Christmas Irritants Pervasive

Use to be during the Christmas season in modern America, if the individual wanted a little buzz during the holidays, they would slip a bit of something into their eggnog. Now, all you have to do to feel that surge of agitated surliness is to turn on the news or read about those turning themselves into the hind quarters of the species the Holy Family rode into Bethlehem in order to pay the assessed tax (an existential financial matter it seems fewer and fewer could possibly relate to).

If you think it is only secularists making an overall nuisance of themselves, you are in for a bigger disappointment than finding a lump of coal in your stocking Christmas morning.

For better or worse, the Internet is widespread enough that most are aware that there is nothing in the Bible compelling believers to participate in the celebration of the birth of Christ even though His miraculous arrival is documented in the pages of Scripture and that many of the trappings such as decorations and related customs now imbedded with meanings symbolizing the spiritually profound account have (to invoke a word of sectarian irony) less than kosher origins.

However, for the most part, Christians on either side of the divide have established a kind of amicable truce where for the most part about the worst that they do to their counterparts is to look down their noses at one another and snicker how peculiar or inconsistent the ones on the side of the debate opposite their own happen to be.

That has changed in one Michigan town. There, an anonymous equivalent of Dana Carvey’s Church Lady character from Saturday Night Live sent a letter to those daring to adorn their abodes with Christmas lights.

Usually, those going to such lengths as to put the criticism of such decorations into writing make a point of accusing either the decorations or the individual putting them up of being too religious. This time, the victims of such in your face busybodyism have been accused of not being religious enough.

The note insists that the homeowners ought to reevaluate their beliefs. This is because decorative lights, mistletoe, and yule logs can be traced back to pagan origins.

While nothing should be done about the doofus posting the letter since the First Amendment is pretty much a get out of jail free card for unbridled stupidity, it makes you wonder just how much authority over what goes on in homes or on our property should be granted to those insistent upon a hardline implementation of America’s Puritan heritage.

Most years, it seems many of the Christmas time outrages such as the one detailed above occur on the local level such as a school child having their constitutional religious liberties trampled upon in the attempt to forge Christmas-free school zones or as result of the directors of homeowners associations overly eager to enforce Soviet-style architectural conformity. However, it now seems the partisans of the White Witch of Narnia are attempting to assert themselves at the center stage of U.S. national government.

Irrespective of the overall decline in respect for the body brought about by the often unconscionable behavior on the part of the institution, Congress is often looked upon as the greatest deliberative body in the world in that its members are suppose to be able to speak their consciences freely to their fellow members, their particular constituencies, and the nation as a whole.

However, it now seems that an authority within the legislative branch may be attempting to curtail expression that, to most Americans not having jumped off the cliff into one variety of fanaticism or the other, would be about one of the least partisan things one could say as such sentiments are usually enunciated freely irrespective of the party affiliation of those to whom the greeting was intended. One of the perks extended to members of Congress is the so-called franking privilege where taxpayers pick up the tab for the postal correspondence between legislators and their respective constituencies.

In exchange for this benefit, the outgoing communications are required to adhere to certain criteria regarding content. For example, these items aren’t suppose to be of a campaign nature.

It seems now though that, at least in regards to the House of Representatives, wishing someone a Merry Christmas via these official dispatches has been deemed the equivalent of saying, “Vote for me because the other guy kicks puppies.” Proponents of the prohibition insist epistolary interference is necessary as today one never knows who might be offended by the platitude.

I’ll tell you what ought to offend people. It’s that these clowns don’t only get to send any mail at someone else’s expense but that they’ll get to enjoy lavish retirements while the last words from your dieing lips will likely be “Hello. Welcome to Walmart” because Social Security will be nothing but a memory.

This snide disrespect towards the religion and customs of the vast majority of the American people on the part of parts of the Legislative Branch extends beyond the House mailroom. It has even come to infiltrate the symbols this branch of government has adopted to commemorate this particular holiday. In so doing, it has attempted to manipulate the meaning of the occasion in the minds of the American people.

On the Capitol grounds, each year a stately tree is erected. As with countless other trees the world over, this one is adorned with a variety of ornaments.

By tradition, the ornaments are donated by the residents of the state from where that year’s particular tree originated. The 2011 tree came from California. So hence the theme “California Shines”.

CNSNews correspondent Terrence Jeffery observed that, while the decoration is a Christmas tree, other than a reference to Psalm 19 symbolizing that the Word of God is more precious than gold, not a single ornament on the visible part of the tree references Christmas as the celebration of Christ’s birth. There is also an ornament declaring how much the creator of that particular bulb loves President Obama, the figure many concluded worthy of adoration as a new Christ figure for no other reason than that he emerged from his mother's womb of racially mixed pigmentation but who came up disappointingly short perhaps even more so than many other aspiring pseudo-messiahs.

When informed of this incongruity, officials from the U.S. Forest Service and the Architect of the Capitol both sheepishly feigned an unawareness as to the nature of the tree's adornment and insisted that there is no stipulated prohibition regarding decoration content. However, that does not mean that hullabaloo surrounding the tree will remain objective and neutral.

To get students particularly to contribute ornaments to the tree effort, a special curriculum was developed. Yet if you assumed the lesson plan was about how these trees came to be replete with Christian metaphor and symbolism, you are sadly mistaken.

Instead, the Christmas tree has become merely an additional prop in the unending effort to indoctrinate students with environmentalism. According to Jefferies, the website sponsoring the decoration contest intones, "We ask that all ornaments for the Capitol Christmas Tree be made of natural or recycled materials...There is No Away with your students when they create an ornament for the Tree. Ask students where they think that trash goes when they throw it away. Work with them until they understand that trash eventually ends up in a landfill. Show students the image of a landfill."

Can't the students of today simply be allowed to do something for fun without being politically browbeaten? Why ought they be made to feel guilty for simply living and enjoying their lives when greater examples of waste occur at the levels fostering environmentalism not so much as a way to steward finite resources but rather as a way to control those of us deemed to be the lesser breeds of man.

If we are to lead lives of constant ecological vigilance as epitomized by the constant admonitions to buy locally grown produce, carpool to work, and these guidelines insinuating the environment will collapse if ornaments aren't crafted from recycled material, isn't one of the most profound examples of unnecessary excess the annual felling of a tree and the shipping of it to Washington, DC for no other reason than to titillate Congress’s sense of Yuletide vanity?

Between 1964 and 1968, the tree decorated was one planted permanently on the Capitol grounds. So in this era where environmental concerns are suppose to triumph over other concerns such as convenience and enjoyment, shouldn’t our so-called leaders set the example by planting a permanent tree rather than harvesting one at the close of each year?

The U.S. government is divided into three branches: the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. Each of these have played their own role as a social irritant in the disputes regarding Christmas.

The courts have eroded the Judeo-Christian foundations of the legal system through rulings such as those removing Nativities and Menorahs from public land and decisions curtailing religious expression in the public school system.

In this exposition, it has already been examined the role played by the legislature in fomenting Christmas discord. Readers should not expect the executive branch to go unscathed.

Regarding the other examples examined thus far, each has been about those attempting to undermine the celebration of Christmas. However, it seems the Executive Branch may have gone overboard in commemorating Christmas 2011.

During his ascent to power as well as throughout the duration of his reign, Barack Obama has consistently called for shared sacrifice on the part of all Americans in the hopes of getting the nation through challenging economic times. One would think such a plea for austerity would result in the White House erecting only one or two trees not all that different than those enjoyed by Americans in most of our homes. And the cost for such a decoration ought to come out of the Obamas’ personal pockets given that they are multimillionaires several times over and it is doubtful they have been burdened with picking up the tab for their own Washington utility bills while we let them bunk in the servants’ quarters.

However, White House decorators didn't exactly take the spirit of the Charlie Brown Christmas special to heart with that program's classic message that even the scrawniest tree possesses its own form of inner beauty. Not only were thirty-plus Christmas trees jammed under the White House roof but also a gingerbread house weighing nearly 500 pounds. I am sure it wasn't wasted and was distributed for consumption once it was no longer needed for ornamental purposes.

When this incongruity of calling upon the rest of us to give a little more up for the good of the COMMUNITY while she herself wallows and frolics amongst extravagant opulence was pointed out, Michelle Obama feigned what a burden it really was dwelling in the light of such splendor. The First Lady assured the trees are really there to uplift the spirits of the struggling in America, especially the unemployed and the families of U.S. military personnel.

But try showing up unannounced (even if you belong to one of these two unassailable classes invoked to nullify and evade nearly every form of known criticism) insisting you are there to see YOUR trees and see how far you get. The only holiday greenery you'd get to see after that would be the mold on the bread in the prison cafeteria.

The First Family spent the lion's share of their Christmas vacation in Hawaii. So few Americans get to see the White House (as well as numerous other sites around Washington, DC) thanks in part to the security procedures put into place as a result of the Jihadist Third Worlders Obama so admires in the darkest depths of his heart.

There is really little reason for the White House to be decorated at all other than for a sprig or two of evergreen in the windows or on the pillars for the tourists to take pictures of from the sidewalk. But I doubt the common American is even allowed to do that anymore given that glorified rentacops so inebriated on their trivial amount of power that they don't enforce properly enacted laws but rather ones pulled from their doughnut-fed backsides.

Even though fewer and fewer Christians or conservatives want to admit to the existence of the culture wars anymore either out of the weariness that inevitably results from nearly constant struggle or for fear of losing any status they might have gained as a result of silent compromise, these disputes for the most part have become a permanent feature of American society. And until the triumphant return of the King so humbly born in that simple manger, these disputes surrounding the day celebrating His birth will no doubt ring out as among that conflict’s most contentious.

by Frederick Meekins

Scientists have discovered that, through the application of certain hormones, they can activate dormant genes in an ant's genome to create monstrosities of enhanced ability. Wonder how long until they attempt to do the same thing to human embryos in the attempt to create the supersoldiers of the future.

So if camera are going to record motorists driving recklessly around school buses, how about cameras recording reckless school bus drivers? I guess leftists insist we can't assail the ineptitude of these education professionals either.

Interesting some that would denounce Glenn Beck as a danger because the broadcaster urges the stockpiling of provisions during a time of upheaval have little problem positively extolling ministries that hint at a desire to curtail the constitutional liberties of those that differ over matters of soteriology, Christology, and ecclesiology.

In last year's State of the Union, Obama promised high speed rail for all Americans. Maybe this year it will be Commodore 64's, Atari Game sets, and Sony Walkmans.

If airport scanners detect a suspicious spot located around the knee, is there any legitimate reason why the crotch needs to be molested?

Would the Ku Klux Klan be permitted to camp for an extended period in DC parks the way the Occupy pustules have?

Solar Ejaculate Hurls Towards Earth

Apparently Steven Tyler's fame is not based on musical ability but for resembling one of those freakish marionnette's from Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal.

Will Female Lego Men Compel Young Girls To Stick Fingers Down Their Throats?

Canada to grant China Keystone Pipeline Oil. No doubt the real reason Obama vetoes the project.

Given their mindset, it's a wonder that supporters of the bag tax allow those of us below them on the social ladder to select our own foods or even eat. Think that such a claim is outlandish? It is only a matter of time. It's just that those that can't get their minds around the concept "just don't like change" to quote one bag tax proponent.

Insisting that the residents of Montgomery County, Maryland shouldn't complain about a five cent bag tax because a twenty cent one is being proposed in Virginia is almost akin to saying Black folks shouldn't complain about being forced to the back of the bus in the American south because Jews were forced into boxcars in Germany.

The cover of the Jan 2012 issue of The Freeman insists that "Tough On Immigration Is Tough On Economic Growth". Would the analysts writing the article feel that way if foreign academics would do their particular jobs for less or moved nearly half of a village into a house next door to these particular eggheads.

The Old Retcon Bait & Switch

A number of the ultrapious are attempting to promote the notion that if there are no godly candidates running in an election, then the true believer should perhaps refrain from voting all together.

What we have here is a derivative of the old bait and switch tactic.

Both Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum are both deeply motivated by their respective Christian faiths.

However, in numerous Facebook status updates posted by proponents of this perspective, it is constantly reiterated that neither of these candidates is good enough.

Those advocating such a position are not being fully open about their true position.

According to this form of Christian Reconstructionism, if a candidate disagrees on so much as a single issue not even directly related to issues of soteriology or Christology, you are not only forbidden from electing them to elected office but are also to toss them into outer darkness as one would any other unbeliever.

Audio: DC Grants Rats More Rights Than The Unborn

If Paula Deen had admitted to AIDS and been known to promote a life of promiscuity, would proponents of abstinence be permitted on the airwaves to heap condemnatory statements of "We told you so" upon her?

The lamentation that America is so far gone that the only hope is for foreign missionaries to rescue us undermines the professed Calvinism of the individual making the plea. If things are already predetermined with man unable to exert any influence one way or the other, missionary work is the equivalent of flatulence in a wind tunnel. Furthermore, if one is going to sneer down one's nose in condemnation of their fellow Americans and claim that only foreigners (who are often more debauched than Americans) are the only ones that can drag us out of our cultural mire, aren't you as condemned as the rest of us for simply talking and not really doing?

The same elites condemning Burger Kings new delivery service are the same ones thinking they are so important that they can't be bothered going to the supermarket so they acquire victuals via Peapod.

Interesting some of those going on months prior in condemnation of those skipping church Christmas day are themselves exhibiting far more knowledge and enthusiasm for postseason football than self-professed rigorous adherents of the alleged Sabbath really ought.

It is doubtful beheadings across the country were committed by redheaded Irishmen or pale blonde Swedes.

Pastor Greg Locke tweets that if you attend an all White church, that doesn’t proclaim an all nation’s Gospel. But a White church should alter its liturgy or order of service to allow Blacks to jump all over the pews instead of reverently sit in them.

If you gripe about a church being all White, aren't you the one considering the color of skin rather than content of character?

Rats Granted More Rights In DC Than Unborn Children

A law has been enacted by the DC city council not only requiring that must most forms of rodentine vermin be captured for rerelease, but that they must also be relocated as family units.

These creatures are not a pod of whales, a herd of elephants, or a troop of gorillas.

Given that they will even eat their young and produce another liter a few months or weeks later, I doubt they form deep meaningful bonds with their offspring.

The same fanatics that don't want rats harmed by human hands are the same ones that decimate feral cat colonies that would otherwise keep these pests in check.

It's not like rats are on the verge of going extinct in the nation's Capitol (and given the nature of the city it's doubtful that they ever will).

According to one DC health official from Pakistan, the rat problem at Occupy movement shantytowns exceed those in Third World refuge camps.

Some will snap that the law applies only to pest control officials.

But for how long?

Often as in regards to other expansive laws, eventually this dictatorial regulation will be expanded to homeowners trying to handle these vermin themselves.

And speaking of plagues and such, it wouldn't surprise me if such laws were being enacted as a way to allow some kind of new strain of the plague to develop with the hopes of systematically eliminating vast swaths of the human population.

by Frederick Meekins

If a minister says that in terms of news, the truth lies somewhere between Fox and NPR, then why can't it be assumed that in regards to Christianity that the truth lies somewhere in between the poles of Independent Fundamentalism and Roman Catholicism rather than solely alone with one or the other?

Some are quite worked up as to whom took out an Iranian nuclear scientist. Would you rather we strategically eliminate those plotting our destruction or prefer that your loved ones and everything you have ever known be incinerated at 10,000 degrees. Or perhaps an electromagnetic pulse set off in the atmosphere wiping out the vast majority of our electronics. We would be reduced to such such a medieval state that you would wish you had been incinerated at 10,000.

Bobble-Heading Blacks Berate Gingrich For Lack Of Pandering

Why Shouldn't The Amish Have To Obey The Law Like Everybody Else?

By refusing to obey the law requiring them to put orange triangles on the back of their buggies, the members of one Amish sect in Kentucky are basically saying that their own ostentatious sense of piety is more important than the lives of other motorists.

One of the group's members insisted that he would rather rely on God for protection than the disputed safety apparatus.

If the Amishman really wants to trust God, there ought to be no reason why he needs to be out on the road at night.

If Todd Palin had been the failed Vice Presidential candidate of the last election, would anyone care whom Sarah was endorsing?

If one is for the bag tax, doesn't one also have to praise increased fuels costs and taxes? Or do we only support fiscal punishments when they impact the vices and extravagances of others?

Constitution does not compel you to vote for members of theologically aberrant sects. Nor does it forbid you from voting for members of theologically aberrThe ant sects. Nor does the document proscribe taking away the property or liberties of theologically aberrant sects as certain Reconstructionists hint at but don't really come out and admit directly but who often threaten you if you point out the implications of their ideology.

Buchanan Ousted From MSNBC For Defending White America

Haley Barbour Soft On Crime

Would he have released these individuals if they had brutalized his own family?

Audio: Christmas Billboards Point In The Culture War's Direction

Snatching Cherokee baby from adoptive White parents justified on the grounds of "cultural preservation". And what does that consist of, standing in the welfare line stone drunk?

If American Indians are now allowed to steal babies they have abandoned from White people, why ought we to give a flip how Indians were mistreated centuries ago?

Nobel Committee Concluded Lord Of The Rings Wasn't A Good Story

Krisy McNichol admits to being a lesbian. Didn't most deduce this about 30 + years ago? Even as a wee tot, I thought she was a dude.

Christmas Billboards Point In The Culture War's Direction

Christmas is the time of year when the thoughts of most Americans grow to be at their most devout. It is increasingly the time of year that the avowed despisers of the Almighty are at their most disrespectful.

Before now, the most culturally embarrassing thing to come out of the wastelands of the Garden State was likely Snooki and her Jersey Shore compatriots. However, it now seems even their debauched escapades have been surpassed in terms of deliberately thumbing one’s nose at God.

For decades, one municipality there has draped across a main street a banner reading that horrible bit of wordplay “Keep Christ In Christmas”. As has become customary, leftist subversives have stepped forward insisting that the banner be taken down to placate one or two discombobulated by the message.

Those holding to this position contend that the feelings of a handful must be upheld at all costs for the sake of social cohesion. So if it cannot be urged to keep Christ in Christmas, are these diversitymongers going to be consistent and call for the decoupling of “Black” from “History Month”? That commemoration is even more divisive and controversial, but most Whites are too afraid to speak up as to what they really think of it.

In what could be categorized as a battle of the banners, to express their disdain regarding public displays of belief, a gaggle of atheists have hoisted an ensign emblazoned with the following: “At this season of the winter solstice, there are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only the natural world. Religion is but a myth and a superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”

Perhaps the greatest gift such deluded infidels could be given this Christmas season would be for someone to point out that their countersign is itself fraught with a number of faith-based assumptions as ultimately improvable as anything held by the most ardent adherents of traditional religious belief.

For example, can the atheist really irrefutably prove that only the natural world exists? If one wanted to get really snotty about it, couldn’t one make the argument that, since man’s knowledge is finite, God is floating a mere two inches out of range of the most powerful telescopes ever designed?

The banner hoisted by the unbelievers attempts to strike an eminently scientific pose. However, its conclusion has nothing whatsoever to do with experimental objectivity.

Furthermore, aren't we often chided in response to the most ludicrous postulations to keep an open mind? So why is the existence of God an invalid assumption?

The banner concludes, “Religion...hardens hearts and enslaves minds.” But if nothing exists beyond physicality and materiality, on what grounds are hard hearts and enslaved minds such a negative thing?

With power and brute force being the only true values since they promote survival and existential optimization of those that wield them, why are hard hearts and enslaved minds less than optimal states of being? You see, in a materialistic context, one cannot even use the word “bad”.

During Christmas each year, St. Matthew's-In-The-City Church in Aukland, New Zealand sponsors a billboard that the congregation considers provocative. This year, the church went with a billboard depicting the Virgin Mary holding a home pregnancy test with an expression of shock and dismay upon her face.

This work does attempt to take the viewer beyond the quaint romanticism of the Christmas story as popularly presented to better appreciate how the lives of those involved were profoundly impacted and altered. Yet this depiction is still wrong on a number of levels.

There is one thing the observant notices right out of the gate. That is just how long would you live if you drew the portrait of the founder of a particular world religion with a proclivity for loud explosions holding a home pregnancy test?

Secondly, depicting Mary with a look of befuddlement on her face ignores the facts and implications of the Biblical account. A surprised look would indicate a couple of things.

A pregnancy test suggests that the angel did not make the announcement to Mary as chronicled in Luke Chapter 1. According to the artistic depiction in question, she would not have suspected she was with child until whatever it is that prompts a woman to suspect she might be and seeks confirmation through the highlighted pharmaceutical apparatus.

If the angel did appear as detailed, the taking of a home pregnancy test would indicate that Mary did not believe the angel. And though there were no doubt times that her heart grew heavy as did that of her child in the Garden of Gethsemane, there is no indication from Holy Writ that she ever doubted the veracity of the message sent to her and the move of God upon her. In Luke 1:38, Mary says, "I am the Lord's servant. May it be to me as you have said (NIV)."

Many dismiss billboards as nothing but blights upon the landscape. But if one takes a closer look, one discovers how a number of these oversized signs can highlight the ideas clamoring for prominence in public perception and a remind Christians why they must always be ready to give an answer in response to the confusion and despair that has gripped mankind in various forms throughout history.

by Frederick Meekins

Cardinal Shouldn't Apologize For Comparing Gay Parade To Klan Rally

Shouldn't You Expect To Be Shot For Waving A Gun At Cops?

Yet another piece of common sense that doesn't apply since an Hispanic is involved.

Dead Girl Found On Queen's Estate

Wonder if someone forgot to cover up one of their Bohemian Grove-type rituals?

To those lacking perceptual awareness beyond the obvious or to ratiocinate beyond what their betters allow, a five cent bag tax doesn't sound like much. However, to those of us that eat at home and don't stuff our gullets with restaurant swill, that will amount to hundreds of dollars per year. Oh well, just take it out of what you would put into your church collection plate. If we are told in the NT that government is a ministry of God, than any of the taxes going into the state coffers are a part of your tithe. It is not your fault if the state takes up the entire 10%.

WorldNetDaily revealed that there are over 30 terrorist training facilities in the United States. Still don't think Jihadists are a threat, Dr. Paul?

A news report claimed Michael Vick's jersey is among the most popular. Unless you are buying it for your dog to urinate on, what person in their right mind would want one?

So would a graduate of an actual school called Bastyr University be called a "Bastyrd"

Anti-military propagandists have latched onto the fact that the murderer of a park ranger in Washington State was an Iraqi war veteran. Mark my words. Some human filth will eventually be saying she got exactly what she deserved as a government employee.

If the murderer of the park ranger had been a professor of naturalistic evolution or postmodern literary criticism, would the media continually beat that aspect of the scumbags background into our heads?

If one is going to couch one's opposition to Bachman & Gingrich from the standpoint of feigned sophistication by going on how their experience has only been in the House of Representatives rather than as a Senator or Governor and thus are unqualified to be President, shouldn't you be consist and come out against Ron Paul as well?

Aren't you giving back to the COMMUNITY each time you pay your own bills since you are taking the pressure off assorted charitable organizations or government agencies to do so?

If a PSA is instructing us to intervene whenever we see someone doing something that could start a forest fire, is there going to be an accompanying clarification allowing us to fill their backsides full of buckshot when the offender turns around and threatens our lives?

If Dr. Dobson steps forward to tell us whom to vote for, spend your money on a worthy cause other than Focus On The Family, namely your own bills.

If the government is going out of its way to deny rumors that Obama once traveled on an interplanetary indoctrination mission to Mars, doesn't that statement increase the likelihood that he actually may have?

Social conservatives should pick their own candidates and not allow Dr. Dobson to do so for them.

An effusively pious associate is aghast that Gingrich is seeking "revenge" over verbal distortions propagated by Romney regarding the former Speaker of the House. It is the associate's contention that such an attitude is not Biblical or Christlike. Yet, most positions held by Ron Paul is accepted nearly as Holy Writ. So I ask is advocating the legalization of hardcore narcotics Biblical and Christlike?

Deng Xiaoping is a chain-smoking communist dwarf : the sayings of Pat Buchanan

Santorum's Nephew Votes Ron Paul

Perhaps the family should have the brat drug tested.

If Iowa is "too White and Evangelical" to be considered a legitimate measure of political opinion, then shouldn't the same be said of congressional districts gerrymandered to placate agitated racialist minorities?

If Andrea Mitchell thinks there are "too many White Evangelicals" in Iowa, perhaps she should be told there are "too many Jews" in the upper reaches of the banking industry.

The terror of history : on the uncertainties of life in Western civilization

Other than the hired help, how many Blacks or Hispanics were seen on Andrea Mitchell's & hubby Alan Greenspan's street this past election cycle?

Truth be told, most honest, upstanding Black folks would probably prefer to live in an area that was "too White & Evangelical" as well.

If Iowa is "too White and Evangelical", it sounds like it might be a delightful place to live.

The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

Isn't it speaking ill of another Republican to speak about another Republican speaking ill of another Republican?

The new California booster seat law has little to do with child safety but more about a financially destitute state scraping the bottom of the barrel for an additional source of revenue.

Profilers insist that the LA arsonist is likely a White male of low intelligence. If so certain can it be bluntly stated in establishmentarian media that terrorists are likely overly degreed Muslims or that most looters tend to be minorities receiving public assistance handouts?

Pope Thumbs Nose At Catholics Loyal From The Start By Pandering To Married Anglican Clergy

A Wide Variety Of Jugs Openly Displayed At Target

Child Dismembered In Sex Offender Colony

Was Santa Gunmen A Disguised Muslim?

Interesting how Bob Beckel downplays the number of millionaires in Congress but wants the funds snatched from millionaires found in more productive sectors of society.

Zany Might Be An Improvement

Romney insists in regards to Gingrich that "zany is not what we need in a President".

By that, one must assume Romney considers as "zany" a willingness to at least consider approaches to issues outside of the box and observing where our time fits with the overall flow of history.

To Romney, it seems how things are going now are, to use vocabulary fitting with his own patterns of speech, "just peachy".

But one supposes there really isn't anyway of ascertaining such since Romney also informed us that we really didn't need an historian either.

And just think, he could have likely gotten by with it if it weren't for those pesky kids.

Thought I would toss that in if candidates are going to start sounding like they are doing voiceovers for Scooby-do episodes from the mid 70's

Same Sex Couples Shouldn't Be Considered Families Because In Most Instances They Aren't Technically Married

Those in an uproar over Christmas' alleged pagan origins need to be reminded that not all of paganism was about orgies and child sacrifice.

Often, it is insisted that one must use the phraseology "Happy Holidays" in order to avoid excluding New Year's Day. However, don't the advertisements exclaiming "Now that the Holidays are over" prove that such linguistic manipulation is just at attempt to avoid saying Christmas?

The Ron Paul of the disputed newsletters is a more respectable figure than the dope peddling peacenik of this election cycle.

Tragic Story Exhibits Elitist Tone

A story regarding a Conn. fire claiming the lives of three children exudes the tone that the tragedy is some how compounded that the mother was an ad executive and the dwelling a Victorian.

Is this somehow a tragedy more befitting of youngsters residing in suburban tract housing?

Leftist Episcopals Support The Defilement Of Everyone Else's Property But Their Own

For as many years that transpire between each Mission Impossible movie, Tom Cruise will likely be strolling around in a wheelchair at an assisted living facility by the time the next one is released.

Anyone lecture these Occupy Wall Street Beatniks about giving back to the COMMUNITY? They don't even have the decency to hold their bowels in public.

Regarding the "giving back to the COMMUNITY" drivel. The average person does that everyday they go to work, pay their taxes, occasionally slip something into the collection plate at church, and doesn't rampage in the streets like this Occupy Wallstreet & Air Jordan mobs.

New Yorker Cartoon Exposes Bias & Not Historical Realities

It has been observed that often a picture is worth a thousand words. By this, it is meant that often a witty image can more quickly convey an idea than a written exposition.

Another truism nearly as classic insists that the only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn anything from history.

A prime example of these working in tandem could be found on the cover of a late 2011 edition of the New Yorker Magazine. Depicted violating the U.S. southern border were migrants adorned not in sombreros but rather in what would be considered traditional Thanksgiving pilgrim garb.

Such doodling, though admittedly humorous, displays a number of questionable assumptions.

For starters, the cartoon assumes that the illegal aliens of today are the equivalent of the Pilgrim settlers.

In addressing this issue, emphasis must be placed upon ILLEGAL.

The migrants coming here today are doing so in violation of the agreed upon governing authorities of the territorial United States.

The English Separatists voyaging here aboard the Mayflower committed no such transgression. In fact, the pioneers making that trek were so eager to see law and order established that among their first acts was to promulgate the Mayflower Compact. They are not to blame if the Indians did not have an as developed sense of property as we have in our own Western tradition or that there was not as much of a need to enforce borders back then as there is today.

The naive will likely respond but, if our Founders were all immigrants, who are we to forbid entrance to those that come here after us?

If that is the case, should those making such a case (especially if they are White) be forced to not only provide shelter to any minority squatter that crawls in through an open window but also cook daily meals and provide laundered sheets for the uninvited house guests? If not, how is amnesty and assorted social welfare benefits going to those that have not earned them any different?

Those fawning all over the border violators of today will gush incessantly how moral and family oriented these blatant criminals are just like the Pilgrim settlers coming here to start a new life. Even the likes of alleged conservatives such as Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family have at times been duped by this as evidenced by the time he got atop his Colorado high horse and proceeded to castigate Pat Buchanan regarding the syndicated columnist's classic "The Death Of The West".

However, just how moral are these new arrivals when one of their foremost weekend activities is bawdy drunkenness that often results in public urination? It's doubtful many Pilgrims blared music until 3 AM given the solemnity and austerity for which the rigorous Protestants of that era were renowned.

Often leftists like to harp on the decline that befell the American Indians once the historical paths of these people groups intersected with those of the Europeans. Then let's draw on some lessons from that episode as to why the United States of today must curtail the numbers crossing over the nation's frontiers.

If the migrants of today are to be construed through the prism that they are the equivalent of the Pilgrim "foreparnets" (no need to set off radical feminists among fanatic grammarians), it must be pointed out that their famed work ethic wasn't the only thing the early Puritans brought with them. They also brought a number of diseases against which the population already residing here had little immunity.

Sadly, little can be done to prevent the suffering and death from the epidemics that swept across the New World centuries ago. But with the germ theory of disease that has developed since that time, shouldn't we honor those passing in that tragedy by clamping down on our own borders by only granting admittance to those from beyond our borders that adhere to the most rigorous of health standards?

Don't think this is a valid concern? Then why are not only diseases once thought conquered or at least under control such as tuberculosis but even bedbugs as well making a resurgence?

Nation-states exist primarily for the benefit of those already living within the boundaries of a particular delineated territory that have a proper legal basis for being there. Once a culture loses its wherewithal to defend this particular principle, it won't be long until it is swept into the dung heap of history.

by Frederick Meekins

With lines 200 deep waiting for them, one must ask how long until ghetto dwellers start shooting each other over the new Air Jordans.

Back On The Road To Serfdom

Electricity Source Likely Puts Chicken Sh-t Grin On Jailbirds' Faces

Should Shop With A Cop programs where "underprivileged" youngsters go Christmas shopping with a law enforcement officer be for 16 year olds whose parents make nearly $40,000? This is a bigger joke than Angel Tree for the jailbirds kids.

A group of adulterers have put up a billboard endorsing Newt Gingrich. The pothead vote goes to Ron Paul, but they are probably too stoned to erect a billboard.

There is no definitive way to determine definitively whether the Shroud of Turin belonged to Jesus Christ or that era's version of Charles Manson.

If one is going to be outspoken about one's disdain for Christmas cards with the image of the Christ Child on them as violating prohibitions against graven images, one also has to come out in opposition to Nativity displays and Sunday School Christmas pageants.

Yuletide Terror & Other Holiday Horrors

Yuletide Terror & Other Holiday Horrors

Baffling Bawdy Broadside

Only at Christmas time it seems we are reamed a new one for attempting to convey greetings of kindness.

Perhaps those attempting to guilt trip over what kinds of Christmas cards people send would prefer not to be sent any Christmas cards at all.

I know some no doubt consider me some kind of moral reprobate since I don't go along with every decree in "Churchianity" just because someone in a clerical collar or holds an established ecclesiastical position hands it down.

But frankly I'd rather receive a card with an artist's tasteful rendition of the Christ Child on it than one where a dog insinuates he's about to cock his leg and piss all over the living room tree.

Don't like my language? Don't get after me.

The cards I send are considerably more sedate.

Take it up with those that are held up as exemplary church leaders who send such cards.

Want to declare me an apostate for telling it like it is, go right ahead.

Usually, I don't have a problem with that kind of humor.

However, I do when there is a hypocrisy involved that sneers down it's nose at those whose faith is not considered as rigorous or straightlaced while mailing something that can't be described as anything other than scatological.

The same crowd regularly ranting about women wearing pants is now in an uproar that women's boxing is being planned for the Olympics. But It's not like Feminists are grabbing women off the street and forcing them to fight one another. So why is it more appropriate for a man to knock the teeth and snot of another man but not for a woman to do it to another woman?

Jesus among other gods : the absolute claims of the Christian message

The war on Christmas : how the liberal plot to ban the sacred Christian holiday is worse than you thought

Our final hour : a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century on earth and beyond

Audio: Leftist Factions Co-opt Rather Than Abolish Holidays

Battlestar Galactica and philosophy : knowledge here begins out there

God's mechanics : how scientists and engineers make sense of religion

Creating A New Civilization

If Brad House is going to castigate those Christians that prefer solitude, shouldn't it be pointed out that the church he's an associate minister at, Mars Hill, is so borderline cultic that it can't stand the notion of its planted churches being operationally independent. Rather, these outlying satellites function under the ecclesiological paradigm of "multi-site". That's where you drive in to watch the pastor on some jumbotron like he is Big Brother or Max Headroom. Wasn't the People's Temple multi-site there too for awhile?