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| Parts of this post frankly presents ludicrous political realities that are intended by satirists to anger. |
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Terrorism
is cheap for the sponsors, profitable for the participants and hideously
expensive for the targets. A soldier in a First World nation can cost six
figures. For that same amount, a backward oil tyranny can field a hundred men.
When those hundred men kill a soldier, then his nation will be heartbroken and
question the costs of war. When those hundred men die, their mothers will
ceremonially wail and cry out for more martyrs to avenge them. And the terror
will go on.
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….
Arab
Nationalism failed to produce a single army that could take on the West.
Egypt’s armies were smashed by Israel. Iraq’s were torn apart by the United
States. And so civilized mass warfare was instead replaced by a primitive
calculated chaos.
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Terrorism
has no “off switch” because it’s too profitable. There is no down side for its
sponsors who can inflict significant amounts of harm and collect enormous profits
for a few million here and there. Their power to temporarily turn off the
terror makes them even more powerful and influential. ~DG
"Of
all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be
the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under
omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes
sleep,
his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our
own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their
own conscience." --- C.S. Lewis
“Eventually
biblioskeptics run out of excuses, as we know from experience. This suggests
that the whole exercise was a pseudo-intellectual smokescreen for unbelief that
has different underlying causes.” ~ Jonathan Sarfati
“By virtue of established case law and
cemented with an 8-1 Supreme Court decision, criminals are exempt from gun
registration because it would violate their Fifth Amendment protection from
self-incrimination.” Haynes v. U.S. (1968) ~survivalblog.com
“According
to Governor Andrew Cuomo, child pornography, stealing children, rape in the 3rd
degree, criminally negligent homicide and choking someone are lesser offenses
than owning a high capacity magazine. If your child is lured under the reign of
Cuomo the Second, then you better hope the molester also did something
“seriously wrong” like owning a high capacity magazine. “
“Cliff
Kincaid is right and he's wrong. There can be gay conservatives, just as there
are adulterous conservatives, and we've seen plenty of those. The problem is
that the left projects personal behavior onto identity politics. And there is a
major difference between being gay and conservative and insisting that
homosexual identity is legitimately conservative. That difference is where we
run into problems with Mark Sanford. No one is perfect. And while our leaders
should embody virtues, it's unrealistic to expect the same of the rank and file
activist. An adulterous conservative is a problem for his family. A
conservative who insists that adultery is a conservative value, is a problem
for the conservative movement.”
10
things that Forgiveness is not:
1. Approving or Diminishing
2. Enabling sin
3. Denying a wrongdoing
4. Waiting for an apology
5. Forgetting
6. Ceasing to feel the pain
7. A one time event
8. Neglecting Justice
9. Trusting
10. Reconciliation
"moral
relativism holds that nothing is absolutely right or wrong. Except that nothing
is absolutely right or wrong. As Shakespeare put it "there is nothing
absolutely good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Actually, Shakespeare gave
those words to Hamlet, who was pretending to be insane when he said them. Which
is to imply that moral relativism isn't just crazy, it's fake crazy -- because
nobody is really crazy enough to believe it.” ~ Andrew Klavan
“Eurocrats
fancied that the Arab Spring meant that the Muslim world was finally catching
up to Europe. It's the other way around. These days Europe is catching up to
the Arab Spring and not just because of the wave of Muslim colonists spreading
across its shores. European countries are losing the vestiges of democracy and
bouncing between unelected technocrats and elected extremists. The Brotherhood
phenomenon is not foreign to Europe. Not when Athens is tilting to the Golden
Dawn and Italy's new power broker is a leftist comedian whose sole virtue is
that he hates it all. Eventually the far right or the far left will get its
ducks in a row and make a serious play for power and the Eurocrats will either
be caught flatflooted or will be forced to invalidate elections. Either one is
going to be ugly. Beating Mitt Romney was no great achievement. Neither was
beating McCain. But at some point the government-media complex of social
welfare and crony capitalism will go up against an angry populist with an
agenda and an organized movement, from the right or the left, and then things
will get properly ugly. That man isn't on the scene yet, but he's probably
hanging around meetings somewhere and imagining what he will do if he ever gets
the chance. And if he ever gets the chance, it won't be pretty.” ~DG
"Good
money must have an intrinsic value. The United States of America cannot make
its shadow legal tender for debts payable in money without ultimately bringing
upon their foreign commerce and their home industry a catastrophe, which will
be the more overwhelming the longer the day of wrath puts off its coming."
... "From the decision of the court I see only evil likely to follow.
There have been times within the memory of all of us when the legal-tender
notes of the United States were not exchangeable for more than one-half of
their nominal value. The possibility of such depreciation will always attend
paper money. This inborn infirmity no mere legislative declaration can cure. If
congress has the power to make the notes a legal tender and to pass as money or
its equivalent, why should not a sufficient amount be issued to pay the bonds
of the United States as they nature? Why pay interest on the millions of
dollars of bonds now due when congress can in one day make the money to pay the
principal? And why should there be any restraint upon unlimited appropriations
by the government for all imaginary schemes of public improvement, if the
printing-press can furnish the money that is needed for them?" - From
Justice Stephen J. Field’s sole dissent in Juilliard v. Greenman, 110 U.S. 421
(1884)
“The
great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage
rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in
the military services by every means in our power," Teddy Roosevelt said.
"The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if
possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!”
In 1905, another step forward
was taken, when President Roosevelt signed Public Law 149 into effect,
authorizing the sale, at cost, of surplus military rifles, ammunition, and
related equipment to rifle clubs.
"We
should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service
backgrounds and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational
approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to
go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. And the minister is
the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more
rebellious members."
- Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood
- Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood
“Unless
you start with God you can’t know anything. Because in order to know anything
at all you would have to know everything, because if you don’t know everything
what you don’t know could contradict what you think you know.” ~ Sye Ten
Bruggencate
"I
would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and
Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are
forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian."
~Christopher Hitchens
~ Rak Chazak
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