Reminder On Why Some Animals EAT Their Young

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

My wife and I were at the beach New Yr’s wknd, and I was reminded again Why Some Animals Eat Their Young.  We were sitting at a stoplight at an intersection between Myrtle Beach and Surfside when a car pulled up beside us.  There were 2 white teen aged guys in the car. They were listening (loudly) to the most obnoxious RAP music I had ever heard. In the time it took for my light to turn green, the driver shuffled thr. 3 songs all of which were full of curse words. They cussed about women’s body parts; they cussed about smoking marijuana; and they cussed about being a “tough” in their neighborhood.

As a Teacher of History, I know parents flipped out about Jazz in the Roaring 20s; and Rock and Roll in the 50s, but RAP truly is different. It is violent, it is abusive, it is against decency in society particularly where women are concerned.  It is destroying the fabric of American society where it is widespread.  Black culture has been damaged by it; and as if that were not bad enough it is spreading like wildfire to the white youth.

After the Monarchy was restored in England w/ Charles II, the dead body of Oliver Cromwell (the Puritan leader of Parliament who led the victory over King Charles I and established The English Republic) was exhumed by his enemies and beheaded. His head was placed on London Bridge.  There are days where this seems appropriate for Lincoln, Charles Sumner, and Thaddeus Stevens among others.  Pray for America…..

Tags: american culture, american society, charles sumner, gangsta rap, Lincoln, rap music, thaddeus stevens, william sherman
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PSALM 139

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

O Lord You have searched me, and known me. You know my sitting and my rising, You understand my thoughts afar off…

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain to it.  Where can I go from your spirit? where shall I flee from your presence?  If I ascend into heaven, You are ; if I make my bed in the grave , behold you are there….

…you have possessed my reins; you have covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.

My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret…. Your eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in your book all my members were written….

How precious also are your thoughts to me O God! how great is the sum of them!

Tags: abortion, psalm 139
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Vaclev Havel: Salute To A True Revolutionary

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Of the heroes of the Cold War, the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher and Lech Wolensa still remain, but the number continues to dwindle. Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and now, Vaclev Havel have passed from the scene. Those of you too young to remember the Velvet Revolution probably dont recognize his name, but he was as  important to the crumbling of the Soviet Empire in Czech as Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Russia .

Havel was a counter-cultural intellectual.  His plays and essays undermined the Communist regime with a display of their dehumanizing , incompetent system based on lies.  His work w/i the Charter 77 human rights movement got him sent to prison for the 4th time in October, 1989; but the public show of support toppled the Communist govt and led to Havel becoming president of the Czechoslovak republic by New Year’s Day 1990.

Havel died recently, but his courage in the face of tyranny should be saluted.  Before he died, Havel turned his pen on prosperous nations of the west as well.  “He criticized ‘a selfish cult of material success’ and the ‘absence of faith in a higher order of things’.”  We must heed his warnings to put “morality ahead of politics” and to foster “responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my company, my success.”  Our American Founding Fathers  understood this concept of “God and Country”; its what made America different, without it we too are bound for the ash heap of History.

Tags: 1989, chater 77, Cold War, communist, czech, Iron Lady, John Paul II, Lech Wolensa, Margaret thatcher, Ronald reagan, Solzhenitsyn, Vaclev Havel, velvet revolution
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NeoCons and War W/ Iran

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

There is coming a day conservative friends and Christian Believers when all your faith in the GOP will be shattered to the extent mine was in the Democrat party long ago when Ronald Reagan appeared on the scene.  “Southern” Democrat once meant something, but then the party of Jefferson & Jackson devolved into the party of radical feminism; extended sodomite rights;  supported murder of unborn children; and keynesianism, socialism, and at times Marxism.  Now, thanks to entities both national and global, both parties have been infiltrated w/ policies destined to end our Republic as we know it. It can become no more than another province in a new fascist world order.  So-called NeoCons belong in great numbers to the Council on Foreign Relations which is integrated further into the Military Industrial Complex.

GOP friends, study these terms these entities– for they spell the doom of our Republic as we knew it.

Donald Trump, a little over a week ago proposed a scenario I had already pondered.  President Obama w/ MIC and neo-Con pressure could launch a war on Iran w/i a year and then win re-election.  The public will not vote out a sitting president in the midst of war.  And even if this prophecy does not come to pass, every GOP nominee besides Ron Paul supports incremental pressure on Iran up to and including bombing to stop production of a supposed nuclear weapon.  The party doesnt matter, the MIC has moved on from Iraq and is targeting Iran as the next US enemy in the crosshairs.

I am not debating whether Iran wants a weapon or not. I am completely in favor of Israel defending their integrity in the regional matter.  My goal here is to enlighten Americans on the dangers of blind interventionism.  Since 1950, the US has engaged in various conflicts which have little to do w/ our well-being, or were started on fabricated evidence.  The conflicts drag on with poor strategies to win or withdraw.  Research these entities and make informed decisions.  The day is coming when the only alternative will be a third-party ; but it must be popularly supported on a vast scale…

Tags: abortion, cfr, Christians, conservatives, council on foreign relations, donald trump, GOP, Iran, Iraq, keynesian, marxism, military industrial complex, neocons, Obama, radical feminism, ron paul, Ronald reagan, socialism, sodomite rights, southern democrat, Third Party, unborn children
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“A CHRISTIAN SPARTA”

Friday, December 9th, 2011

May 1776, The Continental Congress issued a proclamation for a day of prayer and fasting, calling on Americans to “bewail our manifold sins and transgressions, and by a sincere repentance and amendment of life appease [God's] righteous displeasure, and thr the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness.”

The ideal of liberty as an opportunity to foster public virtue was common among the Founders.

According to Samuel Adams, True religion and godly education made a people free, but tyrants souhgt to make people immoral and ignorant.

College of New Jersey (now Princeton) President and Presbyterian minister John Witherspoon “recommended certain moral duties that would bolster America’s communal health, such as industry, hard work, and frugality…”

Benjamin Rush, of Philadelphia, endorsed an unbreakable link betw. Christianity and republican govt…  “The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in RELIGION; without this, there can be no virtue, and w/o virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican govts.”  The most obvious instrument of govt for inculcating virtue was public education.

… more from God of Liberty, by Baylor’s Dr Thomas S Kidd

Tags: benjamin rush, continental congress, Dr Thomas S Kidd, founding fathers, God of Liberty, Jesus Christ, john witherspoon, liberty, samuel adams, true religion, virtue
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God of Liberty by Dr Thomas S Kidd

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Reading a great book and wanted to share enlightening excerpts… God of Liberty proves again, using primary documents, the brilliance of our Republic’s Founders.  A combination of Enlightenmt political knowledge and adherence to the Bible created the greatest Nation ever to exist in human history….

“Will men ever be free!” revivalist George Whitefield exclaimed, “They will be free no longer than while they remain virtuous.”

“To [John ] Adams, the American Rev. was not exclusively either a secular or a religious endeavor. Instead, he integrated the legacies of the Reformation and the Enlightenmt to propound a convergence of classical republicanism and Reformed Christianity… Classical antiquity supplied the political ideals of the prospective republic, incl. checks and balances, safeguards against tyranny, and the importance of civic virtue. Christianity supplied the republic with its spirit and the power to preserve itself….”

For many early Americans, “private virtue was not enough to preserve and safeguard republics… Nor was republican gov’t alone enough, because in the pre-Christian pagan republics no divine assurance engendered holiness among the people…. men could not be good enough w/o the transforming power of God working in their lives….”

Tags: Baylor University, Christian Republic, civic virtue, Dr Thomas S Kidd, For The Cause, God of Liberty, Jesus Christ
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Congressional Politburo To Flame Out

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

Not that we should be surprised, but Sunday (Nov20) it was plain for all to hear: the so-called Congressional Supercommittee will fail to make any progress on trimming the budget toward balance by Wednesday (Nov23).

President Obama and Congress failed back in the summer to manage the deficit while increasing the Debt Ceiling.  They then organized a bi-partisan committee made up of both Sen’s and Rep’s that would come w/ a plan to balance the budget by mid-November.  It is clear now that this unconstitutional politburo will fail too.  There are “automatic” cuts that are supposed to “kick in” to do the job they could not. They are supposed to be a combination of Defense and Social Spending measures.  They will not “kick in” however til  (drum roll…….)  2014.  By then, Obama will be in a second term or there will be a new Republican Chief Executive, and Congress will be facing a new mid-term election.

Obama is a fiscal failure; the GOP-led House is a fiscal failure. The Dem-led Senate is a joke.  Greedy politicians surrounded by corporate lobbyists will not face up to the magnitude of the budget problem.  Federal revenues as a % of GDP have generally increased over the last 40 yrs. (see chart above) Bush’s tax cuts reduced revenue for a while until it increased again at the end of his term.  Revenues have been lower since the Great Recession began because so many are out of work.

The problem is not revenue; the problem is out of control spending. There hasnt been fiscal sanity in Washington since the GOP under Newt Gingrich swept into Congressional power and came to agreement w/ Pres. Clinton on welfare reform in the mid-90s.

The fedl tax code needs to be reformed:  3 or 4 FLAT rates w/ few or NO deductions on both the personal and corporate sides.  Revenue may actually increase for higher-level incomes.  But, the spending side must be dealt with.

Are fedl depts “constitutional”??

Are fedl programs “constitutional”??

NO MORE unfunded wars…

Deduct the salaries paid to the members of this congressional politburo from August to November of this year. They were assigned a duty and failed.  They should not be paid for their abject failure.

Vote the bums out of office from both sides of the aisle who fail the taxpayers. And do it now, before America becomes a Greece…

Tags: congress, debt ceiling deficit, federal budget, federal revenue, national debt, newt gingrich, Obama, politburo, supercommittee
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The InEquality Racket (Pat Buchanan)

Monday, November 14th, 2011

W/ all the talk of Widening Income Gaps in the Left-Wing Media, Pat Buchanan hits another one out of the park w/ his latest article on the Problems of InEquality.  Check it out :

“Our mainstream media have discovered a new issue: inequality in America. The gap between the wealthiest 1 percent and the rest of the nation is wide and growing wider.
This, we are told, is intolerable….a deformation of American democracy that must be corrected through remedial government action.
What action? The rich must pay their fair share. Though the top 1 percent pay 40 percent of federal income taxes and the bottom 50 percent have, in some years, paid nothing, the rich must be made to pay more.
That’s an appealing argument to many, but one that would have horrified our founding fathers. For from the beginning, America was never about equality, except of God-given and constitutional rights.
Our revolution was about liberty; it was about freedom.
The word equality was not even mentioned in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Federalist Papers….
When Thomas Jefferson wrote that memorable line — All men are created equal — he was not talking about an equality of rewards, but of rights with which men are endowed by their Creator. He was talking about an ideal….”

Here is where it gets really good.  As a student ( and teacher of history), unequivocably, I support Buchanan’s premise here:

“Equality, egalite, was what the French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, Mao’s Revolution of 1949, Castro’s Revolution of 1959 and Pol Pot’s revolution of 1975 claimed to be about.
This was the Big Lie, for all those revolutions that triumphed in the name of equality were marked by mass murders of the old ruling class, the rise of a new ruling class more brutal and tyrannical, and the immiseration of the people in whose name the revolution was supposedly fought.  [Let me add that each resulted in the destruction of Christian influences on the Nation involved proceeded by a wave of Godless Barbarism]

Invariably, Power to the people! winds up as power to the party and the dictator, who then act in the name of the people. The most egalitarian society of the 20th century was Mao’s China. And that regime murdered more of its own than Lenin and Stalin managed to do.   Inequality is the natural concomitant of freedom.”

“… as God-given talents are unequally distributed, home environments of children are unequal, and individuals differ in the drive to succeed, free societies, where rewards of fame and fortune accrue to the best and brightest, must invariably become unequal societies.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, no nation achieved greater prosperity for working men and women than the United States, where all were born free, but equal only in constitutional rights.
Yet, though inequalities of income and wealth have endured through the history of this republic, each generation lived better and longer than the one that came before.
That was the America we grew up in. As long as life for the working and middle classes was improving, who cared if the rich were getting richer?

Todays new inequality is due to several factors:   One is a shift from manufacturing as the principal source of wealth to banking and finance. A second is the movement of U.S. production abroad.   This has eliminated millions of high-paying jobs while enriching the executives and shareholders of the companies that cut the cost of production by relocating overseas.
With globalization, the interests of corporations — maximizing profit — and the interests of the country… diverged….
Yet, behind the latest crusade against inequality lie motives other than any love of the poor. They are resentment, envy and greed for what the wealthy have, and an insatiable lust for power.

For the only way to equalize riches and rewards in a free society is to capture the power of government, so as to take from those who have, to give to those who have not.

And here is the unvarying argument of the left since Karl Marx: If you give us power, we will take from the rich who have so much and give it to you who have so little. But before we can do that, you must give us power.

This is the equality racket.”

Tags: income gap, inequality, mao. stalin, marx, marxism, pat buchanan
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who are the poor?

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

While on vacation in the summer, I read an enlightening article from Cal Thomas (of Tribune Media). It contained these tidbits:

“Who are the poor? Are they a perpetual underclass that never changes? Are they worse off, or better off than they were when [the 60's] War On Poverty began?”  The Heritage Foundation reveals:

The “Poor” Population is smaller (14.3% in 2009) compared to 1964 (19%), but their households as defined by the Govt look different. “The average ["poor"] home has air conditioning and cable TV; a car; 2 color TVs and a DVD/ VCR player…  If there are children (especially boys), the family has a game station (XBox or PlayStation)… typical poor Americans have more living space than the average European house…  Poor boys today at age 18-19 are taller and heavier than middle class boys in the late 50s and a full inch taller and 10 lbs heavier than American GIs who fought in WWII.”

This is not aimed at denying Poverty in America today. But there are varying degrees of poverty and definitely various causes to the problem.  There are places to cut and/ or change social programs.  The Safety Net is now a Hammock.  The debate should center on the role of Government vs. the role of the Church.  Liberals like to use the Bible (such as Matthew 25) when it suits their purposes, but Christ Jesus never seemed to indicate Govt to be the “primary caregiver for the poor”.  The Lord’s Commission focused on His followers (The Church) filling empty stomachs as well filling empty souls (W/ the message of The Gospel).  Christianity’s success rate in providing a better life sure outweighs the success rate of any human government.

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