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Friday, December 9, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
"Happy Holidays" My !
This post is occasioned by three remonstrations against "Merry Christmas" by progressive tools in the last 36 hours--one of them from someone who brags on their membership in a Christian Denomination, yet will not stand for the uniqueness of Christianity--and being told that saying "Merry Christmas" is racist against Islam. Stuff That!
I hadn't been very interested in the "Happy Holidays" vs "Merry Christmas" thing until this week. Now I'm interested, entirely because of the actions and rudeness of progressives. Entirely because of their rudeness.
Look, I don't really care if you, personally, celebrate Christmas or not--it's not any of my business. But I'll tell everybody straight up--I celebrate Christmas! It's a significant Solemnity for me--the third highest liturgical Feast in the Church. It's where we celebrate, and confront on an intellectual and emotional level, the unique event where the Second person of the Trinity was born, in human flesh, taking our nature to his. It's the celebration of an act of love so profound that it doesn't lend itself to intellectual understanding. That God would take on human nature, to reconcile all things to himself. That God would enter into our lives as one of us, to show us how to live, and to redeem us from the effects of our own choices.
I don't give a pickled rat about Saturnalia--it's an excuse for debauchery, drunkenness and license. I wouldn't trade you a bucket of luke warm slime for Winter Solstice--it's an exercise in idolatry, worship creation rather than the creator. I think celebrating Kwanza, an invented holiday whose supposedly African origin is fraudulent, perpetrated by a convicted felon and conman who was too racist to celebrate a holiday with white people is stupid. In fact, the only other Holiday at this time of year I have any respect or sympathy for is Hanukkah, which celebrates events recounted in Scripture (the books of the Maccabees) tht highlight the special relationship between Israel and the Lord. (And to all my Jewish friends, a Happy and Joyous Hanukkah!)
Trying to get us all to say "happy holidays" is simply away to try and edit Christianity and Judaism out of the mainstream. The wearisome tendency to list historical data as a way to discredit our Religious Festival is pathetic--every culture has historical antecedents, and areas of synthesis. Trying to use this fact to dissolve part of our culture constitutes bigotry and violence. We are told to wish everybody a happy holiday--sorry, no can do. I don't wish anyone an unhappy day, ever, but this is a way to make me give at least a verbal blessing to Holidays that are inimical to our salvation, and that are inimical to our Culture.
Here's the Deal progressive minions--I don't give a rat's ass about whether you have happy holidays. I wish you a very Merry Christmas, and if you are Jewish a heartfelt Happy Hanukkah. Otherwise, turn aside from your idolatry and debauchery. You don't "write" our culture--we live it! If you don't like it, move somewhere else. Your push for "inclusivity" always has this effect: the marginalization of Christians--which most of us are, at least nominally--and Jews, who are the well spring of salvation, containing the Root of Jesse. This is simply Orwellian newspeak--an attempt to interfere with our beliefs by controlling our language, and an attempt to silence us in the public forum. It's an attempt by you--a minority of people, who have the arrogance to think the rest of us are superstitious bigots, and that you are the only one intelligent and just enough to have a say in our culture. (This of course, doesn't address the "useful idiots" who haven't' thought, but just do what they believe is the trending thing.) You don't want to say "Merry Christmas"? Then don't. But don't tell meI shouldn't, you crypto-fascist religious bigots, I'll exercise free speech and freedom of religion, thank you very much.
I hadn't been very interested in the "Happy Holidays" vs "Merry Christmas" thing until this week. Now I'm interested, entirely because of the actions and rudeness of progressives. Entirely because of their rudeness.
Look, I don't really care if you, personally, celebrate Christmas or not--it's not any of my business. But I'll tell everybody straight up--I celebrate Christmas! It's a significant Solemnity for me--the third highest liturgical Feast in the Church. It's where we celebrate, and confront on an intellectual and emotional level, the unique event where the Second person of the Trinity was born, in human flesh, taking our nature to his. It's the celebration of an act of love so profound that it doesn't lend itself to intellectual understanding. That God would take on human nature, to reconcile all things to himself. That God would enter into our lives as one of us, to show us how to live, and to redeem us from the effects of our own choices.
I don't give a pickled rat about Saturnalia--it's an excuse for debauchery, drunkenness and license. I wouldn't trade you a bucket of luke warm slime for Winter Solstice--it's an exercise in idolatry, worship creation rather than the creator. I think celebrating Kwanza, an invented holiday whose supposedly African origin is fraudulent, perpetrated by a convicted felon and conman who was too racist to celebrate a holiday with white people is stupid. In fact, the only other Holiday at this time of year I have any respect or sympathy for is Hanukkah, which celebrates events recounted in Scripture (the books of the Maccabees) tht highlight the special relationship between Israel and the Lord. (And to all my Jewish friends, a Happy and Joyous Hanukkah!)
Trying to get us all to say "happy holidays" is simply away to try and edit Christianity and Judaism out of the mainstream. The wearisome tendency to list historical data as a way to discredit our Religious Festival is pathetic--every culture has historical antecedents, and areas of synthesis. Trying to use this fact to dissolve part of our culture constitutes bigotry and violence. We are told to wish everybody a happy holiday--sorry, no can do. I don't wish anyone an unhappy day, ever, but this is a way to make me give at least a verbal blessing to Holidays that are inimical to our salvation, and that are inimical to our Culture.
Here's the Deal progressive minions--I don't give a rat's ass about whether you have happy holidays. I wish you a very Merry Christmas, and if you are Jewish a heartfelt Happy Hanukkah. Otherwise, turn aside from your idolatry and debauchery. You don't "write" our culture--we live it! If you don't like it, move somewhere else. Your push for "inclusivity" always has this effect: the marginalization of Christians--which most of us are, at least nominally--and Jews, who are the well spring of salvation, containing the Root of Jesse. This is simply Orwellian newspeak--an attempt to interfere with our beliefs by controlling our language, and an attempt to silence us in the public forum. It's an attempt by you--a minority of people, who have the arrogance to think the rest of us are superstitious bigots, and that you are the only one intelligent and just enough to have a say in our culture. (This of course, doesn't address the "useful idiots" who haven't' thought, but just do what they believe is the trending thing.) You don't want to say "Merry Christmas"? Then don't. But don't tell meI shouldn't, you crypto-fascist religious bigots, I'll exercise free speech and freedom of religion, thank you very much.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
What the heck is wrong with progressives?
The US ambassador to Belgium blames Israel for anti-antisemitism. Librals will decry anything that makes it look like there are enemies of the West. They will support any nonsense inthe name of inclusion--except including conservative speech. Anything they can't argue against makes them cry racism, sexism or homophobia.
I am almost out of patience, and am wondering if my policy of not ending friendships over politics is even viable, seeing as how so many of my progressive "friends " now treat me with contempt, or call any source I may cite "biased", "false", "propaganda" or "lies".
Crap, what a world, where people you have know for years--decades--will attack you because you have a different political take.
I am almost out of patience, and am wondering if my policy of not ending friendships over politics is even viable, seeing as how so many of my progressive "friends " now treat me with contempt, or call any source I may cite "biased", "false", "propaganda" or "lies".
Crap, what a world, where people you have know for years--decades--will attack you because you have a different political take.
No More John Ringo!
Novels by John Ringo have been one of my Guilty Pleasures. Ringo was an NCO in the 82d, and his humor cracks me up--I get all the in jokes and situational humor. But now he is permanently off my reading list.
I was reading his novel Ghost, (Baen Books, 3d printing 2009, New York) and was disgusted. About half way through it turned into porn. Bondage and Discipline porn. This wasn't a case of a scene that got out of hand, it was a case of lovingly detailed descriptions of incidents that had nothing to contribute to the plot or the development f the character. It was explicit beyond any need, to include where the KY went and the bodily fluids. I was not pleased.
Teens read science fiction and fantasy, and they read John Ringo--and there was nothing---nothing--to warn the potential reader, or their parents or guardians, about the explicit sexual content. Nor was their any warning of it's perverse nature. And it was perverse, to include characters considering kinky sex scenes with each others parents, and their own. Sick.
There are people who are going to say it's just a story--but these same people do not like certain novels because of their political viewpoint. They will also try to say that this is a reflection of the reality of modern life and mores--it's not, it's a novel that is essentially alternate reality and fantasy, set in a time like our own; it's about as realistic as Saturday Cartoons. The people who defend this will be defending it because they like perverted porn, and hope that youth will read it, so their will be nubiles available for kinky sex. That's all.
Not only am I done with John Ringo, I may well have to reconsider purchasing anything from Baen Books--this isn't something we should let pass as just another form of entertainment that has become sexualized. This is porn getting into the hands of youth that advocates perverted sex between teens and elders, with hints of incest. This is wrong.
I was reading his novel Ghost, (Baen Books, 3d printing 2009, New York) and was disgusted. About half way through it turned into porn. Bondage and Discipline porn. This wasn't a case of a scene that got out of hand, it was a case of lovingly detailed descriptions of incidents that had nothing to contribute to the plot or the development f the character. It was explicit beyond any need, to include where the KY went and the bodily fluids. I was not pleased.
Teens read science fiction and fantasy, and they read John Ringo--and there was nothing---nothing--to warn the potential reader, or their parents or guardians, about the explicit sexual content. Nor was their any warning of it's perverse nature. And it was perverse, to include characters considering kinky sex scenes with each others parents, and their own. Sick.
There are people who are going to say it's just a story--but these same people do not like certain novels because of their political viewpoint. They will also try to say that this is a reflection of the reality of modern life and mores--it's not, it's a novel that is essentially alternate reality and fantasy, set in a time like our own; it's about as realistic as Saturday Cartoons. The people who defend this will be defending it because they like perverted porn, and hope that youth will read it, so their will be nubiles available for kinky sex. That's all.
Not only am I done with John Ringo, I may well have to reconsider purchasing anything from Baen Books--this isn't something we should let pass as just another form of entertainment that has become sexualized. This is porn getting into the hands of youth that advocates perverted sex between teens and elders, with hints of incest. This is wrong.
Monday, December 5, 2011
The Tyranny of the Consensus Narrative.
I remember English classes, and Sociology classes, in fact lots and lots of classes where we were told all about "the narrative"--a cultural or social consensus that gave meaning to things. Back in the day, we were told to challenge 'the narrative" as a tool that allowed for partial truth or an interpretation that was advantageous to power.
At the time, I thought it was a load of codswallop. Now I see it isn't, because I can see what the consensus narrative is doing to America. Not necessarily the consensus of our culture, but the consensus of our communications elite. The Elite of the media tell us what's happening, except they do not tell us anything approaching the whole truth, and at times they are omitting the truth all together.
We saw hours of coverage of the Occupy movement, to include the "iconic" footage of students being pepper sprayed. But we didn't see the crime, squalor, drug use, rape and maltreatment of the homeless that went with it. We saw the pepper spray, but they didn't show us the event's before hand, the repeated attempts to get the protestors to obey the law without recourse to force, the explanation that they were engaged in criminal trespass, and their refusal to comply with the lawful directions of a police officer. We were told they were sprayed fro protesting, the reality is they were sprayed for criminal trespass and the blatant refusal to obey the lawful instructions of the police.
That's one item. I could fill pages and pages with this stuff.
But the tyranny of the consensus is crumbling under the weight of one thing--the Internet. The internet allows anyone to post, to express and to expose. That's why the Media Elites disparage it. and that's why governments fear it. Our Government fears it. That's why there have been, since the 2008 election, around a half dozen attempts to regulate or censor it, to compel certain kinds of speech and what have you.
Remember the outrage when the Chinese Government censored the various search engines? Well, why are we giving the Government a pass on that? Are we really buying the narrative that it's to ensure "fair access"?
Most of what we see on the evening news is partial, or fabricated. It's picked and twisted to fit a predetermined political narrative--one that is hostile to most of the things readers of this blog hold true--and to exclude or discredit any others.
Beware the narrative!
At the time, I thought it was a load of codswallop. Now I see it isn't, because I can see what the consensus narrative is doing to America. Not necessarily the consensus of our culture, but the consensus of our communications elite. The Elite of the media tell us what's happening, except they do not tell us anything approaching the whole truth, and at times they are omitting the truth all together.
We saw hours of coverage of the Occupy movement, to include the "iconic" footage of students being pepper sprayed. But we didn't see the crime, squalor, drug use, rape and maltreatment of the homeless that went with it. We saw the pepper spray, but they didn't show us the event's before hand, the repeated attempts to get the protestors to obey the law without recourse to force, the explanation that they were engaged in criminal trespass, and their refusal to comply with the lawful directions of a police officer. We were told they were sprayed fro protesting, the reality is they were sprayed for criminal trespass and the blatant refusal to obey the lawful instructions of the police.
That's one item. I could fill pages and pages with this stuff.
But the tyranny of the consensus is crumbling under the weight of one thing--the Internet. The internet allows anyone to post, to express and to expose. That's why the Media Elites disparage it. and that's why governments fear it. Our Government fears it. That's why there have been, since the 2008 election, around a half dozen attempts to regulate or censor it, to compel certain kinds of speech and what have you.
Remember the outrage when the Chinese Government censored the various search engines? Well, why are we giving the Government a pass on that? Are we really buying the narrative that it's to ensure "fair access"?
Most of what we see on the evening news is partial, or fabricated. It's picked and twisted to fit a predetermined political narrative--one that is hostile to most of the things readers of this blog hold true--and to exclude or discredit any others.
Beware the narrative!
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not | Truthout
Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not | Truthout
READ THIS--THIS IS WHAT FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE LOOK LIKE TODAY!
READ THIS--THIS IS WHAT FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE LOOK LIKE TODAY!
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