“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.”
~ St. Paul, 1st century
Philippians 4:8 ~
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in
heavenly places.”
~ Ephesians 6:12 ~
"Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. This is why it is said: 'Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.'"
~ Ephesians 5:11-14 ~
"Blessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust, and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies."
~ Psalm 40:4 ~
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables."
Here is another cogent, concise and convincing
example of the rightness of Conservatism.
Whack your favorite drone(s) with the TRUTH:
[There’s a high probability it won’t penetrate their thick
armor of denial – but hey, it’s worth a shot.]
Rather than acting honorably, conciliatory, heck – presidential even – Obama callously used Wednesday’s tragedy – the murder of nine Christians at a Charleston Bible-study meeting – to push his gun control agenda. He had this admonition for Americans yesterday ~
Let’s be clear: At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency.
In typical Leftist fashion, the president mangles the facts for the progressive cause. The truth of the matter is, on the basis of percentage of total population, the U.S. is in 6th place when it comes to fatalities and frequency, behind Norway, Finland, Slovakia, Israel and Switzerland – all countries by the way with more restrictive gun control policies in place than we have. (If the bad guys want weapons, they’ll find a way to get them.) ~
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It’s not America that’s the problem. It’s not whites that are the problem. It’s not guns that are the problem. It’s the evil in human hearts.
It was ever thus.
Can’t say we didn’t see this one coming. Back in January, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy traveled to Italy to recruit Pope Francis for the progressives’ campaign against climate change ~
In a bid to bolster the Obama administration’s “moral” case for combating climate change, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency will meet senior Vatican officials Friday to enlist papal support for its policies […]
“As one of the world’s most respected and influential leaders, Pope Francis, and those who advise him, will play a crucial part in advancing climate change [action] domestically and overseas,” McCarthy, a Roman Catholic, said in an e-mail.
One of the major goals of the pagan, anti-life ecology movement was to get the Church and religious leaders committed to the cause of environmentalism. In this, the Green Movement succeeded.
This is really just tragic on so many levels.
Pope Francis fancies himself a compassionate advocate for the world’s poor and underprivileged, but by throwing in with the enviro-tyrants, he’s not only embracing pseudo-science, he’s (I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say “unwittingly”) helping to ensure that these same people ~
• will be denied economic opportunities
• will be unable to eradicate diseases that were vanquished long ago in Europe and the U.S.
• will be prevented from utilizing the same technologies that have allowed developed countries to become prosperous, comfortable and healthy
By going along with the alarmist agenda, the pope is risking his moral status and his credibility ~
In fact, (Retired NASA Scientists are) directly warning Pope Francis that if he embraces the climate agenda of the United Nations, he will be violating both scientific principles and the religious values he embodies that are supposed to be reflected in direct aid for the poor people of the earth.
Pope Francis Bergoglio is pushing the global warming con because it is a pure mechanism for unlimited government wealth redistribution, and also because Bergoglio is dimwitted and, I have been told, scandalously unread. He is babbling global warming talking points that were popular ten years ago and have been utterly, completely debunked and objectively disproved for five years, because he isn’t even sharp enough to keep up with the latest line of Marxist carnival barker crap.
Yikes.
Here a criticism from Fr. George W. Rutler, pastor of St. Michael’s church, NYC, that’s very thoughtful – and a bit less fractious: Mixing Up the Sciences of Heaven and Earth
While the Holy Father has spoken eloquently about the present genocide of Christians in the Middle East, those who calculate priorities would have hoped for an encyclical about this fierce persecution, surpassing that of the emperor Decius. Pictures of martyrs being beheaded, gingerly filed away by the media, give the impression that their last concern on earth was not climate fluctuations […]
As vicars of that Logos, popes speak infallibly only on faith and morals. They also have the prophetic duty to correct anyone who, for the propagation of their particular interests, imputes virtual infallibility to papal commentary on physical science while ignoring genuinely infallible teaching on contraception, abortion and marriage and the mysteries of the Lord of the Universe. At this moment, we have the paradoxical situation in which an animated, and even frenzied, secular chorus hails papal teaching as infallible, almost as if it could divide the world, provided it does NOT involve faith or morals.
A belief in anthropologic (man-made) global warming and an attendant urgent need to save the planet is totally at odds with scripture. God created the world and God sustains the world. When He tires of our pathetic attempts to imitate Him, His Son’s return will be imminent.
John Phillips of PJMedia talks to Scott Ott and Steven Kruiser in a valiant attempt to sort out the Rachel Dolezal enigma ~
I’m leaning towards the “nuts” theory.
As Ott says at one point, not that long ago, Dolezal would have been institutionalized. We used to call the guys in the white coats when people started talking crazy, believing they were a different gender… or race… or disabled vs. able-bodied (What’s next? Trans-species?). Back in the day, delusional behavior was considered a psychotic break with reality.
If we as a society drift much further into the twilight zone, we’ll really have no further use for the entire field of psychiatry.
June 15th is the 800th anniversary of that pivotal moment in Western Civilization when the law of the land was formally recognized as being above the will of the monarch. We who live in the historical wake of the British Empire have essentially enjoyed eight centuries of liberty as a result of King John’s reluctant signing of (the) Magna Carta.
Daniel Hannan (British member of the European Parliament for the Conservative Party) recounted the history of the “Great Charter” in a recent WSJ article ~
It was at Runnymede, on June 15, 1215, that the idea of the law standing above the government first took contractual form. King John accepted that he would no longer get to make the rules up as he went along. From that acceptance flowed, ultimately, all the rights and freedoms that we now take for granted: uncensored newspapers, security of property, equality before the law, habeas corpus, regular elections, sanctity of contract, jury trials […]
The bishops and barons who had brought King John to the negotiating table understood that rights required an enforcement mechanism. The potency of a charter is not in its parchment but in the authority of its interpretation […]
Magna Carta instituted a form of conciliar rule that was to develop directly into the Parliament that meets at Westminster today. As the great Victorian historian William Stubbs put it, “the whole constitutional history of England is little more than a commentary on Magna Carta.”
As the UK Telegraph points out, King John was one evil bast**d. Treacherous, lecherous, cruel and feckless (remind you of anyone?) – he couldn’t even manage to hold on to previously conquered land on the continent. Then he over-taxed the English citizenry to coverage the cost of his incompetence. He was such a disastrous ruler that his subjects finally rebelled openly and seized London. The King eventually had no choice but to sign the Great Charter which put the law of the land above his own despotic will.
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The significance of Magna Carta is hard to overstate. The assertion that common law should supplant the arbitrary whims of a ruler, transformed western civilization ~
When the 18th-century statesman Pitt the Elder described Magna Carta as England’s Bible, he was making a profound point. It is, so to speak, the Torah of the English-speaking peoples: the text that sets us apart while at the same time speaking truths to the rest of mankind.
The very success of Magna Carta makes it hard for us, 800 years on, to see how utterly revolutionary it must have appeared at the time. Magna Carta did not create democracy: Ancient Greeks had been casting differently colored pebbles into voting urns while the remote fathers of the English were grubbing about alongside pigs in the cold soil of northern Germany. Nor was it the first expression of the law: There were Sumerian and Egyptian law codes even before Moses descended from Sinai.
What Magna Carta initiated, rather, was constitutional government—or, as the terse inscription on the American Bar Association’s stone puts it, “freedom under law.” […]
The idea of the law coming up from the people, rather than down from the government, is a peculiar feature of the Anglosphere. Common law is an anomaly, a beautiful, miraculous anomaly. In the rest of the world, laws are written down from first principles and then applied to specific disputes, but the common law grows like a coral, case by case, each judgment serving as the starting point for the next dispute. In consequence, it is an ally of freedom rather than an instrument of state control.
Seeds of freedom and liberty that we Americans have come to take for granted, were planted on that long ago day in June. Our heritage compels us to stand up to tyrants, demand an end to arbitrary rule, and assert our rights under the law. LEX REX!
From quoting Demosthenes to OMG and LOL ~ The evidence of a dumbed-down populace is all around us. Still it’s staggering to realize just how far we’ve fallen in the last two centuries. Dr. Michael Brown contrasts the education level of 1700s U.S. with today ~
“As of 2011, America was the only free-market OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) country where the current generation was less educated than the previous one.”
Gay Marriage Conservatives? ~ Paul Kengor at Accuracy in Media counters the ludicrous comment by Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld that “gay marriage, in my opinion, is a conservative idea” ~
Conservatism aims to conserve the time-tested values, ideas, and principles that have been sustained over time by previous generations and traditions. (Here, a crucial correction to Greg Gutfeld: gay marriage is not a tradition.) These are values, ideas, and principles—usually with a Judeo-Christian basis—that have endured for good reason and for the best of society, citizens, country, culture, and order […]
In an important speech at CPAC in February 1977, Reagan stated this [BTW – An excellent defense of the wisdom of conservatism]: “Conservative wisdom and principles are derived from willingness to learn, not just from what is going on now, but from what has happened before. The principles of conservatism are sound because they are based on what men and women have discovered through experience in not just one generation or a dozen, but in all the combined experience of mankind. When we conservatives say that we know something about political affairs, and that what we know can be stated as principles, we are saying that the principles we hold dear are those that have been found, through experience, to be ultimately beneficial for individuals, for families, for communities and for nations—found through the often bitter testing of pain or sacrifice and sorrow.”
“Our highest respect for the rule of law requires that we not respect an unjust law that directly conflicts with higher law. A decision purporting to redefine marriage flies in the face of the Constitution and is contrary to the natural created order. As people of faith we pledge obedience to our Creator when the State directly conflicts with higher law. We respectfully warn the Supreme Court not to cross this line.”
Amen.
Spain in the Eye of the Storm of Jihad ~ Islam teaches that once Muslims have conquered a territory, even though they may subsequently lose it, it always “belongs” to them. Apparently ISIS has now decided they should take back Spain ~
… Meanwhile, “dozens” of jihadists and other Islamic radicals are entering Spain from neighboring France, where they are said to be “asphyxiating” due to a government crackdown following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris in January […]
According to an anonymous Spanish intelligence operative interviewed by El Confidencial, a media outlet based in Madrid, French jihadists are moving to Spain because they feel they have “greater room for movement” on the Iberian Peninsula […]
The report says that most of the jihadists from France are moving to Catalonia and Spain’s Mediterranean coast, where they are attempting to “blend in” with Muslim communities there. Also known as the Spanish Levant, the region roughly corresponds with what was once known as Xarq al-Ándalus, territories that were occupied by Muslim invaders for nearly five centuries.
And then there’s the Scandinavian invasion ~ Goodbye Sweden ~ Thanks to cultural jihad by the Religion of Peace – and socialism on steroids – Sweden is no long the utopia the Left likes to think it is. Sobering account by a Swedish American who’s heading back to the states ~
Today, it’s as if the inmates are running the asylum. The politicians are participating in a chicken race of “goodness” where everybody tries to one-up each other in caring for the citizens of OTHER countries while Swedish retirees, school children, handicapped and other vulnerable categories of people are thorougly ignored. Violence is exploding. Jihadist Trojan horses are flowing through the porous border along with the tens of thousands ID-less refugees.
Renowned Russian journalist Konstantin Goldenzweig has resigned from state-funded TV channel ‘NTV’ after becoming disenchanted with the Kremlin’s misinformation campaign […]
“I want to thank all my colleagues who helped me, taught me, encouraged me and were my friends. And continue to be my friends. And sorry for taking part in this propaganda madness. There is only one banal conclusion: the deals with your own conscience are only as good as those you can cancel.”
American Pharaoh vs. Secretariat: Who Would Win? ~ Check out this cool side-by-side video of the Belmont Stakes from the Wall Street Journal. Which Triple Crown winner do you think was faster?
These people aren’t low-information – they’re NO-information ~
Media analyst Mark Dice asked beachgoers in San Diego, California to sign a petition supporting President Obama’s supposed plan to launch of preemptive nuclear attack against Russia to help keep the United States of America the world’s leading superpower. The results are disturbing.
Update: 6-11-15 ~ Social Media Nazis Try To Get Man Who Said #McKinney Was Not About Race Fired ~ The self-appointed thought enforcers are trying to get Benet Embry – the guy who talked to Hannity Monday night – (see video below) booted from his job as an internet radio show host for… telling the truth.
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For the low-information crowd a 30 second video clip is all that’s needed these days to try, convict and condemn a police officer in the court of public opinion; case closed. So when the progressive agit-prop crowd saw the pool party footage of a McKinney cop restraining a young teen, they recognized a golden opportunity to foment more discord and animosity – truth be damned. Just like Trayvon. Just like Ferguson. Just like Baltimore.
In this case though, the McKinney story started falling apart even before the video went viral, as residents of the Craig Ranch Subdivision took to Facebook to explain what really happened. “Sundance,” at The Last Refuge (aka- The Conservative Treehouse), has a detailed chronology of the fiasco HERE and HERE.
Briefly, the infamous pool party, organized by one Tatiana Rhodes (or Tatyana Rhodes), was unauthorized and in violation of homeowner association rules (Reservation required; Fee: $50.00; refundable $175 security deposit; no more than 20 people) ~
There are numerous social media links reflecting that Tatiana organizes these “parties”, and charges for attendance, as a profit generating business. Her enterprise name is promoted under the auspices of “Twinzzpromotions” and uses the email twinnzzpromotions@gmail.com […]
However, the specific event last Friday was advertised as “free attendance” where Tatiana was passing out flyers and selling tickets for another event she was setting up for June 19.
Tatiana and her mother (who are residents of Craig Ranch) set up for the festivities in a park area adjacent to the subdivision’s gated pool. The party included a DJ who, according to one neighborhood resident, “was playing loud, explicit (F-bomb) music for multiple hours.” More than 100 people showed up in response to party flyers which advertised “Food – Drinks – Pool” ~
Apparently Tatiana and her mother Lashana were unable to control the growing crowd – who came to their event at the park looking for and expecting a “pool party”.
That’s when things got out of control as the 100+ teens (and young adults) turned into a mob of partygoers and began jumping the fence to the gated pool area. Residents within the neighborhood found themselves confronting a mob of teens growing ever increasingly hostile and agitated.
By the time a lone police officer, Eric Casebolt (the officer captured in the viral video), arrived on the scene, a fight had broken out between two teen girls, and the situation was rapidly deteriorating.
Here’s one of the homeowners talking to Sean Hannity Monday night (June 8th). His version of the events matches that of the vast majority of resident witnesses. There’s a lot more to the story than a brief video clip ~
On Sunday, immediately after the story went viral, the race hustlers started stirring the pot ~
Residents in the McKinney, Texas, Craig Ranch subdivision told Breitbart Texas that during the protest movement since the pool party ruckus on Friday, they have received death threats, and their homes have been vandalized.
“This isn’t about race,” he continued. “This is about outside kids invading our neighborhood and had no respect for authority or the residents here. I have a target on my back now, and I have been threatened by these punks that they are gonna shoot up my house, when all I did was try to control the mob and actually tended to the girl and the boy that had a bloody lip.”
“Yall don’t know the whole story,” Gestner continued. “I commend the officer for handling this situation.”
Too bad the detestable McKinney chief of police didn’t have the integrity to stand up for that officer – at least until all the facts were in – and threw him under the bus instead.
No doubt recalling the social justice mobs that descended on Ferguson and Baltimore, and hoping to escape another media feeding frenzy, Casebolt resigned yesterday. But there’s no escaping the hateful thugs:
“What if we found eric casebolt’s (sic) family & beat up the young girls in it,” he tweeted. “Would that b fair? If u live in McKinney, find his family.”
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#BlackLivesMatter ?!
You know what? Nobody’s life matters to these mindless drones!
The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.
~ James Madison ~
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Steeped as they were in world history, America’s founding fathers were well aware of the worst flaws in human nature; pride, ambition, envy, and greed. Accordingly, in establishing a constitutional republic, they sought to restrain government and limit man’s tendency to tyranny as much as possible.
They would be greatly dismayed then – although not shocked – by our present-day power-hungry ruling class. Despite years of appealing to our elected representatives for a return to limited government and fiscal responsibility, conservatives have been ignored, marginalized, even mocked by the elites in Washington and their mouthpieces in the mainstream media.
If [our] government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine Commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the Laws.
~ Noah Webster ~
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Our only real hope for recovering the representative government bequeathed to us then, is to turn back to America’s heavenly founding Father. As Dr. Michael Brown writes, it’s time to embrace the original source of righteousness and true freedom: God’s Answer to the Moral Insanity of the World ~
I’m all for proper political involvement and righteous social action, and these do play a role in cultural transformation. But that role is small compared with the role played by a fresh outpouring of the Spirit on the church accompanied by the preaching of the cross and resurrection, the message that is foolishness in the eyes of man but represents the very power of God in action.
That alone is the path to a national awakening, and without the fearless and compassionate proclamation of the gospel, there will not be a holy counterculture revolution, a pushing back of the tide of godlessness.
So let us seek God earnestly with prayer and fasting, knowing that revival comes from Him, let us conduct ourselves as true followers of Jesus, not being conformed to the pattern of this world but being transformed by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:1-2), and let us share the good news about our Savior whenever and wherever we can: Jesus paid for our sins on the cross, rising from the dead to declare His victory, and ascending to the right hand of the Father. He is the Lord of all.
AMEN!
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Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.
In this recent video from Prager University Daniel DiSalvo, political science professor at the City College of New York, explains how we-the-taxpayers get shafted as a result of the incestuous relationship between public sector unions and corrupt politicians ~
Take a bunch of inner city malcontents who have lived under the thumb of Democrat rule all their lives, add an angry racist mayor with an entitlement mentality, toss in an ambitious attorney general looking to make a name for herself… then light a match named “Freddie Gray” – and watch Baltimore implode.
Five weeks after the meltdown, after the mayor seemed to side with the city’s lawless cretins over her own police force, and after the attorney general indicted six officers on outlandish charges, Baltimore has turned into another grotesque monument to progressive policies.
(He) stated that Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s move “to call in the DOJ is nothing more than her trying to deflect away from her own leadership failure.”
“She once again continues to demoralize Baltimore’s finest, when she’s going to need them most,” Clarke said. “She did it once when she put them out there in harm’s way the night of the riot and told them to stand down…now she backed the bus over them by calling in the DOJ.”
“If she had some inkling that there were some issues of patterns and practices within the Baltimore Police Department, she should have said something earlier on,” Clarke explained.
May 28, 2015 10:53 AM
BALTIMORE (AP) — A 31-year-old woman and a young boy were shot in the head Thursday, becoming Baltimore’s 37th and 38th homicide victims so far this month, the city’s deadliest in 15 years.
Meanwhile, arrests have plunged: Police are booking fewer than half the number of people they pulled off the streets last year […]
“It’s so bad, people are afraid to let their kids outside,” Perrine said. “People wake up with shots through their windows. Police used to sit on every corner, on the top of the block. These days? They’re nowhere.”
Amy Hartman, who led city efforts to increase public safety in the southeast neighborhood of McElderry Park, has submitted her resignation — meaning nearly a third of the 16-member office is departing amid the recent surge in violence.
Speakers at the New Unity event called for a series of changes aimed at ending police violence and empowering young people in poor communities: educating residents about their rights when interacting with police, community oversight of police, jobs programs with a living wage, more money for education and a robust program for rehabilitating vacant houses.
Great. Just foment more of the same grievance-mongering that created the thug class in the first place; and pretend that the progressive destruction of the black family structure had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Sorry folks. It’s not the color of your skin, it’s the content of your character.
“We separated ourselves from them as from the plague, as it’s contagious,” he said. “The Russian Orthodox Church cannot support with its authority something that is just an iniquity from the Biblical point of view.”
“These are not Christian communities anymore. This is another community with its own distinct name of ‘LGBT.’ Its future is simple and clear – the ‘fire of Gehenna’ – this is just what the Holy Scripture says,” Fr. Smirnov said.
By rejecting the Christian faith’s immemorial teaching on sexual morality, “the former Christian peoples are preparing themselves for the solemn reception of the Anti-Christ.”
… what the oil and natural gas industry has been saying for more than 60 years: “Hydraulic fracturing activities have not led to widespread, systemic impacts to drinking water sources.” […]
Still, very good news ~
Perhaps anti-fracking groups finally will be forced to admit that their scare tactics were a ruse, a cynical and dishonest talking point to just-say-no to oil and gas production. At the very least, elected officials should take note and reverse fracking moratoria in New York and Maryland. That would be a victory for common sense over nonsense.
In January 2009, when President Obama took office, there were 21,375,000 foreign-born workers employed in the United States. Since then, the number has increased by 3,723,000.
No wonder there aren’t any jobs for regular Americans.
The Magic Kingdom is doing its part; paying foreign workers with Americans’ dollars in Orlando.
“They condemn Israel and do not condemn ISIS; they condemn themselves.
“Israel has an exemplary democracy. We have academic freedom, press freedom, human rights. ISIS tramples human rights to the dust. It burns people alive in cages and the national student groups in Britain refuse to boycott ISIS and have boycotted Israel. It tells you everything you want to know about the BDS movement.”
The international community continues look away as South Africa degenerates into another race pit. There is coordinated campaign of genocide being conducted against whites […]
The racial tension bubbling over within the South African nation is swiftly going down the road toward a Zimbabwe-style meltdown.
Teacher takes pre-teens to sex toy store: parents outraged ~ These progressive parents enrolled their children in the the progressive “Gaia Democratic School” (Gaia means “Mother Earth’) and they’re shocked that the kids went on a field trip to the “Smitten Kitten” – “a progressive sex toy store for everyone” ?
How very unprogressive of them.
… at these critical times when everybody is distracted by their smartphones, a major social breakdown in society is happening . What used to be sounds of conversation, laughter and happiness surrounding us has been replaced by an eerie silence only filled with email and text alerts. We have become slaves to our devices, almost never looking up in fear of missing something from our glowing screens that continues to sell us propaganda and unhappiness for pennies on the dollar. Most acknowledgements like “Hello” or “How are you” are returned with dirty stares and confusion from people forced to look up from their personal enslavement devices.
