From Two of My Favorite Authors...

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past [five] decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."  Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?  Modern liberalism is nothing but a utopia, a fantasy that denies nature, truth, history, and plain factual evidence, to be replaced solely by the "enlightened" visions of amoral elitists who think they can remake the world according to their own finite intelligence.

 

"With the decline of the USSR, communism has lost considerable respectability and is now repackaged as environmentalism and progressivism."  Walter Williams, "Our Fragile Planet".  How many times have I said in my blogs that the Marxists did not give up when the Soviet Union collapsed, they only changed colors? 

 

Progress?

Headline:  Archbishop Desmond Tutu's home robbed same day he attended memorial for Nelson Mandela

Reality

"Long live comrade Fidel Castro.  Cuban internationalists have done so much for African independence, African freedom, African justice.  We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious imperialist campaign designed to destroy the advances of the Cuban revolution….The Cuban revolution has been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people." 

"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.  They don't care for human beings." 

"People of Asia and Africa have seen through the slanderous campaign conducted by the USA against the socialist countries.  They know that their independence is threatened not by any of the countries in the socialist camp, but by the USA, who has surrounded their continent with military bases.  The communist bogey is an American stunt to distract the attention of the people of Africa from the real issue facing them, namely American imperialism."

"There's one place where Fidel Castro's Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest, and that is in its love for human rights and liberty." 

Nelson Mandela

This is Disgusting and Outrageous, But It Is Obama and the Democratic Party

Here is a recent ad promoting Obamacare.  It pictures a young woman with an ecstatic expression on her face standing next to a (supposedly) handsome young man.  This is the text:

 "Got insurance?  Let's get physical.  OMG, he's hot.  Let's hope he's as easy to get as this birth control.  My health insurance covers the pill, which means all I have to worry about is getting him between the covers.  I got insurance. Now you can, too.  Thanks Obamacare!"

I do not have the words to express my utter disdain and revulsion for a political party that openly encourages promiscuous behavior.  "Obamacare" will pay for your birth control pills so that you can go have as much sex as you can succeed in getting.  There is absolutely no shame, no decency, not a scintilla of true moral virtue in the modern Democratic Party.  They absolutely make me want puke.  What kind of sick, hedonistic minds are running America now?  What kind of people would deliberately promote as much licentious behavior as possible? 

And what kind of people would support a political party that does?

Am I disgusted?  Only a heavenly language could express it.  Am I surprised?  No, not in the least, because America is not the first.  "Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?  No!  They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush" (Jeremiah 6:15).   America is doing nothing that humans haven't done before, to their shame and ultimate misery.  The greatest tragedy is, Americans are refusing, willfully, deliberately refusing, to learn from history and acknowledge what they are doing. 

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I really don't like using insulting language, but there are some instances where it is called for, because there is really no nice way to say something.  Here's a recent headline in the Denver Post:  "Pot problems in Colorado schools increase with legalization".  Duhhhhh....Did the brainless dolts in that state (excuse me) actually believe that they could legalize a mind-bending drug, allow people to have access to it, and that there would be no consequences, no repercussions?  That people who are given little or no moral guidance by their leaders could make wise, intelligent, responsible decisions about a dangerous substance?  Are people REALLY that stupid? 

I'm afraid I know the answer to that.  Barack Obama was elected President of the United States--twice.  The Colorado situation is only further proof.

Obama Lied...What a Surprise....

Even NBC News has exposed the President’s blatant falsehood of "If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep it." Obama knew, three years ago, that such would not be the case, that stiff new regulations would prevent the grandfathering of old plans. It is amazing that the left-wing media is revealing it, but occasionally they are guilty of (in Rush Limbaugh’s phrase) "random acts of journalism."

Liberals lie. They have no reason not to, so that’s what they do whenever they feel it is necessary to promote and advance their vision of the world--and ram it down other people's throats. Since they do not believe in God, their morality is human, which, intrinsically, means it is subjective, conditional, and ever-evolving. So if liberals need to lie to cover up what they really intend, they will do so.

This still shocks many Americans, for there remains a residue of Christian morality in our culture; it usually takes generations to completely wipe out any trace of long-standing traditions and mores. Thus, the general view persists that good people don’t lie, at least not as blatantly and as obviously as Obama does. But for over 200 years now, the left has been exalting human wisdom above divine revelation. That means humans get to make the final decisions on right and wrong, good and bad, what is moral and what isn’t. Obama, and the hard left, are very consistent with that. He will tell the truth when that suits his purpose; but he also has absolutely no conscience about lying, if that is necessary to further his cause. And the government takeover of America’s health care system was a major goal of Barack Obama, worth any price, including repeatedly, flagrantly, and deliberately lying to the American people. That there is surprise and consternation about it only indicates how widespread is the ignorance of history and liberal doctrine. This is a ho-hum, folks. Liberals lie. Why not? If there is no God, then everything is permitted, depending upon location and circumstance. And humans get to decide that. Yet 6,000 years of human butchery, a butchery based solely on a continual rejection God’s eternal standard of holiness (even by those who claim to be following Him), has not been enough to convince most people of the utter folly and tragedy of a human-based moral system.  We still think we know better than God.  What fools men are.     

Liberals lie, but they will also kill—in the hundreds of millions—if that becomes necessary to build the world they want to build. Ask the people in the former Soviet Union and Mao Zedong’s China, as well as Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Cuba, and every other place human "wisdom" has tried to remake society. Not to mention the millions of unborn babies in America over the past generation. Men have always rejected God, and always will. But the consequences are manifest only to those who are willing to see them.
 

There Never Was Any Doubt

I haven’t bothered to comment on the recent government shutdown/debt limit "crisis" because there was no need to. Why comment when the outcome was inevitable? There was never any question what would happen—the Republicans would cave and give the Democrats almost everything they wanted. That is simply the template that is operative in American history right now, and it doesn’t appear that it will change any time soon. The whole thing was a farce anyway; there was no way the government could possibly default on its loans. The United States government pays approximately $18 billion every month in interest on its debt; it takes in over $200 billion in tax revenue each month. How could it possibly default, unless it simply refused to write a check?  So, once again, the major media and the Democrats lied to us, and the gutless Republicans were intimidated into giving in.

The people in Congress, and the national media—not to mention the current President of the United States—are utterly reprehensible. The United States government is destroying its own country with incompetence, immorality, and a lust for power—and the last is the key. There are simply things that government is incapable of effectively doing, but the bloated bureaucracy, the massive debt, irresponsible spending, and encouragement of moral degeneration all have one major effect—to center more power in the hands of government. It is a story told countless times in human history, to the ultimate devastation of the people. The Republicans—with the notable exception of great people like Ted Cruz, Mike Hill, Sarah Palin, and a few others—play the game, too. Brain-dead, senile old ninnies like John McCain and Mitch McConnell are worse than useless; they are pawns in the hands of Democratic tyrants who know how to control government and the media, and thus get the power they crave to rule, tax and spend, buy votes, and build their own selfish empire—all to the fracturing and ultimate disintegration of the country. As I have said countless times before, it is the very thing the American Founders ceaselessly warned against and tried to prevent, and sadly, without success. The majority of the American people just flat don’t care what happens in Washington, D.C. any more, as long as they get their food stamps and welfare checks. This is what America has become. A country is no greater than her people, a huge number of American people now are gutter garbage, and Washington, D.C., loves to have it so.  A remnant of decency remains, and it is the only thing that gives America any strength at all, but it is getting smaller and smaller, and increasingly irrelevant.  Just exactly what Obama, the media, the Democratic Party, and the entire Washington establish wants.  And the masses, educated in the foppish American public school system, haven't a clue what is happening.

There is no way to stop it; well, there is, but it’s too far gone now to do so. "Her wounds are incurable," God said of the people of Israel 2700 years ago (Micah 1:9); there comes a point where healing becomes impossible. No one knows the future, of course, except God, but even non-Christian philosophers understood this point: "Study the past if you would define the future." (Confucius) The lust for power is blinding America’s "leaders". Individual excellence can only be had by self-control. Plato said the greatest victory a man can have is to conquer himself. Very few people in history have the ability to control whatever temptation overwhelms them; that’s why virtue and excellence must continually, unendingly, be put before them as the proper examples of how to live.   Virtue and Excellence do not need government, which is exactly why the Democratic Party is the direct antithesis of everything good, wholesome, uplifting, decent, and moral.  The Founders of America understood the importance of a virtuous citizenship and government, but also how difficult it is to achieve, especially in the latter.  That is a major reason they didn’t want to give anybody in government very much power—power destroys human character. There is certainly absolutely no evidence that such ability--self-control--exists, except in very few cases, in Washington, D. C. today. And Democracy, in its folly, has given such people excessive authority over the nation. 

The next thing these fools are going to do is give citizenship to millions of people who are breaking America’s laws.   Habla usted Espanol?   If you are under 30, you’d better learn.
 

Just a Little Wrong.....

In 2007, Al Gore said that the North Pole could be "ice-free by 2013."  This year, the earth gained a record amount of sea ice, adding the equivalent of 19,000 Manhattan Islands of ice.  Gore only missed it by 920,000 square miles.