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Anti-Life, Porno Culture a Hard Sell

Posted by Mike on Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:56:05 PM
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The Mousavi supporters are simply expressing sour grapes over the turn of the Iran election. In any election of that magnitude there is bound to be some fraud. Unlike the 2000 US presidential election, the Iran election was not even close.

Of course the US should be speaking out forcefully showing solidarity with the opposition in Iran. Much of this will ring hollow because of the American culture's lack of clearly defined moral standards. Even the Shah's regime had trouble convincing the Iranian people that Westernization was a good thing.

America's role in the world is to bring about peace. This we cannot do when our own nation is being held hostage and Americans are constantly subjected to cultural garbage from within. Before America can reach our goal as peacemaker, we must first deal with the powerful obstructionists at home.

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Wealth Inequality Affecting Social Policy in America

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:30:27 PM
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Several decades ago, Ferdinand Lundberg completed a monumental study of the rich and the super-rich. He identified the primary dynastic families at that time as being Du Pont, Mellon, Rockefeller, Ford, and to a lesser extent Pew. Since that time, new wealth has been amassed by other families including those of Walton, Buffett and Gates.

What effect does exorbitant wealth have on the formation of social policy?

The super-rich exert tremendous control over the media and the government, which has the effect of slowing down the process of democratization in society whether at home or abroad. Capitalism is basically a given at this stage of history. Most social injustices are caused by the wealthy wanting to keep control. Wealthy family foundations fund anti-life, anti-family programs such as Planned Parenthood, and are large contributors to liberal candidates for government offices, judgeships, and causes. Of course there are exceptions such as Richard Scaife a scion of the Mellon Dynasty, and the Pew Research Center which conducts research into religious strengths and weaknesses.

Capitalism obviously is not going to go away overnight. It is therefore the duty of responsible citizens to work for justice within these limitations.
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America Needs Less Government

Posted by Mike on Monday, June 15, 2009 5:55:40 PM
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In an advanced capitalist society like the US, the ruling elite maintains control by insuring that those who are appointed to high government office, and those who decide what is allowed through communications media, are not part of mainstream America. To a large extent, money controls both politics and the media. This means that the American people are not getting their just due. The system is basically rigged so that key appointments are given to those unworthy to serve, but who are sycophants or "boot lickers" of the wealthy elite.

The United States is a small country. The standard by which our judges make decisions is not based upon principles of justice, but rather upon conformity with past legal precedent. Judges are in effect bean counters, doling out penalties utilizing an elaborate schedule based upon what is most irritating to the powers that be.

Today, we have on our Supreme Court one justice who is a son of Italian immigrants, one who is African-American, and one who is a Jewish woman. We are about to see another woman on the court who happens to be Puerto Rican. Each are outside the traditional mainstream of the legal profession. There is nothing wrong with them being outside the mainstream. It is simply the case that these appointments all have one thing in common, that is to perpetuate control by wealthy capitalists over the mainstream majority of Americans. These dynastic elitists believe that they are ordained to control society by virtue of their birth into wealth and privilege. They are good at exploiting those outside the mainstream by offering them a "ticket" to advancement, this being to take the places of those in the mainstream who would otherwise replace the elitists, namely the majority of white males but also many white females and others in America who are part of the mainstream, through such means as racial and gender preferences and affirmative action.

The debate about health care, for example, according to one liberal Senator from Vermont, is not about whether the government will dictate health care decisions, but whether doctors will dictate health care decisions, including life and death, as they are already doing in many managed health care programs. Of course, government will always set the standards by which the doctors are allowed to dictate. It is assumed by the liberal elite that the majority of people have no right to make their own health care decisions. To the globalist elite, the people of America are just pawns.
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It's not about Fairness, Folks!

Posted by Mike on Saturday, June 13, 2009 12:40:44 PM
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Back in the days of the Reagan Revolution, there used to be an inside joke among the intellectual elite of Los Angeles mostly comprised of ex-drunks, that if you want "fair", go to Pomona, which is in reference to an annual event held every year on the far east side of the County. Regardless of the saying's dubious origin, there is a lot of wisdom and truth in that statement.

Today in America, the Affirmative Action Kid Barry H. Obama has appointed the Affirmative Action poster baby Sonia Sotomayor to a position on the US Supreme Court.

America has legalized abortion and affirmative action basically as a way to keep the Rockefeller and Bush dynasties and their greedy elite ilk in power. A couple of centuries ago, many had to endure the indignities of slavery for the same reason. This is also the reason for a barrage of dumbed down, coarse and degrading jokes on our broadcast networks. As unjust as it may be, we don't get "fair" in this life except once a year in places sponsored by the 4H clubs of America.

The law is never as clear cut as some would expect. There are those particularly in the media who find it incredible that two different judges would reach different conclusions, both following the same laws, because of racial or ethnic differences. These are the utopioans who think that legal problems are the same as mathematical equations in which there is only one right answer. Sadly for them, life is not so simple. If that were the case, there would be no need for judges. Everything could be done by computer.

Then there are those, usually among minorities and others who have chosen to live on the outskirts of civil society, who are obsessed with predictability in legal decisions. Included here are the lawyers and judges who uphold precedent above common sense. They want to know in advance what the outcome will be so that they can work the system by exploiting the inevitable crises having no loyalty to anyone but themselves.

The Christian ideal is to accept government in whatever imperfect form it may take, and work to bring about justice. We never arrive at this goal however in this world.

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Misplaced Generosity

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:54:41 PM
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The murder of a security guard inside a Washington DC memorial museum is indeed reprehensible. The question arises, should it be the business of our government to be involved in funding and maintaining a museum with taxpayer dollars which highlights the sufferings and depredations of a people?

If we are doing it for the Jews, then why not for the Armenians, Iraqis, Iroquois, or Palestinians, each of whom have suffered great losses at the hands of oppressive regimes? The list goes on and on. Why do we Americans always end up bearing the brunt of historical mishaps? Doesn't this kind of promotion actually encourage hatred and killing of innocent people?

There is something truly grotesque about a nation that feels obligated to showcase past abuses of torture and death, while allowing the indiscriminate killing of millions of its own young.

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Bringing America Back to Life

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:21:18 PM
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It is no mystery that the thousands of immigrants here illegally who bolster the Democratic Party each year are the cause of America's loss of stature in the world. In 1910 a punitive expedition was sent across the border to deal with Mexican lawlessness.  Today when a Mexican bandit trespesses on American soil to sell illegal drugs and is reminded by the arrows of justice which the eagle holds on our national seal, our corrupt justice system puts the border patrol guards behind bars.  A distant relation of mine helped to lead that expedition.  He is pictured above, standing fourth from left.

How much more injustice can we expect now that our government has overturned the Mexico City Policy which prevented the use of our money to kill babies overseas?

Another distant relation with the same Polish ancestry, grandfather of the Brigadier General, published a Polish language newspaper.  He had the audacity to suggest in print that the grandchildren of Polish immigrants should henceforth become Yankees.

Each of us regardless of our heritage has something to bring to the table in America.  It is unconscionable for government leaders to exploit our differences to keep themselves in power by killing our young and mortgaging the future of our country.
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Another Fool Bites the Dust

Posted by Mike on Monday, June 01, 2009 6:29:31 PM
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Whether anyone likes it or not, laws exist to protect people from their own folly as well as protecting them from the harmful acts of others. Individuals are not islands. When one person in society makes a serious mistake, society becomes less than it might otherwise have been.

Dr. George Tiller is an example of a person who was a victim of circumstance. He grew up in a home with a father who was a con-man and crook performing illegal abortions for a living. We can only imagine what kind of psychological abuse was passed down from father to son in such an abnormal family.

All killers have this in common that they are themselves victims. Whoever shot Dr. Tiller was as much of a victim as the victim. This does not mean that murder should not be punished. To say that abortion is not murder because it is legal begs the question of whether abortion really is murder, and if so, how should society deal with it?

The effects of legalized abortion in America over the last thirty-five or so years, including the killings of abortionists, are the facts upon which one can base a judgment of whether abortion is murder or not, which leads to the further question of what society should do about it. Contrary to what is being said by some, those in society can call a spade a spade and still make a prudential judgment that punishing certain of the parties involved would serve no useful purpose, indeed may even be more harmful, to society. This in no way detracts from whether the crime of murder has been committed. And this is not simply a question of semantics. If abortion is murder, then our court system is seriously flawed and has made a very serious mistake. Dr. Tiller and the other foolhardy abortionists are paying the price for that mistake, as is the rest of society, though in a particular way. They have themselves been conned. The fool is one who cannot learn from past mistakes.
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