6 posts tagged “wisdom”

Egalitariat

Aug 4, 2009
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The Art of Having Everything Both Ways

When two baseball teams step onto a field of play, they are equal. The score is 0-0. At the end of the game (designed to measure competence, skill, and ability) we usually find out that they are not equal. In fact, we are dissappointed if they are equal. So one team shows up with only 5 players or all their players but they are ill equipped, or they are simply physically much smaller, or they are decked out in brand new equipment, they are all body builders and models for the magazines but they haven't trained one day. Ideally the score board is the ultimate judge. The role and effort of the umpire is to ensure equal opportunity, but the Liberal wants to insure the score is equal. I'm using the baseball team analogy to illustrate that this is entirely a result of the feminization of America, because when you enter your kid in Little League these days, the trophies mean nothing. NOTHING!! Why? Because they hand out trophies to every player of both teams, win or loose, participate or bench warm, to keep from hurting the little folks' feelings.

Thomas Sowell refers to this as single stage thinking. The Liberal rarely asks, "What happens next?" Right now, not hurting the children's feelings seems good so it must be good. But this does not prepare the youth for the realities of the world. Success is rewarded and failure is not UNLESS you are dependent on a benevolent government bureaucracy where the opposite is true, including our state run school system. To the extent a school is failing, government sends more money, to the extent the school is succeeding that money is then taken away with the result of subsidizing failure. If little Johnny and Bobby learn the lessons of success and failure at this stage of their lives they will strive to prepare for the challenges they know life brings. But that is second stage thinking.

Business operates on the principal that products and services are not all equal. Neither are the providers of these products and services all equal. Some services and products are better than others even though they compete in the same markets. The better product can command a better price and often commands the entire market until another competitor begins producing a still better product or service. Because of this competition, products and services improve or fail and prices are reduced or kept to a minimum. Because of this competition, producers and servers win and loose and their financial backers win and loose. Losers move on to different markets or improve. The greatest percentage of people are employed under this system. Opportunity is afforded the greatest percentage of people to succeed and prosper and of course, their is no equality. The egalitarian would enforce an equal reward for all the producers and servers eliminating any incentive to produce or serve better or cheaper and the entire market system suffers to the point of failure. Products and services become unmarketable or rare.

Now, with second stage thinking missing from the institutions of higher learning including the most esteemed campus' in the nation since the 60's, I declare we are seeing the reduction of 1st stage thinking to the level of the cult classic movie, 'Idiocracy" This movie represented a time in our future when TV and technology keeps everybody preoccupied with entertainment and uninterested in work or learning or even relating with others. The result being that nobody knew or cared that crops could not be grown with their most popular sports drink. The government had bought a contract with the drink manufacturer to supply their irrigation pipes. "You have to use water!" "You mean, like in the toilet?"

Hoo wood a thot we se a day wen kids dint se wy thay haf ta no how ta spale, inyways? O' dat yud b shamd ta admitt U study fo skool? Jus yus a kakulater. U don' haf ta no dem times tabels o how ta devide. Do you think I'm exaggerating? I think I've cleaned it up too much! Have you read an IM lately? Check out the Twitterers twittering away over at Twitter.com. Our culture is NOT bleeding away. It has bled out. The youth are being carried away with every breeze of fad and fancy. I am living in the Twilight Zone of American exceptionalism. Everything America worked for and accomplished, bled and died for, is now being ridiculed by the modern Liberal as imperialism, greed, and the rape of natural resources. We haven't defended the rights of the individual in America and especially not in foreign nations, we've forced our way of life on them. We haven't brought wealth to other cultures and nations, we've raped their resources. We haven't raised the standard of living and the standard of morality, we've destroyed their heritage. Everything we've invested in foreign cultures including blood and wealth has paid huge dividends in the final analysis. We've made some whopper mistakes and we, not anybody else, have corrected those mistakes.

Lets invest a little effort right now and engage in second stage thinking. What happens next? What happens when little Bobby and Johnny grow up to be 18 only to find out that they don't get a trophy or a paycheck for warming the bench or loosing the sale or throwing tape balls across the warehouse instead of getting the shipment ready? What happens when not one graduating student from Los Angeles central can do long form division and is looking for a job with a local company? What happens when every foreign government in the world agrees with the modern Liberal that America is an imperialist power raping other nations' resources? What happens when Chavez is able to set up another despotist government in his neighborhood? What happens when civil rights are exaggerated to the point that a terrorist can't be incarcerated for his part in terrorism? What happens when Ahmadenijad is launching his nuclear arsenal at the U.S. and Israel? What happens when Muslim immigrants establish Sharia in sections of U.S. cities? What happens when every student in every classroom gets an A+ irregardless of ability or accomplishment? What happens when there no longer is any measure of morality or judgment? What happens when we've reduced our nuclear arsenal from the ability to destroy the world 100 times over to 55 times over? Does the world enter an ignorant Utopian bliss or does the world break out into nuclear holocaust starting with N. Korea or Iran and spreading to Israel, Russia, and the U.S?

America doesn't loose. People, individuals loose. America is a great piece of dirt and the origin and realization of an ideal. The culture that developed freedom and government for the people and by the people, dies. What fills the gap is the far more common form of government, despots, kings, emperors, a true democracy resembling Chairman Mao's regime. Anything but freedom and liberty making a land of opportunity. Anything but egalitarian life. Anything but Utopia. Proverbs 2, seek knowledge, chase wisdom, she is more valuable than fine gold, she is to be more cherished than rare gems. In our highest institutions of learning we are teaching the next generation to hate judgment, wisdom, discretion, and values. The only value held is that we all suffer equally. And suffer we shall. Remove opportunity to exceed, succeed, be rewarded for our effort, or control the rewards we have worked so hard for and the incentive to exceed, succeed, or be rewarded will suffocate. Suffering will increase exponentially without incentives to work and produce and invent. But that is Barak Obama's and the Liberal fascists' idea of Utopia or Obama's subterfuge to hide his literal path along Hitler's stroll into fascist control of the state. In the words of Dennis Prager, "The Liberal will kill the good in search of the perfect and the result will be a Mouist or Hitlerian regime in America." The Czars of Russia were terrible but the Communists were far worse. The Emperors of China were horrible, but the Chairmanship of Mou was far worse. The corrupt presidents of Cuba were hard, but Fidel Castro has been a nightmare, the Shah of Iran was a pitiful excuse of a national leader but the Mullahs are far worse.

Matthew Henry's commentary:

Proverbs 1:10-19
Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Consent thou not." Do not say as they say, nor do as they do, or would have thee to do; have no fellowship with them. Who could think that it should be a pleasure to one man to destroy another! See their idea of worldly wealth; but it is neither substance, nor precious. It is the ruinous mistake of thousands, that they overvalue the wealth of this world. Men promise themselves in vain that sin will turn to their advantage. The way of sin is down-hill; men cannot stop themselves. Would young people shun temporal and eternal ruin, let them refuse to take one step in these destructive paths. Men's greediness of gain hurries them upon practices which will not suffer them or others to live out half their days. What is a man profited, though he gain the world, if he lose his life? much less if he lose his soul?

In my last post, Zo (Alfonzo Rachel) from ZoNation of PJTV compared the Obama Liberals to the Hilter Liberals and Sparky clarified that the Hitlerian principals were born in the U.S. in the 1900's and that Hitler campaigned on the word "CHANGE" and that the press had physical manifestations of adoration for him and that Hitler moved fast to nationalize the banks and manufacturing industries. Barak Obama is working every bit as fast as Hitler was to bring about a fascist government. Only you can stop him. Only by rejecting his moves toward government control of private industry, his moves toward government buying the banking industry, his moves toward buying popularity via the vast handouts, his moves toward population control, his moves toward supporting despotism in foreign affairs, his moves toward socializing health care, etc., can we bring his fascistization of America to a dead stop. A fascist government in the name of helping people will result in our own Fuhrer, Chairman, or Supreme Leader. Stop him now before he has opportunity to burn the Constitution and dissolve or puppeteer the Supreme Court and the Congress. Dissolve his popularity and deflate his power balloon. March in the street, carry your signs and chant your anti-fascist slogans, write and call your elected officials. Make the facts known everywhere you go.

You can't make the scoreboard always reflect a score of 0-0 especially in the arenas of production and services otherwise known as the marketplace or we will literally have nothing and will actually lose everything. You can't make the loser's score match the winners score by falsely rewarding to an equal level of the successful without devaluing the reward of the successful. Barak is doing just that to the tune of 10's of trillions of dollars by borrowing or printing it up and taxing the successful and taxing the merely employed until the reward will mean nothing, the money will hold no value at all so that we will experience 1930's Germany's hyper-inflation. A bale of cash for a gallon of milk or gas or a loaf of bread. That's why equality over liberty is so deadly to any person, state, nation, or culture and that is why America and the grand experiment have been so successful. We were never interested in the results of our efforts being equal, but have always been concerned with equal opportunity for rewards of our efforts. There have been great failures in this endeavor and there likely will be many more great failures, but the greatest failure of our grand experiment would be to quit the experiment altogether. Quitting literally means reversing the opportunity for rewards to redistribute those rewards to make the score; the rewards, equal as they were under every communist regime at the outset. Somehow all that gets flushed down the toilet as soon as the new power class is established. We are greedy and self interested by default. By default there will always be disparity between the classes and by default, there will always be classes. The difference the grand experiment made was to provide these opportunities to one and all.

One Path to Wisdom

May 26, 2009
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As a society, we value education. Enough so that we have made education available to everybody completely apart from financial costs. I believe this has resulted in a devaluation of education among the recipients. Had schools been a privelege to me and my generation rather than a given, we would have taken the opportunities we were afforded much more seriously. As it was, I felt I was being force fed. My parents disaggreed, largely because they did not get complete education. The more I learn about the application of agenda into our educational programs, the more I believe we are being force fed misinformation. This is one of the myriad reasons I advocate vouchers or school choice. If this school is doing a lousy job, I get to choose a better school just like I get to choose a better hamburger joint or auto mechanic.

I am a religious man but I have avoided arguing politics and judgment from a religious perspective simply because of the current bias against Christianity in the Western cultures. On this topic, I believe this is not possible because there simply is no better source for wisdom than faith in God. There is only one path to wisdom. There is only one path to understanding the benefits and consequences of world views. The rest are condemned to continuously circling around false assumptions because; all men reason in a circle, or begin by assumptions. Their knowledge and wisdom depend on their assumptions. The God-rejecter begins by assuming his ideas and those of the fools before him are intelligent and rational. He begins by assuming he has made great advances in the twenty years since he was in diapers. The righteous man begins by assuming faith in an infinitely wise God, Who has revealed truth and wisdom in Scripture. He begins by thinking he knows nothing at all and needs the help of Another.

The other you choose should be based on their fruit. I'll come back to this thought in a moment but I wanted to point out the carnal mind and its motivation. The reason the carnal person tears down the reputation of the good and builds up or covers up the reputation of the evil is they are biased by their desires for their own particular brand of evil and align with other brands of evil to overcome the majority's good judgment to protect their access to their favored brand of evil. Ergo, the Liberal elite college professor who denies the existence of God aligns with the Hezbollah terrorist who targets and kills innocents in the name of Allah. Its insane and the professor denies it, but his deeds reveal him. His fruit is supportive of Hezbollah and destructive to his own country and ideology. Carried out to its logical conclusion, his course would end in submission to Islam and Allah as described in the Qu'ran.

Back to the fruit of faith. If the fruit of belief in God is the Taliban, Hezbollah, Fatah, and the hundreds of other mainstream organizations which openly and proudly present their blood lust and domineering control of the population as the will of Allah, you might want to consider the consequence to you personally and those you love if their ideology is employed everywhere. If the fruit of faith is an environment which welcomes other ideologies and fights for equal opportunity for all, even for countries other than its own, then you might want to consider the Source of such an ideology. Perhaps someone can recall a civilization and ideology which welcomes other cultures to enter their arena of ideas, not just for purposes of debate, but always looking for the better to employ in their own society, but I can't recall one. Perhaps someone can recall a society in history which bleeds for other cultures without expectation of payment or profit, but I can't recall one. Certainly, it isn't Islam. Islam has been imperialist, expansionist, and violently militant from its inception and continues to be today in 44 nations around the world so they can bless the people with 'morality' by chopping off the heads of anyone who refuses to submit to their authority. Pardon me, but that isn't religion, that is a theopolitical movement to advance a government and the power of its leaders. Come to think of it, wasn't it the U.S. (a predominantly Christian culture) which went to war in Bosnia to protect Muslims from the Christians engaging in ethnic cleansing?

As for the faith of non-faith, what is its fruit in recent history? Nazism, Communism, Maouist, Taoist, etc., have all been the sources of the greatest bloodletting in history, even more than all three major religions combined. All of them stem from the Marxist ideology of eliminating faith in God. More than 100 million lives lost in the last century alone. The thing that sets Christianity apart from all the rest is its self correcting nature. It was the Christian which drove the anti-slave movement. It was the Christian which corrected the witch trials and the inquisition. You name the ill in Christianity from history and just know that it was Christians which corrected the wrongs. Not only that, but in the last century it was predominantly the Christian cultures which corrected the ills of the anti-God regimes of Nazism, Communism, Taoists and eventually pressured the Maouists to some degree of morality and value for human life and self will. This continues even today and it is predominantly the Christian culture which is exerting some control on the bloodlust of the Islamists.

Let God be true.

This is a crucial proverb, for the rest are wasted without fearing the LORD. Solomon put it first! The basic foundation for learning is to fear God (9:10); but fools reject wisdom and instruction, for they are proud and selfish without regard for God. They love their own opinions (26:12). Rather than search for truth, fools simply want to promote their own thoughts (18:1-2). But you cannot even start learning without the true fear of God.

Who is the LORD? He is Jehovah of the Bible, the great I AM THAT I AM (Ex 3:14; 6:3). He created the heavens, earth, seas, and everything in them in six twenty-four hour days. When He came as a man 2000 years ago, He was named Jesus (Is 7:14; 9:6; Matt 1:21-23; John 1:1,14). Jesus Christ is Jehovah! And He is coming soon with His mighty angels in flaming fire to destroy His enemies (II Thess 1:7-11; I Tim 6:13-16).

The fear of God is an affectionate reverence for Him and humble submission to His word. Fearing God is loving His commandments and hating evil (8:13; 16:6; Ps 111:10; 112:1). Fearing God recognizes Him as the First Cause and Last End of all things (16:4; Rev 4:11)! It knows His forgiveness and seeks to please Him (Ps 130:3-4). A man fearing God trembles humbly at His word (Is 66:2). It is the whole duty of man (Eccl 12:13-14).

Natural men, who do not fear God, are fools (Ps 14:1; 36:1; 58:1). Their reasoning processes are perverse, for they reason in a circle from their own conceited ideas (Rom 1:20-23; I Tim 6:3-5,20-21). Spiritual men, who do fear God, are wise and reasonable, because their thoughts begin with faith in a Creator God (II Thess 3:2; Heb 11:3,6). The fool begins his thinking with thoughts of other fools, the believer with the words of God!

All men reason in a circle, or begin by assumptions. Their knowledge and wisdom depend on their assumptions. The God-rejecter begins by assuming his ideas and those of the fools before him are intelligent and rational. He begins by assuming he has made great advances in the twenty years since he was in diapers. The righteous man begins by assuming faith in an infinitely wise God, Who has revealed truth and wisdom in Scripture. He begins by thinking he knows nothing at all and needs the help of Another.

The fool cannot prove his theories. He calls hallucinations like evolution to be science, but he has never observed evolution, duplicated it in a laboratory, or adequately defined it. He is a fool! And his so-called science is merely a fable (I Tim 6:20-21). The believer knows the Bible is absolutely true internally and externally: but he cannot and will not prove it to the fool, because the fool is missing the essential factor - faith (II Thes 3:1-2).

Consider faith closely. The fool has faith - belief and trust - in himself and his other fellow fools. It takes more faith to believe man came from chaotic gases and baboons than it does to believe man came from an intelligent Creator. The fool has faith, but it is faith in man's hallucinations! The fool has faith in lies, which is self-deception! The believer has faith in God and His word (Heb 11:1-6), which is self-instruction (15:33)!

How did man originate? The fool says a big bang of chaotic gases formed order, design, beauty, life, and the ability and laws to reproduce and preserve them. The man who fears God knows the fool is a fool, because only an idiot could imagine such nonsense, and only the insane would say it! As a humble child trusting God, he cries, "The Emperor has no clothes!" He knows God made man from dust and breathed into him the breath of life.

Evolution is the result of God-hating and sin-loving minds given over to the devil, and it is God Himself Who blinds these fools to worship baboons as their ancestors (Is 44:9-20; Rom 1:20-23). Their "think tanks" today are to smoke hallucinogenic substances and see who can win the day by coming up with the most outlandish explanation for a thing! Do you doubt this accusation? How do you think they say the big bang was 14 billion years ago? They do not even know what men were doing on earth 4 thousand years ago!

The blessed God blinds men who are not thankful to Him for what they are and have (Rom 1:20-23). When they give more glory to the creature than to the Creator, He gives them over to a reprobate mind to do very inconvenient things like sodomy, abortion, child rebellion, rap, bestiality, Picasso, and same-sex marriages (Rom 1:24-32). Jehovah, the LORD, has committed Himself to destroy such men (I Cor 1:19-20; 3:19-20).

How did the seven-day week originate? Did Neanderthal man decide he was tired after working six days and needed the seventh for rest? The movements of the sun give us seasons and years and days, and the moon gives us months, just as God declared (Gen 1:14-19). Where did the week originate? By God's revelation (Gen 2:1-3; Ex 20:8-11)!

How did morality originate? Is adultery wrong? If not, why is polygamy wrong? If not, why is prostitution wrong? If not, why is pornography wrong? If not, why is bestiality wrong? If not, why is pedophilia wrong? How do you reason, fool? Did the caveman of your theories want to protect the woman and give her a loving and secure life in a monogamous relationship of two adults? Or did the blessed God ordain marriage?

Consider how an evolutionist reasons. He laughs at sexual abstinence and virginity, while pulling very small infants apart limb by limb with a suction abortion. He sues farmers for housing chickens in safe cages with constant food, water, and vitamins; but he viciously defends the so-called right to rip an unborn child to pieces! And they call this knowledge!

Fearing God is the beginning of knowledge ... about religion! If it were not for God and His Bible, men would still be sacrificing their wives and children in fire to make peace with their idols, as is still done in India today! They would still be cutting and painting themselves to make peace with the Great Spirit and go to the Happy Hunting Ground.

Fearing God is the beginning of knowledge ... about government! If it were not for God and His Bible, men would still worship their emperor as god, like the Egyptians of old and the Japanese of yesterday. Benevolent government was ordained in the Bible, and it is only widely enjoyed in nations that have been havens for Bible preaching. In all other nations, the peasants are used to satisfy the appetite for luxury of the ruler.

Fearing God is the beginning of knowledge ... about history! Most historians today write history to further a social agenda, and those that write honestly have little data anyway. As foolish man discovers that the Bible accounts of ancient civilizations are true, the same men outlaw the Bible in schools, lest the children have truth at their disposal. Consider the recent discovery of the Hittites that the Bible had described for 3,000 years.

The Bible has all the answers from the origin of the universe to what to do with your foolish child, from the origin of death to the cure for it, from perfect rules for marriage to the eternal state of the wicked. Fearing God means that you believe and trust His word, which gives you insight and answers for all the questions of life, while the evolutionist fool can only speculate about new ideas on the age of the big bang.

Fearing God means you do not fear man, which brings pressure to compromise (29:25; Jer 1:8,17). Peer pressure of elementary school students or academicians in your professional field cause men to accept traditional ideas or politically correct theories. It is time for the child to cry again, "But the Emperor has no clothes!" The fear of God saves a man from this bondage, for such a man despises all human opinions (Ps 119:98-100,128).

Where does wisdom originate? In the fear of the Lord! God opens men's eyes, ears, and hearts to truth and wisdom (I Kgs 3:5-15; Jas 1:5). God opens their eyes to His word (Ps 119:18). God shows them His secrets (3:32; Ps 25:14). And they fear no man (Heb 13:6). Wisdom cannot be found anywhere in the universe, but in the fear of God (Job 28:12-28)!

Don't Blame God

Apr 23, 2009
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I collect analogies. They help me reveal truth by slightly adjusting perspective. A new friend on Stumble Upon had this one on her home page. Its new to me and I thought I would share it with you. Hope you enjoy.

A preacher and an atheistic barber were once walking through the city slums. Said the barber to the preacher: "This is why I cannot believe in a God of love. If God was as kind as you say, He would not permit all this poverty, disease, and squalor. He would not allow these poor bums to be addicted to dope and other character-destroying habits. No, I cannot believe in a God who permits these things."

The minister was silent until they met a man who was especially unkempt and filthy. His hair was hanging down his neck and he had a half-inch of stubble on his face. Said the minister: "You must not be a very good barber because you wouldn't permit a man like that to continue living in this neighborhood without a haircut and shave." Indignantly the barber answered: "Why blame me for that man's condition? I can't help it that he is like that. He has never come in my shop; I could fix him up and make him look like a gentleman!"

Giving the barber a penetrating look, the minister said: "Then don't blame God for allowing the people to continue in their evil ways, when He is constantly inviting them to come and be saved."

On the same site is this little jewel. This is why we must use our judgment. You are going to find good information and bad information mixed together in this life. You have to use wisdom to discern what is good from what sounds good.

Conservatives have been exercising this foolish principal for decades and look where its gotten us. I now know this to be a foolish notion because when truth and reason is not explained, the enemy can make false charges against your character and the friend can be convinced your motives are not right. Worse, the bystanders get only the false impression left by the false charges. Not only do you have to stand for what you believe in, you have to explain why you believe it, and you'd better do it in a way that makes knowledge desirable. Whether my enemy believes me is not the point. That his charges against me are accepted by others is the point. That was George Bush's greatest failing as president of the United States of America, not torture, not the national security initiative, not even the spending, but explaining to the nation and the world why these were necessary actions and demonstrating our judicious military restraint.

My friend's page is choc full of really good stuff, so I am not knocking her at all. I'm just saying the best pages, minds, and messages can have some bad stuff mixed in. We have to be vigilant about what we take to be good every minute.

Here's one more from her page that is new to me and useful.

PERSPECTIVE

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?" "It was great, Dad." "Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked. "Oh yeah," said the son. "So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father. The son answered: "I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them." The boy's father was speechless. Then his son added, "Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are."
Isn't perspective a wonderful thing? Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don't have. Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends! Pass this on to friends and acquaintances and help them refresh their perspective and appreciation.

Life is too short and friends are too few!

Living in a Dream

Jan 31, 2009
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The conservative populace are being shut out of the conversations which guide our great culture. I listened to a YouTube video yesterday of Sean Hannity interviewing Rush Limabugh and Rush articulated a frustration with our conservative politicians saying they 'Want Obama to succeed" and "Think they can work with this president." They are still moving to the middle even though this past election has proven that this strategy is a big loser. Making it clear what we mean when we say we do not want Obama to succeed, Rush explained, "If you mean we want Obama to continue Bush's policies which have kept this nation safe for the last 7 years then of course we want him to succeed, but if you mean we want him to implement his campaign promises to close GITMO and spend our way to wealth, the answer is no. Of course we don't want to see Obama credited with fixing the economy when he is following the now proven failed attempt to spend our way to wealth as was attempted during the Great Depression. That collapse, it is generally accepted today, was extended by as much as a decade due to those 'spend to wealth' policies. Yet, that president is credited with having 'fixed' the economy and his programs are still in place to this day, still wasting America's wealth. America's economy recovered in spite of those policies, not because of them.

The power elite need to hear voices like the following in order to fully wrangle through the ideas available today.

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy
out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another
person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to
anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the
other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea
that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work
for, that, my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

~~ The late Dr. Adrian Rogers ~~

Our populace are living is such a media bubble that they forget that we are yet involved in a shooting war. So many of us are busy shoe shopping and purchasing entertainment and distractions that some are outraged if their little dream world is disturbed with that troubling news, "Some of us are paying dearly for your dreamworld to continue."

Luke Air Force Base is west of Phoenix and is rapidly being surrounded by
civilization that complains about the noise from the base and its planes,
forgetting that it was there long before they were. A certain lieutenant colonel
at Luke AFB deserves a big pat on the back. Apparently, an individual who lives
somewhere near Luke AFB wrote the local paper complaining about a group of F-16s
that disturbed his/her day at the mall.

When that individual read the response from a Luke AFB officer, it must Have stung quite a bit.

The complaint:
'Question of the day for Luke Air Force Base:

Whom do we thank for the morning air show? Last Wednesday, at precisely 9:11 A.M, a tight formation of four F-16 jets made a low pass over Arrowhead Mall, continuing west over Bell Road at approximately 500 feet. Imagine our good fortune! Do the Tom Cruise-wannabes feel we need this wake-up call, or were they trying to impress the cashiers at Mervyns early bird special?

Any response would be appreciated.

The response:

Regarding 'A wake-up call from Luke's jets' On June 15, at precisely 9:12 a.m., a perfectly timed four- ship fly by of F-16s from the 63rd Fighter Squadron at Luke Air Force Base flew over the grave of Capt. Jeremy Fresques. Capt Fresques was an Air Force officer who was previously stationed at Luke Air Force Base and was killed in Iraq on May 30, Memorial Day.

At 9 a. m. on June 15, his family and friends gathered at Sunland Memorial Park in Sun City to mourn the loss of a husband, son and friend. Based on the letter writer's recount of the fly by, and because of the jet noise, I'm sure you didn't hear the 21-gun salute, the playing of taps, or my words to the widow and parents of Capt. Fresques as I gave them their son's flag on behalf of the President of the United States and all those veterans and servicemen and women who understand the sacrifices they have endured..

A four-ship fly by is a display of respect the Air Force gives to those who give their lives in defense of freedom. We are professional aviators and take our jobs seriously, and on June 15 what the letter writer witnessed was four officers lining up to pay their ultimate respects.

The letter writer asks, 'Whom do we thank for the morning air show? The 56th Fighter Wing will make the call for you, and forward your thanks to the widow and parents of Capt Fresques, and thank them for you, for it was in their honor that my pilots flew the most honorable formation of their lives.

Only 2 defining forces have ever offered to die for you....Jesus Christ and the American Soldier.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.

Lt. Col. Grant L. Rosensteel, Jr.

USAF

How ALL phones SHOULD be answered!

GOOD MORNING,

WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
.........
Please Press '1' for English.

Press
'2' to disconnect until you learn to speak English

The end result is a leadership that is as self deluded as the dreamers which elected them. Somebody will pay the piper. Somebody will have to pay the taxes for the stimulus plan. Somebody will have to put life and limb on the line to stop the encroachment of threats foreign and domestic. Somebody will live their entire lives under a doctrine of helplessness propagated by a leadership that believes wholeheartedly that they can't make it in this 'racist, bigoted, uncaring' culture. Somebody will have to fight battles against power mongers to regain their freedoms and rights which were sold for rice and beans, a failing health care system, a failing farming program, and on, and on.... Somebody always has to pay.

The Palestinian Addiction is an important article explaining international behavior toward Palestine as compared to enablers of drug or alcohol addicts.

Think Tank Bubble is an important article explaining the depravity legislated into law not only here in the U.S. but throughout the Western world.

An Incendiary Error is an important article clearing up the misinformation from the Cast Lead operation Israel carried out in Gaza.

U.S. Professors to Boycott Israel is an important article reporting the U.S. professors are following in the footsteps of the U.K's professors and for the first time, proposing a boycott of Israel's academia.

Israeli Apartheid Week is an important article reporting college campuses hosting weeklong anti-Israel rallies.

The Superbowl Commercial you won't see during this year's superbowl was originally accepted, then NBC flipped and refused to air it.

A study highlighting the squelching of public discourse on our college campuses with speechcodes reflects what is going on in the larger environment of public discourse through our media and in the halls of our legislatures.

All of these articles represent the trend to shut down open discourse over Israel's right to exist and the benefits she affords America and the world, over the extended devastation of redistribution of wealth, over the bureaucratic cruelty of government aid programs, over the benefits or detriments of various religions, over anything worth discussing.

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Wisdom

Nov 9, 2008
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You know how sometimes you don't know if you should accept a suggestion? You aren't sure if that course of action is wise or not, but when you hear somebody make a clear and concise argument with examples for yes or no, you recognize truth. In fact you think you must be an ignoramus for not having drawn the obvious conclusion for yourself. You recognize wisdom but you can't develop it, let alone express it to others. This is the reason I study three people and now may be adding a fourth. To the best of my knowledge these people have had four advantages over most of us.

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1. They were raised in very religious homes.
2. They were introduced to and began to study the Lord, in their respective religions, early in life.
3. They have sought the best educational opportunities available.
4. They have learned to discipline themselves to study life with extreme interest in morality.

Beginning in the order I have come to know about them and have studied them,

Jack Hayford has authored over 40 books and is the General Editor of the Spirit-Filled Life publications produced by Thomas Nelson Publishers. That project organization included hundreds of pastors and researchers which tells me Dr. Hayford is highly respected among ministers and scholars. He has composed over 500 hymns, songs, and choruses, the most noted of which is the classic “Majesty.” Over the 50+ years of his ministry, he has served in youth ministry, pastoral ministry, as president of the Four Square training school, LIFE Bible College (now Life Pacific College), and now as the Four Square president.

Quotes: I want to assert as strongly as anything I have to say today that I don't believe that any human being has the right to judge if a person is going to or has gone to hell. Jack Hayford

Don't ever make the mistake dear ones, please don't ever make this mistake, of thinking, of supposing for a moment, there is even one iota of unity in the invisible realm of darkness. There is no unity in the realm of darkness. Jack Hayford

There's never existed the person to whatever degree, small or great, that bondage has been in their life, that there still was not enough power of Jesus in them to minister to somebody else. Oh listen! Greater is He that is in you than everything else that's around. Hallejujah Jack Hayford.

Dennis Prager is currently an acclaimed talk show host on the Salem Radio Network broadcasting from KABC's 870AM based in Los Angeles, Ca. He has been named one of America's 5 most important speakers by Toastmasters. He has authored 4 short but very important books including Think a Second Time, Why the Jews, The 9 Most Common Questions People Ask About Judaism, and Happiness is a Serious Problem. New York's Jewish Week described him as "one of the three most interesting minds in American Jewish Life." He makes regular appearances on the most watched news talk shows as well as speaking at churches, synagogues, colleges, and social clubs.

Quote: If you never compromise, you may never have the opportunity to acheive a much greater good. Dennis Prager

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of rich and poor. Dennis Prager

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. Dennis Prager

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. Dennis Prager

Dinesh D'Souza's new book What's So Great About Christianity is published by Regnery. It is the comprehensive answer to a spate of atheist books denouncing theism in general and Christianity in particular. Mr. D'Souza has been called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country" by Investor's Business Daily. The New York Times Magazine named him one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. The World Affairs Council lists him as one of the nation's 500 leading authorities on international issues.   Newsweek cited him as one of the country's most prominent Asian Americans. A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D'Souza also served as John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983. Mr. D'Souza'a books have had a major influence on public opinion and public policy. His 1991 book Illiberal Education was the first study to publicize the phenomenon of political correctness. The book was widely acclaimed and became a New York Times bestseller for 15 weeks. It has been listed as one of the most influential books of the 1990's. D'Souza's articles have appeared in virtually every major magazine and newspaper, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, New Republic, and National Review. He has appeared on numerous television programs, including the Today Show, Nightline, The News Hour, O'Reilly Factor, Moneyline, and Hannity and Colmes. D'Souza writes a daily blog for AOL and a weekly column for Townhall.com D'Souza speaks at top universities, business groups, civic groups, and churches across the country.

Quotes: The thoughts in our minds are the rudders for the things we do. Dinesh D'Souza

             Success is defined by one's ability to tell the difference between what's right and wrong, and to strive as best as humanly possible to do what's right. To me, success and goodness are synonymous. Dinesh D'Souza

             America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated. Dinesh D'Souza

             Even as the cultural left accuses Bush of imperialism in invading Iraq, it deflects attention from its own cultural imperialism aimed at secularizing Muslim society and undermining its patriarchal and traditional values. The liberal 'solution' to Islamic fundamentalism is itself a source of Islamic hostility to America. Dinesh D'Souza

And now;
Milton Friedman. In 1951 Friedman received the John Bates Clark Medal honoring economists under age forty for outstanding achievement. In 1976 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." Before that time he had served as an adviser to President Richard Nixon and was president of the American Economic Association in 1967. After retiring from the University of Chicago in 1977, Friedman became a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He established himself in 1945 with Income from Independent Professional Practice, coauthored with Simon Kuznets. His landmark 1957 work, A Theory of the Consumption Function, took on the Keynesian view that individuals and households adjust their expenditures on consumption to reflect their current income. The blogger over at the Liberty Pen introduced me to his work and thought a few days ago and I am so impressed with him that I may include his teachings in my list of mental mentors.

Meet Milton Friedman

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. Milton Friedman

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. Milton Friedman

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. Milton Friedman

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. Milton Friedman

This one is continually attributed to a Sci-Fi writer but it actually was first articulated by the economist historian.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Milton Friedman

The fact that information is available does not mean you know it exists and can find it. More importantly, having necessary information in mind does not mean you will know what to do with it. Wisdom is that insight which empowers a person to make cognizant choices with available information for relevant conclusions which provide the best course of action. For that to happen, one must have a reference, in navigation terms, a constant from which all else is relative. This is what our religions provide us and the reason these men can grasp and intuit morality.

Meriam Webster's Dictionary definition of wisdom:

1 a: accumulated philosophic or scientific learning : knowledge b: ability to discern inner qualities and relationships : insight c: good sense : judgment d: generally accepted belief <challenges what has become accepted wisdom among many historians — Robert Darnton>2: a wise attitude, belief, or course of action3: the teachings of the ancient wise men

good judgment:
4 a: the process of forming an opinion or evaluation by discerning and comparing b: an opinion or estimate so formed

discern right from wrong, good from evil

1 : the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure : skill in discerning 2 : an act of discerning

insight:
1 : the power or act of seeing into a situation : penetration 2 : the act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively

NASB Updated Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The Bible says that people who reject God are fools. This is not a condemnation against the doubters and unbelievers who are reading this. This is an indictment against my former life. My own choices and habits were self destructive. The patterns of behavior I'd established over the first 30 years of my life will take the rest of my life to overcome. The sooner a person can commit his or her life to God, the sooner and the more wisdom will come to them. The more you commit yourself to the new patterns of behavior which are given to us through the scriptures the better your mind will be. I have had to adopt a new world view because the old one ('s) had failed me miserably and I had failed miserably in with respect to my debt to society.

All four of the men listed above are very religious. Two are Jews and two are Christian. Of the two Christians, one is Protestant Evangelical and one is Catholic. All four were blessed with very stable homes where the traditions of their respective religions were practiced. Obviously, all were tempted by the offerings of the world, but their respective traditions provided early on, the direction through these temptations. They may have tasted the secular offerings of the world and they may have even been seduced for a time to take on a different world view, but the consequences that come with them send us running back to the long tested reasoning of the traditions which guide us unerringly if we adhere to them. Its when we reject them that we experience the failures of man's wisdom. (humanism, utopia on earth, spreading the wealth around, etc.,)

The point is, whether you believe in God or not, there is very real benefit in society for each person to follow the traditions of their religions. There are of course, exceptions. Most notable today, is the religion of Islam. (taqiyya-the practice of justifiable deception, sexism, war bounty, etc.,) The secularists charge Christianity and Judaism with all the worst motives in the world, (imperialism, fascism, genocides, racist bigotry, etc.,) All those attacks have very little to do with actual events. What they are about is the fact that the vast majority of people do not want to voluntarily conform to good standards of behavior, so they try to undermine the proponents (whether a person or a theology) of good behavior to either excuse or justify their own sin.

In comparison to a motivated attacker, what has the theologian to gain by promoting this world view. That people's lives will improve well enough that they give him money and honor for guiding them to a happier, more successful life. There is a trade, but the whole thing is entirely voluntary unlike business. It is a charity based operation from its initial founding to this day. On the other hand, the wisdom of America's institutions, generally founded on the wisdom of religions, have been bought with federal funding and subsidies. They are no longer accountable to the customer, the student, but are free to think and act in any way they 'feel' they can justify. Ergo, evolutionism, socialism, and elitist intellectualism and a radical conversion to a secular world view and a departure from the constant which gives us the ability to grasp, to discern morality.

Gun Totin' Judge?

Jul 3, 2008
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On Friday, I saw a video of popular court TV Judge Judy making clear to a thug where she stands on private citizens and personal weapons. It is a rare bit of wisdom expressed from the bench, even a TV bench which bears no impact in the real courts. Judge Judy has been and still holds accreditation through the BAR association, but the TV courtroom is a show and as such, the participants sign documents before entering this court which holds them to a binding contract of the Judge's judgments. It is a great representation of why the Supreme Court did the right thing upholding citizens' right to keep and bear arms as laid out in the Constitution.