tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49396318230240946552024-02-19T10:23:39.117-06:00The American TEA PartyAmerican Patriots determined to SAVE America!Nifty Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004824192938994800noreply@blogger.comBlogger1194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939631823024094655.post-68210310941996343152014-05-06T00:19:00.001-05:002014-05-06T00:19:30.459-05:00And You Thought It Couldn't Happen Again! ... J. D. Longstreet<b>And You Thought It Couldn't Happen Again!</b><br />
<b><i>HOLOCAUST TWO?</i></b><br />
<b>A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKRXofNLv0ZMALCQXH76nV-7xMyuk9zk_c2AsWo8EpELAQKMwUxMHvgxXP6fZz6TDyu8Rm6xUa1mI_gw4PvLziMgsO7wENn56oU-RNx_51F1oZyEQKd8t9EsbTvvJ9aNInMU2s_DNwTqo/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKRXofNLv0ZMALCQXH76nV-7xMyuk9zk_c2AsWo8EpELAQKMwUxMHvgxXP6fZz6TDyu8Rm6xUa1mI_gw4PvLziMgsO7wENn56oU-RNx_51F1oZyEQKd8t9EsbTvvJ9aNInMU2s_DNwTqo/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>Have
they begun stringing barbed wire again? Have they set-up new ovens
again? How about those showers, are they getting them operational
again? Are they stock-piling Zyklon B gas already?<br />
<br />
Sadly, many Americans reading the paragraph above have no idea what the heck I'm muttering about.<br />
<br />
<b><i>"The
Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution
and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its
collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice
by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933,
believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed
"inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial
community."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143">http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143 </a><br />
<br />
Here's more: <b><i>"In
1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most
European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or
influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their
collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part
of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe.
Although Jews, whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to Germany, were
the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included some 200,000
Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled
patients, mainly Germans, living in institutional settings, were
murdered in the so-called Euthanasia Program." </i></b> <b>--SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143">http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143 </a><br />
<br />
<i>(We
urge you to read this entire article and then do some research of your
own. If your knowledge of the Holocaust is sketchy, at best, then now
would be an excellent time to educate yourself on what happened, and why
it happened, and how WE allowed it to happen, and why it appears we
have come full circle and are now on the cusp of allowing it to happen
again.)</i><br />
<br />
This is important -- because we are seeing the early elements of another Holocaust coming together in Europe today. <br />
<br />
Consider this: <b><i>"Odessa’s
Jews are prepared to evacuate should the violence in the western
Ukrainian city get significantly worse, several community leaders told
The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.<br /><br />Odessa’s Jewish community numbers some 30,000, down from nearly 40 percent of the city’s population before the Holocaust.<br /> ~~~~~~~~~~<br />While
Jewish community leaders are unanimous in asserting that the violence
is unconnected to the Jewish community and that they do not feel
specially targeted, they agreed that, should the situation deteriorate,
it would be easy for the spillover to affect their constituents.<br /> ~~~~~~~~~~~<br />The
Jewish community, together with the International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews, has prepared a fleet of 70 buses, fueled and ready
to go, “if, God forbid, we have to evacuate” the community’s children
and any adults who want to leave, he said."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Odessa-Jewish-community-mulls-emergency-evacuation-351334">http://www.jpost.com/International/Odessa-Jewish-community-mulls-emergency-evacuation-351334</a><br />
<br />
<b><i>THIS </i></b>is the way it begins.<br />
<br />
This is one of those times when I hope those little alarm bells, way back in my mind somewhere, are wrong. <br />
<br />
Even
after the Second World War and the Nazi directed Holocaust of the Jews,
even after the international embarrassment of those countries taking
any part in the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, the intense dislike for and
prejudice against (Allow me to add <b><i>"HATRED"</i></b> for) Jewish people still runs rampant in Europe. <br />
<br />
What about Jews in the Ukraine? <b><i>"The
most notorious massacre of Jews in Ukraine was at the Babi Yar ravine
outside Kiev, where 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation on
September 29–30, 1941."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine </a><br />
<br />
How bad could it have been? Read the words of this truck driver who witnessed the whole thing.<br />
<br />
<b><i>"On the Monday, the Jews of Kiev gathered by the cemetery, expecting to be loaded </i></b><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH6YlX3uMIDxijIknWEyE9quTQ1gh0FytmOSHGyfg8vHNZvy84NsDtSl-LipTid3-q2mjswvJCt2F1MhxM4u8ubuP0bCCmiN7MNkQC54faPzN3VJWdPcKVANTNSz269dRrKi6LtOZrm-E/s1600/Babi+Yar+Massacre.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH6YlX3uMIDxijIknWEyE9quTQ1gh0FytmOSHGyfg8vHNZvy84NsDtSl-LipTid3-q2mjswvJCt2F1MhxM4u8ubuP0bCCmiN7MNkQC54faPzN3VJWdPcKVANTNSz269dRrKi6LtOZrm-E/s1600/Babi+Yar+Massacre.jpg" height="241" width="400" /></a>onto
trains. The crowd was large enough that most of the men, women, and
children could not have known what was happening until it was too late:
by the time they heard the machine-gun fire, there was no chance to
escape. All were driven down a corridor of soldiers, in groups of ten,
and then shot. A truck driver described the scene: "One after the other,
they had to remove their luggage, then their coats, shoes, and
overgarments and also underwear … Once undressed, they were led into the
ravine which was about 150 meters long and 30 meters wide and a good 15
meters deep … When they reached the bottom of the ravine they were
seized by members of the Schutzmannschaft and made to lie down on top of
Jews who had already been shot … The corpses were literally in layers. A
police marksman came along and shot each Jew in the neck with a
submachine gun … I saw these marksmen stand on layers of corpses and
shoot one after the other … The marksman would walk across the bodies of
the executed Jews to the next Jew, who had meanwhile lain down, and
shoot him."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine </a><br />
<br />
<b><i>"Ukrainians
collaborated with the German occupiers in various ways including:
participating in the local administration, in German-supervised
auxiliary police, Schutzmannschaft, in the German military, and serving
as concentration camp guards. Nationalists in the west of Ukraine were
among the most enthusiastic, hoping that their efforts would enable them
to establish independent state later on." </i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.or%20%20/wiki/Ukrainian_collaborationism_with_the_Axis_powers">https://en.wikipedia.or</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.or%20%20/wiki/Ukrainian_collaborationism_with_the_Axis_powers">/wiki/Ukrainian_collaborationism_with_the_Axis_powers</a><br />
<br />
<b>Yes, the Jews in Ukraine have good reason to be afraid. </b><br />
<br />
Consider this: <b><i>"Sam Pivnik, 86, was only 14 when his family were rounded up in Bedzin, western Poland, and sent to the death camp at Auschwitz.<br /> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />Mr Pivnik, who now lives in Golders Green, north London, said he was not surprised by the literature’s anti-Semitism.<br /> ~~~~~~~~~~~<br />Just
last month Mr. Pivnik told the Daily and Sunday Express of London:
“Jews have no place in Ukraine, because nothing has changed,” he said
last night, “and as long as Jews remain there, nothing will change. They
had no business staying in that country after the atrocities of
1939-1945.<br /><br />“There is no point in staying there waiting for
trouble, in the hope that the world Jewry can save them. Even Germany is
doing everything it can to tackle anti-Semitism and is better than
Ukraine. Jews in the Ukraine should leave.” </i>-- SOURCE</b>: <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/471422/Jews-urged-to-flee-Ukraine-by-Holocaust-survivor">http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/471422/Jews-urged-to-flee-Ukraine-by-Holocaust-survivor</a><br />
<br />
You
may recall there were pamphlets and posters, distributed in the eastern
Ukraine city of Donetsk, just a few days ago, demanding that the Jewish
population register, pay a new tax -- or leave.<br />
<br />
<b><i>Those
pamphlets and posters are a terrifying echo of the anti-Jewish
atrocities carried out by Ukrainians under Nazi occupation during the
Second World War. </i></b> THAT'S what sent the alarm bells clanging in
the dusty recesses of my mind. Apparently, the alarm was heard by many
more around the globe, too. <br />
<br />
I'm told that as new recruits of the
Israeli Defense Forces double-time up the mountain of Masada, as a part
of their training, they chant: <b><i>"Never again," "Never again,"</i></b> over and over and over. They are pledging that what happened to their people in the Holocaust (and other atrocities since) <b><i>shall never be permitted to happen again.</i></b><br />
<br />
Today,
Israel is a state with a military that ranks right up there with the
world's best warriors. It has an intelligence service which puts the US
intelligence services to shame, and even more important it has fearless
leadership with a former officer of Israel's Special Forces serving as
Prime Minister.<br />
<br />
<b><i>I cannot visualize Israel allowing a second
Holocaust to occur without utilizing their military muscle to
intervene. And that scenario brings us back to the initiation point
for a Third World War.</i></b> <br />
<br />
Look, Americans are tired of war. <b><i>We are especially tired of getting involved in other people's wars. </i></b><br />
<b>America currently has no military leadership at the Commander-in-Chief level. <i><u>NONE!</u></i><i><u> </u></i></b><br />
<br />
The political party now in charge of America's government has no idea what military power is for, nor how to apply it. <b><i>They
have such naive ideas as the responsibility to protect any peoples on
the globe who cannot protect themselves. Sounds good in Sunday School,
and even on paper -- but -- in the real world it will break a country
financially, and sap its morale and its military -- all in short order.</i></b><br />
<br />
No. Americans don't want another war -- <b><i>at the moment</i></b>. But -- <b><i><u>we don't want another Holocaust, either</u></i></b>, and <b><i>we'll do whatever is necessary to see that it does not occur.</i></b><br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbyQpu3nsDeOx7rXAafoZvCHbW26q_eguob3ljb6YmOK1F8O40MSoi8V1IxKLraY4NmV-UFF1JnblweCCfkv9kUwch4FDIsTAN9xUxYfmmCBVoGvTaWK1UCsBoHOCbjpm7iP3VAZUgv70/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbyQpu3nsDeOx7rXAafoZvCHbW26q_eguob3ljb6YmOK1F8O40MSoi8V1IxKLraY4NmV-UFF1JnblweCCfkv9kUwch4FDIsTAN9xUxYfmmCBVoGvTaWK1UCsBoHOCbjpm7iP3VAZUgv70/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>I've
taken a few days before broaching this subject. If I have learned
anything over the years about the MsM (Mainstream Media), it is that
they tend to act as lemmings when they sense a sensational story and
then they switch from lemmings to sharks in a feeding frenzy when they
draw blood. It really makes no difference whose blood it is, either. <br />
<br />
Now, I realize it is not the way of the world in 2014 to actually take a few days to <span style="color: #2d4038;">annylize</span> a situation before shooting off one's mouth. Today, that is considered a <i>timid</i> approach to commenting on current events. <br />
<br />
Well,
be that as it may, I STILL like to turn things inside out and try and
learn what actually happened before I make a comment. <br />
<br />
For instance: Mr. Sterling, of NBA basketball fame, is being accused of being a racist. He may be. I don't know.<br />
<br />
Look,
so far as I can remember, I have never heard Mr. Sterling's name
mentioned in a conversation that held any interest for me ... ever. I
tend to dismiss people, places, and things from my memory -- if I deem
them unimportant. <br />
<br />
I don't follow professional basketball -- at
all. It doesn't strike me as a game or contest. In my estimation it is
more an exhibition than a contest. It holds absolutely no interest for
me, ranking right up there with soccer, which I still hold is an
un-American game and ought not be played inside the borders of the US. <br />
<br />
So,
until the recent brush fire over something Mr. Sterling said erupted
into my TV news programming, I was oblivious to the man and quite happy
being so.<br />
<br />
Having said all the above, it seems to me <b><i>we are missing the most important story in all the hoopla: </i></b><br />
<b><u><br />Mr. Sterling's right to privacy.</u></b><br />
<br />
Apparently, Mr. Sterling's right to privacy (judging from reports on the news) has been violated -- BIG TIME.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfsEJ2c9P0UY-XCdI5ZCcgqMg9escMT6cO0AjbuAmIFgcDw8BoMwiG5-l4MwpTgaDcOBf1JTdleincVjjzmEFQGu-yxO3qXOGdKz5iWo0AS8HL9s3QxO7Eno8AHsfeZPhz5anoREaPiA/s1600/RECORDER.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfsEJ2c9P0UY-XCdI5ZCcgqMg9escMT6cO0AjbuAmIFgcDw8BoMwiG5-l4MwpTgaDcOBf1JTdleincVjjzmEFQGu-yxO3qXOGdKz5iWo0AS8HL9s3QxO7Eno8AHsfeZPhz5anoREaPiA/s1600/RECORDER.jpg" height="218" width="320" /></a><br />
Consider this: <b><i>"You can hate Sterling’s remarks and still be alarmed at the reaction.<br /><br />The
80-year old sports team owner was expressing his sentiments in
conversation with his mixed-race, Latina-black mistress while in the
privacy of his own car. He expressed his dissatisfaction with seeing his
girlfriend attending Clipper games with her black friends, in
particular Magic Johnson. It was a private conversation, if such an
arrangement is still allowed in our post-constitutional society, one
that is rapidly veering toward total thought control." </i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/donald-sterling-and-v-stiviano-what-the-hell-ever-happened-to-private-conversations-and-other-musings-16496/#CoBswrR4Wssc8bMj.99">http://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/donald-sterling-and-v-stiviano-what-the-hell-ever-happened-to-private-conversations-and-other-musings-16496/#CoBswrR4Wssc8bMj.99</a><br />
<br />
What we have here is -- <b><i>political correctness on steroids. </i></b> <br />
<br />
Now,
some of you readers will not take kindly to what I'm about to say, but
-- I don't give a whit what Mr. Sterling said, one way or the other.
See, it was a <b><i>PRIVATE </i></b>conversation, or, at least, <b><i>BELIEVED</i></b> to be so by him -- and -- <b><i>what he said, or did not say, is none of my business -- and none of your business.</i></b><br />
<br />
If
I were Mr. Sterling I would have investigators digging to learn who
made the now infamous recording (If he doesn't already know.) and even
more important, <b>WHY </b>did they make it? What <b>ELSE</b> is going on here? Anything? Nothing? I haven't a clue -- and I am perfectly happy with that. <br />
<br />
Every
day the US is looking more and more like Nazi Germany of the 1930's and
the old Soviet Union. In both those countries it was not enough that
the government was spying on its citizens, but they openly encouraged
and, in some cases, rewarded citizens to spy upon their very own family
members and neighbors. <br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwktUg5M1SFjfFdjnuIku7NXy-vQTPIC-7gd0Qs60JeyvLAehjAt1yIrglEUOn-XQjAJp01ANM88Q7WbBIEy2_l8qqc3jdbEnPiH5a4JWZwcz_pG_PeKrCmZSYKVsIr6wvy_l0BEaUBI/s1600/SPYING.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwktUg5M1SFjfFdjnuIku7NXy-vQTPIC-7gd0Qs60JeyvLAehjAt1yIrglEUOn-XQjAJp01ANM88Q7WbBIEy2_l8qqc3jdbEnPiH5a4JWZwcz_pG_PeKrCmZSYKVsIr6wvy_l0BEaUBI/s1600/SPYING.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a>We have now arrived at that next step in the formulation of the American Police State. Have you noticed the signs: <b><i> "If you see something, say something?" </i></b> Maybe they ought to read -- <b><i>"If you can record something in private, then do so." </i></b> Heck, practically everything we do, 24/7/365, is monitored and recorded for a potential witness against us <b><i>whenever the government decides to bring the hammer down. </i></b><br />
<br />
Individual
freedom and individual liberty is all but gone in America. The
Marxists controlling the US government will not be satisfied until they
have a citizenry resembling, little <b><i>cookie cutter commies</i></b> marching in step to their orders. We get ever closer to that scene from Hell every day. <br />
<br />
I
hold that the right to privacy is a "right" granted by God -- and it is
inherent. Privacy is an essential constituent or characteristic of who
we are as human beings. It is what we Southerners like to refer to as <b><u><i>"the right to be let alone."</i></u></b> In Dixie, stated simply, it is thus made clear: <b><i><u>"You stay the hell out of my business, and I'll stay the hell out of yours."</u></i></b> When you begin to meddle in <b>MY</b> affairs it clearly means you are looking for trouble and, as the scriptures say: <b><i>"Seek and ye shall find!"</i></b><br />
<br />
It
would appear from what little we know of the circumstances surrounding
the event, Mr. Sterling was ambushed. Otherwise, it seems to me, he
would have to have authorized the taping of his tirade. That seems most
unlikely considering the content of the tirade.<br />
<br />
Look. I don't
care, one whit, how Mr. Sterling feels about black people, or white
people, for that matter. I just don't care. That's between him and his
god and Mr. Sterling, not I, will have to work it out with the deity
of his choice. Judging from his reported age, he needs to work it out
fairly quickly, though.<br />
<br />
<b>There was a time, in the not too
distant past, in America when everyone was entitled to his or her own
opinion. That time is now past. Now, your opinion must conform to the
dogma of the political Left. If it doesn't you are ostracized and
often destroyed. This is a perfect mirror reflection of the Bolsheviks,
a Russian left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually
became the Russian Communist Party that took over Russia and turned it
into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which became a boil on the
backside of the entire world. </b><br />
<br />
The American Left and the Russian Communist Left are cut from the exact same bolt of cloth.<br />
<br />
<b><i>THAT's</i></b> what I see on display here.<br />
<br />
<b><i>And PLEASE -- don't try to tell me America is a racist country today. </i></b>
I grew up in a racist country. I drank from "Whites only" water
fountains. I went to doctor's with "whites only" waiting rooms and black
waiting rooms. <i>(Notice I didn't say "blacks only" waiting rooms.
See, when the white's waiting room filled, the whites automatically
moved into the black's waiting room and the blacks wound up out in the
hallway, sometimes sitting on the floor in the hallway). </i><br />
<br />
I
ate at restaurants where blacks had to eat outside and were served
through little windows much like drive-thru windows work today... but
you walked up to them, you did not drive. I rode on buses where blacks
had to to sit on the back seat, if they were allowed on the bus at
all. I went to the movies where blacks were relegated to the back of
the balcony section, and on Sundays, I attended church where not a
single black face shone from the sea of white parishioners piously
facing the white pastor. <br />
<br />
Compare those days to these -- where
none of that is happening -- plus, the President is a black man, the
nation's Attorney General is a black man, a Supreme Court Justice is a
black man, and one of the US Senators from my home State of South
Carolina, no less, is a black man -- and the list goes on. <br />
<br />
<b><i>Is there racism in America. Yes! And there always will be.</i></b>
We come wired that way. It is a defense mechanism Mother Nature
endowed us with to suspect anything, and anybody, not like ourselves. <b><i>Some of us learn to overcome it while, conversely, some learn how to use it to profit obscenely from it</i></b>.
And then there are those who learn to use it to excuse their own
laziness and salve their own conscience when cashing those government
checks every month. To each his own. <br />
<br />
But there is something different with the Sterling story. I can't put my finger on it, <b><i>but something just doesn't add up. </i></b> This old news hound's ears are pricked-up and my hackles are up and trembling. <i>But, hey, I'm retired now! </i><br />
Yeah, <b><i>RIGHT!</i></b><br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtCJ3D8wrsU0iOxkzJk4YT3RsUUJhc23gS2W4wEpNjISlXsF4ZESshBaktA95W9Af24nnsQoRFdB7zk5ywJDAhC5J1giZTH7nx9ZF-hF07AXuRqqDWfvqkZGPgAJSiq1tyXBK_Q0sWh9M/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtCJ3D8wrsU0iOxkzJk4YT3RsUUJhc23gS2W4wEpNjISlXsF4ZESshBaktA95W9Af24nnsQoRFdB7zk5ywJDAhC5J1giZTH7nx9ZF-hF07AXuRqqDWfvqkZGPgAJSiq1tyXBK_Q0sWh9M/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>Back
at the dawn of history, when I was a but a wee lad, my family had the
God-given insight to bring me up in an evangelical church. I had no say
in where I attended church, See, kids back then kept their mouths shut
and their ears open and paid heed to their parents, their elders. <b><i> (That is why I contend that my generation is so much smarter than the generations that followed.) </i></b><br />
<br />
Anyway,
I recall clearly how my church was referred to as a "Missionary"
Baptist Church. See, our congregation helped to support missionaries
the world over. It was our church's way of carrying out the last
instructions Christ gave his church when he took leave of this world to
go prepare a place for his followers. Here's what He said:<br />
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<b><i>"19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:<br /><br />20
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen." </i></b> This is referred to as <b>"The Great Commission"</b> and you will find it at Matthew 28:19 - 20. (The New Testament) <br />
<br />
In a single sentence the Christian church was given its assignment -- <b><i>the sole purpose of the church until the return of Christ. </i></b><br />
<br />
Back
in the middle of the twentieth century, many of the Christian
denominations in America were trying their dead level best to carry out
those orders, for that was what they were -- <b><i>orders. </i></b><br />
<br />
It
is true that back then America was truly a Christian nation. On Sunday
mornings you had to arrive early to get a seat in a pew, else you were
left standing along the back wall, or the ushers placed folding chairs
in the aisles <i>(Which would freak out today's fire marshals!)</i><br />
<br />
Americans
went to church back then. Our little church constantly had well over
200 persons in Sunday School. That number is far more than many
mainline churches today enjoy in their Sunday morning worship services!<br />
<br />
As I mentioned above, we gave lots of financial support to missionaries the world over. <br />
<br />
Now,
the vast majority of the membership were blue collar workers who were
employed by a cotton mill which had once been the largest cotton mill
under one roof in the world. Nobody got rich, but we all lived well.
We had a sturdy roof over our heads, clothes on our backs, food on the
table, a family that loved each other, a father who would go to whatever
end was necessary to protect his little family, <b><i>and we had a string anchor in the faith of our fathers. </i></b><br />
<br />
The
tithe was then, as it is today, ten percent of one's income. And over
and above that, the offering plates were passed at all services for
those wishing to make a "love" offering toward the financing of the
church's mission. <b><i>Those offering plates were filled each Sunday. </i></b><br />
<br />
Several
times a year the offerings were dedicated to one missionary or other
serving the heathens and pagans in far-flung corners of the earth so
that we could carry out that Great Commission I mentioned above. <br />
<br />
Once
I recall, we helped purchase an airplane for a missionary, as I recall,
in Africa. The only time we ever saw the plane was when the
missionary thoughtfully sent us a snapshot of it with her and a few of
her dusky skinned parishioners standing beside it. <br />
Now, recall, I
said the membership was blue collar. They had very little disposable
income after the bills were paid, their family's needs taken care of,
and groceries were bought.<br />
<br />
Their wallets may have been small but their hearts were huge. <br />
<br />
One
year the church decided that each church family would give their entire
salary for that week to a fund for a particular missionary who had hit a
rough patch and was in dire need of funding. And we did. And yes, it
hurt ... <b><i>but it hurt GOOD!</i></b><br />
<br />
I got to thinking about all this when I saw an article entitled: <u><b>"China May Soon Be the World's Most Christian Nation." </b></u> My first thought was that maybe all those missionaries we helped fund really had an impact on China.<br />
<br />
<b><i>"Demographic
research shows that Communist China may become the world's most
Christian nation in the next 15 years, a projection the godless
government in Beijing is doing all it can to refute.<br /><br />In 1949 the
number of Christians in the newly communist nation was estimated at just
one million. But by 2010, according to the Pew Research Center's Forum
on Religion and Public Life, that number had skyrocketed to more than 58
million Protestants alone..."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE: </b><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/18151-china-may-soon-be-the-world-s-most-christian-nation?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=c1203749fe-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-c1203749fe-289784169">http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/18151-china-may-soon-be-the-world-s-most-christian-nation?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=c1203749fe-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-c1203749fe-289784169</a><br />
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The article goes on: <b><i>
"Fenggang Yang, a professor of sociology at Purdue University and
author of Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule,
predicted recently that “China is destined to become the largest
Christian country in the world very soon.” Yang, considered one of the
leading experts on faith and religion in China, said that China's
Protestant population is set to swell to some 160 million, putting it
ahead of the United States, whose Protestant population topped out at
around 159 million a few years ago, but which has reportedly been
declining as of late."</i></b><br />
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<b><i><u>Here in America true Christianity is in mortal danger.</u></i></b>
For in America, you see, if a minister steps into the pulpit and
preaches the true Gospel, he is subject to be dragged into court on
charges of hate crimes. His church's tax exempt status is in danger of
being revoked. <br />
<br />
I wondered recently how long it would be before
government agents will be walking church parking lots during services,
taking note of license plate numbers of attendees because <b><i>the government already considers conservative Christians potential domestic terrorists.</i></b><br />
<br />
So, I appeal to the Christian countries of the world, <b><i><u>send Christian missionaries!</u></i></b> <b><i><u>America
needs your help! Please send missionaries armed with the true gospel,
not the watered down pabulum fed congregants from the pulpits of
America's churches today. </u></i></b><br />
<br />
America's Christians did not forget you when you were begging for the gospel, now, we, here in America, need, <b><i>desperately</i></b>, to find our way again <b><i>and we seem unable to do it without outside assistance. </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i><u>Understand,
the Christian church in America may soon find it necessary to go
underground just as the church in many of your countries had to do and
just as the early Christians in Rome did to insure the gospel survived.</u></i></b><br />
<br />
How bad is it today in America? Recent research found: <b><i>"
... that each generation is more post-Christian than the one that came
before it. Only 28 percent of seniors (ages 67 and greater) are
considered post-Christian, as compared to 35 percent of Boomers (ages 48
to 66), 40 percent of Busters (ages 29 to 47) and 48 percent of Mosaics
(ages 18 to 28). Kinnaman says this type of research could serve as a
glimpse into the "spiritual, moral and social future" of the United
States."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/america-becoming-increasingly-post-christian-research-shows-93967/"> http://www.christianpost.com/news/america-becoming-increasingly-post-christian-research-shows-93967/</a><br />
<br />
In an article entitled: <b>"The Spirit of Tolerance, Post-Christian America and the Laodicean Church"</b> published in July of 2013, the author, Larry Tomczak, said the following: <b><i>
"This month, the youth-oriented Relevant magazine, published by Cameron
Strang, ran an article on the topic of post-Christian America. Quoting a
Barna Group study, the article cited that in America, seven of 10
people describe themselves as Christian. Yet consider the following
statistics cited:<br /><br /> 57 percent have not read the Bible in the last week<br /> 41 percent agree that Jesus committed sins<br /> 29 percent disagree that the Bible is accurate</i></b> <b><i>"</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/40240-the-spirit-of-tolerance-post-christian-america-and-the-laodicean-church">http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/40240-the-spirit-of-tolerance-post-christian-america-and-the-laodicean-church</a><br />
<b><i><br />THIS, dear reader, is what passes for a Christian in America today. </i></b><br />
<br />
Yes, as someone has said, <b><u><i>America HAS become the sort of country to which we used to send missionaries. </i></u></b><br />
<br />
We have, indeed, come full circle.<br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Y9Eh5-7Y9AaIat_GN4q3x9p4Tk5aoGC66YGdyRek86_o82V_qMd9uGcy8fb86dQUDzh1oqTT-Y1trPt7B4QLatY5xkblDiwumRTmTjj2lCJeczlbEDU0Y5sgCfuDLdG9seMQygHNW48/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Y9Eh5-7Y9AaIat_GN4q3x9p4Tk5aoGC66YGdyRek86_o82V_qMd9uGcy8fb86dQUDzh1oqTT-Y1trPt7B4QLatY5xkblDiwumRTmTjj2lCJeczlbEDU0Y5sgCfuDLdG9seMQygHNW48/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>Actually,
it has taken a bit longer than I had expected, but Obama and his
"Marxocrats" are finally getting around to us, you know, <i><b>conservative broadcasters, commentators, and bloggers. </b></i><br />
Yep, they are finally going to make an all out effort to shut us down -- <i>and up!</i>
We will officially be "Haters." Then they'll accuse us of hate crimes
because we don't follow the "party line" and slap our behinds in jail,
or reeducation camps, much like the old Maoist reeducation camps of a
few decades ago. <br />
<br />
So far the MsM hasn't made much of this because
they are controlled from the Obama's West Wing or directly from the
Oval Office. <br />
<br />
<b><i>( I wonder how "amazed" the Leftist press
will be when Obama's henchmen march into their press rooms and begin
smashing computers and ripping out hard drives with incriminating
evidence on them to send those poor Leftists -- now "useless idiots" to
Obama's gulags for crimes against Obama -- or the state. <br /><br />It
always happens that way. The Left just never accepts that THEY will be
the very first one's "detained" by the tyrants when round-up time
comes. I'd laugh were it not for the tears.) </i></b><br />
<br />
So, what the heck am I talking about?<br />
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I am alluding specifically to: <b>"The Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014."</b> <br />
<br />
Never heard of it, huh? It figures.<br />
<br />
The bill comes from Democrats Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. <i>(So far no surprise.)</i><br />
<br />
The Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014 <b><i>“would
create an updated comprehensive report examining the role of the
Internet and other telecommunications in encouraging hate crimes based
on gender, race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation and create
recommendations to address such crimes,”</i></b> stated a news release from Markey’s office."<br />
<br />
The Bill <b><i>"...
calls for the Justice Department and the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights to “analyze information on the use of telecommunications,
including the Internet, broadcast television and radio, cable
television, public access television, commercial mobile services, and
other electronic media, to advocate and encourage violent acts and the
commission of crimes of hate.”<br /><br />The bill does not define which
actions by broadcasters would be considered to have encouraged violence,
seemingly leaving that open to interpretation." </i>- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_35361.php#sthash.eyEsU99s.dpuf">http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_35361.php#sthash.eyEsU99s.dpuf</a><br />
<br />
I find it astounding that a MsM newspaper, the Boston Herald, referred to the bill as: <b><i>“frankly chilling."</i></b> In fact, the paper said they found it: “frankly chilling” that Markey is seeking to <b><i>“empower an obscure federal agency to begin scouring the Internet, TV and radio for speech it finds threatening.</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />“Perhaps
he could crack a briefing book on the crisis in Ukraine rather than
looking for his own extra-constitutional methods of punishing speech he
finds unacceptable,” added the Herald editorial."</i></b> <b>- SOURCE</b>: <a href="http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_35361.php#sthash.eyEsU99s.dpuf">http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_35361.php#sthash.eyEsU99s.dpuf</a><br />
<br />
The fact that a Leftist news organization finds this bill chilling and frightening, <b><i><u>REALLY </u></i></b>gets my attention. <br />
<br />
As a commentator, I have been offering opinion pieces for many decades. <b><i>There
can be no doubt that from time to time any commentator worth his mike
or keyboard will offend someone, and inspire others. It is the nature
of what we do.</i></b> We give voice to those who have something to say
but for various reasons haven't the wherewithal to make their feelings
public and thence are shut out of the public debate. We are their
voices. It has been said that we <b><i>afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.</i></b><br />
<br />
But
the plain fact is that we make those we oppose very uncomfortable
drawing attention to their grand mistakes, their foibles, their
machinations in the shadows - out of the public's sight, and --
inevitably -- <b><i>to their lies.</i></b> <b><i>We make their lives
miserable. We are the burr under their saddles, the thorn in their
flesh, and -- all too often -- we become the only conscience they have.</i></b><br />
<b><i><u><br />You bet -- they want to shut us up. </u></i></b>
The Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014 will go a very long way in
muzzling critics of the Left whether behind a microphone, a keyboard, or
in front of a camera. <br />
<br />
<b><i>Students of history will tell you
this is nothing new. It dates back to the Spanish Inquisition and in
more modern times, the Nazi regime of Hitler, the old Soviet Union, and
Maoist China. </i><i><u>... and now it is here ... in America.</u></i><i> </i></b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtkKw7srhjFo9TD5dxoHvNs_XAUACTn01auRKgu9uT4JR3oHcnthCHI5Uo63Lw-LS-dqN63nIIESsizgbHoLfevBNWcBQ88K18XANqJG7ibk_PdGVc3I7479MQQk8hlb8Z172aI5IHG8E/s1600/Obama+Dictator+%23+2.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtkKw7srhjFo9TD5dxoHvNs_XAUACTn01auRKgu9uT4JR3oHcnthCHI5Uo63Lw-LS-dqN63nIIESsizgbHoLfevBNWcBQ88K18XANqJG7ibk_PdGVc3I7479MQQk8hlb8Z172aI5IHG8E/s1600/Obama+Dictator+%23+2.jpeg" height="320" width="206" /></a>It is just more of the <b>American Police State.</b> <br />
<br />
Any
day now, I expect the announcement to go out to those in the executive
branch of the US legislature that they should drop by the West Wing and
be measured for their tailor-made brown shirts to be worn at all times
for the duration of the Obama Regime. <br />
<br />
I am very afraid, dear
reader, that we have allowed America to become so corrupt that no
tweaking will suffice to restore our old constitutional,
representative, republic. <b><i>America has gone the way of all democracies -- suicide. </i></b><br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<b>GOP Working Overtime To Lose In November<br /><span style="color: blue;"><u><i>Sick Of The Whole Lot Of Them!</i></u></span><br />A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPP3bn7zduk_nD6N_IPWAQM4sDEVGGqKU6z0xGtmeDnzKhJFEat-Js7CsEAAzYVRWsTkLZhchUvPyrurY3turMCr5jZ3J9T8cBbq1lmzOxyhwEqI0W5vv46kiR0CUwKflUG8xxW4ACuc/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPP3bn7zduk_nD6N_IPWAQM4sDEVGGqKU6z0xGtmeDnzKhJFEat-Js7CsEAAzYVRWsTkLZhchUvPyrurY3turMCr5jZ3J9T8cBbq1lmzOxyhwEqI0W5vv46kiR0CUwKflUG8xxW4ACuc/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>I am on the cusp of arriving at a conclusion that makes me physically ill. Please. Allow me to explain.<br />
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I
am an observer of American politics. I am also involved as, some say,
an activist, though I don't think of myself as such. I just observe and
then I write my observations and my opinions, my analysis, and
occasionally I exercise a little punditry and predict a few things that
seem obvious to me. <br />
<br />
Nothing much surprises me in American politics. It is rotten to the core.<br />
<br />
If
prostitution is the oldest profession, then politics is certainly the
second oldest and these days it has become awfully difficult to tell
them apart. <br />
<br />
So what has pushed my buttons today?<br />
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The
Republican Party seems hell bent on losing the mid term election this
November despite the Democrats virtually handing it to them tied up in
ribbons. (We've been warning that this was coming for several months
now.) <br />
<br />
In the past few days, GOP leaders are making public
statements that would lead a close observer to conclude that they've
been lying all along about their much publicized desire to repeal
Obamacare. On top of that they are now actually boasting that they will
pass an immigration bill by August -- and inside that bill will be
amnesty for illegal aliens. They also intend to lie to their
constituents about amnesty in the bill! <br />
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Consider this: <b><i>"With
the news this week that more than 600,000 Washington residents have
acquired new health care plans through the state exchange, U.S. Rep.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers said it’s unlikely the Affordable Care Act will
be repealed.<br /><br />“We need to look at reforming the exchanges,” the Eastern Washington Republican said Thursday." </i></b> -- SOURCE: <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/apr/25/mcmorris-rodgers-says-aca-likely-to-stay/">http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/apr/25/mcmorris-rodgers-says-aca-likely-to-stay/</a><br />
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<b>Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers is among the leaders of the establishment Republicans in the US House of Representatives. </b><br />
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I ask you -- does that sound like dedication to repealing Obamacare? <br />
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Now, read this second clip -- carefully -- and allow yourself to see the <b><u>DECEIT</u></b> the GOP is going to use to get amnesty for illegal aliens passed through the house and into law: <b><i>"Cited
as a priority issue by many members of Congress and Obama, 2013 came
and went without an immigration package, to the chagrin of many advocacy
groups.<br /><br />McMorris Rodgers said she still thinks a deal could be
struck before the election. “I believe there is a path that we get a
bill on the floor by August,” she said.<br /><br />A bipartisan plan was
passed in the Senate last spring but made no headway in the
Republican-controlled House. McMorris Rodgers echoed the concern brought
up by many in the chamber, saying she wants to see stronger border
security. But she said she’d support a bill that grants legal status to
those undocumented immigrants working toward citizenship, allowing them
to remain in the country to work and go to school while they wait their
turn in the current system.<br /><br />“We’re going to have to push that this is a legal status, not amnesty,” she said."</i></b> -- <b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/apr/25/mcmorris-rodgers-says-aca-likely-to-stay/">http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/apr/25/mcmorris-rodgers-says-aca-likely-to-stay/</a><br />
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Please read the last paragraph above. Do you see how the GOP is planning on <b><u>"CONNING"</u></b> it's supporters, it's voters, it's base? <b><i><u> They are preparing to lie to us, dear reader! </u></i></b><br />
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Now. Here's my conclusion -- you know, the one that has made me want to puke: <b><u>The GOP DOES NOT WANT TO WIN IN NOVEMBER! </u></b><br />
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See,
if they won, then they'd have the responsibility to get off their
collective derrieres and get to work and return this country to a
constitutional, representative, republic. <br />
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But, as I have now concluded, they don't want that. Heck no! They actually <b>LIKE</b> where America is right now. They <b>LIKE</b> that the onus seems always to be on the Marxocrats <i>(sometimes referred to as Democrats.)</i> The GOP can sit on it's big, fat, <i>er</i>,
armchair and take pot shots at the Dems, and attend the cocktail and
dinner parties in the evenings and enjoy all the perks our tax dollars
provide for them. <br />
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<b><i>Down here in the Southland, what the GOP is doing is called</i></b> <b><u>"BETRAYAL!" </u></b><br />
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<b><u>I'm sick of the whole damn lot of them!</u></b><br />
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As
an Independent voter now, I'm being slammed by both sides in their
propaganda war to win my vote. Well, they can save their postage,
printing, and phone bills. Nothing either side says will convince me
they give a damn about the country.<br />
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<b><i>America is lost, dear reader. </i></b> They <b><i>ONLY</i></b> chance I see, as of this writing, is for like-minded people to take control of their state legislatures -- <b><i>and secede </i></b>-- <b><i>as my Confederate ancestors did and create a new nation. </i><u>This one is done for. </u></b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiCkdMmgKbRuoI_S2PhaMTbw__Bnxbsm2pUYKD5mcnA11gkCHZIXE9GfIB3SR0tX-Ggzo_FBuM0Vm_Ak4zeXaVa_1dWgu9CCLOqACRwaDf99ICi8wqHnIaFxwiA5LDMeF4cJkP6yRV1s8/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiCkdMmgKbRuoI_S2PhaMTbw__Bnxbsm2pUYKD5mcnA11gkCHZIXE9GfIB3SR0tX-Ggzo_FBuM0Vm_Ak4zeXaVa_1dWgu9CCLOqACRwaDf99ICi8wqHnIaFxwiA5LDMeF4cJkP6yRV1s8/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>Recently, I have noticed something a bit different in my work, that is to say -- my writing, my commentaries, if you please.<br />
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I
have noticed that my faith has much more influence on my thinking than I
had thought. I'm told that is a sign of aging and wisdom. I can
readily agree with the aging part. However, the wisdom part, is
something else entirely. <b><i>That, dear reader, is decided by you. </i></b><br />
<br />
That's
is a little out of character for me. I have always felt a man's faith
was between him and his chosen deity -- and nobody else. As my family
will unhesitatingly tell you "Papa" is subject to go off on a tear over a
subject having to do with religion quicker than any other subject.<br />
<br />
I
have found, now that I am well into the eighth decade of my lifespan,
that I am far more able to cope with the vexing problems that living
life as a human being tends to deliver to our doorstep. That does not
mean that I don't stumble and fall every once in a while, nor does it
mean that I am mistake free. Look. <b><i> ALL the erasers on my pencils are well worn. </i></b><br />
<br />
Often, I have been extremely lucky, having the ability to learn (usually) from my mistakes. <b><i>That is learned behavior</i></b>,
behavior taught me -- along with many other things -- by my father.
Thus armed, I have been able to inform those who follow behind me of my
personal flawed processes <b><i>that led to my latest embarrassment</i></b> -- whatever that might be. <br />
<br />
One of life's lessons I have learned <i>(the hard way)</i> is that <b><i>a
man who does not acknowledge and learn from his mistakes and then pass
that invaluable information along to the younger generation -- is a
FOOL. </i></b><br />
<br />
It is said that a man can count his real friends
on the fingers of his hands. Some say the fingers of ONE of his hands.
When I was younger I thought that was nonsensical. As I have grown
older I have learned that a man is blessed, indeed, if he has ONE real
friend.<br />
<br />
When I refer, to and use, the word "friend," please
understand that I am not using that word in any context in which it can
be associated with today's social media on the Internet. Those friends
exist only in zeros and ones. They are purely binary language.<br />
<br />
I have made a number of acquaintances by way of the Internet that I most likely would not have made without the web. <b><i>I treasure these connections. </i></b> <br />
<br />
It
is said that a friend will help you hide. It is also said that a TRUE
friend will help you hide the body! Sometimes, these "hard sayings" have
a bit more truth to them than we are comfortable with. <br />
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<b><i>I
have become convinced that once the "finish line" of one's life is
peeking over the horizon, it tends to help one focus on that which is
really important.</i></b><br />
<br />
For a little over fifty years I have
been walking my life's pathway with death ever beside me. We have
become "comfortable" companions. I know that sounds impossible, but
like anything else in life, constant contact with a person, place, or
thing, will result in a certain level of comfort in the presence of that
companion. <br />
<br />
Back in my mid-twenties, the family was summoned to
my bedside and told that I would not live 'til morning. Obviously, I
did survive. <br />
<br />
My doctor recently told me that he has been
constantly surprised that I have survived episode after episode of
vicious attacks that should have taken my life and that he had expected
me to die a number of times in the past fifty-three years only to have
me still around making others uncomfortable, as is my wont. <br />
<br />
So
what keeps me going? I wish I knew. I have blamed it on pure
stubbornness and persistence, something I believe I may have inherited
from my Celtic ancestry. <br />
<br />
More than anything, though, I believe it was my father. He taught, he instructed, he indoctrinated <b><i>persistence in ALL things.</i></b> You don't quit, you don't give up, you never give in, you never, ever, admit defeat -- <b><i>for a man is never conquered until he surrenders. </i></b><br />
<br />
My
father also taught self reliance. A man should depend upon no one --
or nothing -- but himself ... period. A young man during the
depression, my father was determined that his children would be able to
fend for themselves if, and when, the time came. <br />
<br />
He taught me to
hunt and trap. He taught me to build traps, bait, and set traps and
those secrets that disguise the human scent on a trap. He had me
running the traps before school on icy Carolina mornings. <br />
<br />
I thought of my Dad when the story on Cliven Bundy broke. See, I have been there -- with my Dad, too, many decades ago. <br />
<br />
Our
confrontation was over the state taking a portion of our land to change
the path of a roadway. It seems the state engineers had built in a
huge, unnecessary, curve in their plans for the new roadway and that
curve would take a huge, unnecessary, bite out of our land, which sat in
the corner of the planned new road and the existing highway with which
it would intersect. <br />
<br />
Dad went to the state capital and met with
the state engineers and explained that their survey was wrong, and that
it was unnecessary to take that chunk of land when the old path of the
roadway was a much better roadway than the newly planned one. <br />
<br />
The state listened -- <b><i>and refused to change their plans.</i></b> So the morning they work crew showed up to begin bulldozing our land, my father and I met them -- <b><i>with our guns. </i><i>Dad,
careful to remain on our property at all times, stepped up where he
could be clearly seen and heard and announced that he intended to shoot
the first man to climb aboard the bulldozer. </i></b><br />
<br />
After a
hurried conference, the work crew left. A few days later we were
visited by representatives of the state engineer's office. Dad had had
me sketch out a route for the proposed roadway that would eliminate that
godawful curve and not take a foot of our land. <br />
<br />
Survey stakes
were removed, a new survey was run, and the proposed roadway was moved,
the curve was taken out, and wonder of wonders, <b><i>we didn't lose any land, at all. </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>At no time was law enforcement involved, period. </i></b><br />
<br />
Would
my father have opened fire? Look. There was no political correctness
in those days. A man said what he meant and meant what he said. I
never doubted he would fire on those men. <b><i>More importantly, THEY never doubted it, either.</i></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-IXbLGJiveBsRerJ2eJV0yN7qJX-m1xs1RSwbiv7cLNZz_5Z9-KVajmNlRGVm0DX71IFXauWUHQ2RRPC88LWdzr6f4JXkt9oUJoDkstzpA9F1kAKf7EcGw2IRBTkRxhZRByy5dgWh2eY/s1600/DEFENDER.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-IXbLGJiveBsRerJ2eJV0yN7qJX-m1xs1RSwbiv7cLNZz_5Z9-KVajmNlRGVm0DX71IFXauWUHQ2RRPC88LWdzr6f4JXkt9oUJoDkstzpA9F1kAKf7EcGw2IRBTkRxhZRByy5dgWh2eY/s1600/DEFENDER.png" /></a><b><u><i>America was a better country then.</i></u></b> We were tough, we had honor and more importantly, <b><u>we understood how important honor was.</u></b> Back then we still understood that a man's home, his land, his livestock, <b><u><i>belonged to him.</i></u></b> <b><i>He had a right, indeed, a duty to defend them from all threats, no matter the quarter from which those threats came. </i></b><br />
<b><i>Individual
rights, personal freedom and liberty, were the foundation of the
constitution and the constitution the foundation of the country. </i></b><br />
<br />
I mentioned earlier that my faith has become a mainstay, a source of support and stability for me as the years pile up. <br />
<br />
I think all my life I have been training for the end of my life. <b><i> I think we are are granted that opportunity. </i></b> Some of us take advantage and prepare while others, well, just let it slide. <br />
<br />
Remember the old Negro spiritual: "I MUST WALK MY LONESOME VALLEY?" Read the words:<br />
<br />
<b><i>"I must walk my lonesome valley<br /><br />I got to walk it for myself,<br /><br />Nobody else can walk it for me,<br /><br />I got to walk it for myself<br /><br />I must go and stand my trial,<br /><br />I got to stand it for myself,<br /><br />Nobody else can stand it for me,<br /><br />I got to stand it for myself.<br /><br />Jesus walked his lonesome valley,<br /><br />He had to walk it for himself,<br /><br />Nobody else could walk it for him,<br /><br />He had to walk it for himself." </i></b><br />
<br />
There is a wonderful pearl of a lesson in those words.<br />
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<b><i><u>"I"</u></i></b> have to do it. <b><i>Nobody will do it for me.</i></b> <b><i><u>"I" </u></i></b>have to do it myself. <br />
<br />
It's the lesson my father instilled in me as a lad. <b><u><i>"You are responsible, son. Only you."</i></u></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>When
it becomes my turn to walk that valley, God willing, I intend to walk
it with my back straight, my head held high, leaning slightly forward
in expectation of the wondrous things awaiting my arrival at the end of
the valley. </i></b><br />
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But, I've not entered the valley yet. <b><i><u>So, my pen shall not rest in my hand.</u></i><i> There is yet much to do, much to be said, places to go, people to see, ideas to share, thoughts to formulate, ... much to do.</i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>Yes, I'm bent. But I'm not bowed. I'm bloodied, but I'm not slain. So I'll lay me down and rest a bit -- then, I'll rise to fight again. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>Deo Vindici!</i></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">America Should Be Ashamed Of Its Education System </span></b>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">A Commentary by J. D.
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Public Schools system of
the US has crashed and burned! No longer are our children the best educated
in the world. Now</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_tZP6RK0KK9goAQffdO8T0Y0isIjGFlVx_ErzybyfQf_9MupRC4Mi0Oww3gl3vYULWq8uALdZVBHQEs-eftdISb72iNORGB7u9JG82acZroTb031MPCg6K7eQFG0gfrVC35YyVUoCbmw/s1600/Bell-School-Ne111911-1178.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_tZP6RK0KK9goAQffdO8T0Y0isIjGFlVx_ErzybyfQf_9MupRC4Mi0Oww3gl3vYULWq8uALdZVBHQEs-eftdISb72iNORGB7u9JG82acZroTb031MPCg6K7eQFG0gfrVC35YyVUoCbmw/s1600/Bell-School-Ne111911-1178.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a></span> our scholars rank
among the less well educated even among a few of the third world
countries. This is a shame we have
brought upon ourselves by inviting the Federal Government and the Unions into
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<span style="font-size: small;">One-room schoolhouses turned
out scholars of unequaled accomplishment when compared to today’s graduates. A high school education, just 50 years ago,
is the equivalent of a college degree today.
Our Public School teachers are barely qualified to teach. But, they have a Union
to see that they are paid well, whether the can teach or not! Oh, you thought teachers unions were for the
welfare of the students??? Surely you
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<span style="font-size: small;">Our local school boards have
gorged themselves from the federal trough at the expense of local control of
the curriculum and the rules and regulations.
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pupils are not challenged by
the courses they study and fall short of goals set by the federal
Government. So, the schools are now
“teaching the tests”. Indoctrinate the
students in the questions and answers on the test in hopes of attaining the
sought after number of students passing the tests. A well-rounded education is lost to the
efforts to make a good showing on the tests.</span></div>
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in school even though they have no interest in what is being taught and are a
distraction to that handful of youngsters who really do want to learn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Self-esteem is the number one
course of study. Our students are dumb
as fence posts but, by golly, they think highly of themselves! They can’t read their diplomas but they sure
do feel good about it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So what do we do about it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Take back our schools for a
start. Refuse federal money and all the
strings that go with it. <b><i>If we have to
teach school, again, in one-room school buildings, then so be it. </i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: small;"> Test the teachers. If they have no business in a classroom, see
to it that they are removed. </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Make school voluntary. If a student does not want to be there, then
don’t make them. This will allow those
students who do wish an education to get one without the continuous
interruptions by the bored kids who’d rather be someplace else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Discipline? Yes.
Expulsion. Period. Expel troublemakers for a few days, a few
weeks, and full school year, or forever, depending on the infraction. Make school a serious business again. <b><i>We owe an environment, suitable for learning,
to those students who are there for the purpose of learning and making a better
life for themselves. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We can take our schools
back. We have to want to do so and we
have to be ready to make the sacrifices necessary to insure our children a good
education,<b><i> not the pitiful excuse for an education they are getting now.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>(Spend a few minutes in the comments
section of any blog on the Internet and take special notice of the sentence
structure, the composition, the horrible grammar, the god awful spelling, and
the obliviousness to it all by the writer.
You have just taken the measure of the product of the American public
education system. It is beyond horrible.)
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<span style="font-size: small;">One of a parent’s primary
obligations, as a parent, is to see that their children have a shot at the
brass ring in life. The first, and most
fundamental, step in that process is a solid education. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Government vouchers were
killed by the teachers unions because they rightly understood that the public
school system would crumble, and collapse, as parents pulled their children out
of those useless institutions and placed them in private schools where they had
some say, and some control, over the quality of education their kids were
getting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The public school system is
near collapse right now. I don’t think
it would be a bad thing, actually. When
an institution is so badly damaged, and no longer serves it’s primary purpose,
it <i><b>SHOULD </b></i>be trashed and a new institution begun in its place. <b><i>Create an
Institution to educate our kids. </i><i><u>They're not getting an eduction today. They're getting an indoctrination. </u></i><i><br /></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Parents, we owe our kids
that! We owe them a chance to make the
best of their talents. We owe them a
shot at a good, solid, education. Get
them out of the public schools and into a private, or parochial, school where
there are qualified teachers who still have an incentive to teach our kids, the
will to teach our kids, and the desire to teach our kids.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: small;">The public school system is America is a failure.
It should be put out of its misery.</span></i></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyVBFxbiCcH68KVdwUny1N7qY-Moh_ZwhosabTiMPZd1MvlnT_ZoUAI_aiHBloWfDCVjsmtSBi9SfSmqhpB_ZH7wZi6IzrZmcvhj9qju0CV6UHN7Lsx3ivH8PrHjTZxMq9fSXQSGG0vzU/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyVBFxbiCcH68KVdwUny1N7qY-Moh_ZwhosabTiMPZd1MvlnT_ZoUAI_aiHBloWfDCVjsmtSBi9SfSmqhpB_ZH7wZi6IzrZmcvhj9qju0CV6UHN7Lsx3ivH8PrHjTZxMq9fSXQSGG0vzU/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>As Americans draw ever closer to a <b><i>time of reckoning</i></b>, many have begun to take notice of that freedom we have remaining.<br />
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Some
of us old, grizzled, scarred-up, graybeard veterans of multiple past
skirmishes with power hungry Leftist zealots in our government <b><i>are actually gratified today. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>Why,</i></b> you ask?<br />
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We
have finally begun to make inroads into the nearly closed minds of
younger Americans who have now lived long enough to allow some of the
Marxist indoctrination from their days in the government school system
to wear thin. Plus, their own personal experience with <b><i>REAL LIFE</i></b>, as opposed to the communist Utopia sold by the Leftists, has, too, worn thin and it is beginning to be seen as the <b><i>ethereal mirage</i></b> that it really is. <b><i>Their perception is changing.</i></b> <br />
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<b><i>We can thank Obamacare for so many Americans coming to realize that </i><i><u>the cheese really ain't free! </u></i></b><br />
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How
many times did we warn that if you thought healthcare was expensive
before Obamacare, just wait until Obamacare gave it to you --<b><i> </i><i><u>free!?</u></i></b><br />
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But, Obamacare is just a part of the story of the deconstruction of the Obama/Marxist dream. <br />
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There are the lies. <b><i>SOOOO many lies.</i></b> Americans believe <b><i>NOTHING</i></b> coming out of the Obama Administration. <b><i>They will lie even when telling the truth is easier.</i></b> That says to me they really <b><i>DO </i></b>think you and I are stupid, ignorant, and unable to think for, and care for, ourselves. Of course, that <b><i>DOES</i></b> describe so much of the voter base of the Democratic (<i>Marxocratic</i>) Party these days that I suppose that explains why the Dems think of <b><i>all </i></b>of us in the same way.<br />
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Fortunately for America we are not all dumb, stupid, and ignorant.<br />
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As
far as I am able to ascertain, the Obama Regime is the second American
presidential administration to suspend the constitution. The first, of
course, was the Lincoln Administration. <br />
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<b><i>Lincoln's abuse
of the constitution wasn't so bad, after all. It only cost the lives of
700,000 Americans, tore a country apart, forced it back together at the
point of a federal bayonet, and today the country suffers the stress of
a nation with two distinct cultures and strong regional distrust
between Americans -- </i><i><u>to this very day.</u></i></b><br />
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As if the lingering suspicions from the <b><i>"recent unpleasantness"</i></b>
of the War of Northern Aggression was not enough, our failed President
has driven a wedge deeper between the black and white races in America.
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Look. Obama won the Presidency precisely <b><i>BECAUSE he is black</i></b>. (Well, at least HALF black, anyway.) In 2008 it was as though nothing Obama said was of any importance. <b><i>The only important thing was the color of his skin.</i></b> America had decided it was time to elect a black President and, come hell or high water, they would -- <b><i>and did. </i></b> Blacks voting for Obama came in in the high 90's percentile. Even so, <b><i>it was white voters who put Obama over the top and into the Oval Office. </i></b><br />
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Yes, it was an historical <b><i>"feel good"</i></b> moment for the country. But as everyone (<i>save for the Leftists</i>) knows -- <b><i>those "feel good" moments are totally worthless in the real world. </i></b><br />
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Obama is a failed President. <b><i><u>Oh, the history books will not record that.</u></i></b> It's too embarrassing, too, <i>uh</i>, truthful. Today's history is mostly <b><i>fable</i></b>
written by the revisionists of the Marxist persuasion, in any event.
Any Obama short comings that cannot be left out of the official record
will be blamed upon Obama's opposition, the Republicans. <br />
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Obama
has done his race no favors. All black politicians will be judged,
henceforth, using Obama as the rule. The ethics of ALL black politicians
will now be called into question. As a result, <b><i>it will be a cold day in the warmer climes when another black man resides in the Oval Office of the United States. </i></b>And
that is sad, really, because there are some extremely well qualified
conservative black politicians out there who would, in my estimation,
make an excellent Commanders - in - Chief and President of the US. <b><i>Former Congressman, Colonel Allen West, leaps to mind. </i></b><br />
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There is a school of thought that Obama is a failure because of <b><i>overexposure.</i></b>
Oh, I agree that he was -- and is -- overexposed! It is so bad that
when the man shows up on my TV to make another of his boring speeches,
the channel is changed instantly, or the TV is switched off
immediately. He has nothing to say, I care to hear -- other than: "<b><i>I resign, effective immediately."</i></b><br />
<br />
No. <b><i>
It was not overexposure that ruined Obama's Presidency, it was Obama's
un-American political philosophy and his Marxist agenda for America.
THAT'S what ruined him!</i></b> He is surrounded by so many Communists, Marxists, and Socialists, that the West Wing is referred to (by some) now as <b><i>the Kremlin West. </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>Around the world Obama -- and America under his leadership -- have become laughingstocks.</i></b> He has proved, unquestionably, that he is unable to go toe to toe with America's enemies, and<b><i> that means America's friends are now on their own for the first time since before the Second World War.</i></b> Now, instead of America's enemies being frightened, it's America's friends who are frightened -- <b><i>and with good reason.</i></b><br />
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Meanwhile, back in the USA, the natives are growing more restless as each day passes. See, <b><i>Americans
have an option most people do not enjoy. We have the option, in fact,
the duty, to take our government from the hands of those who prove
detrimental to the constitution and return her to constitutional rule. </i></b><br />
<br />
The title of this piece mentions <b><i>a time of reckoning approaching</i></b>.
Many feel that a calendar date can actually be set -- for November
2014. Americans are gong to make every effort to take the entire
legislative branch of the government over and bring a screeching halt to
the Marxist agenda of Obama and his henchmen. <b><i>That is the
peaceful -- and preferable -- way to begin the process of returning
America to her rightful condition as a constitutional representative
government. </i></b><br />
<br />
Look. <b><i>America is a product of
revolution. Is it so difficult to imagine a continuing revolution to
guarantee the survival of our freedom and liberty? </i></b><br />
<br />
Victor Hugo a French poet, novelist, and dramatist once said: <b><i>"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right."</i></b><br />
<br />
I'll close with this brief reminder from the <b><i>American Declaration of Independence:</i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>"We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. "— That
to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any
Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of
the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness."</i></b><br />
<br />
The men who penned those few lines changed the world. They did not do it lightly. <br />
<br />
<b><i>When
next revolution comes to these shores if will be for the same reason.
It will be men doing what they are convinced they MUST do. </i></b><br />
<br />
<b>America is far too precious to let her go without a fight. </b><br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcXKSsEDdW_m4ancmiSA5f6IcQn48gRLAYnTcF5NofNe3dFlle0906fymyrHBnYlZKQv-7k3HjPRH2H1VN4VXlLsq3EQulIBYljNmjEZXUT4Pn-96RmF1qEAPMn6cZfjkzhoBmchf_Q_w/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcXKSsEDdW_m4ancmiSA5f6IcQn48gRLAYnTcF5NofNe3dFlle0906fymyrHBnYlZKQv-7k3HjPRH2H1VN4VXlLsq3EQulIBYljNmjEZXUT4Pn-96RmF1qEAPMn6cZfjkzhoBmchf_Q_w/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>The amygdala (<i>pronounced ah-MIG-dah-lah</i>)
is that little walnut sized "thingy" resting near the bottom of the
human brain that warns us when danger is near. Its sorta like a burglar
alarm for your life. <br />
<br />
Ever have those tiny little hairs on the
back of your neck stand up? Ever have goose bumps? Ever get the
feeling that you are being watched by someone, or some thing that does
not have your, ahem, best interests in mind? Ever have the persistent
feeling that all is NOT well and eminent danger is lurking in some
quarter not yet identified? Well, unless your amygdala is broken, or has
simply atrophied, that teeny-tiny little mass of nuclei buried deep in
the anterior inferior temporal lobe of the brain. is where ALL the above
comes from. <br />
<br />
I like to think we humans developed the amygdala
about the time we decided to climb down out of the trees and live in
holes in the ground and the sides of mountains and cliffs we later came
to call caves. I'm no anthropologists or biologist, or any other kind
of "ologist," so I have no clue when the human amygdala became standard
equipment. So, I'm just winging it here. <br />
<br />
Still -- smart
people pay attention to the warnings from their amygdala. A great
number of those who didn't -- aren't here any more. And a
disproportionate number of those who still don't today, will not be with
us much longer.<br />
<br />
It is the way of things.<br />
<br />
My amygdala has
been virtually bouncing off the inside of my skull for well over a week
now. I can almost hear it humming much like a plucked bow string of an
English longbow.<br />
<br />
Something is going on that presents a danger to
my person. IF it is what I THINK it is, then by extension, you, too,
are in danger. <br />
<br />
Allow me to deliberately digress for a moment, or
two: The Cliven Bundy Affair in Nevada recently. That whole thing was
the dumbest operation yet devised by government brain-trusts in
Washington. <br />
<br />
-OR-<br />
<br />
<b><i>It was not! </i></b><br />
<br />
Who could NOT have foreseen the reaction by Bundy's family, his neighbors, and freedom loving American across America. <br />
<br />
The answer is -- the idiots in DC who planned this donnybrook, IF, of course, that is what REALLY happened. <br />
<br />
It
has been suggested that the raid at Bundy's ranch was purposely
designed to cause the chaos that ensured so as to provide the government
planners a truer picture of the response they can expect from the
American people when they, the Marxist tyrants in Washington, finally
bring the legendary "iron curtain" down around America. <br />
<br />
If
Washington had ANY doubt that government dictatorial overreach would be
met with the same level of violence from the American people, then all
doubt should have been removed from their bureaucratic minds when
throngs of American citizen militias, armed to the teeth, began arriving
and squaring off with the government's domestic armed forces. <br />
<br />
The
tension was so high that a single shot, even fired accidentally, would
have set off a firefight locally and a nationwide rebellion. I don't
think the public yet understands just how close we came to yet another
war of revolution in America during those tense days in Nevada. <br />
<br />
Look,
the American people are, like that humming bow string I mentioned
above, strung about as tight as they have ever been. It won't take much
for then to utter an oath, grab their semi-automatic rifle, all the
ammo they can carry, and head for the swamps and woods and form up into
organized resistance. Many groups of citizens have already
"formed-up." They are simply awaiting orders from headquarters. <b><i>(And NO, I don't know who, what, and where headquarters is. That is by design, I feel sure.)</i></b><br />
<br />
At
the moment, America resembles that duck sitting placidly on the waters
of the old mill trace. On the surface that duck is quiet, serene,
subdued -- while beneath the surface, the duck is paddling like hell. <br />
<br />
The
Mainstream Media is deliberately NOT covering the most important story
on the planet today. Why? Because they are owned and controlled -- lock
stock, and ink barrel -- by the Marxist tyrants of the Obama Regime.
They are the willful ally of the Marxist government in the US and they
volunteer their propaganda efforts in support of the communist efforts
to destroy America. <br />
<br />
<b><i>"It’s this bias that President Obama
has come to depend on to advance his radical agenda. With the help of a
very eager and compliant press willing to do their bidding, the White
House controls talking points, advances their left wing agenda, and
molds public opinion through propaganda disguised as news."</i></b> -- <b>SOURCE: </b> <a href="https://stopthepropaganda.com/?utm_source=CNS&utm_medium=slideout&utm_campaign=stopthepropaganda">https://stopthepropaganda.com/?utm_source=CNS&utm_medium=slideout&utm_campaign=stopthepropaganda</a><br />
<br />
You
would think, the government would allow for a cooling off period before
they tried another hostile takeover of private property. You WOULD
think that -- <b><i>and you would be wrong.</i></b><br />
<br />
Consider the following: <b><i>"Texas
officials are raising alarm that the Bureau of Land Management, on the
heels of its dust-up with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, might be eyeing a
massive land grab in northern Texas.</i></b><br />
~~~~~~~~~~~<br />
<b><i>At
issue are thousands of acres of land on the Texas side of the Red
River, along the border between Texas and Oklahoma. Officials recently
have raised concern that the BLM might be looking at claiming 90,000
acres of land as part of the public domain.</i></b><br />
~~~~~~~~~~~<br />
<b><i>BLM
said it is merely in the “initial stages of developing options for
management of public lands,” as part of a “transparent process with
several opportunities for public input.” </i></b>--<b> SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/22/republicans-warn-blm-eyeing-land-grab-along-texas-oklahoma-border/">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/22/republicans-warn-blm-eyeing-land-grab-along-texas-oklahoma-border/</a><br />
<br />
Does
Washington REALLY want to MESS with Texas? Of all the bone-headed
decisions to come out of Washington the last five years THIS one has to
rank right up there at the top. <br />
<br />
Look. Texas does not NEED the
US to survive. That state is self-sufficient. The fact is, they are
doing the US a favor by remaining in the union. <br />
<br />
And lest we forget,<b><i> Texans WILL fight, no matter the odds.</i></b> If BLM sends an armed force into the Red River area, you can bet they will be met with armed resistance. <br />
<br />
Oh,
and just a few steps north lies Oklahoma with some 50,000 militia
members who love freedom. And though those "Sooners" happily pick at
their southern neighbors, they will rush to their side immediately
should they be needed.<br />
<br />
More and more we are seeing the Gadsden flag being displayed, in all its glory, on <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGnKho4Zexr-p-A1AGxRkJ2Y-uecwED7Hc1AoEGnU4bOQ-iMuUqDjo2nnODBxcZL3moPQIs_jRwcXfyYkZxiRvCaEAIV2EEnbA3kn9D3sTrHWMtm6Cg6w3EzS7VYYfYiYE5yYpHplCtqg/s1600/Gadsden+Flag+%23+1.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGnKho4Zexr-p-A1AGxRkJ2Y-uecwED7Hc1AoEGnU4bOQ-iMuUqDjo2nnODBxcZL3moPQIs_jRwcXfyYkZxiRvCaEAIV2EEnbA3kn9D3sTrHWMtm6Cg6w3EzS7VYYfYiYE5yYpHplCtqg/s1600/Gadsden+Flag+%23+1.jpeg" height="192" width="320" /></a>more and more homes around America. You know, the <b>"Don't Tread On Me" </b>flag."<br />
<br />
The
Gadsden flag is an historical American flag with a yellow field
depicting a rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. It was created by
Christopher Gadsden. Gadsden was named the Lt. Governor of South
Carolina in 1778. <br />
<br />
Gadsden was the principal leader of the South Carolina Patriot movement in the American Revolution. <b><i>"Gadsden
was an American patriot if ever there was one. He led Sons of Liberty
in South Carolina starting in 1765, and was later made a colonel in the
Continental Army. In 1775 he was in Philadelphia representing his home
state in the Continental Congress."</i></b> -- <b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.gadsden.info/Christopher.html">http://www.gadsden.info/Christopher.html </a><br />
<br />
<i>(As
South Carolina is my native state, I want to be sure my fellow
"Sandlappers" get the credit due them for their efforts at securing
freedom for America <b>then and now</b>.) </i><br />
<br />
You can feel it in
the air. Americans sense a coming fight, an internal struggle to
restore the America our Forefathers left in our keeping. Many are just
coming to understand the gravity of the mistake voters made in 2008 and
again in 2012. It has nearly destroyed the country and wreaked havoc
around the globe. <br />
<br />
<b><i>But, the federal government, through
their mindless, power-hungry antics, may be opening a doorway through
which freedom loving Americans will be able to retake that which is
rightfully theirs/ours and restore the republic to its constitutional
status</i></b>. <br />
<br />
Just remember the duck mentioned above. We may
appear placid and serene, but just beneath the surface we're working
like heck to save our country.<br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Let me be clear at the outset
of this commentary. I am not making an
attempt to impress you with my piety.
Heck, I’m just another old Pharisee trying to make my way through my remaining
days on this confused, baffling, wondrous, puzzling, and often enigmatic little
mud ball floating in third place from the sun. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I’m as confused as the next
guy, but then, occasionally, there’s a spark somewhere deep down in that place
that passes for my mind. It’s an idea
that I feel compelled to pass along to my companions on this brief journey we
call life. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">There’s nothing stellar or
exceptional about it. It’s just an idea, a passing thought, that MIGHT be
useful to someone. </span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The following commentary is a
product of one of those sparks – <b><i>or – misfires.</i></b> You be the judge. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1FjCnbSdP49I-ywNf0ee8jTPDEm1wX8GA4Nfc2prma2LxopHvprAkr24xRo6BgoB9dzMWFGMzNJOdaiDQEFEtskyVNd7B8PTdwIePOBKhjKJlYWcq0D5RMPNkubWl6J2UZFpfAcQDZUo/s1600/Earth+Our+Home+Not+Our+God.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1FjCnbSdP49I-ywNf0ee8jTPDEm1wX8GA4Nfc2prma2LxopHvprAkr24xRo6BgoB9dzMWFGMzNJOdaiDQEFEtskyVNd7B8PTdwIePOBKhjKJlYWcq0D5RMPNkubWl6J2UZFpfAcQDZUo/s1600/Earth+Our+Home+Not+Our+God.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">JDL </span></span></div>
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find it more than a little interesting that within 48 hours we are
celebrating the high holy days of two of the world's largest and oldest
religions: <b>Christianity and (the oldest) Paganism.</b><br />
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<br />
Today,
masses of human beings around the globe will celebrate the worship of
the earth ... not God ... not the creator -- <b><u><i>but the creation. </i></u></b><br />
<br />
Rocks
will be worshiped, rivers will be worshiped, trees will be worshiped,
the sun will be worshiped, fish, snails, spiders, and all sorts of
creeping things will be worshiped today. <br />
<br />
Grown-up, adult, men
and women will bow down to "THINGS," to idols, in fealty to a god of
their own creation. They will offer their lives in service to, well,
NOTHING. And these are grown-up people, adults, human beings you would
think would have the intelligence to know better. But you would be
mistaken. <br />
<br />
Even worse, there will millions among the Pagans who worship the earth, or Gaia <i>(goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology)</i>, who claim to be Christians. Please notice: I said "CLAIM" to be Christians. <br />
<br />
Let me be as clear as I possible can be here: You cannot be a Christian and worship Gaia <i>(by celebrating Earth Day</i>) at the same time ... period. It is impossible. <br />
<br />
Man cannot serve two masters. <b><i>"No
one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the
other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other." </i></b> -- SOURCE: Matthew 6:24 --The New Testament <br />
<br />
Then
for those of you who are the cafeteria type Christians who pick and
choose the parts of the Christian faith you like and just ignore the
parts you dislike, please note that you are in violation of the Ten
Commandments. In fact, you are violating the very first commandment:<br />
<b><i> "And God spake all these words, saying,<br /><br />2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.<br /><br />3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.<br /><br />4
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any
thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that
is in the water under the earth."</i></b> Exodus 20: 2 - 4 The Old Testament <br />
<br />
You
may find some way to justify your Pagan faith in some way that will
settle your conscience, but, as a Christian (at least you claim to be)
you are spitting in the face of God with your worship of that which He
created. <br />
<br />
It is not unusual to see mainline Christian churches
taking part in Earth Day celebrations across America. They have become a
stench in the nostrils of the Almighty and are become apostate -- no
longer faithful to Providence. <br />
<br />
One must wonder if that explains
the great falling away of celebrants from the mainline denominations
today. Their numbers are dwindling as the evangelicals numbers are
climbing. As I said, one must wonder. <br />
<br />
Look. I'm not a
preacher, a pastor, an evangelist, a prophet, or anything remotely
approaching that -- BUT -- I have eyes to see and ears to hear and I use
them and I reason. <br />
<br />
Reason! Ah! There lies the rub! <br />
<br />
See.
I observe that which takes place around me. I listen to that which
goes on around me and then I allow my brain to do its God-given task of
reasoning -- and discerning. <br />
<br />
Discerning is another of those
special gifts that, unfortunately, seems to be reserved for only a few
human beings on earth at any given time. <br />
<br />
A person with
discernment is blessed with having or revealing keen insight and good
judgment. Usually they are unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic,
and usually they are able to make, or detect, effects of great subtlety,
meaning they are quite sensitive. <br />
<br />
You can quickly see the truth in my statement that there are few of these people around today. <br />
<br />
When
I see the utter madness that reigns on Earth Day around the globe, it
is extraordinarily easy to understand how evil can so easily warp the
minds, the hearts, and, yes -- the soul of man. For understand, gentle
reader, participants in this Pagan worship, this Pagan ritual, endanger
their very soul. <b><i>Those who bow down to this false god -- Gaia, are committing blasphemy against God. </i></b><br />
<br />
If
you, dear reader, are among those committed to the celebration of the
Pagan rite of worshiping the earth and the so-called earth mother,
Gaia, then you are standing at a precarious point in your life. By
your life, I mean not just your life span on this planet, but your life
from the moment that eternal spark we call the soul was ignited by God
until, well, forever. <br />
<br />
See, I am convinced there is much more
to life than our brief time here on earth. A soul, like energy, can be
created, and even changed, but it cannot be destroyed. So after seventy
or eighty years here, I believe it moves on to so much more. <br />
<br />
It
seems to me it would behoove us all to pay more attention to the way we
use our limited time on planet earth and avoid such stupid, idiotic,
blasphemous, apostate activities as the Pagan worship of a non-entity
represented by a tree, a rock, a lizard, a snail, or whatever. <br />
<br />
One
of the laws of nature is this: For every action, there is an equal,
and opposite, reaction. The point is: There will be retribution --
divine retribution. <br />
<br />
As I observe the mindless celebrations on
Earth Day I am reminded of the Israelites making -- and then worshiping
-- a golden calf while Moses was up on the mountain receiving the Ten
Commandments from God. <br />
<br />
To be sure, the Israelites thought their Pagan festival was, well, <b><i>logical</i></b>,
just as we excuse our own foray into Paganism today. It cost them ...
dearly. Three thousand men were killed in a single day and that entire
generation of Israelites were barred from ever entering the Promised
Land. They were forced to wander in the desert until all had died.
Their children then claimed the prize.<br />
<br />
<b><i><u>Earth Day is an abomination. It is disgusting and abhorrent. </u></i><i> America and, indeed, the world will pay for this affront to the Divine. </i></b><br />
<br />
The choice for Christians, dear reader, is clear. No one, <i><b>NO ONE</b>,</i> can serve two masters. <br />
<br />
Consider the clear and concise words of Joshua echoing down the ages: <b><i>"Choose ye this day whom ye will serve. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."</i></b> -- <b>SOURCE:</b> Joshua 24:15 -- The Old Testament<br />
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Earth Day is the catalyst for decisive action on all our parts, <b><i>especially those who claim to be Christians. </i></b><br />
<br />
Today
we must make a choice between eternal separation from God or disavowing
all association with the evil entity sponsoring Earth Day. <br />
<br />
So, there it is: My opinion, my view, on Earth Day and Christians participating in it's festivities. Simply put: <b><i><u>True Christians don't participate in Earth Day. </u></i></b><br />
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<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU2NDeyZAsWfx35GVuaETxq-W1oRfmzA9cUjKwsEIeGthc6pzxhtuZr6NZh07Cr7NkcL18QCPMC5ORa5oKnZSguuY9pT7MHnyOVYHVax0GODtcTr9YIfhxGf9c7EwyTVMJ_FijMBgo_88/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU2NDeyZAsWfx35GVuaETxq-W1oRfmzA9cUjKwsEIeGthc6pzxhtuZr6NZh07Cr7NkcL18QCPMC5ORa5oKnZSguuY9pT7MHnyOVYHVax0GODtcTr9YIfhxGf9c7EwyTVMJ_FijMBgo_88/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>I studiously watched Saddam Hussein's hanging ... <b><i>four times!</i></b> <i>(The
tape made it to the Internet almost immediately due to a cell phone
which had been smuggled into the room where the hanging took place. At
least, that was the pubic explanation for how it happened.) </i><br />
<br />
<b><i>"The
last legal public hanging in America took place in 1936 in Owensboro,
Kentucky. The “event” attracted 20,000 people and turned into such a
sickening spectacle that many credit it with ending the practice in the
U.S." </i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/27/413611/north-carolina-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-bringing-back-public-hangings-starting-with-abortion-providers/">http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/27/413611/north-carolina-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-bringing-back-public-hangings-starting-with-abortion-providers/</a><br />
<br />
I
must tell you that I admire the state of Texas for continuing to
exercise the death penalty just as prescribed by that state's law. The
recidivism rate, at least for the convicted/executed prisoner is
absolutely -- <b><u><i>ZERO!</i></u></b><br />
<br />
Here in North
Carolina we have had over the past two decades, at least, a high influx
of liberals from out of state who go weak in the knees when they come
face to face with the fact that Tar Heels really DO support the death
penalty. As a result there has been a steady attack on our judicial
system in a leftist effort to end capital punishment in North Carolina.
<br />
<br />
We've had moratoriums on executions. We've had the
Racial Justice Act, which was mercifully repealed by the Republican
Legislature as one of their first acts after taking over the NC State
legislature.<br />
<br />
Still, cases begun under the old RJA are still winding their way through the high court system in the state. <br />
<br />
Eventually the cases will all be heard and verdicts rendered and we can move on, one way or the other. <br />
<br />
But there are some Tar Heels who'd like to see justice administered quickly, efficiently -- and in public. <br />
<br />
<b>In other words -- bring back public hangings.</b> <br />
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<br />
Look. I have no problem with a permanent gallows erected on the court house grounds of every court house across the state.<br />
<br />
Ghoulish, right? Nah! <i> <b>Just practical. </b></i><br />
<br />
Back in 2012 NC House Republican <i>(You just KNEW it would be a Republican, didn't you?)</i> Rep. Larry Pittman, expressed his views in an email sent to every member of the NC General Assembly. <br />
<br />
In his e-mail Rep. Pittman said: <b><i>“We
need to make the death penalty a real deterrent again by actually
carrying it out. Every appeal that can be made should have to be made at
one time, not in a serial manner,”</i></b> Pittman wrote in the email. <b><i>“If
murderers (and I would include abortionists, rapists, and kidnapers, as
well) are actually executed, it will at least have the deterrent effect
upon them. For my money, we should go back to public hangings, which
would be more of a deterrent to others, as well.”</i> -- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/27/413611/north-carolina-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-bringing-back-public-hangings-starting-with-abortion-providers/">http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/27/413611/north-carolina-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-bringing-back-public-hangings-starting-with-abortion-providers/</a><br />
<br />
<b><i>"
... last year Republicans in South Carolina, Nebraska, and Iowa pushed
legislation that would essentially legalize the murder of abortion
providers. Such radical sentiments have been echoed by prominent
conservatives like Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), who said during his 2004
campaign, “I favor the death penalty for abortionists.”</i></b> <b>--- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/27/413611/north-carolina-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-bringing-back-public-hangings-starting-with-abortion-providers/">http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/27/413611/north-carolina-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-bringing-back-public-hangings-starting-with-abortion-providers/</a><br />
<br />
<b><i>According
to Zachary R. Shemtob, assistant professor of criminal justice at
Connecticut State University, and David Lat, a former federal
prosecutor, "There is a dramatic difference between reading or hearing
of such an event and observing it through image and sound. (This is
obvious to those who saw the footage of Saddam Hussein’s hanging in 2006
or the death of Neda Agha-Soltan during the protests in Iran in 2009.)
We are not calling for opening executions completely to the public —
conducting them before a live crowd — but rather for broadcasting them
live or recording them for future release, on the Web or TV."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4e4_1312269466#1GyuTP3SmrUjBAry.99">http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4e4_1312269466#1GyuTP3SmrUjBAry.99</a><br />
<br />
There is some discussion that pubic executions would turn the public against the death penalty. I happen <b><i>NOT</i></b>
to think so. In fact, once the pubic is reminded of the heinous crime
that brought the convict to the death chamber, I believe watching the
perpetrator receive his/her just deserts would bring some closure and
some finality to the chain of events initiated by the original crime.
It might also result in more respect for the law and restore, at least
to some degree, <b><i>people's faith in the system. </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>"There
have been a total of 1320 executions from January 1977 to the end of
2012. Lethal injection is now almost universal in the USA, being either
the sole method or an option in all of the states that retain the death
penalty. Electrocution, hanging, shooting and the gas chamber are still
legal alternatives in some states although very rarely used. There was
one electrocution in 2010 and one shooting and another electrocution in
2013, in all cases the inmate elected this method. The majority of
executions take place in the southern states, 930 out of 1136 to the end
of 2008, with Texas having carried out 422."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/thoughtsUS.html">http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/thoughtsUS.html</a><br />
<br />
OK. Do we southerners have a different take on the value of human life than other Americans? I don't <b><i>THINK</i></b> so. See, we equate a human life for/with a human life. <b><u><i> No life is more valuable than another and no life is less valuable than another</i></u></b>. Stated frankly, and flatly, -- <b><i><u>southerners
feel that of you take a human life, for any reason other than self
defense or the defense of others, you forfeit your own life.</u></i></b>
It's very simple and very straight forward. So far as we are concerned
you are a dead man walking from the very moment of the murder. <b><i>So, to us, an execution is no big deal. It just seals the deal with southern society.</i></b><br />
<br />
With
crime rates spiraling upwards in our cities and even out in the rural
parts of America, it sometimes seems we are producing, and raising,
young ANIMALS rather than young PEOPLE. Since nothing much seems to
make an impression on theses young psychopaths maybe seeing a few of
their friends and associates tried, convicted, and hanged -- <b><i>right in front of them</i></b>, might have <b><i>SOME</i></b> effect. <br />
<br />
It's worth a try.<br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPy1KlOsBWG1Uwo1Qlc9WAj7BnrHo5-DPE0Ht6tJatsVLIV1TUOjjDcAEjHZhrtIx8wRqA4Q5uzVJmGPdb48vvqAqZSxD7JPxS_V0qEoQ7IHUDUIlwf1mr4N4rWNDQz6fkSMYBPlWYpx8/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPy1KlOsBWG1Uwo1Qlc9WAj7BnrHo5-DPE0Ht6tJatsVLIV1TUOjjDcAEjHZhrtIx8wRqA4Q5uzVJmGPdb48vvqAqZSxD7JPxS_V0qEoQ7IHUDUIlwf1mr4N4rWNDQz6fkSMYBPlWYpx8/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>An
old admonition continues to tug at my consciousness. Its cautionary
advice about something imminently dangerous approaching — just over the
horizon — is more than a little compelling. You know — the admonishment
that warns:<b><i> “Eat, drink, and make merry, for tomorrow we die!” </i></b>(You may recall several different versions found in the Bible.)<br />
<br />
We are headed as straight to a third world war as a Martin flies to its gourd.<br />
<br />
That fact, and I do believe it is a fact, is an unwelcome one. Nevertheless, tis true. <br />
<br />
Look,
dear reader, our President is a humiliation to, not just the US, but to
the free world! He has proven to be a weakling, a pushover, a wimp, an
international embarrassment. <b><i>And he is going to start a world war. </i></b><br />
<br />
The
folks in Eastern Europe know it. The folks in Western Europe know it,
the folks in Israel know it, heck, the entire Middle East knows it! <br />
<br />
The
Ukraine is gone -- at least the eastern region and, most likely, the
entire country. Just as the Crimea fell to Russian might, so will the
Ukraine. It has already begun. Next up -- the Baltic States Estonia,
Latvia, and Lithuania. <br />
<br />
Look. A complete blithering idiot can
deduce that Czar Putin is recreating the old Soviet Union -- right
before our eyes -- while our boy/man "fearless leader" sits in the Oval
Office sucking his thumb.<br />
<br />
I must tell you, it has been an
extremely long time since I have been as humiliated by a president as I
am today with Obama. Honestly, I didn't think it could ever get as bad
as it did with Jimmy Carter, but, gentle reader, Obama makes Carter
look like a LION! <br />
<br />
History teaches that every time a president
cowers in the White House, we end up at war somewhere, with someone.
Remember how the White House declared we would not get involved in what
turned out to be World War One? Remember how the White House promised
we would not become involved in World War Two? Uh-huh. <i>Get the picture?</i><br />
<br />
So here we are, staring down the barrel of World War Three, and the White House is doing everything it can to avoid involvement.<br />
<br />
Every
have a boil on your body? Remember the continual pain from that boil?
What to do? Lance it. The instant the blade touches the boil the pain
is excruciating. The next instant, there is copious relief as the
pressure is relieved and the corruption is drained.<br />
<br />
<b><i>Putin is that boil on the derriere of the free world today. </i></b> He needs to be lanced. But the man who holds the scalpel is no where to be found. It is shameful. <br />
<br />
To
our friends in Europe we'd like to remind you that THIS is why so many
of us conservatives in the US voted against Obama. We warned of his
empty suit, of his inexperience, of his Marxist agenda. We would have
warned of his cowardice had we known at the time. <br />
<br />
But, as I recall, <b><i>much of Europe supported Obama for the US Presidency.</i></b><br />
<br />
Some of you learned of your folly early on as evidenced by the following: <br />
<b><i>“So
Europe got the American president it wanted – the one who would present
no threat to its own delusions. The United States is now officially one
of us: an Old World country complete with class hatred, ethnic
Balkanization, bourgeois guilt and a paternalist ruling elite. And it is
locked into the same death spiral of high public spending and
self-defeating wealth redistribution as we are. Welcome to the future,
and the beginning of what may turn out to be the terminal decline of the
West.”</i></b> … Janet Daley, The Telegraph: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9668774/America-has-become-an-Old-World-country.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9668774/America-has-become-an-Old-World-country.html </a><br />
<br />
Ms. Daley figured it out. <br />
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I say ALL this to say simply this: <b><i>Europe, you're on your own!</i></b> <b><i>The
hungry Russian bear is at your door -- and there is no one, no big
brother across the Atlantic, to come to your rescue -- again! </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>Oh. Don't misunderstand, Europe. We're here, its just that have no leader -- and we won't have for at least ten more years! </i></b><br />
<br />
You have to understand Mr. Obama. See, he's a bully -- <b><i>in the classic sense.</i></b> If you allow him, he will run roughshod right over the top of you. However, <b><i>if you stand up to him, he wilts much like a shrinking violet.</i></b> <b><i>THAT
is what Czar Putin has discovered about Obama -- and that's what the
Russians are exploiting. And it's working brilliantly.</i></b><br />
<br />
The
US needs to put that missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic --
for starters. Put some American boots on the ground in the Baltic
States. I don't mean troops to act as a speed bump, I mean combat
tested, hardened, veterans along with the artillery and tank killing
munitions and whatever else it will take to make a heck of a lot of
noise and do a tremendous amount of damage should the Russkies let slip
the dogs of war in the Baltic States. <br />
<br />
Heck,
the Brits are already bolstering their forces there now. Other NATO
countries will follow suit, but, let's face it, the backbone of NATO is
the US. Unfortunately, Precious Flower, Obama, is leading from behind <b><i>(as far behind as he can manage)</i></b> once again. <br />
<br />
It is depressing as heck to watch the people of that region cast beneath the shadow of the Russian bear.<br />
<br />
<b><i>"Fifteen
independent countries, including Russia, emerged from the Soviet
Union's disintegration. Six of them—Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the
three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—are in Europe, and
all of them have a complicated relationship with modern Russia. Seven
other countries once belonged to the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet Union's
military alliance in Eastern Europe. With the Cold War's end, none of
them had faced the threat of military intervention by the communist
superpower's successor state—until now.</i></b>" <b>-- SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/russias-seizure-of-crimea-is-making-former-soviet-states-nervous/284156/">http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/russias-seizure-of-crimea-is-making-former-soviet-states-nervous/284156/</a><br />
<br />
Can there be any question that Putin will make a grab for all those former members of the Warsaw Pact? <br />
<br />
Putin must be stopped. Words won't do it. It is obvious he doesn't respect the US. I propose we make him FEAR the US. <b><i>STOP TALKING TO HIM ... PERIOD! </i></b>
Put our SOG troops to use. Turn them loose on Putin's forces within
Ukraine and where ever else they may have stepped over their border.
Aggravate the living daylights out of them. Get their attention. Put
them on the defensive. But <b><i>DON'T TALK TO THEM.</i></b> <b><i>Keep 'em guessing. </i></b><br />
<br />
The
experts at all this are less than an hour from where I sit as I write.
They're the best in the world. If ANYONE can put fear into the hearts
of the Russkies, these guys can do it. <br />
<br />
We have all those drones
with missiles aboard. Surely they are not ALL occupied with searching
out and killing terrorists. Why not begin knocking out bridges all the
way from Estonia south at least to the Moldavia/Romania border. <br />
<br />
<b><i>Of course, aircraft don't use bridges, but tanks do -- and the Russkies love their tanks.</i></b><br />
<br />
The
point is the US should at the very least, set Putin's forces back on
their heels a bit. As it is, they have an open field and nothing stands
between them and the end zone.<br />
<br />
That's wrong -- on so many levels. <br />
<br />
Look, I don't want war, either. <b><i>But the nub of it is -- we're going to have a war whether we want it or not.</i></b> Plus -- the plain truth is that <b><i>when Americans and Russians begin exchanging gunfire it will instantly become a world war. </i></b><br />
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As
we said above, the Ukraine is effectively gone. The moment Russian
forces set foot in the Baltic States they will face resistance from NATO
troops. <b><i><u>The US will be committed</u></i></b> -- as an attack on ANY NATO member is considered an attack upon all NATO members. <br />
<br />
<b>THIS</b> is what timidity in a US leader will bring. <b><u><i>War.</i></u></b><br />
<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhML9o1v_UTgDt0BETZ8NG97odJGP0A6B1ny55meg_9xCM31vcpY2G2fGcNi6aPfemARz3DXLUM6bEcd0l5XCKYPLxbGKDH50FQXyTGGjEHDTxnJyhqM8KkqHQt72w0EiB33X5sL7qUqlQ/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhML9o1v_UTgDt0BETZ8NG97odJGP0A6B1ny55meg_9xCM31vcpY2G2fGcNi6aPfemARz3DXLUM6bEcd0l5XCKYPLxbGKDH50FQXyTGGjEHDTxnJyhqM8KkqHQt72w0EiB33X5sL7qUqlQ/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>Allow
me to be as clear as possible right here at the beginning of this
commentary. I don't like Obamacare at all, not in the slightest, in any
way -- shape or form. Period! Got it? <br />
<br />
<b><i>Obamacare is a Marxist/socialist/statist policy</i><i><u> and I hate it. </u></i></b><br />
<br />
Vladimir Lenin, himself, said: <b><i>"Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State." </i></b><br />
<br />
Ole
Vlad knew exactly what he was talking about. Obamacare warms the
cockles of the hearts of all the Marxists in the Democratic Party and
believe me, there are a host of them! <br />
<br />
There is NOTHING good
about Obamacare. It is a cancerous assault on the freedom of Americans
and it needs to be gone and, frankly, all those who supported it and
voted it through the Congress need to be gone along with it. <br />
<br />
Here
in North Carolina, we're doing our dead level best to rid ourselves of
every Democrat who supported Obamacare and/or Obama. At the moment, our
chances for success look very promising. <br />
<br />
<b><i>" ObamaCare is a
curse! Take your lives and your homes back. Do it now, before it is to
late. Take action now. Save yourselves, and your loved ones. Get
unstuck, be informed, get peace of mind, stop the depression and
anxiety, take charge of your lives for once. Do it now!</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE: </b><a href="http://www.eminentculture.com/obamacare-blessing-curse/"> http://www.eminentculture.com/obamacare-blessing-curse/ </a><br />
<br />
Look.
Obamacare has not even begun to affect your life yet. The law is so
large, so intrusive in your private life that you are just not going to
believe the depth of government meddling that attends Obamacare. It has
yet begun -- but it's coming, I assure you.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVmpZIrGi6B8zG02QwfTkiB8JTsczL7sm6Ik5udmVab23D6vuYF3BK6zjadUHhR4J1wEyqPFxCETcMGBePuhyphenhyphenxqrzkLVf-v0AiX_kBkLAV3tBDCBrGvbAgJH_D9Yj_6v-whS419-vAmX4/s1600/BOEHNER+WEEPS+%23+1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVmpZIrGi6B8zG02QwfTkiB8JTsczL7sm6Ik5udmVab23D6vuYF3BK6zjadUHhR4J1wEyqPFxCETcMGBePuhyphenhyphenxqrzkLVf-v0AiX_kBkLAV3tBDCBrGvbAgJH_D9Yj_6v-whS419-vAmX4/s1600/BOEHNER+WEEPS+%23+1.jpg" height="320" width="306" /></a><br />
<b><i>And
now the GOP is backing away from a total repeal of Obamacare.
Especially the establishment Republicans. Now their battle cry is
"Repeal and Replace!" </i></b> <br />
<br />
WHAT? Repeal and Replace? <b><i>Are they completely nuts!? </i></b><br />
<br />
Recently, Rush Limbaugh said: <b><i>"The
Republican establishment obviously has a campaign game plan involving
Obamacare, and it does not include repealing it, folks. The Republican
establishment apparently doesn't want to campaign on repealing it. They
want to campaign on fixing it."</i></b> --<b> SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/03/14/the_gop_establishment_wants_to_run_on_fixing_not_repealing_obamacare">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/03/14/the_gop_establishment_wants_to_run_on_fixing_not_repealing_obamacare</a><br />
<br />
The
establishment Republicans are trying their dead level best to turn the
November election over to the Democrats. I have concluded that is what
all the <b><i>"fix"</i></b> Obamacare Bovine Scatology coming from the GOP is all about. <b><u> I have come to believe the establishment Republicans do not want to win in November. </u></b><br />
<br />
Two
things: If the GOP wins in November that will mean they'll have to get
off their collective derrieres and actually DO something. I think they
are loathe to do that. <br />
<br />
And two: The democrats are just waiting
for a chance to replace Obamacare with another of their Marxocratic
socialized medicine schemes. <b><i>It's called a single payer plan. </i></b><br />
To see just how bad a single payer type of healthcare system really is, just check out the British system. It's bad, folks, <b><i>REALLY</i></b>
bad. There were published report a few months ago of British citizens
having to resort to extracting their own teeth with pliers due to such
long waits for dental care. <br />
<br />
Look. The Democrats are counting on Republicans wimping out. <b><i>By offering to "fix" Obamacare, or repeal and replace Obamacare, the GOP is playing right into the Democrat's hands. </i></b><br />
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See,
the Democrats believe that they will not be beaten so severely about
the head and shoulders over their support of Obamacare <b><i>IF</i></b> they offer to <b><i>"fix" </i></b>it. That's what they are doing. That's the ongoing campaign. <b><i>And
the Republicans are giving them aid and comfort every time they mention
their desire to fix Obamacare, too. The GOP's actions here are what I
like to call: </i><i><u>DUMB!</u></i></b><br />
<br />
I cannot see that
there is any argument against my prognostication that the Republican
Party is headed for extinction. Just observe their senseless
machinations -- not just on Obamacare but on so much else. <b><i> Is the GOP leadership brain dead? </i></b><br />
<br />
Maybe
after another defeat at the polls in November the real conservative
republicans will screw up enough courage to leave the GOP and begin
another completely separate conservative party that will have as its
goal saving America and returning her to the constitutional
representative republic the Founding Fathers designed.<br />
<br />
I am quickly coming to believe it is the only chance America has of survival. <br />
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J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigseord5pWOaKIttgqsmlyRqFvBZuQemVC_iejH1CmrBnH-i_teWCgKJa50YTUXUzvSjEps122janm7PQ3A29qwJS8_VlwQ7W7IaKLZbaLEDxzWolWOOQdSWd6w324pBBG0foMIPW_JY0/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigseord5pWOaKIttgqsmlyRqFvBZuQemVC_iejH1CmrBnH-i_teWCgKJa50YTUXUzvSjEps122janm7PQ3A29qwJS8_VlwQ7W7IaKLZbaLEDxzWolWOOQdSWd6w324pBBG0foMIPW_JY0/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>How
is it possible for a great American political party to be so out of
touch with its constituents, so completely tone deaf to their wants and
desires, so separated from the reality of the world around them? <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84Mznm4YlnPOy_w5I4NfGVTr7kEFL0fho_5TVYSN83XrHL9ByenzfM-Ma0wU9qMCh2_cnlgNF17qM_y7RjWejSwsYR6IqKbmhgrG_jgiAQltc4L-Z4WzkWTyw7Mn7gXlytUk8r8HA4Ao/s1600/ELEPHANT+DEAD+--+GOP.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84Mznm4YlnPOy_w5I4NfGVTr7kEFL0fho_5TVYSN83XrHL9ByenzfM-Ma0wU9qMCh2_cnlgNF17qM_y7RjWejSwsYR6IqKbmhgrG_jgiAQltc4L-Z4WzkWTyw7Mn7gXlytUk8r8HA4Ao/s1600/ELEPHANT+DEAD+--+GOP.jpg" height="284" width="320" /></a><br />
With
citizens looped together into one vast globe encircling network of
information and communication, how is it possible for the GOP to be so
ill informed? <br />
<br />
<b><i>The Republicans are, today, set to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory -- again. </i></b><br />
<br />
From where I sit, I can <b><i>feel</i></b> victory slipping away in the election scheduled for this coming November. <b><i>A
loss of the 2016 presidential election is already a given. We WILL
have another democrat for President beginning January 20th, 2017. </i></b><br />
<br />
How is this possible? Americans, at least those who are politically aware, understand that America wants to be -- <b><i>YEARNS</i></b> to be -- rescued from the Marxist agenda being so forcefully pushed through Congress by our Marxist President and <b><i>a Democratic Party that is indistinguishable from the Communist Party. </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>The
Communist Party has announced publicly that they will be throwing their
considerable assistance to the Democratic Party over the next several
months to aid the Democrats in maintaining their hold on the US Senate
in November. Does that not tell you where the sympathies of the
Democratic Party lies? Of course it does! </i></b><br />
<br />
Democrats are, in fact, Communists. <b><i>If
you are a registered Democrat and you don't hold with the Communist
agenda, the Communist Manifesto, then you'd better get thee hence,
because you are consorting with communists!</i></b><br />
<br />
The <b><i>sickening</i></b>
thing is this: The GOP has attempted, with great success so far, to
adopt the old Democratic Party platform. In doing so, they have managed
to set themselves on the same course toward communism as the Democrats
did, and they have managed to drive a wedge -- deeply -- between the
moderate, liberal, and conservative branches of the GOP. <b><i>The wounds from this gouging seem to be fatal. </i></b><br />
<br />
Let's face it , dear reader. <b><i>The Republican Party is as dead as a door-nail.</i></b>
Those twinges of life we detect from time to time are coming from the
conservatives in the Tea Party Movement who refuse to lie down and die.
In point of fact, <b><i>THEY </i></b>are the <b><i>ONLY</i></b> reason the Republican Party still draws a little breath today. <br />
<br />
<b><i>America desperately needs a conservative political party, and we need it yesterday. </i></b><br />
<br />
When I say <b>"Conservative"</b>
Party, I don't mean a conservative in the mold of Jeb Bush or George,
or even George H.W. Bush. They are are fine people, a lovely family,
but they a are liberals to moderates on their best days. <b>THEY ARE NOT CONSERVATIVES,</b> no matter what the hierarchy of the GOP would have you believe. <br />
<br />
The GOP is unsalvageable. <b><i> It cannot be saved.</i></b> <b><u>The establishment Republicans will not allow the party to be saved.</u></b> They don't want it saved because they either don't see a problem -- or -- <b><i><u>they like what they see. </u></i></b><br />
<br />
In
any event, the GOP is no place for conservative Americans.
Conservatives need their own political party, a viable political
entity. Conservatives will never get it from the GOP. Even now,
conservatives within the GOP must do battle with the Democrats AND the
Republicans. As a result, conservative initiatives are smothered to
death in both the US House and the US Senate and nothing of real value
to the country gets done. <br />
<br />
<b><i>GK Chesterton once said that only dead bodies go with the current. It takes live ones to swim against it.</i></b>
Many conservatives, like this scribe, have withdrawn from the GOP and
are now enjoying status as Independent voters. Many of us would gladly
align ourselves with a new and viable conservative party that would take
the battle to the Democrats -- and the Republicans -- while asking, and
giving, no quarter. <br />
<br />
NO wonder the story of the current GOP reads like a fairy tale. <br />
<br />
For
once upon a time in a kingdom far, far, away, there really was a
political party that was different from the Democratic Party. But in
order to curry favor with the Mainstream Media, and in order to be on
the "A" list, invited to the best cocktail and dinner parties in
Washington, they felt they had to lower their standards, compromise
their beliefs -- and -- for all intents and purposes, <b><i>sell-out their constituents.</i></b><br />
<br />
They did all of that. <br />
<br />
<b><i>It turned out to be a Faustian Deal. </i></b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhPzC00L3znr3mgG9h9rs1OneM3IcmEysit8fiD2VXdzLx3CynrkjmL54YQqrwXsNT1UhMvKZ45zFCwQD_CaUErtch5HIWUmN7Ztf6Jy3JYx8owgbBdRUU5-wqiKdr0lMYhhz0ggTZoE8/s1600/ELEPHANT+DEPRESSED.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhPzC00L3znr3mgG9h9rs1OneM3IcmEysit8fiD2VXdzLx3CynrkjmL54YQqrwXsNT1UhMvKZ45zFCwQD_CaUErtch5HIWUmN7Ztf6Jy3JYx8owgbBdRUU5-wqiKdr0lMYhhz0ggTZoE8/s1600/ELEPHANT+DEPRESSED.jpeg" /></a><br />
Like Faust, the Devil won't let the GOP out of its contract with him <i>(not that they're making any real effort at breaching that contract)</i> -- and the immediate consequence is -- <b><i>the death of the Republican Party.</i></b><br />
<br />
So.
We'll watch as conservatives fight like crazy to hold onto to whatever
gains have been made between now and November and pray, pray hard, that
the establishment "knot heads" at the helm of the GOP don't blow the
whole deal by November -- <b><i>as they are wont to do.</i></b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRV4Jq88jcXU-2_Ozsgzt30fFwBXDRy_oivzAzyzSB5CEj6CFULEGHsJq1ZUD55rhtzlXFZ4U5q0hRd9WwNYx2CG2bS5_S247dRyHobC1pvKk1Zl6uJ7ggNoTu5CmRAvOllrWLpSDsxaI/s1600/AAAAAAAAAAAA+--+J.+D.+Longstreet+headshot+--+SMALL+RIGHT.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRV4Jq88jcXU-2_Ozsgzt30fFwBXDRy_oivzAzyzSB5CEj6CFULEGHsJq1ZUD55rhtzlXFZ4U5q0hRd9WwNYx2CG2bS5_S247dRyHobC1pvKk1Zl6uJ7ggNoTu5CmRAvOllrWLpSDsxaI/s1600/AAAAAAAAAAAA+--+J.+D.+Longstreet+headshot+--+SMALL+RIGHT.jpg" /></a>I didn't set out to become a Christian Zionist, but apparently, I wound up as one.<br />
<br />
Christian
Zionism is the belief that Israel has a right to return and establish a
nation exactly where she has, and further, she has the right to
continue to exist there.<br />
<br />
There are multitudes of Christian
Zionist round the world and a throng of them exist in America,
especially within the evangelical churches.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXjC1fOtoRcK7oUQzEe7LBLC-k6RQSE4J3fAgNkvS7aYnP52y9Eq42t9GF9cmXl5xWxMZMDDmim5sWBO8uDpCKrK9nt0VpVIzfr3gjW7Z8WkA1_bh8OjJTVNw6ZX4RtsMD0B9IWH3kAoE/s1600/christian-zionism.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXjC1fOtoRcK7oUQzEe7LBLC-k6RQSE4J3fAgNkvS7aYnP52y9Eq42t9GF9cmXl5xWxMZMDDmim5sWBO8uDpCKrK9nt0VpVIzfr3gjW7Z8WkA1_bh8OjJTVNw6ZX4RtsMD0B9IWH3kAoE/s1600/christian-zionism.jpg" height="245" width="320" /></a><br />
I'm
not an evangelical, though raised as a youth within the evangelical
community. Like so many other things in my life I decided that
particular practice of my faith did not suit me. I found that I
preferred the liturgical type worship services and in my mid-twenties
became an active member of a liturgical church, one of the mainline
denominations in America, indeed, the world. <br />
<br />
However, within
the last quarter century that church has been sucked into the leftist
"social justice" (Marxist, Communist) philosophy and its reliance on the
scriptures alone for guidance and instruction on all things has been
supplanted by Marxist, statist theology.<br />
<br />
I left the church.<br />
<br />
I am a <b><i>"sola scriptura"</i></b>
type of fellow. I was not then, and am not now, about to compromise
and substitute my faith for the intellect of a group of egg-headed
elitists at the hierarchy of the church. <br />
<br />
As such, I believe that when God told Abraham, <b><i>“I
will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you and
in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”</i></b> (Genesis 12:3) <b>He meant it! </b><br />
<br />
If you have any doubt of the veracity of that statement, <i>from God Himself</i>, then I advise you to look at America today. We're in a rapid decline, in a mess in every way that matters. <br />
<br />
<b><i>It is my unwavering belief that as long as the Obama Regime is in power in America, America will continue to decline. </i></b><br />
<br />
The US President, B. Hussein Obama has proven time and again that he is no friend to Israel ... <i>at all. </i> The US is paying a price for his blasphemy. <br />
<br />
Now
here's the thing (as they say). When America suffers -- the whole of
the planet suffers. Just consider the wars and rumors of war all around
the globe today. Our long-time enemy, Russia, is all but thumbing its
nose in Obama's face, making a complete fool of our President and our,
oh, so dignified diplomats. <br />
<br />
Eastern Europe is aflame. Africa
is in a perpetual state of war. The Middle East has brother fighting
brother in numerous countries, and South America is tearing itself apart
over socialism/communism as civil war looms in several countries to our
south.<br />
<br />
Here in America, as I write this piece, armed American
citizens are gathering and facing off with armed government agents in a
dispute that has all the makings of a tipping point for all out
rebellion in our own country. <br />
<br />
The
very earth, itself, is revolting with earthquakes in diverse place.
The Americans who live along America's "left" (west) coast, the most
liberal part of America, must feel much as the citizen's of ancient
Pompeii felt as they awaited their death and destruction dealt out by
"natural" forces. Its not even a question of "if" but of "when."<br />
<br />
Do
I consider this pay back? Not really. This is just, in my
assessment, merely the beginning of curses we must endure as a result
of our own hard-headed, stubborn belief that we know better how to run
things on this little mud ball floating in space. We've decided we can
ignore history including the scriptures, and do things our way, because
all that old history stuff doesn't mean squat any more. <br />
<br />
Here,
in America, we've decided we can simply ignore that old constitution
which was, after all, written by old, rich, white guys. Somehow, we
neglect to remember that those old, rich, white guys knew exactly what
they were doing -- and -- had the common sense to ask for God's guidance
in formulating that document. They even left the building of meeting ,
walked down the street to a church, en mass, and there pled for
guidance from the Almighty. <br />
<br />
<b><i>Honestly, can you see the American leadership doing that today?</i></b><br />
<br />
Scripture, itself sums up today's American leadership nicely: <b><i>
"Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the
incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man ..." </i></b> Romans 1:23-24.<br />
<br />
The
point of my rambling here is to point out just how far removed we, as a
people, are from our ancestors who began this grand experiment called
America. <br />
<br />
Look. Distancing ourselves from the Holy Scriptures has certainly NOT served this nation well. <br />
<br />
As
evidence, all one has to do, really, to understand the reason there
will be no lasting peace deal between Israel and the so-called
Palestinians is read the scriptures. If you are unused to the Bible
allow me to assure you that there is invaluable history within its pages
that is often the key to understanding contemporary problems between
nations today. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAmCs8aO19vc0-UwYLKOR5ES_yLuG7pM-Ez8dzSGFYhYhQHacBQd_DkgjCXdb236q0E8d6kQ2bUpbiqCnmTO5PI0JFqjevYz6Ej2q9UmJOboeXIMOOUsGE_JHfIQS54SDMrHTcupBe5F8/s1600/Stand-by-israel+%23+1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAmCs8aO19vc0-UwYLKOR5ES_yLuG7pM-Ez8dzSGFYhYhQHacBQd_DkgjCXdb236q0E8d6kQ2bUpbiqCnmTO5PI0JFqjevYz6Ej2q9UmJOboeXIMOOUsGE_JHfIQS54SDMrHTcupBe5F8/s1600/Stand-by-israel+%23+1.jpg" height="216" width="320" /></a>Just
a quick example: The land given Israel by God stretches from the banks
of the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River in Iraq.<i> (Someday we'll write about Israel's real northern and southern boundaries. But not today.) </i><br />
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So.
What if Israel told everyone in Jordan, the western part of Iraq, the
Sinai, and the eastern part of Egypt to get out, to get off Israel's
land? Of course, there'd be war! Everyone currently living in those
areas (I just mentioned) are there at the sufferance of the people of
Israel. They're squatters, interlopers. And yet, Israel puts up with
them. <br />
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<b><i>Along come US diplomats and UN diplomats demanding that Israel give up more land to the squatters. </i></b><br />
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Do you begin to understand why Israel believes it is slowly being pushed into the Mediterranean Sea? <br />
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And so, some have labeled me as a Christian Zionist. I will happily accept that -- and wear its badge with pride.<br />
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<b>The Turtle Rebellion?</b><br />
<b><i>The Herd Shot 'Round The World</i></b><br />
<b>A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx2ZDScI2sj4liYhlZaaDOHYADHrYSbZKVK7EWwZ7gopvyQvPgrZNn4G8_Na7MWglMJNOgmOiRrFvL_lJKHibWNdJWiYzfKOM7q4ilBDom-4OwcfmHPAG5-Ct_9BmMTD3wZjHZ9mcrmPc/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx2ZDScI2sj4liYhlZaaDOHYADHrYSbZKVK7EWwZ7gopvyQvPgrZNn4G8_Na7MWglMJNOgmOiRrFvL_lJKHibWNdJWiYzfKOM7q4ilBDom-4OwcfmHPAG5-Ct_9BmMTD3wZjHZ9mcrmPc/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" width="155" /></a>Militias are reforming and retraining. Citizens are cleaning their guns and counting rounds of ammunition for them. <br />
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Why? The government's heavy-handed way of dealing with a Nevada rancher
whose cattle are being seized by the federal government at the point of a
federal gun. (For more read: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/us/nevada-rancher-rangers-cattle-showdown/">http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/us/nevada-rancher-rangers-cattle-showdown/</a>)<br />
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<b><i>Are we looking at another Ruby Ridge or yet another Waco?</i></b> I certainly hope not. But the truth is, America cannot continue as the police state she has become. Plus, <u><i>and this is extremely important,</i></u> <b>Americans no longer trust their federal court system. </b><br />
<b><i><br />"Two militia members from Montana and one from Utah have
arrived at Cliven Bundy’s ranch. The press was told by a militiaman
that militias from New Hampshire, Texas and Florida are likely to join
and stand with Bundy and stay at his ranch.</i></b>" (From a report at: <a href="http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/04/10/expect-to-see-a-band-of-soldiers-militia-members-arrive-at-nevada-ranch/">http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/04/10/expect-to-see-a-band-of-soldiers-militia-members-arrive-at-nevada-ranch/</a><br />
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In a later report we learn: <b><i> "In the wake of the publicized
protests, members of various militia groups have been traveling from
Virginia, Texas, Montana, Idaho and Wisconsin and arriving at the
protest site and Bundy's ranch to support the family, said Stephen L.
Dean, 45, of Utah, a member of one such group called the Peoples United
Mobile Armed Services."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/us/nevada-rancher-rangers-cattle-showdown/">http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/us/nevada-rancher-rangers-cattle-showdown/</a><br />
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<b><i>Underlying the whole dispute is the environmental movements
efforts to preserve the habitat of a little heard of desert tortoise.</i></b><br />
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Don't laugh! Today it's a turtle. Originally, it was tea. <b><i>All revolutions have a tipping point. </i></b>The point at which the people say, this far and no farther! Bundy's ranch may be the next Lexington. <br />
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<i> (The tortoise is protected under the Endangered Species Act. The
Fish and Wildlife Service lists the species as “threatened.”) </i><br />
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There was a brief mention of US military personnel taking part in the
rustling of Mr. Bundy's cattle. If true, that would be a direct
violation of federal law. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, <b><i>still in effect,</i></b> was passed to prevent U.S. military personnel from acting as law enforcement agents on U.S. soil. <br />
<br />
The text of the Posse Comitatus Act, which is still in effect (as 18 U.S.C. Section 1385), reads:<br />
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<b><i>"Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly
authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any
part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to
execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than two years, or both." </i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://civilliberty.about.com/od/waronterror/a/posse_act.htm%20">http://civilliberty.about.com/od/waronterror/a/posse_act.htm </a><br />
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<i>I have yet to see any confirmation of the use of US military personnel in the dust-up at Bundy's Ranch.</i><br />
<br />
What worries me most about the ongoing wielding of raw federal power in
Nevada is this: I am afraid this is only the beginning. I am afraid
this sort of confrontation will become far more frequent if the
situation in Nevada is allowed to continue. Give the feds an inch and
they'll take a mile ... <b><i>or your cattle -- or BOTH!</i></b><br />
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Oh, and do not deceive yourself, if given the order to fire on the
protesters, armed and unarmed, the federal goons WILL indeed open fire
-- <b><i>without a moment's hesitation. </i></b> <b><i>That's what they are trained to do. That's what they will do. </i></b> <br />
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Unfortunately, I believe the same holds true with US military personnel. Just as when the War Between the States <i>(Better known in the South as the War of Northern Aggression)</i>
broke out and southerners serving in the federal services resigned and
went home to join their families in defense of their homes, so, too,
will <b><i>SOME</i></b> current US soldiers. But, I dare say, <b><i><u>most will not</u></i></b>. <b><i>Different times. Different people.</i></b><br />
<br />
People change and <b><i>peoples</i></b> change. It is more than a
little difficult to predict how modern Americans will react to the
federal government locking the country into a police state, totally
ignoring our constitution, and making and enforcing, <b><i>or not enforcing,</i></b> laws at their whim. <br />
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It is easy to look back and see -- with certainty -- <b><i>that our ancestors would have cleaned that nest of vipers out long ago. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>Today we are different -- soft and pliant, willing to enjoy
freedom so long as it doesn't cost us anything, or any effort. And for
crying out loud, do not ask us to defend it by force of arms! </i></b><br />
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<b><u>Unfortunately for us all, that may be exactly where we are headed.</u></b><br />
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<b><i>The country, the republic, cannot continue on its current course.</i></b><br />
<b><i> </i></b><br />
<br />
On April 10th, 2014, <b><u>“Oath Keepers”</u></b> issued a statement,
which pretty well sums up the feelings of thousands of military
veterans, police officers, first responders, and others. You would do
well to follow this link over to Oath Keeper’s site and read their
statement in full. You will find it here:<br />
<a href="http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2014/04/10/coalition-of-western-state-legislators-sheriffs-and-veterans-stand-vigil-in-support-of-embattled-nevada-rancher-cliven-bundy-%E2%80%98to-prevent-another-ruby-ridge-or-waco%E2%80%9D/%20">http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2014/04/10/coalition-of-western-state-legislators-sheriffs-and-veterans-stand-vigil-in-support-of-embattled-nevada-rancher-cliven-bundy-%E2%80%98to-prevent-another-ruby-ridge-or-waco%E2%80%9D/ </a> <br />
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I am the product of the only region of the country to be invaded,
conquered, and occupied by a foreign power. I am, as are my fellow
southerners, acutely aware of the cost of war with one's fellow
Americans. <b><i>We know the cost.</i></b> Our ancestors bore that cost <b><i>and passed the scars down to us.</i></b>
WE venerate them. We look back on their sacrifices with feelings of
respect and reverence. We consider those who took up arms as hallowed
and exalted. <b><i>But believe me when I tell you that we are still paying the price even today. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>As evidenced by the confrontation in Nevada, we may be drawing
nigh to a moment of decision just as my Confederate ancestors did 149
years ago. </i></b><br />
Time will tell if we will be called upon to take up arms in defense of
the constitution and in defiance of a tyrannical federal government.
Understand, dear reader, <b><u><i>EITHER </i></u><i>decision will be terrible in its consequences.</i></b> <br />
<br />
The current brush fire in Nevada may cool. Tempers may cool and some sort of reason prevail. But before too much time passes<b><i> it will recur. </i></b> <b><u><i>Once the federal government gets a taste of raw power enforced at the point of a bayonet, it grows rabid.</i></u></b><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>And this is why American citizens are
armed. It is the foundation of the Second Amendment, the preservation of
our country from despots who wish to impose tyranny upon us</b>.</span> <br />
<br />
<b><i>Seems to me the last sentence of the preceding paragraph pretty well sums up America's situation today. </i></b><br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet <br />
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an unarguable "senior citizen" I can tell you that I have long since
given up on any hope of finding those so-called "golden years." They
are, I have come to believe, some ethereal manifestation of a joke
played by the fates upon those who dare to take up space on this blue
marble and breath its air. <br /><br />More and more I am hearing from
seniors my age, or beyond, who decry any extended lengthening of their
days. I don't attempt to dissuade them as I, too, and looking forward
to whatever is beyond the pale. Hopefully, a new adventure as I, too,
have tired of this one. <br /><br />To just say that the word has changed
would be a humongous understatement. For those of us who witnessed the
world back when it was a decent place in which to live. Today the
stench of the putrefaction of our society is sickening to those with
sensibilities left to such things. And there are not many of us left.
WE have been desensitized, for the most part to the malodorous fumes of
the rot, the decay, the decomposition of a world grown mad with the
corruption of hedonism. <br /><br />I sometimes think that maybe this is the
primary cause of numerous elder folk slipping away into Alzheimer's
Disease. Has anyone considered that maybe it is a <b><i>mental mass migration</i></b>
out of this world by those who just can't handle any more -- or -- who
simply have had enough and choose to take refuge in a place they create
for themselves somewhere in their minds, wherever that might be? It's
safe there - for no one knows even WHERE the mind is.<br /><br />Recently, a
friend of mind was diagnosed with cancer. After surgery she was told
by her doctor that she'd probably live to be in her nineties. She
retorted immediately, <b><i>"But I don't want to!"</i></b> The middle aged doctor was stunned, taken aback. My friend told him: "<b><i>Look.
With the world in the mess it is today, and very little hope that the
future holds anything better, I'd rather not hang around for what I feel
sure is coming. I've had enough, thank you." </i></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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was a time, not so long ago, actually, when the elderly of a society
were valued. Their life experience was a treasure trove of all that had
gone before. They had made their mistakes -- and learned from them --
and were willing to pass the secret of how the younger generation could
avoid making those same mistakes just for the asking. <b><i>That is not the case now and it hasn't been for rather a long time now. </i></b><br /><br />Today,
our society warehouses the elderly, stacking them up in so-called rest
homes, nursing homes, and places with equally stupid sounding names
made-up to hide what they really are -- <b><i>buildings where the aged are sent to wait on death.</i></b>
We, as a society, pay huge sums of money to those willing to create
such holding areas, with beautiful facades that ease that twinge from
our conscience when we hastily drive by. <br /><br />We have relegated a
vast storehouse of wisdom to the sidelines and transformed them into
observers who can no longer contribute nor partake. They're just, well,
<b><i>there.</i></b><br /><br />They must feel helpless, as if locked in a
sterile cage that smells of decontaminates that barely counters the oder
of human body fluids and -- <i>death.</i> You think that won't drive
you crazy? You think that might have something to do with early onset
dementia, or Alzheimer's? Have we studied it? Do we give a damn? <br /><br />C. S. Lewis once said: <b><i>How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.</i></b>
Well, THAT didn't take a genius to figure out, now did it., And no, I
am not a fan of C. S. Lewis. But even a stopped clock is right twice a
day. <br /><br />Methinks actress Bette Davis had it right. She said: <b><i>"Old age is no place for sissies."</i></b><br /><br />In my case, I have sort of taken ole Louis Kronenberger's thoughts to heart and adopted them. He said: <b><i>"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week." </i></b>(<i>I'm doing mine for this week by writing this piece!)</i><br /><br />I
recently had an acquaintance rushed to a univerity hospital for a life
saving treatment for a deadly respirtory ailment that was on the verge
of taking her life. Her only hope was to reach that nationally known
hospital where her family knew her life would be saved. I later learned
that a family member was asked by a member of the chopper crew how old
the patient was and when told she was sixty-something, the crewman
replied. <i>Good. Had she been seventy, she would not have been allowed to make the flight. </i><br /><br />You
may add that to the pile of anecdotal evidence of how government
interference in America's healthcare has cheapened human life,
especially the life of the elderly. See, the government can't afford to
pay for expensive medical treatment for those well past their prime and
nearing the end of their lives. That's not good business. What it IS,
however, is another example of man's inhumanity to man. You may recall
that is one of the reasons God destroyed man with the Great Flood --
from which only Noah and his family were chosen to reestablish mankind. <br /><br />Actually,
when one takes the time to think about it, I mean REALLY think about
it, the times we are living in today pretty much mirror the times Noah
and his family lived in way back then. The world, much as today, was a
wicked place. In fact "the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart was only evil -
continually." (A paraphrase from Genesis chapter 6, verse 5.) <br /><br />I have concluded that those of my generation and the generation beyond, recognize the current age for what it <i>REALLY </i>is and wish to be through with it. <br /><br />I daresay that in another century, there will be no old people. Remember "Logan's Run," a movie from back in 1976. <b><i> At age thirty, the state killed you. </i></b>
Don't think it can happen? What about the lady mentioned above who
barely made it onto the helicopter? Still believe the state will
continue to believe in the sanctity of human life -- you know, like they
do now? Dream on, dear reader, dream on.<br /><br />So. Is it any wonder that our elderly are ready to move on? <br /><br />They say hope springs eternal in the human heart. <i>Of course, that is a lie. </i> Look around you at the hopeless people. The world is teeming with them. Where there is hopelessness life is extremely cheap. <br /><br />So, what is to be done? Pretty much nothing. It is what it is. <b><i>We
cannot run from nor refuse to accept that we live in a world of our own
creation. We have made our bed, now we must lie upon it and,
eventually, die upon it. </i></b><br /><br />Just a few pleasant thoughts to ponder over the weekend. <br /><br />J. D. Longstreet</span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgox9Md33sorgg_Z3jOumW3-XGgdSsQC_KIlTEfAyo90OQNvl0CTYcohw2hATCUrF-K45Lpnmcm7GlxXm1aY7KJ9bqefaOz6Q9j1tXhsOaiowVRVvJwtaPWeeKAHZjecnlHiAd_Owu0a-k/s1600/J.+D.+SMALL+PHOTO+%231.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgox9Md33sorgg_Z3jOumW3-XGgdSsQC_KIlTEfAyo90OQNvl0CTYcohw2hATCUrF-K45Lpnmcm7GlxXm1aY7KJ9bqefaOz6Q9j1tXhsOaiowVRVvJwtaPWeeKAHZjecnlHiAd_Owu0a-k/s1600/J.+D.+SMALL+PHOTO+%231.jpeg" /></a>In
the world of espionage, friends spy on friends all the time. And I do
mean ALL THE TIME. So, it should come as no surprise that Israel spies
on the US just as the US spies on Israel. The same goes for all our
allies. It is a necessary evil. <br />
<br />
I know the eighties and
nineties is considered ancient history in the US but you really ought to
remember who, exactly, Jonathan Pollard was/is. <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJnAYsq5aDy5EirbGfxzhYttOliqzXYcEbhd1Z7zb6-dhDH6iNJJhDJzjaFvzuIsbVETMcrtBXNYr52w7hjtwHATg5LmVUTzm9LccnCumplUUKhjSg8IfonP7Dwyz_ZcMi-gXxsO2o_PI/s1600/Jonathan+Pollard.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJnAYsq5aDy5EirbGfxzhYttOliqzXYcEbhd1Z7zb6-dhDH6iNJJhDJzjaFvzuIsbVETMcrtBXNYr52w7hjtwHATg5LmVUTzm9LccnCumplUUKhjSg8IfonP7Dwyz_ZcMi-gXxsO2o_PI/s1600/Jonathan+Pollard.jpg" height="320" width="248" /></a><br />
<b><i>"Jonathan
Jay Pollard is the American Jew who spied for Israel out of misguided
loyalty, a man who believed that his documents and information would
make Israel more secure in its war against international terrorism. When
arrested in November 1985, he claimed he had been turning over secret
documents-many of which, he maintained, should have been provided to
Israel by the United States-for only fourteen months. The Israeli
government apologized for its spying and insisted that the recruitment
of Pollard was an aberration, an unauthorized "rogue" operation. Pollard
is now serving a life sentence for espionage."</i></b> -- SOURCE: <a href="http://www.american-buddha.com/lit.samsonoptionhersh.21.htm%20%20">http://www.american-buddha.com/lit.samsonoptionhersh.21.htm </a><br />
<br />
Just
a few days ago there was a hot rumor, making the journalistic rounds,
that US Secretary of State John Kerry was considering offering to
release Pollard to Israel as a chit, if you will, in his pitiful pleas
for a peace deal between Israel and the so-called Palestinians. It is
just another pathetic demonstration of just how bad US foreign policy
under the Obama Regime really is. It's bad -- and getting worse as the
days pass. <br />
<br />
A simple reading of history will tell you, clearly,
there will not be a peace deal between the Israelis and the so-called
Palestinians. Not a REAL one, anyway.<br />
<br />
Pollard was the <i>"real deal."</i>
He was caught, tried, convicted, and jailed for life. But in Obama's
desperation for a peace deal in the Middle East he is willing, once
again, to overlook the law.<br />
<br />
How long, oh, Lord, must we endure the Obama plague upon America? <br />
<br />
Look.
The Palestinians are not nearly so interested in a state of their own
as they are in totally destroying the state of Israel.<br />
<br />
There is a
heck of a lot of history behind this Palestinian and Israeli conflict,
which current US leadership chooses to ignore. Let’s review a bit of
that history.<br />
<br />
Did you know that the area and the people,
erroneously called Palestinians, were offered a state of their own back
in the 1930’s? Bet you didn’t know that.<br />
<br />
It seems we have to go
over the history of the rejected Palestinian state over and over and I
can only surmise the public school system and the university and college
systems in the US simply don’t teach it! <br />
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Look,
the plain truth is… the people, calling themselves Palestinians, have
been offered a state of their own at least three times since the 1936
Arab revolt. They have flatly turned it down every time! Yes! The
first offer made by the Peel Commission in the 1930s offered them a vast
piece of real estate much larger than that offered to the Jews… and …
they turned it down! <br />
<br />
UN Resolution 181 passed soon after the Second World War gave Israel 55% of the
so-called Palestine and the Palestinians 45%. The Jews accepted and in
doing so recognized that Palestine would become a state next door to
them. They, the Israelis, accepted that. But the Arabs rejected it,
flat out, and started another war against the Jews, which they, the
Arabs, promptly lost.<br />
<br />
It has been 66 years, or so, now and the
whining and moaning is still coming from the “woe is me” crowd who
called themselves Palestinians.<br />
<br />
The problems between Israel and
the Palestinians are not because Israel has settled some disputed land.
No! The cause of all the trouble in that “center of the earth” strip
of land is due entirely to the Arabs refusal to accept the existence of a
Jewish state called Israel, or called anything else, for that matter.
That is the crux of the problem. <br />
<br />
The so-called Palestinians
continue to demand the "Right of Return" guarantee in the negotiations.
“Right of Return” is far more dangerous to the state of Israel than an
all out attack by their Arab neighbors. <br />
<br />
So what is the Right of Return? <b><i>
“The idea of the right of return is to demand that Israel allow the
descendants of the 750,000 Palestinians who were displaced in 1948 and
their families (which now stands at almost 4 million) back into Israel
and give them full compensation for their troubles. Even if only half of
these Palestinians returned, it would alter Israel's identity as a
Jewish state and effectively create a second Palestinian state. One
assumption made under the right of return is that all the Arabs that
lived in Israel proper were forcibly expelled from their homes in 1947
and 48. This is a myth. While historians know for a fact that a small
number of the 750,000 displaced Arabs were forcibly expelled by Zionist
militias (a famous example being Deir Yassin), honest and impartial
historians also know that a large number of this 750,000 strong
population left on their own, either to avoid an upcoming war between
the Zionists and the Arabs, or to join the Arabs in the fighting against
the newly established state.”</i></b> (From: <a href="http://www.themiddleeastnow.com/nopalestinianstate.html%29%20">http://www.themiddleeastnow.com/nopalestinianstate.html) </a><br />
<br />
The
Palestinians will obfuscate, and delay, and continue to carry on their
war to wipe Israel from the face of the map. They will use any means to
do it. <br />
<br />
So why do I continue to insist that a Palestinian state
will lead, almost immediately, to war between Israel and the State of
Palestine? The answer is so simple it is appalling to me that the world
does not see it. But, so far as Mr. Obama's inability to comprehend is
concerned, I think Winston Churchill summed him up with these words
uttered in the House of Commons way back in 1933: <b><i>"We know that
he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest
number of words into the smallest amount of thought." </i></b> Uh-Huh!<br />
<br />
Look, the moment Palestine occupies a piece of ground that is considered strategic to the survival of Israel <b><i>a shooting war will begin.</i></b>
When the war begins there will be a re-alignment of nations supporting
both the so-called Palestinians and the Israelis. The nations of the
world will be, once again, at each other’s throats. It is just that
simple and just that horrible. <br />
<br />
Never forget that the intent of
the so-called Palestinians is not so much statehood as it is the total
destruction of the state of Israel. <br />
<br />
If the nations of the world
want the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian to end, then they
should get out of the way and allow them to go at each other until one
or the other is wiped out. As a student of history, I have no doubt who
will be standing when the dust clears. <br />
<br />
But that is not going to
happen. Anti-Semitism is running rampant in Europe today. Although we
have it here in America it is no where near as strong as in the
remainder of the world. It is just as virile as it was in the 1500's,
the 1600's, the 1700's, the 1800's, and the 1900's. <b><i> It is just as strong today, if not stronger. </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>I think it is caused by fear and envy. </i></b> <br />
<br />
Whether
you choose to believe in God, or not, it does not change the fact that
the Jewish people have found favor in His sight. They are under His
protection <b><i>and many of us who are not Jews despise that fact.</i></b>
It is, I believe, just that basic and just that simple. Fear and envy
-- the same motivations that caused Cain to kill his brother Abel.<br />
<br />
It
is my unshakable belief that as soon as America installs a leader
friendly to Israel, the fortunes of our country will turn around and we
will return to our former glory. It is not going to happen under the
Obama Regime. <br />
<br />
It seems to me it would be more beneficial to
America, and the world, if America's leadership, no matter the political
party, would just abandon their efforts at trying to force Israel into a
deal that would most certainly result in a national life or death war
for both the Israelis and the so-called Palestinians, and throw its not
inconsiderable resources into efforts to secure Israel from it's
surrounding enemies.<br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<b>America's First Female President Won't Be Hillary! <br />A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTwzEOtO4Inaz0fheDGA8wH9cq-zPyGysVCONER7aH8IbFoxSVrFQn4yj7wtJTfEV02eXPV0rHqP0M0bhsvTSLqQ_KCRslIx-XkrGZ1CRajFL_3NpejYFCArSsQDleOV-ywXy2dcvxIUQ/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTwzEOtO4Inaz0fheDGA8wH9cq-zPyGysVCONER7aH8IbFoxSVrFQn4yj7wtJTfEV02eXPV0rHqP0M0bhsvTSLqQ_KCRslIx-XkrGZ1CRajFL_3NpejYFCArSsQDleOV-ywXy2dcvxIUQ/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>I
have long thought that President Obama displayed more feminine
attributes in his male persona that I am comfortable with. Note: I
said <b><i>"persona."</i></b> Now, a persona is a personal facade, a mask, if you will, that one presents to the world. <b><i>It is supposed to be the "person" you think yourself to be and would like others to believe you are. </i></b><br />
<br />
Having
a persona, is natural. We all do it. Well, most of us do it, anyway.
We all have an image of ourselves that, for all intents and purposes,
does not match the true us -- who we really are. And yes -- it is a
lie. So -- <i>THERE! </i> <br />
<br />
What worries me about Mr. Obama's
persona is either he has done a very good job at creating it, or, he has
deliberately created a persona that is much nearer the truth of who he
really is. <b><i>Or both. </i></b><br />
<br />
See, <b><i>Mr. Obama presents as a woman, as a female.</i></b> Much of his body language is that more closely related to the body movements and mannerisms of a female.<br />
<br />
Now, allow me to say, that even though it is not considered politically correct today, back in <b><i>my less than politically correct youth</i></b>, it was understood that <b><i>boys raised without a father in the home often grew up to present more as women than men.</i></b> Often they were thought to be homosexual. Some were. Some were not. <br />
<br />
They
learned their behavior from their mother, grandmothers, aunts -- in
other words -- the female side of the family. I direct you to Mr.
Obama's upbringing. He had what we call today a "deadbeat dad." The
old man headed for the tall timber shortly after Barry's arrival and
that was that. <br />
<br />
Of course, <b><i>the truth is unacceptable in today's society</i></b> so we can't consider that Obama's nearly all female upbringing has anything to do with the way he turned out, <i><b>no matter how obvious.</b></i><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWne89MAR9oWaQWMbxjgvdjUi4g7aCymFdgGibMULGQnHjfZKEeIqie46VpvfUxeABTpiYH3YP0kStznoNTczMDRwl6EGzTN1LlZnpUGaF5goo9uxVGjiMf1M5ll_jJqM8Nw0zSekTAw/s1600/Baseball+Obama.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWne89MAR9oWaQWMbxjgvdjUi4g7aCymFdgGibMULGQnHjfZKEeIqie46VpvfUxeABTpiYH3YP0kStznoNTczMDRwl6EGzTN1LlZnpUGaF5goo9uxVGjiMf1M5ll_jJqM8Nw0zSekTAw/s1600/Baseball+Obama.jpg" height="400" width="245" /></a>I read an interesting article the other day entitled: <b>"The First Woman President."</b> It was written by Matthew Continetti for the Washington Free Beacon. In his article, Mr. Continetti says: <b><i>"
... if Barack Obama “had to come out of a different closet,” had to
learn “to be black the way gays learn to be gay,” if his “discovery in
adulthood of a community not like your own home and the struggle to
belong in both places, without displacement, without alienation” mirrors
“the gay experience,” making him “the first gay president”; and if his
positions on Israel make him, in the words of a former employee, “the
first Jewish president,” then our ascription of gender identity need not
be based on chromosomes or sexual characteristics, on hair style or
costume, on self-identification, on arbitrary and socially constructed
discourses of macho and feminine. It is clear to me now that we have had
a woman president since January 20, 2009. Barack Obama’s story is
America’s story. It is our story. It is the female story."</i></b> <b> -- SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-first-woman-president/%20">http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-first-woman-president/ </a> <br />
<br />
Mr. Continetti continues in describing Mr. Obama's modus operandi by saying: <b><i>"His
foreign policy abjures the stereotypically male, the reflexively
violent, the stubbornly confrontational, and the unthinkingly gruff. He
is not afraid to be called a wimp, not only because using such language
is a micro-aggression, not only because such harmful words depend on
categories and expectations of “male” behavior that are hopelessly
outdated in the twenty-first century, but also because he is better than
that “bored, tough guy shtick.” </i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-first-woman-president/%20%20%20">http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-first-woman-president/ </a><br />
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Continuing in the same article, Mr. Continetti goes on to quote Harvard professor Joseph Nye who wrote in 2012: <b><i>
" ... while women are collaborative and intuitively understand the soft
power of attraction and persuasion.” He adds, “Recent leadership
studies show increased success for what was once considered a ‘feminine
style.’” Collaborate, intuitive, soft, attractive, persuasive—these
attributes of the “feminine style” are perfect descriptors of Barack
Obama’s relation to the world, or at least to those parts of the world
that are not Republican or Israeli." </i></b><br />
<br />
Mr. Continetti closes his observations by saying: <b><i>"
... displaying almost every trope of womanhood outlined by the
theoretician of soft power himself, Barack Obama has as much of a claim
as the next girl to being the first woman president. Do not “other” him.
Love him. Celebrate him. Open your mind, as I have. And Hillary: Take
note. We already have a woman in the White House."</i></b><br />
<br />
We hardily recommend Mr. Continetti's article to you. You can read it in its entirety at: <a href="http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-first-woman-president/">http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-first-woman-president/</a> <br />
<br />
Like many Americans, I originally thought Obama was what we refer today as a <b><i>metrosexual</i></b>,
which is defined as an urban-living fashion-conscious man; a
heterosexual with many attributes commonly attributed to gay men. <br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5DiKNwwjtq1k9-4goIvHOzoGzSAHNDe795miukH3rTC5UnL-mYHwnFWCS4SwFloUQufGnGxe846KolSkDJWSiOVFoWWfQSekwYYI65tScBYdzBBjjMEaV1VRDCKfQkxko_N2EMxnmVXw/s1600/effeminate-obama.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5DiKNwwjtq1k9-4goIvHOzoGzSAHNDe795miukH3rTC5UnL-mYHwnFWCS4SwFloUQufGnGxe846KolSkDJWSiOVFoWWfQSekwYYI65tScBYdzBBjjMEaV1VRDCKfQkxko_N2EMxnmVXw/s1600/effeminate-obama.jpg" height="290" width="400" /></a>After five years of closely observing Mr. Obama I have changed my opinion. I no longer believe he is metrosexual.<br />
<br />
But
is Obama, as some have suggested, homosexual? I haven't any idea. But
you may want to consider this: From an article at HillBuzz.org
entitled: "Is Barack Obama Gay?" comes the following: <b><i>"While the
always-eloquent Michelle Antoinette Obama might deny it publicly,
there’s clear evidence that Barack Obama is indeed homosexual…and is
specifically what’s known in the black street slang as “being on the
Down Low” or “being a cake boy”. The Obamas’ marriage is an elaborate
sham concocted for their mutual benefit, where Michelle serves as
Barack’s beard and in return she gets to enjoy a life of fabulous wealth
and power she could only dream of growing up in Chicago and depending
on Jesse Jackson for jobs and other favors."</i></b> <b>SOURCE</b>: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> http://hillbuzz.org/is-barack-obama-gay</a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPQ6m-VCD4a91ufrN0BUcC5wDu2BjR3NeaiId-42jnDAcOOYwsuNP_ZJw_63bJXhEOwufKcKQnEk39Iu-QY8nGgom2Yez5TWUjDViDOGNvqu1jyy3s_SZWaO43pQedrdncw073rnOrpw/s1600/FIRST+GAY+PRESIDENT.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPQ6m-VCD4a91ufrN0BUcC5wDu2BjR3NeaiId-42jnDAcOOYwsuNP_ZJw_63bJXhEOwufKcKQnEk39Iu-QY8nGgom2Yez5TWUjDViDOGNvqu1jyy3s_SZWaO43pQedrdncw073rnOrpw/s1600/FIRST+GAY+PRESIDENT.jpg" height="320" width="234" /></a><br />
Some
of the terminology I had to actually look up as I don't travel in
circles where such terminology is used. For instance, I learned that
being "a cake boy" means: <b><i>"someone light and fluffy, effeminate, not where its at, not meaty in the slightest sense of the word. The opposite of a cake boy being a 'meat boy'(see 'meat boy')." </i></b> <b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cake%20boy&defid=1665900">http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cake%20boy&defid=1665900</a><br />
<br />
Then there is "on the Down-Low." <b><i>"Down-low
is an African American slang term that refers to a subculture of men
who usually identify as heterosexual, but who have sex with men; some
avoid sharing this information even if they have female sexual partner."</i></b> <b>SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down-low_%28sexual_slang%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down-low_%28sexual_slang%29</a><br />
<br />
Now,
look. I am not attempting to "dis" the President here. In fact, I
don't think I could do a more credible job than he, himself, is doing if
I actually tried.<br />
<br />
One is reminded that it is always dangerous to point out that <b><i>"the emperor has no clothes."</i></b> Everybody knows it, <b><i>but no one will say it aloud</i></b>. Well, hardly anyone. <br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiODzyOaF0-PLkkZx5BXcvp6qnjyKFe9it5YuCzwIiWaqMvBM8YckUFtffOl3OF6rD62u8dGhN46LugOht6VObutqVC6lYTmHm7FJ8fJYHZ2Ev4YXLdWm0N_9B2ZQblc3f-5K8_airBjIw/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-13+-+SMALL+PHOTO+%23+1.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiODzyOaF0-PLkkZx5BXcvp6qnjyKFe9it5YuCzwIiWaqMvBM8YckUFtffOl3OF6rD62u8dGhN46LugOht6VObutqVC6lYTmHm7FJ8fJYHZ2Ev4YXLdWm0N_9B2ZQblc3f-5K8_airBjIw/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-13+-+SMALL+PHOTO+%23+1.jpeg" /></a>OK. Let's take a count. The Crimea and now the eastern portion of the Ukraine. <i>(For
those of you less comfortable with the classic term for Ukraine and
Crimea, which is today adding "the" before the name of each of those
countries, feel free to overlook my use of the classic terminology.
For me, standard English is NOT a second language and on occasion,
classic English is employed by this scribe to embellish a point or even
to make a point. I shall continue my usage of "the" before both the
Ukraine and the Crimea.)</i><br />
<br />
As I said, Putin's Russia
has drawn the Crimea back into the Russian fold and has moved troops up
to the borders of the eastern most portion of the Ukraine. Should he
decide to invade the Ukraine, no doubt he will be successful and the
West -- or as we are referring to the alliance of western states today
-- <b><i>"the Unled,"</i></b> will have lost again. <br />
<br />
Pay
careful attention -- for this is how you fight a politically correct
war. Obama is doing all the politically correct things and he is
getting his lunch eaten, having his derriere handed to him, by the very
politically incorrect Mr. Putin. <i>(Have you noticed how scribes today
tend to place MR. before the name Putin and leave it off when referring
to Obama? Ummm. a Freudian slip, perhaps??) </i><br />
<br />
Speaking of having Obama's lunch eaten, the US responded to pleas for arms and ammunition by the Ukraine with <i>(Are you ready for this?)</i> a stack of MRE's! <i>(Meals Ready to Eat. They took the place of the old C-rations and K-rations.)</i> The last I heard those MRE's were still in the warehouse somewhere. <br />
<br />
The
Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania gained independence from
the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I. In the period between the
World Wars, the Baltic states also included Finland. But today we tend
to think of the first three, named above, as the current Baltic
states. These small countries are located in northern Europe east of
the Baltic Sea.<br />
<br />
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have been members of both the EU <b><i>and NATO</i></b> since 2004. <br />
<br />
Estonia and Latvia border directly to their east with -- Russia.<br />
<br />
It
is believed that Putin, in his endeavor to recreate the old Soviet
Union, will most certainly want to reoccupy all three of the Baltic
states. <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvuY2MdgITHUnWMNNYax4VKv0KzVWFkjkYbkdhJcIOSJvAnxV6vwBd5PUd1qVrvr_Cj9_HIqBCW0DspCG98QQTEBT02GgovqSe91HQglZzWOpehekK8HzDG9yNo3oJrh4BZJaxghZEk4/s1600/BALTIC+STATES+MAP.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvuY2MdgITHUnWMNNYax4VKv0KzVWFkjkYbkdhJcIOSJvAnxV6vwBd5PUd1qVrvr_Cj9_HIqBCW0DspCG98QQTEBT02GgovqSe91HQglZzWOpehekK8HzDG9yNo3oJrh4BZJaxghZEk4/s1600/BALTIC+STATES+MAP.gif" height="320" width="306" /></a><br />
<b><i>As
we noted above, all three of the states are members of NATO as well as
the European Union. An attack upon any NATO member is considered an
attack upon all NATO members and that includes the United States. </i></b><br />
<br />
But the problem is, you see -- Obama! <br />
<br />
So
far as the Russians are concerned -- they have already seen Obama's
proclivity for inaction, demonstrated in Syria and, most recently, in
the Crimea and the Ukraine. They do not fear any interference from NATO
which is led, for all intents and purposes, by the US, which means --
it is led by Obama. <br />
<br />
At the moment the Baltic states are hanging out there as so much red meat for the Russian wolves. <br />
<br />
In
the coming days and weeks, we may gain more insight into the plans of
Putin for the Baltic states by watching closely what he does with the
eastern portion of the Ukraine. <br />
<br />
Plainly put, the Baltic states are his for the taking and Putin knows it.<br />
<br />
Here's
the thing, however. The Crimea and the Ukraine are in dire financial
straits. While Russia may be awash in petro dollars, she really can't
afford to take on more debt. However, by re-taking the Crimea, <b><i>Putin has just assumed the debt of the Crimea. </i></b>
THAT may be why those thousands of Russian troops have stopped at the
border of the Ukraine. The bean counters, back in the Kremlin, may have
must run the numbers and slipped them to Czar Putin. <br />
<br />
The
economy of the Ukraine has been run into the ground -- and then some.
Does Putin really want to assume their debt as well? Even a
megalomaniac must consider options such as these. <br />
<br />
So -- what's Putin going to do? Well, in my estimation it is a bit if a toss-up. <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxI-OkFvXPtqREPHPc8-jo0yGuzOdTx0LsQDtko1a2aeWOUsk_03FNcQnBicZCEhDKV3_6lrO6DZHxsml6IH_uqprz9ZaXuoz1UD7nkBNbTgrDjPto7igv7hjrbIVmZPhCGSy9qD6L-T4/s1600/China-Russia+map.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxI-OkFvXPtqREPHPc8-jo0yGuzOdTx0LsQDtko1a2aeWOUsk_03FNcQnBicZCEhDKV3_6lrO6DZHxsml6IH_uqprz9ZaXuoz1UD7nkBNbTgrDjPto7igv7hjrbIVmZPhCGSy9qD6L-T4/s1600/China-Russia+map.jpg" height="253" width="320" /></a><br />
Look. Down on Russia's southern border sits a ancient land called Cathay/China. China worries Russia -- <b><i>all the time.</i></b>
Russia/Putin understands that China is a threat and a threat Russia
cannot handle alone. When that fact is considered, a new light is shed
upon the machinations of Mr. Putin in the Ukraine.<br />
<br />
Now,
everyone knows the US is not going to get into a war with a nuclear
armed Russia over the Ukraine or the Baltic states. A clandestine war
may be altogether something else, however.<br />
<br />
See, that's
what the US missile emplacements were all about in eastern Poland and
the Czech Republic. You know, the ones Obama canceled when he decided
to - uh - "reset" the "relations with Russia" button? Yeah, the very
ones! They were intended to discourage Russia from doing exactly what
she has just done and continues to do. America's strategic thinkers
had that one right. Unfortunately, our limp-wristed, flower child of a
President is unable to see beyond his, er, teleprompter. His total lack
of understanding of the world we live in now has the eastern half of
Europe in the grip of fear and uncertainty while the Russian bear prowls
their eastern borders completely at will. <br />
<br />
I am
convinced that Putin really DOES want to invade the eastern Ukraine.
The so called Donbass region which is heavily populated with Russians
and Russian
speaking Ukrainians. Putin feels he is on a roll and he'd really rather
keep rolling. He knows he has noting to fear from the US or NATO. But<i>
--and here is where China comes in</i> -- Putin knows he has China watching his every move from his vast southern border, his soft underbelly, if you will. <br />
<br />
Putin
is smart. Far more cunning than the US president and far more
understanding of world politics. He also deals, for the most part, in
reality. He is also willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish his
goals. <br />
<br />
Look. Putin knows he might well find himself
in a situation with China in which he will inevitable need assistance
from the western countries. So, he can't afford to sever all the cords
that bind us, one to the other. <br />
<br />
Over its history, Russia has a record of fighting many wars --<b><i> and losing many wars. </i></b> Most of the time, if not all of the time, the losses were due to poor leadership. <br />
<br />
Russia
is a vast country with multiple cultures composed of many races.
Ruling Russia has been, over the centuries, akin to herding cats! From
the Czars to the Bolsheviks to, whatever the heck they are now, taking
Russians to war is a hit or miss proposition. That's not a "put-down"
of the Russian soldier. It is my interpretation of the historical record
of Russia's past. <br />
<br />
Too, Putin is trying to rebuild Russia's military after Russia's near total collapse in the late eighties and early nineties. <br />
<br />
A great deal of Mr. Putin's chest thumping is bluff.<b><i> </i><i>(One tends to listen to bluster from a man shaking his fist in your face while his other fist holds nuclear missiles!)</i></b>
He is covering his weakness with bluster. He is encroaching into the
western hemisphere, going head to head, with America's Monroe Doctrine,
which plainly tells European states to stay the heck out of our
backyard. The Russian naval and air bases in Cuba and in Venezuela (and
other places in South America) are, for the most part, merely to draw
our attention away from his ambitions closer to Mother Russia.<br />
<br />
As
our intelligence services, our diplomatic services, and the executive
branch of our government is in such a state of disarray, much of what
the US government says about Putin and Russia these days is pure <b><i>"guesstimation."</i></b> <br />
<br />
The US is much weaker today than we were on December 7th, 1941. <br />
<br />
And
we are going to be hit. The continental United States is a target --
and we will be struck, and fairly soon, most likely with a nuclear
weapon over Manhattan or Washington, DC.<br />
<br />
Shocked? One
needn't be. Like Russia we have a soft underbelly, too. The Mexican
border and the Gulf coast. That door is wide open. There is nothing to
stop our enemies from initiating an attack from that quarter, an attack
that would be largely successful. <br />
<br />
Look. The US has a
troop of amateurs running our government. Heck, they can't even run a
website on the Internet -- and we expect them to run a country? What?
Are we nuts?<br />
<br />
Apparently we are. And we are going to be vulnerable for a very long time into the future. <br />
<br />
I would suggest to Mr. Obama and Mr. Kerry, that they should just <i>shut up</i>. I mean, <i>stop talking, babbling, threatening.</i> It makes them look like children and stresses their weakness rather than their imagined strength. <br />
<br />
Mr. Putin will eventually make his move -- <b><i>or not.</i></b>
There's not a cussed thing the US can do about it, so why pretend?
Obama missed his chance at gaining Mr. Putin's respect when he stopped
the missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic. <b><i>That was indescribably dumb on Obama's part, but is is spilt milk.</i></b> These are the consequences --<i> at least part of them.</i> This is a multi-act play. We have yet to see what comes next. And believe me -- there is more... <b><i>much more. </i></b><br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNpXT4slsoEq7POkrkNZ9RwgFxeVivuPydgaN04IMDIcegD0s-BejQzngbbMgfkFejrf-kY7j0OUMr0uMqG2lpBHmeubMdnuTbxADDfuWR3LH8z36avl8vlZ7Q498ftc4mwknZJYq22u0/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNpXT4slsoEq7POkrkNZ9RwgFxeVivuPydgaN04IMDIcegD0s-BejQzngbbMgfkFejrf-kY7j0OUMr0uMqG2lpBHmeubMdnuTbxADDfuWR3LH8z36avl8vlZ7Q498ftc4mwknZJYq22u0/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>As
a subscriber to the Judeo-Christian faith, in particular the Christian
theology, I must tell you that movies such as the latest Hollywood
rendition of The Flood, and Noah's story, worry me. <br />
<br />
There was a time in America when the populace was Bible literate. <br />
<br />
<b><i>Sadly, and to our everlasting shame, we no longer are. </i></b><br />
<br />
In
fact, we are even more ignorant of the Holy Scriptures than we are of
the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence
and even the names of our own US Senators and Representatives in the US
House of Representatives.<br />
<br />
<b><i>We Americans are truly an ignorant lot. </i></b><br />
<br />
You
know what that makes us? It makes us ripe for the picking -- and any
evidence you may need that what I have just said is true is borne out by
the fact that B.H. Obama was elected as President of the United states,
not once, but <i>TWICE. </i><br />
<b><i><br />Intelligent people would not have done that. </i></b> <br />
<br />
Intelligent
people learn from their mistakes -- and correct them -- and then take
great pains to see that they don't make the same mistake again.<br />
<br />
Its
not just "low info voters" who are the primary danger to America. It
is the entire low IQ citizens who make up the great majority of the
nation. We're sorta like low hanging fruit for those whose greatest
desire in life is to grasp all the power over us they can possible
embrace.<br />
<br />
I grew up in an America where people took great pride in
education -- getting as much of it as they could and making an effort
to retain that learning and expand upon it for their entire lifetime. <br />
<br />
I once had a grammar school teacher who admonished the class by saying: <b><i> "There's no shame in being ignorant. The shame is in remaining that way."</i></b> <br />
<br />
The danger presented by movies such as the one mentioned above is that movie goers, <b><i>most of whom will have zero experience with the Holy Scriptures</i></b>,
will absorb the movie -- and assuming it is from the Bible -- will
leave the theater believing they have just had a religious experience by
way of a lesson in Scripture. <br />
<br />
<b><i>That is, of course, false.</i></b> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTvvbp6vjkJDzHVT_l8Js8sxAurFKX4WNQkTbDiOBWJMNoTQvUYSFRQgzxrNWlgL4nIM7O6_QNJd8JkMhQzT3ZGtLG7flVHWM9IcMUV91nbQ_iNnuL3RuhItDE9_N3It27raWTAIXlxk8/s1600/FLOOD.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTvvbp6vjkJDzHVT_l8Js8sxAurFKX4WNQkTbDiOBWJMNoTQvUYSFRQgzxrNWlgL4nIM7O6_QNJd8JkMhQzT3ZGtLG7flVHWM9IcMUV91nbQ_iNnuL3RuhItDE9_N3It27raWTAIXlxk8/s1600/FLOOD.JPG" height="266" width="400" /></a><br />
<br />
Having not seen the movie and having no plans to do so, I will not pan the movie here.<br />
<br />
Judging
from what I have read, about the only similarity between the story in
Genesis (The first book of the Old Testament in the Bible) and the movie
--<b><i> is the word "Noah."</i></b><br />
<br />
Leading creationist Ken
Ham, who recently debated Bill Nye, says that the new blockbuster,
starring Russell Crowe, is an insult to Christians: <b><i>"Ultimately, there is barely a hint of biblical fidelity in this film. It is an unbiblical, pagan film from its start" </i>-- SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://time.com/42274/ken-ham-the-unbiblical-noah-is-a-fable-of-a-film/">http://time.com/42274/ken-ham-the-unbiblical-noah-is-a-fable-of-a-film/</a><br />
<br />
Mr. Ham goes on to say in the same article: <b><i>"Also,
while the extreme wickedness of man was depicted, the real sin
displayed in the film was the people’s destruction of the earth. Lost
within the film’s extreme environmentalist message is that the actual
sins of the pre-Flood people were a rebellion against God and also man’s
inhumanity to man."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://time.com/42274/ken-ham-the-unbiblical-noah-is-a-fable-of-a-film/">http://time.com/42274/ken-ham-the-unbiblical-noah-is-a-fable-of-a-film/</a><br />
<br />
Consider this: <b><i>"Unfortunately,
Noah’s first week box office, after being engulfed in controversy, will
also encourage them to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at faux
Biblical stories that have the effect of subverting the core messages of
the sacred texts of the Judeo-Christian belief system that underlie
American culture."</i></b> <b> -- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/03/31/noah-vs-god-not-dead?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/03/31/noah-vs-god-not-dead?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</a><br />
<br />
I
can assure you that if you read the story from the Bible you will
quickly see that God destroyed man, not because man was unkind to the
earth, but because man was unkind to man and mankind was evil to the
core in such intensity that the very earth itself was corrupt. <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRaHOYcz-CrforW59SuxS3d5gvS50o8GCV-RS37CCX-_mxjmTXdBhB3odGb46bsDisTcmxiw4oT7QyYKEHwlfHJT9h9SIj4tJHaMngt3oMnQeknAPnCSqn_Ztwwm-xAkZomPOn4jw3nYk/s1600/NOAH+%23+1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRaHOYcz-CrforW59SuxS3d5gvS50o8GCV-RS37CCX-_mxjmTXdBhB3odGb46bsDisTcmxiw4oT7QyYKEHwlfHJT9h9SIj4tJHaMngt3oMnQeknAPnCSqn_Ztwwm-xAkZomPOn4jw3nYk/s1600/NOAH+%23+1.jpg" height="400" width="277" /></a><br />
Noah, compared to other men of his time was a "relatively" righteous man <i>(He was perfect in his generations.)</i> ... ergo ... he was chosen by God, along with his family, to be the sole survivors of this calamity.<br />
<br />
The selection of Noah follows the pattern of God choosing men to do his bidding who were what we would call today <b><i>"real men." </i></b> They were cussing men, fighting men, fellows you'd want at your side -- and your back -- in a fight.<br />
<br />
There were even a few murderers chosen by God. One, <b><i>King David</i></b>, whom God even remarked was a <b><i>"Man after his own heart,"</i></b> was an adulterer and an a murderer.<br />
<br />
Moses,
you may recall, was wanted in Egypt for the murder of an Egyptian
overseer of some rank. Even Saint Paul's hands were drenched in the
blood of the early saints. <b><i>He literally hunted down Christians -- and killed them.</i></b>
And Saint Peter, he of the hot temper, lost it -- and cut off the High
Priest's servant's ear. Then, after Christ was arrested, cursed and
swore that he had no idea who that Yēšūă' (Jesus) fellow was -- <b><i>THREE TIMES!</i></b>
He later repented, of course, and some church tradition has it that
Christ founded his church upon Saint Peter ... the Rock. That is open
for debate -- but -- that is a commentary for another day. <br />
<br />
<b><i>The point is, the meek need not apply for God's work. </i></b><br />
<br />
So,
I have no problem with portraying Noah as a bad a**. He probably was.
Judging from God's record of choosing real men, Noah would seem to fit
the mold.<br />
<br />
My concern is the corruption of the scriptures by such presentations as Noah. It misleads people. <br />
<br />
Look.
I am a southerner, a descendant of numerous Confederate soldiers. I
live, every day, with the lies of rewritten, revised, history about my
family -- and -- my extended Confederate family. It <i>IS</i> painful.<br />
<br />
That's one thing. <b><i>But
to deliberately revise or rewrite the Holy Scriptures to promote some
modern day fantasy about man destroying the environment, and further
the propaganda of global warming, is unforgivable.</i></b><br />
<br />
Look.
I'm not advising you to NOT see the movie. In fact, I'll probably see
it sooner or later. What I WILL advise, however, is that you read the
original story from the Bible <b><i>BEFORE</i></b> you go spend your hard earned money for a movie ticket. You'll find Noah's story, the story of the Great Flood, in Genesis <i>(The first book of the Bible)</i> beginning with chapter 6, verse 9, and continuing through chapter 8, verse 19. <br />
<br />
Is the story of Noah and the Great Flood true? Well, allow me to answer socratically: <b><i>Why does every major civilization on the planet have a similar story as that of Noah in Genesis?</i></b><br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSU9npMTxVS5JD72Ezv3RV8RBu4kkNXTsEVpuKa2H-YVqXIEz29jDk5l0GSBCBiLjiRYKEZ9A7pOJ1_U1sHDAFgtqEWGzvGWuSVE1JOP8LZIzKfC46Uv-njjX7FUAx8G7_ej6bprWsOo/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSU9npMTxVS5JD72Ezv3RV8RBu4kkNXTsEVpuKa2H-YVqXIEz29jDk5l0GSBCBiLjiRYKEZ9A7pOJ1_U1sHDAFgtqEWGzvGWuSVE1JOP8LZIzKfC46Uv-njjX7FUAx8G7_ej6bprWsOo/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>Someone once said something that sounded a lot like this: <b><i>"A nation of sheep led by a lion is more to be feared than a nation of lions led by a sheep."</i></b>
That "someone," as it turns out, was Alexander the Great. At least the
attribution I found for it says it was Alex as quoted in <b>"The
British Battle Fleet: Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries
to the Present Day (1915)" by Frederick Thomas Jane.</b><br />
<br />
Howsomever, who said it is not as important as the message it encompasses. <br />
<br />
There can be no doubt that America is currently led by a sheep, nay, a herd of sheep
when one includes the limp-wristed cohort of progressive/Marxists in the
US Senate and US House of Representatives to the big sheep sitting in
the Oval Office <i>(or out on a golf course somewhere!). </i><br />
<br />
That
is the real reason America was plastered with egg on it's face when
Obama and Kerry tackled Russia's Putin over the Crimea incident. Putin
is a lot of things but a sheep is NOT one of them.<br />
<br />
A little over a year ago I wrote: <b><i>"As I survey modern day America, I see a nation of sheep led by — a sheep. <br /><br />If
you know anything about sheep, you know that a trained goat is used to
lead the other sheep to the slaughter house. Thus, the name “Judas
goat.” Why use a goat rather than another sheep? Simple. A goat is
smarter than a sheep. The sheep are slaughtered while the life of the
Judas goat is spared.<br /><br />Having a nation of sheep led by another
sheep tells one everything one needs to know about that nation — dumb,
easily led, and headed for the slaughter.<br /><br />Sadly, America is being
fleeced along the way to the slaughter house. It’s sort of akin to
paying an admittance price to one’s own slaughter. How sick IS that?<br /><br />But that’s where we are as a nation today.<br /><br />It
is depressing being a member of the “can do” generation observing the
“can’t do” generation destroy nearly two and a half centuries of hard
work creating a nation unlike anything the world had ever seen.<br /><br />If
my generation made a grand mistake, it was our having faith that
following generations of Americans would have, at least, the same love
of freedom and liberty, the same degree of self reliance, self respect,
and pride in the American experiment that we did. In that, dear reader,
— we were totally mistaken.<br /><br />The great melting pot has finally
boiled its contents down and those contents have coelesed into something
quite alien to the aspirations of the original founders of the country.
Unlike the old Americans the new Americans yearn for the return of the
shackles, yokes, and chains of lords and masters. And rest assured —
they SHALL have them."</i> --SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.saveamericafoundation.com/2013/01/22/america-a-nation-of-sheep-led-by-a-sheep-by-j-d-longstreet/">http://www.saveamericafoundation.com/2013/01/22/america-a-nation-of-sheep-led-by-a-sheep-by-j-d-longstreet/</a><br />
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<br />
As
I observe the Obama administration "negotiating" with Putin I recall
something Thomas Fuller, a 17th Century English churchman and historian,
once said: <b><i> "It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf." </i></b><br />
<br />
In Judge Andrew P. Napolitano's book: <b>"A Nation of Sheep"</b>
the judge frankly discusses how the federal government has circumvented
the Constitution and is systematically dismantling the rights and
freedoms that are the foundation of American democracy. He challenges
Americans to recognize that they are being led down a very dangerous
path and that the cost of following without challenge is the loss of the
basic freedoms that facilitate our pursuit of happiness and that define
us as a nation.<br />
<br />
Judge Napolitano reminds readers what America is
all about, that the purpose of government is to protect freedom, and
freedom is the ability to follow your own free will and not the will of
government bureaucrats. He asks the simple question, which are YOU, a
sheep or a wolf? Do you blindly follow behind where you are led, or do
you challenge the government at every pass, forcing it to make decisions
that will protect our freedoms?<br />
<br />
Judge Napolitano asks the
questions that no one else will, challenging readers to rethink why they
are blindly following a government that has only its own interests in
mind. He asks:<br />
<br />
Why is the government using the war on terror as an excuse to sidestep the Constitution?<br />
<br />
Why are Americans not challenging and questioning the government as it continues to limit more and more of our freedoms?<br />
<br />
What part of "Congress shall make no law..." does the government not understand when it criminalizes speech?<br />
<br />
Whatever happened to our inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness that are proclaimed in the Declaration of
Independence, guaranteed by the Constitution, yet ignored by the
governments elected to protect them?<br />
<br />
Why does every public office holder swear allegiance to the Constitution, yet very few follow it?<br />
<br />
Don't we have rights that are guaranteed and cannot be taken from us?" <br />
<br />
<b>A Nation of Sheep by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano</b> is available at Amazon at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nation-Sheep-Andrew-P-Napolitano/dp/B002N2XHVW"><b><i>http://www.amazon.com/Nation-Sheep-Andrew-P-Napolitano/dp/B002N2XHVW</i></b></a><br />
<br />
My broadcasting idol, Edward R. Murrow, once said: <b><i>“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”</i></b> How right he was!<br />
<br />
Today America is overrun with sheep and wolves <b><i>with very few lions in evidence. </i></b><br />
<br />
I
hold my breath day to day to see if our Sheep-in-Charge will make the
single fatal mistake that will collapse the greatest country ever known
to man.<br />
<br />
<b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA6w9aqlIT2FDPBzMi5-eqwC81s9utMqBmduYOLy3PPGNhHK2XEcbWEOtLFdq_L6giiovvm2gBVMVYcjipLPQItebiGUDGnMBWjMJ9yb8sdUwk7U9PzLCTHy-RTpGCcI0gP7SY1mnL8BI/s1600/LION.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA6w9aqlIT2FDPBzMi5-eqwC81s9utMqBmduYOLy3PPGNhHK2XEcbWEOtLFdq_L6giiovvm2gBVMVYcjipLPQItebiGUDGnMBWjMJ9yb8sdUwk7U9PzLCTHy-RTpGCcI0gP7SY1mnL8BI/s1600/LION.jpeg" /></a>America's
lions have been either muzzled or caged. The wolves, inside and
outside the walls, have gathered and wait with salivating jaws for
America to stumble. </i></b><br />
I hail from a long line of hard
scrabble farmers. My father once told me that as a lad he had cared for
sheep... fed them, watered them, fleeced them, and butchered them. He
once volunteered: <b><i>"Son, there is no dumber animal on God's green earth than a sheep." </i></b> <br />
<br />
Sheep
are so skittish that often the shepherd will have to dam-up a small
flowing stream to create those "still waters" spoken of in the 23rd
psalm just to entice the sheep to drink because -- they fear the sound
of running water!<br />
<br />
Is that where we are as Americans today? <b><i>Are we so skittish that the </i><i><u>sound</u></i><i> of freedom frightens us? </i></b><br />
<br />
Look.
Maintaining freedom is an ongoing struggle. We can't just win our
freedom and then relax. There are always those waiting to strip us of
our freedom and return us to chains. Remaining free requires eternal
vigilance <b><i>and the courage to rise to any challenge and defend that precious liberty.</i></b><br />
<br />
And
yet today, elements of our government are violating our constitutional
rights every single day -- and we do nothing! Like sheep we cringe when
someone utters the word "IMPEACH!" And each day we lose a little more
of that precious freedom. <br />
<br />
As brutal as it at first sounds <i>(and it really IS brutal)</i>
tarring and feathering worked pretty well for our ancestors. Toss in a
rail for the miscreant to ride upon and that completes the set. The
fact is, they made their point. The malefactor never dared inciting the
wrath of the citizenry again. <br />
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Our forefathers were anything but sheep. We are not descended from sheepish Americans. <b><i>So, our behavior today is of an aberrant kind. </i></b> I contend it is learned behavior. <b><i>We placed our trust in out government to educate our children and instead they indoctrinated them in socialism and communism. </i></b><br />
Our young graduate from college dumb as posts. <b><i>One
is led to believe that without Google, Wikipedia, and cut and paste,
there would be few graduating classes at our colleges and universities
this Spring.</i></b><br />
<br />
Pitifully, our young have never known real
freedom as some of us old fuddy-duddies have, therefore they have no
idea what they have lost. They believe this is normal! <b><i>Another generation lost.</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />"Have
we held power to account? Do our elected officials fear the populace,
which Thomas Jefferson said indicated liberty, or is it otherwise –
where the people fear the government, a situation Jefferson postulated
would lead to tyranny?"</i></b> <b> --SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://www.ummahpulse.com/2011/11/sheep-led-by-wolves/">http://www.ummahpulse.com/2011/11/sheep-led-by-wolves/ </a><br />
<br />
Today, in America, there is no doubt that the people fear the government.<b><i> The nation that rebuked a tyrant at its founding now accepts, and feels comfortable with, tyrannical rule. </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>How utterly sad!</i></b><br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<b> Insurers Driving Insured Into Arms Of Drug Dealers?<br />A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet </b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVQz5zwZ5MHkdiGDPGpwD9sERQabhDe17WEP4f3btHaM5Equ5KsjIcdvLUZS1dAegoVwWL7wf89GYYQbrH_JOnxXSYHS14lLGpaB60Y051gH6BBTCM5fGlEF7s8aFV6OQkwmGGnkIIVvc/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVQz5zwZ5MHkdiGDPGpwD9sERQabhDe17WEP4f3btHaM5Equ5KsjIcdvLUZS1dAegoVwWL7wf89GYYQbrH_JOnxXSYHS14lLGpaB60Y051gH6BBTCM5fGlEF7s8aFV6OQkwmGGnkIIVvc/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>I
know a man who suffers chronic pain. He also has an auto-immune
disease which comes complete with its own myalgia (chronic pain). On
top of that, the autoimmune disease has triggered fibro myalgia. So,
let's just say he deals with a heck of a lot of pain every day, 24 hours
a day. <br />
<br />
For decades my friend has taken an opioid drug for pain
relief. It does not take away the pain, but it does allow him to
function. He has come to rely upon the relief that drug affords him. <br />
<br />
He
is also aware that he is most certainly physically addicted, even if he
is not psychologically addicted, to the drug. But, in order to be able
to function as a nominal human being, he must take the drug every day
to be able to handle the pain.<br />
<br />
Along comes Obamacare. His
insurance company sends him the dreaded letter that as of December 31st
of 2013, he would no longer have insurance. <br />
<br />
Not being one to procrastinate he managed to re-insure with a nationally known insurance company.<br />
<br />
However,
so much has changed under the new Obamacare (so-called affordable Care
Act) rules that he has been blindsided by many new rules and regulations
that make if far more difficult for the insured to actually benefit
from being insured. <br />
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<b><i>If
you haven't paid close attention to the drug formulary of your
insurance policy, we suggest you do so, and not casually. Study it
intensely. For even if you are healthy now, eventually you will become
ill and you will require medications for treatment. </i></b><br />
<br />
Today,
the main function of a prescription formulary is to specify particular
medications that are approved to be prescribed under a particular
insurance policy. The development of prescription formularies is based
on evaluations of efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness of drugs. <br />
<br />
Understand,
dear reader. Insurance companies are not in business to do you or me a
favor. They are not in business to heal the sick no matter what their
expensive PR firms may say. <b><i>They are in business for one reason and one reason only: to make money.</i></b><br />
<br />
Now, I'm a capitalist. So, I have no problem with a company, any company, making a profit. In fact I applaud it. <b><i>But I draw the line when human pain and suffering is the result of a business decision.</i></b> <br />
<br />
My problem with all this is the point at which an insurance company's drug formularies and common sense clash.<br />
<br />
For
instance, my friend, under his new policy, must now have a "prior
approval" to get the same drug he has been taking strictly by his
doctor's direction and under his doctor's supervision, for decades. He
told me it infuriates him and results in him feeling as if he were
suspected of being a junkie. <br />
<br />
He said the angrier he became the
more tempted he was to forgo a prescription entirely and visit the
neighborhood drug dealer who stocks the exact same drug and no prior
approval and no prescription is required. <br />
<br />
Well. that got me to thinking. Where my angry and frustrated friend was just blowing smoke and ranting, I have to wonder -- <b><i>how many Americans are doing just exactly what my friend threatens to do?</i></b><br />
<br />
In
another case, an acquaintance told me of a situation in which he had
been taking an old sulfa drug for decades. It is an old formula, very
inexpensive, and very effective for his chronic problem. But, he said
his new insurance company won't pay for it. They WILL, he said, pay
for a far more expensive drug, that he doesn't need and doesn't want.
So, he said, he ended up paying for the sulfa drug, out of pocket, in
order to continue the extremely effective treatment it has rendered over
the decades. <br />
<br />
I, too, am frustrated and angry at where the insurance industry in America is headed. <b><i>The bond of trust between the insurer and the insured is eroding at an alarming rate.</i></b> <b><i>The face of the insurance company is morphing into the face of Obamacare, which is to say -- </i><i><u>into the face of government.</u></i></b><br />
<br />
THAT
is why the insurers are losing their customer's trust and respect. They
have become just another bureaucratic branch of the strong central
Leftist government of Obama. <br />
<br />
<b><i>In four years Obamacare has
deconstructed the world's finest healthcare system and remade it into a
healthcare system to rival any in the third world.</i></b><br />
The
tentacles of Obamacare have so entangled themselves into America's
healthcare and insurance system that they can do longer be defined
separately. They have, all three, become one and the same and hated by
the very people they purport to serve. <br />
<br />
So, what's to be done? <br />
<br />
<b><u>Repeal Obamacare -- completely.</u></b>
Rid this country of the cancer of Obamacare or the so-called Affordable
Care Act. Don't make an attempt to repair it, as a group of Democrats
<i>(whose days in office are numbered as a result of their total
support of Obamacare when it passed in the US Congress -- with not a
single Republican vote)</i> They are pathetic in their attempt to cover
their collective derrières with their obviously insincere attempt to
"fix" Obamacare. They are mostly from "red" states and every last one
of them will, most likely, be in the unemployment line after this
November's elections. <br />
<br />
<b><i>And they ought to be. </i></b> <br />
<br />
The
damage they and their cohorts have done the people of America will take
decades to repair and some of it will NEVER be fixed. <b><i>Even after Obamacare is repealed the scars will remain. </i></b><br />
<b><i><u><br /></u></i></b><b><i><u>The GOP's mantra of Repeal and Replace is pure Bovine Scatology ... plan and simple! </u></i></b><br />
<br />
Look. We know the Democrats are hoping for a<i><b> "repeal and replace"</b></i> movement in Congress <b><i>because
they have the replacement already drawn up and ready to plop into the
hopper in the Senate and the House. It is a Single Payer system much
like that so hated in Great Britain today. Yeah, that's where some
insured are extracting their own teeth with their pliers! Uh-huh! How
great a system is that? </i></b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b><i> </i></b>My point is: Obamacare is bad enough. <b><i>It's replacement will be worse. </i></b><br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Let the marketplace recreate a uniquely American healthcare system while the government stays the heck out of it! <br />
<br />
Two things: Being the bully that it is, <b><i>the government WON'T Stay out of it,</i></b> and so much damage has been done our healthcare system by Obamacare, <b><i>I
seriously doubt we will EVER be able to create a system that even
approaches the quality of care and the efficiency of the original
American Healthcare System BO. (BO = BEFORE OBAMACARE)</i></b><br />
<br />
All
of this is a part of the decline of America. A decline the Left wanted
so much! Otherwise they would be left with egg on their faces. So, if
America did not decline on it's own, which it did not, the Left made
darn sure they would cause it to decline. <b><i>I refer you to the Cloward-Piven plan for crashing America.</i></b><br />
<br />
<b>This nation must be free of Obamacare. It MUST be repealed -- completely!</b> <b><i>Repeal can't happen as long as the US Senate remains in the hands of Democrats</i></b>.
Only a veto proof Congress or a complete takeover of the US government
(Senate, House, and Oval Office) by the GOP will result in repeal of
Obamacare. We can begin the transition this November. <br />
<br />
America deserves better than this --<b><i> MUCH better!</i></b><br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet </div>
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Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939631823024094655.post-22530128265561648522014-03-31T00:54:00.001-05:002014-03-31T00:54:21.851-05:00Refusing The Label Of Racist ... J. D. Longstreet<b>Refusing The Label Of Racist<br />A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</b><br />
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<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj80dAEskL3M_4W6HMXMd9-_gEwO_tKHiZDyGLQ5STKKDbvvHiIgFIVlJ7iggAlzHonZJri6x7Kil6M1AHupEakxoD4L1JANVmqLRtJHEtwMF_Vx5B-sFyZMkRcAoTP3RR5CSipkBMiZ9U/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj80dAEskL3M_4W6HMXMd9-_gEwO_tKHiZDyGLQ5STKKDbvvHiIgFIVlJ7iggAlzHonZJri6x7Kil6M1AHupEakxoD4L1JANVmqLRtJHEtwMF_Vx5B-sFyZMkRcAoTP3RR5CSipkBMiZ9U/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>I am a long time reader of anything written by Mychal Massie. The man is a true conservative. <br />
<br />
Mr. Massie has written a piece entitled: <b><i>"Blacks And Palestinians Are A Lot Alike."</i></b> It is "spot-on!"<br />
<br />
Mychal
S. Massie is an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time
Christian Ministry. He was founder and president of the non-profit “In
His Name Ministries.” He is the former National Chairman of the
conservative black think tank, Project 21-The National Leadership
Network of Black Conservatives and a former member of its parent think
tank, the National Center for Public Policy Research. In his official
capacity with this free-market, public-policy think tank, he has spoken
at the U.S. Capitol, CPAC, participated in numerous press conferences on
Capitol Hill, the National Press Club and testified concerning property
rights pursuant to the “Endangered Species Act” before the Chairman of
the House Committee on Resources. He has been a keynote speaker at
colleges and universities nationwide, at Tea Party Rallies, as well as
rallies supporting our troops, conservative presidents, and conservative
causes across the country. He is an unapologetic supporter of our right
to own and carry firearms.<br />
<br />
Oh, Mr. Massie also happens to be a black American. <br />
<br />
In his article Mr. Massie says: <br />
<b><i><br />"The
Jews are no more the enemies of the Palestinians than Americans are the
suppressors of blacks. The question that begs an answer is where would
these same blacks crying foul be if they weren’t in America? Just as the
puppet-masters encourage the Palestinians to reject modernity so too
are blacks encouraged."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://mychal-massie.com/premium/blacks-and-palestinians-are-a-lot-alike/"> http://mychal-massie.com/premium/blacks-and-palestinians-are-a-lot-alike/ </a><br />
<br />
Mr. Massie continues: <b><i>"...
it is not the Palestinians terrorizing Israel who are sitting in
palatial splendor and opulence complete with gold toilets; it is not the
blacks chanting the support of race-mongers who are the benefactors of
the racial antipathy.<br /><br />Blacks have not benefited from the visceral
heterodoxy of Sharpton, Jackson, Obama, Holder, or for that matter
Louis Farrakhan. The blacks crying foul and being led to see racism
behind every bush are not benefiting from their untoward and often
manufactured complaints. But the same cannot be said for the
race-mongers who are quick to inflame their laments. Said race-mongers
reap the rewards of the ignorant acts of the easily led."</i> -- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://mychal-massie.com/premium/blacks-and-palestinians-are-a-lot-alike/"> http://mychal-massie.com/premium/blacks-and-palestinians-are-a-lot-alike/ </a><br />
<br />
American Leftists have continued their mantra of <b>"Let's have a national conversation about racism in America."</b> But it is impossible -- <b><i>made so by the very political movement that cries crocodile tears as they plead for that racism conversation. </i></b><br />
<br />
The
moment the conversation nears the truth, they cry "foul," To make
matters worse, and to completely stop any conversation about racism in
America, they accuse those who truly DO want to talk, <i>(out in the open)</i> about racism in America, of being racists! <br />
<br />
So
we're not going there anymore. It's a bit like Charlie Brown having
the football plucked from in front of his foot each fall by Lucy. We're
tired of it. We've had it. Most of us now refuse to even discuss
racism any longer. <b><i>We are sure that it is a hopelessly compromised
argument no longer answerable to reason and not worthy of our time or
consideration. </i></b><br />
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Let's be clear. There <b><i>IS</i></b> racism in America. But let's be clear about something else. <b><i>If
America isn't the least racist country on the planet, then America is
certainly amongst the least racist countries on the globe. </i></b><br />
<br />
So, whose the loser here? Funny thing is the losers don't see themselves as having lost. As Mr. Massie said above,<b><i> they are easily led. </i></b>
Unfortunately, they have been led into a false sense of pride at being
imaginary modern day slaves. And to be sure, they ARE slaves, but it
is voluntary servitude to masters from amongst them who preach to them
and tell them that which they long to hear ... <b><i>excuses</i></b> ... <b><i>excuses</i></b> <b><i>for
their own inability to hoist themselves up after having been free for
over 150 years in a nation that offers every opportunity for advancement
possible to man. </i></b><br />
<br />
There is no excuse for sloth. Sloth
is identified in the Holy Scriptures of the Judeo-Christian faith as the
personification of a deadly sin. And it is deadly -- <b><i>to the soul.</i></b> It robs one of ambition and induces a feeling of well being even though one is in the direst of circumstances. <br />
<br />
Look.
Racism has always existed and always will. To mistrust anyone not like
us was, and remains, a part of the nature's defense mechanism wired
into to every human being. It is also within each of us to rise above <b><i>misplaced distrust</i></b> and determine to live and work together to make our coexistence as pleasant as possible. <br />
<br />
And
finally: There is not a man, woman, or child walking the earth today
who does not have slavery in his genealogy. Somewhere in all our
ancestry <b><i><u>we are all descended from slaves.</u></i></b> So much for being a descendant of slaves as an excuse for one's station in modern life.<br />
<br />
<b><i>Slavery
STILL exists, even today. According to a recent article in the
Washington Post there are some 30 million slaves today -- in the year
2014. </i></b><br />
<br />
Consider: <b><i> "We think of slavery as a
practice of the past, an image from Roman colonies or 18th-century
American plantations, but the practice of enslaving human beings as
property still exists. There are 29.8 million people living as slaves
right now, according to a comprehensive new report issued by the
Australia-based Walk Free Foundation."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/17/this-map-shows-where-the-worlds-30-million-slaves-live-there-are-60000-in-the-u-s/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/17/this-map-shows-where-the-worlds-30-million-slaves-live-there-are-60000-in-the-u-s/
</a><br />
<br />
<b><i>"This is not some softened, by-modern-standards
definition of slavery. These 30 million people are living as forced
laborers, forced prostitutes, child soldiers, child brides in forced
marriages and, in all ways that matter, as pieces of property, chattel
in the servitude of absolute ownership. Walk Free investigated 162
countries and found slaves in every single one."</i></b> <b> -- SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/17/this-map-shows-where-the-worlds-30-million-slaves-live-there-are-60000-in-the-u-s/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/17/this-map-shows-where-the-worlds-30-million-slaves-live-there-are-60000-in-the-u-s/
</a><br />
<br />
My friend and fellow commentator, Alan Caruba, said in an article entitled: <b>"I am Tired of Being Called a White Racist,"</b> which was published back in 2013: <b><i>"I
don’t know when it occurred to me that I had gone from having shaken
hands with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to being called a white racist,
but apparently I was not paying attention.<br /><br />Neither were a lot of
others of my generation who had welcomed and supported the Civil Rights
movement only to discover we were not going to hear a word of thanks.
Younger generations have suffered the same indignity."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2013/08/i-am-tired-of-being-called-white-racist.html">http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2013/08/i-am-tired-of-being-called-white-racist.html</a><br />
<br />
Mr Caruba went on to say: <b><i>
"Speaking solely for myself I am extremely disappointed by the failure
of too many black Americans to simply admit that there is something
terribly wrong in a community that has too many abortions, too many
fatherless children, too much exploitation of welfare systems, too much
drug use and trafficking, and too much blame on white racism for these
and other ills.<br /><br />Instead of seeing evidence that the black
community in America is mounting an effort to address its problems what I
and others see and hear are the same tired race hustlers, Al Sharpton,
Jesse Jackson, and others, spewing the same “blame whitey” rhetoric.<br /><br />It needs to be said that racism cuts both ways, but too much black racism gets a pass. Whites are not to blame at this point."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2013/08/i-am-tired-of-being-called-white-racist.html">http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2013/08/i-am-tired-of-being-called-white-racist.html</a><br />
<br />
Like Mr. Caruba, I, too, am tired of the white racist label. <b><i> I refuse to be yoked with a guilt I do not deserve.</i></b> It is past time for the white race to turn its collective back on the false cries of racism -- <b><i><u>and just walk away. </u></i></b><br />
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J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><i>Press Surprised At Censorship From Obama White House. WHY?</i></span><br />A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK0YaImOC44r-UqcqS3O00Upjy-L4d93Fx9KhGSfITLUPhWLEGEv-faVSxgx3MTZgl_0JykvtAJ6O_EoSyzC07haiio_MJHFsReKOehreH2VEHNidor6GH2BbULTmLyPxYcfRka1s5gC0/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK0YaImOC44r-UqcqS3O00Upjy-L4d93Fx9KhGSfITLUPhWLEGEv-faVSxgx3MTZgl_0JykvtAJ6O_EoSyzC07haiio_MJHFsReKOehreH2VEHNidor6GH2BbULTmLyPxYcfRka1s5gC0/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a>You know, this would be funny if it were not so serious. <br />
<br />
As
a former card carrying member of the press, I have had my share of
run-ins with those who threw every roadblock in my way when I was doing
my job gathering and delivering the news. <br />
<br />
One -- less than
sterling -- moment was a stand-up, in your face, yelling, verbal fight
with a deputy sheriff on court house grounds. He was threatening to
arrest me for doing my job. I was begging him to go ahead and put the
cuffs on. I did, however, remind him that he was opening himself -- and
the county -- up to a millions of dollars lawsuit for violation of my
civil rights and, even more importantly, my <b><i>constitutional rights</i></b> as a journalist <b><i>granted under the First Amendment to the Constitution. </i></b><br />
I
won. (Oh, and yes, later in life I became a deputy sheriff myself.
So, I've had the advantage of seeing the issue from both sides. <b><i>I still come down on the side of the First Amendment.)</i></b><br />
<br />
There
is no secret that the Mainstream Media is subject to a death grip on
their throats by the liberal/Progressive/Marxist elements in governments
around the globe and especially here in America where <b><i>freedom of the press is guaranteed by our constitution. </i></b>
Do not be deceived, that constitutional guarantee does not mean the
Left will not make every attempt in their power to control the press and
--<b><i> if that fails -- then they will pull out all the stops to muzzle the press. </i></b><br />
<br />
For
decades, nay, for centuries, the press in America has been warned
over, and over, and over again, that the political left, which they
unreservedly serve, will come after them, <b><i>first thing,</i></b> should they (the Left) ever gain complete control of the US government. It is the nature of the Leftist beast.<br />
<br />
To
date, the US Mainstream Media has pooh-poohed all the warnings the
political Right has issued, especially those warning that the free press
will be the very first constitutional guarantee suddenly dissolved and
done away with.<br />
<br />
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Should
our current Leftist leaders follow suit of their forerunners in Europe,
Asia, and other parts of the so-called civilized world, shutting down
the presses will only be the beginning. Members of the press could and,
I feel certain will, find themselves locked away in some sort of
internment camp, or holding facility, somewhere in the less populated
areas of our vast country. <br />
<br />
Plainly put -- <b><i>they don't believe us.</i></b>
Even with the wall the Obama administration has built between the
administration and the public's eyes into the government, and the
workings of the government, the slavish members of the leftist
Mainstream Media in America STILL will not believe and , I daresay, <b><i>when
they are led away in handcuffs, and stashed, incommunicado, in one of
those internment camps we mentioned above, they will STILL hang on to
their mantra of freedom of the press and they will not be able to accept
that they have been wrong all these decades and, even worse, the
political Right has been correct all along. </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i> "President
Obama’s has been the most aggressive Administration in history, not
only in going after whistleblowers, but also pursuing the reporters who
write their stories."</i></b> <b>--SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2014/03/obama-press-attacks-degrade-first-amendment-name-security">http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2014/03/obama-press-attacks-degrade-first-amendment-name-security </a><br />
<br />
The purpose of the First Amendment, the ruling from New York Times v. Sullivan says, is<b><i> “to assure unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people.”</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2014/03/obama-press-attacks-degrade-first-amendment-name-security">http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2014/03/obama-press-attacks-degrade-first-amendment-name-security</a><br />
<br />
Currently,
the Mainstream Media is looking, somewhat askance, at an attempt at a
national/federal shield law in some form of development within the
democratically controlled US Senate. It was proposed by Chuck Schumer,
Democrat of New York. It is titled: the <b>“Free Flow of Information Act.” </b><br />
<br />
Consider this: <b><i>"Schumer's
proposal would exempt a “covered journalist” from subpoenas and other
legal requirements to expose their confidential sources in leak
investigations and other areas."</i></b> <b>-- SOURCE: </b><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/26/Exclusive-Cornyn-Rips-Schumer-s-Media-Shield-Law"> http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/26/Exclusive-Cornyn-Rips-Schumer-s-Media-Shield-Law</a><br />
<br />
Some reports leaked out of the Senate say the law would shield only <i><b>"approved"</b></i> or, as the article above states, <b><i>"covered journalists." </i></b><br />
<br />
The article goes on to quote John Cornyn, Republican Senator of Texas, as saying: <b><i>"They
want to pick and choose which journalists are covered,” the Texan
Republican told Breitbart News. “In other words, if you’re a blogger
they might not cover you, but if you work for the New York Times they
might. Given the changes in the way we get information and the way we
consume news, that really smacks to me in essence of government
licensing who’s an official ‘journalist’ for the purposes of a shield
law and who’s not. If there is one thing I can glean from the First
Amendment, it is that government should not be in the business of
licensing the news media.” </i>-- SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/26/Exclusive-Cornyn-Rips-Schumer-s-Media-Shield-Law">http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/26/Exclusive-Cornyn-Rips-Schumer-s-Media-Shield-Law</a><br />
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See the problem here? <b><i>So who is an approved or covered journalist? </i></b> And an even more important question is ...<b><i>
by approving certain journalists -- is the government creating it's own
government press corp with allegiance to the government and not to the
people? Will it result in a state controlled media?</i></b><br />
<br />
Senator
Schumer says he already has the 60 votes he needs for passage of the
bill in the US Senate. It was not clear if any of those votes were from
Republican senators.<br />
<br />
The plain truth is, dear reader, when the
government begins to fool around with the constitution it is the people
who lose freedom. <b><i>That includes the members of the press as both private citizens and as members of the press/media. </i></b><br />
<br />
The First Amendment is what it is. <b> Freedom of the press.</b> <b>E<u><i>ven
an attempt by the government to pass a federal shield law is
interference with our constitutional right and ought not be allowed --
not even considered. </i></u></b><br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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