America's accelerating DIS-integration

The changes in American government and society are accelerating at a dizzying pace. After two hundred and thirty-three years of fighting, dying, building, and overcoming mistakes, the nation that changed the world is now seemingly in a headlong rush to become the disaster so many have worked and sacrificed to avoid.

President Obama, who either has no clear understanding of what abortion is all about or the harm it does to the nation, followed Bill Clinton's example and repealed the "Mexico City Policy" that had prevented public money from funding pro-abortion groups around the world.

As an American, it is incredible to watch the moral fabric of this nation being intentionally unraveled, with no consideration of the end result. As pro-abortion factions such as Planned Parenthood and the ACLU seek to remove all roadblocks to the slaughter of the innocents, including forcing doctors to perform the perfidious act against conscience. Also, the FDA is allowing human trials of embryonic stem cell research, despite the abundance of evidence that adult stem cells show more promise without the destruction of donor embryos.

Robert Reich, former Clinton Labor Secretary and now economic advisor to Obama, recently opined to a congressional panel that, "I am concerned, as I'm sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers," apparently unaware of just how dependent our infrastructure is on people who actually know how to do the job and have the incentive to do it right. But then, wouldn't you rather drive over a bridge built by a semi-literate immigrant or high school dropout who gets a check just for showing up, rather than someone with years of training and experience and a mortgage to pay? Ya gotta love these social engineers (no, not really), who haven't a clue as to how their world really operates.

In case you haven't heard (what cave do you live in, anyway?) President Obama has barred intelligence agencies from using harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation, and signed an executive order prepping the way to close Gitmo, even though he hasn't yet decided what to do with all those enemies of America. When it was suggested that John Murtha's (who has been an outspoken critic of the facility, the war, and the defense of America in general) district take them in, he essentially said, "Why not?" I guess we can rest easy that the blockheads in his district that keep this guy in office won't mind taking care of men who have dedicated themselves to the mass murder of Americans. Incidentally, one of those poor misunderstood souls recently released from Gitmo has returned to his terrorist ways, becoming the number 2 al-Qaeda man in Yemen.

In a lighter vein, did anyone else notice the UFO that seemingly buzzed the Obama coronation? The short video shows some sort of object flying past the Washington Monument, over the crowd. Perhaps Obama really is an alien, after all.

On another, more tragic note, a psychopath wielding an 8 inch knife entered a daycare center in Belgium, stabbing to death two infants and a worker, and slashing several other children. When he was captured, he had the addresses of three other daycare centers and several other weapons. He wasn't particularly hard to find, since he was wearing face makeup to look like the Joker character in the latest Batman movie.

While the late Heath Ledger's performance as a psycho was as powerful as it was chilling, it also shows that in today's schizoid culture, stripped of morality and common sense, the monstrosities thought up in the media do influence some of the weaker and demented minds. It's also worth noting that there has been an increase in the number of similar attacks on defenseless gatherings of people. Churches, schools, daycare centers and home invasions are becoming more frequent, and the ferocity of the attacks has become more horrific. The truth behind the old axiom "We are what we eat" is becoming more and more evident; and it isn't relegated to merely our food.

Post-modern railsplitter?

These dis-United States of America now have a new president. After a day of speeches (including an antiwhite racist prayer by Reverend Joseph Lowery) parades, parties, and fawning accolades reminiscent of certain German rallies of some 75 years ago, President Barack Hussein Obama will have to work really hard to consolidate rhetoric with reality, and of course, will end up doing a lot of things that displease and discourage conservatives, and (probably out of necessity) some things that please neither side.

One good thing about Obamessiah's coronation, as far as I'm concerned, was that Pastor Rick Warren bucked the expected political correctness in his invocation prayer, not only ending it in Jesus' name, but stating His name in several languages.

Time will tell, but Obama's campaign pledge (like others before him) to bring a 'new ethos' to government will have to deal with challenges from the outset. As I write this, we now have a Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton) whose husband is in the pocket of several unfriendly and/or undependable foreign powers. Eric Holder, Obama's choice for Attorney General, is trying apology as a way to putting some distance from his part in Bill Clinton's pardon of billionaire Mark Rich and several domestic terrorists (and argued for the gun ban in D.C. vs Heller). And of course tax cheat Tim Geithner is closing in on the job of directing the IRS and the Secret Service, among other things. While I doubt IRS agents will bat an eye if he's confirmed, I wonder how Secret Service agents - who must live and demonstrate their own moral and physical courage, will appreciate serving at Geithner's pleasure.

Thus far in this new saga of the formerly free Republic, the stock market tanked as Obama was sworn in, and one of his first orders was to suspend the Gitmo terrorist war-crimes trials, while the new Administration seeks to totally disrupt our criminal justice system by allowing the terrorists to further screw up the courts.

On the White House website, you can see how Obama's agenda panders heavily to the loud and obnoxious homosexual minority. Meanwhile, Dick Morris gives us an insightful glimpse into the possible pattern of events that will drag the nation further down into the socialist sewer.

I found it interesting that under the heading of Administration, the names of the First Lady and Second Lady are included. I wasn't aware that we had voted for couples rather than individuals, but hey, it was OK for the Clintons, right? Michelle's bio notes she studied sociology and African-American studies at Princeton. Considering the heavily Marxist leanings of those subjects, it's a fair indication of what we can expect from the distaff side of this radical power couple.

The next few years are going to be volatile. I believe the new Administration will be tested by our enemies, who will see if they can rely on Obama's leftist leanings to provide a window of vulnerability. His domestic programs will have the purpose, if not the intent, of changing the power structure away from the people and to the select in government. His social changes will weaken the military, further degrade the family as the intrinsic unit of society, and throw the doors open to attack any remnants of conservative thought and action. The Church, which traditionally has served as the conscience of the nation, will be further marginalized by IRS and media attacks against traditional churches, weak preaching in mainstream megachurches, and the social elevation of apostate clergy such as openly homosexual bishop Eugene Robinson.

While America has suffered bad leadership before, I don't believe there has ever been such a confluence of circumstance and opportunity to bring this once-glorious nation to the brink of chaos and destruction. If you haven't done so already, start praying for God's mercy and deliverance. Buckle up.

Looking forward, downward, upward

I hope you had a Merry Christmas, and avoided that current intolerable intolerance of all things Christian. But now we must again look forward, especially in light of a new administration about to take over the reign --uh, reins -- of government.

The Bush Administration is about to exit, with one more instance of egg on its face with the revocation of the presidential pardon of Isaac Toussie for a real estate scam among a flurry of clemency for drug dealers, counterfeiters and other criminals. Yet as of this writing, two loyal Border Patrolmen -- Ramos and Compean -- remain behind federal bars for doing their job. Not so incidentally, an article recently appeared that exposes how timid currently serving border guards have become, refusing to return fire when attacked at our southern border for fear of ending up in prison like their brethren. I had long been a supporter (and still support his views on the Middle East wars) until he began his obeisance to the Mexican government. I can support him no longer. While our southern border explodes in kidnappings, crime and violence, George Bush has been acting as though he's campaigning to move into the Mexican version of the White House.

The bailout continues to bankrupt our nation by trying to bouy up corporations that are sinking themselves (with the help of the unions, of course). More companies "just too big to fail" are begging at the federal teat (i.e., our wallets), and a report out this morning opined that by next Christmas a lot of familiar company names apparently not too big to fail may no longer be around. You can expect states to follow, and several, including our own perpetually overtaxed New York State, have already put in their applications.

On Fox News today, a scary scenario is emerging, whereby at least 19 states are ready to close courthouses for extended periods to save money . While this may not sound very important, here's the point: delaying criminal (i.e., felony) trials for extended periods is a breach of the constitutional right to a speedy trial. As Fox's own Judge Napolitano warned, it could mean localities and states being forced to set criminals free, partly in order to avoid even more costly infringement lawsuits. And should we not mention further weakening the Constitution?

The bailout and the California court (regarding Prop 8) have showed us that government no longer responds to the will of the people, and the PC police continue to run roughshod over us. Here in New York, the governor is proposing to put a high(er) tax on such items as non-diet sodas and other sugared foods. So we can't consume sweets or fats; what's next?

Besides the what-should-be-obvious fact that higher taxes only limit what poorer folks can buy, drive out those who can afford to move, and put an increasing burden on those forced to remain, it illustrates that when the people are removed from the mechanism and oversight of government, government naturally tends to increase its power over the people, and in its greed and avarice will eventually go beyond the point where it can even manage the power it grabs, to the point of utter collapse of the entire society.

If allowed to dictate which foods you can eat, what other limits to credulity will it try to stretch? In only a generation, government has severely restricted your right to use tobacco (as much as I hate the stuff, you should still have the right to abuse it if it doesn't affect others) and alcohol, has severely limited your right to defend yourself, has put an excessive tax (call it 'extortion by government') on your money if you try to take it out of the country, has heavily taxed the medical industry (which accounts for a sizeable portion of medical expenses), taxes virtually anything that does or doesn't move, continuously calls for taking more money from those who are successful (thereby limiting their willingness or ability to produce jobs for others), and has allowed a largely unregulated abortion industry to kill off millions of future workers (which also would have been known as taxpayers). Have I missed anything? Oh, yeah, the increasing marginalization and persecution of Christians who have struggled to restore some semblance of sanity and balance.

Although I have tried hard to push off the conspiracy theories I had entertained in years past, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the evidence that there is, if not a conspiracy, certainly an unsettling consensus of ideology diametrically opposed to all the good that has been produced in western culture over the past two hundred-plus years (for example; didn't George Soros -- the major contributor for leftist causes -- and others help to collapse the British pound in 1992?). Because of a Marxist/Darwinist ideology that has slowly been inculcated throughout the culture (although "culture" is becoming more of a misnomer by the day) through the media and the educational system, we have a population that cannot discern the difference between right and wrong, and cannot differentiate between good and bad except where it concerns personal selfish motives.

I'm sorry to be the bearer of such bad tidings, especially at a time when most of us try to be upbeat. But until we pull our collective heads out of our nether regions, things are going to get worse. Much worse. And the worse things become, the louder the cry will go out for someone to 'save' us. Unfortunately, without the personal ability of discernment (which requires actually trying to understand how things work), we will continue to look for help in all the wrong places; and as the saying goes, we will get the kind of government we deserve.

I'd like to believe the incoming Obama Administration will discover quickly how wrong its campaign promises were (and they are already backtracking on many of them, to the ire of the liberals and useful idiots who elected him), but I fear there will be a lot of intentional and circumstantial missteps that are going to further divide and weaken this nation.

Frankly, though I hate to say it and don't want to see it happen, we deserve to be taken down. For decades, America has been on a slow course of national suicide, but the pace has dramatically increased in only the past few months. Our Founders instituted a government that requires the overwatch and participation of the population. Instead, we've become a populace too lazy to actually pay attention to our leaders, and only weakly and briefly protest when those leaders slowly remove our rights and impose ever-growing taxes on us. Most voters continue to pull the lever for the one who will seem to do the most for them individually, rather than collectively. Such a self-centered mindset is not in the best interest of the nation.

I now see the wisdom of the Founders original design which only allowed landowners to vote, because when parasites become the eventual majority of the electorate, chaos naturally follows. Those few who still try to argue for a return to sanity and responsbility are shouted down as 'hate-mongers' and dividers. In fact, have you ever noticed that virtually every accusation thrown at conservatives (especially Christians) is the same thing they themselves have done? It's an old and frankly juvenile ploy of blaming the good guy for the sins of the bad guy, and yet, so many folks are willing to believe the lies instead of actually checking for themselves. As Hitler once said, tell a lie often and loud enough and the people will believe anything.

We still allow the murder of more than a million children each year in this country alone by the abortion industry, and Obama indicates he will do all he can to remove the few restraints presently in place. While he claims to oppose single-sex marriage, he owes the overly-loud and increasingly violent homosexual activist segment of the culture, which has been allowed to exercise an influence greatly in excess of its numbers (even as it continues to actively recruit to its deathstyle in the schools and media). Obama will be pressed to give even more opportunity and influence to radical homosexuals who have shown little restraint or regard for that segment of society that actually reproduces.

And now that I've sown so much misery, allow me to switch into reverse.

Yesterday was Christmas. While the evidence indicates that Jesus was not born on December 25th, it is the day we celebrate His birth. Outside of a very small circle of people including His parents, the Magi, the shepherds in the fields and the prophets who foretold His coming, few realized Who that baby in a manger was, or that He would suffer beyond our understanding in order to save us from the sins resulting from that very lack of understanding. Even today, with the propagation of thousands of ministries spreading the Good News throughout the world, with increasing physical and historical evidence pointing to the truth of the Holy Bible, many still don't seek Him, nor understand why we need Him so desperately. Many people throughout history have literally thrived on ignorance, either their own, that of those around them, or (usually) both. In a world of unreasoning and increasing hatred and selfishness, I can only echo the old lament, "O Lord, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small."

I am utterly convinced that if we, as individuals and as a nation, began to look to Him and returned to the word of God as our instruction manual for life, He would bring us out of this deepening mess we're diving into. Of course, as a nation we probably won't do the right thing because we keep choosing the wrong leaders and refuse to listen to sound advice. But if we each would personally repent (i.e., renounce, turn away from) our sins - and each and every one of us have sinned against God and one another - and returned His laws into our own personal code of conduct, He would save us from our enemies and our own faults. It should be obvious by now that we cannot save ourselves, because we cannot get out of our own way. Our salvation, both personal and national, must come from above.

The Advance of the Godless

I was listening to Glenn Beck on the radio talking about how atheism is advancing throughout the culture. Of course, there have been atheists (those who refuse to believe in God) and agnostics (those who aren't sure) with us always, but until the past century or so, the vast majority of peoples and cultures believed in some sort of theism, whether one God or many gods. It appears, however, that atheists in large numbers have sensed that this is their moment, their time to "seize the day". Although I believe that many, if not most, atheists are the quiet, live-and-let-live sort that most Christians have gotten along with, it is the activists -- or dare I call them 'true believers' -- that present the most danger to our culture, our nation, and our (Christians, in particular) very lives and freedoms.

Our form of government -- history revisionists aside -- was fought for, bled for and written by men who were steeped in the Protestant version of the Holy Bible, as were the majority of colonists at the time. Although there were non-believers in this country at the time, they were a severe minority. Keep in mind that the first Congress had authorized the purchase of Bibles and the hring of chaplains, conducted church services at the capital and funded grammar school primers based on the Bible. The form of government begun those steamy days in Philadelphia was utterly dependent on a biblical view of life. That way of life meant working hard for what you wanted ( 1 Timothy 5:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:6-12, Proverbs 6:6-11), giving God the respect He deserves, and treating others with the same respect you wanted to be treated (Exodus 20:1-20). Although most of the Founders stated in their writings our dependence on God for the survival of the nation, few were quite so on-point as John Adams. Among his many quotes along this line, one stands out to me as a powerful indictment of man without God and an indictment of our own society today:

"We see every day that our imaginations are so strong and our reason so weak, the charms of wealth and power are so enchanting, and the belief of future punishments so faint that men find ways to persuade themselves to believe any absurdity, to submit to any prostitution, rather than forego their wishes and desires. Their reason becomes at last an eloquent advocate on the side of their passions, and [they] bring themselves to believe that black is white, that vice is virtue, that folly is wisdom and eternity a moment..." - from the diary of John Adams, Sunday, Feb. 9, 1772

It's been said that no nation was ever formed upon the altar of secularism until the former Soviet Union, which only predated the Third Reich by a couple of decades. Both those nations were founded on the principles of atheism ("There is no God"), Marxism ("The State is God") and secularism ("Man is God"). History has demonstrated that this type of government, bereft of internal morality, suffers from two problems: they cannot survive for long, and they should not survive for long.

Atheistic, secularist government cannot survive for long on its own because it saps the life out of a people rather than refreshing it. Such cultures are necessarily parasitic, dependent upon sucking the life-blood and treasure from its own people (thereby stifling initiative) and then by preying upon its neighbors or other cultures seen as vulnerable. The ruling Communist Party of the former Soviet Union saw early on that Stalinesque tactics were killing their own countrymen (and productivity) at an alarming rate, and switched to seducing the Western governments (the US, France and Britain in particular) for foreign aid to prop up their shriveling, starving nation. What they couldn't get in international welfare they stole through espionage or conquest. At the same time, since at least the 1920's the Soviets had been infiltrating all the most influential sectors of the West: government, education, the media, and industry. They've been at it a long time, and it has borne bitter fruit; but the worst is yet to come.

I've already touched on some of the reasons why such governments should not survive for long, but let's explore a bit further. The characteristics of atheistic -- let's call a spade a spade: communist or socialist or progressive governments (the label is changed every so often to misdirect the people's attention) -- is that they are thievish and thuggish institutions. Because they induce class warfare (the rich against the rest) and stifle individual initiative (apart from the black market and criminal enterprise), because taxation is kept so high and there are so many barriers to personal success (outside of Party affiliation), fewer and fewer people even bother to try to do any more than the bare minimum for personal existence. After all, why work your butt off if the government is only going to take most of what you earn and give it to all those other folks who feel the same way, and to those who do nothing at all to earn their keep, not to mention supporting the government slugs and heavy-handed enforcers who oppress the 'little people' to keep them in line?

Of course, there's always that little problem which always seems to haunt those God-less governments: they tend to frown upon and treat badly those who dare (or are even suspected of or accused of) raising a voice of opposition to the new regime. Isn't it curious that loudmouth punks can revile, insult and openly work against a free society, but once they take power, they don't want to present that same opportunity to those they displease (which generally turns out to be the vast majority of the population) once the true agenda becomes the force of law?

Perhaps our new president-elect will not follow the course he's been on his entire life. Perhaps he won't stack the bureaucracy with like-minded 1960s-flavored radicals who have plotted how to bring America to its knees since their college indoctrination days. Perhaps he won't pursue his campaign pledges to bankrupt entire industries (including those that provide the very lights and heat in our homes), or reduce our military to a mere shadow of its present self (and expose our nakedness to our enemies).

Yeah; maybe he'll suddenly get enlightened and become a born-again real American patriot; strengthening our economy, insuring our individual rights, building border fences that keep people out instead of in, and even protecting us from all enemies of our Constitution, foreign and domestic, which is part of his presidential (and senatorial) oath of office.

Yeah; and maybe I'll turn my back on the God who created me, saved me and has promised to raise me with Him. I'd guess the chances are about even.