"Fundamental Transformation" Is Here; The U.S. Isn't

              This past week has seen Barack Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America come to fruition. The Supreme Court has itself acted in an Obama-like fashion by ignoring the rule-of-law, the Constitution, Republicanism, all of recorded history, Christian teachings and the will of the people. It is now raw political power that rules America, with one to nine individuals deciding things for a nation of 320 million.

 President Obama can now rightly say that the U.S. isn’t truly exceptional among nations.

Marriage Equality Laid Bare

                It must not be forgotten that the progressive’s relentless push for the legalization of gay marriage has been with the exclusive goal of separating marriage from procreation. If they could somehow convince people that the union of one man and one woman, the bedrock of nearly all societies world-wide since the beginning of time, was in no way special or unique, than anything goes. If no particular benefit is acknowledged for a couple’s having the innate ability to  create life and foster their child’s development in a stable, complete, balanced structure, the one remaining significant bulwark against complete chaos and depravity has been defeated.  

With that major mountain climbed, logically it should be comparatively easy to convince people that polygamy is okay and incest is no big deal. Many, many people consider their pets family members and love them truly, fully, deeply and unconditionally- above most humans, in many cases. How on earth, if marriage isn’t about procreation and what’s best for producing and raising  children, but only about who or what we love or enjoy being around most, are we to tell others they can’t marry their Golden Retriever? Loving companions and partners of any stripe are now on legally equal footing with a husband and wife with complimentary sexual organs, whether those organs be provided by God or Gaia, intelligent design or evolution.

Want to marry your dad or uncle? No big whoop. A water-buffalo? You go sister! Everyone on your cul-de-sac? More power to you! A nine-year-old? That’s what I’m talkin’ about!

Lots of folks would marry their smart-phones. Don’t laugh or scoff.

Love is love.

 It's all the same.

As the President of the United States himself proclaimed.

Nothing deeper, nothing sacred.

Forevermore, in the USA.

His Remarkable Rotundity

                He’s back in the news! His Remarkable Rotundity, Kim Jong-un, and His crackerjack team of North Korean scientists, have let the world know that they have invented a miracle drug! This astounding potion, called “Kumdang-2” (insert your own joke here), can cure AIDS, Ebola, Sars and Mers! I’m sure it can help one re-grow hair, prevent memory loss and take coffee-stains out of delicate fabrics, as well!

                The drug has several ingredients, only one of which the Hermit Kingdom’s finest will divulge at this time…ginseng.

Oddly enough, the impoverished “republic” is one of the world’s largest producers of ginseng. And nothing else, except bullshit and bellicosity.

Now, perhaps, they can set their minds toward inventing something that can cure delusions or even stop hunger.

Like food.

This recent announcement is probably best taken with a grain of salt, as its source is the same government that has previously declared that Kim Jong-un: learned to drive at the age of three, won a yacht race as a nine-year-old, and has climbed the country’s highest mountain.

Papal Encyclical- Part II

                The recent Papal encyclical on global warming is more alarming than most people realize. Not because of any- alleged- warming of the Earth, but because of what it exhibits about the rapidly changing religious climate. Most forms of Christianity are rapidly becoming more secular and liberal, in many cases dramatically so. This is occurring for several reasons. The church wants to appear “modern” and “reasonable”, tolerant and “relevant” to young people. They need to keep their current congregations and attract new attendees to build their flocks, if possible. And fill their coffers.

                The prevailing belief today seems to be that younger folks in specific and the modern, educated society in general, simply aren’t going to comply with any outmoded, more strident church doctrine if it in any way limits their behavior or makes any person or act seem less worthy than any other. Fewer and fewer people are attending church in recent years, and polls strongly indicate that, overall, people in Western societies are becoming less and less religious and are especially skeptical of big, organized religion.

                In a nutshell, in an attempt to stop people from losing their religion, the Christian church itself is becoming less and less religious. There may be a link here somewhere. The chicken or the egg?

                 I do believe that people have become less attuned to religion over the years, as the culture has changed and 60’s radicals have taken over nearly all major societal institutions. But, the church may be hastening the exodus of its congregants by not standing up for its own beliefs. After all, either there are some absolute truths or there aren’t. If there aren’t, we are screwed anyway, but if there are…and the church itself refuses to stand up for them, then it loses any moral high ground it had with its erstwhile followers, rendering itself moot.

                Back to the Papal encyclical. It turns out that the Pope’s primary science advisor, Hans Schellnhuber, is a self-professed atheist and believes in the Gaia Principle and a “geophysiological”  approach to “Earth-system analysis.”

                Schellnhuber co-authored a paper published in the Journal Nature in 2004, “Climbing the co-evolution ladder,” essentially suggesting that mankind is an infection and stating that mankind, “perturbs…the global ‘metabolism’” of the planet. How was this infection imposed upon our innocent planet (Gaia, our Mother Earth)? Evolution or divine will, Hans?

                In one noted interview, Schellnhuber is quoted as saying, “If you want to reduce human population, there are wonderful means: improve the education of girls and young women.” Not exactly “go forth and multiply.”

                In a paper he co-authored (with Maria Martin) for the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 2014, Schellnhuber utilizes a “scientific” graph that shows Michelangelo’s (Sistine Chapel) Adam “flicking” planet Earth over a “methane tipping point,” into a fiery pit labeled the “Warming Abyss.” Hell on Earth.

                So, to Schellnhuber, Adam, representing all humans by extension, and put here by God, is condemning the Earth to Hell. Wow. So either God erred, or the liberal’s beloved evolution/Mother Earth did, in creating mankind?

                It is not a good sign when we, who were created in the image of God, decide we are not worthy of our existence.

                It is an even worse one when those who claim to be God’s messengers decide the same thing.

The Papal Encyclical on Global Warming

                This past Thursday, June 18^th, Pope Francis called for immediate changes in human behavior to fight global warming and save the environment, saying damage caused by contemporary lifestyles could leave future generations in a world of filth. Wow.

                I would’ve thought that he’d have called for immediate changes in human behavior to fight evil and save our souls, saying damage caused by contemporary lifestyles could leave future generations in a world of filth. Or lead to there not being future generations. We certainly are even now surrounded by a world of filth, as evidenced by popular culture and current events. The Kardashians, after-birth abortion, Islamic terrorism, Kim Jong-un, the belligerence of Russia and China, the push for gay marriage (I am not anti-gay), open bathrooms and unlimited gender identities.

                We have Dylann Roof, the sick, twisted, mass-murderer who took it upon himself to take the life of nine innocent African-American churchgoers. And we have Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson- and our President- doing their level best to fan the flames of racial hatred.

In my naivete’, I thought that the Pope’s role was to weigh in on things pertaining to the human soul and our relationship with God. I was unaware that the Pope was a renowned climatologist, keen to weigh in on temporal matters.

The Vatican has apparently been consulting for many months with “leading experts” on global warming. Do they do this with “leading experts” on abortion, contraception, Islam, etc.?

Francis blamed, in part, consumerism and the errant indifference of the powerful and the wealthy for the Earth’s troubles. Francis, an unimaginably powerful member of a wealthy church, ought to know that if there were fewer wealthy people there would be more poor people- not fewer. Prior to the existence of the U.S., or the free market, or industry period, there was almost universal poverty around the globe and the life expectancy of these poor and downtrodden people, subject to the edicts of their kings and the Pope, was less than half of what it is now.

This most liberal of Popes also called for the creation of a true world political authority and a binding international treaty that would have rich countries aid poorer ones and help them make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energies such as solar power. This world political authority would, by default, have to be led by a powerful entity. The U.S. is increasingly weak and has already willingly signed on to further castrating itself in the interest of preventing the climate from doing what it’s going to do anyway. Putin’s Russia? The Chi-coms? They both have a stellar  record of assaulting the globe with pollution and filth, not preventing it. Islam? Perhaps the Pope might want to speak about this notion?

The Pontiff also stated that everyone should consider taking public transit, carpooling, planting trees, turning off the lights and recycling.

Someone please let me know when you next see the Pope on a bus or in a subway. Oddly enough, the great-room wasn’t dark when Francis delivered his encyclical. This reporter is not sure if the lights on then or at the news conference that followed were solar-powered. The Pope does fly around the world frequently. Jet aircraft are some of the worst carbon-dioxide producers in existence.

Hilariously, many anti-religious and atheist types have praised this Pope’s recent remarks, some even going so far as to say that the Pope’s message applies to everyone regardless of their faith. They do not say that about his messages on abortion, birth-control or gender, for example. Odd. One might say almost hypocritical.

Michael Mann, a “climate scientist” at Penn State University, inventor of the infamous “hockey stick graph” and noted theologian, also came out in support of the Pontiff’s remarks. Incredibly, he stated, “Human activity is most likely responsible not just for most global warming but all of it, and then some…” There you have it. The unbiased, agenda-free experts have spoken.

Upcoming Topics For Papal Encyclicals, As Leaked By A Highly Placed Vatican Source:

*Sasquatch/Yeti- June, 2016

* The Supply and Demand Curve!- May, 2017

*Adam Smith- September, 2017

*Leprechauns- November, 2018

*Compound Interest- February, 2019

*Change- January 1st, 2020 (as of this writing it is unclear if the topic is change in general, or specifically man-caused change)

Identity Fraud

                Roughly three out of one-thousand people who were born one sex now claim to identify as the other. Or should I say, as another. Or both. Or neither. Or all of them, however many there may be. Or whatever. As Caitlynn Jenner- among many others lately- has proved, it no longer matters what you are…or were at birth, at any rate. The only real thing is what you identify as being.

                Born male, have male parts, but self-identify as female, or vice-versa? No problem; then you are whatever gender you claim be! Use the bathroom of your chosen gender!

                 Born white, but identify as black, or vice-versa? No problem, then you are whatever color you claim to be! Good for you, Rachel Dolezal, the now former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)!

Personally, I identify as a golden retriever. That’s why I’m taking a dump and peeing in my yard, officer, though the neighbor kids are swimming in their pool 30 feet away. You can’t cite me for that, this is my bathroom, you trans-species-a-phobic bastard!

                Next, I may identify as your wife’s husband, therefore I should be able to sleep with her whenever I want…unless, of course, you are an intolerant bigot.

                Or perhaps I will identify as a liberal commentator so I can make inane and slanderous comments without fear of reprisal, while accusing my opponents of doing exactly that.

                Then, I will identify as a successful 4-year-old male racehorse, ergo I should be able to go to a stud farm and…

                Anyway, where were we?

                Oh, yeah. Identity fraud.

Progressive Reactionaries Or Reactionary Progressives?

                “Progressives” are funny. Well, okay, hypocritical. They want to “fundamentally change America,” or “fundamentally transform America,” and her institutions. No thought, phrase or act is too radical in their quest to rid the nation of traditional values, Christianity, the free market, successful businesses, guns, patriotism, Fox News, etc., etc.

                Tragically, they are, in general, enjoying much success in these endeavors. (Only country music seems to be unharmed or even growing stronger, and able to act as a partial bulwark against sheer, destructive lunacy).

                Yet, when the institutions and things the “progressives” like are occasionally called into question or threatened, they go ballistic and bellow, “We can’t change this! Why, public sector union benefits are sacrosanct, untouchable!” Threaten Public Television subsidies or the N.E.A. and they become utter reactionaries standing athwart history yelling… “stop!!”

                Want to fundamentally transform the arts community, Big Labor, Big Education, or the mainstream media? They’ll scream, “No! My Godlessness, no! Can’t you see these things are perfect as they are now?” Perhaps propose vouchers and school choice to help reform the public school system? “Nein! Das ist verboten!” They make Calvin Coolidge look like a wild-eyed, shoot-from-the-hip radical.

                Want to ban late-term abortions? Are you some kind of malcontent, a hippie freak that hates our country’s established and cherished traditions?

                Therefore, we must not be afraid to stand against the wind, to stride against the tide, to defend our beliefs and fight for what is right, no matter the odds or the cost. Look to Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, or Scott Walker for that matter, as (political) role models.

                If either politicians or voters- let alone both-  exhibited courage and integrity in all things and against all odds to do what’s right…not what’s best for their own personal gain, real progress could be made.

                And we could “fundamentally transform this country”…for the better.

Driver-Less Cars

                The automobile has a long and storied history in America. Indeed, it is now hard to separate one from the other. The Founders brilliant and eloquent ideas, values, documents and oration became the framework of a new and unparalleled nation, dedicated to individual freedom and natural rights protected by the rule of law. A dozen decades distant, the automobile unwittingly took up the same role as champion of individual autonomy and independence.

                For the first time in history, people could easily and quickly traverse vast stretches of land. One could find fruitful labor far from home, explore new “worlds,” take the family to a resort or to visit distant relatives. American’s wanderlust and inquisitiveness was such that various road-side attractions sprang up all over the country. Many national parks came into being around this time, most located in  the expansive western states. People from all over the country roamed far and wide to take it all in. The “road trip” became a cherished American tradition. America’s citizens fell in love with their new-found ability to not only be free, but to freely and quickly move around the country whenever and wherever they wanted to go.

                They were literally in “the driver’s seat,” independent, confident and in control of their bodies and their lives.

                Many  in  the interior of the country, in the Heartland, the hinterlands, the breadbasket, drive tractors around all day that they may feed the world, yet when the work is done they may take their Mustangs, El Dorados, Suburbans and Camaros and cruise off to parts unknown, unlike the frail, coastal elites who need to be chauffeured around by others…via a taxi, limo, bus or subway system. (And public transit is to individual transportation as school food is to Haute Cuisine).

                And now comes the advent of the “driver-less vehicle.” These are being touted in the mainstream media as a positive breakthrough for the human race. Why?

                Because, they say, people won’t need to own them. They can be “ordered” only when they are needed, indeed will be shared among us resulting in fewer vehicles needed and less congestion…a'la public transit! There will be no need for parking ramps, parking lots, garages or carports the experts claim. On any given thoroughfare, they breathlessly posit, only one lane will be needed in each direction, because of the “efficiencies” these driver-less vehicles will bring with them. This, in turn, will allow for more and/or wider lanes for pedestrians and bikers, and more buffer or green space for natural vegetation, flowers, etc.

                I should have guessed where this was heading.

                Moreover, they state, self-driving vehicles will therefore  enable better carpooling, less idling in traffic and smarter route planning, thereby making it easier to live in dense cities, rendering urban living more attractive!

               Of course.

                Additionally, experts lecture, computer-driven vehicles won’t waste gas and time getting lost, gawking at roadside attractions, or looking for parking spots, therefore total miles traveled and greenhouse gases will decline. Hooray!

                But what does a driver-less vehicle do, say, when it has to “decide” whether to hit another vehicle or a human being in an unplanned, emergency situation?

              When we don’t drive anymore, and we let machines do it for us, because we hope they are better at it, they make fewer mistakes, they don’t have emotion tied up in it, etc., etc., we are saying: we are too dumb, undisciplined, weak and error-prone to take responsibility for our own inventions, actions…and locomotion. One recent online article explained that, of the approximately 30,000 traffic fatalities in the U.S. each year, as many as 90 percent of them are attributable to human error. Take the human out of the equation, it stated, and fatalities would plummet.

                Yes, and if there were no humans, fatalities would be impossible.

                The big-government “progressives” always want to take the individual human and his or her free will out of the equation, thereby, they believe, rendering the God that granted that free will moot… and turning the now intellectually and morally circumcised  pseudo-person towards the all-mighty… state.

                                For far too long, we in the West, who should know better, have relinquished control of our lives to Big Government. Now we are willingly ceding what’s left of our autonomy to artificial intelligence and robotic machinery, duly relegating ourselves to the passenger seat of life.

                No robot, autonomous vehicle, or artificially intelligent machine will ever be able to replace the heart, soul, courage, humor, wit, empathy and oratorical skill of, say, a Churchill or a Reagan, historic defenders of our freedom and autonomy. If we listen closely to history, we can hear them imploring us not to surrender… to the techno-tyrannical age. They believed in using technology to aid and abet and protect our freedom, not in letting it- or any government program or edict- restrict or abuse it.

                Driver-less cars?

                Soulless nation.

               

               

               

               

Hillary Clinton and the Republican Presidential Candidates

             There is a vast field of Republicans vying for their party’s Presidential nomination in 2016. The list of nominees already would nearly fill up a New York City phone book. It would be quicker to recount the names of those who aren’t running than of those who are.

In fact, those of you Republicans not running for President in 2016, please stand up.

Okay, thank you Caitlynn Jenner and Laura Bush. You may be seated now.

There will be more entrants in this race then the 2015 Kentucky Derby. Talk about a goat rodeo!

And, as in the Kentucky Derby, most of them will be pretenders to the throne. Some, like Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee, are establishment liberals, nice guys, but Republicans in name only (RINO’s). Others, such as Donald Trump, are a bit on the arrogant (and crazy) side. (I realize this makes them sound like Hillary Clinton, and duly apologize. None of them are that bad or corrupt).

A few, such as Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio, appear to be the real deal, tough-minded conservatives who could make a positive difference in the lives of most Americans. If they don’t make a bone-headed remark during the long campaign. Which, recent history tells us, they probably will. The Democratic candidates (candidate?) will make bone-headed remarks as well, but the mainstream media, debate moderators, etc., will pretend not to hear, cover-up the remark, or use any and all tricks in the proverbial book to distract viewers/listeners from those comments and direct them to the Republican’s misstatements, though they may well be- and typically are- of far less import and gravity.

The Hillary led State Department grants favors to foreign contributors to the Clinton’s own private  Foundation? What’s the problem? Dan Quayle misspells potato? Run the bastard out of town! Obama makes a remark, while campaigning, alluding to visiting “all 57 states?” So what? Obama talks about his, “deep and abiding Muslim faith,” and is gently corrected/prodded by the interviewer into acknowledging his deep and abiding Christian faith? Nothing to see here! Move along, I’m sure “W” has said something funny!

No single debate will be able to accommodate the Republican field in its entirety, as no individual candidate would be allotted enough time to properly respond to a single question. Plus, the stage might well collapse.

Let’s hope the GOP field coalesces quickly and doesn’t turn into an “insane clown posse’.”

Speaking personally, if the 2016 contest for U.S. head honcho pits Hillary Clinton against Jeb Bush, I may move to Canada. I consider myself an independent, not because it sounds good or is fashionable, but because most Republicans are spineless and quick to move to the left upon pressure or inauguration. I believe in the Constitution, the rule of law, the free market, limited government, natural rights,  our Founders, Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan, etc., not establishment Republicans.

Though I have just made sport of the Republican nominees, and with good reason, I must say it is a truly deep (obviously) and interesting field, with many different beliefs and viewpoints…and several good candidates. I guess that makes it diverse.

Which is far more than can be said for the pathetic Democratic “field.” One default candidate? Really? The Supreme Soviet couldn’t have done any worse. A lying, scandal ridden white woman who put up with her husband’s serial infidelity while in the White House, so she could have a chance at returning there as the President herself?!

Whatever we may say about the Republican nominees, they possess  passion, a modicum of creativity and varying viewpoints.

They offer voters a choice.

As opposed to the stale, liberal, straitjacket the Democrats will try to impose on us.

Christianity In A P.C.World

                Christianity is increasingly being portrayed as “hate speech,” and this most tolerant of religions is coming under fire from the bizarre combination of secular progressives and Islamic extremists. Sadly, rather than holding fast to its own timeless faith and values, it is rapidly retreating and morphing into a post-modern religion that has as its only real tenets disdain of the successful, wealthy and traditional… and tolerance of everything else. It has been manipulated into acceding to progressive’s desires that it conform to modern man’s wishes and not the other way around. A great religion, founded on a set of  universally beneficial  principles, beliefs and mores’, that could lead one to eternal life because of incomprehensible love and sacrifice, has been browbeaten to the extent that it is now basically reduced to promoting income redistribution and a few other politically-correct causes.

                Swedish pastor Ake Green was arrested and jailed… that’s correct… imprisoned for reading passages from the Bible intimating that homosexuality is a sin. Similar episodes have taken place in Canada...and elsewhere. Why do no Western governments imprison Imams for teaching, albeit ever more stridently, the same thing? The Christian pastors are not in favor of stoning or killing anyone.

                Christianity is generally tolerant and yet is accused of being intolerant by the intolerant. It is mocked and scorned and blasphemed in almost every Hollywood movie and television series, in part because there is never any retribution or push back by Christians. That tolerant thing again.

                Islam, as many preach it today, is insanely intolerant and yet few in the mainstream media strenuously point that out anymore. You see, Christians are easy targets, literally, like the Jews. Hollywood doesn’t mind ridiculing the religion of Christ, because it knows there won’t be any repercussions. It is, however, terrified of insulting “the religion of peace,” as it knows people will die and studios will be blown up.

                It is no surprise that Europe, by almost any meaningful measurement, has been on a downward trajectory for years now, as it is literally losing its faith. America, with the help of a heavy shove by “progressives,” has now headed down that same slope, shedding its own Christian and free market  principles as it, too, descends.

              Where will we end up?

              History shows that when we trade our faith and our freedoms for an ever-growing government’s promise of a politically-correct utopia, it will be nowhere good. It certainly will be far from a Heaven on Earth.

                But it will be one Hell of a ride.