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Trucks More Lethal than Guns? Yeah

2/22/2018

Shooting Down Gun Control Memes

2-20-18, Daniel Greenfield -- In 2016, Muslim terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel from Tunisia killed 86 people and wounded another 458 ... with a truck. The killer had brought along a gun, but it proved largely ineffective. Mohammed, who was no genius, used his truck to kill more people than Stephen Paddock [59 dead, 10/1/17] in Las Vegas.

Do we need truck control?

Deadlier than the truck is the jet plane. Nearly 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001 by Islamic terrorists with a plane and some box cutters.

And then there are always the bombs.

The Boston Marathon bomber wounded 264, a suicide bomber at the Manchester Arena last year wounded 250 and the Oklahoma City Bombing (the only non-Islamic terror attack on the list) killed 168 and wounded 680.

And knives.
Japan knife attack: 19 or more deaths
7-26-2016, CNN -- Former employee of Japanese facility for disabled people turns himself in after killing 19 people with a knife.

Guns are not uniquely lethal. We live in a world filled with extremely lethal objects from chemical compounds, baseball bats to big trucks. We can license and regulate some things. But we can’t regulate everything. Wicked people kill ... the tools they use cannot with out direction. [..snip]

Gun control isn’t a policy. It’s a moral panic. Like prohibition, it’s a xenophobic reaction to a different culture that shares the same country with them. Guns have come to embody a rural conservative culture in the minds of urban leftists. That’s why the “common sense solution” talk quickly gives way to broad denunciations of a “national gun culture”, of “white privilege”, of rural folk “clinging to their Bibles and guns”, of American militarism and toxic masculinity, and of all the things for which guns are merely a symbol to the leftists who hate them. It isn’t guns the left wants to ban... it’s people. More here

Priceless Gems Even Rich Can't Buy

2/22/2018

Record Breaking Price or Value of Five Gemstones

2-20-18, OilPrice.com -- When it comes to the world’s biggest, rarest and most extraordinary gemstone discoveries, no one—not even some billionaires could afford the possession. We’re not talking about the average diamond or ruby costing $4,000. We’re talking about the rarest gemstones in the world, like:

The world’s largest emerald ever uncovered in a single shard, the Bahia Emerald weighs approximately 1.7 million carats, or 752 lbs. It was discovered in the Bahia region of eastern Brazil.

'Star of Adam' blue star sapphire: Estimates of the stone’s value range from the $100-$175 million range to as much as $300 million

 The 1759-carat emerald was discovered at the Coscuez mine, owned by Fura Gems. Estimated value $500 million

The King Ruby is the largest Ruby reported in Guinness weighs 48 lbs; measuring 12.20" x 6.49" x 5.51 inches. It is owned by Rajiv Golcha (India) and is held in the Prestige Gems & Jewels showroom in India.

910 carat pure colorless uncut diamond, 6.4 ounce stone [about the size of two golf balls] is the fifth largest diamond ever discovered. It was found in the tiny African country of Lesotho. Estimated value between $50-$100 million. More here

More here from Oil Price

Comics, 2-22-18: George Soros

2/22/2018

Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous
2-2-11, Human Events' readers, in an online poll, recently voted billionaire financier George Soros "the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the country."

Turkey, Ottoman Armies: Then and Now

2/21/2018

From Cyprus to Syria: Turkey’s Continued Invasions

On January 20, 2018 the Turkish military began an invasion of the Kurdish-controlled Afrin region in northern Syria. Turkey’s government, led by caliphate wannabee, Tayyip Erdogan, has declared that its operation aims “to preserve Syria’s territorial integrity,” remove “terrorist elements,” and protect civilians.

2-21-18, Until 1974 Cyprus always had a Greek majority; then it wa invaded by Turkey claimed it was bringing “peace” to Cyprus, which it invaded with a brutal military assault that it calls the “Cyprus peace operation.” Turkey deployed around 40,000 of its soldiers in the northern part of the island, which has turned Cyprus into the most militarized turf in the world. Since the invasion, some 37 percent of Cypriot territory has been under Turkish occupation. The campaign was accompanied by mass murder, abduction, and rape of Greek Cypriots by Turkish troops. The European Commission on Human Rights has documented the rape of women and children aged 12 to 71. More here

Showdown in Afrin Syria: Turkey’s Attack on Syria’s Kurds https://www.thenation.com/article/showdown-in-afrin-turkeys-attack...

2-26-18, Afrin borders Turkey on the north and is surrounded on its other sides by Syrian government forces and rebel forces. Like other parts of Rojava, Afrin is run democratically, with an emphasis on religious and ethnic pluralism.
Approximately on January 19, 2018 Turkey opened a new front in the Syrian war by using its air force against the Syrian Kurdish canton of Afrin -- who had done absolutely nothing to provoke this attack — even while the battle against ISIS continues in Deir Ezzor, where the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by the Kurdish YPG-YPJ, are fighting with US support. Turkey’s attack on the Syrian Kurds has opened up a new front in the war, jeopardized its already fragile relationship with the USA and given a green light to Islamic jihadis to attack the Kurds. ... Rather than soothing the Turkish dictator, Tayyip Recep Erdogan, the United States should induce him to stop persecuting the Kurds in Syria and Turkey and reopen negotiations with the PKK, as well as return Turkey to a condition approaching democracy. More here

Turkey and Erdogan: Here comes the (real) caliphate
7-21-16, Fox News - If today's Western leaders possess one general trait, it's a genius for self-deception; insisting that Islamist terror has nothing to do with Islam. Timur Dynasty here

Ottoman barbarians descendants of Genghis Khan here

Why? Kids & Current Mayhem

2/21/2018

Kids Then and Now

2-21-18, Fred Reed * - OK, so why is the country falling apart? Specifically, why are kids blowing each other away? America has become a source of wonder the world over with its Colulmbines and hundreds and hundreds of dead in Chicago and Baltimore [1] and its burning cities and riots. [..snip]

Divorce was extremely rare, so we all had parents. Whether it is better that unhappy couples stay together or that they divorce can be argued, but they then did stay together.

ADHD did not exist. Boys are competitive, physical animals full of wild energy and need–need–to work it off. Boredom and enforced inactivity are awful for them. Two or three hours daily of fast-break pick-up basketball did this. If you force boys to sit rigidly in school, with no recess or only physically limited play, they will be miserable. If you then force them to take Ritalin, an approximate amphetamine, they will be miserable with modified brain chemistry.

I think feminism plays a large part in the collapse of society in general and specifically in pushing boys over the edge. In my school years boys were allowed to be boys. Neither sex was denigrated. Doing so would have occurred to nobody. Then came a prejudice against boys, powerful today.

... the school was apolitical. School was where you learned algebra and geography, or at least learned at them. The teachers, both men and women, assumed this. The white kids were not endlessly told that they were reprehensible and the cause of the world’s problems.
All of this affected society in its entirety, but especially white boys. They are constantly told that being white is shameful, that any masculine interest is pathological, that they are rapists in waiting. They are subjected to torturous boredom and inactivity, and drugged when they respond poorly. They go to schools that do not like them and that stack the deck against them. Many are fatherless. All have access to psychoactive drugs.

Add it up.

* Full article here

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Note: Fred doesn't cover the fact that the majority of our government, society and family units have divorced God. Clearly that's the fundamental cause of all mankind's problems.

[1] Baltimore Named Nation's Most Dangerous City By USA Today
2-18-19, USA Today has named Baltimore the most dangerous city in the country.

Rev Billy Graham Graduated to Glory, 2-21-18

2/21/2018

2-21-18, The Rev Billy Graham has at age 99 gone on to his final reward, he's in the arms of our lord Jesus. A brief summary of his life and career as one of the Lord Jesus' Greatest 'apostles:'

Was born William "Billy" F. Graham in Charlotte, N.C., to William Franklin and Morrow Coffey Graham, who died 1962 and 1981, respectively.
Made a decision for Christ in 1934 as a teen through the ministry of traveling evangelist Mordecai Ham
Was ordained to ministry by a Southern Baptist Convention church in 1939
Graduated from Florida Bible Institute (Trinity College) in 1940 and earned his B.A. degree from Wheaton College in 1943
Married fellow Wheaton student Ruth McCue Bell in 1943, who was born to missionary parents in China
Fathered with Ruth Graham: Virginia, Anne Morrow, Ruth Bell, William Franklin, III, Nelson Edman; and has 20 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren
Served as pastor of First Baptist Church in Western Springs, Ill. from 1943-1945

Founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in Minneapolis, Minn., and began airing his "Hour of Decision" weekly radio program in 1950
Since 1947 has published approximately three dozen works; his first published book titled Calling Youth to Christ
Has received numerous awards and honors, with his first being bestowed in 1948 when he was counted among Gallup Poll's "Ten Most Admired Men in the World" nearly 60 times
Last live message in 2013 at age 95 - two minute video here

Comics, 2-21-18: Junk Food

2/21/2018

Scripture for Today, 2-20-18: We Are God's Jewels

2/20/2018

Malachi 3:23, 5-6, 16-17

God Is Making His Jewels,
and You Are One of Them!

2-11-2008, * -- Our heavenly Father is making treasures in us of paramount importance!

In our physical world, when one talks of jewels, he or she refers to some very precious, beautiful, rare and expensive stones, metals or pearls. The Bible speaks of treasures, of precious stones and of incredibly beautiful jewels. The prophet Malachi wrote of such a spiritual treasure:

“Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listened and heard them; so a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who meditate on His name. ‘They shall be mine,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘On the day that I make them My jewels’.” Malachi 3:16-17

We usually do not think of ourselves as jewels. Yet that is precisely what God thinks of us! We are His jewels in the making—we are His special treasure and when we are finished, our Savior “shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.” Philippians 3:21

Never lose track of that when you are going through trials; we are being polished and prepared. What Malachi prophesied is now happening.

* Excerpted and adapted full original message by Bernard Hongerloot here: https://www.ucg.org/united-news/god-is-making-his-jewels-and-you-are-one-of-them
[1] A carbonado weighing 3,600 carats was found in Brazil, but it was not made of gem-quality material.)

Germany: Angela Merkel Served 11 years

2/20/2018

Germany: Meet Jens Spahn, Merkel's Possible Successor "What is clear at any rate: the financing [of imams] by foreign actors must stop." -- Jens Spahn, Deutsche Welle.

Jens Spahn Emerging as Conservative Adversary to Merkel ...
2-19-18, Jens Spahn, 36, has quickly risen to become a leader of the conservative wing of Angela Merkel's CDU party.

Merkel Is On the Way Out
Unfortunately for Merkel, increasing numbers of Germans see her leadership as unbending and worn out. While the 12-year chancellor has a supremely impressive economic record to her name, she has suffered public anger over her immigration and Greek debt bailout policies. The refugee concern is especially pronounced in that many conservatives believe Merkel was fundamentally wrong to allow more than 1 million refugees to settle in their country.

Joy Behar of THE VIEW: Christians in Uproar Call ABC

2/20/2018

Mike Pence Blasts Joy Behar for Making 'Mental Illness' Joke ...
"It's one thing to talk to Jesus, it's another thing when Jesus talks to you," Behar said in response. "That's called mental illness ...

Meghan McCain Apologizes to Mike Pence for Joy Behar...
She referenced Tuesday's segment where Behar made the mental illness quip and complained that ...

2-14-18, Fox News -- The women of ABC News' “The View” took a shot a Vice President Mike Pence’s Christian faith, mocking the former governor of Indiana for talking to Jesus; the said:

Joy Behar: “It’s one thing to talk to Jesus. It’s another thing when Jesus talks to you. Hearing voices is a “mental illness.” She then uncomfortably joked, “Can he talk to Mary Magdalene without his wife in the room?”

Shepard then said that the key is “moderation” and anything that is “too much” is concerning.

“Do we want our politics served to us with a religious veneer over them?” Hostin asked. “This administration is not a values-driven administration.” More here

Over 25k Call ABC to Complain After Joy Behar Attacks ...
The comments have drawn immediate criticism from Christians, with ABC receiving approximately 25,363 calls all related to Behar's comments.

Comics, 2-20-18: 2nd Amendment

2/20/2018

Second Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia
The hand-written copy of the proposed Bill of Rights, 1789, cropped to show only the text that ... A View of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Supreme Court makes major ruling on gun rights
27 Jun, 2016, USA Today -- The Supreme Court of the US ruled against two plaintiffs in Voisine v. United States, a case for gun ownership rights. Voisine and Armstrong argued that a federal law that barred them from owning firearms because of misdemeanor domestic violence convictions violated their constitutional rights. In a 6-2 ruling, the court upheld the opinion that domestic violence convictions can result in gun ownership restrictions. Judge Thomas grilled the government's attorney on whether any other constitutional rights could be suspended due to a misdemeanor conviction? More here

Scripture for Today, 2-19-18: Pres Geo Washington

2/19/2018

Two Hundred Twenty One Years Ago
President Washington Prophesied a Divided America

Job 12:23; Proverbs 16:12, 29:2; Psalm 78:72; Acts 17:26; Romans 12:3-8

2-19-18, * -- In September 1796 America's first President, George Washington, articulated a vision for the United States in his farewell address. It did not include political parties or class warfare--two ingredients that have culminated in a divided nation just as Washington prophesied 221 years ago. Washington said,

"Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles."

How far have "We the People" strayed from this statement? In the name of progress, we have become a nation without pride of patriotism. We have so many religions and versions of religions that we have barely no religion at all.

By Washington's standards, we have lost our bearing on what it is to be an American--that citizens assimilate the national properties of religion, manners, habits and political principles rather than becoming a melting pot of diverse beliefs and practices.

Washington warned, "You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection...they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."

Washington believed an inoculation against the undermining of political parties was electing moral and religious leaders; he said:

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them."

As Exodus 18:21 says regarding good government: "provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness..."

Something to contemplate as we celebrate Washington's birth. [Feb 22, 1732]

Excerpt of President Washington's Farewell Address:

Full transcript ofPres Washington's speech here
* Excerpted and adapted from Bill Wilson's DAILY JOT - full original message here

Dog Food Recall: Euthanasia Drug in Food

2/19/2018

Another Dog Food Company Has Recalled Food Tainted With a Euthanasia Drug
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In February 2017 ...
Grain Pet Food Inc. announced its recall yesterday afternoon, while Evanger’s dog food recalled its food earlier this month after five dogs got sick, and one died eating its food.
Evanger's of Wheeling, IL is voluntarily recalling specific lots of its Hunk of Beef product because of a potential ...
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NOW in February 2018** it's Smucker ... Euthanasia drug found in dog food, already blamed for one doggie death.

FDA Alerts Pet Owners About Potential Pentobarbital Contamination in Canned Dog Food Manufactured by The J.M. Smucker Company: Gravy Train, Kibbles ‘N Bits, Ol’ Roy and Skippy Wet Canned Foods

The J.M. Smucker Company has initiated a withdrawal of certain canned dog food products from its Gravy Train, Kibbles ‘N Bits, Ol’ Roy, and Skippy brands due to the potential for pentobarbital contamination. The firm is withdrawing all lots of these products that were manufactured from 2016 through the present. The withdrawn products were distributed to retailers nationwide. The list of withdrawn products the firm provided to the FDA include:

Gravy Train with T-Bone Flavor Chunks, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 7910052541
Gravy Train with Beef Strips, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 791052542
Gravy Train with Lamb & Rice Chunks, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 7910052543
Gravy Train with Chicken Chunks, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 7910034418
Gravy Train with Beef Chunks, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 7910034417
Gravy Train with Chicken Chunks, 22-ounce can, UPC 7910051645
Gravy Train with Beef Chunks, 22-ounce can, UPC 7910051647
Gravy Train Chunks in Gravy with Beef Chunks, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 7910034417
Kibbles ‘N Bits 12-can Variety Pack – Chef’s Choice American Grill Burger Dinner with Real Bacon & Cheese Bits in Gravy, Chef’s Choice Bistro Tender Cuts with Real Turkey Bacon & Vegetables in Gravy, 12 pack of 13.2-ounce cans, UPC 7910010377, 7910010378
Kibbles ‘N Bits 12-Can Variety Pack – Chef’s Choice Bistro Hearty Cuts with Real Beef, Chicken & Vegetables in Gravy, Chef’s Choice Homestyle Meatballs & Pasta Dinner with Real Beef in Tomato Sauce, 12 pack of 13.2-ounce cans, UPC 7910010382, 7910048367, 7910010378
Kibbles ‘N Bits 12-Can Variety Pack – Chef’s Choice Homestyle Tender Slices with Real Beef, Chicken & Vegetables in Gravy, Chef’s Choice American Grill Burger Dinner with Real Bacon & Cheese Bits in Gravy, Chef’s Choice Bistro Tender Cuts with Real Beef & Vegetables in Gravy, 12 pack of 13.2-ounce cans, UPC 7910010380, 7910010377, 7910010375
Kibbles ‘N Bits Chef’s Choice Bistro Tender Cuts with Real Beef & Vegetables in Gravy, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 7910010375
Kibbles ‘N Bits Chef’s Choice Bistro Tender Cuts with Real Turkey, Bacon & Vegetables in Gravy, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 7910010378
Kibbles ‘N Bits Chef’s Choice Homestyle Tender Slices with Real Beef, Chicken & Vegetables in Gravy, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 7910010380
Ol’ Roy Strips Turkey Bacon, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 8113117570
Skippy Premium Chunks in Gravy Chunky Stew, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 79100502469
Skippy Premium Chunks in Gravy with Beef, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 7910050250
Skippy Premium Strips in Gravy with Beef, 13.2-ounce can, UPC 7910050245

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FBI: Incompetent or Treasonous??

2/19/2018

Did the FBI really fall for the Fallacious Steele dossier?
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Senator Lindsey Graham confirmed the Steele bogus report was used to acquire wiretap and surveillance warrants from the FISA court. The FBI had political motivations? Graham said: "…The back-story to the FISA warrant is the cornerstone of both the FBI and the DOJ [Eric Holder] scheme. Expose it, remove it and the entire 'Russia conspiracy’ collapses under the weight of sunlight…"
See 7 minute video here

Jeff Sessions: "Yes, We Are Investigating the 2016 Applications Requesting the FISA Warrants Against Candidate Donald Trump..."
2-18-18, DailyCaller -- In Oct. 2016, the FBI and Justice Dept submitted an application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [FISA] in order to obtain a spy warrant against a Trump campaign volunteer. A dossier/report was a significant part of the application, even though the salacious document was and remains largely unverified. AG Jeff Sessions said, “Let me tell you, every FISA warrant based on facts submitted to that court have to be accurate.”

12-30-17, American Thinker -- The FBI's apparent political motivations should be enough to get some of them fired. So to defend themselves, they are claiming that the Steele dossier was real. This makes them look colossally incompetent. They unwittingly exposed that it was really a Russian disinformation or "dezinformatsiya" operation that the acclaimed FBI should have easily and quickly recognized. Scott Johnson at Powerline has done an excellent summary of the entire affair. The whole story is fake.

FBI Deputy Dir Andrew McCabe May Have Asked FBI Agents to Change 302 Forms
2-13-18, PJMedia -- Investigative journalist, Sara Carter, reported on Fox News that FBI Deputy Dir Andrew McCabe may have altered documents. The 302 form contains information from the notes an FBI agent takes during an interview of a subject. It is used by FBI agents to “report or summarize the interviews that they conduct.”
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FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepping down
1-29-18, NBC News -- Reportedly, FBI Deputy Dir Andrew McCabe will remain on payroll until March 2018 to enable his full retirement benefits ... McCabe had served at the FBI since 1996 under former directors Robert Mueller and Comey.

See video of Russian President Putin calling dossier a hoax from CBS here

Comics, 2-19-18: From Israel

2/19/2018

Poland Is Trying to Whitewash Holocaust-Era History
6-24-17, Poland In the Holocaust in Poland, Poland suffered terribly during the brutal German occupation, and many Poles laid down their lives in defense of their battered nation and more than 6,000 Poles helped Jews during the war. They have been honored as Righteous Gentiles by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial and research and education center in Jerusalem. At the end of the day, however, Poles must recognize and internalize the darker side of their history. They should not resist the notion that some of their fellow citizens, for whatever reasons, gladly collaborated with the Germans...

In Syria, a dangerous subplot: Iran vs. Israel - Chicago Tribune
2-12-18, Border clashes involving Syria, Iran near Israel's northern border. A dangerous aspect of the Syrian conflict is that its roster of combatants continues to broaden. Russia and Iran are helping Syria run down U.S.-backed Muslim terrorist aka "rebels." ISIS has been routed from most of its territory, but still holds pockets of the Euphrates River valley. NATO member Turkey has been attacking U.S. backed Syrian Kurdish fighters in the country’s north, who helped defeat ISIS...

Pastor JD Farag on Demonic Influence

2/18/2018

2-18-18, In his weekly Prophecy Update, Pastor JD Farag deviates from his traditional teaching about Israel, Middle East and prophecy. He parallels the wickedness of the mass murder of Feb 14, 2018 in Florida with Satanic influence.
Zechariah 3:1-2; John 8:44; 1 John 3:8; 1 Peter 5:8-9; James 4:7

42 minute video here

Most Satanic Bands - Top Ten List
Most imagery, artwork and the music itself is totally satanic.

Scripture for Today, 2-18-18: Righteous Anger

2/18/2018

Angry Yet Not Sinning

Psalm 4:4-5

2-18-18, * -- Born again Christians are not called to a state of pulse-less passivity, no longer in possession of a backbone, lying down as our neighbor’s doormat. We live as people, redeemed people, but humans nonetheless. We feel the entire spectrum of God-created emotions: sorrow and happiness, peace and discontent, love and disdain, fear, anger, and more. Anger is one of them.

There is a righteous anger that should exist in the heart of the redeemed. As with Jesus’ anger toward the money changers (John 2:15), and Paul’s anger toward false teachers (Galatians 5:12).

Anger is a right response to evil and injustice. There is a fine line, however, between anger and hatred; deep seated resentment leads to hatred and goes well beyond anger. So “be angry, and do not sin,” remembering that “the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God” (James 1:20).

https://shortdailydevotions.com/psalm-44-5-angry-yes-sinning-no/

Jesus Righteous Anger
Matthew 21:12-13; Mark 11:14-16; John 2:13-14

Diversity Doesn't Work; Now What?

2/18/2018

An Impolitic Slumgullion; Diverser is Worser, Now What? - Diversity is Never a Good Idea

2-15-18, * -- Gazing out over the chaos of America today, the racial and ethnic antagonism, the hostility over sex and faith and politics–I have never seen anything like it. The country is imploding. The main culprit is diversity–in the broad sense, not just the juxtaposition of races, but the mixing of ideas and philosophies with no dominant culture to maintain order. Current policies promoting this mess are insane.

We hate each other.

Countries are happiest when they have one national culture, or at least one dominant culture to which all must perforce conform. We see this in countries like Japan and Korea, homogeneous societies which, because homogeneous, have no race riots or religious wars. It was largely true in, for example, Sweden and France until they began admitting immigrants from incompatible cultures. Today, most of the news from such countries deals with the consequences.

Diversity, never a good idea; it is in fact the cause of most of the world’s conflicts: Shia and Sunni, Jew and Arab, Hutu and Tutsi, Tamil and Sinhalese, Hindu and Muslim and in America, black, white and brown.

Diversity is the cause of the dissolution of American society.

Until roughly the Sixties, America was homogeneous enough, overwhelmingly white, European, Anglophone and Christian. This provided sufficient commonalty that people all regarded themselves as Americans. At the same time, there were many geographically separated subcultures which had little in common and didn’t like each other, or wouldn’t have if they had come into contact. Massachusetts, Montana, Alabama, West Virginia, and New York were different civilizations.

It worked because the different sections had little contact with each other. Life was intensely local. Roads were poor, limiting commerce. There was of course no internet. Telephone calls were expensive and there was no direct long-distance dialing. The federal government lacked the capacity to dictate to local communities. Radio meant local AM stations. Businesses were mostly owned locally with few chains run from remote corporate offices.

People consequently lived among others like themselves, who had the same values and ideas about how things should be done. In Virginia high school boys drove to school with shotguns in deer season so as to get to the woods when classes ended. It would have been unthinkable in Boston. In the Bible Belt the Ten Commandments might be on the wall in the courthouse, which everyone thought natural. Tidewater Virginia believed in gentility while West Virginia liked a wild and rough freedom. These were not compatible yet there was no friction because pretty much everyone in these regions believed what everybody else did.

Then everything changed. Diversity began, not at first of people so much as of ideas. Reasons were several. Communications improved. Interstates appeared. The federal government gained in power and reach. The Supreme Court began making sweeping decisions on manners, morals and faith–that is, on culture and values–which it had not done before. Now Washington–New York, really–could enforce these decisions.

The result was unwanted cultural diversity. The Court decided in decision after decision that increasingly explicit pornography enjoyed protection as free speech, imposing an alien ideology on small towns in Kansas. This culminated in internet porn often accessible to children; uncontrolled and uncontrollable. Obscene music poured out of New York as local stations were bought by Manhattan, from which rap came–unfit, in most regions for a toilet wall. Towns could not defend themselves because of the doctrine of free speech and the massively increased power of the northeast. Television became national with similar trampling of local values of faith, propriety and race.

Particularly invasive was the newly invented doctrine of separation of church and state. For at least a hundred and fifty years no one, neither court nor individual, had noticed that the Constitution forbade manger scenes on the town square at Christmas, or the singing of carols on public streets, or mention of the Bible in schools. It was yet more compelled cultural diversity.

Then came the compulsory mixing of disparate populations that we usually think of today as “diversity.” First came the racial integration of blacks and whites, cultures with virtually nothing in common. It worked as well as was widely expected. The two differed sharply in manners, morals, attitudes to education, dress and acquiescence to law. The result was the disaster we see daily in the news.

The Latinos came. While they resembled whites much more than did blacks, they were racially distinct and differed in culture. Hostility arose among native whites, who liked their culture as it was.

The obvious soon became evident to those not ideologically resistant to it:

In matters cultural, you can’t have it both ways. When you mix in schools populations whose values are contradictory–say, those who believe in clean language and those three quarters of whose discourse consists of “mother---ker,” one side has to give. You cannot require half of the studentry to follow a dress code while allowing the other half to wear pants almost around their ankles. Those who did not eat pork or did eat dogs coexisted uneasily with those who had opposing dietary ideas.

The less well diversity worked, the more furiously its advocates sought to impose it. Feminists arose, hostile to men and powerful enough to impose themselves on society. They pushed women into the infantry, where they did not fit and did not belong: more ill-advised diversity. Homosexuality went from being quietly tolerated to being taught to children in grade school though their parents abominated it.

Those inhabiting the extreme reaches of political correctness imagine a world as they think it should be and then try to move into it, dragging everyone else along. I think of the Beatles insipidly crooning “All You Need is Love” in eternal adolescent sanctimony. They of course hated those who disagreed with them. Obama, who transparently liked neither whitens or America, imported many hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were almost impossible to assimilate. It was, I suspect, revenge for 1619.

It did not, of course, work.

And so the papers carry endless stories of Islamophobia, dislike of Jews, attacks on Christianity, of misandry, looting of malls, burning of cities, White Nationalism, Black Lives Matter, calls for The Wall, novel policies regarding [men in girls] bathrooms, anger over Spanish on federal forms, affirmative action, perennial academic gaps, the demands of the various sexual curiosities, the Knockout Game, special privilege for this and that group. Resulting in a seething anger and despair over a country that many remember, but no longer exists.

*Excerpted and adapted full original message here:
https://fredoneverything.org/an-impolitic-slumgullion-diverser-is-worser-and-now-what/

Comics, 2-18-18: Guns or Bats?

2/18/2018

Massacre In Florida With Baseball Bats

Florida Massacre: Home Invasion Six Killed with Baseball Bats, 8/6/04 - At Deltona, Florida USA, a home invasion and massacre. Four men killed six people and a dog with baseball bats ... their death sentences were overturned. More here

FBI chief apologizes, in a statement admits agency erred didn't investigate killer Nikolas Cruz - The January phone call wasn't the first time Cruz crossed the FBI's radar. Forty days after an FBI phone operator failed to report the tip, 17 innocent people were massacred.
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FBI also had advance notice about: Boston Marathon, Orlando Night Club 49 dead, Charleston Church 33 shot, Fort Hood 43 shot

Sunday Hymns of Worship, 2-18-18: Take My Hand Lord

2/17/2018

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'Take My Hand Precious Lord"
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John 8:32; John 14:6

Scripture for Today, 2-17-18: Change of Heart

2/17/2018

The Apostle Paul Before Christ Was a Brute

Christ taught you! If you have really heard His voice . . .
then throw off your old evil nature ... the old
you that was a partner in your evil ways.
Ephesians 4:20-22

2-17-18, Billy Graham Archives -- The Apostle Paul before his conversion was called 'Saul of Tarsus;' he was not meek. Proudly and brutally, he apprehended all Christians and sought to destroy them. Acts 22:20 He was bigoted, selfish, and vaunted. But after he learned the truth of Christ and was converted, he wrote his warm and affectionate letter to the churches of Galatia, he said, among other things, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, gentleness ..."
Galatians 5:22-23
His meekness was God-given, not something man-made. It is not our nature to be meek. On the contrary, it is our nature to be proud and haughty. That is why the new birth is so essential. That's why Jesus pointedly said not only to Nicodemus, but to every one of us, “Marvel not that I say you must be born again!” John 3:3,7

Meekness begins there! You must have a change of nature.

New Heart: Ezekiel 36:25-27
Source

Comics, 2-17-18: Opioids

2/17/2018

Olympics 2018 South Korea: Medal Count & Money So Far

2/17/2018

The 2018 Winter Olympics are being held in Pyeongchang, South Korea Broadcast on NBC TV
From February 9, 2018 to Sunday, February 25, 2018

Sports include:
figure skating
alpine skiing
bobsledding
curling
snow boarding
ice hockey
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MONEY PRIZES WITH MEDALS:
GOLD = $37,500
SILVER = $22,500
BRONZE = $15,000**
More info from Team USA here

17-Year-Old Red Gerard Wins Gold in Snowboarding
2-16-18, The U.S. 17-year-old Red Gerard won gold in the snowboarding slopestyle. The 22-year-old ski champ Mikaela Shiffrin won gold in the giant slalom. The U.S. hockey teams faces Russia in each team's final preliminary-round game Feb 17, 2018, Saturday NBC. More here

Scripture for Today, 2-16-18: God Made Us

2/16/2018

God Made You! Fashioned in His Own Image!

"Our fellowship is with the Father, and with
His Son Jesus Christ." 1 John 1:3

2-16-18, Archives of Billy Graham -- God made us in His image and likeness. He had a purpose in making us. His primary purpose is that we would have fellowship with Him. If man does not have fellowship with God, he is lost, confused and bewildered. There are thousands of people who admit and confess that they are unhappy. Economic security, recreation, pleasure, and a good community in which to live have not brought about the peace and happiness that they expected.

The reason is that man was created in the image of God and cannot find complete rest, happiness, joy and peace is that he is separated from God. He must repent and come back to God. Come 'back'? Yes, mankind became separated from God when he became of the age of accountability.

What is the age of accountability? Thirteen is the most common age suggested, but the Bible gives no direct support to the age of 13. It likely varies from child to child. A child has passed the age of accountability once he or she is capable of making a faith decision for or against Christ.

Romans 1:20, “Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities— His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”

More here and here

Isaiah 64:8

Warning: Cancer & Processed Foods

2/16/2018

Researchers Warn that Skyrocketing Cancer
Rates Driven By processed Food

2-15-18, Natural News -- The latest study in the British Medical Journal should steer you away from processed prepacked and prepared foods. French researchers found that the skyrocketing rates of cancer deaths can be pinned on the popularity of processed foods like sodas, sugary cereals, and ready-made meals. Ultra-processed foods are loaded with chemical additives not healthy like a home-cooked meal. The more of these foods you eat, the higher your risk of getting cancer. More here

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