Tag: culture rot

John Kerry’s Bible Blooper

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Like I’ve said, liberals should stay away from religion. They have no aptitude for it, and their efforts to mimic religion are, to put it as charitably as possible, clumsy.

If the Global Warming poetry, or the worship of dead dictator Hugo Chavez, didn’t convince you of the truth of that statement, perhaps you’re ready to receive a Bible lesson from Secretary of State John Kerry, an alleged Catholic.

Kerry this week told an audience that America has a God-given duty, spelled out somewhere in the Book of Genesis, to protect the Muslim world from Global Warming ( http://godfatherpolitics.com/16926/biden-kerry-need-muslim-reality-check/ ).

Hmm… I read the Bible regularly, and I don’t remember that being in there. Let me consult my Strong’s Concordance. Nope, the word “Muslim” appears nowhere in the Bible. Nothing on “Global Warming,” either.

Can it be possible that Kerry is truly, authentically so ignorant that he honestly believes that stuff is in the Bible? And is he so genuinely clueless as to believe that he will curry favor with the poor, benighted Muslims by volunteering to “protect” them? I’m surprised he didn’t call them “my little brown brothers.”

Why do libs and progs like Kerry ever invoke the Bible? They should stick to their humanistic paganism and leave Christianity alone. They will just never get the hang of it.

5 Horrible Movies to Avoid

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It’s Labor Day, and some of you may be planning to relax with a movie today.

Well, here are five cinematic oldies, from the 1970s, that you ought not to bother with. They are all crapola. Aside from the odor, they have a few other things in common.

All were hailed by the critics, said to be really swell films, and some are still praised even today (which makes me wonder about movie critics). All were major films, not made to be the second feature at a drive-in. And all are 100% Godless. Come to think of it, their Godlessness might be the one thing that makes them worth pondering: as in “This is where your mind winds up when you have no consciousness of God.”

Anyhow, here they are. And if someone insists on trying to show one of these to you, call the police.

1. Carnal Knowledge, 1971. One of the most inconsequential movies ever made. There’s so little to it, that the Wikipedia article about the movie needs only four lines to tell you the whole plot. Four lines! But there’s not much more you can say about a crowd of unhappy pseudo-intellectuals having sex and not even enjoying it. I haven’t been able to verify reports that a number of people in the audience were turned to stone while watching this turkey.

2. The Hospital, 1971, and Network, 1976: flat-footed tie. Both feature ham-fisted, club-you-over-the-head screenplays by Paddy Chayevsky. If you like getting bawled out for a couple hours, you might enjoy these movies. Pure overrated drivel.

3. Wizards, 1977. This sometimes-animated feature-length cartoon by Ralph Bakshi (it alternates with stills and voice-overs: I never understood why), is one of the great Tolkien rip-offs of all time. They also stole footage from Sergei Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky, thus proving how inadequately the Soviet Union protected its creative artists’ rights. No kidding–they lifted whole sequences from Nevsky. If this bomb doesn’t put you off fantasy, nothing will.

4. Annie Hall, 1977. Here is the point at which Woody Allen gave up making people laugh and devoted the rest of his life to pompous, sophomoric twaddle. This romance between a neurotic and an airhead is sort of a two-hour-long Dr. Phil segment. If you don’t have anything better to do than to watch this, you need to get a life.

5. Five Easy Pieces, 1970. When it comes to pretentious hogwash, this is the granddaddy of them all. It’s supposed to be a tragedy. But they keep piling misery on top of agony on top of shame until, instead of empathizing with the characters, you laugh at them. One critic says this is the movie that proved Jack Nicholson was a great actor. Don’t listen to him, he’s crazy.

Space fails me to discuss such monuments of cinematic rubbish as M.A.S.H., or One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, or Getting Straight, or Tommy–whoa, I feel my breakfast threatening to bolt for the exit.

So, folks… anything else you would’ve liked me to put on this lists? Feel free to speak up! Let us together unearth the treasures of idiocy.

The Fallacy of Cheap Labor

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It’s Labor Day, and our country’s southern border, for all practical purposes, has ceased to exist. Remember the Amnesty-Open Borders crowd when the savages from ISIS start blowing up Americans after easily sauntering across our nonexistent border.

Supposedly the national Chamber of Commerce wants open borders and amnesty so business can have an unlimited supply of really cheap labor. Depress the cost of labor, so the theory goes, and maximize your profits.

Let us apply some common sense.

Who can buy more goods and services: people with a lot of money, or people with hardly any money?

Henry Ford, 100 years ago, made sure to pay his employees enough so that they could afford to buy Ford cars. The idea caught on, and soon America had a thriving middle class, with entrepreneurs hustling to meet the burgeoning demand for all kinds of goods and services.

But what are these new peons going to buy with their skimpy paychecks? Hot tubs? Vacations? Nice cars? Visits to classy restaurants? What is the point of manufacturing cars, for instance, if the labor force can’t afford to buy them?

Oh! But it’s all going to be done by robots soon! Well, if that’s the case, you won’t need any labor force at all, will you?

Wealth is created by innovation and hard work. Only college students, their professors, and left-wing politicians and noozies don’t know that. But if the hard work is not to be sufficiently rewarded, why should anybody bother to do it?

Greed, I suppose, drowns out common sense. Or, as the Bible puts it, The prosperity of fools shall destroy them (Proverbs 1:32).

Help Wanted: International Monetary Fund Honcho

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Here’s yet another example of why secular utopian schemes have never worked and never will.

It seems the head of the International Monetary Fund, the world’s most high-profile banker, is either a big fat thief or else an enabler of thieves. ( http://news.yahoo.com/imf-chief-lagarde-charged-over-corruption-case-091305188.html )

IMF chief Christine Lagarde is in hot water with the French criminal justice system. She has been accused of allowing over half a billion dollars’ worth of euros to be sucked out of public funds, by crooks, while she was finance minister. Maybe she was playing golf while they were helping themselves. Maybe she was paid to look the other way. The French appear to be taking these charges very seriously.

But don’t expect Ms. Lagarde to wind up in jail. Jail is for somebody who knocks over a gas station and gets away with $45. Members of the ruling class who steal millions of dollars, or just somehow forget to pay millions of dollars’ worth of taxes, don’t go to jail. They get promoted to higher positions in the government.

Lagarde took over the management of the IMF in 2011 after sex maniac Dominique Strauss-Kahn had to resign, having made himself a global laughing-stock. As a satyr, he rivaled Bill Clinton.

So isn’t that just too cool? Here’s the most important, influential financial institution in the world–and first it’s run by a guy who chases New York chambermaids, and then by a woman who lets half a billion bucks disappear from right under her nose and at the very least is guilty of arrant negligence, if not outright theft. If she has to resign, what’ll it be next? A Mexican drug lord? Or maybe Coach Sandusky could get a free pass out of prison to run the IMF.

Aren’t you just tickled pink that the secular humanists are in charge of everything, and have shut out Christian morality so it can never get a foot back in the door? Heck, who needs Christian morality?

We do!

Teen Suspended from School for Saying ‘Bless You’

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Some of you have already sent your children back to school–public school, that is. You really do need to ask yourselves, “What have I done?”

Here is the latest of thousands of isolated incidents from all over the country: a high school girl in Dyer County, Alabama, was suspended because she said “Bless you” when a classmate sneezed ( http://www.momdot.com/in-school-suspension-for-saying-bless-you-after-a-sneeze-for-real/ ).

Saying “Bless you” after a sneeze is hardly the Sermon on the Mount. But to the wacko from the teachers’ union who was in charge of that class, “Bless you” is forbidden. “We will not have Godly speaking in my class!” said this tormented soul.

You don’t have to live in a blue state for your kids to get a blue state education. The teachers’ unions control public education in all 50 states.

What is it with schoolteachers anymore? Last school year, one of them called police because a kid was playing hangman. Now we’ve got one flying off the handle because a kid said “Bless you.” Who can guess what the reaction would have been to “Gesundheit”?

How do they come up with such a steady supply of kooks to put in front of classrooms? Do you have to prove you’re abnormal, before they’ll give you a teaching certificate?

But the bigger question is to Christian parents who insist on sending their children to these schools: What do you think you’re doing?

Meanwhile, I wish I had a nickle for every time I heard some polyp on the Left snarling about “you Christians trying to impose your beliefs on everyone!” That’s projection. These are facts:

Atheists get to impose their beliefs on everybody else (and so do militant homosexuals).

Christians don’t. Not ever.

And it all starts in the public schools–done on purpose, by the teachers’ unions.

Harder to Believe in than Centaurs: ‘Dating Naked’

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Yes, there is a new reality [sic] TV show called “Dating Naked,” and it really shows couples “dating” in the altogether ( http://www.vh1.com/shows/dating-naked ). Participants will be shipped off to a “primitive island resort, far from the masks of modern society…”  The tapes will be edited to block out certain details.

The purpose of shows like this is to allow the viewer to feel superior to the schlubs they watch humiliating themselves on television. People love to watch others making fools of themselves.

I dispute the charge that the purpose of “Dating Naked” is to provoke the viewer to lustful thoughts. It would be hard to imagine something less provocative. Maybe for these people, putting clothes back on would be a big turn-on. Maybe they do the whole thing backwards. Maybe they start with sex and finally finish up fully-clothed, introducing themselves.

Dating is one of those life experiences that makes you say, fervently, “Thank God I’m married!” I think I would almost rather go back to high school than go back to dating. It would be even worse if you had to do it naked at a “primitive island resort.” I don’t like that word, “primitive.” What does it mean? Lots of bugs everywhere? Lousy room service? Probably better not to know.

Can I please wake up now?

The Atheist Shopping Mall

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While we’re all waiting for Atheist TV to hit the airwaves, please consider this.

Would you be upset if you walked into a shopping mall, and a security guard told you that you’re not allowed to buy anything or eat anything unless you pray first?

Well, of course that would never happen. But in a shopping mall in Dublin, Georgia, here’s something that did happen: members of the public were told–first by a security guard, then by the mall manager–that they were forbidden to pray while in the mall; nor could they bow their heads in a silent prayer of thanks before tucking into a meal at the mall’s food court ( http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/local/dublin/2014/08/05/dublin-mall-prayer/13618189/ ).

Naturally, once the wider public found out about this mall’s little “policy” forbidding any expression of religious belief, people got upset and the mall management began to backpedal–as Stalinists in America always do, when they get caught. They were only trying to stop people from “imposing their religion on others,” blah-blah.

The only people in America who actually succeed in imposing their religion on others are… atheists!

Go ahead, tell me I’m wrong.

‘Until the Sun Burns Out…’

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That is the boast of the founder of the new Atheist TV channel–ratings, schmatings, they’ll be on the air “until the sun burns out.” I guess a hundred years ago he could’ve been writing some of those “this-land-is-yours-for-as-long-as-the-grass-grows” treaties we kept making with the Indians.

The New York Times article will provide all the information you need on this subject ( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/02/arts-television/atheist-tv-has-its-premiere-on-roku-and-online.html?ref=arts ).

Oh, well. At least atheist TV won’t be like atheist music, atheist art, and atheist-founded charitable institutions: that is, non-existent.

Are they not aware that our courts, our public schools and universities, and our media already function as if atheism were the official religion of the United States? We have been in bed with de facto atheism since the 1960s. And our culture looks it.

But let’s be fair. Blaming atheists for debauching America is like blaming the rash for the measles. It wasn’t this little band of motormouths who turned us into the kind of country that has “pride” parades and government by lawless villains.

Nope–we did that to ourselves, didn’t we? Going way back into our cultural history–but I don’t have space here to write a book about it.

I don’t care if they have their own TV channel. Not being a liberal/progressive/Stalinist, I don’t try to silence everyone whose opinions differ from my own.

To me it’s just one more drop of atheism into a whole ocean of atheist pop culture.

A Glimpse into the Heart of Godlessness

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Can’t anybody make a decent movie anymore?

Again Patty and I tried to relax after a more than usually hectic week. Veg out on a horror movie, sez I. What was I thinking? Maybe I thought we could find something like A Warning to the Curious. But no–we found American Horror Story instead,

Actually this is a cable TV series, not a movie. We watched the pilot.

Well, that pilot crashed on the runway.

What made us choose this for our viewing pleasure? We’d never heard of it before. It had like 2,000 5-star Customer Reviews on amazon. So it must be good, right?

To say this was drivel would be to insult drivel. To say it was rubbish would be grossly to exaggerate its worth. If someone ever tries to show you this, either bolt for the exit or, if you’re trapped, reach for a weapon.

American Horror Story is about a bunch of nasty, spiritually diseased people getting killed off, one by one, by haints in a haunted house. All the characters are horrible. You’d be happier spending your time with jock itch. Why we are expected to care what happens to them is one for the mystics. I mean, really–I do not want to get peeks into their banal sex fantasies, much less witness what they actually do.  Meanwhile, the screenplay is totally incoherent. To follow the story line, first you’d have to find one.

Nevertheless, there is one thing to be said for it.

What happens when utterly Godless individuals make a film about Godless characters, intended for a Godless audience? American Horror Story is what happens. The characters in this story live, not only by bread alone, but by every load of bunk that comes out of secularism, psychobabble, and New Age woo-woo crab manure. Hey! Who needs the Bible when you’ve got all this?

Not a clue. They haven’t got a clue.

Another Summer Day Wasted

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A more beautiful day than this, here in central New Jersey, can hardly be imagined–sapphire sky, birds calling, grass and leaves a brilliant bright green, sunny but not too hot–

And again, not a single free-range kid to be seen. Not one.

I don’t mean to keep beating on this drum, but I can’t help it. It’s so queer and unnatural not to see and hear children playing outside on a day like this. I think it must  be the single most unnatural thing about our current popular culture, which is notable for having a lot of unnatural things about it.

Oh, I know where the children are. They’re either indoors at home, playing video games all day, or else they’re in supervised “programs” all day.

Question: At what point does the supervision end? At what point does the child grow up and become able to act on his own? Or does that point just never happen? Maybe when you’re 31 years old, your parents and your teachers hand you over to the government for supervision. And so it never ends. You never stand on your own two feet. There’s always someone standing over you to tell you what to do. To take care of you.

Someone to be obeyed.

I shudder.