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Erasing History, Creating Idiots

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History is the collective memory of the human race, everything that has happened, good and bad. Without it we are condemned to perpetual childhood, or even amnesia.

Now morons at Wisconsin University have removed two historical paintings because they could be “potentially traumatic” to some students and make others “feel bad” ( http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/07/college-takes-down-historical-paintings-because-they-might-traumatize-students/ ).

One painting depicts French fur traders peacefully trading with the Indians. The other memorializes the first fort erected in Wisconsin, just sort of sitting there. No violence. But still potentially traumatic, as in doing serious and lasting psychological harm. We know that because the college’s Diversity Leadership Team has told us so.

Another thing we know is that the college has way, way, way too much money; otherwise it couldn’t afford a Diversity Leadership Team. Or else they’d have to cut medical services, food service,  electricity use or some other trivial thing so they could keep their Diversity Leadership Team.

Go ahead, anyone–I dare you. Tell me how **** like this is in any conceivable way good for America. I triple-dog dare you to try.

I suppose this is only what’s to be expected when children are warehoused in day care centers, then schools, and never allowed any unstructured play, never allowed to make any kind of decision, never called upon to compromise and make deals with other children so that play becomes possible, told “Good job!” whenever they break wind, and given trophies and medals just for showing up. College just finishes the job, rendering them utterly useless for any constructive purpose, turning them into imbeciles who will collapse into fetal position the moment they see or hear or read or imagine anything that diverges even a hair’s breadth from whatever it is they think they want–if we can actually use the word “think” in this context.

Christians who love and respect their children, and want the best for them, do them no favor by sending them to college.

‘Victory in Jesus’

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Here’s a hymn that you can say “Amen!” to; and there’s a story that goes with it, too.

Eugene Bartlett, born in 1885, was a successful businessman who founded the Hartford Music Company and Music Institute. His purpose was to publish hymns and hymnals and train singers and musicians to glorify God. He wrote many of the hymns in his hymnal himself–over 800 in all, which is getting into Fanny Crosby numbers.

Victory in Jesus–here sung by a congregation at the New Testament Baptist Church in Northfield, Ohio–was published in 1939. It was the last hymn Barlett wrote before his death in 1941. He only lived 56 years, but he certainly accomplished much.

Are These People for Real?

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If you like your hypocrisy served up in big, fat, dripping slabs, you’d have had a feast at this year’s Democrat Convention.

As evidence of how deranged and clueless these people are, consider TV celeb Lena Dunham’s speech the other night. Bear in mind that Ms. Dunham made a false accusation of rape that she had to take back and has admitted to molesting her little sister. All and all, perfect for an audience of Democrats. ( http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/07/26/rape-hoaxer-lena-dunham-dnc-hillary-will-help-fellow-sexual-assault-survivors/ )

Ms. Dunham spoke of herself as a victim of sexual assault–that’s the rape that never happened–and hailed Hillary Clinton as the great supporter and champion of “my fellow sexual assault survivors.”

Yay, hooray. Did she not know that sitting right there in the audience was Bill Clinton, Mr. Hillary, the king of sexual harassment and assault? If the pagans had a god of sexual harassment, it’d be him. Did she not know–and how in the world couldn’t she?–that Hillary Clinton directed the campaign to smear, discredit, and malign her husband’s victims?

This is hypocrisy of a very high order. Or maybe it’s just insanity. But describing Hillary “Careless” Clinton as a protector of women who have suffered sexual assault is like calling a stork the protector of the minnows.

Oh, and of course Ms. Dunham hailed Careless as the guarantor of “the American promise”–the American Dream is over, so now we have to settle for a promise–which she defined as not “transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, and systemic racism.”

Do you really, truly want these people running your government? Will your conscience let you live with that?

We have finally gone beyond just plain wacko politics, and entered a realm of monsters.

Some Hard Lessons from History

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I read the Bible every day, and I’ve always read a lot of history. Here are a few of the lessons that I’ve learned.

One. All rulers are sinful, because all human beings are sinful to a greater or lesser degree. The only perfect and sinless lord is Jesus Christ.

Two. Depending on the personal character and ambitions of the ruler, rulers always, to a greater or lesser degree, brew up trouble for their people.

Three. The worst rulers always get worse, and increasingly grow more cruel and callous toward their own people and to others.

Four. There has never been an evil empire, or an evil ruler, who has risen without God having allowed it; and there has never been an evil empire that God has failed to put down, sooner or later.

Five. For reasons which are often hard to understand, God respects free will to the extent of allowing wicked rulers, and their henchmen, to do some extraordinarily evil and violent things. Think of the Holocaust, and Mao’s Great Leap Forward. But in the end, under the sovereignty of God and His right to intervene in history, they all fail and come to nothing.

These are the lessons that shape my outlook and understanding of events in our own time, which will one day be written up, with greater or lesser accuracy, as history.

I am as sure as I can be of anything that God Himself decides who rises, who falls, and when. The tyrannies and barbarisms of our own time, to these He will sooner or later put an end.

It’s Never Their Fault

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So we’ve all heard by now how thousands of leaked emails prove that the Democrat National Committee cheated joke candidate Bernie Sanders, and arranged for Hillary Clinton to win its presidential nomination. There’s no evidence they contemplated poisoning Sanders.

On my car radio this morning, I heard the “counter-narrative”–I’m pretty sure that means “self-serving lie”–offered by some Democrat bigwig.

The Russians are to blame.

Yep. You shouldn’t be mad at the Democrats for rigging an election. No: you should be mad at Russian hackers for blowing the whistle on them. The hackers are no better than thieves.

I dunno. They stole emails. Hillary stole a presidential nomination.

But we have heard this bizarre excuse before. Remember Climategate? Remember those thousands of leaked emails that showed the “scientists” at the East Anglia U. Climate Change Panel lying and cheating six ways from Sunday, so they could impose their will on us.

And then when it all came out, why, all the official political and nooze media indignation was directed not at the lying, cheating schlubs at East Anglia, but at the hackers! They’re to blame! They’re no better than thieves.

I dunno. They stole emails. The so-called scientists are trying to steal the whole  planet out from under us.

And so, even as the hackers wound up being the bad guys for exposing the “scientists” as scheming frauds, so the Democrats hope to spin this current scandal.

Think about it real, real hard, everybody. Do you really want these people running your country? Really?

The Truth Matters

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(They’re all dead and gone by now–the perfect opportunity for liberals to attack them.)

This is all I’m going to write about this fallen world’s news today; my soul can’t take anymore. Instead, I will blog animal videos and prayer requests (if I get any) today.

I’m not prepared to say whose lives “matter” and whose lives don’t. I don’t what Loretta Lunch–er, Lynch–trying to jail me for microaggression.

Suffice it to say that the Obama regime has poisoned race relations in this country, on purpose, creating a climate of rage and injustice-collecting among people who ought to have good will toward one another. And you can bet your bottom dollar that we’ll see more of it, a lot more, at the Democrat National Convention.

This race-hustling, this whipping-up of anger and resentment, has gone so far as to make war on the past, a war against the dead. A war against history.

One thing I am prepared to say is that the truth matters. Let history here defend the dead, in the words of Robert Selph Henry in his The Story of the Confederacy, first published in 1931, when there were a few Confederate veterans still living:

“The Confederacy was a belated attempt to exercise the right of a state to withdraw from the United States of America.

“Because it was belated, because it opposed a mere right in the abstract to the concrete forms of economics and the inevitable trend of history, because it was burdened with the defense of the anachronism of slavery, it failed…

“With its failure, the United States of America that we know was born… The old union of states federated together for specific and limited purposes died, to be succeeded by a new nation in which the states, North and South alike, have contentedly sunk from the sovereignty they so jealously maintained in 1787 to become little more than convenient administrative subdivisions of government.”

This is truth: and demonizing the dead, to serve the current political purposes of immoral and power-hungry individuals, can’t change it.

Britain, Beware!

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In the wake of the vote to leave the European Union, Britain has a new prime minister and a lot of Americans are confused about it.

Bear in mind that the Brexit vote was a referendum, not an election: the parties in power are still in power. And still in favor of remaining in the European Union, regardless of the people’s vote.

It’s as if we Americans had passed a referendum calling upon Congress to restore our freedom of speech and our religious liberties, but left the Obama regime in power. Lots of luck with that!

We last heard from the new prime minister, Theresa May, back in January of last year, when she was Home Secretary. Reacting to terrorist incidents in France, Ms. May proposed some draconian measures that struck us as both absurd and dangerous ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11202290/Sharia-law-or-gay-marriage-critics-would-be-branded-extremists-under-Tory-plans-atheists-and-Christians-warn.html ).

Her swell ideas included: 1) making it unlawful to criticize Islamic sharia law; 2) for good measure, making it unlawful to speak against homosexual pseudo-marriage; and 3) requiring “extremists”–that is, anyone deemed by the government to be just awfully naughty–to get permission from a judge before they published anything anywhere, including on their own blogs or Facebook pages.

Ms. May is–ahem!–a member of the Conservative Party: although what on earth these people propose to conserve, other than institutionalized wickedness, is out there with the sound of one hand clapping. The soft-core Stalinism of Ms. May and her cohorts is not something to be taken lightly.

So Britain has a long way to go before Brexit becomes a done deal, and is in the hands of those who will undo it if they can.

We support and pray for their efforts to regain their freedom.

But it won’t be easy.

Now That’s a Mystery!

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As you can see by the map, the island of Socotra is in the middle of the ocean, and you can’t go there unless you have a boat, a helicopter, or a small plane.

I am purposely ignoring the dismal and unedifying news of this day, in favor of something that’s not news at all, but really, truly puzzling. I like a good puzzle–don’t you?

In 2008, a Russian scientific expedition discovered Olduwan stone tools on Socotra. “So what?” you say. Well, “Olduwan” refers to the oldest and most primitive stone tools we can find, named after Olduvai Gorge in Africa. They are so primitive that some scientists think they were made not by human beings, but by Australopithecus-type ape-men. Others say no, they’re too advanced for non-humans, they must have been made by this hairy little fellow, Homo habilis.

Okay–let’s agree that Mr. Habilis made those tools.

So how in the world did they wind up on Socotra? Hold on, let me ask that in italics–How in the world did Olduwan tools wind up on Socotra? I mean, like, if you used tools like this to build a boat, you’d better have an awful lot of time to devote to it, and a great fondness for swimming many miles from the nearest land. Or was Mr. Habilis getting there by air?

I don’t know how those tools wound up on an island in the middle of the ocean. Maybe their makers hitched a boat-ride from regular human beings. The Darwinian fairy tale offers no explanation for this–but if you’re into Evolution, anyone out there, go ahead, give it a try. See what kind of far-fetched story you can come up with. I’ll be gentle with you: after all, I used to be one of you myself.

But Olduwan tools in the middle of the ocean? Nah! Go figure!

Presbyterians–in the Name of Allah

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I somehow missed this story last month.

At their annual General Assembly, the flatline Presbyterian Church USA had a Muslim imam in to lead the Presbyterian delegates in a prayer to the Muslim deity, Allah ( http://standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/32168 ).

A few years ago they had people dancing around in animal costumes. Now it’s Muslim prayers. We can only wait and see what they’ll come up with next year.

This is the way a church dies: by slow suicide. By accepting other gods that are not God. By calling itself “interfaith” and pretending that “all religions are equally true.”

By trying to stand for everything, they stand for nothing.

Report: Trump Turned Down $200 Million Offered to Him if He’d Pick Gingrich

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For a proper appreciation of this  news report, cue up this music from The Godfather

For what it’s worth–and personally, I’m not convinced it’s worth a lot–Donald Trump has rejected $200 million that was offered to him if he would choose Newt Gingrich as his running mate ( http://www.infowars.com/report-trump-refused-200-million-to-pick-gingrich-as-vp/ ).

Could we have a little Godfather music in the background, please?

According to stories all over the Internet today, Trump was offered a $100 million contribution by Las Vegas mogul Sheldon Adelson, and an additional $100 million by “the elite” of the GOP, to choose Gingrich as his vice presidential candidate. And Trump turned ’em down.

Well, look, if you’re going to accuse somebody, then accuse him–don’t just lay it on some nameless “elite” whose guilt or innocence can’t be proved. As for Mr. Adelson, he’s been a huge Republican donor in the past, he’s one of the richest men in the world, and I think we need more than Internet chatter to brand him as big a crook as this. After all, we’re talking about a corrupt act of truly Clintonian proportions.

Congressional Republicans who voted to confirm Loretta Lynch as U.S. Attorney General, when they could have kept her out, should have nothing to say in this election.

And as for you, who think “Oh, Trump and Clinton, there’s no difference between them!”–please. Do you think Hillary would turn down a $200 million bribe?

Always provided the story is true–and I think I need more proof.