Crusader War College

These two comments in the discussion are illuminating:

4. Pascal:

Inadequate. Lame sarcasm from the senator who never charged Clinton launderers of Chinese campaign money with contempt of Congress for failing to appear in front of his committee. Connect the dotted lines between his failure and Obama’s billion dollar campaign.

Here’s the question: Does Thompson believe his brand of humor will earn him the RNC chairmanship?
Dec 8, 2008 - 6:39 pm

8. E. Nigma:

RE:Pascal
He could never move forward for indictments of the Clinton campaign money launderers because Robert Torricelli (remember him?) and John Glenn knee-capped him at every turn. Out of party loyalty. And Carl Levin helped. And a slew of them fled the country to evade deposition.
I watched those hearings with disgust. I think they disgusted Fred so much that he decided he wanted out of the muck and did not run for re-election.

Fred is being just sarcastic enough to be serious. It all may blow over, but I think stagflation is probably one of the most likely outcomes, and the least of our worries.

Dec 8, 2008 - 8:29 pm

Thinking about the second comment made me realize the following: we are urged to 'work within the system' to resolve issues, with the implication that if we are not successful, we are to 'shut up and take it'.

But what if our issue is with the corruption of those who manage 'the system', whithin which we are to 'work'?

Hmm. Haven't we addressed this issue before?

Doing good in the face of evil.

It was on a whim," Limbaugh, who claims to have "Talent on loan from God," said. "She sounded so tired, distraught, and frightened about her and her husband's business future with an Obama victory.

"I just wanted to brighten her day, keep her inspired and 'in the game,'" he told CNS News. "We will need people like Belinda Davis to keep the country moving."

Davis runs a small jewelry business with her husband in Kerrville, Texas and called Limbaugh on Oct. 28 to complain about Hollywood celebrities getting undue attention during the election season while everyday working people like herself and her husband are ignored.

Belinda Davis told Gretchen Carlson of Fox News in an interview that the story tugged at Limbaugh's heart strings and she was just in the line of his heart.

And as luck would have it, the transmission had just died in her car.

I had read this yesterday, and it gnawed at the back of my mind. While I was at peace despite the results, and while I helped others take the long, divine view of things, I was sensing a higher than normal neurotransmitter drain. This morning, I realized that the election was taken by the darker forces in this world as permission to move in and selectively impose a spirit of discouragement and defeat on God's people, in the same way that corrupt Democrats selectively apply the laws of the land against God's people. This is a different sort of demon oppression that requires a different sort of exorcism. I tried a few different tacks, and it looks as if I was correct since I am now "keeping station" more easily.

Then the Spirit brought this incident back to my mind. I realized that repelling the spiritual oppression is merely defense. We must go on the offense. Rush shows us one way to do it: Agressive goodness done in defiance of those who hold it is best done via nanny state/paternalistic/meddling neighbor government.

Doubtless there are some who would criticize Rush for giving a car to a jeweler when there were "more deserving" people who could have been benefitted by him using the money to buy several used compact cars.

To those critics I say this: GO TO HELL, EVIL SPAWN!

"What!" they will cry, "We're good people! We know how to do more good than Rush did, who just did it for publicity!"

THERE! THAT IS WHY YOU ARE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL!

Yes, I know what capital letters mean online, and yes, I AM shouting at the top of my lungs IN FURY that these pretentious bastards!

I do not hear of THEM giving cars or goods away from their own resources! No, they would rather control how others express their goodness. Lacking instincts of good within themselves, but craving the approval of being regarded as generous and good, they substitute THEIR micromanagement of the good others do.

Know this: Controlling the good that others do is impossible without controlling those doing good. Rather than doing good, these parasitic, pretentious hypocrites strive to control the good that others do. They won't buy cars for those they deem worthy, but want to control who gets Rush's gift of a car. Rather than pay for medical care of the indigent and poor, or better yet getting a medical degree and opening a clinic in a poor area themselves, they would rather raise taxes on workers to pay for their generosity, and control the doctors, the actual givers and doers of medical care, via controlling their compensation, their businesses, and their customers.

This attitude bleeds over to God. They criticize how God exercises his powers and capabilities for good, and even using the fact that He will not stop evil or bad things from happening as a proof against his existance. In actuality, they don't want a God who refuses to submit to their ideas of good and evil and how to handle them. They'd want big government (controlled by themselves of course) handling the disposition of good and evil, rather than a Babe in a Manger.

These bastards need to shown, repeatedly, that controlling those who do good is not inherently good as well. This will be done by doing acts of true goodness that defy their definitions of good. The pharisees believed that "good" meant following their man-made laws and traditions. The Sadducees believed that "good" meant keeping the peace by cooperating with those in power to get power. The Priests believed that "good" meant honoring them, the Temple, equating them with the Temple, and buying only from the Temple authorized marketers (who were on the Temple grounds as a sign of their authorization). It is enlightening how agressively Jesus did good that they disapproved of, even while they angrily admitted that He DID do good.

One way that the System of This World manipulates Christians is by defining what a good work is and how it is to be done. We need to break away from their bondage, reassert God's standard of good and bad, and do it.

Jerusalem

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!

I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.

-- William Blake

Vote.

It may be our last peaceful and significant act as a free people.

Vote.

Fling it into the face of a lying media more consumed by show, oratory, and shallow education than the truth.

Vote.

Let it be a thread thrown about the necks of the corrupt which, when joined with others of like mind, we act in concert to pull them down.

Vote.

Because, YES, the fate of the free world DOES depend on it.

Media abuses the working man.

We need a trip-wire. A red-line, enforced by blood and fire.

This is close.

Wretchard at Belmont Club discusses how Japan overcame Colonial stereotyping, giving this link to what Bill Cosby is saying along the same lines.

Hattip Sherry via Rantburg.

Worth reading. I may add to the list later.

Hattip Gorb via Rantburg.

McCarthy wanted the government to clean it's own house, nothing more and nothing less. The original McCarthy revelations occurred around the same time as the collapse of China to the communists and shocking revelation that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had assisted the Soviets in obtaining nuclear secrets which led to the development of a Soviet A-bomb.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, KGB archives have been opened which further vindicate McCarthy. As unfathomable as it may seem, Americans, many of whom were in important positions in the government back then, were in fact collaborating with the Soviets in such projects as the take-over of Eastern Europe, China, and elsewhere according to de-classified Soviet files.

Eat truth and die, Lefty scum!

Via Steve at Rantburg:

The Salvation Army of Livingston County received a pleasant surprise when an anonymous donor dropped a gold bar in a Salvation Army Red Kettle Monday night. This is the third year in a row that someone has given a gold bar donation, Captain Derek Rose, administrator of the Salvation Army in Howell, said today.

The one-ounce bar, which was wrapped in a $100 bill, is valued at about $650.

Obviously returning a portion of the blessings Providence has provided them, and thus placing themselves under His kind regard. Good is the heart that does this, and wise is the mind who counts on it.

Tammy Bruce's column at the Fox News site makes the electrons that come over the Internet sizzle!

British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons, an unimposing woman of 54, was found guilty of "inciting religious hatred" and sentenced to 15 days in jail and deportation by a court in Sudan’s Khartoum after allowing her 7-year-old students to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.”

In the meantime, Islamist fundamentalists have called for her execution, and her safety is in constant jeopardy. Demonstrations have increased, with crowds carrying machetes, shouting in part: “Execute her! Kill her, kill her by firing squad.”

She is under such threat, Sudanese authorities have moved her to a secret location to ensure her safety.

Apparently, naming a cuddly bear Muhammad insults the prophet, while mass-murdering homicide bombers named Muhammad don’t.

During the past 14 years at least, certainly since Usama bin Laden declared ‘war’ on Western civilization in 1993, we’ve all been exposed to the literal madness of Islamic fundamentalism. We’ve seen the curtain pulled back on how craven American leftists can be as well. Yes, it took a teddy bear to highlight more clearly than ever the psychosis of the enemy, and the failure of the feminist establishment.

There has been appropriate international outrage over the treatment of Gibbons, from virtually everyone except American “feminists.” Multiple Muslim groups in the U.K. have condemned the sentence. Even the popular little boy in Mrs. Gibbons’ class who suggested the name for the bear came to her defense, explaining that he named the bear after himself.

Yet, when asked by FOX News for a comment about the situation, a National Organization for Women spokeswoman said they were "not putting out a statement or taking a position."

This is how depraved the American left has become. A little Muslim boy in Sudan shows more courage and conviction for a woman under fire than a bunch of women sitting in Washington, D.C., who preen themselves on being the premiere “advocates” for women.

Ouch! Go read it all!

Tammy's blog is here.

Hattip LGF.

We have an early entry for Comment of the Week, this time from AM, who posts this at comment #6 at the above linked article at Rantburg:

I that it is not too late to make a few changes to the immigration system that will allow Muslims who wish to live in the 21st Century to stay and to eliminate those who do not. It's a bit like the Mexican problem. A good majority of Mexicans living here move on and become indistinguishable from any other American. But the jails and welfare systems are over-run - not because millons of Mexican people are incapable of integrating into our society - but because our society is currently incapable of rejecting the millions who are NOT capable of integrating. If we just passed a few laws - then the problem would soon be over.

EXCELLENT point. I am sure that there may be some hidden implications that would make the general idea not work, but I can see that as a good compromise starting position.

Heather MacDonald bewails the hijacking of classical Opera, turning it into a vehicle to peddle smut and leftist political commentary while degrading audience, singers, and the orchestra. This "movement", in which the directors attempt to set operas into modern (normally squalid) contexts, is called Regietheatre, which denotes its origins in Germany, and emphasizes the vision of the Director over that of the composer and librettist. This, of course, suits the control-freak streak in leftists. Up until now, the Metropolitan Opera has been the sole bulwark against this movement, becoming the sole place where operas can be seen and heard as the composer and librettist intended. It feels like something out of Atlas Shrugged.

However, Ms. MacDonald is concerned that the latest hire for executive director of the Metropolitan Opera will give in to elitist demands to bring trashy opera to the Last True Opera House on Earth.

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At the New Atlantis, Robert Zubrin applies some elementary chemistry to dispose of the touted benefits of the Hydrogen Economy. Recommended.