Bachmann rightly concerned about national security threat of Muslim Brotherhood in our Federal Government

Others like Marco Rubio not so much…

Advisors in Obama’s Administration who have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood (and he has a few) are a threat to the security of the United States. Anyone who knows anything about the Brotherhood and Islam ought to understand this.

Michelle Bachman has rightly urged the powers that be (who are often clueless about such matters) to initiate an inquiry into the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in America. She was roundly condemned by the left and most media for having the audacity and insensitivity to write such a letter.

Criticism was was also blindly piled on by none other than the beloved Marco Rubio. See HERE. Speaking of “blindly”, Rubio is another example (beyond Obama) of how we are drawn to the style and rhetoric of an individual more than his policy substance. But that is for another blog.

Other conservative members of Congress have come to Bachmann’s defense as described by The Blaze HERE.

This all shows how ill-informed and divided our nation is about the truth of Islam and its front organizations. This shows how important it is for us to not only aggressively inform ourselves about Islam and the ignorant actions of our leaders toward it, but to aggressively inform others – our neighbors, educators, and leaders – about the insidious, deceptive, and supremacist nature of Islam.

The reality is that the ignorance of our leaders, the media, and our educators is a greater problem than Islam itself. We can defend against the enemy we know. We have little chance against the enemy we don’t know and refuse to know.

HERE is another good source of info on this topic.

Bingo, Texas Hold ‘Em, and Silent Auctions for a Night with a Hooker

I’m guessing that it has been determined by some powers more in tune with the universe than I that humans have a very limited capacity for useful activity.

I understand that fund raising in the church is an essential and noble endeavor.  All churches must place this activity high on their priorities list.  Since most members do not take the tithe literally (10% of our increase) or faithfully (every Sunday) , raising cash by other means is a must.

Is there is a gift of “fund raising creativity?”  I think so.   It is evident in every church/parish as evidenced by the wide variety of incentives to empty our wallets and have fun doing it.  However, I think we are totally devoid of the gift of discernment.  We have great difficulty with practicing or promoting this: 

“Whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.”

What activity does the average Joe associate with Catholic fundraising? BINGO!  There is nothing wrong with Bingo.  It is a game.  A pastime.  It is also an addiction for many.  Ah, thank God for addictions.

But wait!  Now there is Poker.  One of the most notorious forms of addictive gambling that does not necessarily carry with it a reputation for sterling morality.  Here is a prominently displayed ad that regularly appears on the website and church bulletin of a local church:

Aug 4-20, 2012

Texas Hold 'Em

Join the fun: August 4th & 18th. This event starts at 7 PM in the Parish Hall get there early! St. Paul the First Hermit Knights of Columbus Council #14222 hosts Texas Hold ‘Em events to raise funds to support their many charities.

I guess it is true that desperate times call for desperate measures.

In the spirit of fund raising creativity I have one that I will not be surprised to see one day:

Silent Auction

Bid on a night with a hooker.

Join the fun in this creative silent auction on the third Wednesday of each month.   A wide selection of night fishing gear available.  All proceeds go to St. Boris Parrish.

Eat Mor Chikin…

What can I say, except I will be eating a lot more chicken at Chick Fil A over the next few weeks to show my support for being one of the few business that gives a damn.

Chicago leaders, Rahm Emmanuel and his  crony Alderman Joe Moreno are showing the worst of immorality-pandering political bigotry.  Their display of amorality is bad enough.  But to deny a permit to a business because of the moral beliefs of the business’s owner is something that is condemned by atheists and the ACLU.  THAT is saying something.

This Chicago-style bullshit is no surprise given that it is the home to one of the most immoral, corrupt city administrations in the nation, is the home of B. Hussein Obama, and houses the post-Christian, Muslim pandering, nation-hating racist church of Jeremiah Wright.

This is just the beginning of the morality-hating wave that will increasingly persecute Christians who hold to traditional Christian moral beliefs and standards.  I fully expect that Muslims will be treated better than traditional Christians under the laws of the land in the coming years.

Obama promotes Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

There are three ways things can go in Middle East nations in the midst of revolt.

1) Status quo dictatorship

2) Change to a very temporary “bus ride”* democracy

3) Capitulation to an overt Muslim-Brotherhood inspired and controlled Islamic Sharia state

The Obama administration prefers the latter under the guise of the Option 2, temporary democracy.

It happened in Egypt.  And it is in the works in Syria.

The so-called “Arab Spring” is a deceptive code for a full bore Brotherhood takeover.  This is what Obama wants.  This is what he’s getting.  And the wishful thinking Pollyanna media and progressives embrace it.

You weren’t yet aware of the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in the Syrian uprising?  Think again.  Read about it HERE.

For Western Judeo-Christian sensitivities, a Brotherhood takeover will make the dictatorships, Assad's and others, seem like the First Thanksgiving. 

Beyond Syria, the Muslim Brotherhood proposes the overthrow of Gulf States.

Oh oh.  Houston we have a problem – Romney’s proposed policies are little different than Obama’s.  Per Romney’s official website, he, too, proposes to do the same thing Obama is doing in Syria:  Isolate the Assad regime so that the opposition can peaceably take over – and we (the US) will promise to support whatever factions take power.  Can we all say “Muslim Brotherhood.”   This continues our ignorance and gullibility of the methods and intent of Islamists in the Middle East.  Here is Romney’s complete statement quoted from his official website:

Syria

The United States must recognize Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad for what he is: an unscrupulous dictator, a killer, and a proxy for Iran. For far too long, the Obama administration held out hope that it could negotiate with Assad to stop his violent crackdown on pro-democracy protestors. It even labeled him a “reformer” while he was turning heavy weapons on his own people. Mitt Romney holds no illusions about Assad’s character or about Iran’s interest in maintaining a client regime in Damascus.

Mitt Romney believes the United States should pursue a strategy of isolating and pressuring the Assad regime to increase the likelihood of a peaceful transition to a legitimate government. We should redouble our push for the U.N. Security Council to live up to its responsibilities and impose sanctions that cut off funding sources that serve to maintain the regime’s grip on power. We should work with Saudi Arabia and Turkey to call on Syria’s military to protect civilians rather than attack them. This effort would aim to drive a wedge between Assad and his military, minimize violence, and increase the possibility that the ruling minority Alawites will be able to reconcile with the majority Sunni population in a post-Assad Syria. And we should make clear that the United States and our allies will support the Syrian opposition when the time comes for them to forge a post-Assad government.

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* Bus-ride democracy:  Taken from Islamist Turkey Premier Erdogan’s description of the purpose of a democracy.  “Democracy is like a bus:  You get on and then you get off once you reach your destination.”  In the case of Mulsim-populated nations, the destination is Sharia governance promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Tradition overpowers reality…

The Catholic Church and Tradition are like Fish and Gills.  The Church lives and breaths its Tradition.

Tradition is the Catholic version of the Protestants God-breathed word of God.  Actually I was taken aback by the Catholic accusation that conservative Protestants place too much credence in their belief that the Bible is the infallible Word of God.  They assert that the Bible resulted from “Tradition.”  Catholics also have lesser traditions, below the status of dogma, that distinguish themselves as uniquely Catholic, such as the sign of the cross, meatless Fridays, the Rosary, and dozens of other rituals that are intended to be physical reminders of their spiritual faith.  These are helpful to many faithful Catholics.

However, in taking an on-line class on basic Catholic beliefs and faith formation, I have also experienced a problem shared by other denominations but which is uniquely Catholic because of their traditions.

Those who are concerned  about the moral decline of our society and also aware of our collective obliviousness to the threat of Islam to our faith and freedoms realize that the Churches in America are part of the problem.  Most churches maintain an inward focus with their academic and arcane approach to Scriptural study and application.  They are further from being “salt and light” in our culture than I ever recall in my 60+ year life.  So much so that they remain oblivious to the real threats to not just our faith and freedom but to our very existence as a nation.

The highest values among both Christians and secularists has become non-judgmentalism and tolerance – go along to get along is the mantra.  There is little distinction between Christians and secularists in this regard.

While Protestants lead Catholics in the liberalizing of their denominations in the United States by dismissing or spiritualizing major chunks of traditional Biblical teaching, Catholics remain oblivious in a number of different ways.  The course I have been taking enlightened me to the extent Catholics are immersed in what they refer to as their little “t” traditions, their rituals and their physical objects of faith.  So much so that these rituals have become so habitual that they have become mind-numbing meaningless motion to many – how many I don’t know – I suspect many many.  The purpose of their tradition is supposed to remind them of the truth of their core beliefs as enunciated in the Nicene or Apostles Creed at every Saturday or Sunday Mass.  Perhaps the rituals still have the desired effect for many, but I suspect that for the majority, such “tradition” and ritual has become as detached from meaningful faith as paper roses are from expressing true love.

What is worse is the Catholic defense of these traditions at the expense of applying their faith to our cultural challenges and threats.  As part of my Catholic course, I responded to the topic of tradition by expressing my observation that tradition and ritual preoccupy Catholic faith and practice so completely that it separates their faith from many real life challenges – challenges that threaten their very ability to freely practice their faith.  The tradition leaves little room for Catholics to engage the culture as salt and light.  It is a closed society, shielded from the world by its preoccupation with tradition.  There is not even enough room to accept the concept of the Catholic version of a “sermon”, the “homily”, of having any significane in the Mass.  I was roundly reminded that the Eucharist IS THE MASS.  Everything else must maintain a low profile to maintain the centrality of the Eucharist.  That explained to me why Catholic homilies are typically shallow, trite, emotionless, and boring.  Catholics who attend church don’t have any benefit of even 15 or 20 minutes of relevant teaching of how they need to intereact in our culture.  They can’t even expect two tenths of one percent of their waking hours to be devoted to any effective counter-cultural message.

And for that observation, the moderator of the class warned me about my “anti-Catholic” attitude.   She and other Catholic leaders appear to be blind to the need to educate their flock about what the hell is going on in the world and about how their faith needs to be invoked to challenge our culture.  But that won’t happen with that attitude.  Defense of tradition that creates a wall of isolation from reality will eventually create self-extermination of their faith.

What I have learned so far from the class is Catholics, along with liberal Protestants, are part of our problem of declining faith and relevance in this culture of corruption, although in slightly different ways.

Degrees of consciousness–when are we aware enough to act intelligently?

Too many of us are still in la la land.  And too few of us are aware, acting, or leading.  The fact that most Americans are in la la land, or lands very nearby, is a reason why our sustainable existence as a viable and prosperous nation is failing and currently in doubt.

Our spiritual degeneracy, our fiscal irresponsibility, and our gullibility about Islam are among our nation’s greatest threats.  Yet the majority of us are not aware and don’t care that they are not aware.  Our highest priority activities are entertainment (TV/movies), sports, cruises, and gossip.  Our personal god is “self” via self-absorption in trivia.  Our highest virtue is tolerance of just about anything because we really don’t have any significant personal values worth defending.

So, thinking about these things, I am going to take a stab at what proportion of the US population is in various stages of  “awareness” or “obliviousness” to the extent that they either don’t know and don’t care, all the way to the other extreme of being fully aware, informed, and actively engaged in warning others or finding solutions.  I will classify this on a continuum from zero to ten, with zero representing ignorance as in Zero in Beetle Bailey, and ten representing motivating action as in Bo Dereck of Ten.  Here goes:

0: The  10%  who are too ignorant or incapable of knowing or caring about anything beyond their next meal or drug induced stupor.

1-2:  The 15% who have the potential capacity to know or care, but who lack motivation to learn, not to mention understand what is going on.

3-4:  The 20% who have some motivation to learn what is going on to the extent that they are personally benefitted, but fail to expend enough personal energy to understand what is going on.

5-6:  The 30% who have a good idea what is going on and make some effort to understand what is going on, but fail to act on it beyond occasional grumbling.

7-8:  The 15% who know what is going on and understand the implications of it and gripe about it via emails, blogs and general conversation, but who fail to devote much of their time for constructive solutions.

9-10:  The 10% who are not only aware of the problems and understand their implications, but who are actively engaged in writing, organizing, motivating, and bringing along others to join in promoting and achieving constructive solutions.

These guesstimates are by no means based on any scientific surveys.  They are an elaboration of the well worn 80/20 rule of an organization where 80% benefit from the work of 20% of the members.

Running throughout most of theses categories, especially 1 through 6, are the folks who are only interested in how they will benefit in the short term especially through government assistance or entitlements at the expense of others. 

The middle categories of 5 through 8 are populated by those whose highest value is “tolerance.”  They are aware of the problems of our nation, and understand some of the implications, but fail to take meaningful action because they are so devoid of any solid value system or faith themselves that they accept any other set of values as OK, worthy of their uncritical tolerance.  This form of ignorance has fostered unabridged amorality, growth of acceptance and protections of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and related perverted behavious in our media, schools and society at large.  It has also led to our culture’s ignorant acceptance of Islam as “just like any other religion” when in fact it is a fascist, intolerant political ideology at its core that intends to transform our nation into subservient dhimmi’s or Islamic converts.

If you think this will never happen, read up on your European history, especially the first and second Jihad.  The third Jihad is in progress in a city near you.

Decline of Christian discernment: Western and Eastern perspectives

There is no doubt that much of Christianity in the West has become uber-tolerant to the point that it has blended itself invisibly into the decadent cultural morass.  It is difficult to distinguish main stream Christian moral standards from those of the rest of the non-Christian culture.  Tolerance, a blind eye, and everyone has a right to do whatever they want is liberty run amuck as condoned by the Christian mainstream.  There is not much difference between the moral attitudes of mainstream Christians and bold-faced progressives I have recently encountered.

One casualty I have noted in this pathetic progressive Christian phenomenon is the attitude of most churches to the real threat of Islam.  They are oblivious.  In most cases, Islam is not on the sermon or Sunday School radar at all.  But in many liberal denominations, when Islam is discussed, it is of the Karen Armstrong variety**:  defense of Islam as an unworthily persecuted religion of peace that is misunderstood by Islamophobic bigots.  Armstrong’s version of Islam is what is promoted by the mainstream media, universities, and increasingly by the federal government, and especially the Department of Justice, State Department, and sadly, the military.  And yes, by most churches, going so far as their Kum Bey Yah-esque ecumenicalism that declares Allah, the god of Islam, as one and the same as God, the Yehweh of Jews and Christians.  Nothing can be further from the truth.  The natures of Allah and God are as different as night and day.  Anyone who seriously studies this topic need only do 10 minutes of research to figure this out.  This is how far the undiscerning western churches have undermined Biblical truth.

What about Christianity in the Mid-Eastern and Eastern Churches?  Do they have the same lapse of moral judgment?  Have they become as stone cold ignorant of the faith as we westerners?  After a recent discussion on this topic with a Catholic priest from Latvia, the answer is NO.  Compared to the churches in Western Europe, the US and Canada, churches further to the east are persevering in their orthodox doctrine and are remaining much more true to their faith.  Why is this the case?

Here is the simplistic answer:  Persecution and hardship.  Their lives have multiple times the challenges of ours in the West.  God is more real and present in their lives because that is all they have to give them hope.  Here in the West we are preoccupied and self-absorbed in all sorts of sports, entertainment and technological goodies.  Our standard of living provides numerous God-substitutes.  We can afford to water down not only the Gospel, but virtually all the moral standards that go hand and hand with the Gospel.  Mid-Eastern and Eastern Christians don’t have that luxury.  And spiritually it makes them much better off.  Plus, as regards Islam, they have Islamic doctrine staring them square in the face in the form of daily persecutions and intimidation – all based on the Islamic doctrine that most Westerners presently deny.

We in the West have much to look forward to, given our lack of discernment.  And it ain’t pretty.

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**Karen Armstrong’s writings were my first exposure to Islam during my Kum Bey Yah phase of understanding right after 9-11.  Her books were all that was available in the bookstores during that period.  Since then I have spent serious time learning about such Islamic doctrines as Abrogation, Taqiyya, and Sharia.  And I have applied some common sense in tracking and interpreting the actions of Muslims informed by prevailing orthodox teachers of Islam today to come through Armstrong’s disingenuous fog to understand the reality of Islam and the challenges it presents to our Judeo-Christian western culture.

Best explanation of European economy…

 

This is a two-and-a-half minute synopsis of everything you need to know about the European economy.  And, by the way.  Don’t expect the euphoria from the Eurozone agreements today to last very long.  Reality still exists.

European economy version of “Who’s on first.”

Supreme Court decision motivates Americans to act!

There is a ton of fallout from the unexpected Supreme Court decision on Obamacare.  And rightfully so.  Here are some of the things that Americans have a right and duty to be outraged about and some things we can do about it:

• The politicians that adopted Obamacare said it does NOT impose a tax.  The Supreme court ruled it DOES impose a tax.  Actually, many taxes.
• The politicians that adopted Obmacare said we can keep the health insurance we like.  NO!  We cannot.
• The politicians who promoted and voted for Obamacare are either lying pieces of crap or ignorant pieces of crap.  Either way, they need to be eliminated.
• The Supreme Court upheld a case of FRAUD perpetrated on the American people by Congress and especially by the Obama Administration.
• Obamacare contains many new taxes and all of them impact the middle class to the tune of over $200 billion.  This may be the largest tax increase in American history. 
• The Supreme Court failed us.  They have become a social services and big government promoter, instead of their Constitutional role as arbiter of whether laws are consistent with the US Constitution.
• Supreme Court appointees who were thought to be conservative (Roberts) turn out to be progressives.  He betrayed the philosophy of his appointment.  This is true of many Republicans as well. 
• Americans need to get a handle on the truth.  Right now, as my dad used to say, they don’t know their asshole from a hole in the ground.  Americans need to pay attention and learn how to distinguish a big government progressive from a small government conservative and elect conservative candidates who know and care about the difference.   The label “Republican” doesn’t mean squat.

HERE is what Rush Limbaugh had to say.

Glenn Beck has not been as angry in a long time.  Listen HERE.

This action by the President, by Congress, and now by the Supreme Court should motivate us to do at least two things:

• Contribute an EXTRA amount TODAY to Mitt Romney and your other favorite conservative challengers to national and state office (Romney can’t do what needs to be done without a conservative House AND Senate), and
• Confirm with your conservative friends that they are registered and motivated to vote in November.

Now, a day later, many conservatives have come out suggesting that Justice Roberts is a genius instead of a traitor.  They argue that Roberts purposely came down on the side of upholding Obamacare on the basis of it being a tax to demonstrate Obama and the liberals lied about it NOT being a tax.  Conservatives are calling this a purposeful “poison pill” for the Obama Administration as a result of Robert’s “genius.”

This is a valiant attempt by conservatives to create a silk purse out of a sows ear and is wishful thinking.  True, the result will motivate conservatives.  But I hope it would be beneath any Supreme Court member to use their position for such manipulative political purposes at the expense of their more legitimate and essential responsibility of upholding the Constitution.  Apparently my own hope is also – wishful thinking. 

This is a “no-win” deal for my respect for the Supreme Court in spite of attempts to portray Roberts as a “genius.”  If he is a genius, he is also a political manipulator which has no place in the Court. I hate politics even more.  It means there is one less formerly respected US institution that can  be trusted.  Yuck!

The arson version of “fast and furious”…

Islamic Arson in Colorado?

HERE is a video from ABC news originally broadcast in May 2012 reporting that Al Qaeda plans to start forest fires in the Western US via the use of “ember bombs.”  These terrorist  acts were proposed through the Islamic magazine “Inspire.”   The magazine urged,

“A well placed firebomb could terrorize large areas of the country.”

This “terror by wild fire” was  also reported by “Wildfire Today” website HERE.  The magazine “inspires” Muslims to carry out acts of terror in the US and elsewhere.

As this blog is being written, hundreds of square miles of Colorado are burning, destroying hundreds of homes and threatening cities.

American authorities said they could take out the Islamic “Inspire” magazine at any time but it is left up because it provides a valuable intelligence tool and allows authorities to track those who visit the site.   Did you catch that?  An Islamic publication that encourages people all over the world to commit very specific acts of terror against the US and others is allowed to continue operating?  That is like letting the leader of the arsnonist team in a crowded theatre continue yelling “fire” to his team of arsonists so we can see who will actually burn down the theatre. 

This is sickeningly similar to the “Fast and Furious” debacle where the US government released guns to track drug cartels without actually tracking where they went or how they were used until they were used against US citizens.  They are both “sting operations gone bad.”  Instead of gun-walking, it is flame-thrower-walking.

The results of both “Fast and Furious” and allowing a Muslim magazine to continue urging terror and destruction of vast areas of the American West is like lighting a back fire in the middle of a gas station.  The  results are uncontrolable and the consequences to innocent Americans is the same.  These actions expose Americans as helpless pawns in the Justice Departments ill conceived tracking game.

Hundreds of homeowners in Colorado may be the innocent victims of the ember bomb version of Fast and Furious.

If you are an Obama supporter you are in really crappy company

There is an old adage:  “We are known by the company we keep.”  This is just as true about the candidates we support.   Those who support Obama really need to be concerned about their reputation.

The company Obama keeps, and the element of America that supports him, leaves a lot to be desired:

Communists and Muslims in the US endorse Barack Obama: This announcement was made last year by the Communist Party USA.  If that isn’t bad enough, it is no secret that Obama is the popular favorite among most Muslims.  These are things voters need to be reminded about. 

"So what?" you ask.  In the 20th century Communist revolutions and governments were responsible for killing over 90 million souls.  Muslims are in the process of committing over 100 acts of terror atrocities per month in the name of Allah. 

Have you bothered to ask yourselves why Communists and Muslims would support this man?

This doesn’t even include those who suck off the government’s entitlement teats and the number of racists who voted for him and will still vote for him primarily because he is (partly) black.

All crappy company indeed!

Obama secures Muslim Brotherhood win in Egypt

Another item on Obama’s “destroy America first” and “love Islam more” agenda can be ticked off.

His brash promotion of the Islamic radicals during the “Arab Spring” has paid off:

Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egypt’s Presidential Election

We all understand that the leadership throughout the Muslim world has been authoritarian and brutal.  What we fail to realize is the the population is not endowed with the peace-loving, civilized Judeo-Christian culture and moral foundation, either.  Leaders in Islamic nations must deal with the morality of centuries of Islamic indoctrination where kids from the age of 4 are taught to hate and fight – where inbreeding is a doctrine of their Islamic ideology, where short tempers and violence are as commonplace as saying “howdy” in Texas.

Authoritarian and brutal leadership fit the bill given the violent predisposition of these various Arab Spring populations.  But Obama could not let sleeping dogs lie.  His love of Islam compelled him to join the fray in favor of yet more radical Islamists under the false flag of “democracy.”  As Islamic Prime Minister Erdogan aptly stated about his 97% Muslim Turkey:  “Democracy is like a bus – you get on it and you get off…”  Democracy, and most other western institutions, are tools of Islam to secure Islamic rule and domination, and ultimately impose their vaunted and utterly intolerant Islamic Law, aka “Sharia.” 

This transition is nearly complete in Egypt.  Democracy prevailed for a few months until the more militant and better organized Brotherhood prevailed over more secular minded Muslims and the Coptic Christian minority.  Egypt is roughly 80% Muslim with most of the balance Christian.  Unless the military intervenes resulting in prolonged violent and bloody Brotherhood-inspired street riots, we will see Sharia imposed in the coming months.  There will be either an increase in mass persecution or a mass exodus of the Copts.

This is a perfect example of how a minority of radicals (that Obama supported) can dominate a majority.  There is no doubt that the orthodox Islamic methods of lying, intimidation, and violence (various forms of Islamic Jihad that Romney claims is no part of Islam) helped promote the Brotherhood victory.  Sounds like the Chicago-styled politics Obama is so fond of.

So, in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt, and likely in Syria , instead of  well-controlled, quasi-secular, fairly inert and mild-mannered Islamic states, we can expect rabidly Islamic, overtly Israel-hating, America-loathing Muslim leadership breaking treaties, creating massive instability in the region and serving as well-shielded training fields for additional hoards of Jihadi terrorists that, of course, have nothing to do with Islam.

Way to go Barack!