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EEEK – two days in a row … don’t get used to this … but to be honest, I am using my writing here as therapy to combat the anger I feel reading all the crap out there and the news which is nothing but propaganda for one agenda or another. Sigh … well, that is the way the world is … and as I tried to explain to some atheistic secular humanists, the world (basically meaning God/the creator/the divine presence) is merely testing us as we are forced to deal with events beyond our – or any individual’s – control. Bad things happen, because individual people choose to make them happen … and then usually people who don’t want to be part of anything are suddenly faced with the consequences of those choices that regardless of their feelings, wishes and desires, the ugliness of the dark side of humankind forces them to deal with those choices that are out of the “innocent” parties’ control. It is part of the creator’s test of us as individuals, I have decided. If we in our hubris seem to expect God to do something different and let us live in peace and harmony without discord to illustrate to us the differences between good and evil, then we are projecting our own expectations on God, and not thinking about what God’s expectations might be for us as we exercise our own free will to make our own choices. So much for religion and philosophy right now and on to the news and views of the day.
If American Muslims want to convince me that maybe the verses of the Koran and the Shura that I have read are wrong, then they need to stand up en masse like this person and take to the streets making this point. Otherwise, I tend to accept that silence is assent and consent with the Islamic Jihadi fanatics and Islam is a religion of the sword bent on subjugating all those who do not convert.
Apparently, according to the Labor Department some 211,000 more Americans were employed last month than the month before ... of course there are other numbers that make that pronouncement rather suspect to be trumpeted as a major advance.
These are some of those other numbers ... I find these figures quite distressing and discouraging ... and not so sanguine about the state of the US economy and its future. Did I tell you that I saw the panhandlers have returned to one of their special spots here in Portland. I saw two different ones working the same corner today.
This essay is a tad bit on the depressing side, but one has to say that the US created in the wake of Pearl Harbor did have a pretty good run ... sad truth is that that world no longer exists and the assumptions that underlied it are no longer valid.
It is official ... women can join the ranks of the infantry. I have made my view clear: I think it is a bad idea from my own experience (and that was with a support unit and not a combat unit), but obviously the denizens of political correctness have won the day. My only hope, and dearest wish, is that they be proven right and their decision does not cause unnecessary problems with morale, unit cohesiveness and effectiveness that result in the loss of more US service men and women than otherwise have been the case.
This essay articulates, in some measure, why I think the gender-neutral military is a disastrous decision.
To those of us alive during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, this sounds hauntingly familiar. Unfortunately, it is typical of the redefinition of terms to avoid the obvious ... yes, Virginia, there are American boots on the ground ... but if we couch it in the right terms, maybe no one will notice that we are lying our freaking butts off.
Gee, willikers ... it actually was an act of Islamic terrorism in San Bernardino ... I guess we had to hire a few rocket scientists at the FBI and the various law enforcement agencies involved to figure that out... although it seems our President and the Democratic presidential candidates still are having a difficult time coming to grips with that conclusion that was patently and painfully obvious to anyone who two brain cells to rub together from day one.
And let the apologists say their thing: I mean, who would have thought that a very devoutly religious Muslim might build bombs in their garage.
The National Rifle Association stands up in its own defense ... as it should.
One of the arguments pro-gun control advocates have is that people on terrorist watch lists should be banned from purchasing fire arms. This is my response to that argument ... liberty or safety? Surrender the first to achieve the second and you will enjoy neither.
Interesting article on inequality and such ... good food for thought.
This is one approach to the war on terror and specifically ISIS ... not that it will happen. Sorry, but the progs have the reins and are not going to go down this path.
Mr Rachel, as usual, makes a point in his own entertaining and unique fashion.
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