Nigeria's Christmas Present: Blown Up Christians

Raymond Ibrahim

writes in the following linked story about the NY Times attempt to play down the anti-Christian aspect of the Nigerian Muslim militant group Boko Haram, killing of at least 39 people with their Christmas attack. Mr. Ibrahim points out the NYT use of the word “senseless” to describe the attacks. Such word use happens many times when the main line press wants to direct their message away from obvious conclusions, in this instance that the Muslim militant group Boko Haram main goals are anything but the eradication of Christians, Jews and/or any group, persons or people that hold to non-Muslim ways of life that is different in the way that they see it.

When President John Kennedy was shot it was classified as a “senseless” assassination by a lone gunman, as well as Martin Luther King Jr’s shooting and Robert Kennedy’s. In reality the older Kennedy brother was shot by a self-proclaimed Marxist who shot Kennedy to further the aims of communism, the younger Kennedy was shot by a Muslim in one of the first shots fired in the name of Jihad, and King was shot by a racist who didn’t want to see the Democratic Party’s century long held views of separation of race and the party’s straggled hold on African Americans to change.

Each of these incidents had thought out agenda’s and cannot be truly termed as senseless, even if those of us that believe in freedom are appalled by the same actions and see them as evil. Our ever growing political-correct culture does not want to accept the idea that all of mankind does not or even would choose not to hold to basic ideas of decency or shared views which the “enlighten” Westerner holds dear.  In reality that decency we expect others to have was originally shaped by a Judeo-Christian  belief system which the West has come to dismiss as superstition and myth.

So why does the main stream media want to view the killings in Nigeria as senseless?  Either they are so ignorant to understand that there is an evil out there that sees Christianity and the West as a threat to their evil intentions and that threat must be destroyed. Either that or the main stream media is in league, by design or subconsciously with that evil, and by media’s continuous attacks on Christianity and those that practice it, it could honestly be said this idea may no longer be a random conspiracy theory…

Nigeria's Christmas Present: Blown Up Christians

de·cen·cy/ˈdēsənsē/
Noun:
Behavior that conforms to accepted standards of morality or respectability: "she had the decency to come and confess".
Modesty and propriety: "too low-cut for decency".

Fourth of July

Happy Fourth of July, hope to see the tradition to  go on, at least it is one the calendar, so they can't remove the day, but we need to protect the idea.  Cry; "Freedom!!!!", then live it. Praise be to God....

VIDEO: Penn State YAF Students Assaulted for Putting up Palestinian Wall of Lies

VIDEO: Penn State YAF Students Assaulted for Putting up Palestinian Wall of Lies

http://walloflies.org/

Exposing the Elites by Michael Knox Beran - City Journal

Exposing the Elites by Michael Knox Beran - City Journal

"...the well-to-do could more easily maintain their ascendancy if they became paternalist champions of working people. By adopting socially progressive policies..."

And with this idea they control the lower and working middle class. Crazy isn't it? The rich elite playing the poor and middle working class into perpetual slavery, making alliances with radical groups, that is, the socialist, communist, Marxist, and even radical Muslims (all if given the power would eliminate the other) as the average person falls in line while being distracted by who will be the next American idol.

This is a dangerous game that will end with bloodshed in the streets, it will be the average Joe's blood that will flow, leaving a few of the rich elites manipulating society for their own gain while most become virtual slaves to the state.

That is, the rich Islamic elites. George Soros may be once again helping with the next Holocaust, this time he may not escape the furnace.

Video Contest Entry #11: ObamaCare Kids

The Independent Women's Voice (IWV) announces its “ObamaCare Anniversary Video Contest!”  We want your one-minute or less video explaining how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — popularly known as ObamaCare — will hurt our medical system and our freedoms.  The deadline is March 19, 2011 midnight EST.

Wish I knew about this when it was first announced, but you can go to The Independent Women's Voice YouTube channel and view the videos, I guess the winner will be announced later this week.

Kresta In The Afternoon: Controversial Chicago priest to be moved from urba...

Kresta In The Afternoon: Controversial Chicago priest to be moved from urba...: "Cardinal Francis George of Chicago may soon remove a controversial priest from the urban parish where he has been pastor for 30 years."

Father Michael Pfleger met with Cardinal George this week, evidently to discuss a move out of St. Sabina parish. Father Pfleger, a fiery political activist, has drawn criticism for several public statements. In 2008 he was disciplined with a short leave of absence after he mocked Hillary Clinton, then a Democratic candidate who was opposed Father Pfleger’s own favorite contender, Barack Obama. Last year he was called on the carpet once again after delivering a sermon in which he said flatly that “there should be women priests.”

About time!

This man is a disgrace to his vocation. He should not only be removed from his parish but be considered to be defrocked.  How can a priest such as him be allowed to stay and spread his messages of discord for thirty years? does he have something over The Bishop that may need to be exposed? It just makes you wonder, with all the past cover ups, how he has been given special privilege being so hateful and spreading false messages in the name of Catholicism.

Forgive me Lord for being angry, I just don't understand...

OPINION: NPR part of ruling 'elite,' should lose federal funding - TheHill.com

OPINION: NPR part of ruling 'elite,' should lose federal funding - TheHill.com

How long will we as a nation be willing to tolerate the arrogance of the self-appointed ruling elite? We believe the era of the ruling elite in Washington, D.C., and state capitols is at an end.

Amen, and this goes out to the Republicans that don't seem to get it either!!! If you joined us for a cup of tea, remember this is more then just an afternnoon picnic with the Mad Hater, you got to walk the walk not just talk the talk...

The Chilean Model - Investors.com

The Chilean Model - Investors.com

Can this work? In America?

Wisconsin GOP Senator Glenn Grothman chased, trapped by hecklers

Fascism in Action Wisconson

Why are these Tea Partiers so angry, oh it is not Tea Partiers, but the Teachers' Union, never mind.

[Shared Post] CBSNews.com: Gunrunning scandal uncovered at the ATF - CBSNews

CBSNews.com: Gunrunning scandal uncovered at the ATF - CBSNews Barry Freedman | March 1, 2011 at 5:08 pm | Tags: BATF, big government, border, cover up | Categories: ATF, Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p1mNnB-3n

Gunrunning scandal uncovered at the ATF - CBSNews http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/23/eveningnews/main20035609.shtml Program aimed at stopping the flow of weapons from the US to Mexico may have allegedly had the opposite effect. (CBS 2/23/2011) I first posted information on this scandal on February 12, … Continue reading →

[Shared Post] Rev. Al (Uncle Tom) Sharpton Cries Wolf, Again, For the Liberal Elite

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Shame, shame, shame, the dirty little secret that Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, the NAACP and other so-called civil right activist want to cover up, they, along with their white rich elitist benefactors have been successful with helping to kill off black children half as … Continue reading →
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Billboard in Manhattan describes abortion as ‘number one killer’ of blacks :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Billboard in Manhattan describes abortion as 'number one killer' of blacks :: Catholic News Agency (CNA). It is amazing how the more educated one gets one becomes more blood thirsty and selfish.  Why the elitist want to kill black children … Continue reading →

The taxpayer’s lobby goes to Columbus

The taxpayer’s lobby goes to Columbus

It is time...

[Shared Post] Save the Mossbacks!!! would you like soup with that tea Ms Tucker?

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Moving and sharing my space, sharing myself

Things are moving faster then I can keep up with. Like that is news?  I have my own domain name www.barryfreedman.com  and will be posting my blog from there.  I need to find time to blog on a regular basis, but it is hard to find time with a day job and all. I know the world is turning and burning.

My only real hope lays in the coming with the King, but he told us He was returning when lest would expect it. Tell we we need to be productive, spreading His word, mainly in the way we walk, with a sprinkle of talk and lot of His Grace.

A lot of times we define ourselves by what we belong to, and sometimes by what we refuse to belong to, and/or allow ourselves to be owned by. We must choose what we serve and/or who we serve.  To serve our own self interest can sometimes make us slaves to others' false ideas of  what is right, what is justice.

Justice is the act of not having what belongs to you taken away.

Mercy is to withhold punishment for evils that are committed.

Charity is to be given freely not by demand or threat.

When I am able to freely decide how to share what belongs to me, that becomes gift of grace that I receive.  But if I demand others to give up what is theirs so that I may have more, then I become a thief and a thug.

These are just random thoughts.

He said to one of them in reply, 'My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? Take what is yours and go. What if I wish to give this last one the same as you? (Or) am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?'  Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last."

What?

Horowitz vs. Khan

Very interesting...

Horowitz vs. Khan

don't have time to write my own comments, click the link, my thoughts later...

NPR Summarizes Conservatives: 'Point Out the Homo and Yell Kill It!'

NPR Summarizes Conservatives: 'Point Out the Homo and Yell Kill It!'

From the piece;

The irony or the outrage in this story is that the "villains" of this piece -- conservative Christians and Republican politicians -- were not allowed to speak. NPR reporter Neda Ulaby quoted only the two left-wing curators of the exhibit, a left-wing critic for the Village Voice, and a left-wing man protesting the apparently ruined exhibit.

The most outrageous part was this soundbite of co-curator Jonathan Katz: "It's no longer the same game that it was 15, 20 years ago, where you simply had to point out the homo and yell 'Kill it!' And the mob attacked. Now, you have to clothe your homophobia in something else."

Read more: NPR Summarizes

Homosexuals are doing a well enough job of killing themselves off, they do not need the help of  conservative Christians and Republican politicians. The "Gay" movement should be renamed the movement of death, for the are truly the standard bearers of self loathing and self destruction.  The only culture they promote and embrace is the Culture of Death.

The faster we defund NPR the better.  As for me I have already cancelled by membership to the Smithsonian. Sharp tongues are not sexy, cute, nor instruments of love and understanding....

Project Gunrunner: Anatomy of a Murder

From the National Rifle Association of America, Institute for Legislative Action.

NRA-ILA :: Senator Grassley Presses BATFE On Project Gunrunner

Just what we need, a Government Agency breaking the law in order to manufacture a problem claimed, yet in reality only happens when they, that is Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE, a.k.a. ATF), create and manufacture the problem themselves. This time it cost the life of another government employee, who was on the front line attempting to protect us from criminals armed by the BATFE.

From the news release;

Pointing to documentation that guns used by Mexican nationals in a shootout with Border Patrol agents were allowed to be sold under suspicious circumstances with the knowledge of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling on the agency to fully respond to his inquiries into the case. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in that encounter on Dec. 14 of last year.

More from Arizona Daily Star

Jaime Avila, arrested on Dec. 15 in connection with a gun-smuggling ring, purchased three AK-47 variant weapons from a gun dealer in Glendale on Jan. 16, 2010. The ATF entered the serial numbers of the three guns in the National Tracing Center's suspect gun database three days later, Grassley wrote. The ATF continued tracking Avila's firearm purchases over the next several months, Grassley wrote.

The serial numbers of two of the weapons recovered from the scene of the Dec. 14 gunfight matched two of the weapons purchased in Glendale, Grassley wrote.
"The Terry family deserves answers," Grassley wrote. "The whistleblowers have expressed a desire to honor agent Terry's memory by disclosing this information. The Justice Department should work to do the same. The best way to honor his memory is to come clean."

Why does the Terry family need answers?

It is alleged the BATFE set up the purchases for the weapons by convincing gun dealers to allow the purchases to go through in order to track the weapons. In other words they had law abiding gun dealers break the law.

If this is true then two things here we must understand, first of all, the the illegal straw purchases wouldn't had happen if the gun dealers were not approached by the BATFE to break the law in the first place, and two, Brain Terry would not have been killed by guns in question made available by this alleged sting operation.

Whoever was in charge of this alleged sting operation and/or approved it, would be an accomplice in the murder of Brain Terry.

Brain Terry

Other links related to the story

A dream denied 

Gun bought in Phoenix?

Anatomy of a Revolution

Oh Egypt!!!


Anatomy of a Revolution

YID With LID: The 7 DUMBEST Charges of Antisemitism Made Against Glenn Beck By The Soros Progressive Hit Team

Once again blogger Yid with a Lid hits back hard, well not hard but with truth... you can't hit targets that never allow themselves to be confronted, open to debate or willing to be part of reality...

YID With LID: The 7 DUMBEST Charges of Antisemitism Made Against Glenn Beck By The Soros Progressive Hit Team

Religious Left Demonizes Chicago Terror-Funding Investigation

Religious Left Demonizes Chicago Terror-Funding Investigation

by Alan Wisdom

Alan Wisdom shows how the Religious left has taken an anti-Israel stance and demonizes efforts to expose money being funneled through charity groups to terrorist groups. An anti-Jewish stance by some Christians is nothing new and usually is blamed on the whole Church, especially the Catholic Church. But if we look deeper we can see now just as in the past anti-Semitism coming to fruit from religious groups or part of certain denominations which will allow themselves to be used by anti-Christian influences, under the guise of social justice and/or socialistic utopianism and the state.

The Nazis in Germany had no love for or use for the Church, but tried to replace it with its own version or form of Christianity. It knew it couldn't outright replace Christianity overnight with their pagan socialist “utopia”, but would have to replace the Church in steps.

Today there are many who are doing the same, some I would guess on purpose, some out of ignorance, and some possibly because of demonic oppression,  otherwise why would you have main-line dominations that claim to be Christians, yet have embraced ideas that Christianity has always opposed, such as abortion, open homosexuality and same sex marriage? Even within the Catholic Church, there are coordinated efforts from groups that have embraced a direct anti-Church stance, yet niggardly withhold their love for Christ and stab at the heart of the Church’s Magisterium, refusing to submit wholly to its authority or to leave the Church they seem to hate.

The early Church was persecuted by both the state and by its mother religion Judaism. When Christianity became the state’s sanction religion a big part of being state-controlled gave the Church an anti-Semitic taint to her character. The Church struggled between God’s commandments and the states’ commandments through the years but finally with help of  the reformation and the final separation of Church from state, the Church was able to shed her shackles of the state, including much of her anti-Semitic sentiments.

Now we find many claiming to be Christians embracing the state over the Church again. Many of the same people which on one hand claim that Christianity has no place in the public square, trying to divorce Judeo-Christian morality from political discourse, are at the same pushing anti-Judeo-Christian immorality onto the Church, embracing socialism and liberal theology, these are the same type of people supporting the enemies of Israel.
  

"Nobody Gets Married Any More, Mister" by Gerry Garibaldi - City Journal

"Nobody Gets Married Any More, Mister" by Gerry Garibaldi - City Journal

"She groans each time I pick out a long article and counts the number of pages before she reads. With my persistent nudging, she and Maria begin to pull out the statistics for the children of single parents. From the FBI: 63 percent of all suicides are individuals from single-parent households. From the Centers for Disease Control: 75 percent of adolescents in chemical-dependency hospitals come from single-parent households. From the Children’s Defense Fund: more than half of all youths incarcerated for criminal acts come from single-parent households. And so on."

It really does take two, a mom and a dad.

Progs?

Found a new word - progs. First time I have seen it used and it was on the American Thinker blog in the piece The Left Defends Its Advocate of Violence. Which is a must see read.

But for the moment, what are progs? I am asuming that that the writer was using it as a enduring term being short for progressive. I googled it and this what I found:

prog

vb progs, progging, progged

(intr) Brit slang or dialect to prowl about for or as if for food or plunder

n

1. Brit slang or dialect food obtained by begging

2. (Cookery) Canadian dialect a Newfoundland word for food  [of unknown origin]

Yep, that sounds like a progressive - a begger and/or plunderer, agitating to take from others hard work, forgetting that charity comes  from the heart not at from the wrong side of of gun.

Frances Fox Piven and her push for violence by the left is what the The Left Defends Its Advocate of Violence by Arlen Williams, like I said a must read.

Progs on the prowl

What the Popes Really Say About Socialism

It really amazes me how many Catholics and other Christians will attach themselves so-called social justice issues, uniting in power and allowing themselves to be co-oped by groups which seem to have good intentions but in reality hate everything Christianity is all about. Groups which reject Christian morality, ethics and sound reason as well as the natural order of life and natural law.

Yes as Christians we are suppose to take take care of our fellow man, but we are to do so as a Christian community not through cold, calculating and impersonal bureaucracies which we find in state sponsored charities and entitlement programs.

Once I had an attraction to socialism, I thought I saw Christian principles intertwined in its ideas of justice and equality.  I found myself getting more and more involved in progressive groups and found them to be more or less front groups for more radical revolutionary and socialist entities.  I also found that the "higher" ups, the educated elites, the committed, and the true believers acted as cold, calculating and impersonal mini-dictators and/or blinded useful idiots. People that were willing to destroy individual thought, reigning in any and all dissent from their misguided ideas of "justice".  They used the words  freedom,  justice and equality, just empty buzz words for a reality that did not exist in their overall plan.

Just as the article says socialism is "hideous", "destructive", "wicked", and "perverted"  for it turns the world on its head, with no sound plan to make it right again.  Please read  What the Popes Really Say About Socialism, you may just find that too many that claim to speak for the Church, but have embraced left wing nut idea, don't have a clue what the Church's real leadership taught on these ideas.

New Heroes vs. Old by Thomas Sowell

New Heroes vs. Old

From Mr. Sowell piece,

People today who complain about the automobile's pollution have no idea how much more pollution there was before the automobile came along. In New York City, for example, the 40,000 horses that were the backbone of the city's transportation, before the automobile, produced 400 tons of manure per working day, along with 20,000 gallons of urine.

Problem is we don't have a clue how bad it use to be, nor how good it really is today. Are there any heroes today?

Thomas Sowell would be, if wasn't for all the complainers that try to drown him out. Yet again maybe he is...

March for Life Little Rock, AR January 23, 2011

33rd Annual Arkansas March for Life recognizing the 38th anniversary of the infamous and tragic Roe v Wade Supreme Court Ruling making murder of the unborn a right and calling it free choice.

Keynote speaker Pricsilla Smith, former congressional aide and 2010 Republican Candidate for US Congress to represent the State of  Arkansas.

Duggar Family of Arkansas

The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies by Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal Summer 2005

An older article I linked in my Saturday Rant post. I don't want it to be overlooked. Tis an important observation worth reading.

The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies by Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal Summer 2005

The Negro Family:
The Case For National Action

Office of Policy Planning and Research
United States Department of Labor

March 1965

Roe v Wade - My Saturday Rant

As we note the 38th anniversary of Roe v Wade we will hear the pro-Aborts beat their breast and tear their cloaks in anguish about the evil pro-lifers that want to take freedom away from women, even though the majority of the pro-lifers appear to be women, many who regret their own abortions, and the majority of pro aborts appear to be men, who want the freedom of sex without responsibility-that is my opinion and I am sticking to it.

The reality of abortion is that it is a new kind of slavery for the American woman created for them along with the welfare state, the so called Great Society.  Both have been the impetus for the destruction of the American family and community, affecting  and destroying families of the working poor in general and hitting minorities the hardest.

It has put working class America in a spiraling tail spin of endless cycle of poverty and loss of hope, created by compassionate white liberals out to control the misfits. Though a few women have benefit with their new "freedom", it has not lowered the overall poverty level of children, standing at 21 % for the last half century. And unmarried women, (especially with children) are more likely to suffer in poverty then their married counter parts.

Abortion has been the solution to rid society of paying for minorities' and other single mothers' out of wedlock babies in general. Sort of an overflow valve if you like.

White liberal compassion created the need for abortion and continues to offer the incentive for poor women not to marry but still have children, but not too many. It is almost has if the Grand Goddess Choice has figured a way to get her blood sacrifice to feed her blood lust on a daily basis, while claiming to be compassionate and for freedom.

Abortion is evil. It kills the innocent. It allows women to be used as sex objects, relieving the responsibility of men to take care the children they sire or being responsible to the woman they use for his own selfish pleasure. It allows the child rapist to go on raping and fill the pocket book of the abortionist.

Only those that have already been born beleive abortion to be a right. Stand up for the innocents who cannot speak for themselves, that is what a just person would and should do...

http://www.toomanyaborted.com/

Abortionist Charged With Murder.

From  Kresta In The Afternoon: Abortionist Charged With Murdering Patient, Newbor...: "A Philadelphia physician, Kermit Barron Gosnell, was charged Wednesday with murder and other offenses for allegedly causing the death of one..."

But a grand jury investigation found that health and licensing officials had received repeated reports about Gosnell's dangerous practices for two decades, but no action was ever taken, even after the agencies learned that women had died during routine abortions under Gosnell's care, Williams said in a statement.

"What the [grand] jury found most troubling is that neither of those agencies took the time to investigate, to observe, to view, to go to the clinic itself since 1993," Williams said in comments during the news conference.

"I am aware that abortion is a hot-button topic," Williams said in a statement. "But as District Attorney, my job is to carry out the law. A doctor who knowingly and systematically mistreats female patients, to the point that one of them dies in his so-called care, commits murder under the law.

"A doctor who cuts into the necks severing the spinal cords of living, breathing babies, who would survive with proper medical attention, is committing murder under the law," Williams added.

You wonder why it took so long to stop this murderer? Was it because he was providing such a much needed service for the community?

Is he a useful idiot? or a greedy monster? Your choice.

Justice

Christian leaders rally against gay activists 'hijacking' Martin Luther King legacy :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Hijacking it is:

In Hillside, Illinois more than 40 African-American religious and political leaders gathered on Jan. 17 at Freedom Baptist Church to lament the misrepresentation of King’s legacy. During the Illinois House debate on the issue of civil unions for homosexuals, two backers of the proposal compared same-sex “marriage” to interracial marriage.

Comparisons between homosexuality and race are absurd, being black isn't something you can hide in a closet nor is considered a deviant behavorial you could choose either to control or embrace.


Christian leaders rally against gay activists 'hijacking' Martin Luther King legacy :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

YID With LID: Jewish Funds For Justice's Racist Collective Guilt Teachings Behind its Glenn Beck Attacks

Would like to share this with you from  YID With LID: Jewish Funds For Justice's Racist Collective Guilt Teachings Behind its Glenn Beck Attacks

a Blurp:

This view of social justice has as much to do with the group's false attacks on Glenn Beck as the money from Sugar Daddy George Soros. A frequent subject of Beck's broadcasts has been how social justice is a personal, rather than a government responsibility.   He's warned against houses of worship getting involved with government-directed social justice.

Who would have thought? - Media Myth Busted: 'Americans View Palin as More Sincere and Believable After Watching Speech'

The poll also found:

• An increase in the number of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents that see her as a positive figure in the United States after viewing the speech
• 40 percent of Democrats, 81 percent of Republicans, and 56 percent of Independents feeling the speech helped her image
• 37 percent of Democrats, 78 percent of Republicans, and 54 percent of Independents feeling the speech helped her potential run for president

The complete story at News Busted:

Media Myth Busted: 'Americans View Palin as More Sincere and Believable After Watching Speech'

We cannot let the main line media tell us what to think or start thinking they are correct about what they say others think.

David Horowitz - "My Daughter Sarah and the Lack of Civil Dialogue in our Culture"

My Daughter Sarah and the Lack of Civil Dialogue in our Culture  by David Horowitz

From David's piece:

Tikkun olam means “repair of the world,” and in the arguments of Jewish progressives it is generally associated with a global transformation and “social justice.” My quarrel with progressives is that they believe human beings can be fundamentally changed by revolutionary upheavals, and a more perfect world can be created by political actors. From this view, terrible consequences have followed — mass genocides and human catastrophes on an unprecedented scale. But this was not the way my daughter approached tikkun olam and the task of achieving social justice (a term I still find problematic). Sarah was not a sentimentalist and she cast a properly skeptical eye on human actors, their motives and behaviors. Her view was that if the world is to be redeemed it would have to be one individual at a time, and should not be based on the expectation of miraculous changes in human character. This was a view I could live with.

The Collected Writings of Sarah Rose Horowitz

A remarkable woman and gifted writer, Sarah Horowitz was afflicted with a birth condition that, while complicating and ultimately shortening her life, never affected her dreams or her commitment to her art. Throughout her life she displayed inspiring courage in facing her own difficulties and boundless compassion for others less fortunate. This book of her Collected Writings, contains the only novel she was able to finish in her short life, a brilliant set of short stories, her complete poems, and commentaries on the Old Testament. It also features her account of the Abayudayah, an African tribe that converted to Judaism, whose underserved children she volunteered to teach. Sarah Horowitz’s writings are rich in observations of the people she encountered and resonate with the themes of compassion and social justice to which she dedicated her life. Collected Writings includes an interview she gave shortly before her death and a eulogy by her father, the writer David Horowitz, which provides a biographical portrait of her life.

I haven't read the book yet, but I plan to and will give my personal view of her works later.

When I was young I looked up to David and others in the "New Left" such as Abbie Hoffman, as I was looking for a way to deal with the chaos of my youth. Funny I have never meet David but did meet Abbie Hoffman the year just prior to his suicide. No it is sad.

David had the courage to look at the New Left and socialism with an eye on truth and reality, realizing that believing human beings can be fundamentally change by revolutionary upheavals, and create a more perfect world has terrible consequences,  for to do so is to ignore, as he points out, that so far such revolutions tend to create mass genocides and human catastrophes on an unprecedented scale. Only revolutionary means that can change human beings come from an extra-human source and that revolution is spititual converison and comes from God, not human will.

Abbie Hoffman committed suicide, if you take what others have said, because he was disappointed with America's youth and lack of vision when in fact he should have been disappointed with the failure of revolution and change his course as David did. But Abbie did not have the courage nor the humility to do so.

I have also come to reject progressive ideologies such as socialism and liberalism. Now for myself there is no longer chaos within my heart and mind, even though chaos seems to be tearing the world apart. I have hope, belief in something, no someone greater then myself that is in control. My battle is to only to look and dig for truth and expound it the best way I can with my limited God given abilities.

Part of that truth, as I understand it, comes from those like David, and when I order a copy of his daughter's Collected Writings, I am going to order his book Cracking of the Heart. 

And what about civil dialogue? ummm

Veterans dissed again: Arizona Shootings: when speculation is acceptable

Arizona Shootings: when speculation is acceptable… « BurnPit

Meanwhile, a federal source said a suspect was in custody and identified him as Jared L. Loughner, 22, a U.S. military veteran who served in Afghanistan. The gunman reportedly fired a pistol with an “extended magazine,” the source said.

The burn pit link above touches me deep... he was not a veteran, he was not a veteran... don't dis my brothers in arms, though some have failed or fallen ... this murderer was not a veteran.

Being a Vietnam Era non-combat veteran stationed at Fort Hood in the early 70s, I remember  how it was important for us (we as soldiers) to get out of our uniforms before going beyond the local military towns of Killeen and Copperas Cove. Unlike the soldiers of today which are proud of their identifying GI hair cuts, we would stretch  the growth of our hair trying to hide the fact we were GIs, white guys parting their hair down the middle and the black guys packing their hair down tight so when they hit town in the evenings they were able to pick and puff their dos into the very common and popular Afro of the times.

Why did we we do this? Besides coming of age at the end of the 60s with the hippie culture our defining subculture as kids, we had spent at least half our lives under the dark cloud of Vietnam, and though many of us like myself, never ever left the shore of the US or been in Vietnam as many of our brave brothers in arms had been, the public looked at all of us being, combat vet or not, as being drug crazed killers ready to go on a murderous rampage and treated us as such.

Many despised us for being. I remember hitch hiking in uniform to my grandmother's funeral and people giving me the peace sign, turning it into flipping the bird while throwing beer cans from their cars at me. I had many of a combat vet tell me of even more degrading stories back then and over the years.

It was a tag given to soldiers and veterans wrongfully by the left-wing extremist, hippies and yippies protesting Vietnam then and being renewed now by those currently in control (left-wing extremist, "ex" hippies and "ex" yippies) in an attempt to solidified that control are wrongfully tagging today's veteran in the same way.

Just as they were wrong to do that back then, was not the most infamous mass murderer of the 60s that hippie NON-veteran Charles Mason and his "family"? they are wrong to do it today.

Desperados - looking forward to the 2012 Election Campaign

It is getting every more obvious that the those that lean toward the far left is getting more desperate as we rush toward the start of 2012 election season. Independents have rejected the plunge into the abyss of socialism even though the left's Manchurian Candidate scrambles to keep his base in tack, while shuffling his staff and trying to re-connect with the middle.

And we see the Democrat Party is exposing it's weaknesses in very scary ways by proposing legislation to curb one of America’s most sacred right, the right to free speech. They have found that people have rejected their message, so instead of understanding that their message is flawed they try to make their message the only message available.

From Front Page:

A Tawdry Start to the 2012 Election Campaign

Part of that focus is already playing itself out. Using the Arizona tragedy as a springboard, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) is calling for the re-instatement of the Fairness Doctrine; Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) is calling for a change in the nation’s dialogue “by will or by law;” the National Hispanic Media Coalition is asking the FCC to “update its definitions of hate speech in the media;”  Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee has ordered government employees in that state not to go on “talk radio” stations during their work hours, singling out that particular part of the media and no other; and Rep. Bob Brady (D-PA) has drafted legislation to ban symbols or language which could be perceived as “threatening” or “inciting violence.



Overheated political rhetoric: did someone say 'demonizing'?

By Phil Lawler | January 10, 2011 3:03 PM

Shamelessly exploiting a genuine tragedy, liberal political commentators are blaming their conservative counterparts for creating a "climate of hate" that allegedly contributed to the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. They say that American political rhetoric should be toned down-- while at the same time they accuse their rivals of encouraging murder. In other words they want the other guys to cool down their rhetoric, while they heat up their own. The inconsistency of that argument is spectacular. But then inconsistency is the hallmark of liberal ideology.

The argument would have at least a tincture of credibility if there was some evidence that the accused shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, was motivated by conservative rhetoric. There is none. His political beliefs seem to be a complete hodgepodge, suggesting a disturbed mind rather than any consistent zealotry. 

So now, rather than looking for scapegoats-- and finding them, conveniently, among ideological foes-- why not take a deeper look into the possible causes of Loughner's mental disturbance? On this front, the major media outlets have been remarkably uninquisitive. After the Fort Hood massacre, few media outlets mentioned that the shooter was a militant Muslim. Similarly, after this tragedy in Arizona, precious few media outlets have bothered to report that the accused killer had a pagan shrine at his home!

Most secular reporters wouldn't take the backyard shrine seriously, because most reporters think of paganism as an odd sort of hobby, with no serious consequences. Christians and Jews should know better. From time immemorial, false gods have always wanted blood. 

But USA Today has found a professed pagan who says that what looks like a pagan shrine is actually not a pagan shrine: that Loughner's violence should not be regarded as representative of paganism. We heard similar disclaimers from "moderate Muslim leaders" after the Fort Hood rampage. Although we are told time and again that religious beliefs have often led believers to violence, in these cases we are assured the opposite. Inconsistency again.

As the season goes forward we see the insanity and unfettered hatred of  the likes of Sarah Palin. But what is that fear based on? When I ask the average person that oppose her they seem to just parrot extreme views which from the point of reality I stand, is based on demonizing rhetoric which I fail to see any basis in truth.

The Ruse of the Professional Left

Don’t Let the Progressive “Rhetoric” Talk Distract You. It’s a Ruse.

From the blog The Sundries Shack  Jimmie writes;

Do you really think that the professional left-wing bloggers like Kos and John Aravosis and Jane Hamsher, who just happen to be singing the same tired hymn about conservatives, came up with that all by themselves just off the tops of their pointed little heads? On a Saturday? The first weekend after the GOP took power in the House?

I feel he sums it up pretty well, the left takes no prisoners believing the ends justify the means. They appear to be bleeding hearts, while in reality they are cannibals, having no problem slaughtering their young for political power and fanning the flames as they toss their dead into the bon fire of the vanities, Falò delle vanità.

What are we left with in the way of main stream media coverage of this tragedy? Full frontal attack by the hypocrite left demonizing and calling for the silence of their opposition while throwing political Molotov cocktails into the fire.

The evidence, weak as it is, paints the suspect in Saturday's shooting to be an unstable pot smoking loner that listens mainly to the committee of chaos within his own head.

Adding Insult to Tragedy more on the subject ...

Let us turn away from the flames and take time to mourn the dead and pray for the wounded.

Arizona, Schizophrenia, and politics in America, is it all a delusion?

The Internet and political blogger sphere is trying to label yesterday's shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others at the feet of each other's enemy. Yelling, tearing at their cloaks and beating their breast that it is the other's ideology at fault for the actions of a disturbed individual. Even though I believe liberalism to be a mental illness as well as a sin, I can not see liberlism nor anti-liberlism at fault. So far yesterday's shooting seems to be the actions of a truly disturbed individual, that is if the accused in custody is the person we are hearing about all over the Internet. The unconfirmed evidence shows we have a young man that appears, to the this very untrained individual, to be suffering from Schizophrenia, or unstable at the lest. I warn you to take this diagnosis and conclusion with a grain of salt, I am not a shrink, I don't play one on TV, nor visit one on a regular basis.

And what is Schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder that has affected people throughout history. About 1 percent of Americans have this illness. People with the disorder may hear voices other people don't hear. They may believe other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. This can terrify people with the illness and make them withdrawn or extremely agitated. People with schizophrenia may not make sense when they talk. They may sit for hours without moving or talking. Sometimes people with schizophrenia seem perfectly fine until they talk about what they are really thinking.

Supposedly responsible individuals, including a sheriff, are trying to blame their ideological opposites of triggering the event which is BS to the max.

People have died, families and friends are hurting. Take a breath America. Let us take time to say a prayer, and allow more evidence to be revealed before we fall trap to a world seemingly more under control of reactionary responses that make us all more kin to the actions of  a schizophrenic's delusions then the delusions of the shooter himself.

My heart aches for Congresswoman Giffords, Judge Roll, the 9-year-old angel and all the others and their families touched by yesterday's senseless act of cowardliness.

Lord have mercy on our nation, give us wisdom, and give us comfort.

Schizophrenia is a treatable and managable disorder and this blog post is not intended to be derorgatory toward people suffering with schizophrenia or other mental disorders.

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Time Reporter Betrays Constitutional Ignorance in Bemoaning GOP 'Cult of the Constitution'

Time Reporter Betrays Constitutional Ignorance in Bemoaning GOP 'Cult of the Constitution'

Reading the constitution, such a strange and weird thing to do?

This News Buster piece really sums up the ignorance or is it the reality of the left? They either don't, didn't, never did understand the grand experiment started with our split from England or they are trying hard to follow suit deep into socialism like our former mother country Great Britain and her common-wealth bastard children.
Personally, being a reborn papist, I do see flaws in the founding of our Nation, despite that I accept that with a grain of salt along with an understanding that all of human kind has been corrupted with original sin, but even despite that fact of faith in Church teachings, this is, (the United States) the best we as humans can come up with and that is only by the Grace of God. (How is that Jack for run on sentences?)

Oh, that word, the fellow known as God and words like faith, this is the real problem the left has, for they can not accept the fact that without God, faith and other such old fashion ideas, we are left only with human effort, which is the real enemy of mankind, that is man himself, thinking he can become perfect on his own right. Please note : That includes woman also, we can't be a sexist and leave out the idea that women are not flawed also.

Now which old dead men's documents do you want to be govern by?

Well I'm back on the road, tell next time, Happy Trials, Barry

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