper the magic word of “individualism” in their ear and then TELL them how to be an individual…Just like the rest of the individuals who think alike.

YEP, ANOTHER SIDE NOTE: I don’t feel the need to post the definition of “individual”, I’m pretty sure we can all come to the conclusion that it doesn’t entail a military of the likeminded.

WARNING: I’m going to use the word “Socialism”. Considering many educators and politicians currently leading our country are self proclaimed socialists, I think I can now use that word without being deemed a conspiracy theorist.

As I said in my prior post, the definitions between socialism and communism are different on paper, but in real life the only real difference is a matter of years. Socialists LOVE children, not just because of their cute pudgy little faces, they love them as the political objects they turn them into. They won’t be so bold as to say that…Well, that’s not true, some of them are.

Glenn Beck reminded us on his show yesterday that in Arab countries the family of the victim chooses the punishment for the criminal. We don’t do that in the USA because we believe in a fair judicial system. Well…Some of us do. So while the politicians are using the family members of the Sandy Hook victims to push their pointless agenda, the world is watching while we take parents who just buried their children and ask them what they think about guns. They are playing on the emotions of gullible Americans.

Bullies.

When the President went on national TV and signed executive orders surrounded by children he not only appealed to adults who can’t tell the difference between a Semi-Automatic and a Fully-Automatic, he appealed to all of the children watching who saw that “This President cares about MY views, and I’m only a kid”.

I don’t know about you, but when I was 8 my most difficult decision was whether Barbie should ride on the horse or her convertible after getting married to Ken. I wasn’t mulling over politics, and I SURE wasn’t old enough to comprehend the many details that come with removing guns, or limiting guns. I wasn’t old enough to know about the millions of children that had been slaughtered by tyrannical governments, and I wasn’t old enough to realize that my right to own those guns was what stopped that same deadly tyranny from controlling my country.

But just like Hitler and Lenin, our Socialists like to get them while they’re young! Creating an army of kids who think the world owes them free birth control and Get Out of Pregnancy Free cards. Teaching them that guns are bad, and those who like them don’t like you…Or better yet, teaching them that those who appreciate the 2nd Amendment don’t care about YOUR safety, little Billy. They don’t care if YOU are shot at school.

The line between “They don’t care about YOU” and “See, they should be punished” is very thin. Other socialist/communist countries have proven these techniques to be successful. To liberals, the end justifies the means. It’s for equality…so what’s a little danger and bloodshed if the result is equality?? Am I right??? Stalin? Lenin? Hitler? Bueller? So, how exactly do we get people to agree to a government that will place their kids in more danger? Insist that the political party trying to protect those kids wants to put them in danger! Ya, that’s the ticket!

Although we may not feel the decline of schools while we are packing a lunch and sending them out to that nice bus driver, or attending that PTA meeting with your child’s super awesome teacher who makes turkeys with handprints, the fact still stands that when the chips were down, WI teachers involved children in their politics. Slowly they had manipulated them (whether they themselves knew it or not), and many children turned against their parents.

Many teachers are not to blame, it’s the entire education system at this point. They edit American history, change the narrative, remove the bible, remove the flag, remove moral integrity and responsibility from kids, feed them pills…etc. It’s really a flawless system that they have created. We can already see the changes.

Just look out for warning signs, like maybe when the youth were chanting “Forward” for Hitler they should have seen that he was manipulating the young minds…Wait a minute….Have I heard that slogan chanted recently?

Anyway, I’m scared of the changes that I see in schools.

I’m scared of the fact that liberals in school systems care more about gun control than they do the safety of the children. HUNDREDS of school aged children have been killed in Chicago, and they have the strictest gun laws in the US. Yet no one is fighting for those kids. Millions of children have been slaughtered by tyranny, but they aren’t protecting our right to protect the children they teach.

I’m scared of the fact that many schools get financial incentives when children are diagnosed with ADHD. More kids than ever are tranquilized in schools, and how about the fact that almost EVERY school shooting has been carried out by someone on the very medications that schools push like Girl Scouts push cookies.

I’m scared of the fact that teachers used their relationship with their students to make those students choose between their teacher or their parents in an ADULT political dispute. Yet I know conservative teachers who supported Walker, and they didn’t speak out in their classrooms. Interesting…

I’m scared of the fact that saving those snow days came before ensuring the safety of my nephew. Ok, so I attempted to tie it in….I told you it was the straw that broke the camel’s back!

Keep a close eye on your kids and their schools, even if they seem harmless. Remember that those Little Octobrists and Young Pioneers went home proudly displaying their Lenin stars to unsuspecting parents. We fail to remember that most dictatorships responsible for slaughtering millions would have been avoided if the majority of the people had known the future. I don’t know the future…Do you? Let’s avoid a repeat of history, and lets teach kids the REAL meaning of individuality.

Give a teacher a hug, especially one that isn’t pushing their political agenda on kids!

Equality or Depravity?

26 Saturday Jan 2013

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A few months ago I wrote a blog post concerning the equality of women and the dramatic kick off the pedestal the feminist movement has brought upon women. Since I’m no stranger to controversial topics, I’ve decided to expand on a recently escalated arm of this topic. It’s been a while since our last post, why not dive into the controversial deep end and get this year started off right.

I love a good debate, in the last few days I’ve had some interesting debates both on Twitter and Facebook concerning women in combat. I have found that the majority of the left love the G.I. Jane mentality of women on the frontlines. But I have also found some on the right that feel women are just as capable, that a volunteer army provides the gift of choice for the men who would not choose to fight beside a woman. Also, that a woman is given the same choice and willingly puts herself in danger.

Is it sexist to say that you would not want to stand behind a woman with a gun?

Is it feminist to say that you are just as capable of fighting with the guys?

Is it heroic for a woman to join in the battle?

Here goes!

First I want to bring up a few twitter posts from our ladies ~~embarrassing~~ serving our nation:

Nancy Pelosi: “Lifting the ban on combat is a significant step forward for equality. Women will now be able to reach the highest ranks in the military.”

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: ““Valor knows no gender.” Another historic step in the march toward full equality.”

In my post entitled “Women, a National Treasure”, I talk about my issue with so called “equality”…I referenced a quote from Ravi Zacharias talking about how God commanded men to love women as He loves the church, Ravi goes on to say that in doing so, God called for men to love women as He has loved humanity.

So to my point: When the feminists preach on equality, they are not talking about pulling you up from the lowly levels of the supposed barefoot and pregnant doormat, they are talking about pulling you down from the pedestals of treasured entities worthy of the utmost respect and protection. Debbie and Nancy should just come out with a blanket statement of “Thank goodness we’ve gained ground in our fight to stop men from holding us in such high regard that they won’t let us die in the barbaric conditions of battle.”

What torture would a female POW face that a male POW wouldn’t? Do you honestly think that a demented, vicious and brutal enemy would treat you both the same? Would a woman’s “benefits” not bring on a prolonged level of torture to a morally depraved regime that already finds women to be below the level of dogs? What honorable man would feel heroic allowing a woman into situations where she will possibly face those conditions, regardless of her willingness or her capabilities with a gun?

The social changes deemed as “appropriate” have only served to lower our level of human dignity. We assign a level of deserved degradation to countries that have the audacity and cowardice to place their armed women and children as shields…To treat them as a disposable entity unworthy of the utmost protection is seen as one of the lowest levels of masculinity known to man. My confusion then begins when our military places women on the frontlines, why does our position change to labeling this as a step towards equality?

Equality, thy name is Hypocrite.

Let’s give another example of this: Say your daughter is getting ready to walk to work at 1am, she will be walking in dead of night with the possibility of shady characters lurking in dark shadows looking for opportunities. (This is where most Fathers would figure out a safer option…but let’s roll with this…) Would you REALLY feel like a man sending your wife to walk your daughter to work? I. Don’t. Think. So. If you didn’t deem yourself a coward, you would surely be a delusional coward.

Is chivalry completely dead?

I am happy to report that no, it is not. I posed the question on twitter and received DM’s as well as replies that men feel as though this is an easy answer. The majority of the replies came from men who were familiar with combat, they were veterans, men currently serving..etc…Some were non military men that just knew what concerns they would have if on the battlefield with a woman. It was heartwarming. All gave a “nay”, women do not belong in combat. I did not receive ONE response on twitter from men (other than from liberals) saying that women should be placed in combat. While some women would yell “SEXIST”, I offer my sincerest thank you for seeing women as too precious to put through the hell that some of them have faced, or the hell they know exists. This feeds into my next position on why women being in combat is such a poor idea.

Since chivalry is NOT dead, honorable and brave men automatically have a sense of responsibility toward women. It’s not a prejudice. So what OTHER dangers are there?

SIDE NOTE: Women have only 60 percent of the physical strength of men, on average. Honestly, I am one of the women that are probably WELL below that, I don’t mind the prejudice.

If men have this automatic sense of protection and responsibility toward women, why do we think that adding another distraction to the battlefield is a good idea? How many lives will be lost because the men are trying to fight AND protect the women? How many men and women will face emotional damage beyond the normal amount battle already creates? For a man to see a woman, someone he is wired to protect, in hygienically depraved circumstances and emotionally damaging situations comes with its consequences.

This is not equality. This is not bravery. This is not biblical. This is not safe.

I’ve heard many stories, many testimonies from women who have served tours. I’m proud of our military women, but as a woman, if I wanted to throw myself on the frontlines for my country in an act of bravery and protection of my family, I would have to stop and realize that my choices could be putting others in danger, and could also lower the morale of men who have so bravely sacrificed so much for me already. The strengths of a woman are not measured by the vast amount of things they can do that are “better or equal to a man”. The strengths of a man are not measured by the amount of people he can kill or the awards decorating his chest. The measure of who we are is judged by our motives … If your motives stem from a dedication to your family and a love for the US, that’s heroic…If that’s the case, ladies, THINK of the implications that your presence will have on your fellow soldiers and their ability to fight and protect your family.

Is it so bad to accept our limitations and flourish in our abilities? Call me old fashioned, but I find that the roles of women have strayed so far away from any position of being deemed “treasured”. I won’t go into detail on that since I already did in my prior post. There are differences between men and women (besides the obvious), emotionally, physically, and mentally. You may not like the truth, but the truth cares not if you like it, nor believe it. In Israel the women fight, not because the government wishes that upon women, but because they are constantly under threat or attack and NEED the help. BUT, the women are treated VERY different from the men. They serve half as long, and they are automatically exempt if they marry or have children.

The natural reactions and inherent responsibilities of men with a conscience will always be there. It is society that teaches the man that his natural response is selfish and sexist. It is society that teaches the woman that raising a family is not beautiful or heroic. It is society that tells a woman that being treasured is degrading, that being protected is oppressive, that being cherished is inequality.

It is evil that teaches a man to abandon his natural God given responsibility to protect and love women. It is evil that teaches a man to stand behind her while she is shattered with bullets. THAT is why good men will always feel the need to protect women, even if the women are willingly putting themselves in danger. That is why brave battlefield ready women will cost lives. The best way to make the monster of chivalry decimation grow, is to feed it. Put women in vulnerable positions, in torturous conditions, in the hands of barbaric men…Then teach men to treat them as they would fellow male soldiers, that is giving the “monster” a buffet.

Lt. Commander Kenneth Carkhuff was relieved of his duties after being promoted for his “unlimited potential”, He was “destined for command and beyond”. Why was such a decorated and honorable man relieved of his duties? He was relieved of his duties because he expressed to his commanders that his Faith was colliding with his orders to lead women into combat. So instead of doing what other countries have done after the morale of soldiers left them compromised once women were introduced to combat, which is remove women from combat, we in America have chosen to force men to abandon their decency, or their careers. Young men everywhere want to be heroes, and like Lt. Commander Carkhuff, they also would take a bullet before letting a woman come into danger, or avoid the career all together.

When will we stop letting feminist desensitize our men, and start demanding the respect that is God given. Jesus went out of his way; he did things deemed as shameful, brave, and startling just to show the woman at the well how precious she was to Him. He commanded men to love women as He has loved humanity. I don’t know about you, but that kind of love seems beyond equal, beyond beautiful, and beyond fair to me.

In the Spirit of Christmas…

15 Saturday Dec 2012

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“Bah Humbug!” ~Scrooge~

“I’m not as interested in your heart palpitations as I am interested in seeing you quit smoking and seeing you on cholesterol lowering medication.” The myriad certificates, diplomas, letters of appreciation, and such,along with the gracious words of many a current patient, led me to the reasonably objective conclusion that I was in very good hands with this particular heart doctor. A “mild” incident – involving Vera-Ellen from “White Christmas” performing her famous ‘nerve tap’ on my heart for over two hours to the metronom setting of 180 time – inspired this conversation with my Egyptian born cardiologist. A similar incident three years prior – this one more of a Danny Kaye tap dance than the rhythmic meter of his co-star – introduced me to the disconcerting world of “relatively harmless” heart conditions. The twin daggers in his eyes dared me to refuse his advice. Sharp and convicted was his gaze. The wishy washy in me began instantly to crumble at his educated and judgmental proclamation… “The most important thing you can do right now is to go on cholesterol lowering medication immediately!” Oh he was very good. Very good indeed…

Invariably at this time of the year my mind is drawn, through every media outlet, to the controversy of the holiday season. Christian icons begging people to boycott establishments that refuse employees the opportunity to say, “Merry Christmas,” the manger scene on public property, billboards placed side by side – one points to Jesus, the other to atheism – and on and on and on. Paling in comparison this year by the unspeakable tragedy in CT is that controversy, but worth noting is that the nation becomes no more congruous after such an evil act. And Christmas immediately becomes an outlet for our thoughts and emotions. Why now?!? How could anyone do this now? Those families are supposed to be planning vacations, family get togethers, Christmas Morning! Outrage is appropriate! Assigning extra incredulity by virtue of the season, perhaps allows us to find the amount of horror that our minds tell us is appropriate. Yet it never feels like enough. 9/11 left me speechless. I get offended when I hear ‘young folks’ giving the day less solemnity than it deserves – by my standards.
Then the whole 2nd amendment arguments start. Should my level of righteous anger over the incident trump your anger over the sure to ensue constitutional rights debates?
A live and let live mentality, in totality, is dangerous and is more about self aggrandizement than it is about love or freedom of choice. It’s only ever when discretion and necessary prejudice is applied that it can ever become productive for such goals.
This seems self evident to me as a Christian. Especially since it’s difficult if not impossible to find a law – any law – that doesn’t have its purpose rooted in morality. The basic idea that a moral law requires a moral code which requires an objective author is a theory that seems lost to the world at large, but with no firm source for morality, this country would degrade (is degrading?) to a quasi chaotic state. The flow of reason (while overly simplistic) dictates there be an objective beginning in order to reach any effective ends.
But again, the acres of gray area are out there…
9/11? We deserved that.
How can you say that?!
Grief before 2nd amendment debates, for dignity’s sake!
Without the 2nd amendment we’ll be seeing way more of this, so this needs to happen now!
That billboard is offensive and wrong!
So is yours!
Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays!

So aren’t all these things about a freedom to choose? These three words inspire a whole New debate in the hearts of most Americans, but I’m talking about Freedom in Christ. And loosely American (common man) type freedoms.
But don’t we compel people by our arguments, driven by our convictions, to see our side? And frustration arises over the sheer fact that our obviously superior conclusion is not only rejected, but not even considered! Oh the Gall!

I find that a life rooted in Christ is more than sufficient to answer these issues, mostly by not answering them at all. Not like Christians don’t have their disputes, but a 1st Corinthians 13 Christian is, by biblical standards, on the right path. And reconciliation to God must happen before reconciliation (love) to man is possible.
My midlife crisis didn’t come in the form of a bruised ego causing me to want a younger car and a younger woman. It came in the form of revelation of a counterfeit faith and the need to make it more childlike. Some realize their mortality and want to cram more stuff into their life before they die. Some want more achievement. Either way it’s about feeling relevant. And as a Christian it, for me, is about being relevant to God. And as I renewed my commitment to God, with a deeper and hopefully ever maturing understanding of what exactly that entails, I remembered a sermon that my pastor gave about 16 years ago. He said that everyone, Christians included, have a heart problem. That our relationship with man and with God is always defined by where our heart is. My contribution to his sermon is this: Every encounter and experience that we have, is an opportunity to live off of every word that comes out of the mouth of God. Every conflict, celebration, event, everything. The method of the world is addictive. It’s easy. It’s ego boosting. It allows us to join in a cause that ‘regular’ people celebrate! It can be ego boosting. Important. It can seem right. But it’s bad cholesterol. It’s a slow painful fade into the world of ‘heart disease.’
Enter the Casual Christian. The ‘C & E’ Christian. He (or she) is a ‘good person’… occasionally inappropriate but tries to be morally sound… tries to go to church… and raises his/her kids right. But the casual Christian lives in the realm of the world. And in the philosophy of its ways. In some ways, the casual Christian is the heart patient. The question is, are we physicians? Or your church as a whole… is it a clinic? Or a pub. My wife is forever being approached by people – sometimes complete strangers – who are desperate for hope. For whatever reason they seem drawn to her. So does she offer platitudes? Or real hope? Does she say, “Just do good and you’ll be ok! Go to church twice a year! Live and let live!”
Yet on what level are we complicit in this mindset when we put such an incredible weight of importance on a holiday that was neither mandated (nor suggested) by the bible nor created by the church! We make Christmas such the end all to Christianity that it’s almost impossible to not believe that you are doing more than you’re doing by simply observing the day! By simply going to church on this most holy and absolving of days, why, you must really be showing God something!
I contend that our overinflated value of this day is a misguided placebo given to people who need real medicine. Or at the very least, is cholesterol meds to a people who really just need a new diet! We offer what my doctor unwittingly offered me: a permission slip. We make Christmas so invaluable that participation once a year must cover a multitude of sins. And for a safety net, we have Easter. We scoff at ‘happy holidays’ and ‘spring break…’ Really? That’s what they are! Man made and church made traditions – Christmas and Easter.
Don’t misunderstand. The birth of Christ and His resurrection are two days that I look forward to celebrating formally all year round! I’m saying the significance is not lost on me. No two events are more detailed in the entire bible. The historical remembrance is paramount. But in my humble opinion, I think the celebration of these days is optional. The more mandatory we make it, the more of a stumbling block it becomes. People are left feeling like their hearts aren’t in danger because their cholesterol is in check because their taking their pills twice a year, as required. To hell with the diet. I’m on meds.

And that’s what went through my mind as I told my doctor, “No.” I decided a diet and exercise were more beneficial than the prescription permission slip to eat whatever you want. That discretion and self control were better and more beneficial than casual gluttony followed by a regiment of guilt erasing pills.
Ultimately, the same could be said for weekly sermons, bible studies, youth groups, etc. And the same would be true.
So this is where I wind up. That it all starts with a proper perspective. That insisting that Christmas is essential actually may have a stumble block effect on non Christians. That the Christian walk is about daily choices and not quick fixes – (an inevitability if we place sacrament status on Christmas!)

We should be allowed, as a free people, to observe this holiday. Unfortunately, private businesses should be allowed to restrict the language of their employees but I expect that the free market will dictate to some degree the measure of the convictions of the owners of such businesses. We should have the freedom to aver our beliefs, both patriotic and non patriotic, as the subjective case may be. And we should have the freedom to believe or not believe in the absolute necessity of celebrating Christmas.

As long as freedom allows, I plan on observing Christmas and Easter with my family. But we need to be careful to not push people past the ever present sin that – apart from Christ – separates us eternally from God. And I think that’s what we sometimes do by over emphasizing these holidays. Catachismic dogma aside, this is where I stand.

By the way. My cholesterol is now normal – sans medication!

Happy Holidays!

*Disclaimer* – Not even my wife agrees with this blog post in total, but she does in principal. This is a very difficult ideal to iterate without generating controversy so please take it in the spirit in which it was drafted!

Merry Christmas!

~Tim~

The Little State That Could…

29 Thursday Nov 2012

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If only the Civil War was the only misconception that the left has had in the last ~~day~~ ~~week~~ ~~month~~ ~~decade~~ really, really long time…But alas, it is not.

In a land ~~far far away~~ situated between Canada and Mexico, the people are split on their alliance, who they support in the war between Hamas and Israel (Trust me, it’s not over.) I have seen too many posts to respond to concerning Israel “stealing” land from the Palestinians. My twitter feed has exploded with derogatory comments. That is why I decided to write this post.

Although typing up a basic response (basic for me tends to be too long) and exercising my mad copy/paste skills in each post was incredibly tempting, I decided to write this blog post to address my beliefs and factual backing for what I feel is some of the greatest misconceptions concerning Israel out there today.

“How would you feel if someone stole your land??? Those poor Palestinians!”

My gut reaction to statements like the above is to respond to this with “Really, you’re NOT going to side with God’s people?”. But I have always felt that my moral beliefs should be understood by the atheists too. Even though I feel strongly that a “moral law” is written on the hearts of men BY God, I try to approach my explanations in a way that can’t be construed as being “bible thumping”.

Now…We COULD go all the way back to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Promised Land. The 40 years of wondering in the desert. The history of Jerusalem. The Establishment of the Jewish Monarchy. The Roman Rule, Arab Rule, Ottoman Rule…etc. But for the sake of our sanity and a goal of keeping this a “blog post” and not a “book” I’ll keep it short…er…

Here is my brief, yet somewhat sporadic condensed history rant:

So let’s travel back in time to the 1920’s – 1960’s and deal with those land thieves once and for all. When Israel stole the land from the ~~Palestinians~~ British… BEFORE the State of Israel was declared, the land was territory of Britain. It became British territory through the Sykes-Picot Agreement (or Asia Minor). They called for it to be shared between the Arab Palestinians and the Jewish Palestinians (Since they recognized both), actually the word “Palestine” was given by the Europeans to name the region (region people, region.) The Jewish community (known at that time as the Jewish Palestinians) gave a thumbs up to the concept, the Palestinian Arabs gave a thumbs down. Why is it that we forget about British Imperialism after the whole “fall of the Ottoman empire”?

So, back to the middle of the 1920’s. The British divided the land, giving the Jews west of the Jordan river, and the Arab Palestinians what we now call Jordan. Then came the whole “We want ALL the land, lets push those Jews into the sea” idea…So they started the war games trying to drive the Jews out (they still haven’t ended). The Brits turned a blind eye to the chaos that they could no longer control, and the Jews decided that it was time to fight back and protect the land given to them.

Then the British turned the states back over to the UN (Adoption remorse?). BUT, upon receiving yet again an offer to have both a Jewish Palestinian state AND an Arab Palestinian state the Arabs said “no, we want all of the land that is both East & West of the Jordan river”. ~~Too bad…so sad~~ Well…isn’t this a pickle.

Since the Sinai Peninsula was traded to Egypt for peace, and Jordan was originally going to be within the Israeli borders, TECHNICALLY the most accurate way to describe the actions of that time period would be to say that ISRAEL is the one with whom had land “stolen” from them. There were NO Palestinian borders. None. Zip. Ninguno. Geen. It was a region. How do you steal land from the Arabs when land is GIVEN by the British to the Jews? Because they wanted it? Are we 5? It’s like when your Mom puts out a platter of cookies, just because you lick a cookie then put it back on the platter doesn’t mean the cookie is actually yours. It wasn’t their time to play “claim that territory”, because the British had already claimed it…and then GAVE it to whom they chose.

SO, throughout this time the Jews PURCHASED more land from the Palestinians, the Palestinians were removed from the land. No, not by the Israelis, but by the Arab countries that wanted to invade Israel. They said “flee so that we may bring our peaceful religions war machines into position”, ok…maybe they didn’t use that exact verbiage, but you get the point.

Throughout all of the wars, including the one between 1948-49 the Jewish Palestinians ended with a slightly larger state than what the UN had proposed. BUT, by the time we hit the 1960’s the Arab Palestinians had control of 85% of the Palestine territory, compared to the 75% they had been given.

Bum bum bum…The Six Day War.

The Six Day War was for the exact same premise as all of the previous wars between the Arabs and the Israelis. The Arabs rejected, and STILL reject Israel. The Egyptians had used United Nations troops from the Sinai Peninsula to block shipping to Israel’s port of Eilat. This was an act of war, and the Arab nations have NEVER denied that it wants Israel OFF the map. They don’t want peace. They don’t want Israel to exist.

During the Six Day War Israel fought Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia…etc (The Arab Republic.) And wins. (Somebody had their spinach…and you know…GOD.) Jewish people had control of the Sinai Desert. If you haven’t seen a map…that’s a large chunk. Israel (being the last shred of good in the Middle East) told the ready to flee Palestinian Arabs to stay in hopes of educating and finally finding peace between the two nations of people. Then in the 1980’s Israel gave the Sinai Desert to Egypt in an act of peace.

But from the beginning of the wars, up through current day, the Arab Palestinians have had ONE goal:

“Our aim is the full restoration of the rights of the Palestinian people. In other words, we aim at the destruction of the State of Israel. The immediate aim: perfection of Arab military might. The national aim: the eradication of Israel.” – President Nasser of Egypt in 1965

“We will not accept any coexistence with Israel…Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel . The war with Israel is in effect since 1948.” – Nasser in 1967

“This is our chance Arabs, to deal Israel a mortal blow of annihilation, to blot out its entire presence in our holy land” Cairo Radio

Oh, but they weren’t just filling their “burn book” with Israel…

“Millions of Arabs are … preparing to blow up all of America’s interests, all of America’s installations, and your entire existence, America.” Cairo Radio

So, you can be angry at America, and angry at the Brits. But the facts are, it was British territory, and it was GIVEN. Israelis are not thieves, in fact, they have given land to promote peace, and any of the land gained during the wars was because they WON the land during a war NOT started by them. But the problem isn’t the offers, the problem isn’t the lack of peace, and the problem isn’t Israel.

The problem is that the countries surrounding Israel want her gone.

The problem is that while Israel wants peace, Jihadist don’t know of such a thing as peace.

The problem is that while Israelis wants “coexistence”, terrorists want to drag their family members lifeless bodies through the streets.

During this time Iraq proclaimed that “Israel was an error which must be rectified”, Palestinians stated that “it is either us or the Israelis”, and Syria declared that it was time to “explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland”…etc. So from THOSE quotes alone we can clearly see a reason for a bad case of sellers remorse on behalf of the Palestinians. So while the Palestinian militant movement of Hamas is dragging bodies through streets and committing war crimes both by aiming at civilian locations, and hiding behind their own civilians, you’ll have to excuse me while I look at you with puzzled amazement when you proclaim your support of Hamas…Or better yet, your condemnation of Israel.

Israel tries their hardest to avoid civilians. They were even warning them with phone calls, roof knocking, and even dropping leaflets over Gaza warning them to “avoid being present in the vicinity of Hamas operatives.” Of course there are civilian casualties of war…But one side is doing their best to avoid as many as possible, and the other is meticulously planning them out.

Egyptian President Morsi backed Hamas and stated that Israel needed to end the aggression. Mr. Morsi is a high-ranking member with the Muslim Brotherhood and has an open door policy with the White House, what we fail to see is that the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and Hamas are basically sister terrorist organizations. They’ve all vocalized their deeply rooted hatred for Israel, including the Muslim Brotherhood…and yet our President supports them. Why haven’t we cut off economic funds???

Hamas is a progeny of the Muslim Brotherhood. When the Muslim Brotherhood says “jump”, Hamas says “how high?”. Of course Morsi had the power to create a “ceasefire”, he’s had it all along…And Israel has no urge to continue fighting. Hamas backs off, Israel backs off.

But hold off on your “peace celebrations”…For Israel hating Morsi to encourage a “ceasefire” tells us that deeper, more sinister plans against Israel are lying in anxious wait. We can’t possibly be ignorant enough to believe that he has had an instantaneous change of heart concerning Israel. The Morsi government has turned a blind eye towards the killing of Christians, and now are bringing in a new level of dictatorship. Egypt is about to get very bloody. So, right AFTER the “ceasefire” Morsi comes out with his sickle and hammer ideology…Sounds legit.

Islamic theocracies…They redefine the word “brutal”.

Back to the point…I ask that you put yourself in the shoes of Israel. Let’s say you purchase a house. While unpacking your dishes and settling in, suddenly a rock comes crashing through your window with a note:

“Dear ~~Israel~~ Jones Family,

We hate you and hope you die. We want to demolish your home, preferably with you in it…and build a pool, maybe even a mini bar with ackawi dip and smooth cardamom coffee equipped with straws long enough to accommodate our Burqa wearing women…You know…If we decide they can have coffee. So, we have weapons and will be violently attacking your home, and probably trying to vaporize your children.

Sincerely, All of your neighbors. (Including the people who sold you your garage)”

Would you not defend yourself? Israel has been taking numerous attacks over the years, rockets, warnings and brutality. But when Israel defends itself we give a “stand down” order?

I support Israel. I support her because God told me to. I support her because it’s LOGICAL. I support her because she is the one shred of decency left in the Middle East. I’m ashamed that 51% of my nation turned their back on her by voting in a President that supports her enemies.

Alright, I’ll finally get to the end of this post. But just know that if you’re dealing with Hamas sympathizers, you are not alone. We live in an America where a dictator gets a majority vote, and the people support terrorists and brutality in the Middle East while preaching on “peace”. There is more of this to come. How do I know this? Because “God said so”…

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