Bad behavior increasingly called a “medical condition” protected by law

Society creates its own “catch 22”

Shooting spitballs in class has a psychiatric medical term attached to it.  It is a “protected” behavior.

Sound outrageous?  Yes, it is.  And that is the making of a society that labels every anti-social, irresponsible bad behavior as a “psychiatric disorder.”  And psychiatric disorders are called “medical conditions.”

And what does our society do with these psychiatric “medical conditions?”  We protect them and keep them secret with the law – the law called HIPAA.  Here is the website that documents this connection:

http://www.omh.ny.gov/omhweb/hipaa/phi_protection.html

The psychiatric profession has catalogued and named these bad and irresponsible behaviors.  Here are several listings of psychiatric medical conditions and disorders :

• http://www.psychone.net/psychological-disorders-list.php
• http://behavenet.com/apa-diagnostic-classification-dsm-iv-tr
• http://www.abess.com/glossary.html

There is a psychiatric medical term for every childish, mean, compulsive, vengeful, repetitive, obsessive, irresponsible, anti-social action anyone has ever been known to do.  I’m sure you’ll find “laziness” in there somewhere.

The great majority of these behaviors are now called “psychiatric disorders.”  And as medical conditions, they are sacredly private.

Now enter gun control proponents.  This group is proposing a mental health check as a means of controlling weapons.  They believe a mental health check may have prevented the Virginia Tech shooting.

So if I shot spitballs in school and was classified with a “psychiatric disorder” I may never be able to legally possess a firearm.  I certainly see second amendment abuse around THAT corner.

Problem number 1:  An out of control psychiatric profession that takes away the importance of self-control and self-discipline and replaces that concept with “psychiatric disorder.”  Personal responsibility?  Heck, what’s the need for that anymore?

Problem number 2:  A HIPAA law that classifies character and behavioral weaknesses and lapses (formerly known as “sin”) as “psychiatric disorders” and “medical conditions” making them both private and excusable .

Problems number 3:  An out of control federal government promoted by a bunch of scared progressives (by the way, progressivism is a psychiatric disorder!) acting like a bull in a china shop (if a bull in a china shop could “grasp at straws”, this one would) making up any way they can to keep people from owning guns.

Problem number 4:  A gullible media and electorate that are too damned lazy and self-absorbed (both psychiatric disorders) to care about the consequences of these actions.

HERE is the article about Joe Biden’s psychiatric disorder that is causing him to promote the use of mental health information to restrict gun sales. 

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/01/biden-mental-health-check-may-have-prevented-virginia-tech-shooting/

Churches seal their own fate…

…ignorantly facilitating Islam

Christian churches throughout our nation are ignorantly sealing their demise.

Here is the latest example:

A new mosque in Alexandria, Virginia, costing short of a $1,000,000 just opened.  While it was being built, Good Shepherd Catholic Church, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and Aldersgate United Methodist Church allowed ICNA’s Northern Virginia chapter to worship in their facilities.

Isn’t that sweet.  Christians acting “Christian” and Muslims acting “Muslim.”  In other words, Christians blithely and bumbly feeding the wolf in sheep’s clothing.  Sure, witness to individual Muslims who show signs of sincerity.  But providing Christian facilities to entire packs of Islamists whose ideology vows to conquer infidel Christianity; who claim that Christ was nothing more than a prophet? Whose “god” is a “moon god?”  Insane!

It is criminal how little these Christian denominations know about the doctrine, teachings, and goals of Islam.  Little do they understand that Islamic tradition and present day strategy is to eliminate western civilization “and its miserable house” and replace it with supremacist, intolerant Islam and its sharia.

If these churches had just a bit of common sense, they would replace their pitifully ignorant kum-bey-yah blindness with an annual series of congregation-wide lessons on Islam.  Not the watered-down, all-is-peachy-keen-with-Islam version that John Esposito and Karen Armstrong promote that most main line churches embrace.  But the truth about Islam – what it REALLY is – what it REALLY does – what it REALLY promotes – what its goals REALLY are.

Start off with defining cultural, moderate, devout, and radical Muslims.  Discover that even the most benign, the “cultural” Muslims, identify with Muhammad, what he taught, as well as the aspirations and methods of Jihadists.  Discover that even “moderates” like Zudhi Jasser distort the reality of what Islam really is by a naïve and foolish attempt to make Islam something it never was and never can become.  Discover that the more devout Muslims become, the more they tend to follow in Muhammad's violent, treacherous, deceitful, intolerant, and supremacist footsteps.  Discover that “radical” Muslims are merely the militant arm of the Islamic ideology.

Next, understand the numerous misrepresentations made by our political, academic and military leaders.  Is Islam a “religion of peace” as pronounced by our last two leaders as well as recent Popes?  Is Islam’s “god” the same as the Judeo-Christian God as pronounced by most mainline Christian denominations?  Is Jihad a harmless “inner struggle” for self discipline and cleansing as Islamic promoters proclaim?  Is Sharia just a personal representation of Islamic culture?  Are mosques just like churches, mere harmless houses of worship?  Is the Qur’an just like the Bible because it mentions Abraham and Jesus?  Is the morality of Islam really equal to or superior to that of Christianity?

Next, understand the roots of Islam and its history of slaughter and conquest.  Understand the numerous areas of totally opposite morality promoted and mandated by Islam.

And finally, understand that there is no “moderate” or “radical” Islam.  All the violence and bloodshed and terror being committed by Muslims in the world today is a direct result of belief in the teachings and emulation of Muhammad.

Understand that Islam is no friend of the Church or Synagogue or Temple.  Neither should these institutions facilitate the growth of the fascist ideology that should be understood as Islam.  Islam’s goal is to destroy these infidel religions.  Islam is the ideological manifestation of the anti-Christ.

On pendulums, human nature, and Biblical morality

There are many hopeful souls among conservatives who believe the pendulum will always swing and will eventually swing back to their direction.

The reality is there is no more pendulum.  It stopped swinging with the last election.  It had swung so far left and with such force that it is lodged into brains of the majority of Americans who are devoid of information, thinking skills, and initiative.

There is no rational reason any more why the pendulum will swing to the right within the next several presidential elections if not the next century.  Yes, it is possible for a republican – one like Chuck Hagel, an Israel-hating socialist to the left of most Democrats – to be elected.  But most conservatives agree that there is little difference between the Democrat and Republican parties.

It is human nature to be self-centered, egotistical, greedy, lazy and selfish.  A prevailing spirit of personal responsibility that propelled our nation to success and prosperity during its first two centuries has been replaced with a spirit of entitlement. 

Most Americans have discovered “push ups.”  Instead of providing for themselves or being responsible for their own problems, they now expect someone else to do it.  So they “push up” their former personal responsibilities to the next level – to the city, the county, the state or to the federal government.  Too many individuals lack motivation.  Too many families are broken.  The individual is the smallest, most local level of governance – self governance; personal discipline.  And next is the family.  Self governance and self-discipline have all but withered.  They are in shambles.  So next higher levels take the brunt:  neighborhood, than the town, county, state, then federal, then world government (United Nations) being the “ultimate.”  Every one of these levels of governance, from the individual through the state and federal, have assumed the panacea of “pushing up” responsibilities to the next higher level.  Bigger and higher levels of government  have become the solution of choice for the majority – not just the majorities of individuals and families, but of a growing number of local, county and state governments.  They are all seeking a handout or a bailout from the next higher level of government – the city from the county; the county from the state; the state from the feds.

With every push up, individual liberties are eroded – liberties are exchanged for someone else doing the hard stuff.  But doing the “hard stuff” doesn’t come cheap.  There come higher, unsustainable expenses, higher taxes, more regulations and controls and fewer freedoms, and an oppressive environment that stifles creativity, motivation, and productivity.  Collapse of society WILL result.

The safeguard against unchecked negative tendencies of human behavior has been a universally agreed upon morality.  Our nation came close to that universally agreed upon morality, although not perfectly, in the decades leading up to its founding and extending 150 years thereafter.  That common morality was based on Biblical principles as promoted by a strong church comprised of dozens of faithful and mostly orthodox denominations.

It is no secret that belief in the Bible and in the Biblical morality our nation’s successful governance relied upon has all but disappeared from our laws, court rulings, and habit and preference of our electorate over the last several decades.  When once “unity” was seen as a positive and esteemed value, we have now embraced “diversity”, the opposite of unity.  That promotes an attitude of “tolerate everything” – no value is better or worse than another.  We have become a nation of amoralists – those who see no need for traditional morality.  Expression of such morality is now seen as hateful, bigoted, intolerant or mean spirited.  Our “natural” human nature has been unleashed to do whatever it damned well pleases.  And what it damned well pleases has led us to where we are today.

This is a megatrend that will take more than a minority conservative party to reverse.  The momentum of our public education system, the university system, and the entitlement “let government do it” attitude of a majority of our population will ensure that this megatrend  continues well into the distant future.

What will eventually reverse this megatrend?  Economic collapse, intolerable repression, and eventually, revolution.  Occupation by a foreign power will become increasingly likely as our nation weakens under the weight of our immorality, dependency and loss of our work ethic.

How long will it be before this reversal occurs?  Many commentators give us a decade or two to reach a point of collapse.   A “black swan” event could easily push us over to collapse and anarchy well before that.  It could take another generation or two beyond that to recover our former national spirit, if ever.

If we couldn’t recover our nation during the last election when there was no excuse for the level of ignorance our electorate exhibited, then the rocky shoals of an oppressive, manipulative government and anarchy provides little hope for reestablishing our former glory.

Faithful Christians see this scenario as God lifting His hedge of protection from our nation as a consequence of our unfaithfulness.  Others see it as “fate”; still others see it as “progress.”

Is our nation’s transformation complete?

Is it reversible?

There are now more takers than givers.  There are now more who will vote for those promising government handouts than there are who will vote for personal responsibility.  There are more who live off our tax dollars than those who generate tax dollars.  There are more who rely on government for a variety of handouts than those who prize and practice their self-sufficiency.  There are more who want government to get bigger and more invasive than those who want government to get smaller and promote individual liberty.  There are more who believe in socialism and communism (although most will not admit it) than those who believe in a free republic.

There are more  who believe in a further erosion of our second amendment rights and who forgot the purpose behind them than those who will work hard to defend them.  There are more who see no problem in disarming ourselves and instead rely on police and the federal government to save us than those who believe in the need to defend themselves.  There are more of us who believe that peace, tranquility and prosperity are infinitely perpetual than there are who believe things can drastically change for the worse.  There are more of us who do not mind being subject to a world government than those who see the tragedy of it.

I have been awakened to the fact that  there are so-called “conservatives” who promote the limitation of the type of firearms we are allowed to own.  They feel a handgun or a shotgun will provide an adequate defense under all eventualities.  These misguided folks seem to believe that things will remain as they always were – as far back as they can recall, which isn’t very far. 

The third amendment to the Bill of Rights, which is relevant to the second and puts the second it context, prohibits in peacetime or wartime, the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent.  Whether it is our own troops or those of an occupying force, this is not a far fetched scenario given our divisive and weakening nation.  The second amendment is closely related to the havoc wreaked by an occupying force - be it England of the 1700’s, or the United Nations, National Guard, Islamist thugs, roving gangs, or a Chinese “trading partner” out to collect what we can’t pay. 

The liberal media has brainwashed most of us into the bogeyman referred to as “assault weapons.”  That is a scare word given to the most effective fire arms.  But any weapon used for defensive purpose can be demonized as an assault weapon.  A baseball bat, a knife, a fist can be called an “assault weapon” if used for such purpose.  The intent, not the instrument, should be the focus.  The intent should be demonized, not the instrument that is legally used for self defense, not “assault.”

Shame on the journalists and others who are too caught up in the emotional hype to recognize this distinction.  They, too, are part of the new majority that has turned the tide on the viability of this nation continuing as a free and prosperous republic.

Is this transformation reversible?  Anything is possible, but not everything is likely.  The momentum of demographics, political and social trends, educational institutions, and human nature make a turnaround highly unlikely.  We will continue on our downward spiral away from being an exceptional nation with an independent and creative spirit toward becoming a nation of castrated and dependent souls becoming equal to the wards of third world dictatorships.

Islamist-dominated UN approves Palestinian terror state

…an action the US would have vetoed in its saner days

What else can we expect from a Muslim-inspired president and federal administration?  And from a State Department and Ambassador to the UN who places fear of offending Muslims ahead of our freedom of speech; who will hide the facts to defend Islamists over defending the Americans they killed.

The so-called two-state solution is a nonsensical excuse for kowtowing to Islamists in the Middle East.  We already have a 10+ state “solution” over there:

• Iran
• Iraq
• Syria
• Lebanon
• Egypt
• Saudi Arabia
• Turkey
• Jordan
• Qatar
• Pakistan

Each of these nations is already 90% plus Muslim; most 99%+.  Each one has a higher percentage of Muslims than the one Jewish state, Israel, has Jews.  Now isn’t that amazing.  Further, Israel not only tolerates Muslims in its midst, but provides a higher standard of living than they would have in most Islamist nations.

What do Jews and Christians in Islamic nations face?  Burning churches, bombed synagogues, persecution, torture, killing – general gross intolerance mandated by the mainstream doctrine of Islam – not by the “radicals” that deceived dhimmis portray.

What group of idiots would fall for this two-state “solution.”  Using the word “solution” sounds painfully close to the use of the words “final solution” used by the Nazi’s.  Islamists have the same objective in mind.

And we have a Muslim-inspired administration that is going along with this. 

Very pitiful of our ignorant and lost nation. 

Here are two pathetic examples of US policy in the Middle East. 

In the first, note the portrait in the background with whom Hillary chose to pose (Courtesy www.Breitbart.com).  Apparently posing merely with Islamist terrorist leader Mahmoud Abbas doesn’t show enough empathy for the cause:

Hillary: Israel Lacks 'Empathy,' 'Generosity' Toward Palestinians

“Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has never been a friend to Israel. Today, speaking at the 2012 Saban Forum on US-Israel Relations, a liberal organization, she railed against Israel for supposed insensitivity, lack of empathy, and lack of generosity with regard to the Palestinians – even as the Palestinians unilaterally violated all agreements with Israel and attempted to declare statehood, and within days of Hamas firing rockets on Israeli population centers and Palestinian terrorists bombing a bus.”

In the second,  State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland  said the US is still trying to release $495 million in pending funds for fiscal year 2012 that were held up following the Palestinians' failed effort last year to become a full member of the U.N.  From Nuland:

“We will also continue to try to support the Palestinian Authority, because this money supports their ... ability to administer the territories, provide security, and take care of the needs of the Palestinian people, who we continue to believe need our support, need the international community's support.”

These State Department ignorami have not yet grasped the concept that Palestinian leaders we are funding are the very same ones who promote the eradication of Israel, the ongoing rocket attacks against Israel, the killing of Jews, and the abolition of our freedoms in the West in favor of Sharia-enforced dark ages morality.  That is the mandate of mainstream, orthodox Islam.  And our government is protecting and promoting it.

Let the Dems “cave”…

For the past several days we have been hearing talk of fiscally conservative Republicans “caving” to the progressive/socialist cries to increase taxes to “avoid the fiscal cliff.”

They have been sugar-coating their “caving” by calling their proposed compromise “closing tax loopholes.”  I’ve got news.  One man’s loophole is another man’s exemption.  How would you like to see your home mortgage interest “exemption” called a “loophole” and eliminated?  How would you like to see the exemption for your children called a “loophole” and eliminated?

That is apparently what many in Congress are all about – proposing the elimination of “loopholes.”  I call it tax increases disguised through a shell game.

Oh, and the reason given for “closing the loopholes” is “tax reform.”  That is the drip drip drip water torture version of “tax reform.”  That kind of tax reform is just another excuse for raising taxes.

Not one penny of tax increase – for the middle class or for the rich - through closing “loopholes” or in the name of “tax reform” should be tolerated unless there is a comprehensive – a comprehensive -  tax reform package.  And not any increase, not even as a result of comprehensive tax reform, until the unemployment rate is below 5%.

Raising a billion here and a billion there by closing loopholes  - read “eliminating exemptions” - will cause much more harm to the producers and job creators of this country than it will benefit any budget shortfall.  That doesn’t even begin to touch the magnitude of the deficit.

Cut spending.  Cut government.  Eliminate czars.  Eliminate Departments and Bureaus.  Eliminate programs.  Eliminate funding abortions.  Eliminate funding obscene “art” and insane environmental and green energy boondoggles  and free-flowing food stamps and excessively lengthy unemployment benefits.  These all waste money and unnecessarily inhibit business, job growth and personal initiative.  

Our demand needs to be:  Cut  government, don’t tax its subjects more.  And don’t pretend that “eliminating loopholes” isn’t raising taxes. 

Reduce government.  Don’t tax more to grow more government.   Don’t encourage people to be dependent on government.  Encourage people to be independent and self-sufficient produces.  That’s how our country grew strong.  Not by its people being takers dependent on government but by its people being producers independent of government.

To mock the sickening words of our first “lady”, for the first time in my adult life I am ashamed of my country for electing leaders who insist on taking us down the path of dependency, bigger government, higher taxes, and ultimately, loss of our freedoms.

Too many Catholics poop in their own nest…

I attended a social event the other night where there happened to be eight people who claimed to be Catholic sitting at our table.

My wife mentioned how pleased she was that the Priest at our church had no problem being outspoken about abortion and moral values generally.  She rightly believed that mention of this topic would be safe among fellow “Catholics.”  She may have been right 50 years ago.

Four or five of the other alleged Catholics jumped on her opinion as if she had two heads.  One proclaimed that the Priests opinions aren’t worth diddly and basically that everyone’s situation is different and they ought to be able to do what feels right to them.  I thought to myself in that instant that this reinforces my opinion about Catholics – that of the minority of them who do attend Mass regularly, most appear to attend for the ritual and out of habit rather than out of any love of the church or sense of allowing Catholic doctrine to permeate and influence their lifestyle or morals.  The fact that 50% of Catholics voted for Obama despite his violation of Catholic religious freedoms and doctrine flashed through my mind.  This tells me how much half the Catholics care about Catholic doctrine – very little.

But it got worse.  Two or three of these “Catholic” apostates went on a rant about the past sins of priests and a number of other complaints about the Church.  This was very old news, but still stuck in their craw.   It got to the point that I mentioned to the woman next to me, “this discussion is motivating me to write a blog about how a group of Catholics can be so opposed to their own Church.” 

It is one thing to understand the moral decline of our nation by doing extensive reading about it.  It is quite another, and much more disconcerting, to experience a table full of alleged Catholic Christians poo-pooing the idea of moral absolutes right in front of my eyes.  This experience represented one microcosm of why this nation is in moral, spiritual, and economic decline.

The room we were in was noisy, and conversation was not easy without getting loud ourselves.  My wife and I had to bite our tongues  because there was a lot we would have liked to have said to these others if the environment was conducive.   So we left a bit early.  Were were getting “tired”, not sleepy tired so much as tired of the bullshit.

Not a lot of difference…

Bradley Manning, the security leaker, David Petraeus, the security liability

 

Captain Neville, the uppity bastard of Revolution.      Barack Obama, the uppity bastard of Chicago.

Weirdness and illogic of election results lead me to one overwhelming conclusion…

Nearly half the US population agrees with me that we had a choice between good and evil in this past election.

I won’t go into the candidates respective qualities – they are well known by most who care to know.  But we know what each man represented.

Dozens of different reasons and excuses are given by analysts and pundits for Romney’s loss, surprising to many, not surprising to some.  You’ve probably heard most of them.  I won’t rehash those excuses, either.

There are over a million people in the United States (maybe several times that number) who believe the United States and all other world governments generally are so corrupt and immoral that they will not participate in government at all.  They won’t run for office, they won’t vote, they won’t serve in the armed forces, they won’t salute the flag.  Most will pay taxes (some won’t) and obey all the other laws of the land out of Biblical principle to obey.  But voluntary participation will not be in their to do list.

They believe that governments are so out of touch with God’s pattern for governance that most governments have become anti-God.  Governments reflect the culture and the culture has become anti-God.  To participate or engage voluntarily with the government in any capacity is believed to be working against God.  They believe what Jesus said:

"Anyone who isn't with me opposes me, and anyone who isn't working with me is actually working against me.

New Living Translation (©2007)

And they take this command seriously.  Most denominations, mainline and otherwise, don’t go this far.  Most denominational leaders take the lead of Catholic Cardinal Dolan and schmooze with the political elite, believing that they can make a difference without corrupting themselves.   Others believe such leaders are fools and are deceived and make a mockery of their supposed ‘Godliness.’

The weirdness and illogic of this past election has reinforced my growing conviction that events in this nation are the consequence of a spiritual battle of good verses evil.  And good is losing.  Evil is prevailing so completely that the “hedge of protection” that many Christians believe in is being lifted.  We have become so enamored with ourselves and so dismissive of God that God is becoming dismissive of us.  He is saying, in essence, “if that is the direction they want to go, let them go.  If they no longer want to honor Me, I will no longer honor them.  I will call a “timeout” on my sacred covenant and let them pursue their heart’s desire.” 

The forces of evil are lovin’ it.

US Policy in the Middle East Flunks the Stink Test…

…and Patraeus was the architect and implementer

There is nothing to pity about Petraeus.   He is not the vaunted military strategist who brought us victory in Iraq or anywhere else. He is a political pawn in the pocket of Islamic sympathizers in the White House.

Does anyone think we “won” in Iraq?  What is the state of affairs there?  A brooding, simmering Muslim population on the verge of civil war.  And Iraq’s anti-US government has vowed to use Mid-East oil as a weapon against the us.

Let me think.  Isn’t Petraeus the guy who apologized for the burning of a Qur’an a year or so ago, while at the same time ordering Bibles to be burned so that Muslims won’t be offended?  Wasn’t it Petraeus who demanded rules of engagement of our troops that prohibited firing against known enemies until fired upon?  Wasn’t it Petraeus who developed the plan for our troops to buddy up with and “trust” Muslim police and troops, only to have dozens of our Muslim “allies” assassinate dozens of our troops over the course of the past year?  And yes, he was among the first to blame a US YouTube video for Muslim riots.  His counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy calls for “respect Islam over our own beliefs”, and to sacrifice our soldiers for the benefit of the Muslim population and culture.  That is utter madness!

Diana West has a lot more on the vaunted useless general HERE.

Within the next year or two, we will discover that both Iraq and Afghanistan wars were nothing but a tremendous waste of life and treasure, an Islamic “rope-a-dope” that would have made Muslim Muhammad Ali proud if he was ever a Brotherhood leader.  The “dopes” are us, led by a corrupt federal government and socialist/Muslim-pandering media.

Morality should be compromised–and pigs should fly…

The recent debacle of an election was discussed by a diverse group of conservatives the other day.  We were all involved in a “post mortem” of sorts, each giving his understanding of why Romney failed.

One reason given was particularly striking:  Those damned moral Christians are so uncompromising.  They either need to learn to compromise their social conservative position or they need to be excluded from the process.  They are dinosaurs in a changing world.  They need to get with the program.

I asked, “why should moral principles be compromised?  Why don’t those who cherish their immoral position do the compromising?”

That question was not answered, as if that option doesn’t exist.  Unfortunately, that option is not taken seriously by very many of us anymore in this debased culture.  Amorality is the poster child of the new tolerance.  Our politics and our leaders reflect the corruption of our culture.  We get what we deserve.  Compromising what good there is left is hardly the solution.

So, in short, I have this to say to those who believe that morality should be compromised for their perception of “the common good”:  How about you compromise your own values instead, if you have any left.  Yeah, yeah, I know that is impolite, and not politically correct.  And it doesn’t get the votes from the requisite number of like minded TV-numbed, culture-killing amoral ignoramuses.  So be it.

 

Ever wonder why military brass don’t know crap about Islam?

…and ever wonder why we are in protracted, no win wars?

Because more of them than we ever knew are distracted and corrupt.  The ones we placed the most trust in – Patreaus and now General John R. Allen, head of NATO forces.  And how many others?

With everything these people were into they most likely had only enough time to learn about “the enemy” from MSNBC, Al Jazeera and their Muslim buddies.  I ‘ve most likely devoted more hours to learning the truth about Islam than these fools have.  And how much of their policies have been driven by blackmail?

How far does this corruption, incompetence and crime against the United States extend? Watch for news about the FBI and CIA, not to mention what we already know about the State Department.

Am I overreacting?  Frankly, I may be UNderreacting.  You tell me.