Timothy Birdnow

I discuss space quakes, magnetic reconnect events, the solar wind, and Global Warming in a new albeit short-lived piece at American Thinker.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/07/the_thunder_and_the_firecracke.html

The more we discover about our planet and our solar system, the less we know - and that means the more useless are those twenty-some-odd computer models used to predict doomsday.

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Dana Mathewson

Looks like Charlie Rangel will skate.  http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/07/29/democrats-gone-wild-report-rangel-cuts-deal-and-avoids-trial/

No details available yet but I notice what I pretty much expected: sources say that "at the end of the day, Rangel is not expected to be thrown out of Congress and that he is expected to run for reelection to a 21st term."

Now, if he were a Republican, they'd be calling for a firing squad.
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Update:

According to this article, Rangel may not skate after all.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_go_co/us_rangel_ethics

At least, not unless he promises to sit down to a crow supper and eat the whole thing...

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The Chairman of the People's United States (PUS), the Obama, does indeed plan to use his executive power to give amnesty to the illegal aliens inside the United States (himself included?) in an outrageous move to spare his party from the electoral consequences.

According to Numbers USA:

"The 11-page memo, drafted by Chief of Policy and Strategy for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Denise Vanison, outlines the various ways to offer a mass amnesty to the nation's 11-18 million illegal aliens through the use of administrative actions. The stated purpose of the memo is to offer "administrative relief options to promote family unity, foster economic growth, achieve significant process improvements and reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization."

"The memo proposes 18 different ways for the Obama Administration to essentially eliminate our borders through regulatory fiat and in clear violation of the letter and the spirit of U.S. immigration laws, which Obama swore an oath to faithfully execute," said NumbersUSA's Director of Government Relations Rosemary Jenks."

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The article quotes item four from the memo:

"The Act at 212(a)(9)(B)(i)(I) and (II) renders inadmissible for 3 or 10 years individuals who have been unlawfully present in the U.S. for 180 days or one year respectively, and then depart. By statute, DHS has discretion to waive these grounds of inadmissibility for spouses, sons and daughters of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents if the refusal to admit such individuals would result in extreme hardship to their qualifying relatives. Generally, the "extreme hardship" standard has been narrowly construed by USCIS.

To increase the number of individuals applying for waivers, and improve their chances of receiving them, CIS could issue guidance or a regulation specifying a lower evidentiary standard for "extreme hardship." This would promote family unity, and avoid the significant human and financial costs associated with waiver denial decisions born of an overly rigid standard. This revised standard would also complement expanded use of PIP as set forth in B."

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Get that; lower evidentiary standards.  In short, they will simply claim that anybody who wants in is an "extreme hardship" case and so we'll give them legal standing.

Other proposals in the memo include:

"Other options include: allowing aliens in the United States under Temporary Protected Status to adjust their status to Legal Permanent Resident, extending "grace periods" to leave the country for aliens on temporary work visa, changing the distribution time line for temporary workers on the H-2B visa, and granting up to 240 additional days on applications for employment authorization when the application is filed before the work authorization expiration date."

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In short, the BHO plans to remove most of our rules; without rules we have de facto amnesty. 

Why is the Administration doing this? It's not just because they want all of these new voters, no. It is because Obama - like his ideological friend and supporter George Soros - believes that the United States is a bad actor on the world stage, and he wants to fundamentally transform the country. How do you change a bunch of white redneck racists into good citizens of the world? 

Obama and his open-borders crowd are using a millenia-old tactic, one used by the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and the Romans on the Children of Israel; bring a bunch of aliens in and simply create a new nation. The leadership of the Kingdom of Israel, then of Judah, saw many of their leaders taken into captivity by their foreign sovereigns to prevent opposition, then saw new peoples settled on their lands, peoples who would be more docile to the foreign rulers. What is happening in America is our ruling class is acting the role of the Assyrian and Babylonian overlords. They may not be exiling American citizens (yet) but they are certainly bringing in new people at an amazing clip. They hope to break the stiff-necked older Americans to the yoke by diluting their influence, by creating a new nation inside the old, by reducing the old Americans in numbers.

Lebanon was once a pluralistic nation with a large number of Christians as well as Jews and Moslems. The influx of Palestinians into Lebanon destroyed the influence of Christians and Jews there as Lebanon was Islamicised, and the occupation of Lebanon by Syria sealed the deal; it is now another Islamic hell-hole. That lesson could not have been lost on a man like Obama, one with sympathies to Islam and the Palestinians. If it worked in Lebanon, why not here? 

This is nation building, only the nation being built is in rivalry with the one currently occupying the land.

But that is what Obama does best; destroy the good with only a hazy vision of what he is replacing it with. He campaigned on Change; we're getting it!  He's changing out the populace!

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In Florida there is a government program to teach tweens - middle school children - about sex via a virtual reality simulation. 

According to World Net Daily http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=184733

"The National Institutes of Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has awarded a $434,000 grant to the University of Central Florida to develop a video game for Hispanic children ages 12 to 15 that will use avatars to simulate sexy situations.

University nursing professor Anne Norris and university computer-science professor Charles Hughes will work with the university's Institute for Simulation and Training for two years on the project.

"A boy similar in age might approach the person playing the game and ask her to make out or there might be some sexual innuendo," Norris told Fox 35 News. 

Players will wear a motion-capture suit to control movement of the life-size avatars.

"It's a place to practice where there aren't any social consequences," Norris said."

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Just when we thought social "scientists" couldn't get any nuttier!

What I'd really like to know is, how extensive will those motion-capture suits be? Will they provide any feedback besides what is on the computer screen?  After all, what is the point of showing a situation that could just as easily - and is frequently - shown in movies, plays, books, and other outlets. The child is not going to get any "practice" without the actual feedbacks (and I think I need go no further with what I mean here) and is likely to merely be titilated by this. When a girl gets into a sexual situation where her hormones are engaged she isn't going to remember this game, except to perhaps recall how unfulfilling it was. Reality will "add flesh" to the computer fantasy.

In my opinion this is likely to do more harm then good.

After all, what arouses passion? Surely not the mundane, or the free exercise of a given action. Passions are aroused by the promise of something unfulfilled. American children face that all of the time, with a culture saturated in sexual activity or, rather, in visions and thoughts of sexual activity. Children see the ripe fruit on the tree, and it appeals to the eye. That is human nature; why did the Book of Genesis say eating an apple led to the fall of Man otherwise? It was understood that what one sees and is denied leads to desire.  We constantly titilate our youths. We show them images, tell them stories, tempt them in every way, then are surprised when our openly sexual society breeds, well, breeding.  We are surprised that our kids succumb to the pleasures of the flesh when they are endlessly exposed to the promise of paradise in fleshly pleasure.

What we need is to desexualize our children's lives, not teach them more about how to go about it. The notion that we can educate them is foolish. This game is just another in a long line of revolutionary efforts to create the Brave New World, a world where sex is simply another activity. That is and has been the goal of sex ed in schools, and it is the goal of this game, whether the creators admit that or not. It is predicated on the idea that "they'll do it anyway" and so the hope is to teach girls to say not - on occasion. It is not about abstinence per say. 

And it dangles the apple in front of the children's faces as surely as the serpent dangled it in front of Eve.

How many childish sex fantasies will this game generate?  How many girls - and boys - will lay in their beds at night dreaming of the sequences they participated in at school? How many will long for the dream to become reality?

One of the hardest things to do when one is on a diet is to walk away from a fattening meal under the nose. Anyone who has tried to lose weight knows the agony of the cheeseburger; once in hand it generally reaches mouth and ultimately stomach. The key to dieting is to avoid temptation; keep the cheeseburger in other hands, preferably in other rooms, more preferably in other longitudinal locations. One does not practice denying onesself a cheeseburger. We don't pick it up, waft it under our noses, savor the heady aroma, then put it back down and walk away. (Well, Mahatma Gahndi did such things, but he was a bit odd, to put it mildly.)  No, we avoid the danger entirely. Why do social scientists think we should handle our sexuality in a different way? Why do they believe it is somehow qualitatively different than our other passions and desires? 

A computer sex game is a terrible idea, one that tax dollars have no business supporting.

I have a crazy idea; maybe we should substitute a book for the game!  How about learning math, or science, or history instead of almost-screwing in the virtual world?  Crazy idea, I know, but it just might be worth a shot!

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Barack Hussein Obama had to temerity to make the following statement;
"We're not that far removed from what most Americans are going through."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/2529446,CST-NWS-obamacash24.article

Now, I was going to comment on the many ways Obama is just like an ordinary American; he eats Kobe Beef (10 oz. Filet Mignon Steak Imported from Japan - 1 ten ounce steak regular price: $449.Online price: $399.00 available at http://www.1-800-kobebeef.com/10ozfimistim.html) at dinners in his honor, flies pizza makers in from Pi in St. Louis to bake his bread (and he doesn't even have St. Louis style pizza), has rock concerts at the White House with his favorite Superbands, keeps his heat cranked to 85* in the winter (while telling Americans they have to disabuse themselves of keeping the thermostat at 75*), he flies his dog on a private jet, and his wife rents thirty rooms at a five star resort for his daughter's birthday.

He takes vacations on Martha's Vineyard, gets sweetheart deals from Tony Rezko to purchase land adjacent to his house for ridiculously below market prices, gets show-up-or-not jobs for his wife that pays three hundred grand for little or no work at the University of Chicago Medical Center, has his wife and children fly to Europe to meet him on a private jet, etc.

Now that I think of it, he's a regular guy!

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Harry Reid has taken the electoral lead in Nevada, according to a new Rassmussen poll.
http://www.lifenews.com/state5294.html

This just goes to show we cannot take anything for granted.  Reid was toast just a few months ago, perceived by voters as a radical and a man not concerned with his own citizens. But the GOP has let the Democrats off the hook over many issues - particularly the healthcare seizure - which could have kept Reid buried. Now he has risen from the grave, and may stay to bedevil us.  A Reid loss would have been catastrophic for the Democrats, at least from a psychological perspective.

The GOP really is the stupid party...

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Dana Mathewson

And it backfired, again.  But they have to get it right only once.  http://www.urgentagenda.com/PERMALINKS%20V/JULY%202010/28.BIO.HTML

Are the Democrats listening?

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This from our old friend The Southern Agrarian, with apologies to Dr. Suess:

I do not like this Uncle Sam,
I do not like his health care scam.
I do not like these dirty crooks,
or how they lie and cook the books.
I do not like when Congress steals,
I do not like their secret deals.
I do not like this speaker Nan ,
I do not like this 'YES WE CAN'.
I do not like this spending spree,
I'm smart, I know that nothing's free,
I do not like your smug replies,
when I complain about your lies.
I do not like this kind of hope.
I do not like it. Nope, nope, nope!
And I plan to vote, vote, vote!

Visit Joe's website at http://thesouthernagrarian.blogtownhall.com/default.aspx

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Dana Mathewson

\Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has some stones!  In this article http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=182633  he says that if Israel is again subjected to rocket attacks from Hizbullah, she will feel justified in attacking "any target that belongs to the Lebanese state," since Lebanon has allowed that organization to rearm.

Sounds like simple, straightforward logic to me.  I wonder why nobody in Washington DC seems capable of this kind of thinking?

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Dana Mathewson

On nights when I'm up late, like tonight (I had a heavy rehearsal with a "Tower of Power"- style band, and came home with a backache that needed major Advil and "holy waters," and for me to sit a bit in my comfortable office chair while I drank the latter), I tend to read the blogs and look for "interesting stuff."  If I'm lucky I find something that hits my funny bone.

Tonight I got very lucky.  Sammy Benoit, who hosts the wonderful Yid With Lid blog and writes very well thereupon, must have needed a laugh and decided to create one.  I pass it along to you for your enjoyment:  http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/07/oliver-stone-is-rightmaybe-its-time-for.html

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More on the raw milk issue. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=184133

Apparently, regulators in California sent armed police with guns drawn to raid a raw dairy farm. As an employee of the farm points out, there is a marijuana farm down the road, but the state chose to raid them, an establishment selling unpasteurized products.

History is replete with despotisms using food as a weapon. The Egyptian Pharoah controlled the water of the Nile, and by extension controlled the food supply. There would never be a revolution in Egypt, because revolution meants starvation. In this way Pharoah held the power of life and death over his subjects. This was true in Mesopotamia as well.

During the Meiji Restoration, when Imperial Japan began her program of modernization in the 19th century the first steps involved not the building of foundaries or ships, not the establishment of universities, not the creation of a mechanized army or better transportation but the modernization of the Japanese agricultural sector. The Japanese rightly understood that it was an absolute necessity for Japan to be able to feed herself, that if Japan had to import food she was a vassal of the food exporter. Modernization occurred only because Japan had ample food, and the people could turn their efforts to other pursuits. 

According to this website:

http://www.thecorner.org/hist/japan/meiji2.htm

With state encouragement as such, agricultural production steadily expanded. Total rice production, for example, grew over 30% between 1880 and 1894, partly because new land was opened for cultivation, but mostly because new farming methods increased productivity.
On the other hand, great progress was made in silk production and export. By the 1890s, silk alone already accounted for 1/3 of all Japan's export trade by value. Three reasons explained this:
a. There was a favourable market in Europe.

b. The high quality of Japanese silk attracted many buyers.

c. Silk manufacture was technically improved.

D. Effects

i. Since the Meiji government's revenue depended largely on agricultural taxation, expansion in agricultural production indirectly increased the government's income that could be invested in other modernization programs.

ii. The great expansion in silk exports helped to balance foreign imports, thus partly making up for the unfavourable balance of payments that Japan had been suffering.

iii. In general, agricultural exports earned much money to pay for the industrial machinery and raw materials that had to be imported.

iv. The increase in the income of the farmers created a home market for locally-made consumer goods.

v. Rural discontent was to a certain extent pacified when the incomes of many farmers were raised.

vi. Agriculture became increasingly specialized and commercialized, which increased tenancy as well as large-scale concentration of land in the landlords.

Many poor tenant-farmers went from the villages to the towns, thereby providing cheap labour for urban industrialization. When more and more farmers became tenants, the countryside was increasingly under the control of conservative landlord-merchants. Thus, Western democratic movements failed to take root in rural Japan.

(PYL Woo, adapted by TK Chung)

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As a result, Japan was able to afford to develop industries, and the modernization program that started after 1870 had worked so well that by 1905 the Japanese were able to defeat the Russians in an Asian theatre war fought in a conventional manner - something no non-European nation had ever been able to do since the Industrial Revolution.

So, what's the point? The point is that Japan would have remained mired in a quasi feudalism, and would have resembled the other nations of Asia at that time such as Korea, had the Meiji not understood the importance of a robust agriculture.

A nation is only as strong as it's agricultural sector. That is why there is no Soviet Union around today; collective farms just didn't produce enough produce. The only reason the U.S.S.R. managed to survive and threaten the U.S. is because America "sold" them huge quantities of grain and other foodstuffs on a regular basis. American liberals bleated about the suffering of children, and demanded we not "use food as a weapon" so those poor children suffered deprivation and totalitarianism for much of their lives while the elites of the communist party lived well on imported goods.

That is why experts understood that the Soviet Union was going to collapse when word came of a riot in  which peasants attacked a train loaded with grain; a starving public, willing to face Red Army guns and the gulag for food, were capable of taking the whole rotten structure down as well.

And that is why the Obama Administration is trying to get a much firmer control of agriculture.

Consider California's Imperial Valley; the EPA ordered that water be cut off to what is arguable the most fertile and productive agricultural land on Earth. It has dried up, resembling the desert it once was. Why was this done? Ostensibly to protect some endangered species, but is that the true reason? Perhaps it was a test case, a test to see if agriculture could be destroyed by government fiat, to see if a region could be forced into servitude?  The promise of increasing water allotment to the Imperial Valley was certainly used as an enticement for support for Obama's health care seizure plan.

What the government is doing to the dairy industry is more of the same. I wrote about it at Canada Free Press http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/23222 and again here at Birdblog http://tbirdnow.mee.nu/epa_reclassifies_milk_as_oil_institutes_draconian_regulation Dairy farms have traditionally been the recipients of government handouts and price supports, and now the farmers are going to have to pay their dues. It is illustrative of the insidious nature of "benefits"; take them now, and those who give them to you own you. Dairy farming has danced with the devil and now must pay the price.

This is a test to see if a whole industry can be placed under the thumb of government. Corporate farming concerns like Arthur Daniels Midland stand to win big, with many small competitors driven from the field or engulfed in red tape and fees. Dairy farming becomes more centralized, and likewise more obedient. Imagine how Obama could squeeze the populace in a state heavily dependent on Dairy farming!

The top dairy states are California (the Inland Empire being a prime source and also heavily Republican), Wisconsin, New York (upstate New York tends conservative), Pennsylvania, Idaho, Florida, Minnesota, Ohio, and Vermont. Please note that, while most of these states tend to be Democratic, they are often up for grabs, and certainly their congressional districts in the dairy regions tend to be more conservative. Florida gave America Bush over Gore, Minnesota has rocked back and forth between the GOP and Democrats as has Ohio, Pennsylvania gave America Rick Santorum. These are states that could be swayed by the milk farmers, who can be pressured to toe the line or face bankruptcy. It is one way The One can get his tendrils into the fabric of American life, can punish his opponents.

It also gives BHO an idea of how to go about his imperial ambitions; if this works he can move on to another agricultural sector. Already the government has a good start on controlling corn farming, considering the ethanol mandate, and now they are getting a handle on dairy farming. What's next?  Fruit production? Cotton? There are ways.

And those ways inevitably lead to more government power over the individual and society.  Regulations can make a region prosper, or make it die on the vine. Consider what prohibition did to viticulture in the 20th century; Missouri was the second largest wine region until prohibition killed it. How long before we see prohibition's return in another form? 

Obama clearly has Pharoahistic ambitions. Let's hope we do not become a new Egypt, with the god-king on the throne!

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Ron De Haan forwards these warning signs of war with Iran:

FRIDAY, 23 JULY 2010 US Troops In Eleven Countries Encircle Iran -War is only weeks away? US forces currently operate in at least 11 countries within striking distance of Iran. These are Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan, Kuwait, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Kyrgyzstan. While Manas Air Force base in Kyrgyzstan might be available for operations against Iran, there are currently no US bases in Uzbekistan, so far as is known. But the US is trying to re-open its Uzbek base, which was closed in 2005.62 Thus, US military forces are now present in virtually all of Iran’s neighbors, except Syria. Many of these are places which the US peace movement, to the extent that it has survived the coming of Obama, has never heard of. This includes more than 50,000 GIs in Iraq (where the US is now alone, after the departure of all coalition contingents) and Afghanistan, where there are some 100,000 US forces. There are US forces in various disguises in Pakistan. There are NATO bases, including the formidable Incirlik air base, in Turkey. Whether Turkey will allow its territory to be abused for aggression is another question. US forces are now in Azerbaijan, a country which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited at the end of June. When these troops showed up, they provoked an immediate stir among the Iranian Pasdaran: ‘…a large American force has massed in Azerbaijan, which is on the northwest border of Iran. [Iranian] Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General Mehdi Moini said Tuesday that his forces are mobilized “due to the presence of American and Israeli forces on the western border.” The Guards reportedly have called in tanks and anti-aircraft units to the area in what amounts to a war alert From New World Order 101

Here is the source: http://www.nwo101.com/2010/07/us-troops-in-eleven-countries-encircle.html Also read this link: http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010062010673/editorial/a-military-strike-on-irans-nuclear-infrastructure.html

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Iran’s Gonna Pop Interesting news from Persia; The Baazaris; the class of people who make money in and run the indispensable bazaars of Teheran and other major cities in Iran have turned against the Iranian regime. The regime, bankrupt after redistributing the wealth in Iran to pay their political machine cronies (sounds like Washington huh?) desperately needs money to pay the thuggish revolutionary guard. They tried to impose a 70% tax hike on the bazaar merchants, and the merchants announced a strike. Predictably, this paralyzed the city of Teheran, which is the largest part of Iran’s population and economy. The Mullahs and Ahmadinejad backed down, but the Bazaaris stayed on strike. This is extremely bad news for the Iranian authorities. To give some perspective; the 78-79 festivities started with a student revolt that looked in some ways quite similar to the recent Green revolution, with similarly young, idealistic Persians demanding freedom. This revolt was easily put down by the state apparatus, as was the Green revolution, but then, the Bazaaris got involved. They joined up with the clerics, the socialist/communists, and the students and suddenly all those unprofessional rabble rousers had real muscle. You could compare the Bazaaris to the unions, but they are even more important to the Iranian economy and tend conservative; they don’t like change and they don’t like anything that gets in the way of business. With out of control inflation, redistributionist policies, cronies getting hand out contracts from the government and now this tax hike to pay for it all, this regime has finally gotten in the way of business. Now, all the elements are in place that were there in 1979 except for one thing; a single, populist leader in exile waiting in Paris (he had been in Iraq, but had made too much trouble there) who represents all the frustrations the Persian people have with the regime. We don’t see an Ayatollah Khomeini waiting in the wings to take power. That may be a very good thing though, since he became a strong man and set up a brutal theocracy. If multiple factions have to fight out who gets what after the fall of the Mullahs, maybe they will develop some kind of checks and balances or pluralistic system. If it were some African state, I wouldn’t bet on it, but this is Iran, and they have done things like that before. In 1905, the Constitutional Revolution in Iran started with the merchants closing the bazaar. This led to huge changes in the state and the constitution that Iran still (theoretically) holds to. In 1891, it was the bazaaris who began the protests against the tobacco tax that led to the tobacco revolt. Again, a big time political event. Notice a pattern here? The heart of Iran, it is said by some, is in the bazaar. If the bazaar merchants are now siding with the Green movement youths, the Mullah’s regime is probably finished. I would predict that something significant will happen in the next few months; either a Tiananmen Square type resurgence of the regime backed by naked force, or a much bigger, more organized, more powerful, and far more effective version of the Green protests we have seen up till now, probably ending with the toppling of the Mullahs. Well, my prediction is out there, tell me if you think I’m wrong. I have been saying something in the Middle East was going to blow up for a while now, I just thought it would be because of the pressure Iran is putting on the rest of the Middle East, but if it collapses due to internal problems before the region reaches a boiling point, that could save us the inevitable bloodletting that was going to occur. One more thing; don’t be surprised if the Tiananmen Square scenario happens and it involves military or financial aid from China. China has invested a lot in the current Iranian regime and all bets are off if it changes. They have a good thing going with Iran and want its oil. They have backed up other clients, like Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, keeping tyrants in power who serve their interests. Iran is a big and difficult to control, sophisticated and educated population, so they won’t be easily cowed, but don’t be too surprised if China sends Iran the necessary military aid to do just that. From The Biggs Report

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House OK’s possible Israeli raid on Iran Press TV July 24, 2010 Republicans in the US House of Representatives have introduced a measure that would green-light a possible Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. Resolution 1553 provides explicit support for military strikes against Iran, stating that Congress backs Israel’s use of ‘all means necessary’ against Iran, “including the use of military force,” BBC Persian reported. The introduction of the measure coincides with a pattern of renewed calls for military strikes that have escalated since President Obama signed Congressional Iran sanctions into law. Neoconservatives who were instrumental in orchestrating the Iraq War, such as Bill Kristol and Reuel Marc Gerecht, have led the stepped up calls for military action. Hawkish former Bush administration official John Bolton recently laid out the game plan to prod Israel into attacking Iran, arguing that outsiders can “create broad support” for a strike by framing it as an issue of Israel’s right to self-defense. Supporters for military strikes, Bolton says, should “defend the specific tactic of pre-emptive attacks” against Iran. He said that Congress can ‘make it clear’ that it supports such strikes and that ‘having visible congressional support in place at the outset will reassure’ Israel. In spite of support from the neocons, top US military leaders have warned of the many dangers of military strikes against Iran. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has argued “Another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need. In fact, I believe it would be disastrous on a number of levels.” Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has expressed his own serious reservations about an attack on Iran. The US, which is already providing billions of dollars worth of arms to Israel every year, describes Tel Aviv’s military edge in the region as being in America’s interest.

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I have a fine rant about Obama's "faith" in the American People at Canada Free Press. Check it out!
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/25762

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My father-in-law (a law professor emeritus) forwarded this piece from the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/opinion/19douthat.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Now, I thought it would be just another left-wing apologetic, mocking conservatives who claim bias in academia against us, and to a large extend I was right (for example, at one point writer Ross Douthat mocks the right for complaining that the Obama Administration was "supposedly going easy" on the Black Panthers [SUPPOSEDLY !!] and he call complaints by white male Christians Noxious and Ridiculous "Is there any group with less to complain about, they often wonder, than white Christian Americans?" Has this guy ever tried living as a white Christian American? I would LOVE to know what priviledge we are granted by society; pedophiles and Nazis are given equal to greater respect, and treated better in prisons, I might add) but the piece actually grudgingly admits there may be miniscule merit to conservative complaints.

He quotes a study of admissions and affirmative action in Ivy League schools, and concludes that, yes, there is bias against white male Christians. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9072.html Actually, he doesn't put it quite so baldly, claiming the process favored minorities and wealthy whites, which is, of course, a tacit admission of guilt.

Douthat seems to believe white angst over reverse discrimination started in 2000 with a speech delivered by Pat Buchanan at Harvard; he clearly has no clue about the problem, either of it's origins, it's history, or it's impact. Why did George Wallace almost win the Democratic party nomination for the Presidency in 1972? Tweren't just racists supporting Wallace then. Why did Ronald Reagan nearly wrest his party's nomination away from Gerald Ford in 1976? The last thing anyone could call Reagan was a racist, and his election - and subsequent presidency - was remarkably free of racial animosity.

What happened was a betrayal of the Civil Rights movement. The white Christian culture believed we were getting a color blind society, a nation where one's race, religion, sex, or whatnot was immaterial. For your information Mr. Douthat, this is the essence of Christianity, or at least of real Christianity, and the Civil Rights movement would never have occurred without those despised white Male Christians. The Christian belief in the equality of all men was at the heart of the movement, and that is why Martin Luther King was so powerful; he was a christian preacher, and he reminded Americans of their roots. But the remedy taken was a betrayal; instead of a color blind society we got Affirmative Action, preferential treatment for protected classes. This was a "bait and switch" to the majority of Americans; they THOUGHT they were supporting equality under the law, and learned that some were more equal than others. In fact, some were highly prized solely for being born with darker skin and, perhaps fundamentally more important, cultural traits outside of the mainstream of society. The highest prize went to those who embraced a culture, who were "down for the struggle" meaning they rejected the very society that was offering them advancement beyond their talents and abilities. That is the core of Affirmative Action, and it is unjust.

It is unjust to white people, but also to orientals, who traditionally do very well in school and yet find themselves discriminated against for their studiousness and hard work. It is unjust to blacks and hispanics, too, because it presupposes they are not really capable of making their way without a great deal of help from white liberals. It cheapens their accomplishments. It advances some to levels beyond their competency, solely because of the color of their skin (not according to the color of a person's skin but the content of their character - who said that?) It encourages and reaffirms certain cultural traits that are detrimental, because those traits make the individual "authentic" i.e. having children out of wedlock or listening to gangsta rap or using foul language. It is a great cruelty to minorities - probably in more ways than it is a cruelty to the discriminated against whites.

If Mr. Douthat doesn't believe in reverse discrimination, perhaps he can explain the Bakke case? That was in 1978, when a man didn't get into UC Davis medical school solely because he was white. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/affirmativeaction.htm

But it goes much deeper than government policy and exacting standards; liberals like Douthat and his chums at the New York Times have wormed their way into so many institutions that discrimination against white males - particularly white male conservatives - has become systemic. Where, Mr. Douthat, is the token white Christian male writing NYT op-eds? The mainstream media is nearly monolithically liberal, as is academia, as is Wall Street, as is Madison Avenue, as is Hollywood. The left has sewn up the instruments of the dissemination of information, and Mr. Douthat is evincing a perfectly normal contempt for those rubes to whom he feels superior. I doubt he even sees this bigoted attitude in himself; it's just the way things are. He is clearly trying to be fair in this piece, yet fails in the attempt.

Part of the election of Barack Hussein Obama was a result of reverse discrimination. White Americans have bent over backward to prove their racial tolerance, with white kids adopting black fashion, black mannerisms, black music. Any school teacher will tell you that in predominantly white schools the black students are usually class leaders because of a certain deference paid by the young whites, who want to show they are post-racial. Many of those despised white Christians voted for Barack Obama to prove a point, both to themselves and to the world; we are past this shameful stage, we accept anyone.

Now, it's true that there are still white racists in America, but there are a great many black racists as well, quite possibly more black than white. Here is one of them http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/06/video-the-nice-young-man-eric-holder-left-off-the-hook/
And our nation's top cop, Eric Holder, ordered that this fellow and his friends not be prosecuted in an open-and-shut voter intimidation case because, as Holder believes, they have been discriminated against and deserve a break. Give ME a break; this is a prime example of why us white male Christians are upset! Can anyone imagine this being dismissed if the situation were reversed? Yes, shabazz's grandparents were discriminated against, but that hardly justifies punishing the grandchildren of the discriminators. We have equality under the law, and that is why whites supported the civil rights legislation, and why whites supported Barack Hussein Obama. We thought we were getting a post-racial society, and instead have gotten a reverse Jim Crowe. What next? Will Black racists lynch whites who date blacks? Oh, silly me; I forgot about Brian Milligan Jr. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmWd2qWWtMA

There were no hate crimes applied in this case, I might add. In point of fact, we have laws about hate crimes which are designed solely to be accessed by minorities. I have yet to come across a single instance where a minority has been prosecuted for a hate crime, despite the fact that there have been numerous instances where the criminal has admitted he committed the act because of hatred of whites. Can anyone give me an example of a black or latino charged with a hate crime against a white person. Anyone?

Americans hoped and prayed that electing a black man to the highest office of the land would finally put an end to race-baiting and acrimony, but it has done nothing but exaserbate the problem. Another in a long line of bait-and-switch.

But to get to the point about this article; it is obvious the New York Tombs is getting frightened. It just isn't their style to admit there may be a problem, and the fact that they are admitting it is evidence that it has gone well beyond problem status and has become a full blown crisis. They CAN'T continue to claim everything is hunkey-dorey. They realize that the American public is reaching a boiling point, and steps must be taken to cool the stupid dopes who read their newspaper down a bit. Give them a small bone to gnaw. So they admit there is a little teensie weensie bias in college admissions - a perfectly understandable bias - and maybe tempers will cool.  

I think this op-ed illustrates the real fear among liberals; they know that they are in great peril of losing their power. This is their moment, the moment of triumph, the culmination of their life's work. They have labored for generations to reach this point, the point where America becomes what they dream of, a socialist nation, humble, weak, penitent. But public anger is about to boil over, and if it does their plans may well be shattered. They have to cool passions in some way, and so we will see bones tossed to the general public.  "Oh yes, we realize there may be a problem, and we'll do something about it. We aren't the biased propagandists you believe we are." But do not look behind the curtain! They speak with forked tongue; people like Douthat hold us in contempt, and any consiliation is for strategic reasons only.

Sorry sir; been there, Dounthat!

There are too many alternative sources of information, too many ways for Americans to connect. There was a time when conservatives were atomized, isolated in bubbles of their beliefs in a bathtub of dirty liberal water. With a monolithic media, a leftist academia and primary educational system, with advertising and movies and printed media controlled by a few companies that the left had been able to infiltrate and dominate, the average American had no way to find like minded people, and no means of learning what was happening and how it was happening. Everything went through the liberal filter. Talk radio, cable television, and the internet broke that absolute power, and now there is a more informed public. More informed, not informed, though; the left still controls the real power in the dissemination of information, and they still sway the unengaged who believe what they are told. One has to be an active participation on the web. Only one cable news network is even remotely fair (Fox is hardly conservative, although they have conservative commentators) and talk radio is relegated to the AM dial. Still, truth is like water; given time it will carve the Grand Canyon, though it start as a trickle. Truth is like leaven in bread; a little added to a batch will leaven the whole loaf. The left knows their world is artificial - a construct of their minds, something created in their imagination. They know that truth cannot be permitted before the public because truth will pop this soap-bubble world they have created. They desperately want to regain control of the dissemination of information.

But the genie is out of the bottle. How to put it back? All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put an egg back together, after all.

There are things they can do, and they are trying to do them. A media bailout is one; they will strangle the citizen-reporters of the internet with a tax to support traditional journalism. Another is to use copywrite law to destroy bloggers. A fairness doctrine for the internet. Net Neutrality. It goes on and on.

We must be vigilant. While articles like this one suggest we are winning we must remember that these people will stop at nothing to retain their power, and they will be most unpleasant in their deaththroes. We must beware!

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Jack Kemp

The scene was Herald Square. Dozens of bicycles - some of them reclining ones - are covering the street in front of Macy's headquarters, cordoned off by the New York Police and Fire Dept. The Police have brought their band and the Fire Dept. has brought two large hook and ladder trucks to support a huge American flag suspended between them. It is the hour before the approximately 25 mile bike ride through and around Manhattan, followed by a ride over the Brooklyn Bridge and on to the New Utrecht-Bensonhurst neighborhood for a block party. They will have a NY Police escort and those not well enough to use standard bicycles, those using the reclining ones, will be given the lead position (right behind the police vehicles). Although I was told last year that members of the British Special Air Services would be riding this year, none are in sight - but a group of Israeli Defense soldiers and supporters made the ride with the American "Wounded Warrior Project" (www.woundedwarriorproject.org), as they did last year.

Visibly absent from this event was Matthew Modine, who participated last year, yet this last March had made a statement about:"Imagine if somebody were to really sit down with Osama Bin Ladin and say, "Listen man, what is it that you're so angry at me about that you're willing to have people strap bombs to themselves, or get inside of airplanes and fly them into buildings?"  http://tbirdnow.mee.nu/mathew_modine_bin_laden_and_soldiers_ride

With some of us all sitting on the edge of the small stage, where former Yankee champion Bernie Williams would later play The Star Spangled Banner on his guitar (and sign a few autographs), two Wounded Warriors told me of their injuries in Iraq. One casually talked of having his shin bones hit by the force of a bomb and the unreal feeling of pain he felt. His buddy, wounded in the explosion of a bomb in a dining room Iraq in 2004, also talked casually about being treated there and then air lifted to Walter Reed hospital. I shook his hand. He has the remnants of a thumb on it. They told me they would also be riding on Long Island the next day. The Wounded Warrior Project had transported them from where they work in New York State, covering their expenses.

Gone also from the front of Macy's is Deuce, the healing dog who works at Walter Reed. His handlers felt the weather was too hot for for him to make the trip to New York. Another healing dog named "Houdini" would later be on hand in Brooklyn for the children (of all ages) to pet.

As the pre-event ceremonies end, the riders head out onto the Avenue of the Americas to ride north through Central Park and back down through Lower Manhattan. This year they  took a slower pace because of the heat, reaching the finish over an hour later than expected. Last year a woman riding with the group took a fall in the park, and I'm sure they wanted no repeats of events like that.

Hours later in Brooklyn, the crowd waited to welcome the riders. The NY Fire Dept. had  set up two hook and ladder trucks to suspend a huge American flag over the street (possibly the same ones that were at Herald Square). Old ladies placed their aluminum folding beach chairs on the street corner to watch the procession as small children climbed in the back of a vintage fire truck to sit on its benches. The Fire Dept.'s Gaelic Society pipers waited on the corner, as did the two motorcycle clubs, Blue Angels (NY Police) and Rolling Thunder (military veterans). An Italian-American society band played some patriotic and old Italian songs as the public address system periodically announced how far away the riders were. A few old time veterans on senior scooters cruised the street in front of the block party, waiting to greet the riders.

Finally, the bike riders arrived from Manhattan as the Rolling Thunder motor bikers lead their procession.

To formally welcome the Wounded Warriors and their supporters, there was a U.S. Army chaplain who gave a prayer invocation. The local Bensonhurst Police and Fire Dept. commanders greeted the riders as well. A master of ceremonies said Brooklyn is "best place in America" and it is "The Republic of Brooklyn." No one was dumb enough to dispute this in the heart of a Bensonhurst block party.

The food for the party was, once again, prepared by various fire houses of the NY Fire Dept. and it was good and plentiful. You could even eat a hot dog or hamburger before you got entered the sit-down food line - if you had a wrist band showing that you paid. Amazingly, after I sat down to eat at a table, the old Navy veteran I met last year at the block party sat down opposite me. After a moment or two, we recognized each other. He told me of his plans to go to a Navy reunion in New Jersey with the crew members of the first ship he served on - and also pointed out an actor from the Sopranos (didn't recognize him) sitting and eating at the next table. Near the end of our talk over lunch, the old Navy veteran said he will meet me at the same table next year. I told him we should look for each other: the seats weren't exactly reserved.

Walking along, I spotted the two young wounded veterans who were in front of Macy's, eating their lunch on a collection of chairs under the sun, not bothering with a shaded table area. Finding them again, we spoke some more about the bike trip and the differences between this year's event and last year's. They were glad the pace of the ride didn't tire them out because, once again, they they were going to do another Soldier Ride the next day on Long Island.

Brooklyn - and Macy's - and New York City - had once again opened their heart to these veterans and invited them into their family outing, an outdoor picnic, Brooklyn street style.

If you can, come to one of these Soldier Ride events in your area. And if you make it to Brooklyn, try the mussels and pasta.

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I came across this Jim Crow Guide while researching another piece. If you substitute Barack Obama for White person you have the modern code of etiquette in our political discourse:

Never assert or even intimate that a White person is lying.
Never impute dishonorable intentions to a White person.
Never suggest that a White person is from an inferior class.
Never lay claim to, or overly demonstrate, superior knowledge or intelligence.
Never curse a White person.
Never laugh derisively at a White person.
Never comment upon the appearance of a White female.1

Kennedy, Stetson. Jim Crow Guide: The Way It Was. Boca Raton: Florida Atlantic University Press, 1959/1990, pp.216-117.

This changes to:

Never assert or even intimate that a Barack Obama is lying.
Never impute dishonorable intentions to Barack Obama.
Never suggest that Barack Obama is from an inferior class - or that he may be foreign born.
Never lay claim to, or overly demonstrate, superior knowledge or intelligence over Barack Obama.
Never curse Barack Obama.
Never laugh derisively at Barack Obama.
Never comment upon the appearance of Michelle Obama. Never, ever suggest she looks like a transvestite.

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Timothy Birdnow

One of the mainstream media's goals is to vilify the Tea Party movement. The msm knows that this is a spontaneous outpouring of passion by the general public, and this bandwagon will only grow if it is not kneecapped.  There are several ways to accomplish this; link it to the GOP and particularly to the old guard i.e. George W. Bush, link it to Nazis and other crazy fringe types, and make it appear to be racist. We now know that is the strategy of many "journalists" because they have been discussing this very thing on Journolist, a media listserve. Commenters were particularly keen on charging racism to silence and discredit political enemies. http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/

Of course, the media dutifully reported accusations against George W. Bush, claims by liberals that he was a Nazi because of the Patriot Act, and the claim that Nazis are part of the Tea Party movement is simply extending the paradigm; anyone who knows a wit about fascism knows that the Obama Administration more closely resembles the fascists, with increasing government control of private industry, with attempts to stifle detrimental news, with national healthcare (yes, the Nazis instituted universal coverage), with their environmentalism (the Nazis were quite devout environmentalists http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CB4QFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aim.org%2Faim-report%2Fhitlers-green-killing-machine%2F&ei=of1KTMbyB8OB8gbdhMg0&usg=AFQjCNFNM-1c-U1UETILADQWMB5Ve7cJ3g In fact, Obama sounds very Mussolini-esque with his "we are the ones we have been waiting for", making himself the One, or in Italian Il Duce.

At any rate, the mainstream media finds it must strangle the embryonic rebellion known as the Tea Party, and they will fall back upon their same old playbook. They have trotted out unsubstantiated claims of racism while ignoring the beating of Kenneth Gladney, a black St. Louisan who was assaulted at a Russ Carnahan townhall meeting by SEIU thugs. There is every reason to believe Gladney was chosen for this honor because he is black, and that damages the paradigm they have been trying to establish. They have also trotted out the GOP thing, ignoring the fact that four in ten Tea Partiers identify themselves as independents or Democrats. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fballot-box%2Fpolls%2F90541-survey-four-in-10-tea-party-members-dem-or-indie&ei=GwBLTLKFHYL68AbyyJ0z&usg=AFQjCNHR4WPHDiCankRFILflti4G3T8lMA

Dana Milbank at the Washington Post has a pernicious editorial claiming that the Tea Party is co-opted by the Republican Party, and that they are racists.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/21/AR2010072104423.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns His argument is based on the fact that Michelle Bachman lead a group of activists to meet with GOP brass, and that John Lewis claims to have been the victim of racial slurs. Now, considering that the Democrats are entirely behind the Obama program, and that they rammed the healthcare takover down our collective throats - despite the fact that the majority of Americans opposed the scheme - it stands to reason that the Tea Party people will meet with Republicans and tell them what they expect; they aren't getting the Democrats to listen to them, after all. Milbank tries to make this look like some sort of conspiracy, hoping to sway a few ignoramuses with his sophomoric arguments. And about that racism charge, well, let Brian tell it...

My brother Brian was highly offended after this sophomoric piece of propoganda in one of the Democrat's greatest propaganda organs - the St. Louis Post-Dispatch - and he decided to address Mr. Milbank personally. Brian's reply is below.

"Dear Mr. Milbank,

I read your syndicated column entitled "A Lean To the Right" in the July 23rd edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a formerly great American newspaper that has fallen on hard times, much like your employer, the Washington Post.  In your column you take the Republican Party to task for embracing the Tea Party movement and the partiers themselves and you warn the GOP that they must separate themselves from the "Crazy Fringe", as you delicately call them.

What exactly characterizes these fringe elements?  You charge that the GOP runs the risk of seeming to endorse the extremism of the movement, "...such as the Nazi imagery and racist words."  I have attended a couple of these rallies and I saw no Nazi imagery and or racist words.  When certain people make offhand remarks that the President is leaning in the direction of fascism by exercising a command economy complete with quasi- government ownership of the means of production (GM-anyone?), a cult of personality trying to place the leader above ordinary politicians, and a relentless PR/propaganda apparatus they are merely stating the obvious.

You go on to say that the Tea Partiers are racists because one speaker was heard "...disparaging Rep. John Lewis of Georgia and another black lawmaker, who were met with racial taunts as they walked to the Capitol during the health care debate."  How do we know that they encountered racial taunts?  John Lewis said so, therefore it must be true!  Never mind that no one caught this on tape or on video or on camera phone.  In a crowd numbering well over one hundred thousand, including hundreds of journalists looking for a juicy story, no one can substantiate these supposed racial taunts.  Yet you report this as verifiable fact.

Finally, you are reinforcing a logical fallacy.  This fallacy has been created by the liberal left and perpetuated for years, because it serves as a handy cudgel with which to belabor the right wing.  This is the tired old saw that any criticism of a black elected official or public figure is a case of racism.  Apparently, John Lewis is now off limits, as was Jesse Jackson years ago.  Today Barack Obama is sacrosanct and any criticism of him is based on his race and not his misguided policies.  I suppose that Charlie Rangel will play the race card soon and that Dana Milbank, the Washington Post and the liberal echo chamber will join in the chorus.

With Kindest Regards,
Brian E. Birdnow"

As yet Dana Milbank has not replied. I hope he does - he won't be able to sit down for a week after the spanking he is going to receive.

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Dana Mathewson

And of course, he says he welcomes the chance to clear himself.  Ha!  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/22/AR2010072204704_pf.html

"At long last, sunshine has pierced through this cloud that has been over my head for more than two years," he said when asked about the panel's decision.

Sources familiar with the case said that Rangel could have avoided this showdown by accepting the subcommittee's findings. He was briefed on the allegations against him -- as required by House rules -- in recent weeks, and he rejected them.   END QUOTE

Ad my brother-in-law David will probably respond, "Off with his head!"  Couldn't have put it better myself.

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Dana Mathewson

Whether this is farce or not, I leave to you.  But it left me shakin' my ol' white head (no, my hair hasn't turned yet, but much more of this and it will).  http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9H3OBK81&show_article=1

Somehow, I don't think this is what Eric Holder had in mind...

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Timothy Birdnow

Proof that Academia has become the new Sodom. http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=182441

This case at Augusta State mirrors one at  Missouri State University a while back where a student was brought up on ethics charges for refusing a class assignment to write a letter to the Missouri State Legislature advocating homosexual foster parenting and adoptions. She was not just docked credit, but actually brought up on level three charges (the highest possible) accused of violating "standards of essential functioning" and subject to a very hostile inquest which led to her being punished and placed on tight probation. All this because she expressed her Christian beliefs and refused to renounce them at the demand of activist professors. http://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/45497/star-chamber-missouri

There is persecution of Christianity in America, and it is considered not just acceptable by the oh-so-tolerant Left, but is actually viewed as a moral duty. I have always argued that Liberalism is a diseased evil twin of the Protestant Reformation, a sort of morally degenerate afterbirth if you will. When the Reformation broke the spiritual power of the Church those who secretly hated and despised Christianity and Christ created a home for themselves in the vaccuum, and turned the successful methods employed by the Protestants - particularly the printing press - to attack all Christianity. The war was on, and they have waged it for centuries in their rabid quest to stamp out the "evil" Christians. They see Christians as evil because they hold a moral standard based on natural law and revelation from the Bible, and those moral standards get in the way of the Liberal dreams of a world in which any appetite may be indulged and any action or thought may be condoned. That is what the Left sees as freedom; the freedom to do what one wishes, to think what one wishes, to be what one wishes. Christianity has stopped them, has said there are certain things that Man may not do or be. Christianity has cheated them of the godhead they believe is their birthright.

As such, it is evil by it's very nature and must be destroyed. OF COURSE they will try to bully and intimidate; how else does one strangle a worldview?

The problem is, they have had control of Academia and the schools, as well as the media, for so long that they have convinced the gullible of the "truth" of their view.

Our current problems with Obama, with socialism's return, with all of the insane actions of the Left, stem from our failure to wrest control of these institutions from the forces of atheism and Leftism. We have allowed them to attack us repeatedly with little or no answer, and they have undermined the foundation of our culture. We cannot restore America without restoring Christianity and Judaism, which is the heart and soul of our success. America is an empty shell without her her spiritual soul.

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