Whitewashing the Truth in Portland

Colin Flaherty, author of “White Girl Bleed A Lot,” is reporting on what KGW TV in Portland, OR isn’tPortland is in the middle of a nasty bout of black mob violence. The mayhem appears to be centered around the city’s Martin Luther King Boulevard;

This mob has been attacking bike riders, housewives, students, seniors, you name it. These attacks are part of a long — but quiet — history of racial violence in a liberal enclave that prides itself on racial tolerance and harmony.

 
 
Portland – like most Leftist bastions these days – seems to occupy a reality-free zone. And KGW TV is broadcasting from the middle of town. Flaherty reports ~

Here is what Tim’s station, KGW, had to say about a few recent attacks:

“Police were warning bicyclists in Northeast Portland to be on the lookout after two men were injured during separate attacks along Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.”

 
“Be on the lookout?” For who? Sasquatch?
They can’t engage in responsible reporting and actually describe the assailants – because that would be “profiling?”
 
In the real world, where most of us still live, the first step in solving any problem is understanding what you’re dealing with.

Black mob violence against bicyclists and others has been a regular — and unreported — feature of life in Portland since at least 2007. Bike Portland reported six years ago several cases of black mob violence against bikers.

 

Liberals, like the folks at KGW want to leave the word “black” out of the equation and still attempt to find a solution to the trouble. It’s an approach doomed to failure.
 
Flaherty concludes his article by quoting from The Uncivil War by Taleeb Starkes ~

…liberalism (in Portland) is causing them to ignore, condone and excuse black on white crime and black mob violence. People who commit these horrific acts of violence are one thing. But people who condone them by ignoring them or refusing to tell the truth about them only encourage more them to occur. Those folks are sicker than the criminals.

 
Related:
Is A Race War Being Censored To Avoid White Backlash? ~ by Thomas Sowell

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Founding Wisdom [Flouted by the Foolish]

“I anticipate nothing but suffering to the human race while the present systems of paganism, deism, and atheism prevail in the world. New England may escape the storm which impends our globe, but, if she does, it will only be by adhering to the religious principles and moral habits of the first settlers of that country.”
 
~ Benjamin Rush ~

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Putin agrees with me

Yep. Russia’s President Putin also says Lurch is lying. From Breitbart; Global Leadership Reset: On Eve of G20, Putin Calls Kerry a Liar on Syria ~

Just before Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, he blasted the Obama administration on Wednesday for what he termed its propaganda on military action against Syria. “We talk with these people,” he said about Secretary of State John Kerry, the administration’s chief political spokesperson making the case for war. “We assume that they are decent. But he lies.

 

[Sorry – it’s annoying, but you’ll need to click on the “stop”
button or the video will continue playing on and on.]

 
“He lies and he knows he lies. This is sad.” 🙁

 
You know what else is really sad? The fact that many Americans suddenly find themselves agreeing more and more with the (former KGB) leader of Russia (on foreign relations as well as morality) – rather than with the leader of the United States of America!

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Egyptian Crisis Continues Despite Syrian Distraction

To listen to the poltroons on the Potomac and their mouthpieces in the media these days, the only topic worth discussing is Syria. Never mind that the entire episode is just a bunch of smoke and mirrors based on a canard. It’s essentially just a convenient distraction from more serious matters. Like – oh – the national debt (rapidly approaching 17 trillion!), the looming Obamacare nightmare, and the ongoing crisis in Egypt:
 
Open Doors USA Asking for Emergency Support, Prayers for Suffering Egyptian Christians ~

During the last two weeks a total of seven Christians have been murdered and 17 kidnapped during the violence directed at Christians by Muslim Brotherhood extremists. Hundreds more have been injured. Additionally, the rampage has resulted in the destruction or damage of 212 privately-owned Christian shops and homes and 95 church buildings. Orphanages, schools and Bible book stores have also been destroyed or damaged.
 
Open Doors’ ministry partners are confirming that Christians are living in fear, especially those in the countryside where Muslims are the majority. Many Christian families have lost everything and escaped with only what they were wearing […]
 
“Christians in the West must understand that the rampage against the followers of Jesus is targeted and intentional,” says Open Doors USA President/CEO Dr. David Curry. “Unless we pray, advocate and support those faithful believers who are under attack, the persecution will continue and perhaps widen.

 

You can help with prayers, as well as by donating – HERE.

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What is it that makes the U.S. so unique?

I’m taking a two-day break from blogging – be back on the 3rd. Meanwhile, here’s a short video President Obama should view (instead of planning to start another war!) this Labor Day weekend ~

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What is about America that makes it such an exceptional nation in all of human history?
Dennis Prager has a wonderfully concise answer:
 

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Saturday Shorts – 8-31-13

Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Year Five of Obama’s Foreign Policy Ineptitude ~ The Price of Appeasement and Tolerance in the Middle East ~ from Mark Alexander at the Patriot Post. Strange that our Nobel Peace Prize winning president has still not managed to bring about world peace in our time…
Although he is diligently working to eliminate the homeland threat of Tea Party “extremism” ~
 
Defense Department guide calls Founding Fathers ‘extremist’ ~

Under a section titled “extremist ideologies,” the document states, “In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples.”

Oddly enough;

Besides a brief reference to 9/11 and another to the Sudanese civil war, the guide makes no mention of Islamic extremism.

Totalitarians of every variety must always rewrite history if they are to succeed in their ambitions.
 
Bring a Bible in your ‘Bug-out’ Bag ~ Especially if you’re one of those “extremists” that DoD is targeting ~

God, and only God, is both our Creator and our Salvation.
Obama is a politician, and a self-seeking Marxist one at that.

 
An American Satyricon ~ Excellent (as always) commentary on our morally bankrupt culture and its parallels with Rome, from Victor Davis Hanson.
 
Troubling Trends ~ The kids are heading back to school but what will they be learning this year? World Magazine looks at the latest developments in public school indoctrination; transgender politics, Darwinian groupthink, and hostility to Christianity.
Here’s more ~ Truth in American Education. Parents beware.
 
EVIL ON THE RISE ~ burning churches in Egypt ~

Bombing crosses in Oregon ~ Vietnam Veterans Memorial Damaged by Bomb Blast
 
And killing people for their organs?! ~ Belgian doctors looking for disabled patients to be euthanized, donate organs ~ Dear God – what have we become?

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Big Brother: “Don’t Feed ‘the Sheeple'”

Back in mid-March of this year The Economic Collapse website ran a piece titled: Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities All Over America, which included a tally of the various locales across America where it’s now illegal for Christians to follow Jesus’ directive:
 

“Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.” Luke 3:11

 
 

Sadly, feeding the homeless has been banned in major cities all over America. Other cities that have not banned it outright have put so many requirements on those that want to feed the homeless (acquiring expensive permits, taking food preparation courses, etc.) that feeding the homeless has become “out of reach” for most average people. Some cities are doing these things because they are concerned about the “health risks” of the food being distributed by ordinary “do-gooders”. Other cities are passing these laws because they do not want homeless people congregating in city centers where they know that they will be fed.

 
Here’s a new name to add to the list of callous municipalities: Raleigh, NC ~
 
Police Tell North Carolina Christians to Stop Feeding Homeless or Be Arrested ~

Raleigh police have threatened staff from a Christian organization with arrest if they continued to hand out food to the homeless. The staff from Love Wins Ministry (LWM) have been left stunned after the incident last Saturday, and claim they have been handing out food to the homeless every week for the past six years without problem.

 

… at a time when poverty and government dependence are soaring to unprecedented levels, is it really a good idea to ban people from helping those that are hurting?

 
Only if you’re a godless statist who wants to replace God with Government.
 
Related:
It Is Illegal To Feed The Homeless In Cities All Over The United States ~ Up-dated article at The Economic Collapse

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Safwat Hegazy – Queen of the Desert?

Sorry, but this story from Daniel Greenfield, writing at Front Page Mag, is just too funny 😀
Top Muslim Brotherhood Imam Who Vowed to be Master of the World, Arrested Hiding in Women’s Clothes ~

Safwat Hegazy, top Muslim Brotherhood Imam, who last year said, “Yes, we will be masters of the world, one of these days” has been forced to postpone his dreams of ruling the world through a Caliphate, when he was arrested by Egyptian authorities while hiding in women’s clothes.

[Hegazy was caught at the Libyan border trying to sneak out of the country.]

 
He was going to be a king of the world, but he had to settle for being a queen of the desert.

 

It reminded me of these fashionable fellas:


Drag-Bombers for Allah… Taliban Fighters Captured in Lovely Spring Dresses ~

The Daily Mail reported today (March 29, 2012) on the lengths the Taliban are prepared to go to in order to gain access to coalition forces. This was illustrated yesterday when local police arrested seven men dressed in women’s clothing in Mehterlam, Laghman province, east of Kabul.

 
Seriously dudes, the beards are a dead give-away.

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New Mexico Supreme Court repeals 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution


 

In this week’s episode of “Disorder in the Court,”
we learn that freedom of religion is no longer
guaranteed under the Constitution.

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Shocking I know, but that’s essentially what the Supreme Court of New Mexico ruled last week when they said that a Christian photographer discriminated against a homosexual couple when she refused to take photos of their “commitment” ceremony. World Magazine has details ~

Elaine Huguenin, who operates Elane Photography with her husband, Jonathan, cited her belief in the biblical definition of marriage when she declined to work with Vanessa Willock and her lesbian partner. Although Willock hired another photographer, she filed a complaint against Huguenin with the New Mexico Human Rights Commission. In 2008, the commission ruled Huguenin discriminated against Willock on the basis of her sexual orientation and ordered the photographer to pay $6,637.94 in attorneys’ fees, even though New Mexico does not recognize same-sex marriage or civil unions.

 
Most regular Americans (as Mark Levin calls them) know better than these activist judges. As Alliance Defending Freedom, who may appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, reported ~

A Rasmussen poll last month found that “If a Christian wedding photographer who has deeply held religious beliefs opposing same-sex marriage is asked to work a same-sex wedding ceremony, 85% of American adults believe he has the right to say no.”

 
Yet with an arrogance we are unfortunately seeing more and more often, the NM court simply pretends the First Amendment doesn’t exist.
 
One News Now has an excellent article by Frank Turek that discusses the implications of this case ~

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was put in place to prevent exactly what the New Mexico Supreme Court has done: using the strong arm of government to force citizens to advocate (not just tolerate) ideas and behaviors that contradict their religious or moral convictions. Forcing people to support same-sex weddings or commitment ceremonies is forcing them to advocate same-sex behavior.

 
America was settled and established by men and women who answered to a Higher Authority. An authority over and above temporal governments formed by mere mortal men. Our rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are guaranteed by our Creator – not by mere men-in-black on a bench.
 

Our country has a choice to make: either maintain the value of freedom enshrined in our Constitution, or usurp the value of freedom by mandating conformity to the gay agenda. Unless the church and other freedom-loving people begin to speak up and get involved – and by that I mean in politics, education, the media, and law – we will lose the very freedoms our founders spilled their blood to secure. ~ Frank Turek ~

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Lurch is lying – again

Updated: September 3, 2013
 
The two faces of John Kerry ~
PHOTO: Kerrys Have Dinner with Assad in 2009 [Breitbart]
 
More verification of the administration’s subterfuge ~
Mounting evidence raises questions about Syrian chemical weapon attack
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8-28-13:
 
It’s hard to fathom, but most Americans no longer know or care that John Kerry was an anti-war protestor during the Vietnam era; one whose self-serving actions betrayed his fellow service members and callously deceived the American people. Yet it’s been less than ten years since the Swift Boat veterans exposed Kerry’s ignoble actions in Southeast Asia. (William A. Levinson called him a self-proclaimed war criminal in this Jan. 15, 2013 American Thinker article: Genghis Khan, Secretary of State.)
 
So how is it that “Genghis John” actually wound up as our top U.S. diplomat (asking rhetorically of course – since we know it was the French Republicans in Congress who enabled his approval)? And how is it that we could possibly believe anything the man says when it comes to international affairs? Why are we buying this claptrap? ~
 
Syria’s Guilt in Chemical Attack ‘Clear to the World,’ Kerry Says

Secretary of State John Kerry indicated today that the Obama administration intends to hold the Syrian regime accountable for a chemical attack that he called “undeniable.”

 
“Undeniable” ? Really?
 
Two sources that I’ve found to be particularly trustworthy when it comes to Middle Eastern events (their understanding and analysis have proved both prescient and reliable), Doug Hagmann – who writes at Canada Free Press – and Walid Shoebat, are both convinced that the Assad regime isn’t responsible for the chemical attacks.
 
Shoebat’s site had this to say yesterday ~

… Kerry, tells us that there is “undeniable” evidence that Bashar al-Assad’s regime used weapons of mass destruction on innocent civilians. The “undeniable” evidence is conveniently “classified”. The UN has not said there is “undeniable” evidence and the news media here or internationally have not confirmed our government’s “undeniable” findings. We, on the other hand, have provided significant evidence to the contrary or if you are skeptical of our findings certainly many questions that need to be further investigated.

 

Yes, there are numerous facts that should be considered – by rational adults – before the U.S. takes any reckless action in Syria:
• Assad’s forces have been winning in this conflict;
• Even before Assad’s forces gained the momentum, a UN official reportedly found evidence of rebels using chemical weapons but no evidence Assad’s regime did;
• In a video uploaded on August 23, 2013, Free Syrian operatives threatened to launch chemical weapons;
• A subsequent video purports to show Syrian rebels loading what very well may be a rocket armed with some sort of chemical agent.
 

Hagman’s analysis puts a decidedly sinister spin on this drama ~

The entire scenario we are seeing is one big magic act that began long ago, and Syria is just the ‘flash-bang’ diversion of the act, albeit a vital one […]
 
“Think about it. The anti-Assad ‘rebels’ are losing, they’re in retreat, because the exposure to the arms and weapons running from Benghazi caused the architects of this conflict to lay low for awhile. That gave us some time, but it did not change their objective of overthrowing Assad and taking Syria for the Muslim Brotherhood.
 
The anti-Assad rebels cannot survive without Western assistance. Considering that, what sense would it make for Assad to use chemical weapons, especially as international observers were getting in position to investigate the situation, against rebels in retreat? It makes no sense, unless you understand the larger objective and the ‘big picture.’”

 
Hagman’s unnamed source says the “big picture” isn’t about ~

“…fighting terrorism, or about helping the people of Syria. It’s about oil, energy and the global economic system. Conflict exists for the globalists to achieve their objective, and their objective is the implementation of a new economic system […]
 
They will usher this in by striking at the United States much like the U.S. took down the old Soviet Union. They will target our economy through oil, cheap oil, from Saudi Arabia. Remember, Russia is the world’s largest exporter of oil, neck and neck with the Saudis. But, the Saudis’ oil wells have been damaged and their ‘lift costs’ are increasing.”
 
“So, what we are about to see and experience in a most painful way is the destruction of the U.S. economy, the intentional killing of the U.S. dollar, by having it replaced as the world’s reserve currency […]
 
War in the Middle East and particularly Syria is the catalyst that will disrupt transactions and commerce all over the world. And few will see it coming, or know what hit them.”

 

I’m not sure how plausible this theory is, but it sounds a whole lot more credible than the suspiciously frantic narrative Kerry and the O’Ministration are trying to peddle.

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In their “War Remnants Museum” in Ho Chi Minh City, the North Vietnamese have hung a photograph of John Kerry hanging in a place of honor. They actually know the truth about the man. He long ago sold his soul to the Devil.
 
 

“Genghis John Kerry either told the truth to Crosby Noyes and the Senate Foreign Relations Commission –
 

‘thousands of soldiers […]
personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam’

 
– or else he lied. If he told the truth, he is an admitted felon. If he lied, he perpetrated a blood libel of our Armed Forces during time of war, and is therefore the moral counterpart of (treasonous individuals)”

Source: American Thinker

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Related:
 
Benador: People, Congress, Military: Stop Obama, No War On Syria!!!
An informative analysis of the Syrian crisis (including the al Qaeda element) along with an impassioned plea from Eliana Benador, a global strategist, a political operative and a human rights activist.

The day Obama will launch the war on Syria, everyone who did not stop him, will be putting the last nail to the coffin of the American Dream.

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Islamic “Newspeak”

“Newspeak” was the language of the authoritarian state in George Orwell’s futuristic novel “1984.” As a means of thought-control, the Party dictated the meaning and usage of individual words.
 
It appears that a Muslim version of “Newspeak” has now been formally instituted in the Southeast Asian country of Malaysia. From the Gateway Pundit ~

In Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim country, Christians are forbidden from using the word “Allah”. A Malaysian Catholic newspaper challenged the government ban, but was rejected unanimously by the Court of Appeal. In the Malay language “Allah” means God. So, after centuries of its use, Christians in Malaysia are, in effect, now forbidden from saying God. Only Muslims have that exclusive right.

 

 
What makes this ruling particularly surreal is that, according to the Malay Mail ~

(T)he word ‘Allah’ pre-dates Islam. It is not a creation of the Muslims and its existence does not begin in the Al-Quran.

 
So Muslims basically hijacked “Allah” – and now they “own’ it?!
Yes. But don’t say anything. You risk being accused of a thoughtcrime.

 

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“The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there
will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not
thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

 
~ George Orwell describing the ultimate goal of “Newspeak.”

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Mocking Transcendent Truth

When “anything goes” – nothing matters. Welcome to the Wonderful World of Nihilism ~

A student at Texas Tech University appears to be the first American to have his driver’s license photo taken — and to successfully obtain a driver’s license — while wearing a pasta strainer on his head.

 
The student, Eddie Castillo, pulled off the stunt by claiming to practice Pastafarianism and belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, reports KLBK.
 
Pastafarianism is a satire. Its proponents seek to illustrate their belief that government should avoid promoting any single religion.
 
The purposefully preposterous religion originated in 2005, notes the Daily Mail. A guy named Bobby Henderson concocted it (along with the Spaghetti Monster, the belief that pirates are gods and much else) while he was fighting against the inclusion of intelligent design in Kansas public schools.
 
“It was created as a form of satire, but it shouldn’t be taken in a sense that discriminates or disassociates other religions, and it should be looked at as a political symbol for the separation between church and state,” Castillo explained.

Source: Daily Caller

 

Regardless of what Castillo claims his actions represent, by pushing past any values/morality/beliefs that used to be held in common he’s demonstrating that for him (and unfortunately millions like him), NOTHING actually is TRUE everywhere and for all times.
 
This is where society ends up when transcendent Truth is jettisoned.
#Nihilism

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