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November
06, 2006
Yeah, I know that voting is only supposed to encourage the beggars, but it is a hard habit to break, especially when (at least here in South Dakota) you can vote on issues that will (assuming the vote goes the right way) end at least three taxes and strangle two more in their cribs. To say nothing of a chance to end at least two forms of medical hypocrisy: the idea that God made something that is totally worthless (marijuana) and the kindred idea that the children of rapists and pedophiles are not human.) Culture
Wars: Look, I understand this man's troubles - he has been doing something for years that he teaches and probably thinks he believes is evil and damning, and I am sure that he is sincerely sorry (and maybe not just about being caught). But this entire sorry spectacle is a hideous illustration of what is evil and wrong about so-called "Christendom" in this nation, and for that matter, around the planet. Let me explain. These are the same people that apparently want to mkae practicising homosexuality illegal, and not just immoral. These are the same people that want to see not just currently illegal drugs made illegal, but want to add alcohol, tobacco, and possibly caffeine and white sugar (and some, even chocolate) to the list for which people can have their carcasses thrown into jail, be forced to go through "treatment," have their homes, vehicles, and businesses invaded by thugs in black uniforms, and have their urine or blood tested anytime, anywhere, for any reason. These are the people that think that because George W Bush has "confessed" Christ as Lord, he is the man on a white horse who can be trusted even as he takes freedom away in the name of "preserving" freedom. Fortunately (in my view, at least) and sadly, these people are NOT christians - no matter how loudly they claim to be so. The article shows itself shows some of the reasons I state this as fact: Erwin and her fellow congregants aren't in this mega-church because they are disciples of God, but because of this man; this mega-church is "overseen" by "clergy" from other churches; grace and forgiveness apparently have nothing to do with confession of sins and repentance, you have had one man ruling over 14,000 people (no wonder he was "stretched thin"), and many other things which show that this church has as little to do with the Christianity taught in the Bible and founded by a carpenter from Nazareth about 1,980 years ago as this electronic magazine you are reading has to do with clay tablets marked with cuneiform and baked in a dung oven. This mega-church is no more a church of Jesus Christ than it is the Fourth Temple. This man, and those he ruled over, and those he is allied with (publicly, that is) is a slave in mentality - he is apparently incapable of controlling his own actions, his own life - he seeks to have the government make these things illegal and force him to stop doing it because he thinks that he can be forced to do what he will not do, literally, for the love of God. And thus he wants to make the rest of us slaves of government as well. That is NOT the Gospel preached by Paul and others for most of twenty centuries, that is NOT what Jesus Christ died for - and until this man and his former followers stop putting their faith in themselves and other people (whether we are talking "oversight boards" of "clergy" or government), and start putting faith in God, they are the enemies of God, of liberty, and of lovers of liberty (whether believers in God or not). The revelation of this man's sin was clearly politically motivated, and very well may have an impact on ballot issues in Colorado and elsewhere this week (I'm writing this on the 5th), which is itself as wrong as churches, even mega-churches like this, bowing down to the state (government) in promoting tyranny and accepting control. Like too many others, these people are their own worst enemies, and their very own actions are destroying them and their objectives. Iraqi Front: In truth, if this sentence is carried out, Saddam will fare much, much better than most deposed Islamic leaders/tyrants since the spawning of that faith and its first empires: most would have been pulled from the spider hole he was in, blinded immediately with hot needles, then beheaded, their head put on a pole for display in front of the new rulers' palace, and his body cut lengthwise and hung for months or years on either side of the major highway leading into Baghdad or whatever capital. More and more people may wish that had happened, if the Post's predictions of more division are true. Of course, Saddam's execution, by an Iraqi government, could be a suitable point for the dismembering of Iraqi and a departure of Coalition forces. Afghan
Front: Sounds like the Northwest Frontier, all right. What does Sir David consider "confident" to mean? Economics: I may have included this story last week, but it bears reading and commenting on again. When even the gov-goons are warning the public and each other that they are getting close to the "licking-out-around-the-rivets-in-the-bottom-of-the-pig-trough" stage, you know something is seriously wrong - either they've come up with a new way to steal your eyeteeth, or the flights to the Bahamas are all booked up for the indefinite future and someone's looking to jump ship and claim "I was for the people all the time!" My advice? Buy hemp - it can stand the repeated shocks and the bits of skin and blood don't smell as bad after a few days. Mama's Note: Too bad these folks didn't start their warnings a LONG time ago. This country has been on a collision course with economic collapse for a very long time. The government smoke and mirrors have simply put off the day of reckoning so long that the price for all that folly will be very high indeed - for us slobs paying the taxes, I mean, not for THEM... unless we use a lot of hemp pretty quick. Government-run,
Theft-funded Schools: I don't
care WHO she flipped off - the spokeswoman is right, regardless of who
informed them. Even if it had been a half-naked biker in black leather
stoking a big cigar, much less a Congruss-thug. So why am I putting this
in "GRTF Schools"? First, because GRTF schools are run by unions
that don't care about their employees being role models for students -
so I expect her to win her case. Second, because a private school would
have had decent, motivated drivers who thought before they flipped. Third,
because it is in very large part the abysmal failure of our current "education"
system that has deteriorated civil discourse to the point that anyone
with an IQ above turnip level would think it acceptable to publicly give
the finger to someone just because you happen to see him. Or that some
kinds of "free speech" still have consequences. (For the record,
the ill-mannered and uncivil lout who did this was, in our sad times -
a woman.) Home Front
Freedoms: This story is dated the 3rd, and I can't find it on their "wonderful" website, but there is no reason to doubt it is correct - forty years on all of us, and no doubt enough video with sound to CGI us whenever they want to - "No, your honor, I did NOT expose myself to a six-year-old girl in Washington National Airport thirty years ago in 2007 when I flew to England on vacation." "But the federal attorney has video tape of you doing that, Mr. Smith, just before you scratched swastikas on the chrome armrest. Would the government lie about this?" I think that this can be considered "chilling" the desire to travel - even if all they can record is you picking your teeth. Home Front
Freedoms: Folks, do people REALLY think that corruption in government begins and ends in the cop car, the bar next to the courthouse, or the lobby of the legislature? If DOT workers can ensure job security by dripping diesel on the newly-paved highway to speed up the development of potholes, certainly you can see that SES (Senior Executive Service - the highest level of nonpolitical appointee simple serpents (civil servants)) can figuratively do the same thing? Of course reading from a distance is stupid - unless you want to make it easy for crooks to get information!! In news that I saw on a hotel-room CNN screen, but haven't found on line, in one location they just arrested dozens of hotel clerks who had a ring selling stolen identities: credit card numbers, drivers license numbers, home addresses and phone numbers of an estimated 50,000 people, because of all the information now demanded (mostly by governments) for you to rent a cheap bed for eight hours or so. A motel (that I did not have to pay for or sign into, fortunately) had a sign on their desk: "We do not accept cash or checks without photo identification." Those same people will have RFID readers under that counter, downloading all the other info on your "secure" gov't-issued foto-ID, as soon as those appear - if they aren't already doing it with your Exxon SpeedPass T on your keychain. All thanks to government. Mama's Note: I heard that some states already have some forms of machine readable information imbedded into the magnetic strip on the back of the driver's license. Quite a few people I know have said that their cards, unfortunately, got too close to a microwave and are now not "readable" at all. What a shame... Home Front: Sounds like very long basic training, to me - at least the old, pre-PC basic training. Some drill sergeants would convince the more gullible recruits that the standard entrée in the Drill Instructor's mess each evening was roast haunch of recruit, and as for standing for long periods - ever been in a DIVISIONAL parade and pass-in-review? In Missouri in 95-degree heat? Or on a wintry San Francisco summer morning? Even the enemies are whining, these days.
Iraqi Front: You've probably seen it, but it is too good NOT to share, although my friends at RRND and FND don't think so. Well, friends, this is a great big chuckle indeed - yes, soldiers aren't supposed to get political, but when you have idiots spouting off like this, some comments are bound to make it out to the public, and not just to other soldiers. Fact is, despite recent reductions in enlisted standards, American soldiers today are the most educated and smartest force in history - many NCOs (and all officers) have a MINIMUM of 4 year college degrees, and the number of graduate degrees even in the lower NCO ranks is surprising. No, the losers that Kerry talks about are loading docks at Wal-Mart or sweeping the floors at Burger King - while Congress (including the aforesaid Kerry) send our best and brightest to be killed for the convenience of the Congressional thugs and their campaign sponsors, and the old Parties of Death. If Kerry is trying to push hotheads in the military into staging a putsch, he is doing the right thing - but fortunately, most soldiers respect the Constitution (bad as it is) more than they want to punch out the esteemed thug and his fellows of both parties. Mama's Note: The latest on this nutty deal: "He says he meant to say "get us stuck in Iraq," a botched joke intended to criticize President Bush, not troops. Iraqi Front: Clearly, the Pentagon does not feel threatened by discussions such as this - Military Review is NOT published by some antiwar, anti-administration group after all - it is an official publication, as I recall, of the Army school at Fort Leavenworth, which is the lower-grade graduate level - not even the high-brass school like Carlisle Barracks. This is good news, then, for our military, just as is the Army Times family of publications (which ARE privately-owned and FOR the soldiers) new editorial (officially published on Monday) telling Rumsfeld it is time to go. Mama's Note: The problem seems to be that the government is not listening to the military any more than it is listening to the voters, or anyone else. How long will we allow them to go on their merry way destroying everything they touch? Korean
Front: "Conventional"
wisdom on nuclear warfare, no doubt. But he's probably right - you gotta
keep the clems attacked so that you can properly fleece them. Carney (or
if you prefer, showman) lingo: "fleece" is as in fleecing a
sheep - relieving them of their (obviously) ill-gotten gains through artistry.
"Clem" is a (again, obviously derogatory) term for a non-carney
- a mark, a target, the member of that crowd standing in the midway just
begging to be enticed into your show to be fleeced in return for some
good solid entertainment - on your terms, of course. Clem has the general
air of being rural, but some of the best clems are city dudes. (You will
remember, of course, Red Skelton's immortal character, Clem Kadiddlehopper
(sp?) for whom Red selected this ironic first name, from his vaudeville
days.) Our British
Cousins: Of course, we are second only to the UK (see the story about the 40-year file in Home Front Freedoms, above). Politics
2006: What does Diebold expect, riots in the voting booths? Please. Diebold, just figure another lawyer on staff for every share of the viewing public which is also voting (which is going to be a pretty low percentage, I'd guess). But don't worry, the thugs and their cousins in DC and state capitols everywhere will for the most part continue to love you and buy your products, because you're cheaper than the old, pre-automation ways of winning elections by going and registering people out of the local cemetery plot list and buying booze for the union shills. Politics
2006: Look, if gamblers were smart, they'd not be gambling, now would they? My advice? Bet on more government in 2007, no matter which bunch of thugs wins. Our Right
to Defend Ourselves: Sneaky gramma, eh? Stupid crook, too. Our Right
to Defend Ourselves: People in Pittsburgh have been known to serve shorter jailtime for murder in cold blood - but then, PA was never known for self-defense, after the Whiskey Rebellion. You realize, of course, that her possessions which were stolen had nothing to do with this sentence. Our Right
to Defend Ourselves: Oh, what a risk - an armed populace. Gee, I wonder if that would work in the United States? Or the UK? Or Australia? Mama's Note: Unfortunately, the communists have already pretty much taken over the US, without a shot being fired. Our Right
to Defend Ourselves: Now, this is an interesting tale, indeed. The gunmen apparently were willing to do violence to anyone in their way - and the fisherman apparently was not willing to respond appropriately and properly and effectively. PEOPLE, get trained! Guns aren't magic! But why do the cops respond so slowly, and why don't they have better ways of being reached? They are government - they have a monopoly - they don't have to try harder, because they are #1~ right? Policing is too important to leave to the government. Mama's Note: YES!!! And self defense is far too important not to be properly equipped, both in training and in tools. Owning a gun does NOT make you ready to defend yourself!! I simply can't say this often enough. Our Right
to Defend Ourselves: Another one from Georgia - but less happy. Sadly, it might have been a real Feeb - who tend to prefer masks and dark clothing (not three-piece suits, either) these days. I suppose the Feebs should feel honored - "imitation is the best flattery." Stoopid
Guvmint Tricks: If it is as successful as the food pyramids (what, we are on our fourth one, now?), this will be another sterling example of how nanny government is nothing but a razorblade hidden by a tissue. Mama's Note: And then, there is the alternative... Listen up, any of you who think socialized medicine is a good idea! I can very clearly see the possibility that government mandated diet and exercise could become MANDATORY, according to the dictates of the latest nannystate bureaucrats. The government is already very close to making it almost impossible for us to get health foods and supplements without their direct permission. There is simply no reason they couldn't also invade any other area of personal choice. It would be impossible to implement completely, of course, so as with everything else, the "enforcement" would be very selective and punitive, with no relationship to actual benefit at all. Just take a good look at the evil being done in the name of the "war on (some) drugs," then imagine what would happen if foods and exercise were mandated according to government "rules." Lots of fun. Stupid
Mainstream Media Stories: Despite the heading, the story really comes from Ananova.com (where else), and yes, Sittingbourne, Kent, is in Southeast England, not in deepest Africa, where presumably, hoodies are still allowed in drinking establishments. It seems to me that the pubkeeper has a right to decide what his customers do or do not wear, eh? Mama's Note: It's not clear if this was the owner's "rule" or some government edict. If the pub owner wanted to throw out paying customers, of course he has the actual right to do so. I suspect he'd be stupid as hell to do so. Those pensioners are good customers - and very clannish about their pubs! He might lose the trade of dozens or more of her friends over this. The Front
Down Under: Don't you just love it when there is a falling out among thieves? The "army" is defying the "police" - which are nothing more than an allied gang with the gangsters wearing slightly different colors. And it seems that Aussies are just doing the same thing in their part of the world as their cousins across the Big Pond are doing worldwide: bullying. Maybe it is our shared Celtic blood - or maybe it is what happens when you give too many descendants of limeys (pommies to you all Down Under) too much power in this thing called government. Thugs of
2007: Even if they do win a decisive majority (unlikely), expect more theater than realism: they will all want to make a name for themselves in 2008, and will concentrate on "investigations" and "hearings" and no doubt a dozen competing efforts to be the first to impeach. But this, my friends, is GOOD - gridlock is good for liberty, because 99% of all legislation is designed, one way or another, to steal money, power, and/or liberty - no matter how good it sounds. Unfortunately, some of their garbage WILL pass, because once more the GOP will slide into its best role: kinky sex slave to deviants - and take up their battle cry when faced with evil: "not so fast, not so much at a time." Thugs: Oh, my heart bleeds for the Congrus-thug-ette. Now she has to live like the rest of us, who always wonder if OUR name appeared on someone's list magically. Mama's Note: At least she is on record as being against the lists to start with. I get a bigger kick out of a list SUPPORTER who gets caught in the fly trap. World Wars: Polls to the rescue, once more, as thousands of candidates try to convince us that the world hates us because of Bush, and only they can prevent World War III (or is it IV?) - the war of everyone else against the USA. ("And how, Ms. Candidate, does this fact impact on your vote on raising dog-pound fees next year?") Seriously, the right question, as usual, was not asked - not how dangerous is Bush to "whirled peas" but (1) how dangerous is Bush to human liberty and freedom, and (2) how dangerous is Bush to peace in YOUR country? Any bets on the poll numbers on these? Thanks to Tim for this one. World Wars: Good for them. (My one attaboy for lawyers for this week - made up for by the vast number of disgusting candidate-lawyers I've been condemning completely. World Wars: Does it
really matter? Well, considering that Latin American countries have gone
to war with each other over soccer matches, for them it does. For the
rest of us? Please. Page 2 Click HERE Link checked!!
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