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UK Scientists Claim They Can Use Magnets to Erase Belief in God

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This just in–British scientists say that by wacking your brain with very powerful magnets, they can make Christians stop believing in God and also make you feel real good about Muslim immigrants flooding into your country ( http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/611992/Scientists-experiment-magnets-immigrants-God-magnetic-waves ).

You could probably get the same results with a baseball bat, or by not allowing the subject to sleep, and it’d be cheaper.

It might be said that it really doesn’t take much to get a Brit to reject Christianity. Millions of ’em have already done so without any help from scientists.

But isn’t it nice to know that governments will soon have another weapon in their arsenal to use against faith, truth, and sanity?

So break out the Nobel Prize, they’ve finally found a way to destroy anyone’s religious faith!

And replace it with faith in… what?

I’m not sure I want to know.

John Kasich: Theology Superstar

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Here, according to theology whiz-bang John Kasich, is what happens to you if you don’t support Obamacare and other Big Government entitlements.

Republican presidential wannabe John Kasich has solved the thorniest problem in the history of religion–how to get everybody into Heaven.

Obamacare. That’ll do the trick.

Yes, says the theological mastermind from Ohio: the Bible itself justifies Obamacare. ( http://watchdog.org/194917/kasich-bible-obamacare/ )

Hmm… Would that be that verse that goes, let’s see… Surely the king shall wrest from the diligent the fruits of his labor, and bestow it on the slothful because they praise him? Oops, that one’s not actually in the Bible, is it?

No, Kasich is thinking of Matthew 25:31-46, dealing with the Last Judgment. Christ accepts the sheep, because “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me,” meaning the various works of charity and mercy; but he rejects the goats and consigns them to Hell, because “Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.”

Kasich’s reasoning is positively stupefying. So simple, a clam could get it.

Okay–we have to do works of charity and mercy, mostly to the poor, or we don’t get into Heaven. Right?

Now suppose the government, by creating programs like Obamacare and others, completely takes over the whole business of charity. And if you don’t want to perform acts of charity and mercy, so what? The state performs them anyhow, with your money, taxed out of your paycheck before you even see it. Therefor you have “done it unto the least of these” whether you like it or not, and are thus qualified for Heaven.

Thanks to the government, everyone will go to Heaven.

Is that cool, or what? As easy as pie, Kasich nullifies the grace of God and makes the cross of Christ of no effect. If only God the Father had thought of this 2,000 years ago, Christ the Son would not have had to be born.

And to think this simple insight eluded us for all this time!

Keep growing the government, and paradise is just around the corner.

Too Dumb to be President

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Sorry, but Dr. Ben Carson can’t be president. He’s just too dumb.

How do we know he’s stopid? Because he says he doesn’t believe in the Big Bang Theory or in Evolution ( http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/09/23/ben-carson-big-bang-evolution/ ).

Never mind that he had a brilliant career as a neurosurgeon, thus demonstrating that you don’t need to believe in The Big Bang or Evolution to gain a mastery of science. Never mind that the president’s job description does not include cosmologist-in-chief.

And please never mind that neither of those sacred pillars of wisdom is based on any meaningful observation of nature. When some nerd appears on Nova and tells you, authoritatively, everything that happened during the first 1/64th of a second after the initial Big Bang, you know he’s talking through his hat. As for Evolution–well, no one has seen it happen, no one has conclusively explained how it happens, and there is as much evidence in the fossil record to cast it down as to build it up. (Triassic birds and pollen grains, for instance. And preserved dinosaur soft tissue.)

But Dr. Carson cannot be president because he has committed a thought crime.

If he had stood before the nation and declared, “There is no God, there never was a God, and Jesus Christ never existed,” the same critics who are lambasting him today would be defending him to the hilt, applauding his supposed courage, and wetting their pants over his display of wisdom.

They might even forgive him for being a Republican.

Why ‘Trump is Winning’ is No Mystery

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Isn’t it cozy, how President *Batteries Not Included and Speaker John Boehner can play golf together while our country turns into mush?

Watching the pinata game that is the Republican presidential nominating process, I find it amazing that the GOP bigwigs do not begin to understand how mad we are at them.

So they resort to pigs’ entrails and Tarot cards to try to explain “the Trump phenomenon.”  Let me see if I can make it simple for them–so simple, even a Republican big shot can understand it.

Guys, last November you told us you would stop Obama if we voted for you, so we did–handed you both houses of Congress. And then you turned around and spat in our faces. So we still have Obamacare and a ruptured southern border, and in addition to those, now we have homosexual pseudomarriage as “the law of the land” (without any law being passed) and an insane policy of helping Iran acquire nuclear weapons.

We do know that Donald Trump is not a “movement conservative,” whatever the dickens that is. What we do not know is what, if anything, “real conservatives” have been conserving lately.

Well, guys, we’ve had it. We’re not going to let you wipe your shoes on our faces anymore. We’re fed up with John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, the whole Bush gang, John McCain, and all the rest of them.

So we’re going to put Donald Trump in the White House, just to show you we can do it. He can’t possibly be anything but an improvement over what we’ve got now. But here’s what you Republican big shots must understand:

We support him because he’s not you.

We do not like what our leaders have allowed to be done to our country over the past seven years. We want it un-done. We want it scrapped and thrown away.

We reject you because you have been Obama’s accomplices.

It’s up to you to convince us that any of you should ever again be entrusted with a public office. I don’t know how you’re gonna do that, but you’d better think of something.

New Executive Order: ‘Target Behavior’

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One of the helpful space aliens from the classic Twilight Zone episode of 1962, “To Serve Man.”

Okay… at the count of three, I’m going to wake up and none of this has really happened, it’s all just been a dream. One… two… three…

No! No! This is not happening! Say it ain’t so! But I’m afraid it is so, kid.

Remember when we used to be the United States of America, and we used to get new laws when our elected representatives publicly debated and then voted on them? When we weren’t herded around like cattle by a combination of judicial rulings and executive orders?

Well, President *Batteries Not Included has a new executive order, this one ordering government agencies to use “behavioral science” to “target” groups of citizens so they can more effectively be rounded up into various government programs ( http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/15/obama-issues-executive-order-government-use-behavioral-data/ ).

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Says the Community Organizer-in-Chief’s latest executive order, “behavioral science insights–research findings from fields such as behavioral economics and psychology about how people make decisions and act on them–can be used to design government policies to better serve the American people.”

Uh-uh. Sort of like the aliens in that old Twilight Zone episode, “To Serve Man.” They came to our planet “to serve man”–serve him up for breakfast, lunch, supper, or a midnight snack.

Listen. This has been said before. Maybe this time you can hear it.

Our government is too damned big, too damned powerful, too damned costly, and has its nose stuck into too damned many places.

God will eventually destroy it. Unless we come to our senses and cut it down to size.

Libs Move to Protect Religious Liberty

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I guess I must be “stopid,” just like Joe Collidge says, because I can’t see any Constitutional authority for five schmucks on the Supreme Court to redefine marriage–and to create a brand-new “law of the land” without any legislation being passed by anyone’s elected representatives.

So a county clerk in Kentucky was tossed into the slammer because she wouldn’t obey the Supreme Court’s new “law” and issue marriage licenses to pairs of homosexuals, some of whom drove in from other states just so they could force her to refuse their demands. She didn’t issue the licenses because she is a Christian and she holds to God’s law, which deems homosexual acting-out a serious sin. She was also complying with the only written and duly enacted law involved here–the Kentucky Constitution.

Not to worry–the Democrat National Committee’s new Commissar for Religious Issues, the Hon. Jezebel Jones, says the party is proposing a way to let people “practice their religion” without getting chucked into prison for it.

“In each home, be it a house or an apartment or a furnished room,” says Jones, “one particular area–say a closet, or a corner of the bedroom, whatever–will be set aside as a Religious Freedom Zone where that person can believe whatever he or she wants to believe, regardless of how hateful, stupid, backward, vicious, or despicable it is.

“True, when you come out of your Religious Freedom Zone, you still have to obey whatever the Supreme Court or your neighborhood gay activist tells you to do, no matter what it is. Whatever judges say, from day to day, even from hour to hour, that’s the law.

“But afterward you can go home and go into the linen closet and have all the religious freedom anybody deserves.”

In the interests of Diversity, she adds, only Christians will have to restrict their practice of religion to Religious Freedom Zones. “For all non-Christians, we have an open-door policy. Do what you want, wherever you want. As long as it’s okay with the gays. They’re the ultimate authority.”

Some Thoughts on 9/11

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I don’t like to watch videos of the events of this day, 14 years ago. The images make me angry. So do conspiracy theories and the “Let’s forget about it” crowd. Nevertheless, I remember those events and continue to seek their meaning.

Here are some of my reflections.

*God’s judgment can land right on our heads and we still wouldn’t believe in it. We learn nothing. We stop our ears to God’s warnings. We wouldn’t want anyone thinking we were un-hip.

*Who would have ever thought, 14 years after 9/11, that the governments of the West would be competing to see which of them could import the most Muslims?

*Meanwhile, our glorious leaders could find nothing better to do than radically redefine, or just plain overthrow, the definition of marriage, light up our public buildings to celebrate it, and criminalize Christian and other religious beliefs that have remained the same for thousands of years.

*Our government gave a medal to a man who had himself surgically and pharmacologically mutilated so he could say he was a woman. At least we know who our heroes are. Or must I say heroines?

*We have a president whose middle name is Husain, and whose amateurish, community-organizing, make-it-up-as-you-go-along dabbling in foreign policy has caused the Middle East to boil over into the biggest man-made humanitarian crisis since World War II.

*While ISIS is beheading Christians and burning them alive, all captured on videotape, our government obsesses about “Islamophobia.”

*Western Europe would rather be invaded by millions of Muslims all at once, than roll up its sleeves and exterminate ISIS. The West ignores calls from Egypt and Jordan to do that very thing. One cannot explain why they let ISIS continue what it’s doing.

*For as long as we are governed by career politicians advised by self-proclaimed intellectuals and self-promoting Scientific Experts, we will not even begin to find our way out of trouble.

Was the Drowned Baby Story a Hoax?

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I heard this mentioned on the radio yesterday, and it took me a while to find it on the Internet this morning–and here it is.

The now world-famous image of the drowned baby washed up on a beach in Turkey, said to be a casualty of the entirely man-made humanitarian crisis in Syria, refugees, boat people, etc.–this image that has moved Europe to open its gates to hundreds of thousands of Muslims all at once–

This image, according to reports in the Australian news media, is not what it appears to be ( http://occupymelbourne.net/2015/09/08/syrian-drowned-baby-hoax/ ).

“Occupy Melbourne” reports that the baby’s father lived in Turkey and wished to go to Europe in order to get free dental work, thinking to slip in unnoticed along with the hordes of refugees. So he set to sea in a small boat, they had an accident, and the baby drowned.

The report takes particular note of “the pristine condition of the body,” which is certainly not what would be expected after supposedly floating around in the sea for three days.

Like you, I have  no way of determining which, if any, aspects of this story are true. I’m only pointing out there’s more to this story than we’ve been told so far. And I don’t like the idea of suddenly adopting radical new public policies in response to a story that may not be true. I mean, that’s so 21st century!

One thing I’m pretty sure of:

If the Western nations got together and exterminated ISIS, there would be no Syrian refugee crisis.

Important P.S.–I am now aware that the source of this report, “Occupy Melbourne,” may well be nothing but a bunch of left-wing kooks similar to the “Occupy This or That” jidrools here in America–in other words, hardly a source at all.

This points up an important problem: you can’t believe any of the news media anymore.

I will keep an eye on this story and see if it goes anywhere.

I do entertain the possibility that in this case the left-wing jidrools may have gotten wind of something that we need to know, and passed it on before they realized what they were getting into.

P.P.S.–The Polish Gazette, for what it’s worth, has this story, too ( http://polishgazette.com/?p=1645039 ). Before we rule it out, remember–The Inquirer was the only American newspaper (if you can even call it that) to get the goods on vice presidential wannabe John Edwards cheating on his wife while she was dying of breast cancer.

Figure This–If You Can

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Ice on the Great Lakes–produced by Global Warming???

The shipping industry wants Congress to pony up the money for a new icebreaker for the Great Lakes. Why? Because “back-to-back winters of historic ice cover have demonstrated the need for a new heavy breaker” ( http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2015/08/peters_great_lakes_icebreaker.html ). Last winter ice covered 89% of the Great Lakes’ surface. In 2014, it was 92%.

Meanwhile, all the shysters in Washington and in the E.U. keep on yammering about Global Warming, you’re all gonna die unless you pay lotsa new taxes and give us vast new powers, blah-blah.

Why do we need to build new icebreakers if the Planet is supposedly getting warmer all the time?

Meanwhile, in Scotland, there’s all this snow lying around, left over from last winter–it hasn’t melted yet (  https://inpursuitofhappiness.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/scotlands-winter-snow-still-hasnt-melted/ ). At the same time, the whoopee crowd tells us that redheads are going to go extinct on account of Global Warming.

We understand why politicians are pushing Global Warming: more power and more money. And scientists: more grant money, and the fun of being advisers and oracles to the politicians.  But why any normal person would believe in it, how any normal person could fail to see the colossally dishonest motives behind it all… well, that we find very hard to understand.

Here Come the Torpedoes

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I grew up on World War II movies. My father served in it, and so did the fathers of most of the kids I knew, and TV played a lot of newsreel footage from the war: so it was very real to us who had only been born four or five years after the war ended.

I still think in terms of WWII imagery, sometimes. Like now.

I see the United States as a great ship separated from her protective convoy, with the U-boat wolf pack closing in. They’ve got her in their sights. The periscopes are trained on her. And then the U-boat captains launch the torpedoes.

“Fire one!” Allow illegal immigration, amnesty for millions of illegal aliens–and freebies, too.

“Fire two!” “Gay” rights and same-sex parodies of marriage. Take down the family, and you take down the nation. And you can use it as a hammer against Christianity, too. Both family and Christianity are obstacles to the absolute dominance of the state.

“Fire three!” Race-baiting from the top down. Politicians, teacher unions, hard-left college profs all trying to stir up violence. Liberals will never let the races live in peace.

“Fire four!” Transgender movement. “Fire five!” The Global Warming hoax, a biggie–biggest science fraud in history. “Fire six!” Feminism. “Fire seven!” “Eight!” “Nine!”

The water now is full of torpedoes, all streaking toward the great ship’s waterline. Their wakes scratch harsh white lines over the grey surface of the sea. Even if the ship takes evasive action, there are now too many torpedoes homing in on her, she can’t possibly escape.

And then the explosions. Boom! Boom! Boom! One after another.

Only then do the U-boats surface, to machine-gun the survivors.

That’s current events today.